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|dtk? j?ptfr. BT A TRANCE. I scarcely know how it happened, but a tim? ber must have fallen and struck me ob the Bead. The first thing that I realized after it was that I was straight and still on something hard, and when I tried- to move myself and speak, I found it impossible to do so. I concluded that I must be iu some very tight, dark place, for I could not see; in fact I soon learned that, tho' perfectly conscious, I could do nothing but hear. A door opened and footsteps approach? ed.;, but I felt a cloth taken from my lace, and a- voice which I recognized as that of Mr. Jones,, the father of my wife that was to be? said r 1lHe*hasn't changed much," and his compan? ion, whose voice f knew to be the village un? dertaker, Hopkins by name, lightly: "Better looking dead than alive. How does Jerusha feel about it? Take on much ?" \ "Oh, no, she had her eye on another fellow anyhow, and a better match, too, excepting the money part Though I had nothing against Ben, only he didn't know much, and was about the homeliest man I ever knew. Such a mouth, why it really seemed as though he was going . to swallow knife, plate and all, when he opened it at dinner." * "Well," said the cheerful voice of Hopkins, "he'll never open his mouth again." And then he proceeded to measure me for my coffin, for it seemed that I was dead, or they thought j I was, which was all the Bame to the greedy pocket of the undertaker. I had heard of un? dertakers who always whistled ioyrolly when they got a measure, out I sever believed it be? fore". But the man actually whistled a subdued dancing-tnne while he measured me, and it seemecf to ma that three or four icicles were j rolling down my back, to the music of his His duty done, they covered my face again and left me to my own. reflections, which were not particularly comforting, although I had often heard it remarked, that meditation was good for the soul, and this was the best chance I ever had of trying it An hour must nave passed when the door again opened, and two person came whispering along to where I lay, and the voice of my promised wife fell upon my ear. "I <3?read to look at him, Bob; he was so mortal homely, alive, he must be frightful, dead.-" I ground my teeth in imagination, as I re? membered how often she had gone into rap? tures, or pretented to, over my noble brow, and expressive mouth; and how she had often de? clared that if I were taken away from her she would surely pine away and die. One of them raised the cloth, and I knew they were looking at me. Bob was her second cousin, and I knew he was that "other fellow," whom her father had mentioned. ?'?'Seems to me you don't feel very bad about his dying, Busha," remarked Bob, meditative? ly. "Well, to tell the truth," said my dear be? trothed, "I don't care very much about it. If he had lived I should have married him, be? cause he was rich, and father wanted me to; but I was getting about sick of my bargain, for I know I should always be ashamed of him, he looked so much like a baboon." "But you loved him," remarked Bob. "No, I didn't I My affections were wasted long ago upon one who never returned my love;" and my fast fading idol sighed heavily. "About how long ago, Rusha ?" asked Bob, earnestly. "A year, or such a matter," with another deep sigh, which ended in a fit of squeezing. "About the time I went away ?" interrogated the cautious Bob, coughing a little. "Well, yes, som'res near," assented my dear affianced. "Now, Jerush, you don't mean to insinuate that I?-" "I don't mean to insinuate anything, Bob Smith!" and the angelic sweetness of her voice was somewhat sharpened. "Now, see here, Kusha, I've loved you ever since you were knee high to a gopher, but I thought when you came home that you was sweet on that other-chap; but I swan I believe you liked me all the time I" "Oh, Bob 1" said my was-to-be, in a gushing 8ortof way. "Mine own Jerusha!" remarked Bob. Then I heard a subdued rush, accompanied by violent lip explosions. I tried to kick, or grate my teeth, or do something to relieve my outraged feelings, but not a kick nor a grate could I raise. It was an awful fix to be in, but I had to stand it, or rather lay it, so I laid still and let 'em alone until they got tired of it, and then they went out, and I was again left to my own pleasant reflections. Night came, and so did a lot of young fellows with their girls, to sit up with me; and they had a jolly time of it, although it was against