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A Leading Hardware House. The New Arrangements Made by Messrs. J. E. Adger & Co. Amonz the business houses whose names are familiar not only in C:arleston, but wherever Ch.ritston's trade e:xtends, and whose interests have for years been identified with the progress anu properity of this city, is that of J. E. Adher & Co. This house was the first firm n-ne being Bones & Adger. After more than a quarter of a centtry of! successful conduct of the business Mr. Ad ger withdrew from tctive partieipat:ton in the hardware fi:m, although retaining a controllin interest in it, and after sever..I ch,inges the firm became Wm. & J. E. Ad ger, both members being sons of the origi nal founder of the house. This style was retained until 185:3, when owing to the death of Mr. Wn. Adger the firm was dis solved, and the name of J. E. Adger & Co., which has been retained ever since, was adopted. The present meinbers of the firm are Messrs. J. Ellison Adger, A.Me P. Brown, E. D. Robinson and Ellison A. Smyth. Messrs. J. E. Adger & Co. have reaently made some changes and improvements in their wareroorns and stores, which deman.i pore than a mere passing notice. The ex tensive and varied nature of thdir trade requires very large accommodation, and accordingly they no-v occupy the two large three-story buildings fronting on Main street, and known as numbers 137 and 1.9, and also the rear of 135. No. 137 is ex clusively devoted to their retail business, and there may be seen great numbers of gins, plonghs, reapers, cultivators and other agricultural implements, in which they are among the largest dealers in the South. They push specially the Farmer's Friend plolighs, of which they are the State agen:s, and which are now justly considered one of the leading agricultural implements of the South. These ploughs received pre miums in 1875 at every fair in South Caro lina at which they were exhibited. Among the other articles worthy of special note to be seen at this establishment is a beautiful sample of the Taylor. Cotton Gin made in Georgia, and handsome enough for a piece of parlor furniture. These gins are in very general use, and are said_to give great sat isiaction. These gentlemen are also agents for Schofield's Cotton Press for hand, horse or steam power, Smith's Hand Power Cot ton Press, the Excelsior Gins, various hand powers, the rotary harrow, and other agri cultural implements. Fire-arms of all de scriptions, ranging from a Derringer to the best English breech-loading double-barrel shotgun, and from a parlor pistol to an old field smooth-bore musket, can be seen here and bought at the lowest market price. Cutlery from the best English and American manuftctories is a specialty, and all wants in this line, from the dainty lady's pocket knife t.o the formidable sheep shears of 'he farmer, can be here supplied. McClellan and English saddles, fine harness, and supe rior saddle-cloths and whips are to be found on the saddlery side of the store, and re pairing is carefully;aud skilfully done in the workshops in the upper stories. The wholsale department at No. 139 is one of the most extensive and complete in the South, and the stock is selected wiah a special regard to adaptability to the trade of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Abbama, with all of which States the firm has long established busi ness connections. The rear of 135 is used as a warehouse for heavy and bulky articles, and as Messrs. J. E. Adger & Co. are among the largest importers of Swedes Iron, English Hollowv ware, English Trace Chains and Hoes, in the United States and dedl largely im agri cult'ural boilers and pans for the manufac ture of sugar and molasses, it will be read ilv understood 'that they require a large space of storage The stock in all branches has been tho, roughly overhauled and replenished, and the firm is now prepared to continue its dealings with its numerous old customers, nnd to open transaction.s with new ones on the most favorable terms. Mr. John V. McNamee,- lately of the firm of Hart & Co., is connected with this house, and will be pleased to receive from his friends their patronage. ART PUBLISHNG.