'ta~ and X)ralat.
WINNSBORO, S. C.
Tuesday, December 25, :: :877
U. MEANS DAVIS, Editor,
JNO. S. REYNOLDS, Assoolate Editor.
THEOENERAL acts and resolutions
that have boon approved by the
governor and have becomo laws are :
1. Concerning the pay of the
Legislature, its attachos and tho
Stato officers. 2. Concerning do
linquent taxos. 3. Concerning the
land commission and the Stato
lands. 4. To amend the jury law.
5. To regulate tho rate of interest.
Besides those there were eight
special acts of incorporation, &c.
.0"
WH DO NOT think the Beqi8er ad
vocated the passago of tho school
amendment before THE NEws ANDI
HERALD did. The provision keeping
the school money in the respective
counties, which, though overlooked,
was the principal featuro in the
amendment, has been a pot scheme
of ours since 1873. But the Regis
ter did yeoman work in behalf of the
measure.
The School Amendment.
The ratification of the school
amendment will put Fairfield on her
feet again. The two mill tax will
realizo nearly eight thousand dol
lars, all of which will be kept at
home and, with the poll tax, will
make a liberal fund. With careful
officials and good teachers, there is
no reason why the schools shall not
speedily become a groat boon to the
people.
It must bo remembered, however,
that the taxes for the fiscal year of
1877 have not yet been levied by
the Legislature, and may not be
collected at all this wiiter, owing
to the scarcity of money. In this
case, no funds will result from tho
operation of this amendment until
next winter, and teachers will have
to work on credit and wait until
then for their money. There will,
however, be the certainty that the
money will come ; for, having fixed
data to go upon, the school com
missioner will close the schools as
soon as the estimates are reached.
It is well for the' teaehors to under
stand now, that there will be no
money for schools for this ensuing
year until the now taxes shall have
been levied and paid in.
State vs. Sectarian Colleges.
The presidents of the different
Sectarian colleges nowv in the Stato,
met recently in Greenville and
passed resolutions opposing the
rehabilitation of the State Univer
sity. They argued that it would
damage the colleges now in ox
istencee, and that it would entail
upon the State an expense it cannot
now bear. Lastly, they asserted
their conviction that the education
of youth should be entrusted to the
churches, through the medium of
denominational colleges.
It is cause for deep regret that
the authorities of those colleges
have seen fit to array themselves in
opposition ti. aho University. Any
contest of that nature is bound to
injure all parties engaged in it.
The world is wide enough for all
A State college and denominational
colleges pursue different paths.
They will not necessarily conmc into
collision. But if the latter can
show conelusively that a clashing
of interests is inevitable, then they
are the ones to yield, not the State
institution. It is a matter of con
gratulation and rejoicing that the
colleges in question have done so
well thus far ; and there are is no
reason why they shall not continue
to prosper. Denominational colloge3
existed in South Carolina in the
palmy days of the South Carolina
College and the State Military
Academy. A rehabilitation of one
or both of these institutions should
not be the destruction of their
competitors now.
B3ut the State college must be
re--opened. The constitution pro
vides for its maintenance. The
buildings are all there. One of the
most consplete libraries of its size
is thereMob. For a small sum of
money the institution can be
pnt iien oation. Ter le
berry lerald thinks $75,000
necossary. This is threo
times moro than would be required
for a faculty of eight professors, a
librarian and a bursar. ' The
passago of the school amendment
assures the success of free schools.
Lot the system be crowned with a
free college in Columbia, designed
not for Methodists, nor Baptists,
nor Associato Reformed Presbyte
rians, nor Lutherans, nor Episco
palians nor Presbyterians, nor
Roman Catholics, nor free-thinkors,
nor for any special class or sect,
but for all the youth of South
Carolina, whatever bo their station
or their creed. Lot it be a place
where each succeeding gonoration
may meet together to form lasting
friondships and to imbibo knowl
edge and patriotisin side by side.
The old collego was a potential
factor in developing the peculiar
State character of South Carolina.
Lot it again perform this duty.
