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Feb. 20, 1873 ' 1 4t COWLAM GUAYELiEY. 1ubect IMrORTEBS OP HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLE MENTS. ^To. 52, East Hay, South of t* e old Post Charleston, S. C. ?T'foi the sole of the Magnolia Cotion ?. At the Fairs held at Savnnnah^Ga.. Jonth, the "Magnolia" cotton Gin ginned ilbs need cotton in three minutes ami forty fivc seconds, taking the premium, and also the Iirizc of One Hundred. Dollars offered by the toard of Trade for the best GIN. Several have been sold this season winch gin a bnle an hour. The same pin aho tool; the premium at the Cotton States Fair at Augusta, last < Moher. Feb. 13, 1873 51 ly W. J. DeTreville, A T T O R NEY A T E A W. Office tit Court House Square, Orangcb'urg, S. C. mclil3-lyr FERSNER & DANTZLER, ib io n t i s rr s Orangeburg, S. C, Office over McMastcr's Brick Stove. F. Febsnek. P. A. Dantzesh, D. 1). S ch 12-3mos Kirk Robinson DBAl,Ell IN Books, Music und Stationery, and Fancy Articles, AT TUE ENGINE HOUSE, ORANGEBURG, C. IL, S. 0. mch G IZLA.Pt *fc DIBBLE, ATTORNEY'S; AT LAW, RUSSELL STREET, Orangeburg, S. C. as. F. Izi.ak. - S. Dibble. mch ?-lyr DR. T. BERWICK LEGARE. DENTA SURGEON, Graduate, Baltimore Col logo Dental Surgery. Offer-, Market street, Over Store of J. A. Hamilton Jcb J4 T:iE HOME SHUTTLE SEWING MACHINE, TQ REST, Because it is perfect in its work, Because it has the endorsement of-*s? many ladies who use it; because U is simple, and because it can ho bought complete on table for only $37,00. JOHN A. HAMILTON. Agent for.H. S. 8. Machine, march t 1873 3 if TRAVELLERS' GUIDE. SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. Charleston, S. C, Mny 19,1872. On and after SUNDAY, May 10, the passenger trains on the South Carolina Railroad will run as follows: . for augusta. Leave Charleston - 9:30 a ni Arrive at Augusta - ,? . - 5:20 p ra for columijia*. Leave Charleston - 9:30 a m Arrive at Columbia, - 5:20 p m for charleston. Leave Augusta ? - 9:00 a ra Arrive at Charleston - 4:45 p in Leave Columbia -. 9:00 it in Arrive at Charlestun - ,4:45 n m augusta night express. (Sundays excepted.) Leave Charleston - 8:30 n m Arrive at Augusta - - 7:35 a ni Lcaye Augusta - - 6:15 p m Arrive at Charleston - 5:50 a m ? . COLUMIUA NIGHT EXPRESS (Sundays excojucd.) Leave Charleston - 7:30 p m Arrive at Columbia - 6:30 a m Leave Columbia - - 7:30 p in Arrive at Charleston - 0:45 a in. * BUMMERVTLLE TRAIN. Leave Summcrvillo - 7:25 a m Arrive at Charleston * - 8:40 a m Leave Charleston - 3:35 p ni Arrive at Summcrvillc at - 4.50 p ni GAMLEN BRANCH. Leave Camdeu - - 7,20 a m Arrive at Culumbia - 11 55 a m Leave Columbia - - 2.10 p m Arrive at Camdeu - 6.55 p m Day and Night Trains connect at Au gusta witliMacoh and Augusta Railroad and Georgia Railroads; This is the quiekest and most dircet route, and as comfortable and.cheap as any other route to Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago, iSt. Louis and all other points "We^t and Northwest. Columbia Night Trains connect jyith Grcelaville anil ^ Columbia Hallrojui, and Day ai\d Night^f rains connect .with Char lotte Road. Through Tickets on sale, via this route to all points North. Camdeu Train connects at Kingville daily (except Sundays-) with Day Passen ger* Train, and i nns through to Columbia A. L. TYLER, Vicc-Prcsidcpt. S. B. Pievens General Ticket Agent. Sep 27 PIANOS AND ORGANS, Furnished on Montilly Installments. TERMS OF LEASE: All Payments made on Ijcase trill ayply tovards tlir purchase of the Instrument IamuoI. Pianos valued at $450 to ?500 : : $75 advance; $25 monthly. 525 to 000 : : 7? advance, 80 monthly. 025 to 700 : : 100 advance, 40 monthly. Organs valued at I $125 to 200 : : $25 advance, $10 monthly, 'ill? to 350 : : 40 advance, 15 monthly. 