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EXECUTORS Said,

DURSAANT to an order Of the eCircuit
Il. Court, for the 7th Judicial Circuit,
the Executors of SAMUEL MARSHALL.
DECD, will sell on the
LIST Monday Of December next, co
AT ABBEvILLE c.H,
Within the legal hours Of sale, a tract of
land belonging to estate Of said deceased,
containing
Six Hundred and Seventy-two
Acres,
More or less, situated on Curltail Creek,
about seven miles from Greenwood. Be-
longing to this tract is
FINE FLOUR AND GRIST MILL,
Known as "'rhe Marshall Mils;" the
Machinery having been renewed in 1867.
TERMS:
The purchaser to pay in cash costs of
sale, for stamp and papers. Balance on
credit OF twelve months, with interest from
date, and secure purchase money. by ap-
proval bonds and mortgage of the premi-
ses.
S. S. MARSHALL, J
J. W: W. MARSHALL, Executors
"A LSO, at the same time and place the
IA Executors of Samuel Marshall decd,
will sell that valuable plantation known as
"THE HOMESTEAD"
On which Mrs. E. G.. Marshall now resides.
This tract contains about
Fourteen Hundred Acres,
Situated within six miles Of Greenwood, in
a healthy and good neighborhood, we'll
adapted to the cultivation of cotton, corn.
and smal! grain, with good improvements,
consisting of
Large and Comfortable Dwelling,
with all necessary out-buildings, suitable
for we'll regulated plantation. This
place will be divided and
Sold in Three or Four Tracts,
the plots of which will be exhibited on
day of sale. These are valuable tracts Of
land-a large proportion Of which consists
Of foe wood lands.
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Desirable House and Lot,
in the Village of Greenwood,
Known as the DonelIy lot, belonging to
the estate of Samuel Marshall decd, and
now occupied by the Rev. A. A. Morse.
The improvements consist of AN EX-
CELLENT TWO-STORY DWELLING,
and all necessary ou,-buildings.
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VALUABLE PROPERTY
FOR SALE.

PY ORDER Quarterly Conference, Alb
ID beviIle circuit. That house and lot
known as the Methodist parsonage, in the
town. Of Abbeville will be sold at public
sale, Sale day next, in front of The Court
House, to the highest bidder. Terms of
sale one half the purchase money to be
paid in cash, the other half credit of
twelve months with interest from day Of
sale, the purchaser to give mortgage of
the premises to secure the payment.
Nov. 5, 1869, 28-4t
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Large and Comfortable Dwelling,

with all necessary out-buildings, suitable
for a we'll regulated plantation. This
place will be divided and
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TERMS:

This lot will be sold on a credit Of
twelve months, With interest from date. the
purchaser to give bond With approved se-
curIty aud mortgage Of the premises, and
pay in cash, for costs of sale, for stamps
and papers.
s. S. MARSHALL. !
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The theory is that Blood is tho Life OF
of all Flesh. and if impure, the Life of all
Disease. Life and Health is only to be
maintained by the circulation of pure arte,
iiaI Blood.
Such as Scrofula, Rheumatism, Hepatic
Disorders, Inismations, Fevers, Liver
Complaint. Consumption, Kings Evil.
Carbuncles, Boils, Itching Humor of the
Skin, Erysipelas, Skin Diseases. letter,
R"ughness Of the Skins. Pimples, Blotches,
Pain in the Bones, old Ulcers, Syphilis aud
Syphili,ic Sores, Indigestion, Inflamma-
lion Of the Bladder and Kidneys, Pains in
the Back, General Debility. and for all
complaints arising from deficiency and
poverty Of blood.
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CLOTHING EMPORIUM.
wv. T.. HOKE
Oferg for sale large and well selected stock of
EK-MTuVNez


Gentleman's Furnishing Goods.
Hats, Trunks, Umbrellas, &C., which were
bought at low prices aud will be sold cheap.
North Carolina Bank Bills bought.
StoFa On Main Street. few doors below
The Columbia Hotel. f..
Oct 9, 1859, 24.-2m .j
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Fourteen Hundred Acres.

