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'OBUTB. tm lur «<| ti ■ ;>■ t S?;'. , i > -- irntm* ' Pft rff/lffh tfi 7\ttk£M. ^ 1 nwwwr w to Mjr cavalry act i bow nttcrly ■tetCBMOtCM bo Wtll enongh entered Columbia the 17th, Hampton and will bo bo be «# the them on ire? To ebow raeb Sherman le in Me tble banting, it mar that when be morning of Confederate to whleb Sherman made in the Salt da and then the Broad entering Columbia ena- to earn bit artillery and trains, which, when Sherman the city at 9 or 16 o’clock in j were tome ten or twelve below Colombia. 1 was up all on tba Itith, flllin up au .i 1 citizens tbsm^lfes had. * In addition to all this cavalry were eight or ten miles from that city. There It no doubt the cot ton was burned, bat there has been no proof that Hampton’s men did if. On the contrary, the inference Is tint they did not barn it, for many of his cavalry were citizens of Columbia and of the country around, and had no more wish or motive to hazard the burning of the city by burning the cotton than the eavahrv Mini omenta a and I left Columbia with the rear ■ten and I left C( of that command about SSt, «Mt W I have heard that a committee of citizens of Colum bia. composed of as reputable men as Gens. Sherman, Logan or Howard, have said in a carefully prepared cir cular that when Sherman entered the city on the morning of the 17th of February, 1866, no cotton was burning, and that neither tlis citizens nor Hampton’s cavalry fired anything. Therefore, when Sherman says that be will allow no man to question hU statement of a fact as seen by himself he assumes an attitnde as ridiculous and absurd as it is weak and egotis deal. It might do po harm were Sherman to recollect that some quite reputable Federal and Confederate officers to "allowed” themselves to qnestion his assertions that the Federal army was not "snrprised'' at Shiloh. At least he is too experienced ajudge of human nature not to know that the state' ments of the most conscientious and truthful meu are often questioned by men equally as reputable. THK WORK OF FKOERAL HANDS. As before stated, it would he simply absurd to suppose that Sherman saw Hampton’s cavalry set fire to the ootton in Columbia, for they left the city some hours before Sherman eu ww iuvuiiwu uuiiut I tered it, and when the troops did had the lower part of | leave Columbia Hhennau was crossing Broad River, five or six miles above daylight on the | of February, 1866, a few hours Sherman took possession of it. " I wa camped about fifteen or miles from Columbia, haviog j ra tbeCongaree some distance: khan tornlng north towards Ches- Mr. The wind bad been quite high all ter »d haeame almost a gale by dark, and tba red glare of the sky lu the dlreotlon of Colombia, when night earns on, told all of us that (he city was la flames. <■ The qnestion Is here again asked: M Wbo burned Colombia?’’ Sherman My* that two daya before lie had issued oraart "especially merciful” towards the citizens and that his men did not i city. Why were his batteries the banks or bluffs of the i as soon as he reached a point city? Why did these shell the city, the Capitol and tba railroad depot on the 15th and 16th? la what way and In what sense did ha intend to show his "special morsy” to the citizens of Columbia white firing shells upon their city as •om aa be eoald plant his gnnsr I Was la Charleston during most of tlie Mr!/and terrific bombardment there, ttmre when General Gilimore’s i Angel” was mounted during and ‘ the SmA' i wife soon raised t , trusted to tbs hor rors of flunine and a Russian winter to complete bis destruction. That waa Nopoteon’a situation. What waa Sherman’s? ■v-w THE HEAL SHUMfAV. He, gallantly "severing loose from his base of supplies at Atlanta,” struck a bee line for Savannah, where sup plies awaited him, marched through a lountry that has strawberries in win er ofteuer titan it has snows; a coun try. as his own officers wrote home, rich in all the delicacies as well as in the substantial! needed by an army; a country where the negroes were always ready to show where such things could be found In abundance; country so stripped of fighting men that bummers and sutlers could safely stray ten miles from the main lines of l;hc army’s march and return with captured wagons and horses and mules loaded with all manner of plun der, taken from farms where none but old meu, women and children could be found to dispute the capture; a country which for two hundred or three hundred miles had seldom any thing but solitary etiimneys, as mute but eloquent sentinels over the desola tion Sherman’s men had wrought. ’Twas the desolation of flames which enveloped houses left in charge of wives, mothers and daughters by husbands, fathers, sons and brothers