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MALAISE You say the day is fair; But ray tired eyes, whose strength Is lost in tears, .See but the hard bare Unpltying brightness of the sky that hears, With no soft shade of care, Man'? moan of duR despair. You say the spring is here; But why should I, who ne'er knew of joy of life, Find in the May good-cheer, Or heed that still earth's miracle is rife, A bourgeoned sphere, In the morning of the year! You say my soul is blind; It truly so may be; I only know That I for peace have pined. But years go by, and regnant pain and woe My restless spirit bind; You yet say Heaven is kind? ?Adelaide Cilley Waldrou English. City Society After Easter. After Easter the full tide sets in. Every body is up. The great houses are all open; the park is full in the afternoon; the Row Is crowed every morning with a thousand horsewoman, the finest in the world, and the English women look better in the sad dle than anywhere else. Luncheons are frequent; dinners innumerable. Forty people often sit at one sumptuous board, and the overflow sometimes reaches to side-tables; clever people, if not of too high rank, contend for these cosy corners, when they can choose their partners. Balls cow begin, to the sorrow of unfort unate chaperones, and the delight of the debutantes. The queen's drawing-rooms are crowded. Politics are everywhere dis cussed. Theatres and operas are aban doned by people of fashion, for you can not dine at 8 o'clock and go to the play the same night; while the opera has, for years, been given up to those who like music and to strangers, and others who fancy it is still the mode because it was so half a century ago. But the whirling lasts only four or five weeks when Whitsuntide comes; and then another recess, and more than half the world flits again to the country, which by this time is enchanting. I used at first to find these constant interruptions to the round of society very provoking; just as one got in the swim there was a gate or a dike, and a halt; but after some years I like the fashion, too.?Adam Badeau's Letter. Variations of an Author's Ability. The often-quoted dictum that a man's first story is-his best is false. If a man has talent his first story is novel, in the sense of putting things in a new light, with a langnage peculiar to himself. A man can't write differently from what he thinks any more than he can change his nose. I know of a novehst whose first story was superb, his second not so good, his third very poor; we took them all; but his fourth was as good as his first, and since then every novel he has written is better and stronger than the last one. I think it would be wiser to believe that an author never ascends or descends beyond a certain line. His compass varia tions are very slight. A man's brains are like an iron furnace; that is a well-regu lated and managed one. The crude ore comes in in about the sumo quantity, aad the output is so much iron and so much slag. If a mental analysis were possible ... the proportions would be the same. Cer tain men have, to follow out the idea, big ger supplies of coal Their fires are more rarely extinguished, therefore the iron copper-gold turned out is larger. There is a natural check to aU this kind of thing. If the working is too continuous, after a while the furnace tumbles down, or is burned out, and it stops?sometimes for ever.?New York Times. Fashionable Colors and Their Names. The touching descriptions of the customs which are to grace the royal ladies of Portugal at the approaching festivities, give striking evidence of the total incapacity of the English language to adequately translate the language which nature speaks through her infinite shades of color. The simple names of the primary colors hava long since passed out of the milliner's vocabulary, but they at least produce a definite conception in the mind. Can the same be said of "hemp color," "grocers' blue," "beaver color," "the tints of a wood pigeon's breast," "antique green," "lime blossom," and the "shade of brown seen in the very middle of a broken almond The pet color of the Princess Amelie is seemingly pink, and the varying shades of this color which are to be seen iu her trousseau are "plain pink," "pale pimc" "palest pink," "rose pink," "shrimp pink," "soft pink," "flesh pink," aud "pink match ing anemones and rosebuds." Doubtless they make