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|itta IntcIIigcnar. ?<?? "Come, John," said I, cheerfully, "it really is time to go; if you stay any longer I shall be afraid to come down and lock the door after you." My visitor arose?a proceeding that always reminded me of the genius emerging from the eopper vessel, as he measured six feet three? and stood looking reproachfully down upon me. "You are irta great harry to get rid of me," lie replied. Now, I didn't agree with him, for he had made his usual call of two hours and half; Having, in country phrase, taken to "sitting up" with me so literally that I was frequently at my wit's ends to suppress the yawn that I knew would bring a troop rushing after it. He was a fine, manly looking fellow, this John Cranford, old for bis age?which was the rather boyish period of twenty-two?and every way worthy of being loved. But I didn't love him- I was seven years his senior; and when instead of letting the worm of concealment prey on his damask cheek, he ventured to tell his love for my mature self, I remorsely seized an English Prayer Book, and pointed sternly to the clause?"A man may not marry his grandmother." That was three years ago; and I added, encouragingly, "Beside, John, you are a child, and don't know your own mind." "If a man of nineteen doesn't know his own i mind," remonstrated my lover, "I would like to know who should. But I will wait for you seven years, if you say so?fourteeu, as Jacob did for Kachel." "You forget," I replied, laughing at his way of mending matters, "that woman does not, like wine, improve with age. But seriously, John, this is absurd ; you are a nice boy, aud I like you?but my feelings towards you are more those of a mother than a wife." The boy's eyes flashed indignantly, and be? fore I could divine his intention, he had lifted me from the spot where I stood, and carried rne infant fashion to the sofa at the other end of the room; "I could almost find in my heart to shake you 1" he muttered, as he sat me down with emphasis. This was rather like the courtship of Wil? liam of Normandy, and matters promised to be quite exciting. "Don't do that again," said I, with dignity, when I had recovered my breath. "Will you marry me?" asked John, some what threateningly. "Not just at present," I replied. The great, handsome fellow, I thought, as he paced the floor restlessly. Why couldn't he fall in love with some girl of fifteen, instead of setting his affections on an old maid like me ? I don't want the boy on my hands, and I won't have him I "As to you being twenty-six," pursued John, in answer to my thought, "you say its down in the family Bible, and I suppose, it must be so ; but I don't care if you're 'forty.' You look like a girl of sixteen, and you are the only woman I shall ever love." Oh, John, John! at least five millions of men have said the same thing before in every known language. Nevertheless, when you fairly break down and cry, I relent?for I am disgracefully soft-hearted?and weakly promise then and there that I will either keep my own name or take yours. For love is a very dog in 'the manger, and John looked radiant at this concession. It was a comfort to know that if he could not gather the flower himself, no one else would. A sort of family shipwreck had wafted John to my threshold. Our own household was sad ly broken up, and I found myself compara tively young in years with a half invalid fa? ther, a large house, and very little money What more natural than to take boarders ? And among the first were Mr. Cranford, and his son, and sister, who had just been wrecked themselves by the death of the wife and moth er in a foreign land?one of those sudden, un expected deaths that leave the survivors in a dazed condition, because it is so difficult to imagine the gay worldling who has been called hence in another state of being. Mr. Cranford was one of my admirations from the first. Tall, pale, with dark hair and eyes, he reminded me of Dante, only that he was handsomer; and he had such a general air of knowing, (without the least pedantry, how? ever,) that I was quite afraid of him. He was evidently wrapped up in John, and patient with his sister?which was asking quite enough of Christian charity under the sun, for Mrs. Shellgrove was an unmitigated nuisance. Such a talker! babbling of her own and ber brother's affairs with equal indiscretion, and treating the father as though he were an incapable in? fant. They staid with us three years, and during that time I was fairly persecuted about John. Mrs. Shellgrove wrote me a letter on the sub? ject, in which