Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^ ^ ^ Scroti (I to AtjricnlHi: c. jlws o^ihc ?ni)- ^ ' ^ ~Z ^ - / New Fall ant >j& *^? Ajfe All Kinds Mk .T TV 11TI invito attention to oui <4i> R E SI ? *' C0N1 Womtcdw, ^ Muiuiny Clot **ji F?u< nKf AND A FULL LINN OF CIIF, P OF THE LATEST I 9 % OUR STOCB la;* White Goods, JT' Homespun,' *1 * Tickings, | Flann r', iff,.-Cloths ii WK hare tlie largest and best assortments to I * OUR 'BOOTS Arc of tlic best make and the cheapest er< to our stock of ?' T. MXLI JLi -A. U 1 ?Li fc *r WE HAVE THE LARGES LADIES' a 1 'W* 77/'1 T has ever been > *$>' "OUR ? , CENT'S CL( , rCRMSIII ** * % i \ >t Is Uirgc and well selected and as as cheap / vinco you of what we soy. t" WE HAVE A WELL SELECTS I H ardwarc, W oodenwarr . Till ware, Croel t ' ( ?a V A, Jr ^ ?All of which will he sold nl the lowest pri 't?r jTd|*iolvcs. *. y. -?r My i Oct. ' s Fresh Arrivals. = M WK aro now recoiving our FALL and WINTER STOCK, and respectfully ask old and new customers to call and examine. P) Olir fttOCk embraces all the Novelties of the season. Bargains, as Usual f j, Cashmeres and Alpacas. I EXAMINE our lllnck Cashmeres and Alpni li SPEARS & COLTOM Prints ! Prints !! milU prettiest Prints in Union, to ho foun< A SPEARS & COLTOM'ti Virginia Joans. lAVERY one in invited to call and exam 1 J our Stock of Virginia Jeans and Cassiine 8PKAR8 & COLTOS To Ilonso-lioopors. f F you want Crockery you can get a supply V L SPEARS & COLTON'c A i Shawls and Cloaks, ' /"VFltho latc?t Styles at \J j 8PEARS k COLTOTI Clothing, 4 T greatly reduced prices. Call and i v limine. SPEAR? >v COLTO> I Boots and Shoes, Of flrpO suit every one nt ^ gl I 8PKAR3 L COLTON ? Dre3s Goods. ROM 8 centi to $1 50 per ynnl. nt ' FOSTER $ W11. KINS is* n 1 Winter Goods. ?OF? 3 and Styles ?AT? jL & CO'.S. f New and well assorted 8TOCK Of i ? .. O I> ^ ," ^ SISTING OF ?' - ?* * lictf ? SuitinffH, Striped SuilincH, Alpueas, IT DRESS GOODS AND TRIMMINGS >E3IQNS AND NOVELTIES. ?:o: Z OF NOTIONS, els, Linseys, Jeans, Tweeds, Cassimeres, s Complete. * i of IjiulieM ClonltM that has ever been brought this market. AND SHOES, (r efTcretl in Unoin. We wonld call special attention Ac 3' SHOES' 5T AND BEST ASSORTMENT OF CLOAKS, BROUGHT TO THIS MARKET. ??:o:? ""~ ;tocic of )THING, HATS ?AND? NG GOODS, as (lie cheapest. Call and see them and wcwill con :o: ) STOCK IX THE FOLLOWING LINKS. f9 kery, ddlery and 13ridlc8t Groceries, Aco. ices, anil satisfaction guaranteed. Cull and cxamim J. T. HILL & CO. 40 tf FOR SAI^E *-t g AT NO. 1, EAST UNION THE GRIP COTTOS TIE, REST IX VSI w Vl\ A BUNDLE, 300LRS. JJLUE STOXE, O &J0LIIS. COPPERAS, ?3 ? UURIC A TING OILS H /or aW A-/W* o/ machinery?from a 2 LEVER WATCH TO A STEA M EVOLVE "* LEATHER OIL, LIS EKED OIL?RA IK AM) ROIL ED, KEROSENE OIL, =ftH" TURPENTINE, PAINTS OF ALL KINDS?DRY AND L\ OIL. 1 nt VARNISHES, L? PAINT IIRUSHES, WINDOW CLASS AND PUTTY, re"" GLUE OF ALL KINDS, I. II. F. RAWLO. Ocf. 17 42 If rnt Great Bargains. >. o I TV MILLINERY MI'S. J. Oranl wishes to inform her frien<li both in town and country thnt she will hi !* prepared for their calls on Monday the 20tl list. Pattern Ilats and bonnets. [, Hats from 50c. upwads. Cheapest that was ever sold in this market Feathers. Flowers, Kibbons and unything in th way of Millinery goods. ? _Oct 17 42 tf WANTED. Conx. PEAS AND HIDES. Tiring them t II. F. IIAWLS and get a good price. Pec 6 49 (f T> ESPKCTFltJSiLT inform their Customers it and tho people of Union County geaeralljG that their stock of New Goods for the (1 FALL AX1> WINTER TIUDE^ is now open for inspection. Their goods|lia^ been purehnsed at the best markets, upon the best terms and selected with great cere by oaw the firm. * 'J THEIR STOCK CONSISTS | A FULL LINE OF Fall and Winter DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, CLOTtflNG, . V 4 i A HAItUWARE, CROCKERY, TINWARE, WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE, > SADDLES and BRIDLES, TRUNKS AND V ALICES, GROCERIES, fn CTHccrics we h&TC a complete assortment. \ ?. sukurnj moihssoh, Flour, ltacou, Canned Good*, Spleen, Flavoring ExtractH, Ac. WE CALL SPECIAL ATTENTION TO OUK LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S Hand and Custom Made SHOES. ALSO OUR STAR SHIRTS, GREATLY REDUCED IS PRICES. W? intend to sell on tlic most reasonable terms nud give satisfaction to all who purchase I from us. We ask a trial. GEE A HUMPHRIES,, COUNTY OF UNION. In the Court of Common Pleas. F. William Kison, Cansadal Fowler, Martha Fowler, | John D. Long, John F. j Long, J. Gideon Long, Grant j Long, Calhoun Long, Walker Long, Susan Long, Mar( tha Long and Mary Long. . I'luintijj?. 