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TRI-WEEKLY EDITIONJ WINNSBORO, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1878. Ivol2o NEW ADVERTINEMENTS 2 CARDS15 styles ten cents, or 20 Chromo 5(;ard8 twenty cen ts. with name. J. IIUS. TED & CO., Nassau, Now York. 3 new vocal and 2 new instrumiental pileces Sheet Music, 10 cetis, silveror xtps.MUSI0 PUBLISillNO COMPANY, Middleboro. Mass. PIA TC 1Retail price $900 only $260. PIANOk Parlor Organs, orice $375 0nl $105. Paper free. D. F. 11EATTY, Wash Ington. N. .. 50 LAiIMM a'lE CAlU with name, in Cae, 13 cents. 25 NVIthout cnsp, 9 cents, 31). now fun ars iI cents. OutIlts 10 cents. F. WASI[BiUltN & CO., ,lledlelboro. Mass NiE W OIWIANs. 1u Stops$123, I),:' P0, 12, $85, 9 $66. PIANOM retail pi ice SM-a onlly $-.1.5. Send for conildentia cloiulars. DANIEL F. BEATTY, Washington, N. J. FOR A CASE OF CATARRH That. SANDFOltD'S RADICAL CtRE for Catarrh will not in1:,tantly r0lieve 0andi speedily curo. teference Ilenry wells, ETiT., Wells, Fargo & Z0o., Ai rori, N. Y.; Wm. Bowen, St.. LouIs. 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[ Ur LOOK at the three pictures of a SHIP, on page 1761,--these alone Ii lustrato the mean ing of more than 100 words and terms far bettor than they can be defined in word(s.J More than 80,000 copies have boon placed in the public schools of t.hIs United States. Rtecommeunded by 84 state ttuperintendente of Schoola" and snore than 50 College ProsIdents. eth0enr s.words and meanings not in Embodies about 100 years of literary labor. is several years later than and other large Die.. The sale of Webster's Dictionaries 18920 times sgreat as the sale of any other series of Dic "August 4 181?? The Dictionary used inathe (ivrnm,n~ Printing Omice is Webster's Un Is it not rightly claimed that Webster is T HE ZNATIONAL 8'ARDARD. Jan batu VEGETINE HER OWN WORDS. * . ALTIMON, MD., Feb. 18, 187T. M.I.I.STICVZNH Dear Slr-Since several years I have got a sore and very palntfu foot,. I had some ph ysicians but they couldn't eure me. Now I heard o your VEiETINE from a lady who was very sick for a long time, and became all well from your Vegot,ne, and I went and bought me one ottio oFyour Vegetine ; and afl or I haul used One bottle the palins left 'e, and It began to heal, and then I bought anoter bottle, and so I take it. yet. I thank God for this r- medy and yourself; and wishing every sufferer may pay attention to It. Itis a blessing for health. MitS. C. KIIHA,B 638 West Baltinore Street. V E GE T IN E SAFE AND SURE, M. I. R. STnOsS : In 18T2 your VROBTINH was recommended to me; and yielding to the periun-ious of a friend, I consented to try It. At the time I was suffer ing from general debility and nervous, prostre tion, suptirinduced by-overwork and irregular habits. its wonderful strengthening and cura tUve properties seomed to affect my debilitated system from the first dose; and under Its per sistent use'l rapidly recovered, gaining iore than usual health andI good feellg. sinco then I have not hesitat.ed to give Vegetine my most unqitlilled indorsement as being a safe, sure and powerful agent in promoting health and restoring the wastAd system to a new lifo and energy. VE ETINE Is the only medicine n use; and as long as I live I never expect to fIn d a better. Yours truly, W. 11. CLARK, 120 Monterey Street, Alleghany, Penn. Vegetine. THE BEST SPRING MEDICINE. Ma. H. R. STVTENs OIIAlLESTOWN. Dear Sr--Th Is Is to certify that I have used your "Blood Preparation" in my family for several years, and think that for Scrofula or Cankerous Ilumors or tLeu1at,iC A.ffeCtions It cannot be excelled ; and as a blood puritler and spring medicine it Is the best thing I have ever used, and I have used almost everything. I can cheorfully recommend it to any one In need of such a medicine. Yours respectfully, URS. A. A. DINSMORE, Il 31ssell Street. Vegotine. WHAT IS NEEDED. IE. R. STEVENS, ESQ. BOsToN, Feb. 18, IS[1. Dear fir-About one year since I found my self in a feeble condition from general debilt.y. VEGETINE wasstrongly recommended to ie by a friend who had be -n benefitted by Its use. I procured the article, and, after using overal bottles, was restored to hea 01, and discon tinued its use. I fee, quite coul'.dent that there Is no medicine superior to it for thoa com plaints for whit it Is sspoclally pra ared, and would cheerfully r'ecomnond it to those who feel that they need soldething to restore them to perfect health. Rospectfully yours U. L. i-WTIENOILL. Firm of 8. M. llettenglll & Co., No. 10 State St,rcet, Boston. Vege time. ALL HAVE OBTAINED RELIEF. SOUTH 11HRCUwe, MR., Jla.'11, 1-42 U. 1R. STIRVNNS, RiQ. Dear Sir-I have had dysp6psta In !ti worst form the last, ten years, and have taken laun dreds of dollars' worth of med!cino without ,b taining any relief. In Septoiber lnst I com Inenced t aking the Veiretine, sInce wllc. t.ine my health has steadily inproved. My food digests well, and I have gained fifteen pounds of flesh. There are several otherti in tils pliteo taking VEOE'INE, and all have obtU.iied relief. Yours truly TIO1IAS I. 7JORE, Overseer of Card Room, Portsmouth Co's Mills. VEG ETINE -PREIPAIIED BY H. R. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS. Vegotine issold by all Druggists. feb 1 -4w AUGUSTA HTEL, Corner of Broad ar.d Wr.hington Streets, AUGUST A, G &. i!AS been thoroughly renovated, re mLLnodel ed and newly furnished. It is located in the centre of business. Telegraph Offln in the Hlotel building. Exparess Offlce in the same block. Post Ofihoo only one black off. All other pub lie conveniences close at hand. .ai- The Omeie of the lHotel will be open during the night, and guests will be receiVed or called at any hour. W. W. MOORtE, Proprietor. Rlates of Board, $2.00 per day oct 20-xly 35CT ICOE. R. J. McOARLEY begs to inform every one indebted to him, that, as he intends selling out, it Is imperative that, all accounts be paid on or before tho first day of January, 1877. After that date these who have not paid upj will please eall at the ofice of A. Mt. Mackey, in whose hands all accounts will be placed or collection. de18 , Selling Out at and Below cost. BING desirous of closing my busi neLflss,*asI inltendl to leave the State [ offor my entire stock, consistin of Family Groceries, Booets and Shoes, and a fine stock of Liqutors of ? all kinda, AT AND BELOW 008T, until February 15, unless soonet- sold out. Or, ,I will .ell the entire business, fixtures, and icense, on accommodating terms to a re-. sponuible party. All persons i'ndebted to me will settle up immediately antd save costs. B. PETTICIREW, Jan22-ztt feb15 . Agent, TOOTH BRUSHIFB, Z )dosen English To th Brushes isa 32rted to order. For *9 at the 3dru Biko ot AFRICA'S SUPERSTITIONS. -0 CIVILIZATION IN ETHIO. F'IA. Lecture of Paul B. Du 0ha1u on the Witcraft and Religion of Africa. Mr. Paul B. Du Chaillu lectured Friday night at Association Hall, New York, on the "Witchcraft and Superstitions of Africa." I am going to take you again, said he, into the jungle of Equatorial Africa. Stanloy met that junglo at the hoad waters of the Congo ; he met there the cannibals I saw and the dwarfs I discovered. And what a jungle: it is ! At the end of each day's journey I made, no negro could tell me where that vast forest onded. There are great dangers thero, and Gometimes one has to fight the poo~ ple. It is not very pleasant to fight; it was not very pleasant for Stanley but lie had to fight or be killed. The Doople are scattered in great tribes, divided into clans and the clans into families, the chiefs and the old men making the laws. Three institutions are everywhere prevalent-polygamy, slavery and wi.tchcraft. It is wonderful how those peoplo love to get married. They marry all the timo and never get tired of it. 3oino of them marry as old as eighty-five or ninety years, just as some of us do at home, you know. [Laughtur. I The largest number of wive I have seen be longing to one man was about three hundred, and when I asked him how many children he had, he said between si- and eight hundred. Two handred mora or less didn't seem to tronble hira at all. The wives are not slaves, but their hus bands buy them when they are three or four years old from their fathers ; that is a sort of dowry. Polygamy is also a political institu tion. The tribes are always at war, and hence a man tries to get as many wivea as he can from the eur romniding tribes, so as to ha-e friends among them. They have a great iohorrence of blood relation ship aid no man is allowed to take a wife of his ovi clan. THEIR wITOuORArT AND CANNIBALISM. The great curse of that country is its superstitions, and it is very hard to get at the bottom facts about tlir:r religious beliei. They have two names which represent our ideas of God and the devil. The devil is the source of all evil and witchcraft. When a person is sick he is bewitched by some one, and t1ho sorcerer and sorceress have to be killed. The doctors point thoem out, and they have to swallow poison to prove their innocehce. Thlis poison is tihe root of a tree called bun do, belonging to the strychnine ord6r, but those doctors. take it and do not die. Here, if a man sees the new moon over his right shoulder, or his left, it is lucky or unlucky ; but there it is unlucky if he sees tile now moon at all, and on the day of the new moon nobody dare go out of his hut. The ~ queen of witchcraft lives in the moon, and the people of the world are the insects on which witchcrafti feeds, and whmen witchcraft is very1 hungry she sends the plague and kills more people. Those wvho have ~ any Connection with the spirit in the moon are women and must be! in a trance. The p)eople are honestI in thleir beliefs, but of course there I is jugglory among them, among ~ them. Among many tribes cannm. balism exists, but I think it is a sort of religious feast, as they do not kill people purposely except prisoners of war. As among tile Indians, t Lhey have no mercy on those taken e in war. I made inquiries about this a oannibalism. I wanted to know; e which were the best eating, women, 'I or men. They all agreed that the women were best. They didn't tell 'i rne anythin neow, for I know that before. [Laughter.J Their war 'a lauce is perfectly terrible. They a sover