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HBPJl?'..'.'... ???A'J.C'l?..1. ?UlMlIJIIM I.III UM IM.I , THE KEOWEE COURIER. BT KEITH, SMITH & CO WALHALLA, S. C.: TflURSDAY, SEPTEM HER 18, 1877. 03a For subscription, two dol lars por annum,sttictly in advance; for six months, ono dollar. Q3" Advortisouicnts insortod at ono dollar por square of ono inch or loss for tho first insertion, and fifty couts for oach subsequent in sertion. 03* Obituary Notices exceed ing five linos, Tributes of Respect, Communications of a personal character, when admissablo, and announcements of Candidates will bo charged for as advertise ments. 03* Job Printing noatly and cheaply oxocutod. 03" Necessity compols us to adhere strictly to tho require ments of cash payments. Sheriff's Election. Ia our advortistng columns will ko found tho proclamation of Governor Hampton, order ing an olcclion to ho held for Sheriff on next Thursday, tho 20th instant. Tho limo is short, too short, hut it seems thc order cannot 1)0 rovoked. A number of our citizens sent n pot'.tion to tho Govornor requesting a chango of tho ordor, so as to havo tho election about tho 1st of Novombor; but tho Governor has gono to Illinois and wo failed to got a reply. Tho mattor is boforo tho pcoplo and without probability of a chango. Tho A ?Iget* College. This Institution was oponed on tho 0th instant under tho most flattering auspicos. A largo number or our citizens was prcsont nud tho groatost interest wns manifested in tho proceeding?. Prayer was offered by Dr. .Smolt/er, and tho students present, Cl in number, were matriculated and nssignod to -thoir proper departments. Professors Riley, Sloan, Mooro and Hicks woro all prcsont looking happy nt tho favorablo beginning of o now cntcrpriso in which they wcro to bo tho chief actors. Tho number of students in nttondanco has regularly increased up to Wednesday morning., tho dato of our report, when tho roll call showed eighty-four in all tho departments. Those aro distributed as follows: In tho Primary Department, 53; in tho Preparatory Department, 10; in tho Collo ginto Department, 21; Tboso present in tho Collogittlo Department arc d:stributcd among thc classes ns follows. Senior Class, 2 Junior Class, 2 Sophomore Clnss, 5 Freshman Class, 12 Total, 21 The Collegiato Department will certainly increase io a few days to 25. Mr. Joseph W. Sholor will enter Ibo Senior Class, Mr. Dan, iel will enter tho Junior Clnss, while Messrs. Cary and Dobbins aro oxpootcd soon to onter tho Sophomore Class. This is the most flat tering boginning ever known to n young institution. Tho establishment of a oollego with members in ovcry class and suoh a num> bor in nttondanco within ono wook is almost unprecedented. The Collogo has grown daily by accessions of students, sovoral having matriculated this (Wednesday) morning. All tho departments havo experienced and corn potent instructors, and wo hopo to soo so worthy an institution increase in a raocth to 100 students, Uti ii ry. Wo published in our last issue tho reply of | Col. F. Wi MoMastor to our article of tho previous week on usury. Wo havo discussed this question r.t inter?als for several years and wo do not know that any good can result from its furthor agitation. There is great diversity of opinion on tho subject; but if tho great mass of tho farming pooplo had thoir way, tho ralo of interest would bo at once restricted. Dccauso a man has tho right to mnko a piofltablo trade is no reason why ho has tho right to n ruinous ralo of interest on money, which cripples tho load'iDg industries of tim Stnto, invites specu lation and opposes opon investment in any profttnblo cntcrpriso. Tho Stato lins as much right to restrict tho rato of interest on money ns to put terms on tho UPO a man may make of his corn or other grain in converting them into spirits. Tho latter right is based on public policy and tho right to restrict tho manufacturo of what is deleterious to tho public morals, and injustifiable. Tho former right is based, wo claim, upon tho duty and privilcgo of tho Legislature to prcvont tho oso of n particular kind of property in a way ?which injures tho truo interests of tho State, by crippling ber lending industries, instead investing that property in productive industry. But sny yon, no man need borrow unless ho wants to and ho docs so nt bis risk. Say I, no