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THE MERCURY.
TUESDAY, JAN. IS. 1881.
■ontiuod. On Wednesday! position, had escaped the wor-t to a sup]
' Our Yew Comity Officers;
Tlio ConinnssymP hate nnivoJ for our
new coiiutj officers, nnd tho present
'Wfr'k they will make their Bonds ami en-
''tcr upon tlieir respective duties.
{ M. Newman, our new Ordinary is n
gent e.unn whodo-a rvedly enjoys the con
’tidtnlce of the entire county, 'n success
ful business man nml an able financier,
•lie will bring to the difcchargo of his du
ties a-cultured m?nd, largo business ex-
'jtiCrrctice, excellent judgment and powers
Ifit discrimination which will enable h:m
'to till the position with credit to himself
and with honor and advantage to the
county.
fury of the s'.orru. Tit
same M wny that lie
iffotten out, and tin
storm
bright the snow was piled
above all the roads and paths, and the family soon brought
was heavily drifted against houses. | Coo pel’s wife and child in
As the villagers retired for the
night the snow was coming down
faster than ever, Cooper 'and his
family occupied a small cottage
near the western slope of the ploat-
au cn which the village stands,
lie says that when lie awoke Thurs
day morning lie found it still dark,
and supposed that the clay had
not yet dawned: After remain
ing in bed for several hours,await
ing daybreak, he got up, lightin
y station. During the
lie committee fit tinfes found
some difficulty in enforcing the or
der for the surrender of food,
md himself Several of the villagers showed a
family were .disposition to rebel, hut the inex-
men o! liny
out
the
soon enjoying warmth and com- enable committee, led
fort.
The snow still descended,
day dawned cold and dreary bringingno
gladness to the villagers. The dark sky
and occasional scarring clouds were om
by
I Wright,‘helped themselves mriis-
Christinas cri mi nately, ignoring all complaint \
Once a man ti nned Knnry tefused
to comply with the roeptisitiyn. and
when the committee attempted to
hums of another otorm. The duly rlier- j lake the desired articles by force,
mometer in the villageregiscred 10° be- he and his three sons seized their
low zoro at a. nr, and as the day ud- shot guns. Wright went up to
a lamp saw by the clock that it
w^s half past 10. Somewhat puz
zled lie went to the front door. It
offered resistance to his push. To
!his astonishment he was confronted
The retiring Ordinary Hon. C. C. ‘by a solid wall of snow. His hbusc
Brown is nu upright man, and nn lion-had been buried in a deep drift,
eat and intelligent officer who has the llis young wife and child, when
'satisfaction of knowing that lie has done
his duty, nud leaves the ofHco in a good
condition;fie retires with the best wisli-
cboI-our people who honor him as an
officer ami respect him as a Christian
gentlemen who in bis official position on
all bwitkionsfdohe lriH duty. ■
Oscar Houghton; Esq., our new Hhor-
iff, though young in years brings to his
responsible position the experience of
several years ns a public cflieinl watchful
prompt mid exacting, but leuieut and
sympathizing, he will fill the office to
tlie satisfaction of himself and the grati
fication of Ids friends in a very accept a-
blejnmnnor. The retiring -dieriff, A M
Mayo, Esq., whs an excellent officer and
gives way to nee pt the position of Olork
of tho Superior Court, being a good and
rapid writer, a thorough blislucss man,
prompt 'in tho discharge of duty
kind and affable in mhnners and courte-
ous'in his ilemeknor, ho hns miulo al
ready a host of friends, nud will till the
offico with credit, popular ns Sheriff he
will he equally so ns Clerk of tho Court.
1 -ri. M. Northingtou, Esq., tLo retiring
Cftrk baa oociipied the position for ten
years past to the satisfaction of Beach
and Bar, he has boon frequently oompli
Itented by tbe Jud&e upon the bofcinh
land by the Grand Juries of our county,
li«s was a model officer and leaves his of-
fleo in good condition and has tho thanks
of our people, ! as well as their good
‘wishes.
Oscar Rogers our Treasurer is a fa't’i-
Woflleet* tried triid true, deservedly pop
filar nud is his own succussor.
