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From the News and Courier.] The Printing Steal-Tardy but Complete Justice for The News and Courier. The Committee on Frauds sub mitted to the General Assembly yes terday their report on publi. printing It is exceedingly long, and even more racy than the report of the same Cow mittee on legislative expeuses already published. Moreover it adds Cham berlain, Dunn, Hurley and Postmaster Bosemon to the roll of those who are accused, directly and explicity, of sharing in the public plunder. We desire that every line may be read. for the report, while exposing the monstrosity of the so-called contracts made with the Republican organs. places the Democratic Press in their true light before the public, and es pecially and particularly, establishes the absolute correctness and honesty of the dealings of the proprietors of The News and Courier with the State. The report shows that many of the Senators were iatcrested in particular Republican newspapers. A newspaper controlled by a prominent Republican would be paid (i. e. the Senator) some $5,000, where other newspapers, not so controlled, were paid $500 for the same work. The swindling was not in exorbitant charges alone. Ac counts were altered and raised. The Charleston Republican presented Id vertising bills amounting to $24,538, but the payments on account of that paper were 660,982. In like manner a batch of bills of the Columbia Union amounted to $17,174, and the pay ments to $59,987. To the Union was paid $10,000 for publishing two Acts of the General Assembly. The Committee show that, in all, 6212,903 was paid in two years for publishing the laws in seven Republican news papers, while in.four years $106,200 was paid to thirty-four Democratic newspapers for the same work. It should be taken into account that the Democratic newspapers had a large circulation, while the circulation of the Republican newspapers, published for the benefit of a constituency "who can't read," was.merely nominal. Yet the. Republican sheets were paid, on an average, over $34,000 each in two years, while the Democratic journals received a little over $3,000 in four years. But the justification of the Democratic press does not rest on the familiar plea that "it was only a little -one." The Committee report no in stance of overcharge or irregularity on the part of any Democratic journal, and The Charleston News, now The *News and Courier, is the .only Dem ocratic paper mentioned by name- _It was proper that we should so be sin gled out by the impartial Committee, for we had been singled out by in genious defamers, and condemned by self-constituted tribunals. Power is feared. Maliee, like death, loves a shining mark. As long ago as 1874 the Repubi cans who supported Tomlinson as against Moses accused this paper of corrupt bargaining with their op ponents. The plain truth is that this paper offered its unqualified sup port to the lamented James L. Orr, if he would consent to be the candidate of the Reform Republicans for G]ov ernor. Judge Orr, despite our earn est advice, would not consent to re ceive the nomination. We had no particular faith in Mr. Tomlinson, and we knew that, in the temper of the public, a New Englander, of recent -in:portation, could not be elected. We declined to support Tomlinson, and did not support Moses. It was a choice between a devil and a witch, and The News and C'ourier took no part in the canvass, beyond striving to elect the better of the two sets of Republican candidates in Charleston. Nevertheless, the story went round that The News and Courier was bribed. And the same cry has been *raised, whenever our arguments can not be met by argument, and our rea soning by reasoning. This was es pecially true in 1876. We did not think that a straight-cut ticket could be elected. And the event has proved that no other candidate for Governor than Gen. Hampton, who was not, in the popular sense, a straight-out Democrat, could have been elected, and obtain possession of the government. The announcement of our opinion was the signal for an onslaught, not on the excellent Demo. -crats who agreed with us, but upon The News and Courier. The re cord shows whether we did-our part in electing Hampton, and in securing the recogoition of his rights. What aid ceaseless work could give, we gave to the cause of Honest Home Rule. The campaign cost us far more, in m~oney and work. than it cost any other Dimocrats