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~J etu ~jiund Xlyrad WINNSBORO. S. C. Saturday, September 15, 1877. la. MEANS DAVIS, Editor, JNO. S. REYNQL,DS, Associate Editor. TuiP PLAN of rotation among tho circuit judges works admirably. In all the counties whore courts have been hold under the now plan, the people and the papers express them selves highly pleased with the change. Interest in the Schools. Ono of the best signs of improve nient is the interest now taken by our people in common school education. It has been frequently charged that the people of this StatA have always been opposed to popular education, and one of the proofs pretended to be adduced is that they took no part in helping along the free common schools established by the Itadical govern ment. It must be admitted that there was a groat want of interest in the free schools, but wo need not go far to find imoet excellent reasons for this. In the first place the head-contre of the. system was Mr. Jillson, an unknown carpet bagger, quito as niuch intent upon making monoy as upon a faithful performanco of his duties. Then the shool commissioners-a pretty Fet of fools they generally were. Leaving out the Democratic coun ties, and porhaps one or two otherg, these con maissioners were totally 'inft, not only in educational quali Aiations but in moral character. Many of them were proacher politicains, lik6 the Reverend Dublin Walker of Chester, and were of course odious to decent people. The character of the school coin Imissioner has very much to do 'with the character of the schools -thelselvos. He must have the co-operation of the good people of the community, and this lie cannot have if he is wanting in either moral ur educational requisites. This was the chlff dfMculty under Radi.. cal rule. Now that it has 'beon to a very large oxtont removed, there is more inducoment for our people to do their share ; and they are doing it. Everywhere wo hear of increased interest in the common ~schools and increased efforts to make them a success. The school commissioners are of greater fitness for their duties. The State superintendent is in every way the right man in the right p)lace. Under his supervision, and with the -attention given by the commission 'ers, the schools are bound to im.. prove. The irregularities common in the p)ast have been stopped. Teachers are required to pass more igid examinations. Trustees are looking more closely after the schools in their respective distriets. Above all, there is a growing con.. viction on the part of our people, that a perfect system of free com - won schools is a necessity. Of course, the want of funds has pre vented the running of tihe schools in many cunties. But to keep them temporarily closed is a very wise measure. It is better to get all old scores first settled, and then mnake a neow start with a clean record. This is the viowv of our county school commissioner, and he has carried it out with the best results. When the proper time arrives, with the requisite means at hand, the schools will all be put in operation. Then we may expect to see at least some of the good fruits of the system, In the meantime, it is certain that the interest already taken by the taxpayers will cong stantly lncrease, and with that in creneo the schools inust improve. Xn Fairfield esp,eially, we think there is an active intereat in popular education never known before. This at least Is the opinion of the county 5chool cojmmisioner and of many others. The entire am9ut of money charged as paid by the State to that anaignant kn ~vof L, 0. Carpenter, for priting 'Md advertising, i~ THE LIBDRIAN SCHEME. The Views of a Colored Clergyman. LirrLETj-ox, S. C., Sept. 13, 1877. Afessrs. .Aditors : I desio through your columns to express my opinion to my colored brethren concerning the Liberia question. I am in favor of going to Liberia when the time comes, but I regard the present Liberia quostion as being preimature, from the fact that we hae no knowledge of the God-sent Moses, Jr., to lead us to our father's land. I rogard