Lastly, with duo doferenco to
the opinions of many wiso and pious
men, wo take issue with the proposi.
tion that education should bo loft
to the churches. Some peculiar
branches of instruction should, of
course, be imparted by the church;
but education, pure and simplo, is
the duty of the State. And the
Stato must work through her own
agencies. This is a sufficient
reason for the re-opening of a
State University or Stato College.
While wo may hopo that it will not
injuro the Sectarian colloges now
in operation, we stand firm by a
State institution.
LA JWS OF TIE STATE.
Ax ACT concerning delinquent taxes
of tho last fiscal year.
SECTioN 1. Ba it encted by the
Sonato and Houso of Representa
tives of the State of South Carolina,
now met and sitting in General
Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That the comptrollor gon
eral be, and is hereby, authorized to
abate the penalties accrued upon any
delinquent tax for tho fiscal year
ending October,31, 1877, upon satis
factory proof, by affidavit, that any
person liable to or entitled to pay
such tax, or the agent of any person
so liable or entitled, having made
the attempt to pay such tax to the
county treasurer authorized to col,
lect the samo on or before the 15th
day of November, 1877, was prevent
od from so doing by reason of the ina
bility of the county treasurer to
receive all of the taxes at sueh times
attempted to be paid,
SECTIoN 2. That the comptroller
general be, and he is hereby, author
ized, in his discretion, to postpone
the delinquent lands sales of any
county for the fiscal year aforesaid:
P'rovided, That such sales shall not
be postp)onod to a (lay later
than the 1st Monday in February,
1878, for the commencement of such
sales.
Approved December 20, 1.877.
AN AcT to regulate the rateoOf in
terest on all contracts arising in
this State.
SECTION 1. .Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Reopresenta
tives of the State of South Carolina,
now met and siting in General As
sembly, and by the authority of the
same, That from and after the pas
sage of this act nogreater rate of in
terest than seven (7) per con turn
per annum shall be charged, taken,
agreed upon or allowed upon any
contract arising in this State for the
hiring, lending or use of money or
other commodity.
SECTIoN 2. That no person or
corporation lending or advancing
money or other commodity upon a
greater rate of interest than is pro
vided for in section 1 of this act
shall be allowed to recover, in any
court of this Stato, any portion of
the interest so unlawfully charged,
and that the principal sum, amount
or value so let or advanced, without
any interest, shall be deemed and
taken by the courts of this Stato to
be the true legal debts or measure
of damages, to all intenta and pur
poses whatsover, to be recovered
without costs.
SECTION 8. That all acts and
parts of acts inconsistent with this
act be, and the same are hereby,
repealed.
A Standard spocial, from Rome,
announces that the Popo has granted
a dispensation, authorizing the mar..
riago of the King of Spain with thie
Princess Mercedes. The Pope's
rheumatic pains are exeruciating.
Bob Ingersoll pronounced Solo
mon an idiot.-. [Rost pn .i Qlbb.
Hie ought 'to give the WM& atid the
wherefores, though.[--FouaIn the
Glo~cberDeocrat. Donno 'who
wvrota it .
THE METHIODISTS.
The following is an epitome of
blie statistical and financial reports
made to the recent Annual Confer
3nce of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, in this State
Whole number of mom
bors....... .......... 43,196.
Increase over last year. . 1,450.
Local preachers........ 145.
Children baptisod...... 1,984.
Adults baptised........ . 1,387.
Sunday. Schools 481.
Oflicers and teachers.... 2,788.
Pupils .................19,301.
Number of churches.... 557.
Number of parsonages.. 82.
Value of church prop
erty................ $747,953.00
Collected for support of
pastors.............. 64,500.49.
Collected for presiding
elders............... 9,026.00.
Conference collections.. 4,190.15.
Collected for foreign mis
sions ................ 2,126.05.
Collected for domestic
mniRsions............. 4,377.00.
Collected for education.. 2,056.31.
Collected for bishops.... 761.00.
Collected for Sunday
Schools.............. 3,842.38.
Collected for building
churches and parson
ages ................. .20,724.07.
Collected for other be
nevolent objects....... 0,904.00.
BRIC-A-BRA C.
Blondin has traveled 2,500 miles
on a tight rope.
Tennyson is a steak enter. He
loves a little tender line.
