Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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AOENT FOR Wolf's Magic Blind Hinge an Fastener, BV WHICH outside Wind >w Blinds or Slu ters can be opened or closed from the inside the room without raising the Sash, thus avoi / ? cold draughts or exposure to rain. T V ?utters are not only opened, but arc fasten nack by the same motion, and they are unfa ened, olosod and fastened in by the same methc W. A. NICHOLSON, Agent, at Union, C. II. Aug 22 ->4 3m FineHt ItraiMlN of Tobacco. SUEI.L 110 A I), SHELL MO USD, LUCY lllNTON, O TJ T OF TltE H K A, J GOLDEN EAGLE, 8UXNY SO UTJt, i OA TE CITY FLYE CUT, k at B. P. RAWLS', No 1 KaifL Union. jA Oct. 17 42 A Dress Goods. 8 cents to SI AO per yard, nt FUST Kit & WILKINS*. i ' . ?-?.^jrwruinMig h-VI IEOEIVED. 1 1 Winter Geo^fi. ?OF? 21 Ci-h^rl oa J aixu KJf ujr ?AT? jL & CO'S. rNew ?nd well tt?orle<L?TOCK of i G O O I) S, Hs, SultlitjjfH, Striped Suiting, Alpacas, I/' DRESS GOODS AND TRIMMINGS 'ftoiuna AHU nuvcLiiiius. ?:o: : OF NOTIONS, sis, jinseys, Jeans, Tweeds, r? Cassimeres, 9 Complete. >f I.adlcn Cloaks that has ever been brought his market. AND SHOES, r offered in Unoin. We would call special attention Ac son'S V SHOES. r AND BEST ASSORTMENT OF C L O A K S, BROUGHT *T0 THIS~JHARJC?T. rociC of >THING, HATS -AND? NG GOODS, 13 the cheapest. Call and see them and wewill con :o: STOCK IX THE FOLLOWING LINES. > loi ~y9 ldlery and Bridles, Oroceries, Ace. cs, and satisfaction guaranteed. Call and examine r. T. HILL & CO. 10 tf " Marble Work! I HAVE A LARGE STOCK OF *' PLAIN MARBLE WORK ON IIAND, WHICH I WILL SELL AT " HHILUV flUttR Hanging from $1 OO to 00 per Sett. LETTKRISG S'i J?ER 100 LETTERS. d I am prepared at all times to Make ?? Oil Hliort Notieo, of Large Ornnllc and Marble Monuments. <>;1 A FULL COLLECTION OF DESIGNS st?d. ON HAND. W. A. NICHOLSON. Aug 22 *70 34 ly FRF\<II CANDY, PLAIN STICK CANDY, CRACKERS OF ALL SORTS, CANNED GOODS, For Salo ot No 1 East Union by B. F. RAWLS. Oct. 17 42 tf Flannels and Linseys. niHE place to buy Flannels and* Linseys, is at JL SPEARS & OQLTOVg. ? Sheetings, <fec. BLEACHED and Drown Sheeting, Tickings and Drilling at hard time prices, for sale by SPEARS & roi.TON. W'V TimiEt OF CAEOLI**- DWfOCBACY. /apprehension, the future of the Sooth Carolina is assured /beyooc all peradrenture, if it be but true to itself and fear no lions in the path. The grasp jt now holds of the helm ofc State in neither fitful nor fbrtuitojHftf- it is Dut fulfilled f*Ot and thw roan)i tlm *r?tinnnl I natural result, and the beflttiufpa reward*? of brave, active, honest^ennAnMiajy out of ao exigency too fearful to be unheeded and too manifest to be denied. Mountains of debt, systematic fraud, entering the very marrow of our material interests unblushing debauchery, shame, humiliation, poverty, and a sea .of distress on every side, drove oar people, whether ffeey would or no, Uv do something for deliveffettde ftom the ills under which they groaned and which left them but the scorn and pity of oivilised mankind. The situation was so plain that the wise and the unwise saw alike that wo the oityoMertrgSjPHgjjjfeM I wWk the valw^aWW^^OTuow of Sam ' to reach deliverance and tho "Delectable Mountains." -ur ' Tho shouts forfiTauipton and [Tome Rule, Tilden and Reform, went deeper, in the people's hearts than the adulation of nny man of womau born. It was the substance of better things and brighter days which fired the hearts and quickcucd tho pulses of all true men, rather than the mere fitful , feolinrr nf nnrsnnnt nrtmirnliiin np ilnontinn O r v* wv*v?.wu, which called men to the rescue by thousands. The great want of the country , arose out of tho people's agony, aud speak , it would, aud heard it would be, at any and every cost. To day, none the less than yesterday, in I 1880, none the less than in '70 or '78, the 1 great, the overruling wants of the country 1 will be heard and must bo obeyed. The 1 qucstiou with us is, gravely and pointedly : 1 Shall we ga ou or shall we turn back ? 1 Shall we weary of well-doing because ' the path is difficult ? Shall we fail for ' fear when the very trials of the situation 1 demand patient, uuflinching courage ?? 