she informed me that the whole family were ready to receive me with open arms?a prospect that I did not find at all alluring. They seemed to have set their hearts upon me as a person peculiarly fitted to train John in the way he should go. Everything, I was told, depended on his getting the right kind of a wife. A special interview, with Mr. Crauford, at his particular request, touched me considerably. "I hope," said he, "that you will not refuse my boy, Mis3 Edna. He had set his heart so fully upon you, and you are everything that I could desire in a daughter. I want some one to pet. I feel sadly lonely at times, and I am sure that you would just fill the vacant niche." I drew my hand away from his caress, and almost felt like hating John Cranford. Life with him would be one of ease and luxury; but I decided that I had rather keep boarders. Not long after this the Cranford's concluded to go to housekeeping, and Mrs. Shellgrove was in her glory. She was at luncheon in her bonnet, and gave us minute details about the house. "It is really magnificent," said she, length? ening out each syllable. "Brother has such perfect taste; and he is actually furnishing the library, Miss Edna, after your suggestion. You see, we look upon you quite as one of the family." "That is very good of you," I replied, short? ly; "but I certainly have no expectation of ever belonging to it." Mrs. Shellgrove laughed as though I had perpetrated an excellent joke. "Young ladies always deny these things, of course; but John tells a different story." I rattled the cups and saucers angrily ; and my thoughts floated off, not to John, but to John's father, sitting lonely in the library furnished after my suggestion. Wasn't it, after all, to marry the family gen? erally ? The house was furnished and moved into, and John spent his evenings with me. I used to get dreadfully tired of him. He was really too devoted to be at all interesting, and I had reached that state of feeling that, if summari? ly ordered to take my choice between him and the gallows, I would have prepared myself for hangiug with a sort of cheerful alacrity. I locked the door upon John on the evening ki question, when I had finally gotten rid of kirn, with these feelings in full force; and I meditated while undressing on some desperate move that should bring matters to a crisis. But the boy had become roused at last. He, too, had reflected in the watches of the night; and next day I received quite a dignified letter from him, telling me that business called him from the city for two or three weeks, and that Eossibly upon his return I might appreciate is devotion better. I felt inexpressively re? lieved. It appeared to me the most sensible move that John had made in the whole course of our acquaintance, and I began to breathe with more freedom. Time, flew, however, and the three *veeks lengthened to six without John V return. He wrote to me, but his letters became somewhat constrained ; and I scarcely knew what to make of him. If he would only give me up, I thought; but I felt sure that he would hold me to that weak promise of mine, that I should either become Edna Cranford or remain Edna Carrington. "Mr. Cranford" was announced one evening, and I entered the parlor fully prepared for an overdose of John, but found myself confronted by his father. He looked very grave, and iustantly I imag? ined all sorts of things, and reproached myself for my coldness. "John is well?" I gasped finally. "Quite well," was the reply, in such kind tones that I felt sure there was something wrong. What it was, I cared not, but poured forth ray feelings impetuously to my astonished visitor. "He must not come here again I" I exclaimed. "I do not wise to see him. Tell him so, Mr. Cranford! tell him that I had rather remain Edna Carrington, as he made me promise, than to become Eona Cranford." "And he made you promise this?" was the reply. "The selfish fellow ! But, Edna, what am I to do without the little girl I have been expecting? I am very lonely?so lonely that I do not see how I can give her up." I -gloorced at him, and the. room seemed swimming round?everything was dreadfully unreal. I tried to sit down, and was carried tenderly to the sofa. "Shall it be Edna Carrington or Edna Cran? ford ?" he whispered. "You need not break your promise to John." "Edna Cranford," I replied, feeling that I had left the world entirely, and was in another sphere of existence. If the thought crossed my mind that Mr. Cranford had rather cheerfully supplanted his son, the proceeding was fully justified during the visit which I received fron that