this as a question which calls for our most serious reflections, accompanied with earnest prayers and deep medita tions. For, having looked up to a party of men representing them selves as being our friends, we are brought to political shame ; an(d a similar class of men, in pursuit of personal aggrandizement, are mak ing ff-brts, in my oplinion, to aOcom plish their ends by exciting tho ill foolings of this people, aid -1 cebouir aging them to revenge themselves by seeking refuge in some land whicl we know not. I will say to myi colored brethren that it would not be wisdom to give up the certainty. with the hope of finding the unler tainty; nqr could it bo considered wise to attempt such a Ilight, having no knowledge of whero to light. But rather lot me givo you some advice. Iervcase your grain crops, wheat, oats, rye, barley, &c. True, the old maxiim siaY.- it is better late th-m never, but thoro is a maxim whielh says it is bettor never late. So commence now in the month of Sep tember. This is the month. It is rumored that the Rtev. B. F. Porter is trying to got all of the colored people to go. I take this: occasion to contradict the rumor. The Rev. B. V. Porte:- ill a private interviow a few d tys sineo, stid that he had never said that ho desired for t the colored peoplo is a who' to go to Liberia, but only men of culture, such as mechanics and mon of edlu , cation, but he would deprive nono. 1 I myself would only bo willin. to 1 upon being persuadod in mind to believe that I could be instrumental in saving more souls there than here, and am sent by my Bishop. And wheln the hour of departuru f comes, lot us leave ini peace, praying the blessings of God upon the hand and the 1p001l1 we leave b)ehind us,4 andl take peace with us. And find ing peace in our father's land, wo. ] we will have peace on earth, wvhich is good will toward men. Yourgj in Christ, D. S. RIcE. A PRoTEsT FROM GxEN. hOwARD. Gen. 0. 0. Howard has addressed a letter to Governor Potts, of Mon tana, in which ho deprecates the adverse criticisms of the local papers on his management of the campaimgn. "The effect of this treatment," he says, "is to create disitrust on the part of your people, with whom I want the heartiest co,-operation. I have not rested in the pursuit of these hostile Indians ; I have taken the oft'ensive at all times and never the defensive ; they have run from me again and again, but at last by a forced march I struck them and beat them. Surely I should not be treated to insult and contumely for wvhich there is not a shadow o;f reason. It makes the officers of my command indignant in the ox.re, after having marched some of them six andl others eight hmudred miles, and hauving beon pushed almnost to the extreme of human endurance, amnd with rea.l success, to have the gross est falsehoods sent from localities near the scene of operations broad cast throughout the land. The anxie ties of loved ones at home are great enough already without having them aggravated by stories of in, efficiency and slowness that are known to b0 so p)alp)ably false as hardly to need eontradiotion." When you see a wvoman standling on a kitchen chair, looking up at a ragged hole in the plastering, wvhile she holds a hammer in her right hand and hoer left thumb ini hers mouth, there is your chance for a eandid opinion about the nail works. ..--.Burlingtlon Hfawkeye. A farm hand for harvesting is paid in Central Italy seven cents a dlay, and considers himself a lucky man to find employrnent at that rate. Ton thousand glass eyes are sold annnally in the TiniteA Mtae. POLITRL NOTES. HaivinSovl en rm, Roturning Board Wells is nioor agi. The c ipaigm Ohio ik progrJeN!s ig in a very E; sfactory manner. The Cincinn.iti v'squir.