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i BT CLINKSGALES & LANGSTON. SELLING OUT AT COST. Contemplating a Change in Business E. W= BROWN * SONS Are offering their entire Stock of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES At and Below Cost fur the next 60 days. So come on and be convinced, for low prices will tell the tale. We have on hand $1800 worth of Clothing which mast be sold, and the present prices will soon do the work; bo if you are needing anything in the way of Clothing now is your time to buy. . Will sell Quilts, BlanketB and Jeans cheaper than any house in the city. ? Our line of Dress Goods is complete?Worsted from 4*c to 20c, and Cashmere from 16c to $1.00. All kinds of Plain and Plaid Flannels at the lowest prices. .: Calico, Gingham and Checks almost at any price, so come on and hay before these bargains are all gone. BIG STOCK OF FLOUR. Bern ember, in buying, that we carry as big line of Groceries as any house in J&e'apper part of the State, and also will sell as cheap as the cheapest. Our stock of Flour, Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, Tobacco, Hay and Bran are all fresh, and bought at the lowest figures, and will be sold the same way. ? We have just received a Car Load of Pare Brown Oats that will be sold ve:/ ctotpi;' We keep on hand at all times all kind of Canned Goods, such as Tomatoes, Pears, Peaches, Peas, Okra, Cherries, Pine Apples, Oysters, Salmon, Sardines, Potted Ham and all kinds of Jelly and Pickles. Be sure and get our prices before buying, and you will be convinced that we can save yon money. Very respectfully, E. W. BBOW1T & sonsrs. P. 8,?We are CASH COTTON BUYERS, and also Agents for High Grade FERTILIZERS. See us before selling your Cotton. E. W. B. & S. WE THANK OUR PATRONS Tor their Liberal Patronage, and assure You there is a Treat in Store at our Place of Business. WE will quote you some prices that you have been made to believe would tend to make us restless at night, and some articles you can buy 10 to 15 cents cheaper from us than you have paid for the same article that you are not familiar with. We are not asking you more than they are worth: 2 quart Coffee Pots.10c 8 quart Coffee Pots.11c 4 quart Coffee Pots.13c 2 quart Covered Bucket.8c 8 quart Covered Bucket. 9c 4 quart Covered Backet.12c 6 quart Covered Bucket.15c a quart Dish Pans. 10c 10 quart Dish Pans.14c 14 quart Dish Pans.20c 10 quart pressed Dish Pans.15c 17 quart pressed Dish Pans.25c No. 6 Wash PanB. 5c No. 7 Wash Pans. 6c No. 8 Wash Pans. 7c 2 quart Oil Cans. 10c 4 quart Oil CanB. 15c 1 quart Dairy PanB. 3c 2 quart Dairy Pans. 5c 3 quart Dairy Pans. 6c 4 quart Dairy Pans. 7c 6 quart Dairy Pans. 8c 2 quart deep Dairy Pans. 6c 3 quart deep Dairy Pans. 7c 4 quart deep Dairy PanB. 8c 6 quart deep Dairy Pans. 10c Gem Toilet Sets.1 10 3 piece Toilet Sets.'..1 35 \ bushel Barn Basket. 4c Flower Pots cheap.t GLASSWARE, CROCKERY, rything kept in a House Furnishing Store can be bought from us prices. A NO. 7 COOK STOVE FOR $10.00. Now look at oar Goods and you will say we advertise what we mean to do? sell you good Goods CHEAP. Hoofing, Guttering and Felt Roofing done very Low. We have Mr. JOHN Q. DONALD with us, who has had several years expe? rience in roofiug, and he knows the importance of putting on a roof that will not leak. Give him a trial. Don't forget we sell more Stoves than any one when you want to buy. PEOPLES & BURRISS. THAT'S THE WAY WE ARE SELLING. SHORT PROFITS NOW ALL WE EXPECT. ALL WE WANT. IN CARLOTS We will give you lowest WHOLESALE PRICES on FLOUR, CORN, HAY, BRAN, OATS, &e., &c. ABMOUR & CO'S. WHOLESALE AGENTS FOB HAMS, MEAT, LARD, CA MED MEATS M&* LOWEST CEICAQO PRICES made on Cases and lots weighing one hundred pounds and over. PATENT KLOTJRS. Oor BALLARD'S BLUE BIRD FLOUR the best in America for the price. Try a Barrel. No Firm Can Sell you TOBACCO as Low as we Can. BROWN BROS ANOTHER CUTTING SCRAPE. THE "PRICES OTV J MlUUVUUi J j jilttlUl PICTURE FRAMES, NOVELS, And all the rest of our Stock has been dangerously stabbed, secure bargains, for we are offering real bargains in our line. Come at once and WATKINS' BOOK STORE. J. N. WATKINS, Proprietor. NEW GUN SHOP. -o J. C. DAVIS, Proprietor. -o GUNS, Revolvers, Sewing Machines, Locks and Keys, Trunks, Umbrellas and Parasols repaired at short notice. Saws Filed and Set. All work warranted. Don't trade off your old Sewing Ma chine, no matter what kind it is, as a small outlay will make it as good as new. Don't throw away your old Gun Lock;??have the old plates refilled at less than the cost of new locks. Bring your old Umbrellas and Parasols to me, and for a few cents have lute of service from them. Remember, all work guaranteed. Shop over W. A. Chapman's Store, Anderson, S. C. Jan 1,1891 ' ? - 26 ly , Executor's Sale. PURSUANT to an order of W. F. Cox, Judge of Probate for Anderson Coun? ty, I will sell at public outcry, in front of the Court House, in the city ot Anderson, S. C, at 12 o'clock m., on Friday, the 8th day of May neit, for cash, the choses in action, consisting of Notes and Accounts and the Judgments remaining uncollected and belonging to the estate of Z. Hall de? ceased ; also one share of stock in the Port Royal .fe Western Carolina Railway Com? pany, and a fractional certificate of stock ; also the interest of the late Z. Hali in the late partnership of H. Robinson & Co. HUGH ROBINSON, Surviving Executor of the Will of Z. Hall, Deceased. April 23, J89f, 42 3 TEjAGHEftS'GoLUMN, -tf?. All communicationB intended for this vJolumn should be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. MEMORY OEMS. "A beautiful behavior gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts." "Fail .'