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.>: BY KBITH78M?TH & CQ WALHALLA, S. C.: TIR?RSDAY, MAY 0, 1878. (?p For subscription, $1.60 i por annum, strictly in advance} for six months, 75 couts. {?J? Advertisements insortod at ono dollar por squaro of ono inch or loss for tho first insortion, and iifty couts for ouch subsequent in sertion, ?33* Obituary Notices exceed ing five lines, Tributes of Rospoct, Communications of a porsonal charactor, when admissablo, and announcements of Candidates will bo charged for as advertise ments. 03d Job Printing neatly and Cheaply executed. 03" 'Necessity compols us to adhoro strictly to 'tho require ments of casli payments. Primary JUIticlIouti. At thc request of a subscriber from Grocu vlllo wo ropuollBh tho pion for conducting pri mary elections, adopted by tho pcoplo of Ooonoo County in 1876. Wo do this tho moro readily becauso it involves a muller of common interest ' ot this (imo to tho pooplo of our County and of tho wholo Stato in tho now approaching fall elections. The Stato Democratic Executive Committoo havo recommended tho plan of primary cleo ( i ons for making nominations this fall as tho least objectionable and as truly democratic and havo submitted a plan for genera) adoption. In this 'I tho committoo merely recommends both as to tho principle and plan of thus making nomina tions, loaviog to the clubs ?ir pooplo of oaoh - county,' who aro. supremo, lo adopt that or any othor plan. No rcadtog man in South Carolina oan deny but tho first suggestion of thus nominating can didates in this Slate originated with HIOKKOWEK CouRisn, and this journal first discussed it as a remedy for the general and woll founded objections to ring or dblegnto nominations. 'Jho County of Andorson held tho first primary ??lection in point of Hmo, but tho syslom had teen discussed aud lost in this county two years | previous, tho people not fully understanding it. ?1 In tho next campaign our pooplo adopted lt, 1 though eur election was on a later day than in Anderson. ' Tho subject is now being discussed all over tho Stnto and will doubtless prevail generally, * if not universally. With us primary elections t havo worked admirably and havo cured tho i evils complained of under tho dclcgato system < of making nominations. Tho plan by delegates i is objcotionablo. It is not demooratio. Tho \ saoii: iices aro almost always tho choice of S few leading minds, or of a oombiuation formed by < the friends of two or thrco candidates, who , manipulate tho local clubs and secure delegates ? favorablo to them, lt became odious to our poo- , plo and to bo nominatod would havo boen to bo , defeated. It had about como to this pass, and ? WO cannot say without reason. In the then and . in tho now oxisting stato of things nominations. ' wero essential to tho highest interests of tho peoplo, and hence tho primary plan WAS sug - gested and finally adopted. Tho plan is simple and fair to all. It meets fully tho idea of a 1 sorub raoo without danger lo success, and then of a nomination of a Democrat with success. The eleotion under our regulations must alford -as fair' an expression of tho choice of tho Democracy as could bo had at tho regular elec tion conduoted by law, and without danger to tho good of tho country. Wo encourage the formation of as many clubs as possible, thus putting a voling proolnot within easy reach of ovory oilizen and securing the fulloBl expression of opinion. This wo regard important. A ' 'voling preoinot in .each .township will not jr' 'answor, os it is often too remeto for many voters, who. havo to walk, to attend. In tho eight townships of this county wo now havo twonly ? tight clubs, and at our last primary nearly two . . thousand votes /were cast, our full Demooratio .strength. ' Who can object to this plan? It is merely a tidal of tho strength of thc candidates in thc Democratic party. All this porty arc permitted . ?to volo. Mono but Radicals aro excluded from ' - thc polls, for all Democrats oan join tho clubs and ?volo. Tho result among tho Demooratio candidates is wh-t it would havo been at the general eleotion. They stand rotatively as they ? wo?ld havo then stood, for tho primary is held only *a short timo beforo tho regular election, that thc canvass may bo thorough and tho voto bo regarded as fixed. Tho boncfit is this, that without tho primary all tho Dcmoorats at thc rogulor election might havo beon defoated, while tho primary pits tho strongest against Ibo Jt ad ic ul cami ida lc and prevents a division of tho Democratic vote. Jlavo tho candidates dofoatcd nttliQ primary causo to complain? They ought rather to rejoice, for tho result shows tuojr would b^ovo been defoated any way, and perhaps nlso worked tho dofoatof other good Domoorats. Tho plan is a good ono and should bo generally adopted. It is as follows: Whereas, a large majority of thc Demooratio Clubs of Ooonoo County hove dcoidod in favor of- primary election as tho propor plath for nominating candidates for tho various offices to be fillod by o'.eclion in November next; and whereas, a largo majority of thc dologates to tho County Oonvontion, held on tho fourth Saturday