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A !Cobl? and limoly letter from Senator Uamp" ton. ' Wasuimutux, June IT, 1882. To the KJitor of AV?r? <tnd Courier: Several friends have writicu to uie urging that 1 should become a candidate for 'Juveruor, und to those 1 1 h -.ve privately g.veu toy reason why 1 could < not do so ; but us tho press of the Siute has in i v irious quarters broached this matter, 1 deem u proper tiiat my views should be uiade known to the people so that there may be no misunderstanding of my position. It is not necessary for uie, t trust, to say that . 1' 1 would willingly make any personal suurilice for ths benefit of the State, or that my services " can always be coiuiuai-ded by my fellow-citizens .< 1'iiild tin emergency arise demanding them ? Hut in u>y judgment no such emergency now exists, and apart froiu this there are mauy other ^ ?>gotit reasons why 1 should not enter the contest for the office. In the lirst place several I gentlemen of high character, unquestioned abil- C ny uud large experience, persoual frteuds of mine, have been suggested for his honorable position, and froiu that uumber one can be selected ; ^ alio can till the place with honor to the State j ami In liinwt* f IIatili'i* 11 ? ( irriiinulAniMni wnnl.1 1 I antagonize these friends, and this reason is of | . itself sufficient to coutrol my action in this matter. llut there are many other reasons ot great * force which influence inc. 1 atu anxious to withdraw from public life at the earliest practicable and proper moment. and I aiu therefore i unwilling to enter upon new duties, or to assume , new responsibilities It was ouly in response to what I regarded as an imperative demand of the pouple of tny ^ State that 1 consented to be their staudat d-hearer in 1870 ; obedience to the popular ? iM has uieisati bill*T </o noI coticei*e that there will be uuy necessity Tor tny o<>uii nuance init much longer ; certainly there can be none I r my seeking , a place which can- be worthily tilled by any gentleman who may be nominated oy our (Jonven- ' tion. I beg therefore that I mty not in any way 1 be considered as a possible candidate. 1 am profoundly grateful fir the unvarying kindness of my fellow citizens, which has been manifested i so often and in so many ways, and if their kind feelings still continue these can bb shown in no manner more gratifying to me than by allowing tnc to seek the <iuict and the repose of private life, for I assure them that 1 shall lay down the responsibilities and the liouors they have bestowed upon me with far gvcater satisfaction than 1 assumed thorn. llut while 1 cannot eater the field as a cntuli date. I shall cheerfully do all in my power in behalf of the nominees of our party if the Con- ' vention gives us good men and a good platform. Every true man in tlieStnie should feel impelled b}' the highest sense of dutj to do this, if wo i hope to preserve the inestimable blessings sc- j cured to the Slate by the heroic efforts of the people in 1870, The perils that surround us now are nearly if not quite as great as they were then, and tho incentives to united action i nrc just ns urgent. It is only by keeping our ranks unbroken that we can maintain home rule ntid honest government, and it is disheartening | to feel that our present dangers spring not from ^ the strength of our opponents, but from divisions, jealousies and dissensions t 8eivaa- inrve oten committed by the reprc- j soutntivcs of our party, the people hold in their own hands the absolute power to remedy whatever evil has been done. No error that has been 1 committed by their party can justify atiy man who has the interest of the Slate at heart in deserting its ranks, for all needful reform can be j bal within its organization. ?l regret therefore beyond expression to see disalisfaction in any ?t iAfter, because of opposition to some of the ' measures adopted tit the Inst session of the Legidature. Without reflecting in the slightest de- 1 ;reo upon either the wisd >m or the patriotism <>f that body, I thiirk tlntr flieirnction in regard ' to the llegistration law and the Stock law was ' unfortunate, but tuy opposition to these laws is no reason why I should desert the only party that has given honest nnd good government to the State since the war. My conception of Dent- \ ocracy is that the majority should rule, nnd : s those who oppose the measures mentioned will have the opportunity of ascertaining nt the next election on which side the majority stands.? Should it be the popular will that these laws shout 1 oc repealed or modified, tlie next Lcgis- i lature can take action in that