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The Hierald. THOS. F. GRENEKER, EDIORS. W. H. WALLA.CE, E NEWBERRY. S. C. WE DNES)AY, AUG. 13, 1879. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. The Herald is in the highest respect a Fam ily Newspaper, devoted to the material in terests of the people of this County and the State. It circulates extensively, and as an Advertising medium offers unrivalled ad vantages. For Terms, see first page. John Sherman and the Money Issue. John Sherman is working assid uously for the Presidential nomina tion. He has made the tour of Maine, where he delivered several speeches, all intended to show how much he had done as Secretary of the Treasury for the finances of the country. He speaks in glowing terms of what has been accomplish ed by the resumption of specie pay ments, by the sale of bonds, and in short his whole financial policy. The country is flourishing, and is on the high wave of pros perity. How does such talk sound to ordinary citizens, who find times harder than ever before, money so scarce they can get only an occa sional glimpse of it? The fact of the matter is that John Sher man has been, and if he can, will continue, to run the United States Government as a close cor poration, a National Bank on a big scale, in the exclusive interest of the bond-holders. In his estima tion the country belongs to them, and they are entitled to make all the money out of it possible. While thera is not half enough money in circulation to transact the ordinary affairs of business, while the South especially has not one-tenth the money it had bdfore the war, there are millions of dollars lying idle in the United States Treasury, an~d upon these millions-or the U. S. bonds which they represent-inter est is being paid to the bloated bondholders. Glorious govern * ment !-for the bondholders. Yet John Sherman goes on, month af ter month, making his report and saying the public debt is being re duced. The debt, he says, .is so much, "less cash in the Treasury." While the actual debt is not so large as it has been, yet we are now paying interest on a larger amount than at almost any time past ; be cause we pay interest not only on the actual debt, but also on those surplus millions in the Treasury vaults. The bondholders don't want their money ; they intend to hold their bonds, and get their in terest and save their taxes till the bonds fall due. In the face of these things John Sherman's pets, the bondholders, and a few crazy fools who don't know any better, .are lauding the financial policy of the astute Secretary. If John Sherman should, by the grace of-the Devil, become Presi dent, his policy would be, as it is now, to enrich the bondholder at the expense of the taxpayer. We would very much regret to see Grant once more in the Execu tive seat at Washington; but be tween him and Sherman we prefer the former. The Cotton Factory. A charter was obtained six years ago for the Newberry Cotton Fac tory. The matter has been talked of ever since. Sometimes the in terest dies down, and at other times it blazes up very high. About a year ago the citizens of the town and O.unty began to agitate the matter with a good deal of earnest ness. Meetings were held ; plans were discussed, success was pre dicted, committees were appointed, and-well, that's all that was done. Has the matter been finally aban doned ? Is there any probability that Newberry will ever build a cotton factory ? If it is to be built at all it should be done as soon as possible. If we wait till factories are built up all r-ound us it will then be too late. But would it pay ? We think it has been clearly proved that it would. Cotton factories can be run very nearly as cheaply with steam as water. The chief point in1 our favor,is, that we have the cot ton here ; there would be no ex pense of transportation, no middle men to pay foi' buying, shipping, storing, insuring, &c. ABlanta is just completing a large factory to be run by steam. A company of Northern capitalists propose to would circulate more freely, and t every department of business would 1 put on new life. There are mon- - eyed men here who are ready to I1 put their money in such an enter- 1 prise. Let our capitalists take hold of the matter, and do it at once the sooner the better. Stricken MemphiS. There is no abatement in the Yellow Fever. The average num ber of new cases per day is from fifteen to twenty-five. There were, up to the 9th instant, 330 cases re corded in the city., of which 90 proved fatal. About 30,000 people have fled. There are 12,000 ne groes in the city, only