my principles to enjoy it on so solemn an oc casion. It seemed an age until morning, but it came at last and they went away. I heard them say that I was to be buried that day at 2 o'clock, and I wa3 beginning to feel decidedly shaky, when Jerusha ana her mother came into the room and began arranging for the funeral. "Bush," said her mother, "here is that snuff colored suit of poor Ben's; of course he will m never have any more use for clothes, so just put them away among your carpet-rags ; they will make a splendid stripe." Now, that particular suit of clothes was just the neatest one I ever owned?arm holes, col? lars, wrist bands, buttons, all just the thing, and my blood boiled to hear them talk so cooly of using them for stripes in a rag-carpet They kept on talking as they swept, dusted and cleaned up the room. "Bob says he will take the Martin farm to work this year," said Jerusha, cheerfully, "and as soon as we are married we shall go to house? keeping, in that little cottage close to the road. Now I must get my carpet done, just as soon as possible, for I want it in that nice little front room. These duds of Ben's will make out enough rags, I guess. His folks live so far away they will never inquire about his clothes. Now, if it wasn't for the looks of it, we could ask old Mother Smith about coloring yellow; ? Bbe*s sure to bo here to-day." I was getting very mad now, indeed. I felt that the crisis was near, and that I should either die or explode if they did let not my snuff | colored suit alone. Jerusha kicked them up? I knew it, for I heard the buckles and buttons jingle?and made for the door. I tried to shake my fist and yell at her, but all in vain. I laid there, outwardly as quiet as a lamb, in? wardly boiling with wrath. It was too much ; the deepest trance could not have held out X'nst the loss of that suit With a powerful ?fc I sprang up and screamed. Jerusha dropped my clothes and her mother the duster, and they both fled from the room and the bouse, never stopping until they reached Dr. Brown's, across the street. With difficulty I managed to get my clothes. I had just got them- fairly on, when Mrs. Jones and her daughter, followed by a numerous company of j men,,women and children, came peering; cau tiously into the room. I sai- on my bed board and looked at them. Such a scared looking crowd was enough to amuse an owl, so I laughed; I knew it was unbecoming, but I couldn't have helped it if they had chucked me into my coffin?which the undertaker was just carrying past the window?and buried me the next minute. I laughed until I jarred the chair out from under one end of the beard, and down I went with a crash. Then the doctor ventured into the room, saying, rather dubi? ously: "So yon are not dead yet, Ben ?" "Well, no, not exactly," I replied, "sorry to disappoint my friends about the funeral, how? ever." "Yes," he said, rather absently, "bad, rather ?that is?ahem 1" "Fooled out of that snuff-colored stripe!" I thought as I looked at Jerusha. "Go and speak with him," said her father, in stage whisper. "He's got the stamps, and you had better marry him after all." They began to gather around me and con? gratulate me on my escape. I noticed that they cried a great deal more now than when I was dead. Jerusha came and hung around my neck, sniveling desperately. I gave her a not over-gentle push, and told her to wait until I was safely buried before she set her heart on my old clothes. "0,1 am so glad!" she said, sweetly, withont appearing to notice what I said about clothes ?"that you are not dead, Benny dear. My heart seemed all withered and broken to see you lying all cold and white. I wept bitterly over your pale face, my beloved." "Yes," I replied, "I heard-you and Bob tak? ing on terribly. It was a lucky die for me." "Could you hear ?" she gasped. "I rather think I could some," I replied. She looked toward the door, but it was crowded full, so she made a drive for the orjen window, and went through it like a deer, bhe shut herself up in the smoke-house, and would not come out until after I had left the house. Bob would not fill his promise of marriage with his cousin because she tried to make up with me again; she is living a life of single blessedness. While I am writing, my wife is cutting up my snuff-colored clothes to make a stripe in a new carpet for our front room. Claims op Laboe,?The working-man, as soon as he emerges from a condition of abject ignorance, demands an equitable share of the profits of his industry. He