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SOMEWHAT IN .-Doctor-"There
is grave danger, Mrs. Mulcahey, of the chol-
era reaching this country this summer, and
want to impress upon your mind the i'm
portance of cleanliness. Your premises are
in bad condition and your children unneces-
sarily filthy, while you yourself are not
much better. would advise a thorough
cleaning all round"
Mrs. Mulcahey (anxiously)-"Yis, sorr,
but phat if the cholera shouldn't come af-
ter all, docther; phat thin ?"-N Y. Times,
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centennial YEAR.
The Augusta Chronicle.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD.

yVyHE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE was establish
1 ed in 1855, but is still young, vigorous and
progressive, and fully up to all the requirements
Of tirst-class newspaper Democratic in poll,
tics, honest and fearless in the advocacy OF all good
measures-the organ of no ring or clique, 1t has
no friends to reward, or enemies to punish. The
purpose of the CHRONICLE is to advance the
general good and support such measures as will
inure to the moral, social educational and mate
rial advancement Of the State and country.
The columns ofthe CHRONICLE are free from
the tant of sensationalsm and the depravity en-
gendered by immoral publications.
Our telegraphic news service is full and COM
plete. The CHRONICLE contains an average of
nine thousand words per day from the New York
Associated Press. This service is supplemented
by specials from our able and talented correspon-
dents at Atlanta and Columbia, who are indefa-
tigablein their labors to give our readers the la
test news and the most interesting letters.
Our accomplished and brilliant associate, Mr..
JAMES r. RANDALL, of the editorial staff,
sends our readers his graphic and interesting let
ters from Washington during the session Of Con-
gress.
The CHRONICLE publishes the full telegraph
ic service Of the New York Associated Press.
TERMS:
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Weekly Edition, year l 25
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The EVENING CHRONICLE is the largest
and cheapest Daily Paper in the South, as it pub
fishes all the Geographic news, and all the news
of the morning paper, and is sent to subscribers
at So per year.
The WEEKLY is now a ten page paper, but in
April it will be twelve pages-S4 columns. 1t is
filled with important news.
The SUNDAY CHRONICLE is a large eight
page paper and contains fifty-sx columns of
matter.
Specimens copies free.
Address
CHRONICLE & &CONSTITUTIONALIST,
PATRICK WALSH, President,
Augusta, Ga.
March ) 10 If
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C.S L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD.
ksgl4s 1ElgNEl I5zizziiI @ThHI

SCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains
- from Lenoir. n. c., to Chester, S. G., taking
effect at II o'clock, Noon, Sunday, May 81, 1885.
Standard of time, clock in telegraph office at
Chester.
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try would be filled with the Wild-eyed gen.
ius that hasn't had square meal for two
weeks. The time will surely come when
America will demand less craftsmanship
and more flour; when less statistics and a
purer, nobler and and more progressive
style of beef-steak will demand our atten-
tion.
I had hoped that phrenology would step
in and start this reform, but SO far it has
not, within the range of my observation.
1t may be, however, that the mental giant
bumptranslator with whom l came in con-
tact was not a fair representative. Still! ne
years, and some of our most polished GRIM
inals have passed under his hands.
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A CRUIsEIN THE ARCTIC REGIONS.-We e
had been sailing about the entrance OF Bal
fms bay for fourteen days in fearful storms.
The rigging was stiff with ice, and the sides
of the vessel were great shining plates. Ihe
sailors were half frozen, and we could not
move rope through block without pour
ing hot water upon it. We had but little
daylight on account Of thick fog, and the
long nights were still more dreadful when
the ship rose over the huge black waves
and sank down again into the abyss, so
that every moment we expected to be shat
tered to pieces on the masses of ice which
the storm drove over the roaring sea, and
which seemed to be sent for our destruction.
One morning near the end of the storm,
after fresh fall of snow, an iceburg 800 feet
high approached with fearful rapidity. AL
ready it was close to US when the cry arose,
"It turns!" On it came, its tottering top
bending over our ship. Our fate seemed
settled! We were lost! The whole of the
gigantic mass was falling over and must
shatter us to pieces. We all fell on our
knees and prayed insilgnce, thinking every
moment would be our last. The iceberg
was half over us, when, to our JOY and
thankfulness, it turned aside, and a mo-
ment later fell into the sea few yards be-
hind the stern of our ship, hurling the wa
ter over the tops of the masts, and binding
us for time with the icy drops that splash
ed over our faces. For minute the waves
were checked in their course, and the sea
seemed to boil, the ship rocked and plung,,
ed, the sails fla pped against the masts and
scattered the ice with which they had been
covered Then the sun broke suddenly
the clouds, and with his rosy tint shed on
the snow we saw, to our delight, within a
short distance from the ship, the land
spread out before which promised rest and
safety to the weary mariners.
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ngr s..Tommy, did you hear your mother
cali you?" Course 1 did" "Then why
don't you go to her at once ?" well, you
see, she's nervous, and it'd shock her awful
if / should 60 too sudden."-CHicngo 1f'b-
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November 20
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF YORK. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Alex. B. Wells and Robert S. Wells, Plaintiffs,
against Lucinda Wells, Robson S. Wells,
Arthur Wells, David r. Wells, Emily Wells,
Jane Sansing, and Isabella Gordon, and heirs
of Mrs. Thomas Faris, unknown, Defendants.
Summons for Relief-C Complaint not Served.
TO the Defendants above mentioned:
XTOU are hereby summoned and required to
4 answer the Complaint in this action, which
is this day filed in the office Of the Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas, for the said County,
and to serve Il copy of your answer to the SAID
Complaint on the subscribers, at their office III
Yorkville, South Carolina, within twenty days
after the service hereof, exclusive OF the day OF
such service; and if you fail to answer the Com
pant within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs IN
this action will apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in the Complaint.
Dated 18th April, A. D., 1885.
WILSON IL WILSON, Plaintiffs Attorneys
TO the Defendants-DavidR r. Wells Emily Wells
and Arthur Wells, and the heirs OF Mrs
Thomas Faris, unknown: Take notice that
the Summons in the above action, OF which
the foregoing is copy, together with the
Complaint was filed in the office of the Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas for York
county, and the State of South Carolina on
the 18th day of April, a. d., 1885,
WILSON d WILSON, Plaintiffs Attorneys
Nav ~ Ot
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THE LAVA BEDs.-Captaih Clarence Dut-
ton, of the Ordnance Department, who for
ten wears past has been studying the Great
plateau region of the West, says in forth
coming report to the Geological Survey, that
the Great Plateau furnishes evidence OF al
ternating periods of moisture and dryness,
of great and sudden uplifts of great areas,
and of slow and long-continued rising In
Others, and of the denudatiOn of immense
tracts, and the cutting of canyons by the
water. In the study Of the Zuni Mountains
he finds reasons for the conclusion that the
mountains of the West have not been pro-
duced by horizontal compression, but by the
action of some unknown forces beneath,
which have lifted them up.
Upon the extensive plateau OF which
Mount Taylor is the centre he finds ample
confirmation of the theory that the volcanic
CAP which once covered so large portion OF
the region, and which still tops many ex-
tensive mesas, had its origin, not in dis
charges from immense volcanic mountains
like Mount Taylor ITSELF but through innu-
merable vents through the sedimentary
strata. These evidences consist largely in
the numerous huge "necks" of pure lava,
from the vicinity Of which the sedimentary
deposits have been eroded. These necks
are the contents of once existing tunnels,
through which the molten lava was forced
to spread itself in thin cap over the level
country above. They explain the existence
of lava beds at the present time so:far dis
tant from the nearest volcanic mountain as
to preclude the supposition that the two
ever had any connection.
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j. BEATTY WILLIAMS,
ATTo7NEx AT LAW,

