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if i THE BLACKSMITH" AND THE D Adwdr tin' daisies she nmliil down. And. plucking one tiny hud. Khe peeped through her lashe* of At It* beautiful crimson horeL^fred Then shaking the dew from iyjr % Hhe IiTunI it up to h*r \\\r*Jtr And whispered his name blond As tho bloom on Its fj^^outfc; Jlflirn*'!! hand "t lore. J lovy* nmrffU.th. As the breeze hpn the brown hand twined 1 love, LlovoU^pf l?.r Kiinny hair; WW" raiiK tho t< !!?< wind, of the whispering rair. Ttirou^^ '"TlHyllflhy wns borne away XfldTihiftorlrio girlish brvai U ^Tmtigh smith amlhil its It coyly lay ^fTic crease of Ills 0|s-ll vest It were gracing the loneliest place the forgo where lie gnyly toiled; (^*1 It smiled through tliu smoke with Its sweet round ' I Till Its leaves were all smenri d and soiled. Up went Ills sledge with n right good will. Then down with a merry clang; Louder, and "louder, ami louuer sun. ^ A* ho whistled the times she san^. lie tossisl his crisp lock* as ho fondly cried: .. "How lm|>py tills lolling ulll^e. When you. love, aro tending our own in^leslde, . Aral waiting, my darlinjt. for inol "TlironRli the lights ami shadows of forty years 1 see you with wrinkled lirow; Ah. lovelier far: though your face appears More Krhve and more thoughtful than now. I steal to tho window, and softly tap, Wlill*you smile in your low rush chair. In your modest kerchief, yoiw smuv white ca;\ And your halo of dear i;ray hair." A rush of wind, and the daisy lay 'Slid the dust on the smithy lloor. Never to welcome the soft eyed day. Or the i:o:ijj of the hlaekldrd more. But the tiiaeksmltli lifted the faded Ihlnj;, 8a) in;;- "Little I thought thai litis. The most common (hover of the field, could I.ring Such a vision of perfivt litis* " ?Fauny Forrester in (.'handlers" Journal. ("1111 llwellers. One of (lie most attractive portion? of Colorado, if not iii tlio entire west, is that part of llie stale in which art found the clitV dwellings of a lonjr ex linel i"icn Tlio ilislriot ill wliiel those ritiiiH are located rovers imi are: of nearly (l.Odt) square miles, chiellj in Colorado. but which includes liar row liolts in the adjacent territories o Hotv Aloxitvt, Utnh and Ait/ona* T\io ruins of this icjpoq, like nms others of the oxlremo west and south uro tho remnants in a i*roat mea'c.m of stone slructurt s. ft is evident however, that a k'real eoition of tlx villa,tos ami dwolliinrsol the lowland; which comprise this district have hen of material other than stone. Ire quenlly, donhth ss, of rubble am adoho combined. Tho eliIT liotiscs conform in shape h the tloor of the niche or shell' 01 whieli they are built. They are o firm, neat masonry, and the niaiiuc in which they are attaelx d or en unite* to the eli lis is simply marvelous. Thei construction has cost a * ;>'; t deal o labor, the rock and mortar of wliie! they are built having been bron?*h hundreds of 'oet up tho most preeipi tons places. They have a much mor modern look than !!: valley and rav remains, and are probably in yema-a mom recent, belon^inpf rather t?? lit close (ban to the earlier parts of a Ion; period of occupation. . , .?? ?J miv nun injtucriotr burlaw places of tho northwest. 15uti is quite improbnblo that any dertaij lipfit will ever he thrown on (ho,orif*ii ot this curious raco whichl has jusi been described, or their 'history.? Cincinnati Commercial Osteite. p.L y It Wtkn a JoUcu: :. Saloon Keeper Michael MeUugh, o G."S Washington avenue, Brooklyn received a small packngo froin a boy who said he was asked to deliver,iib t< hi:n by a man who met him neap tin saloon. On opening tho packngo Mr McIIugh di covered a cigar !.ox will n sliding lid. inspecting lhat it wa.< unitifcinal machine, lie laid tbeb<>> aside without attempting to move th< lid. Francis Stone, a vonng customer however, picked up 11 so box and gent ly moved the lid. As lie did so ther< was a spatteringof exploding matehi" in the interior, hut nothing mounter riblo than thi cccarred. There \yer; pieees of broken glass, cotton w.t t( ami what s-eined to i e powder in tin. box, and also a small vial tilled witL some black snlv.tarce. having a nivs terious wire attachment. Police Captain Kennv became the custodian of tlio mysterious box for the night, and nej:t morning it was placed in thy hai>ds of L>:\ Kent, the chemist of the board c.f heallli. .