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Civil Service Reform Matching On. Civil service reform is a by-word of re proach among the practical politicans of all parties. They hate it both in the abstract and in the concrete. and do not now and never have hesitated to express in terms more forcible than refined their utter contempt for civil service reform and civil servicee reformers. and yet in spite of the open op position of active spoilsmen and the in difference of the rank and file of partisans of all shades. Carl Schurz was able to state in his address before the Civil Service Re form League at Chicago on Wednesday that 50,000, or nearly one-half of the civil em ployees of the United States Government, are selected under civil serve rules, Coincident with the encouraging state ment of Mr. Schurz came the announce ment from Washington that the President had just issued an order extending the civil service regulations to the internal revenue service, adding in round numbers nearly 2,500 employees to the classified list. And this indicates the progress of civil service reform only in the Federal branch of our public service. Its principles have been embodied in and given more or less practi cal application to State governments and in the municipal administration of most of our important cities. In New York it has been embodied in the new State Constitu tion. Civil service reform like John Brown's soul, seems to be marching on. The substantial progress of civil service reform in th f.inc of the relentless opposi tion of partisan tleaders is primarily due to the fact that theladministration of the public affairs of seventy millions of people could no longer be conducted on the spoils plan. Civil service reform has come because it had to come, because it was a physical im possibility for the President and his exe cutive advisers to longer make the minor appointments in the old way. Inexorable necessity has proved the strongest ally of the reform leaders. The good results of the expariment have so far justified its adoption -that there is no popular demand for a backward step. On the contrary, p. sentiment. is steadily tending in its i same inexorable necessity will be - ent factor in compelling the appli -of the reform to municipal affairs. )w american municipal government ng a terrible shaking up. Its de ostliness, corruption and general in efficiency are being shown in most vivid colors, a certain preliminary to an irresisti ble public demand for the application of purely business methods to city govern ment. Business methods as applied to municipal affairs is but another name for civil service reform, and when the business tax-payers who bear the expenses of city govarnment have been plundered a little longer they will insist on the application of the same principle to the expenditure of their taxes that they apply in the con duct of their own business. Of course it does not follow that inexor able necessity will prevent civil service re form from getting some set-backs. Presi dent Harrison suspended the application of the rules to the railway mail service at the beginning of his administration, and as the laws stands future Presidents will have the power to do the same thing. But even President Harrison, for partisan or other reasons, extended the classified ser vice before the close of his term beyond any of his predecessors, precedent that has been still father followed by President Cleve land. Civil service reform is one of the revolutions that cannot and will not go backward, and Mr. Sehurz and his fellow reformers can console themselves with the thought that even the stars in their courses are fighting their battle against the vitu perative spoilsmen.-Phildelphia Times. A GREAT BATTLE Is continually going on in the human sys tem. The demon of impure blood strives to gain victory over the constitution, to ruin health, to drag victims to the grae. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the - with which to defend one's s rive the des perate enemy fro field, and restore bodily hiea any years. H ills cure nausea, sickness and igestion and billiousness. 