3G0 to 500 : : 50 advance 25 monthly. "Jay* Parties who oder satisfactory Security can pay for Instrumenta in notes at 3, 0, '.?, and 12 months' time. Call and find out other inducements offered in both Time and Cash Sales-, from KIRK ROBINSON, Agent for Orangcburg County. may 22, 1873 14 tf Geo. S. Hacker Doors Sash, Blind Factory CHARLESTON, I*"IIIS1SAS LARGE AND COMPLETE, . a factory as tlierc is in the South. All work manufactured at flip Factory in this city. The only house owned and managed hy a Carolin an in this city. Send for price list. Address GEO. S. IIAGKER; PostofliccBox 170, Charleston, S. C. Factory and VVavcrooius on King street oj?po sitc Cannon street,.on lino of City Railway, Oct. 30 ly KINQ'S MOUNTAIN MII A TA RY SO 11 O () I YORK VILLI'-, S. C. THE SECOND SESSION of the SCHOOL YEAR, 1873, will begin duly 1st, and end November 30th' Terms: For School Expen ses, ?'. e, Board, Tuition, Fuel, Lights, Washing, Stationery, <N;c., $Ulo per session, payable in advance. For Circulars, address Co:.. A. COWARD, Principal. .Juno 4, 1873 Id 4t . THE WONDERFUL DREAM. '. "Yes, yes, snrtin! Yes^ycs?I believe in dreams,", said old Silas Tafton. He ?took another whilf at his pipe, and (hen added :, <fOrie of tho greatest specula tions I ever vent into came of a dream ??a wonderful dream. I'll tell you about it." ? * ' "You remember, some of you, about the great lnnd speculations here in Maine thirty years ago. Poor men?a very few of them?were made suddenly ric h ; and rich men were suddenly made poor. I was living then in Grey. One day old Sam Whitney of Oxford stopped,at our place, and showed us <i map of a new town which had been laid out in Sagada hoc. On the map it looked beautiful; There were brooks, and lakes, and broad plains of pine and oak, and streets all laid out, and sr.ots for churches and school-bouses marked out in proper ar ray. 1 hiid a cousin living down that way, and concluded to go do'vn and take a look. I found the town of.Ellcnvillo, which old Whitney bad shown me on his map, to a wild worthless tract, till rocks and swamp; but on the edge of tine tract in another township my cousin owned a piece of good land; and 1 bought a hun dred and fifty acres of it, and macjo me an excellent farm; and :for tluttapurehasc 1 was never sorry. . * Meantime Ellcrtville was nearly all sold in hundred acre lot>. Tho excite ment was at fever heat, and people bought without once coming to look at the land they wcrOfpurchasing. But by and by the new owners began to look "up their property, and you can rest assured that they were a blue set, when tlrey wen? re assembled on that territory. Within all the limits of the ninpped-out-township there was not an aero that could be cul tivated. On the side that bordered my farm it was a craggy ledge of rocks ; raid beyond that to tho Eastward the land: settled urniernW-ttHa- arm^tnriv^er bf a slunken slough. Sonic of these lots bad been sold as a high as one pound an acre, and a few of them even higher than that. Unc poor fellow, named John Twist, from Vermont, bad paid one pound an acre for a lot that .bordered on my farm On the map it bad been ecc down as a maguilicent pine forest, with a river upon its border, upon which was a superb water-power. .John Twist bought it and paid fertt, and when be came to look at it he found it to bo a mass of barren i rocks, with here and Ihne a dump of shrub oak and a few Norway pints, and for a water course which tumbled melted snow over the crags in the Spring, and which was dry most of tho year. I did not see the poor fellow when he came to survey bis property, but I can imagine how ho felt. After a while, however, the excitement passed oil', and the sufferers of Ellerivillc turned their backs upon the graves of their speculative hopes. On my farm 1 prospered. My land was of the very best quality ; my wife was a true help mate; my crops were abundant; my stock thrived, and I found niysolf with a goodly pile of money tied up in my stock ing. One evening in tho early autumn, af ter our crops had boon garnered, a'man riding a sorry looking naif, pulled up be? fore our door. He was a well looking man, with a sedate and solemn fare, and dressed in black. It was safe enough to conclude that the man was a minister, aud so ho announced himself. Ho said he was the Rev. Paul Mcckmoro; ho was a missionary, on u homo circuit, and ask ed shelter lor hiiu&elf and beast for the night. Of course wo welcomed him cheerfully, and wen- pleased with him. lie had traveled extensively, and his conversation was entertaining and in