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VOL. IX.] WINNSBORO. S. C., WFDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29,1873. iNO.19
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FAIRFIELD HERALD
IS PLYtItIsu311) WFICF:KLY BY
WILLIAMS, & DAVIS.
Torms.-ir t I(nA Li'is pulisheid Wee
in Lhe Town of Winusboro, it. 93.00 1
t' lrialbly in advance.
g3ijf All transient, advertisementis to 1
11aid(tlin advance.
Obituary Notices and Tributes SI 00 pc
S; uare.
The trcat Auglust Hiurricalle.
The Signal office has just cottipilot
the reports of the treimeudous sturin
of Augut 24, aid it prescnts a trul:
feigbtful exhibi t. The reports ar;
mude up from oficiol dato, the i mos
reliable log books and accurate at a tis
ties. It sums tip a total of one thou
sand and th'irtv.two vossels -knowi t
have bi on destroyed during the 21!!
and 25t of August in the Gulf o
St. Lawrence and around the coast o
;Nova Suotia, Cape Breton and New
foundland. Ninety additional ves
sels were overwhelmed in the sam<
tom-pest before it reached Nova Scotia
while six itund(red lives were lost ant
nino buildings miij a red or demolishei.
by its foace. 1 1. niery and rui
'entai-le'd on thousands of New E,
land nhaidian fisipen and seamor
by -its single gal AN1 mimst incalou.
lable, aid the ni4 - terng indue.e
maents fQy the etdmiiQn of the Signal
Srvice warnin'gs'. to-ike. Canadian
ports. Could th of mer.
eA~jt e els that I l wate
in cl,:the Augnu-t om pett it
fa I fury have had premonition (l
itsapproaclh the masjority mi-ght have
eseaijel, and many lives and much oi
the shippingi have been sa\-ed.
It a ppeA that the "ale in (11es
'tin lia originatel in much lower
latitt(I (han tho e of Novi Scoti-i,
nud speeding on its w. ftom th1
tropies northwAd vCrwlept tite a
gular projection of' tie Conotinect of
which Novai Socotia, Cape U'reton and
Newfounlland a re the o outlying
-isandis. The premonishing of isuch
'gales, whiich itril~e from the Atlanti-.
inshore, can- only be iisured by se
curing the eat liest intelli.!ence front
vcsseIs ai riving att the Ath in [1, os
and usiog t hemt for purpoes of
neteorologic.1 predictiuns. Te nenn%
arrangetmenuts for coninectitig the Sig.
nal 01e with the lighiouses and
light..hips off the coast by telegraphi
cable ought to, an:d probably will
facilitate such forecasts atid open th<
way for their far greater usefulticsf
and aceuuiey.
Bishop C1ifl hllills 611 (1 (11 c 0 11U11111fIt:l.
13i.hop Cummins his written a let.
ter vindieating his Own conduct a1ntd
that of the Da n of Can iter b ury in t h<
matter of tOheir comtunion n Piei.
ytorian churches. lie says:
1I deny mitost emi hatioally that th(
Dean of Caterbtiry or my-cf hav
violatof the coele.ist ical order of tIm
Church f tgland, of tle Protes.
talt Epicpl (hurch in this Coun,
try, or have been guilty of a.n act 0i
open hostilthy to disci-line. There it
nothing in th elesiastical order -oi
diecipm oo grt.) o f the o galnd
or tho Protestant Eho piscopal ChreI
6 inl this counitry forbidingl. suchl allnac
of intereommunion am 11don is tit
and oto il hri, mir hean heoe
woldasoNwYr rejoice toin th<~itf~
ctehanGd ortin. of~ o tthe upiscoti
pal Chrtchn of ringlan ndte "
tod tate haser been abspoe to oe
hersue(hch at God ieen h~ishfii
'.'ooryso grant)shopfu t dely i
o rituainm, pwhose astatemvntopmen
androm ani thten, maymade bycox
hradent Afdre tohimso itapen
thatldrie to s7300 her the comot
cetiora adik of orgagtni, undt tia
alheProtsoftat whitianotleve"t
~thubet rssue Sotwen asryo
Tozor0( ad: 'iho miJnson delie
tb o ae npulic taothient ofnti
he rivcaed (lurn his ter andn
on al detytatmho mantaiby e
dith hehdo7,0i the Firfll stwl Na
tional Bant. oft Wasington, ranh
th os htwill ~riti setn tat hi
twetyouv resuces.S thn pasry of
$200 a y ear,.Y M.Jhnso w
The ceivddring hiots man
n iuy Stdeny Mrat Juli maitind tho
adny of varic sotn ofuy asti wea
men. G anlYt mes-omoe orga
gath eri. ionastingthatof t:
cAmeict avPeinvente cnot le:
twent-fiv Btimeesl the pactin
Am, orisca mcaleio, ithaddona
perqui'ite amountin be bette to 12
uryasonbl Mr. J us.ad l
The Way Charlotte Advertises.