man nocd drink tho whiskey unless he vants to and ho does so at his risk. Says both of us, pcoplo will do both, end boneo tho Stato has tho right nnd it is her duty to pro tect her pooplo from both whiskey and ruin ous rates of intorcst. Wo, however, and no fcwo mon of diverso viows on tboso oubjeots could convinco or chango eaoh other, and heneo wo propose to follow tho subject no farther. Tho romnindor of tho Colonel's article rounds Uko twnddlo, for if usury laws would bo ineffectual or increase usury, why do banks and capitalists so icftr and opposo thom? Tho laws boforo tho war wero nearly perfectly effectual to provont usury, and givo thom to ue again and wo will bo satisfied with thoir efficacy, and in ton yoars show you a happy and prosperous Stato. So moto it bo. _, ." - , Thc election in Maine for Stato officers and mombors of tho Legislature is resulting ic di mi nish ? ng tho majority of tho Republi cans at Ibo ibrmor oleotion, Tho returns are uot oompleto. Education. Knowledge ls (ruly said to bo power, and a power, too, for good, though it may bo perverted to evil. While education is not knowledge, it is tho ohlcf moans of acquiring knowlodgo and of proportionate valuo. It is iu a pecuniary point of vlow a never failing supply to all who will uso it. It affords ploasuro and vee rca lion to Ibo man of wealth and oase. To tho cripple aud diseased it becomes plow, hoe, land and bouso, furnishing moat and drink. It is tho iuoxhausll blo bottle, from whioh may bo drawn at any (imo all that renders lifo easy, contented and happy. lu a moral point of view, its influence is of tho highest imporlanoo. It guards tho liborticB of tho pocplo, Washington having truly placed it as ono of tho chief pillars of Republi can Government. It advances Christianity in tho knowlcdgo of tho greatness and goodness of God, as Boon In tho uuivcrso. It prevents pau perism, not oniy by enabling all to make a living, but by creating n prido and self-respect among men, which prevents tboir descending to pauperism. It checks orimo for all (beso rea sons, aud in a moral viow turns to gold whatever it touches. It is useless lo speak of its high sooial influences, for without its refining power society would bo a congregation of chattering animals, with pride, onvy, malice and all tho baser passions predominating. Education is wealth, morality aud society, with all tboy im ply. Who will dony any or all of thoso propo sitions? Then why stand yo hero idlo wit on tho collogo bell is daily inviting you and your chil dren to como up and rcocivo this procious boon almost without money and without price? You cnn take a $500 bond and educate all your sons, or if not, board nnd tho rates of tuition aro in aocord with tho limes and within reach of all. Clubs of families could bo made up, a bouso rented nnd by boarding themselves tho outlay for an education would bo trifling, while tho educa tion itself would bo invaluable. Wo say invalu able, and can provo it. Go ask thc lawyer or merchant or educated farmer or doctor or preacher, who bas an education, if you could soil it what weald you ask for it, or what would you tako in exchange for it? Thc reply would bo, tho wealth of Ibo Lydian King would bo no in ducement. It is to mo meat and bread and drink, then ploasuro and content mont, and in old ago it will bo my greatest solace Money may lake wings and Hy away, but knowledge, reflection on what ono lins read, though ho bo blind, can never bc lost or taken from bim. Thc old Uoman well expressed thc ploasuro of know lodgo when ho said, ?'ho was never less alone than when alono," ("nuuquam minus solus quain tot ti?,") meaning that his books und thoughts wcro more company llian living friends. Such a treosuro in old ngo would bo a never failing source of pleasure, while in life it bad been a never failing support. How many mon have said if I just bad an education, and yet these men often neglect Ibo tniuds of their children mid imagine Hint (bey cannot alford to send thom lo college. Educate a boy and send him into Ibo world, and if bc bo worth picking up in Ibo road bc will make bis way in Ibo world. If ho cannot, then though you givo him thous ands in money lie would squander it or by mis mnngemcut suffer it to bc lost. In (bo former case ho could nt ways livo by bis brains and present a respectable appearance, while in