iii July hist, under Instructions from tho local tmiba, ratified tholr aolion, and tho voioo of tho couuty convention was inado unanimous; there fore, bo ft ' ' Resolved Itt. That an election bo hold at the places hereinafter designated, on Thursday, tho . fifth day of Ootober, 1870, for the purpose of nominating candidates for tho following oifiocs, to wit: Senator, two inombers of tho House of Representatives, Clerk of the Court, Shoriff, Probate Judge, Sohoal Commissioner, Coronor, and three County Commissioners. Resolved 2d, That no candidate shall be voted for ia said eleotion, and, if votod for, such 'votes shall not be oountcd, unloss suoh candidate ?hall, at the limo of the eleotion, be a member of somo club in the county and plodgo himself td support the nominees. Resolved 3d. That the candidato or candidates, to tho, number eligible to any of said offices, re solving tho highest number of votes for such office, shall be doomed oed declared tho Demo cratic neblineo or nominees, as the cuso may be, for such office.' Resolved 4th. For the purposo of holding ouoh eleotion thc various'clubs shall meet at or near their regular placo of meeting aud proceed (oTetielvo votes ' for candidatos ian proposed for tho various offices designated, tho club having ' previously elected three members who shall not M.il!iL1?.'VI'?!' JJ . aamanitgors of tho election, and who shaU koop t a poll list of bil persons Toting. ? Resolved 6th. That.votos shall bo rooolvod from 8 o'olook -A. M., until 4. o'olook P.. M., whoa tho. managers'shall prooeod to oouut the votes and mako a corlifloato of the result} ) Resolved G th. That ono of- tho managors of| the election at each club or polling plaoe, oboson by tho other managers'forUhat purpose, shall constitute the county board of managors, ' and they shall inoet on Friday, tho 6th day of October, lu the Court House at Walhalla, at 12 o'olook M., and proceed to aggregato tbe votes obst for tho various candidates at all tho polling places In tho oounly and o crt ?fy and .publish the result in tho oounly papor, and shall prooocd to declare the candidato or candidatos, as tho oaso may bc, receiving tho highest nulabor of votes tho Democrat io nomtnoo for such oflioo. Resolucd 7th; That tho managers appointed lo oou8titUto tho county board of managors at Walhalla shall bring with thom thc poll lists of tko votes oast at their polling places rospoot ively and deposit them with the President of tho county convention, te bo by him filod with tho Socrotavy. Resolved 8th. That all members, of the various clubs iu tho county shall vote at tho primary election; and tho seorctary of oaoh olub shall havo tho roll of his olub at tho placo of holding (he election, and all persons, not olub members, upon joining tito clubs on tho day of election, shall bo allowed to veto. Resolved OtU. That in oaso any olub bo boro- j after organized in this county, and Bhall adopt tho comtitution proscribed by Ibo Stato Kxcou- I live Committee, such olub shall bo permitted lo appoint managors and hold an ?lection under J tho foregoing resolutions, scuding up the result | ns heroin prescribed. Resolved 10th., That In enso any two candi dates for tho samo oflioc shall receive the samo and highest number of votes nt tho primary election for any office, then another election shall bo held on tho Thursday following ibo election herein ordered to dutormino which of tho two skull receive tho nomination for such o?ioo, under tho same provisions ns horoinboforo pi-escribed; Provided, That it' either of the candidates 80 receiving tho samo and tho highest number of votes shall withdraw in favor of his opponont, then no second election Bhall bo held. Sunday School Jubilee. Thc mooting of tho four Sunday Sohools of | Walhalla, to wit; Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist and Lutheran and tho Union Sun day Sohool of Wost Union was hold in tho Baptist Church last Sunday at 3.30 o'clock P. 'M., according to previous notice. Tho Church was crowded ot an oarly hour,, with youth and childhood, manhood and old ugo, and still they carno until tho aisles and doors were filled with spectators. At tho hour J. U. W. Johnston oponod tho exercises by reading tho 8th Chapter of Noh?tniahr when a fooling prayer was offorod by Bev. Dr. Smoltuor. After sloging, Mr. Johnston, who timed tho spoakers, introduced Bov. 3; lt. Morris, who in n spocoh of seven minutes gave au account of tho origin of tho Sunday Sohool as springing from a Sunday day Sohool established by Robert Koikes, of England'. Then followed tho other speakers, to wit: John D, Cappolmann, Bov. J. J. Novillo, Prof. CW. Mooro, Wm. G. Novillo, II. A. H. GUbson, Bov. Br. Smoltzor, J. Wnltor Daniel, | 1 tnd W. J. Board. Tho closing address woo assigned to Bev." I. W. Wingo, of tho Baptist Church. All tho addresses woro limited- to levon minutes, and woro remarkablo for 11 r arie ty and interest, as attested, by tho pa-< tiopco and attention of tho qudionce. Wo' cannot givo tho subjects of tho speakers,- nor will wo attempt to report what thoy said, but tho oxoroisos generally woro adapted to children, and wero interspersed with moral