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Hampton's Inaugural Address. Gentlem.-en of tle &nate td Ho i.4e of Representative-3: It is with feIings of the pro foundest solicitude that I assume - the arduous duti(s and grave respon sioilitien of the high position to which the people of South Carolina have called me. It is amid events unprecendented in this r,pubiie that I take the chair as Chief 31agistrate of this State. After years of misrule. corruotion and anarchy brought upon us by venal and unprincipled political adventurers, the honest people of the State, without regard to party or race, with one voice demanded reform and with one purpose devoted themselves earnestly and solemnly to the attain ment of this end. With a lofty patriot ism never surpassed; with a patience never equaled; with a courage never excelled, and with a sublime sense of duty, which finds scarce a parallel in the history of the world, they subordina ted every personal feeling to the public weal and consecrated themselves to the sacred work of redeeminz their prostrate State. To the accomplish ment of this task. they dedicated themselves with unfaltering confidence and with unshaken faith, trusting alone to the justice of their cause and commending that cause reverently to the protection of the Almighty. When the corrupt party which for eight years has held sway in this State, bringig its civilization into disgrace and making its governmett a public scandal. saw that the demand for reform found a responsive echo in the popular heart, and that the verdict of the people would be pronounced against those who have degraded the State, they appealed to Federal intervention, and by a libel on our whole people as false as it was base callid in the soldiery of the United States army to act as super visors of our electioo. In a time of profound peace, wnen no legal officer had been resisted in the proper dis. charge of his funutions, we have wit nessed a spectacle abhorrent to every patriotic heart and fatal to republican 'institutions-Federal troops used to promote the success of a political par ty. Undismayed though shocked by this gross violation of the constitutiou of the country, our people with a de termination that no force could sub due, rio fraud could defeat, kept stead. ily and peacetully in the path of duty, resolved to assert their rights as Amer ican freemen at the ballot box-that great court of final resort, before which must be tried the grave questions of the supremacy of the corstitutiou and thbe stability of our institutions. What the. verdiet of the people of South Carolina has been you need not be told. it has reverberated throughout. the State, and its echoes come back toi us from every land where liberty is venerated, declaring in tones that can not be mistaken that, standing on the constitution of our country. we propose to obey' its laws, to preserve, as far as *in us lies, i's peace aind honor, and to carry out in good faith every pledge made by us for reform and honest government. We intend to prove to the world the sincerity of our decla --ration 'that-4he sole motive which in spired the grar) contest we have so successfully made was not the paltry ambition for party supremacy, but the sacred hope of redeeming our State. It was this hope that led our people to a victory which was grander in its proportions, greater in its success, rovbler in its achieve m ent and brighter in its promise of prosperity than any other ever waged on tbis continent. But it was sought to wrest the fruits of this magnificent victory from the hands that won it by a gigantic fraud and a base conspiracy. Wheii the members elect of the General As semibly repaired to the capitol to take the seats to which the people of South Carolina had assigned them, armed soldiers of the Federal government confronted them, and their certificates of election were examined and passed upon by a corporal of the guard. A spectacle so humiliating to a free peo ple, and so fatal to republican institu tions, has never been presented in America. It could niot have been witnessed even here. where civil lib erty has for years been but a mockery. had not the ruthless hand of military power struck down the most sacred gu::rantees of the constitution ; for* the tread of the armed soldier, ais he made his rounds through the halls of legislation, was over the prostrate form of liberty herself. It was amiid these ominous, these appalling scenes. that the members of the General As sembly were called on to assume th'ir duties as