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THE STATE LUSATIC ASYLUM.
AN ACT to regulate the admission and discharg
of Patients in the State Lunatic Asylum.

AN ACT to regulate the admission and discharge
of Patients in the State Lunatic Asylum.
SECTION l. That the physicians examin-
ing persons alleged to be insane for admis-
sion to the lunatic asylum shall certify un-
der oath that they are registered in accord
ance with the State law, that they have en-
amined them separately, and that they are
not related by blood or marriage to said per-
son. They shall also certify, under oath,
that to the best of their medical knowledge
the persons they recommend for admission
to the Lunatic Asylum are epileptics, idiots
or lunatics, incurable at home, and they are
violent or dangerous.
SEC. 2. Physicians giving certificate
recommending the commitment to the asy-
lum of a person who is simply idiotic,
physically infirm or mentally im5ecile, un-
less such person is violent or dangerous,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
in the discretion of the Court.
SEC. 3. Any Probate Judge or Board
of County Commissioners committing to
the asylum person without a medical GER
tificate conforming to the requirements OF
Section l of this Act, shall be deemed
guilty of a miSdemeanOr, and upon convlc-
ton, shall be fined in the discretion of the
Court.
SEC. +. 1ileUritIeS VI pelSollS tluolStCu "
the opium or chloral habit, shall not be re.
ceived in the Asylum for treatment unless
they are dangerous or violent, and then
only as pay patients, and should any pro-
bate judge, Circuit Judge or board of county
commissioners commit such a person who is
beneficiary, the board of county commits
siOners of the respective counties from which
such persons are sent shall pay the super
intendent or treasurer of the Asylum fol
the maintenance of the said beneficiary the
same sum upon the same terms required fol
pay patients: Provided, however, that any
inebriate or person addicted to the opium OF
chloral habit, voluntarily making applica
ton to be admitted into the Asylum fol
treatment may, at the discretion of the
board of regents, be received as pay pa
tient, but no such person shall be received
or retained in the Asylum when the accom-
modations provided for patients shall be in
adeuuate for the prOperFcare and treatment
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An11ornns department.
BLUFFING A WAITER.

AS we got into South Carolina (says a sen-
sational correspondent of Detroit paper
we were joined by Judge from Pittsburg.
/ forget just what court he was Judge Of,
but he had been travelling South for his
health, and had just figured up that he had
paid out S25 in fees to walters, and was mad
all the way through. He vowed by his
badness that he wouldn't pay out another
red cent, and we encouraged him as hard
as we could.
When we went up to the hotel the land
lord gave us big room with three beds in
it. A big negro brought the trunks up, and
when he was ready to 60 the Judge called
to him and began:
"Colored person, stand up! Now l want
to say, to you that shall expect prompt SER
vice without fees. You have brought up
my trunk; that's all right-it was your bus
mess to. I shall want water, and / may
want fire, and I shall probably ask you to
60 on errands, but if you even look fees at
We were there two days, and the waiter
was vigilant, humble and willing, but as we
made ready to depart the morning of the
third in comes constable with warrant
to arrest the Judge for threats of personal
violence. It had been sworn out before
Justice ten miles away, and the complain
ant was the negro waiter.
1T took the two OF US to hold the Judge
down on his back during his first paroxysm,
and when he had cooled off little the ne
gro slipped into the room and said:
white man, stand up! Now want to
say to you dat a five dollar bill will settle
dis yer case jist as feel now, but if you
goes to callin' names or pullin' hair or kick
in I'll stick for $25! Dat Justice am my
own brudder, and he's jist achin' to send
some white man ter Jail fur six months :"
We sat on the Judge again for about
twenty minutes, at the end of which time
he handed over the amount and was pro-
nounced sane.
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of 1885. They will join that vast multitude
who will, this year, appear before the judg-
ment seat of Chrst-some to be welcomed
as friends, and others to be driven away as
enemies.
The admonition which comes to us all from
the graves of last year, and especially from
Gods word is Be YE READY. If we are not
called from time to eternity during the year
1885, the time of our departure is near at
hand. What a terrible thought it is to die
out of Jesus Christ. 1t is nothing to die
poor, and it is nothing to die rich, but it is
something to die with an interest in Jesus
Christ, TO us all he is offered freely, to us
all he is offered fully, and, thanks be to the
giver of all good, to us all he is offered in
good faith. Why will any of us be lost
forever lostp The answer is, "Ye will not
come unto me-Jesus-that yc may have
life -
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THE OLD AND THE NEW.

