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Higgins and the Widow. One Sunday Higgms came into my office and sat down withonfc a word. For some minutes he safe still, watching me intently as if be was trying to make ont by the sonnd of my pen what I was writing. "Squire," said he at length, "didI aver tell you about my scrape with the widow Horry, np here on the river?" "Never did," said I, laying down my pen, " let's hear it" " They're cnrions creatures, widows is," said he in a meditative tone, " and the more yon study about 'em the more you don't know about 'em. What was this thing I've read abont in -Egypt, or same other conn try that nobody could unriddle?" "The sphinx, probably," I replied. " WeU," he continued, " that was a widow as sure as you ever had a granny. Everything else in the eaith has been found out but them, and they're as much a mystery to-day as the length of the North Pole. Ton may read the history of the world from Genesis to Revelations, and you'll find that widows has been at the bottom or top of five-quarters of the devilment that's been cut up. Was you ever in love with one ?" " Lots of them," said L "You're a great gander ? that'B what yon are," said he. "A man that loves one and gets over it won't never get bit by another, if he's got as much sense as a ground-hog. I don't consider I've got any sense at all, but I'm a little grain toq. smart to let another of them get all the trumps on me. The widow Horry, that I was speaking of, i6 a little the handsomest , woman, I reckon, that ever looked a Trton infn fife anrl T rmohfc trt hfl a Uiau IUW MVOy WW%? A ? ? ? jndge, lor I've seen lots of pretty women in my day. She was abont twenty-five years old when I went up there to vyork, just in the bloom of ] ber beauty, and as fall of deviltry as ' a three year old male colt. There was a ball over at Jenkins's, and, of coarse, I went, for I always go where there's any foe going on, and generally act the fool before I get away, of r' coarse. "The widow was there, dressed as ' i fine as Solomon's lilies, and fiying ( around as frisky as a yonng lamb in a rye patoh. I got introduced to her and asked her to dance with me, and , when she fiashed her eyes at me and said 'yes,' I jumped up like X bad set ( down on a hot griddle. You may , talk abont sensation, bat when she , took hold of my hand and I sorter ] squeezed it, I felt a sensation as big J, II ning up and down my back 2ike a j, sqoirrel wi|h^ ^HNb I'm in the habit of doing when I go C} / into public.. Td set my pegs to go a HA home with the widow after the ball, j. P bat jast Ml was fixing my month to fi WT ask her, np steps a big, long, leather- fej faced doctor, named Mabrey, and Ci walked her pff before my eyes. That 5 riled me a little, bat I kept my tongae 0 still, inwardly swearing to break his ^ bones the very first opportunity that a presented itself. 1^ saw there was no nse in saying anything, so I went ^ home and went to bed, and all the Q rest of the night I was dreaming ^ about rainbows, angels, butterflies, ^ Addles, widows and doctors, mixed r v ^ - ? * a_! np worse than a Uatchmans ameer. tl Well, Sqaire, to make a short story a of it, I made op my mind to have the a widow or kill myself or somebody Q else. So I made it convenient to be ^ on hand where she was upon all occa- v stons. I couldn't eat, nor sleep, nor 9 ' . work, and if the thing had held on, I t wouldn't have bad sense enough left ^ to skin a rabbit. Bat I was deter- % mined it shouldn't last long, for I'd s been fooled so often by women that I s thought I wouldn't give her time to f think of anything but me. She ap- s peared to take to me right sharply, ? and the doctor seemed inclined to a mis in with me, but I didn't consider ? him no more than a brush fence, for s I was so far gone I thought she conld ; see nobody on earth but me. Well, j Sqaire, things went on so for 'boat a. g month, and one Sanday I screwed up i my spank and put the question to her. She sorter laughed and sorter t looked one-sided, and finally told me * she coaldn't give me an answer jast then, bat if I'd call at her house nest : Thursday evening, she'd give me a i ?^ \ final answer. Thinks I you are mine i k jast as sure as there's a fiddler belcw. 