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Hr busiiu^snceo^^Wi^^^flP^^^^^W^ all, cultivates a high vnlualiob of I lie States's obligations. Franco lias set 'lie world an example in this respect. She puis her paper up in the market for her own people and thus recovers faster from financial disaster than any other part of the habitable globe. South Carolina, wiien mio 111:1 kOS i wi.irin 11:1:c > ?i onion ai .71 > O'l till' bale, puis 000,'UK) uf coilillimlitics Oil the world as good as gold. Now in twenty years this readies :? IOO,tKK),OOt). It seems 10 us plain that our people can afl'ord to own their own paper and stop this ?8,UU0,0d0 interest money ta home. To which our intelligent friend of the Abbeville /'rrs1 ami /limner very aptly says : We tako the above from the Columbia Hry'slrr. The policy suggested is the only wise one for the welfare of our people. Hut 1 lie great trouble is, that so far as we are aware, none of ihe-e bonds are safe from despoliation at the hands of the Uepudintors. There are citizens in every county who would be glad to invest in State bonds and keep :hc)interest|a? home, but as long as there is such.a spirit of Ucpudialioti, capi talists arc afraid to touch llicui. As for ourselves we do not know which of the bonds nre good, and which are not. We hope that the Jlei/iifrr may write the promised articles 011 the , subject. A Decision on the IloMKSTK.vn.?The case of Fannie 11. White against William K. lloacli and Francis Arnold, involving the construction of the 32d Section of Article 2 of the State Constitution, in relation to homesteads, was filed yesterday morning. Messrs. Sloan and Muller repvneniiln.l tli?? tilninl ill' ntiil M r \l -vtiloSl li rariiM. '"v'I " """ ' seated the defendants. The household furniture of the plaintiff had Iicen levie>l 011 for rout, and even the hod she slept in taken from tinder her, upon the theory that such furniture was not exempt from levy and sale under the homestead laws, because she was not the owner of real estate. Ilis Honor Judge Mnckcy charged as matter of law that it was a great mistake to suppose that the head of a family could not claim a lio nc.--lcad in personal property unless he owned real estate, lie sxid that it was generally supposed that the case of Duncan vs. Harnett was so decided, bul that an examination of that case would show the contrary. That case, he said, merely decided that the head of a family could not exempt agricultural products from levy and sale as the annual products of his homestead, unless he owned the land oil which such agricultural products were raised. The trial of the case resulte 1 in a verdict for the phiintilf for $7o0.? Columbia Rryistcr, Xovember 'J"5. - - Hrr.Luo'/.r.n Nkukoks.?The Halcigli (N. C.) Mechanic ami Farmer, of Friday last, says: 4,lt would be w rth a hundred thousand votes for the Democratic party could each Northern State have a dozen representatives to walk our streets and visit the colored people's fair, to see the battalions ?f well armed troops (awfully bull dozed, they look to bo !) to see the Governor, :i Democrat atnl ox-Confederate, ruling in a fourhorse barouche, to open the proceedings ; to see the street corners crowded with noisy and well dressed negroes, with glossy stove pipe hats and big gold watches, to see the creditable disj lay of farm, field ami shop products, to see the swarms of excursionists from all parts of the State?in short, too sec what the Radical sheets style "the poor, down-trodden, robbed and intimidated negro'?as we see him in our midst." . I.et Him Alone.?The Sumter IJ'iitrhmin gets off the following at the expense of General It. It. Hemphill, of the Abbeville .Vn/imit : General 11. It. Hemphill, of the Abbeville Me ilium, is still raving about the "up-country and the low-country Democracy," "Radical debt," ' "Straightoutisni," "purity in politics," "the I people," &C., and so no of our exchanges are j coming down pretty heavily on General Robert 11. Now we think onr brethren of the quill should indulge the General a great deal. He ' does not wish to be misunderstood. He stands i now "fairly and squarely" on the Democratic | "platform," and he is right to let it be known, far and wide. Hands elf, gentlemen ; General Robert 11. is making a noise within the Demo- ' crntie ranks, so that ho may easily prove an tilth: should he ever he charged with having been hi any other ranks. Tiik Fr.voK Law.?V?c hoard a great deal said i l>y our farmers on this subject lately, and we , have no doubt, as the Legislature is about to meet, that the discussion will be renewed. It is maintained by many that tiie cost of fences is very great, ami that the enclosing of stock in- 1 stead of crops will be a great saving both to can- , italics and laborer Without advancing any opinion ourselves upon (be merits or demerits of the proposed law, we believe tbc Legislature 1 made a botch of it at the last session. To give some townships the right to pass