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er ald. IIOS. F. GRENEKER, EuITous. W. II. WALL ACE, rEWBERRY. S. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1877. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. The Her'aild is in the highest respect a Fan ily Newspaper. devotel to the mateial in terests of the people of this County and t he State. It circulates extensively. and as an Advertisin?t mediui otrers unrivalled ai vanta,es. 'or Terms, see 2irst page. NOMINEES. For loiuse of Representatires: Y. J. POPE. For Cleri of Court: E. P. CIIALMERS. For Cov.tty Commissioner: . L. BATES MAFFETT. The Independent Ticket. We are glad to be able to say that all three of the gentlemen whose names appeared last week on the independent ticket have de clined the nominations. . Martha Washingtofl College. The above named Female College, located at Abingdon, Virginia, is presided over by Warren DuPre, LL.D., a gentleman too well and and favorably known to the people of Newberry to need any recom meadation at our hands. He is assisted by a full corps of con petent teachers. See advertisement in another column. Democratic Harmony. It is unfortunate that just as Newberry is emerging frorm radi calism there should be dissensions in the Demociatic ranks. What ever views may be entertained in regard to the constitutionality of the late County Convention, it is certain that the prime duty of the Democratic party now is to stand united. The difference of opinion that has sprung up in the .Demo crat.ic ranks is only a difference of opinion in regard to the constitu tionality of the late Convention, nothing more. There is no objec tion, we suppose, from any quarter to the nominees of the Convention -there is cer'tain]y no reasonable objection. They are men of true and tried principles, and capable of filling the respective offices for which they have been nominated. They are all thorough Democrats, in full accord with the sentiments of the party in this County. "The men and measures" then are all that.can be asked for'. It is there fore the part of patriotism for all Democrats to sustain the .party nominations. Lay aside all differ ences and stand shoulder to shoul der'. Laurens. We shall say nothing about the town this time for fear Bro. Crews will be after us again with a sharp stick. A ride in a buggy across the country from Newberry to Laurens can scarcely be called a pleasure trip. The roads are dreadful. Ev ery now and then you come to a deep gully across the road that makes you shudder and fear for the wheels. Again you come to a bridge with gaping holes just ready to re ceive your horse's leg and snap it off. Before passing the four mile post, beyond Langford's mill, you cross two bridges that are really dangerous ; they are both small, it is true, yet they are large' enough to break a wagon, or a mule's leg, or a man's neck perhaps. When will these things be remedied? The crops along the road as far as Col. B. F. Griffin's, tile border of the County, are clean, but do not, generally, look well. Cotton is smual], antd corn ditto. We were surprised at this, having heard such favorable reports. The crops have been worked, but they have notbhad good seasons-too much dry weath er. From Milton (Laurens) to Cross Hill the crops are a little better, and from tile latter place to Lau rens Court House, they are splen did. Laurens ought to be proud of her Waterloo farmers along that route-Mark Teague, A. WN. Moore, Dr. Eichardson and others, whose names are not known to us. That section of Laurens is as fine a farm ing country as can be found. The farmers are intelligent and enter prising, and keep abreast of the agricultural improvements of the day. A latrge portion of their cot. +o omst Ne-herry. but'Ninetv mise has been made them. Hope deferred has made their hearts sick. They thought tnvo weeks ago that arrangements-had been effected that would cause an immediate resump tion of work, and expected no fur ther trouble or delay till the train should run to Milam's trestle, four miles from town. But work has not begun, and they do not under stand it. They are talking now of a railroad to Spartanburg. This would be a great advantage to the County, and would afford a much cheaper and speedier connection with New York, Baltimore, and even Charleston, than they can ever get by way of the G. & C. R. R. Editorial Review. F. L. Cardoza, the mulatto ex Treasurer of State, was arrested in Columbia, Saturday, charged with misappropriating public funds while Treasurer. He was bailed in the sum of 820,000. The biggest railroad strike on record is in progress in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio, along the Baltimore & Ohio and other rail roads. Trains have been stopped. The Governors were compelled to call out the militia and to call on the President for troops to sup press the riot:rs. At Baltimore twenty-five men were killed, at Pittsburg seven, and others at other places. Editorial Correspondence. AS SEEN THROUGH OUR GLASSES. LINCOLNTON, N. C., July 16, 1877. This will be our last from Lincoln ton, and perhaps ere it be unfolded to the reader the writer