a few of them having consented to leave they prefer, as a general thing, to stay in the city, where they get free rations and can plunder. As a consequence of their obstinacy they are dying in large numbers. The Howard Association have on hand $18,000, which they think would have been sufficient to run them through the epidemic if they could have persuaded the negroes to leave the city. The Cotton Prospects. The Charleston Cotton Exchange made its July report the 9th in stant, based on 89 replies from 23 Counties. The. weather for July, up to the 20th and 25th, was hot and dry, but there was plenty of rain for the balance of the month: The weather, as compared with last year, was reported more favorable by 23, less favorable by 57, and about the same by 9. The stands are generally better than last year. Many report that the plant is fruit ing better than last year. Rust has appeared in four Counties; and slight shedding in several. The prospects are quite promising, but the crop is about ten days late. Col. Thos. Dodamead does not intend to leave the State perma nently. His labors as railroad Su perintendent have been long and arduous, and he proposes to take s o m e recreation by traveling through the West and afterwards through Europe. Editorial Correspondence. Camp Meeting Apostles-Appearance on Ar rival-Uncle Sol. Kinard-College Girls Our Landlady-Shoe Factory-New berrians-Mmmonth Squash, &c. WrttrasTow, S. C., -Aug. 9, 1879. In company with our good church brothers Revs. J. W. Kelly, the camp meeting apostle, and R. P. Franks, no less zealous, we left the depot at Newberry Wednesday last. The first named was on his way to work up and infuse life into a meet ing to commence at Mt. Bethel in Laurens County, the other -on his way to resume his regular work at Lowndesville, and ourself in search of a few days rest and recuperation. Five hours in a railroad coach on a sultry day does not conduce to one's comfort, and on this occasion by the time the train reached Williams ton-6.30-we felt and no doubt looked like a piece of soap after a hard day's washing-not by any means a comfortable feeling. The arrival of the cars is the big event of the day at this quiet place and always attracts a crowd which has no particular business, but is full of the Micawber hope that something may turn up, a letter, a friend, a package or something else. We recognized in the gather ing the -same old faces, with ano ther, that of our old chum Solomon P. Kinard, looking we are sorry to say not as rosy, round and rubicund as in the past. Time has not dealt ightly with him in personal ap pearance, but time's workings have not affected his genial disposition. It was our pleasure a few minutes later, while on the way to the spring -the first place to visit and the cief point of attraction--to meet the college girls, a charming bevy of bright eyed misses of all sizes, and types of beauty. How demure hey looked as they filed by on their way to the college. We would rather they had lingered awhile, but one of the general orders of the1 :lay is linger not, nor look long on the stranger in the park. The bright vision vanished and we dip ped a libation from the granite ba sin and drank to-our health and Uncle Sol's, who kept us company. We learned that the college open d with flattering prospects and ixty-five boarders, and that Bro. ander is hard at work opening up I ;o his precious charges new fields t >fkoldeCheewl en )fonoedeen Ther-have not ~ommencement this year-have not earned the reason for this new de- c ;he hearts of her guests by bating ,hem three times a day with the rery nicest of fare, in truth her ta >le is well supplied. The house oo is full, and pleasantly beside, vith ladies, miarried and single, bildren, and a sufficient number of ;he sterner sex to keep it in order. )ur old friend Deal and his agree ible lady, are here, but are resting !rom their labors, and time has lealt kindly by thein. Williamston has cause to be proud >f a new enterprise-a shoe factory -lately put into operation by one :f her citizens, Mr. Thos. Crymes, ind with every prospect of success. Newberry is represented by Mr. W. H. Boozer, with his mother and ister, who moved here from Pros perity last year, Mr. M. Drayton Kinard, a former resident, Dr. H. I. Epting, who has a large practice, is growing rich and drives a fine pair of greys, behind which it was our pleasure to take an airing into the country this morning, Mrs. Mc Ninch, the mother of our fair cor respondent Maggie, and a widowed aughter, Mrs. Swygert, all former y of Prosperity, and last but not least the gentleman