Situated within six miles Of Greenwood, in
healthy and good neighborhood, we'll
adapted to the cultivation of cotton, corn,
and sma'! grain, with good improvements,
consisting Of
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Sc THE HOMESTEAD"

On which Mrs. E c. Marshall now resides.
This tract contains about
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HEINITSH'S QUEENS DELIGHT,
An Antid0te to Disease.

The Great American lltrrGtiye and Blood Purifier
For the cure of all those Diseases
which may he traced to vitiateG
condition of the Blood.
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a LSO, at the same time and place the
IN Executors of Samuel Marshall decd,
will sell that valuable plantation known as
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n LsO, at the same time and place, the
IN Executors will sell that
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Sold in Three or Four Tracts,

the plots Of which will be exhibited on
day of sale. These are valuable tracts Of
land large proportion Of which consists
of foe wood lands.
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TERMS:

The purchaser to pay in cash costs of
sale, for stamp and papers. Balance on
credit OF twelve months, with interest from
date, snd secure purchase money. by ap-
proval bonds and mortgage Of the premi-
ses.
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By Order Of The Court Of Probate

Nov. 10, 1860, 29-3t
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T WILL sell by public auction on SALE
4 DAY in DECEMBER next the fol.
lowing Iands-vlz:
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-17
THE FETNITENTIAEY.

Mr. Caldwell, from the Peuitentiary
Committee, reported that that committee
were unable to agree on the several bills
before them, in reference TO making the
Penitentiary self-sustaining, and recon-
mended that they lie passed on second
reading and referred back to the commit
tee The bills then passed second reading
and were reCommitted.
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HARD TIMES.
After Us the DcIuSe.


New YORK, Dec. 16.-The Express
says a number of additional failures of
New York merchants was announced this
afternoon, chiefly however, in a small
way. The list includes Isaac Pragc, dry
goods; Jas. Beck, shirts; BoswOrth, White
& Belcher, millinery goods; COure and E.
s. Case, domestic goods; NJ. j. Hobbs d
Co., woodenware; Barker & Montague,
produce, and Sprague s. Wright, proprie-
tors of Parks Hotel.
There were a number out-of-town fail
ures also announced, viz: S. b. Tappan,
boots and shoes, Newburyport, Mass. !;
Hopkins, Harrington & Smith, boots and
shoes, Boston; Rider, Crockcr & Co., dry
goods, Philadelphia; Miller, SchlOss 81
Stein, hosiery, Philadelphia; Hastings,
Britton s. Co., dry goods, st. Louis
Reinstein, Marks & Field, dry goods,
Philadelphia; II. H. Kendall, hats and
caps, Cincinnati; and J. W. Bond & Co,
wool manufacturers, Trenton, \. J.
The street has been filed with rumOrs
for some days past in regard to the failure
Of prominent domestic commission house,
but we understand they are without any
foundation. 1t is stated the firm is worth
two millions over its liabilities.
The Post reports the failure of the extcn-
sive dry goods house of Howard, Cole &
Co., of Baltimore. Several large importing
houses of this city suffer severely. It's
liabilities are reported at 500, 600.
Shining Cor Money.
The Express says Wall street wit
messed a somewhat remarkable feature to-
day of some uptown National Bank shin
ming for money. l. would be well for
Secretary Boutwell, to send special ex-
aminer to New York, TO look into the
affairs of some institutions under She
national sYstem.
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THE OHIO PENTTENTIARY.