tbc law where a neighboring township docs not, does great harm in necessitating the building of township ' fences and public gates. The law ought to be general one way or the other. The last act w is a compromise, a botch, and, therefore, an injury. ? Orii/ifffbitri/ Tunes. Mai.temrs Dkvh.mknt.?On .Sunday last a | coach had been clr Mered on tlie M. & A. Kailroad, by an invalid lady, who desired to reach her home in Mouth Carolina on that day, and a 1 negro hoy named Henry Newlanl, why rcccniJy ! Ciiine from Asheville, boarded (liu train, without < ticket or money, ami was put off at Flat Hock. Dn Monilay following, Xcwland, with an accom- ' j.lice, (laston Drown,younger than himself, were 1 delected in the act of driving spikes between i the ends of rails, on the trestle, a sliort ilistancc ] from Flat Itock. They had also removed holts ( from the rails. They ran when they were discovered. bin were afterwards arrested by Mar- 1 (dial ilcKing-worth and brought heforo Ksoiiirc I l'.itton, who Committed them to jail in the dc- | fault of J? 1 ,<)<M) hail. ? //'//'/> rsonrillr Courier. ? IV*11.r.oin Ari inr.vr.?Another accident occurred on the (irernvillc and Columbia Haiiroad ' yesterday, near ( Itappcil's Depot, sixty-four 1 miles above (.'olttmbia, about noon, 'i'lie engine, tender and two stock ears were thrown front the 1 track. The engine crossed a trestle forty feet long on the tics and stringers, while the two ( stock cars crossed on the stringers. Engineer Holland was thrown from his engine, but was only slighly hurt about I lie head and knee. The ' lirctnan leaped from (lie engine ami was unhurt. j The train ran Home distance after leaving the , track before it was rliocke 1. The cause of tiie accident was ft defective rail.?Co/. Register, Ma. PiMiip.n'fl Fr.NKR.xr..?A large nuiiiher of I persons assembled yesterday afternoon to pay the last others of respect to the remains of Mr. K. ilealhcolo fisher. The funeral took plucent 1 Trinity Church, hut ipt'ito a large number of ' relatives anil friends followed the hearse from .? the residence to the church. The Governor's , tjeitards were out in force in full uniform and ( periornieu ilie mitmiry ceremonies customary on the decease of ft comrade. This hcin? toe ' first death which has occurred Among the mem- t t?ers of this company since the war. the cireum- , stance added peculiar floloinnily to their leoliugs on the occasion.?Col. Hrgi*trr. Tiji: I?i sr11 or Mits. Dkkkn.s.? London, No- i TOinher 'i'l.? The (Jlobt Announces that the wi I- ) ow of t diaries Dickens ?lic<! nt her resilience in (ii'iiiceaUer t'resccnt, Itegcnt's I'nrk, lton<lon, ' tjiis mi>r iin.?, a Tier u lingering illness of eigh- ' teen months. , t '1 \ 9 A Liberal Proposition. I Wc make ;ho following propositions for tW f lift year 1880: h The Union Tixiks and American Ajricultn- jl rist, price 5C, for S3 00 Any old snbsfibcr renewing nnil sending its a new nntne, the above papers to each, ( price S7 00, for i\.. 5 50 t, m Tithe I*arl iotilar Xotice. We shall discontinue sending the Timns to all subscribers in arrears on the 1st day of Decern- p ber next, irrespective of parties. Cotton is, and a has been for some weeks, bringing n good price, g( and by the 1st of December about all the crop belonging to those not able to hold under the hope of better prices next spring, will have been i? sold, and if the small sums due us arc not paid b then, we shall have poor encouragement to give |, further indulgence; an 1 it is self evident that those who are able to bold their cotton tnnst 11 surely be able to raise two dollars to pay the w printer. n A tire in New York last Tuesday burned a 'JOl) horses. Their cries were terrible. . . (1 Mr. Win. Kller lias just received a lot of splcn- ? did .typlc Mutter, Jellies, and cammed goods.? p sells cheap, and whit lie eclls is good. f, The Members at their Post. All the members of the Legislature from this County went down on the train on Monday P morning, to be promptly in their scats at the P opening of the session. 01 ? si Charlotto Booming. s. A gentleman who stopped at Charlotte two days last week says the merchants of that city are rtjoicing over doing a larger business than tliey have done for some years. . 31 Tho Govornor's Message. We are not utile to give our readers the message this week, hut it will appear in our next. ^ It is a very able and practical document, cm. ^ bracing all the financial, agricultural aiul intc dnstrial interests of the State, and is well worth ^ reading. ?o? - - Death of John Gregory. I< On thursduy last, Mr. John Gregory, a man c< Well known in this Comity, diedattlio residence ti of his daughter, Mrs. Samuel Harlan, from ptieu- j tl nionia. lie was a man of uiifortuuato habits, but b honorable an J harmless in his intercourse with ci his fellow men. lie had received a tine oduea- U lion, hut, like many others, his genial social w qualities and generous impulses were prostrated ii by irregular habits, and utmost his last words were: "My life has been a failure." 