Yorkville, s. c.,
VXTILL practice in the Circuit Court of York
w county.
mis- Prompt attention given to collections. -asN
January 10 ) lye
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EVIDENTLY Nor USED TO GAs.-The
mistress of comfortable establishment in
New York returned home after visit to
New Orleans to find an enormous gas bill for
the time she had been away awaiting her.
Never doubling for moment that it was
the result of sundry mistakes on the part of
the meter man, she Indignantly remarked
to the green hand (the newly arrived cousin
of her laundress) who had been left in charge
of the house. "Well. upon my word, this
bill is too ridiculous, considering the small
ring my absence"
.tSmall amount is it, ma am ~ exclaimed
Mary Ann, triumphantly. "Sure knowed
We had to pay big wages every month for
the sthuff, an divil a cint was going to let
them save off ye whole We was gone, ma'am.
Sos soon as it was dark aitch noight, ma'am,
I lighted livery candlestick / could get at,
and had the house blazin' foinely from Gel
lar to garret, wallpapers Bazdr.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-11

BILL NYE AND THE BUMPOLOGIsT-
Much harm has been done by a long haired
phrenologist in the West, who has, during
his life, felt over 100, 900 heads. A compar-
ison of a large number af the charts given
in these cases show that, SO far, no head
would indicate anything less than a men,
Der of the Lower House of Congress. Art
lists, orators, prima donnas, and Statesmen
are plenty, but there are no charts showing
the natural-born farmer, carpenter, shoe
maker or chambermaid.
That is the reason butteris so high west OF
the Missouri River to-day, while genius ac-
tualiy runs riot.
What this day and age Of the world needs
is phrenologist who will paw around
among the intellectual domes of free-born
American citizens and search out a few
men who can milk a COW in cool and un-
impassioned tone of voice.
Let me say word to the bright-eyed
youth Of America. Let me murmur in your
ear this never dying truth: When long
haired crank asks you one dollar to tell you
that you are a young Demosthenes, stand
up and look yourself over at distance be-
fore you swallow it all.
There is no use talking, we have got to
procure provisions in some manner, and IN
order to do SO the natural bone and slneW OF
the country must 60 at it and promote the
growth of such thing, or else we artists, po-
cts and statesmen will have to take Ott our
standing collars and do it ourselves.
Phrenology is good thing, no. doubt,
if we can purify it. So long as it does not
become the slave of capital there is moth
ing about phrenology that is going to do
harm, but when it becomes the creature OF
the trade dollar it looks as though the cnun-
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THE CREAM OF THE JOKE.-"Say, Bob
you're out with Miss Parsons, aint you?'
ayes, joe"
"What has happened:"
"She's experimenting too lavishly."
"Experimenting What at?"
'Trying to cure freckles by eating ice
cream"
"Well, why ought you to care?"
"Oh, don't, provided it's at some other
fellows expense. 1t was costing me dol
lar and half freckle."
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Nnmurults department.
AMATEUR STAGE WIT.