in South Carolina. We did not tire. Hampton was Gov ernor, but the Republicans still had a majority in the Senate. It was our part to procure evidence of the vil lany of the Republican Senators. We published it, and its publication was the signal for raising again the old cry that The News and Courier was venal and unprincipled. Out of the charges we made, and the evidence we gave grew the Committee on Fraud. This Committee has compelled the resignation or flight of the leading thieves.. Others have been prosecu ted and convicte i. It could not do its work as quickly as it desired, and it was nagged at by members of the Senate and House in a way that would have dispirited and disheartened any committee less disinterested and patriotic. .Was there not a hope, an - expectation, that the testimony taken by tbe Committee would convict The News and Courier of misconduct of some sort-? Did not the Representa - tive who was so exceedingly indignant at the delay of the "Star-Chamber The Committee submit the testi- c wony taken by them coucernina The e Nets and Courier. This testimony j does not show how trifling a part of d our gross income came from. adver- 1 tising done for the State. The affi- d I davits submitted by the Committee v prove that the State advertisements f were published according to agree- o went ; that the rate charged the State c was about one-half the price charged s to private persons and to corporations s for the same quantity and class of s work; that no change was made in the standard of measurement, and s that this was, and is, the usual stand- c ard of measurement in Charleston and the South. The reasonableness of the I charges is established; so is the literal i and absolute correctness of the charge r While merhants and others were c charging the State exorbitant prices f for articles supplied to the State offi- f cers and their agents, The News and s Courier was doing the public work f more cheaply than private work. There is no hint that our bills were "raised," v that The News and Courier bills u were a corruption fund. We are war- t ranted in saying this ; for the Com- t mittee, after showing the iniquities of t the Republican press, say :"Con- v trasted with the accounts of the daily t papers hereinbefore referred to, we o submit the evidence taken relative to r the accounts of The Daily News of < Charleston. The contract made with < the proprietors of this paper was 25 f cents per line for publishing the Acts t in three papers, the Daily, Tri-Week- s ly and Weekly News, which was 25 cents per line less than was paid to s the Charleston Republican for pub- E lishing the same Acts in the daily and i weekly. All accounts of The News were itemized, giving the title of the Act and date of publication in the three papers owned by them, and the number of lines contained in each Act. Comment is unnecessary, for the eri dence is in itself a sugicient tribute to the integrity of the proprietors of TjHE NEWS and the correctness of their accounts." Beyond this we need not go! This, we hope, will be the end of the railing at The News and Courier, by Democrats. We have no distaste 0. for honest differences of opinion. In deed we like to see them, for they are evidence of . intellectual commotion. When the pool is moved, we know that thought has entered into the 'darkening waters. But our patience has been well-nigh exhausted. It had seemed thait the prime object, with a particular class in South Carolina, was to destroy or v.eaken the most potent political agent in the State. We de termined to put our accusers to the proof, and instituted the requisite judicial proceedings. These are no longer necessary. They who, any more, accuse The News and Courier of improper conduct, in connection with the public printing, strike at the Committee on Fraud, not at us. The verdict has been rendered. At last, after years of impatient waiting, a tribunal which certainly did not lean to our side silences our accusers, and satisfies all save those who find, in our vindication, the sign and portent of their own undoing. The report of the Committee on Frauds does not make or unmake the truth; it declares it. To us it has ~been bitterly painful that, at any time, any other evidence, or proof, than our -word should haye been ne cessary. We could wait. Time and The News and Courier against any1 man or set of men ! What we now ask, and all that we ask, is that they who have given any credence, or