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-TV ..- > -' - ' " . ' -~x'; - . - >; ,v . LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. j "WEDNESDAY. JULY 8, : : : : TSS3. i Terms of Tiie News and Herald.? [ Tri-weekly edition, four dollars per annum, j 11 advance. Weekly edition, two dollars i per annum in advance; two dollars and fifty cents per annum, if not paid in ad-j vance. Kates fop. Advertising.?One dollar per inch (solid minion) for the first insertion, and fifty cents per inch for each subsequent insertion. These rates applv to advertisements of even* character, and are payable strictly in advance. Obituaries and tributes of respect are charged for as advertisements. Marriage notices, and , simple announcements of deaths, are pu^;. lislied free, and are solicited. Liberal terms for contract advertisements. J X :tr .\<lver:2iiemeim. Insurance?J. F. McMaster. Great Clearance bale? MeMaster, Brice & Ketchin. Final Discharge?Win. F. Stanton, i Administrator. ' ' "" 1- y>?? i Uiianoite jcemaie nisuiuw:?iwjv.j W. It. Atkinson. ^ Fresh Tnrnip Seed?McMaslcr, Brice i & Ivetchin. flCV Local Uriels. ^ ?The weather is unusually cool for the season. ?Winnsboro boai*.-- of a club of well trained and handsome bicyclers. ?Winnsboro has a promising base ball club coming on. ?There was a moderate rainfall iu and around town on Saturday night. ?The left' peaches that have been .on the market to date are very fine. j ?At the examination on Thursday j for first grade certificates there were j very lew applicants. ?Several cax-ioads of watermelons j have passed through here from An- ] gnsta. ?The town council are preparing *o | lay die floor of the engine house with j _ Belgian blocks. ?All kinds of legal blanks or hand and for sale at this office. New type for job work. Ordej^Sgftcited and j promptly filled. V --Peter Thorn and Mary Thorn wcrg wiitteu to jail on last Satur "?*~cfay charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. ?The totalnumber of liens indexed x up to July 1, 3,101. The aggregate of the amount of liens for supplies is $280,000. This is something in advance of last year. ?The Fairfield Division of the Sixth ^ii. EegimentS. C. V.will meeton Saturday the 11th inst., in the town hall. Business of importance will be transacted and a full attendance is desired. ?Our late fellow citizen Jack Brice seems to have made good his escape. The reward of fifty dollars, it was thought would certainlv bring about his return. Not so, however, he went to stav. * ?The colored fire companies of town j were out practising on last Saturday j oiirl T ci/lr}tf?r ! / UV lw JL kix. L1V/VU UiUVi V v ? panv will go np to Chester on the 9th to take part in the firemens7 tournament at that place. Y ?The Gordons' have received their new guns and are very much pleased with the same. It is said they will not require so much scouring on occasions of inspection, a consideration of "?=- no small importance. ?South Carolina takes off the second and third honors at the Virginia Military Institute?-M. V'. Doty, of this Por\foin T1 Cnpm^nr rtrtf] G. S. Fitzsimmons, of Charleston, Adjutant.of the Corps Cadets. ?Before the town council stop the good work of digging cisterns we will remind them that one is very much needed in the locality of the Seceder Church. A fire in that neighborhood would demonstrate the fact to the satisfaction of anv one in a verv short ?xf ' . ' time. ?It is said that the section of the county north of Beaver Creek commonly called the Dark Corner has suffered considerably from recent heavy rains. Corn on the creeks and branches Vioe Koon ontiroK- vninprl i?l nlsiffs and I cotton and other crops have been seriously damaged. ?Every step of mechanical progress is a surprise to the simplicity of uncultivated minds. An old darkey from the country seeing the bicycle in motion for the first time is said to have remarked audibly: "Dunno what de buckry comiir tu next; please God, speck he am guineter fly." - ?The Steam Fire Engine Company were out on Tuesday evening practising. They fired up and threw a stream of water fifty feet in five miuutes and nine seconds which is perhaps a very near approach to minimum time. The .sun was shining brightly and those who occupied a favorable position had