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The Press and Banner. ABDUVILLE, S. C. BY IIUGH WILSON. Rej ? M Wednesday, May 30,1877. The New Iron Road. Last week we mentioned the proposed j Edi new railroad connection with the West, I ^ ^ and again we a*k the attention of our j or readers to this mutter. We presume that; sen all are convinced of the necessity of this 1 the road, and it is onlv remains for our peo- 's V * 1 SPl-l pic to act in concert and with the deter- ^ NV mination to succeed. The Augusta and the Greenwood road ?-an be used in common s',a for more than forty miles and by a com- aR|i lunation of Lowndesville and Calhoun's We the money can readily be raised to finish f?.r the road. The Greenwood road will eventually be built to Laurens and Spar- jj tan burg which will give Augusta a road Wi more important than any now running ^ into that city. -j The Spartanburg and Ashville road am is being pushed forward with great vo^ energy and perhaps tLirty miles is now iti rnnninfr r*s\r\ if nnrl D?nc>i/lAnf l _ i? j ii* a uuutii^ wuuiuvii) auu X JO-Muuui j | Duncan thinks be will scale the moun- Sta tains in less than a year from this time. | Let the road be finished by Calhoun's I lew Mills and Lowndesville to Anderson, and ' vot then with a little help the Blue Ridge . ^ road can be completed, which-will givejtjie Augusta another equally important road,! be; and at the same time build up tho finest ** portion of Abbeville county. By the Lowndesville section going in part- jt i ncrship with tho Greenwood euter- j the prise forty or fifty miles could be built for a small cost to each, and then with ^ some further assistance from Augustaijor Lowndesville could finish it to that town when those on tho lino of tho route to An- ." derson could easily carry it forward to tin that point. lie; The stock of the company should be I1'1 made receivable in payment of passage {"j. or freight. This plan has been adopted Ian in some of the States with wonderful l*,( success. For instance if a merchant or |j?(l nttier person?owes a biJl for freight, he i,ui should be allowed to pay a portion of the th( hill in his stock at par. Of course no railroad could pay running expense* if the whole was paid in stock, and to keep rot the road in running condition a portion, Jw say two-thirds or three-fourths of the passage or freight bill should be paid in money. By making the stock receivable Jo' for part of anv amount due the road i?v * Rc much larget subscriptions could be se- jor cured for the enterprise, and the builders tui of the road would be made perfectly so- ?i1] cure against a possible loss, whilo the ^ business on this plan would be greatly ers augmented. All things being any way lOt near equal, the stockholders would, as a n.?J ti sni matter of interest, patronize tho road in ??e{ which they were so much interested. am . Let all stockholders have the privilege g?( of paying twenty-five per cent, of any bill they may owe the road, in tho sub- cat scribed stock, and in our opinion the pre money to build tho road can be easily "j* raised. Tho la-xt convention which met ^ in Augusta seemed to favor the Georgia abi side of the river for the location of the tee road, but we can beat thom out of it easi- I11l> . . mo ly enough. In the first place we can ;lt | raise more money thau they can, and in the the next place the road can be built much lj>r cheaper on our side of tho river?especi- e(| ally if the combination is made with tho Ra Greenwood road, as it should be. to Two thiugs are necessary to build a road?money and lalx>r. Of the first wo nu have some, and of tho latter enough to inc build forty railroads. Every farmer through whose plantation the road may J?* run could take profitable contracts, and da' pay his subscription in work, ard then Th his stock, by making it receivable -for freight or passage bills, would always command a fair price, even if ho should sui be disposed to sell it. mil Wo should be pleased to hear from any ^ friends of either road and will take juv pleasure in publishing any suggestions sio which our friends may choose to offer. an< lav We know if Lowndesville and Green- cr ** t/wv.4 *>1U JVUI 1001119 UIUI> UUlll K)UU? can bo built. Thero are now no political eni matters to divert our attention and we ^ believo the present a good time to press tjjj the matter. inf ... Ma In Vindication. ?*! In regard to the late election for Judge As of the Supreme Court, and the ill-natured rep remark of a communication in the Co- s,at tht lumlia Register upon the subjec t, General SiU Meiiowan authorizes us to say that any ex1 "suspicions" that he made or attempted the to make any combinations for the oftice is ^ utterly unfounded. Ho regarded the of- die lice of great dignity?one neither to be slu sought or declined, and ho acted on that cot pre idea from the beginning to the end. Af- ? ter his friends, to whom he left the mat- no' ler, saw fit to run him for Chief Justice, ho requested them net to present his ^ Aunc at nil for the office of Associate. tw Neither is it true that the meeting of the tw Abbeville Democracy indorsed Willard. ^ Precisely tho opsosite is true. Resolu- we tio is were introduced by Mr. Rooke, ex- on pressing opposition, which doubtless 8'3 would have passed, but as the matter had ^ been left to the delegation in the Legislature, by request of himself, the mover Pr kindly withdrew them. A resolution ^ was afterwards passed indorsing Mc- 80J Gowan for Associate Justice, and express- ve ing an unwillingness to antagonise the tht administration. It was not perceived ^ * that It was unpatriotic to aspire to an honorable office, or how it could be prop- wi erly rogarded as antagonism to the administration. P. H. W. SIT ? I on "Sicf. Compliment to Gkneral Mo i ra< GowaN.?The Anderson Intelligencer in da speaking of the election of Chief Jus- ^ tice makes the following mention of Genoral MoGowau: Tl: It is but just that we should state that "1( none of tho gentlemen who were voted rw for by the Republicans were candidates, r"' and it is due to General S. McGowan that at the position ho occupied aud his noble; tta,< course in tho whole matter should bo;toj venerally known- When the race first ?? began it was determined t-o run Gen. Mc- ini Oowan for the position, and numbers of the Republicans were willing to vote for hiin, so much so that had he entered aclively into the canvass no doubt ho could 101 havo prevented caucus nomination and | secured his own election. But seeing j Pr and recognizing the paramount import- j8C! ance of Democratic organization, he do-. wl clinod to bo a candidate nnless nomina- J?' tod by the Democratic caucus, and as P31 *oon as Governor Hampton made Judge , Willard the administration candidate, J*1 General McGowan declined to allow his |!a . to use his nrihio for the Dosition at 1!p all. Throughout the entire affair Lis tI?' (i)?n?e haa been that of the patriot and! high-toned gentlemen he has always j * ' shown himself." " * ?m- ? ' Th* Last of "Oltl Soap Urease.