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??sira Intelligencer. BELLE ALDExVS TRAVELING-BAG. A train bouud for St. Louis had just left the depot of Beiletontdne, when a gentleman en? tered the smoking oar and laid his baud upou the shoulder of his traveUng-compauion?a tall, handsoiue man of thirty, w ho sat musing? ly blowing rings* of smoke into tiie air. "Marcy," said the new comer, "if you want to see at once the sweetest and saddest sight vou ever beheld, go into the last car but one on the train. There's an emigrant German wo? man, with four little children, and during the afternoon the youngest?a baby?has died.? The mother and the other children are incon? solable." "I can understand," interrupted the smoker, Hthe sadness of such a scene, but where is the sweetness you spoke of?" . "I'm coming to that. The whole party have been taken in charge of by a young lady. Such a beauty 1 She's dried the mother's tears, and yriped the children's noses. She's divinity! She only needs a few feathers on her shoulder blades to make a full-Hedged angel of her. If I was not a married man, I'd never leave her till I'd made Mrs. Angelica Townsend out of her." ?v? "That's a speech which I shall faithfully re? port to Mrs. Agnes Townsend," said the gen? tleman addressed as Marcy, rising. "I shall go back and feast my eyes on this beautiful Sister of Charity; and," he added, taking his travel? ing satchel and shawl from the rack, "as we stop at the next station, which is due in ten minutes, I may as well take my traps through wjth me, apd join you on the platform." Thus saying, Richard Marcy threw his shawl over his shoulder, and sauntered leisurely through the long train?rushing blindly and calmly to his fate. For, as he entered the last car but one he became a witness and an actor in a scene that influenced his whole future life. The poor, grief-stricken German, of whom his companion, Dr. Townseud, had spoken, with the dead infant in her arms, sat silently weep? ing over the little dead face. The three sturdy children, grouped in child? ish sorrow about their little dead brother, was indeed a touching spectacle. But, standing beside them, was the divinity of Dr. Town send's admiration, and she who was most cer? tainly to "share the ends" of the unhappy Richard. She was a tall, slender girl of eighteen, with magnificent eyes and hair. As he entered the car she was speaking, her lovely face flushed, and the small, rosy mouth, disclosing a beauti ?ful set of teeth, turned bewitchingly "towards the tall stranger at the door. "Ladies and gentlemen," spoke the sweet yoice, "this poor woman, friendless and penni? less, speaking no English, with four little chil? dren, was expecting to .find ^ork iu St. Louis, to support them. If everything had ?wne weH with her it would have been hard for her; but with her little dead baby and sorrowful heart she is certainly a deserving object of charity ; and I propose that such as feel willing, con? tribute their mite toward a little purse for her immediate wants and the burial of her poor baby. And," she added, with a bewitching smile, "if any gentleman will leud me a hat I 'Will go round and take up a collection." In an instant the gallant Richard pulled his traveling cap from his blonde curls and offered it to the Angel of Mercy, who accepted it with a smile, this time all his own, and commenced gathering the readily forthcoming dollars her generous, graceful appeal brought from the purses of all in the car. Richard watched the slender figure jn gray gathering the money, and looking at the plaid cap in the white jeweled fingers, he bethought him of his own donation, and stepping to the seat the beauty had just occupied, he laid his satchel and shawl upon a family of its kind, belonging to the angel in gray, and took from bis pocket a ten dollar bill, which he placed in the lictle hand that returned him his cap.? Further damage the poor fellow received, when H second smile and warmly-worded thanks for his liberal contribution were dealt him from the beautiful mouth. Dick was in the midst of an elaborate reply, ?when the cars stopped. He lingered yet an? other moment, seized his satchel and shawl, with his eyes-still on the face of his charmer, and then even as the cars were again in motion, he bethought himself of the doctor, aud hur? riedly left the car and joined his frieod on the platform. "Well," ejaculated that worthy, "I began to l)elieve you'd concluded to go and