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TRIE KKOWliK ^OVBIliK' BY Ki:a M ?I, SMITH Sc CO. THURSDAY,"j?4NUAttY 20, 1881. Mfr* for .ifoscrfpffoit, $1.5tt?per annum, strictly in advance', for tlx months,T*** cents. f@r Advertisement* inserted at Oft? dollar per square.of one inch or less for the fittt iysertton and?fty.c*ntt for such subsequent insertion. tST Obituary Notice* exceeding five lines ?Vibubst of Respect, Communications ef a per tonal character, ?hen admissible, and Announce - ment* of-'Candidates yetti bs charged for at adver tisements. t?h Job Printing neatly and cheaply executed Nmttity compete us to adhtre strictly to the requirements of Cash Payments. Ot?r Farming Interests. lt bas been a number of years slneo our peo ple have experienced a winier of so many and ettoh heavy falls of enow, such sovoro freczos and frequent rains as during Ibo past six weeks, these oauaes have oporntod to suspend all farm ing operations and our people have boon kopi busy in getting wood to mako themselves and families comfortable. Tho good effects, how ever, of tho cold and snow havo more than counterbalanced the loss of timo to farmers, no tbey give promise of a thorough pulverization of the soil, the destruction of tho gorros of | worms and bugs and tho improvement of tho small grain crops. Apart from this a severe winter ls generally indioativo of a plenteous year in fruits, vegetables and field orops, and as lhere, is plenty of limo to preparo for a largo crop, nothing bas boen actually lost, whilo tnuoh in promise and faot has boen gained. AU must admit that our fanners are now in a better financial condition than in many years past and will sot to work this spring with bettor hopeB and prospects than at any limo sinco tho war. A good ootton crop with fair prices has rovived tho spirit and energies of all, heretofore flagging from low prices and unfavorable seasons, and no effort will be spared to mako the present year ono of unprecedented prosperity. Should we (ben havo tho favorable seasons, which tho winter foreshadows, wo may cxpeot tho burden of poet dobie to yield next fall lo tho clink of ready cash and a surplus for investment. Capital, capital has been the cry of too many in years past, not realizing that in every valley and hillside in our county Ibero is u goldmine, whioh would yield a sure return for industry and onorgy. Capital is now coming, not' ns the fruit of high interest Inviting it from abroad, nor from reckless speculation, but as tho legit i mato product of homo industry and economy, tho only real and beneficial capital any pcoplo can enjoy. No greater fallacy oan afllict a pcoplo or country than looking abroad for capital and inviting ils introduction by high rates of interest, instead of looking lo homo productions, Ibo only true source of wealth and independence, It lins been said that every mau is (ho architect of his own fortunes. This is equally truo of every Stato and country. Il in clear as to individuals, if a mau possessed of large landed estates neglects to till and render them productive, but lives by borrowing money, that his road leads soonor or later to ruin and bankruptcy. What is true of an individual is equally truo of communities and States com posed of individuals. Borrowed capital to farm - On is an ealing Boro and if used lo speculate on it cannot add to the prosperity of n farming community or of tho world nt laVQO. If Hie 'speculator grows rich it is at tho exponso of others. Ho creates nothing nnd adds nothing lo the general prosperity. His success is a mere change pf existing products or elements of wealth from man to man or from community to community. On tho contrary when capital springs from tho soil around us, through tho energy and industry of its citizens, wealth and indopendeneo at homo and increased prosperity abroad aro its fruit. Few pcoplo who borrow money realizo fully the dungeons effect of interest, which never Bleeps, but grows by night and by day, when wo sleep and when we aro awake. In this connec tion wo gather fiom tho American Almanac (he dangerous clTcct of iulerest and tho diTcrcnce between high and low rates of interest. Ono dollar loaned for ono hundred years nt six per cent., with tho interest collected annually and added to tho principal, will amount to $310. At eight per cent, it amounts lo $2,203. Al ten per cent., a very common rate in tho United States, il amounts lo :?13,800, at