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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-04-05

The MIDLAND RAILwAY::-7In In regard to
the late meeting Of stocKholdersin the Mid
land company, the Baltimore ,S,m says:
"Outside of the change in the directors, the
chief feature of the meeting was the iques-
tion raised by President Barbour as to the
extension of the Virginia Midland from
Danville to Mooresville, where it would con-
meet with the North Carolina Midland. In
support of this project he stated that Mr..
Robert Garret claims that it was the under
standing between the Baltimore and Ohio
and the Virginia. Midland that the connec,-
tion would be made by the halter road, and
that Mr.. Garret declares if the Midland does
not undertake it, Mr.. Garret will extend
his Valley road down there and make the
Connection Upon this representation the
new board took the matter under advise
ment. 1t would be much easier for the pro-
posed connection to be made by the Virgin
ia Midland than by the Valley road; but
the advantage of extending the latter to a
connection with the North Carolina Mid,
land, giving Baltimore an independent
through line to the South, would be very
considerable. Charlotte Observer.
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B- "Whar's yer gwine, Parson Baxter??"
asked Aunt Sukey of the Austin colored &C.
clesiastic, on his telling her, during pas
toral visit, that he was going to be absent
for a week or so.
"I'se gwine ter Manchaca Springs, on de
International, to tend revival meeting
what's broke out dar," responded Rev.
Whangdoodle Baxter.
"De Lawd 60 wild We, Parson Baxter"
Sukey," said Whang gdoodle Baxter, argu-
mentatively, "He will hab ter foot it. /
hasn't got money ter pay railroad fare for
myself desc heah hard times, much less for
strangers, and de railroad company fuses to
glib me free pass, bekase dey needs all de
free passes for de Legislature and de lobby"
Teas Sttings.
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From the Winnsboro News.
THE TWELFTH REGIMENT.

ORATOR FOR NEXT MEETING OF THE SUR
VIvORs' ASSOCIATION.
SUMMERVILLLE, S. c., March IA.
J. R. HARVEY, EsQ.-ily Dear Sir: re-
ceived your card, and also a letter from
Mesrs. Jones and Clyburn on the same sub
ject. 1 can only say to you as did to them,
that 1 am too sick to make any engage
ments. I suffer severely from asthmatic
bronchitis and my physicians have forbid
den all work and prescribed absolute rest
and quiet. I am, therefore, compelled to
decline the invitation, much as it pains me
to refuse any request of my old comrades of
the Twelfth Yours truly,
JAMES CONNER.
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. TAKING TINE BY THE FoRELoCK.-A
kind-hearted lady, of the philanthropit
kind, strolling about in the suburbs of'Aus
tin, heard the cries of child and the sound
of blows. Looking over fence, she discov'
cred that colored woman was beating one
of her children.
"What are you beating that child for p
asked the female philanthropist.
"On account of de pitcher" was the re-
ply"
'What pitcher?"
"De one am gwine to give her to fotch
me some beer"
'"Then you are beating a child about q
pitcher she has not broken yet?"
"Jess so. Hits too late to beat her after
de pitcher am done broke" e."-Isras Syt'
mas.
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How TO FEED BRAN.-Bran or ground
feed is best fed to COWS upon moistened hay,
it being mixed with the hay, all will be eat
en- together and raised and masticated.
But if it is not fed with cut hay it should be
fed dry and in small quantity each time,
for iffed alone it is not raised and re-mastica-
ted, but goes on to the third and fourth stom-
achs. If fed in slopit isswallowed without
any mastication, and mixed with little or no
saliva, but if fed dry it cannot be swallow
ed until it is mixed with saliva, and the
saliva assists in digestion. When food is
masticated the act of rumination causes the
saliva to flow and mix with food. We have
experimental, and find that whenfed alone
dry ground feed is better digested than
when fed wet.-National Lire Stock Jour-
o1u/
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IMPORTANT LEGAL DECIsIoN.-"So you
say he called you a liar and kicked you
twice. Now what did you give him back in
return for these assets ?" inquired the Aus
tin Recorder of the accused.
II just kicked him twice and called him a
liar" was the reply.
'Did you kick him with the same empha-
sis with which he kicked you, and on the
same portion of his body ?"
81 did, your honor"
'Then you paid him back just as much as
you got?"
81 did"
"Then I dismiss the case. This court
hold that where litigants among themselves
harmoniously make friendly exchange,
each one receiving valuable consideration
for services rendered, the arrangement be-
tween them will not be disturbed, the object
of the law being to promote the harmonious
relations already established.-Isras &t-
mas.
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. A PURITAN PINEAPPLE.-It was in the
early days Of the Plymouth Bay colony that
John Josselyn,. the Puritan naturalist,
wrote a book which he labelled "New Eng
land Rarities." It is queer work, and
here is gravely funny passage from it:
Happening into a fine, broad walk" he
writes, 81 wandered till / CHANGED to spy a
fine fruit, as thought, like pineapple
plated with scales. 1t was as big as the
crown of a woman's hat. 1 made bold to
step up to it with an intent to have picked
dreds so Of Wasps We're about me- last
cleared myself from them, but by the time l
was come into the house they hardly knew
me but by my garments!'
1t is safe to assume that Master Josselyn
afterward sedulously avoided the kind of
pineapple known in New England as the
hornets nest.
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NOW READY
History of the Associate Reformed Synod
of the South.