thc latter bo would likely be n drone or vagabond. Above all these considerations of temporal case aud advantage rises ono willoh demands (he at tention of all men who respect deity. Thc mind is a part of deity. It was in Iiis spiritual naturo man was assimilated to God. This in eludes tho moral mid intellectual faculties, and their development is a duty wo all owe to God Was tho mind, which directs and controls Ibo appendages of tho body and in thc loss of which man, virtually devoid of instinct, needs to be confined, designed lo grow up in ignorance having no oilier development limn observation and experience can give? What would observa lion and experience bc without tho influence of tho educated portion of thc world? Worse limn heathenism would prevail, cannibalism, animal ism. Every man who is nt all able owes it to God to develop thc minds of his children by educating thom. Tho moral and intellectual faculties arc so interwoven that thc training c thc ono is thc training of both. They go to gcthcr in thc body and Ibo modo of instruction in all colleges is adapted to their joint dovclop ment. Let every citizen who can, and few can not, educate their sons, anti lot this bo tbci patrimony. Descended wealth is oftener curso (linn a blessing lo tho possessor, while education can never be a curse. Its valuo may bo lo a groat extent non-utilized, yet it makes tho man a bolter cilizen than bo would b othcrwiso, while its possession, should bo re form, would become a very present help in lime of need. Those crudo suggestions aro mado our readers in tho hopo that somo will profi thereby nnd set out to avail themselves of th benefits of Ibo cxcollont collogo now in opera lion in tho town of Walhalla. Fr<;ig li ls. Wo havo recoived from F. W. Wagoner & Co of Charleston, a copy of tho now freight sobed ule between Charleston nnd (bo various poin on ibo Greonvillo and Columbia Railroad and Walhalla. Tho freights havo boon reduced oon sidorably to all points along thc lino, ns wo u tl erst and. Tho pooplo, it seems, aro largely i debi cd to tho Messrs. Wagoner for these benefit os I hey wcro tho aolivo workers, with tho aid tho press, in (ho mailor of tho reduction Charleston, of course, is inlorcslcd nbovo oilier points in (ho reduction, as it expects reap an increased trado, and will doubtless not bo disappointed, Our trado naturally looks to Charleston, and it should go Ibero, unless tho cheapness of oilier markets givo good reason for seeking our supplies and moroliandiso else where. This mailor rcsls with thc merchants of Charleston themselves, and wbilo wo know nothing of tho relativo prices of merchandise (boro and elsewhere, Ibo merchants themselves do, and must look lo tboir laurels. Country and (own merchants aro well posted in prices in the lending cities, and whllo disposed to trado with Charleston, will corlainly go whoro they oan get tho best selections at the lowest prices. This may bo expected of all sensible mon, but wo know Cbarlc8lon, with wntor transportation, can soil as low as any point. Tho froighl rrduotioa gives them oonsidorablo advantage though it should bavo boen greater. SHU wo understand it is claimed to bo as low as can bo afforded so as to allow tho roads to pay tboir running ex ponaos. Thoro is ono oilier thing which would groitly add to thc intorcst of Cbarloston without injur ing (ho road. Lot occasional excursion trains bo run from Ibo up oountry to Charleston and numbers of our pooplo, at low ratee, would visit Charleston, who will never othorwiso soo Ibo City by tho Boa. This would givo to tho railroads a oloav gain from a class who will never travel over thom at regular rated oxcopl from ?-1--rr .?il, ".?. ,<-.". ,..,"... neoesslty. Bosldes, ovory visitor to Cbarloston would spend in the oily a considerable amount of money, many of thom buying tboir year's supplies. Acquaintances with business houses would bo mado whioh would for years give to tho city an ordorlng trade from citizens of no small amount. Down excursions would bo far moro beneficial to Charleston than the frcquont ohoap excursions to tho up country. Peoplo como from Charleston to tho up country merely for pleasure or health, while our pooplo would go to Charleston for both pleasuro and Irado. An exourslou to Cbarloston about Ibo ond of November, wbon our pooplo have money, would tako down numbors