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Ail communications should be addressed to "Ed? itor Intelligencer," and all checks, drafts, money orders. Ac, should be made payable to the order of E. B. Mcrk v y A Co._ The Estimate of Life. Life in prospect differs widely from life in the retrospect To the young it ap? pears in the roseate hues of hope. To? morrow, they are assured, will be as to? day?but more abundant and joyous. They, live in the future; and health, strength, wealth, fame and happiness are among its certain possessions. To them, life is a bright delusive dream. The young have their troubles. Dis? appointments, sickness, pain, bereave? ments, wants, and nameles sorrows may overtake them, and momentarily dissi? pate their delusions; but their troubles are short lived. They are soon forgotten and lost in the recovery of their blessings and in the anticipation of better times. Hard, indeed, must be the lot which crushes the spirits and extinguishes the hopes of the young. Fortunate it is that troubles fall light iy oa their hearts. Let them enjoy life; they will have ample time, if their days are prolonged; to endure afflictions. I was once ascending the Ohio River in a steamer. A heart-smitten widow was-on board, who had just buried her husband in Cincinnati, and was fleeing with her children from the cholera, which was raging as an epidemic. She bad two little daughters, bright and cheerful, old enough, indeed, to know that they had lost their father; but too young and vol? atile to be long effected by their bereave? ment. Amid the scenes and excitements of the voyage, the sprightly girls forgot their sorrows and gave themselves up to the pleasures of the occasion. The poor mother seemed almost as much grieved by the untimely frivolity of her children as by the sudden death of her husband. She tried by every art to repress their ex? uberant joy and impart to them her own gloom and sorrow; bat in vain. Nature would assert its control. Stranger as I was, I ventured to address words of con? solation to the afflicted widow. It was cause for gratitude rather than grief that her young and tender children did not fully, share .in her sorrows. It was better that they should enjoy'life while they might, as, in all probability, their days of trouble would come, and not be few. With thoughts like these, her crushed heart seemed soothed. To the old, life is not a dream bnt a reality. They contemplate it, not in the bright hues of fancy, bat in the sober or even dark garb of experience. How dif? ferent is lite from the early- anticipation of it It was poetically described by the patriarch of Uz, four thousand years ' ago: "Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not" Life is short It does not seem so to the young. When I was a boy, my grandfather was a white-headed septua? genarian. It appeared to me to be im? possible that I should ever attain to his age. A small eternity seemed to inter? vene between his age and mine. I am now just as old as he was at the time of his death; and how swiftly have my days passed by I ? Life in the retrospect always appears brief. "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years'/' said the patriarch -Jacob, "few and evil have the days of my life been." Motes, the man of God, harped on the same sting: "The days of oar years are three-score jean- and ten: and if, by reason of strength,- they be four-score years,-yet is their .strength labor and sor-j row;?foe it-is-soon cut off, and we fly away.". How truthfully is the life of man pictured by the inspired psalmist: "As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so be flou risheth. For the wind passeth over ir, aud it is gone." Some improvements have been made in the hygienic and healing arts; but still life, ander the most favored circum? stances, is brief and uncertain. No strength of constitution, no prudence, i and no medical skill, can expend it much beyond its usual limit1. Life is not only short, but "full of trouble." This language is strong, but it is confirmed by the'experience of every . person who has reached the age of three? score years and ten. .Toils, vexations, diappointments. pains, losses, wants, and griefs for which human ingenuity has scarcely found a name, enter largely into the history of every life. Nor are these all, nor the worst of its evils. Tempta? tion, sin in innumerable forms, guilt, re? morse, godly sorrow, and ceaseless con? flicts with the world, the flesh and the devil, "run through the rounds of three-! score years and ten." Domestic rela? tions, tho source of man's highest enjoy? ments, are often the cause of his sorest trials. He shares in the afflictions of those whom be loves. The sharpest sor? rows of parents are frequently the result of the waywardness, folly, vice and mis? ery of their children. National calami? ties?derangement of trade, sectional and party strife, riots, and war with its fear? ful desolations?cast their shadows over many a household, and add greatly to the bitterness of individual experience. All the elements of nature seem to be at war with man, and commissioned to ag? gravate bis misery. Fire bnrns his hard earned property, and turns him out a beggar on the world. The air that he breathes may be fraught with death, and spread a wasting epidemic over the land. Water, one of Heaven's best gifts, may overflow the lands, wasting the products of man's toil, and leaving desolation, want and sickness in its tracks. Heat and cold, which minister so much to man's comfort, may in their tarn afflict aud ruin hier J These evils may, in some measure, be avaded, modified, or even turned to good, by prudence, piety- and fortitude; Dot sorrow and suffering, in? creasing to the elose of life, are man's inevitable lot on earth. As man grows older, he becomes more frofoundly convinced of his ignorance, n bis youth, he hopes to become wise. In his maturity, he might have been se? duced into the delusion that he had at- j tuned to wisdom. He must, however/ be exceedingly indocile if he does not learn before he reaches