-FeW people are aware of the wonderful progress that Art has made in this country during the last quarter of a century. It is but a few decades since, that those who desired to beautify and adorn their homes, were obliged to depend almost entirely on foreign artists. But such a sta te of affairs in this age of progress and improve ment could, not last long with the great American people. Genius from the East to the West, from the North to tbe Gulf of Mex ico on the South, answered the demand for beauty, taste and refinement, and to-day our leading artists are not surpassed by the lead ing modern masters of Art in Europe. Great Art publishing establishments have sprung up, and by various processes the finest and most expensive paintings are re produced in all their elegance and beauty, and ata price within the means of the masses. So that no one need be without the refining influences of beautiful pictures at home. Among the progressive leading Art Pub lishing firms of the country, we take pleas ure in mentioning George Stinson & Co., of Portland,~Maine; they were among the first in the business, and we can only understand the colossal proportions their trade has as sumed by remembering that this is a great and mighlty Nation of nearly fifty million people. We cannot better illustrate the magnitude of their business than to state the amount of money paid by them for postage stamps during the year 1876; we have the figures direct. from the firm, or we should think there was some mistake. They paid for postage stamps during the year 1876, thirty-three thousand one hundred and four dollars and ninety-two cents ($33,10492) and, in connection with this it should be remem bered that only the small orders were sent by mail, the larger going by express and freight. George Stinson & Co's., agents are to be found in every State in the Union and Do minion of Canada, and in every county with scarcely an exception. Long since, this enterprising firm recog nized the value of printer's ink judiciously used in advertising, and they inform us that without it they could never have extended their business as it is to-day, in three times the number of years. A short time since they paid in a single day twenty-four thous and dollars (824,000.00) on a contract for newspaper advertising. They evidently long since found the road to success and have neither turned to the right nor the left. Three things are necessary for eminent suc cess in business. First, standard honest goods that the people generally need and de sire-let them be the best, whatever the line of business. Second, let your prices be rea sonable-as low as possible. Third, let the people know wvhat you have, and what you can do, by liberal and persistent advertising, and von will find low prices, made known and proved, will bring trade that will give a larger income than can be made in any other way. The September Number of "Peterson's Magazine" is on our table, ahead of all oth crs, as usual. In addition to abeautiful steel engraving "The Woodland Nymph," and a superb, double:size, colored, steel fashion plate, there are two colored patterns, one for a Curriage Rug, the other "Book-Markers on Card Board." Though this is a magazine of fashion and art primarily, it is also one of~ literature; and no ilady's book at all approach es it in its powerful stories and novelets. In the present number, we have, amor,g other articles, "The Fortunes of Phil ippa Fairfast," by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, whose "Lass O'Lcowrie," has just made such a sen sation in the literary world, having been pronounced tihe best American novel that has appeared for y-ears. Yet the present nov elet, "PhiiiippaFairfax," is, in most respects, even better. In addition to this writer, "Pe terson" boasts of such contributors as Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, Frank Lee Benediet, Urs, ~ iT',,.Eptt~i Hc~ilev the au Tbie ilieraId { THOS. F. GRENEKER, EDITORS. W. H. WALLACE, NEWBERRY. S. C. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 15, 1877. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. The Herald is in the highest respect aFam ily Newspaper, devoted to the material in terests of the people of this County and the State. It circulates extensively, and as an Aivertisin- medium offers unrivalled ad vantages. L'or Terms, see first page. R. R.! R. R.!!: R. R.!!! Citizens of Newberry, what we most need now is another railroad. We have felt for a long time the disadvantage of having no compet ing line. A town of such commer cial importance as Newberry is throwing away money enough ev ery two or three years on high freight to build a road. Only one road makes high freights, high freights make a dear market, and vice versa. Recently this subject has re ceived considerable attention. The route that seems to be regarded as the best is from this place to in tersect the S. U. & C. R. R. just this side of Broad River. With such a road we would be open to the world. From the great West comes the Spartanburg and Asheville Road, from the South, and South West, the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Road and from the North the Charlotte and Atlanta Air Line Road. The benefits that Newberry would derive from such connections are incalculable. Every man in the county who sells cotton or buys provisions and dry goods would feel the benefits, in the higher price of the former and the lower price of the latter. We can do nothing more this week than