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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-29

PURIFY Your PREMIsEs--The warm
weather is here, and it behooves every citizen
to cleanse his premises of all offensive matter,
in order that they may become pure and
healthy There is no doubt at all that great
deal of the sickness visiting families proceeds
from filthy cellars, sinks, yards. outhouses,
styes, &c. These things are neglected by
many as are other duties, from pure thought
lessness, while others never dream of paying
any attention to them. There are several
remedies FOR this most unhealthy condition OF
things that can be fully applied. The first is
to put one pint of the liquor of chloride OF
zinc in one bucketful of water, and one pound
of chloride of lime in another bucket of water,
add together, and sprinkle over decayed veg,
etable matter. For this purpose nothing sur
passes it; indeed, it is perfect deodorizer.
The second is to take four pounds of sui phate
of iron or copperss and dissolve it in buck
etful of water. This will, in most cases, prove
a sure remedy in destroying offensive odors.
The third is to take simple chloride of lime
and sprinkle in damp cellars, over heaps of
filth, dirty yards, etc. All these can be had
at the druggists, and as prices 60, are not
dear.
The labor of cleansing ones premises by
either one of these remedies is trifing, and
the expense is not worth mentioning. If it
were ten times greater, both the labor and ex.
pense should be willingly incurred. But the
best procedure of all is to cleanse your cellars,
yards, outhouses, styes, etc., systematically.
Especially should all the cellars, sinks, and
everything about the house be kept free OF
all offensiveness. Cellars should be thorough
ly cleaned out twice year, and whitewashed
once. Sinks about kitchens should be partic-
nlarly attended to. Privies can be rendered
completely inofensive by the application of
fresh earth, from time to time Germantown
Telegraph.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-29
IT. 9. JEFFERYS.

IT. =. u EE'E'ER 4 =.
AGENT
NOR Standard Fertilizers Machinery of almost
every variety adapted to this country, such
as Steam Engines, French Burs, Boting Cloths,
Portable Wheat and Corn Mills, Turbine Water
Wheels, Shutters, Shafting, and Mill Machinery
of any kind desired.
The Celebrated Winship Gins, Halls Self Feed
ing Gins. Needle Gins, Gin-Feeders and Gin
Condensers, Gin Saws and Brush Ribs, &C., &c.
COTTON PRESSES-The Centennial, Boss
and Smith Hand and Power Presses.
PRAIRIE CORN SHELTERS, only SO so;
STRAW CUTTERS, $l0.0L
keep on hand good supply. of SASH,
BLINDS and DOORS, and will furnish Builders,
by the quantity, at exceedingly low prices.
In short time, will have the latest and best
improved Machine for SHARPENING GIN
SAWS, which will make the as perfect
when the Gin was received from the Factory;
giving each tooth the desired briar hook shape.
The work is done without removing the saw shaft
from the Gin. An expert in GIN REPAIRING
will be sent to the Gin Houses, to operate the
Machine at reasonable charges. Persons desiring
to have their Gins sharpened in the best style,
will do well to leave their orders with me, early.
small lot Of NAVASSA GUANO on hand.
May9 l9 tt
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-29
TABLES. sc.

TIMING, Teapoy and Office Tables, Tin Toile
IL Sets, Towel Racks, Hat Racks, Suspension
Spring Beds, etc., etc., at
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-29
COOKING STOVES

CEVERAL different brands of Cooking Stoves
y of the best grades, which will warrant and
sell at low figures. Also, cheaper grades Of
Stoves for sale at G. Fl. O'LEARY'S.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-29

pg~ Few people study themselves, because
they find the study of themselves an employ
nent but little calculated to crafty their
pride or vanity.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-29
[Original.]
HARD TIMES,

