Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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111av. naitptai in New ti: State. The Shiold's ( tiards. a cOipS Of veterans that 1ought in the Mexi can war, held their A31nniversary at Anburn. N. Y., last week. Gov. Itol;>t)n Wa1 )resent by invita tiOt, antd was treated with (listin gtuished honor. [1y Telegraph to the News and Courier.j AI-:: x, N, Y., .June 20.-Gov. Robin son, of New Yo: k, in his speech of welcom:e to Gov. 11::uliptonl at the Siihilis ceit'ao:n to-d.1y, dweI largely on the contest :n Soutli Caroline, in which the latter h:d taken so proml:t a yl.r. IL' a I 1.iI'!?':l iiplavr i by Gi'v. Ihatnprto.: th I ':n the L.st three 1mO thS had lxti td (i 1: itrtever it. the .:he rts of his enunt: ' en (oer?r l3alamptoi, in the coure of 1Q snech in repl.y said: "Your distrnguishevd (iov"e'rnor has been pleased to allude to the coa' st in South Caroliia. That, my .uiend-, was not a political struggle. it rose far higher tan ay such contesc ever waged o- this contiUent IL was a con:t for civilization, for home rnue, or gool government, for life itself. It was a co: test waged by the people of South Ca rolin-t, not, as demagogues would tell you, against r Northern mienl, but a conlte-t waged agan.II carpet-sggers, a:id when I say carpet-bag erS I Itan1 by that thieves. \\ u It ot call any Northern mani, any irishian, a:1y terilli, any Englishman, who settles iI our Midst as an honest citizen a carp' ,Age'r. WIte wCCtltc me Such it Open arni. w te tluhem to conie to our genia ski,-s andl fertile SOli, cO'nIC o e and . :inf i ledge them, in the name of the Stato, a ho-pitabe, w'arma-hcar'ted reception. We do not ask whether they are Riepublicans or Democrats. I want to impress this upon your minds; and will do it by illustration. \ hat was done by the Democratic Legisla ture of South Carolina in alost its first a - tion ? A vaeancy occurred on tle Supreme Bench of the State; a chief justice was to he elected ; it was a place which had been filled bv men of the very higahest reputation in our Comunonwealth ; the name of hou "ored sots of Garolini, who would have ione honor to any bench in any country, were presented, but that Democratic Legis lature elected to the Supreme Court a cm zen of New York, who came to the State as a soldier, and who is a Republica. What furtiher proof do you waIt that we are not "overned by proscriptive feelilg? Does it not show that we have fulfilled the pledges 1 e.nd1 promaises, made thironght the last can VaSS, to me no distinction on account of' race, color or partv ? We wanted to si:ow you people of the North that we were ac tuated by the highest and most patrioi. feelings. We did not wage a political can vass; we were fhliting for every terest dear to freemen, and thanks to brave :lnd true mnei and giorious women of South Carolina this war for good government" was successful. They have established it in every departm1eInt of the State government. ThY aecoiplishled this ; and they now propose to Ptfi to the- vcry leutter thle aiedges I .ide., ando. appealed to IIih ~j.ev'ent to wirno-s tinat they should be car r:ed? Out. I dclCaredL that it elected I woulid he Gloverno- f the~ wholle people of South Carolna; that I should k now no0 race or party, no e'olor that all menI who st.]od on the .soil of South ('roiina, native or forei .n bon white Or bltack, shoulda be equail be fore thec lar, and, so help mte G;odI,t sindi be done ! I am glad to say the bitterness which marked that striie is passing away, and I say to vou, men of New York, as I say at he'mfle, I~owe my election to the colored mltin of Soth Car olina. Th'otsar.dUs of thtem voted for mte, kntowinig tat I n ad beenl a good friet:d of the race ; knocwing that I was thle first mant after t.he war to recomn mtend that they should bie g it the rhiht of sutlage ; andU I nee yet changed on that subject, knowing thiey sutai.ned tme in lairge rubers, and I am' hatppy to say all the lears of tihe more ignorant, are uassin~g a way, and( thev' are satisfied they I wi be dealt ith in! all i spects as citizens of Soulth Carolnat. We intend to try and eleva te them, to edu ete th'em, antd try to shIow the:n the re sponsibilit ies as well as the blessing of lb ei tv. We want them, as other citizens of America and South Carolina, to be waorhy A of the great boon of citzenship Of this great Re~puiblic. My friends, i must again . thank you for this most cordial greeting, dloublly gratifying becautse it is the v oice of' New York reverberating to South Carolina. I camne, ds I said, to do honor to myv disti:n gn:ished friend, Gen. Shields. Ile wo:e the NOue and I wore the gray; but we can iet th.e curtain! drop over those years, and go back to that time when that flag, borte by him, waved over the South and over tihe North, and we can look to the future when that flag shall float over a free, united and prosperous people. [Applause.] Isay this to you as a Southmerni man, a rebel ; for, whte~n 1 fough:t, I fought as hard as I knew how against you ; anid I say also that, if that flag floats, as it should do, over free and egual States ; if it shall be the symtbol of Liberty anid Equality atnd Justice, ab l.e States atid every man of the South will honor it and love it, as of old, antd the time may come, once more, when New York( andI South Carolina sbaii stand shoulder to0 shoulder alg.inst the common enemy, and their blood ingle upon thle soil. [Ap-. idanise.] My friends, 1 shall bear this cor dial greetin~g back hiome with me to the( iule P'almectto State, and assu:re outr peoplei hat vonr her.rts h:ere thtrob kindly for us. I trust int Gcd that a better future is before the u!.al:ole coutry, :and tha t we shlall havye ipeac.., prosperity and liberty t o every m:m hlponi the Cotntinlent." [Applatuse.] .