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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-01-27

CoMPARATIvE.-Hew was "too full for utter
ance," but occasionally he would muttel
something to himself, when the Squire would
request him to keep quiet; but no sooner would
he get throug b making his requests than Isaac
would begin his mumbling. Finally the
Squire got on his dignity, and put the follow.
ing to Isaac as settler: "Now, Isaac, ]
have requested you to keep quiet several times
and if you open your head again 1 will fine
you FIVE dollars for contempt of court, and
seEd you to jail for drunkenness" This put
Isaac out of time, and he arose from his seat
walked to the door, stopped, and retorted in the
following energetic way: esquire, if they
would stall-feed you for forty years you
wouldn't make half as good man as your
father. Iknew him, and he was the darndest
meanest man I ever did know"
THEM CHICKENS. esterday, as we were
passing street beyond the Atlanta Medical
College, and on which a number of negroes
reside, we heard an old negro calling out to
his wife:
"Manda, is you got dem chickens corralled
in the smoke-house like told yer?"
"Nc; an like to know whar's de matter
wild you dat you's so 'tickler about dem chick
ems all at once" she replied.
"Nebber you mind! I knows whar's de
matter, and dat's nuff till dem chickens is
housed. When I hears dat dem niggers obel
DARN de next yard is gwine to hab a party to-
morrow night, l wants to be shore dat my
chickens doesn't tend it-you hear me?"
The chickens were at once locked up.-At
Lnntn (G,nN Constitution
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-01-27

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
]. F. Wallace, L. NJ. Grist, Andrew Jackson,
J. A. Mclean, s. G. Hemphin, w. B. Nets, J.
F. Hart, A. Coward, G. +. Spencer. "
Policies transferred from Northern Companies,
without loss or additional annual outlay. Apply
to DR.. J. C. KUYKENDAL, Agent, orto
HAGOOD & TREUTLEN, Gen. Agents,
Columbia, 8. c.
August 81 Zy
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-01-27

FINE GOLD OPERA CHAINS,
NOR Ladies, and handsome Vest Chains ior
Gentlemen, at r. BRANDTS Jewelry STORE,
opposite the Court House, Chester, 8. G.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26

On Saturday afternoon Francis P.
Scott, well known druggist of Balti-
more, committed suicide at his wife's
grave at Green Mount Cemetery by tax
ing heavy dose of morphine. He at
tended to his business affairs as usual in
the morning, and early in the afternoon
presented himself carefully dressed at
the cemetery gate. VIM. Kirby, the
gate-keeper, informed him that no one
except lot holders were allowed to enter
without q permit, whereupon without
uttering word he produced deed to a
lot and passed in. At dusk, while Ct.
". Adams, Q stone-cutter, who had been
at work in the cemetery, was passing a
retired spot facing clustering wind, he
saw man stretched over a grave with
his arms in the attitude of an embrace.
Filled with alarm the stone cutter felt
his pulse and found him dead. With a
desperate devotion to the memory of an
early and enduring love Francis Scott,
the druggist, had in moment of NOR
bid despair come in this romantic way
to end his days on the grave of his wife,
who, although dead some years, was
continually in his mind. The body was
delivered by the coroner to his surviving
daughters, who are left well provided
for. Fifteen years ago, the same date,
| a Frenchman committed suicide by the
| same drug on his wife's grave in the
same cemetery.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26

BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY HoMEs.-hlany
poet has told of the happy homes of
England standing amid the tall ancestral
trees. The sight of beautiful home
stead, with its surrounding of neat fences
and well cared for fruit and other trees,
its vines and flowers, its many marks of
taste and culture, pleases the ima9ina-
ton and makes merry the heart. It is
surely not enough that a man should
raise his food and clothing it is right
and necessary to do so, but it is desir-
able to do more. 1T is poor and sord-
id ambition that ends with even the &C.
emulation of much gold and property.
Each and every farmer should make the
scene around his dwelling one to charm
the traveller, and thus to do his part
towards building up the fair fame of the
country. Besides, as an able writer has
said, the mind keeps pace with the man,
and the love of the beautiful in nature
inspires the mind with the love of the
useful and the good. 1t stops not then
it teaches the mind to look from Ma
lures God.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26
SNOW-SLIDES In UTAH.

