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A Western paper announces the illness
OF its editor, piously adding: Call good
paying subscribers are requested to men
tion him in their prayers. The others
need not, as the prayers of the wicked
avail nothing, according to good nuthori-
ty."
At Wheeling, Va, last Saturday, as
workmen were hosting the pinnacle of
the steeple of st. Alphonse Church,
weighing about ton, to its place, the
through the roof into the church below.
Nobody was hurt.
An Irishman being about to Join a
company, forming during our late war,
was questioned by one of the officers
"Well, sir, when you get into battle, will
you fight or run?'' "An' faith, " replied
the Hibernian, "I'll be after doin' as a
majority av yees does"
At Lydon, o., dove flew into the
Congregational Church and lit on the
minister's head. He was bald, and the
poor dove thought it was skating park.
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A WOMAN PREACHING IN A TRANCE.
Mrs. Nancy Birney was born March 20,
1907, near Cadiz, Ohio. Her father

a WOMAN PREACHING IN A TRANCE.
Mrs. Nancy Birney was born March 20,
1907, near Cadiz, Ohio. Her father
reared thirteen children, of whom FIVE
',o7s and four girls are still living. At
tho age Of eighteen, while pitching a
!oad OF hay from wagon into q NOV,
she was struok by lightning, which para
lyzed the right half of her body from the
Drown of her head down. She was en-
tirely insensible two hours. She reco-
vered, and at the age of twenty three
considered wealthy, having fine farm
and good brick residence about one
mile East of Tippecanoe. They have
reared three chiidren-two sons aged re-
spectively thirty-nine and twenty eight
years, and one daughter aged twenty six
--an married and in good circumstances.
MIR. Birney is an exemplary member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, but his
wife belongs to the Presbyterian Church,
but she says she is not sectarian in any
sense whatever.
About twenty three years ago she was
suddenly taken ill, as was supposed, and
while in an unconscious state delivered
religious discourse. From that time
until the present, these spells have come
upon her regularly every two weeks. At
first they occurred on week days, but
for the past twenty years they have in
variably happened on Sunday, at about
10 O'Clock A. NJ. For long time the
house was crowded on her preaching
days, but latterly the novelty of the case
has ceased to excite the wonder of the
neighborhood, and those who now at
tend her preaching are mostly persons
from distance. But rain or shine,
summer or winter, whether there be
crowd or only her own family present,
she regularly passes into IN unconscious
state. and delivers religious discourse
always one hour to an hour and thirty
minutes in duration.
She affirms most solemnly that she is
not conscious before nor after her dis
courses of single word that she utters
Indeed, it was long time before her
family and friends could convince her
that she spoke at all while in this strange
state of obliviousness az to what is pass
ing in the outer world around her.
Cleueland Herald
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CITIZENS SAVINGS BANK
SOUTH CAROLINA
DEPOSITS OF 81 4 UPWARDS RECEIVED