direction. We f may rest assured thai no redraws af any evil can ' ^ be had by the restoration of lla lical rule, and j ' in the present condition of races and parties in i v the State, an Independent is if possible, worse j than a Radical, for he is an enemy "who steals I ? the livery of Heaven to serve the Devil in." In the great fight we arc making to preserve the | ? civiliwliAn t\F i*t?t? i.? s- - * ' 1 1 - ?. V... uiuic, uc WHO 13 IIOl Willi US | is against us, anil 110 specious pretence of love ! for tlie "dear people" can hide tlie cloven font. | 11 Let me, therefore, as one who has had every s political aspiration more than gratified, and who seeks nothing save the prosperity and welfare I of his State, urge our people most earnestly to stand firm and to keep united. Let every lover of his State register at once and be ready to c vote. Let us nominate our best men for all the e otlices. Let us ndopt and carry out in good t faith the principles which gave us success in '70, j, and we shall again he successful. I venture to offer this advice to my fellow citizens becauseof the trust and confidence with which they have , j honored me; becauseof my anxious solicitude j for the preservation of good government; because my public career is drawing to a close, j J and above*all, because I do not wish to sec the | ? great principles and the grand cause for which I , brave men struggled so zealously and do voted women prayed so earnestly in '7l'? lost l.y apathy, inditfereneo or treachery in '8J?or o ever. I au>, very respectfully, tt.v'dk If.vmi'rON. - - ' ANOTHER llt'RUICANE IX IOWA.?St. Paul. 1.lune 2o.?A clycloue passed through this vicin- tj ity last night. It struck this town, and did much damage, unroofing buildings, tearing up _ sidewalks and blowing when residences, barns ntid business blocks. In the southern pari of Clay County it blew down twenty houses and n killed five people, and injured about twenty five. Another Town Wrecked.?Sioux City, Iowa, June'Jo. ? A report was received at Sanborn Station on the St. Paul and Milwaukie Koad, h twenty utiles northeast of Ilnsper's, that Prim- ? ghar, was wreuked by tbe storm and six people n] injured. Priuighar is eigbt miles south of Sanborn and is tbe county seat of 0'Br'en " County. II The Desthucti >n op (Iospkrs.?Sinuz Ciiy, h Iowa, June 2*>.?Further reports show thai the Cyclone which wrecked Priiughar struck tlospers fifty miles northwest of Sioux City, at 6 A. M. 8' find dosfrovpd th? Pppahwtnrian Pluii./.k house, carpenter-shop nod I wenty-five residences ? and barns. Ii lasted only lift ecu minutes. Eighteen freight jars of (lie Chicago and St. Paul ^ Railroad were turned upside down, the depot nnd the adjoining warehouse were lifted Iroin their foundations and carried ten to twenty feet '' and badly wrecked. o Yanktox, Dakota, June 24. ? A violent wind j Plorm passed ever this place this morning.? Great damage to property but no loss of 1.to litis so far been reported, A Dks Moinks. Iowa, June 24. ? A dispach t just received by the from Fort Dodge j reports that thetown of Eiiimettshiirg, the County scat of Palo Alto County, was blown to pieces 8| tbis morning by a tornado nnd that over one v hundred people were killed. The Illinois Ccn- q Iraland the Chicago and Northern trains were blown from the track. The Milwaukie and i$t. T Louis Road was wrecked. There is a washout Nor.h of Forest City and it is reported that three or four more towns in thai vicinity were '' blown to pieces. Tlie telegraph wites are all it down North of here. Bj ? ? e # -*- - Mr. J. A. Long has declined the coalition o unntiimtinn fur I utliffl in il?a filtl* si;? K~ - ..ID- || Irict of Norili Carolina lie says: "I do not ^ propose lo go outside of the rank* of (he Democratic parly Jo ottempt lo correct any supposed * (Mistakes il may have mode in (he mutter I do r not propose lo h >nrd the vessel of ihe enemy in ,] order to try to scuttle my own ship. I do pro- j pose to may on hoard and help heat hack the assaults of the enemy, and if the ship (Toes r do vn 1 propose to go down with the ship." i * ?f I l\u iuiuhh) (Anion ?imes. D It. M. STOKES, Editor. ?f UNION, FRIDAY, JUNE. 30 1882. j to SUBSCKIPTION.-88 00 PER ANNUM al ADVERTISING. tl] ttno square or one inch, first Insertion, ? - $1.00 ^ Koeli subsequent insertion, ? 