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Tll-WEEKLY -I,-IO.}W N- N- -'B-0--R-0 S.' C7-T-HU-RSDA Y, J ANUTJA RY 31, -18 78. (VOL* .NO 5 NE W ADVE TIl''I8 E.1E'NT BEAT3 .tari?nq I Hoc I Organs, 121 Stops,055, 'lanogonly$130 est V'50. Urculars free. DANIEL F. BiTry, Washington, N. J. and levolvers. Illustrated Prico PGttbur I'EAs,freo. Great 11'estern Uun Wforke, Pittsburg, la. 2 W LESOFCA1D8,B10c., or 25 New Year asi' Cat salliles 3e. J. HlUSTEAD & CO., Nassau, New Yo'rk. F 1AMMOi (ttiflt. toeverybody 0 'tn-tOhider watwi rie with ilrst order. Ten doll:rs a day guait anteed '. l(ONEMII & CO., Philadelphia,1a., or Milwaukee, Wisconsin FA TH EM'S For cuts, brul,4es and Spraitis, blind 1 and bleedling REHM l ]) iles, hiheumatii., frac ite l i l frjul nIt,ins an na 1a ()i museem ancti jints i dolent, ulcers, discharging sores, sw0alled sore leg, erysiPeIas,and vareiose veim Is IS8A ND F EXT).1.-rItACT OF WITUII IIAZE,. Ask for it, because it. Is bet(er, stronger and ehe aper than ainy other, and Is warratitecd by WE KS & 1"P'ER, Wiholesale Druggist8, 400 Wash ington 8treet, Boston, Mass &ndfor Reduced Price List of Mason & Hamlin CABINET ORGANS. New and Splendid Styles; I'RICES IE DUCE) $1 t ( i,-) each this mrth. (Nov. 1817). Address. 31AK0q & IIAMIAN, ORGAN CO., Boston, New Yurk or Chicago. AGENTS Wanted !ledals and DI)lo mas Awarde FOl IIOLMAN'S NEW PICTORIAL BIBLES, '200 Illustrations. Addrss, for new eirculars, A. J. IOLMAAN & CO., 980 Arch Street.,'hilia. &gents Wanted I YOR PARTICULAUS ADDRESS WILSON SHINGW MIHlNH COMPANY, 829 Broadway, Now York City; Chicago, Ill., New Orleans, La.; or San Francisco, California. HABIT CURED. A Certain and Sura (1tre. Large reduction in prices. A trial bottle free. WRs. J. A. DioLINOMR, La Porte. Indlaau. !Ox 1038. (Formerly Mrs. Dr. S. H. Collias). RUPTURE. Those wishing relief and cure for Ituptilre should constilt Dr. J. A. i1HIIAN, 256 liroad way, New York. Sendu locts. for his new book, with photographic likenesses of bad cases before and after eure. Beware of cheats who pretend to furnish Dr. Sherinia's treatiment. One of these fellows, a German clerk, now -calling him1self Dr. W. 0. Crempien, Is indicted -on complaint of I)r. .. and awaits trial for forgery an(I eubeuylement. A Great 0frer for 11olidays. We will during these hmard times ind the holidays oisposo ofl100 NEW PIANOS .and ORGANS, of first-class makers, at lower prices for eah, or installments, than ever before offered. WATER'S PIANOS ond ORGANS are the best made, warranted for five years. Illustrated Catalogues mailed. Great. inducements to the trade. Vianos, 7-octave, $14-1; 7-3 ,octave, $150. Organs, 2 steps, $48; 4 :stops. $53; 7 Ktops, $65 ; 8 atops, $70; 10 -stops, $85; 12stops. -04;in prctt order not used a year. Sheet munsie at half price. HORACE WATERS & hON., lanufacturers and Dealers, 40 East 14th Street, New York. Jan 1-4w .We ai&e Agents for the PEARL SHIRT. We guarantee them to be inade out ,of the genuine Wamautta M~usIin, and tile bosoms of the best linen and three ply, each ply being linen. We warrant them to fit in every particular, or money refunded. PBICE-$.00 EACH. Don't say they are too cheap to be good, but come and see for your-' selves, MoMASTER & BEICE. Columbia Business Cards. EADQUARUTER',- for cheapest Gro e(.ceries and Hardwaro in Coliibia to be found at tho old reliable house of LORICK & LOWRANCE. IX'S, Portraits, Photograpl, Store. 