The bells which rang out the old year rang
in the new. The year 1884 will never re-
turn. Its opportunities which were either
neglected or abused are gone and gone for
ever. They will never return. This may
cause sadness, but it is nevertheless true.
The child is one year nearer manhood, and
the man is one year nearer old age, and
all the living are one year nearer eternity.
Days and months and years will come to an
end, but eternity will have no end. About
forty-three and one half millions Of the hu-
man family, from various causes, during the
wear lust closed, passed from time to eterni-
ty. Some of these were our dear friends.
Their departure filled our homes with sad
ness and our hearts with grief. We will see
them no more here on earth. They are in
eternity. Some of them, how many, we
know not, left world of sin and sorrow and
are now where there are no tears, no sighs,
no heart aches. They are saved both from
sin and sorrow. What a glorious exchange
Others, we know not how many, are gone to
that place where God has, in the language of
the Scriptures, forgotten to be gracious. No
matter how comfortable they were here they
are miserable there; no matter how miser-
able they were here, they are more misera-
bic there, We know not the names ofthose
who were saved, neither do we know the
names of those who were lost. These are
facts which God has not made known to us.
He has made no revelation on the point and
we should be very thankful that such is the
case. We do, however, know the class to
which all the saved belong, and we do know
as certainly the class to which all the lost be-
longed. There are but two classes, believers
and unbelevers. All believers are saved
and all unbelievers are lost. Such being
the case, we infer that all, who, during the
last year, died exercising a living faith in
Jesus Christ, are safe in heaven, from sin
and sorrow set free. The remainder, be it
large or small, are all lost-lost forever-be-
yond the reach Of redeeming grace-in that
place where hope never comes.
Now, what will occur during this year?
The sun will rise and set as it did during the
past year. There will be seed time and
harvest, cold and heat, sunshine and rain,
Just as they were during the past year. In
addition to these things, another forty-three
and one-half millions of the human family
will die-a part of whom will be saved in
heaven and the remainder lost forever. OF
the number who will die, some of them, in
all probability, will be individuals around
whom the tendrils of our heart have en-
tWined themselves. 1t is scarcely within the
range of possibility that any one of us will
be preserved from grief caused by the re-
moval, from time to eternity, of some dear
friend This has, or ought to have, the effect
of sobering our thoughts.
1t is probable that very many of those
who read these lines will never see the close
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DON'T DELAY,