a very sweet bunch of pinks, but it may be questioned whether any one of them will be understood in the same sense by any two individuals.?Pall Mall Gazette. My Lady's Artistic Back-Serutcb. Happening one day in my lady's boudoir I picked up from the cabinet what I took for a pretty bit of bric-a-brac. It was an ebony stem, about fourteen Inches long, not thicker than one's finger and quite daintly turned. At one end was at tached a pretty little hand deftly wrought in ivory. It could not be called a fist, for I noticed that the fingers were only half closed. The nails were weU developed, and their ends or edges were set in a line. This artistic trifle was called a "back scratch." My lady's "back-scratch" was for use in that very much out-of-the-way place between the shoulder-blades. This handy implement, though an article of virtu, was in the line of luxury, although the amenities would hardly approve the Indulgence before eyes polite.?Popular Science Monthly. Farewell of Bear Admiral Leroy. A recent visitor at Old Point Comfort was Rear Admiral Leroy?"the Chester field of the navy"?who went on the re tired Ust a few years ago. That event oc curred while he was at Nice, and he sig nalized it with a fareweU banquet on his old ship, the Trenton. The festivities over, he ordered bis gig to be made ready to take him ashore, but when he went to take his pluce in it he found it manned entirely by officers, headed by his succes sor, the tfew rear admiral, all in full uni form.?New York Tribune.. Of Somo Use, After Ail. The large placques painted by young ladies during the past. few years are of some vise, after all. The ladies are now, it seems, having shanks put on them, and utilizing them as buttons on their coats and dresses.?Norrisl own Herald. A Frenchman has invented an automa ton which plays upon the piano with ex pression and brilliancy. A bunch of oats eight feet three inches in height is displayed at Winter, CaL Sawyenlale Dots. Sawyerdale, S. C June 23, 188(5. Editor Ttints and Democrat: Since our last we have seen a good, many farms in Orangeburg, Aiken and Barnwell counties, and we have never seen crops in a worse condition. If the fains continue the old mule will be sure to change masters next fall. (The lien must be paid.) The health of our community is very good. The fruit crop is a failure, We have had another Post Office established on this route by the name of Sigma. Mr. W. M. Steven son has been appointed Postmaster. The Blackville, Johntown and Alston Kail Road is creating quite a sensation among our people and we are glad to say our prospect for a rail road in the near future is very encourageing. Our schools are all dead, as usual in the summer, but one, the Beaver Creek School will be revived next Thursday and we hope soon to see them all spring ing into life again. It may seem strange to some of your readers, but we have one gentleman in our neighbor hood who has not had any hair on his head since the President married. Mr. R. A. Youge will vouch for the truth of this assertion. To show you the great ability of some of our little fel lows in composition I send you the fol lowing on the mule. The mule is nofra bird, for though he graces the limbs of trees, yet no self respecting mule was ever known to fly, or to hop about. As " a singing bird, the mule is not a success, for though his voice is strong, yet 'tis not as sweet as the nightingale. 1 never heard of a mule being caged on account of his voice. Mules are affec tionate. They have a social way of shaking hands with their hind foot which is very pleasant ani highly agreeable to them, and the Coroner. Mules eat corn and a great deal of it; but a mule was never known to eat a young man that was in love, they know too much for that. They leave them for the broom stick. Mules de note things. For instance, when you see a mule growing onatree on the out side it denotes that my "fellow is on the inside." Again when you see the same mule on the same tree often it denotes that "my Fillow" is a candi date for wedding cake and a ball head. I love a mule, (at a distance) there is something in his noble countenance that means business. He is the great friend of the preacher and undertaker and causes him to smile as they pass by. A mule knows a pretty girl every time he sees her, he also knows her fathers corn crib and rejoices there at. _ Trust. A Card. Editor Times and