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Tri minings, Plushes, VelvOtine, ito., in bright and latest coi... styles al I he usual low prices. HMS DUI. VIS gt FOU CASH. Clear of Un??is Wooden Buckets, 2 for 25e. Dig Tin Covered Hackets nt 5e. (Tinware at cost.) Decorated Tin Chamber Sots at ?1.60, I)wights Loose Soda at fte. or li pounds for 25o. liest (doss Starch, 2 packages lor 5c. Unod tireen and Mack Teas, at 26o per pound, liest Imperial, Voling Hyson, Gun Powder and lingi it Breakfast Teas at, 50c. per pound, liest Oolong Black Tea at 7ftc. per pound. I .egget I s Blended Tea al Toe. per pound. Kine uncolored Japan Tea in beautiful Baskets, 7f>e. nae Pure, Whole Hean, Parched Kio Coffee at 25o. ('.liter's Ink in I (piarl bottles al only 50c. .lohn Moore's Sons One Morse Plows at $4.50 .lohn Moore's Sons Two Morse Plows willi Moiling Coulter ar (bulge Wheel complete, very cheap. All steele Spades and Shovels at only U?e. each. Mig Hargains in I biggie Whips from l? to 7?c. oaoh. Pookel Knives, Table Cutlery, ito., large stock, very cheap. Host Moule inade .Molasses, :? gallons for ?M. (?ood Laundry Soap nt le. per pound. Toilet Soap, .'i cakes for f>0. Adamantine Candles at "J->e. per dozen. New Holiday Goods. I- liol.MKS A. ('ONT'S I'ANCY ( IA K KS, viz : Social Teas, lei I louey Cakes, Lchion, l 'am \ timi Sugar Jumbles, Vanilla Crisps, No York Teas, Money Jumbles, New Orleans Chocolate Jumbles, Mix( Cakes, Ac A e., at only 20e per pound. New Valencia Haisius, 20c. per ?h. Loose Muscatel Uaisins, 20o. per 1 Citron, per pound, 2f?e. New Currants, .5 pounds for 2f)e. '??i Cheese, bought before the rise, SI pounds for fido. Imported fresh Maeearoni, sold at I fie. per pound. Kvaporated I)l'io<l Apples, sold at fte. per pound. L uge fresh imported Prunes, sold al IO?, per pound. Davis' Caking Kow,1er in cans, at only 2f>?. per pound. This Makin Powder is ??pial t" I ?oyal Hiking Powder. White Bean* al SH.fttl per bushel. Mixed Hean-- al - I .Ot) per bushel. New Cuni ; . ftOe. per bushel. ( Ow I 'eas tn V 'e. per bushel. I 'earl I icrlex. I pounds for 'Jm\ (hind Baaing Soda at fte. per pound. ('aimed Corn Bee." al 12.1c. per pound. New Sugar Corn al Hie- per can. Mond Sardines, in olive oil, I Loxes for 'Jftc. Lar-e '. pound boxes Sardines at only I0e. Kresh hobst?! s at 20c. per eau. Kure Mustard tit ?Iftc. per pound. I poe nd t'nll weight Oysters, I Oe. per can. .j j.rid full weight Oysters, '?'> cans for ftOe. I >ried ( 'hipped Beef, 2ft<\ per box, I pound fredi Mackerel at I fte. per eau, Kot i 'd Main, Sehriinps, Ac. Dess:.Tilled Cocoanut, 20e. per can. Assorted Jams, 'Joe. Marmalade, 20c. Nelson's < Idaline, 2dc. Kennet, 20e. Sausage Seasoning, I fte. Package Minee .Mea!. I fte, Prepared Kreuch Mustard, I Oe. per bottle, i Can Pears, I fte. Kine Apple, loe. Kure Krilil Tobi Clewing Cuni, fte. per box. Tomato ( inlsup, ??Oe. per bot tie. Worcestershire Sanee, 20c. per Lottie, Large quart bottles Queen olives at 'Joe. per hollie. Largo 'pint bottles Sweet Mixed Pickles, Ufte, per hollie. Large ?piarl bottles Mixed ClioW-Chow at 25c, lier bottle. (iood Mixed Cucumber Pickles at lOe. per bottle. The lim -! Pickled While Onions at 20?. per bottle. Kresh 11 o rsc Kadish al I fte. per Lottie. Kepper Sauce and Capros til Ifte. and 20e. per bott lo. I Lu .child's Bread Kreparation at 10?, and 20c. per package? Warner's Safe \ east at 10?. per LON. MM MAT l{?il)M(TION <>K KIM ('KS ON L ' ' h'lour, I Meal I Coffee, I Hi??, I Bacon, Bard, I laius, Hominy, W Spices, etc., J Al LOW Brices-? Boots Shoes ami I {libbers, full dock. Kuhhcr ( 'oats, all si/es. (Jennine Persian l?evorsable Mubber Coals, can be worn as ulsters overcoats. S|o\ cs, I Lingers and I lealers. Hardware, Agrioullural Implements, ('rockery and Glassware. Paint . ( ?il-, \ iiruisli, i Mass, Putty, Ac. Very respectfully, I 0. H. Schumacher, Walhalla, S. C j 0 ..