young gen? tleman. I tried to make it plain to him that I did him no wrong, as I had never professed te love him, although not at all sure that I would not receive the shaking threatened on a pre? vious occasion; and I endeavored to be as ten? der as possible, for I felt really sorry for him. To my great surprise, John laughed. "Well, this is jolly I" he exclaimed. "And I'm not a villain, after all. What do you think of her, Edna!" He produced an ivorytype in a rich velvet case?a pretty, little blue-eyed simpleton ; she looked like aetat seventeen. "Rose," he continued?"Rose Darling; the name suits her doesn't it? She was staying at my uncle's in Maryland?that'3 where I've been visiting, you know?and she's such a dear con? fiding thing that a fellow couldn't help falling in love with her. And she thinks no end of me, you see?says she's quite afraid of me and all that." John knew that I wasn't a bit afraid of him ; but I felt an elderly, sisterly sort of interest in his happiness, and had never liked him so well as at that moment. And this was the dreadful news that his father had come to break to me, when his narrative was nipped in the bud by my revelations, and the interview ended in a far more satisfactory manner than either of us had anticipated. So I kept my promise to John, after all, and as Miss Rose kept hers, he is now a steady, married man, and a very agree? able son-in-law.?Harper's Magazine. Terrible Combat with Rats.^ The Carlisle (Pa.) Herald relates the follow? ing, which, in the way of a rat story, ought to take the premium : Mr. Jesse Laverty, of East Pennsylvania, was lately very much annoyed by rats, which carried off his eggs, and made sad v.ork with his corn in his crib, and then invaded his gra? nary and commenced destroying a bin of wheat. On examination he found there was but one place where they got in. He thereup? on resolved to kill the rats by an artifice well worthy of the cause. He strewed corn meal liberally on the floor of the granary, and about one hour later he nailed up the hole. Then, calling his dog, (a Spanish terrier,) and arming himself with a club, he went forth to battle. Now, the door to the granary is fastened with a loug wooden latch extending clear across it, and can only be opened from the outside, and Mr. L., on entering, drew the granary door shut and beard the latch fall. He then thought the enemy was his, but this was an error. The rats were more numerous than he expected, and, finding no way of escape, they attacked both him and his dog with great fury. Mr. L. laid on his blows hard and fast, and one blow, aimed at a rat, unfortunately hit the dog on the head and killed him. Being thus deprived of his faithful ally, he would nave fled, but could not, and he then commenced calling for help. The rats mean? while kept skirmishing around his legs, rain up his body, bit his hands, and one bolder than the rest bit his no.se. It is impossible to say what the result of this unequal contest would have been, had not a passing neighbor, attract? ed by the noise and cries, gone to the relief. When rescued he presented a shocking specta? cle, his face and hands bloody, and his clothes torn into shreds. When his wounds were cared for he hit on a better plan of warfare. Borrowing twelve cats, which, with his own, made fifteen, he in the evening shut them up in the granary with the rats, and the next morning he found, on exam? ination, ten dead cats, one blind one, and two with one eye apiece. The remaining two svere unhurt, and by actual count he found one hundred aud nineteen dead rats. Of the dead dog there was nothing left but the bones and hair, the rats doubtless having eaten him while Mr. Laverty was hunting cats. What is a Bonanza?.?The word bonanza has been recently added to our vernacular, and coming on about the proper time, was not inap? propriately applied to the bill "to liquidate the floating debt of the State," vetoed last week by Governor Chamberlain. This bill has been spoken of and characterized as the "bonanza bill" from its inception, and perhaps all our readers may not know the meaning of the word. Literally, the word bonanza means "boon" or "free gift," and in the mining dis? tricts of Nevada, it is used as illustrative of the treasures of silver with which her mountains abound. When a vein of remarkably rich ore is found in unexpected places, running not in the predicted direction, but diagonally through several mines, or when the yield of a "lode" it> unusually heavy, at comparatively little ex? pense or trouble, it is called a bonanza. And that is why the word was applied to the