Win. Thigpen, Tax Collector 1ms becu
re-elected his faithful dischargo of duty
iu tho pnBt'ia a'gunrantce for tho futuru.
Kind afid obliging, honest and true he
has the cortiidence of the people nud
tnukos a splettdid officer:
It It. J. Moye, otfr Tax Rooeivor is a
gentleman of intelligence who will ill'
bis position iu a very abld nnd satis facto
ry- awntTfr, he is'populnr with tho people
nnd deserves hid' cil Act toil. Capt. I
Hermann who voluntarily retires from
tho position was a good man and an ex
cellent officer, ho declined to bo again a
candidate
W. E. Clark, County Surveyor bar
filial- the placo before in n satisfactory
knnnndr,'nnd"is in every way worthy us
was his-prodoecssor Morgan L. Jackson,
h geiiWeinrii liunetit arid upright', who re
tires with tho confidence of 'till.
Robt. M. Tompkins, Coronorisn good
man who will till his position ncoeptubly,
lw diit tlio retiring officer John L Layton
tvho was a good officer nnd an houcsl
limn.
informed of the position of affairs,
at first became greatly alarmed,
but were soon soothed by his as
surances of safety.
Cooper is a hardy, handsome
young fellow of 25. lie is evidently
a cool headed, intelligent man.
He says that the first tiling he ctrd
was to build a rousing fire, and to
insist on having breakfast before
doing anything. That through
with, he took a long handled shov
el andstarted It) cut his vvaythrough
the imprisoning wall t>f snow, lie
made rapid headway at first, but
had not penetrated live feet before
he began to be troubled by the
snow taken from the tu.mel. lie
had thrown it behind him on the
floor, but it throated soon to* fill
the entire interior, To add to the
difficulty, it began to melt under
the action of the fire, and inside
of an hour thu floor ran with wa
ter. The husband and father strug
gled gallantly at his Work. The
snow flew from the little tunnel in 1
to the room, where his wife en*
deavorod to back.it to one side.
By 3 o’clock in the afternoon Coo
per had cut a narrow pathway for
nearly thirty feet without seeing
any signs of daylight. Suddenly
the roof of his tunnel dropped, and
he was buried in the snow. Put
tiog forth desperate exertions he
struggled to extrieatc himsel. The
snow was light and easily pcnctr-
ted. Following the track of the
tunnel he finally succeeded
bursting into the doorway, to find
his wife lying senseless on the
floor. -
In describing his struggles through
the snow Cooper shuddered. “The
feeling of auftocation which came
over me,” he said,' 1 “was awful.
Three or four times, as I plunged
blindly along striving to keep in
the course of the tunnel, my head
struck against the hardened wall
of the track I had cut through the
snow. The relief I experienced
when I burst into my house is in
describable. It was a miracle that
Tevergotout alive.” When lie
recovered frdin his exhaustion h
succeeded in reviving hiswifepvho
was now completely prostrated by
cold and anxiety.
the
v meed tho inooaury fell slmvly until it
negistcred 18 J helmv. On Christmas
nighttha suffering from cold, owing to
the scarcity of fuel, was great, and early'
the next day tnare were not half a dozen
tiros in the village. Tho residents in
order to keep warm, Were compelled
either to remain in bed or envelope
themselves in extra clothes or blankets,
At about 10 o'clock the burgomaster.
Tiios, Aldino, went around called for
volunters to assist in cutting a way into
the house of a p mr widow named Mrs
Kate Witman, wlio with two children,
occupied a cottage iu one of the most ex
posed portions of tho village. Nothing
had been lieiwd from her for several days,
pud there was Ao signs of fire from the
tliimney. Within an hour about forty
Emory anil knocked' him down
without a word of wurninig. In ti
moment the rebellious villagers
were all prisoners iu the hands of
tho committo, who lmd quickly
supported, their leader.,,
The Einorys were disarmed, and
after their house had been ran
sacked for fuel and provisions,
they were liberated. There was
great su fieri tig from l'rost bites.
