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i % Avpat* CKHmids. ] r& C., September M-Tbe OwnmUtee of the Re- ] la mmIob a great- t aT Imt night, uieking up the ef Selegatoa to the Convention Which nwtet 13 o’clock to^ey. The eommMee also littcnoU to an from the J. Hendrix At tSVetaok to-day Uto convention ealled to order by T. K. Miller, ^Beaafbrt, chairman of tin: Exocntivc OomraHtee. He explained to the oon- vention that by itJ action to-day it voold be made poaeible for the party either to bold many more or none at all In the next decade. He thought that the privilege of voting solely an electoral tieket was not soffleient com pensation for the dangers the Republi can voter encountered, and he did not think it was snSMent to keep those voters together. A negro did not care to be shot for the fon of voting for Blaine and Logan. He said the call for a convention included all mankind in South Carolina who stand in oppo- sition to men who defraud ignorant tenant* and laborers, and outrage and oppress the voters of the State. The Repubiicau party, be claimed, was composed of the laboring men, and it is these who make a State great. The dry Blaine aad Logan ticket not being suteoient to rally the Republicans in South Carolina, be urged the nomina tion of a foil State ticket, and intimat ed that unless it was done the party would be eternally dead. The voters were learning that they could not look about for home protection and they ean only get R by struggling to regain control of State aflkirs, and the hope of doing this would arouse great enthu siasm In the rank and file of the party. He hoped the convention would be harmonious. Oatendorff, of Berkeley, read the call under which the convention was held and the purposes for which it was The roll was then called, and at its conclusion Miller announced that noin- inetious for temporary chairman were la order. MeKinlay, a red-headed, freckled- freed negro from Charleston, who was standing in the aisle, bawled out, **Mr. Chairman/' but Miller looked over and beyond him and recognized “Mr. Parvis.’* MeKinlay wilted and Purvis advanced slowly towards the chairman. Halting about half way up the aisle, he threw himself in a dram atic at t Unde and said: “Kir, there are times when there <s no necessity for a speech, there are times when necessity forces a speech, but this U an occasion when it is unnecessary for anything to be said about the gentleman I pro pat in nomination. He Is well to all of you as a man of the highest Integrity and ability. I nomi nate Hon. W. J. Whipper, of Beau fort.” Prluce Rivers, of Aiken, and MeKinlay seconded the nomination, nose to known in front of the speakers, a cane in his right hand, bis eyes rolled upwards, a oomplaoent smile on his lips and a B enera! appearance of sutisf&cfion laminating his oonntenance. He evi dently believed ever)’ word they said of him. There being do other nomi nation he was elected unanimously, and Purvis and Myers, two bright mulattoes, escorted him to the stand.* * On assuming the position of tempo rary chairman, Whipper said he would not'say what was usually said, that be did not seek nor desire this honor, tor it would not be true if he did. He Mdd he had Uie honor of presiding over the first Republican convention gwer held in Konth Carolina. He bugged that order be maintained, but reminded his hearers that be hail the nr to enforce it if necessary and . promised that it should be preserved at Mill* is* rr 1 then hazards Miller nomthaled Fordham, “a man that is an honor to our w for secretary, but Shrewsbury, delegate, said that as die pres ident of the convention was from die aen ouest he thought it proper that the secretary should be selected from the mountains and nominated W. E. Thomson, of Greenville. Fordham Withdrew and Thomson was unani- monsly elected. Smalls fald he didn’t want any scramble in tbe convention, and moved that the rules of the House of Repre sentatives of this State, with suitable eneeptlons. be adopted. Carried. Deae asked if it was in order to move for the appointment of a com mittee on credentials, and on being informed that it was, he moved that such a committee be appointed by the chair, consisting of one member from each delegation, where there was no contest, on the rocoipinendution of the delegation. Whipper stated that he would not entertain such a motion, as it was the province of the chairman to appoint the oomunittee. At the suggestion of Smalls the latter part of