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4 The Ballad of Farmer Brown. A SONG'FOR THE TIMES, WITH A KORAL. Old farmer Brown came into the house, And wrathfully slammed the door, And flopped himself down into a chair, And flopped his hat on tho floor. For farmer Brown was dreadfully wroth, And his dander it was up ; And he. looked around with an angry scowl. And wrathfully kicked the pup. " I'm tired from head to foot, he said, " And hungry as I kin be ; I'd like to have a mouthful to eat Is dinner 'most ready?" said he. The farmer's wife she was pale and thin, . .>t And hungry and wan was she ; And her eye was dim and her step was slow, And her dress was a sight to see at: ?'Your dinner is ready," she meekly said " And tho dodgers*is smoking hot. But I've scraped the meal all out of the ; box, And the last jint's jest from the pot." "The mischief you have !" said farmer Brown, Heaving a doleful sigh ; u Thar's plenty of bacon and corn in town, And I've no money to buy." Up spoke the former's daughter, Marier And she hadn't spoke before ; "Thar's cotton out under the shed," said she, "Some dozen bales or more." 11 Cotton, th? devil." said farmar Brown, (It's dreadfully wrong to swear} " My cotton's all mortgaged for last year's work With never a bale to spare." "Well, then," his daughter upspoke . again, " If that won't do for feed, ] You've two or three wagon loads or more Of Dickson's Prolifio seed." " Do you think mea beast?" said farmer Brown, " Pm neither cow nor steer ; And what if I was ? I've hardly enough Of. seed to plant this year." "Then," said his dav' ter, Marier, again, " Thar's guano, lo^, she sard, f3l " Thar's twenty sacks full into the barn, And barrels under the shed. "Guano? Oh, Lud!" said farmer Brown, "I need all the precious stuff To put on my cotton land thia year, And then not have enough." But when the larmer had eaten his fill, He fell into thought profound. And smoking his tobacco, which cost at least Some ninety cents per pound. Then he muttered-Thar's something wrong About my farming, I swear ! We don't have even enough to eat, Nor half enough to wear! "?iy mules are starving almost to death, My cows are dreadfully thin ; Thar's hardly an ear of corn in the orib, And narry oat in the bin ! " The times ain't like they once have been^ When I was young and spry ; W a had fat horses and mules in the lot, And fat hogs left in the sty. . " My cribs were always chock full of corn, My smoke-house groaned with meat ; We had plenty of clothes to wear, And always had enough to eat. "Byjings! I'll change my habits at once, From woeful experience learn This year my cotton I'll plant in a patch, And plant my fields in corn." MORAL. All voa whose farms are going to wreck, Who've neither corn normest Just make the resolve of farmer Brown, And go for someting to eat ! SANDY HIGGINS. The Mistake of My Life. What was the mistake ? Why, in plain words, it was for me (me, poor Jack Johnson, with only fifteen hun dred dollars a year out of my fagging, toilful clerkship) not to succeed io marrying Mrs. Horatio Mackenzie, as she still liked to call herself, a widow of, perhaps, forty, and with fully for ty thousand for her yearly income. That was the mistake. Oh ! Luck, Fate, Fortune, whatev er be the name of that mysterious power that " shapes our ends, rough hew them as we will," how I have vituperated, anathematized, scorned you since that most miserable of events ! But lamentation was wholly useless. I had to bear it. I have been trying * t:> bear it ever since. I met Mrs. Mackenzie at the Elixir Springs, during the two final weeks of August. Everybody was rushing to the Elixir Springs that year ; why. it would need an (Edipus correctly to answer, except that they tasted like eggs whose first freshness is a memory of the past, and that three glasses of their water was enough to demoralize the most well-behaved of livers. I had two weeks of vacation, and followed the general rush to these springs. At first it was rather stupid. Plenty of vulgarity, plenty of pre tension, arid a little refinement. There was no use of my trying to mix with people, however, for I knew nobody, and nobody seemed even to observe the presence of humble me. At last it happened that I encoun tered, one morning, upon the piazza of the mammoth hotel, an exceeding ly jolly-looking fellow, with an ex ceedingly ugly-looking girl on his arm The jolly-looking fell?w and I in stantly grasped each others hand, - and showed many mutual signs of being delighted at the meeting. " My dear Jack I" exclaims Harry Tallman, "you're the last person I expected to see. Your bright face does me good. Let me present Mr. Johnson, Euphemia, my old friend, of whom I am sure you have often Heard me speak. Jack, this is my sister Euphemia." Whereupon Harry disengages him self from the altogether unpleasing Miss Tallman, who simpers profusely, and looks very much as though she would like to be talked to. Of course I am compelled to launch myself into a little current of small talk, to which Miss Euphemia mtkas responses, sow and then, that denerve at least to be called amiable. And I have just made the ungratifying dis covery that she is about as stupid as she is homely, when I am rapidly called upon to make the second dis covery that her brother Harry has tambfed away from us. Well, any society, I philosophically conclude, is better than none. Pres ently, Euphemia and I are strolling up and down the piazza, side by side. ^Conversation drags horribly. The ill-favored Euphemia can giggle 'Yes,' and titter "No," and simper, "Do you really think so?" but she isn't capable of doing much else. I begin to heve very rancorous.feel ings, indeed, toward the absent Harry. Suddenly I am rather surprised to see him in converse, at a short dis tance iron ouiaftl voa, with a atetelj, I? . imposing, stout female, of certainly forty, dressed in a sort of showy sec ond-mourning. The lady wears upon her august acquiline face a look of unconcealed, satisfaction; Harry is talking with evident earnestness and volubility. Euphemia gives a marked giggle, whilst her eyes follow mine. I look interrogative. " Who is Harry's majestic charm er ?" I presently ask. "Mrs. Mackenzie," J am promptly inforn.ed ; " Mrs. Horatio Mackenzie she likes to have people call her, I believe." " Harry seems to be enjoying him self," I state. Another giggle. " Yes. They've been quite inti mate for several cfays past." . And now I suddenly recollect that I have not known Mr. Harry Tallman for the past ten years or BO without also knowing some of his pet theories, too. Among these there is one of a very pronounced character. If ever Mr. Tallman marries, he has more than once confided to me that he means to marry for money, and (pro vided he can be so successful) for a great deal of money ?9 well. " Oh, yes,1 I immediately make haste to fib ; "I have heard this Mrs. Mackenzie spoken of before now. lihe is-ahem!-rather rich, is she not, and"-this last is a somewhat audacious venture-" a widow ?" " Her husband died about two years ago, I think," announces Euphemia, " and everybody agrees in saying that he left her an income of forty thous and dollnrs a year." "Indeed I" I try to look wholly uninterested. "Do you know her?" " Oh, ye? I" Then follows more tiresome talk about nothing. At last, I make a daring pause not three feet from where Harry and Mrs. Mackenzie are stand ing. Then I take the bull by the horns, and address a direct appeal so to speak-toward Euphemia's com mon politeness. "By-the-by, Miss Tallman, if it isn't too much trouble, will you have the kindness, at some time during the day, to-to present me to this Mrs. Mackenzie? I like her looks ex tremely." "Amiable Euphemia I" " Why, certainly, Mr. Johnson," ie the prompt answer ; " I shall be most happy to present you now. I know her quite well." Harry" just saves himself from the impertinence of an out-and-out frown as, a few moments later, he sees me formally presented to his companion. Mrs. Mackenzie acknowledges the introduction with great graciousness. I strain every nerve to be agreeable, and completely ignore (like the wretch I am) the benevolent Euphemia, who stiil stands at my side. Harry is evidently nonplussed at my cool assurance. Presently he finds the concealment of his chagrin alto gether too hard a task, and, offering his arm to the complacent, sheep-like Euphemia, moves away with her. A good hour passes after that, du ring which I level upon Mrs. Mack enzie the fullest broadsides of affa bility. It seems to me that the more I exert my .-elf the more gracious she becomes. I have not talked with hin ten minutes before I discover that she has one pet foible. She wishes to be thought.girlish, and soft-mannered, j and gentle ; she shudders at the idea of being called masculine or impres sive. Of course I cannot help marveling at her willingness to believe that she could ever, under any circumstances, appear anything except masculine and impressive. But, iiotwith>tandingthis firm conviction of mine, I behave like the most hypocritical of caitiffs, and murmur something to the following ?mendacious effect: " " Whatever cnn have made you imagine, Mrs. Mackenzie, that your style was anything of that ridiculous, sort? Indeed, where can greater sweetness and womanliness of manner be found, if-" " Oh, I fear you are a dreadful compliment-rnonger," she interrupts, with a*laugh, doubtless meant to be low and musical, but having, in re ality, a hard, Amazonian e?ect-like everything about the woman. The next time I see Harry Tall man, I cannot fail to observe his evi dent self-struggle in the matter of treating me with common civility. Harry has set himself to win the wid' ow, if such a thing is remotely feasi ble. My sudden successful interfer ence is, no doubt, giving him sensa tions toward me that, are little else tinta cannibalistic. Never mind; I will persevere. What is Harry Tall man's personal enmity when weighed against forty thousand a year ? During the next week or so, we run a nearly even race, Harry and I, in our pursuit of the prosperous Mrs. Ma-kenzie's preference. Nor at the end of that time is the race yet deci ded, as rega??s who has proved win ner. Mrs. Mackenzie beams upon me, but she also beams upon Harry. There are moments when I almost feel my pock?tB bulging with bank notes, so encouraging are her smiles and words ; but hope leaps into auch active life only to fade into something much less pronounced ; for to-day. I seem the preferred one ; * to-morrow, it is Harry. At last, the period of my departure from ?lixir Springs, has drawn no ticeably near. I shall be needed most imperatively by my employers in New York, on the first.of Septem ber ; and it is now the twenty-ninth of August. Can nothing be done to conduct-if one might so phrase it-events to an immediate, yet tell ing cr?B?8 ? On the evening of the thirtieth I sec ure Mrs, M>ck?nat for ? moon light stroll, and without darinj tread upon the sacred ground o absolute proposal, it must, nevei less, be admitted that I positi wallow in sentimentality. That night I part with her, fee certain