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TEE MULE-SHOE CURVE. - As long as the railroad, for over 100 l?Sle? 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 with 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 successfrdly 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 faraway, were sitting Tom Lewis, the engineer, who was abbrtly: to go oat, and two of bis "pards??Tom. Burke, road mas ter, and Jack Harris, station agent. ' To understand their conversation, we should know something about them. Do you aver realize, gentle reader?as you sit. magazine or paper in your band, at the wide window of the drawing-room car on the.iast express?bow 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 valve, and his eyes fix id on the line ahead, should relax his vigilance for a single mo men'.?: l-.ould even stand up to stretch bis cramped ihubs? 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 waitiug supper for him? Suppose the tired train-dispatcher, hi9 bead aching and bis eyes dim with hard usage, should make the least little mistake in the world, and order the east-bound freight train away fiom the siding towards which you are speeding? It was a little dull at times in the "new town," and, if one bad no liking fcfr drink ing and gambling, he might find the even ings long. Should he etroU, however, along the adobe buildings of the older set tlement, be might detect signs of a certain sociability. From some of the bouses came the tinkling of the rude harp of the country, and an occasional ripple of laugh ter; from somo doorways there- emerged figures, clad in raantilia and rebozo, and escorted by rather sorry cavaliers, who hastened to the aforesaid bouses, and at intervals there was 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 Marlquita,wbom be met at Ala inosa on Christmas Day, and who asked him to come and see her when she re turned. To be sure, the acquaintance was anything but intimate,' and Mariquita would never cause Tom to forget a certain blue-eyed maiden in Denver. But, as be fore Baid, it was very dull in the town, and when be bad 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 Jose looking mighty black when you was a-dancin' with Mari quita the other night, an' he's part of tbet mean cuss Carlos tbet you fired out of the engine bouse 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 willin', you bet Til dance with her in spite of all the greasers from here down to Sonora. Hello! there's the train." Ten minutes later be was on bis engine, and had begun the ascent of the grade. It was anything but dull at Manitou, at the foot of Pike'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 gUded 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 bttle 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 atrip to the Grand canon of the Arkansas, and then to Wagon Wheel gap. Just at- 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, be 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 bis 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 tho 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 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 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 I 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 '?stir'* would be (how I wildly improbable he would have thought It!) the beautiful girl who might be eve a now on the top or the stage on her way from Del Norto to Alamosa. When be parted from his new friends, before the train from the north arrived, ho left the Mexican village ou one side, climbed a little elevation, aud, getting therefrom a splendid view of the Spanish peaks, threw himself on the ground, and lay there smoking and surveying the 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 be 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 otk 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, "Delnionico of the Mountains." After it was over, be sat silently smoking: and then, after carefully exam ining the .caps on bis revolver and looking several times at bis watch, be walked away in the direction from which be bad 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 bis 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 eo." interrupted Burke. It was Joso and Carlos, an' don't you forgit it! Wa'al, what 4iie devil's work are they up to now?" "Only throwiug his train off the track to-morrow morning," said Stauley. Then he gave all the details of the plan, as dis cussed in his hearing, and designated tho place