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The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07
" Labor is scaroe-this can be
supplied by IMMIGRATION.


" The matrimonial market last
year was quite lively, and many
happy young couples are scattered
through the length and breadth of
our county. But while tho success
ful speculations in this market may
be readily enumerated, who can cal
oulatc the number of those that were
disastrous7 How many swains arc
there that have anointed their 10 cks
with "bear's grease" and perfume d
their handkerchief with "drops" and
sailed forth o'nights to the homes Of
their dulcincas that have oscillated
botwen alternate rapture and despair,
going through the mental anguish
of raising their courage to the pro-
posing point, only to be rejected be-
cause OF the superior attractions of
"another frller," or of the cold heart
of their respective Angclnas : These
sad experiences would fill book
Never despair, friends. While thcro's
life, there's hope. Plenty of good
tlsh are still left in tho sea. Only
DC careful to bait your hooks proper.
ly noxt time.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07

IT. New year has been attended
with its accustomed changes. On
every hand families are moving.
The colorcd people especially are
changing their homes. Among these
there seems reat mess to hire. The
short crop and low price of cotton
broke up most Of the renters, and
January finds them penniless.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07

rW@ We trust that most of our
RIA lers will remember that their sub
scriptions expired on the lst of Jan.
uary. We are needing money fo,
s>ms small bills of our own, and
trust that We will receive all dues
so that VIC can Commence the New
Year under favorable auspices.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07
In Bankruptcy.
lSTRiCT COURT OF THE UNITEE
- SinlcS for The Ensiern Disi rict q.

lSTRICT COURT or THE UNITED
~ States for the Eastern District of
South Carolina-In Bankrupicy.-In the
matter Of tho Citizens Savings Bank of
South Carolina, Bankrupt. This is to
give notice That OH the ist day Of Dcccm-
her, A. D. 1873, n warrant Of Bankruptcy
was issued out Of the District Court of the
United States for the Eastern District of
SO ilh Carolina, against the rs ate of the
Citizens Savings Bank, in the county of
hichland, in said District Of South Caro-
lima, adjudged q Baakrnpt on its own Pc
tition that the payment of any debts and
delivery ofnny property belonging to said
Bankrupt, to it or for its use, and The
transfer of any property by it are forbid
den by law; that q meeting Of the creii-
tors Of tho said Bankrupt, to provo their,
debts and to choose one or more nssignces
of its Estate, will bo held at q Court Of
bankruptcy, to be holden nj Columbia n:
tho Citizcns' Savings Bank Of South
Carolina, before Il. NJ. Seabrook, ESQ,
Register in Bankruptcy for said District,
ON the fourtechth (14thj day of January,
a. D. 1874, at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
Il. NJ. WALLACE,
United States Marshall for said District,
jan Tx As Messenger
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07

DEATH OF Mr.. WM. G.. GERIG.-
Mr.. Wa. G. Gerig, eldest son Of
Francis Gerig, Esq, died on Wcdncs-
day night of consumption, aged ~
years. MIR. Gerig had made large
circle of friends. In 1871 he went
west, and remained some time. But
contracting, there, the germs of dis
ease, lie returned home. His health
continued gradually to decline, and
in spite of all that could be done for
him he breathed his last on Wedncs.
day. He was buried with masonic
honors in the Presbyterian Cemetery
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07

G8y@ We were invited to New
Years egg nogg on Thursday, given
by Mr.. r. j. McCarley. Quite n
number of gentlemen wero present,
all of whom seemed to enjoy the
good things set before them. We
tender our thanks to Mr.. McCarley
and his efficient clerk, Mr.. Shields
Gladney, for the enjoyment afforded
lis.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07
The State Of South Carolina,
FAIRFIELD County.

By W M NELSON, Esq.,, Probate Judge.
WHEREAS, J. G. Hawthorne hath
W made suit TO me, to grant him Let.
ters Of Administration Of the Estnte and
effects Of Robert hawthorn deceased.
These arc therefore 10 cite and admonisl,
all and singelar thckindrcd md creditors OF
the snid Robert Hawthorne deceased, that
they bo and appear, before me, in the Court
of Probate to be held Mt Fairfield Cour,
House, on tho 18th day Of January
next, after publication hereof, at II
O'Clock in the forenoon, to shew oause II
any they have, why the said Aministra-
tion should not be granted.
Given under my hand, this Goth day Of
December A. u. 1873.
w. NJ. NELSON,
dec 30-f1x2 j. PEG
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07

" Gentlemen coming to our Office
to write advertisements, will do US q
kindness by leaving our pencils where
they find thom. We cannot afford to
lose our pencils and wait on them a
year or two for pay.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07
SIFERIFEvS SALE.