*' I The President on Monday laid before; CL the Senato tlie following communication: j ~f Hon. W. D. Simpton, Prcxidetit of lkt\ Senate, State of South Carolina : I ^ Dear Sir?I respectfully tender my I resignation as State Senator from Dar-IKc lington; tho same to take effect on and af- j * tsr the close of the extra session of the | 1 General Assembly. 1 have the honor toiwi be, yours respectfully, ew IS. F. WIIITTRMOBE. ] f . From Columbia, LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. iresentative Bradley . Speaks his ind on the Fence Law??The Pay f the 3Ieml>ers--l)e La HoweTrM?? ?cs?-The School Tiu*?No Adjourn* eut Vet. Columbia, s. C.t May 2js. tor Press and Banner : 'c are hero yet, ami I fear, making v progress. The House often undoes unentls what tl?o Senate does, and tin ate does the same with the work o Iiouse. The appropriation hil! efore the Senate, and the famous tiftii lion is being hotly contested. Perhaps ill he tinstUy agroed that the work ol Commission shall not be final, bui 11 be submitted to the approval or dis> iroval of the next (General Assembly here was a hard light in the House or dnesday on the bill to reduce the fee: dieting prisoners of County jails, anc ing them out, but being defective, i i finally recommitted. avid Morrow, Esq., and Dr. A. T deman were appointed Trustees of D< Howe School in place of two removed ose names I do not recollect, 'he ratification of the Constitutions endtnent, against which only thirteei es wero east in Abbeville at the lat< ution was postponed until the nex sion. This amendment imposes a ta: two mills on all the property of th< to for educational purposes, so that i [tied, it cannot be changed horoafte :ept by a two-thirds vote. I supposi of the people knew what they wen ing for. I confess that I did not. l bill has passed the House requiriiij ehers of public schools to swear fc ir accounts, and also that no one shal a trustee and teacher at the same time 'he "fonce law" created considerable cussion on Friday and Saturday, am ? tinnllv. with amendment.'' merely submits "the question of feucini stock or the crops to the voters o townships, and no township in wliic! najoritv of votes against fencing th ck will bo compelled to do it?the ma ity of the township not carrying th< unty, as was provided in the origin* 1. This was a Held dav for the farmer the Legislature, and they brought on >ir musketry, and tield pieces, am ivv Jartillery. Maj. Bradley .sprca nsolf, and was at home on that sublet" it as much as if he had boon in nnge. He told them of the six mil to from the "mills" to Cedar Spring! > live mile lane to Cross ltoads, and th ir mile lane to Trick um?that on on v lie counted seventeen cows in th le with their heads chained down t Mr feet, their mournful look3 as the; ,lked up and down the lane and looke er the fence?that they were so poc >v would some times lean against th ;ten'fence and fall over into the fielc fct then, as ho was reaching the clima> ed, colored, of Beaufort, asked him i ?y were as "poor as Job's turkey, res," said he,"and you will be as poor o l)'s turkey, if you don't adopt thefenc This brought the house down, am ed too J The Major had a few days be e used the expression "as poor as Job' -key" in describing the destitution c r people, in a speech on the lien lav on the written application of seventy nnvAKti Pnnntxr PnmmiwinTi U U?A JJrtJ VI o, i are to order an election between th h and 20th August, giving thirty day tice, to determine whether the* town p will adopt the law. This act require ich and every employorto furnish oael 1 every employee hired by him witl xl pasturage for as many head of stocl ned by such employee as may b eed upon, not exceeding two head c tie to every Held hand in amount, >vided such employee shall perforr i part of the labor necessary to keep u i l'once. iome of the newspapers havo beei ising the Legislature in coarse, ungen 1 language, for appropriating too mud y to themselves. rlhe record of th >st zealous advocates of retrenchmer ;he present time, is not quite so clear o i subject of printing and advertisin the State. A few years ago almo* i entire press of the Slate was subsidiz by advertising patronage from th rlic:il State Government. It was a "so ('erberus" |upon which they fattencc i scarcely a line wsw written again* s extravagant waste of the people' >ney. Now they, in their "rightenu lignation," without proper informsi n, attempt to cast odium upon th inocratic members by such expre? lis as "hungry Democrat," 4'$2o pc y," <fec. This is the state of the cast e constitution provides that "eac mber of the first General Assembl; ill receive six dollars per da' ilo in session and the furthe n of twenty ccnts for ever; le of tho ordinary route of travel, Ac' er which they shall receive such fur :r compensation as shall bo fixed b; r. And when convened in extra ses n thev shall receive the same mileng lportfiem compensation as are fixed b; / for the regular session and nono otti 1U19<UU1C ljUgisiuiurtr euainuu ui ne compensation, and in 1872 the; icted "that each member of the nex neral Assembly shall receive an amiu tulari/ of six hundred dollors," (am ! satrie mileage.) This was clearly ui raction of the constitution, and on 2titl irch, 1S77, the Legislature passed th lowing act which is the last on tie sub t. "That each member of the Genera sembly shall hereafter receive, for eaci ;ular session, such per diem compcn ion as will amount to and not excee< * sum of six hundred dollars (an no mileage,) and when convened ii Lra session each member shall receiv : same mileago and per diem conipen ion as are fixed for the regular sessio ;1 none other: Provided, that said pe m compensation of the extra sessio ill bo determined by the per dier npensation of tho regular session nex .ceeding such extra session." s'ow this is tho law, whether good o t, and you will readily soe that, by i > members are entitled to JMKX) l'or th