I-fTEREST LILO WE'D AT TIE RA TIE OF
SIX PER CENT PER ANNUM. con-
POUNDED EYER Y SIX MONTHS.
lDRlNCIPAL and Interest, or any part there
Il of, may be withdrawn at any time-the
Bank reserving the right though it will be
rarely exercsed) to demand fourteen days no.
tlce II the amount is under 81 900; twenty days
II over 81 600 and under S., 600, or thirty days
If over $4,000.
OFFICERS.
Wade Hampton, President
John Il. Palmer Vicc-President
Thomas +. Gregg, Cashier
John Z. u. smith, Assistant Cashier
Directors.
Wade Hampton, Columbia.
William Martin, Columbia.
+. w. McMastcr, Columbia.
A. e. Haskell, Columbia.
]. P. Thomas, Columbia.
Il. b. Heinitsh, Columbia.
John B. Palmer, Columbia
Thomas E. Gregg, Columbia.
j. Eli Gregg, Marion.
G. T. Scott, Newberry.
W. G. Mayes, Newberry.
3. 81. Rutledge, Charleston.
DANIEL Ravenel, Jr., Charleston.
Mechanics, Laborers, Clerks, Widows, Or
phans and others may here deposit their saw
lngs ana draw liberal rate of interest there
on. Planters, Professional Men and Trustees
wishing to draw interest on their funds until
they require them for business or other pur-
poses; Parents desiring to set apart small
sums for their children, and Married Women
ana Minors (whose deposits can only be with
Drawn by themselves, or, in case Of death. by
tnelr iegal representatives. wishing to lay
an opportunity, Of depositing their means
the same time, be subject to withdrawal when
needed. Arc 10 n
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which were aggravated by the scrofulous con-
tamination until they were painfully affecting,
have been radically cured in such great mum.
bers in almost every section Of the country.
that the public scarcely need to be informed OF
it's virtues or uses.
Scrofulous poison is one of the most destruc-
tlve enemies OF our race. Often, this unseen
and unfelt tenant ofthe organism undermines
the constitution, and invites the attack of en-
feebliDg or fatal diseases, without exciting a
suspicion OF it's presence. Again. it seems to
breed infection throughout the body and then,
on some favorable occasion, rapidly develop
into one or other OF it's hideous forms, either
on the surface or among the vitals. In the
latter, tubercles may be suddenly deposited in
the lungs or heart, or tumors formed in the
liver, or it shows it's presence by eruptions on
the skin. or foul alterations on some part of
the body Hence the occasional use OF a bottle
of this SARSAPARILLA is advisable even
wheL no active symptoms Of disease appear.
Persons afflicted with the following complaints
generally find immediate relief. and at length
Anhony's FIRE, Rose or E,-ysipelas, letter, Sail
Rheuna, .Scold Head, Ring,c0rnn Sore Eues.
Sore Ears and other eruptions or visible forms
OF Scrotu'ouS disease. Also, in the moro con-
ease, Fits, Epilepsy, Neuralgia and the various
Ctcerous affections of the muscular and nerv-
Gus stems.
Syphilis or Tenereai and Aercurial Diseases
are cured by it, though long time is required
for snbduipg these obstinate maladies by any
medicine. Butlong continued use Of this me-
dieine will cure the complaint. Leuco,7hGa or
lVhaes, Uterine Uicerdtions, and Female Dis.
eases, are commonly soon relieved and ulti.
nlately cured by its purifying and invigorating
effect. Minute directions in each case are found
and Gout when caused by accumulations of
extraneous matters in the blood, yiold quickly
t. it, as also Liver Complaints, 7orpid1y, Con-
gestfon or I'.ftammdtion Of the Lire,' and JDun-
dtce. when arising, as they often do, from the
rinkling poisons in the blood. This .SA RSA-
AR!LLA is great restorer for the strength
and vigor of the system Those who are Ian
troubled with Nervous Apprehensions or Fears.
or any OF the affections symptomatic OF Weak.
ness, Will find immediate relief and convincing
evidence OF its rest orative power upon trial.
PREPARED BY
DIR. j. G. AVER g. CO., Lowell, Mass,
Practical and analytical Chemists.
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The great ship canal, which is to con-
meet Amsterdam with the North Sea, at
a cost of q, 900, 600 guilders, is now once
more in progress, the Government of the
Netherlands having relieved the con-
tractors of certain difficulties which for
time hindered the work. The canal
will be about fifteen miles in length.
The Zuyder Zee is to be shut out from
Amsterdam, and the Pampus dam by
which this is to be effected is already
half finished, and the locks and sluices
connected with it ARE in progress.
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as-PHILOsOPMY OF MARRIAGE.-l

Rs-PHILOsOPHY OF MARRIAGE.-A
NEW COURSE OF LECTURES, as delivered at the
New York Museum Of Anatomy, embracing the
subjects: How to Live and What to Live for;
Youth, Maturity and Old Age; Manhood Gene
rally Reviewed; The Cause of Indig Fla
tulence and Nervous Diseases accounted for;
Marriage Philosophically Considered, &C., &c.
These lectures will be forwarded on receipt Of
four stamps, by addressing Sec'y Baltimore
Museum Of Anatomy, "a West Baltimore street
Baltimore, Md. May61v'
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THE HTNA
Fire Insurance Co.,
HARTFORD, CONN.
Incorporated lsI9-Charter Perpetual
GEO. HUGGINs. Agent,
COL U1MBIA, rs. c,
CAPITAL.