000pes, &c. All olti picturet copied. Art Gallery Builditig, 124A Maiii Street., Columbia, S. (1 Visitors are cordially invited to call and examino. C 1 ARLES ELIAS,formwrly of Camden, has moved to Colutnhima, an i opened a large stock, of Dry Goo(d1 and Notions, Boots, Shoes, Trunks and Valises. Sati. faction guarantted. P . iCNLINO'S GALLERY --Opposite .U the Wheeler llonse. Portraits, Phootographs, Ambprotypes and Ferrotypes linished .in the latest stylo of the art Old pletuires copied and enlarged to any size. W. A. RLWKLING, Proprietor. D TERCKS & DAVIS, importers and dealers in Watches, Clocks,Jewolry, Silver and Plated Ware, HlouRo F ruish ing Goods, &c. N. 13. -Watches and jew elry repaired. Columbia, S. C. oct 27-y GRAND INTERNATIONAL Exposition! E could find no other ap propriate heading to indicate the large Stock of DRY ''OODS, SHOES, HATS, &c. &c., that we are now daily receiving. W thought of Headquarters, Empo rium and Bazaar. All too tame. Come One I Come All We are doMt -ained not to be un dersold by any house in South Carolina. The Best Prints in Town at Of cts The very best made at 8J ets. Coats' Cotton, all colors, at 75 ets. We intend to t,ry to please you in prices, goods and polite attention. CALL AND SEE. LADD BROS. oct 9 WATER1S'ORCHESTRJIN Aime ORGAkW fa thae,amostbeaumtlfulfn style and perfect in to u seover anade. Itham thecejebrated Concer b to stem, which is a ine Imitaj.lon of the tiInman Voiee, and two and a half Octaves qf bell. tunedl in perfect harm anony wIth heli reeds, and theireficeh is mag. Scai andt electrlfying. NA, ORO(IIESTRtAL, * CONCERTO,, VESP secambine PUIRITY o/VOICING toith great volume qf tafe~ sutablejor oor Chmurch. RE T E DST NA Ite Tnje,Toneh. Werkmnanship, and Durabihity Unsurpassed. 'Warranted for SIX YEAR R. PRIUCES EX TREMELY L.OWfori'agh.Mon. Iby onstallments received, Iustranents to let nat.i paid for s per conteaet. A Liberal Dincontut in 11a.here.M inisters,Chu,rhes,e Iools, etc. AENTR WANTE,D. Spsetaindeemente to the trade.llstrated Ciaatorues Mtaled. S4econd-hand Instenemente at 4 REA T B A Rt. (JAINRt. Ii0itACE WATER1S & SONS, lUannfacturere and Dealers ,40EASTIdth ST.,DNtiON4 QUARN..,, Asitwal Returns. 'f ANAGE8 of estates whose duty it LJ..is to account before mec, are noti fied that I will be daily in may ofRee unlil the first day of 4iarch aext for the pur pose of receiving and examining all re turns of moneys received and paid out with the proper vouchers for the year 1877. 0. R1. THOMPEiON, 3. P. P. 0, January M3, 18 VEGETINE An Excellent Medicine. 8PitINGFIELI), 0., Feb. 18, 18T, This is to cerlify that I have used VEGETINE ianufaeured by 11. I. .levelns, Hoston, Mass., for ltheumiat.isi anl Unneral Prostration of thU Nervous Mysteml, WitI good success. I recon ieinld Vegetlic as an excellent, meditino for such complaints. Youn, very truly, U. W. VANI)POltIFT. Mr. Vandegrift, of the lirm of Vatndegrift,& liffmana. is a well known business nan hi this place, having one of tho largest stores in Springfleid, 0. Our Minister's Wife, LO'ISVILLE, KY., Feb.116, 1817. Mn. It. It. STRvENs : Dear Sir-Thire ye.ars ago I was suffering terribly with intiammilatory lthetnatlism. Our miltister's wife i(lvi%t%d ine to take Vegtine. After t aking one bottle, I was entirely re leved. '1his year, feeling a rettrn of the disease, I agali conimenced taking it, and am being bene f ed 'eatly. It also greatly improves my dgtn. ltespect,ily, MI.A. BALLARtD. 1011 West Jefferson Street. Safe and Sure. M. II. It. STHVENs : In 1872 your v-x ETnINE was recommended to me; and yielding to the persuasions of a friend, I ecnsenteld to try It. At I lie Lime I was sliffer lng from general debility and nervous prostra i0on, sup,erinduieed by overwork and irregular habits. Its wonderful strengthening and cura Live propertios seteeil to affect my debilitated stem from the first, dose; and under its per stent. use I ra idly recovered, gaining more than tsal health and good feeling. Sinco then I have not liesi(ated to ive Vegetine ny most unlualliled indorsement. as being a sae, surs and powoeful agent in promoting health and restoring the wasted syst em to a new life and lenergy. I'MUE TINE Is tile only medicine I use,a(d as long as I live I it.ver expect, to find a better. Yours truly, W. HI. CLATItK, 120 Monterey Street, Alleghany, Pennsylvania. VEGEIEAE. Tile following letter from Rev. C. W. Mans field, formerly as1or of the Mthodist, Episco al Clhui1rch0, Iyde Park, and at present settled Fn Lowell, must colvinee every one who reads his let wer or the wonderful curative (ualitles of VegelMe a .sa thorough cleanser and puritler of tile blood. H YDE PARK, MASS., Fet). 