1 * * Whenever a woman takes time to j study she'll say 'yes.' Squire, don't i the poets say something about the < calculation of men and goin' wrong?" i " Mice and meo, Barns says," I 1 answered. { " Well, mice and rats is all one, and j so is men and fools sometimes, as I - have foand oat in my travels. I was so sore she would have me I went off and spent all my money for fine clothes, thinking I would have them 1 ready for the wedding?and I did! 1 Confound that widow! I say! Confound all widows f Thursday evening came at last, though it was a long time about it, and over I went, dressed i I i into fits, and feeling as big as Josh j RajDQr did when be was elected coroner. I got there aboat dark, and found a right smart crowd collected, | which was Dot on the bills, bat I felt < as big and as good as the rest of 'em. ] So I marched in like a blind male 1 into a potato patch, and took a seat j by the fire. I didn't see anything of j the widow, bot I kept locking for her i to oome in and send for me, and i passed away the time by cassia' the e crowd to myself, thinking they had < no business there, and I would not | get a chance to talk to my woman a [ bit. Presently the door opened and t in walked Polly and that long-legged j Doctor, and a whole team of boys and ^ girls fixed np savagely, I tell you. I ] looked around for a fiddler. They f were going to have a ball, but I won- t dered what they all kept so still for, { and wan ahnnfc nmnosicc a reel, when c p gits a little* preacher, and before you could swallow a live oyester, he had Polly and the Doctor married faster than a Mexican greaser could tie a ball's horns. 1 was so completely flummoxed that I set there with my month open like I was going to swallow the whole crowd, and my eyes looked like billiard balls till the ceremony was over, when I jumped up and bellowed: -" I forbid the concern from being constituted H "Yon are a little too late, my friend," said the preacher, and they all commenced laughing like they bad seen something fanny.* "I'll be sqaizzled if I don't be soon enough for somebody yet," says I, "for I was mad, Squire, and no mistake in the ticket. I do believe I could have eat that Doctor quicker than a hungry dog could swallow a squirrel skin, if I could have bad a fair cbaDce at him. It was too bad after I had fixed op to marry her myself, for her to walk right, out before my eyes and marry that great babboon." ~ "It was bad, that is a fact," fcaid I. "Bad!" cried he, "it was meaner ' than eating fried coon. I first thought I'd go straight home, but then concluded that wouldn't spite nobody, so I determined to stay and see if I couldn't get satisfaction ont of somebody. Yon know I'm the deuce to get myself or somebody else iota a scrape when I take a notion, g and I'd taken one that night that j went all over me like a third day j shill, so I commenced a study'n ont c jome plan. I recollected bearing t the docter say that where he come c from (bnfc the Lord only knows j. where that was) the bride aaJTgroom g ilways washed their faces together , . . . -polity or is a charm against m ith it. She said she was going to QI irry it into the room for the doctor jn ad Polly to wash their faces in. I co ept talking to her while she was hi Uing the pitcher and when she ai irned her- head I dropped the 6r instic into it. It was then about SD ed time, and I got my hat and pnt a] t, bat I couldn't help laughing all az ze way home whenever I'd think se boat it next morning. Si "Well, 'Squire, they do say that tb 'hen that couple waked up next iorning~they both had the hardest sc ind pf fits, each one thinking they 0i ad been -sleeping with a nigger, p, )b, it was rich! He a cnssin' and jt taring up things, and she a faintin' ei nd comin' to and going off again, w nd me not there to see it They 0| iade such an unearthly racket that m be folks broke into the room to see ^ r-hat was the matter, and there they q ms with their faces and bands all as 9( >lack as the inside of an old stove p >ipe. I'd give ha^f my interest in a he tother world jast to have been at c] ome safe place where I could have w een the whole row. As soon as they w ound out that they was really the _ ame folks that married the night >efore, they called for warm water . d soap, but just here the doctor a lappened to think about the pitcher b md took it to the door to see what I vas the matter. There was