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Year: 1873

Is hereby given that application will be made
i to the Legislature at its next session for the
opening and establishing Public Road, from
the Black River Road three or four miles from
Camden, to the Bishopville Road at or near the
Big Hill.


July "a tm.
Year: 1873

ing lines OF creeds. Christ's gospel was found to
be the same In all hearts, and that knowledge was
worth more than all the money expended In the
production or the Conference The impression
made on the minds OF ali who attended will be OF
incaiculabe value, and the closeness OF intimacy
which was engendered can never be obliterated-
it was the spontaneous eusion OF honest Christian
hearts The strength as well as the unity OF the
Christian faith had also been demonstrated. There
has been lately good deal said and written about
the growth OF unbelief; but the Conference showed
that but very little OF this evil really existed Ihe
leaders OF this movement keep themselves always
before the public to their own purposes, but
they have no followers. Sound the trumpet and
rally the ranks OF


THE CHRISTIAN ARMY,


and response will come from every freside IN
the country; there will be no coDscrpts, but all Iree
volunteers in the Gospels cause. Another good
done by the Conference was the encouragement
given to rho ministry OF other lands by the ad-
vanced state OF Christianity they found here and
the Impressions gained OF the strength and unity
OF American faith. Finally, the success OF the Con-
ference proved that religious men possessed able
generalship for II they had not 1t would have been
impossible to have accomplished SO gigantic o
scheme SO that IT resulted In ar intellectual trl-
umph which win ever remain engralted on the
minds OF the American people and be recorded upon
tne historical scrolls OF all nations.
Year: 1873

The treasury Department wall begin the pm.
ting of the new hfty-eent note next week bat will
probably not issue it before ten days. The new
note viii be about quarter Of an inch shorter
and a quarter Of an inch wider than thst nov in
rirnplatidn
Year: 1873

Done at the RECORD Office in the best style
known to the art; and must be paid for on de-
livery. unless persons having the work done
have standing accounts with the Office. No de.
Walton from this rule.
Year: 1873

The Table. for June, edited by BARRY GRAY,
completes the first half year Of prosperous existence,
and is announced being happily established firm
and satisfactory basis 1t has proved efficient guide in
the noble science Of gastronOmy andn the practical
OF eating in the Of and OF Christians rather
than OF beasts The magazine is not only ddactc and
appetizng, but often amusing, setting of the savory
viands which 1t recommends with spice of apt and
piquant auecdote In the matter Of Spring lamb green
peas and salads and OF fancy Summer drinks which COOL
but not ebnate better authority than that
OF the editor of "The Table"
Year: 1873

Government has been asked for aid
to enable destitute Americans to re.
turn from the Worlds Exposition at
Vienna. 1t is to be hoped that Gov
ernlnent will turn deaf ear to all
entreaties from that source. Men
who are possessed Of brass enough to
ask such q favor are certainly able to
make their way back to their native
country without government assist
ance. Travelling and Sightseeing
have become q mania with the Amer
ican people and II they will travel
they should count the cost before
starting and go prepared for all reas-
enable contingencies. When they
do not they should be compelled TO
suffsr the penalty of their folly. II
these individuals are brought home
at government expense every Ameri-
can hummer In foreign lands viii
ask for, and expect, like aid and
who can tell where the thing will
end
Year: 1873

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE con-
tinued decline In the premium on
gold has furnished additional reasons
In official quarters here for the dis
cussion OF the best plan for the re-
sumption of specie payments. The
Secretary Of the Treasury has en-
pressed the opinion that while re-
turn to coin basis for circulation as
q result Of the late panic would to
quite unexpected, II was by no means
Improbable. II is true that twice
before the premium on gold has
been down TO eight and half per
cent, but not under circumstances SO
favorable to resumption. The Presi-
dent has become quite interested In
the subject, and to-day informed sev-
eral gentleman who had quite an
interview with him that he should
make it one Of the leading features
Of his message to Congress. lie be-
lieved IL resumption was not reached
before the New Year that early and
judici0us legislation would speedily
bring it about.
Year: 1873

