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V New Fall an iJOk All Kind K^Tx T HV XT T fgP|: Sj, tf . X XX X . ' WE invito attention to o X 3L> It 13 ^ 4 ~ woribtods, 3Iunnny Olo . Ftu gf AND A FULL LINE OF CII1 iff , OF THE LATEST r* * _ I * OUR STOCI *jAi- White Goods, fW , Homespun,' _ . - if - TICKingS, ' Flam If Cloths i WE hare (lie largest ami best assortment to OUR "BOOTS Arc of tlie best make and the cheapest e' to our stock of >' T. MILJ LADIEi # WE IIAVE TIIE LARGE LADIES' , ' ' ' j. THAT JIAS EVER BEE* -*V ? ? - ''OUR u.; , GENT'S CL( , FURNISH] % t Is large and well selected and as as chea / vinco you of what wc say. / WE HAVE A WELT, SELECTF. Ilardwai'c, "W oocioii whim Tinware Croc "Sr-v. 8,11 ^ , All of which will he sold at the lowest pi * for yourselves. S Oct. " s Fresh Arrivals. W AVK arc now receiving our FALL and WI NT Lit STOCK, and respectfully nsk old and ^ new unslutners to call and cxI amine. Q Our Slock embraces all the Novelties of the season. * ^ J Bargains, as Usual Cashmeres and Alpacas. "T71XAMIXK our IMiick Oinliinercs nn<l Alp: J J SPKAltS & COLTO Prints ! Prints ! ! MAUI! prettiest Prints in I'nion, to lie foul JL Sl'KAKS & COI.TO.V Vir|;inlii Joans. irHIUY one is invile<l to enll tin 1 cxai B -l-i our Stock of Virginia .leans ami < 'ussiin . Kl'KAKS Ac COLTO To Ilmisc-Hot'iM'i'N. [F you want Crockery you can get a supp SI'I-: \Its \ COLTO.V Shawls and Cloaks, OP the latest Styles at SIMIAIIS Ac COI.TON" Clothing, A ' greatly roduccl prices. Call niul 1\ amiiit*. " SPKAilS S COLTO Boots and Shoes, rrio suit ever}' one nt X SI'KARS & COI.TON Dress Good3. Til ROM 8 cents to ?1 f><> per vnnl. at *. J.1 FtlSTKH A XVI(.KIN.* y d Winter Goods. ?OF? s and Styles ?AT? r T o f rn LiU <5C UU ur New and well assorted STOCK of il ti O O T> W - -<V ^ ^ XSISTING OF . i? I tl?8, ? u;y SuitinffH, Striped SuitiiiCN, 1 AlpueuH, VAP DRESS GOODS AND TRIMMINGS DESIGNS AND NOVELTIES. :o: X OF NOTIONS, nels, Linseys, Jeans, Tweeds, Cassimeres, i? A - - ,t.L s of Clonk* thai has ever been brought ' tliia market. ; AND SHOES, rer offered in Unoin. We wonld call epccial attention SS Ac SON'S S' SHOES.' 1ST AND BEST ASSORTMENT OF CLOAKS, T BROUGHT TO TII1S MARKET. STOCK OF JTIHNG, HATS :NG . GOODS,. p as (lie cheapest. Call anil see them anil wcwill con :o: I) STOCK I.V THE FOLLO WING LINKS. 9 , m lcoi-y, Lcl<Ilei*y and Kriclles, Groceries, Ace. rices, ami satisfaction guaranteed. Call and examine J. T. HILL & CO. , 10 tf .?. . ? i FOH c-l ^ AT NO. 1, EAST UNION. ' o Tin: Gil in COTTON TIE, II EST IN USE 1 w P'JA .1 IlVNDLE, \ 'MOLES. JILUE STONE, O MOLES. COI'I'EE AS, ^ L UIIUIC. I TING OILS H for all khuls of machineri/?from a ? LEVEE WATCH TO A STEAM ENGINE, LEATHER OIL, LINSEED OIL?EA W AND MOILED, KEEOSEXE OIL, 'Ncns- 77 'E DENTIN E, ! ' - I'M NTS OE ALL KINDS? DEV AND IN { i OIL. " I "i r.i itx/snrs, I'M ST lilt US I IKS, W/XltOW ASS AX/) PUTTY, Imne (i/.ri: or all kixds, ores. N. J{. F. ItAlVIiS. Off. 17 42 If ! ]y a? Great Bargains. I TV MILI.I iN 10 I i A' I \ 5 I'.S. ,1. Grant wishes lo inform her friends ^ I 1* I linth in town and country lltat she will he prepared for their calls on Monday the 20th list. Fx- Pattern Huts and bonnets. N'. Hals from f?Oc. upwads. Cheapest that was ever sold in this market. Feathers. Flowers, Itihhons ami anything in the way of Millinery goods. Oct 17 42 If WANTED. / p)!?N. I'll \S AND lilDF."*. llring them to | \ J 15. F. 15AWLS and get a good price. F, Dec o I'd tf T> ESl'ECTPUJ.LT inform their Customerjl I \ and the people of Union County general Ij(| that their stock of Now Goods for the (1 FALL AND WINTER TRXp^ is now open for inspection. Their goodajh&y# been purchased at the best markets, uaon tM> best terms and selected with great o%re by the firm. ^ ? ?F THEIR STOCK CONSISTS f A FULL LINE OF I Fall and Winter DRY GOOfcS, NOTIONS, HARDWARE, v/xvv/vyxvxji.