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W be N aNO .'taI,. TEL-EEKL EDILON. WISB-.......IPRILI16 1878 {YOL. 5.NO. 32 NEW AI)VEIRTI8EMEN Is. - TA T ReA ltail o)rice $900 only E2ae.1 PIAN os Parlor 'rgans, "rice $375 oy $1e Paper free. ,. 10. IEATTY, Wash. REVOLVER sheovenh1 box ( artridges. Address, . IOWN & SON, 180 and 188, Wood St,., Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. ORGAN 4 S Wlds' hos ail test Cata logues andi Clretllars, wit,h unw styles, HED)UCED P'IlIC1,'-, andt idith Information, sent free. MASON , IIAMIhIN Organ COM PANY, Boston, New York or Chicago. FOR A CASE Or CATARR1 5 ''hAt SANI)POItD'S IADICAL CURIt for CAtarrh will not instantly relieve anileedily tlre. IteferenceIIery Vcls, !sq ., Wells, Fargo & Uo., Au rora, N. Y.; Wm. Howet, St. Louis. 0 estimoninls and treatise by uail. $ i'100, With inlproved Inhaler. Si. !old everywhere. Wi El 8 & POTTElR, 'roptietors, lboston. Mass. PIANOS AND ORGANS At Factory Prices. Oreat lIeduction to close p ut present stock of 500 New and Second-hand tstrnildents of five irst-clasi ipakers, tally warranted and at PilttCE that .ISFY COM Plt 'Ir'l'ItN for this chiss of Instrunehts. AOENTS WAN'1i;) for VA'lls' Sttp-rier IBEI,L OR GANS and PIANOS. tjlustrated Catalogues mailed. I1OltACE WATN,R8 & SQNS, Manufac t,urers and ilealers, 40 East 14th Street New York. Also (1'!ernl Agents for 811ONIROERS Celeb rated l'rethliln Organs. Thre are '(d wdrth 1 i lta tions of BENSON'8 Capclne Portis Plaster In the market.. Sone of thei contain dangerous mineral poisons. Ttach genuine 1T3nson's Cap cic Plaster ias the word Capeint; cut through it. Taeke no other. BENSON'S Capeine Porous P'laster was in vented to overcoule the slow action of the or dinery porui ilaster. and to alTord quick relief from pain. I rice, 25 cents. A Goulds Manufacturing Co. Manufacers of all Force an Lift PU MPS Pbr V e ie,atl. 11IRE ENMIINES, Ilydrait ic Rama, .1MAL( DI ELT.B ?or ! trh aes Scol, nan Plant t on I',anp bi i boria+s ft' ren W tsa Rp+i.t. INQUi FOF CO P A OR. Y.NI- FALL1S. N. Y. WAREHOUSE, lS PAnE PLACE, NA w Yoa iam april :-t4w A NATIONAL STANI)ARD. Webster's Unab"idged. 9000 Engravings. 1840 Pages Quarto. 10,000 WOrds rand Meanings not in other DIC'ITIONARIES3. Foui' PngeS 1oloredl Plates. A Wlioll Library in Itself. Invalualble in any Fam111i ly. And in any School l'ublislicd by U. & C. MEIi1AM, lliringacll Massachusetts. --WAlRaILY INDORS8ED BY Sancrot, Presct,at, ModtieeAnly. can n (1Cre P.ltrsh, Fitz-OrVtCnd Ilull1Cck, Johin U. Vi ttier, N. P'. Willis, John 0. Saxe, E 0l0hu B tirritt, D)aneel Webster, Smaus retif ty oreidc d e , as many as any other liletionary. [ tr'ILOOK at, tili three pIe:. ured of a .911P, pn ag 151-thsealneillstate hemean'. In fnoethan 10wrsand tensfrbet,ter than t.hey dain 1e diefined in words.) More.Lita n 80,000O ediiles have been placed in thepubic ehdla f ticUnited States. Itecomnhiepded by 114 8 ate Superinte'ndebts of Behols an moe tlan50Colleg e Presidents. oc r I e drdsandmeanings not in' Emboiesa u100 ear ofliterary labor. is severl years later than and other large Dic The said of Webster's Dieti rnaries is 20 tilhies *5great as thO stile of ally otlicr series of Dic "August 4 1. Tlite Iietibnav 11so d in the Govern noa Printing Offlce is ecbster's Un Is it not rightly claimed that Webster is 3. C1enining, B3OOT AND 81H0E MAKER, WINN8BOIIO, 8. C. STIFFENERS PREVENT 3oots and Shoes h'rm2unninag over/g Weartin(o ~ the SMe i and Ripping in the march 28 flEST Dry Goods House in the South All express freights J)aidi where the order is $10.01). Write a Postal for Sam psadPrice List. pie ad . BICBARUDS & BRO1 .les W.A Asam.h. E Columbis Business Cards. ]EADQUARTERS for cheapest Gro .eries and Hardware in Columbia .o be found at the old reliable house of LORICK & LOWRANCE. IX'S, Portraits, Photographs, Stere oscopes, &e. All old pictures 3opied. Art Gallery Building, 124 Main 3treet, Columbia, 8. C. Visitors are eordially ihvited to call and examine. 