- 'do d- packed and delivered lice. Tho Public School System-Couuty Hoard of Examiners-Dividing tho County Into District?. MKSSUS. EDITORS: In your paper of tho 28th of November was an article under tho head of tho "Pub lic School Question," emanating from the County Board of Examiners and inviting criticism. In tho article al luded to tho Board suggests and de sires to have thc public schools sus pended for ono year and a part of the funds expended" for the purpose j of dividing tho county into small I districts, so that there should bo ono white and one colored school in each district. They think tho suggestion ?i good one and intend, so far as they are able, to carry it into effect. It deserves to be mentioned at tho out set, however, that tho oldest mem ber of the Board or Examiners and the only one residing in thc country, j the one who has had more expert-1 euee with schools in tho country and j '* "s given satisfaction, did not he sen.,.. .1iH,H h(} je8jro the pub This member 01 ...,,,a fov a yt,ari even consulted, nor was 1. Wils |lot published by the Board of Ex*?!,? ners ever submitted to him for np proval or disapproval. There arc several reasons, for tho better which tho Board thinks the division , of the county into such districts will accomplish. But they have as yet shown no reason therefor. Thc really good reason for redistricting, . however, the one that, in part at least, will overcome all serious ob jections to the publie school system, vi/.: tho insufficiency of funds to run the schools, is to he shown in a fu ture article. The Board of Exami ners say that our County Board, to save trouble, il is supposed, adopted thi' townships as districts and from this indolence has sprung the whole trouble-this indolence of the for mel- ( lourty Hoard. KKASONS KOII MARINO TUR Sl?iiKS TION8. fol 'IM- _ t.Ut..a 'I*. lto.lt ir. guim ami its adoption hy the people is de sired. .Jd. Agitation of the school sys tem ami its administration, an es cape valve to bring to the surface things frothy and useless, where they can be seen and separated from tho good and useful. Some things frothy and useless have been brought lo tho surface; they have been seen and an effort will bo made to sepa rate them. I'l.KA OK K. C. ll. E. C. H., who was among thc first lo give vent to some of the pent-up fumes of discontent, through the Hoard's escape-valve, is temporarily absent from the county, but the whole plea of E. C. II. for the poor teachers, the Board says, may be effectually answered in ono sentence, by saying that the school law was not onaclcd, nor is it administered for the benoni of the teacher, but the children of the county* hence no room for any sympathy, &q This is all very plain, something that every school boy knows. But when the teacher has done his work, when he has faithfully discharged his duty to the children, when they have obtained value received, then thc money is no longer thc chil dren's, hut the teacher's, and E. C. II. did not ask for personal sympa thy, but only thc general sympathy (lue thc- teacher for labor performed. TUN TIIIIUST AT THU (IRANI) JURY. As to the supercilious liing made at the grand jury, the chosen citi zens of our county, as good as the best and guardians of the people's rights, such an (tu g li M und fearful body is amply able to take care of itself. But has it come to this, that the direct representatives of the peo ple must have the ironical epithets^ august und fearful) hurled in their f:\C08, when, in the discharge of their sworn duty, and that, too, for no other reason than that they lis tened to the complaint of the peo ple and dared to do their duty? Alas! our country; such a thrust, is, to say the least, disrespectful, dis courteous and uncalled for. S0MH or lin; i-oivTS A NSW K li IC I >. Is the thing good in itself? No, it is neither good in itself nor good for Oeoneo county. Redistricting, to say nothing of the expense of it, will render it absolutely impossible to have schools for the children in tin' country and they will he unedu cated. The towns will have tin? schools and get all the money. Al ready Hopewell and Greenfield, some of the best country schools, have been broken down .and allowed no money. As a consequence, the next year they eaimot got any, because ibero was no attendance upon whieh to apportion it. This is tho objeot aimed at, in ari'indireot way, a way to blind tho propio. If redistrict ing is done ia ns thinly a settled county as Oconee, there would doubt less bo many districts in which there would not bo'children enough to make a school. I To spend tho little money appropriated for the chil dren's eduoatiorfcfor such a purpose, as surveying tho 'uounly and divid ing it into ? distnctB, in building school houses at an expense to th< already overburdened poople, ?B no good nor is it right. IS ITS ADOPTION BY TIIK PKOPLI DRSIUKD ? No, its adoption by tho people outside of tho towns, is not desirod What motivo could thc people hav j in running their county to a nee?] j lees and unnecessary expense?