*) x f TINWARE, WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE, \ . SADDLES and BRIDLES, TRUNKS AND VALICES, GROCERIES, l"n CTHccrics we h&YC a complete assortment. V SuRarsJ Molasses, Flour, Bacon, Canned floods, Spleen, Flavoring Exiracts, Ac. WE CALL SPECIAL ATTENTION TO OUR LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S Hand and Custom Made SHOES. ALiSO OUR STAR SHIRTS, GREATLY REDUCED IS PRICES. We intend to sell on the most reasonable terms aud give satisfaction to all who purchase from us. We ask a trial. OFF A IIFXIPllltIFS, 0ctn TlflHSfSe of South Carolina^ COUNTY OF UNION. In tlic Court of Common Pleas. F. William Eison, Cansndn] Fowler, Martha Fowler, j John I). I.ong, John F. j I.oug, J. Gideon Long, Grant Long, Calhoun Long, Walker Long, Susan Long, Martha Long and Mary Long. . I'lainti-ffs. ayaiusl Harrison Fowler, Sallic Fow- Summons ler, Jack Hodgo, Henry Hodge, Minerva Addis, For Relief Henry Addis, Carolina Fow- ler, Gassaway Hodge,Cath- Complaint arine Hays, James Have, Frank Hodgo,- Wiight not served. Ilodgo, Calvin Hodge, Ncland Hodge. Sim Fowler, MarlhaQuiun, Felix Quinn, Ellis J. Fowler, Mark Fowler, Susan Milwood, James Gassaway Milwood, Samuel Fowler, Frank Fowler, and Elma Fowler, Defendants. To the Defendants above named : YOU arc hereby Summond and required to answer the complaint in this action, which will be filed in the otiice of the Clerk of the Court of Common l'lcas of the said County of Union, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers, at their office, No 4 Law Range, Union County, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service of this summons on you, exclusive of the day of such service ; and if you fail to answer the said complaint within tlio time aforesaid, the nlaintijKi in this action will apply to (he Court for the relief demanded in the nAmnlutni Dated, Union, S. December 3, 1870. STKKDMAN & 11 AWLS. riiiintiflV Attorneys. 1 James Muxiio, 8KAI. j- Clerk. To (If. Drfindiintf, 4'allimine Ifnyes unci her husband James Haves, Frank Hodge, Nclaud I lodge and Calvin Hodge. Take notice that tlie summons in litis action, of wlticli I lie foregoing is a copy, was tiled in I lie nllice of the Court of Common l'leas, at Union 1'onrl House in the State of South Carolina, on the third day of December, 1870. STI'.KD M AN ?Sr DAW US. riaintills' Attorneys, No. 4 Law ltangc. Dec. ft -10 Ot Sewing Machines. I AM Agent for the popular ami serviceable Weed and the New American Sewing Machines. They tire pronounced equal to any now in use and tire sold very cheap. 1\ M. COIIKM. Oct. 3 40 If Gent's Shirts. ("1 UNT'S Merino and all wool under-shirts.? J Something we can recommend. RICK & MoLUPK. Nov. *21 47 tf j Ladies' Cloaks. \\r K can show the beat Cloaks for the money ? r to Itu seen in l Ins market. Examine before purchasing. FOSTER Si WILKIN'S. Fur and Wool Hats. MEN S k Hoys' Fur ami Wool lints of nil grilles, for sale low by. Fns i KIt ,<t WJI.K1NS, P\ vWtako the folIo^l^^Vrai tfrfejflisbufe [sid^ in lIio Legislutiir^ropou th<n$>iH to allow tli? people in tbo several soti<A)l dis riets tgtle ij 1J mills fo^^e piir-J * (Ten. Kctpic^fy said : Mr. mjfc object in asking for the postpowB^Cdrthis bill til) to-day was iu order fjfi| tnflP members might have an opportanity of eonsiicriog such an important matter as it is. I regard it as so important and so much couuucted with the welfare of South Carolina that no member should hastily come to a conclusion upon it. It has been, aptly said by sotno one that the Americau! who has not mado up his uiind ou every subject is n curiosity, and he that reserves his opinion is still more of a curiosity.