It is stated on the authority OF
Gen. Cameron, that Senator Conk-
ling will not accept the Office Of Chief
Justice II appointed by the President;
and that he intends to retire from
political life at the close Of his Sena-
torial term, and In the future devote
himself to the practice Of law.
Year: 1873

Another political campaign has
ended, and doubtless all are glad that
1t has past. 1t is duty of every cit
iSen to be to some extent a politician;
all should feel an interest in politics ;
all should read and be as fully inform
ed as possible in reference to affairs
OF government, in his own town,
township, county and State, as well
as those Of the nation. Every man,
woman and child has an interest In
these matters whether 1t is felt and
appreciated or not. Many of our
best men have distaste of politics
and all connected Herewith, and
hence are disposed to let others
have full management of such mat
ters. This is wrong, and is really
the foundation of most of the evils
existing in our political system. II
good men will have nothing to do
with politics bad men will take the
reins, and hence, we have bad re-
suits. Parties must and will exist
and must and will be what their ac-
tive men make them. Nine-tenths
of the members of q party may be
good and honest men, moral and pa
triotic, intelligent and virtuous, but
If they are disposed to have nothing
to do or say in politics, the one tenth
composed of men who are active be-
cause they have some personal incen-
tive, will control the action Of the
party and make it dojust such things
as it should not do-such things as it
would not do If its better men would
act their part and exert their
influence as far as possible to prevent
wrong in the party and keep it right
in principle and action.


At best, however, there is always
much that is unpleasant in politics,
and especially in a campaign. But
no man should neglect duty because
it is unpleasant. Elections are una
voidable in republic; parties and
campaigns follow as consequences.
We all want fair and good nomina-
tions, fair campaigns and elections;
we want good men and good princi-
Piles to prevail; we want honest and
competent men in Office; we want
good laws and justt execution. In
order to secure these results we must
bear what there is unavoidably un-
pleasant in the annual political cam
paigns. Ifall would cheerfully car
ry their due share of duties, as they
.sRlnat nlsAsns nsa11e~s sa1sys~ssy ~snucis
that is wrong and unpleasant in these
matters might be corrected or avoid.
Year: 1873

FALSE HUNuLITY.-Dr. Watson tells
a very good story of Sister Scrub, who


was given to hospitality, and the very
bad habit of running down everything
she had in the way of meat and drink, rs
if she would by this plan induce her
guests to praise them the more. Elder
Blunt had endured this kind of aflliction
several times, and undertook to put an
end to it. " Putting up" at Brother
Scrubs one day, his horse was cared for,
and he was shown into the best parlor,
where everything was as nice as new
pin. Mrs. Scrub was sorry her house
was upside down, and it wasn't tit for u
minister to sit down in, but she was glad
to see him, and would try to make him
comfortable. The dinner came on, and
Mrs. Scrub declared the dinner was 50
mean and miserable she was ashamed of
it; and when she was in iull blast with
her dcprecations, Elder Blunt jumped up,
said he couldn't and wouldn't stay in a
house where everything was in such
state; he would so where he could find
something fit to eat, and n decent place
to eat in. In spite Of all they could do,
the Elder insisted on having his horse and
quitting the house. Sister Scrub wcpt
sore over her fault and being heartily
ashamed and cured, the Elder in due time
returned and ever attcrward found n good
homo with Brother and Sister Scrub
WooVS Household Magdsine.
Year: 1873

A BABY having given to too long and
too loud vent to her emotions at one OF
John Ovens recent performances, the
actor stepped to the footlights and in
formed the audience that "unless the
play was stopped the baby could not go
onD
Year: 1873

An extensive dealer In animals says
that an elephant with two heads is on
Its way from South Africa to join his
collection. This will cause the tradi-
tional biceps calf to hide its diminish
cd head.
Year: 1873

GrT- The state superintendent; of No,
has given the North Missouri Insurance
company sixty days to make good its un-
paid capital


The business men Of Dardanellc who
were insured in the above company and
who were losers by the fire of last win.
ter; say that if the North Missouri wrong
ed its policy holders elsewhere as it did
those of Dardanelle, they should think
the company ought not to need any time
in which to make good any deficiency. -
DoydaHiYs Argus.
Year: 1873

