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||||^. -. ?wt?^fr?m First Pa$e? '^^Sc?a^^-l&y^ao?-- here we met Kara returning troai dispatebiag' the- first two messengers. Tiere were the marble blocks, sore enough, broad? massive lumps, soma six inches thick, . and weigfiing about eighty pounds each, and there, tod; were a couple of implements like small stretchers that the ?workmen used to : carry them on. Without delay we got some cf the blocks on to the stretchers, and four of lV*v~*ae girls carried them to the doorway. "Lasten, Macrrmazahn," said TJmslopogaas; "fr these loW fellows come, it is I who .will - hold the. stair against them till the door is built np. Kay, nay, it will be a nan's death, .gainsay me not, old friend: It has been a good day, let it -BOW be good night. See, I - throw mjpe?f down; to rest on the marble there; when their footsteps are mgb, wake thoa me, not before, for I need my strength," and without a word he went outside and Hung himself down on the marble and was instantly asleep. At this time ?, too, was overcome and was forced to sit down by tbe doorway and con tent myself with directing operations. The giris brought the blocks while Kara and liy leptha hoik them across the six foot wide doorway, a triple row df them, for less would be useless. But tbe marble had to be brought forty yards and there were forty yards to run back, -and though the girls labored gloriously, ?even staggering along alone, each with a block in -"her arms, it was slow work, dread? fully slow. The light was growing now, and presently In the s3emcewe heard a commotion at the far off bottom of the stair and^the faint clanking of armed men. As yet the wall was <mry two feet high, and we had been eight -minnies at the building of it. So they had ?orne. Alphonse had heard aright The clanking sound came nearer and in the .ghostly gray of the dawning we could make cat longfSes of men, some ffty or so ia all, slow-y creeping np the stair. 1 hey were now at the half way stand Lng place that rested ?on the great ny big arch, and here perceiving that something was going on above, they, to ?our great grdn, halted for three or four min tttes and consulted, then slowly and cau? tiously advanced again. .We had been nearly a quarter of an hour at the work now, and it was almost three feet high. Then I woke TJmslopogaas. The great Tn*7> rose, stretched himseif and swung lu iosi-kaasround his head. .". .- **It is wei I,7* he said "I feel as a young " man oncemore. My strength has come back to me, ay, even as a lamp, fiares up before it -dies.'. Fear not, I sb ali light a good fight; - - the wine and the sleep have put a new heart into me. -"Macirmaz?hn, I have dreamed a dream. ? dreamed that thou and I stood together on a star and looked down on the world, and thoa wast as a spirit, Macumazahn, for light barned through thy flesh, but I could not see wfcas was the iasbiort of my own face. The hour has come for us, old hunter. So be it; we have had our time, but I would that in it I had seen some more snch fights as yester? day's. "Let them bury me after the fashion, of my people, ?aenmazabn, and set my eyes : toward Zululand;71 and he took my hand and shook it, and then turned to face the ad .irancmg foe. Jost' then, to my astonishment, the Zu Vend? officer Kara clambered over our im? provised wall in his quiet, determined sort of way, and took his stand by the Zola, un? sheathing' his sword as he did so. "What, comest thou toof laughed oar th? ?old warrior. .'Welcome-a welcome to.tbee,-brave heart! Owl fdr the man who can die like a man ow! for the death gripe and the ringing cf steel. Ow! we are ready We wet our beaks like eagles, our spears fiash in the sun we shake our assegais, and are hungry to . fight. Who comes to give greeting to the chieftamess7' (Ink psi- haas) ' "Who would " iaste ber kiss, whereof the frurt is death I the Woodpecker, I, the Slaughterer, I, the Swift footed? 