which they bad 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?eb! what's the matter, young feller? Here, drink this." Stanley had turned deadly pale, and well be 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 bo thrown off the trftck 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." ?????? ?? Joso and Carlos had conceived, as they thought, a very satisfactory plan. The big Americano, strong-armed and loud voiced, had brought his fate upon him self. Had he not dared to pay atten tions to the sweetheart of one caballero, and insult another by laying vigorous bands upon bim? Madie de Dios! bis 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. The 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 be 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 and intricate trail. They beguiled the 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, they 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 fumed to the teeth; and two ot them frontiersmen, faithful aud devoted enough to be cut to pieces before harm should come to lives entrusted to their care; and who, too, bated the greasers with such a righteous hatred that, in the line of their duty, they would have looked upon the extermina ation of an entire settlement of them with extreme indifference. Trouble ahead, Senors Jose and Carlos! When at lost they reached the chosen spot, and toiled at the spikes with their rude tools, little, too, did they know that from a hiding place not far distant, these three same men watched their every movement. Burke, filled with righteous wrath, showed some Impatience. "Say, Jock," whispered he, "what's the use of waiting? Let's blow tho d-d scoundrels' brains out now, and have done with it." Karris put his hand on his 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 last month, when the prisoners had put up a job to dig their way through the wall, and some one give 'em way. They let 'em enjoy themselves a-working the whole of every night for three weeks, saying that i exercise was good for 'em. And then, [ when they finished the hole and was crawl j ing through, they bagged 'em all as they I came out au' wished 'ein good morning. And blame me if they didn't make 'em go to work an' build the wall up again." So 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 I bound it tu its fellows. It was half an hour's hard work more to dispose of these; nnd then, at last, the rail lay loose, aud a touch, they said, wonftl throw it from its place. Now to choose a good hiding-place, by no means too neat from which they could ultimately see the results of their diabolical work and descend to enjoy tha Craita. Meantime, 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, and h-gh 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 anything I ever see in all my born days." "It's all right," said Harris, with a smile. "Now, it's our turn. They're just behind that gray rock you see there, near the old pinon. Now we'U go to work and spike that rail again. We can see them if they hear us and-come down to find out what's going on. You, my boy?he turned to Stanley?"go down the other way and keep a good lookout; but first lend mo a hand with that hammer and 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 Carlos finished their breakfast, took each a long pull at a flask of aguardiente, and lighted 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 tD one, aud that one did not see them, and their knives w<..a 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, my boy," said he, cand 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'U signal him and get on the train." So they did; Harris and Burke clini.oed uii tue"eiigtixe w.licu me train, alter sweep ing safely round the curve, came to r stop. Stanley had some difficulty in con troUing himself and appearing at his ease as he entered the passenger car; but there came to him a speedy distraction. Pretty Miss NeUy, 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 ahe once more turned to him. "I don't think much of that Mule-Shoe ourve, 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 ItcMOrt on Earth. The loveliest summer resort on earth is probably the plateau of Newera EUa, the '-Kind'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 I isle," it would be a mistake to suppose I with the "old hymn that "man alone is vile." In the lowlands there ure not only scorpions, lamia tir-ks, venomous snakes, ! and thirty or forty varieties of mosquitoes, but landleeches, hastening through