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THE ITCLE-SHOE CTJEVE. As long as the railroad, for over 100 nules of its course, meekly traversed the valleys at the foot of the range, the great mountains, seemingly secure in their height and majesty, regarded it \vith j seeming indifference. This changed to contempt, when, at a certain point, it turned and faced them; to alarm, when it began to climb their sides, and to a cer tain humiliation, when it successfully surmounted them, and gaily danced off to the westward. Just before the daily passenger train .Is due from the north, there issues from the engine-house a large and powerful locomo tive, expressly designed for the heavy grades ahead- On a certain beautiful September afternoon, not long ago, it was in its place, giving signs of life in the shape of occasional threads of smoke from the stack, and little puffs of white steam. In anticipation of the train's arrival, the station's platform was occupied by a grad ually increasing line of idle citizens, and, on the bottom of an overturned gravel car not far away, were shying Tom Lewis, the engineer, who was shortly to go out, and two ofnis "pards??Tom Burke, road mas ter, and Jack Harris, station agent. ' To understand their conversation, we should know something about them. Do you ever realize, gentle reader?as you sit, magazine or paper in your hand, at the wide window of the drawing-room car on the fast express?how completely you are in the hands of some hard-worked, under paid men? .Suppose the .grimy fellow in overalls, sitting in the" "cab" of the great engine, with his hand on the throttle-1 valve, and his eyes fix id on the line ahead, Bhould relax his vigilance for a single mo ment? t 1 onld even stand up to stretch his cramped limbs? Suppose the official who is charged with the care of the roadway should forget one little culvert some Sat urday night, when his wife and children are waiting supper for him? Suppose the tired train-dispatcher, bis headachingand his eyes dim with hard usage, should make the least little mistake in the world, and order the east-bound freight train away from the sidiug towards which you are speeding? It was a little dull at times in the "new town," and, if one had no liking for drink ing and gambling, he might find the even ings long. Should he stroll, however, along the adobe buildings of the older set tlement, he might detect signs of a certain sociability. From some of the houses came the tinkling of the rude harp of the country, and an occasional ripple of laugh ter; from some doorways there emerged figures, clad in mantilla and rebozo, and escorted by rather sorry cavaliers, who hastened to the aforesaid houses, and at intervals there wa3 talk of a grand baile or ball. Between the average Mexican who dwells.under the American flag and the average American pioneer, there is apt to be but little affection. There was not a male inhabitant of the "old town" whom Tom Lewis regarded with the slightest complacency; but it was quite different with little Mariquita,whom he met at Ala mosa on Christmas Day, and who asked him to come and see her when she re turned. To he sure, the acquaintance was anything hut intimate,' and Mariquita would never cause Tom to forget a certain blue-eyed maiden in Denver. But, as be fore said, it was very dull in the town, and When he had a "night off," while they were repairing the big engine, and there "was a baile the same evening, and Mari quita asked him to come, of course he went "?otherwise, this story could not have been written. "Wa'al, Tom," said the roadmaster, "I allow yer'd better be mighty keerful. I ain't a-sayin' the little gal ain't pooty, an' good, too; but them greasers is a queer lot I seen that feller Jo3e looking mighty black when you was a-dancin' with Mari quita the other night, an' he's part of thet mean cuss Carlos thet you fired out of the engine house the other day." "Thank yer, kindly, old man," said Tom. "I'll try to take keer of myself, but Mari quita's a daisy. little gal, ez you say, an' ez long ez she's wUliu', you bet 1 11 dance with her in spite of all the greasers from here down to Sonora. Hello! there's the train" Ten minutes later he was on his engine, and had begun the ascent of the grade. It was anything but dull at