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The iHer ald. THOS. F. GRENEKER, Emo W. H. WALLACE, NEWBERRY. S. C. WEDINESDAY, SEP. 3, 1879. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. The Herald is in the highest respect a Fain ly Newspaper, devoted to the material in tercsts o the people of this County and the State. It circulates extensively, and as an Advertising medium offers unrivalled ad vantages. For Terms, see firs" page. .Grand Excursion to Charles ton. The cheapest and most pleasant excursion of the season is that to Charleston this week. The author ities of the S. C. P-id +lie G. & C. R. R.'s, at the solicitation of the merchants of Charleston and the up-country, have put the rates dov. a so low that all can go. These roads are entitled to much credit for their liberality, and we hope the patronage they receive will induce them to "repeat the perfoi.nance" at an early day. Tickets are sold at all stations of tie roads the 1st. 2nd and 3d, good to return on or before the 10th. Those taking ad vantage of the cheap rates go and retarn by the regular passenger trains, and are not permitted to stop over anywhere on the route. A large crowd passed doN %a the road yesterday, (Monday). Get your fickets and go: you will never have a bitter opportilnity to Csit the "City by the Sea." The fare from Newberry, going and retr-n ing, is only $3.55. Innocent Diversion. It is a year till election; yet any number of candidates have been mentioned already. For Governor, Gen. McGowan, Gen. Kennedy, Senator Lipscomb, Compt'roller General Hagood and Adjutant-Gen eral Moise ; for Attorney-General, Gen. Y. J. Pope, Silas Johnstone, Esq., J. S. Cothran and R. R. Hemphill. None of these genti.e men are candidates in the sense that they are seel'ng the offices. They have been nominated by the newspapers, which must have some thing to do these dull times ; and nominating candidates is about as innocent a diversion as they could engage in. It is infinitely better than dishing up "scandals in high life." Let them amuse themselves, by all means. The Iamnpton Guardian. We welcome 'with pleasure Mc Sweeny's popular Guardian~ to or" sanctum again, and now from Hamp ton Covnty. Itlooks as natural as ever, and if anything a little more so, and idlU of life. We would like to say something nice in compli ment to or" enterprising friend, but we do not like to repeat. He certainly has the good wishes of the entire Press gang in the State, and we hope the good people of Hampton will appreciate his merits and give him the hearty support he deserves. If Mc 'will now take him a nice little wife he will be in the full line of duty. Carl Schurz, Secretary of the In terior, is opposed to Grant for President, and strongly in favor of John Sherman. The views of the "Flying Dutchman" are of little consequence, however. Sherman stock is booming and Schur:z is playing his old trick of throwing himself in the corrent that flows the strongest. It is this peculiari ty, connected with his remarkable foresight, that makes him a splen did weather-cock. The Laurens Herald notices the death of Mr. Chas. B. Dorroh at the residence of his mother, Mrs. Susan Dorroh, on the 24th uit. He was twenty-five years of age, and be loved by all who hew him. Also the death of Frank, a little son of Mrs. Malinda Crews, who was thrown from a mule on Wed nesday last, and who died in four hours. The wholesale merchants of Nor folk, Va., arranged with the rail roads for a hiee excursion of the merchants of North and South Carolina to that city last week. Seven hundred merchants from the two States arrived there the 27th nIt., and were treated to a magnifi cent banquet and a steamboat ex cursion to the various points of in terest near the city. Alexander Bryce, Jr., formerly Gen. Hood Dead. Gen. J. B. Hood died of Yellow Fever at his home in New Orleans, Saturday, the 30th ult. His wife died five days previously, of Yellow Fever. They left eleven children ; the oldest ten. There are two or three pairs of twins; the latest, twins, are only three weeks old. Gen. Hood was a gallant soldier. He lost an arm at Fredericksburg, and a leg at Uickamauga; but continued in active sei .lce +l the war closed. The Sv-rvivors of Spartanburg County had a Reunion at Cedar Springs, the 26th ult. There was a large crowd in attendance and a splendid address from Congress. man Jno. H. E.ns. Senator Hampton hf-s been spend ing the summer at Daggers Springs, West Virginia, and his health has greatly improved. He will return home in a few days. The Yellow Fever still continues at Memphis, the death rate being about the same as last week. There have been several deaths .n New 4@rleans. Ex-President Grant, now in Ja pan, will return to the Uaited States in a few weeks. He i, not a candidate for the Presiddney. The Laurens Herald asks some of its contributors to boil their com mnications down, in other wcrds wiite shorter articles. FOR THE HERALD. The Common School System of South Carolina. No. 6. 13th objection-By inducing immi gration, lowering the taxes, passing good wholesome laws, and making the country prosperous, the people will become able and willing to educate their own children. Consequently, this Common Public Free School Sys tem should be abolished as unnecessa ry. Answer-To induce immigration, lower.the taxes, .pass good wholesome la'ws, and render the country prosper ous, the people must be educated to a much higher standard of domestic, so cial, moral, and political intelligence. This can be accomplished best and perhaps only by this Common Public Free School System; consequently the same should be sustained and de veloped by the State. 