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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-11-01

No TINE FOR THE JUDGE TO TALK.-A
black woman was brought before magis-
trate for numerically beating her son,
saddle-colored imp, and the Judge was de-
livering a reprimand, when the woman
broke out with, "Judge, has you ever been
a parent to wooffless yellow boy like dat
ar cub of mine?" "Never," calculated the
Judge with great vehemence, getting red
in the face. 7'Dep don't talk"
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JEFrERsoNy1lLE, TwIoes Co., Ga.

JEFrERsoNvuLE, TwIoss Co., Ga.
Five years ago found on my plantation colored
man who was badly diseased. He stated that five
years before he had contracted violent case OF Blood
Poison, and had been treated by many physicians,
all failing to cure him. treated him with SWnts
Specific and in short time he was sound and well,
and has not had symptom Of the disease since
D. N. HUGHES.
One gentleman who had been confined to his bed
six weeks with Mercural Rheumatism has been
cured entirely and speaks in the highest praise OF
S. S. s. CHlLES g bLRh1,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Mercurial Rheumatism made me cripple. After
trying the Hot Springs two years, and the Mercury
and Potash treatment until was skeleton and un-
able to do anything. was prevailed upon to take
course OF S. S. S. After taking three bottles my ap-
petite began to improve. and gained flesh rapidly
When had taken twelve bottles felt as well as
ever did. 1t is now twelve months since ! TOOK
s. s. s. My health and appetite are good. and am
able to attend 10 all the business can get.
CHAS. BERG, Hot Springs, Ark.
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b@ There had been heavy thunder storm
the night previous, and the school teacher
asked little Johnny:
"Were you not frightened, Johnny, at the
thunder and lightning last night 20
"No, sir, not bit"
"That's right, Johnny. You are good
little Sunday School boy. You know who
causes the storms, don't you, Johnny?"
eyes, sir, my grandfather"
"Your grandfather ! Why, Johnny, am
shocked at you. God makes the thunder
and lightning and the Storm"
'May be so but the day before the storm
came up, my old grandfather said he felt it
in his BONES"
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NOTICE TO FARMERS.

NVTIVE to II TfHKs.HIHsE5s
II REPRESENT some ofthe most reliable lnsll-
/ rance Companies in the United States, and am
prepared to take risks on COTTON GINS. GIN
HOUSES and CONTENTS, and MACHlNER4,
and all other classes of property on the most IA
vOrable terms.
FOR SALE.-New Elliott Gins. Old Gins re-
paired at short notice.
W. II. McCORKLE, Agent.
August % 81 IN
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Staple and Fancy Groceries,
TO THE PUBLIC.

desire to return my thanks for the liberal
patronage bestowed upon me since have been
in the grocery trade, and respectfully solicit
continuance Of the same to the new firm.
F.. HAPPERFIELD.
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RYE AND BARLEY.

TO any who may wish tirst-rate Winter and
Spring Pasture, we can furnish few bushels OF
Rye and Barley. Call and get our prices before
buying.
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C&L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD.
fSEszgE1ZEEz E&E=HHEEf5l }Ez&z:zE5HEfl

CCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains
= from Newton, n. c., to Chester, 5. C., ia
king effect at 6 o'clock, a. NJ, Monday September
oath, 1888:
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THE PLATFORM -"Julia" wants to know
"what a party platform is" Well, a plat
form, Julia, is one preamble and twenty res
olutions, strong in non-essentials, vague in
essentials; round the bush on tariff; rough as
thunder on the Mormons; clamorous for
civil service reform, with reserved definl-
ton of civil service reform; down on cor
ruption, loud in praise Of purity, and to have
it if it takes every cent the party can raise.
The platform, you understand, Julia, is
legitimate and necessary part of the cam
paign pomp and circumstance it goes along
with the banners, transparencies and torch
es, and when the campaign is over-Well,
it is stored away in the cellar or garret
along with the rest of the uniforms and
torches. A campaign platform is very
gives gives out M a great deal Of smell and smoke
with very uncertain, fickering light.
Burlington Ha,ckeye.
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FAIR PLAY.-"Sir, you predicted a frost
for the night of the 2lst of September ~
said an old farmer as he entered the Signal
Office at Cleveland, two or three days later.
eyes, sir"
"And it didn't Gomez"
"No, SIR"
"Well, that prediction caught me with
800 bushels of apples on the trees, and | sold
the lot for half price"
"Sorry, sir, but the bureau is sometimes
mistaken"
swell, l want you to help me out of it.
The chap who got my apples has forty acres
of taters. IfyOu will only predict regular
freeze up for tomorrow night kin get them
taters for ten cents bushel and come out
all solid n'-HMW Street NeVs.
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BURSTING OF BOILER