\N AcT TO INVESTIGATE AND) AS CERTAIN TtIE ACTU-\L ]XONA Flo: 1IDERTEDNE.SS OF THEI \ARIl's 4tdNTIES IN TUIS STATE, AND) ? BrX:LLATE THE .tNNER of~ IFAY1NG TIHE SAME. .FEenoiN 1. BeC it ('eaOtedI by theI Senate andl House of Riepresettiveys ci~ tize State of South Carolina, now meOt and sitting in Geneiral Assembhly, and y the a'uthority of the same: Tfhat uponi the p1etition of fifty tax payers of any cuUaty in the.State, a s-tin that sad ~cnUty in debt, ( :td intt the vali'ity of said debt or, :t'one noti~ on theii.O is do'ubted anld , Goveraor of the State to appoint a I commivnsion, cous:s~iteg of three com. r 'tat an1d discreejt citizens of said -ouII, to i. nvestigate t:ud ascertain theO tr~ue atnd real bona fid iudcbted te5S of saida uounty, who shall report i: 2! writing. to the boardi 0f couttvnty01- j] onna statenit f said biona t e4/ indebtedn&ss, and shall also report Sthe General-n Asscembiv, at its next on te mun o si bon 7, Jid :-'. -) That the s'id comm tissionl o:ve the pow~er to sen'd for per *1s ad papers, Ibe autiO7zedt to wea v:t1 n to call all per'sons ns' - ~ C toap& eueIt. diL - t th vsuch le :i' p fer o rsIue and Cl aslee. by publiention of a -t:..~ a.s.- E M remer af said e.:>un e1eiro 8: pr' demtor ece adiny no l:l:IV OQi lj'.1pi ' ) d iln sl'l WtL iwt t') :.'-e'd il a l thirvty (lays. A)rove ( Juno 11, 1877. The Herald. TIHOS. F. GIENEKER' EIroRS. W. II. WALLACE, ~EWREiRY. S. C. V EDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1877. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. The IIer:tl' is in the highet respect a Fani 2} NeV s:pc'r, dleVOtel to the materi:l in eh'et. Ot thee )1)t this Count.v and the )ate. It circllates exten.ively, :uid as an tvertising melium oirter unrivalled ad anta t'. For Terms. see first pge. The Fence Law. Our readers will see, from the 'ull text in another column, the )rovisions- of the Fence Law passed )y the Legislature at its recent ;ession. A defect in the Act is in ;ubmitting the matter to townships nstead of to the County at large. hle law can be made to affect the vhole County uniformly ; but it ,an also be so -arranged that ad oining townships of the same County would have different laws >n the subject, one having the fence law in operation, the other she "no fence." This, it appears :o us is a serious defect. It can, .owever, be avoided by a spirit of 3oncession on the part of those ownships that are in the minority >n the question of fence or no fence; .f a majority of the townships de 3irc either one or the other law, then the whole county ought to fall n with them, for the sake of con venience, and to prevent any confu 3non. If the farmers of Newberry chey are the ones principally inter sted-wish to avail themselves of he provisions of the Act they should ake the initiatory steps at once ; L'or it will require somec time to get the natter in shape, as will be seen by reading the Act. We have no words of ad.vice to ffer, because we recognize the fact that the farmers are better able to :liscuss and decide the question than we. It is proper to state, bowever, that the "no fence" law tias worked well and given satisfac ion wherever it has been adopted mnd tested. An objection to the Law in the minds of many is the upposed disadvantage that vwould irise therefrom in the matter of tock-raising. But it has been groved that the expense of keeping stock fenced in is almost nothing copared to that of keeping suita Ae fences around the fields. Few ais being required there would je-a gr.eat saving of~ trees. Thie aw must be adoptcd some time. or .he entire forests of the State will e cut dowvn, thereby changmng he climate and making droughts uh more frequent. Whether he proper time has arrived the armrs must dlecide for them eves. A Destructive Fire. A terrible fire broke out in St. Fohn's, Now Brunswick, the 20th nst., destroying over half of the ity, including a large niumber of esidnce, five ban ks, two hotels. ,wo theatres, four churches, five owsape'r oillees, telegrapht office, Justom House, city hall, &c. A eegram of June 21, says: "St. ioh n's is almost totally destroyed. Ul the puie i bu ilIdin gs are burin d. Few business houses are left. ally o.ne-half~ of the riences Lre in ashes. 15,000 people arc oeess. Womnz and child ren r in 1 he streets ci-ying for bread. 'irteou dead bodies have been r'e overed- many others are miss ng. The area burned covers 500 res. Loss estimated at8.15,000, C). Insurance, $6,000,000. The ,nly Amneric.ap risks are: itna, 22.000 ; Hart ford, 8200,00: Pho-. tix, of Brooklyn, 860,000. The Abbeville MeLdiiun says the emarks of its Editor, RI. RI. Hemp .ill, in the House, in regard to the iterst newvspaper reporters were sking,iu the qunestion of the Legisla )rs' salary, wer~e mad,e and received 'ith the greatest good humor. In Piwickiani sense we suppose. iot being presenit to see how they -re spoken we inferred from the ublished proceedling of the House iat they were spoken in earnest. mr criticisms were made under a iisapprhension, and we stand cor acte o12 that point. The last sentence of the ALde Uu~ S Have our people forgotten it Well, the Court has not. The fol lowing case came up for a hearing in the Supreme Court, the 19th inst.: The State vs. F. L. Cardozo, in rc Sims, tt a/., vs. Hayne, et a!. Proceedings for contempt. On motion of Attorney General Con ner, it was Ore"ltred, That the defendant, F. L. (ardozo, do show cause beforc this court, if any he has, on the fourth Tuesday in November next, at 11 o'clock A. M., why the judg mle;nt rendered againstt hin in th<C said pioce-eding on the 25th day of November, 1876, should not be en