Eg- A pretentious hypocrite who was
in the habit Of praying 80 vooiferously
that his neighbors and persons in the
street could hear him, was quietly in
formed by his pastor, one day that il he
would get little nearer to God, he
wouldn't have TO pray 90 loud
Year: 1873

Attention Is directed to the advertisement
Of the above celebrated Gin, in our paper. IT
is highly recommended by all who have tried
it. Cali and see the Gin at d. c. WILLIAMS
Store,
Year: 1873

CHERRY CREEK.-We are in recent of
a communication from Cherry Creek re-
lating the fact of celebration having
been held there on the Fourth just passed


Coming at so late an hour, we find it
impossible to publish it, but from read
ing of the correspondence are satisfied
Cue honor was paid to the glorious day.
Year: 1873

~"Thpre Is no new thing under
the sum-" said the preacher. He wouldn't
say So now, If he should come to life
for little while and have his photo
graph taken, and go up in balloon,
and take trip by railroad, and vov-
age hv steamship, and get message
from General Grant by the cable, and
see mans leg cut of. without its hurt
ing him If it did not take his breath
away and Law him oat as fat as the
Queen of Sheba was knocked over b.
the splendor Of his court, he must have
rivaled our Indians in the nI admirar,
line. sfis
Year: 1873

The Omaha Herald, of the 10Th instant
says ga young man called yesterday at the
Union Pacific general ticket office, and re-
quested a confidential interview with the
gentleman who is in charge. This being ac-
corded him he mysterously folded back the
lapel of his vest and showed a small me-
tallic shield with the word "Detective" on
it in raised letters. Then he gravely point
ed to pair of handouts which he carried


in an inside pocket. He explained that he
was in the employ of the Government Sc
cret Service, and had started for western
city on the line Of the road. He had lost
his wallet containing his money and his tick
cts. He had but 50 SO in change. The
man lie was going for was "shovng the
queer" up the road, and must be stopped.
The jealous detective must 80 after his man
even if he had to walk, or do any other
unseemy thing. After some delay, it was
decided to issue the detective II pass, pro-
vided he would sign an order on the Secret
Service Department for bis pay. Of course
he would and he did Then he took lis
pass and departed. He had only left the
Office a few minutes when message went
over the wire to Washington, and presently
an answer came that no man Of the name
given was in the employ of the Secret Ser
vice. He was then on the westward bound
train with his pass in his pocket, but tee-
OF ,n was sent ahead to the next station di-
rccting the conductor to take up that pass
and collect full fare. 1t was done, and it
was found that the funds of the wandering
fraud were by no means confined to 81 so.
The young and interesting gentleman is five
feet five inches high, with black hair and
mustache, and very prominent Roman
nCSe,
Year: 1873

INDIAN Corn AND ITS USES IN DOMESTIC
EcoNoMY.-A bushel of Indian cora contains
more nutIiment than Il bushel of wheat; but
Indian corn should not be ground fine, and
it will not keep sweet. There is no grain
chat can Le put to SO many good uses and
served up so many different ways as corn
meal


First, we have the green corn, roasting
ear ard soup in lhe early, aid the dried corr
soup aud hominy the balance cf the year
These dishes every good housekeeper knows
how 10 prepare, being among the most COM
mon and simple in the culinary art.


And then by grinding II into meal what
visions of delicious eating float before our
eyes. First. we have the corn cake, made
of meal and water and little salt; if you
are too poor to use eggs and milk, mix into
dough and bake on a g,iddle. Then corn
bread or pone which can only lie made prop
erly by about one heusekeeper in ten. Then
musl, and milk and fried mush. We have
never seen the individual that did not like
one or the other. Many fail in making good
mush by not boiling it lough. When it is
merely scaidel it has a raw taste. Then





made by stirring the meal into scalded skim
milk till it is as thick as Cruel, and when
cool, add ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and
sweetening to suit the taste, and little fine
cut suet and some raisins or dried peaches
aud fine cut apple 1t should bake an hour
or more, according to size. This Is good
pudding. And then see into how many dish
es corn becomes palatable and favorlte mix
ture. 1t s tie cheapest and most whole
some food that man can live on, and should
be on the table of Leth rich and poor more
frequently than il now,is, in some one of its
many forms. GermdlkQWn Telegraph.


