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JOHN ALEXANDER,
CONGAREE
Iron WORKS.
Columbia. S. O..
Agnt for
OH A PM ANS
PERPETUAL EYAPORATOR

raNHESE WORKS WERE ESTABLISHED in
H lSi7 BY Mcssrs. Geo. Sinclair and james An
derSOn and purchased by mo in the year 1886. and
from that time till carried on successfully by
myself My friends and customers will bear witness
of the large and StupendouS jobs executed by me- 1t
Was at my works where the largest and almost only
job of its class ever executed in this city done
viz: the making of the pipes for the City Water
Works in the year 1898. In the branch OF BELL
FOUNDING, can say that have made the largest
bells ever cast in the State such the bell for the
City Hall in Columbia.
My stock of patterns for ARCHITECTURAL
WORK COLUMNS for Store fronts, is large and
various, and in kAILISGS for Eai&onics, Gardens
and Cemeteries have the largest variety and most
modern patterns; MANY of these are patented and
have purchased the right for this state
In the machine line can furnish my patrons with
STEAM ENGINES and BOILERS Of any size and
description, My CIRCULAR SAW MILLS hay,
carried off the prize at every State Fair held in this
city, and in their construction have taken pains tt
combine simplicity with the most useful modern i'm
provemcnts, and may tlatter myself that my C1RCU
LAR SAW MILLS find favor with every sawyer wh'
understands his business
The many orders an steadily receiving for SU
GAE CANE MILLS prove that the pnb'ic appreciate
the mills Of my make, and so it is with my GEAR
ING for HORSE POWERS. GIN WHEELS, GRlS1
MILLS and other MACHINERY.
have the manufacturing right Of many PATENTS
such rs castings for ROCK COTTON AND HA !
PRESS and three four different FEED CUTTHs
and other implements.
l will he pleased to send my crcnars to any appli
cant. together with price list estimate. Mv price,
are moderate. and assure the public that they ar
lower than those of Northern manufactures and tina
my work will couparc favorably with that OF any 9th
er maker. Address
John Alexander,
CoSGAREE IRON WORKS. Columbia, S. C.
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CPRING BEDS. The Woven Wire Mattress
- at 500 and $500 each, will lasta life time.
J. d. CHALMERS & co.
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Webb Halters.

y ASSORTMENT just received and for
IA sale cheap by TI1OS. BEGGS.
August -, 1855. If
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Wanted.

A LOT Of old harness. for which will pay
II Il fair price, or take them in part pay Tor
new ones, at my harness shop.
April 7, l&SG, II THOS. BEGGS.
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ABBEv1LLE AND AUGUSTA WAREHOUSE,
Augusta, Ga. are selling choice white corn
and meal at 81 cents per bushel free on board
of cars. Freight on corn and meal to McCur.
mick and Troy is 81 cents per hushcl to
Bradley and Verdery9 cents. Greenwood Gil
cents; Chappells and Dyson'S ~; Ninety
Six and Hodges lOM; Honca Path and Don
aids NJ. They will keep a car of corn AT Abb
neville and will continue to sell at G7 cents
until further notice through the Press ana
Banner. Corn in carfots one cent less. ltog-
ers Il Co, Augusta, Ga.
Miss Ella Bell is still with VIM. +. Eell
4-24.
Mrs. Mary Tasgart has charge OF VIM. L.
Bells dress-mukiDg department. III
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TO The Public.

THE Undersigned subscriber is prepared to
/ Terrace Land upon the most Scirntlhc
principles known to modern agriculture. /
will furnish II good level and render my SER
vices al reasonable rates to all who may favor
me will their lrltrOnagc. Satisfaction @;l:ii-
anirrd az no pay required Correspondence
solicited. j. \ iRfSS!A,
Jan. Is, 1886. If lOWnicSvillr, :. {.
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IN OUR NEV QUARTERS i.
]. D. CHALMERS & CO.'S
llRIIII|RD S'IORII
Now in Center Store of New
Hotel, Convenient and
Easy of Access.

OUH stock is full OF handsome furniture
" and our prices at all times as low as the
lowest. Call and see us. Respectfully,
J. ID. CHALMERS d co.
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Masters Sale.
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE.