then with Leo and Johnston in Vir ginia and North Carolina. Why should vandals capable of such out rages spare Columbia? Thn Jnne report of the United Bute* Department of Agriculture will record an advance in the cotton area of 6 to 6 cent. .Virginia 107 per cent., brth Carolina 102, South Carolina 103, ifo, ■ municipal election In Green- be held on September 14. AN AWFTL SPECTACLE. ( »j, about Broad street, within of the abells of that famous rifled gun before the citizens of Charles ton awoke next morning. But Gill- More gave Beauregard two days’ no te that on the ensuing Sunday he WMld open hia gnna upon the city. In a flaw noon most of the business howai and many of the fkmilles living aa low down town as Broad street had tend at loaat temporary quarters be- range of even the "Swamp Sherman was neither so nor so merciful aa Gillmore, began to fiv from hia guns as aa ha got them In position, and no one over been! of hia giving any uo- Boo to any Confederate officer or to any eMy authorities in Colombia of hU Inteal ion to begin to shell the city. Donbtee he gave to his own soldiers Offlevetobe "especially merciful” to tbt elteaa. But, unfortunately for Mia, this very declaration bf his proves -that be himself bad no idea that his eoldlere' woald be "merciful” out of tfleirown humanity. * If be gave orders to his soldiers to be "especially merciful” to tbe citizens, K Mum aa though he saw the fete UWutUiig this doomed city. Then why ebunld he be eo quick and eager to dhlifle Humptou’a men with thecom- mlamou of an atrocliv beseems to have Uteebanded us a very probable oonse- qaiaee of tbe capture of tbe city by Me ewe meu? why invoke "special mercy” for Sodom if be did not ! Hat Sodom's destruction would be work of hie own soldiers? - wanna tab ootton. ’s arrival there were thousand bales of ootton in ootton sheds of the city, heard tbe question dfs- esaoQri before he get there as to what ritenld be done with it. It could not be tarried away—no transportation for If^Where It eoald find a safer place. advocated burning it, for . i eoald do no gooo, as the tel wuntd Adi on them. If uot burned ; HbJmwMo would gut it all. For tbe to horn It would only exas- tbe Ibderel officers, who de al! such valuable /aa ootton, and whose kindly i It waa moat desirable to secure ‘ great distress ami danger, lu toottou ran up aa high as fil.90 per the £i*rx. MOad’(gaid) la Liverpool, and the em Ihoamaa bales in Columbia were (v worth, even et #1 pur pound, at least „ flSOO per bale, or #6,000,000 for the tea ted bales. The citizen# gene- 1 believed that the Federal officers Ida all they coaid to save this Then why ahonld Hampton’s barn It? Sach an act would the hatred with which ot Columbia knew they by both the Federal the Northern people, l Of felly could only subject be horrors experienced by of the towns and rural dis- l through which Sherman's march fen. weald it not have brought whose horrors make Oven to think of? But really wished to burn that aay one believe thev would •oaOl) oa to pile it up in tbe street of the city there? Would not that every store, public private residence on and street? Would uot the loss , fhrnitare, hooks ^ comfort have been Had the aRtsena really barn that cotton and thus the Federate from gctUng it, liht mid woald have banled it tba city and horned it were rim woald be damaged by the 1 heard tbe mat* the citiaens gone- that while tbe Federal woald not care a any lorn to the cltj doire mooh and do all they by prevent- •ootton the Fed- prevent the says tbe — be entered riteaa desired to six the city. The citizens say that nothing was on fire when Sherman entered, at say 10 a. ra. T|iey also say that when the fire began, after Sherman’s sol diers entered the city, they did all they could to extinguish it and prevent its extension; that the Are engines were brought out but the hose was cut in many places by Federal soldiers, who were seen doing it. In a court of Justice they would be believed ns readily as Sherman, who did not see Hampton’s Confederate cavalry tiring the cotton, while these citizens did see the Federal soldiers cutting (he hose of the Are engi nes. If men will cut the hose so as to prevent the Are from being extinguished it requires no stretch of credulity to believe they would start the fire themselves. Sol diers set that cotton on Are, but they were not Confederate soldiers. Sol diers cut the hose of the engines to prevent the Are from being extinguisli- ed, hut they were uot Confederate soldiers. Sherman says that Hamp ton’s men burned the cotton, thong) Hampton's men were ten or twelve miles away when Sherman came in Citizens as reputable as Sherman say they did see Sherman's soldiers cut ting the engine hose while they (citi zen) were doing all