BANKING DEPARTMENT.
am now selling Exchange Drafts, which can
be used anywhere in the United States or Cana
da, for sums of Sl.OO to $500 for cents, and
larger sums at reduced rates.
r. s JEFFERYS.
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POWDER.

hereby give notice that the prices on Powder
have been reduced and are now as follows:
FFFp kentucky Rifle. Whole Kegs, s,..S5 90
FFFp Kentucky Rifle Half Kegs s.............. 2 IS
FFFg kentucky Rifle, Quarter Kegs. s,..... so
FFFg Kentucky Rifle Powder, ID canisters, 32
Blasting Powder, wet, Whole Kegs, s,......"... 3.l5
Blasting Powder, dry Whole Kegs,...:."...... 2,65
The above prices are for the trade only, and are
netprices free of any charges at my Magazine
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Mnmuruas department.

CARELEssNEss IN DREss.-Ben. Perley
Poore has been tacking to the memory of
Judge Black the following story, which has
been told of ever so many men, and long
before Judge Black was born. 1t is proba-
bly, as authentic in one case as another:
Judge Black was very absent minded.
Once, when he was coming to Washington,
Mrs. Black said to him:
81 want you to promise me that you will
put on clean shirt every morning, and I
have put six into your trunk. Please do,
and don't let me see in the Washington
papers illusions to your dirty linen"
The Judge promised, left, and in a week
returned. After speaking to his wife he
went into his Office, where he was soon ab-
sorbed in studying a case. After a while,
in came Mrs. Black.
'Why, Judge" said she, 'what have
you done with all the shirts you took to
Washington"
"Done with the shirts?" exclaimed the
Judge, abstractedly.
"Yes, the shirts ~ said the matron.
"Oh 2" replied the Judge, "why, l put
on clean one every morning, as promised
you would"
"Yes, Judge, but what did you do with
those you took off? You have not brought
a single one back"
The truth just then flashed on the Judges
mind, and an examination disclosed the
fact that the old gentleman had put on
clean shirt every morning over those which
he already wore.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-11-01

The SQUIRE's GEORGIA WIDOW" -"Oh"
saws the Squire, II wish was married, an
we'll over it. Idreaditp powerfully. pdhke
to marry widow. alters liked widows,
since l know'd one down in Georgia, that
suited my ideas adzactly.
"AbOut week after her husband died,
she started down to the graveyard, Whar
they planted him, as she said, to read the
prescription onto his monument. When
She got thar, she stood a minute lookln at
the stones which was put up at each end or
the grave, with an epithet on 'em, that the
minister had written for her. Then she
burst out:
"'Oh! boo,' says she; Jones, he was one OF
the best of men. l remember how the last
time he came home, about a week ago, he
brought down from town some sugar and a
little tea, and some store goods for me, and
lots of little necessaries, and little painted
hOss for Jeems, which that blessed child got
hismouth all yaller with suckin' of it; and
then he kissed the children all round, and
took down that good old fiddle of his'n, and
played up that good old tune:
Rake her down, Sal, oh! rang dang diddle!
oh! rang dang diddle, rang dang da!
"Here," says the Squire, she began to
dance, and just thought she was the great
est woman I ever See."
The Squire always gave short laugh al
ter telling this anecdote, and then filling
and lighting his pipe, subsidized into an arm
chair in front of the Exchange" and IN
dulged in calm and dreamy reflections.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-11-01

s9~ John Quincy Adams received salary
from the United States Government for six
ty nine years, and the sum total must have
amounted to half a million. At the close of
his Presidential term he had had fifty-two
years of office holding, and his salary had
aggregated 1896, 900. Still, he had seventeen
years of Congress after this, and died at the
Capitol, literally in harness. At the age Of
fourteen years he went to Russia as the pri-
vate secretary of the American legation. and
he was in after years Minister to England,
Germany, Portugal, Russia and the Neither
lands.
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SEND US A TRIAL ORDER.

