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bubbles. Blow your bubbles, little man, Just as big ones as you can! They are pretty things to see As they fluat off gracefully Fiom your oarted finger'tips, AeCI your earnest, pu?sed-up lips. They are ram bow-tinted, fair, As they ride the golden air. A TiA flini. iaall \niinVv X"V UU I l?rj 4 un |^,uv AU w.A ^ V.V.. , Blew your bubbles, little boy." 1 have blown my bubble, too, Jo>t as wantonly a* you, ? And as Dow it floats away On the wines ot yeste.day. I can see it was a toy Quite as vain a* yours, my boy. It wa" rainbow tinted, too. This great bubble that I blew. And its freight?ah well a-day! It is blown?and blown away. fitV DR. Tal MaG-'o ShRMO.NBe P?e>cb*8 VY th Great P. wer on K c v?r? d Fao>l Little Rock. Ma\ 20 ? O- bis way to Lauio'U'*. whence be will si art on May 31 cd hie round the world j u uey. Rev. Dr. Ta mage, having tahed here, preach-d t d \ to a large audenc* c c the subject ( f' R covered Families." T' e text cb< sti was Samuel xxs, 4 19: "Then David and the people that were with bun lilted up their voice ant! wept nnlil tr ey had i o mere po* er to weep. * * * David recovered til." There is intense excitement in the vil late of Z Kiag. David and his men arr biddu gaot dbv to -f etr famdits and are rff 'or the wars In that Jm.'t \uiagt- <" Z k'asz the defect ss oios will he s>.fc until the warriors, fla-htd wi b v c.< ry cr rut hone. Bui v i;i -he df ft melees ? i e be sa'e? The st ft arms of childrtD art around lie Lteks of <he b rz d wtrriots cciii lbe> 8'ake themselves bee auc start, and bai.o'kt-rchiele. aLd iDus are waved and kiste* ihiwu until 'he armed men vanuhbey< nd :he hills Duv;d and fcis men 3con get Unugb wnb thtir eight en tbe:r way i-orac ward. Every night on their wav home no sooner dots the soldier put his head od the knaps-act tbfD in. his oream be t ears ice welcome Of the wi'e and the shout ol tbechild. Oh, what long stor es they will bave to telltheir larrilies ol bow tbev dodged the fcaulesx. and then w 11 roll up their sleeve bed show the ha f he-iled wc uua Wi:h glad, quick step, tbey march od, David ana bis men, lor they are maichiog home.a march and a victory. Now tbe\ come up to the last hill which overlooks Zkiag, 3nd they ex pectin a moment to see the dwelling places ol their Joyed oues. Tbey look, ana as tbey lock their cheek turns pale, and their lip quivers, and their baud id voluntarily comes down cn the hilt ol the sword. "Where is Z klag? Where are cur Lcmec?" tbey cry. Alas, the curliD2 smoke above the ruiQ tell? the traced}! The Amalekiies have come down and consumed the village and carried the mothers, and the wives, and the children cf David and his men into captivity. Tee swarthy warriors stand tor a few * moments transfixed with horror. Then their eyes'glanc? to each other; and they burst into uncontrollabie weeping, fowhen a strong warrior weepstue grief is appalliDg. It seems as if the emotion might tear h:m to pieces. They "wept until they had no mdre pDwerto weep." But8ccn their sorrow turns into rage and Dayid, swingmg his sword high in the air, cries, '"Pursue, for thcu shalt overtake them and witbcut fall recover all." Now the march becomes a "dcuble quick." Two hundred of David's meu stop by the brock Bescr, taint with fatigue and grief. They cannot go a step farther. They are left there. But the i other 400 men under David, with a sort cf panther step. march on in sorrow and in rsge. They fiod by the side of the ; road a half dead Egyptian, and thev resuscitate him and compel him to tell ibe : whole ;story. He says, "Vender they went, the captors and the captives," < pointing in the direction. Forward, ye 400 brave men of fire! r ~ ^ ??? d Vi>o Ar vr r?c.4 V6ry SIA u JL/av >u auo uto cuio^pu com pan ccme upon the Amalekltish host Yonder they see their own wives and children ana mothers and under Araalekitish guard. Here are the officers of the Amalguard. Here are tbetfficers of the Amalekuish army holding a banquet. The cups are full; the music is is roueed; the dance begins. The Amal ekitish host cheer and cheer and cheer ever their victory. But without note of bagle or warming ol trumpet David and his 400 men burst upon the scene. David and his men look up, and cne glance at their loved ones m captivitv and ucder Amalefcitish tuard throws them into a very fury cf attenaioa'icn. for you knew how men will fight wheD they tight lor their wives and children. Ah, there are lightnings in iheir eye, and every finder is a spear, and their voice is like the shout or the whirl wine! Amid the upset- tat Var^s tfndtbe costly viaLds crashed underf ?ot, the wcu? ded Arn&iekites lie?their bleed mingling wirh their wine?shrieking for mercy. No sooner do David and his mr-n win the victory than ihty throw tb^ir swords down into the dust?what do they want ? r,rr**-,r~/3ci T'./VCl9 r. ;ho hrAton ffimi VYiVU Of ViUO i/V?TT. HL.U uv lies come together aor'd a great shorn < f joy that makes the pt^ing scene in Z k tag seem very msipid in the compariain. Tfce rouch old wamor has* to use - erne persuasion before be can get bis cbild t come to bun now aft? r so long an ab* sence, but scon the little Soger traces the familiar wrmkie across the senrrtd face. And tben the empty taufcards are set up, and ibey are tilled with tbe best wiLe from the hills, and David aDd bis men, tha tusbands, the wives, the brothers, the sisteis, drink to tbe overthrow cf the AinaJf kuies and to the re fcuildmgci Z fclag. S->, 0 Lord, let thmcenemies pens'! . THE RETURN*. Now they are coming home, David and his men and their iamiiies?a long proce-eicn. MeD, w^meu and children, loaded with jewels and robes and with ? t- -J " ?* t AS K At" < A *VIU1A1>?4AO s;i KiUUS Ui UUjiUic; tuen, ilc iiiuaitRuco had gathered up in years cf cot quest? everything: cow in the h&od3 of David and bis men. When tfcev come by the brook Besor, the place where staid the men sick and incompetent to travel, the jewels and the rotes and all kinds ot treasures are divided among the sick as well as among the well. Surely the lame acd exhausted ought to have some of the treasures. Here is a lobe for a pale faced warrior. Here is a pillow for this dying man. Here is a handful cf gotd for the wasted trumpeter. I really think that these men who tainted by the brook Besor may have encured as much as those men who went inte the battle. Some mean fellows objected to the sick ones having aDy cf the spoils. The ob jectors said, "These men d:d not fight.77 David, with a magnanimous heart, replies, "As his part is that gceth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the 3tufi." Thia subject is practically suggestive to me. Thank God. in these times a man can go cfl on a journey and begone weeks ana months and come back and see his house uatcu"hed of incendiary and have his family on the step to greet him if by telegram he has foretold the moment cf his coming. But there are Amalekitisd disaster, there are Amalekitish diseases that sometimes come down upon one's home, making as devastating work as the day when Z klag took