In summer, Cottonwood District is
the most delightful of cool retreats; in
| winter, lofty now-bank, with here and
there gray projection. In the winter
sunshine it would, but for the occasional
patches of timber, present a painfully
dazzling expanse of white; and as it is,
serious snow blindness is not uncommon.
When a warm south wind blows for a
day or two there is greater danger of
snowslides. In January, 1872, the snow
fell there without intermission for eight
days, filling the deepest gulches, into
which the few stray animals plunged and
fioundered helplessly. In the circular
mountain hollows, with growth of tim
Der, the snow drifted from ten to forty
deep, leaving the largest trees looking
like shrubs. Distant settlements were
quite isolate and the narrow passes
thereto stopped by snow. However, in
The best-developed mines work went on
background, all the side chambers and
vacent places being stacked full of ore as
fast as it was mined. In few more days
TIE sun came out bright and clear, and
though the thermometer rarely rises
above freezing point during the first two
months of the year In the higher camps,
yet the warmth seems to have been suff-
cient to loosen the snow not yet tightly
packed, and in every place where the
slope was great and the timber not suffi-
Gent to bind it, avalanches Of from one
to twenty acres came laundering into
the canons, sweeping all before them.
One of the largest swept off that part of
Alta City, Little Cottonwood, lying Oh
the slope. Six persons were killed out
right, either crushed by the timber OF
their own cabins or smothered in the
snow, and many more were buried five
OF six hours, until relief parties dug
them out. One women was found sit
ting upright in her cabin with babe in
her arms, both dead The cabin had
poured mat the doors and windows, and
they were frozen or smothered. Thirty
five lives were lost in Utah that winter
by snow slides. Six men were buried in
one gulch thousand feet under packed
ice and snow. Search for them was
useless. But at length the breath Of
June dissolved their snowy prison, and
the bodies were revealed, fresh and fair
as if they just ceased to breathe.-J II.
Bea0le IN HarpeT's Magazine for Oc-
tOber.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26


THE Columbia Register says Stand
ing in the store near the market yester-
day, we noticed a colored man enter the
establishment and beckon the proprietor
to him, looking at the same time as tho
he wanted to make some confidential
communication to the proprietor. We
overheard the following conversation:
swell, said the accommodating pro-
prietor, "what is it 2"
81 jess seen my gov'nor, boss de ole
NANNY daddy. I amt seen him for a
long time, and he jess tole me how ole I
is. I wants you to calculate de ting for
me. De ole man seq I was born in eight
hundred and thirty-two. Now, how ole
is er %
'sYou mean eighteen hundred and
thirty-two, Sam"
''No sab no sab, eight hundred and
thirty-two, OATS what the old man seq.
and he knows"
"Well, that will make you one thou
sand and forty-four years DID,"
'.No is dot so, boss2 Well, well. dis
chile is certainly OLE"
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26

The French Catholic Church in Green
Bay has an old relic of the seventeenth
century. It is a silver Ostensorium, and
on it is inscribed in the old French, and
may be translated ''This Ostensorium
was given by Mr.. Nicolas Perrot to the
Mission Of ST. Francis Xavier, in Win
nebago Bay, 1886" The Ostensorium
is of silver. twelve inches high, sup
porting a sun four inches in diameter.
The article was owned by missionary
murdered by the Indians at Green Bay
in the seventeenth century, and was
buried where the old American House
stood. Some time during this century
farmer ploughed it up, sent it to
France, and from there it was returned
to Bishop Krautbauer.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26
INeEN1oUs Sw1Np1ERs FRUsrRArED.-

INGENIOUS SwINDLERS FRUSTRATED
Several weeks since two strangers went
to broker in New York and told him
that they had struck a rich lode of gold
bearing quartz in Colorado, and all they
wanted was little money to set up
machinery to work it. and showed sew
eral specimens which were glittering and
unquestionably rich. The broker, SAN
guine men, readily s'bit, " and the next
evening the men went to his house
where they met several gentlemen O.
means who were interested in the pro-
ject. One of the gentleman was accom-
panied by his son, about seventeenyears
of age, who told his father at the close o
the conference that he knew dealer III
minerals for cabinets who had quartz
specimens of the same kind. inquiry
was instituted, when it was discovered
that the specimen were the same, and
that the clever, though outwitted swim
dlers, purchased them of the dealer.
For the benefit of the reader it may be
added that the police did not catch
them.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26