Democrat: In answer to a call from the little congregation of Lutherans of this place, we recently moved here fully de termined to do all we could for them, and the advancement of the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. Up to this time we have been very much in couraged by not only Lutherans, but all whom we have met. The church, though without a pastor for some time, shows a remarkable de gree of spiritual life. We find here some earnest and faithful workers, and by a little encouragement, we think they will do much for Christ. The ladies, especially, are at work. They have recently turned over to the vestry of the > church quite enough money to put a new roof on the church. They are now working for other im provements. May the Lord bless them in their work. All of these things seem to indicate that the ecclesiastical sun of Orangeburg is rising higher and higher every day. We thank the good people for their kindness to us since in their midst. J. Q. Wertz, Pastor of Lutheran Church. List of Letters. .List of unclaimed letters and postal cards remaining in Post Office at Or angeburg, S. C for the week ending June 16,1386: D. J. Austin, care of Ruff Livings ton, A. W. Attaway, Scott Benjamin, J. II. Brown, A. J. Cook, J. C. Cullman, Dr. R. V. Dannelly, MissK. A.Gaffney, Miss Mannordid Gibson, Joe Hassia, Miss E. E. L. Heynes, Mrs. Mamie V. Harley, E. T. Johnson, Mrs. Susanna Jenkins, Mrs. Thos. C. Lee, Mrs. M. H. Pooser, Miss Yinnie Pooser, W. X. Per cival, care of A. W. Humph, Mrs. Jerome Smoak, Lanor Sebroux, Oleus Smith, Daniel J. Townscnd, (2) Betsey Warron, James Washington, Miss Georgina Zeigler. Persons calling for these Letters or Postal-Cards will please say that they were advertised. F. A. Sciiiffley, Postmaster. Startling but True. Wills Poixt, Texas, December 1,1885. After suffering for more than three years with disease of the throat and lungs, I got so low lastspring I was en tirely unable to do anything, and my cough was so bad I scaredv"slept any at night. My Druggist, Mr. II. F. Goodnight, sent me a trial bottle of Dr. Bbsanko's Cough and Lung Syrup. 1 found relief, and after using six S1.U0 bottles, 1 was entirelv cured. J. M. Weiden. Sold by Dr. J. G. Wannama ker. An Old Citizen Speaks. M . J. M. Xorris, an old resident of Rome, Ga., says, that he had been badly troubled with Kidney Complaint for a great many years and with Eczema for three years; at times could scarcely walk and had tried many remedies without benefit, until he began taking Electic Bitters and anointing his hands and feet with Bucklen's Arnica Sal v. This teatnient afforded him great re lief and he strongly recommends Elec tric Bitters to all who suffer with Kid ney Complaints, or need a Blood Puri fier. Sold by Dr. J. G. Wannamaker. Rucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve m the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Dr. J. G. Wannamaker. Cure for .sick Headache. For proof that Dr.(Dunn's Liver Pills cures Sick Headache, ask your Drug gist for a free trial package. (inly one lor a dose. Regular size boxes, 25 cents. Sold by Dr. J. G. Wannamaker. strike at the fountain-head, the source of all evil. Is it worms that has destroyed the health of your child? Give Shriner's Indian Vermifuge be fore it is too late. Only 25 cents a bot tle. For sale by Dr. J. G. Wannama THE LIFEBOAT IN SERVICE. A Sketch of tho Work Performed on tho English Coast. We wi? Imagine the watch set and aU the other good Caister folk in bed. The night wears away, until as day begins to break a longer look than ordinary is taken through the glass and a discussion of bear ings, etc., ensues, with tho result that a vessel is descried fast aground on the Cross Sand with a heavy sea breaking over her. Out dash the men on to the staging. One lays hold of the cord attached to the clapper of the bell and the other rushes at breakneck pace down the steps and up the gap, shouting and hammering at the doors as he goes. Then breaks out a Babel of sounds. Men rush from every door and side road, some of them with their trous ers on, pulling on their shirts as they run, stumbling in the dark, through the heavy sand, but all making for one point, the shed. There, hung up to the rails at the roof, are their oilers, sou'westers, and boat stockings, under the benches their big sea boots. In a twinkling the "men have donned their seagear, and