Wo yesterday counted up and find
that merchants and other businets
men of 'bhrlbtte have now advertiso-.
k ments running in twenty papers pub
lished outside of Charlotte ; and,
there are several weekly papers pub
e lished in this sdotion of the State,
and upper South Carolina, which we
have now at hand, in which we think
Charlotte advertisements are appear.
ing regularly-ObsCe'r.
And by this liberty in advertise
ing, Charlotte is drawing frdtn the
upper c)unties of this State, almost
all the business that formerly went
to Col unibia and Charleston. And
we say further, during the whole of
the past suniner Ch irlotto has not
-su1ffecrelI from dullness of businrss,
while Columibia, in particular, has
been almost at at stand still in all her
business interests. 'It is strong testi.
niony 'in fa'or of liberal advertising.
We have received more patronage
froim Charlotte irchan'; in th ree
nonths, t'ian we h.ve from Columbia
in four years, and of course, we -have
reason for speakirg well and often of
Charlotte ; and every train from the
Air Line Railroad bteings evidence of b
w-here the tra.ding of our pe.Qple is t
iov 'done.- Uonuile 19. C. Times.
Playing on the bells of a church U
chini inust he an exhi-larating per. q
formanc if tire style of Professor 8
W iddow at Grace Church Church, t
New York, recently, is a correct one. C
The N,w York Graphic thus describes C
it "Cold as the day was, Mr. Wid
doews ti ipiped to his undergarments, 1
and was bithed in perspiration. Ile 1'
had to jnmp to and fro at the end of a
the lomig leverb working the hanimers e
of the belli;, somtetinies throwing his -
whole. weight on thei. H1is muscle 11
a.l strengIi of end uranlce were ii- k
mense. Hardly so pleasant that as to h
sit in the organ loft and gossip with r<
the citoir bells between the musical ti
exercises.
One of the local judges lately took a
lesson in spelling, in .. T..ice's court, a
when a Mr. Wood was the witnes.
"What is your namel" asked the
cleik.
"Ottiwell Wood," answerCd the
wi ness.
"llow do you spell your name," t
asked the someulat puzzled judge. b
M r. Wood replied : "O0 doublo T.
I double U, E double 1, double U, c
double 0 1."
The astonish'od judge thought that
was orne ;f tie nost extraordinary
nimics lie cyer knew ; and, after two
or three ttempts to renoid it, hoth
he anid the clerk gave it up, amid
roars of laughter.
As no circulating notes are issu2*d
by any bank in England except. the
Bank of England, ant by this bank
for no leHs amunit than five pounds
(about 925,), gold ud silver .<upply ,
the bulk of the. circulation mieiTumn.
The prc sumption, there, is that paper.
when issued, is issued only as a een
venience to the received. Iif you go
to your banker for ?5 or 10l, lie
will give you gold, unless you ask him
for 1.,1k of E g1hnd notes.
Michigan proposes to control the
railroads within its borders. A re
port has beon submitte'd to the Con.
- titutionni C.o'vention providing that
the Legislnture shall establish rca-t
Isonable mtax inmum rates for transpor.
tat ion of J-assengers and freight ;
shall pirohibit, contract s bietweent rail
Sway comipani a in favor of any rail- I
way as against any other interaecting I
line ; anid that no stock or bouds shallt
be is.sued except for money, labor or
prop-erty actually received.
There wiilh, it is estimated be pro-e
duced in California this year overc
12,000,000 gallons of wine, of the
value of $3,500,000 ; two mil~ions of
pounds of grapes for table use, with ~
25t),000 potnads of raisins. T1heo aere.
Iage under cuiltivation of the vine is
I estimated at less than 40,000 acreI
and it is further ebtimnated that 8,000,
000 of acres are especially adapted
to the cultivation of (lhe vine.
-TIhere are now in operation in tho
t United States fifteen narrrow gauge
railroadshu, with a total of seven lhun-1
f dred miles of' track. Theli twenty
a roads in course of construction wvill
e increase the numbher of miles to one
> thousandl nine hundred anid fIity.