-a expense that could not and woul not benofit a single individual 02 cept the one who makes thc survey Will making a Behool idontio with a district injure tho teachei Yes, it will injure thc toucher, inju the children, injure tho tax-payc - Ocomin the cause of education i perly bc ?tovtv ... ?ft?ftight very pr ) chusetts or any other thickly4^ i tied State, but by no means shoi I it bc dono in Oconee county. Mi ' ing a district, though, identical w ! school, would suit, and might vt properly be done in Oconee conn Wherever there is a school tl section or neighborhood should c< stitute a school district. The sch? whieh is the most important shoi determine thc district, hut the d trict which is of less importar should not determine the soho The School Commissioner or Boa of Examiners could appoint tin good men as trustees of th? schools, when every school won as it should have, three truste who were citizens in the neighb? hood and most probably inatrnna ino school. ?neso trustees coi; call a meeting of thc patrons wh necessary, care for the school pi porty, visit the schools as tho h directs and would have no oecasi to go to High Falls, Little Uiver any other place where they were 1 known. Don't you seo it? It most explains itself. Then as t rule of apportionment applies to t School Commissioner and to d triots, be can by the ftmr f?ndame tal rules, addition, subtraction, m tiplicntion and division, apportion each set of trustees their exact pt of the public funds, when they turn would pay it to the teach? when they had discharged their < tics. NO LAW UN DHU TIIK HUN TO ??OVK TRU8TKK8. AC The Hoard of Examiners 1 there is no law under thc sun govern the trustees in paying < the money to schools. "The trustees draw their ord OM the County Treasurer in belt of whom ?h?v picase, the Sch Commissioner acting vx,|v aH a k? of check upon them hy hftvit.? countersign their orders; but in instance having a right to draw original onler or direct the trust to whom to draw one." The trustees then may draw order in favor of themselves or 1 friend, regard less of services r dcred, and that, too, for any arnot provided it (loos not exceed amount apportioned to thc to ship, tho School Commissioner, a mere clerk, having to countersign as a kind of check. Can't some tho strong, vigorous and intollig young men give our poor com people lind our country tonel some explanation and the mod definition of that word check? PULLING OUT OK <>l.l> HUTS. There are already too many st n vigorous and intelligent young I in easy berths, who are trying pull out of old ruts, while o.ir ] plo are groaning under consta increasing taxes, ami while our | girls, as E. C. II. justly said, hav trudge through rain and mud snow to perform their hard ?er and are then denied their poor tance. If the strong, vigorous intelligent young men, who aro el ?.?1 to oflice by the people, would their duty under the law as f lind it, instead of f rying to pull ?>f the old ruts, ?mr c.ouutry |>0( whu pay their proportion of tax, would not be discrimina against, unsuitable men would be appointed as trustees, an? appointed, would be removed their misappropriations corr?ete*] T1IK TOWNS NOT SATISFIED. The Hoard of Examiners say tho towns aro not satisfied with their pro rata share of tho public funds. Though they aro thickly Bottled and have Jtheir comfortable homos, though they are able to support a school at a minimum individual expense, thoy aro not satisfied. No, with all their ease, thoir wealth, their comfort, thoir affiueno* and style, tiley aro constantly asking tho Legislature to give them the