bill which the Governor vetoed.? Yurkville Enquir? er. Losing a Bet Without Betting.?A Ban gor fruit dealer has been paying a bet recently, with the making of which he had nothing to do. A couple of well-known gentlemen step? ped iu one afternoon, and beginning to eat oranges informed the proprietor that they had made a bet of the oranges on a certain ques? tion, and that after the bet was decided the loser would pay for those which they were eat? ing. To this the dealer in fruits was agreed, and the customers ate all they desired. The next time they were in the store he inquired which one was to pay for the oranges. "Don't know yet, "was the reply ; "I bet than when the Brewer bridge is carried away the Brewer end will go first, and Smith bet that the Bangorend will go first." The oranges were immediately charged to profit and loss. ? Ladies silk dresses are all sat-in this spring. Gloves and dresses are worn much longer by economical ladies. Laces arc still indispensable for corsets. A neat thing for streets suits is a clothes-brush. Mantles are still made of marble. Traveling costumes have a very jaunty appearance. Canes and umbrel? las are the knobbiest thing out. Plaiting is very much in vogue, especially for forks, spoons, etc. Young ladies are seldom ruffled if they have a new beau. A Striking- Argument for the Cultivation of Grass. Rev. C. W. Howard contributes the follow? ing striking and instructive article to the cur? rent (April) number of the Rural Carolinian : Outside of the subjects by which the stran? ger was impressed during the recent meeting of the National Grauge, in Charleston, there was one which escaped the general observer. The visitors from abroad visited the phosphate works, and were struck with their magnitude and value. But adjoining -the Stono Phos? phate works, and on the farm belonging to that company, there was an eighth of an acre of poor land, which, if properly appreciated, will be cf more value to South Carolina, and indeed the whole South, than these works, em? ploying a capital of $400,000. The fragment of an acre was visited and examined by the writer in company with Dr. St. Julien Ravenel, the discoverer of the value of the phosphate beds. What Charleston and the whole agri? cultural world owe to the discoverer and the discovery time alone will be able to tell. It must be estimated by millious of dollars. This gentleman, whose modesty is equal to his merit, has made another discovery, or rather put im? perfectly ascertained facts into an exact shape, the result of which, though not so widespread as those of the phosphate discovery, will be of equal value to the whole of the worn lands of the South. The Southern planter has dreaded Bermuda or joinj; grass as a pest. Whole plantations have been sold for a song because they were in? fested with it. Large tracts of land, with com? fortable houses upon them near Charleston, are now lying idle for the same reason. They can? not be sold for enough to pay the taxes upon them. Their owners are driven away to seek a meagre and hard-earned subsistence by en I gaging in mercantile pursuits, for which their whole previous lives have rendered them un suited. The eighth of an acre, to which refer? ence has been made, is in Bermuda grass. It is poor land. The adjoining soil will not pro? duce a remunerative crop of cotton or the I cereals without heavy manuring. Last spring I Dr. Ravenel had this piece of ground well torn up by a narrow piough, applied fifty Eounds of ammoniated phosphate to it, then arrowed and rolled. The result was at the rate of ten tons to the acre of well cured hay. This hay is exceeded in value by no other in the market. It is relished by horses, cattle and sheep. Clover and Timothy both waste, as many of the dried stems are rejected by live stock. There is no waste in Bermuda grass hay, as the stems are fine and tender. The writer was informed that on this farm (of the Stono Company) some petted mules were sup? plied with Bermuda grass for bedding, and their racks well filled with Northern hay. The Bermuda grass beddiug was eaten up before the Northern hay was touched. This hay was carefully analyzed by Dr. Ravenel. The re? sult of the analysis was an average in four cut? tings of twelve per cent, albumenoids, or flesh ! forming properties, and 6.50 of ash or mineral matter. The amount of ammonia was large, the precise quantity not recollected. This analysis shows that as animal food, and as a manurial substance, it is equal to the best, and superior to the most of the Northern grasses. This crop, ten tous to an acre, is enormous. The