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A & DAVIS, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiy, Industry and LIterature. [TERMS---$3.00 Per Annum in Advance. L. X11.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING AUGUS 1 1875. o THE F A I R IF I E L Dii II A 119 IS PUn LISl11dD WEEKI.Y BY IV I L LI A M S & D A V I S. .7,rms.--'The HERA LD it, published Week y in the Town of Winnsboro, ,at $3.00 ,e o'ridl in advance. V7*5y All transient 'dvertisements to be I'A IDA'.-tDVA NCE. Oniluary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per quiare. THE FAINT FLOWER. Up where the meadow'grass ILeans towarid the river, Stood a little Bluebell All in a shiver. "River ! oh. River I Whero are you going ? Stay just a moment.. In your swift flowing !" "Oh, little Bliteboll I llow can I wait ? The tillor will chide me, The hoals will be late." "Rain-clouds I oh, R-tin-elouds I Whe're are you flying ? I im so lhirsty. Fainting and dying !' "Oh. little Bluebell ! A far in the air The storin king is calling, And we .must be there." "IRobin, ilear Robin I I am so Ill, And you're at the river-brink, Drining yene fill." ''Oh, liule Blue ell I to, 'len, look un, Some kind cloul will give you A drop in your cup." Here lit tlie Bluebell Ceased her compiaint, Drool-ing 8 ill lower, Hopeless and faint. But. down fell the twilight. And up cane the De w, W i-,pering, ''Dear liebell, We're sorry for you. We are not strong, Like the Rain or the !liver, But never a flower i'nins For help we can g ve her.'( By Ihousands and thousands, 'I' e sumsmner nght th'o ugh, Silently gathered The hosts of the Dew. At dawn little Bluebell held gratefully up. Ilir sil ent i han k oll'ering ' Thli Dew in her culp, -Mary A. Lathbury, in M. Nicholas for .A uyusa. All Ilncideltl or the Frollief, Among tho mzan'v passengers who took the Uni.-n Pacifio trin i at Om: ia-some bound for the prairies of Nebraska and Colorado, somue for Salt Lake, sine for Nevada, and some for the golden State itself---was a man of about thirty years of' age, of medium size, with fair hair and raddy complexion denoting Tentonic extraction. There was nothing re. uarkablo about his appear ance. lIe seemed to be an easy going fellow with plenty of money,an.d determined to mingle pleasure with the busi ness in which he was engaged. Nor was he much eucutnbored with bag gage. A substantiail trunk mar ked "Van Brunt, San Frmancisoo" and a traveling bag suspended over .his shoulder sulced to supply his wants in this respect. Just before the train left, this man was the centre of attraction for the passengers who wore idly ssunterinig about waititig for their journey to begin. For be was leaidinig by a light ohain a huge wvhite bull dog, a mang. nificent specituen qf the canine rae and decidedly suoh a dog as one would prefer to admire at a distance. Ihis ears and tail were oropped 01080, and his under lip dropped so [hat the entire row of unde~lr toeth could be plainly seen. And yet the dog seemed to .bo peaceacbly incljined, and wagged his stumpy tail in intelligent response to the words addressed to him from time to time by his master. T'he p assenigers evincing an evident disinclintio to hiave such a com.. patniomn on the route, lie was consigin d to thme teuder mueroc's of the express mhessenger with strict irjunctions to see that no harm befell him. Curiosity, that preeious legaey bequeathed by mother Eve to her children, naturally led the other passengers to wvonder what could be the reason for thus encumbering ones self nt ith such baggage oni a jour. ney so long, so fatiguinig and so ex pensive. Sevei-al theories had already been originated and set aside when the moving nilf of the cars temporarily diverted the attention of' the passengers to other matters, atid for a while, Vain JBruot and his dog were left unnoticed. But interest, sootn revived, for at every station Van Brunt would go forward and mnuko inquiry after the welfare of "Biascfoot,'' with a solici tude as tender as theat of a parent for a child. Ae every metal time, Blackfoot was provided with food and drink beo'oro his master woulii par. ako cof any refreshmiient whateveri, andl at night, ho slept on a blannet car'efl'lly prepatredl for'i him. For a time, the passengers of conversation lugged. But