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SPARTANEURG COUNTY, - Z.
l. LIS Delightful Watering; P] ACE will
be open for Visitors, June lst, ls5..
BEING situated in the Northern part of
the State, in section remarkable .e for de-
liphtfiil climate, beauty and hea thfainess,
to.esher with the virtues of is waters.
mike it one of the most de5i.able water
ing places to be found.
8, oThe Medicinal qualities: OF this watcr
are not excelled, and arc = sovereign
remedy for all Female Disease.s-all Dis
eases of long standing-Dise:ises Of the
Liver, Bowels, Kidneys and Bladder,
stomach, Eruptions Of the Skin, Scrofu-
h Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Dropsy, sly
pbihs, DC.
= n rrancements VIII be made TO accom-
81 trnodate,a q large number of visitors.
The best Music viii be i'll attendance
To e.lliyen the Bail Room. Fancy Balls
duriny the Season.
Ten Pin Alley, Billiard Saloon and Gro
met for the amusement of the guests.
4 Livery will be kept Il. moderate
ctiarges.
1T 6CMAEGEs-
$50 per day. $50 70 St5 pc. month, aS-
-.,.dir@ to room. CottaSeslto Rent ut s2:s
to so for Season, .,t H.,
Stages ,Ionf Jopesville direct to Hotei-
-, ,. {. s.;aWin. FOWLER;
Proprietor.
Jnne7 LIN -
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A few weeks ago Henry Basch,
aged % years, of No. 10l Forsyth
street, was stung by fly on the neck
and in little time the wound had
developed intoa painful rumor, the
insect probably h wing been feasting
on some poisonous substance. An
absctss. was formed. and he was at
length admitted to Bellevue Hosri-
tnl en- the 9Th instant, suffering from
alt tie symptoms of blood poisoning:
lie was very restless and could with
,lilliculty'Ue subjected to the proper
treatment for the cure of.iiis disease.
On. Wednesday night he managed to
steal from his ward, and by means
Of sheet, climbed from the veran-
.d.sh to the ground, and then over The
outer wall Yesterday morning he
was found by II night lwatchman sit
ting on the pier at the foot Of Twen-
ty-sixth street, gazing absently into
the water as if contemplating self
DESTRUCTION: He was restored to his
bed, where he died in a few hours
without exhibiting any new symp-
tons-N. Y, Star.
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all their savage fury in the untutored

all their savage fury in the untutored
breast of the belle of the forest
Aiming herself with revolver, she
went to the residence of her lover,
crept softly to his room and shot him
through the heart as he was writing
q note to his betrothed. She was ar
rested a few hours afterwards and
confined for the night in an old log
cabin, in default Of a prison. But
her friends rescued her, and she fled
to the wilderness, there to take up
her abode with her mothers wild kin
dred.
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fly come to you thousand and nine
teen times in succession, is enough to
make Pharaoh let go, not only Of
Jews, but his meerschaum pipe, and
his prettiest servant girl: A boarder
at one of our hotels, who was subject
to this plague ofsilies, woke up the
other morning with the mattress
twisted around his neck and tied lin
4 double bow knot. We calculate
that he rolled over in bed SO many
times that morning, that if the same
number of revolutions were given to
a musta d seed, itwould roll 10 Alas
ka and back agains
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THE SECRET OF IR.--Au Old farm
.r being asked Why his boys stayed
at home whelfsositers dislnot5 replied
that It was owilis TO the fact that he
tried always to. make home pleasant
20 them. lie furnished them with
attractive and useful rea,li g; and
when night ct,il.,.s anil the days Ia
bor is enle'i. instead OF running TO
the railway, $.a.ion and adjoining
i.,wn< with the other boys, they gath
cr roun,ltse gre.ls lamp, an'l become
absorbed in their books and patcra
His boys were'still ut homie when the
Youngest was twcntysone, wirilethose
who were furnished with no reading
ut home sought city dissipations as
soon as they were seventeen or elgh-
tccu. All will do we'll to heed this
testimony of i,rmer who has Known
how hard to struggle for a footing on
it free soil without capital is, and how
valuable and comparatively cheap
are the aids which good reading brings
to him. In this age of general in.
telligence, the 'uind must be catered
to and books and papers furnished
and'artistic chr".no pictures can also
be brought to Use in making home
attractive. The farmers life is the
most independent of any, and there
is no reason why it should not be as
attractively surrounded.
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CALIFORNIA CuEEEIEs.--Uncle
Ned is a character, Il genius, phllos-
op.acr. With all lis professional an
tlpathy- to everything certain, he is
occasionally surprised into az ac-
acknowledgement Of the merits OF some
,hins brought to his notice. 1t may
be nothing more than re cut OF Il
garment, Tie speed oI horse, the
architectural beauty OF building, OF
the quality or size OF some specimen
of vegetable production but he i'm
mediately qualities lis remarks with,
Oh, it does very well for these re-
gions; it wouldn't be much in Cali
fornia though"
We had some very large, fine cher
ries on the table one day last sum
mer. After surveying them ior a
moment, Uncle Nod remarked that
they beat anything he ever saw, and
then there was a short pause E" that
is to say around here. "
"Uncle Ned, said I, you never
saw cherry in California larger thar
those.
"Weil, perhaps I didn't
Why" said I, how large are
they in California, and how do they
sell them?''
Well, he replied, with all thu
gravity of Judge, "that depend
something. of course, upon the feasol
of the year. They vary in size a
we'll as in price. They sell them b.
the pound, and if you only want
few pounds they generally charg
about 25 cents a pound; but if yo'
want a whole cherry, they'll let yo'
have it for Is cents pound. "
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Breyitie. AMI ..sYities.