they could to stop the flames. After all this testimony it is quite pertinent to ask: "Who burned Co lumbla?’' Sherman says that no one attemptei to fire the houses which were metf by himself, (run Howard and Gen Logan as quarters while in the city Of course not. Why would Federal soldiera burn tlie quarters of their own commanding officers? These quarters were guarded against any snch van daiism, and Sherman does not seem to perceive that this statement is au nr gument against him, for it may bt asked why shpuld the citizens ol Co lurabia wish to burn the residences of meu like Hampton and Preston, who were bom and raised among them Sherman’s boast that the quarter* of hlmaelt, Logan and Howard were not burned is strong presumptive evidence that the dwellings of other citizens which were not protected by Federal soldier* were burned by those soldiers —for no one isailly enough to think the citizens would fire thelrown residence* and deatroy their own property through mere wantouneas. AUA1N, WHO Rl'KNKDCOLUMBIA ? I could uot and, do not think Sher man or Logan or Howard gave any orders to burn the cotton, the stores or the residences in and around tlie city. On tbe contrary, it is admitted gen erally that they never refused to fur- utsh a guard when asked for a* a pro tection to citizens and their dwellings. But this very fact confirms the belief that these officers well knew what was to be dreaded from their soldier* in such a "rebel'’ city and on such a night. Hamilton's command could not be dreaded, for they were far away. The citizens were not to bo dreaded, for they had no wish to burn thelrown property and terrify their own femilies. There was no’ dread of anything except an excited, unbridled soldiery, and hence the guards fur nished were for the sole purpose of prolectiou against the probable ex cesses of tbeir own Federal soldiers, and, as has been shown, these guards were too often unable to give the protection asked for. But why should there be, how can there be, any doubt as to who burned Columbia? What town or village in Georgia or South Carolina did Sherman’s soldiers spare from flames on tbeir march from At lanta to Savannah and thence to Columbia? What humble home in tbeir path escaped tlie "pitiless mercy” of Sherman’s troops? They not only took from tbe fanners all the stock and food needed by them, but they burned afl tba fermiug implements, barns, fences and many of. the dwellings which sheltered only women, children and old ib«n from the winter storms. The pages of military annals would receive an exceedingly rich contribu tion were Sbermau to tell how many armies be met and bow many brilliant victories he woo in that famous "march to the sea.” That pleasant jumt has caused some of his ignorant to compare it with celebrated march to Moe- between them is • two men. to Auater- con- bust trained ttwope of Prussia, . dev took from France deeper late an enens Victim of Hi* Be* M». A Tombstone, Arizona, special says: . J. Patten, who "John Slaughter and J arrived here Thursday from Kwisa- K»U of • Hugo Stone Staircase Crswdsd with People at * Courthouse In Thiers, Prance. At Thiers, a French town in the department of l*uy de Dome, a murder trial has been in progress for some days. The circumstances of tbe mur der and the exciting incidents of the trial have engrossed the attention of the people, and Thursday, the last day of the trial, the Conrthoue was crowd ed with men and women anxious to witness the closing scenes. When the people were leaving, immediately after tbe adjournment of the Court, and were jammed upon the stone stairway leading to the street the lofty staircase fell. Tlie scene that followed was appalling. Immense masses of mason ry from above crashed down upon struggling people below, grinding through their flesh and bones ana maiming and mutilating them in a hor rible manner. The fall of the stair case and the shrieks of the people lying helpless in tlie ruins caused panic in the Courtroom, and there was a rush for the now wrecked exit Those who were in front were unable to withstand the pressure from behind and were hurled down upon the men and women,crushed in tlie fall of the staircase, and whom the people in the street were already striving to rescue. When, at length, the panic had ex hausted itself and tlie immense stone steps of the fallen staircase had been removed twenty persons were uiken from the ruins dead The injured numbered uot less than sixty, am many of these will die of their injuries A later dispatch says that in addi tion to the twenty persons killed in the Courthouse disaster, fully one hundred persons were injured. Many of tbe injured are women, and their wounds are of a serious character. When the massive stone staircase tell