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Speda! JUqxesUu v 1. In writing to thio office on bashtosg al- V*ys giro yonr name and Poet OfRoe address. 2. Business letters and 'Communications to 'be published should be written on separate sheets, and the object of each clearly indi cated by necessary note when required. 3. Artielse for publication should be writ ten in a clear, legible hand, and en only one side of the page. 4. AH changes in advertisements must reach us on Friday. Travelers’ Guide- South Carolina Railroad, CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. VOL. II. -N. BARNWELL C. 1L. S. C..-THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1878, * • ‘ i . ' - NO. 57. Con tract i Ur first tnsertio No comnaunleatfon less accompanied by t the writer, Bet M but an » guaranty 1 Address, DREAULVO IN' THE TRENCHES. BT CORBOS M CAEE. ^. 1 CuARLKSToif, March 1, 1878. On and after Sunday, next, the South “Carolina Railroad wilt be run as fallows: ion ACOCRTA, (Sunday morning excepted), Leave Charleston . . 9 00 a. in. 7 30p. m. Arrive Augustaj . . 5 00 p. ut. G bo a. m. FOB COLUMBIA, (Sundiy morning excepted), Leave Charleston . . f> 00 a. m. 8 30 p m. Arrive at Columbia. 10 50 p.m. 7 45 a. m. FOB CUABLE8TOX, (Sunday morning excepted). Leave Augusta ... 8 30 a. m. 7 40 p. in. Arrive at Charleston 4 20 p. m 7 45 a. m. Leave Columbia . . 6 00 p. m. 8 00 p. m. Ar. Charleston, 12 15 uightand 6 45 a. in. Summerville Train, (Sundays excepted) Leave Summerville 7 40 a m Arrive at Charleston: 8 40 a m Leave Charleston 8 15 p m Arrive at Summerville 4 25 p m Breakfast, Dinner and Supper at BroBchvillc' Camden 7\ain ■Connects at Kingsville d^ily (Stnrdays excep ted) with day passenger train to and from Charleston. Passengers from Camden to Co lumbia can go through without detention on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and from Columbia to Camden ou Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays by conuection with day passenger train. H « Day and night trains connect at Augusia with Georgia Railroad and Central Railroad. This route is the quickest and most direct to Atlanta, Nashville. Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago, Si Louis and other points iu the Northwest, Night trains for Augusta connect closely with the fast mail train via MaCon and Au gusta Railroad for Macon, Columbus, Mont gomery. Mobile, New Orleans and points in the Southwest. (Thirty-.six hours to New Orleans. Day trains for Columbia connect closely with Charlotte Railroad for all points North, making quick time aud no delays. (Forty hours to New York.) Thftfrainson the Greenville and Columbia and Spartanburg and Union Railroads con nect closely with the train which leaves Charleston at 5 00 a in, and returning they connect in same manner with the train which leaves Columbia for Charleston at 5 30 p in Laurens Railroad train oonnectsat Newberry on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Blue Ridge Railroad train runs <lai y, con necting with up and down trains on Green ville and Columbia Railroad. S. S SOLOMONS, Superintendent. S. B. Pickrvs. General Ticket Agent. I pictured her there in the quaint old,room, Where the fading fire light starts and falls, Alone in the twilights tender gloom, v } With the shadows that dance bU the dhn lit walls. • - i n. , Alone, while those faces look Silently down From their antique frames iu a grim re pose— Slight scholarly Ralph, in his Oxford gown, And staunch Sir Alan, who died for Mon* trose. , lit. There fire gallants gay in crimson and gold, Thcrcarc smiling beauties with powdered hair; But she sits there fairer a thousand fold. Leaning dreamily back in her low arm chair. &. And the roseate shadows of fading light Softly, clear steal o’er the sweet young face, Where a woman’s tenderness blends to night W.fh the guileless pride of her knightly race. - - ^ v, lie clasped in a listless Savannah and Charleston Railroad Co. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Charleston, S. C., •Tan. 5, 1878, On and after Monday, January 7,1878. the trains on this Road v ill leave Depot of Northeastern Railroad as follows; Ea*t Miil Daily. with the Port Royal, Air-Line and Coast Line of Railroads to divide its once am ple revenues, there should have come such a decline iu the net income of the South Carolina Railroad since 1873 as to have rendered it imperatively neces sary to adopt measures of financial re lief. President Magrath’s path ever since the war has been beset by difficul ties, and it must be said to his credit that he brought the road from its ruins in 1865 to the highest point of income it ever attained, eight years later. If, since the panic of 1873, lie has not al ways been able to command success, he has at least deserved it; and it Was no mean tribute that the representatives of all the diverse interests engaged in the recent proceedings, and even Judge Bond* himself, should have joined in the ex pression of a sense of his integrity, abili ty and unselfish devotion to the service of the road. And now a few words iu justice to the Syndicate. In the last months of 1876, when the political future of South Caro lina was uncertain and the critical aspect of things in Columbia was reacting un favorable in business circles, the Presi dent and Directors of the road foresaw,, from the statistics of income before them, that to meet the falling off in business and the uncertainty of the «oining year’s income, fresh efforts must be made to bridge over one or two years of what they honestly believed were difficulties which would give way before the then expected change of State governmeaU The road had some stock of only nomi nal market value and other sccuntics much depreciated from their face values. ISo bank or banker would entertain a proposition fora loan on such collaterals. At this juncture five directors, the lion. Henry Gourdin, G. W. Williams, Esq., James S. Gibbes, Esq., F. J. Pelzer, Esq., and L. D. DeSaussure, Esq., of the Committee on Finance, came forward and offered the use of their names as personal mtprantors for a loan of two hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of mamtaimng the credit of the company and carrying it forward to better times. The fruit of this generous move was that, within *xty days, by their united efforts, the interest on the floating debt of the road, then carrying rates ol 9, 10 and 12 percent, per annum, was reduced be low 7 percent., and a saving effected of nearly $50,000 a year in tlie interest ac count of the company The aid of the Leave Charleston , - Arrive at Savujnah Leave Savannah Arrive Charleston - 3 15 a.m. 9 00 a. iu. 5 00 p. in. 11 00 p. m. Accommodation Train, Snndayf Excepted. Leave Cliarleston - - - - 8 00 a.m. Arrive at Augusta - - - - 5 15 p.m. Arrive Port Royal - - • 1 50 p. m. Arrive Savannah - - - - - 3 50 p. m. Leave Savannah - - - 9 00 a. ni. Leave Augusta - - - 7 30 a. m. Leave Port Royal - - 10 20 a. iu. Arrive Charleston - - - 6 80 p. m. Night raitettycr, Sunday* Excepted. Her small hands way ■ . • _ . On the old romance, which she holds on her knee, , Of “ Tristram,” the bravest of knightStn the fray, And “ Iseult,” who waits by thesoumling sea. ’ • Vt. And the proud, dark eyes wear a softened look, As she watches the dying embers fall— Perhaps she dreams of the knights in the book, Perhaps of the pictures that smile on the wall! ^ VII. What fancies, I wonder, are thronging her bruin t For hercheeks flush warm with a crimson glow. Perhaps—ah ! me, how foolish and vain ! But I’d give my life to believe it se. vtn. Well, whether I ever march home again. To offer my love and a stainless uame. Or whether I dje at the head of my men, I’ll be true to the end all ihe same 1 Pegram's Bat. Artillery, A. N, V., Dec., 18G4 The Mouth 4 nroliuti I'ailrond. [News, ami Courier.] The contest in the United States Court over the South Carolina Railroad ease has ended in n change of the controlling management of the road, Mr. John II. | that they were doing a great and needed Fisher having been appointed Receiver. 1 service to the road and to Charleston. The strenuous, though unavailing, oppo- ' These arc thfffacts. They form the best sition that was made to the Receivership, ! answer to the ridiculous language in re- on the part of most of the Charleston in- gwd to the Syndicate in which some of tcrests represented in the case, had, we the counsel at Raltimoro saw fit to ini fancy, even a deeper root than the grave dulgc. Rut in truth, wherever the char- objections formally urged in argument, tmter of the gentlemen composing the Syndicate is known, they need no vindi cation. being already overfilled, but at bis earnest entreaty, * frbe more,” she was taken In. When b* saw her safe out of Lift failing arms, to said ; Good bye,” dearest Maryj we shall meet in Heaven,” and went down without a struggle. Husband* and vives have been brought up-doeeiy clasped to gether, resisting the rude divorce of grappling hooks ; rvjothers are found holding two chtldreo, the little ones having still toys and dolls In their benched hands. Yesterday, a family of four were raised* and brought on shore, all firmly locked and interlock ed together In the strong embrace of death—of something stronger^ than death. “ Many waters cannot quench love,” and th§ love which can master the wild selfish terrors and the mortal agony of such moments, and hold its own, and to its own,.tre;vds down the deeps of death in the triumph of a blessed immortality. ' So awfully Sud den was the collision, and so strangely slight the shook, that many of the pas sengers who were in the cabins, talk ing, eating and drinking—the younger portion playing and singing In the last ebullition of their holiday glee—could scarcely have guessed what had hap pened. or had not time to change song or laughter to prayers, before they went plunging down, thus coffined to gether, into their murky, watery grave Divers have been sent down, and it is reported that owing to the density of the Thames water it la impossible for them actually to see anything on board. One of them says thas in the cabin, in the after-part of the ship, he felt bod ies •' packed four and five deep.” Can anything be imagined more horrible than such a blind groping through the dense and slimy water among Ahat ghastly company—silent and oold aud rigid, waiting in awful pAtieuee for their uplift to the- light, but not the life, of the upper world! Little chil dren were under his feet everywhere, and babies floated against him as gent ly as sea-weed in the restless watery dark. A M*L.E1NID11> THIULl’K. Herolnm dI* ihe Rowthera Peo ple In War and In Pewtllence. MYMTfilltir.K or rfiSYK*. YELLOW Is tUe Pestilence Infectious?— Aii Unprofessional Opinion. [From the New Q*lc iPaThnes.] That the hyRotht s^}^ rorUagiou or Infect! n will not answer for yellow fever is sufficiently shown iu the fact that other places, Subject to daily and hourly and most intimate intercourse with New Orleans, aud lying in the so- called yellow fever belt, have thus far remained entirely free. What the real [From the London Standard, September J.J The younger among us esnnot per haps remember the keen, warm sym pathy frith which the English of 18G1- ’65 witnessed the heroic stiuggle maintained by their Southern kinsmen against six-fold odds of numbers and odds of position, resources, vantage ground, simply incalculable. Even those who from sympathy with the Northern States were unfavorable to the cause of a great nation revolting against a real tyranny could not but feel proud of our near kinship with that Incomparable soldier—so desig nated by their enemies—which, on fifty battle fields, maintained a contest such as no other race has ever In modern times maintained, and at last, when all hope was gone, held for six months, with 45,000 men against 150,000, a a slender line of earthworks thirty miles in length ; who marched out 28,000 strong, and after six days’ re treat in face of a countless cavalry and overwhelming artillery and Infantry pressing them on all sides, surrender ed at last but 8,000 bayonets and sa bres. It Is this people, the flower and pride of the great English race, on whom a more terrible, more merciless enemy has now fallen. There can bo now no division of sympathy, os there is no passion to excite and keep up the courage needed for the occasion. Yet the men and women of the South are true to the old tradition. Her youth volunteer to serve and die in the streets of plague-stricken cities as readily as they went forth, boys and gray haired men, to meet the threatened surprise of Petersburg—as they volunteered to charge again and again the cannon- crowned hills of Gettysburg, and tp en- ’ rich with their blood, and honor with the name of a new victory, every field around Richmond. Theirsiaters, wives, mothers and daughters are doing and suffering now as they suffered from famine, disease, Incessant anxiety and alarm throughout the four years of the civil war. There may be among the various nations of the Aryan family one or two who would claim that they could have furnished troops like those which followed Lee and Johnston, Ktuart ard Stonewall Jackson ; but wo doubt whether there bo one race be felde our own that could send forth Us children by hundreds to face in towns desolated by the yellow fever the hor rors of a nurse’s life and the Imminent terror of a martyr’s death. thought that in that far future, In the day when you and I and all of us shall have been gathered to pur God, I could see a great and happy State and peo ple, Our children’s children—wise by the errors we have committed, chas tened by sorrows we vicariously have borne for them, Instructed by tbe ex perience wo have gained—shall build up a new and great country. They will lift up South Carolina and place her where God intended her to stand— wRh a united, free and happy