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TC Ebs etosaa jet ab. ER-EEL ED1T10IN. WINNSBORO. S.' C.. SAT URIDAY, MARtCH 9, 1878. {VOL. 2. NO. 16. thirt igoraiAvk tt t ,. il'S '. .eh0.\I :iiTi4 mfediicI-- , V'E(ETi NE. Tor I do notu Y.thinik enougih cin bo sal in its' Vogetne pruise i fr I wa-i t.roubled over hirty years withi that. dreadful dis'Ase, Catarrh. and aI such Vogotine bad cough8n el1s that it Would siee4 0s tht uh I never could breath any more, and Vegetine ogtiohas Crel me an I do reol t) t hnk (;u-) A i 1 thi' timl"' 11ha1t Ihere *Vec,Aine I' . I' I l. hink It one or i he we - M .: 10 1, 1,.;. at h ;'iiS 11 Uh. tIe thr- it t., one 01- t.he be(st . ~ ~ ~ ~ V, wlyeue toa.ev. a Vegetint. mes..lCU$ ha . VVV-%V'I . Cor. Magazine aw' N* I :inu StH., Vc tne Caumbridge, Mass. GIVES Vegetine i u S''R TRENGTmu, emotine -AND APPETITE. Mr drighnr has received Lorent bvielti. TIo1 Iheis ofr VECGET IN E. .getine -11 leclinintg heatth walaV otr. of g*a. anxit,Y to nil her friends A ew 1)01 t V etne j(tr %rer Vegetine her health..stIn-ip t appetite. o N. Fl. TILDEtN. Insurance nnd lial E,In at( Agent, Ve .eine No. 49, Seard Dllig 0gtn H oston,'Massj. Vegetine CANNOT BE YegetinE XC E EL E D. CIIAEILESTOWN, MASS. Yegetine H1. it. 8ryE P"nIr Slr-This Is In certify that I have Used .Iour "111o0(1 1par Vgetine tion" in my inily for sevral years, and tinik IIht. for Serofilla, 'ankerous ilors or Itheumatic Vegetine A hA excellel ; and,'n4a blond puiierorprn mvIlCinl Is thIt bwst ihing I have e'ver' usHed. nn(I I have 11sed nmost Vegetine everything. I can cherfuilyr Commend 1it t n11y Ulne iII need of ,suchl a mledieline. Vegetine YOUrsr) pctf, y MiS. A. A. D1I*NSMOHE, No. 1I, Uissell Street. Vegetine IT IS A Vegetine Valuable Remedy. SOUTH1 ROSTON, Feb., i10. .g M Z. STVKN.: Vegetino Dear Sir-I have taIken several bottles of your VEETINE, an'i IIm conv InceI it is a viluliable remnl! Vegetine dy for Dyspepsta. Kinlley Con plaint, and general debility of the system. Voetino lefan heartily recmmeiind it to alsuff:ring f romn Ithe above cuim plaints Vwyotine Your.4 retip-et fully. illMRS. MUNHOE PARIKERI, 1 6 Athens Street. VEGE TINE -PREPARED BY H. R. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS. Vegetine isSold by all Drutgists. march 2 -4w CWESTf ALADDIN U.& 80N8' I.SECURITY OIL, THE BEST HOUSEHOLD OIL IN USE, Warranted 150 Degrees Fire-TeSt. WVATERI WhIITE IN COLORt. Fully Deodorized. WELL NOTI EXPLODE. HIGHEST AWARD DentenniaI Exposition For Excellence of MWanufboture AND IIIGI1 FIRE TEST. Endorso& by tho Insurance Companies. .lked tis Cerl,cle-- One of Many. TTowA nn FJnpa Wset'ANCR Co. OP ]lALflrnW,R Enaore De. E1,loi.-.esss.C. Westi iE &ons - Centk '.' Ilav!mitiused the various oils sold ini is city for iiUlluiating purpoiei I take plens urinI recommending your Ald in Security (O I' as tho safest andi Iett ever used in our house la hil. Yours truly., ~..ignucd] A'DREW REESE, Prcsident, Manufactured by C. WEST & SOlVS, Baltianor. Try Ii, and you wnI sae no othr.. Remov1. HJlE undersigned biegs leave to in form ahm friends and customers and the public generally that he has removed to the comimodlious and centrally located store formeorly occupiod by James R,. Alkon, where may always be found a full and well selected stock of Groceries, Provisions, WVines and Liquors. je Highest Prices plaid for Cotton. feb 7-tf RI. J. MeCARLEY. '100TH IER USIEES. 2 dozen English To oth Brushes, im ortod to order. F"or sale at the DJru Moeof ' . D*. W. E. A&JUKEN. A MARVELOUS DISCOVERY. ric. FANTASTIC 'RE',AKS OF TILD a Man of Thirty-One Revolutionizing uAj Who'o Wo.,ld-Tho Un,old Won dovs of .hi Spoaicing Phonograph--A V i*ir, to Prof. Taom.