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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13. DESERTER. ?y Oapt CHARLES KDfG, ??. S. A. A?i?or o/ 'EHinraven Ranch? "The Colo nets Daughter? "Marion's Faith? Etc, Etc^ it, i>y J. B. Lippiocott Company, Fnila by special arrangeaient them.] rC0STINCED.l - CHAPTER XVIIL She-sate Rayner grasping his hands. There had been a scene of somewhat dramatic nature at the colonels office but a short time before, and one that had fewer witnesses. Agitated, xtervous and eventually astonished as Cape. Rayner had been when the colonel had revealed to him the nature of Clancy's confession, lie was far more excited and tremulous when he rfetarned a second time. The command* ing officer had been sitting deep in thought. If was but natural that a man should show great emotion on learning that the evidence he had given, which had condemned a brother ofneer to years of solitary punishment, was now dis proved. I t was to be expected that Ray ner should be tremulous and excited. He had been looking worse and worse fee a long time past; and now that it was es that he must have been mis taken in what he thought he saw and heard at Battle Butte, it was to be ex pected tliat he should show the utmost consternation and an immediate desire to make amen ds. He had shown greatemo tion; he was white and rigid as the colo nel told him Clancy had made a full con fession; but the expression on his face when informed that the man had admit ted that he and Sergt. Gower were the only ontrS guilty of thecrime?that Clancy and Gower divided the guilt as they had the money?was a puzzle to the colonel. Capt. Rayner seemed daft; it was a look of wild relief, half unbelief, half delight, that shot across his bagged features. It was evident that he had not heard at all what he expected. This was what puzzled the colonel. He had been pondering over it ever since the captain's hurried de parture "to tell his wife," "We?we had .expected?made all preparations to take this afternoon's train for the east," he stammered. "We are all torn up, all ready to start, and the ladies ought to go; but I cannot feel like going in the face of this." "There, is no reason why you should not go, captain. I am told Mrs. Rayner should leave at once. If need be, you can return from Chicago. Everything will be attended to properly. Of course you will know what to do towards Mr. Hayne, Indeed, I think it might be best for you to fro." But Rayner seemed hardly listening; and tlie colonel was not a man to throw his words away. "You "might see Mrs. Rayner at once, and return by and by," he said: and Ray ner gladly escaped, and went home with the wonderful new* lie had to tell his wife. And now a second time he was back, and was urging upon the commanding officer the necessity of telegraphing and capturing Mrs. Clancy. In plain words he told the colonel he believed that she had escaped with the greater part of the money. The colonel smiled: "That was attended to ear ly this morn ing, captain. Hayne and the major asked that she be secured, and the mo ment we found her fled it confirmed their suspicions, and Billings sent dis patches in every direction. She can't get away! She was his temptress, and I mean to make her share all the punish ment," "Colonel," exclaimed Rayner, while beads of sweat stood out on his forehead, "she is worse?a thousand times worse! Tiie woman is a fiend She is the devil in petticoats?and ingenuity. My God! sir, I have been in torment for weeks past?my poor wife and L I have been criminally, cowardly weak; but I did not know what to do?where to turn ?how to take it?bow to meet it. Let me tell you." And now great tears were stand ing in his eyes and beginning to trickle down hischeeks. He dashed them away. His lips were quivering, and he strode nervously up and down the matted floor. "When you refused to * let Clancy re-cn list in the ?th, two years after Battle Butte, he came to me and toid me a story. He. too, lia 1 declared, as I did, that he had seen the money packages in Hayncs hands, and he said the real reason he was kicked out of the ?th was because the officers and men took sides with Hayne _ and thought lie had sworn his reputation away. He begged me not to *so back on him9 as his own regiment had, and 1 thought he was being persecuted because he told the truth. God knows I fully be lieved Hayne guilty for more than three years?it is only within the last year or so I began to have doubts; and so I took Clancy into B company and soon made Mrs. Clancy a laundress. Cut she made trouble for us all, and there was some thing uncanny about them. She kept throwing oat mysterious hints I could not understand when rumors of them reached me; and at last came th* fire that burned them out, and then the stories of what Clancy had said in his delirium: and then she came to my wife and told her a yarn that?she swore to its truth, and nearly drove Mrs. Rayner wild with anxiety. She swore that when Clancy got to drinking he imagined he had seen me take that money from Capt. Hull's saddle bags and replace the sealed package; she said he was ready to swear that he and Gower?the deserter?and two of our men, honorably discharged now and living on ranches down in Nebraska, could all swear?would all swear?to the same thing?that I was the thief. 'Sure you know it couldn't be so, ma'am; and yet he wants to go and tell Mr. Hayne,* she would say; 'there's the four of 'em would swear to it, though Gower's evidence would be no good; but the two men could hurt the captain.' Her ing?nu: :y was devilish, for one of the men I had severely pun ished once ia the Black Hill3, and both bated me and had sworn they would get even with me yet. God help me, col onel, seeing every day the growing conviction that Hayne was inno cent, that somebody else must be guilty, I thought, what if this man should, in drunken gratitude to Hayne for saving his life, go to him and tell him this story, tl ? back it up be fore ?i?Lu?}M$e?^?~ T-viiii. ia these two others? I was weak, but it appalled me. I determined to get hiin out of the way of such a possibility. I got his discharge, and meantime strove to prevent his drinking or going near Hayne. She knew the real story he would tell. This was her devilish plan to keep me on watch against him. I never dreamed the real truth. She swore to me that $300 was all the money they had. I believed that when he confessed it would be what she declared. I never dreamed that Clancy and his confederate were the thieves; I never believed the money was taken until after Hayne received it. I saw how Hayne's guilt was believed in even in the face of contradictory evidence before the court. What would be the tendency if three men together were to swear against me, now that everybody thought him wronged? I know very well what you will think of my cowardiee. I know you and your officers will say I should have given him every chance?should have courted investigation; and I meant to do so, but first I wanted to hear from those discharged men in Nebraska. The whole scheme would have been exploded two months ago bad I not been a cow ard; bu* night after night something kept whispering to me,4 You have wreck ed and ruined a friendless: young soldier's life. You shall be brought as low.' " The colonel was, as he afterwards re marked, hardly equal to the occasion. He had as much contempt for moral weakness in a soldier as he had for phy sical cowardice; but Rayner's almost ab ject recital of his months of misery really left him nothing to say. Had the cap tain sought to defend or justify any de tail of his conduct, he would have pounced on him like a panther. Twice the adjutant, sitting an absorbed and silent listener, thought the chief on the verge of an outbreak; but it never came. For some minuses after Rayner ceased the colonel sat steadily regarding him At last he ?poke: "You have been so frank in your state ment, captain, that I feel you full) ap preciate how such deplorable weakness must be regarded in an officer. It is un necessary for me to speak of that. The full particulars of Clancy's confession are not yet with me. Maj. Waldron has it all in writing, and Mr. Billings has merely told me the general features. Of course you shall have a copy of it in good time. As you go east today and liave your wife and household