We have been kindly furnished the fol-
lowing letter from the Warden of the
Ohio Penitcntiary to Col William H.
johnson, giving us an insight into the
workings of that institution:
COLUMBUS, Dec. ii, 1969.-W. II.
johnson, Esq, Nashville, Tenn. Sir: In
reply to yours of 7th inst, have to say
that in this prison, convict labor is hired
to different parties who conduct manufac-
lures of various kinds within the prison
walls The letting Is to the highest, (or
best) bidder. Proposals are invited when
ever we have any number of surplus or
unemployed men. Bids may be for any
number and any time, not. exceeding five
years. Our contracts are for from ten to
two hundred men, and running from one
TO five years. The prices at which they
are let, are from seventy to eighty seven
and half cents per day. The State
furnishes shop room, feeds and clothes
the prisoners. The contractors furnish all
machinery and implements. The War
den is an officer of the State, and has the
entire government of the prison. All
guards and subordinate officers are ap-
pointed by him. We have a Board Of
Directors, three in number, appointed by
the Governor with the advice and consent
of the Senate, who meet monthly and in
speCt the prison, and control its general
management, its financial affairs, etc.
The discipline is entirely in the hands of
the Warden. Contractors have no con-
troll whatever over prisons. If work is
not performed satisfactorily, the remedy is
to apply to the Warden. Our system is a
success; though we are improving upon
it from time TO time. So far as am in
formed, this, and the prison at Charleston,
Mass, are the only ones in the country
that are more than self-sustaining. The
Massachusetts prison is smaller than this
| think they have some 800 inmates, our
number to-day is ZOOS.
Our receipts and expenditures during
the fiscal year ending Oct. 81, 1869, were
as follows:
Cash receipts for convict labor,
etc.................................Sl15, COS. O6
General expenses -..-............, 1865 So
Balance of receipts oyere1pend-
itures. ..... .,....................S 80, 027. %
Our reports for the last year are not
yet out of the printers hands. As soon as
they are printed | viii send you copy.
have not copy of the law governing
the PcniteDtiary in a shape that l can send
it. Very respectfully,
r. BURR, Warden.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-17
PERSONAL

Eugenie proposes publishing the diary
of her journey to the East
Morrisscy expects 10 have the finest
house in Saratoga.
John Stuart Mill does not fear evil 10
this country from Chinese emigration.
Mrs Mary Clemens, the last Revolu-
tionsry pensioner in Georgia, died in Tel
fair county, last week, at the age of 104.
Napoleon has given his physician, Ri
cord, a diamOnd-mounteds snuff box, worth
81, 600, as a reward for not killing him in
his recent sickness.
The indications at present are that Gov.
Scott, of South Carolina, will be elected
United States Senator. Advices from
that State convey assurances that a ma
jOrity of the electors are pledged 10 his
support.
The late Earl of Derby left behind him
a fortune of about $1,000, 900 year.
When he succeeded to his estates in 1851,
they yielded him less than third Of that
sum. The increase is due to the eytraor-
binary rise in the value of property in Ian
cashire, where the Derby estates lie,
through the development of the manufao-
turing interest.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-17
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

SENATEs
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Various bills
were introduced and referred, including
one to provide reporters for the Circuit
Courts of the United States.
The Yerger Case.
Mr.. Thurman offered resolution re-
questing the Attorney General to furnish
copies of all agreements entered into be-
tween him and Yerger's counsel in the
Mississippi hobeds corpus case.
Mr.. Sumner objected to the considera-
Dead Bucks Bill.
A resolution closing the accounts of J.
w. Forney. late Secretary of the Senate,
was passed. A statement was read show
ing that Forney's accounts had been fair
ly adjusted.
To Protect Negro Rioters.
Mr.. Wilson introduced a resolution,
which was adopted, requesting the Judi
ciary Committee to inform the Senate If
further legislation was necessary to pro-
tect public meetings in the District of
Columbia.
TinkcrIng on Georgia.
The Senate took up bill to perfect the
reconstruction of Georgia.
Mr.. Morton's amendment was read re-
quiring the ratification of the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments.
Mr. Carpenter said the amendment was
unnecessary and pernicious. 1t might
give the people South good occasion to
say that while in duress terms of admission
were dictated by Congress.
Mr. Drake said the people of the South
should be made TO feel congressional
power.
Mr.. Morton spoke in support of his
amendment till the expiration of The
morning hour.
And the Supreme Court.
The bill relating to the appellate juris-
diction Of the Supreme Court was taken
up.
Mr. Trumbul said the bill had not
Deen framed with any view of interfering
with any question now pending. but to
take from the Court a jurisdiction which
it is now claimed TO possess, namely,
jurisdiction over political questions. He
submitted an amendment restricting the
powers of the Justices of the Supreme
Court in issuing writs of bG5eas corpus,
TO cases of persons within their respective
districts.
The Senate resumed the consideration
of the Georgia bill, but without disposing
Of il, adjourned
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A resolution was adopted inquiring of
the Postmaster General whether and per-
son holding federal Office had been en-
ployed to treat with foreign nations in re-
gard to postal matters; under what law,
and of what pyrNppon
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-17
EXTRAORDINARY HERO
NEISN.
Chicago the POSsessoE of the Model
Girl of the PeriOd-A Remarkable
SurgiCaI Operation.