75 Liberal discount mail* to merchants and others adrer* ag rins t'>r #K months of t?y the year. . Obituary Notices of ten lines or less, inserted free. "< " " o*or ten lines, charged as Advertise* fu tents. TAKE NOTICE. V Citations, Notioes to Creditors ai^^H toticos of Final Discharge must^HH >aid for before thoy will appee^^^H| >ur oolumna. jfl A number of comiimnicatious^^^^^^^H oidably postponed. . . UffK, Last Friday t a ng at Kingslree, Williamsburg Co four negroes. user Tiiursday a valuable ng to S. J. liny, of Cross was killed by light uing. We are requested mal Music School at lteltoti, on llio Railroad, will commence, next Monda^^^^^Hj la jjH l>JX. The report of Mrs. 1). K. Uoyd, Tre^M urer of the (Jadberry Moiiumctil Society, cnme^J too Into for this week. It will appear iu our | next. | o t We always regret parting with an old j and valued friend, but as we have not seen the ^ familiar face of the Spartan for three weeks we ^ suppose the Times has been dropped from its j exchange list. Good bye, old friend. ? a m All the members from this County are ' iti their scats in the extra session of the Legis- * lature. They are all in tavor of coiifiniug the ^ work of the scssiou to redisricting the State 1 m l thetl adjourn. tt?i- Wo made a gfeat blunder last week in t saying that Mr. Patterson was elected Senator Prom Chester, to till the unexpired term of Mr. I Ilcinphill, who had beeu elected a Circuit Judge u It should have read "to fill the vacancy occasion- c ed by the death of Senator Walker." Ii a Chester and Greenville Counties are tuilding Cotton Seed Oi' Mills. What with hair Cottau.Factories and OH Mill* i? - . ..-.v more money distributed ^ imong their citizens than any other Counties iu he State, and their people will become the most y ndependent, enterprising and prosperous of tl iny iu the South. So-uiolc it be. o [ [ 8 0?,- The Newberry Herald gives the follow- J. ing reports of the wheat crop in that County. Can , iny farmer in Union beat them? If so, let Ugr n icar from yon, gcnlleiueu : Mr Jonathan Werts, of Saluda Old Town, c nadc 111 bushels of wheat on fiacres. c Mr. Jno. Davenport, of th? Bush lliver sec- 1 (ion, made IS bushels of wheat to the acre on s 3 acres. 0 a rown Taxes. I1 To-day is (lie last day for paying town taxes s vithout the penalty of 20 per cent being added, io "dou't you forget it.*' * r Che First Watermlllion. 11 v Our much respected friend, Mrs. Shoppaul, of c lie popula.* Union Fancy Store, has our thanks li or the first Watermelon. She has received a c ot from Charleston, and they are very fine fla. q ored. leligious Services. 81 Ilev. J. 1$. .Mack, I). I)., held a scries of roli- ^ tuus meetings in the Presbyterian church, com- | ^ leiicing last Friday morning and closing Mon w ay night, nt which he delivered some very able ^ crmous and we hope did much good, '' - g lot, Hotter. Hottest. m Which, being pursed under the rules of the i p amnion Free School system, gives the therniom- I a tiical condition of our atmosphere thus: In ' s he evening ngrceaby hot; at night disagreeably c loiter, and during the day too hol-tcr-esl for any a hing but cotton, negroes ?nd blacksnakes. o .. f, usteu, Farmers. (( A friend, writinz from (daffnev Ciiv h*vh ? w " ""' I a ilessrs I.eiutiions & lloss threshed out *2 bushels f oats from 14 bundles ill J. 12. Little's crop.? .'an you bent thai ? M. . C! Why, of course we can, if you will let us uake the bundles. Give us the number of bushel Is he made on one or more acres, then we'll try 0 beat it. An acre is an acre?no more and no ess?but when you say a bundle it is about us ^ elinitc us "apiece of chalk." ? w he Eagle. ^ The first number of this long promised jour. al is before us. I' is for the present a seinitcckly, but its proprietor confidently expects > receivo sufficient encouragement to enable im to issue it daily in a very short time. The (\ \njle is well gotten up, and full of interesting w latter. In the issuo before us are the Rolls of of- i( cers and men of Companies. 11. C. and D. ot 17th j, eg. Infantry, Col. F. W. McMaster. It is pubI.., il.~ lil'-l- n..LI!-IO o J..V. "j mi! u ijj.i! i uuusiiiiig V/itmpiiny,' at j ut 11 in bin, willi Julian A. Selby as the managing 0, pirit. Price $3 a year. tesigued. 01 Col. John L. Young has resigned the office of * iiiditor of this County. We do not know Col. e T oung's reason for resigning, but we do know lint he has been a most faithful and efficient j. fficcr.and we sincerely regret his determination ^ ? leave an office he is so peculiarly fitted for.? i'c believe (Jul. Young is considered t lie best g( Luditor in the Stale, and it cannot be dieputed bat lie lias saved to (be County and State liuu- e reds of dollars by the thorough and faillitul ft ystem of Assessment adopted by him, together g Kith a highly conscious discharge of the intri- ri ate duties of I lie office. |}l c. he bounty Agricultural 8ociety. The energetic President of our County Society ^ as called