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AS OTHERS SEE US PREVARICATORS, FALSIFIERS. AND ?LA!N LIARS;. Poor Haiti.Nature Lashed L'.M!n?-e!rti? ]y?from Coct.tinx IIoou t" Sbop: frein Drawing Koo:u to Kitchcn: and Yet Nobody Deceit fd Tor Any! Leogth of Time. New York. March 22.?"The Plague of Lies" was selected bv Dr. Talniaire for the subject of the Jifth of his discourses on "The Plagues of These Three Cities," which lie preached to-day. Both at the morning service in Hrooklvu and at the evening service under the auspices of the Christian Ilerald in Xew York, the v?st buildings were not large enough to hold more than one-half the crowd who came to hear the sermon. His text was Genesis iii, 4: **Ye shall LLUL SUICIJ UHJ. That was a point blank lie. Satan told it to Eve to induce her to put lu r semi-circle of white, beautiful teeth, into a forbidden apricot, or plum, or peach, or apple. He practically ;a:d io her, "Oh, Eve I Just take a bite ot this and you will be omnipotent and onmiscent. You shall be as sods." Just the first lie that w as ever told in our world. It opened the irate for ail the falsehoods that have ever alighted on this planet. It introduced a planue that covers all nations?that Plague of Eies. I'ar worse than the Plagues of Egypt, for they were on the banks of the JN :Ie; but lliis is on the hanks of the Hudson, on the banks of the East river, on the banks of the Ohio, and the Mississippi, and the Thames, and the/Rhine, and the Tiber, and od both sides of all rivers. The Egyptian Plagues lasted only a few weeks, but for six thousand years has raged this "Plague of Lies. There are a hundred ways of telling a lie". A man's entire life may be a iiilsehood, while with his lips he may not once " ^ directly falsify. There arc those who state what is positivey untrue, but alterwards sa>* "may be," softly. These departures from the truth are called "white lies;" but there is really no such thing as a white lie. The whitest liethat was ever told was as black as perdition. 2s o inventory of publi-: crimes will be suflicient that omits this gigantic abomination. There are men, high in church and state, actually useful, sclidenviner and honest in many things. who, upon certain subjects, and in certain spheres, are not at nil to be depended upon for veracity. Indeed, there are manv men and women who have their notions of truthfulness so thorughly perverted, that they do not know when they are lymc. With many it is a cultivated sin; with some it seems a natural infirmity. 1 have known people who seem to have been born liars. The falsehoods of their lives extended from cardie to crave. Prevarications, misrepresentation, and dishonesty of speech appeared in their lirst utterances, and were as natural to them as any oi their infantile diseases and were a sort of moral croup or spiritual scarlatina, But many have been placed in circumstances were this tendency has day by day, and hour by hour, been called to larger development. They have 20110 from attainment to attainment, and from class to class, until they have become rrwi/lnof o/l linra IVT^uiiu.ij, ^iauuaivu liiuc. The air of he eitv is lilled with falsehoods. They hang pendant from the chandeliers of our linest residences: they crowd the shelves of some of our merchant princes! they till the sidew alk from curbstone to brown-stone facing. They cluster around the mechanic's hammer, and blossom flom the end ot the merchant's yard-stick, and sit in the doors of churches. Some call them "fiction." Some style them "fabrication." You might say that they were subterfuge, disguise, delusion, romance, evasion, pretense, fable, deception, misrepresentation, but, as I am ignorant of anything to be gained by the biding oi a G oddefying outrage under a lexicographer's blanket, I shall chieily call them what my father taught me to call them?lies. I shall divide them into argriculttrai. mercantile, mechanical, ecclesiastical and social lies. First, then, I will speak of those that are more particularly agricultural. TViovo io crvmofMncr in thf> nometlial presence ot natural objects to make a man pure. The trees never issue "false stock." Wheat fields are always honest. Bye and oats never .move out in the night, not paying for the placc they have occupied Corn shocks never make night, not paying or the place ihey have occupied. Corn shocks never make false assignments. Mountain j brooks are always "current." The i'old on the grain is never counterfeit. The sunrise never Haunts in false colors. The dew sports only genuine diamonds. Taking farmers as a class, 1 believe they are truthful and fair in dealing, and kind-hearted. But the regions surrounding our cities do not always send this sort, of men to our markets. Day by cby there crjnk through our streets, and ab< ut the market, houses, farm v\ago_s that have not an honest spoke in their wheels or a truthful rivet from tongue to tail-b ard. During the last feA'years there have been times when domestic ccon*>:-y has f'ouud red on t!:<: farmer's tirk n. Neither Inch taxes nor the high price of dry-goods nor the exorbitancy of labor, cnild excusi; much that the citv has witnes ed :u the he 'si.vior of the yeomanry. ]>y the quiet Presides in Wcstchestcr and Orangecounties, I hope there niav l>e seasons of deep reflection and heartv rei cutance. Kural disiru-ts are lucustomed to rail at great cities as given up to fraud and pvprv form of unrv-hfnr.nsness: but our I cities do not absorb all the aboniinalious. Our citizens have ."earued the importance of not always trusting 10 the size and stvle of apples on the top of a farmer's barrels as an indic-atiou of what may be found farther down. Many ol' our people ara accustomed t<"> watch and see how correctly a bushel ot beets is measured: and there arc not many honest milk-caus. Deceptions do not all cluster round city halls. When our ckies sit down and weep over tl.eir sins, all the surrounding country ought to come in and weep with them. There is often hostility on the part of producers against traders, as though the man who raises the corn was necessarily more honorable than the grain dealer, who pours it into hismammota bin. There ought to lie no such hostility. Yet producers olten think it no wrom: to snatch uway from the trader; and they s.;j to the bargainmaker, "You net your money easy." Do they get it easy Lei those who in the quiet field and barn <;et their living exchange places with those who slaud to-day amid the excitements e: commercial life, and see ii' they find il so very easy. While the farmer goes to sleep with the assurance that his corn and barley will be growing all the night, moment by moment adding to Ins revenue, the merchant tries to *:i> to sleep conscious that that moment hUcaryo may be broken on the rocks or damaged by the wave that sweeps clear ac ross the hurricane deck; or that reckless speculators may, that very hour, be plotting some monetary revolution, or the burglars be prying open his sale, or his debtors fleeim: the town, or his landlord raising the rent, or the lire* kindling <>n the block that, contains all his estates. Easy! Is it'r God help the merchants. It is hard to have the palms of the hand* bhstered with out-door work but a more dreadful process when, through mercantile anxieties, the bra:n is consumed! i In ii:c ijfXl t>iacc .vc nwiice mc-rcaa- j tile lie-. those befor-i the counter and i | behind the counter. I will not attempt i ! lo spedfv the dhierc-nt iorms ofcommer- j | eial lalsebood. There are merchants | j wlio excuse tl.