1iAItES ELIAS,formerly of Camden, Chas moved to Columbia, an I opened n large stock, of Dry Goods and Notions, Boots, Shoes, Trunks and Valises. Satis faction guaranteed. RE CKLING'S GALLERY--Opposite the Wheeler House. Portraits, Photographs, A mLroty pes and Ferrotypes finished in the latest style of the art Old pictures copied and enlarged to apy size. W. A. RE'"KLING, Proprietor. D 1ERCKS & DAVIS, importers and dealers in Watches, Clbeks,Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware, House Fi rnis h ing Good-, &e. N. B.-Watches and jew elry repaired. Columbia, S. C. oct 27-y SPRING, 1878. o. -- W E are how teceivihg a splendid lhne of SP'RING GOODS. 150 pieces Prints. 10 " Cambries, 10 " Cretones. A fine lot of Wash Poplins, beautiful line of whito and figured Centennial Stripes ALSO, Bleached Homespuns, Sursuckers, Cotton Diaper, Table Linen and Damask, and the prettiest assortment Table Cloths and Dovlies to motch in the mar.-,t, and many other goods which please call and ex. mihe. HATS. A full line of Straw, Felt ai-.l Wool Hats. SHOES. We havo always taken a prido in our Shoe department. We can now say that we have the most colnplete stock of shoes ever brought to this market. GIVE US A CALL. LADD 3RS COME AND SEE ! 100 pieces 4Spring atta Summer 1Prints, just arrived. 100 pieces Spuing anid Summer Prints, just arrived. 100 pieces Spring and Summer Pritt, just arrived. 100 pieces Spring and Summer Prints, just arrived at, J. F. McMASTER & CO.'S. Centennial Stripe Pique. Centennial Stripe Pique4 Ileachied and unbleached t{ome spuns, Drills, Osnaburgs, etc. Just received at J. F. McMASTER & CO.'S. Spring and Summer Cassimeres from the Charlottesville Woolen M1ills. Just arrived at . J F. MoMASTER & CO.'S, A full lhe of Gents' Fur, Wool Ind Strait Hiats. Just arriveod at, 3. F. McMASTER & CO.'S. Gefrts' and Doys' B)altimore nwade hand and Machine sewed Shoes. Just recevd at 3. F. McMA8TER A CO.'S. VEGETINE. FOR CHILLS, SHAKES, FEVER AND AGUE. Do. H. U. STsvsNs : '' ARBO10. N. C., 1878. Dear Sir :-I feel very grateftl for what your valuable inedicl.ie, Vegetlne, has dotte in my fautilly. I wish to express my thanks by in forIning you or the wondh.rfuIl cure of ny son ; also, to let you know that Vegetiue is the best Iliedicine I ever saw for (hillis, Shakes, Fever and Ague. My son was sick with measles in 1873, which left, hitn with hip-Joint, disease. My son sufferedt a great, dual of pain, all or the tinel; the pain was S o greal. that he did nothl ing but cry. The doctors did not help him a irtlcle, he could not lift his foot. froin the floor, he could not Move without, crutches. I read your advertlsemlent, in the Louisville Courier-Journal, that, VegetInc was a great Blood Puritler and Blood Food. I trie< one bottle which was a great beneit. Hfa kept on with the medicine. gradually gaining. lie has taken eighteen bottles In all, and he is complete iy restored to health, walks wIt:hout crutches or cane- lie is twenty years of ag. I have ayounger son, lifteen vears of age wto issubj(ct, to Chills. Whet ev *r lie feels one coming on, he comes in, tial CS a (100 of Ve e tine leaves no bad effect upen the system I ke nost of ite Inedicines recoluli 'inled for Chills. I cheerfully recommend Vegetlne for such complaints. I think it is the greatest in idlline in the worl< Ites)(', fully MRS. .J. W. LI.OYD. VE(IINi.