the representatives of a free State. and that State one of the ori ginal thirteen who won our indepe-nd eaee and framed our constitution That the natural, patriotic indign~a tion of our people did not find expres sion in violence, is creditable in the highest degree to them, arnd this was due ini a large measure to the states manlike and dignified conduct of those members of the General Assembly who had been made the victims o1f this gross outrage on their persons and this daring conspiracy against their constitutional rights. Debarred the free exercise of their rights by the presence ot an; armed force. a legal quorum of the lowei' Ihouse, azftei placing on record a noble protest. quietly withdrew from the capitoi and proceeded to organize that branch of the General Assembly. Not one form of law u.or one requirement of the constitution was wanting to give force and legality to this organization. and that its authority Lhas not been fully recognized is due s.olely to the same armedi usurpation which has su bordinated the civil to the military power throughout this whole contest Of the disgraceful, dangerous and rev oluio-r nmoceeiug resorted to by House usurp the powers of the whole body ; you have seen the majority ex pefled from their hall by threats cf force ; you have seen persons having no shadow of a claim as members ad mitted to seats as Representatives by the votes of ien who themselves were acting in airect violation of the con stitution ; and you have seen the last crowiiing act of itifamy by which a candidate for the offi!e of Governor. defeated by the popular vote, had himself declared elected by his co-con spirators. I make no com:erit on these flagrant outrages and wrongs; it pertains to the General Assembly to take such action in regard to them as that honorable body may deem proper. But it is due to my position as the Chief Magistrate of this con UIonwealth to place on record my sol eMI and indignant. protest against acts which I consider as subversive of civil liberty and destructive of our forn of government. These are ques tions which concern not us alone, but the people of the United States; for if acts so unauthorized and so uncon stitutional are allowed to pass without rebuke, popular government as estab lished by the constitution will give place to military despotism. Our du ty. the duty of every patriot, is to de mand a strict construction of the con stitution and a rigid adherence to its provisions. We can only thus pre serve our liborties and our gdvern ment. A great task is before the Conservative party of this State. They entered on this contest with a plat frn so broad, so strong, so liberal, that every honest citizen could stand upon it. They recognized and accept ed the amendments of the constitution in good faith ; they pledged them selves to work reform and to establish tood govern meat; they promised to keep up an efficient system of public educatiti ; and they declared soletun Iv that all citizens of South Carolina. oif both races and of both parties, should be regarded as equals in the eye of the law, all to be fully prot-et eco in the enjoyment of every political right now possessed by them. To the faithful observance of these pledges we stand committed. and L as the representative of the Conserva tive party. hold uyself bound by every dictate of honor and of good faith to use every effort to have the pledges redeemed fully and honestly. it ii due not only to ourselves but to the colored pcople of the State that wi6e, just and liberal measures shoud pre vail in our legislation. Weowe muchi of our late suocess to the-se colored voters, who were brave ei,ough to rise above the prejudice of ricee. anid honest euhto throw nid the shackles of party iw their determina;:tioni to save the State. To those who. misled by t!.eir fears. thv-ir ignorance or by evil coun,slinte, turned a deaf ear to our appeals, we should not be vindic tive but magnasiatt,nus. Let .us show to all1 of them thut the true interest of both races cati best be secured by cu!ivating peace and produotiug pros perity among all ek~sses of our fellow. eitizenis. I rely c'r..fidently on the support of t.he members of the Genera; Assemibly in my efforts to attain these at?dable ends, and I trust that all branches of the government will uuite cordiailly in this patriotic work. Ii so united and working with resolute will and earnest determiination, we may hope SOOn to see the dawr of a brighter day for our State. God in His infinite mercy grant that it may come sp.eedily, and way H