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^nkrs?n Jntellipar. TUE HUMAN HEART. What a wonderful thing is the human heart! With its achings, its hopings, its fears; How 'twill tremble, and llutter,. and thrill with delight, While pleasures surround, and while fortune smiles bright, But when sad melt away into tears. What ft restless thing is the human heart! How strange ifc can never be still! It hath yearnings for fame and strivings for power, And it even seeks wealth, which is lost in an hour;. It hath longings the world cannot filL What a happy thing is the human heart t How little will make it rejoice! How quickly 'twill beat, and how suddenly bound,* At hearing the welcome and long wishcd-for sound Of a tenderly well-beloved voice. What a desolate thing is the human heart! When 'tis laden with sorrow and care! In sit the wide world it can find no relief From its duU weight of care, and its burden of grief, But sinks down in the depths of despair. What a trusting thing is the human heart! It will lean upon faith 'mid life's gloom; 'TwiU cling unto hope, who, with radiant smile, Will whisper sweet comforting words all the while, And brighten the path to the tomb. What a loving thing is tho human heart! Some can live on the love of tho past; Some twine their soft tendrils, like vines in the spring, Round something to which they can tenderly cling. And fondly love on to the last. And this human heart, it can hate as weU, And if scorned it can learn to despise; Aye! slight it, and wound it, and friendship will turn To hatred, which fiercer and fiercer will burn Till low 'neath earth's green sod it Res. One day we shall know them, these wonderful hearts, When we've crossed to the heavenly shore, And the Lamb's book of life in our sight is unsealed, And the secrets of all human hearts are re? vealed, We shall know them as never before. [Christian Observer. ??^????? THE SECRET OF A LIFE. BY PBENTISS INGRAHAM. Clarence Kane sat in his sumptuously fur? nished library, lost in thoughts evidently un? welcome to him, for Ida handsome face was clouded, and the stern lips firmly compressed, as he gazed vacantly into the *ed coals in the grate. Though forty years had passed over him, neither form nor face indicated that age, for proudly erect and graceful, besides possessing dark, flashing eyes, waving hair and regular features, he was a strikingly handsomo man, apparently not more than thirty. Beared in luxury, for hi* parents had left him a millionaire when but a college student, he had never known poverty through necessity, though a wandering life of many years in many lands, had shown him that there existed more want and suffering than happiness anr] comfort in the world from lack of the almighty dollar, and his noble nature aided ever, where circumstauccs brought him in contact with his , fellow being In distress. Three months before that bleak December evening when he is seated in the library of Iiis own magnificent Baltimore home, Clarence Kane had returned from a wandering tour abroad which had lasted for two years, and the circumstance that had brought him home again U the subject of this sketch. Sitting there in silent meditation, he was awaiting the coming of one who was very dear to him; though no wife or sisty had ever brightened his doorway, or made happy his bachelor home, Clarance Kane held the re? sponsible position of guardian over a young girl of seventeen, and having received from the fair maiden a telegram that afternoon th; she would be with him during the evening, having left the boarding school for the Christ? mas holidays, he had remained away from the Club to greet her. "If she had stated by what train or at what hour She would arrive, so that I could have met her," he murmured in rather an ill-humored tone, and then as the sound of carriage wheels on the pebbly drive broke on his ear, he started up suddenly and walked quickly to the door, which was thrown wide open by the butler, to usher in a bright face, almost hidden, as was the form, by warm wraps, for the night was bleak and cold. "Juniata, you are indeed welcome l" ex? claimed Clarence Kane, checking himself as he was about to enfold in his arms the maiden, whom, in the three years since he had last beheld her, had grown from girlhood to woman? hood. "Thank you, my dear guardian, I knew you would like a little sunshine, this cold weather, hence, I have come," laughed a musical voice, from beneath the wraps as if divining the rea? son why he had not embraced her, and the young girl raised her pouting ripe lips for a kiss. * I will not assert that Clarence Kane had never, in his varied