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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-07-01


PooE DEAR HANNAH ANN.-It was a
great many years ago that the story was first
told Of Miss Hannah Sterry, an uncommon
ly mature virgin who had never been perse.
cuted with masculine attentions because of the
vigorous manner in which sheshunned the face
of man. 1t was related that Mr.. Theophilus
Wimblebee, an advanced bachelor of the mild
est possible department, occupying single quar-
tiers in the neighborhood of Hannah Aun's
apartments, called on the spinster one after.
noon to borrow match. Hannah Ann was
not easily fooled. Folding her arms on her
level breast, she backed Theophilus Vim.
blebee into a corner and thus addressed the
invader: Match! Oh, yes! Great match
It's you want! You don't want no match,
and now you know you don't. You've come
over to me cause I'm all alone-to hug
and kiss me-that's what you've come for
but you never shall do it in the world unles:
you're stronger'n am"-and then she added
in a softened tone, "and the Lord knows you
are."
SHE HAD PLAN.-A gaunt woman jun
ped into the central station yesterday, says
the Free Press, bonnet askew and eyes blaz
ing, and as she reached the sergeant's desk
she exclaimed:
"I'm the widow Coon!"
"Ah!' remarked the sergeant.
"And want to know if my landlord can
raise the rent on me ?" she went on.
II guess so-landlords can do do most any
thing"
"But I'm widow"
$50 you said"
"And isn't there law to protects widow
from having the rent raised ?"
"Never heard of one"
"And I haven't any more rights than q
married woman"
"Not one"
"Very WE'LL" she said, shutting her teeth
together and striking the desk; if widow
hasn't any right, I'll marry somebody afore
sundown-you hear me now!"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-07-01

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aas~ Do not pride yourself upon your wealth.
for riches have wings; if there is anything
upon which you have a right to be proud Of,
it is your good conduct and your readiness to
extend.
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MUSIC HATH CHARMS, &C.

April l
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A CURE FOR Bors.-A correspondent of
the Department of Agriculture at Washing
ton, writing from Murray county, Georgia,
says that whilst different writers on the SUBJ
iect assert that none knew of any certain
remedy for bots
II know of remedy, that is safe and cer-
tain, discovered in the following way About
thirty years ago, friend lost by bots very
fine horse. He took from the stomach Of the
dead horse about gill of bots and brought
them to nv office to experiment upon. He
made preparations of every remedy he had
heard of, and put some Of them into each.
Most had no effect, few effected them slight
ly, but sage-.ea more than anything else ; that
Killed them in fifteen hours. He concluded
he would kill them by putting them in nitric
acid but it had no more effect on them than
water. The third day they were as lively as
when put in. A bunch of tansy was growing
by my office. He took a handful of that,
bruised it, added little water, squeezed out
the juice, and put some in !; they were dead
in one minute. Since then l have had it
given to every horse I have seen affected with
bots, and have never known it to fail in CIV
ing entire relief My friend had another
horse affected with bots, several years later.
He gave him the tansy in the morning and a
dose of salts in the evening; the next NOR
} hah-he took up from the excretions three
This staS bets"
The remedy seem5eserves general circulation.
tried. Tansy ought to 6ye been thoroughly
every farmer, who owns horse. growing, oy
remedy for bots sure enough. nay be a
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05

There is o super rstition that the pre-
sentation Of a knife without any equiv
alent whatever will cut friendship.
There is fact lately come to light, in sA
small town where there is q great deal
of primitive simplicity, that the present.
alton of shirt by a woman to the man
she wants to marry will cut the heart.
out of love. One young girl tried it..
and made her lover gIistening white.
SHIRT with her own pretty hands. He
retired to his boarding house, put it on.
and went straitghtway to see and make.
love TO another girl. Clad in a.
clean shirt he felt above the seam
stress who had msde it, and she
lost his coveted company. She did not.
sit down and whine over the linen that
had gone astray, but took pistol ins
her delicate hands and tripped her way
to the boarding house aforesaid. She
met the unsuspecting rover, and pre-
senting the pistol, told him to take of.
that shirt. He hesitated and was los&-
He saw desperation in those eyes and
death in the pistol. He peeled and
handed her the soiled garment, whicha
she took on the point of her pistol andl
poked into the stove. And the fame
died out and her love went up the CHM
ney with the smoke. He sought the
secrecy of his chamber to mourn over
the depletion of his wardrobe, and she,-
cooked and primed, went off for another
lOver,-St. Louis Republican,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
So Nary Red. %