15, 1876. Mn. II. 1. S'rs .xs: Dear Sir-Ahoit tenl years ago ily health failled through the depleting efTects of dys isla nearly n year later I was attacked by hold feverin its worst form. It sottled in my back, and took the form f a large (ee) seated abscess, which wvats 1 1teenl nmouths In athering. I had two sur gcll. opera ions by le best skill in the State, utt receiva no per mannt, cure. I suffored greac pain at times, and was constantly weakened by a profuse dis, chnrge. I also lost small pleces of bono at differept, times. Matters ran on thus about Seven years, till May. 1674, when a friend recor)n)ended me to go to the office, and talk wlth you of the virtue of Vegetine. I did so, and by your kindness assed through your manufactory, notig the Ingredients, &c., by which your, remedy s pro duced. Itywhat I qsnw and heard I gained some con irience in Vegetine. I commenced taking it soon after, but felt worse from its elTecs ; still I persevered, and soon felt it was bcnefltt ing ne in other sects yet, I did notsee the results I desired t Il ha taken it fail hfully for a little more tihan a year when the di'fletify in the back was cured ; and for iffie iuonths I have enjoyed the best of licalthl.I During tI he past few weeks I had a scrofulous Welling as large as my list gather on another panrt, of i,. bod - .I I took VLET,INE faithfully, and It, removed it level wit li the surface in a month. I tIh uk 1 should have been cured of my main trouble sooner if I had taken larger doses, after having becomO aecustoined to its effects. Let your patrons tronbled with scrofula or kidney disease midersta d that it takes time to cure chronic (isenses ; and if they will patient, ly take VEG KTINE, It will in my judgment, cure then. With great. obligations I am . Yours very truly, 0. W. MANSFIELD. Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Y IG ETIN -PREPARED BY Hn R. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS. Vegetin isSold by all Druggists. jan 1 -4w A NATIONAL STANDARD. Webster's Unabridged. 8000 Engravinmgs. 1810 Pages guarto. 10,000 WVoi'ds andi Meanuings not in ot,her DICTlIONAIES. Four Pages Colored Plates. A Whlole Library in Itself. Invaluable in any Fami ly, A nud in auny School. Published by 0. & C, MRRilIAM, Spllnglield, Massachiusetts. --WARMLY INPDORSED BY Bancroft, Prescott Motley, Georg 1. Marsh, Flis-(*wene IIalleck, Johrt 0. WbJttier, N. P. Willis, John 0.-Snxo, Elihu iIurrit, Daniel Webster, Ruafus tUboate, II. Cerlerige, Smart, Ilorace Mann, More than fift College Presidents. And the best Ameriear, and uropean Selsolars. Contains one-1lfth inaoro a,atter Lphan any other, the smaller typo giying auch meere on a ntAs00Illustratonst, nearly throe times as many as ally 0ther Djetionary. [1 LOd)J at the three pieturos of a SIHIP, on pae1751 -these alone l itustrato t.ho mean ing of tore han 100 words and terms far .better thtan they can be defined in woerds.] Mere than 80,000 Copies have been placed in the pubilic schools of the United States. Recommnended by 84 .Btate Superintendents of School~ andi more thatn 50 CollegI President. Ias alout 10,000 words and meanings not in ether DlJet.ionar s. EmbodUos abouit 100 years of literary labor, is aevorajlyears later than anad ether large Die Aionary. The siale of Webster's Dictionaries isQ 20 s as great, as the sale of any other series ot Ile. tionaries.