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_______t__ nub PetaLb. TRl-WEEKLY EDITION.} l INNSBORO, s. C-., S T UR D A V JrV 197M v1CrT NEW ADVERTIS1:1ENTS. Agents ! Read This I We will pay Ag-its a salary of $10. pvr In )nth and expenses to sell our New and Wonderful Inventions. Arldroas 8ILItMAN & CO., Mar shall, Michigan. PI A N B neans re r R G A N $1000 Only 25. Superb Orand Square Planos, price $1,100 only $255. Elegant pri ght Pinos, price$830 only $155. New style upright Pianos $112.50, Organs $85. Organs 12 stops $72.'0. Church Organl3 16 stors price $.390 only $115. Elegant $375 Mirror Top Oigans, only 105. Buyers, come and see m at, lone : it I atn nrt as represented. It. It. fare pail both ways and Piano or Organ given free. Lirgo Illustrated Newspaper with much information abaut cost of Pianos and Organs se't free. Please ad dress DANIEl. F. 13EATTY, Washington, N. J. FOR A CASE OF CATAR RH $50 That SANDFORD'S RADICAL CUIIIl for Catarrh will not instantly relieve and speedily cure. Reference. Henry Wells, Esq., Wells, Fargo & Co., Au rora, N. Y.; Win. Bowen, St. Louis. 5 Testimonials and treatise by mall. Price, with improv.ed i nhiler $1. Sold evert"where. VEEICS & t'OTTElt, Proprietors, Boston, Mass. NWRIOIDLOOD! PAItSON'S PURGATIVE I'ILLS make new rich blood, and will completely change the 110 iin the entire system in three months. Any per son who will takn one pill each night from one to twelve weeks may be restored to sound health, If such a thing be possible. Sent by - mall for eight letter stanps. I. S. JOHNSON & CO., Bangor, Maine. FOR THE_CAMPAIGN! HAMPTON AND HOME RULE The lews and Coide A LIVE AND FEARLESS DE MO CRA TIC NE W SPA PE R. Largest Circulation n the City. Largest. Circulation in tho State. Largest Circulation in the Cotton States. ALL TIfi NEWS ABOUT "iS'It CAiROLINA. ALL H'lE NE\% S A BOtT'" 'iI E 80U''i. ALL TIlE NEWS FROM EVERY WIIEIE. 1'uro Ind Undelled Dem iocracy UNION! JUSTICE! EQUAL RIGh TS! 0Recognizing the paramtount interest felt, In the approaching pollitcal canvass br every Democrat who hopes to see ihe great work of the Itedlcmpt ton of t he State made complte and permnn"t so that. the 1eople mlay 3 reap and fully en oy the truit, of their sacrlf1ces, THE NEWS AND COURIER will direct all its energies and resources to pre senting frot day to day, end from wcek to is eek. full and interesting account. of the progress of the ( AMPAIGN. t' To place the paper within the reach of everybody during this exeiling contest we have determined to offer to ,Mali Subscribers tho following Reduoed Rates for the Campaign : TIlE NEWS AND COt?tlit;lt, D.tily Edit ion, 0 A'o nOths.... I..E.'...... 'eki.$400 TIlE NEWS ANI. D)tIlEt e1riV kly 0 Edition. (I months................. 200 THE WEEKLY NE% 8,6 months............ 75 Subscriptions will be r,.,"vei at. these rates, FOl NAI. S1iSCRIIIEI'' ONLY, until May 15. I i all cases the cash must, accompany the order. Friends of th.e cause of honest home rule in all the counties are invited to aid ui in swelling our Campaign Subscription List, which oug:1t to include every intelligent voter in the State. ,flIORDAN & DAW SON, Proprietors, March ls-tf CHIALILEST ON, 8. C. SPR1ING, 1878. WE are niow receiving a splendid line of SPRING GOODS. I 150 pieces Prints. 10 " Cambriosi, 10 " Crotones. A fine lot of Wash Poplins, beautiful line of white and figurod Contonnial Stripes. ALSO, Sleached Homespuns, Sursuckers, Cotton Diaper, Table Lineon and Damaskc, and the prettiest assortmetnt Table Cloths and Doylios to matoh in the market, and many other goods which please call and exi' mine. HA't'S, A full line of Straw, Pelt and Wool SHOES1. -We hM*elstays taken a pride in ouer Shoe departuient. We can, now say that we have the most doinpieto stock of she rboh to this market. '~Gt S 58A ALL. Columbia Business Cards. I_ EADQUARTERIS for cheapest Gro aerites and Hardware in Col, n.hia to be found at the old reliable house of LOIRICK & LOWRiANCE. _ ~IX'S, Portraits, Photographs, Store oscopcs, fc. All old pictures copied. Art Gallery Building, 1211 Main Street, Coluitbia, S. C Visitors are cordially invited to call and examine. IAILES ELIAS,formerly of Camden, . iaw novo:l to Colnmbia, an opened a large stock, of )ry Goods +tnul Notions, Iloots, Shoes. Trunks and Valises. Satis faction gnartnt -ed. ~ d~ CLIG'S GALLERY--Opposite the Wheeler lIouie. Portraits, Photographs, Ainbroty pes and Ferroty pes finished in the latest style of the art Old pletures copimd and enlarged to any size. V. A. R1 ;KLING, Proprietor. D JEW'KS & DAVIS, importers and dealers in Watches, CIocks.