25c. A Christmas Lesson. Christmas is essentially a heart festival. It is a time not only for re calling _.the birth of Bethlehem's babe, but for dwelling upon the won derfuli significence of the incarnation. "God manifested in the flesh," is the way the Apostle puts it. What a condesension that God should stoop to earth and assume a human form and become partaken of our nature! When Webster read Chalmers' great sermon on "the Wonders of the tele scope," his reason and his faith were shaen how could a divine Being who created unnumbered systems of worlds, each circling around a cen tral sun, stoop to one of the smallest of the planets and concern himself with our petty cares? But the great preacher delivered another sermon, in which he dwelt upon the wonders of the microscope? showing that in the little rolled up seared leaf of win ter blown hither and you, there lay securely wrapped and protected from the snow and the cold a miniature world that should awaken and in crease with the coming of spring. Then the great statesman concluded that if God could care for the little insects that glitter in the sun and protect them in their long winter sleep, he could care for immortal man; and so his faith came back to him. Even so, God, who regardeth the sparrow's fall and clothes the lillies of the field wvill not lose sight of man, who is "of more value than many sparrows," The infinite condesension! Think of it, bereaved one. who mis ses a familliar voice and a vanished hand at the Christmas table. He took the beloved one, but not for one moment has He forgotton you. He will come in and be your Christmas guest if you will permit Him. Think of if, aged one with bent form and dimmed eyes looking towards sunset. He knows your weakness, He sees your failing strength. Lean upon Him and find Him your perfect strength. The infinite condescension! Thlnk of it, young man and young maiden. Ponder it, old and middle-aged and young. Let us all appropriate the lesson-the lesson of humility and self-abnegation and trust. Let us learn to sink self in the work before us; to work unfalterinip along the line marked for us, seeking not our own but what is God's. We have but to do and leave results with Him. So doing we shall fufil the noblest purpose of living and fit ourselves to be inhabitants of- eternal mansions in the heavens-for a home in the skies: ''For death cannot enter there, And we shall meet again."-Cot ton Plant. DO YOU WANT A SITUATION? Pror. Wilbur R. Smith, Lexington, Ky. For 18 years Pres ident of the re nowned Commer cial College of Ken tuackhy University, gives special atten tion to securing situ ations for his gradu ates. Cost of Busi E.ness Course about $90, including Tui tion and Board in a family. Prof. Smith has Pnov. Wu.sua R. SuIT, kept books; several LINGTONl KY. years Vice-President of a bank; World's Fair Commissioner from Kentucky, and a reliable business man. Among the 10,000 successful graduates of the Prof. Smith's, are 100 in banks, 100 of ficials from this and other States. Prof. E. W. Smith, Principal of the College re ferred to, was awarded the Medal at World's Columbian Exposition for Book-keeping, If you wish a Business Education, or a knowledge of Phonography, Type-writing or telegraphy at the least total cost, with Diploma from Kentucky University on graduation, we advise you to cut this out and write to Prof. W. Rt. Smith, Lexington, THE MAM G TIMES. LOUIS APPELT, Editor. Wednesday, December 26, 1894. The Columbia Journal has suspen ded publication, and we are glad to to hear that friend Ball will continue in the newspaper work. Mr. Ball is .a true journalist and deserves sue cess. By recent act of the legislature the things known as scotch mortgages are are I, .cked in the bead. Ever3 mortgage of real estate must be regu. larly foreclosed in court before the property can be sold. The Metropolitan police bill has passed both houses and is now the law. Charleston, Columbia, Darling ton and other towns will now get the dispensary law enforced, or the State authorities will have it enforced for them. don Co vr,,. v J E Turbevit,~ New Zion. . J. ow man and J. Elbert Davis were respec tively appointed treasurer and audi