\n examination showed that the black stnM' it tlie vial was iincturo of iodine, and the s;ij>posed powder (lis? s;T.;pin^s lumi emery paper. The 11*11ii:?. was entirclv harmless. A note I.? Mr. Meliusli, which ;:!?; ..11i?d t!t? iio.v, was signed ".lark l! i?ip; r." New York Sum. .\ llrcum T!i:it W.i i ! nliiUet!. "Talking of dr< am > :i I a jfenflonwti the oilier <1 y, "i ! ! a <1 ream which, wliilo net eiu ii.n > i:i it a-if, revealed a singular s< ,;? ?>f thou ;ht, an unconscious c< retention, if 1 may so speak." 1 dreamed (!.;.! i ! ;o': my wr.leh out of my pocket ! > !. > k :.t t lie Imnr and found that it had .1. ! < \amincd it and di-.-ovi rt ii 111.:L the main spring was hroken There v.. ; i..?i*.t .* ;eninrka'. do in the dream, hat ti.i : \ as in tin: sequence. lu ti.o men.he; v hen I looked at i iy wal'-ii > n the dressing ease it had stopped at : .:e h.our of II. I had retired at 1'. and 'dm in :in sprint; was broken. 1 had wound my v. a.teli ju -t before retiring. 1 am a t lotaler and inv l. i i.. 'r*. . iuiiii i i . V.' V. . > ii<; I II*. or intimation to make irrdtva:;! t,l*;??. event v.n.? so rare, am! I ennin<t understand !) w l!:e coiueidrneo penod. \\ lial 1 would lik. to know is whether tin* dream occur:vd at tlio same hour the 1 ir. t of lay * loop? when the watch slopped or how hit mind was put in eon.innnbulion w'.tli an event that in my busy life was almost r. calamity. I have tins interpretation of the inv Irry to (he society of psychical research. - Ivtroit Free 1 Yeas' Important Kvlclonco. A man in New York who was badly mussed up and disfigured in a street row had a photograph taken of himselflwliilo in that plight to present as ovidcnco beforo tlio court. There is no inoro veracious witness than a photograph, and after scanning the pic furo of a badly misused man it did not tako tlio jury long to decide the r u.? in liis favor. Photography is a useful art, and it ia constantly realizing new possibilities,?Chicago Herald. ORY OF TELEGRAPHY. ^ ^rlral rhfnnmma Noted n. C. COO. '^eproRrcM of Discovery?Tho Telephone. * Six hundred years B. C., Thnles, of Milctc, noted tno electrical phenomena and developed by friction upon amber; 200 years later Plato theorized upon electricity, and A. D. 1522 Martinigo> a Venetian, tho engineer in dofenso of Rhodes, npplic<l 0110 end of a drum head at tho end of his countermino to discover tho vicinity and direction of tho enemy's underground galleries, an.l thus, by utilizing tho molecular disturbance of tho earth in sound waves, conceived tho lsisis of telephony. It was not, however, until A. I>. 1000, that Von Gucricli made f!ie first maehino for generating frictional electricity, nor until A. I>. *i...< n-?i <i?> r..?i Hi?.* fractional electricity would pas* through i\considerable length of \virt>, and could therefore l?o utilized for thO transmission of signals. To Wood, of England, is therefore duo the honoi of lirst suggesting tho feasibility of electric telegraphv. /V. D. 17115, Mursrhenbrok, CJc*many, invented tho I>oydcn jar, by wliirli means fractional eJe^rieity could bo stored for experimental ]>urIioses. A. 1). 1717, Pr. Watson, Engami, erected the first telegraph line between Shooters Hill and London, and A. I>. 17511, C. M. (believed to ho tho initials of Charles Matthews) nublislied the manner in which ho had indicated tho letters of tho alphabet through a system of twenty-six wires, by fractional electricity. Paring tho latter lialf-of tho Eighteenth century inventors of all nations endeavored. by means of two or nioro wires and fractional electricity, to transmit intelligence between distant places; but it. was not until A. P. l)?tX>, when * Yolta proclaimed his own and Clalvani's prior experiments in the produe? lion of ehemieal electricity, that electric telegraphy. as now developed, bci eamo practicable. i A. I >. 