are making a bee Use across the sands for the lifeboat The surf is smashing on the beach in tons, and the wind is howling across the beach and up the gap, bringing with it clouds of sand v.nt il the air seems almost solid with it. The red tanned lugsails are carried down and placed in the boat ready for hoisting, and the skids laid down forward of the boat; the legs which kept the boat on an even keel are taken away and re placed by the broad backs of the sturdy beachmen, amid shouts of "Hold her up;" the hauRng-off warp which is anchored out to seaward, is taken in over the puUey in the bow, and the boat begms to move on her porpoise-oiled skids. As she goes over and clears the one at her stern it is caught up by the side hand les bj- two beachmen and taken to her bows, and placed in line ready to pick her up again as she comes steadily on down the sand. Then the men tumble on board and haul at the warp. Then the remaining men keep her moving over her skids until she dashes her bows into a mass of water just breaking and thundering on the beach, and shipping tons of it and giving her crew the first smother of many they will have before they return, she moves slowly on. Another breaker catches her ere she has fairly gathered way and she looks almost like coming back, but the beachmen on shore have had the sett ready. They ship it on to the stern and shove her off into the smother. Up goes the foresail with a run; up goes the mtz zen, and the boat thrashes through the broken water; overboard goes the haul ing-off warp and she is clear of the beach and fighting her way through the heavy sea to the wreck; sea after sea breaks over h her until they can see nothing of that boat only feel it under their feet, hang like grim death to the ridge-rope and take a breath when the sea gives them a chance. Over the Barbar they thrash, then over the Scroby. They have to make a long leg to fetch the wreck, and as they rise on a wave they can sometimes make her out dimly ?with seas spouting fountains o\rer her. She is a smaU schooner, and her crew?two men and two wretched, half starved looking boys and an equally wretched-looking mongrel cur?are hud-1 died together in the weather shrouds of the foremast; the mizzonwaat has already gone over the side. The lifeboat fights her way to windward, then anchors, and j lowering her lugs veers down to the wreck, drops alongside and taKes in the poor half-drowned wretches and their poor dog, hauls back to the anchor, then J up sail and away to the beach, where the rest of the company is awaiting them.? English Illustrated Magazine. What Docto.s Say of the Tongue. A white-coated tongue indicates febrile disturbance; a brown moist tongue vndi cates disordered digestion or overloaded primus via>; a brown dry tongue indicates depressed vitality, as in typhoid conditions and blood-poisoning; a red moist tongue indicates debility, as from exhausting dis charges; a red dry tongue indicates pyrexia, or any inflammatory fever; a "strawberry" tongue with prominent papil l?r indicates scarlet fever or rotheln; a red glazed tongue indicates debility, with want of assimilative power of digestion; a tremulous, flabby tongue indicates delir ium tremens; hesitancy in protruding the tongue indicates concussion of the brain; protrusion at one side indicates paralysis of the muscles of that side.?Medical JouruaL The Mysterious "Magic Minor." Professors AjTtomand Perry, the Eng lish electricians,- nave accidentaUy ob served that on amalgamation, or coating with quicksilver, brass expands, so that if one side only is amalgamated a plate of brass becomes curved. They imagine that this may be the primary cause of the phenomena of the Japanese "magic mir ror," which has cast on the back a pattern that is quite invisible on the polished face, yet is mysteriously distinct in the patch of light reflected by the mirror upon a screen. Amalgamation would effect the thinner parts made by the pattern more than the rest of the plate, giving the mirror the im perceptible unevenuess that becomes plainly apparent in the reflected imago.? Arkausaw traveler. Private Physicians for French Theatres. French theatres share with kings the privilege of having private physiians at tached to then? even when they are In flourishing health. There are ten at tached to the Comedie Francalse, fourteen to the opera, without counting several dentists for the