the resolution was stricken out and then adopted. Wbinper reminded the convention of the importance of having good men on this committee and announced in advance that he would not put any one on the committee who was a member of tbe executive committee and who heard tbe arguments in the con- »teats in the convention, the committee was made up and contests for seats iced in tbe counties of n, Colleton, Rich- iter. The executive com- for consultation and tbe took a recess tomtil 4 o’clock Sr itlou reassembled at 4 tod. At that hour, lee was still itier Spear*, a Sumter, ad- until 9 o’clock, recess was taken bitterly de- of the party offices to the ile. He of tbe of their Oolumuu, S. C., September 94.— Tbe Republican Convention assembled at 9 o’clock a. m., bat tbe Committee on Credentials still being unable to an adjournment until 2 o’clock en. At that time another re cess was taken nntll 4 o’clock, when the committee came in and snbmitted its report in the contested cases. The committee recommended the seating of the regular delegates from Abbeville, Richland and Colleton, and the report was adopted withont discussion. In the Charleston case the majority re ported in favor of seating both delega tions, giving a half vote to each dele gate. A minority recommended the seating of the delegation headed by Postmaster Taft. In the Snmtcr case the report recommended the seating of the delegation headed by Richardson. Freeman, ot the Taft Charleston dele gation, took tiio floor to advocate the adoption of the minority report. Ile began by explaining the manner of the election in Charleston and got along easily until the opposing delegates be gan to put questions to him. He an swered very promptly for awldie,until becoming excited, lie* charged political rascality upon R. L. Smith, the color- editor of tiio J'ulmetto Prtti. Smith was one of the opposition, and attemp ted to interrupt the speaker. Another delegate interrupted Smith, and then followed a scene only witnessed in Republican conventions and at negro minstrel shows. Cm2* were thrown off, oaths were freely indulged in and for some moments an old-fashioned knock down and drag out appeared imminent. After considerable effort quiet was restored and Freeman con cluded. Smith followed. Ho produc ed namorous affidavits to prove that Tuft’s crowd had stuflcd tiio ballot boxes a*:d thus defeated the will of the Republican voters of Charleston coun ty, and ho appealed to the convention not to endorse such infamous practices by seating the delegation. Taft took the floor, lie said, not only to put him self right personally, but, as county chairman, to defend the Republican party, which had beeu besmirched worse by these men than had ever been done by khe Democrats. Ho went on tiien to show the clean record of his party under him us chairman, and con cluded with an appeal to the conven tion to seat his delegation. At the conclusion of Taft’s speed), Miller, of Beaufort, presented an invi tation to the convention to attend the memorial services in honor of R. B. Elliott, and moved an adjournment ot one hour and a half for tiio purpose of allowing the members of the conven tion to attend the services. The motion was almost unanimously dc feated. Pinckney, a coal black dar key, answered Taft and produced evi dence to prove the charge against the Taft crowd. He was followed by Me Kinlav, of Charleston, and Paris Sim- kins, of Edgetield, as Chairman of the Committee on Credentials, closed the debate. Tiio vote was taken on the minority report seating the Taft dele gation. The report was rejected i» vote of 61 to 48. Taft arose and said that, as an honorable Republican, lie could not accept the majority report, giving each ot the delegations a half vote, and ho would withdraw; you may take your packed convention, with the rovenue ring. “You up-coun try people may take it and run it to suit yourselves ; wo have the votes on the coast and wc are the party; we leave you to run it as you please.” Then followed a scene of the wildest confusion. Motions to adjourn were made, delegates collared each other and endeavored to talk each other down. This continued for half an hour, when quiet was comparatively restored. Freeman, another Charles ton delegate, stated that the party had degenerated into a mob and he must withdraw. Points of order were made and delegates in all parts of the hall arose to privileged questions. McKin ley finally obtained the floor. Whip per ruled him out of