will be folded in the home circle. As said in a pre vious letter, it was not our intention to locate here, however pleasant and enticing it might be to do so, and re cent events have strengthened that determination. Intimate acquaintance with the RED BUGS, OR CHLIGERs, of North C:rolina, if nothing else. has put an estoppal to any ambitious views we may have entertained, con sequently our surplus funds arc all yet intact-no investments in facto ries. lands. water privileges, mineral springs, or, stock in the narrow guage, have be-en made. Mountain scenery, gorgeous sunsets, breezes sweetly laden, icy water, fascinating women. generous fare, fade away when we think of tar-heel red bugs and the WEAR AND TEAR OF FINGER NAILs. Thc amount of scratching has been enormous, the flesh gained by the use of mineral water and table comforts has been lost in scratching. Of course those little red-headed and red-bodied pests are not of the town, and the visitor who contemplates coming here need not stay away through fear of their attacks, for- they are to be found only in the woods. Our stock was obtained while fishing, and was all that was caught, mountain trout be ing decidedly scarce. Three essays have been made in that direction all with like result-three nights of unremitting scratching and unrest, and now likie "Uncle Ned's fiddle and bow" our poles have been "hung up." One of these excursions-the latter will long be xemembered for its DELIGHTFUL EARLY MORNING RIDE of nine or ten miles through a rich and beautiful country, abounding in smiling corn fields and meadow lands, and everywhere immense ricks of straw, evidencing that wheat is plen tiful. It is a grain country, and as a consequence the farmers are indepen dent and comfortable, and always have a little of the needful in their pockets. Much has been said of sunsets and strolls at twilight, but how little of that delicious period, the birth of day; how very few even see the sun rise, and experience the delight of nature's awakening. It was our pleasur-e to see "jocund day standing on the misty mountain top" and to euhale the deli cious atmosphere as wrapped in over coats our little party-one a Floridian whose experience had been nightly fights with mosquitoes, to be renewed in~ the 'morning-dashed over smooth roads and clear running streams. Who would not get up before day for a ride so delicious ? But no fish were caught. At the mill we found a miller; he was not the "jolly mil!er," however. "who lived on the River Dec." lie had been unfortunate all his life, IIAD "NEVER LIVED) YET," although past fifty. Hie gave his his tor-y without the asking, but space will only permit for a portion ; when e married "he went for a woman who could make irood bread and cof fee," this was in response to a request that lie would furnish us a pot of the latter. Now, alas, she was dead, he 'had no wife to mnake coffee, nor did e have a work bench"--what connec tion between wife and bench we could at see.. Hie "expected to live this fall," and much else. It may not be amiss to add that the coffee was fur nished but THERE WAS NO SUGAR. le had used no sweetening, long or short, since becoming a widower. There were but two holes at this fish in ground-one of which the pai-ty found without assistance, and the other with the kindly aid of the miller, who led us laboriously through a plou~hed 1 LINCOLNTON FOR DUTLLNES affords no exception to other country towns. One dav l:tst wcek sale was made of a Palmetto fan and two fiTh lines, and yet the merchants appear to be happy. There are hir days some times, however, and Friday last was one-early in the morning the Liberty Pole erected during the last Presiden tial canaign was cut down, everybody was out ; a little later in the day a new Basket Buggy was happily re ceived by a citizen and the sensation produced was profound, everybody and his wife were out on this occasion, and a fight between two boys occurred, but whether occasioned by the arrival of the aforesaid bu:gy or the demolition of the pole has never been ascertained. BARTERING IS THE RULE here ; in proof, eggs and chickens are given in exchange to Morris at times for a shave or hair cut. The eggs have to be counted before the opera tion is performed, and if there hap pens to be another man waiting it is some time before he hears the wel conie sound of "next !" As a rule, with a few exceptions, they only SHAVE IIERE ONCE A WEEK, so the annoyance of waiting the re sult of the count, and hearing chick ens fluttering and squawking from the hooks on the wall, is not frequent. A couple lately came in from the country to be shaved, and the price for a single shave being 15 ets. or two for a quarter they agreed, after long discussion, that one of the party pay the half eagle; and to make the balance even, there being no old seven-pence pieces and neither willing to take ten cents as his poition, five cents' worth of tobacco was bought and a division made. It was an ami~ cable adjustment of a knotty problem. It was our intention to have given a description of one of the Messrs. W. & R. TIDDY'S PAPER MILLS, three of which they have in