little pittance of the poor country children's school mon ey. But in Tugaloo Township thoy have about alroady gotton it without any aid from tho Legislature. No, tho people of Oconcc county do not desire its adoption, nor will they con sent to havo their children's money oxpended for so absurd, so prepos terous and so useless a hobby. Cms. [TO UK CONTINUKD.] Tho Clemson College Issue. Tho issue now between the friends and foes of the Clemson College is distinct. Thc friends of the college wish to provide for its support from funds already paid into the hands of the State's officiais and usually diverted to other purposes; its foes wish to taxcs'ont? l>>' ?mP08?ng ?<MMonnl institutions, id^^lng all other in undisturbed possession"\n l)nse/s present incomes. Everybody now apparently fovort the college. Ono party says : "Oil yes ! Establish your college and taki all the money you wish for it, so you take it from the pockets of the peo plc and do not disturb any of our pets." That is the position exactly. Mr. Haskell, for instance, in thc House, is willing to vote *190,000 ho says, for the Clemson College, so it. is added in the tax levy and taken directly from the tax payers. The real friends of the college look at it differently. Their IXQBL uivMi m nmu vu*j ixniii.ui ai ilueresT is the most important of all; that before wc make lawyers, teachers, doctors, soldiers, merchants and civil engineers we ought to make the farmers who arc to support them all; that thousands of the men who are to have the control and management of the State's land in thc future are rapidly outgrowing their youth and being hurried into the ranks of active workers without the instruction re garding modern methods and the de velopments of science in their busi ness which would largely increase their productive capacity and their hopes for success. They ask that the people be re loavcd of new burdens, so far as is possible. Thoy do not ask for a dollar which will directly or indi rectly increase taxation. They ask that the accumulation of money to meet a debt which will not be duo in years be suspended awhile. Tho very newspapers which clamor most bitterly against selling thc phosphate interests to pay off the State debt clamor with equal vigor against, taking a dollar of the money preserved for paying that debt to meet ti??, tressing need for proper agricultural edington. The very newspapers and men that eiowi aloud for the State to assume a largo amount of six per cent bonds for the establishment of the South Caro lina College now cry to Heaven against suspending payment in ad vance of such bonds to establish thc Clemson College. The debt is a dreadful, horrible, pressing thing to bo met at any sacrifice when molloy is to bc diverted from paying it to build a fanners' college in Oconoo County; it is small, trifling and harmless when it is to be added to operate a university of polite litera ture at Columbia. The friends of the Clemson College ask that the privilege tax on fertili zers, paid by thc fanners and now Used for other purposes, portions of the Hatch fund, given by the United .dates Government for the specific purpose of agricultural education, and thc money now used for the Agricultural Department at Colum bia be given for the establishment and maintenance of nu agricultural college and experimental Station at Fort Hill. They also ask that the money now used for maintaining au agricultural annex as a compara* ttvoly obscure and unimportant de partment of the State University be transferred to and used for a college when? agriculture will be the chief purpose and feature. It is little enough to ask. It do<M* not involve a dollar of e\tvo tn\a. Uw, lt VA ?i inply, a <IUORVUM\ of tho transfer of money now collected by law from ono purpose to anothor. With all tho talk and hurrah tho i?suo is simply whether the people of thc Stato would rather have lin; sinking fund paying a few six por oont bond?) tho Agricultural Depart ment at Columbia and the agricultu ral annox to tho Stato University at Columbia; or tho Clemson agricultu ral collogo at Fort Hill, endowed, built and maintained for tho purpose of educating the sons of fanners and