-Fail 1 In the lexicon of youth -which fate reserves For a bright manhood there is no such word As-fail." Concrete District has levied a two mill tax for special school purposes. This is a step in the right direction. It speaks well for the people of Concrete. The article last week on "Teaching vs, Lesson-Hearing," was written by one who is "teaching," not just simply hear? ing lessons. If you have not read it, do BO. It is to hoped that every citizen of An? derson County will feel deeply interested in securing the Industrial School for Wo? men at this place. Make sacrifices for it if necessary. We want it, we need it. It affords the golden opportunity for us. Tbe State Teachers' Association will meet in Anderson on the 22nd of July this year, and continue in session three dayB. We trust every teacher in Ander? son County will atteud this gathering of the educators of the State. We have spared no pains to secure this, and we trust our own people will enjoy and im? prove the occasion. The examination of teachers on the 24th of April was pretty tough, but sev? eral of the applicants were too well trained to be downed. If we were to judge them, we would say the questions, in most instances, were fair and well cal? culated to test tbe teaching ability of the applicants. The questions were bo asked as to make it impossibe to answer with? out understanding the subject asked about. QUESTIONS ANSWERED. Christopr r Columbus was born in 1435, and died 20th of May, 1506. His remains were first buried at Tall ado lid. In 1513 they were laid to rest in the CorthuBian Monastery of Seville. In 1536 bis body was moved to St. Domin? go. In 1796 the remains, as supposed, were laid to rest at Havanna. Answered by Ida Hall, Spurgeon A. Morgan, Min? nie Cowan, Emma Robinson, Essie Cliukscales, Bertie Pruitt, Lois Robin? son, Bertha Bobinson, Zessie Rush and Addie Langston. MEAND EBINGS. Since our last report we have visited Hopewell, Friendship, Slab town, Pisgah, Mountain Spriogs and Saluda Schools, At one of these, Slabtown, we received most of our education. At another, Mountain Springs, we first occupied the teacher's chair. It was a peculiar pleas? ure to visit these schools and see them doing good work and in safe hands. Prof. Frank W. Roberts, at Slabtown, is a teacher from choice, and one who is doing a real good work. Misses Lottie Crosby and Ella Bowen are both striving to advance their pupils. Mr. D. Edward King, at Mountain Springs, enjoys an enviable position. He presides over such a nice and interesting bevy of about thirty-six pupils. A delightful opportu? nity with a heavy responsibility. Mr. W. 0. Pickens, at Saluda School, has a strong hold on his pupils, and is advancing them well and rapidly. We did not get an opportunity to pass on the work of Mr. L. B. Ackerman at Concrete, School, but from our acquaintance with him, we think favorably of the work he is capable of doing. TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. The next meeting of the Anderson County Teachers' Association will be held at Honea Path on Saturday, the 16th day of May. On the night preced log will be a teachers' acquaintance meeting at Honea Path High School building. The School Commissioners and teachers of Abbeville and Greenville Counties will be invited. An interesting program is arranged. It is to be hoped that every teacher in Anderson County will attend, unless prevented by causes they cannot control. The following is the program: How to make the study of History in? teresting? Capt John M. Patrick and Mi?3 Mamie Bailey. What kinds of knowledge should a succeBBful teacher have? Prof. F. W. Roberts and Miss L. C. Hubbard. Name the methods of calling on pupilB in the class to recite, and state advan? tages of each. Prof. S. P. McElroy and Mies Mary E. Anderson. How would you correct the habit of reading without expression? Miss Mag? gie Evans, Mies Minnie Bell and Miss Leila Russell. When and how far should a pupil be assisted in tbe preparation of his lesson 7 Dr. S. Lander, Mr. J. B. Harris and Miss Mamie Wilson. After the appointed speakers or read? ers, each subject will be open for five minute talks by any one present. Question Box opened after 12 o'clock. Exercises begin at 0 o'clock a. m. WINTHROP TRAINING SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS. This institution was founded in 1886 for the purpose of improving the common schools of the State, and is accomplishing much in that direction, besides giving our noble women a means of self support which they are specially adapted to util? ize. In the four years of the existence of the school, eighty-seven trained teachers have been sent out by it, who have read? ily secured positions and groatly elevated the tone and standard of the schools by their skilful work and good example. The general assembly of 1887, recog? nizing it to be not only an imperative necessity and true economy for the Stale to provide skilled instructors for the common schoolH, in which 195,000 of her children were being educated at an an? nual public expense of nearly $500,000, > ANDERSON, S. C, bat also an act of simple justice to South Carolina's devoted young womanhood, established scholarships in the Winthrop Bchool for training one teacher annually from each County of the State. The school itself had previously given one scholarship of free tuition to each Coun? ty. These scholarships are awarded upon competitive examinations held by the State Superintendent of Education in the different Counties of the State, and each year there have been over one hundred applicants for them. The sole expenditure by the State for the training and higher education of her girls, thongh small, has already yielded a rich return. It was wise to begin work in this direction with a provision for teacher-training. A State which recog? nizes it to be for her welfare, and accepts it as her duty to maintain public schoola for the