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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-02-08
NEW YEAR.
1882.
1882.
JULIUS MEYER g. SON

are Offering special inducements in their line in
order to reduce stock. Special low prices in all
departments. DRESS GOODS all reduced.
25c Dress FLANNELS reduced to lie.
81 BROCADES reduced to Zoe;
60c. STRIPES reduced to 4Oc.;
40c. STRIPES reduced to Soc;
Half-wool MUMMY CLOTHS at 12Jc.;
Bronze wool SERGES only 1Oc.;
Gendarme blue, all. wool, MUMMY CLOTHS at
| 15c:
BROCADE SILKS, VELVETS. PLIJSHES
Black and Colored SILKS at reduced prices
Entire stock of DOLMANS, CLOAKS, JACK
ELS, and ULSTERS at cost SHAWLS at
cost.
SPECIAL BARGAINS IN BLACK GOODS /!
Black CAsHMEREs at special low prices;
90 inch Hd' half wool English CASHMERES at
50c., worth SOC; special bargain
| SHOODA CLOTHS, HENRIETTAS. CREPFS
TAMISE, &c, all reduced
IN WHITE GOODS
we offer
2 cases CORDED PIQUES at Gle;
cases CHECKED NAINSOOKS at 1Oc..
N A l NSOOK MUSLINS, INDIA LINEN
and VICTORIA LAWNS at low prices:
90 pieces PERCALLES in entirely new pat
terms;
100 dozen extra heavy pure linen TOWELS at
rs dozen extra fine cream damask TOWELS at
50 per dozen;
$50 dozen pure linen checked DOYLIES at SOC.
per dozen;
$50 heavy, colored Crochet QUILTS at 81,
worth $3.50;
$50 Berkshire Crochet QUILTS at 81 .25 worth
$50 pieces TORCHON LACEs in new patterns
just opened;
300 new patterns in HAMBURG EDGINGS;
CARPETS and OIL CLOTHS marked way
down.
JULIUS MEYER & SON.
No. Sol and 6o3 Broad St. Richmond, Va.
The Boss" unlaundried SHIRT, re inforced
from linen bosom and cuffs, at &c. The cheap
est shirt in the country
The celebrated Pearl" SHIRT at 81; the
best one dollar shirt made. de1S-y
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-02-08
GOOD COFFEE.

Everybody wants 1t, but very few get Il,
because most people do not know how to
select coffee, or it is spoiled in the roasting
or making To obviate these difficulties
has been our study. Thurber's package
coffees are selected by an expert who I'M
derstands the art of blending various fla
vors. They are roasted in the most perfect
manner lit is impossible to lst well in
small quantities., then put in pound pack
ages (ia the bean, not 0roand,) bearing our
signature as guarantee of genuineness,
and each package contains tho Thurber
recipe for making good Coffee We pack
two kinds, Thurber's "No. a." strong
and pungent; Thurber's "No. A." mild
and rich. One or the other will suit every
taste. They have the three great points,
good quality, honest quantity, reasonable
price. Ask your Grocer for TRtuber's
roasted Co6ee an pound packages, ''No. "a"
or mo. Al" Do not be put off with any
other kind-your own palate will tell you
what is best.
Where persons desire it, we also furnish
the "IdeaP Coffee-pot, the simplest, best
and cheapest coffee-pot in existence.
Grocers who sell our Coffee keep them.
Ask for descriptive circular.
Respectfully, &C.,
H. K. & f. b. THURBER & CO.,
Importers Wholesale Grocers and Coffee
Roasters, New York.
P. S.-As the largest dealers in food pro-
ducts in the world, we consider it our in
terest to manufacture only pure and whole
some goods and pack them in tidy and
satisfactory manner. All goods bearing
our name are guaranteed to be of superior
quality, pure and wholesome, and dealers
are authorized to refund the purchase
price in any case where customers have
cause for dissatisfaction. 1t is therefore
to the interest of both dealers and con-
sumers to use zhurber's brands,
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-02-08
A UGUSTA FEMALE SEMINARY,
STAUNTON, VA.
Miss Marv T Baldwin PriDoinaI

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1t offers superior advantages in location: In
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Cooking; The successful efforts made to secure
health, comfort, and happiness; It's opposition
to extravaganza; Its standard of solid scholar.
ship.
For full particulars, apply to the Principal for
Catalogues. je 25-1y
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Lyman Abbott's The most practical and
Commentary useful commentary, on
the Gospels ever publish
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Complete in three vols 8vo., tinted paper. 50
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ly Christian. Lyman Abbott is the most distin
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are the fullest, clearest and best. AGENTS
WANTED in every church and CONGREGATION.
Send ST. so for outfit including copy Of MARX
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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24
a Dangerous Patent.