fire. There are families you represent broken up. No battering ram smote in the door, no iconoclast crumbled the statues, no flame leaped smid the curtains, but so far as all the joy and merriment that one belonged to that house are concerned the home has departed. Armed diseases came down upon the quie ness of the scene?scarlet levers or t pIturis:esor consumptions or undefined 1 disorders came and se'z'dupon some 1 member* of that family snd carried them 1 away. Z k'ag in e.s^es! And ycu 20 5 about, sometimes weepmg and some times enraged, wan iDgto tret back your , loved ones as much as David and his j men wsnted to reconstruct their de- , spoiled households. Z klae in ashee! j Some rf you went ofi from tome. You , counted the dats of your absence. Ev- ] ery day seemed a* iOD2 ssa week Oh, ] bow glad you were when the time came 1 for you to 20 aboard the steamboat or 1 rail car and start for bom? You ar 1 rived. Ycu went uo the street where 1 ycur dwelling was. and in the niobt put 1 your band on the doorbell, and, behold! j i! ra QO or f.jm 6/1 CDlth thA ftionftl hPTFftVr. it " Cl.O TT VU ?? 4W.? V*J V % Ltnt, and you k ur>d that Amalekitish death, which has dtvastated a thousand other hcu-ehnlds, hsd fciaated jours. Y'U^oabiu weeomg arn d the desola loo ot your ore? happv boose, thinkme < f the bright eyes cbsed, aud the noble hearts stopped, and the senile hands folded, and you weep until you have no < cm re ) o*er t > weep. Z klae iu ash?s. ' A sen'b mat) went a frieud of mm' < iD tie city ol Washington and asked ' that thrc u^h him he minht get a cont-u'- 11 s up to ei-ae foreign port. My friend * said to birn, "What do you want to go KWay from yoj.r beau*-fa1 home f?r into * a foreign por ?" "0 >," he replied, j "my home is goDt! Mv six ct ildren are g dead. I must get away, sir. I can't t siand in thiscmn'rv anv looker." i ASHES OF LIFE. 1 Why these long shadows i f he reeve- , rncnt ecross this audience? Why is n that in r.lmogr ev? rv assem -dase black j. is the. predominant color < f the aopartl? f Is it because y-u d<- not like saftron or c bro*n or vmle;? 01, n< ! You eay, c "The world is not s<> bright to us as i once it was," auu there is a story of si- t li-nt voices and ( f still feet and of loved t ones gone. and when you lcok cvtr the f bills, expecting only beauty and loveli- 1 nets, >< u find ( niy devastat ou aud woe. Jj Z king in ashts! j 0a<- day in Uister county, N. Y-, J1 the v.l'age cburcn was decorated until the frag acce ot the floweis was almost ^ btwildeiins. The maidens ot the vil v lave had smntied the place cf fi iwers ^ upon one marriage altar. One of their e own Dumber was fcfflimped to a minister y of Christ, who bad come to take her to h bis own home. With bands j >ined, amid a congratulatory audience, the vows m re taken. In three days from that c time one of those who stood at the altar e exchanged earth for oeaveu. The wed a ding ma?oh broxe down into the funeral r dirge. Theie were not enough flowers 1< for the coffin lid, because they had all t been taken for the bridal hour. The v dead minister of Christ is brought to an- a other village. t He had gone out from them less than a a week before in his strength; now he v comes borne lifeless. The whole church ? bewailed him. The solemn procession E moved arc una to lock upon the still face c that occe had beamed t ;e message of c salvation. Little children were lifted up to look at him. Aud some of those f whom be had comforted in days of sor- f iow, when they passed that silent form, s made the place dreadful with their w?ep- c ing. Another village emptied cf its f flcuxrers?cnm? r.f them nnt in the fthane ^ of a cross t ? symbolize bis hope, others j E put in the shape of a crown to symbol- 5 ize his triuinp. A hundred lights Wowd ? out in one strong gust from the open Q door of a sepuleher. Zklsg in ashes! ^ a rally cry. y I preach this sermon today because I ? want to rally you as David rallied bis men, for the recovery of the loved and jj ihe lost. I want cot only to wia heaven, but I want all this congregation to _ go along with mc. I feel somehow I ? have a reeponsibilitv in your arriving a at ibat great city. Do vou really want t to join the companionship of your loved c ones who have gone? Areyouasanx- c icus to join them as David and his men t were to join their families? Then I am t here, in the name of God, to say that * you may and to tell you how. ^ I remark, in the first place, if ycu ^ want to join vour loved ones in glory, 1 you must travel the same way thev ! went. No sooner bad the half dea^ d Egyptian been resuscitated than he j pointer the way the captors and the cap t tives had gone, and David and his men i followed after. So our Christian friends \ have gone into another country, and if ycu want to reach their companionship we must take the same road. They re ^ peDted; we must repent. They prayed; j we must pray. They trusted in Christ; r we must trust in Christ. They lived a ] religious life; we must live a rel gious ^ life. Tney were in some things like s ourselves. I know, now that they are t acne, there is a halo around their name? f but they bad their faults. Tfeey said 3 ? -31 J ^ - -> < r # TTAM * f\ C ULU UIU lLiit!g? li'rj uugui ut?n tu uavc said < r done. They were sometimes * rebellious, sometimes cast down. They M a ere lar from Dema p'-r'ect. Sj I sop- ? pose that when we have gone some y things in us that are now only tolerable j may be a)m?st resplendent. Bat a , they were like us in deficiencies we i ought to be like them la taking a super ual Christ to make u;? for the deficits. ; Had it not been for Jefus they would c tave all perished, but Christ conf.on ted 1 chemand said, 'I am the way," ana t they took it. J I have also to say to you that the f path that the-e captives trod was a 1 troubled path, a d thai David and his c men had to go over tfce same difficult B way. While these capuves were bsmg g iaken off they said, >4Oi, we are so t tired; we are so sick; we ure so hungry!" % But the meu who had charge or hem t suid: k'Siopthis crying. Goon!" Dav;d f aDd his men also found it a bard wav. s The* had to travel it. Our friends have 1 gone into glory, and it is through much t tribulation that w? are to enter into the ? ^iosdom. How our loved ones used to have to struggle! How their old hearts acb* d! How sometimes tbey had a tussle lor breac! In our childhood we wondered why mere were so many wrinkles on their faces. We did not know that what were called "crow's feet" on their feces were the marks of the black raven ot trouble. Did you never Lear the old prople, seated by the evening stand, talk ever their early trials, taeir hardships, ibe accideuts, the turals, the disappointments, the empty flonr barrel when there were so many hungry ones to feed, the sickness almost unto death, where the next djse ofmorahine decided between ghastly bereavement and an unbroken home circit? Ob, yes, it was trouble that whitened their hair! It wa? trouble that shook the cup in their hands. It was trouble that wasbed the Imter from their eves with the rain of tears