TH1s Company received premiums upon
1868, to July |. 1869, amounting to IS, ,4s7 555.,
w. 1t paid Losses during the eame period
amounting. to 81 ,622,0 900. This giant Office
more than an keeps pace with the growth of the
try. Nothing shakes it from its pre-eminence.
Last year its premiums received were double
the total received in 1868; and the ratio of loss
70 premiums received less than any years ra-
tlo OF the Company'B previous half century Of
business
The ETNA's surplus is now nearly equal to
Its capital, which, with ordinary success, will
make it Sc, 100000.
Its present management has never been sur
passed in ability throughout the Company's
history Of fifty years.
Risks Rn. taken by GEO. HUGGINs, Agent.
lumbia, S. C. Aug 12 2mo
Southern Life Insurance Company,
PURELY SOUTHERN INSTITUTION.
NsCHEs Lives, and promptly adjusts and
Southern States, and to them it appeals for
teGt policy holders and pay all losses.
BOARD aR :, OF ~ wpInEGTons1J B. Gordon, A.
Galloway, j. NJ: johnson, Atlanta, Ca C..
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| hin'EI L1umaio 1 1uoHlas, augusta, Ga; ID. E.
Butler, Madison. Ca; Robert Toombs, Wash.
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W. A. Caldwell, Greensboro, N. C.
| OFFIcERs.-John B. Gordon, President; B..
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Agricultural and Mechanical State Fair.
CITY CLERKS OFFICE,
COLUMBIA, August Q, 1869
IN pursuance with resolution of the City
Il Council, subscription list will be opened
at this office, to aid and assist in the erection
of the necessary buildings required for the
Agricultural and Mechanical State Fair
Aug 10 j. S. MCMAHON, City Clerk
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City Of Columbia Bonds.

City Of Columbia Bonds.
CITY CLERKS OFFICE.
COLUMBIA, August IL, 1869.
A LII overdue Bonds, Coupons and Interest,
"a and all Bonds issued since 1st January,
1867, bearing six per cent. interest, OF the city
OF Columbia, will be converted into seven per
cent. Bonds, on application at this office, in
conformity with resolution Of the City Coun-
Gil. J. s.. MCMAHON,
aug 10 City Clerk.
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THE MARRIAGE RING.-Essays on the
Errors OF Youth and Follies of Age in regard
to Social Evils, with certain help for the erring
and unfortunate. Sent in eealed letter enve-
lopes free Of charge. Address HOWARD AS
ISOLATION, Box P, Philadelphia, Pa.
May % 9mo
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special Not1ces.
PAINLESS D1aEsTIUs.-aNo man ;,

PAINLESS DIGEsTIUN.-"No man !"
says Sir Ashley Cooper, "ought to know by his
sensations that he has a stomach" In other
words, when digestion is perfect there is nei-
ther pain nor uneasiness in the region where
it takes place. Nausea, want OF appetite,
flatulency, oppression after eating, shooting
pains in the epigastrium, a flushing OF the face
at meal times, and q furred tongue in the
morning, are among the direct symptoms of
indigestion. Constipation, biliousness, head
ache, nervous irritabiity, physical weakne ss
compartments. All these Indications Of DYs-
PEPSIA, whether immediate or secondary, are
usually aggravated 1y hot weather.
The close OF summer is, therefore, the sea-
ly needs tonic and regulating medicine. or
course, every invalid has many advisers. One
friend recommends one drug, another another;
but in multitude OF counsellors there is not
always safety. The STANDARD REMEDY OF THE
is HOSTETTRR'S STOMACH BITTERS.
Time, that proves all things, has established
It's reputation on an impregnable foundation
the spontaneous testimony Of millions Of in
telligent witnesses. No acrid oil or acid de-
files it's stimulating principles; it's tonic consti-
tuents are the finest that botanical research
has yet discovered; it combines the properties
OF gentle evacuant, g blood depurent, and
an anti-bilious medicine, with inyigoratipg
qualities OF the highest order, and is admitted
both by the public and the profession 10 be the
surest protection against all diseases that are
produced or propagated by pestferous air or
unwholesome water, that has ever been used
either IN the United States or tropical Ame-
RIGA.
In cases OF constipation resulting from
want OF muscular tone in the intestines the
effect OF tho BITTERS is perfectly marvellous;
curry, it restores the disordered liver to a nor
NAL condition. Aug 10 nc
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Doors, Sashes and Blinds, we refer to the ad-
vcrtisement of P. p. Toale, the large manu-
facturer OF those goods in Charleston. Price
list furnished on application. July II 9mo
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Preserving Kettles.
Trimmed and Enameled Preseryinp KET
Il TIES, for sale low. by
FISHER, IOWRANCE & FISHER
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Choice Tobacco--Smoking and Chewing
" Gold Bar,
Pancake.
SMOKING-Best "Durham"
Commonwealth,
With common grades, in full supply, for
sale by GEO. SYMMERs.
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AYERS SARSAPARILLA.
FOR PURIFYING THE BLOOD.