1' . ? "Plain Facts." f. Our correspondent over the above signature C( hits the uaii square on the head this week. He tl tells the Merchants and Factors of Charleston some wholesome truths to which they must give j5 heed if they expect to recover the Cotton busi- f. ucss they have lost. From "Fair l'lay's" stand- ci point he can see and hear more of the causes of complaint against tiie Charleston market than is ever told to the merchants and Factors of that ' city. ?' Incendiary Fire. Wo regret to learn that Mr. J. T. Duncan, liv- | iug near Koscborough, in Laurens County, just n over the Union line,dost his corn crib, with six ' hundred bushels of eoru, by lire, on Monday otgui last. || ll was the act of an incendiary, and we sin- ss icrely hope the scoundrel will he caught and made to ' stretch hemp." These fires arc again , 1 " || jecoming frequent and when the perpetrators v: ire caught no jury should recommend thcin to 11 lie mercy of the Court." . tl To Shippers by Express. tl W'carc requested to notify all persons shipping ^ packages to est?e3 by express, that each package must have the street and number of the house j unlcr the name of the persons to whom it is (| lent. 81 The time is now at hand when a large num- j Iter of packages will be sent to private individuals, by Express?some of them containing per- ^ ishablc articles?and unless the packages arc addressed so that the Agents will know exactly where to send them they will very likely remain in the ollicc until spoiled. Those scuding a'ti- o ides by servants, or other parties, should be '' particularly careful, as there is then no chunce ? < f correcting the matter at this otlicc. ri - - a fho Lato Snow Storm. (< The snow-storm of the 10th, seems to have been one with peculiarly Southern proclivities t ui'l "local attachments." In this State it com- ^ nlnlril u t ! a V"1- ? ' 1 - - * f.vtv.j iguwivu iiiv> nuruicrii uuu *>uriu-weaicrn ^ section of it. We learn that it ili<l not visit Spartanburg, (ireenville, Walhalla, anil other ^ places lying North of this latitude, while from i few miles above this point down to Charleston t was the earliest and heaviest snow storm al mown for years. At Alston, we are told.it fell J? 'rom three to five inches deep and the depth gradually grew less until about five miles above icro where it slopped, disappointing the boys a Junesvillc of enjoying the fun of a sleigh 0| ide and a snow balling. If the Clerk of the jv weather takes many more such freaks the whole IV1 jouniry will be looking to Charleston and Key r( iVest for its supply of ice. w Next Monday. c' The large amount of rnluablc property adver- 111 ise 1 for sale next Monday,?salcsday?by the 'ierk, Hie .Sheriff, Executors and others, will no '' 4 i I'juhf attract an unusually large number of citzeus, from all parts of the County, to town, and D ivc hope those who are indebtcil to us will avail ihemselveg of the opportunity to make settle- si ncnts, either in person or by sending the money ct >y neighbors. w We shall regret discontinuing the Timrs to so uany subscribers as we find in arrears upon our si >ooks, but our necessities will compel us to do w 10, if those arrearages are not paid beforo our si icxl issue. Although most of the cotton in the ol ouniy has been sold ill high prices, mid the ei inc weather during the Fall has increased (lie al irop to far more than expected, the past two nonths have been the most discouraging to us, inancially, of a'l the year. There appears to ?| ic no disposition to pay its, therefore we have 01 to encouragement to give further indulgence.? iVc shall make 110 distinction ?the rich and the toor will fall ?ndcr the same stroke. We find jn tvet hco humlretf names on our list in arrears, jr Hid they are a hoary load to carry. at ^ ? 1M?I , (he of he for th^ last, cxecu(he jail, little. lie conthought CHHMP^Wi^^m^ ffper I ho, rope r?s fastened about his ncclc/lfe w^hslt<)<\ if Jm) ad anything to say. His only reply was to ask' T there was a minister of the Gospel present, lev. It. I). Smart, l'astor of^lto M. E. Church, while) who had been very attentive aud kind > hiiu during nil liis iuiprisoninent.had left him lily a short time before, and wnanot present when sheii lor uy 111c uoouicu l)oy. Untitles was then laced under the scaffold wlicu the pr\p knocked way, his body swung convulsively tfor n few cc< v 1? and liis spirit entered eternity. The need committed by Holmes, inoitropiu>11, is one of the most heinous and unbardona1c of all in the catalogue of crimes, nad while is age?about 15 years?has been urged by iniiy in extenuation, the circumstaifcos under Inch he committed the terrible offense was lost revolting and brutal and displayed in hiui debased an 1 inhuman heart. One peculiarly unnatural featurc^n Holmes' rial, confinement and execution, is the fact that either his Mother, Father or Sister over visited im, allhoiigh they