hitter; eight to the Gym nase, and so on. French doctors are very fond of the theatre, though they often poke fun at them; they are generaUy men of wit, who don't care about being laughed at on the stage, as they know they will "'ave the last word oll it.?Chi cago Herard. Currying on a Shot-Gun Revival. ' The Brothers Ragozlnsklhaver returned from Africa, and are lecturing in their native city of Crokow. On the upper Congo they were repeatedly mistaken for Portuguese missionaries, and one native chief took occasion to compliment them on their enterprise in representing the firm of so distant a God, and privately offered to baptise a limited number of his subjects at a shot gun apiece.?Cor. Chicago Graphic Xews. He Paid for It Twice. "Did 1 pay for that wine we had last night, landlord?" asked Crimsonbeak, coming down in the morning with his head tied up in a towel. "Why, you ought to know, Mr. Crimsonbeak," re; plied a bystander, jokingly. "Well," said Crimsonbeak, "I consulted my pocketbook and it seemed to say that I did: but when I consulted my head I came to the conclu sion that I was paying for it this morning.'1 ?Yonkera Statesmen. Assisting Nature a Little Bit. When the resources of Nature have become retarded, no matter from what^ cause, it is then quite time to help the Liver and Spleen, and other organs, to perform their thorough duty?or we shall soon be quite ill. In such cases there is no more natural remedy than a mild cathartic, one which will be sure to perform its duty without injuring the system in the least. Such, let us say in al! candor, is Simmons' Hepatic Compound. It will gently move the bowels, without irritating them in the least; when the medicine works, the bowels are soothed and healed like a charm?yet the medicine is more effec tive than Calomel; one of the principal ingredients possess all the good qualities of that poisonous drug, without any of its constituents. A dose of Simmons' Hepatic Compound every night on going to bed, will infallibly restore health. Testimony of the highest con sideration from every portion of the country, and from all classes of people, abunfiantly substantiate this fact. The pnportance of this treatment cannot be over-estimated, and it should be tried by all means._ Dr. J. G. Wannamaker, Wholesale I Agent for Orangeburg County. Farmers' Clubs. I Editor Times and Democrat: I have heard it intimated that the "Farmers' Clubs" now being organized j throughout the State are political and1 not agricultural. If this be true, what is to become of the regular Democra tic Clubs, the membership of which, I outside of incorporated towns, is com |posed almost entirely of farmers? Is the older to be absorbed by the new organization? If so, then there will be only a change in name, but I hardly think the new movement contemplates s?ch a small result as this. If not, there's going to be trouble, and I feel constrained to sound a note of warning now, in the ineipiency of the campaign, before it is too late to apply a remedy., The danger of the formation of a "new party" may not be imminent?indeed we farmers are pledged against it by the first resolution passed by our Con vention in April last?but it is certain ly true that a split in the Democratic party is confidently looked forward to by the Republicans and a few others, as the result of this new movement. A Farmer. Cure for Tiles. Piles are frequently preceeded by a sense of weight in the back, loins and lower part of the abdomen, causing the patient to suppose he has some affec tion of the kidneys or neighboring or gans. At times, symptoms of indiges tion are present, llatulency, uneasiness of the stomach, etc. A moisture like perspiration, producing a very dis agreeable itching, after getting warm, is a common attendant. Blind, Bleed ing and Itching Piles yield at once to the application of Dr. Bosanko s Pile Remedy, which acts directly upon the parts affected, absorbing the Tumors, allaying the intense itching, and effect ing a permanent cure. Price 50 cents. Address the Dr. Bosanko Medicine Co., Piqua.O. Sold by Dr. J. G. Wanna maker. _ Can't you Km.? Bare you no Appetite? Try a bottle of Westmoreland's Cali I s'aya.Tonic. _It will give you an appe I tite-tnu aid yotTTTngeiuTioTiT'Get the genuine of your Druggist at ?1.00 per bottle._ Dr. J. G. Wannamaker, Wholesale Agent for Orangeburg County._ POWDER Absolutely Pure. THHIS ROW