Prom the Chicago Tribune.
Ii has been reserved for Chicago TO
produce one of the most remarkable
young ladies of the age-a veTitable he
roinc, the Model Girl of the Period
There lives in Wabash avenue, in
home of highly respectable exterior, a
young lady, the pride of her mother,
and the JOY of her papa She is, or
rather she was, in every respect, an at
traCtivc, graceful and accomplished girl;
and so thought young Mr.. -, to
whom she is engaged, and who, looking
at her with the eye of lover, could sec,
of course, no blemish in her
Yet there lCGs ono little defect, one
small imperfectiOn, which was said TO
mar the symmetry OF her otherwise per
feet form, Nature had give her pair of
wonderfully small feet, but although in
length they were all that Chinese beauty
might have adored, they were Just little
too broad in proportion TO their size. But
for this little oversight of Nature they
would have been the most ravishing
pair of little feet that ever
"tWinkled' beneath a "pettiCoat.'
The young lady often sighed as
the bootmaker took the measure of them,
and thought how she might have dazzled
the world, and her adorer particularly,
had Nature been a little less liberal. In
short, her feet gave her no rest by night
or day. She was about to be married,
and, in view of that event, she resolved
to make double sacrifice.
A few months ago she visited an emf
ncnt surgeon of this city, and made
a proposal which caused the praCti-
toner to shudder. He at once declined
to acccde TO her strange request and
there The matter dropped for a time.
More recently the young lady renewed her
proposition, expressing her firm determine
ton to have it carried out, and so persist
emily did she cling to her resolution that
the doctor was at last prevailed upon to
comply with her wish. This was nothing
less than the amputation of the small toe
of each foot, which would reduce the
member to a size exactly proportional to
its length The operation was one de-
handing the incest skill on the part of
the surgeon, and few days since was
successfully performed, with the consent
of the young lady's relatives and friends.
The obnoxious toes have been ex-
tracted Just like teeth, leaving the feet
somewhat disigured for a time, but
suited to fit into the smallest, daintiest
little boot that can be fashioned. The
young martyr is now in bed, waiting pa
tiently for the wound to heal. The oper-
alton has cost her pang, perhaps, but
only think what she has gained (what she
has lost by it Two small fantastic
toes Many a victor has lived long,
honorcd and happy, with one foot in the
grave. This courageous little heroine
has achieved victory which the fash
ionable world will delight TO honor, and
she can now walk abroad in muddy
weather without trailing her skirts.
Doubtless she is aching for the next eve
ming party, where her little foot viii be
exhibited as triumph of art over nature.
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AN UNPLEASANT REQUEST.