that Harry Tallmanu's chi is slim, indeed, compared with own. Was not her behavior the of indulgence when I murmur?e and-so ? Did she not look down actually simper (in her bungling itation of girlishness), when I I tured upon thus-and-thus ? Heave I can almost feel the wheels of own carriage rolling be .eath What an emancipation-what amelioration-for poor Tack Johns The thirty-first is my final da; effort. On the thirty-first I a either speak, and speak boldly, or ever after hold my peace. " To le the field in Harry Tallmann's j session, with no decisive understa ing between myself and Mrs. M kenzie, will be openly to court an i evitable defeat. As a special favor, owing to approaching departure, I have, bi able, on the previous night, to eng) Mrs. Mackenzie's exclusive comp ionship for the night following. And never, as it turns out, ^ night more propitious for such occupation as that to which I des: dedicating it. A full moon holds the great i olooded heaven ; a light breeze wi ders murmurously through the silv ed foliage ; the air has not a tot of chilliness, and yet is fresh as tl of some early May evening. I do it. No matter exactly how is done, but I do it. There is no dov j at all that I make Mrs. Mac ken zit proposal of marriage'. She accepts me without mu humming or hawing, to speak ir businesslike way of so hallowed subject. After feeling certain that I am u changeably and irrevocably accept? I seem to take the rest of that wa on a succession of exceedingly coi fortable thrones. Just before we say good-by th night, for what is to be at least week of separation (since my btu ness imperatively demands that shall leave early on the followii morning), I ask my new fiancee tender question regarding some t ken of remembrance which I pr pose sending up to her from the cit " The ring I shall bring myst next Saturday," I softly whisper;" bi I want to send you something b tween now and then.. Pray sugge to me what the gift shall be." An immense affectation of timi bashfulness on the part of my afJ anced. " Anything you please," she ri] pies ; "only let it be something quil simple and inexpensive." Suddenly it crosses my mind thc a few days ago she greatly admire a certain shawl worn by a certai very young lady in the hotel-a gof samer-like, voluminous garment, ej tremely youthful in'character. " Very well,' I answer. " I wi send you something that you are t wear, and that whilst you wear yo ?ire to think of me-something th? is just suited to your style. I hop that you will have on, my love, whe we next meet." Oh, unlucky words ! I shiver t my very marrow as I recall and writ them ! Arriving in town the next day, immediately make .search for a shaw similar to that which Mrs. Macken zie has admired. I at last succeed in finding such : .shawl, pinchase it, and give order that it shall be sent to my boarding place. When I reach homo that night, '. find the bundle containing I he shaw lying on my table. There is also an other bundle, ?t which I glance, ant as I do so, I discover that an envelope addressed to myself, accompanies thi; latter package. I open the envelope, and. find it? contents to be a bill ; whereupon ] look at the bundle, and mutter, an noyedly : "Impertinent fellow! he promise?] to send them the day I started for the Springt. I shan't take them now; it's the only way to punish his bad I faith." That night I am so happy that I burn to celebrate my happiness in some fine, convivial way. My friend Peterkins has not yet heard the joy ful tidings. I pay Peterkins a visit, and quietly permit my bombshell of news to ex plode during our conversation. Poor Peterkins is monstrously amazed. He stares at me with great saucer like eyes for quite a while, and is speechless. " Let us stroll to Delmonico's, Peterkins," I propose, " and eat some supper." Whereupon my friend sigh* a short jealous little sigh. My future is to dine and sup ata Delmonico, he is probably thinking, as long as I live ; whilst his must be connected with cuisines of a very inferior order. But presently he bursts forth in a very torrent of congratulations, apd as sures me that I nm the luckiest fel low of .his acquaintance. Whilst he gives my hand a congrat ulatory wring, I make up my mind that we shall sup sumptuously, Pe terkins and I. True, I have over drawn my account more than a little of late ; but how can that possibly matter to a man whom forty thousand a year are waiting to beatify ? Indeed, as it turns out, Peterkins and I sup " not wisely, but too weU.'' It is nearly two o'clock when I must record that I stumbled upstairs hor ribly- befogged.'. " Befogged," in the sense in whicu I employ it, has a gen tle originality that I think my least ?cate read?? will not fail td discover. The next morning I awoke w frightful headache, and in all depths of physical (if not prec moral) wretchedness. But I di forget the bundle that is to be per express to Elixir Springs, no; I do not forget that. Wou heaven I had forgotten it ! Three days later-I am appalh receiving the following note : ELIXIR SPRINGS, September, li "SIR-Your insult has been rei ed, and is duly appreciated, will please address any further i munication which you may about making me, to Mr. Henry '. mann, a gentleman with who have just contracted an engager of marriage, and whose wife I i to become in the course of a weeks. Yours, etc., " KATHARINE MACKENZIE For fully five minutes after reai this extraordinary letter I sit in room staring at it, turned into s by sheer amazement, 0 Presently a horrible light bri in upon me. I stagger to my ch and