J
i :fso- \ Missouri editor has recently
fallen heir to an estate in Ohio valued Al
fifty dollars. He intends to abandon iiif
newspaper business and devote. his -:hotc
time to looking stteishis property.
.;Hss- Having heard that an infusion OF
tobacco is the best thing to cxtirpatc ;ie
potato bug, Illinois farmers arc enter
tanning their neish!ofs at chewing ric-
MICS in their fields.
gv- Brigham Young has lost twenty
seven motIier-in.laws within the last five
years. And yet he y net happy.
! ~ Philosophers tc!, Us tha. the world
revolves OH its axles, a,i,i Josh Billings
tells us that full hai: tho folks on the
earth think they are the azles.
> Four George washingtons, six
Andres Jacksons, FIVE Henry Clays and
two James X. PoNss, all,negroes, reside
rat present Ia tie Louisiana pcnitentiary.
Ha- TheMarion Commonwealth! prinl;
the following marriage notice: "3larricd,
at Fiinstone, by the Rev. Mr.. Wirssene,
Mr.. Nehemiah Sandstone and Miss WI.
! heimina Whctstone, both Of Limestone.
Look oat for birthstone next.o
.Nsr a widower was recently rejected
by a dalpsel VINO dida't went affections
that had been =. v-nrmed over.:'
Irsy Because mcn who attends n hocs
Of sheep Is shepherd, makes itno reeson
that man who keeps cows should be
coward.
. Sr a Saratoga belle who dressed nine
teea times dsY has gone into decline.
.Sohas her f.thcr. lie declines to psy
his notes
;sss> Two girls of Saginaw, Mich, made
Q wager taat they could take Eve grains
of,norphinc without injury. They tried
it and died together. -
sfJ The millionaire grocer OF Indian
apolis Is sorry the story of'his fortune
got into the papers. He has just found
out what an innumerablc host OF friends
he has, already, 70 advise him hoy to
invest his spare funds. Most OF t!lcsc
friends think hc>olsht to help the mis- !.
sionarv, which, az Nasby says, is mo-" :.
cs2aa;' a. riclf nan WAS applied to lor
contribution in building an iron fence
round the cemetery in that town. But
he declined or the rather irrcycreaEbut
witty play that "tie cemetery does not
need any. fence, q, these inside .sanaot
get out, and those who arc out do not
want to get insa
5zo- Somebody all.,des to Ben Butler
as 1.-The focal point of .million-Gg,lred
scorn.'
Gs-" Salt is the subject of the schcoi .
boys latest composition: "The Salts a
spice which spoils, the potatoes. II you
forget to put il on" .se
~ a hopeful youth IN Fort Wayne.
after tearltilly accepting a Bible from iiis
aunty, walked OIL and. exchanged il for aS
copy OF Bret Harte's poems.
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Cumulative Voting.

