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WINNSBORO. S. C.
TUBSDAY, JUNE 11, : 1878.
A. MaAZX$ DAVI, EDIToo.
J.O A. .MS.YOLD, A8soolIATI EDITOR.
EMPERon WILLIAM is said to be
recovering from his wounds. In
the mean time, Kaiser Fritz has been
mado regent of the empire.
GREAT EKOITEMENT has boen
caused in Ohio and Indiana by the
discovery in a dissecting room in
Cincinnati of the remains of Hon.
Scott Harrison, a son of President
Harrison and father of the last
Republican gubernatorial candidate
of Indiana. The coflin had been
enclosed in a wall of brick, covered
with a slab of stone, laid in cement.
Body snatchers are becoming bold
now-a-days, and it will not be
a matter of surprise should Mr.
Hayes turn up missing some fine
morning.
GOVERNOR HAMPToN has recently
visited Baltimore on private busi
ness. While thoro ho went to
Washington to interview Hayes in
behalf of some of the alleged
ku.klux, whom Bond's puckod
juries sent to Albany. Hayes
promised to examine the cases. A
despatch reports Governor Hamp
ton as saying there is no truth in
the alleged bargain between himself
and the President for general
amnesty. He thinks it a monstrous
proposition to trade off justice in
that. way. We believed all along
that this was the Governor's posi
tion. We don't van't too much
amnesty.
SOME TIME SINCE, the Cincinnati
Enquirer published the details of a
harrowing domestic tragedy in
Western North Carolina, and the
artiqle was copied far and wide.
It proved to be a hoax. Still more
recently it has reported a desperate
battle with carving knives between
two farmers of Virginia, one of
whom was killed and the other
morto''v wounded. This story is
denied. In addition to these, it
recently told how an old man of
seventy eloped with a young girl of
twelve from Walhalla, in this State,
and was killed by her infuriated
parent who pursued thom. The
Walhalla Courier exposes this
sensation. The connection of the
place, Walhalla, with Brunbilde,
the name of the girl suggesf.s the
.Nibelungen Liert and Wagner's
great opera, and itself is proof that
this story at least was a sensation
gotten up by seome clever Bohemian
Veracity does not seem to be in
cluded in the manufacturing imiple
ments of the Enguirer.
The County Convention.
The Democratic County Conven -
tion meets on the 15th, for the
purpose of choosing a County
Chairman and, most likely, of send
ing delegates to the State and
Congressional Conventions. The
duties will therefore be important,
and they should be performed with
an eye single to the wvelfaro of the
9State and the party. At present,
appearances indicate the unanimous
renomination of the whole State
ticket, on the principle that whore
men have done well they should be
retained -in the offces wvhose
routine duties they have mastered.
A renomination will be a fitting
compliment to these gentlemen.
If the people of Fairfield share
these sentiments in common withi
K other portions of the State, they
should send delegates who will
carry out tht.ir wishes in this
~espect.
A nomination will be made for
-Congress at the same time at which
the State Convention meets. Major
Woodward has been brought for
ai-d by several clubs in the coun
ty, and we should be pleased to see
delegates sent to Columbia in his
latorest. The second choice is a
eatter to be deoided by the Con.
Last, but not least, a County
airman~ must be appointed. This
Sta 6ffiee fratght with mnany
sation. Upon the character of the
Chairman depends to a great ex
tent the welfat o of the party. It is
his business to hold himself aloof
from internal dissensions and to be
in a position to heal all breaches
and harmonize all conflicting
elements, one who will work for
the good of the party, and not for
any wing, one who cannot be sus
pected of exercising any undue
influence in favor of or against any
member of the party. This office
is of such a character that no ono
who seeks it is the right man to
fill it. But the people should
decide for themselves who is best
calculated by temperament, by ex..
perience, by influence, to fulfill the
duties of the chairmanship, and
then they should ek.ct him to it
and make him serve. No true son
of Fairfiold will disobey the call of
his people. As there is no salary
to this office, and no perquisites,
let the office seek the man. We
fool assured that the Convention
when it meets will be a representas
tivo body, and that it will devote
itself soberly and earnestly to the
duties devolving on it. Let its
meeting be as harmonious as it. now
promises to be. Upon the first
stroke depends the battle. Our
county campaign should have a
good send-onf.