search about for a certain 1 die. "Where is it? Ah ! I havi here on the top shelf ; doubtles has been put there by the cham maid, and so forgotten by me. With quivering fingers I open I bundle, having brought it forth f the closet. And presently I gi1 great cry as Mrs Mackenzie's sh meets my sight I I have sent the ?wrong bundle. What did the other bundle < tain ? lt contained a pair of pa: loons. Ah, if only I had not taken t bacchanalian supper with Peterki That was the cause of it all ; or, ri er, the headache and bewilders aud wretchedness that followed it next morning, these were the cam Mrs. Horatio Mackenzie has b Mrs. Henry Tallmann for years ? years. I am so horrified by the t which events have taken, and so c vinced that Harry has, all in .a i ment, as it were, found such an pregnable fortress of defense agai me, that I yield' to a sense of o\ whelming defeat, and resign myi to the dreary realization of hav committed-the mistake of my 1 Carving a Turkey. TKere is nothing, says Max Adel a young unmarried man likes bet than to go to a dinner at the house a friend and to be asked to carve turkey. He never carved a turt in bis life, and with an old maid one side of him, watching him clo ly, and on the other side a .fair g for whom 'he has a tenderness, feels embarrassed when he bogt First he pushes the knife down ward one of the thigh-joints. ] can't find the joint, and be plunf the knife around in search of it un he makes mince-meat out of o whole quarter of the fowl. Then sharpens his knife, and tackles again. Ac last, while making a t< rifle dig he hits the joint sudden! and the leg flies into the maid lady s lap, while her dress front covered with a shower of stuflni Then he goes for the other leg, ai when the young lady tells him ', looks warm, the weather seems him suddenly to become four hundn degrees warmer. This leg he fina] pulls loose with his fingers. Hela it on the edge of the plate, and ?Iii he is hacking at the wing he grad ally pushes the leg over o?; the cle: table cloth, and when he picks it i it slips from his hand into the gray d:sh and "splashes the gravy aroui for six square yards. Just as he h made up his.mind that the turki has no joints to its wings the ho ask? hi ta if he thinks the Indians c; really bc civilized. The girl ne to him laughs, and he says lie wi explain his views upon the subje after dinner. Then he sops his bro with his han"! kerchief a i : cl* press the turkey so hard with the Jork th? it slides oil' the dish and upsets goblet of water on the girl next him. Nearly frantic, he gouges awi again at the wings, gets them off in mutilated condition, and digs ini thc breast. Before he can cut ar off, the host asks him why he don help out the turkey. Bewildered, he puta both legs on plate and hands them.to the mahle linly, and then he helps the young gi to a plateful of stuffing, and whi taking her plate in return knocl over the gravy-boat. Then he si dov. n with the calmness of despa and fans himself willi a napkin, willi the servant girl clears up and takt the turkey to the other end of tb table. He doesn't discuss the India question that day. He goes hom right alter dinner, and spends th night trying to decide whether t commit suicide or to take lessons i carving. .Masquerading in Boy's Clothes. A correspondent at Little Roc! Ark. writes: That a marshal has jut returned from Allenville, Mo., ha\ ing in his custody a young girl name Mollie Sherwood, who for interval during the past two years ha? .bee passing for a boy under the name c Bill Henderson. About two year ago her parents, residing in Cape G: rardeau, died. She was then thirtee: years old, and her two brothers plac ed her out to work in a hotel at Al len ville. Becoming tired of this em ployment, she donned boy's clothing called herself Bill Henderson, am applied for and received asiluatiot aa post-boy to carry the mail to aru from Allenville. For one year, un suspected, she fulfilled the function! of this post. Then her sex was sus pected, arid at Allenville ehe wai placed under arrest send compelled t< wear the female garb. "After this sin tried working in a hotel as maid ser vant, but soon tiring of this, agair resumed the trousers and worked a? a farm hand. Subsequently she cam? to Augusta, in this State, as a dro ver's assistant, and thence went tc .Jacksonport to work in a livery sta ble. After awhile, the men and boys about the stable, believing her to be a woman, began to call her names and, as she sayH, in order tog?taway from the place, she took certain hors es belonging to the stablemen and made off with them. The marshal followed her and.overtook her with jie horses at Allenville and arrested her on "a oharrge of horse stealing. The people there knew "her well and were inclined to prevent the officers from arresting her. Pistols were drawn on both sides, but finally the girl went of her own free will with .the marshal. She is now in the Jack sonport jail awaiting trial for horse stealing. The girl ia a pretty blonde, and during all her vicissitudes her virtue has pever been questioned. For Bvcry Man to Head. We have probably all of us met with instances in which a word heed lessly spoken ng.iinst the reputation of a female has been magnified by malicious minds until the cloud has been dark enough to overshadow her whole existence. To those who are accustomed; n<>t necessarily from bad motives, but from thoughtlessness to^apeak lightly of ladies, we recom mend these hints as worthy of con sideration : Never use a lady's name in im proper places, at ian improper