1811), Oersted (Denmark) discovered that, a freely susnended tna<r neti/.ed nccdlo would move to the f right or luft, i'1 accordance wit It the polarity of u current of electricity t through an adjacent wire, A. D. 1820, Arago (France) discovered tliat j wlien a bar of soft iron was wound with a copper or insulated iron wire, it j became ainagnet whenever a ctirrcntof electricity traversed the wire, and was i immediately demagnetized (or nearly !- so) when tho wires wi re disconnected 1 from the source of current, A. 1). is:w, Faraday (Fnglnnd) disi) covered that when a coil of insulated ii wire was placed adjacent to, but not f connected with, another coil of wire, r [ through whieh an intermittent current 1 of electricity was passed, induced curr 1 rents of increased intensity and alterf ' nuting polarity were developed in tho ii ! imattoeneil eoil. Also that the movet jnentof a perinanent har magnet withi in a coil of wire, or the movement of 0 :m elect ro-magnrt near tlio poles of a permanent magnet, woidd develop cur 1 runts of electricity. To the foregoing o rudimental discoveries of Galvani anu r Volta, Oersted, Arugoand Faraday is tho world indebted for the, numerous s nun \ v < 'oils' ftrst concept ion of nil t' elect ii>-tclegraph, A. I>. 172(>, more than ii h century claused before Oooko and IVVheatslono (Knglmul), A. ]>. 1837, t adapted (Vrsted's discovery of A. D. - ??jU>, to tho first practical and cominorcially successful system of what Inay he termed visual electric telegraphy ; anil some months later Morse and f< Vail. I niteil sa-pM-, adapted Arago's , ! jliseovery of A. I). 1820, to the first , 1 fcvstem of recording electric tclegraj j bhy, VnU being the inventor of tho j dot and dash alphabet, A. 1 >. 1 S.'ts. St. inbiil. (Jpriiinnv. i kdaptcd ( lorsted's discovery to (ho Hi st i* recorded system of sound or aural tcle: i- graph v, s.ml lint iitili/.cd tho earth in 3 i. lieu of a second wire or all meUtllio circuit. It is by no moans certain that ' ' there is any cleetrio current (lowing 3 | through a wire, or that n wave of , electricity, like (lit* waves of sound, i traverses it. It is simply a customary , expression to indioate a dilloivneo in 3 and around a w ire to the conditions in , which said wire was when no elect rie, ity \>as present in rl. A. 1 >. Wheatstono invented the step hy sten:t 1 j>11;tl> *tieal indicating I telegraph; anuA. 1>. 1S|S, ] louse, England. invented the alphabetical tvpo , | printing telegraph, which was suhse, rpientiy improved upon hy Ifughes, Kngland. A. I >. blti, Maine, England, invented (ho eheniieal dot and dash recording telegraph, w hicli, combined with "VVheatsloiie's automatio transmitter, is the most rapid method of conveying intelligence in present operalion. Finally, A. 1\ 3V^T(*, Moll, United States, invented (lie telephone, and by accomplishing th < lectrical transmission of speech, thus attained possibly the highest degree of perfection in in1 tereoniniunieation of intelligence.? V. W. Crisbonie. Tlie Newspaper of Japan. A Japanese newspaper is a very difl'erent thing from what we are accustomed to liml on our breakfast tables. Our last page is its lirst; its columns onlv run half the length of (lie page; it has no such thing as head lines or ''scare heaths" and its titles run from top to bottom instead of across; it lias but a few rough [illustrations; it prints l'ew advertisements, but 1hoso are paid for at a comparatively high rati?; its price is low, ranging from 1 to 2 cents a cony ond from "5 to f.o cents a month; j and it knows nothing yet of sensa, tionnl advertisements or limning ! i. ..t - i; > ? i . r> ?.-? uiLiis luui iiuiiMir iicre? 1 ' tug do." In general, its scale is much more that of tin; French newspaper than of the world moving monsters of ! London, New York and 1 'hiladelphio. The only evidence of it that one sees | in the streets is the newsman, troti tin^? along with a bundle of neatly folded papers under his arm and tmliouncing his oassage by the incessant tinkling <,f ji liitlo hrnsi bell tied to his wjustband behind.?Henry Nori nuui in Philadelphia Times. Thunder was a Confederate i prison at Richmond during tho civil war, in which civilians who were suspected or known to he in opposition to the insurgents were conlincd. The building was originally a tobacco fac- J tory, and was burned early in Septciu- i her, lST'.b William C. Fiskc is to resign his seat in the Stock Fxcliango uud sell tlio same to pay a claim of $f>,00U which W. (}. Fish holds against him. A SHORT LIFE AND A HARD ONE. flow Car Home* Are Bought, Broken, rutrtu-d Up and Retired. "I should r.ot havo thought It would havo paid to work cripples." I romarkcu to tho driver of a Third nvenuo car on which I rodo down town a few evenings since. 