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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

A Mules WONDERFUL KICKING
"Speaking about mules" remarked six
footer in Arkansas, as he cracked his whip at
market, "I've got mule at home which
knows as much as I do, and want to hear
somebody say I am half fool" No one
said so, and he went on. "Pve stood around
here and heard men blow about kicking
mules till I've got disgusted. When you
come down to kicking, l want to bet on my
mule. A friend came along and took dinner
with me the other day, and, as he seemed a
little down-hearted, took him out to see
Thomas Jefferson, my champion mule. l was
telling the good man how that mule would
flop his feet around, and he said he would like
to see little fun. He passed his whole life
in the South, but had never seen mule lay
his whole soul into big time at kicking.
Well" be said, after borrowing some tobacco,
II took Thomas out of the stable, backed
him up again bill, gin him cuff on the ear,
and we stood back to see the amusement.
1t was good place to kick his durndest, and
what dye s'pose be did? In ten minutes by
the watch he was out of sight. In five more,
we couldn't feel him with ten-foot pole,
and-and-" The crowd began to yell and
sneer, and the narrator looked around and
asked, "Does an, body think I am lying ?
Would lie for one mule? Right here un-
der my arm is pound of tallow candles
which are to light the hole for to 60 in after
Thomas; and l got word not an hour ago
that the hind feet of mule were sticking out
of hill thirty-nine miles as the bird flies
from where my mule went in. I'm shaky on
religion, gentlemen, but our family never had
a liar in it,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

MAKE THE HORSE WoRK.-Horses were
designed as beasts of burden, to relieve man.
kind from fatiguing drudgery. 1t does not
hurt them to work hard, if they are treated
kindly 1t is not the hard drawing and pom
derous loads that wear out horses and make
them poor, balky and worthless but it is the
hard driving, the worry by rough and inhu-
man drivers, that uses up more horse flesh,
fat and muscle than all the labor team per-
forms.
Consider the ponderous loads that many
teams are required to cart every day, and
several times day, and yet they appear to
grow fatter and strong every year. They are
treated kindly. On the other hand, other
horses, that do not perform half the labor
soon grow poor, and give out, and the next
we hear of them they die with harness on.
Hard work does not kill them but the wor'
rying, fretting, and abuse did the job.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

WoMAN.-A lady writer in the Washing
ton Capital has not a very high opinion of
her sex, if we may judge of her feelings by
the subjoined: "One woman's hand is al
ways lifted against another. if she thinks the
other is getting along If was on trial |
would not be tried by jury of women, for
if my bonnet was little more fashionable,
or my face little more attractive, then the
twelve intelligent jurywomen would sit down
on their sister women instantly if not SOON
or"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

How TO GET A CHEAP HoRsE.-A cute
Yankee wanted horse he found person
who was willing to sell him one for $3.50. 81
will pay you fifty down" said he to the owner,
"and 1 will be your debtor for the rest" The
owner consented. Some days afterward, how
ever, he came to demand his hundred dollars.
"No," said the purchaser 1--WE must stick to
our bargain. l told you I should be your
debtor for the rest, and should not be your
debtor, if I paid you."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

BALKY HoRsEs.-Every balky horse, un'
less it inherits the habit, is living witness
against some owner or driver. The difficulty
is not physical but moral one, and in most
cases is acquired by the animals being over
loaded. A horse generally has pretty def.
mite idea of how much it ought to draw, and
if this amount is exceeded, baking is the
very natural result. We once knew an un'
commonly intelligent pony which was en-
poyed in drawing bark in a cart up an in
clined plane into tannery. The little brute
would be patient and apparently unconcerned
while the load was going into the cart, until
it had reached certain amount. Then, II
the loading continued, it would turn its head
and watch, with evident interest and anxiety,
every piece that was added to the load, until
finally, without waiting for the word Of COM
mand, it would start off st brisk pace, show
ing by the position of its ears, and in other
ways, its irritation and displeasure at what it
seemed to consider an attempted imposition.
1t is far more easy to prevent than to cure
the habit of baking when once acquired; no
harsh treatment will ever break it. Firmness
and kindness alone will avail anything
Never apply whip to horse when it is halk-
ing, nor after it starts. Success in training
and governing animals lies in ones ability to
make them uncomfortable when disobedient,
and comfortable when they obey. And yet
how often do we see foolish drivers, when a
horse has stopped and refused to start for
while, when it does start make it uncomforta
BILE by putting on the whip while it is doing
what they want it to do. 1t lis whipped when
it stands and whipped when it goes. This
foolish practice has grown from the foolish
idea that punishment must be given for what
has been done, and the horse has no opportu'
nifty to learn that it is better for it to obey
than not to obey, consequently it cannot learn
to obey.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