1 Shall we quail and suffer confusion when 1 the battle is just begun ? Or shall we not rather stand up like men, despite the fickle ' fortunes of the hour, when nefarious mcu- ' dacity plays the part of injured innocence and outraged virtue ? Shall wo not rather 1 r?cali tho high courage aud wisdom of Christian in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress 1 when he espied the foul Appollyon coming ' to meet him, "considering he had no armor 1 for his back, ho concluded that it would be 1 safer to stand " ? 1 God of tho faithful and true of every < climo and tongue, how do the glorious, brave words of the iuspircd English tiukcr seethe 1 through the pulses of every man of honest 1 heart and quenchless manhood ! Let the ! Carolina Democracy find-inspiration here 1 and stand 1 stand ! stand ! all along the lino 1 1 Let them stand though tho hills crumble 1 beneath our feet, and the rivers turn back < i-? ?--J - T** iu umir uuurttt) j ict us aiunu iu a uma : ii 1 the demon of discord, deceit jind mischief wOQld strilce?4M a. blow iailte: fitoe, let as < recaivc it iu the face, susUl w?t consent to \ receive it otherwise, If the weak of heart i and base of purprwwwsrotrid surrender at I the first blush of adversity, let tUcm do it! < "Wha would he a traitor sla*e, ' Wha would till a coward's grave, 1 Let liim turn and flee !" 1 But to the ever good and true, the devoted ] men of our beloved State, who havo never i dwelt in the "Doubtful Castle," and will 1 not consent to abide under the guard of < the "Giant Despair," who have nevef for- i gotten the promptings of duty iu the dark- < est hour of adversity and doubt, when others I were dismayed, let them stand silent but I strong, steady but nerved to the last fibre ] of their manhood, patient but ready to < teach by precept aud example that : i "Still in our prostrate land thero shall bo some l Proud hearts, the shrines of Freedom's vestal | flame; ( That trains of ill may pass unheeded, dumb, . But vengeance is behind and justice is to come !" ' There arc a few practical question for the Democracy of the State to consider for , themselves in their own communities and ( around their own hearth-stoues which brook no delay. The first great question is :? . Whether the Carolina Democracy is to be "j a party of leaders or the party of the people themselves ? To our mind it is of the last moment that the people of Carolina should themselves rule in their own affairs, pluming themselves on their own Bquarc man- j hood and fair, honest common sense, instead ( of delivering themselves to party loaders, ( to be moved like pawns on the checker board, or surrendering themselves, braius ' and conscience, into the hands of fifth-rate | demagogues, wh 'so sole purpose is the nurs- ] itig of their own small aud utterly iusignii? --- .i--* uvuuv lupuiai iuua< IV IS |)IU1I1 IU US UlUl ^ every ooihuiunity knows its good, honest, frank, best informed and most trustworthy : citizens, and these arc the men the people | with one accord should entrust with their confidence in sending up their dclogatcs to , a State Convention, which should nicot ^ untrammeled by any personal preferences or foregone conclusions whatsoever, and j with but one fixed purpose before it, and , that is the best and truest interests of the ( people of South Carolina, utterly rcpudinting any desire or purpose to take care ( of the personal reputation of any man, past, j present or to come. We are sick and tired of this sort of thing. There are a class ol politicians in the bosom of the Carolina DetnOCrilRV who t hink r.f nntliimr nlso mr.1T. J o , ing, noou and uight, and it is not confined to ouo set more than another. Wo are tired of it, and men who arc unhappy and make their neighbors and friends unhappy unless they hold place and positiou, should feel at once the stern rcbuko of a manly public sentiuieul and should be made to "take a back seat" until tbey learn more self-denial and a higher idea of the dignity of simple citizenship. The best men of the State will not be < found suffering their names to be dragged - ll ' I . _^1_ .1. ' _. J. viV' ji jJS nt-j through,the mire to reach personal preferuient,aod liaises the good, square