1 referred to the near liorso's hind legs, ono of which was ornamented witli a hugo flannel bandage, whilo tho other foot seemed in tho dim light swollen to on abnormal si/.o and to bo parting from tho leg at tho hock. "lie's not lamo," returned the driver nlTably. "That's a. boot lio's got on his near foot. He's had a quarter crack, and tho thrush, too, but ho came out of tho hospital a week r.go, and it don't seem to troublo him much. This road don't work no lamo horses. Just ns soon as tlioy show any signs of weakness tlioy nro sent to the hospital, and tho best veterinary surgeons in .1 . ,_i? ? r ...? ? uiu ?-<mmry [miviiva vjii up. "I supiioso tlio hospital is nearly always well filled,** I suggested. ."Why, of courso it is," said tho driver. "This work's tcrriblo hard on a horse, mainly becauso of these cursed stones. Our teams don't have very long trips and they'ro not pushed hard either, but tho stones wear 'cm out in a few years." "How long docs n liorso last at this work?" I inquired. "Thrcoyears, about," was tho reply. "Some of 'cm go on for five years with patching up, but that's tho extreme length of timo that they pull cars. Wlion tfcoy have been about two yeni-s at tho work their feet get so sore that they have to bo turned out. Tho company has a stock farm In tho country where tlioy aro taken, tlioir hoofs are pared, and after running around nwliilc on tho soft ground they get hard and fit to corno hack to tho stones again for a time." "Where do railroad horses como from?" I asked. "Mostly from tho west," said tho driver as he put tho brakoon hard and cumo to a standstill whilo tho original fat lady from a Bowery museum was hoisted on tho car and paid her fivo o mortnl r\f nWlinOl'V ftmi'l* dupois. "Hut they buy horses all over," he resumed, as the car started again after a huge straining of tho unlucky quadrupeds who felt tho increased weight"No, there aro not many really sound horses come into car stables. Tho buyer in tho west takes a carload of horses, and after picking out tho few good, sound, business liorscs, selects a lot of good horses with just some trillo wrong with 'cm, which ho calls 'st rectors,' and sends them on to tho city for tho cur companies. Then a lot of horses are pickecl up cheap because they have somo small ailment or blemish which tho vetcrinarics succeed in curing. They build 'em up. jus you might say, as good as sound 'una." "How aro tho green young western horses broken into car work?" was my : next queryt and the driver half sighed as ho replied, "Why, right hero in tho cars. Haven't you over noticed a toftirwy *V; ?? * tttWBoy 1 Hrcon "horses aro awful scared of tho elevated road. They'll keep looking up and staring all around to (Ind out where tho noise comes from and sometimes they'll just stand still and shiver with fright." "How long docs it take to get them used to it?" "Oh, about two weeks. A car horse ought to be pretty handy at the end of that time. It'll tako 'em six weeks or two months to know tho hell, but after mat taov ll opoy ttic bell quicker than a green driver. You'll seo a now man fail to put the hralco on quick enough sometimes when the bell sounds, but his horses will stop and tho car will run right on to 'ctn. Ilorscs nro quick enough to learn, but I guess their days nro nearly over. Electricity is bound to do away with them."