-r has got down to I uiinoaoto the extent of calling Judge Wt a blackguard. Mr John D. tgwell, a colored politician of sop tremlelndous ill fluence in Now J-sey, hopes to bo forgiven "for th i(iluitv of voting and working for ayes last fall." The eight Doecratic members of Congress from iuois will support Morrisonl for Spiker at the outset, but after his nau is withdrawn. as they sevilm to thig it will be, two will go to Rtandii and six to Saylor. SoIe of the nvispapers of Iowia ire asking the Dinocatic candidate ror governor of iat State what ho ieant whoen hotid in a Speech, a 2ouplu of years 0, that the Demo natic part.y wa ead and damned. [t does sei a tle bothering. A Cincinnatj paper says tiat NJudge West h gott hr-ouigl with I1s Srpare slpeches. The Jidge's prepar6i Spccli's have so :r blenI largoyxplanat.ioniIIs of ild tpologies for Q)pso spweehcs that 'vere not prepard. 'They are allig into line in the vake of the Plm.'idlenlts New Eng and0 t Irip. CogInWn .Iye an\CCIId [eindc, of Verootnt, now declare bemns -Ives in fior of the Presi t-ni's policy- "vii .si vice eform, it-114the.rn1 policy and all,'' as Mr. luidee puts it. cmplaint is lnale that the in li'tment of So nIny of the lat-0 tate"slen of Smtl Carolina "will It-stroy the rn1an11t. of Repubhlican, s in that State.' If Republican sm il South Caroina is reduced to ne a remunaintt as his it isn't worth dhile to savo it. Thle Iowa Decncrats talk about lemianding a repr(seiitative inl the ational governm.ent, and urge 'en. John M. Corso for Sergeant t-Arms of the Hov.sc. As ti Iown )cmocrats have not even ono mem, icr of Congr-os, thwir prospoects arc acrtchedly slim. In Holmes counv, Miss., wherc ho Deimocrats have a majority of ifteen hundred, they have nominat di a coloreJ man for the Legisla ure. There isn't imich of the shot un policy inl this sIt of thing, b)ut he bloody 0-irt folks would doubt ess rather the Democrats woilu kill the "os" than fn nomnin: t hem for the Logislaturo. Thore is a decided difl'orence ill Irowns even inl Ohio, where there i ordinarily not much difference ir ,nything. One Brown was defeated or a senatorial nomination ir Poledo lbecauso Io was a friond of itanley Matthews, andl anothei 3rown wvho is a friend of Genera: iTariield was placed on the ticket. The soft-nmoney men of Cumber and county, N. J., held a conven ion at Bridgeton last wvecd wo or three hundred posn b)eing~ >resent, and nominated Charles C irosseup for senator, ani a fuill issemly ticket. M r. Grosscup wac heo Democratic cand1idato for sena or last fall, wvhen the (Orcenbaci non of Cumberland polled 40t 'otes. The late Secretary of State o aouisina hacs sued ex-Governoi (ellogg for something over eigh hiousand dollars, which the Seeo ary of State insists is due him froit he Governor for aflixing the .ouisiana seal to certain Stati loeumnents. It will not surprisi ny13bodly to hear that there ar< ~harges of a job in this matter, am hat Kellogg was the jobber. The Democratic newiipacpers o llabamna are (engaiged in a sanguina -y stugglo over~ the next gubeorna. nad I until next yea. Thle que1 hGo1 nyolved is one of bi -Lin, thi ionutheast and the n. wvest anm ~he northeast and th. .outh west md all the other places; think theh ,re entitled to the goveirnor thi ime. The excitomont is intense. A lady who edits tlbo //erald, o Dirclov'ille, Ohio, is (doing somrn rather lively campaign work agains Bond, the wvorkingman's candidat for governor of that State. Sh (toes not think he is fit to be wvor.kingmlan's candidate because "hu came to Circleville in 1858, starved loacfed, wrote poetry, mfadlO lov< stud(iedl lawv, amnd was finally cow hidedl Iby a womin," Thus th camnpagn opens. Stone, District Attorney to South Carolina, and late a miembo of the Iteturncipg Board of tha State, is in great tribulation. IT is afraid to return to South Caroli na in consegnence of an indictmnn for refusing to obey the order o the Supreme Court. Hle says tha if Governor IHm>ton gets Chamn bor back into the bt,ato he will sonli him to the penitentiary, although is probable Hampton knows how h nn.n get C1hnmbm.1in whenevm, li SOME SNAKES. A Dold Atta,ck oq atttlemalos--.402 Rattlo3 Securod. A Point Jervis lottor in tho Now York kun says: Harrison Van Deuzor anI Dan Tompkins haul cordwood over the Monticello turn pike, betwon that pALCO and Wurts boro. On Saturday, as they wero jogging along by MMelunn's, throo