successful oper-ation, one of which-three miles from towu-we visited in company with Capt. Speck, the Floridian above alluded to and their respective better halves ; but we have already taken up too much space, and can only say that two of them are in this county and one in Cleveland, from which are turned out daily an aggregate of 4,000 lbs. of paper ; one of the mills making exclusively tinted papers. The modus operandi from the moment that the dirty rags are placed into the ats for cleansing till they comlje out in beautiful white or colored papers is an exceedingly itrsigoe The most of this p:'per is shipped North, the Yorkville .Enquirer and the Lincoln Progress alone receiving the4r respective quotas here. The paper is excellent and made entirely of ragzs. One of thesc gentlemen in forimed us, on eniquirling if the supply of r:igs wvas sufficient, that he could get euough to run a couple more mills. The reader need not infer that the "ragged edge" has anything to do with this: T1'he thermnom.etcr has not exceeded 90 since our advent, and generally a breeze tempers that much of heat. With the exception of a few chigers which still prove thorns in the flesh we are in excellent condi tion anid feel like remaining here till frost. but duty bids us away, and to morrow we strike tent and will wove homeward. FOR THE UnERALD. Our WYashington Letter. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 18, 1877. In two weeks tile most important of the Republican State Conventions that of Ohio-will be held. Almost inevitably the whole question of ap proving the course of Mr. Hayes will come up, and will produce excited dis cussion. Ben Wade, it is said, will be a candidate for President of thle Convention, but I think it more likely those opposed to the Administration will select as a candidate some one who has, been more circumspect in his 3pposition. Then, too, what may hap pen in other State Conventions to be held before August 1st may possibly prevent an open rupture for a time in Mr. Hayes' own State. The interest felt among military men in tile existing Indian war is reter, I believe, even than in that in hich Custer lost his life. This ay be partly due to the fact that len. Howard is in command. The 3enral is .not popular in the army. 'his may or may not be his fault, but t is a fact known to all who meet army ficer-s here. They would all prefer hat some one else should command hec troops, and the General will have o exhibit all the courage, vigilance md skill he possesses to prevent the lesignation of a new commander. There is a revival of interest in the 1 peakership question, as schemes of1 ~riends of Mr. [Hayes are discovered,. r are supposed to be discovered. Cer ;aily good old Mr. Banks was at'one ime (quite carried away with tihe idea :hat the office would falto his lot, But hat was months ago, and the plan is pparetly as dead as Julius Cosar, third term, or the mound builders. hat particular Republican will have he Administration support is not ~nown, nor is it important. There an be no0 election of a Republican to a he office withlout tile most shlameless I uyilg and selling of politicians that ver disgraced the country-such as vould at onice sink the buyers and the s ought beyond the hope of resurrec ion. Those Southern Democrats who ire counted on to help along the evil i vork, will not dare, even if they de ire, to sell themselves. The very nilestones they passed on their return 2 ~rom the Capital to their homes would I ry out against them.t It seems to be understood that Hon. Tohn Lynch's daily paper will be is-j ;ued early in August. It will be an s administration paper, with all that t he name can ever imply. There is started for that State, has just re turned. He says the Republicans of the West are nearly all supporters of the Administration. In this, of course, he is in direct conflict with the news papers. conventions and prominent men, but this does not seem to disturb him. Mr. MeCrary is a very honest man as the world goes, but if he repeats such stories as this about Western Republicans, he will soon become known as the Ananias of the nineteenth century. Why cannot the man tell the truth about politics as he would about business. The financial troubles of Don Piatt's newspaper, the Capital, are now be fore the cour.s. A creditor com menced proceedings to throw the pub lishers into baukruptcy. The pub lishers, of course. sought to stop pro ceedings by injuaction. Every busi ness man here applies for an injunction two or three times a year. The tem porary it,junction grauted in this case was yesterday discharged, and the creditor can goon with his bankruptcy proceedings. The Capital says that the claim is a fraudulent one. Yesterday a wan and woman, who were married here under fictitious names two years ago, and have chil dren by the marriage, applied to the District Supreme Court to have the marriage license changed to their true names. The only relief that could be granted was permission to put on re cord an affidavit explaining all the facts. RENO. FOR THE HERALD, The Approaching County Elec tions. MESsRs. EDITORS : Permit me, through