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E. B. MURKAY, Editor. TIIl'KSDAY, FEB. 1?. 1882. TERMS ? -ONE YEAR.-?1.80. BIX MONTHS. 7?c Two Dollars If not paid In sdrancc. The smallpox coutinuea to spread in Virginia, and the vaccination mania is spreading everywhere. Gen. Hancock has heen invited to visit tho Legislature of Mississippi, and a committee appointed to receive him. The people of Mississippi probably in tend to start the Hancock boom for 1834, but it is no uso to waste time at that. We will have a new ticket for the next race. A bill bas been framed under thc aus pices of tho Committee on Agriculture of tho House of Representatives making the Commissioner of Agriculture a Cabinet officer. This end has been sought for aoveral years without success, but it is now confidently expected that the bill will become a law, and the recognition which the agricultural interests of tho country deserve will be accorded to their representative. A conlerence of thc opponents in Con gress of tho TarifT Commission and the National Banks was held on last Satur day in Washington, and wan attended by Democrats, Republicans and Greenback era. Judge Reagan presided, and bills embodying tho views of the meeting were prepared to bo presented to Con gress. Tho conference was opposed to the Tariff Commission, because they be lieved it would only delay tho considera tion of the question and prevent any action towards tariff reform for several years to come. The citizens of Greenwood, in the county of Steuben, New York, are resist ing tho collection of taxes, and using force to avoid tho payment of their proper proportion of the expenses inci dent to thc support of tho luxury of a Republican State Government, dov. Cornell has issued a proclamation de claring the town to be in insurrection, nnd commanding those who aro resisting tho lows to disperse. This is in tho loyal North, tho peaceful and law-abiding North, tho Republican State of New York, tho home of Grant, of Conkling and ot Arthur. Wo are indebted to Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken for a copy of Col. Stolbrand's brief against him in his contest for the seat in Congress from this District. Tho testiujODy MO quoted from this county is garbled and false. If it baa been report ed as it :a quoted, tho m."?ter should bo looked into, for the whoio tenor of the testimony has been changed, and tho ex planatory parts have been left out. If the testimony bas been fairly reported, the quotations are the merest twaddle, for they do not convey tho facts an the wholo testimony developed them. Col. Stolbrand will hardiy bo able to obtain the scat which properly boiongs to Col. Aiken. The Abbcvillo Medium says: "Our taxes will bo higher than last year. This county will havo to pay ll j mills. Peo ple can't expect to run big universities aud pay high salaries without feeling it." ri.t _ mgLj's_. 1_._. t ...1 ll ... j.'it.\: tun:, uvnCTCI, DUUUIU 11UVU lOIU its readers that tho Stato taxes are lower this year than they v ere last, and that tho increaso comes from an increase of . their county taxes, no port' >n of which goes to support universities or pay high salaries. Tho iucreaso is a local matter entirely, for which the Legislature and tho State government aro in no wiso re sponsible. The peoplo ought to bo told tho truth, even if it docs destroy a plau sible argument. The Rev. A. D. Mayo, D. D., of Boa ton, Massachusetts, associnto editor of tho National Journal of Education, who has been closely identified with tho work of education iu New England, is deliv ering a Beries of lectures in this State on the subject of popular education. Hi will mako a tour of the principal cities, towns and villages in tho State, accom panied by CcL Hugh S. Thompson, our able and efficient Superintendent of Ed ucation. His lectures are free, and as he is an able, experienced, practical .?ad eloquent orator upon educational sub jects, every person ahould endeavor to hear his address when ho comes to An derson. It ls a nubject which deserves the attention of every one, and the ad dress will bo a literary treat to all who hear it. There has never been a Legislature in Boath Carolina which hus had to deal with more important and perplexing questions than tho one which has just; adjourned. Whatever may bo the judgment of the peoplo of tho Slate upon tboir work, it cannot be denied that each measure was considered and acted on upon its merit, and the conclusion reached according to tho judgment of tho