gradually, diffeient individuale gravitated into small glroups and began the task of making acquaintances of eob other. And us the train rapidiy pased from inhabitated pot tions of the country and struck out into the broad prairies where there was no sign of life Save in occasional herds of antelopes or prairie dog villages, the seno of desolation brought all the wayfarers ne arer together and caused them to converse with the freedom of old acquaintances. There it was that I approached Van Brunt and endeavored to learn from him the history that I knew murt be connected with his dog. After having engaged him for bome time in general topics I broached the subject uppermost in my mind. "Mr. Van Brunt" said 1. "If it is not impertinent, I wish to inquire of you why it is that you have brought a dog along with you on this long and tedious journey, and why you seem to be so much attuched to him." W o air, I will tell you. I do love him more than anj human being living except my wife and two babies, and I have sworn always to have him with mte wherever I may be. Ie sleeps at my door when at home, and in traveling, is kept as near me as possible the whole time. I have traveled probably fifteen thou band miles, in almost a 1 the different states and territories, and in all that journeying he has been my constant cotmpaion. Y ou may think I am aI monomaniac on the suibject, but when y ou hear my story I think you will e. use to wonder at ii devotion for him, "Do you smioke." "Yes." "Well try cigar, I laid in nasup lly of fine ones in New York, for the cigars they sell along this road are abominable, as mean as the whiskey" which is warranted to kill in twenty Secontds." The important preliminary of lighting hav mg been finished, Van Bt unt settled himselt' back and thus I recit ed his narrative. - "I was born in New York about thirty years ago. At the ago of twenty-two years I was engaged to marry one of the prettiest girls in our village. Her parents and mine ap-. pi oued of the match, but her fathier thought I had better wait awhilo and accumulate bono more money before cte ring into the responsibilh tics of i marrted life. This propu sition was so sensible that though it went against the grain dreadfuay to postpone the fulfilment of my bappi ness, I could but aceede. About this time, reports of the' great value of the silver minues of Navada and the adjacent torrit ries reached our quiet village, and the etmigiation fever struck some of our yonig mcen pretty badly. A coin. pany of emigrants was organized. I caught the infection. I knew that by remaining at home, a fortune could be made only after long years of toil, and although I hated to leave Katherine, still I determined to try I my fortune in the new Ilorado. I shall not waste time to tell you of the tears Katherine shed when I avowed tty intention and the argu menats she adduced to induce mec to change my determination. It was ini vain. I painted a glowing picture of myself coming home in a few years laden with treasure anid claiming her as my wife, and livinig in a line house, far linter than "Squtire Browns-,' until by dint of ar-gumtents. caresses and al' sorts of blandishments I obtained her tearful consent. "Before going, hlenry," said sho, "lot ime tmake a you a present which may be of use to you in your wan derings. You may be in danger and have no friend to call upon for help. I will give you a trusty and powerful friend who will protect you from any insidious attack thtt may be made uponi you. I am going to givo you a dlog, which you must pronttise mec to have alwas with you." "Blut, my dear, I cannot be trou bled with such a present. Think how I would be encumbiored in mov . ing about. le would be lost in a week." "You must take him. As you are going ini the emigrant, traiin ho will not tiouble you. ie can follow your wagomn, and at, night protect you amnd it from thieves, Indians or wild bea-as. Promsise me. I cannot lot you go without it."' Sceitig she was a it-nch in earnest, I conisoated to acc, e her present the dog I have with mc. On the .jouti cy I found him very useful. 