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Scraps and .farts.
? Cotton seed oil is superceding olive oil to 1
such an extent in Italy that the government j
is taking measures to prevent its importation.
Italian vessels take cargoes from New Orleans
to Italy, where it is manipulated, labeled and
sent back to this country as olive oil.
? A woman in prison next to the cell of two
horse thieves, furnished them with the means
of escape, by surreptitiously conveying to them j
ribbons of steel from her corset, with which
they made saws. Their design was thwarted j
and they betrayed the woman's secret which was
to have given them freedom. If this is
not total depravity it is the next thing to it.
? During a circuj performance in Raleigh
on Wednesday of last week, while the tight
rope walker was performing his feats on the
rope, stretched high above in the ring, the
rope brokgand he dropped to the earth. lie
the fall, though he sustained
some very p??nftr^WMirfti8^a rib and one or
two other bones being broken. "
? The New Orleans Price Current of August^'
26th says the crop reports from the Southern
Atlantic States are generally favorable, but
itorfmns nf T.nnisianu "Mississinni Texas and
Alabama complain of too much rain, causing
the Rhedding of bolls and delaying the picking.
Some worms are also mentioned, supposed to
l>e the second crop, but it is thought too late
for much damage.
? The law of England recognizes at last the
right of a married woman in her own property.
The old doctrine of English law was that a
wife was merged in her husband, and except
as part of him could hold no proi>erty of any
kind. Under the Married Women's Property
bill, which was recently enacted by Parliament,
all property belonging or coming to a
married woman will be her separate property
as absolutely as if she were unmarried.
? Little George had been sick, and was consequently
placed on a close diet. Feeling some
better he begged for just one piece of cake.
"Does your head ache ?" asked his mother.
"Xo, mamma." Georgie replied, eagerly, "not
a mite." "Do you feel bad at your stomach ?"
"Xo, I feel first-rate." "Well, then," said
his mother, "1 guess you had better not have
any." Fancy George's feelings and wonder
what would have been the maternal verdict
had his head ached and stomach felt bad.
? Mayor Grace, of Xew York, declares that
if every Democrat in that city should ask him
to accept a renomination and promise to vote
for him he would not consent to be a candidate.
He says the only way in which he
would be willing to continue his work would
be as a citizens' candidate on an Independent
platform. Mayor Grace expresses the opinion,
which is worthy of consideration, that the
sooner the municipal officers are separated
from politics the better it will be for the tax
payers as well as laborers of the city.
? By the prompt occupation of Ismailia and
the Suez Canal, General Wolseley has rather
surprised Arabi Bey, who did not look for the
British in that direction. Ismailia, the halfway
town on the canal between Port Said aiul
Suez, is almost a hundred miles from Cairo,
which appears to be the objective point of the
British campaign. Besides the advantage of
the shorter distance from Ismalia to Cairo,
the malaria of the Nile, which is likely to be
more dangerous to the English soldiers than
to the army of Arabi, will be avoided.
? The stockholders of the Virginia Midland
Railroad Company held a meeting in Winston
last Thursday. It is stated that as a result
of the meeting two million of the bonds of the
company will be issued at once, and that all
the money necessary to complete the road will
be at once available. The Greensboro Patriot
' says there is now no barrier in the way of the
immediate completion of the road, and friends
of the enterprise are sanguine that it will be
done with all the expedition possible. The
outlook is now more assuring than at any
time in the history of the project.
?A polygamous son of Brigham Young, the
Mormon chief, is a Lieutenant at West Point.
He is married and it is said his mother-in-law
will keep him out of polygamy. When his
* father's estate was divided, on being applied
to by the trustees, he replied that he did not
care about quarreling over the matter; that
he had a Profession that would five liim a
living, and that he would take what the others
did not want. So a lot of railroad stock, supposed
to be nearly worthless, was assigned to
him. lie took it, and the development of the
Territory has since made him one of the
richest of the old man's heirs.
? Garland, who was tried in Lunenburg
county, Virginia, for the murder of Addison,
in that so called duel, was acquitted Thursday
afternoon. The jury returned a verdict of
"not guilty" in fifteen minutes. The announcement
of the verdict was received with
cheers by the crowd present, and the prisoner
was warmly congratulated by his friends. He
was evidently acquitted on general principles,
the jury recognizing the right of a man to resent
an insult even to the killing of the insulter.
This is the only ground we see upon
which he could have been acquitted. Garland
has bad his revenge, and vindication as far
as the courts of Lunenburg could give it. Addison
is dead, and the poor, impulsive, thoughtless
girl, whose giddy writing sent two men
to mortal combat, lives to think over and regret
her hasty folly.
? Under date of last Saturday, SergeantGeneral
Hamilton, in his weekly review of the
progress of the yellow fever epidemic in Texas
says: Since the last weekly statement the
epidemic at Brownsville has been somewhat
on the increase, though it still appears to lack
the malignancy that usually accompanies this
disease. During the past-week an effective
cordon has been established by the treasury
department around the infected district and
mounted guards patrol both sides of the RioGrande.
The disease is now confined within
the triangle bounded by the Rio Grande, the
Gulf and the cordon exteuding from Laredc
to Corpus Christi. From teleerranhic advices
received to-day it is learned that the cordon
was established just in time to catch refugees
from the infected districts. Fifty were stopl>ed
between Corpus Christi and Laredo yesterday,
seven of whom were from Tampico,
Mexico.
? An English humanitarian named Tucker,
who has been visiting jails and lunatic asylums
all over the world with credentials 10
State officials, publishes a letter in the Salt
lake Tribune describing the condition of the
Utah insane asylum in terms of strong reprobation.
The details he gives are those of horrible
brutality. The asylum is under the
charge of I)r. Seymour Young, a nephew of
Brigham young. Some of the inmates Tucker
pronounces undoubtedly sane, under confinement
to gratify private ends. Tucker's
visit was made in company with United States
Marshal Ireland and Mr. Neal, of Louisville,
Ky., the father-in-law of Governor Murray.
Tucker closes by saying : "I have during the
last four months visited four asylums in New
South "Wales, three in Victoria, two in Adelaide,
two in Tesmania, three in New Zealand,
one in Honolulu, three in California, one in
Nevada, and one in Utah, and in no instance
have I seen sights so horrible as those of today."