A piece of red pepperthe size of your fin
ger nail put into the meator vegetables when
first beginning 10 cook, will aid greatly in
killing the unpleasant odor arising theretrom.
Remember this for boiled cabbage, green
BEANS onions, chickens, mutton, etc.


ADVANCE IN WHEAT Our telegraphic
commercial letter from New York states that
wheat in that market advanced during last
week from seven to ten cents per bushel.
The advance in the week preceding was from
five TO seven cents, making tangible and
considerable increase for the fortnight. The
effect in San Francisco ofthe rise in Liver
pool and New York was, in the early part of
last week, an increase OF twenty cents per
GENITAL. On Saturday there was a slight
break, but Monday prices recovered to the
twenty cents increase, With an excited mar
ket. The upward tendency on the ether
side of the Atlantic is attributed 10 heavy
operations Of Fscnch buyers in rhe English
market and in addtioa, the bad weather for
harvesting in Englaud.-S. f. Bulletin.


SALT is a simple remedy for mlny things
1t will cure sick headache, make cream
free ze, make the butter come, take ink stains
out of cloth of amy kid, kill wens, kill
wor, s; make the ground cool, SO that it is
NOR, congenial to celery, cabbage, etc. ease
the iching pain caused by irritable skin dis
ease 5, Ike hives, itch, etc. produce vomit
ing or stop it, as you like; and many other
thini IS too numerous to mentlon.
Year: 1873

STORY OF CAT.-My name is Jet. |
have often heard people say1 was the black
est cat they ever saw like my color for
never get dirty like my neighbor, Snow.
| have not always lived in this city, for |
was born at one Mr.. Browns in the country.
But as Mr. B. was poor, times hard, mice
scarce, and kittens so plentiful that many
were being drowned all over the country, |
was given to my present owners. The fam
lily to which | belong is composed of my
master, mistress and their two children, Ed
ward and Mary, and two servants. | know
a great many secrets about them all; know
that master kisses the servant girl when mis-
tress goes to visit her mother; know that
mistress took money from masters pocket
while he slept; | know that Master Edward
opened the p ntry door with his trunk key
and ate his m,thers reserved for company
preserves, and know how much time Miss
Mary spends before the looking glass. | am
sometimes very much grieved at hearing the
cook say that | ate the cold victuals that she
gaNe her poor kin; and the servant girl says
that | broke the crockery that she let fall


Yet ! ought to. be the bappest creature in the
would, for am expected to do nothing from
day to day but catch rats and mice, and this


is my greatest pleasure. How fortunate
that my greatest pleasure is my chief duty.
1t is not thus with Master Edward, for his
father Says he ought to pay less attention to
play and more to study. He hates to study
at all. but loves to play all day long. How
is it with you, my friend ? f.. l.. vi.
Year: 1873

A young gentleman telegraph operator in
Hartford, after repeated calls for young
lady operator in another Office, at last got a
response, and then he teegraphed back to
her: 81 have been trying to get you for the
last half hour!'' In moment the following
spicy reply came tripping back to him over
the wires from the telegraphic maiden


"That's nothing. There is young man
here been trying to do the same thing for the
last two years, and he hasn't gos me yet"
Year: 1873

GAIT. SMITH, Of the Shirttail Bend
packet, Sally Jane. noticed on his last
outward trip that his boat was running
uncommonly level. and was at loss
to accoun. for the phenomenon until
he found young gentleman seated In
the center Of the cabin with both his
name and his hair parted in the mid
dla
Year: 1873

A KENTUCKY man set out to hus6 81
bushels Of corn the other day, but
right In the busiest part Of the task he
was called OIL TO shoot man who had
proposed elopement to his wife. He
therefore fell short two bushels.
Year: 1873