?New York Herald. Oriental IJrljjnn?la. Wo have before referred to tho caj>turo of brigands in tho mountains of tho Juchow Prefecture, Jviangsi, and their conveyance to tho capital of tho province, Nan-ch'ang Fu. Of these prisoners, one was a brigand "lieutenant," another a sham "sergeant," whoso cvidonco was very useful, as from its strictly corresponding it was certainly not made up by them. There was also a little silversmith's apprentice only 11 years old; this hoy was employed in a shop at Ilut-pu Shi, and his master on joining tho Koloa Secret society took him with him. gavo him a letter and a dagger, and sont him homo to -^lis father ami mother to tell them that now he had joined the llui, they need huvo no that soon (hero would ho a great rebellion and (hey should lay their plans and bo ready when it came. Tho boy was intercepted by tlio agents of -tho government wlnlo on this errand, and his father and mother quickly hearing (ho news caino weeping to Nan-chang Fu, and saying (hat of four genera(ions (his lad was (ho last and only descendant and had been inveigled into tho conspiracy through his ignorance. Another prisoner was a tailor who worked for junk and sampan men, and against whom no true evidence was forthcoming. All of them declared that they * ? ? *.i >.v y wcTunoi. jilhjui'.iuu'u wmi <.>110 uiioiner. ?Shell Vtxo. 1.4-stcr Wnll.h-'.'s (irrnl Memory. Somo time after mv father's death I was requested to play Don Ckesnr, a character ho had made peculiarly his own, and of v.hieli ho was tli'o original in the English language. It was fourteen or Jifteen years since I had plaved it. and 1 said to Mrs. Waliaclc, "flcforo I look at I'd ; part again I want you to soy if I remember anything of it." I not only recollected the words, but I did not miss a syllable. She laid down the book in porfcct astonishment. It seemed to come upon mo directly, as though 1' had performed it the night before. This gift of 1 icmory lias been always of incsti tnablo service to inc.?I xyster Walluck in Scribncr's. A Sijtilrrrl IImiiOiij t.Wnvell Wbi'more, a C'ojorckio farmer, has a remarkable eat wliicls s""u -. to bo an unusual and valuable j o-e\ It not only catches rats, mice, bird:-, eie., but slaughters such g^hie ai eliipuiunb.s, gray squirrels, rabbits and iiiu.d;r<ts. 'I lioeat lias been named ".Mike." Tho other day Miko brought to tho b<>u.so a lai ,0 livo snako about tit t < oatid oiio-lial I net long, liamllingit with apparent ease. ? Albany Journal. IB E - ? V FULL OF THAHKFULNE8S. Tho BaMlwt TofU Why *11U Hevt U lliifTlntrt Mth Qntltiidfc "Thankfull _Gh, m Tve got a i heap to bt^$kqkfnl for. I'm just 1 biling over with gratitude," said a Bon ' Joaquin rancher who had just stepped \ out of a lawyer's offloo on Montgom- i cry street "Look bore, young man, i did you owr try to run a ranch with ono pair of mules anrt a mortgagel i No, Is'pposcd not When 1 took up my quarter section I had to mortgage it to start The first year was a bad ono and tho-wheat crop failed. Thon I had to go into dobt for seed and grub, and fiio interest piled up on the mortgage. I've been wrestling with , ; that mortgage ever since, but it downs mo every time. "Last spring when tho wheat conio up it looked first rnt?, and my wife and I watched it growing as you'd watch a youngster, if you had ono. Wo worked hard, got along without holp most of tho time, and went to bed Eluinb tuckered out every night. Wo" oped to get a little ahead of tho mortEgo this year, but it would have to a big crop and a big pricQ to pull us ?? ~r t\,? iw.l? VUW v/l fcliu ll\MV. "Well, tho crop was just fair, ftags cost n good deal more than anybody had a right to charge. taxes were high, and 1 have pot only a middling prico for my wheat. While wo were waiting for harvest time wo used to figuro up once in u while to seo how wo'd como out. My wifo would be tired most to douth with her work, for you must remember that a woman's work on a ranch whero sho does all tho cooking,' washing and mending, and takes care of two or thrco children. isn't any picnic, and my back would bo aching liko I was breaking in two, but wod just sit down and figuro. It was closo calculating, but wo allowed that a good price for the crop would just about ruako both ends moot for tho 3*oar. "When a letter enmo up from the commission man telling in ten words that all our year's toil was going to bring us only debt and tough wrestling for grub over