Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

CHARLESTON F .A. Sudden transi liol i Ijocnl 011 ; ? i /.Vow the Xew )'<> CHARLESTON. September M.--If j you co South by rail the character of j thc country changes so gradually as you slip out of one State into another that it is hard to tell precisely where the Vorth leaves off and thc South bc? vii-?-. If you go by water, <>n thc c on trary, y?>u come upon the South all unawares, as it were, without experi encing any intcrnicd?R~y impressions. Voil leave a port that is positively characteristic of thc one section, and after two days in a purely neutral world, cut loose from all influences, political ami geographical, you arrive at a port as positively characteristic of the other. Once the Jersey shore is left behind, there being no visible landmarks to show the progress South- j ward, the ship's atmosphere being j that of the port she sailed from, it is not until forty-eight hours later, when , thc light-house on Morris Island comes j in sight and the lim of the Carolina coast breaks the horizon, that people begin to speak as though they were North no longer. "We are fairly in Charleston har bor now. We've crossed the Har," announces a passenger cheerily. "We 20 in without knowiug it these days, but a few years ago thc getting over Bar was an undertaking. That was before the Jetties were built. I re member waiting outside on one of these steamers for five mortal hours until thc tide came to our relief. Not waiting comfortably either, you may depend. The water was rough that day; there was what they call a swell on, and thc see-sawing of the ship af ter she stopped going was anything but pleasant. Ah! Don't that look familiar? We're down South now. and no mistake." A tiny row-boat has como into view, manned by three negroes rowing lusti ly and singing in time to their task. Their black breasts are bared to thc August suu, their garments of that all-ovcr-fadedness of hue resulting from constant wear and washing. There is a glimpse of hearty, good humored faces up-turned to thosteaiur cr's deck, a bar or two of song floats upward, then the big ship strides away from thc little craft, and the picture is lost. Three negroes might be in a boat in Boston harbor, in New York harbor, or any other harbor on the coast; they might be dressed just as shabbily and be just as black, and be rowing with just as much vim as those island negroes, but they would not look like these, nor be like them. They would not have that air of irre sponsibleness, and that almost child ishly eager intorcst in everything, that is native to ?he Southern negro - that a GUI ti th i ng that comes of thc soil, the climate, thc mere carthy condi tions he has boon raised among. Above all, the negro anywhere else but at thc South would not feel thc necessity of singing while ho was at work. He might sing after his task was over, and sing well, but the ry thm in him would not have to find vent while his muscles were in uso. Eager interest in things is charac teristic of the Southern people, of the , white owners and rulers of the land, as well as of their black dependents and sometime bondmen. From the highest to the humblest, all were horn under thc same auspices, sofar as the physical character, of the country is considered, und the love of pleasure is a common heritage. They love so to enjoy, lt is the Southern nature; poverty, calamity, nothing keeps it back. No amount of education, of careful training in the ethics of good form and conventionality can quite eradicate this native exuberance of temperament that triumphs over age, aud even over physical, infirmity, and makes many a rough passage smoother than it would otherwise be. Next to their loyalty and sincerity, this love of pleasure iu whatsoever form it may take, isa dominant character in Pixie. If such a thing was possible, or at least likely, as a man taking passage on a ship not knowing where she was bound, and preserving that ignorance of his destination throughout the trip, and that voyager should look out upon Charleston harbor, ali airea regarding his whereabouts, he would conclude at once, after a survey of tho prospect, that that bay and city were of the South. It would not ncod thc care less song of thc negro boatman or the name of Sumter on his fellow passen gers' lips to confirm this conjecture. A soft luminousness in thc atmos phere, a certain quality, neither pathos nor romance, but yet KU inti mation of both, a stamps tho locality with a character all its own, undeci pherable as it is. For low, flat shores arc found in other places, green trees belong to every clime; other skies arc ss blue, other waters as serencly dimpling, taking for granted that thc voyager who set sail not knowing where he was going, gets into Charles-, ton harbor in thc daytime and catches sight of the glancing spires and steeples of thc city at least a full min ute or more before the main body of buildings uprises before him. This is ROM THE SEA. to ;i Sou UM Til Scone. TIC tori ^ 1 ics. ri Kooning Pout, areli coquetry ?