ORIGIN OF PETRoIEUM.-At first it was
held by many that petroleum was re-
suit Of distillation from the bituminous
Goals which were found in it's vicinity,
and this belief was strengthened by the
fact that Camel and Boghead coal af-
forded large quantities of similar oils on
being distilled but, although this is
very probably the source of a small
amount of oil, yet the larger part of it is
now believed to derive its origin from
rocks lying below the coal measures,
since the oil-bearing rocks are mostly
older than the carboniferous formations.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26

Coop HUMoR.-Good humor is the
clear, blue sky of the soul, on which ev-
cry star of talent viii shine more clearly
and the sun of genius encounters no va
pors in his passage. 1t is the most ex-
quisite beauty OF a fine face, aredeeming
grace In homely one. 1t is like the
green i'll the landscape, harmonizing
with every color, mellowing the glories
of the bright and softening the hue of
the dark like flute in full chorus of
instruments, sound, not at first discov-
cred by the ear, yet filling up the
breaks in the concord with its deep mel
ody.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26

The MAN WHO CROSSED THE ATLANTIC
IN A DoRY.-William Baxter, OF Lowell,
says the Cape Ann (Nfass.) Advertiser,
recently returned from Liverpool, Eng,
brings US intelligence that Capt. John
son and his dory are the lions of the day.
The exhibition fee is one sixpence, and
the room is thronged day and evening
by those who wish to see this daring
voyager and his little craft. The crowd
are not allowed to tarry long, but pass
in at one door, taking look at johnson
and his boat, then, after purchasing
photograph, are requested to pass out.
Mr.. Baxter, being an American, had an
opportunity of conversing few moments
with Johnson, who is now in good health
having fully recovered from the fatigues
of the voyage. He stated that he would
not attempt the feat and pass through
what he did on that trip across the At
lantic, for million of dollars, in fact
nothing on earth would tempt him to
repeat such voyage. 1t is evident that
he Is now coming money, and we are
pleased that he is to receive such a good
" sum for his unparalleled feat and the
pluck he manifested in performing it.
1t is probable that he may go to London
before coming home to the Centennial
Exhibition. Several entries in his log
have been verified from the logs of the
vessels st. Louis, Defiant, Amerique
and Grace, which he spoke on the way.
He intends to publish the details in or
der to silence skeptics and prove the
genineness of his memorable voyage
across the Atlantic.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26

WHEN Abraham Lincoln was lawyer
in Illinois he and the Judge once get to
bantering one another about trading
horses, and it was agreed that next NOR
ming at o'clock they should make a
trade, the horses to be unseen up to that
hour, and no backing out under for
feiture of $25. At the hour appointed
the judge came up, leading tie sorriest-
looking specimen of horse ever seen in
those parts. In q few minutes Mr.. Lin
coin was seen approaching with q wood
en- saw-horse upon his shoulders. Great
were the shouts and the laughter of the
crowd, and both were greatly increased
when Mr.. Lincoln, on surveying the
judges animal, set down his saw-horse
and exclaimed: "Well, Judge, this is
the first time I ever got the worst of it
in horse Chicago Tribune.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26

THE Richmond (Va.) Republican says
that at a recent public performance in
that city the appearance of the United
States flag upon the stage was greeted
with storm of misses. An effort was
made by part of the audience to drown
the misses with shouts, yells, whistling,
and stamping, and it was finally success
full, though at times the result seemed
uncertain
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26
Centaur
Linim ents.
The Quickest, Surest and Cheapest
Remedies.

