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a Old-Field Schools in Olden Times. Ex-Gov. Perry, in his very interesting "Reminiscences," written for the Green? ville Enterprise and Mountaineer, git es the following truthful and life-like de? scription of the '"old-field schools" of his young days, and which wer^ common even at a later period. The fidelity of the picture will be recognized by many of our readers: "I have a very vivid remembrance of my old-field schools, although sixty-four years have passed away, since I began to go to them, and fifty-four since I left them. They were all pretty much alike* There was a log house/twenty feetsquare, built near a spring, and frequently in the woods instead of an-old field. In one end of the building there was a huge fire place, extending almost across that end of the bnilding. The chimney was proportionably large. There were great cracks between the logs, which let in the light, and rendered it unnecessary to Lave more than one window, which was about one foot and a half square. Some times the cracks were chinked in the finter, but the chinking was al ays knocked out in the Summer. This made the school room airy, as well as light. There was a desk in one corner for the accommodation of the teacher and keeping books and papers. On this desk there were always a large hickory switch about three feet lon<r, and brought into effective use every day, and some? times every hour in the day. The prop? er use of this switch seemed tobe as nec cessary to the pedagogue as his learning. Mr. Petigru went to school to Dr. "VVaddell, at Wiilington, who, it is said, had great experience, as well as sleight of-hand, in the use of the switch or hickory, and after he graduated at the South Carolina College, he taught school himself for a short period, and said that if he had continued much long? er than he really thought he could have equalled his old preceptor in the dexte ous use of the switch. It is remarkable that such a barbarous practice should have been universally tolerated by pa? rents and practiced by school teachers. An .ill-natured pedagogue gets in the habit of flogging his boys, and does it very often to gratify his own bad feelings severely for the most trivial offences, when a word of reproof from the teach? er would have had a much better effect on the boy. It is said there are two ?ways of governing, one by fear and the other by love. The latter never was re Borted to by school masters in my boyish j days. I hope there has been a change in this respect since that time. I have seen boys whipped in school until they did not seem to regard it all, and it had no effect in improving their behaviour. If they had been treated kindly by the teacher, and gently reproved, it would have had a much better effect. There was a plank or puncheon on one side of the school house for the scholars to write on, instead of a table or desk. There were benches all around the room for them to sit on, and sometimes when the school was large, there would be two or three across the middle of the room. The girls were generally seated on one set of benches, ana the boys on another. In learning our lessons we would repeat them as loud, as we pleased in school, and sometimes when all were intent on learn? ing, che school house was a perfect babel. At the door hung a paddle or stick, which every one had to carry out with him when he left the room and no one dared to get out until he returned. This badge was seldom hanging at the door idly. As soon as one returned with it another took it. But all had first to ask leave of absence from the school master. If we did not know how to pronounce a word we went to the teacher \. ith a fin? ger on the word, and he gave the proper J pronunciation. Very often this was done oat of pure mischief or idleness. The larger boys who were learning Arithmetic or Grammar, were permitted to go out of the school house to get their lessons. Certain classes were called to recite at certain times, and the teacher was kept very busy from early in the morning till twelve o'clock when there was an intermission in the school of an hour or two. Thi3 was "play time.!' Baskets were opened and all partook of their dinners first and then went to play. Some times there was an exchange of dinners, or a swap of one article of food ibr another. The plays were numerous with balls and marbles. I do not remem? ber