1, Umsiopogaas, ot the tribe of the Maqoilisim, of the people of Amazulu, a captain of the regiment of the Nkomaba kosi. I. Umsiopogaas, the son of indazimbi. the son of Arpi the son of Jalcstlikaatze ; o? . the royal blood ot TChaka, I of tbe King's House, I the Ringed Man, ? the Induna. I call to them as a back calls. I challenge them, I await them. Ow? ?t is thou, it ts thou'r As he spake, or rather chanted, his wild war song.-the armed men, among whom in the growing light ! recognized both Nasta ?md Agon, canje streaming up the stair with a rush, and one big fellow, armed with a \ heavy spear, dashed up the ten semicircular . .steps ahead of his comrades, and struck at the great Zola with tbe spear L'mslopogaas moved his body but not his legs, so that the blow missed Elm, and next instant Inkosi kaas crashed through head piece, hair and skull, and the man's corpse was rattling down" the steps. As, he dropped' his round hippopotamus hide shield fell from his hand Cn to the marble, and t":*e Zulu stooped down and seized it, still chanting as he did so. Vrr.slopcgaas held the stair. In arother second the sturdy Ka- a had also ?*?UT> a tuan, and then began a scene the like of which has not been known to me Up rushed the assailants-one. two^ three nt a time-and as fast as they came the ax crashed and *he sword swung, and down they roiled again, dead or dying. And ever as the fight thickened, the old, Zulu's eye seemed to get quicker and his arm stronger He shouted ont his war cries and the names of chiefs whom he had siam, and the blows of his awful ax rained straight and true, shear? ing through everything they fell on. There was none of the "scientific method he was so fond of about this last immortal fight of his' be had no time for it, but Strock w.th his full strength, and at every stroke a man sank Jin bis tracks and went rattling down the marble .steps. They hacked and hewed at him with swords ?od spears, wounding him in a dozen places fcfli he streamed red wi: h blood. but the shield protected his head and the chain shirt his ^vitals, and for minute after minute, aided by the gallant Za-Vend?, be still held the stair At last Kara's sword broke, and he grappled with a foe, and they roiled down together, and he was cut to pieces, d}?ng like the brave man that he was. Umsiopogaas was alone now, but he never blenched or turned. Shouting ont some wild -Zulu battle cry, he beat down a foe, av, and -another and another, till at last they drew back from the slippery, blood stained steps, sod stared at him in amazement, thinking -shat he was no mortal man. The wall of marble block was four feet six Thigh now, and bope rose in my heart a? 1 leaned there against it. a miserable, helpless log, and ground my teeth, arid watched that glorious struggle. I could do no more, for I had lost my revolver in bettie. A-od old Umslopogaa*, he leaned, too, on h? good axe, and, ?tint as he was with wounds, he mocked them, he called them .women"-the grand old warrior, standing there, one against so manyi And io* a breathing space none would come against him, notwithstanding Pasta's exhortai ion?, till at Jast old Agon, who, to d<.? him jus-,;???, \ras a "brave man, mad with bniHed rage, and seeing that the wall would s on bi built and his pians defeated, shook tiV great spear he held, and rushed up the dripping steps. *Ab, ah I" shouted the Zulu, as he recog? nized the priest's Sowing white beard, "it is thoa, old'witch finder!' Come on! i await thee, white 'medicine nvan;' come on! come Da! I have sworn to slay thee, and I ever keep roy faith." On he came, taking him at his word, and drove the bhg spear wita such force at Um? siopogaas that it sank right through the tough shield and pierced him in the neck. The Zola cast down the transfixed shield, and ? moment was Agon's last, for before ho ! could free his spear and strike again, with a I shout of "There's for thee, rain maker!" j TJmslopogaas griped Inkosi-kaas with both ?j hands, and whirled her on high, and drove i her right on to his venerable bead, so that j Agon rolled down dead among the corpses of ? his fellow murderers, and there was an end j* of hun and his plots together. Ancfeven as j he fell a grear; cry rose from the foot of the stair, and looking cut