to think for, it may be as well that you do not at tempt to see Mr. Hayne before "starting. And this matter will not be discussed." . And so it happened that when the Rayners drove to the station that bright afternoon and a throng of ladies and officers gathered to see them off, some of the youngsters going with them into town to await the coming of the train, Nellie Travers liad been surrounded by chattering friends of both sexes, con stantly occupied and yet constantly looking for the face of one who came not. For an hour before their depart ure every tongue in garrison that wagged at all?ana" few there were that wagged not?were discoursing on the exciting events of the morning?Hayne's emancipation from the last vestige of suspicion, Clancy's capture, confession and tragic death, Mrs. Clancy's flight and prol>abie future. At Rayner's peo ple spoke of these things very guardedly, because every one saw that the captain was moved to the depths of his nature. He was solemnity itself, and Mrs. Ray ner watched him with deep anxiety, fearful that he might be exposed to some thoughtless or malicious questioning. Her surveillance was needless, however; even Ross made no allusion to the events of the morning, though he communi cated to bis fellows in the subsequent confidences of the club room that Midas looked as though he'd been pulled through a series of knot holes. "Looks more's though he were going to his own funeral than on leave," he added. As for Hayne, he had been closeted with the colonel and Maj. Waldron for some time after his return?a conference that was broken in upon by the startling news of Clancy's deatli. Then he had joined his friend, the doctor, at the hos pital, and was still there, striving to comfort little Kate, who could not be in duced to leave her father's rapidly stiff- I ening form, when Mrs. Waldron re-en- \ tered the room. Drawing tiie child to her side and folding her motherly arms about her, she looked up in Hayne's pale face: "They are going in five minutes. Don't you mean to see her?"* "Not there?not under his roof or in that crowd. I will go to the station." "I must run over and say good-by in a moment?when the carriage goes around. Shall?shall I say you will come?" There was a light in his blue eyes she was just beginning to notice now as she studied his face. A sm. 'e flickered one instant about the corne;s of his mouth, and then he held or.t Iiis hand: "She knows by this time, Mrs. Wal dron." An hour later Mrs. Rayner was stand ing on the platform at the station, Ross and others of her satellites hanging about hen Capt. Rayner was talking in sub dued tones with one or two of the senior officers: Miss Travers, looking feverishly pretty, was chatting busily with Royce and Foster, though a close observer could liave noted that her dark eyes often sought the westward prairie o%'er which wound tliOToad to the distant post. It was nearly train time, and three or four horsemen could be seen at various dis tances, while, far out towards the fort, long skirmish lines and fluttering guidons were sweeping over the slopes hi mimic war array. "I have missed all this," she said, point ing to the scene; "and 1 do love it so that it seems hard to go just as all the real soldier life is beginning." "Goodness knows you've had offers enough to keep you here," said Foster, with not the blithest laugh in the world. "Any girl who will go east and marry a cit' and leave six or seven penniless subi sighing behind her, I Iiavo my opinion of; she's eminently level headed," he added, with rueful and unexpected candor, "I have hopes of Miss Travers yet," boomed Royce, in his ponderous basso; "not personal hopes, Foster?you needn't feel for your pistol?but I believe that lier heart is with the army, like the sol dier's daughter she is." And, audacious as was the speech and deserving of in stant rebuke, Mr. Rjyce was startled to see her reddening vividly, lie would have plunged into hasty apology, but Foster plucked his sleeve: "Look who's coming, you galoot! She hasn't heard a word either of us has said." And though Nellie Travers, notin:; the sadden silence, burst into ;:n immediate and utterly