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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-06-16

North Carolina towns have been
voting on ito liquor license question.
Raleigh topers wcro in majority of
sovon hundred and sixty~cight, whilo
throo hundred majority i'll Groens-
boro agreed to go dry.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-06-16

,LX-Congressman Henry B. Payne,
OF Cleveland, is spoken of in con.
nection with tho Democratic nomi.
nation for governor of Ohio; but it
Is little too much to expect tho
Democrats Of that State to do so
sensible thing rs to nominate Mr..
payna.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-06-16

Beast Butler says ho issued that
famous otaor against tho ladies of
Now Orleans, because ho knew it
would plcaso tho Massachusetts
school marms.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-06-16
&C morning School Claims.

The following act, passed at tho
rcccnts session of the Legislature,
will be of interest to tho tcachors in
the public schools:
An act to require all School
Claims and claims for Teachers pay
to be sworn to.
SECTION 1. BE II enacted by the
Senate and House Of Representa-
tivcs of the State of South Carolina,
now mot and sitting i'll
General Assembly, and by the
authority Of the same That from
and after tho passage Of this act,
the correctness AID legality of all
claims for service rendered. in teach,
ing in any Of The schools Of this
STATIC which arc supported wholly,
or i'll part, by the State, and all
claims Of every description what,
soevcr, which arc charScablc against
the fund raised for the support of
the free schools Of the State, shall
be sworn to by the person present
ing said claim, before it shall be
approved by tho person or persons
authorized 10y law to give such
approval.
SECTION 2. That al chool trustee f
arc hereby invested with tho power
and arc required, free Of charge,
to administer oaths to persons pro
seating tho claims contemplated in
this act, Us fully, to all intents and
purposes, as arc all other
persons who, by tho laws Of this
State, arc qualified to administer
oaths.
Approved May 81, 1877.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-06-16

AT an auction sale in New York
tho other day, the autographs of Bcno-
dict Arnold and Jeir. Davis sold for
oVor dollar each, whilo Blaino's s
sold for fvo conts. It was not at
tachcd to the Mulligan letter, how
cvor, or it might have brought moro.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-06-16

Tho act Of tho Legislature oxtond-
ing the timo for certain officers elect
cd in November to qualify, gives
such officers till the 25th inst. to
file their bonds and take possession.
Where tho Radical officers arc to
get bonds VIC cannot tell. There
are certainly fowin their party able to
become suroties, and the day is past
for Democrats to givo aid to those
WHO have done all in their power to
degrade and ruin the State As to
Fairfield wo havo already expressed
our Judgment of the persons voted
= for Oh tho Radical ticket last fall If
our opinion has undergone any
change, it is in the fact TINT VIC arc
moro than ever convinced of tho un-
worthiness Of tho Radical claimants.
Tho man, whether Democrat or not,
who gives any of them any aid
whatever in getting into Office, is an
enemy to good govcrnmentand tc the
: community
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-06-16