11b would guard may oxen whten tutrned out to graze, and would drive themi up, giving thoem a slight aip, wheni they evinced alny insub..r dmnatton. ie was al-o very intelli gent in huntmng, and manty a vm-nisni ,teak wa dueo to his assistance. Si) that I found himt very useful, aino began to feel an attachment for him independently of the associations eon nec ted with him, 1 reached Nevaida safely and put in at theo mines. Ihere I workd earnestly, sometimes making money [ andisometimes losing. Blut graduatll y I laid by carefully as a marriage portion for Catherine. I had a go-td many adventures during this time, ini which my dog was an invaluable Friend. Once, two nen attacked me, mad I might have been killed had not Blackfoot come to my assistance and hrottled one of the ruflians. While Ahieves were breaking into the tents if others, none dared faco those white eeth that Blackfoot always 1'resent. :d. Once or twice he was poisoned, )ut, skilful nursing brought iin thre-gh ; and since that time to his day, he has ever refused to take ool from any one but my elf. But I oaust rtlate the crowning incident of my story. After I had worked a year in No. rada. I determided to try if I couldn't trike a load in Idaho. I sold out ny claim, saved enough money for ny expenses, and shipped the rest aek houme. Having bought an ox. art and team, I set off alone for daho. At that time the Indians were iving trouble. Almost every week idings were brought of immigran.s >eing killed or taken prisoners. It vas with some misgivings that I set mt on my journey ; but I armed my elf with a rifle, a pistol and a bowie wnife, and having Blackfoot along with me, I boldly struck out across ountry, over boundless prairies, dkaline plainas and mountain ranges, he compass being in many places my nly guide. At first I kept a sharp ouk-uut, but after a week had passed was lulled into a feeling of partial eeurity. No Indians signs were vibi li. But one day, about suns,:t, saw a band of savages just on the orizon. They did not appear to ave detected my presence. I used he precaution, however, that night, o kindl no file, and kept wsteh intil nearly morning. The next day proceeded on my journey, conugratu .ting myself on my -nartow escape ro w danger. At sunset I reached he bank of a beautiful stream that Lowed from a mountain hard by and rrigated a magnificent meadow con aining choice pasturage. Here I meiampe. . I picketed my oxen in' he grass and prepared a hasty weal, fter which, being weary from the igil of the previous night, I sank ito a 'rofound slumuber, llow long I slept I cannot tell. 3ut 1 was suddenly aroused by a carlul growl jut at nmy side. I capt instantly to my feet, seized n'y pistol and endeavored to diseov r the character of the da ger. As opened nmy eyes I saw u gigantic udiau standirng over me with a knife iplifted just toady to plunge into my mart. In a accond more I would lave been a dead man, but my faith. ul dog, just in time, seized the sav go by the throat and both came to tie ground beside me. Blackfout eld him with deadly grip while lie savage was endeavoring to loose is hoWi. My first impulse was to ire, but fearing lest the report might cad other Indians to the place, I lulled out my bowie knife, and with ne well directed stab sent the dusky iero to his happy hunting ground,.. can speak of it lightly now, but it, ras no joking matter just then. ilackfoot refused to release his grip mtil long after life was extinct and he would-bo miurderer had become a 'iotimn to his o'wu blood-thirstiness. Chen I saw for the first time that the rlowv aimed~ at mtyselfhad t aken effect n my dog, and that his shoulder was madly gaahed and broken. My first task was to dress his rounds, and thon, placing him in the wagon, and throwing the carcass of he redskin into the stream, I hair eased my oxen arid act off at full peed. I know that if other Indians yore on my trail, I should be over ~aken and murdered ; and my only lope was to reach some settlemient r some immigrant hand before being vertaken. Fortunately, the next narninig I met, a train) that had camp. no night before not far from the cone of my encounter, and whose rail the savage wvas probably follow nag. T1his pai ty had no idea of danw ecr. Hlad I not overtaken them, hay would have been all massacred hat night, for the Indians, about for y in nmoor, attaeked us before day. bNe were 01n the the alert, however, mud repuleed th-- assault after a so mare light in which several whites rere wounded, and a good many