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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-01-25

ARTIFICIAL SNow.-Condensation
and absorption ef moisture by change
of temperature sometimes produces.
very singular results. 1t is related
that at ball in Russia, after the room
had become very warm and the AR
very moist, some one Of the ladies
tainted, and instantly all of the gal
lants rushed to the windows to throw
them Open. Thus, instead of open
ing one or two windows, all the WIN
dows in the room were thrown wide
open, and the result was such a sud
den influx of cold air and lowering OF
the general temperature that the
moisture was precipitated in the form
OF snow, and there was presented the
singular phenomenon Of o heavy
shower of snow-fakes falling on
ball dresses and bare necks. A some
what similar circumstance once 0c-
cured in our own experience. The
doors Of . greenhouse having been
Inadvertently left open on cold ana
somewhat clustering day, a sudden
gust of wind carried a stream OF cold
air through the house; and although
before this the air in the building was
perfectly clear, yet the result was a
sn0wer Of snow.-1schnOiOgist.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-01-25

GEN. JAcKsoN's MARRlA0E.-A
correspondents tthe Cincinnati Conn
mcrci0i furnishes the following:
Judging from the row made over
the Russian minister's domestic af-
fairs, should n marriage now oc-
eur in high .undcr the cirrum-
stances Of Jackson's, there would be
tornado Of wrath from the pure and
spotIess spirits Of this enlightened are,
whose principal enjoyment of life
consists IN not letting anybody else
enjoy his.
In one Of ,'acksou's tsps from here
to Nashville, lie stopped some time
there, and bourdcd at the house Of
Mrs. D6ucl5un, widow of Cot. John
Donelson, an clnigrant from Virginia.
With Ms. Doncl>on lived her daugll-
ter, bright, beautiful, intelligent
lady, who WassnnAappily married to
one lsohard, n man Of dissolutc habits
and jealous disposition. Jackson,
of this lady, and hrr unhappy situa-
ZION mad" 4 deep impression upon
hiH sympathy. ~ often occurs in
such cases, his sympath."9 ripcncd
into love, but lle kept IT TO himself as
much ~ possible. Rubarl became in
tcniciy jCNIuuo and applied to- the leg
isatuFo Of Virginia Tor n divorce,
and soon after, muGh TO Jackson .
JOY, intclliEcHrCrNmr that il hau lr9n
granted. Mrs. Rohard was thcm in
Natrhcz. Miss. ANA thihcr Jackson
followed hcr. He paid her his al
dresses, and she, considering herself
free, accepted him and they were
married n few months after and re-
turned tu Nashville.
Two years after, much to JacksOn'S
modification, he learned that the
Virginia Legislature had not granted
y divorce, but had only authorized
suit for divorce in n Kentucky
court, and that the divorce had Just
been granted. 80 that he had actually
been married two years to another
mans wife! There was no other
course left open but to take out Il Ii
crnsc and be married again, which
was done.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-01-25

QUICK MUPFISs.-Two teacups OF
buttermilk, one Of thick cream, or il
none, three even tablespoonfnls OF
melted butter, four eggs, half a tea
spoonful of soda thicken with pre-
pared -four as thick Us waflles.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-01-25

At Newbsrry, England, gentleman
recently made a wager of five thousand
dollars that at eight O'Clock on a par
ticular evening he would sit down to
dinner in a wcll-woven, well-dyed,
well-made suit OF clothes, the wooltof
which formed the fleece on Sleeps
backs at five o'clock that same morn
ing. Two sheep we're shorn; the wool
was washed, carded, stubbed, roved,
spun and woven; the cloth was secured,
fulled, tented, raised, shearcd, dyed
and dressed; the garments were made.
At quarter past six he sat down to q
dinner at the head Of his guests in
complete damson-colored suit thus
winning his wager, with one honr and
three-quarters to spare.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-01-25

California is sue .cssfully growing
bananas.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-01-10
VOLUM E <. K ,38.