forced. A. J. WILLARD, C. J. S. C. June 19, 1877. Similar orders were made in th( cases of the State r". William Stone H. W. Purvis, T. C. Dunn and H E. Hayne, in re Sims (-t al. r Hayne et al., for contempt. The judgment referred to as ren dered against themu last November was imprisonment in the Richland County jail and a fine of .1.50( each. U. S. Judge Bond releasc( them from jail, but the fine stil; hangs over their heads, and then will very likely have to "ante up' next fall or go to jail again. Didn't Fuse a Bit. The Radical Convention that Imet in Charleston, the 1Sth, tc noiniiiate seventeen candi(dates fou the lonse of Representltives, pul up a coiprol2SC ticket composec of ten Democrats (some of the besi men ini Ciharleston and oni1'e w hia. and six negro radicals. The Demo C2r.ts Very promptly, and properly decined to ru-n on such a ticket Thr De, ocratic Coivention1 mel the 19th, and put forth a straight oit ticket.. The eloction comrlO oil' to-day, and there is every pros pet for a camnlte DteIocratil( victory. "No man can serve two masters,' illstrated. Chas. W Butz wa elected to Congress from the 1s1 Distriet last fall. At the samen time hc held the office of Solicitoi of the 1st Judicial Circuit. Ai Ongeburg Court a few weeks ag( objection was made to his acting as Solicitor, on the ground that his two offices were incompatible. Th< case was b)rengiht before the Su premed Court, and last Tuesday the Justices decided that when Butts accepted the offiee of Congrcssmar the oficee of Solieitor thereby be came vacant, and judgment o: ouster was entered against him. WV ho wants to buy a half-inter. est in a newspaperi ? Edward Bailey offerws to sell his interest in the Greenville Enterprise t* Moun, tineer, one of the best weeoklies in the State. The State officers of South Caro lina are equal, if not superior, tc those of any State in the Union. Editorial Review. The Russians have crossed the Danube at Golatz. Mrs. Jas. M. Abney, of Edge. field Co-unty, died the 18th inst. Jas. Gordon Bennett, of the Ne w York ilerald, returned from Eu rope Friday. The~ next session of the Green ville Theological Seinary (Bap tist) wvill open in Louisville, Ky. Te~n '-Molly Maguires" were hanged for murder in Pennsyl vani'a Tfhursday-six at Pottsville and four at Mauch Chunk. The Abbeville Mecdim says: "Several cases of meningitis of the milder type have appeared in this community during the last week or two." At the recent Commencement at West Point Military Academy, a son of Ben Butler graduated No. 54, and a negro boy named Flip. per, from Georgia, No. 50. There were 76 graduates. Andrew Crawford, Esq., Demo crat, was elected Probate Judge of Richand County, the 19th inst., by a majority of 600 over his competi tor, W. RI. Marshall, Republican. "One by one the roses fall." The Roa noke Collegian, publish ed and edited by the students of Roan oke College, Salem, Va., speaks in glowing terms of Rev. T. W. Dosh, D.D, the newly installed P~resident of the institution. The Phenui; says El'xLt.-Gov. Gleaves, of Beaufort, has been ap p)oited a Trial Justice by Gov. Hapton. If so, we think the Governor made a mistake G!ieavs is not competnt to fill te posimoni. T wvo divorces .were granted by TJld-e TRerdl in Chleton, the 18th FoR TItE HERALD. Fromi the Seaboard to the Mountains. "Stranger, you must go home with mc and talk some more ; I don't take you to be a proud man." "I hope you are right, my friend; for, standing like a very monad upon the mountains, I am humiliated by the 'infinitely great' above me, and the 'infinitely little' heneath my feet. I think you a reticent listener, and that is why i. am pleased to talk with you; it. takes a 'great man' to m ake a good listener, says Arthur Helps--the very simplicity of great ness-for 'most mien strike a mental attitude as friend, foe, cricic, advocate or judge.' First, a respectful and im partial h)earing. then a legitimate criti cism, and history would be more truth ful, the press less prurient, society far far more beautiful and satisfying. "Standing, my friend, upon these blue battlements of the Atlantic, and looking away in the direction of the Paciic, (we find her anything but peaceful) we are pained to know that the belt of subterranean fire which surrounds that great Ocean (believed to be the mausoleum of a dead world) is sending up from its Tartarus-like g ul f s earthquakes, tidal waves, zones of fire and cyclones of wind and rain. A tripartite alli ance seems to have been formed be tween Neptune and Pluto with Mars, to send a triple wave of fire, water and blood around the world. Vesu vius, even to-day, menaces the outly ing country with an overflow similar to that which, in the first century of the Christian era, overwhelmed Pom peii and Ierculaneum; and far off ilecla takes up the dreadful refrain, sending its~scoria across the Baltic to the coast of Norway, driving the poor Icelandei-s from their bleak and bar ren home. What means this incan desceut mass-of seething, surging mat ter iii the centre of our planet ? Does it threaten us with one of those tmighty cataclysms which rocks a world as in the cradle of the great deep? But the grand hypothesis knoweth no man. "Truly, my friend, the times are appalling. A very sirocco of heat has parched and withered Western vegetation ; while China, losing her rice crop for the third time, has her vast population dying by countless thousands. England has been flooded recently with water and the farmers were unable until within a short time to sow their seed. Throughout the United Staltes the seasons have been more or less adverse-a strange me teorological condition, in which late snoivs, falling temperature, alternating dry and wet seasons, with high winds and hail, together