live in town and he bad scut >r his Motffbfftvo or three wffl^PTcoi^c and jo him. \ We purposely refrained from gi^ng unusual romincnco to the occurrence in our columns, referring not to encourage the morbid appetite f the people, usually so gross upon sifth occa ons?particularly with the colored class. The lllltary effects of lirivalo executions nmin n juuuuuity was most apparent. There was no tcitenieiit and we could not discover that the iclancholy occurrence had attracted any uuu* tal number of persons to the town. roatmcnt of Convict LaborersThe able and reliable Reporter of the Chariton Xrtd? awl Courier has been interrogating ic convicts whoa few.weeks ngofverc returned i the Penitentiary from the Greenwood and ugusta Railroad, and if one-Half of what they dd hint be true it is a disgrace to the Stale not !ss than to the parties who had chargfc of the onvicts. It is true that tho statemcnULW pares living along tho road*s^lj*hai^WdHies to horrible statements made by the convicts, ut there appears to lie so many corroborating ircumslanccs in lav or of some of the stories dd by the latter that we are led to coincide ith Mr. Williams the reporter, in the follow= "I have been given several pieces of iuforiuaon iutended to prove that tiii: okhckbs ok tiib i-kxitknti ah y? tiled to do their duty properly in visiting the auvicts, &c. All of these 1 have omitted, for ic reason that their neglect or non-neglect of icir duly has, so far us 1 can see, nothing what ver to do with (lie management of tho convict* ere, by those in charge of them. Figures and lets, ami the unavoidable deductions therefrom institute the entire scope and intention of this sport. IN CG.VCl.t'SlON would say that the convicts now ai work with lie voice state that there has been a vast im rovciucnl in their condition during the last lontli or more. They have apparently nothing oiv to complain of, the quarters being comfortLile and not crowded, the food abundant and utritious, and their general treatment humane, he difference in the death rateshows that there as been a vast change for the better. There is ae question which has suggested itself to me iroughout, and to which i have not yet any itisfactory answer, n-.'irre were the Coroner mill 'rial Jitsttrcs of Kdgeticld all this time, and why id they net take steps to iuvestigage a few of io sudden and (within the meanimr of the lawt ?-? - / olcnt deaths about the road and stockades? ? there was ill treatment would not that have tecdily stopped it ? It certainly -looks as tough they have bceu exceedingly derelict in icir duty. he Legislature. This body convened last Tuesday, and front c proceedings of the first day we must believe tat the members arc determined to make the (ssion a short and busy one. Our own nteinL-rs have set a good example in tlwtl way, as the blowing extracts front the pFOCt/dings will Itow . lloi'SK Of RKPRKSKNTATIVKS. Mr. 11. II. Uico?Hills to amend nn act outied "An net to punish persons for the removal r secret mg 01 personal properly levied oil by ie Slierill" or other officers lo provide fur a raded school in Union County. Hill, by Mr. McKissick, to amend an act to rgulatc tlie costs of plaintiffs' and defendants' Itorucys and costs and fees of Clerks of ourts, &c. Among the new niemhors appointed to fill vauicies on committees4\vc sea that Mr. B. II.ice is placed on the committee on the Lunatic sylum and tlie committee on the Penitentiary. The unfinished business of the past session as put in proper course for early completion. Coiik Wood.? Dr. L. S. Douglass has shown t this office a piece of genuine cork wood, rown in the neighborhood of Blackstock, (ho rst specimen we have heard of in this county. -Chrstrr Hrporter. Col. J. II. Kion, of Wiunsboro, has the cork ee growing finely on his premises. When at ir last Court lie told us that lie at first had air trees but gave one or two to smnc friends id lie thought they were all flourishing. i)y >quest lie sent n specimen of the bark?which, e believe is (he part of which the ordinary irks are made?to the Agricultural Department Washington, where it became quite a curiosit. What cannot the Southern Slates produce, the proper enterprise and energy was persis ntly and intelligently applied? . eath of Mr. and Mrs Ooorgo Harlan. it is not often that death calls in such rapid iccossion for two who have lived together upon irth so mui^ years as lias the venerable couple hose names head this notice. Those aged people had been lying sick in tire uue house for some time, until l.i?? st,.i..?i..? ' U..JT , lion death relieved Mrs. Harlan of all earthly iflcring ; un<l on Tuesday following, the spirit f her liusbnnd was c;ilIe<l to ineet his devoted irtlily companion in eternity. Mr. Uurlan was bout To years old, and Mrs. IFarhin about f?0. Pkatii ok Kkv. Ktiian, Ai.i.k.x I). D.?