DUT 90 and see the largest and handsomest
I'D stock of Jewelry, Watches, Silverware and
Fancy Goods, ever exhibited in Chester. Bar
gains in GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES.
If you want to buy an engagement Ring, We'd
ding, Birthday or Christmas present, call on +.
C. STAIN, you will find an endless variety of
presents. from 25 cents to $3.50.
Just received for the lovers of art, Steel En-
cravings, Oil Paintings and Photographs.
Hanging Lamps, Student and new patent Fan
Lamps, giving light equal to gas light.
Remember all goods are sold under guarantee
to be as represented. No wish for the purchaser
to be deceived. We call gold, gold; and brass,
brass. My prices are as low as the lowest for
reliable goods. Long years experience and am,
pie capital enable me to buy at lowest prices, and
will not be undersold by any one.
Cash purchasers of Watches, Sewing Machines
and Organs can secure special Bargains, as l
want to reduce my large stock
An improved high arm Machine. drop-leafand
drawers and all attachments, warranted 5years,
for $500.
WATCH REPAIRING receives my personal
attention. Satisfaction guaranteed at moderate
prices. Orders by mail promptly attended to.
Respectfully, f. C. STAIN,
Chester, s. C.
November 27 Al ly
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WESTERN ENTERPRIsE.-A wholesale
merchant of New York, who has just re-
turned from the West, admits that he had
never given that country proper credit for
its enterprise. AS he passed through De-
troit, he was sought out and offered a sixty
dollar coffin for $2S, with deed of burial
lot thrown in. In Chicago man offered to
kill him for three cents, and an ice wagon
went a square out Of its way to run over
him. In Milwaukee he was coaXed to ac-
cept for nothing half interest in fire es-
cape bringing in $4,000 per year. In In
dianapolis he found one of his old employ
ees who admitted an embezzlement as far
back as 1859, and forced him to take a check
for principal and interest. He still has the
check to prove it. At Mackinac they took
him for a lord crates $500 per day., and at
Cleveland he was taken for q bunko man
and had to identify himself by telegraph.
Had he been of an agricultural turn OF mind
he could have bought 600 acres of land of a
Toledo man for the trifle of $500. The land
was all on the bottom of Lake Erie, and he
would have had no fences to build nor taxes
to pay. He returns completely charmed
with the West. Also, minus his gold watch.
Val Street Ne,CS.
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How THE TURK AWOKE.-James Turk,
a guileless citizen of Detroit, was ambling
around st. Louis the other day, when a
stranger stopped him, offered him cigar
and said:
ssYou have frank and honest face, and
Iappeal to you to do me a favor"
,.'""Well, I reckon I will, unless you want
to borrow money"
"Oh, no! no! You see that clothing store
over there? Well, on the left as you 90 in
is counter full Of overcoats. want one
don't want to pay over SIS. I could have
beaten him down, I think, except that we
both got mad and left"
swell, what do you want of me?"
''Simply 60 in and offer him SIS. If he
accepts bring the coat to me on the corner
below. If he refuses, you will have my
gratitude all the same"
James promptly consented, and when he
offered $l5 for one of the coats the dealer
promptly accepted. It was done up in a
neat bundle, and Mr.. Turk carried it to the
corner for delivery and payment. The 9th.
er party was not there. Mr.. Turk waited
half an -three-quarters- an hour,
and the idea crept through his wool that he
had been sold. He returned to the clothier
and asked:
''sWhat is your asking price for these over
coats ?"
"Eight dollars -..-
"But paid you SIS !"
"Oxactly. When man comes in und
likes to pay me dot price vhas foolish to
drive him avhay!"
Mr.. Turk reached home with two over
coats, and he is 50 pale and quiet and sad
appearing that his friends whisper their
fears of consumption.
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THE LAW AS TO THE GIVING OF BONDS.


AN ACT to facilitate the giving of Bonds requr-
ed by law.
SECTION l. That any company with apaid
up capital of not less than two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars ($25O,000) incorporat-
ed and organized under the laws of any
State of the United States for the purpose of
transacting business as surety, on obligations
of persons or corporations, and which has
complied with all the requirements of the
law regulating the admission Of such COM
panies to transact business in this State,
may, upon production of evidence of SOL
vency and credit satisfactory to the Judge,
head Of department, or other officer au-
thorized to approve such bond, be accepted
as surety upon the bond of any person or
corporation required by the laws of this
State to execute bond and if such surety
company shall furnish satisfactory evidence
of its ability to provide all the security re-
quired by law, additional surety may be
exacted or not, in the discretion of the Off
cial authorized to approve such bond; and
such surety may be released from its liabil-
ity on the same terms and conditions as are
by law prescribed for the release of individ-
uals, it being the true intent and meaning
for the purpose to become the surety on
bonds required by law, subject to all the
rights and privileges of private parties:
Provided the securities deposited with the
State officer in this State, as required by
this or other Acts, shall not be withdrawn
until all liability of said corporation upon
its obligations in this State, shall be satisfied.
SEC. ,. Any such company doing busi-
ness in this State, shall first deposit and
keep on deposit with the Comptroller-Gen-
eral of this State, Brown Consolidated Bonds
or registered stock of the State of South Car
olina, or United States bonds or stocks, to
the amount of $25, 900, and the same shall be
held by the said Comptroller-Genera for the
purpose of meeting any liabilities incurred
by said Company on obligations entered
into in this State.
SEC. 3. Any company which shall execute
any bond as surety under the provisions of
this Act shall be estopped, in any proceed.
ings to enforce the liability which it shall
have assumed to incur, to deny it's corporate
power to execute such instrument or as
sumo such liability.
SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect imme-
diately, and all Acts and parts of Acts in
consistent herewith, are hereby repealed.
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Saved her Life

