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YORK MARBLE YARD.

lowest cash prices Monuments designed and
finished in the most elaborate style, and In point
of workmanship and material warranted equal
to the work of any establishment in the country.
Head and Footstones, in various styles, from
plain to highly-carved work, furnished at short
notice, and satisfaction guaranteed.
Specimens usually on hand, to an inspection OF
which, those in want of marble work are respect
fully invited.
Estimates and any other desired information
cheerfully given at any time.
Work delivered at any point on the Chester
and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, between
Chester and Dallas, or at any place between
Rock Hill and Winnsboro, on the Charlotte, CO.
lumbia and Augusta Railroad, free of charge for
transportation. !'t :.
Thankful for the patronage heretofore bestowed
upon my establishment, my determination is to
merit q continuance Of the same
IL 1gH77 F. HAPPERFIELD.
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Aa,narans department,
HE WANTED TO BE A JURYMAN.

Presently the stiffness of the court was in.
terrupted by the entrance of man who came
in with a shufling, uneasy step, with his hat
in his hand. He halted and leaned against
the railing. Nobody took the least notice Of
him, however. At last he took courage and
spoke: f7i.'.
"Is the Judge in?" ;
The clerk Immediately awoke his Honor.
"Weil, what do you want?" ..-t
"I'm lookin' for job, yer Honor. I've
been lookin' for work over month"
"There is nothing for you here, sir" ln <s
81 thought yer occashunly give jurymen a
Job. I don't read newspapers any, and bein'
a stranger in town, I hain't got no prejudice
agin anybody. A pard of mine wrote down
to Reno last week, and said that the jury bu-
siness up here was brisk, and it would pay me
to come up. As I'm stranger to ye, and
little hard up, I'll stand in and serve for q
case or two for half price, till you see what
can do"
"What is your principal qualification, sir ?"
"My strong pint is in making jury agree.
No juries ever hang if am on 'em. jlst
lay low till the first ballot, and then jine the
majority and argue the rest into it. kin
discount any lawyer talken. l kin show
'em up pints they never tumbled to before.
Sometimes have to use force, but that's sell
DOM Once down at Truckee, in murder
case, there was couple of fellers standin'
out agin hangin' and arter arguein' with EN-
as smoothe and gentlemanly as could for
half an hour, went for 'em with chairs, and
by the time I'd busted halfdozen pieces Of
furniture on 'em they we're glad to come in
with verdict of murder in the first degree,
and the feller was hung not long afterwards.
In justices courts you can bet on the jury,
and if you'll jist give me wink as to how
you want case to 60, I'll guarantee to fetch
in the verdict you want, or not take cent" !"
The judge told him to call around in q day
or two and he would try and find vacancy
for him, but in order to do so regular ju-
ryman would have to be discharged.
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-25

The CoMPLExIoN-Alit little oatmeal mix
ed with blood.warm water is good to wash the
face with, as there is an oil in the meal which
softens and improves the complexion. English
ladies use it very often in washing their
hands. 1t is cleansing and softening.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-25
A NEW AND INTERESTING FEATURE
,gH, rs, .,.a OF THE
EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER.

.gal r mac, OF THE
EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER.
4 BOUT the first of July, the Advertiser will
n begin the publication Of series Of Biograph-
icalf Sketches. giving, in synopsis, the lives Of
many prominent and distinguished sons, dead
and living, of South Carolina. In connection
with these, there will appear in our colamns each
week, a portrait Of the individual whose life is
sketchsd, done in the highest style of modern
photographic art. From the great and good men
Of the past, such selections have been made az
John G. Calhoun, George McDnfie, Judge A. p.
Butler Chancellor F. ii. Wardlaw, Governors
Pickens, father and son Gov. p. M. Butler, Colo
mel Of the Palmetto Regiment; Senator Louis r.
WlgfalL, Judge ONeal, Gen. Waddy Thompson,
Gen. James Jones, Edmund Bacon, Esq, alias
"Ned Brace" Of the Georgia Scenes" Major
Jack Jeter. Hon. Preston Brooks, Gov. s. D. Mil
ler, and others, whose names we have not space
to mention just now. sta7ti4 H-i1 fsfEpl
Later we will take up such menas Hon. J.. p.
Carroll, Gov. NJ. L. Bonham, Gen.. Abner Perrin,
Gen. M. w. Gary, Gen. r. g. M. Dunovant, Gen.
erals Kershaw, Kennedy, Logan, Connor, Wal
lace, McGowan, Hagood and Bee; Col. Thos. q.
Bacon, Col. Thos. g. Lamar, Col. Joseph Abney,
Col. W. G. Moragne, Speaker John G. Sheppard,
Col. Arthur Simkins, Gen. James Ctcsnut, Hon.
w. D. Simpson and others, ~hose names shall
occur to us in the future
Subscription Price, $3.50, per annum, In ad-
vance. Address: ADVERTISER et,',
"ll E.as Edgefeld, s. G.
June N % If
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NOTICE.