of citizens who would trade largely in tho oliy. Is not such an arrangomont just to our pooplo, for Charleston has annually several excursions to tho mountains? An ex cursion from tho up oountry to Charleston io tho spring and fall would bo ns beneficial to tho railroad ns tho summer excursions from Charles ton to tho mountains. Wo understand excur sions have proved a success and a paying trip to tho roads, and wo hopo ono will bo ordered from Ibo up country lato in tho fall. Lot it bo tried. Wo seo tho Ntiot and Courier, Over sensi ble in its views, desires such an arrangomont in tho following noto: .'There ls a general desire lu tho up oountry for a cheap excursion to tako placo about Ibo ond of November. Charleston has visited the up country, and now tho up country is anxious to return tho compliment. Cannot such an ex cursion bo arranged?" Anderson County gingill? Conven tion. MBStRS EDITOKS: Please announco in your paper that tho Anderson County Singing Con vention will hold its ninth anniversary with Mount Bothol Churoh, nenr Craytonsvillo, September 20th, 21st, 22d and 23d. Tho constitution allows each Singing School, Sab bath School and Day School, in whioh music is taught, representation; also, each choir and society shall be entitled to thrco delegates, who on presenting certificates of their ap? point ment shall bo allowed seats in tho Con vention. Tho Convention has appointed to meet on Thursday, ono day earlier than for merly, as its interest and business scorn to require moro timo. "Wo hope that Sabbath Schools and Singing Sooiclics throughout the cntiro County will send delegates, as wo think it greatly to their interest to do so. Ministers of tho Gospel, ns far as practicable, aro specially invited to attend. On Saturday an essay prepared by J. F. Andorson will bo read. Prof. A. S. Kniffor, Singer's Glenn, Rockingham County, Ya., will bo present nnd will deliver a lecture on tho scionco and sub ject of music. Como all who can and enjoy tho music to ?ls fullest oxtont, without money and without price; and lot those who expect to participate not forgot to bring tboir books. "Melodics of Praise" will bo used on Sunday. JAMES G. DOUT1HT. Commerce or the Soutli. On thc 1st of September of each yoar tho newspapers in tho cotton States regularly oubl'&h an elaborate review of thc trndo of iboir respectivo cilios. We bavo beforo us ihcso annual reports for Now Orleans, Char1* teston, Havan nub und Memphis, tho four lending contros of tho cotton trndo. Wo lupposo tho reason why tho 1st of September is selected for these elaborate annual reviews is that, moro nearly thoo any othor dato, it marks tho beginning of tho cotton trado in tho new crop. A tow scattering bolos or a fow hundred halos aro received during thc latter half of the month of August, and on tho 1st of August, und on tho 1st of September tho new season is regarded as having fairly opened fliese annual reviews include not only cotton, tho chief staple, but sugar, rico, tobneco, {?rain, provisions, fruits and nil tho articles which make up tho mn98 of Southern trado. riioy aro valunblc collections of statistics, for they givo in exact ligures all thc receipts und shipments of thc preceding year, with tables diuwing ibo increase or decrease in euch arti clo in comparison with previous years. Bo* sides this careful array of statistics these reviews discuss tho onuses which bavo affected trado and spcouluto with moro or less intelligence on tho prospects of tho opening year. Those reports and speculations aro ol peculiar interest now, because tho South ii entering on a new era. By tho wiso policy ol President llnycs an end has boon put to thc exciting political controversies whioh have kept that section in a state of turmoil since tho war. Thoro is no longer anything I: disturb its tranquillity or obstruct its mntori'. development. Wo accordingly find a ton? of hopefulness and confidence io all tbosi reports. Tho reviow of tho business of tho last yea' shows a declino of tho cotton trado, owiug t< a somewhat ?borter crop than in tho yea whioh preceded. Tho cotton trado of Cbar loston, however, has incronscd by about fifi' thousand bales, while that of Now Orleans Savannah nnd Memphis lins considerably declined. This is accounted for by nn (norean ing tendency to souci cotton to tho Atbmti seaboard by rail instead of shipping