? Judge Jas. DeLong, a prominent citizen of
Kansas, now in New York soliciting funds to
aid the colored refugees in Kansas, gives a sorry
account of their condition. lie estimates I
that 60,000 of these refugees invaded Kansas I
in Clieir exodus from the South several years j
ago, of whom 5,000 returned to their Southern
homes. Of the remaininer 55.000 at, least. 10 - I
000 are represented as being "in various stages
of destitution, some literally starving." In
one county over two hundred families are living
in "dug-outs" unfit for dogs to inhabit on
forty-acre tracts of government land, but utterly
destitute of teams, implements or seeds
for the cultivation of their farms. Judge T>e
Long knows of at least five persons who died
from eating poisonous weeds in the extremity
of their hunger. lie says the county poor j
houses of Kansas are closed against the sufferers,
and that aid is required to "keep these
people from dying dreadful deaths in the coming
winter."
? A fatal shooting affray occurred at Knox-1
ville, Tenn., last .Saturday in which Moses J
Lusby was shot through the breast and in-:
stantly killed and his son Don Lusby through
the body fatally. The shooting was done j
between these two men on one side and Gen. j
.Joseph A. Mabry and his son Joseph A. Mabry, j
Jr., on the other. Don Lusby is the man who j
murdered Wm. C. Mabry, a son of Gen. Mab- j
ry, last Christmas eve. On his trial for niur- j
der the jury disagreed and Don Lusby was released
on bail. Saturday morning Don Lusby !
abused Gen. Mabry on the street and threatened
to kill him. Don was arrested by the j
chief marshal, but resisted arrest. Ilis father 1
attempted to rescue him. He was taken to
the City Hall before the Recorder, Vhere the
chief marshal and policemen attempted to disarm
him. The Mabrys were present as wit-1
nesses and engaged in the scuffle, in which the j
Lusbyswere shot. When killed, Moses law-j
by hail one pistol in his hand and one in his j
pocket; Don Lusby also had two pistols. An !
examination at the coroner's inquest failed to 1
develop who did the shooting. The Mabrys !
gave themselves up and gave bail.
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THE ALABAMA PLOT.
A dispatch from Meridian, Miss., to the
Xew Orleans 'rimes-Democrat after giving
substantially the same account of the plot
of the negroes to murder the white people of
Choctaw county, Alabama, and of the arrest of
the ringleaders, as published in the Enquirer
last week, furnishes the following additional
information in regard to the means employed
to secure a disclosure of the details of the
plot :
On Saturday morning Secretary Bonner was
taken from the jail by the whites and interrogated,
and notwithstanding the proof was
conclusive against him, he denied all knowledge
of the conspiracy and affirmed with
Christian-like sincerety his innocence. lie
was tied up by the toes, while Rev. Limon
was brought out to tell what he knew. He
didn't know anything at first, but under the
refreshing and persuasive influence of the
lash, applied vigorously to his bared back, he
remembered and told a great many things.
When the minutes were read to him he admitted
that lie had heard them read twice
before in the meeting ; that he knew the conspiracy
existed ; that it was the intention of
the negroes to kill the ]>eople, take possession
of the county and make Gen. Jack Turner
ruler, but that he had nothing to do with it.
He admitted that he had been carrying the
call around and getting the negroes to join,
and that when arrested he was on his last
round, and that he was paid fifty cents a day
for his services. He could not be whipped
into telling where the books and other papers
of the organization were kept. He denied all
knowledge of their whereabouts; said he knew
they existed, but did not know where they
were kept. lie said that one of the negroes
asked in the jail the night before if the white
l>eople had found the books and other papers,
and that Jack Turner spoke up and said :
"No, they are not quite that d?d smart."
After this admission_ and other conclusive
proofs against him it was unanimously agreed
among the whites that "Gen. Jack Turner
ought to swing." So accordingly he was taken
from the jail, and between the hours of 12
and 1 o'clock in the broad open light of the
day' he was hanged to the liinb of a tree on
the main street of the town. There was a
strong inclination manifested on the part of
the people to hang the other six, but older
and cooler counsel prevailed, and they were
spared. It is said the people were as quiet
and cool as people well could be under the
circumstances, and the execution of Turner!
was as deliberate as if done under the forms j
of law. All is quiet now, and no further J
trouble is likely to occur.
It is said of Turner that he attempted to
head an uprising of the lawless element of his
race some eight or nine years ago. Turner and
his mob armed themselves to attack the town
of Butler, when the whites heard of their impending
danger and turned out in force to
protect their homes. The outlaws were dispersed
and so badly frightened that people
took it for granted they would abandon their
hostile designs. Under the circumstances it
is not surprising that Turner fell into the
hands of the lynchers.
STATE POLITICAL ITEMS.
? There are eleven legislative candidates before
the Laurens primary election.
? The Newberry Republicans have called a
convention to elect delegates to the State Convention
and to the Congressional Convention.
? Edgetield is solidly Democratic. The Advertiser
doubts if a half dozen Independents or
Greenbackers could be found in the county.
? Col. John I). Wylie, of Lancaster, declines
to be a candidate for a second term in the
State Senate.
? The Columbia Register says Senator Hampton
has fully determined not to serve another
term in the Senate.
? On Friday last the Democrats of the Third
Congressional district renominated D. Wyatt
Aiken for Congress by acclamation.
? The State political canvass opens to-day
in Anderson. Besides the Democratic nominees
on the State ticket, several prominent
speakers from other States are expected to assist
at the inauguration of the canvass.
? E. W. M. Mackey, has abandoned the Republicans
of the First Congressional district,
and seeks election from the Seventh. He has
as opponents Samuel Lee, of Sumter, and Robert
Smalls, of Beaufort, both colored.
? Judge .Mackey declines to divide time with
the Democrats. He has served written notice
on "the Chester County Chairman that any interference
by the "usual Democratic methods"
will be resisted by force, if necessary, or pros
ecuted in the United States Courts.
? Smalls doesn't like the idea of the Republicans
advocating the doctrine of representation
by intelligent men. A young Republican \
who was so unfortunate as to advocate sueh
views at a mass meeting, received violence
from the colored Congressman. This assault
was made upon T. J. Reynolds at St. Helena
Saturday, August 19th.
? The Democratic primary election for Union
county, held last Friday, resulted in the
following choice : For Senator, William Munro.
Legislators, C. C. C'ulp, Colonel J. G. McKissick
and John R. M inter. Probate JudgeDavid
Johnson, Jr. School Commissioner,
Major D. A. Townsend. County Commissioners,
C. C. Sartor, Gilmer C. Greer aud Rev.
Sydney Gault. County Treasurer, Captain
mi ru A iir i\r
J.UUU1(IS VyUIlltU. illiuuin, IV. IV. -IIU^UCD.
The election was an exciting one, there being
no less than thirty-live candidates in the field.