*After most grave and deliberate cousidqjft tidn,11 hare coo eluded to support thijl W?4n<.rtn.l l>v flin au<fw amen Wttarith othor/llBCJfwnhlHS VylilCUi TliTUH" '^botitO bo added to it. 1 need not speak to this House of the great priuciplo which has been established in the full light of the uiuctcenth ccutury?that it is ueccJsAry lor the State to take charge of the education of her childrou. The doctrine has been wisely formulated thus: That of things necessary to the general welfare tho State should do what it can do best, and leave to the individual what he can do best. This great priuciplo of education has taken hold of imperial Prussia, monarchical Eugland and republican l'Yanco and Switzerland, and iu this country every State in this Union has, to a greater or less cxteDt, considered the subject. New York devotes ten millions to educational purposes; Massachusetts four millions ; Missouri'over two millions; Louisiana, over half n milliou ; Kentucky, one million .aiajUfl half. South Carolina has whcelcdJfi^B Hue, and between the poll tax and the'two mill tax raises 8370,000. From tho last report of the Statu Supcrintcudeut of Education it appears that 122,4G3 children attended school during the past year, which would give 83 per capita, while for those who should attend it would IMVfi S1.2f? nr?r Tlln nunrmn ti'"" o- - - I? ?I """ 'b" *?u,w that the schools have been kept open daring the past year is three and one-third months. The average pay of teachers is $25 per month. Has South Carolina done her duty in proportion to her population to the demands upou her aud to the illiteracy among her people ? We do not ask au increased tax. But we do say that we have an immense population growing up iu ignoraucc, and we ask that the provisions of this bill be adopted ; that cities, towns and villages which desire to supplement the State fund by imposing a tax upon themselves bo allowed to do so. Aud the chief jougp^o iti-doiafr id^Gfder to establish Win! knovru as graded schools. Now I confess that when T began tin investigation of this subject 1 did not know what a graded school was, and 1 take the liberty of rending a description of what a graded school is from a definition which I have obtained while searching for information on the question. "Ordinarily, a graded school is so named simply from a method of classifying the pupils; but in this State it menus, iu additiou, a school supported partly by funds raised from other.sou^pes. * Wells, iu his book en graded schools, defines it to be a school iu which the pupils are divided into classes, according to their attainments, and in which all tho pupils attend to tho same branches of study at the same time. All the pupils iu any one class nttcud to precisely the same studies aud use tho same books. In each room there will be first and second classes; and it is important that tho identical pupils who constitute the first class iu ouo branch should constitute the first class in every branch pursued by the first class. By this arrangement when one class is reciting tho other is preparing for recitation, and an alternating process kept up through the day. affording pupils ample time to study their lessons and the teacher ample time to instruct the class." This simplifies instruction and affords more time to it. In a school of mixed elas- I ses half an hour might bo devoted to a class of only one or two scholars. This bill provides that such a school shall be established in every city, town and incorporated village where it is desired.? No one will deny the necessity of a high school in each of these communities, ami various plans have been proposed whereby to meet the necessity. One of these plans is to have the people contribute certain fees to supplooioufc the public fund nnd to make these foes compulsory v. Ii- to the parties agree to pay them. An objection to this is that it tends to give the control of the public schools too much into (lie hands of a few individuals who contribute to their support. Another objection to it is that it does not tax a man according to his ability but according to his willingness, and in certain months of the year it would be I inadequate to meet the exigencies of those months. Another plan is to divert the Stale fund and give it to private enterprises. This is so clearly unconstitutional that 1 need not stop to argue that it will not do. Another plan is that alter the school fund has becu exhausted, then that private partics contribute voluntarily to the support of the schools. This plan has been tried and lias signally failed. Now let us see what this bill provides. I take it for granted that there is not a ? .! :? u | " i ............ .... ? iiuor who win iioi \v11111)<riy join in any feasible plan to assist in the cdticaliou of the rising generation of the State. We propose to supplement the school fund by local taxation and establish a system of graded high schools. Now, what are the objections to the bill ? It has been said that it revives the old school district system inaugurated by the Republican party. I need not in refutation of this charge produce the authority and read it stt|tuto*,section 15, sub-division 4 ) Yon CAfiSt#, jhorc in no parattul.'bctxvtoii . dtt-; two" sjitctfis. Under *haVs$^tfcur | habitant bad tbc riglit to vote at tn<?6c ' meetings. Hero they arc limited to tho property holders. And if tbcYo wcro any disposition on the part of the jjon-?property hdjdors to capture a meeting F do not see tliwr they could possibly do so. I propose tbwtta?.baU^hall be so amended as Jo insert "fifty property;Antf'Ffctiftrill* ing, if tho villages of the State do not desire the priviligcs of this bill,*, to restrict its provisions to towns of fifteen hundred in habitants nud require that fit'teeu hundred inhabitants shall sign tho call. And the bill gives the power to school trustees, under the auspices and direction of these meetings, to levy this tax. Now, with these Property holders conrposiu^tUc meetings, Ar^lb Democratic school coi^feiifsiouors and ^trustees, aod?wi& 4i>ree-.t?r0?a ofthesl MMK :um TToitrJug- uxt provisions TTT' the bill to towns of fiflccu hundred inhabitants, I have no fear that any dire result will ensu o. If the property holders of any community are not able to protect themselves they arc not the peoplo I take them to be. Men who will not turn out to political meetings will attend these meetings which propose to touch their pocket nerves. There need be no fear of the colored property holders. Th ; intelligent colored man is anxious to educate his children, and however much he may differ on political questions with his white friends, he will agreo with them ou this matter. I have no fear at all that the class of people who own nothing but a dog apiece will take any interest in these meetings, and our people will see that they do not control them.? Some of tho opponents of the bill have said that it will be unconstitutional to limit the right to vote to those who hold property. I have examined the constitution on that point, and I cannot fiud any article prohibiting property holders from utcotiug aud levying a tax, because this is not an election, and the franchise proposed by the constitution does not contemplate any action of this kind. There are some decisions cf the Supreme Court of the Uuited States that the power to levy taxes can be delegated to counties, and the vote bo taken sometimes by land owners aud sometimes by tax payers, sometimes by the grand jury aud sometimes by the popular vote. It is not consistent for the opponents of the bill to object, on the one hand, to the imposing of a tax by those who only own a little property and on the other hand to say that it is unconstitutional to exclude lion property holders from voting for the tax. The objection that non-resident property holders will bo taxed under this bill will apply with equal force to any other tax. Dut the objection that has had more weight with me than any ether is that it might possibly introduce discussion into committees by reason of a difference of opinion there. I would not do anything to prevent a complete periphery of the Democratic circle. Dut 1 have not been able to sec Miat this objection is well taken. 