1 Harrison Fowler, Sallic Fow- Summons lcr, Jack Hodge, Henry Hodge, Minerva Addis, For lleliof Henry A'ldis, Carolina Fow- ler, tiassaway Hodge,Cath- Complaint nrine Hays, James Hays, Frank Hodge,- Wiiglit not served. Hodge, Calvin Hodge, Ncland Hodge. Sim Fowler, < MarthaQuinn, Felix Quinn, Kllis J. Fowler, Mark Fowler, Susan Milwood, James Gassaway Milwood, Samuel Fowler, Frank Fowler, and Elma Fowler, Defendants. c To the Defendants above named : YOU arc hereby Summond and required to answer the complaint in this action, which will be filed in the otlice of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Union, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers, at their otlice, No 4 Law Range, Union County, South Carolina, within twenty days nftcr the service of this summons on you, exclusive of the day * of such service ; and if you fail to answer the said complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiffs in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated, Union, 8. C., December 3, 1870. 8TBKDMAN Si RAWLS. Plain tiffs' Attorneys. ( J James Mux no, } seal v cle-'k I?'J To the Defendant/, Catharine Ifnyes and her husband James Hayes, Frank liudgc, Nuland Hodge and Calvin Hodge. Take notice that the summons in this aotion, of which the foregoing is a copy, was filed in the office of the Court of Common Pleas, at Union f Court House in tlie State of South Carolina, on the third day of December, 1870. STEED MAN & It AWLS. Plaintiffs' Attorneys, No. 4 Law Kange. Dec. 5 40 Gt Sewing Machines. TAM Agent for tlie popular and serviceable Weed and the New American Sewing Machines. They are pronounced equal to any now in use and are sold very cheap. 1?. M. COIIKN. Oct. 8 40 tf Gent's Shirts. f i KNT'S Merino ami all wool under-shirts.? S 1 T o - *_/i rtuiui'iuing we can recommend. 8 RICE * UoLURB. ' Nov. 21 47 tf Ladies' Cloaks. WE can show the besf Cloaks for the money b lo he seen in this market. Examine before purchasing. FOSTER & WILKINS. Fur and Wool Hats. o A I EN'S k Roys' Fur and Wool llats of all IVI grades, for sale low by. FOSTER k WILKINS, t ( take the follo^q^yrui thfc ji?ou8-> allow tli? Ypoplo in the several school districts to IeflkA tafc 9f 1J mills for the purposo ofccstJWtohing (traded SohodK s<jFcn. Kefyn^y said : Mr. Sp<d|Brt my. object in nskiug for tlio postpoolB^'of this bill till to-day was iu order 1M tho members might have an opportunity of oousiieriog such ?u important matter us it is. I regard it us so importaut and so much couuccted with the welfare of South Carolina that no member should hastily come to a conclusion upon it. It has been nptly said by some one that the Amoricau who has not made up his mind on every subject is a curiosity, and he that reserves his opiniou is still more of a curiosity After most grave and deliberate consideration, I have concluded to support this ?il -nrfrAportvd hy.thc cumttiiittcc aua W amended . ^mf-writh othef|BinetIIJnv(iul3 wniCir X"Tinok t,. IJJ.J T ? puuum uu uuueu to it. 1 necu not speak 'to this House of tho great priuciplo which has been established in the lull light of the nineteenth century?that it is ncce*s*ry for the State to take charge of the education of her children. The doctrine has been wisely formulated thus: That of things necessary to the general welfare tho State should do what it can do best, aud leave to the individual what he can do best. This great priuciplc of education has taken hrid of imperial Prussia, monarchical England and republican France aud Switzerland, and iu this country every State in this Union has, to a greater or less extent, considered tho subject. New York devotes ten millions to educational purposes; Massachusetts four millions; Missouri.'over two millions; Louisiana, over half- a million ; Kentucky, one million half. South Carolina has wheeled.ua4B line, aud between the poll tax aud the'two mill tax raises 8370,000. From the last report of the State Superintendent of Education it appears that 122,4G3 children attended school during the past year, which would give ?3 per capita, while for those who should uttcud it would give 81.25 per capita. The average time that the schools have been kept open during the past year is three and one-third months. The average pay of teachers is 825 per month. Has South Carolina done her duty iu proportion to her popul ition to the demands upou her aud to the illiteracy among her people ? We do not ask an increased tax. llut we do say that wo have an immense population growing up iu ignorauce, and we ask that the provisions ol i this bill bo adopted ; that cities, towns and t villages which desire to supplement th< State fund by imposing a tax upon them selves be allowed to do so. Aud the chie H iu..doiop "*** itrtJtdcT to estnbliel ^wWTwliflown as graded schools. Now ] confess that when T began tin investigatioi of this subject 1 did not know what a gradei school was, and I take the liberty of road ing a description of what a graded schoo ;D .? ?.i.:~i. r i i . to IIVU1 ?