through the portion of ' the doorway that was yet unclosed we saw armed men rushing up to the rescue, and called an answer to th eir^ shouts. Then the would be murderers who yet remained on the stairway, and among whom I saw several priests, turned to fly, but, having nowhere to go. were butchered as they fled. Only one man stayed and he was the great lord Nasta, Nyleptka's suitor, and the father of the plot. For a moment the black bearded Nastn stood with bowed face leaning on his long s tv ord as though ia despair, and then, with a dreadful shout", he too rush d u? st the Zulu, and, swinging the gli tering sword around his head, dealt bim such a mighty Wow beneath his guard that the keen steed of the heavy blade -bit right through the chain armor and deep into Umslopogftas' side, for a moment paralyzing him and causing him to drop his ax. Raising the sword again, Nasta sprang for? ward to make an end of him, but little he hnew his foe. With " a shake and a j-ell of fury, the Zulu gathered himself together and 'jpraug straight at Nast&'s throat, as I have sometime, seen a wounded hon spring. He struck hi n full as his foot was on the top? most stair, and his long arms closing round him like iron bands, down they rolled to? gether straggling furiously. Nasta was a strong man and a desperate, but he coulS not match the strongest man in Zululand, sore wounded though he was, whose strength waa as the strength cf a bull. In a minute tbe end came. I saw old Umslopogaas stagger tc his feet-ay. and saw bim, by a single gigan? tic effort, swing up the struggling Nasta, and, with a shout of triumph, hurl him straight over the parapet of the hri^e, to be crashed to powder on the rocks 200 feet be? low. The succor which had been summoned by the girl who had passed down the stair before the assassins passed up was at hand, and the loud shouts which reached us frcm the outer gates told us that the town was also aroused, ard the men awakened by the women were calling to be admitted. Some of Nyleptba*s brave ladies, who, ia their nigbt shifts and ? with, their long bah' streaming down the:r backs, just as they bad been aroused from rest, had worked so gal? lantly at blocking the passage through the wail, went of? to admic them at the side entrance, while others, as-isted by the rssca- j fag party outside, pushed and pulled down j the marble blocks they had placed there with i so much ial?or iv.-on the wall was down again, and through the doorway, followed by a crowd of res? cuers, staggered old Umslopogaas, an awfu*. and. in a way. a glorious figure The man was a mass of wounds, arda glance at bis w?d eye ?old me that he was dying. The "koshla" pun ring upon his head was severed ! in two places by sword cut', one inst over the j curions hole in iris skull, and the blood poured j down his fac-> from the ga-h^. Also, on the j riges ride cf his neck was a stab from a j sp-??*-, mfi.et-d by Agon; there was a deep j . cut on his left arni jtut below where tbe mail ? I shirt sleeve stepped, and on the right side of i his body the armor was severed by a gash six ? niches long wh-_-ro ."Sesm's mighty sword had I bitten through it, and deep into its wearer's vitals. On, ax in b-aiul, he staggered, that dreadful looking, splendid savage, and the ladies for? got to turn faint at the scene of blood, and cheered him. as well they might, but he never stayed or heeded. With out-tretched arms and totteriug gait he pursued his way, fol? lowed by us" ail along the bread shell strewn I walk that ran through the court yard, past j the spot where the blocks of marble lay, ! through the round arched docrway and the j thick curtains that bung within it, down the short passage and into the great hail, which J was now filling with hastily armed men, who poured through the side entrance. Straight j j up tho bail he went, leaving behind him a j j track of blood on the marble pavement, till j at last he reached the sacred stone, which j stood ia th*? center of it. and here his strength ! seemed to fail him, for he bopped and ka:::d upon his ax. Then suddenly he lifted up his voice and cried aloud: "I die, I die-but it was a kingly fray Where, are they who came up the great stair* I see them not. Art thou there, Macuina zahn, or art thou gene before to wait for me in the dark whither I go? The blood blinds i me-the place tarns round-I hear the voice J of waters.