WINN3BORO, -8. C. 'aturday, Jurre 16, : 1877. R. MEANS DAVIS, Editor, JNO. S. RDYNOLDS, Associate Eitor. 'Beast Butler says ho issued that fAmous otaldr agaihst the ladics of Now' Orleans, becaiso ho knew it would pleasO tho Massachusetts school marmus. North Carolina towns have been v tiig on th~o liquor liCenolHC(uOHtion. Raloi'gi topers wei'o in a majority of sdvon hundred and sixty-eight, while throo Imndrod majority in Oroens hero agreed to go dry. - At an auction halo in Now York tho other (lay, the A~ntograpls of Bono dict Arnold and Jefl. Davis sold for ovor a dollar each, while Blaino's soil for fivo c'nts. It was not at tached to tho Mulligan letter, how .ovr, ur' it might have brought more. The act of the Legislature extond ing the time for certain olicers ok. et ed in November to gnalify, gives such officors till the 25th inst. to 'file thoir bonds and take possession. Wore the ]Radical officers a're to got honds we cannot tell. There are certainly few in their party ablo to becomo sureties, and the day is past 'for )oinocrats to give aid to those who have dono all in their power to degrade and ruin the State. As to Fairfield wo havO already exprOssed our judgment of the persons voted for on the Radical ticket last fall. If our opillion has undergone any change, it is in the fact that we are more than over convinced of tho iun worthiness of the Radical claimanzuts. Tho man, whether Democrat or not. who gives any of thein any aid whatever in getting into office, it an " enemy to good governmceint and to .the comamunity. Of all frau'ds of Grantism, Pierre p Pont, the minister to England, ap pears to be 'the worst. Divers an ecdotes are related of his ihumkevism and snobbery. Ho once wrote to a spirituaistic medium to discover whether he was related to Itdy Mary Wortley Montague, who was a Pierrepont, and since ho has been in .lsngland he has asked amul ob Staeind from Earl Milers permission to nac the Pierrepont~ arms on his coach and pocket hand-korchiefs. His last announcement is that public business will provent him from ac copting An~1y prlivato invitations. A few years 'ago lheo gave a private dinner, the'bill of fare of which con, tained an elabiorato desription of the wines served with' the price paid per bottle kr each kind. Grant Iremovedl Motley, the. historian,-with 'out anly -protext, atnd appoin'lfted1 - Schonek to suceed hire at the court 'of St. -Jam-es. 'Schienck was com, pollo'd to len've, and uow P'iotropont disgraces Our 'people. No wonder America stftuds badly .with .the b larsted'Britishers. The Fence Law. v 'ITho act j'ust :passed1 relating to the abolition of fences is of such impor.tanco that we. present a syr op I iS, Oniblracing tits --principal points. It will, be seon that' it has beoon care fully drawn up) so as to) suit almiost 'OVory o. It provides: 1st. ,That upon01 the written alppli-. cation - of fifty taxp~ayers of any township, it shall be the duty of the county (conunissioners to order an o lection in that township b)etwoon the 10th and 20th of August, or the 10th and 20th of December in - any year, sixty days ,notice be~ing given in one or more of the news papers p~ublishled in the county. The con1issioners aro to appoint oeetion manaIgemrs and regunlate all details~Of thoiroto. If-the township votes for the abolition of fences, the sw shall takenofleet ini the towrnship) .n the Jst of AJInuary following the lootion. After this it shall be 1?' :mlawfulefor ietek to rian at .large in ho townshJp. .2d. pfpon~ierapplication of fifty axp)ayors in ocachi towunship of a sounty', an eOtionl.shall be ordored limlultanously for tho whole county, dolls being opened in each townnsi1) I If a majority of the townships veto aye, the fenco law sha11ll he abolished throughout the county. If not, then it shall be abolished only inl those township., that vott.d for its abolition. l3d. After the abolition of the law in any township, owners of stock will be liable for damages caused to crops of other parties, and the case will he tried before a trial justice on warrant for trespass. 