As the old cred cent has now
passed out of use, and, except rarely,
out of sight, like the "old oaken
bucket" it's history is q matter of
important interest for preservation.
The cent was first proposed by Robert
Morris, the great fnancier of the Revo-
luton, and was named by Jefferson two
years after. It began to make it's ap-
pearance from the Mint in 1892. It
bore the head of Washington on one
side, and thirteen links on the other.
The French Revolution soon created
rage for French ideas in America,
which put on the cent, instead of the
head of Washington, the head of the
Goddess of Liberty-a French Liberty,
with neck thrust forward and flowing
locks. The chain on the reverse side
was displaced by the olive wreath Of
peace but the French liberty wat
short-ived and SO was the portrait OF
our cent. The next head or figure tha
succeeded this-the staid, classic dam,
with fillet around her head-came int
fashion about thirty or forty years ago
and her fnely-chiseled Grecian features
have been but slightly altered by tn
lapse of time.-PhiladeL1oltiG Ledger.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
The Waverley Novels.

Comparatively few persons now living
can remember the excitement caused
by the appearance of q new fiction Ey
the author of Waverley. Circulating
libraries were beseiged by their GUS
toners, eager to be favored with an
early perusa1 of the new book. In
some libraries each volume was divided,
and bound in two portions !; and at
Bath, and other fashionable places of
the period, they were sometimes split
into three parts to facilitate reading.
The writer remembers seeing, In q
Scottish provincial town, the novel OF
Guy Mannering" bound in portions
OF q hundred pages, each of which, at
that time Q832), was lent to read at the
rate OF twopence per night. 1t con-
sisted in all of ten parts, the reading OF
which. at the price named, cost one
shilling and eightpence; and the feat
of perusal, in case we personally
know of, was achieved, not in ten
nights, but in a gallop of eight hours
When the Leith smack which carried
these literary treasures to LondoI
arrived in the Thames, no matter thai
it might be midnight, or that it might
be Sunday evening, the London agents
of the Edinburgh publishers were OF
the alert, and had porters and vehicles
in readiness to carry off the treasures
to the " Row" or to sNo. so Cheap
side, where-the books being, as it i
technically called, In "quires the
bookbinders were In readiness to per
form their work, 80 that in few hour
copies were on the way by coach AM
wagon to all parts of the country
-Ch0naberS' Journal.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
The Troubles Entailed by Absent Mind.

Sprugle has an old white horse, which
he drives down to the store every morn
ing and leaves hitched in front until
night. He drove down the other morn
ing as usual, and, after hitching the
horse, went into the store and sat down
with his back toward the window. He
had Just got into the midst of discus
sion with the new bookkeeper in regard
to the state of the finances, when, hap
pening to glance out of the window, he
saw man getting into his buggy.
Sprugle grabbed the bookkeeper's hat,
ran out, seized the horse by the head,
and asked the man sarcastically if he
wouldn't please be kind enough to get
right out of that buggy. The man
gazed at Sprugle moment and then re-
marked that, If he did get out, he would
make him (Sprugle) wish that he had
never been born. " You can't bluff
me cents worth,' said Sprugle; st
amt afraid of you, and want you to
get out of my buggy" Sc Your buggy I"
said the man, ''t this Is my buggy"
You villainous thief p shouted Spru-
gle, s' I don't see how you can sit there
in my buggy, and call it your own"
Then the man in the buggy grabbed
the whip, and, springing out over the
dashboard, seized Sprugle by the hair
anu W1p0Q up Tie pavement Win Q1Q,
and drew an outline-map of the United
States on his legs with the whip. He
stepped into the bookkeeper's hat, and,
giving Sprugle parting kick, started
for the buggy. Thinking that he really
meant to steal the horse, Sprugle COM
menced to shout Stop thief r Then
the man turned around, and, measuring
the distance between himself and Spru-
gle with his eye, threw off his hat and
started for Sprugle IN a dead jump.
Sprugle saw him coming and attempt
ed to run, but the man caught up
with him, and. giving spring into the
air, planted both feet into the small of
Sprugle's back, and SO sudden was the
c0ncussion that it showed Sprugle right
out of his boots, and sent him down
street nearly block. Following after
him, the man broke his arm with a
kick, and wound up by breaking his
nose with the whipstock. Then he got
into the buggy and drove off.
Sprugle picked himself up, and, hold
ing his hand on his nose, started for the
store, when he ran against his own
buggy, and got kicked by his horse,
which stood just where he had left him
hitched. When he drove home that
night he wore his own hat for the first
time in many months, and on the way
counted over forty white horses, and
thought what fool he must have been
not to remember that there were great
many horses of the same color.-Chi-
c0QO tribune.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
The Bear in Winter.