*' i 2?ext, as though a new thought had struck him, be lifted the red ax and kissed the blade 1 ?.Farewell. Inkosi-kaas !" he cried. "Nay. } cay. we will go together; we cannot part, thou and L We have lived too long one with another, thoa and L One more stroke, only one! A good stroke! a straight stroke! a strong stroke"" and, drawing himself to his full height, with a wild heart shaking shout. I be with both hands- began to whirl the ax i around his head tili it looked like a circle of j flaming steel. Then suddenly with awful ; force he brought it down straight on to the i crown of the mass of sacred stone. A shower of sparks flew up, and such was the almost superhuman strength of the blow that the j massive marble split with a rending sound J into a score of pieces, while of Inkosi-kaas there remained but some fragments of steel ! and a fibrous rope cf shattered horn that had j been the handle. Down with a crash on to I the pavement fell the fragments of the holy stone, and down with a crash on to them, still grasping the knob of Inkosi-kaas, fell the brave old Zulu-dead. And thus the hero died A gasp of wonder and astonishment rose . from ail those who witnessed the extraordi? nary sight, and then somebody cried, "The j prophecy! the prophecy ! Ke has shattered ! the sacred stone!** and at once a murmuring arose. I "Ay," said Nyleptha, with that quick wit j which distinguished her-"ay, my people, he j has shattered the stone, and behold the pro I phecy is fulfilled, for a stranger king rules in Zu-Vendis. Incubu, my lord, hath beat So i rais back, and I fear her no more, and to bim I who bath saved tbe crown it shall surely be. And this man," she said, turning to me and laying her hand upon my shoulder, "wot ye that, though wounded in the fight of yester? day, he rode, with that old warrior who lies tlaere, one hundred miles twixt sun set and rise to save me from the plots of cruel men. Ay, and he has saved me, by a very little, and therefore because of the deeds that they have done-deeds of glory such as our h .'story cannot show the like-therefore I say that tho name of Macumazahn and the name cf dead Umslopogaas, ay, and the name cf Kara, my servant, who aided bim to hold the stair, shall be blazoned in letters of gold above my throne, and shall i>o glorious forever while the land endures. I, the queen, have said it." This spirited speech was met with loud cheering, and I said that after ali we bad only done our duty, as it is the 'fashion of both Englishmen and Zulus to do. and there was nothing to make an outcry about; at which they cheered szill more, and then I was sup? ported across the cuter court yard to my old quarters, in order that I might be put to bed. As I went my eyes lit upon the brave horse Daylight that lay there, his white head out? stretched on the pavement, exactly as ho had fallen on entering the yard; and I bade those who supported me take me near him that I might look on the good beast once more be? fore he was dragged away. And as I looked, to my astonishment, he opened his eyes, and, lifting his head a little, whinnied faintly. I could have shouted for joy to find that he was not dead, only unfortunately I had not c, ?bout left in me ; but as it v. us grooms were i sent for and he was lifted up and wine j poured down his threat, and in a fortnight j he was as well and strong as ever, and is the j pride and joy of all the people of Miloais, j who, whenever they see him, point him cul to the little children as the "horse, which saved the White Queen's life." Then I went on and got off to bed, and wai washed and bad my mail shirt removed. They hurt me a .good" deal in getting it off, j and no wonder, for on. my left breast and side was a black bruise the sire of a saucer The next thing that I remember was tbe tramp of horsemen