II Socrates was probably often invited
out to dine, for, being constantly on the
street, where he could snuff the savory
oder of the kitchens, he had the best
fchance in the world to know where o
feast was about to be held. "A public
man, with as glib a tongue as Socrates
had, would not lack invitation. He was
constantly bringing home some one to
dine, when;his wife had not a scrap in
the house to cook, nor stick of wood to
cook it with. She could give no feast,
much less attend any, because she lacked
the means to present herself in suitable
attire. Plutarch says that the ladies
were invited q year beforehand that they
might have time to dress, Z 4.
The well-known occupation of Socra-
tes was finding fault with hisneighbors,
ard very naturally the wife did not es-
cape his censures. He even permitted
llerto be accused of; scoldingii in his very
presence "a thing which the world never
could have known and then, instead of
trying to defend and hide her faults, as a
loving husband should, he admitted that
this was true, and said: II have mar
ried this woman, being firmly convinced
that, IN case should be able to endure
her, shouldebe able to endure every
BODY
Such things as these are supposed to
make the very best of women scold.
Therefore since Xantippe probably mar
ried Socrates because she had no other
choice, and Socrates married Xantippe
because he knew their dispositions were
most discordant, and then did SO many
things to torment and aggravate her,
we claim that she was justified in ooca-
sionaily giving her husband q view of
domestic affairs from woman's stand
point, or, in other words, giving him
piece of her mind.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-01-10
State Agricultural and Mechanical So
ciety.
COECsBuRY, January |, |

CoKEsBURY, January l, 1872.
C0L H. u. INON2ns-DEAR SIR: Atan
carly day, expect to issue the premium
list for the State Fair of next fall. Du-
ring the lasttilir. heard many structures
pronounced upon the premium list. TO
prevent the recurrence OF these critl-
cisms, I respectfully ask the co-opera-
ton of the citizens Of South Carolina i'll
completing the next list. Any sugges-
tions of alterations, amendments or inn
provemcnts, sent me by mail to this
place from any portion Of the State, will
be thankfully received, and will meet
with due consideration. / also respect
fully ask the secretary of any asricultu-
raj, horticultural or mechanical assocIa-
ton in the State to send me, on receipt
of this notice, the names and post offices
of the officers of his association. 1t may
rebound to the benefit of his club, socle-
ty or association by so doing. ,
Will not all the papers of the State
favor the Society by giving this note q
eratuitous insertion? Very truly.
d. WYATT AIKEN,
Secretary S. C. A. ard NJ. Society.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-01-10

4 RADICAL SENATOR ON AMNESTY.
IN the United States Senate, Senator
sawyer, on the subject of a proposed
amendment to the amnesty bill, said:
1.-The amnesty bill was SO important
and urgent measure of public policy
that he did not want to have it embar-
rassed by any other measure, however
ncritoriOus in itself. He believed that
the great mistake in the reconstruction
of the Southern States was the imposi-
ton Of political disabilities, and that it
was due to that mistake that his State
iSeuth Carolina) had now government
that was q disgrace to the Republican
party and q scandal to the country be-
for the civilized world. The Senator
from Massachusetts,, in his zeal for equa
rights, was seeking to tack his amend
ment on this bill but the col0red people
at the South, if they could be heard
would themselves say to that senator
'Give us amnesty first; we will be sure
to get our rights, sooner or later, under
your BILL"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-01-10
Bible for the Blind.

Editor AbbevtUe Press and Banner:
Permit me to inform you and those
readers of your paper who feel an inter-
est in the work of the American Bible
Society, what it is doing in the distribu-.
ton of the Holy Scriptures among the
Blind in South Carolina.
From August 10th 1865, to October 9th
1871, vol,tnaes in raised letter donated to-
parties in the Counties of Chester, York,
Spartanburg, Union, Aobeville, Sumter
and the cities of Columbia and Charles
ton, G2 copies, valued at Sl61.1S.
The Scriptures in raised letters are
given to the INDECENT blind upon scondi-
ton that, when the recipients have no
more need of them the volumes shall be-
returned to the Society, or placed atitsI
disposal. Each application should mem
tion, distinctly. the name and residence
Of the applicant, give assurance of abil:-..I
ity to read and inability to purchase,
and, if possible, should be accompanied
with the endorsement of aclergyman or
some other known friend Of the Society.
Th New Testament, for the blind, is
all that is usually given at first. The
Old Testament may be subsequently ad-
ded, on the assurance that proper use has
been made OF the former donation.
BY addressing me it will afford me
pleasure to procure copies of the Scrip
lures for. the Blind from the American
Bible Society. Yours truly,
f. "A. BOLLES,
Agent American Bible Society for S. c..
Columbia, S. c., Nov. 23rd, 1871. Il
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-01-10
SOLUBLE
GUAN0