N obedience TO an order made by w
l. NJ Nelson. Judge Of Probate, will
sell on the 2lst day Of January. 1874. at
ii O'Clock, a. NJ at the residence of the
late Sanders Ford, the following Personal
property belonging 10 the Estate Of
Sanders Ford, deceased. TO wit:
Three Mules. one Mnrc. three Cows, lol
OF Corn, Let Of Cotton Seed, lot cf Fodder,
blnckSm:h Tools. Farming Tools, nnd
other article, not enumerated. Terms
cash.
L.W. DUVALL, S. F.
sherif''s Office,
Winnsboro. s. c.,
Jan 8. 1874.
Jan G.flX2
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07
local 5dulb5.

jon PnINTINo.-Our office has been
fitted with all materials necessary
for printing jobs of every description.
Bills, Letterheads, Posters, Invitation
and Business Cards &C., 60.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07

W. Now that the farmers are pre-
pairing for another year, we repeat
our advice to plant less cotton and
moro grain. Corn is too dear for
farmers to buy it and make money.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07

0r If the Ku Klux tax is collect
ed it will realize $4,000, for school
certificates. We advise our friends
having these certificates not to part
with them too easily.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Tax Notice-H. A. Smith, County
Treasurer.
Sheriff's Sale-L. W. Duvall.
In Bankruptcy-Saml. B. Glow
ney, Assignee.
In Bankruptcy-R. NJ. Wallace,
u. S. NJ.
Sheriff's Sales.-L. w. Duvall.
See the advertisement in another
column of the Pacific Guano Conn
pany.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07

" Three hundred immigrants
came to Charleston last month, and
were distributed through different
parts of the State. Fifty went TO
Chester, NOT a SINGLE ONE TO FAIR
FIELD. Are our people all dead, or
asleep ? How many thousands of
dollars were lost LAST year through
worthless labor The farmers could
not have lost more, pecuniarily, by
Immigrants, and would have gained in
population. We know many pu,tics
who tell US they want some in,mi.
giants. Why do they not write to
j. Won Sontcn. Esq, Pres't. of the
German S"ciety, Charleston, or Rev.
Tilman II. Gaines, agent, New York
stating their warts?
We have received a circular from
Mr.. Won Santen, asking us to form al,
Auxiliary Society here. We want
first to find farmers willing to take
Immigrants and trent Mem wcN, and
thea we Will try to raise money to
bring these immigrants on. We
have counscled our friends on this
subject, we have appealed to individu
als, wo have thrown out suggestions
to the Oranges response has been
received. In the meanwhile, the oD
portunity is fast slipping away. 1t
will soou be too late. Farmers, ci,i.
zens, Oranges, wake up !
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07

" Tho country is aslasp-it can
BIZ awakened by IMMIGRATION.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07

Gr Taxes arc high-those can be
reduced by IMMIGRATION.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07

Miss g. Hogan, 4th Maid of
Miss B. Oliver, 9Th Maid of Hon~
Or.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07

REMOVAL OF THE FEMALE SEMI.
NARY.-We call the attention of the
patrons and friends of the Wlnnsboro
Female Seminary to the fact of it's re-
moyal from its former location, to
tho large and commodioas residence
on Main street, opposite the freight
depot, recently occupied by DR..
Cureton. This location will be found
every way desirable, it being much
more retired and pleasantly situated
than the building recently occupied.
The school will open on Monday
morning next, and as tho teachers
have already established high repu.
tation in the various departments it
is expected that there will be quito
an increase in tho number of pupils,
both day scholars from tho town, and
boarders from tho country. We
cordially recommend this institution
to parents having daughters or young
sons to educate.
-----~~~N>ro~~~~~~~~~-
ToURNAMENT.-A Tourney was
bold at Ridgeway Dec. 29th with
following result
lst Prizo, Saddle and Grown, Harry
@. Davis.
2nd prize, Bride and Crown, w.
M. Hardin.
Sd prize, Blanket and Grown, j.
w. Smart.
4th prize, Spurs and Grown, T..
8. Cooper.
9Th prize, Whip and Crown, D. A,
Coleman.
9th prize, Tin Cup, loast number
rings, w. w. McQuatters.
Miss Sallie Campbell, Queen,
Miss Matte Oliver, lst Maid ol
Honor.
Miss Minnie Coleman, End Maid
of Honor.
Miss Bessie Crumpton, Sd Maid Of
Honor, n..
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-07