time or in mixed company. Never make an assertion about her that you think untrue, or allusions that you think she he-self would blush to hear. When you meet with men who do not scruple to make use of a woman's name in a reckless and unprincipled manner, shun them; they are the very worst members of the community ; men lost to every sense of honor, every feeling of humanity. Many a good and worthy woman's character has been forever ruined and her heart broken by a lie manufactured by some villian and repeated where it should not hive been, and in the presence of those wJiose little judg ment could not deter them from cir culating the foul and bragging report. A slander is soon propagated, and the smallest thing derogatory to a woman's character will fly on the wind and magnify as'it circulates, until its monstrous weight crushes the poor unconscious victim. Respect the. name of woman ; your mother and sisters are women, and as you would have their fair names untar nished, and their live3 unembittered by the slanderer's tongue, heed the evils your words may bring updn the mother, the sister or the wife of some of your fellow-creatures. Not Ready to Die. The following is.no fabrication of an irreverent secular journal, bul from the orthodox Memphis Presby terian: "Traveling in his bu^gy alone, not long ago, in going to one of his appointments, one of our gos d brethren in the Presbytery of Mein phis overtook a " footpad," with bi? carpet Dug in his hand. The roa-le we're muddy, and he was just at the time about entering a miry bottom With the politeness for which he is noted, he asked the pedestrian (an entire stranger) if he would not take a seat in the buggy until, at least thev had crossed the mud and the mire. The invitation was readily ac cepted, and the conversation for a time was free'and easy, about thing ordinary and general. Presently, however, the good brother, with a view to make the conversation profi table, asked the.stranger if he ivas ready io die ? Not knowing the char acter of the person who had invited him to a seat with bim, and misap prehending his-meaning and suspect ing foul play, he waited not to reply, but sprang from the buggy immedi ately and ran for life through slush and water. The clerical brother, wishing to assure the stranger that he meant, no harm, called to him at the top of his voice to stop ! But this only hastened his speed, and, like a scared hare he ran until be yond hearing and sight. In his hasty flight, he li'ft his carpet sack, which our lirother now has in his possession, being the richer for his faithfulness by the addition ot a coarse shirt, a pair nf thiea'1+?rre trousers, and a little " backer.' " success in Life. You should constantly lu . . mind ilia*, i itiH-tentlis ol' us HIV. fron the v-ry ti.tture II IM I iiHjMssii?es. of world, icrn t-i gain our livelihood \>x r,he.swi?atof ! he brow. What rea.--n rlu-i1. have we to presume that <-n: chihlnm arc not :o do the sn tun ".' Ti path up WM rds i-- steep an.] long. In dustry, wire, skill, excellence in parent, |:.y ?he fou nd.i ti on of a rs? 'inder m-?re lavorable firruuishmcu tor tin- chiMivn. Th? '-liildivn these take au 'iln-r rise, and b? :?i by descendants ul the pivseiif ls.b..?r ere become gentlemen. This, is il:, natural progress. Jt- is by ai temp itvg to reach the top itt a single leap ihat so much misery is produced in the world. The education which i.? recommended consists i II bringingclul dren up to labor with steadiness, wi:!, nare. and with shill-to show lhem how to do as many useful things us isaible ; to teach them how Lo do all in the best manner; to set them m. example of industry, sobriety, clean li ness and neatness; to mak- a!! these habitual to them, so that they shall never be liable to fall in I ir contrary; to let them always see ? good living proceeding from labor, and thus remove from them tempta lion to get the goods of others hy violent and-fradulent means.-Ex. To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.-Are you insured ? Do you feed the little birds? Do you kiss your wife before you leave in the morning, and when you return home at night ? Do'you sleep in a garment at night that you wear in the day-time? Do you fail to make good the prom ises you make to the children? Do you speak ol' your father as the "oldman," or your mother or wife as "the old woman"? Be ashamed of it if you do, and quit it. Do you scold ? If you do, und arc a man, go hide yourself.; yon are a disgrace to the household of; which you are supposed to be head. "If you are a wife and a mother, quit the country, and go to Salt Lake. You are past saving here; drowning in salt may do it. Do you subscribe for your County paper? Do you pay for it ? Do you grumble when you pay for ii ? If you can answer the above to th^ sat isfaction of the printer, the preceding questions amount to naught. Colored men of Bourbon county, Ky., who voted the Democratic ticket atp the lat e election, are persecn.ieJ and maltreated. Their houses have beenforcibly entered, and their dishes, stoves, and other furniture broken and made useless. Some of them have been stoned at night and mob bed in the day. The arm' of the law ought to be strong cnoughrin Kentucky to put down these G. ant Ku Klux. A reward of $50 a head has been offered for the apprehension of offenders.