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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

ALWAYS Too LATE.-Some people are al.
ways too late, and therefore accomplish moth
ing worth naming through life. If they
promise to meet you at such an hour, they
are never present until thirty minutes after.
No matter how important the business is,
either to yourself or to them, they are jus. as
tardy. If one of this class is to take passage
by steamer or railway, he arrives just as the
boat has left the wharf, or the train the sta
ton. His dinner has been waiting for him
so long that the cook is out of patience. This
is the course, the character we have described,
always pursues. He is never in time for
church, at his meals, or in lis bed. Persons
of such habits, we cannot but despise. AL
ways start in time and be ready at the ap-
pointed hour. We would not give fig for a
man who is not punctual to his engagements,
and who never makes up his mind to GER
tain course till the time is lost Those who
hang back, hesitate and tremble-who are
never at hand for journey, to meet an ap-
pointment for business. or anything else-are
poor soths, and are ill-calculated to succeed
in business or get living in this world.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

WASTED PowER-In every family there
is power to let In the development and use
of this power lies the true secret of success.
Parents are too apt to think that their cares
will cease when the little ones grow up, but
every year enlarges the responsibility they
have assumed The physical needs of the
children demand time and money, but when
their mental powers awake and expand, the
real care of parents commences. And just
at this point many parents shrink from their
plain duty, and place their hig chest privileges
in the hands of strangers. Is it right to be-
lieve that a mothers whole duty lies in the
adornment Of her daughters person, or that
a father has performed his when he has paid
his sons bills and notices his physical growth ?
1t is 50 easy to select school for the child,
let others teach it, and leave the moulding OF
its character to chance! But it is a hard,
unceasing care to watch the opening mind,
read the Thoughts, and study the best interest
of the little form that holds an immortal soul
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

DsY- A room with pictures In it, and room
without pictures differ nearly as much as a
room with or without windows. Nothing, we
think, is more melancholy, particularly to a
person who has to pass much ofhis time there,
than blank walls for pictures are loop-holes
of escape to the soul, leading it to other scenes
and other spheres. 1t is such an inexpressi-
BILE relief to person engaged in writing or
reading, on looking up. to find his soul, as it
were, taking wings throug h the frame of an
ex ,uisite picture, to other beautiful, and per-
haps idyllic scenes. where the fancy may revel
for moment refreshed and delighted. Is it
winter in your world? Perhaps IL is summer
in the picture. What charming momenta-
ry change! These little landmarks of hu-
man art are sermons one can read without
the trouble of turning the leaves.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-09-01
New Issue One Dollar Notes.

The new issue one dollar United
States Treasury note has made its ap-
pearance. While the general style of
the new and the old dollar notes is the
same on the face, the backs are entire
ly different. On the face of the new
note l.. the same central medallion
head of Washington. and left hand
corner vignette of Columbus discover
ing America, as well as the same right
hand upper corner lathe work denomi-
national vignette. There is no green
tint On the face of the note, as is the
case with the old issue. The difference
of engraving on the face of the new
note are Simply in the border for num-
Der and in the red treasury seal. This
latter is now smaller, and placed be-
tween the Washington and Columbus
vignettes. In place of the large seal
on the old note is red border and
lathe work over the letters forming
the words lone dollar" The back of
the new note is green. hut of new
elaborated and intricate design of geo.
metrical lathe work, with st. An
drew's cross in the centre bearing the
words United States of America"
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-09-01
Madame Patterson Bonaparte.

There is q narrow, ugly street in
Baltimore, where women rarely come,
but one is often seen there. 1t is the
shape of little old woman that sal
lies from boarding house on the cor
ner, less often recently than it used TO,
q feebied, stopped. lettering frame.
and wiZeued, wrinkled face, wigged
and specialized. The old lady uses at
tendant's arm as support, and PAST s,
apparently without notice, the group
of takers that stare or point her out to
o stranger. If soma of the more defer
ent salute her she Strengthens for n
moment, and returns it with touch of
the old grace that wrought her fame
ana her misfortune. She is not &C.
lebrity of to-day her story stretches
back full sixty years, to the days when
handsome, pusilIaUimous exile mar
ried her on his own caprice, and repu-
dated her at the beck of his brother
For she Is Madame Jerome BOnaparte,
as she has always proudly styled her
self; once the wife, now the widow of
Jerome Bonaparte, King OF Westpha-
liza. Beautiful, brilliant, and aristO-
cratic, Miss Patterson married him,
then an unknown stranger. against
the wishes and counsel of all her
friends III few months Napoleon,
imperial and imperiOus, cOnjured up a
kingdom for his brother, and babe him
come 10 it. We know the condition
on which it was offered; we all know
how it was accepted ). martial obliga-
ton never stood much in the way of
the Bonaparte family. Madame Pat
terSOu- IOnaDarte is very old and ne
culiar. Her son Jerome, who never
saw his father, is dead. but his widow
and child, third Jerome, with un-
m;stakable BOnapart face, are still liv-
ing in Baltimore.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-09-01