irrelevant lament over the loss of the Maltese kitten?which had not been seen all that day and was not to be found when they came away?it was useless. The effort was gallant, but the flame in her cheeks betrayed lier as, throwing his reins to the orderly who followed him, Mr. Hayne dismounted at the platform and came directly towards her. To Mrs. Hayner s unspeakable dis may, lie walked up to t ho trio, bowed low over the littlo gloved hand that was extended in answer to the proh'cr Of his own, and next she saw that Royce and Foster had, as though by tacit cousent, fallen back, and, coram publica, Nr. Hayne was sole claimant of the regards of her baby sister. Ti e? s was out one comfort ta the situation: the train was j insight. Forgetful, reckless for the mo- j ment, of what was going on around her, j she stood gazing at the pair. No woman could fp.il to read the story; ! no woman could sec his face, his eyes. his whole attitude aud expression, and not read therein that old, old story that grows sweeter with every century of its life. That he should be inspired with sudden, vehement love for her exquisite Nell was something she could readily understand; but what?what meant her downcast eyes,, the flutter of color on her soft and rounded cheek, the shy up lifting of the fringed lids from time to time as though in response to eager question or appeal? Heavens! would that train never come? The whistle was sounding in the distance, but it would take ages to drag those heavy Pullmans up the grade from the bridge where they had yet to stop. She could almost have carted forward, seized her sister by tha wrist, and whispered again the baleful reminder that of late had had no mention between thein?"Thou art an other's;" but in her distress her weak blue eyes sought her husband's face. He saw it all, and shook his head. Then there was nothing to be done. As the train came rumbling finally into the station she saw him once more clasp her sister's hand; then, with one long look into the sweet face that was hidden from her jealous eyes, he raised his forage cap and stepped quickly back to where his horse was held. Her hus band hastened to her side: "Kate, I must speak to him. I don't care how he may take it. I cannot go without it." They all watched the tall captain as he strode across the platform. Every man in uniform seemed to know instinct ively that Rayner at last was seeking to make open reparation for the bitter wrong he had done. One or two strove to begin a general chat and affect an in terest in something else for Mrs. Rayner's benefit, but she, with trembling lips, stood gazing after her husband and seemed to beg for silence. Then all abandoned other occupation, and every man stood still and watched them. Hayne had quickly swung into saddle, and had turned for one more look, when he saw his captain with ashen face striding towards him, and heard him call his name. "By Jove!" muttered Ross, "what command that fellow has over himself!" for, scrupulously observant of military etiquette, Mr. Hayne on being addressed by his superior officer had instantly dis mounted, and now stood silently facing him Even at the distance, there were some who thought they could see his features twitching: but Iiis blue eyes were calm and steady?far clearer than they had been but a moment agone when gazing good-by into the sweet face they worshiped. None could hear what passed between them. The talk was very brief; but Ross almost gasped with amaze, other officers looked at one an other in utter astonishment, and Mrs. Rayner fairly sobbed with excitement and emotion-, when Mr. Hayne was seen to hold forth his hand, and Rayner, grasping it eagerly in both of his own, shook it once, then strode hastily away towards the rear of the train. His eyes were filled with tears he could not repress and could not bear to show. That evening as the train wound steadi ly eastward into the shadows of the night, and they looked out in farewell upon the slopes they had last seen when a wintry gale swept fiercely over the frozen sur face and the shallow ravines were streak ed with snow, Elate Rayner, after a long talk with her husband, and abandoning her boy to the sole guardianship of his nurse, settled herself by Nellie's side, and Nellie knew that she either sought confi dences or had them to impart. Some thing of the old, quizzical look was play ing about the corner of her pretty mouth as her elder sister, with feminine indi rectness, began her verbal skirmishing with the subject. It was some time be fore the question was reached which led to her real objective: "Did he?did Mr. Hayne tell you much about Clancy?" "Not much. There was no time." "You had fully ten minutes, I'm sure. It seemed even longer." "Four by the clock, Kate.