-Jewel y, Silver and Plated Ware, Ilouse Ft rnish ing Guod4, &c. N. 11. --Watches and jeew elry repaired. Columbia, S. t'. oct 27-y JUST ARRIVED FROM NEW YORK AN elegant lot of Spring Prints, Can brics, White Pique, Figured Piqut-s, Long Cloth, t'ottonatles, Lalies' and Gents' Hosiery, i'anitkerchiefs, Towels, &e., and are offered at the lowest cash prices. J. M. BEATY. The celebrated "Bay State" standard screwed and wire sewed Shoas,a specialty at J. t. lEATY'S. Try them, and you will be conviuced of their durability. I in offering for sale "Grant's Yen t Powders." every box gut antee,l to give satisfaction, or moeov refunded Ilease give it a trial. J. M. 13LATY. Go to J. MI. B AT'S for the best Family Flour, Moal, Grist, Rice. Hams (Bran-leil "C'tallengo,") Larl, Bacon, Snogr an: Coll -e, very low prica , Tea, Cractkers, Catn.1y, Soap, Starch, Bluing, do li, Con. Lye, Mustar 1, Peches, To mattocs. Sardines, Salion, Popper, Spice, Ginvor, Nutmet . an-l m-ny other things ucessary for tamily coml'ort. CALL AT J. M. PEATY'S S .EL, Swe-lo Ir n, Plow-motilds, k.L Trace Chains, lalame, Back Ban s. (irtin Cmiutllei, Soyt:ies. Ilra le's I fo s, Shovels. Garlen I-lt an,t Rt1ok;. Nails, IIorse and Mule S.toesa.id Nails, Cutlery &e. WOODEN WARE. B B. Ro" Co lar I3nekets, Galvanized Hoop (-tdar Buckets, Painted Buckets. Well Buckets, Kegs, Measures, Brooms, &c. Crockery and Tinware TOTAL ABSTINENCE SAVING WINE TILL IT RIPENS. There is a.curious story about some native wines which are extensively advertiard nowa days. and have only recently been put upon the market. Dr. Underhill, the well-known grape-grower of Croton Point, dit d in 1875. Some of his heirs entertalntd temperance views of such extreme kind, that they were unwilling to allow the stock of wines then on hand to be sold or any more to be made. The grapes have sometimes been sent to market, and sometimes left to decay upon the vines. It is only now that the other heirs have succeeded in arranling for a settlement of the estate and the sale of the wines on hand, A mong these i3 a wine cf the i intage of z864j, described as a " Sweet UnIon Port," bet suggesting the Imperial Trokn y more than any other European wine, and being wholly unlike any other wvine of American growth. Its purity, age and mellowness are remarkable, and both physicians and wine fanciers have a specIal interest in it as the oldest native wvine now accessible in any con. siderabhe quantity. The whole stock in the had fthe wetlI-known wholesale grocery house of the T1hurbers.-N. I. Tribuene, Nov. i9, z&/7. The above speaks for Itself, but we would add dhat thIs Is the pure julce of the grape, neither drugged, lignored nor watered: that it has been ripened and mellowed by age, and for medicInal or sacramental purpo.scs it is unsurpassed. It can be obtained from most of the leading Druggists throughout the United States, and at wholesale from theI undersigned, who will forward descriptive pamphlet, free of charge, on applIcatIon. Respectfully. etc., H. K. & F. B. THURBER & CO. Wed Onrdway, Reads and Hfudson Strst4 Nsw-Yoax. SELLING OUTs N order to oloso up the business of sol. Wolfe, groat inducements wilt be )ffered to Cash buyers for the next sixty lays. The stook of goods, consisting of Dry 3oods, Notions, Lacos, Ribbons, Hosiery, ilothing, Hate, Trunks, Shoes ~&o., will be offered at and below Now York eost, B'OR OASHI ONLY. Money must be raised, and cash pur 3haser will certainly find it to their interest to call and exatnino the stook nm be convinced of the above facts. Jane 8-if8. 8. WVOLFE, TO MARE MONEY Pleasant1y and fa ,ents slioal'4 ad ar.as FINL?Y. -HA vB ACO.n - At1n VEGETINE r3ro' DI'op*my. I Never Shall IIorgt thei F"ir"sl Dose. Ain. II. 11. 8Tasva :-- PROVIDENCE. 