with the ravages of insect life, find us at the beginning of July with crops more backward than perhaps ever before. The cyclone of the East cometh into the West upon wings laden with the locust. We have heard of their ravages in the West, we find them in Texas, Georgia, Ala bama. A shower of them fell upon Newberry in mid-winter, and Ander son was visited by the marauding in - sect not long since. They are laying waste for many miies in Northern Africa, to-day. This is the same Egyptian locust described by the nat uralists, and which the great Pouchet says 'the wrath of Jehovah disperses over the earth to make manifest his ower.' Governors Peuington and illsbury, of* the far West, consider ing its ravages urge all States and Territories threatened to invoke Divine favor. This is well, for it was St. Jerome who exelaimed :'What is there stronger or mor terrible than locusts ? All huwan industry can not withstaud them. God alone regu lates their march !' No wonder the coquering hero, Chmarles XII, and his splendid army were arrested in their triumphant march across the plains of Bessarabia, by a swarm that, hanging as a black~ curtain before the sun, fell upion them like an avalanche ;. for, wi-thin~ the cube of six square inches. 3,500 eggs of the grasshopper have been counted. Since the Mosaic plague to the present day, the locusts have not left the cart-h, but all along, throughout the ages, have ravaged and depopulated whole countries. Among them was Germany in 1693. "Why, my friend, is it that, in ad dition to the carnage and destruction of war, financial wreck, the blight of excessive taxation, and the bitter politi a!, religious and social conflict of opin ios now prevailing in our uuhappy coutry, this special or permissive providence of God should be coming upon us ? Is it compensation for the wanton and general destruction of the prairie chicken and the non-game and insect-eating birds ? Or is it be cause we have formed ourselves, throughout the Republic, into rings, and with our great wealth are tempt ing Deity by speculating (gambling) upon the future yield of the fruits of the field, to the injury of the masses of the people ? For the past two or three years droughts, strikes and the aterpillar have well-nigh brought famine upou numbers of the already ipoverished low-country people,wh ile floods left old Piekens and Oconee last year, for *.he first time in their history, on the verge of begging bread. And there are those throuah out the State, (many of whom were, n times past, the very noblesse of eefactors to the pour,) now silently uering for bread. They are of that royal line-the noble army of mar vre, whose insignia is the 'service of umanity,' and who have, from the primal period to the present, carried the conquering Cross fromx Calvary across the desert years' .in all ages mnd climes, that it shall be crown d at the fruition with the amiaranthine chaplet of peace and good-will and he immwortelle of love "I have found you a courteous and ( tht, the best, srnio, writiing,s and speeches are the voices and ways, and the lights and shadows of nature. llowever, as it is your wish that I should speak, I hope to resume the thread to-morrow, that we may learn something of each other." G. II. I. FoR TIE I1nRALD. Our Washington Letter. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20, 1877. There are two political gatherings spoken of which will be of interest and may be of importance if they oc cur. One is the expected meeting of Northern and Southern politicians at Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, Virginia. Southern society and pol itics are yearly well represented there, and this season it is supposed many Northerners, including the President, will be there also. Mr. Corcorv r wealthy Democratic banker and p lanthropist, goes to the Springs an nually, and this has no doubt had great influence with Mr. Hayes, who is apparently guided by Mr. C. in uwany things. The other gathering is only hinted at in public, and may be only the off-spring of some vagrant imagination. It is no less than a meeting of American politicians in Europe, to consider, as the others will consider at the Springs, the fu ture politics of the country. The three leaders of men who have so os tentatiously gone abroad will be re membered at once. Others are al ready gone, and others they say will soon go. Why go to Europe to con sult each other when they could hold consultations at home with more se-. cresy, is not plain. I give the rumor for what it is worth. This muddle of civil service reform -"it's a nuddle"--is apparently as confusing to its authors, aiders and abettors as it is to a wondering public. St-irting out on a course - that the most able and experienced man could not successfully follow, and having for guides such visionary and erratic men as Schurz, able but politically inexperienced men like Evarts, dead men like Key and Thompson, and sly and selfish men like Sherman (who, it must not . be forgotten, is strongly bound to the great leader of the oppo sition), it is not strange that the President often misses.his way. De terminoed to get out of the old rut, which perhaps led to the ultimate ruin of the party, Hayes may be said to have got out of the highway itself ito the woods. The recent appoint ments do not compare favorably with Grant's later ones. Instead of build ing up a new party by this kind of "reform" Hayes would ruin an old one by it, let alone other causes of trouble. Ex-Senator Pratt, who died on the l'ith inst.. was a native of Alaine, but for many years had lived in Indiana. He was of gigantic size, of sim pIe and retiring habits, and, of unquestioned honesty, and outside of his official duties as Senator~ and