the age of three? score and ten years that he "knows noth? ing as be ought to know." His highest attainment is to learn that he is a fool. He finds that everything within and around him is involved in impenetrable mystery. Matter, spirit, providence, law, sin, redemption, eternity, God, are all familiar terms, designed to conceal his ignorance rather than to express his knowledge. I have depicted the dark side of hu? man life. It is, however, not all disap? pointment, gloom and suffering. It has its comforts as well as its distresses?its joys as well as its sorrows?its hopes as well as its fears. As there is no life without its troubles, so, perhaps, there is no life without its enjoyments. There is a strange commingling of blessings and afflictions in human experience. Often the sorest trials bring tbe sweetest pleas? ures, and the purest delights end in the darkest sorrows. - Is this all of human life? Was man .made merely to eat, drink, propagate his species, and perish forever ? This is the teaching of infidelity! or the cheerless surmise of scepticism. If this conjec? ture is true, then life is a failure?a mis? fortune?in many cases a calamity. If there is nothing but matter, it is a pity there ever was any matter. Whether the happiness or the misery of life ex? ceeds, philosophy has not been able to decide. Possibly, in some cases, happi? ness, and in other cases, misery predom? inates. One point is pretty certain: few, if any, persons desire to live over pre? cisely the lives which they have expe? rienced. On this subject I may bear tes? timony. I have been more favored in life than a majority of my fellow-beings. Endowed with a vigorous constitution, enjoying a large share of health, sur? rounded by waim friends, engaged in congenial employments, having a fair measure ot success in my labors, as free from afflictions as most of my friends, having a supply of the necessaries and comforts of life, with a heart to enjoy all my blessings, I have had great cause to be content with ray lot. Few have en? joyed life more than I have. I can truly say, however, that I have no desire to live it over just as it has been. If I could carry back to childhood my expe? rience, and pass through my days more wisely and-usefully, I should be pleased to'do it; but to retrace my life, with all its joys and sorrows, all its follies, mis? takes and sins, I have no wish. If life has nothing better than the past, it is more desirable not to be than to be. This is the dictate of revelation as well as the testimony of experience. "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable." The apostle assumes that all men are miserable, and affirms that Chrstians, but for the hope of immortality, would be the most mis? erable of them all. . If life is- a probatiou, designed to fit man for a higher and better state of ex? istence, it rises to sublime importance. That it is a probationary state, seems probable from tho light of nature. That the universe, with its infinite variety of wise adaptations, did not spring from blind chance or unconscious matter, the unbiased human intellect is forced to ad? mit. The only alternative is, that it was created by a Being of infinite wisdom, power and goodness. Human life is a mystery. For what was man created? Not for misery: his manifold blessings and enjoyments forbid this supposition. Not simply for happiness: bis various and unavoidable sufferings are at vari? ance with this theory. The supposition that life is a trial, a discipline, a prepa? ration for another state, solves the mys? tery. . With this theory, man's conscience and inspirations after immortality perfect? ly harmonize. ... What seems probable in the dim light of nature, is made certain in the clearer light of revelation. Life is but the in? troduction to man's permanent existence. Christ has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. "If we be? lieve that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring him." If Jesus did not rise from the dead, there is no light in the world, and no hope for man. If Jesus rose from the dead, his resurrection was a part of a divine scheme, involving the redemption of his disciples. Did he rise from the dead ? In all the history of the world, there is no fact so fully au? thenticated as the resurrection of Jesus. The most astute and sceptical men be? lieve and stake tbeir interests on facts which have not a tithe of the proof in their support which confirms that event. It was testified by competent witnesses, who could not have been deceived, and who furnished the most illustrious evi? dences of their sincerity. It gained credence, in spite of all the prejudices arrayed against it, among Jews and Gen? tiles, and in defiance of the bitter perse? cutions of priests and rulers, with intel? ligent people, in the. very land and in the very age of its occurrence. If Christ was not raised -from the dead, the tri? umph of Christianity hi the Roman em? pire was a more wonderful and inexpli? cable mystery, than .the resurrection of Jesus itself. I "believe that Jesus died and. rose again." Here I rest my hope. This fact sheds light upon the condition and des? tiny of man. It solves a thousand ques? tions otherwise unanswerable. It is an "?unfailing source of consolation, amid all the toils, sorrows and disappointments of life. It imparts significance and grand? eur to life. It sheds a lustre on the other? wise dark and dismal tomb. It lifts the curtain that conceals eternity, and gives us glimpses of its ineffable glory and of its unmixed and unending felicity. Life is a blessed thing, an inestimable posses 1 fin to them that wisely use it. It is the birth of immortality?the dawn of a day which will be,darkened by no clouds, disturbed by no storms, and succeeded by no night. Surely every Christian may join in, the apocalyptic doxology: "Unto him that bath loved us, and wash ed-us from dr ains in his own blood, aud hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Fat he:; to him be glory and do? minion forever and ever. Amen."