('ineinati, November 1!).?llev. Dr. Ethan Allen died [ Newport, Ky., yesterday, aged 84. lie was le of the oldest Episcopal ministers in the Uni)>1 .States. The American Baptist Missionary Union has ist font fifteen missionaries to India to assist i the conversation of the natives to Christiiity. , \ For the Times. | Will F&rmera Spin Thoir Own Cotton. The reluctance with which fiutiters give up old opiuions and persistently travel in the old ruts has been embalmed in the old story of the boy who would carry the pumpkin in one end of his sack ami the rock in the qUter bocause his daddy had done so before hint, doubtless many of the old women of Union Counly will remenibcfthaVinz seen in their v?uth a lit tie macliine whergjp the coUon 'was put, in the seed, and camoout on spools as thread at the other end. It wns turned by hand and accomplished very good work. And no doubt many a oneluuk wondered why the machine went out of us^H was not improved upon. The answer might be, the genius of our people lay not in Iho way of invention. We arc slow, very slow, to take up new ideas or to get out of old ruts. Moro than twenty yeftrs ago a Mr. Henry of Mobile, a merchant, we believe, invented some verjT*%iraplo machine by which cotton in the seed could be converted into thread cheaply, and not requiring much skill in its management. It was tested by some of the h^gt planters in Mississippi, nnd pronounced It success But from some cause the machine failed to become popular nnd was soon stowed away in the great lumber room of Southern inventions. Since the war a new candidate for popular favor, under the name of iho "Clement Attachment," has loomed up, but whether it is Mr. Henry's machine or a new idea we- are not informed.? It seems, however, to have taken a firmer hold upon the popular mind and to be in a fair way of revolutionising public opinion. The little milkatflycJIinkistcr, Oconee County, S. C., has by its ejccllent^ianagement and its good yarn, attracted attention iroin abroad. A committee of practical gentlemen have been sent from Atlanta to examine and report upon the enterprise, 'and this means business. You may rest assured whenever the Atlanta people take hold of anything there is something more than talk meant. The Editor of the Spartanburg Herald has also been templed to go over and took at the West miiisic-r (.'spcniUKiil, nun I1HS l)CCn convinced 01 the practicability of manufacturing our cotton on the 'farm. Mr. Win. Gregg, of Urauitceillc memory, always maintained thai it was the policy of tho South to manufacture yarn, lie said thai the South should not only supply Northern hut Uuropcan manufacturers with yarn. If four or five farmers can combine and put up a factory by which their seed cotton can he converted into yarn at a profit, it is certainly a progressive step. The mere saving in bagging, ties, transportation, to'say nothing of the stealing and risk -of tire, is worth noting. Several of the Clement Attachments arc now in successful operation in this State, North Carolina and Mississippi. In Union County there arc any number of water-falls adapted to running machinery? the raw material at haul and the laborer waiting only to be called on. A little enterprise and public spirit is ull thai is lacking. KNTUUrill.SU. ? M l or t lit* l imes. Why tho Cotton Don't go to Charleston. Mr. Ivditoii :?That wide-awake, enterprising paper, I lie (Charleston Xeit s awl Courier, has hcen industriously interviewing the leading merchants and 1'nctora engaged in tho Cotton busincss, tho wharf owners and Kail road ullieials, as to the cause of a decline in the cotton receipts in Charleston. It docs not seem to have occurred to any one that one of the most important* f:f<ft6rs in the problem had not been interviewed ? the planter or country merchant. These gentlemen complain that they have been driven to sell to Agents of Northern houses, near home, or to^diip their cotton by the Air I.ine, not only ?m account of facilities and economy, but because itkCharleston they find they arc fleeced, in going jffrouglnthc hands of the Factor' by so many extra ciijtrgcs, such as patching, insurance, drayage, storage, excessive sampling and commissions. The bill of particulars found attached to a sale of four or five biles of cotton .which runs tho gantlet of a.Charleston Facloi will deter any man from a like experiment, and lie will feel inclined to sell his cotton as near home as possible. It is very plain, from the reports of the different parties interviewed, that reform is needed in Charleston as to wharfage, drayage, pressing, rebate, &o. 1 have heard country merchant: anil planters declare that they would never submit to the charges made in Charleston. If Charleston wants to retain her trade or L get back what she has lost, her merchants must make up their minds to be content with smallct profits. The fact is patent that while the fnrmci lifts irrawn unarm* t?vot v wnnt* ?!?? D . J- ? v . w j J Vi*l ?IIV VUiiUII I Ul/lUI lias grown richer. PLAIN PACTS. For tliu Times. A Heavy Fall on tho No-Stock-Law SideMii. Kiutoii :?1 have been a Stock-Law advocate iill I lie liino, mt 1 ant satisfied that when everybody gets fully ready for it, harmony will prevail ; but I was not fully "confirmed" until Monday last, so I'll just tell you how it was : You see, or know, I'm a great hand to stay at home, hut business called me across the County line into Cross Anchor township, Spartanburg County, and while quietly riding along?close to the County line fence?not thinking of dead cattle or hogs?not being accustomed to such things on the highway about home ? mind you, I say nothing about tho dry pnsturcs?