must moreover, caution susceptible
people agalnt giving much credit to
the reported discoveries of gold. 1t is
evident that the explorers have found
the precious ore; il would be strange il
they had not; 1t has been found, we be-
lieve, in nearly every State in the UD-
ion, from Maine to Alaska. What
paying quantities" may be we can
only surmise. Gold by the painful
might be dear in a country where an
armed and powerful expedition would
be needed to protect the honest miner
1t would be cheap at eight cents the
painful of pay dirt" if found in
OnOndaga county. 1t is evident that
the explorers. fascinated by the pristine
beauties of this new fairy land, feel
great enthuiaSm over their new dis
coveries. Like De Soto and his fol-
lowers i'm Florida. they find themselves
in Land of Flowers where the
streams run over golden sands-in
Imagination. The rosy dream is ma
tural. It is always 50 with ardent
discoveries. Their observations are
recorded in August, when the bright,
pure moutain country is seen at its
best. But it lies far north of the lati-
tude of Boston, in an altitude of at
least 1000 feet above the level of the
sea. In the lesser Black Hills, con :
siderably to the south, the winters are
often severe, the SHOWS being some
times tremendous in depth. General
Clusters floral valleys and blue grass
must have only brief summer.
s Precisely what this expediti III is
designed to accomplish we do not
know. It's addition to the general
geog apl zeal knowledge OF tie country
will not be larI The whole region, a
we a said, is small in area. Mo O.
over, it IS not open to settiem Mt; tits the
property of the Sioux, 80 tar as solemn
treties of the United States can make
it so. The spreading of these feverish
reports about the universal wealth of
the country is sure to arouse that wild
and reckless class of men who rush
where there is q rumor of gold, and who
would prospect" for gold on the brink
of volcano or in a valley of tigers if
they thought they could ''get the
color. Whatever the special OCCASION
for the expedition, it will be a real
misfortune if its Immediate results
shall be the temptation thither Of a
rush of men, who will suffer privation.
danger, and diappOiatment themselves,
and who may, beside. bring upon us
another dispute with the warlike
Sioux
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-09-01
A FAITHFUL PAIR.
A German Loses his Wife, and
After Four Years, Finds her
In IL County Poor House.

The Rome Oneida county, Sentinel
tells the following story of the trials
and tribulatiOn of a husband and wife:
There arrived in this country four
years ago last spring, an honest Ger
man named Charles Meyers, accom-
panied by his wife WiIhelmina and
two children. They settled in SYRIA
cuse. Late in the same summer, aud
before either of them could talk Eng
lish with any accuracy, Charles and
his wife went to Vernon and Augusta
to pick hops. While they were at
work in Augusta the company separa-
ted, Charles remaining on one farm
and his wife Wilhelmina going with
another German woman who could
talk English, to work on another farm
about two mikes from Pratt's Hollow.
Hop-picking being over, Charles Mey-
ers and the comDany with him were
bundled into the ears and sent to Sy-
racuse. He had no fears about his
wife. because be supposed she would
remain with the woman in whose
company she left him. Within a day
or two home came the other woman,
but no WiIhelmina. Said Charles,
where is my wife?'' Said the wo-
man, ''She left me to fiud YOU" And
so Charles Meyers lost his wife. He
could not find her in Vernon; he
could not find her in Augusta. he
could not find her anywhere. For
two years did the unhappy man search
for the lost Wilhelmina. Every cent
he coCld spare from the support of his
children, he devoted to advertising for
WiIhelmina. Time aud again he
heard of women, alive or dead, who
were supposed to be Wilhelmina, and
time after time he hunted them up to
find mo Wilhelmina." He saved an
extra penny to keep light al the
window for Wilhelmina and he was up
with the Lark to pray-after he bad
looked down the street to see IL there
came his poor Wilhelmina' Some
times his feIlow-workmen whould say
10 him. We Charley, your wife must
be dead or you would hear from her,"
aud he would shake his head and say,
"May be. but l don't believe It'll
Sometimes they would say ''Charlie
your vile has gone off to live with an
other man you will not see her any
more"; and he would slap his hands
earnestly together, and fairly shout
mo. Stree. She never don't do dot.
Poys. knows dot woman, dot Wilhel-
nina. l knows her NIT mine heart"
After two years of faithful, unavailing
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-09-01
A Beautiful Tribute.