? Rev. J. B. Jeter, D. D., in Religious Her' aid. B?lling Down Hill.?A young man had a curious adventure aud a rather se? rious mishap the other night on Prospect Hill. He was up there with his girl late in the evening, rather a curious place for them to be that time of night. Standing near the edge.of the main point toward the river, be lost "his tooting, and rolled over and over to the bottom. Incredible as it may seem, he was unhurt and neither did be stop until he reached the bottom and landed on the muddy bar, just at the foot of the bank. He tried to catch upon some bushes and brush on his downward course, but had such a clear track, it was so dark, and be was going at such a live? ly speed that he was unable to stop. He says that in his rolling career be thought of the river into which he j expected to fall, not knowing there was a bar of sand and mud to receive him; and he made frantic effors to catch hold of something on the way. When he struck the' sand unhurt, he got upon his feet as soon as he could, and tried to look over the ground he had so recently traveled, but it/was too dark to see anything, He called to his girl to see if she had given him up for dead and gone to tell the Coroner, but she was waiting to see how he stood the racket, and asked him if he was hart.. He responded that he felt as if he had gone through a thrashing machine or had been blown up in a powder mill, but further than that he believed be was all there, and the separate parts of his body were all uni? ted by their several ligatures in the proper manner, though he couldn't swear to that fact His hat was missing and be quarreled with his girl for not coming down and aiding him in his search for it, bnt as she was 300 feet away from him his quarreling did not amount to much. She certainly took less interest in the quarrel and the search than she had taken in seeing him make a bowling alley of himself. After along search he found the missing hat and laboriously clambered to the top. He stood for a moment on the bluff, gaz? ing downward through the darkness over the road he had so recently tarveled on the double quick, and ejaculated, "Well, I'll be hanged 1" Perhaps he will, for the man who could make such a trip as that unaided and alone and come out with unbroken bones, is certainly saved for some end which an inscrutable Prov? idence alone knows of. . If there are any who. doubt this story we can only say that it is vouched for by responsible parties,. ? A Scotchman bas been counting the promises in the Bible. There are thirty one thousand. There is a promise for every want, and trial, and difficulty. God has no poor children; they are all rich. Any one of God's promises is a rich inheritance, and he gives us thirty one thousand of them. Tales of the Jim-Jams. Zola's story of "L'Assommoir" recalls a chat I ooce had with one who might be termed a professional drunkard. He had suffered terribly from excessive drinking; be knew its evils far better than one could tell him, and ho realized his position thoroughly, yet he clung to the habit and avowed hi raset f a drunk? ard. Said he: I have gone too far and too long on this road. My stomach has been made over and adapted to rum. The organ can't be revolutionized again. It's too old to leave off whiskey. To change its feed would kill me in a fort? night. It isn't so good a stomach as the natural one was, but it stands a pint or more of brandy per day. I've trained it to that during these many years, and you can't teach an old stomach new tricks. Delirium tremens? Snakes? Jim-jams? Yes, I've had touches of them. You want to know how it feels ? I'll tell you, although I never did much more than just pass the jim-jams frontier. You have drank maybe a week, maybe more. You have kept extra "full" during that period. At last liquor ceases to excite, brace up, or tranquilize. You drink a half a pint of brandy and it has no more effect than so much water. Then you are close on the horrors. Food won't help you. Your stomach rejects it Now your punishment commences. You can't sleep. You are weary. Oh, so weary, but there is uo rest. You are tired of thiuking, yet the tired brain will think. You lie down, drop into a doze for a moment, and wake up with a shock as if touched by an electric wire. You are covered with perspiration. You get up and walk the room, walk the streets? walk, walk, walk, and then fling yourself down, praying for ever so few minutes' sleep. All this for days with people about you, and through nights, whose lone, silent dreary hours drag, drag, drag, while thus you lie down and get up, and merely to kill the time you dress and un? dress, while people wonder what uneasy mortal is fussing in the next room and forever going up and down stairs. To stay the live-long night in that lone room is horrible, you are stifled, buried, in it. To get out in the street is only to change the norror. Your exhausted body pleads for rest. Your brain pleads for rest. But no Chinese torturer employed in keeping some miserable criminal awake till he dies was ever more full of relent? less vigilance than your abused nerves. They are mad. They have mutinied. They have borne and borne the loads of alcohol you have imposed upon them until, frenzied with the strain, they have taken the bit between their teeth and run away with your body and brain. You realize this. You feel yourself borne on from horror to horror by this unseen power within you. Dreads indescribable seize upon you. Your hands have a sen? sation of being of an enormous size. They do not look it. They feel it. Your head in like manner feels as if enormously puffed out Then your breath comes spasmodically, hot flushes strike at the region of the heart, all the blood seems at times to rush in that direction, and you fight aimlessly for life aud ex? pect to fall dead. This is the commence? ment of the horrors. Now you are fixed for seeing rats, and snakes, and vermin. How many attacks can a man stand ? How many? I've known men who weren't wholly free from the jim-jams for months. They saw the things contin? ually. Didn't mind