ision in December, and as that wa unty-five dollars per day, being onl enty-rour aavs, tney aro entmea t enty-livo dollars a day for this extr isio'n. The Radical* claim this, but th mocrats will never consent to it, an have been endeavoring to compromis some moderate amount, such as five c : hundred dollars for both sessions, bi far have not been able to elFect it. Cei eates for $600 were issued la; cember by Gleaves, who was the esident of" the Senate, to each Ser >r, and certificates have been -issue s present session by President Simp 1 for &i00. This complicates mattei ry much, and how we are to get out < 3 ditliculty I cannot, at present, say. ?orwin Senator from Isewherry, sail day in the Senate. "I am entitled t !00*b^' the law and I don't nee why yo' sn to aepnve me 01 my rigiu?u an, the Senators wish to return six hur Bii dollars to the Treasury they can d but I want what is due me, and I ar ly sorry that it is not more." I onl mtion this to show the temper of tli lical carpet baggers. Thoy know thei vs are numbered. rhc democratic members of the IIous ve never received but one hundre< liars which was paid in Decembei ley do not want unreasonable pay bi 3y are unwilling for the republicans t :eive more than they do. Most of th ambers are farmers and their attentio home is needed, and some of them ar crihcing more than they will receiv r their services. I think they deserv me consideration for the hardship, an iminent peril which they endured i rk December. If they did no legisli >n at that timeit was not their faull ev "held the fort" with forbearanci rtitude and -wisdom. An imparti; i Klin iiri 11 o ? /-? tKam a {tint / I WI1V. ?? ill C4TTCHVA C? JUOb UJtUV v aise for their conduct during the tryin snes of last December, for one rash ax iich they were goaded to by the insc ico of the radicals, and encouraged t r 111 any well meaning friends, woul ve lost our cause. One thousand dol rs would not induce me to run th zards I did then, and yet we are sat if d, for we feel that we did our duty t e beat of our ability, and our gloriou i State is redeemed. What a vivifyin ought; South Carolina, the proud ol it? of Calhoun and McDuftie wreste >m a robber band, who have deBpoile r ui uer pruuurty, iuiuu tier uieun d blackened her fair farm. It is as oam, but we begin to realize it fo mm berlain and Whittemore, are gon ;one without the tiring of guns or th adding of tears. it a drum wax beard, nor a funeral note. Vhen Dan and Whit to oblivion was hui rlod? it a groan escaped a gentleman'* throat Vhen tbe carpet baggerg were burled. EJut they have brought us so low that 1 11 take years of industrious toil an >noxny to build up again. F. ('. THANKSGIVING SERMON, *>>'' foui tifu Delivered in the Episcopal Church, will at Abbeville on Thursday Morning gra< Last, by the Rev. John Kershaw. "ot, trul ' i Wo have assembled here (to-day) upon wh< r; the recornmeudation of the civil authori- tini i ty to observe this as a "day of thanks- unt , | giving and prayer to Almighty God, for iug ail his goodness and loving kindness to tior dPand to all men, for all the blessings teri he has bestowed on us, to invoke His di- bac vine guidanco in the present and to im- the r plore His protection in the future." pel ' j This is a couutry which is professedly can > christian and it is therefore eminently wil proper that we should thus remember the kin i! Tjiiril our Grj<L His hand has evidently ins: i j boon dealing with us uiul not always as wi? , wo would have done, had we been the ar- less f ehitecta of our own fortunes. But now of 1 t that we can see that wo have up? (Iff SOMETHING TO BE TUANKKUL FOR, j and a cherished something wo wish (j to preserve and perpetuate, it is Slin i hoped that we have come here to- 0f i i day and have in all earnestness and Ser sincerity ottered up the ineense of prayer to ] and uplifted the voice of heartfelt thanks- pri j giving. It is tilting that we who for Go< twelve years were almost entirely out- Cor ' casts from our own heritage and stran- cor j ge/sin our own land, should now meet to the j testify our acknowledgments to God for tha , his deliverance of us, and our reinstate- age t ment in that which by right is ours, age i There has not been any very marked ad- ido 3 vance in material prosperity or towards ho^ f wealth as yet, but a most thorough revo- Ra r lution in the incentives which move us un 0 to action, has occurred, and material hir . prosperitj' will follow in due time, so should no other unfortunate contingen- bri T cies arise to operate against us, to prevent ev< 3 it. And the mainspring being 1 SET RIGHT, !* having now great incentives and high , B motives to action, we ought indeed to oe 1 thankful. In its last analysis, we must 5 ' find wtotivtx lying at the bottom of all ac H"" ? tion. There is a reason for the action, f there is a motive for the reason, and the | seat of motives is in the will. Causes ine ternal or external, first give an impulse " to the will, the will forms the resolve, tho ?,V o resolve issues into action. Up to this , time, h s orn motive 'j has been to throw off an usurping } \ government: and all our actions have nu ? been done in pursuanco of such re- fcU J* solution. But along with this, which i,a ? is an entirely proper resolve, there an has been much of hatred, malice aC! \ and unchuritabloness ongendered in the ec( ? prosecution of our purpose. We have far '? thought of revenge as well as of victory, so j of retaliation as well as ridding our- wi selves of -the incubus. Tho minds of er, J, many of us have been familiarized with (?ju 7. the thoughts and words of violence, and jni p in some instances they have issued in jnj % deeds of that character. Anger has risen a N in the heart like sinoke, it has blinded us ar( i so that we failed to see clearly and were fro ,, deaf to gentle Suggestious. We lost sight ios of the eternal and W1 0 immutable distincttons so il between right and wrong and have 'ie i- advocated the policy, and in some cases s have carried it out, of 4Toing evil that "( >f good may come out of it, whereas "pow- lJP er belongeth unto God," and to him only it appertaineth to overrule the designs of W? i- evil to tne accompnsnment 01 goon, i 0 speak of the State generally and not with s any special reference to any one comrnu- ar< i- nitv. Now that God has apparently Pr' * brought good to us out of the evil, how hu li should we not be most humbly thankful er li to him for it? For it cannot "rightly be jin. k