twelve per cent, to $84,076, at eighteen per cent, to $15, 145,007 and al twenty-four per cont., sometimes charged in this Stato during thc timo Hie usury lawe were suspended, it ronohns tho enormous sum of $2,551,709,404. This sumo sum nt tin co per cont., tho usual rato of interest in England, would only amount lo $10.25. Again tho same authority states that $100 borrowed at six per cent., with tho interest compounded annually, would, in fifty years, amount to $1,842, while tho same sum at eight per cent, will, in Ibo same lime, amount to $4,600. $1,000 at ten per cont, compounded will runup to $117,300 in fifty years. Wo presumo these calculations aro corrcot, and thoy show not only how interest cats, bul tho vast difference between a low and high rate, tho difference between thrco percent, on ono dollar compounded for ono hundred years being in tho ratio of nineteen dollars and twonty-fivo cents to two billions five hundred and fifty-one millions seven hundred and nino thousand four hundred and four dollars. Tho Wido difference botweon simple and compound interest is also seen, thc latter increasing every year tho interest bearing fund. There aro times and circumstances in tho lifo of every ono which justify borrowing money, but no one should give his noto for compound interest with out reflection and without being sure to bo nblo to pay in a few years. When interest com pounded annually grows so rapidly, how much moro dangerous is banking interest, whioh is compounded every thirty, sixty or ninety days. Tho apparent advantage in tho caso of banks is, that tho debtor is aroused to his danger by having to pay the interest at every roncwal, thus keeping down the principal, bul tho process Cf exhaustion is in roality the SQIIIC. Tf somo of our old citizens had loaned $1,000 fifty yours ago and kept it nt iulerest, compounded annually, it would havo grown to $117,300, a largo fortune for this country. Whon money is bor rowed from abroad it is still moro destructive, as it sucks up nil our income and cnoroaohes on tho corpus until tho whole country is exhausted. When in tho Legislature Col. Bice, a wealthy and eduoated member from Union, and a money lender, strongly favored tho ro-cnaotmont of tho usury law, holding that farming on money at seven per cent, was a venturo, moro likoly to provo unprofitable than profitable. Col. Lov inggood, in bis lifo, entertained tho samo ?doa, as wo havo often beard bim express himself. If, thon, wo desire as an agricultural pcoplo to prosper and grow riob, wo must do it by homo produota aod home industry. We roust start at th? bottom of the ladder and build up our way. We have the Boll, tho climate and the products to do this. Cotton is money and we can grow it profitably. Cord, wheat, oats and ryo aro money, being necessaries for men and animals. Tobacco and rice, both of which grow generously in this section, aro money. lu a word, where can wo find a country which, on an average, grows moro liberally tho leading staples of tho world thau Upper South Carolina? It i.? equally adapted to fruits and vegetables, so that nature hero has offered every advantage for woalth, bestowing a mild and healthy cl ?nmtc, good water and a soil which, if thin at plaoes, IB susceptible of unlimited development. All we need bring into requisition are will, energy and economy to become prosperous and inde pendent at home. Tho fruits of tho past year givo exidenoo that our pooplo aro not wanting in theso requisites, and wo expect in a fow years to see our county populous and our peopto independent, while comfort and education will spread among our citizens: Fonco or no Fence. SENECA CITY, S. C., Jannary 13, 1881. Messrs. Editors:-As nobody has asked or cares n fig (or my opinion about tho fonco law I hasten to lay it beforo your readers and so snddlo thom with a burdon I am no lunger ablo to bear. I think that if a man bas no stock ho ought not bo obliged to fen co it, but if ho docs fence it, thon bo ought not bo obliged to koop stock. Or in other words, if a man doos fonoo bis stock, thou ls ho obliged to stock bis fence? Sloan Stribling contends that under this law wo will bo obliged to fenco nil kinds of stock, but I boliovo that bank stock, railroad stock, Dr. Fahnstock and hydraulic ramo aro exempt by provisions in tho bill, and I am in favor of any bill that bas provisions or clothing in it. A good donl of fault ls found with our Hop* rosen