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regiment put to Flight by a SDarm o,
bees'-in India, lately, while the army was
returning from Alumbash, to camp, one Of
the Laneers was tempted to poke his spear
into bees nest, when the swarm a, ano.
turned out and attacked the soldiers with
such ferocity that they all turned TAI, and
fled, both officers aud men abandoning their
guns, and they did not stop until they had
reached the camp, where they were enabled
10 partially protect themselves from their &C.
tive prosecutors.
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Mount Harmony High School

THE Third Session OF this Institution will
on Monday, January 4th, next
TERMS, per Session Of 81 soeeks, payable one-hdD
an dduance and balances at close Of Sessfon.
Spelling, Residing and Writing per scholar ... $500
Geography, English Grammar, and Arithmetic. 500
Mathematics and Natural Sciences ........... 1000
Contingent Fee, in advance ........... 25
Boarding In good families convenient the School,
lwashng and lights extra) D week. 1,25
No student admitted for less than talf session, and
no deduction for lost time except in of protracted
sickness. s.P. HALE, Pr'p
Dec is, ls51-Sm-4s2
p S.-The present session win close, with Public
Examination of students, on Thursday, 2fh December
inst. The public are respectfully invited to attend
= "a 49, 8. p II.
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Sheriff.

w- We are authorized and requested to announce
JOHN ROGERS as a candidate for Sheriff Of McMnn
county, at the ensuing March election.
eB We are authorized and requested to announce
JOHN A. G0ULDY as a candidate for reelection to
the office OF Sheriff OF McMnn county, at the ensuing
March election.
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Notice.

THE subscriber lost, short time ago, NOTE Of
hand on Allen Cochran fprone hundred and Eve
dollars, dated 5th OF September, 1851, and due six
months after date. All persons hereby cautioned
against trading for said Note.
Jan 20, 1858 -3t-4ss HU. P. WILSON.
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~ The Providence Post notices the
fact that not a single murder has been COM
mitted in Rhode Island during the past year,
Notwithstanding capital punishment is aboL
ishad
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eY- A farmer was asked why he did not
subscribe for newspaper. Because" said
he, "when father died he left me good many
and have not read them through yet"
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"The Last Call"

Ii persons indebted TO u.s. either Of long or shor,
standing, who fail 10 pay before the list day Of
February 1885, will ind their Notes and Accounts In
the hands Of collecting officers with positive instruc.
tons to take nothing but goa o. ShDer. We mean
without favor or affection, who fail TO comply.
VIC. HORIZON A co.
Athens, Dec. Is 1s5T-tF-ie5
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tW A young lady lately appeared in malo
attire at 81. Louis; and one Of the editors
says that her disguise was so perfect that
she might have passed for a uan, had sho
little more mo6eSfy.
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CALIFORNIA; Oats.

VXTARRANTED to yield, u equal chance be given,
w double as much as the common Oats, and to
weigh from 40 to 80 pounds to the bushe
Any person, II dissatisfied after giving them fair
trial can by making known to tbs undersigned have
double the amount Of purchase money returned.
For sale by s. X. REEDER, Athens, Tenn.
Feb D. Us
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VIM. s. Horr, F. r. Stanton, John Rhes and
others. 49,,
TT appearing from the allegations in COM
l. plainani's bill that respondents 2. 7.
Stanton and John Rhea ARE noh-residents Of
the State Of Tennessee, SO that the ordinary
process, Of the Court can not be served upon
them, it is therefore ordered that publication
be made weekly. for four successive weeks in
the Athens Post, newspaper published in
the town of Athens. Tennessee. requiring said
respondents to appear at a Chaneery Court,
to he held at the CourtAhouse in the town of
Washington, on thelst "Wednesday after the
4th Monday Of April next and answer com
plainant's bin, or Judgment pro confesso will
be taken against them aud the cause set for
hearing es parte. .e.. r,fys4 ,.... -a.
JOHN D. CHATTIN, c. d NJ,
BY FL: PAINE, Deputy.
Jan 90, ls5s-4t-prs fee s3ll4s7 ,,-
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HARTFORD, Feb. John w. Seymour,
Secretary of the Hartford County Saving AS
sociation, and Treasurer, has absconded, a
defaulter for 100000.
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s#- c. w. Styles, who recently shot
Moore in public meeting, has been elected
Mayor of Brunswick, Ga.
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A Screw Looss.-sIartin Screw broke
Jail in Whitley County last week. He was
confined on the charge ofhorss stealing.
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COM M E R CIAL.
Augusta Market.