developing a generation of trained workmen to deal with our soil on fair terms of competition with farmers of other States. It is a very simple, plain, direct issue, and one which the people can understand. The fanners aro help ing to pay for a university at Colum bia, and the Citadel Academy at Charleston, to educate professional and business men. They ask for a college in the Piedmont country lo educate fanners and mechanics, and are met by the generous concession that if they will pay for it they can establish it; but they must not touch any existing institution or project, even when it is sustained by theil money and nominally lor theil- bene fit. Let lin; fight be. made plainly MIK! clearly on the issue : sinking tumi agricultural department, experi mental stations ami agricultural an nox to the university on one side . the fanners' college on the other. * ?*< there be no compromises 01 , surrenders. T,)e f,,UM1(,s ()f i Clemson College eau ,.cet)Vi\ tu g0 \H. . fore the pt opie on that issue, li' th Senate will decide against thom le it do so squarely and fairly ami th farmers will know who to unseat am replace before the next session. Thc (inn work elsewhere as they \Vorke< in Kershaw and will have no ililli culty in remembering who was fo and who against them. Thc gentlemen who are opposini on so many specious pretexts an? ?k,&^?&pfMiftf ite jlri moderate requests of the most im portant clement of our populatioi are sowing a large amount ol' wini and may look with confidence to tin reaping of particularly vigorous am stalwart whirlwinds. -(.'/.<> mu'll, 1 hiili/ News. Peculiarities of tho South. [Correspondence) of tho ('amp Nows. Philadelphia, Pa.] WALHALLA, S. C., November2f), 1880 -Walhalla is the County seal o Ocoiieo county and is therefore : fair criterion of a Southern low I where thc people for a radius o twenty miles are seen daily on tia main street. This is the railroa? centre of quite a large area and tin only accessible railway station foi thirty miles for tito country North west of this point. It is therefore the market town, and while every day brings more or less to town, Sat urday is the principal day for tia mountaineers, as they aro termed, t< drive into Walhalla. Kvcrylhim. that can be used as a beast of b?rdet is pressed into service. Mules an very common, although they realh have, some fine horses in this country One man brought a large Humber ol Montana horses here at considorabh *-v?onsc, and they might have booi seen cveij v'<>asaiil. day for thc pas! month exercising on M,0 ,",,.", ST They are being rapidly displj)IVo,l ol at good figures. Speaking ot tin peculiar turnouts, it is very eotninoi to sec bulls, steers, and oxen hitcher up indiscriminately, and a late write to the Hartford '/'inns says ilia cows are made lo drag loads in iii highlands of North Carolina, hut have never witnessed anything o the kind here. The mountaineers use a covOI'Oi wagon principally and ca.np out o the road frequently when going lon: distances, and their turnouts rcinin me of thc emigrant wagons on West. Kvory section of lite COMItll' has odd phrases, and here are som of the expressions that seem odd t a Northern man. In speaking of person having gone away from hom or place of business temporarily, i is usual to say, "He's dom- one, or in quoting him to say, UH? don say so." A nice pleasant day is "pretty day" and it covers the grotlhi very nicely, too, I think. "High hard" is another common expression Tho Southerners are proverbial fo their hospitality and are very cordi.' to strangers, and enc of their oft r< pouted statements is thc desire t have Northern men come South an SOO for themselves the institutions < the country. A Northern mau wi (Ind hearty welcome ami a holpin tr / fl" KEOWEE COURIER, [WKKKIA',] - KUTAiu.taHfti/ Ar Old Pickens in 1840, -MOY KI) TO- ' Walhalla in 1868. Destroyed by Fire June 21st, 1887. Re-Established August ll a_1887. hand in establishing himself in this favored community. Tho people nro religiously inclined moro as a rule, I think, than at the North, and their religion partakes largely of the primitive and old fashioned religion of fifty years ago, and as a oonse