order. He said he would speak, anyhow. The pro ceedings here, he said, were disgrace ful to tuc National Repubiicau party. In the midst of the greatest excitement and the unremitting hammering of the Chairman, McKinley continued, de nouncing the members of the conven tion, and concluding bv withdrawing from the convention. While the con fusion was its highest, Kmalis rose to a parliamentary question, and after mov ing the indeffnito postponement of the majority report, subsided. Purvis, of Charleston, rose to a privileged ques tion. After eulogizing the grand old party, he said he was told that this convention denounced Bill Taft as a ballot-box stuffer, and bo would not submit to it, ami withdrew. Thom son, a colored delegate from Berkeley, tried to speak, bnt Whipper kept up a constant hammering and advising (he delegates to be seated. Thompson said he intended to talk, and the Chairman might os well understand it. Miller asked if the question before the house was not the majority report. The Chairman assured him that it was. MiHer proceeded to protest against the action about to be taken by the con vention. He reviewed all the evi dence before the convention, and went off on a long tirade against the revenue ring. He gave a glimpse into the past, and said that Chamberlain corrupted and ruined the Repubiicau party and left Ellery Brayton to boss the rem nant that remained. He severely de nounced the action of the credential chmmittcc. Ho said the colored men cannot rally around the Biaiue-Logan standard because a few white bosses want to rule the party for their per sonal aggrandizement. The debate was continued till 12 o’clock, and An ally resulted in the seating of the Charleston delegations with half votes. The convention is still in session, at 1 a. m., considering the Sumter case. It is said that the bolt begun by Taft to-night will be followed by the dele gates from Berkeley, Orangeburg, Williamsburg and possibly other coun ties. These delegates will hold a sep arate convention and put out an elec toral ticket. The result in the regular convention is favorable to tbe Inde pendents and may result in a fusion of the regular Republicans with them. Third Dmj. Columbia, S. C., September 26.— The.. Republican convention continued In sedition until 8 o’clock this morning and adjourned tine die. During the discusaion of the Sumter contested case, Thompson, an exeecd- ingly black negro, from Berkeley, tinsins. known as the Santee orator, denouuo- ed Taft’s opponents and said they were all slaves. One of them, Wragg. Thompson and said all the sticks, disabled tbe chairs, shiv ered some of the glass globes in tbe chandeliers and, becoming convinced tba* they were as powerless to makb an impresslou on each other’s beads as they had been to get some sense Into them, they abandoned this sort of fon And returned to a battle of words. During one of those stick and chair disputes, cx-8peaker Kainuol J. Lee. well known in the good old Radical days, remarked to your corresdondent that the fight laid the Hamburg riot completely in the shade. As soon as some sort of order had been restored, Dcos, a mulatto from Darlington, placed the following State ticket before tbe convention and it was unanimously nominated: Governor—D. T. Corbin, of Charles ton. Licutenuut-Governor-D. A. Straker, of Richland. Attorney-General—Samuel W. Mel tons, of Richland. Adjutant and Inspector General— C. J. Stolbrand, of Richland. Treasurer—C. C. Macoy, of Chester. 1 Secretary of State—R. L. Smith, of Charleston. Superintendent of Education—Rev. J. E. Wilson, of Darlington. Comptroller-Genera?- E. J. Sawyer, of Marlboro. All of these nominees are not entire ly unknown. Corbin was the United States District Attorney who prosecut ed the Ku Klux in 1872, and the white men who were brought to trial for participation in the Ellcnton riots in 1877. He also claimed to have been elected United States Senator from South Carolina, and contested Senator Butler’s seat, but. us will be remember ed, was defeated and Butler seated. Judge Mackey’s description of him when the vote seating Butler was taken is so good a description of him at this time that I cannot resist the temptation to quote it. Mackey says that while the vole was in progress he saw Corbin standing in the lobby of the Senate, “tlic bright gleam of hope in his malignant eye.’’ His attention was attracted towards the tellers, when the vote was announced, and as soon as this was done he looked again to Corbin and saw that a wonderful trans formation had taken place. “Hope seemed to have departed from him for ever. He looked like a man who was dead and ft had died of tubercular con sumption. and had been buried in a country churchyard and his body torn from the rude cerements of the grave and placed upon the dissecting table of some medical college in the last stages of cadaverous ness. In other words ho presented the appearance of utter goneness.” He is bitier malicious and vindictive. Ho is a native of Vermont. Since he was rejected by the United States Sen ate until this year, when lie was sent as a delegate to the Republican Na tional Convention, he lias not been an active politician. He may not ac cept the nomination, as lie probably would not enjoy an expensive and un pleasant campaign for fun. Melton is the present United States District Attorney and was a Radical Circuit Judge in the days of good stealing. Ho is a white man and u very uole one. Straker is a colored man of consid erable ability. It ts said that he came originally from Bermuda. He was in the Moakey house in 1876 claiming to be a member from Orange burg countv, and when the Republi can party collapsed Straker was re tired from the service, lie is a pro fessor in the Allen Law School, for colored men, in this city. He has been a sorehead for some time and his nomination was probably made to con ciliate him. Stolbrand is a white nian, and a revenue official. Macoy is a white man and doubtless held some federal appointment. Smith is a pumpkin col ored negro about 25 years old. He is the editor of the Palmetto lYets and is an intelligent fellow. He is a shrewd politician and showed ability in this capacity by defeating Taft, one of the most astute Radical politicians. Wilson is an unknown, and shares this distinc tion with Sawyer. Brayton, having ousted Taft and his crowd, was elected Chairman of the State Executive Committee without trouble. The nominating of an electoral ticket and tiio drafting of a platform was de volved upon the Executive Committee. These matters having been disposed of, the convention Anally gathered itself together and silently stole away. you «4irty tost' A WONDERFUL ESCAPE. Ttirve . PMtonger Can Throwu Down a Twwnty-fl»u V—t Ktnbankment. Tohokto, Ont., September 25.— Three Pullman cars and the private car of Chief Engineer Ilaiinifnrd, of the Grand Trunk express train, for Montreal and Boston, left the track, near Pickering station, last night, owing to a broken frog, and wentovet* an embankment twemv-tive feet high. At the time of the accident it was very dark and the rain pouring in torrents. The crash of the rolling cars, the screams of the women, and the groans and shrieks of the wounded, all ema nating from the intense darkness, was terrible to listen to. The horrors were multiplied when Chief Engineer Han- n i ford’s coach took Are. The flames burned fiercely despite the pouring rain, and quicklv communicated to the Pullman coach that came next, though there the flames were stayed. A large number of towns-people quickly gath ered and aided in rescuing the passen gers from the burning Pullman car. As quickly as |K>ssiblc, the passengers wore collected together and the roll was called, when it was found that about a dozen were injured, but none seriously. How ojl escaped is a mys tery- One of the qoaches was smashed into kindling wood, and all were whirled over and over several times, yet many escaped absolutely nnhurt, while most of the wounds were of a slight character. The injured were taicen to Whitby, where' medical aid was procured. The damage to th« track and rolling stock is estimated at $100,000. Aa Attempt to ka Mad* to Xaka tka Flgkt aa tka Ffaa.Trada Lika, aa Draw* kr Hard. Washikutow, September 26.—While Blaine will not admit that tbe battle he is about to wage in Ohio is in the nature of a forlorn hope, ho go«* about it as otic does about a very serious bus iness. lie tnlics with him as his first lieutenant Joseph II. M&ulv, postmas ter at Augusta, a tried friend and one of his most capable supporters. In not a few respects lie is in an abler leader for such a campaign than Blaine him self. His work will not be so much seen as felt in results. Holed in the re cent battle in Maine, and his methods are held to bo as good in Ohio ns they proved to lie in Maine. If it was * Dorsey that was felt to bo needed, the want has been supplied in Manly. He possescs the faculty of finding the weak r ilace in the