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The iHerald. THOS. F. GRENEKER, EDITORS. W. H. WALLACE, -_ NEWBERRY. S. C. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 8, 1880 A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. The Herald is in the highest respect aFam ily Newspaper, devoted to the material in terests of the people of this County and the State. It circulates extensively, and as an Adve' medium offers unrivalled ad vantages. For Terms, see first page. Good Government, a Free Bal lot and a Fair Count. The Charleston News and Courier has put to a large number of mem bers of the General Assembly the following question : "In your opin ion, what policy should be pursued by the Democratic party in South Carolina to retain good and honest government, and at the same time secure a free ballot. and a fair count ?" The answers to this ques tion are various, and most of them show a marked lack of thought on the part of the members. Instead of answering the question many take the occasion to vent their opin ions on purely side issues. Several "policies" are advanced however : among them, (1) a registration law, (2) a Constitution Convention, (3) electing officers every four years instead of every two, (4) requiring the payment of the poll tax as a prerequisite to the right of suffrage, (5) an educational qualification for voters, (6) dividing the offices with the colored people. The question is a very serious one, and must be met and answered positively by the Democratic party before another election. Men are too apt to answer it according to their prejudices and preferences ; but that is not the way. It is not in what way would one prefer that these things should be done*; but how can they be done! Taking up the "policies" above specified, let us see what is in them. What would registration 'accom plish further than to show, what the census has already shown,ithat the negroes have a voting majority in the State of about 40,000 ? Would that tend to aid the party in retaining control of the State, or would it help the party in securing a free ballot and a fair count?i A registration law may be all right and proper, and is certainly re quired by the Constitution; but what practical benefit the Demo cratic party, as a political organita-. tion, could derive from such a law we are unable to conjecture. A Constitutional Convention is altogether unnecessary and would be perfectly useless for the ends indicated in the question. It would undoubtedly be more agreeable to our people to live under a Consti tution of our own framing. This, -however, is not the age of senti ment, and State pride alone would not justify the big expense of such a Convention unless some real, practical good is to result. If any changes are needed they can be made by way of amendments ; they are certainly not too numerous for this inexpensive plan.* Whether the elections should be held every four years or every two years is a matter that does not concern this subject. Requiring the payment of a poll tax before voting, we believe to be right; but this cannot be effected except by amending the Constitu tion, and it is hardly probable that such an amendment can be made, or that a Constitution containing such a provision could be adopted, while the colored majority is as large as it is. The same difficulty would be in the way of an educational qualifica tion, supposing such a law were desirable, which we do not believe. But whether desirable or not it is not attainable in this State at this time. Mr. Andrew Crawford, of Rich land, makes the true and only an swer to the question, when he says: "We will have to make concessions to the colored people, and open up to them certain avenues of public life." .This policy is distasteful, we know; but it does appear to us that it will be utterly impossible for the Democratic party to retain control of the State, and at the same time to secure a free ballot and a fair count, on any other basis. And who does not want all these? The purity of the ballot-box is the only safety to a Republican form of share of the offices. It will be easy Go' to satisfy them: they will be per fectly satisfied with a small minori ty ; one member of the House, for i. instance, one County Commission er, and probably Coroner-only for something that is a recognition of t' t their rights as citizens. And no eu harm could come of such an ar- b>c rangement ; for the few colored a pec pie in office would be utterly t Le powerless for any harm if they de- tibe sired to do any. - Judge J. B. Kershaw was re elected Judge of the Fifth Circuit a Thursday, the 2nd, by the Legisla- far ture. There was no opposition. The second session of the 46th adm Congress convened in Washington w e Monday, 6th. - ord - go Foa THE HERALD. fou Letter from Rev. H. W. Kuhns. . hai WESTMINSTER, CARROLL CO., MD., pe Nov. 25th, 1880. wa DEAR FRIEND : Enclosed please me find $2 to pay my subscription for the an: HERALD. ace The HERALD has kept us posted on all the doings of the South country. We is 1 feel a deep interest in Newberry, and pec rejoice in its prosperity. The six la,v years spent there have endeared the th< people to us, and the two years -lapse<i Tb since we