anecdotes and stories. Tho prose was quoted from by almost every spcakor, for it is tho great religious ns well os political instructor sf tho ago. Tho addross of Mr. Mooro waa iircotod to thc oidor hoads and waa repleto with humor, interspersed with sound sonse. Ho was rapped downr whon Wo thought his timo should havo boon extended. Mr. Gibson also spoko to tho grown people'. Tho whole thing was a success, though wo think ono half tho speakers with moco timo would havo boon bolter. Tho children wcro attentive to nil and woll pleased, and such gatherings aro likely to subserve good purposes both in instruction nnd emulation in good works. At tho closo of tho speaking, Mr. Johnston thanked tho audience in behalf of thc speakers for their good silorjco and close attention, and repeated tho Chinoso poem of I 124 verses, to wit: "Go on, go on, go on," &o.< f all tho verses hoing composed of these expressive words, so npplicnblo to tho Sunday Sohool work. Tho object, wo understand, ia to establish a County Sunday Sohool Union, then a Stato Sunday School Union, all looking to a World Sunday Sohool Union. It is a grand idea, and will bo tho common plano, on which all denominations can moot and work and counsel together in tho causo ol' Christianity. Tho proceedings throughout wcro interspersed? with singing by a choir of singers solectcd from tho choirs of tho four denominations who had boen practicing together for tho occasion. Tho singing was well executed and was what ! is rcgardod as adaptod to children and Sunday Schools. At ono timo, however, it arose to tho grandeur of ^ruo soul worship, whon tho air and words of that, expressive old hymn, "Josus lovor of my BOUI," roso from a hun dred throats, swelling and falling through tho church, waking aud vibrating tho chords I of tho soul. Who over heard this graud j o\d hymn unmoved to devotion? It is to bo hoped tho proceedings of last Sunday will havo a good offoct in giving now lifo to our Sunday Schools. Thoro is causo of greotor importance to morality ant religion. Tho Sunday (School is tho nursory of tho church, and moro than this, it serves to instil into tho youthful mind tho groat truths of tho Gospol, whon tho mind is most suscepti ble and tho memory most retentive. 'JL'hcso institutions aro moro important now than ovor, both bcoauso tho temptations to which tho young oro subjected aro "moro widely diffused, and because tho Biblo is no longer road, e voly so, in our every day schools. As tho iniollootuol faonlt.es aro developed io our schools and oollogos, tho moral powers should be kopt -woll fod and strengthened. Tho education of tho reasoning po woro to tho negloot of tho moral naturo is dangorous.- lb givos mon powor without a propor balance whoo), and when thoy go out in tho world they are liable to convert their powors to improper usos. With woll regulated .Sunday (Schools tho needed moral food is occured to givo them a propor course -? ? . The Charleston papers bring us tho intelli gence of tho death of Hon. Thomas Y. .Minions. Mr. Simons was a prominent lawyer, and has Ailed various offices of honor and trust in tho State " Hope-a sentiment In the wag of a dog's tall when walting,for a bon?. ??"?. ? '"" ? "." . I lill. <ilil.il mu I ni li I ,111. ? County Auditor'* Settlement With homily Treasurer, lit Ocouee County, on Account o? stnto und County Taxe?, A. X>. J67?. ' DR. To amount obargod against County Troasu ror, ns por Tax Dupl?calo for 1870, vis.: Original asbossmont for Stato .taxes (valuation $1,871460), $13,100.22,0 Additional assossmoot for State taxes (valuation $4.313), 30.19,1 1$ por cent, penalty (Delinquent List) on $1,673080, 235.90,2 Datorest on flrstlostollmontTaxos, 111.75,6 Forfeited lands rocelvod from Ex Treasurer Holloman, 18.50,0 Total for Stato, $I1M90.Q6\9 Original assossmoot for County Tuxes (valuation $1,871400), $5,014.38,0 Additional assessment for County taxos (valuation $1,312), 12.93,9 16 por cont, ponalty (Doltoquont List) on $074.17,0, 101.12,0 Intorcst on first installment taxes, 47.89,0 Total for County, $5,770.33,5 Origino! assessment for Poll Tax, $1,419.00,0 Additional assossmoot for Poll fax, 76.00,0 lutoroat on first installment taxos, 18.23,5 16 por cout. ponalty (Delinquent List) on $280.83,0, 42.12,4 rotal Poll Tax, $1,554.35,9 Amount of School Funds, os ap portioned by Stato Suporiutou dont of Education, $2,231.20,0 Cl rand, total, $23^)5^.58^3 CR. By credits on account of taxos, as per vouchers prosontod, viz.: Paid Stato Troasu ror on account of collections for Stato, $11,3*8.91,0 Cash on hand for Stato taxes, 430.11,0 Treasurer'!) commissions, 307,13,0 Doduotious and abatements by Comptroller Goncral for erro neous assessments for State, por Abstraot, 18.04,4 Stato tax on nulla bona ex?cu tions, . 