A correspondent who has been aston.
ished at the number Of ladies who have
been burned to death by their clothes
tahing fire at IN open CRATE or fire, SAYS
he is experimenting on an invention Gv
which lady i'll case of accident of this
kind can, by pulling string, throw off
all her clothes at once and escape de-
'struction. 1t seems as though something
ought to be done to protect ladies from
the fireplace, but the remedy will event
ually come through the making of dress
materials fire proof. The scheme spoken
OF by our correspondent, if made 10 work
satisfactorily, i'll case of fire, might sub
Ject her to embarrassments The string
might catch on something when she wns
out shopping, Of some villainous man
might find where it VAS located, and while
pretending to escort her across the street
he might pull the string. There are
men mean enough to do it, in Chicago.
We advise orIr correspondent not to waste
any more time on his invention, rs no.
body would wear it, after he had it per-
fec cd.-I'cch'S Sttaa.
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Hired Help.

Much has been written and many diff
terent plans proposed as to the best and
most economical plan of hiring neces-
sary help about the farm. The old snv-
inS, IF you want II job half done, send;
II well done, go yourself" is very appli-
cable at the farm, but, alas for human
endurance! there are times when on an
ordinary farm no one man can begin to
keep up with the work to be done, and
the farmer is obliged to look to some
one else. On many OF the larger farms
only two, and many times three or four.
hands are kept busy all the year around
and especially is this the case where
much stock is kept, and where it is The
| rule to feed all that is raised on the
farm and sell the products in condensed
forms. Where this is the case hiring
by the year is best, as by that means
you are not expecting change at the
end OF every month, your help gets
better and better posted as to your way
OF working and manners of feeding and
attending to your stock, while the help,
Knowing he is sure Of his place, takes
more interest in his work and is better
satisfied and will look more to the in
terest of his employer than if he were
onl y working by the month. He soon
understands what is required of him,
and is better prepared to perform his
part.
| On large farms where help is required
| continuously the Surcst and most rclia
pic help is obtained by having men with
families, furnishing them with Il small,
comfortable house and garden patch
and paying them by the year Labor
crs OF this class are, as q rule, better
content, less likely to want to change.
and more trustworthy. and they will
look more to their employers inter-
ests, as they know that their living and
| that of their families depend upon their
| althful performance of their work and
Onthc success OF their employers fnan-
| cially.
Day help is generally the dearest of
| all, as the laborcr demands higher
wages where he works by the day than
II he is working by the month or year.
!hen he has no interest except to put
IN the time as easily as possible, as he
mas no assurance OF anything further
when night comes, hence he does not
accomplish aS much as if employed per-
manently. Then, generally speaking,
the class who 90 around working by the
day are those who have not been able
TO secure work by the month or year.
generally the poorest of the laborinp
classes as regards ability and wiling
ness to work. This is not always the
case rs circumstances sometimes COM
pei the best OF hands to be working by
the day. A good, reliable hand can
generally obtain steady work with very
little trouble, and if he has reputa-
ton for doing good. honest work, he
Will lind very little difficulty in securing
work by theycar or month. Cor. RurGl
NetO Yorker.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24