THE reputation this
excellent medicine en-.
joys, is derived from it's
Gu res, many Of which
are truly marvellous;
inveterate cases ofScro-
fnlous Disease, where
the system seemed sat
urated with corruption,
have been purified and
cured by 1t. Scrofulous
n affactiOpa and Id;eo,do,o
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The New Theory of Health
ESTABLISHED BY
HEINITSH'S QUEENS DELIGHT!
NNHE Life Of all Flesh is Blood. The Health
4 OF Life is purity Of Flesh. Without purity
OF Blood. no Flesh can be free from disease.
HEINITSH'S QUEENS DELIGHT
Is now recognized household Medicine of
remarkable remedial powers, invented and
compounded by the Proprietor, which he has
called by the euphonious soubriquet
90 UEE EMS DELIGHT.''
ITS CONSTITUENT PROPERTIES

ITS CONSTITUENT PROPERTIES.
QCEBNs DELIGHT Is an an Alternative. produc.
ing gradual change in the
dE1NITsH's functions of organs, as to
permit a healthy action to
take the place Of disease.
QUEENS DELIGHT lie deobstruent by its diversi-
ced action; removes obstruc-
dElN1TsHs sions, reduces Inflammation
ana enlargement OF the
glands and viscera.
QUEENS DELIGHT ls an Invigorant and Tonic;
1t produces gentle and
permanent excitement of ell
the vital actions observable
IN the functions of organic
HEIN1TsH's life; and is, therefore, ad-
mlssab!e in diseases of the
stomach, Liver and organs
of digestion.
QUEENS DELIGHT Is stirp- .ating, alternative
diaphosetic, promoting per-
spiration, removing humors
in the blood, producing a
hE1S17sHs healthy action of the skin,
removes Boils, Pimples,
Blotches and Cutaneous
eruptions.
QUEENS DELIGHT Is aperient, gently acting
upon the bowels, thereby
removing efete matter, pro-
ducing healthy feeling OF
HElNlTsH's the stomach and head.
Headache and nervous dis
orders are cured by it's use
QUEEN $ DELIGHT Is cxpectorant, increasing
the secretion from the
mucous membrane of the
r air cells and passages of
FtlSiTsH the lungs, or assists it's dis
charge; is, therefore, a re-
medy, combined with Cod
Liver Oil, in ell cases of Con-
49, sumption, Colds, &c.
;, The high appreciation in which it is held by
the profession and the golden opinions Of the
people, and their many testimonials, will make
it desirable medicine for Druggists to keep
constantly on hand.
The sick, feeble and those in delicate health.
and all persons living in warm climates. and
all unacclimated, will find the
Q q E MS DELIGHT
A great medicine, protecting them from all
those diseases which originate in a bad condi-
ton OF the blood and climatic influences.
For sale by Druggists throughout the State.
The trace supplied by
PLUME & LEITNER. AnSmsta Hu1staota a. .. Z.
j. H: ZEILEN & CO., Macon, Ga.
JOHN F. HENRY, New York. .,
MANSFIELD d H1GBEE, Memphis. Tenn.
JOHNSTON, HOLLOWAY & CoWDEN,
aug D Philadelphia.
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Okra and Tomato Soup,
ENOR LUNCH, every day, at the Pollock
u House. July 10
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ITho London Times on Professionalism in Spain.