uea j)f the State take this thing in their hands now the pfcople of the State will be eontin ually deprived of the sorvices of oar most worthy fnd reliable citiseus. Teaching this uiatUr, wo have spoken right otit as if we were faco to faoe with the people 01 South Carolina, And we have done so from a plain tenss of duty. We have no acrimonious feelings whatsoever to indulge ; no personal grievances whatever to oomplain of, aud-simply talk and feel as a plain citisou of South Carolina, seeking no hotter positioti'and willing to accept nene leas.? We refuse to be trotted out to any man's occasion> 4m every freeman ought to do, and set the faoe of the Register like flint against "machine politics," come from where it may aud^ervo whom it may. Wo want thOjhegArtoku^thia^now and to know had there is uo man against whom it would suffer such feelings to "weigh for a moment against the interests of the State and people. We mean to do even-handed justioe to all alike, without fear or favor, all along the line. We make this remark simply because pirsoual preferences, and perhaps more, have been attributed to us hastily nud without any proper ground therefor. Wo confide in the good sense and virtue of the pcoplo of South Carolina. This we have ever aouo, ana "a is nara to teach au old dog new tricks."?Columbia Register. Words 1&avely Spoken.?A correspondent of t&c Philadelphia Times lias had a long iuterview with Mr. Bayard, and sounded him upon all the salient questions of the day. The replies of the Senator are frank and explicit. He makes no attempt at evasion, but squarely delivers iiimsclf upon every issqe. There is a grandeur and broad statesmanship in every utterauce of this worthy patriot that should command the respect and challenge the admiration of the whole country. When the question was pronounded to him, "What docs the South need?" the following was the undaunted reply of this truly great man : "The South does not need legislation; the South needs sympathy and respect. In m^ judgment what they need is a realizing sense that they arc safely and securely within the Uuion, bound up in its dcstiuics, in which they are to share the blessings as well as the burdens; but that they are not to be in the Union except upon terms thoroughly consistent with their self-respect.? Everything is gaiucd by appealing to ull that is higher and better among them, and to cease the spirit of domination and constant expressions of self-conscious superiority, sending inoi\down there to see that the trials are conducted as they thiuk they ought to be, telliDg them they are ou trial, and all that sort of thing. No such spirit ought to exist, and I would not treat this Union as an experiment. I would treat it us a fixed fact that they are in the Union and arc going to stay there; that they arc going tc be part of our people and part of the jovernment, and not only expect them to sustain and help it, but make that part of tho country a aource of strength to the whole. I want the peoplo of the South to Peel that they arc respected and an essential portion of this Union aud they cannot be lnyihing else. Now, in order to do that, we must make their position iu tho Union jne of honor in the first place, and then if they fall away from that it must be their dwu disgrace; but tho honorable recognition must precede the other, and that they liave uot had yet at tho hands of the liepublican party. The people of the Northern States, whoso representatives want to make a solid North, if they arc wise, must ice that the South must be to them one of two things?a source of weakness or a source jf strength; but their present course and their present feeling is calculated to make the South a second Ireland." Two White Boys and a Neoro Roasted Alive in a Cotton Press.?Ellenton, November 14.?Mr. L. A. Ashley, who resides about seven miles from Ellenton, ust across the Barnwell County liue, lost by lire ou yesterday his steam iaw mill, grist mill and gin. Tho gin alone was running it the time, and it is supposed that a match in the cotton was tho cause of tho conflagration. The press for baling the cotton was situated iu the lint room. At the timo the fire occurred Teague and Jesse Owens, vvliifo