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^ntam inlelfigcntar. Importance of Hay as a Farm Product. We invite the attention of onr farming com? munity to the following sensible article from the Monroe (Ga.) Advertiser. In midsummer, when grass is abundant, very few persons think of the importance of an ample supply of win? ter forage, and. consequently, neglect the time honored injunction, "Make hay while the sun chines." There are two points of great impor? tance connected with hay-making,, to which we wish to direct attention. First, the grass should be cut when green, while the seed are in the dough state. Second, it mnet not be too Jong exposed to the sun and dew-^-especially crab-grass. It requires very little sunshine to eure it. That which is cut in the morning may be hauled up the same afternoon, and ought never to remain out more than one night. Much hay is ruined by being ent too late, and still more by being left out too long: . Editor Advertiser; As the season for saving hay will soon be at hand, and appreciating the value of this crop, and knowing the scarcity of stock feed in onr section for several years past, we would urge our agricultural friends to give the subject that earnest and timely at? tention that its importance demands. Let every farmer who owns a horse, cow and calf, be determined to devote four or five days or I more to saving hay this present summer, no matter how much it may conflict with the cot? ton crop or other farm labor, as we are satis? fied that farm labor employed in any other way cannot be made more profitable or remu? nerative than in saving hay at the proper time. As there are many ways in which an abundant supply of good hay may be secured, no farmer, however poor himself or his lands may be, should have an excuse for neglecting this crop. The German millet is highly prized by those who have tried it, yielding from 1* to 2 tons per acre on ordinary land. It matures and is zeady for mowing in sixty days from seeding. It should be sown broadcast at the rate of one half of a bushel per acre, having the land well broken and harrowed before sowing, and cov? ered by harrow or heavy brash run over it. It may be sown as late as the 1st of July, but we think it does better sown in May. It is our opinion that it will come into general use and take the place, to a large extent, of the ?at crop, and become to the Georgia farmer what clover is to Tennessee and Eentncky. Onr Georgia crab grass makes an excellent hay and we think fully equal to the mnch val? ued clover and timothy of higher latitudes when cut at the right stage and properly cured. The best method for obtaining a crop of this grass is to take the plows into the wheat or oat fields after the stock have got the gleanings, and break with scooters close and deep, one acre to the horse, (which will take the plow team but one day from the regular crop) or if it be desirable to pasture the wheat or oat field for the summer, any lands at rest and in culti? vation last year, if not too much exhausted, will bring crab grass after a good breaking. In 1871 we tested the comparative value of a wheat and hay crop upon the same land. After taking off the wheat we treated the stub? ble as above mentioned, had the grass mowed in September, making U tons per acre of fine hay, worth $20.00, against ten bushels of wheat, $17.50, with a cost of ?2.50 per acre more than the hay. Upon many of the farms of onr county there are branches and creek bottoms that afford an abundant supply of swamp grass that may be cut and fed in a green state, as well as cured into hay later in the season. All snch lands are valuable even if not drained and cultiva? ted, for the abundant supply of grass they af? ford. They should be cleared of all brush and timber, well drained, and if not desirable for cultivated crops they can be made the most profitable lands on the farm by raising grass alone. The writer has taken off and cured three tons of swamp grass per acre, worth at least 50 cents per hundred pounds, and estima? ting the cost of labor and comparing it with other farm products from the cultivated crops, j we were forced to admit that the former yield? ed the largest per cent of clear profit. Herds grass is well adapted to our swamp lands, grows here to perfection, and equally valuable for grazing or making hay. Every farmer who has bottom lands should procure seed of this grass, thoroughly prepare the land by breaking and harrowing, sow half bushel seed per acre in March or April, and we venture the opin? ion that he can realize $30.00 per acre annual? ly without any labor except that of mowing and housing the hay. If it is not practicable or desirable to pro? cure hay from the native or cultured grasses, let peas be sown this month to be cut green aua well cured for stock feed during the win? ter. The farmer who depends upon corn, fod? der, shucks, or even a good oat crop for his stock food during the year is neglecting better and cheaper methods, and will not appreciate their economical value until he tries the expe? riment It is the opinion of Northern men who have fanned in both sections that the South possesses superior advantages