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... '* VOL. IX.?Nkw Skiuks. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, JUNE' 28, 1878. *-. NUMBER2c!^^ " For the Times. Kair Forrst, Juno 17, 1878. Mr, Kimtor ;?i see (ante remarks to Citiien that 1 propose noticing, in your last issue; 1st, That 1 brand your Township as being the principal Township opposing Primary Elections. 1 do not brand tho whole Township with it.* I said the County ?cople had their eyes fully open to the task before them. 1 had allusion to the Town of Unisn, where all the wire-pulling generally originates. This is true, or thought to be -eo throughout the county. %d\ L have no more control over the minority bart of tho county executive committee than I ftaj? over the majority; but 1 am informed that bne of the five was instructed to go for the primary system, but be went for Convention.? ? *<**** ool^ggaaiing what he ttoOp ^o be the best pMphfMPdominating officJT. As to the circular, it was well gotteu up $ j^rQ had ten times more weight than that "word iittirar conveution" did. I stilt contend that those y broad assertions had more tendency to dcmoralize than to harmonize. If I understand, the asf scmbling of the Executive Committee is Dot to ? represent the wishes of their constituents but to instruct the voters as to what they think best.? This is why I remarked, "why nothavea minority Circular.'* The committee being so nearly equally divided that both sides should put their argument before the public. You are right it was no fault of the majority that the minority did not place a circular before the public. 3d. That Citizen is very liberal as to his pro rata share of officers from his Township : I did not say that we wanted any more than our pro raid share; and them to be qualified. I only hnd allusion to one of the objections set forth in the circular that under the primary system there would be so many candidates it would almost be impossible to get n majority ; and I stated for information, "l did not think my Township would have more than two candidates." ? I did not state that it was the wish of ray Township for them both to have office or eithet of them, but was willing to submit it to the voters in a primary election; and one other reason why I stated I thought of was, that if other Townships did not have more soreheads than mine there would not be so many candidates after all. 4th. That Citizen is not posted as to election laws. Citizen knows enough to say that it docs not require a majority of voters in the county to elect wheu there may be three or four candidates running for the some office, the one receiving the highest number is declared be elected. aud takes his scat. As to nomination hv con vention, the people make the Law, (or convention) sometimes a convention adopts a majority and other times two-thirds is adopted; but this is not what Citizen is now driving at. The Primary Election plan pluces the voters and candidates back to the old landmarks of our Fathers, that all who desire officer can fun for it before yie her* for several years endured Und smtgpR^B^ get back the rights they had lost by the result of the war. We don't preteud to say but what it is now different to what it was then, for we now have two parties?Democrat and republican? and we know that we are not out of the brush ; and tliiPis one reason that we advocate the Primary system, because we see and know that the voters of Union County will not roll up the worm in the collard leaf and swallow a nomination as they have done. The voters arc getting wearied over the plau of Delegating to or 4 men to say in convention who they shall vote for, 1 don't care how judicious if ma?/ be done.? And 1 still contend it is just as fair for otto section as another to have a primary election, and that there is no law on the subject so us to require a majority vote of tho county, only the law of the pec pie. Tho law of the primary election is just lite same as the law was thirty years ago?when a candidate received the highest .number of votes he was elected. So it ought ..to be in the primary. 