113.77,5 State tax on lands for foiled to tho Stato, 108.43,9 Frcasuror's costs on lands for foited to tho Stato, os por ''For- >' feitod List," 72.54,3 State tax on Blue Ridge Kui bond and carriod to Duplicate for 1877,; 1,067.72,9 Potal for State1, $13,496.68,9 Paid County Commissioners' or ders, 4,908 69,0 Cinsh on hand for County purposes, 150.63,1 Treasurer's oom missions eu $5, 216.79,1 for County, 156.47.0 Doduotious and abatements by Comptroller Qonornl fur erro neous assessments for County, por Abstraot, 7-73,1 bounty tax-on- nulla bona execu tions, 48.75.R bounty tax on lands forfeitod to tho Stuto, 40.45,8 Jaunty tax on Bluo Ridgo Rail road and carriod to Duplicate for 1877, 457.59,7 rotal for County, $5,776.33,5 Paid School dm missioner's or ders from collections of Poll tax, 7.73.13,0 dash on hand from collections of Poll' tax", 490.92,0 Froasuror's commissions on $1,*? 303.14,4 for collections Poll tax, 39.09,4 Poll tax abated by County Audi? tor, fcOO.O Poll tax nulla bona, 84 24,9 Poll tax Unpaid and reported to County Commissioners, as por thoir receipt, 157.90,0 F?tal for Poll tax, $1,554,35,9 Amount Stato apportionment school funds, disbursed as per orders County School Cominis-. stoner, , 2,210.40,0 Amount Stato apportion nient achoo! fund's on hand', 14.80,0 Total State apportionment school fonds, $2,231.20,0 Grand total, . $23,058.58^3 I do hereby oortify, that I havo carefully examined tho nbovo account, and havo com pared it with tho books iu my office and find it to bo a correct statement of ol) chargos against Richard S. Porohor, County Treasurer, as per Abstracts furnished to Comptroller General for nod on account of Stato and County taxos for A. D. 1870. And I furthor certify, that tho credits allowed abovo aro based upon vouchers for monoys paid both on acoount of State and County, this day shown mo by tho said Trcasuror of Ooonco County. Sworn to and Bubscribod boforo mo, this 10th day of April, A. D. 1878. C. E. WATSON, County Auditor. J. W, STRIDMNQ. O- 0, P, Act of fbo Legislature, An Act for tho prosorvation of cortain insectivorous nod other birds therein named. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by tho Sonnto and Honan of Representatives of tho Stato of South Carolina, now mot and sitting in Geno ral Assembly, and by tho authority of tho sumo, That no person or persons shall nt any time or placo within this Stato toko, kill, sell or expuse for sale, oxport boyond tho limits of tho State, or causo to bo taken, killed, sold, exposed for salo or exported boyond thc limits of tho Stato, any mocking bird, non? pareil, swallow, boo-bird, red bird, wood pecker, thrush or wron under a ponalty of live dollars for ouch bird so taken, killed, sold, oxposod for salo or oxnortod beyond tho limits of tho Slate; and it shall bo lawful for any porson to take or destroy any net, traps; or snares used for taking such birds whoroaovor found sot for such purpose Sec. 2. No person or persons shall dostroy or rob tho nosts of any of tho said birds undor a ponalty of ton dollars for each of fense SEC; 3. Tho penalties incurred for violation of any of the provisions of thia aot shall bo reoovored beforo any Trial Justice in tho County whoro'suoh offenso shall bo commit? tod, and shall bo paid one-half to tho informor and tho other half to tho County Comieeionors to and for the use of the poor of tho oounty. SEO. 4. In onso of tho iailuro by any porson or porsons to pay any sum reoovored under tho provisions of this Aot, the said porson or Eorsons shall bo committed to the jail of the minty for a period not less than flvo days, and at tho rato of ono day for .ovory dollar of tho sam so reoovorod and not paid whon tho .amount recovered oxoeods five dollars. . S t?o. 5. Nothing in this act shall apply to any porson who shall kill or toko any of tho said bin's for the purpose of -studying its habits or history or having tho same s tn fled and set up as a specimen, or to any person who shall kill on his premisos any of tho said birds in the act ot destroying fruit or grain crops. Approvod March 22,1878. . ? ... ??? * . tm Every County Treasurer in tho tftato has settled up, and thoir settlement has been ap? provod/by tbe Comptroller General. . '?r.C' < .. i.V.? : \ ClrctituHtuutynl ^vldonco, Io tho trial of tho Franklin murderers nt AbboviUo Inst w?ok, thoro was an extraor?. diuary oase pf oonviotlori Upon oircumsantial evidonoo? Tho ol)argo of Judgo Mookoy to tho jury gives euch a olear nummary of tho law and tho ovidoooe that wo are oonvinood lt will be read with interest by our reader?* Tho report is oopiod from tho Abbovillo Press and Jianncr: Mr. Foremanand Gentlemen of thc Jury: .: Tho prisuoorsat tho bar, Jeff David, Mary David, John David and Wm. Butlor, stand oharged with murder. In this, that on 20th day of Dooember, 1877, in tho County ot Abbovillo, tboy did feloniously kill and mordor Goorgo. Franklin and Drusilla Frank? lin, thon nud thoro being iu tho porteo of tho Stoto. Murder is tho feloniously killing of a human being with malioo aforethought. Malieo ia tho wicked intent, and malice afore thought ?a tho doliberato and formed design. Malioo is either exprossod or implied, lt is Oxprossod where tho aot is ono which in its nature must havo boon doliborntoly porformod, fiuoh ns killing hy waylaying or hy poison. Tho argument of tho learned counsel, Messrs. W. C. Honet and S. C. Casu?, who roproscnt tho prisoners, und of tho loamed Solicitor on bohalf of tho State, J. S. Co thia n, Esq., was worthy of tho causo, and tho