them at all. Got used to them. There was Greenwood, a lawyer in Sonora, Tuolumne County, Cal., he lived on whiskey as nearly as a man could live on it for years. Some? times be had the snakes very bad, and again they'd tone down to moderation, yet he br.d 'em all the same. He would sit in his office drawing up some legal document as straight and correct as the soberest legal head in the county, and all time curse the crows (jim-jam crows, you know) forgetting on the paper. There was French Louis, who kept a saloon at Jamestown, in the same county, who drank himself to death with his own liquor. He was a mass of bloat, yet he'd serve customers to the last, aud all the time see a string of monkeys (jim-jam monkeys) running round the cornices of his saloon. "They amuse mo," ho would say, "and besides they are not so mis? chievous as real monkeys." There's a man living in that same town to-day to whom a phase of mania a potu is of no more inconvenience, apparently, than a severe cold. I'll call him Don caster, which isn't his real name, but comes pretty near it. That man is a liv? ing contradiction of the theory that whis? key in excess.will kill people. He has for twenty years drank lakes of it, and the poorest whiskey in the world at that. After a howling drunk at night, he will do a hard day's work and keep up both the work and a modified sort of spree on more whiskey, seeing all the time men around him, (jim-jam men,) who talk and threaten him. "They plagued me some at first," said he, "but 1 told 'em to git and they got. One night I heard a lot of fellers under my window plotting to rob and kill me. I thought to myself, if that's your game I'll take a hand in it myself. So I got up, took my knife and six-shooter anaput out # When I got out of doors they seemed to' me about one hundred yards ahead in the darkness, and one hundred yards ahead they kept for two miles, nor could I get any nearer to them. So I travelled, and they trav? elled, out of the camp all that distance, until all at once they seemed to make a straight scoot off the road, aud I heard 'em next talking on Graveyard Hill. Then I saw it all, and says I, 'Snakes, by -and I turned about and came home." Then there was Dr. D. of the same camp. He knew for years that he was drinking himself to death. He was treating cases of the jim-jams all over the country, yet he knew his turn must come. He feared it, too. For yeara be? fore the real horrors got hold of'him, he never saw a rat or heard cats squall in the dark, but he'd inquire of those about him if they heard them, too, in order to find out whether they were real rats and cats or jim-jam rats and cats. The boys detected this dread at last, and used to frighten the doctor by asserting they beard nothing, while the cats were sing? ing their highest notes. At last the real article got hold of him. Not in the shape of cat3 or rats, though. Worse. Men with clubs and pistols. He got a club himself and ran down the main street screaming and beating the air with half the camp after him. An incident in his case shows how, in these fits, a man may be both in and out of his sober senses at the same time. Among those who were trying to soothe him after he was stopped was one Dave Horton, an ignorant but consequented person, and not at any time a particular favorite of the doctor's'. "There's nothing after you, doctor, noth? ing at all," said Horton, much in the tone he would use toward a frightened child, when all at once the doctor hit him a lively rap on the head with his club. At this, Horton's benevolence turned all to gall and bitterness, and he wanted to fight the mad physician. Well, D. recovered from this fit, and a friend, at his request, told him how he had raved and acted. But when he alluded to Horton, the doctor remarked, with a cu? rious expression: "Oh, yes; I recolleo> that part of it. The fool annoyed me aud I wanted to get rid of him." As was his wont, the doctor kept strictly sober some months and then he went at it, and kept himself deluged with whis? key for weeks, until the men with clubs and pistols got after him again. That time they settled him, and the doctor knew it, for, in one of his quiet spells, he turned to his intimate friend and said : "It's no use; salt can't save me. I know my cate thortujjhly, and the quicker I go the better I'm suited." Are not these good temperance lec? tures??New York Graphic. ? More are drowned in the wine cup than in the depths of the ocean. Drinking at Meals. We were once told by a shrewd old college professor that the most foolish thing a man of intelligence can do? from a worldly point of view?is to "butt his brains out against popular prejudice." Still sometimes we are dreadfully tempt? ed to pound our cranium against a hurt? ful notion, and have never been more so than while reading the advice so often insisted on in the papers against drink? ing water at meal times. The chief and most plausible argument against this practice is that it dilutes the gastric juices, and delays digestion. It is not often in a scientific discussion that we can so easily as in this case appeal to the individual consciousness of the unin structed reader in proof of the fallacious character of the assumption in question. Who that reads this has not had a thou? sand proofs forced upon bis attention that water taken into the stomach re? mains there but a few seconds, is quickly taken up by the blood vessels, and, if in excess, almost as quickly thrown out of the blood again through the kidneys? Yet there is a small grain of truth in the midst of this gross error. Large draughts of very cold water taken into the stomach with the food, by chilling the stomach during its rapid progress through the walls of its vessels, do arrest the secre? tion of the digestive fluids until proper warmth is re-established. Large draughts, also, of tea and coffee, by the astringency of the former, and the nerv? ine action of the theine they both con? tain?as well, also, as by the peculiar narcotic action Of coffee?derange and hinder digestion. Alcoholics, however