* uvuukiuu n I1ICI1 X IIUYU UUIUU1C( while searching for information on the qucs tiou. ' Ordinarily, a graded school is so name* simply from u method of classifying the pu piIs; but in this State it uicaus, iu addition, i school supported partly by funds rafsec from other, souppes..? Wells, in his book ci graded schools, defines it to bo a school ii: which the pupils arc divided into classes according to their attainments, and ii which nil tlio pupils attend to tho satin branches of study at the same time. A1 the pupils iu any one class attcud to pre ciscly the same studies aud use the stum books. In each room there will be firs and second classes; aud it is important tha the identical pupils who constitute the firs class iu ono brunch should constitute tin first class in every branch pursued by th< first class. By this arrangement when om class is reciting tin other is preparing foi recitation, anil an alternating process kepi up through the day. affording pupils auiph time to study their lessons and the teache ample time to instruct the class." This simplifies instruction and afford more time to it. lu a school of mixed clas scs half an hour might be devoted to a clas of only one or two scholars. This bill provides that such a schoo shall be established in every city, town aui incorporated village where it is desired.? No one will deny the necessity of a higl sehoolju each of these communities, and va rious plans have been proposed whereby ti meet the necessity. One of these pluus i to have the peoplo contribute ccrtaii fees to supplement the public fund and ti make these fees compulsory v.lnrro the par tics agree to pay them. An objection ti this is that it tends to give the control o the public schools too much into the hand of a few individuals who contribute to thci support. Another objection to it is that i does not tax a man according to his abilit; but according to his willingness, and ii certain months of the year it would bo inadequate to meet the exigencies of thosi months. Another plan is to divert tin State fund and give it to private enterprises This is so clearly unconstitutional that ] need not stop to argue that it will not do Another plan is that alter the school I'unc has been exhausted, thou that privato par ties contribute voluntarily to the suppor of the schools. This plan has been trici and has signally failed. Now lot U9 ?OA whiO ikio Kill ~ . 1 ? ? ? ..ww * '? uiu pruviut'B I take it for granted that there is not i member on this floor who will notwillingb join in any feasible plan to assist in tin education of the rising generation of thi State. We propose to supplement tin school fund by local taxation and cstablisl n system of grndud high schools. Now what arc tbo objections to the bill ? It hai been said that it revives the old school dis ! trict system inaugurated by the llcpublicai party. I need not in refutation of thi: charge produce tlio authority aud read il & "uiuuiuu imMummOT statutes, section 15, sub-division 4 ) Yok cat* so* tliore h no parallel,* betwtfou tjfo two syfctotfis. Under ^hafB^tcur every - habitant bud the right to vote at th&c meetings. Hero they arc limited to the property holders. Aud if there were any t disposition on the part of the non-property : holders to capture a meeting F do not see I thotar they could possibly do so. I propose tbCTtbff bUl^hall be so amended as to insert "fifty property ftofdeft.'*" And Fnn?-willing, if ilie villages of the State do not desire the priviligcs of this bill^ to restrict its provisions to towns of fifteen hundred inhabitants and require that fifteen hundred inhabitants shall sign the 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 composing the meetings, Aritb Democratic school coitfiihisioncrs and 'tr?$tcesf antk'with .t'brcc-fdfirlhs of thcsij meetings, .urn lfmuiug o.ic jn-ovistSns or the bill to towus of liftceu hundred inhabitants, I have no fear that any dire result will ensu e. If the property holders of any community are uot able to protect themselves they arc uot the peoplo I take theui to he. 