-L, A. Bdloa of -i -> I ark N. .1. N. J., u day to o eL t, Wi, P.,of Thiomas A. Edison. TflisI gentleinan is the inventor of the autoumatic telegraph, quadruplex and sextuplex despatches, the car bon telephone, the stock indicator, the electric pen, the airaphone, the iarvellous ipeaking phonograph, and a scoie or inure of similar in chinus. He is also thn discover er of the electro-iotograph, by which despatches naiy be tolegrapa ed without magnetisin. Scientific mien regard it as his greatest dis. covery, and predict that it will some day prove of initnense value. Reaching Mr. Edison's factory, the writer was ushered into a lone, 1oo, which served as an immense laboratory, filled with electrical in strunments. Prof. Edison was seated at a table near the centre of the room. He looked like anything but a profcss)r, and reminded me of a boy apprentice to an iron mould or. He w as all begrimed with oil and soot; but the fire of genius beamed from his eye. Unfortu nat ely be is quito deaf, 4ut this infirmity is no bar to his geniality. THE PnONOGRAPH. The Professor was manipulating a machine upon the table before him. He had something resembling a gutta-percha mouthpiece of a speaking-tube shoved against a cylinder wrapped in tinfoil, which lie turned with a crank. The small end of a tin funnel was clapped over the mouthpiece, and strange ventriloquial sounds were issuing from it. H e shook hands, and pointing to the instrument said: "This is my speaking phonograph. Did you ever see it and bear it talk ?" The reply was a negative. There upon, he picked up the gutta percha mouthpiece, saying, "This mouthpiece is Simply an artificial diaphragi. Turi it over," suiting the action to the word, "and you see a thin disk of metal at the bottom. Wenever you speak in the mouth piece the vibrations of your voice jar this disk, which, as you see, hasi in its centre a fine steel point. Now for the other part of the machine. Here is a brass cylinder grooved something like the spiral part of a screw, only much finer 1 wrap a sheet of tinfoil around the cylinder, and shove the mouthpiece up to it so that the tiny steel point touches the tinfoil a >ose one of the grooves. I then turn the cylinder' with a crank, and talk into the mouthpiece. The vibrations arouse thme disk, and the steel point pricks the tinfoil, leaving perforations resembling the 01ld Morse telegraphic alphabet. Thley are really stereoscopic views* of the voice, recording all that is said, with time and intonations. It is a matrix of the WoI. (ds and voice, and can be used until worn out. Nowv let us reset the cylinder, so that the steel point may run over the holes or alphabet made when we talked ini the umouthpiece. Theil thin, metal disk rises, anid, as the steel p)oit trips from perforation to perforation, opening the valves of the diap)hragm, the words, in tonation and accent aire reproduced exactly as spoken. For instance, before you camne up, I wvas talking to the instrument, and here is the matrix or stereoscop)ic view, if you please, of what I said,"' putting his linger on the tinfoil which still re mnained on the cylinder. "Now I reset the instrument," sliding th m cylinder to the right. "Here the steel point starts at the same spot as when I talked through the mouthpiece, but its action is nlow controlled by the perforated alpha. bet. It repeats what I said. I use this sort of an ear trumpet to bring out the sound, so that you can hear it more distinctly. Lis~. ten" He placed the smnzall end of the funne~l over the mouthpiece, shoved the mouthpiece against thle cylinder and turned the.crank. The follow ing words. chased each other out of the fuhnel . Mary had a little lamb, Its fleveo wit :hito as snow, And everywhor that 'ary wont, Tho lamb was sure to go--to go - Ooh 00k ool -ali! 