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VOL. IX.?New Series. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, JUNE 28, 1878. NUMBER 2G. * " " '* ' - ' ^ - - - 1 . ..a . J. 1 H-fc ! J- J- m ! . .J !?l. _LU !LJ.' ? . J J J - . ' - L. - - -X-. M ' For the Times. | SEND THE BEST MEN. 1 OVCP pnnnnnri?? ? ? 1 r a ir rosHT, Juno 17, 1&78. Mr. Kimtor ;?1 see some remarks to CitUen that i propose noticing, in your last issue ; 1st. That 1 brand your Township as being tho principal Township opposing Primary Elections. 1 do not brand tho whole Township with it.* I said tha County people had their eyes fully open to the task before them. I had allusion to lite Town of Union, where all the wire-pulling generally originates. This is true, or thought to be -tto throughout the county. 3d. I have no more control over the minority bart of the county executive committee than L tiavy over the majority; but I am informed that <pne of the five was instructed to go for the priniary system, but he went for Convention.? was well [zolten un bad ten times more weight than that "word ,;> i^Amr convention" did. I stilt contend thai thoso W broad assertions had more tendency to dcmoralw ize than to harmonize. If I understand, the asyr sembling of the Executive Committee is not to represent the wishes of their constituents but to j instruct the voters as to what they think best.? This is why I remarked, "why not havea ininorI ity Circular.'' The committee being so nearly equally divided that both sides should put their 1 argument before the public. Youare right it was no fault of the majority that the miwerity did , not place a circular before the public. 8d. That Citizen is very liberal as to his pro rata share of officers from his Township : I did not say that we wanted any mere than our pro 1 rati share ; and them to be qualified. I only j had 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 a majority ; and I stated for information, "I did not think my Township would have more than two candidates."? I did not state that it was the wish of my Towns' ship for them both to have office or eithet of r 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 he so many oandidates after all. 4th. That Citizen is not posted as to election laws. Citizen knows enough to say that it does not require a majority of voters in the county to elect when there may be three or four candidates running for the some office, the one receiving the highest number is declared be elected, and takes his seat. As to nomination by convention, the people make the Law, (or convention) sometimes a convention adopts a majority and other limes two-thirds is adopted; but this is not whatCitizen is now driving at. ThePrimary ? Election Dlan Dlaces tha voi?m ??it muxii.i.i.. back to the old landmarks of our Fathers, that 8 . of the war. We don't pretend to say but what it i is now diff^ent to what it was then, for we now (] hare two parlies?Democrat and republican? c and we know that we are not out of the brush ; j mud thi#is one reason that we advocate the Primary system, because we see and know that the 1 voters of Union County will not roll up the t worm in the collard leaf and swallow a nomi- i nation as they have done. The voters are gelting wearied over the plau of Delegating to 8 or 4 men to say in convention who they shall vote ? for, I don't care how judicious it may be done.? J And i still contend it is just as fair for one see- t tion as another to have a primary election, and a that there is no law on the subject so as to re- ( quire a majority vote of the county, only the law of the pec pie. The law of the primary * election is just the same as the law was thirty E y cars ago?when a candidate received the highest y .number of votes he was elected. 8o it ought u .to be in the primary. I know the question at . tissue is nominating by primary election, and all . conventions claim, and justly too, that a majori- ? ty must he had. Uut primary and convention c lis quite different. Primary is the wish and vote y of the people direct, and that of convention is t only a delegation of the people, whieh ought to have a majority, besides, we claim all men to be free and have the right to vote for who he c pleases. If this be true, is this the case in vo- t ting by a convention, for there are many who s are nominated the voters would not cast their c votes for. If the primary system was adopted, every voter would have his rights delegated to * him to do as he pleases This warrants sat isfnc- r . lion to all; this places wire-pulling and log-rol- 8 ling out of dispute, and gives every man a chance j for office that want* it. There will he no pets put ] in office by Rings and Cliques, &c. Wethink the primary plau the only plan now to prevent that *j Independent party, aud Mobley Party, which ' seems to worry some eo much, from uniting.? { Without the primary plan we have our fears. It t cannot be charged to the voters of Union County ( that tbey have not done their whole duty in elec;-iii tj^ns since the war and calmly submit ted to whatever the result may be. And they will doit again, I if they be allowed the primary plan. As to the ( mode of conducting the election we say go back | to the