enemy’s castle and bring- ng the heaviest guns to bear on it, and the managers of Cleveland’s cause will be fortunate if they have his match for him. Blaine intends to force the fight on the tarifl'issue. More t linn one hun dred speakers will open fire at once with this description ot shot and shell, and at all times and in all places wilt lie on the aggressive. Not the Morrison bill only will be taken for tbe text. An attempt will be made to make tbe fight on the free trade line as Hurd has laid it down. Not the forty thousand wool growers who believe the government ought to be run for them, but every manufacturer will lie taken into the confidence of Blaine’s supporters, the great brewing interest, now so ticklish regarding Blaine, included. Free trade menus free beer hs well ns free wool, free iron and free everything else. The brewer will be told that witli free trade, with the intention of substituting which for wholesome pro tection tiio Democrats will be resolute ly charged, the brewers of this country will have to reduce their beer from the six and eight dollars they now get for it to three and four dollars or cease to make it altogether and drink foreign beer. The Prohibitionists will be told that their action will directly tend to flood the country with cheap foreign liquors, bccanso supporting St. John will only help to elect Cleveland and bring the free traders into power. The Tariff I Mue. If it be said that in uU thu there will be an Immense stretching of fact and that the common sense of the people will be im|*osed on Hurd, Watterson, Morrison and a dozen others will be introduced as witnesses. It will accord perfectly with Blaine’s way. Ohio must be carried or Blaine will fail; and it may be depended on that the doings and sayings of the Democrats in the last Congress and every vote taken in the House of Representatives, from the hour Carlisle, the alleged free trader, was elected Speaker over Randall, the standing champion of protection, will be made to do duty for all it is worth. Blaine intends to make good the sav ing that Carlisle’s election as Speaker was a free trade triumph and that Cleveland's election will consuinir.atc what was tiien begun. Here it caii be said that speeches made by Demo crats, who are now snp|iortiiig Cleve land, when the Morrison bill was under discussion, to be used as campaign lit erature, and which have been suppress ed because they arc so anti-protection, will be made to serve the purpose of Blaine in the Chio canvass. Blaine perceives his advantage and will make the most of it. He would not lie the Blaine the country knows so well if he did not. Ami lie ami Ins cohorts will go it rough shod and the voters of Ohio will be told more things than they ever dreamed ot. But the work will not he wholly or chiefly on the stump. It was not so in the recent Maine election, the result of of which is claimed as a great Blaine victory. The silent work in the neigh borhood, at the fire and with individ uals will go on unceasingly. This is Manley’s tactics. And there will be “soap.” Four years have not lessened the virtues of soap in a heated cam paign nor caused tiio genius to make tiie best use of it (o be lost. In fighting fbc Ohio October battle Blaine believes he will be fighting the November battle in Indiana, New York and every State he must carry to be saved. Infighting the September bat tle in Maine he held that he was help ing to fight tbe October battle in Ohio. Every one can judge for himself how well lie calculated. “Take them in detail,” is what Blaine said when he retired to Bar Harbor, ostensibly to write history and have a good time witli a few friends. nominated Airs for Governor. —-A gathering, numbering 80,000 persons, was addrssssd by General Logan and other Republicans Youngstown, Ohio. _ Iw! Xu Gen. Alfred X. Scales'* Injuries. Raleigh, N. C., September 26.— Geu. Alfred M. Scales, the Democratic candidate for Governor, who was bad ly hurt a week ago by being thrown over a precipice in the western part of the State, is still unable to meet his appointments, and his friends fear that be is more seriously hurt than was at first supposed. He cannot staud up, and internal injuries of a serious char acter are feared. He is at home in Greentborougb. Movement* of the Cnndldntc*. IkdiaxatolTs, September 25.