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$500 In, PRIZES !
Two Hew Potatoes.

EXTRA EARLY VERMONT
Ten Days Earlier than EARLY Rose.
Enormously Productive and of Excel
lent Flavor. 81 per h.; 4 pounds by
mail, post paid, for $3.50.
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Sheriff S Sale.

Sheriff s Sale.
Trustees De L. Howe Estate against
II. Fl. Harper.
NDY virtue of an Execution to me d
It'd rected, will sell at Abbeville T..
H.. within the legal hours, Sale-day IN
Nav next, tract of land containing
643 Acres,
more or less, adjoining lands of t. M.
Tucker, Jas. Bruce, and others, on Sa-
yannah River, levied on as the property
of III. H. Harper, at the suit of Trustees
of De La Howe.
Terms of sale Cash.
Terms of Sale must be complied with
within one hour after Sale or the proper
ty will be resold.
y l.. P. GUFFIN,
S. A. G.
Sheriff IS Office,
April s, s7S, 1-3t )
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Final D;scharge.

MTOTTCE is hereby given that Dr.. J.
"a II. Bell, Admiiiatra;or with the
Wi annexed, dc 6onis aoh OF the Estate
of Alexander Winn, dc2caacd, has APP
Piled to Chas. ". Guilin, Judge OF Pro-
bate, in and for The County of Abbe-
vile, for iinaI discharge as Admins
traitor with ;he will annexed, de JOnis
.iO|.
1t is Ordered, That the ninth day of
May. \. D. 1915, lie liked for hearing of
Petition, and Il final settlement of said
Estate.
J. c. WOS}TANSKY,
G. G. p. a. c.
April s. 1879, sat
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MILLINERY & DRESS MAKING.

WYE HAVE added all the shapes HATS AND BON
w NETS to our MILLINERY DEP ARIMEN which have had
MAGGIE SASSARp whose and skill
MInri wcknown this community to more Our sales
MISS JANE RAMEY, who will always
found to exhibit Stock the best
style moderate prices.
MILLER & ROBERTSON.
April 16, 1873, Ltf
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TO the Ladies.

3 N our Stock this Spring, we
4 we have endeavored to
combine low prices with beauty,
taste, novel and uncommon
styles. We have goods differ
cnt from any other House. We
have certain lines of Goods
much below market prices
having bought by the case from
first hands. In our MILL
merry DEPARTMENT will
be found the most elegant stock
in the State: In DRESS
GOODS and WHITE GOODS
our stock has been doubled, also
Laces, Embroideries, Corsets,
Skirts, Bows, Scarfs,,Sashes and
Ribbons. The newest HAIR
Goods, Gloves, Hosiery, Long
Cloths, Beautiful Prints, House
Furnishing Goods, Laces for
Curtains, Oil Cloths, Carpe-
tings, &c. The best taste is EN-
ployed to take charge Of the
MILLINERY AND DRESS
MAKING DEPARTMENTS.
The following ladies will be
found with us;
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~. u. HlItomS d90a0St III. LII. AdrPcT.
EDY virtue of an Execution to me di-
I'D rected, I will sell at Abbeville
Court House, on Sale Day in MAY
next, within the legal hours, tract OF
land containing
643 ACRES,
more or less, adjoining lands of T. M
Tucker, James Bruce and others, on
Savannah River, levied on as the prop
erty Of II. H. Harper, at the suit of Nj.
G. Williams, Administrator.
Terms Cash.
Terms of sale must be complied with
within one. hour after sale or the proper.
ty will be re-sold.
..- L. p. GUFFIN,
Sheriff Abbeville County.
Sherif's Office, I
April s, 1873, 1-tf !
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We are personally acquainted with
Dr.. Gurley, both professionally and So
ciaIly, and from a personal knowledge
of his plan of operating and treatment
of diseases of the eye as in the above
case, can recommend him to all persons
who may desire his professional services.
WIN. MCGUKIN, Sheriff.
JOHN w. DANIELS,
Clerk Of Court.
March IL, 1878, 4S-tf
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$500 will be awarded, as PREMI-
UMS to those who produce the Largest
Quantity from one pound. Descriptive
Circulars of the above, with list Of 800
varieties of Potatoes, free to all.
ILLUSTRATND S E e ID
CATALOGUE, 2oO pages, with
Colored Chrome, 2? cents.
A New Tomato, the ''ARLINGTON." ;"
Early, solid and productive Price; 35c.
per packet; packets, 81.
w. K. Bliss & Sons,
% Park Place, New York.
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M M0TIeEo