"a Spaninrd,' writing to the Westminster
Gazette says THE reports in the Times on
this subject have been artfuly concoctec, SO as
to mislead strangers; but those who know
Spain and her cmiuently Catholic population
particularly Seville, and, indeed, all Andaiusia,
called by themselves La Terra dc Maria Saints
sima (the land of Our Blessed Lady can never
be imposed on by the articles in the Times.
Why does mt the writor say that at, and near
Seville, are established between five hundred
and sfx 1unrtrrtt- nostty PROTEST.
ta,,ts and these families NATURALLY went to the
Protestant service Z Bnt viii venture 10 say,
no SpaniaFd, unless some free-thinklng men,
know my country and her Catholic children
too well TO believe it, even if i did not know
the contrary. Let the writer name any we'll
known person who was present In justice he
English employed at PitmapiR porcelain
mandatory and on the railway, to say nothing
Of the sailors in the port; for, be it known,
many English ana even other northern snps
come up the river and anchor opposite to San
Jelmo. At Madrid, they only give the number
as fifty-why, because there the English are
much fewer, you have only those employed
on the railway, some of thestaff of the Legation
and their servants, and few, very few, stray
sheepfi Colonel Fitch. But You have at
Madrid worry many iufidel free-thinkers, WHO
believe in nothing, rs the Spaniards say, Nj ef,
Dios nj 81 Ddblo-neither in God nor the
deYil. Some of these good for-Dothings might
have gone to see a Protestant service; for, let
the trumpet be sounded as loud they please,
Spaniards will never be anything but Ca
tholics. l regret to say many careless and un-
observant members will be found, but ask these
very persons what religion they profess, they
will reply with offended surprised air,
SCathOiic, to be sure" if they did not say, edo
you think are heritics ~ Even Prim him
self will tell You. he is Catholic. English
gold and English influence may be brought to
bear to induce the revolutionary Govern
ment to permit Protestant worship; but, believe
me, the Bibles will so to light cigarettes, or roll
mp small wares, and the Ministers will fare
like the SORpers in ireland. Notwithstanding
the want of all order, see how Holy Week was
kept. The same decUrous, respectful tone OF
religious ceremonies and observanccs, and If
up dinner for Good Friday, as the free
thinkers did in Paris, still the conduct of both
the one and the other-only served as a foil
to show out more distinctly the true feeling of
the nation at large.
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= FHE JEsuIrs IN FRARcE.-Tke French
Senate has done itself honor. II mas
'stigniatixed q piece OF unworthy bigotry,
and has affirmed an Important principle; A
disgracefuT petition for the expulsion OF the
Jesaits has been ,recklessly presented and
summarily rejected. Stree the days OF
Louis XIV, and the Due de Choiseui,
jealousy of the Society of Jesus has; been a
legacy which all Governments have IN
herited. 1t is not, therefore. t9 loe
wondered at that an "Ordinance" nnder the
Restoration closed it's schools. The Govern
ment of Louis Philippe went still further,
and despatched NJ. de Rossi to Rome to
demand the removal OF those members OF
the Order who continued to reside III
France "IIhppily," said Baron DuNn,
for the reputation of NJ. de. Rossi, whom
his glorious end bias rendered ;illnstrous,
Emperor has the credit of having. as
President, passed the law on secondary
instruction under which the Society enjoys
it's present liberty. AS corporation II Is
unrecognized as indiyiduals, its members
have the same rights as othSfs- No one Is
entitled to ask whether tho proprietor OF
a College belongs to this Of that religious
organization. So much for the law OF the
case. AS regards the practical results, tits
observable that NJ. Roger ACollard stated
that no religious corporations would ever
be able to compete with lay institutions.
Now, however, statistics tell a very different
tale. Under the Empire Barren Dupin SUITES,
there are in France sixteen Jesuit Cof-
lsges; at the head of theilis of successful
candidates for the Polytechnic, is found
constantly increasing number Of the pupils
they send up. Any one who knows what
the competition for the Polytechnic is, and
the estimation in which the prizes which
depend upon it are held, will be able to
judge of the excellence of the preparatory
education. The reassertion by the Senate
of the rights of religious as individuals
offers an honorable contrast to the acts of
many Liberal Governments. 1t is now
twelve years that the Society has been
excluded from Switzerland, and the Fri
bourg College closed in the name of freedom
and progress.-Londom Tablet. t..
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THE MADONNA AND THE HERMIT.-The
bigoted Italian correspondent of secular
paper, who writes many false and foolish
things, sometime gives us n touch of truth,
as in the following, from Venice:
1--WE were rowing, as one of the number
tells us, one beautiful spring morning to-
wards the ruins of Torcello, when, on pass
ing a small island with trees in full bios
som, saw a modest cottage. Near the
spot where our gondola touched, we per-
ceived Madonna sculptured in the wall,
with a lamp burning before her, flowers
freshly gathered, and purse suspended
to n long pole to collect aims of the Condo
Tiers and fishermen. On landing we found
an old man seated at the cottage door; tue
gentleneSs of his voice and the serenity of
his noble countenance inspired an interest
in his history. He told us that the island
was formerly occupied by Franciscan
monks, whe-weFe- driven away the
French invasion, and that the soldiers
tt+.444t e,,tleH~tet4.tirvf
image, firmly seated in its tabernacle of
stone. Formore than twenty years be had
lived on this Insulated spot, and on our
inquiring if his solitary existence did not
sometimes induce melancholy, he pointed,
with an expressive smile, to the Madonna,
and replied, that having always the Mother
of God SO near him, he had never felt his
solitude that the proximity of such pro-
tectress was sufficient to make him happy,
and that his sweetest occupation consisted
in supplying the lamp and renewing the
flowers be fore her image"