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1 -A 1 TOPICS OF THE DAY. A New York physician "whois taken by everbody to bo ton or fifteen years younger" than he ia, attributes this favorable condition to the use of lemonade taken regularly four times a day. He has used 3U00 loinons a year for ten years. une ot the English railway companies has supplied all its employes with red neckcloths, the wearing of which is to be compulsory. The object of this regulation is to furnish porters, guards or switchmen with red tlags that are always at hand, and can be employed in the event of any sudden accident or the derangement of the regular sigaals. The safety of mountain travel in this country is proved by the small j iiuiuuc. ?ji aci-iuvuis repurteu iniuii year. Compared with the results of an Alpino season, or even of a summer among mountains in Wales, the sum of the season among our mountain resorts is moat satisfactory. Perhaps Americans are more careful in their ventures in mountain-climbing. Martin Ewing, a colored man living at Keyterville, Mo., was born in 1705, and is the oldest man in this country. His memory is cood and his mind clear. But few wrinkles furrow his cheuk. If he would dye his hair, his general appearance would indicate a man about seventy. ITo has lost but a few teeth, his eyesight is good, except a cataract in one eye from a blow forty-five years ago. The total annual product of fish is about. 1,500,000 tons for Europe and America; a ton of fish being equal to about twenty-eight sheep, a year's fish J ' >uppiy is, therefore, for the United i States, Canada, and the ten European countries included in this estimate, equal to l"J,UUU,UUU Head of sheep. Of this amount, 1,000,000 tons, or the equivalent to 28,000,000 head of sheep, are consumed in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Russia. The richest single woman in the country is Catherine Wolfe. She has an income estimated at half a million a, year, and she owns real estate all over New York. Her father, Peter Wolfe, married Peter Lorillard's sister, and with her got adowry of $1,000,000. Ilis wife died soon after and he married another of the Lorillard sisters, and with her got another million. In a short time she died also, and Wolfe, after speculating awhile with his two million and more, died himself, and ins property came to his daughter Catherine. Of the 2,017,000 women in occupations in the United States 595.000 are Miigngeii -'n agriculture, most of th-etn ' olored women in the Southern States; 032.000 are in manufactories, of whom about one-half are in New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania; 1182,000 arc milliners, etc.; 50,000 are tailors, tlie 44 occupations recorded as MMajar'''personal service," 40 lind women in lhem. The 525 female surgeons of 1870 have increased to 2,743; the 7 lawyers to 75; the G5 clergymen to 105. The numlMr nf Iniinrlrl^a ' increased from 01,000 in 1870 to 122,000. and of the latter 108, 00 arc kept by women. This large increase shows a groat lighteuiug of the housewife's labor. According to the last United States census there are 563 establishments in this country devoted to the proprietary medicine business, employing 4,015 operatives, with an aggregate investment of capital amounting to $10, (520,000, and the annual product is valued at $14,682,000. New. York State leads all others with an invested capital of $3,512,430, which is about one-tliird of the entire country's investment. Pennsylvania come3 next and Missouri ranks third in invested capital, followed jespectively by Ohio aad Massachusetts. In the amount of annual product New York again stands first, followed in order by Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, the other States standing about even. A /air calculation is that about twentyfive American proprietary medicines ' hav* at present a very laige sale in i^ngiana. The American Exhibition in London next summer promises to bo a success. The site is already engaged, nnd occupies twenty acres near tt>e Wert Brompton station. The exhibits will have for their aim the "showing to the Old World what the resources, products, manufactures, and arts of tae United States are at tho present time." Perhaps one of the most interesting parts of tho Exhibition will be th<9 "American Garden," in which will be seen as complete a flora of the United States as can be collected. The trees, shrubs, and plants are to be arranged according to longitude and latitude. In this way the atudent may study local diversities in systematic progression, and many flgwers and (lowering shrubs will appear for the first time away from their native habitat. A special newspaper, published monthly, called the American Eagle, is issued to promote and explain the objects of the exhibition, which is expected to form a leading attraction of the next season. A New Mexican Sand-storm. The air was still jis death, and there was not a puff of wind nor a rag of cloud in the whole horizon. 