denied that all we had done, been carried J.'11 e out into its legitimate consequences, we ,|U>f would not to-day be here to thank God for c<r " his mercies and blessings to us. It is n Wt n A LAW tu ^ of the physical world, that a force, wt a say light for instance, is force in all direc- in tions, as knowledge in the intellectual an 1 world is power, but power in all direc- ar< e tions, because knowledge sometimes pr |t makes an accomplished villain, as well as thi n an accomplished good man or a scholar, thi ? And in the prosecution of our purposes, we force was introduced as a factor. That sin .. force in the hands of a few wise and cau- th< e tious men, may have remained conipara- pe n tively harmless, but when issuing out of th< I their hands, it falls into those of reckless, thi indiscreet and violent men, it necessarily lu; becomes an engine of indiscriminate de- an s stmction, because there is nothing, hu- In: manly speaking, to prevent what wo have wl e applied to others being applied to us, vvd cai like the boomerang it may have returned sir 'r to planus the inventor. I mention this im , to show how ex h god's hand br Y has been most manifest in overruling our y evil doings to our apparent good, and in . r putting r. stop to the lawful results of our .. Y own short sighted policv. Surely for this j " ? we should have grateful hearts and come ' . before God confessing that "his mercy y endureth forever." J* Such in brief have boon our motives c] o and our actions in the recent past, such | V should be this day our postuio bofore .^e - God. But let me "give you J.?* o IHr \ A WARNING. fel V If we continue to cherish in our hearts a wt _ fooling of bitterness and uncharitable- an j liess against those who have been God's in| n human instruments in our late humilia- lar tion j if we continue to deem it right, as ths P many of us have, to be unforgiving, and op i. cherish a desire in our hearts for their be- thi j ing punished in their turn, by God or by lai li man; if we rail and revile and curse and th< . proscribe and persecute them, can you an -j suppose that that God whom to-day you l'ar j have owned for your Father, will permit pa n his children to' indulge such feolings th< c. without inflicting further chastisement sot linnn fhnm ? Tf ri> von must hnv? rfi:id nil n the history of Israel with a veil before isl r your eyes, for the story of that people be- tw n comes the forecast of that of all people sic ri whom God now calls his own, since the otl world has been redeemed by tho death j and passion of Jesus -Christ. And you pr ,r must have read with singular obliquity cit t of vision, the history of Alexander's soi e great empire, of Greece and of Home, wl ig if you fail to see there as plainly as you do j. may see the meridian snn In the heavens, en o the chastisement of God upon those who dii a forget his law and refuse to try to do his lai e revealod will. at< d WE ARE CHRISTIANS? t'11 'e that is, we are the servants of Christ. He ^ is our Saviour and example, our God and our guide. So we profess. What then is r" his teaching on this subject? "I say un- , " to you, "love your enemies, bless them 11 which curse you,do good to them that hate you and prav for them that despitefully j a use you and'persecuteyou." This is the _0l }~ christian's example. God expects this i * from us. And if he fiud it not and . He still care for us, like a loving Father, :n( loVing while Ho strikes, pitying while j he bruises, He will produce it in us 0 through chastisement still sorer than any u we have yet suffered. All this is hard to h y do; hard upon flesh and blood, but the ^ power of God is here, grace is stronger, ' ? than human infirmity and neither flesh n and blood, nor the promptings of flesh t , y and blood f!or the deeas of flesh and 0 blood shall ever inherit the kingdom of ir God. Hence it is that if we do not what He commands for His sake, He will work in si ? .... .... i.? .... <-11 " ll up<ju u? iui uui u? ii onnr, wui ouuw ^ eternal welfare, unless He abandon us to an r- our own devices. And moreover, as you , lt pray to-day, think have wo not rushed jJC 0 back to W( ? our old idols, bu e pride, haughtiness, worldly position be e and worldly mindedness? Has not w< e our poverty only intensified our de- wt d sire for such things? These are the po n idols which God has struck at in J i- our late humiliation; have we learned the th: ; lesson? Many of us have said, "though N< 9 our property of ono kind is gone, en i{ and our cause is lost; yet nothing shall Ca jf deprive us of our sectional pride, or turn em g us away from the pursuit of our former In . t worldly position." "Be these your Gods, th< )- 0 Israel?" Have we but substituted bu o these for others? Then let us beware ] d lest we so anger our God that we, like ap i. Ianfil. shall feel the amitinc* of his curse he o and fill the graves of them that lusted. ar< - THE MANTLE OF LOVE. J 0 And in our religious duties, how stands an 18 the case? Are we keeping back from the ar( ? Lord his lawful offerings and tithes and 0f 4 suffering the blessed Gospel to languish wc 4 for want of proper support? Let us cease 1 to robe our bodies so nchly and let us in- tj1( '? vest our spirits with the mantle of that r a love for God and our fellow men, which r shows itself in generous offerings upon Le 0 his altar, arid in deeds of tenderness and tj0 0 charity to our distressed fellowmen. col OUR PRESENT AND FUTURE. till Those are a few of the points in our for conduct, for which God has laid his hand coi so heavily upon us. Let then' our mo- Joi tivesand resolutions bo changed, now Ian It' that the past is behind us forever. Let pn d i the dead past bury its dead, while wo as arouse ourselves to tho duties ana iuli I ni-OOHwitiPH of the present. Begin rightly Nt MriMMMMflMMbilMnteiaQKUliMCMl Jigging deep down and laying the! idation of the future of thii? our beau1 sunny South, upon the word and I of God. Let us strive by God's :;e to make this a Christian country in name only, but indeed and in th. And this must be dune by vou i Gill yourselves his people. The es are out of joint; and evor will be, il the day conio when men abandontheir petty schemes for the alloviai of mankind's burden and the betng of our social condition shall go k to the word of God and buildnpon foundation already laid, even the <*osof Jesus Christ, for other foundation no man lav than that is laid. Never I 1 that daily" prayer be answered "thyj igdoni come," until