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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12
Aumuruns department.
BILL SIMPSON ON COURTS.

Many years ago the Legislature of Tenn-
essee passed an act to organize the county
of McNairy, otherwise Snake.
At that time the county embraced in the
limits of Snake was occupied by steady set
of backwoodsmen, totally unacquainted with
courts, jails, etc. The county assembled at
the appointed site for the purpose of cutting
logs, making boards, etc. to build court
house and jail. The only theme of converse
ton, when the men were assembled, was the
court, etc. None of them had ever seen a
court in session, as yet developed. Each one
would give what his idea was of court, etc.
None, however, were entirely satisfactory,
until Bill Simpson was called on to give his
ideas. He said he knew all about court
that he had law suit in North Carolina.
One of his neighbor's hogs kept coming where
he fed his hogs until it got fat. One morning
he got so mad that he shot the hog he
thought it would not do to throw it away, so
he cleaned and salted it. Shortly afterwards
his neighbor and man came to his house,
and took him to town and put him in little
office. About three months after that, this
man came and took him up to large room.
A large man sat upon high bench-a man
was sitting at a desk-about dozen fine
dressed men sat in place that was paled
around The man put in pen just behind
them.
He then called in twelve men, they took
seats in box in front of the fine dressed men.
The man that was writing gave the twelve
men a book and said something about Bill
Simpson and State. Then one of the fine men
read something about Bill Simpson and the
hog, and he and another one of the fine dressed
men had the biggest quarrel you ever heard
thought they would fight every minute, but
they didn't. 1t was Bill Simpson and the
hog, and the hog and Bill Simpson, and some
times Mr.. Simpson, but very seldom. After
they quit quarreling, the big man talked
while to the twelve men, and then they went
out and staid short time, and came back,
and said something to the man at the desk.
The man on the bench said something to the
man that put me in the Office, and he took me
out and tied me to a persimmon tree, and
commenced fighting me with a cowhide, and
it made ME so blamed mad that shook all
the persimmons off the tree.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

WHAT MAKES HoME.-I never saw a
garment too fine for man or maid there was
never chair too good for cobbler, or COOP
er, or king, to sit in; never house too fine
to shelter the human head. These elements
about US, the gorgeous sky, the imperial sun,
are not too good for the human race Ele-
gance fits man. But do We not value these
tools of housekeeping little more than they
are worth, and sometimes mortgage home
for the mahogany we would bring into it? I
had rather eat my dinner of the head Of a
barrel, or dress after the fashion of John the
Baptistin the wilderness, or sit on block all
my life, than consume all myself before get
to home and take so much pains with the
outside that the inside was as hollow as an
empty nut Beauty is a great thing, but
beauty of garments, houses and furniture is a
tawdry ornament compared with domestic
love. All the elegance in the world will not
make home. and would give more for a
spoonful Of real hearty love than for whole
shiploads of furniture, and the gorgeousness
that all the upholsterers of the world could
gather together.-Theodore Parker.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

MANNERs.-Manners are more important
than money. A boy who is polite and pleas
ant in his manners will always have friends,
and will not often make enemies. Good be-
havior is essential to prosperity. A boy feels
we'll when he does we'll. Ifyou wish to make
everybody pleasant about you, and gain
friends wherever you 60, cultivate good man.
ners. Many boys have pleasant manners for
company, and ugly manners for home.
We visited small railroad town, not long
since, and were met at the depot by little
boy of about eleven or twelve years, who con.
Quoted US to the house of his mother, and en-.
tertained and cared for US, in the absence Of
his father, with as much polite attention and
thoughtful care as the most cultivated gentle
man could have done. We said to his mother
before we left her home, "You are greatly
blessed in your son, he is so attentive and obli-
ging:"
"Yes," she said II can always depend on
Charley when his father is absent He is a
great bel lp and comfort to me-" She said this
as ifit did her heart good to acknowledge the
cleverness of her son.
The best manners cost so little, and are
worth so much, that every boy can have them.
Youths Guide.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

WHAT NOT TO Do.-Don't spit on the
floor; don't spit at all if you can help it.
Don't drum with your fingers or feet; don't sit
with your feet higher than your head; don't
90 with dirty nails don't trim or clean your
nails in company don't clean your nose, ears,
or teeth in the presence of others don't eat
with your knife; don't blow your nose at the
table; don't make slipping tea or eating soup
vocal exercise; don't eat fast.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

To PREVENT IRON FROM RUsT1NG.-Ker-
osene applied with cloth to stoves will keep
them from rusting during the summer. 1t is
also an excellent material to apply to all iron
utensils used about a farm
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