Manitou, at the foot of Ptke's peak, that season. Peo ple had come thither from all parts of the country, and, if the "society reporters" were to be believed, there were more pretty girls there than ever before. For only one of them is there room in this brief tale, and Nellie Stevens needed no "local indorsement," for she had attracted atten tion even at Newport. Clifford Stanley met her there, and forgot everyone else from that moment. A good fellow was Clifford; manly, upright, and well-to-do. He had enjoyed life thoroughly, but he convinced himself that it would be thence forth a blank, unless Nellie smiled. He dropped everything and followed her to Colorado, as he would have followed her to the end of the earth. Had she smiled? Ah! no one knew. When they came down from Pike's peak together, a certain gilded youth offered odds, in the billiard room, that they were engaged; but he found no one to take him up, for the simple reason that the bet could not be decided. After a while, Manitou began to pall a little on the -visitors. The great peak had been climbed; Glen Eyrie and the Garden of the Gods visited; Cheyenne and Will iams' canons explored. They sighed for new worlds to conquer, and planned a trip to the Grand canon of the Arkansas, and then to Wagon Wheel gap. Just as they were to start, adverse fate, in the shape of a peremptory telegram, called Stanley to Denver, and sorry enough was he to go. When his business was finished, it was too late to follow the party to their ulti mate destination. Besides, he had written a long letter to Nellie; as a matter of fact, he had "put his fate to the touch." Per haps a little separation might help his ? cause; so he went to a friend's ranch, near the "old town," arriving a day before that on which this story opens. He would join ? the party, he thought, as they passed the station on their return; and as one of the railway officials was on the train, he would know when to look out for them. Next day he strolled about the neigh borhood. He was restless and uneasy, and, like most anxious lovers, spent much time in arguing with himself. Nellie j could not really prefer that "dude" from New York to him, he tried to persuade himself, and yet how could he be secure? ! He was subjecting himself to an ingenious j course of self-torment, when he met the three railroad men. He fell into conversation with them, | and found a mental tonic in their hearty j ways and sensible observations; all un conscious, meanwhile, that the Divinity which shapes our ends would make them ?casual acquaintances?actors in a drama of real life, in which he himself would have a part, and the "st?x" would be (hovr tvfldly improbahlo bo would have thought It!) the beautiful girl who might beevea now on the top of the stage on her way from Del Norte to Alamosa. When he parted from his new friends, before the train from the north arrived, he left the Mexican village on one side, climbed a little elevation, and, getting therefrom a splendid view of tho Spanish peaks, threw himself on the ground, and lay there smoking and surveying tho prospects, just as two villainous-looking Mexicans approached the base of the low cliff, and began talking eagerly together. Suddenly his attention was arrested by what he overheard of the conversation below. Fortunate, indeed was it that he understood Spanish, for the fel lows were plotting vengeance against Tom Lewis. He listened eagerly; they spoke vaguely, but finally agreed to obtain certain information and meet again at the same place at 8 o'clock. Stanley waited until they were offt of sight, and then descended and walked towards the "new town." There was an uncommonly serious expression on his face, and he said but little to the ac quaintances whom he met on the streets, or while submitting to the miseries of supper at a restaurant called, with savage irony, "Delmonico of the Mountains." After it was over, he sat silently smoking: aud then, after carefully exam ining the .caps on his revolver and looking several times at his watch, ho walked away in the direction from which he had come. An hour later he broke in upon Burke and Harris, sitting in the latter's. room. Burke caught the expression on his face in a minute. "Bet you ten to one, Jack," said he, "be fore he opens his mouth, that