until they needed spectacles. It wss ] troutle that made the cane a necessity I for their journey. Do ycu nsver re- i member seeing ycu: old mother sitting i on some rainy day. looking out cf the < wiDdow, her elbow on the window sill, < her hand to her brow?looking out, Dot seeing the falling shower at all?ycu J well knew she was locking into the dis ten1, past?until toe apron came up to her eyes, because the memory was too \ much for her. ] Oft the big, unbidden tear 1 Stealing down the furrowed cheek, \ Told in eloquence sincere l Ta es of woe they could not speak. ! But, this scene of weeping o'er. . Past this scene of toll and p-un, They shall feel distress no more, 1 ZS'ever, never weep again. ) A CALL TO EFFORT. j 'Who are these under the altarV"the ' question was asked and the response < came, "These are they which came out i of great tribulation and have washed i :heir robes and made them white in :he blood of the Lamb." Oar triends went by & path of tears into glory. Be iot surprised if we have to travel the same pathway. I remark, agaiD, if we want to win :be society of our friends in heaven,we will not only have to travel a path of faith aDd a path of tribulation, but we will also have to posi;ively battle for heir companionship. David and his pen never wanted sharp swords and nvulneraUe shields aDd thick breast..lotan r>r\ nnnnK o o t hf:TT iron tflri fhflm r\n 1 j; a l c ou uiu^/u c*o j t? uu - <.uv :he day when they came down upon :he Amalekites. If they bad lost that cattle, they never would have got their families back. I suppose that one ?iance at their loved ones in captivity juried them into the battle with tenfold courage and energy. They said: 'Wemust win it Everything depends jpon if. Let each oDe take a man on joint of sp^ar or sword We must win t." And I have to tell you that be.ween us and eomiDg into the companonship of our loved ones who aieaejar>d there is an Ausr*-rJitz, rher^ is a jeftysburg, there is a WaTerloo. War vith the world, war with the flesh, war *i h the devif. We have either to cod lueroui troubles, or our troubles will oLquer us. David will either slay the lu.ah kitts or the Amalekit>s will nay D*vid. And yet Is not the fort to te taken wonh all the pain, all the jer?l, all the Desiegement ? Look! Who are they on the bright, nils of heiven yonder? TtU're they kre, those who sat at your own tabl?-t he caair now vacant. There rhey are, hose whom you rocktd in infancy in he cradle or hushed to sleep in your irms. There they are, those in whose ife your lUe was bound up. There ihey ire, their brow more radiant than ever >efore you saw ir, their lips waiting or the kiss of he^veuJy greeting, their ;neek roseate with the hea'th of eter>al summer, their beads * e-konlDg you ipto tne sttfcp, the feet boundtDg with he mirth of heaven. Tne pallor of heir last sickness gone out of their ace, nevermore to be sica. nevermore o eougb, nevermore to limp, never ore to be old, nevermore to weep i?bey are watcniug from those heights o see if through Christ you can take hat fort and whether joa will rush in ipon them?victors. They koow rhat ipun this battle depends whether you nil ever join their society. Up! S'nke larder! Charge more bravely! Reaember that every inch ycu gam puts ou so -ouch farther on toward that eavenly reunion. VICTORY OR DEATH. If this morning while I speak you ould hear the cannonade of a foreign nemy which was to despoil your city, .nd if they really should succeed in car yiDgyour families away from you,how ong would we take before we resolved o go after them? Every weapon, whether fresh from the armory or old .nd rusty in the garret, would be irought out, and we would urge on, ,nd coming in front of the foe we eould llook at them and then look at iur families, and the cry would be, Victory or death!" and when theamnunition was gone we would take the aptors on the point of the bayonet or mder the breech of the gun. If you would make such a struggle or the getting back of your earthly riends, will you not make as much truggle for the gaining of the eternal ompanionship of your heavenly riends? Oh, yes, we must join them! Ve must sit in their holy society. We au3t sing with them the song. We oust celebrate with them the triumph, jet it never be told on earth or in leaven that David and his men pushed iut with oraver hearts for the gettlDg iack of their earthly friends for a few ears on earth than we to get our de>arttd! You say that all this implies that iur departed Christian friends are Jive. Why, have you any idea they ;re dead ? They have only moved. If ou should go on the 2ad of May to a louse where one of your friends lived md find him gone,you would not think hat he was dead. You would inquire text door where he had moved to. Our leparted Christian friends have only aken another house. The secret is that hey are richer now than they once eere and can afford a better residence, ^hey once drank out of easthenware; hey now drink from the King's chalce. "Joseph is yet alive," and Jacob vill go up and see him. Living, are hey ? Why, if a man can live in this lamp, dark dungeon of earthly captivty, can he not live where he breathes he bracing atmosphere of the mounains of heaven? Oh, yes, they are iving! FAINT. YET PURSUING. Do you think that Paul is so near leau UOW as lie was wucu ur woo uvng in the Roman dungeon? Do you hink that Frederick R )bertseQ of Brighton is as near dtad now a3 he Yas when, year after year, he slept eated on the fl or, bis head on ine wttom of a chair, because he could led e-ise in no other positi n? Do fuu think that Robert Hall is as near lead now as when, on his coucb, he ossed in physical tortures? No. Death iave them the few black drops that jured tbem. Tnat is a'l death does to i Christian?cures nicn. I know that vhat I have said implies that they are lviDg. There is no question about hat. The only question tnis morning s whether you will ever join them. But I must not forget these 200 men vbo fainted by the brook Besor. They :ould not rake another step fan her. rbeir feet were sure; tneir head ached; heir eDtire Dature was exhausted, besides that, ttey were broken hearted because their homes were gone Ziklag n ashes! And yet Dovid, when he :omes up to them, devides the spoils imong thHm He says they shall have :ome of the jewels, some of the robns, ome of the treasures. I look over bis audience this morning-, and I find it least, 200 who have fainted by the >rook Besor?the brook of tears. You eel as if you could not take another tep further,as though you could never ook up again. But I am going to innate David and divide among you some ;lorious trophies. Here is a robe, "All hings work together for good to these rho love God." Wrap yourself in thatrlorious promise. Here is for your leek a string of pearls, made out of xystallized tears, "Weeping may enlure for a night,'but joy cometh in the norning." Here is a coronet, "Be hou faithful until death, and I will jive tnee a crown ot life." Oh, ye ainting ones by the brook Besor, dip rour blistered "feet in the running itream of God's mercy. Bathe your irow at the wells of salvation. Soothe our wouDd3 with the balsam tbat exides from trees of life. God will not ltterly cast you off, 0 broken hearted nan, 0 broken hearted woman, faintng by the brook Besor. A shepherd finds that bis musical )ipe is bruised. He says: "I can't get my more music out of this Instrument, to I will just break it, and I will throw his reed away Then I will get another eed, and I will play music on that ." 