causo ts not unworthy of tho argument, fur more than ono human life is poised upon'tho balance Tho ovidonco is circumstantial or prosump* live. It differs from positivo OT direct ovi donco in this-that tho latter consists of proof furnished by tho oye witnessos of tho deed, while tho former consists of tlioso proved facts and circumstances which, hoing aggregated and judged by those rules and motives that usually influence human conduct, point to tho guilty party whore positive proof cannot bo furnished. There may bo circum stances provod by tho testimony of crcdiblo witnesses which reflect the form and fuco of tho guilty as tu a mirror, and which enable the judgment to repose in tho firm convie-' tion that tho true criminal has boen revealed. In tho commission of se'erot crimea tho criminal often imagines that ho has moved to his bloody work und passed uway. from tho soonoof his guilty action liko an arrow shot from tho bow into tho air, leaving no path behind. Yet it has often happened that along his trail tho discerning oyo has seen cvidonces that point u'norringly tu his guilt. Circumstantial evidonoo furnishes a safe and suro foundation upon which a vordict moy reposo only, bowovor, whoo it omi stand .ho judicial tost. In tho history of oolobrated trials, embracing many thousand oases, but sixteen aro recorded in which innocent per.? sons'havo been convicted' upon Circumstantial ovidonco, and in evory ono of thoso oases tho vordict of tho jury^was intlooneed hy tho opinion of tho court expressed upon tho facts, and in not ono of thom would tho evidonco havo Stood tho test now required by enlight ened judges. Tho chain of circumstantial ovidonco must bc tested ?is you would tost a chain of iron-by tho strength of the weakest link. Tho proven facts and circumstances munt onvOlopo tho accused with an unbroken circle of guilty incidents, so nS to cxoludo ovory reasonable'hypothesis of hid innocence. They must attach'to tho accused suco badges of guilt as in tho very nature of things could not attach themselves to an innocent man. The judging of the circumstances us proved, tho constant inquiry of tho jury must bo not, is tho acousod guilty, but may bo not bo innocent? if'this last question, after a toll roview of .all tho evidonco, is answered in thc offiruiativo, thoro must bo a verdict of not guilty. Yuu constitute a tribunal of twolvo judges who oro alono empoworcd to judgo of tho facts. Tho court declares tho law, but cannot cntor upon tho domain of fact which the Constitution of tho Stato declares shall bo tho sole province of tho fury. MT. Foreman and gentleman' of tho jury, you' aro' not to bo Soverned by your sympathies or yonr proju ico iu forming your judgment in this case. We havo heard from oarly morning until now, in the still watches of tho night, all tho ghastly details of this most foul and unnatural murdor. lloro beforo you is tho olub with which tho deed of blood was done. The stains of blood aro yet upon it, and tho white hairs of its victims aro still clinging to its rough har'k. An aged mari, with' his sister, living in a solitary farm house, far distant from their nearest noighboirj wore slain at nightfall, wh?l?'sifting at their evening meal, ho falling near tiro tobie whero ho oat, abd' sho in' tho adjacent room, to which sbe had dod, a?or slio had received a blow which had sprinkle! . with her blood tho tablecloth opposite her sent. They woro brother and" sister, apparently possessed with an ampio fortune, consisting chiefly of monoy, which they kept upon the premises." In thc order of nature they would soon havo passed away from earth, for the blossoms of tho gravo htfn'g white upon their aged temples. Hbo was apparently tho last victim, for, followed swift in her flight by tho murderer in ho'r unavailing effort to osoapo, sho loft tho prints pf her bands, whioh w'cro covered with lier own blood, up'on tho whito curtain, which, with woman's deconfc taSto, sho had hung to koop tho sunlight from her chamber. They appoarcd to have trusted greatly in tho laws of thoir country, for thoro was neither bolt nor bar upon thoir doors to koop tho red-handed murdoror from ontoring, and their treasures wero kept bonoath their own roof. Woro wo guidod by sympathy, you, gent?o mon of tho jury, and tho loomed counselors who attend tho court, would not bo boro as sembled at this hour, which nature dedicates to needed roposo, engaged in patiently listen ing to tho testimony and carefully considering tho facts in evidenco, but wo, should bo afield upon tho highways and in tho forests, search ing out tho doers of this bloody deed, that swift vongeanco might bo inflicted opon thom. Dut this is a court of law, and you aro sworn that yon will a truo vordict givo according to tho evidonoo. You must judgo thc ovidonco in tho light of tho law. Tho prisonors nro entitled to tho benofit of ovory reasonable doubt. When tho m ind-is still inquiring and tho balancoof tho judgment wavors and is not settled in a fixod conviction, thoro isa reasonable doubt, and in Stioll ease the presumption of innocence must turn tho seato in favor of the prisonor. Tho learned ?Solicitor admits thrrt