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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-01-08

ALWAYS THE CHEAPEST BOarder at the
head of table as slice of watermelon is
placed before him for dessert:
''Mrs. Boggs, may ask you question 90
Certainly, SIR"
"May ask you if there is any difference
between the price of a green and ripe
Watermelon:"
"Yes, sir-about ten per cent"
''In favor of the green, presume""
eyes, SIR"
"And thats-that's-"
"That's why buy the green ones"
~ A newly-married Austin lady does
not know anything about housekeeping,
but is anxious to have her husband believe
that there is nothing in the housekeeping
line that she does not know. He happen
and said: "Will you please glib me out de
coffee. De water is been abilin' dis las half
hour" "Let the water boil, Matilda" re-
piled Mrs. Bigman, calmly; "the longer it
boils the strongerit will be."-Ie.ras SJtings.
@ -''Things seem to have gone
wrong with you. Don't want to hurt your
look very seedy."
Winks- s-"Yes, I've been specializing"
Minks-"Well, suppose you had better
sense than to 60 into Wall street. Did you
60 in of your own notion?"
Winks-"No; 1 was taken n."
w~" "What timeis it, sonny?" asked a gen.
tleman of boy on an Austin street car.
The boy smiled, and looking at his astro-
nomical time piece replied:
"Do you want the exact time:"
"If you please"
ssIn two minutes it will be three minutes
tn Ave minutes to quarter past g." replied
the young man.-Isras SJtings.
~"Ma," whispered Pinder Fitzgoober,
after the funeral of a friend, 'do you know
where he went?"
sHush, child" cautioned the mother, who
saw that the question had been overheard,
ssof course don't, and no one else does"
81 do, yelled the hoy, brightly, she went
to- the cemetery" *, :tt,t. u
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-01-08
ENFORCING AGRICULTURAL LIENS.

An ACT authorizing Trial Justices to issue war
rants for the enforcement Of Agricultural Liens
in certain cases.
SECTION l.. That when any person shall
have made advances for agricultural pur-
poses and shall have secured a lien upon the
crop or crops of the person to whom such
advances may be made, according to the
provisions of the law relating to agricultu-
raj liens, and the amount of such advances
do not exceed one hundred dollars, it shall
be lawful for any Trial Justice of the coun-
ty in which such lien is indeXed, upon the
production of said lien, and proofs required
in cases where clerks of the court may issue
warrants, to issue his warrant directed to a
constable or the sheriff of the county, re-
quiring him to seize said crop or crops, and
after due notice sell the same for cash and
apply the net proceeds thereof, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, in eXtinguish-
ment of said lien: Provided, that if the per-
son to whom such advances have been
made shall give notice in writing within
ten days after such seizure, accompanied
with an affidavit to the effect that the
amount claimed is not justly due, then the
trial justice issuing the warrant shall, at the
expiration of twenty days, decide an issue
which shall be made up, in which the per-
son who may have made such advances
shall be the actor.
SEC. .. That every landlord leasing lands
for agricultural purposes shall have the
right to enforce his lien for rent in the same
manner, upon the same conditions and sub
iect to the same restrictions as are herein
provided for persons making advances for
agricultural purposes.
SEC 3. That this Act shall not be so con-
strued as to prevent clerks of Court Of the
several counties of the State from issuing
warrants to enforce agricultural liens in all
cases now provided for by law.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-01-08
). & L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD.
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HCHEDuLE Of Mail and Passenger Trains
~ rom Lenoir, n. c., to Chester, S. c., taking
effect at o'clock, Noon, Sunday, November ID
at Chester.
GOING SOrTH
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-01-08

AlIi'e d. heuoir, o.oo h
gs- An accommodation train will run daily
Sundays excepted, leaving Chester at 5.15 P. NJ.
arriving at Yorkville at 7 P. NJ. Going South
leave Yorkville at sos, A. NJ, arrive at Chester
at 9.55. G. R. TALCOTT, Superintendent.
November G a. If
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-01-08
LISTING PROPERTY FOR TAXATION.