ALFRED WALTON. Druggist. No. 2S5 Market
street respectfully informs his friend and the public
In general that he keeps on hand all descriptions O.
medicines, and that competent person is at all
times ready to prescribe for such sick as call at tn
store and that charge is made except the regular
price of the medicines the same "ice as they would
pay anywhere else; but that ne one 's visited at
their residences.
Year: 1873

SALE OF SILVER WARE.-The sale Of elegant
sverplated ware is still continued at the auction
store OF Ogle IL Miller. These goods are the
handsomest articles of the kind ever sold in this
city, and are remarkably cheap at the prices they
have been selling for. 1t is rarely such an as
sortment to select from is found anywhere, and
never in city the size of ours unless at special
sale. Those who wish something really valua-
bic and beautiful should attend this sale. 1t
closes on Thursday
Year: 1873

In a healthy condition the skin is
kept supple by an oily secretion, which
answers the same purpose as oiling
leather. During warm weather this
secretion, in com mon with all the other
secretions of the skin, is more abundant
than in cold. When it is insufficient
the skin becomes dry and harsh and
in;those parts of the body where the
skin is thick and subject to much mo-
ton, as on the hands, it readily cracks
or assures. The amount of this secre-
ton is so much reduced in cold weather
that the frequent washing of the hands
with soap causes them to chap readily,
and this the more certainly if the soap
is not thoroughly washed off. The alkali
in soap is usually in excess, and this
combines with the oily secretion, and SO
deprives the skin of its natural lubrica-
tor. To prevent the hands from chap
ping, then, be careful to wash all soap
from them thoroughly in clean water.
This will ordinarily suffice; but if not,
it will be necessary to make good the
removed oil by the use of glycerine,
honey, mutton tallow, &c.
Year: 1873

Lady Davies, in her "recollections >
tells the following amusing story: While
we were both standing opposite MIR.
VS. dressing-room, the door OF
which in the haste of his departure had
been left open, perceived gentle
mans wig hanging there, and inquired
of Mrs. W to whom it could belong,
for Mr.. W was the last man sus-
pected of wearing one. She burst out
laughing at my question, and in reply
to it exclaimed, "for goodness sake,
don't let him know-pray never say
that told you but that wing belongs
to my husband. Nor that alone, for he
had four in alone with very short
hair, as if it had just been cut; another
with very long hair, as if it wanted cut
ting another with the hair moderately
long; and one elaborately dressed for
parties. Sometimes" she added, II
can scarcely prevent myself from laugh
inc when I hear an intimate friend adj
wise him to 90 and get his hair cut, and
perceive how, by change OF wig, it is
supposed that such advice has been
promptly TAKEN"
Year: 1873

Whatever position in society young
lady occupies, she needs practical
knowledge of household duties. She
may be placed in such circumstances
that it will not be necessary for her to
perform domestic labor; but on this
account she needs no less knowledge
than if she were obliged to preside per-
sonally over the cooking stove and pan
try. Indeed, we have often thought
that it is more difficult to direct others,
and requires more experience, than to
do the same work with our own hands.
Girls should early be taught the art OF
cooking well, and indulgedin the dispo
sition which they often display, even as
children, to experiment in bread
pastry baking. 1t is often buta trouble
some help that they afford, still it is a
great advantage to them. Some moth.
ers give their daughters the care OF
housekeeping, each week by turns. 1t
seems to us good arrangement, and q
most useful part of their education.
Domestic labor is by no means incom-
patible with the highest degree of re.
fnement and mental culture. Many OF
the most elegant and accomplished wo.
men we have known, have looked well
to their household duties, and have
honored themselves and their house.
holds by so doing. Economy, taste
skill in cooking. and neatness in the
kitchen, have great deal to do in max
ing life happy and prosperous. The
charm of good housekeeping is in the
order, economy, and taste displayed in
attention to little things, and these lit
lie things have a wonderful influence
A dirty kitchen and bad cooking have
driven many man from home to seel
comfort and happiness somewhere else
None of our excellent girls are fit to bt
married until they are thoroughly edu
Gated in the deep and profound mys
teries of the kitchen.