+ A perplexed candidate for Office in
Maine attempted once to get out Of g
tdlemma by declaring that he was in
favor Of the Maine L:qnor Law, bnt
opposed to its enforcement: We oc-
cupy similar ground on the question
of cumulative voting. We are in
favor of that mode Of gathering the
suffra 6es Of theirpeople, but we are
opposed to employing that mode here
and now. If. it were in use in Rich
mond, at least two members of the
House of Delegates would next fall
be chosen by the negroes; and We
are not anxious that they should
choose even one. But the worst re-
suit of the system in the South would
be that it would render the negroes
perfectly independent Of the. whites
even of their own party, and enable
them to elect persons Of their own
race. to every Office or position of trust
in proportion to their numbers. They
could in Richmond choose at: least
thirteen out of the thirty members of
the City Council and this without
consulting the wishes or 'whims; Of
Porter; Humphreys. or any other
white Radical At present the ne
sroes are governed by ;heir white
assoc;ates since thnv are in q mip0ri.
ty, and can succeed only by having
white associates enough to convert
their minority into a majority. But
adopt the system Of cumulative vo-
ting, and they could snap their fin.
gers at.the carpet-bagsers and scala
wags, and choose negroes to repre-
sent them in the City Council and
the State Legislature in exact pro-
portion to their voting strength
Richmond CVa.) Dispatch.
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@-. 4. farmer named Watt Carr, re-
siding near Hamilton, Ohio, while con-
yersing with scne friends on the stoop
of his house concerning the manner In
which Mr.. vallandigham shot himself,
It is stated, attempted to illustrate it with
aloaaded pistol, and succeeded tn the IL
luulstration precisely Mr.. vallandighan
did: He fell Instantly, and died in few
= = Jfiots9!t:iss). ,IE2i = 5:AYli
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g Numbers of South Carolinians arc
visiting Cleveland Springs, N. G. There
are three different varieties Of water
there. The kind most generally held in
esteem Is the yellow sulphnr. The red
ia used principally for bathing. The
! The ehslybeate, which seems also. slight
.ly impregnated with sulphur, is used ito
some extent.
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nothing will. T have endeavored tc
describe succinctlyl the result of my
experiment; to; have entered fully
into all the minutia would have oc,
cupied a volume, but if this short ar.
-ticle shall turn the attention ofsplan-
ters to the following up of this mar
velous. progress, my purpose will have
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- COTTON STATES
Life Elf !. Insurance I,.il :. Company:
~ q. F4e ss,,,.s.;nssz oa,ce. Macon, Ga.
Nss,a Principa Once. Macon, Ga

m "a Sa m STRICTLY SOUTHERN and HOME 0oMPA-
Nv conSned bv law to legitimate Insurance alone
Policies ssne ON all approved Mutual plans also issues
a Stock rates Der cent the mutual rate Built does hot
its insure on pn that plan beng very expensive u
the long ,n.. ,,nor,, will o,orooe abont
M M esneca at the South and West where investments bring
w m profits on Mutual business divided annually amongst
all the Mutual Policy Holders without exception =,
onehr Premiums gwen when desired interest 0
upon first loan. . -, :, - ,e .,4onnn. +lo+ ;s no,,
and have so per cent added 70 phele laces "iNA N
than original insured -. :. :, .o,oa 4o.,,s &c
Ample provision against forfeiture of Policies in the expressed terms OF
the contract. 44,: rh o1,o
The Company always purchase its Policies at their Cash value
We the people the State financial security as Northern
mn;a f aennane of the insured and IN adolton
thereto a, Capital commencing with $500OGO
Millions of dollars annually hitherto been lost to the acVe
n of Tho Sou in payment Northern Companies In
from The made by Companies Northern
then sustain our Enterprise and thus keep our money ana the
profits too at home-
e-x-vyYr-,s-gO r Officers at HHacoas Ga:
L. WM B JOHNSTON, President
VIM S. HOLT, Vice-President.
GEO. S. OBEAR Secretary.
JOHN W. BURKE, General Agent
G. F. McCAY, Acuary.
w. J. MAGILI4 Superintendent OF s,encaes
JAS MERCER GREEN Medical Examiner
f7b Cotton States Company is Georgia South Carolina enter
nse is good Company fully Identified with the interests
our people This State ably represented IN the general management "
South Carolina Directors. .r.1r o. .pypv
&c General Agents for North and South Carolina.
WV laval ESD Office Columbia, S. G,
Il M W. ABNEY Nd Edgefeld, s. G. t'SJ o,
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A Connecticut paper feelingly and
sensibly remarks: When Moses got
up flies to bother the people Ct
Egypt, his head was level. They are
a Iittla ..,s,e meanest thing known in
science. Take ie Sunday afternoon
and between six and eight o'clock in
the mornings when any one is trying
to get nap, and to have q perverse
persistent, pertinacious, pusillanimoul
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New Spring Dry Goods
ia na es w. urley,
BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GAy
!. DEALER IN FIRST-CLASS DRY GOODS,