1 know the question at dssue is nominating by primary election, and all conventions claim, and justly too, that, a majority must he had. Hut primary und convention lis quite different. Primary is tho wish and vote of the people direct, and that of convention is only a delegation of the people, which ought to have a majority. Besides, we claim all men to be free and have the right to vote for who he pleases. If this lie true, is this the case in voting by a convention, for there are many who are nominated the voters would not cast their votes for. If the primary system was adopted, every voter would have his rights delegated to him to do as he pleases This warrantssatisfaction to all ; this places wire-pulling and log-rol ling out of dispute, and gives evert/ matt a chance fur office that wants it. There will he no pets put in office by Rings and Cliques, &c. Wethink the primary plan the only plan now to prevent that independent party, and Moblcy Party, which seems to worry some so much, from uniting.? Without the primary plan we have our fears. It cannot be charged to the voters of Union County that they have not done their whole duly in elections sinco the war and calmly submitted to whatever the result may be. And they will doit again, if they be allowed the primary plan. As to the mode of conducting the election we say go back to tho old landmark and that is the modo and plan enough for us : The voters of Union County have been looking forward for tiie last 12 years when the time would come that they could past their votes to suit themselves. Wo claim that the men who receive the highest number of Votes for the various offices isjustand fairly elecned; their names arc only put on the list of can.didoite* for state officers, to give us ntrcnght in the Stw/te election, and this will prevent (lie Indcpeuda&i parly (if any) from coming in at the jgeueral ele&Uou. It will be seen in this campaign that we sire right , or we think so, and the greatest precaution should be taken to prevent .. ui.IW t'.,r niu'u until k i.lit fiirover There should ,,"F',V? , 1 # be no party mo #olieitou? mid vain as to not yield to the wishes of the Democratic voters of -our county. Thoy have been true : the supposed illiterate must be heard some iu this campaign. CITIZEN. An Omaha poker player (lied very quietly the other day. He was playing in a saloon with three others, when a dispute arose about the betting. Ho was loud in his assertions, though every jody believed him to be lying, and at last he said, "I hope Christ will kill tnu if it isn't so!" He had dealt the hand himself and then passed it to the next player, who shuffled theeards and asked him to cut. Hut the blasphemous player did not cut, and a look into his face disclosed the fact that ho was dead SEND THE BEST MEN. It was a decided hit made by Governor i lluuiptou, in his speech at Auderson, whcu he told the people of South Caroliua to pick ' out their bust uicu and scud them to the Legislature?make them go iuto the service , of the Slate. He was giving advice which ' has since found lodguieut in every uook and corner of the State, aud if we roud the 1 signs of the times aright the people are preparing to act upou the suggestiou by deuiaudiug the services of the very best uieu tvHi\ arn unf r* r\I? in 1 * " ? ? M |IV Utv KUI iiutt u VUIV/O. 11 13 UU 11UII3 for selecting legislators with reference tq expediency, locality or occupation. r?Ihs qtUiUOTT-m- etpnuiJucy' ur sjmy* frattght with danger'to the Best interests of the people. A uian whose nomination merely fills u gap created by supposed political uecessities does not. as a general rule, come up to the standard of fitness in other respects, lie is governed too umch in his couduct by refereuce to the expedient which caused him to rise to the surface, and in deciding questions of the utmost concern to the State, when independence aud selfreliance ought to govern, he is too apt to guage his conduct by the supposed popularity of the uieasure uuder consideration. He never cleaves the way for useful aud practical legislation, nor rises above the prejudices of the hour, hut is always ou the sceut for the popular side of every question. Iu reference to the locality of candidates, it has grown to be the custom iu some counties to make up a ticket composed of men selected for their geographical location ?a custom which would oftimcs be more honored in the breach than the observance. Members of the Legislature do not represent particular sections of their counties when they come together to enact laws.for the State. Indeed, bcyoud the mere local legislation which is required for the several couuties, the members arc representatives < of tho Stato in the truest sense. They are to make laws which operate with equal force upon every citizen, and in discharg- i ing this high trust no conscientious man , will undervalue the rights aud privileges of j all sections of tho State. It doubtless ( serves a good purpose to distribute the re- | sponsibilitics of jirelocal