all the varieties. There were "pris? oner's base," "cat," "shinney," "nucks," "quoits," etc. etc. When our play time had expired, the teacher would come to the door and cry out in a stentorian voice, "come to books." Instantly all plays were at an end, and all were hastening back to the school house. The school continued in the eve? ning till towards sun set, and not like the present fashionable schools, one-half the day only. School keeping now a days is nothing more than "lesson hear? ing." The boy is expected to learn his lessons at home, and come the next day and recite them. The parents have to become teachers, and the boy trudges along with a satchel full of books. We fenerally left our books at the school ouse and learned our lessons there un? der the direction of the teacher. When the school closed there was a rival? ry amongst the boys as to carrying the teacher home with them. He board? ed amongst his pupils. Sometimes he would stay at one house a week, and then night. He generally favored those with most of his company,, where ho found the beat accomodations. This was very nat? ural and excusable. The teachers were most commonly young men, and without families. The first school master, how? ever, that I ever went to, was a married man. He got drunk one night, fell into the creek and frozo to death on its banks. I had iust begun to learn my letters and was about five years old. i remember my father asked me if i could say my let? ters "by heart." I did not know what "by heart" meant, but commenced repea? ting the alphabet, and with some ap? prehension that I might not do it "by heart." The boys in the school were very socia? ble and hospitable. They were very fond of going home with each other and spending a night. This wa3 done con? stantly. We had, however, first to ask our parents permission. This wa3 sel? dom refused. It was customary in those days to "turn out" the teacher on holidays and other occasions. The boys would take advantage, in the absence of the teacher, to bar the door and demand a holiday. Sometimes the demand extended to a treat. I remember a school master from Pennsylvania who seemed to be ignorant of this custom and took it in high dud geo". He turned his back on the school and walked olf very unceremoniously. The scholars held a consultation wh^tl r or not they should p'u ..? him, bring him back and make him treat. But he was a stout, athletic fellow and they were afraid of the consequences. Some? times the teacher would break down the door and get into the house. Then all I have seen boys whipped again he would change his lodgi _T_L i TT - _11 _ C_1 . the boys got around him like a parcel of Lilliputians and finally overcome him. He was held in durance vile till he came to terms. This was a frolic well understood by the teacher as well as the boys, and never resulted in anything unpleasant. Gov. Chamberlain's Cause. One would suppose, on reading the fulsome laudations of Gov. Chamberlain which have lately appeared in a number of our State exchanges, that certain Con? servative journals are opposing the ac? tion of the Governor in his efforts to give the people of South Carolina two years of fair government. So far as we have read our exchanges we have not found a line or word in any one of them that warrants such a conclusion. On the contrary, all ?without any exception?have cordially endorsed his course, 30 far as that course affected the State at large; but some of us have not fallen down and worshipped him; we have not filled the columns of our papers every week with fulsome adu servative journals that assume the cham? pionship of his administration. We have dared to speak and write of Attorney General Chamberlain calmly and accord? ing to our convictions of what is due to the people and Mr. Chamberlain himself. Some of our exchanges teil us "Gov? ernor Chamberlain is a necessity." We do not endorse that, in full. Gov. Cham? berlain's course we grant, was a necessity, not merely for the good of the tax-payers of this State, but more especially for the perpetuation of the Republican party in the country. The wires were worked in Washington, and he responded. The condition of South Carolina began to open the eyes of the people all over the country to the corruption of the Republi? can party, and well founded fears were entertained that unless a change was made?even a temporary one?in this State, that party would