THE Mercantile firm of OLDHAM
1 JORDAN & co, of Green
wood, S. G., is this day dissolved Oy
mutual consent-L. W. JORDAN
having sold his entire inte, est. in the
firm of OLDHAM JORD IN y CO.,
and the late firm of l.. W. JORDAN
& CO., to j. II. OLDHAM and MAT;
W. COLEMAN. The business will
be conducted hereafter. under: the
name and style Of OLDHAM q
COLEMAN, this April Sth,. 1873.
J. II. OLDHAM,
MAT. W. COLEMAN,
L. W. JORDAN. .
J. Fl. OLDHAM,
MAT. w. COLEMAN.
April 16, 1878, 1-3t
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ANDERSON G. H., S. c., |

ANDERSON G.. H., S. c.,
... March 3d. 1873. I
This is to certify that I have been
blind for the last three years, during
which time have spent several hum
dred dollars in trying to obtain relief,
the greater part of which spent in At
lanta, Ga, (under treatment of parties
making diseases of the eyea speciality, }
without obtaining any relief, whatever.
had almost dispaired of ever being
able to see, when DR.. Gurley informed
me that by an opel alton for the removal
of Cataract, the chances would be about
nineteen out OF twentyin my favor of OBJ
tanning sight: consented, and on the
18th of February last, he operated upon
my eyes, and on the 7th day afterwards
I was able to distinguish objects at a dis
tance, and my sight is still improving,
so much so, that / find no difficulty in
walking about wherever I desire. The
operation was not as painful as l eXpec-
ted and since I have experienced but
little pain. I can cheerfnliy recon-
mend Dr.. Gurley to all persons suffer-
ing from diseases of the eye.
MATTHEW SNIPES.
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The County Treasury is closed
against SCHOOL CLAIMS, by
Order of His Honor, Judge Cooke,
a majority of the Teachers are de-
pendent upon their labor for their
bread. Hence they must submit to
ruinous rates of discount. 1t is
therefore ordered, that all the pub
lie Schools of Abbeville County do
close on the 25th day of April
inst. - ...
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Sherif's Sale.
II. J. Hill !
against Execution.
w. A. Gaines. }

HBY virtue of an Execution to me di-
SD rected I will sell at Abbeville
Court House on Sale Day in MAY
next, within the legal hours, a tract OF
land containing
225 ACRES,
More or less, adjoining lands OF Sterling
Bowen, J. T. Haddon, and 0thers'
levied on as the property OF w. A
Gaines, at the suit OF +. }. Hill.
Terms Of sale CASH. :.
Terms of sale must be complied WIN
within. one hour after sale or the pro-
perty will be re-sold. r. ~
Sheriff's Office
April I, 1873, l-3tJ
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COMPTON'S SURPRISE.
S29 Bushels to the Acre. a little later
than Early Rose. Equal in quality.
$3 per pound, BY mail, postpaid. II
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Sherif's S Sale.

N. G. Williams against II. II. Harper
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AN ACT to Regulate The Publiea-
ton Of all Legal and Public No
tees.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-10-23
ARNOLD,S TREASON.
How Washington Told the Story to
Lafayette.