a little P >iece of caustic that had not dis- si lolved, and as soon as he saw it, he d jays: "It's do use washiog, Polly. All he soap in.New York city wouldn't vash that black off." "That was the troth, 'Squire, soap ;nd wa'er had do more effect than it u vould on a Dative born African, and y ill the chance was to wait and let it vear off. How long it took them to *et white again, I never found out 1 jot one thiDg I do know," he con- S iluded, gettiog up to go out, "the o aext time I saw the doctor I had the " hardest fight, and come the nighest getting whaled that I ever did in all my born days!" J i "My time is up," said the doctor | to the patient whom he found usiDg Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, and he was correct, for his cough had been cured. "Alas! Alas!" the dude exclaims, \ "in my slender ankle I've got pains." f "Don't fret," said ma, for whom he had Bent, "I have some Salvation Oil." Trial by Jury. Judge Hudson, iu his talk before the grand jury at Newberry, said there 1 was a matter of great importance, and i tie thought proper to mention it at 1 this time, aDd that was our system of I trial by jury. It was a matter of com- 1 ment by nearly every one, and there 1 was an opinion amongst some that it i was a failure. He thought it was a system that would never be surrendered by the American people, for they were a liberty-loving people. \ rhere is no doubt thaf many people ] ire astonished at the verdict of juries { n many cases. Oar juries occupy a i rery exalted and responsible position. [Jnder our law, at present, tbey are ;he exclusive judges of the facts. In mte-bellum days our judges could lid the juries in arriving at conclu- j lions, by commentating on the facts, ? >ut they cannot now. Our juries are ] iomposed of good men, from all parts t )f the county ; in fact, the best men ? )f the community are usually drawn, t Then the rooms for the delibera- 1 ion of the juries are osually places vithout comfort, into which the jurore ire forced and required to remain mtil they agreed, with no comfort t jxcepfc a light and some water, and < lometimes, though rarely, a little fire. ] [hey are put in these places like sheep t n a pen. This, he thought, was l vrong. . ' i He was satisfied that while it might lave been well in the origin of the ary system to require unanimity in he finding of a verdict, that rule was )Qt adapted to the spirit and genius )f our times. There is no more rea ion why this rule should prevail in I he verdict of a jury than in any other laliharfliA hndifis. Tn fion.oTess. our ? o > jegislature, and onr Supreme Conrt, >nly a majority is necessary to pass a ? aw or make a judgment Oar So- * >reme Court has to pass upon the ives and the liberty of the people. 1 Jer'ainly th8 role should be changed ( ?n the civil side of the court at least. ?he rule impedes the administration 1 f justice. It belongs to a by-gone go. J To sum up, the Judge-said, our juors should be treated as gentlemen, nd given some comfort during their 1 leliberations. The rule requiring * nanimity encourages crime ; one sinle man often being able to make a ry fail to reach a verdict It is the ^ ope of the guilty, especially in our ^ ities, to get one of their number on be panel, and thus escape the penalty f the law. The rule obstructs jusice. It is an incentive to bribery nd corruption. 3 gs is always trying to take some idoe advantage {of him. He images that the whole hnman race is br inspiring to cheat, rob and defraud fe nu With no trnst or confidence in cfc lybody, this man leads a most mis- ti< able existence. The large stock of pf ispicion which he carries with him p 1 the time makes his life a burden ec id a torment. On account of it he sa ie8 no peace of mind day or night. , aspicion of everybody and everyiing haunts him contiouallyr 0I We suppose it may be natural for 3ime few people to be over-suspicious, it may bo the result of ignorance, ?ssib)y, in some cases. But we thickmay be safely set down as a gen- cl 'al rule that self is the standard by ol hich the average man judges au- hi ther. Therefore, as a rnle, when a R ian is so very suspicions of every- re ody else, it may be safely put down it lat that man hi aself may well be 01 ispected, for he is measuring other \\ eople by his own standard. Such a ian it would do