throw out these few suggestions, to set the people thinking. The matter will be agi tated thoroughly. Newberry is compelled to have the road, or lose her importance as a commercial centre, Chester is about to build a road to Union, La.urens is talking confidently of a road to Spartan bnrg, and shall Newberry be left out in the cold ? No, the road is an absolute necessity. It must be built. It will be built. Then let us get about it at once, before any of the la.rge trade we -now enjoy shall go to more favored places. The Meeting of the State Grange. The State Grange met at Ander son the 8th. The meeting was held in the main building at the Fair grounds. The attendance was large. Jas. N. Lipscomb, Master of the State Grange, pre sided. An address of welcome was delivered by Col. E. W. Rucker on behalf of the Anderson Patrons .o Husbandry, which was replied to by Master Lipscomb. Essays on various subjects were read. Mas ter E. B. Roche, of Charleston, read an essay against Usury Laws which elicited a lively discussion, Senator M. W. Gary, Congressman D. W. Aiken and Col. E. W. Ruck er speaking for usury laws, and Dr. A. B. Rose and Maj. T. G. Barker against. 9th.-Col. F. W. McMaster, of Columbia, delivered a strong speech against the re-enactment of the usury law. Mr. Richard Tozer read an essay on agricultural steam engines. Mr. B. F. Crayton read an essay advocating the no fence law. Judge Mackey followed in a speech on the same side. Capt. Lipscomb, of ewberry, spoke in favor of a no fence law. Col. J. S. Richardson and Col. D. Wyatt Aiken spoke in favor of no fence. Essays were read on fertilizers, railroads and fish culture. 10th.-The day was consumed in reading Essays, and in discussions. Adjourned sine die. THE STATE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHAN ICAL SOCIETY met at 4 P. M., Col. Thos. Taylor, of Columbia, the President, in the Chair. It was resolved to hold the next State Fair at Columibia. The proposition of the merchants of Columbia to repair the Fair Build ings and d1orate $1,000 was accept ed. It was resolved to memorial ize the General Assembly for $5, 000 for the Society. The Society then adjourned sine die. Next Summer Meeting will be held at Spartanburg. TIw Virginia Democrats take a, News for Medical Students. As the medical readers of this paper have, on different occasions, been informed of the Beneficiary Scholarships created by the Trus tees of the Louisville Medical Col lege, Louisville, Ky., they may be under the impression that these Scholarships are still to be obtained as usual. The College mentioned is now a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges (or ganized at Chicago, fI., June, 1877,) and this Association has limited Beneficiary Scholarships to five per cent. of the class. There is much of great interest to evely medical student in the regulations estab lished by the American Medical College Association, and it will be important to every student to read these carefully. These regulations can be obtained by writing to the Dean of the Louisville Medical Col lege, Louisville, Ky. These are facts of interest, and are therefore given to our medical readers. Newberry College. As will be seen by an advertise ment in this issue, the next session of Newberry College will open the 19th of September. The College, we are glad to know, will open un der very favorable auspices. The standard of scholarship is high, and the Faculty are men of ability and experience in their profession. The College building, which will be completed in a short time, will be one of the best in the State. In point of health, and in the moral tone of its society, Newberry will compare favorably with any place from the mountains to the sea. Pa rents cannot. do better for their sons than to send them to New berry College. State News. Laurens is agitating a railroad to Spartanburg. Spartanburg is taking steps for establishing a Female College. Chester and Union are making a preliminary survey of the route for their narrow gijage railroad. While Capt. W. A. Moore, of Cokesbury, Abbeville County, was returning home from his store the evening of the 7th lie was knocked ofi his horse with a club by un known parties, and seriely hurt. The objecV was g.o doubt to rob. His knife and keys were taken, but the robbers were frightened away before getting his watch and purse.I HIe is improving. Editorial Review. Gov. Stone, of Mississippi, has been renominated by the Demo cratie State Convention. Only seveni Southern railroads pay dividends to stockholders. Six of these are in Georgia. So says the Augusta Chronicle & CJonstitu tionalist. Thos. M?. Lake Itises to Explain. The following card has been h-mded in for publication. We think Mr. Lake would have shown better taste by keeping out of the public prints while his contest is pending, but that is his