intelligent superintendent of the Stono works, when asked if he was sure the weight was accurate, replied, "Yes, if there was truth in the scales." In the best hay sections of this country, two tons of hay to the acre is an ex? cellent crop. A meadow that will produce this amount in the older States will usually com? mand $200 per acre, as the hay crop will pay a handsome interest on the sum. The average will, however, not exceed one and a half tons per acre. Here we have ten tons to the acre. If hay is worth in Charleston thirty dollars per ton, and five dollars per ton is allowed for ex? penses, we have two hundred and fifty dollars net profit per acre. And this result from land absolutely thrown away because it is infested with this grass. If we suppose that there may have been something accidental in this extra? ordinary crop of ten tons, and diminish it one half?co five tons?this would still give more than one hundred dollars net profit, deducting fertilizer, say eight to ten dollars. The South labors under two difficulties. Our accustomed crop, cotton, has become precari? ous, or when planted in our former methods, has ceased to be remunerative. Our labor in? subordinate and unreliable. What crop will be profitable to us, and how shall we render ourselves independent of the negro ? These are vital questions. The writer has not approved attempts to introduce new crops which require much labor, as a ramie, jute, &c. This would simply be changing Scylla for Charybdis. We need a change which will diminish labor. A hay crop effects this dimicution. Near to a good market, on a boatable stream or a railroad, and within easy reach of cheap fertilizers, no field crop, whether it be cotton or rice, will yield as much clear money as a hay crop. All of these conditions are met in the vicinity of Charleston. If that market is glutted with hay, the West Indies are open. Hay can be prof? itably shipped from Southern ports to the Northern cities. This might seem to be carry? ing coals to Newcastle. The suggestion may be ridiculed as chimerical, yet the writer fear? lessly ventures the assertion that if the views of this article are extensively adopted, not only the drain for millions of dollars for Northern hay will be closed, but the course of trade in this important article will be changed, and along the Southern coast we shall become ship? pers to those from whom we now buy. This opinion is based upon the fact that at the North they have no grasses, or forage plants, that will produce hay in quantity and qual'?y equal to that produced by Bermuda grass or lucerne. It is sometimes said that Bermuda grass will not grow tail enough for the scythe. Certainly not on poor unmanured land, and when con? stantly grazed by live stock. But let a piece of poor land be treated as Dr. Ravenel's land was treated, and be protected from grazing, and the error of this opinion will quickly be apparent. It is, however, not a tall-growing grass, but the deficiency in height is more than made up in density. In fact, cutting a dense Bermuda sward is almost like cutting cheese or shearing a Merino sheep. Hay culture in portions of the South has three great advantages. In sickly seasons it is not necessary for the proprietor to live on his land. He must be present only at the time of cutting, curing and baling the hay. Hay is a crop which cannot well be stolen?it has this advantage over both rice and cotton. It is not perishable. If prices are low, it can be stored in the barn until they rise. Lucerne will thrive on the coast if the land be made rich enough ; but it must be made very, very rich. On land of moderate fertility it is comparatively valueless. This is the alfal? fa of California. The yield is enormous, but the expense is too great on a large scale for an impoverished people. The cost of laying down land in the artificial grass is serious. For in? stance, it requires two bushels of orchard grass seed to the acre. The cost of the seed is usual? ly three dollars per bushel, making six dollars per acre for seed alone. Manure, ploughing, harrowing, rolling, &c., will be at least six dol? lars?making the whole expense not less than twelve dollars per acre. Now in the coast sec? tion referred to, and in portions of the interior, there are thousands of acres ready set, without cost, in this Bermuda grass, which the writer, after long observation, for both grazing and hay, believes to be superior to any of the artificial grasses which are sown at so great expense. If any persons think the views here express? ed arc exaggerated, the question can he very easily settled. It