SECTION l. That an Act entitled "An Act
to amend Title II, Chapter NJ, of the Gen
eral Statutes, relating to the assessment and
taxation of property, so that the Treasur-
er can collect and the Auditor assess at the
same time," be, and the same is hereby
amended in the following particulars {:
Strike out the word "May" wherever it Oc-
ours and substitute the word january" in
it's stead; and strike out the word "June"
wherever it occurs and substitute the word
"February," so that the listing of property
shall annually begin on the first day of jan
uary and end on the twentieth day of Feb
ruary.
SEC. =. In conformity with the provision
of Section |, there shall be no returns Of
property for taxation during the year 1885 !;
but in lieu thereof property will be listed
for the taxes of the fiscal year lsS5-s6, from
January to February 20, 1886, as above
provided.
SEC. g. The State board Of equalization
being required by the provisions of Section
25S, General Statutes, to meet in the year
1856 for the purpose of equalizing the value
of all property among the counties, it is
hereby directed that full returns of all real
estate be made at the time of listing other
property, to wit, from January to Febru-
airy 90, 1886.
SEC. t. That all Acts or parts of Acts in
consistent with or repugnant to this Act be,
and the same are hereby repealed.
PROFITABLE COTTON RAIsING.-The At
lanta Constitution records the results of a
competitive trial in cotton raising in GeOr-
gia, in which seventy-tive planters partic-
ipated. A fertilizer company in the State
offered $500 in gold for the best yield Of cot
ton made on ground enriched with their
fertilizer, and four Jersey bulls for the best
Weld produced by clubs. The highest yield
was 1916 pounds of lint cotton to the acre,
or three and a half bales of 43O pounds
EACH The lowest yield was 43O pounds or
a bale to the acre. The average of the sew
enty-fve farmers was ia pounds, or nearly
used an average of SSS pounds of the fertil-
iZer, which cost $l5.54. The cotton brought
S69. &C, leaving net profit of S4l.12 to the
acre, the cotton seed nearly paying for the
cultivation "At bale to the acre above
the cost of the fertilizer, any farmer can get
rich,n says the Constitution, and The seven
ty-five made more than that average. The
returns from the State show that on an av-
erage three and half acres were required
to produce a bale, or seven acres under
the old method, to secure what the new
method produced from one acre-a demon
stration of the profits Of improved farming
which will not be lost on the planters
of the cotton belt. The corn premiums
produced results equally gratifying. There
were sixteen contestants, and the aver
age yield was eighty-one bushels to the
acre, the first premium being taken with
l1G4 bushels. The interest in these contests,
and their success, prove that the Southern
planters are abandoning the loose, old
plantation methods, and are. beginning to
see the profits and comfort in small farms,
sWstem ~e r,'iei viii nav that section befter than
all the politics it ever indulged in.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-01-08
FOUN DRY

YJNEIE undersigned would respectfully inform
the public that he now has in operation, on
his lot on Kings Mountain Street, FOUNDRY
AND MACHINE SHOP, in which he is prepared
to do all manner of work in light iron and brass
castings, and general machine work.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-01-08
JOB PRINTING.


OWING to our superior facilities with the best
" machine presses, an abundance of type and
first-class appointments throughout our office,
we are prepared to execute all manner of JOB
PRINTING in superior style, and at prices that
will compare with New York or Philadelphia
charges for the same quality of work and mate
rials. We have recently made a reduction in
prices for the following classes ofwOrk, to which
we invite the attention of business men:
BILL HEADS.
For 500 For 1000
Half-sheet Bill Heads, ,-......"...S3.50 $500
Fourth-sheet Bill Heads, .......". 225 $50
Sixth-sheet Bill Heads, ,.......... 200 300
Monthly statements at same price Of sxth-sheet
dill heads. We will fill an order for bill heads,
giving any desired number ofeither size oGsheet
at proportionate prices.
HEADS.
For 500 For 1000
Commercial Note,""..""..".S2.15 S3,25
Packet Note, ZZ0 5.oo
Letter Qarge siZe) ........ 30O 5.0O
For the above work we use a superior quality
of paper, and guarantee entire satisfaction in ev-
cry instance.
We also give special attention to the printing
ties, which we furnish strictly according to the
requirements Of the Justices of the Supreme
Court and in proof reading exercise the utmost
care to ensure accuracy.
We are prepared to furnish all other kinds OF
printing, from visiting card to large volume,
and will be pleased to furnish estimates for any
style of work desired. Address,
L. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. G,
Noyember 30 4S If
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-17