The energetic commit too estab
lished a hospital in which th ’ ailing
could bo Cared for by the Hole phy
sician of the place. As many ns
fifty were suffering at one time,
and several amputations had to be
performed.
It wa>: decided to send a messen-
Blacksmith, Machinist and
WOODWORKER
Wishes to’inform the public that.he is still on hand doing noth
ing but first class work in the above branches of mechanism.
Also agent for
Liddell’s Patent Portable
Engines, Saw Mills Corn and
Wheat Mills
And MAClIINERYifar Plantation, Custom or
Call and see me on north end of Harris street.
Sandersville, Ga. apr 20-tf
Merchant Mills
BURIED IN SNOW.
lleroism and Suffering in the
Virginia Mountains.
A THRILLING STORY OF F.SCAPK FROM A
TOMB OF SNOW—300 PERSONS I1YIPRIS
0NE0 IN THE MOUNTAINS—A MES
SENGER FOR AID FOUND HALF
FROZEN, A RELIEF EXPE-
- DITI0N SENT OUT
Bkiikyvim.k, Clark county, Va.,
Jan. 10.—This evening about dusk
Mr. Richard A Ward, residing 011
the outskirts of the village, found
a man lying in the snow near the
roadside, partially insensible lroni
*old and. terribly emaciated. The
Stranger was <at once removed to
Mi'< NVurd’s residence, where, af
ter He 'had been revived had
been supplied with food, which he
devoured in a ravenous manner,
lie startled his preserver by i ne
of tho-strangest and most tlirillin
naikitires of human distress that
has ever boen chronicled: The
man stated that his name was
Roger S. Cooper, und that lie re
sided in the village.Jof Paris, a
small town near the summit oi
the Blue .Ridge mountains; 1 on
the dividing line between Clake
and Loudon • counties, lie had
VtolnniewFod to come to Berryville
tot utjge tho residents by a ]j tp e
ties of humanity and manhood to
organic* a relief party and go to
th« assistance of the villagers who
tvere, literally buried in the snow,
ftiubto the qnrnber of about three
hundred were- in danger of death
from both'cold and hunger. ‘
1 Tlie village' of Paris is on the
wesl sido'oMhe Blue Ridge, and
■fvue directly exposed to the terri
ble northwesterly gale which be
gan oni the flight of December m
20. The villagers at first beheld
tbe snow without alarm, although
as the filakes came •steadily down
it-became evident to them that
By this time the fire in the house
had d ed away, and the floor was
covered with an icy slush. Cooper
rca !c up his mind that the attempt
to cat through the drift was im-
practicle. It oceourrcd to him
to try to get ’up the chimney!
Placing his wife and child in bed,
and covering them 1 up warmly, he
made the attempt, lie ascended
with ease until about ten feet from
tlie top, wherejthe chimney narrow
ed, and there he stuck, He de-
cended and got a hatchet and
chis.l. lteascending tlie cliim-
ley until he was above the level
of the roof, lie cut his way
through the brick wall. After
m hour of severe toil he crawled
out upon the soaked roof of his
house, Bestriding -the ridge,
lie took a survey of the situation
The snow had^p'iled i'll an im
mense drift, reacning to the ea
ves against the front of the house.
He could never have cut his
way out from tliedoorWay, as
he would have to pen°tratenear-
tbree hundred feet, only to
find himself on the edge {of
precipice overhanging a sheer
fall of several hundred feet into
1 small valley forming the wes
tern boundary of the plateau.
Glance which way he would lie
saw nothing but round, unbro
ken mounds of snow,from many
of which ruse columns of smoke
indicating that there were houses
beneath,
“Sitting on that ridge” said
Cooper, “with the north wind
whistling around me with cut
ting force, and almost bemimed
with cold, I shuddered as 1
'I
shovels 'and hoc.s, went bravely to work
in a blinding show storm. The first man
to enter was Mr Aldino. Stretched
upon tho bed was Mrs. Witman stiff and
cold in death. When tho strong men had
gently moved lnr 0 lrpao they found by
her side twoVdiildron who were carefully
wrapped in a blanket mid Homo oldclth-
The mother had placed herself
over thorn in tho effort to keep them
warm. Mary, tho eldest child, was
fouud to bo past all aid, but thu other,
an infant eighteen mouths old, showed
signs of animation, and in about two
hoars was out of danger.