3 T1he average oost of nart-ow gauge
s road.', with the rolling atock coin.
a plete, is $10,000 pcir mnile.
A very sad instane of lonelines
will be seen at the next sessiou of the
ILegislature of Maine, when a solitary
Domocrat will take his seat in thei
Senate as a member from Somerset
county. _
A11bA Pair of Fools.
, A ~inmnted Harper, wvho lives in
- Missouri, writes to the St. Louis
Caucasian to say that he will bet five
3 thousand dollars that President
,Grant, "unless ho dies from "natural i
m or other causes, will be assassinated,
s on or before the 10th day of April,
-"1874," It le doubtful which is the
greater donkey ; the man who made
,the bet, or the man wrho . printed it.
y What a good dard that bet would be
jnst before an election I
I Grangcr in Congress--Growing Strenli
of tht Order.
The election of Mr. Nesinith, of
Drogon, to Congress puts a genuine
garnger in the houeo, Wi1ose wealth is
in farma and who makes his living us a
iller of the soil, so that it will not be
jeoessary to scatter hay scud aromil
im. Being a domocrat, and a ready
lebater the friends of tihe graige
novement expect he will make things
ivoly for the republicans this winter.
Plic order is still growing. Alaiba.i
IRs 110 granges, Arkans.as 65, Cali..
ornia 84, Florila 13, Gcogia 231,
iinois 662, Indiana 4-13. Iowa 813,
Cansas 5"G, Kentneky 17, Louis iatia
Al, Maryland 3, Mlassaichuset's 6,
dichli-ami 8.1, Mlinnesota :;61, Missis.
ippi 375, Missonri 900, Nebraska
28, New lampshiro 4, Ncw Jersoy
0, New Yolk 10, North Carolina
05, Ohio, 15.1, Orceon 5, 'emns. !
ania 27, South Carolina 162, Te
essee 10 , Texas 2.1, \ermriiont 27,
rilginia 4, West Virginia 18, W'i
ansin 213, Colorado 2, Dakott 25,
Vabhington 5, Canada 8-total 7,104
ranges. The Boston Grange h s not
espoinded to the demand of Mlaster
danis in forwarding their charter to
eadrtiurters in Washington, nor does
be 2 tatary know anything oflicially
f it. Tho National Grange does not
icet until February next, when the
ucstion will come before that body
,onId the Boston Grange retain
ieir charter. This will be the iist
xse of thu kind yet presented to the
rdecr.
A Writing Maebine on trial at
nashington ). C., is thus dorilcd :
he nalinc is about the sm 'icize
i an ordinary sewing machine, and
mn be worked by a child who can.
,ell as easily as by a grIown erloIt t.
consists of a series %f r .:"y two
)ys, to which arc a eued two steel
1n.mes, and ec ii, (of thece rep
men ts a letter, a igu re or a punctu.
on mark. The keys are arranged in
>ur rows, like tbe keys of anl organ,
Wd are operated oil precisely tho
Line principle. ile hamiuers are
rranged in a circle, and when the
ev is pressed, t0- corresponding let.
sr moves to tlie centr, reedinig
gain itmmediately when the pressure
i removed. A space key is provided,
y means of which the rpaces be
secen words are made. Mr. Wash
urne, of San Fraucisco, patented an
nprovemnent on the machine, and I'
mntemplates the se of priliter's ink.
a the original thu color is taken from
1irepared ribbon, which is between
me hatimier and the paper. At the
i.d of each line the n achino is ad.
ioed for the ncxt liin b v mean.s of a
roadle, which is worIkcd by the feet
C the ( perator. By this machine
rec tin,es as muich can be written
a an ordinary man can wiite.
One of the limost un fort urateresults
f the financial panic is tlie dislcharge
f humin'cdreds of' workmen from varions
arge nanmifac tories in the principal
iii es. The reccnt heavy disch arge:;
rom founderics in and a mirnd l'hila
elphin, and the presins' similar
eeurrences in the n'eighiorlood of
4w York gave a i Ilacl'lholy promlo
it iou of umore extenided troub e.
t has now extIIded to th New
Ggland cotton an vi woolen mo ills, oie
.lready antmunced , anid the mnanunfac
urer's' board of trade of Fall River,
dais. having rigrieed1 to r'ecomnd
suspensionm of all mnills two days in
ach we n and to rnun on!" eighrt ho urs
er dasy the other four days for the
itese nt. Sev'eral We.'stern, mianufae
ories have alIso taik en ste psto encrtaiil
x pensei, anid ini itt more likewise
etion has becen tak,'. at oni or more
ar'ge e'sta lJish men~it' si .Ping to thecir
conomnicaml workinig while toe paic
On tinueIs.