is unwise to sneer at an effort gravely and earnestly proposed for the good of others, by men at least of average intelligence, and who have certainly the merit of sincerity. If the readers of the Rural Carolinian, who have Bermuda grass on their lands, will inclose, or otherwise protect from grazing a fourth or half an acre of land, and treat it in the same way that Dr. Ravenel treated his eighth of an acre, they can determine this matter for them selves, not next year, but now, this spring. It is not too late. If the estimate placed upon Bermuda grass be correct what does it mean ? It means that a wronged, oppressed and impoverished people, at an expense so trifling as to be within the reach of the poorest person, have it in their power to make their now idle and worthless lands yield them a moneyed return superior to any which they have previously at any time known. Household Receipts. Care of a Muff.?When you take it off, give it several hard twirls around to smooth the fur. When placed in the box, lay it on its side; this prevents the wadding from sinking downwards and falling into clods. When you put it away for winter, place within it some lumps of camphor wrapped in paper, and sprinkle the outside with powder camphor. Then enclose it completely and tightly in two or three thicknesses of newspaper. Do not open it until you want it in the fall. The printer's ink on the papers will assist in keep? ing out moths. Cure for a Felon.?Take some spirits of turpentine in a cup, dip the finger in it, and then hold the hand near a hot fire till dry ; dip it in again, and repeat for fifteen minutes, or till the pain ceases. Next day, with a sharp knife, pare off the thick skin, and you will find something like a honey comb, filled with clear water; open the cells, and the felon is gone. If the felon is too far gone for turpentine, oil of origanum will cure. White Mountain Cake.?Rub well togeth? er one pound of sugar and a half pound of but? ter. Then add the yolks of five eggs, one small tea cup of sweet milk with one tea spoonful of soda in it, one pound of flour with one and a half tea spoonsful of cream of tartar, and the grated rind and juice of one lemon. Lastly, add the whites of the eggs well beaten. Icing fcr it made of the whites of four eggs, one-half pound pulverized sugar arid one grated cocoa nut. To Bake Ham.?Most people boil ham. It is much better baked if baked right. Soak for an hour in clean water and wipe dry. Next spread it all over with thin butter and then put it in a deep dish with sticks under it to keep it out of the gravy. When it is fully done, take off the skin and matters crusted on the flesh side and set it away to cool. Butter Stamp.?This utensil should always be washed in cold salt water before it is used. If soaked in hot water the butter will stick to it, but never if soaked in cold brine. The salt absorbed by the stamp keeps it moist while in use. Mouldiness.?Perserves and jellies may be kept from mouldiness by covering the surface with pulverized loaf sugar. Thus protected they will keep for years. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Signs of spring?the lightning-rod men are on the road. ? To make a tall man short?try to borrow five dollars of him. ? The hardest thing to get on with in this life is a man's own self. ? The man who was hemmed in by a crowd has been troubled with a stitch in his side ever since. ? A puppy and an acordeon was the mar? riage fee offered to a Cedar Springs clergyman, the other day. ? Exhaustive speeches, as they are called, oftener exhaust their audiences than they do their subjects. ? At the spelling school in Indianapolis all the lawyers, editors, clergymen and teachers went down on "ipecacuanha." ? A contemporary boasts that he "can stand on his intellectual capital." We suppose he means that he can stand on his head. ? It is no harm to shoot a cat in Vermont, but if you happen to miss the cat and kill a boy, the authorities make an awful fuss over it. ? Experimental philosophy?Askingayoung lady to marry you. Natural philosophy?Say? ing you were only in fun when she refuses you. ? The old lady who believes every calamity that happens to herself a trial, and every one that happens to her friends a judgment, is not yet dead. ? A New Orleans paper says the dollar stores in that city are places where you may buy a twenty-five cent article you don't want, for four times its value. ? Science is doing much for the world, but it will never be able to make a farmer's wife believe she won't have company for dinner when her nose itches before breakfast. ? An Illinois granger