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AIISOBT.? ? A jsrjr The Malden to the Noon. BY .ion? O. 8AXB. Q Moon! did you seo My loyer and mo In thc valley beneath the sycamore tree? WhatCv r befell, O Moon, don't tell, 'Twas nothing amiss, you know very weill O Moon! you know, A long time ajo. You left tho sky and descended below, Of a summer's night, By your own sweet light, To meet y\>ur Endymion on L.itmos height. And-there, O Mooni You gave Lim a boon, .You wouldn't, I'm sure, have granted at noon; 'Twas nothing amiss, Being only thu bliss O? giving-aud taking-an inuocent kiss: " " Somo churlish lout Who was ?jiving about, Went off and blabbed -and so it got out; But for al! thc gold Tue sea could hold, O Moon! 7wou?dti t 'eave gone and told! So, Moon, don't tel! : . Of what befell My lover ami me in the leafy dell; Ho is honest and true, And remember, too, We only behaved like your lover and you! A DB/U?GHT OF POISON* CONCLUDED. ' That samo evening, after tea, I was sitting with Mrs. Goring-, when my eldest niece came into the chamber. "Mamma." she said. "Mrs. Stone ami Emily have sent tor mc in haste, and to take my music. May I go?" "Yes, if you like, Mary," replied my sister. "Where's Frances?" "I think she is in. the nursery, dressing Jane's doll." . "Then where's Miss Howard?" f T don'tknow. manama," was Mary's answer. "I saw her, after tea, iutho garden with papa." ' That was enough fen- me, and down . stairs I went. "There shall be no private and confidential interviews, if I can help it," quoth I to myself. I went by way of the surgery-not because I wanted to steal into the garden by the more private way, but because I thought that they might be atthat excuse of their chemicals again. The surgery was empty. I thought the garden was, at first; but as I stood in thc corner, just out the little 'surgery door, I heard the sound of ^ subdued voices in the summer-house. ".Sol went up the narrow side-path, against tho apricot wall, my feet almost treading on tito straggling strawberry plants. And Miss Frances by the way was not in the nursery. . I heard her laughing with the ser . vants in the kitchen. They did not see me como, up; the door of the summer-house faced the other side-wall of the garden. The first words I was near enough to hear were from her. "What right luis she to come down, .and makes these changes, and inter? fere in your heusehold? You must have the temper of an angel to put up with it." "The truth is, my dear, (it was his .voice now,) that as I hinted to you, I am drained dry, and ready to catch at straws. Mrs. Goring has no sus? picion that my embarrassments are serious; but if we go on at our present rate of living we shan't long go on at all. If we can retrench expenses, and so patch up matters, exposure may bo avoided. Miss Halliwell's offer to take Mary is a great help? now that the most expensive period of her education is coming on; but bhe does this only on condition that the others shall be put to school." "She has taken a dislike to me," murmured the lady in a sweetly plain? tive tone. "Old maids' prejudices are unfathomable." This was good from her, with her five-and-thirty years! I don't know what answer Matthew made. I heard none. "You arc a little in debt?" she went on. to ask. "Jolly well deep in it," was his reply. "It would take some hundreds to set me free." "Mrs. Goring has property, I have heard. Can you not make it avail? able." "Mrs. Goring's money is an an? nuity, and it dies with her." "All of it!" "All. But her life is insured for ?3,000." "What a help that would be to you. It would free you, and doubly free. What a good thing!" "Why, you speak," laughed Mat? thew, "as if it were something coming to me to-morrow. My ever having it is the most remote contingency itt tin world. She may outlive me; and il not Mrs. (tot ing intends that money tc go to the children, not to pay oil' my extravagances." Th^ro is always ?i little corner of thankfulness in mj heart when I think of that sentence, and of Matthew's cheering, hearty expression when he give utterance l< it. lt seems to repeat over to mi that he was not a guilty man, the man with murder on his