Augusta Market.
AUGUSTA, Feb. /.
mnd you herewith statement OF our Produce Mar.
ket.
New BACON, hog round, city cured llA q lee, and
country 10h % lie. LARD 10 a 10Ec WHEAT is In
better demand and quote large sales red 95c, and
white q Ito. PLOUR Is exceedingly dull and sales
are made with difficulty at low rates, viz: On a 5Ac
for extra family, and 4I5 a IS for superhne. Com go
a 65c srocK PEAS 70 % S5c. OATS 40 @ Soc. FKArH-
ERs 3S q 4Oc. BurrgR Is "a 22c. EGGS 10 q lie.
Yours very truly,
IA. ANsLEY,
CdntrrissioR aud Produce Merchant.
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IRON! IRON!-Just received, one car load
Iron-Bar, Band, Round, Square, Horseshoe, Pow.
plate, Nail-rod &c.-a sorts and sizes-for sale by
Feb5 J. NJ. HENDERSON.
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icy 1t is said that Barnum is at present in
full chase after chap who helped his wife at
n steamboat table in preference to another
lady who sat near him. lie is considered the
greatest curiosity cxtant
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GLOVER SEED.-A small lot of fresh North.
" Glover Seed has been received, and is Of
fered for sale cheap. [Jan29l J. NJ. HENDERSON.
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Commission and Produce Msrc1,I

BOOTS and ShOes.-I have just received q
Id rst rate lot Of Boots and Shoes OF all Sizes and
will sell them cheap for the cash. Those needing the
article would do well to call on g. ROSS.
Feb 8
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tifcate Of Package of1o Whole Tickets. $50
" 10 Half ~ 40
/" 10 Quarter ........ 20
" 10 Eighth .... 10
I'm Ordering Tickets or Certificate

I'm Ordering Tickets or Certificates,
Eclose the money to our address for the Tickets
dsred receipt OF which they will be forwarded by
first mall Purchasers can have Tickets ending In any
figure they may designate
Thelst OF Drawn Numbers and Prizes WILDE sent
to purchasers Immediately after the drawing.
Purchasers will please write their signatures plain,
and give their Post Office, County and State.
Remember that every prize Is drawn, and pay
able In full without deduction
All Prizes OF 81 900 and under paid Immediate
ly after the Prizes at the usual time OF
thirty days.
Alicommunic ation strictlyc
Address orders for Tickets or Certifcatest to
June 5-1y-44 s. SWAN CO., Augusta, Ga.
eB- Persons residing near Montgomery, Ala, err At
lanta Ga, have their orders filled and time
by addressing s. Swan Co.. at either Of those cities.
rxy- A list of the numbers that are drawn from the
Wheel with the amount Of the prize that each is enti
tied to, will be published after every drawing, In the
following papers New Orleans Delta Mobile Register,
Charleston Standard, Nashville Gazette, Atlanta In
telligencer, New York Weekly Day Book, Savannah
Morning News, Richmond Dispatch, New York Dispatch
and Padding Miss Clarion.
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CINCINNATI, Jan. 2s.-The steamer Fanny
Fern from st. Louis to Pitts burg, exploded a
boiler this afternoon l8 miles below here
fifteen lives are reported lost, including Cap
tain Woodward-several Deck hands and
6remen and three ladies' were badly scalded
The Pilot Engineers and mate were saved
The boat burned to the waters edge.
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= BUS. CHINESE SUGAR CANE sEED-fresh and
Feb J. NJ. HENDERSON,
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BEAUTIFUL CoxPLKxIos-can be acquired by using the
"Bdln, ola Thousand Fto,oers." What lady gen.
teman would remain under the curse Of disagreea-
bic breath, when by using the "BALN OF A THOUSAND
FLOWERS" as dentifrice would not only render II
sweet, but leave the teeth white alabasterp Many
persons do not know their breath Is bad and the sub
ject Is delicate their friends will mention IT,
Beware OF counterfeits. Be each bottle is signed
fETRIDGE CO., ~ Y
For sale by all Druggists. Feb. 27-1y-eow-440
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MOFFAT'S
L + H H II Z L Il -
Phoenix BitterS.