existence kissed a lovely woman before, but be that as it may, he ap? peared a perfect novice on that occasion, and then turned deadly pale. But recovering himself, he extended a warm welcome to the maiden, and then aided her in unbundling herself from wraps, furs and hat, and his surprise was evident as he beheld what a metamorphosed form his ward was. A form supple, graceful, and slightly above the medium height, yet perfect in mould; a beauty, for the eyes were midnight in black? ness, liouid in expression, and filled with slumbering fire, while the hair rivaliug them in hue was worn in luxuriant folds around the proud head, and was confined by a massive comb. In undisguised admiration Clarence Kane forgot his good breeding, and stood and gazed. "What! was this the girl of fourteen he had left at a boarding school a few years before?" he thought, while the object of his gaze, flush? ing crimson, said half timidly: "Don't please you, my dear guardian ?" With a long-drawn sigh, Clareaeu Kane shook off the beauty-struck spell upon him, and answered honestly : "Juniata, I believe that only angels could possess your beauty." "Thanks ; but your angel ideas will have a fell, for I'll astonish you by proving what afBn ilies earthly angels can possess, for do you know I'm most starved ?" "True, I had forgotten the politeness of a host in my joy at your arrival, but I will now atone for it." And calling to a servant girl, he bade her conduct his ward to a room prepared fur her, promising to meet her in a few minut-g at diu ner. The merry Christmas days sped rapidly away, and both Clarence Kane and his beautiful ward became toasts in the aristocratic society of aristocratic Baltimore. The best parti of the State, Mr. Kane was haunted by mothers who had marriageable daughters, dined by bashful papas, and on ac? count of his great popularity, wined at the clubs by his numerous friends, while the beau? tiful Juanita arose like a star above the hori? zon of the social circle, and at once a reigning belle. But amid all the admiration of the outer world bestowed on them, both Clarence Kane and Juniata were better content to enjoy the quiet of the old homestead, and were happiest when left to themselves. I And yet neither of them knew of the other's feelings in this matter, but believed the regard existing between them was such as was right between guardian and ward. The merry days were soon over, and once again Juniata returned to her school duties, but not for long; as, in the commencement of summer, she was to graduate and appear be? fore the world's footlights as a young lady; and with joy she looked forward to the day wheu again she would be back at the old home? stead, which Clarence found to be strangely dark and dismal without her fair presence. But the months rolled away at last, and once more Juniata gladdened the mansion with her sunny smiles and silvery voice, to the joy of her guardian and the delight of the servants, for one and all of them loved her dearly. A month after her return she was seated one moonlight evening, enjoying from the open window the scene of lawn, lake and forest spread before her, when sud'Luiy a quick.step was heard, and Clarence Kane entered the room, and approaching her, said softly: "Juniata, lam glad I find you alone, for I have something to tell you." Even in the moonlight the beautiful face was seen to flush quickly and the dark eyes were raised towards her guardian. Pointing to a seat beside her, Juniata made no reply ; and sitting down, Clarence Kane said quietly : "Juniata, to-day is the first time the thought of losing you ever came forcibly upon me?" "What do you mean? Speak, I implore you!" cried the impassioned girl, startled at his words: "Do not be alarmed, little girl; I meant to say that Caspar Hastings and Colonel Hughes have both asked me to-day to allow them to lay themselves, their hearts and fortunes at your pretty feet;" and Clarence spoke play? fully. "I love neither of them, and never shall. Hence I will not marry the one or the other. But what did you say ?" "I said I would speak to you on the subject." "You are willing to give me up, then ?" "Never I?uo, I meaD ; but some day you will love some man, and he will take you from me." "No, no, no. I will not go away from you. I will not love any one; I wish to be always with you." Clarence Kane sprang to his feet and rapid? ly crossed the floor, and returning, said quick? ly: "Juniata, would to Heaven I could keen you ever with me I but first, ere I know my doom, let me tell you of your past life. "Listen 1 You have believed yourself left in my keeping by your parents, who, I told