One llranton, of Yol, county Cal.,
na :r et of $50) rodle a rice on horse
iek agains-t thme Califo'ria Rtailroad
rain) bound fromi taeram nento to
f'oodlawn. The .agreemnt~ was thaot
.0 wais to have three in utd st rt
romt the Saciamnento and Luto
>ridge, and to raice to D).ivi i,
ifteeni miles. lie r'ode the horse,
Ionest Jolhn, ha reback, amnd art ived
4o thme de pot in Dav ~isv illo four in
ites ahead of the triain.
Now Hlnmpshiro lhas a comipulsory
chiool-law%, rneqir ing that tevr (i' per
on having in custody aeblild bedtwcen
g ton fourteced years of age shall
n th year, of whuich six shall tOe
*oIsecutive. 'Ilhe lawv proides that
he child mtay be instructed in a pri
rato school or at btem 1.
"T1he Famious Little Church A round
ho Cornet'," in Ne w York, has lie
~ome so p)opular thait is to be enlarg.
id arnd rebuIlt, antd wuill soon be one
f the largest anid most highly orna.
nenuted in thie mtetr'opolis.
Senator Fenton, of New York, von
ures a prediution that will inise a
error in the polit icisas bireast. tle ex
resises the beli:f thait thie coiming ses
ion of Congress', like that of last
vinter, will be largely devoted to in.
resti gation, for lhe believes that the
rooplo will insist on fInding out
birongh the ir representativos, what
s being done with a'l the money that
ho Govcrnmeunt is spending
North Carolina Newi.
Newton dogs aro handing in their
ehoekhs with astouding rapidity.
Another piu' tobacco factory is to
'be opened ill Ilillsborb.
'Wilminglton saloouists import
oystcrs from Morehead City.
Ono hundred 'emigrants hivo re.
cently landed at Brinks, olouny near
Wilmington.
Th'e Great Eistern Cfrdhs tdok in
68,000 at W adesboro on Saturday.
Distrcsing I
The next conventio'n of the oex'i,
cnn wnr survivors will be held in
A heville on the 4th of next July.
The wife of Henry llartgrove, of
S-rry County, fainted and fell in the
lire oneo day last week, burnirg her
self in a shocking marner. So wo
leurn from the Danbury Reporter.
A possum belonging to a lIillboro
printeor conmitted suicido last week,
so the Recorder tells us. It aseend
ed an elevation, and deliberately
threw itself off, the chain around its
iek forming the fatal noose.
W ilu.niogton 'thieve catch chickens
as they do fisics, according to the
Post. A grain of corn is put, on the
end of a bent hook. The chicken
goes fur it, -and gets booked in the
mouth. The capitor pioks him up aind
iaikes off with him.
Rulcigh Seninel : The North Caro
lina liwproved Sewing Machine, in
vented and patented by Dr. James
) vi., of Comipany Shops, on exhibi
!ion last wreek at, the State Fair, at
tracted ninch attention and was pro
noinnced a decided success by practi
cal machinists and others.
Tlie Executive Department of this
St ale has eceived notification of the
arrest, it Nebo, Illinois, of one Peter
Staley charged with the iurder of
lenry Clapp in G uiiford. A special
nmessenger will be sent after Stal-v as
soon as a certified copy of thn bill of
indictment c in ho obtairnetd from the
countty afoaebail.-RevIal KVws.
The Brown lFel l'JW.'dhip Socirly.
The Columbia Uiion-Herald; in a
recent issue, mlade some gross niv.
statenicts in reference to this socie.
ty, which is composed of the hest
colored inca in our community. 'lhe
Uitou-llerald says that the society
was n1amiied after Mecolmi Brown.
Tis is a i takie, tle society having
hben formed long before his timne.
The formation of the society was in.
spin d by the following cir cumstances:
There were -everal organiza' ions in this
city about the 3ear 1790 whibch oi-ly
Admitid white membeiz, and anuother
orgi i i tio;n which only admitted
blck men (if Afr ican bin -h or descoit.