-when suddenly I spied a dead ho<r on the i-.m.l ui ln n solitary buzzard holding on inquest over him Tlie buzzard "rising to explain," my tnarc changed direction without notice, dropping me head foremost in tho road, soiling my new clothes, and giving me a considerable jolt. I was alone, you see, had nobody to tulk to, had nothing to do but to think, brush the dirt oil', remount and goon my way rejoicing (?) I was lil c the "littlcboy" in the fable: "Sorry and glad both, Sorry I had got such a foil, but glad it was me, instead of n lady. Sorry I was outside of Stick I.aw, nn?l glad of (ho prospect of soon getting into Stock J,aw territory Again." Sol only had to watch for dead stock ami buzzards until 1 crossed Knorcc into Laurens County, where 1 was ngain under Stock Law and felt safe?niaking my way home quietly without further difficulty. Now, yon needn't go and tell this to them Spnrlanhurg Editors, because they have no stock law in Spariuuburg, and might think I was tnk?:.l ? ...K o...-vo in iutii upproaciiing contest on the question of Fence or no Fence, liut I'm "confirmed," any how. 0. Now is the time to pick out n nice Christinas or New Year's present for your wife or daughter, nnd what would he prettier, more serviceable or more highly appreciated than one of Mrs. Grant 8 beautiful huts. Go and see what a splendid stock she has got. * \ 135^^ ' 'or the TimVM Tllo Graded *Echool System Wanted. , Mb. Eoitoii :?It is gratifying to learn that an earnest effort will be made by our .Members of tlie Legislature to place old Union on some tiling like a footing of equality with other communities, as regards educational privileges. llcyor.d question our good town can show ns many children as any other place of its size, in or out of (lie Union, and her lads and lasses j can't'be beatc% by anybody else's, either.? Then. V 'hem have a* fair chance?don'-t lot t'letn be'forced to grow up in ignorance or go elsewhere to school. Such a course will show a great want of economy, to say nothing of the higlior motives of natural affcct-ionand the pub| That!i are-avcr two hundred children itV,*bf two miles from her Court ^ito could and should be her I Schools?and would be, could we have such a system_ as|tbo/wants of these coining men and women need and the highest, interests of the community demand?a system that would render the teachers less dependent upon the patronage of individuals am! at the same tinu?- brins I hem under the influence of a public opinion controicil. as it would be with us, by men and women of culture and refinement, in all classes of the community. And a bar and a pulpit af fording bright examples of what superior eduction united to moral worth c in do in elevating the men above the range of (lie jpiercly coso* hunting pettifogger and the pifithl role of being the mere riVnting mouthpiece of sectarian bigotry. Now, is not the time fully come wliiyi, every consideration of public and* private gt>od conspires to demand a new departure? * ? No reflection whatever is intend sd upon the teachers now in charge of the schools. They are.doubtlcss well qualified, ilut the standard should bo raised. The Graded School, with Teachers having suflicient and staled salaries, and pupils so classed as Jo enable th<nn to receive a^nrton tnid inslflfbtlon hi tlrer.nost etfcctual manner, should take their places. Hut, above all, let the new departure not become a cause of strife and cautciition, but let a spirit of mutual respect ami coltcilintiotu uuitc ns more firmly than ever fn seeking a common good. There certainly is no occasion for a display of dogmatism of the Dogberry order. I'KO HONO PUBLICO. o. l'or the Times. West Springs Iteni3. Several eases of measles are reported in our community. Our stubborn man has at last found a peer iu a person too stingy lo Have good health. A sermon Was preached iu one of our neighboring churches a few Sabbaths ago from the text, "lie sure your sins will find you out.''