Tho noxt day wan £}unday. In the
afternoon a meeting of tho villagers was
hold in the aohool room. Peter Wright,
a Icadinggcltlzon, presided. He spoke
substantially as follows: "Mon we have
got to do Bomthing. As sure ns thare is
a God abovo us, if wo do not tkero will
not bo a live man woman, or child in tin
villago within a weok.' L'itJJiii organize a
Relief 0 »mmitteo,who seal! take charge
of all fuel nnd.provision we have among
as. By living together in as fow houses
as possible wo can greatly eoonomizt-
our fuel. We have got to act promptly
ir tho lives of our 4 wives and daughters
will bo lost, jf thare is any man hero
who has anything to eay let us hoar him
right away. Wo ImVoiio time to lose,
and must take hold right awap with
hard grip. 1 am reiuly to bear any plans
you have in your hondi.”
Th tiro was a solemn silence. Finally
m old. gray-haired farmer stood up
”Mr. Chairman, in the name ol
God appoint a committee. 1 ’ A
hum of approval ran through tlie
crowd and Mr. Wrigdt promptly
exclaimed, All light, I’ll do
it.” He then named a committee
of fifteen, with himsclj as Cliair-
inn.' after which lie exclaimed;
Look here, men, ‘ there is no
good appointing this committee
unless what it says is going to be
done. Are we to have full author
ity hero 1 or net?”
“Yee; do as you please,'’ replied
the gray-Haired farmer.
“Do you all agree?” asked Mr.
Wright again,
“Yes, yes,” was the general re
sponso.
J.T.Lavei
men were gathered u round tho house of B L>r Berry ville for help. Cooper
thu unfortuiinto widow, and armed with| was selected - lie started on Tues
day mounted on a strong 1 horse,
and supplied with a flask of whis
ky and a package of provisions. 1 le
traveled all that 'day and night.
The next day tho horse gave out
and could go no further. Cooper
went ahead on foot. Tie was
thoroughly familiar with the woods.
Thoroughnut Wednesday night
tho faithful messenger tramped
through the snow. Thursday
morning found him 'still pursuing
liis weary way in an nlunst insen
sible condition. Cooper remem
singing praying and laughiug al
ternately up to noon on Thursday,
after which tint© be loBt all seuso
of what took place. When found
Mr. Ward Cooper was half covered
by Bnow, nnd dhnth would ha've en
sued in a lew houfs. ' '■ *
This tearful story was told by
Cooper to your correspondent in n
modest straight forward way He
passed over bis own brave deeds,
but dwelt with earnosthess ou the
[iitable condition of his fellow vil
lagers. As soon as bis history was
made known, a party of time men
in a four horse sled we:c despatched
to Paris with provisions and med
icine, One ot the number is a
surgeon and tlie otlur a clergy
man. It is not yet known wheth
er they can make their way thro’
tho the snow. There is great anx
iety in regard, to-tho fate of the de
voted villagers on tho bleak side
of the Blue Ridge. A number ol
lives will certainly be lost by this
singular' blockade. '
NEXT DOOR TO ADAM’S LI VERY STABLE
I am prepared to do all kinds of
STOLEN.
s r OLBX! STOLEN.!—All parties ar
bevel) y warned not to trade for tlie f i
lowing Notes & Due Bills, payable "t
the undersigned or order or bearer i
One note for$200.00; dated on or
tore the 12th day of Junqrrv 1880 with
interest at Sets, given by Priugle ’& Orr
think it is due on or before 1st January
liter date, one due bill for §200,00- da
ted ou the loth of December 1HH<>
inter
()1T.