a meeting of all persons interested | ^ a the Society, to he held nest Monday. We j incetely hope there will be a good turn otil of i j nr farmers. The crops are clean and most of j lie small grain has been harvested, and one ; ny enn surel be spaveu ?? | or exhibiting the results of the year's work j tex.i rail, upon ine meeting next .nonaaj wiii | ? lepend. in a great measure, whether we shall iu?e another Fair or not. The Society must j tot fall through; hut that will depend upon the c, ntcrest the people take iu it. j w r Mrs. Wuoja uigliter e v II., and hole l h (o she from was stores were ii po g lier M who never know iiiti strenglben the terribly brothers and sister, auction. After writing the above we reesl^H^^^^H owing to the young friend, showin|JH H precious qualities ^|fl H earl which drew arount^her so many^H^^H rdent friends at horaoshono with equal^^^E^ and inflimnce, am n?jj Mtrajigtl^jgJHS ' ? ' "~ "TVIarToV c". II., Juno trrVwHr uitou or Union Timrs: Yesterday morn, when the illness of our outig friend, Mrs. Woods, was announced, here was a hush upon our community that lold f the sympathy welling up in n l hearts for the utfering one. We listened thro' hours of in ense anxiety for some hopeful word, hut the' nt had gone forth, and ere the evening Ciineon he gentle Spirit had winged its way beyond the eel o! human sympathy. But a short time has elapsed sines Mrs. Woo l s ante, a st ranger in oui midst ; the cordial welome thai was extended to her through the rietidship of our people for her husband, was ootl accorded to her fur the urnni."" I"K - B""""'"1 '"TVIIIIC31 f tier character, wlrcli drew (lie aged us woll 3 the young within the charmed circle of her ircsciice. In her adopted home it can be truly aid, ' None knew her hut to love her. None named her, hut to praise." With every prospect of a long life, a future all of bright promises, it is hard for our feeble tisdom to comprehend the apparently stern d?fee that lias clouded out the sunshine of a uppy home and cast a gloom o?. r our entire oiuuiunity. MKS. E. S. McLUOAS. ive Them a Taste. If it were possible to unite the South upon itch a course, wc believe we could completely rcuk up tlio republican parly by hlliug every out hern seat in 'lie lower house of Congress ith a negro. In the present "striking" coilition of the great working white population at i? North, the fact of having over a hundred tieroes in Congress would raise such a howl gainst the party that made such a condition ossillle in the Federal im??m _ fjoo.n.KVUI, iUUl OVHitCI): Northern State could he carried to perpetuate j great n disgrace to our boosted Anglo sax in ivilizalton' In that way, mere etfectively than ny other, we would say to the seusible people f the North, "(Jo see what w? have seen, and el what we have fell." There could no con ;slittgnf seats ? unless upon a tpiestion of race, uu that would he us fatnl to thero-^for tliyre 'ould he no democrats front the South to oust. It could easily he accomplished, by the Jet orats not voting for Congressmen, unless a wl to adical was a endidnte, und then let the del orats unite with the colored voters to defeat h n. uch n course this fall, would, we helieve, el ct democratic President arid Congress in 18 1. I could be so nrrtnged or managed that Ave ould not lose control ofthe Stategovernmats. e do not suppose any s|oh suggestion coul\ be trried out, for there *r?oo many aspirnnt^or ongressional honors anWtstlary. esult of Registration. The total number of persons registered in lis aunty, up to Tuesday last, was 4,107?2 38 lutes and 1,909 colored, showing a white ma >r y of 109. As the books will be closed to- ay is not probable that any material change < ill t made in the above by future applications ? lie estimated vote of the County has never ben 'er 4,200?including those excluded bj Jhe resent law ? so that it in fair to say tli.rf not ily havo the full vote of tho County-white nd colored ? been registered, but the number toluded by the law is not 100in (JnionCouuty. hia favorable allowing is strong primi* facia roof thnt the Kegistrution has been conducted lirly, and that no legal voter li/s becd deprived le privilege of registering. | shool Pionio at Santuo. . ' We are repeated to announie that a School ilubition will be held at Santua next Thursday, ih of July, at which there wll be k "regular , anluc picnic" ? preily girls, fried chickens. I lasted mutton, blackberry piet. ,4c., &c Every, oily are invited, including the cl ndidi.tes who ipect to bo elected. Our friend Brown tells us be t| nks 'twould a our old bon's good to attend. I'erhnps so, nt it is a suspieious looking