There is one characteristic of the ordi-
nary woman which breaks out in her
dress as we'll as in other ways which the
trained and experienced woman, espec-
ally the woman of education and refine
ment, has gotten rid of-and that is, fus-
siness. In daily life it eXpends itself in a
vast amount of talking and unnecessary
preparation and worry over every little
change, event, or circumstance that is un.
usual in asking dozen questions where
one would do; in getting ready and eX
citing the entire household in regard to a
tripo hundred miles as if ii were jour
ney round the world in making the most
common and commonplace acts of every
day existence the unceaSlng cause OF won
der, alarm, surprised comments, and
startling CALCULATIONS.
In dress business exhibits itself in fly.
ing ends, i'll bits stuck on without mean
| ing, i'll designs cut up into small pieces, IL
ornamentatiOn that has no relation to the
object upon which 1t is expended, in the
/ adding OF numerous accessories, cOngru
/ Gus or homogeneous, and mixing color IL
such way rs To produce utter confusion
/ of IDEAS. In fact, the outcome of tuS,i
ness is always confusion, and it is the he
| setting sin of otherwise very good women
/ There Is nothing, not moral delinquency
/ or mental inCapaCity, that SO inpairs
| WOman's influence as this same quality o
| business. Men everywhere dread it, anC
/ 1t Is more obvious, now that the speed
with which we travel and with whlcl
every act of life has TO he executed, rem
/ ders promptness, decision, quiet accept
ance and AN absence of obstructive i'm
pedlmentS in speech and belongings in
dlSpensable to enjoyment or satisfaction
in work or play.
There are fusSy men, and every woman
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-17

is about the only industry. Now remove
the protective tariff from the industries
that make the towns which make Il
market for the New England farmers and
what will be the result? When the Nor
rison tariff bill was under discussion Il
prominent paper in England, representing
the manufacturers there, said That 1t
would make it possible for the English
manufacturers of cotton, wool, iron etc.
to sell $500, 600, 600 more of their products
in America. That would mean 0,OO0, 600
less to be manufactured here and the clos
ing of our factories This done, what would
become of the New England farmers
marked in our manufacturing towns !? To
saw that only those industries are benefited
by protection which are directly protect, d
is as absurd as. to affirm that only those
persons are protected by the laws for the
punishment of theft who are rescued
from thieves by the officers of the law.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-17
VERMONT CROP PROSPECTS.
The Probable Yield of Hay Less than a
Million Ions-Other Crops and
Dairy PRO ucts.
correspondence Boston Journal


ICorrespondence Boston Journal
Reports received from all parts of the
State concerning the hay crop for the
present year are to the effect that the ag
gregate yield will be less than in any sea-
son for decade The average hay crop
since 1875 has been 100, 900 tons annually
in round numbers, but this year the yield
will not exceed $50 600 tons. THIS is about
100000 tons less than the product of last
season, which was not II year of average
frutfulness. The lightness of the hay
crop is accounted for by grass being win
ter killed, by the drouth that has prevail
ed since the first part of June and through
destruction wrought by grubs and grass.
hOpperS. These causes have operated to
blight and injure the meadows and hay
fields. which gave promise in early sum
mer of producing large crops of hay. The
severe drouth was broken ten days ago,
since which time heavy rains have fallen
throughout the State. These showers,
however, came too late to benefit the grass
to any great extent. The grass on low
lands and clay bottom lands and newly
seeded pieces was somewhat benefited
but uplands and old meadows were not
improved.
There has been deficiency of heat since
June first for the growth and develop
ment of crops. Wheat corn, barley, oats,
potatoes and other products of the field
and farm have consequently suffered
Corn especially is in "A very backward con-
dtion. Unless there is a plenteous rain
fall and much hot weather, the prospect,
it is safe to assume, is not encouraging for
large crops. With the most favorable
weather there will not be an average crop
of the leading products of the soil.
The grasshopper and his mlschievous
companion, the white grub, are devastat-
ing the meadows and pastures in several
sections of the State. These fell destroy
erS are most numerous in Central Yer.
mont, and many farms have been overrun
by them The drouth has been the most
severe in the counties of Windham, Wind
sor, Orange, Caledonia, Essex, Orleans
and Addison. The counties of Franklin,
Grand Isle, Washington, Lamoille Chit
tenden, Rutland and Bennington have
not been so seriously affected. Up to the
present time but little grass has been cut,
and the only estimate that can be made
up at this time regarding the hay crop
must consequently be based on observa-
ton and examination of the standing
grass in meadows and fields. The reports
| from the various counties are so similar
in character that they may be summar-
lied in general statement, as made
above.
The following is an estimate of the hay
! pr of nv
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-17
Fashion Notes for the Ladies'.
From the New York SUM-