Commissioner of Internal Revenue, made few ac quaintauces here. When Audrew Johnson was fight ig his party and the party him, and the Demnocrats had not shown a dispo ition to support him, the city of Peo ria, Ill.. chanced to elect a Johnson man to some local office. No one out of Peoria ever knew how it happened. It never happened again. But the sanguine President took the little isolated event as a begi nning of the Johnson party. "Look," said lhe. "at Peoria !" Our second but distingruish ed Johnson has fou:nd his Peor-ia. T e Republicani Convention in Venau go Co., 1h;., has boldly and unequivo cally endor-sed the President's policy. To be sure it is unot much of a County, and of.the'thirty or* more- in the State whih have held Convenibuns it is all alone in this mnatter, tut here is an endorseuents anmd Mr. Uazyes is no doubt properly pr-oud of it. Whoever- finds fault with W:ashijng ton in June knows not what a beauti ful city or a perfect climate is. From the Soldiers IIome southwar-d to the P-otom'ae, and from the Eastern branch vestward to the heights of George town, the wide streets iire all well kept, the numerous reservations green i glorious with verdure ; and foun tains here and therec play incessantly. The dust and mud of ten or fifteen ears ago, have disappeared, and the soldier of the late war who remembers the city as a straggling overgrown vil lage, in the streets of which he wss alternately suffocated by the one and plastered over by the other, would a-dly know the city of Washington as it now is. Fred Douglass, a few days since, paid a visit to his former master at St. Michaels, Mid. He left ther-e 41 'ears ago, and this was his first visit. I found by the plantation record hat lie was born in February, 1818,. nd that his correct namne was Fred riek Bailey. lHe gave the uegroes of1 ie vicinity very good advice, and al uded to politics only to say that in lie South the old masters and their amilies would inevitably control the rotes of the colored man. RENO. MLuuA De MEDIo.-Iu a narrow, wreh :d little street in the ifamous city of Cologne. d within a stone's throw of its mnagnileenut athedral, stand(s a mnean, lowv, wea~thmer- j eaten house, which is one of the land-marks ,t history, for here died in squalid mniseryv ne of the most famous women if which ijstory contains any record. She was driven y ut of France by her son and became ai wan-c ering fugitive. In succession England, ~czmany and Swi:zerlauld drove her awayt o their contines, till at hi,st, deserted by verye, sick and dying, she found her way .,c~~ad .lis,. in a wrethed tene- e FoU rii" Hi-RALD. l Wiilianstona Fensale (ollege Conmiiiencem ent. EDITORS EI RALD: The pleasing exercises which always attend Williamston Fem ile Co:lege wooed your correspondent to leave business and its cares to visit this rich store house above our pleasant town. Leaving here last Monday week upon the Excursion bound train for Greenville, after having spent a delightful day in this stirring Moun tain City, the writter returned to Williams ton on Wednesday and encountered a scene of dazzling beauties and earnes: students attending this Institution. Wednesday night the Rev. A. Coke-Smith preached the annual sermon before the Insti tution, selecting for his text 1st Corinthians, 10th chapter, 31st verse, "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." I would be only paint ing the lily and adding perfume to the rose to enter into a description of this masterly ef fort of an universal favorite who adorns all that he touches. Thursday in the forenoon the yonug ladies charmed us with soft and tender music, at which we "flung our heap of years away and became as young, as gay as they." Next followed the awarding of Diplomas, an event which equals in im portance according to their opinion the proudest achievements. Many a sweet Miss is now happier and sweeter still, and the soft fringe of her lashes beat their vigils over eyes which now speak volumes to many an anxious youth's heart. But we must express another delight which all present felt at the address of Hon. Samuel Dibble delivered before the Erosophic Society. This gentleman chose as his sub ject, "Vashti," and held her up as an ex emplar of all that is beautiful, true and good in womanhood. Such a theme was appro priate as addressed to these young ladies, and doubtless caused their impressible minds to take in the great truths portrayed. Rev. Mr. Lauder, who so ably presides over this nursery of cultivation and refinement, delivered in sweet tenderness the parting 'valete.' As the speaker looked over the dear faces of his foud pupils, who had sat as willing listeners to his instructive words, and told them how hard it was to part; yes, hard to sever the silken chords of mutual love, esteem and veneration, hard for the loving hearts of classmates to cease to be stirred and cahned by the same thoughts and emo tions, hard to leave these associations and attractions which linger so fondly around the sacred fount.of learning that has offered its willing libations and nourished these ten der plants to maturity, the speaker's pathos was superbly grand. After Prof. Lander's valedictory, the fol lowing young ladies, this year's graduates, handed in their theses, as follows: Miss Janie Anderson-"Looking Aloft." Miss Mary Brown-"fThe Fashion of this World passeth away." Miss Sallie Browu-"Every Cloud has a Silver Lining." Miss Rebecca Douthit-"Life is not meas ured by the time we live." Miss Nina Dukes-"The tender grace of a day that is dead will never come back to me." Miss Mary Jane Pelham-"Beyond the Alps lies Italy." This College has a peculiar adjunct-a practically valuable feature it is too-in the Kindergarten system of instruction. It