. at
BLACKSMITH
PLOW
December 1880,
8 els, given by Pringle V
One note for #11.00 given Home
time last spring by Jolm Brown, an.l
due 25th of December 1880. One note
for #10,00, given sometime last' sprine
by Horace Pittman and Martin \VilliAn,„
and due 2511) December 1880. H
Those notes and due bills were stolen
from my house on the night of the 20th
of December, together with my trunk
and its content.).
Dee 21st 1880. George Wiggins,
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Roofing
the fall would be'nn unsnally deep
(the. For forty eight hours the
the inmates of thoso houses from
which those columns of smoke
were now rising.”. Cooper found
that the most available exit would
be through the second-story
front window of his cottage,
where the ■ incline of the drift
made the distance to be cut
through the snow only about
ten feet. Resuming bis labors
in about an
that direetion, in about
hour he bad the satisfaction ol
seeing daylight through the
opening, and eventually, with
great difficulty, ho made his
‘All right Now, vou id] hear.
[ propose to take hold at once;
and I give all those fellows wl:o
won’t do as they are told fair notice
that we’ll make ’em do it. Now,
ntlomon, the committee is going
to meet at the oilier end of tl
room, and 3 011 can all wait until
wo tell you what wetvanf done.’’
The committee remained in con
sultation for about half an hour.
When they returned Mr. Wright
springing on adosk, announced tlie
results quickly and forcible
Mon, what I say tho commitee
igretfs to; You will be ready to
hand over your supplies of wood
and food to men who will bo sent
around for it to morrow. We
Want everything—everything mind
you—which you can eat or burn. It.
will all bo brought here 'and put
Under lock and key. A iixed
quantity of food will he given out
t) each family accordihg to the
number of persons. To-morrow
will moye with your families into
the house around this building,
and tho commitee will seo that as
many will go in each house as it
will hold. These houses will be
heated by fires supplied by the
oommittce, and no one must touch
them or put anything ou them ox
COUNTY
ADVERTISEMENTS
Washington Siikku-f’s Sale.
Will bn sold on tho first Tuesday ii
February next, before the Court bourn
loor, in Handersvilln, ■within the local
'ours of sale, a’l that lift t of ‘a die
s iid eininty on On n ■<*, liv r mil t'.a al
Hill crook, whereon Bonji 111 1 W. Kn I.
now resides, adjoining lands of V. S,
Joyner and others, containin',: tv o 'Inn
siml acres, iri-r • or Ich-c Levied 111 is
the. properly of sai 1 B. W. Buck to satis
fy a fi fa issued from the Superior Coa t
of said comity iu favor of John McTr.mi,
vs said B. W. Snell. Property pointed
out by plaintiff and duo a itieo of 1 v..
riven to defendent in possession.
Also at the same time nnd place wil
ho sold one. house niul lot iu tlie city o'
Sandersville, containing three and one
half acres of land, move or less,bounded
•is follows, north by public road loading
f’on fliis city to Dnvisboro, vp t by
Harris street, south by lands of Thomas
Svans and east by lands of S. B. Jones.
Levied on to satisfy a Superior court. Ii
fa issued from Mushington Superior court
m favor ol Groover, Stubbs- & Co., and
igniust G. W, H.i Whitaker, ndin’r and
Miiriah Brown, ndm’x on tho estate ot
W. G. Brown, deceased. Property poin
ted out by plaintiffs as estate of W. G.
Brown and legal notice given Mrs. M.
H. Brown, iu poc ossion Levy made
by O. H. lingers former Deputy Sheriff,
• n 1 returned to me. ; • •'•■'■»
Also at the tame time and j 1 ice n il.
bo sold one tract or parcel of laud iu
said county lying oil the waters of Gum
and Deep Step creeks containing two
hundred and twenty-live acres', 1 mure or
loss, adjoining lands of JamesJtusliing,
W. H. Hall, D. N. McCay and others,
levied on to satisfy a Superior court fi fa
issued from the Superior court of said
county, in favnrof It. L; Rodgers, adfn’r
of the estate of Elizabeth Archer, and
against Alexaneer-Archer, said land lev
ied on as the property of Alexander Ar
cher and legal notice given defendent
possession. A. M. MAYO, Sli’ll',
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thought of the condition of cept the committee. Each day wc
will appoint • number of men who
will forage for food and wood.