members, without the consideration of personal consequen ce*.' There was as little of the dema gogue and th? time-cervcr in tho corapo eiiion of the General Assembly as will ever bo found in the same number of mon. Tho gravest questions were dis cussed and acted on almost with judicial impartiality, and the results reached were the true judgment of the two Honsec Mrs. M. G. Harley, *?iho rras widely known and greatly beloved throughout the State ior her many beautiful traits of character, died very suddenly of heart disease on last Thursday afternoon in Barnwell. Mrs. Harley has been for yean cditr-j of the Hearth and. Home Depart ment of the Baptist Courier, and by her graceful pen and noble purposes has contributed gnatly to the interest of this excellent paper. Her life wai one of lovo and zeal for the Master's cause, aud to make tho world around her better and happier was her chief pleasure. Throughout the State, and particularly among the Baptists, her name waa a syn* onym for kindness, for benevolence and all the graces ot Christian womanhood. In tho announcement of her death sor row has been carried to the hearthstone of thousands of families in this State. TH K ItKI'lItMCANS AI.KHT. Mr J. C. HcmphiiJ, thc t-flicient and well-informed Columbia correspondent of the News awl Courier, writing from our State Capital, under date of Febru ar)- 12tb,says: I was told yesterday by a prominent Republican politician that il was deter mined at the recent conference of the Central Hen blican Executive Commit tee to hold a general conference in this city on the second ?lay of March. This conference will be attendc-d by two dele gates from every county in the State, who wili be choieri bv the central com mittee. In fact, they have already been selected, and on last Tuesday invitations were forwarded asking them to attend the conference. This mode* of selecting delegates, as my informant suggested, was adopted "in order thal the brains of thc party might be brought together." Thc conference in March will shape the future course of the party and finally determine upon some definite plan of political action. "The brains of tho party" will furnish an interesting study for the newspaper people al lea*t. Thc Republicans arc evidently watch ing their opportuuity to seize the State government, and mr that there are rumors of independentism in the Demo cratic party, they think thc time auspi cious for a resuscitation of the party of "five years more of good stealing in South Carolina." Independents have always been the ally, if not the twin-brother, of Radicalism, and call it by whatever name you may, all persons who will re flect for a moment must perceive that any factiou which splits up the white people of the State tends lo restore the negroes to thc control of the State gov ernment. They have the majority, and only need n small defection among the white voters to enable them to retrieve the power which their venality, their ignorance, theil extravagance and their tyranny lost in 187fi. Whatever may bc the purposes of the independents their trncks lead only to thc Republican ranks. It ia not reasonable for five or ten thou sand independents to lead ninety thou sand Republicans. Experience has shown that the Republicans gain all of the advantages which are reaped from independents in politics. Those who assist to break up tho Democratic party arc only helping tu rehabilitate the old Republican organization, which is still controlled by Whipper, Smalls, Elliott, Rainey, Sam Lee, E. W. M. Mackey, Taft, and that class of men. If there aro grievances in our politics, the Democratic party, which includes the wealth, thc integrity and the intelli gence of tho State, is tho party to correct them. A few thousand whito men can not reform abuses by uniting with ninety thousand negroes, for in that combination ignorance, corruption and prejudice will alwnys predominate over the true inter ests of tho Stato ; and no one, except demagogues and office-seekers, will ever advocate reform, which they cnn onl," accomplish according to their own ad missions, by the aid of tho party whit !i has heretofore disgraced, robbed and Africanized South Carolina. This kind of reform may Biiit tho elisgrunlled office seeker, tho demagogue and tho morbidly revolutionary, but it cannot bo the course which those who are interested in tho permanent welfare of tho country will endorse. Tho Republicans, of course, commend their now friends, and would mako them, and tho simple-minded who