II AM still Agent for the American" becauseitis
the best and cheapest Sewing Machine maze.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-25

aT A French Scientist in communication
to Academy of Science, states that he was
able after having carefully investigated the
subject for several years, to say that all eggs
containing the germ of males have wrinkles
ON the small end, while female eggs are
smooth,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-25

A SHORT HISTORY OF PETROLEUM.
Lumberman's Gazette gives the following short
history of petroleum. The production of pet
roleum as an article of trade dates from the
18th of August, 1859, when Colonel Drake,
in we'll sixty. nine and half feet deep,
''struck OIL" and coined phrase that will
last as long as the English language. From
that beginning it has increased to an annual
production of 14,5OO,0O0 barrels of crude OIL.
The first export was in 1861, of $4,000 bar.
rels, valued at S1,O00,000, and the export of
petroleum for the year 1877 was, in round
numbers, S62OOO000. The annual produc-
ton of petroleum today-crude and re-
fned-is greater in value than the entire pro-
ducton of iron, and is more than double that
of the anthracite coal of the State of Penn
sylvania, and exceeds the gold and silver pro.
duet of the whole country. AS an article of
export it is fourth, and contests closely for
the third rank. Our leading exports are rel
atively as follows: Cotton, annually, from
s175,0OO,O 900 to S227 5000; wheat -four,
from s69,OOO,OOO to $130,000.0OO; pork and
its products (bacon, ham and lard), from
s57,0O0 900 to sS0,000,000, and petroleum
| from s4S, ,2OO 900 to $62,O0O,0O0. The total
export of petroleum from 1861 to, and in
Guiding 1877 (sixteen years., has been s442,-
698, 1886, custom house valuation. From the
best sources of information there are at this
time 10000 oil wells, producing and drilling.
which at all average cost of $4,000 per we'll
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-25

TRIAL JUSTICES BLANKS.
N nECOGNIZANCES Warrants Of Arrest, Sum-
rs mons in civil action, and Executions. For
saie at the ENQUIRER OFFICE.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-25

A BUTTER JoKE-Mr. Atkinson is a far
mer, and very fond of joke. Recently be
wrote to business firm in Boston, with whom
he is on terms of intimacy, as follows: 81
will send you the finest butter next week you
ever saw. The first lot will weigh about six
ty pounds. Will divide proceeds of sale with
YOU" Encouraged by the liberal terms of
the offer, the firm advertised extensively that
they were prepared to FIJI orders for dairymen
and produce merchants for the finest butter
ever sent to market At the appointed time
the consignment failed to arrive, so the mer-
chants telegraphed up to Mr.. Atkinson, and
received the reply that the butter would be
down by the first train the next morning.
The butter arrived as promised, but was in
the form of most ferocious goat of enor-
NOUS size, who was no sooner liberated from
the crate than he commenced career Of the
most unbridled villainy ever witnessed. He
knocked the senior partner into the corner,
and butted three of his ribs out; the junior
partner took refuge on>the top Of some bales
of wool, but the goat jumped after him and
butted him off on to the floor; and prcbed
him with his horns unit! he was insensible.
After knocking things about generally, so
that each member of the firm looked as if he
had been invited to frst-class massacre, he
wound up by determined assault upon a
threshing machine. This "6rst class butter
was at last caught with a rope and sent to the
city pound.
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.. TX. MARkS.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
GENERAL FURNITURE,
CHESTER, s. G..
JanuaryA o3m

METALLIC CASES AND WOOD C0FFINs.
T HAVE on hand good assortment OF ME-
ali styles, qualities and prices-from FINE
CASKET, with Silver Plated Mountings, worth
$500. 90, to PLAIN COFFIN, st 81 90.
I am prepared, at all times to furnish these
where in the country.
JAMES E. SMITH, Agent.
J.nnarv1 3 If
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p9%"Be careful how you drink, or you'll
wash the color from your cheeks!' SAID a
gentleman at fashionable party, as he nana.
ed glass of water to lady. "There is no
danger of your ever taking water enough to
remove the color from your face" was the
good d-natured retort.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-25