aS Two negroes were in the woods splitting
rails, when the question of what was the best
thing in the world came up. A stake of 'fo'
bits' was deposited on neighboring stump,
to be taken by the one guessing the most
palatable dish. After throwing "heads and
tails" for first guess, the winner exclaimed,
"Possum and sweet pertater." "Sh-h.oo! p
calculated the other, take de money; |
didn't tink you'd guess de berry best fus
tinp"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

aa= 1t is practice on some of our railroads
to allow clergymen to ride for half fare. Re-
Gently minister received clergyman 8 half
fare travelling card, as they are called, and
wrote to the superintendent, asking "if he
could not embrace his wife, also" The su'
perintendent replied that he thought he could,
but did not want to say positively until he
had seen his wife, as he was little fastidious
in his tastes.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

sa5~ "Ten dollars fine for driving over this
bridge faster than a walk" "What does that
mean ?" asked little indianapolis boy, who
was riding with his father. Father explains !:
eff we whip up and go fast the policeman
will stop US and take US to the mayor, and
he will not let US 60 till we pay ten dollars" I"
Silence in the carriage. Meditating boy
speaks: Papa! If it warn't for the police.
mans and for God, what lots of fun we could
have. couldn't WEI"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

sag Cast steel is mixture of scraps of dif-
ferent varieties of blistered steel, collected to-
gether in a good refractory clay crucible !;
upon this a cover is luted, and it is exposed
to an intense heat in blast furnace for three
or four hours. The contents is then run into
moulds. After being subjected to the blows of
a tilt.hammer the cast steel is ready for use.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

Bg- Said a college professor to notorious
laggard who was once, for great wonder, in
his place promptly for morning prayers, and
at the appointed time: 81 have marked you,
sir, as punctual this morning. What is your
excuse?" "S-s-sick, sir, and couldn't sleep,
was the reply.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

n@ To case harden small articles Of iron,
fuse together, in an iron vessel or cruclble,
one part prussiate of potash and ten parts
common salt, allowing the articles to remain
in the liquid thirty minutes, then putting
them in cold water, they will be case har-
dened.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

The EXECUTION BLocK.-Of all the OBJ.
iects shown to visitors in the Tower of Lon
don, the most impressive, perhaps, are the
block and axe formerly used for beheading of
persons convicted of treason. The block is a
rough mass of wood, about two feet high, two
feet thick and three feet long, with an exca-
vation in the upper part to receive the breast
of the sufferer, and a corresponding excavation
on the other side for the chin. The marks
of the axe are still plainly visible on the
block, some of them showing by their depth,
the needless force of the executioner's stroke.
The axe is an ancient, awkward instrument,
which seemed to me, when handled it, to
be very i'll adapted to its purpose. There
used to be shown an awful-looking black
mask, which the executioner wore when he
performed his office, 80 that he should not be
recognized by the spectators.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

bay A man in Connecticut having adver-
tised his wife for "leaving his bed and board, ="
the fugacious spouse retorted as follows: IL
went away from the lazy fellow to earn my
board, and the bed belongs to my own moth
or"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02
Aumuruas department,
AN INITIATED TRAMP.