well to watch pretty ;osely. He will take the advantage 0 hen be can, except in those cases tc here it might not be }X)licy to do so. -Sumter Advance. C< The beautiful glossy shseD, so inch admired in bair. can be secured a y the nse" of Ayer's Hair Vigor. ^ 'here is nothing better than this .. & 11 reparation for strengthening the ^ 3alp and keeping it free from danrufi aDd itching eruptions. There is considerable truth in the ^ bservation of the Eastman (Ga) ournal, that " the idea of teacLuog very gill to thump the piano, aud very hoy to he a bookkeeper, will lake potatoes $4 a bushel iu twenty ears" a It is estimated that there are over 1 2,000 subordinate Alliances in the ^ iontberu States, wtth a membeiship 6 f 700,000. if You Have fo appetite. IiKli^eNlioii, Flatulence, lick Ilcuduclic. -all i'(i|i donn," losflesh, you villi fiud ^ Tatt's Pills; he remedy yon need. They lone u j> he weak stomach and huild iiptlic la^iii}; enerirics. Sufferers from ft neutal ?r physical?vera?ok will find . elief froiutliem. Xicclysu^arcoatcd. t SOIA> EVEKYVVHEIMk t Oct.. 31 ? ly C < 4 * V Desperate Tetter^ I can testify tliat S. S. S. is the lest blood mediciue that I ever to >k, md believe it is the best in the world. It cured a desperate case of latter on my feet and legs, which withstood all other treatmeut, and was so painful that I could not wear ny shoss. J. Brooks. Dawson, Ga., Sept. 25. 1SS8. scrofulous sore leg. Five years I bad a sore leg, which would yield to no treatmeut?until [ took two bottles of S. S S., which iromptly cured it, and there has been 10 sign of return?this was in 188G. E. R. Bost. Newton, N. C., Nov. 23, 18SS ijoils. It was the victim for five or six rears of the worst boils that I evtr iaw, which the doctors failed to cure. [ began S. S. S., and in a short time ,he - poison was driven ont of my lystem, and not a sign of boils or i my other blood trouble has returned. ! i recommend S. S. S. to everybody. J. G. Edwards. Abbeville, S. C., Oct. 20, 1888. Swift's Specific is entirely a vegeable remedy, and is the only medi- , line which permanently cores Scrofua, Blood Humors, Cancer and Oonagious Blood Poison. Send for looks on Blood and Skin Diseases, nailed free. The Swift Specific Co , Drawer 3,. Atlaivta, Ga. It is reported in Boston that when he liabilities of the Pacific Guano Company are footed up the total will iot be far from $5,000,000. Advica to Mothers. Mrs. Wix-slow's Soothing Syrup d ? ' j ? 1 k /i muan aimici rtin i Li (JUKI Ui W Uj H Ut3 UHbU WLtll LLJIIUIL'U ire cutting teeth. It rolieves the ittle sufferer at once; it produces latural, qaiet sleep by relieving the ihild from paiD, and the little cherub wakes as "bright as a button." It s very pleasant to trfste. It soothes he child, softens the gums, allays all >aio, relieves wind, regnlates the >owels, and is the beet known remedy or diarrhoea, whether arising from eethiDg or other causes, Twentyve cents a bottle. June ^7?ly. Truth and love are two of the most >owerful things in the world, and ?hen they both go together, they annot be easily withstood _ Consumption Surely Cured. v r To the Editob :?Please inform our readers that I have a positive Bocklen'g Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts, nises, sores, ulcers, .salt rheum, R ver sores, tetter, chapped hands, tilblains, corns, and al^skin erup>ns, and positively cures piles, or no E iy reqnired. It is guaranteed to jrfect satisfaction, or money refund- 0 I. Price 25 cents per box. For l ,le by all druggists. Louisiana furnishes one-seventh of ir sugar. He crop in 188S wss >9,00^,000 pounds. , DO KOT SIFFER AI?Y LOWER. p Knowing that a cough can be lecked iu a day, and the first stages & ' consumption broken in a week, we n areby guarantee Dr. Acker's Eoglish L emedy for Consumption, and will 'fund the money to all who buy, take as per directions, and do not find . ur statement correct. For sale by | J. P. Roof. A beetle can draw twenty times its wn weight. So can a mustard plas?r. HOW DOCTORS COPIER DEATH. Doctor Walier K. Hammond says: After a long experience I have come * the conclusion that two thirds of 11 deaths from coughs, pneumonia nd consumption, might be-^avoided "Hr ArA-f-r'n Rni?lish Rsmed v for lousumption were only carefully used 1 time." This woDderful Remedy is jld imdor a positive guarantee