- - "August 4 1877. The Dictionaryue inJ h -GovernIann Printing Office is Webtor'p n abridged." Isitnot rightly elaimed that We3psfer is T HE NA TXONA L STJA:5 AD. Pa our subs6 pLORt0 g Nzws.Ay HIgg .. , THE FESTIVE OYSTER. A Natural Utstory of the Popular B1. valve--An Intoresting Lecture. 11om (he Balimore Sun. Rev. Dr. y. 0. Morris leotured on "The Natural History of the Oyster" at the Second English Lutheran church, Thursday night, before a large audience. The subject had boon chosen for him, but there could not be a wore luscious and juicy one, nor one more full of in. terest. A great doal had been said, written and practiced about it 4here was indeed a vast oyster prac tice in Baltimore every day-but most people knqw little of the life )ud habits of the oyster. It was :ut of the way of ordinary lecture subjects of the present day, most of which are as dry as "punk." There were curious and laughable things about an oyster, but there was much more than that in the subject. There was its immense financial im' portance in a mercantile view. Thousands of men, women and children were given employment here in the oyster trade who would otherwise have no work in the win ter season. There were $4,000,000 invested in it in Now York City, and probably a great deal more than that in Maryland. The oyster was well known to the ancients thousands of years ago, though it is not mentioned in the Biblo, unless under the general class of shell fish and molusks, but the profane writers are loud in their praises. No dinner could be com plete without oysters. Here in Maryland there is full evidence of their antiqUity. Vast beds of shells ten feet thick are found at great distances from the shores of thu bay, showing that the inhabitants in old times had carried the bivalves .away to feast on them. The heaps wore now covered with other soil. It is not known who was the first man to eat an oyster, but he was a very brave .xan to put such a looking animal in his mouth and swallow it, without knowing wheth ar it was good to eat or not. Tra lition has it, that long and long igo, a man walking by the bay shore, saw a curious, ugly object. half .overed in the weeds. He gave it i kick, when the oyster opened its mouth, and he saw the white pearly Ahject within. The man pried euri* msiy at it, and put a finger in the slld, which wias instantly clamped :lown. Jerking out his finger, he placed it in his mouth to cease the pain. Getting a taste of tLe juice, [ie found it good, and, breaking :>pen the sholl he ate the whole :yster. This discoverer told his riends., and oysters quickly became inown as delicacies. Everybody eats oysters. To a Aev the taste is not natural, but the rippetite is soon trained, and these become the~ greatest eaters of them. MIen of old days ate oysters all day Long, and it was true now that men could eat just as many raw ones as they could find room for in the capacity of.-well, call it what you shoose, Cooked oysters would surfeit. The raw oyster was so easily digestible, because it was firstly composed of seven 3ighths water, slightly gelatinized, mnd a small quantity of nutritive matter ; accondly, its liver, the black part.of the oyster, was larger n nroportzon than in man, and secretred a great a deal of bile, Tis, with the fluids of the stomach, muake two factors of digestion, and bhe oyster partl4y digests itself. The oyster is one of the few inimals eaten alive,- for it is not exactly dead when swallowed, rnless you cut it in pieces first. [ts natural history commences with the shell, which is no part of the animal at all, but only a house, It is composed of cai-bonate of lime. Thme two black marks on the insid6 are where the adstrictoy. puiele adhered to it. This muscle is called the heart, but is not thaQ heart at all. It keeps the shell shut, and when ft relaxes th9- shell opens of itself from th.e pressure of the animal inside. The oyster hatches its egg i.nhide the shell, and there is no malo or