WILLIAMS & DAVIS, Proprietors.] A family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, lnquiy, Industry and Lierature. lTERMS---$3.00 Pcr Annmn in Advance. VOL. X.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 10,1875. 4 THE F A I It F I R LD llit A L D 1 PU ll 1.1H S: I) W 14K I.Y BY W I 91 L I J U S & 0 A V I S. / -rm, --The ///?R A h,/) Is publiile Week 1wi 4)t' Wiacntboro, at $3.00 j ,triabl)l in advance. t-jty- .ll ir-insilnt ay ecs for that purese. These two decisions of Judge Caer. pencter and thce Comptroller GJeneral render us entirely powl'C'ess to eta tin gle thing towaLrds this highly imu portant malstten' Jlesidies this, an Act of the Goner'al Asitembly, of M arch 17th, '74, "To r'eguilste the manner12CC in w hichi pub lie funcds shal IbIe d .isbused by pubdlic oiliners,"' mc ike it a felony "for,c nniyr public oiliier, State or County, to1 ento inlto a conitraect for iiny purpoei whiat teoever iln excess of the appropiriation mnade for the aceomlsi shmiuenit of such purpoe,'', and as8 no0 appr'opriatUi has beeii n sade forci Isridges and hcigh-c ws vs it would be a felony under this{ Act for us to use any part of the or dinilary counity taex f .r tIs ~)ppos. Acid we therefore thiink it but just ande riglct that we should give not ice that we will not. he responssible. for any udamage that mcay be icurr ed by bad1 bridlges t his1 year. Another act oif theo General Assem bly imskes it s fehony for us to) use iciy piart, of the taix.- colleeted for this liscl ye ir which biegani Novoe ber '74 to defray the expou'ses of any preceding year. hence you will see thait we eai.li't pay ancy debts against thlis county whcieh are prior to the lit Nov. 1874. A fter ai very closely made estimate weosee that the nsecessa-y expenses of' thce county for thcecrrenst.year will be alboult $8000. whcile the amount realized from lice eoiunty tax for this pucrp>se will not be much more than $5000, acnd how we are to meet (our $8000 of expenses with $5000 of. means is entirely beyond our compro hcension. \Ve hcave promised reform and eonomy, anid it shall be prao.. ied to our utmost ability. But jjL_v o j ilrailypeoaivetha th fund raised is inadequate for the no ces.ary expenditures, and while ro. luotatit to ask that our people, who complain ofr high tax:ttion, ani justly, too, shall have an additional burden imposed upon them, we believo that the best interests of the country will be subserved by doing so. The inan eial con-dition f the county is de. plorable in the extreme, and h:s been oaused by e.ienditire.i made in excess of the appropriated me ins provided to iect the same. We wish we could lay oefore you the entire indebtedness of the county, but thii cannot be done now. We L.cp,-, how over to be able to do ac soon, as we have alread3 required a registration to be made of all the past indebted ness of the county. Most of this has beent provided for by the General Asssmbly, and as soon as Judge Car penter, (in whose hands the matter now is,) shall direct us in what man ner we are to pay such claims, we will let it be known to the olaimanto, and pay out as directed by him. In conclusion we call upon all tax. payers to bear with us patiently, or be aver ready to aid us in our honest efforts to a-:rve them, and believe that whatever step we take will be prompt ed by an earnest desire to promote their best interests and redeem the county from that position of insolven ey and bankruptcy in which she now is and ploce her in a condition of prosperi:y. This will necessarily be a work of time. and we can hur ly hope to accomplish it in the short term of our office, starting as we do under the embarrassments and diffi. nilties we have already expressed. But we I-ope we shall be able to ao conplish enough to evince that we have been actuated by a sincere desire to promote y ur best, interests, by honesty und fidelity in the man ugement. of your financial affairs. Respecifully Yours, T. I I. CL A RK E, Chairnau. W. K THOMPSON, JOHN C. REED. The Few Revenue Bill. The tax passed by the House of Representatives Tuesday will raise $34,000,000, ii round numbers as follows : Froim whi.key, $12,000,000; from sugar, $8,000,000 ; renewal of horizontal tax, 8,000,0WO ; tobacco, $4,000,000 ; cigars, $2,000,000. The original bill rnised $18,000 000 on whisky, or $6,000,000 more thau the present mneasure, but did not tax ei ars, ann repealed the tax on mWitches, which this bill does not do. The net resulti of the two measures are almost the saime in amount, the decrease oil whisky under the substi tute being nearly covered by the in. creased tax on cigars and the contin. unation of the match tax, The Colorrd Cadet Trouble at Annapols. The commandant of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, some days ago caused the fourth-class midship men to be confined to their quarters for molesting colored mi-Isbipman Baker, and gave thein notice that their liberty would not be restored until each member of the clas gave written as.