-tmsrlvcs lor deviation j | :r<-:n truthfulness because oi what they | : ; al! commercial custom. In other words j ! ibe multiplication aid universality of , a -in turns .i iuioa virtue. There havw ' f oecnlar^ fortunes gathered where there j j w;u> not cue drop of unrequited toil in j j t.'io wine; not one spark 01 oau temper | Hashing from the bronze bracket not one | oi' needle-woman's heart blood in i t!:e crimson plush; while there are other ! Lrrcat (stablishments in which there is tic tone doorknob. not one brick, not one trinket, v.?t one thread of lace, bur. has upon it 'he mark of dishonor. What wonder it, some day, a hand oi loll that had been wrunir, and worn oul. and blistered until the shin came oil", should be plaocd a^ain>t the elegant wall-paper, le:-viii_r its mark of blood?four lingers and a thumb; or that, some day. walkin" the halls, there should be a voice accosting the occupant sa\:ug. "Six cent* jor nuking a shirt;" and living in the. room another voice should say, Twelve rents for mi army blanket;" and the man should try to sleep at night, but ever and anon be aroused, until getting u.i on one elbow, he should shriek out. "Who's there One Sabbath niaht. in the vestibule o* ni_v church after service, a woman fell in convulsions. The doctor said she didn't need medicine so much as something to cat. As she began to revive in her delirium, she said gaspingly "Eiuhl cents! Eight cents! Eight cents! 1 wish \ could get ;L done; I am so tired 1 wish i could get some sleep; but I must get it done I Juiglit cents! J-Jignt cents!" We lound afterwards she was making garments !or eight cents apiece, and that she could make but three oi' them in a day! Three times eiizht are twenty-lour! Hear it. men and women, who have comfortable homes. Some of the worst villains of the city arc the employers of these women. They beat them down to the last penny, and try to cheat them out of that. The woman must depesit a dollar or two b'.fore she gets the garment to work on. When the work is done it is sharpiy inspected, the most insignia(! iii-c nut tiriri thu ?:loPs refused, and sometimes the dollar deposited not given back. The Women's Protective Union reports a case .where one of these poor souls finding a place where she could get mure wages, resolved to change employers, and went u gtt her pay for work done. The employer said: "I hear you are going to leave me." "Yes," she said, "and 1 am come to get v\ hat you owe me.'' lie made no answer. " She said: "Aie you not going to p-v me?" "Yes." he said, 'Twill p;iy jou;" and he kicked her down stairs. 1'heie ;ire thousands of fortunes madr in commercial spheres th.it are throughout righteous. God will let his favor rest upoi' every scroll, every pictured wall,ev??ry iraceried window; and the j-.>y that Hashes from the lights, and .showers trom the music, and showers from the music, and dances in the children's quick feet, pattering through the liail, will utter the congratulation of men and the approval of (Jud. A merchant can, to the last item, be thoroughly honest. There is never any need ol' falsehood. Yet. how many will, day by day, hour by hour, t:1. ter what they know to be wrong. You say you are selling at Irss than cost. It'so, then it is right to say it. ** * ! - - <!..?* z./v-' * t-1urn-* > r? 1 - I i>Ut UiU tlicit VUU 1 COO tuau jvu c^otv. for it r if not, then you have falsified. You say that that article cost you 825. If so, then all right. If it did not, then you have falsified. Suppose you area customer. You are "beating down" the goods. You s.iy that that article for which 80 is charged, is not worth more than four, is it worth no more than 84 V Then, all right. If it be worth more, and for the sake of getting it for less than its value, you wilfully depreciate it, you have falsilied. You may call it a sharp trade. The recording angei writes it down on the ponderous tomes .of eternity?'".Mr. So and So, merchant in Water street, or in Kighth street, or in Slate street; or Mrs. So and So, keeping house on Beacon street, or on .Madison avenue, or lMttenhouse square, or Brooklyn heights of BrookI lyn hiil, told one falsehood." You may consider it insignificant, because relating to an insignificant purchase. You would despise the man who would falsify in regard to seme greaf. matter, in whieli the c:ty or the whole country was concerned; but this is only a box oi' buttons, or a row of pins, or a case of needles. J'e not deceived. The article purchased may be so small you can put it in your vest pocket, but "the sin wis bigger than the Pyramids, and the echo of the dishonor will reverberate through all the mountains of eternity. You throw on your counter some specimens of handkerchief. Your customer asks, "Is that all silk V no cotton in it?" You answer, "It is all silk." Was it all silkV If so, all right. Jiut was it partly cotton? Then you have falsified. Moreover, you lost bv the falsehood. The customer, though he may live at Lynn, or Doylestown, or I'oughkeepsie, will find out that you have defrauded him, and next spring, when he again comes shopping, he will look at your sign and say: "I will not | try there. That is the place where I j got. u.at handkerchief." .S-.) that by I one dishonest bargain von picked your I own pocket and insulted the Al[ mighty. 'Vossid you dare to snake an estimate l of how many falsehoods in trade were yrcitold by hardware men, and 1 clothiers, and fruit-dealers. and dry ! goods establishments, and importers, and jewelers, and lumbermen, and coal j merchants, and stationers, and tobacconists? Lies about saddles, about j buckles, about ribbons, about carpets, ( about - ioves, about coats, about shoes, j about bats, about watches, about carI riages, about books?about everything. In the name of the Lord Almighty, I arraign commercial falsehoods as one of tiit1 <jn atest plagues in city and 10 WD. Ir; the i>;xt place, I notice mechanical lie.-:. There :s no class of mea who administer more to the welfare of the city than artisans. To their hand we must 1 j.?k for the building that shelters us, for the garments that clothe us, lor '.he car that- carries us. They ?vield a widespread intiuence. There is much derision of what, is calied "Muscular Christianity;" but in the latter <lav of the world's prosperity. I think that the Christian will be muscular. We have a right to expect of thos- sf.alwart men of toil the highest possible intrsrnty. Many of them answer ail oar expectations, ar.d stand at tli>* front of religious and philanthropic enterprises. l>ut this class, like th:' 0'Iters that 1 have nam---!, has in it these v.ho lack in the element of veracity. They cannot all be trusted. Ir, times when the demand for labor is great, tl is impossible to meet the d<> nia::<is o! the miblic. o> do work with 1that pruO'.p! and perfection that would at other times be possible. jlut there art* nuchanics whoss word cannot he trast'jd at any time. >oman has a riizht to promise more work than he can ;io. There are mechanics who say that they will come on Monday, hut they do not come until Wednesday. You put work in their hands that they tell you shall be completed in ten days, but it Ls thirty. There have been houses built oi' which it mi^ht be said tl\.l every nail driven, every brick mortared, could tell of falsehood connected therewith. There are men attempting t<i do ten or fifteen pieces of ? work who have lioi me rime or ! strength t> do irore than live or six [ pieces: but by promises never fulfilled | Ke<p ail the undertakiass within their town grasp. This is what they call "nursing" the job. How i-j'icn uTuUjf to ins sou J and iasuit to (iod a mechanic would save, if j he promise*! only so much as he txpecie:i to be able to do. <uci&j has no ritfht to ask yea iuiiJO.