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 prop crty noiucrs. u.n : intelligent colored uiun is anxious to educate his children, and however much he may differ on political questions with his white friends, he will agree with them 011 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 the 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 poiut, and I cannot find any article prohibiting property holders from mcetiug and levying a tax, because this is not an election, and the fraucbise proposed by the constitution docs 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 bo delegated to counties, and the vote be taken sometimes by land owners and sometimes by tax payers, sometimes by the grand jury and sometimes 1 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 t those who only own a little property and on the other hand to say that it is unconstitutional to exclude non property holders I from voting for the tax. The objection ; that non-resident property holders will be - taxed under this bill will apply with equal f force to any other tax. ]>ut the objection \ that has had more weight with me than I any ether is that it miulit nossiblv introduce i discussion into committees by reason tf n 1 difference of opinion there. I would not - do anything to prevent a complete pcri1 pliery ol the Democratic circle. Uut I 1 have not been able to see 'hat this objection - is well taken. 1 believe that when this bill is hedged around so as to take away its 1 objcctiouabic features it caun >t possibly - produce any discord. It lias been tried i successfully in other communities and with 1 great beueficcnt effect. As to its economy, i suppose a man living in a town and owning i ?5.000 worth of property. Under the two , mill tax he would pay ?10. Add the poll i tax and the one and one-half mill tax under 3 this bill and that would raise his school tax 1 to 818.50. Suppose he Ins two or three - children to educate. What arc the three 3 months the public school are open to them t For the other six mouths ho would have to t pay at the rate of 82 per month ? on each t child. This would cost twenty-four dollars 3 for two children. Add to this the poll tax 3 and the levy for the three months, and you 3 will easily perceive which plan is the cheapr est. Private enterprise would come iuto t play wheu the children have advanced to ? higher branches of study than arc now r taught in the graded schools. This bill will conip:! the property hold* s crs to help educate the orphans of those - who fell in our late struggle, and it will s gladdeu the hearts of their widowed mothers, who arc unable to give theni that great 1 and beneficent advantage. 1 It will enable the children of the State - to rise to the measure of their manhood i and do honor to the blood that flows in their veins. It will pull into the public ) schools thoso little waifs who otherwise s would grow up in ignorance. And when i juu cuiiMuur me iiunuiuuun 01 crmio and 0 pauperism, you must see that it is your dit ty to do everything in your power to help ) educate the people of the Stato. While f on this point I cannot refrain from reading s an extract from a pamphlet which it would r pay every Southern man to read. It is t entitled "Kducation the Need oftho South," ) a paper read before the American Social 1 Science Association, at its annual meeting, i held at Saratoga, September, 1S77, by 3 Dexter A. Hawkins, A. M., of Now York 3 bar. Tr aova -r i> i ?... . a. iiu uiiiiiu l'uuuy ui i?;iujii I by universal education in seven years re. duced tho number of crimes fifty per cent. 1 and the number of paupers twenty-five per - cent." t "The South is oppressed with pauperism 1 and petty crimes. But these are the natural productions of its illiteracy. In the three . States of l'eunsylvauia, Ohio and Illinois ) the illiterates furnish thirty times their f proportionate share of paupers and ten i times their proportionate share of criminals. 5 Illiterates in the whole country commit ton ? times their numerical propori ion of crimes ; i in New Kngland fifty-three times. In the , State of New York a single illiterate family, ? as is shown in a work just published by an eminent investigator, have become in loss ) than a century ihc progenitors of twelve * hundred paupers and criminals. i "(live theui education, aud their wants ! r4mi ulnta) to labtir oiltf do sire.?