j
approval.
SECTION 2. That al chool trustees
arc hereby invested With tho power
and arc required, free Of Charge,
to administer oaths to persons pro
seating tho claims contemplated in
this act, as fully, to all intents and
purposes, as arc all other
persons who, by the laws Of this
State, arc qualified to administer
oaths
Approved May 81, 1877.
HENDRIcKs' FAREWELL SrEEcl1 IN
INDIANAroILs.-A farewell reception,
rendered to eX-Governor Hendricks
previous to his departure for Eu-
rope, was held in indianapolis last
Friday night. Senator Mcdonald
presided. Hon. d: w. Voorhees,
made a short speech, after which he
introduced Governor Hendricks,
who said that after the close contest
Of last year, and Of his official term
OF service as governor, he found
himself worn i'll physical strength,
and Thought to take u rest of six
months to visit another part of the
world. Sen ltor Mcdonald had
stated in his remarks that had the
popular will obtained, he Nho speak
cr) would now be Nicc-presidcnt of
the United States. He was certain
that he mad Il majority Of tho popu-
lar vote, and in Defeating the will of
the people a blow had been struck
ut American institutions which
thousands Of gentlemen who did
not vote for Governor Tildcn or
himself regretted Hereafter, u man
who is elected President by The
voice and will Of the people must
and will be inanguratcd; but it
dovolves upon the people ofIndiana,
without distinction of party, to
stand by tho constitution.
TNE CIRCUIT CoURTs.-At its re
coat session the Legislature pass~
ed an act establishing uniformity in
the sessions of the circuit courts,
making several changes from the
times at which the courts have hero
tofore been held.
For York county, Che circuit court
will ,bc hcld ut Yorlvillo on tho first
Monday in February, Juno and
September.
Eor Lancaster county, ut Lancas-
ter, tho third Monday in February,
the second Monday in Juno, and the
third Monday in Scptombcr.
For Chester county, at Chester,
on tho first Monday in March, the
third Monday in Juno and the first
Monday in October.
FOR Fairfield county, ut Winns>
boro, on tho third Monday in March,
the fourth Monday in June. and the
third Monday in October.
For Union county at Union, on
tho first Monday III March, the third
Monday in June, and tho first Mon
day in October.
There is no change in tho circuits,
they being composed of tho Same
counties as heretofore.
CoTToN IN GEoRG1A.-Thc June
report Of the Augusta Cotton FIX.
change has been publish o l. Res
ports from cightccn counties in
Georgia show an average acreage
planted. EARLY planting produced
good stands late planting was al-
most q failure. Tho average stand
ID below that Of last year, and the
crop IS from ten to fifteen days later
Labor has improved. There has
been an increase of eight per cent
iii fertilizers, and GREATER increase
of home manuros. Drought lasted
from three to six weeks. Tho ro-
cent rains have been general.
When father discovers that his
boy has been using his razor TO
sharpen a slate poncil, his faith that
he is to DO tho father of President
is temporarily eclipsod by his ankle
ty to find tho boy and lath.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-06-16

Tho Washington correspondent of
the t Cincinnati Impure, reports OK
Senator Cameron as saying that "if
Icnnsyiyani" doesn't get something
soon Ohio will Lave robbed the
roost. The language is somewhat
understood.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-06-16

R. MEANS DAVIS, Editor,
JNO. s. REYNOLDS, Associate Editor.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-06-16

When father discovers that his
boy has been using his razor TO
sharpen a slate poncil, his faith that
he is to bo tho father of President
is temporarily eclipsod by his ankle
ty to find tho boy and lath.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-03-29
"a The Important. Question.

OF all loathsome diseases Catarrh stands pre-.
eminent 1t renders its victim as disgusting
to himself as to others, And the most humil.
iating of all is the consciousness that his pres
ence is offensive to those around him. Ii any
disease deserves the name of universal, it is
this. Dietetic errors and the folies which
Fashion imposes upon US tend to foster and
disseminate it. To the pitiful cry of its vic
Tins, Is there any cure for Catarrh? there il
but one answer consistent with Christian rea-
son. God has never sent one evil into the
world for which he has not sent the remedy.
For the greatest of all spiritual and neral evils,
the Great Physician has prescribed potent
and never failing remedy. He has given ex-
plicit rules for the treatment and preservation
of the spiritual and moral man, but He is silent
in all matters relating to the physical man. 1t
woald be an unwarrantable detraction from
His beneficent character to suppose that He
has afflicted the greater portion of humanity
with an incurable disease The day of plaques
is past. The God of Christianity is God of
Love, of Mercy, His message is ''good will to
all men," The earth and all contained therein
was intended by the great Designer to supply
mans wants; and surely he has no greater
wants than remedies for his infirmities. Sci
ence is rapidly proving that the earth is fitted
to supply mans uttermost need. New medi-
cinal plants are constantly being discovered
and new properties developed from those al
ready known. For Catarrh, the most potent
remedy yet discovered is DIR. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy. Its efficacy has been tested in many
cases with uniform success. Cases
that had been repeatedly pronounced incura-
BILE, readily yielded to it. In confirmed, or
obstinate cases, DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery should be taken in connection with
the use OF the Catarrh Remedy. Full particu-
srs in Pierce's Memorandum Books They
are given away by druggists
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-03-29
American Banking.