-sibiiilies. Yo.; Ci.cnot ahvavs calculat - ? rrecliv. . and you nia> fail becaus- Vv>;; canrot <r..r tor. rh.sr. vna a'?rif.n.i'.v lint '< now I am speaking o: the will:ni mak iog of promises that you know yon i cannot keep. Did you say that that i shoe would be mended, that coat re- i paired, those bricks laid, thai harness! sewed, t!:at door grained, that -pout j lixed. or that window glazed, ?>y Satur-: day, knowing that you would neither j be able to do it yourself nor get any ! one else to d > it? Then b-.-fcre 0 ?tl j and man you are a liar. You may s^y j that it mak'-s no particular diilrrem.-e, i and that if you had told the truth yo:i I would Lave lost the job. and that ppople expect to bo disappointed. JJut that excuse u ill not answer, fhcre is a voice oi thunder roiling among the drills, and planes, and shoe lusts, and shears, which says: "All liars shall have their part in the lake that burnetii with lire 31; vi brimstone." - - I 1 next notice ecclesiastical lies; turn is, falsehoods tokl for the purpose of advancing churches and sects, or for the purpose of depleting them. There is no use in a>king many a Calvinistwhatan Arminian believes, for he will be apt to tell you that the Aminian believes that a man can convert himself, or to ask the Arminian wha. the Calvinist believes, for he will tell you that the Calvinist believes that uod mad-? some men just to damn them. There is no need of asking a preciv. Baptist what a Baptist believes, for he wii! be apt to say that the Baptist believes immersion to be positively necessary to satiation. It is almost impossible for one denomination of Christians, without prejudice or misrepre sentatlon, to state the sentiment ot an opposing sect. If n man hates Presbyterians, and jou ask him what Presbyterians believe, lie tell you that they believe that there are infants in hell a span long: It is strange also how individual churches wi![ sometimes make misstatements about other individual churches. It is especially so is regard to fal.-ehoods told with reference to prosperous enterprises. As long as a church is feeble, and the singing is discordant, and the minister, through the poverty of the church, must go with a threadbare coat, and here and there a worshipper sits in the end of a pew, having all the seat to himself, religious sympathizers of other churches will say, "What a pity!" Bat, let a great day of prosperity come, and even ministers of the Gospel, who ought to be rejoie d at the largeness and extent of the work, denounce, and misrepresent, and falsify, starting the suspicion in regard to themselves, that the reason they do not like the corn is because it is not ground in their own mill, llow long before we shall learn to he fair In our religious criticisms! The keenest jealousies on earth are church jealousies. The field of Christian work is so large that there is no need that our hoehandles hit. Xext, I speak of social lies. This evil makes much of society insincere. You know not what to believe. When people ask you to come, you do not know whether or not they want you to come. When they send their regards, you do not know whether it is an expression of their heart, or an external civility. We have learned to take almost everything at a discount. Word is sent, "Not at home," when they are only too lazy to dress themselves. They say, "The l'umace has just cone out," when in truth they have had no fire in it all winter. They apologize for the unusual barrenness of their table, when they never live any better. They decry theii most luxurious entertainments, to" win a shower of approval. They apologize for their abearance, as though it were unusual, when always at home they look just so. They would make veu believe that some nice | sketch 0:1 the wall was the work of a master painter. "It was an heirloom and once hung on the walls of a castle; and a duke gave it to their grandfather." When the fact is, that painting was made by a man "down east." and baked so as to make it look old. and sold with others for $10 a dozen. People who will lie about nothing else will lie about a picture. On a smail income we must make the world believe that we are afliuent, and our life becomes a cheat, a counterfeit, and a sham. Few persons are really natural. When 1 say this, I do not mean to slur cultured manners. It is ripht that we should have more admiration for the sculptured marble than for the unknown block of quarry. From many circles in life insincerity has driven out vivacity and enthusiasm. A frozen d ignity instead floats about the room, and iceberg grinds against iceberg. You must not laugh outright, it is vulgar. You must smile. You must not dash rapidly across the room; you must glide. There is a round of bows, and grin*, and flatteries, and oil's." and all's! and simpering, and nambypambyism?a world of which is not worth one good, round honest peai 01 jauguter. From such a hoi low round the tortured guest retires at the close of the evening, and assures his host that he has enjoyed himself! What a round of insincerities many people run, in order to win the favor of the world. Their life is a sham and their death an unspeakable sadness. Alas, for the poor butterflies when the frost strikes them! Compare the life and death of such a one with that of some Christian aunt who was once a blessing to your household. 