believe them, think tho independents arc great heroes ; but at tho samo limo they are drawing their forces together, and ar ranging for tho campaign which they hope the independents will reue?or it possible for them to win in South Caro lina. The people of thc Stato will bc kept apprised of tho actions of tho party leaders, and it will remain for ibo white peoplo of tho Stato to determino whether they shall ever come back to power in our midst again. Only through a split among our own peoplo eau hard) como to thc government of our Slate. Who is williug to help restore these public enemies to power ugain ? Thoso who wish to do so cannot render them more effective service than by raising an inde pendent party. THK WORK OF INIIKPENIIKN TIMM. Col. J. R. Randall, the accomplished correspondent of tho Chronicle and Con stitutionalist, writing from Washington, Bays : Mr. W. L. Royall, an eminent Virginia lawyer and writer, lins cxtei sively circu lated a pamphlet reviewing Gen. Mahone and his record. He sneers nt the Read juster-Radical'a military career-which may bo a mistake-and bundles him without gloves as an original Democratic bulldozer, railroad wrecker, ballled aspi rant for office, ending as a communistic demagogue, triumphant on v by n snap judgment, Qovcrnment niu aud wide spread popular dishonesty on tho debt question. Royall submits proof to show that President Arthur ha8 become parts ceps criininit in a scheme of repudiation that defied a Supremo Court decision, and that he has also to shnre in tho odium of the corruption of the Judiciary of Virginia, a crimo without precedent in tho history of thc Commonwealth. The Readjuster* have elecUx" aa Superin tendent of Public Instruction, an igno ramus who cannot spell the commonest English words, ana placed upon the bench a Judge who never read a law book, and a roan who has been proved so habitual a cheat in card gambling that no respectable or fair-minded faro dealer would touch him with u pair of oyster tongi. Tho summing up of tho debt question isa masterly effort, and Arthur's complicity in fastening shame upon Vir ginia for partisan ends is exposed with merciless soverity, but within parliamen tary limits. A good deal, no doubt, can bo said on the other sido; but Mr. Royall has put his caso so vigorously that no man need wonder why thousands of Conservative Republicans shrink from such a coalition as that of Mahone, and have brought themselves under tho lash and menace of tho National Republican. This letter of Mr. Royall shows the hollowness of Independent professions of reform. Virginia, under Mahone, is a wreck. The coalition between office scekers and Republicans is beginning to do its work, by restoring corrupt govern ment in the Old Dominion. Tho Re publicans practically control Virgh-in, as ?hey will all other States in which tho independents aro allowed to get a foot hold. The Supreme Court of Tennessee has declared tho Act of the Legislature ol that State regulating the Stato debt un constitutional, because it makes tho cou pons on the new bonds receivable for taxes. The Court waa divided, but the majority hold that though not contrary to the letter of tho Constitution, it was contrary to its spirit, and if carried to tho extent which thc power might bc | carried if it va* vested in thc Legisla ture, might destroy the .State by tho con tracting of tax-receivable obligations to au extent sufficient to consume the whole revenue for years to come. The decision is a very unfortunate one for Tennessee, as it opens up thc whole debt question, which has already been of incalculable injury to the State, and is no.v destined lo bring untold confusion atid trouble by unsettling all that has been done hereto fore. Thc Slate of Texas is very anxious to have a handsome State Capitol, and like thc little boy whose eyes have rested Upon Sumo (-'and/ toy that excites his desire to possess it to an extent that makes him willing to pay all that bc is worth, or ever expects to be worth, she has paid au immense price to secure its construction. Hy the terms of her con? I tract, which has just been made, ?die gives lo Abner Taylor, (.'. 