RIDGE, MCINTOSH Co., GA.
DIR. J. BRADFIELD-Dear Sir: / have taken
several bottles of your Female Regulator tor
falling of the womb and other diseases combin-
ed of sixteen years standing, and really be-
lieve am cured entirely, for which please ac-
cept nv heartfelt thanks and profound gratitude.
I know your medicine saved my life so you see
cannot speak too highly in its favor | have
recommended it to several of my friends who
are suffering as was.
Yours very respectfully,
Mrs. w. T.. STEBBINS.
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of ltiiiatics and others lawfully committed

OF 1unatlcs anu Otners IaW1uI1y colIIIllIIteu
to the Asylum.
SEC. 5. County commissioners, or the mu
nicipal authorities bf the City ofCharleston,
failing or refusing to remove from the Asy-
lum, after thirty days due notice from the
superintendent thereof, a patient, q benefi-
ciary from their county or city, as the case
may may nr be- wh0 is sIpy Spays Pasj9aby bsyce Ge mi d
or epileptic, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof,
shall be fined in the discretion of the Court,
and the bond ofsuch commissioners shall be
liable for the fine.
SEC. 6. In all cases where patients are dis
charged under the terms of this Act, it shall
be lawful to retain them in the Asylum as
pay patients. go. .,,.,, .5#5
SEC. 7. All acts or parts Of acts inconsis-
tent with this Act are hereby repealed.
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Our treatise on "Health and Happiness of Wo
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BRADFIELD REGULATOR Co., Atlanta, Ga.
For Sale by DR.. JOHN G.. kUGKENDAL.
September II 81 ly
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GOOD For BoTR.-The French comedi-
an, Perlet, was extraordinarily thin. At
last he became such skeleton that he con-
suited physician, who recommended him
to try some baths in the Pyrinees. Hav-
ing obtained leave of absence from his man
ager he betook himself to the mineral
springs, where he bathed unremittingly,
but all in vain; he did not increase in size.
Patience" urged the doctor; "there is
nothing like our baths for making people
&C One day whiie Perlet was waiting phi
losophically in his bath for an embonpoint
which never came, he heard a converse
tion in the next room, from which his own
was divided by only thin partition, and
which was occupied by an enormous wo-
man, fat as the Hottentot Venus.
"Doctor," said she, IL am getting tired of
this"
Why" asked the Esculapius.
II have been here two months"
"Well, 1 am as enormous rs when l
came." g.s..-.. ...
"a little patience, madame" urged the
doctor; there is nothing like our baths for
making people thin"
Perlet, hearing these words, sprang out of
his bath, dressed, rushed home to his hotel,
ordered his bill and left for Paris by the
next train.-,San Francisco ArgoRdm.
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REPAIRING.

Of all kinds, promptly done on short notice.
Steam Engines, and agricultural machinery OF
any kind overhauled and repaired. Besides, any
class of work that may be wanted in his shop, he
will attend any call for repairing stationary ell
gires, doing the work on the premises, thus OBJ
Waiting the necessity of moving the engine.
Prices reasonable. Terms, cash on completion
of the work. EDWARD THOMAS.
October IL AZ tt
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BRICK FOR SALE.

EIVE hundred thousand first-cass BRICK are
Il offered for sale-3OO,O0O at McConnellsville,
and 200, 900 at Lowrysville, on the c. & L. n. G.
R. R. Any number of these Brick, in lots of
not less than $500, will be delivered on cars at
either place at $500 for salmon, SS.00 for salmon
and blue, and $500 for all blue per thousand.
Samples can be seen at the Stores of Capt. w. B.
Smith, Clover J ohm R. Ashe, Yorkville; Ashe &
Ashe, McConnellsvlle Hope, Lowry & Co.,
Lowrysville, and Heath, Crawford & Co., Ches-
ter. We will give discount for large lots on the
". n. ASHE, Jr., McConnellsville.
w. \. ANDERSON, Lowrysville:
October 16 AZ tt