already named r. S. P. Kinard. The latter is still an enthusiastic gardener, and in spite of the drought which brought many of his vegetables to n early death and himself to grief, can still make a very fine show. Among other things he has a squash, still growing, which weighs accord ing to his estimate one hundred pounds, in proof of which he lifted a keg of nails and then his pet squash and found one as heavy as the other. Indeed it is a monster and so huge that the vine never made an effort to produce another. Uncla Sol is very proud of it and watches it like a mother watches her first born. Mrs. Franks, the wife of Rev. R. P., is on a visit here to her sister, and her many warm friends in New berry will be pleased to know that she is in the enjoyment of excellent health. On the whole it is dull here, but notwithstanding a very pleasant place to while away a fewv long sum mer days and grow fat drinking mineral water and feasting on our fair landlady's excellent fare, and with this we conclude our brief let ter for the very good reason that there is nmo mo; e to write about. Yes, one thing more and we are done ; the people of this County are satisfied withi the no-fence law, and we are told that it works like a charm. A fine rain fell yesterday and crops are looking well. .FOR THE IIERALD. IIADRA, GERMANY, July 19th, 1879. PEAR EDIToRS :This is the first opportunity I have had to give you a little account of thme crops anid weather we have in Europe. Trhe crops are very nice; the harvest is on hand now, but the big and heavy rains which are falling now interfere a great deal with the harvest. Since I have ben in Germany we have had rain very day, and the thermometer has ever reached over G9 degrees, Fahm renheit. As beautiful as all the grain stands and also potatoes, if the rain yotinues to fall it will spoil the whole 3rop, and will cause much suffering~ song the poorer class of people. The potato especially has suffered a great e,as it. is too wet for them. The hay has been washed away, and on the 16th inst., six railroad bridges were washed away in the upper par of Sile i ; one of themn was a bridge cf eight osts, and the other five were but ~mzil crossings, although all built of rocks. The lightning struck yester lay a half wile from here and killed a >oy twelve years old, and a cow in the asture. E. S. An importanit Geological Fact. Geology has shown us that nature ccomplishes her greatest revolutions a the earth's surface conformation ~lowly. Every year the river makes ts channel deeper, the glacier wears a leeper gorge in the Alpine rock, and ed the ocean tide deposits the sand t has crumbled from the rocks upon hich it bi-eaks. We note the earth juake and the devastating hurricane ; )ut these changes are so gradual man eldom observes them until the chan-. mel has become overhanging cliffs, or mountain has disappeared before the y stream, or the ooean has given us Florida. Thus it is in disease. Our ~ttention is attracted by acute diseases, s fevers, cholera, etc., while chronic iseases (often the most dangerous in 'esult), being slow in their develop nent, are seldom noticed until they Lave made anm almost ineffaceable im iressionm upon the system. Persons >elieving themselves com parativcly ealthful are oftimes the victims of hese diseases, and only become aware f their presence when relief is almost mpossible. Diseases of the liver and tomach are the commonest of these hronic affections. Dr. Pierce's Gol.~ FoR THE HERALD. The New Order of Thiiigs. Old Things Played Out. Opera Houses and 4th of July Demonstra tions and Jail Key Reminiscences Point less and Pithiless as Too Far Off and Too Far Back. The Srbject, the Point, "The Modern Way to Get Rich by the Easiest and Quickest Way." The question is now, not what will be found in the corner stone ot a dilapidated Opera House a century hence; nor wiA Amrtcan spread eagle patriot will explode for the love of his country on the 4th of July, 1900 ; for it is doubtful whether there will ho any such a day at that titme or no. No, sir, it is not; but it is this, gcentlemen of the sovereign jury : If that which measures longitude must have length, if that which measures gravity niust' have weight, if that which measures light must have ve locity, by what manner of means shall a mar pile up a pyramid of silver rocks or greenback bundles before sun. rise ? The question has assumed a latitudinosity and longitudinosity un parallelled. It's a huge illimitable sponge about the size of Chiiborazo compressed into a tin pin1 cup of water. In a word, to come to the point, How shall a