tlie scene was fearful to witness. The immense stone steps above, with the people upon them, were precipitated upon the dead and dying below, adding to the horrors of the awful spectacle. A still later dispatch from Thiers makes the Courthouse calamity there far more disastaous in its consequences than tlie earlier dispatches indicated. The dead already number twenty-four, and the total ntimber of injured is now placed at one hundred and sixty-three; of these fourteen are very seriously injured and some of them will die. Life aurt He iltti to Me. Some seven or eight years ago my right thigh was covered by a skin eruption, causing intense itching. In a short time it extended down the entire leg, which became inflamed and finally broke out in small sores be tween the knee and ankle. Swelling of the limb ensued, and I could not walk or put my foot to tlie ground. The nain ran me almost distracted. I tested the medical profession thor oughly, having tried all the systems. Some of them brought me temporary relief I paid out hundred* of dollars but found uo permanent benefit. The Whole poison seemed to concentrate in an ulcer near mv ankle, some three inches in length, "find tlie remedies used, being largely mineral, did uot seem to reach the source of the disease at all. For three years 1 was unable to do anything. The ulcer had already eaten down to the lame. Two of the physicians recommended ampu tation of the limb a* the only means of preserving life. I was almost in des pair when a friend suggested to me to try Swift’* Specific. F hesitated, but Anally secured six bottles. The ellect of the first bottle was to stop the eating process, and the six bottles made permanent cure of a disease that had batfied the best medical skill in the country. My case is well known in Gainesville—the desperate charac ter of the disease as well as the won derful cure efiected. There are no signs of a return of tlie disease. I am in lietter health to-day than I was before 1 was taken with the disease. I weigh forty pounds more than I ever weighed before in my life. SwifFs Specific lias proved life and health both to me, and 1 never can be grateful enongh for the benefits which I re ceived from its use. M. D. Wilson. Gainesville, Ga., Feb., 28 1886. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, At lanta, Ga. * Georgia 104, Florida 102, Alabama 103, Mississippi 106, Louisiana 106, Texas 110, Arkansas 109. Tennessee 101. The totsl area exceeds eighteen million seres. The plant is healthy, tbe growth nearly an average, the stand good. iWhere recent nuns have been excessive tlie orop is in the grass. Tbe general average is 92, which is higher than in the three preceding veers in June. There is an unusual uniformity in condition, only Tennesse showing less than 90. The State averages are: Virginia 98, North Carolina 93, 8outb Carolina 96, Georgia 95, Florida 93, Alabama 92, Mi-sis*ippi 92, Louisiana 96, Texas 90, Arkansas 91, Tennessee 86. The condition of winter wheat is reported lower than ever before in June. Tue probable product ot the winter wheat States, according tu these returfis, is reduced to about 207,000,000 bushels, but none of the Territories are included in the winter area. The report of spring wheat is more favefra- ble. Substantially the same area has been sown as last vear-about 11,000,000 acres. The condition of spring wheat is 90, and indicates a crop of about 153,000,000 bushels. The general con dition of rye is 83. The area of bar ley is nearly the same as in 1884, and the average of condition is 89. Tlie average of oats lias increased 4 per cent., and tlie average of condi tion is 94. Corn will be reported in July, but voluntary returns indicate an increase of urea. Mor* About the Cuttou Crop The last monthly report of the Na tional Cotton Exchange, concerning the growing cotton crop, says: "The season presents some striking contrasts with tlie one preceding, and while attended with several drawbacks for the cotton lilnuter, it may be char acterized, taking the whole cotton belt, all tiling* considered, a* tlie best for several year*. The very cool and dry spring retarded planting from one to two weeks, but the crop was well pitched, lands were properly worked and an exceptional stand has been secured. Insects have ravaged tlie crop and young plants have died from cold over limited area*, and the plant over the entire belt up to the middle of May wa* of small growth, but has had the advantage of careful attention and cultivation, which has been be stowed on it by reason of tavorable working condition* and an abundance of labor. In May warmer weather and showers brought up tlie condition rapidly. In some section* rains were needed to germinate tlie seed and to bring good stands. In