vUNITE best FAMILY MEDICINE now before the pub
il lic for the cure Of Scrofula, Ulcers, Scuryy, or
Eruptions Of the Skin, Fever and Ague, Dyspepsia,
Dropsy and fact most diseases soon yield 10 their Gu
rative properties. y..
Il has been computed that during the last twenty
Ave years upwards Of Four Millions Of persons have
been benefited by the use OF these medicines; fact
which speaks volumes In favor Of their curative proper
tiesa single trial will place them beyond the reach Of
competition In the estimate OF every patient by their
use the Blood Is restored to healthy state and freed
from an impurities. The system Is not reduced during
their operation, hut invgorated; and they require no
restraint from business or pleasure.
The ahicted have In these medicines remedy that
will do for them all that medicine possibly effect
Prepared by W. D. Mofet, NJ. d., Proprietor, New
York.
For sale In Athens by GEO. W. ROSS.
Dec 4-ly-4S0
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TaI,11arv n, l86a.

WE request all persons indebted 20 us to setss same
w on or before LIST January next We viii take Good
Wheat at the regular market price.
Dec ls, ~ A. cIEAGE4 CO.
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Agents. Attention

no YOU wish to find good employment and make
IL money with little or no investment, and without
interfering with your regular busnessI II you do,
read this advertisement
C.E Todd Co., OF 892 Broome street, New York. are
manufacturing aud selling massive gold Pencils for %
EACH (Which cheap at that price and they throw
In gin or prize with each Pencil worth from % up to
as $40 49, $780, 32 $780, $780, tTb A1O0, $780, and $780,
Don't cry out, 'Humbug Lotteryn It's no such
thing The Pencils are sold at their cash value, and
all the profits the first cost are thrown into the
gifs which actually cost the purchaser nothing The
prizes are distributed on simple plan Of drawing,
which would take too much to explain but which
has never failed 10 give complete satisfaction. We
have drawn and sent TO purchasers 1888 gold watches OF
various prices purses of gold dollars, 23s gold lock-
cts, $50 gold chains, and corresponding number OF
other prizes, within two months.
There arc no 11an1&s.
but every purchaser draws prize worth 81 certain,
and II stands thousands Of chances to be higher
figure.
We want good agent in every neghborhood through
the country, to solicit purchasers, and any agent
to be successful, must have Pencil and Prize 70 es
hbit. We pay agants 81 cash for each purchaser he
obtains and the FIRST person In any neighborhood VINO
applies for Pencil aud glt will receive the agency Tor
that locality Should agent obtain valuable prize
to exhibit with his Pencil, he would have little dcn
ty In obtaining scores Of purchasers, and making II
paying business.
A New Idcal RcadI Read!
We ask nobody to send their morey TIL they know
what prize they draw Any person wishing to try their
luck first send their name and address, ana we
will make their drawing and inform them by return
mail what prize they draw when they can send on and
take the Pencil and prize or not whichever they choose
We give this privilege only once to purchaser Aner
the FIRST drawing, every purchaser will be required 70
send In advrnce, through the authorized agent. we
will send with each drawing the number taken out,
@, e. TODD a CO.,
Feb $3.50 8g2 Broome street, New York.
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THE
Shoals and Quicksands of Youth.

Shoals and QuicksandS Of Youth.
Just Published, the Sd Edition.
ON spermatoirhea or Seminal Diseases.
TsSSk scientific Treatise on the treatment and
IlN$3-X perfect cure Of Nervous Debility, Semi
nal Weakness, Involuntary Emissions,
impotence &C., resulting from vicious habits acquired
during the critical passage from Youth to Manhood.
BY DIR. CULVERWEl,L,
Member Of the Royal College Of Surgeons Of England,
Qs27 y Licentiate Of the Hall, Os2i) and 30 years
resident Practitioner in London; Author OF the
"Guide to Health" "Green Book" TO be Hap
py,""Memoirs Of Single and Married Life" &c.
This small but highly valuable Treatise, written by
n world renowned Physician and Surgeon, points out
the only and pei cure for all diseases re-
sutng from seabuse and Is the only publication OF
It's kind written In benevolent spirit aud by scien
tRc man IL should he in the hands of all who value
their life and health and happiness here and hereafter
Price ~ cents, or stamps, At the receipt OF which
will be sent, post free, and well secured by DR.. CHI
KLINE, No. 42O LIST Avenue, Box 1856, New York.
Dot 9-1y-4I2
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nm sick MANI GROWING WORSE.