left have not changed our auc feelings towards them. Many changes pal have taken place since we left, but the we HERALD has informed us as they have th< transpired. del But forgetting the past let us look cel forward to the future. I will there. its, fore make a suggestion. Newberry am must have some manufacturing in- ob: terest to give employment to labor, in- th< vestment to capital, and permanent tas prosperity to the community. I wantyou ty to "write up" and to "talk up" cotton sp< factory. Do not grow weary in a St, good cause. The HERALD must re- is suscitate this subject again and yet Re again. "You shall reap if you faint dir not." as Shall I give you a plan ? Here it is. Let about ten men-I will not est name them now-get together some sul evening after supper, and march in a V body up to Mr. Robert McCaughrin's the house. Send Mrs. Mc. word to have ne~ early supper, and fir-e in the parlor, sti that there is going to be an "Acci- is dental" there to-night. When all noi have arrived let them form a circle no around the fire, and -resolve them- so selves into an informal meeting. Now gr< let "Cotton Factory" be the subject, un and "woe betide" the man that flies th from the point at issue. be Next thing in order wlll be to call at a Mass Meeting at the Court House and there let the subject be ventilated ty, in good style, with some happy sp speeches. Let committees be appointed, sta one on investigation and information, thL another on finance, another on ways po and means, and another on location. pei Select good men, and get a goodly the number interested, in town and coun- in try. Let another Mass Meeting fol- the low soon after. Keep the subject do warm : it is hard to hammer cold iron, the~ you know. Look out for croakers- abi let them be like the,.dog that barked cui at the moon. age Let the shares be of moderately pla small amount so that poor men will ins have some show in the enterprise. ma Take stock enough to allow a margin Sti for shrinkage. Excuse further detail cot at present. the I think I hear the clatter of ma- hoi chinery-and see cottages all around wit for the workmen-and wagons driv- Tb ing to and from the Factory, and a ma general thrift in all branches of trade iti and business-yes-and there I see It directors meeting to declare a divi- vis dend on the shares, and to enlarge thesu capacity of the Factory. pel If this be nice on paper, how much Th nier will it be when it stands as a ite reality in the old town of Newberry- ral Yours truly, as H. W. KUHNS- tio "New Fangled Notions" le May not work injury to people mo when they relate to matters of little con- nat sequence, but when entertained as to rig what we shall take when afflicted fra' with serious disease they may lead to the dear experience. Don't therefore trifle prc with diseases of the blood manifested off by eruptions, blotchea, scrofulous and the other swellings and grave symptoms, dis but take that well tested and effica- wit cious remedy, IDr. Pierce's Golden I k Medical Discovery--the greatest blood- is c purifier of the age. If the bowels are very costive use also Dr. Pierce's Pel lets (little sugar-coated pills). o CURES FEVER AND AGUE. tha PLEASANT VALLEY, Tb JO DAVIESS CO., ILL eac March 31st, 18'79- lar DR. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y.: era Dear Sir-I write this to inform tre you that my child, one year old, has sue been permanently cured of the fever The and ague in a weeks time, and the ty: use of but half a bottle of your Golden to Medical Discovery. My wife, a long casi sufferer from liver complaint and bil- In iousness, by tbe use of the Discov- ter ery and Pellets, has been entirely re- oft lieved. The Discovery has never dis- acc< appointed us for coughs and colds. Ihis Yours truly, Icou JAMEs STRICKEI:L- spo clot What member of the Legislature are will earn the thanks of the people of sup the State to himself and the body by qui leading the movement for four years trol terms for State and County Officers ? thei Those good enough to serve for two the years may certainly be trusted for four, of t and the additional two years rest from iyou politics would be worth more to the buta rernor Hagood's Inaugural Address. enators and Represenatatirs : It sith a profound seuse of the re iaibility imposed that I appear be you to-day to assume, in obedience he behests of the people, the ex :ive ofice. You have been called he same sovereign voice to the h:e of an equally importa .t t. and in our hands is placed fur next two years much that effects welfare of the State. Relying up your patriotism, and your wise co ration, and with a heart single in devotion to my State and people. proach the duties assi. atd n.e, shall faithfully discharge them so as in me lies. STATE EXPENI)ITURES. [he honest, economic and effi;ient ainistration of the State govern at. which the party revolution of 6 promised. has been realized. The iuary curreut expenses of the State ernwent have been reduced to one rth of what it was under the wan ment of the Republican party, and re nearly reached the minimum ex iditure of the period before the c. Every obligation of the State is t from the income of the fiscal year, i no deficiencies are incurred. The