ndians killed. Blaokfoot took part n the fight. Although lie could not valk, lie crawled to where a wounded ndian was lying and fastened his eeth in his throat. That Indian did lut live long, you bet. T 'wo days after, se reached canap safely ; and that is lie euid of my story. "Not at all. You have not told me Liything about Kathetine, or the two mables." "Ah, tell, that turned out all -ighit, I hojievo love always des, xhen pe .ple love practically. Well, tstaid in the minies a year longer, mnd made tzen thousand dollars, and hnen B.ackfoot and I went home, ad I miarried Katherine and brought her out west to Idaho. Then we moved to San F'rancisco, where I notn hiave a harness estatlishment on Biat. tory btreet. I will be glad to see you anid so will Katherine andl the twm babies and Blackfoot. I say Black foot, for he is autocrat in my house. le decides who shall visit me. le will not suffer an Indian, a Cliuaman ora negro to come near him without being on the snarl, and looking as if he wanted to-choke him to death. But to those persons he likes he is as mock as iamb. le has never quite recovered from his wound. In wet weather 1 believe be has rheuimatismn in it ; and then, woe.to any blackskin that comes about him. le is getting quite old now, but is still vigorous, and may save my life many a time yet." "Now, sir, you have hoard my histo ry. Do you wonder at my love for this dog ? I did not. Reader, do you ? Death of George Washlington's Grand Niece We are called .upon to chroniele the death of that distinguished lady. Mrs. Frances Parke Butler, wife of our esteemed friend, Col. E. G. W. Butler, of Dunbtyne, parish of Ibor ville, but for the past four years a resident of Pass Christian, Miss. 'lThe decersed, one of the most gifted and accomplislied women of tier time, was born at Mount Vernon Nov. 27, 1797, and was the daughter of Lawrence Lewis and Eleanor Parke Custis, of Woodlawn Fairfax county, Va. Lawrence Lewis was the sort, of Fielding Lewis and Elizibelb Washington, only sister of Gen. Washington, and was one of the executors of his uncle's estate. Eleanor Parke Curtis was the young. eat daughter of John Parke Gustis, only son of Mrs. Washington by her first husband, Daniel Parke Curtis, mind her mother was Eleanor Calvert, of Maryland, grandmother of lord Baltimore ; and she, in common with her brother, George Washington Parke Curtis, of Arlington, fatier of the late Mrs. Robert E. Lee, was adopted by Go. and Mrs. Wa-hing ton, at the death of their father, at the close of the revolution. Her eldest son, Edward George Washing. ton Butler, resigned his position as seerotar, of legation at Berlin, and fell at l3elmont major of the 1 ith Louisiana regi ~, requesting Gen. Polk to say th died like' a But ler, in the d' go of his duty. Her seoon son, Maj. Lawrence bewis Butler served, during the late :ivil war, on the staff of Lieut. Gen. Polk, and now resides in St. Louis, Mo., as a member of the house of Eiward J. Gay & Co. The eldest daughter, Isabel, mar ried Col. George Williamson, of Louisiana, present United States minister in Central America, and died soon after the close of the late war ; and her youngest daughter, 'roline Swanwick married the late W illiam 1. Turnbull, of Louisiana, and has resided with her parents .ince the death of her husband. Her youngest sister, Angola, mar ried the Hon. Charles Conrad, of Louisiana, and at her death loft two sons, Charles A. Conrad of New Orleans, and Lawrence Lewis Conrad of Baltimore. The deceased was the nearest living relative of "the father of his country" and with Mrs. Commodore Kennon and~ gGeorge Washmington Peter, of Maryland, was the nearest living relative of Mrs. WVashington.--Ne~w Jr leans Pica yuone. Currency. Peter Cooper, thme New York millionaire favors making greenbacks a legal tender. The Prince of WVales contemplates a visit to India. This trip will cost $700.000. Tiltons lawyers have notified JBeecher's eounsel that ant action is to be soon brought against the great elergynman for adultery. Messrs Moody & Sankey the great revivalists are about to return to America. It issuggestedl that they begin work in thue United States by converting Congress. A British clergyman, and justice of the peace, Mr. Moore, recently rientenced a girl 13 years old to fourteen (lays in jail, arnd four years in a reformatory school, for pluck ing a geranium leaf from an alms house garden. 