1) 'ar sir -1 I 1ve b'en a groat sulTerer trotr Drop.-;y. I vai cottIld to 1iy It ie I ir I hall at y ear. Iilx lnoiltts of the ttme I wva, entirely lelples. I was obli,cd to have t w linen helII mit in a' ot 0i t :. I IV-t swoller UUnetedn illehe, 1La rr ttan mny onaturul,siz uroll 'I Iny w tiit. I ~suffere'i all a in in cout an ilive I tri.'t all rl"medies for :).opsy. had il: 'e lTeret,t docto.is \ly frienis aI expectedi I would (lini trt.n nigilts I wI ex peeled to die b1fore rnornlig. Al. I t Vegettic was sent me bv ai friend. I never rh:tll fo.-gel the first do.;c I could realize 1i. (I )d eff,"etl from tity to day : I Iai geit.I!g beL ter After had taken somne five or six bot,t Ies I coilil sieejl quite w'll at, nights I beg-in to ao1101 quito fait. After taking sonle tenl totttlc:.. could walk flom Oe p:art of tilly roon to til other. tv api't ito was goo I : the dropsy hat at.titi ine diappe:tIr'd I kept taking the Vegetine utlt I regfaluil mnr usut:t1 hiralti hr(l or at gra l in my cures by using VIegtin after I got out tin I was able to atlead to i work. I amn a cap'nler and bullli^r I wit a1st$) tSc1V ithis elred an aunt. of n." wvifes o Neuralgia, who had stiffored for more Ih 11 twenty years Si3e says she It 1i not had Neuralgia for ("Iglll iloliths. I have giv,. I to ne of liy c liitilre for Canker 1114lliir. tivie nn oubt in mliy inl:l it will e.t - any' hi nm tr ; ii Is it g. e:t. het n ter of I ii blood ; it I: safe to give i child I will recomtn.'nil It toi i weild. 313 fat her lI el i tt1- years o1-1, alid hI Say, there is nott iglke It to give strengil and if.e to an atgei p.1rsi. 1 cannot be to0 thanlk:tl fort(he usI i ao t.. I an, Very grateluilly yours, JOHN S. NOTTAGE. Ata. DIs' As1:s or Tx Bl.oO--If 'egeljne wil rellive p-tin. ele tise. pit:l ft, andi cure suel dIseases, restornl'.C the p illent 10 perfec he:lith aftert,rvi 'i different pieviltllus, mnl remedlles.suffering for years, i It, not, eiiet siveprof, iIf you are ia sufferer, you l'tln b1 cured ? Vhy 1; I his letilcine perfoi ining suel .niuli llres I It works in thir- bloo:l, ini Ihe eirl cul.aiIg 1* flnid II call truly be called il (Ireat Io' I PII'urier. ''he great su-i C' of dis ease orlst'1-tes in the bioo.l : and 110 ilmedlelii that dloe"s'a)t n''t :lirectly 11.)o:11P. to purify an( renovate, lia; Jutst, latul u;on public attenliou Veg etine, I Owe My ih[al i h to Your Valua. bIe Yegit ine Nr:WI'llT, KY., April 29, 1877. II. It. STEVENs, Eseq.: Dear Sl-) ltvi+g suff:'red from a brenkinl out of Cankelous Sores for lur" than ilvi year,s, caused by an at.eildent ui a f.'r:e hone, whllie1 Italiure ranl into at 'runntnl Rlot. and hatvinlg uled everythinlg coul thitnk of and 1101 hing helped me until I ha:ul Ia .en six b ,t.tle. of yourli valuli1 ntedls lue wlelh \lr. 31ilier the apothecarr re c(mmntuledl Very' hIghly. Thew sixth hot.tI ('tired ie, d niltil I ca n say, is that I owe in, he-tith i your v'Ilu:th:e Vegetine. Yoatr mlo;t- Uldle.ll Si'rval1 n. ALIIEIt' ON 1OLDEII. $ It, IS 1'Te CCssa1"t fo'' m11 to Ptnumlerate thl ditse.s- S. for whlich the Veget!1') should be used I Kitw lft o tl ease which will not nlti, of it. u;0 wit.h good results Almost. Int(tirabl ("omtpt.sints are calu41d by polsonous seerc t!;i-i Iho blood w1iteh (,an; b, eatirely ex Sleic'1 frn m the s.istem by the use of I \ VEGETIINN \ hen the blood 1. perrectl; cl'a ui se:1 ti cl--e.t t rt:ldly ylels all paltl cease I he:lt.hv il :tno.l is p:unomiply rest,ored, an tihe patient 'Is cured.'' Vegetinu Cured Mo 11 hen tho floetrr Failed CINCINN.\I"II, 0 , April 10, 1877. Dn IT. It STiVss: De it Si:'-I w.is s'rlousit tinutbl"d w* ,1 KI tOV Complaint for a lonug time. I hu + con sulitd the beii t, dcitors in thi; City. I hiav -,u('d ('tIiu 'eget Inc fi'r t; disrasc. and It ha cured m'" whin the doctors filed to do so. Y I11" 11,ru v. Eh NES' ltIJOAN Rrsid:'nce 62f Rae- St. Place .o bus ies, oa ientral Avellue. VEGE TINE -I'll hI'AItED iY II R. STEVENS, B3TON, M.