n. snlendid view of all the varied ""* - ---- . phenomena of the rainbow. ? ? Sueviyoes' Meeting.?A meeting of! Survivors of Cos. C and I of the J i Twelfth Regiment will be held at the I Court House on Saturday July 11th at j 11 o'clock. A fall attendance of sur-sicors-of both companies is earnestly requested. Resignation.?We regret to learn \ I that Mr. Wardlaw has resigned his j position as Principal of Mount Zion j College. "While comparatively a young man, he is already of the first order^of scholarship, and as a teacher too, he is ' fully abreast of the times. It is t^ feared that bis place may not be readily | filled. "We predict for him a successful career in any field that he may choose i to enter. _ '. jJsot an Answer to the Question ? A young man of town who has been ^ considering" the little conundrum submitted by our "devil" in a rccent issue says that lie can?t undertake to say hovv many kisses passed between the girls, but given four girls aud one boy ^ and there will be nothing preventing an aggregate of no less than one thousand two hundred and seventyfive. TTTr\r.? A distinguished member of the "court-house ring," * and one of the most popular of our county officials, avows that he not only has a personal acquaintance with every voter in che county, but that he knows all the children "from the favor ^ of the family." The baby card always " Egg?nr" -I nil Mil ifraiWITTITIIBWI was a winning' one, and when a politician gets things down to this point it is needless to say that it is useless to oppose him. Let hiirf take hie office and go. Trie Railroad to Sheltox.?We think we will get the railroad 10 Shelton started yet. One gentleman offers (o construct at his own expense* five miles of the track, another offers to take ten shares of the stock, a third offers to tuild a depot oil his plantation, and quite a number have signified their willingness to donate the right of way through their places to the company. Wc will be glad to hear from any one else who may have sufficient public spirit to lend a helping hand to the enterprise. Go it Boys.?A member of the graduating class of one of our well known colleges delivered an address on the Son dan problem. And the statesmanship of Mr. Gladstone the distinguished prime minister of England was seriously called in question; and another young gentleman of another institution seized the opportunity of graduation to demolish the philosophy ofDnrtvin find his disciulcs. Go it boys. Death.?Mrs. Elizabeth Gorec, wife of Mr. Jiio. D. Goree, died on the 29th June at her home in the neighborhood of Salem Church, in this county. She had reached the age of forty-nine years. Mrs. Goree was in bad health for nearly a year. Her remains were interred in the Salem churchyard. Mr. G. L. Bagley, of the Ridgeway community, died suddenly of apoplexy on the lGth ultimo. lie had reached the advanced age of seventyeight years, lie had been oil" at work, it is said, and died on his way home. Two Cutting Affrays in" Ciiestek. ?Mr. Howard Gulp, of Rossville, Chester county, grot into a ngnt witn a j darkey of that neighborhood, a few days ago and the latter, it is said, was rather seriously cut. Those who came first fo tthe *ccne of the difficulty found Mr. Gulp down in the rend with the darkey 011 top of him. We learn also that Mr. Isreal Hood, of Chester, C. H., was cut pretty badly in a fight with a negro a few days ago. The Gionrous Fourth and tiie Darke*.?The fourth of July as well as most other holidays that they hear of, is religiously observed by the average darkey. There was an old fellow from the country in town 011 Saturday, ? iiv/ iiav.4. mv/iiuj ?wv? nui.