e shower t he richest blessings of peace and happi ness on our whole people. The Prodigal. Inheritors of vast wealth are proverbially spendLbritis. Th.e goiden ore is dug from the mine, refmned, and coined, by the labor of' orher hands and the sweat of other brow's. Like chiidren playinig n itb an expensive tov, tey can fo'rm no just estimate of its value. W heu the' donor weighed it, he cast into the baance so many days of unremitting and faigueinig toil, so many anxious and eleep less n:ighis, so mu- h self-denial, anid so much care. But tue inheritor into his balance throws only-ple--ure. The one, values it by what it cost himn; the other, for what it will purchase. Like the prodigal in the Scrip ture parable, he thoughtleissi expends ii to gratify t be c,price antd cravings of nis natur-e. hen come the last scene-the mi-er-:, the remorse, and the long and weariName jour rey hack to the hi -me of frugal industry But there are other prodigals. Ou her favor ites our bounteous parent, Nature, hais lar ihed her ricest treasure-health But the podigr I valuies it lightiy, for it COSt him naught, and reck!essly ?quanders it. in riotous iviLIg. Presenit pleasur-e obscures future want. Soon the curtain rise., on the hat; scene-. We see him helpie.ss, impoverished the rich tresures of body anad mind all lost 'in toisery and despair. Remorseful Con science bokis up to bim tre mirrior of memo ry. in his oiwn r-eckiess moily he pereives the cause of his pr-esent p'ain. He ec,olves to return. Che jo-urney i- long and tedioun,, but it he perseveri'gly follows the right road, ie will at length see the haven of his hopes a 'he dlistance, and Nzature, seeing her in valid child afar off, witll come out to mneet him, and receive him b:ack with love and blessing. To find the right road hcmen ard, the suffering prodigal should read " rne Pe p:e's C-ommno Sense Medical AdJvt.er. Terein it is completely mapped out:, its land marks all indicated and its mni!esones all numbered. Read it. Price $1.50 (postage pepaid.) Address the author and publbsher, R V. Pierce, M. D..- Buffalo, N. Y. We would call rhe attention of cur musi cal triends to) the follo-ing magazines: PETERs' HOUSEBOLD MELODI ES, contain iong five or six be-autifui Soung sand Choruses. IPETERs' PAr:LOR Mu-ic, containing seve ral eas-, Piano Pieces. L IA CREXE DE LA CaEME, a collection o: difficu4r Pi- -no Mu:,ie by the best Europenr auhors, PETERs' ORGAN SELEcTIONs, for Reed oi IPETErrs' S4c,ED SELECTIONS, containing HIymn.s, Anthemrn, etc , arnd IPETEaR OCTAVO CHORUSEs, containing four- ctit)ie C5oruses for Sieging Societies. These mzagazines are publjishedi at the nyi fo:-m price of $2 per annum, post-paid, and we h-ave no hesitation in saying that they are unequaledi in qutality, cher.pness and ele gance. Give y-our ne. dealer 25 cents, and~ eli him to oraer a sample copy, or send di reef to the Puhiish-r. J. L. Peters, 843 Broad way, New York. SOUTHERN MUsICAL JOURNAL.-We most gladly welcome this old friend again to onr table after its recent temporary suspens:on during the terzible ecidemic, which has r:ged in Savannah. Its energeric publishers ket their Xusic H.ou<e open without even a dy's interruption, but compositors were not to be had at an'- price and the October and November numbers cou-ld not therefore be issued. i'o compensste subscribers for tbis - 2..1.1-. .1 - The .Hera1d. THOS. F. GRENEKER, E W. H. WALLAC4 -as NEWBERRY, S. C. WILDNESDAY, DEC. 20. 1876. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. The Herald is in the highest respect a Fam ily Newspaper. devotelt to the material in tere-ts ot the people of this County and the State. It circulates extensively. and as an Advertising mediun offers unrivalled ad vantages. For Ter:ns, see first. page. Hampton's Itiangural ---Excur Sion to Columbia. A telegram was received here Wed I nesday stating that Gen. Hampton i would be iuaugurated Thursday. Im mediately a telegram was sent to the Superiiiteident of the railroad for a I special train to go down next morn ing ; but owing to delay in the reply the arrangewent was not effected till after night, and very few knew of it. A traia of five coaches was sent up from Columbia, to carry down the large crowd that was expected. When the hour for starting arrived eleven men gt aboard. Arriving at the city we found very few persons there from a distance; the notice of the inauzu ration was so short as not to give time for people to come in. To pass off tiie we strolled down to the State House, and, after a short parley, were