feels that in return for faithful and persistent labor, and the prac? tice of strict economy and prudence, he is enti? tled to something more than a bare subsistence. He should have the satisfaction and reward of accumulation. The results of his toil, after a reasonable length of time, should be such as to place Mm in a position of comfort and inde? pendence. He does not childishly ask to be made rich by act of legislature, but merely to be allowed to hold what is properly his own. The farmer wants to know, when he brings his wheat and corn, his vegetables and fruits, into market, why he can get barely the cost of pro? duction, often less than the cost, while on everything he buys?his tea and sugar and cloth, his tools and implements?he has to pay a profit of from thirty to one hundred per cent. The working men and women are acquiring the disagreeable habit of asking why the mer? chant, the banker, the speculator, who add not one dollar to the available wealth of the com? munity, should grow rich, while the majority of those to whose faithful toil the world Is in? debted for all the wealth there is, are put to their wit's end to get the barest subsistence. In a word, why should the creators of wealth get the smallest share of it? This is a simple question, but it goes to the bottom of our social organization, and touches the fundamental in? justice. It is fairly launched upon tbe current of public thought, and nothing can prevent its being carried to its logical conclusions. It involves a radical investigation of banking and currency, of land tenures and interest; and it points to the substitution of some system of equitable co-operation in place of the present absurd and ruinous principle of competition and profits. The Philosophy op Rain.?To understand the philosophy of this beautiful and often sublime phenomenon, so often witnessed and so very essential to the existence of plants and animals, a few facts derived from observation and a long train of experiments, must be re? membered : 1. Were the atmosphere here, everywhere, and at all times, of a uniform temperature," we should never have rain, hail or snow. The water absorbed by it in evaporation from the sea and the earth's surface, would descend in an imperceptible vapor, or cease to be absorbed by tbe air when it was once fully saturated. 2. The absorbing power of the atmosphere, and consequently its capacity to retain humid? ity, is apportionately greater in warm than in cold air. The air near the surface of the earth is warmer than it is in the region of the clouds. The higher we ascend from the earth the colder do we fand the atmosphere; hence, the perpet? ual snow on very high mountains, in the hottest climate. j Now, when from continued evaporation the air is highly saturated with vapor, though it be invisible and the sky cloudless, if its tempera? ture is suddenly reduced by cold currents de? scending from above, or rushing from a higher to a lower latitude, its capacity to retain mois? ture is diminished?clouds are formed, and rain is the result. It condenses, cools, and like a sponge filled with water and compressed, pours out the water which its diminished ca? pacity cannot hold. Description op a Quadrille.?It is de? scribed "thusly" by a young man who tried: "We both bowed to both of us, and then to t'other; then the fidler turned and the thing started. I grabbed for her female hand, she squeezed mine, we both slung each other, then we changed base clear across the room, jumped up and down ever so many times; then my dear dozed a hop and doe, and scotched home again; (from a foreign shore;) then we two forwarded four, ladies changed, we X'd over, turned around twice, chassayed sideways, I backed to place, she dittoed; side couples to the left; side couples turn ladies, ladies turn side couples, all hands around, back again, first fellow takes opposite gal, slings her around, take your Own gal and t'other feller's; forward and back twice, both gals two times, sling 'em to opposite feller, let him do as he pleases; light gentleman balance to heavy lady, heavy lady duplicate; promenade all; girls to the centre; reilers ketch hold of each other's hand's, bob up and down, each feller takes his gal back to plaice. Right gent spin right lady, left lady spin left gent, all twice each other, do it again, over, repeat, keep it up; all turn t'other back? ward, sideways, back again, to our seats." Keep Your Feet Warm.?To keep these extremities warm is to effect an insurance against