<n the part of the old town, hut a bit of finesse she has never been known to forego, notwith standing all the many and various kinds of craft, that rome into her har bor. She knows that u.she is fair to look upon with that tender light en folding her, and that she renders her self far more interesting hy not dis playing all her ch irms at once. Lit .tie by little she rises bodily from the water, ami this judie ions reserve ex cite? deep interest in the beholder. If the adventurous voyager got over the Har after nightfall he would he guided up the harbor by the range light in St. Philip's steeple, (me of the few, if not the only harbor light on the coast that is located in a Church steeple and kept trimmed and burning by a Church sexton.o thc identical sexton that ushers strang ers up thc aisle on Sundays and per forms other dignified duties connected with his office. When thc officer in charge of thc government works in Charleston harbor first broached the matter of making thc steeple a light house the vestry demurred. It was a benevolent, a kindly purpose, but it was secular withal: might it'not he putting their revered tabernacle to undignified use? The proposition was without precedent. Thefgovern uicnt's representative urged on their consideration thc fact that thc steeple was just in the exaet spot where a range light was needed; thc sexton should tend the light. Everything should be done to preserve thc digni ty and placidity of thc anoicnt struc ture, and, indeed, to improve or re pair it should occasion require. With these stipulations vouched for, the consent of thc parishioners was gained. Honored old St. Philip's! She had been "juBt in range line" before, when hostile vessels picked her out for a target. During thc bombard ment the bc8eigers always avowed that they aimed at her spire, and when this government light was being arranged for, three years ago. a shell, unex ploded, was found in u part of the woodwork. It is, perhaps, these unexploded sholls that Charleston still harbors in her bosom, all against her will though it bc, that makes old Sumter look so glum and introspective, so almost trngie, even on a sunny day, despite tho air of domesticity imparted by the newly painted cottage of the keeper, and the tu?t?? of grass that grow above her wullcd-in parade ground. Fort Moultrie, opposite, pillowed on tho white sands of Sullivan's Island, looks benign, almost cheerful. Street cars jingle past its door, the aound of chil dren's Voices reaches it from tho beach below, and nearby houses shel ter families long since reconstructed. Sumter has nono of these soothing, every-day influences. Apart, out there in thc harbor, self-centered on her single isle, that affords no inch of foothold to friend or foe, she looks impregnable still and in no mood tobe trifled with, in reality, though, she is not so formidable as she looks, for nearly all of tho ordnanoe that played such a significant part three decades ago has boen removed, and tho new magazines and other appliances of war that have been placed there since are only half completed. "There is nothing at Fort Sumter now," says tho government official who is in charge of thc harbor. "As far ns is possible, all traces of the fight in the carly sixties have been taken away or coverod up, and thc work of renovation and outfitting, be gun twenty years ago, at the time of the Virginias war scare, was left in a very crude condition. Thc government does not say so, because work on the eoast defenses just now must be carried on with se crecy, but rumor has it that in thc near future Fort Sumter will be fitted out in no equivocal fashion, and that hundreds of thousands of dollars will be devoted to tho work. Situated just as she is. she is important, and as much pains will bc taken with her as are expended on the new mortar and rifle batteries on Sullivan's Is land. If tradition may bo trusted, (and surely tradition that comes straight down from father to son is as much to bc counted on as history, oven though it is never set down in print) Fort Sumter, fundamentally speaking, is by no means a provincial fortress, but as cosmopolitan a structure as this country can boast. The rooks that form her base, piled one upon tho other, are no Carolina rocks, but tho joint contribution of many and vari ous countries. Scientific conjecture has it that tho rpot thc fort was built upon was once, ages ago, a part of Morris Island,.thc island just in thc rear of Sumter, up on which Battery