1 do not know that she was ever offered the hand in marriage. She lived single t!ia* untarmmelled she might be everybody's blessing. "Whenever the sick were to'lie visited, or the poor to be provided with bread, site went with a blessing. She could pray, or sing "Rock of Ages,"for any sick pauper who asked her. As she got older, but for the most part auntie was a sunbeam ?just the one for Christinas Eve. She knew better than anyone else how to fix things. Iler every prayer, as God heard it, was full of everybody who had trouble. The bright<?st thinrrsin all the housedronned fioni her finders. She hud peculiar notions, but the grandest notion she ever had was to make you happy. She dressed well; auntie always dressed well; l?ut her highest adornment was that of a meek and quiet spirit, which, in the sight of (iod, is of great price. When she died, you all gathered lovingly about her; an:i as you carried her out to rest, the Sunday-school cla-salmost covered the colliu with japonicas, and tiie poor people stood at the end of the alley, with their aprons to their eyes, sobbing bitterly; at:d themanof the world said, with Solomon, "Her price was above rubies;" and Jesus, as unto the maiden in .lu'.iea commanded, "I say unto thee, arise!" Cut to many, through insincerity; this life is a masquerado ball. As, at such entertainments, gentlerren and ladies appear in the dress of kings and queer.?, mountain bandits or clowns, and at the close of the dance throw off their disguises, so, in this dissipated life, all unclean passions move * ? * ~ st in masK. Across uit; uuur nicy ui|> mcui!y. The lights sparkle along the wall, or drop from the ceiling? a cohort of fire: The music charms. The diamonds .slitter. The feet bound. Gemmed hands stretched out. clasped gemmed hands. Dancing feet respond to dancing feet. Gleaming brow bends to gleaming brow. Oil with the dance! Flash and rustle, and Iaught-r, and immeasurable merry-making! Cut the languor of death comes over the limbs, and blurs the sight. Lights lower! Floor hollow with sepulchral echo Music saddens into a wail. Lights lower! The maskers can hardly now be seen. Flowers exchange their fragrance for a sickening odor, such as comes from garlands that have lain in vaults of cemeteries. Lights lower! Mists fill the ro;>m. Glasses rattle as though shaken by sullen thunder. Sighs seem caught among the curtains. Scarf falls from the shoulder of beauty,?a shroud! Liirhts lower! Over the slippery oards, in dance of death, slide jealousies, disappointments, lust, despair. Torn leaves and withered garlands only half hide the ulcered feet. T e stench of smoking lampwicks almost quenched. Choking damps. Chilliness. Feet still. Hands folded. Eyes shut. Voices hushed. Lights out: Suffering; in 3Ioi:t:tna. St. Paul, Minn., March 2c.?Advices from Cut Bank. Mont., the pre- j sent terminus of the Great Northern Extension, state that the heavy storm of six weeks ago totally suspended work : of all kinds, throwing 2.000 men out of employment. A large number of the ; men siarieu io traverse u:e mwiv ; to Summit. 110 miles further West, and many perished from cold and exposure. The record so far is seven from freezing, while lar_re numbers had arms and le_rs frozen. It is also certain that a great many have perished of whom no traces have been fouud, and whose bodies have made food for wolves and coyotes. ??? - ) Wr-.Y HE DiD NOT MARRY : A M.i>t L ni^habUi Story About A Vouuj , 31 an atul a U-.iU. ! One of .i>t* most buyable Stori-'S of . ii iiuviis' i'jii that, has :iver tickled the ( ri?>s of t;. "only auim:t! that laughs"is the uoe i' which Mike Fmck describes i rlrla ; ih? '*njif i!r;i! f.trit'p " nn Dm- ! ccii Sinit.i's Taurus. AVe dr fy a cynic, ia fashionable trow.-ers. ;o r-ad it ami not burst a button or tv.oofi the plies to which suspenders a.e hitched. It is simply "enormous." Mike look a notion to go in swim- j ming, an.! he had just got his clothes: off. v. hen lie saw Deacon Smith's bull i making at him. The bull was a vicious | animal, a.jd had come very near kiiiing j two or Lhn-e persons, consequently Mike felt rather "jubus." lie didn't want to call for help, for he was i; 'ked. an ! the nearest place from whk-h assistance could arrive was the meetmg-house, which was at the j 11: e iii (: wiin worsninpers, among i whom \v;:s the "gal Mike was paying [ devotion to." So he dodged the bull as j the animal came at him. and managed j to caich Aw. l<y the tail. lie wui) dragged around till hp was! nearly chad, and when he thought he i could hold no longer, he made up his ! mind thai he'd belter "holler." And ! now we ill let him toil his own story, j 'So looking at the matter in all its hearings, 1 cum to the conclusion that I'd belter let some one know whar 1 was. So J gin a yell louder t han a locomotive whistle, and it wan't long bst'ore I seed the deacon's two dogs a coming down like as if they war seeing which would get thrre lust. "I knowed who they war arter? j - ? l : Jl.. 1..I1 ~ ? I liiey ti juitt uie uuu ay:u inc. ou, sr/. I, 'old brindle, as ridm, is as cheap as walking on this route, i.f you have no objections, I'll jist take a deck passage on that ;:r' back o' youm.' So I warn't very long (retting astride of him. ' Then, if you'd been thar. you'd have sworn thar w.ir nothing human in that ar mix, thesile (lew so orfully, as the critter and I rolled around the fieldone dog on one side, and oue on the other, trying to clinch my fret. I prayed and cussed until I could not tell which 1 did at last?and neither warn't of no use, they were so orfully mixed up. Well. I reckon I rid about half an hour this way, when old briDdle thought it war time to stop to take in a supply of wind and cool off a little. when we got arounu u> a iree uua stood thar,h? naturally halted, so stz 1, boy you'll lose one passenger sartiu. So I jist clum up a branch, kalfcalatlng to roost till I starved, afore I'd be rid round that ar way any longer. "1 war making tracks for the top of the tree, when I heard sumthin' a makin' an orful buzz in' overhead. I kinder looked, and if thar wasn't? well; thar's no use in swearin'?but it war the biggest hornet's nest ever hilt. You'll 'gin in now, I reckon, Mike, 'cause th-sr's no help for you. "But an idea struck ine ti:en that 1 stood a neap better chance ridin' the bull than vrhar 1 was. Sez I, old feller, if you'll nohl I'll ride to the next station. anyhow, let that be whar it will. ~ T 1 Orrin' J. JJSu <;uuuu null uj^iiL and looked aloft to see what 1 had gained by changin' quarter---, and, gentlemen, am a liar it' thar wasn't nigh a half a bushel of the stingin'varmints ready to pitch into me when the word 'go' was gin. "Well, I reckon they get it, for 'all hands' started tor our company. Some of them hit the dogs?about a quart struck me, and the rest charged on brindlc. "fhis time the dogs led fust, dead bent fer the old deacon's, and as soon as old briiidle and I could get under way, we followed, and as I was only a deck passenger, 1 had notbin' to do with st-erin' the craft; if 1 had we shouldn't have run that channel anyhow. "Uut, :S I said before, the dogs took the lead?brindie and 1 next and the hornets directly arter. The dogs yellin'?bri'idle hoilerin' and the hornets buz/.in' and stingin'. "vVell, we had got about two hundred yards from the house, and the deacon neard us and cum out. J seed him thruw up his hand and turn white. I reckon he was praj.in' then, for he didn't < xpect to be calied fur so soon, and it warn't long- neither afore the whole congregration?:ueD, women and children ?cum out and then all hands went to yellin'. "Xom: of 'em had the fust notion that brlndle and I belonged to this world. I jist turned my head and passed the whole congregation. Iseed the run would be up soon, ft; brindle couldn't turn an inch from a U* ce that stood dead ahead. "Weii, we reached that fence, and I went a>hore, over the critter's head, landing on the other side, and lay thaistunned. 'It waru't long afore sum of them as was not so seared, cunt runnin' to whar r .,11 tvindj l.*ulL-r>rl?