—A dis patch received tins morning says: “Blaine will visit here on Thursday, October 2, coming from Cincinnati. Butler and_St. John have already ar ranged to come here that day, and will speak ut night from the same platform. Ex-Governor Hendricks, accompanied by a delegation of Demo crats and a few friends, left for Co lumbus this morning, going by special train over the Indiana, Bloomington and Western Road. Wheeling, W. Va., September 25.— General Logan addressed a political meeting here to-day. Albany, N. Y., September 25.— Governor Cleveland will go to Buffalo some time next week, probably on Thursday, it being his first visit to his home since his nomination. y, trhich „ it kt the ex. charter tbs proparty ot tba company should revert to the city. This salt Is brought for tba purpose of enforcing tba conditions of tba original charter )aod to annal the transaction by which Four Negro** Lynched. New Orleans. September 25.—A social from Brookhavcn, Miss., to the Timet-Democrat says: Last Saturday night a mob of forty men visited Franklin county jail, overpowered the jailer, took out four negro prisoners and lynched them to trees in the court house yard. One was charged with an assault on a white girl, two with murder, and the other with arsou and robbery. Four other prisoners were in the jail at the time, one charged with criminal* assault, others with arson, but they were unmolested. The mob informed the jailer that unless the oircuit judge cleaned out the jail this term they would return and make a clean sweep. The affitir is greatly deprecated by the large majority of the citlzeus of the county, where six men have been sacrificed by Jndge Lynch in eighteen months past. —William Pitt Kellogg has been nominated for Congress by tbe Repub licans ot tbe Third Louisiana District. —Kansas i for Blaine last Monday, and 'the next day two big cotton raiflt at Biddeford shot down owing to business depres sion.’.’ —Chicago Timet: "A thorough cir culation of the new Mulligan letters in Ohio ought to make it unnecessary for the Cleveland party to provide money and orators for that State.” —Information has been received at Albany that a regular system of cam paign calumniation touching the pri vate character of Governor Cleveland has been inaugurated by the Blaine managers. —Mr. Hendricks addressed an as semblage estimated to nuinber from twenty-five thousand to forty thonsand at Hamilton, Ohio, on Saturday. Gov ernor Hoadly and ex-Senator Thurman also spoke. * —The present indications are that the Democrats of Ohio will carry thir teen out of twontv-one Congressional districts of the £tate. The contest over the State ticket is very warm and both parties are about eqnallv hope ful. —The Democrats of Iowa, Michi- an, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin >ave determined to take the manage ment of the campaign in those States into their own hands, and have estab lished for that purpose headquarters at Chicago. —St. Louis Post-Ditpatch: “The New York Independent has at last come to the conclusion that St. John is the only candidate with a strictly vir tuous record. Mrs. Belva J. Lock- wood, however, was probably ruled out of the competitive examination on the ground that she was legally ineligi- —Louisville Courier-Journal: “The Merchant Traveler says that Blaine accumulated money while lie was in Congress in order that it might not be spent to pay for slaves set free, South ern claims and pensions for rebel sol diers. Mr. Blaine is not unlike the burglar who broke in a man’s house and rifled his pockets to keep him from getting drunk.” St. Paul Globe: "The sober sense and integrity of the people ougbt to save this country not only from the disgrace hut from the positive danger of the election of such a man as Blaine to the Presidency. With his illustri ous example, as developed in this cor respondence, there would not be enough of the country left, at the end of four years of his administration, to quarrel about.” —General Edward S. Bragg contra dicts the story that lie said in the Democratic National Convention that the Irish might go. “In the Chicago Convention," he writes, “I made no mention of nor did I allude to our Irish-American population in any man ner whatever. I have never enter tained such ideas nor uttered such words, and one charging them upon me must do it through ignorance or from pure malice.” An Editor's Kxperlrnre. After trying numerous remedies for Rheumatism, but without permanent relief, I was advised to use S. S. S., which had given permanent relief to others suffering from rheumatism. After taking half a dozen bottles I found that the disease was entirely driven out of my system, and a per manent cure secured. This was over a year ago, and since then, even dur ing our most severe weather, with sudden changes, I have never suffered a return of the old attacks which dis abled me from editorial work. 