*! "Well, four, then. He must have had something of greater interest."* No answer. Cheeks red dening, though. "Didn't he?"?persistently. "I will tell you what he told me of Clancy, Kate, Mrs. Clancy had utterly deceived you as to what he had to tell, had she not?" "Utterly." And now it was Mrs. Ray ner s turn to color painfully. "Mr. Hayne tells me that Clancy's con fession really explained how Capt. Ray ner was mistaken. It was not so much the captain's fault, after all." "So Mr. Hayne told him. You knew they?you saw Mr. Hayue offer liim his hand, didn't you?" "I did not see: I knew he would." More vivid color, and much hesitation now. "Knew he would! Why, Nellie, what do you mean? He didn't tell you that he was to see Capt. Rayner. He couldn't have known." "But I knew, Kate; and I told him how the captain had suffered." "But how could you know that he would shake liands with him?" "He promised me," The silence was unbroken for a mo ment. Nellio Travers could hear the beating of lier own heart as she nestled closer to her sister and stole a hand into hers. Mrs. Rayner was trying hard to be dutiful, stern, unbending, to keep her faith with the distant lover in the east, whether Nell was true or no; but she had been so humbled, so changed, so shaken, by the events of the past few weeks, that she felt all her old spirit of guardianship ebbing away. "Must I give you up, Neli? and must he, too??Mr. Van Antwerp?" "He has not answered my last letter, Kate. It is nearly a week since I have heard from him." "What did you write, Nellie'?" "What I had done twice before?that he ought to release me." "And?is Clancy's the only confession you have heard today?" "The only one." A pause, then: "I know what you mean, Kate: but he is not the man to?to offer his love to a girl he knows is pledged to another." "But if you wore free, Nellie? Tell me." "I have no right to say, Kate; but"? r-ud two big. tears were welling up into lier brave eyes, ns she clasped her hands and stretched them yearningly before tuer?"shall 1 tell you what I think a girl would say if she were five and had won ids love?" "What, Nellie?" "She wouid say 'Ay." No woman wi?li a heart could leave a man who has Iionie much and come through it ail so bravely." Poor Mrs. Rayner! Humbled and chastened as she was, what refuge had she but tears, and then prayer? 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I STILL CONTINUE To keep a first class stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE. ?THE? BARGAINS are too numerous to enumerate. I invite the attention of close buyers who desire first class goods. Call special attention to our Butter and Teas. ALTAMONT MOSES. Feb 12. MACHINERY. W. H. GIBBES, JR., & CO., COLUMBIA, S. C. STATE AGENTS FOR LIDDELL & CO.'S Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills, &c. Deering HarvestingJVIachinery, Thomas Rakes, Wind Mills, Ice Plants, Cane Mills and Evaporators, Wood-working Machinery. In fact anything, from a Plow Point to a Cotton Seed Oil Mill AT BOTTOM PRICES. A fair price allowed for old engines in exchange for new outfits. W. M. REIB, Mayesviile, S. C. Agent for Sumter and Kersbaw Co.s and Clarendon, East of Central R. R. May 7?x Summer Tours. Palace Steamers. Low Ratcs. Pour Trips per Week Between detroit, mackinac island Petoekey. The Soo. Marquette, and Lake Huron Por.a. Every Evening Between detroit and cleveland Sunday Trip* during Jnnc. July, August f d September Only. Our illustrated Pamphlets, Bates and Excursion Tickets will bo furnished by your Ticket Agent, or address e. b. WHITCOMB, G. P. A., Dbtroit, Mich., (HE DETROITS CLEVELAND STEAM NAV. CO. A CARD. SINCE WITHDRAWING FROM THE firm of A. P. Levy & Co., and at the solicitation of numerous friends I have de cided to open a jlrst-cluss saloon on Liberty Street opposite J. Rettenberg ? Sons' grocery, and I can hereafter be found there at all hours, having just opened up as fine a stock of Liquors aud Segars as has ever been brought to Suniter. I extend a cordial invi tation to ail of my friends and patroos to call. Respectfully. Jan. 22. A. P. LEVY. CHARLESTON, SUMTER AND NORTHERN RAILROAD. IN EFFECT MAY 5, 1890. North. 