tali vos bcoauso thoy wero on tho fenco on this question, but its a fenco question and and why shouldn't tb cy bo on it? When they wont to tho mountains thoy wero on tho fence: when tim y carno down in tho low country thoy got off it. That suited the mast) of tho people, for they wero on tho fenco themselves and did not know what side to cet off on. I got on the fenco sometimes my? self when a bull I have chases mo, bull would much prefer to got in tho corn crib, or up n tree, unloss it is what tho North Caro linians call a lawful fence, horse high, pig tight and bull strong. Now if we aro obliged to fonco up our stock, tho question arises can n man lot his crops run at laigo without trespassing on his neighbor's land, nod could ho recover darno? gos unless bo had previously warned off tho crop, and won't this law that compols us to keep our stock up haven tendency to keep it down? This fence is to bo built of rails, as I un derstand, so that its opponents eau rail at it and if it should hnppcn to bo a good thing its dionds doubtless will indulgo in a good deal of rnilcrv. 1 um in favor of tho law and opposed to thc fenco. Yours without u'fonco, G. J. GREENE. Tho New Laws of the State. AN ACT to pr?vido for tho disbursement of an unexpended balance of the appropria tion of twenty thousand dollars, for pro viding artificial limbs for all citizens who lost their limbs in thc military scrvico of tho State during ibo years 1801, 1802, 18G3, 1801, 1S05, nnd amending Aot of December 24th, 1879, appropriating money for nrti?cial limbs. Be il enacted by tho Scnnto and Houso of Rcprosontutivcs of the Stato of South Caro lina, now met and sitting in General As sembly and by tho authority of tho same: SECTION 1. Whereas tho balance of tho appropriation of twenty thousand dollars made by Act of Assombly, approved Dcccm ber 2d, 1879, for furnishing to o very citizen ol this State, who lost a leg or arm in tho lalo war, an artificial leg or arm to supply thc placo of that so lost, has been turned into the Stato treasury at tho oloso of tho fiscal year Do it enacted by tho authority aforesaid, That Section 1 of un Act entitled "An Act to provide artificial limbs for all soldiers of thc Stato, who lost thoir legs or arms during military scrvico in years 18G1, 1802, 1SG3, 1804; and 1SG5," approved December 24, 1879, bo, and tho sumo is hereby, amended on twcllth line, botween tho words "und and "in," insert tho word "was;" and on tho thirteenth line, strike out tho word "one," and substitute tho word "or," so that tho Sec tion as amended will rend: That tho Gov ernor, Comptroller General, and tho Chair man of tho Stato Hoard cf Health, bo, and aro hereby, constituted a board to contract for and furnish to every citizen of tho Stnto who lost a leg or ann in tho Into war, an nrtilioinl arin or leg to supply tho placo of that so lost; Provided, That thc applicant shall furnish a certificate from tho Clerk of tho Court of bis county, and thc sworn stnto mont of three competent and disinterested persons, personally acquainted with tho ap plicant for tho two years list past beforo bis application, showing that ho is a cilizon of this State, and was in the service of thc Stnto of South Carolina, or of tho Confederate States, at tho time of tho loss of said limb; And Piooidcd\fm//ic/*, That ho has not ro coivod an artificial leg or arm from this or any other State, or from tho Unitod Slatos; Prodded fiother, That ho may elect to receive in money tho price ot said- artificial limb. SEC. 2. That tho unexpended hillanco in tho Stato Treasury levied and ooh lectcd under tho Act December 24th, 1879, bo appropriated and tho treasu ror is heroby directed and required to ox pond tho same ns provided for in tho amend ed Act. SEC. 3. That $100 of snid unexpected hill anco bo, and is heroby, appropriated to dofray tho oxponscs of carrying out tho provisions this not. Approved December 24, 1880. AN ACT to pr?vido for tho rovUion, digest and arrangement of tho Statute Laws of the Stato of South Carolina. Be it enacted by tho Senate and Houso o Representatives of tho Stato of South Carolina, now mot and sitting in General Aseoi?ibly, and by tho authority of . tho .arno: '" 1 SECTION 1. Th at in pirsu nnco of Sootlon 3, of Artiolo 6, of tho Constitution- of thin State, throe- persons len r nedi n tho law flbaU ho appointed by the convention of tho jus tices of the Stato Supreme Court, aud the Cirouit