education of all of her children, very properly makes provision to have trained teachers for them. In this way the money appropriated by the State for public education is made effective, and accomplishes that for which it was in* tended. The State, however, cannot afford to stop here in this good work with this comparatively insignificant provision. Its success, the grateful appreciation of the beneficiaries and their good work for the State, should lead to its enlarge* ment. Liberal provisions for the education of her sons has long been the settled policy of South Carolina, but she has, up to (his time, woefully neglected in this particu? lar her daughters, who have modestly, uncomplainingly, and trustfully awaited justice for these many years. This reproach to our State should- not be allowed to longer Btaud. Our noble wo men, the hope and pride of our common? wealth, are equal in number to the men, and have more to do with determining the character of our citizenship through their greater influence upon the young. They surely deserve equal considera? tion at the hands of the State, whoae wel? fare is so dependent upon them. Gov. Richardson, in his message, said: "There is no reason why our females, called to earn their bread by their own labor, should be confined to the school room. Their remarkable apitude for teaching is simply an indication of what they can do and have done and will do iu other departments suited to their sex," There should be some provision to give thorough, practical training in the indus? trial arts, in order that woman's oppor? tunities for self-support may be multi? plied, and that she may be prepared for the successful performance of all those duties, which commonly devolve upon her. The beneficent influence of such industrial training would be seen and felt in home, in the school, in the place of business, and in all of the walks of life. Other States, notably Mississippi and Georgia, have recognized their duty iu this respect, and have fully met it. South Carolina is in position to easily make this much needed provision. The Winthrop school, already firmly estab? lished, with the influential and wealthy Feabody Board behind it, and accom? plishing much for the women and schools of the State, could, at small expense, be bo enlarged as to give this industrial training iu addition to the training for teaching.?Superintendent D, B. Johnson, of Columbia, S. C, in the School Journal. Tower of Babel. Three different piles of ruins iu Baby* Ionia claim the distinction of being rem? nants of the original tower, the building of which caused the confusion of tongues. A full account of this remarkably semi historical event may be found in the eleventh chapter of Genesis. The first of the three ruins above mentioned is the celebrated Nimrod's tower near Akkuref; the second on the east bank of the Eu? phrates river, five miles above the mod? ern city of Hillah ; third the conical mound known as Birs Nimrud, six miles and a half southwest of the city last named above?all in Babylonia. Bibli? cal scholars throw the weight of their opinions in favor of Birs Nimrud as being the site of the proposed heaven penetrating shaft. The ruins at this point, which consist mainly of kiln bricks, huge stones and vitrified mortar, almost bidden from sight by Bands, the accumulations of cen? turies, are 198 feet in height and nearly 800 yards in circumference. Sir R. K. Porter, who has given much study to the Birs Nimrud ruins, believes its vitrified appearance to be the results of numerous lightning strokes, conclusions which, taken in connection with the tradition that the tower was destroyed by fire from heaven, forms an interesting subject for thought. Porter also says that, with the exception of natural accumulation and decay, the tower is, in his estimation, almost in the exact condition ?s left at the time of the confusion.?St, Louis Re? public. Deafnepa Can't be Cured By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There ia only one way to cure deafness, _.nd that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condi? tion of the mucous lining of the Eusta chian Tube. When this Tube gets in? flamed you have a rumbling sound or im? perfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condi? tion of the mucous surfaces. We will givo one hundred dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that we cannot cure by taking Hall's Ca? tarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. So id by Druggists, 75 cents. ? The Laurensville Female College property is advertised to be sold at public outcry on the first Monday in May under execution on judgments held by the Presbyterian Church. This indebtedness was originally incurred in the building of the college and after being put in judgment was assigned to the Church by private parlies. THURSDAY MORS OLD PENDLETON, S. C. Atlanta Constitution. What hallowed associations does the name of this old village coojnre up, how often in thought do we wander back there. Old landmarks and many reminders are still to be seen, but the kindly faces and precious souls have nearly all gone across the bourne. We hope to meet them again in the better land, and if admitted into the eternal realms of bliss, and as time rolls on in her endleBS cycles, we feel that, now and then, we should still feel constrained to spare a moment to peep down upon the old familiar spot, where our first fond hopes on earth aspired and indulged in many bright anticipations, which have never been realized. Fifty years ago old Pendleton was the fairest town in upper South Carolina, a community of wealth, intelligence, refine? ment and religion, and the home of the best people it has ever fallen to our lot to know. A resort of giant minds who would do honor to any age of the world's histo? ry, such