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The Basis Of Prosperity.

The world has been slow in arriving at the
conclusion that agriculture lies at the very ba-
sis of all prosperity. 1t has been ignored
kicked aside and despised. The men fwealth,
the merchants, lawyers and educators have put
a low estimate upon it. In their estimation, it
was low calling, fit only for stupid men and
double-fsted laborers. The poison of their
prejudice has been difused into all the arteries
of society. Thousands of young men, as a
consequence, have been turned away from it,
when both duty and interest required them to
embark in it. Disguised with the very idea of
following such a pursuit, they have, most un-
wisely and disastrously, gone into other chan,
nels of industry for which they neither had
taste nor qualification. Some of them tried
hard to make lawyers, doctors and merchants
of themselves, but only to expose their folly
and stupidity. Thus, unwittingly it may have
been, that very class, who should have upheld
the farming interest by giving it their sanction
and their encouragement, have done all they
could to bring it into disfavor.
There is, however, a marked change in the
views of mankind upon this subject. Such
men as Clay Webster, Jackson and others,
have done much to break down this foolish
prejudice, and to elevate the science of agri-
culture They were farmers themselves, and
loved the work of farming. 1t was worthy of
their highest intelligence, and they, conse-
quently, did what they could to honor it and to
adorn it. Gradually its value and Importance
have gained hold upon the popular mind, un-
til now there is more general willingness to
dignity it. In many of the States, agricultural
colleges have been constructed and able teach
ers employed. There is scarcely State north
of us but what has an institution of this sort.
There is no use to speculate as to the conse-
quences. Every candid and sensible man must
see that such policy will inaugurate new
era in the history of the country. There, it
has already done it. The change for the bet
ter is striking. We see it in manifest breadth
of intelligence among the tillers of the soil,
and in the development of the agricultural
wealth of that particular section. 1t is visible,
also, in the taste, elegance, luxury and pleasure
of country life After all, there is no such
paradise on earth as that within the charming
precincts of an educated and refined farmers
home.-RnorviNe Wig.
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sHonK1Ne OncnRRENcE.-We hope that ev-

SHOCKING OccURRENcE.-We hope that ev-
cry lady who reads the following shockingly
disgraceful occurrence will ascertain whether
she is not partly in the same deplorable situa-
ton as GA Wife in Distress" and liable to be
fully so any time.
We fear that some of them are not aware
of their fearful accountability to the Press:
WIFE IN DISTRESS.
"Pray, tell me, my dear, what is the cause OF
those tears?"
"Oh, such disgracep
"What is it, my dear, don't keep me in sus-
pensew
"Oh, have opened one of your letters, sup
posing it to be addressed to myself. Certainly
it looks more like Mrs. than Mr."
"Is that all? what harm can there be in
wife opening her husbands letters?"
"No harm in the thing itself, butt he contents
are such disgrace~
"Who has dared to write me a letter unfit to
be read by my wife?"
"Oh, no, it was couched in the most chaste
and beautiful language. But the contents the
contents !"
Here the wife buried her face in her hand
kerchief and commenced sobbing aloud, while
the husband eagerly took the letter and com
menced reading the epistle that had nearly
broken his wife's heart. 1t was bill from the
printer for three years subscription.
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The WRONG MAN PoULTIcED.--At ia
nous and fashionable watering place, gentle
man one night was suddenly seized in bed with
an excruciating pain in the stomach, which
neither brandy, No. 6, or any other remedy
could remove. His wife, after trying number
of things in vain, and having exhausted all her
stock of remedies, left her husbands bedside
for the purpose of getting warm application.
Guided on her return by a light which she saw
shining in chamber, and which she supposed
was the one Just left, she softly entered, and
was not a little surprised to find her patient
apparently in deep slumber. However, think
ing he might still be suffering, she gently
raised the bed clothes, &C., and laid the scald-
ing poultice upon a stomach but not the
stomach of her husband-which no sooner
touched the body of the person than he, greatly
alarmed, and writhing under the torture OF the
burning application, shouted, "Halloo halloo
what in the name of heaven and earth are you
about there?" then, with one spring from his
bed, he made for the door, and, rushing down
stairs, declared, in frenzy of excitement, that
some one had poured shovel of hot Goals up
on him. The woman, overcome with excite
ment and alarm, gave frantic scream, which
brought her husband hurriedly in from the
next room to her rescue. The husband was so
much excited, and also so much amused with
the singular mistake and the ridiculous position
of his better half, that he forgot all his pains
but early next morning he, his wife and trunks
left for parts unknown. The poulticed gentle
man still retains the handkerchief, a beautiful
linen fabric, with the lady's name on it, which
he considers of rare value.
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A Murder Trial in Nevada.