diluted, have a like effect. With these limitations, we but declare the convictions of all physioligists when we say that a full response to the calls of thirst, at meal times as at other times, is wise and proper. And for these rea? sons : The sense of thirst is given to us not only that we may keep the fluids of the body duly supplied with solvent aud dilutent material, but also that, through the excretory organs, all soluble offen? sive substances may be quickly washed away. In the digestive process the de? mand for water in aid of both these necessary purposes is urgent. In nearly everything we eat there are soluble sub? stances that are in excess, and this ex? cess should be promptly carried out of the system. Perhaps the most abundant among these, usually, is the common salt so freely taken. It is, however, by no means the only one; and they all, unless promptly removed, act as irritants. Their action upon the stomach will in a very short time decrease and soon arrest the Sow of gastric fluids and disturb the muscular action by which the stomach "churns," so to speak, its contents, that every portion may receive its due admix? ture of digestive material. This disturb? ance of muscular action is seen at its highest in vomiting, by which the offend? ing substance is ejected summarily, to? gether with all the contents of the organ. Now, it is the best not to over-eat, and it is the best to eat simple food, with as little excess of seasoning or of objection? able elements, as possible. But under all circumstances it is both wrong and dangerous to give refusal to nature's call for nature's remedy in such cases. Plen? ty of drink is what is demanded, and a free supply of fluids must be given, if. serious consequences are to be avoided.' The consequences of refusal are not all immediate. The irritation from lack of drink, as well as that from improper drinks, becomes in time chronic, passing to inflammation, the result of which is dyspepsia, the symptom of which is pain. Then for want of dilutent fluid by which offending soluble substances are quickly removed, these often assume insoluble forms, and are deposited in various parts of the body, to remain there, constant sources of pain and danger. Gravel and stone in the urinary organs, biliary con? ceptions in the liver, calcareous deposits in the joints and elsewhere, and possibly tubercular deposits in various organs, are, we may eay with much certainty, due in some degree to a foolish fear of water-drinking."?Carolina Farmer. Six Acres Better than Fifty.? All over our country we are raising piti? fully small ciops from large fields. Time, labor and capital are sunk in fruitless toil. Is there not a better way? An extract from a letter to the editor from the Rev. J. N. Glenn, Rockdale County, Georgia, suggests the answer. Mr. Glenn says: "In 1827-32 I was intimate in the fam? ily of Mr. William Hudson, Hancock County, Georgia. I often observed a six acre lot, upon which he raised every year a fine crop of wheat. The crop of 1832 was the very best wheat I ever saw. En qniring into the secret of his success, he told me, in substance, that he bad sown wheat in that lot for over twenty-one years in succession. When he began with it the land was worn and thin. The secret of its redemption and surprising productiveness was, that he began by spreading over it, in June, a heavy coat? ing of manure from his gin and horse lot, Ereparatory to sowing peas. Having roken the ground deep, the peas were soon growing luxuriantly. When the peas were about fifteen inches high the first of October, he turned them under and sowed two bushels of wheat to the acre, harrowed and rolled the ground. The first year he made a good crop.? When it was harvested he sowed peas as before?turning the heavy stubble deep under. Again in October he turned his peas under?sowing wheat and treating the ground as before. And so. with a few interruptions, he had been doing for twenty-one years. He never failed to make a good crop, and used no fertilizers except what was furnished by his lots, the stubble and the peas. He told me that he never had flour to buy when he concentrated in the six acres; when he trusted to fifty or a hundred acres on the common plan, he had flour to buy." Are there not many such experiences and observations, showing that six may be better than fifty ??Monroe Enquirer. ? The last slave sold in tho South brought $900, The consideration was in cabbages, $1 per head. ? lennessee defeated by 15,000 ma? jority, the proposition to settle her old debt at fifty cents on the dollar. ? The latest sensation in Bibb county is the birth of a negro child without chin or eyes, and ears flapped over like those of a dog. ?The word "daisy" is a thousand times pronounced, says Campbell, without ad? verting to the beauty of its etymology? "the eye of day." ? Blaine's friends say that he has changed his mind about being only a passive candidate for the Presidency, and is now actively at work to secure the nomination. If he carries Maine he will pitch in and make it hot for Sher? man. They are both expert politicians but Blaine has the better of Sherman in be? ing warm-hearted, genial aud magnetic, just the man to be liked and to make friends. Sherman is cold, and distant and disagreeable in his manners; but he has the belter of Blaine in having all the patronage of the Administration to use for himself. Blaine, if elected, would find trouble in keeping his promises, for ; he is apt to promise the same office to a half a dozen people, if doing so would gain him a point. The trouble with Sherman would be, if elected, he would not want to give the offices to any one, pre? ferring to keep them all for himself and family. FOR SALE. AT St-VC 11 OF LAND, containing One Thousand Acres, more or less, situate about six miles from the Town of Anderson. All of it fresh laud and well wooded. Will be sold in tracts to suit pur? chasers and upon rcusonablc terms. Apply to B. P. Enrle, Esq., near Townvillc, S. C, or to the undersigned at Columbia, S. C. WM. H. LYLES. Aug 14,1879 5 