permitted by a one-eyed negro at the first door and a soldier at the second to cross the sacred threshold of the bogus Hou-e of Representatives. The scene that presented itself beggars descriptiuon-About forty iguorant, noisy negroes and two or three white sneaks composed '-de House." From the vigrvrous speeches and the excited interest 4f the mrembers one wight have supposed they were di6cussing some great political problem ; but they were only squabbling over the question -wheder dey was g wine ter issue a pay certificit to a sijatehee which runned off 'dout 'forming his duties." We left them struggling with this momehtous problem. and took oura wayv to Carolina Hall, the place of meetin~g for the Wallace House, where we hea.rd very good spIeechles from Hamilton anad Bridges. The votes for Governor having bee~n euvsd the inuauguration took place in: the open air in front of the hall. The ()ath of office was administered by Judge .Mackey :it was thought best that it should not be done by the Chief Justice, as the n:atter of the election is before his Court for consid eration. The inaugural was well de livered ; after which everybody want ed to shake Lands with the new Gov ernor. What WHi Congress Do? Our last hope is now fixed on Con gress; if it does nothinig for us our case is hopeless. We can expect no thing fromn the Republican Senate, and the fact is becomuing wore and more apparent that we cannot count, with r'ny degree of confidence, on the Democratic House. The only way in which the House can aid the Demo ratic party and secure Tildeu's in auguration, is to insist upon its right to throw out any electoral votes it way think illeg~al. The question has been narrowed down to this: the Senate claims that neither branch of Congress has aiey right to go behind the official returus. and that the President of the Senate alone has the right to count the votes and declare who has been elcted ; thle House claims that it has the right to questiou aud to decide upon the validity of any eleecrol votes. If the Hos will stand firmu and the Seniate refuse to yield, the House will elect Tild.:n President and the Senate WVheeer Vice-President. But will the House stand firm ? That's the question, an1d it is a question that 2:dits of veryV serious doubt. There are 293 mnenwbers in the House ; 186 of thiese are Democrats, '73 Southeru ers. Let us remember that the South erm Dewoerats in the House have very little influence, itf any, in the settle mert of this controversy. It is al most a strugigle between the North and the South. Only three Northern States voted for Tild<:n, New York, New Jersey and Conznecticut, aud New York has more Republicans than Deorats in the House. So it leaves only the two small States. New Jer sey and Connecticut. as Northera Til den States. Now when we see that the matter has become so nearly a Northern and Southern issue,.and re member the jeaousy of the North to ward the South. we canniot help feel ing considerable doubt on the subject. After witnessing the disgraceful scenes at the State House, and hear 1~ . ~ - Amendments! Admendments The whole country seems to be an ing wild on tho subject of Constitu tional Amndnients. U. S Senator Edmunds has introduced a bill to atwend the election law; and Mr. Bl iir of New Hampshire offered the i.ther day in the House of Representatives an amendment to the Constitutiou prohibiting the manufacture of int.,xi eating spirits as a bever-ge. The Legislature of this State has just rati fied what it called an amendment, but which was in reality two or thret aiueodwents all tacked together; and now the Senate has a cowmitteo up pointed to report what coastituti-ual amendments are needed. Al! this is extremely radical aud foolish. Every ass that gets into Congress or iuto a State Legislature wants to leave hi, impress upon the Constitution, till it is becoming so pieced and patched as to lose all beauty, and so voluminous as to render a thorough acquaintance with it too laborious a task to be un dertaken by the great mass of citizens. True wisdom dictates that a constitu tion should not embrace too nany particulars ; the greater the nuwber of provisions it conains the less itu portance do the people attach to each one. Tbera is another and a greater consideration, which is t.his: When the people see their law-wakers con stantly tinkering with the Constitu tion. constantly patching it up here and there, they will naturally conclude that the whole thing is unsound, and they will lose all respect and venera tion for it. The