Kavo nlinnf 1 it til *?aa?o a!' M1V ? MI?V WUJO UUVUV 11 (IllVi 1 U jfVill? VI rge, employed by Mr. Ashley, were iu the press, and a young negro man named Isaiah was working in tho lint room. In a uiiuuto after the cry of fire was ruised the parties in the liut room found themselves envelope J iu flauios and all moans of escape cut off. The poor boys in the press could not get out, as the doors of the press box fastened from the outsido. Mr. Ashley and Mr. J. M. Darlington with others who were in tho gin house at the time the fire broke out rushed to the rescue of tho unfortunates, who wero now in a den of fire. With axes they soon burst through tho walls of the house and knocked down the doors of the press, when they Jraggod out tho half-dead boy^aud negro, to find their clothing all burned from their bidicsnnd their persons fearfully burned. A physician was summoned and did all in his power to lessen their suffering. Jesse Owens died in a few hours after tho accident his injuries being more severe than those of the others, who arc still living, but whose final recovery is considered doubtful. Iu the rescue Mr. Ashley and Mr. Darlington had their hands painfully burned. The Owens boys wero the ouly support of a wid owed mother.?JVelM anil Courier. If "the people" welcomed Grant to San Francisco five men had to foot a bill of 890,000 all the same. Left to the taxpayers, they would have gono to the wharf, uttered a few whoops, and then dispersed. tSB H'jfEfr- MPtSf UltTOH. few day? ago, to see the "Now Process Tare Mill," known at tbo "Clement Attachment,' for epinoing yaru from seed cotton. We had heard and mA bo muoK about thii wonderful JnvoaltaD that we had 0 great curiosity to' see ilfwod we were well paid for our trip. Mr. ^v V. Strlblihf, jthe lead ingspirtuoTthia enterprise, wa* dot"at ho ne, being absent attending AO Georgia State Fair, but his brother, Mr. W. J. St rib. bling, who is "a hoet within himself," took charge of ua and drore us out to the factory, and he and tho superintendent, a young man "going on 20 years" of age, showed ua around and explained to ue the The factory is situated on a branch ol Chocsto? Creek, two miles from Westminster, in Oconee County, on the Air line Railroad. It is a plain, cheap building, just suob as the ordinary Hear and grist mills through tho country, and contained the following machinery: One eotton cleaner, one Clement attachment, one 36 inch Wellman top flat card, one four delivery Danforth drawing frame, ono 12 lobbin Dan forth speeder, two Danforth spinning frames, 132 spindles, one bunch press, and ono bale press. Most of it is old and second-band machinery, and cost 92,500. The building and other improvements cost 91,200 ; making the total investment, $3,700. The capacity of tho factory is only 150,000 pounds of seed cotton. They employ the superintendent, the lad ''going on twenty years," icvon girls and ono boy, with tho following results for twelve months: LIABILITIES. 150,000 pounds seed cotton at 3 cents..J4,500 00 Operators and contingent oxpensos... 1,500 00 Total 90,000 00 RESOURCES. 40,000 pounds yam at 16 cents 97,300 00 3.G00 pound* waste 145 00 3,000 bushels eotton seod 450 00 Total $7,956 00 Net profit 91,955 00 This factory is o.rncd by four farmers, aud is operated on a small stream affording only about six-horse power. By increasing tha power aud machinery to greater capac itj of coarse the expense would be reduced aud the profits increased. The ' Clement Attachment" is simply attaching the principle of the ordiuary cotton-gin to the carding machine in such a way that the liut cotton, as soon afr"separated from the seed, passes directly on the cards and comes out in the shape of sliver. The rest of the process is tho same, and the machinery the same as in any other factory, and thorc is no reason why just as fine thread may not be spun by a factory of this kind with fine machinery of the latest improvements as can bo spun in any factory. We brought souio of the sliver and the thread home with us that shows for itself. The great saving by the ' Clement Attachment" is in doing away with the expense of gins, gin-houses, presses, Ac. The seed cotton, just as it eomes from the field, is