14th objeetion-Should the Com mon Public Free School System be retained, the State will eventually die tate the kinds of text books our chil dren shall study; consequently the same System should be abolished. Answer-Should that System be re tained, the State will, it is hoped, eventually e:-ect the whole into a vast university, commensurate in extension with the area of the State; and then~ dictate, not only the kinds of text books, as is very properly the case inf every other school, and college, and university in the world, but also the time 'nd manner of opening and clos ing, toe precise method of conducting and preparing recitations, the number, time, and exercises of examinations per annum, and in various other ways exercise as rigid a control of this grand youthful army of conservatism, peace, good order, and good will as is everywhere the case with a standing army. Therefore, this Common Pub lic Free School System should be re tained and developed by the State. 15th objection-The Common Pub lie Free School System cannot succeed here in South Carolina; the same, therefore, should be abolished. Answer-The Common Public Free School System has admi-ably succeed ed within the-refined precincts of Ger many an.d Britain ; but the same has been an ignoble failure amongst the degraded, root-eating, Digger Indians of the West. Shall our cherished "Round-Head Cavaliers" and "IHugue nots" of South Carolina be classed with the most refined, or the most de graded, of the earth ? Let each man answer according to the tendency of his own nature; and, if he discover that his nature will exult rather in en lightenment and order than in igno rance and dirt, then let him say with us, that this Common Public Free School System can succeed here in South Carolina also; and that the same, therefore, should be sustained~ and developed by the State. 16th objection-The present Com mon Public Free School System has1 been a curse; the same, therefore, should be abolished.] Answer - The, present Common< Public,Free School System will, it is hoped, eventually be a "curse" to all those that may wish to batten on the ignorance and criminality of the peo ple, but not to any others; and for this very reason the same should be retained and developed by the State.i 17th objection-The educational tax is misapplied and squandered.t The Common Public Free School Sys tem should, therefore, be abolished. t Answer-This is an ex abusu, so-< called, argument; and, consequently,< worthless. This man, moreover, is< evidently speaking in a Rip Van Win- < kle sleep, into which he seems to have fallen during the Radical regine, with his mouth full of imprecations. We don't wish to awaken him; and,i therefore, commend his objection to people go to school, then. Perhaps this. too. would be applying the school fund where it is just as badly needed. Neihbor A, your cattle are now rav ag_iU my corn and wheat fields ; send 'our childron to assist in getting them out. Neighbor B, I am indeed quite sorry that your crops are ruined ; but I need my children to assist me here on the farm. (Sotto voce, A.-What an unreasonable, selfish villain this unneighborly B is ! Sotto voce, B. I am indeed glad that my hungry cat tle are learning to pick up a Kbtle here and there, wherever possible, from wy neighbors' fields. It won't do them any hurt.) No man has any right, either human or divine, "inherent" or acquired, to have any cattle or any children unless he can take proper care of the same without inflicting any injury whatsoever upon other people. Every child that is reared in ignorance is just like a cow turned loose in a field of golden grain. The State has "rights," and sbe should be privileged to maintain them, just the same as any single individual 19th objection-Education is less general now than it was before the late war. This Common Public Free School System should, therefore, be be abolished. Answer-We emphatically question the truth of this statement. 'This man is moreover comparing the pres ent entire white and negro population with the richer class of a white people prior to the late war, nor is he making any allowance whatever for the dis astrous effects of that war-the de molition of the schools, the utter prostration of every branch of our in dustry, and the unexampled turbulence of those several years just subsequent to the war. 20th objection-The parents are iow bearing the burden of tuition. This Common Public Free School System should, therefore, be abolished. Auswer-This objection-which is based upon an "abuse" and conse quently worthless, and whose truth fulness we emphatically question cannot remind us of the lazy ninu.'s inquiry, "Is it shelled ?" whiLa was made with reference to the corn given to save him from being buried alive for his laziness. 