3 P M. 10 47 56 14 19 31 41 8 05 8 24 8 36 8 43 8 52 9 01 9 12 9 25 P. M. 1 A. M. 6 00 7 45 8 00 8 30 8 55 9 08 9 18 9 34 9 47 10 12 10 32 10 42 11 19 11 39 12 01 12 30 P. M. MAIN LINE. Charleston Pregnalis Harlejville Pecks Holly Hill Connors Eotawville Bulis Van ces Merriara St. Paul Surnroerton Silver Packsville Tindal Sumter South. 2 A. M. 11 03 9 30 9 18 9 00 8 55 8 45 8 35 8 20 7 56 4 P. M. 9 30 8 05 7 45 44 37 28 19 08 55 15 04 50 33 18 13 43 25 12 55 43 22 0U A, M. P. M. North. HARLIN CITY BRANCH. South. 7 P. M. 8 10 8 23 8 29 8 42 5 A. M. 9 50 10 05 10 20 10 35 6 A. M. 8 05 7 50 7 44 7 30 8 A M. 11 32 11 19 11 13 11 00 Van ces Snells Parlera Harlin City Trains 2, 3, 6 and 7 run daily ; other trains daily except Sunday. Trains do not stop where time is omitted. Bulls, Merriani and Snells are flag stations. Trains 2 and 3 have through cars between Charleston and Sumter. I. W, FOWLER, General Manager. Atlantic Coast Line WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA R. R. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Dated April 20, 1890. |N?>. 23|No. 27|No. 15 L've Wilmington. Leave Marion. Arrive Florence.. Leave Florence. Ar've Sumter... Leave Snmter...., Ar've Columbia. P. M. * 6 15 9 ZA 10 20 No. 5? A. M 3 20 4 35 4 35 6 15 P. M *10 10 12 40 1 20 A M No 52 f 9 45 10 55 A. M, No. 58 fS 25 S 35 No. 52 ruus through from Charleston via Central R. A. Leaving Lanes 9:15 A. M., Manning 9:56 A. M. Train on C. & O. R. R. connects at Florence with No. 58. TRAINS GOING NORTH. j No. 51|No. 59|No. 53 Leave Columbia. Ar've Suuifer. Lenve Sumter.. Arrive Florence. Leave Flsrence... Leave Marion. Arr. Wilmington ? M *I0 35 11 IS Daily, f Daily except Sunday. No. 53 runs through to Charleston, S C, via Central R. R , arriving Manning 7:04 P. M., Lanes 7:42 P. M.f Charleston 9:30 P. M. 1 No. 59 connects at Florence with C. and D, train for Cheraw and Wndesboro. Nos* 78 and 14 n-ake close connection at Wilmington with W. ? W. R. R. for all points North. Train on Florence R. R. leaves Pee Dee daily except Sunday 4 40 p. AI., arrive Rowland 7-00 P. M. Returning leave Rowland 6 30 A. M., arrive Pee Dee 8.50 A.M. Truin on Manchester & Augusta R. R. leaves Sumter daily except Sunday, 10:50 A. M.. ar rive Riruini 12.01. Returning leave Rimini 12:15, P. M., arrive Sumter 1:30 P. M. JOHN F. DIVINE, General Sup't, J. R. KENLY, Assistant Gen'l Manager. T. M. EMERSON. Gen. Passenger Ag't. Atlantic Coast Line. NORTH-EASTERN R. R. of S. C. CONDENSED SCHEDULE, TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Dated April 20. 1890 Le Florence. " Kingstree. Ar. Lane3... Le. Lanes... Ar. Cba's'n. No. 27|No. 23|No. 53 A. M.j A. M *1 35 *8 30 2 29 9 46 2 501 10 07 2 50i 10 07 5 00 A. M. 11 59 A. M. P M. *7 50 9 30 P. M. Train on C. k D. R. R. counects at Flor ence with No. 23 Train. TRAINS GOING NORTH. |No. 78jNo. 14|No. 52 Le. Cha's'n Ar. Lanes Le Lanes " Kingstree Ar Florence A. M. * Daily, f Daily except Sunday. No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Central R R. of S. C Nos. 78 and 14 run solid to WilmingtOD, N. C, making close connection with W. & W. R. R. for all points north. J. R. KENLY, J. F. DIVINE, Ass't Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Sup't. T. M. EMERSON, Geu'l Pass. Agent. South Carolina Railway Co, D. H. CHAMBERLAIN, Receivkb. mr -?n Commencing April 30th, 1&90, at .1 30 p. m., Eastern Time, trains will run as follows: MAIN LINE TO AUGUSTA. west?daily. A. M. P. M. Leave Charleston, 6.00 6 00 " Summerville, 6 53 6.40 " Pregnall's 7.40 7.16 " Branchville, 8 55 8.25 Arrive Augusta, 12.01 11.25 