people, walking on tbe great road to national prosperity ami peace. I have c een tbe future, and I have worked for it; I have prayed for It. And, surely, if in the Providence of God it is given to us after death to look back upon the scene of our labors here, even the pleasures of Heaven would be bright ened by such a view. I trust in God t may come. It would be the highest reward that could come to me If In tbe heart of those descendants of ours yet unborn they could say that I have worked for South Carolina. I would eel If God had left me sensible then of any emotion, the greatest throb of pride tbat could stir my heart. And would want no nobler epitaph to be placed on my tombstone than that I had been true to South Carolina, and n war and In peace had done my whole duty to her. God save our State, ant^God for all time to come bless her people. Lf.'Vj Syndicate was given without any kind oi* explanation is no one at this moment compensation, beyond the consciousness - 8 50 p. m. '> 45 a. in. 7 25 a. m. Leave Cliarleston - < Arrive Port Royal - Arrive Savannah Leave Savannah - . . lO'OOp, m. Leave Augusta • « » 9 00 p. in. Arrive Charleston - - » 8 45 a. in. Fast mail train '.vifi only stop at Adams Run, Temassee, Grnhamvilte and Moutciih. Accommodation train will stop at all sta tions on ttiis road and makes close connoction for Augusta and Port Royal and all stations on the Port Royal Railroad, Fast mall makes connection for points in Florida and Georgia. C. R. GAD8DKN, F.ngr. and Supt. S. C. Bovlstox, G. F. iuhIT. Agent. WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD. Gkxf.b.u, Pvsskxcrb Dkpabtmknt, Columbia, S, C., August 6, 1877. The follovringSchedule will be operated on and after this date ; Night Expren TYain—Daily. GOING NOBTH, Leave Columbia . $ . Leave Florence > . . Arrive at Wilmington GOING SOUTH. 11 15 p. m. 2 40 a. m. . C 32 a, m. 6 00 p. m. 10 02 p. m. 1 25 a. m Leave Wilmington Leave Florence - Arrive at Columbia This Train is Fast Express, making through connections; all rail, North and South, and waterline connection via Portsmouth. Stop only at Eastover, Sumter, Timmonsvifie, Florence, Marion. Fair Bluff, Whitcville and Flemington. Through Tickets sold and baggage check cd to nil principal points. Pailinun Sleepers cn night trains. Through Freight Train—Daily, txcrpl Sun day*.) « GOING KOBTH. Leave Columbia .... Leave Florence. . . . • Arrive at Wilmington. . • GOING SOUTH? Leave Wilmington, . * • Leave Florence. . • , . Arrive at Columbia 6 00 p. m. 4 80 a. m. 12 00 m. 2 80 p. m 2 85 a. m 10 10 a. m. The experience of our people of fete years as to the practical effect of Rc. cciverships, under the State Courts, has Itardly been such as to iodine them fa vorably towards that species of legal remedy ; and a large proportion of the Charleston bondholders had come to re< £ird the motion for a Receiver with a vague distrust, if not with positive alarm. It is but fair, however, to say that the Receivers controlled by Judge Bond have not hitherto given occasion for re. prouch, and it is to he hoped that the ap pointment of Mr. Fisher, whose admin istration of the Air-Line Road in a simi lar capacity was, we believe, eminently satisfactory, will enure to the benefit of the largo number of suffering creditors of the road, mostly in Charleston, who, in the present posture of affairs, are con fronted with serious embarrassment, and, in many cases, with aQtual distress. President Magrath, who is now re lieved, has been thirty?two years an offi» cer of the South Carolina Railroad, and for half that period its President. Sue cceding Mr. Caldwell in 1862, he had to face the trials incident to the latter half of the war and to struggle with the terrible embarrassments incident to its close. In 1865 eighty* five miles of the road had been destroyed; rails, cross ties, trestles, culverts were all gone. Everything needed for the restoration of the road was held at the enormous prices of the period, the iron to replace the old rails costing eighty dollars a ton, though now worth but thirty-five dollars. The Sterling debt, to the extent ot $2,500,~ 000, had matured, and three-quarters of a million in bills of the Southwestern Railroad Bank were pressing for pay ment. The new exigencies of traffic and transportation demanded the coutrcl Arrires at Florence at 3 30 p. m. A. POPE, G. F. AT. A. J. F. DEVINE, Superintemlcilt. .-IU ‘w - PULYL’CSS AI.ILK BIOKROR. Toucliins: IncidcntM of the Lut- aatrophe on the Thames. London, September 14.