At the Washington and Lee Univer-
sity, Lexington, Va. says the Savan-
nah AdUertiser. a student is each day
detailed to watch beside the tOOmh of
General Lee. Every morning one of the
students is posted at the tomb in the me
mortal room of the chapel. built un-
der the supervision of Lee. He is sly led
a watcher" and his duty is to remain
there during the day and receive WIS.,
itors. showing them the proper cOur-
tesy and attention AS there are near
ly three hundred and fifty students,
no one is on duty more than once a
year Thus the entire southern
people. through their representatives
in the University, are watching at the
tomb of Lee, and their SOILS improved
in manner and bearing by the sacred
duty they perform. and their minds
and hearts benefited by thoughts of
the noble dead.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-09-01
BIOGRAPHICAL.
ROBERT CARR.

The following biographical sketch
of Robert Carr, of Mercer county,
w. Va, is taken from the funeral
sermon preached by Rev. George
Stewart, from 2 Cor. V. l. d 3,
AID is copied from the Bland HER
AID. Mr.. Carr was the father of
Mr.. G. w. Carr, of Bristol, and
was one Of the most noble and
highly esteemed men in the coun-
try.-ED. News.
Funeral Sermon of Bro. Carr.
This subject affords abundant com
fort TO those whose friends have died
in the Lord. ''They are not lost, but
gone before :" With them the will
demess is passed, the journey ended;
the earthly house is dissolved and
the tent removed; but they have found
and entered into that better building.
which is ''eternal in the heavens"
Among the happy millions already
there. is our mutual friend and broth>
cr. Robert Carr He was born IN
Giles CO., Va, March Dad; 1901.
He wa united IN marriage TO Miss
Sarah King. of the same county.
August oath. 1926, who still ives
aud mourns her loss. He prOfessed
religion and joined the Methodist
Church at Chinquepin campmeeting,
Giles CO.. Va, August 10Th, 1925,
and passed by death away on Suns
day morning Feb 22nd, 1914
aged AZ years, ii months and 20
days.
Bro. Carr spent the most of his
life in Giles CO He moved to Mer-
Ser co. in 1874, and, excepting few
years during the war, has lived in
your county ever since. | think
first visited his house ia lS4s; and
since that time have been often there,
and on the most intimate terms With
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-09-01

search Meyers gave up In despair, and
not being able to Withstand the grief
which his surroundings In Syracuse
constantly called up afresh he took
his children and went to ROndout.-
Four years ago this fall woman was
brought to the county-house of Rome,
partially insane with the burden of q
great grief. She was perfectly harm
less, but hopelessly confused. She
could give no account of herself. She
did not know who she was, or where
she came from, and only remembered
that she once had a husband, and that
she had lost him. Under kind care
she slowly grew better, and as she felt
more familiar with her surroundings
her mind slowly resumed its sway
She remembered more about her hus-
band and about her two children, but
how she lost them she could not tell
She was gentle and Industrious, and
became in time rather favorite not
only with the inmates, but with the
niatron and her assistants as WE'LL
Last winter young tramp stopped at
the cOunty-hOuse as u transient" To
her was told the story of the German
woman who had lost her husband, and
she remembered that q German living
on Salina street Syracuse, had lost his
wife. hut she could not tell his name.
She though t if Mr.. Cheney who ques-
toned herr woHld write to one Waters
q tinsmith, that gentleman could tell
him all about the case. With this clue
Mr., Cheney traced the case until he
became satisfied that the Meyers, who
had gone TO ROndout, was the husband
of the confused German woman un-
der his care. Then trouble was expe-
rienced in getting Meyers from Rom
dout. He hid gone i'm search of many
w .lhelmil. and he had been so un-
successful; but finally a friend I'm
whom he had confidence wrote him
such an account as to convince him
that Wilhelmina had been found. Then
he packed up all his furniture. every
thing he had owned when Wilhei-
| nina left him, and he shipped all back
to Syracuse, and he passed through
Rome last Tuesday night with his
two children, and got bis old place i'm
Syracuse, with his old employer, and
bright. and early last Wednesday
morning he was en- route for Rome and
Wilhelmina. Mr. Cheney took him
into the receptiOn-rOom, and Mrs. Che
ney brought in Wilhelmina. At first
she looked vaguely and then she looked
more sharply at Meyers, and then
well we cannot tell you what happened
then. There was the happiest Ger
man i'm this broad universe hugging
the happiest of all women. She knew
all abOu. it, And that Dutchman,
who knew dot WilheImina i'm his
heart" had his reward. And Cheney
was just as we'll pleased about it as any
one, bless his big heart. and il he stood
on one leg and shouted, 'Hosannah in
the highest. and on earth PEACE. good
viii toward 1nei,," why it is nobOdy's
business. There was gay party in
that GOun!ysIiouse reception-room.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-09-01