At the grand amateur minstrel jubilee Civ.
en- in New York recently in aid of the Bar.
tholdi pedestal fund, the jokes were unusu.
ally fresh. Even the oldest and stalest
were so disguised that they were hardly
recognizable. The following are specimens
Yes, Sam, I got home late agin de oddel
night, an my !nudder she says, "Chile
Whar you bin out so late agln dis yeal
night ?''
"I'se bin out callin' on a lady," says.
s'Well, chile, why you don't come home
fore midnight ?n she says.
"Kase I,eouldn't git away before. Kase
de lady war settin' on my hat, an was
too much OBJ a gemman to call her 'tention
ode circumstance" says.
swell, now, honey" she says, '.jis look q
yere, an yo' member dis now, or you git
lef out. Next time you visit lady jis
keep your hat off yo' lap"
next one: .....-. 10. ......
"I see man drivin' wagon down South
Fifth avenue dis yere morning, when q
shutter flew off OBJ a buildin' and knocked
de wagon speechless."
.; InterlOcutor- no, you don't mean the
wagon. You mean the shutter knocked the
driver Of the wagon speechless.
"Dat's whar you's wrong: Dis yere shut
ter jis flew off OBJ de building, and didn't
touch de drivah noWhar. / seen it knock
de wagon speechless. knows what sees,
reckon'-'deed I does"
Interlocutor-But it's impossible to knock
wagon speechless.
swell, it knocked de tongue out ob de
wagon I seen it do it. And de shutter
war tried for it in de court"
Interlocutor-What did they do with the
shutter in the court?
"Dey hung it-dat's whatdey done wild it,"
Interlocutor-What for:
a@"Jis for blind.'
"I'se been boardin' wild grass widder
lately"
INSTRUMENTATION do you know she is a
grass widow?
'Caaseher husband died wild hay fever
spose I'se a fool?" "
This is positively the first appearance of
this last joke in 40 years:
"I's'e been movin' my residence lately"
Observation-Disclosures for? 1.I.t
swell, you see, my numbah use to be 12S,
an de numbah were always dah when /
was agoin' east But de odder night I heerd
dat feller done paid his dues to de club,
an went down to get my share. When l
was acomin' back late at night my house
was S21, an I got all mixed up. 1t won't
occur ag'in, boss, for I'se done moved to
3I3."-NeW York S,ua.
T.
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ALL FEAR CoNQUERED.-Mrs.B Blank
.'Do you remember, dear, that before we
were married, you always offered me your
left arm?'
Mr., Blank-"Yes. wanted to have my
right arm free. You see l had a lovers
fear that some one would try to take you
away from me, and always kept in readi-
ness for defense"
"How sweet! But how is it that now
YOU generally offer me your right arm?"
"Well, am not so afraid as l was"
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saya Necessity is the spur to self.reliance; !;
noble pride and self-respect are its atmos-
phere. Where there is wealth the spur is
apt to lose it's sharpness, and often self re-
spect is smothered under an accumulation of
social influences.
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HSg@ When putting away the silver tea or
coffee pot, which is not used every day, lay
a little stick across the top under the cover.
This will allow fresh air to get in and pre-
vent the mustiness of the contents, familiar
to hotel and boarding house sufferers.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-11

CANNING FRUIT.-Scald or steam, not
cook, tomatoes so the skin will peel readily.
Have jars hot, put in tomatoes carefully
after peeling without MASKING, fill up COM
pletely and add enough juice, which escap,,
ed while peeling, to fill all interstces, seal
tight and keep in cool, dark place. For
fruits; start with a syrup made with one
pound of sugar to a pint of water, heat and
when it boils add as much fruit as. it will
cover, this checks the boiling; when it boils
again take out fruit and put in jars, adding
enough syrup to fill the jars, seal up and
store away as above. TO keep up supply of
syrup, add more sugar and water as may be
needed. d.-SOuthe,W CnNiUdtOr.
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Hy~ Horses that have rackful Of hay be-
fore them all the time will grow poor, when
if fed Il limited quantity with some grain
they will become fat. The rack filled with
hay becomes offensive from the horses
breath, and the animal must be partly
starved before he will eat it.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-11

gas~ \ writer in Chambers Journal says
that chloride of lime mixed with water will
effectualy drive rats from their haunts, and
claims to have ridded an infested ship and
his own house of these pests. The plan is
a very cheap one, and easily applied, and
at all events is effective as a deodiZer and
diSinfectant
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-11

STRAW FOR SHEEP.-The straw from
beans is natural food for sheep, and they
are the only stock which are fond of it. 1t
is healthy food for them. Oat straw is
better for sheep than any unpalatable hay.
+ They will pick out all of the leaves and
heads of all kinds of straw, but they do
not like the coarse straws, and will not eat
them unless forced to by hunger. Straw,
to be good for sheep, should not be over ripe,
musty, or full of ergot. On this account
rye is the poorest, and wheat next. 10 give
sheep keen appetite, no more should be
given them than they will eat up clean.
They come to a sWeet-smelling and fresh
rack of food with relish.
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aag- Consider for moment, what it is to
vote. 1t is the token of inestimable priv
ileges, and involves the responsibilities of
an hereditary trust. 1t has passed into
your hands as right, reaped from fields of
Suffering and blood. The grandeur of his
tory is represented in your act.-CHapin.
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BILL HEADS