man, without money, get rich at the shortest notice ? How shall he become successful as a business man, splurge, break, recupe rate and then live in a palatial man sion, sumptuously furnished, with a brilliant equipage, and still have a pocket full of rocks ? This, fellow citizens, is the question. It's the all absorbing and engrossing one. This problem is attempted to be solved every day by newspaperdom; by bits of advice ; by philosophic in sinuations; by short biographical sketches of the dead and living, as in the case of Squire Saveall, either written by himself or some wielder of a goose quill; to wit : That Squire Saveall is a man to be pattern ed after ; that his sort, like angel vis its, are few and far between. In the first place Mr. Saveall while a farmer boy, used to water his patch of corn, of a dry summer, at night ; but not liking the business he migrated to a town or city on foot ; had one shirt and an old Barlow knife, with a straw hat, in a bundle slung across his shoul ders, together with a fifty cent piece in his pocket. lie commenced as an errand boy, swept out the store,brought water and so forth, for one dollar and a half a week. Out of this he man aged to save one dollar a week, and in this way accumulated in time .two hundred dollars, on which he went into business for himself ; worked all day and all night, never drank a drop of liquor, nor smoked a cigar, nor chewed tobacco, nor went to shows or circuses, nor played billiards or cards, blacked his own shoes, rented his own room ; with his own hands used to cook over his little fire, herbs and eggs; dressed economically, sewed on his own buttons, mended his shirts ; but took a newspaper and paid for it, and kept up with the progress of the age. lie was one of the most indus trious, energetic, saving men, and of published through the papers as worth half a million and is always spoken of by them as our most esteemed fellow citizen. May his shadow never grow less. However, all this, there is another class of successful men, (among whom many of the Saveall family, secret as it may be kept, may be included) who are not so often spoken of and quoted in the papers as model lights, but who nevertheless arc brought out in glo rious colors, their feathers smoothed down aud painted glossily, and who are as numerous as stars in the sky, and far outnumber the one shirt, bare footed heroes. For instance, there's Col. Oil-tongued Showoff. lie came to our town or city a few years ago with a valise full of decent common clothes and a box full of paper collars, got an easy situation in a dry goods or grocery store, and happening to get hard up, applied to old "Governor," as he called him, for "sass." The old man, after a thought or so, sent him a little "sass," with the advice to be more saving. Well, Showoff is a man of the world, he knows a thing or two ; he don't get more than 25 or 30 dol lars a month ; but, however, he goes to the theatre, if there's one ; takes his Dulcinea; never misses a show or i circus, smokes ten cent cigars, plays billiards, drinks brandy, dresses finely; omes to the store by times in the morning, however, and stays till 9 P. NI. if required. lie is very attentive ~o his business, lHe knows what's vhat. By the time he has been there our or five years he has pieked up ~uough lying loose around to buy a ~old watch and chain, a diamond pin, ;old headed cane, a big seal ring for young man" and a "crack salesman," and finally goes on his own hook, with an abundance of cheek, and has so far insinuated himself into the araces of thi, "old Goveriior" and several friends that they conclude to back him. Well, he makes up his mind to gct married; he selets out some dashing woman. Ile has got the reputation of a dash itng business young in-an. IIe mar ries. The first thing he;does is to fit. her out with a solitaire diamond as big as a June bug, silk dresses at a hundred dollars a yard, covers her shoulders with a five hundred dollar shawl, and drives a cabriolht with two sleek iron greys. They live sumptu ously. Showoff's got an eye open. By the by he joius the church, is a constant attendant. le fixes over everything to his wife. In the mean time he gets in a big stock of goods, and then very honestly and wisely sends out notices of cheap goods at cost, sells out his stock, however, at fftir profits-that is the cream of them -and after he has lost a good deal proposes to compromise with his cred. itors, including the "old Governor" and his particular friends, at twenty five cents on the dollar, and concludes by disposing of the goods on hand at a "bonus" to some