old landmark and that is the mode and , plan enough for us : The voters of Union Coun- , ty have been looking forward for lite Inst 12 years when the time would come that they could 1 last their votes to suit themselves. We claim ] that the men who receive the highest number of | votes for the variousoffices isjust and fairly eleo- , their names are only put on the list of candidates for state officers, to give us strenght in ithe State election, and this Will prevent the In- 1 depepdasd party (if any) from coming in at the jgeueral election. It will be seen in this cam- < g>aign that ws art right, or we think se, and the < greatest precaution should be taken to prevent a split?for ones split split fursver. There should be no party so solicitous and vain as to not ' yield to tha wishas of tha Democratic voters of 1 Awr county. They have beea true ; the supposed ( illiterate must be heard some la this campaign. CITIZEN. j A.u Omaha pokor player died eery quiet- *i ly the other day. He was playing in a sa- < loon with three others, whcn'a dispute i aroso about the betting. He was loud in i l:. -- >: _ _u i_ Lj!. a i?io aiw5ry?uip9j otcijf Juujf ucucvcu < hiia to be lying, and <ut last ho said, "I hopo i Christ will bill ?? if it isn't so !" He had < dealt the hand himself and then passed it to i the nest player, who ahufl)ed the cards and oslced him to out. But the blasphemous < player did not cut, and a look into hia face i 4i#>to#e<|.tbe fact that he was dead. It was a decided hit made by Governor Ilumptou, ill his speech at Anderson, wlicu he told the people of South Carolina to pick out their bust uieu and scud theui to the Legislature?make theui go iuto the service of tho State. He was giving advice which hus since found lodgment in every nook and corner of the State, uud if we roud the signs of the times aright the people are prepariug to act upon the suggestion by douiaudiug the services of the very best uieu who arc not now in office. It is no tiuio. for sclectiug legislators with reference to expediency, locality or occupation. Tfie qOostlon or ex^arcircy^u' alway, fraOght with danger"to the Best interests of tho people. A man whose nomination merely fills a gap created by supposed political necessities does not. as a general rule, come up to the standard of fituess in other respects. lie is governed too much in his couduct by reference to tho expedient which caused him to rise to tho surface, and in dcoidiug questions of tho utmost conceru to the State, when independence aud selfreliance ought to govern, he is too apt to guagc his conduct by the supposed popularity of the measure uuder consideration. He never ?Ip?vp? ll?? '??? 1 _ ??u " a J IUI uauiui a I] CI practical legislation, nor rises above the prejudices of the hour, but is always on the sceut for the popular side of every question. Iu reference to the locality of candidates, t bus grown to bo the custom iu some ;ounties to make up a ticket composed of men selected for their geographical location ?a custom which would oftimes be more Honored in the breach than tho observance. Members of the Legislature do not ropretent particular sections of their counties when they come together to enact laws, for he State. Indeed, beyond the mere local egislatiou which is required for the several iouulies, tho members are representatives >f tho Stnto in the truest sense. They are o make laws which operate with equal ore* upon every citizen, and in dischargng this high trust no conscientious man rill undervalue the rights and privileges of ill sections of the State. It doubtless erve8 a gcod purpose to distribute the re o !* *- t ~ Jjunorui I inua U1 JWT3 1QC?1 OJUCCrS, SUCtl B8 I ( Tounty Commissioners, for iustonco, whore f chosen from the class of men who are , [ualifiod by reason of their abilities anil , haraeter for the position. They are equally . , uuiiliur with every portiou of their couu-" 1 ies, or elso they are fully capable of ascer- i aining its peculiar needs without residing , n any special locality. Then, again, a man's occupation docs not i ;ive him any ciuiui upon the position.? There arc sec-res of lawyers who are unfit o make laws, because the prerequisites of well balanced mind, indcpcndcnco of hought and just equipoise ia action, are* udly wanting in some of tho Jegah .fcater- i lity. But the mcr^iact that one ira law-" er cannot bo hctd 'against any man who is >therwi9e worthy of election. Iu truth, he prcjudico against sending lawyers is a amcntablo misfortune to the State. The rrude and hasty legislation of the past two rears might have been largely avoided, if here hud been a more liberal distribution if the legal fraternity who were cognizant if the laws in force already. 