tor. As the year 1894 passes away let the bitterness and strife of the past, passaway with it also. Let us . al resolve to make the new year a hap. py one by coming together to work for the peace and prosperity of the State. The man who undertakes tc sow discord among us should be scorned, and the man that is trying to heal the breach now existing among the people should re6eive the encouraging aid of every good citi zens regardless of factional affilia. tion. We visited the A.M, E. Conference -which was in session here last week. The body was presided over b3 Bishop. Salters who handled the gavel in a dignified -manner. Or Thursday night Doctor Derrick, from New York, delivered an address or misionary work. To say that the address was grand would not express it as it deserves. This speaker dis played wonderful oratorical powers and his argumiets were forcible and eloquent. The address was a literary gym and the colored race have every reason to fell proud to claim such an itellectual giant as Doctor De * On Friday evening several fine addresses were made "e suibjeci of education and showed a won derful advane t the colored race hsmade short period. With this issue we wind up om editorial career for the year 1894 When we assumed the editorial chair we did so with many forebodings but we are happy to inform the friends of the Times that while we have at times traveled over rough Iund stumpy roads, the difficulties -were somewhat smnoothened by the many kind words of encouragemeni that it has been our fortune to re ceive. We have endeavoured to be of service to the people, and as tc how for we have succeeded can onlj be told by the people themselves. Il was our endeavor to be fair and if ii our zeal for a cause that we were con. tending for, we misrepresented any. thing it was not our intention to d< so. The Times is a newspaper witi opinions of its own, and is here tc continue on to be the peoples paper -and we feel that with our past ex perience we are better enabled t< continue the work we have mnarket out. We thank the patrons for theil liberal patronage and we feel assurei we have merited a continuance o that patronage. McLaurin Talks Plainly. The Carlisle bill was up before Con gress last Saturday and Congressmar McLaurin was one among the num ber that took part in the discussion. He was opposed to the bill upon the ground- that it was not Democrac3 and not in compliance with the promises made in the party's plat form. We take from the press dis' patch the following short synopsis -o his speech: Mr-. McLaurin made a vigorod attacd upon the policy of the Democratic part) upon fmnancial matters in the past two years "There is not a single line of Democracy it the whole measure," he said, "not a singl4 principle of Democracy in its entire provis ions, nor a solitary demand put forth by National Democratic Conference. The Democratic party for years has asked the people for a chance to bring peace and prosperity to their doors. Two years agc that request was granted, and what has been the result? Not a single pledge has been redeemed nor a single promise kept, but the entire machinery of the party has been placed in the hands of that class o1 individuals who have been in the past, and are even now, the curse of the decent peo ple of the country. The people had a rea son to expect relief from the Democratic party, and the results of last November may be taken as a lively reminder of their disappointment, and I venture the asser. tion that if the present bill becomes a las the people at the next election will wipe out the last vestige of the Democratic party. Instead of granting them relief, instead ol giving them free coinage of silver as had been expected, aind upon which pledge folly three-quarters of the Democrats oj this House were elected, they proved re creant to their trust, and further degraded silver by repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman Act, and to-day there ir absolutely no method by which the volume of currency can be increased except the chances of gold mining. This places the people in a position when they are the vic tims of all the disasters which await upon and are sure to follow the stationary or de. creasing volume of currency. This bill is filled with pitfalls and quagmires, as are all the financial measures which have passed Congress since 1860. This is not Secretary *Carlisle's bill. This gentleman is simply the starting horse for Wall street. It bears the made trade-mark of that -locality whicha is beginning to be recognized in all parts of the na~tion." Mr. McLaurin then advocated free coin aga of silver as the demand of the hour and Anty nf Congress NIORE AFRICA METHODISTS. this is the Northeastern Sumter Annual Conference. Massiso, December 22.