15. Farwell, John H. Farwell and A. < >. Babcock over five thousand square miles of her North western territory a-> compensation for tho building of ber Capitol. This territory is ungranted lands of the State, and is larger than the State of Connecticut, embracing home three and a half million acre?, so that each one of the syndicate will get nearly t ti nc hundred thousand acres of laud, and will be the large.it landowners in the world. They already have two railroads projected through their territory, and intend rapidly to develop it. In this way the State may be benefited, for thc development of so large a tract of territory will be of ad vantage to thc Commonwealth, but the bargain is curious aud very illogical. It savors of the penny-wise and pound foolish. _ The State press has been very profuse in its abuse of the recent session of the Legislature, but it bas impressed us that the complaints arc of the mos', general aud indefinite nature. Even wh>?re they object to given measures, they simply denounce them without giving ntl) argu ment for such denunciation, as if the ijme dint of each paper in the State was sufficient to fix thc merit or demerit of every measure that is brought under dis cussion. To ?eail thc average nowspp.per of iiic State one wouid imagino thc last Legislature to have been composed of nothing but idiots, demagogues and schemers, who neither knew or cared for thc truo interests of South Carolina. To prove this, a newspaper which approves of nine-tenths of thc work dono by this body loses sight of that portion and de vote? its whole time, sparc and energies to abusing thc other tenth, which it happens not to like, apparently forgetful of thc fact that it is impossible to pienso everybody, or indeed to please any per son on every isolatod action in n legisla tive session. There lins probably never been n session of the Legislature of nny State which did not do some ncl or an other during its session to which the citizens of tho State objected, though pei haps they all favored the bulk of the ! work done. It is unfair to criticise iso lated acts without giving credit for the acts which one approves. It is amusing to take up our exchanges ard read from tho editorial columns of l?val papers published in the same town. It is not ; iinfrequent that you find the first paper , endorsing Hie action upon the University, ! and tho second condemning it, while tho first is abusing Hie election laws and tho second praising them, and so on, illus trnting tho fact that ninny men aro of many minds, and that it is beyond the i power of any set of mon to please any person in every particular. It is, there i fore, fair iii criticising not only to take tho whole work of thc session, but to give the reasons ono has for objecting to nny specific measure. Then the argu ments pm and con can be considered, and the general average arrived at. The grading of tho Oreen wood,, Lau rons and Spartanburg Railroad was begun on last Monday. It is expected to finish this Road within thc next three years, and it will bo operated as apnrtof the Knoxville and Augusta line. Tho Knoxville Rond-Rumors as to its Future. Awju.ila Chronicle. The Chronicle continues to bear various bits of information regarding the pro posed sale of the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad to the South Carolina Railroad Company. In different places wo have picked up different points of informa tion, which weean give without violating any particular confidence. The city of Augusta proposes to turn over its Augusta and Knoxville Railroad stock to tho Carolina Raiirond Company for $30,000 nnd interest ; and ns thc road was built principally by its bonds-there being only nbout $185,000 worth of Block outstnr ding-thc Carolina Railroad will be required to take $300,000 of the bonds of tho road. This, it is under stood, is Ibo stickler in tho contract, to tho Carolinians. Tho road will bind itself, should the contract be fulfilled, not to build its branch between Aiken,Tren ton, Edgefield and Dom's Mines ; will uso tho depot at the upper end of Greene street for freight-the Union Station for passengers, and is to bo allowed to run n track down tho river bank, elong n dyke which it is to construct nnd put in order, to connect with their rond nt the bridge. This is only for through freight, in none oi their business are they to dis criminate against Augusta; they nro to bo exempt from the tariff of the Street Railroad Company ; and nre to devote $00,000 towards securing nnd construct ing the Blue Ridge route, ns already ex plained by the Chronicle. In general conversation with mer chants, directors and councilmen, we find that the project is losing favor. It is a well aired rumor, os tho Chroni cle bas beard for several days, that an Augusta syndicate-composed of Messrs. C. H. Phinizy, T. P. Branch, T. G. Bar rett and