outside the palace wall some ten hours later 1 raised myself and asked what wa? the news, and they told me that a large body of cavalry, sent by Cartis ! to assist the Queen, bad arrived from tba J scene of the battle, which they had left twrt j hours after sundown When they left the wreck of Sorais' army was in full retreat upon M'Arstuna. followed by all our effective cavalry Sir Henry was encamping the re mains of hts worn out forces on the site tench is the fortune of war) that Sorais had oecu pied the night before, and proposed marching oa to M'Arstuna on the morrow Having ! heard this, I felt that I could die with a light heart, and then everything became a blank. When next I awoke tbe first thing I saw was the round disk of a sympathetic eye glass, behind which was Good. uf?ow are you getting on, old chap*" said a voice from the neighborhood of the eye glass. ?.What are you doing here*" 1 asked, faintly "You ought to be at M'Arstuna; have you run away, or what?" "M'Arstuna V he replied, cheerfully "Ah, ?TArstuna fell last week-you've been uncon? scious for a fortnight, you see-with all the honors of war. you know, trumpets blowing, flags flying, just as though they bad the best of it, but for all that weren t they glad to gol Israel made for bis tents, I can tell you never saw such a sight in my life/" "And Sorais^ I asked. "Sorais-oh, Sorais is a prisoner; they gav? her up. the scoundrels,1, he added, with a change of tone-"sacrificed the queen to save their skins, you see She is being brought up here, and I dont know what will happen to her, poor soul i " and he sighed. "Where is Curtis?" 1 asked. "He is with Nyleptha. She rode out to meet us today and there was a grand to do, I can tell you. He is coming to see you to-mor? row; the doctors (for there is a medical "fac? ulty" in Zu Vendis as elsewhere; thought that he had better not come today. I said nothing, but somehow I thought to myself that notwithstanding the doctors be might have given me a look; but then, when a man is newly married, and has just gained a great victory, he is apt to listen to the ad vice of doctors, and quite right too. Just then I heard a familiar voice informing me that "ilonsieur must now couch himself," and looking up perceived Alphonse's enor? mous black mustaches curling away in tbe distance. "So you are borer I said. "Mais oui, monsieur, the war is now fin? ished, my military instincts are satisfied, and I return to nurse monsieur.*' I laughed, or rather tried to but whatever may have been Alphonse's failings cs a war? rior (and I fear that be did not come up to the level of his heroic grandfather in this partic? ular showing thereby how true is the saying that it is a bad thing to be overshadowed by some great ancestral name), a better or a kinder nurse never h ved. Poor Alphonse! I hope he will always think of me as kindly as. I think of him. On the morrow I saw Curtis and Nyleptha with him, and he told me the whole history of what had happened since Umalopogaaj and I galloped wildly away from the battle to save the life of the queen. It seemed to mo that he had managed the thing exceeding? ly well, and showed great ability as a general, Of coarse, however, our loss had been dread? fully heavy-indeed, I am afraid to say bow many perished in the desperate battle I have described, bat 1 know that the slaughter has appreciably affected the male population of the country He was very pleased to see me, dear fellow that he is, and thanked me with tcai-s in his eyes for the little I had been able todo. I saw him, however, start"violently when bis eyes fell upon my face. As for Kyleptha, she was positively radiant now that "her dear lord" had come back with no other injury than an ugly scar on his forehead. "And what art thou going to do with Sorais?" I asked hei\ Instantly her bright brow darkened to a frown. "Serais,** she said, with a little stamp of the foot, "ah. but SoraisP Sir Henry hastened to turn the subject. 