feigned but in the great majority of cases it
is true report The question may be asked,
"What makes the times so hard ?" "Have
our fields ceased to yield their accustomed
crops or have we been visited by some man.
ifest dspleasure of God?" To these ques.
tions we must give distinct negative answer.
God has sent US fruitful seasons, and in mul.
titude of ways he has blessed US. Whatever
may be the cause of hard times of which so
many complain, they do not have their origin
in the fact that God has not been faithful and
kind in his dealings with US. The cause of
all our evils is in ourselves. We abuse the
blessings of Providence. We appropriate
them to uses for which they were never design
ed. We'consume the generous gifts of prov-
dence in gratifying our beastly passions and
lusts The people of the United States con.
sumed, in spirituous liquors as a bev.
erage-near six hundred million dollars du-
ring the year 1877. The population of the
United States and territories is near forty mil
lions. These figures show that the people of
the United States spent, during the past year,
fifteen dollars for spirituous liquors for each
individual inhabitant. Now, it is fact
which will not be called in question, that a
large number of the inhabitants spent not
one cent for spirituous liquors; hence, more
than fifteen dollars was drank away by others.
We talk much about hard times, and high
taxes, but no tax is so heavy as the liquor
tax.
In number of other ways, the generous
gifts of Providence are squandered. Can we
reasonably expect anything but hard times
when we thus sin and violate the laws of
Gods providence? We need not expect to
prosper and at the same time to trample the
laws of God under our feet.
The USE OF AFFLICTIoN.- is a
little plant, small and stunted, growing under
the shade of broad spreading oak; and this
little plant values the shade which covers it,
and greatly does it esteem the quiet rest
which its noble friend affords. But bles-
sing is designed for the little plant.
Once upon time there comes along the
woodman, and with his sharp axe he fells the
oak. The plant weeps and cries:
my shelter is departed every rough wind
will blow upon me, and every storm will seek
to uproot me-"
"No, no." saith the angel of that flower !;
"now will the sun get at thee; now will the
showers fall on thee with more copious abun-
dance than before; now thy stunted form
shall spring up into loveliness, and thy flower,
which could never have expanded itself to
perfection, shall now laugh in the sunshine,
and men shall say, How greatly hath in
creased how glorious hath become its beau
ty through the removal of that which was its
shade and its delight ?"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-29


The LAST REsoRT-A fire in Detroit the
other day turned tenant out doors with on:
ly FIVE minutes warning, and when they had
secured house across the way and moved in,
the whole stock of furniture consisted of four
bed Stats, a wash. bowl, kerosene lamp and
three pllow-shams. A kind hearted police
man entered looked around, and said to the
busy little woman:
"Did you lose much?"
Call but this" she replied, pointing to the
pile in one corner.
"And what will you do now p
"Advertise for boarders, Of course!" was
her prompt reply. "1fyou are going down
town you might drop an advertisement in the
papers for me-"
He dropped out
say- A doctor called to see patient whose
native land was Ireland, and whose native
drink was whiskey. Water was prescribed
as the only cure Pat said it was out of the
question; he never could drink it. Then
milk was procured, and Pat agreed to get
we'll on milk The doctor was soon summon
ed again. Near the bed on which the sick
man Law was table, and on the table was
large bowl of milk, strongly favored with
whiskey. "What have you here" said the
doctor. milk, doctor !; just what you orther.
ed" "But there's whiskey in it i smell it.
"Well, docter," sighed the patient, "there
may be wh;skey in it, but milk's my object.
WHERE THE BARBER WAS AHEAD.-He
thought to head off the voluble barber. Sit
ting down in chair, he said: &C! want a
shave, shampoon, bath, bottle of hair ton.
ic, one of Florida water, private cup and
brush, and stick of comestique." The ton
sorial artist was staggered for an instant, but
quickly recovering, he suggested that he WAS
agent for "the new patent steel.wire hair
brush, warranted to keep in any climate, only
one dollar and six bits" The shaver was
catching his breath for fresh start, but the
customer slid from his chair and escaped.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-29

WHIPS AND UMBRELLAS.
4 LARGE stock of Buggy, Wagon and Riding
IA Whips and Buggy Umbrellas, for sale by
G., H. OLEARY,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-02-07
ReDrOductIon OF Snakes.