ounts of the State are cleared from confusion or uncertainty, and there aid before the representatives of the ple once more, as is required by "a true and accurate account of actual state of the treasury." ere is yet room for retrenchment ; I as from time to time, without im ring the efficiency of the govern at, retrenchment can be wade in executive, legislative and judicial )artwents. as well as in the mis laneous expenditures, each small in !f, buj atgregating a considerable ount, it should be done. In my ;ervation, however, the path of fur r reduction of the burdens of the payers lies now rather in the coun levies, of which 1 will hereafter ak, than in those which reach the te treasury. While the State levy our times less than it was under the publicau administration, the or ary county levy is the same new it was then. You have, no doubt, observed in the imate of supplies required for the )port of the State, submitted to i at the beginning of your session, large proportion of the whole ded fur the penal and charitable in utionzs of the State. Where labor so valuable as it is with us. I do see why the Penitentiary should only be self sustaining, but a re ef revenue. Considerable pro. ss has been made in this direction ecr the present able management of t institution ; but the object should kept steadily in view and attained the earliest possible day. [n con nection with that noble chari the Lunatic ASylumI, I hesitate to ak of retrenchment; the circum rces of o)ur people require, however, t it should be restricted to its pur e and remain a charity. The pau alone should receive the bounty of State; those who are able to pay whole or in part for the benefits of institution should be required to so. I am not prepared to assert t the bounty of the State is now sed in this particular ; but it oc s to mue that an efficient safeguard inst such abuse is to return to the n prevailing before the war, and, tead of supporting the panper in tes of that institution by a general te appropriation, to require each ty to support its own paupers in Lunatic Asylum as well as at ne. This is entirely consistent hi the scheme of our poor-laws. e county levies the fund for the intenance of its sane paupers, and s ex pended under local supervision. should also levy and retain super ion of the fund applicable to the port of these more unfortunate sous au.ong its indigent population. e part of the State should be limn I to appropriations for such gene purposes of building and repairs are necessary to make the institu 2 available for its humane purposes. ['he revenues of the State are col :ed with honesty and fidelity. The de of accounting with the subordi e tax officers provided by law is :d, and it is impossible to cover up ior negligence on the part of se officers, if the accounting is perly enforced in the comptroller's :e. When the money has reached State treasury, its custody and ursement are jealously hedged h stringent provisions of the law. now of no practica! safeguard that ritted. COUNTY EXPENDITURES. 3ut with regard to the expenditure he county revenues it seems to me t the law is seriously defective. are is now levied and expended in i county for county purposes a er sumi than it pays into the gen fund which reaches 'the State Lsury, and is there surrounded with b careful provisions of the law. county treasurer re tains the coun unds in his hands, and is in regard their disbursemne.t merely the iier of the county commissioners. ais annual accounting in this mat before the county auditor an order he county conrnissioners, drawn in >rdance with the forms of law, is sufficient voucher. Upon the nty commissioners rests the re asibility of the faithful and judi is expenditure of the fund ; they practically subjected to little or ho irvison. It is true they arc re -ed to forward, through the comp ler-general, a detailed account of r transactions, to be laid before Legislature, and ,it is the theory be law that these accounts are by examined For the present year four of the counties have forward the duty i:nposed; and thus the loose is supervision of the county expenditures tit is in singul:r contrast with the rigid de scrutiny enforced upon the State treas- of ury. Your experience and judgment will find the proper remedy. It ap d, pears to me that the grand jury of the n. county is the most suitable body to be a, charged with examining and auditing be the transactions of the county com- hi missioners. if aided by an expert of accountant, and the accounts are pub- U lished for public information a suffi- t cient time before the examination, it A will be as thorough as can be secured. w The accounts should then be forwarded [i to the comptroller-general, to be by at him consoliddted and embodied in his of next annual report as statistical infor- sc maon. These eommnissioners should ti still be required, as now, to submit to sc the General Assembly estimates of supplies upon which to base the an- it nual county levy. All that I have te said in this connection applies with S equal force to the disbursement by the p counties of the school fund. s THE PUBLIC DEBT. ti An adjustment of the public debt si has been reached by legislative provi- a cr sions. and by a