you, died in a foreign land; but to your life hangs a story which you must know, for no longer are you a child. "You know my life has been one of adven? ture, of wandering, and thus I will begin by telling you that sixteen years agone I was roaming in Spain, and one night put up at an inn by the roadside, where were stationed a number of Spanish officers. "While enjoying my supper in quiet, a con? versation occurred at the table near me, be? tween several Spanish officers, that was most insulting to my own land, every vile epithet was heaped upon America and Americans, un? til unable to stand it longer, I rose to my feet, and walking to the table, threw a glass of wine into the face of a young man attired in a cap? tain's uniform, who had been particularly in? sulting in all he had said. "Instantly there was a commotion, and ma? king known my nationality, the young man demanded that I shoHld meet him in a duel, and nothing loath, I accepted the challenge, and promised to meet him the next day but one, at a spot designated in the mountains, and some twelve miles distant, the captain promising to have a gentleman friend preseni who would act as my second, for I was a stranger in a strange land, and knew not on whom to call; but do not be impatient, Juni? ata, for all this bears upon your life." "To be in time, I procured a guide the next afternoon, and thoroughly armed and mounted, we started for the rendezvouz; but a terrific storm set in, and we lost our way; darkness came on, and after wandering for hours, a friendly light caught our eyes, and eagerly we sought it, and found a small farm-house, from the inmates of which we received a warm wel? come. "I liked not the appearance of the place, and neither did my guide, for we felt assured that there had been some half a dozen men in the house when we called at the gate, for dis? tinctly had we heard loud voices, and yet only an old man had greeted us. "But a good supper was given us. My guide looked after the horses and was aligned a place in the barn to sleep, while i was shewn up stairs to a small room, possessing but a sin? gle door and window, besides the trap by which I had entered the chamber. "Dressed as I was, I threw myself upon the low bed, but not to sleep; for strange thoughts came over me, aud soon I heard the hum of voices, and through a crack in the floor dis? covered in the room below a half dozen fierce looking men, in earnest conversation. "At once I knew all?I was in the house of a band of robbers, and well I knew my rate. "While I looked, the men started forth, and I distinctly heard the words, "We'll ?uish the guide in the stable.' "Rising to my feet, I softly felt around the room until I found the door I had observed, and after a few efforts it opened, and I discov? ered that it led down a narrow passage-way, which following some distance, I came upon a window opening out upon a shed, which slant? ed off toward the ground at the hack of the house. "Here was a chance to escape, but unwilling to leave my guide in danger, without some effort to save him, I lit a match and glanced around me, and to the right discovered a door, which I judged led into a room which com? manded a full view of the stable yard. The hitch raised easily and I entered, and lighting another match, what was my horror to discover the forms of three men lying upon the floor; but believing them to be asleep, I was about to withdraw when a voice said quickly, " 'Great heavens, you here.' "Instantly I turned the blaze upon the speaker, and with amazement discovered one of the young officers I met at the inn, bound hand and foot, while by his side lay two oth? ers, the oue I was to meet the next morning in mortal combat, and he that was to be my second. Put no need had I to dread that morrow's meeting, 1'ov both my enemy and the one that was to nave acted as my friend were dead." "Dead r "Yes, Juniata, they have been cruelly putlo death by the very band that was soon to seek my life, for, like my guide and myself, the other party had become lost iu the storm aud happened on the same house. "This was quickly told me by the young offi? cer, whose life the bandits had spared, to tor? ture from him on the morrow a confession as to when a richly laded commissary train was to cross the mountains. "Instantly I severed tho bonds of the young officer, and rising to his feet he took the pistol I o?bred him, aud together we were consulting our future movements to save the poor guide, \ ien from the stable yard came a loud cry for mercy, a few shots, aud a groan of agony, aud poor Pepe wo knew had been cruelly mur? dered. " 'Let us away from here, or