- 'J Their f*t4^d fyter, /Heir rtijic buM&' thoir tntt<4ed*?armOTs,'tbiir' la?y emotions, all beg'u to brighten up and quicken. They take better care of their health, work to more advautagc, demand better tooU and cultivate the soil or labor in the mechanic's suop with uioro success. Common laborers, with such an education as the free common school gives, arc found by actual experiment to bo worth to the State, as uicre producing machines, on an average fifty per ceut. more thau if illiterate, it! other words, the 15.000,000 o? illiterates in the South would, if they had a common school education, accomplish on tho average fifty per cent, more of productive work per year than they now do This would bo eouivalont. as a wealth-creatine? DOWOT. t*> J8Kf adding a million and a half td, the industrial population of thoacotkoD States,' nnd uo'.ViiTjg to On: cost of jjo^pcvrting th?tn." \ I do not quote to ^ou what V?rasbingtonr Jefferson and Calhoun said on the subject of education. Immigration and cducatiou are the two great needs of our State. Mr. Karlc said: 1 aui opposed to local legislation. I know that it is sometimes necessary to enact local laws; but thcro should he no local lcgislatiou upon a general subject. Kducatiou is a general subject and it is a most important subject. It .-hould bo provided for by this body itself, it is not a mutter of education wc arc considering; it is a question whether we shall give the towus aud villages the power to levy school taxes. Is it w ise to remit to sub divisions of the people what wo should attend to? If the two mill tax and the poll tax arc 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 afford to pay. I concur in all that has be^n said iu praise of the Superintendent of Kd ueation, but this report is erroneous in somo particulars. South Carolina j ays her full share in proportion to wealth, debt aud population. [Hero Mr. Karlc mule quotations from a tabular statement, shewing 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 meeting} will conic to pass and levy over (he | heads of the property holders; and thci? there will bo a hue aud cry as to property qtinliucutioue. It the law is not unconstitutional it will be said that it is. Mr. Brown also spoke against the bill and Mr. Cooke in its lavor. Cheat Quinine.?1The act of Congress making quinine free of duty, seems to have worked like a charm. The number of prophets of evil were many, but the predictions which have come true haTe yet tobe enumerated. When the duty repealing the clause was passed, on Ju'y 1, quinine went up tor. cents per ounce, because it was said that the 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 incontinently. However, the American manufacturers seem to have changed their minds al'tcr the bill became a law. l'orcign manufacturers began to increase their productions, and to increase their shipment* to this side also. The importations of quinine and sulphate of quinine from April to .July were 625,-00 ; from July to October, after the duty was taken off, the imports rose to 62:10.800, while dining the same period, in spite of the fact that this period covered the malarious season, the price of qiiiuine fell to 62.75 per ounce for Amcri 1 - - < - ?' L u;ui uini u> o? <>'> ?<jr r renew. 1 nis Uisp sos at last of this blood tax, for it shews that free quinine will not drive American manufacturers out of the market, but th.it it has 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 !fi ceuts cheaper per ounce than those which ruled while the monopoly wasstill 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 27 per cent, cheaper than formerly, in cjnscquence of the remission #f this tax, which yielded scarcely n penny t? the shape of revenue to the country, while it enormously enriched two manufacturing drug houses in l'liladclphia. V.M.t'K (?f tiiK SiiXK'.owKii.?The sunflower is turned to extraordinary account .1 i r.i > ' ? " in me iniuuama. ane seous \ ieiu at lirst pressure excellent salad oil, and the residue tortus excellent oil-cake for cattle, who also relish the loivcs and stalks chopped up.? The flowers a little short of full bloom nro, when cooked, nearly as good as artichokes, and are in the garden very attractive to bees. The leaf well dried is used as tobacco. The seed receptacles arc made into blotting paper and the inner part of th?v stalk is manufactured into n fine writing paper. Tho more woody poitions of the plant, which attains great siza, arc used lor fuel. The best seed is obtained in the Crimen. As an anti-malaria agent the sunflower is most valuable. A New El Pokado in the West.? Denver, Col . December 10.?A dispatch from Fair Play reports tho discovery of uranium in the Sacramento mining district. The mineral is found in llohcmia and Soxony on the continent of Germany, and in Cornwall, England, but never before in this country. It is used in Coloring glass ami in porcelain painting, nnd gives to llohotnian glass its peculiar florescence. As far as known the ore runs sixty per cent., nnd uranium is worth one thousand dollars pecton. ? subscribe for the TlME8, ?