-Wiien the bloo1 beoIies lIre less and stagnant, either froi change of weather or of climate, want of exercise. irregtt lar diet-, or from any other cause, the Vegel linl' will renew t.he blood, carry off the pu)trili hunuors, cleanse tile stonach, regulate t le bowels, and Impart. a tone of vigor to the whole body. Vegetine FOR DYSPEPSI, NERVOUSNESS, And Oeneral Debility. BERNARDSTON, MASS., 1878. We, the undersigned, having used Vegetlne, take pleasure In recommending it. to all tho;c trtl,ed with ilunore ' anly kind, Dys repsia, Nervousness. 01' (eneta Debility, it ieing the Great Blood Purilier. Sold by It. L. Crowell .v Sons, who sell more of it than all bther patent. patent medicine put, together. t 1I8. L. F. PEItiINS, 3\Hi Ht. W1. 1,SC(1TT JO851P:1I) LA'l'it. VEGETINE is the great health restorer composed exeluisively of barks, loots and herbs It is very pleasant to take ; every child likes it. Vegetine FOR NERVOUS HEADACHE And liheumatism. t'INCINNATI, 0., April 9, 18,7. HI. U. STVENs, i%. - Dear Sir-I have u.ic.l your Vegetine for Ner vous Ileadniehe, anCd a iso for RhleuIatlisn, and have lounl entire relief -frotn hoth, and take great pleasure in reconme.ding it to all who may be likewise afllleted. FlIED. A. (G000,. 108 Mill St., ClncInn1att. VKOETfNE has restored thousands to health who had been long and painful suffei ers. Veg atine. DRUGGISTS' TESTIMONY. MJx. 11. R. STEVENS Dear Sir-We have been seillhg your remerly, the Vegel.tne, for about three years, antI take pleasure in recommending It to outr customuers, and in no Ilstance where a blood puritler would reach the e ase, has it. ever fttled to effect. a cure, to our knowledge. It certainly is the ve ptu.n ultra of renovators. Itespectfull y. E. M. S1I1P'IIRI) & CO., Druggists, Mount Vernon. I1linois. Is acknowledged by all classes of rple to be the very be.t (n( most I,.l1able blood puel ier in the world. VEGETINE -PREPARED BY H. R. STEVENS, BOSTON,. MASS. Vcgetino isSold by all Druggists. april 2-4w SPRINGGOODS. WE have .it receivt'd a now an d pvlretty fissortmnont of SPRING CALICOES AND CAMBICS. The styles are new [and( pretty and the p)rices will suit the timeos. ('all and look at thenm: they will boar the closeslt inupection, and we take leasure1t in showing thom. 1Will receive ina a few days a full assortinent of all goods in our hine. McMASTER & BRICE.X FRESH MEDICINES. Q AR&APARILLA with~ Iodide of Po.. KJ tassa, Liver Pills, Anise Boothaing Drops, Extraet of Blu hu, Cattle Powders, Cough Candy, Cherry Paotoral, Birowna's Cough Mixtur'e, Arnin Linirhent, Es sence of Ginger, Elixit of Grlindella for Asthma, WVormi Lozenges, Hair Rtehtorer, Essence of Lemon, Tooth Powders, &c. These Medieiunes will commefad them selves to physielans arid to those p)ersona who deitire td know what they are swal lowing, sinee the recipe of eaeh is printed upon its labelh. *da sArz n:u McMASTElR & BRtIOE. TILE GREAT COMMONER. -0 INCIDENT S IN THE JrLI'1"E lEON. AL XANDL"'ll If, S TL'PILN'S. His First Appearance In Court- -Merit Recognizod Under P'cullar Ciro.im stances--Ilow Ho Came Near Being President in the Campaingn of 1800. From the Ne York Sl.r. The ex-Vice-President of the Confederate States has been so often mentioned in the various roninis cences, that some account of him, with additional ance:dotes, may not be out of place. His ancestors were English, and his grandfather, a gen tleman by birth, adhered to the fortunes of the Chevalier Edward (called the Pretender), and was thorofore, opposed to the Iouso of Hanover, of which family George III. cauto. This ancestor came to America during the Indian and French wars, and served under General Braddock, near Fort Du quesue. lie served, still later, under Colonel (afterward President) Wash ington. This first Stephens resided in Pennsylvania during the war of