the almost interminable list of disor? ders which spring out of a "slight cold." First, never be tightly shod. Boots or shoes, when they fit closely, press against the foot, and prevent the free circulation of the blood. When, on the contrary, they do not embrace the foot too tightly, the blood gets fair play, and the peaces left between the leather and stockings are filled with a comfortable supply of warm air. The Becond rule is, never sit in damp shoes. It is often imagined that unless they are positively wet, it is not necessary to change them while the feet are at rest. This is a fallacy; for when the least dampness is absorbed into tbe sole, it is attracted further to the foot itself by its own heat, and thus perspi? ration is dangerously checked. Any person may prove this by trying the experiment of neglecting the rule, and his feet will become cold and damp after a few moments, taking off tbe boot or shoe and warming it, it will appear quite dry. ? The Cincinnati Gazette sarcastically ob? serves : "We hear of the nobility of labor, and we find every laborer trying to shirk it; of the noble workingman, the noble mechanic,1 and so on, and we find the noblemen striving 1 to get most pay for least service, and to rise above their noble callings as soon as they can. We hear of the nobility of trade, of our mer? chant princes, of the manufacturers as bene? factors, of the noble learned professions, and we find all actuated by the same ambition to get money for least value. All this talk of nobility of" calling is a cheap and harmless in? dulgence." ? You can get a good rhinoceros now for $4,000. Rhinocroses are coming down, and will soon Hiu reach of tue humblest families.1 Uncle Lilly Objects to Civil Bights. I "interviewed" Uncle Billy, a good colored friend of mine, the other day, on the question of civil rights. "Don't want nuffin more," said Uncle Billy. "Got too much already fur dis niggah." "How is that, Uncle Billy ? Is it not a good thing to be equal before the law ?" "Now, Marse Boss," grunted Billy, plain? tively, "dar's jist whar de misery comes in. We're ekal before de law, an' dar yer hit our weak pint. Before de war, ef niggah stole chicken an' pig, yer jerked him up, guv him thirty-nine lashes an' let him go. But jist let a cullud pusson try it now 1 Yer hauls him 'fore the court and sen's him to de penitentia? ry, just like he was one of yerjsoor white trash. Dat's what 'tis to be ekal 'fore de law I" I suggested to Uncle Billy that this might be obviated by being a little more honest. "Marse Boss," interrupted Billy, "we can't run agin natur. It's nat'ral fur niggah to steal pig and chicken, fryin' size. Yer know it is, au' 'taint no use tryin' to stop us. Now we I uns are willin' to let you uns alone, and you all jist let us alone on this pint. We're pow? erful weak on dis pint, Marse Boss." Just here a perverse and disloyal spirit tempt? ed me to hint to Uncle Billy that the colored people were indebted to their Republican friends for this change in their status. "Well, den, Marse Boss," said he, "all Ise fot to say is, de law's got to be changed. Mus' ab a law for de white mau and a law for de black man." Strange as it may seem, some of our best citizens echo Uncle Billy's sentiment. They are inclined to view the negro's minor trans? gressions in a lenient light, and I know that some of our Democratic Judges impose lighter penalties upon colored men for small offences than they would do in cases where the guilty parties were white. Before Uncle Billy left I asked him how he would like to sit down at the table with white folks at the hotels. "Great Goddlemighty," exclaimed the good old man. "I allow youso tryin' to make fun o' dis chile. Why, you knows yourself dat no cullud pusson ebber lets a white man see 'em eat if dey kin help it." This is strictly true. The ordinary Southern negro will not eat in the presence of a white spectator. "Well, Uncle Billy," I said, "it is very evi? dent that you don't want any civil rights." "Not anything more, I tank yon," replied Billy, "Nearly done ruined now. Hev to pay my own doctor's bills, lost all my money in the Freedmeu's Bank; nebber got no forty acres an' de mule dey promised me; an' can't help myself to a little chicken, fryin' size, widout gwine to de penitentiary. I'se got 'nuff cibbil rights!" The above is no production of the fancy. It is a true incident, nonestly told, and it is im? possible to talk to the country negroes without hearing just such things as I have related. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? A young man charged with being lazy was asked if he took it from his father, "I think not," was the reply. "Father has got all the laziness he ever had." ? A Chicago paper says that a young wid? ow in that city, who writes well, is training herself for an editor. We hope that we are j not the editor she is training herself for. j ? They build very large residences out West. An Iowa paper says: "It's only twen? ty-one years since the first house was erected in Burlington and now it contains 20,120 in? habitants." ? The first case arising under the civil rights law was before the United States Commissioner in Wilmington N. C, on Friday last. A negro caused the arrest of a saloon keeper for refusing to sell him a drink. The case was dismissed, on the ground that the civii rights bill did not apply to bar-rooms. ? The Augusta Constitutionalist says: If the people of the North should lose their liber? ties as a consequence of having, through greed and hatred, destroyed the liberties of the South, we fail to see the use of bewailing such righteous retribution. It is our hope and desire that all parts of the country may be once more free and happy; but if the North should sink into the pit dug for the South, we need not waste any tears over the catastrophe. ? The Springfield (Mass.) Republican says: "It is not quite enough for Republican journals of character and influence to assure us thai the Republican party can be trusted to elect justsuch Republicans next year as Mr. Thurlow Weed describes?'capable, experienced and inflexibly honest.' What the public wants to know is whether they regard Mr. Grant as filling the bill, and whether in the event of his renomi nation by the party convention they are ready to support him." ? Parson Brownlow takes his retirement from oflicial life with much philosophy. He is now editor of the Knoxville Whig and Chroni? cle, which position he seems to think quite ex? alted, saying "that he is getting up in the world; he is promoted; he is now in a position of far more power and respectability than be? ing a member of Congress. Small mem, with plenty of money and no brains, may crawl into the Senate as the snail crawled to the top of the pyramid, but such a fellow can't run a great newspaper." ? Somebody has figured out the interesting fact that the total amount of State, connty, city, and town taxes collected in the United States in 1870 was $280,591,000, which was about $7 a head for the entire population. The total amount of these taxes collected in 1860 was $94,186,000, which was about $3 a head for the entire population. It cost, there? fore, more than twice as much to take care of a j man in his State, county, and municipal rela- \ tions in 1870 as it did ten years before. This does not include the Federal taxation. ? An English physician recently removed a section of a patient's liver, placed it on a plate, scraped it carefully, and returned it to its place, fully restored to its normal action. This promises to work a revolution in the treat? ment of the 'disease, and in a few years we will have an addition to domestic literature something like this: "Husband, I wish you would take John's right lung down to the doc? tor this morning, and have the middle valve fixed," or, "Will you stop into doctor's when you come home this noon, and see if he has Mary's liver mended, as she wants to go out to tea this evening." ? At a dinner party in "town" last August, there were two sisters present, one a widow who had just emerged from her weeds, the oth? er not long married, whose husband had lately gone to India for a short term. A young bar? rister present was deputed to take the widow into diunor. Unfortunately he was under the impression that his partner was the married lady whoso husband had just arrived in India. The conversation between them commenced by the lady's remarking how hot it was. "Yes, it is very hot," returned the young barrister. Then a happy thought suggested itself to him, and he added, with a cheerful smile, "But not so hot as the place to which your husband has gone." The look with which tho lady answered this "happy thought" will haunt that unhappy youth till his death. ? This story is told of a certain Chicago gentleman : He was in New York not long since; he stopped at the Windsor, and during tho night heard a person walking rapidly up and down in the room over his own apartment. Thinking that some fellow-mortal was in dis? tress, and being anxious to relieve him if possi? ble, the Chicago g?tleman rushed up the stairs and knocked at the door. A voice bade him enter, and upon doing so he saw a young man, apparently in great distress of mind, standing in the middle of the room. "My friend," said the humane caller, "what is the matter?" "Oh sir," was tho the reply, "lam ruined. 