"I was sitting here" said the Judge, Gin this
old pulpit holding court, and we were trying
a big wicked-looEing S panish desperate for
killing the husband of bright, pretty Mexi-
can woman. 1t was lazy summer day, and
an awfully long one, and the witnesses were
tedious. None of us took any interest in the
trial except that nervous, uneasy, devil of q
woman-because you know how they love and
how they hate, and this one had loved her hus-
band with all her might, and now she had boil
ed it all down into hate, and stood here spit
ting it at that Spaniard with her eyes; and 1
tell you she would stir me up, too, with little
of her summer lightning occasionally. Well,
I had my coat off and heels up, lolling and
sweating, and smoking one of those cabbage
cigars the San Francisco people used to think
was good enough for us in those times; and the
lawyers, they all had their coats off and were
smoking and whiting, and the witnesses the
same, and so was the prisoner. Well, the fact
is, there wasn't any interest in a murder trial
then, because the fellow was always brought in
not guilty, the jury expecting him to do as
much for them some time; and although the
evidence was straight and square against this
Spaniard, we knew we could not convict him
without seeming to be rather high-handed and
sort of rejecting on every gentleman in the
community for there warn't any carriages and
liveries then, and so the only "style" there
was, was to keep your private graveyard. But
that woman seemed to have her heart set on
hanging that Spaniard and you'd ought to
have seen how she would glare on him min
ute, and then look up to me in her pleading
way, and then turn and for the next five min
utes search the jury's faces-and by and by
drop her face in her hands for just a little
while, as if she was most ready to give up, but
out she'd come again directly and be as live
and as anxious as ever. But when the jury an
nounced the verdict, Not Guilty and 1 told
the prisoner he was acquitted, and free to 60,
that woman rose up till she appeared to be as
tall and grand as seventy-four gun ship, and
says she:
"Judge, do understand you to say that this
man is not guilty, that murdered my husband
without any cause before my own eyes and my
little children's, and that all has been done to
him that ever justice and the law can do?"
"The same," says 1.
"And then what do you reckon she did ?
Why, she turned on that smirking Spanish fool
like wildcat, and out with navy and shot
him dead in open court p
''That was spirited, am willing to admit" "
"Wasnt it, though ?" said the Judge, admi-
ringly. II wouldn't have missed it for any
thing. I adjourned court right on the spot,
and we put on our coats and went out and took
up a collection for her and her cubs, and sent
them over the mountains to their friends. All,
she was a spirited wenchV-GGlary.
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A KKorrY TExT.-There was once an itin-
Grant preacher in West Tennessee, who, pos
sessing considerable natural eloquence, had
gradually become possessed of the idea that
he was also an extraordinary Biblical scholar.
Under this delusion, he would very frequently,
at the close of his sermons, ask any member Of
his congregation who might have a "knotty
text" to unravel, to speak it, and he would ex-
plain it at once, however much it might have
troubled '1ess distinguished divines." On one
occasion, in large audience, he was particular
ly pressing for some one to PROFOUND text;
but no one presuming to do SO, he was about to
sit down without an opportunity to show his
learning when chap back by the door an
nounced he had Bible matter Of great !"con-
cern," which he desired to be enlightened upon.
The preacher, quite animatedly, professed his
willingness and ability and the congregation
was in great excitement
"What want to know" said the outsider,
"is whether Jobs turkey was hen or COB
bler?"
The "expounder" looked confused, and the
congregation Uttered as the questioner capped
the climax by exclaiming in loud voice:
"I fotched him down On the fust question p'
From that time forward, the practice of
asking for difficult passages was discontinued.
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A lady being very particular in having
the coffee for breakfast made in a particular
way, on engaging new Irish girl gave her a
lesson. "Now then," said the lady, pour the
ground coffee into the pot, then pour in the hot
water and, after few minutes boiling, put in
one-half of an egg-so," and the lady elucida-
ted such demonstration by illustration. "You
understand, don't your" said the lady. "In-
dade I do, num-" was the response. "Bile the
coffee, grind in the water and dhrop in the half
of an egg. Isn't that it mum?" Cali right, "
replied the lady. "Now, then, tomorrow
morning we will see how we'll you can remem-
ber." Tomorrow morning came, and the cof-
fee was as good as could be expected. The
third morning came, and, to the astonishment
of our friend and wife, the coffee was undrink-
able and nauseating; even the odor of it was
sickening. Bridget was called and questioned
as follows: Bridget, did you first put the
ground coffee in the pot?" "Indade 1 did,
num-" "Did you then put in the hot water ?''
"Sure did" GLOW long did you let it boil ?''
"Fiye minutes num-" 'What did you then ?''
"I put in the egg, num-" "Just as I showed
you the other morning7" "Well, to tell the
truth, num-" says Bridget, giving her gar
ment switch with her hand, "to tell the truth,
would not put in the half of the egg, as ye
towld me, for the egg was bad one, and
thought ye wouldn't want to kape the half OF
it, SO dropped in the crather as it was
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sAnnArH P1Erx-Here is bit of spic,