our fato will be the same as his; Roe, there are a dozen of them,'cried the Spaniard. "And leading the way, I dashed through tho window, just as a cry arose among the baudits to seek me. "Out upon the roof, off upon the ground, wo hastily scrambled, and at full speed rushed on in the darkness, mile after mile, until my poor companion was broken down and could go uo further; but then daylight broke, and I dis? covered a small cot near by, and arousing the inmates we asked for shelter which was cheer? fully given, although death there met our gaze, for upon a snow white bed lay a young lady who had been thrown from her horse the even? ing before and killed. "One glance and my companion recognized her. She was the wife of the young officer with whom I was to engage in a duel. "Iler story had been told to the inmates of the cottage ere she died, which was, that her j husband had gone to fight a duel, and she was j hastening after him to prevent it, accompanied ! only by a guide, when her horse had fallen and ! crushed her beneath his weight. "Juniata, never did I suffer as then, and to atone for my having been the cause of all this : misery, I had the body of the woman borne back to her home, and from there buried in state, be?ide the grave of her beloved husband, for the following day the young officer had ta? ken with him a number of soldiers and gone to to the house of the bandits, and though he had found the place deserted, except by the dead, he had brought back with him the dead corp? ses of his friends and my unfortunate guide. "And, Juniata, to atone yet more for my sin, I took to my heart the baby child?a little girl of one year?of the dead parents, and bringing her with me to America, reared her as my I ward"? "And I am she that was that little orphan ! girl ?" asked Juniata in a low whisper, j "Yes, Juniata, and each year as you have j grown to womanhood, the tendrils of my heart have grown more closely around you, until now, my future, without your love must be a dreary blank; but yet I fear it must be so, for now that you know the story of your life, I feel that you will"? "Love you ten fold more, my dear, noble guardian, and never, never leave you I" And with the passionate vehemence of her nature, Juniata sprang forward, and clung closely around the neck of .the man who had so well endeavored to atone for the past. "You will be my wife, then, Juniata ?" asked Clarence, after a pause. " "Yes. Never have I known other love than that I have felt for you ; and rainpled with it has been that I would hold for mother, father, brother, all. My poor, poor parents sleeping in far-away Spain, I know, I feel that you would not blame your daughter, and I pray that from Heaven you look down in kindness and give us your blessing, as I hope God will bless us, too." "Amen I" said the stern and fervent voice of Clarence Kane. And one short month afterwards, all Balti? more heard with surprise that the handsome guardian and beautiful ward had been quietly married, and had sped away to spend their honeymoon in the romantic valleys of Spain. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? The Fourth of July falls on Sunday this year, and what are we going to do about it ? j ? To Archbishop Whately is ascribed thi3 i paradox: "The larger the income the harder it is to live within it." ? It is remarked that no man can become I thoroughly acquainted with his family history until he runs for office. j ? There is said to be less drunkenness among the colored people of the South than among the white inhabitants of New York, j ? A correspondent of a Western paper hav- | I ing described the Ohio as a "sickly stream," the editor appended the remark: "That's so? it is confined to its bed." I ? A pious young widow in Milwaukee, speaking of a handsome feliow who lives in her neighborhood, says: "I feel set back a year in ray religion every time I meet him." ? It's astonishing, says the New Orleans Bvlktin, to see how little there is of some la? dies i i these lays of contracted skirts. And it is equally astonishing to see how much there is of some others. ? A philosophical old bachelor made a will, leaving his entire furniture to be divided i among the girls who had refused him. "For to them," he added, feelingly, "I owe all my earthly happiness." ? An almost ridiclou3 use of steam is found on Duck river, Tennessee, on which placid stream of steam boat, drawing only twelve inches of water, and having a grist mill on board, wanders up and down, stopping wherever she is wanted to grind a bushel or so of coru for the farmers of the territory. ? This story is told of a certain man who had