the gross with a cloth-measure movement?an alternate contraction and extension of their auatony. They introduce themselves in the lower garments of persons trespass ing on then: 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 fi,0(K) feet so fully in sures the plateau against the peril of climutic diseases that the recovery of low land refugees generally dates from the second day of their arrivah The climate is that of a perpetual May?light showers now and then, but generally cool morn iugs 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 of lighting, c;dled the pneumatic system, has been described by a Frenchman, M. Bender. He employes the fatty residues obtained from the recti fication vi crude mineral oils, through which he passes a current of air. The air Ulkus up a definite quantity uf this hydro carbon, and the flame produced is very brilliant, giving oil no smoke. Cheapness and immunity from explosions are ad vantages claimed.?Arkansaw Traveler. The Greek Letter College Societies. Judge Tourgee is getting up a national convention of members of tlfo Greek letter eollege societies, to be held at Chautau qua in August, "to spread knowledge and promote the favor of 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 wears a great big bonnet With a bunch of roses on it, And 'tis tied beneath her chin In a bow; Altho1 she looks so shy, I sometimes catch her eye, As the restless crowd pass slowly To and fro. Now, do you think she'd care If sonn day I should dare " To speak to her, and ask her What's her name? Alas! tho' fair, she's mute, She'd never he?.l my 6uit? For she's nothing but a picture In a fram.'. ?Lifa. Der Visties on der Poats. Ven I landts in Castle Garden, About finuf 3-ears ago. It vos shtrike me mine attention Ven I hear dose shteamboata blow, Mit hoo hoo here unt hoo hoo dere, . From efery dtng dot floats, Unt I finds der loudest vistles On der fery smallest poats. Py chtminy crash us! alnd dot so All ofer dis crate landt, Und all der shmallest funerals Must hafe der piggest bandt? Der shmallest shtore der piggest sign; Dose dudes der finest coats? Und you find dot most all vistle On some fery shmall tugpoats, Ton notice dot dose grosser ships ?Aind been got mouch to say; Eat all dose klein? Ieedle poats Yoost climbs righd out der yay. Dot noise dond count ven drouplo comot Unt, poys, yoost shplit your .troat, Dot vistle makes no dee fron ce, poys, Uf you lose your leedle poat ?Wilhelm Strauss, in Judge, Hard Luck. Hey, what yerrunning for? Fur ter keep up de circulation ob dan blood. Well, what's the chickens running for? Fur ter boar false witness agin me, I sup posed?Life, The Protected Cow. O cow, where'er you browse for food, Assume a bolder attitude, And turn thy meek and dreamy eye Triumphantly to azure sky I At buxom maid switch not thy tail, ~3P!n short, actioSdlgniflnd, Display toyman tttjproper pride. Graz3 on, 0 cow-, and chew and dreaml The milk you give will give its cream; The cream be given to the churn Which gives the butter in its turn. To market will the butter go In golden balls, in tier and row; No oik nor grease, called butterine, Shall in thy borrowed garb be seen. Feed on, O cow, in sunshine bosk, Thou hast protection In thy task; And artful man shall not compete With thee. Thy victory is complete I ?Columbus Dispatch, Couldn't See His 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. ? Ho was full of injudiciousncss and insolent officiousness, and countless kinds of viciousness 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 und 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 and was worth a mil lion dollars! ?S. W. Foss in Ljnn Union. Tho Mun Who Advertises. He's just a bit ecstatic, but not a whit rheumatic, and he does it up emphatic when hi sen .Is a Lusiness "ad." And he cuts a knowing caper, faying: "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 better, 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 tho 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 I could drop, bs fat and sleek and rich as any mud." ?S. W. Foss in Lynn Union. He Called and It Came. He sweetly played his soft guitar To serenade The dearest one to him by far? A litt!o maid. Above his head a witching star In cloud rifts pl.iycl. He sang a song ne'er heard before, In accents mild: His notes a tender cadence bore? L^ve undented; There were some neighbors lived next door; And they were wil'.. The cold moon 'rwath a eload had tied, S-. -lark and thick: "Oh, come," he sang, "and wo will wed; Corny to me quick!" And then jr. cune and -truck Li's head; l! wju> :i brick! ?Tid Hits. Not Worth Jangling Over. No m^Aho uas ever eaten salt mackerel at n U>J^^!:will ever light for the Mai!