SABBATH P1ETY.-Here is bit of spicy
suggestion from some anonymous source
HThere is mystery about this effect of the
weather on piety. Sabbath heat seems hotter
Sabbath cold colder, and Sabbath rain wetter
than that of any other day. For the same
measure of heat or cold or rain on week day
will not keep him from his usual business. We
need Sabbath almanac calculated for our
churches, that will show by its weather scale
when it will be safe for vigorous Christian to
expose himself on the Sabbath by going to the
house of God. Such an almanac would enable
pastors and superintendents of Sabbath schools
to know whom they may depend on in church,
Sabbath schools and prayer meeting.
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DELUsroNs OF G1R1Hoop.-The following is

DELUsIoNs OF G1RLHooD.-The following is
bit of Fanny Ferns experience:
I used to believe in school friendship. That
delusion ended when Arabella Triplet told mu-
tual friends that was years and years her Sc
nior, knowing what terrible fib she told.
1 used to suffer pangs of anger because of the
woes of beggars. Since that have seen one
unstrap his leg in an area, and run off gaily on
two legs of his own. Another threw a loaf of
bread in the gutter, and saw third who had
all day been yelling, "Please assist the blind"
carefully examining his collection of ten-cent
stamps by the light of friendly apple-woman's
candle.
1 used to put the greatest faith in lovers
vows. Now, I do not believe man means
anything he says to woman, unless it is some
thing disagreeable.
I used to believe in faithful servants. Since
then I have hired girls from intelligence Offices,
and lost al my handkerchiefs but one.
I used to believe in beauty. Since then I
have seen a .; bewitchin,g belle take off half of
plexion, two pounds Of cotton batting, and a
corset.
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THE PoLICY-HoLDERs'
LIFE AND T0NTINE ASSURANCE COMPANY
OF THE SOUTH,
% Broad Street, Charleston, s.

