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C|e f?gmmt w? Soot jpa. W?T3??BSI)AY% JULY 20. Icariat Bill?The Engineer's Story. Well? stranger, 'twas somewhere in *s?cty-nine I wererunnin* tbe 'Frisco fast express; An* from Murder Creek to Blasted Pine, Were nigh on;o eighteen mile, I guess. Ta e road were a down-gra o alt tae way. Au* ve pu??ed e\tt of Murder little lato, SO I opened the throttle wide that day. And a mile a minuto was 'boat our gait. M 7 fireman's same were Ira ria t BUI? A quiet nuiu with aa easy way. Who ?ouid rope a steer with a cowboy ? 8klil. Which he'd icaroeU iu Ter?ts, heard him any; The coil were strong as tempe rod steel. An* it went h ko a boit from a erose bow flung; An* arter Bili changed from saddio to wheel. Just over his bead in the cab it hung. Well, as I were saym\ we fairly flow As we struck the curve at Buffalo Spring, An* 1 gave her full steam an* put ber through, Aa' tbe engine rocked like a living thing; w ben all of a sudden I got a scare? For tbar on the track wcro a little child I An* right in the pttth of tbe engine there She neld out her little banda and emiiedl "Xierked the Jever and whistled for brake* , Tuo wheels threw sparks ?ke a shower of goW; But I knew tbe trouble a down grade makes. An' 1 set my teeth an* my flesh grew coki. Then Lariat BUI yanked his long la&too. An* eut on the front of the engine crept? Re balanced a moment before he threw. Then out *? the air his lariat twepM" Bepaored. There were tear* Ja Ms booeet cyee; The stranger Hsteood wftb bated breath, know too rest of the tale,** be sxlce: "He snatched the child frota tbe Jaws of death! *Twae the deod of a hero, from horeoa bred. Whose pr??see the very angele ?tagf* Tbe engineer shook bis grizzled betid, And growled: "He didn't do no sieh thing.** He rimed at the stump of a big pine tree. An* tbe lariat oaugbt with a double bitch. An* in less tban a second the train an* we Were yanked off the track an* inter the ditch! Twere an awful smash, an* ft laid me out, I oiu't forgot it, and never shal? ; ' "Were Hie passengers hurt?* Lemme see about? Tea, it kUod about forty?hut saved tbe gall" ?q. W. il, in Puck. Is It Any Use? About fifteen years ago on a cold and rainy day, I was called into the vestibule of my bouse, to seo a man who certainly looked like the worst kind of a "tramp.' His clothes were insufficient to cover him, they were ragged and rotten. His feet were swollen and bleeding, and a pair of old soles tied on with rags were their only protection. His face was bloated and the odor of ram was strong in his breath. Ho asked my help, on the ground of having once been employed at a hotel in a distant city, where I bad been at one time a boarder. He pro fessed to know men whom I could not fail to know in that place, and he as sured me that he bad been a trusted employe and had good Touchers in a trank in a pawn-shop. I did not believe Bis story, but he was sick and full of sores, and wet to the skin, and penni less, and but for my help apparently helpless. So I sent for an offijer, and get the poor fellow into Bellevae Hos pital, where he lay for eight weeks notH he was sobered, healed and strong again. Then I clothed him, and found him a situation,' where he could, and did ?ara a living. I fcad forgotton all about this case, for it was only one of many that come te a city clergyman every month. But afcomi a year after, one bright day, as my children were playing croquet upon the lawn, they suddenly stopped, and one rushed in, crying out, " such an* awful & !" fise, other said 'Papa, there's a poor man out there, can't you help him?' Use different utterances marked chiefly a difference in experience of this wicked world. The older one had learned something of the daccption and trickery of the procession of applicants for aid at her father's door ; the younger one saw only the evident misery and poverty of the individual. I went on to the lawn, and there, as badly off ?s before, stood the man whom I bad helped to decency and support, a year ago. He was ragged and bloated and sick and sore. Of course he was sent to the hos pital again*, and in due time started afresh in an honest business. He was willing to work, be wanted to be a sober and'respectable man, but he could not keep from drinking. There was a ?re in his bones, and it craved more and more fuel continually when once it be* gan to burn. The interval was longer, bat he came the third time, broken down, wretched, good for nothing, so it seemed to me. He plead, and promised, and was so desperate in his entreaties for one more trial, that in spite of my experience, and in spite of my judgment, I determined to