again, wo just lookcfl r\t our . roughened, stiff-jointed hands and wpudcrcd whether It waft worth whi 1,0 raising stuff for other folks to cat, and going hungry our selves. "It just meant that our backs had aclicd that SQmebody elso might hike things easy. It meant that the kids would havo to get along with tho same old duds for another yoar. Do you know, it seomed to mo for a moment that it I took a shotgun and went out on the stago road 1 wouldn't be doing any more than tho chaps who livo on mortgages do, and, mobbo, it would bo just a littlo squarcr and more manfashion way of getting what doesn't belong to one. Still, as I wasn't brought up to that business, I didn't think of it long. , "You work hko a Chinaman nil the year, work till you acho all over, raise wheat enough to feed a small village for a year, and then find that you've dP'tfOTihlfaifcot any use to anybody, hand over to him the money that your wifo and children need, almost get on your knees to beg him for tho favor of being robbed by his mortgago for another year, ami tell mo if you /eel your heart just burslincr out of Votir shirt. witli r>iv?- I miscuous, all round gratitudo."?San Francisco Examiner. Oriental Economy, The okl Mussulman Justice, tho justico of tho "Arabian Nights," was administered by a cacli according to his innnto notion of the fitness of things, modified or confirmed by a more or less appropriate text from tho Koran. In criticising native Justice wo must bear in mind that tliif system existed in Egypt within tho memory of a middle aged man. In Bowring's report upon Egypt, published in 1810, ho gives various instances of this, and exemplifies Oriental notions of justico by a conversation lie relates between a Mohammedan and an English traveler: Governor?Is it true that you in England send your tliiovos and rogues to a distant country? Traveler?Yes. Governor?And what mav bo tho cost of sending each ? Traveler?Perhaps ?100, or 10,000 piastors. Governor? And what is the cost of a saber? Traveler?About ?10, or 1,000 piasters. Governor?And what is tho cost of a hempen rope? Traveler?Almost nothing. Governor?And you call yourselves n civilized and an instructed people, you who can get a saber for 1,000 piasters and a rope for almost nothing ?a saber that would behead many rogues and a ropo that would hang many thieves?and who pay 10,000 piasters to get rid of onol This is your civilization. ?Tho Fortnightly Review. tor Xicld'H Co!:'., The winter waves have laid bare nn old wreck on Seven-milo Beach, which tho imaginative pdopli/of that charming old island tlnnk may be ono of tho late Capt. Kidd's fleet. Somo sanguine souls aro devising a sclicmo to dig about the old sand preserved skeleton on the slv. in hopes they may unearth somo of tho long sought doub- , loons said to liavo been buried about tlio island hv that well renowned myth, the pirato Kidd. There is evi uence 01 some tugging during me pre- i , vailing moonlit nights. A heap of j romanco clusters about the old weather beaten cedars, sand hills and valleys of this famous beach. From Cold Spring inlet to a point off the Sea Breeze hotel there are tho remains of seven seagoing vessels. Some of them yet have their masts standing, while tho hulls that support them arc buried in tho sand.--Cor. Philadelphia Times. An IClcctrlo Accumulator. Tliogrowth of tho olcctrical industry in a direction in which less has been done, perhaps, than in some others, is shown by tho formation of tho AngloAmerican Electric Light Manufactur- ; ing company of Now York city, for the manufacture of a storago battery i which they believe to havo many j merits. It Is claimod that tho nccumu- j lator they aro making requires no i ; washing out from tho timo it is started till it is ready to bo thrown asido; that i it will last livo yeara, which is guaranteed by the company; that it will yield I 90 to 92 i>er cent, of tho current put ' into it; that it will not bucklo or break, and that it requires no expert attend- i anco.?Scienco. * i TAX NOTICE. [WILL o^en the D>oks nt my Office, nt Union C. II., S. U., on the 16th day of October, 1880, for the collection of the r?xes for the fiscal year, conmieuciug Norember the 1st, 1888, mid will remain there mtil the 21th day of October, after which ime I will be at the following named places, it the time designated below: Union C. It., Tues lay, Oct. ^loth to 24th. West Spring*, Friday forenoon, Oct. 2otb. Colciaiuc, Friday afternoon, Oct. 23th. Gibbs'T Saturday forenoon, Oct. 2'olb. Cedar ICulf, Monday afternoon, Out. 28th. Cross Keys, Tues lay. Oct. 29th. Minler's Store, Wednesday forenoon, Oct. SOth. /<?1._.. 