The Nashville Banner says: Mr..
George G. Harding, of the Indianap-
oils Sunday Herald, who shot the al
legged sedncer of his daughter in that
city on Thursday, is one of the most
prominent of Western journalists.
He is 10y birth an East Tennesseean.
and when a youth, resided at Knox
Vile"
It is terrible domestic tragedy that
reaches US from Indianapolis this
mornIng-the seduction and suicide of
daughter, and the shooting of her Sc
Queer Ivy the agonised father. These
are questions very hard for the press
TO deal with-very hard to harmOnise
in the interests of society, a respect for
the laws. and the feelings Of humanity.
Yet if ever a case occurred in social
life, where instant and complete VEN
geance was iustifiahle, that Of Mr..
Harding was One.-Cn. Times.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-09-01
LYNCH LAW IN TENNESSEE
Wholesale Slaughter Of Negro
Prisoners.

NASHVILLE, August GA number
of negroes, at Pickctsville, Gibson
county, six miles from Humboldt.
threatened riot last Saturday night
and Sunday. on account of some sup
pose wrong done them and manifest
ed strong desire to kill two or three
citizens and fire and sack the town.
Ye terday sixteen of the ring leaders
were arrested and taken to Trenton,
and placed in Jail for safe keeping.
About one o'clock this morning, be-
tween seventy-five and one hundred
masked men entered the town and rid
ing up to the Jail, demanded and COM
PEELED the sheriff to deliver up the
keys thereof They then took the six
teen negroes from prison. and after
killing four, and MORALLY wounding
two, on the confines of the town. rode
off with the remaining ten, and are
supposed to have killed them.
Nothing has been heard of the par
ty since they left.
Considerable excitement exists
among the negroes, and tho whites are
taking steps to defend themselves
from an outbreak.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-09-01
IUsSOsF. SEPTEMBER |, 1874.
EVENT and COMMENT

TiIton has brought suit against
Reecher, Tor $4,000 damage. aud i'm
reply to his allegations, Beecher has
stcOrn that they are untrue. In the
mean time the young woman Bessie.
whom TIlton sent away from his
house to school. ia her statement be-
fare the committee, does very tall
swearing against Tiltou. The COM
mittee have reported, vindicating
Beecher fully.
The widow and daughter of Stone
wall Jackson have been sOjourning at
Warm Springs, n. G. But as for
St0newall, lac is "Uver the river. rest
ing under the Shade of the trees.
Samuel Mcdowell Moore, of Rock
bridge, is claimed 10y the Lexington
gazette, to be the only surviving
member of the Va. constitutional con-
vention of lS29-30.
Kentucky comes i'm for her share OF
the color line disorder. Lancaster is
the scene of black aud white in armed
and hostile array over the claims
OF two white candidates at the recent
election, one being republican,, and
the other democrat. The State mill
tia and federal troops. suppressed the
disorder. Three men were killed.
J. j. Womack, has filed bill of
discovery Ia COMPEL Ex-COmptrOller
Hobbs To state under oath how and
why lie got rid of the office and for
wha' sum. This will enable us to tell
who's Hobbs, but then it leaves us
perfectly ian the dark about Houk.
The Black Hills in Dacotah, is the
New EldoradO, which the white man
means next to steal from the Sioux In
dams.
Last Wednesday was day for NOM
inations in Va. EX Gov. Walker was
unanimously nominated OH the third
or Richmond District. Hon. Eppa
Hunton was unanimously nom N lied,
after the withdrawal of Barbn r, | 1
Tia \ leXantr.a Dist. In [! e l. ch-
bu Dist. Mai. Daniel led the ballot
all day Wednesday. Whitehead ran
pretty ciO.e up to him, and Judge
Houston carried the balance of pOwe~.
o. Thursday, Whitehead and Daniel
we locked. Ran Tucker licked up
the savOry bone aud walked off with
ii. Ran is one of the most eloquent
men in the State, but We think either
OF his two defeated competitors was
better entitled TO the nomination..
Eppa Humton and James Keith, GER
tify that Col. Mostly and Capt. Payne,
are honolab y acquitted la the settle
ment of their difficulty, which they
went TO Washington to fight a
duel over. and which would
have been fought, had not Mostly been
arrested. Capt Payne reached the
gi0uRd st Rockland il Prince Will
liam Co., though much tribu-
lation. and then his second declared
MOstiy's chnllenge off.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-09-01