trust him once more. I told him that it would be of no use to start bim again, but be protested that it would, and as he almost kneeled before me, I bade him promise to ask god's help to keep his word, if I helped bim again. Once more clothed and in his right mind be started at the work which be could do and had done successfully. He had promised to come and report to me sow and then how he got on. It was with small faith that I saw him start for the third time to lead a sober life. His past gave no ground for hope, his business was wit hi easy reach of temptation, he had no family, and no friends in the world except my self. At the end of six months he call ed on me, and he bad kept iiis pkomises. He asked my permission to go for a lit tle vacation to a place where he could be treated for rheumatism, the result of his drinking. He came back and re sumed his work. A year passed, and at Christmas be came and reported to me that he was still sober, had paid all that he owed, and had a decent suit of clothes besides those which I had given him. Two years passed, and at Christ mas he came again, and asked if 1 would tell him of a saviogs bank where he could put a little momey that he had earned aod saved. I went with him and be made his deposit. Every year since then, he has come to report him self to me, and to assure rae that he has kept his promise faithfully. Last Christmas he came into my office, a handsome, ruddy, white-haired Eng lishman, whom no one could have iden tified with the poor drunkard who first called on me fifteen years ago for help. He bad more than one thousand dollars in one savings bank, and an account with nearly as much in another ; he was well and industrious and contented. There was a wcddiDg in the house not long since, and the little girl who years ago bad come running in from the lawn, saying: "Papa, there's a poor roan out there, can't you help him"? was tbe bride. About- a week before the wedding, the "poor man" came into my office, and, after apologizing for the call, modestly iiMjtitred the day when tbe young laSj ~o>!d be married, and aleo ber name. On the wedding day, among many gifts there came a Beautiful PACKAGE OF SILVER, marked with the bride's name, and with it a letter of gratitude, which only one could write who knew that he had been rescued from the mouth of hell. Ke was at the church in a new suit, with a rose in his button-hole, and he told me the next day that it was the happiest day of his life. I am sure that he spoke the truth, and am ready to be lieve that he will be steadfast to the end. Is it any use to persevere in the ef fort to reform the intemperate, to re claim the vicious, to raise the fallen and degraded? How often this question comes up for answer in onr experience. Many failures depress and dishearten us, many cases of ingratitude and deception arc hardening in their influence upon us, many obstacles confroot and many hin drances keep us back ; but one success a each a desperate case gives us heart of hope, one grateful man wipes oat the record of a score of ingrates, one sioner saved gives joy in Hea ven, and if these things be so, we may answer the question "is it any ose," in the affirmative always, and do with all oar skill and power tbe work which God throws athwart oar path in the journey of life.?Augustus in . Y. Observer. ? > ? When Is Silence Golden? That silence is golden has been ac cepted as axiomatic by general con sent, yet we are convinced that there are many cases in which it is leaden, copper, or alloyed with something baser etili. Who does not know and dread the exasperating silence of an ger, harder to endure then the fierc est blast of speech ? Who has not witnessed the craven silence of cow ardice, ashamed and afraid to cham pion the weak or defend the absent ? Who has not been baffled by th? silence of reticence, which maintains a sphinx-like attitude of mystery when a few straightforward words would be a boon, throwing light upon darkness and showing you what to do ? Silence is not golden when it falls frostily upon the little ones, ignoring their efforts lo pleaee, and showing them practically that they are of email account in the eyes of their pa rente and teachers. What a pity it is that we are so chary of praise when praise is so often the oil which causes the household machinery to work without friction ? It is so easy for some of us to blame, so hard to utter the generous approval. Silence is golden when we repress the impatient word springing readily to the lips, perhaps because we are weary or anxious or disturbed about our worldly affairs. Many a time a hasty word cuts like the sting of a lash, and