bury the dead baby, and make the protecting beauty Mrs. Angelica Marcy. Isu't she a stunner?" "Townsend," returned his friend, "don't use slang in speaking of the noble creature." He looked after the train just disappearing in the distance. "I wish to heaven," he continued. "I'd renrained aboard. How stupjd I was to leave it. I might have learned her name and residence. And now?" "Now, in all probability," broke in the doc? tor, "you'll never meet her in this vale-of tears. But you'll know her in heaven, if you behave yourself well enough to get there, by her wings; she'll have the biggest of any of them, seeing they've commenced to sprout on earth." And thus rallying his thoroughly captivated friend, the two made their way to the house of an acquaintance, with whom they were to re? main that night, and go ou the next day to their destination- -St. Louis. After the first salutation, our hero went to his room to remove some-of the evidences of his Ipng ride from New York. He had removed his coat, vest and collar; he had splashed, and soaped, and washed, till his damp curls hung close to his shapely head, when he- mad* a startling discovery. Flushed and breathless, he burst into the next room upon his friend. "Townsend." cried he, "what upon earth do you suppose ? I've got the wrong bag. I've changed baggage with the Angel of Mercy.? Look at that slipper?see that thimble?con? template that glove." "It's evident you've got the lady's satchel. And what was there in yours?" ? "Don't bring up that dreadful idea," said Dick. "Cigars and a hair-brush, a pack of cards and a comb, pocket-flask and a tooth? brush-everything disreputable If I am judged by that bag. I'm a lost man. "And this I took for a clean shirt;" and Dick held up a frilled and fluted sack, such as do duty for more extensive night-dresses with la? dies when traveling. "I'd like to see Angelica ?when she opens my satchel." And Dick fell to musing, ? with the slipper perched on two fingers and the illed white sack spread out tenderly upon his nees. ?*#**-** In an upper apartment of a handsome man? sion in St. Louis, on the evening of the day our heroine first made the reader's acquaintance, beautiful Belle Alden, the petted and only daughter of the house, sat contemplating the yarious articles her confidential maid wa* dis? posing upon the table?articles taken from no I less a receptacle than Dick Marcy's traveling-1 bag. I The cards and cigar-case lay side by side, and a highly-scented party they were. "What's in the little silver flask, Rosa ?" said the fair mistress. "Brandy, ma'am," replied the maid. "He can't be very dissipated, to travel with j such a little bottle. ' That's in case of sickness,.: I suppose," returned I>lle. "It's my belief," said Rosa, who was a shrewd girl, "that the gentlem in was a mighty nice one, else you'd not so.readily excuse- the cards and the bottle." "For shame, Rosa. All gentlemen play j euchre travelling, and every clergyman take a little brandy in case of sickness," answered Belle. "And this man was a gentleman, and a liberal one, too, for he ^ave the poor emigrant vornan $10.. What's that, Rosa,?" 1 For at that moment Rosa held between her j ; fjtigers a letter. Whether it was wrong to read a stranger's ' I letter vexed Belle for a moment, as her eyes I i glanced at the superscription and hand-writing. "Why, of all things!" exclaimed the delight? ed girl, seizing the letter. '-Why, Rosa, this is Jenny Marcy's writing, and addressed to Rich? ard Marcy?her only darling brother?who was in Europe when we two graduated at Madame Ritter's, in Brooklyn." Belle read rapidly till she had reached the ? middle of the letter* when she burst into a merrv laugh. "Hear this Rosa," she said, and she read from the letter: , "Above all things, Dick, dear, aon't fail while in St. Louis to see my best friend and school? mate, Belle Alden.' l know you will fall in love with her, for besides being the best girl in the world, she's a beauty and an heiress, and father's choice above all others for his son's wife. He used to think it over home, and hope, and hope. Belle would not marry before you came home from Europe. She is full as anxious to know you, and wears your hair and mine in a locket father gave her last year.? Give her lots of love, and beg of her to over? look your many imperfections, for the sake of her old school-fellow, Jenny." "Then this gentleman is, of course, Miss Jenny's brother," 6aid Rosa, "and what will she