cur-1 rency, to the charges against us will now lay before their readers the re port of the Committee on Frauds, so far as it affects us, and do us the justice that we, according to our lights, have always done them. The Lien Law. The following is the text of the new lien law, which has passed both Houses of the General Assembly;: AN ACT to secure landlords and per-1 sons making advances.4 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the1 Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That an act entitled "An act to amend sections 56 and 57, chapter 120 of the revised statutes, relative to liens on4 rops, approved June 8 1877, be and the same is hereby repealed. Sec. 2. If any person or persons shall make any advance or advances, either in mony or supplies, to any per-1 son or persons who are employed or about to engage in the cultivation of the soil, the person or persons so miak ing such advance or advances shall be entitled to a lien on the crop which may be made during the yeaf upon the land in the cultivation of which the advances so made have been ex- j pended, in preference of all other liens existing or otherwise, to the extent of such advance or advances: Provided, An agreement in writing shall be en tered into before such advance is made to this effect, in which shall be specified the amount advanced, or in which a limit shall be fixed beyond which the advances, if made, from time to time, during the year shall go. ] SEC. 3. If any person making such i advances shall make an affidavit before the clerk of the court of the county in which such crop is, that the person to whom such advances have been made is c about to sell or dispose of his crop, or in f any other way is about to defeat the E lien hereinbefore provided for, accom panied with a statement of the amount then due,- it shall be lawful for him to E issue his warrant, directed to any of g the Sheriffs of this State, requiring 't them to seize the said crop, and after g due notice, sell the same for cash and ompanied with an affidavit to this ffect. that the amount claimed is not Istly due, that it then shall be the uty of the said Sheriff to hold the ioe!.ds of such sale subject t-i the ecision of the court, upon an issue rhich shall be wade up and set down jr trial at the next succeeding termn f the Court of Common Ilcas fur the ounty in which the person to whom uch advances have been made re ides, in which the person who makes ach advances shall be the actor. SEc. 4. That the above sections hall be subjectod to the provisions f the following sections of this act. SEC. 5. That each landlord leasing inds for agricultural purposes shall ave a prior and preferred lien for ent to the extent of one-third of all rops raised on his lands, and en urcible in the same mainer as lieus r advances which said lien for rent hall be valid without. recording or diig. SEC. 6. That every lieu for ad ,auces and for rent, when the agree aent is for more than one-third of he crop, shall be filed in the office of lie Register of Mesne Conveyance for he county of which the lienor resides, vithin thirty days from the date of he lien, and said lien for rent over ne-third of the crop shall thereby be Oade valid ; and he shall keep an in ex of all such liens so filed, for each if which he shall receive fifteen cents rom the party filing the sane, and his shall be a sufficient record of the awe. SEC. 7. That the first and third ections of ;hi? act shall be and re nain of force for one year from the atification thereof. The .Kerald. THOS. F. GRENEKER, EDITORs. W. H. WALLACE, NEWAERRY. S. C. f EDNESDAY, MAR. 6, 1878. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. The Herald is in the highest respe.ct a Famn ly Newspaer, devoted to the ma*terial in ersts ot te yeople of this County and the state. It circulates extensively,.and as au tdertisine medium offers unrivalled ad ranages. l'or Terms, see first p)age. To Democratic Clubs. We propose to publish in the ERALD the rolls of all Democratic lubs in the County of Newberry, tnd respectfully urge the President >r Secretary of each Club to furnish is with a perfect and fiall list of 1ames as soon as the Clubs organ ze. This is an important matter mdwe hope it will be attended to. Eet the names be written legibly. 