The New York correspondent of the
London Times gives this account of the
condition of American banking
There is no better evidence of the de
preston OF trade in the United States
during the past year than the decline
in the bank clearings for 1876, as com
pared with 1875, this representing the
decrease in bank business. In the
twelve chief cities of the United States
this decline is over 8, 900 millions of dol.
lars. Part of tine decline is of course
attributable to the shrinkage in the
value of goods, not so much money be-
ing required now as formerly to move
a given amount of goods, but the bulk
of the decline still represents actual de-
crease in trade, and particularly in
speculation. 1t runs through ali
branches, affecting every industry. 1t
is particularly noticeable in the banks,
there not now being profitable employ
ment for all our banking capital. The
banks, especially in New York. can not
make enough money to pay dividends
and taxes, and we find remarkable
movement In New York city for the
reduction of banking capital.
Nearly all the larger hanks have an.
nounced reductions of capital, these
reductions alrendy amounting to about
thirte en- millions, and the b-nk officers
say in the absence of eEl Elpioyment for
heir money they are forced to do this
70 avoid taxation. The bank taxes ia
New York tity are excessive, being
evied- by both the Federal and State
governments, and amounting to nearly
i've per cent. on the capital. Fewi
rades could stand such heavy imposts, |
md the tendency to take banking cap.
tai out of the business has 30 alarmed
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-03-29
s(Colored Eggs for Easter,

Anice dish of eggs, of various colors,
is very appropriate anA pretty for
Eastsr -breaglast 70 color them q
fiue,. brig ht red, get five cents worth
of cochineal from,the druggists. Into
boiling water put a. part Of il, dis olved
in little cold water. Pat in all the
eggs you wish TO color red. boil few
moments, remove part Of the eggs,
then add half of the remaining cochi-
neal; boil few minptas longer, then
romove more of the eggs, throw in the
rest of the coloring; boil and you have
the rest of the eggs deep shade of red;
you have three shades Of red, and can
have more by adding the coloring grad
ually. Several shades of yellow can
be made by using little gambsge, to
be had also at the druggists. Coffee
will make the eggs of beautiful
brown. Onion skins will give still an
other color, and bright colored cotton
prints, tied around the eggs before
boiling, will mark them very prettiiy.
The water should boil very hard to ex-
tract the color from the cloth. After
the eggs are boiled IN some bright col.
or they may be ornamented in great
variety OF ways by using sharp PEN
knife and etching mOnOgrams, land
scapes, faces or flowers, birds or in
sects upon them. These make very
unique and attractive little tokens of re-
membrance for friends especially as
they are supposed to be very hard
boiled, and will never decompose.
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ever ready courtesy of the young clerk.
It grew TO be very frequent occur-I
renee for him to ask the support of the
strong, young arm when the streets
were slippery, and at the door to in
vite Raymond to dine, sure of q beam :.
ing look of pleasure from Bertha.
Then came a day after tive years of
faithful service, when Ray mond was
informed in the privacy OF his counting
room that Junior partnership was his
if he would accept it. Some emotion
checked the utterance of Raymond s
heartfelt gratitude. He extended his
hand, TO meet cordial grasp, and
heart: Yes, yes; know. And now il
you want to tell Bertha the news you
may take holiday
May tell her more? May tell
her love-that the one hope OF my
life is to win love in re,urn?'
You may tell her that have beer
your most sincere friend and warmesi
!, well-wisher for two years. You may
) tell her, and the old mans eyes twin
kled, Il have looked upon you as q sor
ever since the day she met you driving
an express wagon
}, And behaved like an angelp
Yes, yes, of couse, they always do
There, get along with you, I'm busy
, Take my love to Bertha if you are no
, overburdened with your own
2 And so-you know the rest. Their
s was wedding; Anabsl gave the brid'
; a parure of diamonds, and owned, whel
in hurst of confidence, Bertha toll
, her the whole story, that. after all
lThurstOn pride was not so good In tn
5 lend as Raymond's True Pride.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-03-29
Fourth Month Ounce.

The curious custom of Joking on the
first of April, sending the ignorant or
the unwary on truities5 errands, for the
sake of making them feel foolish and
having laugh at them, prevails very
widely in the world. And whether
you call the victim Fourth month
Ounce" an "April FOOL" an "April
fish" (as in France), or an "April
gowk" Gas in Scotland), the object, to
deceive him and laugh at him, is every
where the same. ~
The custom has been traced back for
ages; all through Europe, as far back
as the records go. The" "Feast of Fools"
is mentioned as celebrated by the an.
icient Romans. In Asia the Hindoos
have a festival, ending on March 3lst,
called the "Huli festival" in which
they play the same sort of first of
April lpranks,-translated into Hindoo,
laughing at the victim, and making
him "Hali fool" 1t goes back even
to Persia. where 1t Ia supposed to have
beginning, in the very ancient times,
in the celebration Of spring, when their
New Year begins.
How 1t came to be what we every
where find it, the wise men cannot
agree. The many authorities are SO
divided, that / see no way but for us
to accept the custom as we find 1t,
wherever we may happen to be, and
be careful not to abuse 1t.
Some jokes are peculiar to particular
places. In England, where il is called
All FOOLS Day, one favorite joke is to-
send the greenhurn to-a bookseller to-
buy the Life and Adventures OF Ewes
Grandmother" or toa cobbler to buy
4 few cents worth of ''strap oil, ,'---strapl
oil being, in the language of the shoe
brotherhood, personal appli-l
cation of the leather. The victim usu.
ally gets good whipping with strap. |
There was an old superstition In !
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POETRY.