4th. When a townislip or county adopts the change, the county comn missioelrs mtiust bluihld i legal fence around Cho entire township or coun ty, erecting propor gates on the highways. The townshi:p or county will be taxed to maintain the fence. luh. All laws now existing regard. ing fences will apply to the public fence. 6th. Parties driving stock along the highways will be responsible for damage inflicted on crops. 7th. The last section of tho act is of great importance. It is intended {o disarm the opposition of imr'hesk owning stock without lanud. It, pro vidles that after the abolition of fences, it shall be the duty of every em1ployer to pasture the etock be-i longing to his employees. not ex eceding two head of stock for every (ield hind. This compromise is ex poeted to sat isfy all parties. The planter is3 niow olpelled to pasture his employee's Stook by foreO of the present law, in addition to which lhe has to redress for dauages done by the s tock. It is but natural thatI aly plianter will suffer his laborer's cattle to browse on a few acres of land with his own stock, considering it a cheap price for the privilego of not being compelled to keep up all his liue anud cross fencing. W bilo the laborer, having his own wants thus provided for, will not ebject to the abolition of a law which has c~ompollledl him to perform extra labor on fences during the inelement winter months. Judge Mackey estimates thatt the land now occupi ed by cross fences and brier patches in fence corners covers a larger area than tile amount required by the stock for pasture. It will be seen that the cleetior can ho held only in August or December, so as not to interfere with farm labor. Townships wish ing to vote in August must have an electioni (enled before the 20th of June. It will be hardly possib le t~o have a vote in Fairlield before D)ecember. In our opinion the friends of the chlange wvill lose nothia'g by a little delay, in order to have the question thor oughly nanvassed. IcoIM UNIcArrED.] P"or Clerk of Court. At the solicitation of many friends [ have consoulted to allow myWsell to be miado a candideto f'r the ollico of Clerk of Court for Fairlield county. So lhere I doff my hat, make my bow, throw my baniner to tho l'reezo, and fromi the high pinnaele of famno prto. 3baimn myself a candidate. Yes--live >r die, sink or swim, survive or poerish, I am bound to run. If )lected, I ple~hgo myself not to put >n airs, or par't my hair in the urid lie, .01r allow .Jny .wau to drink by Lhimself. I will cheerfully recom mend all patent medicines, and .sig'n1 dll petitions. and lend moneyC when I haive it. I claimf thait the untiring z~eal I show~ed in the last campaign should not be ovrlooked. I fought lay anud night for the cause. Yes, [olow-citizenis, I was goine fr'om one bar.-room to another and I never' during the wholo of that tr'ylug time allowed any man to :lrink by himself. Often have I en langered mny life for the glorious sause, while lying ini exposed places;I where I might have been cr'ushed by my p)assing wagon. Fellow-citizens;,< aan you forget such services ? NIethinks I hear the sound of many voices exclaim, No ! No ! ! Fellow. ditizons, I havo manuuy claims for the )flico; for I am very poor and I7 wevo. very largo family-ini fact, so oxtensivo that I sometimes .fear mn aetion for bigamy. Besides, fel ow-citizons, I have 'bconi near the, hashing of thensm a.1 hav ,.-lt )owdor-for 1 have beon Hl1o't at soveral times forgotting i few wator iiolons5. With all the atbovo claimiS, I hop, x1h0n thei time coles to pult the hing in the box, that it will contain ho nano of Your's very truly and respectfully, JOS 1 P.1[ JUNIPER. Cc ncorning School Glaims. The fo'llowing act, passed at the ree sessioii of the .Legislatlure', will be of iiterest to the teachlers in tlie public Schools : A1n act Io retpiiro all School Caims aind clain,; for Tenielcrs' paty to be sworni to. Si:(rION 1. /Be it eirced by 1he ontote and hbouse of 1)epresCnta Lives of the State of South Carolina, now mot inl sitting inl G-'eneral Asemnbly, and by the uttlhority of the same : That from ind after the passago of this act, thie correctness andt legality of all Aaimns for