TN the above Work, I endeavored to give con-
4 else and accurate history of the causes which
led to the secession Of l733 under the Erskines,
together with full and detailed account of the
organization ofthe old Associate Reformed Syn
cd, the General Synod, and the parties entering
into the heorganizations The history of the Asso..
ciate Reformed Church in the South is traced
from it's beginning through the Presbytery ofthe
Carolinas and Georgia, the Synod of the Carroll
mas and the Synod Of the South, down to the
present time. In addition to this, a brief histo-
ry is given of the Reformed Presbyterian and
United Presbyterian Churches.
The Work is printed on good clear type, on
good heavy paper, is bound in cloth, and contains
four hundred and eighteen pages. 1t will besold
at S225, either at my office, delivered by mail.
Address, X. LATHAM,
t.. Yorkville, S. c.
October 10 AZ tt
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Nor LIAR.-"I subscribe for as many
papers as I can read," said man whose
patronage was solicited by an editor. 81
would like to read your paper, but already
have more reading matter than l can read
SO it would be waste of money!"
The editor went to the postotfice and ask
ed the postmaster how many papers the
man received through the mail.
''None," was the answer and the editor
returning to the mans place of business ex-
claimed:
''You hvae lied to me, sir"
"How sO?'
"You declared that you subscribed for
more papers than you can read, but the
postmaster says that you don't take any pa
pers."
"Well, that's all right"
''But it makes you out liar"
"Not necessarily. can'tread. d."-Arkon-
~saS Traveller.
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
Nr
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
(Ountv nf Vnrlr

"HEREASJOS. +. WALLACE, C. c. C. Pls.,
w has applied 10 me for Letters Of Admins
tration, de 6ons non, on all and singular the goods
and chattels rights and credits Of JOSEPH
GALLOWAY, late of the county aforesaid, de-
ceased:
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all
and singular the kindred and creditors of the
said deceased, to be and appear before me, at our
next Probate Court for the said county, to be
holden at York Court House on THURSDAY,
the BIRD DAY OF MAY A. d., 1888, to shew
cause, if any, why the said Administration
should not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal, this 18th day
Of March, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and eighty y-threa, and in the
10th year of the Independence of the United
States of America.
J. BEATTY WILLIAMS,
Probate Judge Of York County.
March % u ct
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p@- A learned professor, addressing one of
his class, asked if he knew what animal
magnetism was. "I-er-er did know, but
I have forgotten" !" was the answer. Calmly
came the scathing rejoinder: "Gentlemen,
this is very unfortunate. Mr.. Jones, the
only man who ever knew, has forgotten
what animal magnetism is"
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Mistellaneu1ls &eading'
THE COTTON CROP OF 1882.

The Department of Agriculture, in val
liable report, just published, on the cotton
yield of 1882, says the returns of productan
bales make an aggregate of over 6,SOO,DO,
distributed as follows:
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The Aorkpille Gnqaiter
ADVERTISING RATES.