JUST RETURNED FROM NEW YORK and now fully pre-
pared to offer to the public completely assorted Stock OF shAsoN
BILE FIRST-CLASS DRY GOODS.
@ @ has been taken to supply each Department with EVER Y
THING NEW AND FASHIONABLE we'll as the more staple
articles of the Trade.
The Cash system wiEa be strictly Adhered to. and
Il much cheaper to pay 25 per money and buy Dry Goods
for Cash. than buy them on time
The best judges Dry Goods and the closest buyers are particularly
requested to my present schedule OF prices
JAMES W. ioi' a.
Mar 90 ee-ise - tt IL
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W. GRAHAM & GO.
! Cotton NEke llFE oTs
Commission Merchants, .

Il "OOI-'' U-1', -"
w I'LL give strict attention to tho
STORAGE and SALE OF COTTON and
otlcrP RODUCE OH Commission.
AND will make the usual ADVANCES
of PRO VISIONS, &C.. to Planters.
+. CoHsignplents and Orders solicited.
Office, 40. ., McLntosh Street, opposite
Messr,s.4J enpinss, Smith & 20.
Augustus, Apy II, 1871.
= Rejereaces en- Edgefcld Gems. Bon
ham, Dunovant nnd Butler.
Capt. 0. n. BUTLER, Of Edgefeld, is
associated with our Firm, and will repre-
sent our, House in Edseaeld and adjoin-
ing Counties.
Apr 26 tt Is
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Cotton GINS
Patent Medicines.

YUST Received large and fresh as
81 sortinent of PATENT -IEDICINts
OF all kinds. .a,i5r =,
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GLBIN SPRINGS,

spARTANBURG COUNTY, s.. G.
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gS- Salt is the subject of the schcoi
boys latest composition: "The salt IS a
spice which spoils5 the potatoes. IL you
forget to put it on"
~ A bopcfnl youth in Fort Way.nc
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To J. T. Trezeyant, ESQ.,. Augusta,
Ark, a
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~ A hopeful youth IN Fort Wayne ;.
after tearIully accepting a Bible from iiis
aunty, walked of and exchanged il for aS
copy OF Bret Harte's poems.
The Placer herald., 1871-10-07

UNIFORM BALLors.--The press of the
State without an exception, we believe, has
sent forth universal demand for an amend
incnt to our election laws, SO Us to secure a
uniform and secret ballot for every voter,
We urged this action on the Legislature of
lS67-S and again on the last Legislature,
but the members of those sessions failed to
agree upon any law on the subject The
frauds practiced, coercion used, and down
right force and intimidation rcsorted to in the
late election has made it palpable to every
honorable man that the voter must be freed
from intimidation and guaranteed secret
ballot or our elections will be broad farce
by which villains only will profit. In this
matter the press but speaks the voice of the
people, and the Legislature to meet next
December should at once answer these de-
mands of the people, and give them such a
law as will render every mans vote abSo-
lutely secret. The details of such law may
be outlined and discussed hereafter, but its
absolute necessity must be apparent to all,
and especially to the members elect of the
coming Legislature, whose duty it will be to
enact it.
The Placer herald., 1871-10-07
Assessment Notice.
ct LO1Is MINING COMPANY,