-On Wednesday morning at 9.30 o'clock, the gavel sounded in Trinity A. M. E. Church, in the town of Manning. S. C., calling the third session of the Northeast Sumter Annual Conference to order, the Rt. Rev. M. B. Salter, D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina and Tennessee, presiding. The Rev. A. J. Hunter, of Marion, was chosen secretary in chief, with D. J. Brown and J. P. Alston as his assistants. After the organization the reports were called for, and before a recess was taken every district had been heard from. Nearly fourteen hundred dollars were reported for "dollar money." This is a little less than last year, but it is expected that the reports will be supplemented. The Conference was v:sited by the Rev. J. C. Etubrv, D. D., business manager of the A. M. E. publication department; the Rev. Wi. B. Derrick, D. D., missionary secretary of the church; the Rev. Jas. H. Davis, fraternal dehgate from the Confer ences of Teues e: the Rev. C. P. Nel,on, D. D., presidirng elider of the Greenville district of the Colunbia A. M. E. Confer ence, and the Rev. B. J. Ramsey, fraternal delegate from the same body. un Wednesnay night the annual address was delivered by the Rev. J. G. Sampson, D. D., and presiding elder of the Sumter district. The address was thoughtful and logical. On Thursday morning, after devotional exercises, those who wcre absent on the first day were given a chance to report. During this session a report on "the state of the country" was read beforo the Confer ence. A feature ot the report touched on "class legislation," lynchiags, etc. The re port recommended emigration to other parts of the couintry, to Africa or anywhere else where relitt could be found. But Dr. Derrick challenged that feature of the re port upon its passage, and made a telling speech against any attempt at colonization or wholesale emigration of our people. He contended that this country is as much the negro's home as any one else, for he fought for her independence and stained the field of battle with his blood to preserve the sanctity and union of the sisterhood of States. He concluded by saying that we are here and here to stay. We shall stay and help to advance the mterial progress of the country. At night was the missionary rally of the Conference. The audience was composed of the best people of Manning, both white, and black. Dr. Derrick, the missionary secretary of the Church. delivered an ad dress which was able, eloquent and pro found. Many have said that it is simply wonderful. Many of the whites assisted in the missionary rally, the Rev. Dr. mood giving as much as five dollars himself. The entire missionary collection was $101.60. The election of trustees for Allen Univer sity resulted in electing the Rev. Messrs. Sampson, Chappelle, Flegler, Thomas, Hayward, Hunter and Perrin. On Friday night was held the education al mass meeting. The building was taxed to its utmost capacity to accommodate the audience. Bishop Salter introduced Dr. R. E. Wall, presiding elder in the Colum bia Conference and treasurer of Allen Uni versity, who read his report and then de livered a telling address. He was followed by the Rev. J. Q. Johnson, the president of Allen University. The Rev. Scott, of the Methodist Episco pal church in Sumter and editor of the Journal of Progiess, delivered a humorous and happy address. Everybody knows Scott and what he was most likely to talk on upon this occasion. The closing address of the evening was delivered by the Rev. J. B. Ramsey, the fraternal delegate from the Columbia Con ference. He made quite an impression upon the audience. The Bishop honored him for his address by tendering hint is gavel and seat for one hour. The Conference is still led by Chappelle, 'homas, Sampson, Flegler and Heyward as presiding elders, while they are followed in close pursuit by a strong set of young men who ere long are destined to come to the front. The Conference elected the Rev. D. H. Bowden, the reporter for this paper, as a fraternal delegate to the Conferences of Tennessee at their next sitting.