PRICE S45 DOLLARS CASH, WITH
USUAL, ADVANCE FOR TIME.
EvXPERIENCE in the use of this
III Guano for the past six years in
this State, for Cotton and Corn, has so
far. established its character for excel
lence as to render comment unnecessa-
| In accordance with the established
policy of the Company to furnish the
best Concentrated Fertilizer at the low
est cost to consumers, this Guano is put
into market this season at the above
reduced price, which the Company is
enabled to do by reason of its large fa-
cilities and the reduced cost of manu-
facture.
The supplies put into market this sea-
son are. as heretofore, prepared under
the personal superintendent of DR.. st.
Julian Ravenel, Chemist Of the Compa-
my, at Charleston, s. c., hence, planters
may restassured that it's QUALITY and
COMPOSITION is precisely the same
as that heretofore sold. AT the present
low price every acre planted can be fer
tilted with two hundred pound Guano
alta cost not exceeding the present value
of 80 pounds Of cotton, while experience
has shown that under favorable condi-
tions of season and cultivation the crop
is increased by the application from
two to threefold the natural capacity Of
the soil. Hence, under no conditions
could its application fail to compensate
for the outlay. Apply to -.
j. N. ROBSON,
Agent Pacific Guano Company,
No. 6S East Bay and Nos. and 2 ATTAIN
tic Wharf, Charleston, 5. G.
JNO. S. REESE & CO., Gen. Agents.
- Nox. ISE1 .lO-3tna -. ~
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-01-10
ARpEvIIIE s c. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 10. 1872. +
IMMIGRATION AND LABOR.
Nulla Vestigia Retrorsum.

These noble lines-from the Southern
Mdgdzi,ac for the current tmonth--preach-
ing cloquently the sublime 'heroism OF
Peace, come with peculiar grace and
effect from q member of the sex ever
last to forget the revengeful heritage OF
War:
THE GOSPEL OF LABOR.
I have smoothed from my forehead its
sadness; -i. s.g,.sl ti,,,5
'Tis over! Thank heaven therefor! :
I would hide now with garments OF
gladness .i1y@i ffs.l y
The sackcloth and ashes of war. sj
Not a word of the Past! Ithas perished,
Gone down in its beauty and bloom :
Yet because it so proudly was cherished,
Shallwe sigh out our earsatits tomm?
BY. the duty and honor undaunted,
Still steadfast and stern as can be;
BY the laurels a jackson has planted,
BY the hopes thatwe buried with Lee.
Letus wrest from the future tile guer-
0C1S - .!'E. - ~ 7att = t@ go 2 +
That to resolute purpose belong;
Let us fling from our spirits their bur-
dens, s.ter.,s, .s.t,.t tg
And quit uslike men and be strong!
I bring you, compatriots, brothers,
(As largesS we dare not ,disdain,
Like Natures that bountiful mother,s)
Savannas as smooth US the main.
My valleys shall whiten all oyer
With SHOWS never born of the cold,
And grain like Midas shall cover,
Every slope that it touches with go Id
The clink of the artisans hammer
Shall scare from the forest its glooms !;
In the brake shall the water-fowl's
clamor
Be drowned by the clash of the looms.
Then up from your torpor, ye sleepers
The dreams we are dreaming deceives;
Go forth to the fields with the reapers,
And garner the prodigal sheaves.
With focks gladden. meadow and noun
With tinkling herds speckle each hill,
And blend with the plash Of the foun-
. tian
The rumble and roar of the mill.
Brave hearts that have welded the
sabre,
staunch spirits that stood by the gun,
Take heed of the Gospel Of Labor: -
The old dispensation is done!
Put hands to the plough and endeavour,
Plant foot in the deep furrowed track !;
Set face to the future and d.never ,@
4 One wagering moment look back.
For none who dispairingly centre
Their thoughts on the By-gone and
The Present, are fitted to enter - ~
1.-The on-coming Kingdom Of man
r. MARGARE'r.J j. PRESTON.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-01-10