soul, that some have since deemed him. "Mrs. (.lorine's lift; seems a pre? carious one," she went on; "sin; b always ailing. J am sure if the?3,001 you speak of should drop in, ii would Le your duty to make- use. of it. Your ease and comfort should bi paramount to every other censideru tion." I fear a feeling of positive hatrec rose in my heart when I hoard hoi thus make light of my dear sister, and tiis. wife. I gave a great congi to let them know I was there, ant walked round to the front of tin arbor. She came out then, but not before I saw him draw his arm from round | her waist, and she went toward the house. "Where is Miss Frances?" I said to I her. "With her sister." replied Miss j ITaward. "She<i? in the kitchen with the serrante, " I retorted; arid I appro,- j bond Mr?. Goring would not ap? prove of her making them her companions."" I said no more. If I had, I might have said too much; and I resolutely bit my lip to imposo eelf-sileuce. My gentleman had-sauntered oil* to? ward thc vegetables. [ did bot soe much, after that; during my stay. To be sure, I was out a good deal thou, calling on old friends, and sometimes to spend the evening, so that those two, if they wished, may have found opportu? nities ol' bciug together without my knowing of it. My sister was im? proving in health, and sat up for several hours each dav, but she did not leave her room yet. Oar own pupils were coming hack tous on thc 10th of July-for we have never followed the pernicious custom of giving five or six week's holiday; and cm the 7th I returned home, there being several household matters I wished to arrange with my sister Iiucy before they came. 1 took Frances with me. Mrs. Goring, in her weak, nervous state, seemed un? willing to part with Mary, who could now make herself useful in many ways; and wo quitted Middlebury early in the morning, reaching ?Lon? don and home the same eveniug. I was up betimes the next day-I am always an early rise:-; but we breakfasted later than usual, for at 8 o'clock Frances was still sleep? ing. We could not begin without her, and yet did not like to disturb her, for she was tired, poor child, with her journey, so that it was past 9 when we sat down to breakfast. I was pouring out the second cups of tea when the postman's knock was heard at thc door, and our cook -the other servants beiug at that hour en? gaged in their up-stairs duties -cami in with a letter. "Twopence, ma'am," said the cook. "Twopence!" I answered, diving into my pocket; "who can have sen! a letter unpaid?" "It is to ask for a prospectus, uc doubt," observed my sister, who hail taken the letter, while I paid tin cook. "But it has thc Middleburg post-mark!" "His Mary's writing, I am sure. Aunt Hester," observed the little girl; "and what a great sprawling seal she has put ! ?She has been get ting at papa's wax, too, for its black.' I took the letter out of Lucy': hand, and a sort of unpleasant tremo) came over me when I gazed on tin black seal. Mary Goring in ho little notes to her young friends wa: i so fond of displaying her blue-scent ed wax. Why had she now used black I opened the letter; it was blot tee as if written and folded in haste, am but a few wore"!s were in it. 1 ran nv eye hastily over them, and screame? out. Had my life depended on m; not screaming, I could not hav helped myself, the shock was so ter rible, though I have great commam over my feelings in general. How els should I be fit to train the young? "Oh, come back to us, my dca Aunt Hester! Mamma is dead. An they say she is poisoued. Papa i crying dreadfully. Come directly Your affectionate niece, "MARY GORENG." Now were not those words enoug to make me scream? I went at once. I sent cook oi for a cab, taking off my gingha dress and putting on my black sil one, while she was gone, and in ol.o-i-.l nr-l 1, ^ ~ ^ f .... T ---1.1 came back in it I was ready, ac drove away to the Paddington rai way station. I left the letter wil liney, but we did not tell France ? I only said to her that her mamu j was not well. Young girls are casi j satisfied. I could not get of till the ! o'clock train, and it was night win ! the Middlebury omnibus-which h; ! to take me the