the columns of your paper, to call the at tention of our voters to the elections ap pointed for Thursday next, the 26th inst. I have been much distressed to learn, since my return home, that there is such opposition to the nominations of the Coun ty Convention as may well excite appre hension of indifference on the part of a good many of our people, or indeed of sonic sup port of an independent ticket. Either of these results would be most deplorable: for either of them.might lead to the defeat of the Democratic party and the election of Republicans to the three offices to be filled, and either of them is very sure to operate to the injury and disintegration of the Democratic party. I can see no reason for objection to any of the three gentlemen nominated by the Convention for the offices of Representative in the Legislature, Clerk of the Court and County Gommissioner, respectively. They are all men who enjoy, and who deserve the respect and confidence of the people. But were they less worthy than they are, our voters are, in my opinion, in duty bound to support them, and with energy. It is not worth while to discuss the legality -or rather the regularity -of the nonmna tions by the Convention. That body of men, whether authorized strictly to name candidates for office for the County, or not, is the only organized body of Democrats in the County which is composed of men from all parts, of the County ; it is the only body of nmn who can pretend ever to have had authority to represent the Democrats of the County; and it is, therefore, the only body who can at all undertake to say who should be voted for at the coming election. More over, it is certain that at least several of the clubs have expressly empowered their delegates who sat in the Convention on the 12th instant, to represent them in any andi all County Conventions that might be ralled up to this time. As a matter of com mon right, therefore, the nominees of that Convention have a higher claim upon our people than the nominees of any neighbor hood or coterie of citizens, no matter how respectable the persons making such latter nominations or how worthy the candidates nominated by them. But the question of greatest, of ital im portance in this state of affaLirs is the pub ie interest There is no deliverance from the afflictions of the past nine years, and 2o safety after we are delivered, that can be expected outside of the Democratic par y. It is the party, and the only party, of liberty, justice and honest government, and 2nless we work in it, in solid and earnest 2nion, we may -count upon utter defeat romn the still living and moving organiza ion of the Radicals. Even now I have in ~imationis that these.enemies of the public velf are purpose to take advantage of our vant of harmony, and, at the last moment, >ut forward their own ticket with all the orce they can command. 'We have scotch'd the snake, not killed it." I accuse no man of improper motives in dvoating an indepenident ticket. I do iot even know who made or induced the iominations published ini your issue of the 8th instant. But I say, withmout hesita ion, that the so-called independent move nent is fravght with the most injurious onsequences to our people, for it is a stride owards that division of the Democrats of his County which must end in the contin ance of radicalism in power and our most hanmeful and overwhelmiing defeat. In the 'ace of such dangers, surely our patriotism vill enable any and every one of us to waive is own preferences, to control even his ense of injury, if such he feels, and cast is vote and apply his influence with the najority of his party. Since writing the foregoing, I have learn id that it is proposed by some persons vhose names have not been disclosed to ne, to run the following second indepen lent ticket, to-wit: Col. 0. HI. Suber. for lie House of Representatives, T. M. Lake, ~sq., for Clerk of the Court, and Mr. James L. Grotwell, for C ounty Commissioner. I :now nothing of the position of the last two entlemenet ; but I feel fully authorized to ay that Col. Suber would never consent to un on this tie.ket. Advantage has been aken of his absence to put htiim into apo on foreign to all his tastes and principles. 'or him I repudiate and condemn this novenment ; and I wamn di men who pro ess to be his frienmds, that this is not the rork of his true friends, and if successful, an work only injurmy to him andl to the ause of Democracy in the Coun ty. If our Convention is illegal, dissolve it nd create a proper one in its stead; if our eople ar'e misled and misrnled, instruct hem and enable them to secure their rights; ut in the name of God, let tus not allow urseives to be hurried into such dissen ions as shall deliver us over, bound hand nd foot, to that corrupt radicalism which ow watcbes its opportunity to swoop down pen us and once mi.ore possess itself of the ~ounty. J. F. J. C AL DWE LL. THE NEW TOWN HALL AT AYER. .'his elegant structure is now complete. n eauty of design it surpasses any ling of its kind in the State. Con tructed of brick and dark marble it is s permanent as it is charng The nglish architects