put right into tho hopper of a cotton cleaner and passes right ou into the attachment, and then right on tho cards as stated above, coming out in foriu of sliver. The cost of the ginhouscs in this county would be more than enough to pay for the erection of one of these lactones iu every neighborhood of three or four farms, if the farmers would only club together and build them. By dispensing with lint-rooms it decreases the risk of fires. It saves th-j cxpouse of bagging, tics, Ac. It savos the expense of handling the cotton by speculators and paying freights, storage, &c. It would give employment to labor at home. It will force capitalists to bring factories to the cotton Gelds, and, what is better than nil, the Yankees can't cheat us out of it, for it can't be utilized at the North, as they have no seed cotton. Wo arc delighted with it, and firmly believe that it will revolutionize the whole cotton business and enable the South to hold the balance of power in handling the cotton crop. We hope at no distant day to seo theso New Process Yarn Mills dotting all the streams of the South, affording employment for skilled labor, which will start the South upon a new departure of peace and prosperity.?S'partanburg Herald. NO GL'SIIINO FORTUNE, RUT A SUBSTANTIAL INVESTMENT. Arriving at the pleasant villago of Westminster wo fouud conveyances awaiting us Sid prooesded overland to Mr. Striblings. rady hollowed and whooped all tho wuy liko an escaped lunatic. If a squirrel ran across the road it threw him into conniptions. "Just look at his littlo tail. Yonder he goes?watch him, watoh him, wuteh him?bless his littlo heart. Don't you wish you could run up a troo that way." lie bounced over into a field after a watermelon, but came baok disgusted and said it was K..? .... ?i,i ? " ~..:a IIWUIIII^ UUt (III UIU J#^8, Biliu ho, '1 want to see a country girl a spinning. I've always wanted to sec a pretty little country girl standing up by tbo wheel and making it juno." Mr. Stribliug and his younger brother received us gladly. They oro gentlemen of good education, good manners and address. Ingcuiou9 and industrious, they havo been for eighteen months quiotlj ruuniug their factory away off in the woods, three miles from the railroad?making about ten dollars a day nud giving pleasant employment to a few poor girls. It is a slow business and a little business, but it is simple and comes within reach of a gfent many of our substautiul farmers. A oomtm.n country giu will liut from five to six bales a I Jftj, bdt ifulni this oob thpea days to girt-^ . hue. The saw* ars tery small tod ?nty >t half on inch.apart and run slowly so is ?cW gi?? the carder time to do its Work. The" lint ia taken clean from th? seed, coming [ off straight and smooth, OTory Mrs In par, plat "lines and the staple unbroken. The > attachment does not spin It, hot ofcly eardrf , and puts the lint into slitter roady for the , spinning jennies, which arc the Same as id other factorii.?. The yarn.ftyo* tnii slivcf ia oertainly Mrong, oven ana boautiful. 14 ought to be better than yarh mado from crashed and tangled cotton taken from com| pressed bales, whether It is or hot. | There is no gashing fortune in tho busi* ness; no 100 per oent. nor 60, but it seems . , to be a solid, substantial investment for the farmers of our countrr. and will add 25 nor cent, to tho raluo of our cotton crop. Mr. i Kimball ia a oloao observer and has cxpcri, cuoe in manufacturing the great atopic.? " Md^^TibmhoQ, of the agrtsultural bu* roau, know* all about gins. ? Old Mr. Howell ia a millwright and machinist of , large experience. I gathered from them a favorable verdict upon this new enterprise after they had thoroughly examined and considered its operations. "This machine," said Mr. Kimball, "has no.striking advantage ovor our cotton factories, as a process of turning cotton into thread, but. I would rather have a hundred thousand dollars invested in them than in a factory. It would be better for mo and for the planter and the country at large." Gen. Gordon said there ought to be from twenty-five to fifty of them in every oeuaty in the cotton belt. "With these machines," said Dr. Lawton, "as a Southern industry, and the Christian Index as a moral civilizer, the South would rise up from its ashes in a vory few years."