HAVE SCRAP BooK.-Every farmer
should have scrap book, in which to paste
agricultural scraps. Every one, in reading a
paper, will see number of things which he
will wish to remember. He will perhaps see
suggestions, the value of which he will desire
to test, or hints which he will want to be gov
erned by in future operations. And yet, af-
ter reading the paper he will throw it down
and probably never see it again. In such
case all the valuable articles will be lost. TO
prevent such loss, every reader should clip
from the papers such articles as he desires to
preserve and remember and paste them in a
scrap book. Such book, at the end of a
year or two, would be very interesting and
valuable
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

SIMPLE Process OF Hardening PLOUGH
Po1NTs.-A friend who has been residing for
long series of years in the country, and who
is an experienced mechanic, sends us the fol-
lowing simple process of hardening plough
points or other farm implements, which he
says he has often tried with success:
After finishing, heat to a bright red, put on
lump of prussiate Of potash; continue the
heat until the potash melts and runs over the
surface of the iron you wish to harden. Let
it burn until blue fame appears, then plunge
in cold water.
have often hardened the thread on bolt
by the above process, and substituted it for a
tap, cutting good thread.
1t would be advantageous to farmers to
harden their plough points in dry weather,
which can he done by any ordinary smith, by
the above process. L. W. d.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

s@ A Galesburg farmer, whose pew rent
was raised to $25, exclaimed: "Great Caesar,
here's nice state Of affairs-the Gospel 60
ing up and pork going down. What's to be-
come of us?"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

ROMANCE OF AR1rHMETIc.-The most ro-
mantle of all numbers is the figure 9, because
it can't be multiplied away or got rid of any
how. Whatever you do, it is sure to turn up
again, as did the body of Eugene Aram's
victim. One remarkable property of this fig.
ure (said to have been first discovered by Mr..
Green, who died in 1794) is that all through
the multiplication table the product of nine
comes to nine. Multiply by what you like,
and it gives the same result. Begin with
twice 9, 18; add the digits together, and 1
and makes 9. Three times 9 are twenty
seven; and 2 and are 9. So it goes on, up
to eleven times 9, which gives SO. Very
good; add the digits 9 and 9 are 1S, and 8
and 1 are 9. Going on to any extent it is
impossible to get rid of the figure 8: Take a
couple of instances at random. Three hun.
dred and thirty-nine times 9 are 3O51 add
up the figures, and they are 9. Five thous'
and seventy-one times 8 are 45,639; the sum
of these digits is 27; 2 and are 9.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

sa% A little girl sent out to hunt eggs, came
back unsuccessful, complaining that lots Of
hens were standing around doing nothing.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

s9- Two Hibernians were passing stable
when one addressed the other thus: "Pat,
what's the reason they didn't put hin up
there instead of rooster?" can sure" re-
piled Pat, "that's aisy enough; don't you see
it would be unconvanient to 20 for the eggs? p
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

aa- The names of God correspond with his
acts both mutually explain and confirm one
another, and throw light upon his being.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

CONSTRUCTION OF PIANos.-Ina an ordinary
piano there are fifteen kinds Of woods, namely:
pine, maple, spruce, cherry, walnut, white
wood, apple, bass-wood, birch, mahogany, eb-
ony, holly, cedar, beech and rosewood, from
Honduras, Ceylon, England, South America
and Germany. In this combination, elastici-
ty, strength, pliability, toughness, resonance,
lightness, durability and beauty, are individ-
ual qualities, and the general result is "voice."
There are also used of the metals, iron, steel,
brass, white metal, gun metal and lead There
are, in an instrument of seven and a-half oc.
taves, 514 strings, making total length Of
7S7 feet of wire and 500 feet of white (cover.
ing) wire. Such piano will weigh from 600
to 1000 pounds, and will last with constant
use (not abuse) fifteen or twenty years.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12
Woods Household MAGAZINE