surely lose the next Presidential election, and perhaps South Carolina also. We have no idea it wa3 any love for the people of this State that prompted the leaders of the Republican party to demand the reform, although we acknowledge that we are greatly benefitted by it, and are pleased with it?even if it should prove to but a respite from the former infamous rule. We would not place a straw in 'Gov. Chamberlain's path so long as he contin? ues in the course he has marked out. Other journals say the time selected for speaking of Attorney-General Chamber? lain's errors was inopportunate. There we differ widely. We thought then, and still thiuk, the time was most propitious for reminding him and his friends that the odium of his former associations was still clinging to him ; and as arrests of some of those associates were about to commence, an opportunity would be of? fered him to prove his assertion that he was iunocent of any of the fraud and cor? ruption imputed to him while he was Attorney-General. For our part, we were sincerely desirous that he should prove himself guiltless of actual partici? pation in those frauds, and his cham? pions said he could do so. But how stands the case now. Parker, one of his associates, has been in jail for some weeks, awaiting a trial. His trial commenced last week; the evidence against him has been closed; in that evidence it is found | that in the division of the result of what is very evidently a fraudulent speculation in bond coupons, $50,000 was "set aside*' for Attorney-General Chamberlain. It is true that the same witness says, "he was not aware that Mr. Chamberlain knew anything about the transaction, or whether he received tho $50,000 ;" but where was the Governor of the State when the trial was going on, and this imputation was sworn to ? He knew of it, and must have expected that his name would be mixed up with it. By the fol? lowing, which we take from the Charles? ston News and Courier of the 12th, we are 'informed that Mr. Chamberla'n was, and is still absent from the State; and we are led to infer that he cares but little about the trial and the effect it will have upon his official character, or the interests of the State: Governor Chamberlain is not here to speak for himself, and we feel warranted, therefore, iff* printing an extract from a private letter, dated May 11, 1875, when the charge that Governor Chamberlain was mixed up with the coupon frauds had not been made. Iw the letter in question, Governor Chamberlain said: "The whole coupon business, for which Parker is now held, was new to me 'till last February. I never heard of such a transaction 'till then. Who were iu it, I cannot tell, but I do know who is not." Now, we would like to take Gov Chamberlain's statement as truth ; but it does seem strange that he should absent himself from the State, ju?t at the time when he knew his name would ba "mixed up with the coupon frauds" under the i solemnity of an oath.( When we consider the utter indiffer? ence displayed by the whole Radical gang when charges of fraud and corruption are made against them, Mr. Chamberlain's indifference to the case now on trial and his apparent don't-care style of treating all notices of his connexion with t hose who we must believe did commit frauds, naturally compels us to place him in the same schedule of crime with them. Like Leslie, Whittemore, Crews, Hur? ley, et id omne genus, he appears not to care a whit for the accusations made against him, and while he may not, like them, smile with childlike blandness at the frauds they have been accessory to, and claim praise for their sharp practices, he certainly does not seem the least dis? turbed at his name being placed in the same category. He evidently aims to have two years of good record, as Gov? ernor, in the belief that it will wipe out all traces of the many previous years of bad record, and wo don't object to that. j What we complain of most is the hasty ?we may say premature?and fulsome defense of Governor Chamberlain, by some of the papers in the State, while they are earnest and persistent iu their demands for the arrest and conviction of every other official who acted with him when the frauds were committed. Let us demand of him also to clear up, as far as he can, the mystery which shrouds his former course. If he docs that, or even makes an honest and bold effort to defend himself, no man will be more willing than we to try and forget the past; but until we have more reason for recalling the accusations made against him before he was elected Governor, we are uot ready to say that those accusations were false and unfounded. We endorse his course toward the State, as Governor, but in many things he has done towards the Counties which show conclusively, we think, that the reform he professes is more to affect tho mines of outsiders than to restore, practically, an honest and ac? ceptable government to the people of the State. In the language of the News and Courier tc 'cnotroller Dunn, "no pub? lic officer is U> high for criticism."