stractive. Before ho wont to bed ho read a chapter in the Bible and made a prayer; and Betsy said to mo alter he had retired that she had never heard such a beautiful prayer in hor lite. Tho n?xt morning tit the breakfast ta ble, Mr. Mcokmorowas very sedate, lie asked, a blessing, und then only answered such questions as we asked him. Finally my wife told him she was afraid ho had? .not*slept well. He smiled and said he had slept very well, paving the. spell of a very curious dream which hud visited him three separate times during tnc night. Betsey asked him if he would tell what it was about. uns the old dream of hidden wealth'' he nns\vcrcd, with a solemn look. "I haven't dreamed such a dream before, sincjsby a wonderful dream in South A ft iua I led to the discovery of , a dia mond mine worth millions of;dpllars> and it ntlor profited mo. a ?cent. But such wealth is not for me. I need it not. My calling bath higher and holier aims.? And'yet this poor flesh "is sometimes weak enough to lust after the dross of gold and nil vor. By degrees we got from him that he !;;?d dreamed of a silver mine amOiig the eraof our bills. This mine seemed to his vision to be utterly cxhaufetless in the precious metal; but lie would not locate it. .Betsy, whose curiosity was aroused, would have pushed the niaV..., \ ut Mr? Mecltmoro finally shook his he id more solemnly titan ever, and said that he would rather forget the dream if he could. \Yjien the missionary's horse was at the door,and the owner was" prepared to slavt off, ho informed us that he was bound toward the Canada ljnc, and that tin might rcurn that way. Of course we told him that our door would bo al ways open to him; ami he promised that hq wor.ld abide with us again if he had !!: ? oportunily. fn two week.-} Mr. Mcckmorc came back.- lie had received a summons, he said from the Home Board to return to Boston and make immediate preparation for a.Winter campaign in the West. ./Tbc scc*nd evening in the society of the reverend gentleman we enjoyed more than, we enjoyed the WvA. His fund of anecdote and adventure was literally ex. I HauEtlcss, and yet an odor of sanctity and delicacy 'pervaded all his speech.? We urged t!-..ife ho should spend a few days with us, but he could not. lie said Lit. \v<juid give him great pleasurcjtp do a\ ' ' his call toibv- new field of labor in the Vv\. t w:i--;m. s an I imperative': On lb ! next tudruingi at tjie breakfast .table, ou: guest was even more sedate and tlmugbtful than on the previous oc casion', and when questioned on the mat tor ho told us he had been visited by the same dream again. "This time,'' he said, "tho vision came with wonderful distinctness 1 not only beheld the vast chambers of virgin silver, bid I saw an exact profile of the over ly:!./ territory. It was a wild desolate spot, by a deep ravine, through which the snows of Winter seem to find release j in Spring, rushing down a craggy hill side to a dark, wide-sketching swamp below. This would not i id press me so seriously were it not that once before a dream of the same import proved a start ling reality.'' W e conversed further on the subject, and after breakfast Mr. Mcckmoro took ;i pencil and upon the blank leaf of an old atlas he drew a picture of the spot ho had seen in his dream ; and he poiutt d out where, beneath the roots of old stumpy pine tree, ho had seen outcrop ping of the precious metal. * lie had drawn tho picture, he told us, to show-us bow vivid his dream had been ; but he advised us to thiiik no more of it. Even if it wceb possible that the dream had substance, the body of tho mine was far below tho surface) and, moreover, the Lord only knew where tho spot was located, even allowing that such a spot existed. For once in my life I had allowed cu pidity to get the better of my outspoken bone/ty. I allowed the reverend gentle man to depart, and did not tell him that ] knew where there was a spot exactly the original of that which he had pic tured, even to every rock, shrub, tree mid ravine. And that spot was upon the wild lot which had been purchased by .lohn Twiet, and which .lohn Twist owned r till. That very afternoon, armed with an old ax and pick I sallied