say when she hears of your having met in this romantic way ?" "I don't intend to tell her of it till I go to New York this fall," said Belle. "Perhaps her brother will call." But in this supposition Belle was wrong. The month passed, and she saw no more of the golden-headed Richard. And she carefully separated the yellow lock in the little keepsake from the dark tress of Jenny's and put it back into its place alone, while another locket held the bit of Jenny's. And, aomehow, Belle looked very often at "the wee golden curl, and she never did so but the rest of the handsome head sprang up beside the lock; and she would sit and contemplate the picture her fancy wrought for her, little dreaming the interest she was allowing to grow in her :iusom for Jenny's brother. In the fall Belle and her father went to New York, and the first day after her arrival found her sitting with her old friend, who, after the first effusive meeting was past, sat down to empty her soul. "I am so glad you are here this month," Jenny said, "because I'm to be married in Oc? tober, and I have always been crazy to have you for a bridesmaid, and Dick is tobe Harry's best man." Belle blushed. ? "But Dick has fallen hopelessly, madly in love!" Belle turned pale. "Yes, I was so dreadfully provoked when he passed through St. Louis and never went near you. But he went wild over some lady he met on that trip. He will talk to me by the hours of his Angelica. And when I have spoken of you he has been positively rude, and asked me to have done bothering him about my freckled school friends?you knew your picture shows freckles; but, bless me, you haven't auy now! And your picture don't look any more like you than it does like me, not a bit." "But tell me," said Belle, "is your brother engaged to this lady ?" "Engaged! Why, dear heart, he don't know her name. He just found some of her old clothes somewhere. He's got her old slip? per under a glass case; he's got her night gown done up in lavender; he's got her gold thimble hung on his watch chain ; and I do believe he's got a hair-brush and some'hair-pins next to hie heart. Oh, it's folly to interfere ! He's beyond all hope! I did think the excitement of my wedding would wean him from it; but not a bit. He looks at my new things as calmly as an oyster, and only said?it's not kind of me to repeat it, though," broke off Jenny. "What was it he said ?" inquired Belle, laughing now heartily. "Don't fear for my feelings." "Why, he said, Til stand up with your friend. Belli?, and see you safely married; and then I'm off to winter in Paris. Fin done with love on my own account.' It's positively awful." And so Belle thought, as she looked at her old slipper and glove lying beneath a globe on either side the faithful Richard's mantle. "And," said Belle, "since he desires only to meet me on the morning of the wedding, so it shall be. I will be introduced only as we are leaving the house, and he can do as he pleases about continuing the acquaintance afterward." Belle was radiant with happiness when she returned to her father, and delighted his fond hearr. by the change, for Belle had been very , quiet of late. Jenny and Belle shopped, and talked and visited together, for the next few days, and when the morning arrived, and amid a bevy of beautiful girl-, Belle shone like a queen, the bride was eclipsed, and delightfully xacknowl? edged it. "0, Belle 1" she said, "I long to have old sto? ical Dick see you. Hark! there's his step. ? ome into the next room now, and be intro? duced. Don't wait till the carriages come?it's an hour yet." And Belle, with a beating heart, swept through the door and stood even as Dick first saw her, ouly in pi tee of the gray traveling dress, a magnificent white satin fell in rich folds about her, and about her lovely white throat lay the turquois locket that held Dick's golden curl. Upon the beautiful head, crowned by its cl e-'.nut. hair, a coronal of pearls added to the grace and beauty of an image that, shrined in Dick's heart, was already an angel. Belle did not look up, but she felt the pres? ence, as Richard Marcycame up and was in? troduced to little Jenuy's old school-mate. Then, as he held out his hand, she raised her eyes, and laid her tiny palm in his, and said : "I think we had better rectify thai mistake ?about the traveling-bag, Mr. Marcy !" "Good Heaven, Jenny," said Dick Marcy, "why didn't you tell me that your friend Belle was my 'Angel of Mercy'?" "Because t