Judge? of this Stato, whoso duty it shall bo tn revise, digest and arrango under proper beads tho body of our laws of a civil character, general and permanent in their nature, which shall bo in force at tbs[ timo when thoy mnko their Anal report, following as far as practicable tho method and digest pursued in tho volumo known as the Qenoral Statutes of South Carolina. They shall like wise, as providod io said constitution, form a Penal Code by making asimilar arrangement, revision and consolidation ef ali laws of forco iu this State relating to crimes and*' the punishment thorofor, and shall reviso, abridge and simplify the , rules, practice, pleadings and forms of uso in this State in tho trial of crimes and misdemeanors. . SEC. 2. Whon said commission has com pleted the revision, digest, consolidation, and arrangement of the statutes and tho forma? tiou of tho Ponai Code as aforesaid, thoy shall causo a oopy of tho same, in print, to 1 bo submitted to tho General Assembly; that tho statutes eo io viso J, digested, and ar ranged may bo ro-onnotod, and tho Ponai Code so formed may bo adopted and- ratified if tho Gonoral Assembly shall so determine, and ut tho samo timo thoy shall euggett to tho General Assembly euoh contradictions, omissions nod imperfections ns may appear in' tho original text, with tho modo in which they have rcconoilod, supplied and amended tho same, and thoy may also designate such statutes or parts of statutes which in their judgment ought to bo repealed, with tho rea* sons for such repeal. SEC. 3. Tho commissioners shall bo au thorized to causo their work to bo printed in parts ns fast aa it may bo ready for tho pross, and to distril,-..to copies of tho samo to members of tho General Assembly, to tho judicial officers of tho Stato, and to snob other persons in limited numbera ns they may seo Gt, for tho purpose of obtnining their suggestions; and thoy shall roport from timo to timo to tho Goncral Assembly their progress and doings. SEC. 4. Tho statutes so revised, digested nnd arranged, and tho Penal Codo so form-? cd shall, if practicable, bo reported to tho Gonoral Assembly nt tho beginning of its next session in November, 1881. Sec. 5. That each member of tho said commission shall rccoivo, ns compensation for his sorviccs, tho sum of $2,000. Thoy shall also rccoivo for reasonable oxponses1 of clerical sorviccs, bocks, printing, sntioncry and other necessary and incidental matters nn allowance not exceeding tho sum of $500, said expenditures to bo accounted for. to tho Comptroller Gonoral on proper vouchers. SEC. 0. That (ho public printer shall and hereby is required to do such printing as thc commission shall require in tho discharge of | its duty. Approvod Docombor2l, 1880. AN ACT to ainond Chapter CXXVI1I of tho Goncral Statutes, nnd to Pr?vido for tho Trial and Punishment of Persona Guilty of Homicide nnd their Accessories when tho Decensed may bo Wounded, Poisoned or Otherwise Injured in ono County and Die in Anothor. lie il enacted by tho Senate and House of | Repr?sentatives of tho State of South Caro lina, now met and sitting in General Assem bly, and by tho authority of tho same: SrxnoN I. That Chapter CXXV1II of tho Gonoral Statutes be, and tho samo is hereby, amended by adding thc following as Soo* tion 2: Seo. 2. That when any person shall bo struck, wounded, poisoned or otherwise in jin cd in ono County und die thereof in another, any inquisition or indictment theron found by jurors of cither County shall bc ns good and effectual in law as if thc stroke, wound, poisoning or other injury had been committed and dono in tho same County where tho party shall dio. And tho person or persons guilty of such striking, wounding, poisoning or other injury, and ovary accessory tborcto, cither boforo or after tho fact, shall bo tried in tho County whore such indicmont shall bo found, and if onvictod, punished in mode, manner and form us if tho deceased had suffered such striking, wounding, poison? ing or other injury and death in tho County where such indictment shall be found. Approved December 21, 18S0. Religious Services. Tho following is tho list of appointments Dinde by the Executive Board of Pork Asso ciation, for Rev. G. II. Carter: Pleasant Hill, 1st Sunday in Fobruary end Saturday boforo. Westminster, 1st Sunday in Fobruary at 3 P. M. Now Hope, 3d Sunday in Fobruary and Saturday before. Pleasant Ridge, 1st Sunday in March and Saturday before Return, 3d Sunday in March and Saturday before. Bethel, 3d Sunday in March nt 3 P. M. Shiloh, 1st Sunday in April and Saturday before. Ilcpsibah, 1st Sunday in April at 3 P. M. Old Liberty, 3d Sunday in April and Sat urday be lore. Rock Springs, 3d Sunday in April at 3 P. M. Double Springs, 1st Sunday in May and ?Saturday before. E, L? iSISK, Chairman. Tho following statistics of thc Methodist Churoh in South Carolina will bo interesting to tho publio: *? Numbor of members .