men as John C. Calhoun, Lang don Chevis, Daniel Huger, Warren E. Davis, John Taylor, David K. Hamilton, the Pinkneys, Haynes, Earles, the Gene? rals Pickens, Anderson, Blassengame; the Colonels Warren, Allston and Bonlon, and the homes of Barnard E. Bee, the Stevens Bros, of Charleston gunboat fame, of Confederate times, the home of John and Pat Calhoun, the well-known young fiuanciers of to-day; and from those old hills came our astute ex-Senator Joseph E.Brown, and Atlanta's brainiest man, Dr. H. V. Miller; General Rush, of Texas, a mighty power in his day ; Gov? ernors Perry and Orr, Commissioner Stribling, of the navy, and hundreds who have left their impress upon this new world, and in their day and time helped to lay the foundation and build up this great country, and a host of others whose honorable names and useful citizenship would challenge the world for compari? son. Such was the status of old Pendle? ton fifty years ago when the full tide of her prosperity, a splendid Piedmont cli? mate with fertile lands and under tbe old slave regime, and then the wealth resided in the country, and agricultural pursuits were regarded second to none other as an occupation of honor and profit, and were conducted with an intelligence and ad? vancement scarcely surpassed today in the South. Old Pendleton was famous for the beauty and gentleness of her women, as well as for the high tone and pluck of her men. Old Pendleton district was then abont the size of the State of Rhode Is? land, and the good old town was the grand center of both society and trade, and, indeed, was one of tbe foremost pioneer towns of the South. It was in the streets of old Pendleton that her indignant citizens kindled the first bonfire that consumed in its flames the first incendiary papers and letters sent South by the abolitionists to stir up strife and discord among a happy peo? ple. One of the first female high schools in tho South was conducted there by the Misses Bates and Billings, from Vermont, who taught the young ladies etiquette and French, graceful attitudes and highfalu tin notions, modern manners, to walk daintily, and to scream fashionably at a bug or a mouse. One of the first military academies where the boys were drilled daily, wore gray uniforms and had brass buttons on them. My first recollection of a Sunday Bchool was there in the Baptist Church which is still standing. Uncle Tommy Sloan, and Mrs. Fanny Mays were the managing and leading spirits. We had little thumb* catechisms, and the first and second ques? tions were, Who made man 7 Of what did God make man ? The first cooking stove I ever heard of, my father bought, and waB describing its excellencies to Uncle Tommy, and among its other advantages he said, "Why, Tommy, it will save half the fuel," when he replied, "Well, Billy, why not get two of them, and save all of the fuel." One of the first cotton factories was established there, and run with great Buccess and profit for many years, and up to his death, by Major B. F. Sloan and is still in operation by the Sittons. Pendleton had her agricultural society, fairgrounds and race track, and some of her exhibitions would put to blush some of the fairs of the present day. Pendleton had four flourishing Churches, two hotels, and who of her old citizens do not remember the long ball? room in the old Tom Cherry hotel, and the beautiful young girls who once skimmed like swallows over those well waxed floors, and the stately matrons, who, as chaperons, patronized with their presence those delightful occasions, and gave dignity and respectability to the ballroom? The old debating society held in the old Farmers' hall, and ever ?graced by a full attendance of the fair sex? The magnificent coaches and the elegant spans of horses that whirled up the dust in the streets of the old town 7 What old citizen's heart is not made to throb at the recollection of thrilling notes from the stage horn, borne over the hills to notify of its coming ; how the people would gather around the hotels and the postoffice as the great rocking, ponderous vehicle came rolling, and swaying over the rocks, drawn by four or six horses dashing in at a gallop, into the center of the old town with its passengers and mail. And with what eager excitement the cit zens sought to welcome friends and visi? tors and receive the tardy news. Who does not remember the old Pen i dleton Messenger and F. W. Symmes, its editor, and the old Farmer and Planter, and Major George Seaborne, proprietor and publisher; Mr. E. B. Benson, the long time merchant, and old Billy Hub bard, the jolly landlord; the old English dancing master, Walon, rich old Sam Maverick, the eccentric old man, Sid Cherry, the bachelor, old Tommy Chris? tian, the town marshal, and many other notables wc have not apace here to men? tion? The first farmer's Society in the South wa3 inaugurated at old Pendleton in the year 1815, and was known as the "Pen? dleton Farmer?' Society," and, if we are not raiainformed, the second society of, Hg HNG, MAY 7, 1891. kind in the United States, and the third in Charleston in 1818, the first being in Philadelphia. The first officers of the Pendleton Farmers' Society were James C. Griffin, president; Josiah Galliard, Vice-President; Colonel Robert Ander? son, secretary: Joseph V. Shanklin, treasurer and corresponding secretary. There, too, was published one of the first agricultural monthlies in the South, under the proprietorship and management of Major George Seaborne, the Farmer and Planter, a most able and valuable al? ly to the Farmers' Society, and did much to promote the spirit of agriculture in that section in its day. But the glory of the old town has been long since departed, in the first place shorn of her Samson locks, robbed of her territory aud capitolcy, the great district cut