Robert Dale Owen writes in the atlantic
that he spent week with General Lafayette
in France, and from him learned this incident
of WashingtOn's conduct after discovering
the treachery of Arnold:
'The usual version is that he commune
Gated the portentous news to Generals Knox
and Lafayette jointly, but that is an error.
The statement made to me by the latter, dur
ing our journey to La Grange, surprised and
interested me at the time, and has remained
indeIlibly impressed on my memory. 1t was
this: When Washington sat down to dinner
no unusual emotion was visible on his cOun-
tenance. He was grave and silent, but no
more so than often happened when recent
tidings from the army occupied his thoughts.
At the close of the meal he beckoned to La
fayette to follow him, passed to an inner
apartment, turned 10 his young friend with
out uttering syllable, placed the fatal dis
patch in his hands, and then, giving way to
an ungovernable burst of feeling, fell on his
neck and sobbed aloud. The effect produced
on the French Marquis, accustomed to regard
the General, cold and dignified in his manner,
as devoid of the common weaknesses of hui
manity, may he imagined. Il believe said
Lafayette to me in relating this anecdote,
that this was the only occasion throughout
this long and sometimes hopeless struggle
that Washington ever gave way, even for a
moment under a reverse of fortune: and,
perhaps, l am the only human being who
ever witnessed in him an exhibition of feel
ING SO foreign to his temperament. AS it
was, he recovered himself before | had Pc
rused the communication that had given rise
to his excitement, and when we returned to
the staff not trace remained in his demeanor
either of grief or despOndency.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-10-23
No. 48


The Dayton Journal states that General
Edwin Stanton McCook, who was assas-
sinated by Wintermute, is the fifth member
of the family who has met violent death.
Three were slain in battle and two were as
sassinated.
Charles NJ. McCook, the younger, was
killed at the first battle of Bull Run, July 81,
1861, when he was in his 18th year. serving
as private soldier in the I'd Ohio volunteer
infantry.
Brigadier General Robert L. McCook-
fourth son of Major Daniel McCook, was as
sassinated by rebel guerrillas, near Decherd,
Tenn, August s. 1862, while sick in his am
bulance, in his 36th year.
Ma jor Daniel McCook, the father of the
family, was killed at Burlington Island, in
the Ohio river, while in pursuit of John
Morgan in his celebrated raid through Ohio,
ON the 21st of July, 1868, the second ami
versary Of the death of his youngest son,
Charles.
Brigadier General Daniel McCook was
killed at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, in
his 30th year. He was the sixth son.
And lastly, Edwin Stanton McCook, who
was assassnated as above reported. He also
was in the service of his country. ...i.
But three sons of that large family are now
alive, all of whom served during the rebel
lion, namely: Colonel George W. McCoOk,
the eldest son; Majo General A. Med Nc
Cook, now serving with his regiment in
Texas, and Captain John McCook, who is
practicing law.
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Helena, Montana, Thursday, October %, 1873.

When his lips touched the wine it turned tc
gold. He took an apple, and it was the same
He was alarmed, and tremblingly cried:
"Dispel the charm! l shall starve tc
death with all this gold"
Then it was Silenus' time to be alarmed
He tried to break the charm, but could not
He was quite long journey off. Midas got
very hungry; he despised his gold and had il
removed from his sight Bacchus told him
he must wash in the river Pactolus When
ne did all the sanu turned to gold. He turned
wearily away from it; he hated it SO that he
would not let his people gather it, and it was
washed away. Gold had not satisfied him.
lie could not live upon it; it made him very
wretched.
90 papa,' exclaimed Minnie, clasping her
hands, "Ill never wish for everything to be
gold again. then l couldn't eat grandma s
doughnuts, or mama's orange cake, or Brig
cts cookies"
Her papa laughed as she went over the list,
and said:
Zone would think you lived upon cake I
am not sure but cake might prove as fatal rs
gold, though it would take some time longer
to die from it perhaps than by starvation
80, have to be stinted; l can have only
just so much. have wished. though, that
everything we ate was cake" Minnie dropped
her head. 81 must not, see it was wrong"
"Well, hope, my dear, you have learned
two lessons from this story, to be satisfied
with what you have. and to be temperate in
all your habits. If all of our wishes were
gratfied, we should undoubtedly find many
of them as hateful to us as did King Midas
his gold"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-10-23
savage Contest, i'm Which Two Faith.
ers and Two Children Participated.
Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune


Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune
On September 21st the city of Indepen-
dence, twelve miles from Kansas City, Mo-,
was the scene of a terrible tragedy. Jim
| Crow Chiles, noted desperate, was shot
| and killed, his son mortally wounded, and
three others dangerously wounded. He al
ways carried an arsenal OF revolvers, and
was feared by the people and officers of the
law on account of his reputation as quick
and fatal marksman. Few dared modest or
arrest him, and the knowledge of this made
him presumptuous and quarrelsOme when
slightly intoxicated, though good natured
under other circumstances. He was at the
Exposition in Kansas City on Saturday and
became slightly intoxicated, and seemed de-
termined on row. He commenced abusing
a young German named Sampson, whom he
slapped in the face and threatened with a
pistol, and said he would give him $40 to go
and tell the Marshal to come and arrest him.
Deputy Marshal Peacock was standing in
front of the store near by, where Chiles
sought him out. Peacock said, ''How are
you, Jim?" Chiles responded with slap in
the face. Peacock said, "Did you mean
that?" Chiles responded with blow. Peacock
had heavy cane with him, with which he
struck at Chiles, who lodged and stepped
back off from the platform in front of the
store. When Peacock raised his cane Chiles
drew his revolver, Peacock doing the same.
A clinch followed, in which Chiles did his
best to shoot Peacock, he using his utmost
strength to wrest the pistol from him before
the affray. Chiles had previously met the
son of the Deputy Marshal and threatened
him, saying he would shoot his father. The
boy, being alarmed, went to the store and got
a revolver, and during the struggle between
Chiles and Peacock stood on the opposite
young Peacock ran across the street and fired
a shot which wounded Chiles slightly in the
back. Chiles then redoubled his efforts to
shoot the Deputy Marshal. Here son of
Chiles', a mere boy, appeared on the scene.
He picked up his fathers revolver, cooked it
with both hands and fired. The ball struck
the Marshal in the back, inficting danger
GUS wound. The boy then fired again, wound
ing young Peacock in the leg. The Marshal
not knowing who shot him, then thought his
life at stake. He seized his revolver, put the
muzzle to Chiles' face and shot him through
the head, just beneath the right eye, killing
him instantly. While this was going on,
young Peacock shot young Chiles, inflicting
probably mortal wound. In the meantime,
Marshal Farrow learning of the affray ap-
peared on the scene unarmed and received q
severe wound in the chest. The general i'm
preston is that Chlles received his deserts,
and Deputy Marshal Peacock has the sympa-
thy of the citizens for his injuries while in
the discharge of his duty. He will probably
recover. Young Chiles will probably die,
and young Peacock will recover, as also will
Marshal Farrow.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-10-23
The Darwin1an Problem.

prof Fiske in Popular Science Monthly for October
When Prof. Agassiz fairly comes to be in
sane, if he ever>does, and undertakes to re-
flute the Darwinian theory, these are some OF
the questions he will have to answer: !. II
all organisms are not associated through the
bonds of common descent, why is it that the
facts of classification are just such as they
would have been had they been due to such
a common descent? 2. Why does a NAM
NAL always begin todevelop as if it were 60
ing to become fish, and then, changing its
tactics, proceed as if it were going to become
reptile or bird, and only after great delay
and circumlocution take the direct road to-
ward mamality? In answer to this, we do
was the son of a fish, because We know that
about the "free manifestations of an intelli-
gent mind," because we have had quite
enough of metaphysical phrases which do
not contain description of some actual or
imaginable process. We want to know how
this state of things can be scientifically in
terpreted save on the hypothesis of a COM
mon ultimate origin for mammals, birds,
reptiles and fishes. 3. What is the meaning
of such facts as the homologies, which exist
between corresponding parts of organisms
constructed on the same type? Why does
the black salamander retain fully developed
gills which he never uses, and what is the
significance of rudimentary and aborted Or
gans in general? Again, say, we do not
want to hear about uniformity of design"
and "reminiscences of a plan," and so on,
but we wish to know how this state of things
was physically brought about, save by COM
munity of descent. 4. Why is it that the
facts of geological succession and geograph-
ical distribution 80 clearly indicate commu-
nifty of descent, unless there has actually been
community of descent? Why have marsu-
pals in Australia followed after other marsu-
pals, and edentata in South America followed
after other edentata, with such remarkable
regularity, unles the bond which unites pres
ent with past ages be the we'll known, the
only known and only imaginable, bond of
physical generation? Why are the fauna
and flora Of each geologic epoch in general
intermediate in character between the flora
and fauna of the epochs Immediately pre-
ceding and succeeding? And, 5. What are
we to do with the great fact of extinction if
We reject Mr.. Darwin's explanations? When
a race is extinguished, is it because of uni
versal deluge, or because of the "free mani
festations of an intelligent mind?" For,
surely, Prof. Agassiz will not attribute such
a solemn result to such ignoble causes as in
suficiency of food or any other of the thou
sand causes, "blindly mechanical" which
conspire to make species succumb in the
struggle for life
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-10-23
The Fall IN the Gold Pre- emium.
E'rOsr, ho London EcOnOmiSf