There are millions of birds frozen
to death lyingaround in the woods
about two miles from here, and if
we can get through the snow we
will not want for meat. All the
barns and outbuildings not covered
by drifs will be torn down for fuel;
Now, this is all we have to say.
The next day the plans of tlie
committee were faithfully carried
NOTICE.
All persons are. hereby notified that on
tlio 20tli day of January next the follow
ing road will bo made public if no good
cause is shown to the contrary’, the same
having been recommended a« of public
utility and marked out by tho road com
niissioners conformably to law.
Commencing on the road from 8an-
dersville to Long’s bridge near Benja
min F. Murphy’s house, taking oltFroad
bed'which is now used to A. W. Jack-
sons, thence along said old road bed to
the Richard Mills place, thence along
tlie old road to the Mills grave yard on
the lan’ds of Dr. II. N. nullified, thence
across the district line iu a Noitlierly di
rection along said old road known as-the
new road, tlu'ough the lands of Nanay
SOUTHERN EA'IYMF/aS MOTUIA. ,
h Illustrated Journal, containing Origi
ml nnd Selected Agricultural'' Matter,|
mi table for the Farm and Fireside. Al
so an Illust.rlited Fashion Department
For th i Ladies Price #2 a year; #1 foi
J. H . ESTILL,
SAVANNAH, GA.
ij mouuths.
out and by night fall the entire [Walker, Theopfulus Yates, thence aion
population of the village was gatli- hj ft kl old,road bed which is now in use to
ered in about twenty houses in the| Y'dker s mill road.
way to the house of his father,'immediate vicinity of the sohool-
whieh. being in a more sheltered!house which had been converted in-
Given under my hand and official sig
nature this Deccmber'lotli, 1880.
't" l C ('. BROWN. Ord
IR ID BUIj
REINHART & SANDERS,
. .' • 1 • 1J
respectfully inform the citizens
of Washington and adjoining
counties that they have'dprtied a
Boot and Shoe shop in Sanders
ville, next door to ^ringle-StOrrs
store on Ilayne street,where they
respectfully solicits the patron
age of the ladies and gentlemen
All work done in life best style
anti of the best material,
july 0—tf
The CuaK.qiAN Index Puldishin/.
Jompany have undertaken the griuui
.viirk ol'collecting into a gallery, tliepoi
raiti of tho distinguish,id ministers
ue Kuptis deiiomintltiim in (to rgiu
•uoh jiortruit aceolupaiiied liy a Iiiogr.i
phical sketch. This splendid work ol tie
mgravi r’s art is of great i.ixe. !I8 inchei
iv 17 iuclien. Tiie biographies are lo h,
published iu The Index, from tmio t,
ime’ and tiion yermanently iu bool
ora.
Every Baptist in tho Smith will hi
’lail to have this precious alt-work It i:
leantifully engraved, iu thro colors,
.ud in well worth twentyfive dollars 1
K)|iy. But in orde# to inci'i'iise the cir
•iliation hf the exc.O'lbuit paper, tlie jmh
islu'rs will semi The Index 1.0 nubsci'i-
ii'i's, for one year, tout a copy of tiiis
r.uid Portrait Gallery, lor three dot
ars.
Til:: iniiex , f <!«• cilitit-r Itli co tains twrlvi
inrO'iiliH al' 1 mmi'iit 1 i.i:,.ii.i il iiilulM. m. m il a
|"'. lii:i.|i • ill'tIn-"• )ialli-i-y.* ur<- miiutij.
I iik 1 MihX, in nil re 11, 11 m? o lli • Iihli'-
mlll'Sl I'. lltrintD I'lllllllv > III tut- I lilt,.,
nu.'*'. 1,1111 i*:i.ii(i I I Tint ( IIIt,MIA.1 INIII A At
nto. 1 in., I’ n. Ifiix I. n o |'nt. mo imnT lur oik
. ur mi l tlm’• I'nririill oiiilui'j .••
\RE NOW OPENING A
BEAUTIFUL STOCK OF
DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING,
IIATS, SHOES,
Carefully selected by our
Junior, in New York.