up into Anderson, Pickens and Oconee; and the railroads of which she little dreamed of then, have ignored her claims, stolen away her thrift, and now the good old town of Auld-Lang Syne stands out forlorn, gray and dilapi? dated in her tottering senility. But there still lingers a fragrance of intelli? gence and refinement in her social atmos? phere that ever strikes the visitor with admiration and respect. Since the days of which we have been speaking, the second and third generation are passing from the stage of action, rap? idly losing the grip on life and falling off into the sea of time. Of the second, Cob Tom Pickens, Mr. Dickson and John Bitt?n alone remain, Mr. William Galiard having died but recently, and but a rem- ] nant of the third generation is left. The I Clemson Agricultural College is now be? ing erected at old Fort Hill, the John C. Calhoun place; a fine hotel is about to be built at Old Pendleton, and it ib thought the town is looking up somewhat. May the Lord bless the faithful old spot, and may she become once more as she was in the days of yore, as a "city set upon a hill." D. U. Sloan. Valuable Mound Relics. Edmore, Mich., April 26.-?A prehis? toric mound has been discovered in Montcalm County, in the Township of Home. The discovery indicates that the Aztecs probably stopped there long enough to bury their dead and to make cooking utensils and ornaments, which they left behind. Perhaps the moBt re? markable of all the articles found was a sealed casket and tablets beneath which was a skeleton of a man, who in life had been of more than common height and had a peculiarly shaped head that did not belong to the present race. The mound was about six feet in cir? cumference at the top, near the centre of which was a huge pine stump that woods? men say must have been there over 600 years. The top layer of this mound was composed of gravel twelve to sixteen inches in thickness. Below this waB a thick layer of earth, and beneath this a layer of charcoal, formed, it is believed, by the burning of wood over the grave, as this monnd proved to be. Beneath this was a deep layer of ashes and sand a foot in depth. When tho bottom of this layer was reached, the diggers came upon a casket about four feet long. On the top of this casket, which is of red clay, baked prob? ably in the locality, is the figure of a woman, recumbent, with her head resting on a pillow. The features were some? what marred by the spades of the diggers. Beneath this casket was found the skele? ton of a man. The bones crumbled while being taken out, except the skull. The face and forehead are long, the fore? head being particularly square and high. Among'other things found in the mound were three tablets also of red clay, which evidently contained records. There were also spear heads, breast plates, showing that the race fought bat? tles and protected themselves. There were tools made of tempered copper, now a lost art, pitchers of various forms, tab blets with inscriptions in relief, vaees and pipes. One of these pipes was of white material, and had evidently been used by some smoker, as it had finger marks on the stem close to the bowl. Knives were also found of curious pattern bo sharp even now that they will cut into the edge of steel. Knives of silver were also found, and of a material that is as yet unknown here,but resembles a mixt? ure of copper and iron. Still another tool was found, made of copper and iron, bo neatly and closely joined that it is im? possible to find the jointure. Figures on the caskets represent among other things a man sowing grain. On another tablet is the foliage of a tree and in the background the walls of a castle with fantastic decorations. That the use of the wedge was known is shown by the finding of a split log with an iron wedge intact. The fondness for jewelry is Bhown by the presence of ornaments in earrings, bracelets, and armlets, while iu the figures of tho women the drapery is held iu place by jewels. The work of digging is still going on, and the authorities from the University at Ann Arbor have been invited to come here and inspect it. The authenticity of the discoveries was settled in the minds of the residents when, after an attack on the local newspaper, the editor, Superin? tendent of Schools, and Justice of the Peace went out and digged for themselves in a new mound, finding a lot of relics. All these men have signed affidavits, and the digging continues. The poets sing, in dainty rhymes, Of summer days aud sunny climes, Of beauteous maidens, passing fair, With witching eyes and waving hair, Till, near the end, you're apt to see, 'Tis but an "ad" for P. F. P. ; that is, Pierce's Favorite Prescription, the infallible and guaranteed remedy for all kinds of female weakness, which cures the ailments of feeble, run down and de? bilitated women, and restores them to youthfulness and beauty once more. The price of this royal remedy, Dr. Pierr.e's Favorite Prescription, is but $1.00 a bot? tle, and money refunded in every case if it doesn't give satisfaction. See guarantee on bottle-wrapper. ? Caller?How perfectly devoted you are to your husband! Young wife?Yes, I am trying to pet and spoil him, so that if I die aud he marries again, i|o eth? er woman cau Jivo wiih him, THE MEN WHO WORE SPURS. Hampton Speaks for the Confederate States Cavalry. The following is General Hampton's speech to his old soldiers at Augusta on Monday of last week, as reported for Columbia Slate: Mr. Presidont, Comrades, Friends and Men of my old Brigade: My first duty, as it is my greatest pleasure, is to make my acknowledgment to this grand organ? ization of yours?the Survivor's associa? tion of Georgia. In no State, in no Southern State, has any association of that sort been so successfully kept alive, and I trust that the resolution