have adorned it in bdued colors, which please without iring the eye. Dr. J. C. Ayer buih nd ave it to the town in ack-nwmL FoR THE HERALD. Broadbrin's New York Letter. No. 27. Editors' Luck--The Height of the Watering Season-The Watering-Places of the 01 den Time--Business in Town--Starva tion in the City--Quiet Times on 'Change-The Dog Law, etc., etc., etc. The vigilant sentinel who sits on the watch-tower of the American Press and whose unenviable elevation above his fellow-men is only purchased by weary days and sleepless nights of constant and unremitting toil, is ex pected by the mass of the people who never think for theuiselves to watch the ocean sweep of politics, to keep a sharp eye on the tidal drift of social life, to know the calendar of domestic broils, the history of religious reforms and the current of mercantile life with all of its rocks and shallows-all these things must be to him plain as the king's highway. * Woe unto him if he strikes among the breakers ! No body pities iim ; if he goes down, there are few to lament his fate. His chances of failure are numerous ; his prospects of success are limited; and even in the matter of enjoyment, his opportunities are few compared with those of almost any other profession under the sun. Your own correspon dent feels it-and feels it keenly tied here like Ixion to his wheel, thermometer 0- in the shade, and all New York and his wife and children are eating clam soup and blue-fish at Coney Island and Rockaway Beach. A change is coming over our peo ple, which in the past ten years has colored the whole of our social life. You see it to-day in every city in the Union, and nowhere more than in the city of New York. Of late I have been studying political economy, that is to say, a domestic branch of it; or, in other words, economy which it would be politic in me to practice, to wit: the way to make a dollar and a half go to-day as far as three dollars went five years ago. It is a tough problem, and I can't say that I have fully mastered it ; but the endeavor to put it in practice has opened to me a new revelation of our social life, and as in duty bound I proceed to give our patrons the benefit of my discovery. Seized with a desire to put in practice the economy which you see is the in spiring spirit of this article, I dived into long-forgotten closets and disre membered trunks in search of aban doned coats and discarded boots which had done full and faithful service away in the olden time; the ghosts of many dilapidated garments were ex humed; the skeletons of departed foot-gear again were brought to light, some looking as- though they were suf fering- from galloping consumption, and others laboring under compound fractures which threatened speedy, if not instant, dissolution. J seized a coat and hurried out to my friend Thimblewell, the tailor; I thought if I could only get a new pairof sleeves to it, a pair of skirts and' a pice in the back, and a nice velvet collar, that it would make me an excellent gar ment for the fall. But Thimablewell was out of town ,gone into the coun.. try with his family. I had a pair of boots under my arm wrapped up in a copy of the New York "Independent ;" they only wanted slight repairs-that is to say, I thought they would be ex cellent for wet weather next winter if I could get new soles and heels on them, and a new pair of legs; Weath erwax, the boot-maker, just out of Baxter Street, has done my work for years. I called at once, the shutters were up, and on the seven of diamonds was the following notice: "gon too Nan Tuct fur the seeson, wid wi famelcc-won't bee bak til eeptenm bur." I remembered a str-aw hat which had dlone me gallant service during the Centennial. I started for the straw elearier's, but was muet on his threshold by a colored friend from Mississippi, who informed me that his doctors had recommended change of air and that he was now at White Sulphur Springs. W~anting a half pound of . chuck steak wherewith to make my frugal meal, I made a descent on my butcher, I found his oldest ap prentice in charge of the chopping block and cleavers; the master was drinking Saratoga water with his wife, and the children were all in the coun try. There was a time in the days of our old blue blood when our Southern patricians swooped down upon White Sulphur Springs and Saratoga, and even at old Point Comfort some good society might be found, as the term was undcrstood forty years ago. The colored aristocracy who waited on them never thought of es'eaping from a ser vitude which was pleasure, to share the chances of those whom they re ognized as "de pore white trash ob de norf." To Newport and N-ahant, each season regularly as the years rolled round, came a few of those princely :erchants and their families whose names still are recognized as the cream f American aristocracy. Where are we drifting ? Every man among us, now, and I regret to say almost every oman too, seems to feel ashamed of is or her condition and desires to ap ear considerably better than they are. Each summer, everybody, whether he an afford it or no, seems to bc under amoral obligation to society to go