? The Baltimore Day makes this point: "Of
the 90,000 men (mostly colored) who voted for
Chamlierlain not 5,000 could vote if they lived
in Rhode Island. Nearly if not quite nine out
of ten would he disfranchised under the suffrage
laws peculiar to the bailiwick over which
Senator Anthony is, as near as may be, the
presiding officer. If the statutes of Rhode Is-!
land on this subject were transplanted to South j
Carolina the Democratic majority in the lat- j
ter commonwealth would be at least 75,000, ]
and counties where the adult negro males ex-,
ceed the whites twenty to one would go large- [
ly Democratic." And yet Rhode Island is
constantly turning up the whites of its sanctimonious
eyes at South Carolina. The disfranchised
Rhode Islanders are white men. I
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Governor Hagood is spoken of as President
of the French Broad Valley Railroad.
? Col. K. B. C. Cash is recruiting at 'Glenn
Springs. ?
There are at present 543 inmates in the
State Lunatic Asylum.
? Allen Gale, a colored well digger, was suffocated
by foul air while cleaning out a well
in Chester hist Thursday.
? The Georgetown rice planters are jubilant
over the prospects of a fine crop. The harvesting
will begin in about a week.
? Charles Glover, a notorious thief of Orangeburg,
was shot and killed while attempting to
escape from a posse carrying him to trial.
? The new city council of Anderson has
granted retail liquor licenses to seven barkeepers.
? Orangeburg is working for a graded school,
Professor It. Means Davis has visited them
and helped them in their good work.
? The next joint summer meeting of the
South Carolina Agricultural Society and State
Grange will be held at Marion.
? Mr. C. P Pelham, a young lawyer, on
i t i ?- i-t-, TT o Tvf.i-.; _a. n 4
iriai last wet'K in ine u. r>. jjiairicv v/ii(iit<n
Greenville, charged with purloining a letter
from the Lancaster post-office, was acquitted.
? The Darlington News of August 24th
mentions that.Dr. J. TC. Byrd has introduced
the sea island cotton into that section of the
^ftrtesi^th ,nost satisfactory results.
? Mr7l>Tifvvf>hifer,s large stable and barn
were burned at^fe^berry on the 20th instant.
All the hay and fodHer was destroyed. The
stock was saved witfr*#rpat difficulty. The
fire originated from a parfJSof gamblers.
? Joe Haines murdered E^f^jest Scott on
account of a difficulty about aSh?g* They
were both colored residents of PnTfc Grove
Township, Orangeburg county. IIaine!SSi?a
desperate character and is at large. ^
? The executive committee of the lioard of
trustees of the State University have authorized
the Faculty to elect a chairman to act as
president of the institution until the office
can be filled permanently.
? Rev. W. M. Grier, D. D., and General Stephen
D. Lee, are spoken of in connection with
the Presidency of the South Carolina University.
There will lie no election until the regular
meeting of the Board of Trustees in 1 December.
? Says the Register: Columbia possesses a
musical prodigy in the person of Prof. Plate's
eleven year old daughter, Edith. She is one
of the most wonderful pianists of her age living,
being able to play the most recondite
compositions of Mendelssohn and Beethoven
with accuracy and expression. She has a
bright future before her.
? Says the Lancaster Ledger of Saturday :
A party of disguised colored men went to
the house of George Burgess also colored, one
night last week, took him out in the woods
and whipped him so severe that he was unable to
walk for several days. George is an industrious
man, quiet and inoffensive. No cause is
assigned for the cowardly act.
? U. B. Whites, the defaulting and absconding
treasurer of Newberry county, was arrested
in Alabama, and is now in Newberry jail.
Ilis account is short some seven or eight thousand
dollars. lie claims immunity on the
ground that he has always been a good Democrat
and a hard worker for the party. Whisky
and cards brought him to his present
trouble.
? On Saturday of last week, says the Chester
Bulletin, Matt McKelry and Giles Faucette,
both colored, caught two sturgeons in Sandy
river, one weighing 129 pounds and measuring
seven feet in length, the other four feec in
length and weighing 60 pounds. They were
caught on Mr. Andy Crosby's place in water
about 3 feet deep. They were caught in a
hand-to-hand struggle.
? Says the Kershaw Gazette, August 24th :
From 1800 to 1802?a period of seventeen
years?there have been fifteen murder cases
tried in Kershaw county. Of this number nine
were acquitted of murder, of which latter number
three were found guilty of manslaughter.
Six were found guilty of murder and sentenced
to be hung. Two of these six convicts
escaped punishment; three had their sentences
commuted to imprisonment for life,
while only one was hung.
? The fifteenth volume of South Carolina
Supreme Court reports is just out. It contains
sixteen cases. Of these Judge Wallace
had 9 affirmed, 1 reversed and 1 partly reversed
and affirmed. Judge Aldrich had 1 affirmed
and 2 reversed. Judge Mackey had 4 affirmed,
J reversed and 1 partly reversed and
affirmed. Judge Kershaw had 2 affirmed and
two reversed. J udge Pressley had 5 affirmed,
4 reversed and 1 partly reversed and affirmed.
Judge Fraser had 2 affirmed and 1 reversed.
Judge Hudson had 9 affirmed and 2 reversed.
In one of Judge Hudson's reversed cases the
opinion was rendered by a Circuit Judge, and
was dissented from by the Chief Justice; in
the other the oninion was rendered by a Cir
cuit Judge and was concurred in by a Circuit
Judge.
? Miss Iiochella Blair, third daughter of
the late Col. L. W. R. Blair, aged 18 years,
went into the lot at her home in Kershaw
county, about 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning
of hist week, to milk a cow. After milking
she sent the milk back to the house by her
younger sister and wandered off into the
woods. She did not return, but was found
about half past 10 in a gully, near the base of
a very high hill near Col. Blair's house. When
the young lady was found life was extinct, but
her body was not cold. It was supposed at
first that she had taken a fit, to which she was
subject, and had fallen in the gully, but it
subsequently transpires that a bottle of strychnine
was found .upon her person when the
body was removed to the house. The jury of
inquest found that the deceased came to her
death by taking- strychnine with her own
hands.
? The Columbia correspondent of the Charleston
News and Courier writes to that paper
under date of last Sunday : A horrible murder
occurred last Friday night on the plantation of
Mr. Feaster Lyles, near Buckhead Postoftice,
in Fairfield county. Two negroes, brothers,
Bob and "Sic," (their surnames cannot be ascertained
in Columbia,) became involved in a
dispute about a watermelon, when Bob seized a
shot-gun and fired upon his brother with fatal
effect. The gun was loaded with slugs and
the whole charge struck "Sic" in the face and
head, completely tearing away his chin, one
eve and his nose. The wounded man lived
about an hour. Bob claimed that the shooting
was accidental, but the general belief is
that he intended to kill his brother and fired
upon him with murderous intent. Trial Justice
Evans was summoned and held an inquest
over the body yesterday, but with what result
is not yet known.