is founded upon the idea that the mental ener gies should be educated by expanding the physical. As knowledge and development are the inseparable but distinct elements of education the advocates of this technical school agree with reason that a healthy con dition of the student causes these ends to be best attained by giving the body exercise and bringting the muscles into play. The Calisthenic exercises were very pleasing. All the various bones in the body were known to the pupils and the uses and pur poses of the same. In the evening Prof. W. W. Duncan., of Wofford College, delighted us with an instructive and felicitous address on the necessity of thoroughness in a College course and proved the same with many a happy and timely illustration. He drew at tention to the palpabile errors frequently made by "College graduates," who are sometimes unwisely anxious to parade their knowledge. The Professor spoke 1 i hours, and vet all were ''drinking deeply, thirsting still the more," and ripple after ripple of merry laughter followed each joyous hi;. Newberry was ably represented at tnis College by Misses Cynthia and Hattie Boul ware, Misses Emma and Alice Werts and Miss Fanny Cannon. Mine host Mr. Deal was catering to the wants of his many visitors. Mr. D. has a charming Hotel and excellent facilidies and has commenced to spread the cloth for all who desire to summer at the splendid Wi! iamston Springs att moderate rates. The Spring contains to one pin t of water 131 grs. Carbonate Iron held in an excess of Carbon ic Acid; 31 grs. Sulphate Potash; 21 grs. Sulphate Magnesia, a trace of Iodine and a trace of Sulphur. It was our p)leasure to meet Hugh Wilson, E'q., of the Abbeville Press & Baner,.R. R. Hemphill, Esq., of the Abbeville Medium, Hon. Samuel t)ibble, Rev. A. Coke Smith, Rev. 5. A. Weber, Hion. F. A. Connor and other: pleasant gentlemen. In dwelling over our happy experience during this recent trip we have forgotten that our tale seems lengthening as it goes, but 'tis sweet to think of the pleasure we enjoyed., 'Still o'er these scenes our memory dwells And fondly lingers with miser care. Time but the im pressipn stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear." Faithfully yours, W. E. P. Circular. STATE OF SOUTII CA ROLINA, OFFICE STATE SUP'T oF EDUCATION,> COL UMBIA, June 14, 1877.3 The General Assembly at its recent session ppropriated S100,000, exclusive of the poll ax, for the support of the Free Common Shools for this fiscal year. The amount to vhich your county is entitled is S.. A heavy penalty having been imposed for the non-payment of the poll tax, it is be ieved that the amount derived from this ource will be much larger thi an in any pre ious year. The law provides that the poll ax shall be retained by the County Treas rers, and that it shall be expended for chool purposes in the township in which it s collected. If the schools in your county ave -ben closed this year, I would advise ou to open them as soon as possible, and to keep them open until the above mentioned Imount and the amount (as nearly as you can estimate it) to he derived from the poll tax are exhausted. If, however, the indebt ~dness for work done dturing this fiscal year s equal to the amount to which your county s entitled, the schools should be closed at >nce. You will please report promptly to lis office whether tile schools are open or ot, its it is my desire to visit those counties n which the schools are in operation. In advance of the publication of the Acts assed at the recent session of the General usembly, 1 will call to yotur attentiotn the ~ollowin.g summary of the amendments to le school law : 1. Teachers' certificates and all claims gainst the Free School Fund must be sworn . by persons presenting the claims. All rustes are authorized and required to ad inister oaths, free ot' charge, to persons by vhom stuch chmimns are presented. 2. The samle person cannot act as Trustee d teacher of a public school. 3. The law authorizing the levy of a Dis rit School tax has been repealed. 4. The Compensation allowed County chool Commissioners is three (3) dollars a ay for the time actually employed, provided e number of days in each and every year r which said compensation shall be allowed all in no case exceed one hundred days, xcehpt in the Couty of Charleston, where e number of days shall not exceed one undred and fifty. Tfhe following communication announcing e regttlations prescribed by the Comptrol er-General for the payment of County chool Commissioners is published for your imformation: STATE OF souTHr CA110LINA, OFICE OF COMPTROLLER-GENERAL, COLUMBA, June 16, 18'77.3 lo. H. S. THOMrsoN, Superintendent of Education. Sin: There is some doubt as to the amount compensation School Commissioners may e entitled to from the beginning of this fisS l year to the 7th of June ins tant. 1 I deem it proper to say for your informa on that I propose to apply the appropria on for the pay of these officers from thme be in.ing ot thi fi.,can-ar a directed by the I ister a n o a th a 1:11 'om we to IIy v Ffli ce w ith y ou official aippro, a. I&,iectu uly, JOtlNSON IIAGOOD, ('omptroller-General. This is the year in which the Trustees a required to make, or have made, an enui ration of all children heth ecn the ages of si and sixteen years. The District School to having been abolished, there is no fund fro which the Trustees can be paid for this wor They are, however, earnestly requested make the enium,ration. The work is n onerous, and it is of the utniost iniportan that it should be done. Without the infu mation thus obtained, it will be impossib for the Legislature at the regular session make a proper estimate upon which to ba the appropriation for free schools for tl next year. At five cents per capita, whi has heretofore been allowed for this enum ration, the expense of making it, assumir that the school population is about what was in 1875, would be nearly S12,000. TI saving of this amount will surely be, to a Trustees who really desire to promote ti interests of the public schools, sufficient i ducement to perform this import:nt woi without it,ay. Permit me to call your attention to the in portance of having men of intelligence ami high character on your Boards of Examine: and Boards of Trustees. 