decisiorn of the courts. r There is no floating debt. The debt t funded and being funded is $6.639,- t 170. Of this the scrip of the Auri. s cultural College amounting to $191,- s 800, is a permanent investment; the e deficieucy bonds and stock, amounting to $564,855, mature 188S; and the consuls, amounting to $5,882,515, ma- c< ture in 1894. The whole debt bears ti interest at 6 per cent tl In this connection I would very ti earnestly bring to the attention of the ti General Assembly the annual delay p of the payment of interest. The in- g terest is payable before the taxes d levied to meet it are fully collected; s aud thus some of the public creditors p are subjected to delay in receiving tl their dues. This can be corrected by o providing an earlier day for the pay. a ment of taxes ; or the Governor and o treasurer might be authorized to an- o ticipate their collection, so far as ne- t cessary for this purpose, by a ter- r porary loan. I The consol bonds bear upon their fi face the contract of the State to re- y ceive the coupons from the same in y payment of taxes. During the period c of adjustment of the debt it was im- C practicable to do so; but now there is t no reason why the coupons of the I Brown consols should not be thus re- s ceived. It is also advisable as to this e class of consols, that the operation of b the law requiring interest to be paid i in New York as well as at the State t treasury should be resumed, but it is ( not practicable to pay interest to the t holderi of Green consols elsewhere ti thau at the State treasury until after s the con versiou of their securities. The o suggestions made would promote the p convenience of the taxpayer. and nob doubt hasten the reduction of the con- h; sol bonds and stock to a uniform i: character. It is also desirable, as to 8 both consol and deficiency stocks, to ti adopt the plan of the United States si Government with regard to its regis- si tered bonds and stocks-upon the o holder furnishing the treasury with si his postoffice address, the interest due f: is forwarded by check upon each Jan- p uary and July. The punctual pay- is went of in.terest and every acommo- el dation and facility given in its collee- si tion enhances the value of the se curity, Already under the manage- ti ment of the State fimances for the last b four years its bonds have risen in the d market from twenty eight cents on the al dollar to par. The financial status of la our State was once its proudest boast. y If we place it upon the high plane it o: occupied before the late civil war and se keep it there, our securities will rank p with any governmental securities upon T[ the market ; and when the debt ma- tr tures, as it will soon will do, it can be fi refunded at a much lower rate of in terest. A wise and prudent policy el will keep this end steadily in view; g and then with the increased taxable b values, which improved credit and re- E turning prosperity will bring what is st now a burthen may become an inap- ei preciable weight to be borne or dis- p charged with equal facility.t ELECTION LAWS. The third section of the eighth article of the Constitution of this ~ State, adopted twelve years ago, declares that "it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to provide, from time to time for the registration of all electors." This positive man-w date of the Constitution has not yetb been obeyed. It is one of the most al obvious means of securing the purity 3 of the ballot box ; and the failure to provide it was justly urged in com plaint against those who controlled the State Government for the eight years ti following the adoption of the Consti- g tution. Amid the numerous matters tr claiming the attention of the General ra Assembly, and with the shortened ur sessions since that time, no registra- re tion law has been enacted. In my loi judgment the discharge of this im- ci perative duty shonld no:g longer be g dela,ed. Indeed, in many particulars, fr our election laws, as they now stand, ce are defective, arnd their revision is one to of the most important subjects which ru demand your attention. d EDUCATION. fri Our public school system demands wi and should receive the most careful St attention in order that its develop- pr ment may meet the necessities of our as condition. The States of this Union th which to-day stand first in popula- bu tion, wealth and political influence are pr those in which through efficient pub. th lie sc[ool systems, knowledge is most is widely diffused among the people. bi: The social and political restoration of su our State, and the development, to col the fullest extent, of our natural re.