'A few men, 10 matter how well vcrsdd ion, could not inspect every measure rally as it passed through the ordinairyT ourse of legislation. It requires Cirefulicss to a great degree in the most ordinary ituation of affairs, and when a Legislature s confronted with the most difficult prob cuts <rrowiotr out of an anomalous condition if society, as was the ease with the last Legislature, it does require wisdom and extcrience to steer clear of blunders and uiisakes. The wonder is that so few were soinwittod. In our judgment, then, it is folly to scent msmbers of tho Legislature by reason >f their, occupation or residence, aud far nore damaging to choose them for their ivailability on tho grounds of expediency. It is the best men that are wanted to deal with the intricate qucstious before the next Legislature. The men who aro best ndap;cd to the work before them, because of their training, industry aud dcrotion to the State. Mob of brains aud character, with the will aud determination to do what is right, regardless of the effect it will have upon their personal popularity. The work of rehabilitation is not compete. Much has bcuu douo iu a short time, but vastly more remaio9 to be accomplished.? The Legislature next winter will not be idle [>r unemployed. It should be composed of moa capable of dealing with every emergenoy, and in all respects fit exponents of the honor, intelligonoe and wisdom of South Carolina the crowning adornment of the mighty revolution whieh haw rtransfriTflM/l the commonwoalth from a pit of corruption and degradation into the dwelling-place of decenoy, morality and highest integrity in official life, and illumined the hopes and aspirations of a people who wore crushed beneath a heavier weight than ever bore down upon Anglo-Saxon civilization.? Send the bost men to ooinplcto this work. ? Columbia tiegxtler. | w .mm *MVtf vvaavci Vf WUiTUA HOODS* On May 2G, fourteen of the Mrgest manufacturing companies if New Etiglaud void at public auction in this city, Without reservo, and for the highest price they would bring, 10,1)00 packugcuof dom.sijca. This iuiuieuso sale of standard uud seasonable goods brought togcthk* buyers front all parts of the country. eXIio rcsidt of the transaction established tn average dceliue ot about teu per cegt.'oi prices previously ruliug for the same ike of goods. It is cj>agii(^ by fciauufactureh that these prices are nwAinhuerutive ; but'it becauie uocesI *'fcbe market of xhocostotproaucuon^le^^wou two principal factors?raw materials and labor. Afterward couic interest ou capital and general cxpouscs. Notwithstanding the great progress of late years uiade in reducing these expenses, especially that of labar, through improved machiuery, the ditfereucc to-day cxistiug between the tost of production aud the selling price of Amcricau domestics docs uot warrant the continuous running ot our Eastern mills. Ou the 25th of May eight Fall River mills, the Flint, Stafford, Wauipanoag, Chuce, llobcsou, Tecuuisch, Wctauioe, and Troy, aggregating a weekly production of 40,000 pieces, shut dowu for a week. This is the beginning of a movement among Eastern manufacturers to secure the stoppage of mills ou alternate weeks, until the price for cloth shall bo such as will yield a fair return on the outlay for labor aud capital. Had this system beou adopted a year ago, the heavy losses of mill owuers duriup. tho last twelve mouths might have been avoided. oral of the mills in Pawtuckct have Ishut down. A general movement of this kind throughout New England would soon effect n marked improvement in the price of ' domestics. However absolute the law?of I demand and supply, it docs uot prevent an intimate connection between the selling > price aud the cost of production. It is.noUsurprising that production has run ahe*l (m consumption. In the textile indush^<? tu progress of iuvcution has produced eximordinary results.. Steam spins, weaves Mid prints a thousand different stuffs, which* hie sew log machine afterward seises hold'of.? I A good weaver could formerly 4urorout ten minute. Tho French loom produces from 5,000 to 6,000, the straight automatic loom 15^000)- the circular stitch loom 50,000 to bO',000, the articulated needle loom 240,000 ut first, then 360,000, aiitLpfiow the double circulur gives 500,000. So that a workman produces from 2,000 to 3,000 times the work of a knitter ot the old times. The long continued and severe depression in our manufacturing industries has resulted iu an immense shrinkage in mill property. a How has been wiv&own by.Wfc^Nb*if^iSale of . the Salisbury mills.^ Though nasHy otic * hundred and fifty capitalists' ftom New York, Philadelphia and Boston were present at tho sale, a property stated to have cost the present company, $1,200,000 was, after some spiritless bidding, knocked down to Mr, Juo. Gurdaer, of Bostou, for $160,AAA mi '* uuu xiio mills are in good repair and can be started up immediately without any additional expense. There are 188 tenement houses and twenty-scveu stores included iu j^^uroperty sold. There arc likewise .reservoir^ ooutroifcj^ ull the water IVom tidewatif buck for ten* utiles. The mills shut down about a year ngo^and ever since have been closed. While over-prrfiuct^M home baa glutted the market with inetfo(M|_d^ftptic*, the imports of dry npds fo^B| fiJR five montlitfof the. presenByear oHv, yithout exception, a '? idl enfles df goods as compared witn thefcorres|#pKn{f period of last year. The consumppob of foreign goods in all cases has been leas, hut in cotton good* more especially so. There exists among us a class of so-otllod manufacturers and political economists %ho hare somehow got ft into their Jieuds the one thing J needful to relievo us