others, would make good bids for the Augusta and Knoxville ; and that the Clyde syndicate would like, also, to make a bid; but it is not probable that any salo for speculative, discrimina tive, or bottling purposes, will bc effected. Tho latest and best idea seems to bo that of organizing a home syndicate. To this end a number of business men and capitalists of this city bavo signified their willingness to raise enough money to buy up a majority of tho stock of tho road, and to contribute for securing to Augusta tho Savannah Valley connec tions. To this syndicato might be turn ed over tho roaa without the power of transfer; or at least without the power of transferring to any interest which might be hostile to Augusta. Thon the road would bc worked exclusively in the interest of tho city-for it is the most important-even our solo feeder left to tho commerce of this city. Such an arrangement might be tho mord easily induced when the importance of thc line, the possibility of its connec tions, thc richness of its section and tho small expense of its construction-repre sented by only $9,000 per mile- are duly considered. Such a purchase would be the safest and most lucrative of invest* m .mts, and must bc of permanent advan tage to the city. Hon. II. F. Ferry for Governor. In the present condition ol the State, our clubs di-banded, the people divided on local issues and the strong opposing colored element, if we expect lo carry the State for the Democratic party next fall, we must have a ticket composed of solid, conservative men properly diatri outed geographically. We have seen the name of ex-Oov. ! Perry auuounced as a proper person for Governor, and we are satisfied, if he will make thc race, that be can command a stronger vote than any other man in the State. He is eminently a practical mau, and is firm as a rock and as able as he is firm. Thc people could trust bim rc gardlcss of party or [?arty affiliations as a man who would execute the laws hon estly and faithfully, and who would lend his judgment and experience for the com mon good. He should feel it a duty to those who have so long honored aud trusted bini to lond his name and influ ence to heal our divi-dous aud preserve our present control of thc State, and wc trust that the convention, should one be called to make nominations, will leuder and insist on his becoming our standard bearer. With this name and a good selection of solid, conservative men for other State offices from dill'ereut sections of the .State tho success of honest gov ernment would not be imperiled in the least. Without some such ticket we fear the result.-Keoxcee Courier. A Live Corpse. Tho Virginia correspondent of tho Capital predicts .hut the opposing Pres idential tickets of ls;s;.}-S4 will be Grant and Muhone, on one side, nnd blaine and Gordon on the other. Ex-Senator Eaton, the only Senator who ?lid not fall into thc Electoral Commission trap, says if ho has to choose between Grunt and Ulai nc, or a blank ballot, he p.cfer.s the last. He thinks that whtll the Democratic party is reduced to that extremity, it had better retire from the stage altogether. Senator Butler, of South Carolina, not only smiles nt the idea of the Democratic party dying, but emphatically declares that a majority of thc people are on that side, and only require good leaders and a sensible campaign. Ho is strongly in favor of making ex-Senator Wallace, of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee. Mr. Wallace is competent and upright, and the proper person to take charge. Sena tor Butler is also favorable to choosing a Western man for tho Presidential nomi nation, and Joseph McDonald, of In diana, is his beau ideal for that honor. If a Southern man is to be chosen to match the Republican vice-Presidential nomination, Brown or Lamar would command immense following. General Gordon is not in public life, and I do-ibt if bo would sacrifico his business p.os pects for the second place on the ticket. Thc Democratic party bas timber enough of its owu to construct Presidential plat forms and put its own leaders upon them. Therefore, ? do not think it will give up the ghost nt prese'-1. Rather I um of opinion that its next grand natiourd. struggle will be the mightiest since tho war.