WITTKOWsKY & BARUCH.
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The Hours In the Departments.
Mr. CANNON HAS NOT RECEpEp.

The following bill (H. r. 1873. introduced by N.
Cannon, fixing the hours OF labor In the executive
departments is Incorporated the last section OF
the legislative, executive and judicial appropria-
ton bill:
IA BILL fixing the hours Of labor in the executive de-
partments.
Be enacted, &e That hereafter IL shall be the duty
Of the heads Of the several executive Department. N
and other employee Of whatever grade class In their
respective departments such hours Of labor b
deemed necessary for the proper dispatch OF the public
business the same however not to be than from the
hours Of eight ante meridian to half past four
post meridian each day. except Sundays and days de-
clared public holidays by law and all absence from he
departments the part Of said clerks other employees
in Of such leave Of sbeence may be
the heads thereof which sha not exceed thirty days In
any one year except IN case OF sickness the tcne .
ance steng specifically the disability, shall be withoe
pay and the I'd aries Of al employees ia the executive
departments receiving annual compensation shall b
payable monthly. and not oftener."
This provision has never been eliminated by the
appropriation committee from the appropriation
bin. as reported, nor has Mr.. Cannon given notice
that the committee will recede from the PROPOSE
g have this provision Incorporated and enacted -
law, II possible, In the appropriation bill, which
Is now under consideration; and, failing In tha5
he viii put it upon its merits before the House -
the form OF this special bill It viii thus be eeo4
that there are two chances OF this provision
(which the CLERKS and other employees OF the d.
partments deem very unJusp becoming o Law.
but there are q number or members who are DE-
cidedly opposed to it, and those who will b
affccted by such a law hope that this Opposition
Will grow and become formidable and successful
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COIORED MEN FOR Mr. L. II. CLAPP-THI NoNINA.
TIoN LIKELY TO BE SENT IN NEXT wE1k
large delegation OF colored residents OF the
District called upon the President this morning
to urge the nomination OF Mr.. A. n. Clapp to be
District Commissioner. The delegation was com.
posed as follows: Fred Douglass, Robert Boston,
DR.. C. B. PurviS, Bishop j. n Brown, NJ n. Hol.
land. DR.. s. L Cook, Joseph Brooks, Prof. Jas. n.
Gregory, j. +. Wilkinson, VIM Taliaferro, Robert
DiggS, DR.. g. r. Watts and A Mcintosh. Fred
Douglass acted as spokesman. and warmly urged
Mr. Clapps appointment. The President, in reply,
said that he would consider Mr. Clapps claims
with those OF the other applicants. and 1ntimated
that the nomination would be sent to the Senate
some time next week.
CLAIMS or Mr. JKseR =. WILSON,
Representative Houck, Of Tennessee. called upon
the President this morning and requested him to
defer action In the matter OF the appointment OF
District Commissioner until the strong claims OF
Mr.. JesDe B. Wilson could be presented TO him In
the shape desired BY his frienda The President
said that he intended to take up the matter OF
nominating a Commissioner, sat Il thoroughiy.
and dispose of u next weak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-02-15