-News and Courier. Skin Eruptions and similar annoyances are caused by an impure blood, which will result in a more dreaded disease. Unless removed, slight impurities will develop into Scrofula, Ecze ma, Salt Rheumnandother serious results of a sufeerBomaaedr bodtrouble, for Blood took many remedies that did me no good. I hare now taken four bottles of wth the most wonderful results Am enjoying the best health I ever knew, have ~ned twenty pounds and my friends say t.e never saw me as well. I am feeling quite like a new man., JO -S EDELIN, GovrnentPrntig ffie.Washington,.D. C. Our Treatise on Blood and Skin Disase mailed free to any address SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. Cures s Risirng Breast *"MOTHERS' FRIEND" Is the greatest blessing ever offered child bearing woman. I have been a mid-wife for many3ears,andineach casewhere Mothers' Frind as eenuse ithasaccomplished wonders and rehieved much suffering. It is the best remnedy for rising breastknownanld worth the p rice for that alone. Mas. M. M. BRUSTR,Montgomney, Ala "I can tell all expectant mothers if they will use a few bottles of 'Mothers' Friend' they will go through the ordeal without any pain and snffering. Mans. MAY BRANHAM, Argusville, N. D. "Used ' Mother's Friend' before birth of my eighth child. Will nerer ceaseits praise Sas. J. F. MooRE, Colusa, Cal. to Mo~e miledofre can gvaluablemnformation BA.DFIELD REoUIA~oR Co.,Atlata,Ga. GROVES TA5T ELE5S C ILL IS JUST AS COOD FOR ADUL.TS. WAR RANTED. PRICE 50Octs, GALATIA, IL.1s., Nov. 16,1803. Paris Medicine Co., st. Louis, Mo. Gentlemen :-We sold lasS year, 600 bottle. of GROVE'S TASTELESs CHILL TONIC ad have bought three gross already this y ear. in all our ex perience of 14 years, in the drug business, have never sold an article that gave such universal satin' laction as your Tonic. Yours truly. Aii.NEY, CABtR&aCo. For sale by R. B. Loryea, the Druggist, wranning S. C. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CLARENDON, Melchers & Co., Plaintiff, Against J. Manning Welch Defendant. EXECUTION ACAINST PROPERITY. By virtue of an execution to me directed in favor of Melchers & Co., against J. Manning Welch, I have levied upon and will offer for sale, for cash, to the highest bidder on Monday the 7th day of January, 1895, during the legal hours of sale the following described real estate: All of those two lots with the build ings thereon known as lot No. 1, and lot No. 2, Block N., in town of Pine wood in Clarendon County. Said properity was levied upon and to be sold as the properity of J. Manning Welch to satisfy an exe cution in favor of Melehers & Co. Purchasers to pay for papers. D. J. BRADHAM, Sheriff Clarendon County. Manning, S. C., Dec. 11th 1894. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CLARENDON. S. A. RIGBY, Plaintiff. Against W. S. POOLE, Defendant. WARRANT TO ATTACH CROP UNDER LIEN. By virtue of authority vested in me in a warrant directed to me by James E. Davis Clerk of the Court for Clarendon County, in the above stated case, I will sell at public out cry at Manning, Clarendon Court House, on Monday the 7th day of January 1895, during the legal hours of sale to the highest bidder, for cash, the following described prop erity to wit: Three bales of- eotton; 37 lbs. lint cotton; about 1000 lbs. fodder, about 500 lbs. hay; 444 bush els of corn and 60 bushels of cotton seed. To satisfy a lien given by W. S. Poole to S. A. Rigby, for the year 1894. D. J. BRADHAM, Sheriff Clarendon County. Manning, S. C., Dec. 11th 1894. AVING PURCHASED THE PLANT of the Atlantic Phosphate Company. together with the entire stock. brands an'! good-will, we take this