officers, such as t County Commissioners, for in'stauco, where if chosen from the class of men who are , qualified by reason of their abilities and j character for the position. Thoy are equally , familiar with every portiou of their couu- | tics, or else they arc fully capablo of ascer- | taming its peculiar needs without residing , iu any special locality. i Then, again, a man's occupation docs not i give him any ciuim upon the position.? I There arc scores of lawyers who are unfit ] to make laws, because the prerequisites of 1 j a well balanced mind, independence of i | thought and just equipoise ia uctiou, are# I j sadly wanting iu some of the ?le?al .fwter- l uity. But the mcrc^ct thai one ir'a la'w-' 1 yer cannot be held against any man who is otherwise worthy of election. Iu truth, < the prejudice against sending lawyers is a < lamentable misfortune to the State. Tbe ; crude and hasty legislation of the past two i years might have been largely avoided, if I there had been a more liberal distribution I of the legal fraternity who were cognizant i of tbe laws in force already. A few men, I no matter how well versed in thcii^AfK'Ufes- t sion, could not inspect every measure crtti-" jj cally as it passed through the ordinary" i course of legislation. It requires c.reful- ' ness to a great degree in the most ordinary t situation of affairs, and when a Legislature is confronted with the most difficult prob- t louts growing out of an anomalous condition i of society, as was tbe ease with the last i Legislature, it does require wisdom and ex- < pcrtencc to steer clear of blunders and uiis- j takes. Tbe wonder is that so few were i committed. In our judgment, then, it is folly to se- i leot numbers of the Legislature by reason i of their, occupation or residence, and far more damaging to choose them for their ; availability on tbe grounds of expediency. It is the best men that are wanted to deal with the intricate questions before the next Legislature. The men who are best adapted to the work before them, because of their training, industry and devotion to tiiu olutc. iucti 01 brains anil character, with the will anil determination to do what is right, regardless of the effect it will have upon their personal popularity. The work of rehabilitation is not complete. Much has bccu done in a short time, but vastly more remains to be accomplished.? The Legislature next winter will not be idle or unemployed. It should be composed of men capable of dealing with every emergency, and in all respects Ht exponents of . 'the honor, intclligoueo and wisdom of South Carolina the crowning adornment of the mighty revolution whioh ha* transformed the commonwealth from a pit of corruption and degradation into the dwelling-place of decency, morality and highest integrity in official life, and illumined the hopes and acpiratioiis of a people who were crushed beneath a heavier weight than ever bore down upon Anglo-Saxon civilization.? Send the best men to complete this work. ? Columbia Register. OVER PRODUCTION OF COTTON Q0OD8. Ou May 26, fourteen of the m-gest manufacturing couipauieti if New l&iglaud sold at public auction in this city, Without re- ui serve, and for the highest price they would Si bring, 10,000 packagcaof dom.sQcs. This 0. immense sale of standard and seasonable goods brought togcthb* buyers from all at parts of the country. KThe -rcsu|t of tlic wl transaction established. averagjc dccliue gi ut about ten per cegt. < prices previously er ruliug for the same Ific of goods. It is w< bv manufactured that these prices th ^r^jj U0C'8 ? tvvo *^a principal factors?raw materiufe and labor. Sj Afterward couic interest ou capital and iu general cxpcuscs. Notwithstanding the -wt meat nroirress of lat? vanrs m Jo ?~i? ??' ing those expenses, especially that ot' labjr, G< through improved machinery, the difference M to-d iy existing between the ?.oet of production aud the sclliug price of Auiericau do- sit mcstics docs uot warrant the continuous th runuiugof our Eastern mills. Ou the 25th ro of May eight Fall ltiver mills, tho Flint, K Stafford, Wauipanoag, Chace, Kobesou, fc< Tecumsch, Wetauioe, aud Troy, aggregating thi a weekly production of 40,000 pieces, shut tb> down for a week. This is the beginniugof tin a movement among Eastern manufacturers sui to secure the stoppage of mills on alternate Tfc weeks, until the price for cloth shall be th< such as will yield a fair return ou the out- iuj lay for labor and capital. Had this system been adopted a year ago, the heavy losses th< of mill owuers durinp% tho last twelve