COUHY OF COMION PLEAS.
John NJ. Pruitt against w. G. Griffin, Agent,
ct al.-FOrecOsurc.
DY virtue OF an order of sale made in the
- above stated case, ! will offer for sale at
public outcry, at Abtcville c. H.. :. c.. on
Salcday in June. 1856. within the legal hours
Of sale. the following described property, sit
uatc in said State and County, to wit: All
that tract or parcel % land containing LOTS
AND HOUSES FIFTY BY ONE HUNDRED
FEET, in the town OF Bradley, and - acres,
more or less. and bounded by lands of d. W..
Jay. Mrs. V. Thomas and p II. Bradley.
TERMS OF SALI-Onc.fourth cash, bal
ance Of proceeds OF sale payable January lst,
1887, with interest from day of sale, secured
by bond Of the purchaser and mortgage of
the premises. the purchaser to insure the
property and assign the policy to the Master.
Purchaser to pay tie Master forall pancrs and
recording. J. Z. kLUGH,
May II, 1856, 1T Master.
Medium and Messenger copy.
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CPLENDID SOFAS, at the lowest prices.
y Just what is needed for the warm season.
j. u. CHALMERS & co.
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A. e. X. II. II. Stock

The market price will be paid for A. & Il, Il
Il. stock. L. J.. THOMPSON,
Abbev1lle, S. c., April S, 1856.
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THE MENTAL PECULIARITIEs.


In order to satisfy ones self how strange
are these idiosyncracies, it is only necessary
for the reader, without going into the spell
ing bee annoyance, to ask his friends IN re-
gard to their peculiarties of spelling. 1t is ex-
ceedingly rare to find only one who does
not tell me that he halts over certain words.
A gentleman who in his professional duty
reads all the leading journals OF the United
States declares that the words most fire.
Quently mispellel are close" and "locse," for
both editors and proof readers seom to be at
sea in regard to them. Working only on
the threshold of this sub ject, the mental
peculiarities are as various as curious and
are quite as marked among the individuals
forming the staff Of newspaper, from the
editor-in- chief down to the reporter, as any
where else Everybody has word or two,
some any quantity of them, that they are
always uncertain about and the word is
written by them as often wrongly as rightly,
and what is worse there seems to be no cure
for such mistakes.
Here is final case, with slight tinge of
romance to it. A college-bred man, a gradu-
ate with honors, addressed q young lady,
and was referred to the young persons
father. Permission to press his suit could
not be made verbally to the father, who was
absent, and accordingly the young man
wrote letter. A reply came promptly
enough, but not of a pleasing character.
The father, a highly educated man, and
somewhat of purist, was shocked with sew
eral bad blunders of spelling in the letter,
and he so informed his daughter. Whether
it was excitement, or what not, could not be
determined, but the consequences to the
suitor were likely to be distressing. Subse.
quent correspondence showed that the posi-
bic son-in.law was really an educated man,
and matters were arranged But from an
"e' cut of place and double It." or one too
many as" or mixing up an "sie' with a
@cei" the fortunes of two young people came
near being shipwrecked.
"After ALL spelling is a mechanical rather
than mental process say those who make
the mistakes-New York Times
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Making Edged Tools in 1S2(

The first American establishment for the
exclusive manufacture of edged tools was
founded by Samuel Collins, of Collinsvile,
Conn, about 1926, when the product of a
days labor was the forging and temperiuG
of eight broadaxes Chicago Herald.
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Harness Shop.

TOR the manufacture and sale of all kinds
L OF harness, and everything usually Kept
i'm such an establishment: also repairing at
tended to will, nculncsS and dispatch. Should
YOU want anything we have not on hand. give
Us your order and we will see that ii is done.
TlIUS. DEGC;S.
Fol, Il 1SSf If
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Be in Time.

GALL soon if you want Il hand made har-
~ ness, we are trying to keep up q supply.
May 81, 1885, If TItOS. BEGGS.
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Spring Beds! Spring Beds !!

NS1OVEN WIRE BED, price $500 and sG.oo.
w Twin Springs. full set, prcc $500. l!o
spring bed, price $3.50. 80 spring bed with
Stats, price SI.75. One-third of life spent III
bed, make your beds comfortable. The prices
are SO low all can secure Il good bed.
j. ID. CHALMERS & co.
Nov. %, 1855. If
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Wanted,
important Notice.

A TT. We that anticipate attending the COM
n inrnccmcnt ut due West, see that your
harness are in good repair. II not send them
to the subscriber and have them made all
right. TliDS. HEGC'S.
April 7, 1856, If
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-19
Pony Culture.