21st objection-The Common Pub lie Free School System has never been of any benefit. The same, therefore, should be abolished. Answer-The State, after a due e amination, commissioned about 3,000 teachers and opencd the (ommwon Publie Free Schools for about five months of the last fiscal year, at an ex penlse of $316,197.10. These 8,000 teachers had under their daily co trol for the 5 months mentioned 116, 239 children. Now, we have nobt been able to go around and examin!e every child in the State, as the con codter of this 21st objection seems to have done : the few, however, that we have examined take pride, without a single exception, in showinzg us "how rapidly they have advanced and how much they have learned." "But Brutus says he was ambitious ; and Brutus is an honorable man !" HIe should take care, however, that he be not forcibly sized upon, if necessary, and made the Superintendent of Pub. lie Instruction on account of his vast ly superior intelligence !1 22nd objection-After the negroes gto school, they think thenmselves too god to work ; this Common Public Free School System should, therefore, be abolished Answer-This is invariably the case everywhere and amongst every people, when the degree of intelli gence is quite low, and an education uncommon. The remedy for it is to raise the standard of-intelligcee and to educate everybody, which can be done only by this Common Pub li Free School System. Therefore, the same should be maintained and developed by the State. 23d objection-The Common Public Free School System will militate against our very numerous, small de nominational, "colleges ;" the same, therefore, should be abolished. Answer-This is an ad-captanduni, so-called, argument-a soporific sweet meat for collegians; and consequently, worthless. The enlightened decision of the whole world is, "That there are too many "one-horse" colleges in the land." We will only repeat here what we have always said elsewhere on the subject, that if these so-called colleges, which only a few of the wealthiest can attend, and which really do pr-esent no greater advantages than this Common Public Free School Sys tem can present if only once properly developed, are to live and to fatten, ;houl -like, only ~on the corpses of the murdered Coninon Public Free Schools, which alone the great mass f the people can attend, then we at least are opposed to the "colleges," both now and forever. The only legiti. mte sphere of a rightly-ealled college is in that region lying above and be yond the prescribed course of the 'Com mon Public Free School System. Whenever any one improperly, and perhaps illegally, descends from that levated region and invades the do nain of the Common P'ublie Free School System, it essentially becomes common public school, not a "col ege." This we commend to the at ention of their faculties. 24th objection-The negroes are ed icationally "outstripping" the whites ; ho Common Public Free School Sys em should, therefore, be abolished. Answer-We are sorry and ashamed hat such an objection should have er been presented by any one laiming as much as one single drop >f Caucasian blood. It is more than mough for an "imp of darkness" to >resume upon his eqjuality with the vhite man :how, then, shall we stig natize the action of a whit.e man who sists upon his inferiority to the no r7 censured, by whatever birds of prey may be there to batten on the lifeless body. P'. 8.-"We desire to make a solemni statement " Should any one have been too greatly frightened by our having donbed a lion's skin and roared so valiantly as we have. we beg now for his relief to assure him that we are still the saie we have ever been-an unadulterated don key. We do not believe in medicine for children, but we do believe in Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup and assert that no family should be without it. FoR THE HERALD. Our Wa%hing.onu Letter. WASHTINOTON, D. C., Aug. 27, 1879. It is semi-officially stated now that the Committee on Rules of the House of Representatives at its late meeting planned a thorough revision of the rules of the House with the idea of giving to the majority a better control of the body, as has already been stated, and also allowing more latitude in de bate, curtailing the almost autocratic power of the Speaker, and taking from -the two or three Committtees, who now practically control legislation, their power, and distributing it equal ly among the other Committees. The early report of the Committee's pro ceedings did not seem to indicate any abridgment of the Speaker's powers. I am glad if the latter statement is true. The Speakership became prac tically a despotism under Blaine. The Republicans of Iowa announce that they shall bring out Senator Kirk wood of that State as a Presidential candidate. He is a native of Western Maryland, and it is said has many of the qualities of the late President Lin coln. But Senator Windom has un questionably the lead if the coming Radical candidate is to be from the Northwest. The Kirkwood "boom" is too late. Appeals for more funds are being made by the Maine Republican State Committee, who are continually writ ing the National Campaign Commit tee here to hurry up and send forward the assessments collected from the clerks and employees in the several Departments. The campaign they are carrying on there is a most despe rate one, and the only shadow of hope they have in capturing the State is by the lavish use of money during the closing days of the canvass. The time for argument and discussion has nearly gone by, and the last and only resort with the hope of accomplishing any thing is through fraud, intimidation, and corruption, but it is believed the great majority of the voters of Maine will withstand all the corrupt appli ances of the scheming and unscrupu lous Blaine, and continue the work of reform which the Democratic and Greenback parties so nobly inaugura ~ted and carried out the last