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WORLD XAXL'FACTITHIJIU CO., 188 Niwttau Street, WeW York. Sept 17-X4W it jrrura uus dl- WANT l Magic I.an- K. W. PERCIVAlu GOOD W O B K. -O w 1 IXIOItS. DOORS. DOORS. SASH SASH SASH O LOW P It 1 C E S. O- BLINDS. 9 BUNDS. BLINDS 1 Prompt -O Ship me n t. o- Turning, Moulding, Brackets, Mantels. O- Send for Price List. -O E. w . pi:k< 1 VAI„ MEETING NEAR LINE STREET, Charleston, S. C. Blaine'* Electioneering Tour. W ashington, September 25. —Biaiue left Syracuse this morning and attend ed the Fair of the Oswego Falls Agri cultural Society before resuming his Western trip. At the Fair he held the usual informal reception. He returned to Syracuse before noon and boarded ids special train and resumed bis west ward journey. Emory’s Little Cathartic Tills are sufficiently powerful for the most robust, yet the safest for children and weak con stitutions; the action in any disease is uniform, certain and safe, painless and effoctive. Druggists—IS cents. ♦ Kilted by XI* Rival. Talladega, Ala., September 23.— Last night at 11 o’clock Abe and Chal- mer Boswell escorted home a young woman whom they accompanied to church. A dispute' arose as to which •he flavored, when Abe Boswell drew his revolver and shot Chalmer Bow- ] well dead. The murderer esteped. A prominent physician lately remarked to the proprietor, that if it were admissible to nuke public the letters we receive, the “Mothers' Friend" would out sell anything on the market. Send for our Treatise on “Health and Happiness of Woman,’’ mailed free*. Bkadkield Rroulatoh Co., Atlanta, Ga. Seo. S. Hacker & Son, — MANUFACTURERS OK- Doors, Snsli, Itlindsnnd Building Material. ciiakm:.htoX' h. v. Prices Low and Material First-Chuw. RHEUMATISM Although a precUUoaer of near twenty yean, my mother Influences me to procure B. B. B (or her. She had been confined to her bed several month* with Rheumatism which hod stubbornly restated all tbe usual remedies. Within twenty-four hours after commencing B. B. B. 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Frank Joseph, M Jones street, Atlanta, has s son who had a sloughing, scrofulous ulcer of the neck, and had lost his hair end eye-sight, finding no relief. One bottle of B. B. A healed tbe mote, eradicated the poison from hU blood, reetored his eye-sight, and placed him on tbe road to health. A book filled with wonderful proof fromtho very best class of citizens, end recommenda tions from the leading Drug Trade of Atlanta, mailed free to any address. B. B. B. only a year old and ts washing wonders. Large tx*. bis $1.00 or slxNor $8.00. Bold by tna $miiil aa receipt of price. BLOOD balm 00., Atlanta, Oa FALL OPENING. Desportes & Edmunds, himI MACHINES. COLUMBIA. S. C. o DRESS goods, silks, plushes, Satins, Lares, Corsets, Gloves,' White Goods, Table Damask. Ladle*’, Gents’ and Children's Fino Shoes, Boots and Bon tew). Also, Gents’, Youtlis’, Boys’ and Misses' Hats. Also, Gents’ Underwtar, Carpets Millinery. ST. JOHN’S SEWING Orders by mail invited. D'ESPORTES A EDMUNDS, Columbia, S. 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What the FeapleNny—My aiio audutyav.l b p.p uned r»ur “Nlan- dnrsl Care l*fUa” with great barn Get ton. w« arhclputc no timber trouble with Mmtarla sa long as the i'lllx are about.-Hakiiy J. snog. MAKKU, P.M., Tud/town, Pa. 1 took the PiNa apcordlug to dlrpciiotta and tb«y proved tab* Juft what was needed.-Kxv.r. J. Uociikan, I'nutor M. K. Church, 8t. Georges, Del. I am well pleased with M Ktnory '» stan dard Cmre FIlia.” Rtve tried them on a gr«ut.maiiy case., of different fevers, ha** peeved sneer*idol la every tiuunce. Titer work into a< li.irm oa CbUls and Fever sad all Ifaliirtcluinctuicii.—ll.J.GKUMAK M.u., i>.-- Texss. I use yoor remedy in my prs«ticf> wttl good rt miN.-UtiKire© Wait*, M.D., nttaflelit, Moss. I have hsodted ysur pm* fur M uaru for tbe * with better r*' "’ ■'—-— - “ - post four very stubborn M.D., ir years with better satisfaction than any other remedy rut -it rue dis- FkSA. fi. Hamf, Druggist. Jersey City, I. J. Your Chttl Pllte **.—S*T. M. E, Vail, Csiedoaias Mlo*. ( use them in my prarUo? Tsass. JDw them to my pre«ttoe_effectMlly_.—J. J. McLknou, M.