ADVERTISING RATES.
ONE DOLLAR per square for the first inser-
ton, and FIFTY CENTS per square, for each
subsequent insertion. square consists OF the
space occupied by seven lines of this size type.
E5s- Contracts will be made at reduced rates for
advertising space to be used for three, six, or
twelve months
Ess- Tributes of Respect and Obituary notices
charged for at the rate of ten cents a line. Usu-
ally there are about seven words in line.
MS]- Rejected manuscripts will not be returned
to the writer's. Persons who send manuscript to
this office for publication and desire copy of the
same should make duplicate.
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THE HOLY LIFE.-The holy life does not
consist in, and is not maintained by, spas
modic or periodical acts of devotion rather
it is like the altar fire of which it was spo-
ken, "The fire shall ever be burning upon
the altar; it shall never 60 out" Lev. vi !:
13. So on the altar of the purified heart
there ever burns the fire of devotion, from
which there continually rise the tokens of
sacrifice, acceptable and well pleasing to
God. 1t is delightful and profitable to wor-
ship and linger in the temple made with
hands, but it is not possible to abide here.
There is, however, a temple within, where
the spirit may increasingly wait upon God,
unhindered by the vicissitudess of human
life. On the altar raised therein the holy
fire may ever burn; and before that altar
the living earnest spirit may linger until
God sheds the full glory Of his grace and
the baptism ofpower, which shall energize
and elevate the entire being, so that the
blessed promise here recorded shall be full
filled. D for the power to "wait' upon
God restfully. hopefully, patiently, yet. with
persistent and determined prayer and faith.
It is easy to ask under the impulse of newly
felt need, and. even. press. our request, but
we need to learn again the lesson which our
Saviour taught, "That men ought always to
pray. and not to faint" In the exercise of
such persistent prayer we shall grasp the
divine power and receive the divine full"
ness.-Rev j. FTmemOre.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-04-05

OLD FASHIONED PEoPLE.-Used to say
that the horse shoe and 'four leaf" clover
brought good luck. This may be true, but
the times have changed, and now if you
want good luck and good health all the
kitchen door bottle of Norman's Neutral
izing Cordial, the wonderful remedy for all
stomachic trOubles.-AdW.
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LIMA BEANS AS A FARM CRoP.-The Lii
ma, the most popular bean among amateurs
and market gardeners, is slow in finding its
wayinto the gardens Of farmers. The dry
beans sell for several dollars bushel, and the
market has never been adequately supplied.
Lima beans are easily raised, and yield as
bountifully as most other pole beans; and
they continue to blossom and bear until
killed by frost. We know ofno reason why
they can not be made speciality, like hops
or tobacco and grown on a large scale.
They would require better soil and treat
ment than the common field bean, but as
the price is three times greater, these could
we'll be afforded. A rich gravelly or sandy
Ioam suits them best, and the phosphate
manures are we'll adapted to them. On
this kind of soil we have not found them to
run too much to vines, even with heavy
dressings of compost prepared from muck
and stable manure The vine is strong
grower, and requires abundant nourish-
ment. The pods are formed quite thickly
from the top to the bottom of the poles
They want the full benefit of the sun, and
the rows running north and south should
be four feet apart, and the hills four feet
apart in the row. In planting we prefer
to put the eye downwards, and not more
than one inch deep. The first of June
is early enough for this latitude: This bean
needs frequent cultivation, until the vine
shades the ground. This crop is well suit
ed for farmers remote from cities and mar
kets. The market gardener will not grow
Lima beans to- sell dry, because they are
worth morein the green state, and he can
sell all he can raise But the farmer, how
ever remote from the city, can market his
whole crop in the winter, and be well paid
for his labor.
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LIGHT, Nor NoIsE.-One of the mem
bers of the bar in Saratoga, who thoroughly
enjoys good joke, relates the following,
and applies the moral to himself: He was
counsel in case before Judge Pratt, referee,
and during the progress Of the trial became
little bit noisy, as he sometimes does,
when the Judge looked up and said to him
"Mr. -, did you ever hear of the man
who was lost in the woods duringa thunder
storm ?" On being answered in the mega
tive, the Judge continued: A man in at
tempting to pass through piece of woods,
lost his way, and while he was in that pre-
dicament fearful thunder storm came up.
The woods grew awfully dark. The roaring
of the wind and the crashing of the thunder
were terrific. The man was frightened and
started to pray, but, not being used to that
business, said "Oh, Lord, give us a little
more light, and little less noise !" don't
mean you, Mr.. -" added the Judge, but
the audience supposed all the time that the
Judge did mean him, and now that he
thinks of it himselfhe inclines to that opin-
ion also.
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BE There are many farmers who have ex-
ira good butter COWS and do not know it.
They have poor pastures in summer and no
shelter and Indifferent feed in winter. In
the house they have no convenience for
making butter; the milk is set where there
are no arrangements for keeping it cool in
summer, and in the living-room, exposed to
neither the quantity nor the quality, nor
any index of what COW can do is kept.
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BaT Swine, perhaps, come more near to
being the every day, always available stock
of the farmer, than any other species of do
mestic animal intended for the shambles.
With cattle or sheep he may have to wait
two or three years for full return of his in
vestment, but from his hogs he can gather
a crop every season, and handle the nimble
penny over and over again, with frequen-
cy unknown in other lines of livestock
transactions. The hog is on hand to eat
almost any respectable refuse which may he
placed before him, and it is ready thus 20
convert great deal of otherwise worthless
provender into solid cash. He is the scav-
enger of the farm, and at the same time is
the ready and reliable replenisher of the
farmers purse.
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TONSORIAL,