\4v* v*v. . ? than even these and who had put aside his private affairs to assist in doing the honors of the occasion; on being asked why the day was usually observed as a holiday, promptly replied "that it was because the day was the anniversary'of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ." Teachers' Institutes. ? The arrangement to have a union institute for the white teachers of the counties of Chester and Fairfield, to come off this summer at the former place, has been abandoned, owing to the fact that the commissioners have been unable to secure the services of a principle. There will, therefore, be no institute this year in either county for white teachers. The colored institute for Fairfield county will be held at Winns? ?? " "?' * rtnrl ]\A UOI'U bUIIIC ULilU ill xXU^U^lj auu >> iiJL ug under the charge of Professor Dartj of Columbia. Not of the Regular ScnooL.? "Dr." Diana Sumpter has been captured and lodged in jail. She is the negro woman who has been terrifying the colored people of the Wateree neighborhood with her efforts at conjuration, and of whom we have already had something to say. We are not advised of the precise nature of the charge that will be preferred against her. She styles herself "Doctor" and has been engaged, it would seem, in a sort of undefined way in the practice of medicine. The country should be saved harmless from such practitioners if possible. Personal.?Mr. P. M. Brice Las returned to town and will spend a few weeks at home. Having no desire to teach longer, he has resigned his position in the Columbia Graded School. Mr. J. B. Dongluos is spending a few days in town. Miss Florrie Allison, of York, is spending sometime with Mrs. "W. II. Williford. Misses Josie and Janie Bell, of Hazlewood, are in town visiting Mrs? t\ T> XJ. XC. X Mr. D. E. McMaster, of Augusts, is spending a few days in town. Mr. Jos. Iv. Alston returned to town on Monday. lie has been attending commencement exercises at - the Virginia Military- Institute. How to Kill a Town. "We clip the following from an exchange. It'is said to be the latest improved method: Do every thing you can to pull down the enterprises that ar started. Never speak well of any improvement on foot. v. . If you own any building lots fix th<? prices so high that no one will buy. Do nothing to encourage capitalists to settle in your midst. V/v-A., A sv?/%svs3 fi\V ontr mcvei apciuv g"vu ?viu iv*. ui?; one, bat rather walk out of your way to say an evil one. Get mad and grumble at every one that doesn't think like you. Close your doors against every new comer. Always speak evil of your home paper. Tell the people that there is notbiug iu it worth reading. That its editor is a man of no brains, and he is not capable of advancing a sane idea. Stick close to the above, and you will find our. ere long, that your town will have passed into a sweet repose more lasting than that of "Rip Van Winkle." * r>. ? x*. v_TAJur, ur ? u v; aic | informed that the base ball club of this i place received sometime ago a challenge i from the Rock Hill club to play a i match game on the 4th of July. The ; invitation was promptly accepted, and ! the boys here made their arrangements ' accordingly, Subsequently a letter I was received from the Kock Hill clitf^ saying that they could not come dqjpp : on the -ith, but would comc orUh^th., Is ?fc MMBMMMMMMnBM?B This amendment was likewise accepted. Bnt when on the 2nd instant auother letter was received from "Rock Ilill asking t'.j.it the time be ;tgain changed to t3:e 4th. Some of the members oi' this club had made other engagement for that day and the accommodation policy could not be followed any farther. Hock Ilill must come down now or ii may be suspected that they do not want to play much afrer all. A Granite Tkaix.--A train of four cars of granite from the Fairfield quarry arrived in Charleston on Wednesday. Two carloads were consigned to Col. E. R. "White and two to Mr. E. T. Viett. In the consignment to Mr. Viett is the obelisk iutended for the Charleston Light Dragoons monument, the third piece of granite quarried for that purpose. The obelisk that has now reached Charleston is said to be as line a piece of stone as ever came from any quarry, its proportions being such as to render the least I possible quantity of work necessary. It is TJ feet 2 inches long, 2 feet 8 inches squaae at the base and 1 foot 7 Inches square at the top. It is marked: "Quarried by J. \V. Heath from the' Fairfield Granite Works, Winnsboro, S. C." In the same consignment is a block of granite intended to be used as one of the bases of the monument. It is 6 feet 3 inches square and 1 foot 2 inches thick. Vacation .?The present session of! Mount Zion College closed on Friday, and teachers and pupils alike are no doubt willing to take vacation. The school is now in a flourishing condl- j tion, and the patrons