concluding miles my journey-reached Middlebur II trust I shall never again have pass such a day as that was. ]\ ! suspense and anxiety were hard j bear. Sometimes 1 felt as if the ra j way train did not go quick enoug and that I must rise from myst ; and try to fly over the interveni i j distance;; at others, it seemed os . . nothing se) horrible coule! have h; ' j pened, and that Mary's letter mi < i have' been a dream. A gentlcmi ' j in the same carriage, offered ,kme t i j Tiri's to read 1 took it and held ? before my eyes, but the letters seem 1 to swim, ami when 1 diel get te) re ? a sentence, I could not understa > it. So l thanked hita, and put ! ' down again. i j 1 knocked when I got to my l> ' ther-ia-law's -very softly, as beca a house where there wns death, i ? san, the house-maid, open eel the do ( a neat, tidy giri she w,is. "( > ma'am!" she exclaimeel, putting t i her bauds when sim saw me. "1 . I 1 am glad you are come." ? "Is your mistress-alive!" I ask ? i I don't know why I shouM bave; s I that, for, surely, no hope could li: I lurked within nm after that letter. * "Dear ma'am," she uttered, bu: , iug into tears, "alive.-! Sho died j i terday afternoon. Master's in ther I she added, gently opening the <l s of the dinning-room. He was in there alone-, sitt ? moodily hythe window, and th was no light in the room, save what cime from the street gas-lamp out? side, through the muslin curtains j and the white blind. Even in the uncertain light I could see the traces of suffering-his palo face, his dis? ordered hair, and his swollen eyes. "Oh, Hester, Hester!" he exclaim? ed, coming forward, and taking both my handSj, "this ia dreadful." I cannot remember all that passed. I believe I asked to see her. 1 asked particulars about her death, and I cried with him. The inquest was to be held on the following day, but it was already known, beyond doubt, that the cause of her death was poison. She had dined at I o'clock, and had lain down un the bed after it to sleep, as was usual since her illness. Some toast-aud-water stood at the bedside; and when she awoke thirsty, and asked for drink, the nurse gave her this. She drank it, complained of its bitter taste, fell in? to convulsive paius, and soon after died. "Could anything have been put into the toast-aud-water?" I ox el a i med. "So it would appear,*" he an? swered; "but it ls a great mystery." "Then, Matthew vi,?ring," L re? joined, peering steadily at litin, "who could have put it in?" "I kuow not," he answered, ear? nestly. "As the Jjord liveth and looketh upon me, Hester, I am as ignorant and innocent ot' this busi? ness as von ave." "Where was Miss Howard at thc time?" "Hester," he gravely said, "yoyi are prejudiced against Miss Howard: but for tho love of justice do liol carry it so far as to casi this suspicion upon her. A gentlewoman of cha? racter, of refined feeling, and yoi' would point lo her as being guilty o: a. crime black as night'," "It is you who are blindly preju diced in lier favor," 1 replied to him, "I do think, if she were prove? guilty of this, cou would not believe it;'* * "I should not " was Matthew": avowal. "Not from atty reason tha you hint at. but because 1 feel her ti hi> utterly incapable of oven thinkim of such a crime, much less commit ting it. But pray do not continue ti suspect me of any undue preference for her, Hester. If, as you one hinted, she caused uneasiness to ni; dear wife, I wish to my son! she Inn never come inside the house." "Ay, that's always the case-rc pontanee when it's too late. Many niau would- be more careful not t give his wife cause for anxiety, if h thought he was soou to lose her." could not helli saying that; it was ii my thoughts, so out it came. The sick nurse, Mrs. Gill, gavo m the most e xplicit account of this aw fal business, and I will repeat it i her own words. She had nursed m sister in all her illnesses, and was good old soul, but very unsuspieiou: "My poor missis had dined sumj tuously, ma'am, for her appetite wt a coming back to her. The win and breast of a fowl, aud a bit < bacon, and parsley and butter, an some porter. Dr. Goring ran ti j when he had done carving for the in tho parlor, with a decanter ? port wine iu his hand. 