^^^H?.?Milwaukee Jourjal i SSO TT pORNELSON. 18S/? 188G VT? XT. vJORNELSON. 188U OUR INCREASE IN TRADE PROVES very conclusively that our GOODS are FIRST-CLASS, ami are being sold CLOSE, or they would not be sold so rapidly. You will find the prettiest and best selected STOCK OF DRESS GOODC* TOCK OF DRESS GOODU With TRIMMINGS to match in this mar ket. It is useless to call over the different kinds. A visit to CORNELSON'S MAMMOTH STORT? ORNELSON'S MAMMOTH STORJLl/ 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 specialt ies 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. Other Makes for Ladies. He also keeps BANNISTER, and TAY LOR and CARR'S, CELEBRATED HAND SEWED AND MACHINE SHOES for gents 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 first class houses, who are willing to stand by us. We lead in THE CLOTHING 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 Stuck of HATS ever brought here. Call at CORNELSON'S and you will never re gret it. GILVJTS I'l.\lSiIB.>Oi GOODS, Such as Neckwear, Jewelry, Collars, Drawers, Undershirts ami the celebrated "Pearl Shirt," are leaders at CORNEL SON'S. Remember CORNELSON is head quar ters for FURNITURE. it you wa::t 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 TEA.-, JAVA, RK'/PEADERRY and ROASTED COFFEES. TOBACCOS and everything in the Grocery line [t Charleston quotations, can be had at COR NELSON'S. CORNELSON'S DOMESTIC STOCK is Wurth looking at. It you need anything in HARNESS "i SADDLERY line,call <?'.. as. 1 guarantee every sale made. I only em ploy first class men. who will serve my cus tomers as they should be. &E0. H. CORNELSON. I SPBIN6"1886-SPRINe? i TpHE?DOKE T/(>]|v a UEODOKE JLVuiJiN IS NOW OFFERING LNUSLAL AT TRACTIONS AND GENUINE BARGAINS FOR SPRING AND SUMMER WEAR. DRESS AND WHITE GOODS. We display a grand collection of New j 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. j MATTINGS: MATTINGS! MATTINGS ! In White, Red, Check and Fancies at very resonable prices. WINDOW CURTAINS, LACE CUR TAINS, RUGS, &C, in large asssortments Call and see our large' NEW STOCK. The prices are light and we solicit your patronage. THEODORE KOHN. ?Notice. Executive DEi'AimiSST" Office of CoMrTitOLLEn Gexeual. \ COLUMBIA..S. C. April 1, 138G. ) ? CERTIFY, THAT Bl LL&SCO J. 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; and 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 SLate 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 Oraugcbufg, for and in behalf of said Companies. Ex pires March 31st, 1887. W. E. STONE Y, Comptroller General. April 15-3U1Q._ ATTEi'TIIv* C7-7Z1""1'I 7-.Z.Y.7.7.Z'. ."New Departure InZYaval Stores! W. J. Keenan . HAS ESTAULlsHED AN OFFICE A'i COLUMRIA.S. < .. i For the pureluise "i Kosln and S/;iiits Turpentiue. Shipments to be made to ! Charleston and Ullis Lading to Colum bia. Produce sold foi half Commissions and cash returns on date of arrival at Charleston regardlesso? statool the mar I ket. i receive ?0 per cent of the product oi Richlaii I .v.-1 r.exb.igioii C< unties ami j refer to any large producer in those coun tses or anv Ban!: in Columbia. Address. ! W. J. KEENAN; I P. O. Box 4J. COLUMBIA, S. C ; _ April 8-?nio, _ _ HAMILTONS L\Sl?A.\CE AGENCY LICENSE. Executive Decakt.mem. ) < iffice of Comi'tiioelei: Geneual, / Columbia, s. c, April i. inaa.; Jcertify that Mr. John A. Utiniiltcn, ol Orangcbuig, S. (.'., Agent of the NORTH BRITISH and MERCANTILE, QUEEN Insurance Companies of North America, WESTERN ASSURANCE, FACTOR'S and TRADER'S. PEiCAN ami HOME INSUR ANCE COMPANIES, has complied with the requisitions of the Act of the General Assembly entitled An Act to regu late the Agencies <?; Insurance Companies not incorporated in the State of South Caro lina, and I heivbv license the said JOHN A. HAMILTON Atronl aforesaid, hi take iisksstnd tiai.sac: ail easiness ui itisuiaace in this State in the Count j ?I Oivuigeburg for and in t? ha, said C.iiiioanie.s. Ex pires March W. E, STONEY, i 'omptroll rGcm ral. B-'or Sale. / \NF. SAW M ILL ULTFFT ( UM > * piete and in (lenVct onli .??./.. Out' iinwn ii"i;>L ia >jlkr. ? m. v.\ "n TV-KIVE 11? i:." K EN GIN K ' >ne S ? W MILL wiin i ?? ; i amagi . Ais .. all fools neceaiai'v, been used oni\ one vear. Also. on'. NEW l? HOUSE A'MES UPRIGHT BOILER, one SEVEN i! ORSE ENGINE. Apph to May 27-SUMS. CEO. II. CORNELSON.