11:11 r..,Un.,n? n?i 31st. Fish Dam, Friday, Nov. 1st. Sauluc, Saturday, Nov. 2d. Union C. II.. Motnl iy, (SalesJoy,) Nov. 1th. Mt. Tabor, Monrhcal's Store, Tuesday, Nov. 5th. Kclton, Wednesday, Nov. Otli, and Thursday forenoon, Nov. 7th. Gowdrysvide, Friday forenoon, Nov. 8dt. Kendrick's ShAc, Friday afternoon, Nov. Hill. WilkinsviMc, Saturday, Nov, thli, and Monday, Nov. 111It. Draytonvile, Tucs lay, Nov. 12th. Timber llidge, Wednesday forenoon, Nov. 13. Asbury, Wednesday afternoon, Nov. loth, and Thursday forenoon, Nov. 11th. Jonesville, Friday and Saturday, Nov. loth and 1 'itIt. livery male citizen between the ages of twenty-one and lifiy years, except those incapable of earning a support from being maimed, or Irom other causes, and except those who ate n-1 exempt by law, shall be deemed taxable polls. I'ersons who wish to pay taxes on property in different Townships, will please so Btotc when they come to fay their taxes, and thereby save trouble. 1 would finther state that on information obtained from ntr Honorable llepicseutatives, their wiil not be any ?Ktension of time for the collection of the taxes this Fall ; therefore, I beg that all of our citizeus will cotuc up promptly and pay ihcir taxes before it is too late. TAX LEVY. Tor State Purposes f?l Mills. For Ordinary County Tax DJ Mills. For Fust Indebtedness...... .. i Mills. For Interest on K. 11. llomls, 31 Mills. For Itct ring ' " 1 Mill. For School Constitutional tax, 12 Mills. Total Levy .. lf>.{ Mills. Hcspcstfully, J. U. T. SCOTT, County Treasurer. Sep 1'0 :*?S 7t J. V. POSEY 4 BE ? . M A4 a? w a H ?? PURE MEDICINES, DRUGS, CHEMICALS, TOILiT ARTICLES TIIUSSKS. SIlOULDIIlt 11 ItACKS, &C, READY MIXED PAINTS, VVIHTI* liKAD, LINSHhlI) OILS, TURPENTINE, PUTTY, WINDOW GLAS, PAINT BRUSHES, CIGARS AND TOBACCO, LAMI'S, and LAMP GOODS, CHANDALIERS, PUKE WINES AND L.IQUOKS for Medicinal use. Careful and courteous attention to each customer. ? -? FHFSCllll'TlOXS CA Hi:FULLY COM ROUS'DUD AT ALL HOURS. m We select ??ur goods witlt greatest care, buy tin hi us low as they can be bought for cash, and sell thein ut Lowest Living l'riccs. J. W. I'OSEY & BKO. March 'J2 1J ly. ANNUAL MEETING. f h'i'll'k iii ClU-vtv cllmmi-sllivvik 1 Cm.in CnrsTY, S. ('. <>ct. 1st., l^b'.L ) rnilE annual meeting of the Hoard of 1 county Coininissioncrs for the fiscal year ending November 1st, will be held nt their otlico on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of sai l month, it being the "itli day ,.? V,.u..r..K^r. ?ovl AH persons holding bills, accounts, < r <1 emands <>f tin;/ / i ii 11 against this ('utility, which have not been before presented l? the Hoard of County Commissioners at special meetings during tlie lineal year, are hereby required to deposit I lie sit me with the Clerk of the Hoard, on or before tlie first day of November, so that they may he examined at their annuai meeting. l?y order of the Hoard of County Commissioners. CIIAKI.ES HOLT, Clerk of Hoard. Oct I 4<r 6l. FIDELITY LOAN and TRUST CO. ? o ? SP.NKTANItUltti, S. C. CAPITAL 1'AIU IN, - $W,0(K>.00 orncKii.M. President, Ueorge Coficld* Treasurer, - - W. B. Burnett. Attorney, J. I!. Cleveland. HI It K< l olls. dosepli Walker. .1. It. Cleveland. \V. S. Manning. <Jeo. W. Nicholls. P. B. Converse. ; W. K. Iturnell. T. C. Duncan. Ueorge Cofield. Interest allowed on deposits at the rate of four ]>er cent, per annual, an I added to accounts semi-annually. July l'J TJ \y FALL SEASON A Suit of Clothes, A pair of Shoes, A pair of Suspenders, A -Neck tie, A Worsted Drees. 