'Tis sentence has excited great indignation. The Catholics of Ireland are making grand preparations to celebrate the Centennial anniversary of the Irish patriot Daniel O'Connell Tfhe anniversary comes on Friday and the Pope has granted a special. di pensation to the faithful to feast on that day. The action of thme Catholics in monopolizing O'Connell is regardhed with great disfavor by protestant friends cf hmomeo itale. "No, ma'ami," said a jeweler to a heautiful lady, "I don't trust any tboay those days. I would not even tiust my feeilingt." The reportorial corps of the Ports. mout-h and Norfolai papers, when treating of thme 3d GeorgiaL re-anion, make extensive se of the word "re freshment.' \Ve dare say it means aoft crsbs arnd iced lnmonade. Mal tdat Squeaked Whien lie Talk ed. "ilarness me down with your iron bands, lie sure of your curb ant rein, For I ,corn the power of your puny hands As the tempest scorns a chain." That idea.of steam, as advanced by the poet Cutter, is no douit one of the elements that go to make up the romance in the lifo of a railroad engineer. But that the practical part of his being may also occasion ally boar some relation to being harnessed down with iron bands, and checked up pretty sud'lenly with ourbs and reins, is illustrated by a little confidence game t'iat was per. potrated upon one of our coniding jewelers a week or two -ago by of o of that useful class of mechanics. Richard Gilson, an engineer in charge of one of the locouotives of the M. and L. railroad, one aunwhiny day lounged into a Second street jewelry tstablihient, and inguired for watehes-"tho kind that keep time to a gnat': heel-to run a train by, you know.', As he leaned ovsr the silver and plate glass case, he roman Iced with an oily tongue and in a plausible manner. "Would Mr.- allow him to try the forty-dollar time piece he held in his hand, to see if it was oorrect, etc., ete." Mr. would and did. The watch ran well and so did the oily-tongued and plaueible Gilson ; indeed so well, that all trace o' hin for the time was lost. By and by a letter dated at Louis ville was received by tha jeweler from Gilson, saying, -'if it was all the wne to himn, he would return the watch by express, without de.. lay." An answer was promptly returned that lie could send it by Adams Ex press, 0. 0. D). $5. The $5 we pre sumne was a reward for the man's honesty. But "alas for the rat it. of Christian honesty under the sun," Giison changed his mind and con eluded to keep the watch a little lunger. After a while the news reached \laysvillu that Gilson had turned up .n Covington, and Jim Hellin was accordingly dispatched "to bring back that watch, dead or alive." "Uini'me his decription," de manded the Marshal. "Ills name is Richard Gilson, and lie squeaks when he talks, that's all we know." "Well, that's about as complete a description as a man could wish," answered the officer, as he struck out for the Potomac which was just land ing at the grade. Heflin turned Covington inside out but failed to find his man. On Fri. day morning, while walking in a brown study up one of the streets of Newport, he espied an individual coming toward him, and he said to himself instantly, "That man knows "Wore's Gilson ?" he asked, as the straniger came up to him. " What Gilson-tichard ?" "Yes, .Richard-the one that squeaks when lie talks." "What do you want of him ?" ask ed the man. "I want him to run an engine un my railroad at Ashland," Ileflin answered with the air of a bloated boitdliolder. "Well," said the stranger, "that's what he's looking for, and you'll lind him, over in Cinciun ti, at a Duich saloon, near the bridge." Hefclin crossed the bridge, and re. pairing to the saloon, in which dozen or more persons were congre ga ed, lie waited patianthy to lhour tomebody talk that squeaked. In le-s than five minutes lie spotted his aan. "I'll take that watch, Gilson," lie said qluietly, tapping hime on the shoulde1 r. "What ?" squeaked Gilson. "I'll take that wateh.'' There was como demturrinig, and a strong inclination to gie trouble, but lieflin, pointing to a policemaini lie had had the preoaution to bring with him, lie wihod and surrende rod thes timio-pieco. TIhe