PORTUGUESE EXPEDITION TO sRTCA.
LISBON, FEB. IA Portugal squadron is euuip.
ping to proceed TO the west coast or Africa and
take possession OF Molembo and Cabinda, near the
Congo river.
THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN PARIS
LONDON, Feb. 1a-The general opinion IN Paris
pontlcal circles Is that q dissolution OF the cham
Der OF deputies will soon occur.
TIE SPANISH MINISTER TO WASHINGTON TO BIZ RI.
CALLED.
A letter from Paris says that Don Fran.
cisco Barca, the Spanish minister TO Washington,
Is to be recalled.
THE FRENCH BILL RELATING TO PRHrKNpERs
PARIS, Feb. l3-The committee OF the chamb0r
or deputies, at their meeting yesterday TO consider
the various bills relating 70 preJenders reverted
70 M. Flouquets bill prohibiting the presence 10
France or Algeria or any members OF former
French dynasties, through the casting vote OF Il
Maroon, who was chosen as reporter OF the COM
mttee.
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TIE HfCKs-SfAR LIBEL CAsR-In the case q
w. W. Hicks agt THE STAR company for lfbel,
for which damages In $4,000 b claimed. NJ.
George B. Corkhfn has entered his appearance ~
defendant, and to-day filed o demurrer that tho
plaintiffs declaration is bad In substance IT,
notsis: For matter OF law 20 be argued on -
hearing the defendant says that the language 9
Mbelous per sc, and that the fnuendooe o. ~
declaration are not supported By the matters q
1nducOment
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kilograms to The Star.
THE DISASTROUS FLOODS.
MORE LOSS OF LIFE IN CINCINNATI.
THE Observation-Disclosures
GREAT BRADlAUGH MEETING IN LONDON
THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN FRANCE.
THE DISASTROUS FLOODS.
OSS OF LIFE IN CINCINNATI.
THE HECAvENDISH.BURKEMURDERE
GREAT BRADLAueH MEETING IN LONDON
THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN FRANCE.


'FkAT fuFtLAR DEMONSTRATION IN LoNDoN
LONDON, Feb. la-A great popular demonstra.
ton Is TO be made to-day IN Charing Cross In favor
or the claim OF Mr.. Charles Bradlauch 90 a seat I'm
the mouse OF commons, TO which he was reelected
from northampton borough In March last Dele.
atesfrom the London workmen's clubs aud others
representing four hundred provincial townships
viii pe present at the meeting. The police a,I.
thoritles have made arrangements TO quell any
disoroers that may arise on the OCCASION
Mr.. BRADLAUGHs SPEECH
LONDON, Feb. l5 p. m.-Mr. Bradlauch IN
his speech at the meeting In Char1ng CrosS
announced that II nothing was mentioned
In the house OF commons by 4 O'CLOCK
this afternoon about the bill allowing members
70 make affirmation who desire 10 do so
instead OF taking the usual parliamentary oath.
he should then take his seat In the house There
Is large crowd outside OF Westminster Palace
yard, the gates OF which are well guaried
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The Unprecedented Floods.

The UHIU KIVEk AT CINCINNATI OVER siXTY-sIX FERf
HIGH AND STILL RISING.
CINCINNATI, o., Feb. la-At I o'clock this MORN
Ing the river was 66 feet inches high and was
rising at the rate OF an inch and quarter an hour
Dispatches from the headwaters of the tributaries
Oh Ihe ohio river In OHIO report the streams rising
rapidly. The Licking river In Kentucky. Is boom,
Ing at its sources.
FLOOD IN THE UPPER sUsoCEHASNA.
WILLiAMsPoRT, PA, Feb. 15.-Advices received
uy ,unpermen are that it rainei all day yesterday
9p ,ne river AT Clearfeld there is a four foot
nood Today and the water is rising at the rate of
Lool an nour The small streams are all swell.
Ing: big river is expected here by Tomorrow
ana those living near the ice gorge are apprehen. !.
Stve OF damage.
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Pardon and Habeas Corpus.

COLUMBUS, OHIO, Feb. 15.-Isaac Knapp OF FIRE.
mont Ohio. life prisoner, who was recently par
doned by the governor, was re-arrested on Janu-
airy "a on the ground that the pardon
was secured by fraud. Habeas corpus
proceedings were Instituted In the su-
preme court, which decided this morning that
the validity OF the pardon could not be in.
quired into on writ OF habeas corpus, and the
prisoner was discharged. Judges White and Nc
1lva1ne dissenting. This is the nrst case Of the
kind In Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-02-15

AMONG THE CALLERS at the White House to-day
were Senators Mcpherson and Miller {CaL) and
Representatives Parker. Urner, Townsend, Spauld-
Ing and Houck.
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PRESIDENT ARTHUR, who goes to New York to-
night to be one OF the pallbearers at Ex-Governor
Morgan's funeral, was quartermaster general Of
the state on his gubernatorial staff during three
years OF the war, OF which Office his title OF Gen.
eral is souvenir. He was entertained by Gov.
Morgan at his Newport home last summer, and
deeply feels his personal loss by the laJters DEATH
1t is one Of a chain OF providences which have
vis1bly depressed the genial spirits Of the Pres-
dent this year, beginning with the sudden death
OF Minister Allen, at the Executive Mansion, New
Years morning.
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DUBLIN, Feb. 16-It is stated that at the hear.
Ing to-day OF the prisoners charged with con-
Splracy 10 murder, eye-witnesses will depose that
both lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke
were suddenly seiz,d from behind, and that they
wrenched themselves loose. IL was thus that
they were wounded In their backs as well as their
breasts.
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A So $4,000 Fire.