fact that all picics, school eahibitions, &cw are li Id on Thurs ?y, the very day of all the w< k we can at leave our office. Send us a wirw of a ehick i, Mr. Brown. \ A * A Texa;< Tkaukmv-?tan??? <, u??. v -There was a desperate encounter yesterday jtween Brown, the murderer of Deputy Sheriff ohnson, and a few rangers at a station on the aternnlional and Ore it Northern Railway callI Cibola. Brown was killed and two men were ouudcd?oue dangerously. I of the present day," will giveou^^^^^^^BW I still higher estimate of I he importance mul yaffle H ot the great Southern staple, in |>4liKlteoiniitercial nn<i ecotiotnic point of view. \\ Inn a pity > that the people in every County in the c Hon i States have not the enterprise to embrace all the 1 , alvantages offered tiieiu to secure nil the profits 1 which the cotton plant is capable of yielding.? ' If all the cotton seed was worked up it could 1 not more than supply the growing demand, and * every County could em pi >y it cotton seed oil .Mill ' profitably. ? - o ? i A Most Exquisite Entertainment. . We are requested to announce that the Music , Class of the Union female Academy will, on Friday evening next, 71 It July, bring out, L.wla, nn Operetta iu three parts, CIIAUACTEU3. Mountain Cititutts. Miss Munnnio Huni?rt < 11.01? ? ... (with Solo) Clara Sari or Ktlic Moure " Eiuma Porter " Delia Sartor ' Fannie Go a " Carrie l'orier " Maiuie Bailey Cora Counts (with " Connie Johnson 1 Solo) " Lillie Porter I " Maggie Tinsley " Agnes Kice I Laiu ? Miss Agnes llill. | FA IKIES. I Miss Mamie Grant " Bell Monro j Oelie Vouiic " llotlie Murphy ' Fannie Gralitm " Theopa Strior '* Sal lie Uosa " Lilla Heaty ' " Lillie Kobersou Qukkn uk Fatit iKs- Miss Siulic Young. ? The story of ihe opera is as follows: I A Baiui of Mountain Children are collected to I spend the summer day in Hinging, gathering [j (lowers, and feasting around their tattle spread f\, heneatli the shadowy hranches of the ? ?? : j they are interrupted liy the approavli of a Beg- ) gar Woman nnd lier Children. A part of the it i Children at first repulse her, offended at having their joyous festival thus interrupted : hut one ( of theut, Laila. steps forth, and with a mild rebuke to her play mates for their itnkindness, ' she welcomes the poor Mother nnd Children, r and bids them make known their wants. The n oilier Children soon join with Laila in speaking f killdlv to the nonr u,,inilr.ru,<i n.-.t '*"- *' , .... , .HCjr have tohl litem their tale <?f sorrow, they are c I invited to ihe feast which the Children have a prepared, nii<l all together go out with a merry ( I song to where Ihe luhle is spread. But Laila, the favorite of all, wandering off alone to cull some wild flowers, in the nrd >r of her search j ' loses her way nnd wanders about until night i I approaches, and then as weary anil fiightened I r she finds herself in a dark forest, she kneels to I . ask aid from her good angel, when suddenly a little band of Fairies with their Queen, glide ^ into her presence glittering in their robes of s beauty: and after her surprise is over, at her v entreaty they conduct her to her playmates. The Mountain Children soon ntiss bails, and all the afternoon they spend in fruitless search n for Iter; and as night approaches they collect in the grove where they first assembled, and are t expressing their grief and terror at Ihe loss of j Lai la, when she is led in by the Fairies nnd their Queen who sle s forth and announces to the Children that they are the same ones who, n disguised as wretched Beggars, came in the | 1 morning to prove the generosity of their hearts, and tells them never, in future, to hesitatetogive to the needy, for virtue is sure to be rewarded. * All unite in a joyous s ing, and Laila is crowned ii their Queen. ii gi{p* Admission Fuck, and the public Cordi- j, ally invited to attend. h t At the residence of Mr. James Randolph, ^ about four miles west of Jasper, on Wednesday Inst, while a threshing machine was in F operation, his daughter Sarah, a young lady ft aged about H) yearn, attempted lo cross (he } tumbling rini of the machine, between the horse ^ power ami thresh box. when her ilress wns caught by the rod. drawing her to the ground n nnd whirled her around at the rate of about one hundred revolutions a minute, crushing her skull, shouldet and arms in a horrible manner and causing death in a short time. On last Sunday shout 1 P. M., lightning [ struck ilia houseof Mr. Alexander Avery. about ( a mile from Ceoireville. and very severely shock- 1 ed Miss losle Avery. Mrs. Avery and 8. D. Lagan. Ksq. Tlie stroke fell on Miss losie'sneck, u And passed