forth to tho rough Outsido of the Twist lot. I knew exactly where tho pictured lot was to bo found, and when I had reached it 1 was more than over struck by the faithful ness of 'Mr. Meckdiovo's draft. Tho no curacy in detail was wonderful. And when I reflected that this drall had been made by one who was an utter and stran ger to the place?made from the simple impression of a dream ? is. it a marvel that 1 was strangely influenced ? I found the old tree which toe reverend dreamer lmd particularly designated, and wenl to work at its roots. And cro long my labors wore reward ed. ? Beneath one of tho nmiu roots I found a him}) off purp whito .metal as large as hen's egg ; and upon further chopping and digging I foUnd several more smaller pieces. -They had evident ly been taken from a molten inhSSj and upon rubbing oft' the dirt. I foUnd thenj all pure and bright. That night I slept but little. I could only awake and think of the vast wealth tsiat lav !>l?jicil it; mat uicfuv mn.-nu .? But what could I do? The lot was not mine, and I should run great risk if I should trouble another man's property. And moreover, if I made further explor ations while the land was not mine, tho secret might be divulged and the vast wealth snatched from me. I must pur chase the Twist lot, and I had no doubt that I could purchase it for a mere song. On the next day I rode over to sec iny cousiuj and whcti I . had spoken of the Twist lot, he informed mc that not only that lot, but a number of others were for sale. They had been advertised, and would be sold at auction in two weeks. He culled mc a tool when I told him I should bid on tho Twist lot; but I told liim I Imdjooked it over and made up my mind that my sheep could lind plenty of grazing there throughout the Summer months. 1 Ic sfsked hie if I hadn't already got all'the sheep pasture I needed, but 1 told him.be need not trouble himself. During the next two weeks I kept quiet and held ray tongue, giving jio op portunity for my-Beeret to become known. On the appointed day I went over to the settlement where the land was to bq^old. It was to be put up in hundred acre lota, and sohl by the original plans of the Whitney purchase. Lot. number one was put up first; and sold for onc-quartor of a cent an acre. ?-Tho next lot was the "Twist lot," so called, and I heard it whispered that iron and copper had been' discovered upon it. A stranger in" jockey clothes started it at fifty cents an acre. Another stranger, who wore a blue coat frock and top boo;.-, .bid severity-five*. .There was morn talk about iron ar.d I ore. The man with the jocky suit said that he had positive assurance that puro iron ore had been found in some of the gulches, and he bidono dollar an aero. At this point I entered the contest and bid one dollar and twenty-live. Up?up ?up?twonty-five cents at a time, until at leuth I had bid ten dollars an acre. lV?plc called me crazy. Ten dollars an acre was more than the very best land in tho country was worth. But I held my bid and kept my own counsel. And tho Twist lot was knocked down to me for just one thousand dollars. Tho terms were cash, I 'old them to make out the deed while 1 went home after the money. And away T rode. I emptied my stocking of gold and silver, and found nine hundred and fifty dollars. 1 bor rowed the other fifty without trouble at the settlement, und straightway proceed ed to the office of Squire Simpkins, where the deed had been made. The instru ment was duly signed and sealed, and when tho Squire had assured mc that the payment of tho money would make all last and safe, I handed over the gold and silver. 