-G sources will surely follow upon the bu establishment of an educational sys- So temn which will reach down to the uri .hiIA of the humblest man without in of great importance to our educa- J mial interests that it be restored and ear voted, as formerly. to the purpose cnt a State Military Academy. ma Part of the interest of the fund d. nrated by ConLres for tlhe mainte- k nce at institutions for instruction in -: ricuiture and the mechanie arts has li; eu applied for some years to the I. .rher education of the colored youth S.to in connection with Claflin eiversity. The South Carolina Ctl ,e of Agriculture and Mechaie is for the special education of the bite youth of the State in this con !etion was opened in October last, t.l is also supported by the interest this fund. These institution-de rve, as I am sure they will receive, De e fostering care of the General As- Bo m=bly. Iu The Constitution of the State makes Da the duty of the General Assembly provide for the maintenance of the l: ruth Carolina University. It is not F arhaps, within our power to renew its GlI >here of usefulness at this time, but HE le direction of the Constitution x iould be obeyed at as early a day Ke practicable. A university of high Ln 'ade, working in harmouy with the Ru eceilent colleges now in operation in Ru te State, would have the effect of I iwulating education in the public if' :hools and would complete our edu ttional system. MATERIAL PROGRESS. During the two mouths of the re- s mnt political canvass, it was imy for- ~ tme to pass through every county in ie State except one. Devoted for ie greater part of my life to agricul au( iral pursuits, and familiar with most arts of the State, I was surprised and ratified at the diversified and abun- ch ant harvests that were everywhere int itnessed. Much of this was due to of ropitious seasous, but it was evident co iat wore was due to improved meth- an Is of culture aud the hopeful energy d increased thrift of all classes of su ur people To one cognizant only t f the recent past in the agricul- att ire of the State, some of the tic sults attained are scarcely credible. ta saw one field of three hundred and li fty acres which I have since learned gr ielded this year. as it had done last 1n ear, three hundred and fifty bales of ne tton weighing 500 pounds each. m ever a large area of the same county . ie crops upon the uplands were as ixuriant as upon the finest alluvial iils. These uplands were of the - aracter usual throurhout the middle C elt of the State, which, in their un- I nproved condition, would require1 ree or more acres to produce a bale. br ur farmers, too, are diversifying4 eir crops ard paying more attention live stock -than formerly. The re lts attained in the small grains ats particularly-are equally sur rising. From seventy.five to one undred bushels to the acre on up uds are credibly reported in many r stances; and the last fair of the tate Agricultural Society exhibited :ic largest and best display of live ~och 1 have vitnessed in the State nee the war. The development a the sea islands in special in. ances, by means of the drainage and :rtilization, in the production of the eculiarly valuable cotton there grown, equally worthy of no. It has :jualled four and five times the re lts formerly attained. Near Charleston four and a half 1 >u per acre of Berwuda hay have een grown this year upon light, san y lands especially fertilized ; and in other part of the State, upon alluvial uds not fertilized, a meadow has elded for three years past an average two and a half tons to the acre of the me valuable hay, equal, if not su-I ~rior, in feeding quality to the best imothy, and selling in the adjacent Le arkets at from twenty to twenty- for e dollars to the ton. h This improved condition of our ief industrial interest is indeed c ratifying, and illustrates the capa lities of our favored soil and climate ut our abounding resources will dly need development. Our muin al wealth, our water powers, the Ac oducts of our forests, our agricul- Pr ire itself, have scarcely been touched. on ['he harvest is plenteous, but the a borers are few." One of the most ~essing nieeds of the State industrial. is the advent of an intelligent and rifty immigration. I commend this ibject to you ; and I commend to ur care the recently established epartment of Agriculture, which, isely conducted, I am persuaded, will U a most valuable agent in advancing ue of the material interests of the :ate. all of CONCLUSION.pe These happy results-this restora. to > of the State to the methods of on od government; this hopeful inidus- a y of all classes of our people and the pid advance iu prosperity, are due, gra ider tie providence of God, to the da~ sumption of the chief control of our el affairs by that portion of our . tizens in whom the capacity of self - vernment is an inheritance derived >m a thousand years of a free an- I stry. It stands in striking contrast the wiretched period of riotous mis- i le which preceded it under the 'ination of the lately enfranchised redmen,. South Carolina cannot and F l1 not again become a prostrateye ate. The God-given right of self- pit eservation inheres in communities in well as in individuals, It is hig'her "h an law and older than constitutions; bun t the problem with us to-day is to S eserve the life of the State within a s e conditions that surround us. It of1 true that never before in all their t~ itory iav.e free institutions been pri bjected to such a strain as the Re thin nsrcinAt f h ainlpo rsrecnocso teNtonl., ,vermen t placed upon them here ; it is t the political equiality of all men in to utwahinesnwasfxda et u uin Cerolicy is nois fxed Bau feat- pu inmh. p..,molic a nnil Bleige hlh her ~eotraphy. It can neither be ~ :t is my duty as (overnor to "take e that the laws are faithfully exe ed in merey." I repuat 'hi' ll Il.: de before my eletion-that in, th -i,ar.'