this yere young "feller's got something serious to tell us." "Well, I should say so," said Stanley. He told his story rapidly and concisely. The Mexican scoundrels had, he said, a grudge against Tom Lewis. "I told him so." interrupted Burke. It was Joso and Carlos, an' don't you forgit it! Wa'al, what Vie devil's work are they up to now?" "Only throwing his train off the track to-morrow morning," said Stanley. Then he gave all the details of the plan, as dis cussed in his hearing, and designated the place which they had selected where they would draw the spikes from the rail. The expression of his hearers' faces, as they listened, boded ill for the future well fare of the two Mexicans. "Sort o' rough on Tom," said Harris, "an' not on him alone. The vice president an' his party will be on that thar train. The telegram came half an hour ago. You asked me to let you Know, an' I was a-goin' to send word to you, out to the ranch. Now we'll just?eh! what's the matter, young feller? Here, drink this." Stanley had turned deadly pale, and weU he might, for in that party was Nellie I He struggled to regain his composure, and a few works sufficed him to make the situation clear to the men. Harris rose, muttering an oath between bis teeth. "Forewarned is forearmed my boy," said he. "There's plenty of time. The night freight eastward is taken off, and there'll be no train over the curve till Tom's comes along, an' you bet your life she won't be thrown off tho track neither; an' them cussed greasers will wrastle their hash in ?well, just wait and see. Don't say a word to a soul, and look sharp now, for we've plenty of work to do." *?*??? ?? Jose and Carlos bad conceived, as they thought, a very satisfactory plan. The big Americano, otrong-armod and loud voiced, had brought his fate upon him self. Had be not dared to pay atten tions to the sweetheart of one caballero, and insult another by laying vigorous hands upon him? Madre de Dios! his blood should atone. And then, what mat tered it if ten or twenty Gringos were sent to perdition at the same time? Ac cidents will happen, and rails will be loosened, in spite of all possible vigilance. No one would be the wiser; and, indeed, if they concealed themselves near the spot, there might be a rare chance for plunder. Yuien sabe? They would be wary and watch their chance. Tho Gringos some times carried plenty of money in the cars; and if the big man with the two revolvers and the belt full of cartridges, who took care of it, should bo killed, as he surely must be, they might secure a fortune, cross the mountains by paths known to them, defy pursuit, and live rich and happy in Sonora or Chihuahua. A pretty plan, indeed! So, in the gray of the early morning, before the first rays of the rising sun had bathed the snowy summit of the Sierra Bianca in rose-pink, they climbed the steep aud intricate trail. They beguiled tho weary way with gleeful talk; they indulged in roseate visions of the fu ture; they built grand castles in the air. Why, pious rascals as they were, when their revenge was achieved and their fort unes were made, thoy might even place a votive offering in some tawdry little adobe chapel on a Mexican hillside. Little did they know that, an hour before, three men had climbed that same path ahead of them, all strong and brave, all armed to the teeth; and two of them frontiersmen, faithful and devoted enough to be cut to pieces before harm should come to lives entrusted to their care; and who, too, hated the greasers with such a righteous hatred that, in the line of their duty, they would have looked upon the extemiina ation of an entire settlement of them with extreme indifference. Trouble ahead, Senors Jose and Carlos! When at last they reached the chosen spot, and toiled at the spikes with their rude tools, little, too, did they know that from a hiding place net far distaut, these three same men watched their every movement. Burke, filled with righteous wrath, showed some impatience. "Say, Jack," whispered be, "what's the use of waiting? Let's blow tho d-d scoundrels" braius out now, and have dono with it," Karris put his band on bis arm. "Not for the world," said he, with a grim smile. "We'll do as the guards did down at the penitentiary at Canon City j last month, when the prisoners had put