? J. B. Lathan, J. S. Withers and J. H. Hamilton,
members of the grand jury of Chester
county,'who were apj minted by Judge Wallace
as a committee to examine the books and accounts
of ex-Auditor J. M. Brawley, and exTreasurer
Julius Mills, together with Winthrop
Williams, from the Comptroller-Gener
ill's office its expert, have completed tneir examination,
and made a report which is addressed
to the presiding Judge of the Court of
Sessions of Chester county. The committee
reports that Mr. Mills is due the State and
county for 1878-71), 57,4:50.00-5; for 1879-80,
$4,100.20-2; making a total of 11,590.20-8.
According to the report there was as much
crookedness in the office of the auditor as
in the treasurer's office, the^ crookedness of
hotli leaning the same way. The case will
come up before Judge Witherspoon at the
next term of the court for Chester county,
when the proper proceedings will be instituted
and the matter sifted to the bottom. It is
understood that Maj. Mills is not satisfied
with the findings of the committee and that
he will contest the matter in the courts. \
STATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.
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8TIRRISO ADDRESS TO THE DEMOCRATIC I
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Columbia, S. C., August 15, 1882. j
Fellow-citizens : The candidates nominated
by the State Democratic Convention at Col- t
umbia are worthy of the support of the whole i
people. No other political body will, or can, \
present to you candidates for State offices who 1
have equal claims to your confidence. The
Democracy of South Carolina have received
the nominations with unfeigned satisfaction,
and are determined to elect their candidates. *
if will he sin unmixed blessim? to the State. C
however, if there shall be a truce to political
strife, and honest men, with honest purpose
and without regard to their political associations
in the past, unite in voting for the up- t
right, capable and faithful candidates who are v
now before the people. The Democracy cannot
be expected to continue to load themselves
down with taxation for the benefit of their
former opponents, if these persist in preferring s
lK)litical tramps or imported vagabonds to j
Carolinians of proved worth and acknowledged
merit. ^
The principles declared by the State Convention
as formulating the objects and intentions
of the Democratic party are intelligible, liberal
and progressive. They look to the preservation
of Honest Home Rule as the paramount v
need of good citizens of every condition in life,
and they pledge to all the people the just ad- e
ministration of equal lwv-4,,und economy with,
efficiency in the conduct of the Government.
In the broader arena of National affairs the
South Carolina Democracy stand pledged to r
the reform of the tariff system, so as to lessen f
the burdens on the people, and to the reform Q
of the civil service as a means of purifying politics.
When the political workers shall no longer ^
"have a hundred thousand Federal offices as a t
lurS^Uid bait for their hungry dependents, the t
poweroTttpmbi nations of unscrupulous politiwin
tVootareillv be broken, and for every
candidate witlnn. his party, there will be a
fair field and no faV9T- The Democracy de- a
mand likewise that the^Federal Government, I
by liberal appropriations' fppm the treasury for p
educational purposes, help tilie Southern States ^
to convert the present and rising generation ,
of freedmen into intelligent >WHL.l?sponsible
citizens. In all things the South CaroftRaPe- '
mocracy solemnly bind themselves, bef&Pfc, t
their fellow-countrymen, to pursue that public T
l>olicy which will make the whole people cpn- e
tent, by securing their rights, guarding their
privileges and fostering their growing prosperity.
The State Executive Committee remind r
their Democratic fellow-citizens that, while
the control of South Carolina has l>een won by
the party, and with that control has come the a
intelligent administration of governmental af- v
fairs and peace in every Carolina home, the t
l>ower of the Democracy can only be maintained
and consolidated by eternal vigilance and ^
untiring effort. The Democracy are not so ,
strong that they can afford to disagree or divide.
Disunion now would be as perilous as "
in the historic campaign six years ago, when I
the State was wrested from the grasp of the c
ignorant and corrupt. Toleration there should
be within the party lines. There is ample
scope and verge there for the assertion of individual
views and opinions. But those who j
abandon the party or oppose it, because the ^
measures they prefer have not been adopted,
make themselves the enemies of good govern- \
ment, whether they choose to masquerade as I
Independents or boldly flaunt the black flag of I
the Republican party. Political solidarity is
as important as ever before, and there is less f
excuse than in any previous canvass for dis- a
content and desertion. Opposition to the
Democratic candidates and the Democratic c
platform, in this campaign, must be taken as t
proof of invincible ignorance, or of greed and
ambition that would sacrifice the brightest
hopes of the State for the gratification of personal
desires. o
The State Committee earnestly urge their a
fellow-Democrats to exert themselves to the ?
utmost to bring out a full vote, and to spare no "
pains to swell the ranks of the colored Democ- 1
racy. By well-considered laws, repeating and r
ballot-box stuffing are alike guarded against. I
The Democracy, therefore, can go into the I
canvass with the assurance that the strength t
of the opposition will not be increased by ^
trickery or fraud, aud with the satisfaction
of knowing that, in South Carolina, there shall
be, beyond dispute, a free and fair election. I
By personal exertion, in exinomng ana ex- a
plaining to individual voters the benefits and s
blessings of Democratic rule, the Democracy 0
can command the intelligent support and continuing
co-operation of the colored people. 0
To this end no labor, no persuasion, no argu- a
ment should be spared. So will the Democra- I
cy be proud of the triumph they shall enjoy, as
the lawful and legitimate result of just administration,
wise nominations, liberal principles,
and systematic and unflagging work, t
This we owe to the State, and we owe it to the (
traditions of the master-race to which we be- s
long. Victor}' we must have ; and Honor with y
Victory.
James F. Izlar, Chairman.
G. D. Bryan, Wm. Munro,
J. Otey Reed, It. P. Todd, 1
G. W Croft, Wilie Jones, t
Jno. B. Erwin, Giles J. Patterson, v
D. P. Sojourner, T. Stobo Farrow, ^
C. J. C.-Hutson, Jno. W. Williams, .
v. u a aijv J. F. Rhame.