1 observed that the name of John Twist had been recently signed, and I asked Simpkins if Mr. Twist was present. "Ho was present a few minutes ago,' said Simpkins, "and will be back again for his money. He's feeling pretty good I should judge, since ho has get rid of his hundred ucro lot for twice as much as it co5t him, and for a thousand times more than any sane man would think it was worth. Hawaii hour afterwards I called at the Squire's again. Mr. Twist had just gone out, with his money. "There he is now ," said Simpkins, "just b aind off." I looked out of the window, and saw at tho door of the iun, on the opposite side of the way, a tall man, in a bottle green coat, with bright, glaring buttons, just mounting a horse, and I recognized tho man!" "Who is that man," I asl>cd ; "he with the green coat and brass buttons?" "'1 bat," said Simpkins, "is Mr. John Twist." la a moment more tho man in the bet tic grocn coat had ridden away, with his heavy saddle bags behind him and but toned up within that coat I beheld my reverend guest! It rushed upon me that the Uev. Paul Mcckmorc and John.Twist wcic one and the same person! ^nd this was uot alJ that flashed upon mej A few days afterward 1 took my lumps of white metal to a man who was versed in stich matters, and ?sked him what they were. He took the largest' Idmp. and tested it, and said ': " "Pewter!" ? I asked him if pewter ever was dug/out of the earth in that shape. "Well," said lie, "seeing that pewter is an alloy of lead and tin, it couldn't be very well dug up, Uplefs somebody hau gone and buried it before hand." .' i ; Touching further explorations on my "Twist lot," I will not speak. I will only add that I have au old stocking with half dozen lumps of pewter in it; and I never look uf>on.it but I am forced to [ acknowledge that dreams are sometimes very -strange and wonderful things. Pulling a Tooth with a Boor-Knob. The rough sort of dentistry described below has occasionally been practiced as a trick, which more or less success; but we have rarely heard of a patient's choosing the door-knob method of his own accord. : ? L-? A rough, Western farmer came 4nl# a doctor's office to have a tooth extracted, but flinched at the sight of the "iustru- . men is ;" and again and'' again the doctor tried in vain to get a ? gripper into his mouth. At last, the Hoosier declared "that - ere new-fangled thing to be no account," ^ and wauled to know if the doctor could "! tie a string around tho tooth; "for,",, raid he, "that's the way I used to pull 'ein ont, au' I guess? it's bcttcr'n all. ycr*g new-fangled fixtures." The dentist, to please him, said ho w ould try, and producing from a drawer a line strong piece of fish-line, and after a great deal of tronble and veils of pain from the Hoosier, it was firmly secured around the tooth. The Hoosier then pro posed to fasten the string to the door knob, which was accordingly done. The baekwoodsman then commenced a series of easy jerks on tho line, each of which was followed by yells of pain. The doctor resumed his seat, and smiled audibly behind his paper, occa sionally glancing toward the door, and then turning quickly again to the paper to hide behind it his merriment. Thus masters stood, until at last the fire burned low, and the dentist aroso to replenish it. As be threw in the wood, and stirred the red-hot coals into a blaze, a brilliant idea seemed to strike him, for his face brightened wonderfully. Aris ing from the flnoi, he left tho pokeHn tho fire, and, seating himself, awaited the change of affairs. The baekwoodsman had relapsed into despondency, for a melaucholy expres sion had settled on his face. He ptcadily. gazed downward, as if ho were in deep thought The dentist, as I have said before, re sumed his seat, but threw aside his papor and sat looking intently into the fire, with an expression of merriment playing on his features. Thus he sat for somotime. A.t last noiselessly rising from his chair, he drew the poker, one end of which* was glow-^ ing with a red heat, from tho fire. Ha suddenly brandished it in the air, and brought it rapidly toward the Hoosier's nose, The backwoodsman threw himself back with a jorfc. The cord did not break nor the door-knob come out} but tho tooth loosened "from its roots, and bounded ngninst the door with a click like a bullet. A colored firm in Newark, New Jersey, having suffered some* pecuniary embarrassments, recently closed business, and the senior member gnve to the pub-; lie the following ?nots.' * De dissolution of coparsnips heretolo' resisting twixt mo and Moses Jones in the barber profes sion, am heretorV resolved, Pussohs who oso muse pay to de scribor. Pom what do firm ose must call on Jones. &nd ' de firm is Involved' ?