T"hus it will he s 21n that the brown
men were excluded from ill (laS if
organiizatilns. The foundi1lers of the
!irown Fellow.,hip Society, sonC half
dozon in nnwber-, were attend ing a
thiksgiving of the 1i'pi~C.-lal 'Caureh.
es, at which the rector, ia hii dis.
ourse, referred to the nevce-sity of
having such .n -org :iition am11olg
the people for lirovi(liig foe theIr
ptor and indigent MenAbers. The
half dozen brown men who heard the
"isou- %t: so * imm dIt ely %esolv ed to
fe ',d the lrowni Fellowship Society,
and (did so very souon. It, will beh seen
th at t he society took its nam o from
Ch COlor of its founld ers. The Unoion
Ilcrrald also aiwort ed that sixteen uf'
IC. men hanged for insurrection in
I1822 were memubers of the society.
No min ad ld-c aditted inito Il Ie
seeiet y unless free hh, hence thie
jimtpossibility of the personis who were
hanged being minb i err, becau.:e they
wci o all slaves. These correct ions
nile maide to put the Browni Fellow
shiip Society right, as they feel no
little piride in their organ:ization and
its bht ory.-Ne ws <C' C.oa icd.
Our sorely st ricken community has
been cal led uiponi to mourn tiover fresh
berreavemencats On We'dnec dn~' last
Nixon A. hiemphill, fonath 1; in of
life af ter at brief illniesht. '1 ne decens
od wa's verginrg uplon manh'iood, anrd
gae ihiun dant pr'oili so of a life of
usefulness antd honor. The attach -
ii'ent foi- himi felt by his uomipanrions
anid iassocio'es was tinder ahd1( s'troaig,
and his deumbl hats th rown a deep glo->mi
ov'er the youths of' lie commnuaii'y.
On Friday afternoon, t het 17th in
stant, at fuur o'clock, Mr'. Jordan
H kanet t, one of the oldest and umost
respecta ble uitizens of this town, paws.
od away after an illness of o l
weeks. The dleeesed wta~s a niative
of thiis county, and Ieanes a la rgo
numaber' of relatives to mnourn his loss.
Ilia years ran parallel withI those of'
the prasing centuiry-he having been
born ina the year eighteen hundred.
lie was buried in Evergreen Cemetery
with Masonic honors, on Saturday
a ft ernoon?.by CJhes terLodge i'o. 18, of
which holhad beeni a itorthiy memiibe~r
for more than forty yeara.-Checster
The discovery is said to have been
made that it is not necessary to
groove a rifle barrel the whole of its
length, but that a few inches of gr'oov
ing near the muzzle will give the bul
lat. all the naodful amoun.t fnin.
'PIl1s to Save Udkl.
rn the pres4ent scarcity of coal, the
English are luoking to all'coal-saving
nacjines now inl use, and are socking
for nw. The waste of coal is three
old-in the production of steam pow.
er ; in donettio sunsuniption ; in tlhe
metallurgical furnaces. In the first
!and third very little aving has -yet,
been effected. In the second, great
hopesr are conceived of Capt. Galton's
"ventilairing 'firo ptace," an 'tin
patented inlvenition. The fire place, in
external appearance, is liko an ordi.
nary grate, except that it has a high
brick back, which is .perforat'od a't
about miid-heirht to adinit varrued
air into the' fire, burn a larg'e propor.
tion of the smoke, which is usually
sent up the chimney unburned.
Further I han this, there is a chamber
at the back of theJ gate, i'to wbich
the air prsses d'idetly from w'it'hou-,
and, rising in a separate flue, is eject
ed into the room under the ceiling.
A C(ining of IFUshiioh.
The 0and October "openings,''" as
they are called, are now taking pla'o
in New York, and all sensiblo pe'
plo will be glad to learn that a "pie- I
tureique siiplicity" is tho highest
rule. Furbelowi and pinu'iors 'have I
vanishod, and the 'canty plain robe I
elinga to the lovely figure just about i
as Close as it ought to. Tho mass '1f
dead women's hair is gone from the I
shapely head. Tho long-cranpod I
feet are at last free to rest their
corns and bunions in.lielless broad- 'C
soled bcds of case. Ivei displays.ef s
costly ebnroidery or jewelry are for- <
bidden. "11 slort,"' says an enineu't S'
fashionable anthority,'"the true wo- I
miien of tot. will '6ndeavor this fIll by
the gruce arid si n'pfh ity of her attire,
to show that her husband has neither I
robbed a baik nor been the leader of t
a ring.
u
In person, the Count de Chambord r
is portly, with a round face, a bald C
forchead, a full gray beard and mud
telie, a large, light blue eye, and an t
aiuiline Bolirbon nose. lie is pleas. i
ant inaineredl , g.-acious and conurtly, i
ainiable and kind hearted. At fifty- i
three he looks sixty, but preserves the A
vigor, and, it way be added, the ob. f
stinacy of a mnan at his full prime. r
llis creed s a LpreteinIkor is love'to
France, iflinehi jng devotion t6 tio r
Chuirch, an invincible determination I
to r storo the temporal power, and
his right Io reign, and govern as well
reign, by divine sanct ion. 1
The advaitage iof vziecination as a
preventive Of small pox, appearg now
to have beei definixely dAt'tertiied.