over the North in the product of hay, and more hay of better quality can be raised here than at the North. We must begin agricultural reforms as conditions precedent to anything like per-, man ent prosperity in our section. We must give less area if not attention to cotton, and raise more food for man and beast. Our work animals and stock ge nerally can be kept in better condition and at nearly one-half the ex? pense by having au ample supply of good bay that costs but a trifle to secure it. Let our far? mers, during the present summer, be deter? mined to "make bay while the sun shines," and we doubt not, if the motto is reduced to ractice, there will be. more sunshine about the ear* in looking upon an improved condition of his stock during the winter, and in not ex? periencing the mortification of buying western corn and hay at exorbitant prices during the ?pring. How they Buried the Hatchet.?The day following our centennial festivities the fol? lowing incident occurred in a South End sal? oon : A friend had invited one of the South Carolina soldiers into the saloon to put anoth? er turf on the buried hatchet. While stand? ing at the bar a stranger came in. The Caro? linian suddenly dropped his glass and closely eyed tbe stranger. His gaze was so steady and peculiar that the fnend began to be alarmed and to fear that the hatchet was about to be dug again. Directly the Carolinian asked tbe stranger if he knew him. There was no recognition, whereupon the Carolinian asked him if he was not in the war. "Yes," was the reply. "And you were once stationed at such a place?" "Yes." "And took part in such a skirmish?" "Yes." "Well, I thought so," replied the Carolinian, and, raising Iiis hat, showed a large scar on his forehead, say? ing, "There is your sabre mark, my boy; come up and take a drink." And so then and there they decorated the grave of the buried hatchet.?Boston Herald. ? ? It is an affecting sight to see a man try? ing to sleep on a long, sultry afternoon, when flies make themselves more intimate than usu? al, and watcli him knock one fly off his nose two or three dozen times, and then see that same fly go around the back way and com? mence singing in his left ear. The man gen? erally jumps np very suddenly when it comes to this, tears b?s morning paper into several pieces, jirks his car nearly off catching at the fly, ana then comes to the conclusion that it I looks rather lazy to sec a man sleeping in day time, and thinks he won't sleep any more. I ? It can no longer be said that the newspa? pers are the means of a great many ladies "get? ting their backs up," though at one time the best conducted papers often make a great bus vie among them, and nearly every pannier was a newspaper waist basket. Southern "Independence." "Hallow, stranger, you seem to be going to market ?" "Yes, sir, I am." "What are you carrying that plow along forf j "Going to send it to Pittsburg.1' "To Piltsburg, in Pennsylvania?" "You're mighty right, I am." "What are you going to send it there for 7" "To get it sharpened." "All the way to Pittsburg to get it sharpen? ed?" "You bet I We're starved our blacksmith out; he pulled up stakes the other day and went to Texas." "Well, that's rather a novel idea my friend? sending a plow so far to get it sharpened." "Not so novel as you heard it was. We do oar milling in St. Louis." "Isthat so?" "You're right it is. We used to have a mill at Punkinvine Creek, but the owner got too poor to keep it up, and so we turned to getting our grinding done at St. Louis." "You don't mean to say you 6end your grists all the way to St. Louis by rail ?" "I don't say nothing about gris?we hain't got no gris to send. But we get our flour and meal from St. Louis." "I see you have a hide on your wagon/' "Yes; our old cow died last week. March winds blowed the life out'n her. Sendin' her hide to Boston to get it tanned." "All the way to Boston ? Is not that rather expensive, my friend ? The freights will eat i the hide up." "That's a fact?cleaner than the buzzards did the old critter's carcass. But what's the use being taxed to build railroads 'thout you get the good of 'em ? Used to have a tanyard over at Lickskillett and a shoemaker, too. But they're kerflummuxed." "Kerflummuxed?what's that?" "It means, gone up a spout?and twixt you and me, that's mighty nigh the case with our State." "When do you expect to get your leather ?" "Don't expect to get no leather at all?ex? pect to get shoes some day, made at Boston or thereabouts." "Rather a misfortune to lose a milk cow, my friend." "Not so much a misfortune as you heard it was. Monstrous sight of shuckin' and nub bicin' and gettin' only about 3 quarts a day." "What are you going to do for milk?" "Send North for it." "Send North for milk?" "Yes; concentrated milk and Goshca but? ter." "01 I see the point." "Mighty handy things these railroads?make them Yankee fellers do all our jobs for us now ?do our smithin', and grindin', and tannin', and milkin', and churnin'." "I see you have a bale of cotton." "Yes, we go bur bottom nickel on cotton.? Sendin' it up to Massachusetts to get it carded, j spun and wove. Time'll come when we'll send it there to be ginned, and