didn't know till last night, and then Belle made me promise not to tell. And besides; you didn't want to meet the freckled school girl till it was positively necessary," re? turned Jenny, mischievously. It would be hard to say which of the four that math? Jenny's bridal party was the happi? est that day. Dick did not go to Paris that winter. He found that St. Louis contained more attractions than any foreign city. But the next fall will see Dick and Belle on their wedding tour, and he vows he will have the two old romantic travelihg-bags brushed up for the occasion. Dr. Townscnd, who is to go ainng, says he knew the minute he saw that girl she would one day be Angelica Marcy, as he "felt it in the air."" ? -. A Wonderful Mkroscope.?A micro? scope has recently been invented and construct? ed, which magnifies objects 9,000,000,000 limes. At this rate of enlargement an ordinary fly would cover a space equal to New York City below Wall Street; a man would appear moro than a hundred miles high, and a hair of the ordinary length from a lady's head would reach half-way from New York to New Haven. Yet, under this enormous magnifying power, the creations of nature only display new beau? ties. A microscopic shell called, an angulatum, of which about one hundred and forty placed end to end would reach an inch, and which, when examined under ordinarily powerful mi? croscopes, is simply marked with lines of the most exquisite delicacy, exhibits under the new instrument half globes of white silex, whose diameters appear to be an inch and three quarters, and of which only fifteen can be seen at once. In reality the point of a cambric needle is larger than the circle upon which i these fifteen half globes exist, and yet that cir-' fie appears like a dessert-plate covered with lady apples. ? A milkman accounted for the thinness of his milk by saying that the cow got cauglit in j tue rain.. I Patriotism Appreciated. A CAMPAIGN STORY. Jeff Davis and Henry S. Foote were once stumping the State of Mississippi together, both being candidates for Governor. At one of the meetings the following incident occurred: "Fellow-citizens," said Davis, "I gave my boyhood to the study of amis and the art of war (which always create patriotic desires) at the United States Military Academy at West Point." "Good !" shouted an old backwoodsman un? der a slouched hat, and who sported butternut breeches, held up by one suspender. "Yes, gentlemen, when a young man, I was sent upon the Western frontier, where I spent several years, as a lieutenant, guarding the peo? ple of Arkansas against the fierce Seminoles, Greeks and Cherokees, who bad been driven from Florida, Alabama and Georgia at the point of the bayonet, and left upon the Wes? tern prairies." "Hooray I" yelled old Butternut. "I made sever?l trips among the Comanches and Lipans, to guard the people of Texas against the tomahawk and scalping knife." "Bully boy !" from old Butternut. "Believing that I could be more useful in civil life, I resigned my commission in the ar? my and came to Mississippi, and< you elected me to Congress. In that body I served you faithfully, always looking to the rights of Mis? sissippi and guarding you against every Feder? al, aggression." "tiger-r-r!" roared old Butternut. "Upon the first news that American blood had been spilled upon American soil, I flew to Mississippi upon the wings of the wind, raised a regiment, marched to Mexico, and at the bat-* tie of Buena Vista saved Taylor's army from ignominious defeat, and won for the American eagle a. glorious victory over the Mexican buz? zard !" "Glory!" shouted Butternut. "Since that time you have honored me with a seat in the United States Senate, where I have served you day and night through evil and good report, agreeing to no infamous com? promises, and zealously maintaining Southern rights against abolition aggression." "Three cheers for Davis 1 Hip ! hip! hooray!" yelled old Butternut. When Davis left the stand he made a bee line for his enthusiastic admirer and grasped his hand. "God bless you, Gineral:' said old Butternut; and did you really do all the good things for the country you jist told U9 about?" "Yes ; and more, too, my frieud." "Well, Gineral," said the old man, as the big tears, welled up in his eyes, "d?d ef you hain't done enough for the country, and we oughtn't to impose on you any more; so I'm a-going to vote for Foote myself." The Blasphemous Crow. At a certain cross-road in the State