? Union Times. ? Why is a pig the most provident of animals? Because he always carries a spare-rib oriwo about him. lations of the Governor WILLIAMSTON FEMALE COLLEGE. Williamston, S. C. Fall Session begins August 2, 1875. Rev. S. LAND KR, A. M., President. Rbv. S. A. WEBER, A. M., Resident Professor. July 8, 1875_51_ CAROLINA MILITARY INSTITUTE, CHARLOTTE, N. C. During the Session 1874-75 One Hundred and Twenty-five Matriculates. NEXT TERM BEGINS SEPT. 15, 1875. THIS INSTITUTE IL NOW fully equipped with apparatus for instruc tion and with arms for military drill. The Superintendent and Proprietor is assisted by an able and experienced corps i of Instructors. For Circular, address Col. J. P. THOMAS, Superintendent. July 8,1875_51_4_ Valuable House and Lot In "Williamston, S, C.5 FOR SALE ON AUGUST 5th, 1875. ON the above mentioned day, I will sell on the premises, to the highest bidder* the HOUSE AND LOT reeently occupied by Mrs. E. A. Clinkscales, deceased, one of the most desirable resi? dences in Williamston. TERMS?One-third cash ; one-third payable November 1, 1S75; one-third August 5, 1S7?. Interest from date at 10 per cent, por annum. Mortgage with special covenants required. W. L. PRINCE, Executor. July 1, 1875_50_5_ REAL ESTATE AGENCY. ANDERSON COUNTY, ) June 7, 1S75. j THE undersigned have this day enter? ed intoa copartnership under the name and style of R. W. SIMPSON <fc CO., for the purpose of buying and sell? ing Real Estate upon commission, and have opened an office at Pendleton, in Dr. Maxwell's Brick Building, and at Anderson C. H., in Hoyt & Co.'s Print? ing Office. All Lands intrusted to us will be lib? erally advertised at the North, as well as at home. Our utmost endeavors will be exerted to induce immigrants from the North and West to settle among us, and buy up our unoccupied lands. Being promptod in this undertaking by a desire to promote and advance the iuterest and prosperity of the whole com? munity quite as much as our owu, we solicit the assistance and co-operation of all persons friendly to our efforts. It. W. SIMPSON, CHAS. J. HASCALL, JAMES A. HOYT. Juno 10, 1875_47_ GAS ! GAS ! ! GREAT REVOLUTION!! NO KEROSENE!! NO EXPLOSION!! rTHIE great revolution we allude to is not JL a bloody one, on the contrary, this revolution will save many thousand of lives, and untold loss of property by lire, from ex? plosion of Kerosene lamps. Why will you use Kero&ene and jeopardize life and proper ty, when the French Illuminating Oil is so much cheaper and entirely safe, having been subjected to every test and found non-explo? sive. The Lamps in which this oil is used, and which we are selling so rapidly, emits a flame far superior to the best Kcroscnse lamps, and equal in brilliancy to city coal gas. We can famish Lamps suitable for lighting public halls, churc hes, hotels, stores, oiliccs and private-dwellings, securing a light equal to gas?cheaper than Kerosene and perfectly safe. READ I READ 1! READ !!! Textiinoniul from Homc-Fulks.' We the undersigned havin? witnessed nu? merous tests applied to the French Illumi? nating Oil and Lamps for burning the same, take great pleasure in' recommending its general use, bei'"- ion-'' : j>ive ; more eco? nomical ? ? ivingf! arer, brighter light than i l or public houses, stores n.... o::ica:*dutherhulls, it is especially desira? ble as a substitute for coal gas. L P Smith, R L Morehead, John W Daniels, A R Brovles, Thos J Leak, E B Mtiray 0 H P Fant, John H Clarke, S Bleckley. For sale by SMITH <fc DANIELS. July 1 1975, 26 . 