miles from Wurtsboro, threo big rattlesnakes lay coiled ip in tli middle of the road, and set up a chorus that made the team t -rs stop. A stono thrown at tho rattlerm drove them into the woods. It'sl bad luck to let a rattlesnake get awt-y from you. A Sullivan county mountaineer would sooner miss ia circus than go home and say that he had seen a rattlesnake and then couldn't pull its rattles out of his pocket to prove it, So Tompkins and Van Deuzer left their teams aid followed the snakes. Tl.o rattlers led them a chaso of two miles, but the excitement that fol lowed paid for it The mon had been taken plum to Matt TalmuIge's faimious den. The snakes lay about in scores, taking in the merry sun shino, and regretting that the bueceberry pickers had all left the woods. This was a pic-nic Van Denzor and Tompkins had not hoped for. They got clubs and went at the snakes. The fight lasted about ten minutes. More than half the best ones got away and hid in the fissures of the rocks. But tho mIen gathered tli rattles off of fifty-six very fair speciens. Some of the snakes they killed were three feet long. They took home 492 rattles, and expect to get at least four gallons of oil for liniment. The den was a favorite one of the celebrated snako cntcher, Matt Tahmage. Ho used to take humi dreds out of it alive. Ho lived in Wurtsboro, and a rattle-snake bite never had any effect on him. He followed snake raising, and lie had some of the most curious and rare specimens of the snake family ever collected. In 1873 he captured ai large pilot or copperliod. Ile imlde a great pet of it, but finally it bit him on the thiumb. I, paid no attention to it, althou1 I pilot's bite is especially drcleu,e, being very leadly. Taung's thmh begn to swell after some (litys. His arm then cemnenced gettigim larger and by and by he got blind and sniffere( untold agony. He lived several weeks, cont.ilming to swell all over, and at last ho died. His I den has, probably, not been visited 01310ro since hio det,b. The Columbia correspondent of tho ENews aud Courier gives the following as tho substaneo of the agIemenit with Jones anI Wood, rufr, the hate clerks of the House and Sonate : A nolle pros. to be entored on the indictments ag'ainst them ; they to testify in behalf of the State when cailled upon to do so. Each surrenders twventy-cight thousand dollars of bonann- war rants and all claims against thoe State for printing, &c. Jones also surrenders his Beaufort prioperity, valued at twelcve thousand dollharis, and Woodruff surrenders the Re publicani Printing Company's build ing and Iixtures in Cohlmnbia, valued at about seven thousand doilars, and also claims against the Bank of tihe State for one hundred and thirty thousand d.ollar's. B3oth Jones and WVoodruff saved their reOspec ti vo residencees ini Chairles ton as set,tled upon the wife in Wood-. r'uff's case, aind the children in that of Jones. A machine hs ee inveuted in N. Y., monnted on waugoni whools,wvhich is intended foir use on farms in the West. It deluges the ground behind it with smoke from burning chips and brimstono, and holds the smoke down long eniough to suffo ecato ever'y potaLto bug, locust and1 otherinct that cme within its influence. 'rho Harru'isburig Teldegraphs has Imade upl ani issne for the parties ini Pennisylvainii t.his fall. It has con cluderd that it will go back and fight the war ovcer again, wvhich is a valorous thing to do. pa'ticulairly as the editor of the [Telegraph wan't ar'ound when there was some r ieal fighting to do. It would b)e humiliating if lie shouldn't be able Sto find an antagonist, now that his blood really begins to boil. Blue glass is coming to the sur'facc - ag'ain. Now it its related that a boy 3 in Vermont p)ut a blue crysi,al onhi five dollar watch, and in throeo days r he had( aL $300 movement amid a gokl case. -- 'Three men wocro found hanging Sfr'om a tree in Texas, and one ol them wvas p)laearded: "They stolk Shorses'; hero is whero we found1 thom, and hero is whore we lefi Sthorn." _______ I The lRopublican speakers in Ohio t soem