1t is probable that very few owners of
flower gardens are aware that the pop
pies cultivated merely for ornament will
produce opium. When the flower petals
have fallen, leaving the seed capsule
bare, if an incision be made in that body,
a sticky juice will exude This juice is
opium. 1t varies in certain chemical
qualities, according to the country in
which it is cultivated, and the variety of
plant from which it is produced.
Although the plant will grow in al
most any climate, it is in India that it is
most satisfactorily cultivated, the opium
revenue of that country being derived
from two sources, those of Malwa and
those of Bengal.
When the land has been plowed and
narrowed, the poppy seed is sown at the
end of October, or the beginning of No
vember. Six pounds of seed are sufi-
cient for the third of an acre. As soon
as it begins to germinate, as it does in a
week after sowing, the land is divided by
furrows into rectangular beds, about
eight feet in length by four in breadth.
These channels are used for irrigation, as
the plants need frequent watering, some
times requiring it until the crop is ma
tured. About seventy-fve days after
termination, the flower appears, and its
four petals are gently removed, on the
third day after their expansion, to be
pasted together with the leaves destined
to form the outer shell of the
opium cake. In course of eight or ten
days, the capsules are lanced at night,
and the juice which has cxuded from the
incisions is scrapcd off in the morning,
with small scoop, and transferred to II
metal or earthen vessel. This process is
three or four times repeated, at intervals
of two or three days, and the result is
crude opium The bower petals and the
plant leaves and stalks have also con-
siderable value for packing purposes; the
thicker portion of the stalks are used by
the peasants for fire wood. The crude
opium, having been gathered, is stored
by the cuItivator, and watched, that it
may remain free from mold or taint.
At the end of March, or the beginning
of April, when the weather is furiously
hot in Bengal, the cultivators, carrying
their opium, obey a summons calling
them to meet the deputy agent of their
village There the opium is tested, paid
for, and taken into the possession of the
government. Finally the opium paste is
made into cakes, dried, packed in boxes,
and removed to Calcutta, for sale by auc-
ton. YOUtiS C0mpaHi0R
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-19
Seven Reasons.

The deacon told me Il gh.d story the
other evening at one of our regular swap
ping matches He said he didn't know
it had attained the venerable character of
a chestnut or not, but he vouched for
the literal truth of it,
''Fifty years ago. said he, "we THAT
is to say my fathers family lived in
Northwestern New York One day there
came to our house a poor man whom we
had been in the habit of helping in a
small way from time to time. We knew,
somehow, that he never wore socks. That
shocked us children, and we became very
curious to learn the reason for his eccen-
tricity. Father shared our curiosity, and
before the old fellow left the house he
Qather) said to him:
" Mr. Mann, | don't want to be i'm
pertinent, but | am sure you will not
take offense if | ask you why it is that
YOU never wear sOcksW
" Mr. Deacon, was the reply, 4 have
seven good reasons for it,.
" Seven reasonsn exclaimed father.
Sir, if you will give me seven reasons
why you do not wear socks | will give
you S. gold piece.
cold Mann's eyes danced.
"Well, he began, In the first place |
have no socks. Secondly
&" Hold on, cried father, you needn't
mind the six other reasons. Mother,
give Mr.. Mann that $j gold piece in the
stand drawer. '"--Detroh Free Press.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-19
A Pump That Cost s1.OOO,OOO.

The largest pumping engine in the
world is that at Friedensvile, Penn,
used to pump water out of zinc mine.
1t was built at Merrick' S foundry, Phila-
delphia, in 1870, at cost of nearly ST.
600, 600. Its parts were so heavy that
all the bridges along the line of the North
Pennsylvania railroad, from Philadel-
phia to Center Valley, were strengthened
to insure against accident. Its cylinder
has diameter of t10 inches; the piston
rod is fourteen inches in diameter. 1t
has stroke of twelve feet, and in one
minute forces over 10000 gallons of
water, or 10000, 900 daily, out of the
mine to height of 1870 feet,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-19
The Mexican Peasantry.