other places rain was necessary to give vigor to the young plants. While there are complaints, mainly from the Northern section of the belt, or rather from the upper counties of some State! of ex cessive rains, a carcfnl analysis of tlie situation justifies the assertion that the damage from this cause, while feared in some localities, iiad not really been inflicted. Early June weather, therefore, in these section* may l>e watched with interest. Taken alto gether the May weather conditions can he regared a* very favorable, and they have brought the crop to a far higher status than existed last year at corresponding date*. "In comparing with 1884 the general features, as will be noticed in our re view of ihc Slates and by an examina tion of tbe temperature and rainfall tables, there is a better average for this season over the whole licit. "To contrast briefly: East of the Mississippi River the condition is fully as good or better than last year, west of H the situation is decidedly more favorable, while in the Mississippi bottom* there is a marked advantage in every respect. "We present these contrasts merely for the benefit of those interested in the staple that each may draw conclu sions, as it is not our intention to give in figures of percentage an estimate of the varying prospects of the crop at so very early a stage of its growth. "The acreage has been largely in creased and is reported as follows: Virginia 100, South Carolina 102, Florida 101, Tennessee 102, Arkansas 104, Texas 109, North Carolina 102, Georgia 101, Alabama 104, Mississipp 102, Ixmisiana 110, Missouri, Ac., 100. Belt average 104. Increase in acreage 686,000 ‘ GLASS HOUSES •‘Thry Who Llv* la Gins* House* Should Mind How Th«y Cm! Stone*.” “Tlie wicked tieeth when noonepursueth It i* amusing to see how tender-footed certain blood remedy proprietors have be come of late. They make much ado about “apes and Imitators" when none are in signt. The proprietors of B. B. B. would say most emphatically that their remedy stand upon its own merit. Should we attempt to Imitate, it would not be those who do not understand the modus operandl of that which they ofTer. Our own long experi ence in the profession precludes such an Idea. The field for blood remedies is large and broad, affording ample room for all present aspirants We uo not desire to close the door against others, neither stall It be closed against us. B. B. B. is the quickest remedy, does not contain mineral —The inutile! ▼Hie will —The May collection of tuxes iu Aiken doiinty amounted to #18,841.14. —Fifty colored |>ersoiM were Im mersed in Reedy River, at Greenville, on Sunday last. —Tbe fifth animal convention of the Aiken County Sunday-School Union will be held on Jnly 23. —The Abbeville Hotel has adopted tbe modern stylo and furnishes nightly concerts to its gue»U. —The May collection of. taxes in Edgefield comity amounted to |3,695; in Newberry county to #2,666.42. —New steel rails are being laid on the Wilmington, Goinrnbia and Augus ta Railroad near Marion. —Charles L. Emanuel lias been ac quitted in the Lancaster court of the charge of murdering William D. Cur tis. —The Court iionse at Marion has coiitly undergone extensive repairs and lias been handsomely refurnished inside. —Dr. J. K. Gantt, of Aiken county, expects to realize about six hundred pounds of honey from his bees this year. —'Mr. R. M. Cooper, of Sumter county, has a field containing forty acres which it is said will make 35 bushels of corn to the acre. -The grain crops in Marion are turning out much better than was ex pected at one time. Tlie improvement was caused by the recent rains. —United States Marshal Boykin will not enter upon the discharge of his official duties imtif July 1, the tiegin- ning of the Federal fiscal year. —The total May collection of taxes in Sumter county aggregated #1,525.51. The county owes #1,914 and has #576 with which to pay it. -The Baptists of Johnston, Edge- field county, have raised about #4<X1 for the purpose of building a much needed naptistery to their church. —The Associate Reformed I’resbyte- rianUmd tlie Methodist congregation in Lancaster are making arrangements to build new churches. -The Rev. W. W. Graham of Wil- liston, made the first shipment, two crates, of jieachcs to Charleston on June 3. They brought three dollars each. --Treasurer Floyd, of Spartanburg, has collected more money up to date this year than last year, being a total of #29,343 31—about one halt of the first installment of taxes. — It is announced that Mayor Court enay, of Charleston, will be a candi date tor Congress from that district. It is presumed that Congressman Dibble will stand for re-election. —A lady in San Francisco, dyin recently, bequeathed ten t hausen dollars to the