MAIN LINE AUGUSTA TO CHARLESTON. east?daily. A. M. Leave Augusta, " Branchville, " Pregnall's, " Summerville, Arrive Charleston, MAIN LINE AND P. M. 4.40 7.58 8.39 9.15 10.00 8.05 10.50 11.44 12.32 P. M. I. 15 COLUMBIA DIVISION. daily. A. M. 7 00 8 05 8.35 10.43 II. 30 P. M. 5 10 6 44 7.45 10 05 * 10 50 Leave Charleston, " Pregnall's, ,{ Branchville, Arrive Columbia, " Camden, COLUMBIA DIVISION AND MAIN LINE. east ?daily. A. M. P. M. Lenve Camden, * 5.50 4 45 ? Cola, 6 43 5.25 " Branchville, 8 55 7.45 " Pregnall's, 9 37 8.21 Arrive Charleston, 11 03 9.30 * Daily except Sunday. Connections at Pregnall's to and from C. S. & N. R. R., wi.ii through coach between Charleston and Hariin City. Connections on train leaviug Pregt.nlt's for Charleston at 9.37 a. m., and leaving Charleston for Preg nali's at 5.10 P. M. Couuections at Augusta for all points in Georgia and the West and at Columbia for North and West. THROUGH TRAIN SERVICE. Augusta Division?Through Trains be tween Charleston and Augusta, both direc tions, Through Sleepers between Charleston and Atlanta, leaving Cliarleston at 6 P. M.? arriving in Atlanta at 6 30 A. M., and leav ing Atlanta at 11.15 P. M.?arriving in Charleston 1 15 P. M. Sleepers between Au gusta and Macon connecting wilh same trains daily. Columbia Division?Through Trains be tween Charleston and Columbia, both direc tions. S. B. PICKENS, C. M. Ward, Ger'l Pass. Agent. Gen'l Manger. ~mf?THI8S MICE FREE. Send your address to B. W.Wrcnn, Gen. Pass. Aj?ent, Kast Tenn. Virginia & Georgia Lines, Knoxville, Tenn., and he wilt send you a handsome lithographic map, postage paid. I F. W. DeLORME, Agent? -DEALER IN DRUGS I MUM, TOILET SOAPS, PERFUMERY AND ALL KINDS OF Druggist's Sundries USUALLY KEPT IN A FIRST-CLASS DRUG STORE. _ Tobacco, Snuff and Segars, GARDEN SEEDS, &G, -ALSO Paints, Oils, Varnishes, GLASS, PUTTY, &c. DYK 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. ?L W. BRADHAH, Wheelwright and Blacksmith SUMTER, S. C. IAM PREPARED TO REPAIR AND Rebuild, as well as to build outright, all kinds of Vehicles. HORSE-SHOEING A SPECIALTY. Also repair all parts of broken Machinery. Keep on hand a stock of Check and Globe Valves and Fittings. Also keep Pumps on band and put them down. I handle the SMITH'S SONS IMPROVED GIN, which is as good as any on the market, and gives entire satisfaction. Aug 21 J. W. MCKIEVER, CONTRACTOR AND SUMTER, S. BUILDER c. Prompt attention given to all work entrusted to his care. Estimates furnished on all buildings and repairs. May 14 PLUMMER JOHNSON. BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, SUMTER, 8. C. IS PREPARED TO DO ALL WORK entrusted to bis care, either in the make up of new work, or mending line and guaran tees satisfaction. Terms low. Call ami see rae at Shop, next door to Moises & Lee's law offii-e. Dec 4. OJLf> HE LIABLE. HONEST WORKMANSHIP. NO PINCHING. All work executed in accordance with design selected. No blow-hard ageuts in the Seid. MONUMENTS, ?AND? ALL STYLES CEMETERY ^OSE, As cheap as the cheapest, and ae good as the best. Also All Styles Iron Fencing. W. P. SMSTH, Oct. 2 STJMTEK, S. C. WILLIAM KENNEDY. Fashionable Barber. MAIN STREET, Next door to Earle& Purdy's Law Office. SUMTER, S. C. IDESIRE TO INFORM the citizens ot Sumter and vicinity that I have opened business on my own account at the above old stand, and that with comp?tent and polite assistants. I will he pleased to serve them in any branch of my business in the best style of the art. Give me a call. W;M. KENNEDY. Oct. 19. LFSEE. .OUE NEW I ?85 Solid I 'OoldWotchl_ Worth SlOO.CO. Best gSS Jwatch in the world. Perfect timekeeper. Warranted heavy. ~ isolid GOLD hunting cases. I Both ladies'and gent's sizes, with works and cases of ^(jual value. 