a newly-married man came very near
being made the victim of circumstances,
in Baltimore the other day. In company
with his blooming bride, he repaired TO
the depot Tor the purpose of taking pas
sage northward, and just as he was pass
ing into the depot he was approached by
a small boy, whose reason is impaired,
with, "Pspa, give me cent before you
90 away" The request of the child was
heard by the newly made wife, and for a
moment she looked very queer at her
husband. The latter was also somewhat
confused at the peculiar fix which be was
in, but managed TO say to the child, $50
away, I'm not your father The little
fellow, however, asserted that such was
the case, and stoutly insisted on being
presented with a penny. Again the wife
looked queerly at her husband, and had it
not been for gentleman, who stepped up
to the couple at this juncture and re-
marked that the child importuned every
gentleman with whom he met for penny,
the young husband would not have en-
joyed as pleasant journey as he anti
cipated
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4 STRANGER.
Capture of n Wonderful Seven feet
Bird i'm Lincoln County, KY,
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Mr.. James Peoples, living two and a
half miles from Stanford, on the Dud-
derar's Mill road, is surrounded by party
of neighbOTing boys, who are fond
Of the sport of night hunting. Over
a week ago these boys were engaged
in their favorite pastime, and while
absorbed in the excitement of a fox
chase were suddenly startled by what
they called an unearthly scream from
some of the tree tops. Some declared II
was a panther, some catamOunt, and
others believed the voice that Of female
in distress They agreed 10 approach as
near the spot whence the screams came
as possible, and took up the line of march
toward the place. At each step the
screams were repeated TO the amazement
of the boys, and if the truth must be told
there was pcrceptible terror in each
ones voice, and daylight would
have exhibited very pale faces,
Guided still nearer by the strange noise,
they directly heard the clsnk of chain S,
irons and padlocks. Thisswas too much
for youthful temerity to endure. They
were brave hoys, but demoniac yells from
the tree tops, accompanied by this rafting
music of the devil at the dreary hour of
midnight, when ghosts, hobgOblins and
blue devils stalk abroad, were fraught
with too much impending danger to be
relished even by stouter hearts and
stronger nerves. They retreated like the
''boys In blue" from the battle of Bull
Run, in good order, and reported to the
neighborhOOd the strange and wonderful
sounds which had greeted their ears.
Mr.. Peoples laughed at the alarm of the
BOYS, but was still on the lookout for
strange sights. On last Saturday his curl
osity was somewhat relieved by seeing a
monster bird, something like the condor
of Sinbad the sailor, alight on his barn.
II gave a few of the screams which had
so disturbed the boys, and Mr. z. was
satisfied he had found the ghost. He took
down his rife, and without precsution to
put in a silver bullet, drew bead on the
bird, and it fell. On approaching it he
found that only one wing had been
broken, which he smputated. Now
comes the secret of the chains. One
foot had hanging TO it a steel trap,
weighing about four pounds, which had
been evidently set for varmints. 1t had
been there for some time, as the flesh had
rotted off, the trap only hanging by a
leader. On measurement the bird proved
TO be seven feet from tip 10 tip. 1t was
of black color, and both similar and
dissimilar in many respects to an eagle.
Its feet and the feathers of legs, which
hung about six inches in length, were
those of an eagle, but the uniform jet
black color indicated another species. At
last account it was doing well and eating
raw flesh with voracious appetite.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-17
VIPER AND LOwER-THE DIF-
FERENCE.

The upper and lower strata Of society
the high and the low-are often oddly adj
judged by the vulgar mind. The butcher
boy, who delivered, at their residences,
roasts and sausages for his employers
customers, had no trouble in his own
mind who wer high and who low. for, said
he, "Tbn high sloe0r and tho b01o lie.
The hotel waiter, who was ordered by a
clergyman to prepare dinner for a num-
Der of clerical friends, inquired whether
the party was high or low church. NOW,
what on earth, said the clergyman, do
my friends opinions matter to your? "a
great deal, sir, rejoined the waiter; II
high church, 1 must prOUids more lrS1ej' if
IOlo church. more 'cittlcS." A reconstructed
African, at Washington, arrested for steal
ing, was upbraided by the Magistrate: Il
thought, Sam, 70 belonged to the loyal
purity; that's on its good behavior, you
know" Oats just SO, massa; we'se two
classes-de hige and de low. De high
takes ictdt's gli0 10 EN-, like HASA GRANT ;
dc lon takes 1chat's not que to en-, ike NGssa
BUTLER. Use a low, massa, dat's ALL
Cincinnati Enquirer.