not only does it hurt its vic tim, but the memory of it wounds jureelves long after the forgiving friend or child has forgotten aH about the occasion. And as there is much pain which in this world we must oear, why should we put ourselves to needless torture ? Silence is golden when trivial, ma licious or vulgar gossip forms the staple of conversation. If we can do nothing else, we at least can show 5ur disapproval by taking no part in Lhat which is malevolent cr unchris tian.? Christian Intelligencer. Let the Boys Help. Why is it that the boys arc allow sd to sit around a house doing nothing, while their overworked mother is | Bttuggling against nature and fate to . ?o the work ? j Only the other day we saw three ] large, able-bodied boys lounging | about the house, not knowing what to , 3o with themselves, while their moth- j 3 , tired and pale, was trying to do t the work for a large family and com? < pany alone. Not a boy's work to , lelp about the house ? Why not ? Is ( there anything about washing dishes hat will injure bim or which he can lot leatn to do well, or about making i >eds, or sweeping, or setting the table, j >r washing, or ironing, or cooking a I jlain meal ? On the contrary, there is ] such to benefit him in each work, the \ nost important of which is the idea ( that it isn't manly to let the "weaker 1 rceeeY' carry all the burdens, when t is possible for strong, young hands to help. 1 Most boys would gladly help in the * louse if they were asked to do so, ( ind, were taught how to do the work { properly. Many a smart boy wants < ?o help his tired mother, but doesn't tnow how beyond bringing in the ? wood and the water, and shovelling < path through the snow. This done, 1 mo tells him to go and play while ; ihn plods wearily on. Not a boy's work ? For shame ? ?t is a positive harm to a boy's moral character to allow him to think it right to be idle while his mother is ] daggering under her burdens. Let ] :ho boys help, and those who can i, ( ;et help "for love or money," as they ] >ften write to us, will see their troubles disappear.-Philadelphia Methodist. The Piedmont Exposition to be ? leld in Atlanta during the month of . October, promises to be one of the , greatest and most useful exhibitions , :hat this section of the country has , jver had It is intended to show the ( successful results of agriculture, man ufacturing, mining, mechanics, art and , the products of all kinds of skill, as , displayed iu exhibits gathered from the Piedmont belt of the Southern States especially, though exhibits will be re- , scived from other States also. The city )f Atlanta has purchased the grounds, *nd is erecting buildings which sre j ?xpected to surpass the Cotton Expo- ? ?ition in that city some years ago. ] The exposition is expected to bo an- ; Qua! in the future, and it starts off with , the finest prospect of success. Every : State should lake an interest in it, and particularly Virginia, the Carolinas and Pennesse, whose interest in common with those of Georgia it is intended primarily to promote. Great crowds iro expected to attend, and wide publi 2ity has been given to its attractive features. President Cleveland and a j part of his cabinet will be there during i tbe exhibit. No more enjoyable trip can be arranged for the money it will cost, tbau a visit to Atlanta during the Piedmont Exposition this Fall. Senator Ingalls says the colored man as a voter is a failure.?Hot Springs Kcics. And the reason why the republicans think he is a failure is that he is rapid- ; ly getting Iii? eyes opon nod becoming | 5 Democrat.? Neto York Ihrnld. From the Temperance Worker. Campaigning. Our Kentucky friends are at the dawn of a fierce political campaign. Four candidates for Governor, repre senting respectively, the Prohibition, Democratic, Republican and Union Labor patties are presenting their claims to the people at large. The fight betweeu the Democrats and He publicans is waxing warm over the bloody issues of the late war. How will these great national par< ties survive after the recollection of that desperate struggle has faded out of the memory of its leaders ? What the result of this complication will be can not be forecasted at this time, but the situation is precarious for the old parties. It is claimed that Judge Fox the candidate of the Prohibition party will receive more than sixty thousand votes. The result of this election is necessarily fraught with much interest, as it is the establish ment of a precedent in the South. If the prohibition party should carry the election it would be, doubtless, the beginning of a triumphant career in tbe South. At all events, the whiskey