r,.. ,,ao.o,, o,,, ..,.,.. i,
halee Wpoueii ai.i porcelain peads are
solhe VI .ne oecora.ioiis Oh the latest
"ooiien i"'co'
me new Wooilen faces WIN Velyet hg-
ures aPpl,qae 'hereoh come Ill colors 10
llia.ch i"orios,
"Housemald frocks of white lawn,
nalhsook ana mull are the order of the
DAY Tor July ana August.
Woollen lace comes for fall enriched
with the addition of velvet pattern
chain-stitched on the wool side.
For evening. dinner and garden marty
toilets younr ladies wear one small inf
of natural flowers in the hair and another
ON the shoulder
Tho ooo,eo, md ro,,,,bor .ho f,hu;o ,ho
mora fnehionahie IL e for dov ,"anr h brt
tn a,ani,,or IL n,,,et ha th o"a ~
nr ,i,oa, or oIo,tant ,S n,lsi,i ''''' 10 ii'ie
vi , 9''ooi VI w s,'i' 90 pV1'i".''
Drawn .nreauWolk, Iileu IN Win Draid-
enc the new ialCy eIhpr0luery STUN ior
hover petals Is me popular occupation
lor MORNINGS oh the p'a|zas at saratoga
ana Ne" port
a woman must have good figure to
wear the English housemald's dress, for
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-17

A Barnard man who returned from the
Vermont colony in Dakota Il few days
ago reports very hopefully Of the condI-
ton of things ont there. Good crops have
Teen planted and they are looking full as
well as the crops in this State. Another
one writes The Vermont colony landed
May 80 with nothing but few shelter
tents to cover them from the storms and
it was cold, wet and disagreeabe weather
They went to work with will, in prepar-
ing for themselves suitable homes, Some
ten or twelve houses have been put up on
different claims. Near the centre of the
town there are two stores, one hotel, one
livery stable, two Offices and one dwell
ing house These are all completed. Re
lipious services have been established and
"A school house will soon be built. The
members of the colony like the country.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-17

There is but little old hay on hand
among the farmers or the market. The
supply of old hay is considerably less than
at this time last year. The winter was an
unusually severe one and cattle were not
turned out TO pasture as early as usual.
Buyers for the city markets are paying on
an average SIP per ton for old hay
Pasture lands through the State show the
effect of the drouth. In most counties the
pastures are burned to brown color.
Butter and cheese have not been sold in
the market at such low prices for many
years us now. The ruling price at the lead
ing markets in the State July for the finest
creamery or choice dairy butter was from
10 to Is cents per pound. Good butter re-
tailed for from II to ID cents per pound
Vermont annually produces about 25, 0OO,-
600 pounds of butter and 5000 pounds
of cheese. The prospect is thaC with a
price of butter will appreciably advance
in the market
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-17

Correspondence Bnlaltpnla Press.
To study the real, everyday life of Hol-
land one would have to leave the large
cities and visit the towns and villages,
many of which cannot boast of the modern
luxury of a railway. Take such IL town
as IIoorn, and, although its picturesque
ness has, | think, been exaggerated by
some writer's, it is undoubtedly, with AK
maar close by, good section to learn
something of Dutch customs and rural
life 1t is only within few months that
Hoorn could boast of railroad,
There this grave old town has stood for
centuries on the Xuider Zee. For miles
before it is reached one sees the high en-
bankment or sea wall that has reclaimed
and made land for the truck on which the
locomotive runs. Generations of sleepy,
easy-going people have passed in process
sion from the cradle to the grave since
the DAYS when Hoorn was known and
felt in the world. They have dwelt, to be
sure, in the same old houses, with narrow,
steep stairwayS, black oaken beams and
| gable roofs, that seem to nod and wink
and look tipsy, and jolly and funny at each
other to this day The doors and the win
dow frames of these houses are painted
to-day with the same colOrS as in the days
when the fleet of Hoorn started to take
the town of London. Green, black, yell
! low and pink are gay colors for such a
trowsy old place as Foorn. What the
people of Hoorn do is mystery to me.
| A few of them leisurely drive about in
long, ma, row, dark green wagons, with
solid wooden aXles, Springs are taxed in
| Holland so the poor cannot afford them
on their vehicles. Others seem to be en-
uaged in securing mlkpanS in narrow
streets. and by tar the majority stand
around and stare curiuusly, though not
rudely, at strangers, wondering, no doubt,
what one can see IN luOrn to make it
! WORT a visit.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-17
The Object of Protection.
From the Boston Journal