certainly have j Hood reason to congratulate thern selves. A number of prizes were j awarded as follows: Prize offered for j best deportment in first and second | grade to Uader Gladden; lbr be>t j average examination in third grade to Tiny Elliott; for best average examination in fourth grade to Carl' Matthews; for best average examination] in fifth grade to Dick McMaster; for | best composition in sixth grade, on j Gen. R. E. Lee, Richard Fripp; for best composition in seventh grade, on Ilenry VIII., Frank Withers. Classes above seventh grade: For best composition on-Alexander the Great, Miss Mary Gaillard; for memorizing poetry, Misses Anna McCarley, Eunice Bacot, Maitie Egiesion. and Master Eddie Gaillard, each received a prize. The Farmers Organized. ? Pursuant to a suggestion made in these columns sometime since a number of farmers met here on Monday. ri hey repaired to the Court House and 011 motion of Mr. G. H. McMaster, Mr. Nathan Robertson was elected tempo vary chairman. Mr. Robertson then stated that the objcct of the meeting was to organize a farmers' club and elect delegates to the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society, which meets at Bennetsvilec on the 5th of I August. A permanent organization was soon effected with Mr. Nathan Robertson as president, and Mr. J. F. McMaster^s Secretary. Messrs. J. M. Stewart, J. "W. McCants and II. A. Gaillard were appoidted a committee of three to draft a constiution, and Messrs. T. G. Patrick, J. M. Stewart' and Tv. A. Rabb were elected delegates to represent the club at Bennetsville. The club then adjourned to meet agaiu on the 3rd of August next. All farmers ot the county are invited to be on hand. Death.?we were paineuio learn 01 the death of the licv. L. II. Robertson, of this county, which occurred on Friday last. Mr. Robertson was a young- man scarcely twenty-eight years old, and was just commencing a career of usefulness. He has for several years been the pastor of Pleasant Grove and Catholic Presbyterian Churches, situated in the Southeastern section of Chester county. Last fall he had a spell of typhoid fever which weakened him considerably, and [then the dread disease consumption set in and for some time his friends had given up all hopes of his recovery. lie leaves a young wife and a host of friends to mourn his loss. , Mr. W. B. Benson, of the Rocky Mount community died on last UA l-kA/3 fVio OUIJ Utt?i JLJLV; HCKU. l^UVLlWU V1JN* advanced age of sixty-one years. It has been said of him that lie was the greatest natural mechanic that this county has ever produced. Peace to his ashes. The New Postal Law.?The amended postal law went into effect on Wednesday. The modification in which the public is most interested is that increasing the single letter weight from half an ounce to one ounce, just double the weight that can beforwarded for two cents. In other words, there is no redaction in the price of postage except in (his way: A letter weighing one ounce under the old law would require a postage of four cents: under the new law it only requires two cents. If it weighs over one ounce, say one and a quarter ounces, the postage will be four cents. Perhaps the most noticeable amendment next to this is the experimental one providing for special delivery. A ten-cent stamp is provided, by attaching which the prompt delivery of a letter can be insured, to any address within one mile of the receiving office. This regulation will not signify much in large towns where there is a regular carriers' delivery established, but it may prove a convenience in smaller places where carriers are not employed. There are several changes to be made by the new law which the public will not have occasion to immediately notice. They are all in the direction of improvement, intended to make the service more efficient and intended to make the postoffice more useful. ?To most children the bare suggestion of a dose of castor oil is naueatiug. WKi- t\r\4- fKon nrVion r\hvcir? k sa^for the little ones, use Avers i^thartic Pills? They combine every essential and valuable principle of a cathartic medicine, and beiag sugarcoated they are easily taken. * Ix the Trial Justice Court.? On Tuesday the attention of the court was given to the case of the State