of Ala? bama stood a small grocery or whiskey shop, where "bust head" and "chain lightning" were dealt out to the thirsty unwashed at five cents a drink, or twenty-five cents a qua; t: The pre? siding genius of this delectable institution was one Bill Sikcs, who, among various pets, had a domesticated crow, black as the ace of spades. This crow had learned, among other things, to repeat quite plainly the words "damn you I" which he, of course, heard frequently used in the grocery. During the prevalence of a knock-down-and-drag-out fight one day, how? ever, the crow was frightened from home, and flew off to the woods, never to return. About three miles from the grocery was a settlement meeting-house?an old tumble-down affair, only used on certain occasions when a circuit rider came that way. Into this build? ing weut the crow, taking peaceable possession ; and two days thereafter the church was thrown open for preaching, and a large crowd assem? bled, among whom was a very old lady, who was compelled to use crutches in walking, who took her seat in the front pew, and was soon absorbed in the eloquence of the preacher. The reverend gentleman had scarce got under full headway, and commenced thundering his anathemas at all grades of sinners, when a hoarse, croaking voice from above littered the ominous words: "Damn you I" The preacher and congregation looked aghast at such profanity, and each peered into his neighbor's face in vain to detect some sign of guilt. Quiet being at lengtn restored, how? ever, the sermon proceeded; uut ere ten min? utes elapsed the ominous "damn you I" again electrified the audience, and just as the preach? er cast his eyes upward to search for the delin? quent, the crow flew down from his perch, and lighting upon the pulpit, calmly surveyed the terrified crowd ana gave another doleful croak: "Damn you!" The effect was electrical. Giving one start? ling and electrified glance at the intruder, the preacher sprang from the window, carrying sash, glass and all with him, and set off at a break-neck pace through the woods> closely followed by his horror-stricken congregation, who had piled out of the building pell-mell after hitn.-> . In the general scramble the old lady with the crutches had been knocked down in the church, where she lay, unable to rise ; and ob? serving her, the crow,*who was after something to cat, Hew down beside her, and looking up at her very knowingly, croaked out: "Damn you I" "Yes, and damn you, too! I had nothing to do with getting up this meetin'?and you know it." The poor old woman hud mistaken the crow for the devil, and concluded if possible to pro? pitiate his Satanic majesty bv denying com? plicity in that affair. The "world is f?ll of just such people. ? Why will next year be like last? Because last year was 1870, and next will be 1S72 (too). ? A Texas paper reports that since Septem? ber last 119,000 people,, with 1,664, wagons, have emigrated from Tennessee and Gt orgia in? to the Lone Star State. ? Tne favorite refrain of the Texas emigrants: about six months after their arrival?"Home, sweet home; there is no place like home"- with the variation, "Carry me back!" ? A little Boston girl joyfully assured her mother, the other day, that she had found out where they made horses?"she had seen a man i n a shop just finishing one of them, for he was nailing on his last foot." ? Those radicals who preach so much about l.onesty are beaten by a Chicago saloon keeper, whn keeps a temperance pledge behind bis bar, ami does his best to induce his bad paying cus? tomers to sign it. ? That man out West who is always doing surprising things, recently sent an order to Chicago for a piauo, and soon after wrote the dealers that he and his wife couldn't fii d the place to wind it up, and they wanted tc >e tuld at once how to make the thing go. ? A man in Connecticut has invented and published a most ingenious calender, good for three hundred years, and printed on paper the a\/.c of a visiting card If any man, after using it three hundred years, isn't satisfied with it the publisher will give him another free. ? A countryman from Danbury, Conn., whoes load of hay was found to contain half a ill /.en paving-stones when weighed for sale, said he could not quite account for them, but he remembered that in turning out for a team on the mad he "druv putty cluss to a stone wall." ? By the statement published by the New York Mercantile agency.th err have been twenty one failure*, with liabilities to the amount "of $315,000, in South Carolina duri ngt he year 1870,. showing an increase of two in the number of failures and $100,000 in the amount of liabili? ties over the statement of 1860. - Georg' Harper, of rural Now York, fail i; in sev< ii suicidal attempts, yielded to fiite ? 