Charleston Orphan- house, beside* her bequests to several oilier charitable institution*. — The recent revival services con ducted at Lancaster by the Rev. Mr Tillman, resulted iu the conversion of twenty persons, all of whom have joined tlio different churches in that place. — At a riot at a colored camp meet ing near Yorkville the other day knives, pistols and bludgeon* were used. A half dozen of the rioters were wounded. —The earning* of railroads in this State for the month of May, 1885, as compared with the same inontli last year show: 1884, $427,319 49; 1885, #406,333 77; net per cent.' decrease, 04.90. —The,second trial of Ferguson for the murder of Benedict has been con tinued to the nexf ,erm °f the Abbe ville court iu consequence of the absence of two material witnesses for the defense. —Capt. J. H. Brooks, ot Edgefield, haJKreceivcd his commission and given the required bond a* deputy collector of internal revenue, and on Monday last Paris Simkins turned over the books and papers of the office to him. —On Monday last President Maul din, of the Greenville and Laurens Railroad, sold #10,0(10 of the bonds issued in aid of the road by Laurens county. Joseph Walker, of Spartan burg, wa* the purchaser. The price was 95. Mrs. Rearden, of Granitcville, Aiken county, lias a Plymouth Rock hen which has laid 88 eggs since the first of February last, and hatched 84 chick ens. Besides this she lias raised 53 chickens hatched by other hens. —The contract for building the new town hall and opera house at Camden has liecn awarded to J. C. Allen, of Raleigh, N. C., for #13,935. By the terms of the contract the building is to be completed by January 1, 1886. —From September 1, 1883, to May 1, 1884, 100,704 tons ot fertilizers were mined from the navigable streams of the State; from September 1, 1884, to Mav 1, 1885, 100,876 tons were mined; a difference iu favor of tlie latter jicriod Of 171 tons. A long, lank, lean and etarouie Anti-Pot ash Bomb met the new, fat and saucy At- Bold Boom, on a hot, , sultry da; nta Big Bold Boom, on a hot,. sultry day. “Who are you?” asked the B. B. B. Boom. * “I am the old Anti-Potash Boom,” was the sad rephr, as the perspiration rolled down, and it leaned heavily on the B. B. B. Boom for support “Don’t lean ou me," said tlie B. B. B. Boom. “I may look strong; but I am quite younff—only 14 months old, am growing rapidly, and am mighty weak in the knees I am doing tbe work which you have failed to do. although you are 50 years old. You are old, and tough, ami rich, and don’t re quire a support But what causes you to look so thin of late?” Well, I hardly knfiw," replied the Anti- iiyiy physicians tell me that ansir jy> or vegetable poison, does not Iminate, and is in the field as sn honorable competitor for public favor, and its success is without a parallel. * helm, report that Apaches, on Tuesday last, killed four soldiera belonging to Capt. Load’s command in Guadeloupe Canon. A Mexican named Oabow waa kilted on Wedoeeday night by another band of Apacbea six mites •oath of Bisbee, in Wheatstone Moun tains.” —A faith-care doctor from tba State of Maine arrived in Aiken late week for theqmrpoea <tf taking charge of a geatenan* who 19 by tty ragalar aracridiyr phvatolaaa as a hnneime rnm. T& affiik will be watohed with —Thursday last had been appointed for opening proposal* to do granite work on the State House. Five bids were submitted by the folloniug partiea: Oman & Stewart Co., of Nash ville, Tenn., Lane & Malti, of Wash ington City, R. 8. Andrews, of Balti more, White & Viett, of Charleston, and one unknown man from Charlotte, N. C. By a resolution of the Board, adopted in view of the death of the architect, none of tbe bids will be opened until the election tof another architect, in the place of Major John R. Nicrnsee, who died last week. —The Abbeville Preu and Banner says: "The work of harvest!tg the crops has been commenced, and tbe oata crop, though exceedingly small, is much better than our fanuera at one time thought it would be. Wheat it good enough. Corn is as good as possible, and tbe area is mncii larger than usual. There never was a year when more labor or energy was ex* pended on the forms than this year, and there never wee a time when the prospect waf more encouraging.” eu, 1 imr Potash Hoorn, my abilities have been over-rated, and that while trying to whip, out all opposition by boast and brag, that 1 have proven my inability. Old age is also creeping ou me —having fought near 60 years before any one knew 1 was living—and now 1 am un able to perform feats that others are doing. 