vs. Daniel Iiochcllc charged with assault and battery. It appeared that lie had taken the liberty of giving a female friend moderate chastisement, and for usurping such high prerogative he was required to pay seven dollars and a On the same day Francis McMaster was triad for (he same offense. She was also found guilty, and sentenced to pay a fine of seven dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail ten days. On Saturday the 4th a preliminary hearing was held in the case of the State vs. "Dr" Diana Sumpter, charged with the common law crime of swinding. The examination developed some amusing incidents; the prosecuting witness, one Goodwin was above the intellectual weakness of believing in conjuration witchcraft etc., and delivered his testimony in a manner that suggested new capacities of the English tongue. It appeared that the defendant reached under the doorsteps ofTimbo Singleton's house and drew out a j number of strange looking things in i the shape of snakes, lizards etc., which | she claimed to have taken out of Mary i. l 1 ^ .... ??nP villllCV'S UUU. Jim V Villi iv ?v<? civ^n. and a patient of the defendant whoclaimed the power of casting out devils. The first witness for the Stale proved a number of strange facts against the defendant, but he was not supported by the other witnesses. It was evident from their manner of testifying that the fear of conjuration, like the sword of Demode?, hung over their devoted heads. There was no proof that the doctor had ever received any fees for her professional services and as this is necessary to sustain the charge, she was allowed to depart in peace. Has the Centeimial of Our Town Passed? If was suggested to us a few days ago that the present year is the centcn nial anniversary of our town and that it would be eminently proper to mark the same with an appropriate celebration. "We agree as to the propriety, and indeed are quite ready to press the same upon the consideration of our fellow citizens. But is this our centennial year? In the Statutes at Large, vol., 4 page G52 we find "An Act for, establishing fairs and markets in the' town of Winnsborough passed on the Sth day of March, A. D., 1785," and this is relied upon by some as indicating that the town was laid out during that year. We fail, however, to find anything in the Act that will warrant the inference. The preamble recites that "Whereas, John Winn, Richard Winn and John Vanderhorst did by their humble petition to. the honorable the Senate and House of lleprasentatives of this State set forth that at the special instance and reqeest of a number of the inhabitants of the district situate between Broad and Catawba livers, they had laid out a town by the name of Winnsborough etc. &c." But no where either in the preamble or the body of the Act which simply establishes fairs and markets, is anything said about the precise time when the town was laid out. Historians of the Revolution and of South Carolina mention the fact that Cornwallis had his headquarters here in the year 1780, so the place must have been something of a town even at this date. If the beginning of the town, however, is to be marked by its incorporation, then our ."pntpmii.il is vet to arrive. The earliest j Act of incorporation which we can ! find bears date of December the 19th, 1S1G. Perhaps some ot our older citizens can tell something more about it? Be as it may with respect to the town it is certain that this is the centennial year of the Mount Zion College and the old building is about worn outShall it be rebuilt? If so now is the' accepted time. V Winnsboro's Progress in Five Years. In this day of business progress men are prone to overlook the improvement going on immediately around them and the progress made by them. This is true, not only of individuals, but villages, cities and communities. It is always a matter of interest to know the progress made by any section of the country, and to do this it is necessary to select a certain period of years and note the improvements made within this time. , It will probably be of interest to the people or wmnsooro ana 01 tnc county generally to know what progress and improvements have beeu made at the county seat in the last five years. Of course this improvement has been