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NOT KNOWING. I know not what will befall me! God hangs a mist o'er my eyes; And o'er each step of my onward path He makes new scenes arise, And every joy he sends me comes, As a sweet and glad surprise. I see not a step before me, As I tread the days of the year, But the past is still in God's keeping, The future his mercy shall clear. And what looks dark in the distance May brighten as I draw near. For -perhaps the dreaded future, Has less bitterness than I think; The Lord may sweeten the water, Before I stoop to drink; Or, if Marah must be Marah, He will stand beside its brink. It may be there is waiting For the coming of my feet, Some gift of such rare blessedness, Some joy so strangely sweet, That my hps can only tremble With the thanks I cannot speak. Oh restful, blissful ignorance! 'Tis blessed not to know, It keeps me quiet in those arms Which will not let me go, And hushes my soul to rest On the bosom which loves me so. So I go on not knowing! I would not if I might; I'd rather walk in the dark with God, Than go alone in the light. I would rather walk with Christ by faith Than walk alone by sight. My heart shrinks back from, trials Which the future may disclose, Yet I never had a sorrow But what the dear Lord chose; So I send the coming tears back, With the whispered word "He knows." A STRANGE STOBT. The Trouble a Mother's Spirit Made In Her Slater's Family. From the St. Louis Qlobe-Dcmocrat. . ? In one of the most pleasant and aristo* cralic localities of our city, a few even? ings ago, there were some strange mani? festations, by some supposed to be spirit? ual doings. The bells about the house began to ring. First the front door bell, then the servants', then the kitchen, and then all the bells rang at once. The inmates watched first one and then another of the bells, bat they always rang when they were not watching. Af? ter guarding outdoors and in until ex? hausted, and they had become extremely alarmed, the ringing stopped at 3:30 in the morning. The servant girls gave notice that they wonld leave next day, bat to quiet them the gentleman of the boose told them that the disturbance was caused only by electricity, and he would l ave the bells fixed; and away he went to see the bell-hangers and have them ascertain what was the matter. They tightened some of the wires and loosened others, spending nearly a day in the work. "All right, now," said they to the fentleman, "You'll have no farther trou le." Bat the bell-bangers had barely reached the street when all the bells began to ring again, and with astonishing violence. The next evening at 11 o'clock the (invisible bell ringers began their clang? ing again, and continued it half an hoar before reaching the closing note. For two evenings they acted only as they were acted upon by the tangible fingers of doabting Thomases. It was thought that electricity bad completed its work, and there would be no more trouble, bat that thought was a mistake. In the morning the beds of the children were found moved across the room, the location of other pieces of furniture changed to dif? ferent parte of the room, the pictures broken down, and the cords cut. The children denied that they knew anything about it, with the exception of the oldest, who said be had1 heard load raps aronnc the room. This disturbance was- repeated three evenings, when the children were removed into the parents' room, as they were all too much frightened: to sleep in their own apartment. The next evening, however, they re? turned to it, and they were iustcomforta? bly turned in for the night, when the Siano began to play. They opened the oor ana listened, and it played most beautifully, accompanying a lady's voice in song. They then went down stairs and opened the parlor doors, when the mu? sic ceased, and the instrument was found locked, with no indications that any one was near or bad been there. For five nights peace and quiet reigned within, the children occupying the room adjoin? ing that of the parents, the door being left open between the apartments. One little boy went to bed on the sixth night at 8 o'clock, and be bad not been there long before the family saw the bed mov? ing across the room; loud rappings and other singular noises were heard on the furniture. The little fellow was taken into the parents' chamber again, when an invisible power picked him op, lifted him three feet, and carried him along and placed him back in bis bed. The terrified parents were now satisfied that it was not done by any human agency. While meditating as to what should be done, the family standing in a group in one corner of the room, they all saw what appeared to be be a little boy emerge from the fireplace. He looked natural, but thin and pale. He went toward the door, and then vanished before their eyes. This frightened them more than ever. They rrfado their beds on the floor, and all slept together. In the morning the gentleman related the whole occurrence to an old friend, and that person said he had heard of a Sratleman in the city by the name of barles Tuckett, who was posted in the spiritual phenomena, and he would hunt him up and see if he could solve the mysterious problem. Seeing the latter as per agreement, Mr. Tuckett, with a clairvoyant and trance medium (the beautiful daughter of ooe of oar wealthy citizens,) and two gentlemen (not Spirit? ualists) repaired to the disturbed resi? dence and agitated family at 8 o'clock the following evening. * A circle was formed, consisting of the persons just mentioned and the family. The medium, soon being under "spirit? ual