i HEY have in store ono hundred Lar.
rels, embracing every variety from tho
commonost to tho FINEST brands.
Wc direct particular attention 10 our
FINE CORN WIIIsKEY, the purity and
age Of "hich wo warrant, and our mes
and Brandics represent every olimo md
country. In connection with the Liquor
business VIC havo opened Restaurant for
tho accommodation Of The public whcro
moals will bo served at all hours, all W
ask Is trial, satisfact n is guara ntood.
Fresh Lager on draugh.
.ATa9G.
Fresh Oysters at the Restaurant.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-02
Keeps Her Own Name.

Miss Olympia Brown, when mar
ricd lately, did not change her name.
She says that she and her husband
agreed before they were married that
thcy should hold on to their own
names. In fact, she would MT have
married without such an agreement.
| arkcd her if Mr.. Willis cher hus-
band) did Mt wish II change his name
to Brown. She said, ooh, no. He
would be simple if he did, Willis being
a much pretticr name; besides, had
his name been IIigginbottom, he would
have preferred 10 retain it, considering
it was his Gwa, and the one he had
always been known by" | asked her
if no one ever called her Willis. She
said, ::'Oh, yes, sometimes they did ;
but she Didn't wage any special war on
that. any more than if they had called
her some pet name that never belonged
to her" .And so it is John Henry
Willis and the Rev Olympia Brown
and he attends to his grocery business,
and she breaches to her congregation
of saints and sinners every Sunday,
and they keep snug little house in
Bridgeport, on Golden Hill, and the
name on the door is Olympia
Brown" that partner in this matrimo-
nkl firm being the better known of the
two. Had it been the reverse, John
iIenry's name would have probably
greeted the pa-scr-by on Golden HILL
Hartford Times.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-02
Very Healthy latitude.

Judging from the table Of agcs
published in the last United States
census report, in 1870, the year the
census was taken, there were in thi.
State, With population of 1,25s, 3l3,
207 persons who had reached the age
of 100 and upwards, against 167 IN
New York, which has population OF
4,3S0,0g3. Iowa, containing 1888
81 inhapitants, has but u over a
hundred years Of age Dakota, Ida
he, Montana, Ncvata and Utah have
no centenarians. Georgia has 297,
Alabama 286, Louisiana 279, North
Carolina 265, Mississippi 263.
The fact that our State possesses Il
healthy climate is evidenced by the
foregoing, and a farmer living near
Nashville demonstrates, In Il letter
written to the Cincinnati Gazette, that
Tennessee soil is remarkably fertile,
as he made 81, 629 last year by cult
tivating ten acres of ground. There
can be no doubt but that Tennessee
offers inducements TO Immigrants, sec
Ond to no other State in the Union.
Thus far, there has been no special
effort made to advertise oar adyan-
tages as a State, but they are being
gradually found out, and the indica-
tions are that a large number of capt
talists and first-ciass farmers will cast
their lot with us at an early day.
Union and american.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-02
Raa-,cr Tron-feal.