men cease build-] their houses, social, govennental or at not, upon the sand of man's wnrth* reasonings, with their foundations ivood, hay and stubble, and build them m the ltoek, which is C'Jiri.st, laj-ing p the foundation upon the tried nite of God's unfailing truth. (o forth then, good christian, irom mo ctuary to-day, resolved by the grace God, that from henceforth you will ve the Lord and cease to bow the knee ttaai or eat the offerings of the dead, ly that we may always be kept in i's eye and under his direction and rection, that Ho may guide us as a amunity, as a State, as a Nation, in path he would havo us to tread. Pray t tho dreadful edict which went out linst Ephraim, ' may never go out linst us. "Kpliraiin "is joined to his Is, let him alone." Forsaken bv God, iv awful would bo our condition, ther let us beseech him to be our God, til death.' Let us love him and fear n and keep his commandments, and our paths will shine brighter and ghter unto the perfect day of God's >rlasting glory. Fence or no Fence. rVhcther we should enclose our crops i "turn out" the remainder of our ins, or fence up the pasture and leave s cultivated portions unprotected by y kind of fence save the law -of the id, are questions that havo now and ?n agitated Che minds of the people of ery 0110 of tho Stales of this union, rm adherents can be found to both [cs oi tno question. wo coniess to ving never bccoinc dearly settled in r opinion upon this subject. iVhon we see our noble forest felled anally by the thousands of acres to prore fresh land to cultivate; ufter we ve, by a most slovenly system, galled d impoverished as many more fertile res; when wo know that far more inomy could bo practiced upon the m by avoiding the necessity of having many thousands of mils mauled every nter; when we know that almost evf farmhouse burns as much wood in jh fireplace as ought to supply dwolland kitchen, and washhouse, dur; the cold eeason ; when we know that itrip of land ten feet wide running >und every side of the field, and this quently tno best land in the field, is it to cultivation because of the fence; len we show that every negro in the uth will have a cow, and never thinks is a freeman until ho can tie his own w's horn to her fore foot to keejf her >m jumping the fence that he won't fix i; when we think of the thousands of liars that are lost to the intrinsic jaltlfc of the country by the mauling (1 hauling and buildidg and repairing it is necessary to keep up the fences >und our farms ; when we think of the i)vocation to say hard words when fox nters, tramps, jumping cattle or othnuisances make gaps in our fences, d cannot be punished for it; when we ink how easy it would be to make a cow out of a poor one, a profitable w out of an expensivo one, if tho ownwas simply compollod to keen it up. {o care of it, feed it, treat it as the rerns would prove it should bo treated ; len we think it is the crop that brings the money and enriches the country, d not the forests or pasture lands, and 3 therefore the more worthy of lawful Dloction on that account; whon we ink how much bettor one good cow is in a herd of poor ones; when ! think how easy it is to herd cattle and eep and oven hogs together,- so tlmt uy will need but the care of a single rson a few hours each day to prevent sir strolling out of sight; when wo ink what a pleasure it Is, what a real xury to sit and watch improved herds (1 Honk.n nAHturinir and criwiiin nvi-r x a riant meadows and fields; wo way, ten we think of all these tiling, we n but wonder legislation has 1101 long ice required our farmers to set about proving their stock by abolishing the isting fence law and allowing our oad acres to be cultivated without the les and miles of hideouu worm fences erywhere seen. [Jut then, when we have looked at the ler side of this question, and thought w ignorant most of our people are, en of the old established law upon this bject, and how sparsely settled our jntry is, and how much "easier it is to close the cultivated field than it would to enclose all the remainder of the ma ity of Southern farms, and how every mer would think he was bound to tee in all tiic balance of his lands if he ire permitted to throw out his fields, d what a small proportion of the labor; classes throughout tho South are idowners, (even though every 0110 it can owns a cow,) and that class are posed to a stock law, because tlicjj' ink that all the unenclosed pasture ids are, by a natural right, as free to 2ir cows as u> mu owner 01 me pasture, el of what minor importance to our mers the care of stock is when comred to the infatuation they have for 3 "cotton patch," and what* wonderful ial and Industrial revolution it would ike to establish a stock law and abol1 our fences, we have halted between o opinions. Much can be said on both les of tins question, and more on the icr, look at it as you will. \bsence of fences is an evidence ol ogressive farming. When we go into a y, a town or village, (and there arc rue of these last in the United States] lere the roses grow, as it were, "outors," and the vegetable gardens are not closed, we at once know there is an oruance there preventing stock going at go, and with this idea is also immedi>Ty coupled the thought that the cows are aro carefully housed and well fed, d, in consequence, the people have mty of milk. tiut if we see a village with its streets d pavements tilthy, and the lots all en sed, or even a farm with high "staked d ridered" fences, we are not long in mine to the conclusion that idlers and predator*, four-footed and horned, are and about. VVe once heard a man say a traveler uld go alone from northern Missouri to Iowa and tell, without being inform, when he entered the latter State, house all the farming evidences wore so uch more progressive and thrifty ; and attributed it all to the fact that the >ck were enclosed in Iowa and the sps were not: whilst in Missouri the verse was the case. We have been Id, too, that in North Carolina, where 0 option was given to counties to vote once or no l'enco," wherever "no fence" evailed the peoplo have become reconed to it, farms have been improved, ctft1 have increased in number and value, d the farmers would not, if they could, burn to the "old rut." We have alsc ard grumblers at several places where ) have seen the no fence law in force, it we did not regard their complaints cause the thing seemed chronic, and 3 all know there are some men who )Uia suner torture u mey naa no