What ! Kellogg and Kary Kwar,
rolling ?-[.Boston Globe. Kwite
Korrect, they do be doing that
same.
Dom Podro has introduced the
green gage plum and the narrow
gauge railroad into Brazil,
George Francis Train is endeav
oring to go without eating. The
press will unanimously urge him to
persevere.
A country exchange says that the
St. Louis Globe -Democrat is a
perfect Go-liar at the paragraph
business.
The President says that ho likes
Shakespeare, and the Senate is get
ting ready to reject William, if
Hayes nominates him for anything.
A St. Louis chemist has been ox
perimenting with women's stockings,
and out of twenty-four pairs he
found that sixteen contained poison.
The rest contained limbs.
When the Rochester Ohronicle
asserts that the great George Wash
ington could laugh liko any other
man, it tells a malicious falsehood,
and seeks to weaken public venera
tion.
St. Louis is to have a ten foot
high statue of- Shakespeare. The
city fathers merely asked the sculp
tor if the deceased Shakespeare was
a Chicago man and when he said
"no" they replied "all right, sculp
the old stat."
The Philadelphia Bulletin has
quit lying about Wade Hampton,
and turned its attention to surgery.
It says : "The muscles of a labor
or whose weight is 150 pounds
weigh sidy-four pounds. When
dried they are reduced to fifteen
pounds."
On one occasion, according to
M~iss Cary, Miss Kellogg failed.
On the same occasion, according to
Miisa Kellogg, Miss Gary failed.
Tremendouis liabilities, and no
Issets worth mentioning.-([Roches
Ler Chronicle If it was a fraudu
lent failure they ought to be sent
to Sing Sing.
A ROYAL HUNT.-During the visit
of the Prince of Wales to Lord
and Lady Londosborough, at Londes.4
borough Lodge, on the last days
of November, eight guns shot over
bhe Londesborough, Selby and
Beoreby estates-namely, the Prince
of WVales, Count Jairaczwski, Earl
of Gosford, Earl de Gray, Lord Ron
dlesham, Lord Londesborough,
Colonel Williams and the Hon. 0.
Montague. On a couple of the
days shooting was somewhat inter
fered with by the unfavorable char
acter of the weather ; nevertheless
capital sport was enjoyed, as will be
gathered from the following retm n
of game killed over four days :-On
the 20th the beat was at Londes
borough, when the killed were
1,351 pheasants, 88 partridges, 363
hares, 264 rabbits, 3 woodcocks, 4
various ; total, 2,018. On the 21st
the beat was at Selby, when the
killed wvere 618 pheasants, 140 part.
ridges, 186 hares, 197 rabbits. 7
woodcocks, 4 various ; total, 1, 159.
November 22, beat Londesborough ;
killed, 888 pheasants, 2 partridges,
613 hares, 248 rabbits, 1 woodcock,
14 various ; total 1,668. November
28, Scoreby; 620 pheasants, 2 part
ridges, 120 hares, 306 rabbits, 4
woodcocks, 4; varions ; total 1,058.
Gande total ARA89
DLD JIM'S BAPTIST SONG.
BY CLIFFORD AND SIDNEY LANIER..
SOLO.
Sin's rooster's crowed, Ole Mahster's riz,
Do sopin'-time Is pas'
Wake up dem lazy Baptihsis;
CIIORUs.
Day'o nildily in tie grasB, grass,
Dey's ntiffility fi de grass.
Ol Mahster's blowed (o niornin' horn,
Hie's blowed a powerful blas';
0 Baptis', come, come hoe do corn,
You's mightily in do grass, etc.
Do Meth'dis' tean's done hitched ; 0 fool,
De day's a-breakin' fas' -
Gear up dat lean olo Bhapt'is' mule,
Dey's mightily in de grass, etc.
Do workirien's few an' mnns'rous slow,
Do cotton's sheddin'fas';
Whoop, look, jus' look at the Baptis' row,
IlLt's mightidy In (o grass, ot.
Do jaybird squeal to do mockin'-bird -"stop I
Do'n' glime none o' yo' sass
Better sing one song;for do Haptis' crop,
Dey's nightily in do brass," etc.