gr-adual, and at no one time has it attracted more than ordinary attention, but when we come to consider it as a whole and note the amount of money expended we get some idea of the progressive spirit abroad and in town. In 1S80, if we are not mistaken, Evans street was opened and a number af lots sold off, which seemed to Jbe the beginning of a bnilding boom which has continued every since, ana spread itself over every section of town. Below we give the list of new buildings put up in the last five years with a rough estimate of their cost: Rev. J. T. Chalmers, new dwelling and outbuildings, $3,000. J. II. Cummings, new dwelling and outbuildings, $3,000. J. E. McDonald, two new dwellings and outbuildings, $G,500. # C. M. Chandler, new dwelling and outbuildings, $2,500. W. L. Timmons, new dwelling and outbuildings, $2,500. S. S. Gibsou, new dwelling and out buildings, $1,500. T. K. Elliott, new dwelling and outbuildings, $3,000. G. II. McMaster, new dwelling and outbuildings, $3,500. W. G. Jordan, new dwelling and outbuildings, $3,000. J. Q. Davis, new dwelling and outbuildings, $2,000. W. C. Kion, new dwelling and outbuildiugs, $3,000. i G. B. Dunn, new dwelling and outj buildings, $3,000. 113 R, C. Gooding, new dwelling ?nd j outbuildings, 82,500. Mrs. Gaillard, new dwelling and outbuildings, $1,500. J. N. Centee, new dwelling arid outj buildings, $2,000. D. V. "Walker, new dwelling and outbuildings, ?3,500. Mrs. Chaplin, new dwelling and outbuildings, ?1,500. Mrs. Owens, new dwellings and outbuildings, $1,500. A. Williford, new stables, $2,500. J. J. Neil, new offices, $500. Turner & Co., new store, $S00. i J. O. Boag, opera house, $1,500. | Mrs. Duval, improving hotel, $1,500. D. J, Macaulav, dwelling improved, $700. | J. P. Caldwell, dwelling improved, $300. Colored Presbyterian church, $1,500. Colored Methodist church, $1,500. Connor & Chandler, new store $1,000. Besides the improvements above named there have been quite a number nf ftwollinora vrMilinfrrl nnd VGnaircd. Both Presbyterian churches repaired, J and a handsome iron fence has been placed around {he Associate Reformed Presbyterian graveyard. Making an j aggregate expenditure within the last i five years in round numbers of about i $65,000, or at the rate of $13,000 an, nually. Of course this estimate is rough and ; some improvements have been made j of which we are not aware. Does not I this'speak well for the enterprise of ! our citizens? Among this number of j improvements we find but few business I houses; but where there is abroad such j a spirit of enterprise we have no hesi: tation in saying that the business ; houses will be built at the proper time. ! Let the building boom increase. There ; j is a bright future before the "Boro." i THE COLLEGE BUILDINGS. Messrs. Editors: The exercises ofj i Mount Zion have closed and it will j i not be considered impertinent tosuggest. j tv the Trustees to look ;it the school j buildings. Thev are thoroughly out j of repair, and the repairs cannot I>e j ; made during the school sessions. The j I i school-house occupied by Miss Beaty's | children is utterly unfit lor white chili dren to occupy. The floor was so I open last winter that a benevolent genj tlaman, at his own expense, tilled up i .ill the m-acks and and holes in the s~ i floor, but it was impossible to fill up the openings everywhere else?sides and ceilings?and the doors were too decayed to drive a nail in. This building ought to be burnt up. It is absolutely necessary to have new quarters another winter; and when a new school-house is built, let it be erected towards the front, for the present site is unhealthy and odious between two offensive outbuildings. The citizens of "Winnsboro are remarkable for their public spirit and j generosity, and I am sure if appealed ! to properly would do- their share in | putting the premises in fine condition, i Besides, why not sell seme of the J waste land of tho Society and have at | least decent quarters for the children | of our citizens. i -Hoping the Honorable Trustees will | examine for themselves the delapidated and rotten row, and bear no malice to A Friend to Children and Teachers. ' ? I i 1TJSJIS FROM MORRIS CREEK. | Messrs. Editors: Yonr correspon| dents have freqnentlv furnished yonr