control," said: "I see a lady by you, madam. She is tall, with dark hair, and says she is your sister. A little boy is holding her hand." The sister-spirit then took control of tho medium, and said: SlSTBft : When I died you promised to take care of my two little children.? You neglected them, and this one now with me in the spirit world died from neglect. It is the same little fellow you saw in your room. You placed them among strangers and they were cruelly treated. This one died, and the other is being used cruelly by the persons you have placed him with. I desire you to bring him away to-morrow and take care of him as one of your own, as you prom? ised me. If yon do not I will trouble you more than you ever dream. Your own little boy is a medium, through whom I can operate. If you take care of my little boy I will trouble you no more, but will be around you to impress your mind with all that is good and lovely, and will be a guardian angel to you and yours, greeting you when you cross the river to where I am. Teach my boy to love me and to be a good and true man. Good by. Your SlSTEB. The medium came out of her trance perfectly ignorant of what had trans? pired. The boy was brought away from where be was, and there has been no trouble of any kind at the haunted mansion since. ? When is a fowl's neck like a bell ? When it is wrung for dinner. My Tine, My Poor Vine. The first house I ever owned was in Newark, N. J. With the house was a garden, and in the midst of the garden was an arbor, and that arbor was covered by an Isabella grape vine, and of that vine is this story. As the vine was the crown of the gar? den, I employed an experienced dresser, at the proper time of the year, to prune it properly and put it in perfect order for the opening spring. A few days after? ward, an amateur gardening friend, one who prided himself in knowing all about plants, from the cedars of Lebanon to Is? abella grape vines, came to see me, and my new place. He was delighted; but as he approached the central oeauty, he remarked with great wisdom: "This is a a very fine vine, but you ought to have it trimmed ?" This was discouraging indeed; but for the humor of the thing, I said : "You know so much more of this sort of thing than I, perhaps you would like to trim it?" He sprang to the work as if it were Elay. whipped out his jack-knife, which e always carried to execute everything he could, and at it he went, cutting off all the wood, he could find. Sure that my precious vine was spoiled, I hailed without further fear a visit from another friend and relative, who had great contempt for my knowledge of worldly affairs. We walked in the garden, ana. entering the arbor, he said, "You should have had this vine trimmed?you never did know enough to?" I checked him with?"You always save me the trouble; wouldn't you just go over it now ? here's a knife." He took it fondly, and, with the aid of a step ladder, the old gentleman went through it, and left it as naked as Wolsey was when the king deserted him. Now my poor vine was certainly safe from further excision. But a week, and another visi? tor came to my vineyard. He was from the northern part of New York, and did not realize the lateness of tho season ; it was April with us in New Jersey. He admired my new home, and when we came to the vine, so trim and clean and clear, I waited for his pleased express? ion ; but, to my dismay, he exclaimed: "You had forgotten to have it trimmed: it's a splendid vine; it's late to be sure, but not too late to trim it yet." Having given up all hope of fruit from it, after its previous mutilations, I was quite careless about its fate and re? marked: "Perhaps you would like to try your hand on it: here is an excellent knife." He seized it with evident pleasure, plunged in mediae res instanter, and, in the course of thirty minutes, managed to amputate every bough of promise that had dared to make its appearance on the vine of my affections. The work of ruin was complete. The vine was barren that year. Next year perhaps a little better, but it never recovered the shock of those untimely wounds. My folly, in letting these quacks doctor my darling, was punished by its destruction. Often, when too late, I regretted that, for the sake of seeing to what length ignorance and self-conceit would go, I permitted these good friends to meddle with mat? ters too high for them and, like the little foxes in the song of songs, to spoil my vine. Every man to his own business. Ne tutor ultra crepidam. Let the cobbler stick to his- last. "Study to be quiet and to do your own business is a divine com? mand, and, like all instructions from the same source, is full of common sense. The church and the world, religion and business, are disturbed and annoyed and sadly injured, like my garden with amateurs, pretenders, quacks: men who have new and improved methods of do? ing what was well enough done before, but which they would do with patented processes peculiar to themselves, and a vast improvement upon everything that has gone before. My study is strewed with patent ventilators. Every autumn a new man appears with a queer shaped instrumentality, and, casting his eyes up? wards at my windows, he says: "I see you're got one of thtm old-fashioned ventilators into there' ii 'tain't no good, is it?" "No, if s good for nothing: better out | than in.?r "Waal, now you see here's the thing to do it: I put one of these 'ere traps up to the top and tother into the bottom of the winder,- and the wind comes whizzin into one and out tother, and so keeps it fresh and kind o' breezy like ail the time: spose you try 'em;." I