'ockadoodle doo -ahl T uck-a- tuck-a -tuck Tuck-ahl tuok-ah! The cylinder was again sot back, and tli crank turned very slow. Tho effect was ludicrous, for the P12 s hi:-d originally pronounc t w : t "td wit:i great gravity t a .;ity, .old the drawling way ina ;whicii ho ihnstrument repeated tlen would have mode a hofse laugh. The cylinder was then turied very fast, and the words flow out of the funnel so fast that they struck the oar in a confused mass. But a most extraordinary effect was produced when the Pro fessor turned the cylinder back ward. It said : Go to sure was lamb the, Weu t MIary thac overywlere and, 8noW its white was fleece its. L imb little a had Mary. All this witil profound gravity, as if the fate of the world depended upon the acecut and pronunciation Mr. Edison then tore off the tinfoi and wrapped a fresh sheet around, the cylinder. One of old Mothe GoosJ's rhymes was murmurod into the mouthpiece, and its alphabot pricked out by the action of the steel point. The cylindor was then reset, and the crank turned, with the following result: Rtub a dub dub, Thren men in a tub. And who do you think wis there? The butcher, the baker, The candlestick maker, They 'all jumped out of a rotten potato The instrument is so simple in its construction and its workings so easily understood, 'that one wonders why it was never before discovered. There is no electricity about it. It can be carried around under a man's arm, and its ma chinery is not a fiftieth part as in tricate as that of a sewing machine. It records all sounds and noises. The Professor blew in it at inter vals, and the matrix recorded the sound and returned it. He whistled an air from the "Grande Duchesse." and back it cane as clear as a fife and in perfect time. He rang a small bell in the funnel. The vibrations were recorded, and, on resetting the cylinder, the tintin nabulatory sounds poured out soft and mellow. Mr. Edisou coughed, sneezed and laughed at the mouth piece, and the matrixes returned the noises true as a die. But, most remarkable, the instrument sent back the voices of two men at the same time. It is impossible to describe the ludicrousness of the elyeet. The Professor himself 1-lughed like a boy. One of his assistants told a story concerning a tiap laid for a well,known divine, who was skeptical regarding the capabilities of the instrument, and evidently had a suspicion that the Professor was a ventriloquist. le wanted to talk into the mouthpiece himself, and soe if his own words would be recorded and repeated. A matrix was put on the cylinder that had been an:~d once before The Doctor repeated a Scripture quota tion, and to his great astonishment, it camoe out as follows: lie that comeoth from above is above all ["Who are you ?"); he that is of the e arth ["Ohm, you can't p)reachl !"] is earthly, and speaketh of the ("I think you're a fraud !"] earth ; he that cometh from heaven is above all. And what he has seen and hoard ["Louder, old pudding head I"] that he testifieth; and no man receiveth' his testimony ["Oh, go and see Beecher I"] The possibilities and capabilities of this remarkable instrument are wonderful. Dolls and toy dogs c'an be made to recite nursery ballads, and wax figures of notabilities can use the voice and languiage of their originals "Why," says Mr. Edison, "Adolina Patti can sing her sweetest arias, and by this instrument we can catch and reproduce them exactly as Sung. The matrixes can be ,copw ied the same as stereoscopic views, and millions sold to those owning the machine. A man can sit down in his parlor at night, start his pho nograph, and enjoy Patti's singing all the evening if he chooses. 'Poor churches in the country," c ontinued the Professor, "might have these machines rigged up over their pulpite, and by using the prop. er matrixes, could have Dr. Chapin, Dr. Bellows, or any other great theological light expound to them in their own voices every Sunday. Thus the poor churches would save their money, and get rid of the poor preachers. Nor is this all. A man in Europe ha invented a machine by which lie takes an instantaneous photograph. Let us supposo that he protographs Dr. Chapin every second, and we take down his ser mon on the matrix of the piono graph. The pictures and gestures of the orator, as well as his voice, could be exactly reproduce(d, and' the eyes and oars of the audience charmed by the voice and manner of the speaker. "Whole dramas and