readers with various items of interest from Bear Creek, Cedar Creek, Rock Creek, etc., but I do not remember having seen anything from Morris Creek. This section of onr county lies southwest of "VVinnsboro. We are a farming people; everybody works, especially the whites; the land is generally poor, and some of it has, perhaps, been rendered more so by the use of foreign manures, having been so overstrained by that process as to require some fifteen or twenty years to recruit. But of course I shall grant to any who may desire it permission to think differently, but still I cannot say of it what a traveler said of some land he found in Dakota, that "the more a man owned of it the poorer he was." Our lands arc mostly sandy, easily worked, and yields an ample return for all improvements from the lot and stable in the long run. But as to foreign manures in the short run the present writer can say nothing without allowing his words to outstrip his experience. At the present time the prospects are very encouraging for a good crop. The fruit crop is nhnudant, and many of the trees whi call for a partial and premature unloading in self-defense. We never hear of hard times nowa days. Our people have either become ashamed of crying hard times, or have no time to thiuk about it. My own private opinion is that our people have found out that every man's times are just about such as he makes tliem, whether hard or soft. I believe that all Wall street and Jay Gould thrown in can never make hard times to one who don't have to buy. We have some men who have old hams, greasy biscuit and pleuty of corn. Hard times don't eflect them. They, too, might make their times hard by mismanagement, but they don't. They raise their own meat and bread, and their own fertilizers, if you will allow things so different to be put in the same category. I suppose few sections of our State have more industrious, quiet and peaceable citizens than this. Crops are generally in good condition; the exceptions, so far as I have observed, are almost entirely with colored tenants working- on their own responsibility, though many of Ihcsc arc doing well. Now, Messrs. Editors, I have dotted down on a piece of paper by me a number of items to write about from this section, but if I don't defer them until next week my article will be so long scarcely any one will read it. These f3fericans are curious people. They will read a short article however trivial, and skip over a long one however important. July 3, 1885. Morris Creek. ] i *. t Bucklen's Arnica Salve. [ Tiie Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt llheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money >v>frmr?prl. Pririfi 25 cents tier box. For sale by McMaster, Brice & Ketchin. * ?Secretary Manning, on learning of the facts of "the Kellar case, at onee sent for Kellar, appointed him to a clerkship and set bim to work. Kellar l is an Ohio man, who having been certified by the civil service commissioner i was refused his appointment by First Auditor Chenowith on the ground that ; he was distateftil to Congressman Warren and other Democrats in his liotr.e district. ?Twenty villages in Austria were ignited by lightning and burned in the storms on Saturday and Sunday. Six men were killed while trying to extinguish the flames. Great damage was done to crops by the hurricane. A waterspout flooded Pesth on Thursday evening. Danube swimming oaths, fall of people, became loosened and floated down the stream. The people were panic-stricken but were all rescued. ?On June 30 at the close of business in the dead-letter office in charge of the new superintendent, J. B. Baird, of Georgia, every branch and subdivision was up with it work, a state of affairs that has not occurred for many years. Ordinary dead letters arc now "passed" or disposed of in two days, and returned on the third day. This degree of celerity in the disposition of dead letters has not been reached in any other country in the postal union, and has never before been reached in this country. AYER'S I Cherry Pectoral, i Xo other complaints are so insidious in tlieir attack as those alfecting the throat and lungs: ' none so trilieil with by the majority of sufferers. The ordinary cough or cold, resulting ' perhaps from a trifling or unconscious ex- | posure, is often but the beginning of a fatal J sickness. Ayee's Cheery Pectoral has j well proTen its efficacy in a forty years' light j witn uoroat ana mug diseases, aim suuum uc < taken in all cases without delay. A Terrible Cough Cured. " In 1S571 took a severe cold, which affected my lungs. 