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SPKNUKR, Agent. 0 R.-VdSrCr ISB I T ? Sr MABBfcSl 170 ESS, (INK I UOU . AST OF Dr. J. G. Wannama&er, x V. ;i;ci titjV tic. ts, ' '' ?! ?* J%ca'ct i? in ud kit tls oi a niei ican and ] l iii ii Tumi stones. Monuiin nts. Ma. hl?, und Slate Mnutek And all kinds of Stone Work turn i*h d to any design. A Iso Poli;-lied i.franite Work Killici Native ol Foreign tu order at Luv est Pohsiii le 1 ri< cs. Correspondence solicited with those in warn ol any work in the ah .w line. oet 1? ly /"1IIOTCE I >hio (Lima at \j JAM KS VAN TAFS.'.L'S. W. BeMAES, 7 gt. ITS I)!?'.!{ MASONIC Fs"i<?m*m and (.'oiautry mc-n y.i iv:nl: ?7" noi iviib mild << u spend 1?'vi r\ ceiil in places deal', Make l>r:M UiS yourCirMcer here! Ask him for his ij \MS s?, nice. |{mmiiig :tt the LOU kst PRICK ! &top and try hi - i'lour so line, f'hi e-e, and V LL thing? in his line I |Jave Some 1'.! T I T;; sent around?? 13very man should have a pound ! \ nd if vou'd >i el w ??'! and aide, I*ut his'M ACKKKKL on your Table : C>ood are all tiling in hi* Store, |{ciisoii cannot usl; t r moro ! t |nly (i v his Lltjl'tiHS tare ? 1 nit'I be equalled any where! fijvery man who knows PkMAHS, Hushes for his good Segars! I u his Sam j.li Itoom they fly, f very time that they lire dry I Korne iliing teils them UK'S the man ! /\nd he always leads: (he van ! JVt vcr yel did he retreat,? ])on'| you know liecan'i he beat? I y<iok within hi-* Store so grand, Ih hiss Har-Hoom ?near ni hand; Question him and von will see ? m.\DicusoLn-hi: cannot ijk! Ok ! wail not till you arc wi<er, |{cusoii points to Mr. UlSKH, gelling laiicy Drii ks to till? t?iv< him then i t'cneral call, l?f>t nssured, hr.MAIIS s. I Is , heap, A nd the Ii nest g?ods will keep, ^ ever Cinse In bless your stars - IJown with all ?except I loMAUS. SHAVIWG A WD 1IAIR-DRESSIIMG hone in the ino-t :ipproved style by . IL M A Till LWS. an Kxp'erienccd Uarher, on Market Street, in rear of the I'ostotlice. tun '.) f |>I1 K very licsl qualilvof (Jilt Kdge Hiit 1 tri al" VAN TASSBL'S. SPECIAL I\IOTICE\ Now (but the holiday Reason is over and everything has gone pros perous and (happy; every ore Letter oil', and a bright lertile year ahead, ] at no period in the history <>f our business life have we been thor oughly piepured to meet the wan s (it the linde ai.d the 11 quiremcnts of t. e people, as we are now. We shall ? , I ccnln.ue to ple.ee upon t ur counters Irom day tu day, hatgatus in cvi-iy I depuitnu nt ut j LDWESTPiJK KS, I and ."-'nail always he Inuud using our ? est i nth avors in pieveut eat ten ions, I and uphold the CASH r YSTEM'. Our entire Mock is now offered at REDUCED PRICES. V. e u&k j ou to cull and inspect our goods. We guarantee to please as to quality n ii ! pi ice. ' Lo< U ( :i ? i iully over this li>t of a b-u ar?icles. mentioned : I tjeiin J Ii?. e, \\ hin?, 5 and 10 c. j " Vliiped 12* ' " solid c,.\S 12? double he? l A: toe 12J Lad.es hose, white, 8, l'l, 12]. Mtij td; 10 s.did cohns. 12* " hulbriggan, 15 lineil ipia'i ty, 25 ; I..I ren'h bnie, culm cd. 5, 8. 10, 12i La die- i.i.t nut lets, dark color*, ?"?') o. Lei i'm gloves, embroidered hill k-, 35 kid gloves. -1 buttons, "best mtikers, To Oints buck-kin gloves, lined 75 drivini '? 30 Dei by Milting, I t ti ure.d: Pi 3 Cid incus, beautiful colors, LG.1 'g. . Merinos, beautii'ul colors, 10 Flannels, red, while aud b up, 25 lo^ 35 ii s. N ul.'ias, civ pi My, 30 a i udies t om:.-, new styles, 40 Looking Glasses, bureau size, SI ex tin large 31.00 " oval frames 00 and 80 cent1* * HIvcr plated lea spoons, t: 1.2->. Tabi? " 1.73 '* Forks 1.75 " Knives 3.75 Glass Setts, bandaome, 4 pieces, 50 lila.-s Pres? r. Sin nils, G'J (Johiets, 75 ct per do/. Tumblers, 00'ct per doz L laps Irom 25 to 75 cts Lame assortment Ladies, Gem ?nd t hildren'sShoes from the line.