2s Broad Street, Charleston, S. c,
TAvING deposited $50, 900 with the Comp
I'll troller General for the protection Of its
policy will issue the usual forms Of Life
and Endowment Policies. -
IN, the most liberal Company to the Assured in
the World.
The Charter guarantees to the assured the cash
surrender calue of his policy after one annual pre-
mium has been paid, except in case of fraud.
1t is the only purely mutual Company IN tbs
Il has no Stockholders All surplus profits
must be divided among the policy holders.
It's thoroughly conservatics: ~
It's investments are confined by charter to the
most solid sccuritiss and it is under management Of
men of well established ability and integrity:
Persons desiring any information will please
communicate with any Of the officers. a..l..
VIM. McBURNEY, President.
E. P. ALEXANDER, Vice Pres. and Act.
GEO. E. BOGGS, Sec. and Gen: Agent.
JOHN T. DARBY, NJ. D., Med. Adviser,
JAMES A. HOYT Local Agent for Andersen,
and DR.. THOS. A. EVINS, Medical Examiner.
April 81, 1870 43
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WHAT 1NTEMPERANCE DoEs.-Intempe-
rance cuts down youth in its vigor, manhood
in its strength and age in its weakness. 1t
breaks the fathers heart, bereaves the doting
mother eXtinguishes natural affection, erases
coniugal love, blots out flial attachment,
blights parental hope, and brings down mourn
full age in sorrow to the grave. 1t produces
weakness, not strength; sickness, not health
death, not life. 1t makes wives widows chill
dren orphans, fathers fends, and all of them
paupers and beggars. 1t feeds epidemics, i'm
ports pestilence and embraces consumption.
it covers the land with idleness, poverty, dis
ease and crime. 1t fills your jails, supplies
YOUR alms-hoases and demands your asylums.
It engenders controversies, fosters quarrels and
eherishes riots 1t crowds your penitentiaries
It is the life-blood of the gambler, the aliment
of the counterfeiter, the prop of the hangman
and the support of the midnight incendiary.
1t countenances the liar, resurrects the thief
and esteems the blasphemer. 1t violates obli-
CATION, reverences fraud and honors infamy.
It deiames benevolence, hates love, scorns vir-
tue, ISLANDERS innocence. 1t incites the father
to butcher his helpless offspring, helps the hus-
band to massacre his wife and aids the chill
dren to grind the parricidal axe. 1t burns up
man and consumes woman, detests life, curses
God and despises heaven. 1t brings shame,
not honor; terror, not safety; despair, not
hope misery, not happiness with the malev-
olence of fiend it calmly surveys its desola-
tions, and satiated with havoc, poisons felicity,
kills peace, ruins morals, blights confidence
and slays reputation, then curses the world and
laughs at his ruin 1T murders the soul. 1t is
the sum of all villainies, the curse OF curses,
the devils best friend.-Rochester Chronicle.
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GEORGE w. CARpENTER,s ,se
Compound Fluid Extract of Sarsa-
parilla. 20
GEORGE w. CARPENTERS
Compound Fluid Extract ofBuchu'