1 believe that when this bill is licdired around so as to take nwav its - - J % ? objectiouable features it cannot possibly produce any discord. It has been tried successfully in other communities and with great beneficent effect. As to its economy, suppose a man living in a town and owning $5,000 worth of property. Under the two mill tax he would pay $10. Add the poll tax and the one and one-half mill tax under this bill and that would raise his school tax to $18.50. Suppose he has two or three children to educate. What arc the three months the publie school are open to them. For the other six mouths ho would have to pay at the rate of $2 per month '{ on each child. This would cost twenty-four dollars for two children. Add to this the poll tax and the levy for the three months, and you will easily perceive which plan is the cheapest. Private enterprise would come into play wheu the children have advanced to higher branches of study than arc now taught in the graded schools. This bill will compel the property holders to help educate the orphans of those who fell in our late struggle, and it will gladdeu the hearts of their widowed mothers, who arc unable to give them that great and beneficent advantage. It will enable the children of the State to rise to the measure of their manhood and do honor to the blood that flows in their veins, it will pull into the publie sehools those little waifs who otherwise would grow up in ignorance. And when you consider the diminution of crimo and pauperism, you must see that it is your duty to do everything in your power to help educate the people of the State. While on this point L cannot refrain from reading an extract from a pamphlet which it would pay every Southern man to read. It is entitled ''Education the Nccdoftho South," a paper read before the American Social Science Association, at its annual meeting, iwmu at Saratoga, ^September, IS77, by Hester A. Hawkins, A. M., of New York bar. It says : '"Tho Grand Duchy of lladcn by universal education in seven years reduced the number of crimes fifty per cent, and the number of paupers twenty-live per cent." "The South is oppressed with pauperism and petty crimes. Hut these are the natural productions of its illiteracy, in the three States of i'cunsylvania, Ohio and Illinois the illiterates furnish thirty times their proportionate share of paupers and ten times their proportionate share of criminals. Illiterates in the whole country commit ten times their numerical proportion of crimes: in New Knglnnd fifty-three times. In tlie | State of New York a single illiterate family, as is shown in a work just published by an | eminent investigator, have become in less than a century the progenitors of twelve I hundred paupers and criminals. '-( ive them education, and their wants tako better coro of their Jionlth, work lo more advantage, demand better tool* and cultithte the soil or lubor in the me* .. cliauic's sliop with more success. Common laborers, frith such nu education as tho free cotpiuon school gircs, nro found by actual experiment to b<5" vrbrth to thp State, as uiere producing machines, on an avcrugo fifty per cent, more thau if illiterato. in other words, the 3,000,000 of illiterates in the South would, if tht^y had a common school education, accotrfplish on the nvcragofifty per cent, more of productive work per yesr than they now do This would bo equivalent, as a wcalth-orettHng powor, to . adding a million and a hatt t^the industrial population of thoieoiibo^ "Sintgni>an^ uotViHrg to tin; rr>M trf porting-iketo." , I do not quoto to ^ou what Wa&Uio?tonr Jefferson and Calhoun said on tlio subject of education. Immigration and education arc the two great needs of our State. Mr. Earlc said: lam opposed to local legislation. I know that it is sometimes _ necessary to enact local laws; but thcro should bo no local legislation upon a general subject. Education is a geucral subject and it is a most important subject. It should be provided for by this body itself. It is not a matter of education wo are considering ; it is a question whether wo shall give the towns aud villages the power to levy school taxes. Is u wise to remit to sub-divisions of the people what wo should attend to ? If the two mill tax and the poll tax are not sufficient, then let this body provide for it and not shift the responsibility to towns and villages. The present tax levy is as much as South Carolina can a I ford to pay. I concur in all that has be^n said in praise of the Superintendent of Kd- - ?ucation, hut this report is erroneous in soino particulars. South Carolina j ays her full share in proportion to wealth, debt aud p"pulation. [II ere Mr. Earle nndo quotations from a tabular statement, showing these particulars in several States, which we will publish hereafter.