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JULY is the month to plant Ruta Baga Turnip Seed. A supply of Fresh Seed just arrived. Also many other varieties of Turnip Seed. McMASTER, BRICE & KETCHES'. July 2 NOTICE FOR FINAL DISCHARGE I WILL apply to the Judge of Probate of Fairfield County on the 4th day of August next for a fiual discharge as Administrator of the Estate of E. R. Ragsdale, deceased. WM. F. STANTON, July4flx3 Administrator. CHARLOTTE Female Institute. Session begins September 2nd, 1SS3, closes June 2nd, 1886. Unsurpassed in the thoroughness and high standard of its Literary, Music and 1 Art Departments. For Catalogues apply to KEY. W. R. ATKINSON, Charlotte, N. C. p. s.?Persons receiving catalogues will take notice that the session begins a week sooner than announced in the catalogue. July8L2ra INSURANCE ! IIsrSUE/ AITCE!! ? Have your Policies written at J. F. MONASTER'S LIFE AND FERE INSURANCE AGENCY. I am agent for the MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, of New York?the largest Life Insurance Company in the World. 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TURKISH PRUNES. , * I BORDEN'S EAGLE MILK. ROYAL YEAST POWDER. FRESH ARRIVALS OF FISH. ___ SUGARS, COFFEES AND TEAS A specialty, with a great many other goods, which will be sold at the lowest price for CASH. ' S. S. WOLFE. May 13 GENERALInsurance Agency Insure your life in the EQUITABLE LIFE of New York, one of the strongest and most reliable Companies in the world. Trya SEMI-TONTINE POLICY, non-forfeitable after three annual payments. Insure your Property against damage from fire and lightning. Policies written in reliable, prompt-paying companies at the lowest rates allowed by Southeastern Tariff Association. J. C. CALDWELL. Mayl9fxly Insurance Agent. LOW PRICES! "WHITE LAWN, FAIR QUALITY, at 10 cents per yard. WHITE LAWNS, GOOD QUALITY, at 14 cents per yard. A beautiful line of Hamburg Edging and other trimmings. The prices on these goods are selling them rapidly AT THE CORNER STORE. J.M.BEATY&BKO. "pushed" ONCE! . f AND FANCY GOODS! .V.J . %% SVERY DEPARTMENT!! 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Miy23-iy r Aum i m CHEAPEST STORE IN raw * ; -f. ... I THE LEAST MOSEY! ! . *>? _ , -? nplete, consisting of Ladies'. Black lot of Dress Worsted ever brought to lie latest colors. Also a splendid Ladies' Waterproof?cheap. These look at them. Velveteens?Blue, % AND TOWEL LINEN Spreads, Lindseys, Canton Flannel, Unbleached Homespun, Drillings, loop-skirts, &c., &c. ' DEPABTKENT were nicked out from among C13 1 x. for durability, cannot be excelled. EDiG GOODS IS COMPLETE.? SHOES AND TRUNKS. ts. Polite attention given to all. . .. 8 SAMUELS. THE STYLES l j TOTING MEN WANT I Are those handsome Four-Button Cuta ways in wnite cora, in au colore; oacs. Suits, Suits of Cheviot; Cassitneres, Worsted. Seersucker in fancy and plain patterns. The custom-like appearance ana elegant style of KINABD'S TAILOR-MADE CLOTHING is so well and widely known that for me to state it is far superior? especially in quality and fit?to any offered * '?" for sale elsewhere m the city, is qoiti admissable, for it is a confirmed truth. The class of-merchandise which I have for sale is not kepfrby small dealers in small cities and towns; therefore, in soliciting mail orders I do not conflict with the numerous country merchants. My establishment being the most complete emporium for the sale of Men's and Boys* Fine Clothing, there is no clothing house in th? State that is better prepared to meet the wants of the ' public than this Fashionable Clothing Emporium; and persons residing at a distance who may wish to purchase Clothing or Fur- . .. nishing Goods, and Gents' Fine Shoes in Gaiters, Low-quarters, Slippers and Dancing Pumps, and Gents' jseckwear, Hats, Satchels and Fine Trunks at honest prices, should send their orders direct to M L. 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