A writer in the Popular Science
Monthly says One of the most Curl
ous characteristics of the bear is its =
habit of hibernating through the winter.
During the autumn it becomes very fat,
and about the end of October, complet--
ing it's winter house, ceases feeding for
the year. A remarkable phenomenon
then takes pla0e in the animals digest
i've organs. The stomach, no longer
supplied with food, contracts into q very
small space. A mechanical obstruction
called the tappen,' composed of fine
leaves or other extraneous substances,
blocks the alimentary canal and prevents
the outward passage of any matter. The
bear continues in its den until the mid
dleof April, in adnll, lethargic condition.
If discovered and killed at any time in
this period, il is found TO be as fat as
at the beginning. It is said, however,
that If it loses the tappen' before the
end of its liberation, it Immediately be-
comes extremely thin. During the
Information the bear gains q new skin
upon the balls of its feet, and during
the same time also the female brings.
forth her young, from two to four in
number. The latter act occurs general
ly from the middle of January to the
middle of February. The pairing sea-
son occurs in the summer, from June
to September. The period of CESSATION
is about seven months, and the newly
born cubs are scarcely larger than.
puppies"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
Mormon POlygamly.

A Mormon paper at Salt Lake places
the number of polygamists in the Ter
ritory at 1000 men, 5000 women, and
5000 children, and the cost and loss,
by legal punishment of all, at 81, ,O0O,-
600, and thinks that the courts would
have around them 3, 600 crying women
and 5000 crying children. This is
probably pretty accurate computa-
ton. One of the beauties of the polyg-
ment that within a stones throw of o
prominent church in Salt Lake is the
residence of an aged Mormon, who il
the husband of woman and her two
daughters. Thus, his first wife is his
mother-in-law, his step-daughters are
his wives, his son by his first wife il
half-brother to his other wives, and {
sort of uncle to his other children, ETC.,
ETC.. etc.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
THE pREsIDENCY.
How the Fxecuttve Term OF Once Came
to be Fixed ut Four Years.

How the Fxecuttve Term OF Once Came
to be Fixed at Four Years,
How shall the Executive of a re-
public be constituted? What shall be
the powers, the duties, the tenure of
Office and manner of choosing the Chief
Magistrate
These were questions that embar-
rassed the United States Constitution
framers ~of 1887. The light of ex-
perience was not illuminating. In
faIlen republics the executive ma
cbinerv was weakest and had broken
down first.
The failure of the old confederation
had proved that a government without
any Executive was several degrees worse
than a government that was all execu-
tive. and the executive departments
of the original States were all that
those who gave form to our supreme
law had to study.
Prior to the convention, John jay, in
reply to Washington's inquiries, ex-
pressed himself in favor of an Executive
limited in his prerogatives and duration.
Gen. Knox declared himself for Pres
idential term of seven years duration.
In the convention the diversity of
opinion on this question was almost
irreconciIable. The extremes of opinion
as to duration of service ranged from a
tenure for three years to u tenure for life.
James Wilson, Roger Sherman and Gun
ming Bedford advocated term of three
years, Mr.. Bedford desiring a provision
against re-eligibility after nine years.
James McClurg, Gouverneur Morris,
Jacob Broome and Alexander Hamilton
expressed in words and votes prefer
ence for an Executive during good
behavior. On the first day of June,
six days after the convention organ
| lied, it voted to fill the blank in the
Randolph resolutions with the word
seven, ineigibi1ity being part of the
resolutions. On the following day
eight of the ten States then represented
voted to elect the Chief Magistrate by
the national legislature for the term
of seven years. On agreeing to the
ineligibility clause Pennsylvania was
divided and Connecticut alone voted
no. After one successful and six unsuc-
| cessful efforts to change the tenure, the
convention on the 26th of July, re-
affirmed their first decision in favor of
q President chosen by the national
legislature, to be ineligible after seven
years service. It was not until Sept.
6, eleven days before adjournment, that
the existing system was adopted, in &C.
cordance with the recommendation OF
the report of the committee of eleven,
of which David Brearly was chairman.
The four years term, with silence as to
ineligibility, was q compromise to rec
oncile and unite extremes.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
Destitute Kansas-2O,OOO People in
Need of Aid.