I w. BAUMAN, Barber, is still at his stand
% . opposite the old Masonic Hall, prepared to
do all work in his line. Feeling thankful for
past patronage, he hopes to inertia continuance
of the same by giving prompt and accommoda-
ting attention to customers.
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Original,
RELIGION NOT GLOOMY.

The general opinion entertained by men
of the world concerning religion is that
it is a particular something which fills
the mind of the pOssessor with dark and
gloomy forebodings. No conclusion was
ever more absurd. What, it may be asked
is there in true religion to make us sad or
gloomy? Is a well-grounded hope of a
seat at Gods right hand, when death ter
inmates the affairs of this world calculated
to fill the soul with gloomy apprehensions :?
The truth is religion deprives man of moth
ing which, in the least possible degree, con-
tributes to his happiness in this world or
encourages him to expect Gods favor and
friendship in the world beyond the grave.
It is true that religion forbids many things
which to the carnal mind are delightful !;
but all experience proves that carnal pleas
ures are in the end evil and bitter things.
Genuine religion forbids men. to take Gods
name in vain, to live lives Of gluttony and
drunkenness, and to do multitude of other
things which men in their natural state
delight in, but these things are punishable
by the laws Of civilized society and those
who do them are visited some time during
life by remorse, regret and shame.
1t is irreligion that is gloomy. One evil
dence of this is that while many are wicked
enough to dare to spend their lives in
sin, none are anxious to die the death Of
the sinner. Deprive man of religion and
he is reduced from his high and exalted
position in creation to state of miserable
inferiority to the beast of the field.
If the blessings of religion extended no
further than the grave, or if there is such
thing as life beyond the grave, irreligion
would still be gloomy and religion joyful.
He has lived to little purpose who has not
discovered that the religious portion of the
human family have more real soul pleas
ures than those who are unreligious have.
No man was ever made gloomy by obeying
the voice of the Lord, and no man was ever
made happy by violating Gods laws. Sin
and misery are welded. The latter follows
the former as certainly as the shadow fol-
lows the substance. Whoever denies this
denies the voice of his own experience and
what he has observed in the case Of all
others.
Those who say or think that religion is
a gloomy thing are laboring under fear
full delusion. Satan has blinded the eyes of
their understanding and perverted their
judgments. They call light darkness and
darkness light.
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The fatam a1d fireside.