independence, and was the friend of Stephen Hopkins, the Quaker signer of the Declaration of Independence. In 1795 the Stephens family set tied on Kettle Crook, in Georgia, and removed to the prescnt home - stead in 1.805. The father of Alex ander H1. Stephens dio. on the 7th of May, 1826. while the latter was in his teens. His mother, Margaret Grier, was a cousin 'to Justice Grier, of the United States Supremo Court, and sister to the once f:mod author of the Grier 8outhiern A lmanact. When Alexander H. Stephens began the practice of law, there was a shoe factory in the pleasant vil lage of Crawfordville, his present home, and the negro workmen par took of their coffee and bread and bacon, in the sun at the front door. One day as Stephens walked past very rapidly, as was his wont,. one of them suspended his tin cup near his lips, and said loud enough for the young n:an to hear, "Who is that little fellow that walks by hero so fast of mornings ?" A second re plied, "Why, man, tvit's a lawyer." The third thought ho saw the point of a fine j.>ke, and burst into the loudest negro "yah I yah 1 yah !" with, "A lawyer ! A lawyer, you say! Now dat's too good-yah, yah, yah 1" The next week was term time, and that same laughing negro found himself in peril of the whipping p:st for stealing loather. It was young Stephens who was appoin ted by the court to defend him, and, although the proof was clear, Stephens quashed the indictment on a legal flaw. The black now said with it bow of humble reverence : "Sah, when I didn't know you, I thought you was the littloat man I ever seed; but now I knows you, you looks big as a pine tree." That poor negro, and IL poorer' white woman, whose child was saved by Stephens by means of the'writ of habeas cor pus from.the oppressions of ab cruel family to whom she had bound out, were tihe first on earth to see his re.al gro.itness. M~r. Stephens waIs once a candi, date for the ministry of the Presby terian echurch, and still professes to be a member of that commIunioni. This fact may seem somewhat L.range to Northern people whio possess copies of his ch-llenges to Governor Herschel V. Joh)nson and Senator B3enj. H. Hill to mortal combat, and who know of a boo0k that sayeth :"N o murderer hath eternal life abiding in him." Those eminent grentloemn delined to be0 shot at, p)osibly oin the ground that Stephens is aL lath wvho can scarcely make a shadow without an over coat, an d that if ho turned side.. ways hie wvould be invisible. When he wvas a boy, starting to Athens, Ga, to be examined for the freshman class, he was too poor to ride in the stage, and wvalked the fifty-odd miles, carrying his change of clothing. on his back5 swung to a stick. A faimily then owned a fine plantation and count4'y house in Greene county1 and he stopped at the gate hot and dusty with his walk, to ask for a drink of water. The kind lady gave him a glass to drink from, and instead of treating him as a tramp, asked him in to stay all night, thus maiking him her guest, A little baby that he took up in his arms. became very fond of him. The next cday a fazm wagon helped him, aome distac on hi way, and a luncheon of cold chicken and broad and butter was his only repast until ho arrived at the college. Many years after tho poor boy h' d won the first honors of his university, had boon in the Logislature, had been the means of building the groatest railroad in the South, and had become at last the leader of the Whig party in Congress and owner of a thousand acres of land. It was then that a poor widow, Mrs. Parkes, cane into his library at Iiberty 1Hall, Imding a pretty little girl by t.he bn1.1i, and told him that by rcason of t to lax habit of her hut1Sban1d in nov(e,r taking