Gov. Osborne telegraphs from To-
peka, Kansas, to the Chicago Tribune
as follows
I estimate the number of people in
the western counties of Kansas who will
need aid the coming winter at 20, 600.
A large proportion of these are now in
want. The people in the eastern part
of the State are doing all in their
power to prevent suffering on the
frontier, but the extent of the destitu-
tion warrants the conclusion that they
are unequal to the emergency. Flour,
potatoes, hominy, and beans, for food.
and clothing, especially for women and
children, are most needed. Feed for
stock is much needed, as also spring
wheat, corn, oats, barley, and fax for
spring planting. The winter thus far
has been very favorable one, and the
prospect for good crop of wheat is
most excellent !; large increase OF
acreage has been sown, and if no un-
foreseen misfortune should occur to this
people they will next year be able not
only to subsist themselves, but also to
assist the unfortunates in other local.
ties. Donations sent through the Kan
sas Central Relief Committee. of which
Lieut.. Gov. Slower Is President, and
w. w. Giles Treasurer, with head
quarters at Topeka. will be sure *
reach those for whom they are intended
and will be publicly acknowledged.
THos. A. OSBORNE.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
How to Render Clothing Nom Inflam-
mable.


A large number of lives are lost every
year by the burning of the clothing Of
women and children, and many disas.
trous fires result from the igniting of
bed clothing, curtains and other light
fabrics made entirely or partially of
cotton or silk. A simple expedient
which would render such materials nom
infiammable would prove invaluable to
every household. Many experiments
have been made with various combina-
tions of chemicals, but none have been
entirely successful. More than dozen
years ago there appeared in London
chemical journal q formula for a solu-
ton which it is said can be used by
mixing it with the starch for fabrics
which are laundried. and can also be
used for other fabrics, and without in.
jury to texture or color In any case,
This formula has been recently repub.
ished by the Insurance Monitor, and
is as follows:
re prepare solution Of minimum
strength q concentrated solution O.
tungstate of soda is diluted with watel
TO twenty degrees Tralles. and the1
mixed with three per cent. Of phosphat,
of soda. +"
We should be glad to know the re
suits Of experiments with this prepare
tion.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
AN OLD YEAR M SONG.
BIZ OLIVER wrsDx1.L HOLMES.

As through the forest, disarrayed
BY chin Novembex. late strayed,
Was singing to the solitude :
loved thy music, thus said,
When DER thy perch the leaves were spl cad
Sweet was thy song, but sweeter now
Thy carol on the leafaess bough.
Sing, little bird thy note shall cheer
The sadness of the dying year.
When yiolets prAnked the turf with blue
And morning filed their cups with dew.
Thy slender voice with ripping trin
The budding April bowers would I'LL,
Nor pass it's joyous tones away,
When April rounded Into May;
Thy life shall hail no second dawn
Sing, little bird the spring il gone.
And remeanber-weil-a-dayi- -
Thy fuli-blown summer roundelay,
And when behind q broidered screen
Some holy maiden sings unseen;
With answering notes the woodland rung,s
And every tree-top found tongue.
How deep the shade! the groves how fair
Sing, little birdi he woods are bare.
But now the summers chant is done
And mute the choral antiphon;
The birds have left the sbivering pines
To fit among the trellised vines,
Or fan the air with.scented plumee
Amid the love-sick orange-blocms,
And thou art here alone,-alone-
Sing little bird the rest have flown.
4nS SHOW HGs SoppcA you V4SeAnI I'LL,
At morn the running brook will stin.
From driven herds the CLOUDS that rise
Are like the smoke of sacrifice,
Ere long the frozen. sod shall mock
The plo8share, changed to stubborn rork
Tne brawling streams shall soon be dumb
Sing little bird! the frosts have come.
East, fast the frightening shadows creep,
The songless fowls are half asleep,
The air grows chill, the setting sun
May leave thee ere thy song il done,
The pulse that warns Chy breast grow cold,
Thy secret die with thee, untold:
The lingering sunset still is bright
Sing, little bird twill soon be night.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
Age Of LEN ia Yorkshire.