We have before maintained that the tramps
securing about the country are regularly
organized fraternity, having general under
standing with one another, and having ritu-
al of questions and answers. Their uniform
appearance, their periodical visits to the same
localities, their regular calls at the same
houses, where they have before secured food,
all point to this. A sheriff of Western
county has found curious emblems about them
has studied their character and listened to
their conversation, until he can tell regular
ly initiated tramp from an imposter. The
following amusing and instructive dialogue
took place between the sheriff and one of a
squad of tramps recently committed to jail
"From whence came you?'
From town in New York, called Jeru-
SALEM"
What's your business here ?"
"To learn to subdue my appetite and to
sponge my living from an indulgent public" i"
"Then you are regular tramp, presume" ?"
II am so taken and accepted wherever l
CO." 49,
"Hcw am to recognize you as tramp2'
"By the largeness of my feet, and general
carniverous appearance"
"How do you know yourself to be tramp"
"In seeking food, by being often denied,
but ready to try again"
"How gained you admittance to this town p
"By good many long tramps."
"How were you received?"
"On the end of night policeman's billy,
presented to my head"
"How did the policeman dispose of you p
"He took me several times around the town,
to the south, east and west, where he found
the city marshal, police judge and the jailor,
where great many questions were asked" -,
What advice did the Judge give your
HE advised me to walk in upright, regular
steps, and to renounce tramping."
"Will you be off or from p
with your permission, I'll be off very
quickly"
(Which way are you traveling''
"East"
"Of what are you in pursuit ?"
"Work-which, by my own endeavors and
the assistance of others, hope I shall never
be able to find"
my friend, you are now at an institution
where the wicked are always troublesome and
the weary are as bad as the rest. You will
now be conducted to the middle chamber by
fight of winding stairs, consisting of five or
more steps. Instead of corn, wine, and oil
the wages of the ancients-you will find bread
and water for five days. When your compa.
ny escapes from this place, divide yourselves
into parties of three each, take bee line for
Portland or Bangor, where in the winter
they usually run free soup houses, and you
may be pardoned on condition of your never
returning"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02
G.. H. O'LEARY.
FTTRNlTJJRE.

I'm connection with my Saddery establishment
Il shall also conduct the FURNITURE BUSI.
NESS, and keep on hand full stock Of articles
in that line, consisting of Bureaux, Bedsteads
Tables Chairs, Lounges, Cottage and Chamber
Suites, &C., Of different styles and qualities ano
in the various kinds Of wood.
G. n. O'LEARY,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02
CLEANSING AND REPAIRING.
BARBER SHOP.

i ionable and stylish cut of hair, or pleasant
and luxurious Shampoo, are reminded that
THOS. BALLARD, Professor of the Art Tonso-
rial is still in business in his old Shop next door
him great pleasure to wait upon all who may de-
sire his services. Razors honed and sharpened,
and any other work of that kind promptly done.
THOMAS BALLARD.
January 10 II
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02
The farm aud fiteside.

WHAT IS A THOROUGHBRED HORSE
The Live Stock Journal says there exists the
grossest ignorance, even amongst those who
pass for well-informed horsemen, as to what
constitutes a thoroug Inbred horse, and it thus
explains the terms:
In the first place, it should be understood
that we derive the term, as we'll as the breed
of horses to which it applies, from our British
cousins across the water. The term, when
applied to horses, is used to designate one par
ticular breed, and that is the running horses.
In England this blood has been kept pure
since the reign of Charles H., without any
admxture, save an occasional fresh infusion
of the Oriental blood, from which it was orig
inally created and no horse ia thorough
bred unless his descent can be traced, in an
unbroken, unmixed current, to this ancestry.
Stud books were introduced at an early date,
and the pedigrees of thoroughbred horses
have long been kept with the most scrupu-
lous exactness, nothing being admitted to
registry that is contaminated with any out
cross, however remote.
All our American thorougbreds are, there
fore, imported from England, or are descen-
dants of animals 80 imported. A recent cross
with an imported Arab or Barb, while it does
not vitiate the blood nor render an animal
ineligible as thoroughbred, is not usually re-
garded as desirable, from the fact that the
course of selection which has been practiced
by the breeders of thoroughbred horses in
England and America, for the last hundred
years, has given US race that is generally
considered to be far superior to the Oriental
horse to-day in speed, size and stoutness. The
compilers ofstud books thoroughbred horses
in this country have relaxed the English rule
somewhat, and admit to registry animals that
show an unmixed descent for five generations
of pure blood; and while, under this rule,
many animals may be admitted that are not,
in the strict sense of the word, thoroughbred,
yet if for Eve generations nothing but thor
oughbred sires and dams are to be found in
the pedigree, the quantity Of alien blood re-
naming must necessarily be in6nitesimally
small and by usage, the animal so bred is,
in this country, ranked as thoroughbred.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