Wagnor stood, a name indissolubly associated with thc Swamp- Angel. Local verbal testi mony, however, flouts at this, and af firms stoutly that thc rocks that form thc foundation of tho fort wore brought to Charleston originally as ballast by thc suiting vessels that came there after cotton. These ves sels came into port empty und went out heavily freighted with the sea son's staple product long ago, when things were conducted in a leisurely fashion, before the utilising of steam or of any labor saving and distance annihilating inventions. In those days a vessel coming after cotton knew that she could only make one trip during thc season, or. at the most, two, and governed her move ments accordingly, lt was customary when the rocks brought as ballast had served their mission to dump them overboard, and the spot on which Sumter stands was such a dumping place. The boatman will tell you this, he who rows you out to the fort, and he will say. moreover, that his father had boats to let before his time, and knew every stock ?i??d stone in Charleston harbor. If you visit thc fort in winter, io thc regulation tourist season, you will go on a regulation excursion bout, at a stipulated fare, along with a lot of other people, and share with them whatever of interest the keeper of thc fort might have to say or show to curious or thoughtful visitors. When you go individually you have the keeper's t. -je all to yourself, and the voyage seaward is made interest ing by the boatman's communica tions. "This is Fort Ripley," he says, as his little craft rounds within a stone's throw of a structure stuck high up on stilts, but looking strong and martial. "The people there raise everything they cat, though there is scarcely an extra foot of ground in the place." Then, laughing at his own joke, he proceeds to point out Castle Pinckney, the fortress that thc Grand Army is seriously thinking of con verting into a sanitarium for infirm and disabled pensioners. Castle Pinck ney is well within the shelter of the harbor, and Fort Ripley also. Sum ter lies .""'ay out, ready to bear the brunt of wind and storm and fusilado. Thc keeper at Fort Sumter tells you how she stood the cyclone, or, rather, how bc stood it. He will take you down through the dark, tunnel-like passageways, and up on the parade ground, that you arc surprised to find so large in viow of the apparent size of thc fort from the outside. Ho will point out certain direful spots where alien bullets hit or grievous rents were made, and then, after thia con cession lo historic times, he will come down to latter-day facts, and give a feeling ac Mint of his experience dur ing the wai of the elements four years ago. When you go over to Fort Moul trie you will, hear more about the cyclone, and be told how the resi dents of the Island, Charleston's sum mer resort, regard Fort Moultrie as an < ever present place of refuge in such disasters, and go to her the first thing when the water is rising in their lower floors and the wind is shaking tho very foundations of their houses houses that arc always anchored when built in order to guard against just such perils. , Light-minded Charlestonians, those who decline to take life seriously, 'de clare that their city never lacks a catastrophe from which to date hap penings and cventB. Long ago it was the war that overshadowed everything elso; then it wan the earthquake, soul appalling horror; and now it is tho cy clone. It is four years since the cy clone created such havoo on the wa ter-front, and tho docks and piers' show the ravages still. But that docs not dim the brightness of those sym metrical spires, nor alter the serene appearance of the town as she looks out on the sea. Somebody has somewhere defined poetry to be "emotion recollected in tranquility." One is reminded of the line on viewing Charleston from the harbor entrance, though hers is rather thc solf-poised calm won front con tentions and calamities bravely borne than thc serenity of mere stagnation or of unconcern. Tho impression is dispelled somewhat when ono gets up into tho city, where the newly intro duced trolley cars arc whizzing, and hears of the new park that is being laid out, and the new buildings that arc in courso of construction, and the other things now under way; but Le gare street preserves its old world,dis distinotivc air, along. with many another resident street beside; and, looking off from, thc Battery,? tho scene has that same half tender, half romantic suggestion that thc South alono knows how to interpret, a charm not to bo resisted any moro than it may be accounted for. OLIVER F. GUSHY. - An Iowa husband and wife wore admitted to an insane asylum at Mt. Ploasaut at the same time recently; It was tho first caso of the kind in the history of