1 have &?,000 to pay in the morning and can't raise a dollar." "Is that all ?" was the soothing response; "then go to bed, young man, sleep in peace, and let the other mau do tho walking to-morrow night.'* * AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, ftc. HABT & CO. WE ARE IN RECEIPT OF A FULL LINE OF Swedes Iron, Hoes, Trace Chains, Plow Steel, Nails, Pot Ware, Guns, Pistols, Wooden Ware, Rope, Plow Lines, Tin Ware, Adjustable Flow Stock. m em:/ Burdick's National Hay and Fodder Cutter. ALSO, The Following Wrought Steel Sweeps: Orangeburg. . Batesville. Greenville. 4 CS3 ^w^r?^ 39 Hayne Street, and Corner King and Market Streets, Jan 7,1875 CHARLESTONS S. C. 25 3m FARMERS, LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST. GREAT HOME-MADE FERTILIZER. SIMPSON, HILL <fe CO. would in form tho Farming community that they aro prepared to furinsh CHEMICALS, properly/proportioned, for one of tb/ t FERTILIZERS known, at not exceeding one-fourth the cost of tho Commercial Fertilizers. .7ithin tho last three years we have placed it in the hands of somo of tho most thoroughly practical Farmers of the County, who express themselves fully satisfied with results, regarding it as equal, if not superior to any of tho Commorcial, somo of them having tested them side by side. Wo refer you to a few of them, viz: Wm. Burriss, John Brown, James A. Drake, Hugh McCarley, Geo. Stevenson, Dr. Carpenter, Joiin Dalrymple, Rev. Jacob Burriss. Many others might be mentionod. In no case have unfavorable results been reported. Plcaso call on us at our Drug Storo and got your Chemicals, also formula and directions for use. SIMPSON, HILL & CO. We would respectfully inform our customers that our OLD ACCOUNTS from the year 1870 to 1873, inclusive, MUST BE PAID. Wo havo waited long enough. We do not wish to be harsh?but the money MUST COME. SIMPSON, HILL & CO. Nov 19, 1874 19 Important News to Planters! GREAT SEDUCTION IK PEICES. m (MBA wmi IN view of the low prices obtained for Cotton the present season, and in order to place our Guanos within the reach of every Planter, we have greatly reduced our prices. They will bo sold as follows: CAROLINA FERTILIZER. Cash Price. Per Ton of 2,000 lbs.. - - $46. Payable May 1st, 1875. Time Price. Per Ton of 2,000 lbs., - $53. Payable Hot. 1st, 1875, Free of Interest. THE Bradley's Patent Phosphate. Cash Price. Per Ton of 2,000 lbs., - - $46. Payable May 1st, 1875. Time Price. Per Ton of 2,000 lbs., - - $53. Payable Nov. 1st, 1875, Free of Intorest. _ THE Palmetto Acid Phosphate. Cash Price. ? Per Ton of 2,000 lbs., - - $30. Payablo May 1st, 1875. Time Price. Per Ton of 2.000 lbs., - - $35. Payable Nov. 1st, 1875, Free of Interest. Freight and Bray age to be Added. Call on Agents for Almanacs and Informa? tion. FOR SALE BY W. S. 8HARPE, Anderson, S. C. TOWERS & BROYLES, Andorson, S. C. A. J. STRINGER & CO., Belton. J. & D. S. McCULLOUGH, Honoa Path. WM. LEE & CO., Honoa Path. THOMAS CRYMES, Williamston. C. E. HORTON, Williamston. J. C. CHERRY, Pondloton. Geo. W. Williams & CO., Proprietors, Charleston, S. C. Jan 14,1875 26 4m The Albove Cut Represents Tozer's Improved AGMCULT?KAL ENGINE! OF which there are now more than a dozen at work in Anderson County. For further information, apply to N. K. SULLIVAN & CO., Anderson, S. C, or ad? dress the undersigned. BICHABD TOZEE, Columbia, S. C. Deo 3,1874 21 ly THE STONO PHOSPHATE CO. OF CHARLESTON, S. C. WILLIAMS, BLACK & WILLIAMS, Agents, SOUTH ATLANTIC WHARF. These First Class Fertilizers, carefully pre? pared undor the special supervision of our Chemist, Dr. ST. JULIEN RAVENEL, are now offered at reduced rates. THE STONO SOLUBLE GUANO, Is a thoroughly-ammoniated Fertilizer. THE STONO ACID PHOSPHATE Is excellent for composting, or in the drill with soed. Special Rates will be mado with all purcha? sers for Cash Orders. Address E. C. WILLIAMS, Treasurer, Key Box 486, Charleston, S. C. C. A. REED, Agont, Anderson, S. C. Jan 7,1875 25 3m CARRIAGE FACTORY. THE undersigned bog leave to inform their friends, and the public gen orally, that they have started a Carriage Factory in the brick building iu front of John R. Cochran's residence, where