+nrl th-if X vv <li , (Ui u?um?; nuiuv*v...,w the bull and I belonged together. But, when I-.indie walked by himseif, they seed how it w:is. and one of 'em sai.l? " 'Mike Finck has got the scuaimage once in his life!" "Gentlemen, lroui that day I dropped the courtin' bi'/iness. and never spoke to a gal since, and when my hunt is up on this yearth, thar won't be any Finks, and its all onirf to Deacon Smith's brindle bull." i-'all Ssventr Feet. Jack-uxville, Fla., March 20.?A Tallahassee special to the Times Union, sa\s: "Charles L. Norton, author of the "liaisd ]Jook of Florida, came here a few days ago for the purpose of discovering the whereabouts of the Florida volcano about which there has been so much talk for many years. J. II. JStaley, who resides near Tallahassee and knows every foot of pene;rai;le swamp in middle Florida, was engaged to go with him. cr.-mourliprp TIMP W UUIJe.-.U.lV OCIUII5 ?vmv...?wv thy supposed great mystery Norton put on spurs and climbed to the top of the tallest tree that could be found to get a view of the country. When he attempt-1 ed to come down he lost his foot hold aud fell a distance of about seventy feet. For a long while he was uncon scious, and when conscioueness return- j ed begged for a pistol with which to { blow out his brains and end his sufferings. Staley immediately started with him to a point where medical aid could j be had. After many diilicuities he j reached his home ?his morning with his suffering companion, and, leaving him I there, came 011 here for a physician. 1 The doctor has not yet returned, but j from a. statement of the injuries receiv- | ed Norton will not live. lie is correspondent of the New York World. Ti:?>y Uandlwl Kim ilanslelr. Chicago, March 23.?Charles Ji it ton went into the barbershop of F. Fierfols" Saturday, and seating himself called 0:1 any. member of the Mafia in the shop to give him a shave. He announce! that he helped settling the New Orleans troubles, being a member of the mob that stormed the jail. For a moment the Italians looked at the customer and they fell on him en masse, i When the "avenger" landed m the { street !: ; looked as if he had been in a j collision with a locomotive. The ter- f ritic tin.mping he received with pokers, j chairs and billets of lircwood may result I fatally. Last ui^ht the three barbers. Alexander Xecozso, Michael llcrelo and ! T -.1. ^ nn^etAf] ort/l ! KICOU vtciu aiLuaitu IAUU i witlj a?>ault on the "avenger." Button, i it is believed, was not m New Orleans I antiwar simply trying to be lunny. The IlKTraliiin Volcano. Sax Francisco, March 19.? The! steamer Meriposa. from Sydney and j Honolulu, brings news that Hawaii's ] volcano is again active. Several 'ones j have 5i:nk from 15 to 100 fett.and .'ome j have disappeared altogether. There i have been many earthquake shock?, but j no damage other than the shaking down i of several stone walls has occurred. % "THE DitEAD MAFIA. T HOW THE MEMBERS WREAK VcNGE- j ANCE ON THEIR BETRAYERS. A yall Dc*orijulou of tli?r .Society lb*t lia? j Canted m> ?It:ch IMoouxheil in Vw Or- j Hans?It Should lie WijnMi Ou'. The La is a secret urbanization | composed almost entirely wf .Sicilians,! and was founded by an Italian cut- | Ihroat named .Mafia at Palermo a hun-; dred ye >r^ ago. The members are for i the most part criminal anil counterfeiters, an:! he.-: tat eat s;o atrocity. Th" inhuman cruelty of soase of the Malia agents is almost b^>oiid human credence, and savors of the-1-ratal barbarity of the mid<!leages. Vincmzo Araiti burned a victim's hou.se in .New Orleans, hoping t-< burn th#* owner at th* same time. lie was sent to the penitentiary, organized a branch of the Malia?for house breaking purposes only?among his ft-How prisoners, got out, went to sr.. Louis and murdered a foe of the .Mali a there. He weal to Chicago,opened a ssloon, j enticed an obnoxious fellow countrymail into it and stabbed him in the back with a knife so long that it stuck out on both sides of the rtyinn man as he fell to the floor. He went to New York, opened a store, lired it to get the insurance, and was unsuccessful. He vowed vengeance and La Malia on a fellow countryman whom ho believed instrumental in causing his defeat. He invited his victim to a private apartment to have a glass of beer, offered a beaker with one hand, and with the other, by one stroke of the razor, l-ii/l tV.o nnftp n-rutpli'e Tjrf nncti from his forehead to the point of his chin. When thr wounded man, almost by a miracle, recovered and was able to leave the Chambers Street hospital he was afraid to complain against Arditi, who went scot free. In October, 18SS, Antonio Flaccomio was assassinated In the shadow of the Cooper Union building, in New York city. Flaccomio had been adjudged a traitor to the organization, of which at one time he was a prominent member, and it was said that Carmello Farach, who was murdered in theStaten Island woods four years before, had been enrolled in the same sodeiy. The unjustifiable killing or' Farach was one of the causes that led to Flaccomio's removal. but. the cause of his assassination was thp testimony that he gave shortly before his assassination against some of his countrymen, who were counterfeiters as well as brother members of La Mafia. Flaccomio was sentenced to death, and two brothers, ^aiiu tUJU \ mufu/.u v^iuix i u, were selected to kill him. The former plunged the stiletto into the doomed mail's heart. SIgnor It.ifllo of New York city, the Italian consul, is authority for the statement that the lirst that was really known of the order was at the beginning of the present century, in the town of Silini, Sicily, where a family of nine named Giayar.ni, of considerable social position, were murdered in as many weeks. The father went lirst, being found at his very doorstep. Seven days later the mother followed. Iler dead body was found In almost the same location as that of her husband. The authorities were unsuccessful in tracing the murderer or murderess, and several days afterward the hnilif"? of the two nldfKfc fhilrirf-n vrere found dead in bed. The others followed in regular order, until the family v?-as completely annihilated. A tough character of the town named Sipoli was arrested on suspicion aud confessed. lie revealed the existence of the order, and said that Giavanni 2nd his family had incurred the anger oi the hand by betrayicg a criminal who was a Mafia to the authorities. Sipoli had been instructed. anion? others, to commit the murder. lie was tried, and although the best counsel was employed to defend him on a plea of insanity bv the Mali a he was convicted and sent to prison for life. Several witnesses for the prosecution were afterward murdered by the Mafia. The government, becoming aware of the lawli-ss nature of the organization, at once took incisures to have it suppressed, but the elforts proved futile. La Mafia continued to grow. A police oflicer in 1863, in Milan, discovered a mark by which a member of La Mafia could be known. It consisted of a cnisll cfyrimmoHiatdlr itmlor 'hp f>;ir caused by burning, in this way great numbers of criminals were afterward run down and brought to justice. The society then gave up the mark,and the police" ollicer one year afterward was found dead, stabbed to the heart. La ilatia is a modern organization based on medieval sentiment. It is related to the Camorra, of Naples. It is a society confined not to the Italians, but to Sicilians, the baser kind