1 A pair of I ndies Bui ton Shoes, A l)o*. La i i s Handkerchiefs, A Wool Shawl. J And many other bnrgaius too numerous to men Anybody purchasing to the amount of $5, or o at the Dry Goods Kni|orium of HARRY M. April ID 10 "THE LITTLE Tl Is Headquarters for Confec Fancy Groceries, TOBACCO, BACON, ! CIGARS, I.AItl), SNUFFS, FLOUR, 1 CIGAR E'IT KS, MO I .ASSES, STARCH, COFFEE, TEAS, CHEESE, CANDLES, HAMS, SHOT, BOW DEB, CART RIDGES, SAUCES, And a great many oilier tilings too te.lious ' i Thanking the public at large for past piuxonn in the future, I am Yours, very Aug 31 35 BIG G gun Having given an ltnp>rt Order for my Gun< cost of them, I challenge the Slate in prices. If you want a n co Gun como to see me. Yours, very rcsp Stop ani ?i?? ... _ ^ UTt'p I it anu g 17 looted Stock of New Goods that are now ari DRESS C Our Stock of Dress Fabrics is complete Henriettas, Cashmeres, Mohairs. Plaids, Fa We wish to call the Ladies' special atti latest styles. B 0 0 T SAN. Our Loot and Shoe department consists to the Public. Our large Slioc trade is proo we represent theui to be. CLOTHING! CLOTHIN In this department we have purchased now ready to supply the demands of every o suit to the old man in his sober suit of blacl HAT>^ ATM We ask you to examine our 1 ir^re am (Japs, of every shape, quality and style. W? ance" llaf. We have a polite corps of Salesmen whi through our Stock. Alt Goods sold at the I March 20 1 The Largest, Tie Bet STOCK o DRY GOODS, MILLINERY HOOTS AND SIIOl We are prepared (his season to show ymi by far in all its departments, that wo have ever had, at j J KAN'S.? Don't fail to examine our slock of Je save you some money in this line. Call and see tl UOC>T? A\1J Our stock of Hoots and Shoes is much larq DI'taiM'thO ID Piiun. iiv/vu ?v . MILLINERY, IV In lhi< department our stock is about twice as 1 to the bottom. Ladies Hats from 1 "> cents to I he incut von will tind Miss Kstelle Ditlende'tfer an I ready lo welcome you and show you through our > Hi member, our motto is always the best of the lowest prices. Thank 11 ;r :1m? i ii*?*i? fur lhi?ir vitv nilrn continue 'In' same in the future. Kespect fullv, GRAHAM b'ept I I .'?7 NEW JEWELR NEW .11;si' i;i:c;?:i vi;i> at v. o. tkkkzkk and most choiee seleetiun of Jewelry to In; fou WATCH i;s, CLOCKS, KA15 III NOS, KINO Kit 111 NO SILVKit AND SILVKit ALL KINDS OF FIN wlitrh in* iiitoinis to soil lower than ever. After eighteen xour.s experience in tlie busii manner ?>| work in his lino with skill mil warranted. Sept C 30 OF 1889-90. : Worth 75, f Cv *<; For f5. Worih 54 60, , 4For ft '25. lion. or, will recoivo a nice bundle strap, COHEN & BRO. At Oblton's old stand. ly. -% lEEf FRONT" itinnArifis Emits and as follows : SUGAR, VINKGAH, PICKLES, NUTMEQ3, KPPEIt, CANNED GOODS, SPICKS, CANDY, NUTS, CIlACKEllS, SODA, HA KING POWDERS, MACARONI, LAUNDRY SOAP. PIPES, TOILKT SOAPS. MUSTARD, MATCHES, ncniion. pc. and hoping to reco:vo a larger share ' respectfully, J. B. PORTER, At "The LitUe Grcoo Front." O UNS! 8! ' GUNS! ^ i, which implies a greet saving in the ect fully, W. D. BEWLEY. _ T ) JUUUK, 0 a rooK at tlio large and well-SC iving daily. JOODS. )j\n every particular, consisting of rm ('loth, &e. cntion to our Dress Patterns of the I) 8 H O E S. : of Goods that we can roc Minuend f enough that our Goods arc what G! CLOTHING! a larger stock than usual, and nro ue?from the litilo boy in his first v > CAPS. 1 well-select* d Stock of lints and } call SDOcinl attention ti? our'< VII* i) will tak? pleasure in showing you lowest prices f'or(l ASII. RICE & MCLURE 3 tf it, Tin Cheapest * F CLOTHING, MATS, as. IN UNION. ilie largest ami most complc'c s'ook> >rices <lint speak for themselves, ans before buying, for we can certainly tern uml get our prices. r?IIOKS, ;er than usual. We have.some It IQ 11LLINERY. argc as it Iih.s ever been, and prices cut fine*! Hat or Ilonnet. lit (hi* departMiss Carrio .lame , wlu wdl be ever ilauinioili Stock. (ioods, hottest and fair dealings, and mage in the past, wc kindly ask you to & SPARKS', ^ CHEAP CASH STORE. W tf Y ! JEWELRY ! S Model Jewelry Store, the 1 irgcst intl in the upcountry ; consisting of BREAST PINS, S, CUKK BUTTONS, l'LATKI) WARE. E STATIONERY. itC-s, l.c is fully prepared to do all despatch. All goods and wotk F G TREFZER. if