is about leasing 8,500 acres of land in Monroe county, Mississippi, upon which fifty Illinois families will settle when the negotiations are completed. ? A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun has found in Florida a young girl named Neu? ralgia. She was christened after a bottle of patent medicine which her mother esteemed. ? A bride in Indiana, after the conclusion of the ceremony stepped gracefully forward and requested the clergyman to give out the hymn : "This is the way I long have sought." ? In peeling onions put a large needle in the mouth, half in and half out. The needle attracts the oily juices of the bulb, and any number may be peeled without affecting the eyta. ? A young lady while out walking heard, for the first time, of her mother's intention to marry again, and she was obliged to sit right down and cry about it. She could not go a step-farther. ? "Only a woman's hair," remarked Spiv ens, musingly, as he gazed down into his plate ?"a red-headed woman, at that! It may be very sentimental, but it somehow does away with my appetite." ? Above all things, learn a child to be honest and industrious; if these two things don't ena? ble him to make a figure in this world, he is only a cypher, and never was intended for a figure.?Josh Billings. ? A country youth, who desired to know how to become rich, sent a quarter in answer to an advertisement, and received the following recipe: "Increase your receipts and decrease your expenditures." ? "Will the boy who threw that pepper on the stove please come up here and get a pres? ent of a nice book," said a Sunday-school su? perintendent in Iowa; but the boy never moved, lie wa.? a far-seeing boy. ? He blushed a fiery red; her heart went pit-a-pat; she gently hung her head and look? ed down at the mat. He trembled in his speech ; he rose from where he sat, and shout? ed with a screech, "You're sitting on my hat!" ? "When I go a shoppin'," said an old lady, "I allers asks for what I wants, and if they have it, and if its suitable, and I feel inclined to buy it, and its cheap, and can't be got for less, I most allers takes it, without chaffing about it all day, as some people do." WILHITE & WILLIAMS WOULD inform their friends, and the pub? lic generally, that they have bought out Benson ct Sharp*,' and are receiving a fresh supply of Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, etc., (Selected l>v tho senior partner, who has an ex? perience 0/ thirty years.) They expect to keep onlv pure and reliable Drags. Also, LAMPS and' LAMP FIXTURES, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, BRUSHES, DYE STUFFS, etc. Also, a full lino of PERFUMERY and TOILET ARTICLES, CIGARS and TOBAC? CO. Pure BRANDIES and WINES, for med? ical purposes strictly, and other articles usually kept in our line, ?&tf Prescriptions carefully compounded. Jan 14, 1S75 26 ly THE FARMER'S GUANO. Grreat Reduction in Price. COTTON FIFTEEN CENTS. ZELL'S raOSPHATE. CASH PRICE. Per Ton, payable May 1, 1875,.'..$45 TIME PRICE. Per Ton, payable Nov. 1,1875,.$55 Cotton Option. Per Ton, payable Nov. 1,1875,....,..$65 FREIGHT A.JST* DRAYAGE ADDED. P. ZELL & SONS, Manufacturers, Baltimore, ffld. WATSON & SOU, Agents, Anderson, S. C. ' Feb 11, 1875 30 3m FEED TOUR LAND AND IT WILL FEED YOU. Fifteen Cents per lb. for Cotton. MAPES' SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME, Middleton's Fish Ammoniated Phosphate, STONO PHOSPHATE, i^lAN be purchased with the option of paying in COTTON at FIFTEEN CENTS per pound. \j Parties desiring to purchase the above Standard Fertilizers will do well to call and see me. Great inducements will be offered to those who wish to purchase for Cash, or on time without the Cotton option. I also have on hand a large and varied stock of MERCHANDIZE?including the best assort? ment of LADIES' GOODS in the market, which I will sell very low for cash, or on time to pi ompt paying customers. To those who have come forward in response to my call and paid their indebtedness, I here? by tender my sincere thanks, and hope for a continuance of their custom. To those who will not settle up, I have merelv to sav that they have had the benefit of my Goods, and now I will have the Money, or GIVE THEM SOME TROUBLE. C. A. REED, TVaverly House Corner. Feb 4, 1875_29_ FARMERS, LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST. GREAT HOME-MADE FERTILIZER. SIMPSON, HILL * CO. would in form the Farming community that thev are prepared to furinsh CHEMICALS, properly'proportioned, foroneof the best FERTILIZERS known, at not exceeding one-fourth the cost of the Commercial