as to Mary David and John David thoro is a reason able doubt of guilt, and you should rondcr a v'ordiot of not guilty as to thom. Tho form of your verdict will bo aa follows: Should you find tho prisoners at tho bar, Joff David and William Butlor, guilty, as ohargod, tho'foro man will writo tho word guilty on tho back of tho indictment, and hence.th that word ho will writo his name, adding - hereto tho word foreman. /Should you And only ono of tho prisoners guilty, you will say as to tho prison or "guilty, and as to tho other you will say "not guilty," ?Should you find both prisoners not guilty, the foreman will writo tho words "not guilty" on the baok of tho indictment, and subscribe the finding in thu form stated. GaowTn or "Tne AMBRIOAW COMMON?." Within tho pnstwook agents representing tho oxeoutive oommittoo of tho "Amorioab Com-? mu?o" havo boen in Richmond, Virginia, sooking to effect an- organization. From the printed oiroulara, it scorns that tho organisa tion has its control placo in New' York, and is a powerful, well organized association, having in view tho millennial idea of ponce on earth and a gon?inl good time. Tho state ment orin tod ls that tho organization has in Now lingi an dam! tho Nor tho rn, Middle and Western States' 280,000 mon, organized into regiments, brigade? and*divisions, and that they intend to revolutionize our wholo system ,of political economy, hy forco if nooowary. . f . ...'.' '"?..'''-/ ; '. ; Hi .. IN Til oro tt Time to Daucct Tho decision of tho Atlanta Presbytery, whiob latoly mot in Lawroncovillo, Goorgia, advorso to the appeal of Mr. Block, has put tho seal of condemnation, so far as wio au thority ofthat ecclesiastical forum goos, upon danoing, in its most innocent form and undor all circumstances. That body has decided that thero is no "timo to danoo." Tho onso oroso in this way: ?Soruo months ago, Mr. Frank E. Blook, a deacon in tho Central Presbyterian Churoh. of Allan tu, gavo a party to his friends in honor of his mothor and sistor, who wore visiting his family at tho timo, and who woro ou tho point of loaving for thoir homo in tho Wost. Tuero woro inyitod in all about thirty-five f;uosts, consisting of sovorul elderly pooplo fiends and noigbbors of tho family-and tho rost voung pooplo, who bad oallod on Miss Blocs duriug Injr visit to Atlanta. Tho ovoniog was spout, as is tho custom with tho gontry class, in social enjoyment, tho priuoipal foaturo of which was "danoiug. tho round dances woro not generally daucod, only two oouplos participating in thom.? Io duo courso of timo Blook was cited to appear boforo tho sosaion of tho Contrai Pros? bytcrian Church to onswor tho ohorgo of violating tho laws of the church, in roforonco to worldly amuoomonts. A trial boforo. tho church session was tho rosnlt of this ohargo. Tho . result of tho trial was tho sus pension of tho doaoon from tho foliowslrip, etc, of tho church till ho should ropont, by a voto of four toi threo. From tho decision, 8ontcnco and suspension, Ulook uppcnls to tho Atlanta Prosbytory of which said church Sossion was a portion. Tho nppoul was do oidod against Mr, Ulook, by a voto of 18 to 8. Mr. Block will appeal to tho Synod, which meets in Atlanta next November, wbcro ho expects a moro fayorablo dcoision. This caso is oxoitiog groat ioterost in our sister /State. Disastrous Conflagration, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA", May 2_Mid night-Tho flouring mills which wcro in volved in tho disaster hero to-night form n group which comprises tho heaviest concerns \u tho Stnto. Chief among thom were tho two Washburn mills, tho property of ox>Gov ornor C. 0. Washburn, of Wisconsin, in ono of which tho explosion occurred? It was tho largest flouring mill iu this coun try, nnd tho largest but ono in tho world. It was built in 1870", and, included forty-one run of Btono, and was Worth $2<J0,000. It is now rt smoking moss of ruins, with its com panion on tho "platform." Tho destruction is complete, so far as tho limits above named and serious within much wider bounds* Tho flames aro still raging in the ruins, but are undor control, and no further extension is feared. At this writing it is hopod tho dead will bo confined to tho fourteen in tho Wash burn mill. . ST. PAUL, MINN., May 3.-Tho shook of thc explosion at Washburn Mill, in Minno apoliB, was plainly felt hore, and the fiamos woro 6?on, creating, intense excitement throughout tho city. Pieoos of charred roof, papor, small timbers, and cinders woro pickod up, having boon hurled in tho nir by tho explosion and wafted boro, niuo miles distant, by tho wind. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., May 3.-It waa thought to bo an earthquake, but proved to bo tho explosion of ono of tho great flour mills. Seventeen wore killed. Loss of property, $1,500,000. Caneo, gas generated by tho manufacturo of patent flour, which may account for a somewhat gouoral belly ache. WAsniNOTON, May 3.