-urance that he would not interfero With hor mol.e~ii.is colored classmate. Fifteen members of the class have given this assurance, but the enmainder of the class, number in'g about 100, still held out. Wl'ashng~o~s Cor. N. Y. Post. An AIleged hlublin Defater. S. F. Eland, alias Frankcs, late A ssistant Secretary of the Llty il Banik of D)ublin, was arrested in New York a few~ days ago by Decputy Sheriff Geifery, on the steamsihip' City of Chester, on a charge of having at' seonded with t wo bonds to the amount of ?400, leaving a wife and three child ren in D)ublin, and eloping with another womtan. At the solicitition of' the woman who was -withI him, Eland uave up ?395, in cotnsideration of' whieb he was discharged. Took Poisonh antd Iepented. A Mrs. Jager, of New York had a quarrel on Friday with her hushand onl a dome~stie matter, aind suddlenhy left the house. in a quarter of an hour shte returned with a dose of strychnir.e, wvhich she swallowed in his presence. A doctor haustily sum. muonea~ relieved her momentarily by nu emetic, but she soon died. beg ging earnestly from the time of the doctor's arrival that be would save hier life. A patron of a certain newspaper oncee said to the publisher, "Mr. Printer how is it you have never called on me for your paper 1" " hi'' said the man of types, "we never ask a gentleman for monny." 'Ided' replied the patron how do you man - age to get along when they don't pay I'' "Why," said the editor, "after a certain time we conclude that ho is not a gentleman, anid ask him." "Oh I-ah !-yes h--I see I MI r. Editor, please give me a receipt," and hands him a V. "Make my name all right on your books." 1ow to Conduct a Courtship. Don't be too sudden about it. Many a girl has said "no" when suo meant "yes," simply because hor lorer didu' choose the right time and pop the question gently. T-!i a dark night for it. Have the lilinds closed, the curtains down 1d the lamp turned almost out. Sit 0ar) CnOlgh to her so that you can hook your little finger into her's. Wait until conver-ation begin;e to flag, and then quietly remark ? "Susie, I want. to aek you some. thing?" She will fidget around a little, reply "ycs" and after a pause you can add : "Susie, my notion must have shown -that is you must have-I mean you muet be aware that-that ?" Pause here awhile, but keep your finger firmly looked. She may cough and try to turn the subject off by ask. ing you how you liked the circus, but she only does it to encourage you. After about ten minutes you can continue : "I was thinking, as I came up the path to-night, that before I wout away I would ask you-that is, I would broach the sul.ject nearest my -I mean I would know my" Stop again and give her hand a gentle ,queeze. She may give a yank to get it away or she may not. InI either ease it argues- well for you. Wait about five minutes and then go on : "The past year has been a very i h.appy one to me, but I hope that future years will still be happier. However, that depends entirely on you. I am here to-night ' know that is to ask you-I moan I vin here to-nig-t to hear from your own lips the one sweet" Wait again. It isn't best to be too rash about such things. Give her plenty of time to recover her omnposure, and then put your hand in your heart and continue : "Yes I thought as I was coming through the gate to-night, how happy I had been ; and I raid to myself that if I only knew you would consent to be iny-that is, I said if I only i knew-if I was only certain that my heart had not deceived me, and you were ready to share"- Hold on there'a no hurry about it. Give the wind a chance to sob and moan iround the gable. This will make her lonesome and call up all the love in her heart. When she begins to ough, and grow restless, you can 6o oil : "Belore I met you this world was a desert to Inc. I didn't take any pleasure in going blackborrying, and Rtealing rare.ripe peaches, and it didn't matter whether the sun shone or not. But what a change in one short year ! II is for you to say whether my future shall be a prairie of happiness, or a summer fallow of Canadian thistles. Speak dearest Susie, and say-any say-that" Give her five minutes more by the lock and then add : T at you will be' that is, that you will-T mean that you will-be mine V" She will heave a sigh, look up at the clock and over the stove, an then as she slides her handm' over your vest pocket she will wl.ir,-r : "You are just right-I wil."' And then if you donm' know what comes next, you are a sucker. hLbw munny who sing "From Green hm,d'G icy miountait a'' to the familiar old tunie know that tne mus e was composed by Lowell Mason, in Sn.. vannah, Georgia, in 