3ut God says he will not cast you off lecause all the music has gone cut of ?our soul. "The bruised reed he will rot break." As far as I can tell the liagnosis of your disease, you want iivme nursing:, and it is promised you, 'As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." God will see fou all the way through, O troubled joul and when you come down to the Jordan of death you will find it to be is thin a brook as Besor, for Dr. Robnson says that in April Besor dries up md there is no brook at all. And in four last moment you will be as placid is the Kentucky minister who went up :o God, sayiDg in the dying hour: 'Write to my sister Kate and tell her nut to be worried and [Tightened about the story of Lhe horrors around the deathbed, fell her there is not a word of truth in it, for I am there now, and Jesus is with me, and I find it a very happy way, not because 1 am a good man, for [ am not--I am nothing but a poor, miserable sinner?but I have an AM :Jk mighty Saviour, and both of his arms are around me." May God Almighty, through the blood of the everlasting convenant, briDg us into the companionship of our loved ones who have already enter ed the heavenly land and into the presence of Christ, whom not having seen we love, and so David shall recover all, "and as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff." AGAINST THE ROADS. The S's'e \V15? )u the T?x Penalty lit b ite Fight. Columbia, S. C, May 23 ?The State ?.r.CT ....... u.ici'n i n r a i 1 md/l 19V UG3 VY VII OM, Oiu A VX V/lAtJ cases. I'e3!trday Attorney G-meral Buchanan rt-ceivad a copy of Judge Mmonton's decision in the matter of the Richmond and Danville to have 'he penalties on l's back faxes remitted. The dec.sion declares tbatthe penalties must be paid and thereby gives the Mate about 830,000, which it would not have Otherwise oDiaiDed. The decision re^ds as follows: With regaid to tht- penalty this provision is made in the tax acts to secure promptnrs- in the paymeui of tax^s and as compensation tor delay in their payment. The provision isgenera! applicable to all taxpayers alike; indeed operates for the protection of iaxpaveis who pay i heir tax-8. It is not uarea sombie, and its wisdom cannot be disputed. When a taxpayer thinks himself aggrieved in tne amount of the tax levied upon his property, among the considerations which must present themselves to bim if he contemplates resis'ing the tax is the risk he runs of the provision for a penalt v. Atid when he litigates, however good may be his * c I ?.?;U U iaim iu me uug&uou, n ue laus uc mast accept the consequences of defeat. Toe question he makes is very simple. The tax officers make a claim. He ffi-Dies it. Tne court is appealed to, decides and the consequences follow. If be loses his case he is in default. So the law is written. Now a receiver occupies In thi3 regaard no better position than any other Taxpayer. is bound to fulfill ail the duties of a property bolder, must pay the lawful taxrs levied upon bis property and enjoys the same right every other t xpayer has of disputing the legality af the tax it he thinks it Illegal, subject to the same const-quences which befall every other taxpayer if he fails. True, he is tne hand of the court, and acts under the instruction and protec tion of the court. And in these cases, after application to the court, was authorized to make the test. But the court did not and could not free him from the necessary result of failure in such suit. The laws of South Carolina are as binding on the court as they are on any inhabitant of her territory, aud no order of the court could protect the receiver from incuiring the penalty iin posed by these laws. After careful consideration this court has reached the conclusion that it cannot interfere or prevent the payment of the penalties attached to so much of thetaxaswas delinquent. Of course under the words of the law such penalties attached to so much only of the tax as was not paid, but with regard to the cost of executions the result Is otherwise. All this property was already under execution and in the hand3 of this court. The universal rule is that property in the hands or control of a court cannot be reached by any other process whatever. This is the fixed and invariable rule in this country under our duplex form of government.'This court cannot interfere with the process of any cf the State courts, however humble. Nor can the government of the United States interfere with property seized under the revenue or police powers of the State. When, therefore, attempt was made to levy on this property of the receiver such attempt was nugatory and void. No execution could be levied on it and no costs attach. It is ordered that the receivers pay the penalty on all balances of taxes unpaid, aDd that they do not pay any costs of levy on any property in their hands as receivers. Charles H. simonton, Circuit Judge. DESOwATION IN VENEZUELA. Further Reports ct the Desttuction of L'.l? and Towns by Earthquakes. New York, May 22 ?The Rev. Joseph Norwood, agenf for the American Bible Society in Venezuela, arrived at this port on the Red 1) Lxe steamer Philadelphia late Wednesday night. He was in Venezuela at the time the recent terrible earthquake*, and when seen at tbe Bible House early yesterday morning he eave an account of the disaster. Mr. Norwood said that, while be was only on the edge of the disturbances, he had received advices before he lett Venezuela showing how widespread the disaster was. "It was impossible to get absolutely correct statements before I sailed," J?e said, "ow'iDgto the fact that telegraphic communication was entirely destroyed; hut I learned enough to make me he lifcVe there bad been a terrible loss of life. The whole country Westward of Caracas felt the disturbance. "Tee most damage done was in the towns of Merida, Laguuillas and Ejides and several smaller towns, ali of which were almost to ally destroyed. "At Laguuiilas a lake now covers the site of the town, which sunk out of sight. As this town was in a valley be* t een two mountains, some of the many lakes in the vicinity may have overwhelmed it or an entirely new lake may nave been formed." Mr. No wood said he wa3 iu Maracaibo in the Hotel America, a structure two stories high, at 9:45 p. m. ?n Aoril 28, when the first shock came, and vas pre paring to sail on the steamship Merida the next day. When the shock came, he though. it was a disturbance in the street, but when other shocks followed, he knew there was an earthquake, and he noted the time. Tne trembling of the earth lasted for about two minutes, but the severe shocks only about a miDute. Tbe shocks negan with undulations and ended with an oscilating movement. "After the disturbance ceased," he said, "I found several cracks in the wall 'f ynr\rr> nr-a nf f Vlior pnnilDrh 1.f? Ui u;j ivvui) vuu va wuvlw .