Fertilizers. Within the last three years wo have placed it in the hands of some of the most thoroughly practical Farmers of the County, who express themselves fully satisfied with results, regarding it as equal, if not superior to any of the Commercial, some of the"m having tested them side by side. We refer you to a few of them, viz: Wx. Burriss, John Brown, James A. Drake Hugh McCarley, Geo. Stevenson, Dr. Carpenter, John Dalrymple. Rev. Jacob Bcrriss. Many others might be mentioned. In no case have unfavorable results been reported. Please call on us at our Drug Store and get your Chemicals, also formula and directions for use. SIMPSON, HILL &> CO. We would respectfully inform our customers that our OLD ACCOUNTS from tho year 1870 to 1873, inclusive, MUST BE PAID. Wo have waited long enough. We do not wish to be harsh?but tho money MUST COME. SIMPSON, HILL <fc CO. Nov 10, 1S74 _19 Important News to Planters! GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES. THE CAROM FERTILIZER. IN view of tho low prices obtained for Cotton the present season, and in order to place our Guanos within the roach of every Plauter, we have greatly reduced our prices. They will bo sold as follows: TME CAROLINA FERTILIZER. Cash Price. Per Ton of 2,000 lbs., - - $46. Payable May 1st, 1S75. Time Price. Per Ton of 2,000 lbs., - $53. Payable Nov. 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 Interest. THE Palmetto Acid Phosphate. Cash Price. Per Ton of 2,000 lbs., - - $30. Payable May 1st, 1875. Time Price. Per Ton of 2.000 lbs., - - $35. Payable Nov. 1-st, 1875, Free of Interest. Freight and Dragage to be Added. Call on Agents for Almanacs and Informa? tion. FOR SALE BY W. S. SITARPE, Anderson, S. C. TOWERS & EROYLES, Anderson, S. C. A. J. STRINGER A CO., Eelton. J. & D. S. McCULLOUGH, llonea Tatb. WM. LEE A CO., Honea Path. THOMAS CRYMES, Williamston. C. E. HORTON, Williamston. J. 0. CHERRY, Pendleton. Geo. W. Williams & CO., Proprietors, Charleston, S. C. Jan 14, 1875 2(5 4m Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned hereby gives notice that ho will make application to W. W. Hum? phreys, Judge of Probate for Anderson Coun? ty, on Tuesday, the 20th day of April next, for a Final Settlement of tho Estate of R. H. Pettigrow, deceased, and a Final Discharge therefrom. W. H. KING, Adm'r. March 18, 1875 35 V CHRISTOPHER'S AI TA SAFETY ALIA oil. ? WABBANTED 150 deg. HSE TEST. This Oil is guaranteed to be entirely free from Volatile, Hydro-Carbons or Naptha, thereby rendering it impossible to explode or take fire from breakage of lamps, and alter a trial in general use of three years, is pronounced bv 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. ?&r* Suitable for any Coal Oil Lamp. Man? ufactured by CHRISTOPHER & CO., Patapsco Oil Works, BALTIMORE. Also, Standard Illuminating Oil?110? Fire Test. Christopher & Co's Special Carbon Oil, 125? Test. Gasolines and Pure West Virginia Lubricating Oil. Feb 18,1875_31_2m__ STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, CO UNTY OF A NDERSON. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Notice of Petition to Renew Execution. E P Jones, Assignee of WmOrr, vs. Mary Ann Blassingame, Harrison Blassingame, Eliza Archer, Heirs at law of D W Blassingame, deceased. To Mary Ann Blassingamo, Harrison Blassin? game and Eliza Archer: WHEREAS, Judgment was obtained in the Circuit Court for the County of Anderson, and Stato of South Carolina, on the 14th day of Oc? tober, 1856, by William Orr against D W Blas? singame, and" Execution was duly issued there? on, but the active energy thereot has now ex? pired, and it is desired to have the same re? newed. Now, therefore, you are summoned to appear at the Terra of the Circuit Court for said Coun? ty, to be held on the fourth Monday in May next, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, and then and there show cause, if any you can, why said Execution shall not be re? newed according to law. E. P. JONES, Plaintiffs Attorney. March 18, 1875 85 6 M. GOLDSMITH. P. KIND. PHSNIX IRON WORKS. COLUMBIA, S. C. ' GOLDSMITH & KIND, FOUNDERS & MACHINISTS, HAVE alwavs on hand Stationary Steam Encrines 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 had 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 <fe KIND, Columbia, S.C. _May 28,1874_4(5_ly HENRY BISCHOFF & CO., Wholesale Grocers, AND DEAT.KUS IN CAROLINA RICE, Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco, &CM ?&C, ?&C, 197 and 199 East Bay Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. Sole Agents for South Carolina for tho Sale of OLD VALLEY WHISKEY. Aug 20,1874 G 6m