oprtunity to grumble. Fences are by no means universal roughout the Union. Several of the jrthwestern States requiro owners to close their stock. In portions of North rolina, Virginia and one or two northstern States, the same law prevails, one or two of the southwestern States a eti'ort has been made, but without ccess, to abolish fences. tn Europe land is too valuable to bo propriated to fences. In England cigos superceded fence, and now hedges j cuusiuureu uujbcuunuDiu uucuuso meir 5ts monopolize too much land.? iroughout France* and northern Italy, d central and northern Europe, fenccs ) almost unknown. Often the divisions land do not appear at all. Wire fences sre even abolished, and tho only landirks are stone posts at the corner* of 3 land to designate its outlines. rhis question of "Fence or no Fence" 11, in all probability, come beloro the gislature at it? presont session for acn, as the State Grange appointed a nmittee to memorialize that body upon s subject, and wo trust they will uerm the duty imposed upou them. The nmittee consists of Messrs. lredel oes, of York; J. N. Huffman, of Kit-hid ; and R. C. Carlisle, of Newberry, ictical men who understand the subject well as, perhaps better, than the Leg?tors themselves.?D, Wynit Ailcen in v? and Corn ier. Fodder Com?A Very Valuable Crop.; A great deal bus been written about fodder-corn in tbc past two or three years and all but very young farmers?young in rcspect to their farming experience- may care to read nothing further on the subject ?and for one or two reason*; Either that they havo realized tho value of fodder-corn, uriders and bow to preserve it and therefore need no further suggestion j or that they have become so discouraged at their inability to euro and presci ve it porft.-cily have thrown it out as being altogether unprofitable. The writer came very near to this conclusion himself two years ago, hut thanks to patient prreeve ran co in cultivating it, as Jar from such now. lie tried it in drills at first and a great many stalks grew so largo it required weeks, yea, almost months to euro it sufficiently to allow of being preserved in bulk. He lost a large part of the crops of two years and became almost disgusted thereat. Concluded to try again and plant in hills instead of drilling it continuously in the row. Laid off rows 3 feet apart and dropped 10 or 12 grains at every 2 feet. The corn received 3 cultivating* and two hoeings. The stalks were of more uniform size and became cured in a reasonable time. The stalks however, were atill found too large and coarse, the stock refusing much of it. ThiH year the writer thought he would improvo on thin so he put 20 or 25 grains to the hill and manured with a handful Jib of cotton seed killed to the hill The result was gratifying indeed, fche tall slender succulent stalks, curing easily in 10 days of pretl) weal her and none rejected by tht stock. An improvement stili shal bo made the coming year by check ing the land at 2 feet so the hoeing can be dispensed with, using tht cultivator from first to last, putting iU to zo grains 01 corn ami a nana f'al of cotton seed to each hill ae before. A number of hills wer< weighed when the corn was in bloom t:nd found to average from 1 to 11 pounds green. A ton of the green fodder will yield about 40(. pounds of cured fodder. In checking at 2 feet, if the 10,890 hills }'iclc! 7 lbs. the smallest average staled above the result would be 7G.00( lbs: of green l'odder, equal lo 15,GU( lbs. cured, or 7J tons. B}- using 7C to 80 busbels of cotton seed, thif result can be obtained on land thai will produce naturally 5 to 8 hundred pounds of seed cotton. I] planted hi April, it in ready lor cut ting iu July 1st, and a second crop of same can be put in August 1st, ot tin; land can be bow - id peas, to he turned under for winter oats. Tlu nearer to the bal'n it is planted tlu bettor. cl'ttino and curia'q. As soon as the corn is well in bloom cut it, using a thin, broad hatchet?a tool something like shingle cutters use?any blaeksmitli can make , one in a few minutes Grasp each hill under the arm and bend over and then with one blow cut every stalk, spreading a* it falh on the stubble. Lei it lie a couple of day#, then turn it over and i x pose a day or two?then shock it carefully (2 hands required) and lei it remain 10 10 20 days, when ii should be housed, stacked or put in to large pens, made of pine poles If plank :iro not at hand t:> eovei the pens with, it may be covered with pine straw, making a pointed lop; stop up cracks, also, will] straw to keep out beating rains.? Ventilate from beneath. A largt quantity may be safely put away in barn by slandiug on ends and packing closely. S. A. C. Milledgeville., 1 ia. Water j nci of Horses' a ft f.h j Fei.dino.?The .National Livt Stock Journal, in giving direction for the care of horses, says: ! "Another common fault in the alimentation nf hordes is the lead ing to water just after a full feed o: grain. The first effect of thin is ti largely distend the stomach; ant ! the result may be af serious as i; the material were masticated graii and saliva. But," should this dan ger be avoided, matters are not nec r essarily left in a better state. Tin ; sudden and excessive influx of wa i ter is likely to wash much of tin contents of the stomach into the in 1 testiries before the nitrogenoui , principles hav<^ been digested, ant fermentation, extricatiou of gasses, 1 over distensions, colics and inliama | tions result. Even this is not all The application of an excess of cole 1 water on the mucous membrane o the stomach and intestines cause* vascular congestion and violeni muscular contractions, so that al tend to digestive disorder of a dan gerous nature. Copious draughts of ice water are hurtful alike | to man and beast, If it must I be taken it should be in small quatuitic'8 only, and frequent | ly. But a drink of water of mod i erato tempera)uro, just after a feet of grain, is full of peril to the so J liped. Thirst should be allayed be fore the feed is given ; and if any i: allowed after, it should be merely t mouthful, until the lapse of one oi | two hours' time has been had l'oi 1 gastric digestion. Alter a feed o: hay there is comparatively liitlt i danger. From the excessive saliva ry addition to the hay, and the com ' paratively e-mail amount of its albuminoids, these are rapidly dis solved out and digested, and iho fur1 ther addition of water is often [rather favorable thun otherwise in 'hastening