3m Nos. 3 Broad Street and 109 East Bay Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. STITIOBEBS EIS First-Class Work OUR SPECIALTY, YET, BY USING CHEAPER CnADK.S OF 8tock, WE CAN FUnSISU WORK AT LOWEST LIVING PRICES. FINE FASHIONABLE STATIONERY, Piries Paper and Envelopes. Redding and <?all (Invitations ON THE BEST STOCK AND PRINTED IN THE LATEST STYLE. Sept 10, 1874_9_ly ADVERTISING: Cheap: Good: Systematic.?All persons who contem? plate making contmcts with newspapers for tho insertion of advertisements, should send 25 CcHiH to (ieo. p. Rowell tt Co., -II Park Row, New York, for their PAMPH? LET-BOOK {ninety-seventh edition), contain? ing lists of over 2?00 newspapers and esti? mates, showing the cost. Advertisements taken for leading papers in many States at a tremendous reduction from publishers' rates. Get the hook. New Tork TRIBUNE. "The Leading American Newspaper." THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. Daily, $10 a year. Scmi-Weelcly, $3. Weekly, $2. Postage Fhee to the Subscriber. Speci? men Copies and Adverti ing Hates Krce. Weekly, in clubs of 3D or m ire, only $1, postage paid. Address The Tribune, n. Y. 11 ly THE SINGER AGAIN TRIUMPHANT. ilk T RESPECTFULLY request all parties wishing JL to purchase :i Sewing Machine, to give these sales of 1874 und 1872, a carcfnl reading, for there can he no better criterion to go by than the sales of the machines that are now on the market. You will see that the long-tried and world-re? nowned Singer has left all others far behind it. I have, ar: most of you know, been selling this machine for the last five years in this county, and am to-day a much stronger advocate for it than I was the day I took hold of it. I have sold over 500 hundred machines in this county, that are giving perfect satisfaction. Sales for 1874. Sales for 1872. 210,75? Increase 32,010 8,425 5.141 3,683 19,029 5,401 5,G09 THE SINGER MANUFACTURING Co. sold 241,070 Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co. 92,827 174.088 Howe Sewing Machine Co. estimated. 35,000 145,000 Domestic Sewing Machine Co. 22,700 49.554 Weed Sewing Machine Co. 20.495 42.444 Groover & Baker S. M. Co., estimated. 20,000 52,010 Remington Empire S. M. Co. 17,008 9.183 Wilson Sewing Machine Co. 17,525 22,606 Gold Medal Sewing Machine Co. 15,214 18,897 Wilcox <t Gibbs Sewing Machine Co. 13,710 33,039 American B. H., etc., S. M. Co. 13,529 18,930 Victor Sewing Machine Co. 0,292 11,901 Florence Sewing Machine Co. 5,517 15,793 Sccor Sewing Machine Co. 4,541 3,430 J. E. Braunsdsdorf & Co., Aetna. 1,800 4,202 OUR NEW FAMILY MACHINE embodies New and Essential Principles?Sim? plicity of Construction ; Ease of Operation ; Uniformity of Precise Action at any Speed; Capacity for Range and Variety of work, tine or coarse, leaving all rivals behind it. Test ''The Singer" before pur? chasing any other. THERE have been recent improvements made, which make them run very light?with very little noise. Terms easy?Payments light. Machines of all kinds repaired by the undersigned. Respectfullv, JOHN H. CLARKE, Agent, Anderson and Pickens. 21.921 Decrease. 81,201 Decrease. 110.000 Decrease. 26,854 Decrease. 21.049 Decrease. Increase. Decrease. Decrease. Decrease. Decrease. Decrease. Decrease. 10,276 Increase. 1,111 Decrease. 2,396 INDUCEMENTS EXTRAORDINARY. "N CONSIDERATION OF THE SCARCITY OF MONEY, I will sell from now until the first of November at the following reduced rates :? Good No. 1 Hard Wood Cottage Bedsteads, with Castors, complete, $4.50 ? Four-Drawer Dressing Bnreans, large Glasses, at $12.00; Nice Painted Chairs at $5.00 per Set; Rocking Chairs from $1.25 and upwards ; Sodid Walnut Bedsteads from $7.00 upwards ; Solid Walnut Marble Top Room Sets from $55.00 upwards ; Painted Cottage Room Suits from $24.00 upwards$ AND ALL OTHER GOODS IN PROPORTION \ I have on hand the LARGEST STOCK of FURNITURE ever seen at Anderson C. H., and guarantee to sell as cheap as any Furniture House in the State. Come and see. COFFINS of all sizes and descriptions from ?5.00 and upwards always on hand. Gr- F. TOLLY. July 1, 1875 50 3m A GRAND SECRET MADE PUBLIC! THE great secret is PA Y YOUR DEBTS, at least every year, and then you will be rich, because you won't owe any body. Did you ever think of the idea that the person out of debt?if he is a gentleman?is "all right," whether he has got. anything left or not? The plan is pay early in the fall, and not keep your creditors waiting until the next year; this is not business, and a people who keep in debt from year to year, never prosper. We make these suggestions for the good of us all. We want to sec everybody prosper, MORE