next day bright and early Heoflin wvalked into the jeweler',. establishtnent anid deposite~d the wantoh on the silver show..ease, with thme remark that "There is that railroad time keeper that you run trainis by," andi the troys throw their hats up in the air arid shouted, "H1 urrah for IIeflamj!" And rew Thomnpson, a colored boy, about fifteen years old, was dr. waed at Accommetodation wharf, Charles ton 8. C., on Saturday. A Saratoga preacher delivered such a powerful sermon on charity that the congregation went home and hunted up forty-6ve old pennies and three stip laddoe for the grasahop per sufferers. A sara toga holie wvrites boio : "Tt is horrid here-not a man in town is worth over $1l,000" Uhurches. The Reformed iEpisoopalians pro pose establishing a paper in Chica go. By the lhat accounts there are now tixty-three Protestant missiona.. rice in Japan. The fund for the support of the P. E. Bishop in Indiana now amounts to $52,606 97. The Baptists of Texas are taking harmuonious notion for the ebtablish muent of a first-olass college. The Univorsalists are the only sect that have tried with any oue. eels wou.en for pu:,tors. The novel. ty seems boon to wear off, and the ministry to be a very uncertain one. Rev. W. M. Pratt, of the Shelby. Ville (Ky.) Baptist church, for the tilst timt. in a ministry of thirty seven years, is off on at vacation trip to the E itesru cities and watering places. Laml.' Creek church, Brunswick, Virginia, is the only one now st aud ing of five colonial churches built in King George county. One of the antignities of the house is an old time Oxlord Biblo, printed a century and a half nigo. The muerator of the Established Scoteh 'rusbyterian Church gets ?:1,000 in money for entcrtainmeuts. Each morning during the session of the Assembly ho is expected to give a public breakfast, besides a grand entertainment at the close. In Grace Street Baptist Church Iichinond, Va., they divide the membership into sevot al parts. A committee is appointed to communi.. Cate with each member, in each part, into which the church is divided. If any one able to give, persistently continues not to give, o is brought before the church for discipline ; and if he does not reform, he is excluded from the church. New York City has 380 places of religious worship, divided as fol lows ; Baptist, 33 ; Congreg tional, 6 ; Friends, 3 ; Jewish synagogues, 25 : Lutheran, 18; Methodist Epis copal, 60 ; African Methodist Epis. copail, 9 ; Presbyterian, 43 ; Reform ed Presbyterian, 5 ; United Presby terian, 8; Protestant Epi.nopal, 77 ; lleformed (Dutch), 20 ; Roman ('atholic, 53 ; Unitarian, 4 ; Uni vo salist, 5 ; Miscellaneous, 22. The Bloard of Missions of the Cum-' berlanid l'resbyterian Church has issued from its headquarters, in St. Louis, a circular which sets forth that the church, composed of 125, 000 enrolled members and represent ing the religious sentiments of a quarter of a million, is concerned for the support of its mis.ioxnary work during the present year, and asks for aid from other denominations everywhaere. In the .Greek Church, as in the loman, almost every other day is a holiday. This is felt to be burden. some, and the iLtusslan Government has ( dotne a wise thing inl appointing a con mission to look Into the ques. tio~n ol "declaring a mnajority of the church days abol ished.'' Other re forms are in progress. Plans are beinig prepared for increasing the pay of the rural priestn, and for giv itng thenm a better ed ucation than they receive, tad the~ Holy Synod promises to publish the Old Testa moot, which it is nxow translating into Russian, in a fewv months. One of Lord llsdstoek's converts, a millionaire of thec namie of Pashkoff, distributes 1,000 copies of the New Testamnent among the mnujiks every tmonthi. B~lytIiewooul Female seminiary. THIS Insti'ution will tegin its next session $Npt'r. 6thn, and - close .Jone 10th, '76. 