dred children were offered on his Satanic
Majesty's altar, and the Marshal and
Prelati We're sent TO the stake. .Jacoues
C9ur has always been claimed bv tbe
alcnemists as an adept, but though he
pretended to have the philosophers 8
stone the contemporary courts estab-
llshed the fact that he amassed his i'm
mense fortune by theft and FORGERY
Later came Cornelius Agrippa, whose
gold' however, was only good for TWEEN
ty-iour hours; Paracelsus, 1.-THE zenith
ana rising sun of all the alchemists.'
Denls Lacbaire, who on Easter SUNDAY
iooo, transmitted quicksilver into ooId.
Dr. Dee, OF the famous crystal, and Ed.
ward Kelly; Seton the Cosmonolite
whom the Elector of Saxony threw into
dungeon, to be kept there till he could
ransom himself by making cool mill
ion; Sendivogius, who married Seton's
widow and got with her the red philo-
sophie powder with one grain of which
he could make 1000 rix-dollars' worth
OF gold from quicksilver; the whole
school OF the Rosicrucians, winding up
with the mystic Fludd and the incom-
prehensible Jacob Bohmen, Borri, the
lmpostor, by whom Christina of Sweden
tondly hoped to obtain the secret of
transmutation; Jean Delisle, who in
l?O6 took to gold-making in public and
died in the Bastille after humbupginp
the Bishop of Senes; Albert Aluys, who
took in the Duke of Richelieu; that de-
iIShttul humhug, the Count of Saint
Germain; and dnally his friend and sue
ceSSor, CaGliostro.-M Y World.
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the nearest tree, behind which he took
shelter. The rest of the savages inli-
tated their leader, leaping behind adj
Jacent trees; and while with wondering
eyes they stared at Kenton, he pro-
kles.
This done, he waved his arms towards
the sun as if giving thanks or invoking
further aid; and then went to powder
horn, dropped by one of the Indians,
and withdrawing the stOpple, placed it
as he wanted it, fixed his sun-giass so
that the focus would enter the horn,
and stepping toward the Indians, pes-
ticulated tiercely at them. Instantly
there was vivid flash and q roar, the
Powuer-horn d1Sappeared, and tho
frightened savages fed as ii the ''Great
Spirit had suddenly como to DESTROY
them.
At this, Kenton considered himself
master of the field, and, in less time
Than 1T takes to tell 1T, flung upon the
nre whatever the Indians had left be-
mind them, seized his own property
that they had taken from him, gun and
garments, and made haste from the
scene.
A few years later, when peace had
English, and the Indians were on M.
cific terms with the Hunters OF Ken.
tucky," Kenton had the pleasure OF
meeting at pow-wow" with some OF
the warriors who had composed the
party SO signally worsted by a sun.
glass. They knew him at once, anf
showed an ungovernable fear as he came
forward to shake hands During the
"pow-wow" he often detected Then
gazing at him with furtive gIances, anc
as he still had the lens, he mischievous
~ seized the first opportunity to cal
down fire from the sun to light his pip,
again. accompanying it with strange
gestures.
=. A1terward he learned that they be
Spirit" and able, if he wished, to sum
mon the sun to battle for him. - Wid
| AWGke.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24
A Cunning r. uaIo

Now and then q pretty lively swindlcr
IS produced over in this country, though
the people here affect to believe that the
only frauds IN the world are practiced
by Americans. The other day a man
known as Malcolm Fairfax was brought
up at Bow street on charges of forgery
and confidence operations covering a
long term of years. He had enioyed
about as brilliant career as you often
hear spoken of. He had travelled in the
best society for decade, and had stood
very high, partly by reason of his fine
breeding and bright qualities, and partly
on account of his supposed wealth. He
was understood to be q retired Indian
merchant, and everybody seemed to like
him. When arrested he was living in
Alexandria, Egypt, where the En- glish
colony regarded Malcolm Fairfax as one
of its most particular ornaments. Only
month or so before his downfall he
actually had tho audacity to sit rs pres
ident of ''court of HONOR" appointed
to inquire into certain performances by
well-known military officer. His siG-
nature is affixed to the document of that
body finding the officer innocent of the
charge brought against him.
At Gibraltar he committed forgery,
"iiu ~ oiouSht hilu w HTleI, lOr QeteC-
tlves were set after him at once, and
they hunted him down. He was having
dispute with the British consul at
Alexandria, when the latter said to him:
"The detective is waiting for you with
warrant on that Gibraltar charge.n
Malcolm never changed color or gave q
sign of discontinue, but smiling, said ::
'Ah! then | don't need trouble you
further" With that he quietly stepped
aside, drew o razor out of his pocket,
and slashed himself across the throat.
He bled fearfully, but was fixed up by
the surgeons and brought to England,
where he pleaded guilty to the charges
preferred against him, and was sem
fenced to five years penal servitude.
Somehow, you can't help sympathizing
with bright rascal like this, when he $
finally brought to bay. You know per-
fectly we'll that he deserves all he gets
by way of punishment, but when YOU
reflect that he has succeeded all his life
in wrestling a luxurious living from the
smartest classes of people in the world,
you can't help admiring his talents
London Cor. ChicaQo Ne1US
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24
Some Peculiar Frogs and TOads.