year. The indefatigable Edison yesterday s.ecured still another patent on a por tion of his electric light apparatus. The strongest believers in Ediso.n's success in this mnatter are the experts in the Patent Office. Sensibly and righteously it has been determined that the arrears of pensions due inmates of the Volunteer Soldiers' Homes shall be paid to the men them selves instead of to the Homes. Many of these disabled veterans can now quit the Homes, and on the money to be paid them, est,ablish themselves in remunerative business. DEM. Habit, if not necessity, makes a Hair Dressing such as Dr. Ayer's laboratory issues indispensable to many. The "Vico'' is one of the most delightful we have ever used. It restores not only the color, but gloss and luxuriance, to faded and gray hair. FOR THE HERALD. DEAR HERALD : Summer roses have bloomed and faded, summer suns have risen and set since last I wrote you. You see there was nothing to write. The long summer days were hot, dry and uneventful, one like unto another, and naught wherewith to feed the flagging fires of imagination. Later quite a number of visitors have drifted into our quiet village, among whom we were pleased to see Mr. T. F. Greneker, of. the Newberry, hERALD. Mr. 0-reneker met with several old acquaintances in our classic shades, and we hope found his stay sufficiently pleasant to come again. Mrs. Dorn, who has assumed control of the Hotel for the season, has met with quite a measure of success in her new vocation, and we are told is well pleased with our town and people. The mammoth squash cultivated by Mr. S. P. Kinard, and mentioned in the Senior's Williamston editorial, con tinues its marvelous growth and elicits the admiration and wonder of all who behold it. The Presbyterian flock of W.1j are about bidding good-bye to their popular and esteemed pastor, Rev. J. L. Browrlee, who is on the eve of leaving for Princeton, where he will prosecute still further the study >f Theology. For more than a year lie has discharged the duties of the Pastorate in a manner highly credit ble to himself and most acoeptable to the people, one and all of whom feel sincere regret in saying to him good bye-which we think might properly be said to be the "saddest word of ongue or pen.'' At least we thought o yesterday as we bade good-bye to he best friend we ever had, and real ized in all its fullness the sentiment1 ad feeling of Erin's bard when leav ing his beloved Kathleen, he uttered in all the pathos of his native land,1 It may be for years and it may be forever.'' It had been so long since i e met, but the lapse of years had I oly erved to strengthen and beautify of the long years in which he had I breasted the storms of life, till at last, riding triumphantly the surging sea, he had safely entered harbor. May his old age serene and b ght, Be lovely as a Lapland night. What charming weather we are having, mellowed sunlight anl drift int clouds reminding one o- t'he gmld en October days when nature wakes her harp to sing a low, soft. psalm to dying summer, when autumnal glories crown the forests dense and autumnal winds come softly sighing like the low, sad sound of the wondrous sea, and we feel like askir,g with little "Paul", 4 "What are the wild waves saying?" MAGGIE. Villiamston, S. C. A dull, heavy pain in the sides, sleepiness, want of energy, no con tinuity of thought or labor, these all r indicate disease of the Liver, and should be removed by the use of Dr. Bull's Baltimore Pills, which will surely accomplish the object sought. FoR THE HERALD. I A Ghost Story. I When I was a young man, a young er brother and I went to school in the Northern part of Newberry County, to a teacher by the name of James Flan- i agan. Hugh Toland, Pressley Rhodes, Reuben Ruff and I boarded with Wil- I liam Epps, Esq. His house had but two rooms, and he had several chil dren ; consequently we had to sleep 4 in the school house, about a quarter of a mile off. The school house had been occupied as a private dwelling previously by Mr. Daniel Epps, an old man, brother to the man we board ed with. It was a story and a half high ; but one room below, and one above we called the loft. It had but two doors, one on each side, and one window in the South end of the house below and one in the South end above in the loft. As soon as we would geti supper we would ieturn to the school house to get our lessons for the morn ing. Some two or three rights after we commenced school tha doors were shut; while we were studying our les sons, the front door was knocked pretty hard. We supposed it was some young men in the neighborhood who wanted to get acquainted with us, as we were strangers to that community. Toland was nearest the door; he got up immediately and opened it, and in vited them in. We all felt sure that some person knocked; no one camel in however. Toland then walked out in the yard and looked around the house, but could not see or hear any body. Two or three nights after, ear ly in the night, the same door was| knocked again pretty hard, and as To-| land's seat was nearest the door he opened it, but no one showed himself.