The object Of protection is to secure to
the producer the home market, and the
amount of protection which any industry
receives cannot be estimated by the
amount of duties collected on rival pro-
ducts imported, but by the extent to
which the duty imposed secures to it the
benefit of the home market. Not many
months since foreign flour was offered in
New York by foreign house at n price
less than the same grades were sold there,
but the tariff stood in the way. There are
those who think that wheat can be pro-
duced in India so cheap with the labor,
which costs next to nothing, that it can be
sold in the United States at a price below
that which the American producer can
afford. But for the tariff on sheep, Can
ada would send us much larger drOycs of
sheep than it now does from every point
across the border, and the industry in
Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire,
which Is largely remunCratiye because the
manufacturing towns make Il constant
market for mutton. would he injured.
The fifteen cents per buShcl duty imposed
upon potatoes, while it does not greatly
enhance the price of that farm product
one year with another, saves our people
the home market IN seasons of plenty
Statistics show that agriculture IN the
midst of varied industries is much more re
munerative than in those sections where il
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-17

Not all medicinal preparations called tones
are such. mere stimulant Of appetite, which
gives II simple "hhp to Nature" which re-
moves no obstacle to her processes in the
human system, is in no true sense Il tonic
lIOslrttUT's Stumucr littcr~ not only far ran
seconds m purity the or llnnry unmcdicutcd
stimulants of commerce. the cheap local Tit
tens. and eve Openers Ncuucd as tOuicS, but
where they are puwcrl So to do moe than inn
part a tenn prUN stimulus To uppctlt' the
Bittcrs restore, digest ion, remedies bilious
ness and iu-u cs regularity i'm the habit Of
body, II l., therefore, tonic in the true
SENSE of the word for does it not renew
harmony Ot tone in the most important
functions of a. body, where all before was
dis ordant feeble and in harmonious Besides
this It's iuNigOraling and regulating effects
constitute 1t the best possible safeguard
against malari ! diseases. 1t cOnqucrs rheu-
matsm, kidney complaints and nervousness
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-17

From the Boston Travellcr.l

The Pan Man Gazette gave London a
sensation yesterday by publishing five
column article in which it alleges gross
immortality in high places, charging aristo-
cratic personages with disgusting offences.
The cable says that 'the article is repletc
with filthy and startling revelation. "
Very likely The Pan Man gazette is
that kind of II paper under its later man
agement. Decent people, on both sides Of
the Atlantic, may be prudentIy warned
10 make heavy discounts on the P0li
mars prurleut disclosures The paper
has been in bad OdOrin respectable London
circles for n long time II is VIGOROUSLY
merccnury sheet, and probably il is the
only example of paper of any COnsc-
qucucc published in the English language
that sold itself into the service of II
foreign country against its own, This
the ran NdU did, in the recent Afghan
controversy, steadily championing the
Russian side throughout, and no doubt
pocketing Russian roubes for its unpa-
triotic work. In performing this Ilesslan
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-17

service it no doubt incurred the dislike
aud c bntempt of many of the leading men
in the public lite of London. The cannon
ade of nasti mess, of which the echoes reach
us to-day by cable, is probably its way of
striking back: or Russia, having ceased
to he II source of needed income. it may he
that it aims at raising the wind by levying
hush money on II few of the wealthy rakes
who intest London, AS they do all great
cities. 1t is well enough to make such
vile wretches suffer both in their reputa-
tons and their pockets, but it is too bad
that such II journalistic jackai as the Pnl
Man Gdzette should profit by their smart
inn