down, tearing the shoe off one f >ot n and throwing it some distance in the yard.? ti Mrs Avery was not so aevorety shooked, only it having het shoe lorn in one or two places. Mr. ii 'wfttn had the strings torn out and the role |j oib?r. 4 off one shoe and a hole torn in the B laf Ouitcau hangs sa*? T poses. " Arlitur In- ^ r IB For the 1 iiuoa. v Ete Present Campaign. P a : ? Allow rae to contribute a mite t( Ids of your excellent paper. We ? lave an election throughout this Bora to serve the Government for !j years. What kind of men shall c snperance men ? Yes, Temperance u ilely because they are temperance o such may run for office who ore k to fill the place they seek. On ? ?d, a man who is not both it tein- )i temparanco man, whatever may be c diheations, is unfit for office. Me is ^ be cannot, consistently with his the one great ?n,l 0f all civil s lie public freedom. If he can. vk for that to which he is opposed, 11 this he m.ist have sotne motive i be simply bccauso public senti^Ut, he aacrificcs his manliness, 11 rthiness, for popul,lri,y. if |ie ^^Atter hn will ... -- ? .... v?w8u in ouieruiNi * man serve I B"ar> to ho nii'l then he to the ' must, every civilization, ^ ^^^ hlic liberty, otherwise we nii'l u nmw?TV mil vuni 1 virtuous citizen of our counto California, knows destructive to energy, property, f morals, than viper. ^^^^B destroying worm in very root eating its very life ^^^^^Brhispers?"Don't stir up that matter. ^^H^^Kiponents will avail themselvos of it c My measure." Admitting that they ' would do this. it manly to fear I |^H- in the right because of the threats of P| B, 1 A thousand times no ! South Car- ^ ^^^Bed to court favor on compromise lines P^^Pral years previous to 1870. but never till ^^e out Straight did sho gain a victory. Give i to make laws for me that, when duty | wi.l walk bravely to the mouth of a ^|^^^die in the attempt. Deter deceived ^Ehccause he was afraid; the "wicked ^^^^B servant" buried his talent because PP^^^raid ; ninny n candidate has treated to because he was efraid, and many a ftn vutio to the devlt because he was draid. s , Tis true we tniMiSftveprudenoe, prudence ' s ever compatible will, courage. True courage s always prudent, and a sirgng tempcranee man ( nay not he able to do all that is desirable. an<b < irudcnce may lead to conservatism, hut if he's a nnn he'll not cower before pposition. I wns 'ejoiced to see the manly resolution of our bounty Convention, published in the Times, in 'efcrcnce to this subject. For one, 1 centtot lupport a man for office who, in the face of that resolution, and in the face of the threatened peace and safety of our country, will rain the >1 M...?? - ? "K " "inmgn our ootmty like a river. A candidate said to tne two years ago, try never to do anything thai wilt lower tue in try own estimation." That's a good rule of action for every man, provided he is not already low. BETA. ? ? e? fr'or'tho Times. Front North Pacolet. Ml. Moriuh is just getting ready for the primary election?barbecues, etc. We are just through harvesting the small grain crip, and there is more grain in our section than we have had at any one time siuce the war. The yield !>foats is almost marvelous. Mr. Thomas Fowler lias a hunch of oats front one grain with -o() heads, and every one who sowed oats last fall jr sarly in the spring can certainly brag on his >ats. Corn and Cotton are looking very well. The tool nights kept lite cotton bnck for some lime iut it is now growing off very nicely. Wears laving very good rains through her.o. Vegeta jtffi is looking better fro us ? and we have been txpectiiig (hat the genial showers would oring brtli sonic cai.d.dales, but it has not, as vet, hat we know of. It is the duty of tlio people of North PnColette o keep together, and 1 hopo that we will not itive so many candidates from tTiisTsiae. We epresent one third of thecounty, or nearly so, ud we are justly entitled to some of the ofic?. 1 am no candidate?never expect to he ? tut I do want ns to have a semblance of i share. The way we have been treated at iritidull Shoals, in regard lo abridge, is enough o make us want all the County Commissioners rum this side. 1 am not disposed to want to die I ale for North Pacolette?if I wanted to I could ' lot?but I believe the majority of the voters of forth Pacolette will bear me out in saying tbut ( Vm. Jones will satisfy us for a County Coin in isioner. If we get Mr. Jones for North Pacolette >e will be satisfied; yet we really feel that we uglil to have at least a dozen up here fur the lext two years. We would call the attention of the people to lie fact thai it is their duly in supporting