1 am collapsed; my friends have turned against me and call me namefe, and oh Lordy, how sick I become at the very sight of B. B. B. Hold iny head while I die.” A ttl’NBKAX. Compared to other remedies, B. B. B. is the radient sunbeam of midday, Hinging its glittering glare to saddened hearts, while others are pale moonbeams, pushing along through misty meshes of darkness, in search of something they can cure. It eures Blood Diseases and Poisons, Catarrh, Old Ulcers, Scrofula, Itheumatisui, Skin Diseases, Kidney troubles, etc., and we hold a 32-page book full of evidence Atlanta evidence—that cannot be doubted, proving all we claim. Our certificates are not ptantasmagorical, nor far-fetched, but are voluntary outbursts of men and women of Atlanta. KHKUXATIfOf. Although a practitioner of near twenty years, my mother influenced me to procure 11. It. 11. for her. She had been confined to her beit several months with P.henma- tism which had stubbornly resisted all the usual remedies. Within twenty-four hours after commencing 1! If. 11. I observed marked relief. 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Liver aud Lungs, for all the HUhMe troubles of women and for those bodily disorders induced by anxiety, c*re and mental strain, its effects will surprise uod charm you. It Ls not an essence of ginger. J)e- Itclou* 10 the palau, a antidote to the liquor habit, and exeeedlugly helpful to the aged and feeble. 5oc. and f 1 *-zes. If you are a lawyer, minister or business man exhausted by mental strain or anxious cares do not take intoxicating stimulants, but use Parksk’s Tonic. If you are a jnochaulc or farmer, worn out with overwork, or a mother run down by family or household duties try Parish's Tonic. If you have Dyspepsia, Rheumatism. Kidney or Urinary complaints, or H you are troubled with any disorder of the lungs, stomach, bow els. blood or nerves you ran be cured by Park ik's Tonic. If you are wasting away from agfe. dissipation or any disease or weakness and require a stim ulant like PARKER’S TONIC at once. It will Invigorate and build you up from the first dose but win never Intoxicate. It. has saved hun dreds of lives, it may save your*. CAUTION!—Refuse all substitutes. Parker’s Tonic Is composed of the best remedial agents in the world, and Is entirely different from preparations of ginger alone. Send for clrcu- IIIS< OX & CO., 163 William Ntreet, New York. 50c. *nd u sizes, st all dealers in medicine, (treat saving in buying dollar size. Mayzfuw —The Lexliqrtoii Ditpatch sav« that it i* authorized to stale that the stock holders of the Columbia Bridge Com pany hare passed resolutions to build a bridge over the Saluda, on the old bridge piers, and also to keep the rates of toll over thu Congaree bridge at the present low rates. — Mr. Andrews, formerly ofSpar- ta 11 burg, S. C., but now of Newark, N. J., has invented a cotton cultivator, with which six acres of cotton can be plowed and hoed in a day, leaving tbe rows entirely clean. One of the cul tivators is being used succesaffilly by Mr. Langston, of Spartanburg.' —The Colleton Preu says that a terrible rain and hail storm passed over the upper section of that county on Friday evening last, doing irrepar able damage to the growing* crepe. Oats, corn, ootton, and in facte crops of every deecription, were literally beaten to pieces, so that many farmer* will have to replant. Several build ings, too, were demolished by the Airy of tbe wind. Among the * principal aofieren are B. Hox, Isaac Kinard, D. B. Connor, P. C. Johnson, J. A. Stokes and W. J. Patrick. FO U N D FOR IaAOIFS ONTIaY. A REMEDY endorsed by the l>e*t Physi cians ami Druggists at its home. A REMEDY that Mr. C. \Y. O’Neill. Good- water, Ala., says raised his wife from an invalid's bed, and he believes mml her life. , A REMEDY of which & prominent Atlanta merchant said: “1 would have given f.VK) as soon as I would a nickel for what two tattles of your medicine did for my daughter. A REMEDY in regard to which S. J. Cas sell's, M. D , Druggist, Thomasville, Uk., says: “I can recall instances in which it affordsl relief after all the axial ii iiudiet h<vl failext." A REMEDY about which Dr. R. I>. Fer rell, LaCrange, Ca., writes: “1 have used for the last twenty years "the medicine you are putting up and consider it the Lest combination ever gotten together for the disease for widen it is recom mended. A REMEDY about wldeh Dr Jo. 1 Rrahain, Atlanta, said: “/ hate examined the recipe^ and have no hesitation in advis ing it* use, and confidently recommend it.” A P.EMEDY which the Rev. i! 11. John son, near Marietta, tla., says lie has used in hi* family with the “utmost satifac- tion" ami recommended it to three fami lies “who found it to he just what it is recommended." A REMEDY of which Pemberton, Iverson A Dennison say: “We have been selling it for many years, with eoustantly in creasing sales. Tbe art'cle i-j a staple with