USE OF PLASTER AND ASHES .-Henry
Ives, one of the best farmers in tar-tamed
Western New York, writes to the Tribune !:
"TO use plaster on any of our growing crops
requires so slight " cast and so often proves
beneficial, that Que can hardly afford toneg-
lect it's application, although casionally
no perceptible advantage is derived from
it, and at best we scarcely look for benefit
except for the one season and the one crop.
But in using ashes we are more sure of ben
eft, and it's good effects are so lasting that
after one liberal application, say of from 80
to 100 bushels per acre (though if leached
ashes are used one could safely apply three
to six times this quantity, the effect will
show for five, ten or fifteen years, by increas
ing fertility. When applying plaster to
corn, or plaster and guano, phosphate or hen
manure, or even with a small quantity of
ashes Gn all cases from 100 to 200 weight to
the acre is enough of the plaster), the eingre-
dients sshould be prepared and well mixed
on the barn floor, loaded into an open Wag-
on, so as to have it along convenient to the
work, and almost any time in the early
growth of the corn apply small handful to
each hill not as some do, by throwing 1T
carelessly in compact heap near the hill,
but as it is thrown sitting through the fin
gers give it an even distribution all about
the hill. But after the corn is little more
advanced 1 believe it would do more good,
and without costing much if any more to
use two or three times as much of the fer
tilizing mixture, sowing it broadcast over
the field. If, instead, the farmer could ap-
ply 60 or 80 bushels of ashes to the acre, it
Should be done before planting or seeding,
so as to be we'll mixed with the soil when
preparing it for the seed bed. This, l be-
fieve, is the most lasting Of any kind of fer
tilizer, and one of the cheapest, too, when
the ashes can be obtained without costing
more than 25 or 80 cents bushel. After
such an application of ashes, or other fertil-
izer, or manure, it is still just as desirable as
ever to plaster the corn growing on such fer
tiliZed land"
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County Of York.

WHEREAS JOS. f. WALLACE, G. G. G.
w Pls., has applied 10 me for Letters of Ad-
minstration, on all and singular the goods and
chattles, rights and credits Of WILLIAM MAN
MING, late of the county aforesaid, decea:ed:
These are, therefore, 70 cite and admonish all
and singular the kindred and creditors Of the
said deceased, to be and appear at ournext Judge
of Probate's Court for York county, to be hold
en- at York Court House on TUESDAY,, the
l7TH DAY OF APRIL A. d., 1888, to shew cause,
if any, why the said Administration should not
be granted.
Given under my hand and seal, this 9th day Of
February, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and eighty-tbree, and in the
1O7th year Of the Independence of the United
States of America.
J. BEATTY WILLIAMS.
Judge of Probate.
March 10 ct
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#Htauruus department.
ONLY WITH GENTLEMEN. B..

A few evenings ago, while half dozen
gentlemen were standing at the bar of one
of the most fashionable uptown saloons in
Washington, we'll dressed good looking
stranger entered the room and walked
straight up to the bar and addressed the bar
keeper in language like the following:
stranger, j am in very, very bad con-
dition. want drink; must have a
drink, but am compelled to make the hu-
initiating statement that l am unable at
present to pay for it. If you will be kind
enough to favor me in my extremity you
shall be paid, sir:'
eve don't keep whiskey to give away
here,o was the blunt reply of the bar keep
er. The stranger begged, but the bar-keep-
er was memorable and even rude. The mild
hammered stranger turned to the gentlemen
who had been witnesses to the conversation
and said: "Gentlemen, you are strangers to
me, but would one of you be kind enough
to loan me the price of drink? will pay
it back"
One of the party addressed handed the
stranger Is cents. -
He stepped up to the bar and said: "NoW
can have drink ?"
eyes," said the bar-keeper, "anyb0dy can
get drink for the money here"
II thought so" said the stranger.
The bottle of fred ticker" was placed on
the bar; the stranger filled his glass liber-
ally:
GA little bitters in there, if you please"
said the stranger. Then, when the bitters
were furnished, he asked for large glass
of water, which wasalso set up. The stran-
ger drank his beverage and then turned to
The man who had loaned him the money
and said:
stranger, I make it a point Of honor to
pay borrowed money before pay whiskey
bills; here is your Is cents; I am greatly
obliged for the loan," and so saying he
walked out. The dazed barkeeper, seeing
that he was sold, and that the laugh was on
him, ran to the door and called to the man
to come back.
The stranger promptly returned and in
quired, 'tsWhat do you wantw The bar
keeper replied, "That was cute trick you
played and own up that you caught me.
The drinks are on me. What will you
take?" "Excuse me, SIR" replied the
stranger, II drink only with gentlemen ;
/ cannot drink with you," and the myste-
rious stranger walked away, leaving the
bartender to wonder whether it would not
have been better to give a stranger one
drink than to be caught by trick and have
to "set 'em up" to whole crowd.