. of this high trust I sh ll -w '.l ithlllr w i4 te n.,:!t: Ii'r ~ lti ri t, but ly ii of e~ t art - -I : ;nt tiable to lr laws and ii ed to their pro tectio)n. B. Smith. of horifattlt, Minn., s: I am still wearing an "Only ttg Pad." and it has helped me; I in to i:ve another of extra strength M.-Sae Adv. POST OFFICE. NEwmERtY, S. C., Dec. 4. ISS0. s of advertised letters for wc,k ending 4, 1880 : .(, W. J. Ruff, W. F ,, Mary Jnc Ruff, Moorman renton, Lewis ,Reid, W. A. venport, Jeff Sheeler WV. A. venport, Jno. W. Sease, Jno. C. venport, Jno. Sean, ). R. venport, J. 11. Suber, J. C. & J. H. tman, Geo. W. (2) Summer, J. II. iridge, Levi W. Wright,MissMaryAnn nn, Eliga Williams, J. H. rp, T. L. (2) Word, W. F. ndrix, H. D. Workman, Chas. nter, Andy Wilson, Louisa lly, F. T. ,Wheeler. Frank .as, Albert Wicker, Belton thews, J. M. A'icker, D. R. 'f, J. R. Wicker, J. M. d, W. S. 'arties calling for letters will please say dvertised. R. W. BOONE, P. M. ov. 25, 18S0, by Rev. J. D. McCullough, . CHAS. W. ZIMMERMAN to Miss BEssIE psos, daughter of J. Wistar Simpson, I., all of Glenn Springs. Obituary. rERTRUDE, daughter of Dr. Spencer C. J Mrs. C. C. Welch, died Nov. 27th, 18S'J, 3d 13 years and 2 mouths. 'Gertie" was a child of greaz purity of xracter and loveliness of disposition. She s unaffectedly simple and honest in her ercourse with her little friends. There s nothing artificial in the entire make up her pure life. She won all hearts to her Tfidence, but she won by the. artlessness :1 transparency of a purely natural man r. In addition to all of this, "Gertie" was eligious child. At the age of eight years went forward, unprompted, and applied her pastor for membership in the church. is public act, before a large congregation, ested the depth and force of her convic ns; and her subsequently pure life sas ned the idea of her sincerity. To her be tved parents the religious feature in her stands out prominently, and gives them .at comfort and consolation in contem ting such consistency of character, and eness of aim in a person of such youthful ss. May God sustain these bereaved ones this hour of their trial. HER PASTOR. .Xew .Idrertisements. IIRISTMN MNTI.1 Inion Square. Riverside and Seaside Li .rles. )ur Little Ones-monthly. ousehold Guest. foung Ladie.s Magazine. foung Ladies .Journal. ireside Magazine. Lndrews Bazar. leasant flours. JARIES FOR~ 1881. iemans & Browning. oldsmith, Moore. Jowper, WVardsworthi. :ennyson, Hood. ~anguage of Flowers. ~ilgrim's Progress. hildren ot the Abbey. todley F:amnily. en and Pencil Pictures. hakespeare, Robinson Crusoe. treasures from Fair.y Land. ndersen's Fairy Tales. )icleens' Complete Works. ~ogether with a variety of Fancy Articles children andl grown up people. or sale by .F. G-RENEKER1, AT THE HERALD BOOK STORE. )ec. 5, 50-tt. fotice of Final Settlement. [will ma ke a settlement en the estate of vi H. C. Singley inl the Gourt of Probate New berry County, S. C., on Saturday, S th da o January, A. D. 1881, and mediately thereafter apply for a final dis rge as Giuardiain thereof. H. M. SINGLEY, Guardian. tice of Final Settlemient. [will make a settlement on the estate of die A. Shepper~d, now Dawkins, in the abate Court for Newberry County, S. C., Tuesday, the 4th day of January, A. D. H, and imm:ediately thereafter apply for ual discharge as Guardian thereof. DRAYTON 8. CONWILL, ec. 8, 50)-5t* Guardian. 'ATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, NEWBERtRY COUNTY. By Jacob B. Fellers, Probate Judge. Whereas, Peter M. Schumpert hath made to me,. to grant him Letters of Admnin utio'n, of the Estate and efreets of Sam Shumupert, deceased. 'hese are therefore to cite and admonish and singular the kindred and creditors the said deceased, that they be and ap r, before me, in the Court of Probate, be held at Nrsv.berry Court House, S. C., the 18th day of December inst., after lication hei eof, at 11 o'clock in the fore m, to she'w cause, if ainy they' have, why said Administration should not be ted. Given under my Hand, this 4th of December, Anno Domnini, 1880. J. B. FEL LERS, J. P. N. c. )ee. 8, 50--2t.* ro having been intimate a number of rs with the proprietors of "Swift's Sv ic Specific." 1 have known much of manufacture and use. There are men this commiunity-well known citizens >were victims in early life to Syphilis, most terrible curse that ever afflic(ed the tan family, and who have taken the S. S. iedicine, and are now, to ali appearances, in their own belief, as free from taint of use as the first man, fresh from the hands is Maker. Delicacy of course forbids r public recommendations: of this medi ,but I am allowed to refer the sceptic ately to those who will endorse every g that can he said in its favor. Being essionally much opposed to endorsing or inmeding nostrumns or secret remedies with hesitation that I attach my name tis article; but I know whereof I speak a I say that our science has not made ic a combination equal to "Swift's Sy tic Specific" for the purpose indicated. greatest boon the government could be ~ h,,neI,mis of thousands of its citizens C HRIiAs ! CACKN - CIlS$IS RlI CES!8 Greenville, S. C. AN ) Charlotte, N. C. We Ran ils and Io Mis take. Beat these Uig:'"s if you Can. ORGANS-15 Stops, 3 Set Reeds Sub Buss and Coupler, Beautiful Wainut Case, only S65. 