? Tlio next week one of the members of that church hal a lightning-rod put up. The members of the West Springs Sewing So cicty deserve all the credit that can he ascribed | them for the success they attained in the man| agcaicut of the ilot-Suppcr on the night of the 121st. The tables groaned beneath such a bur den of delicious delicacies that the gastronomic proclivities of tlie daintiest epicurean might liuvc been fully satiated. After supper, when llie ''inner uian" had been fully refreshed, Ihe grab-bag was opened, which added no little to the enjoyment of the party. The net proceeds, amounting to ?00.00 were not large, but satisfactory, considering the weather and the short notice given to the public. Upon the whole w* must pronounce it a success. Winter has come at last, and with icy fingers i has ruthlessly stripped both sprig and tree ol j their beautiful summer robes. The leaves, j brownc l and scared, scattered here and thcrt by the chilled November winds, have lost theii recent beauty and freshness ; an 1 they tell to us, with a silent, sober speech, a solemn talc. Tlu dismantled trees, admitting the rough wmtci blast among their nude brachos, speak of a cold ! sad and disolhto day in the lil's the winter frost that robs the leaves of theii gladness is jiot less cold than the ingrati i tilde of #the world, and the chilly wind thai bares the trees is not less rude than the storun old age is sometimes f reed to hufl'ct. For l lie Times. Mi:. Kitll'nit : ? I. as usual, will t e at dear oh , Fish Dam on the lilt Sunday in December. A fence of some sort is greatly needed around tin "sleeping places" of revered friends who nwail ! the resurrectio:i I i-iiinn in lioi .>M n..l 1. ..11 L-........ ' grave yard. We will try to see wlmt those .11. tcrcsted .will give to place a Subslantial ami . sightly fence of wood, atone, or iron, around it I may he able to spend a lew days i't the oh 1 neighborhood then, and ask the cooperation am advice ttii I sympathy of all concerned to attend or send their representatives, and let us "have . a mind to work." It is late to do it, hut not lot I lute. December L'8|li is the day for preaching and I expect to ho there, rain or shine ! 1 hope to meet many?while and colored.? 1 Don't forget the object of this special service . my friends of the guml oldin the Fish Dam Fork, Orccubricr and icantuc Country. J. W. KELLY. I . o ' ('?kn. McOowan's Fatk."?lit the Yorkvilh correspondence of the Columbia Urjislcr we lint the following amusing reference to the closing scene at our last Court, when Judge I'resslej with wonderful modesty refused to allow (lit Abbeville liar to compliment him by llieit spokesman; lien. McOowan. Speaking of tlu close of Court in York, where Judge Wallace presided, the correspondent says : "At the close of the term one of the member! ! of the bar pleasantly remarked, "than warned I by (it'll. .McOowan's fate, the lips of this bat were scaled," which caused a merry laugh from both the bench and bar." 0 I'ostai. Dots.?The following commcicial papers, &c., by recent rulings of the l'ost Ollicc Department, arc admitte I into it>? .noil.. ? ? fourth-class mutter, that is, ut one cent per , ounce in unernled envelopes : Printed papers of legal procedure tilled onl in writing, deeds, way hills or bills of lading, bills, invoices, bank notices and the various documents of insurance companies. Anything added to the above in the nature of personal ctrre.spondcnce subjects it to letter postage. Bills which arc receipted, or have any credits on them which gives them a money vali no, and statements of account, are also subject , to tetter rates. eBRINGING TIIB (J.VMIM.KRS TO ACCOUNT. ? A lending firm in this city has entered suit tor [ $79,000 against the proprietors of the two principal gambling saloons, tho amount sue I for, or a portion of it, being alleged to have Incn lost ! at various times by young m n in whom the Drosceu tors are inti>i-?uinil Tl,i>o?il?n s- ? i. under (lie law wliicli provides that money won at gambling shall, upon proof, he restored fourfold.?Aries anil Conner. m ? | Phosi'Ecth ok a IU.viii.ition.?Sim Francisco, November 24. ? News hy the steamer Nticbrrii from Mn/.atlan indicatesun impending revolution iu Mexico. (icii.Jesus llomire/. has pronounced - and sonic of his forces have collected at Kosarin Concordia Capoln, sixty miles from Murallan.? Another small force has pronounce I at Cusaln in the Slate of Sinaloa. The insurgents have 1 also pronounced nl hops/., whero about ono hundred and fifty men took possession of the town, seized on all the arms which wore accessible nn 1 left for the interior. Smai.l Ton*; a no.?A miuaturc formula struck nr i> <_..i ' ... ? ...iri-ri *?r i crry s pincc, i arco miles above Greenville, on the Uiili inst., with disastrous results, It struck t ho now brick burn erect oil and carried away one section of the roof and the gable end of the building. The family carriage was do, uiolisbed beyond repair. The double buggy wa? somewhat injured. Some of the faun slock were hurt. I.argo pines and oaks were twisted otf four and five feet from the ground. turc^mit Columbia correspondent of , . Cui^K-nv ami Currier 1 bus speculates * + , * trains^? lljt malter.i that will be nctcil of iii2|SttL8C8slon ?' ,'IC kegislalion of Justloekt(^jSHil[[^Kiliiiincov in probabilities *ro \ Locembcr, "" 1 y elevated to ti llW^tprecatL' what trouble. Who Mr ill i\ Vfcblio blmiuesirr^**"**-^**#^ a question to which^t ?nl TWor the elcc-^ ? p. w iili any assurance o\ mo Court. Tho \ rcct. V ir will be quietThere is a vague iatir cesbip without f N question will bo brough 9 Aeseefotc is ; tor 111 or by whom ii 11 y be gbrtft now f Labilities of a fight'otoj w robabfjt cor- L becoming stronger.''3Qk?