9-tf. Fighting the Air. Some of our exchanges are exert ng all their- energies in the.sublime ttempt to knock down a man of traw that they themselves have set ip. They raise the cry that "some ~mbitious office-seekers" are trying o get up a ticket for the next cam aign headed by some other man han Gov. Hampton. And, smell ng the battle afar off-very far in leed-they are grasping their bat ;le axes, alias their goose. quills, reparing to do valiant fiht for heir noble chieftain and to devour ,hose aforesaid ambitious office ;eekers tooth and toe nail, and thus ~over themselves all over with glory. The plain fact of the business is hat Gov. lKampto'n is just as sure >f renomination and re-electiqn as 5he sun is to shine-provided, of ~ouse, he chooses to accept. The News and Courier. Last Spring, when cha.rges of ~orruption in connection with the ublic printing were so freely made gainst the Charleston News and ourier, we did nothing more than o print the charges and Capt. Daw ton's reply, as a part of the pro ~eedings of the Legislature, without iote or comment. We have never ne doubted the good faith and in egrity (f the News and Courier. rhe report of the Committee on n'auds has removed every vestige >f suspicion, and the News and Jourier stands completely vindica ed before the public, while its swift raducers are covered all over with ~onfusion. Gen. Thos. C. Anderson, Vice ~resident of the L.ouisiana Return ng Board, was sentenced Feb. 25, .t New Orleans, to two years in the ouisiana Penitentiary. He was onvicted of forging false returns com Vernorn Parish in the general lection of 1876. J. Madison Wells, the other white an on the Board, and the two ne roes, Kennedy and Cassenave, will e tried soon. They have nyoved transfer their cases to the 1U. S. Mort which motion was set for a Representative Southard, of Qhio, has offered in Congress an amend ment to the United States Consti tution, making three Presidents in stead of one-one to come from the Western States, one from the East ern and Middle, and the other from the Southern. Of course no such amendment will ever pass or be even seriously considered ; we merely mention the circumstance to show how Congressmen manage to amuse themselves during the long sessions. According to the new Constitu tion of Georgia, "No session of the General Assembly shall continue longer than 40 days, unless by a two thirds vote of the whole num ber of each House." The Georgia Legislature meets only once in two years, and the members get only $4 per day. The S. C. Legislature has been in session since the 25th of Novem ber, 1877, 101 days. Editorial Review. Ex-Senator Ben Wade, of Ohio, is dead-died the 2d iostant. - One hundred and twenty-three men and twenty-five women com mitted suicide in New .York City last year. State News. An old lady, Mrs. Nancy Taylor, aged 65 years, committed suicide by hanging, in Laurens County last week. The rope with which the deed was done was so long that she had to hold up her feet, as in that position she was found. Legislative. CONDENSED REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS. MONDAY, February 25-SENATE. ---Committee on Railroads reported favorably on bill to prevent certain persons (members of the GenerAl Assembly and judges) from accepting free passes from railroads. HousE.-The enacting clause of the Bill to, establish the office of Comn missioner of Public Lands was stricken out. TUESDAY, February 26-SENATE. -Bill to prohji in embers of the Legislature and Judges from accept ing free passes over railroads was dis cussed. Mr. Taft, Charleston, moved to strike out the enacting clause. Messrs. Wylie, Lipscomb and Todd spoke in favor of the bill. gIr. Can non moved to exempt from the provi sions of the bill presidents, directors and employees of the roads who might become members-lost. The motion to strike out the enacting clause was lost by a vote of 11 to 14. Maxwell moved to amend the bill by including State and County officers-adopted. The Bill then passed its second read iwg. Joint resolution relative to convict labor on the Blue Ridge Railroad next came up, and Mr. Howard pifer ed the following amendment: SEc. 3. For the purpose of prevent ing the escape of convicts from the Penitentiary, and to the end'of hasten ing the close of the present session of the Legislature, the Superintendent of the penitentiary be authorized to employ 200 able-bodied convicts in the preparation and passage of laws prohibiting the retailing of spirituous liquors within three iiles of churches and school houses in the State, and for amending the charters of towns and villages. Ruled out of order-of course. Mr. Todd moved to indefinite ly postpone the whole matter-yeas 17, nays 9. JIoUsE.