-New York Sun. Spear's Fruit Preserving Solution! ^WARRANTED to "ive satisfaction, and for sale at ULIS** Y'S Drug Store July 10 tf 80 Shingles! isiiingies! FOR sale at my residence 40,000 good SHINGLES. . . O. SHEPPARD. July 16, tf 30 GEO. S. HACKER. DO?:R, SASH, BLIND FACTORY, Charleston. TUTS IS AS LARGEftiid COMPLETE aFactoryaathere is in thc Smith. All work manufactured nt rho Factory in this city. The onlv House owned and managed ITV a Carolinian in this city.* Send ihr Price List- Address ; GEO. S. 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Capt. *J. G. Hawthorn, Saluda Old Town. Mr. L. Hartloy, Batcsville. Gen. M. C. Butler, Columbia, ZS* Capt. LEWIS JONES, at Edge .ield, S. C., is our authorized Agent. Ufr- Send for Circular and Price List. Address NEBLETT & GOODRICH, Augusta, Ga. Apr. 15 6m 17 ARE ENDORSED AND PRESCRIBED BV MORE leid-: lng Physicians than any other Tonia or S tin- ' ulara now la UM. They an A SUR?. PREVENTIVE, For Farer and Ague Intermittents, Biliousness and all dil ordrri arising from malarious causes. They are highly ree. oiuucndod as an. ANTI-DYSPEPTIC, and In cases of INDI. C.KSTION aro IXVALIIABLB. As na APPETIZER and RE CUPERANT, and In cases of GENERAL DERILITY they have never In a singlo Instance failed In producing the meet happy results. .They-arcpartlonlarly * BENEFICIA I? TO FEMALES. Strengthening tr. . boJr, invigorating the-mlnd, and giving tono and elasticity to ibo whole rystcm. The HOME BIT TERS are compounded with tho greatest of sara, sud no ton. lc stimulant Bas crer beforo been ofTcrcd to tho pnblio aa PLEASANT TO THE TASTE and at tho limo time combin ing so many remedial agents endorsed by the medical fraterni ty os the belt known to tho Pharmacopoeia. It costa but Ut ile to girt them a fair trial, and Every Family Should Have a Bottle. No preparation In the world can produco so many unquali fied endorsements by physicians of ibo very highest Handing in their profession. Airforserf oise by the Clergy and thc leading denomino. tlonal papert. Esr. WM. JI.-BAUCOCK, tho oldest Methodist minister In St. ' Louis; lays the Home Bitters were most grateful In eontrlbd tlng in tho restoration of my strength, and an Increaie of : ipayjUte. OraW Mo., June S3, J871. Persons greatly debilitated, as I have been, and who require a Tome or STIXCLAXT, need seek for nothing bolter than tba Heme Bitters. 8. W. COPE, Presiding Elder M. E. Church, Plattsburg District. Carno STATU MjLiuxs.Uoarrr.il., j ST. LOUIS MO., OCT. 8, 1870. { JAVIS A. JACXSOX a Co.- 1 have examined tho formula fer making the " Hom? Stomach Bitters." and usod them lb this hospital the list four months. I consider them tho meei rain able tonic ind stimulant now In uso. S. H. MELCHER, , 1 Resident Physician ia chargoU. S.Marino Hospital. , w I Jame A. JACIUOX ?'Co.-Gentlemen : Ai you bare com municated to the medical profess ion the r ec i pe of the "Home Uttteri," it cannot, thereforo be considered aaa patent m?1 Iclne, no patent baring boen taken for lt. We bu c examined the formula for making the " Homo Bitters." and nabilla tingly aay the combination li one of rare excellence, all the articles used In Its composition ere tho best of tho elan to whlch-they belong, belog highly Tonic, Stimulant, Stomachic, Carmlnittre, an I slightly Laxative. Tho modo of preparing them ls itrletly in accordance with the ruleiof pharmacy. Having used them lu onr private practice, we take pleasure lo recomm*nding them lo nil persons desirous of taking Bitters, as being the best Tonic and Stimulant now offered to the pub lic. FRANK 0. PORTER, Prof Obitetrlct and-nistsici nf Tramen. College of Physi cians, and late member Board of Hoalth. . L. C. B01SLINTERE Prof. of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women, St. Louis Med. Coll?ge. DRAKE MCDOWELL, M. I)., Late Pres't. Mo. Medical College, E. A. CLARK, M. D., Prof.Surgorr, Mo. Medical College and lato Resident Phyii clan City ltoipltal, St. Louis Missouri. HERBERT PJUMM. Prof. Practical Pharmacy, St. Louii Coller. of Pharmacy. J. C. WHITEHILL, Ed. Medical Arcalvoi, Air. HBACOCK, M. D. Dr. 0. V. P. L"ow?, C. Oaaicaa, M. D. 8. Osun Moan, M. D. C. A. TT AUX, M. D. W. A. WILCOX. M. D. E. C. FRANKLIN, M. D., Pref. Hurgiry, Homoeopathic Medical Cotisa)*. T. J. VASTINK, M. D., T. Q. COMSTOCK, M. D., Prof. of Midwifery and Diseases of Women, College of Homcee pathlc Physicians and Burgeons. j JOHN T. TEMPLE, M. D.. ' Prof. Materia Medica and Theraupeutlci, Homoeopathic Medi cal College ot Mieaourl. L?sw? . JSC. CONZLKMAN, M. D., Lecturer On Diseases of Children, Bbmceopathlo College of Mlisourl. CHARLES VASTINE, M. g., Prof. of Pbyiiology, Homnoptthlo Medical Collage Vf Mo. JOHN HABTMAN, M. D., Prof. Clinical Medicine, Col. notnceopethlo Physician! and Snrga, They are superior to ali other Stomach Bitter*. EN ND SANDERS. Analytical Chemist. No Bitters itt tho world cu exiel them SIMON HIRSCH, Analytical Chinrtei. Eminent Physicians or Chicago. Tbafermula for the Home Bitten hal been submitted to nt, and we bcllove them to ba fha best tonio and stimulant br general uee now ottered to the public. J H. WooDitrar, M. D" 1 G. A. MAUXX*. Analytical Chemist. H. S. BAUX. M. D" B. MCVICAB, M. D., Noa a. 8. BAUCIS, M. D., B. LODOAM, il. D" Jut. A. Comas, M. D., JAI. V. Z. BLAHIT, M, D. Prof. Chomlstry, Boab Medical College. J. B. WALSCXB. M. D., T- 8. lom, M. ? Tao*. T. Eua, M. D.t J. A. HAHR, M. D. Eminent Physicians in Cincinnati, Nearly all of whom are Professor. In one or the otk tr of li* Medical Colleges, I - No other Bitters have ever been o?krod to tho publia iav bracing io many valuable remedial aserta. i J. L. VATTtaa, iL P., I.. 1 TIMM, M. D., C. T. SLKMOX, M. u., 8. P. oxxxa, M. D., C. 8. MOBCBAST, M. D., G. W. BioLsx. M. D., W. T. TAUuraaao. M. D., J. J. Qcixx, M. D., J. H. Bocaxia, M. P., Tv". R. WOODWABD, M. D., O. A. DonaaTT, M. P., R. S. WAYXI, Chemist, C. WOODWABD, IL P., O. K. TATLOB, M. D., D. W. McC ACTH Y . M, D., T. F. KALBT, M. D., B. H. JOUKIOK, M. D. B. B. Toisuxsox, M. D? Eminent Physicians in Memphis; Th* Home Bitten are an tn valuable remedy for lndiraillca and dlicasee arising from malarial cause*. 