receipts, her whole estate, worth nearly a quarter of a million of dollars, had been seized by )retolded claimants. She had no money, but offered him one-half of the property to save it for her. lIe took the case, and, by great labor and research, won it for her. She came to thank and pay him, and lie said : "Do you remuen ber a poor lad whom you kept all night, when on his way to school ?" She did not at first, but soon said: "Oh, yes, I do ; for he was so fond of the bab,. This i: she with tme. Do you know her ?" "Yes," he said ; "I am the poor boy, and now I pay my bill. You do not owe me anything, for I still owe you my love."' When little Mary Parke's married h 'r part of the property was $80,000. Each of her two sisters also had as much. Mr. Stephens' p:atrimolny had been $444. On this lie graduated, and began the study of law on the 26th of May, 1834. Ie refused an offer of $1,500 a year with a partner, but lived on six dollars a month, blacked his own boots, groomed his own horse (atfter he had one), and made his own pies, and, also, imido $100 the fest year. Mr. Stephens tolls, with great glee, a story of his 1irst going to court. It was indisponsablo that a lawyer should enter a town horse ick, at least, and le owned no horse. His uncle-Aaron W. Grier -lived half way on the road to the town of Washington, but considera bly off the road. Ho walked there, carrying his saddle-bags and bor, rowed a horse. He rode, however, a less distance than ho had walkod to procure tho horse. To make his entrance the more impressive he dismounted in a pine thicket, out., side of town, and after washing his face in a stream, aid dusting his shoes, he pult on a clean pair of whito cotton pantaloons, starched t) resemble the white linen worn by Suthorn gentlemen. Thus, fresh and clean, he mado his entry. He dacs not say that the court was much impressed by his display, but he does say that in leaving town he undressed in the same thicket and put on his soiled clothes for the weary starlight walk home after ho should return the hot oi. The great statesman has had to bear the consequences through his whole life of a slight form and boyish look, but these deficiences have had mostly only an amusing and sometimes an agreeable effect. In the earlier part of his career a great commercial convention of nmany States was hold at Charleston, S. (., and Mr. Stephens having been asked to make the great speech of the occasion, consenited to do so' His fame had already extended beyond the country in which lie lhved, and expectation was greatly excited at his arrival. To avoid the crowds at the hotels he had asked two merchants, who were of the p trty, to engzage him r'ooms at the hotol whore they were to st.op, and in due time lie arrived v it ithem. Theli lady who kept the house, ini great excitement, was engaged in looking out for her guest, who was of as mruchi conseguence as a Presi (lent, but she was not in the least aware that he had come. In t.ld meantime the tired statestaan had thrown himself on a lounge for the purlpose of replose, and his twvo friends stood near him.' The lady bustled in, and seeing, as she supy posed4 a country lad who come in to see thme sights and hear Stephens, actually occupying the .best place, and his shioes also on the sofa, she said, with great kindness bub some firmness, "My son, you should let tihe gentlemen have the best. place, but put your foot on' the floor, for we ares trying to keep thin,gs nice for the great Mrs Stepyhens.' When onie of thu. laughimdg iner chants pointed to 'Te smiling boy, with his wonderful eyes1 and said1 "This is the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, p>ada'n," aind he arose and gave her hus hand, t'b~e expression of