One has sometimes heard of people
who have lived on their relations, after
eating their own family out of house and
home, and the ocellated bladder frog is
some such a terrible performer, for he
scruples not when hungry to feed on
other frogs. Cysti9ndthuS oceltdtus is
the title he assumes in the scientific
world, for so eminent tragedian ought
TO have no common name. In this re-
spect, as we'll as in his cannibal propen-
sity, he is like his present neighbor,
Cer0topItryS Ornata, who, though called
ornata, is as ugly as himself. Both
these toad shaped strangers hail from
Buenos Ayres, and are as dangerous to
handle as the pike that frightened Mr..
Briggs, which in one point they resem-
BILE, for they bark as we'll as bite. Other
tragic scenes are acted in the adjacent
corner, where twice q week at nightfall
the giant toad regales himself by feast
ing on white mice. His chum, the pan
th0rine toad, is also present at the ban
quet; and though he comes from North
west Africa, the manner of his feeding
is like to that of his Brazilian friend.
That O toad should catch q mouse may
seem as strange as that chameleone
should capture a blue bottle fly; but
certainly these foreign toadS are skillful
In the fatal sport. Like chameleons,
they dart their Shiny tongues upon their
prey and pounce on it Ike panthers, if
not like common cats. But though
feline in their appetites, these toads are
moro particular than ordinary pussies,
for although they feed at nightfall they
will not touch q mouse unless it hap
pens TO be whits.--AU the Year Round.
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Americans as Frog Eotor..

I -
The people of New York arc oroa4
frog eaters. They consume =, oga g ooS aS
them than do the people of Paris A.
present the regular supply is abont a0O
pounds per day. But frogs are scarce
ana dear at the present. When thew he.
como plenty there will be a demand of a
ton OF trogs meat daily. The best article
comes from Canada in the Ontario dis
Crlct The general method of CATCHING
tnem IS with hook and line, using O biz
OF red flannel to dangle before the ewes
or the victim and attract his attention.
when the hook is slipped under his chin
and he is snatched up. After beinp
caught they are killed and skinned and
packed in tubs, holding about fifty pounds
each: Ice is put around them. Nothing
but the hind legs and part of the side
and back are sent to the market. The
fore quarters have little or no meat up-
on them. The hind feet are not cut oil. +,
AT this season of the year frogs retail at
sixty cents per pound. AS the season
advances and frogs become more plenti-
tul the price declines to thirty-tive cents
aPound. This demand for frogs has
all been developed within ten or twelve
years, Artificial propagation in the
vicinity of New York has failed, it is
said, because of difficulty in getting suf-
tlcent cheap food on which to feed the
tadpoles and young frogs. The con
sumption of frogs in Boston is also
greatly on the increase. The New York
11"th learns that the largest dealer in
Boston sells about 100000 frogs per
year at an average of sixty cents per
dozen. In the busy season he employs
twelve to fifteen men, who 90 through
MASSACHUSETTS, and even into Maine and
New Hampshire, catching frogs, which
are shipped alive in boxes prepared for
the purpose. Prairie FARMER.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24
The Poison Of Tobacco Smoke.

A series of experiments has been re-
Gently conducted by Herr Kissling, of
Bremen, with the view Of ascertaining
the properties of nicotine and other poi
SonouS substances in the smoke of ci-
gars. lie specifies as strongly poison
Gus constituents carbonic oxide, sulphu-
rctted hydrogen, prusSic acid, picOline
bases and nicotine. The first three,
however, in such small proportions, and
their volatility is so great that their
share in the action of tobacco smoke on
the system may be neglected. The pic
oilne bases, too, are present in compar-
atlvcly small quantity, SO that the poi
sonousMcharacter of the smoke may be
almost exclusively attributed to the large
proportion of nicotine present
Only small part of the nicotine in a
cigar is destroyed by the process of
smoking, and II relatively large portion
passes otfwith the smoke. The propor-
ton of nicotine in the smoke depends,
OF course, essentially on the kind of to-
bacco; but the relative amount of nico-
tine which passes from cigar into
smoke depends chiefly on how far the
cigar has been smoked, as the nicotine
contents OF the unSmOked part Of q ci-
gar is in inverse ratio to the size of
this part, l. c., more nicotine the short
er the part. Evidently, in burning
cigar, the slowly advancing zone Of
glow drives before it the distillable mat
ters, SO that in the yet unburnt portion
a constant accumulation Of these takes
place. 1t would appear that in the case
OF cigars that are poor in nicotine, more
OF this substance relatively passes into
smoke than i'll the case OF cigars with
much nicotine; also that nicotine, not.
wlthstandinG its high boiling point, has
remarkable volatility. Times.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24

