The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-03-20

| W'S oHtsh " PAocpSStAfC CObCOll crop.
We say, then, beware Of it. Cotton
will doubtless bring good price
next Fall, bnt this will avail you
nothing, if you have to exchange it
for NIL othor ,necessarios, which will
be equally es high priced. -Ne,os
and Courier. 7''
The Mormon and His Wives. ''@
among the gontiles," asked re
porter of II Mormon in Salt Like
City, "ovon one wife is ofton ro 2 nd.
ed rs M expensive luxury, How is
it that among the Mormons a poor
man is able to support several wives2"
"Oh, that is easy to explain. A
man who joins the Mormons gcner-
ally makes money by it. Let us
suppose u case. Say u European
peasant comes over hore with his
wife, having been induced to join
the Mormons in Utah. Ho immedi-
ately tlkes possession of 160 acres of
good land under the law of Con.
gress. Now, this is n great thing
for man who has probably never
ownod a foot of ground before Tho
land out thore, you must remember,
is very good. The soil is rich and
deep, and the rain fall has increased,
l suppose, about one hundred per
cent. in the last fifteen years STILL,
the land has to be irrigated to some
extont. Well, tho man goos to work
and puts up u little hut mado Of
slabs or logs and mud; then he gets
COW, raises crops, and pulls through
the first year. He may hive brought
over q peasant girl to work for him
at say So or SO week. He secs
that he can just as well marry the
girl and save the wages he would
otherwie have to pay her. He has
n baby after while, ani the
next year he puts this now wife of
his with her baby, upon another 160c
acres OF land. Perhaps he has been
smart enough to build his hut just
on the boundary of tho farms, so
that by putting up an extension tho
new family cum live in the same
house and get on another farm,
Then rs he extends his domain, he
will marry more wives, and each Of
bis additional children he puts upon
another 160 acres. Now, you know,
after the settler has occupied q farm
for five years, built upon and work.
ed it, he gets q full title to the
property from. the Federal Govern
ment. Each of his wives, after he
has lived on another 180 acres for
the same time, can swear 0 ut clear
title as head of a family This has
always been done, and is done still,
And thus tho head Of the concern,
who came into the country u poor
peasant, often becomes regular
PATRON, living in ease in the centre
of his domain, while his wives and
their children 60 on increasing their
numbers and his wealth Now YOU
know just how it is done" r~
Fashion Notes. 'n.I" .
New galloons are from ono to
three inches wide, ond are in flower
designs, showing, two or three
colors. They are of silk for silk
suits, and of mixed silk and wool for
woolen dresses. They cost from
seventy-tive cents to $3.50 yard =,
For trimming washy dresses are
bands of white muslin, wrought in.
Greek and Smyrna patterns in deep
biue or scarlet, or else with heavy
scallops of color The Hamburg
embroideries are now, shown in
thick work rs well us ipr tho open
patterns so long IN VHogIIe.! y Bazaa}.
The fringes just imported are as
elegant as lace. and quite as expen-
sive, some of them being 'as ligh as
$9 q yard. The netted heading is
as broad as the dropping fringe, and
there are "fies" or d2ubIe tasssls, of
crimped silk caught ia1th6 noting.
Others represent three For four rows
Of tassels, and these are especially
liked in rich silk for trimming silk
wraps. For, the wooden Dolmans
that will be worn in the spring in
gray and brown shades are woolen
fringes to match, in prices begin
ming as low as sixty cents q yard, and
extending up to $1.25. These will,
be considered more appropriate than
the more expensive silk fringes for
wool garments. n31N.tH1 10
Morning jackets for dressing for
for breakfast are of ,twilled wools
and of fannels of palo or Of dark
shades Of blue, rose or cardinal, and