44 You will scon be about and all right again now, old fellow," he said. I shook my head and laughed. "Don't deceive yourselves," I said, "I may be about for a little, but I shall never be ali right again. I am a dying man, Curtis. I may die slow, but die I must. Do you know, I have been spitting blood all the morning! I tell you there is something working away into my lung; I can feel it. There, dont look distressed; I have had my day. and am ready to go. Give nie the mirror, will you? I want to look at myself." He made some excuse, but I saw through it and insisted, and at last be handed me one of the disks of polished silver, set in a wooden j frame like a hand screen, which serve as . looking glasses in Zu-Vendis. I looked and put it down. "Ah," I said quietly, "I thought so; and yo? talk of my gettiDg all right!" I did not like to let them see how shocked I really was at my own appearance. My grizzled stubby hair was turned snow white, and my yellow , face was shrunk like an aged woman's and had two deep purple rings painted beneath the eyes. Here Nyleptha began to cry, and Sir Henry again turned the subject, telling me that the artists had taken a cost of the dead body of old Umslopogaas, and that a great statue in . black marble was to be erected of him in the' act of splitting the sacred stone, which was to be matched by another statue in white marble of myself and the horse Daylight as he appeared when, at the termination of that wild ride, he sank beneath me in the court yard of the palace. I have since seen these* statues, which, at the time of writing this,, six months after the battle, are nearly finished ; and very beautiful they are, especi? ally that of Umslopogaas, which is exactly like bim. As for that of myself, it is good, but they bave idealized my ugly face a little, which is perhaps as well, seeing that thou- ? sands of people will probably look at in the' centuries to come, and it is not pleasant to look at ugly things. Then they told me that Umslopogaas4' last wish had b en carried out, and that instead of being cremated, as I shall be, after the usual custom here, he had been tied up Zulu ! fashion, with bis knees beneath his chin, and, having boen wrapped in a thin sheet of beaten gold, entombed in a hole hollowed out of tba ' masonry of the semicircular space at the top of the stair he defended so splendidly, which faces, as far as we can judge, almost exactly toward Zululand. There he sits and will sit forever, for they embalmed bira with spices and put him in an air tight stone coffer, keeping hi-" grim watch t>eneatb the spot ho ; held alone against a multitude; and the people say that at night his ghost rises and stands shaking the phantom of Inkosi kans at phan? tom fo-s. Certainly they fear during tbs dark hours to pass the place where the hero is buried. [TO BE CONTINUED."! COU:MBIA, S. C., Sept. 23, 1887. 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ELY BROS., c 01 " JL _JL J-^1 XtJJJJ-<^tf 235 Greenwich Street, New York. i beP: 21 ROSENDORF ft Cfc, P?OP?lKTOSS Of -THE PALACE" SALOON, Sole Agesta for GOLDEN (MM fHMY ! The pure product of the choicest grain, cane fully selected fresh from the barrett, and dis? tilled by an improved* process. Rich and Nat? ural Grain Flavor,- Bright Color and Smooth, Relisbsome Taste, preserved la perfection. Wholesome as a beverage, effectual as a tonic, infallible as a restorative, and peerless for family use, a) ways uniform at the standard of excellence, and is beyond competition. Tr*A180,? REDMOND CORM WHISKEY. The Finest Liquors ami Segara dispensed, over "The Palace" Bar by polite Bar-tenders. &pt 28 O BARGAINS FOR ALL ITS CUSTOMERS THE WEEK. ALL OUR LINES ARE New 9 omplete, We are Selling the Goods Lower, and More of Them than Ever Before, in Spite of all Opposition. The public are cordially invited to come and examine my line before buying elsewhere. Large inducements are offered in 9 . S Cutaways, Prince Alberts ! Fine Cassimeres, And no pains will be spared to supply all who favor me with their patronage with the very best goods for the money. No Exaggeration! No Deception! Everything sold on ?ts merits and everything fully as represented. Yon can get full value for your money at D. J. WINN'S, Oct. 26. SUMTER, S. CL jTew Advertisement* WANTED-LADIES for oor_ M?J?