operas," continued Mr. Edison, his eyes sparkling with excitement, "can be produced in private parlors. Tho instrument can be used in a thous. and ways. Say I hire a good olo, cutionist to read David Copperfield or any other work. His words are taken down by machine, and thous ands of niatrixos of David Copper field produced. A man can placo them in the machine, and lie in bed while the novel is road to him by the instrument with the finest grado of feeling and accent. He can make it read slow or fast, can stop it when he pleases, and go back and begin again at any chapter he may choose. I could fix a machino in a wall, and by resonations any conversation in a room couldi be recorded. Politi cal secrets and the machinations of Wall street pools might be brought to light, and the account charged to the devil. Kind parents could lie in bed and hear all the spoonoy court ship of daughters and their lovers. A man who loved the music of the banjo or the fiddle could buy his matrix and listen to Horace Weston or Mollenhauer whenever lie liked. He could have the whole of Theo dore Thomas' orchestra if he wanted it. "To a certain degro," said Mr. Edison, "the speaking phonograph would do away with phonography. A man could dictate to his machine whenever he pleased, turn the ma chine over to an amanuensis, and let him write it out. A lawyer through the machine might make an argument before a court, even if he had been in his grave a year. An editor or reporter might dictate a column at midnight and send the machine up to the compositor, who could set the type at the dictation of the machine without a scrap of manuscript. One of the most re markable features of the invention is the fact that the diaphragm can be placed in steam whistles and made to talk like a calliope. The captains of ships at sea miles away from each other could converse without trouble, and correct their chronometers. The steam whistles would throw any voice into articu late speech. With a metal dia phragm in the whistle of a locomo tive the engineer could roar out the name of the next station in a voice so loud that it could be heard by every passenger on the train and by every man within a distance of two miles. "Why," said the professor, "I could put a metal diaphragm in the mouth of the Goddess of Liberty that the Frenchmen are going to put up on Bedloe's Island that would make her talk so loud thait she could be heard by every soul on Manhattan Island. I could drop one in a calliope and set it talking so that men could hoar it miles away. Onie might be used as an alarm clock. If its owner wanted to get up at a certain time in the morn ing, lhe could set the alarm, and at the appointed hour the machine would scream 'Hlallo, there I Five o'clock I What's the matter with you ? Why don't you get up'?'" "How did you dliscover the prin . ciple ?" asked the writer. "By the merest accident," sadd tihe Professor. "I was singing to tihe mouthpiece of a telephone, when the vibrations of the voice sent the fine steel point into my finger. That set me to thinking. If I could record the actions of the point, and send the point over tile same suirfaco afterward, I saw no reason why the thing would not talk. I tried the expieriment first on a strip of telegraph paper and found that the point made an alpha bet. I shouted the words 'Hialloo I halloo 1' into the mouthpiece, ran the paper back over the steel point, and hoard a faint 'Hlalloc I halloo' in return. I determined to make a machine that would work accuratelyi, and gave my assistants instruc tions, telling them what I had dis, covered. They laughed at me. I bet fiteen cigars that the tiling would work the first time without a break, and won them. I bet two dollars with the man who made tte machine, and won themn also. That's the .whole Atory. The discovery carne through a pricking of the finger.' We asked how soon the nhno-. graph would bo thrown upon the muarket. "Wo expoct to offer thoin for sale within two m1onths," said