DLR X EVER VARIES. X A marvel of purity, strength and whole someness. More economical than the ordin nary kinds, and cannot be sold in competi tion with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders, bold only in cans. Royal Rakixo Powder Co., I0(i Wall st., N. Y. MRS. LW'A liAVCmUTf, ARTIST AND MUSIC TEACHER. Rooms at Mrs. D. E. Glover's House, on corner op Doyle and St. John Sts., Orangebueg, S. C. Will Teach Music, Drawing and Paint ing. Terms, Music three lessons per week ?3.00. Drawing and Painting, $2.00 per month. May 27-_,_ Summer School of Specialties To open in Prof. Mellichamp's School IIousc on the first Monday in July. Ger man ?2.00, French ?2.00, Geology and Min eralogy ?3.00, Military Tactics ?1.00 Cadet rifles, accoutrements and knapsacks for boys in the cadet corps?10 to 17 years. Hours from 4 P. M., to 7 P. M. Patronage I solicited. Satisfaction guaranteed. For testimonials, circular, etc. Address. A. CI1AS. LAUGULIN, Professor of Min. Geo. German and French. June 17 a11ial LATHROP. V. m. wannamaker, Orangeburg, S. C. St. Matthews, S. C TATIIROP .x. W A X X A MAE ER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Orangeuurg, S. C. Office Up Stairs Over the Postnflice. ;. h. moss. c o. dantzler jl/TOSS & DANTZLER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, . Orangeeueg, S. C. FRESH TURNIP SEEDS. BURSTS Fresh Turnip Seeds in bulk, or in \i, K and pound packages. More Seed for the price than ever sold before. RUTA BAGA Turnip ? Seed, WHITE NORFOLK Turnip Seed, FLAT DUTCH TuruipSeed, best variety for July planting. Hay, Corn, Bran. FINE FEED. The above freshly received. The Hay and Bran extra choice. ANOTHER CAR OF MAINE LIME at Store of John A. Hamilton. Charles A. Calvo, Jr., BOOK AND JOB PRINTER ?AMD BOOKBINDER, 69 RICHARDSON STREET, I COLUMBIA, S. C. ALL KINDS OF PRINTING, RUL ing and Binding done at low figures and in the very best manner. Catalogues of Schools, Colleges and Church Associa tions a specialty. Lawyers' Briefs 51 per printed page for 25 copies. Old Books Re bound and Repaired. Cash Books, Ledg ers, Day Books, Journals, &c, made to order at short notice. Ordere solicited and satisfaction guaranteed. J2T Subscribe for The Columbia Week ly Register?eight pages of fresh reading matter?the latest telegraphic news?clear large print. Only one dollar a year. JOHN C. PIKE, ORANGEBURG, S C DEALER IN CHOICE FAMILY ?AND Heavy Groceries. ALSO Willow Ware, Glass Ware, Crockery, &c, Call and examine my Goods before purchasing. They are first class and my prices are as low as the lowest. JOHN C. PIKE. ESTABLISHED 1877. Twenty-five Years Experience. K?J WB T. DeChiavelte, Watch Maker and Jeweler, And dealer in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry Spectacles, Silver and Plated Ware and Musieal Instruments. All work warranted for one year. Orangeburg. ?. C, Notice. X Roads Bellville and State Road. HAVING BOUGHT THE RIGHT to sell the AMMON'S PATEN'I PLOW GUAGE AND GUIDE in Orange burg County I am prepared to f uruisli them and solicit the patronage of all the farmers n the county. M. M. METTS, April 15-3U10 St. Matthews, S. C. Wanted 1 9 fMiA GOOD CYPRESS lAljUUU Shingles to bo used for covering a Church. Shingles to be % inches thick by 4 or 4>a inches wide by 24 inches lone, to be delivered at Fort Motte, S. C. Bids will be received until the 15th day of March, 188C. Address S. A. JONES, SI. Matthews, S. C. For Sale. ONE TEN HORSE POWER KN giue und Boiler complete. Abo one Circular Saw Mill. The abuve can be bought on vcrv reasonable terms. Feb23 " HARBIN RIGGS B.and For Sale. k TRACT OF 20U ACRES, ON 1 V Two Mile Swamp, Liberty Town-hip. There is 30 aeres <>f cleared land and on the place there is a good dwelling house and all necessary outbuildings. For terms &c, ipply to* J. G. SCOTT. apply to Slay 2 0-4t. Orangeburg, S. C. RELIEF! Forty Years a Sufferec From CATARRH, WONDERFUL TO RELATE! "FOll FORTY YEARS I have been a victim to CATARRH?three-fourths of the time a sufferer from EXCRUCIATING PALNS ACROSS MY FOREHEAD and MY NOSTRUMS. The discharges were so offensive that I hesitate to mention it, ex cept for the good it may do somo other sufferer. 