English have never had a written constitution, and there never was a. country in the *orld where law and liberty flourished in such vigor and harmony. It is-im possible to prohibit every crime and to prescribe a remedy for every evil. The Constitution framiaed by such mien us Madison, Jefferson, Washington. Adams and Hamilton. and adopted by our forefathers ninety years ago, is good enough and contains ctough for every purpose. Our maodern Solou, will best sh,w their wisdoi by l-tting it alone. The Reason Why. This great fuss about the Presiden tial eleetion is another proof of the overbearing. unjust opposition of the North to the South. This opposition existed inj feeling~ and legisla.io:: be for the war. and was intensified by that event. The-objectiouz of the Northern lRepublicans is not so ri.Ue? against Tfildeu as a mani, uoer as I Demtocrat ; but they object to his be ing made President by the votes of the Southern States. There is no doubt in the world that if any three Northern States had voted precisely as South Carulina. Louisiana and Florida did Tiilden's election wo-2ld never have been disputed. Why does Graut use the army for Hayes ? What makes bis angry passions rise with such fury at the prospects of South Ca-rli's victory ? He sees tha. those very States that lie "whipped back into the Union" eleven yeairs ago are a bont to. giain a victory over Grantis,a more illustrious by far tha~n any he ever won on tetitedl field. Well Said. .Rcratio Seymiour. in his speech be fore the Electoral College of New York, snid : '-One thing all men se.. The Republican party cannot decide its own case in its own favor, agat the majority of the American people. upon the certificate of branded men in Louisiania, without making the body of our citizous and the world at large feel thatt it is a corrupt and par tisan deision." What one sees in the State Hoeuse i enough to make the blood ru:s cold -arms stacked and ready for use and soldiers with bayonets fixed marching through the halls. Editorial Review. Thirty members of the Mackey House are unable to write their names. The ladies of Ninety-Six will erect a huge Christmas tree on Christmas night. A storehouse and conteuts were de stroyed by fire at Orangeburg the ight of the 12th instant. The gin house of Capt. J. S. Rich ardson, Sumter County, was a,,iden tally burned dowu one day last week, and three colored men were burned up with it. Fire broke out in the cotton bales n the Spartauharg anid Union Rail Road one day last week, arnd befo.re ex.inguished forty bales were die stroyed. The Lancaster Ledger says thee are numbers of honest and compe-tent men in that counity who will gladly accept the position of Treasurer anid Auditor at a salary of $1,000, thus saving about $3,000 to the county. Gnnd-bhe Miss Liberty. Ifyo Caii,1 Justice M.us n,.s bn-: vr ill Last Friday uight his life was despaired of; but he rallied agaiin, and is now in a fair way to reeover. His complaiat was congestion of the i5 lullge. T!,e U. S. Senate hs appoinited a counittee to visit South Caroli-3. to inquire concerning election affairs. The committee arrived last Thursday a night. The following letter has been handed t us for pnblication: PINEFIELDS, LAURENS COUNTY, S. C. December 8. 1876. J. S. Hair, Eq., President Central As- t sociation, Newberry, S. C. DEAR Sit: Through the courtesy of your Secretary, E. P. Chalmers, I am a in receipt this evening of your favor of Dec. 1st, asking me to be present with t the Central Association of Labor Reform of Newberry County, Dec. 5th, 1876. The day of your meeting had passed t before I received your letter. It is t1 a gratifying to me that citizens of New berry.are moving in this "great matter." Labor Reform is the. paramount' "Southern question." It is deeper, and higher and broader than political questions. It is eminently practical. There is no sentiment in it. e It faces us every day, whether we eat "a hiscuit." clean out "a ditch," or run "a furrow." The magnificent civilization of the d South is resting upon the ground, prin- r ciples of our Association. Labor is creative. t Muscle turns up the sod. i Muscle builds the fire. Muscle makes the cotton. Labor Reform would control muscle. Labor Reform would control it justly, v rightfully, and humanely. I am gratified that you have received numbers of colored people into your Association. The colored man is destined to be a e most important auxiliary in the great development of the South. The Anglo-Saxon leader should win him to the standard by kindness, by justice, and more than all by firmness. Our best policy is to improve his (on dition. We must seek to make him a better ' man; in making him a better man, we make society better.