Is an original, firstclas, Dollar Monthly. 1t Is
fresh and sprghtly, and will Interest the entire
y household, Including lovers and mnldcnS hus-
n bands and wives parents and children il sug-
y gests the importance Of securing q union Of
n hearts and purposes In life, before there shall
be union Of hands. 1t believes that, while II Z
Is womans privilege to purify and comfort and
adOrn, It should be mans pleasure to provide
n for, cherish, and protect It would have chill.
n dren treated as feeling, thinking and growing :
creatures-perfecty created, but not full grown.
Yet In advocating these doctrines, the Naga.
zine docs not employ doctrlnal sermons-0ng
and dreary dIsquIsitions which do not Interest
= and therefore do not profit the reader. On the
preached not-an interesting story for INSTANCE,
being made to serve the purpose Of long dis +
o. course by giving the reader something real In
teresting and profitable to think about. ,
The worst as well as the best feature Of the 4
"A Magazine Is It's price. Tho idea Of getting q
y really frstclass Magazine at one dollar year,
A. seems absurd to most people. Yet 1t employs n
\ some Of the best contributors In the country
q including GAIL HAMILTON, Its leading editor, 4
= who receives q salary OF three thousand dol.
q lara equivalent to about ten dollars per day.
y Each number contains nearly eight hundred
dollars worth Of matter, which costs the SUBJ
scriber about eight cents q
Hope and Joy-two beautifully tinted crayon
portraits worth Four Dollars-wll be mailed
free to every subscriber to the Magazine at 81 20
Specimens free. Agents wanted. Address 8. +
g. WOOD CO., Gewburgh, NJ
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

a9- Two urchins, five or six years old, re.
turning from school recently, were overheard
discussing great theological questions.
"Well," says urchin number one, "The
Lord owns all this world, don't he?"
"Yaas, I 'spose he does," responded number
two, "but dad says the devils got big NOR
gidge on it."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12
SATURDAY EVENING POST.

SUBSCRIPTIONS will be received for yearly
= subscribers to The Saturday Evening Post, the
Great Family Paper for Half a Century. Price
$500. Also subscriptions received for the Lady's
Friend, a Monthly Magazine. Price $3.50.
w. L. GRIST, News Agent.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

TALL TALK.--A certain political speaker
closed an address in behalf of his party with
the following peroration: Build worm
fence around the winters supply of summer
weather; skim the clouds from the sky with
teaspoon catch thunderbolt in bladder
break hurricane to harness; ground-sluice
an earthquake; lasso an avalanche; pin a
diaper on the crater of an active volcano
hive all the stars in a nail keg; hang the
ocean on grapevine to dry put the sky to
soak in gourd unbuckle the belly-band Of
eternity, and paste To Let on the sun and
moon, but never sir-never for moment de,
lude yourself with the idea that any ticket or
party can beat our candidates."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

s9 "Kittie's going to join our Sabbath
School, she's coming with me next Sunday
amt you Kittie?"
"Oh J.! 1 don't know, I've never been to Sab,
bath School-what do you have to do?"
"Why, get saved, of course books and
albums and"
II mean, what do you have to do-do you
have to study anything?"
"Oh! it isn't like that Its like church.
you know. When you first 60 in you have to
put your head down and pray"
"But cant pray" says heather Kittie, 81
don't know how"
"Oh! we'll, do as I do. Shut your eyes
and count fifty"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH "0LD SOL"
STILL continues, and we are prepared better
= than ever, to execute PHOTOGRAPHIC PIC
TURES of every style, at our gallery in the "Ad-
, ickes' Building"
A lot of nice ALBUMS always on hand. Also
''''' '''''f ' j. R. sCHoRB & SON.
April 10 15 tt
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ROSES HOTEL,
FORMERLY HUNTS HOTEL.)
COLUMBIA, 8. @.

COLUMBIA, 8. @.
yIyHIS HOUSE is in the centre of the city, con-
venient to all the Public Offices and Business
Houses, located on the southwest corner of the
State House Square, has been recently re-opened
and renovated, and will now compare favorably
with any Hotel at the South.
ROSES OMNIBUS will convey passengers to
and from every train, free Of charge.
Also, first-class Carriage for the accommoda-
ton of ladies'.
TRANSIENT BOARD $3.50 per day.
w. E. ROSE, Proprietor.
September12 81 tt
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

THE LENGTH OF DAYs.-The days of sum-
mer grow longer as we 60 northward and the
days of winter shorter. At Hamburg, the
longest day has seventeen hours, and the
shortest seven. At Stockholm, the longest
has eighteen.and.a.half hours, and the short
est fve.and.a.half. At St. Petersburg, the
longest has nineteen, and the shortest five
hours. At Finland, the longest has twenty
one and one-half, and the shortest two and one
half hours. At Wandorbus, in Norway, the
day lasts from the twenty-6rst of May to the
second of July, the sun not getting below the
horizon for the whole time, but skimming
along very close to it in the north. AtSpitz.
bergen, the longest day lasts three months and
half
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