THE NAKED TRUTH-A policeman found
boy bathing in place, near the foot of
Randolph street, and he called to the lad to
come out and be arrested like man for
breaking the ordinance.
"Is it agin the ordinance for boy to fall
into the river ?" queried the bather.
mo, sir, but you are naked"
"Does the law say that boy has got to
have his clothes on when he falls in?"
"The ordnance prohibits bathing here, and
now you come out"
"Is it bathing when fellow cuts his foot
on piece of tin, knocks his head agin beam
and swallows four catfish and a COB of mud p
81 want you |" called the officer.
"What for?" asked the boy.
II command you to come out"
81 can't come," sorrowfully answered the
bather "The real truth is, jumped in here
to rescue drowning female, but her hair
pulled off and she's at the bottom. AS |
have no witness I dasnt 90 to trial p
"Ill bring you out !" growled the officer as
he made for boat; but the boy disappeared
and was seen no more. While the officer was
looking under the wharf the half of good
sized sand pile suddenly slid down the back
of his neck and into his boots, and musical,
familiar voice was heard saying:
'My shirts on hind end afore, breeches
turned around, and this vest is wrong end up,
but feel as clean as a new stamp from the
postofice, and what an appetite I've got for
pop corn balls. ."-Detroit Free Press.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-25

Sailing STocK.-One of the most impori-
ant things to attend to in the care of farm
stock of every kind is that they have access
at all times to salt. In this connection we
would again call attention to the bad prac-
tice in vogue with many otherwise good far
mers, in that they salt irregularly and at such
times with too liberal hand. Thus animals
will gorge themselves, and this often results
in severe purging. Again, when salt is
thrown about on the ground to be licked up
the stronger animals get more than they
should, and the weaker ones little or none.
Besides this, injury to geak animals is often
the result of this Struggle. The proper way
to salt stock IS to have the salt placed under
cover, where they may get it every day if
they wish. In this way they take just what
they want and no more, and, while eating
what is necessary for them, they never take
enough to do them injury. Thus cattle will
seldom take more than an ordinary table
spoonful per day, and this is about what they
require in summer as an aid to proper diges-
tion.-Prairie Farmer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-25

sa- Over feeding is waste of food, and
causes loss of flesh. Indigestion from re-
pletion stops growth, and gives trouble to re-
store health and thrift. The art of feeding
is an important item of farmers knowledge,
and should be studied with care and practiced
with patience and close observation. The
use of weights and measures is not waste
of time and labor There is much to be learn
ed and saved by them. Every feed-box
should have one and two.quart scoop and
a feed measure holding known quantity.
Half peck measure (four quarts) is handy
size to have.
COOKING RIcE.-Boil fifteen minutes in salt
water, then turn off the water, and pour in q
little milk let it simmer gently till the rice
is soft. Then let it stand where it will not
burn for ten minutes, in order to evaporate
the milk, so that the particles ofrice may be
dry and separate from each other. May be
eaten with fruit sauce or little sugar or syr'
up, or as it is.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-25

D9- The problem of cheap living IS attract
ing much attention in England. Vegetarians
and meateaters have demonstrated that six
pence day is amply sufficient to satisfy the
requirements of any reasonable appetite, and
now an enthusiast declares in the Manchester
Guardian that man can live we'll on six
pence week. He himself never spends more.
For twelve years he has abstained from any
other food than bread and water, and at the
aye of 6fty-one is in the enjoyment of better
health than he ever had in his earlier years.
He is blessed with small appetite, and finds
four.pound loaf of bread quite sufficient for
his sustenance during week. Bread, he ar, ar;
gues, is the natural food of man; if he will
adhere to this diet and take proper care of his
health he will in nine cases out Of ten arrive
al a green old age. 1t is the consumption OF
stimulating food, such as Intoxicating liquors
milk, flesh, meat and fish, which enervates
the minds and bodies of men, and prepares the
wav for disease.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-12-21
Distress in Great Britain.