|L j fV be blought up. ;??i ''\-hat0 < yv It is probable thnt an kt-v, VnRr wUm _ during the prescut session, fho proiug laws regarding tho qMlu -^i.^ng wr# 1 e j^utKm^ct lie p resen tpy tip"-.,,. -laiuly $tijlb%>nF^Khnges l'riipo3Bo<.U^ "ttde, -A OTfllie oIlictHif conn ty audtgn^\o , .V8*" o duties 011 the treasurer, wbffn?C 1111 amendment of the Constitnti^ ^ ^ j L $10,000 Fire.?\\ ihbington, N. 22.? \ large lire occurred here c?^ifcsmC)t$ ing, which ilcslW^eil Culville Alt offer & I'rice's sasji.f large of timber, 02"> enpkr about 500 barrels jHj bent loss nggrHl insurance nbout $20,000. ^Al only were fully insured. Y ?We hope t of tlio Legislature will intr utciil lie Constitution, to b>voters at the next election, ?h\ jHfl^^B homestead exemption in persona' pror" ' those who own no land. We * H that the Supremo Court has no question, but there seems to bi the inituls of the lawyers that wl is presented, the court will dccia H the interests of those who own Ltvillt Press and Homier. ... . List of Letters Remaining in the l'ost Office at 1 ^ for the week ending Nov. l'Jlh, 1879. ? Fowler, Wi.; Moore, Larkin J.; 8nyy^Ji Sayer, Dan and Tom. J AS. II. COSS.JB H Consignees per Express at Union, S. CrPB H 26th, 1879. H lion. W. ][. Wallace, C. 1'. Drown & Irwin, Gibbes & Co, li M Griuiball, 1) 1'^^B H can. C C Whit esides, N W Tayler, <: i t. 11 r s Bn H W t? Gregory, Thos Comer, S M Wood, C T JroB^ I Mat Eison, Mrs. 11 W Shand. P. II. COUNTS, Ag't. * Tho Markets. *. fl Uxion, Nov. 27.?Our market the past ?- "* i has been quite brisk, with prices ruling! Friilay, Nov. 21 10'. A Monday " 2d 10* y\> V Tliurday, '? 27?noon -.11 fel\ g Sales for the week G59 bales. \ In Ji"* yww N,s'f KgMBrtmjB ?' Ho" lf%; low middling; ?Il-J; good oiit.Tr.n? i </?; XiavXoRK, Noveuilier ?Collou t'piict ; sales ini.l.lliiit; uplands middling Orleans V2\t; Futures closed barely sternly ; sab s IIs.oihi ; November 12.3fiul2.38^ Divcinber 1 J.S7 a 1 'J.-'.l; .lamia: \ I 'J. t "?.t 1 'J'si. t I.ivi:hi .mii , Nov. uilier 2."i t ot toil .juiet and steady ; middling uplands <1*4 ; middling Orleans (57^ ; sales 7,000. * Fnturca opened cheaper, but the deeline has sinee been particularly recovered ; uplands, low. Wiiat is tiik M atti it ??IN by ho i>hIc, so Inn- . I gnid ? Arc you sick ? Kvidently, your liver' , is not doing its duty. You cnnnol live in com? fort or peace uiflMI you are relieved, do to Ibe I nearest drug store and buy a bo*of-Dr. CJil , iler's l.iver I'ills. A lordoses will restore you to perfect heath, ami gi.e a rosy tint to your I clieek. Oct 24 , ^8 2m _ j Xolico To TroMpiiMKcrM ! I 4 l.h persons hereafter found riding or walk, i V injr, hunting birds or any other game upon my premises, will be prosecuted to the cxtreni> ity of the law made ami provided for such Ires, pass. T. M. W1IITKSIDE. Nov. 28 -18 4t Administrator's Notice. NOTICU is hereby given that T" tvHlr .oa ffto oil) day of Jaiiuarv, 1H80, apply to" lion. I>. Jthnson, Jr., Probate Judge of Union Coun> tv, for a final discharge as Administrator of tho , Untitle of Mrs. Ilosa F. Turner, deceased. ' J AS. T. l)OU(JI,ASS, Administrator. Nov. 28 48 4t ; DISSOLUTION^ rpm: haw partnership heretofore existing tin_L der the firm name of Townsend & Htokes is i this day dissolved by mutual consent. I This dissolution does not atl'cct unfinishedT5\is ines. i Union, S. C., Nov. 28, 1879. I). A. TOWNSEND, S. S. STOKES. ' * Nov 28 48 2t Improved Cotton Seed. I HAVE about -I<i0 bushels of I lie I.ouisinn* 1. Cluster Cotton Seed wliich I will sell at reasonable price. The Cotton from this seed brought quarter of a cent more than any cotton oflered at Union last week. A supply will he found at \V? T. Graham's Grocery store at Union C. H. J. D. GltAlIAM. Nov 21 47 2t* FRESH SUPPLIES. DRESS (JOODS. KENTUCKY JEAN'S, ROOTS AND SHOES. A T LOW PRICES. s HH'E & MiLUIlE. Not 4 < tpi.? e ii rt i* j-iiu oiMu? ?)i oouiu i^tirouna. CO VSTY OF FX! OX. In the Court of Probate. | l$Y DAVID JOHNSON, JIU, Esq., Ju.lge of l'robnlc fur Union County. W HURRAS, It. I(, Rico,, lias made suit to mo to grant lilm Inters of aduiua^ islrntion nf tbo estate and effects of SAIW1Y MYERS, deceased. These arc, tlierefore, to cite and admonish I and singular tlie kindrod ami creditors snid M l;S. 8 A DRY MYERS, deceased, ilial ty i l?c and appear before mo, in the Court of to bo lield at Union Court llouse, on uuy oi i?eeeinurr, i o i .1, nexi nucr j)iup ? hereof, nl H o'clock In the forenooiw '.? I ennse, if nny they have, why I ho sold Irnlion Mi onId not be granted. jWk under my hand, thin MMyjJf veinbnr, Anuj l>iitnlni lf<70. . I!) J gjf/ -17 / 7 J