*f? Christmas Trade, to take ligb'f, pl** ant work at their own homes. $1 to $3 per day can be quietly made. Work sent by mmiV any distance. Particulars free. No cao?***? in*. Address at once, CRESCENT ART CO;,* 147 Milk St.. Boston, Mass. Box 5I1ftvi % INTENDING ADVERTISERS should ad*' dress GEO. P. ROWELL it CO*1 10 Spruce Street, New York City, For Select List of 1,000 Newrptper?. Will be sent Free, on application, J. D. CKAIf? FURNITURE DEAL? AW UNDERTAKER,' MAI* Stn***, : SOITEB, RESPECTFULLY ANNOUNCES*' tq tg? public that he bas a' large; - and7 ?WP selected stock of* ito wticli'ditftfbns^ i We taire pleasure in showing ftfodsTand' jail are invited" to call and' eft fdr themselfet 'the bargains offered tn Wood and Marbte-Td? wVdfltrt, k& Poplar Bed Room Setts; Handsome Parlor 8bttfes?- . : Marble and Wood-Top taWeTof all kind*v ' Lo u nges, Chairs and rockers of maa/ styles,' I Bedsteads, Bureaos, Washstands^* Mattresses'and Pillows;- - Picture&V Window SSad?i;- , Picture Frames; Wfaat-notfi, B rackets; ; Au de very thing usually kept tn a first daaf1 ! furniture store. ! A visit to Craigs ?Ol cont?twrf y^ttttt you can save money by buying of bint. AU* j goods carefully packed, free of charg?. . A' large stock of window and pictdr? ?toar ! always on hand. I f HE UNDERTAKING D?PAftTMl??f* ifs full and complete embracing Caskets'?ad* r Coffins of varions* styl?s: \ Galls promptly attended'day or nTgbt.* i Charges most reasonable. j Oct. l? _ WILLIAM KENNEDY. Fashionable Barbe?: . MA?* STR2ET, ; Next door tb Barle k Pordy'8 Law Off** SUMTER, S. <3v ?DES?RS TO' INFORM tt?e ctt?eaT 6t Sumter and vicinity that F nave opened : business on tay Own account'af th? above Old* stand; and that with competent' add polite" assistants, I will be pleased t<r Sfcrve tbetn in; jany branch'of my business in th? belt style" ?of the art'. Give me a calli? da. ?B?SO?rf. Oct. 19? ?at?ng received their LASGE AND COMPLET? sfoe? of Fall ?nd Winier Millinery wotild call toe attention of their patfonraJhf tile public generally to same. This stock includes a? full l?t?? of ?jTRfirfMED AND UN* RIM?Ef* Bats and Bonnets? IN VELVET, FELT AND STRAW, Together vita a Variety of SHAD?D FEATHERS, FANCY BBEAS^ BIRDS, RIBBONS, RUCHINGS,: LADIES' COLLARS, C?FPS, etc A Complete Line of CORSETS, . T??E LATEST STYLES IN B?STLES, INFANTS' DRE?SSEfli AHT? C?P8 Al ways" on band. .Prompt attention given to Ordert; 066 jg_ _ J. J. DARGAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SCMTER, Sf. C. mo. T. Attorney and Counsellor at 5 S?MTS?, C. H., S. C. 'Collection of claims ? se?c2a!tf . June 20._._-_. Attorney at Law? . SUMTER, S/C. Will practice in adjoining counties. Collect??g ??atfe ? Sp?c?altjr, J.B. CARR, CONTBAC?Oft ANS BUILD?A, SUMTER, & & PLANS DRAWS A$D ESTIMATES made. Work done promptly and satis? faction guaranteed. Always ready to give a bid on any *^'oxkt Office on Kain Street tfear the Depot. Es?ate sf Davis H. &id?is, Ik&i* IWILL APPLY to the Judge of Probate of Sumter County, on the I2*th of ?fov.j 188?, for a final discharge as Administrator Ot aforesaid Estate. ARTHUR K. SANDERS. Oct. 12, 1887._Administrator. FisiL'and Oysters* RECEIVED DAILY, d?ri?g tfi? season* fresh Fish and Oysters, whtcb will be* sent to the homes of customer? when M ordered. The patronage of the citizens solicited: Leave orders at the Express Offic*. _J. M. SPAN?. BRIMSON HOUSE, SUMTER, S. G. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT^ Rates-One Dollar Per Dajr< A liberal reduction made according tel length of time. Jt. H. DI&O??, Proprietor. Formerly of the Central Hotel, Spartan* borg, S. C. Sept. 21. v -- .ii --??ag ~S'. RUBBER STAMPS? MAME STAMPS f OR MANCINI ttt?HWS with ?ndettlb?e ink, et fot frtettag riaUiaf cards, and STAMPS OP AFT KIND fcrffa?rp?ng B?Sl?Bie CA?DS, ?NTBL? Of SS er anything elsa, Specimens of rariMtf i ty Ita on hand, which wMl be shove with fM?? ara. Th* LOWEST PRICKS possible, tW_ ?Wert tiled MeatMl?. > W CM on C. P. OST*!*, ^ M 4k* Watchman and Soathroa Q <? ; Sn*ter,S. G. -' .