1827, and at thme suggestion Cf a young lady 1 The circumistances were thus rel ated by Mr. Mason in a letter to a friend: "One day I met her (Missi iloward), she said to mie in sustamnce: 'Mr. Mason, I have just received fromu a friend the copy of a beautiful hymn, but;it is.of so as inmgular a metre that [ cannot find any tune to it. WVill you write one fo,r mec ? Certainly,' I re plied. I took it home and wrote tha music impromptu. When. I saw lher soon after I handed it, to her, I do hot remnemib r that it was sung ini public in Savannaih but it became so piopubeIr that, not long afterward, I had it printed by I'.rker, of baston, and published by him." Mary was the proprietre.ss of a diminutive, incipient sheep, wvhose outer covering was as dlevoid of color as congdaled vapor, and to all locali ties to which Mary perambulated, her yourg Southdo wn was morally cer t ain to follow. It tagged her to time dis pensatory of learning cne diurnal see tion of time, which was contrary to a young quadruped at the establish meat of instruction. Consequently, the preceptor expelled him from the interior, but he continued to remain in the immediate vicinity, and tarried in the neighborhood w ithout fretful ness until alary once muoro became visible. The Minnesota lakes are dotted over with the cabins of flsh-spearers, many of them in the distance, looking like embryo villages. No man has a right to do as he plases, nless he pleases to do right. littles oti Poker. nY GEN. SilUNK. 1. Don't buy half as many chips na the start as the other players. Tb. expectation is thas you will wil, ait if you lose it is better to borrow o. 11owelf up. Never unte up until some one tells you to, and then say that you haveO and stiok to it, which will generally [ orsuade some one else to "come in" t wice. This rule, thou th an excel lent one, tust be followed with dis eretion. If pranticed too 'often it is liable to produco unplonsant feel. iligs. 3. Toward the end of the evening it is always better to owe up your aunto "for a minute" than to put up, as the winner of the pot frequently forgets to charge up the debts, and none of the other players will remind him, as they may wish to do the same thing. 4. When the credit system begin4 to creep in, its it gencrally does about the middle of the game, you should always owe up if posible, 1lnd bet chiefly a.;iist those who ilways put up. This is one of the inert important rules. To win in 1asi and lose on e-edit is the great iecrot of suecessful poker playing. 5. Ir. dealing,always observe the .ottoi card, which you cin easily do before te cut. Then, by noticing low thick a cut is made, you can 'ell wh-ther (hat card goes out. This nay help you in the draw. 6. Keep a sharp eye on the dis. tards. They miiy be of service if tour draw is not satifactory. 7. When you are "in luck," watch our opportunity from time to time o pt some of your checks in your oeket without being teen. This vill enable you to "one" up if luck urns, and 'will prevent your being )oirowed from. 8. When any one wants to buy uore cheeks and you have plenty, >et him to buy of you, if pok.jble, in )reference to the bank. . enables 1ou to conceal the amount of your iiniiogs, and, besides, the bank mAy lot be able to pay up. 9 When you are "chipping out" 'or drinks, &c., put a cigar in your pocket every once in a while. You Lre sure to be so much ahead of the a, and they come in very handy, ven when you don't smoke. 10. Never permit anything to nake you forget for a moment that he whole object of your game li to ;ve your own inorev and secure omebody else's, and let everything Vou do, however trifling, tend to this lesirable end. 11. When the game is over, if you ire winner, deny it entirely, or fix Ahe figure as low us possible ; if you ire loser, declare that you have lo., .wice as :ueh as y,u really havo. Thi; rule is never depat ted from. h'le mon iy lost at a gane of poker always roots up four limes as much as the noney WOU. 12. When it is convenient to avoid )nyiog p-(ker debts entii ely, use dis. -rimination inl the natter. Debts 1o persons whom you are not likely to m.eet very often you canI avoid. Mlany lpla) ers feel ia delicacy about -skinag for a pokler dlebt-those are aufe ones to playwith. Rose buds, during the part) season, ire articles of ne little importa,r-.ce in the0 florist trade, anid the h'ieh prices asked for "rose bud'' boutpi'ets may be better aceouinted for when the cost at wholesale of the raw mterial comn pos.ng them is considered. In New Y'ork, from 8,000i to I10,000 buds are daily sold at. prices ranging from ten to thirty dollars per hundred, TIhe most exp,ensivo -rariety of rose buds are the Mlarshbal Ne,l, whieb coim mand fifty dollars per hundred at wholesale, or ten dollars per dozen retail. 