shadow who is looking for "a cheap investment." Now, honest old Closefist. who lives in a one-story wooden house, that is full of crannies and holes, with -about one hundred acres of land, which be got by hard licks and hard saving, and who holds Showoff's note for $1, 000-after hearing of Showoff's mis fortunes exclaims: "Why, lie's a big rascal; he ought to be in the peniten tiary with the little rascals." But then, again and again, and that's not all-God bless your soul, honeys! old Closefist is a fogy. He's a fossil. He don't belong to the present generation. He's an old ass of the Dogberry school. Showoff know. his own measure and keeps it in view. le knows that Showoff, reduced to poverty, on the part of the mob would be received with loud laughter and joy; so. he erects him a brown colored brick building, buys a big plantation, goes off to Saratoga, Lor?g Branch or the Sulphur Springs in Virginia, takes a trip to Europe, gets up a reputation for good wines and fine dinners; sups extravagantly, and is considered by every man as "ca mighty good fellow,'' while the newspapers pass him to and fro, with his name in capital letters, as Col. Showoff, who makes liberal donations to Church, County and State and then slightly insinuates he would make a first rate Congressman. What day is there so holy, Squire Saveali, that is not profaned by bring ing to light theft, treachery, fraud ; filthy luore got by crime of every dye, and money won by ruatch eating rats, exploded kerosene lamps and compro mises of 30 cents on the dollar. Verily rare indeed are the good. Their number is scarce a baker's dozen or the num ber of days that the dog star holds sway. We are now passing through the fifty-ninth age of the world ; an era far worse than the age of Iron, for whose villainy not even nature her self can find a name, and has no metal base enough to call it by. Yet we call heaven and earth to witness, with a shout as loud as that with which the Greenbacks that gives them ton ges, makes the profanurn vulgus, applaud Showoff as he declaims from the stump. Tell me, thou man of saving and of many years, and yet more fit to bear the trinkets of child hood ; dost thou not know the charms that belongs to another man's money ? Knowest thou not what a laugh thy simplicity would raise in the common herd, for expecting that no man should forswear himself, but should believe that God is really present in his tem ples anid at the tables where the bread is broken and the cup is red with the sacramental wine. In days of old, our fathers, perhaps, lived after this fash ion, when there was scarcely a lock to be found on a barn door, much less on that of a mansion; when the cattle, sheep and hogs of a thousand hills, from the mountains to the seaboard, roamed at large, free from the hand of the midnight rover and the plunder ing prowler, when honesty prevailed, when justice was administered rightly, when a man's word was as good as h*is bond, when bankruptcies, insurancies, per cent. bonds, credit mobilier and lightning mortgages were ulnknown, when confidence and friendship exist ad; when every man set under his own vine and fig tree and smoked his pipe .n peace ; not as nowadays when every nan's hand is against his neighbor, md when no one knows whom to trust, when truth has disappe~ared below :ero, when rottenness, corruption arnd selfishness predom inate, when rascali y, crime and depravity are applauded, worshipped, feted and honored and the ry is "Devil take the hindmost." Ah! Christianized Modoc, in that ~ 'b no 8 to 7 frauds, no tissue tickets, no political ciphers; no stuffing of boxes, no bulldozing. no denying the deposit entrusted by a friend. no lying by measure, cheating the orphan, the widow, oppressing the poor, no bor rowing of money and not paying il back, no going it) debt when o1 could not pay, when perhaps he had hun dreds hid away. Ah ! Modoc, thai was when "No splendid vices glittered to allare, Their joys were many, as their cares wer( rew." The point, the aux armes crowd ing upon the brain, above all othei things, from fraud 11ayes and John Sherman, at the present, down to Mal Gray, is the shortest and easiest way to get rich, no tnitter how, whethei by demonetizing silver, or the laying of brick ; without regard to the remin. iscences of an old jail key, the mag niloquence of the 4th of July oratt,r, or the revelations to be disclosed it the opening of an opera house cornei stone a century hence. The slogav is money ! money ! Put money il thy purse. For the chief end of mar is to keep what he's got, and get what be can. We regret tosay