consent and he goes at it with a will. He pulls out the old ones, puts in his, md the next fell, perhaps the next month, another man comes along with a new pa? tent ventilator and wants to try it. He tries it. It is very trying to me, but the pleasure of seeing the foolish experi? ments fail is the compensation. They are all equally bad. The same quackery succeeds in trade, in finance, in medicine, in the church. We live in circles; what things have been shall be, and there is nothing new under the sun. Yet the world moves. Progress is made because good begets good and truth is fruitful. Conversa? tion holds fast that which is good, and with it works onward to the overthrow of j evil. Radicalism is too impatient, rush? es ahead, generally knocks its head against the wall, and would dash its brains out, if it had any. Even the goose that laid golden eggs, one a day, was less of a goose than the radicals who killed her to get all the eggs at once. One of the best books might be made by writing the biography of defunct the? ories in science. Men nave received as settled truths vast systems of astronomy, chemistry and geology that are now ex? ploded. Yet while those sciences were the faiths of the day, it was quite as much as a man's reputation was I worth to teach otherwise. And to this" day no man lives who knows what electricity is, or how the thing works. These facts ought to make men modest, self-distrust? ing and backward about coming forward, when they do not know what they are about. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread," And many men are ready to try their hands at trimming other people's grape vines, when the regular vine-dresser has already done his duty well. Our financial system?I beg pardon, we have none?our financial condition in this country is now a complete muddle, be? cause of political quackery; one lawyer after another trying his hand (his fingers all thumbs) at the national grape vine. The rules of business, commerce, trade, borrowing and lending, buying and sell? ing, are not written in the statute books, and la- ,-yers have no more education ana knowledge of finance than preachers or physicians. And so it comes to pass that the currency of forty millions of people, the life-blood of trade and prosperity, is deranged; that is the word; the currency of the country is deranged; and commit? tees, conventions and legislatures are as powerless to restore it to reason and nealth, as a college of infants to cure a nation of lunatics. Under the treatment of unqualified physicians, the finances of the country are getting worse and worse; like my poor vine, they are being bled to death.?N. Y. Observer. ? Thus talks an old farmer about his boys: "From sixteen to twenty they knew more than I did; at twenty-five they knew as much; at thirty they were willing to hear what I hau to say; at thirty-five they asked my advice; and I think when they get to be forty theywill acknowledge that the old man does xnow something/' , ? A child can pick up a good deal of information if it will keep its ears open while its mother is conversing through a knot hole in the fence with the woman next door. The Load of Gold. There were two brothers, one rich in the love of a good wife and children, but poor^inthis world's goods: the other. Franz, was rich in money, which he loved better than anything else. Franz lived all alone. One bitter cold night, the wife of the sick brother came to the miser, Franz, and begged for help, but he refused her, and she went away saying, "I pray God that the gold which has so hardened your heart may never weigh so heavy on your soul that you cannot mount to glory." This frightened Franz. By-and-by he fell asleep and dreamed that a fairy came to him, snaking bags of gold, and said, "Lie down, put your str mg box on your chest, and I will give yo 1 gold so long as you can bear its weight; but take care you don't get too much, for though I can give, I cannot take away." So Franz lay down, but he was so greedy of the gold that he kept wanting more, till at last he was so weighed down he could not move. And there he lay for years and years. At last a bright light shone, and a crowd of people gath-1 ered around him. He remembered his neighbors, his brother with his wife and children, out he couldn't go near them, for he was weighed down by his pile of gold. "Oh, take it off, take it off!" he cried "and let me go." Then came a voice: "Any of you his family, his neighbors or servants, any one whom he has helped may remove the awful load that binds him down." But no one stirred, and a cry burst from Franz, as his eye went from face to face, I and only the memory of nnkind and selfish words and actions came up before him. He saw in his sister's face that same sad look,-as on that stormy night, long ago, when he drove her from his door cold, hungry and sorrowful. "The Sold that hardened his heart, has bound I im to the earth; he can never rise to glory." He awoke and remembered the words of Scripture: "Having food and rai-1 ment, let us be therewith content.? Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, nor trust in uncertain riches; that they do good, that they be rich in good works." The Whole Bible is the Book of Job.?A man once asked me if I ever studied Job. And he said there was something remarkable about Job. If you get the key to Job you get the key to I the whole Bible. "How do you make that out?" I asked. "Well," he said, "I divide Job into seven heads. 