service rendered iin teach ng ill any of the schooi.b of this ,tilto which are uippoted wholly, >r ill part, by the State, and all '1aitois of every (lesriptiion what soever, which aic c:a ro.ble aga inii Ist. tle fiJiml raised for the sulpport of 'he free schools of the State, shall >e t:w1orn to by- thle person present ng saidl ciiin, beforc it Shall be typroveI by the person or inrsons tuthorized by law to give such tpproval. :ox 2. That all: chool trustC( H tre hereby invested- with the power md are required, free of clatrge, o hiiliniister oaths to persons pro - ieiiting the claims contemiplated in his act, as fully, to all intents and u1:rposes, as are all other wrisOl5 who, by the laws of this tate, aro (ualiled to adninister at lis. Approved May 21, 1877. IENDIen)lciKS' 'AaV::.: . S.i'IlE:( iN [NDJ.\N.\1PoJs.-A farewell recepion. ondered to ex-Governor IIlldficks )reviolus to his departure for ], t ope, was held in Indianapolis last. Friday night. Senator MictDonald >resided. Hon. D. W. Voorhoes nlade i short speech,after which he 11 troduced Governor Hendricks, lto Said that after the close contest )f last year, and of his licial term >f service as governor, he found limself worn in physical strength, nlmd thought to take a rest of six nioniths to visit another part of the world. Son ttor Mc ionald had dated in hi:; remiarks that had the )opllar will olbtained, he (the speak r) would noW be Vice-'resident of le United States. He was cert-iin hat lie had i majority of the popu ar vote, and in defeating the will of hoe p111 a blow had,11 been struck it Amiiericani innf iutions which thousaiids ot genitlemenu who did mot vote for' G'overnior Tilden or aimeself regrett ('d. Hiereafter, a man who1 is o)leeted P .residenj t by~ t lhe voicjte and will of I le pcople must mdi will be iniangurated ; but it levolves ulpon thc pe0ople of-Indina, stand by the constitution. T .: Cmureu'i CJoUa-rs.--At its re .mouit sessioni theI Legniltumre 1)ss, Al an act establihig imiifoc:nity ini hie s.essionms of the circuit courts, naking several changes from ihe ime~s at which the courts have here ofore been held. For York county, the circuit court siil .hI heln at York villhe on Ithe first \fonday ja February, JIuni and IF..r Latncasmr county, alI Laneas :er, thio third aloniday in February, .he second Monday in Jnne, and thie :hiird Monday in Septourpher. For Chester county, at Choster, )i the first Mon~day in M~arch, the hird Monday in Juno and the first \Ionday in Octob er. 1'or iairfield 'ouinty, at WVinnss. >oro, on the third Monday in March, he fourth M[onday in June. and the biird Monday ini October. For Union county at Union, on lie first M[ondauy mn March, thec third d1ondayut in June, and the Iirust M[on lay in October. There is ino chango in the circuits, hoy being compilosed of the saunte ounties as hecretof ore. C4oTr-oN IN GirnoamuA.--Tlhe Juniie 'porit of the Augusta Cotton E' ~haunge has bc on publisi1. i es. os from eighteon countien in oeorgia show a~n average acrenge >lan ted. Eahrly plan tinIg produiced foodl stands ; late pilanting wvas ual niost a fatilure. Thlo average standi a below thait of last year, and the rop is from ten to fifteen days later. Gabor has iimproved. There has >onl an increase of oiglit por cent.I ni fertilizers, and a greator incronase f home mannuros. Drought lastedl - romi three to six woeoks. Tho 20-. ont rains have beon general.~ When a father discOors thatt bis >oy has been using 4ms razor .to I harpen a slato pon.eil, his -faith that 2 ie is to be the father of a 'President < s temporarily eolipsed by his anxio v to fl tan boy amd a ilaA POLITICAL NOTES. T h lew p~a rty begs to be e xcust'dlrt e pr s n . Ior tie Pr('Mt'ile . an f i m:fu'y twit rc0it had1: hait une lie h( ;ol11e zishainled of hit. It w4ould ho ra:ther fiu if 'ran. Jioild 1)o nioinattl for g' crnr ii 5l~iiild h o beatenl. A nep~hew of ien 1Wadeo is of the )p111011 that the iDeumocrat iajoirity' J1 Ohio this year will h.o twenty Llioiisitd. l(Tst.ili(Is that M[ortont hais backed~ it j ust, fi' citotighi to enable 1ti'i to ;el out wai if it don't pay. (lol-ge ]~it tier says it, was a (111,10 if miistakeni lduiitity. I~t was niot lie hat the iilissioiiiry mot ill the car, )iit somew othe~r dr'uinkard. The Oh1io Republllicans1 at their leit Stntte Cohivenlli(4u1 N1'i1I (leela'( in 'avor of the silver dollar anid tints cave' tlici l)oum0ra1ts only the, gire(1'ii Amn A1il;iuy i epuhiieat pial)2r is .1ie two paries. I' it Ia 1.1 04114 tt' his, then I ic .1' esidi It 1h:1 in1deet sustti1s t het .'r'iieint. says the olore vol 015 thtan 0 er bea.fte and C .115 it glorIious uliuiSkil b eforet it. Slieriisiii is di.