'iihn trustees anid patrons ex precss thi-r unquaiel ified COnfi deonct in thme abxil ity and judg ment, which, in the past, havn presided over thle dest i, nies of thisi luititution, niid whxich, In the inture will conaiinue to direct, anti control ii s interests, aind do miost. hioartily recoma mondii it t he xi appoi nntd paxt ronaige of tnil w ho deisire goo I training an.1 a libor,.l atndc suibstanutiai eduttttion for thii ir diaugh ters Addirest for ii*riam xi in the 'rinci palI, Dit. S. WV. 11OOK I A iiTr, or Sec. loard Tricos, a5eV. T. WV. Mceli-. chamrip, Dioko, 8. U. July 8w Th'le State of' South Carolina COU1NTY Or FArnrisi.o. Ollice Cleik or the Ciremit Court of (Gecerni Xcxtsionsx and Comm, n Phles -I 8AalU~l. B. CLOWNEY', Clerk of ,. said .2ourt, in pursanxce of ite re quliretments of eSrotn 25, C hapt er XXII, ci the Gjenerail Statte of the State of' Soth Carolina, do hecteby give pubi'li notice thart an election for Sheriff for Pair. field County. to fill the vacancy in anid iffice, cauwed by t he resilgnation otf.~ . W Dutvnlh, wil ho held on '1 nesday, the twenty-fourtrh day of' August next, at. the u-iuil plaxos of electioxn throughout the said County. Witiess my hand at Winnsboro this 18tu day of suly A . D., 1875. sAMJUBIh 1. CLO~WNElY, July 14-fi8 x5 Clerk of Circuit Court. urey c, Wb II. FSN KE uan (ced, (UIRDINANCE. B it ordained by lie Intendant and Wardens of the Town of Winnsboro in Counoil assembled, and by the authori ty of the same. That any person obstructing the side. walks or crossings of said Town, by rolling hand.oarts wheelbarrows or trucks on said side-walks except in eases of evident necessity shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five dollars for each and every offence. Witness my hand and the coporate seal this 7th Juno A. D. 1876 {L. S. t JNO. A. FRASER, 1 fClerk of Council. P. BACOT, July 9-lw Intendant. Call for Republican Nominating Convention. { OvrcE Co. CHAIRMAN, U. R. PARTY, FaIRrIstL COUNTY, WINNsnoRio, S. C., July 20th, 1876 IN ocordance with the rulo issued by Stato Central Committee, I hereby issue this call for a County Convention for the I urpose of nominating a candidate for the office of Sheriff, to fill the unexpired term caused by the resignation of L. W. Duvall, Esq., to ho held at Vinsboro Court house on Monday, 16th day of Au.'gst inst. next, at 12 o'clock, M. Chair. men of Precincts are ordered to call meetings of the voters in their respective precinots for the purpose of electing dolo gat.,s to said C'nvention, on Saturday, 14th ..ay of August. next, at 8 o'clock p. m.. at or as near as practicable the usual voting place. 'iho following number of delegates will be elected from each pre cinct viz : Winnsboro, 18 Monticello, 11 lRidgeway 10 Feastorvillo, Yonguesville, 0 Horeb, 0 Gladden's, Grove, 5 Doko, 4 Jenkinsville, 4 Killingsworth, 4 76 DANIEL BIRD, Chairman U. R. Party, F. C. July 22'.2w Election for Sheriff. TliE following managers will condue6 the election for Sheriff of this County, to be held on Tuesday the 24th day of August next iu the following pre Dinets. JENKINaVILLE. Jas K Rabb, 8 J 8wygart and Geo. Burns. MONTIOELLO. R T Yarborough, Jas K Davis and W H Trapp. PRASTERVILLu. C W Faucett, Jno A F Coleman and James Carter. YOUNGUsVILLR. John McLurkin, Calvin Bae and Thos. Dowitt. OLADDEcN's oioUtt Jas A McCrorey, Jas L Richmond and Strother Ford. Dun hAMs. Lewis W ardlaw, IV 11 Yongue and Wm. Boulware. WINxsnono. T R Robertson, T W tabb and Jno. D, Smart. RIbOxwAr' ,, Jno A Desportos, Ilowell Edmunds and Douglass Fox. non~ux onunar. R II Jennings, Jno IV Robinson and Ranl. Simpson. DoK0O. J IV Stains, Moses Baker and Henry Smith. Fairfield Court llouse, this the 27th day of Ju y 1875. JAS. II. RION. (IFEOE ii0IY. CommissIoners of Election for Fair. field Coutnty. SJuly 29xJtI Charlotte, Coluntbia, & Atugusta Rail Road. wil be run over this foa.1 on and aft, this dato: TntAIN---oIUG oNOil Leave Augusta, at. f.80 a ta " Columbia, 8, 0., 2 46 a m '' Winansbioro, 4.58 pmt " Chester, 6.84 r ms Arrive at Charlotte, N4. d. 9.00 r an inRAIN---00ad0t costil Leave Charlotte, N C. at 8.80 a in '' Chest er, 11'.2 a mn *' Wannsbhoro, 12.88 p tm " Columbia, 2.62 p us Artrive at Auguseta 8 05 p JAS. ANDER~I CON, Oen'J Supt. A.l'O P'E, Gen. Passenger andi Ticket Agent: NEW GOODS I 60 pala's of trade~ ('hains and flames. Back Banda'. Cotton and Manila Rope for plowing. Well i( p0. L. Hi Rhovels ~a I anutre forks, Tuba and Buckets, Nails and Axon, (Cottons Cards, Iland 8aws, Padlocks, Sad Irons, C.~offsieM.Jle, Looks, P'erogq. in Capi, 1 Taeoe PrIme Carolina Rice. 26 Barrels assorted Eating and-Planting pot atoce. ror Sate low for Cash. BY Behatyv. Bra%Sni