9 Stops, 4 Sets R:eeds, only S. 7 Stops,3 Sets 1cds, $55. Stool and Book included. PIANOS-Large Size, Rich Rosewood Case, 7 Oct.. only $179. Largest Size, 7j Oct., only $200. Square. Grtnd, Extra Large Magnificent Case, only $250. Good Stool and Cover given. Fifteen Days Test Trial. We pay freights if not satisfactory. These in,truments are from OLD AND RELIABLE HOUSES, and are fully gaaranteed. No mistake about these Pianos. In addi tion to the large number we have sold throughout South and North Carolins, there are eight or ten right here in the city of Greenville, some of which have been in use over SIX YEARS, and are still giving per fect satisf'iction. Our Easy One Year Plan Enables every one to own a good Piano or Organ. Chickering, Mathushek, Guild & Co., Arion, Southern Gem, Favorite Pianos, Ma son & Hamlin, Peloubet & Co., Sterling Or gans have no Superiors. Send for Christmas Pric3 Lists and Cata logues. It will pay you. Prices on Guitars, Violins, Banjos, Ac cordeous and all small instruments are greatly reduced. Address McSMITH MUSIC HOUSE, Greenville, S. C., P. O. Box 15. Or, H. McSMITH. Dec. 8, 35-6m Charlotte, N. C. Report of the 1st, 2nd and 3d Quarters of the Clerk and Treasurer of Town Coulicil of Newberry. st Quarter beginning January 1st, and ending April 1st, 1880. To re.c'd by cash from ex Clerk, $117.13 " Saloon License, 200.00 " Auction " 25.00) " Billiard " 50.00 SGeneral " - 25.00 " Drav " 4.00 "Market Rent, '73.25 " Fines, 84.00 "Street Exemnpt's,377.00 "' Sa le or l'airy, 1. 75--$ 957.13 To amount paid out. To acets, including hard ware, blacksmithing, horse feed, lighting strects, &c., &c., $138.30 To Police wages, 347.00 To Street laborer's wages, 327.13 To Glerk Council, 43.53- 855 96 To cash on hand, $101 17 2nd Quarter commencing April 1.at, and ending JIuly I st, 1880O. To cash broight forward, $101.17 To ree'd by discount of note in Batik, $500.00 "General License, 35.00 " Drav " 4 404 "Street Exemipt's.151.00) "Market Rent, 127.65 "Fines, 48.25 " Tax on realty and personalty,729.6;7- 1,595.57 $1,696.74 To amount paid out'. *To amount paid on accts., including hardware, horse food, repairing cart, dieting prison'rs, blacksmithing, light ing lamps, watering sti eets, &c., &c., $490.83 To Stree t ro! e,. 498 75 To Police force, 375.ta To Cle'rk andl Treasurer, 7;. 53- ],44J.11 To balance in Treasury, $255.63 3d Quat ter beginning July 1st, and ending October 1st, 1880. To amount brought. forward, $255.63 To rec'd by discount of note in Bank, $300.00 "Saloon License, 44)4.00 " Billiard " 25.00 " Dray " 6.00 " Street Exemipt'n,177.00 " Market Rent, 115.50 " Fines, 76.00 " Tax oni realty and personalty,518.65- 1,618.15 $1,873.78 To amount paid Out. o paid on acets., includ ing lighting streets, stone for b r id ge, building r o c k cul vets hardware, &c.,$47.M Fo paid Police force, 375.00 to paid Street lorce, 527.40 ro paid on Note in Bank, 34'0.00) ro paid Clerk and Treas., 88.66- 1,761.40 To balance in Treasury, $112.38 Respectfully submitted, JOHN S. FAIR, Dec. 6, 1880-50-tf. C. & T. T. C. N. LAST NOTICE. All persons indebted to the undersigned ust settle all arrears by the 1st of Decenm er next. No furthr-r credit nor indulgence ~il be given. I want money and must ave it. Save cost and pay up at once. S. F. FANT. ov. 24, 48-tI. Notice of Final Settlement. T .;"mI- a h ota h eaon I will make a settkment on the estate Oi Ler a Siles. SALE OF 'il-E P Ul:SUAN1 To THE DECREE OF Forcilosure made in the case of James . tibbes vs. the Greenville and Columbia l:iilro.al Company cc al., in the matter of the Laurens itailroad, by the ion. J. B. Ker shaw, presiding in the Court of Common Picas for lticbland Coanty, April ferm 1880, dated April 10, 1880, I will sell at public auctioi, in the city of Columbia, on the FRS MONDAY of JANUARY NEX , at 12 o'ebck noon. All and singular the RAILROAD con struc-ed upon and over the line or route from a point at or near the town of New b- -v, in the County of Newberry, in the State aforesaid, to the town of Laurens, in the Couuty of Laurens, in the State afore said; and also all the Lands, Tenements and leraditaulents acquired at,:l appropriated for the purpo,e of a right of way for said Rail road :,nd all the easements and appurte nances thereto belonging or in anywise iu cident or appertAiniug, and all Railways, Wa s and Rights of Ways, Depot Grounds .ud other Lands, all Tracks, Bridges. Via ducts, Culverts, Fences and other structures; all Depots, Station Houses, Enginu Houses, Car lluues, Freight Houses, Wood Houses, Warehouses, M:cchine Shops, Workshops, Superstructures, Erections and Fixtures held and acquired for the use of the said Railroad, together with all the Locomotives, Tenders, Cars and other Rolling Stock and Equip mnents, and all Machinery, Tools, Imple ments, Fuel and Materials for the construct ing, operati:g, repairing or replacing said Railroad or any part thereof, or convenient or necessary for use in connection therewith, togetLer with all franchises connected with