omewhere to some watering-place, or t least to swindle his neighbors into he idea thIat he has been able to get away from home. One class stands xempt-the editor. Nobody'expects im to go into the country; nobody ares a straw whether he goes or not, oly so far as it may deprive them of the news while lingering over their eviled crabs and blue-fish somewhere y the sea-side. Everybody has gone w~ay, that is, everybody who is any ody ; the blinds are 4isty and close.d in most of our fashionable streets, and candlestick-maker, and everybody who can possibly get away. Well, I re member long years ago when the old farmers from Litchfield and Meriden used to come down after haying-time to New Haven Harbor, to have a feast of clams. From Hartford and the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts, they came in droves to New London and along the sound to catch fish, eat chowder and enjoy themselves; they came in their own wagons, they brought their own provisions. the men were dressed in homespun, the girls were dressed in calico, and wore sun bonnets with an umbrella top, and if they did not want the fellows to look at them, which was sometimes the case, they pulled a string which hung down in front and their heads looked as though they were buried in a bal loon ; there were no frills and no non sense, no indigestible board at five dol lars a day and waiters who can talk nothing but parlez vous francais, who call your decent republican break. fast a dejeuner a la fourchette, and your honest clam chowder fricassee de poisson. We are running wild; will not somebody call a halt? The love of gewgaws and frippery and finery is getting the better of our peo ple, and if this thing keeps on, in a little while we shall have no republic at all. A few murders and robberies are all that seem to vary the quiet monot ony and respectability of our lives; even the police-court in these piping times of peace seems to lose a portion of its ragged depravity, and the in terior of the Stock Exchange- is less like a lunatic asylum. Last week a little girl was discov ered starving in the streets and was cared for by a benevolent policeman ; the child was scarcely eight years old, but she was covered with vermin and her little body was welted with sears. After being clothed and fed by the good matron at the Home of the Friendless, she told her pitiful story.. She had been thrown out-of-doors at midnight by a drunken mother, who had afterward been committed to jail for disturbing the peace. The officers sought her wretched home, and there, in the last stages of drunkenness and dissipation they found the wretched and besotted father lying on a filthy pallet of straw, and beside him an in fant, dying of starvation and neglect. The horror of this dreadful revelation can scarcely be realized by people liv. ing in their quiet country homes blessed with happiness and abun dance ; they read it like the story of a novel, and it is pitiful, that here, in a city the estimated wealth'of which is thousands of millions of dollars, and with all our magnificent appliances of. charity, that such things should ever occur. The Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals was founded and endowed before the So ciety for the P3revention of Cruelty to Children was thought of, and one, Louis Bonard, a Frenchman, left Bergh and his confreres two hundred thousand dollars to look after the in terests of spavined horses and disrep utable dogs, but never cent for the children ; and later still, a little wind fall of three thousand dollars was ded icated to the dog hospital; but as yet no sympathetic savior has put up any greenbacks for the starving little ones. God knows they need it; our streets swarm with them night and day ; shoeless, hatless, god!ess, htingry, dirty, neglected, forsaken-they owe society nothing, society owes them much; we must pay our debts, or some day they will wreak on us a fearful and a terrible revenge. At last we have brought dog.catch ing to a science, or rather, as I might say, we practice it as a fine art ; the ~ragged hoodlum no longer profits by the bounty of the city, the do.g-catch er is now an officer of the law; a cer tain ward is the dog-catcher's manor or preserve and over its sacred limits no other dog-catcher dares to come. There is a Dutch butcher's dog on the borders of the sixth ward who knows where the line strikes Centre Street; when he sees the seventh ward dog-catchers coming down street he sits on the edge of the side walk with his muzzle tied on to his tail, the dog law merely specifying that the dog shall have a muzzle, and not declaring on which part of his person it shall be worn ; he admires tho agility with which they go after the other butcher's dog who lives on the opposite side of the strcet, and the style in which they scoop up the grocer man's sky-terrier, but when the sixth ward dog-catchers appear you can see the straps of that muzzle gracefully dangling from the second story, for he generally sits on the window-sill until the dog-catchers go by. Five thousand dogs have per ished since the new law has been in force, and last Saturday they