> ? 40,255 Looal prenchord ? - ? 139 Numbor of infants baptized . 1,8-12 Numbor of Sunday schools - fill Number of teachers s - 3,280 Numbor of scholars - - 23,775 Collected for superannuated proncbors and widows ond orphans of tho deceased proachors ?. $5,114.31 Collootod for foreign missions $3,020.18 For domcstio missions - 4,380.01. li In Memory of My Voung Friend, Edgar Thompson. BY D. P. 0. Wo will garland his gravo with flowers, Because wo all loved him so well, And it will bo a duty of ours To the young his virtuos to toll. Wo can nover forgot his bright face, . Nor tho earnest "far-away look," As bo sometimes sat io bis placo And drank in the truths of "God's book." Wo havo laid him down in his beauty, Wo'll treasure tho o&lo givon, For bis sake bo it our fond duty To strive to moot bim in beaven! The Superintendent of consus has submit ted his report of tho population of j tho United States to Congress, and it HIIOWH tho total population tobo 50,152,800, Mr. Cox, of New York, thon submitted a new apportionment bill, which fixes tho total number of Representativos in Congress at 301 and apportions thom among tho States as follows: Alabama 8, Arkansas 5, California 5. Colorado 1, Florida 1, Goorgia 9, Illinois 19, Indiana 12, Iowa 10, Kansas 0, Kentucky 10, Louisiana 0, Maine 4, Maryland 0, Massa chusetts ll, Michigan 10, Minnessota 5, Mississippi 7, Missouri 13, Nebraska 3, No vada 1, Now Ilampshiro 2, Now Jereoy 7, Now York 31, North Carolina 8, Ohio 19, Oregon 1, Pennsylvania 20, Rinde Island 2, South Carolina C, Tennessee 9, Tosas 10, Vermont 2, Virginia 9, West Virginia 4, Wi'sn cousin 8. As compa'od with tho present nnmbor of | members this bill of Mr. Cox mokes tho following losses and gains: Arkansas, Cali ? f.mia, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, South Carolina and West Virginia gain one each. Kunsas gains 3, Tesas 4, Minnessota and Nebraska gain 2 cnoh, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Now Ilampshiro, Maine, Indiana, Tennessee, Florida and Vermont loao I each and New York lesos 2. Nsw ORLEANS, January 15.-Tho De.nocro.l contains special reports of cotton receipts at tho interior towns throughout tho States of Goorgin, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and Tosa* Theso reports show that Ibero has boon 1 gonornl falling off of receipts except ii Georgia, Florida, Southern Louisiana nnd Texas as compared with 1879. Thc towns in tho Mississippi bottom all report n consider able decroaso in this section. Much etton, variously estimated at from 10 to 15 per cont, remains unpicked in tho fields and thora is no hopo of saving moro than half of lt. Much of it is reported as rotting in tho fields. Tho Demon.al also bas report? of Ibo Louisiana sugar crops, which go to confirm its former estimate of 230,000 hogsheads. Tho smnll planters havo finished sugar making and only a few of tho largo planters aro still grinding. A very small percentage ot tho cano romains in tho fields and all will bc gathered in two weeks. Contrary to all expectation tho Dccombor frcczo did little damage. Tho yield ovorywhoro has been fino and in somo sections, notably in the largo sugar parishes, bas been enormous. Tho reports indie.ito an avcrago of 50 per cent, over last year's crop, when tho y iel d for tho State was 172,421 hogsheads. There is a well dolinod movemont on font to givo tho Southern pcoplo their sharo of tho oflic08*ooming irom tho President, lt is genarully understood that this plan is being successfully'engineered by Senators Brown and Hill of Georgia, Maheno of Virginia, Representatives Spoor of Georgia and Car lisle of Kentucky. Thc movement conten?