A bone found in the Victoria Cave in
England having been determined by
Professor Busk to be human bone,
great attention has been paid to the
position and relation of the bed in
which it was found, in the hope of OBJ
tanning new evidence of mans place in
geology. After removing from the
mouth of the cave large quantity OF
rock which had been thrown down from
older workings, the Roman Celtic layer
was reached, and several objects OF
bronze were obtained from it. This
layer was enc to one and one-ha I feet
thick, and below it was q bed OF
screes" consisting of angular frsg.
ments of limestone fallen from the clid
above. The bed was nineteen feet
thick, and contained not the smallest
trace of man or other animal. Under
this was found mass of powders.
The conclusion drawn from the examin.
alton is that man lived in Yorkshire
with Elephas Antiquus. Rhinocerosl
tichorinus, Ursus prisons. the red deer
etc., long before the existence OF the
great ice sheet in Northern Britain and
Ireland. - The GALAXY for January.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
A Novel Adventure.

AS DR.. Billings, of this town, was
riding along near Mount Carmel, he
deserted a deer on the road, and shout
ed at it, expecting to see fine run
across the fields. The deer was SO
frightened that, in attempting to jump
the fence, it struck the fence-rider and
fell back. The doctor kept on shout
ing all the while, and the confusion of
the animal became SO great that each
succeeding attempt was no more sue
cessful than the first. Seeing this, the
doctor reined his horses in corner of
the fence, jumped out of his buggy,
made for the deer, and actually caught
it, but had no sooner touched it than
he found himself in the ditch. After
two or three ups and downs it got
away from him but, being a doctor, he
fought on scientific principles, and in
his endeavors to cut the carotid artery
inflicted wound on its neck. The
confused and now wounded animal ran
off ten or twelve rods and actually came
back to the very same spot to jump the
fence, and with the same ill-success as
before. The doctor closed in and
caught it second time, and, after an
ed in severing the carotid artery with
his penknife, when the deer's life blood
soon effused and it sank victim to its
captor's pluck. After the excitement
was over the doctor found himself toe
much exhausted to lift his prize into
the carriage. By resting some time
however, he was able to do SO and that
being done, he drove home, we will moi
say bigger, but certainly pleased
muddy, and bloody man.-iStrathros
(Cdn.) Dispatch.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
sandwiches.

Ka1akaua chews.
Kalakaua wears number eight boots.
Kalakaua occasionally drops into po-
etry.
Kalakaua plays very good game OF
billiards.
Kalakaua has bad cough like all
the rest of us.
kalakaua's old acquaintance are
turning up in all parts of the country.
Kalakaua was never drunk but once
in his life, and that was at fremen's
celebration.
Kalakaua is nothing but poor be-
nighted Kanska, but the Washington
officials hadn't better try to teach him
anything in " draw" They might find
it expensive.
here comes q sound from Washington
That well may silence vulgar scofing;
It's Kalakaaa's stern, deep tone;
stake heed" says he, 81 that's me that's cough
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
Shipbuilding in Maine.

The Portland Press has prepared an
exhibit of the amount of tonnage built
in Maine during the year 1874, from
which it appears that the whole number
OF vessels built and registered during
the year as far as reported is Ships,
15; barkentines, ii barks, %; brigs,
13 schoohers, 104 steamers, s.; tugs,
1 other vessels. 4; total tonnage Of
same. rs. .538 tons. Number of vesself
registered, built and building, and 70
be completed within the year: Ships
10: barkentines, IL barks, SO brigs,
ID; schooners, 116; steamers. 5 tugs,
4; other vessels, 13 I; aggregate tonnage
of same. 90, ,621.