The Indians or peasantry wear white
cotton shirts and trousers that contrasts
well with their brown skins and straw
hats writes correspondent of the
Springfield Republican. They will carry
the serape or blanket that is necessity
for the early morning and evening, and
this is always brilliant hued. The cos
tune of the women is equally simple
generally white waist and skirt, with q
shawl called reboso. Gay colors are
frequently affected in the petticoats and
rebOs0s, and the passion for gewgaws
and cheap jewelry betrays univeral
feminine weakness. Both sexes wear
sandals of raw hide, and while the women
most frequently cover their heads with
the shawl, they are often hated like the
men. These people live cheaply and also
very informally in many ways. The
climate is on their side, as its mildncss
necessit0tes much less in the way of food,
clothing, fuel and shelter than with you.
The scale of their life is something be-
tween the luXuries of your civilization
and the vicissitudes of Indian experience
in the West, and far inferior to the com
forts of the old slave days of the South.
The idea of home life, as you know it, is
wanting. The Independent house is un-
known to the laborer of the cities, whose
room or rooms are on the ground floor,
where there is little light and practically
no ventilation. In the suburbs of this city
and in the country the Indians usually own
their adobes and mud dwellings or cab
ms 1t is astrange domestic life which
every street stroller can contemplate in
all its details. The common laborers use
neither chairs, tables nor beds, the sub
stitute for the latter being rolls of rush
mating; these rooms are very full of life
but they are bare of furniture; variety
of earthen vessels hold the family food
and drink, and during the morning hours
the women are universally occupied in
grinding out corn on mctate or flat
stone. This is laborious preliminary to
the preparation of the torilla or Indian
bread that is eaten with triioles or
boiled brown beans and meat broiled or
fried-when the latter can be afforded.
A not unpalatablc sauce concocted out of
lard, red pepper, onions and cheese, is a
priced accompaniment. These people
are not unhappy in their primitive and
inadequate accommodations, but they
need better things. 1t is pleasant to note
that improved tenCments are now being
built, which will bring the laborer nearer
to the comforts possessed by those whom
he serves so faithfully.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-19
AN EASTERN APoLoGUE

Melik, the Sultan, tired and wan,
Nodded at noon ON his divan.
Beside the fountain fingered near
Jamil, the bard, and the vizier-
Old Yusuf, sour and hard to please.
Then Jamil sang in words like these:
Slim is Butheina-slm is she
AS the boughs of the Araka treel
'Nay," quoth the other, teeth between,
Lean, if you will call her lean"
Sweet is Butheina-sweet as wine,
With smiles that like rel bubbles shinei
"True-by the Prophet" Yusuf said;
"She makes men wander in the headm
Dear is Butheina-ah more dear
Than all the maidens of Kashmeerl
"Dear," came the answer, quick as thought
'Dear-and yet always to be bought"
So Jamil ceased But still life's page
Shows diverse unto Youth and Age:
And-be the song of ghouls or gods
Time-like the Sultan, sits, and mods.
Austin DobSon.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-19


athlete, this despct OF Dar-rooms and
public houses, performed, simply and
courageously, in these lowly rooms in the
suburbs, the sublime duties of a sister of
charity. This intrepid oarsman had
never made longer voyage than to con-
duct his mother to church every Sunday.
This trainer of bull dogs was the submis-
sive slave of poodle.
III.
Next morning on arriving at the Office
| asked Meurtrier how he had employed
the previous evening, and he instantly
improvised, without the least hesitation,
an account of a sharp encounter on the
boulevard, where he had knocked down
with a single blow Of his fist, having
passed his thumb through the ring of his
keys, terrible street rough.
I listened, smiling Ironically, and
thinking to confouna him; but, remem-
bering how respectable . virtue is which
is hidden even unoyr an absurdity, |
struck him on the 81, ,, der, and said with
conyictions "MearrfFef, you are hero"
From the French. ~
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-19
Notable Long Tunnels.

The Simpion tunnel, which will very
shortly be commenced, is the most form
idabe of the gigantic railway connec-
tions undertaken of late years to facili-
tate the communications between Italy
and the rest of Europe; and the project
suggests comparative note ON the ex-
isting Alpine tunnels. At the present
time the Alps are pierced by three re-
markably long tunnels, entering Italy
from France, Switzerland and the Aus
trian Tyrol respectively, and called ac
cording to the mountain chains that are
traversed, the Mount Gents, st. Gothard
and Arlberg tunnels. OF these Mount
Gents is seven miles and three-quarters
in length. Its cost was $15, 000
The st. Gothard tunnel is nine miles
and quarter in length, and cost
$12, 100000, the diminution in expense
being owing principally to the more
rapid progress of the work by improve.
mentS in the drilling machines. The
Mount Gents or st. Gothard, being only
five miles and half. The last and
most formidable rival will be the Simpi-
on tunnel, by which the existing line
from Geneva to Martigni and Brieg will
be carried through the mountain to
Duma d'Ossola and so on to Pailanza or
Streza on the Lake Maggioro As this
tunnel will be commenced at much
lower level than any of the others it will
necessarily be large, the rough estimate
being twelve miles and a half and the
estimated cost somewhere about $40, 900, :
600
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-19
A Wise Decision.