*? put my arm through." Mr. Norwood said that only one house in Maracaibo fell, and that nobody was killed there, as far as he knew, lie doubts the story that 150 sollders were swallowed up at Menda. Charles Palgar, a young Venezuelan who arrived on the same steamer, said the military barracks at Merida were destroyed, resulting in the instant death of 150 soldieis. Dispatches from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, dated May 9. report the earthquake of April 28 to haye been the severest since the great earthquake of 1812, on Holy Thursday, when the eutire city wa3 destroyed aad over 20,000 people perished. It is impossible to estimate the amount of property destroyed hT? thp rpspnt parthnnftke or the number of lives lost. Ruin and desolation have spread over the entire Western section jot Venezuela, and suflerinz is intense, especially in. the State ofLo3 Andes, Gen. Antonio Fenandcz, Governor of the State, has notified President Crespo that Menda, the capital of the State, was totally destroyed, Later dispatches report that the towns of San Juan and Chiquara were also totally destroyed, and Jabav, Macurata, Timotes and Truiillo also suffered severely. Acting Minister Bartleraan has cabled to Secretary of S ate Gresham that any assistance rendered by this country would be appreciated in Venezuela. Already a large sum of money has beeu subscribed for the relief of tbe distressed by people in parls of Venezuela not visited by the earthquake. w GEN. BUfLERS ANSWER j! I TO THE QUESTIONS PROPOUNDED s BY THE FARMER'S ALLIANCE. 3 (inntlip Snli-t. a*arv atd Govern- I ~r* " * I mental Ownergh'p of U*?lrKdP, Tele- J C Rrxpli 8nd T?l<phoiie Llcee?Will Not < be Bound by Caucus Rules. 1 1 Coloieia, S. CM May 21.?Sscan- ? tor Bmie, has written the following re i ply to the questions propounded to him i by the Farmers Alliance: < Washington, D. C.. May 12, 1804 1 Mr. T. P. Mitchell, Chairman Executive 1 Committee, F. S. A , Woodwards, S ? c- ! My dear sir: Some da\3 ago, I received the following letter from you: 4 Hon. M. C. B'.uler, Washington, D ^ c. ; ' Dear Sir: As chairman cf the cxo 1 cutive committee of the S'ate Farmers Alliance it was made my duty bv '< resolution to propound tbe follow- 1 ing questions to all candidates. 1 and rtquest a written answer t to same, and as you are a candi ' date for the United States Senate, I sub- ( mit them to you and would be pleased , to hear Irom you in regard to same a' | your earliest convenience. . "Frist. Will you discuss the Al'i ( ance demands in the eomiDg campaign, * particularly those relating to the fiuau- r ce8 of the country, and defend them i against the enemies of our ordei? 5 ~ * . wr * % i * . _ t . n.. i. 4 "Second, wui you pieage lovany 10 < the demands of the National Farmer* ? AlLance and Industrial Union, above j loyalty to party caucus, and vote J against any and all candidates who de ' cline to commit themselves^ to this ex ( teni? "Y"urs respe -.tfuHv, ("Signed) Thos. i'. Mitchell. , Chairman Executive Com., F. S. A." i In reply to a request from me, you < transmitted the following as the plat < from or demands of the Farmers Alii- < ance of South Carolina: < First?We demand a national currency, safe, sound and flexible, issued 1 by the general government onlv, a full 1 legal tender for all debts, public and ] private, and that without the use of 1 banking corporations, a just, equitable and efficient means of distribution direc' to the people at a tax not to exceed 2 j percent, per annum, to be provided a? \ set forth in the sub-Treasury plaD cf j the Farmers Alliance, or a better system; also by payments in discharge of i its obligations for public improvements. 1 We demand the free and unlimited < coinage of silver and gold at present ( legal ratio of 16 to 1. We demand that the amount of cir ] culating medium be speedily increased ' tr? nnf l&oa than 4.1(1 npr^nlla pvrltlsivft KV UV? *VWW wuuu ^VV Kv? ? oflegal reserve. We demand a graduated income tax. We demand that our national legislation shall be so framed in the futuse as not to build up one industry at the expense of another. We believe that the money of the couotry should be kept as much as possible in the bands of the Deople, and hence we demand all national and State reven ues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government economically and honestly administered. We demand that postal savings baDks be established by the government for the safe deposits of the earnings of the people, and to facilitate exchange. Second?The land, including all the natural sources of wealth, is the herit :ge of the people and should not be moDopo lized for speculative purposes, and alien ownership ot land should be prohibited. All land now held by railroads and other corporations, txcess ot their actual n*f?.ds. and all lands cow owned bv alien* should be reclaimed by the governmentand held for actual settlers ODly. Third?Transportation being a means $f exchange and a public necessity, the government should own and operate the railroads in the interest ot the people. The telegraph and telephone, like the postofnee system, being a necessity for the transmission ot news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people. Taking op the questions ot your letter in their order, I neg to eav in response to the first, I will di3cus9 any public question the people may desire to have discussed, and us the "finances of the country" are legitimate and proper subjects for discussion, I will discuss them with pleasure and without reserve. I will refer more fully to the last point of your inquiry, wheiher I will "defend 1 thmi against the enemies ot our (voor) order," when I come to discuss tbe Alliance platform. I don't quite understand, however, whether you me-n to ask me whether I will defend the "fin- 1 aDces of the country against the enemies I of your order, or the "finances ot tbe 1 country" a3 proposed by the Alliance ] I assume you mean the latter. i Replying to your second question, I beg to say that in my political hie I have i never allowed any caucus, or society, or i organization, to bind my conscience, < and shall no'. do so in the future, Cau- i cuaes, or societies, or organizations o> i any kind, which seek to bind the pohti- I cal conscience of any free American citi i zan, are in my ludsment, inimical to thai < freedom of con cience and political action { so essential to the preservation of the < republican institutions. I have attended i many caucuses of the Democratic part;, ] to which I belong. I have never heard i the suggestion that any maD's consci- 2 ence, or political action should be bound j by them. I never w'll so far surrender ! my individual judgment as to be bound ' by any caucus. I am loyal to the prin < ciplesof the Democratic party, and shall} 1 maintain that loyalty so long as it ad- 1 heres to principles I think