-Jas. II. Randall, in Augusta Chron icle. Black Dissents. In an interview published in an even ing paper, supposed to be with Judge Jeremiah Black, of Pennsylvania, bis at tention was called to thc declaration in some quarters being made that the win ning ticket of iS34 would be Blaine for President and Joe Brown, of Georgia, for vice-President. "What do you think of it ?" queried tho reporter. "Can it.bo possible that the Democratic party of this country is not yet done re lying on phantoms to win a baltic? Is there no wisdom in experience? Has it forgotten that time has always its own vindication in truth ? Docs the past furnish no lessons whereby its footsteps may be guided aright to the sepulcher of dead presidential struggles and ambi tions? There was the Seymour aud Blair ticket of 18G8, which was fore doomed to annihilation by Blair's cele brated letter declaring t,>o amendments unconstitutional and voit.. In 1872 the party abandoned every profession it had ever made, held in abeynneo every prin ciple it had ever promulgated, and nomi nated its life-long enemy-federalist, whig and abolitionist-poor old Horace Greeley, in lS7t> it nominated and elec ted Tilden and Hendricks, and then affrighted at a few of Zach Chandler's threats, cowardly abandoned and be trayed them. In 1S80, commanded by every motive of common manhood, policy and decency to put again to lead it tho successful and indomitable standard bearer of 18TG, it forsook him basely nt tho malicious threats of another boss, and suffered for the fourth time ignomin ious disaster. And now there is talk of a combination upon Blaine and Joo Brown-Maine and Georgia-New Eng land and the South-the Puritan and the slave-dealer-thc stalwatt Unionist and the zealous Confederate-thc brilliant, dashing, gladiatorial Radical and the shrewd, practical, successful Democrat. This is folly, folly, folly. Such a ticket could no more win in this day and gen eration than Leander could have swam the Hellespont with a six-pound cannon lushed to bis back." "Who can you win with ?" further queried tho reporter. "With n man who has always been n Democrat, true and consistent-one in whom tho business interests of the coun try have confidence. Justice Field, who is now otic of the Associate Justices of tho United States Supreme Court, or any other man with a Uko record, can win." - Washington Letter. Thc Mountains Falling. Buffalo Mountnin, running North and Sonth, ends abruptly five miles Southeast of Johnson City, Washington county, Tenn. Immediately on the end of this mountain, several hundred feet above tho siirrnnniling country, a tremendous, mas sive rock is known tts "White Rock Sum mit." It is noted for its lofty height r.nd picturesque grandeur, - and on its top many n traveler toward the North Caro lina ranges has ascended to view tho val leys and streams below. "In years gone by tho Rev. Harry Anderson, colored, preached to the colored people of tho neighborhood, who gathered there on the Sabbath day. But "White Rock" peak is no more. On Wednesday morning, tho 25th nit., a powerful crash and fearful rumbling noise startled the inhabitants of tho en tire vicinity around the terminus of the mountain, and many of them ran in wild excitement, panic-stricken, crying aud praying as though they were in the midst of an earthquake. A glance toward where this lofty monumento! natura has stood, unmoved and apparently immova ble, for centuries past, proved it bad sunk down into one huge mass of earth, logs, trees and rocks. Tho whola end of the mountain has melted or rather slid off, and the summit around which the clouds love to gather of their own accord no mora holds aloft, toward the aky, its white-capped peak. Even at this writing, wo are informed that the people who live in the country around tub fallen mountain are greatly excited about tho unlooked for anti st ra ago occurrence. It is supposed to have been caused by rho long and almost incessant rains that have des:er.d;d on ?camiaimaMDiaMmM ? II i ? ?.? maeviBaiBa***! the country for seve- 1 weeks.-Knoxville j Tribune. A dispatch to thc .Vnri u-xi Owner ll from Spartanburg, dated February 10, I says : luformation bas been received that ? a portion of Bald Mountain, in Noni? Carolina, fell into the valley below on last Sunday. This is the mountain which threatened vol-anic eruption a few years ng<\ but which has bceu quiet for some time. It is probable that the re cent heavy rains caused this last tumble. About a quarter of a square mile is ?aid to have falleu. Opinions or the State Press. From tin ?lampi?n Guardian. There ir no safety for thc people of South Carolina outside thc- Democratic party. Remember this. From the Newberry Herald. Bad rouds are a curso to a country in many ways. Judge Mackey pays the public roa'ds afford th- best index to the civilization of a people. If this be .