'The efficiency of the public school systei must depend greatly upon the manner i which these boards are orzanizel. "Partisn instrnction,in the schools" is forbidden, ain the best guarantec which you can give th; this wise provision of the law will be ec forced will he the selection of competer persons for Examiners and Trustees. I su, gest, wherever it is practicable, that hot races and both political parties bo repr< sented on these boards. Many of the schoc officers, and especially the Trustees, are n toriously incompetent. To retain them wi reflect great discredit upon the School Corr missioners, and will be a wrong to the peop of the State. It is my igtention to reque: the Circuit .ludhtes to instruct the Grand J ries to investigate the management of th puhlic schools in the different counties, an I shall :k that the courts use their authorit to remove all school officers who, throng ignorance or neglect, fail to discharge thei duties. As soon as possible after the closing of th schools, you will please send to this office a reports which you are required to make. DE lay on the part of any one Commissioner wi retard the preparation of my report. There will be no meeting this year of th Board of Education, no appropriation ha inig been made to pay the mileage of mern bers. School officers should bear in mind th. the money appropriated for this year, cannc be used to meet deficiences for previou years. Commissions issued since December 1= 1876, and not signed by Iis Excellency Go' ernor Hampton, are not valid. In such case. the School Commissioners must send thei bonds, approved by the County Commissiot ers, to the Secretary of State, wno will issu the commissions. Very respectfully, HUG 1 S. TIIOMPSO N, State Superintendent of Education. [ADvERTIsEMENT.] MESSIIS. EDITORS NEWIBERRY HERALD The card of J. Newton Fowles, inserted i your last issue, demands a notice at a hands. 1. No claim was ever made by me th his attack found me uniprepared. Idee< those who are familiar with the facts of ti diffi.':v know that but for Mr. S. K. Die J. Newton Fowles woulid have received ti punishment his perfidy so richly merited. 2. J. Newton Fowles seeks to deny th: I struck him a blow with a cowhide, bi says, "'The truth is, he raised his armt stri!:e, I seized him anad threw him froi the sidewalk itnto the street, failig on hir duringr which tinme the whip fell Out of h hamd.'" Now, I desire to st:ate that I not on1 raised myv arm to strike, but that I di strike him with it. Any expression to ti con trarv from him I denounce as false at Jlesignred to cover up his disgrace. And J. Newton Fowles has seen proper to refa to the numerous crowd which gathere during the little dilliculty, for informatro: I respectfully st.bmit the statement of Cap A. P. Pifer, who was present. NEwBERRY, S. C., June 21, 1877. CoL.. T. J LirscoMn: DEan Si-Your note of this date 11: just been handed to meI. In reply I woul s.iy, in answer to your question, that ni dleided impression is that I s.or a cowhid in your hand descend upon, or across, tl shoulder of Mr J. N. Fowles. Very resp'y, &e. A. P. PIFER. And testimony of like import will b borne by Messrs. J. C. Clary, N. B. Cai rington, and others, who were also pres en 3. J. Newton Fowles uasserts that he hel my arm by the wrist, thereby preventin the use by me of my knife. I denounc this as a falsehood. Read the testimony of Mr. L. C. Moore NEwBERRY, S. C., June 22d, 1877. I hereby certify that I ran tup to th plaice where Col. T. J. Lipscomib arid Mr J. N. F>wles were engaged in a scufik Mr. S. K. Dick was holding Col. Lipseomnb right wrist with bot.h his (Dick's) hand which prevented Col. Lipscomb) from strik ing with the knife. Mr. J. N. Fowles did not have hold C Col. Lipscomab's arm. L. C. MOORE. Messrs. I. Newton .Gary, E. M. Evan and others allow mie to refer to them a :onfirming Mr. Moore's statement. I also refer to Mr. S. K. Dick, who is ab sent from the State. THOMAS J. LIPSCOMB. .?Yew A .1is,celaneous. MUSICAL CONCERT The undersigned has the honor to an ounce to the citizens of Newberry tha e purposes givng a Concert of Classic ~lusic at an early date at Temperance Iall for the benefit of the newly or anized Band, ini which lhe is kindly rondsed the aid of tihe lady and gentle an amnateu.r talent of the place. lie beg o add the Concert will be given u-ider the ~uspices anid directioni of the following ~entlemnen: .L.McCaughrin, Esq I.J. G. Wardlaw, Esq. . C. Wilson, Esq. IT. C. Pool. o1. C. H. Suber. 'iM. A. Carlisle. r. S. F. Fant. R. IH. Wright. . N. Martin. ,J. D. Cash. t. M Bowers. |Capt. T. S. Moorman ilas Johnstone. |A. W. T. Simmons. . P. Booz..r, Eq. Thos. F. Greneker. lon. W. T. Tarrant.I F. IIAMMERSCHMIT. June 27, 26--It. n the Midst of Life is Death ! WVith such a wvarning 1) e P fore us. let us at least be pre pared to con Livi:Rtest the pi before- ' W e2 shiutfle ofT this - iumortal coil,' and1( we can on 13y be strenigth. CU RE **ned i" ure* invaluable 1 m ed a cinie, which, while oving the bowels very gently, purges the rhole systemi. The bowels torm but one f the njatural otutlets for the removal of raste matter and impurities; the kidneys raw away one species of' waste matter mI he 'orm'of water, and tihe skin anot.her rntefr x ao n )~P' loisintefrmoll.radpesia Axr h0 ognsms11.tmuae t n rA( Luth orastul actin,atd tu tm ressembu enata atien.lood thus te hol sytm.ent the bloo cemd, the veryt fe ofrhe bod is ct~lened Tad Sm IOahv HEL'Arr m:m.:MnERED OHA L!VE rrved um>erm rai-OUND Oa L!VER NOTICE. e- Property holders are notified that their X vards must be cleansed and all garbage throw in to the streets, firm vAhe: cc it will be renoved by the town carts. 