it, but trutl is stranger than fiction. If we see a man. now, of real probity, we lool, upon him as a prodigy, a lusus uatu re, a rara avis, with a patch of hal growing in the palm of his hand ; v diamond turned up by the astonished ploughman in Langford's bottoms; mermaid, haif fish and half huniau with a woman's head on, paddling about in Scoat's creek ; a huge BisoL roaming and feeding in security it axter's pasture. Verily ! verily humanity connects the same crime witl results widely different in their pur suit of the aura sacrafames. Tht poor devil secures the Penitentiary foi a petty violation as the reward of hic starving or picayunish villainy. Th( rich, the blood, the high in office higher poition-a regal crown-and is applauded and renowned for his dis patch and cleverness. JUVENAL. FOR THE HERALD. The Common School System oJ South Carolina. No. 3. Under the 5th head of the seconI part of our last week's article, we de sire to submit the following: In the beginning of this "discus sion," we resolved to avoid any alla sion whatever to the "color line"; bul having since then heard so much harp ing to the intended detriment of thi Common Free School System abon "the negroes receiving more benefi from the educational tax than th< whites," &c., we have determined t< deviate from that good intention, afte having placed the odium of our so do ing upon those that have occasionec The only argument brought b: these acute logicians against this Coin mon Free School System is, "Trha the white people pay the tax, and the negroes get the benefit of it." Now there aerIiious ways in which this can be answered by any one who stand: aloof and views every subject with at objective eye. But we shall mentiol only a few. In the first place, the as suption, that "only those going ti school are benefited by this Fre< School Fund" is a tota2ily false one as has been already stated. iDoes law against the manufacture and sal< of spirituous liquors affect only thos' immediately engaged in making and drinking ? or has it a wholesale influ ence upon every class ? Is the execu tion of a murderer only to gratify th< friends of the murdered party? or it it to prevent such crimes thereafter Now, this Common Free School Sys ten is intended to be a salutary lau just as much as that against the man ufacture and sale of spirituous liquor and that against the crime of murder and it will exert, if once permitted an influence m,ore powerful, constant and permanent towards the suppres sion of every crime in the catalogu4 of evil than can ever be obtained it any other way: To contend, then that the negroes alone are benefited by this System is equivalent to assert ing, that the whites are a lawless se1 of blockheads far beyond all hopes oi reclamation-an assertion which would certainly sound more ridiculously ab surd, were it not for the pertinaciou efforts of these "Con'-mon Free School' demolishers. In the second place, if it were tru that only those attending- school are benefited by this Common Free School Fund, and that the vast majority 0: these are negroes-both of which as. sumptions are utterly false-yet i would remain true, that the State should maintain and develop this Coin mon Free School System; for, 1st. T he whites are not excluded by the State from the benefits of this System. If one-half of the sinners in the Chris. tian world should neglect to appropri ate the merits of Christ's vicarious death on the Cross, would that consti~ utanvairesnwyHskn tute shouvlid beasonerly deoishking -ftedgi h al ol o a hay, wsthatl beutery vldreasonishedy Ifbhe dog inshe alould not grwfrteatne tofoher, anias that anyovld reaso it? the hay should not grow for the bene a a aanr animals that could eat it ? shrine of a Common Free School edu- m ention should come short of the re- g wards of an offerintg more devout, is t that, indeed, any valid reason why ti ''their count,:-u .l fall and their eve be evi! tow:ir.Is hi.