-At tho Cub!not council tb day there was serious attention given to tba recoht reports relating to tho agitations on tho Mexican border. . Thero is abundant eividenco of tho foot that a strong movement has boon inaugurated by tho friends of Lerdo on tho American side of the Kio Orando to cross over for tho purpose of creating trouble for Diaz. Reports to this effect havo boon received by our government. Tho Secretary of War after tho Oabinot ad journed issued an order to Gen.'Ord enjoining it upon that officer to bo particularly vigilant in tho endeavor to prcvont any invasion of Mexican territory With hostile intent from thiF ido of tho Rio (Iran.ie. T'i opinion in Administration circles hero is that there will be serious trouble iu Mexico and particularly along' tho border. Tho fol lowers of Lordo are without doubt instigating Indian raids into American territory for tho purpose of having United Slates troops pursue them across tho riyCr, and thus pro ducc additional complications with tho Mexi can government. This fact ,wns mentioned at tho Cabinet mooting. Escobodo is in Texas, and tho opinion that ho should bc arrested for violating tho neutrality laws was oxprcssod.by somo of tho members of tho Cab! not. The fovgoing information has been received by our government through a number of oflK csal channols, including not only the military authorities, but the civil officials subordin?lo to the Stat? department and tho department of justice'. Directions Will' be immediately issued from each of these departments for tho provontion of violations of tho neutrality laws. A formal lotter from Minister Foster to, tho Secretary of Stnto, enclosing copios of tho correspondence between himself and tho Lia?, govornmont on tho occasion of his resumption of his duties ns Amoricon minister to Mexico, was road at tho Cabinot mooting. THE ANTECEDENTS OF DISEASE.-Among tho nnlccodonts of discaso arc lnortncss in tho circulation of tho blood, au unnaturally attenuated condition of tho physiquo, indicating that tho life current is deficient in nutritivo properties, a wan, haggard look, inability to digest tho food, loss of appetite, sloop and strength, and a sensation of unnatural langour. All these may bo regarded as among tho indicia of approaching disoasc, which will ovontually attack the system and overwhelm lt, if ?it is not built np And fortifiod Itt advance Invigorate, then, without loss of limo, making choice of the greatest vitalizing agent extant, Hostolter's Stomach Dit tors, an elixir which lias given . health and vigor to myriads of tho sick and debilitated, which ia avouched by physicians and analysis to bo puro as well as offeotivo, which is immensely popular in this oountry, and ex tensively used abroad, and which has boon for years past ono of the leading medicinal staples of America. This prornisos lo bo tho greatest orop year our farmors havo ovor known. Tho Now York Times publishes despatches from twenty-nine States and ono Territory, covering many points in oaoli 8tn^>, nil of its correspondents sending good nows. "Tho first wook in May," it says, "has not for years' soon tho general crops of the oountry in- so advanced a condition and making such gratifying promises of abundant yield. 'An exceptionally open winter, followed by an 'early spiring, has set forward planting and sowing by from threo to five weeks; kindly rains have bo?ti sont, and destructive storms withhold In most sections, and tho young blades and buds aro now ohieify past the danger of lalo frosts; of insbot pests, whoso ravages have boon so fatal t? the farmer's proaporlty ia years past, fow are reported lo bo aotivo this season. Al no sood-timo for twonty yoars have tho farmors foll so hopeful of groat harvests." t A Baltimore firm has written to tho Com? missioner of Agrioulturo, stating that thoy aro in recoipt of 1,002 ounces ot grcon toa loaves raiaod by Dr. A. M. Forstor, of Ooorgo.' town, S. C. Tho flavor is botwoeri a Japan tea and a Moy uno China groen toa. Tho reason for shipping tho leaves to this firm is to have-thom oared in tho nropor way, eo as to ooouro a fair spooimcii ot nativo toa. Apropos of tho rooont murder of Lord v' Leitrim io Ireland, Colonel Forney gonds from London so interesting bogot of figures! showing how tho soil of Groat Britain id * parcelled out to tho fow. Lord Loi tri ni owned 95,000 aeres, and got from thom ti routai ol over S100,000 a year,'by tho hard treatment of his unfortuuato tenants. Tho groat loud owners of Great Britain aro dividod os follows: 42 holding 100,000 acre? and upward!'; Y VJ holding 50,000 up to 100,000; 283 holding from 20,000 up to 60,000; 490 holding from 10,000 to 30,000; 611 holding from 0,000 to 19,000; 1,014 holding from 8,000 to 6,000-ni?k log in all 2,512 persons who possess tho ohoioo real estate of Grout Britain, most of ' them noblemen who own io right of cou qjuo?t, bequest, desoent and purohaso 3,910,072 acres in Ireland. An expert in shoe manufacturo says onor? mous fortunos aro hoing accumulated by mon Who have invented machinery for facilitating thia industry. Tho samo porson adds' that "when it comes to roal, lino work, on which wo take prido in putting our uamo, wo go.. hook to manual labor when it comes to that point whero tho various piooos of a fino shoo, must bo put togothor. No machinery yot is good enough to finish our very host shoos. Man's or woman's subtle fingers must, after/ [tili give tho finishing touches for that class of work." Tho New York Herald publishes a lo?tor from tho great Valley of tho Yellowstone,', showing that immigration is pouring into that country from all sections. Tho wigwam sf tho Indian has given placo to churches and schools and stores and newspaper offices., At Tongul; River, whoro Ooh, Milos was encamped in 1876-7, thom is a town of Dearly ono thousand inhabitants. Tho battle-fields of tho horoio Custer aro farms, and cattle grazo on tho plains and hillsides where tho saddest and bloodiest of our Indian tragedies woro so recently onaotod. rh? Yollowstouo Valley is forever lost.to' tho Indian. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.-Tho com mittce nf gentlemen who woro recently apX pointed by tho delegates to tho International Sunday School Convention in Atlanta hold u meeting in this city on Thursday ovoning, ind dotormincd to suggest u State Sunday School Convention, representing nil denomi nations, somo time during tho coming su minor, i'ho timo and place aro to bo selected here after. Walhalla, Q'roonvillo and Spartan burg have already oxtonded invitations, and doubtless other places will compote with' thom. Hon. Charles Potty, of Spartanburg, is chairman of tho commit too in chargo of, tho' m tit tor.-Columbia Register. Most of tho newspapers speak kindly of, tho lato John Morrissey. Tho Now Yorfc Herald says ho was a man .who noyer for? fcitcd his word, who never sold bia vote, who' ttovor trafficked in legislation, who was unapt proachublo, not merely by bribo, but by ovory kind of improper influence. Tho Now York. Times says many of tho most rospootablo and' intelligent of Mr. Morriasoy'a follow citizens will rightly regard his death ns a possitivo loss to tho oauso of good government ' in New York, and' that no man ohnrged him With' hoing a venal legislator or a dishonest politi spscauFiP>S SALES. BY virtue pf. sundry executions to ino directed I will sell, before the Court llouao door on' MONDAY, tho 3d ilay of Juno, bolweon tho legal hours ol' sale, the following described property, tb wit:' . , Ono Tract of Land in Coonee County, o*n Big' Roavcrdmn Creek, waters of Seneca Uiver, con-, mining 270 aeres', moro or loss, adjoining lands' of Osborne Cleveland, J B. Sitton and others. Levied on ns tho property of Carver Randall ot ' tho suit of O. W. Williams & Co. and others. ALSO, One Tract of Lar?d on waters of Little River,'. containing 500 aeres, moro or less, adjoining lands of James McCarty mid others. Levied on na tho proporty of W. J. Daffie at the suit of D. Riemann, German Settlement Sooicty and John' Kaufmann. . TERMS OF SALK-CASH. JAMES il. ROBINS, Sheriff Oconoo County. May 9, 1878 ' 26-4t THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, IN TUE COMMON PLEAS.' A. W. Thompson and J. J. Norton, Plaintiffs, against P. L. Jordan, W. A. Lay and o thors, Defendants-COMPLAINT FOR UKLIKF. PURSUANT to an Order of said Court to me diroolcd, I will sell, to tho highest biddor, oh sales-day Iii JUNE NEXT, at Walhalla Court' House, tho promises described in said Ordor, made in tho caso abovo staled, aa follows, vii That Lot of Laud in the Town of Walhalla, containing oric'nero, composed of half aero lot No. Gi, and thc Western half of aoro lot No. 21, fronting North oh Main street one hundred and five feet, bounded on Bnsb by lots of S. II. , Hyatt's estnlo, South by Broad street and West by-street. ., TRUMS-Ono half cash, and tho rcmalndor in twclvo months without interest, secured by noto and mortgage. Witness my hand and offioial seal at Walhalla,' S. C., this 8th of April, 1878. [OFFICIAL BEAL ] J. W. STRIDLINO, Clerk Common Pleas. May 0, 1878 25-8t ~J7A?D FOlt SAME."" THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA/ COUNTY OP OCONBB. IN THE POBATE COURT. W. F. Corbin, as Administrator and heir aft* law of Wm. Corbin, doo?a'scd, Plaintiff,' against Bolona Corbin, widow, and othors; Dofondants-Complaint for Relief, <6o. BY virtuo of a doorotal ordor in tho abovo stated ease, I will soil, tO tho highest' bidder, on MONDAY, tho 3d day of Juno , noxt, between tho legal boure of salo, tho . following .dofloribod real oatato, being \]iO proporty of Wm. Corbin, doooasod. Traot No. ls . All that pi eco, parcol or tr?ot op land situ- , ato, lying nnd!boir?& in tho County*and Stato aforesaid, on Devils' Fork Crook, containing; .10fi acres, moro or loss, adjoining lands of ?.'li nb a Mnrot, or tho Oervin traot and othors, ; boing tho trnot on which said deceased livod during his lifotimo, and Tract No. 2 ; All that piboo, parcol or traot of'hSod situ*.' . ato, lying and hoing in Bald County and',. Stato on w'ators' of Devil's Fork Crook, con" faining 170 ocios, moro or loss; and adjoining lands of Elisha Maret and oth?re, boitfg tho same which said1 Wm. Corbin, deceased, put? chased from Nimrod Loathors. Tox'xxxis? of t&txXot , One-half cash, tho balanooon credit till 4th of January, 1870, with interest, from dato of1 salo, td bo sopurod by bond and mortgage of prem?eos. Purchaser to pay extra for popers. RICHARD LBW 18. . w n Judge pl Probato., MayO, 1878 28-*'