adopted by the association to day will be tbe sense of the men who fought in the army of Virginia and of Tennessee, and that our children, the children of the surviv? ors of the old soldiers who have crossed the river, will take the place of us who are here to-day. That when that is done that the stories of the soldiers of the men who followed Lee and Jackson and Johnston may go Bounding down the ages to the last syllable of recorded t'rne. When I received the invitation, my friends, to join in this reunion, my ex? pectation was that I was simply to give a welcome to that old brigade as men whom you have loved to honor. I had no idea that I was expected to make an ad? dress, and after the one I have listened to to day I am afraid to attempt it. But I do want to say to those men that I want? ed to look in the faces once more that I had so often seen; lo see them kindling with the fire of battle; to grasp their hands and to feel that we belong to a common country and that they belonged to a command that I honored more than life itself, and that it would have been to me the greatest possible honor to have commanded the old first brigade, for I believe that this was the best brigade in the whole army. (Applause.) At any rate I thought so, and a good many of our friends on the other side seemed to think so, too. I wanted to come and see you, my men, again. When I parted from you in Virginia there are perhaps Borne of you present who remember that when I returned to my headquarters at 11 o'clock at night on the day when General Johnston surrendered, I found that that part of the old brigade, Hart's battery, said that tbey would not surren? der, and had taken up their march to seek fields of action elsewhere, even if across the Mississippi. I sent a courier at once, telling him to overtake them and stop them until I could see them, but in an hour I was on my horse, and as the first rays of the morning, sun lighted the forests of North Carolina, I reached the spot where they had stopped. I found the men, some of them lying down, tired by their night's ride, but holding the ? bridles of their horses and some of them asleep stretched out on the grass. When I reached them I told them that they would have to remain and surrender ; and telling tbem that I held an order from Mr. Davis and assuring them that I knew they were willing to go with me anywhere as they had always done; that if they went otherwise they would go aB outlaws, which I could not bear to see, and I told tbem that I wanted them as good soldiers to remain there and be surrendered; that their commander in chief had surrendered them, and I begged them, as the good soldiers they had always been, to obey that order, even though against their will. And, oh men, do you remember ? do you remem? ber how those men crowded around me, caught the rein of my horse, caught my stirrup leathers and in whose eyes I saw the tears from eyes unused to weeping? oh, men, when I recall that scene, even now, when I recall that scene, tears un? bidden force themselves to my eyes. I have never forgotten that scene, and it is the last one I shall remember upon this earth. (Applause and cheers, and a voice :,I remember it too?good for the old governor." But it was not only the old brigade that I was proud of, for it waa my good fortune to have cavalry from all over the South, and among the : commanders I can name my old friend General Wheel? er. (Applause.) I wish that you would remember that when I speak f .r the cavalry I speak for all the cavalry I had the honor to command. I know that our good friends of the infantry used to chaff us a good deal. They used to say that they never saw a dead man with spurs on, but in that great fight at Trevilyan Station, fought by the cavalry agaiust overwhelming numbers of infantry, there were 719 killed and wounded in Butler's division, and in the Sixth regiment there were lost 132 killed and wounded. (Applause.) And I will say that in the great campaign of Gettysburg where the desperate fighting was by that invincible infantry of ours, the cavalry corps lost more in killed and wounded than any other division in General Lee's army. Now we the cavalry, did do some fight? ing, and while I do not intend to detain you by telling you what I think of the cavalry, I want to show you what Gener? al Lee said: Just after the war General Lee wrote to me and requested that I would give him a connected narrative of the opera? tions of the cavalry corps of the last cam? paiga in Virginia. He was, as you know, about to write a history of the war, md it was a great misfortune to tbe South that he was not at that time pre? pared to finish it. In this he used the following language: "After the conven? tion of 1787," speaking on this subject, he went on to say that these differences culminated in 1S61 "in blood, but not in treason." Those wero his words, and I want every cavalryman and every infan? tryman, every man who followed the Southern Cross, to tell his children and them to tell their children (applause) to the remotest generation that they were neither traitors nor rebels. You fought for what we believed were our rights. We believed it as conecienciously as any man could believe anything on the face of the earth. We believed that we were fighting for God and our fatherland. (Renewed cheering.) The man who would not ought to be damned. (Ap? plause.) Now while I say that we were neither traitors nor rebels, I do not say that we should not recognize our allegi? ance to tho general government. It is only one country that we have now, aijd _VOLUM it is our duty and the duty of every man in the South to try and make that coun? try the field for free men for all time to come. (Applause.) I am a loyal citi izen, but I maintain that I can at all times express my opinion, whether in