OUR sick MAN" GROWING WORSE.
The process Of national disruption in un'
happy Mexico, the New York Express says
begins at length to assume the character OF a
grand catastrophe. The Government OF Gen
eral Comonfort lie broken to pieces-and the
fragments Of it, under the direction Of militia
nv ehieftaiAs who but yesterday were aPPS'
rently the frmest supporters oil that GOV,
eminent, are everywhere exerting """' "
vitality and force yet remains to theu' IN
helpiug ON the final overthrow oil the Die-
,.,a, The disease which calicts our sick
- mi. time Is thus not sporadic, but as
oansral as il is contagious. That 1t VIII be
nro,rscted in its Developments, from bad to
xor.. seems probable-but sooner or later it
,nu.t be mortal Every State and city ap-
near to be in arms, and "pronouncing," they
would seem to hardly know precisely what,
apart from the common, and new uppermost
desire to get rid Of, in our judgment, about
the only respectable President they Lave
had for twenty years past, General Comoa'
fort. Treason and Traitors--Rebels and Re-
belliors crowd in around him on every side.
The very first regiment that declared for his
new (anti-constitution) policy proclaimed
few weeks since, are now the foremost to de-
clare against him. This brigade, under the
command of one General Zuleago, Zone OF the
new names which the commoton has thrown
upon the surface was at the date Of our last
sdyices (Jsn. 2lst) in full possession of the
Capital, Comonfort himself being shut up,
practically prisoner within his own palace
The Dispatches say he had a body of some
two thousand troops still clinging to his des'
perate fortunes-but it cannot be doubted
that even these would also turn their backs
and their bayonets upon him at the first con
venient opportunity. The next arrival, then,
in all human probability. will apprize us that
the game, 50 far 40 he is concerned, is played
out. II he makes good his escape out of the
country he will be fortunate-but the cur.
rent Of feeling against him, just now. seems
to run so tumultuously strong, that the
chances are ten to one against his ability
to reach some friendly foreign land, where
he may weep and muse, like Marius and
Themistocles Of old, over the ingratitude Of
Republics.
His fall might have been postponed. If net
finally prevented, with money at his com
mand to substitute the army, to propitiate the
avaricious longings Of rival Presidential can
ditates, to keep in healthful motion the va.
rious executive operations Of his administra'
ton; but, money and credit both gone, his
fate was inevitable.
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On the Plan of Single Numbers.
6,485 Pr12es:
Nearly One Prise 10 Eeery Niue 2yckets!
MA soh en-,
approximation Prizes.
PLAN OF THE LOTTERY.


PLAN OF THE LOTTERY.
The numbers from to $4,000, corresponding with
those numbers on the Tickets, printed on separate
slips Of paper, enersled in small tin tubes and
placed In one wheel. The first 457 Prizes, similarly
printed and encircled, placed In another Wheel
The wheels are then reyolVed, and number is drawn
from the wheel Of numbers, and at the same time
Prize Is drawn from the other wheel The number and
Prize drawn out opened and exhibited TO the audi
ence, and registered by the Commissioners the Prize
being placed against the number drawn. This opera
ton isrepeated until all the Prizes are drawn out.
APPROXIMATION PRIZEs.-The two preceding and the
two succeeding numbers to those drawing the first
Prizes will be entitled to the 2s Approximation Prizes
For example II Ticket No. 1880 draws the $40 900
Prize those Tickets numbered i24S, 1920 1851 1882
will each be entitled to $500. II Ticket No. $50 draws
the $50 900 PRICE, those Tickets numbered 54S $40 ISL
$50, will each be entitled TO $780, and according
to the above scheme.
The 600 Prizes Of $50 will be by
figure OF the number which draws the $4,000. For
ample II the number drawing the $4,000 Prize ends
with No. then all the Tickets where the number ends
with will be entitled to $50 II the number ends with
No. then all the Tickets where the number ends with
will be entitled to $50, and so on too.
Certificates Of Packages will be sold at the following
rates. which Ia the risk
Certificate of Pack ge O o Whole Tick 49O
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CLASS

To be drawn In the city OF Augusta, Ca In public on
Saturday, February 18th, 1855.
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CLASS 4