-ir breth ren" ? Tu the secorid piace, generally spoak. ing, according to those th:at declaim agteaiIst th is Con I:Lon Free 8ebool Sys tem, the negro is a living embodineit of all tLat is evil ; whil.t the whites or at least those that wish this emn mon Free School System abolish. d are "the very pinks of prfeetion." If such i., indeed, the cay., then the negro is really the only one that need attend these schools, to be regenerated t and remodeled by the magical touch of an education; and, cousequently, especially since these "pinks of per- t fection" are losing nothing whatever, should they not, in the boundless gen erosity of their natures, rejoice that s the whole power of this Free School Fund is directed by some wonderful, if mot divine, interposition just exact- I ly where it is alone needed-on the negro? But instead of this, what are they doing ? Trying to demolish these schools, simply because they are accomplishing the very identical ob jects for which erected. We know of only one precisely parallel case in the whole of history ; and that was dis played by his Satanic Majesty in most severely punishing, not those that opposed, but those that most :ealous. ly fulfilled his commissions. But in the third place, it is not strictly true that "the white people are paying the educational tax, and the negroes getting the benefit of it." The State statisties show the fol lowing facts : The entire educational tax, for the fiscal year ending Nov., r 1878, was $316,197.10. The num- ] ber of white schools was about 1,984; of colored schools about 938. The total number of white children was 54,118; and of colored children 62,. 121. The entire educational tax of Newberry County, as above, was $10, 883 72. Of this amount, the teach ers received $6,049.63. Of the for mer amount, the whites paid about $8,698.70 ; and the negroes aboutt - 2,185.00. There was expended onr white schools about $4,451.72 ; and on colored schools about $1,597.91. The number of white schools was 52; of colored schools 28. The number 'of white children in attendance was r944; and of colored children 1,304. The total number of polls was 4,370, , and the estimated value of the taxa ble property upwards of $4,000,000.00. 'The entire educational tax of the -11th Township for the year ending Nov., 1879, is $721.70. Of this J amount, the whites have paid about ~ $539.70; and the negroes about $182.- 1 00. The amount expended on white schools is $561.70 ; and on negro j schools $160.00. The number of white schools was 4t ; and of negro schools f 14. The number of white children was about 184; and of colored chil dren about 100. SBefore commenting on these "sta tistics," it is proper to state that they I are in part exact, having been fur nished by the respective State officials, I and in part approximations based on r official statements. Many of the ne groes pay something, however little, besides the poll tax; but we have omitted that from the estimate, count ing in their favor only the poll tax, and even that on the supposition, that the whites and negroes are "'half and half." There is a law-aind the whites are I generally very zealous in having it executed upon the negroes-to compel ' the payment of taxes ; but should our efficient, educated, white officials" c have "slept on duty" and collected only three-fourths of the poll tax and a no penalties whatever, then the negro tax should stand as follows : County, $ 1,639 00 c Township, : : . 137 00 0 But the fault is whose ? IIaving now ' premised so much, we present the fol lowing six deductions:d 1st. To educate 54,11.8 white chil dren, the State authorized about 1,984_ schools; to educate 62,121 colored children, about 984. That is 1 schooi to every 27 white children, whilst only 1 to every 66 colored children. Is this discrimination against the whites ? or the negroes ? 2nd. The pay of white teachers has a been, in consequence of their better 1 grading, higher than that of the col ored teachers; consequently, the above disposition will become still greater from a pecuniary point of view. 3d. In Newberry County, this dis- a position has been even greater still. 1 4th. In the 11th Township, there .A have been three times as many schoolsA for the whites as for the negroes, al- i though the school population is pro- I bably smaller ; and 3? times as much A of the public money expended on them. I 5th. In some secti ons, the negroes probably pay more for the support of the "Public Schools" than is expend- A d on their portion of them. 6th. The estimated value of the o. property in Newberry County, belong- [' ing to the white population is $4,000,- - 000;clrdpplto (ser 00.0;clreSouain ser-e marks above,) .00. It follows from this, that the whites s< alone are in a truly philosophical view 3t of this question benefited by this edu- h cational tax ; for every dollar spent in 0 eunainar the nnemr eventually makes ortn of property will be greatly but radually increased in value and at ie sanie time relieved from taxation, ,hilst the negro will remain, as he is >.day, in the cruel grasp of penury. .Wew .ddrerisemnents. BADGE LOST. At the Ebenezer Camp Ground during ie recentn camp meeting A GOLD BADGE. 'he Badge is a crown encircled by a wreath. 