Snake life is altogether marvellous
The power which some snake mothers
possess of retarding the deposition Of
their eggs, and, we have reason to be-
lieve, sometimes even the young, when
circumstances are unpropiuOUs for her
to produce them, seems to US specially
curious. CbIoJ0thI7ls is known to have
both eggs and a living brood. So has
COrOaela logris. Of the latter, some
German OphiO,Ogists state that it is ''al-
ways viyiplrous;" others occasion
aIly7 so. In her native Hampshire
woods she has been seen with a young
brood about her; bat there seems no
satisfactory evidence of any eggs having
been found. Time and careful nOtings
only can substantiate this and many
other singular facts regarding these
''wise" and subtle" creatures, hitherto
surrounded by prejudice and but little
studied. We, not well yersed in Ophi-
dian biographies, might have expected
the anaconda to lay eggs because her
cousin the pythOness did so; and we
might have also specuIated upon her ID
cubating them, as the python did. But
she has produced a perfectly developed
though dead family Of six, instead;
circumstance of so much interest to
naturalists that the loss Of the young
ones is to be regretted, though not Won
dered at. Captured from her native
IIagOons, and shut out from the light CT
day in a box just large enough to con-
tain her, this good swimmer" arrives
alive, thus proving her amazing powers
of endurance; but she has had no fitting
place in which to Odeposit her young, and
/ they die unborn. Still, it is a note
worthy fact in the annals Of Zoology
At first, from the result of observation,
the incubation of the python was sus-
| pecled; then it became confirmed; and
the birth of young CorOnellas also
From this it is evident that we cease
TO declare that only vipers produce live
young; or, according to the original sig
MITIGATION of the word, a boa, a cOrOnel-
Ia, and several other nOn-venOmOus
snakes would be ''vipeTs!" Again, it is
remarkable that these pecuIiariues of
reproduction are not confined to partic-
Ular families and genera; because some
| cOrOnellas lay eggs, some incubatC
them, and others bring forth a live
brood. So. also, while some of the
BOaldG lay eggs, the anaconda is com
pletely viviparOus.-ChdHtjerS Journal
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-02-07
A Penitent,

Llrahs Neelie, don't look like tu9dcr-cloud'
dRrlint;
Hps2
sure,
But stops, the sly thafe, and honey drop
sips.
And, rosC Of the wurruId, spake aisy now, amt
More sinsibIe far than vagabond bee?
And how could see the swate kiss that was
There on your red lips, as though waiting for
And not take it, darIiut2 Och, NeeIie, give
O'erl
Faith, I'm awfully sorry-I didn't take more.
Twas your fault intirely. Why did you smile
at me2
So great q timptatiOn no man could resist
For your laughing blue eyes and your cLeek
wild a dimple,
be Kissed
And could 1 dral1ing they didn't spakc truth,
dear?
Sure beautiful futures ike thin uiver lie;
If they do, you should hide thin, ara not be
desaving
Such an innocent, trusting young fellow as L
Are you frOwning still, darliut2 Och, Neelie,
We DER!
Don't tell you I'm sorry.-I didn't take more.
Hopper.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-02-07
Correspondence Of the News.
Letter from Southeastern
Kansas.
WICHITA, Kan, Jan. %, 1878.

WICHITA, Kan, Jan. %, 1878.
DEAR News One could easily
imagine one s self in Illinois, sitting
here, looking out upon the uedltb Of
mud in the streets and the very level
country Immediately about this
town.
Last Spring I saw quite a number
81 men from Illinois, moving into
this part of Kansas, and all decIar
ing that they were running away
from the mud. I wonder what their
feelings are this winter, for the roads
have been almost impossible for six
weeks past.
This town numbers about 1850
inhabitants, and is the depot for
supplies of all the country lying
south and southwest for a distance
of seventy-fve miles, consequently a
large amount of trading is done here,
and property, especially business
property, is in good demand at high
prices.
But the time is coming when the
railroad will enter the counties south
of this. and then Wichita will have a
terrible fall. She then viii only be
the county seat of Sedgwick county,
and not the great metropolis that
she presumes she will be in a few
years to come.
Farmers are a bit blue. Their
wheat crop is below the-average, and
they are receiving but sixty cents for
wheat, fifteen cents for corn, two
dollars and tbree-quarters for hogs,
fifteen cents for butter, and twelve
cents for eggs.
This is quite tough on those who
come forty or fifty miles to market
The weather remains mId-frosts
and freezing at night, but the days
are warm and the sun shines brightly.
A delightful winter so far-only
one storm of any moment, and that
was a heavy snow storm that took
place ten or twelve days ago. With
the rain that preceded it, the snow
that melted has, increased very ma
terially the difficulties Of
T.. RAVELING.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-02-07
orough Highland County, Ohio Thursday, February 1878.