its progress into the bowels, where the digestion of iit starch, sugar, fat and other respiratory elements may be completed." A nkw rse fob Onions.?A Kew Hamshire paper states that the speedip?t wiiv to (Mire the enzootic and milke a horse thoroughly happy is tr give him onions. In nroof whereof the case of a Portsmouth horse is cited, which had a severe attack of the I disease, and his owner placed half a j dozen onions in with his regular feed, I The horse tackled three of the onion.' immediately, and hy the time he had I swallowed them lieean to cough and 'sneeze and prance about, appearing quite indignant, and refusing to touch the remaining onion*. For full five minutes he wept at the nose, and then ?he was a cured horse. He has nol had a cough, a sneeze, nor any sympton of the epizootic since, but lie had the courage to eat the onions remaining in the crib the next day after the eure. Cooling off suddenly when heated t sends many of our farmers' youth to ' an early tomb. It is often a matter of surprise that bo many farmers' boys and girls die of consumption. It is thought that abundant exercise in the open air is directly opposed to that disease. 80 it is, tut judgment and knowledge of the laws of health are essential to preservation of health under any circumstances. When overheated cool off slowly?never in a strong draught of air. Gentle fanning, especially if the face is wet with cold water, wiil soou produce a tie- < ligbtful coolness, which leaves no disagreeable results. To present ink damagiug metalic pens, throw into either the inkstand or bottle in which the ink is kept a r Jt. 1 1 I. ! &.. ^ I* 1 lew JiailM, urontMi uuw wi aicci jjcuri not varnished, or any piece of iron not rusted. The corrosive acid contained in the ink will be expended on ' the iron introduced. Wanted.?The P. 0. address of every person who lias an old ^Florence," or any other kind of old sewing machine (no matter how old or poor.) To such we will mail,/re<?, a very liberal proposition. J to exchango for our now late improved "Florence." Head tho advertisement of the Florenco Oil Stoves in another column of this paper. Write for circulars, cts. Address Florence Sewing Maehldo Co., Chicago. March 7, 1877. Ht. Do the figures, 4'77" stand after jonrnameon the [taper? If not see to it at once. Don't let the Post Master know that you are behind with the printer. tf : sill Words of Advice.^ TUTT'S PI I. TUTT'S T? rcs r E CT H U L r, Y offered byiT.T.; tutt's w. ii. ti-tt. m.u.. for iiunyp,,.. i TUTTtaymf* J>mni>Htri?1oror Anatomy lu Tl., . tins Mu'llenl < oli.-Jtc of <ieort<la. ?{, i iniiij Thirty vonr*' ?'N|ii?iIoiico In ' TCTT S practice ofmedicine. together with PiLIA TUTT'S fifteen years' trst of Tutt's Pill*, PILL* . BUTT'S wnl the flio'i-niiilt nf tfitlmaolals PILI.:TUTT'S K'ven of their efilcacv. warrant me PlM,* in s.ivlnir that till'*' will nosltlvcly tut.ia tit i T>a cure nil (licenses tliat result from a IMT s ,i^'L2dlUMSi:<l liver. Titer nvc ,,ot rec- I ' oinmeiuled for all t!icr Ills that atllint' J {' J", J TCTT S humanity, but for I)v?jiep*l.-i. .laun- J;1'-'" 5 TDTT'S dice. Constipation,l'tlfts. Skin DIs- PILL> l TU'fT'S?W Itllloti.s Colic. lihoumatlsm, PILL" TDTT'S Palpitation of tin? Heart. Kidney PILI.S tiitt'I Atfectlou*. Feinnlfi Complaints, Jtc., pij.lr" if.,Li,c all of which result from a derange- ? r iJiii,Snient of the Liver, 1:0 medicine has ' ' ^ ? IKH 'o(,vcr l"-o.vwi so siu-ressf.il as I>11. . TUTT STUTT'S VEGKTADLE LIVER j it-' * ' TUTT'S TILLS--. PILLS r TUTT'S " PILLS > TOTT'S TUTT'S PILLS PILLS TUTT'S CORK SICK HEADACHE. PILL8 , TUTT'S PILLS TUTT'S PILLS 5 TUTT'S TUTT'S PII.LS PILLS TUTT'S REQUIRE No CHANG^ OF PILLS 1 TUTT'S DIET. PILLS r TUTT'S .. PILLS TUTT'S " PILLS 5 TUTT'S TUTT'S PILLS PILLS , , TDTT'S ARE PURELY VEGETABLE. PILLS ' TDTT'S PILLS . TDTT'S PILLS TUTT'S TUTTS PILLS J'lLLS ! TUTT'S NEVER GRIPE OR NADSE- pills | TDfT'S ATE. 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This unrivaled preparation has per< formed some of the most astonishing , cures that are recorded in the annals of history. Patients suffering for years from "l the various diseases of the Lungs, after I trying different remedies, spending thou* Lj sands of dollars in traveling and doctoring, have, bv the use of a few bottles, I | tntirely recovered their health. "WOti'T GS TO FtflRiBC Jfow York. August 30,1879. d r. tutt: j Dear SirWhan la Aiken, lMt winter, I used your | | Expectorant for my ooujli. and roallzod mora boncnt | 1 from it than aaythiaif I overtook. I am so well that I I will not c? to Florida noxt winter aa X Intended . Send ma one dozen battles, by express, for somo ' friend#. ALFEED CUSHIiro, j 133 West Thirty-first 3troet- | 1 Boston, January 11,1874. This esrtlfles that I hive rocommended liio ujo ol I Or. Tutt'8 Expectorant for diseases of tholuasa I for the put twoyoars.and to my knowledge many ! bottles have boon used by my patients with the happiest reaulta. In two oasos whore Itw.is thought conflrmod oonaamption had taken placo the Expoctorant I * effected a cure. 3. H. 0PKAGUE, M.D. -I > t " Wo oan not speak too highly of Dr. Tutt'3 Ex" I 1 pectorant, and for tha sake of suffering humanity ! hope it may becomo more generally known."?Ciiuis * "?oldnbrLi>Tru*elsta. Trice 81.00 [ Drawing Hear." > ~jg~l|ONT forget that my sojourn in I SJr Abbeville is drawing to a close. [ You know you mean to have yourself .photographed so why delay? Rem ember that ''procrastination is the " thief of time" and that delay has - caused more disappointment than you I ; have any idea. Call early then and' . "eatch tlie shadow ere the substance , fail." I will be here another month or six weeks yet perhaps, but don't " put oft'until the Inst minute. Photoi graph Gallery, North West corner of I Public Square. W. S. WHEELER. Moy 9, 187~: ' DOZEN CANE and CANE1 rZU BACK ROCKING CHAIRS f Ht J. I). CHA-LMUKS & UU. j Oct. 25, 1876, tf ! A Strictly 1 ! A. BE0 B15.STRES to notify his friends that I siuessona strictly CASH HAS -j.small profit. His stock will consist in p ;iDry Goods, Clothing, ! Crocker FLOTJK, BACON, LARD, C0I 1 COFFE i I aI?o lmve 011 Hand .1 Fine Stock ' WHISKEYS, COGNAC, PEACH A> SHERRY, MADEIRA, PORT. M WINES, and a Oond Stock of ALE AT -J I will make it to the advantage of pu .land Prices. Jk. , April 18, 1877. tf. i L. So House, Sign I3 I INI" [ ABBEVIL GRAINING, Marbling, Paper-Hail; Tin anil Wood. ftSrRpecial att 1 Halls, ami Dwellings. flSjrALL WO April 18, 1877. 