canlidntes. always to support the most worthy. Now. for County Tre .surer, wo have several lice men, all competent men, but one man we hiiik has greater claims ou us. lie is none the tore wunb> . but be is j?h^?io.?lly incapable of forking, that is. laboring for hie support. He i a staunch democrat, was bo nil the lime durII g (lie ?lnrk days of radical rule. He Could nve hnd any office j ist by changing hie political principled, but Capt. Thus. Comer preferred o toil on?nay, he wonld have starved to death iefore he would have relinquished his princides. Capl. Comer has done his duly too well as lupervisor of registration for us to doubt him n the least : and when I say give us Capt. !oiner for Treasurer 1 speak for almost every an in Nor.h Pocolette. * For tho Time*. Commencement at Keidville Female College. The annual commencement of I hie flourishing neiiiuiion opened wiili a Mermon hy Ker.O. It. (racket, D. L) . pastor ofiheHeconil Presbyterian 'hurch. Charleston, 8. I)., from I Coiinlhians : 5 to 4t> v. The design of the discussion was ;> show the relation of the natural to the spirit* nl eoonoiny, in opposition to the asceticism and lyetiuism that disregard the natural ; an I in ?srialinin and epicurianism that ignore the sptr- 1 mat. Vtirwrsum was liaieued ?o hy a large ntelligenl audience with flxed attention. The me of thought was new and the delivery imprecise. . ' Monday was occupied with a meeting of the ruatees. A closs of under graduates was unoi" ectedly summoned before them, to read eOuis 1 oslvione, whiuli, as speoimens of rogular qlas* J I >V^' r?>rk. reflectod great ere lit upon teac icrs nod upils. In the evening the .Male High School urprised the community with a voluntary cnertiiinmenl of origiunl speeches, interspersed rilb excellent music by the ladies. Early Tuesday morning the people fromSpir* inburg and the country ar>un i began to pour nlo Keidvilie, aud by 11 o'clock the large and ominodiuus chapel was filled, nod many were nable to obtain seats. Dr. liracket opened the xercises with prayer, Seven admirable compositions were read by enllemen selected for the purpose, interspersed rilh delightful musio. T >e following is the ist of the graduates and the subjects of their ssays Miss I.aida, Whalcy, Charleston. ?Womau' roper Sphere. Miss Bella Morgan, Americus, Geo.?l'araites. Miss Ella Trippe, Drayton, Geo.?The Imagiiat ion. Miss Minnie Drane, Friendship, Geo. ? Man's nhuinanity to Man* Miss Mattie Poole, Cross Anchor, 8. C.?Have in Aim in Life. Miss Ida Cromartrce, Oravol Hill, N. C.?Deleption. .Hiss Gertrude Roper, Charleston. S. C.?Folios. After tlie distribution of Diplomas by the 'resident, K. I'. Smith, and the parting song, he audience seemed to be getting weary, and it s a high tribute to ex-Gov. Perry, the orator of he occasion, that his address of 45 minutes was istened to with fixed attention. It was a noble peclable to see the vonerable ex-Governor vinlicating his native State, as it were with his ast breath, lie said this was his last publio id>lress. II i^, high personal characten^^pug IW1 SBitrotny i?Hy Tit twa uuuress was wW^rtn?rr :cived. Gov Perry has hecn a consistent Statesnan, following the dictates of conscience, judgnent and patriotism, lis never stopped to fees bi the popular breexe before taking his positiotil le has been no weathercock, but a fearles. eader of public opinion. The occasion closed with the reception nt night n the large hall, which was filled toils utmost saracily. The hours were passed in tnnsic and ^ lonversation, and notwithstanding the excessive H teat, youth and pleasure teemed reluctant to ^ ?art. Thus ended a very interesting and enjoyable occasion. WITNESS. m rho Confederate Monument Destroyed by Lightning. Columbia, June 22.?About 5 o'clock this >eop!e of Columbia were startled by a lerritio Irtish which followed a most vi?'id flash of lightling. Thev little suspected. however. thai the hutulerbolt had fallen on the Confederate mnnitiient in the State House grounds, and that the :rowning glory of that magnificent worlt of art, he marble statue of a Confederate soldier, which surmounted it, had toppled from its base ind been shattered into fragments. As soon as the sad calamity was known, and Ihroughout I he alt ernoon. hundreds of people of every age and rank visited She Blnle-House grounds to view the wreck. The statue is almost completely demolished. Mr w w* Son ... ?tu soldier ?f >*???