of Greeks, who bring their national customs, their secret societies and traditions of murder with them. If a Sicilian believes that he can provide for the protection of his person and prop erty wunout navios recourse iu mw that person is a Maliosa. lie may be a bully, a blackmailer, a murder, but in whatever ho does the public opinion of Sicily supports him still. The code of ethics which maintains him is railed ''omerta," or manliness. Xot long ago a wealthy proprietor was driving to his home in the neighborhood of Palermo. Six bullets whizzed by him. Xone of them hit him. Xo complaint was made to the polic?, yet within a few months everybody who had t:'ker. in the attempted assassination was himself assassinates. A Maua hat; attacked a Maiiosa. He was more powerful than iiis assailant. Sicilians justify these crimes. Everybody knows the authors, ret nobody interfere*. Said a guide of u rrr?rit. traveller in Sicilv: "Yonder home belongs to a most respectable I man?a highly respectable man, sir. I The other day he killed his cook. One of the most respectable men in these parts, sir." Murde" is trie corner stone of th* <10cial fabric of Sicily. A Sicilian wishe3 to sell a farm. A Copo Mafia wishes to buy it. Nobody dar?-s bid against him. If anybedy is so foolhardy he would he shot next day from behind a wall or the corner of a house. If a Copo Matia runs for the mayoralty of a village nobody runs against him. lie invariably has a unanimous election. Ilis hands may be red with a dozen murders and his pockets full of blackmail. Not a servant can be discharge.! without reference to the unseen Mafia. The Maliosi rule their districts as despots. If they have rivalries the knife decides it. The Camorrist:i of XaDles live in Itaiv and thrive. just as the Mafiori of Sicily. The political power of the Cammorals is broker;, yet it maintains an underground existence, and has three grades. A novice in the lirst grade is called "G;*zzone di Malavita," a youth of bad life.) The more advanced pupil is styled 'Ticciotto di Sgarro." The ilaished scholar is the Camorrista. The novic marks out thM victim, lollops him and plays detective on him. The Picciotto is initiated into the secrets of the confraternity. lie merely gets a handful of sous from the Camorrista. I; in rxMOhilLr th? t h i Tfl 11C i A V 11A ijU|/V.O 1 V l?-?.. " *. WW grade, and some day. by means of an artistic stab or unusually Ion* term in prison, he is advanced to the sacred band. lie t;;kes the oath on crowned knives with his hands immersed in his own blood. lie is then licensed to murder whomsoever he pleases. The Camorista has two degrees of punishment?one is the spresrgo or slash from a razor, the other is the collettatti or , stab with a knife. ! The Coosa w light has assumed a new phase, in which the State is the aggres! sor. We earnestly hope that the State j will win its light eventually. A full j account of the case as it now stands will be found m our columns this.i ' week. ' / GAMBLING AT HOT SPRINGS. A Citj Which May bt> Called the Monaco | of Airs?-rlca. !] Hot Springs. Ark., March 15.? I This city might be called thy Monaco ot |! America, considering the number ol'jJ parading nouses m us cumyaramciv i small limits. There are eleven public ? gambling hou?es licensed by the city au-1j thorities. and many private club and i1 poker rooms. The "private games" are j1 run in hotel rooms, back rooms of sa- j \ luons, and other quiet places, where the I verdant invalid is taken in at a social 1 game of poker or lleeced by bunko j sharpers. 1 Under the State law the keepiug of a 1 gambling house is a telony. yet the city s authorities practically license these houses at a month each. On the ( first day of each month a nominal line of ?.30, the smallest punishment, is entered '' against the proprietor of each gambling : house, and on that day he pays his line. : runs his business without police inter- ' rution. and pays another line the lirst J of the nex' mouth. These houses are 1 run day ami night without any pretense ! of secrecy. No more attention is paid ! to the protests of the law-abiding por- ( uou of the community than is given to thy complaints of the visiting strangers who are fleeced. 5 * All the gambling houses were closed ' a short time a^o, and the opponents of gambling thought a new era liar? arrived. There was at the time a new clubhouse building. It was to be elegantly furnished and to be the aristocratic club- ; house of the city. To the surprise of ! everybody excepting a few on the inside, \ work did not cease on this structure, , which every one knew was intended for , a gambling house. Finally it was dis- , covered that the rambling houses had becu closed only in favor of the new gambling syndicate, who wanted a mo- ; nopoly of the business. This discovery caused such a "kick" by the other gam- j biers that the authorities gave way, and , all the houses were permitted to reopen ' at $o0 each per month. I Hot Springs also has a lottery. An employee of the Louisiana Lottery Com- , pany arrived here a few days ago with J his wheel, and began business under . the high-sounding and delusive catch | sign ''Arkansas Investment; Company. Drawings at 11:30 a. m. and at 4:40 p. , m." It is supposed that this is a branch j of the Louisiana swindle. This lottery , is "licensed" at $50 a month by the city ' authorities, although under the State law , it is a felony.?New York Times. . Panic in si School. Charleston, March 20.?The entire colored population of Charleston was thrown into convulsions to-day by a panic among the colored children in the Morris street school. This is the largest colored school in the United States, having nearly 1,500 pupils. It was about half-past ten o'clock when a wiry buiit. bright copper colored man, dressed in : the fantastic costume of an East Indian, walked into one of the cla3x rooms of the primary department and began to make a speech to the children. He told them he was a reformed cannibal and used to eat human beings. His general : appearance bore his assertions out. The : colored people have lately been on their perennial scare about the medic il stu- : dents, and were easily frightened. The children laughed at him at first, but he ran at one of the girls with outstretched arms and she lied, shrieking that the , man was going to eat her. Swiftly the p:mic spread and in a moment tne entire school was in a panic. They rushed belter skelter out of the class room, down the stairs, out in the yard and : thence pell-mell through the gates and over the fences into the street. They < stood not on the order of going but went. The excitement spread through the primary to the intermediate department and "within three minutes after the first ' shriek of the frightened girl rang ! through the building there was not a ; child in sight. ] By this time the colored population i from squares around had been attracted \ by the sounds of the children's screams ] and had gathered from all directions until the street in front of the building , was a sea of black faces. Everybody ^ was yelling at the top of their voices, 1 and for a while it seemed as though 1 pandemonium had been let loose. News ' of the panic spread as if by magic ( throughout the