-l to I he chi a pest, Men Rt.d Boy* Uatt, 40, GO, 75, I 00 1.25 to 83 eu and Buys Caps from 25 to 50 Knuey Box Paper, h nvelop. a and Si ;i i ionery. Agent lor the Largest Tobacco Factory in the United States, we oiler bargains! in tnis line, j Agent for Manufacturers of Soaps I and Concent rated Lye, we defy com petition. We have the Largest and Cheap? e t Stock i)l HROOMS AND BASK ETS ill the Market. Agent for the Celebrated Town Talk i A KING POWDERS, j These Powders have stood the Tost l.\ lite best 1 hcniist, and prououneul l'l'1.10, when hone, .i in ran.-. Prol. Molt, the Lending ( heiuisi nf tin World, says the wot.?o adulterations occur when Powders ate sold loose or in bulk. Remember this and gel 'lO'n N TALK fiom Headquarters. Your attention is asked to the re duction in our CARPETING, put dowii to 25, 35, 40 cents. Packet Knives fro.n ? cts. t> ?2 Buggy Whips, 25, 50,75 cts., gl, $1 25 $2. Yours respectfuMy, C. D KORUOMN. Always notice this COLUMN for CHEAP GOODS. liy lie 'ypographienl omisdon oj'l a few ciphers, the meaning of our j editorial last week on the Presi dential vole w;is somewhat obscured. We rcpublish the part cifccled nt b I Inns: Suppose for instance, that ih: popular vote of Sou Iii Carolina i 150,001, und that A should have re- j ccived 70.001 votes foi President, : while 15 received 7."..<>(;(>. Linder in jnvscnt law, A. who received a ma joritv'oi* only t>iic votcv woiil 1 take till the voles of South (.'nrolina in the j Klectoial College, while H would rc ! eeive none. Why should them 75, I 000 votes be counted out und be en tilled to no tV.pr?scnlalioii ? And why should ouc man or one vote do j cide lor whom nil Ihc vo.es Of South I C ii'olinn should be corniced for l'rcsi den I? GKX..CiARY OS (M?ltlttATlGN? 1 have always been in favor oi' iui initiation to '.his Stale, and in years gone I'V advocated ii. In my judgment, there is the same irrepres sible conilici l ei wee.i white labor a lm! black labor, as Sewnrd said t he; t: was between free labor and slave labor. To biing a white immigrant to work by t'u; side of the negro I believe to be impracticable. The kind of immigrants (ha! this State needs are the immigrants who will come with sufllcien! capital to buy for themselves small or large farms. We have I he cheapest and best ?jjryi cultural land h: the Uvlied S tu es. I tin not believe, as some have said, that the white ma : cannot work the year round in this Staic without great physical depression. la the Piedmont and middle counties, 1 am certain they can work the year round. Probably in the malarial counties bordering on the Atlantic. 4lr_'\ inig't no? lie able to do it. but] I aVh : .? ...nnfd that '-v the use of a j little qii'.iri'H? at night the ell'ects of mala ia may be p. evented. The only! way to make the humigiaiit who comes here as a planner satisfied to live in on mi Is! is Lo treat llilh :is a friend ami brother, and abolish the historic t delusiveness of Sou h (! < ? linians, adopting .. our ? >o, fine hobest whiie man is ti < good as ano.h er." There must bo an effective quietus g'ven '.<? the aristocratic oliga chv ibat has so long .tiled this State ad versoU io tlie interests <? the common people and 10 ll:e ex elusion of all i'o,-"i: THE APl'IOAUHINti l.'OMET THAT WILh l.ND Abb iHiNU.S TE?KES.. TttlAL. Processor Proctor, the greatest <>!' Ii vi ug uk to:iomc:*s, who has made the investigation ol' tin- approaching comet a special study, jr'ves the rc suits of his obse vado.ts to the pub lie au i his conclusions are that an awful collision of the cornel and ll.e sun i-. ccuatii, and that changes in another stellar system will t:!v< place, ti'til the stin may afterward resume its ordinary itdluerce. 