4eow ' 45 Ye^rs Before the Public. THE CENUSMS SB. ?. MoLANE'S celebrated LIVES FILLS, for the cure of Hepatitis, or Liver Complaint, DVsrErr.tA and sick headache. Symptoms of a Diseased Liver. PAIN in the right side, under the edge of the ribs, increases on pres? sure; sometimes the pain is in the left side; the patient is rarely able to lie on the left side; sometimes the pain is felt under the shoulder blade, and it frequently extends to the top of the shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken for rheumatism in the arm. The stomach is affected frith loss of appe? tite and sickness; the bowels in gen? eral are costive, sometimes alternative with lax; the head is troubled with pain, accompanied with a dull, heavy sensation in the back part. There is generally a considerable loss of mem? ory, accompanied with a painful sen? sation of having left undone some? thing which ought to have been done. A slight, dry cough is sometimes an attendant. The patient complains of weariness and debility; he is easily startled, his feet are cold or burning, and he complains of a prickly sensa? tion of the skin; his spirits are low; and although he is satisfied that exer? cise would be beneficial to him, yet he can scarcely summon up fortitude enough to try it. In fact, he distrusts every remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occurred where few of them ex? isted, yet examination of the body, after death, has shown the liver to have been extensively deranged, AGUE AND FEVER. Dr. C. McLane's Liver Pills, in cases of Ague and Fever, when taken with Quinine, are productive of the most happy results. No better cathartic can be used, preparatory to, or after taking Quinine. We would advise all who are afflicted with this disease to give them a fair trial. For all bilious derangements, and as a simple purgative, they are unequaled. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. The genuine are never sugar coated. Every box has a red wax seal on the lid, with the impression Dr. McLane's Livkk Pills. The genuine McLank's Liver Pills bear the signatures of C. McLane and FLEMING Bros, on the wrappers. Insist upon having the genuine Dr. C. McLane's Liver Pills, prepared by Flem? ing Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the market being full of imitations of the name McL(l)ic} spelled differently but same pronunciation. YELLOW FEVER?BLACK VOMIT. It Is too soon to forget the rnva cs of this terri? ble disease, which will no doubt return in a moro malignant and virulent form In the fall of 1879. merrell's hepatine, a Remedy discover? ed In Southern Nubia and used with such wonder? ful results in South America wbcro tho most ag? gravated cases of fever are found, causes from one to two ounces of bllo to be Altered or strained from flie blood each time it passes through the Liver, as long as an excess of bile exists. By Its wonderful action ou the Liver and Stomach the HEPATINE not only prevents to a certainty any kind of Fever and Black Vomit, but also cures Headache, Constipation of the Bowels, Dyspepsia and all Malarial diseases. No one need lcar Yellow Fever who will expel the Malarial Poison and excess of bllo from the blood by using MERRELL'S HEPATINF. which is sold by all Druggists in 23 cent and 81.00 bottles, or will bo sent by express bv the Proprietors, A. F. MERRELL A CO., Phlla., Pa. Dr. Peiuberton's Stillincria or Queen's Delight The reports of wonderful cures of Rheumatism, Scrofult, Salt Rheum, Syphilis. Cancer, Ulcers ana Sores, that come from all parts of the country, are not only remarkable but so miraculous as to be doubted was It not for tho abundance of proof. REMARKABLE CURE OF SCROFULA, de. Case of Col. J, C. Branson. Kingston, Ga., September IS, 1871. Gents?For sixteen years I have been a great sufferer from Scrofula in its most distressing forms. I have been confined to my room and bed for fif? teen years with scrofulous ulccrations. The most approved remedies for such cases had been used, and the most eminent physicians consulted, with? out any decided benefit. Thus prostrated, dis? tressed, desponding, I was adriscd by Or. Aycr, of Floyd County, Ga., to commence thu use of your Coiiipc.iid Extract Stillingia. Language is as in? sufficient to describe tho relief I obti.lned from the use of the Stillingia as it is to convey an adequate idea of the intensity of my sntTering before using your medicine; sufficient to say, I abandoned all other remedies and continued the use of yuur Ex? tract of Stillingia. until I can ear truly. "I am cured of all pain," of all disease, with nothing to obstruct the active pursuitof my profession. Moro than eight months hove elapsed since this re? markable cure, without any return of the disease. For the truth of the above statement, I refer to any gentleman in Barlow County, Ga., and to tho members oi the bar of Cherokee Circuit, , who are acquainted witli me. I shall ever remain, with tho deepest gratitude, your obedient servant, J. C. BRANSON, Att'y at Law. A MIRACLE. West Point, Ga., Sept, 16,1870. Gents?My daugbtor was taken on tho 25th day of June, 1863, with what was supposed to be Acute Rheumatism, and was treated for the same with no success. In March, following, pieces of bone be? gan to work out of the right arm, and continued to appear till all the bone from the elbow to the shoulder joint came out. Many pieces of bone camo out of tho right foot and leg. Tho case was then pronounced one of Whito Swelling. After having been confined about six years to her bed, and tbo case considered hopeless, I was induced to try Dr. Pcnibcrton's Compound Extract of Stillin? gia, and was so well satisfied with its effects that I have continued the use of it until tho present. My daughter was confined to her bed about six years before sbo sat up or even turned over with? out help. She now sits up all day, and sews most of her time?has walked across the room. Her general health h. now good, and I believe sho will, as her limbs gain strength, walk well. I attribute ber recovery, with tho blessing of God, to the use of your invaluable medicine. With gratitude, I am yours truly, W. B. BLANTOK. Wist Point, Ga., Sept. 16, 1870. Gents?The above certificate of Mr. W. B. Blan ton we know and certify to as being true. The thing is so; hundreds of the most respected citi J zens will certify to it. As much reference can bo given as may be required. Yours truly, CRAWFORD A WALKER, Druggists. HON. D. H. WILLIAMS. dr. pemberton's stillingia <s prepar? ed by A. p. MERRILL A CO., l'hila., Pa. Sold by all Druggists In 81.00 buttles, or sent by express. Agents wanted to canvass everywhere. send for Book?"Curious Story"?Ircc to oil. Medicines sent to poor people, payable iu install? ments. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF ANDERSON. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Aaron A. Dean, Cotnmitteo of Robert B. McCarlcy, a Lunatic, Plaintiff, against the said Robert li. McCarlcy, a lunatic, and his wife, Stacy McCar? lcy, Eliza McCarlcy, Lizzie Davbt, James Mc? Carlcy, Mary McCarley, Samantba Bryant, heirs of John McCarlcy, deceased, names and number unknown, heirs of William McCarley, and of Elizabeth McCarlcy, and of Elijah McCarley, to wit: Joseph McCarley, James McCarley, Wm. McCarlev. Martha McCarlcy, and other names and number unknown, R. B. Dean and A. li. Towers, Defendants.?Summons for Relief?Com? plaint not serred. To the Defendants above named? YOU arc hereby summoned and required to an? swer the complaint In this action, which is filed in l he olllce of the Clerk of the Court of Com? mon Pleas, at Anderson C. II., & C, and to serve a copy of your answer lo thu said complaint on the subscriber at his office, Audcrson C. IL, S. C, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclu? sive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer tho complaint within the time aforesaid, tho piaintiir in this action will apply to tho Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated August 2,1879. [seal] JOHN W. DANIELS, c. c. r JOSEPH N. BROWN, FlaintlfTs Attorney, Anderson C. IL, S. C. To the Defendants James McCarley, Mury McCar? ley, Samantba Bryant, heirs of John McCarley, deceased, names and number unknown, heirs of Wm. McCarley, and of Elizabeth McCarley, and Elijah McCarley, to wit: Joseph McCarlcy, James McCarley, Wm. McCarlcy, Martha Mc? Carley, and others, names and number un? known :? TAKE NOTICE that the Complaint In Ibis ac? tion, together with the summons, of which the foregoing Is a copy, was filed in the office of tho Clork of the Court of Comcon Pleas for Anderson County in said State, on the 2nd day of August, 1S79, and the object of said action is lor partition and sale of two hundred and five acres of Real Estate of Elijah McCarley. deceased, situate, lyiug and being In Anderson County in said State, ad? joining lands of R. II. l ean and others, and for payment of debts of It. n. McCarlcy, and for other relief. No personal claim is made agnlnst you. JOSEPH N. BROWN, PlalntlfTH Attorney, Anderson C IL, S. C. August 7, 1379 4 C riO iW RELIABLE, 5 , *.;. v.stohd's Lnrsu InyigobatobJ! v. :! sr.l Family Romedy for ' "? !.-. ?u'the Liver, Stomach ,tfj Mtud Bowels.?It: is Purely 1 ?Ye.?ettl?le.? It never K gO Wlitxtcs?It is _?S?| $attliartioand *Tonic. _ i 1 i*1 r2 InvigoratorS J^^has been tisedj in my practice^ ^* and by the public,J "for more than 35 years,J _--I ?- i - ft, >H l/lllP 5 HIT DRCOOIST WILL TELL TOi: ITS BXTLTiTIOX, i SMITH'S WORM OIL! athes8, Ga., Docember 8,1878. A few nights since I gave my son one dose of the Worm Oil, and the next day he passed sixteen large worms. At the same time I gave one to ray little girl, four years old, and she passed eighty-six worms from four to fifteen inches long. "W. F. Phillips. WORM OIL for sale bv Drussists gener? ally. Prepared by E. S. LYDON, Athens, Georgia. Price 25 cents. Marcli 14, 1870 _35_ly_ A LIMITED NUM |BER of active, encr 'gctic canvassers to en? gage in a pleasant and profitable business. Good meu will find this a rare chance TO MAKE MONEY. Such will please answer this advertisement by letter, enclosing stamp for reply, stating w'hat business they have been engaged in. None but those who mean business need apply. Address, FINLEY, HARVEY & CO., March 20, '79?ly Atlanta, Ga. WANTED: Is a perfect Blood Purifier, and Is tho only purely Vegetable remedy known to sci? ence, that has made radical and Permanent Ccres of Syphilis and Scrofula in all their stages. It thoroughly removes mercury from tho rystcm; It relieves the agonies of mercurial rheumatism, and speedily cures all skin dis? eases. For sale by SIMPSON, REID & C0.: Anderson, S. C. April 17,187?_40_ly WATER WHEELS, manufacturers of STEAM ENGINES AND BOILERS, MACHINE MOULDED GEARING, SHAxTOG, MISTS AHB IAMBS 1 SEECIALHfc POOLE & HUNT, . baltimore. . _ The Nineteenth Century adds the Eighth Wonder of the World. The Holman Liver Pad, PLASTERS and SALTS, Cures without medicine, simply by absorp? tion. A sure cure for Dyspepsia, Tor? pid Liver, Biliousness, and all such Diseases. Call at once, yc invalids. Sold in the Town of Anderson only by SIMPSON, REID & CO., Benson House Comer. March 20, 1870_30_ly THE FALL SESSION OF Williamston Female College, Williamston, S. C, WILL open on MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1S7U. If you are looking for a School as good OS the best, with rates its low as the lowest, send for a new illustrated Catalogue. Rbv. S. LANDER, President. July 10, 1879_52 Jhu_ Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line R. R. On ami alter Sunday, Jane 1st, 1870, Double D:ti )v Trains will run on lIiis road us fulluws : GOING EAST. Night Mail and Passenger Train. Arrive Seneca.9 00 n n Leave Seneca.U 01 j> in Day Passenger Train. Arrive Seneca.!) 12 ? m Leave Seneca.9 13 a ut GOING WEST. Night Mail and Passenger Train. Arrive Seneca.C -Tt a m Leave Seneca.6 34 a m Day Passenger Train. Arrive .Seneca.5 18 p m Leave Seneca.5 IG p in Through Tickets on sale at Gainesville, Seneca City, Greenville and Sparta nburg to all points East and West. W. J. HOUSTON", G. P. and T. Agent. BUHN HAM'S BBSA ? 