method of thanking the friends and patrons of the Chicora Fer tilizer Company for their cordial support and patronage in the past, and now solicit patronage of the Atlantic Phosphate Com pany as well as the Chioora brands, guar anteeing that, under the management of Chicora, the reputation earned by the At lantic brands will be fully sustained. CHICORA FERTILIZER COMPANY. CHARLESTON. S. C. GEO. A. WAGENER, General Manager. ATLANTIC COAST ULNE NORTHEASTERN RAILiOAD. CAU.soZ, S. C., Nov. 18, 1894. On and after this date the following pas senger schedule will be in effect: NOBTH BOUND. No 78 NoS32 No 60 Lv Charleston 3 35 am 3 55 pm 5 00 pm Ar Lanes 5 40 am 5 44 pm 1 00pm Ar Forence 7 05 am 6 55 pm 8 40 pm soUTH BOUND. No23 No61 No35 Lv Florence 7 35 pm 800) am 3 10am Ar Lanes 9 07 am 9 35 am 4 20 am Ar Charleston 11 13 pm 11 35 am 810 am WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA, & AUGUS TA RAILROAD. WIL.MINGTON, N. C., Nov. 18, 1894. Lv Wilmington 6 40 pm Lv Marion 9 5f0 pm Ar Florencei 10 40 pm Lv Florence 5 10 am Lv Marion 5 54 am Ar Wilmington 9 10 am TBAIl~s GOING NOBTE. No 55 No 51 Lv Florence 7 25 pm 3 15 pm Lv Mayesville 8 21 pm 4 05 am Ar Sumter 8368pm 4 21 am Ar Wedgetield 8 56 pm Ar Columbia 10 00 pm TBAINS GOING soUTE. No 59 No53 -No 51 Lv Colombia 4 20 pm 4 30 am Lv Wedgetield 5 25 pm 5 35 am Lv Sumuter 5 45 pm 5 50 pm 5 57 am Lv Mayesville 6 02 pm 8 14 pm Ar Florence 6 55 pm 7 15 pm CENTRAL RAILROAD OF S. C. Dated Nov 18, 1894. No 52 Lv Charleston 7 15 am ~ Lv Lanes 8 48 am Lv Foreston 9 09 am Lv Wilsons 9 18 am Lv Manning 9 25 am Lv Harvins 9 35 am Ar Sumter 9 54am Ar Columbia 11 10 am No 58 Lv Columbia 4 20 pm Lv Sumter 5 50 pm Lv Harvins 6 12 pm Lv Manning 8 21 pm Lv Wilsons 8 31 pm Lv Foreston 8 38 pm Ar Lanes 7 00 pm Ar Charleston 8 40 pm MANCHESTER AND AUGUSTA B. B. No 50 Leave Sumter................ 4 21 a se Leave Privateer......... ...... 4 33 a m Leave Pinewood ...... ....... 4 45 a m Arrive Remini ............... 455a m No 51 Leave Remini.......... ,... 514p m Leave Pinewood............5 24p m Leave Privateer.............535p m Arrive Sumter..........5 47 p ii Charleston, Sumter, 8& Nothern H, R. CHAS. E. KIMBALL, Rzcmva. NOBTH BOUND TBAIN. Lv Charleston......... ..... 650 am LvPregnalls.................8 10 a m Lv Sumter..................10 25 a ma Lv Darlington...............1145 a m Lv Bennettsville.............12 45 p m Ar Gibson................. 105p m No. 1 connects with C. F. & Y. T. at Bennettsville for Fayetteville, connects with Seaboard Air Line at Hamlet for Wilmi~ng ton, Charlotte, Shelby. Rutherfordton; and at Charlotte with R. & D. Vestibule limited for Washington and New York. Passen gers can take sleepers at Charlotte at 8:15 p. m. soUTH BOUND TRAIN. LvGibson................. 325p m Lv Bennettsville............. 3 0 p m Lv Drlington............... 4 50 p ra Lv Samter.......... ....... 63p m Lv Pregnalls.......... ..... 8 50p m Ar Charleston...............10 30 p m All trains daily except Sumday. Passen gers by No. 2 train have through sleepers, New York to Charlotte. connect with S. A. L. at Hamlet from Charlotte and North, and fro Wilmingon. Dinner at Hamlet If you want BOKRECT STYLES, CO TO If you want Perfect Fiing Goods, If you want WELL-MADE DURABLE GOODS, If you want 000DS WITH THE TATIFF OFF, D. J. CHANDLER, THE CLOTHIER, ST-T MITER -:-M -:-. ., Where you will ilnd a large, new stock to select from, and you can buy as much for $10 as you could for $20 a few years ago. 189. FLLGOODS! 84 Again do I announce to the people of Clarendon that to do busi ness in this day of.business progress one must first understan:1 what business is, and then confine himself strictly to business principles, which are to study the wants of the people first; then study the mode of manufacturing the various fabrics and articles that the consumer must have; next to ascertain the best and most reliable manufaictuiers, azid only deal with sueh, thus insuring to the patrons Value Received for Their Money. I have this season visited the best markets, and realizing the eiect the tariff bill would have on goods, I was exceedingly cautious to get every advantage possible in order