0X2 PERSOXia 'each locality can secure one free, together with our larpe valuable lineof Household _i ..... These samples, as well asthe watchT?re free. All the work you need do is to show what we send you to those who call?your friends and neighbors end thoxe about yon?thatalways results iu valuable trade forus which holds foryears when once started, and thus wo are rejuid. We pay all express, freisrht, etc. After you know all. if vou would like to p? to work for OS.you can earn from SSO to SCO per week and c;. wards. Address, Stinson <fc Co., Box ?l?, Portland, Maine. JHMffP VERY OLD AND PURE COB?ilf WHISKEY, Especially aged for medicinal use. MEDICATED BLACK BERRY B8?NBY. Imported Port Wine5 a preventative for Spring and Summer complaints. Call early, secure a but tle and convince yourself. Try Strauss' Electric, the best 5 cent. Scgar in the State. Very respectfully, I. STRAUSS, Proprietor, PALACE SALOON, SUMTER, S. C. June 4. what is going F3RM4! MILES .,,f^^W=\? One of the I BKSTTcl e?CO?eiK ? " I. th?? \vr>rld. Our tacili ties are uncnuleil. and t<> inirodureour sti; eriorpoi ds ?rewill scndFKCT : . i casex in each locality, a? above. < 'n'.y those w ho write tni:>et onceean make sure of I .. . h.m< All you have : -><!.> ir. :. tm :~ : show our fto-x!? to :. *c who call?your neighbors and rh?s? around you. lh?- be jrfan?ns ?f this adverrNement su >w* th? >!iiall end of the tWe c the nppesrance of:l rrduced to ^3= is .i crati i..! ?'.! s?zetele v.iil nNo .?;. it yon how yon ran make front io*3j?Xda.*day ?' i<??t. trom th???tart.wirti ?f.:e >ut > r tieri.-:.. . . l*-."-t write st once. WV pnv all express i hnrpes. n iLxLLETC i CO.. Hex roCTJUSIr, MaLS?. BSET AJJJJ CHEAPEST^ ALL GOODS S?ARANTEEB. Estimates furnished by return Mail. LARGE STOCK, P H?T SHIPMENTS, iw. e. mui & a, MANUFACTURERS ?F AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN MOULDING, ?and? GENERAL BUILDING MATERIAL, Office and Salesrooms, 10 and 12 HayneSt, CHARLESTON, S. C. Jan 25 o 0.0- brown & bbo COLUMBIA, S. C. ? DOORS, SASH & BLINDS, LATHS, LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER, n AND HAIR. FrenclaMAfflericaaWMow Glass, PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES. - CARTER WETE LEAD. I The Best in the Market. Special Attention Given to Ordert by Mail. C. 0. BROWN & BRO., ^ Opposite Post Office, COLUMBIA, S. C. 5-Q_ C. WULBEEN & CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS, . AND DEALERS ?N i 167 and 169 E ast-Bay"; CHARLESTON, S. C. Dec. 2 6 OTTO F. WEITERS, WHOLESALE GROCER 1 And Liquor Dealer. ' OFFICE AND SALESROOM : 1S3 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. li.??.uTIIMS&SON, - . Established 1847. "WHOLESALE GROCEBS, Auction and Commission Merchants an? Liquor Dealers., AGSNTS FOB The Philip Best Brewing Co., Milwaukee Beer, and the "Best" Tonic, a concentrated liquid extract of Malt and Hops. The Palest Brewing Co., Milwaukee Beer. 197 EAST BAY and 50 a?d 52 STATE S?., (Auction Room State Street,) CHARLESTON, S. . ??f* Consignments Solicited. Jan. 23._o__ CHAS. C. LESLIE, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in -~ FISH, GAME, OYSTERS, TURTLES, TERRAPINS, POULTRY, EGGS, &c Stalls No. 1 and 2 Fisb Market. -w Office and Fish House, 18 and 20 Market St. East of East Bay, CHARLESTON, S. C. All orders promptly attended to. ^ Terms cash or city acceptance, Oct. 3_ GEO. L. COOK, PHOTOGRAPHER, 265 KING STREET, CHARLESTON, S. C. Aug 10 _0__ fiTEELT HOUSE, \ IN THE BEND OF KING STREET, , CHARLESTON, S. C. Rates, $2 and $2.50 per day. G. T. ALFORD, ~ J May 2-0_PROPRIETOR. WRIGHT'S HOTEL, COLUMBIA, S. C. -o THIS NEW AND ELEGANT HOUSE ?. with all modern improvements, is now open for the reception of guests. S. L. WRIGHT k SON, Pronrietora. Obtained. and ail PATSiXT lilXlXBSS at tended t<> for MODJERATE FEES Onr office is opposite ?he l'.S. Patent OlFice. and we can or* tain Patents m less time Uiati th?*e remote from WASHINGTON. >eii?i MO DEI* i>R.\ WING or PHOTO of invention. We advise ns lo patent a??lity free of <'harpea?d we make NO CHARGE UNLESS PATENT IS SECiJRED. For circular, advice, terms and references to actual clients in your own State. (V.tmy. City or ?owii, write to p*,?/ szg$^ sS?l_ _ Opposite Fatait Ojjice, Washington, D Q. ws y?b fence? We have the CHEAPEST and Best WOVEN WIRE FENCING I Wire Rope Selvage* 50 INCHES HIGH AT 60 CENTS PER bod. Lawn. Garden, Poultry and St<>ek Fencing, all sizes and widths. Gates tomatch. Prices low ?S bv dealers. Freight Paid. Sen J i^. crrcalars. lilK HcXVUXXWOVES W?RKFESCECO., CHICAGO, IUU P. S.-All-Slctl LAWS und (.mt?&Y &*c*