quenco believers in universal salva tion are few and far between. The colored people here have a church of their own, but I have not, as yet, visited it, but have attended services in the other churches, to wit, Luther an, Baptist, F.piscopal and Congrega tion..!; so you see tho town is well supplied. The OooUOO county Circuit Court was in session last week and I at tended it. The presiding judge, a dignified old gentleman, known ns Judge Frasier, donned the old lash I inned black robe on ascending the j bench, and the crier went out on tho court house steps and gave notice of the opening of court, in a voice that could bc heard three blocks oft, and later when witnesses were backward in presenting themselves, he "called thom" in thc same stentorian voice. One nanto that caused a smile, was "Alack MuckloVcne," who failed to respond at thc first call, and I thought that in all probability he had gone lo Columbia with Marv Muchaplease, one of thc d?fendants, lo ho on hand at tho opening of tho Legislature and have their names changed. But the next day when ho showed his smiling black face on thc witness stand, I concluded Unit ho did hot care whether his name was .Mack Mueklevene or Muck Mneklevono. The majority of the cases presented to the court were tho outgrowth of drunken negro scrapes and lights. One darkey was slabbed and cut up badly by another "bad nigger," who only had one arm, and some of the testimony was laughable lu answer to one question tho bandaged up darkey shook his head and said, "No sir roo Hob," lo emphasize his state ment. lt appeared that tho other canico oil ft is 'razor** an <1 pistol, when asked if he had recoverer them, said (*No, and I want 'em too." ? colored girl describing a fracas she had witnessed, said "the defen dant had cut a stick and walked up lo another and struck him with it," and when asked what kind of wood it was replied, "I don't know what kind of wood it was, but it was oak." This caused a smile on the grave face of tho judge, bater oh tho stum1 witness tobi of the cutting affair Unit followed and said she wits on thc highway, about twenty yards ahead of the others, and "just Walk ing along," and when asked how she could sec till this that occurred back of her, and asked if people did not generally look ahead of them, she nou-plusscd tho lawyer by saying that "eyes wore given to look where you mimi ter," .and all this without a sign pf levity on her much in earnest face. Yours fraternally, A. S. WKI.011. DAVIS ON CHANT. BOSTON, December I'J.-When General Grant was dying in Mount McGregor cottage, tho Boston Globe instructed its New Orleans cor respondent to interview Jefferson Davis. Mr. Davis was not seen per sonally, but ft few days later penned thc following lotter: Dear Sir: Your request <>n behalf <>' ;t Dooloo journal for mo to pre pare :t nu;..;s,n lm fic,u".aj (Jinni's military career, ea.., |". complied with for the following roriSu. fir8i General (?rant is dying; sccono, though ho invaded our country with a ruthless hand, it was \yi i au open hand, and as far as I know, ho abotted neither arson orpillage and bas since tho war, I believe, shown no malig nity lo tho CViiif?derales either of the military Ol' civil service. Therefore, instead of seeking lo disturb tho <|iiiel of his closing hours, I would, if il were itt my power, contribute to tho peace of his mind and tho com fort of his body. J i ; i ? c i: sjsjLi V DAVIS. A Scrap of Paper Saves Her Lifo, it was just an ordinary ?crap ol wrapping pA per, hut ?' ??ved lier lite. She was in thu la*t. Hinges of consumption, mm by physicians th:it -lie w.is Incurnhlo mid contd live only n ?hort i i mo ; Rho weighed less than seventy pounds. On a piece of wrapping pa per she tead <>f Dr. King's New Discovery, and not a sumido hott lo J ii helped her. -lie hough! a Inrgo hottlo, it liplp? eil lier mure, hough! another and gr?w bi-tlcr tas!, continued ils U80 amt If) now strong, healthy, rosy, plump, weighing l t;, pounds. For Inlier particulars send stamp lo W. ll. Cole, druggist, Pori Smilli. Trial hot Ilea nf this wonderful discovery l ice al Neu man Di ng Co.'s drug HiorOi Remorse is tho mother of good re solutions.