fernale,. sex, every systfr being eapable of producing y6.nng. One oyster wWll produce Ibout 2,000,000 youtg at s.Ihne, l'hey are about the size o , pin lead, and float around ianfjlf al tentacle, ith wWhh. iroM 'Ided, adhetes to ad eenc andler them*ator. Th6, yeter fIlocomli M L - At three years old they are edible, but are better at four ears and over. Inside the body s covered with a thin white mantle. This has the power to assimilate carbonate of lime from the sea water, whidh it deposits in layers, forming the shell. The lecturer gave an inter osting account of the inner struc ture of the oyster, and of its man ner of taking food, which consists of the smallest animalculm. Pearls are gravel or some foreign sub stances which had gotten into the sh0ll and are eovered by the animal with caloarious matter. The oyster has lungs, heart, liver, blood, which is white, not red, nerves and stomach, but no brain and no eyes, Its enemies are, after man, the borer, the driwm fish and the star fish. These destroy great numbers. If allowed to pro duce uniolested they wotld soon fill the Chesapeake Bay and drive all the water out. The manner of taking oysters, both by dredges and tongs, was described, The oyster crab was not a baby crab, but a distinct animal. ]Re did not believe that oysters ware eapable of feeling pain. They had no voice and made no fuss, though they often got into broils and stews. No doubt of that, TI7E STATAV 4EGISLATURE, UONDAY, January 28, 1878, SENATX. Several bills and resolutions were introduced, read by title, and properly referred. The bill to provide for the re, organization of the State University cane up for eonsideration, After a long speech from senator Gary in oppositionn to the measi-e, the matter was postponed till January 30, Adjourned, HUusE or REPiaEsENTATIVES. A resolution to hold night sessions was adopted by a voto of 48 to 81, A, number of bills and resolutions were intiodced, read by title, and properly roforred. The bill to amend the school law was passed and sent to the Senate, The bill to reorganize the State University wag passed to a third reading, Several bills received a third reading-.-among them a bill to pro. tect the crops of plautorm and far - mers in the hands of werahants and factors from attachtueut, and -levy for debts dile by said merchants and factors, and a bill to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors within three miles of Blythowood Female Seminary. The bill (framed in pursuance of a memorial of the State Agrioulturo al and Mechinical Society) to repeal all existing fence laws, was passed to a third reading. [This bill, we presume, provides auniversal "no fence" law.--EDs,] Adjourned. TUE5DAW, January 29, 1878, SENATN, A number of bills, resolutions and memorials wer~e introduc~ed, road by title, an~d properly referred, A number of bills, of local or limited interest only, were read a second time and ordered to be en,n grossed for a third reading. Adjourned. H{oUsE oF UEPREsEA'TxTVE5. A number of bills wore introduc. ad, read by titlo and properly re ferred. The Jl.ouse went into O9mmit., tee of the whole on the reporit of the judiciary committfo concering the trial juastice .,ystem. Mr, Mezmminger offpred the following a eolved,' Tfiat l19 the opinion of this cotminttee it is e;pedient to rostgre' the former systenti of trialg in artil causes by ymvig to the Judges of the Courts of Ooiwmon Pleas exclusive jurisdietio in all. suits involving, mreW~ tban 40, That the ,Juaradiotion of Trial Justices in ovil canss he li7mted to causes wherain JOAa 4ban $20 Ia involved That the jurisdiction of the TkjaJ JusBtices in crinda eeu ro aini as at present. tlhat tbe sbe reommnitted in order thap ymay beprepar~ad o carry out the#e viws, This resolution was Adptst, and the nmatter, recommittpd judiciary oo,mittee. * A il to scure laWsedithdo VjJe.*'