The third [nternational Medical Con.
gress, during the firOt part of this
mtiohIi at Vienna, discus.ed the hub
icct very thoroughly, and tle testi.
nony of lte great majority was un
(uaIitiedly in fa-ver of using vaccine
mat thr. Dr, Friedinper, the 4irector 1
of the Founin ag IlspiItal in Vienna,
heldl that all eliild.uti should be vac
cinatud in the first four months iafter
birtI, and that revecinrtion should
ttko place in the twelfth year of age.
A Peoria boy in vigorous chase i.
ter rats, recently, broke down a shelf
in the cellar and iinolated six jars
of preserves. He g'czd on the ruins
without a righ, craught, and killed t.he
atlai itacmong the .debris, and 3
d bighis fauit hful dog's nose and1
legs w*ith the the fruit., sent haint up
ttairq white the boy hid ini the coal
shetd . lie he 13(1 feamiine shrieks of
d i.-,way ;lhe heCarcd thle unuspect ing
dou Itd into thre back yardl anid shot.,
aind., sprteadinig forth hiIis harndls, said
sole in Ily, " A not her v itim iof ci rcum
atancial ev!dence."'
Tlher great cet;al'suar fnetdry re
eent'.ly establ ish'ed ini Trinidad, at
Pet y moitrtne, is a stupendous wotnder.
-Everythinug is clone :autcomartically,
il posbl- and thera is at pr~sent a
pow er of miakinag thirty hogshe 1(ds of
whlite saor ini a dciy, or three thou.
ndl in a season of one hundred
grindinig days.
'T. L. Vail, Es1., received y'ostbr
day a letter fromi W. W-. Adams,
E~ q., of Iowa, lie Master of' thec Na;
tionail Grangqe ofof the Patrons of Hius
hiidcry-, in which tile writer states
that, in borhlline with invitation
rebeivedl,hc will attend the eihi bition
of theo Fair of lie Cairolir.as, whicht
begins in Charlot ti on1 the 2'3th pro..
---DIhservet'.
WVhen Wiikie Colltins *ri bd-it to
step in front of th'e etiiin it S,yra
(case on Sa1t'urdaiy evetning, lie said to
r. Ilanchertt, who was to initroduce
him, "Don't itirodrico bio as the
greatest living novelhet. i've been
introduceed so a number of' times, and
I'd rarthier be sitmply Mr. Collins.
Yon knew ever~tbody is the greatest
living usomethiing."
rTe Kingstree Star (Conmartative)
thinuk.sthe mieaning of the extra aes
'lion is "that theire is a huge sp~eula
t ion on foot, so far as the bond ques
tion is concerned, and that the flunky
little Governor, who iA always on
hand when any dishonest schemb Is to
be considered, isi panting for an op
portunity to replenish the Exeotitive
ftprse."
Newspaper Enterprise.
The proprietors of the Newber'ry
Herald announco their intention of,
enlargirig and improving their ster-'
ling paper. In its now form the Her
aid will contain thirty-six columnse
twenty-five inhces in length, inhte'ad
of thfr'ty.to columns of twenty-two
itiches, thereby having a capacity of
over eight olumns more than it now
h1s.
The proprietors 'f the Abb'villo
Medium have probably accomplished,
for the first time ,the succoesful pub.
lication of g daily newspaper in that
poitin of the Btate alb''vo Columbia.
During the continuance of the Abbe
villo Fair ihet week t4o Medium was
publ'ished daily, anai the edftion Ivas
so well conducted that it suggests the
possibility of its continuanoe. The
proprietors'of the Medium ha've de
ii6iatrnted their ability to publish a
live d'ily paper. It remains to bei
ieen whether the peoplQ of tha'tthriv'.
rirg section can support it,
Yhai A Railroad 11ax Doe.
The Atlanta Con'stitution sasj of
jainesville, Georgia, t-ituated on the
;reat Air-Lino Railrodt
"Two year's ago there W'e'io 'no't five
itinlred inhabitants, and not a single
touse had been built in twelve yearsr
iow there are n't least twenty-five bun.