An' do olo crow croak: *Do'n' Work, no no;"
Ilutdo lel'.lark say "Yas, yans,
Ai' Spec' you Imightily glad, yoU debblish
crow,
Dat do Baptis' in do grass ! etc.
Lord, thunder us up to do ploughing match
Lord, pcerten de hooin' fas',
Yes, Lord, hab mussy oh do laptis' patch,
Doy's mightily in de grass,
Doy's mightily in do grass.
UTVILIZINo A SIiERIFF.-A Waco,
Texas, correspoedont writes: "Soy
oral (lays ago a deputy sheriff from a
frontior county came hero Lo arrest
two brothers who are farminig below
Waco a few miles. The deputy found
the brothers busy picking cotton.
He informed them of his business.
They gently but firmly disarmed
him, and have had him picking
cotton for them every day since up
to this time. His peculiar position
becamo known to officers here, and
they have gone to roleaso hiin and
put the brothers in jail."
A girl in Sholby, Ky., was provoked
by the bad play of her partner
at croquot. She struck him on the
head with a mallet, and caused a
bra n fover, of which he nearly died.
She was kept in custody until he
recovered, and then sho married
him.
$100,000 I
Ono hundred thousand dollars' worth of
Merchandiso!
iolected with a vicw of supplying the wants of
%ii the people visiting Columabia during the
[(air, consisting of
DRY GOODS!
aarpets, Oil Cloths, Wall Papor, Window
Shades, Ladies', Gents' and Cil
dron's Fine Shoes.
Jones,
Dals a
Boknights
Offer in all their various 'departments an ex
raordinary collection of the latest novelties in
DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS AND SHOES.
We call special attention to our immense
Itock of Dress Goods.
In our flosiery department you will find
wverything you want at modeorate prices. We
wepi always on hand1( a complete assortment of
fiarris' seamiess K(id (oloves; also a superb ar
icle Of two-button Kid Gloves, ail colors, for
mne dollar a pair.
Our Upholstery donartiment is stocked wit.h a
'tll assorVtme)nt of Carpets, oil Cloths, Itugs,
hianis Can ton Mattings, Cocoa Matl,1gs, Win
low SlhadesO and5 Lace Curtaius.
strangers visiting Columbia wvil find this
stablishment decidedly the most attractive
11ace in t he city, an~d we Oxtendc a cordini luvita
ion to every one to pay us a visit..
Orders fromn the country for good1s or samples
romptly attended to. We prepay freight on all
lash ordeOrs of Ton Dollars and upwarts.
ONES, DAVIS & BOUE~NIHTS,
(successors to R. o. shiver & Co.,)
oct 9-32.a
Best is Oheapest
NEW WILLCOX & GIBBS3
aSUTOMATIC
Silent Sewinq Machine.
aatost Invention, Producing Marvelous
Results.
Its surpassing merit places it beyond all corn
etilion, and makes it t.he cheapest, notwith
tanding tho large inducements offered by
ollers of noisy, hard-running, troublesome, t,wo
hread, *ension machines.
hily Machine in the World with
Automatic JFeatureos, and
with no Tenision to
Manage.
W'rite by Postal Card for Price List, List
or Offices, &o.
WILLCOX & G [BBS 8. M. 00
((Jar. Bond St.) 068 Blroadway, N. Y'
nay 15-ly
ESTABLI8IIED 1874.
GEO. Bs EDWARDS,
otton and General Commissionl 31erchanit
CHARLESTON, 8. 0.
P~ROMPT attontion given to the salo
Cotton, Poas, Corn, Rico and Pro
luco of all kinds,
Merchandise bought frco of commis
Ion. Boing en the spot, and thoroughly
,ostod on pricos can guarantee large
inving to buyers oi1 merchandise,
Agent at Charleston for State Line
)poean Steamships between New York,
Ilasgow, Liverpool, Londoli and all parts
>f Europe.
References: .BDank of Charleston; Jas.
Adger & Co., Ch arieton, 8. 0.
sep?t 28-xt8m
TO 3!4.1DNjT.
PHE House and Lot belonging to the
eate of J. M. Rutland, doeeed,
A, ..DOUGLABa,
(lon 22.2 ..-lzouo
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF FAInUFIED.