of x>ur surplus manufactured good*, to provide employment for the thousands of operativos now in a condition of enforced idloucss?say at Fall ltiver, Mass., and othor Eastern manufacturing centres?is a plentiful supply of ocean steamships to open up to ua the trade of South America and other couutries, at preseut protty much monopolised by England and Germany. The idea is that it is a mere question of stoamshipa, and nothiug else. In point of fact, there is no dearth of steamships if only they oould be profitably employed. There are merchants in this city to day who will gladly pat on atenmera to any foreign country, provided Wm asaawfaotaHittk.,wtffgttar&rtfc cargoes, and that, too, without aslunst * .subsidy from the United Slates or Braail. . Whin our manuiaoturers oan undersell England and Qermany in the markets of the world?and pfrhaps before?Eastern mills will ran oafull time all the rear round. That titno has sot yet arrived.?If. X' Sun. ??????? An observing young gentleman of almost throe years said, during a Jkuse in the conversation : ''Mrs. Jones, Itf jopr teeth down again." ^ ' ) i 15 i DEATH BETWEEN TWO TRAINS. Pouuukkepmk, Juue 14.?Lieutenant lOdward il. Tutten, ot tho regular uruiy, uiet with a frightful death ucar Cold Spring Station, on the Hudson lliver Railroad, at i).30 o'clock this morning. Lieutenant Tottcu attended the exercises at West Point yesterday, and was present wheu the diplomas were awarded to the graduating class, llciug a relative of Gov: cruor Kcuiblu's family at Cold Spring, he weut to their house last evening aud spent the night there. This morning, nbout 'J o'clock, he auuounccd bis iuteution of retarniug to West Point to see souic^Tricuds pff, ami the young ladies of the Kemblc Family concluded to go with him to Cold Spriug dock, where he was to take passage iu a small boat for West Point. The party was composed of Miss Maria T. Kemblc, who is about eighteen years of age ; Miss Gertrude Keuiblc, a tiiflc younger, aud Miss May Keinble, aged t welvo or thirtceu. The party went from the Keuiblc mansion through the adjacent grove and down the path leadiug to the Hudson lliver Rail road track. The steps loading from the Keuible grouuds to the track arc about 500 feet south of the uuly rock cut belwecu them and Cold Spring Station. When they gained the railway ull walked along on the up track, laughiug and chatting, till suddeuiy a locomotive whistle was heard. The party looked southward and observed the Poughkccpsiu passenger train approaching. They wcro a little bewildered for a uiomuut, whea a man ahead of them told them to hurry to an open space where they could find safety. They either did not understand him or became more bewildered, and all rushed across to the down track, when, lookiug northward, they saw the St. Louis express couiiug at the rate of forty miles an hour and close on them, for there lis a sharp curve there. Miss Gertrude and Miss May Keuible, with great presence ot mind, ran back across the last track again and got out of the way of both trains. Mi6s Mollic (Maria) Keuible stepped off tho down track to a wall close to it and clung as close to tho wall as possible, with her back towards the fast train and holdiug her skirls down with her hands. Lieutenant Tottcu stood between both the up and down tracks edgeways, with his face to the sTthi dcR tV.oV?in, i? his h'ead crushed iu and his neck and au arm broken and the bl od flowing from his wounds. When the trains passed, Miss Mollie, who had clung to the wall expcctiug every instant to be killed, fainted from fright and was carried off in au insensible condition, but aftorwards recovered. The i ? ... icuittiua vi xjivutcuuui xoueu were picked up ns tenderly us possible, placed upou a stretcher and carrjed to the Kemble mansion. The .fireman of the locomelive attached tOjl&JPffagbVeepsie. train makes the following statement: We were coming into Cold Spriug Statiou this morning at 9.10, when 1 saw thrco ladies and a gentleman on the up track.? We blowed our whistle uud rung our bell, and they saw us coming and stepped over on the down track. Just then 1 saw the St. Louis express coming south. The young ladies appeared to see the train ulso, uud two of them recrossed our track to the oust side. The other lady stepped to the west of the down 'rack and crowded herself close against the wall, aud pulled her dresajtl.08e around ii^r, with her nrm? hanging close to her side. The man stood between the up und down traeks with his sides north and south, his hands close to his side*, Witt* ftiearflls af full length and his face looking towards the girl. 1 saw thnt he had no earthly chauce unless he laid down, but you could not make him hear, and the trains were too close to stop. 1 saw the engineer of the St. Louis express motion the girl with his two hands to cliug as close to tho wall as pos-ible. Just as our trains were passing each other I saw the man's straw hat blow off and it struck the frout of my engine. 