* We ought never to lose sight of the 1 great principle of Labor Reform, viz: the close, universal union of employ- ~ t ers. The relation of employer and em-v ployee is the vital, fundamental, per- t manent relation in the world, and the ~ results of a wonderful Revolution have intensifiedl this relation at the South. The~ relation of employer and em ployf.e is the key to the great Eouthern problem. Use your best exertions to organize the em~ployers of your county. Do not rest until in every township, and in every neighborhood, you find them united in a close, and compact union, trusting one another, co-opcr:ar ing with each other, and all working together for the good of the whole peo ple. When this union is consummated -our deliverance is at hand." Teach the people everywhere to rely upon law, upon moral power to necom plish all that is needful to be accom plished for the emancipation of busi ness, and the revival of industry. r Remember the improvement and adornment of the farm is for the pres ent the great Southern idea. We are eminently an agricultural people. Our progress in this direction will soon make us a manufacturing and a commercial people. I published a letter sometime ago in the Laurensville Herald to the New-L berry farmers. I hope your county paper will publbsh it again. Very truly yours, A. W. MOORE. A Very VaIuable Work. 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Those who do umke inhould send for a specitnen copy , Fok THE 11ERALD Our Washington Letter. \VAsuiNGToN, ). C., De-camber 1".18. The city is inexpi essibly quiet. There a marked dif'erence in the tone of rciety ai it is seen to-day and what it as heretofore been on the assembling f ConGress. The (ep)lorable cond1lition f politi-t1 atf.Airs s(.ems to hang over .e eity like an incubus. Business is .emIIIgly prostrate and few have any eart to indulge in gIy and careless mnsenients. Real estate has declined urprisingly and money is diflicUlt to btain on the be,4 securilies. In the St!n:ate yesteIhty 0regon mat .rs were discsiised to some extent ending action on the resolution to in estigate then case, but no vote was avhed. The resolution of Mr. Bayard irecting the Attorney-General to report e number of Deputy Marsha!s em loyed during the election. and for hat purposes, was adopted. Mr. :duninds' j(int resolution proposing an mendment to the Constitution giving je Suprene Court the power to count wn electoral votes for President and 'i oe- Pres i(ent was debated, several mendmnts being offered and adopted. don't know what other people may )ink, but to me it seems strange that lie Senate should waste so much time bio)ut the mere counting of the votes. VIat differenea can it make whether ey he counted by the President of the Pniate or by the Chief Justice of the Kapieme Court? If an arrangement an he made that will give a clear and istinct hearing to the voice of the 0hople then the tine will not have en w:isted. Let theni wipe out the leetoral colleges where so mnch room xi-ts for bargain and sale, and devise a 4an hv which the will of the map-rity ay be ascertained and oheyed. In the IIouse there was an interesting iqmussion on the subject of the joint tiles. Notwithstanding the action of hl Senate, slstained by a majority of he Democratic Senators, the leaders of lie Iouse insist that the joint rules are ri force and Speaker Randall has so tiled. The hitch appears to be that the enate elaiims the excluive privilege of ounting the votes, and in so doingf may etermine which are valid votes and vhich are not. This the House denies. Tow the joint. rules may he (lead but he modo of counting and declaring the -ote which was in force from 186.5 to 876 is still alive. This mode was that . vote objected to by any member of ither body cannot be counted except y the concurrent resolution of the two iouses. This is Morton's view of the ase. nud while it is seemingly fair and roper, in a crisis like this, where the Wo Houses a e fairly antagonistiv, it iaves broad ground for the exercise of ,olitieal proclivities or aversions. Sup lose the Senate should sustain one of ts mnemhers in his objections to the te of a State contrairy to the firmu 'OVctionls of the House that tne vote v'as entirely proper. Thlat State or ute wonst be thrown out. Then the ouse might retaliate by objecting to the 'ote' o~f some other State, au.d sn the thing night be kept up by alternate objec io'ns on the part oif the two Houses until lot a State was left. 