\SS. Vegl'f.in, isvol.l by ill Druggis . july 141w NIEW PRINTS! NEW PRtINTS! LONGCLOTH and SEA ISLgAND HIOMESPUN, - BLEACHED and UNBLEACHED, SHEETING I SHEETING I L. C, HANDKERCIfFS, MUSQUJITO NETS, BUTTONS, ETC. Call and Examine Our BLACK ALPACA I BLACK ALPACA .Cheapest and Best in Town. *~ -E- r~~~'. THE CAVES OF OLD BALDY. --0 EXPLAINING THE INTERIOR OF BALD MOUNTAIN. Walli of Granite--Fresh Wisiires--The Bottom of the Mountain Falling Out Aqueous Agencies. (Correspondence ofthe Charlotle Observer.] Torches and larters having been prepared the night before, the mountain was climbed early in the morning. A circuitous route had to be taken to reach the cave's mouth, five hundred feet up the precipitous and in some places perpendicular mountain side. After much panting and blowing (affording great amuse ment to the guide) our party, con sisting of Mr. Gray, of Charlotte, the guide and the reporter, reached the desired point, and no time was lost in effecting an entrance Torches and lanterns were lighted, a matter acconlplished with some difficulty on account of the rush of the cold air passing out of the cave. The entrance is only two and a half feet high by four feet wide, so dowvn we go on all fours and crawl through for some five feet. We move cau tiously forward, assisted by daylight for the first twenty feet, when the passage makes a bend to the left, and to-ches are required for the next hundred feet, daylight then again being perceptible, coming I in through a window four feet wide and two feet high. Twenty feet further the entrance passage is 'n tersected by five other apartments of the same character as the one by which we entered, two of greater and three of lesser dimensions, one leading to the window opening upon the perpendicular face of the inoun tain, the other through the solid gntiss Iunning faterally and at light angles with the sides directly tow.rds its centre, some ascending, others descending. FOLLOWING TIE MAIM PASSAGE - until daik, without the aid of our toi ches, prevailed, a grand spectacle was piesented. The rugged walls rose mau.,estically on either si,.ofor one h in:red feet, ra gged. sharp -pointed, shaggy-looking rocks and huge bolders, seemingly covered with myriads of diamonds, each one re flecting -rays of light, shining, spraik.ing, flashing all the colors of ti.e iainbow before our dazzled eyes. Huge masses of granite jutted forth on aa sides, small fissures nestled away invisible except to close in, spection, as if ashamed of their sialness. A solitary bat, aroused by the light, frightedly dashed itself against tte walls in frantic efforts to 1egain its wonted gloom. Large flakes of granite, some forty by eighty feet, partly sc.led from the sides, still iemained undetached like a half- detached weatherboard fastened at one end. Particles of rock, some weighing tons and others gr ound to powder, lay scattered aroun(I in great profusion, and, far above from where we stood, a sun - beam famntly struggled through a small crevice above the window, barely tinging the darkened wall like the touch of a fairy's golden wvand. A better idea can be obtained of the appearance and CHARlACTER 01 THE cAVE by imagining a large cavern running over five hundred feet into the mountamn, about three hundred feet wide, ranging in height from twelve to two hundred feet, and divided into six smaller caves, separty priionedb also gneiss, vary. ing trmono to sixty feet in jhick ness, all connected either above or below the partitions. These caves all have a junction inside, only two obtaining egress to the mountain side, one through the mouth and the other through the window. The mountain passage runs due east directly into the heart of the moun-. tain over three hundred feet dQwn ward at first, and then changes its coni se, wvinding almost spirally, in some places perpendicularly, grow ing g:adually smaller, until ob$tainis g an altitude of two hundred feesj gromn its bottom. ' The next two longest 'nearly equal to the one just d eecihbed it! extent,. but do not take a spiral course. The other three have an average size of about half the. fi mnensions of the largest, the courses of the five besring on evr~ po(~n of the compass. Gneis, i$r1q with seams of white Aint ansiQ~ slonally mica,. cowpase the oI format4on of the *#91e e9ye,~ anineral oreso4 -)9found. I WATER AND FIRE. The cave was