gobbled the mayor's dog from the front of the City Hall, and, his honor was com pelled to fork over three dollars be fore he could get him out. B3usiness is flat as a pancake ; we are, however, deeply interested in the war .on the Danube, and civil service reform. The weather has been close and hot. I would get away if I could, but your correspondent must keep at his post, no m~atter who goes a-fish ing. I am, truly yours, BROADBRIM. FoR THE HERALD. CHJAPPELL'S DEPOT, July 20, 1877. MEssRs. EDJTOR S :-The crops in our section have just been blessed with fine rains. We can report a good average corn crop. Our cotton will probably not average a medium crop ; there is som~e complaint of bad stands. . In some places it is small, weedy and grassy. Wheat tus out well; oats gener ally sorry. NOMINATION. The following named gentlemen are nominated to fill the respective vacancies in this County: FoR TJI LEGIsI.AIURE: MAJ. C. 11. SU3ER. FOR CLERK or THE COURT: THOS. M. LAKE. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER: JAS. A. CROTWELL. July 25, 30-1L* MANY VOTERS. [ADVERTISEMENT.] MESsRS. EDITORS I wish to state that I have talked with Major Suber since he re fused a nomination by the Democratic County Convention and know that if elect ed by the People he will serve. FRANK MOON. July 23, '77. * GEORGE JOIINSTONE. F. W. FANT. JOHNSTONE & FANT, Attorneys at Law, NEWBERRY, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. July 25, 30-1m. NOTICE. The Ttx Books for Newberry County, will be opened at the following places and time, for the collection of Taxes for the last fiscal year 1876, viz: Newberry C. H., from July 30th, 1877, to Aug. 4, 1877. Prosperity, August 6th and 7th, 1877. Pomaria, " 8th, Glymphville, " 9th, " Maybinton, " 10th, " Gibson's Store, " 11th, " Cromer's Store, " 13th," Jalapa, " 14th, Williams' Store, ." 15th," Newberry C. H., from Aug. 16th to Aug. 31st, inclusive. The Tax Books will be positively closed on the 31st of August. Only Gold, Silver, Currency, National Bank Notes and "Ten per cent. receipts," will be received for Taxes for the year 1876. U. B. WHITES, Treasurer Newberry County. Newberry, S. C., July 23d, 1877. It. TAX NOTICE. OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR. NEWBERRY, S. C., JULY 23, 1877. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT THIS OFFICE is now open and will remain open until TUESDAY, 8th September, 1877, for the purpose of receiving TAX RE TURNS, for the present fiscal year. Each Return must be written in black ink, and signed and sworn to by the party making the same. The Returns are for EVERY DESCRIP TION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY ONLY; but the Auditor must be notified of all changes in ownership of Real Estate, be tween June 1, 1876 and June 1, 1877 ; also of all buildings erected, destroyed or im proved. Insurance Agents are required to return the gross amount of Premiums received for each Company, for the year, endig June 1, 1877. Agents, Guardians, Trustees, Executors, Administrators, &c., arc required to make returns separate from their own, for those whom they represent. Tax-payers are earnestly requested to make their returns without delay, and thus avoid crowding and confusion towards the end of the time allowed. All Males between 21 and 80, are liable to Poll tax. This tax is specially devoted to education, and every good citizen ought to pay it. Heavy penalties are provided for failure to pay poll tax, and- these penal ties will be enforced. After the 8th of September, a penalty of fifty per cent will be added to the value of all property not returned by that day ; this penalty will be charged in all such cases. Any Real or Personal Property, which has, from any cause hitherto escaped taxa tion, must be, at onc,rtne toth Auditor. The undersigned relies upon the high character of the citizens of Newberry County, for prompt and just Returas of all Taxable property. The Taxes have already been greatly reduced, and full returns of all taxable property, will enable the Legis lature to make a still larger reduction in the rate of taxation. Due notice will be given when assess rments can be made in each Tow-ishiip. 1P-rsons failing to make returns in Town ships will be required to do so at my office at Newberry. L. E. FOLK, Auditor Newberry County. July 25, 30-it. We are agents for the following named COTTON GINS: TAYLOR GIN, $2.50 PER SAW. WINSHLIP GIN. NEBLET & 000DRtMl GlI 3. N. MARTIN.& CO. July 25, 30-6t. SORGIIiI 01N MILLS, WITH OR WITHOUT FRAMES. ' J. N. M~ARTIN&00. July 25, 30-2t. FURMA N UNIVERSITY, CREENVILLE, S. C. Rev. J. C. FUrnt Ax, D.D.. President, and rofessor Mdental and Morail Science. Rev. J. L. REYNOLDS. D.D., Professor~ Ro nan Literature. DET. SMiH. Professor Greek Literature. C. H. JTUL>SJN, Professor Mathemiatics. .J. M. HlAlus, Professor Natural Phiiloso >hy and Chemistry. The next Session will open on Tuesday, 8th Sept., 1877. TUrrION FREE. ncidental fee......................$ 5 00 oard per mointh.................. 