coi months might havo been avoided. del Sqyeral of the mills iu Paw tucket have am shut down. A general movement of this wb kind throughout New England would soon *Lo effect a marked improvement in the price of * ' domestics. However absolute the law^of fi? ] demand aud supply, it docs uot prevent an tMi intimate connection between the selling rU" price aud the cost of production. It isjiot/ au< surprising that production has run ahetld c>4 consumption. In the textile iudustri<4 tu l^c progress of iuvcution has produced .exiw- c^u ordinary results.. Steam spins, wcuVes #d I1?1 prints a thousand different stuffs, whicytlie hei jewing machine afterward seizes hold^)f.? au* A good weaver could formerly turnout ten dm aiMBKSiB minute. The French loom produces from bes 3,000 to 6,000, the straight automatic loom bri 15tOOO, the circular stitch loom 50,000 to wo UO^OO, the articulated needle loom 240,- Mt 900 at first, then 360,000, ancL^uow the ?v< Joublc circular gives 500,000. So that a Fri; workman produces from 2,000 to 3,000 coi times the work of a knitter ot the old Limes. The long continued and severe de- up pression in our manufacturing industries str has resulted iu an immense shrinkage in mill property. How gr^t lias been w i*. efcown b/.w^^Wfe?i(?fc5lo off yfuj lie Salisbury uulls^^hough nearly oue ion liundred and fifty oap?iali?tar"Tfoii? New Vork, Philadelphia and Boston were prcs- tio snt at tho sale, a property stated to huvo hie cost the present company, $1,20.0,000 was, W after some spiritless bidding, knocked down ani to Mr. J no. Gardner, of Boston, for $160,- on 000. Tho mills are in good repair and can St. be started up immediately without any ad- lati Jitional expense. There are 188 tenement tw houses and twenty-seven .stores included in ?u.> ^ho, property sold. There arc likewise we reservoirs, coiitrofli^g till the scl water from tidewut8f back for "'ten 'utiles. dr? flie mills shut down about a year ago^md iit{, jver since have been closed. . twi While ovcr-priHuct^w up home has glut- no tod tho market with Amcricai# dojfestica, sid the imports of dry g^ods for djftp bm five fat montliMof the prescut year ?liv, jrithout he exception, a de<#b?^in nil claflp of goods do as compared with the correspowiiug period an of last year. The consuniptiota of foreign sai goods in all cases has been less, but in cot- mc ton goods more especially so. 'There exists as among us a class of so-called manufacturers tru ml rwtlitinnl PiMnnniiela aim li.irn mmtlinn m< got it into their heads tqpt the one thing | ire needful to relieve us of our surplus maim- an factored goods, to provide employment for an the thousands of operatives now in a condi- tlv tion of enforced idleness?say at Fall ltivcr, pa Mass., and other Eastern manufacturing ag centres ? is a plentiful supply of ocean bo steamships to open up to us tho trade of pr South America and other couutries, at wu present pretty much monopolized by Eng- tie laud and (jlcrmauy. The idea is that it is ho a mere question of steamships, and nothing du else. In point of fact, there is no dearth th of steamships if only they could be profitably employed. There nro merchants in this city to day who will gladly put on CI steamers to any foreign country, provided gr ou* manufacturers will guarantee cargoes, se and that, too, without nskiug s subsidy Fi from the United States or Brazil. th H I)3D our manufacturers can undersell on England and Germany in tho markets of up the world?and perhaps before?Eastern N mills will run on full time all the year round. That (imc has not yet arrived.?AT Y. Sun. in All obs crving young gentleman of al- at most three years said, during a fj&use in tho conversation : ''Mrs. Jones, yopr teeth [ down again." ^ i is I v * * * & 7 DEATH BETWEEN TWO TRAINS. PoUUUKEEPsI K, JuUC 14. Lieutenant dward 11. Totten, ot the regular army, et with a frightful death near Cold Spriug .utiou, ou the Hudson River Railroad, at 30 o'clock this moruiug. Lieutenant Totteu attended the exercijes West Poiut yesterday, and was present heu the diplomas were awarded to the aduatio)' class, ltciug a relative of Govuor Kcuihlu's t'liinilv :it ('nil! Snriiu? li#? jut to their bouse lust evening aud spent o night there. This morning, about 9 clock, he announced bis iutention of rorniug tp.'VVout Point to see sornc^rieuds rr tandThc young Indies of tbc Kemble biTly concluded to go with him to Cold jring dock, where he was to take passage a small boat for West Point. The party is composed of Miss Maria T. Kemble, lio is about eighteen years of age ; Miss