'he finder will be rewarded by leaving the ine wii Rev. J. W. Kelly, or at this of cC. A :'g. 13, 38-it. . GOOD .HING FOR SOMEBODY. Being desirous of closing un my business i Newberry, I make. the following attrac ve offer, for cash only. One new 7 oct. 'ianoforte, with full iron frame, agraffe 'chle, and patent over-strung bass, includ ig hand:-mae Rose%ood stool and worsted r)vcr to match, for 8250; intrinsic value :50. Also, one second hand Piano, 6 oct., hiieh has recently been tuned and thor 1ghly repaired, making it almost, as good 3 new, for $75, worth $125. I respectfully )licit an inspection of these Instruments efore you purciase elsewhere. W. M. SHACKLEFORD. Aug. 13, 33-1t. LIME! LIME!! NORTIIERN LIME for sale by F. N. MARTIN & CO. Aug 13, 33-St. 7RESH CLOVER, LUCERNE AND IRCUIRD GRISS SEEN! FOR SALE AT ANT'g DRUG STOR Aug. 13, 33-tf. Fisk's Patent Metal ic Burial Cases. Also, Walnut and Rosewood Coffins and ~askets always on hand. Will personally superintend the prepara ion of graves, building of vaults, using in heir construction best hydraulic cement, endering themi perfectly waterproof. All orders promptly attended to day or ight. Office in rear of Leavell & Speers' Marble ard. L. M. SPEERS. A pr. 23, 1879-17-tf. Atlanta Medical College. The Twenty-Second Annual Course of .ectures will commence October 15th, 1879, d close March 4th, 1880.. FAcULrv-J. G. Westmnoreland, W. F. Vestoreland, WV. A. Love, V. H. Talia ~rro, Joo. Thad. Johnson, A. W. Calhoun, .H. Logan, J. T. Banks ; Demonstrator, .W. Williams. This well-established College affords op ortunity for thorough medical education. It is in affiliation with, and its tickets and iplomnas recognized by, every leading med al college in the country. Requirements for graduation as hereto Send for Announcement, giving full, in armation. JNO. TH AD. JOHNSON, M.D , Dean', Aug. 13, 33 LMIISTRATOR'S lNOTICE. All persons having demands against the state of Samuel A. Epting, deceased, will resent them on or before the 1st day of e'ptember, 1879, and all persons indebted > said Estate wili make immediate pay ent, to the undersigned. JACOB EPTING, Adm'r., of Sam'l A. Epting, dec'd. Aug. 13, 33-3t. TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, NEWBERRY COUNTY. iy Jacob B. Fellers, Esq., Probate .Jndge. Whereas, E. P. Chalmers, as Clerk -of the ircuit Court, bath made suit to me, to rant him Letters of Administration, de onis non, of the derelict Estate andieffects f Robert Stewart, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admon'i' 11 and singular the kindred and credi(ors f the said deceased, that they, be and ppear, before me, in the C6urt of Probate, abe held at Newberry Court House, S. C., n the 22nd day of September next, after ublication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the renoon, to shew cause, if any they have~.,.. y the said Administration should not be ranted. Given under my hand, this 9th ay of August, Anno Domini, 187. J. B. FELLERS, J. P. N. C. Aug. 13, 33-4t. oth Carolina Railroad Company. CHANGE.0F SCHEDULE. On and after Sunday, June 15th, 1879, Pas 3nger Trains on this road will run as fo1 -DOWN. ,cave Anderson.......------.7.35 a m " Abbeville ....... ....-.--..8. a m S.Greenville ............... b.6.45 am S Ncw berry........:....... .45 p m " Spartanburg...............--9.30 a m " AiStOn. ... ......---.---- . -~2. p m .rr ive Columbia ............--.3.45 p m cave Columbia. .6.15 a mn 3.50 p mn 9.40 p m rrive Charleston2.30 p m 9.20 p in 6.A0 a m .rrive August a.. .3.15 p mn 8.00 a m rrive Camden. .12.20 p mn UP. cave Charleston.5.00 a mn 7.00 a mn 9.50 p m - cave Augus.ta.... a 8.15 a in eave Camden... .5.30am rrive Columnbia.10.30 a mn 4.35 p m 5.30 a m cave Columbia................10.35 a m S Aiston......................12.20 p mn " Newberry................1.3 p m " Hodges..............----.---4.i p m " Belton................- 3p m rrive Greenville................ .30 p m rrive Spartanhburg................ 3.13 p) m The Night Express leaving Columbia at 10 P. !. and Charleston at 9.50 P. M., will m daily; all other trains (ailly, except mndays. Sleepmng ears on all ight trains berths only $I..50. When you go North and wish to have a mortable mrp go VuA the Charleston eamners. Round trip tickets to New York 1(1 return, good 'till November 1st, are >id by the South Carolina Railroad, at the w rate of $35.75. This includes transfer rongh Charleston, stateroom and meals, t waLys. There is no doubt that this is e coolest, cheaper and pleasantest route take in Summer; no hot nights or dust the way, .nd is the only ute furnish .t ,,,p,il~ and staterooms without extra