8* ?'? ' ?? ? ?: ' ? ??? -' -'-?-Ja! JW:bW/.r;UML3 n SAFEST. gSf^S Also. '??ILL;:-'? KACiiiSERY. ? Ln^r;>'> R-K ?E?SUCSSAJE. 20,78. I'bUTiiileto/nR. Urni't, Vwut, J'a. VIRGINIA CASSLMERES. JUST RECEIVED, a lot of those excel? lent goods thut gave such perfect satis? faction. Cull soon and make a selection. A. IS. TOWERS & CO April IT, 1879_40_ FRESH ARRIVALS. ANOTHER lot or beautiful Calico, Pique, Long Cloth, Cottonadcs, Ginghams, Checked Homespuns. Cashmnrets, Ac. A. B. TOWERS & CO. April 17, 1879 40 ANOTHER LOT P wcll-sclcctwl Goods that will not fall to please the eye und lit tho purse. I " often. They arc going off O Call early and rapidly. A. B. TOWERS & CO. F. W. WAGENER & CO., CHARLESTON, - SOUTH CAROLINA, Cotton Factors, Wholesale Grocers, AND LIQUOR DEALEES. AGENTS FOR Oriental Gun Powder, Fruits and Flowers Smoking Tobacco, Celebrated Reversible Cotton Tie, Wagener and Georgia Grange Fertilizers, figy* Samples of anything in our line sent on application with pleasure. F. W. WAGENER. G. A. WAGENER. April 10,1S79 39 ly EXTRA FINE FLOUR, CHOICE N. O. MOLASSES, And BACON in abundance. Call in get Prices before Buying-. AFIXT] VARIETY OF RIO COFFEE, from 15c. to 20c. per pound. There are some Colfecs higher, but none better. Staple Dry Goods, Hats and Shoes, AT GREATLY REDUCED TRICES. SCYTHES AND CRADLES, HOES and PLOWS, And other Farming Implements for sale at the very lowest cash prices. April 17,1871) REED & HERRICK. 33 iy GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES OF HATS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, In order to reduce rhy stock in those lines. GROCERIES AT LOWEST PRICES. HARDWABB, IROIT AND BUCCY MATERIAL. The place to buy a CrU/| MP MAPHINT any kiud you want, at Very Lowest ? C. W 1 111 VI IVI r\Ks rl 1 IN C, Figures. I do not haul Machines about to sell them?therefore do not have to include any expen? ses in the prices. ACEJVCY FOR FIRST-CLASS FERTILIZERS. Jan 27, 1S79 13 C A. REED, Agent. FURNITURE, FURNITURE. -0 CHEAPEE THAN EVEE. TOLLY the Leader of LOW PRIOES. ?JQ^OOK at some of the figures at which you can buy Furniture at in Anderson :? Good Hard Wood Cottage Bedsteads at $2.50; without Slats and Castors, $2.00. Towel End and Drawer wasbstands, $1.35. Large Wardrobes, $11.00. Large Tin Safes, with two doors and drawer, $5.50. Good, strong Rocking Chairs, $1.40. Cane Bottom Chairs, per set, $0.00. Painted Chamber Sets, consisting of Dress Bureau, Bedstead, \Vashstand and Table, $14.00; with four Chairs and Rocking Chair, complete, $19.75. Walnut Chamber Suits, consisting of high bead-board French Bedstead, Bureau, with Arch Standard and Glass, 'Wash-stand and Table, $23.7??; with four fine Walnut Chairs and Oval Back Rocking Chair, $32.75. And everything else in proportion. I have on hand a very large Stock, from a fifteen dollar Suit up to a two hundred dollar Suit. I claim to sell cheaper than Greenville, and will duplicate any bill that can be bought there. G. F. TOLLY, Depot Street. Oct 4,1877 12 If nnglectod. may rapidly devolop into Quick consumption. Ordi? nary treatments will not enre it. Ita effects are nervona weakness, loss of smell, tute, hearing, tad Toice, weak ere*, dicztaees, faint foclbgj, matter dropping into too thron*, disgusting odors, and finally consumption andprematurt deaSK For INHALENE CONSUIVIPTSONh^p^ Catarrh, Bronchitis, Coughs, Nerrona and Catarrhs! Headaches,Deafness, Bore Throat, and aU disease*^ f the air-passages and Iun?i there is no treat pluMlng, thnmnyh, mil nartaln tn CUM anil jjjj Inalant rwllnf as DEVONE'S A compound of the most heal lor balsams known to medical adence, with CARB0LATED PINE TREE TAR s^i^'? haiinc; from DcVone's Inhaler, is converted into a cleansing, Invig. orating, and healing vapor, and taken direct to the diseased ca vi ties of the ? where It acts as a local "ving power Is felt at ?n permanently oared. HOME TREATMENT?S?^ or 1'nnadn, to bo retained if not satisfactory. CVAlao for sole by druifftintM. Send for circnlsr giving full information, terms,etc. A com. I ?!< ;it physician alwnvs in chargrt. Advice froc on all chronic diseases. State sympUmisplainly, and your c ? ii- will hATi) Immediate and cari-fnl nlti-nticn, and f?cr odvlrc by return mail. Wfien milnj, name IM< ;iujxr. Address HO.ME iilEOK.'lNlv CO., S. W. cor. Tenth and Arch bts., Philadelphia,Sx DkVONE'S lHi.lU.ll. BRADLEY'S PATENT PHOSPHATE AND COMBAHEE ACID PHOSPHATE. WE are agents for the above celebrated Fertilizers, having sold Bradley's Talent for sev? eral years, we know it to be good. As to the ACID there is none better. Sec Mr. B. A. Davis' certificate attached. Could give more, but one is sufficient. Our terms areas favorable as any Standard Guano. Give us a call before buving. A. B. TOWERS & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, Sept. 30, 1878?Uemt, A. D. Towers &? Co.?Dear Sirs: I beg leave to say to you that I am well pleased with the Bradley's Guano that I bought of you last Spring. In fact I do not think there is any other guano equal to it except perhaps one other, and there is no man who has used a greater variety of fertilizers than I have. I shall want it a^ain, and a great many of my neighbors expect to use it next year, just from seeing my cotton. B. A. DAVIS. Feb 13. 1870 . 31 ISAAC A. SHEPPARD & CO.,Baltimore,Hd. Manufacturers of THE UNSURPASSED MONUMENTAL COOK THE HOUSEHOLD FAVORITE Combining aU Improvements of Value, And Perfect In Operation. ALSO A VARIED ASSORTMENT OF STJTEMOR HEATING STOVES ron BALE BY J. E. PEOPLES, Anderson, S. C Buy only the NEW AMERICAN IT 13 TBS Only Sewing Machine ?inen BaS A It has Self Setting Needle. Never Breaks the Thread. ITcvcr Skips Stitches. Is the Lightest Banning. The Simplest, the Most Dur? able, and in Every Respect The Best Family Sewing Machine! The "NEW AMERICAN" is easliv leaded, ci?es not get out of order, and will do more work with less labor than any other macnitte. Illustrated Circular furnished on application. AGENTS WANTED, J. S. DOVEY Manager, 64 X. Charley Street, l>altlr?ore, Md. C. A. REED, Anderson? ? C.