then we'll be happy. [ Monstrous sight of trouble running these gins." "That would be rather expensive, sending cotton in seed." "No more so than those western fellers pays when they send corn East and get a dollar a bushel and pay six bits freight. Besides, as I said, what is the use of paying for railroads 'thout we use the roads ?" "You seem to appreciate the advantages of railroads." "I think we ought?we pay enough for 'era." "I recken you fatten your own pork?" "Well, you reckon wrong, stranger. I get them Illinoy fellers to do that for me. It's mighty convenient, too?monstrous sight of trouble toting a big basketful of coru three times a day to hogs in a pen, especially when you hain't got none to tote it to." "I should think so." "There's one thing lacking though to make the business complete." "Whats thatr "They ought to send them hogs ready cook? ed. Cookin' and prepariu' wood for cook in' takes up a heap of time that ort by rights to be employed in the cotton patch. I was say in' to my old woman the other day, if we Mississippi folks got our cookin' ana washin' done up North and sent by express, we'd be as happy as office-holders." "Your horse in the lead there seems to be lame." "Yes needs shoein'. If he wasn't the only horse I've got, and I can't spare him, I'd send him up where they made the horse shoes and nails and get him shod. Can't get such a thing done in our parts. Perhaps I can at the de? pot." "How do you manage to live in your parts, my old friend?" "Why, we raise cotton. My road turns off here,stranger. Gee,Ball; back,Brandy. I'm flad I 6eed you, stranger."?Natchez Weekl? ")emocrut. The Temple of Diana. Ephesus, one of the twelve Ionian cities of Asia Minor was famous in antiquity as con? taining one of the seven wonders of the world, the great temple of Artemis, or Diana. From very early times Ephesus was a sacred city; the fable ascribed its foundation to the Ama? zons, and the Amazonion legend is connected with Artemis. The first Ionian colonists in Lydia found the worship of the goddess already established here in a primitive temple, which was soon superseded by a magnificent structure. This Grecian temple was seven times restored at the expense of all the the Greek communi? ties in Asia Minor. In the year 356 B. C, it was burned to the ground, but again rebuilt in a style of far greater splendor than before, the work extending over 200 years. This later temple was 425 feet long and 220 feet wide.? "The foundations were sunk deep in marshy ground, as a precaution against earthquake, says Pliney. There were two rows of columns' at the sides, but the front and back porticos consisted of eight rows of columns, placed four deep. Outside, at the entrance to the temple, stood a basin of porphyry fifteen feet in diame? ter, for the worshippers to lave and purify them? selves in. The internal decoration was of the most sumptuous kind. The cedar roof was supported on pillars of jasper, the doors were of cypress. The altar was the work of Prax? iteles?, and it was surrounded by many Statuts, one of them of gold. The image of the goddess herself was roughly hewed out of wood, black with age and greasy with the oil with which it was customary to anoint it. When the apostle Paul visited Ephesus in the middle of the first century the worship of Diana still flourished there, and the temple retained all its original splendor. Pilgrims to the venerated abode of the goddess used to buy little models of the temple iu silver, or precious stonc3, as memen? toes of their visit, and as amulets to insure to them the protection of the Ephesian Diana. The Goths sacked the city and burned the tem? ple about two hundred years later, and in tho reign of Theodosius I, Ioward the end of the fourth century, the furious zeal of the icono? clasts, or image-breakers, completed the de? struction. The ancient city almost entirely disappeared before the modern era, the very site of the temple being lost. ? A Missouri correspondent of the Chicago Tribnnf. tells of a swarm locusts from thirty to seventy-five miles wide, half a mile deep, pas? sing through the air at a speed of fifteen miles an hour for sixty hours continuously, and dri? ving people indoors for fear of beiDg smoth? ered to death. ? An old farmer talks about his boys: From nineteen to twenty they knew more than he did; at twenty-five they knew as much; at thirty they were willing to hear what he had to say ; at thirty-fivo they asked his advice; and he thinks when they are forty they will actual? ly acknowledge that the old man does know something. ' Perpetuating Ignorance. The Horry Newa prints an obituary, written by a school teacher of that County, verbatim et literatim, and uses it as a text upon which to point out how great a need exists for oicrj attention to the qualifications of school teach? ers in that county. In composition, punctua? tion and spelling the obituary referred to ex? hibits a great lack of education, combined with an. evident belief that it is a very creditable liierary effort. The writer has been drawing a gcod salary for two years as a teacher, and it is fair to say that every dollar paid to him was worse than wasted. To call