up a job to dig their way through the wall, j and some one give 'em way. They let 'cm enjoy themselves a-working the whole of every night for three weeks, saying that exercise was good lor 'em. And then, when they finished the hole and was crawl ing through, the}- bagged 'em all as they came out an' wished 'em good morning. And blame me if they didn't make 'cm go to work an' build the wall up again." bo Jose and Carlos toiled away without molestation. Finally, in the bright day light, they succeeded in drawing the last spike: and they tried the rail. Ah! they had forgotten the chairs at the ends, which bound it id its fellows. Jt was half an hour's hard work more to dispose of these; and then, at last, the rail lay loose, and a touch, they said, womtl throw it from its place. Now to choose a good hiding-place, by no means too neaE. from which they could ultimately seo the results of their diabolical work and descend to enjoy the fruits. Meaatime, their task had given them a good appetite for the breakfast of tortilas and frijoles which they had brought with them. Harris, creeping cautiously through the bush, marked the place they chose. It was some distance to the southward, s,nd high on the hill. Then he returned. "Well," said Burke, as ho approached, blame me, if for pure cussed deviltry, that don't just lay over anythiug I ever see in all my born days." "It's all right," said Harris, with a BmUo. "Now, it's our ton. They're just behind that gray rock you see there, near the old pinon. Now we'll go to work and spike that rail again. We can see them if they hear us and-come down to and out what's going on. Ycu, my boy?he turned to Stanley?"go down the other way and keep a good lookout; but first lend me a hand with that hammer aix*' bag of spikes." The young fellow started at once. When he was out of hearing, Harris spoke again. "It was better to send him off," said he. "We don't need him; and it's fitter work for you and me than for a youngster like him." The two men examined the caps of their Winchester rifles, placed the weapons against the rock within easy reach, and began their work. Being experts and hav ing proper tools, they made speedy prog ress. Meantime, Jose and ( *oh finished their breakfast, took each a 1 . poll at a flask of aguardiente, and ughted their pipes. What with unwontedly early rising and novel labor, they were a little drowsy, and only the finishing blows of the heavy hammer, ?wielded with extra force by Harris' stalwart arms, attracted their at tention and aroused them. They stepped from their hiding-place. In an instant Harris saw them. "Get under cover, quick there, Tom," said he, "so they'll think there is only one man here." ? "One, indeed, was all the scoundrels saw as they crept down the slope. They were almost overwhelmed with mingled aston ishment and rage. Were their plans thus to miscarry? Never, while they were two to one, and that one did not 6ee them, and their knives were sharp. So on they stealthily crept. They were just on the edge of a steep descent, when they saw their expected victim drop his hammer. In another second he was erect and facing them; and another man was with him, and both had their rifles to their shoul ders, and their fingers on the trigger. "Throw up your hands, you d-d greasers!" shouted Harris. The Mexicans had stopped for a moment, but they had the animal courage of desperadoes, and they whipped out their revolvers. Before they could raise them the two Winchesters cracked as one, and Jose and Carlos fell over the precipice and down hundreds and hundreds of feet. Stanley, hearing the reports, ran to join his companions. Harris briefly explained the situation to him. "Your head's level, mybpy,"said he, "and I allow you don't need to be told to keep mighty dark about this thing. Tom and I will see the sheriff this afternoon Of course, it will come out pretty soon; but it -wouldn't do to let the boys know now, for they'd clean out that old outfit of adobe shanties in about five minutes. Now, we'll gather up these things and go down below the curve; and when Tom Lewis comes along, we'll signal him and get on the train" So they did; Harris and Burke climbed vu tue cii&iuo ?LW nie tram, alter sweep ing safely round the curve, came to a stop. Stanley had some difficulty in con