AGRICULTURAL well-knOwn az
ricultural chemist, assures US that no
matter how susceptible manure is to
fermentation, no matter whether it is
fresh, heated up strongly, well-rOtted.
or all old compost, if it is spread but
thinly on the field, all fermentation is
speedily checked, just as when mass
Of ignited Goals IS scattered over the
ground, the glow ceases. the combus-
ton declines, and even in the hottest
summer day the fire is soon extin-
guisnPd. II this spreading is done in
the cool of autumn and a gentle rain
shortly follows, all the element of the
manure, the potash, ETC.. dissolve and
sink into the soil. But they canb OF
go far down unless we have MANFRED
q grave bed or sand pit. On land fit
for farmer to handle, whether a nat
ural loan, or a sand or clay. subdued
to proper texture, the descent of fer
tilizing matter is arrested as already
mentioned, by the beautiful chemistry
Of soil-absOrptiOn, the slowly descend
ing water is filtered by the sell of near
ly all il took from the mature. and the
real feeding qualities of the top dress
ing are distributed and diffused
throughout the surface soil in O way
no tillage can begin to initiate. Loss
is reduced to its minimum, and the app
plication is as perfect in style as in
cost If, on the contrary, the manure
is spread out in hot weather. and lies
exposed some days to dry winds, the
ammonia it contains, in the form Of
carbonate, will be carried off into the
atmosphere; but this loss is not so great
as is often supposed. The quantity of
volatile ammonia that can be got out
of stable manure by this exposure is
certainly not greater than exists in it,
and the analyses show that it amounts
to but two to six parts in 10000 Of
fresh, or well-rotted manure.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-09-01

THERE can be no doubt that the
northern purpose to pass the Civil
Rights bill has caused the present
epidemic of negro outbreaks in the
South, and there can he very little
doubt that the lynch law admins
tered by The whites will produce the
passage of that measure rcXt ses-
sion. That event will be followed
by still more negro insolcnGc, and
that in turn by more lynch law
Thus one can easily see that the bill
means civil war in the South, aud
that, in It's turn, means ruin. We
would be glad to have a more hope
ful view of affairs, but we look for
nothing permanently good in the
present temper of the northern
people.
Where and whenever there shall
be fewer whites than are necessary
to own and direct tie great indus
trial interest of the State and more
negroes than are needed to do the
rotine labor, there will be trouble
and bloodshed and insecurity.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-09-01
NJ. L. BLAcKLKr, w. II. ROBERTSON, Il C. I.
BLACKLEY.
BldGklGy, Robertson & BlaGklGy,
Attorneys at Law, 6
Real Estate Agents.

Will. practice in the counties of Sulli-
van and Washington, and in the Federal
and Supreme Courts at Knoxville, Tenn
"a real estate agents we offer for sale large
amounts Of improved and unimprovej min
eral and farming lands, in quality and on
terms to suit the purchasers. Our AGENTS
will meet emigrant ships, regulnrly, at Nor
folk and New York, and will be in onssant
correspondence with Emigration Stcie;ies
and Mining Companies in Europe aud the
United States. Persons having laBd- in T..
Tenn, S. W. Va, and Ky, for sally. Of any
description, will find purchases thruIi.'h our
agency. Capitalist wishing to invc-t IT, Iron,
Coal, Lead, Grazing and Farming l.r,'y. and
Water Power, viii find il to their ;..crt TO
examine our land. We also ii, town
property for sale.
OFFICE OH Fifth Street.
Aug. %, IS73.-tf.
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