1. Job un? tried. God pronounced him a perfect man. He is Adam in Eden?perfect before his trial. Then trial came?and I ad versity came to Job; that is the second head.. Trial came just as it came to Adam, and like Adam he fell. 3. Then I the third head?the wisdom of the world. The wisdom of the world came to try and I soothe Job. You never heard such wis dom; but they made poor work of it. Job could stand his scolding wife and his complaining children, but he couldn't stand the wiBdom of the world. 4. They I couldn't state anything about forgiveness, and that is what Job wanted. 5. Then Job cries out, 'Oh, that I had a daysman betwixt me and God I' That is Christ. I 6. Then God speaks and Job learns his lesson; and flat he comes down upon the dunghill. 'Behold I am vile? what! shall I answer thee ? I will lay my hand upon my mouth,' etc. There is a man coming to see his lost and ruined condi-1 tion by the fall 7. Job learns his lesson and God now lifts him upland that is the last. And Job's last estate was better than bis first." Why. man after he is.re stored is better off than Adam was in Eden ? Adam might have been in Eden ten thousand years and then the devil might have come and taken everything that Adam had; but now "our life is hid with Christ in God" and Satan can't get at it! A man once said to me, "Did you ever notice that God promised to give Job double of ever}-thing he had possessed ? And did yon notice that he didn't give him double children ? He had ten, and God didn't give him twenty ; he gave him ten. God wouldn't admit that Job had lost his children, so he had ten on earth and ten in heaven. You that have departed children and friends don't say that you have lost them; they have gone on before you, and by and-by you shall meet them.?Moody. Kerosene Oil and Diphthebia. ?The New York papers have lately sur? mised that much of the prevalent diph? theria troubles thereabouts has been oc? casioned by the kerosene oil factories on Long Island, At all events, within the range of the odors of these factories, throat troubles have been common.? There may be something in this to make investigation both interesting and profi? table in the study of causes of diphthe? ria. Long before anything was said re? garding the factories alluded to, Dr. Wilson, one of the leading physicians in Menden, Conn., adopted a theory that the use of kerosene oil had much to do with the disease in question, and daring the last year, when Meriden has been se? verely afflicted, has become satisfied from close observation that his theory is cor-1 rect. By practical experiment he has found that where kerosene oil was used the disease was more malignant, reach? ing its worst stages when the lights were started, and that by stopping the nse of it there was a manifest change in the pa? tients for the better. So impressed did Dr. Wilson become that in every case where he found families using kerosene he directed a change in the material for lighting at once, when ever a case of diphtheria occurred. The severest cases were those in houses where this oil was burned. It is said, also, that the disease was unknown until after the discovery of petroleum. It has been commonly supposed that defective sewage or decayed matter of some sort, alone causes this- disease; yet in many locali? ties, where houses were situated on high ground, with good drainage, and where every precaution was taken to have pure air, the disorder has proved fatal, and carried off parts of whole families. It would certainly seem to be a matter of importance that this kerosene oil theory should have a scientific investigation. Bli.markable cure of a snake Bite.?E er. J. E. King, of this place, informs us that his little daughter was bitten by a poisonous snake, a few days ago, ana he cured her by simply holding the part bitten close to the fire and the poison was arrested and drawn out by the heat of the fire, just in same way that burns are cured by holding the burned part near the fire. Mr. King says this is the second cure he has effected by this simple remedy, and that he has known of several other cures by the same remedy within his acquaintance. He says it was accidentally discovered several years ago, by a young man who was bitten on the foot by a ground rattle? snake, one of the most poisonous of all snakes, while working on the farm of his uncle in North Carolina. When bitten, the young man called out for help, and went to the place where the hands had a fire to warm their dinner, and, while waiting for attention, he held his foot to the fire to see if he had any feeling in his foot, that previous to holding hiB foot to the fire he felt the poison going up his leg like a hot iron was being run up his leg, and when he held his foot near the fire the pain was greatly increased, but, instead of continuing up his leg, it slowly came down and finally quit hurting, and, when the wound was examined, the poison was picked out in a lump on the point of a knife. Mr. King is a minister of the Baptist Church, of good standing, and is a man i whose statements are worthy of implicit confidence. We publish this remedy for the public good. It is a simple remedy, and one within the reach of all, ana i Bhould be generally known.?Sparlanburg I Herald. No Grit.?It was midnight. The young man had farewelled himself out, and Emeline had locked the door and was untying her shoes, when her mother .came down stairs, and said: "Wanted to creep up stairs without my hearing you, eh ? Didn't think I knew it was an hour after midnight did you ?" The girl made no reply, and the moth? er continued: "Did he propose this time? "Why, mother?" exclaimed the daughter. "You can 'why mother!' all you want to, but don't I know he has been coming here for the last year? Don't