LONDON, Dec. 2l.-EnpIoyetS in the EnaGu
fecure1 iron trade 10 the North CT Engand
claim before the 81 bltrator5 i've per ceat. re
ductiou 10 consequence of tho depression OF
business. The men claim that the Price Ut is-
Dor is already lower than it hiss been dUr;7g The
past twenty years.
The newspapers coutiGus to publish aco9uoEs
of the distress throughout the country. at Shef.
field there is great suffering, and tho Ladies,
committee 10 connection with the Mayor = relict
fund, have hundred women making clothing
aud Distributing relief. Next week the coni.
mittee will require two hundred such women.
The Archbishop Of York has IS cd the clergy
10 make parochisl collections for the relief uud.
BirkdaIe aod Southport havs formed joint
relief committee which is Distributing soup and
bread. At Chard, 10 Somersttihrc. the lace
workers are striking against the masters 90
maud that they shall abandon the trades uoioca.
A large number ere idle eod there 10 great suit
feriDg.
At Burnley the paupefismls sixty per centaGe
10 excess of what it was at this time last y"ar.
In the Forest OF Dean there is much distress.
The clergy gro distributing food sid clothing,
At Plymouth and 10 lis nei2h5cThood there
il great suffering. Special efjrt5 ere making
for the relief Of the Cornish nipcrs.
Advicas from Widnss, Eot'ia, Dundee,
Wo!vefhsmpsoU, Liverpool, Manchester en1
Stafford. crDtirn, ibe previous ae:1nc's OF els
tres pgerailt et those places.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-12-21
EGRExGH TE TVS.

The fuoesal serVicee over 10: reios'os " 'hS
late E}aysrd Tsyl cr, at Rer!io, will 90 held at
lbs Aut,i 90 Legation oa Sunday afteFnooo'
They will be deposited in vault Until! READY
for transportation to this country. Inc bcr'ln
Official Gazette expresses the sincere regret or
the German Goveromen. at tie car ? ard upc1
neoted demise of Bsyard Taylor, :he American
Minister.
The medical students at st. Petersburg are
!introuble. Having grievance TO comp'sln o.
they marched in procession to the Czar"ifch s
DaIaoe to present petiop, when ons hundred
and forty two were arrested by the military
guard charged with making an illegal demon
stratiop. Ga 9 second offence tHo hundred oth'
ers were taken into custody and the city thrown
into q tumult. The CosSaoka making the or
rests, used whips upon the offenders. The draw
bridge of the bridge over the NeVa was removes ~,
to prevent the sludents from arosslpg. Inc
lecture halls have been closed and the studsbts
meetings iDterdIcted.
Its again reported that the Amer OF Al
phanistan has fad tTcm Cabul, leaving lacoot
Knan 10 bis place.
The rival of Edison 10 England, who ias en-
deavored to prevent him from cb;alolng pat
eut for his electric light. has been defeated.
A Paris dispatch says ofica confirmation
has been received that instruolnus have heer
sent TO the Russian mission ct Gabul 70 win
draw.
BERLIN, Dec 2l.-The s.atemant is officially
denied inst the Emperor on the occasion OF his
res U m ption Of the government received ielte
of Capitalization from the Pope snd replied t. !:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-12-21
ESPECIAL TO THE ALEXANDRIA GAzsTrE
WASHINGTON. u. c., DEC. 81