city, and by the time it 1 reached the lower portion of the city it < had been magnified into a terrible acci- j dent. The building was said to have j caved in and hundreds of lives been ] lost. J A platoon of policemen arrived on the scene, but were utterly powerless to keep the crowd out. Mothers scaled the fences shrieking for their children, and ? the confusion became worse and worse confounded. After a long bittle the < police managed to clear space enough to < allow the children to come out, and ; things were finally quieted down. The ( most remarkable thing about it is that \ only three out of 1,500 pupils were ( injured, and none fatally. < The man who caused the panic was ( oprocto,! dtiH ViqH 4, rt hp t.f> t.hc J police station under strong guard. lie t says he is a Fiji islander, 79 years old, ^ and was orce a cannibal. lie gives the j name of John Charvin and says he ; dined onca with James G. Blaine at his ] home in Maine. lie is now on a lectur- 1 ing tour and was to have lectured ? to-night in one of the large negro churches, lie claims to be a British subject ana says he will demand satisfaction for his treatment here from the British government. When he went to 1 the school he was dressed in crimson < damask and showed linger nails several i inches long and tiled teeth. He denied 1 that he wanted to frighten the children, i t la the Gra?p of the Grip. Chicago, March 19?Chicago is in i the grasp of the grip. The disease j seems io oe more pre\ 41cm uau 1 l> ? at any time last jear. It strikes all j classes 0" society, it is felt in erery ( line of business. Five hundred men employed on the West Side 3treet cars are laid oil with the epidemic, a?d the } company is badly handicapped for help. t The South Side Company has one hun- 1 dred and twenty-five men on the sick j list. The North Side Company has t about seventy-live men out, while many of those at work are suffering from th'e 1 disease in a mild form. Large down- j town stores are having a like experi- ( ence. In one st ore employing one hun ired and fifty clerks forty are sick. Ten per cent of the polic-e force Is ] ( laid up and fifty men in the fire depart- < T/iffw /M,t nf Ana hmiHrpri ! 1 111CU0 die UIL. JL IX \JJ UUC \J x. vuv i.* ?iiu? | and fifty mail carriers in the postoihee are suffering. All of the hospitals are , overcrowded. There is scarcely a board- , ing house in the city, it is said, that has not one to live persons laid up with the : grip Ii is bad at the hotels and fuliy one-third of the guests are ill. To make matters wc-^e for them many of the managers and hotel employees are also sufferers. Such is the dearth of help that some of the guests by their own request have been sent to the hospitals Married bj the Governor. Columbia. S. C.t March 25.?The executive mansion was last night the scene of a brilliant event aud the governor officiated for the lirst time as a parson?his new role. The mansion was extensively illuminated, and at 8 o'clock the governor united in the holy bonds I of wedlock by a eival ceremony Mr. Joseph F. JJennan, of Atlanta, Ga., and Miss liebeeca Cecilia Wolfe, of Winnsboro, S. C. The bride was accompanied to Columbia by her mother, her brotherin-law, Mr. Ulyses P. Desportes. and his wife, her sister, Mrs. James 71. Kion and daughter, all of Winnsboro. The bride is a lovely young Jewess, while the groom is a young Gentile?a progressive business man of the Gate city. ?The State. A Miner's Y? He an Hetties. Shamoktn, Pa.. March 19.?From he poverty of a miner, earning $1.50 ~i icr day, yesterday morning to the pro?- J; active possession in the evening of 3 $165,000, was the riuancial siridw en- . oyed by Charles Dimmick, of this place. Vhen l.e returned, tired and (lust-berrimed, from the mine to h:s humble ionic in the evening his wife thrust a ti etter exullinyly under his eyes, and ex- S Ifs\ \\r?i w1 ;iiUIIiUU ; ?<.; ait ii? T? ^ I $3 ire worth over ?33.000. ilead it!" | riiea the excited woman sank weeping \ .0 the iloor. Dinimlck wonderingly | ead that his wile h;.d fallen heiress to a ? .bird interest in an English estate val- ^ :ed :it .liOO 000. a:;d that she should s start for En^laud at once. Mrs. Di.nmick's grandfather be- j pieathed the property to her father, who % ivas unable to take possession, owinjjto f i contested will. In 1855, after having 5 iecurcd a clear title, her father *ras l ibout to cla:m the nheritance. when he 3 >vas drowned in the English channel. $ El's daughter, about a year later, mar- j :ied Dimmick and tr me to America, set- \ tling in the coal regions of Pennsylvan- f a. Two weeks a^o Mrs. Dimmick re- j reived a communication from a sister in ^ England to the effect that the estate s .vould soon be delivered into their hands, | ind last night a message from across the 5 <ea settled the fact, as siie believes, be- I yond doubt. The two sisters and a jj brother are the heirs. j Opposition to tho JJank. Columbia, S. C., March 20.?The Slate has fathomed the Alliance trouble ibout the bank to a certain depth. Y esierday Rev. J. A. Sligh, one of the most prominent Alliance men in the state, svas in the city. He said that m my people were trying to make a mountain out )f a mole hill about the bank trouble. When asked about the trouble he said that the directors of the State Alliance Exchange would meet in this city the fourth Tuesday in April to consider it, and effort* would be made to have a meeting of the stockholders at the same time. lie thinks it probable that the whole question will be referred to the j subordinate alliances subscribing the 111ULICJ IU JJUU 1UIU tll-5 uauri, IVI cxi^ii. action. The men who are creating the Lrouble are conscientious in their opposition, and a majority of the state alliances and stockholders are in lavor of establishing the bank. The majority can g: ahead and establish the bank, but they ivish to bring the minority in and clear up the matter. It is betLer to wait than to rush into such an important matter when there is opposition, although ^it be in the minorit}*. Thus the matter stands.?The State. There's the Dinner Bell ! What a clattering and a chattering as the children answer the dinner bell and rush into the dining room. Oh! the gratification a good appetite affords as our moon daj's meal is set before us. But this vacant chair, what does it mean ? "Oh, that is Uncle Charley's seat. Guess he don't feel like eatinsr, lie's got dyspepsia, you know." dyspepsia ! horrors ! Deliver us from dysi>pri?!i9 What's thi? nsp of hp.inc nlaeued with such an ailment anyway? What's the use having a stomach so irritated and :^sore thai even one bit of food gives it distress? Whj not heal the soreness and allay the irritation and strengthen its ' muscular processes, by using Botanic Blood Balm. Will it cure? itcertanly will. Many, many a tormer dyspeptic owes his enjoyment of life to B. B. B. ; Give it a trial" S. J. Chandler, Richmond, Va.. ; writes: k*Xo one can afford to be ; without B. B. B. who wishes an appetite. ! I couid scarcely eat a single biscuit for j breakfast, but since taking B. B. B. I ! :lean the whole table, so to speak." i 1 i Th? Madagascar Massacro. Paris, March 24.?News has reached j :his city of the execution of Ramiasatra. ! governor of