Comrux ICA:T'Iox.
.ur. Editor-As it will soon be
the time to select candidates for the
coning campaign, we should be
very careful in selecting our candi
dates, there will from all probabili
ties be a great many aspirants, I
think we should select from our
most talented and most honorable
men that will go for the interest of all
and not for the pay they receive.
We should send men that would be
willing to go there for less pay, men
that will not cut all other salaries
down and let their own stand un
touched. I am inclined to think
that cutting down the Magistrates
fees was done for a selfish motive by
the Lawyci s (to drive the business
of the country to the L:iwyers). I
think it would be wcll for the people
of the country to stop sending so
many Lawyers to the legislature and
look more to their own interest, we
don't want so much law n.king-or
in other words, make the laws in
less time and at a less expensO I
hleard not long av' that a L-twyer
from a neighboring county, and a
memLber to the legris:lture, said his
time was worth six dollars per day
at hlome, and he thought he should
get that while at the legislatnre. I
tlinik if their time is so valuable at
home, they ought to stay at home
and let some one else go that can
sparoe the time better and perhaps
fill the place in the legislature to a
better advantage to the people at
large. SAr'L. P. BRowN.
Dark Corner, June 3rd, 1878.
[It is a great mistake to suppose
that the present fee-bill is the work
of the lawyers in the Legislature.
The bill was passed on the recom,
mendation of a special committee
composed of three lawyers and FOUR
farmers. -EDs.]
The artesian well in Charleston is
now nineteen hundred and forty
feet deep, and has cost over, twenty
thousand dollars.
The Democratic County Club of
A bhoville has nominated Genm. Sami.
McGowan for election to the House
of Representatives.
Cherawv rejects the primary elec..
tion plan by a large majority.
Most other counties in the State
have adopted it.
Tihe Democrats all ovei' the State
are holding their county conven
tions, and electing their delegatns
to the State convention. Great
unanimity everywhere prevails.
The Port Royal railroad--which
runs from Port Royal to Augusta
was sold at auction last week, and
purchased by the Union Trust
Comp my,of New York, for five hun.
dred thousand dollars.
Judge Kershaw, in opening court
at Abbeville, called the attention of
the grand jury to the ohar es of
ctuelty on the' pat 9f con tei
towards e ootg vork & th4
brother-in law on Saturday before
last with sticks and pistols -while
on his way to Camden in a buggy
with his wife. He escaped and has
had thern held for trial.
A telegram from Senator Butler
to a gentleman in Charleston
brought the welcome news that the
Senate had just passed the House
bill to refund the duties paid in
1867 upon the bells of St. Michael's
Church, which had been recast in
England. This will be a great re
lief to the venerable churcl!-the
amount of the duties being over
fifteen hundred dollars.
Emerson Benjamin, colored, who
was convicted at a recent term of
the United States District Court,
and who escaped from the deputy
marshal at Kingsville, is said to be
lurking in the neighborhood of his
home in Kershaw county, and is
represented as being aimed to the
teeth and determined not to be
arrested.
Governor Hampton's recent visit
to Presilent Hayes had for its
object the release of several persons
imprisoned in Albany penitentiary,
convicted under the ku-klux prose -
cutions, whom the Governor bo
lieves were illegally convicted. The
President promised an early inves
tigation, and assured Governor
Hampton that, if executive clemency
was merited, he would not hesitate
to extend it.
A serious difficulty occurred not
long ago at Lynch's Creek, in
Kershaw county, between a couple
of young men, Messrs. George
Newman and George Sowell, the
former being seriously but not
dangerously cut in the back by the
latter. Trial Justice D. M. Bethune
was called in, and issued a warrant
for the arrest of Sowell, who was,
after some lifllcttlty, taken in
custody by the constable, but effect
ed his escape before they reached
the office of the trial justice. New
man was doing well at last accounts.