traffic will be virtually ruin ed by this campaign, for if the candi dates of the prohibition party are elected the traffic will go and if they fail to carry off the political honors they will create a sentiment that will prove fatal to the whiskey business and: practically accomplish the pri mary object of the prohibition move ment. The Augusta Chronicle of the 10th instant, says : "Tbe hanging of Gov. Gordon in effigy at Dalton, Friday, for commuting the sentence of Holman, found guilty of the murder of a young woman under the most brutal and revolt ing circumstances, cannot injure the character of Governor Gordon, or re flect upon his official conduct in the eyes of his fello -citizens in other por tions of tbe State. The people engaged in this shameless proceeding bave dis graced themselves. Gov. Gordon is clothed by tbe Constitution with tbe power he exercised in the case of the condemned man. After the most care ful and anxious investigation of every Tact connected with this case he came to the conclusion to commute Holman's sentence to imprisonment for life. The people of Dalton engaged in this dis graceful insult to Governor Gordon ?iavc shown themselves unworthy and lawless citizens of the State. Their conduct is a reflection upon our civiliza tion. The Prince of Wales is popular be cause he cultivates his popularity. He is a perfect pink of politeness in all his relations with the public. There is no public cnterpriso of any merit which sails in vain upon him for his personal issistance. The Prince appears to rc ilize that royalty in England is only popular from the social and spectacular standpoint. I have talked with any lumber of intelligent Englishmen on :hia subject. England in many respects is a wonderfully free country, but tbe ;raditions of royalty arc so strong that there is no knowledge how long the people of this country will consent to aear the enormous expense of maintain ing the establishment of a hereditary ruler. There are none so ignorant in England who do not know that the roy alties, so far as actual government is sonccrned, aro mere figure-heads. One prominent Englishman said the other lay : 'Royalty continues to exist in Eng land because it has become negative and md too wise to attempt to thwart tbe public. If the time should come when Eogland had a king who should be am bitious in a political way and who should seek to promulgate a policy con trary to public opinion, then it would soon be seen how weak royalty is be coming in this country. It would go lown in an instant, with hardly a breath )f warning.9 A considerable fall has taken place in the price of cotton and a panic in prices is looked for. Accounts from the growing crop are simply faultless, promising an out-turn exceeding all precedent, probably reaching 7,500,? )00 bales, or fully 500,000 more than the largest grown. Where the prices will drop to under such a supply the nost sanguine are unwilling as yet to predict. The general feeling is, 'stand from under." The yield of j 3,500,000 bales two years ago carried :hc price of middling uplands, now ileven cents a pound, down to eight md thrce-quartor cents. Notwith standing the very great increase in consumption since then, it is assured ;hat the lower figure will be reached igain as soon as the dangers, which naturally surround a maturing crop, shall have been safely passed. 'Tbe recent low prices of tobacco in Kentucky arc said to have caused many planters in that State to abandon its ?ultivation. The Danville Va., Times publishes reports from bright tobacco region indicating not more than half to :wo thirds of a crop planted and less :han half the usual quantity of commer ?ai fertilizers used. In view of the ?hort crop prices have advanced at least 'wenty-fivc per cent.' The experiment }f tobacco planting in South Carolina was a failure, not because tobacco could not be successfully raised, but because the bottom had fallen out of prices. When the market becomes Grmer, the experiment can be repeated with every sbanco of success. The Kcoiccc Courier of July 7, ?ays : The conspiracy to defame, which has been organized in West Union, is older than is generally sup posed, ttcan be easily traced back for more than three years. From the best evidence available at the present time, it is believed that eight or more per sons compose this villainous conspiracy, including Sadler, Hunter, Hodge, Hailcy, and Morgan, all of whom with the exception of ilailey, are now in jail. Gen Sherman writes a letter in which he says ho is in favor of the Grand Army of the Republic hcrcaficr holding meetings at Nashville, Chatta nooga, Atlanta and Richmond. It is not claimed that he mentioned Colum bia, S. C. Among Roughs tho highest ambition seems to be to 'die game' An exchange from the Pacific slope gives an instanco in point :? When the time came for Theodore Dakcr to let the Sheriff of Las Vegas fcnov 'hat ho was ready to he hanged he said, 'Let her go, Gallagher,' and died without a struggle. FAITH CUBE FMBLY- BEATEM. Chaplain Hall Yt'riro* r!i? Following He rn??