*ins s brigade, who chanced to he looking towards the monument when the thunderbolt fell, says that the whole monument was surrr unded by a perfect sheet of flame, and when the crash came the head of the statue instantly tell forward to the ground.? When it hail reached about half way to the gtoutid the body swayed for a moment and then gr.tcefully fell over to the right side of the monument. The head was cut completely off at the neck, as if with a sword, and falling struck on the upper base stone of the northern front of the monument, lu falling the body struck the lower base on the ensleru side, driving il out of place lor an inch or two. The cannon at the rear of the statue was broken off. The right leg wns severed at the skin of the coal. Tho hands, which rested on the musket, were broken ofT and lbs lefi leg was driven into the ground six or eight inches. There is nothing left on the top of the shaft hut a fragment of the left leg which is broken off at the ankle and rests'upoo the broken slock of the musket. The statue was hurled to the ground with- so-groat force that where it struck the stone base il was crushed into p wder Many fragments were carried r|f by curiosity seekers. The beadand hands were deposited in tho secretary of Slate's oflicc for safe keeping and the rest of the statue was placed under the guard of tho State House keeper during the night. This monument was erected hy the South Carolina Mouniental Association, composed of ladies. on May 13th. 1879. The Association wat founded in February, 1805. and work was begunin I8'>9. The total ex> etises of the euterpiae amount to $11,701 40. The statue surmounting the monument, which was chiseled out of fine Italian marble cost about $5.00U. It will be impossible to replace the statue nnd repair the other damnges for less than this amount* for although the shaft and base still stand they were shaken nut of their position, inclining ? Utile to the right, unit It imty We tree Ttftfiry to lake down the monument nnd re-creet it. Although greatly distressed at the misfortune the 'nifles have iUh^J/ J?t?r?.,iiieil logo to work and repair the damages.--Syrciul to A'cui* " Courier. At a meeting of the directors of the Monument Association this morning the following touching appeal for contribut tons was prepared : Sthickkn by Neavkn's Artillery. To the Women / South Carolina : The Monument to the Confederate dead, which bears upjn its face the in?cii|>ti*? Directed by the Women of South Carolina," still stands; beau- _ liful in its proportions but shorn of its crown- W ing glory, the mbodiment in stone of the Confederate soldier, as we love lo remember him. l'erfect as a work of art, the Monument wns a oontiuual souroe of pleasure to those who could often beholil it, and received the universal admiration of visitor* from every quarter. On Thursday. Juno 2'2d, during a severe storm, our niarhle hero was "wounded unto death" by tl.nl mysterious agent which has already borne to you the noiseless message of its own terrible work. 80 life-like was the figure, so full of vigor as a young mnu rejoicing in his strength, that we feel the manner of its destruction to be appalling. It is as if a dear friend had ruthlessly been stricken down. While we bow to the hand of Heaven wliioh sent the stroke we are gratelul that the victim was indeed only stone, and that happily for us we have oonfidenca iu the women of the Stale that they will rally to tTie oiTCTSlRF flnTlTtTp- weA? a society we invite the co-operation of all those who were aiding us at the close of our labors, and beg that the chairman of the several couuty organisations will within the neat few days notifiy Mr%. John E. Bacon, the co>responding secretarywof the Association, of their ability to undertaker anew the work of receiving conlri. buliojs. A full meeting of the ladies of the Association was held at Mrs. W. K. Bachm n's last 8ntu.day. A number of telegrams and letters were received expressing earnest sympathy and offers of aid. Among them was one from a lady of Orangeburg, couched in the most touching terms and enclosing two drdlars, and one from Uev. A. T. Porter, informing the ladies that the boys of the Holy Communion Church Institute of Charleston had resolved to contribute one hundred dollars. A telegram from the Gale City Guards of Atlanta expressed their hearty concurence in Hie suggestion o- Manned in Thk IIkoistkr of yesterday. lo give a drill in the Opera IIouhc in 4 aid of (lie monument. A letter was also received from Mr. John Walton, the sculptor who eree ed theniatue. xpressing hie regret* at the calamity which had hefallen it nnd elating that the model had been preserved nnd that it would he his pleasure to duplicate the statue fur less than it could bo done elsewhere. CUT Mr. John Bailor, en sged citizen, fill out of the door last week and was seriously inlured. t i.' ' ;