-Mr. Youmans offered the following as a substitute for the "Bill to prevent cruelty to animals :" SEC. 1. That after the lapse of 60 days whoever shall wilfully abuse or cruelly treat any horse, mule or ox, draft animal or beast of burden, shall upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, suffer imprisonment for 30 days or pay a fine of $15. WEDNESDAY, February 27-SEN ATE.-A large number of acts were ratified; among them the following: To repeal Section 17, Chapter 82 of the General Statutes; To amend the act utilizing convict labor; To regu late* mode of capital executions ; To reduce pay of witnesses in State cases (to 50 cents and mileage); Act to se cure landlords and persons making ad vances. Bill to re-establish the State Uni versity was debated ; the Senators seem to be about equally, divided on the subject of reopening at once, many considering it impracticable to do so in the impoverished condition of the State. HoUsE-The Bond question was the theme in the House. Mr. McCall, from the special joint. pomittee appointed to redistrict the State, presented the following bill: ~Em1'ION 1. That the State of South I The Second Congressional Distric ;o be cowposed of the counties o ,harleston, Colleton and Beaufort. The Third Congressional District t< be composed of the counties of Oconee Pickens, Anderson, Abbeville, New berry, Richland, Lexington and Lau rens. The Fourth Congressional Distric o be composed of the counties o Union, Spartanburg, Greenville, York Chester, Sumter, Kershaw and Fair ield. The Fifth Congressional District ti be composed of the counties of Edge 5eld, Aiken, Barnwell, Hampton Orangeburg and Clarendon. Section 2 repeals conflicting acts. TrURSDAY, February 28-SENAT iscussed the bill to reopen the Stat University; the House the Bond quec tion. FRIDAY, March 1-SENATE.-Bi to reorganize State University was th ahief topic of debate. Mr. Wyli moved to strike out the enacting clausE On this motion the votes stood 16 t 16. President Simpson cast the d( aiding vote against Mr. Wylie's mc tion. The bill was then ordered t its third reading. HOUSE.-The fight over the Bon Commission report continued. (I the Legislature ever get through wit this business we propose to give ou readers the result: but we cannot al tempt to give the speeches or the opit ions of the different members, who ar wasting gas enough on it to run thre campaigns.) SATURDAY, March 2-SENATE. Nothing done in either House of sp< cial interest except to discuss th Bond question. [From the News and Courier.]1 The Next State Tax. A Synopsis of the Provisions of the Fort] coming Supply Bill. CoLUMBIA, March 3.-The Suppl bill is now ready. It provides for tb current expenses of the fiscal yesr, general State lax of five and one-La mills, exclusive of the two will scho< tax. County taxes will be not ove three mills, in addition to which ther will be in several counties a speci tax, ranging from one and a half , two wills, to pay past indebtednes: The poll tax is limited to persons froi 21 to 60 years of age. Gold and si ver coin and National bank notes on] are receivable in payment. Tbe taxe are made due and payable in two equi instalments, from the first of May the first of June, and from the first< October to the first of November.] is left optional, however, to pay ti whole amount at the time of the se< ond installment, with a penalty of si per cent. on the first instalment; an when the tax and penalty are not pai on or before the first of November, a additional penalty of fifteen per cen is added, and county treastgrers sha cllect by distress or otherwise. ] such delinquent taxes and penalti< be not then paid by the fifteenth November they shall be collected b sale. Section 12 levies two mills f< the public schools. The committee estimate that $616 824.84, exclusive of the cash in ti treasury and the probable receipts froi phosphate royalty, will be requiredt meet the appropriations and intere: due on the public debt. One milli 1876-77 yielded $119,115. Fis and one-half mills should, therefore, little more than raise the abox amount. 0. McK. PERSONAL.