*i?:??>'tr Letter. - From Un "Albioni ', ExpreM. For many year.; my wife liad been the victim of nervous dyspepsia, of the chronic, distressing and apparently in curable type from which so many of her sex suffer, languish and die. It was all the worse because the tendency to it was inherited. She had been under the systematic treatment of many of the best physicians in New York andBrook lyn and elsewhere for twenty years with only temporary relief. In fact, there were few, if any, kinds of food that did not distress her, so diseased, sensitive and torpid were all the organs of diges tion. The usual symptoms of dyspep sia, with its concomitant ailments, were all present?bad taste in the mouth, dull eyes, cold feet and hands, the sense of a load upon the stomach, tenderness on pressure, indigestion, giddiness, great weakness and prostration, and fu gitive pains in the sides, chest and back. I have often risen in the night and ad ministered stimulants merely for the sake of the slight and transient relief they gave. Intermittent malarial fever set in, complicating the case and making every symptom more pronounced and intense. By this time the pneumo gastric nerves had become very seri ously involved, ano she had chronic Gastritis, and also what I may be al lowed to call chronic intermittent ma larial fever all at once. For the latter the physicians prescribed the good, old fashioned, sheet-anchor remedy, Quin ine gradually in creasing the doses, until -^-incredible as it may seem?she actu ally took thirty grains a day for days in succession. This could not last. The effect of the quinine was, if possible, almost as bad as the two fold disease which was wearing away her strength and her life. Quinine poisoning was painfully evident, but the fever was there still. Almost every day there came on the characteristic chill and racking headache, followed by the usual weakness and collapse. About this rime I met socially my friend Mr. Norton, a member of the firm of Chauncey Titus & Company, brokers, of Albany, who, on hearing from me these facts, said : " Why, I have been through almost the same thing, and have got over it." * What cured you?" I asked eagerly. "Kas kine, " he said, u try it for your wife. " I had seen Kaskine advertised, but had no more faith in it than I had in saw dust, for such a case as hers. Mrs. Hall had no higher opinion, yet on the strength of my friend's recommenda tion I got a bottle and began its use as directed. Now recall what I have already said as to her then condition, and then read what follows: Under the Kaskine treatment all the dyspeptic symptoms showed instant improvement, and the daily fever grew less and soon ceased altogether. Side by side these diseases vanished, as side by side they had tort ured their victim for ten years?the dyspepsia alone having, as I have said, existed for twenty years. Her appetite improved from week to week until she could eat and-tligest the average food that any well person takes, without any suffering or inconvenience. With re newed assimilation of food came, of course, a steady increase in flesh, until she now looks like her original self. She still takes Kaskine occasionally, but with no real need of it, for she is well. I consider this result a scientific miracle, and the w New Quinine " is en titled to the credit of it, for from the time she began with Kaskine she used no other medicine whatever. If you think a recital of these facts calculated to do good you are welcome to make them public. (Rev.) JAS. I? HALL, Chaplain Albany, N. Y., Penitentiary. P. S.?Sometimes letters of this kind are published without authority, and in case any one is inclined to question the genuineness of the above statement I will cheerfully reply to any commu nications addressedto me at the Peni tentiary. Jas. L. Hall. Other letters of a similar character from prominent individuals, which stamp Kaskine as a remedy of un doubted merit, will be sent on appli cation. Price $1.00, or six bottles, $5.00. Sold l>y Druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of price. The Kaskine Company, 54 Warren St., New York, and 35 Farringdon Road, London. President Cleveland has fixed Octo ber 15 as the date of his proposed visit to the Atlanta. Ga., exhibition. ? ??W~ ? ? - A dog is property when it has been stolen ; but it is not property when the tax returns arc made. - mm mm Since Mr. Blainc's arrival in England lie hasn't been near as vigorous in his efforts to twist the lion's tail as when on this side of the water. In fact the dis patches say the treatment ho has receiv ed from prominent English statesmen has made a 'marked impression upon him,' and we presume the tail twisting business will be left alone until he comes homo to make another political cam paign. Ax Irish Bull.?A Boston servant, like many of her class, docs not know her age. She has lived with one family eleven years, and has always been twenty-eight. But not long ago she read in the newspaper of an old woman who had died at the age of a hundred and six. 'Maybe I'm as auld as that mesilf,' said she. 'In d?d?, I can't rcmimbcr the time whin I wasn't alive.'?Harper's Magazine for July. ICHABOD AND OTHER POEMS, BY W. G. KENNEDY. FOR SALE AT THE SUMTER BOOK STORE. Price reduced to one dollar per copj. 5 ) <3 Miiipppj WP?Pi1 ! ?i?iiil ?i.'???iy,Ji IjiiUUiOi nui?i. [ - Testimonials of la?nent Physicians of ths Str.vS? The following are selected frein many sim ilar e3 : Dr. L. C. Kk-SKEDy, of Sparenburg, \ 3 ?Ue Proprietors : "The remedia! riua? nles of Glenn springs I havelinown for over forty years, and c:in attest ?o its \-.-Auo in Dyspepsia, from gastric or fucctionr.1 dorante- ' ment of the Liver, General Debility, Dropsical Effusions. Uterine Irregularity and Affections of the Kidneys and Bladder. To the last dis eases I would particularly call attention, as the waters have shown large curative powers in these complaints." Dr. . . Mayeb, cf Newberry, S. C, says: "I have sent more than iifiy persons suffering with Jaundice to these Springs, and have never been disappointed in any case ; they all speedily recovered. I cannot find words to express my confidence in tbe Glenn Springs water, as a remedy for the Liver, when functionally deranged. Dyspepsia, Dropsy, certain skin diseases, troubles in the Kidneys and Spleen, if produced by ihe Liver, have all, as I know, disappeared at tbe Springs." Da. James McIntosh, President of the Med ical Association o? South Carolina, in his an nual address before that body remarks: 'Glenn Springs, for diseases of tbe Stomach, Liverand Kidneys, deserves to rank with any other on the continent," PRICE OF WATER. 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THE SUBSCRIBER would. respect rally in form the citizens of Sumtcr County, tha he b?s recently moved his shop from Wedge field to the Town of Sumter, where he will carry on tbe business of WHEELWRIGHTIN6. BtACKSMlTH?NG*, and Oencr.il Reparing. EORSE SHOEING a specialty. Will keep on hand piping end fixtures for tbe repairing of Steam Engines, Pumps, etc. LOG CARTS built to order. He takes this opportunity to thank his friends and the public generally, for the lib eral patronage extended to him while at Wedgefield, and hopes by close attention to his business, to merit a continuance of tbe same. Shop on Liberty Street, near Mr. H. Harby'2 Livery Stables. RILEY W. BRADHAM. March 17, '87. BEES AND HONEY. J. P. H. BROWN, AUGUSTA, GA. MANUFACTURER OF HITES, SEC tions. Foundation and Bee-keepers' Supplies. Also Breeder of Italian Bees and Queens. He manufactures the best PORTABLE FRUIT DRYER. Send for catalogne. March 3 THE ROYAL ST. JOHN. 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ASHLEY COMPLETE GARDEN FERTILIZER, Delivered free ; specially adapted to Roses, Geraniums, Pansies, Flowering Annuals, &c. For terms, directions, testimonials, and for the various attractive and instruc tive publications of the Company, address, THE ASHLEY PHOSPHATE CO. Scot 23 Charleston, S. C. rotash Victim. Cured by S. S. S. CAUTION. j Consumers should not confuse our Specific with ths numerous imitations, rubstitutc.',* potash and mercury mixtures which are got ten up to seil, not on their oven merit, but on the merit of our remedy. An imitation is alicays a fraud and a cheat, and Uiey thrive only as they can stealfrom the article imitated. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. For sale by all druggist*. TUE SWIFT SPECIF/C CO., BratC'T3, Aiianta, Ga. S. S. ?. vs. POTASH. 0 hail Wood raison for ?cn year?. I know I havo taker, one hundred bottles of pot:?t?h in that lime. hot it did nie no good. La^t summer my face. nock, body 's were covered with sores, and I cor.ld scarcely use my arm? on account of rfcru 1 my shoulders. 1 took S. S. t>.. und it has done me more cood than all other medi jave T:i!cfu. My faro, body and neck are perfectly clear and clean, and my rhcu s entirely cone. 1 weighed 11G pound? whirr. 