Ired inhabitants, *. hd since then not
ess than three hundred h6ues h'ave
>een built V"
"In 1 870 there was less than $30,.
'00 worth of merchandise, all told,
old in the place. Last year the'sale's
,f mnerchindiso footed up the grand
mint of $450,000, nearl-y -i htlf mil
ion."
The manufacturers of Pittsbit
ave decided to pay their hailds half
lie amount of their weekly wages
nd credit them with the other half
ntil financial affairs have become
iore settled, instead of discharging
ne-half of the empl6yeea. T1ii
hows the confidonco the manufao.
urers have in the permaneneo of
heir trade. If the general body of
he community 'td t e baLks and
heir customers were to exhibit
imilar confidence, and let currency
ow freely as it did before the panio,
o such "half pay" arrangement
6uld be needed. Still this arrabge
iest is bette'r th: dis'A'rging one
alf of the hiinds.
Paris was recently thrown into a
ever of ekoitenient by the reimor that
'rince Napoleon had boon asanssina
ed. Later in the day, however, it
was Understood that it was the Prine
Yn'perial who had been murdered.
[?iially it turned out that the only
'oundation for those startling rumors
vas the fict that the Prince Imyerial,
Lt the Woolwich Mil:tary Academy,
n England, had fallen dewn while at.
;empting somo gymnastie foat, and
)arkce. his tihin. So the hopes of the
Non-Plon party fell again to bel6w
ero.
The Bazaine Triial oinmandas iore
nd more interest as it advances. The
,ross e.camination to which the iar
-hal has been subjected has been
earhing and severe. The Marshall
s in a tight place, and lie is evident
y aware of it. SUill it cannot be
aid that the evidence yet pro
lueed is sufficient to justify convic
ion. Bazaine might certainly have
hljne l:etter ; but it lias not yet been
ro~on that he played the part of
i aitor.
1Te coutrse of #ffairs in Misasssppi
ndieatos that thiero will probably be
reps.tition of Louisana's experience,
irnd that Federal troops will be called
'or by the Ames party to overthrow
.hio luvful Government .b the State.
fte 'di-ant prv'is ad'visos the negro and
~arpet-bag followers of the Massaohu
eotte candidate to di'arogard the proe
amnat ion or the Governor, hold elee
~ions nexgt ahonth with or withiout ihie
-ogular officials', and bring forth a
elf-constituted Legislature that will
iroceed to iihpeach Potwers. Sb It
The orne- stdne of the hew Cate.
irhl in Satianlah will be laid on
Wednesday, 19th of N~ovember, upon
whiich occasion the ce'remonnies will be
t ithe most impressive end imposing
haLrat.ter; and several distinguished
jatholio dignitaries arb expected tb
,e prehbnt.
France, tooi, wanlts he'r canali 'et
arghd and nowv ones opened. A corn.
nittee, appo~intedl during the prori
hoey of M. T1bioe', has just Ihlad'o an
,laboratc report, ij which it is proved
hat the French railways, like many
f tho in this country, are worked
o the fullest capabity. tIhe water
,omimunieatiotis of F'raice; on the
ther hand. admit of almost bound
eas ekpansion. There are already
,hree thousand miles of canals, and
broe thousand She hundred of til
table rivoe.
Sbmb tw eht3y freight 6op ductot's
and bl'ake men on the Lake Sliore abd
Miehigan Southern railroad have
been d oteoted In stealing freight and
disohat~gett. Thei- operation, It sp.
pears; have boon going on for a year
The Difficulty with that lone.
We h'id a good deal of trouble with
ofur hotio less eklotber. ife was a
bob-ta'ild horse, and It seemed to an
noy him so mauch that he *ouldn't
reach the ties whtoh Uttiied on his
rilik, that Tt occurred to us to ix hiftia
up a kind of aitinolal th,. (6 'relleve
thesitut , a it weio. 6 we pro
oured 6're feet of half"e160l 'rope, un.
raveled ab'0 eighoin i'hes of lo,
and spliced the other end to the
horseo' tail. This W6rid.t'have enabled
liaim t switch a By off his nose as
soon as he had acquired a little prae
tico. But out' Irfsh'htz, seeing the
ropd, baid'H6't understanding our 'mo
tive precisely, oo'oludid that 'we er*
trying experiments with sofle $8W
kid f hithIngs be Vdd is
the roa', and so he tied the horse to
the stall that night b1 his arttloial
continuation. By morning ti' fde -
box waskioked to kindling wood aI
the horso was standing on three I
with the.otier 7eg'ia'ght In tliq
rack, h'ile 'lie chewed p" fo'ur of the
best boa'ds 'in t'be side of the stable In
front of him. Thou we got hiin u
another rope tait, atid ep'aind 'the
thepry t'b o 6 &'W'.