WVHIS article is prepared under the
y superintendent of DIR. ST. JU-
LIEN RAVENEL, expressly for COM
posting with Cotton seed.
It was introduced by this Company
two years ago, and its use has freely at
tested its value. 200 to $50 pounds of
this article per acre, properly composted
with the same weight of cotton seed,
furnishes the planter with FERIl-
LIZER of the highest excellence ut the
smallest cost. A. A.compostprepared with
this article, as by printed directions fur ~
nished, contains all the elements of fer
tility that can enter into q first-class
FERTILIZER, while its economy must
commend its liberal use to planters.
For supplies and printed directions
for composing apply to
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-01-10

ROBERT J. BREcKINRIDaE-AT A
Coop OLD AGE, GONE.-One Of the most
distinguished divines of the Presbyterian
Church is dead. Robert J. Breckin-
ridge. ID. d., Ill d.. uncle of Gen. John
(. Breckenridge, "of ours" died re-
Gently, aged about seventy-two.A The
deceased was Kentuckian. First he
practiccd law, and was in political life.
In 1882 he laid aside the gown Of the
lawyer for the sacred robes of the church.
He became divine of commanding in
huence. His was master mind. His
labors extended beyond the sphere of
his church. After many labors, literally
civil and religious, he died at his old
home in Danville.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-01-10

TT HAVE purchased and located a
STEAM SAW MILL, in the
neiphborhood between CEDAR
SPRINGS and WHITEHALL, where
] am prepared to furnish lumber of all
kinds common to this region and of as
good quality as the country affords al
reasonable rates. g:
J. F.. LYoN. I
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-01-10

These noble lines-from the Southern
Mugazinc for the current month--preach-
ing cloquently the sublime heroism of
Peace, come with peculiar grace and
effect from q member of the sex, ever
last to forget the revengeful heritage of
War:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-01-10

j. N. ROBSON, :.
AGENT PACIFIC GUANo COMPANY,
No. 6s East Bay and Nos. and 2Atlan-
tic WhaIf, Charleston, S. &.
JNO. S. REESE & CO., Gen. Agents.
Nov. 90, 1871, 32-3m
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-01-10
e UtIItJ' HPPIy
J. n. ROBSON,
The World-Renowned
HOWE SEWING MACHINE.

VMNHE Howe is the first Machine
q ever made. 1t has points of SUI
periority over all others. In range OF
work the machine cannot be equaled.
POINTS OF SUPERIORITY.
Simplicity and perfection of mechanism.
Durability-will last alife-time.
Range of Work-Without Parallel. j..
Perfection of Stitch and Tension.
The most easy Of operation.
Self-adusting take up.
Adjustable Head. = .
Having been-appointed Agent for the
above Sewing Machine for this County,
1t is now offered for sale on reasonable
terms. 1t is equal to, if not superior to
any machine offered to the public. All
persons in of Machine Will please
call and examine this before purchasing.
Respectfully,
~ " J. D. CHALMERS.
Dec. 4, 1871, 33-tf l.'E z"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-01-10

In the manual of the. American Bible
Society for 1871, it is said OF the ~
BIBLE FOR THE BLIND.
The Society has, at great expense, pre-
pared the entire Bible, in raised letters
for the Blind. 1t is published in eight
and i'm sixteen folio volumes. The ac-
tual cost of the former is twenty dollars,
and Of the latter twenty-eight dollars, at
which prices the sets are sold. The New
Testament may be had either in two OF
four volumes, costing respectively five
and seven dollars. The Psalms constl-
tute single volume, which IS sold for
one dollar and half. Amy of the vol
umes maybe had separately. The stereo-
typc plates, from which this magnificent
book is printed, cost tho sum of thirteen
thousand dollars; and the Society has
already prepared, and put into circula-
ton over seUen thousand Totetnacs OF 1t,
in the United States in great part 9rdtul-
tousiY, in as much as the Blind, as q
class, are unable to purchase.
This department Of the society's work
impressiveIy illustrates its benevolent
character. IT would be impossible to es-
innate the blessings that have attended
its distribution of the Scriptures among
the Blind and the mosttafecting testi-
mony might be cited to the comfort and
joy produced by this instrGmentaHty.
In its efforts to scatter these precious vol
uncs among q Glass so greatly afflicted,
and q large majority Of whom are poor,
the Society can surely depend on the
hearty sympathy and generous co-opera-
ton of its friends. ~.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-11
THE PITH OF THE NATTER.