1 looked to the rear and saw the engine, mail oar, buggage car and two passenger cars of the St. Louis pass the man without touching him, but the third passenger oar struck him and kuooked him against tho last car of my train and he bounded back under tho wheels of the express. Tho girl who was clinging to the wall saw the engineer of the St. Louis motioning to her uud pulled her dress about her more tightly. When we stopped Con ductor jjcwis sent a man back to look after the people. Lieutenant Totton was the grandson of General Totton, who was for many years Chief of United States Engineers lie graduated at West Point in 1865, and for several years after was Adjutant of the First Artillery, stationed at Newport, and that was his station at time of his tragic end. lie was between 33 and 34 years o( age. He leaves a wife, who resides al Newport. Next, in point of moanness, to doing an injury, is to do a man a favor and overy now and then remind him of it. IThe most sentimental exercises jet known is Mid to be women swimming in tears. THE COLORED VOTE. The Abbeville County Democratic Cotlvcutiou icfuses to admit colored clubs to representation in that body, but pcruiitK colored uicu to unite with the several clubs on exactly the sauie footing with white men.? The color liuc has beeu wiped out and both ' races are to stand up?.n a common platform of equal rights and equal justice to nil, without regard to race, color or previous condition. This is certainly a jump, not a step, forward for a county that ha?-wblack majority. Abbeville and Edgefield, adjoiniug counties, sthftd just opposed to each other iu their ideas about managing tho colored vote, both, wo think, adopting cxtrcmos. The proper disposition of this voto in tho State, and particularly in the low i wuuiij vuuuucb, is a question with which the Democracy will have to contcud at no distant day; and every step taken toward its adjustment should be deliberately considered before decided upon. The colored people 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 cau never expect to do away with their prejudices aud uuite them with us upon any reasonable terms. The color of the muu 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 his interest leads him to elect. Politically, the colored man is our equal, made so both by the laws of the natiou of which we arc subjects aud by the laws of the State iu which our destinies arc cast, aud these laws we cannot annul or ehangc materially. Hia vote in the ballot box counts equal with the white mau's vote, either to redress au injury or to perpetrate a fraud ; and there is 110 force which the white man can bring to bear upon that vote to nrnnfM-l* itimnt ' , j i?, aave iiis superior intelligence. When the colored man holds the balance of power, as he evidently docs in this and other counties, the white man dares not ignore the iuflucncc of his vote; if ho docs, it is at the peril of his own interest and the best interest of his country. With these facts, therefore, so tangibly before us, it becomes a question of great^:____^?^?r?wr< direct the influence of his vote /By our superior intelligence? We certainly cannot do it by stauding aloof and leaving 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 euable us to bring our intelligence iu 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 thosc-of t4i* coming campaign. . *? It strikes us at this writing, as a necessity of the proper position, that political principles should deteruiiue the Dartv lino* and not color or race. Abbeville may have struck the right chord, but we are sure Edgcfied has not.? Oruuyebury Times. Horrible if True.?Hurkevillc, Va., June 12.?A horrible affair occurred here this morning between Jennie Miller and her husband, Anderson Miller, standing very well among the citizeus, aud, until his marriage, being a very quiet and peaceful young man. About two years ago. against the wishes and advice of his friends and parents, ho married Jennie Tyler, a good looking girl, but possessing a vicious tcinpe rand will of her own that gave indications that she would make her husband's homo a hot place. At first they seemed to be leauing a happy married ; 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 iu this part of Virginia. The husbaud und wifo ^ were seated at (he breakfast table with an . invited guests, when the husband chanced " - - iu uisuover a ny 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 iucreased as she spoke, aud finally she called her husband a liar. lie remonstrated with her for using such language in the presence of an invited guest. Fairly beside herself with , rage, she caught up a new axe which was lying on tho hearthstone, and before tho guest could interfere, she had brained her husband. When he fell to tho floor she brought the keen blade of the nxc down on his neck, completely severing the head from ( the body, the head rolling on towards tho fire, and the body rolling under tho table. The wretched woman is in jail awaiting trial, the Magistrate having refused hail. A Danbury man who went 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?" "Yea, air," answered tho clerk with a hlnsli. "Do you think the world of her ?" ' I do," , said the elerk firmly, although blushing ? considerably. "Is she in town," pursued the customer anxiously. "No, sir; she is away on a visit." "That will do," said tho i man, decisively. "You can'tfool around any prescriptions for mc." And he went away.