him a teacher is to misuse terms. He should be called a per petuator of ignorance. We are sorry to know that this is no solitary instance. We were recently shown the corres? pondence of a county school commissioner, which contained letters so absolutely absurd that one forgot the mournful significance of them as indices of the condition of our free school system in the enjoyment of the ludi? crous combination of ignorance and egotism displayed in them. The Horry editor points out the fact that, though the conservatives control the school appointments in that county, such a case of incompetency is possible, and uses it as a text to urge greater care in selecting teachers in the future. We hope the advice will be heeded, and it is equally to be desired that republican school oflBcers should begin to act with greater circumspection on the same subject. Our schools at least ought to be free from the blight of politics. They are, however, to as great a degree as other offices, under its baneful influences. The county school com? missioner is elected frequently to quiet the de? mand for some other office. He appoints trustees to coutrol the precincts in some one's interest. Ho fears to demand too high a stan? dard of qualification for a teacher's certificate, because he will thereby cut off the means of his party friends. Thus are the sacred claims of the next generation sacrificed to the sordid ambitions of the present. If its continues, the day will come when the enemies of education will only need to point to the results of our free school system to find a potent argument for its destruction. The greatest sufferers by such <i catastrophy will be the colored people. To tnem education is the only force strong enough to insure the continuance of their present position in our political system. If it was certain that they were to remain for auy considerable time as ignorant as they are to-day, there would not be a shadow of a party in the United States favoiable to the universal suffrage experiment. It is the hope of a speedy improvement in their qualifications that makes their existence as political factors tolerable to the masses of the whites. It is with sorrow, then, that we are obliged to believe that they are in a great degree responsible for the'existence of so great an evil as incompetent teachers in our public schools. It is within our knowledge that where at? tempts have been made in some places to raise the standard of qualification the cry has been raised that the result intended was to force colored teachers out and to bring In the whites. Trustees, and even parents, have been led to give credence to this shallow device of preju? dice and political passion, to the evident inju? ry of the young committed to their care. The near future has trials yet in store for those who have recently acquired the suffrage, and for those who have hoped so much from it. The surest weapon of defense for both will be found in the proof that time can be depen? ded upon to render the objections of their enemies nugatory. An efficient, progressive system of education, having the hearty co? operation and warm affections of the race needing it so much, will be the best anchor of hope for a victory in any such contest.? Union Herald. A Bride WiTnouT a Bridegroom.?Some time ago, says the Richmond (Va.) State Jour? nal, a beautiful and intelligent young lady in? formed her intimate frinds that she was en? gaged to be married to Mr. A. Last Thursday night was fixed for the wedding, and a number of cards of invitation were sent out. The guests assembled, but no bridegroom appearing at a late hour they withdrew, full of sorrowful spmpathy for the lady, and fierce indignation against the man who had so overwhelmed her with mortification and disappointment. On the next day the lady was a raving ma? niac, in which sad condition, it is said, she still remains. The gentleman in the case, however, asserts that he was not engaged to the lady, and had no idea of it, nor did he know anything about the wedding that was appointed for him. He doubtless tells the truth, and the arrange meuts for the wedding on the part of the un? fortunate young lady were but the premonitory symptoms of the insanity afterward fully de? veloped. A Wonderful Woman.?A story like this is being circulated in our midst. We leave it with the reader how much to credit: There lives near Pee Dee Riiver a colored woman who can walk through flames of fire, control large crowds of people, and make the very animals stop and obey her. She told a colored man to ouild a large fire, which he walked through several times. She told him to build another, and then laid down and roll? ing over it put the flames out. A little boy standing near, witnessing this, laughed, where? upon a cow also close by, seized the child and throwing up her head sent tbo child some dis? tance in the air, who was caught iu his descent by the womau, in the palm of her hand. She then told somo of the crowd to drive the cow away, which they attempted and failed. She visited a house where a crowd were having somo amusement, and they all fell prostrate before her, and were not allowed to rise until they were