1 observed, however, that the &ky had undergone a curious change. Thvjve was no diminution of the blazing sunlight, but tne aeep oiue naa been superseded by a strange white glare that w as nearly blinding, and the heat had increased rather than diminished. We saddled hastily, and were soon threading our way through the broiling labyrinth of sand-hills and out on to the broad mesa. We had not gone more than a mile or two in the direction of Espanola when Joe, who had been glancing about in all directions, suddenly remarked, "There she comes!" and ilimnlncr off hia hnrrn nnmrnimniiil ?? - J 1- ?o - > ?Jing him up behind an adjacent heap of large bowlders. We stared in the direction he pointed out, but could discover nothing save the white sky, the hills, and the sandy plains. As we lookod, however, we gradually became aware that far down the valley two or three of the hills had entirely disappeared, and stranger still, that more of them were being eaten up under our very eyes ! A little brownish-bJack cloud, no bigger than one's haud, was the monster that was devouring the landscape. We hastily secured the animals in the shelter of the rocks, and came back to look. The cloud had already spread quite across the plain and valley, and was approaching with >?:j:?- ti ?? ingiiuiui i <i[>mii^y. XL whs nut more than five miles away. It swept along towards us, with constantly accelerating speed, a bellying, portentous, black wall of dust, that sent long waving fingers up to the zenith. Mile after mile of mesa, and hill after hill, disappeared in its vast maw, until there was only one rise left. This was swallowed up, and then, almost before we could seek shelter, tho storm was upon us with a shriek and a blast like the breath from a cannon. Instantly everything was obscured. I peeped through my half-closed lids, nnd could not see a sage-bush which I had noticed the moment before only a few feet distant. The air was full of the dull roar of the battling winds. "We could barely hear the sound of our voices when we shouted. Everything had been wiped away from the face of the earth, and a blur of gray dust was all that remained. 1 could barely distinguish those nearest me through this strange mist. Tho worst of it lasted for about half an hour, I should think, but the air was still lull of dust when we arrived home, about two hours later. Such is a New Mexican sand-storm. We found all our household goods covcred with a mat of from half an inch to an inch of an impalpable powder, which had sifted in through every crack and cranny. Nothing had escaped. A Great Russian Festival. One of the most characteristic festivals of the Russian empire?is tho "Kreshtchenie Vod," or "Christening of the Waters." The performance is said to date 900 yoars back to the time when Prince Vladimir and his Kiev spearmen dipped themselves in the Dnieper and swore "to be true to Christ ana his law." Ever since, on the 18th day of January, in every part of the vast empire, the cross is plunged through the ice into the rivers, and the priest's traditional formula of blessing is uttered over it. In St. .Petersburg the ceremony assumes the aspect of a national festival. As the noonday gun sounds, the gate of the winter palace swings slowly open and a single figure appears?that of the Grand Duke Constantine, his brother Michael, or even the czar himself. Then the high priest descends to an opening previously cut through the ice in the MflVft unil nlnnnlti.. " - ....v., tuu liiuna lliiU me water, solemnly pronounces the words of consecration. In Kurd Lnck. "I think l'in the unluc-kiest man in town," said a husband to his? wife. "Smith has owed ine $".J0 for three months, and he promised to pay ma to-day." "Didn't he pay?" she asked, anxiously. "Yes, he paid, but while he was in the act of giving me the money Brown came in?you know I've owed iirown $20 for more than a ynu?and, of course I had to turn the money over to him. That's what I call hard