81 trust there isn't a man around here
that wouldn't do as much for aneigh-
Dor i! time Of need. Still, if you feel
embarrassed-if you don't wish to
stand my debtor, pay me in good will"
Dick Hardy raised his eyes slowly,
and looking in a strange, wondering
way at Mr. Levering, said, "Shall we
not be friends?'
Leveringreached out his hand. liar
dy grasped it with a quick, short grip,
and then, as if to hide his feelings that
were becoming too strong, dropped it
and went off hastily.
'Thees killed himr' said the Quaker,
on his next meeting with Levering;
'thy enemy is de9d!"
''Siain by kindness" answered Pau
I,evering, (which you supplied"
mo, thee took it from Gods armOry,
where all men may equip themselves
without charge, and become invinci-
ble," replied the Quaker. And I
trust, for thy peace and safety, thee viii
never use any other weapons in fighting
with thy neighbOrs. They are sure to
kill y
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-02-07
FITS CURED.

DR.. Browns great prescription for Epilepsy Llv-
inc now been tested in over 10 900 cases without
failure. he has made up his mind to make the in
grVdients known 10 al sufferers free of charge.
Address DIR. o. PHELPS BRUwN, q Grand Street,
Jersey City. y. !. laU3GPR6CD
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-02-07
Chicago Failures.

Chicago failures for 1877 foot up
S3O,857,938, of which S8,O45,612
come under the head of Real Es
tate, and 81, 7,662,8 ,88G under the head
Of 'Banks and Blukers." Builders
and contractors were stuck to the
amount of S1,O15,63G; agricultural
implement dealers, S1,5647OO iron
and hardware men, S2,123, 1873 COM
mission merchants. S454,99O, and
grocery dealers, &473,G4G. Tt was
altogether hard year on Chicago
trade.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-02-07

A few years ago children IN every d
rection were collecting postage stamps
for million or less quantity, Of which
they were to receive a considerable sum
from kind parents, Uncles or aUuts, os-
tensively for the purpose discriminating
indust, iaI habits. In many instances,
however, it was suspected that these
stamps were co Iected for a less repu-
table purpose. In France and England
Just now mania prevails for collecting
foreign stamps. In the former country
Il collection of 900 varieties recently
sold for $4,000, while III France a re-
markabIe accumulation Of stamps were
privately sold for $4,000.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-02-07

4 process is announced in Il Belgian
journal by which ordinary wood has
imDarted to it the appearance Of our
most beautiful specimens Of walnut,
adapted to the very finest cabinet work.
The wood, first thoroughly dried and
warmed. is coated once or twice with a
LIQUID composed of one part, by weight,
of extract Of walnut peel, dissolved il
six parts of soft water by heating it to
boiling and stirring. The wood thus
treated is, when half dry, brushed by a
solution of one part, by weight, of
bichromate of potash in five parts of
boiling water, and, after drying thor
oughly, is rubbed and polished. The
color is thus fixed in the wood to a
depth Of one OF two lines, and, in the
case of red beech or alder, for instance
tho walnut appearance is most perfect
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-02-07
Shooting.

They were telling yarns about good
shooting out III Virginia, New, the
Uther day. Said one of the marksmen:
Some years ago 1 was out in New
York state hunting grouse. There was
in Old fellow along who was some hat
uear-sighted. We were justat the edge
Of the farm, when suddenly one Of my
favori,e game-cocks jumped up on the
fence and he drew bead on it, mistak-
ing it for a grouse. I had not a second
to lose, and So I threw up my ride and
quietly knocked off the left nipple Of
his shot gun at fifty yards, so that when
the hammer fell the nipple and cap
wouldn't be there-see?" you saved
the bird then?" Clipped in an attentive
listener. NO" said Austin, sadly,
Il picked out the wrong nipple; the
fellow fired the right barreland blew my
ffty-doIlar game-cOck all to blazesl"
The crowd quietly dispersed.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-02-07