In tA court of Probate.
To Minnio Lyles, Mattie Smith,
William Smith, Davis Lylos, Vic
toria Lylos, Frank Lyles, William
Lyles, Charlotte E. Ederington,
Frances H McKeown, John T.
McKeown, Dollie B. Ederington,
Eugonia Edorington, Henry M.
Ederington, Barilla R. Edering
ton, Francis H. Edorington,
Carolina J. Ederington, May 0.
Ederington, Precious N. Wall,
Joseph B.Wall and Winn Smith,
Greeting .
Y OU are hereby required to appear
at the Court of Probate, to be
holden at Fairfield Court House,
for Fairfield County, on thetwenty.
fourth day of January, A. D. 1878,to
show cause, if any you can, why the
real estate of Lucy Ederington
deceased, described in the petition
of Mary A. Lyles, filed in my office,
should not bo divided or sold,
alotting to each of the heirs-at law
of the said Lucy Ederington, do
ceased, the share of said real estate
to which he or she may be entitled
under tho laws of said State in such
case nade and pro-vided.
Given under my hand and seal this
ninth day of November, A. D. 1877.
~w_0. R. THOMPSON,
L. . Judge of Probate
Fairfield County.
To the defendants, Minnie Lyles,
Mattie Smith, William Smith, Davis
Lyles, Victoria Lyles, Frank L-les,
William Lylos, Charlotte E. E0der
ington, Frances H. McKeown, John
T. McKeown, Dollie B. Edorington,
Eugenia Ederington, Henry M.
Ederington, Barilla R. Ederington,
Francis H. Edorington, Carolina J.
Ederington, May C. Ederington,
Precious N. Wall, Joseph B. Wall
and Winn Smith.
Take notice that the summons in
this action, of which the foregoing
is a copy, was filed inl the office of
the Judge of Probate for Fairfield
county, at Winnsboro, in the Stato
of South Carolina, on the ninth day
of November, A. 1). 1877.
GAIILAlD & REYNOLDS,
Petitioner's Attorneys,
nov 13-tlaw6w Winnsboro, S. 0
Augusta Advertisoements,
EST Dry Goods Houso in the South
All express freights pait where the
order is $10.00. Writo a Postal for Sam
ples and Price List.
V. RICHARDM & BRO,
oct 27- &ugusta, Ga.
G. V. DeGraaf,
Wholesale and:Retail
FURNITURE DEALER
-AND
Undertaking in all its Branches.
147, 1474 and 149 Broad St.
WASHST ANDS.
Imitation Walnut, $ 1 75,
Walnut eolosod, 4 00
" " Marble top, 6800
WARDROBES.
Walnut, $17
" two drawers, 19
" " drop handles,
oorved top, 22
"drop handles,
carved top, 30
4two drawors, drop handles,
earved top, fancy panels, 36
TABLES.
Round or Square, $ 1 50
" Marblo top,, 7 00
1' " 800
- ' 1200
L4 2000
"2500
TOWEL RACKS.
Walnut' 5
4' 1 00
'4 1 50
4' 200
4' 4 00
SOFAS.
Large Hair Cloth or Rcps,earved1 top, $18
Large Hair Cloth or Rops,earved bop, 22
Large Hlair Cloth or Reps,carved top, 24
Large Hair Cloth or Rotps,earved top, 30
1TETE-A--TETES.
Tote, s15 00
Tote, 10 75
Toto, 10 75
Tote, 24 75
nov27-G. V. DeGRAA,
nov7--Augusta, Ga
.AO' No charge for drayage or packing.
AUGUSTA HOTEL,
Corner of Broad and Washing^on Streets,
AUGUSTA, G&.
_T AS been thoroughl renovated, re
*...Lmodoled and newi furnished. It
is located in the enro of business.
Telegraph Offie in the Hotel building
Fxpress Offoe in the same block. Post
Offic only one block off. All other pub.
lie conveniences close at hand.
.pfe- The Offie of the Hotel will be
open during the night, and guests 'will be
received or called at ay hour.
W. W. MOOlRF4 Proprietr
Ilates of Board, $2.00 per day otr
eel 20..rli