all converted or proposed to be.? Darlington Southerner. The Torpedo Chicken.?The Memphis Avalanche gives an account of an ingenious in? vention, made by a Frenchman, which is a sov? ereign cure against chicken stealing. The in? vention is a machine in the shape of a chicken, beiug covered with feathers, having a perfect head, legs and wings. It is soft to the touch and the legs and wings are flexible and resem? bles a chicken. Iuside of the false fowl is placed :?. ;or; cdo, which explodes if caught by ths legs o: struck with force. The effects of :Lc machines were seen recently in Memphis iu two cases; in one the hand of a negro was blown off, but the owner of it had escaped. In the other case, after the explosion, the thief had made off, but blood was traced somo dis? tance from the chickeu roost and it was believ? ed the thief would be found. ? The sensible young man is now near Coun? cil Bluffs, Iowa. Not long ago ho become in? volved in a quarrel with no less than five diff? erent men, and challenged each one of them to mortal combat. All accepted, and were upon the ground in time. Then the hero of the af? fair said that ho wouldn't fight them all at once, but would fight the best man first. The five began discussing who was the best man, and got to fighting. They struggled over the Bubjcct for about a quarter ot an hour, the champion sitting on a log as an umpire, and when the question was finally settled, the "best man" could have been whipped by anybody, and wasn't ready to fight. The challenger j walked off with all the houors, aud was proud and happy. ? The levity with which tho sacred feet of delicate young ladies is spoken of by the rural press of Georgia deserves reprehension. Thus the Covingtou Enterprise has the following outrageous parngrnph : "There is a young la? dy in Newton county who is sixteen years old, and who weighs one hundred and ninety-seven pounds. A naif bushel of meal bran was poured iu one of her stockings, and it filled it only about two-thirds full." j All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? What is it that a poor man has and a rich man wants ? Nothing. ? If you ask the average man what time it is, six seeouds after Le has restored his watch to his pocket, he cannot tell you. ? The man who goes about with a flower on his coat may be all right, but it is well for even the smartest of us to be cautious. ? It's astonishing, says the New Orleans Bulletin, to see how Tittle there is of some la? dies in these days of contracted skirts. ? The lead in lead pencils is not lead at all, though it is called black lead. The weight, if nothing else, tells you that. It is a mineral, called graphite?from the Greek word to write ?and is more nearly related to coal than lead. ? A man in Vermont, who had a gun which scattered shot badly, saw an advertisement in a city paper offering to send information of a method of preventing such scattering for fifty cents. He forwarded the money, ana received the instruction "to put in only one shot." ? "There!" exclaims the indignant Boston wife as she fetches her husband, who had been talking his centennial apple-jack too strong or too frequent, a resonant whack on the head with a chair rocker, "I'll raise a Bunker Hill monument on you that you'll remember 1" ? At least nine out of every ten persons place their umbrellas in an improper position for drainage after use in a shower. The han? dle should be turned down, when the water will run off without injury ; otherwise it will run down to the top, damaging the cloth and the wire which hold the ribs together. ? The Postmaster General has issued the following order: "It is ordered that the fee for registering a letter, mailed at any postoffice with the United States addressed to any other postoffice in the United States, or to a foreign country, be fixed, on and after July 1,187?, at the uniform rate of ten cents, in addition to the regular postage, to be fully prepaid by post? age 8tamps affixed to such letter and cancelled at the mailing office." ? A Southern clergyman has lately pub? lished some of his "recollections," which in? cluded the following anecdote of the war: "I once heard a visionary criticise the slow move? ments of the Confederacy in its conduct of the war. He broached a plan of his own, by which, without possibility of failure, an array could be marched right through the North, and scrape up all the money in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, and come back by sea, bringing the spoils in safety to Wilmington. He mentioned, with an air of consummate tri? umph, that he had disclosed the plan to Gen. Lee, and that the General was forced to con? fess (and I have no doubt that he did it with imperturbable gravity) that such an idea would never have occurred to him." ? Mr. James Campbell, the chief steward at Vassar College, says that the young ladies at the College are given to eating confectionery between meals, ana considers that the use of candies in that manner is certainly hurtful to them, but the appetite for it seems to be fixed, and therefore he attempts to meet the situation by putting fine candies upon the table. Candy eating by girls between meals