1ut the tail bothe'red the'hobtlepi
buch while arryiug t'o 'libre that
ho tied half a brick to 'it to hold it
still. The oonsaeduence was that th'
horke, in 1 m'nent of ekoitempft,
jerked the brik 'hrodd d mashed
in the Irishman's , and he sued
us, and we sppnt 't*o hundred dollark
trying to sottlo the osse. ,Then W
bougIt a u6eh of hiorse hair and
spliced that on very neatly. Who*
our new man 'O6% b eg to our
that tail, and it came o in his ha
He thpught it indiotedi disea'
aondition'of th% horse, and gave hio
a hugo d6so of'somo kind of pate*%
owder %6 improve the anlihal%
ealth, and iA haf a ir.ho~ th'o hoid6
had convulsions, d'ring which Ub
kicked down the stalo door, battered
6he 'stall L to splinter, haMne'Va
four more boards out of the partitionj
dislocated his off hind leg, and died
in fright ful agony. ,o6w *6 , bave %
horae tith a long tail, a'nc when we
see a peddler coming with horso modt
oine we send a dog our to intervie'
him, And bombard him from the frba
windoWv with a ahot-gun.
RU'aiired I11ormon 1xodis".
The San Francisco Chronicle ha
made the important difsoovelry ttat, M
consequenee of appreh'ended un
friendly legisethtion by the next Con'.
gress towars the Mormons, that seet
is 'preparing for a gra'nd Aodus fron&
Utah. Tbe VseW "pr'Mised land" 16
said to 1o '6at'e'd amobg tlie islandh
of the Pncifi, and that a Bohemia
%irsi'6nary has been Woet V'y the MWe.
mons to Polynchla o matters io'
nooted ,ith the pios'os4, e26de
The wh1o story has a Bohemia1.
savor. . Brihal Young has toughe
and defied Congressional legislatie
od6 long to pay much attention to iA
now, unless he has an ,idei of p'
paganding Lattet flay Saintism anl
finds the Te'rritbry of Utah too on'
tracted for hil purposes. If thre U
a being in the world likely to adhir'A
to Summer's advice to Stanton
"tick' that being is Presda
Young, head of the Morm'6n sRiit#.
Workingmeni Leaving The ir iomess
It is estimated th'&t durng~ tbSje
three weeks 'over forty-Ave famzlleh
have rdmeved from Wilmingtoni
Dl; t'o '6the'r looallts'. The reason
for this is that the heads of the%'
families have recently bei tahoown
out of skployme~nt and fir'i'd t'6 heek
**Yk lhowhere. The ,posje'o foi
workingmen this wibt'er '6%s U6E
bri'ghteIt. It is iltokettbr prob ablis
that th6 ear shiops wilt soon remutni
operations, but other business inter
cots are becoming dull. The 6911id,
ipg season is aliho16 over, atd, al
though ih has been an unusualhjy bttby
one, oal'peuteI~ *et during the NIhi
ter will be exceedingly de'.i. The
orfiago iianufacturers eks qlso ent
tailing their operatiol*, ila atogeth
or it looks as if' theore wohld be mort
idle men in Wilmington before omg
than at ay previous tim'.-1's.
delphi'd Press.
The Albaqy Argus say, & di
work of the New York DendokratiW
t0Bntsention : It Is seldom, indeed~
that political bodies are oharaoterie
by so much independenre of setton as
the late een~'enti. N~o rings d*
cliques or eombination. controlled, Of
or even inifluepoed it. Every dole.
gate thit thik lie was a retpresentativd
of the peoplo, eid that t was theitr
work in which be was engaged. I6
is with pI-ide tilat w& eater upon th6
ulathypag * ith such one didates mn4
witilatllla pla tfor T~ he resulto
the bonven tion, lithe expression o
the people's will. It le their works.
it Is lrorthy of their milet earnest att&
detorilined support.
b8ii~busuo, Ootober 20.--?oth par:
ties concede the election of Allen;
the stralght-out Ijemooratlo eandidatd
for Governor, by 800 to 700 majoraetj
but the Ropubhsans have doubdless
t al..ted th6 ret Uf the 8tatd tiokoti