Physicians recommend, and Tarriers declare that
no such remedies have s,er before been il use.
Words cheap, but the propriehOrs of these art-
ces will present trial bottles to medical glatis
as a guarantee of what they say.
The Centaur Lin1 &sst, white wrap
per. will cure Rheusats a, Neeralsie, LuInbaEo,
Sciatica Caked Bres~4s so, Hjpples, Frosted Feet,
Chillblains, SwellioGs, SpI. rs, and any ordinary
FLESH, Boxz ssscLE sILnErT.
We make no preteass that this article will cure
Cancer restore lost bsnes, or give health to whis-
keysoaked CARCASS But it will always reduce nnam-
nation and slay pain.
1t will extract The poison of bites and stings, and
heal burns or scaids without AZ scar. Palsy,
Weak Back, Cah ed Breast Earache, Toothache, Itch
and Cuancous Eruptions readily yield to its treat
ment.
Henry Black of Ada, Hardin &C.. o.. say: "Ny
wife has had rheumatism for 1--WE years-no rest, no
sleAp-could scarcely walk across the floor She is
completely cured by the use OF Ceptaur Lini-
ment. We all feel thankful to you, and "eeommend
your wonderful medicine b all our friends"
James Hurd. of Zsnesville o., says: "The Centnur
LinIment cured NV Neuralgia"
Alfred Tush, of Newark. writes: "Send me one
dozen bottles by express. The Liniment has saved
my leg. l want to distribute 1t, &c.
VIM. IL. Hickcox, Rector of 81. Johns Pc Church,
hive been suffering from u Weak Back, caused from
q sprain more than IL years ago. have not found
anything to relieve until commenced the use OF
Centaur Liniment feel it my christian duty to In
form that by its wonderful effects am entirely
relieved of pain.
JAN o. 1852
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26

The Green Bay Gazette says as the
passenger train on the Northwestern
road was coming from the north Thurs
day evening, when about five miles
north of Oconto, deer bounded on the
track ahead of the engine and ran ahead
of the train for long distance. The
deer except up steam" for a distance
and cont-ived to keep the train at safe
distance, the rate of speed being about
thirty-fve miles an hour. Finally the
deer weakened and the merciless cow
catcher striking him Gifted" him from
the track, breaking his legs. The train
was stopped and the animal speedily
dispatched and taken aboard. It weigh
ed over three hundred pounds.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26
A doctor in Ireland was disturbed

A doctor in Ireland WAS disturbed in
the night by a rapping on the door, and,
opening it, found a laboring man who
had come for him. "Have you been
long here2" asked the doctor. ssIndade
L have" answered Pat. ''But why
didn't you ring the night bell?'' "Och
because I was afraid of disturbing your
honor >,
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26

A YOUNG lady once married man by
the name of Dust, against the wishes of
her parents. After short time they iv-
ed unhappily together, and she returned
to her fathers house; but he refused to
receive her, saying, "Dust thou art and
unto dust thou shall return" And she
got up and dusted.''
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26

SPEAKING of shaving said pretty
girl to an obdurate old bachelor, sI
should think pair of handsome eyes
would be the best mirror to shave by"
eyes many a poor fellow has been
shaved by them, - the wretch replied.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26
A LADY was once declaring that she

A LADY was once declaring that she
could not understand how gentleman
could smoke. cit certainly ahortens
their lives" said she. 81 don't know, Z"
replied the gentleman. ''There is my
father, who smokes every blessed day,
and now is seventy years old" swell, +"
was the reply, 'tif he had never smoked
he might have been eighty"
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26

2 An orator who had raised his audience
to great hight by his lofty soarings, ex-
claimed: 81 will how close with the
beautiful and expressive language of the
poet-I forget his name-and- and-I
forgot what lie said, too
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26

MR. DAMRAsoH. distinguished for,
eigner, has arrived in New York. But
we are not whats -his-name enough to at
tempt pun on his appellation.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26
MEN

Bayiies Great Mercantile College, Keokuk Iowa
on the Mississippi. Nineteenth year Aheai sixty
dollars pay all expenses, for Membership BOARD and
Stationery Booh-keepers, PeRmen Reporters Oper-
stors Architects surveyors and Teachers thoroughly
htteo hal.read fare reduced Good Situations No
vacations. Douit fail to address Prof Miller Keo
kuk. Iowa. jnn2a-I3m
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26
TESTIMONIALS
OF
Waters Pianos and Organs.