?Bill Aryin Atlanta' Constitution. The Solid South.?"Why tho South is Solid" is a question discussed editorially by the New York Sun, independent, which, in its issue of Thursday, says: "The Southern States havo been kept united politically by the aggressive course, the gross injustice, and t>c wilful misrepresentation of the Republican managers, whose scheme is to solidify tho North by exciting sectional1 prejudico, and thus prolong their possession of power. It is a game they are playing and nothing but a game." T'tero is much of truth in this, but tho cy 9 A !_ _ a i? ? 1? % * Ajun s argument la at mull wuen H goes Ot> to say: "Take Away this pressure and. allow natural causes to operate in their own> way, and it would bo entirely beyond tbo power of the Democracy to hold the South' together." That depends. Tho South became solid' not only by roason of tho abuse which has been heaped upon it, but on account of its general disgust with Republican methods. If that party were at ouee to ccaso illifying the South aud mend its own ways, there might be good reasou to look for a break in the solid South, but neither of theso changes is to be expected. When the Republican parly ceases to abuse the South it will lose its grip on the North ; when it mends its ways aud begins to practice equity and to be honest, it will ccaso tJ be the Republican party ; its present leaders will > desert it aud there will be such au infusion-1 of new material into it as to change its gen* eral composition. Under existing conditions n change in its policy is not to bo' thought of, for these reasons, ae the Sun puts it : "Tho Republican organization . # O 9~~~\ " uos been kept alive since its true mission' was ended by the use of the public patronage and by a sectional crusade ngniust tho South. Its leaders are now struggling with desperate energy to hold on to tho troasury aud to the offices four years longer. They will not scruple to employ any means,, however violent, corrupt or dangerous, to, retain this power. And they have the whole machinery of the government to opcrate with, a creature of their own in theVVhilo House, ready to obey orders, and: John Sherman to manipulate the returns,, w'th the experience of 187G to guide hiuij" They will, it is true, resort to any device,, after the election, if it is against them, to nullify the verdict of the people, as they did in 1877, but their main hold for carrying tho election will be the sectional issue.. It has ecrvcd them a most excellent purposo this fall and they will not abandon it?especially since it is the only issue they have. If they should carry the couutry on it next year, it will b : more violently rung into the people with each succeeding election than it ever has been before, aud with the increasing violence of the cry will com* increased solidity to the South. Tho only remedy for it, tho only way to stop it, is Democratic ascendancy in the nation. Tha pcoplo will then, under n truly beneficent government, see tho falsity and the wickedness of the issue, f.nd the period of sectional hnto will end when the downfall of tho Republican party shall como. And not till then.? Charlotte Observer. To Rhino up Land.?Much of the soil in South Carolina brs been exhausted by continual cropping without manure. Many and many an aero of originally good land in the State has been impoverished by getting all that possibly could be got from it,, and. nothing put on in return. This land could be brought up by commercial fertilizers, but it would bo very expensive. Green manuring is cheaper and is equally as effective. Much of tho laud referred to baa been exhausted by having all vogetable matter in it used up, and green manuring wtiV supply just what is wanted. Commercial fertilizers will not supply tho land with tho mattor in which it is deficieut. Stable manure is good, but wherocan it be procured? Tho field pea is a rapid growing plant and is excellent to uso as a grer n manure. T1 * field to bo improved should be put in good order and some fertilizer should be used.? Sow the peas broadcast, and at the proper time turn the plants under.