themselves all over with war a paint and with clay that has been m saturated with the decayed flesh m ma brains from the heads of their lead warriors, which they always keep in a particular house in every village. Then they have a dance, t md when 'morning comes each man C muts his hand in several pIapes and I lets the blood now into a lage -E lQep4diph, Saud*11 vb' thema S solves with that blood and thea go to war. SOME SUGGESTIONS TO MISSIONARIEs. The most difficult thing the mis sionaries have to do is to bring themselves to a level of thinking with these people. Some of these negroes aro very fierce. They would not be so bad if the traders did not bring them such an amount of spirits. It is laughable some times to see the missionaries on the deck of a ship and the barrels of ruin under tie deck, both going to the same place. They are kind to the missionaries, but you know when one gets a little civilized he gets sellish, and they know that where the missionary comes the trader will follow, and they like, trade. Stanley has made a great grand journoy. If you will look at the I-bor of 4htt mn you will see it is perfectly marvelous. And how quickly lie did it I He explored the lakes discovered by Speke, Burton, Baker and Livingstone, followed the Congo river past any unount of rapids, and fought his way through to the coast. Living stone was a great man, but his labors were in South Africa. Stan loy just went right through under Lhe equator and in that deadly cli rante where the natives had been ipoiled and made fierce by the slave brade. I think the journeys of peke and Livingstone and Stanley md Cameron are the finest journeys hat ever were made in modern or lden times. A WffHOLESOME LA W. Measure that will Cause a Sentence to Imprisonment for a Misdemeanor to be Something More than Mere Child's Play. The following is the full text of the Act recently passed by the begialature, providing for the work ng of certain prisoners in chain fangs: IN ACT to authorize able-bodied male Prisoners confined in Jail under Sentence to Labor upon the Public Roads and upon the Public Streets of the Cities and Towns leading thereto of this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and Elouse of Representative of the state of South Carolina, now met tud sitting in General Assembly, md by the authority of the same: SECTION 1. That all able-bodied nale prisoners now confined, or who shall hereafter be confined, in my of the jails of this State under ientence, except under sentence of leath, shall, if the presiding judge )r trial justice so orders it, be urned over by the sheriff of any ,ounty having such prisoners in harge to the board of county com nissioners, or to the mayor or ntendant of any incorporated city r town situated within the limits >f said county, to work for the term >f their sentences upon the public oads of the county or upon the mublic streets of said city or town nd the roads leading thereto, in a hain-gang, upon satisfactory as urance being given that the said risoners will be securely guarded nd returned, humanely treated, and urnished with good and wholesome ood. SEcTIoN 2. That such prisoners hall not be compelled to labor be ore the hour of sunrise or later han tile hour of sunset, and shall e allowed reasonable time for rest nd meals, and shall not be requir d to labor on Sundays or on legal Loidays. SECTION 3. That the guards and verseers put over or in charge of aid prisoners shall have all the owers and authority and be sub actod to all the responsibilities of heriffs or constables in charge of risoners as are now or may hiere. fter be provided by law. The Laurensville ilerald says hat Mr; M. E. B3abb, clerk of the ourt, has a little fellow hired to tand at his door and close it after very.one that enters or departs. .his as no new thing. Our clerk, faj. W. J. Aesman, has a little mutor in constant attendance at is door throughout the cool season, nd he is so prompt in closing -it. fter one that sometimes he seems little rude to strangers who at~ ot acquainted with his energetie l0oments.-Lexintgton .Disp atch. Florence McCarthy sayf:if' hought there was no helt he ouldn't sleep a minute. 4 snt wh4 keeps yu awke, Columbia Business Cardf, TTEADQUARTERS for cheapest Gro i cories and Hardware in Columbia to be found at the old riliable house of LORICK & LOWRANCE. TTIX'S, Portraits, Photographs, Stere a ILoscopes, &o. All old pictures copied. Art Gallery Building, 124J Main Street, Columbia, S. C Visitors are cordially invited to call and examine. C IlARLES ELIAS,formeirly of Camden, has moved to Columbia, an.1 opened a large stock, of Dry Goods and Notions, Boots, Shoes, Trunks and Valises. Satis faction guaranteed. R ECKLING'S GALLEHY--Opposite the Wheeler House. Portraits, Photographs, Ambrotypes and Perrotypes finished in the latest style of the art; Old plotures copied and enlarged to any size. W. A. RECKLING, Proprietor. IERCKS & DAVIS, importers and D dealers in Watches, Clocks,Jowelry, Silver and Plated Ware, House Fvrnish ing Goods, &c. N. B. -Watches and jow elry repaired. Columbia, S. 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