| We all went out and.looked around the house, but could not see or hear any person. Every two or three nights, sometimes after midnight, but oftener early in the night, the same door would be knocked. After this| knocking continued for three or four| weeks, and no person ever showed| himself, we concluded to usc every means we could to put a stop to it, as it badl become annoying, and disturbed| us in our studies. Toland wvent homeI on Friday evening and came back to school on Monday, and brought with him his shot gun.. I went home at the same time and brought to school| on Monday a very severe yard dog. I chained him near the door; bnt the knocking continued. I then turned him loose after dark, but the khocking still continued. After the dog was turned loose, as soon as the knocking would commence we would all run out and set the dog on, as though we saw1 some one. Toland would fire his gun off to encourage the dog to run round, which it did, for he became almost frantic trying to find some one to bite. The knocking continued as long as we went to school there. After weI failed to find out what it was that kept up the knocking, and could not stop it, we paid no more attention to it. On one Saturday night, early in the night, I commenced to bathe my feet. Toland, Rhodes and my brother went to bed while I was bathing. As soon as I finished I fastened the doors and] put the rock in the cat hole. One corner of the door shutter had been sawed off to let the cats pass in and j ut during the night. That was what t we called the "cat hole." I went to bed after fastening the S doors. I had no candle, for it was a beautiful night ; the moon shone very t brightly in at the window on the foot t f the bed that my brother and I lept in. I1 could have seen a pin ly ng on the floor, the room was sor ight. We had to furnish our can- t dles; they were the old fashioned ipped tallow candles. We kept them n a little table in our bed room, and sometimes we would forget to stop out t; he cats and they would eat our can- e les. I had cut a club about two feet a ong to throw at them when they would get at the candles. I kept itp inder my pillow. As soon as I un- d ressed and got in bed I thought I eard a cat coming up the steps. I aised up very easily and carefully ~ eached under my pillow and got the e ~lb as quick as I could and sat up in hi he bed with the club held up ready "~ o throw. Hlow do you think I felt b hen instead of seeing .a cat, I saw e. he head of a female human being, T nd in a moment another behind, corn og up the stair steps, both dressed in white, with white handkerchiefs tied si round their heads. I was still sit- w ing up in the bed with the club held Ic p, when they walked up side by side ~lose to mec. Their faces were not ~ nore than two feet from mine. They o ookcd at ine so hard, their eyes so i, tiriliant and piercing, that I thought C hey wanted to say something to me P1 .. +'o. mea to speak to theam. I wa.q al- a yack in the bed, covered up head and ars, and got under my brother's back; lid not know what moment they ight take hold of mne. I never slept )nc wink that night, but was bathed with perspiration. My brother woke up early in the morning, and asked Ile if I was sick ; he said I must have tad fever I told him I was not sick, "hat I had not slept oue wink. But I was scared out of one year's growth at east. I then g-ave him a full state ment of what I saw the early part of :Le night. IIe said it was nothing )ut a dream. I toid him if it was a Iream, I dreamed it wide awake, for I had not covered myself in bed before I heard, as I supposed, the cat comning ip the steps. When we went to )reakfast next morning my brother ;old the family and boarders that I bad seen two ghosts the night before. rhey all laughed at we for believing 1! ghosts. Just at that time Mr. Dan el Epps and his wife came in. They Nanted to know what they were laugh. ng at, and were told that they were aughing at my ghost story. They hen asked me what I saw the night efore, and I told them. They said hey need not laugh at me, for they bad seen the same in the same house when they lived in it. Mr. Epps and ais wife were good old Christians; as "ood and truthful people as lived in he State, beloved by everybody that inew them. * * * FOR THE HERALD. itudents' Reunion at Spring Hill. SPRING HILL, S. C. MESSRS. EDITORS : On last Saturday, the !Od of August, quite a number of persons .ssemnbled at St. Mathews Church in New. berry County, to attend the exercises of a -enion of the students and ex-students of sewberry College. The early morning pre aged a rainy day; but before a late hour Je unwholesome appearances gave way to hose indications which satisfied the minds )f the gentler sex that white dresses could >e safely wot n, and assured the sweet mer 'y-Andrew that straw hats and furbished )oots would not be incongruous with the veather's deportment. So we all went rig. ;ed and-powdered. The exercises commenced about ten )'clock. Prof. Cromer was elected Presi lent, with Messrs. Efird and Welch as Sec. -etaries. Rev. J D. Shirey delivered an Lddress of welcome, to which the President -esponded. Mr. J. E. Berley was then in ,roduced as first speaker to address the neeting on Collegiate Education. The ipeaker maintained that a collegiate educa. ion was of prime importance. After one ias finished his course at a common school, e should attend college to put the Calo >hon on for the active duties of life. Though Pope was deprived of this advantage in his arly life, yet amid his successes he is care ul to admonish, a little learning is a dangerous thing ! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; Chere shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drmnking largely sobers us again. i.n education insures the following rewards: malloyed pleasure, real profit, a sure road o honor, and when accompanied by reli. ion prepares one more eminently for a right Elysium. It is a sure defence to ~ovrnment, protestantism, and liberty. 'he difference between an enlightened na ion and a savage horde is due to education. Prof. Clarkson next camne forward amid pplause. Hie discoursed upon Collegiate ~ducation in general, and especially the tudy of the classics. Somie suppose the nind must be crammed as a barn is with he fruits of Autumn. But by the import >f the word e-duc(o)-ation, it is quite evi lent mental training is meant, and not nental cramming. To train the mind thor >ughly two ends must be kept in view : Inowledge must be acquired by those tudies usually pursued in our common chools; and mental disciplih e must be horough through the aid of the classics mid mathematics. We must also have men o direct the affairs of government, to pur ne the learned professions, to stand emi ently successful in all of life's varieties, nd to prepare for Heaven's reward. No reater heroes than those of Greece ; no ruer men than her philosophers ; no more eliable historians than Herodotus and Thu ydides; no greater orator than Demos henes. All of these loom up from the usty pages of antiquity as perfect models or American youths. English and Ameri an Literature teem with classical ideas ex >ressed in classical language. Prof. Clark on, in his closing remarks, spoke earnestly or the welfare of Newberry College, and ie received the hearty applause of the au ience for his effort. After enjoying a sumptuous dinner, the peaking was continued by an address from 'rofessor Cromer, who spoke on Common Ichools. Opposed to the present free school ystem. Colleges are not to make schol rs, but students. In this State mary are pposed to Collegiate, and, especially, to ~lassical Education, among~ whom are Sen tor Lipscomb, Gen. Gary, and ex-Gov. erry and others. But such profound hinkers as Franklin, Everett, Legare, and ills, (J. S.) not to mention many others, re most earnest advocates of the study of ,atin and Greek, and all that is necessary a complete education. Then, which opin n, in the judgment of a candid world, de erves the more serious consideration ? Mr. J. F. Hobbs spoke next on the fol >wing query, "Ought a man to be educa 3d who does not intend to follow one of 1 Learned Professions?" For three rea Ds this query is answered affirmatively. [an owes God duties ; his fellow-mnen du es; and his country duties. In order ightly to understand his office he should e educated irrespective of his life-work. Mr. J. B. Wingard then addressed the eeting on Education. Our existence im lies action ; and as we act, we think ; and 3 we think, we will; and as we will, so is ie world affected. IIence the importance f education. We grow from infancy, weak ad helpless, to ago with knowledge and ower. We acquire knowledge by sensa on and reflection. And not in one de artment, but in all of an education do we rive full benefit. This closed the speaking. I have failed do justice to those who delivered ad esses ; but from the attention they drew 01m the audience, and from the applause tch speaker received, all must have been ighly pleased with the efterts of the young en. Some important business was transacted ; t. as my report has already become too tensive, I can only refer to a few items. bis is a permanent Reunion, embracing e Counties of New berry, Lexington and tgefield. Thirty-one members were eni Iled as in actual attendance. It is de able to procure the names of all thos e ho have ever been members of the Col ge, and are now living in any one of the unties named above. So, if each person igible to membership, will send his niame d address to Prof. Holland, Mr.. Hobbs, to me, we will enroll his name on our oks, and send him a catalogue of the >llege each year. We hope all will comn y. A meeting will be held next summer -time and place to be determined by Fac tyo Clege.u to those who are well worthy to, and who shoild rule, the land of their nativity. But I must eltise; lor you know that, among the plebian order of writers, there is such a disease as cacoethes scribendi, an1d foaring that it v become chronic Vit ue ii 1 11 i .aci ,ALAe, I a lose, only allowing a I-.tpsun pen.:i - it) tra.- the name of Your-, ver ir!lv, Set -L V.i Grahnge DeplarImwen. C:tl Mleeling Newberry :'omo na Grange. RUSH RivFP, Aug. 22. 18 . The Grange proceeded to businej-.,, and after a short session ook recess for the 1 purpose of iraring an address ua the ob jects of the Order from 1'rv.J. N. Lipscomb, W. M., of the State Grange ; and to discuss f the tub-ject selected, to wit: The best : grasses foi summer and winter pasturage; all being invited to participate. After a < most excellent address from Bro. Lipscomb, I which we shall endeavor to epitomize for publiction in some future issue, the Grange, together with a large assembly of visitors, were invited to partake of a bountiful re past, such as the good people of Bush River know so well how to prepare, and to which, we may add, ample justice was done- wish you had been there Mr. Editor. After dinner, the subject was taken up and discussed. Rev. John D. Pitts, (not a Granger), be ing requested to open the discussion, said: I have no experience in winter pasturage, but am decidedly of the opinion that Ber muda is the best of all grasses for summer. I have seen it tried in Laurens County, and it pays handsomely. One