} I believe the law will have the same effect as the Republican law ; that those persons who are so fond of attending mcctingj will come to pass and levy over tho heads of the property holders; and thci> there will be a hue aud cry as to property qualifications. If the law is not unconstitutional it will bo said that it is. Mr. Rrowu also spokongaiust the bill and Mr. Cooke in its favor. Cheat Quinine.?Tho act of Congress mukiug quiuinc free of duty, seems to hav?? worked like a charm. The number of prophets of evil were many, but the predictions which have eouio true hare yet tobe enumerated. Wheu the duty repealing the clause was passed, on Ju'y 1, quinine went up ten cents per ounce, bccauseit was said that tho two Philadelphia houses which have been getting rich on thistax for the promotion of malarial fever meant to go out of business at once and iucoutiucntly. However, the American manufacturers seem to have changed their minds al'tcr the bill became a law. Foreign manufacturers began to increase their productions, and to increase their shipment.* to this side also. Tho importations of quinine and sulphate of quinine from April to.July were $25.-1)0 : from Julv to October / -- J - - ? I after the duty was taken off, the imports rose to ?230,800, while dining the same period, in spite of the fact that this period covered the malarious season, the price of quinine fell to P2.75 per ounce for American ami to ?- 55 lor French. This disp'sos at last of this blood tax. for it shows tint free quinine will not drive American manufacturers out of the market, but tli.it it lias had the effect already to stimulate their production and that ot their foreign competitors so much as to enable our sick people to get quinine at prices which are !#."> cents cheaper per ounce than those which ruled while the monopoly was still sustained. This means that the American people, who are forced to consume a good deal of this invaluable anti-periodic, arc already able to get it about -1 per cent, cheaper than formerly, in cjuscqucncc of the remission #f this tax, which yielded scarcely a penny !?* the shape of revenue to the country, while it enormously enriched two manufacturing drug houses in Plilndclphiu. Vai.uk of tmk Sunklowkii.?The 6uuflower is turned to extraordinary account in the Lithuania. The seeds yield at first pressure excellent salad oil, and the residuo forms excellent oil-cake for cattle, who also relish the loivcs and stalks chopped up.? The flowers a little short of full bloom are, when cooked, nearly as good as artichokes, and are in the garden very attractive to bees. The loaf well dried is used as to bacco. The seed receptacles are made into blotting paper and the inner part of tlnv stalk is manufactured into a fino writing paper. The more woody poitioris of the plant, which attains great size, are used lor fuel. The best seed is obtained in the Crimea. As an anti-malaria agent tho sunflower is most valuable. ? A Nkw Hi. Dokaho in tiik Wkst.? Denver, Col . December 10.?A dispatch from Fair Flay reports the discovery of' uranium in ihe Sacramento mining district. The mineral is found in Bohemio and Saxony on tho contiucnt of Germany, and in (lornwall, England, but never before in this country. It is used in c..loring glass ami in porcelain painting, and gives to Bohemian glass its peculiar flurcsccncc. As far _ _ 1 - 1 ' * as Known inn ore runs sixiy per eont., an<J uranium is worth one thousand dollars j>ef ton. subscribe for tlic TlMKS.