the province of Belarona, j JXaeagacar, and his brother. Recently, j Llamlassatra, becoming enraged at the j people of his province for appealing to j ihe government for protection against \ :iis cruelty, ordered the slaughter, under Circumstances of exceptional cruelty, ot : 278 men, women and children. His Drutal edict was earned out, and ttie sur, rirors of the massacre were then forced! .0 erect a trophy cons' ucted of the de-" " capitated heads of the slaughtered victims of the butchery. The awful nature Df the crime aroused even the people of Maddagascar to fury, and the governneat was compelled to proceed against Ramiasrtra. This it did, with the result aere set forth. Another Car? for Kbeumatism. Lake City, Fla. P. P. P. Mnfg Co., Savannah, Ga. Gentlemen?I had Rheumatism for )ver six years, and last May was taken j iown and confined to my bed. My legs ind feet were bally swollen and the :olor of a red apple, and I was in a 'earful condition. I heard of P. P. P. Prickly Ash Pcke Pioot and Potassium), and after seeing: what the ingrelients were?gts the formula w on the )ottle?l concluded to try it, and after ;aking tnree smail bottles was able to 10 down town and attend to my busies. and I must say that I feel like mother man. Am now taking the arge size, and to-day I believe that I tvill soon be as likely a3 any man of sixty-one vears of age can expect to be. _ A. C. Lang. } Pianos and Organs. X. W. Trump, 134 Main Street, Couaibia, is. 0., seils Pianos and Organs, iirect from factory. Xo agents' commissions. The celebrated Chickering L'iano. Mathushek Piano, celebrated ' for its clearness of tone, lightness of ;ouch and lasting qualities. Mason & flamlin Upright Piano. Sterling Up- j right i/iauos, irom szzo up. ..viasou <x Elamiln Organs surpassed by none. Ster- 1 ing Organs, S50 up*. Every "instrument c guaranteed for six years. Jfifteen days' ;rial, expenses both ways, if not satis- 3 !actorr. SoJ?i on Instalments. c llandall Pope, the retired druggist of ? Madison, Flu., says P. P. P. is the best literative in the* market, md he has lannled and sold all the sarsaparillas g md blood medicines that were adver- p ised. Erysipelas?1, L. Irvin, of Tnomasrille, Ga., says he was alllicted with Erysipelas for ten years and was only iured when P. P. P. was used. Tetter, Saltrhfurn and Cancer are all mred by P. P. P. The effects on these 2 hseases are perceptible after the lirst 3 jottle of P. P. P. was used. 3 A complete Bedroom Suit for $16.50 g :re:grht paid to your depot. Send for 3ataios;ue. Address L. F. Padgett, 1: rust a, Ga. 1 LIPP3LAX BSOS.. Wholc*aIe Drnggistz, Sole Proprietors, Lijrptsto's Block, SaTMaih^Cy J93~Aak for cataloyi:e. TERRY M'F'QCO.- MASHVILLB. TINN i . . Paifetl Pays tke IHi?. t i (a great otfer that may 50t agadfs ; ee Repeated, so do koi delay, 5 i "Strike While the Irok :s Eot.m a ^ i Write for Catalogue now, ar d sa;. what)? I paper you saw this advertisement in. $ 1 ; Remember that I sellererythU-g tiati goes to furnishing a home?msjra:actur-| ^ ing some tilings ana ouymg oners m tn?q [largest possible lots, which enables me toy wipe out all competition. EERE ARE A FEW OF MY START-f LING BARGAINS j A No. 7 Flat top Cooking Stove, fullj ,size, 15x17 inch oven, fitted with 21 nieces* ^ .of ware, delivered at your own depot,? ^ ,all freight charges paid by me, for 3 only Twelve Dollars. ? : Again, I will sell you a 5 hole Cookin ? Range 13x13 inch oven, 1 Sx2S inch top, fit-R .ted with 21 pieces of ware, for THIR-e tTEEN DOLLARS, and pay the freight toa (your depot. |DO NOT PAY TWO PRICES FOS| < I YOUR GOODS. | I I will seed you a nice plush Parlor suit,? [walnut frame, either in combination or; banded, the most stylish colors for 33.50,} to your jaiiroad station, freight paid, f I will also sell you a nice Eedromos uit< consisting of Bureau with glass. 1 high] head Bedstead, 1 Washstand, 1 Centre table, 4 cane seat chairs, l can<; seat andj back rocker all for 16.50, and pay freight] ? [to your depot. i Or I will send you an elegant Bedroom] [suit with large glass, full marble top, forg ;$30, and pay freight. Nice window shade on SDrinc roller I 402 Elegant Jarge walnut 8 day clock, 4.00| f Walnut lounge, 7.00 ; Lace curtains per window, 1.00 I cannot describe everything iaasaall advertisement, but hare an immense stere containing 22,600 feet of fleor room, with ware houses and factory buildings in ether parts of Augusta, making in all the l&r-f gest business of this kind under ?ne management in the Southern States. These store?;and warehouses are crowded with the choicest productions of the best factories. My catalogue containing illustration of goods will be mailed if you will kindly say where you saw this advertisement. I pay freight. Address, L. F. PADGETT, Proprietor 1'adgett's Furniture, Store and Carpet Store, L110-1H2 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. I AJ^SI ; :v:i i iimu g I m MO WOMAN. * I' ?. will purify and vitalize fegr | / . i b!o?t?, .;7ei>agoodapoet'.teand gJveyOtar ? . riois system tone ami strength. | n < A prominent railroad superintendent^ | 4 Savannah, suffering with Dysgep- S 7 .* sia. and Rheumatism sa; "4*?r zSng ? f/T i p. P. P. be never felt so well in hiSllfe, and a ; 4 fee',3 as if he could live forever, if he coirtd {?} 7 always get P. P. P." jg -p If you are tired out ?r ?usi4d3 9 * close confinement, tak^ S3 * i'. P. 1 1 If you are feeling b^diy la ti? Sfitog g J and out of sorts, take V P. P. P. ' If your discstive organs need 5 J take 3 jlP.P.P. I . | If rou suffer with headache, indljsesfcioo* 1 :'J uebiiity and weakness, take | P. P. P. I 'I If you suffer with rervous prosiratJon, K aj nerves unstrung and a general let down ?3 ft of the system, take S P. P. P. For Blood Poison. Rhourn*tis3>r Scrof- b ula, Old Sores, ilalaria, Chronic Feasale fi 5? Complaints, take | P. P. P. I i Prickly Ash, Poke Root j and Potassium. A The best blood purifier in the vrorld. I 5 LIPPIIAX EROS, TVhoIesala Druggists, ? " r. S'ji^ Proprietors, ? I } Lippuax's Block, Savannah, Ga. LOW PRICES WILL BE MADE ON TALBOTT SON'S ENGINES AND BOILERS, SPECIAL ESTIMATES ON SAW MLLL\ (J?*N MILLS. PLANERS AXB MACHINERTj GENERALLY: AT BOTTOM FIGURES. 7. G. Badham, Gen. Agt, f/?f WMTL ( m ? > Buy the Talbott Engine; It Is tbo best. COMPLETE GI1.TERIES. UPON THE MOST APPROTED plans, with Suction Fan or Spiked Jelt Seed Cotton Elevator finished * g, ompetitive prices. COTTON GIN'S and PRESSES of best aakers. Thomas Hay Rakes, Deoring dower, Corbin Harrows aad Plaaot, Jr, Cultivators. A. large stock of Portable and Stationary rinning and saw Mill Engines oa hand. State Agents for C. & G. COOPER & CO'S Corlis Eaines Lane Saw Mills and Liddell Com* zany's complete line. W. H. GIBBES, Jr.. & CO.. Near Union Depot, COLiraaiA, S. C. KEAJ) THESE F1GIRES. Farm Wagons, complete with body etc. Z.& in Thimhlfl Skin in Thimble skin 41.60 K" in Thimble Skin 42.00 One Horse Wagons, $24.50, 526.50 a?d 28.50, Warranted socond to none. Write for Circulars. Buggies, Carriages, Road Carts, &e., at 0 per cent less than regular prices. Send or Catalogue. This offer is for only 30 lays in order to reduce stock?so ordtr at nee. ROLLER ? ANDERSON BUGGY CO.. ROCK HILL, S. C.. In writing mention this paper.