is, in his opinion, fully as bad a habit as cigar smoking by young men. The extravagance of it is also to be de? plored. One lady pupil iu the College uses it to an extreme, and not long ago, she had a package of caudy sent to her from New York, the bill for which amounted to $40. If one young lady hands it around freely, another thinks she must, too, and then there is no end to the outlay of money for it. Hew Advertisements. TJAATT A fllTlff'Pfi wanted to Bell "The Byvlli AAjJCUJ A & People's Common Sense Medical Adviser." It is thu cheapest book ever published; SS5 pages, over 250 illustration*, $1.50. Thousands buy it at bight who could not lie induced to purchase the high priced books treating of Domestic Medicine. Unlike oth? er books sold through agents this work is thoroughly ad? vertised throughout North America. This fact, together with tlx largo size, ?legant appearance, and many new features of the book, causes it to sell more rapidly than any work ever published in this country. Those of my agents who have had experience in selling books, say that Id all their previous canvassing they never met with such success or made so largo wages, as since commencing the sale of my work. For terms and territory, address (inclo? sing two postage stamps and staling experience) K. V. PIERCE, M. D., World's Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y. JV'ote. ?Mark envelope "For Publishing Dep't." ACTIVE CANVASSING AGENTS Wanted in every city and district In the State of South Caroliua to solicit for the Mobile Life Insurance Co. OF MOBILE, ALA. A SOUND, RELIABLE AND PROGRESSIVE SOUTH? ERN COMPANY. Address, giving references. II. M. FRIEND, Secretary, Mobile, Ala. Speedily cured bv DR. BECK'S only known and 6ure Remedy, fco CHARGE for treatment until curod. Call on or address Dr. J. 0. BECK, 112 John St., Cincinnati, 0. /hnrj A WEEKguarn \ / /in their locality. [f I I tlculars Free. aranteed to Male and Female Agents Costs NOTHING to try it. Par VICKERY A CO., Augusta, Me. 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. 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Juno 10, 1875 47 * IT IS 10 JOKE, BUT A REAL EACT! THAT LEWIS & CO. ARE GIVING The Worth of the Money in any Goods they Sell. J: OR INSTANCE? You can get a GENUINE HAND-MADE BOOT or SHOE, at less than home-made prices. A "NOBBY HAT," or a "GRANGER," at a reasonable price. And those WHITE LACE INDIA LAWNS and PIQUES are really exquisite. So the Ladies all say. And the CALICOES, MUSLINS, CHAMBRES, PRINTED LAWNS and DRESS GOODS all are beautiful. We refer 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 boon 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 aro complete. All in need of good Goods at the right kind of prices, will do well to call and see for themselves. LEWIS & CO. O Granite Row, Anderson, S. C April 29. 1875_41_3m 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 CLASS and PAINTER'S MATERIAL. Agents for AVERILL'S CHEMICAL PAINT, PRINCE'S METAM.IC, PAINT, RUB? BER AND LEATHER BELTING. Fob 20, 1875 32 6m SIMPSON, HILL & CO. DRUGGISTS AND APOTHECARIES, COMER BENSON HOUSE, - - ' ANDERSON, S. C. WE would call tho attention of our old customers, and the public generally, to our large Stock of WEITE LEAD, OILS AND VARNISHES, Which wo are selling at prices that defy competition. ALL WE ASK IS A TRIAL. We aro also Agonts for Simmons5 Hepatic Compound, Which we are prepared to sell at manufacturer's prices. SIMPSON, HILL & CO. Juno 3, 1875 46 The Above Cut Bepi'osents Tozer's Improved AGRICULTURAL ENGINE! OP which there are now more than a dozen at work in Anderson Comity. J For further information, appljr to N. K. SULLIVAN <fe CO., Anderson, S. C, or ad? dress the undersigned. RICHARD TOZER, Columbia, S. C. Doc 3, J874 21_ly Fresh Arrival of Mountain Beeves and Mutton. WE have commenced the BEEF MARKET in earnest, and will do all wo can to have good BEEF and [MUTTON every day in the mar? ket, and as soon as wo can got Beef from the mountains, wo will furnish as good as can be bad in the State. All wo ask is a trial. Market price, .'1 to 12Jc- per pound. Average price 7 cents. WHITE it HOLDEN. June 3,1S75 i(i 3m M. GOLDSMITH. V. KIND. PHOENIX IRON WORKS, COLUMBIA, S. C. 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. Wo guarantee to furnish En? gines and Boilers of as good qnality and power, and at as low rates as can bo nad in the North. We manufacture, also, the Gaddy Improved Water Wheel, which wo recommend for pow? er, simplicity of construction, durability and cheapnoss. Wo warrant our work, and assure promptness and dispatch in rilling orders. GOLDSMITH & KIND, Columbia, S.C. May 2$, 1S74_46_ly HENRY BISCHOFF & CO., Wholesale Grocers, AND DEALERS IN CAROLINA RICE, Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco, ?See?., ?See, ?See, 197 and 199 East Bay Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. Solo Agents for South Carolina for the Sale of OLD VALLEY WHISKEY. Aug 20,1S74_6_6 m Hats for Men and Ladies! A FULL lino of Ladies' trimmed and un trimmed Hats. In Men and Boys' Hats, wo have a splendid line of Wool, Folt and Straw Goods, t?t prices to suit the times. TOWERS & BROYLES.