Mr. R. M. Pratt's dwelling house
in the Little River section of Abbe
ville county was destroyed by fire
last week, together with its entire
contents, bedding, furniture, pro
visions, books, money, &c. The
total loss can hardly be estimated,
but will probably reach fifteen
hundred or two thousand dollars.
The suspicions are very strong that
the fire was the work of an incen
diury, and the theory has been ad
vanced that the house was first
robbed and then burned to disguise
the burglary. Several warrants
have been issued for persons against
whom suspicion is very strong.
xEWhS OFTIE DAY.
There begin to be unpleasant
stories that the jetties at the mouth
of the Mississippi are not a success,
after all.
The steamer Oceanica has arrived
at San Francisco from Hong Kong,
with five hundre'l and seventy-five
Chinese passengers.
The Hon. John S. Preston will
deliver the University address at
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee,
next November.
The Socialistic press of Germany
boasts no less than seventy..five
publications, with 150,003 subscrib.
ers-an increase of eighteen in the.
number of the papers since last
year.
Senator Grover has a p)rivate tele-.
from Portland, Oregon, under date
of June 7, that both branchos of the
Legislature are Democratic, the
Democrats having fifty-one on joint
b.llot, a majority of twelve. Whita
ker (Democrat) for Congress is elect
edl by 5(00 to f00~ majo!ity, and theore
is a probability that Thayer (Demno
crat), for Governor, is also elected.
A Boise City, dispatch to San
Francisco states th five men who
wve e scouting in the Burnea Valley
found all the settlers gathered at
Robins' ranche, which is fortified.
The valley had been raided by In-.
dians, who drove away aill the stock
on Sunday last. The settlers sawv
about two hundred Indians, who
were driving six hundred horses up
the valley.
It is expected that ran extraordi
nary session of the German Parlia
went will be convened to discus
legislative measures for the re
pression of the present dangerous
agitation. The :Prussian Cabinet is
also considering the advisability of
adopting special measures to pre
vent the spread of socialism. An
official dispatch says the Emperor's
appetite is better and his condition
oth. rwise unchanged.
William Dixon, under sentence of
death for the murder of a Jew ped-.
dler named B3achman on the steamer
Fairplay, was banged at Vickaburg,
Miss., on Friday. .He ascended the
scaffold smoking a cigarette, but
made no speech. A large crowd
witnessed the execution, ma~ny negro
women being present. An efogt
-Wsznae too t~ n respite from
persons-the largest nimber yet
recorded-visited the Paris E!:xhi bi
tion. '1'ho want of a suflieient num
bor of refreshment stalls was groat..
ly felt by the public. Tho oxpon
sive restaurants are absolutely of
no service to the bulk of Sunday
visitors. Cakes and ale are the
things loudly called for-cheap
drinks for adults, and rolls and bis.,
cuits for famishing children.
The Rev. Vosburgh, of Jersey
City, who has just been acquitted
of an attempt to poison his wife,
aduiniptered communion in his
church on Sunday, and in the
evening preached from the text,
"These are they which came out of
great tribulation, and have washed
their robes and made thorn white
in the blood of the Lamb." He
alluded to the verdict in his late
trial, upon which there was hearty
applause, which ho accepte 1, he
said, not for himself, but in behalf
of justice.
A special dispatch to the Galves
ton (Texas) News, dated June 6,
says: Last evening the revolu
tionary pickets attacked the out
posts at Now Laredo, and, after
exchanging a few shots, retired.
One was killed and another wound
ed on the government side. The reb
el loss is unknown. General Agile,
the Lerdist commander, is now
operating here alone, with about
two hundred and fifty men, mostly
cavalry. His force is increasing
daily.