aaF- An Irishman being recently on trial for
some ofense, pleaded "Not guilty." and the
jury being in the box, the State Solicitor pro,
ceeded to call Mr. Furkisson as a witness
With the utmost innocence Patrick turned
his face to the Court and said "Do I under.
stand, your Honor, that Mr.. Furkisson is to
be witness foreninst me again p The Judge
said dryly: at seems So" "Well then, your
Honor" exclaimed Pat, II plade guilty, an
your Honor phase; not because 1 am guilty,
for am as innocent as your Honor's suck.
ling baby, but jist on account O savin' Mr..
Furkisson's sowl."
RI- A minister examined his school boys
thus:
"What is the meaning of the word repen.
tant?
"Please sir, don't know"
"Now, if had stolen loaf Of bread, what
should I be?"
"Please, sir, locked up."
"Well, should feel sorry?"
"Yes."
"Well, why should feel sorry?"
"Please sir, cos you was cotched."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12

aa- Once upon time before the negro had
acquired no other than pecuniary value, an
old colored divine who was holding forth to
an audience of his own race on the watchful
care and goodness of the Almighty, and en-
deavoring to impress upon his hearers the
value of christian darkey in the eyes of
heaven, illustrated the point thus: "My bred
ren, though you can buy seven sparrows for
farthing, the Almighty has a book to put
down where ebery one OBJ dem falls. Now if
the Almighty takes so much care of the spar
rows, dat cost only one-seventh of farthing,
what you suppose he do for you, thousand
dollar nigger?'
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THE MORNING STAR.

DAILY EDITION:
vUlHOUGH only five years old, has the largest
Daily Circulation of any newspaper in the
State, and circulation in Wilmington fifty per
cent. larger than that of any other paper.
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lone and JOy---HODe and Joy

n United Voice OF the Press:-woods w
y magazine Is one Of the monuments Of business
y enterprise which mark the age-E-.4dhodia H0ne u
is sdevoted to the instruction and entertainment "
=. In the means Of readers III moderate circunl. =
In proportion to the Interest Of tts coniens.-N
= YTri5me 1t Is essentially home magazine, fJ
" and Is lust the thing that one would most desire n
" to place In the hands Of his wife and little ones
or that 4 man OF business would himself TAKE I
e1 up for the employment Of leisure hour.--Pos4 y
n Wilmington, N. G. Were we out of our -
chair editorial, as ''private Citizen" cut OF +.
p from our exchange list and all that one OF the e
q hrst magazines to which we should subscribe
Il would be Woods Household. .-Reyiser, Hart. y y
"a ford, CT. 1t Is an intellectual and moral 10
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u and IL high prices prove the merit of literary ~
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III one-The Independent New York. Its aru. n
- cles breathe spirit OF economy, morality and n
u virtue which Is highly refreshing In this age Of n
= fashionable folly and extravagance.-Sentinel y
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E freshest livellest Journals we have examined. 4
4 Record, Springfield, Tenn 1.-The articles
are short, plquant and Of such unquest!oned
excellence that this periodical ought to be both
n familiar and welcome In very many house: IN
n holds. Woods Is q marvel Of chcapness and Il
7 irst.class quality comblned.-Nt,O York Tin'es.
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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-09-25
Sole Agent in San Francisco.
War to the Knife.

The administration journals in Cali
fornia declare "war to the knife and
the knife to the hilt" against Governor
Booth. The Sacramento Record pro-
him "a bolter, a traitor and
. cheat" That journal says:
THE situation is that of a square
and emphatic fight. War is declared
between Booth and his friends and
the Republican party. The latter is
drawn up in battle array, and will
fight TO the death. 1t is war to the
knife an I the knife to the hilt hence
forth. There need be no more empty
efforts on the part OF the Independ-
ents to get inside the party works
again for t~reacherous purposes. lie
is the avowed enemy of the Republic
can party, and that party will do its
best to defeat his aspirations. And
should he succeed in despite of its
efforts, he will in no wise as a Repub-
lican, but as a bolter, a traitor and a
cheat"
And the Oakland Transcript leads off
pretty much in the Sams strain.
Hear it:
1T is always very bad policy to re-
ward traitOrs-better far to reward an
open enemy. Never encourage de-
fiction in the partv-it will come
without encouragement. Always give
bolters the back seat until thew have
fully repented. Reward only friends
and the party will be strong. These
are the correct party rules, and if we
desire to have a party they must be
observed. Therefore. no Republican
can with proprietv support Governor
Booth for the United States Senate.
And more, Republicans should see to
it hat no traitor from their ranks
reaps the reward of his treaCherv."
If the above extracts may be accept
ed as rejecting the true sentiments OF
the regular Republicans of the Golden
State, we cannot see how 1t is possible
for Booth to succeed in his Senatorial
aspirations. In that case he would
have to rely almost wholly upon the
Democratic members to elect him.