'Then the question ronld go at once to tihe House. But hen up)pose that, owing to som~e great evulsion in public opinion since the ast election thie majority of the [House ould not be in consonance with the >pular opinion-the result would be le election of a Presirient who was ot the choice of tihe peop)le. All this an he remedied, no doubt, and the ooner it is (lone the better. A torrib)le state of affirs exists in .nd about Lowndesville in Abbeville sounty, South Carolina. A large num e of negroes conspired together to :ill all the white men and capture the romen. The full particulars have not et been received, but it is known that wo white men were ambhushed and urder'd. Thue affair is, in itself, suf iciently horrible, but it derives appall rg sigi iianc'e from the fact that this Sno~ isolated outbreak of criminal feel rg but is simply a manifestation of the emper that is prevalent among the egro ~)popultionf of the lower counties f South Carolina. A trivial circtum tance led to the discovery of this con ir:u. Near the scene of the murder f Alen, one of the white men who rere assassinated last Monday week, a un wad .was found which, upon being pr::ad open. proved to be a piece of the Tnion-llerald, ai radical journal, and on lie marZin was written the name of a egro who, upon being arrested, con ssed thbe whole affair. Ui. New A' .?Iscellaeous. Totice to Trespassers. The undersigned nearebya f ore warn an.y and : .eroius.gam:st iishinue, flu sing, or in :i. te v tre.gas.ing on o::r lansis. Andi av one so ;on:.d tresp.oming wi;iapoe uid to the m:l extent ot the lawv W. R. Hi1sNTZ. MR~S. A. E HIENTZ. D). J HENTZ, T. M. HEN1Z. W. A. HENZ .e(e. 2{I, 51 -4w Wotice to Trespassers. The un:da rsignt. d, laawnr in the :ountyv o~ brewi berry, hereby forEearn any n" all pe:-sons again:st hunting, fishing, asiug thro'ughu, or in anty o)ther~ way tres asig ou :.beir lanIds. Al! violations of R .-oe 'la be dat witH to the full ex r'? of the aW. e .j{pTt Cis,rs 1. B3eazer, Ea~a,S Kt ) A t'roa-FoU, RV e > B Dar-, B~ . OTzrzip.seed, ~ Mr~a;Mri l: P. H1:I i !t H ,:gt rr. T. B3rown, d'4 . ldisa SS. Br;owni, JPWio', . . Cud -: el, I .O l.e .e. . C 4 G lda.I IJell, pec . ' jJ. .iarion, ~A'.(, nr,n, .. B.-'es,in U. Sond.e.,D. 2b-r, T.NII U UaIbEgio, Purua'.~" Ot ;.qur. u'MaSua t ati ; 1~ ~flt~~ioiW.'a i H Kr :ighto J. N .artin [..nuri t ociei . . ri. 1er t'e-,n ehle (Obidu e-econd h B'nud'y of naryne.. atoNwi berr ourt:.i Houae, fo r noInedpant ad u [:.. until 6 o 'clck P. M'J.4: . 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Wiciter, de tsed, that VA LUABLE LOT, uzte in the town of Newberry, in said imry, oni the South-east corner of' Adamis ' Pr.it; Stres:s, fronting on Pratr Street snt-iix 2-12 feet ad running along Ad is S'ret one hundred and eighty-thiree , ::nd bounded on Est by lands of ?ifrs. r,ver and others, containing a S'ore House d Re'sidlsace cornbined, and known. as Atimore Corner." r@ns of Sale-Oue-third of the purc'nase )ey to be- paid in cash, but purchaser to y more if be desires, and thie remainder to pid at twelve months from day of sale ri interest from that day, and to be se re by bonzd or purchaser and mortgage of yme, Purcha:jser r. pay for papen. J. J. CARRtINGT'ON, S. N. C. .Merf' Ofice, 9th Dec., 1876. i-3t !15 SHKRIFF'S SALE. :rrah 1. St rinagfellow, Plaintiff, .rge B. I'ucker, J. (C. Hdoter, .Jno. C. R:chrdlS, Wan. Munro, as Admn'r. of Wmn. . K..nan, Jimes B. Steedmian, 'ind ,?h.erm, D"fendants Court of Corzamon Pleas. r:n uce->rd.ince with an order of the Court Coomao, Pleas, in the above i.tated ac o I will e-l!, a t nablc auctioni, in front SMonday. tihe First Day of Jan u.y, 1877, h it ;r'r. of L-nd in Nui.wberry County a p.rt ot ,aid Getorg-- B. Tuecr's Enoree i-uoni, coritaining wVo Hundred and Sixty-five .4 265 Acres, m:l ed on the South and South-west by ..s oz Thom:as Whitmnire, Trustee for rs df 11. Whitmire, onl the Woat by innds J. ph rluckett, on the North-west by o: tbh Estam ot Peter Duckett, de c'd., the North by iknds or~ Thomzea Whit Tru.e atl on th Sot east by meec River. l'-ra of Sale-On:-. ha!1 cashi, and tho .:sce onz a cred(it of -tweRe monthsl, with vr.4~ f.., by of sale. Purcheer to eodand zi'rtg'age of the premises to are tn- cr,.it portion. P'urchser to ?or p4(er. .;. 1. CAR RINGTON, a N. c. :a .:ifl'% (iirce, Decemoer 9th, 1876. t-st 15 ANNI TO RENT. Sthet Real Estate of Eenrv Barton, de. - , ~'T'~'~ flhi2 miT ~flIV