intrude Kemble, a ti itie younger, aud iss May Kemble, aged twelvo or thirteen. The party went from the Kcuiblc mau)n through the adjacent grovo and down e path leudiug to the Hudson llivr ltailnd track. Tlic steps leading from the euible grouuds to the track are about 500 it soutb of the only rock cut between uui and Cold Spriug Station. When ey guiued the railway all walked along on a up track, laughiug and chatting, till ddeuiy a locomotive whistlo was heard, le party looked southward and observed c Poughkccpsio passenger train approach*. They wero a little bewildered for a ?meut, whom a man ahead of them told mi to hurry to an open space where they aid hud safety. They either did not uurstand him or became more bewildered, d all rushed across to the down track, ten, looking northward, they saw the St. uis express coming at the rate of forty les an hour and close on them, for there a sharp curve there. Miss Gertrude and ss May Kemble, with great presence ot nd, ran back across the last track agaiu i got out of the way of both trains. Miss Mollic (Maria) Keiublc stepped off > down track to a wall close to it and ng as close to the wall as possible, with r back towards the fast frnin anil hnlilincr , ? : skirls down with bcr hands. Lieuteu. Tottcn stood between both the up aud *u tracks edgeways, with his face to the i you^gjiiea Partly the downtrack VTth fFe^ck of his sd crushed in aud his neck and au arm iken and the bl od flowing from his unds. When the trains passed, Miss )llie, who had clung to ihe wall expecting ;ry iustaut to be killed, fainted from gilt aud was carried off in au insensible idition, but aftorwards recovered. The naius of Lieuteuaut Totteu were picked as tenderly as possible, placed upon a etcher and carried to the Keuible mann. The.fireman of the locomotive attached ^it^Wughkee'psia. train makes tho foliow' statement:. ... We were coming into Cold Spring Stau this morning at 9.10, when 1 saw three lies and a gentleman on the up track.? e blowed our whistle aud ruug our bell, d they saw us coming and stepped over the down track. Just then 1 saw the Louis express coming south. The young lies'appeared to see tho train ulso, and o of theui recrossed our track to the >t side. The other lady stepped to the st of the down 'rack and crowded hcrf close against the wall, and pulled her iSSJilysc around Jv-T, with her arms hang: close to her side. The man stood bcccu the up and down tracks with his sides rth and south, his hands close to his lea, Willi his nrflis af full Iuugth aud his :e looking towards tho girl. 1 saw that had no earthly chaucu unless he laid wn, but you could not nuke him hear, d the trains were too close to stop. 1 v the eugioeer of the St. Louis express >tion the girl with his two hands to cling close to the wall as pus ible. Just as our lius were passing each other I saw the in's straw hat blow off and it struck the >ut of my engine. I looked to the rear d saw the engine, mail oar, baggage cur d two passenger cars of the St. Louis pass rs man without touching hioi, but the third sscngcr car struck him and knocked him uinst the last car of my train and he unded back under the wheels of the ox* ess. The girl who was clinging to the ill saw the engineer of the St. Louis morning to her uud pulled her dress about r uiore tightly. When we stopped Contctor Lewis sent a man back to look after e people. Lieutenant Totten was the grandson of eneral Totten, who was for many years i aiuf of United States Engineers lie aduatcd at West Point in 18G5, and for veral yenrs after was Adjutant of tlie irst Artillery, stationed at Newport, and at was his station at time of his tragic id. He was between 33 and 31 years of ;e. IIo leaves a wife, who resides at cwport. Next, in point of meanness, to doing an jury, is to do a man a favor and every now id then remind him of it. The most sentimental exercises yet known said to be women swimming in tears. THE COLORED VOTI. The Abbeville County Democratic Convention refuses to uiluiit colored clubs to representation in that body, but permits colored uicu to uuito with the several clubs on exactly the same footing with white men.? The color liuo has bccu wiped out and both 1 j races are to stand upiu a csuiuiou platform oi equal rights and equal justice tu nil, without regard to race, color or previous condition. This is certainly a jump, uot a step, forward for a couuty that ha?