Geo. Johnstone, J. D. McLuc/as, a
E. B. Murray, Wm. Elliott, h
clias. 8. slnkler, Jos. H. EaRLE, I
F. W. Dawson. t
ME RE-MENTION. 3
The Erie Railroad Company's elevator at ^
Buffalo, X. Y., was destroyed by fire last
Friday. The building was worth $250,000 and v
contained grain to the value of $100,000. ?At
Madison, Florida, last Friday, two negro prisoners
to whom had been granted a new trial
on the charge of murder, were assassinated >while
on board a train, and riddled with
bullets. The Arizona express robbers, C
three in number were captured last week and c
two of them immediately lynched. The other c
was spared for trial. A ravisher was
hanged at Newcastle, Delaware, last Fri- c
day. Over one hundred women are on I
trial at Gross Beslierck, Hungary, charged with C
poisoning their husbands. The guilt of thirty- ^
five of them has been proven. By heavy
rains last week in Texas, the Concho river 1
was so swollen as to inundate the towns of t
San Angelos and Benficklin. Houses, hotels o
and stores were washed away and the people ii
were compelled to flee to the hills. In li
spite of the rather favorable outlook, we are
told that the stock on hand is so low that n
there are grave fears of a corn famine before G
the new crop is ripe for use. Southern far- o
mers are in luck this year. By proclama- f<
tion of the Governor of Georgia to-day will l>e a
observed as a day of thanksgiving in that
State. A fatal epidemic of typhoid fever J
at a New England hotel has been traced to ice li
taken from a contaminated pond. The com- tl
monly conceived idea that all such ice is J
purified cannot be maintained. During ?
an altercation over the liquor question in Shiloh,
Ohio, last Friday, a preacher was stabbed
by a liquor dealer. Crop reports from the 81
South Atlantic States are favorable; but from f<
parts of the Gulf States there is complaint of S
too much rain. Com, for October deliv- ei
ery, is selling at Corinth, Miss., at 33$ cents jt
per bushel. A heavy rain or waterspout, d
near Stephenville, Texas, on the 24th instant,
destroyed property to the amount of one hun- '
dred thousand dollars.?An aged Arkansas o:
darkey thus pictures his ideal heaven : "My b
idea of de better worl is whar dar is a election p
goin' on all de time, case den de white i Jks ^
I nAHli/vKf \fr Tauon Pnacor
13 (lllCin pCUIglil. 1U1 XUUUV A.VVCOUI ) I ?
formerly of Camden, S. C., was killed in a J
railroad accident in Texas on the 7th in- P
stant. ? There were forty-six new cases of ai
yellow fever at Brownsville, Texas, on Mon-1
day, and three deaths. ' j);
Dr. Bliss has written a letter to the board "
of audit, appointed to settle the expenses of F
the illness of the late President, setting forth ic
in detail his claims for compensation. He says oi
his pecuniary losses during the time he at- g(
tended the President and during his subsequent
ill healt h caused by over-exertion amount- ?
ed to ?15,000, and he thinks he should receive "
as compensation for losses and services to t{
the late President $25,000. ! tl
I.OCAL A7FAZES. ?
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Vithers Adickes?Some Things Seldom Kept. el
t. D. Galbraith, Spartanburg, S. C.?Confederate *1
Bonds Wanted. 11
linger Manufacturing Compauy?Wanted. 111
\ H. Mulially, D. D., President?Adger College. c<
1. F. Briggs?Defiance Wheat. ..
jatta Brothers?Coming Season?Coffee, Coffee? 1
Flour?Mackerel?Hardware?Bagging and S(
Ties?Love in a Puff. C(
)obson <fe Parish?Hardware, Hardware?Wanted.
ai
lolcock, Miller A Co.?We Would Respectfully ol
Announce. a,
?. M. Dobson?Emporium of Fashion,
lunter, Oates A Co.?Dissolution.
Villiford A Glenn?Feed and Sale Stables,
lerndon Brothers?Wanted. g.
.NO SERVICES NEXT SUNDAY. ti
On account of the absence of the several pas- to
ors there will be no services in any of the A
hurches in town next Sunday. "V
4,
COUNTY CANVASS.
The county canvass opens at Hickory Grove
o-day. We suppose all the county candidates ^
vill meet their fellow citizens then and there. a]
POSTPONEMENT.
At the request of Precinct Chairman Wil- ^
on, the joint meeting heretofore advertised at
lock Hill on the 8th of September has been ^
ostponed to September 10th. p
FINE FRUIT.
Sheriff Glenn has favored us with a twig jf
ontaining eleven finely developed apples of a ti
winter variety. T
T. J. Bell, Esq., has our thanks for a bask- 84
t of fine peaches from his famous orchard. ^
CHESTER PRIMARY. if
The Chester primary election last Monday ^
esulted in favor of Hon. Giles J. Patterson
or Senator, and R. T. Mockbee for the House
f Representatives. No other Representatives
rere chosen, and another election will have to
>e held for those offices. We have not learned
he result as to county officers.
GOVERNOR'S DAY. P1
In another column will be found a stirring 1)(
ddress from County Chairman Glenn to the !l!
)emocrats of York, notifying them of the ap- ai
ointment of the State canvassers to address e:
he people of York county at Yorkville, on hi
Wednesday, the 13th of September. We hope tl
here will be a full turnout of the people on b
hat day. The County Chairman and Execu- n
fv^ommittee will make every preparation to p
nsureV^rand success. tl
GONE NORTH. ^
Mr. T. M. Hobson-atMed to the Northern 1
narkets last Monday for the pnt'iiose of makng
his purchases for the fall trade. He was ^
ccompanied by Mrs. Dobson, whose fine taste
1.511 ovofniuod iti Hio nf rrnnils fnr
111. UV/ VAUiVirn/U "* W,,v "V.vv/v.v.. vt ?"VV,W fj
lie millinery department of his stock.
We understand from our merchants that 0
hey are ail preparing to lay in large stocks for
he fall and winter trade, and that they are
letermined to sell goods cheaper than they can Cl
te bought in any market of the surrounding
ountry. 1
THE SMALL GRAIN CROP.
We have received reports from the follow- //<
ng threshermen as to the amount of grain is
hreshed by them the past season : s:
Wheat. Oat*.
i\ H. Dover, 4.575 2,500
N. Cuip, 4,180 8,000
Inll & Brian 4,000 3,000 h
We would be obliged to other tlu shermen v
or prompt reports of their operi^tio??} Let us o
iscertain as nearly as possible the ?ofol amount p;
if .wheat and oats produced by\,he county in tl
he harvest of 1882. s<
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS.
At the competitive examinations in Chester
in Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, of
pplicants for cadetship from this Congresional
district to the naval school at Annapo- Q
is and the West Point Military Academy, the
laval cadetship was awarded to Crandall
rfackey, son of ex-Judge Mackey. The West
'oint cadetship is yet undecided. The comaittee
of examination consisted of Col. A.
toward, Col. J. H. Rion and Dr. Babcock. ^
Four applicants from this county appeared
?efore the board of examiners hist Tuesday for
Emission to the Citadel Academy. The two
uccessful candidates were Mclver Law, son
f Gen. E. M. Law, and Willie Robertson, son
" ?? /-> T 1-..I ? mi,? m
I Mrs. V^. J. IVUUClLauil. j. no uuaiu ui c.\miners
consisted of Col. A. Coward, Rev.,R. ^
.athan and Dr. J. It. Bratton. ^
PAINFUL ACCIDENT.