Muggins, of Phenix, celebrated his
iron wedding one day last week,
and he invited about one hundred and
twenty guests to the wedding. OF
course each person felt compelled to
bring a gift of some kind, and each
one did. When Mr.. and Mrs. Smith
came, they handed Muggins a pair of
fat-irons. When Mr.. and Mrs. Jones
arrived, they also had a pair of fiat
irons. All hands laughed at he..coin-
cidence. And there was even greater
merriment when the Browns arrived
with two pairs of hat-irons. But
when Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson came in
with another pair of flat-irons, the
laughter became perfectly convulsive.
There was, however, something less
amusing about it when the Thomp-
SONS arrived with four fiat irons
wrapped in brown paper. And
Muggins' face actually looked grave
when the three Johnson girls were
ushercd into the room carrying fiat
iron apiece. Each one of the sue
ceeding sixty guests brought hat-irons,
and there WAS no break in the contin-
uity until old Mr.. Curry arrived from
Port Byron with Il cast-irOn COW bell.
Muggina has no earthly use for a COW
bell, and, any other time, he would
have treated such present with seorn.
But now he wis actually grateful to
Mr.. Curry, and he was about to en-
brace him, when the Walsinghams
came in with the new kind of double
pointed flat-irons, with wooden han
/ dies. And all the rest Of the guests
brought the same articles, excepting
Mr.. Rugby, and he had with him a
patent stand for holding tiat-irons.
Muggins got madden and madden
every minute, and by the time the
company had all arrived he was nearly
insane with rage, and he went up to
bed, leaving his wife to entertain the
guests. In the morning they counted
up the spoils, and found they had two
hundred and thirteen hat-irOns, one
stand and COW bell. The fact is,
the hardware store in the place had
an overstock of flat-irOns, and sold
them at an absurdly low figure, and
Muggins' guests unanimously went for
the cheapest thing they could find, as
J people always do on such occasions
Syracuse -Nc,Cs.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-02
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.

There arc70, G0mcmbers of Christ
ian churches in Lower Bengal, Of
whom 30, 600 arc natives. Christian
work has told there and it is only just
begun.
Rev. McClintock Barnitz, en- agent
of the American Bible Society, has
commenced suit for libel against the
st. Louis Democrat, laying damage at
$50, 600.
Mr.. Spurgeon during the last seven
teen wears received 1900 persons
into his church, erected thirty-six
chapcls in London, and supplied the
same with ministers trained in q col
lcge of his own founding.
4 member was lately received in
the First Presbyterian Church in
Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, by letter,
which stated that that sister was a
member in good and regular stand
ing" of the Church dismi>sing her, and
furthermore, that she had been. vaccin-
atcd."
Rev. DR.. John Halls new church,
New York, will Re, when completed,
the largest Presbyterian church in the
United States, if not the largest in the
world. The ground upon which il is
erected cost $3.50, 000, and the house,
it is estimated, will cost 5000
more.
M0nasterics and converts in Rome
are being turned to new purposes this
season. Some of the kitchens belong
ing to the monks Of the former con-
vents of the Carmina, consisting Of
fifty large apartments, have been
transformed into soup-kitclens for the
needy. Victor Emanuel contributes
largely to their support.
An argument for the abolition Of
the Thirty-nine Articles" has been
printed by an English Ritualist. The
writer shows that their authors were
Caivinists; and the fact that Church
men, high and low, are agreed in re-
pudiating Calvinism, makes their
presence in the PRAYER Book a scandal
and reason for getting rid of them.
Among the indirect fruits of the
great temperance revival in the West,
and now extending eastward, Is re-
solve made last week by the corpora
tors of the great Trinity church prop
ertv in New York city to no longer
lease any of the real estate Of the cor
poration for purposes of liquor traffic:
This property is valued at several
million
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-02
AFAYErrEvrLLE ROMANCE.
4 ProsaIc Narrative that Nigh; be
Bfvarsc-5Ee&.