From Macon Telegraph and Messen-
ger: DR.. A. G. Hobbs, Professor of Eye,
Ear and Throat Diseases, in the South.
ern Medical College, of Atlanta, has verv
recently and successfully performed the
most difficult operation in opthalmic
surgery in removing the left eye with
a tumor of Judge Isaac S. Clements, ed
itor of the Cumming Clarion. DR..
Hobbs rapidly increasing practice from
all portions of Georgia and adjoining
States is the highest evidence of his skill
in his profession.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24

--"I should like to know something
about this Egyptian question, dad, y
said u young New Haven midget at tes
lastaevening. What are they firing ai
Alexandria for because it is the greatp'
"Yes, my child, suppose so.'' "And
who is Arab Bey and Deryisch Pasba
and lsmail ---" ''They arc all foreign.
ers, my son. You can have no possi6Io
interest IL them. Eat your supper and
keep quiet" This is the way soma
parents have of Withholding informa.
tion they haven tgot from their children.
-NeaO Haven Re9tste,..
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24

"A Mr. Go'ch has started as q rival
TO Oscar Wilde, and is drawing crowds
to his aesthetic lectures in London. He
pronounccs the present male attire idi.
otlc, condemns hat, coat and vest, anC
reserves special bitterness for trousers.
lie goes in for Knickerbockcrs end
stockings, no shirt fronts, no coat tails
and no pockets. N. y. sun.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24

A boy buys harvest apple for a cent
He gives q boy q taste for a kite worth
four cents; another boy small b,te for
amarble worth q penny; q third how n.
big bite for u jacEnife worth six ceSts
and then has enough left to Get mn .
case of colo wortA 81. How much 3oos
he make by the sragRlatiorp
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24

The city of Alexandria, Egypt, had
three daily newspapers when the bonn
bardment began, but not one single re-
porter stayed after the second shot.
They don't draw salaries over there for
writing anything worse than runaway.
detroit Free Press.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24

YOUNG men or middIe.aged ones, suffer
ing from nervous debility and kindred
weaknesses should send three stamps for
Fart II of Worlds Dispcnsary Dime Series
OF books. Address WORLDS DIspENsARY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, n. Y.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24

AN incident of the recent Scioto
disaster on the Ohio, is told by West
ern paper. II appears that a young
fellow on board, just previous to the
disaster. was boasting to his girl. to
Sou St ,s s ma asnTTe noisio ma cary her eas
ed her and took care of himself She
was also saved, and when he came 10
congratulate her upon being still alive,
che refused to speak to him and handed
back the engagement ring.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24

-, JoNEsBoRo, GA, July 28, 1882.
MESS. MCBRIDE & Co.-Gents I have
been, using the Cherry Fruit Evaporation
bought OF you and after giving it a thorough
bushels OF green peaches per day of twelve
hours. 1t dries the peaches nice and bright
and 20tU not burn the fruit.
Very Respectfully, w. W. WARD, %
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24

WHEN an aged millionaire marries q
young angel he generally finds her wings
transferred to his fortune. -PhtLadeL-
Dhin NelUS
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24

PURR eod-livor oil, from selected l,yor. a.
the sea shore, by Caswell, Hazard 6 Co, II. "
Absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have
once taken it prefer it to all others. Phyaioians
declare it superior to all other oils. .
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24

I.HE Enquirer Of Cincinnati ssys ::
hon. p. Il. Barnum strongly indorsea
st. Jacobs Oil for pain. His combina-
tiOn and artists all use it.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24

Mr.: Amos Whittemore, the inventor
OF the shoe-pegging machine, and of inn
provements in the BICYCLE, died in Cam
bridge, Mass, recently, aged sixty eight
years.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-24

Of all other medicines by Dr. R. V. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery" is approach
ing. UnriyalIed in bilious disorders, i'm
pure blood; and consumption, which is