it by tb Mississippi River, and Charleston is botte situated than Savannah for tho railway traffic Tho business of tho lattor city, however wa impaired by tho alarming epidemic whioh pro vailed in tho height of tho cotton seasor Savannah is a vory enterprising city and doc not despair of becoming ngnin w hat sho one was-tho second cotton exporting oily in th South, Now Orleans, of course hoing tho firs At presont Charleston is aboad of hor. Tb statistics nf cotton production since the wti bavo an interesting hearing on tho success e tho now labor syslom in tho South. Wo in sort a statement of tho crops for tho lat twelvo j curs: Bales. Bale 18G5-C0 2,193.987 1S71-72 2,074,31! 1*00-67 2,019.774 1872-73 3.930,51 1867-68 2.593.993 1873-74 4,185,5? 1808-69 2.439.039 1871-75 3,827.8^ 1869- 70 3,154,916 1875-76 4,500.0( 1870- 71 4,352,317 1870-77 4,430,0( As thoso crops have been produced most! by negro labor they oro a satisfactory tost mony to the industry of tho frcodmen in ibo now condition. Tho statistics of Southot trado in other articles than cotton also sn j gest lavorablo inferences ro*pcoting tl negroes. Tako Memphis, foroxamplo, who trado in cotton declined owing to tho shortno of tho orop, but largely incroasod in all otb art'olos. Wo copy tho following statomo from tho Memphis Appeal: Taking tho loading nrtiolos, thoso which t dicato tho strength and notivity of tho markc wo find that our imports of apples woro t incronso ovor thc previous year of quito 21 000 barrolB, tho exports hoing within 2,01 barrels of tho imports of 1870; of alo and bo tho inoroa80 was 37,000 pnokogos, or over third moro; agrien Ita ral implements wo noarly doubled, being 79,808 to 43,003; brt and bagging aro largely inoroasod, tho form hoing nearly 20,000 snoks inoroaso; boots at shoos stand 53,387 cases this, to 45,676 la yoar; bacon, ham and pork, aro an immon inoroaso, tho lattor nearly 200,000 pieces, wbl 18,780 hogs wore reeoived, as compared wit 8,076 tho yoar bolero; cattlo stand ns 22,2', head to 11.049 last yoar, and sh ooo, 17,376 11,718. Wheat ulmuat aouMo?', hoing 11,5! i ? ?AIM . JI,! .?.., _;.j.m _j_ ;,,,r to 0,021 saoks, and tobacco was almost doubled sayo ie leaf, (ii whioh' thoro was a fnlling off. Whiskey is 34,189 to 20.120 barrels, nnd liquors are 14,303 to 9.001; hide?, in number, aro 27,000 inoroaso: fish, in pnokngos, aro double; flour is 24,000 barr?la and dry goods aro 30,000 oases inoroaso; drugs stand 21,512 to 19,348 packages; ccmont and plastor, in barrels, 18.008 to G;043; oan goods, 112,090, compared with 75.910; coflbe, 51,991 saoks compared with 35,080: choose, in boxes, 19.? 211, compared with 13,408; candles, 12.747, boxos. comp red with 9,700. Thoso figures, selected at random, indicate tho gain wo havo made in general business, and, taking ono with another, provo that we havo not ox pori' enoed any falling off, but rather a gain, as compared" with last year. This is conclusivo ovidonoo that tho nogro population aro boooming largooonsumors, and that their wants and their ability to supply them by their oarniogs aro building up a vast market for Southern merchants. [New York Herald. Work of til? Coinmiiiitafft. NEW YORK, Sept em ber 8.-A T'onsyl vania special says that tho strikers of tho Lehigh region have resolved on a gonoral uprising if tho military mako tho threatened arrests. Five thousand members of eoorot ordors aro drilling with weapons in Hyde Park, a suburb of Scranton. Tho Molly Maguires aro trying to iuduco railroad employees to unite in a general strike on September 15th, but tho railroad mon havo bad enough of such work. Tho minors in tho bituminous region ol' ClnrcQold County threaten to strlko for no advance in wages oorrospouding with tho nd vunco in coal. A party of disguised mon rocen tty visited thc cottage of a man named Oarringor, and compelled him to kneel and swear that bo would not resumo work until tho strike was anded, and similar affairs aro happening in iifferont parts. Tho dissatisfaction among tho members of [ho Locomotivo Brotherhood rotativo to tho management of tho organization, is becoming general. Tho onginoors and flromon of tho Pennsylvania, Northern Central, and Phila delphia and Erio Railroads favor severing connection with thc brotherhood rather than co-operate in tho intended railroad sttiko Sop :ombor 15. HONESDALE, PA., Soptembor 8.