I know that you've burned up at least four tons of coal courting around here ?" The girl got her shoes off, and the mother stood in the stair door and asked: "Emeline have you got any grit ?" "I guess so." "I guess you haven't. I just wish that a fellow with false teeth and a mole on his chin would come spariring me. Do you know what would happen, Eme? line?" "No." "Well, I'll tell you. He'd come to time in sixty days, or he'd get out of this mansion like a goat jumping for sunflow? er seeds." Emeline went to bed to reflect over it. How to be Happy.?A French phi? losopher laid down three rules for the attainment of happiness. The first was occupation; the second, occupation; and the third and last was still occupa? tion. It develops your mental and phys? ical powers. You were created for it. Brain and judgment, sinew and muscle, bone and blood, were all given you to be thus used. Unused, they rust and wither, and shrivel and decay. Brought into active, healthful exercise, they bring happiness to you, of which the idle, list? less man knows not. Even the sleep of the toiler has a joy and zest that others can imagine bat never fully comprehend. Establish hours of rest and relaxation. To the hardest worker comes the blessed day to rest, interleaved among the seven days of the week. This at least, the law allows him to command for his own; and the happy tendency of our times is to give him other hours of rest beside, to enjoy with the loved ones at home. Wayside Warnings.?Don't let the treasures of this world hazard your pros? pects for the next. Don't disregard the rights of others in trying to exercise what seem to be your own. Don't preach charity and leave some? body else to practice it. Don't think it condescension to speak pleasantly to that form beneath those tattered garments. They may, per? chance, cover a form as comely, or a heart as honest, as your own, into which might be reflected a ray of sunshine by even a pleasant look. Don't retard the progress of others be causo you fail to keep pace with them. Don't dwell too much on the greatness of your ancestors, lest your hearers think the stock has sadly degenerated. ? Good and bad men are each less so than they seem. ? Linen buttons are preferred to studs for gentlemen's dress shirts. ? Flowers for spring bonnets hang down like a string of onions. ? The dearest object to a man should be his wife; but it is not unfrequently her clothes. ? If you court a young woman, and you are won and she is won, you will both be one. ? With a magnjficent diamond, a gen? tleman can generally cut his name upon the hardest female heart. ? A few days ago a jury in the Wes? tern wilds gave the following verdict in a case of suicide: "We find the deceased was a fool." ? A Charleston man who lost a law? suit has sued his lawyer for damages, claiming that the attorney's bad grammar disgusted the jury. ? A Chicago man owns a dog which knows when Sunday comes. He knows it because on that day his master gets down his fishing rod, and leaves the house by the back door. ? A South Carolina girl was burned to a crisp the other day while ironing. If she had been playing the piano while her mother was ironing, the accident could not have occurred. ? Don't laugh at a fellow when you see his eyes running water and his nose looking like a piece of raw beef. It's the influenza, and your turn will come as certain as taxes. ? Fashionable lady, coming out of church?"What a powerful sermon! I was never before so impressed with the duty and privilege of giving freely. I am determined to do better, and to send, this very week, another silk dress to my daughter." ? A young lady, dressed in much false hair, was warbling at the piano, and when her mother summoned her to assist in some household duties, her rosy lips opened poutingly, and snapped out, "On, do it yourself." And went on singing, "Kind words can never die." THE WEEKLY SUN. 1876 NEW YORK. 1876 Eighteen hundred and scvcnty-aix is the Centen? nial year. It is also the year in which an Opposi? tion House of Representatives, the first since the war,will be in power at Washington; and the year of the twenty-third election of a President of the United States. All of these events are sure to be of great interest and importance, especially the two latter; and all of them and everything con? nected with them will be fully and freshly repor? ted and expounded In The Sun. The Opposition House of Representatives, taking up the line of inquiry opened years ago by The Sun, will sternly and diligently investigate the corruptions and misdeeds of Grant's administra? tion ; and will, it is to bo hoped, lay the foundation for a new and better period in our national history. Of all this the sun will contain complete and ac? curate accounts, furnishing its readers with early and trustworthy information upon these absorbing topics. The twenty-third Presidential election, with the preparations for it, will be memorable as deciding upon Grant's aspirations for a third term of power and plunder, and still more as deciding who shall be the candidate of the party of Reform, and as electing that candidate. Concerning all these sub? jects, those who read The Sun willhavo the con? stant means of being thoroughly well informed. The Weekly Sun, which nas attained a circu? lation of over eighty thousand copies, already bas its readers in every State and Territory, and we trust that the year 1876 will see their numbers doubled. It will continue to be a thorough news? paper. All the general news of the day will be. found in it, condensed whon unimportant, at full length when of moment; and always, we