-o we are not many stages removed from tho heathen. From the Greenville Newt. We have tried conciliation mid stretched kindness to its extreme limit, with the result of losing strength every year. The choice is narrowed so far as we can see to a registration and election law or a per petual reign of the shotgun, thc tissue ballot and the expert in dirty election work. From the Darlington Newt. This year will undoubtedly be a bard one, but we can all learn something by our experience. Buy little, and let that little last a long lime; keep out of debt as much as possible, and, with a good crop this year, we will find that next fall, so far from being injured by last year's failure, we will uo in a better condition than before. /Trout thc Darlington News. The new edection law is an admirable one in every a peet and will hereafter [irevent the outrageous bullying of voters >y thc Radical leaders. Each voter can now go epuictly to the polls and cast his vote for whom he pleases, without having a man with the "Little Hook" to take down his name, and when he has voted he can go quietly home. The Legisla ture have done wisely. From thc Spartanburg Spartan. The people feel that they can stand an election every two years, nnd they would like to sec their servarla thal often. Some of them they would like to ask to take back seals, and the worthy they would pat on the .^Moulder and say to them, ''Well done.'"' it would be better to have the Legislature to meet once only in two or four yeare. That would be a saving to the people. Front the Seneca Journal. In another column "Up Country" nom inate Hon. D. Wyatt Aikeu for Gover norofSouth Carolina. Mr. Aiken would no doubt fill thc office with credit to him self and the people. We think ho would bc of more material benefit to the State as Governor than as a member of Con gress. Let bim come home and straighten our State Government and then his next step will bc to the United States Senate. From thc Lancaster Ledger. Boys cf 1870 ! Let us talk together. We bear mutterings of dissatisfaction existing in several counties, based upon recent laws enacted by the Legislature. Well, you are men%of rea.sou and must admit that laws cannot be passed to please every one-it is an impossibility. Don't let us nd too hasty, but give the laws a fair trial, and if they prove to our disad vantage then go to work to have them repealed. Don't threaten the party ; "stand up to the rack, fodder or no fod der." If you are dissntisfied with what the representatives of the party nave done, go back on them, don't charge tho party. From thc Fdgcfiehl Monitor. Resolutions, on paper, nre a cheap commodity and everybody can afford to indulge in them to their hearl's content. Thpy are nlso very harmless and, there fore, they are not particularly objection able any way. Thc Stock law, however, is a fixed fact and will remain so, for thu year at least. The Legislature may have made a mistake in passing it nt this ses sion, but no number of resolutions can repeal it for the 'next twelve months Perheps by that time it will have proved a blessing even to those^vho, like the Newberry man, are now ready to pull of] their coats and give vent to their feelings in a torrent of profanity. Give the law a trial before taking steps calculated tc tum the Suite over into the bunds of thc Radicals. A Bu; OltDEK.-Thc Piedmont mills have recontly received one of the larges! orders that has ever been given to a fae tory iu South Carolina. The order is for 23,000 pieces of "Edinburgh Che viots," and the amount to be paid foi them will be $70,000. This contract wai secured through tho energy of Mr. Ham melt, the efficient agent of thc mills. Green ville- Nexcs, CONGRESSMAN TILLMAN.-In tin House the other day Mr. Tillman madel brief speech upon a point of order rela tive to tho apportionment bill, wilie! commanded tho ndivided attention o! his audience. A leading Congressmar of national repute said to mo : "Tillmat is developing gloriously. He has at las revealed himself. He has come out ol the chrysalis stato, aud will be heard te some effect hereafter, because he has ex hibited brains and originality, and, un like so ninny others, talks from a full exact and capacious intellect." All o which I heartly endorse. In this con nection, let nie add that my dear fr i em and companion has lately become mud moro of a society man, and is sought fo at all the entertaitimcnta of tho pol?tica world.