Our Stock of JEWELRY,
WATCHES, GOLD & SILVER
fo 60 gallon*,
Equn
pproti® brick . ,
' It is elastic—will expand or contract
with heat or cold. Tills is an Indispem)
ablo quality in a durable RoofingPaiht.
11 • It will not crack, pool or scale; being
<>L slate, ill not rust or corrodo. ■
It has a heavy body—one coot bclug
equal to three of any other. — ••"I™
It is sold at a p'lico that enables
every9110 to have a well-painted roof.
Four handsome Oiades— Hoof-Slute,
Drown, Red and Bright Red.
Prieoin barrels of 45 fo 60,
only 00 cent* per gallon
“After n most thorough use of
this paint, wo most cordially re
commend It, and-aro BAtUflcd that
if onco used It wJU b« ordered «
second and 1hlnl time.”—[II, U,
Buwcq, iq the fmknciUknt, Sent. 80,
1880.1 ' ’ •
Send for circular and samples, and
mentiou this paper.
H7 E. PAINT Sc OIL Cp M
7 INDIA ST., BOSTON, MASS. '
Selling Agents for Bertram’s Qil Po
lish for Brass,Copper,Composition, Ac,
es rable Pfo,jer.ly ■lor Sale.
71(! Acres mo"e or loss of land with
f.>otl bud lings, well watered 8 1 4
idles from .S'.iider vill*. For jriir-
ieulars apply at ihiuoftice. ’’ 1
uov !), LSyd-i-hpi
Flo wer Plants fo r Sale.
'inc lot of Inichsias Iune dou-
are,
•onsisting ot n great variety ol
lovdties, never before seen in this
narlcet, is exceedingly liandu me.
Wo make no display of sensati’on-
il advertisements, but will eon
■ inee our friends when they lion
>r us with tlieir patronage, tbai
mr goods arc good solid goods,
md our prices as reasonable as tin
most exacting can expect..
NEWMAN & SON
sept 14, 188U — tf
F or
and
DTEING! .
the bondli't of inquirers
those wishing to have
Dresses, Coats, .Bants Vests, &c.,
lyed; below will be found a sched
ule of prices. Thankful for past
favors I solicit a continuance oi
tlio Bame:
Coats, .. : $1.00 to $2.00
Pants
Vests,
Ladies’ Dresses...
Childrens’ “'...
Shawls, silk
“ tvoop'
Cloaks, \vdWtproof. 1.50
Sacques
Mittens....... i.. •.
Fcathbfa.........;
Silk Ties
Kid Gloves, black..
Stockings, 3 pairs..
Ribbon per yd
Handkerchiefs, silk
Dying left at either the Mercury
office or at Mrs. Bayne’s Millinery
tore, with instructions as to color,
will be attended to.
MRS. C. ( '. SCARBOROITGII.
may 18, 1880.
blc J'lowonnjT Geraniums,
Line lot of Gloxinias,
I'ine lot J ulie Roses, Oolcheb-
dgria iubdlora of varied
kinds and China Pink's of
all the different varieties;
Prices from io cents to^i.oo.
i hose fine Photographs anil
Ferrotypes taken still at the olii
stand. T. C. GLEN.
iotleh’S
1 Oft “
1.50
50 “
75
1.50 “
2.00
'75 “
1.00
1.00 “
1.50
60 “
76
1.50 ■«
2.00
25
50
10 “
15
io “
io
10
25
25
TO
10
for RAILROAD ANDfXPRESS 60MPANIFS.
fST IMATES AND OflAWINGS FURNISHED
ROUND CORNER•
FiR.£
PROQT
:xtcja securb
COCKS
1
AL AftCMT ro«
LOCK CQ
mJYYOllU
Instru-
Fkom tiie
MUSIC iL
mental
Store of
JERNIGAN.
On lttaid and for sale at all times
Violin Strings, Violins, Boxes,
Bows, Rosin, Harmonicas, Ac-;
I'oriloons, Bridges, Pegu ttc.