trust, treated in a clear, interesting and Instructive man? ner. It is our aim to make the Weekly Sun the best family newspaper in the world, and we shall con tin ue'to give in its columns a large amount of mis? cellaneous reading, such as stories, tales, poems scientific intelligence and agricultural information, for which we are not ablo to make room in our daily edition. The agricultural department espe? cially is one of its prominent features. The fash? ions are also regularly reported in its columns; and so arc the markets of every kind. The Weekly Sun, eight pages with fifty-six broad columns is only $1.20 a year, postage prepaid. As this price barely repays the cost of the paper, no discount can be made from this rate to clubs, agents, Postmasters, or any one. The Daily Sun, a large four page newspaper of twenty-eight columns, gives all the news for two cents a copy. Subscription, postage prepaid, 55c. a month or 86.50 a year. Sunday edition extra, $1.20 per year. We have no traveling agents. Address, THE SUN, New York City. April 27,1876_40_6_ JlT last I AM READY TO EXTRACT TEETH WITHOUT PAIN ! WITH NITROUS OXIDE GAS-but it costs something. To Physicians, applicable to all cases of minor surgery, or where the vitality is too low to admit theuse of any other antcsthetic. W. G. BROWNE, Dentist. March 30, 1877_36_ NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.? Notice is hereby given that the un? dersigned, Administrator of John Erskine, deceased, will apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County, on the 20th of May next for a final settlement and discharge from said Estate. THOS. ERSKINE, Adm'r. April 20,1876 40 5* THE MONEY MUST COME! WE NEED EVERY DOLLAR DUE US, AND YOU MUST CALL AND SETTLE YOUR NOTES AND ACCOUNTS AT ONCE, OR THE COSTS. PROMPT PAYING CUSTOMERS CAN CONTINUE TO BUY GOODS AT PRICES AS LOW AS THE LOWEST. OUR STOCK OF GENERAL MERCHANDIZE IS COMPLETE. GIVE US A CALL. Jan 20, 1876 LEWIS & CO., NO. 2 BENSON HOUSE PLACE 27 LOOK OUT ! LOOK OUT W PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT. E desire to call attention to the fact that we hare on hand a LARGE and well-selected stock of Heavy G-roceries, Dry G-oods, Boots, Shoes. Hardware Orockerv Ware, Eto?~ We have just received a large lot of Banon Sides, Shoulders, Sugar-Cured Hams Cheap Grades of Syrups, Muscovado, De .uerara and New Orleans Molasses, 100 BARRELS CHOiCE FAMILY FLOUR, A complete assortment of Sugars, Coffees and Teas, Pickles, Canned Goods, &c A very large stock of Iron, Steel, Hoea, Shovels, Spades, and farming Implements generally.. In short, we have everything that the farmer or man of family nseds We are selling the forogoing articles at the most reasonable cash prices. Call and be convinced of this fact. And now a word to those that we have supplied with Goods during the year 1872,1873 and 1874. Unless you come* forward and pay up, your Notes and counts will be placed io the bauds of an Officer for collection. BYR?M & McGRATH. Important to those Indebted to Us. To those indebted to us on Accounts for last year, we will give one-half cent above the market price for Cotton, in payment of such Accounts and Notes, at any time between the 1st of November next. We must have the mon rv on them, and do not wish to add any cost. So come forward at once and settle up. Oct 7,1875 BYKUM & McGKATH, Mechanics' Eow. 12_ ly C. A. REED. A. S. STEPHENS. REED * STEPHENS, MANUFACTURERS OF BUGGIES, PH/ETONS, ROCKAWAYS, CARRIAGES, WAGONS, &C., &C. A. J. STRINGER, Agent. W. J. HIX, Agent. Belton, S. C. air Play. ESPECIAL at? tention paid to REPAIRING, and all work ful? ly warranted. We claim the most thorough Ironwork, Wood work, Painting and Trimming, as wo employ on? ly the best work? men. None but well-seasoned lumber used in the manufacture of our work. All per? sons desiring to purchase are cordially invited to call at onr Manufactory, (at the buildings formerly owned by John A. Reeves, Esq.,) and inspect the work for themselves. BUGGIES always on hand at our REPOSITORY, (near the Railroad Bridge, on Main Street,) where Mr. Joseph Martin can always be found, ready to sell a new set of HARNESS, or to repair old ones. Anderson, Sept. 9,1875_ S THE ALABAMA GOLD LIFE INSUflANCE COMPANY C. E. THAMES, President. T- N. FOWLEB, Secretary. Gen. S D. LEE, Superintendent of Agencies. CASH CAPITAL PAID IN, - - $200,000 GOLD. Assets, $759,084.79. Surplus in hand, $266,921.47. THE above statement is based on examination of Company by the Insurance Commissioner of Maryland, on admitting Company to work in Maryland. The Company has paid from 17 to 27 per cent, dividends per annum since organi? zation. Policies issued in Gold or Currency, and non-forfeitable after two years. BO AMD FOB ANDERSON COUNTY. W. H. NARDIN, T. B. LEE, J. B. LEWIS, J. A. HOYT. The above gentlemen are insured in Company, and will take pleasure in giving information as to obtaining policies, and any facts as to Company. WM. WATIES, Agent. Sept 2, 1875 47 THE BEST PUMP IN TEE WORLD. B. F. WHITNER, President. J. L. ORR, Secretary, C. A. REED, F. C. v. BORSTEL, G F. TOLLY, R. F. DIVVER, NOTHING conduces more to GOOD HEALTH than PURE WATER. Such is fur? nished by the DOUBLE ACTING STONE FORCE PUMP, Manufactured by J. C. Nichols & Bro., Atlanta, Ga., which brings the water pure and fresh from the bottom of the well. No slime or filth collects on the pump or in the well. No snails, worms or green moss gets about the water. It is free from rust or other impurities, and can be operated by a small child with ease, and brings the water fresher than any oth? er Pump. It is of stone, glazed