by V. P. Roof. The "nimble shilling." mnst be lade out of quicks lver. SHE IS "GRATEFUL." "I saved the life of my lis lie girl by prompt use of Dr. Ackei's E L'iifr-h temedy for Ron sump ! ?r? "?Mrs. Vm. V. IlarriruaD, N*w York Fur ale by \V. P. Roof. Arkansas bus 1,800,000 ncr.s rf [ irairie land ^ WIIV won .? r4Di:> Women lose their beauty because ? olds undermine their life. Dr. i icker's English Remedy for Ronumption is an absolute cnre for olds. At VV. P. Roofs. ] People do nnt appear to take ,5 much stock in lightning rods as hey formerly did. There aro ouly hree lightning rod factories in the ountry against 03 a few yeaes ago. y New Advertisements. PTkker'S 1 HAIR BALSAM h |S^|ft?irj|Cicanscs and beautifies the hair. BE Promotes a luxuriant growth. Never Fails to Restore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. [5sSsSffC~^^WPreveiit8 DandruJT and hair falling1 MADE WITH BOILING WATER. EPPS'S GRATEFUL-COMFORTING. COCOA MADE WITH BOILING MILK. HINDERCORNS. The only sure Cure for Corns. Stops all pain. Engnrgr comfort to the feet. 15c. at Druggists. HiSCOX<fcCo.,N."Y. a?^tt CONSUMPTIVE ITave you Cough. Bronchitis, Asthma. Indigestion? Use PARKER'S GIJiGERTONIC.Tt-'tas cured tho worst cases and is the best remedy for all ills arising from defective nutrition. Take in time. 50c. and $L0u roi Aching Sides and Back, Hip, Kidney find^Jterine, Pains, lthenmatic, Sciatic, Sharp and Weakening Pains, relieved in one miunte by the Cnticnra Anti-Pain Plaster. The first and only instantaneous pain-killing, strengthening pin o. aster. 2 cents; five for SI CO. At druggists, or of Pottek Deugand Chemical Co., Post hill Pivi? ??l no Y?ln ol'li no Alionnn/1 T\1 Hfl I I-M and ksiu cured ly Cftiuuiu rits! SoAr. TUB SCIE3VCB OF IiIFB A Scientific and Standard Popular Medical Trealise on the Errors of Yonth, Preriaturu Decline,Nervous and Physical Debility, Impurities of the Blood, Resulting trotn Folly, Vice, Ignorance, Excesses or Overtaxation, Enervating and unfitting the victim for Work, Business, the Married or Social Relation. Avoid unskilful pretenders. Possess this great work. It contains 300 pages, royal Svo. Beautiful binding, embossed, full gilt. Price, only $1.00 by mail, post-paid, concealed in plain wrapper. Illustrative Prospectus Free, if you apply now. The distinguished author, Wm. 11. Parker, M. D-, received the COLD AND JEWELLED MEDAL from the National Medical Association, for the PRIZE ESSAY on NERVOU8 and PHYSICAL DEBILITY. Dr. Parker and a corps of Assistant Physicians may be consulted, confidentially, by mail or In person, at the office of THE PEABODY MEDICAL INSTITUTE, No. 4 ltulfinch St., Boston, Mass., to whom all orders for books or letters for advice should be directed as above. Feb. 3?14 ^ LEXINGTON ^ Prof, PAUL T. BRODIE, Principal. Mrs. ffl, E. LATIIROPE, Assistant. RlomAiif orw TlAnQr+mfm! FIRST GRADE. 1 1 B bm catling, Word Analysis, Algebra, G^ow*" etry, Natural Philosophy, Physical Geography. SEVENTH GRADE. ? hetoric, Physical Geography, Algebra, Geohietry, History, AstfDuomy, Science of Government, s EIGHTH GRADE. t nglish Literature, Trigonometry and Surveying, Logic, Political Economy, History. ptional Studies in High School Dpt a atin, Greek, French, German, Music. TTJimoosr. \ 1st Grade - - 50c. per month. 2d and 3rd Grade - 75c. " " 4'h, 5th and Cth Grade, SI.00 ? 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We have no sub-agencies, all busiless direct, hence can transact patent jp easiness in less time and at Less Cost than hose remote from Washington. Send model, drawing, or photo, with lescription. We advise if patentable or lot, free of charge. Our ice not due till latent is secured. A book, "Ilow to Obtain Patents," with eferences to actual clients in your State, G sounty, or town, sent free. Address C. A. SNOW & CO., " " 1 ? i . nr?i.;?<ri r ? upposne raiem, uuiit, *?iisuiugiuu, %j, oct '24?tf I F. W. HUSEMANN == Gun and Lock Smith, r=E . { and dealer in } GUNS, PISTOLS, FISIIING TACKLE, 1 md all kinds of Sportsmen's Aitides, J ivhicli be has now on exhibition and for ?a1e ut bis store, Kain Street, Near the Central Bank, Columbia, S. C, Aof.nt for Hazard Powder Comfant. Impairing done at short notice"?