0. B. THOBXTOX, il. P., Alix. EnaKTsra, Lt. D., lu-charge of City Hospital, If. R. IIODOI?. I. D., J. M. RODO us, M. D., Pata Orar, H. D., H. W. PtraxaLL.M. D., M. A.EOUOXM, M. D., BAXDIOBO But., M. P.. Jo*. E* i.rnan. M. P., Eminent Physicians in PitUbni%hi B. F. DA KI, M. D., Wai. Ciowa?, M.D., W. R. CHILDS, H. D., D. TI. '.VILLAan, M. P., O. WDTV, CbemUt, J. H. MCCLILLAXD, M. D., And Hundred ave r others in all paris of (ho North, Weit ana" Sonni. .% . J. E. Gaaxaa, M. D., Milwaukee. COOXCVL Burrr*, March IT, 1SH. JAMBI.A, JACXIOH ? Co.-Hiving examined tin fwimniaaf the " Homo Stomach BUteri," I mtVe prtierlbed them fn my praes. tko Ter teme lime, aud p reno un oe them the beat Tonio Bitser? nowjn nie. . . p, H. MCMAHON, M. D. J ttJ?Kor sale by all druggliU and mm, . ? J nines A. J neilson <fc Co., Proprietor*. Labratory 105end 1*7 tl. Secoad St., Bu Lout* MJ**oan, ^ For sale by A. A. CLIS?Y, Brug gl?e . i.. . .?OJaWS8,i . fr ^ IO CARWILE Si SAMS, JOHNSTONS DEPOT, C. C. & A. R. E. WE woul 1 respectfully announce.to our friends and the public generally that we are now opening at Johnston's Depot, a complete Stock of Goods, consisting of Dry GroocLs, Groceries, SHOES, HATS, HARDWARE, &c. And we are prepared to make Advances to Planters in Provi sions ami Guanos, upon satisfactory papers, payable 1st November next. An examination of our Stock and Prices respectfully solicited. CARWILE & SAMS. Mar.19 tf 13 T. W. CARWILE & CO., GROCERS -AND Commission Mere?aits, 270 Broad St., Augusta, Ga., pREPARING for ?he ^: ing and Summer Trade, to meet the wants -of j friends and customer in int- way of Plantation and 3 ami.y Sup plies, are daily making heavy additions to their already large Stock, to which they invite attention. Our Stock comprises in part: BACON, LARD, COFFEES, SUGARS, TEAS, SYRUPS, MOLASSES, RICE, MACKEREL, SALT, ' FLOUR. MEAL, CORN, BUTTER, CANDLES, SOAP, STARCH, WHISKIES, BRANDIES, WINES, ALE, PORTER, TOBACCO, SEGARS, Ac., And in fact EVERYTHING usually on sale in First ' Class Grocery Houses. We are also "A gents for the sale of Wm. Massey & Co's. Celebrated Phila delphia ALES. Will be glad at all tinaos to see our Edgefield friends, and will seil the Best Goods at the Lowest Market Prices. Augusta, Feb 5 if . 7* NOW IS THE TIME. -FOR-. Spring Remedies ! f\ow in Store many of the most popular Medicines for the Spring season -for PURIFYING THE BLOOD and RENOVATING and REGULA TING THE SYSTEM-?uch as Dr. Tutt's Sarsaparilla and Queen's Delight, Rad way's Sarsaparillian Resolvent, Jayne's Alterative, Ay er's Cherry Pectoral, Wistar's Balsam Wild Cherry, Dr. Simmons' Liver Regulator, McLean's Liver Pills, Dr. Tutt's Liver Pills, And many other well-known and invaluable Remedies. -Also BITTERS ! TONICS! . BITTERS! In great variety, embracing HOME STOMACH BITTERS-the people's favorite tonic, i.'ostetter's Walker's Vinegar, Plantation Panknin's Hepatic Tutt's Golden Eagle, &c And the genuine Imported Schiedam Snapps, very fine. ??-Forsaleby A. A. CL ISIS Y, Druggist. Apr 23 tf 18 Insurance lotice. I HE Undersigned having established his office at Edgefield, as General Agent f r the Cotton Slates Lile insurance Company, nvites attention to one or two of ti.e advantages offered those who may desire to effect insurance on their live>- in n safe Home Company : The Board or' Managers at a recent meeting passed unanimously the fol lowirg Resolution': " ?esolved, That in view of the fad thai: there are unusually large sumo paid for Life Insurance, to the Companies ot the North and' East, which sums, being there invested, contribute to tho enrichment of those sections, whilst our own South is greatly in nee I of cash capital to prosecute success fully our Agi ?cultural and Mechanical enterprises ; it is ordered, that for the purpose of retaining these sums in our midst, hereafter a certain pro portion of the net cash receipts from premiums, amounting to not more ihan TO per cent, of the same be invested iii such manner as may be in accord ance with the regulations of the Company, in those sections from which the =aid premiums are attained." '(Signed) WAI. T3. .JOHNSON, Pres't. GEORGE S. O'BEAR, Sec'ry. In accordance with the above Resolution a Board of Advisory Trustees has b?en regularly organized at-Edgefndd C. H., S. C., with the following Dfficere, viz : Maj. W. T. GARY, President, Capt. B. C. BRYAN, Vice President. R.*0. SAMS, Esq., Secretary. * . Tins Board is now prepared to* transact business, and invest the funds of the Company agreeable to the prescribed regulations. The Financial strength of the Company places it in high rank. Its last Annual Statement shows that the Company possess, besides its large Guar antee, $170 for every $100 of its liability. Iff. W. ABIWEY, ?enera! Agent. Ju nr. 21, tf 27 mm wp AND B?H ! 10 Cases fine, old Hennesey Cognac, 4 " Imported Champagne, * (> " . . " Madeira nnd Sherry Wines, 2 " " 11 Claret and Old Port " 2 l? Rhine Wine, 4 Casks Scotch Ale and Porter. OLD RYE AND CORN WHISKEY ! 