inside and outside, and never will decay. It improves the water beyond a doubt by ventilating the well, and beeping it like a moving stream of water. With a hose attached, it becomes a good fire-engine, ever ready at your door to extinguish the flames in case of fire. It is better and cheaper than insurance. Its work? ing gives complete satisfaction, as those acquainted with it will testify. It is a home enterprise, permanently established, and relies on its own merits, upon which it asks your patronage. This Pump is represented in Anderson and adjoining Counties, together with the Counties of Hart and Elbcrt in Georgia, by ALOlsTZO L. welch:, Anderson C IT., S. O. Send in orders at once for Pumps, and they will be delivered and put in immediately. He means business. March 2, 1875_S3_ ly CONFECTIONERIES, FANCY GOODS, TOYS. vJ. H/. IFA-ILSTT, ' CONFECTIONER, - - ANDERSON, S. C, KEEPS constantly on hand a well-selected stock of CONFECTIONERIES of all kinds, such as French and Plain Candles, Canned Goods of every description, Pickles, Jel? lies, Dried Figs, Raisins, Currants, Citron, Dates, Crackers of all styles, Fruits, <tc. A large selection of TOYS AND FANCY GOODS, Such as Toys, of every kind, Ladies' Work Boxes, Companions, Writing Desks, Portfolios, Fine French and Bohemian Vases, Perfumes of the very best quality, Toilet Sets, Fine Silk Flowers, Musical Instruments of different kinds, Wax Dolls of every kind, from 5c. to $7.00. I have one of Mathews' splendid SODA FOUNTAINS for dispensing pure Soda Water. Tickets will be sold cheap. Any one buying three dozen tickets at a time will get them at 90c. per dozen. J. R. FANT, East End Masonic Building. CHEAP GOODS. IAM now offering my entire Stock of Merchandize at VERY LOW PRICES FOR On hand, I have? Groceries, Hardware, Iron, Crockeryware, Buggy Material, etc. The following Goods I will Sell at Cost for Cash, viz: Clothing, Hats, Boots, Jeans, Cassimeres, Etc. I can also supply the Farmers with first FERTILIZERS, And the justly celebrated "CHEATHAM COTTON SEED." Call and see me, for I mean what I say. C. A. REED, Waverly House Corner. N. B.?Those who have not yet settled their accounts are earnestly requested to come forward and pay up, or close their ac? counts at once by well secured notes. Feb 3, 1875 29 P. P. TO ALE, MANUFACTURER OP DOORS,SASHES, Blinds, Flooring, &c. DEALER IN BUILDERS' HARDWARE, Paints- Oils, Sec SOLL AGENT FOB The National Mixed Paint Co. Great American Fire Extinguisher Co. Page Machine Belting Co. ??r Send for Prices.- ? OFFICE ND WARE ROOMS, ?cs. 20% 22 Eayne & 33 & 35 Piackney Sts. FACTORY and YARDS, Ashley River, West End Broad Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. Sept 23, 1S75 10 ly Encourage Home People and Home Enterprise. GEORGE 5^ HACKER, Charleston, S. C. THE only DOOR, SASH and BLIND FACTORY owned and managed by a Carolinian in this City. All work guaran? teed. Terms Cash. Always on hand a large Stock of Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings, Brackets, Scroll and Turned Work of every description. Glass, White Leads, and Builders' Hard? ware, Dressed Lumber and Flooring deliv? ered in any part of this State. March 16, 1870_33_ly_ THEN BUY FOR CASH * AND MONEY SAVE. HAVING exhausted all our means by selling Goods on credit and not get? ting paid for them, we will hereafter sell for CASH or its equivalent. Call and examine. You can buy Goods Fifty per Cent. Cheaper by paying cash. MERRYMAN'S GUANO, The best in the world, for sale by J.N. SUTHERLAND & CO. BELTON, S. C. Jan 27, 1875_28_ THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF ANDERSON. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Albert J. Clinkscales, Plaintiff, against The Pendleton Manufacturing Company, Wil? liam Perry and others Stockholders, Wil? liam M. Ramply and others, creditors of the said Company, &c, Defendants.?Com-> plaint for Injunction, Appointment of Re? ceiver, Sale of Property, Relief, &c. To all and singular the Creditors of The Pendleton Manufacturing Company: TAKE NOTICE, That by an order of the Court in the above stated cause, you are required to establish your several and respective claims against said Company be? fore me, at my office, on or before the FIRST DAY of JULY next. JOHN W. DANIELS, Special Referee. Clerk's office, ) April 26, 187G. J_41?10 THE ANSON HARDY COMMISSION HOUSE. Orders for every description of Eastern Manufactures and Importations, Promptly filled, strictly upon commis? sion. Send for circulars. ANSON HARDY, AUBURNDALE, MASS. Feb 10, 1S76 30 6m THE ANSON HARDY PUBLISHERS AND PRINTERS Commission House. Everj' article in the Publishing and Print? ing business bought at the lowest market prices. Strictly upon Commission. Send for ciradar. ANSON HARDY, AUBURNDALE, MASS. Feb 10, 1S76_30_6m LUMBER! LUMBER! IAM now prepared to furnish PINE, OAK, HICKORY and POPLAR LUMBER on the Blue Ridge and Air Lino Railroads at Seneca City, in any quantities desired. Mr. Jas. H. McConnell is my agent at Anderson, who will always be found at the Sheriffs Office, ready to wait on cus? tomers. WM. J. HARBIN. July 8, 1875_51 _ NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.? Notice is hereby given that the under? signed, Administratrix of John B. Earle, deceased, will apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County, on the 30th day of May next, for a Final Settlement and dis? charge from said Estate. JANE A. EARLE, Adm'x. April 25,1876 41 5 New Advertisements. young A MEN. $77 BOYS and MIDDLE-AGED MEN trained for a successful start In Business Life at Eastman Col? lege. The oldest, largest and only Institution that gives an Actual Business Practice. Currenc7 and Merchandise used have a real value. Each day's transaction based on quotations of New York Mar? ket. New Buildings. Bates low. Graduates as? sisted to situations. Applicants received any week day. Refer to Patrons and Graduates in nearly every city and town. Address for particulars and Catalogue of 3,000 Graduates In Business. II. G. EASTMAN, LLP., Poughkeepsle, N. Y.