4^d maxried. j Is Religion Beautiful??Always! in the child, in the maiden, the mother. Religion shines with a benignant beauty of its own, which nothing on earth can mar. Never yet was female character perfect without the steady faith of piety. Beauty, intellect, wealth! they are like pitfalls, dark in the brightest day, un? less the divine light, unless Religion throws its soft beam around them to purify and exalt, making twice glorious that which seemed all loveliness before. Religion is very beautiful?in health and sickness, in wealth or in poverty. We can never enter the sick chamber of the good but soft music seems to float on the air, and the burden of the song is, "Lo I peace is here." Could we look into thousands of families to? day, where discontent fights sullenly with life, we should find the chief cause of uahappiness, want of Religion in woman. And in felons' cells, where crime, misery, destruction and ignorance is, we behold in all its deformity the fruit of. irreligion in woman. Oh, Religion I benignant mystery, high on thy throne thou sittest glorious and exalted. Not above the clouds, for earth clouds come never between the and truly pious souls ; not beneath the clouds, for above these is heaven, opening through a broad vista of exceeding beauty. -o-: Remedy for Hog Lice.?I herewith send you a remedy for hog lice, that will prove on trial, infallible: Procure some leaf tobacco, boil to a strong amber, in water enough to float it; mix while not, enough lard or refuse grease to make a thin salve ; rub on the pigs or hogs troubled, and in less than twenty-four hours they will not have a louse on them, if well rubbed. Also put leaf tobacco in their beds to make them smell strong, and the hogs will never be troubled with lice again while they sleep in the beds. The tobacco will not hurt figs in any reapect, even but a day old.?A 'armer. Again a Grass Widower.?A report is cur? rent In Charleston, and generally credited, that Bowen's last wife?Mrs. Petigru King?has abandoned him with indignation and disgust, owing to his ill-treatment of her, commencing soon after their marriage. ? "Teeth extracted with great pains," is the advertisement of a Washington dentist. ? John Hanckel, Esq., has been" elected President of the People's Bank of Charleston. ? At a recent Connecticut funeral the car? riages lost the way, not being able to keep up with the hearse. ? The latest mode in Lexington, Ky., of managing a husband disposed to stay out late of nights is for the wife to have "kicking hys? terics after he does come in. This species of husband-management proves so efficacious that the offence is rarely repeated. J. C. C. PEATHERSTON, ATTORNEY AT IAW, WILL practice in the Ceurts of Anderson, Abbe villa and surrounding Counties, and in the United States Courts. Omca?No. 8 Granite Row, up stairs, over NWatson & Bro's. Store, Anderson C. H. Jaa 8, 1871 27 FAMILY GROCERY AND Provision Store! McGRATH & BYRUM "|T"EEP on hand a large and well assorted stock ft of FAMILY GROCERIES. PROVISIONS, LIQUORS and CONFECTIONERIES, which they wiil sell law for cash or barter. They are always j in the Cotton market. Call and see ihem before you buy your Grooe-, ries or sell your cotton and country produce. McGRATH & BY HUM, Depot Street. Jan 5. 1871 27 3n A CARD. III AVK this day transferred ray Agency for the Bath Paper Mills, Bath, S. C, to McGRATH k BYRUM, and recommend my old customers to them. W. S. KEESB. Jaa 8, 1871 27 3ra BAGS! BAGS!! BAGS!!! WANTED, IAA AAA POUNDS OF COTTON RAGS, XUU?UUU for which, the highest cash priee will b'a paid. McGRATH & BYRUM, Depot Street. Agent for Batb Paper Mills. Jaa 5, 1871 27 8m In Equity, Anderson County. Mrs. Elizabeth W. Ross, Executrix, vs. John B. Sitton, Francis E. Harrison and others.?Com? plaint to Marshal Assets, j*c. PURSUANT to the order of the Court of Cem ^non Pleas, sitting in Equity, the creditor! of Anthony w. Ross, deceased, are required to present and establish their respective claims be? fore me on or before the 16th day of March, 1871. or be barred from the benefits of the aforesaid , Complaint. JOHN W. DANIELS, cor. Clerk'i Oflfice. Anderson C. H.. S. C, \ December 20, 1870. / Dec 22, 1870 26 8m tjOfr' Marion Crescent copy until 15th of March next, and lorward bill to thia office. PACIFIC GUANO COMPANY'S (CAPITAL $1,000,080) SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO. THIS Guano is now so well known in all the Southern States for its remarkable effects as an agency for increasing the products of labor, as not to require special recommendation from us. Irs use for five years past has established its char? acter for reliable excellence. The large fixed .ipital invested by the Company in this trade, affords the surest guarantee of the continued ex? cellence of its Guano. J. N. ROBSON, Selling Agent, Charleston, S. C. JNO. S. REESE k CO., General Agents, Bal? timore. Jan 5, 1871 27 8m COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE OF LIME, For Composting with Cotton Seed, THIS article is manufactured by the PACIFIC GUANO COMPANY at Charleston, S. O, under the Superintendence of Dr. ST. JULIEN RAVENEL. When composted with an equal weight of Cotton, Seed, it.; results have been found fully equal to the best standard fertilisers. Its economy must commend it to the notice of plan? ters generally. For specific directions for composing and for supplies, apply to J. N. ROBSON, Selling Agent, Charleston, S. C. JNO. 8. REESE k CO., General Agents, Bal? timore, j Jan 6, 1871 27 8m GREAT ATTRACTION AT SHARPE & TOWERS'. WE ARE NOW RECEIVING AN ADDITION To ear fermer large Steek of Coedj 1 The Ladies OF Anderson and vicinity are respectfully invited te call at Skarpe & Towers' and supply themselves with SHAWLS, FURS, DeLAINES, POP? LINS, GLOVES, Ac. SHAKPE ?Sc TOWER? Have just received a large and beautiful let of CALICO. ALSO, A large lot of Family Groceries?-Kie and Java COFFEE, SUGAR, SYRUP, BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, SALT, &o. Boots and Shoes. In fact our Btock is large anal fall, at LOW PRICES. ALSO, A large lot of BAGGING and TIKS, for sale 8HARPE & TOWERS, Anderson, S. C. Dec 8, 1878 24 For sale by Wilcox, Gibbs 4 Co., importers and dealers in Guanos. 148 Bay street, Savannah, 241 Broad street. Augusta, Ga., 151 East Bay, Charlesion. S ?'.; and by Sharps & Towibs, An? derson ; A. J. Stringer. Belton ; Dr. T. A. Hun i obns, Honea Path. For further information apply or address as above for pamphlei. Dee 15, 1870 25 4m IMPORTANT NOTICE TO CONSUMERS OF DRY GOODS. All Retail Orders amounting to $20 and Over Delivered in any Part of the Country Free ot Express Charge?. HAMILTON EASTER & SONS, OF BALTIMORE, AUfc, la order the better to.meet the wants of their Retail'Gut touiers at a distance, have established a SAMPJLB BUREAU, and will, upon upplirjnon, jwwnr./ty tend by mail fall lines of Samples of the Newest and most Fsshiouable Goods, ot FRENCH, ENGLISH and DOMESTIC MANUFACTURE, guaranteeing at all times to sell a?' low, if not at less prices, than any house in the country. lluying our goods from the largest and most celebrated manufacturer* in the dillerent parts of Europe, and im? porting the same by Steamers direct to Baltimore, our stock is at all times promptly supplied with the novelties of the London and Paris markets. As we buy and sell only for cash, a<u! naht no bad debts, we are able and willing to sell oui goo<U at i rom Tkx to Fifteen Per Cent. Less Profit tb.-.n if we gave credit. In sending for samples specify the kind of goods desired. We keep the best grades of every class of goo Is, from the lowest to the must costly. Orders unaccompanied'by the cash will be sent C. 0. D. PROMPT-PAYING WHOLESALE BUYERS are invi ted to inspect the Stock in our Jobbing and Packing De? partment. Address HAMILTON EASTER A SONS, 197, 199, 201 Midi 2W. West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md. Pot 27? 1870_ IS lj Schedule Blue Ridge Railroad. ON and after this date the following schedule will be observed by the Passenger Traina over this Road : up. . down. L've Anderson, 4.20 p m ' Pendleton,5.20 ? ' Pcrryville, 6.10 " Arr. Walhalla, 7.00 ? L've Walhalla, 4 00am " Perryville, 4.46 " " Pendleton. 5.30 ?? Arr. Anderson, 6.10 " In cases of detention on the G. and C. R. R., the train on this Road will wail (>ne hour for the. train from Belton, except on Sat days, when it will wait until the arrival of the i Jton train. W. H. D. G AIL L AR D.Sup't, Dee 8, 1870 24 BENSON HOUSE. rjnilE subscriber will con'inue Hotel-keeping _|_ for 1871. as this House and Lot, 8tables, Sc., in a short time will he repaired. N.o pains nor expense will be spared to render those stopping with me comfortable. My table will be supplied with the best the market affords, and charges moderate. $2 00 single day?57.00 per week, mid ?15.00 z>er month. Rooms to rent. T. J. ROBERTS. Dec 15. 