conductive to ] the best interests of the people, not a 1 day longer. I have been under the ia> ? pression that the Farmers Alliance was 1 not a political organization, but an "In- 1 dustrial Union" for the protection of the < farmers against impositions from other < sources. I do not believe in secret politi- < cal organizations, we had a sad esperi 1 ence some years age with them. What- t <*T7<?r nnnrwns the rtnlitira! welfare of 1 our people should be open to the fullest, freest, most public discussion. In order j to prevent impositions on the people, the I light must be turned on from all points i of view. I recognize no master in this < country, except the people. Caucus rule < should not be allowed to usurp the rule j of the people. I will, therefore, say I i will pledge my loyalty to the demands of the Alliance, so far as i they meet the demanda of my j judgment, and I cannot hold them j above loyaltv to party caucus, because I < make no pledges to "party caucuses," ] and deny the right of "party caucuses," or any other caucuses to command pled- i ges from me to surrender my conscience < and judgment to its dictation. ] Coming now to the demands, permit ] me to say, by way of preface, that there i seems to be a very grave misapprehen- i sion in the minds of some people as to < the power of a caucus over its members. 1 have attended Democratic caucuses since I have been in the Senate, but dobody ever dreamed of binding any mem- ' ber of the caucus to vote against bis ] judgment. For instance. Democrats i and Republicans differ widely among i themselves on financial questions. A ' caucus is held for consultation and finan- 1 cial topics are discussed, but in the Sen- ! ate and House each man vote3 a3 his ! jadgment dictates; some may favor the lree and unlimited coinange of silver at , one ratio or another; some may favor < the eub-treasurv plan of the Alliance, ? and after a consultation in caucus they j vote for or against either proposition, i when the occasion arises. Nobody is 1 Dound by Hie caucus unless he chooses j /olunts.rily to be so bound. Xo oaths ire administered, no pledges exacted, as i requisite ot party feaitv. Iftbere were. [ wou'd never attend acaucu3. In regard to demand "first of the A!iance, I will say that the sub-treasury ilan has been abandoned because it was :ound to be Impracticable and unconstitutional, and therefore it is unnecessary to discuss it. In my judgement i "better system'' would lie attained by .he repeal of the ten percent, tax on State banks oi' circulation, and 1 trust hat the Alliance will take that up and uake it one 01 Its "demands " I cannot >f course, discuss this proposition at ength in this connection, but take- the ioerrv of handing you one of my speeches delivered in the Senate at the asr extra session. in which I have attainted to elaborate the argument in lavor of the repeal, and b-g you to do ne the favor to examine it. I think ?ou will find that if this tax should be "epealed we would tiave "a sate, Bound, I~xio e curreii y" and euougo of it. 1 tavor "the free and unlimited coin t^c ui Mivn <juu ymu at, u:o ur?rm eeal ratio ot 10 to 1." and advocated it a Cor gress before the Alliance was organized, and atn gratified to know that :he Alliance has adopted iny platform )n this subject. Fifty dollars per capita i3 not too much currency for a country ]ike ours, DUt the trouble witti our present fiu inciai sys'em is not so much the Dt-r japitaamount of currency as the unquality of its distribution. Some lections of the country have much more than 850 per capita, wniie In our lection. I doubt if we have 82 per capl ;a. If in our Sf ate we could be guarinteed 820 per capita, if so much was j decessaiy tor the transaction of our: Dusiness, I would compromise on that; j we should then have about 820,000,000 )f currency in circulation in South Carolina, wh^r as I uoubt if we now nave 82,000,000. If, by the repeal ot be 10 per cent, tax, the States should oe permitted toautnorize barks of cir- j ;ulat:on, we should have just so much jurrency as our local warns rtquire, ind no more?but we should have mough. 1 favor an income tax and shall have m opportunity of voting for It in the pending tariff bill. I concur in the demand tnat the money of the country should be keptas much as possible iu ;he hands of the people, and that all national and State revenues shall be imited to the necessary expenses of the government, economically aamims:ered." This is good, souud docirine, ind I heartily aubcribe to it. I can see no objection to "postal saving barks," although a measure of that iind would be largerly tentative in this country, and should be adopted with jaution and circumspection. The second general demand, as to the public lands, is sound and in accordance with true Democratic principles. J Che third general demand; "that the zovemment should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people," and that "the telephone and tele-1 ;raph should be owned and operation m the interest of the people" would, in my judgment, be impolitic and un-1 wise.I have always understood tbatthe Alliance was opposed to the furtherinureaes of the bonded debt or the gov-1 ?mment, and I agree with the Alliance in that proposition. The government uould not pay cash for the one hundred md ninety odd thousand miles of rail roads, and the vast mileage of telegraph md telephones. The rate of taxation aeceasary to raise the cash would destroy the people, and the only altema^ ^ /?ATrn?n*Y? nnf in /Mnnof . biVC LU puu LUC gU V CJ ULLlCUt in Ufluvo* i ship of the railroads, telegraphs ard Llephone3 would be to issue eight bii- j [ions of bonds to buy the railroad^and qo body knows how many millions to buy the telegraph and telephone system of the country. Is the Alliance prepared to urge the creation of such a Donald debt upon the present and future generations, and thereby prepetuate the national backing system indefinitely? If so, I caDnot go with it. The government oow has control and super- j yissn of the railroads bv and through the Interestate Com merece Com mission and the experiment has not realized the expectaions of its friends. The ownership of the railroads in dispotic governments is jusiified on the ground that they are military necessities for the rapid mobilize ion and transportation or armies. Ic has not redounded to the interest of the people, for freight rafes are 50 per cent, higher in those countries than in this, and they are consequently a great burden upon the masses of the people. I believe I bave qow made lull and complete answers to your inquiries, in general ana in detail. If anythic2 has been omitted, I will ?lad!y supplement what I have said, if pcu will call it to my attention. Very truly your, M. C. Butler. C< we to Stay. Columbia, S C . May 25.