'Some glasse Mrs. Gill,' he said, and I brought 'e to him, and he poured out the wiu My missis drank one glass, and 1 drank two. Ho wanted her to ha-* another, aud said it wouldn't ha her; but she said, 'No, not as si had taken the porter.' So ho lc the decanter on the mantelpiec I and told me to be sure to give her glass about 7 in the evening, if ' j was not in himself. Tto*n she In i down on the bed for her afternooi ! sleep, and ho leaned over her ai ; ga', i her a kiss-for^f he did-alic: j-if he did admiro jbther faces, j was aa most affectionate man to 1 ; wii'e-^aud went down stairs. I f i lowe?him, to go to my dinner, ot ! stomping to {pour out a glass of toa j aiAwater aud put it by my missis, I ?gways did in the afternoon. Son times she would not drink any, a ; sometimes she'd drink it all, but t ; liked it to be tliorej Well, ma'am went down, shutting the bed-ro ?lp or after me to keep out the noi i I didn't hurry over my dinner, ? that's the blessed truth" for I thou; 'i.ray missis would be asleep, i wouldn't want me, and I know must have been getting on fo: ; when I got back up stairs. The b room door was not (dosed then, o pushed to, so I knew somebody ! been in the room;iu my own miu supposed it was Miss Mary. 1 si in, and looked at my missis; she sleeping sweetly, and 1 went ; stood for a moment at tho wind ; and saw Mrs. Cox's carriage con rattling down the streit, with and Miss in it. lt stopped at door, and their great oat ol'a font got, down, and gave such a peal u tin' knocker as shook the ho My missis started up in a fri? 'What's that noise, nurseV' she ca i "out; 'any of the children hi I 'Bless you, n<\ ma'am,' says 1. 1 that dratted knocker. I \\ ? -I, f wouldn't come, a noising and cai ! here when people's asle? j> or wan j sleep.' And for nothing, it wen but to leave a card, for the carri and Mrs. and Miss drnv off ag j 'Try and doze a bit more, ma'an ' said. 'I don't know,' said my mi j 'I think I am thoroughly ron ( ?ive me some toast-and-water, ni I am thirsty. 'That's the ba ma'am,' I said, and handed he: [ glass of toast-aud-water, which j ready on tho little fable by the side, where I had put it. Sho drank j it nearly all. 'It's as bitter as gail, j Mrs. Gah' she exclaimed; 'what havo you done to it?' '"Ritter!' I said, 'why I made it with my own two sinful hands this morning,, and I'm sure the bread weren't burnt. It was not bitter before dinner.' With that I turned to the jug, which stood atop of tho drawers, and. poured a drop out into one of the wine-glasses, after rinsing the drains of port wine ont, and tasted it. And I felt then that missis' mouth must "be out of taste,' for it was not bitter at all, but sweet, fresh toast-and-water. I did not say so, for it ain't my place, ma'am, to contradict my lady's fancies, and they weak and ill, but was a going to wash out the two wine-classes, when I saw missis a gasping on the bed. I rang the bell furiously, a deal longer and fiercer than the blundering foot boy bad pealed upon the knocker, and Dr. Goring, who was a smoking in tho harbor-" "Smoking where?" I asked. "In tho harbor, ma'am -the sum? mer-house in thc garden. He heard the longing, and came living up. Susan came, at tho same time, and Miss Mars came. Oh, ma'am, I can hardly tell you what happened next; my missis was in dreadful agony, and the room was full Of confusion, ser? vants and children crowding out and in. Dr. Goring was thc first to call out that she must have been poison? ed, and tho other doctors, when they came, said the same. They could not save her, and before 5 she was gone. Poor Miss Mary took on tho least, to luuk, but she felt it, I saw more than any of them, except her father, lt. was mc as whispered her to send for you, and she wrote a line standing up, and Susan tore oft* with it, without a bonnet and without a stamp, that she might save the pest. E thought it right that you should bc here, ma'am.'