1>ackl pre tomie aI( :iso rauired to be cleaused. If at not done, the Council will have it done 9t ce owner's expense. Disinfectants are recomn r- neuded as a sanitary measure. lc W. T. TARRANT, Intendant. to J. S. F.var, Clerk. Jne 27. 26-1 t. e- TO THE PUBLIC. ig it The public are hereby warned against ie holding any policies or renewals of policies o11 f insurance of the City Fire Insurance ie Company of Richniond, Va., issued by W. J. Lake, its late agent. And if any party or parties are holding any policies or re . newals of said Company, they will return id them to me at once for cancellation. rs W. T TARRANT. Jun.' 25, 1S77. 2G-4t. ITI ;n lNOTICE. td Notice is hereby given that the Public . Schools for this County will reopen Mon t day, July 9th, 1S77. - All persons desirous of obtaining certifi h cates of qualification to teach in said Schools will please apply before the Board of -Ex >l iners for the same, which meets on Sat l urdav, June ist, and Saturday, July 7th, . 1877. M. S. LONG, P. STuec School Com'r., N. C. t P. S.-Trustees will please take notice 1- that hereafter all certificates and other e clainis, must be sworn to before them be d fore signing. June 27, 26-2t. y tr STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, NEWBEIRRY COUNTY. By James C. Leahy, Probate Judge. Wherers, 11. C. Moses, as Clerk of Con r 1 hath :iade suit to me, to grant him Le of Admi:istr rtion of the Estate and e of Thon:s I. Chappell, deceased. T1 he:ose aru therefote to cite and admonish ali and singular the kindred and creditors it of the said deceased, that they he and ap t pear, before me, in the Court of Probate, s to be held at Newberry Court House, S. C., on the 31st day of July 'next, after publication hereof, at 1I o'clock in the fore noon, to shew cause, if any they hav'e, why . the said Administration should not be granted. Given un:der my Hand, this 23d ,e day of June, Anno Donini, 1877. J. C. LE A.HY, J. P. N. C. June 27, 26-4t. - Ayer's Sarsaparilla Y For Scrofula, and all t scrofulousdiseases,Ery i, sipelas, Rose or St. An e thony's Fire, Eruptions and Eruptive diseases eC of the skif, Ulcerations ..: of the Liver, Stomach, plres, Y'ustules, Boils, - Blotches, Tumors, Tet -- ter, Salt Rheum, Scald ~Head, Ringworm, Ulcers, sores, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Pain in the lBones, Side and Head ,Female Weak d ness, Sterility, Leucorrhoa, arising e from internal ulceration, and uterine d disease, Syphilitic and Mercurial dis is eases, Dropsy, .yspepsia, Emacia r tion, General Debilt, and for Puri a fying the Blood. , This Sarsaparilla is a combination of vegetable alteratives-Stillingia.Man drake,Yellow Dock-with the I6dides of Potassium a1ha Iron, and is the most efficacious medicine yet known s for the diseases it is intended to cure. 6 Its ingredients are so skilfully ry combined that the full alterative ec effect of each is assured, and while e it is so mild as to be harmless even to children, it is still so effectual as to purge out from the system those impurities and corruptions which e develop into loathsome disease. r- The reputation it enjoys is derived t. from its cures, and the confidence d which prominent physicians all over g the country repose in it proves their e exp)erience of its usefulness. Certificates attesting its virtues :have accumulated, and are con stantly being received, and as many e of -these cases are publicly known, -they furnish convincing evidence of the superiority of tis Sarsaparilla s over every other alterative medicine. ,So generally is its superiority to any other medicine known that we need do no more than to assure the public that the best qualities it has ever possessed are strictly maintained. PREPAR~ED BY Dr. J. C. AYER & C0,, Lowell, Mass., .Practieal and Analytical Chemists. - SOLD BY ALL DEUGGIsTS EVEBYWHERE. OFFICE CLERIC OF COURT, NEWBERRIY, S. C., 19th June, 12??. Notice is hereby g:ven that an Extra Term of the Court of General Sessions (and of Common Pleas, for the hearing of -such causes as both pa1rties may, agree upon,) for the County of Newberry, will be held ON TUE FIRST MONDAY (THE 2D DAY) OF JULY NEXT. All Grand and Petit Jurors, Prosecutors, Witnesses and parties interested, will take due notice thereof. HL. C. MOSES, - Clerk of Court. Jan e 20,25-2t. - STATE 0OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY 0OF NEWB3ERRW. IN THE PROBATE COURT. If. C. Moses, A dm'r C. T. A., Clerk of Court, Plaintiff, againsi Sus.au Montgom cry, Defendant-Comiplait, for Account and Relief. It is ordered, On Motion of Messrs. Uix ter & Johinstone, P1h:intiIi's Attorneys, Messrs Suber & Caldweli, AtL':.s for De fer.dant, That the Creditors of the testator Suminerfield Mont gomeury be required to render and establish their demarnds in this Court oni or before the first olay of August next. J. C. LE A1HY, J. P. June 10, 1877-25-st. RUBBER~ BELTiNG~ and LACE LEATlER. Dest :3 mv Rubber Bel:;na 2, 2?., 3, 4, 5 nd~ t in:ch. 'Sup,aior q4ulit Lace Leather, IIIin untities to suit. Anyvi -alth Bc-tin:g furnished at short n Io .3'. .U!' at low pr!ices for Cohl. At .S. P. l(mZim'L.S Uardware S.ore. Iia opee at: the old stand of W. H1. Dckert, aI ill keep on hand ICE CREAM, SODA WATER, T.EMON ADE