* plates that good men only shall fill tho Federal ofTiccs in thc South, and that tho Presidential appointments tdiall be such as meet tho general approval of tho pcoplo of their respectivo sections, lt is ourrontly re ported and believed that President Gaifiold looks with great favor upon the subject, and ?tba* Senator Ulai no, who goos into tho Cabi net, nil) also endorso tho now movemont and lend bis aid in fnrthoiing it. -- ? . <v p.. A correspondent of tho Patron of Hus bandry, in urging Southern planters to raise as much ns possible their own supplies, says: "On the I Ot li of last Juno I planted 5} acres in corn and paid tiffi 1.50 to coltivato and gather it; and it cost mo eight cents per bu?diol in thc crib. I sold to a neighbor 100 bushels of this corn for $05; ho paid mo money that he got for his cotton nt eight cents net; that is, ho gavo mo 8J pounds of | cotton for a bushel of corn. Now, a gooJ man with proper tools nnd a good team can miso und put in the' crib 2,000 bushels ol' corn, nod if he could oxchungo it nt tho sumo price that I got he would get 40] bales of | colton, avoroging 400 pounds each." CHARLESTON, January 13.-Tho News and Courier publishes a Summary of roports received from all parts of the State, showing groat damage to tito cotton and rico crops from tho protracted wet weather. It estimates that of the calton unpicked in December fully noe- bali has boon lost, while thc rest hus been much damaged in quality. On tho Sea Islands tho crop is retiing in tho fields Tho rico harvest, owing to tho rainy weather, is ono of tho most unfortunate on record. Sous Mont: COAL-ANTHRACITE THIS TIME - Tho Commissioner of Agriculture has a specimen of native coal lound near 1'oor Mountain in Goonoo County, which has not yoi been tested but is boliovcd to bo anthra cite coal, being bluok nml bard and having till tho appeal aneo of anthracite coal. Col. lintier fools veiy much encouraged to beliove that genuino coal cnn bo obtained in tho upper part of South Carolina and is going to sond n man np to examine tho locality whore this specimen was found. Arrangements will probably bo made at 1111 carly day to develop tho deposit.-Columbia Jlegiifer. Tho newly elected Governor of Tennessee, Alvin Hawkins, was inaugurated on tho 17I!I instant boforc a largo assemblage of thc people. Ho is tho fu?t Republican Covcrnor inaugurated in that State for ten years. His election was duo lo Democratic division. Now is thc limo to subscribo for tho Kcowoe (/ouricr. Miss Franoes E. Willard, tho President of tho "Woman's National Tomporanoo Society, is coming to South Carolina shortly in the interest of tho onuso she represents. ? part of hor timo in this Ststo will bd eperit in Charleston, whoro sbo will bo the guest of] Mrs. S. F. Olmpin. "Miss Willard." says Bishop Simpson, "has moro influence than any other singlo individual in thc United Stntos," and Dr. Voddor, says she is not second to' Cough bi m self in tho power of hor eloquont appeals in behalf of temperance. I At a recent olection for Intendant and War dons of tho town of Laureua tho dry tiokot was ?looted by a majority of sixty votes, rooeiving nearly two-thirds of the wholo vote polled. Thc church bolls were rung in honor of tho rosult and thoro was general rcjoioing by tho friondsof ] temperance? BEN HILL AGAIN.-"The Democratib defeat in 1880 was tho rosult of Domocratio follies and not of Republican strength. These follies must bo abaudoncd. In tho South wo have local irritatioms, which must bo healed. All forms of pcrsonalism must bo repudiated. Wo have lost everything but tho Senate by nothing but our follies, and now wo aro threatened with tho loss of thc Senate by uiconccivabo follies If a Republican senator is chosen in Democratic Tonnesseo and Kellogg is retained by a Demo cratic Senate in a Beat to whioh ho was never elected tho Senate will bo Republican."-Al lanta Constitution. Jim Black, colored, who was to havo been hung nt Marion, on Friday,'for the mordor of | a colored tuan, received a respite until March, owing to clerical errors in former reprieve papers. Thoro was a fearful hurricano and snow storm in Utah last week, resulting in heavy slides (avalanches) on Saturday, which destroyed tho town of Alta and killed several men. Other towns aro threatened. Thomas Butler, cnginoor, was crushed to death between two cns nt Abbottsbnrg, N. C., on Saturday. George McKtnsio, white, working in a saw mill at Suinmorvillo, wns killed on Fri? day. Col. O. W, Dndlov. n prominent oPiznn of Marlboro', at one time editor of tho Planter, is dead. A Oro originating from a defectivo flue ot Durham. N. C., on Saturday, destroyed sev enteen business houses and injured several others. Loss $75,000, partly insured. Tho largo wholesale dry goods houso of E. W. Marshall & Co., of Charleston, suspended on last. Friday. Tho Charleston News and Courier slates that tho colored peoplo of Greenville county pay taxes on real and personal properly to the value of nearly $100.000, and from information from tho Auditor there aro in the immediate vicinity of Greenville seventy-ono colored men who pay laxes on property valued nt from $200 to $2,300. This shows the race can prosper under D?mocratie government and even in Democratic county. Tho fact is, that with pro per industry and economy any citizen of this Stale can mako money. Ono of thc largest and most powerful corpo rations in thc world has been formed to operate as ono body tho Western Union, American Union and thc Atlantic and Paoifio Telegraph Companies. STOCK LAW~?u?S. T I HERE will be a meeting of thc voters of Oconee County, at tho Court House, on TUBS BAY, thc 20th instant, to decide by a vote whether wo have a fence or no fence. Every voter in the proposed district should turn out and not let anything prevent them from coming and'easting their votes against such an unjust act of our representatives. THOMAS JENKINS, J. A. KNOX, SA MU FL TANN FRY, JAMES BURNS, j. w. poor,, GEO. PERCIVAL, And Five Hundred Others. January 20, 1831 10-lt State of South Carolina. OOOfySE ?.OUNTY? By Richard Lewis, Esq., Judye of Probate. VlfltKMSAS, Mrs. Sarah George has made suit to ?V mo to grant hor Letters of Administra tion, of thc Batato and Effects of John N. George, dcccnscd - These arc, therefore, to cito and admonish nil and singular the kindred and creditors of the said John N George, deceased, that they be, and appear, before me, in the ('curt of Probate, to be held at Walhalla,S C., on Wednesday. Olli of February instant, after publication hereof, at ll o'clock in thc forenoon, to shew cause, if any they have, why thc said administration should not. bo granted. Given linder my band and seal, this thclOlh day of January, Anno Domini 1881. RIC II A RD LEWIS, Judge of Probate of Ocuneo Cornily. January 20. 1S8I 10 2t Fin al S? ?talement. NOTICE i-i hereby given (hat Eveline Hender son will apply io Richard Lewis, Judge of 1'iobn'e, in his nllico in Walhalla, S. C., on Saturday, tho Dib day of March. 1881. tor a final dtiohargo as atlmiiiiXiratrlx of Alexander Henderson, deceased. EVELINF, HENDERSON, Administrai rix. January 20, 1881 10 7t Vf OT ICE is hereby given thal the undcrMghed ll Guardian 61 the person and esl ii le of Xl? * siali Cobb, a minor, will apply lo the Pinhole Court in his Office in Walhalla. S ('..on Hld "il"-! diy of February, for a fmnl discharge from the duties of said guardian hip. RODERT ' 08R. Guardian. January CO, 1881 )0 lt Nev? Advertisements* STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Ooonee Oounty. By Riobard Lowie, Esq., Judgo of Probate. WHRRKA8, Mra. -RoohoBtor has made suit to mo to grant her Letters of Administra tion of tho Hst ute and Effooteof W. D. Roohester, deceased The so arc, thoroforo, to .cito and admonish all and singular tho kindred and oroditors of tho said W.D Roohester, deooased, that they be and appear bofore mc, in tho Court of Probato, to bc held nt Walhalla, 3. C., on Tuesday, 8th of February, 1881, after publication hereof, at ll o'olook ia tho forenoon, to show causo, if any thoy have, why tho said administration should not bo granted. Given under my hand and seal, this the 19th day of January, Anno Domini 18*81. RICHARD LEWIS, Judgo of Probato of Oooneo County. January 20, 1881 10-2t 00 WALHALLA, S. C., January lat, 1881. THE undersigned have this day ontorod into a partnership under tho firm name of D. RIE MANN, SON ti CO., and will continue the business of D. Riemann & Son at their present place of business. They respectfully solicit a continuance of tho patronage extended to tho old firm. Respectfully, D. Bl EM ANN", II. D. A. BIEMANNV LOUIS B. BUENNE01C13.J <3> PAY UP -00 ALL parties indebted to tho firm of D RIE MANN & SON, cither by Noto or Account, are requested lo call and settle nt once, as wo need money and must have it. All debts not paid or othcrwiso settlod by FEBRUARY 1st, 1881, will bo placed in the hands of an attorney for collection. Respectfully, 3 January 13, 1881. JOHN CLARK, JU. & CO'S BEST -FOR MACHINE OR HAND USE, THOMAS RUSSELL & CO.?. SOLE AGENTS. -FOR SALE RY M. W. 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