70 be drawn In the city ofAugusta Georgia in public
on Saturday, February Goth, 1855.
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TIN and shes. Iron Jus: ,s'eiy;d and s ~ ss'
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The HARVEST OF DEATH.-it testimony
were needed that Death is no respecter of
persons, we certainly have it to-day, in the
impressive record of mortality which consti-
tutes the leading feature of the news by the
British steamer. The same journals that tell
Of the appalling destruction of human life by
The earthquake at Naples, of thousands and
thousands Of unfortunate beings whom the
great world knows nothing of, except that
they lived and died-announce the death of
the heroic British General Havelock, in India
of Reschid Pacha, the Grand Vizier of
Turkey-of the veteran Austrian Marshal
Redetzky, at Vienna, and of that once impe-
rial queen of the modern stage, Mademoiselle
Rachel. Thus do men march on to the grave,
to reach there at last that common level,
where all earthly distinctions, and titles, and
honOrs, and riches count nothing! r-
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Swan & Cos Lotteries,
$4,000! for Ten Dollars !

The following Scheme will be drawn by 8. swan a
Co, Managers Of the Sparta Academy Lottery each
OF their Single Number Lotteries for February 1885,
AUGUSTA, Georgia. in public, under the superntsnd-
enee Of COMMISSIONER.
CLASS I,
To be drawn In the city Of Augusta GeorKa In public
on Saturday, February 9Th, 1858.
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On the P1a

Tc be drawn In tha city OF Augusta Georgia. in public
on Saturday, February 9th, 1855
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AFAsr PLAoE.--The following letter from
the collector Of New York house, we copy
from the New York Herald. 1t shows how
things are managed in Chicago, and why it is
so few failures has occurred in that fast but
rotten place:
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Chaneery Court at washington, Ten.
Burton Leuty. R. B. Shirley and R. N. Gil.
lespie,
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Tbs WINTER IN ESeLAND.--In England
the mildness of the season is not less a sub
iect of remark than here. The following,
from the Bath (Eng.) Chronicle of the LIST
inst, is a specimen Of the paragraphs with
which the newspapers abound:
"fiere we are at the last day Of the year,
and We have not had single frost A week
or two ago W. announced the gathering of
ripe rnspberres, and ears of a second crop Of
barley; at present. we have all the symptoms
Of Spring; birds are sitting on their eggs
The other day we heard of brood of young
kngfshers flying about; and somewhere up
the Swainswick valley, there is a nest Of
young thrushes; the woods are vocal with the
song Of b!ackbirds and other feathered Choir
listers; the trees are rapidly coming into bud,
and some are actually bursting into leaf; the
gardens exhibit almost all kinds Of Spring
flowers; in the copses are prim-roses by thou
sands; violets peep forth, and the wild straw
berry makes preparations for fruit by putting
out its meek white blossoms; and lastly, not
the least startling, butterflies Of various kinds
venture to unfold their delicate wings. These
demonstrations cause the weather wise TO
shake their heads, and predict that we shall
have smart nip FOR it by and by
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CHICAGO, Jan. 90, 1858.
The papers Of this city have continually
harped through the present crisis that Chica.
90 has had less failures than any other city
in the Union. The reason is easily explain
ed. had occasion to try to collect a judge.
ment to-day Of merchant found his
whole stock recorded nnder chattel mort.
gage ia the Clerks Office. The number Of
chattel mortgages recorded up to day is
1880, (ninety.six thousand three hundred
and thirty( Over 1000 Of them have been
placed there within less than three months,
and some of them contain invoices of whole
stocks, making twenty pages of the record.
judgments seem to do no good, for near all
levies are replevined. There are now over
5000 cases in suit in this county, from the
United States Court down.
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n OST.-A Land Warrant for so acres, No. q, 46s,
II issued to Richard Jones, "Act of March, 1885"
aud belonging to me by assignment, was mailed to
Sweeney, Rittenhem, Faut a Co., Washington City,
last December and has not since been heard of. "A
suitable reward will be given for its recovery.
Athens, Dec 25, 1S57-6t-4s3 "A MokKt,DIN.
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A LII those indebted to would do well to come up
IN or before the 1st day of January, 1868. You
may cost. Aud take further notice, that no more
accounts will he made after that day so, you want
any thing In the way OF medicine you had better bring
the cash; and II a small article, the change.
Dsc rs WIN. BURNS.
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CLARK'S
Celebrated FIGURING Mill.

Jan DISMISS