-Farmen ?nd residents of small villages in tho town? diips of this county aro organizing vigilance )ommittccs for protection against raiding >t ri ko rs. ("For tho Kcowco Courier. Tho Baptist Church nt Changa for sonto ?veoks has boon enjoying the refreshings from bo presence of tho Lord. Tho Church has jeon greatly revived and seems to bavo quiok med into a new spiruaal life. About 15 woro tddod to tho Church. Services were con-? iuctod by tho Pastor, Kev. E. L. Sisk. as? listed by Reva. A. W. McGuffin, D. Knox md Rev. C. D. Mann, of tho Methodist Church. Changa has a membership of 150, ind among them some of tho best citizens of jennee, ns regards diameter nnd wealth. Tho Church nt Town ville has also had a icason of rejoicing. Tho Church rccoived ionio 20 by baptism and 0 by lotter and resto ation, and tho catho community enjoyed tho lospoi of Christ os proached by Rev. J. K. ^leadenhall, with groat powor and demon itration of tho spirit. Tho church is located tear tho lino of Anderson and Coonee, on thc Vndorson sido, with n membership of about 515. Sho is n living church; in her lifo ro lccting the living truth of tho living God, and ms for tbrco years enjoyed tho pastoral labors of Rev. E. L. Sisk, during which time ibout 100 havo boon added to tho church. Tho Histor assisted Brother Mendenhall in tho nocting. and baptised tho converts on Friday md left many anxious inquirers at tho morey icat. E. L. S. NEW YORK, Soptembcr 10.-A Columbia Pa., despatch says tho vigilants aro organizing igainst tho tramps, who aro bold, numerous ind troublesome. At Gray hill's Woods, near Lancaster, recently, nearly ono hundred out laws raided a farmer, l?o tried unsuccess fully to drivo them off. Policomen and jitizens from Lancaster wont to his aid, when tho tramps opened firo with pistols. Tho polico charged on them, and thc tramps re-? trcatod, leaving Ovo wounded. Tho farmer, nnutod Powers, was fatally hurt. Farther along tho Pennsylvania Railroad tramps boarded a freight train and threatened to tako possession. Detectives from Colombia hnst ancd to tho sceno and captured tho outlaws, who subsequently broke jail. Milton Gramm, a prominent citizen of Duncannon, was robbed and killed by two tramps ns be loit tho train nt Maryville recently. Tramps wrockod a freight train recontly botweon Mnlvcston and l'Vnziors and attempted to plunder tho oars. During a Ogbt with tho train hands, ono of tho latter, Wm. Conners, was killed, ino authorities at Westchester sent assistance nnd two outlaws woro captured. A detective discovered that notorious city criminals aro traveling disgnisod as tramps. WASHINGTON, September 9.?-Senator Bao yard, of Dolowaro, who ia now at Richmond, Va., is reported in tho papers of that city as saying: 1 thank God for thc policy ot President Hayes. Ho has disposed of tho only obstacle that stood botweon tho suffering South and tho full enjoyment of her constitutional liber ties; bo has not only can ind out the Demo? oratio policy but bo bas carriod thc Ropubli? cans with him. I think bo bas tho cordial support of fully seventy fivo per cont, of bis pnrty. Many who were doubtful nt first now seo that tho limo was rifo for the restoration of every Southern State to eolf govornmont uinler tho Constitution. Tho history of tho States sinco tho troops woro withdrawn is ono of the vory best arguments why Kopublionns and Domoorats should approvo Mr. Hnyot?' policy on tho subject* ANOTHER PREPOSTEROUS IDEA.-Tho absurd propositions indulged by eomo of tho labor agitators and stump orators of tho day, that employees of roilaoads should bo compensated by participation in profits, find answer that cannot bo misunderstood in tho statistics published showing tho bankrupt condition of the leading railroads of tho country, lo tho last number of tho International Revino it is stated that "tho amount of American railway bonds defaulted now oxocod $900.000 000; in many foreclosures bonds exceeding $250,000,000 have boon mado worthless or exchanged for now H took; but roads not yet foreclosed bavo bonds amounting to $042,000 000 now in default.'1 < Another statement made in tho sumo article is that "stock amounting to $1,519,000,000, or moro than two thirds of tho whole, now yields no divi dends." Tho Wostorn roads aro in oven worso condition than thoso of tho Eastern Statos. A largo proportion of thom