1 The nicii cing ccntet is tlie one i-e icenily visible, in Ifi.SO, i:i the Ausira i ban heavens^ and which is one of the most iulcrt sting comets ever seen by man. Views re."- pect it) g i.. not I v fanciful tlieoiies, but by iiiatheiiia!' ( bins of eminence by no means p"o;m to adopt wild und startling idea - suggest the possibility?nay. even some d.eg Co Of probability? .la' lllb coined may brin". some tbihger to ill solar system. Like the comet of 11 i'l it passed withiii about 100,000 ntiic 1*1 out the >o!ar surface, and on a pu.h siiiiilariotli.it pursued by the comet of IS-l*t, while in the neighborhood oi the sun. The cotnel of I8f>0 is i.i fact identical with the comet of |{!LI, but its period is diminishing rapidly, so that at an early date ii may fall into the Mm. with ;his immediate result - dial all !ii_ :<i forms of life, at lenSti will be destroyed oil' the surface of the eai I If. Robort T. Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, is proposed for a place in Garllcld's Cabinet and will probably be appoints 1. Iii) KKl'l iuh Si!.' T. He was, an honest, hard workiug uian, intelligent looking, and occu pied ti frot'l scut in a ear tilled witli young I:i<ii-.-M anil gentlemen. Finally all the Miib were tilled by females except Ids, and there stood near him j expeetiugifvn buxom lass of twenty I A well then held down to tin- man ; a lid spoke lowly. ?There's-a holy standingthere.' 'Ye .' saj^sTlhe worker, holding his | dinn>.r banket between his legs; and slowly casting his eyes on her, '1 see. 'She's t&tfndiiiir,' said t!i< swell j 'les, 1 -re sin 's stall lilg. -She ought to thank CJoil site's able to stand.' ft 'Hut she's a lady, and you ought to, give her v?\l,r seat.' j 'Ought ?o; iL:' ?ve,- W 'For wliti? I 'ihn1:'. usJjWleV :i ': dy. desires In down, iiui&Sfs not enquett.? to allow ; la die.-. L.i sfeuVd in ears whileagenth i ? j ?nan o'cu^ie* a seat.' 'See ii*,''tnister, you may think j von are talking" sense, but vou are i not. liijMjwstnnees alter cases. It*: t hat was'wHret' an elder y la I . a! weak Im kinjg lady, or a woman tired from work, i Would willing!*, give her my sent, a ...tired as I am, tor I have been working Inn d nil day. lor I'll beta week's wntrcs that that girl i iocro - 11 fiegiii now, walk four miles I'. :i bail, dunce all night, and. thcu walk hoinoui the morning. I couldn't walk ;t m&'^aud would break in the Ills! se . ^Su you will observe that circti'.indices alter cases?'truth is '? mighty aml"*.-musi prevail.' 1 will! keep my seat.' The opinion of the court was well 1 received by all except tho smart j young niiftY;eveu the fair standing | can .'.i*in?iv-"*..v;a 01 at felt pro fid over | the high compliment paid her.-?X I'url Lurtii. V. it A 2 Iii j l 'Homeinher, my urn, you h-.ve to work. Whether you handle a pick or a pen. a wheelbarrow or u set of tools, digging ditches or edit ing a paper, ringing an auction bell or writing items, following a plow or] driving mules, you must work. Don't | be afraid of killing yourself with overwork. It is beyond your power | ? b rid that. Man cahuot work so hard us that on the Sllliny sole of 1 thirl v. Thev die sometimes, but not Irom w?ik; n s because Hoy (put [ work at Ii I'. M., aud don't get hnnu until 2 A. M., ( mark t hat. ; I t's the inteival that kills, my boy. (Stick a pin in Iure.) ''iure are voting men who fio not work; who make a i living b\ sucking the eiid of a cane: whose entire mental development ist just sit flic* 10 Ii t Id tell which side of a j postage stanip i?