15 00 For further information, address PROF. J. M. HARRIS, July 25, 30-t* Secretary. GREENVILLE EMALE COLLEGE. The 23d Session will open on Wednesday, ~eptember 12th, 1877, with superior facilite t orhgeCutr i l eatet Trhiherscuetr winll eatents.aul That.mant will be assisted by a Facul XYew S .Miscellaneous. MARTHA WASHINGTON C O LEGE, ABINGDON, - - - - VIRGINIA. This institution. beaiutifully situated in the mttountains of Virginia, on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, having accommo dations for one hundred and filty boarders, offers to young ladies superior advantages for instruction in all the branches of a libe ral education. Country around abounds in fine mountain scenery and excellent mine ral waters. The College grounds are inter sected witl- one mile of raised walks bor dered with made and fruit trees. The ex tensive verandas and piazzas afford ample room for exercise in bad weather. Cham bers all carpeted and well furnished. Music department superior. Board and tuition for 20 weeks $105. Session begins 20th Sep tember,1877. WARREl DU PRE, July 25, 30-2m President. This standard article is com pounded with the greatest care. Its effects are as wonderftt as satisfactory as ever. It restores gray or faded hair to its youthful color. It removes all eruptions, itching and dandruff. It gives the head a cooling, soothing sensation of great comfort, and the scalp by its use becomes white and clean. By its tonic properties it resto the capillary glands to their normal vigor, preventing baldness, and making the hair grow thick and strong. As a dressing, nothing has been found so effectual or desirable. A. A. Hayes, M.D., State As sayer of Massachusetts, says, "The constituents are pure, and carefully selected for excellent quality; and I consider it the BEST_1sEPARAIo r for its intended purposes." Price, One Dollar. Buo3gha= at Dye FOR THE WHISKERS. This elegant preparation may be relied on to change the color of the beard from gray or anyother un desirable shade, to brown or black, at discretion. It is easily applied, being in one preparation, and quick ly and effectually produces a per manent color, which will neither rub nor wash off. Manufactured by R. P. HALL & CO., NASHUA, N. H. so1mbaflaiuang, ameanin msdM. S. & A. R. R. TRY THE NEW ROUTE TO THE MOUN TAINS VIA SPARTANBURG&ASHE VILLE RAIL ROAD! By. thle New Fast Schedule on and after July 16th, 1877, an opportunity will be af forded to the citizens of Newberry to visit the Mountains by the Line of the Spartan bur- Asheville Rail Road. Leave Newberry at......... ..-.11.52 A.M. "Alston at................... 2.25 P.M. Arrive at Spartanburg............640 P.M. " "Mt. Tryon, terminus S. & A..E. 1............. .. 8.00 P.M. Passengers can stop over, if theyr choose, at Spartanburg.-and visit Glenn, Cherokee and Garrett's Springs, .ai resume :their journey at pleasure. sAt Nt. Tryon, the preset terminus of the spart.mburg & Ashevill1alRoad four horse coaches and hackg -lalways be in readiness to accommod passengers. Capt. S. S. Kirkland. Passenge Agn,will be at the train on its arrival, to see aer the com fort o? those who may try this Line. Good board at moderate ~rcs can be obtained at Hlendersonville, FltBock, and Asheville. ROUND TRIP TIcKETS. From Alston to Mt. Tryon, terminus S.& A.JlR., and return...........$ 950 From Alston to Flat Rock or Header sonville and return............... 1350 From Alston to Asheville and return.- 17 50 " " Warmn springs " 24'50 Jul 2, 0-f.D. E. DUNCAN, President. SPARTANBURG & ASREVILLE E. E., SPARTANBURS, UNION & COLUMBIA R. R. TI\e followin ?aeae rSchedule will be run on atdafter Jiy 19, -ST DOWN TR AIN. UP TERAIN. Arrive. Leave Arrive. Leave. I'ryo City.. *.. 700a. m. 8 05p. m. Landrums...i.7.12 7.15 7.55 7.56 Dampabello...7.8) 7.32 7.40 7.41 [nman......... 7.47 7.48 7.25 7.26 &ir Line Junct'n 8.18 819 .6657 6.58 spartanburg. 8.25* 8.35 6.40t 6.50 Lac olet.....9.t8 9.12 600 6 05 [uionville...10.05 10.15 457 607 santac........ 10.48 10.47 4.26 4.80 Shelton........11.26 1180 3 43 8.47 Lyles' Ford......... 11.42 .1145 3.30 3.32 Strothers......1203 12.09 30 3.13 alston.... ... .12.50t 2.30 'Breakfast. tDinner. tSupper. JAS. ASDERSON, superintendent. JAUNDICE. JAUNDICE is produced by I obstinat e ague, b catch ing co 1; by .LIVER the stoppage of customary evacuations; - by an obstruc tion of the bile (duct, or by a CUR E. severe blo w o ve r the re gion of th e g . - liver. It is easily recognized by he yellowness of the whites of tihe eyes. uter a few d.1 s' discomfort, the roots of he nails, the ?ce, neck, trunk and limbs >ecomne morbidly discolored. The urine is leep saff'ron in color, the bowels constipa ed, the appetite irregular. Languor, head eche, and depression of spirits are more or ess prommuent. This disease may continue for weeks or nonthis, or it may prove fatal as earlyr as he fourth day. SI5MoNs' H EPA TIC COM 'oUND acts like magic in H{eadache and ~aundice, and in all bilious disorders. For sale Wholesale and Retail by DR. S. F. FANT, POPE & WARDLAW, DRl. W. F. PRATT, DRU. W. E. P'ELH A M, Newberry. DowiE & MOISE, Proprietors, Charleston, i. C. it. DI)WARD SCHOLTZ,. WATCHMAKER ANDWEL ER TET ELL n ainn ttE uRe f. 1% now to b~ found at the store of Mc.