trolling himself and appearing at his ease as he entered the passenger car; but there came to him a speedy distraction. Pretty Miss Nelly, who had been looking out of the window, turned to see him standing by her, and the least confident of lovers could hardly have mistaken the expression in her eyes. Stanley took his seat by her. "Did you receive my letter at Alamosa?" he asked. With heigthened color she said: "Yes," then turned and looked out of the win dow. He shuddered again, as he sat gazing at her, and thought what, might have been her fate but a few moments before. Soon she once more turned to him. "I don't think much of that Mule-Shoe curve, which you told me was grand and awe-inspiring," she said. "When we as cended it was dark; and when we came down, just now, I am sure I did not notice anything in particular. But then," she added, with a pretty blush. "I suppose I was thinking of somebody?I mean, some thing else."?A. A. Hayes in Belgravia. Loveliest Summer Resort on Earth. The loveliest summer resort on earth is probably the plateau of Newera Ella, the "King's Summit," as the natives call it, in the highlands of southern Ceylon. Like the seat of the Olympian gods, it is above all earthly troubles. On "Ceylon's isle," it would be a mistake to suppose with the 'old hymn that "man alone is vile." In the lowlands there are not only scorpions, lamia ticks, venomous snakes, and thirty or forty varieties of mosquitoes, but laudleeches, hastening through the grass with a cloth-measure movement?an alternate contraction and extension of their anatony. They introduce themselves in the lower garments of persons trespass ing on their native jungles, and extract toll at the rate of an ounce of blood apiece. But neither leech nor lamia ever visits the heights of the King's Summit. An elevation of nearly 0,0(HJ feet so fully in sures the plateau against the peril of climatic diseases that the recovery of low land refugees generally dates from the second day of their arrival. The climate is that of a perpetual May?light showers now and then, but generally cool morn ings and sunny afternoons, even in August, when the monsoon clouds brood over the coast plain and vent their electric wrath in thunder-claps resembling the crash of a volcanic explosion.?Dr. Felix L. Oswald. A Method of Pneumatic Lighting. A new method uf lighting, called the pneumatic system, has been described by a Frenchman, M. Bender. He employes the fatty residues obtained from the recti fication of crude mineral oils, through which he passes a current of air. The air takes up a definite quantity of this hydro carbon, and the flame produced is very brilliant, giving off no smoke. Cheapness and immunity from explosions are ad vantages claimed.?Arkansaw Traveler. The Greek Letter College Societies. Judge Tourgee is getting up a nationtl convention of members of tlfeGreek letter college societies, to be held at Chautau qua in August, "to spread knowledge uud promote the favor c? Greek letter so cieties."?Inter Ocean. Mr. Parnell has two sets of secretaries one set to work at night. A Portrait at the Exhibition. She wsars a great big bonnet With a bunch of roses on it, And 'tis tied beneath her chin In a bow; Altho' she looks so 6hy, I sometimes catch-her eye, As the restless crowd pass slowly To and fro. Now, do you think she'd care. If somo day I should dara To speak to her, and ask her What's her name? Alas! tho' fair, she's mute, She'd never he?! my suit? For she's nothing but'a picturo In a fram.'. ?Life. Dtr VIstles on der Fonts. Ven I landts in Castle Garden, About finuf years ago. It vas shtriko me mine attention "Ven I hear dose shteamboats blow, Mit hoo hoo here unt hoo boo dero, . From efery ding dot floats, Unt I finds der loudest vistles On dor fery smallest poata. Py chhniny crash us! aind dot so All ofer dis crate landfc, Und all der shmnllest funerals ?ust hafe der piggest bandt? Der shmallest shtoro der piggest sign; Dose dudes der finest coats! Und yos find dot most all vistle On some fery shmall tugpoats. Ton notice dot dose grosser ships *Aind been got mouch to say; But all dose kleine Ieedle poat s .Yoost climbs righd out der vay. Dot noise dond count ven drouplo com? Unt, poys, yoost shplit your .troat, Dot vistle makes no dee fron ce, poys, Ui you lose