1 becan the medicine, and I now w*?i?x ids. My first bottle helped me greatly; and cave me an appetite like a strong man. not be witiiout S. S. S. for several time? weight in trold. , C. M1TCU?LL, W. 23d St. Ferry, Kcw York. AD LERE EVERY YOUNG MAN SHOULD AVAIL Himself of the advantages offered at the BRYANT, STRATTON & SADLER BUSI NESS COLLEGE, For acquiring a thorough and practical train ing in business affairs. With improved and enlarged facilities, we announce our Twenty-Second Annual Opening for the reception of pupils. The curriculum of study embraces a thorough preparation for business .affairs. The proficiency acquired by our many pupils during a period of over twenty years as educa tors of youth is our strongest commendation. . Pupils enter at any time. For circulars, cat alogues, terms, Ac, call on or address W. H. SADLER, President, Sept 8 Nos. 6 A 8 N, Charles St., Balto. -5 DEALER l? Drugs, Medicines and G liemicals ? ? to! let soaps. hair a is i) tooth brushes, perfumery and fancy toilet articles, &C, <tc. PA ? NTS, OILS, VARNISHES AND D ? E STUFFS, GLASS, PUTTY, ?c. Full supply of Fresh Garden Seeds. April 9 PAINT YOUR BUGGY FOR One Dollar. One coat gives an old buggy the blackest black you ever saw and a handsome gloss without varnishing. It dries hard in a few hours. No rubbing 1 No varnishing ! No extra trouble. Each can contains more than enough to paint a carriage. Retailed al One Dollar per Can. For Sale by DR. A. J. CHINA. CO CO co ? O >i y il S? S? ?? S. i* ? EUS cnQf? ? S"3 CO CO 8? : ?i ?? ^? ta C A ?3 ?. 5 .-: - * .or; I? ri ? ( i? = es 2 oll? be o. C. ? 2. "5 o< a. Si?"* 0 CD 09 SN Ks S3 0 ?li ? ?4* <0 ?? C/5 3 ? O S? -is ? ni ? ?. F. W. DeLORME, Agent* DEALER IN DHU & MEDICI? TOILET SOAPS, PERFUMERY AND ALL KINDS OF Druggist's Sundries USUALLY KEPT IN A FIRST-CLASS DRUG STORE. Tobacco, Snuff'and Segars, GARDEN SEEDS, &C,5 -ALSO Faints, Oils, Varnishes, GLASS, PUTTY, &c. AND DYE STUFFS, Physician's Prescriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered with care and dispatch. The public will find my stock of Medicines complete, warranted genu ine, and of the best quality. Call and see for yourselves. HOUSE PAINTING In First Class Style. IAM PREPARED TO FURNISH MATE rial of the best kind and finish up jobs in workmanlike manner, and no money required until work is completed. Any kind of work in the House-painting line, such as Walnut Graining, Oak Graining. Mapleing, Marbleizing, Wall and Fancy Painting in flat or gloss work, Graniteing, Rough-casting, Gold or Brass Bronzing, Staining, and Varnishing in any shade. All jobs will be promptly dealt with. Address LEMUEL R. DAVIS, May 19 Sumter, S. C. Obtained, and ail PA'JJlXT BCSlUJiSS at tended to for MODERA TE FEES Our office is opj?ositc the U.S. Patent Office, and vre can ob tain Patents in loss time than those remote from WASIIIXGTOy. Send MODEL. l>Jt? WISG or PHOTO of invention. We advise ?.?* !? patent-, abllitv free of chnrcc and we nmke XO 11IARGE US LESS PATENT IS SECfJKKlK Tor circolar, advice, terms and references to actual clients in your own Stute. C-ooiity. City or Town, write to cw: snow a co Opposite patent O?cc. Wasl?ngton, C Tf?E ONLY war? RON TONSC Will purify the BLOOD res?lete the LIVES and KIDNEYS and Rfstokz tho HEALTH and VIO OR of YOUTH. Dyspepsia,Want of Appetite, IndigestioaJLack of Strength end Tired Feeling ab? eolutoly cared: Bocee, m na dos and nerves receive new force. Eni i venu the a: ind _, und pnpplies Brnin Power. ' Suberine from complaint*pecu liar to tbeir sex will find in DE. _ HAETEB'8 IBON TONIC a unfa, ?peedy com. Giv*>!?acl*?ar, h enlthy com pi ? on. Ailattempts nt counterfeiting only ad?$ to ^. <> ?* laxity. Do not #?rperim??ntr-?*et OaJOISAl. avd Bkst Dr. H ARTER* S LIVER. PILLS LADEES (Cure Const?pation.Iiver Complaint and Sic* Headache. Samp?o Dose and. Dream Book mailed a receipt of two cents In postage. THE DR. HARTER MEDICINE CO.. ST. LOUIS, MO. ) SUTER MARBLE WORKS, ESTABLISHED IN 1869. W. P. SMITH, WHO IS STILL PREPARED WITH Improved Facilities, TO FURNISH MONUMENTS, HEADSTONES, ?AND? ?11 Kinds of Cemetery Work, In First Class Workmanship. Dec. 21. MANH?