been rendered almost blind by drinking to excess in the hot summer months. "I tell you," said the physician, "you must either leave liquor alone or loso your eyes entirely." "Well," responded the patient, after a few mo? ments of reflection, "good-bye, eyi - !" j ? Women require more sleep than men, and farmers less that those engaged in other occu? pations. Editors, reporters, printers and tele? graph operators require no sleep at all. Law? yers can sleep as much as they chose, as they will tiius be kept out of mischief. Clergymen are allowed to sleep 24 hours, and to put their parishioners to sleep once a week. ? A Western editor exclaims: "Boston needn't attempt to sell any of her "shirt bosoms, warranted noUto rumple," in this lo? cality. Not much I The sigh, the exclama? tion, the sweet, tremulous accent, the delicious fragrance of hot" hair and breath?all these may pass away in a moment, but the rumpled shirt bosom remains ever with you as a present reminder of ;>astjoys." ? California is now actually suffering from a too sudden influx of population, and her pa? pers are discussing the question, what is to be? come of the people who are so inconsiderately rushing into her borders. Indeed, the wave of emigration towards California just now is spoken of as one of the most singular in the history of the movement of population, because there is no apparent reason for it. ? According to a Virginia editor there are four hundred thousand dogs in that State, which manage to get away with several million dollars worth of foodanuually. He thinks the owners should be taxed at such a rate that they would be induced to kill off all the worth? less ones. Even after this is done he estimates that there will be fully one hundred thousand canines left to mourn their departed comrades. Virginia is certainly a dog-ridden State. I ? Some statistics of the tobacco trade of this country may be of some interest. During the last year we exported 318,097,S04 pounds of tobacco, valued at $130,398,181, and im? ported 10,000,000 pounds of leaf and stem, 15,332,531. We also imported 41,945,744 pounds of cigars, or 76,888,000 cigars, worth $2,738,028. We also manufactured from im? ported and domestic tobacco 1,780,971,000 cigars. The daily average of cigars smoked in the United States is 5,178,000. The Govern? ment received last year from tobacco and ci? gars a revenuo of $87,392,936. ? Statistics have been collected in France, Algeria and Prussia, by which it is shown that the Jewish race has a mean average duration of life exceeding that of Christians by about five years, and that this people enjoy greater immunity from disease than Christian races. The causes ascribed are the inheritance of a sound physical constitution, and the watchful care of mothers over their offspring. The plagues which have visited various countries have left them unscathed. Croup is said to be extremely r:;re among their children, and they have very little scrofula. ? When Gov. Harvey and Treasuerer Hayes, of Kansas, were about to be sworn into their respective offices on tho second Monday in January, 1?70, t hey mel in the Governor's private room. While waiting for tho Supreme Court Jim! , i'j was detained for a few moments beyond me appointed time the Treasurer elect said: "It would be a good joke if the Chief Justice should make a mistake and swear in tho best-looking man for Governor." "Yes," the Governor promptly replied, "and it would bcagreatt . joko if lie should swear in the honestest man as Treasurer." Tho Colonel stopped the conversation. J Practical Economy.?We have a man in Cuthbert, sixty-four years old, who has not taken a drink of ardent spirits in over a quar? ter of a century, never drank a cup of coffee in his life or ate a pound of meat of any kind. A few days since, in reading a paper, he saw an advertisement where it was proposed to furnish a recipe for five dollars, which would teach a man how to live on thirty-seven cents per week. At this proposition he became in dignaut, and said it was sheer extravagance for a man to spend that amount, asserting that his provisions were not worth S10 per year. He subsists entirely upon corn bread and pure water?declaring that he would not ex? change his diet for that of a king or prince. He has no recollection of ever taking a dose of medicine or consulting a physician for any ailment whatever. He can walk fifteen or twenty miles as quick and with as much ease as any young man in the country, and would do so before paying a railroad a thrip for the privilege of riding. His clothing costs him about eight dollars per annum. He is a man of family, and we dare