luck." ?Neio Yorh Sun. * '*is \ V 1 Palmetto THOS. McCETTI of the largest SALOON in iho up-country, do advertisements. Tlio half is not mentioned prepared for fall trade. Tho Palmetto House i mmm m mm*. M m r-oreign ana Domestic tho best the market affords. Ho has gol Rye and Corn, Irish ai Apple, Peach, California and Frenc Pc Ho can cheerfully recommend his goods mixed drinks with all tho DELICIOUS UEVEI I'ERATE DRINKS. His specialty is a largo s GENTLEMEN'S RESORT,I and yon will not forget again. A Good Line of Tobacco i Beer a Sp CUNNINGHAM & HAVE IN Their Larue and Well FALL AND Wll Consisting : Foreign and uomi uroTi HATS, HATS, HA .BOO' HARDWARE, HARDY Groceries, Groceries, Grockery, ( At Lower Prices than they were Ever OfT PAVILION HOTEL, CHRLESTON, S. C. ] J First Class in all its Appointments. ] RATES, $2.00, 9*2.50. Excellent Cnisene, large airy rooms, Otis Passenger Elevator. Electric bell and lights. Heated rotunda centrally located. Oct. I, 'c4-tf 21 QENTRAL HOTEL, ! Mi.a iur w TnnM*a ri.nn^n?>ncU ? . jal, a uuiii.au, j. x uj<i ion oon, Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. 40 JgXOIIANGE HOTEL, Grkenvim-e, S. C. | " The Only Two-Class Hotel in the World. W. K. WHITE, Pkoi'ktetor, 48 J^EW DINNER HOUSE, j Gkeknwood, S. C. j Kept by Mrs. F. 6. PARKS. Cheap ratesFirst-class faro. June 15th, 1882-tf. Ill ?????????????? | T. P. THOMSON. J. W. THOMSON. I I 1 rpiIOMSON & THOMSON, Attorneys-at-Law, 1 Ahhkvii.i.e, S. C. t?7~OHice in rear Mr. Leo's. ! June Nth, il'Hft-tf. 1J0 i ? ? I ^jALHOUN & MAI1KY, Attorneys anil Counsellors at Lav, Ahhkvii.i.e, C. II., S. C. j Office formerly occupied by Judge Thomson. tf-50 IIOBT. H. HKMI'HIIjI/. WM. P. CALHOUN. | IJ EMPHIT/L Sr. C! A I.HOIIV AJL ' Attorneys-at-Law, ABBEVILLE, S. C. Will practice in the Courts of the State. 54 J I.. W. I'KKItlN. T. P. COTHHAN. pERUIN <fc COTHHAN, Attorneys-at-Law, ' 51 ABBEVILLE, 8. C. ! . i ' ... : - ' Salooni CAN, Proprietor n't intend to dniio his customers by false in tho three Abbeville papers. He in well s well stocked with everything in tho lino of J Wines and Liquors, t Liquors nine years old. Good old nd Scotch Whiskies, h Brandies, >rter, Ale and Fresh Lager Beer. to the public for MEDICINAL USE, a*d I AGES of tho season. Also COOL, TE5Itock of PURE GOODS. Call at tlio [0.4 washington st, THOMAS McOETTIGAN. md Cigars. Budweiser >ecialty. 47 t TEMPLETON STORE I Selected Stock of NTER GOODS, in l?art of sstic Dry Goods, ours, -ts, ts .ajstd shoes T inn mni\mivt?< fAilS, HAttDWAttti, Groceries, irockery, Grockery, creil Before. l-lf-22 ENDORSED BY ^9 BETTER AND SCIENTISTS AS CHEAPER THA PMCTICALLYg^l |Hb ANY Indestructible jBmkP STONE. Over 500 1 {wMf l jtflii Send foi Beautiful f jP^|i ?i. r'ce *-'8t Designs. ifl&l Clrcu,ar6 ^ F D D Y monumental bronze company, EaiDaEponr. COJJ::. AT THE Centennial Saloon *uim _:i* u? * J xui iftjjo voni win uv3 iuuhu Absolutely Pure Splrita, forth Carolina copper distilled Corn, Finest brands of Kentucky Rye, from $2 to 86 Per Gallon. mported Cognac Eranfly a Specialty. ALSO kles, Porter, Champagnes, &c. n fact all the popular and ntandard goods that can be obtained. Together with ' an assortment of Tobaccos and Fine Cigars that can not be excelled in quality. .'ereoiiB needing such goods would not be hnmbngged by buying from them. The place is Second Door from Court iouse. )'D0HNELL& CUNNINGHAM PROPRIETORS, ABBEVILLE, S, O. an.14.tf 23 A LL the new shni>os in Hats nnd Bonnets ex. with Ribbons, Birds, FJowers, Satins ind Velvots to matoli. R. M. HADDON ?fc CO., 6 J?UGENE B. GARY, ' Attorney and Counsellor at Law, 52 ABBEVILLE, S. 0. A <4 . .' 'i } V> ' : \: ?1, * ' ' ' ' V-? * GOODYE Carriage Re Jte ' - ' 1 Pan he found tiik l.vhukst sto< ^ PhiotoiiR, lload Carta, I'luntaliou Wagons (all HarueflH Saddles, Belting, leather of all kinds, \V thirty days I will OFFER SPECIAL BARGAINS I GIES at losa th'in Manufacturers' Prices. These ] orn makes: whinh i roili ...... ?? - > - Kuiuiuii?n t-"|UUl lO IIIU I>t) vinco yourselves that they nre absolute bargains, A. R. GOOr. (Successor to li. II. May & Co.,) OPI I AUGDSTA, G UA T ? I AT Are Now Receiving a Fi 1 CARRIAGES AN FOR THE SFRI1 AT PRICES TO SUIr. I And Never Before Attained in th We are enabled to jjive our customers every I at the closcst possible cash prices. Call and b Children's Carriages i The finest.assortment of IIANDIJAOS and ? TRUNKS. WHIPS and UMBRELLAS. THE WILSON. CHILD'S & CO.'S PIIILA. TENNESSEE WAGONS, I, 2. and 