> lick, but who can tic a neckerchief in eleven tlifrcrent knots and never lay a wrinkle m it; who : pesiil niore in a dii\ than voii can earn in a month; who would go to the She ill 's oHlce to buy a postal card. l>ut the world j:, not proud of them. Nobod\ likes theih- liobtidy j hales Iheni. The great, btis\ worl i ih?u l * vou know they are lo re. I.c! the add: l>o not carry pride wit li poverty. Half the poor, proud young men and Iwo-thirdsof the poor dis coiiraged young men are goneralh out (if work. The young mil ti who pockets his pi i In and carries an up per lip as slii! a> a dboi'step seiapcr will hot starve if work is hi- object, but stands the best chance to become it worthy and influential member of socicl v.-- Hiiii'ii.?/.'<>,i Hoick Put ?( U h. Bridget, did s ?? m \? hear uv iny great spache afore the I libcrnian Society'?' Ilridgct -'No, Pat, how could IV for sure I was not on the ground.' Fat o ell, Bridget, you ce 1 was called upon by ti e Hibernian So ciety tor a spache, and be jabers, I rose with the intl lisiastie cheers of thousands, with ine heart overflow' ing with gratitude, and me eyes till cd with tears, and divil a word did I ? spake.' I? KOl'LL *. i. <;1 I .... UV.Mi IU . ;ii > LI.DOjI skk. Tlie l?i>y w!i?> obtained n situation 1 in au otlleo through picking up a pin 1>U l Ii?.' pUVCUICUl. Tlie woman who had so little van ity tlint she never took a 'last* look iu the mirror hetbre goiug out fur 11 walk. 1 he doctor who refused to e:tl egain when lie knew medicine, wonli. j do his palifiij no good; The lawyer wli i r. fused^ to earn ?in a ease for a client bocaiHe ho wh i a vaiv fhnl he (the client ?, ivoul l ?: i [ lie wast ing hi - money. The mother who does tint consult1 j thtil \Oil niighl walk :< ? ? *?i*_v way be foreybii would lind a 'liner, cleverer, more Ibi'wai'd, and in ore beatifiil baby than her own. Two married ladies who coincide i : till points lipon domestic economy. A hi ly win'i after parsing a pretty Whaiun cannot remember everv a T <:le of dross she had on. and e:\nr.c* ;i !?! faul. xi\\ ii liiir i.'sl A man who rfler passing a pretty woman cnuTciiieihber any article <>; dress that she wore, and can litidany fault at all, except that she phased t..?. <] lielily. Tin- ybiing man who docs no; think that h<* could write n better bile a i i play than half'those -scribbling fell ?ws j The young lady who objects to bci.ig told that sliu is the prettiest g'.i'l i:i tin- roi mi. Vil 19K2<1N*S 'I.vXi'i^. Plow deep while sluggards sleep, ami you shall have corn to .soil and keep*. Priele isas loud :is want, anil a great deal more sntiey. Silks aiul saliu3, scarlets an I yol v?-ts, pfi: out tiio kitchen lire. " riitfgl nee i.. ; Itt- tu??Htcr of goad be lt. * I Pride break fa.\de:l with plenty, ? lined wit Ii poverty and a tipped with infamy. Extravagance and iroprovid ?nee ( end at t he prison ?! ior. It is easier to build l-.vo ehim:i'*ys: than to keep one in fuel. ? 1 If you would know (he value of | nuniey, go and try to borrow stuue. j What maintains one vice wyu.d bring up t vyo children. I Je tb.it goes a borrpSyinjg re'urnfl KOi'lOWihg. Ilatlitv'go to bed suppci less tli;'.n rise in debt; sloth, like riist, consumes faster lhaii labor wonrs. A lifiMif leisure and a 15to of la/.i ness are two dillcrcut things. Creditors have better memories : h . a debtors. The i dlit.g stone gathers ho tnois, If.yoii \v.ould hiive your business j 'done, go; if not, tic.id. If is foolish to iiy on! money in tlie shape of r peil atice. Tin: U.U.vj-.'.:; r.vn ?n. The VhrnviiUi M /.?//???? says: j "The in'..?use iudi'Mia*. ion that < exists I on t be pa: i of I !u people of i i a inj t on .