* "Quite right," [said. "But now, Nurs? Gill, answ< r mc a serious ques? tion. How aul when could the poison . have been given to Mrs. Goring?" "When she drunk that toast-and water, ma'am," was thc old woman's unhesitating r< ply. "I put m;T finger into the little that was left ii: the glass and tasted it., and sun enough it was as bitter as wormwood. Dr. Goring tasted it also after me. and told me to ii a bladder over it and lock if up in my cupboard til the doctors came; lie said there wa; poison in it. The doctors have go it now; they tasted it when I gave it to them, and they called the poisor by a hard name, and Dr. Goring sait he liad got some ol' the same sort o poison in thc surgery. " "Nurse! how could the poisoi have got into thc glass?" "Why, ma'am, it couldn't have go there of its own accord, so it mus have been put in; but if you con demned me to the torture, I neve could guess who by. Who in thi house would do such a thing? Non of ns. If we could only find outwit* had been into the room!" "Where was Dr. Goring?" "Smoking in the harbor, ma'am as I told you. When I followed hil down stairs, as 1 was a going to m dinner, I saw him stroll up the gai den and go into it, with his case c cigars and a newspaper. He was lighting a cigar as he went." "Could he have come in withov being seen? Of course, Nurse Gil you will not think that i suspect hil in thus questioning," I procecde "but by throwing all possible ligl upon the movements of the hom at that moment, wo may obtain son clue to the real criminal." "Incourse, ma'am," acquiesced tl nurse, "nobody would be so wicki or so silly as to doubt Dr. Goring A better husband never lived, ba ring a little bit of joking and talkii he is fond of having with the ladie and most men are alike for that, : ! far as 1 see. He could not ha j come in without our seeing him, f i our dinner-table was close to the wi dow, and we had full view of tl garden. Unless," added the nurs I slowly, as if debating the point wi ! herself, "he had come down the lill ? path leading to the surgery ; but th j some of us must have seen him coi I out of the harbor and cross it. N I ma'am, he could not have corie o j at all." "But you are not sure?" 1 urged "1 would not swear it, but 1 I morally sure," was her reply, "lu ! upon it, ma'am, lie never stirred t of that summer-house till i rang t ; bell and brought him rushing i ! stairs." "Then let ;.s go on again," 1 sa j "Assuming that it could not be 1 ! Goring, or thc servants-" "I'll be up.-ii my oath, ma'am, ; necessary," interrupted the l.hr I "that not a servant left the kitcho I "The servants, <>r tho children,' proceeded, as if she had not bro! j the thread of my sentence; there I no one else iu thc house-bul M Howard." "Dear ma'am," uttered Nursed "you'd never go to suspect her! j handsome young lady - though lover-young, maybe, for the mattel : that clever, ee.ieated. plays and si ! lita' a cherubim, and. with her nv : quiet voice- I'd as soon think ii myself as her." .'i was only asking ?bout me p ! th>n, the whereabouts, of those : tho house, it you remember, not h j ing of suspicion," i returned. ; you know where Miss Howard^ I while you were at dinner?" "She was in the dining-room i the while, as 1 believe, and she nt came out of it. Miss Mary can tell you the same, ma'am, if you please to call her in." I did call her iu. "Mary," I said, "I am trying to ascertain in what! part of the house you all were that j dav, during Nurse Gill's absence at dinner. Your papa was in the gar? den ; the servants were in the kitchen ; and you and little Jane, I believe, were in the nursery?" "Yes. Aunt Hester," she ?replied, j "Miss Howard had been in a passion with Jane at the morning's lessons, and she ordered her into the nursery, and sent her a piece of dry bread for dinner. ? thought it was a shame, for it was only Miss Howard's temper that was at fault; but it has been very bad. si nee she knew she must leavc and when papa rose from the dinner table to go to mamma's room, Alfred ran off to school, ?md I went up in the nursery to take Jane some cher? ries, leaving Miss Howard in the dining room." "Did you see nothing of Miss How? ard after that, before the alarin?" "Oh. yes. i went down-stairs almost directly for some more cherries. She was in the dinning-rooin, net? ting, and I remember she complained of Alfred, and said he was a careless