nANEHSC-tn~"s
J. Bateman Smith, of the Fayette-
vile Journal, thus relates heart and
clothes-rending accident:
1t is not often that we relate any,
thing in pathetic manner, but when
we do tears always flow. Pull out
your pocket-handkerchiefs and peruse
the following:
He was young, he was fair, and he
parted his hair, like the average beau,
in the middle. lie was proud, he was
bold, but the truth must be told-he
played like fend on the fiddle. Bar
ring this vice, he was everything nice,
and his heart was 50 loving and tender
that he always turned pale when he
trod on the tail of the cat lying down
by the fender. He clerked in a store,
and the way that he tore OFF calico,
jeans and brown sheeting would have
, tickled a calf, and made the brute
laugh in the face of a quarterly meet
ing. He cut quite dash with dar-
ling mustache, which he learned to
adore and cherish; for one girl had
said, while she dropped her proud
head, that 'twould kill her to see the
thing perish. On Sundays he'd search
the straight road to the church, I'M
needing the voice Of the scorner, and
demurely he sat, like a young tabby
! cat, with the saints in the amen corner.
He sang like bird, and his sweet voice
was heard flirly tugging away at long
meter; and We speak but the truth
when we say that this youth could out
sing a hungry mosquito.
/ She was young, she was fair, and
she scrambled her hair like the average
belle of the city. She was proud, but
not bold, yet the truth must be told,
the way she chewed wax was pity.
Barring this vice, she was everything
nice, and the world admired her bus
tie, and the Fayetteville boys, being
Gained by the noise, walked miles to
hear it rustic. She cut quite swell,
did this wax-chewirg belle, and men
hocked in crowds to meet her; but she
gave them the shirk, for size loved the
Young clerk who sang like hungry
mosquito. So she hemmed and she
hawed, and she sighed and she
"chawed" till her heart and her jaws
were broken; then she walked by his
store, while he stood ut the door await
ing some loving token. She raised up
her eyes with \ mock surprise, and
tried to enact the scOrner; but, to tell
tbs truth, she GRAINED at the youth
who loved the amen corner.
x X They met-alas! what
came to pass was soft and sweet and
precious. They wooed, they cooed,
he talked, she chewed-O, how they
loved, good gracious! They had to
part; he rose to start; her grief can
not be painted these are the facts
she swallowed her wax, then screamed,
then choked, then tainted. Her pa
appeared; her beau, quite scared,
rushed out 10 get some water; the
watchdog spied his tender hide, and
bit him where he "oughter.' The
tale is sad, the sequel stern-So thinks
the youth thus bitten. He sings nc
more, as oft of yore-he gave that
girl the mitten.
She pinned apace; her pretty face
looked slender and detected; hcr
father, kind, but somewhat blind, be
held her and reflected. His income
tax he spent for wax-she smiled anC
called him clever. She went TO work
forgot that clerk, and chewcd in bis.
for ever!
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-02

When the war between the States
broke out, there lived in Memphis a
certain Young mechanic who volun-
teered his services as soldier in the
Confederate cause. Just before recciv-
ing marching orders he fell heir to
81 800, which he received in English
gold, and buried 81, GOO of the same
beneath the roots of a tree on Il GER
tain lot in the city. The said lot be-
longcd to a friend of the young man
whose family had kindly nur4ed him
during a protractcd illness and for
whom he felt deep sense of gratitude.
1t CHANGED that said soldier became
tired Of his unrequited life, and des-
pairing, Of the cause which he deemed
lost" before many of his fellow sol
dier came to the same conclusion, he
le1t his comrades without the usual
preliminary of al honorable discharge
and passed beyond the boundary of
the Confederate States into Mexico.
In due course of time he sailed for
England and there shipped as sailor
on q merchant vessel. After various
adventures around the world he was
at length taken very i'll recently, while
sailing in the Mediterranean, and, be-
fore meeting with his approaching
death, summoned to the side of his
hammock the master of the vessel,
revealed to him the above stated facts
and desired him to write will in
which he bequeathed to the friend in
Memphis who had nursed him in sick
ness, his buried treasure. This was
accordingly done and the will duly
signed and witnessed.
The mister of the vessel faithfully
carried out the dying request OF the
deceased soldier and sailor and COM
municated the facts with the will TO
the Memphis lcgatee, who received
the same. But he had sometime be-
fore sold and delivered to another party
the lot on which the valuable sever
eigns were deposited. How to get at
it now without mourning opposition
and perhaps litigation, was the ques-
ton which arose in his mind. After
taking the advice Of counsel, he con-
Guided to develop the whole matter to
the purchaser and owner of the place
and ask for the right to make search.
This was done, and the new proprietor
generously forwarded his wishes and
gave him every facility to possess
himself Of the treasure. On digging
at the foot of the tree described in the
will, the gold, amounting to $1,000,
WAS happily found and the new owner
made glad by the glittering heap.
Thus did the "bread cast upon the
waters return after many days And
thus is truth again proven to lie
stranger than fiction" This remark
able statement is vouched for by Il
respectable lawyer of this city. 1t
furnishes abundant foundation for an
interesting romance, which we hope
some competent person will work UP.
--IlempLis Register.