northern presence or in southern pres? ence, and never will I say that my dead brothers were traitors to their cause. May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth before I ever utter a sentence that will betray the thought that me and mine were rebels. You were doing your duly as you thought it to the country, but God has ordered it otherwise and I acquiesced in the result. I am a citizen of the United States, and I propose to obey its lawB, but I will never forget the solemn duty that I then owed and that I still owe to the soldiers who, with me, be? lieved that our cause of battle was just, and to those soldiers who I have seen go down to the dust in battle. (Taking a large book)? I have simply marked a few of the references to the cavalry corps during that campaign. I will read first a few words which will show how and why I happened to recommend the report to which I refer. The first is addressed to Gen. Robert Lee and begins: General?In accordance with your re? quest that I should give you a connected narrative of the operation of the cavalry corps of the army of northern Virginia, I have the honor to submit the following report: I regret that I have not the data from which to make it as full and com? plete as you desire, but when my house was robbed and burned by Sherman's troops all my papers shared the same fate. From copies, however, which escaped, I endeavored to comply with your request. The work you ask me to perform gives me a double gratification; ! for while it affords me the opportunity of obliging the great captain who so often led the heroic army of Northern Virginia to victory, it gives me at the same time the pleasant but sad duty of paying the only tribute in my power to the noble, brave men who clung to their colors and cause to the last. The men who thus nobly discharged the highest duties of patriots and soldiers, deserve the thanks, not only of the officers, but of every true hearted Southerner. Gratitude on the part of their countrymen for their servi? ces, and a consciousness on their own part of a duty performed are the only I rewards they can ever receive. The country for which they fought so heroi? cally has no recognized existence, the nationality they sought to establish is extinct and the government which should have rewarded them is, like their hopes, dead. It is therefore eminently due to them that their heroic deeds, their suf? ferings and their sacrifices, should be recorded, so that in after years their children may be proud to claim their descent from men who are now denounc? ed as rebels. Let 'the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth' be plac ?ed upon the record. We may then con? fidently commit our cause to the impar? tial judgment of prosterity. As I said, I propose to read only a few of the congratulatory orders issued by General Lee to the cavalry corps. I turn now to one order of the 2nd of June, 1864, to the major general commanding. You will see that it is to General Rosser, who bad distinguished himself in every brilliant fight almoBt in Virginia, and here is the dispatch I sent to him : "The major general commanding di? rects me to express the pleasure he feels in communicating to you the following extract from a note received last night from Lieutenant Colonel Taylor, Acting Adjutant General Army N. V.: 'Gen? eral Lee directs me to acknowledge the receipt of your note of 5.30, and to ex? press his gratification at the handsome conduct of Rosser's command and his thanks for hia having so gallantly de? feated the enemy. The major general commanding desires me to add his thanks for your valuable assistance, and to say that he deems the success of yesterday mainly due to your skill and gallantry and the services of your command.'" The next extract in my report relates to the fight at Trevilyan Station. I will not read the whole record, but a letter from General Lee, dated June 28th, is as follows: "Your note of to day from Colonel Phillips has just been received. I am rejoiced at your success, and thank the officers and men of your command for the gallantry with which you assaulted the enemy, and which ended in his de? feat. (Signed) Robert E. Lee. Apropos of that fight, I would like to mention a circumstance which I did not remember at the time. We moved out with 4,700 men to intercept Sheridan. I have seen from the recent reports at Washington that in that fight he had 10,000 men. Well, he says that he had lost from 300 to 400, but in his reports to the war department, which are now there on file, he admits that in the fight and in the subsequent movement he lost in the total as many as 4,862 men, so that we find that compared with them they lost one man to each one of ours engaged in the operation, because, as I said, we had about 4,700 men, and he admits a loss of 4,SG2 by his own report. The next letter to General Lee is in reference to the same fight under date of August 19,1SC4. It is directed to me and says : "I desire to express the gratification I have deriv? ed from the conduct of the cavalry dur? ing its late operations north of James river." The next record is of August 26th, being a dispatch of General Lee to the secretary of war referring to the gallant conduct ot A. P. Hill: "At the second asaault he carried the entire line. Cook's an? McRae's North Carolina brigades in Wilcox's division uuder Conner, with Pegram's artillery composed the assaulting column. One line of breastworks was carried by the cavalry under Hampton with great gal? lantry, who contributed largely to the success. Seven stand of colors, 2,000 prisoners and nine pieces of artillery are in our possession. The loss of the enemy in killed and wounded is reported heavy; ours relatively small. Our profound gratitude is due to the giver of all victory and our thanks to the