—All England la overawept by a great surge of hor ror and pity and grief, caused by the terrible collision in the Thames be tween the powerful iron screw steamer the Bywell Castle and the large, but fragile, steamer tho Princess Alice, in which tbe latter was cut in two, and sunk in less than three minutes. Few of all that multitude escaped, except such as were able to swim—though doubtless some strong swimmers were dragged down by drowning and despe rate human creatures—as thick in the water,”-one witness said, “as a swarm of bees.” I am afraid there was tho usual amount of selfish, sav age brutality. It was unconsciously shown in the accounts of some of the survivors. One says; “ I cannot swim, but I managed to keep my head above water untH I was enabled to grasp a rope, by means of supporting myself on the bodies of human beings, still afloat, and by moving from ono to tho other. What a ghastly causeway, what a death bridge to life, was that 1 Another survivor, one of the sort who always survives, relates that he was in the water with his wife and child—he holding on to the anchor-chain of tho By well Castle. He told his wife to sa crifice the child, which she held in her arms, and cling to him, or she would be lost, but she would not give up the baby, and so they were both drowned. Verily, she chose tho better part. Yet there were several touching Instances of devotion and self-sacrifice. A story is told of one of the lost, a young Lon don manufacturer, which recalls the heroic death of the captain of tho Northfleet. He supported in the water of important connections and improved Local Freight Train We. Columbia Toes- l>oth involving largo cash ^"younr^l^ricarrirrtr ULijkm.* j** nn« on*. —^ Uiwicr t 6SC cirCUIUflt&DCOS) ** I was betrothed, till he wna noarlw AT. Is no wonder that the debt of the road should hare largely increased, or that, can even conjecture. Scieaco falls os utterly here as It has failed to state any propositioiwtouchlng the origin of the disease or nature of its germ and propagation—any proposition, at least, which appeals to tho reason of intelli gent men. An unprofessional person oalled upon to pronounce judgment would be apt to say that this thing we call yellow fever is, in the United States, simply a malignant type of bil ious or malarial fever, liable to break out spontaneously in any place where the sanitary and atmospheric condi tions favored its development.' IT this be not true, why docs It devastato small interior towns quarantined to the point of extinction, while It spares suburbs of New Orleans in hourly communicatiou with the fever foci? Why or how.dlfl it appear in Gallipo- lis, on the Ohio river, m'ore than sev enty-five years ago, at a time when a journey from New Orleans consumed two or thre^ months, or more, and when, to build up a theory of infection from here, wne must assume tbat tbe yellow fever prevailed hero In March ? The truth is that the infection hypoth esis will not stand the simplest test of experience and fact. Where one set of events seems to support that hy pothesis, another «et, equally genuine, contradicts it as positively. Of course the unprofessional opin ion above described would be Indig nantly scouted by the doctors, just as any opinion advanced by any one of them is derisively poo-poohed by the rest of tbe fraternity and received gin geriy, to put it mildly, by the rest of the world. Nevertheless it Is as good and respectable a proposition as any in the field. The fact Is that at this season the fever has wandered at its own sweet will all over the Southwest, skipping one locality and pouncing upon another, though both htvve suf fered equally from the dangers of In fection, and generally demolishing the most hoary traditions of tbe disease. If nothing else has been proved, we think it safe to say tbat no one will question our proposition that tbe total absence of any specific knowledge has been proved, and, such being tho case, yellow fever becomes at once a Na tional peril and a National calamity. The marriage t>f Miss Jeannette Ben What Hampton Haiti at Green ville. A Picture of the Memphis Vila- ery. [From the Latest Copy of the Ar&lsnche,] A stricken city l Alas, fair Memphis 1 What sight meets the eye of those who yet remain In your midst ? At every thrn and corner* a cry of distress is wafted on the breeze that' floats o’er housetops, through your struts and- alleys. On every side ia-met ftio bow ed form of some citizen w^o has lout a marriage tv! Bennett, sister of James Gordon nettt, to Isaac Beil, Jr., was solemni- was betrothed, till he was nearly ex- zed at Newport Thursday. The pres- hausted, when a boat seemed coming to their rescue. It was passing by, ents to the bride were valued at one hundred