--The ad socaies oi the dispensary system nave sept their mouths closed as to their intentions, and no cue has been able to predict what femd of a Ggbt ihey would Hoke. Ail that has b*tn known eo far *as Govttnor Tillman's statement that Lhe Iquor problem wouid necessarily take a prominent place ia the c( minu larnpaiyD; that the fisht for the diaotnsary system wou;d be made over a^ain, ind that the dispensary system had come to stay in S uth Carolina. iS jme thought mat advocates ot the dispensary system were depending c.u the re organized Supreme Court to reverse the decision jd the constitutionality of the law when i new one was passed and presented. Others believed thai Lhe dispensary advocates were ?oing lo abandon tht'r scheme, [n view oi ihe fact that the campaign is low drawing so near, representative s of Tiie Siate have oeeu endeavoring to flad :ut something about the future. Ail ot Lhe advocates ot the system, when approached, say, fi'St that the dispensary [aw has come to stay. Oae of the most Dfiuential advocates of tne law opened I tp and talked pretty freely yes- j lerday. He 3ays that the liquor ques Lion is going to be one of the bigges ' questions In the campaign. They are <oing to light tor the dispensary system of control of the liquor tariffic. He stat-s i that he does not believe thai, prohibition Jtaud3 a ghost ot a 3how. He does net think that if the question o! prohibition were put to the people now it would rereceive 20 per cent, cf the vote it got two yeary ago. His idea seems to be j that as soon as the Legislature meets it will be asked to make an appropriation clearing up aU ot tue outstanding business. It will be asked, too, to pass a ispensary law. This new law, he says, j will be a modification of the law recently j declared unconstitutional. He says the j profit leature of the law was the sole j ground upon which the old law was e'e ! glared unconstitutional, and the pro-1 posed new act will do away 'with the profit leature entirely will provide for j the dispensary system of furuishiug li- j 3uor to the people at the actua' cost of purchasing, botiiing and haudling the liquor. So far as can be ascertained this ; reems to be the plan for the future, but more wili doubtlessbe heard of it very soon.?Slate. Peculiar Case. Gutiirie, O. T., May 24.?D. W. Iraukett, of Norman, i3 lying at the point of death from bloo.l poisoning Drought about in a very peculiar manner. Mr. Trackett is an undertaker, and a week ago was called upon to take charge of the body of a man named G'eno, who had committed suicide and dad not been found for some days, rhe body was badly decomposed ar.d covered with Hies, and while the undertaker was at work the llies would light on him in great numbers and bite him jbarply. Tne doctors state that he was Inoculated with the deadly poison of the corpse by the llies, and he cannot dve. ENTHUSIASTIC FOR 0A7ES. Nominated lor Governor Dy the Alabama ueuiccrati. Montgomery, Ala., May 22.?The Lemocralic Stateccnvenlion metatcoon , today, iu Representative Hall m the capital building, but soon adjouuned uuid 4 p. m ., owning to the failure of the S.ste committee to report upon the conteals. The convention reassembled at 4p m.,n;id was called to order by Chairmen Sm'tb, whose remarks were well nceived. Hi? mention of Cieveiii.d's name was budiy cheered. His speech was a plea lor harmony in the D moeralic ranks. The State committee recommended Hon. R. II. Clarke for temporary chairman. Tnis was ratified *ithou; a diseentiDg voice. Mr. Clarke's appearance on the stand whs received wkh baud- clapping, cheering and waving of hats and fans. He spoke onlv a lew moments and declared | the convention i eadv tor business. A. Sieinhart of Greenviile was selected lor temporary secretary. The roll of counties was called aud the action of the Sta e committee ratified without diss? -put. Their report gave seat8 to the 0 aes delegates Irom Lee aud the Col brrt and Have delegates to Johnston. Tnis made ao change in tbe status ot tbe candidates as heretofore reporied. Tbe acct-p'anre of the committee report re moved all pos-i iiuy or lurtner contest before the convention and was a great relief, i.3 the delegates desired to get through their work. A committee was appointed on permanent organization. During* its retirement, a motion was made to adj mm until 9 o'clock to morrow, but it was voted down. Then a motion tor recess until 8:30 p. m. suffered a similar fate. During the absence of the committee on permanent organization, a committee was appointed to invite and escort Governor Jones to the stand. His appearance was the signal for a wild outburst of cheers and app'au te. He made an address lull of feeling and urging the coming together of the partisans of the various aspirants and workiug for the success of the party. It was moved that the committee report for the temporary orgaffzition be the permanent. Adopted without a vote. The order of-bu3iae38 made the nomination of Governor come first. A resolution was introduced eulog:z:ng Senator Morgan and favoring his re election. It was referred to the commiuee oa piaiform. A committee oa platform was appointed, with H. C. Tompkin3 for chairman, and one member from each Congressional District. The rules adopted forbabe anv speech or eulogy of a candidate in placing his name befcre the convention. The chair then anccun:ed nominations for Governor to be in order. The name of Col. Wm. C. Oates wa3 first presented. The name of Capt. Joseph F. Johnston followers at once sent up a shout which lasted for a brief spell. Whea it subsided, the Oates men concluded to test their lung power. It was a scene of extraordinary entbu3ia3mon the floor acd in the gallery. The applause and cheerier continued until it looked as if order could not be restored. When the shouting di*d out, it was taken up again only to increase in volume. Finally ouiet was restored, and the roll call began. Not a ch mge from the reports already published was made. The figures of the advocates of Colonel Oates made last Thursday morning after the conventions were held were verified to the fulest extent. The result was 272 for Oites acd 232 tor Johnston. ' Before the secretary announced the vote. It W. Rhodes of the Birmingham rtp.lefaLion arose and. ef.er brief tribute to Captain Johnston, moved to make the nomination of Oates unanimona. There was another wild demonstration of cheering and shouting. A committee was appointed to escort Colonel Oates to the hall. He was not in the Capitol butldiDg, but at his headquarters down town, where the commit tee f und him DuriDg their absence. Captain Johnston was brought into the b&l! aLd made a brief speech, in whicb he ;.Ud:ed heartly support of the ticket and urged harmony in the ranks. Gates's entrance started the enthusiesm atresh and it continued for sonu ! moments, while he was waiting for i? to subside. He made a brief speech o* acceptance, thanking the conveuiion for the great honor conferred upon him o' leading the Democratic boats of hi* native S ate. His remarks were ail puched od the key of harmony und madr a profound impre.