-Should this meet tI eye of the individual who created disturbance in church last Sunday 1 hi? oontinued coughing, he will col fr a favor on the congregation I procuring a bottle of Dr. Bull Cough Syrup, which will cure him. Apples of Gold in Pietures c Silver. "A word fitly spoken is like appl< of gold in pictures of silver." Whe the body becomes diseased, the min is thereby necessarily influenced. Ni tional wars, State dissensions, neigi borhood broils, and family differences are more frequently than otherwie the result of diseased and disordere constitutions. When the bodyi suffering, the mind, acting in symp: ty, will become irritated and pe: plexed. When the physical syster is in health, the mind pereeive things in their true light, and the di: position assumes a very different phas< Nothing wore directly tends to d< stroy the happy, cheerful dispositio of a woman, and render her peevist nervous, and fretful, than a constan endurance of uterine disorders. Th diseases peculiar to woman take awa the elasticity and buoyancy of hea'M and reduce her body and wind to mere wreck. Dr. Pierce's Favorit Prescription is a real peacema/ke in a family.' No wotman suffering fror uterine disorders can aflord to b without this remedy. The Favorit Prescription saves unnecessary docto bills, prevents divorces, wards o: suicies, brings back biuoyant, joyou feelings, restores the woman to health and her family to happiness. It i sold by all druggists. The Supreme Court of the State o New ork has decided that J. C yer & Co., of Lowell, have the sol< right to use the words C'iny P>EC PORAL for a medicine, and has issued n injunction against F. )T. Rushton >f New York City, for selling Rush ~one Cher'ry Pectoral or Cherr' ozenges, or any other use of. thb iawe to deceive the public. Thi FOR THE HERALD. t Our Washington Letter. 9 WASHINGTON, D. C., t Feb. 27, 1878. i 7 The people of the United States had a right to expect of the Democratic party, when it first secured control of t f the House of Representatives, some f years ago, that it would at once do all it could to put the Federal expendi tures on a basis corresponding to the ) depressed condition of business. The I 44th House did something, but not enough, in this direction. The pres :nt one seems not inclined to do all it E should. 3 The people had a right to expect that many of the abuses which grew up with the evil times of the war, [ would be destroyed ; that useless of e fices would be abolished ; that powers e which heads of Departments and Bu reaus had assumed, upon the ground o of an appareut military necessity, . would be taken from them if not vol . untarily relihrquished, and that laws o would be- made and enforced in the in terest of the whole people and not of office holders, rings and combinations. f Perhaps the alarming condition into b which the government has fallen, and r which many do not realize, may be as . plainly shown as in any other way, by . a consideration of two mueasures now e before Congress. They are in them. e selves of minor importance, but one shows what Government should be, . and the other what it should not be. The first is a bill introduced by Mr. e Glover, of Missouri, an able and fear less man,.and it proposes, in substance, that an Attorney-practicing before the Federal Departments shall have a right to a hearing before a law officer of the Government before he shall be de barred from practice and rendered in famous. This is a very simple thing, j Y and perh,ps most of your readers do a not know that petty. heads of little If 311reaus in the Departments claim 1 and exercise such power. They do it r daily, to the destruction of established e business, injury of thousands of clients, - and in violation of every principle of s. Democratic Government. Mr. Glover In seeks to restore and protect the rights of the citizen. SThe other bill, whose author is a dclerk in one of the Departments, pro. o poses to confer upon a Bureau officer ~such powers as are now given to Presi [t dents, Cabinets, Congresses, and Courts in the Constitution. On his mere sus x picion and without written or other d proof, he may send his agents into the d homes of all the people, and exercise nauthority over the person~s and proper Sty ofcitizens, and iall this withouut re :f sponsibility in any way attaching to ~s himself.h SThe sooner we insist that Executive Sofficers shall confine themselves to their legitimate line of duty, and that . the citizen, when injured, shall have .e his remedy in the Courts, the better Sfor all of us and for the Government. o The better, too, for the Democratic nparty, for whenever it har held power re it has been when it appeared as the| a champion of the people against those 'a who sought to abridge or deny popu lar rights. ie Yesterday Mr. Hayes-no, Gen.