"We regret to learn that a painful accident
lefell Rev. R. P. Franks, pastor of the M. E. t}
Jhuich at this place, on Friday, the 18th in- w
tant. He, in company with Master George ^
Valker, had been on a visit to Lowndesville,
n Abbeville county, and on the day in ques- y
ion had started on their return to Yorkville. ^
Ifter proceeding about five miles, the mule Q|
hey were driving became frightened at a cow
rhich made its appearance at a sudden bend of
he road, and whirling around nearly upset
he buggy, throwing Mr. Franks to the ground,
nd dragging him some thirty feet, before he ir
ecame extricated from the wheels. Mr. hi
Franks was badly bruised and it was feared t?
hat some bones were broken. He was too
eriously injured to admit of attempting to A
eturn home, and was taken to the house of H
Jr. Suber near the scene of the occurrence, ^
w
rhere he received medical and other attention. pj
?? h
GENERAL POLITICAL NOTES.
? Of the 410 delegates to the Republican q
Itate Convention of Texas, 250 were colored. }1(
? The Renublicans cannot control the next >'
Jongress without gains in the South. They te
annot expect such gains except by aid and r(
omfort of Independents. k'
?Hannibal C. darter, a colored man of eduation,
has entered the field as an Independent a|
tepublican candidate for Congress, against tl
Jhalmers, white Republican, in the Second P
lississippi district.
? The Hon. John F. Miller, of Gonzales,
?exas, who was nominated for Congress on Qf
he 19th inst. by the Democratic Convention hi
f the Eighth District of that State, was born 0
ti Winnsboro', Fairfield county, South Caro- P
ina, August 1,1832.
? The Kansas Greenback Convention, which j
aet at Topeka last Friday, nominated ex- ti
Governor Charles Robinson, the first Governor d<
f Kansas, for Govei nor. One of the nominees tl
ir Congressman at large is Allen "Williams,
colored-man.
? At Selma, Ala., last Friday, John W. ^
ones, colored, was nominated by the Repub- tl
can Convention of the Fourth District for
lie vacancy in the present Congress, and ex- P
udge George H. Craig for the Forty-eighth !l|
.'ongress. ^
? Gen. Gordon is spoken of as the probable a,
accessor of Senator Hill. There is a strong ul
ieling, however, in favor of Alexander H. al
tephens, and should he be elected to the Gov- 89
rnorship of Georgia, there is no doubt that w
e will be an important and formidable candiate.
? Says the Mobile Register : The Republicans tl
f South Carolina are to fuse with the Green- hi
ackers; in North Carolina, with the anti- P.
'rohibitionists; in Indiana with the Prohi- fc
itionists ; in Virginia, with the Repudiation- ar
its; in Tennessee, with the State Credit peole;
iu Arkansas with the Low Tax party, hf
nd in Georgia and Texas, with the Inde- w
endents. Certainly, a party of most elastic
rinciples. ]
? Without the assistance or tne coiorea vote, fr
ennsylvania would be comfortably Democrat- hi
: on a square party issue. In Altoona, a col- ar
red man, as the champion of his people, T1
>ught a Legislative nomination. He receiv
1 19 votes out of 129 in the Convention. 0?
mother colored delegate was refused admit- sfc(
ince to the Convention. The colored voters tv
ireatened to go over to the Democracy, but I of
leir Republican white bosses laugh at their 1
retense. ^
? In view of the assessments on government *
nployes in Washington for political purposes, ^
le New York Times says: The spectacle j
t>w presented at Washington is that of a \
immittee of Congressmen drawing an elecon
fund for Congressmen's campaign expen- J
is directly from the public treasury. Such a
ambination of usurpation, petty despotism ]
ad corruption is enough to make the founders }
f the government turn in their graves. Im- c
?ine James Madison in the role of Jay Ilub- i
sll! J
? On the 7th of November nearly all of the
tates hold their Congressional and State elecons.
The exceptions are : Maine, Septem- c
er 11 ; Ohio and West Virginia, October 10. i
.vkansas will elect State officers September 4; t
rermont, September 5, and Georgia October j
, These three Statos will elect Congressmen (
n the 7th of November. The next State elec- (
on will not occur in Louisiana until April, j
384. Oregon is the only State that has held 1
n election for the next Congress. State offi*rs
were elected in Rhode Island April 5 ;
.labama, August 7, and Kentucky, August 6.
? In the Michigan State Democratic Con venon
the proposition for fusion with the Greenackers
carried by a large majority. By this
roposition the State ticket will be divided betveen
the two parties as follows : The Greenackers
to have governor, commissioner of
md office, superintendent of public instrucon
and a member of tire board of education,
'he Democrats will have lieutenant-governor,
jcretary of state, state treasurer and auditoreneral.
The opposition fought vigorously to
?cure a democratic head of the ticket, but it
i understood it wohld not lie accepted by the
rreenbaokers.
TO THE YORITDEMOCRACY.
AX ADDRESS FROM THE DEMOCRATIC
COUNTY CHAIRMAN.
To the Citizens of York County It is proDsed
by the Democratic party to manage
olitical campaigns so as to entail on the
eople only such trouble as is necessary. As far
3 your county is concerned, the Articles
:lopted by your last Convention evidence an
tperiment in that direction. Those Articles
owever, recognize distinctly the fact that
le power of selection is, and of right ought to
e, with the people. As its guardians, then,
ever forget that "eternal vigilance is the
rice of liberty." Imbued with that spirit,
le desire will ever remain with you to see,
ice to face, those to whom it is proposed to
arnrnit trusts of vital importance to you as a
eople, and to your children after you.
And now on the l.'ith day of next month, at '
'orkville, the next Governor of South Carolina J
nd his associates on the State Democratic ]
icket come to greet you! What percentage (
f the 5,500 voters of York county, their wives, i
mthers, sisters, daughters and sweethearts, i
dll be here to bid them welcome, thrice wel- 1
1 ]
me ? 1 look to see, on that day, such a ^
athering as will demonstrate to our dis- j
inguished visitors that we rightly value the |
*uit of the hard-fought battle of 187G ! ]
Colored men ! Hugh S. Thompson has been 1
our friend! He is still your friend ! I cher- !
ill the hope that you are not ungrateful. I j
ly to you, come ! and join in welcoming him j
) the hills of York !