AN ACT to Prevent Public Officers from Issuing
Checks except upon funds actually to their
credit, of from paying the same
Section |. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of
South Carolina, now met and sitting in Gen.
eral Assembly, and by the authority of the
same, That the Board of County Commis-
sioners shall draw orders on the County Treas
urer for all accounts against the County which
they have allowed, but they shall draw no
orders until after the monthly report of the
Treasurer has been received by them, and un.
less he has reported the funds in the treasury
to pay the same and the County Commits.
sioners shall inform the County Treasurer of
the orders drawn, in whose favor, the amount
and the order in which they are drawn. A
violation of this section shall be deemed q
misdemeanor, punishable on conviction there
of in any Court of competent jurisdiction, by
fine and Imprisonment, at the discretion Of
County Treasurer to pay an order of the
Board of County Commissioners unless drawn
in conformity with this Section; and it is
made the duty of the Comptroller General,
in case of any violation of the provisions of
this Section which may come or be brought
to this notice, to report the offender to the At
torney General for prosecution, or to the Gov
ernor for dismissal, as the case may be.
Sec. 2. 1t shall not be lawful for any State
or County officer to issue any certificate of
Indebtedness Provided, That this Act shall
not apply to the issuing of tickets to jurors
or witnesses for their attendance upon the
Circuit Courts.
Sec. 8. 1t shall not be lawful for any State
officer to draw a warrant or check for any
public debt except upon money then actually
to his credit on that account in the hands of
some bank or public officer.
Approved February 18, 1878.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02
HARNESS,

4 COMPLETE stock of Harness on hand, and
n any kind made to order, at very low figures,
at G. H. OLEARY'S.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02
January 10

TERMS---IN ADVANCEa
One conv. one wear. 90
One copy, six months, 80
One copy three months, 75
Single COPY, ~
Two copies, one year, ,............. 90
Ten copies, one year, Is 90
MB- 70 persons who make up clubs of ten or
more names, an extra copy of the paper will be
furnished one year. free Of charge.
Mr Advertisements inserted at One Dollar per
square, for the first insertion, and fifty cents per
consists Of the space occupied by seven lines of
this size type. Contracts can be made for. three,
six or twelve months, and reduction obtained
from the regular transient rates, ~
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02
STTNnRJES.

DRIDLEs, Halters, Grths, Saddle Bags. Sad
I'D die Blankets, Hames, Trace Chains, Back
bands, Stirrups, Bride Bits, Buckles. ETC.. ETC.,
for sale at G. H. O'LEARY'S.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

WHIPS AND UMBRELLAS.
"A Whips and Buggy Umbrellas, for sale by
G. II, OLEARY.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02
TARLES. sc,

TIMING, Teapoy and Office Tables, Tin Toilet
IL Sets, Towel Racks, Hat Racks, Suspension
Spring Beds, etc., etc., at -
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02
SADDLES.