| a Andersou-was sentenced to 2 years| y in the State prisou of Ipoiisiana. Yet SHayes, too, shares in the punishment. 'He knows that but for this man An derson, and the other man Wells, who is to follow Anderson, Mr. Tilden ~would now be in the White.House, and he a private citizen, and it is not possible he can see those men punish ned for the forgeries which seated him, d and not share in their punishment. ~-Meantime, Qoy. Nichols can lighten 1the burden of Mr. Hayes, if he chooses, ~by pardoning Anderson, but he will dbe helping to make forgery and perju [s ry respeptable. S New E:ngland, in the person of Mr. SJoyce, yesterday continued its opposi tion to the bill .pensioning survivors of .the Mexican War. So far none but 3extreme Radicals have spoken iu op Sposition to the bill, and the indications nare that the bill will pass House and tSenate by a large majority, e Yesterday the silver bill went to 7Mr. Hayes for approval. It is hardly fair to say that he is trying (9mag e bargaing hefer signing or vetoing the r bill, but up to last night he had man 2' aged to make both friends and ene e mies of the bill doubtful as to what r the wud do. [Lie has since vetoed4 febill, and it has passed over his s veto.-ED. HERALD. Congress has been asked, as its part of the temperance reformation here, . to introduce the use of the Moffett fbell bunch, yhich, when the bar keen .er sells "a drink" ant! turns,,registers ' Sthe de In Virginia, thc only State - nwihtepnl iabe re, the whihthe punc as erenotried, tax onechsarom ar naheroa of $500,00 er sannum arer heas nof method0 per taanculd berhpsgno medof taationwould be s etb theh af mk'ak me..1A kn law, Sale A. ska 1 t FOR THE HERA 3 A Visit to the Pa y Ma. EDITOR: Or last ing a large number of frie visit to the parson11C, dune unexpected by :ts inhabitan i may call it an "Accidenta t "Surprise" or a "Pound Party' please, any of which would be priate. Yet, strange to say, aft this Pounding not a bone was b -nobody hurt. Had~we known there would be a "raid" on the f sonage we would have squared o selves for the attack and rallied our forces to better advantage. Asit was, we lost command of the situation, and - would have lost command of ourselves I had not a friend, (a Colonel) who had 1 passed through a similar engagement, informed us that "this was not party, and we had nothing to do but' 0 behave ourselves." We followei the advice, and were glad to see all enjoy - themselves in their own way. The n raiders departed in about the same order that they came, and we found d ourselves victors, for the spoils fell i. into our hands. There was no* smal )f degree of pleasure experienced in un 3 folding all these packages, to find ev. ery thing of a useful character, which almost convinced us that somebody a had taken a peep into the parsonage - and learned just what was needed. >t Aside from the valuable considera u tion, we appreciate the armuS, the Kind feeling that prompted this visit, because it is cheering to a minister to 0 know that he lives in the hearts of - his people. o May God's blessings rest upon you Pr all. a Yours sincerely, H. W. KUHNS. C. I. KUHNS. When the disorders -of baby attack your baby -tse at oaw4 9 Bull's Baby Syrup and notice its rapid and beneficial effe6t. Price 25 cents. e Mew m .iscelaneos. d d BACK AT THE OLD STAND. n~ The subscriber can be found at 3 Mollohon Row, with UOPPOCK & JOHN .- 5ON, where he will be pleased-to wait'on 1his many friends for anything in the Hard. . ware line. JOHN 0. PEOPLES& e Mar. 4, 1878-10-St. NO TICEK eThe firm of J. B. LEONARD & CO., has. -" this -day been dissolved by mutual consent. e All parties mndebted to said firm are earn Ls estly requested to call and settle at once. The bejsiness will be continued by J. B. LEONARD, successor of J. B. Leonard & Co. All parties having claims against the old firm of J. B. Leonard &- Co., will pre sent them to J, B. Leonard for settlem.eat. * Our friends and the publio generally wiP. accept our sincere thanks for their li1teral patronage, and we respeotfofly ask a con tinuance of the same to J. B. Leonard, our successor, who will study to please. N~ewberry, S. C,, MarehA, 1878. lO-2t 8FAVORITE PUJBLICAIf. FRAiN LEsLIE's CHxIENYCOHn.