I desire that the voters at each precinct
ave a sash to distinguish them from the 1
oters of other precincts?a sash at least four J
r five inches in width, and long enough to ,
ass over the right shoulder, be fastened at ]
ae left side and reach to the knees. I prejribe
these colors : '
Bethany?Light brown, lined with green. J
Bethel?Red, lined with white.
Black's Station?Black, lined with red.
Blairsville?Black, lined with green. 1
Buffalo?Dark brown, lined with red.
Bullock's Creek?Dark green, lined with <
range. j
Clark's Fork?White, lined with green.
Clay Hill?Orange, lined with green. ^
Clover?Light green, lined with pink. I
Coat s' Tavern?Orange, lined with red.
Fort Mill?Light blue, lined with white.
Hickory Grove?Dark blue, lined with Carinal
red.
McConnellsville?Fink, lined with gray. ;
\r;il Uo/1 lino/1 nrifli lilliu 1
iJlU JJin UO O aUJU llii^U TT1U11 K/A 14
liock Hill?Gray, lined with pink. ,
Yorkville?White lined with blue.
A rosette, three or four inches in diameter, (
.ade out of the lining, must also be worn on 1
le sash, where it passes over the right shoul- '<
er. Merchants in the vicinity of the pre- *
iiicts are respectfully requested to have the I
roper colors in stock in solid calico. ,
A "precinct meeting" has been fixed for i
le Oth of September. At that meeting you c
ill elect a Captain. I request that the mem- 1
jrs of the Executive Committee be not elected *
s Captains. I regard them as my assistants,
'ou will also fix the place of rendezvous and j
le hour for starting therefrom for Yorkville ]
a Governor's Day. f am, respectfully, &c., It.
H. Glenn, County Chairman. e
EXECUTION*"VT AIKEN. '
Robert Parker, white, convicted of poison- f
* - * ___ in. AO?a i ?i. T\ ? r.
lg 1113 wue oil me zoru 01 mssu x/eveuiuer, won c
anged at Aiken last Friday. The circum- c
tnces of the crime are detailed as follows: f
Parker cultivated a small tract of land in '
.iken county, which he rented from Mrs. J
[arriet II. Bates, a widow about thirty-five ?
:;ars of age. "When seventeen years old he ^
as married to a woman of thirty-seven or t
ght, but they lived happily together until
is attentions to Mrs. Bates provoked the jealosy
of his wife. Early in December last
arker purchased from lluss & Stothard, of
raniteville, four grains of strychnine which
b said he wanted to poison dogs. On the
Id of December, some time during the af rnoon,
Mrs. Parker was found lying in the J
>ad between her own house and that of her r
rother-in-law, Townsend Parker, who lived c
;ily a short distance off. She was carried to <
ownsend Parker's house and died shortly s
:ter twelve o'clock. At the inquest held on t
le :24th, by Trial Justice Agnew, Mrs. Sarah c
arker, wife of Townsend Parker, reluctantly i
istified, after repeated questioning, that her {
ster-in-law said when she was brought into c
ie house "I am poisoned." "Who did it?"
tid Mrs. Townsend Parker. "Robert did it, \
3 gave it to me in some whisky and sugar." ,
n the main trial, however Mrs. Townsend c
arker's evidence on this point was somewhat v
ifferent, and all of it in reference to the dying a
jclarations, was ruled out. The jury at the
iquest returned the following verdict: We fl
le jury find that the deceased came to her ,
Bath from natural causes, but we recommend
lat the contents of the stomaoh be taken to
iken to be analyzed by Dr. Croft." In ac- c
ndance with the recommendation the conmts
of the stomach were actually carried to a
- - - ~ 1 t* V
iken and then sent to proressor wince, 01
le State University to be analyzed.
On the evening that his wife died Robert s
arker was at a danoe in the neighborhood 1
id an empty bottle labelled strychnine, which '
id dropped from his pocket, was found on c
ie floor where he had been dancing. He was *
rested while riding along the road, by Dep- I
ty Sheriff Luther Holley. Mrs. Rates was d
so arrested, but on the preliminary investi- n
ition which took place a short time after- fi
ards, she was released as there was no testi- 'I
ony which authorized her commitment. She t
said to be a very unprepossessing woman, t
iparently much older than her actual age? F
lirty-five or six. Parker was committed and t;
s trial took place in June last, before Judge jj
razier. He was represented and ably defend
? ^ ej. o- 1 1 n
i Dy uron 00 .L/uiuap anu v^. k/, <juiu<iu, 1^04., r
id the State by Solicitor-General F. H. Gantt j
id Henderson Bros.
The prisoner declared on the trial that he
id purchased the strychnine for Mrs. Bates,
ho told him she wished it to kill rats and r
>gs with. He claimed that his wife had 8
sen poisoned by Mrs. Bates, and that he ll
id nothing to do with it. lie also stated, fl
om the witness stand that he and Mrs. Bates c
id had improper relations with each other, 8i
id that Mrs. Bates was jealous of his wife. Si
tie great sensation on the trial was the testi- ri
ony of Prof. White. Prof. White testified h
at he had found three-quarters of a grain ti
srtychnine in the contents of Mrs. Parker's a
omach, and that there had been time be- tc
feen the taking of the poison and the death ti
the woman for the remainder of the dose to s
lave been absorbed into the system. Prof.
iVhite created a profound impression in the
Anurt room by his lucid manner of giving his
estimony. The jury after hearing all the
;estimony, the argument and the charge of
he Court, retired and returned in a few minites
with a verdict of guilty. The Court then
lentenced Parker to be hung on the 2oth of
\ugust.
After the trial Parker's mother, sixty-five
rears of age, made every effort to obtain a comnutation
of the sentence to imprisonment for
ife. She secured the signatures of three hunIred
and ten persons to a petition to that ef"ect
and carried it to the Governor, but he dedined
to interfere. The names to the peti,ion
included the jury, the sheriff and other
)fficers of the county.
In a recent interview with Parker in his
jell he declared most solemnly that he was innocent.
He said that Mrs. Bates gave him
wenty-fiv? cents to buy the strychnine, that
the slipped the empty bottle in his pocket just
nefore he went to the frolic the night bis wife
lied, and that after he returned from the
lance Mrs. Bates met him and told him that
she had poisoned Mrs. Parker. According to
;his statement of his she told him that she
nad mixed the poison with some sugared whisiy
and sent it over to Mrs. Parker's with inductions
for a little girl there to tell her
vhen she had returned from the spring, where
die had gone after water, that her husband
- - > 1 -*L 21. XI U TT? ?l,?f
liUl ltill/ 11/ 1/liOie 1U1 uci. nc uci/idicu mat/
Deputy Sheriff Holley arrested him a short
;ime afterward, before he could inform any
>ne of her confession to him.