the asylum. m m> *m - Deafness Cannot te Cared by local application?, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of Mic ear. There ii only one way to care Deafness, sod that is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness li caused by an Inflam ed condition of tho mucous lining nf the Eustach ian Tube. When tfcla tube get? inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when lt is.enUroly closed deafness la lite result, and unless tho InflamaUon can be taken out and this tube restored to ita normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nibo cases out of ten ai? caused by ?uar rah, wtatca lt nothing bnt an in Hamed condition of the mucous surfaaea. We ?111 give Ona Hundred Dollars fer any ease nf. Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot bd cared by Uoll's Catarrh Care. Bead Sot. circulara, face. r. J. CHEN El' & CO., Tdl?W, G. *9r Bold by Drinjittr*fTto> life's Life Spured by u Scout. (?eu. HubertK. Lee. the Confeder ate commander, owed many years of life to the leniency of Thomas W. BuivOO, a well-to-do farmer, of Ha cino County. Burton enlisted in au Ohio regiment A the beginning of the war. He was an expert woodsman and a crack shot. He had lived in Virginia several years in thc fifties. His . experience in woodcraft and knowledge of the country adjacent to the Jame- Uiver aud around Rich mond commended him for the duties of a scout, and early in ?HG2 he re ceived orders to report for special duty. He served as scout until wounded at Chancellorsville, in May, IHtYA. He was discharged, and a few years later came to Wisconsin, and engaged in farming. He attended thc (j. ?. It. encampment at B?llalo, and related the story of Cen. Lee's es eape from death to thc group of vet erans in thc smoking car. "Yes," he said, "I could have killed Lee as easily as ? boy would knock a trapped woodchuck in thc head. But I didn't. It was early in thc war-thc day that Lee took com mand of the Confederate army in Vir ginia-and the death at that time of the ablest leader of the Rebel forces might have had a powerful effect on thc fate of the Confederacy. Lee sat on a horse not o*'er twenty feet from where I lay concealed behind a log. For five minutes my rifle covered his heart and my fingers rested on the trigger. I might have shot him dead and could have escaped without trouble, but I didn't. Lee was a great man, and I have been 'thankful always that I did not shoot." "Did Lee ever know of his esospe?" ark cd a man with a 6th Wisconsin ar tillery badge pinned on his lapel. "Yes. After the war I wrote to him about it. He sent me this let ter," and Mr. Burton produced a sheet of paper yellowed by age, the writing faded and barely legible. It bore the signature: "R.E. Lee," and was as follows: "RICHMOND, VA., February 1, 1866. "T. W. BURTON, RACINE-DEAR SIB: Your favor of 20th ultimo at hand. I think I remember the day to which you refer. I had, on the day previous, taken command of thc troops (C. S. A.) about Richmond, and, in company with Gen. C. W. Smith, whom I suceeded, made a per sonal examination of tho field. I do not doubt your statement, and while V?cV?r?i WGIuS u6rs illegible) God, I thank you. Cordially, cen xi T_?i J.I. Ci. jjr.Ti. "After.the battle of Seven Pines,"' Mr. Burton began his story,"our troops took up a position on both sides of the Chickahominy. our left reaching into Chickahominy swamp. I was at tached to Gen. "Si" .Casey's .divis ion, of Keyes's corps, as a scout, and bad spent several, days in working (brough the big Chickahominy swamp. One afternoon-it was June 2 or 3, I think-I was in the swamp - between our lines and the Reba. A little creek ran through the swamp and into the Chickahominy. I had sat down on a log behind a s um a o or some other small hush, when ? beard .something moving through theubushes on the other side of the stream. I dropped down behind the log and swung my rifle over, cooking it, and as I did so two'men in gray rode into plain view. At a glance I knew one to be Lee, and the other I surmised -correctly, it appeared later-was Gen. Smith. Joe Johnson had been wounded in the fight of Soven Pines, and Smith had succeeded him, and Lee, we knew, in turn, had succeeded Smith.. And I held the lives of both of them-one, at le?st-in my hand. . 'The Confederate leaders rode out of the bushes and down to the edge of the brook and let their horses drink. They were talking earnestly, and I heard Stuarts . name mentioned. They probably were discussing plans for the raid his cavalry made around us a few days later. "W?llj Lee and Smith sat on their horses and talked. My rifle Sights covered a spot on Lee's gray coat, di rectly over his heart. Then I thought I'd gee the two in linc and kill them both. Twioo I pressed the trigger to kill both. Why didn't I? I thought of my wife and bahes back in Ohio-and in on of Leo's ut ar o nea. To?rs came into my eyes, and when I got the mist out of them the party was riding away. It would'have been murddr, and, praise-God, my hands are clean.5'' Milwaukee Sentinel. - - Judge-" Af tor this you ought to keep away.from bad company." ..Pri?