4 Horse DAY & TANXAIlll.T.'s ovp ! EXPRESS AN I) DELI VER Y WAGONS.'' Axles, Springs, Hubs, Spokes, &c. Ruhbei HOYT'S LEATHER BELTING. The best LACING, RIVETS, Etc. OAK AND HEM CALF AND LINING SKINS, LASTS, Till HARNESS AND SADDLES. WE CALI OUR HARNESS DEPARTMENT, IX WIIIC PRICE. DAY & 1 43 WHITE BE Would call the attetion of buyers to n Fe D R ESS < is unusually largo and Attractive. Thoy hnvo the have over offered. Thoy have also some lmndsou aortment of Black and Colored VELVETEENS fc a nice line of Wool Laces in all colors, the latest t Their stock of BLACK CASHMERE cannot be care in the selection of these goods, and are assur quality and price. A good line of JERSEY J AC J It would astonish any one to see how very cheap season. Buyers in this lino would do woll to exau: WHITE BE CARPETS are so very cheap as to bo in tho reai 1JETS and RUGS can be found at the store of W1 The above are only a fe?v linos in whio Special I The General Stock of Fall and Winter Goods no W MITE BR( is the largest, beat assorted, and more attractive t plete in all departments. THE HUMAN EYE AI JOSEPH ! OPTIC Superior to any other in us9, constructed in accor of nature in the peculiar form of a C0NCA.VJ5-C to the organs of sight, ar.d perfectly natural to tl to tbe human vifliion ever invented. J. SILVER spectac^H And is traveling at this time throughout the State tcnown his Thoory and Practice, and at the same ti his spectacles have been tried they are spoken of testimoninls will certify; the original and many rooms. He nt the same time wishes to be underst quacks wiio merely s lis you a pair of glasses ; never see again, lie has established in Augustn, case you should happen to lose ? r break your glasi a small nominal sum, as it is his custom to keep a him to know just the glass you have purchased fr l- ... /! " " ; nuui iiiuii itn i/uu^b xuiu^, vjruvoru ouiquit, *jrell. \i CLOTHING! CLOTHIli miller Br I i AR'S jpository, 4 CK OF CARRIAGES. HUGO lift), sizes, 1 to l? hoise,) Sinjjle ami Double * a^on Material, Ac., Ae. For the next N A. LOT OF ()t EN AND TOP UUGUutfyies are all Fine Northom and Eastst. Call and examine them and eon>YEAR, \ GEORGIA RAILROAD BANK. E0R6IA. | 4NAHILL, j ne Assortment of l| D BUGGIES! I *Gr TRADE, ^ r TPIE TIMES ! e History of the Business< artvamltagc by purchasing our goods e convinced. in Great Variety. JATCIIELS ever brought to the city. WAGOXS, all sizes. HORSE WAGONS. Belting and Packing. in the World. LOCK SOLE LEATHER. iEAI), CEMENT, Etc. ! , PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO * :II WE EXCEL IN QUALITY AND CANNAHIL Augusta, Oa. OTHERS iw Specialties: Their stock of cheapest line of BLACK SILKS they le Coiered Silks. They lmvo a pood as>r Dresses and Trimmings. Thoy hnve hiug for line Dross Trimmings. \ surpassed. They have bestowed unnsna1 ed thev arn nil rn?ht in i - -r-? i/j vi/iui t LETS, dumper than ever before. FLANNELS mid BLANKETS iiro this lino the stock of LOTHEES :h of all. A good assortment of CAR1ITK BROTHERS. bargains can be hud. w offered to the public by | > T H ? R S, hnn they have ovor carried. It is corasep.UO, 88.'i-..m ID SPECTACLES. SILVER, ziLnr. unnce witu tno science anil philosophy ONVEX ELIFSKH, admirably adapted to eye, affording the best artificial help STABLUHED A EYK GLASS EMPORIUM CITY OF AQUSTA. i of Georgia for iho purpose of making me introducing these Lenses. Wherever in the highest term*, as the following others eun be seen and examined at his ood ihat he is not one of tne traveling ?t exorbitant prices and whom you may I at present, 548 Broad Street, where in ies, he will replace the sumo for you at register of all he setb, thereby ennbles om him. These testimonials are from ordan aud a host of others. sep.Jl ,1S8 rG! CLOTHING! J^OOK at the old gent, above in a bad fix isn't he with his pants all buggy and no fit? My friends do you wish to avoid getting into just Kuch n scrape? Then when you make up your mind to buy a suit of pr>mn riirlif nlnnrr 1m hup store and have your measure taken anil have your clothes made to order by the very best TAILORS IN THE COUNTRY. -and then if they arc baggy and ? don't fit, just say tons "send these J clothes right back, I don't want them and wont have them." i?loro ^ over, we would not let you Keep N them ourselves if they did not At you. We are not working for a fift trade, but a trade we can by giviiw entire satisfaction hold in the ture. Remember our motto is fit no pay. Wc arc yours truly, ~ I