evidently re^ently formed by a convulsion in the bow-. els of the mountain. Not a particle of rock could be seen with moss clinging to it; the walls all seemed to have been riven apart, every piece of rock examined showing a newly broken sur!aco. The inside of the mountain is undoubtedly sir%king, else where could the fallen rock have gone ? Having sunk lower. a vacu urn must have been created for their reception. What created this vacu um? The rock formation of the mountain is solid gneiss, therefore, water alone could not wear it out. It might be caused by a convulsion deep down in the mountain, forcing an opening even through solid rock. But granting this, what is the motive power of said convulsion ? Steam, generated by the contact of water with fire. is the most natural conclusion. We know that water penetrates through parts of the mountain, springs flowing from its top, pools sinking near its base, and single drops percolating through the solid r cck, sl1wly but steadily, collecting gradu illy sufficient water which, if encountering a heated surface, generate sufficient steam to make a fissure somewhere in its effot ts to escape. Thaf there has been, and does yet exist (perhaps in a smaller quantity) fire in Bald Mountains is a very piLusible theory. Dozens of surrounding Mountains have the same water action, yet no rumblings, jars, splitting or inward sinking have occurred. There is positive evidence that Bald Moun tain has experienced all of these, not only once, but time and again. Must not heat then exist in its bowels, in connection with water, to cause these convulsions, when no other mountain without the aid of heat of similar formation, is or has been subject to them ? THE SENSATIONAL FISSURE, causing so much excitement a month ago, was explored after leaving the cave. Climbing to the cave was bad enough, but like walking down hill compared with the latter ascent. The fiseure is about a. thousand feot up the mountain. nearly on the top, and has not increased much in size sinco first discovered. Its width varics from one to eight feet. It descendd into the mountain, in some places, seventy feet, with nowhere a great-. or width than ten feet, betideen walls of solid granite. Unlike the cave, it wa.s not caused by. caving in, but in a separation cauged by convulsions. For two hundred feet it follows an easterly course, almost parallel with that Of the mountain, then branches off diago nally to the south east for some hundred and twenty feet. Just above the old, a new fissure of seemingly trifling dimensions runs up towards the top at right angles with the other about tw.snty, feet. Fifty feet lower down, cracks can be seen in the sli4 side , -:'the mountamn, indicating an impencding splitting or caving oft of this end. WVhenever this does occur5 the noise and concussion will be great. enough to convince tho neighboring people that B.tldt M~ountain has de veloped into a first class volcano-a4 last. The neighbors. do not seeni mn the least frightened by the late dlevelopements, he -ne grown" ac-. eustomed to "Baloy," as they fantil.. larly term him. F~our ye:ars ago, when volcamec evidences ,first ap pearedt all land ad'itedt)'to the mountain cotl have been pu'rchde ad for twenty flye cents an acre, but. sow nothing less than full .valua.. bion can induce a sale. The widow, Brackett and seven daughiters lie' it the mountain -immedcIately unl ier the cave, (the grand 'bliildreb' were too numrerous to count)' in a log cabin with craecks six inohes be bween the loges. The old lady waA >f course, interviewed, as sh61Md been a resident of that iooality forr four years, all the effor ts oic baej neighbors to induce her, to logpv, proving fretitless. Slie tes,tiie that wvheix the split c'Aeured' it nioti ago, ram~bling. -could ben 4106W4 plainly, accompanied Iyy jarg, ;I,'we weeks since she had theard lon rumblings but no shoe wase expei-. anced, do the Wolse w attiti to falliny bculdr kfor :dKye'Wt rti-ast noise the Oa%oWe gdaddi sovered,an. ever Sityeen tJ oggo are, occasionaly. shew'ar , Thei re offeoraketh d' she waes,' aftrid otobi i e b4 by sliding rockedr U' y anyJ9w,"6sp l~1~,p ~j use a-iiuovl ?EetupIto9