1 have spent a young fortune from my earnings during my forty years of suffering to obtain relict from the doctors I have tried patent medicines?every one I could learn of?from the four corners of the earth, with no relief. And AT LAST (57 years of age) have met with a remedy that has cured me entirely?made me a new man. I weighed 128 pounds and now weigh 146. I used thirteen bottles of the medicine, and the only regret I have is that being In the humble walks of lifo I may not have influence to prevail on all catarrh sufferers to use what has cured me Guinn's Pioneer Blood Renewer. "HENRY CHEVES, "No_267 Second St., Macou, Ga." "Mr. Henry Cheves, the writer of the above formely of Crawford county, now of Macon, Georgia, merits the confidence of [ all interested in catarrh. W. A. HUFF, Ex-Mayor of Macon. A SU B ERB FLESH PRODUCER AND];T0NIC! Gniim's Pioneer Blood Kenewcr.] Cures all Blood and Skin Diseases, Reunia tism, Scofula, Old Sores. A perfect Spring Medicine. If not in your market it will bo forward ed on receipt of price. Small bottles 3l.no large 51.75. Essay on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed MACON MEDICINE COMPANY, _ Macon. Ga. A HciiltJiv Growth. THE SUCCESSFUL CAREER OF the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Asso ciation is marvellous in the annals of life insurance enterprise. Its name has be come a tower of strength, and has been well earned by the. untiring devotion of President Harper and his associates. Its astonishing prosperity has provoked attacks which arc best repelled by a frank and full exhibit of its greatly increasing line of business. Up to July 1,1885, this shows a gain of no less than 313 214,580 over that of the corresponping period last year. In June alone" its mortuary receipts ex ceeded S250.000, of which over ?60,000 went into the Reserve Fund?that triple buttress upon which the association justly prides itself. This reserve now amounts to .3425, 000, and is employed for. ?irCo purposes only?to pay death claim i: any should occur in excess of the American Experience Mortality Tables; to make good any poss ible deficiency in the Death Fund Account, and to be apportioned among those who have been members of the Association fif- v teen years, etc. As the first and second. contingencies named are not likely to arise, " the third object is the one upon which tho^ runa la practically expended. It \3 mirbf other good points, among which may be mentioned the economical salary list?less than 350,000 for carrying on the whole work of the vast institution?and payments to widews and orphans at the rate of over 32,000 cash cash day.?From the old and conservative New York Daily Journal of Commerce, July 10,1885. With the Annual Report of the above Company is attached a largo number of Death claims paid from February 1882 to February 1st 1880, representing all parts of the Union, amounting to?l,685,200.00 from, this list we take claims in South Carolina which have been paid : , Valentine R. Jordan, West Wateree, 35, 000. Jno. S. Small, Grahams. 31,250. Henrv L. Krause, Port Royal, ?1,250. J. E. Todd, Due West 52,500. Wm. H. Whilden, Jacksouboro', 33,000. E. Parker, Abbeville, 55,000. A. S. Barns, Walterboro', ?2,500. Em'l Nehemias, Beaufort, $1,500. J. S. ALBERGOTTI. Agent. Feb. 25-6M1S._ H?RPIN BIGGS, Dealer Tn CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, WAG ONS, dee. * Uaviim bought the ri<d;t for OrKUgcburg County in the Celebrated Nun ?.\s Epps Patent Non Washer Axli Nur, 1 am prepared to pir V.w >: on axles at ol per set. '1 lie use of this Nut does away With leather wash ers altogether. Ychichles of every description repaired and repainted on the shortest rmiicr. Al> kinds of Blacksmith Work and Horseshoeing done promptly. My Plaining and Moulding Machine issHU" in operation and I am prepared to fur nish Moulding or Plain Lumber on the most Liberal Cash Terms. My Grist Mill runs every Saturday. READ THE"?B0vTcAREFULLY INSURE YOUR PROPERTY WITH KIRK ROBINSON, AGENT. COMPANIES ALL FIST-CLASS AND RELIABLE. J LOSSES PROMPTLY ADJUSTED AND PAID. COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY ATTEND ED TO. I am still sidling Brick, Linie. Laths, Hair and other Building Material. ALSO 1 am now prepared to furnish Coal and Wood in any quantity. All orders left with me shall luve prompt attention. No dravnge charged. Give nie aliud. _ July - ' KIRK RORINt-OX Tu?nitifr! Xui!Iii :-u '.'. I ] A VING IIESUMED THE TAN* J Jl ning Business near Orangeburg 1 am now prepared to Tan and Dress ail kinds of Hides on halves. In front of Dr. Mur ray's Residence. WM. PR I SN ER. March 18