business: MEsSRs. EDrTORs :-I understand much has been said in regard to my self in the last election, which I do not deem it now necessary to notice. I wish, however, to state to the edi tors that they may be mistaken in re gard to my "chronic disease." I was clerk four years and a candidate for re election, but was beaten by a carpet. bagger, Jesse C. Smith, Esq.; have not declared myself a candidate since that time, in 1872. No, not in the last election, in which I believe I was le gally elected, if there was a legal elec tion. My chronic disease (if it be one) is that the conservative element in this county should govern it in the interest of the whole people, or in other words, that the course marked out by our Governor should be fully and fairly carried out - Governor Hampton and his pledges. I am will ing to make allowance for people in times of great political excitement and do not wish to condemn them for these yearly changes in' their politics or policy. No change, however, has ta ken place with me. Give me Honesty, Economy and Competency in the of fices of the government,- with equal and exact justice to all, and you have the full measure of my cup in politics. I have been unable to see how the sletion of MaTj. Suber or J. A. Crot well could have been injurious to the people of this county, or why people should be abused and damned for ex ercising their political right to vote For wom they please. With these explanations I shall retire from any further communication through your paper. THOSL M. LIAKE. FOR THE HERALD. Broadbrim's New York Letter. No. 30. Broadbrim takes a Holiday-The Wonderful Baby-A Day by the Sea-side--A Colored Brother's Fall from Grace-The End of the Strike-Starvation-Suicides ---Stocks-The Markets--Ro mance in High Life Strike on Wall Street. "A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep." "The sea, the sea, the open sea." "There she lay all that day in the Bay of Biscay 0." And snatches of a hundred forgotten sea-songs danced through my head as I joyously stepped on board the cars to take my summer vacation at Coney Island ; it is true that the time was limited to half a day, and my ex chequer, after a small appropriation for roast claws, admitted no reckless extravagance; still it was a respite for a few brief hours from drudgery and toil ; it was a irelease from im prisnnment amid piles of bricks and m6rtar that shut out the light and sweet air of heaven ; it was freedom to drink in the glorious breath of the sea, to tumble about in its salty waves, and for a few hours at least, to forget, in the delight of .new-born liberty, the tremendous gap which separates me from the long ago when, a little flaxen-haired boy, I wandered along the white sea-beach, and look ing out on the vast expanse before me, wondered if I should ever sail upon its heaving surface, or see the marvels of those far-off lands, whose shores to me were gilded like the caverns of Aladdin. The cars are dashing along, and I am on my way to the sea-side. I am incog.-what a delightful sense of security and com fort steals over you when you travel incog. Try it. You'll like it. As I said, I was incog. I mentioned the fact that I was a newspaper corres pondent to the conductor, and that as I was traveling incog. I did not want to be known ; he said he would see to it; so he cautioned the brakemen and engineers not to mention it to any one. Nobody .would take me for a newspaper correspondent, and I know it; for naturally I have the mild look of a Dutch grocery clerk, mingled with a slight dash of the lightning rod solicitor; this, with a decided clerical cast of countenance, aided by a white cravat, frequently causes me to be taken for a member of the Y. M. C. A. I was incog.; . German shop-keepers no longer clapped their hands upon their pockets as I ap proached them, and keepers of lager beer saloons forgot to spring the locks on their tills, for I was incog. Be side me was a fat woman and seven children, and all except the baby ap peared to be about the same age and size. It was a wonderful baby ; if all babies' lungs were as good as this particular one, there would be no need of telephones, for a man stand ing -on the top of the North Pole would have no difficulty in hearing that baby at Cape Horn; the equator would be considered easy speaking distance, and the Sandwich Islands merely a way station. The fat wo man treated the baby with sponge ake, corned-beef, molasses-candy and bananas; she gave baby occasional drinks from a big black bottle; she tossed it in the air and stuck her fin gers in.its ribs, and all other mother ly expedients having failed, she took off her shoe and applied it vigorously to a part where I am happy to state there wns go immediate danger of any bones being broken. Baby kick ed, and roared, and screamed, and struck, wriggling himself in