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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, Subscribe ft)r Tlio Illustrated Faniily Herald. A21 page Monthly paper published by I rue Ar Go.. Augusta, Maine, at <U per annum. The Herald is fil ed w jt|, good reading for old and young, with pic. lures illustrating almost everything jjj " mend. .1 Inch mnnlier contains ninny short at. Tien and sketches, a Children^ Department, a department devoted to Kami ail.l H.)iiw'li(ltd^' a .department to S i .i.'. i ' I-leading, uTlepartm.mt devoted ■<» the dr. 11 flniifgH and sayings, undthti wit ‘ \ i !iii gs of the day, and also Vdc • audit ml devoted to the.Lndies, in whirl 11,. h’.tslimint are dinnussod and illnslm- t.o'i . iven of the latest, klyies, A-e.' Tlio ilii.v' 1 paper with I2f beautiful (!im>m,rH will lm fcivi it to nil who subscribe now for Id months for only #1. The agent •vi:! '.ill on you. All living in fh ■ conn tri <• si see specimen copy of paper and '..!••111 s al the Mercury office, . Slate 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. 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CX)NTAINS NO TAIl, MIXED READY FOR T’SIL ANYUODY CAN Al’PLY IT. _________ With this Paint Old shingle* can \m —• 1 I made to look better and last longer (linn Portrait Gallery of (Jt orgia lino i tcw shingi^ for♦ne-iklrd the-cost of N- ' Equally good for tin or Iron; and for ck walls Is unequalled. (In M)iil*ti‘ii The Savannah MORNING NEWS. Thin reliable liowspnper combines ovc y feature calculated to make it POPULAR WITH ALL CLASSES. It is independent of cliques, hut ex tends an earnest support to the National Democratic party. Published at tin- principle seaport of tlio South Atlantic ffates it gives prominence to all matters relative to Co nmefee,' as well ns to the Vgicultnre, Mechanical, and Manufactur ing interest of the South. I ts State, General, Local, and Market' departments are acknowledged to he tin nest in this section, wliileits Telegraphic Reports of the news of the day are full and comprehensive. Price of’ Daily #1(1 a year; #5 for six months. Savannah WEhiCly News, contains 8 pages of reading matter, comprising all tho news of the week, Telegraphic Dis patches up to the hour of going to press 1 Agricultural Interns, Original Serials’ 1 to. Only #2 11 years; #1 for six months. 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.