Monthly statements at same price Of fsixth-sheet
DILL heads. We will fill an order for bill heads,
giving any desired number ofeither size of sheet
at proportionate prices.
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Mosquitoes I'm Alaska.


you would hardly think there were
mosquitoes in Alaska, l suppose, from
the idea you have probably formed of the
nature, but of all the vivid memories ]
have of the territory, those / retain of the
Alaskan musquito are the most vivid /
camped for some days one summer on the
Kenai river, near Lake Skoloka, of
which it is the outlet and of all the
poisonous, persistent, Unsuitable pests that
ever lived found there in the form of
mosquitoes and black flies. TIL mus
quitOes resemble those we have east, but,
to correspond with everything else in that
land of wonders, they are built on a much
grander scale
The moment the Alaska mosquito
lights on yea you begin to itch and swell.
His bite on me was so poisonous that after
my first hours experience with him | was
taken to camp i'll, and for two days l was
unable to get around The Indian who
was with me burned some native herb
which had a pungent odor and Amounted
me with some kind of oils. The smoke
kept the mosquitoes away from me, and
the oil removed the poison. The natives
do not seem to mind these pests and
suppose if white man could live in their
midst long enough he might become in a
Indifferent to their sting. The
black flies seem to have stingers all over
them, for when they get hold on your
flesh they hang on like a wood tick, and
when you do get them off you you will
find spot of blood where every one of
them chung. They say there are snakes
in Alaska, but if there are never saw
any.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
Morocco Prison Life.

We went to the prisons. and looking
through some huge doors of iron gratings
into large halls averns they appeared
ike-saw scores of abject looking prison
ers of all ages making baskets and straw
goods Seeing us, a number of them
came running to the iron gratings and be-
gan begging for money or tobacco
In room near the prisons we were
shown where they whipped convicts for
characterization and also those whom the
bashaw had found guilty of petty crimes
From appearances there must. have been
an immense amount of this terrible pun
ishment inflicted in this room during the
centuries of the past. l was told that the
prisoner was first stripped naked, and
then stretched out on the floor, four
muscular Arabs holding his hands and
feet, while the unmerciful "cat-o-nine-
tails was being applied to his back The
oaken floor was worn deep and smoothly
polished by the strugglings and writings
of the tortured victims under the cruel
lash.
One of the guides got the "cat an
ugly relic of past barbarism-and showed
it to me. 1t consisted of several thick
lashes of rawhide, about thirty inches
long attached to a stout oaken handle of
the same length. l observed that the
lashes were stained with blood, and the
same red stains could be seen spattered
about the floor and walls. AS l appeared
to take much interest in the room and in
listening to the details of the punishment,
the guides volunteered to the consul to go
out and get prisoner and have him
whipped before me, probably thinking it
would be an interesting spectacle for me
to witness, but l theoretically declined the
kind offer
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
he &C clinical.

The cochineal used to be an extensive
article of commerce and brought a reve-
nue. of several millions to Guatemala
every year, but the cheapness of the ana
line dyes has driven it out of the market,
and nowadays it is cultivated only for
local consumption, and extensively used
by the natives, whose cotton and wooden
fabrics are gayly dyed, and the colors will
stand any amount of water or sun.
The cochineal is a larvae which feeds
upon the pulpy leaf of that s.,ecies of
cactus known as the "nopal," and imp its
natural state looks like frost or mold.
The natives carefully scrape it off into
gourds, and the cells being full of purple
blood it makes a liquid Of the deepest
color, when the mass is crushed For 200
years it was the base of dye stuffs all over
the world, and thousands of people were
engaged in its cultivation Until 1870 the
shipments from Guatemala amounted to
300, 900 or 400 900 pounds each year, but
in 1884 the export had fallen to 1900
mounds