--' oner-"Yes, your Honor. ; You won't soe me again for some time." - ".What dc.you think, old boy, I stole a kiss* from that haughty Miss Juniper !" . "Pooh, that's nothing. The last evening I was there I saw her poodle dog kiss her seventeen times." - "Many haye skid their children would have died of croup, if Cham berlain's Cough Remedy' had not been given," writer '/Kella?? & O arran, druggists, ' Seaview; :Va.. "People como from farand near vo get it and speak of it in the nighest terms."' This is equally truo of this remedy in evory community were it is knowtw Buy a bott!? at t.He Hill Orr Drug Go. and test it, for yourself. Tbc Story of a Sim Dial. In the first part of the last century an Irish emigrant named Porter set tled near Philadelphia, says thc Phil adelphia Thu**. Among l?is sons was one named Andrew, whom he tried to make Into a farmer, and then, like his brothers, into a carpenter. But Andrew would have nothing to do with thc plow or thc plane. lie hid in comer? poring over some math ematical books that bad come into his possession. One day he found the design of a sun-dial in one of them, and resolved to luakc one. He walked eight miles to a soapstone quarry, found a slab and carried it home on his back. Full of zeal, he went to his brothers' shop, and used their saws and chisels in his work. When they came home in the evening thc dial was finished. An drew was triumphant, but every tool in the shop was nearly or quite ruined. They drove him into tho street in a fury of anger and contempt. His father, now convinced that he was an idle, good-for-nothing, who would never fully carn his bread, bade bim go and. fit himself for school teaching, which he called c "lazy man's work." Andrew gave himself to hard study for thc summer, and then went to the astronor er, David Rittenhouse, and asked bi..i to lend him a book on conic sections. ^'How long have you studied mathe matics?" demanded the great mau. "Three months." "And what do you know of conic sections?" Rittenhouso rejoined, with withering contempt. But after asking the boy a- few, questions he- not only, lent him the book, but advised him not to waste hip time in the country, but go to Philadelphia and open a mathematical school. This poor farm boy was afterward Gen. Andrew Porter, an officer in the war of the revolution, and an authori ty on mathematica] science in the young republic. There are plenty of farm boys now who dislike farm work. It wouldn't be wise to infer because of this indo lent disposition they are Andrew Por ters in embryo. An easy basis for judgment is to note the use they J make of their idle time. Do they give, l ii io conic sections or to base bail? - The smallest horse owned in the world is Leo, owned in Italy. He is but(32 inches high; and yet he is parr fectly formed. . His mane apd tail reach the ground, and he is very in telligent. Ho is of the smallest Shet-. land breed known and is about .32. inches higli. lie is now oh exhibition in Italy along with ?ho Queen's Shet land ponies.' In the spring he will be brought to .New. York and exhibited in the New York horse show. - Love* at sight -is not considered nearly sq good a security, in the mat rimonial market, as love twelve months after date.k ?-$-c^Sffi : ii By Si*?C j Air ARRANGEMENT , WE OFFER . HOMEABDFARM In combination with the AN PERSON INTELLIGENCER? for $1.55, being the price cf our pr.per alone. That is, for all now or old : subscribers renewing and paying in advance, we send HOME AND FARM one .year free. ? HOME AND FARM has for many, years been the leading agricultural journal of the South and Southwest, made by farm ers for'.farmers. Its Homo Depart ment, conducted by Aunt Jane, its Children's Department', and its Dairy Department are brighter and bettor than ever, , Renew now and get this great journaW?r the home and 'the farm-FREE. Eczeia All ???1I? Mr* S.D. JenitinsV'cf Xltnbnia, Ga,, says tbatWa'l?arightej/Irla, inherited a severe case ?of Eczema, wMCh\tfae asnal mercury and potash vemedies failed ?ta . relieve;. Year nv year she, wa?, treattd with various tnedicijie?, external appli cations and internal remedtes, wjfliofct result. Her sufferings were . intens?, . and her condition grew steadHy^worse. .Vii tac 5^-c?||?? BiSn?a ??luwuicS u?a Bvv ? - ..iiMiiiv seemtoreachtheoia* dSs?S?k c*80 at a^ ?ntilS* flTW: *JL S,S;was given, Tv'rren . * KL . JH v an improvement ?S^ ?r^B"'"? was at once noticed. ra?'