thoy aro prepared to Repair Buggies, Wagons, Harness, tfec., in the most workmanlike style, and on reasonable terms. Wo expect to have on hand ?Jew now Buggies to supply the trade. Bring on your old Buggies and havo them re? painted. J. L. FANH & CO. Jau 14,1875 26 3m Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned hereby gives notice that he will make application to W. W. Hum? phreys, Judge of Probate for Anderson Coun? ty, on Wednesday, the 24th day of March next, for a Final Settlement of the Estate of Jamos Shirley, deceased, and a Final Discharge there? from. L. D. HARRIS, Adm'r. Fcb 18,1875 31 5 New Advertisements. rpTl A ??The choicest in the world-?Importers* JL JilZX?prices?Largest company in America?staple article?pleases everybody?Trade continually increasing. Agents wanted every where?best inducements?don't waste time?send for Circular to 30BEBT WELLS. 43 Vesey Street, N. Y.,P. 0. Box 1287. K A WEEK to Agents to sell an article saleable a* I O flour. Profits immense. Package free. Address BUCKEYE M'FG CO., Marlon, Ohio. SEND FOR MY NEW 3$ Powr'a Agricultural Works, York? Penn'?, Xmtfactvrtroflmp'dStand&? Agricultural Implements I $200 i month to agents everywhere. Address EX? CELSIOR M'FG go., Buchanan, Michigan. ADVERTISING: CHEAP: Good: Systematic. All persons who contemplate making contracts with newspapers for the insertion of advertisements, should send 25 cents to Geo. P. Rowell & Co., 41 Park Row, New York, for their PAMPHLET-BOOK (ninety-seventh edi? tion), containing list of over 2000 newspapers and esti? mates, showing the cost. Advertisements taken for lead? ing papers in many States at a tremendous reduction from publishers' rates. Get the book. $f)Apcrdavat home. Terms free. Address ?V GEO. STINSON A CO., Portland, Maine, ?I A WEEK guaranteed to Male and Female Agent? in their locality. Costa NOTHING to try it. Par? ticulars Free. P. O. VICKEBY & CO., Augusta, Ms. Terms of Advertising are offered for Hewepapera in the State of S. CAROLINA! Send for list of papers and schedule of rates. Address Geo. P. Rowell & Co., Advertising Agents, HO. 41 FABK BOW, XEW YOEK. Refer to Editor op this Paper. Hos. 3 Broad Street and 109 East Bay Street, CHARLESTONS. C. First-Class Work OUR SPECIALTY, yet, bt using cheaper grades op stock, we can furnish work at LOWEST LIVING PRICES. FINE FASlSTsTATlEAY, Piries Paper and Envelopes. Redding and ?all invitations ON THE BEST STOCK AND PRINTED IN THE LATEST STYLE. Sept 10,1874 iy Encourage Home People & Home Enterprise. THE only door, SASH and blind fac? tory owned and managed by a Caroli? nian in this Citv. All work guaranteed. Watson & son, Agents, Anderson, S. C. Sept 24,1874 11 6m M. GOLDSMITH. P. KIND. PHOENIX IRON WORKS COLUMBIA, S. O. GOLDSMITH & KIND, FOUNDERS & MACHINISTS, HAVE always on hand Stationary Steam Engines and Boilers for Saw Mills, etc., Saw and Grist Mills, Cotton Presses, Gearing, Shafting, Pullies, etc. Castings of every kind in Iron or Brass. We guarantee to furnish En? gines and Boilers of as good quality and power, and at as low rates as can be nad in the North. We manufacture, also, the Gaddy Improved Water Wheel, which we recommend for pow? er, simplicity of construction, durability and cheapness. We warrant our work, and assure promptness and dispatch in filling orders. GOLDSMITH <fc KIND, Columbia, S.C. May 28,1874_46_ly HENRY BISCHOFF & CO., Wholesale Grocers, AND DEALERS IN CAROLINA BICE, Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco, ?Sic, ?See, <&c, 197 and 199 East Bay Street, CHARLESTON, S. C Sole Agents for South Carolina for the Sale of OLD VALLEY WHISKEY. Aug 20,1874 6m CHRISTOPHER'S ALTA SAFETY OIL. WABBANTED 150 deg. HBE TEST. This Oil is guaranteed to be entirely free from Volatile, Hydro-Carbons or Naptha, thereby rendering it impossible to explode or take firo from breakage of lamps, and after a trial in general use of three years, is pronounced by Scientists and Experts SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER OIL, in those qualities which consti? tute a first quality Illuminating Oil, namely? Safety, High Fire Test, Great Illuminating Pow? er, Purity of Color and absence of Odor. ?ST- Suitable for any Coal Oil-Lamp. Man? ufactured by CHRISTOPHER & CO., Patapsco Oil Works, BALTIMORE. Also, Standard Illuminating Oil?110? Fire Test. Christopher <fc Co's Special Carbon Oil, 125? Test. Gasolines and Pure West Virginia Lubricating Oil. Fob 18, 1375_.A_2m Buckwheat Flour! YERY FINE, for salo by TOWERS & BROYLES.