hnvo defaulted on their interests ns well ne jailed to pay dividends on Stook; BO that thoso who bavo advocated tho payment of laborors, offlcors and othors by {moating profks, will readily soo what a ovoly scheme of roliof thoy proposo for tho systom of compensation that now prevails. Tho activo fighting between tho Turks and Russians oontinuo, apparently in favor of tho lattor. Tho Russians havo boon heavily reinforced! Thoy havo attacked Plovna, and tho Turks havo retired to tho south of tho Balkans. Loss of lifo and suffering of tho Bulgarian population is groat. Both armies uro nearing oaoh other' and a great conflict ippotift imnr.inont. ? tae aaa Fo ni rm di rm, Florida, lins th? yellow fever ami communication bv noa and land has boon very properly prohibited. Tbo papers are discussing tho successor of Brigham Young. Tho New York Sun insists that Becohor is tho man! Tho trustees of tho University of South Ca rolina huvo decided that it shall not bo ro? oponed until Ootobor, 1878, at tho earliest. A Young man 14 years of ago, son of Mr. Isaac Phinnoy, near Clinton, Laurene County, died last Friday morning of hydrophobia, caused by tho bito of a rabid dog sixty days boforo. NEW YOBK, Soptcrobor 10-Tho World publishes u voluminous interview with Ex Troasuror Parker, nf South Carolina, dotailing tho alleged plundering of that Stato by offi cials, giving thc particulars of tho issuance of millions io illegal bonds, bribory of tho Legislature und thc reign of corruption. Tho late Soorotary of State of Louisiana has sued ox Govorunr Kellogg for something ovor $8,000. which tho Seorotary of Stato insists ta duo him from tho Governor for affixing tho Louisiana seal to certain Stato duoumonts. It will surprise any body, to hoar that thoro nro charges of a job in this matter, aud that Keb logg was the jobbor. Tho Cincinnati Enquirer arithmetic man figures Brigbnm Young insolvent. Ho loft eighteen widows and $6,000,000 worth of property, Each widow is entitled to a third of bis estate us dower. Eightoon thirds of six millions would bo thirty six millions. So his estate will only pixy about sixteen per cont, on tho dower. COLOMBIA, September 10.-Raymond Hull, alina Professor Hay ni end, from M on nt Erie, N. C., and his partner, a man from Walton County, Ga., woro arrested horo Saturday, for shoving thc queer. A Inrgo amount of coun terfoil bills wus found in their possession, nnd HU dicion t has been obtained by Capt. Kudd ff', Chief of the police to seem o their conviction. Both are now iu jail. A Utica correspondent's narrating tho pri vate conversations of Conkling with his friends, is captioned by tho New York Sun: "Mr. Conkling on politics-ho beliovos that Tilden was really oleoted, but that Hayes' title is tolerabl j good." Tho lotter concludes: "Mr. Conkling's echoing friends do not hosi? tato to denounce Hayes' policy with unmeas ured severity, nod 1 nm assured that their words rofloct his opinions." FLIGHT OF ANOTHER RADICAL ROGUE.-As wo go to press wo learn that a warrant wns issued on Tuosdny for tho nrrost of J. L. Watson, former Treasurer of York County, l'he Deputy Sheriff arrived ot Rock Hill with ;ho warrant just after tho departure of the train on which Mr. Watson embarked, it is said, for Ohio. Tho preciso nature of tho marge wo aro not prepared to state, but tho supposition is embezzlement. Who next? I ?oc?: Hill, Hampton Herald, September 5. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.-No pooplo in tho world suitor ns much with dyspepsia as Americans. Although yenrs of experienco in medicino lind failed to accomplish a certain ind sure remedy for this disenso und its offects, mell an sour stomach, hoart-djurn, water brush, siok headache, costiveness, palpitation sf tho heart, liver complaint, coming up of tho food, low spirits, general debility, otc, yet sinco the introduction of GREEN'S AUGUST PLOWER WO belivo thoro is no case of dyspep sin that cannot bo immediately relieved. 10,000 dozen sold hist year without ono enso tif fniluro reported. Go to your druggirt, Dr. R. E. Norman, and get a sample bottle for 10 cents and try it. Two doses will rcliove you. Rogulnr sizo 75 cents. Comm oroial. NEW YORK, September 10 ~Cotton firm uplands ll 3-10; Orleans ll 5-16; salos 420. CHARLESTON, Septombor 10.