your Ieedle poat ?Wilhelm Strauss, in Judge. Hard Lack. Hey, -what yer running for? Fur ter keep up de circulation ob .dab blood. Well, what's the chickens running for? For ter boar false witness agin me, I sup pose,?Life. The Protected Cow. 0 cow, where'er you browse for food, Assume a bolder attitude, And turn thy meek and dreamy eye Triumphantly to azure sky! At buxom moid switch not thy tail, ]^In short, by action dlg&ifwj. Display to man thy proper pride. Groz3 on, 0 cow, and chew and dream! The milk you give will give its cream; The cream be given to tho churn Which gives the butter in its turn. To market will the butter go In goldeu balls, in tier and row; No oil, nor grease, called butterine, Shall in thy borrowed garb be seen. Feed on, 0 cow, in sunshine bask, Thou hast protection in thy task; And artful man shall not compete With thee. Thy victory is complete 1 ?Columbus Dispatch. Couldn't See Hl? Faults. He was a most emphatic, wilful, stiff-necked, systematic, mental, spiritual, erratic and a most degraded creature; He was given to frivolity nnd most un seemly jollity, and had no] singlo quality as a redeeming feature. o Ho was full of injudiciousncss and insolent officiousness, and countless kinds of viclousuess deformed his reputation. A sapless imbecility, a lack of strong virility, a monstrous incivility and moral ob fuscation. Yet his steps were all attended, all his freaks and whims defended by a ret inue of splendid, rapt extravagant extollers, For this vicious, mediocre, cracked, iras cible old croaker was a rich- and bonded broker aud was worth a mil lion dollars! ?S. W. Foss in Lynn Union. The Man Vfho Advertlaes. He's just a bit ecstatic, but not a whit rheumatic, and he does it up emphatic when hi sen.ls a business "ad." And he cuts a knowing caper, saying: "Put it in the paper, at top of highest col umn, if you want to mako me glad. Start it with your biggest letter, set it up a little bettor, than that other feller'd ad. across the way. I want it fixed up nice at the cheapest kind of price?I'm going to see if advertis ing doesn't pay." Then the paper man sits down and scratches on his crown, and hits his scalp a fear ful kind of thud; He's thinking as he's winking: "Were col umns made all top my business - could drop, b2 fat and sleek and rich as any mud" ?S. W. Foss in Lynn Union. He Called nnd It Came. He sweetly played his soft guitar To serenade The dearest one to him by far? A little maid. Above his head a witching star In cloud rifts played. Ho sang a son:j neVr heard before, In accents mild: Hi* notes a tender cadence bore? Ldw undefiled; There were some neighbors lived next door; And they were will. Tlie cold moon "nenth a cloud had lied, Sc '.'.ark and thick: "Oh, come," he sang, "and wo will wed; Corn'.1 lo mo quick!" And tbe? cunc and -truck his head; l! was a brick! ?Tid Bits. Not; Worth J?ngling Over. No moD^'io uas ever eaten salt mackerel at n LojH^k !:.'?.;-?-.vi:: ever tight for the MahiM BKl?.Mil'-.uuk?-.- Journal 11886 (P TT pORNELSON. 188/? 188G VjT. XI. L/ORNELSON. 188V) OUR INCREASE IN TRADE PROVES very conclusively that our GOODS are FIRST-CLASS, and are being sold CLOSE, or they would not be sold so rapidly. Tou will find the prettiest and best selected STOCK OF DRESS GOODC TOCK OF DRESS GOOD? With TRIMMINGS to match in this mar ket. It is useless to call over the different kinds. A visit to CORNELSON'S MAMMOTH ST?RT? i ORNELSON'S MAMMOTH STORXlrf j I will prove the assertion. THE NOTION DEPARTMENT Is complete and we defy any house in the State to undersell us. DRESS TRIMMINGS, LADIES' NECKWEAR, GLOVES, HOSIERY. BUTTONS, LACES, PARASOLS, &c, &c., Are specialties with us. It is an established fact that CORNEL SON'S is the place to buy your SHOES as he keeps the largest Stock to select from. Among them you will find the celebrated Zeigler's Fine Shoes For Ladies, Misses, Children and Boys, j Other Makes for Ladies. He also keeps BANNISTER, and TAY-1 LOR and CARE'S, CELEBRATED HAND SEWED AND MACHINE SHOES for gcuts in any style. He warrants every pair or money refunded. In fact every pair that leaves his Store, matters not of whose make, as we only deal with fust j class houses, who are willing to stand by us. We lead in THE CI*OTlIIKCi BUSINESS We have a large and fresh stock of the