boy, and had gone to school without washing his hands. T then went bael; to thc nursery, and stayed there till nurse and baby came up from dinner.'" "The nurse-maid, she means, ma'am," intcruptedNurse Gill. "She left the kitchen when I did. and we both came up-stairs together. Baby -as they still call little John-had dropped asleep over his dinner, and she was going to lie him down. 1 say he sic-ps too much for a child ol three years old." "And when the nurse-maid weni up you went down," 1 remarked lc Maxy. "Where was Miss Howard then?"" "Still netting in the dining-room. Aunt Hester," she replied, "and sin looked as if she had not stirrct from her seat. Directly afterward: mama's bell rang violently." "I won't say as she had not sfirm' from her seat, for I don't know no (liing about that," broke in Mrs, (?ill, "hut I will say as she had no! left tiie room, for if she had we mus 'rave heard her." "Did you hear no one go up <>; down-stairs?" I. inquired. "Not a soul." replied the woman "aud we had ? lie kitchen door open The house seemed as still as death If this dreadful thing had not hap pened, I. could have been upon nv oath that nobody had been near tin stairs." "You heard Miss Mary, when slr came down for the cherries?" "Of course, ma'am, we heard lier that was just as we were beginnim dinner. We hoard her come ont o the nurser}-, run down the stairs, g< into the dining-room, stop there minute, run up again, and shut th nursery door. You shut it with bang. Miss Mary; and I said to th servants that missis had not had tim to get to sleep, or it might have wok her." "I'm heard nothing, Mary?" said to her. "Nothing at all, Aunt Hester. An > wo were quiet in the nursery. Jan was eating the cherries, ami I wi reading. " "You see, ma'am, its a coraplei mystery," observed Nurse Gill. It did, indeed, seem to be so, an I, Hester Halliwell, could not fatho: it. The coroner's inquest made i more of it than we did. Among the witnesses examined was Mi Howard. She deposed that she ha been in the dining-room thc whole the time, shut in there, and lu heard nothing. The poison, sui cieut of which remained in the gla for its detection, proved to be tl same as that which Dr. Goring ke in his surgery-and it is probable ] kept other poisons there also, a? suppose medical nteu must do. recalled the day when I ovcrhea Miss Howard ask what it was, and answered that it was a preparation strychnia, a minute portion of whic taken in water, would destroy li And I thought-but ot' what use recall what 1 thought, or still thin I I often lose myself in its labyrintl ! The verdict returned by the con j er's jury was: "Died by poison; 1 i by whom administered there is i evidence to show. " No light has ever been thrown un j the allah from that hour to this. ! think that none, save myself, s pect?d Miss Howard; and if 1 s j pected her wrongfully, may God i' j give me! There were whispers in town, though, as to Dr. Goring; 1 j not think he deserved them. JV > i hinted at tho windfall that insura money was t? him, tho .-?3,000, ? I his practice fell off consid?rai . None knew-none ever will km now-the truth oi this mysteri j crime; as it happened in silence ; ! secrecy, so it remains buried. Soi i times, in my dreams, 1 sei-Miss il ard standing, barefooted, by a li sid-', on which lies a happy w sleeping calmly. 1 sec her lean , ov< r a small table, with a phial in hand, ami 1 se.- In r drop someth j from it into a glass which sta j there. Then I see her steal a~? ; with breathless caution, and g I down the stairs in silence, till j comes to a room where many bot j and jars, on shelves, and chem ! tubes, lie about, and I se J her mc a chair, softly, and put that phial its place, in a corner; and then creeps back ?gain to a large sitt room, close by, closes tho door t cat-like stillness, thrusts her feet info shoes, sits clown and takes up some work. And I have noted the form of Dr. Goring hovering near, and, sometimes, he seems to mo to look on approvingly through all; at others, I notice that he is stone blind, and cannot see as I do. And I awake, shivering and comfortless, and cry <rut with horror ami pain, as I did that fearful morning, when I