THESE celebrated preparations, originally in
troduced BY George W. Carpenter, under the pat
ronage of the medical faculty, have been 80 long
extensively used by Physicians and others; THAI
they generally known for their intrinsic value
and can be relied on as being most valuable rem
edies in all cases where Sarsaparilla or Buchu sre
applicable, and cannot be too highly recommend
ed. They are prepared in highly concentrated
form, SO as TO render the dose small and eonyen-
lent. Orders by mail or otherwise will receive
prompt attention. -...s
GEORGE W. CARPENTER, HENszEY 8 CO.,
Wholesale Chemical Warehouse,
No. 1877 Market street, Philadelphia.
For sale by Walters s. Baker and W: II. Nardin
s. Co., Anderson, S. c. Dowie g. Noise, Whole.
sale Agents, Charleston, SC
Oct 81, 1869 II -
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HURRY1NG Up. A BARGAIN.-An Irishman,
Pat Mulrooney, had a kicking horse that he
wanted to get rid OF, but found it very diff
cult. At last he entered at Herkness' Bazzars
and warranted him sound and kind, and free
from the kicks. On the day of the sale, Mr.
Herkness pointed out the good qualities OF
the animal, and he was sold for one hundred
and seventy-fve dollars. Pat was afraid the
horse would show his bad qualities before the
money was paid, so he wanted to hurry up
the bargain, and the way he did it was this:
He went to the purchaser and said
"You can't have that horse, sur"
"Why not? Didn't l buy him?" said the
purchaser.
ayes, you bought him." said Pat "but I've
been offered more money for him, and you
can't have him. Besides, he bites"
'I don't care for that" said the buyer.
"But he kicks like the devil" said Pat,
"and he'll smash anything you'll hitch him
to-"
'well, I'm going to pay for him now, and
take the risk" said the buyer, "and if he
kicks, I'll never call on you to take him back"
The fellow took the horse home, and as
soon as he attempted to put him to wagon,
he smashed it all to pieces. 1t was too late
now to complain. Pat told him the horse
kicked, and Herkness had paid over the mon
ey, SO the horse was turned out to do the
best he could for himself.
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No matter how much you desire to fight,
never begin On a mule or cross-eyed man.
Their looks don't advertise clearly enough
where they are going to hit.
"A little boy having broken his rocking
horse the same day it was bought, his mamma
began to scold, when he silenced her by in
5roIe?' 5r5lssS' "A"'
= A boy of twelve dining at his uncle's
made such good dinner that his aunt observed
"Johnny, you appear to eat we'll" eyes, aunt" !"
replied the urchin, 'Tve been practicing eating
all my life"
"A debating society down East has been
engaged for long time in discussion OF the
question eff you had to have bile, where
would you have it?" 1t has finally been deci-
ded, "on another fellow"
= Mark Twain thinks that soda water is not
reliable for steady drink. 1t is too gassy.
The next morning, after drinking thirty-eight
tight as q balloon. He hadn't an article OF
clothing he could wear, except an umbrella.
"A youth asked Count Montrond-the me-
moir writer-to teach him the art of succeeding
in society. "Oh, it is simple enough" said the
Count. "Talk to the middle aged and young
ladies. and listen when the old ones talk to
you"
"A young man in Lafayette, Indiana, is
humility personifed. The other day he asked
young lady if he "might be allowed the priv
ilege of going home with her" and was indig-
nantly refused; whereupon he inquired very
humbly, eff he might sit on the fence and see
her go by"
g A man in Milwaukee, Wis, who was
last week arrested for cruelty beating his wife,
said that it was the first time he was ever
locked up, and he thanked God it was not for
any mean, contemplate crime like getting
drunk.
= An old merchant once instructed his clerk
as follows: "When man comes into the store
and talks of his honesty, watch. him; If he
talks of his wealth, don't try to sell him; If
he talks of his religion, don't trust him dol
lar"
= Josh Billings says: "Menny people spend
their time in trying to find the hole whar sin
got into the world. If two men break through
the ice into mill pond, they had better hunt
for some good hole to get out, rather than get
into long argument about the hole they fell
in"
"A certain amount of opposition is great
help to man. Kites rise against the wind,
and not with the wind even head wind is
better than none. No man ever worked his
passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man
wax pale, therefore, because of opposition. OPP
position is what he wants and must have, to be
good for anything Hardship is the native
Soil Of manhood and self-reliance. lie who
cannot abide the storm without hinching, lies
down by the wayside to be overlooked or for
gotten.
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TEMpERANcE.LThe New York Journal of
Commerce dwells on the importance of temper
ance and appeals to moderate drinkers to abb
The editor saws 7We believe the habitual
use of fiery liquids in any considerable quanti-
ty to be injurious to the physical system; but
whether this is so or not, the person who can
not pursue his ordinary avocation without
pausing ever and anon for glass of grog is a
Slave Of appetite, and liable to become drunk
ard" This is wise and wholesome hint to
many, given in good spirit by our cotempora-
rv
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To RELIEVE AsrHMA.@Soak some blotting
paper in strong solution of saltpetre; dry
it, take piece about the size of your hand,
and on going to bed, light it and lay it ON a
plate in your bed room. By so doing, per-
sons afflicted with the asthma will find that
they can sleep almost as well as when in
health.
No miller need ever be out of employment,
for he can always grind his teeth.
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One of Dean Trenches sermons on

One of Dean Trench's sermons on the
subject, "What we can and cannot carry away
when we die" commences thus appositely:
alexander the Great being upon his death
bed, commanded that when he was carried
forth to his grave his hands should not be
wrapped, as was usual, in the cere-cloths, but
should be left outside the bier, that all men
might see them, and might see that they were
empty"
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Greenville & Columbia Railroad.
GENERAL sUPERINTENDENT's OFFICE,

GENERAL SUPER1NTENDENT'Se OFFICE,
COLUMBIA, January 15, 1870.
ON and after WEDNESDAY, January 10, the
following Schedule will be run daily, Snnday.e1-
ceped, connecting with Night Train on South
Carolina Road, up and down, and with Nigh
Train on Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Road
going North:
1--we Columbia 700 m 1--we Greenville 5.45am
Aston $40 AN 6. Anderson 6.25,a m
Newb'ry 10. 10 In .s Able vile 500 m
Arr. Abbeville 500 I'm (" Newb'ry 1885 p M
Z" Anderson 4.20 m (" Aston 2.10p m
f" Gr'nville 500 p m Arr. Columbia 3.45 M
The Train will return from Bolton to Anderson
on Monday and Friday mornings.
JAMES O. MEREDITH, Gen. Sup't.
Jan 90, 1870 80
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1t is less painful to learn in youth than to
be ignorant in old age.