ST. LOUIS MINING COMPANY
Location ef Works, Ophir District, Flaesr
County, California.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN. THAT AT
n Meeting Of the Board Of Trustees OF said
Company held on the SSa aay o.
levied lev upon the capital stock Of said company.
payable Immediately, in United States ate gold coin
NJ 400 California street. San Francisco, Califct-
MIA. ,.,,,
Any stock upon which said assessment .hall
remain unpaid on the 25th day OF October,
1871, shall be deemed delinquent, and will be
duly advertised for sale at public auction, and
unless payment shall be made before Will be
sold on
MONDAY, THE 18TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1871.
To pay the delinquent assessment, together with
costs of advertising and expenses OF sale.
By order of the Board of Trustees.
T. +. CRONISE, Secretary.
Office. 400 California street Cup stairs), San
Francisco, ifornia. se3O-4w
The Placer herald., 1871-10-07
The 9th day Of October, 1871,
Trustees Sale Of Delinquent
Town Lots.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, THAT UN.
~ der and by virtue of the provisions Of an
Act of the Legislature Of the State of California
approved March 30th, 1868, entitled "An Act
to authorize and direct the County Judges Of tho
several counties of the State to execute certain
trusts in relation to the town lands granted TO-
the uninoorporated towns in this State by the
Act OF Congress entitled an Act for the relief Of
the inhabitants of cities and towns upon tho
public lands, approved March I'd, eighteen hun.
dred and sixty y-seyen," will, on TUESDAY.
the 18th day of October, A. D. 1871, At TEN
Colfax Exchange, in the town Of Colfax, Placer
county, California, sell at Public Auction, to tho
highest bidder for cash, in gold coin, the several
lots and parcels of land in said town of Colfa1.
which are delinquent for the assessments thereon
LEVIED under the provisions OF the aforesaid Act.
oa'a iots being particularly described on the map
OF said town on file in the County Recorders
Office OF said county, as follows:
The Placer herald., 1871-10-07
Go4ice Of Admlnlstrator'0 Sale
Of Real Estate.

"a HEREBY GIVEN, THAT IN
~ rrsnance of the order Of the Probate
~ Put'h .h. County Of Placer in the State Of
Coufs ;fsy;. ~ made on the 4th day of September,
4 d. 1871, in the matter OF the estate Of Ben
1.M1s ROVE deceased, tne undefs,gnea' Admin
strator OF said estate, VIII sen az fuOnc Auction
20 The highest bidder, foE easn, goid com OF the
United States, in one parcei, ana SUBJECT 70 con-
Srmation by said Probate Court on
Monday, the 10th dsy sf October,
n 1871 at 10 o'clock A. NJ, at the Orc. Min
1Ig sa;d county. oil the right, title, interest
and estate OF the said lntestate NJ tne ume
Of his death, and all the right, title, ana inter
est that the said estate has, by operation OF law
" otherwise acquired, other than or IN addition
10 that of the said intestate, az the time OF his
death. in and to all that lot, piece or parcel Of
land situate, lying and being IN the SAID county
and described as follows, to VII;
OF The equal undivided two twenty -eighths pafs
ord The half of another twenty eighth part, Of
That 1, certain Mining Claim, situated near the
town Of Forest Hill, in the County OF Placer
and State Of California, and known ~ the Gro
" Terms and Conditions Of Sale:-Cash, gold
co;n ten per cent. of the purchase money to bs
no;d n the said Administrator on the day OF the
sale balance on confirmation OF sale by said
Prohate Court. Deed at expense OF purchaser.
i0N JOHN MITCHELL.
Administrator Of the Estate
of BENJAMIN Rowe, deceased.
Rv Fr,1ows & NonroN, At'ys for Admin'tor.
Anhurn. September 23d, 1871. Az
The Placer herald., 1871-10-07
Bn1aHAM YOUNG AND HIS ONE HuNDREl

BINGHAM YOUNG AND HIS ONE HUNDRED
AND SIXTY W1vEs.-Old Brigham Young
has been indicted and arrested for having
one hundred and sixty wives, and especially,
We suppose, for being on good terms with
all of them. We look on the whole pro-
ceeding as being humbug of the first water
Young is q Christian. by profession, and
claims that he is worshpping God. with his
spiritual wives, according to the dictates
of his own conscience" and following in the
footsteps of King David who was, as we are
told in Holy Writ, man after Gods own
heart Young has the Constitution and the
Bible on his side, and it is by no means
clear, if he claims his wives as part Of his
religion, that hc can be "prohibited the free
exercise thereof" This is the language Of
the Constitution, and Congress has no power
to determine what is religion. Seriously
Utah is becoming populous and must soon
become State, and lot Of squirts like TolG
Fitch and Gov. Wood have got in there and
are playing for notoriety in the hope of get
ting to be United States Senators from the
new State Fitch has taken Brigham Young g
side, hoping for Mormon support, while
Wood is working for Gentle support; and
that is about all there is in this polygamy
squabble. Young will not be convicted, or
if be is, he will get off with some paltry fine,
and that will be the end of It.