every conceivable shape, till it seemed as if he was going to crawl out of his clothes by way of the neck, when the whistle for downbrakes announced the fact that the sea-shore was reached, and the roar of the b?reakers along the beach told us that we were .at Coney Island. Blessed Coney Island ! Glorious Coney Island ! There is no such watering-place in America; iMargate in England comes nearest to it. Within an area of ten miles are at least two millions of people, and here you get the same quality of salt water at twenty-five cents a dip, which in the more aristocratic quarters of Long Branch and Cape May is considered cheap at five dollars a day. Thank God that the sea was made large, that there is lots of it, and that it is so scattered about that they can't conveniently fence it in ! The beach was thronged; every shade of society was represented: boot-blacks and Members of .Congress, butchers and newspaper men, ministers and stock brokers, pickpockets and life insur ance ageu'.s, rich and poor, high and low, and all of them happy as Qiams at high water. I . stopped to see Punch and Judy, took a look at the learned canary-birds, peeped into the Aquarium and saw the white whale, and the angel fish, and the baby ele phants, and all the wonderful things that live away down in the sea. If you go to Coney Island don't forget to visit the Aquarium. "Who was Coney ?" I asked of a venerable man who was pointed out to me as the oldest inhabitant. "I don't exactly know," replied the an ejent Islander, "but I spec .he must have been uncle to some one who ived about here." "I guess I'll take a swim," I said to my wife, and, dis bursing a quarter, I was soon pro vided with a bathing suit, an dwas shown to a little box with an ancient seaside aroma. The suit had evi rently done service several times be ore "that day, and I thought I de sected a flavor about it, as though it might possibly have incased "a man ind a brother." Still, to a man in 'amo of the fifeenth amendment, thia newspaper men seldom are. I in cased myself in my bathing suit. I recollect seeing a similar material at Auburn and Sing Sing. I dashed out on the sand, expecting to create a profound sensation. "Who is that old lunatic ?" said a man with a glass eye, who was watching the bathers. "Some old fool from the country, I guess," said a fat sausage maker from Brooklyn. But I heeded them not as I rushed into the waves, for I was incog. How I iolled over and over among the breakers, struck out hand over hand, turned somersaults, floaced on my back, played porpoise, and en joyed myself till the waning sun warned me that my holiday was drawing to a close. As the sha dows of night fell, thousands of lights sparkled along the shore from the cottages and hotels. The full moon rose in her majesty, lighting the broad sea with its sheen of burnished silver, and the sweet music discoursed by the band brought back those grand old opera days with their diamonds and champagne, when life was young and all the world before us, and our pathway seemed lined with big. bo nanzas from which, alas ! the bottom has dropped out. But my holiday is over, and I now come back to work. Order reigns in Warsaw. Of the late uprising not a vestige remains except the ruin it has caused and the unpaid bills. The boys are all home from the wars, and the railroad trains come thundering in from every quarter loaded with cattle and grain. The most marvelous revelation of the stock board is to be found in the record of last week, when right in the midst of the ruin and disaster of the strike, notwithstanding the fact that the railroads announced that they were not making a dollar, the bulls forced an upward market, and the way stocks sold one would have thought that there was flush times in Ala bama. The railroad blockade has had an unwholesome effect upon our mar ket. Beef took a jump from three to five cents a pound, while the report of disturbances in the mining dis. tricts sent coal up fifty cents a ton ; butter took a jump of seven cents; fruit, that is, domestic fruit, is scarce and high ; lemons, oranges, bananas and pine-apples are cheaper than peaches or pears; and unless the new crop of wheat pulls down the price of flour, bread and butter will be a lux ury only to be indulged in by the rich. An eminent English author has just published a work entitled "The Devil as a Moral Philosopher." I fear this moral philosopher of his is roaming about disguised as a mission ary in the camp of our colored bro thers. Three ministers of the sable church militant are in trouble. One, last Sunday, came near having the top of his head taken off by an in furiated Dutchman to whom he owed rent for his church and neglected to pay. The other was arrested for for gery and swindling, and the last one, Brother Brooks, an eminent revival ist, was seized at his camp-meeting