or related to the said Ralroad, or the con struction, maintenance or use thereof now held or aequ:red by the Greenville and Col umbia Railroad Company, and all corporate franchises of any n-ature, including the fran chise to be a corporation, which are now pos sessed and exercised by the said Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company, together with all and singular the endowments, in come and advantages to the above-mentioned lands, railroad or property belonging, or In anywise appertaining, the reversion or rever sions, remainder and remainders, tolls, in comes, rents, issues and profits thereof, and alao all the estate, right, title, interest, pro perty, possession. claim and demand what soever, as well as in the law as in the equity, present or prospective, of the said Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company, in and to the same, every part and parcel thereof, with the appurtenance,, upon the following terms: Twenty thousand dollars in cash to be paid immediately after the close of the bid ding, the balance of the purchase money to be :.aid within thirty days after the day of sale, with interest from the said day of sale; and the Master may require of any bidder during the progress of said s:le to deposit the sum of twenty thousand dollars in cash in a bank in the city of Columbia, to his order. in case of refusal to pay the cash or make the deposit, the bid shall be disregarded and the sale be proceeded with as if the same bid had not been made. If the purchaser shall, within the period of thirty days above referred to, pay the whole of the purcbase money, the sale shall be closed; but in case the purchaser shall fail and make default in such payment at or within the time hereinbefore designated for making the same, the Master shall at once, and without delay, proceed to resell the said property on the .same terms as have been hereinbefore set forth, to the highest bidder, at the risk of the former purcbaser, who shall e liable for any loss cr deficincy because of ~uch rc-sale, and any and all payments wlieh have been made by such purchaser hall become forfeited, nor shall the same in :niy contitngency or event to arise be recov red back or reclaimed by such purchaser. Any bond or bonds of the Greenvile and Columbia Railroad Company secured by the mortgage executed to James Conner, Isaac Hayne and George D. Bryan, Trustees, by said Company on the 29:h day of April,1876, may he made use of in the payment of such portion or portions of the purchase money s in the distrib)utionl of the proceecis of said sale may be applicable to such bond or bonds or coupons thereof, and that to this extent the same may be used in settlement of the purchase of said property; but in nio event shall the right now given relieve any pur clh .ser or purchiasers at the c!o-c of the bid ding, when the same is accepted, from pay ing in cash such an amount as may be re quired to discharge claims for costs, chargos and disbursements in this cause anid of the sale now ordered and decreed to be made. DcNATHANIEL B. BARN WELL, De.L 49-5r. Master. Sale of Personal Property. By vir tue of an order to me directed by lon. J. 13. Fellers, Judge of Probate, I will sell, on Saturday, December 11th, at 10 o'clock A. M., at the residence of the late John M. Lewie, deceased, the follow ing personal prop'erty of the deceased: Two Fine Mules, One Wagon, Cotton, C'otton Seed, Cortn and Fodder, Straw, &c. Terms of sale cash. E. P. M AT HEWS, Administrator. Nov. 27th, 1880. 49-2t. 11MINSitTOR'S SALE, Ini pursuance of the order of Hon. J. B. Fellers, Judge ol Probate, I will sedi, at Newberry Court Hloums, on Monday, the thireenth [13th] day of December, 1880), the following chioses in ae:ionm belongi:.g to the estate of Jamnes ti. Maff'ett, deceased, to wit: five [5] Notes on Mrs. F. P. Neil. Two 12] Notes on W. W. McMorries and his wife. One [I] Note on Mrs. M. A. McMorries. T wo 12] Notes on Elizabeth Reid. One LI] Note on G. W. Reid. One [J Note on John Miller. One [I] Note on Levi Rikard. One [Ij Note on Levi L.iviungston. . One [I J Note on M. H. Livingston. One [1] Note on John J. Kinard and George S. Livingston. One [I] Note on WV. WV. Gr'ffith. One [I] Note on Daniel Livingston. Two [2] Notes on Mattie Reid. One [I] Note on' Zachariah Miller. One [Lj] Note on E. Lorninick. One [I] Note oii Drayton L. Livingston. One [1 Note on Frank Lomtinick. One [I] Note on M. E. Reid. One [11 Note oti John T. Riser. I will also sell, on Tmi sday, the 14th day of December, 1880, at the late residence of the said James 11. Maffett, his personal pro perty hitherto unsold, consisting of a Yule, IHorses, Gattle, Hogs, Wagon, Buggy, Farming Utensils and various other articles. All sales for cash. ELMINA C. MAFFETT, Dc. 1, 49-2t. Admin ist ratrix. J. B. LEONARD, Dealer in GROCERIES, Wines, Liquors, Segars Tobacco, &c. Respectfully informs the public that his tock is full and complete in all lines. Choice Goods, Low Prices, POLITE ATTENTION. Store--Crot.well Block. Nov. 24 48 tf Poor Hiouse Farm to Rent. Sealed Bids will be received by the un lersigned until 1i0 o'clock A. M., on Moni lay, December 13thi next, for the Rent of .om o h PoorHou Fa rm as lies on