Not here in the pcpulols town,
In the playhouse or mari,
Not here in the ways gray and brown,
But sfar on the green-sweiling down,
Is the home of my heart. -
There the hillside slopes down to Dell
Whence streamlet has start
There are woods and sweet grass On the swell,
And the south winds and west know II wei
It's the home of my heart.
There's cottage o'ershsdowed by leaves
Growing faires than art,
Where under the low sloping caves
No false hand the swallow bereaves;
lis the home of my heart.
, And there as you gaze down the lea,
Where the trees stand apart,
90rer grassland and woodland may pc
Toa viii catch the mint gleam OF the sea
From the home of nay heart.
xnd there In the rapturous spring,
When the morning rays dart
Der the plain, and the morning BIRDS sung
you nay zee The most beautiful thing
- Ia 81 home Of nay heart;
fsr there st tie easement above,
Wherc the rcsebnshez part,
Mn bltsh The fair fnce Of my love:
Al. ~ Il & tilis that win prove
rs lie kome Of my hea7
..ss.1 - -l--.s 1.-THE Galaxy for April
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England that prayers to the Virgin at
eight o'clock on All Fools Day would
be of wonderful efficacy, and it Is seri
ously mentioned by grave writers of
cid days. ..
In Scotland the first of April fun is
called 'huntiDg the gowk, "and consist.
most often o! sending person to an
other long way OF, with note which
says, "Hunt the gowk another mile"
The recipient of the note gives him q
new missive TO still another, contain
ing the same words; and SO the sport
goes on, till the victim remembers the
day OF the month, aHd sits dow to rest
and think about it.
In France, where the custom is very
ancient, the jokes are much the same;
but the victim is called an april fish, y
because he-is easily caught. In one
part of France there is a custom of eat
ing certain kind of peas which grow
there, called pois chiches. The joke
there is to send the peasants to certain
convent to ask for those peas, telling
j them that the fathers are obliged Il
1 give some to every one who comes OF
that day. The joke is as much on th'
monks as on the peasants, for there i
often perfect rush of applicants al
day.
Il A more disagreable custom prevail
in Lisbon on the first of April, wheI
} the great object is to pour water ol
, passers by, or. failing in that, to throw
J powder in their faces. If both can b'
done, the joker is happy.
, need not tell you the America
E styles of joking: mailing piece of silve
to the sidewalk; tying a string to
purse, and jerking it away from greed
fingers; leaving tempting looking pack
lagos, filed with sand, on doOr-steps
RI frying doughnuts with an interlinin
! lof wool; putting salt in the sugar. bow
B etc. You know too many already.
0 But this custom, with Others, com
j mon in coarser and rougher times,
g fast dying out. Even now it is left al
' most entirely to playful children an
the uneducated classes. This senti
!. ment, q uoted from an English almans
j Of hundred years ago, will, Pm SURE
e meet the approval OF "grown-ups" {
e the nineteenth century:
I; 'But I is a thing to be disputed,
D Which is the greatest fool reputed,
The one that innocently went,
Or he that HIM desigedly cent
D H. NJ. NJ, st. Nicholas for Apri
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The valleys of Sacramento and San
Joaquin, California, contain twenty
three millions of acres of land, fertile,
healthy, easily cultivated, and yielding
q rich variety of grain and fruits. CAL
ifornia has population of about three
fourths OF million: San Francisco
numbers say three hundred thousand,
with its suburbs considerably more.
Just now there is the anticipation of
renewed and augmented prosperity in
mining, and there is the certainty that
wheat growing is, and will he, profita-
BILE. If sheep raising has been in some
cases Improbable, on the whole 1t has
bestowed almost universally compe-
tence, and in many cases large wealth.
Taking the most conservative view,
California is evidently destined to be
one of the finest as well as the richest
States in the Union. And even now
she is by no means an insignificant
competitor with the East in the matter
of manufactures,