20 Bbls^ld Rye Whiskey, different grades, 10 " " Corn " " " adjust received and for sale bv A. A. CLISBY, Druggist. Apr 23 tf 18 -H ESTABLISHED I INT I860. -o- . . imiMEBs m JEWSLLEBS. ' The subscribers would respectfully inform the citizens of Edgefield, a*d sur rounding country, that they keep a special establishment for the Rcpir of Waldies aiid Jewelry. Also, HAIR WORK, in every design, made to order. All work entrusted to their wire wiU bo executed Promptly, Neatly, and warranted for one year. At their Store will be found one of the largest Stocks of Gold'and Silver Watches Of the best European and American Manufacture in the Southern State?, with a select assortment of Rieh and New Stvles of ETRUSCAN GOL? JEWfcLKV, set with Diamonds, Pearls, Rubies, Oriental Garnets, Coral, Ac. Aleo, SOLID SILVER .WARE/ consisting of Tea Sets, Waiters, Ice and Water .Pitr.hors, Castors, Goblets, Clips-,-Forks, and every thing in the Silverware UHB. Fine Sinjrle and DoubleJJarreled GUNS ; Colt's, SnriHh A Wesson's, Sharp's and Remington's PISTOLS, alTd many others ot" the latest invention. FINE CUTLERY, SPECTACLES, WALKING CANES, and FANCY GOODS of every variety to be found in a first-class Jewelry establishment. Old Gold and Silver takou in exchange for goods. A. PRONTAUT ft SON, 236 Broad St., between Central and Globe Hotels, Augusta, Ga. Sept 25 *Y_4? Boots, ?lipes &o Hats ON TIME. \^E are now prepared to Sell all Goods in our line on approved Fae t?n" Acceptances, payable in the Fall. _ GAhhAMER & anJLBUE?l?. RECULATOR This unrivalled Southern Remedy is warranted not to contain a single part? clo of MERCURY, or any injurious mineral substance, but is PURELY VEGETABLE, containing those Southern Roots and Herbs, which an all-wise Providence has placed in countries where Liver Diseases most prevail. It will Cure all Diseases caused by Derangement or the Liver. ..?THE SYMPTOMS of Liver Complaint are a bitter or bad taste in the month ; Pain in the Back, Sides or Joints, often mistaken for Rheumatism ; Sour Stom ach : Loss of Appetite: Bowels alternate .ly costive and lax; Headache ; Loss of memory, with a painful sensation ef having failed to do something which ought to have been dene; Debility, "Low Spirits, a thick yellow appearance of the. Skin and Eyes, a dry Cough often mista ken for Consumption. Sometimes many of these symptoms attend the disease, at othess very few: but the LIVER, the largest organ in the body, is generally the seat of the disease, and if not Regu lated in time, gr eat su maring, Wretched ness and DEATH'will ensue. F* ' This Great Unfailing Specific will not be found the "Least Unpleasant. For DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaundice, Bilious attacks, SICK HEAD ACHE, Colic, "Depression df Spirits, SOUR STOMACH, Heart Bum, ?fcc , ?fee, Siamois' Liver Regnlai*r, or Medicine, Is the Cheapest, Purest and Best Family Medicine ih'the World! MAltTTFACrTJafe). OWLY BT J. H. ZE?L?* * CO. Macon, Ga, and Philadelphia.. Price, $ LOO. Sold by all Druggist*. June 35 ? ' ' tf 27 DOORS, Sash & Blinds, MOULDINESS, BRACKETS, ?j Stair Fixtures, Builders' ! Furnishing Hara ware,.* Drain j Pipe, Floor Tiles, Wiro Guards, jj Terra Cotta? Ware, Marble and H Slate Mantle Pieces. Window Glass a Speciality, j White JHne Lumber for Sale.. j Circulars and Price Lists sent i free on application, by P. P. TO ALE,' * 20 Hayne and 33 Pinckney sts., Charleston, S. C. Oct 2 Iv . 41 VENN'S B 0 ?? BOUQUET U ? I e 0 L COLOGNE 6 N Is tho acknowledged BEST, and at the same time the CHEAPEST, Toilet Perfume Ever introduced in Edgefield. Every body likes it, and its popularity is daily increasing. PENN'S BOUQUET COLOGNE is prepared Md th the greatest care from the purest Oils and Kxtraots by W. B. PENN -and for salo at the Drug Store of Cr. JJ. PENN &J?OI?. Marli) * tf 13 G?IFFI?V & BUTLER. THE Undersigned have formed a Co-Partnership in the Practice of Law in Edgefield County. S. B. GRIFFIN, MS C. BUTLER. Feb 10_tf_8_ New Law Firm. JOHN E. BACOK. THO?. J. ADAMS. BACON & AHAUS. Attorneys at Law, Will Practice in the Courts of the State, and United States Courts for South Caro lina. Former Office of Carroll <fe Bacon and Bacon & Butler. Jan 18, 1872._tf 6 M. L BONHAM, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICI TOR IN EQUTTY. Office, Law Range. Edgefiold, S.C. May 28 _tf > 23 SAMS & CARWIfcE, PINE HOUSE DEPOT, ^LNNOUNCE to the public that they are now opening a fine Stock .of GRO CERIES and PLANTATION GOODS, which they will sell at the lowest rates. f&3~ Examine our Goods and Prices before buying elsewhere. Pine House, Mar. 5, tf ll Sewing Machine Needles. * A LWAYS on hand the Howe Sewing XJL Machine Needles. 0. F. CHEATIIAM. June If tf 2fi Horsc-SIiocing a Sfpfclity. ALTHOUGH PHIL JOHNSON, a well behaved and polite colored man, makes to order all ki nos of Ploughs, Ac, and does likewise all kinds of Black smith work generally,-and all which he does in a workmanlike and satisfactory manner,-still, like most other artists now-a-days, he has a Speciality, and his Speciality is HORSE-SHOEING. ; In this branch of his trade ho professes to I bo master of his profession. And he has just received a full assortment of Horse shoe.,, Nails, <fec., which he warrants of the best quality, and which he puts on any horse so that they can be worn with perfect ease, and to tho great advantage of tho horse. Try Phil, once, and you will be his friend and patron ever after wards. Apr. 30,_tf _19 Te Make Goad Pickles IT is necessary to have tho best VINE GAR. G. L. Penn ?fe Son have just received 2 Bbls. of the VERY BEST VINEGAR, which they can warrant. Call and try it. Also.8P.ICES of all kinds. G. L. PENN & SON. June IP,_tf , ?. Bed Bug Poison. TTVDRsaleat * i? . G. Ii, PENN & SON'S ' _