Several years ago, while the people of
West Tennessee were alarmed at the ap-
proach of yellow fever, Judge F. con-
vened court at Bolivar. Court had been
but few days in session when the re-
ports from Memphis caused additional ex-
citement. There were many witnesses
attendant upon court, and, very natural
ly, they importuned the Judge to permit
them to go home. The business part of
the community, willing to run any risk
for the sake of trade, declared that the
scare was unnecessary, and that the dis
ease was not yellow fever. A number of
physicians with it soon appeared more
learning than Judgment. repaired to the
court room and assured the Judge that no
danger of an epidemic was to be appre-
hended.
''The disease said one of the medical
gentlemen, lis not yellow fever, but is
zipuporastory."
"You are wrong, doctor, " said another
physician, for investigation proves it to
to be posurentscait "
''No," said another doctor, 'you are
both wrong. I admit that it is not yell
low lCNtl, dilOi lildl II Nth hONtl pCNOulC
an epidemic, but is nothing more or less
than an exaggerated type of costinetor-
digpii."
Then there arose a heated discussion in
which the Judge was unable to take a
part. He waited patiently until the dis
cusson cooled down, then turning to the
doctors, said;
81 have been much entertained and
greatly instructed by the discussion
which you gentlemen have so ably con-
Quoted. do not pretend to say what
the disease is, for am not versed in such
sciences. 1t may be acute jehossiphat,
exaggerated polywog, infammatory jim
crow or mild type of epluribus unum,
but there's one thing I do know It's
awful ketchin' and I'm going to adjourn
this court. "--Arkansato 7faoeler.
His Cousin Gut his Hair.
There were no BARRIERS in those days.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-19
Moneys Worth.

"Does it ever occur to you, )" said
cash bookkeeping man to his friend,
chow much more you are getting for your
money now than when we began on $15
a week, twelve or thirteen years ago.
Look at it. You had to dress then pretty
nearly as we'll as you do now. l will
venture to say you couldn't get pair of
trousers then that suited you for less than
SO or $15; you get the same thing now
for IS to so, and you can get for So
trousers that would have cost at least $40
then. The suit you had to pay $40 to
$50 for then costs you $50 to-day. You
can buy all the New York papers-if you
are newspaper man and read news
whoesale-for twelve or fourteen cents,
and the bundle left nothing of a quarter
then. As for bookshelf, there weren't
any books that cost less than 81 in 1872,
and now dollar bill covers q fairish
library. Just look at the way good
ready-made shoes have come down in
price, and as for shirts and good under
clothing, you ought to find out what
they cost before the panic. "Well,"
rejoined the nOn-cash bookkeeping man,
who promptly gave up these conundrums
in price, ''what want to know is what be-
comes of the money am unconsciously
saving" "You had better go home and
look around and try and remember how
bare houses were before 1876 brought in
art decoration, for one thing; and for
another notice that you sec ten dress
coats where there was one dozen years
ago. You are living better for the
same money, my boy. That is ALL
Philadelphia Press.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-19
A Want Supplied.

A farmer from the romantic region of
the Chenango valley was being shaved IN
q barber-shop on Chatham street the
other day, when some one spoke to one of
the BARRIERS and called him Count"
"What! what's thatN' exclaimed the
farmer as he sat up on end, with the la
ther over his face. Have you Count
hereW
eyes, sir"
''Is he alive"
go, yes"
''French or Italian"
'Italian."
"By George but want himl Here,
you, Count-are you married."
''No, sir"
Good agin Want to be spliced2"
''Maybe like to-"
''Of course you do! I've got gal
nineteen years old, who is crazy to marry
an Italian Count She's handsome,
healthy. good-natured, and I'll give her
SO, 600 as a dowry. What dye say?"
"Tll see about it"
"Good Go on with your shaving, and
arter I'm scraped I'll have talk with
you. Woosh. Aunt Jerusha but Tn in
luck Saves me trottln that gal clear
over TO Italy, and we get husband for
her who is both Count and a barber
Scrape me off quick ."--NeO York Star.