thousand dollars. I do not know that there Is any oth er point on which I should detain you, and I find the fatigue of speaking Is greater than I expected. I will, how ever, say ono word upon the dangers that are threatening our party. The greatest of these, in my apprehension Is that ef an Independent movement He who sets up his owh indivlvldua judgment os a rule of action, aud re fuses to act In full and perfect accord with our platform, in spirit as well as in letter, ts an Independent, and an Independent at this crisis in our at fairs is worse than a Radical He places himself, by his own action, out side of the pale of our party and he should be ruled out of the party. He who is not with us is against us and should bo ranked among our oppo nents, for an open enemy Is far less dangerous than a pretended friend,, Our party must be kept fully organi zed, perfectly compact, and thoroughly disciplined. Every member of it must yield Implicit obedience to its dictates, sacrificing, If need be, his private judg ment to expressed policy, and subordi nating all personal ambition to the public welfare; Another danger lies In ever confi dence. The Democratic party thinks It is invincible, and It Is so when thoroughly disciplined and properly led, but if we have dissensions and divisions, and if we allow ourselves or any men to set up false gods or Indoc trinate us with political heresies and lead us fromUhe straight road which led to victory in ’76 ; If we are neglect ful or forgetful of the great issues un der which we are fighting, that great and Invincible party which has lifted South Carolina from the depths of woe and degradation into which she bad fal len—that party will be scattered as these leaves now shimmering above us will soon be scattered by tbe blasts of October. We must be united and move to getber, for on tbat depends now the very life of the State, not the mere supremacy of or another party for an hour. Your children for generatlona to come will be influenced by your ac tion. I am not cow—God forbid that I should be—advocating a policy sim ply for momentary triumph ot per bonal'G'ratification. No, I have been looking far beyond tbe present day— for it has seemed to me that t have been able sometimes to catch transient glimpses of the future through the veil that hides it from ua—and I have relative or friend. f 'The river in a calm Is hurried onward Through channels of despair.” Tho small burnt piles of bedding that are seen on every street but tells tbe passer-by, “A death has occurred here.” These blackened spots that are growing in number daily, and yeir there are scores of brave hearts who, remaining, bound by a duty to their fftllow-man, cannot but shudder In anticipating that perhaps within the week the bed. on which he throws him- self to rest to-night will mark the street with its burning record of a sac rificed life. During the day there is bustle and confusion. Doctors are hurrying by. The hearse is met on every square; The Howard visitor is seen In every Inhabited dwelling. The change of this comes when bight has thrown ita mantle of darkness over all. Then, only the rumbling of some buggy over the stony street is beard; or, some nurse is sent In haste for a pybsician to come and try to bring back to life the dying patient, is .met as he speeds in search of the doc tor ; or, the patrolman, as he walks bis beat guarding the store or dwel ling of some citizen who has fled to escape the epidemic, is seen by some Howard who has toiled late In the night to succor tbe orphan children of a dead parent. Every day brings ita changes. The form that but yester day was seen in tbe full vigor of manhood, to-night lies tossing upon a bed, aching with fever. The chair on which a dear friend chatted while re lating the horrors of the plague, scarce- y twenty-four hours since, is filled not jy him who had shown such a brave spirit the night before—no, he ia in his bed, stricken down, leaving his friend to try and write of death’s doings, that s making such a fearful record in the history of our city. Who will be left to tell the tale to-morrow. New Tor*, 8ept*»b«r ! from Norfolk says that thftf of W. H. Deale, at Boykhaa, hampton county, was the * Bbocklog tragedy ;<**£* Luther Deale,a young toot Deale, - ‘ to the room of Miss Moltte obtain a shot-gun to] few moments afterwordsl of firearms In the lady’s i the family, and on nufatag room Miss MolHe was found 6b floor with her skull blown qtf head and shoulders bathed I Young Deals in handling the goi dentally discharged It, akd the wfeoSt load struck Miss Kelson. She died after an hour’s uncODSdousnew. deceased