Waters, new Scale Pianos have peculiar merits
". 7. Tribune.
The tone OF the Waters Piano is rich mellow and
sonorous. They potsess great volume ofsoand and
the continuation OF sound singing power 10 Of
their most marked features-Ne5o Fork Times.
Waters Concerto Organ is SO voiced hays
tone like full rich alto voice. It is especially hui
man in lite tone. powerful yet sreet-RvrGl Ns.r
Yorker. JaDo. T5-ly.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26
CHICAGO AND NORTHWEST
ERN RAILWAY.

Passengers for CHICAGO, Detroit, To-
ledo, Cleveland, Buffalo, Niagara Falls,
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Rochester, Alba
ny, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Port
land, Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington, St. Louis,
Cairo, S<u Francisco, Sacramento, Og-
den, Salt LAKE. City, Denver, Council
Bluffs, sioua CITY, st. Paul. Marquette,
Escenaba, Eensshs, Madison. Cheyenne,
Omahs, Ynkton, Winons, Duluth,
Green LAY, Milwaukee, and all points
North, Nscb, South and East, should
buy their tickets via CHICAGO and he
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26
BofClGTdt'S Extract Of Halt

ranks as one OF the best OF remedies. In pulmonary
complaints It const snty used, combining with is
general tonic properties the qualities of expect
GRANT, the extract, is successfully given in
forms OF Bronchial Irritation 1t 10 also employed
with marked advantage, as Q remedy for Nervous
Exhaustion In all kinds Of disease, es In Typhoid
Fever, in which nutrition has been long and serions
ly impaired, article is better adapted to the
quirements OF the system, than B0RCHERDr'S EX-
TRACT or MALT. Por nursing mothers it 10 of
especial value, 1t increases the Cow and improves
the milk. 17febTo
For sale by T. & J. ROBINSON.
Or by O. Il. BACON,
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26
C astoria

DR.. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Mass, expert
meuted in his private practice for twenty years to
produce combination that would have the proper
ties of Castor Oil without its unpleasant taste
and gripping effect
His preparation sent for, and far, till fin
ally he gave 1t the; Of Castoria, and put it up
for sale. 1t is very wonderful its effects, pal tcu
larry with the disordered stomachs and bowels of
children 1t assiElfIates tss g food, cures sour
stomach and windcolic, regulates the bowels e1pels
worms and may be relied upon in Group.
As pleasant, effective and perfectly safe cathar
tic remedy it is superior to Castor OIL Cordals and
Syrups. 1t does not contain alcohol, and is adapted
to any age.
By regulating the stomach and bowels Of cross
and sickIy children they become good-natur
ed and healthy. They enjoy sleep and moth
ers have rest. The Castcria s put up at the La
boratory off. d. Rose Co., As Dey Str N. Y. spt14
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-26
The Yellow Centaur Linimen-

is for the tough skin. flesh and muscles OF
HORSES, NULEs AND ANIMALS
We have never yet seen case of SPAWN, Sweeny,
Ring ne, Wind gall, Scratches PoEvil, which
this Linment would not speedily benefit, and we
never saw but few which II would not
cure. IL WIZ cure when anything can. 1t is
folly to spend $50. for Farrer, when one dollars
worth of Centaur Liniment will do better The toll
lowing is sample Ct the testimony produced.
W.P. Hopkins, Postmaster, piqHa, O., says:
"Centaur Liniment can't be beat. It cures every
time"
YsLyERTnN, o., March 2, 1874.
The Centaur Liniments the best selling medi-
cines we have ever had The demand is very great
for it, and we cannot afford to be without it.
PHI HISEY & SON.
JEFFERSON, Mo-. Nov. TO- 1873
Some time ago 1 was shipping horses to st Louis.
got badly crippled in the car. With great diff
ficulty got him to the stable. The stable-keeper
gave ME a bottle of your Centaur Imminent, which
used with such success that in two days the horse
active and nearly well. have been veterinary
surgeon for 80 years. but your Lininent beats any
thing ever used.
Al. M'CARTY, Veterinary Surgeon.
These Liniments sold by all dealers in the
country.
Laboratory of J. B. Rose & Co.,
40 DgY STREET, New YORK.