(.'ousiiy, with respect to ihr Hover uor's recent commutation souieui'e, is beyond descript ibli. Tl. ie is a -.ih n; bill deep-seat?d feeling [or vailing tin mas-cs, as if i-oaiothiag awful was about to happen. C'nhli th'iH'e in jiuli'dal sentences hits UOI only bed shaken, but i: a outspoken on all sides thai the first and las gallows has been built, tis there is1 tie justice iii the p.iOr suiferiii^ whilt the rich can I ui \ their freedom. W hen the cook j.laced the tuik; \ on the table, Upside down on the dish ?that is with its back up -lit head of the home got his hack U| too, gave her .?! withering look and a I most profanely asked if she s'posed he was going toerawl under the tabh und cut a hole up through the plate In get at the breast of the fowl?? N"/ / /'s/' u n II ruht. Maiden lady's quotation slightly altered from an old aphorism 'Whore singleness is bliss \is folly U he wives.1 *....: V? iN UU.HL. Tin who lui vc uxn mi t;i d i uto I ho subject, tell us that oil rythiugin tho i ui.eise is in motion. Fro in tho H?de Wu learn that :;li u en. iur>ru11V. ire in motion. Some ure moving' lowuward. Others are moving up ra'r I. One poition ii dying daily ind hourh to siu and iiviug unto lollncss, while with others tho re .*e.rs? i-. t roc. So,nt? old philosopher said 'No nan driitkutvviCu cut of ihn same ?iv.T.' Ivodi moment the whole vol i.i'i'e d'' water Which forms th<; river hovi.s forward, and is followed by a it ui i l:i :* volume For no two days is thy in Hvi.lual morally in the sumo :onditioii. IK is either heller or '?.??!?-.??. Hi'whoi? hot leainiugsomu Itiag how every day, is forgetting ?o .: (thing he once know, and. strange to say; i' is far easier to forget than to lcar:i. The plant that is not i?iowing is ?!; dtiy becoming less; the man who is hot preparing for Heaven is certainly preparing him self for eternal death. We must irow in gram or die. Thei'd is no iilteruaiive?no neutral condition.? \ UKTflNti DON'T FttUT. <)f all can >es destructive of family comfort, hitrdly any is to bu more dreaded than the practice of fretting. Only one persou need have the habif. to destroy the peace of an entire household. The habit may ariso IV an mere nervousness or a slight degree of illness, lrdecl, it seems oflcu tospring fro.n almost nothing. It increases with indulgence, and be comes chronic. Then it is fret, fret, about nothing. It is fret in cold, fret in heat, l'u Lin. cash inc. fret in storm, fret in liic. morning, IVct at noon, fret at night! There is no end to it, and scarcely any lot up in it. The habit is contagion*. If one member .of a fami ly frets, the others are apt, after awhile, to get to fretting also. If par ents fret, their children will soon I mm to fret. No matter what com ?brts, what luxuries, what culture fretful people possess, they arc most miserable companions. They are a uui.* moo of the most disagreeable eharac! jr. Thel-iti d is that Oarfiehl will not raiin Sotit hern man into his Cabi net, but that he will purity the Feder al ??crvici in Ihi'Smitii; by appointing decent men '. > Federal ofliecs. Wo oiii'esi we don't care what he does. All will be for the building up of the I'cpublicnh party which has oppross c I its. Ctd.'Tom IIuford who killed .ludgo Klbdtl in Kentuekey last year, be cause he renderetl ?> (\ecision against him, ';. been itoeipiittod ou the plea, of insanity. Col. IJuford belongs to an aristocratic family, and is very rich. Such is justice iu this tcrrea trial rph< .'o. Mr. Mahoncj the new Senator from Virginia, was a pour Irish boy edit" eat cd on a free scholarship at the military institute wherein Stonewall inch -.?u taught, lie began his ca reer by carryiitg surveyor's chai.i ? >a ii railroad, and was known as a ikillfiil (Jeni'va! in the Confedoratn army. We don't think the action of Con jress ":i I ho petition of the widow of 'apt; I'agc h ok much like a dispo i'.i 01 to fraternize the sections on he part ni* lite Ii.?publicans. A Iii publican newspaper will short ly bo established in Greenville. Tho malarial has already been bought. Tliereare 15,000 white families in Alabama wit limit a Bible. Vermicelli lace is the latest novelty in lace goods.