-''"usIed to iinl1 that. ,lie iii visible t(IcgV:1h 1i (:1 I O t iji lepiart~iiieit and( td w hlijskey rin:.; is 11 order :lg7iin, and lw is busily cuireding; for the operators. it is ttndersto t 11 that T1amn1:u~v 11a11 wvill Sl 401, af' Cohx fori %I,". '.1'il(Ien. '.Ih(; 11tm). W\ill iaim .Crehe iini I na V44 si(Itt/21 that "r Iiit~ 1tve ::1'110 kid o f .tit l 0i)1 oil th e 'Tlh (Ilderiao f/J',e. s.13,; it ni~iitF; .)0 :tiotlto .1 ui. not Johni A., Nh laxS (lU(:hi1104. thle Brazi I mui Sionl. 11e 0O111(1 nott lecliuc aiiy tiling withot. ioing 1 ioilcilCt toi a long eeil:H 1t R'i/'-me Pre"s/>. ,, ita it Dim West, has gone to Lonisville, Kentucky, as a (lelegato to the fii oirnational Convention of (he Young Men's Christian Associa. ti,) in session inl that city. U'nrry ('allhonn, a negro .o some niotoriely m:it Abbeville, died on Sun., day. Jis friends claim that lhe was poison1e(d or bewitched, arnd tell Som)c frightful tales about the "var, iiits" li, discharged from his stomaw'?chl. On two sepua'ate occas ions he vonitel ia couple of spring lizards, and last week he threw up ia veritable sea serpent, or somoting of the sort. 'T'hese Specimens aro preserved inl bottles a111 may b seen by cnriios at the hoelc of the M[r. XWn. IHard, in tho ser ee of tihe Charleston iMIinling and :mi m - fa cturing C'ompany, whoso wo(rks are i; the \ieiniity of the Tens Hil.: came near lo, in g his lif on Saturday night when retuni:;: Imrom thie work4. Mr. Hard w:. in the road anid was suddenly sta: H I: by [lhe r'eport of a gun near' tom ii:n, the smioke of which showed thi~' it I ad hJ(eni IUV(Nl l iy soilo 01n ecretceI in a Cliinip of' blhs on the road side- Mr. Ilarnd wais unhurt, and lImo~ d iin i s way to the city. Hie has o donh t bult that he was fired at with 1fi1rderous intent by somo villain, who had waylaid him to r'ob and kill him. Aw~iuvuo .A ANswi.u.-Throoe yeai s ago when GAencral Thutler wvas mnak inIg10 (th 1 capaign for' congress inl which lie was defeated, lie was adl drin~~ig his constituents in the town halli~ of one of the v'illagos of his district. WV bile lie was speaking ani elnoos spoon1 was soon1 atppair-, enitly lo descend from [lie ceiling and swmng b> and' fro imimediattely in frona t of the spea~ikerL. For prlobably the first time in his life Ceneid I ntleor was staggere:1, and it was some moment r before lhe could frame nn alp ropriate remark. Pri vate Dalzell heard of this incidlent, and rays hie throught it was time to haii ~Iho sploon qjuestion definitely settledl. lIe wr'ote the following : "(Gen. Beunj. F. Butler :Are you a [hiictf ? An early answer will obligo Privato D~alzell." The1 Geuerail end~orsod1 on tho haickc of thuis : Yon are an impertinent sicoundrduel," and returned it. Thio fully retuned for a fuller answer." lHe has never beard from it, but s tys ho wvill b~e in Walshington~ again when Conigre-s meets in the fall, and that he thien expects to see (1 enoral Etiiler persionally, when, if he still has no0 written reply he will request a verbal answer to his polite miiterriogatory. The WIashmim)gton corrcsp ond en t of the Cienc a lti EngJ'ju ie reports[ cx Senatoir Cameron as saying thmat "if I~ nnsyl vauma doesiin't get .sopmithing soon Ohio will Jayo robbed tIAe roost." Th'le language is somewlhat tec'hnwla~l, hbut neivertheless .,uaily nnudorttood. - .Congressman Nonry B. Payno, of C loveland, is spoken of ini (con1. nict ion w ith tihe Democratio inmi. nation for governor of Ohio ; but it .as a hittie too muclh to expoot 'the Diemiocra1ts of that Stato to do sQ sonisiblo a thing as to nominate M~r. Pavnn.