of my neighbors has a farm covered with it, and he only feeds his horses once a day, a; noon, and let them run on the pasture at night; his stock look as well as any in the neighbor hood, and he says he wouldn't be rid of it for anything. Bro. Jno. T. Bynum-I think the Bermu da is the only grass that will bear close feeding in summer, and that orchard grass is the- best for winter. Once well set and top dressed, annually, they will furnish a 4 continual pasture. Barley is good for win ter, but it requires very strong land. Rye is good also, tried it last winter, and I be lieve it will pay any one Sow it early, and after you have grazed it all winter and cut it in spring the stubble and roots will amply repay the drain on the land. Bro. R. T. U. Hunter-My experience has all been in killing grass, but I know Ber n,uda grass is good summer pasture ; I have it on my farm, and am not afraid of it. Bro. J. B. Werts-I have very little ex perience. I sowed orchard grass once, but suppose it died. I think crab grasn is about as good as any for summer pasture. Bro. S. A. Hunter-I was raised and ed ucted to kill grass, and have but little ex perience in raising it. I think Bermuda is best for summer, and barley, rye, &c., for winter. Bro. Wesley Folk-I have experimented with grasses all my life ; have made hay often. I have a first rate stand of white clover after 41 years standing, it gives goodr pasture for cows in summer and hogs int winter. 20 years ago I sowed yellow clover to help out ; it is good for cows, but not for horses and mules ; it will come up every year, and dor't interfere with other crops ; it comes up in the fall and dies in theI sprirng. I have had Bermuda grass for 20 1 years ; I can kill it in 2 years by sowing the land in oats and then in peas. . t Bro. Jacob Eptiig-I have studied the question some, and my experience is thatt Bermuda will die j'ust as other grasses. WVhat we want is some grass that will grow on poor land-old fields without manure, to mix with small clover that grows there, and I think Bermuda is best for that. For ]~ winter, there is nothin~g better than rse, and it leaves vege. e.matter sufficient to compensate li ; it is of'quick growth i and beas ~ose~ gr zing ; it can be sowni anywher- gwe turnigs. I am going to try Bermuda grass o poor land, I- shall prepare the land well and report the result. Bro. J. R. Irwin-I have but little expe rience. I have a patch of yellow clover, it is good t'or winter. BJro. J. N. Lipscomub-Before the war I sowed rye on cotton land and found that it paid well. I sowed turnips also, and saw them now, they are capital. I have a cong~ siderable quantity of yellow clover; some 20 years ago father. got, some seed from Georgia and sowed-them, it has come up I ever since, it comes up in the fall and lasts until May,'and will~grow anywhere. I e( would take it in preference to all other cul- I tivated grasses for *inter, and intend to get my whole place-tocked in it; it is not ini the way of making a crop, and it i proves land as well as affording a pasturage. It will bear graz'ing all wvinter, but I think4 the better plan is to cut it for stock. As to summer pasture, I think our wet lands will furnish sufficient native grass ; clean up.the branch bottoms a..d the grass will come ; but I don't think we ought to depend en tirely on pasture, sow turnips, cut weeds, ' especially for sheep, all that is necessary to winter sheep is a few turnips, a little cotton seed and weeds, it is a mistake to think we have to do some great thing to raise sheep * in this country ; I think, pezhaps,-they will 1 do well on less food than any other stock we raise. Bro. J. T.. P. Crosson-For summer pas ture I will take crab grass ; take good land, I prepare it well by two or three good plow ings in tihe spring so as to kill weeds, and there is nothing that will equal it for gr.:- t ing and No. 1 hay ; it is had in corn and ' cotton, but I think it ought to be on every ditch bank and in every fence corner. I don't think much of Bermuda, because when you get it once there is no gett'g rid of it. For winter I think rye prefer ble. Yellow clover may be as go->d, and perhaps is better for soiling, but I am not at all certain of it. Bro. M. Werts-I think native grasses1 do very well for summer. I have Japan clover on my place and my stock are fat on it-it grows anywhere and I think will de -: stroy sedge. Since the adoption of the fence law I took in a small calf pasture which was in sedge, but now the clover (Leapidezer) has full possession. Bermuda grass must be best I think because it can't he killed, that is the very grass we want. For winter I have and now use red clover. Bro. Win. Werts-I have no experience1 except with native grasser. The Editor of the Southern Cultivator always, in reply to correspondents, recommends Bermuda grass if the land is to be given up to it, but that it won't do if you want to cultivate the land. I don't think crab. grass wilk do t ell without cultivation. I think corn is s good or better than anything else tos plant for soiling cattle, it will give you more good nutritious food to the acre than any grass I know of; so'r it on good land and cut it at the right thne, and the yield ~ is enormous. Bro. Whitman-I have nto experience. Ihave on nmy place what I call wire grass ; d stock like it, and I think it first rate. a WV. M., J. S. Hair-I am satisfied that vith Bermuda grass for summer and or hard grass for winter, we