on Long Island, on the complaint of one of the sisters of the congregation for breach of promise, abduction and general cussedness. The two last named gentle.men are now looking through prison bars, the bail being fixed in each case at two dollars and a half, but as yet no bondsmen have appeared, the law compelling them to qualify in double the amount. Another case of starvation was dis covered this week in the case of an old man named William Scott, who miserably perished at 715 First Ave nue. The skeletons of several dogs were found in the room near the poor wretch's body ; the bones were picked clean, and on these he had subsisted for weeks. A beautiful waiter-girl at one of the hotels at Coney Island committed suicide by drowning in the surf. No less than four women in Brooklyn in the past weck have attempted to throw off life's heavy burden ; three of them succeeded, and one escaped. A German tailor ~in New York committed suicide be ause his wife was compelled to work so hard to sustain her family. He was worse than the fellow down East who committed suicide because his wife was too good for him, and the coro ner's jury brought in a verdict of un sound mind. Brooklyn has furnished us with an other first class sensation, and if there are any girls up your way who think of writing a novel, I can undertake to furnish them with some first-class material, Nine years ago, one winter night, while a bitter storm was howling through the streets, a knock came at the door of a professional baby farmer. This is a class of females who, for a consideration, take care of babies whose fathers have gone in the coun try and don't expect to come back. Tbhe wom an was handed an infant richly clad, for which she was to re eive fifteen dollars a month as long s it should live. Of course it was an object to take good care of such a hild, and she did. But after a pe riod of fifteen montbs the payment stopped, and a-ll clue to the parents was lost. The baby farmer in the meantime bad learned to love the bild, and, caring for it tenderly, had dopted it as her own. Still she felt he wrong that had been done and esolved to unravel the secret. She ad a shadowy remembrance of the face f the woman who brought the baby o her on that winter night, nine long ears before. She watched for her onstantly. and last week crossing Ful ton Ferry she saw her. She at once eized her and forced from her the onfession that the child was not her own, but the child of a rich girl who ad been led astray, and who is now narred to a very wealthy gentleman. 'he scandalous annoiuncement which has shocked our haut ton scarcely ~nn~aIi~eI hu tI'IA discovery made a few a half-brother and sister, who claim his property, as black as the ace of spades.. Jay Gould got his head punched by a Californian named Sol over. and the general verdict is served him right. The weather has moderated, and the big bridge is rap idly progressing. Prices are up for everything ; money is scarce. Hoping that it is more plentiful out your way, I am, truly yours, BROADBRIM. FOR THE HERALD. Our Washington Letter. WASHINGTON, D. C., August 8, 1877. The two events of the week in pol itics, are the Conventions of the Re publicans in Maine and the Demo crats in Virginia. They will both be over before this is read by most of your readers. In Virginia the ques tions concern the State debt and the school system. Your correspondent sincerely hopes the action of the Con vention will be such as to put the credit of the grand old State on an equality with those of any other State in the Union, and he believes such a result most likely. This can only be done by a frank declaration that the whole honest debt shall be paid, prin cipal and interest. Such a declara tion would of itself make it possible for the State to put its finances. on a much better footing. In Maine, though its debt is comparatively large, financial questions will excite little interest in the Convention. The State's credit is good and no matter which party shall take control of State affairs, will be kept good. J. G. Blaine and whatever else there is of the Republican party in the State, will devote their time to the Admin istration, to the labor question, and possibly to the subject of annexation. There have been reports of late that various persons of more or less weight, from all over the State would insist on a new head for the party. In fact that the old nick was to pay among the stalwart Republicans, independent of any National questions. The coming of Moody and Sankey to spend three months with us, is announced. The churches will unite cordially in this effort to awaken re ligious feeling. In a population of about 145,000 Washington has less than 50 church going people. If we except those who cry out for civil service reform, but do not practice it, and who accept office to which they