Last week the erection of the gallows in the
ail yard was commenced. Parker asked permission
to assist in its construction, but this
;vas refused. It is thought that his object
vas to seize an axe and sell his life as dearly as
jossible after he got out in the yard.
Last Monday he was carried to the photo- ?\
jraph gallery in Aiken and had his photo- '
jraph taken. ^
Thursday night he slept well and rose early
)n Friday morning. His breakfast was sent
;o him, but he eat very little of it. He dedined
to take a drink of whisky. lie put on
i well laundried shirt, with neat gold stud
juttons in the front, and a full suit of black
aroad-cloth, which he wore on his trial. His
ihoes were new and well blacked. About halfpast
eleven o'clock he was brought down from
liis cell and into the yard close to the jail, on
the west side, and immediately facing the gallows.
His relatives were then admitted for a
final interview with him. . They consisted of
fiis aged mother, dressed in deep mourning,
liis two unmarried sisters and one married sister,
also in mourning, his three aunts, his v
urother, Townsend Parker, his sister-in-law
uid his brother-in-law. They all wept when
they first saw him, and each pressed his hands.
[lis mother looked fixedly at him and her lips
:rembled. Parker himself was apparently
composed. As the old mother looked into his
lace she said, in broken tones : "My darling,
[ did all that a mother could do for you. I
;ou uiree nunarea aim ten peupie tu ?igu tuc
paper, and went three times to Columbia and
mce to Sumter to see the Governor, but with3ut
avail. God's will be done. I will not be
many days after you." The son regarded her
jarnestly, and looking over his shoulder at the
gallows he said : "There is only that for me
now. I am innocent, and I fear nothing but
the sting of death. If I was guilty I. know
that there would be no pardon for me." After
some further conversation between the
mother and son Rev. Thos. Walker of Graniteville,
read the 35th Psalm, and a fervent
prayer was offered up by Rev. W. H. Mosely.
Parker then took a solemn leave of his relations.
It was a most pathetic scene, and
there was not a dry eye among the spectators,
while it was taking place.
Parker was quite a handsome man, about?
five feet eleven inches in height, rather dark
complexion, very black hair, a small black
moustache and mild brown eyes, which, however,
had a furtive expression and he avoided
looking any one straight in the face.
The execution was one of the best conducted
that has occurred in this section. ' Sheriff ^
flolley had taken great pains to have all the
ietaifs well arranged so that there was none
)f the bungling that disgraces so many executions.
Tiie Congressional Canvass.?On last
Saturday Judge Mackey spoke at Rossville
ind spread himself against Mr. Hemphill.
(Vmong other things he said that Hemphill
was a trial justice under Scott ahd was therefore
a Republican; that while a justice he
iad. married a white woman to a negro; that
le had stolen all the offices he held; and genially
excoriated the Democratic nominee.
Mackey also inveighed against ballot-box stating,
the registration law, &c., &c.,
Mr. Hemphill was with the primary canvassers
at Rossville on last Tuesday and "with
jloves off" took occasion to return the Judge's
jompliments. He denounced the attack on
lim as slanderous, wanton and unjustifiable,
md branded Judge Mackey as a political cowird
and the most corrupting man in politics.
He characterized the charge as to his marryTi<r
si white woman to a neero as a monstrous
ind malicious fabrication of the Judge's own
jrain. The charge as to his being a Republi;au
because he was a trial justice under a
Republican administration was absurd, for
mch men as Eli Cornwell, R. S. Crocket, D.
5. Stinson, C. H. Iiagsdale, H. C. Brawley,
rames G. McAliley, A. I). Darby, E. T. Atrinson,
R. B. Mills, Sheriff Walker, W. D.
[ngraham, Matthew White, G. W. Curtis, W.
Sanders, 0. Barber and Gen. W. A. Walk;r
all held office under Republicans, and they
' ? tt ; j u?
vere never called itepuuncans. xie saiu jib
vas willing at any time to be judged with
gentlemen like these. He also exploded the
fudge's "free ballot and fair count" dodge,
ituck him on the registration bill, floored him
>n ballot-box stuffing and upset his pretenses
generally. He opened the people's eyes when
le read from the fraud reports how Mackey
jot a carpet for his services in aiding to seiecure
the Chester delegation for a big steal
vhich was being shoved through the Legisla
;ure.?Cheater Bulletin, 25th instant.
Special ftofites.
To the Voters of York County.
After mature consideration, I have decided to
rield to the wishes of my friends and permit my
lame to go before the primary election as a canlidate
for a seat in the House of Representatives
>f the next General Assembly. My engagements
ind private business affairs may not permit me
o visit every portion of the county between this
late and the primary election ; and to those of
ny fellow citizens whom I may not have the
deasure of seeing, I would take take this meth>d
of saying that should I be honored with an
iiecnon ac your nanus, i anmi ainvr iu ooi ?o jmu.
n the legislative halls of the State to the best of
ny ability, having in constant mind the support
if such measures onlj' as will conduce to the
velfareof those whom I immediately represent,
a well as the State at large.
On the subject of the proposed constitutional
mendment reducing the area of counties?canlidates
having been called upon through the
iress to define their views on this question?I
an only say, in this brief communication, that
am opposed to that proposition. I oppose it as
, dangerous political expedient, which, while it
you Id fail of the purpose for which it is ostensiily
designed, viz.: the increaseofSenatorial repreentation,
would afford an opportunity, ultimatey,
in case of Republican ascendency, to increasei
n the Senate Chamber the colored or Republian
representation. Besides the failure which it
rould undoubtedly prove as a political measure,
should also oppose it as opening the way for a
livision ot York county; a scheme that I should
iever approve, unless better reasons were given
srsuch a step than I have yet heard advanced,
'his, in brief, is my position on the "new couny"
movement; but on it, as other questions
lefore the county, I shail be pleased, as occasion
iresents, to define my position at greater length
han I am permitted to express myself in the
Imits of a newsnaner card. Very respectfully,
Geo. L. Riddi.e.
To the Voters of York County.
Fort Mill, S. Cm August 22,1882.
I see my name announced in the Enquirer for
e-election to the State Legislature. I have
erved the county in the House of Representaives
tor the last six years, and felt like retiring
rom politics; but my friends in Ebenezer and
Hay Hill, and other portions of the county, inist
on my serving another term, and I can only
ly that if the voters of York county wish me to
?presentthem another term, I will take pleasure
i doing so, besides feeling grateful for their connued
support. It will be out of my power to
invass the county to any great extent, or even
) fill all the appointments now made, as my dues
as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
onth Carolina Penitentiary require me to lie in