can have good, pynpstrthwhlyerthsimy - expincase. thveral year;g tried iy ( loxcerce butra yas agoI ried it,so destroyeri, but my atoint tryeit, agai eroyd gras rutIre richgoind, andi asain. diermudawinter rtquiresinche wand, In rasei cros n ineery gnti heaO and where - th:rass is inow about yar.oo hig Ian raised o4 ahie grass os nowabots anI dosot every year.ie p Mr hmsn fKrhw oam ti fine crop of oats, and I do so every year. p l ti.. r1%nmnenn of Karahaw_ tala me at iz o be sowed in the faD, say October, but if here comesa drv hot spell soon after sow ng it will be apt to die. Farmers' clubs in Virginia say it is better than blue grass. .Iv experience is that it will grow as well uid beter without shade as with it. Yel low clover set-d can he sowed at any time. Ifere the discussion closed, when the G;range resumed its sitting. The Grange having been invited, on mo tion, ordered, That this Grange hold a Call Meeting at Maybinton, on the 2nd Friday n September next, atit) o'clock, A. M. Subject for discussion: "The Cultivation 3f Wneat a:d Oats Bros. Byn:-:n and Hardy then most cor lially invited all delegates to attend and miake the meeting a success-to come on 'hursday and reUain until Friday-and that t Committee of Reception would be at May )inton Thursday evening to assign delegates heir stopping places. On motion, ordered, That the thanks of his Grange are aue, and are hereby tender !d, to the members of Bush River Grange Lnd other good citizens of this vicinity, for he hospitable reception which we have re -eived, and the bountiful dinner prepared or us. On motion, The Grange adjourned to neet at Maybinton, on Friday, the 12th lay of September next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. -JOHN S. HAIR, -..M. - JAMES Y. KI.oGRE, Secretary. POST OFFICE, NEWBERRY, S. C., Aug. 30,1879. List of advertised lettqr afor wea ending kug. 30, 1879.' 3enson, Walter Melane, D. J. ,aldwell, Johnson Tennant, Wm. ibbler, Adam - Williams, Havm4 Parties calling for letters will please say t advertised. R. W. BOONE, P. M. .lew idterUseMnts. NOTICE! All persons indebt .d to the undersign qd must settle th e ame by the 10th of October ne Xt- No further indulgence will be given. S. F. PANT. Sep. 3, 3C-4t. PROIR AMIU! R'tuEUNION"_ ID -91 C V. The Regiment will be formed st'10O0 A. ., in front of the Court House-the right esting o.n Pratt Street. All Survivors, will ake position iris th'eii- respective-Odmfimies, und the Companies will be placed iii line cording to serilority on April -9, 186G. The Regiment 'will then -iit-ch to the assenger Depot 'by the following route : Ip Caldwell Street to Boundary, from ~oundary to McKibben, thenice to Depot, rhere all visitors and survivors will b~1re eived. The lieof march will ibiW re timed down~ Friend Street to., Caldwell, hence to :the: Cout-t House, .wher~e the Re iion will take place, speeches made, &c. From the Court House the Regiment will gain resume its line of march', by the near 'st route, to CLINTE'S GROVE, where the legiment .will be discharge dne erved. -g4~n.dne All civilians who desire to march in the >rocession will take :position ia twoe files mmed:ately in rear of 3d Regiment. Y e icjes will balow-in rege gf the line. (apc. 3. C. Wilson and 0. L. Schumpert, Esq., will .ake charge of the procession. By order of the Committee of Arrange. nents. -... 0- L..SCRUMPERT, Sec'y Sur..Asso., 3d S. C. V. Sep. 3, 36-1t. ESTRAY HORSEI. A SMALLI- BLACK STAIO0 was oud in my field on Sunday morning, Aug. st, and has been ,put uprnbject to the all of the owner, who can have him by aying damages and the cost of this adver isement. HENDERSON WILMAAMS, Sep. 3, 36-3t. Helsnia, S. C. areenvil'e& CoIubaR. R R.IDUfCEO_RATES. On and -after .September lst the following 'ickets will be dn sale at all~tfie Ticket Sta- ~ ions. on.the Greedirille an4 Doglambia Rail-' oad: . .-. 1,000 MILE TICKETS, at Three Cents er mile,.good over the G. k C. -R. B.; and ts iranches. ROUND TRIP TICKETS from any Sta ion on the-G. & G0. R. .-ndiWs branches o any Staton.on: the samie,googlifor Three 1 )ays, at Three Cents per mile. ROUND TiUPc2TIOKHIfr oiwns alRSta ions on the G:.& 0. R.( ,(~its, 6 ches o Charleston, good for' Xlhf Dai at bree Cents per mile. J'iBEZ INQRTON,Ja., General Tielket Agent. R. II. TEMPLE, General Supesintendent. Sep. 3, 36-tf. AtENTS WASTED For the Fastest 8elling Book of the Age: 1 TilE BO05SiHOLD AN GARME RS' 0C9 D oue ld necessity One-he fan ietigwthicat 5 S evifai-i Swho sees the hoof~tS *. Secr ter itoiy at once. Address: CHOR PUBLISHING C0., St. Louis, Ko., Sep.3.3 - Or; ATLANTA, GEORGIA.. IeWberr C0llege. The next Session will open Wednesday, eptenhber 17th, and continue 40 weeks. he Collegiate year is divided into two ~rms of '20 weeks each. - T wo parallel courses of instruction, CLus cat and PhILosOPHIcAL. Students Can, der certain restrictions, also pursue EL:cT course. BoARtIi in private fa . es with fmr ished' rodmn, washmng included, per month 12. TiTION A ND 1NCIDNy~AL.S per .term of 20 eeks, payable at the .beginining and mid le of term, j$15 to $28, according to class Iancement. For further particulars, apply to - - - --.G.' W.'IIOL L.4 ND, Aug. 27, :35-4t. President. uty Sunsday School Conven The Committee appointed at the meeting Sunday School Superintendents on the .h of August last, to designate a time and ace of meeting for the purpose of organ ing a County Sunday School Convention, .,ohu oiv~ ,ntiop that a moet.ine ~il be