say is as healthy and vigorous as any man to be found in Georgia.? Cuthbert Appeal. ? A strange financial disaster has fallen up? on North Hadley, Massachusetts. During sev? eral years the farmers have mainly devoted themselves to tobacco culture. A few remark? ably good crops, sold at very remunerative prices, made the growers reckless in their mon? ey transactions and over confident of the fu? ture. They were ready to endorse each other's paper for the asking, and became inordinately speculative. A short time ago one firm failed, and then, the panic once started, others follow? ed in rapid succession. The Springfield Repub? lican says : "Real estate ha3 fallen one-third in the town, and business is almost hopelessly stagnant. Of course the community is utterly prostrated under such a series of misfortunes in the business sense, though individuals bear it courageously. There was danger at first that the town would lose their minister, the Rev. James M. Bell, but, by weekly pledges of mon? ey, which is paid in every Sabbath, enough has been raised to keep along for the present. And the interesting fact about this is that the parties guaranteeing the parson's pay are, in the majority, the folks who usually have given little or nothing toward supporting the church." New Advertisements. N. F. BTTRNHAM'S TURBINE water wheel Wilm selected four years ago, and put to work in thf> Patent Office, Washington, D.C.andhaa PROVED to be the BEST. 19 sizes made. PRICES LOWER than any other first-class ?wheel. Pamphlet free. N. F. BURNHAM, York, Pa. jJ|OST EXTRAORDINARY Terms of Advertising are offered for Newspapers in the State of SOUTH CARO? LINA! Send for list of papers and schedule of rates. Address GEO. P. ROWELL & CO., Advertising Agents, No. 41 Park Row, New York. Refer to Editor of this Paper. $K O per dav at home. Terms free. Address V H tp?w\/ (JEO. STINSON & CO., Portland, Maine. Ill A WEEK guaranteed to Male and Female Agents in their locality. Costs NOTHING to try it. Par? ticulars Free. P. 0. VICKEP.Y <? CO., Augusta, Me. ffpSYCHOMAXCY, OR SOUL CHARMING."?How JL either sex may fascinate and gain the love and affections of any person they choose, instantly. This sim? ple mental acquirement all can possess1, free, by mail, for 25 cents; together with a Marriage Guide, Egyptian Ora? cle, Dreams, Hints to Ladies. A queer book. loo,ooo,ooo sold. Address t. WILLIAM & CO., Publishers, Phila? delphia^_ Advertiser's Gazette! A Journal of Information for Advertisers. Edition, 9,600 cop? ies. Published weekly. Terms, $2 per annum, in advance, FIVE SPECIMEN COPIES (DIFFERENT DATES) TO ONE ADDRESS FOR 25c. Office No. 41 Park Row, New York, GEO. T. ROWELL & CO., Editors and Publishers. Nos.3 Broad Street and 109 East Bay Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. First-Class Work OUR SPECIALTY, yet, by csing cheaper grades of stock, we can furnish 1vork at LOWEST LIVING PRICES. FINE FASHION?BlTsTATIONERY, Piries Paper and Envelopes. Redding and Ball {Invitations ON THE BEST STOCK AND PRINTED IN THE LATEST STYLE. Sept 10, 1S74 9 Xlio Above Cut'Kcprescuts Tozor's Improved AGRICULTURAL ENGINE! /^VF which thoro nro now more than a dozen \_F at work in Andorson County. For further information, apply to N. K. SULLIVAN ft CO., Anderson, S. C, or ad? dress the undersigned. RICHARD T0ZER, Columbia, S. C. Dec 3,1871 21 ly SEWING MACHINES AND THEI? SALES. From the New York Daily News. "The fact, wo believe, is indisputable that, so far as the Sewing Machine is concerned, Americans can put in the best claim to having been its inventors, and not to having been its inventors merely, but to having been mainly instru? mental in affording to the world at large the incalculable benefits resulting from this great desideratum of the age. "Few inventions, more than that of the Sewing Machine, '-?^.^ uiawj. [iL v/uv* w v-.?v-? www *_iui vuu vc >av.uiueo ouuuiu 11avc r-g^i^ awakened a spirit of competition in the same line of discov |??rlpory? What wonder that a mushroom growth of Sewing I ggSgpMachines should, in consequence (and in no protracted space ~ of time), have been the?result? We have neither the leisure nor the spacejust now, hpwever, to justify the attempt on our part to give anything like a complete history of what may be designated the strife for pre-eminence among Sewing Machine Manufacturers in this city during (we will say) the last twenty years. Let us commence, therefore, with the year 1871. In that year no less than twenty-live different Sewing Machine Companies (each intent upon producing in the public mind an exalted idea of its own Machine) were in most active competition ; and each, asamat tcr of course, willing to base its claims to pre-eminence upon the amount of sales to be effected by it during the year. In other words, the sales of any particular Machine were considered the true index of its popularity. Well, in the above year, 1871, THE SINGER MANUFACTU? RING COMPANY sold 281,2(50 Machines, being just 1,89G more than were sold by its two prin? cipal competitors during said year. "During the year 1872, the Singer Manufacturing Company effected sales to Ihe amount of 219,708 Machines, outnumbering those of its principal competitor during said period 45,670. "In 1873 the sales of the Singer Manufacturing Company reached 232,444, being 113,254 more than were sold during the said year by its highest competitor, and as many as were sold by all its other competitors combined. "And here it is worthv of remark that, while the sales of the principal companies this year (1873) fell very considerably short of their sales in 1872, those of the Singer Manufac. Co. were largclv increased. Well, conformably with their settled practice, the practice, we mean of in lcreasing their sales each succeeding year, the SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, last year, (1874) brought their sales up to the astonishing figure of 241,679, BEATING THEIR MOST FORMIDABLE COMPETITOR 148,842, But the sales of that competitor show a falling off in 1874, as compared with 1873, of over 26*,000 Machines! where (as already stated) the sales of the Singer Company show an increase year by year, and the sales of the other Companies, for several years at least, show a decrease. We are governed in our statements by reliable "Statistics of Sales" made to the owners of the princi? pal patents by those licensed under them. And in this place let us repeat that we hoia to the rule that the comparative sales of a Machine constitute a good criterion oi its merits, and more especially so when the rule in question has been thoroughly tested through a series of years." May 27, 1875 JOHN H. CLARKE, Agent Singer Sewing Machines, ANDERSON AND PIC KENS COUNTIES. 45 lm IT IS 10 JOKE,BUT A REAL FACT! THAT LEWIS & CO. -a.be giving The Worth of the Money in any Goods they Sell OR INSTANCE? You can get a GENUINE HAND-MADE BOOT or SHOE, at less than home-made prices. A "NOBBY IIAT," or a "GRANGER," at a reasonable price. And those WHITE LACE INDIA LAWNS and PIQUES are reallv exquisite." So the Ladies all say. And the CALICOES, MUSLINS, CHAMBRES, PRINTED LAWNS and DRESS GOODS all aro beautiful. We refor to the Ladies for proof of it. You can buy any? thing you want AT A REAL LOW DOWN FIGURE ! ' In fact, SO MUCH CHEAPER than you have been accustomed to, that it will SURPRISE you to see and hear. Our Stock is now NEW and FRESH. Come soon and get the choice. Our substantial lines and Staple Goods are complete. All in need of good Goods at the right kind of prices, will do well to call and seo for themselves. April 29, 1875 LEWIS & CO., O Granite Row, Anderson, ?>. O. 41 3m NEW GOODS ! NEW GOODS! ! AT THE HAYING JUST RETURNED FROM MARKET, I NOW OFFER FOR SALE A COMPLETE STOCK OF LADIES' GOODS of every VARIETY, And of the NEWEST and most FASHIONABLE patterns, which I will sell VERY CHEAP for Cash or on time to prompt paying customers. Special Attention paid to Millinery and Mantua-Making. At the "WAVERLY HOUSE CORNER" I havo also on hand a A CHOICE ASSORTMENT OF GROCERIES, And everything else pertaining to a GENERAL RETAIL BUSINESS. All persons wishing to purchaso will find it to their interest to give me a call. May 6, 1S75 39 O. A. REED. WHITE LEAD, ZINCS, COLORS, AND PUTTY. MANUFACTURED BY HOLMES, CAT,PER & CO., Proprietors. Office, 203 East Bay Street. Factory, Corner Cumberland and Philadelphia Sts., charleston, s. C. IMPORTERS and Dealers in LUBRICATING AND PAINT OILS, WINDOW GS.ASS and PAINTER'S MATERIAL. Agents for AVERILL'S CHEMICAL PAINT, PRINCE'S METALLIC, PAINT, RUB? BER AND LEATHER BELTING. Fob 25, 1875 32_gm INDEEDI IT IS STRANGE HOW PEOPLE DO. WE havo callod on von from timo to time to pay the MONEY you JUSTLY OWE US, and you WON'T DO IT. Wo still urgo you to pay your HONEST DEBTS ; and if you are de? termined not to pay, come in ami talk with us about them, any way, and leavo us impressed that you will .sometime, perhaps, pay us a littlo something. Our Guano Company?the WANDO?need their money due for past years, also ; and we warn you again that there will bo a TERRIBLE SUEIXG soon, unless all of our old claims aro paid up. We havo still a LARGE STOCK OF GOODS on hand, which we will cheerfully DIVIDE AMONG THOSE WHO PAY THEIR DEBTS. BLECKLEY, BROWN & CO. S. BLECKLEY.