?| vjw ? >^ihe medicine was ' AV r7iii?r.-w conti nuecd with fav fis *?2K?? ?rabie reatdts, and cffiraL now. Bhe is cured r?W&*t?mWB?B5B\sound and well, her yp^ffiglW^l akin is perfectly '^^r&lwvB^ c,ear a?d pure and , ,f f I ? "Jf' abe has been saved ,V. from what threat* ened to blight her life forever. S.S.S, (puamtifeed purely veg?i??t?} ; cure* Eczema, Scrofula, Cancer, Sbeu matinn, or any other blood, trouble. . It is arealblocd remedy and alw^ria , cures even after, all else falta.;/ Talco a blood remedy for a blood ?iseas?; ?i tonic won't cute it , OA?r" books' . , . on - blood r"tv5?ff-v.^??:$.i?^\* :**?*L ;;Uiu , di?e??cs ... JP? maned free to ^ft^ . a nv ' address. Kv^flk - a^Ma Swift Specific" ftp*' m&F H:' : Co.,-Atlanta,..^fT- v^vv Ga. "..A., . ' ' . . - , A good opportunity to fit up the Family with desirable, well-fitting and good wearing Shoes. . . . . IT is our pleasure to announce that we have spared neither neither pains or money to make our liac sf FAI/L GOODS isa izoat desi rable and serviceable in the State, and we feel confident that our patrons will appreciate the fact that our Goods are manufactured '.'?presaly to suit the taste and fancies of this community. Every detail is carefully carried out with the intention of furnishing the public with a superb Hue of SHOES. We also carry a good line of TRUNKS, Ana our prices are right. Give us a call when in need of anything in our Hoe, and be con vinced of what we say. Ttie Yates Shoe Under Masonic Temple, Anderson, S. G. WE fully realize the fact that when we address the people of ?c&reoa County, either through the press or otherwise, we are addressing a elora of highly intelligent and wwil-informed people. We know there are some j^ople who read the high-sounding advertisement? promising great and unreaaoaab!? things, and also believe them, but this class of people in Anderson County ? fast becoming extinct. Now, a few words in regard to our &!5?ne83: A few years ago we came to this town with a small capital and unknown to the business world. Our business lias steadily increased, and the year 1897 will show a business of over $60,000.00. What has boon the secret of our success? f '\ yl I To do the Bight because it id Eight? Many say that this rule works well every way except ia business ;. bat we find it more applicable to business than any where else. ]Now, we know this is out of keeping; with the usual way of advertising but with due regard to our competitors' methods of doing business we deem it necessary to say what we have, and we commend to the intelligent and right thinking people of our County. We also wish to.state that our present facilities for handling goods direct from the manufacturer to the consume? are-second to none m the city. We carry almost everything needed by tho general trading public, and at as close a price as good, first-class goods can be seid,for. ? . ' IRespectfully soliciting s. continuance of your highly appreciated patron age, and, if possible, wiii try and serve you better in the future? we are "Von ra ?arv roonnntTitH** O. C. BROWN & SRO. BROWNLEE M VANBIYJiiESt -- DEALERS.IN ALL ItsINDS OE* Genera) Merchandise, Cottonand Fertilisers OFFBR their, tremendous Stock of Heavy Drj. Goods / Boote, 8hoes" H?ta ??? Otpi at prices that ensure Sales. .'" . In'a few days'we will have a rall Uno of Williams. KaSeland's and Ot?. G. Snow's Men's Fl S hoes. We have decided to odd thia, the finest U?? iiOBoee we know, to our already large S tock ?. Wa havo in stock tfte Jones Shoe Co'a. line of Womea'i Fine Shoes that we can conf?elontloualy recommend to uny ons. Io otb*? grades of Shoes we have them from tba cheapest up. Sea us before buying a pair, of Shoe?,. ?..K' UWe will not allow any'one to nvdeiecdlna.Ua Prints; GingHssss, Gu&?p, hannels, Blanket?, Lap Robes. Jean?, Cosalmero, Sheetingj Checks,'Dnlb. cto. We mean ex actly what we say in the tbove femarko. Come aaa for yourself. We sell large quantities of Ballard's end other mill's fina Flourn all gradee Co e best Hams, Klee, (sugar, Lard, Molasses, Soap; Soda, Shirob,, and otb ar Groceries too numerous to mention. Don4c forget that we ?ell the beat PHotyr, Coffee and tobacco, that wa caa I buy. We want to buy your Cotton for ths highest oaah price, and ?oll yon your Big-1 ging and Tie?: Yours very truly, p. 0 -Just received a lot of Guano and Acid for the sma?! grnin crop. B^/-' : - ' . i}--if :.'.-.':*.'.-:.> 'c'j-V.v ..^r:?'Viv''--- .' ./? >" '?V/^jtj ..-.j.--:/ C .? V' say come at us business,) and you wi? s?e I >'. ' -:r -r .'. / .:\*?^'';.'r'v'.'-^^-T, S And yow will find nb i^^er^o-y?^;. peace nor you^-purse ?, buying your RI From us. Throw out your fceat?i-I?ght on us aitd^ourSM?0* li will save ourtalk and pur tim?> and save f?u &sm pi and loss.