to be doing all that could s reasonably be oxpeeted of themn tc a insur'e the defeat of the lRopublicain ticket, It was very caroloss leaving the )irrot in the pirlor Sunday evening >ut siv never tihought anything thout if. unfil Monday mnorning %-hen ho roused the wholo house by a tking a sinacing noiso and cry, ng: "Darling Susio ! Darling 1usie!" ITO kopt it up all day, too, n 1 the old folks are much interested 1n the case. The groatt Corliss ongino in na hinery hall, Philadel hit,, has boon lckn down and paced ready for em.11oval to Providenco, I. I. Seven, y railroad cars will be noded to ,arry it. "Gentlemen, I introduco you to my friend, who isn't as stupid as ho tp>peir to be." Intioduced friend, with vivacity-"'at'si precisely the iffor'ornco between my friend and myself." 3%!'TIO3D. Y placee of businoes.s will bo closqed Onl Mon-lay nxt, tho 17th i ist., on accvounlt of holiday. Hilp 15) 1I I. L DANNENBER0. Te Sate of South Carolina, COUNTY OF FAI'FIELD. In the Common Pleas. Wm. II. Lyles, Plaintiff, against Geo. W. Kirlipatrick. Defendant. )UtSANT to the decretal order of His 1lonor T. J. Mackey, mado in the aIhovo stited case on the 21st day of May. 1877, 1 will sell before the Uourt Hougo door, for Vairfield County, on . onday, the 1,st (lay (if October, 1877, for cash, tho tract of land described in the pleadigs in the a'bove caulse, Viz: A.1 that tract or parcel of land,situato in Fairiield county, on Shadrach's Branch, waters of Broad ltiver, in the fork of tie pubilie roads leading from Shelton's Perry tio) meicello, amd from Chester to Ash, ford's F,-rry, bounded o. the south by 111ads of Estate of J. J.'MCMahon, de ceasd(ld; on the uast, by lands of (leo. W. Kiripatrick and the aloresaid public road lealding from Shelton's Ferry to Monticello; and on the west by the said publi,- rod leading from Cha-r to Ashford's Feiry; and conltainilg ONE HUNDRED AND EIoHTY, NiNE ACRES, maore or . This latil is sold subject to tle lion of a mortgage debt itut 1.y G. G.l . Chapman to tie Estiate of E. F. Lyles, also to a judgmint t.lht tu by said Q. M . Chap. mani to Tims. MI. L ls, in the Whole aiminting to about the sum of six hun 1iri- h al'ir: uind zny bld received will he 13onSider--0d :is ovvr andl atbove fl.ai amuount. Tlt! 111and isv.olt as the property of the delendanat inl the above (n1titf' f action. 6. W. ItUFF, Shi( rif"s Ofice, S. F. C. N% inn ihoro, S. C. September 5, 1877. sept 15-t(dS bTOTIQE. \ TLJ Iersonn having claims against .. John %ubley, S.nior. are requested to pres' nt the saime to the undersigned ; amd all persons indebted to lffin will IIake imniediatto payment, and thereby save costs of suit. sept JIl-xilim N. W. JONES. EtIener & Edmond, RIcuIMo\D. VA M,ANUFACTUERSH of Portable ann .V.Stationary Engines and Boilers C) all kinds, Circular Saw Alills, Grist Alills Mill GAe.ing, Shating, Pulleys &c. AMERICAN TURBIINE wVATEnI WHEEL. Callleroh~' Siwcinl Stenam Thilnps oc 9Send for Catalogne. F URNIT U RLE, -VTINDOW Shmad.s Picture Frames, VVChildren'sa Carriages, Lumber and Shingles. Use econor.ay by buying thme best, and buy whore vou ain got the cheapest. april 26 R. WV. PlU1LLIPS. EP. J. McCarley T'"""" *t" callattetio" **'''s new Stock of iioots and Shoes, all sizs and at unprecedentedly low prices ALSO, An entirely new Stock of Orocries. Sugar of all grades,Coffoo, Ri1co, Homiiny, Meal, Soap), Starch , Hoda,Pepper, Tea,oetc. Fine8$eed Irish Potatoes. Choicest Brands of Flour. Bost Corn and lyo Whliskey in townI Tobacco and Cigars, Molasses, J3tard, ilacon Hlams&o Lowest market pricos. for cash. mar R. J. McCARLEY. Noticolto Oreditors. IN TnlE PROBAT CounT, August 21, 1877. rJ7HE creditors holding claims against . the estato of Henry T. Crnmpton, dceased, arc required b~y order of thist court to establish thoir demands Abeforo me at Fairtlold (curt House on or before lhe lirit day of November no t. 0. R1. T IIOdPSON, aug 23--4w Juidge of Probate, ' Shirts I Shirts I Shirts! -----r W AMSUJTTA Muslin and 2200 LInon at$.0per $0lf00ozen P 2 2al n C a i c a $. 0 p ~a n d? 4 $ 9 , p o