bra* - men and officers eugaged. R, E. Lee, "General." Now, my friends, 1 think by these I can E XXV.?NO. 44. show that Lee thought that the cavalry was of some good in the army, and we saved your lives once, you will remember, by the number of cattle we brought to you from one of our raids. But I will not detain you by reading any more of this, only referring you to one fact that is worth recording. In looking over my records (and they aro embodied here in the reports of the pro? vost marshal for the cavalry corps of the army of Northern Virginia,) I find that in the last six months of the war we had turned in between 18,000 and 20,000 prisoners. Well, I think that this was doing very well for an army of 5,000 or i 6,000. Wheeler said that we whipped .1 tbem, but it has beeu said that the in? fantry whipped them and we captured i them while they were running, 1 do not w mean to depreciate the infantry at all, but I remember an incident of an infan? tryman who I thought was from Missis? sippi. And I was passing along on horseback he said: "I'll be damned if I ever go into the war again. I will go on the hurricane deck of a horse," and I inferred from that that he had been used to a Mississippi river steamer. But, as you xnow, I would rather fight than speak, but I do want to tell yon of the last communication I received from Lee, as it was particularly complimentary to the army of northern Virginia. I would Bay that if I had to go through my privation, my sufferings, and could have foreseen the result of the war, I, even then, would have been willing to encoun? ter its results. After the war General Lee wrote to me and said: "You cannot regret as much as I do that you were not present at the final struggle, for had yon been present with all your cavalry, the disaster would not have happened." (Applause and cheering.) He did not say "I think it would not have h ed," or "I believe it would not ha** pened," but he said the "disaster not have happened." And every mem? ber of that corps should now feel that be has a declaration worth more to him than the decoration of the legion of honor or the iron crown of Germany. Well, then, my comrades, I did not expect when I left you in North Carolina ever to see you again, or that in the course of natural events I could again have had this pleasure, It is a beautiful but very apt thought in the creed of Swedenborg that every soldier fighting for his country and killed in battle is immediately translated to the realms of everlasting bliss. Whether this is so or not I would fain believe it, and I trust if we are not to meet on earth again, when we pass across the river and are at rest, and even though we did not fall on the battle field, we may meet our old comrades who, shoulder to shoulder, gave up their lives for this dear Southern land of ours. I may never see you again but I never will forget you, and those who nursed me in my desperate illness tell me that in my delirium I talked about the men of my old brigade, that^I avwM ;er wouhr^* talked of cavalry, that I planned fights, that I gave orders to Major Bosser to charge, and that I said "now boys it is time for old Hampton to go in." I say I may not see yon again my old men, but believe me I will not forget you. My prayers will go to heaven always for you. God bless you my old comrades. (Ap? plause.) To Explore the Earth's Crust. Wheeling, W. Va., April 26.?An eight-inch well, which is being sunk near this city by the Wheeler Improve-' ^ ment Company in a search for oil or gas, has reached, after several months of bor? ing, a depth of 4,100 feet. Both oil and gas have been struck throughout in paying quantities. It has gone through several thick veins of coal and has traversed lay? ers of gold quartz, iron and numerous other minerals. Professor J. C. White, State geologist, who has watched the drilling closely, has succeeded in getting the Government interested in it. The result is that after the well has been sunk to the depth of one mile, the Government will take up the work and, under the direction ofj two expert officers of the geological survey drill into the earth as far as human skill can penetrate. The temperature and magnetic condi? tions will be observed as far as possible, and by means of an instrument con? structed for the purpose a complete record of the drilling and all discoveries made will be kept. This record will be placed in the geological survey's exhibit. at the world's fair, a nd afterwards pre? served at Washington. Professor White and the Government officers say this will be one of the most novel and important exhibits at the fair and will attract the attention of the scientists of the world. Unwelcome People. Those who stay too long when we are busy. Those who point out to us our own faults. Those who have a chronic desire to borrow money. Those who embarrass us with too much politeness. Fussy people who have a large idea of their own importance. Those who ask so many questions that they discover our ignorance. Those who neglect their own business^ to attend to that of other people. Those who always take their troubles along and leave their joys behind. Those who always wa*t to talk about things in which they take no interest. Those who never have anything to talk about but themselves and the weath? er. Those who agree to everything we say, and never have any opinions of their own on any subject. Commendable. All claims not consistent with the high ^ character of Syrup of Figs are purposely avoided by the Cal. Fig Syrup Company. It acts gently on the kidneys, liver and ', bowels, cleansing the system effectually^ but it is not a cure-all and makes no pre-^l tentions that every bottle will not^sEtP^' stantiate. ? Canning factories have been estab? lished in many towns of this State. The latest one is at Prosperity.