-*rt)laclc majority. Abbeville and Edgefield, adjoin* iug counties, static!' just opposed to each other in their ideas about managing the colored vote, both, wo think, adopting e*-? treinos. The proper disposition of this voto iu the State, and particularly in the low country couutics, is a question with which the Democracy will have to conteud at no distant day ; and every step taken toward its adjustuieut should be deliberately considered before decided upon. Tho colored pcoplo are citizens and voters in our country; whether ignorant or uot, whether by or agaiust our will, docs not affect the fact, and they must be fairly and justly dealt with by the Democracy.? If our conduct toward them be other than just, wo can never expect to do away with their prejudices uud unite them with us upon any reasonable terms. The color of the mau will decide to what party he belongs, save a few scalawags who, for plunder and gain, may be united with one or the other, as bis intarest leads hiui to elect. Politically, the colored uian is our equal, made to both by the laws of the naliou of which we arc subjects and by tho laws of the State iu which our destinies arc cast, and these laws we cannot annul or ohangc materially. Ilis vote in the ballot box counts equal with the white mau's vote, either to redress an injury or to pcrpetrnto a fraud ; and ther.o is no force which tho white man can bring to beur upon that vote tu nrnncrl* ' 1 r..r,.v v...^,v.v iv, nave nib superior intelligence. When the colored man holds tho balance of power, as he evidently docs iu this aud other counties, the white man dares not ignore the influence of his vote; if he docs, it is at the peril of his own interest and the best iutercstof his country. With these facts, therefore, so tangibly before U9, it becouiesaquestionofjrrea^-^^^^^^^^ direct the 'influence bf his our superior intelligence ? We certainly cannot do it by standing aloof and leaviug him to the manipulations of cunning politicians in the shape of shrewd carpet baggers, or unprincipled scalawags; but a position must be assumed iu some wny, which will enable us to bring our intelligence in contact with the voter and thus control the vote.? There can be no better time to assume this position than now, or more important political principles involved than thoscofl l4># coming campaign. ^ It strikes us at this writing, as a necessity of the proper petition, that political principles should determine the party lines aud not color or race. Abbeville may havo struck the right chord, but we are sure Edgefied has not.? Orai.gebury Times. Horrible if True.?Eurkevillo, Va., June 12.?A horrible affair occurred here this morning between Jennie Miller and Iter husband, Anderson Miller, standing very well among the citizens, and, until his marriage, being a very quiet and peaceful young inan. About two years ago, against the wishes and advice of his friends nnd parentr, ho married Joiiniu Tyler, a good looking girl, but possessing a vicious teuipe rand will of her own that gave indications that she would make her busbaud's houie a hot place. At first they fA Ka " l?? - 1 ... uv vuuiii^ u niijijij mnrricu i life, but gradually the wife's temper manifested itself in various ways, and to day the connubial quarrels culminated by tho . most awful tragedy ever enacted in this part of Virginia. The husbaud and wilb ^ were seated at (he breakfast table with an . invited guests, when the husbaud chanced to discover a fly in the biscuits, or thought he saw one. Anyhow, ho said, "Jennie, you aro a bad oook to let flies get in the bread" The wife's temper increased as she spoke, and Anally she called her husband a liar. lie remonstrated with her for using such language in tho prcsenco of an invited guest. Fairly beside herself with , rage, sho caught up a new axe which was lying on tho hearthstone, and before the guest could interfere, she bad brained her husbaud. When he fell to the floor she . brought the keen blade of the axe down on his neck, completely severing the head from , the body, the head rolliug on towards tho Aro, and the body rolling under tho table. The wretched woman is in jail awaiting i_:_i it. 4* . A * inai, wie .Magistrate nnvmg rclused hail. -^r- 101 ' ** A Dnnbury man who VMt to a drug store to have a prescription prepared, seeing nobody but a clerk present, said : "Young man, are you keeping company with a girl?" "Yes, sir," snswercd the clerk with a blush. "l)o you think tho world of her?" "Ido," said the clerk firmly, although blushing considerably. "Is slio in town," pursued the customer anxiously. "No, sir; she is away on a visit." "That will do," said the man, decisively. "You can't fool around uny prescriptions tor me." And he wcutaway.