__ ii.-) a day at home. Agents wanUd. Outfit and <Pi^ terms free. TRUE & CO., Augusta, Maine. FREE TICKET To Philadelphia SWS5K5 . From any point in U. 87 aast of Utah. rAf2PWTQ Above R. R. Tictet (italso ad MUtall I v mit? to Centennial Grounds) acd $10 cash a day easily earned eincajsia? f or onr paper pictures, <to. Any body can do it. Particulars froo. Send address on postal.card, j To receive copy of paper also, send 6 eta. \ dress : Tub ill?steated Weekly, No. 11 Dey St, New York. ^ A WEEK GUARANTEED to Agents, Male and Female, in their own locality. Terms and OUTFIT FREE. Address P. 0. VICKEBY A CO., Augusta, Maine. 4>K in <?Oft per day at home. Samples worth 81 IU <J>aU freestimson&Co., Portland, Maine MIND BEADING, PSYCHOMANCY, FASCI natlon, Soul Charming. Mesmerism and Marriage Guide, shewing how either sex may fascinate and gain the lovo and affection of any person they choose instantly. 400 pases. By mall 50 cents. Hunt & Co., 139 S. 7th St., Phlla. THE BEST FAMILY MEDICINES, Tested by popular use for over A QUARTER OF A CENTURY! Dr. Strong's Compound Sanative PiUs Cure Constipation, Biliousness, Liver Complaint, Malarial Fevers, Rheumatism, Erysipelas, and all diseases requiring an active but mild purgative. Dr. Strong's Pectoral Stomach Pflls Cure Coughs, Colds, Fevers, Female Complaints, Sick Headache, Dyspepsia,, and all derangements of the Stomach. C. E. Hull <fc Co., New York, Proprietors._? ADVERTISING In RELIGIOUS and AGRICULTURAL WEEK? LIES HALF PBICE. Send for Catalogno on the LIST PLAN. For information, address GE0. P. R0WELL & CO., 41 Park Row, ' NEW YORK._ _ Can buy direct of the Man uT r on favorable terms. "The ANS0N HARDY CUTTING MACHINES are the best and cheapest low priced machine mado, and have a national reputation for utility and du? rability."?(The Electro-typer, Chicago.) "The ANSON HARDY PAPER CUTTER is by far the best machine which can be obtained for a less price than one hundred dollars. It is of great strength. ' "These machines have always taken the highest ? stand. It Is the only machine to which is applied the patent Movable Cutting Board. This device has ? a reputation of itself; by it, the cutting board can be instantly and accurately moved, so that a perfect cut Is Insured. This is a very important point in. this machine, and one that is possessed by no other. It greatly reduces the labor of preparation in work? ing the paper backward and forward. We cannot too strongly recommend the advantages of this pat? ent movable board. It is worth the price of this machine, and purchasers should fully understand bow highly it Is to bo valued."?(Eowell's A Co.'s Monthly Reporter and Printer's Gazetta.) The LATEST IMPROVED HARDY CARD CUTTER is pronounced the most desirable CaJto CurrEft in the market, for the general usaa of a piloting office. _ The well-known RUGGLEB CARD CUTTER with my latest improvements, is still preferred by many printers, and holds its favoritism over othw machines. ssf None genuine but these having my full ad? dress lettered in the-coatings. esj- Newspapers in want of advertising, from first parties, should send for my circular proposal. ANSON HARDY, AUBURNDALE, MASS. I will buy of those that bay of me. FeblO, 1876 30 6m METROPOLITAN WORKS, Canal St., fbom Sixth to Seventh, RICHMOND, - - VIRGINIA. ENGINES, Portable and Stationaby. Saw Mills, Grist Hills, Boilers, Castings of Brass A Iron, Forgings, ?&e. ARCHITECTURAL IRON WORK, IN all its branches, done'] by experienced hands. We call special attention i to our Improved Por? table Engines for agri? cultural and other purpo? ses. A number of second "hand ENGINES and BOIL-. ERS of various patterns, in [ first-rate order, on hand. Repair work solicited and promptly done WM. E. TANNER & CO. Aug 5, 1875_3 ly TALBOT & SONS, SH0CK0E MACHINE WORKS, RICKMOND, VA. M ANTJFACTTJRERS OF Steam Engines and Boilers, Agricultural Engines, Circular Saw Mills, Grist, Bark and Plaster Mills, Shafting, Hangers and Pulleys, Improved Turbine Water Wheels. Oct 14, 1875 13 It ? WM. ETTENGER. H. P. EDJIOND. ETTENGER & EDMOND, RICHMOND, VA., MANUFACTURERS PORTABLE and STATIONARY ENGINES, Boilers, of all kinds, Circular Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Mill Gearing, 'Shafting. Pulleys, &c. American Turbine Water Wheel, Cameron's Special Steam Pumps. Send for Catalogue. Oct 14, 1875 13 ly G. F. WATSOX, Furniture Works and Lumber Mills, RICHMOND, VI. COTTAGE Beadsteads, Chamber and Parlor Furniture, Lounges, Chairs, <fcc, manufactured of Walnut and cheap? er hard woods. No soft Pino used. Cot? tage Bedsteads and Cheap Mattresses leading articles. Oct 14,1875 13 ly M. GOLDSMITH. p. KIND. PHOENIX IRON WORKS, COLUMBIA, S. C. GOLDSMITH & KIND, FOUNDERS and MACHINISTS. HAVE always on hand Stationary StoamEngines 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 Engines and Boilers of as good quality and power, and at as low rates as can be had in the North. We manufacture, also, tho Gaddy Im? proved Water Wheel, which we recom? mend for power, simplicity of construe tion, durability and cheapness. We war? rant our work, and assure promptness and dispatch in filling orders. GOLDSMITH ?fc KIND, Columbia, S.C. May 28,1874 46 ly