^?D -.3?tS' HOW LOST, HOW RESTORED! Just published, a new edition of Dr. CUL VERWELL'S CELEBRATED ESSAY on the radical cure of Spermatorrhoea or Seminal weak ness. Involuntary Seminal Losses. Impotency, Mental and Physical Incapacity, Impediments to Marriage, etc.; also. Consumption, Epilepsy and fits, induced by self-indulgence or sexual extravagance, ?c. The celebrated author, in this admirnblo Essay, clearly demonstrates, from a thirty years' successful practice, that tbc alarming conse quences of self-abuse may be radically cured ; pointing out a modo of euro at once simple, cer tain and effectuai, by means of which ovcry sufferer, no matter what his condition may bo, may euro himself cheaply, privately and radi cally. This lecture should be in tho hands of every youth and every man in the Jand: Sont, under seal, in a plain envelope, to any address, post paid, on receipt of four cents, or two postage stamps. Address THE CULVERWELL MEDICAL CO., 41 As* St Nsw Yobk: Poet Office Box, 450. . F. MITCHELL & SOI, PB0P3IET0KS OF The Merchant Flour Mills AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS FOR THE SALE OF COTTON AND NAVAL STOKES, WILMINGTON X. C. OFFER FOR SALE AT LOWEST PRICES Choice grades FLOUR, own maoT t*t*. -also, Fresh Ground MEAL, HOMINY. CRACKED CORN, &c. - ALSO, Selected RED RUST PROOF SEED OATS. Selected North Carolina and MaryUftt SEED RYE. All our Goods guaranteed beet ?aalt ty and at lowest prices. No charge for ?Icl:very to Railroad* B. F. MITCHELL & SON. WULBERN & PIE] WHOLESALE GROCERS, AND DEALERS ?T Provisions, Liprs, Tobacco, k 167 and 169 East-Bay, CHARLESTON, S. C. Dec. 2_?_ S. B. THOMAS, Agt No. 320 KING STKEET, Opposite Liberty, Fiatar Mes, Paper Haw T^ACE CURTAINS, CORNICES AND UPHOLSTERY fiOODS, WINDOW AWNINGS MADE TO ORDER. CHARLESTON S. C. Dec II_o GEO. W. STEFFENS, WHOLESALE GROCER, Auction and Commission Merchant and Liquor Dealer. agent FOR The F:nest Sams cured in the U, S* Also Agent for GENESEO ROAD CART. Tbe Best and Cheapest on the Market* 19? EAST BAY a?o 50 and 52 STATE Sit?, (Auction Room State Street,) CHARLESTON, S. C. * Consignments Solicited. Not 25_? PAVILION HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. First Class in all its Appointments. Sapplied with all Modern Improvements. " Excellent Cuisine, Large Airy Rooms, Otis Passenger Elevator, Elee* trie Bells and Lights. Heat ed Rotunda. RATES $2.00, $2.50 AND $3.00. Rooms Reserved hy Mail or Telegraph* Sept 16 THE HOTEL WINDSOR, 211 KING STREET. Four Doors South Academy of Munt. CHARLESTON, S. C. THIS well appointed Hotel was opened for tbe reception cf Gnests, March 1st, 1885, by G. T. ALFORD, recently proprietor of the "New Brighton Hotel," Sullivan's Island. The "WINDSOR" is newly furnished throughout, having Woven Wire Spring and Hair Matresses on all beds Fronting oa King Street, with extensive Southern expo*? are, making All tbe Rooms Dry, Airy and Pleasant. To make the "HOTEL WINDSOR," what has long been wanted, a STRICTLY FAMI LY HOTEL, No Liquors will be sold en the premises. Rates, $1.50 to $2.00 per day?Liberal terms made by the week or month. G. T. ALFORD, Manager. WRIGHT'S HOTEL, COLUMBIA, S. <7. THIS NEW AND ELEGANT HOUSE, with all modern improvement*, is now open for the reception of guests. S. L. WRIGHT * SON, May 6. Proprietors. RUBBER STAMPS* MAME STAMPS FOR MARKING ClOTHWft with indellible ink, or for printing visiting cards, and STAMPS OF ANY KIND for stamping BUSINESS CARDS, ENVEL OPES or anything else. Speciment of varion* styles on hand, which will he shown with plena* are. The LOWEST PRICES possible, a** orders filled promptly. _ Call on C. P. OSTSEH, At the Watchman and Southron Office $25,000.00 IN GOLD! WILL BE PAID FOB ARB?CKLES' COFFEE WRAPPERS. 1 Premium, - - $1,000.00 2 Premiums, - $500.00 each 6 Premiums, ? $250.00 * 25 Premiums, ? $100.00 * 100 Premiums, ? $50.00 14 200 Premiums, ? $20.00 14 1,000 Premiums, $10.00 " For full particulars and directions see Circu lar In every pound of Arbccklss* Comx WORK SHOPS WITHOUT STEAM POWER by using outfits OT BARUM' PAT. FOOT PO machinery can compete steam power. Sold on trial.' Metal and woodworkers send for prces. Illustr'd catalogue free. W. F. A.Jno?Barne?Co? RodUord, III. Address No 2116 Main St FOUTZ'S HORSE ANO CATTLE POWDER* Ko House wffl dio. of Colic Bot? or Lxrse, I5n> vex. if Forrtz*s Powder* arc nsed in time. Foute* Powders will cure and provont Hoe Cnoxxsa. F?nte's Powders will prevent Gaper tx Fowls. Fonn's Powder* will increase the Quantity of mflfc and cream twenty per cenu and niafcetlie tatter finn ind sweet. ,_. _ Fontz* Powder? will enre or prevent almost xvkbw .5:??vask to which Horses and Cattle are anhject Forrz's Powr?KBs wiu. ? Satisvactiok. Sold everywhere. DAVID E. FOUTZ, Proprietor EALTIirO?B. MTA THIS PAPER -and The Great Farm, Industrial and Stock Journal of ike South, ONE YEAR FOB $a Sample copies of The Southern Cultivai** wfl be mailed FREE on application, to. ?a*. ?? Harrison & Co., Drawer 8, Atlanta, 6a. ; IDVERTISEBS tfeapapwvOM on admitting ?pece when in Cfccsgo. v*3 find rtoatta* 45 to 49 Randolph St, e Advertising Agency of LORD ITBOiAi