The desperation of the disorganizers may
be imagined when they blurt out such
glaring fallacies as this:
Just in proportion as the party opposed
to the government, in the South, is COM
pactly organized, in that proportion is the
party organized in the North which was in
favor of the government.
viii the B1nner fortify this startling
proposition by one single fact in the history
of this country or England, or the cont.
nent? When aud where did a party or a
people become successful through self-dis-
indignation, dissensions and mutual squad
bles? This policy of "every man for him
self and the devil take the hindmost," is
always The prelude Of overwhelming defeat
Man is by bis very nature social being
All enterprises of pith and moment, al
governments, and even the very existence
of society itself, depend on cooperation
There never was minority that grew, ex-
cept through organization. But many 8
good cause has come TO naught through thu
persistent squabbles Of its adherents.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-11

THE Grant Cameron men resorted to
crime to prevent a fair expression of the
will of the people in the election on the Sth
inst. They registered in Philadelphia
5000 voters, while the census Of 1870
revealed a total population of 675,02l in
that city, and 942, 292 in New York, while
the highest registration ever attained in the
latter city was only $4,000. Reckoning
one voter to six inhabitants, the highest
honest vote possible in Philadelphia would
be 1887. The vote Of New York, on
this basis, might reach 157, 04S, but it has
never reached so high figure. The regis
tration of Philadelphia is prinld .facie evil
dence Of fraud, originating with rogues and
carried cut by rogues. To personate the
imaginary persons borne in that registry,
they imported reporters from New York
AMI negroes from Maryland and Virginia.
These facts explain how the Pennsylvania
election was carried for Hartranft, the
Grant-Cameron candidate for Governor.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-11
THE system of State aid, or. as the New

THE system of State aid, or, as the New
York World forcibly puts it, forcing you
and me aud all our neighbors to enable
John Doe and Richard Roe to build road,
to be operated as theirs aud for their profit,
has received another black eye On the Pa
cidc slope. Gov. Grover, of Oregon, told
the Legislature on the 23d ult. that he had
vetoed and should veto all such bills, and
now the Mayor of San Francisco comes
down with his disapproval on $2,500,OO0
ordinance in favor of the Central Pacific.
Little by little the proofs gather that this
heretoforelegalized system Of robbery draws
to its close.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-11
pIAINCAsE

The Banner is understood to be prepar-
ing an elaborate twO-column article by way
Of proving that the unfortunate result in
Pennsylvania and Ohio is the direct, legiti-
mate and inevitable consequence of the
audacious Democratic majority in Georgia.
If the President were elected by the popu-
Lar vote, as Mr.. johnson seems 10 desire,
Georgia's 10000 would over balance Penn
sylvania and Ohio, with half of New Eng
land thrown in. OF course the loyalists of
the North took the alarm; aud learning
from the Banner that original secessionists
are still plotting treason and re bellion, and
that Greeley's election by Democratic votes
would bring back all the woes of 1S60-6l-
they could not be expected to do anything
else than elect corruptionists like Hart
ranft for rulers over themselves, just
to spite Georgia. In fact, it may be in
ferred naturally that the Grant party did all
in their power to swell the Democratic
m jority of that Southern State, in order
TO scare up the Northern Radicals. 1t is a
plain case--to the Banner. What the goo
Der grabbers ought to have done, was to let
their late election go by default. 1t would
have been better still to recall Bullock and
give him hundred thousand majority.
That would have lulled the suspicious of
the North, and our Greeley friends would
have had an easy thing Of it in the Middle
States. But, alas for poor human nature:
the Banner didn't see the situation in time,
and failed to warn the Georgians of what
they ought to do. We impeach eur con-
temporary for gross, negligence of duty.