ESPECIALLY OURSELVES, And we take this early opportunity, to tell every body and the balance of mankindgener" craliv, that vou must all pay us up next fall, then we can all begin the vear 1870, out of debt* O ! What a thought if people would only TAKE TO IT.' We keep a large stock of goods on hand, and are anxious to sell them fur cash or on a credit to those who pay. Come and sec us. We will do you right. S. BLECKLEY, BLECKLEY, BROWN & CO. Fchmarv 3, 1ST Anderson C. H., S, C, June 30, 1875. FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY. .Assets Over SB7,000,000. TJIE SUBSCRIBER IS AGENT for the following RELIABLE COMPANIES: UNDERWRITE RS AG ENCY, New York, - $2,335,430.53 CONTINENTAL FT RE INSURANCE COMPANY, New York, - 2,500,000.00 NIAGARA FI RE INSURANCE COMPANY. New York, - 1,250,000.00 GEORGIA HOME FI RE INSURANCE COMPANY, Columbus, Ga., 513,300.97 ATLANTIC FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, New York, - 463,962.45 I am prepared to take risks in the above reliable Companies for Anderson and Oconee Counties, at the lowest rate any reliable Company will take them. Delays are dangerous. A single spark may burn you out in an hour. Insure your build? ings and merchandize before it is too late. A, 1J. TOWERS, No. 4 Granite Row, Anderson, S. C. _J_unc 10, 1S75_47_3m IPrice Rechicecl FROM Sl.OO TO 50 Cents per Box, TO MEET THE DEMAND FOR A SAFE AND RELIABLE Fever and Ague Antidote, At a price within the reach of all. ENTIRELY VEGETABLE. NEVER KNOWN TO FAIL. PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE THEM. Never was a Medicine so Deservedly For sale by July 1,1S75 Popular. DR. T. A. HUDGENS, Honea Path, S. 0. 50 3m WILHITE * WILLIAMS DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, ?tc. Also Lamps and Lamp Goods, Paints, Oil, Varnishes, Brushes, Dye Stud's, &c. Also a full line of Perfumery and Toilet Ar? ticles, Cigars and Tobacco. Pure Brandies, Wines and Whiskies for medicinal purposes btrictiy, and other articles nsuully kept in their line. Prescriptions carefully compound? ed. A choice selection of Bnist's new crop Turnip Seed on band. 1?ly BLATCHLEYS' Improved CUC?M IBEtt WOOD PUMP the ockowlcdged .STANDARD of the market, by popular {verdict, the best pump lor the least (money. Attention is invited to mrfBlatchley's improved Bracket, the EraDrop Check Valve, which can be ^{withdrawn without disturbing the Bajoints, and the copper chamber which never cracks, scales or rusts and will last'a life time. For sale by all Dealers and the trade generally. In order to be sure that you get Blatchley's Pump, be careful and see that it has my trade-mark as above. If you do not know where to buy, descriptive circulars, together with the name and ad? dress of the agent nearest you, will be promptly furnished by addressing with stamp. Cr!AS. 6. BLATCHLEY, Manufacturer, ?OC Commerce St., Philadelphia, 1'a. March 25,1874. 12 THE CHARLESTON HOTEL Will Not he Closed this Summet. All Guests patronizing us during the Slimmer and Fall months, and remain? ing a week or more, will bo allowed a reasonable discount, except occupants of rooms on tho first or parlor floor. The attention of tho Country Mer? chants is respectfully called to this no? tice. Juno.'}, 1875 -I? Dr. W. G. BROWNE, DENTIST, Anderson, S. C. A reliable TOOTH POWDER for sale at 25 cents a Box. M. GOLDSMITH. P. KIND. PHCENIX IRON WORKS, COLUMBIA, S. C. GOLDSMITH & KIND, FOUNDERS and MACHINISTS* HAVE always on hand Stationary Steam Engines and Boilers for Saw Mills, etc., Saw and Grist Mills, Cotton Presses, Gearing, Shafting, Pullies, etc. Castings of every kind in Iron or Brass. We guarantee to furnish Engines and Loders of as good quality and power, and at as low rates as can bo had in the North. Wo manufacture, also, the Caddy im? proved Water Wheel, which we recom? mend for power, simplicity of construc? tion, durability and cheapness. \\% war? rant our work, and assure promptness and dispatch in filling orders. GOLDSMITH it KIND, Columbia, S.O. May 2S, IS7-1 46 ly HENRY BISCHOFF &C0. Wholesale Grocers, AND DEALKKS IN CAROLINA RICE? Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco, ?See., ?Sc??., ?Sco., 197 and 199 East Bay Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. Solo Agents for South Carolina for tho Sale of OLD VALLEY WHISKEY. Aug 20,1S74 G Cm Saddles and Bridles. A NICE assortment of Saddles and Itridlcs. Also, Buggy and Harness ma? terial for sale low by TOWERS * BBOYLES. J\ J\ GAMBRELL WOULD respectfully inform the public tbat be has started a Family Grocery, and will keep constantly on band Flour, Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, and everything usually found in a Family Grocery. He also keeps Candies, plain and fancy, Canned Goods of all kinds, Pickles and Jellies, Crackers of all kinds, Cigars, Smoking and Chewing Tobacco of the best grades. In connection lie has an Eating Saloon, where meals will be served at all hours. Customers can be supplied With anything the market affords. Trices reasonable. Stand on Main Street, North of the Railroad and opposite John B. Watson's residence. L. FANT & CO. HAVE ON HAND A LARGE STOCK OF CONFECTIONEE-IBS, Which they are selling at very low figures. They have also a beautiful supply of FANCY GOODS, Such as Fine Frencli Vases, Jewelry Boxes, Toilet Sets, China Tea Sets, Fine Wax and China Dolls of all sizes, dressed and undressed, Fine Shell Boxes, Ladies' Work Boxes, Companions, Writing Desks, Hair Oil, Perfumerv, drc, &., &c. Also, Musical Instruments of different kinds, and a large assortment of pretty Toys. Call soon and buy presents for your sweetheart, and toys for the children. Simpson, Hill & Co., DRUGGISTS AND APOTHECARIES, CORNER BENSON HOUSE, - ANDERSON, S. C. WE would call the attention of our old customers, and the public generally, to our large Stock of WHITE LEAD, OILS AND VARNISHES, Which we are selling at prices that defy competition. ALL WE ASK IS A TRIAL. Wo arc also Agents for Simmons5 Hepatic C ompound, Which we aro prepared to soli at manufacturer's prices. June 3, 1S75 siMjpsorsr, hill & co. 4(3 W. H. HAMMOND T^vESIRES to inform the public generally that he is prepared to do any work in the JLs Dental line in the most approved manner, and on "reasonable terms. He is now traveling through the County, and expects to continue doing so through the summer. Parties wishing his i>rofcssional services can obtain them by notifying him by mail or otherwise. All work warranted. None but the best material used. Give me a trial. Addrei DR. W. H. HAMMOND, Dentist, Mav 20. 1S75 ANDERSON C. H,. S. C. 3m 7 THE ALABAMA GOLD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF MOBILE. C. E. THAMES, President. T- FOWLER, Secretary. Gen. S D. LEE, Superintendent of Agencies. Assets, ^prill, 1875, ?752,085. REINSURANCE FUND, $513,138.00. Capital Stock, $200,000 in Gold, aU Paid In. Stockholders' Liability?Double Stock Paid In. Surplus as to Policy Holders, - - $438,946.02, Gold. ALL POLICIES NON - FO?FEIT ABLE. GOLD OR CURRENCY POLICIES ISSUED! A SOUTHERN COMPANY, keeps and lends its money in the South. Sihco chartered, its Dividends have varied from 17 to 27 per cent, per annum. June 10, 1S75 WM. WATIES, Agent. 47 WHITE LEAD, ZINCS, COLORS, AND PUTTY. MANUFACTURED BY HOLMES, CALDER & CO., Proprietors. Office, 203 East Bay Street. Factory, Corner Cnmfcerland and Philadelphia Sts., CHARLESTON, S. O. IMFORTERS and Dealers in LUBRICATING AND PAINT OILS, WINDOW GLASS and PAIXTEK'S MATERIAL. Agents for AVERILL'S CHEMICAL PAINT, PRINCE'S METALLIC, PAINT, RUBBER AND LEATHER BELTING. Fob 25, lS7f> 32 6m TO THE PUBLIC! "W*E desire to call attention to our LARGE AND WELL-SELECTED STOCK OF 11 BOOTS ,11) SHOES, CROCKERY-WARE, ETC., ITC. We have just received a large lot of Bacon Sides, Shoulders, Sugar-Cured Hams, Cheap Grades of Syrups, Muscovado, Drumarara and New Orleans Molasses, 100 BARBELS CHOICE PAMiM- ?R, A complete assortment of Sugars, Coffee* and Teas, Pickles, Canned Goods, &c. A very large stock of Iron, Steel. Hoes, Shovels Spades, and farming Implements generally. In short we have everything that the farmer or man of family needs, which we proposoto sell very cheap for cash. Call anil be convinced of this fact. Bfcj?" And now a word to those that we have supplied with goods during the year 1S72, 1873 and 187-1 Unless you come forward and pay up, your notes and accounts will be placed in the hands of an officer for collection. BYRUM & McGRATH, PREPARE, OH! PREPARE! The time is near at hand when the subtle and vivid Hghtr.i >g will casts its devastating breath upon the dwellings of the dcfcncelc?. Yours may 1 ? first to go. Then pre? pare to avert auch a calamity, by sending in your orders f . d.e celebrated COPPER LIGHTNING ?OD To BYKUM & Met; RATH, who are ready to put them up at the sbortctf nojioe*