that my large patronage would se cure the benefit. In selecting my stock I was careful to get The Very Latest in Dress Goods. Everything I have is new. New Store and New Goods in every Department. To the Ladies I will extend a special invitation to examine my Ele gant Line of Salkmv MCirJM 0i33X-S, Ca-t1 b. .oire S i - ZATO-Weolty SuiLtinmj~s, Merges, vvorstects, -Satineos, G-inagaams1 CaliOCos. O)LtizigS The Latest Novelties in Trimmings in Silk and Velvets, Passementre, Beaded Braids, etc. I am also sole agent for BUTTERICK'S PATTERNS, and for the benefit of the ladies I have arranged to give away every month Batterick's Novelty Fashion Sheets, and it will afford me and my sales men pleasure to have the ladies ask for them. My Stock of Domestic Dry Goods is full and complete. In Cloaks and Capes I challenge comparison. Shoes, Shoes, Shoes! Bigby never fails to keep the very best Shoes for Men, Women, Youths, and Children. This department is watched very closely, as it is one of the moet important. No shoe is sold over my counters that can not be warranted. THE CLOTHING, HAT, AND GENTS' FURNISHING DEPARTMENT onl needs an inspection to convince that it contains the latest styles, and evervbody can be suited in style, quality, and prlce. I have a full line of specially selected Boys' Clothing and a lot of extra Knee Pants. Anything in the HARDWARE, TINWARE, AND WOOD ENWARE LINES can be found in my stock, and I have the handsomest line of Crockery I have ever carried. Come and see my beautiful decorated Chamber Sets. They are grand. Then I have an elegant line of Decorated and Plain Crockery and Glass Ware. This is bound to delight the eye of the house-keeper. I defy any business house in the county or elsewhere to show up a better GROCERY DEPARTMENT than mine. I not only carry everything that can be used on the plan tation, but my shelves contain a magnificent line of Fancy Grocernes where any house-keeper can in a few minutes come and get the muaterial fom e ad see me and I will guarantee I will not be undersold by anyjons, and I will pay you the highest market prices for youri Cotton andiother~ Produce. Yours, &c, S. .A. RIGB8Y, ARTHUR BELITZER, (Succaeor to Belitzer & Spann,) ANUFACTURER OF BEDS AND WOVEN WIRE SPRINGS, AND wHOLESALB AND RETAIL DEALER IN Furniture, Pictures, Shades, Coffins. antr.ntrer of Varions Kinds of Furniture. : MOSES LEVI+ Is Again to the Front With a Complete Un of NEW - GOODS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF HIS NOINOTH STORE. After years of experience in the mereantile businew, I have never see goods as cheap ns they are to-day. The tariff has Knocked the DOllom Out Of PriCes, and although cotton is bringing a small price, I am enabled to sell goods at equally low figures. Come and inspect my stock of Dress Goods with Trimmings to match, No tions, Fancy Goods Shoes, Clothing, Hats, Gents' Furmshings, Hardware, Crockery, Cutlery, etc. I am sole dealer for the celebrated James Means' Shoes, And also handle Ladies Shoes that every pair e.n be guaranteed. My store is divided into various departments, and each department is well equipped with polite salesmen who will take pleasure in showing the people through my establishment. I can beat the State in 0 L O T -I:I N G for either men or boys, and I can sell Boys' Knee Pants for less money than it takes to buy the eloth. A cordial invitation is extended to the entire community to come sa4 take odvantage of the low prices I am offering, Your attention is also in. vited to my G-rocery Departznent. Co iy~ wr $ OUR HOQRN.OFLEINTY I have held the lead in the mercantile business in Clarendon for thirty seven years, and I propose to continue holding it bry paying the highest market prices for cotton, and not allowing myself u'dersold. MOSES LEVI. When You Come t4 Ton --CALL AT O chool Notice.6alvysBrr sn OFIESCHOOL COMMISSIONER, M i ning. S. C., Jan., 4th 1893.)ftofhsctoe. Until further notice I will have my office open on Saturday of each week. TheHA-U"IGIAL TjE, other days wil esetinvstn h schools of the coupnt i. L. itn thELLSIG county.AND L. L. ELLSSHAMPOOnIG School Commissioner C. C. done with neatness and dispatch.