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION THE CAUSE.
STAMFORD, CONN, Feb. 15-Colender's manu-.
factory, which was destroyed by fire last night
was huge, solidly built, nye-story structure
with basement and French attic ani a cl ock
tower IL stood near the depot OF The New York,
New Haven q Hartford railroad and was filled
IRON the basement TO the roof with machinery
and materials for the manufacture OF billiard
tables A large number OF tables In all stages OF
shipment were in the building That the fire was
the result OF spontaneous combustion seems TO b0
an estab1shed fact The night watchman Whose
uuty lt was 10 visit every room I'm the factory
hourly. found everything all right at O'Clock.
The total loss On the building and contents win
foot up In the neghborhood OF $225,OO0
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THE CONTRACT for building the Yorktown monu-
ment at Yorktown, Va, has been awarded to the
Hallowen Granite company, Of Hallowell, Me-, for
$66,927. The monument Is to be constructed Of
HallOwell granite with raised letters, as recon-
mended by the commission OF artists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-02-15

The Delaware house yesterday authorised the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad TO run its new line
through Newark.
The Irish parliamentary parry have reelected
Mr. Parnell chairman
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Washington News and Gossip.

GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal reve-
nue., $S63 S7873; customs, s4s6.4s99S
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THE TALLAPoosA sailed from Portsmouth, N.
H., for Boston yesterday afternoon. The bodies
OF Rear Admiral Beaumont and child are aboard
to be brought to Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-02-15

ROBBERY OF REGISTERED MAIL POUCH.-About
week ago through registered mail pouch con-
taining 141 registered letters zone containing
81 1100 in money order funds) was, in consequence
OF the detention OF train thrown OF at Cedar
it remained some three or four hours Here it was
cut open and rif1ed OF its contents and at last ac-
counts no clue had been obtained to trace the thief
nor had the property been recovered. The Post
Office inspectors of that district have the Job in
hand.
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The Late Ex.Coy. Morpau.

Albany, n Y, Feb 16.-Governor Cleveland
has ordered the flags on state buildings TO be
placed at half mast until after the funeral OF the
late Ex-Governor Edwin ID. Morgan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-02-15

MASTER 8. w. B. DIEHL has been ordered to
special duty in the bureau Of navigation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-02-15

SECRETARY FoLGER was not at the Treasury de-
partment to-day, being still indisposed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-02-15

THE PRESIDENT has approved the Military Acad-
emy appropriation bill
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LECTURES.

LECTURES.
"DAEMoN OF DARWIN"
DIR. ELLIOTT COUES
Will Repeat His Celebrated Lecture at
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING.
Corner 7th and streets northwest benefit Of the High
School Natural History Society.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY I9. AT O'CLOCK.
No reserved seats n5-4t
TT'HE ONLY TIME TO HEAR GATH"
MIR. GEO. ALFRED TOWNSEND.
Dean of Special Correspondents
Deliver his Great ecture on the Presidents Of the
United States, entitled
THOMAS. THE DOUBTER,"
Will be at WILLARDS HALL.
(Rear of Willard's Hotel. street,
ON FRIDAY NIGHT, FEBRUARY 10TH.
Admission, so cents. flo Ct.
7 ,YcEUM LECTURE.
JOHN B. COUGH,
LINCOLN HALL. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY l6.
CIRCUMSTANCES"
In response to the very urgent requet of many who
to the immense crowd, the Lyceum have engaged bin
for second lecture as above. OF Mr.. Cough no one
entirely new and In every respect inspiring and helpful
Tickets sae at Frees bookstore 1343 street op-
80 cents. Iomembers Of Temperance ORGANIZATIONS,
40 cents. f6-td
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THE Court OF Claims will not meet again until
next Monday.