-Cotton firm nnd in fair demand-middling 10|; net re ceipts 257; salos 300; exports coastwiso 325. LivEni')oi" September 10-Cotton notivc and firmer-middling uplands O; middling Orloans G 3*16; ealos 12,000. New* Advertisements. Oa,nd.icLa/tes. For Sheriff, Tho friends of W. M. WOGDIN respect fully announce him as a candidate for Sheriff of Uoonco Comity at tho election ordered to br hold by Governor Hampton to fill tho vacancy occasioned by tho death of W. N. Craig. * For Sheriff. fi?- The many frionds of Capt. JAMES T. REID respectfully announce him as a candidate for Sheriff of Oconce County at the election now ordered to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of W. N. Craig. * For Sheriff. fl?y Tho many friends of G. KEELS MAX WELL announce him aa a candidato for Sheriff of Oconco County at thc election now ordered to fill tho vacancy occasioned by tho death of W. N. Craig. * For Sheriff. ?6y* Tho frionds of JAMES II. ROBINS respectfully announce him n candidato for Sheriff of Oconco County at tho special cleo tion ordered by Guv. Hampton to fill the vnennoy occasioned by tho donth of W. N. Craig. FOR SHERIFF, RICHARD Vu NORMAN. NOTICE. THE Tax Books for thc collection of Town Taxes will bo opened at C. L. Reid ii Go.'s store until tho first day of OCTOBER NEXT. After (lint dato a penalty of twenty pc? cont, will bo added nnd executions issued. A. BltENNECKE, Treasurer. Sept 13,1877 43 8 FOR SALE, ASMALL FARM, In honring of the-Collogo and different ohuroh bells of Walhalla. In - quiro at this ellice Sept 13, 1877 48-8?. N?TIGE IS horeby given that I have no AGENT, nnd I will not pay any debts except thoso contracted by myself. EUCIUNM ADAMS. Sept 13, 1877 ?SI 2t STATE OE SOOTH CAROLINA, EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, COLUMBIA, S. C., Soptomber 0, 1877. To the Commissioners and Managers ol* Election of Ocoiiee Cornily. WHEREAS, h vaoanoy exists it? ofuoo of Sheriff of the County of Ooonco by reason of tho (loath of W. N. Craig Now, theroforo, you anti oaoh of you aro hereby required, willi strict regard to the pro visions of Ibo oonstltution and laws of tho Hiato louohlng your duty in such caso, to causo an* election to bo held in the said County on' THURSDAY, Hopiemher 20th, to fill said va oanoy. All bar-rooms and drinking saloons shall be closed on tho said day of election, and any per son who shall soil any intoxicating drinks od said day of election shall bo deemed guilty of a, misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shnlf bo fined in a sum of not .leds than, ono I mn il red dollars, or bo imprisoned fora pori'od of nptlcss than one month nor moro than six months. In testimony whereof I have horouulo sot myf haul and caused the Great Seal of tho Stato to bo affixed at Columbia, thia* (Uh [L. S.] day of Sopfcmbor, A. D. 187?, and in' the one hundred and second year of tho American Independence. BY THK GoVKaxon: WADE HAMPTON. R. M. SIMS, Scorolary of State. Sept 18, 1877 43-2t ?868\ 1877. Fourni 2,000 LBS. OF BACON SUGAR, CojgTee, FLOUR, &C. VEE Y LOW JPor Cash, AT J. E HENDRIX'S. Sept 18, 1877_7-1 y ESTABLISHED IN 1850. O RM A O??IY OLDEST DBM STORE In' tho County. MAIN STREET, WMMhkL fo, S- <0" Sept 13, 1877 43 ly FINE COLTS. ALL persons desiring lo raleo fine COLTS will find a fine Looksley Horse, known as tho MAXWELL ' STALLION, at Biomann's Stables. The Bame will stand at abovo named place thia season, beginning September 10th, 1877. Also oilier stands will be made up in tho County. For terms; Sta., apply at RIEMANN'S STABLES, Walhalla, S. C. Soptl8,187Y 48-lm FRESH BEEF THE best MOUNTAIN BEKF oan be had at all? 1 hours, on ovory doy of tho week, at my market houso, on Main street, bolow Wateon'e* old stand. I kill rogularly Mondays', Wednes days and Fridays, and oftener if necessary, and* having a good oool cellar I conkoep it fresh and' sound, and oan Bupply persons in tho town and country at all times. Pi ioes vary from two to' seven coats per pound, and persons paying cash* on dolivcry of beef oan obtain it at a discount of ono cent on (ho pound. Persons who buy for' cristi abovo ono dollar's worth oan get an addi tional discount of tivo per cont. I occasionally have Pork and Mutton for salo, and will, in ey short timo, keep it regularly. Respectfully, M. II. BRYCE) Aug 9, 1877 88-2m FOR "SALE; ONE TWO HOUSE WAGON witli not of DOUBLE HARNESS. Apply nt this offico. i, August 30, WT?-, u . . 4t