ESPECIAL TO THE ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE ]
WASHINGTON, d. G.. Dec. 81.
The snGw OF last gbt aud the raa 9! to Day
have made PeEnsylVani avenue cana'. differ.
ent Only from those that Iua through Venice
iu the depth. temperature and opacity of the
water that fiis if, and in the sbseCc, OF boats.
Crowds Of passengers, however. both meo and
women, are 90 1t, eud though difficult TO uavi
gate, they all manage to reach their se7era!
destinations. Many of :he women have dis
carded umbrellas and doomed oil cloth water
adopted the cousin Sally Dlllsrl style, and
thus, whether consciously CT otherwise, add
to the numbers Of men who are out despite
the weather. for many 40 cid fellow
was observed to stop. wipe the raio out OF bis
eyes, ADD look inten;ly at pair OF We'll tIr0ed
and glsrioely exposed ankles that fitted BY him,
but were soon lest in the giut OF Others, per-
bars not 40 attractive, that are constantly pass.
ing to and fro. The street cars aud chsriots,
the latter drawo by four horses instead Of two
Is usual, arc jsmued full Of wet. but appar
emily good natured people, and all seen 10
have commenced 10 get Christmas in their
bones.
The Blaine committee met again this ID orning
and determined 70 hold open sessions uotll they
shall sac fit to direct otherwise. Tney s!ao
r6s0lVeu 10 ltQucSt SecRtor Thurman TO !ur
nish the information upon which be based Ills
amendment to the Blaine resolution. aud then
adjourned until next Thursday.
Gen. Williams. a democratic member Of The
House from Michigan. who Ras stricken with
spoplexy three or four days ago, and VITO has
been Iyiog at the point of death ever since,
died just before daylight this mornirg. His
family had arrived and were with him at the
last. The body will be taken to the late home
of the deceased to morrow in a special train. Of
which Mr.. w. R. WsrfeId. Of Alexaudris, will
be conductor
Major B. B. Douglas. member Of tie House
from Virgins. whose sickness was mentioned 10
this correspondence last Wednesday, lis now lying
at bis rooms ct the National Hotel 10 ~ ua
conscious condition, aud his death at apy mo.
ment will not be unexpected by bis physicians.
His illness, it is said, results from it1anaicn Of
the stomach.
Elk Governor Gilbert G. Walker, another
member of the House from Virginia, is also &c.
riously i'll at his rooms here and his,ffiends are
apxiously alarmed at bis dangerous condition
The horses attached to the carriage of ex-
Senator West. Of Ls., Knocked down and
over q poor woman at the intersection Of 7th st.
and Pa. ave. day, bad]y hurting her. The
e1 Senator called hack and sent her home, and
gave the police his address in case he should be
wanted
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-12-21
S2,lGG 900
Total. $4,ll9.000
Receipts 10 day were $472 00G.
MHEderUuS Assault,

CINcINNATTI, Ohio. December q, lS75.-
Ga sn eastern bouad train, co the Grad
Trunk road, near Ridgewsy, Michigan, Thurs.
Day night, passenger, named Waiter Stores,
was attacked by fellow passenger while stabd
log CD the rear platform OF the rear csr,who cut
his throat aod robbed him If 5000, aud thcr
hurled him fem the moving treio. Storms
struck in a snow bank and crswled to farmers
house where surgical sid YES summoned. His
assailaBt is gambler named Crabb aed il ia
suspected that Storms IS his pal. md that tha
attack was the result of quarrel over spclia
The physician ststes that Storms can hsrdly
recovery.
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UBLIsHED DAILY AND TRI-WEEKLY Bl
-e1
SATURDAY EV'G.. DECEMBER 81, 1878
If the future action of Mr.. BIaine''s outrage

If the future action of Mr.. Baine''s outrage.
ous southern Investigating committee can be
predioated upon what it did. yesterds7-and
that it can be ii. clsarIa: indicated By the mere
fact that 6se republican senators have been
found wiling to serve upon it--petsons anxious,
sbou! the character Ct tbe report it will make.
need otwsi5 until the Investigation has been
com pleted. Tho democratic nembels were
compelled to sgrge or subject their parry TO In
Jury for alton asiog to obstruet the inquiry
During the session of the committee yesterday
Mr.. Bayatd ofated'a resolution that as the
President was the first ono to indct the Scush
he be REQUESTED to furnish the committee With
the Inform alton upoa which the Indictment was
founded so it they might DO enabled to have
startiog point from which to commence lis inves-
,igaticn. This resolution was defeated by
strict party vote, thereby showing that the
same CID eight to seven spirit still rules 10 the
radical organization, end that until 1t bs exoE-
csed the South can expect neither equality.
equity, DOR jus.ics in union composed of what
the outside wor.d considers free and co equal
States. Could there be anything fsirer or less
liable to rightfnl objection than for court, be.
fore which man charged with criminal Ct.
Tense is to be tried, to esk for the names of bis
accusers and for the evidence upon which the
charges against him ara based The eonstitu.
lion Of the country provides that al accused
person shall be confronted with the witnesses
r.. J ,,,t b I'd
to man individually. is equally SO with regard
to him collectively, but,in the instance referred
to people Of whole States are to be tried, not
ooly for an infracsi,u Of plaio provision Of the
constitution, and fer cruelty and brutal oppres'
sion of week aud inferior class cf their fellow
citizens, but fer direct perjury. and yet are Tor.
bidder by the radical msj ority ef MIR. B!slne's
committee to ask the President for the names
of their accusers.