^ Apr. 2 "> -fini. Positive Notice. As I cannot rnn my shop without cash ,'or work done I will hold work until it is -aid lor. JOHN R MONTS. Dec. 5, 188i>? ?m M ? .2*/ ' J/' *? , ' -fa '^5 **y * rhla CELEBRATED RAZOR SENT BY HAIL PRU NINC APLEASURE^?^. ?H S ^If you want the best THIN HOL- * USING TH CSC C&JCADC J ? f* H ??^ LOW GROUND RAZOR No?priu^i togetoutdntAllvi * Is' M r'AW^v that can be made, send us of order, or pinch the 81.25, and we will hand. Light,but |d^ 2? VLLING A LODGE, MADISON. IND. J 1 Roses. Shrubs and Vines. ALLIRG A LODGE, XADISOK. IK1). . INDIANA. ^ Mention thre paper. DON'T FORGET TIIAT C. F. JACKSON .* : ;, - i-7 IS ALWAYS THE Leader of Low Prices IN THE Cit3r of ColumToia, S. C. 'X VTa.,. A Va?t O^aaL Af UDT>TVP T\DV />AAno iVT\ \TA??TA%?A . . nun i u a i<jic a nun ovwa ui oimmi Jfivi UWl/O A IK Lf WUIl'JWiS, WHICH till be sold at prices that will not fail to please all. We will make a present to all purbasers of Two Dollars and upwards. Don't iLiss this chance. Call and see what pretty tyles of NEW GOODS are now in. Iiemember the storo, J&r 126 Main Street,-?^ icxt door to Agnew's Hardware Slore. O. F. JACKSON, Manager of the Columbia Cash Dry Goods StoreFeb. 15?ly. SIGHT IS PRICELESS. But how often it is ruined by poor glasses, and also by good glasses poorly fitted. If > ,11 eyes were normal, that is perfectly shaped, tlsen it would be an easy matter to get [lasses, a person by stating his or her age would receive the number of glass corresponding to that ago and be suited exactly, lint unfortunately there are few eyes perfectly lornial, and sometimes we find a person of fifty and a child of twelve years of age wearng the same number of glasses, the reason being that the childs eyes were very poor rhile the older person's were very good. Again we often find a different strength in the ight and left eye of somo person. Again we find persons who complain of never being ,bie to get a glass to suit them perfectly. This is owing to a peculiar malformation of heir eyes which ordinary glasses will not r. medy. When fitting cases of this kind?by , new process?we make a careful measure of the eye and grind a glass specially to suit. Sy this system we have made persons see well, who thought that nothing could be dona or their sight. 'If yonr eyes give trouble, call on us and be fitted properly. ' The Brazillian Axis Cut Pebble Spectacles and Eve Glasses are the FINEST and JEST on the market They are made from natural stone, so hard thAt they do not be- , > oine scratched. They keep ont heated raj s of light, and are soft, cool, and pleasant to \ . he eye. We sell them. Send for Circular, or call when in the city. Jttk P. H. LACHICOTTE &> ^ New Number 105,] MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. H Oct 3?ly CONFECTIONERIES, - * Work Boxes and Sachels, China and Glass Vases, Shell^and Glass Boxes, China Trinket Boxes, Photograph and Autograph Albums, Glass and China Mugs from 5 to 50c. each* Ipl Picture Books, Toilet and Tea Sets, . Accordeons and Harmonicas, India Rubber Balls, Glass Marbles, Chum and Wax Dolls from 5c. up. Tin Horns, Wagons, Horses, Tops, etc. Stationery and School Books. j Letter and Note Paper, all grades, Apple ton's Readers, Sanfor<fs Arithmetics, J r"~"1 WAATO nor. V>an^v ?r>rl 5n^1I?V>1 "Rooks, .?? A>l Fancy Colored and Gilt Edge Note Paper, Slates ami Pencils, Lead Pencils, Envelopes, white and colored, at all prices, Copy Books, Book Bags; etc. _ :.<S A Line of Fine Perfumery, Sweet Soaps, Ete. At Harman's Bazaar, Lexington, S. C. . ? v LORICK & LOWRANCE Columbia Hotel ltlock, Columbia, S. C., HEADQUARTERS FOl! ? Wilcox & Gibbs Co., ^ ! Acid, twian Phosphate Co-, Long's Chemicals, tlaqtic Phosphate Co-, Cane Mills, ainits, Evaporators. / issolved Bone, . Sheet Copper, FIELD j??2<riD SEEDS, . ? ~ m-w -?T^J t-1 r, TV IX TV cm />l/\ IT Tv 11 HTCt r~i (JTTUiN (jil\S, i'MDEKS, UUl\lAlii\i3JiJXi3, Presses and Belting, 'lain and Decorated Glass, Marbleizcd Mantels, Glazed Tiles, Grates, Fenders, <?c. , FULL STOCK OF HARDWARE AND GROCERIES AT BOTTOM PRICES. ' OME AND SEE US or write to ue before buying anything in Hardware* Jan 1?ly I0HN C. DIAL HARDWARE CO., IMPORTERS AND DEALERS ?IN ' ' j Hardware and Cutlery. ?(o) ' ' ~'*5 fgcnts for Thomas' Smoothing Harrows, Watt Plows and Lucas> Ready Itixcd Gloss Paints. OII.S OF1 ALL KIND8. LIGHT MACHINERY OIL A SPECIALTY. NEW GOODS AND LOW PRICES. COLUMBIA. S. C.