187.0 25 DR. A. P. CATER HA8 removed to the house lately occupied by Mr. W. 8. Kee?e, where he can be found at all times, nnless professionally engaged. Jan 12,1871 tS 4. For the Speedy Relief AND PERMANENT CURE OF Consumption, Bronchitis, Asthma, Colds, And all Diseases of the Lungs, Chest, or 1?hroai, THE EXPECTORANT is composed exclosiVev ly of Herbal and Mucilaginous n'roductsv which PERMEATE TBE VERY SUBSTANCE^ OF THE LUNGS, causing them to ibrow off th* acrid matter which collects is the Bronchial Tubes, and at the same time forms a soothing coating, relieving the irritation which product* the cough. The object to be obtained is to cleanse the cr'' gan of all impurities ; fo? nourish and strengthen it when it has become impaired and enfeebled by disease ; to renew and invigorate the circulation of the blood, and strengthen the nervous organic \ iation. The EXPECTORANT does this to anW I tonishing degree. It is active but mild and con? genial, imparting functional energy and natural strength. It affords Oxygen to vitalize the blood, and Nitrogen to assimilate the matter?it EQUAL? IZES the "NERVOUS INFLUENCE," prodwinf ojuiet and coropostrre; to consumptive^ It is invaluable, as it immediately relieve! Che difficult breathing and harrassing cough whieh *V tends that disease. fob asthma It is a specific?one dose often relieving the iU' tressing choking, and producing calm and plea#* aut repose. fob croup No mother should ever be without a bottle of the EXPECTORANT in the bouse. We have numer? ous certificates of its having relieved, almost in? stantly, the little sufferer, when death appeared almost inevitable. Mothers be Advised I Keep it on Hand! This dread disease requires prompt action; a? soon as the hoarse, hollow cough is heard, apply the remedy, and it is easily subdued ; BUT DELAY IS DANGEROUS* HBP The properties of the EXPECTORANT are demulcent, nutritive, balsamic, soothing, and . healing. It braces the nervous system and pro? duces pleasunc and refreshing sleep. It Exhilarates and Relieves Gloominess and Depression. Containing all these qualities in a convea?*at and concentrated form, it has proven to be the ; Most Valuable Lung Balsam Ever offered to sufferers from Pulmonary diseases^ PREPARED BT WM. H. TUTT & LAND, Augusta, Ga., Sold by Druggists every w hero. Qqt 27. 1870 1 lj Sixty-Five First Prize Medals Awarded, THE OBEAT OUT HE BIT PIANO MANUFACTORY. WM. KNABE ?Sc CO.? MANUFACTURERS OF ? GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PIANO FORTES, BALTIMOSE, XD. These Instrumenta have been before the Public for near? ly Thirty Years, and upon their excellence ?Ion? attained an unpurehased pre-eminence, which pronounces them un? equalled. Thuir TONE combines great power, aweetneu ' Mid fine singing quality, as well as great purity of Intona? tion nnd Sweetness throughout the entire scale. Their TOUCH is pliant and elastic, and entirely free from tha at id es* found in so luany Pianos. IN WORKMANSHIP they axe unequalled, using none bui the very best season? ed 'material, the largo capital employed in our business enabling us to keep continually an immense Btock of lum? ber, Ac, on hand. OSr All our Squabs Pianos have our Now Improved L Overstrung Seals andithc Aoraffe Treble. ' Sir We would'call special attention to our late lmarove meuts In GRAND PIANOS- AND SQUARE GRANDS, Patented August 14, 1866, which bring the Piano nearar perfection thau has yet been attained! Every Piano fully Warranted for 5 Yean. We have made arrangements for the Solk Wholesale Aoency for the most celebrated PARLOR ORGANS and MELODEONS, which we oiler, Wholesale and. Retail, at Lowest Factory Prices. W. EN ABE & CO., Baltimore,. Mi. Sept 15, 1870 12 Sit' P. P. T O ALE, 1 Charleston, @. C ( Largest and roost complete 1 tg^m \ Manufactory of Doors, Sashee, / ^* J Blinds, Mouldings, &c, in th?| \ Southern States. / tST Printed Price List Dffies Comgetitiam. B8&~ SEMD ?OB OKI. jgy Sent free on application. May f>, 1870 48 ly [Water whee! MUt 'GranniSh^in^ftillep k ^SEUD FQRA CIRCUIMLJ?? Sept io, ibiu l? FRED. B. HODGES, ATTORNEY AT LAW. office, habtwell, ga. Kjjr WILL practice in Elbert, Hart, Franklin and Mad:?on Counties. O?^ 187.0 15. 6?