are not elected, we are perhaps not worse than oth)er people, but there is a fearful amount of apathy, on reli gious subject. Mr. Moody will find a wide field for the exercise of his peculiar talents. It has been found that those enter prising Washington men who bid for nearly all the mail routes in New En gland, going as far north as Aroostook County, and who are making profits by sub-letting to local* parties, are office-holders under the Administra tion. The subject is undergoing in vestigation, and will result in their abandoning either the offices or the contracts-that is, unless Mr. Hayes can make an exception, in their favor. Adjutant-General Townsend says the military saved to one railroad company at least a million of dollars worth of property, and he expresses indignation at the very prompt presentation to the War Depart.ment, by that company, of its bills for transportation of the troops so- employed. But after con sideration it has been determined to pay the bills. The late editor of the Republican I should say one of the late editors, for the concern is hopelessly bankrupt and changes its editors as often as any salary becomes due them-adopted a novel plan of getting even with the concern on Saturday. He threw stones through the plate glass of; the news paper office, doing damage to the amount of $150.00. The Republican was sued the other day and ex-Secre tary Robesen put in an appearance as one of the owners. This confirms in part the report, given in this corres pondence some weeks ago, that Robe son and ex-Government Printer Clapp were to assume control of the paper. RENO. TBE NEW TowN HALL AT AYER. This elegant structure is now complete. In beauty of design it surpasses any thing of its kind in the State. Con structed of brick and dark marble it. is as permanent as it is charming. The English architects have adorned it in subdued colors, which please without tiring the eye. Dr. J. C. Ayer built and gave it to the town in acknowl edgment of the distinction they con ferred upon him in taking his name. Although it is a generous gift, still the hearty good wishes of a whole people are of greater value, and the generous donor has doubtless secured them. (Groton (Mass.) 1Journal. WAsInGeTON.-OneC of the noblest charsc teristics of the Father of his country, was that in his boyhood when he had committed an offense which was likely to bring the in diction of the severest punishment, he could not tell a lie. I grieve to say that there are reputable grocers and merchants who will assure you that any other starch is as good as the Duryeas'. The awards of the great centennial at Philadelphia have settled that luestion, and they have proclaimed that as igainst the starches of the world, there is COLUMBI, CHANCE IN PR The undersigned have leased this old-es par excellence, the only properly constructe modious, airy, well lighted and ventilated, ai ing-house in this city. It will be the aim of HOTEL deservedly popular, by keeping a ta and delicacies of the season. SUPERIOR 1 object will be to have the Columbia Hotel w desired end, we will compete with the board shall, as to fare, attention and accommodatic TRANSIENT BOARDERS 1 Board by the week or month at proportiona guests may he assured that in no manner shi to comfort the inner man. Our object is by filled Hotel at a reasonable price, wbich the in price will be made up by an increased bu; choicest LIQUORS, with polite attendants to to be accommodated with good liquors, mixq In. a word, we want the traveling public to g stop with us once will call again, and advise KEENAN BROTI Wu. GoRMAN, Manager. Columbia, S. C., August 1, 1877. COLUMBIA4ILOTHI 0 R. & W. C.4 Are constantly receiving Ready Made Clothing,: Goods and Piece Goods Department... It is admitted that our . CLOTHING and SHIRTS a: and not surpassed by the fine; We send samples and di application. Officers Uniforms and M R. & July 18, 29-tf. J. E1 ADGER & CO., 137 and 139 Meeting Street, CHARLESTON,S. C, WHOLESALE DZA$.r IN FOREIGN and DOMESTIC IARBIRR AN TRY, G'rTJNS, BAR IRONMAND STEEL., SADDLERY AND SADDLERY HARDWARE. State Agents for the Oelebrated Farmers' Friend Plows. A full line of ABRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND STEELS. State Agents for the TREDEOAR HORSE AND MULE SHOES, which have been recently improved, and we now offer them to the Trade with entire satisfaction. Our entire stock is now full and com plete, to which we invite the attention of the FALL TRADE. All orders receive prompt and careful attention. J. E. ADCE R.& CO., 137 and 139 Meeting Street, CHARLESTON, SC. Aug. 15, 33-e.o.m--3m. NEWBERRY, S, C. The next session will open SEPTEMBER 19th, and close June 28th, 1878. NECESSARY EXPEN1SES. Tuition Junio^r Prep. Dep'L-..$.5.500 " Middle " " .....35 00 " Senior " ".....40~0 " Collegiate "............ .50 0 Incidental Fee in each Dep't.........5 00 Above paya.ble as follows :-ONE-HALF ON OR BEFORE OCT. Isi; THE REMAIN DER FEB. 1st, 1878. BOARD,- including .Room, (furnished,) Fuel and Lighits, may be had in Private Families at $13 per month, payable month ly.- By messing, above may be reduced to from $7 to $10 per mor.th. For fulf'informnation apply to E. GEO. W. HOLLAND, NEWBERRY, 8. &1 Aug. 15, 83-2m. NOTICE. OFFICE OF COUNTY CoMMIssIoNRs, Newberry, S. C., Aug. 7, 1877. The Overseers of Roads are hereby noti fied to forthwith call out.all bands on their Sections and work the said roads for five days, if so long a time be necessary, and to report all delinquents immediately to the Board. By-order of the Board. L. B. MAFFETT. Aug. 15, 33-i t. Chairman. A Vegetable Sulstitutte for Calomel and Mercuiry. A want that s cie nce has I ~ ever failed- tq curud.nd that LIVER i"uat"st ean be given * dy~e vr,as CURE. *m*JiPxkE Fever Scarlet S and Tpoid Fevers-we the Muicous embrane-beCOmes ulcerated.: The aged, and persons subject to Consti ation, Costiveness, Paralysis and Weak ess of the Bowels, Kidneys and Bladder, c., by taking two doses will enjoy natural ischarges, and by the occasional use of itI ave regular oerations. In these cases. teir strengheig and nutricious pri?nci les are exhiited; every dose will add new steghtnh oes ier biys, et, that may-be worn or depleted by disease or scelaneous. A HOTEL. OPRIETORSHIP. tablished and well known HOTEL, which is, d hotel in the city of Columbia, being com id is far ahead of any other hotel or board the proprietors to make the COLUMBIA ble whereon can be found all the substantials ,O ALL AND INFERIOR TO NONE. Our ell filled with guests, and to accomplish this ing-houses of the city as to price, while we mn, surpass them all. WO DOLLARS PER DAY. te rates. While our prices are reduced, our ill our table be-lacking in the -good ..things doing a large business and keeping a well public can afford to pay, that -what we lose ;ess. Our BAR will contain the l.urest and meet the wants of thirsty souls who desie-' d to suit the wants of the mo$trftidious. ive is a trial, being assue41ift:'those who all their friends to -do so likewise. I ERS - Proprietors. E. M. CoLoona, Cashier and Office Clerk. -883-5L. 1ii AND HAT iOuTn F ~WAflLELW,. additions -to their stock of Eats, Gents' Furnishing for their extensive Custom ;tyles of GUSTOW MADE re unequalle< i thi Stite A custom housesia New York: rections for nieasuerme t on . ilitary Outfits aspeeiIty. W. C. SWAFFIFJD COLUMBTA, S. C. A Choice Lot of CONI'|TI U . The most Popular Brands of CIGARS in the up-country. Gravely's Smoking andi Chewint Tobacco, together with ~other branidr, Bli&Ni Durham, &c.- - n Attention giyen tofurnibing partiesan weddings. At - H. A. BURNS. Aug. 15, 82--tf. D ilGreafhance to:-maeinoney..If tions for the l -gs,ceps and best lustrated family pb icain; n the:-world. Any one can become a suceassfulget The most-elegn lris~of art jnfeto most czb~.'One agent re ports= ov e :1,ina week' A lady agent rptstigoverd400subscriberain ten days. Allwo egg make money fast. You can dsvoto l your time"to -'the business, or only yors tsime/- You need not bQ.wyfo.bU~vn~t Yoa dan do~~a as '.tl - ticulars, dfreetions -and gant and .ep.ns&ve . QatitZdfe5. i you want protbe.work send ag-yon .adres at once. It costs .nothing to.tr the busi ness. No one who engae falto uk eraa. AddfressTefoW JU SCIHOL B001ES JUsT RECE WED. McGuffey's, Wirson's andesnders' Read ers. - --- -- *Spellers and' Primers. Histories, Dictionaries, Grammars. Geographies, Aiithmetic.-b Copy Books, Slates, Pencils. ' ChaC'rit, & ~ Just reced at HERALDG00K110rEEr Aug.8, 82-tf. .--- - NOTICE. The Copartnerhipl..erietofore e isting between ROBERT H. WIGTsheB~1I UEL S. COPPOCK, anid kow ,& COPPOCK-, engaged is[c ie businessin she town of Newbersy40&.,isI this day dissolved by mutugeanosent The notes andaceounts of the late firm will be lefin the:hands of B. H: Wright,"assthe old stand, and settlement made on same by - either of the parties.... WRIG & COPPOCK. 8th August, 1877. In retiring-frbmushsins (td nyrar'dy) I take -this occasion-to- return my sincee thanks to the citizens -of .this 'Town and County, and to the surroundfrg Counties, for their continued confidenceaud support for the past 24 years, and take pleasureein commending to their cotn ed..coddae my successors, the new firm of- WRIGHT & J. W. COPPOCK. E. S..00OE.( NOT ICK. The undersigned having this Aay.esatered into 4a Copertsae.su tQ bikostn as WRIGET~ kJ W. .OPGCK,, -e~~tu invite the public to a favorable considera tion of their stojck in trade. BOB'T H. WSIGHTg J. W. COPPOCK 6th August, 1877. ---2-f For sale by - . J.N. MRKT[N& CQ. Aug..8, 32-4t - .Corner of Pratt&l9aneo streets, NEWDERRY, S. C.. Wholesale andCletail Dealers in [oac~ SCO a8[, ?Is, &c Together with E9Y~~U ? Uin U