1Bostoni cut rose buds wvere formerlIy considered the chloicnst, but now thmo florists of Washington, New York and Philadelphlia raise roses equally as beautiful. iat.t oar penter is proud fo record his vote against the civil right bill. Alexander II. Stephens is proud to vote for the resoluationas recognlizing Kellogg as Glovernor of Louisiana. In the language of the imimortail Pinch, ''ll-Il is paved'' with such Southern D)emocra a as Stephicns. fil order. Duaring theC p ogress of a game of cards hast TVuesday eventinig, tat Gran iteville, an altercation took pliaco be tween Ijouis James u.n I Itobert Hatcher, both colored, in course of which tho former was so severely stabbed in the abdomien by the latter thbat lie died the next day. lHatoher made his eseajp.- .- Union-IP//ea. M il irdertd. On Thlursdaylnighbt.last John WVick a, of Union, was murdered while return from the store at Jonosville. lie was found the following muorning lying in the roadI, with his throat Cut fromt ear to ear, and his skull crushed as if done with an axe. Suspieion points towards WVilliam GrilTmu as the per pertraior of the deed. Union- ilerald. At Its Old Tricks. The ,lprightly Winnsboro News says that the News and Courier has been "bulling" the now State bonds, aud.i; DoW "bulling" Treaurer Car lozo. A few days ago an up .oountry paper was ounfident that thero was arnethin)g wrong about The News and Ccurier, because it had spoken approvinglv of somietling that tie Columbit Union Herald had said, and the Unioni-Ilerald had returned the eimlplittent. Somothiag of the santo bort will very, likely be said b-y two. thirds v* the Consorvatives ie wspa. I pers in the State-at all events iby any that think that no republican official neasure ean have any good points. We may as well alsWe. tholn in a bunch at once. Treasurer Cardozo has, we think, muade an execllent State Treasurer, and iu tho matters at issue betw'een hit and tL.e Legislature, we have given our reasons for Haying so. All the papers of inportance, pro anl con have been published in these colunns and we have given our readets aml, a opportunity to judge wi.ether we ar right or not. We didn't expect al a of then to agree with us, 1ad don't s gounblle about i!. They do expect . us to give them our hoiieA opittuiis, a and we give thetm-whether hey ars g likely to be p.,pular or not. a So we have been "builling" the bonds have we I If that mieails that we have hilaown wl,at tie ng dismal whoop aid disappoared dor the stige. Miss alot (u-hman-her full :amei0 is (harlbtte S'aunilders (1,h1m1all -now in the fifty.iiinth year of her go. She is a native of lioston. lie began her professional life as a inger in opera in 1835, and shortlv fterwards studied for the stilge, her rent. )uIeess at 'r, as now, beiing i Lady Maebleth, I(. laid down lie basket of chips e had piIfered, ani4d looking hard t tle urchin who had been Iimaking target of' iim by ll shootilng at him ith a "nigge: killer," said : "Whar us you rInised, chile I" "Shucarcgo, id the young hoodlim. "[in do )rf ?" Voet Itu I i r." 1,I tort so. oudern white follk, childran wiid ant do dat wa . LemIlmeill tel 3IYou ricv, IanMners gwiino to carry you Ider dan money. You icard me." -lu)las ('IVa as) Hierold. The calculation of the c fTeet of a ight,grataity to a hotel or jestau. nt waiter comes out something as lIIos : Three cents-sighit bow ; it to inspect coin as if expecting it ibalnige into something larger. ive-"'bliged." Six cents-"thank 5u."!) Ten cents-"thiank you, lona." Fifteen cents-"thank )u general." Twenty cents--low >w ; flourish of na pkil : formula as Liove. Quarter - pro" .11d.1 LOW : aCriV tO f hal 111: h .-' i t It I with th el bow : dour held open. The Matrimonial Nowr, a journal evoted to the promotion of marriiige il coijilgal felicity, has a wide reulation ill over 6Great lritain. here are noe t Ihanii three hundred id. ertisements in its l:st issue for hus aindo and wives. Clergymen, army flicers, members of parliament, 11iifacturers, .erchmants, physiciat.:, homnisti,, farmers. uhmversity men, an url's son, a ieorter. gentlemen with Kpectat ions, ail gentlemlenl without ny ; bachelors alnd widowers, R1omn itholie and protestant, all urge their uits through its convenieint journal, hicb e .ntaiis full announcement, of ba icteristi ly, ph sical and spiriti-I I ; ago, eoulition, proporty and ulidy conilections. 1The B.1gin iajer are w Irmly , iscussinug an in cidenut wt'hic haiIizs I ecurred at Il uy. QO of the' pu pils I C the training college, oni receivin g he communDl iin (1 withI his cominradecs, ook the wafer out of his~ mouuthl, ocketed it, and afterward exhiibi'ced in the playground, telling his omnpanionls they might see it was nly bread. A fter a discussion as to hat 6rmuld 1)e done with it, he re olved to eat it with a muntin, Three ays afterward, at firec the origin (