was aslster of Mn.DMtoaitd on a visit, having come the day be- 1 fore from her home In county, North Carolina. — < • Wpi W L Miss Wardlafce rejected one lovgt and married another. This wee si Juniata, Cal., of wfaleh plane she wal regarded ae the belle. The brought together all the f« folk of the place, including Banff Barron, the rejected suitor, who Joint ed tbe rest In seetti In^f ^re^^rtfeit gratulatlona of the bride. It was aft terwards remembered; however, then he acted nke a mah in n da*e-*coBduet at the time attributed to the too feed drinking of the-beVettgea that formed • a part of the refreshments. Just be fore the assemblage wee aiboat to dts"* perse, Baron approached the, bride, boariQg too glasses of wine. Sebandt od her one and drsnlyt&e other him self, saying slgnlfldtntly, “Let us drink together ones more, for the last time on earth.” She fras rather sad- deefed, bat supposed that they referred to .the necessary end of their Inter* course; and drank tbe wine. . Ik hatt , an hour both were dead. Barton had put poison in the wiOA We find the following in the Be# York Tribune : “Ex-Senator Robert son, of South Caroline, expects to see a solid Democratic Congressional dife> egatlon elected from "that Stats thii Fall. He says the Bepnbhtohs will make no fight except In the first and Second Districts, abghe does not think tbat they can succeed there, as thtf colored vote can no longer be held tot them. He la aura that Hampton Wfi| be elected to the United States Senate^ and hopes to see him a candidate for Vice- President In 1880. All of which shows that the Democrats have the upper hand In ihe State, andarsbound to keep It” ... ^ rfU- Last Tuesday night, in Columbia, & C., two men, named Littleton Bsyootdl and William Joyner, became intoxica ted, and consequently a tow ensued^ when Joyner drew a pistol and shot Reynolds in the left leg Just above thd knee, severing, it is thought, ths mala artery of that limb. The parties Uv4 In Lexington, S. O., and It is said that no “ bad blood ” had ever existed be tween them before. Before the police could arrive on the ground Reynold# had tied his handkerchief above the wound and had moved towards hornet It is probable, if medical assistance did not arrive in time, tbat he bled to deatta Proclamation, I State ov South Cabouna, Executive Chambeb, Columbia, September 24, 1878. Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God la His wisdom to visit a portion of His people, our brethren, with grievous suffering and mortality; and wiiread it becomes us, who have been spared the visitation of the dread pes tilence “ that walketh in darkness and letttroyeth in the noonday,” to offer up our humble supplications for those who are so grievously afflicted, I here by fix and appoint Friday, tho 4th day of October, as a day of fasting, humil iation and prayer. And I request all God-fearing peo ple, not only to offer up on that day their earnest prayers to the Throne of Grace that health may be restored to our stricken land, but to bestow chari ty on those who, in tbe providence of God, have been left desolate and be reaved. In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and caused tbe seal of tbe State to be affixed, at Columbia, this 2£th day of September, A. D. 1878* and In the one hundred and third year of the Independence of the United States of America WADE HAMPTON, _ Governor. By tbe Governor: &M.8ucb,- A private letter to J. M. Resting, the editor of the Memphis Appeal, says: “Our fair city la literally 6 charnel-house. The sights ate awful and the soeoes arssad to a degraebloogt curdling. I can add nothing to What ha# been given to you dally. I would have to go into details that would fill vefc umee. Everyday we put away hun dreds, and wonder where Grey all ootn4 rom, the city la so deserted.” Mr. Keating has passed through three y#- ow fever visitations In Memphis. Of the large staff of hla paper he Is Oil. only one left on duty; *' tu »!. ......i .••.ni,; Hendricks has Just begun to get mdt over his loss ot the Vioe-Pr«*idaney. At a speech at MoBtesoma, LkL, 06 Tuesday night; he hopped off the fiaooUfc which he has been straddling with the rest of them, hallooed for greenbacks as the forerunner' of true sped* ft* sumption, gave it hot and heavy to Hayes, claimed Nationalism steering tail-feather of and generally bombarded his ti h undred hearers with etnlght-otttt trines. Maine fired him. The Democratic 0(ntoe&tiQ« In necticut has re-nottinatwjp Hubbard and has adopted a platfdnh? It tnakee ae greenback lunatics, but k square for sound money, phatlcafly the -wt'f ^ '•T' g ■ A Juror in a trial ofbnedt