latest Styles and Patterns, all of which were selected with care. If you need any thing like Clothing, along with the prettiest Stock of HATS ever brought here. Call at CORNELSON'S and yon will never re gret it. GILVl'S I lMSIHAOi GOODS, Such as Neckwear, Jewelry, Collars, Drawers, Undershirts and the celebrated "Pearl Shirt," are leader- at CORNEL SON'S. Remember CORNELSON is head quar ters for FURNITURE. If you want HARDWARE, remember at CORNELSON'S is the only place in town where you can supply every need and prices guaranteed. The best FLOUR, BACON, LAUD. CANNED GOODS, SUGARS, HAMS, FINE TEAS, JAVA, Rio/PEAUEKKY and ROASTED COFFEES, TOBACCOS and everything in tlie Grocery line [1 Charleston quotations, can be had at COR NELSON'S. CORNELSON'S DOMESTIC STOCK is worth !<"'ki:iv: at. It you need anything in HARNESS >?> SADDLER! line,call on I guarantee every sa.'-j iure!". I only em ploy first class men. wl > will serve my eas terners as they should be. &E0. H. CORNILSON. SPRINfi-1886-SPRmfr THHEODORE TTQhi* J-11E0DOKE Ixuiils IS SOW OFFERING UNUSUAL AT TRACTIONS AND GENUINE BARGAINS FOR SPRING AND SUMMER WEAR. DRESS AMD WHITE GOODS. We display p. grand collection of New and Seasonable Styles at prices lower than ever. EMBROIDERIES AND^LACES in very large variety, and unequalled bar gains are guaranteed. PARASOLS in all the newest designs at prices that defy them all. JERSEYS! JERSEYS!! In all the latest Styles, at lowest prices MATTINGS! MATTINGS! MATTINGS ! In White, Red, Cheek and Fancies at very rcsonable prices. WINDOW CURTAINS, LACE CUR TAINS, RUGS, &G, in large asssortments Call and see our large NEW STOCK. The prices arc light and we solicit your patronage. THEODORE KOHll . -i~ T Notice. OKKICE OF COMrTIiOLEER GENERAL. / COEUMniA.-S. C. April 1, 188G. ) ? CERTIFY, THAT Bl LL&SCO JL VILL, of Orangeburg, Agents of the Citizens and Hanover Fire Insurance Com panies incorporated by the State of New York; of the Hartford Fire Insurance Com pany, incorporated by the State of Connec ticut; ami the Springfield Fire aud Marine. Insurance Company incorporated by the State of Massachusetts, have complied" with the requisitions of the Act of the General Assembly entitled "An Act to regulate Agencies of Insurance Companies not incor porated in the State of South Carolina," and I hereby license the said Messrs. BULL & SCOVILL Agents aforesaid, to take risks and transact all business of Insurance in ? this State, in the County of Orangebufg, for and in behalf of said Companies. Ex pires March 31st. 1887. W. E. STONE Y, Comptroller General. April b'-.'iino. _ "lTii::r::iT c:::?::t::t muss:; ."New l>4-pa vtuve Bn JiavaI Stores! W. J. Keenan h as established a3? cffice a'i COLUMBIA.S. < .. For the piiiehase ??f Kosin aud Spirits* Turpentine. Shipments to be made to Clirtrlestoti sv?d Hills Lading to f>'um iiia. Produce sold ?'??! half Commissions and cash return-, on date ??? arrival a: Charleston regardless of state of the mar ket, i receive 90 per cent of the product ufFiichlarid > . '. Lexington Counties and I refer to any large producer in these coun tses or anv Bank in Columbia. Address. W. J. KEENAN P. O. Rex 42. COLUMBIA, S. C April s-:;mo, _ HAMILTON S L\SIKA.\CE AGEXCY LICENSE. Executive Deiwhtmext. ) Office ok Comituoele^Gexekae, / Columbia, s. c, April l. isso.) Jcertify that Mr. John A. Hamilton, OJ Oranecburg, S. C, Agent of the NORTH BRITISH and MERCANTILE, QUEEN Insurance Companies of North America, WESTERN ASSURANCE, FACTOR's and TRADER's. PE1CAN and home INSUR ANCE COMPANIES, has complied with the requistitions of the Act of the General Assembly entitled An Act to regu late the Agencies' ? iti-ur.u:<v C-.mp.i not incorporated in the State of South Caro lina, and I hcivl.v license the said JOHN A. HAMILTON A'-'enl aforesaid, to take risksvuitd liausa tail business ul iusiiiaace in this State in the County ?i Or.u.geburg for aud in l>..)i.i,i ..; -,i?; C.nuoames. Ex pires Mate-.; .d--, :>.?:. vr. e. stoney, i omptroii ? <;> n i ti. r?r Sale. / \NK saw mill i .'I.TITT i ?M * * |i!ete a id in imdi . ?../. . i hie TIIlR'n Ii" ?JLKI.\ ??... twen TV-KiVK !l< USE ENGINE One saw MILL with iect Carnage. Ais?, all Tools neceasai'v, i.a> been u?cd oil!v one war. Also, one new I'd HOUSE a'MES Upright roller, one seven dorse ENGINE. Apph to