On last Thursday morn ing a
fire broke out in the five sto?y
building of Colgate & Co.'s exten
sive soap factory in Jersey City, N.
J., and the flmes spread with
rapidity, threatening the entire de
struction of the factory. The fire
department was called out, and a
few minutes later an explosion ocr
curred in the upper stories, proba
bly from chemicals, throwing down
the rear walls. The two main
buildings, with costly machinery,
were destroyed, involving a loss
estimated at fully $300,000. Over
three hundred men are thrown out
of employment.
A description is given, in Lee
llfondes, of an improved device for
rapidly cooling liquids-inveni od by
M. Toselli. It consists simply of
a cylindrical cup for holding any
liquid into which may be plunged
an inner goblet, shaped like an in
verted truncated cone, and havino a
lid which rests on the outer cup.
Putting one hundred and fifty
grains of nitrate of ammonia in the
inner goblet, filling it with cold
water, and stirring it so as to hasten
the solution, the temperature of the
outer lid is soon reduced at least
twelve degrees C., or twenty-.two
degrees Falh. The salt may be used
for this purpose an indefinite period,
by merely spreadinr; it on a plate
after each trial. and exposing it to
the sun until it crystalizes anew. M.
Toselli prepares a salt wvhich will
lower the temperature fifty degrets
Fah in the wvarnmest countecics.
Before an insurance men's con
vention in Syracuse wvas re-md a paper
in which it wvas asserted that purely
accidental fires are very rare, and
that over one-half of all conflagra
tions are the result of inicend.arismn.
This is a startling assertion, which
is often repeated. It was sustained,
by other members of the convention
who said that one half the amount
ptid onit by the companies wats to
men who had set their p)roperty on
fire. Of all crimes incendiarism is
one of the most difficult to p)rove.
The subject continues to be the
greatest problem in lire insurance
company offices.
Charlotte Cushmagn lefl her for
tune to hor nephew. Some youno
men in such a case migh t have~
proven ugrateful and soon forgot,.
ten their benefactress. He, how,
ever, has erected an eleven dollar
monument to her memory.
Wanted--every one to be free
from Pimnples, Blotches, Boils, etc.,,
which can be done by purifying the
blood with Dr. Bull's Blood Mixture.
Used everywhere. 0
M,r..Daniels says that every time
he visits a life insurance officee, lhe
feels likce Diniel in the lying den.
HfYMENEL AL.
MAnt5Iso, nt, BIreks(th,ek. 8. o., en Thursda,
Jitno ei 1878, by R7ev. T. M*. Lowry, Mll. J. ,
FAUi.KNun to Miss NANmUX EC. sulm.
LEATHER I LEATHER 1
W E have en hand a fall stock of Sela,
Harness, Uppe', Russet. K(ip and
Calfskin Leather, which we will sell very
cheap.
BIDES I HIDES 1
Jighest markcet prios paid ('or hides,
Bring then to tis.
Notice to Taxpayers,
AUr Iron's 01FFIe" B,
W INNnolno, S. U., May 2K, 1878.
r 'Ii[s ofee ill be open from the 1st
. of .uno lo the 0th of Jny, 1178, to
receive Tax iloturi ti for the ilseal year
18$78. By orders fromi the Comptroller
General the real estate will also be re
assessed at th - samo time. All male
persons between the ages of twenty-one
and sixty years are liable to Poll Tax, and t
will report. no. ordingly.
I will attond at the ollowing places on
the days specified, for the purpose of
receiving retori,s, viz:
Feastervillo. Tune 14 and 15.
Monticello, June 17 and 18.
Jet in- ville, Juno 19 and 20.
Ilorub, Juno 2 I and 22.
)okto .3une 21 an.d 25.
Bear Crook, June 26 and 27.
itidgoway. Juno 28 and 29.
Durham's, July 1 and 2.
Gladlden's Grove, July 3 and 4.
Woodwurd's, July 5 and 6.
I. N. WITHERS,
may 30-xttl Auditor F. 0.
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