--This beautiful periodical, the- best American Fam ily Journal Story Paper and Home Friend, has been the successful rival of all the week iy journals for the past thirteen -years. It: gained.a place in the minds and hearts of our people, and now the name of its patrons Is. Legion. 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Nhe day is cold, and dark, and dreary, t rains, and the wind is never weatry, rhe vine still clings to the moulding wall 3ut at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark tnd dreary. Propitious day and hour, in which t Ltone for past delinquency, hoping said dt inquency has not been construed into faiti essuess or forgetfulness, for as the golde :one guarded the fortunes of the "House Ivenel" growing brightly, beautiful, whe ,he sun of prosperity rose, dim an >ale when it set, thus with friendship's vig ance and pride do I watch the success < -oul honored career, for my fealty is a hat of "Vich Ian Vohr" to the illustrioL io1s of "Ivar." After an absence from home of severi veeks, I return to find many changes, tb nost marked of which was a general ei :hange of residences. But this should nc iave surprised me, as we usually have a tnnual revolution. The rumor was currer Festerddy that our little village was "iook ng up," really contemplating the publici ion of a paper to be devoted, I think, t he temperance caue. I regret my inabi ty to say something definite in regard his movement but our opportunities fA ,etting such items are limited, though as -lass I b-lieve we are generally regarded v Ldepts at dispensing them, (verbally, c -ourse.) I am happy to chronicle th-, fis ,hat a family from the "city by the sea as moved in with the intention of makin heir home in our midst. Most gladly v ielcome them to our rural Eden, hopin ;heir sojourn may be long and pleasant. Died of Pneumonia on Wednesday las Ars. Lucia Dacus. Little more than on fhort year ago she came among us a happ )ride, scarce had the orange blossoms pale in that bridal e~oronet era she was calle home to wear the saints bright diademi sod's own Piaradis-e. Death is. at all times and in all cirour stne fearfu~lly solemn, w ith its awful him and funeral pageantry. We know that tI ald must die, that the youngs may, and pa biaps it may be our lot, thine and mir reader, to be called eariy home just as v ire learning our woman's share in the ba tLe "the invocations in the Temple, ti: watchings from the Walls." But it iattei not. Such fate Is the aemmon fate of all, Into each life some tears must fall, Sonme days must be dark and drear; MAGGIE. Williamiston, S.. C. VEGE TINE Purifies the Blood, Renovate and havigorates the Whole System. ITs MEDICAL PROPERTIES ARE .tlteratiz'e, Tonie, Soleen and Diuretic, V'egetiue Reliable Evidence Vegetine>u... STEVE 8. Dear girI wvill most ee V e flyadmytustimony to th .received in favor of yjour gre. Vegetlne and good medicine, VEGETINJ ~' for I do not think enough ca . esaid in its praise; for Isy vegetine trouhied over thirty y- ravwit that dreadful disease.,Catar Vegetiv g e(~ hadt sith bad conghing .~AspeIsthat it would seem , hogh I never could breati Vegetineiamjore, and VEGETINA as erdm;and-I doIelia~ tthan . God all-the tialIe that'there iss Vegelin egod a ngedicine as VEGETIN1 nud I g4]so think it one of ti Veetin edicine for coughis, an~ , Istomach, and advise everybca Vegetinejto take the VEGETINE, (O s assure them it is one "of thebe: ,medicines that ever was. vegetAne j MRS. L. GORE, Cor. Magazine and Walnut Sts Vegetin e Cambridge Mass. Wegetine; GIVES . Health, Strength, Vegeine' And Appetite. Vegetinel My daughter has receive ~Jjeat benefit from the nsa < VeiDeEGETINE. Her declininghealt Veetnewas a source of great anxiet to all her friends. A fewbo VegfetiDe ties of VEGETIE iestored he '!heath, 4e' g, and apptite ~get ~ NH. TILDENi QgetDe nsurnceand Real Estate Agt No. 49 Sears Building, Vegetine Boston, Mass. .'gde EXOELLED. V'ogetine CHmARETOWN, MAss. Vegetine E. E. STEVEN is t eri .that I have used your "Bloo< fegetiDe Preparation" in my family (a several years, and thix tat Vereti netfor Scrotula or Cai erous Nur S imors or RheLnatic. Affections .lit caninot l.e exceled; and, as: TegetiDe1blo<tpurifter or spring mad: Icine, iti the best thing.[ havy ~e e vier used, and I have used al fully recommend it to any on Tegetine in need of such a medicine. . Yours respectfully, .MRS. A. A. D1NSI O1E, regelD e1 No. m Egsse S Tegetine I?in T~ignei 'auable Remedy, Tegetine~ soDTH BOSTON, Feb.-7-1870. ME. 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