us, and one of ab*alnt. m-rit." A REMEDY of which Lamar, Rankin & Lamar say: "We sold f-o gross iu four months, and nevprsoTd it In any place but what it was wanted again." A REMEDY' by winch Dr. 1 laugh, of La- Grange, Ga , says: “1 cured one of the most obstinate case* of Vk aiiioi:* Men- urnt'ATioN that ever eame within my knowledge, with a few bottles." A REMEDY of which l*r. J. C. Huss, of Notasulga, Ala., say*: “I am fully con vinced that it is unrivaled for that class of diseases which it claims to cure.” A REMEDY' about which Major John C. YVhltner, of Atlanta, well and favorably known all over the I'nlted States as a General Insurance Agent, says: ”1 used this remedy before tbe war, on a large plantation on a great numligr of case*, alwayx icith abeaAute xuceexx." A REMEDY about which Mr. J. W. Strange, of Unrtersville, Ga., certifies ttat one bottle cured two members of hi* family of menstrual irregularity of many years standing. Thin Great Itemedy Id Eridfield's FEMALE Regulator, Send for Treatise on the Health and Happiness of Woman, mailed free. liRADVtKLi) KEUULATOU Co., R>)\ 2X. Atlanta, Ga. TUTT’S PILLS 25 YEARS IN USE, Tks Or—t»st»Msdto>l Triampfr of the Age! SYMPTOM* OP A TORPID Lotsmf RQMtlf. B*wola«a*tlv«, Fain In the h«M» with m 4*11 nna•*(!•* In the hack Milt. Fain naffer she ahonlffer- hlnffe, Fallaeee after eextac, wish affie- 1 Bella* tie* tenzertten ef hefff er staff, Irvitahtlltvei teaieer. Lew eplrtte. with a feeling erhavlaf aefflecteff aeae ffatr. Wear!aeea. Olxmlaeaa, Flatter!no at the Heart. Bets hefere the eyee. Headache ever the right ere* Beetleeeeeee, with Itfhl ffreawe. Highly eelereff Urlae, and CONSTIPATION. TCTT-g FILLS are especially adapted to soak sataa, one doee effect* such a •baage of feeling aa to astonish the sufferer. TWENTY'*!VE DOLLARS CASH and TEN DOLLARS per month, Or FIFTY DOLLARS CASH and FIFTY DOLLARS every six months, Will. BLY A GOOD PIANO! Organs from $24 Uj. SPECIAL PRICES FOR SHORT TIME! EVERY INSTRCMENT WARRANTED FOR SIX Y'EARS ! Send for Circulars and save per evut by buying of the Columbia Music Ecu —The GeoryretovM "Kotwithermndiag the of Mr pianters seem to agood stood with their The Jane pteutiog wifi Enquirer 1 lOoMepriaf •eye: r tavtgoratas the r of manhood, array SC., Now York. ATTENTION, IT A. 33/ 1A E K/ S VY E offer you the celebrate 1 Peterklfl Cottonseed at 91.S0 per bushel. It will give forty per cent of lint, and equal the yield in seed ootton of any other variety. We an agents for the Deerihg Binders, Reapers and Mowers, the Thomas Rake, Corbin and Astae Harrows, Fnaquhar Cot- Planton, Iron Af* Cultivators, Maw te fe^WnkFtewa. Write tew. *3. N. \V. TRUMP, Manager, 12'i MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. 1-iT A cents wanted. N. \V. THUMP, — DEALER IN FANCY M! LL1NFRY, NOTIONS, Ac., li’s Main St., Columbia, S. C„ The on!> exclusive dealer oo<!s Mild at New Yen K«-Irii.bm the City. prices. HiDtaio View Hotel. HEALTH ANT) PLEASURE RESORT. Tlie All Healing Mineral Springs, OU- Gaston County, Nokth CaHolina. w E TAKE PLEASURE IN AN pouncing to our friend* and the public that the NEW HOTEL buildings ar.) now iqx’ii for the accomiWNlation of guests. 'I he buildings are larger, more substantial, better arranged and located (THAN THOSE DESTROYED BY FIRE LAST SEASON.) where a good dry atmos phere can ta tad, overlooking the sprii '' and valley, which will prove a benefit the invalid and pleasure seeker. The commodafion* and comfort* will be found superior to those offered heretofore aitd will compare favorably with other first- class resorts The waters of the All Heal ing Mine nil Springs are well known to cure Dyspepsia and all diseases of the digestive organs, Gravel, Diabetes and Kidney affections, Scrofulous and Syphi litic complaints, White Swelling and skin diseases generally. All persons afflicted with Lung troubles, find great relief here from the Climate and the Use of the Water*. The Springs arc beautifully located, on the Richmond and Danville Railroiui in the Piedmont Belt of mountains, and at the base of < rowdei’s Mountain, being four miles east of King’s Mountain, six miles West of Gastonia, and two miles south of the Atlanta and Charlotte Railroad known as the Richmond and Danville Line. All persons wishing to - find a pleasant and comfortable place, in which to pass a few weeks for health or pleasure, can do no better than to give the climate ami waters of All Healing Mineral Springs a trial, For testimonials, Circulars, terms, address. etc., June 6 CO/.ZEN8 & THOMAS, All Healiko P. O. Gaston County, North Carolina. THE CHURCHMAN. FORTY-f'IBtt’r YEAJL-.-1KMK. ■M. ■■ The Religienn Weekly ef the Fretent. ant Kjtlnrepal Chnreh. 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