received Mary Goring's letter, and then 1 re? member that it is all a dream, and that I am very foolish. But 1 know one thing. If I had thc handling of these women -ser? pents-these single females-who come insinuating their treacherous arts between man and wife, envying and trying to destroy the wedded happiness which they have never been asked to share, deliberately fly? ing in the face of a Divino command, ' J'h'ini' whom God hath Joined together i-'t not man put as'/u'l'')-,'' I would cause them to bc paraded through the town upon a market-day, in a while garment, according to? thc for? mer custom of doing penance, and then have them privately whipped. These are my sentiment-;; and peo ple may call mean old maid for them, if they will FIRE & BURGLAR PROOF SAFES. riMIE undersigned have been appoin ted X agents for these superior SAFES. 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Together witb a complete assortment of Tanners' and Machinery Oils, dry and ground Paints, Furniture, ('?.ach ami Japan Varnishes, Window Glass. Putty, Paint Brushes, Varnish, Dusting and Scrubbing .brushes. For salo at low prices bv Oct :?1 .T. A T. R. AGNEW. _ Barber's Patent Adjustable Brace. JUST received, a complete assortment of Barber's Patent Adjustable li I T BRACES, which, for carpenters' and wheel? wrights' use, arc the most convenient anel useful braces made, requiring no adjust? ment or fitting of the bit to tin; brace, and are emphatically the nc ?ihis ultra ol' braces. For r,ale bv thc sole agents, __Dcc20 " .1. & T. P. AO NEW. Plow Steel, Plow Moulds AND IKON. fT^EN THOUSAND lbs. liest quality PLOW X STEEL, at 12J,c. per pound. l,0i)0 SWEDES PLOW MOULDS, at 10c. pe r pound. 30,000 lbs. Swede's Plow and Tire Iron. Together with a full assortment ot' Tire, Horse-fboo, band, Oval, Round, Square, Hoop, Sheet anet N;.il Rod Iron, compris? ing tiie bc3t assortment in the city and at the lowest prices. On hand and for sale bv Dec 1!>_ L <t T. H. All NEW._ Schedule over South Carolina E. R. GENERAL SUPTS OFFICE, CHAHLESTOK, S. C., Nov. 3, 18GG. ]PASSENGER Trains will run as follows, . viz: Leave Charleston.S OO a. m. Arrive at Columbia. 5.20 p. m. Leave Columbia. 6.50 a. m. Arrive at Charleston. 4.00 p. m. THROftjU MAIL TRAIN-. Leave Augusta. 5.50 p. m. Arrive at Kingsville. 1.05 a. m. Arrive at Columbia. 3.00 a. m. Leave Ceilnmbia.2.00 p. m. Arrive at Kingsville. :i.40 p. m. Arrive at Augusta.12.00 night Nov 6 IL T. PEAKE, Grui Sup't. Greenville and Columbia Railroad. IPASSENGER Trains will run daily, Sun etays excepted, as follows: ? Leave Columbia at. 7.15 a. m. " Alston at.9.05 " " Newberry at.10.35 " Arrive at Abbe-ville at. 3.13 p. m. " at Anderson at. 5.10 " " at Greenville ut.5.40 " Leave Greenville at. 15.00 a. m. " Anderson at.(?.:?0" " " Abbeville at. 8.35 -i " Ne wherry at. 1.20 ?. m. Arrive at Alston at.2.45 " " at Columbia ;it. 4.40 " General Superintendent's Office, EST o CHARLOTTE .V S. C. RAILROAD, COLUMBIA, S. C., Nov. 5, 18CG. N and after WEDNESDAY, ?th inst,, 'J brough Passenger Trains will bi- run ve Columbia at.3. io a. ni. ive at Charlotte at.it. lo a. m. Arrive at Columbia . 1.40 p. m. N.,v 6 ./AS. ANDERSON. Sun'!. KURTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. GEN'L SUPERINTEND'TS OFFICE, COLUMBIA, Sept. 21, IritiG. rr?HE following schedule will h.- ran over X this road until further notice: SOUTH. Accomm<nl<rn. Mail. Arrive at Charlotte. . 10.20p. ni. 5.30 ?. m. Arrive at Salisbury.. ('..-!0p.m. 3.00 a.m. Arrive at Greensboro. 2 3(>p.m. 12.2(>a.m. Arrive at Raleigh... 7.15a.m. (5.25p.m. Leave Goldsboro ...,2.20a.m. 3.15p.m. . soitnr. ita il. Afc mmodn. Arrive Charlotte. 0.55a.m. L've 5.00p.m. Arrivc-Salisbury.12.0Sp. m. L've s 15p.m. ; Arrive Gr'nsb'o". . 2.4 1 \>. rn. f.'-. e 12 2?a.m. Arrive Raleigh... 8.20p.m. L've 7.45a.m. Arrive Goldsboro. 11.15 p. m. A rr 11.15 a.m. Mail North connects at Greensboro with ? trains on R. & D. Railroad for thc North. '? Accommodation Train East connects at Haleigh for Wildon and the North, al i Goldsboro for Weldon, Wilmington und ? Newborn. Mail Train South connects with ? C. >v S. C. Railroad for inc South. NOT 13 3mo E. WILKES, En. and Sup.