When the cultivation Of cochineal
was introduced into the Canary Island
in 1910, the product was worth twelve
francs per Spanish pound; but mainly
owing to the increased use of aniline
cOlOrs, first made known to the world
by a German scientist, the price fell to
four francs in 1870, and now it may be
bought for two francs and a half in any
nnantitY
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-02-07

Water is not only an important con-
stituent of food but is the carrier OffOod
into and through the systems Of human
beings and animals. It forms more
than two-thirds of the whole animal
body. and is contained in all kinds Of
solid food as well as in the beverages
The following items of vegetable food
contain, for every 100 pounds Of sub
stance, water in weights as follows:
Fresh oat meal ) pounds, Indian meal
IA pounds, wheat -four IA, barley meal
IA, peas If, rice Is, bread 40, potatoes
Is, grapes so, parsnips 81, beet root s.,
apples So, carrots 50, cabbages SO, onions
81 and lettuce 96.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-02-07
NEW ROUTE.
SCIOqO VALLEY RAILWAY
Commencing Monday, Dec. 81, 1871, trains will

CONNECTIONS at Columbus with P. c. & st. L. Ry
for Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington ClIy and
New York for Chicago, Indianapolis, St Louis
and points on the maiu Division. With p. & o.
r. R. for Chicago. Baltimore, Washington, Newark
and GAINESVILLE With c. c. c. S 1. r. Il. fer
Cleveland aud Buffalo and points north. With
Detroit and the west. With c. $ & c. R. r. for
London, Springfield, Sandusky and CiEcinnafi.
With C. Mt V. & c. R. r for Cleveland and Mt. Yer
non At CircIeviIle with c. & VI. V. r. r. for Lam
caster. Zancsville, Washington c. H, Wilmington
and points west At ChillicOthe with NJ, c. K. r
for Camden, Athens, Cincinnati and intermediate
points. At Wavery with S. J. & P. K. K. for Jack
son.
At Portsmouth by Steamer for Huntington, con-
Meeting with Chesapeake S Ohio r. r. for Char.
lottesvIlle GnrdOnsvie, Va, Richmond, Na and
all points in SOuth-AtlantiC States.
GEO. CHANDLER, }. B. PETERS,
General Ticket Agent. Superintendent.
iaulTtf
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-02-07
Standing AlOn6s

''The baby is standing all 'lOneyV'
The children shout in their glee-
And father ard mother d aunty
Must hurry and come to see.
So babv-The cute lit le darIingL
Is put through the wonderful feat.
And fOnd.cd and kissed ard commenced
For being SO smart and so sweet.
With he cunningcst air Of triumph,
She stands I'm the midst Of US all
While the OutstretChed arms OF her mOJneI
Is ready 10 save q fall,
And whenever the little one tOtterS,
Around her is hastily rOWn.
'Tis very fine fun-thinks the baby
This frOlic Of Standing Alone!
All, many q imc in the future
She'll long fn= the aid of that arm,
When the love and the care Of a mother
No longer can shield her from harm!
For oft when our need is the 5Orest
There's no one to whom We can turn
And Standing Alone IS lesson
y is harI for woman to learn.
And often ana over, my baby,
RefOrC life's long journey is done.
You will ycaTn in your hours OF weakness
For sOmt thing to lean upon.
When the props upon which you depended
Are taken away or O'erthrOwn,
You will find If is weariSOme. baby
So wearisOmP. Standing Alone.
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From time immemOrial it has been
the custom in the southwest Of Eng
land for farmers to throw back a shil-
ling twenty-five eentsl on every ten
stacks Of wheat and every ten quarters
of barley they sell. The custom is sup
posed to have its origin in the fact that
formerly the dealers met the farmers
at their inns when the market was over
and paid them, when the farmer threw
back a shilling fer drink. If the GUS
tom were abolished, it is said that it
would cost the largest brewing firm in
England SIS, 900 a year.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-02-07

An Eastern paper estimates that
within the past two months 10000
persons in Northern New York have
signed the Temperance pledge and
donned the blue ribbon. The whis-
ky business has been injured some
what. but the increased demand for
blue ribbon has preserved the trade
equilibrium, as it were.