tho Pro fessor. "Tho prieo of tiho finest lachinlo will be about S100, but wo shall soll inferior ontes it a much lower price. The Imlatrixes will bo for sale like sliets of imsic, and can be used uponl all the Imlachinles." Hero the eloe struck 3, aid wo started for the train. The Professor returned to hils machine like a do lighted boy, and s11 we left the house wO could hear him gravely asking : "1ow far is it from New York to Albany, from Albany to 8yracuso, from Syracuse to Bufralo, frosm Buf falo to Cleaveland. from Cleaveland to Columbus, from Columbus to Cincinnati, from Cincinnati to Louisvilie, from Louisvillo to Nash Ville, fromt Nashville to-" and so On ud /inum till we were beyond hearing. WYHv POr','S CHANGE Tm:mR NA-M:S. -It is a fact gelerally known that moliks ail 1mins on assumllilg. their vows and Popes oil 11scolldinlg the Pontifical throln usually cliaigo their namles. Th lo reasol of this change in tihe case of the Popes is a sulperstitfiOls belief that unless this is dlone the politif, wNill not livo long. The custom has prevailed since it wats inangurated in 656 by Octavian Coiti, who assumed tho nam1e and11 the tide of John XII. Julius Medici would havo made a breach had Ie- beel permllitted, but his friends prevailed upon him to take the nale of Clemit. lie being the seveithl Pope to bear that name. Thirty-two years later, ill 1755, Marcellis Servinls was clected, and ins3isted upon retaining his own iinmc. As Mm'elhi IL, therefore, ie asceided the throno on the 9th of April. He was a ymmng man and in robust health, an(] yet lie lived but twenty-ono days after his elevation. Since that time lo Popio has ventirel to oflend against the tradition. It is a little singular that while the name of John 1has been a favorite one, 11o less than twent.y-onee Popes Imving chosen it, 11oneo have chosenl it, sina,ce the death of John XXI., in 11 1G. The first Pope hearing the nme of Pius took the position ill 12, and tihe naum did not reappear after his delXi till 1458. The corset had its origin in Italy, and wa1s introduced from lithat country into France by Catlarine do Medicis. Mary Sturt and Diano d Poitiors did not, however, follow the fashion, but it was at onvo aIdmitted byi all the ladies of the French court that it was indis.. pensalble to the he'mty of the femalo figuro, and was, thorofore, adopted by them. The corset was, however, in those days in its infancy, and it assumed moro of tihe tough charac ter of a knight's cuirass. The saddening intelligence ones from Louisana that nmany of the Republican memb111ers of the Senate of that State would refuse to concur in a pardlon of the Returning P>oard memblers. This~ iIdit:r indicatos that thle "por1secultion f (4uro1 and uncon tainaiIited patriots" is not altogether conducted by the White League, which, for the delight of the organs, we had fondly hoped waLs the case. Milton S. Latham, San1 Francisoo, ex-m3omber of Congress, ex- United States Senator and( cx -Presiden t of tihe Bank of California, is worth $5,500,000, hilt is iln such aL condi tion of heal1th thlat ho has been obliged to give up all attention to business maitters, and, leaving his estate in the hland1s of friends, will soon depart for Enrope iln quest of that without which hlis millions are a burden. The following is an epitaph found on a Chiinamani's tombstone iln California :-" Aig unnono. \Virkt last fur Wisky Jo. This monmnent is OWrookte(d hi the saim~ to keep his mommnerry groan an liquizo a wornin to Slestials notter take on ayres like wites. D)ammunm I She was a good og." Tihe manufacture of paper from wood has reached the altitudo of perfection in Canaida. Theli super intendent of a mill up there says aL tree is cut (town andl shoved into one end of the mill, anud five min utes later there is a neighbor' at the other end to borrow the paper. .Danbury News. The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists will put a State tickot in the field for the next election.