-8'on. The convention. adji urned until 10 o'clock to-morrow m ,iEing. Th? L^casf Scare. The Washington Department of Agrtculture has issued a bulletin on the approaching prevalence of locusts in s->me portions or' the country. This bulletin savs thai no unnecessaay alarm need be felt on account of the pi evicted appearance of two great brood's of the periodical Cicada, or 30 called "17-year locust" this ye ir. The announcement that they were to appear in various parrs of the country this year was made a short time ago, and the bulletin says th6 insects seem to have been confounded with the true j locusts, or so called * 'grasshoppers" and hence the alarm. The entomologist or.tbe department says that the damage done by these insects is, as a rule, quite immaterial, consisting in the slight, cutting, breaking and deadening of the terminal twigs of fruit and shade trees by the females in the act of laying their eggs. The iDjury becomes serious only when the iDsects are exceptionally numerous. Accord I1J UW > v-ucu lxj kj i^vavuiug these insects will make their appearance during the last week of this month. The last appearance of these broods was in 1877, It occurred in the immediate vicinity of New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City, and along the Hudson river as far north ss Troy, and in portions of Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Seventeen years prior to 1877 the insect was recorded in North Carolina, in Dearborn county, Ind., and in KMamooza county, Mich. In all of these localities it is said that 17-year locust may be expected during June of the present year. The other brood which is to appear this year belongs to the 13-year race, and its range is in the southern states. Its last appearance was in 1881, iu southern Illinois. Missouri, Arkansas, Indian Territory, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The entomologist of the department says that this visitation of locusts will not last more than live or six weeks. Shocking Tragedy. Arlington, Ga..May 26. Oa Friday last the fourteen-year-old daughter of k? ? ? k ? C? i k t* 1 1 *1 /"V rt M AW/% VY aaUintfLULl OLUILU, UVlUg acaL UCIC, was assaulted and outraged by a negro while returning from schol. The negro met desperate resistance and after firing a pistol over her nead several times hepluudge a kniie into her side Smith came up on horseback and the negro ii red three bullets into his body andfied. The neighbors found the father and daughter insensible in the road and took them home. Smith died Sunday morning and the daughter is no*- expected to live. Sheriff Wilkins captured the negro Sunday and placed him under a sf rone guard in Miller County jail. At o'clock ^yesterday momlcg and armed band of 75 men stormed the jail, took the negro to an oak tree in rue public square and hanged him and fired full five hundred blulets into his body. Masical Homes are Happy Homes. 2j Have you ever noticed it ? Call to S1* mind the homes of your friends who have a good Piano or Organ in the house. Are they not brighter and j more attractive than those where the divine art of music never enters? To be sure it costs to buy a good instrument, but it lasts many years, aDd will pay its costs many a thousand times , over by interesting the young folks in their homes. Don't make the mistake, I though, of investing haphazard. Post yourself thoroughly by writing Ludden & Bates Southern Music House, Savahnab, Ga., the great music house of the South, established in 1870. Tn^y have >J supplied 50,000 ios'ruiiients to South ern homes, and have a reputation for fair prices aud honorable treatment of customer*; and they represent toe leading pianos and organs of America They take pleasure in corresponding with you, sending free catalogues, etc. Write them. Th? Wire d -oke. NashVill, Term , M-iv 23 ?While George Charist was aueinpuog to walk a steel cible stretched acro-s the public square at Shi-lb} viile. Tenn., and carry bis wife, L;zz e (Jharisfc, the cable snapped and butt) fell to the 8 onv macadamized ground, thirty-live feet belo* Charist's bip is broken and he is terri. blv bruised, but will recover His wife J| is secriously injured and will die. He ^ was a professional wire walker and bad given many previous perf>raiances in various parls of the country without in- 4j jury. ADuETl PATS 7BE PKK1GH1 1 Why Paj fitKue Prfcts lor Goods! end for Csialoguo asd Sea What 1 on Caa Sal! 1 C^n' ' -r ? m ovIT ii ? ??i Kiir-itu, E-mV ,csJ J-^4 I J I .? Vi'nsfa- | -j-l./vvjA. l. .-j :i.t? wo:fii ICS; -ri.cz how $1 s I. 1?^ lini v other fi'-lr./ora ^- y>? *it -~U!LS, an price#. ?? $69?*~-S37 ESfclI'Hli J??t r?; Introduce them. *la"|>. >' -A No freight paid on Uus'trj?r^i?ri%!\ *?Hn" tiuarunteed to b?j a good organ or money rofunded. (Slogan t Picflh PARLOR sri'J s. consl*ti&| >i s,>fa. -\rn? Chair, Rocking Chair, Divan and 2 aide Chairs?worth $45. WilldeHvei j tt to jour depot for &33c > This No. t ??!? I .... * --rrmri i iSiT* {TfclK ^ with X jfc w. iS-43r r * !|l S *,#e?iSS '?}? ((I i ware, win M&G&iZiM ^deliver f ? 4 depot for .? >y~???? ?nly$ia I **. y/v ~*3^. U rojrclM | price tig. I A $OC Sr.'DJG XAC2S1 I with a!! at: i-ntn. for i ONLY $10.50 delivered to your depot. y'^nj yl *?"The regular r rice of thie gSKpS&flSis??* BUGGY ts Mo 7.S dollars. jtagA n? J The manufacturer pays all TOwS " the expenses and I sell f'n?*n i3 to rou for {^42. *7?- EKjSl an ' guarantee every one a ai^aln. No freight paid ?ft>ia Buggy ? A ^QSO, PIA!T1 i.slivered atvourdenot - ^ J i ll freight paid fur 3130 Saud for c&taJojtie* of t uroiture, Cookt'sj Jri Alove*. Baby Carriages. Bicycles, Orc^?. PI* Tjj an Of, Tea Bala, Dicr.er Set#. Lawps, &r, . *??< lAVE MONEY A-Mr?? t|| Eniiiiei J|I ?:vhi For Agricultural and Gin/ ftWEPI eral Plantation / 4l| ^<3e> have earni ed their reputa/ / InriJ jScSP tl?n a? the beet / / IlA?S on tne market. , / / For Simplicity, J l-L 4?^ DurabiUty and f #Jf1s Eoonomy In _ll?J tf .gyAs fuel and water " 7 v~w?r I ^ * THE TOZEB -2 Has no Equal. 3" ? |W: c ^ g I ' v | I I ? 3 1 * I Mk C "* v - > ; S- SS N Vt-jC o TSf-i iiiSr^l | I0R6A1SP,i0" L?" | J Only $9G for a Superb Mason & Hamlin Organ. 4 sets Heeds. ?^3 lo Stops. Rich Case. 8-5 cash Cm and $."1 monthly. Reduced Cf? from $115. White Us. <a * ] Beautiful Sterling Mirror Top Cm oniySOO. 4 sets Heeds, 11 Stops. C{3 White Us. Cg lively New Styles at Sc5 and 5l *75. Write Us. Elegant New Pianos only $225. Cf|J \V onderful at the Price. Cg / Write Us. Cra Tremendous bargains in nearly Jtilj new Pianos and organs, used a trifle only. Write Us. 5s If you want a Piano or Organ 51 fci3 now is the time to buy it *\5 1 I bight. White Us. Write ns anyhow. Trade 1h Crg I dall and you oan't a*k more Cj3 question* about Pianos and Cto Organs than we want to an- &B swer. Try It, please. ra lien Soles sin I ? SAVANNAH, GA. H NOW IS THE TIME TO PLACE YOUR ORDERS FOR ^ Threshers^! And I Sell the Best in the Market. ^Write te me Before Buying. Shingle Machines, Stave Machines, 1} r i nV AVtirtAo xjiivsix uiav^uiucO) Planing Machines, Swing Saws, Band saws, Gang Liip Saws, and all kinds of , wood workiag machines. ! Grist Mills 8115 to 8250. Saw Mills 8180 to 8400. Watertown Engme3'and Boilers. Talbott Eogine3 and Boilers. Seed Cotton Elevators. Cottoh Gios and Presses, HIGH and LOW GRADE. V. BlDHitf. COLUMBIA. S; C. 4