A FULL supply of my own manufacture OF
"A Saddles, consisting Of Gentlemen's, Ladies' ,
Boys and Wagon Saddles, all of which will be
sold very cheap, for the cash.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02


served at all, it should be simply as day Of
pleasure. Part of this day they devote to the
public worshipof God. The other part, and
by far the greater part, they devote to worldly
amusements or worldly business. They 60 to
church in the morning and spend the after.
noon in fishing, in hunting, in social visiting,
in strollng over their own or neighbors' fields,
or in some other worldly sport or carnal pleas
ure. These people, we are sorry to say, have
no Just ideas of God. They have never
studied Gods law. They may call them
selves Christians; but their Christianity is not
that of the Bible. The observance of the
Sabbath belongs neither to the Old Testament
nor to the New Testament dispensation. 1t
simply the law by which God asserts his do
minion over man as a moral being. When
God says "sanctify my Sabbath" he issues a
command which embraces all that is contained
in the first three commandments of the moral
law.
The command to remember the Sabbath
day stands last of the first table of the ten
commandments, and embraces everything
thing that is specified in the first, second and
third commandments Mans whole duty is
thus epitomized by our Saviour: "rhou shalt
love the Lord thy God with al thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy strength,
and with all thy mind and thy neighbor as
thyself Luke x:27. Observing the Sabbath
day is the evidence that we love God, and
obeying the tenth commandment is the evil
deuce that we love our neighbor as ourselves.
AS the man who loves his neighbor as himself,
never will covet anything that is his neigh.
boris, 80 the man who loves God with all his
soul, heart, strength and mind, never will
violate the Sabbath day. Not because he is
a Jew; neither because he ia Christian but
because he acknowledges himself the subject
of Gods moral government On the other
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

~- Subscriptions, at the above rates, receivet
and promptly forwarded, by eH
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-09-26
PdDRONIsM over MORE.
An Haitian who Mai,reais Two Girl. aud 10
Looking for ~ Third.

An Italian called Il few days ago at Castle
Garden. and. giving his name and address NJ
Andrea Peban 81 Elizabeth street. said that
he was 10 meet "a girl who WIS coming FROM
Italy as a servant. Mr. Macpherson questioned
him closely as to his authority u take her and
he produced the following.
pEaE FmENn. At last not you that on the 2-tit ms.
the person ~ qi.o.i Ton viii ave ian AT : l K y 81
with whom. assure vnu Nuu Wal hH siusnl IN very
r-ic' both Tor personal attraction ad ailuN. a. she
i-NrrF filhhi' Ad. li-li r' 80" 'f"Hi willingly
yours And, -a4uuns !ou dearly. ain yOnr nrnd
MAuTo Sisi1rA
BE there On her arrival. and 3ou will recognize
her bN a flower. The same d. enclosed.
Enclosed in the letter was "a small embossed
chrome Of a bouquet Oi variegated flowers.
Mr. Macpherson promised To promptly inform
the Italian a> soon - Ia" girl arrived. The
France had not brought the girl. and search in
the Canada did not result IA any discovery
although Pebanl mani tested rrent anxiety on
tn val of tn" latter on me l7th.
Mr. Macpherson nscrrtnlnrd that Plehani
lived nj the uIlr.Ss given. whore he kept two
erai Of the nciEhhurS -uld that Il"bnnl bore "A
very questionable reputation. The children are
both very young ono h-lng about 10 and the
other ~ yrnr- IT age. lie sends them out early
sell flowers. one woman said that F"haui
bt.ut- aLU 90 u- p them GAnIrr1Iully. and some
TIM their .rIe~ arouse thr l-@l innt~.
Mr. Jruhlns. SUI rutN ud"nt IF the Society
study ing TIE ca.c. reached the conclusion tuat
IL was 70 clear ms" of padr lnisn. Should The
cir. arrive Ilrhull VIII b. allowed To- tane
,'.prl'. 0i her. and tlcn b." viii bee arrested and
vine So .l"b VIII take charge OF III" three chill
Nj Nacph rson howcver. thinks that the
isirl tiis already arrived. and ihi 10y som" artl-
tire fiebani hns sluugsl" hrr ONT Of the ship.