Lately there has been very considers ble
fall in the premium on gold in New York.
The sudden fluctuations have been due Of
course to speculative corners, but it is curious
to observe nevertheless that in spite of the
German demand for gold, which has dimln-
ished the stock of bullion in America, and
consequently tended to raise its value, there
appear to be some causes at work which al
ways bring back the price to 112 or below.
A gold corner, when the price is run up to
116 from about 112, may be quite as formid-
able matter as when the price was run up
to 1I9 or 100 from about 1f5; and what we
price has exhibited a strong tendency to de-
cline. The explanation can only be that the
appreciation of American greenbacks, which
we described three years ago, and which has
since been retarded or obscured by various
causes, especially by the German demand for
gold. is in reality making steady progress,
and will in the end result in complete equality
unless the German demand should again re-
tard it. We have more than once noticed the
gradual diminution of legal tenders held by
the New York banks, plain sign OF their
scarcity and increasing value; and the natural
res,,lt ought to be the same as forced con-
traction of the currency, viz, an approxlma-
ton to gold value. So long as the legal tend
ers are not increased the natural growth OF
America should bring about this result, and
we ought rather expect tine gold premium to
decline. The demand for Germany is, how
ever. a serious complication, and may perplex
q good deal. as we think it has already per-
plexed the nstural course of events. The
American currency is appreciating, but gold
is also appreciating, and the question from
time TO time is the relative speed of the move
ments. and whether the currency appreciates ]
the fastest If it does so the gold premium
will disappear. although the gold with which
the paper is equalized may itself be much
more valuable in reference to all other articles
than it was at the time when the premium
was at the highest point 7@1Hnai y
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-10-23
Sad Fate Of n Blasphe mer.

We do not vouch for the truth of the fol-
lowing story, which is told by the Athens
Georgian: ''There is report prevalent upon
our streets that man living near Scull's
Shoals, about twenty miles below this city,
told his wife last Sunday night to awake him
up before odd God Almighty woke on Sun
day. as he wanted to catch mess of fish for
breakfast. His wife, in accordance with his
instructions, called him before day Sunday
morning, and he, taking his fishing tackle,
went to the stream, and, finding tempting
hole, took his seat upon a rock. His wife
waited anxiously for bis arrival but he not
appearing, toward night she summoned some
neighbors, and went in quest of the truant.
Going to the stream, she found the missing
man seated upon rock, and, upon the party
requesting him to get up and accompany them
home, he told them that the Almighty had
sent u judgment upon him, and he had be-
come part of the rock and could not move.
His friends, thinking that he was jesting, took
hold of him and attempted to move him,
when he commenced screaming at the top of
his voice, and asked them for God S sake not
to attempt to lift him up, as it would murder
him. He further Informed them that he had
heen told by an unseen presence that, as
judgment for his profanity and Sabbath
breaking, he would never be severed from
his present seat, but would remain fastened
to it all his days, and that he would be made
to preach his own funeral sermon. They
say he talks quite freely, and is visited by i'm
mense crowds from this and adjoining coun-
ties. Several parties, we learn, from this
place and Winterville, went to see him We'd
nesaay, but have not yet returned.'
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-10-23

THE columns of the New York Herald
bristle with assaults upon Cesarism and the
Croton Bug. Concerning the Bug the Herald
says thatits . remarks on the domestic pest"
have evoked numerous communications, and
it hopes that while the public interest is
aroused some mode Of getting rid of the
nuisance may be devised. The Bug and the
Cnsarism articles in the Herald are evidently
written by the same man..--The agitation Of
Western agriculturists over the ravages of
the Potato Bug" is . mere circumstance to
the evident excitement of this Herald man
about the .Croton insect and his bugabo0-
Cnsarism.