3ni. T\ TT TV 4 vr. n. u. DENT ABBEVI] ;i OFFICE OVER TH '*ept. 2S, lSTo.-tr Groceries, Groceries, j 8 lbs Coffee Sugar for ?1.00. . 3J anil 4 lbs Coffee for $1.00. 11 and 12 lbs Rice for $1.00. 3 lbs Can Tomatoes, $2.65 dozen. 1 lb Can Sa'.mond, $2.87? dozen. 1 lb Can Oysters, 1.40 dozen. Adamantine Candles, 20 cents. Cheese, 20 cents. * Soda Crackcrs, 12$ cents. Lemon aud other Sweet cakes, 20c. Fresh lot of Family Flour just received?and cheap for the cash ul It. M. HADDON & CO.'S. April 11, 1877. "j To the Ladies. . IIEN you visit Abbeville be sure ? and call at No. 2 Granite Range and be convinced that oue slock of millinery was never larger tiim ut morefiatistactory prices. Mrsr Maggie Sassard's long experience and ( cultivated taste is a guarantee that. you will be pleused. Itespectfullv, MRS. ft M. WHITE. April 11, 1877. CUNNINGHAM ! AND i TEMPLETON; VRE Constantly Adding to Their Already Varied Stock of General Merchandise, They Receive this "Week ' SUGAR. COFFEE, CANNNED GOODS of all Kinds. And next week, a full line of DRY GOODS, Boots and Shoes. Nov. 22, 1876, tf STEAM Planing Mill, COLUMBIA. S. C. F. W. WING, Proprietor MANUFACTURER of Sash, RUnds, Doors, Window and Door Frames, Inside Pivot Blinds and Shutters, Pilasters, Mantelpiecos, Moldings, Brackets, Handrails, Newels, Balusters, Scroll Work of all Description. All Work Guaranteed a No. 1. Feb. 23,187U,tf. Burek.a, No Moro Bald Heads. ON recepton of^One' Dollar, I will send an infallible receipt to prevent the hairfrom ful ling out. und even restore the hair on Bald heads, If the person Js not too old to care whether he has any hair or not. Nocbemicul compound, no druggist's bill, but a simple remedy ?f the hand of any one. Address No 10, and Box lt$, Duo West, ft. C. March 23,1877. CARPENTRY. Tlio undersigned hereby gives noticv that lie is prepared to do all kinds of Carpenter's Work . and Building. Ho also repairs Cotton Gins, Thrashers and Fans. A full supply of Gin Material always on hand. Farmers aro requested to bring their Gins up early in the season to allow time to have them'properly prepared. Also Agent for the Taylor Cotton Gin, the Brooks Cotton Preys, and all kinds of Rubber and Leather Belting. D. B. SMITH, Abbeville C. II., S. C. Tie Pielmcnf Maifactoi Co,MANUFACTl/KKHS OF SHIRTINGS AND SHEETINGS, MILLS AT PIEDMONT, S. C. II. P. HAMMKTT, Pres't and Trcs' Po*t Office address?Greenville, S. C. HAMLIX BKATTIE, Sccretar Post Office address?Greenville, S. C ROYAL KALLOCK, Superintende Post Office address?Greenville, S. n Jan. 17, 1S77. Gin. linen bosom je* 1 Sr'M W and mamsutta Homespun shirts at CUNNINGHAM & TEMPLETON'S at $1.00 apiece. March 21, 1877, tf. Mattrasses. ANEW and Splendid lot CURLED HAIR MATTRASSES. J. D. CHALMERS & CO. Oct. 25, 1876, tf ALSTON HOUSE. 1877. The IVTisses Cater. EXPRESS thanks for past patronage and solicit a continuance of the same for the preynt year. Both Regular and Transient Boarders will be accommodated. Jan. 3, 1S77. Cash House. tUEST lie has determined to conduct his bu < IS und will dispose his goods with a , art pf Shoes, Boots, Hats, y , &C., r,yr.?a IN, GEIST, E, &c. ; of LIQUORS. CORN AND RYE U) APPLE BRANDY. N. E. RUM. ALL AG A AND SCUPPERNONG CI) LAGER. ri'hasers to call and examine my stock . Bequest. ii t h, ? and Fresco \ TER, LE, S. C. < pinjr, Kalsomining, Gilding on Glass, 1 ention paid to Frescoing of Churches, RK WARRANTED. WILSON, < 1ST, > LjIJE, S. O. E POST OFFICE 1877 1877 H . No. 2 White's Block. McDonald&Co [ave Just Received a New and Fresh Stock OF xeneral Merchandise, ffhich They Will Sell at the Lowest Figures FOR CASH ONLY. THANKING my friends antf customers for the-liberal patronage jestowed -upon tlie late firm of McDonald & Haddon, I would respectully solicit a share of the (same a* the ibove well known stand. Don't forget'where I am and by all neans remembei the place where you :an buy the best, and most goods, for be least money. No. 2 White's Block. w. t. Mcdonald. & Co. April 4,1877. 1877 1877 INIM ?EW?GOODS JSjt Tlx? Emporium Of Fashion'. .:o hi * CY i? OUR numerous customers In thfs : ' County and surrounding, are re- - . r: spectfully informed tbat we are no\r offering one of the Largest and most Attractive Stocks of Millinery to be found in the up country, also all the latest novelties in .'ill Fancy Dry Goods at prices defying competition any any where, and all we ask for is an Inspection to convince. Samples of any kind of goods sent free. Express paid on all orders amounting to five dollars or over. Re?pcfctfuliyt . . JAS. A. BOWIE, Agent, emporium 01 fusmou. April 11, 1877. New Opening OF A FULL STOCK OF Spin and Mir Ms, WHICH has befcn elected with Great care, consisting of Dry Goods, Keady Made Clothing, Gentlemen's furnishing goods, Hats, Boots. Shoes, Hardware, Groceries of all kinds, Tobacco, Cigars, Trunks, Va- ' lises, &e., &c., at prices that will compare favorably with Augusta and Columbia houses. All I ask is a call from one aud all, atid satisfaction guaranteed. TV *. IKA JL/wni iui?tri iiic |iiouc ni "P. Rosenberg's. Granite Range, Abbeville, S. C. ApHI 4,1877. tf. __ to. R. Loiari & Co. Forest City Foundry and Machine Works. Augusta, Ga. Agents for the vardike and marmon .'Plantation Corn and Wheat Mills cheap durable and good grinders. Call and see one running at our works. Price $85 and up. Send for circular. March 28, 1877. tf. CUNNINGHAM &. TEMPLETQN HAVE in store Bacon,. Lard, Corn, Sugar, Coffee, Riee and Molasses as low as the lowest. March 21,1877. UST RECEIVED AT CUNNINGHAM & TEMPLETON'fc 10 pieces Spring Prints, Bleached and Brown Cotton. March 21, 1877. Anew stock spring clothing to arrive this week at CUNNINGHAM & templeton's March 21, 1877, tf. Safes. * Sn^TTPOART) A\n MAT SAFES, just to hand at J. D. CHALMERS k CO. Oct. 25, 1876, tf K. GOLDSMITH. P. KIND Goldsmith & Kind, Founders And Machinists (PHCENIX IRON WORKS), COLUMBIA, S. C. Manufacturers of Steam Engineq of all sizes: Horse'powers, Circular and Muley Saw Mills, Grist and Sugar Cane Mills, Flour Mills, Ornamental House and Store l" 1.. t /% ^;,.iiUnM| Tm. .1 LIUUU3, li Kill lWVUU^O, AKiiV uavw<?* jlemonts, etc. Brass ami Iron Castingr )f all kinds madeio order on short notice, md on the most reasonable terms. Also, Manufacturers of ..Cotton Presses. Wade Hampton Collar. BOX worth )the money at the CASH HOUSE. T. ?. QUARLES, Agent. April 4, 1877. ; Something'nice for boys uita, cheap for cash at The Cash House. T. P. QUARLES, A g< nt. April 4, 1877