- Washington Correspondent Au gutta Chronicle. - Great and just complaint has beei mado by persons who are critical am who have nigh regard for the proper usi of words that so many schools in thii country are called colleges. These littli tents of educntion are scattered over thi Stales by scores, and it is poor crossroad hamlet, even in tho Territories, that ha not one of them. At tb o aame time although tho best of them would ?lt; years ago havo been called acad?mie* they furnish fair "schooling."-Nero Vor Herald. - Chief Justice Carter, of the Suprem Court of the District of Columbia, wil bo entitled to retire from tho bench ii April, on full pay, as he in that monti will be 70 years of age. It is now under, stood, however, that he will sit at th other term of Court in bane, the Apri term, at which the caso of Quiteau wil bc heard on exceptions, and that thi term will adjourn tine die in tho latte part ol May or tho early part of Jun< This will make unnecessary any suspec sion of tho sentence of Guitcan. - A potato bank is not a safe sort t bank in which to deposit money, as Mi David Rikard, who lives near Prosperity has found to his sorrow. Some time ag ho hid $240 in gold and $700 in greer backs in a potato bank for safo keerd nj Four weeks ago thieves went to the ba: to steal potatoes and to their surprix struck a bonauza. They found the gol and, of course, stole it ; thc greenbacl they did not find. The matter was kc* secret till last week. Two negroes name George Johnson and Luke Wright, wi had been spending gold very freeiy i Prosperity, were suspected. Johnsc was arrested, but Wright skipped I Kansas.-Newberry Newt. - At tho meeting of thc Hoard of fruste-es of the State University nt Co lumbia on Wednesday, it ?ros determined Lo fill the following chaira: Ancient lan guages, mental and moral philosophy and logic, historv, political economy and constitutional laiv, agriculture, mechauics and phrsics, tutor of ruodoru languages. The superintendent of farm and foreman of ?hop were, abolished. Tho trustees resolved to till the above named chairs at their regular meeting in May. - An Ohio paper says that as thc Hayes family do not know about the criticisms made upon them, but are quiet ly living in the little half built village of Frcemont, with the-idea that there havo been but two great administrations-that of Washington and that of Hayes-it is not useful to speak of them. We pre sume that the great number of journals w hich occasionally speak of Mr. Hayes in parentheses and with fear and trem bling, are only warning the people ne-.r again, in a convention, to nominate an unknown molehill for a mountain.-New York Herald. - "Guiteau," .-aid Warden Crocker to a correspondent, "bas become as docile as a lamb ; does not insist upon having bis own way as be did during the trial, and does what be is ordered to do with out a murmur, He has lost his accus tomed bravado, aud does not become so excited when in conversation." "How does he seem to appreciate his conui tion?"' "I do not think that any man under sentence of .ieath ever more fully appreciated bis condition than Guiteau. He lias become greatly depressed in spirits, and shows it, and there is not a. sign of insanity in bis conversation or actions; in fact, his conduct is entirely different since be was sentenced. Ho still hopes that something may be done in the court in innr, but 1 really think he is fust losing hope.'' - A special dispatch to the New? and Courier from Cheraw, dated February 10, says : At a horse race yesterday on the outskirts.of town a terrible accident oc curred, which resulted iu the death of one of the riders, a worthy young colored cabinetmaker of the place* named Pick ens Brown. During thc running of the horses ono of them ran against a tree that stood on the side of the track, throw ing the rider against it with terrible force. When aid reached thc man and medical attendance was secured it was found that his injin ?es were fatal. His leg was broken and were also the two jawbones, skull and other parts, besides in ternal injuries. The wounded man lin gered in intense pain until night, when death came to his relief. The deceased was formerly from Sumter, but bas been living here for some years. - Since Mr. Tilden was cheated out of the Presidency, to which he was elected, a great many of the men who assisted in the infamous fraud have gono in an igno ble way to their long borne. Zach Chan dler died miserably in a Chicago hotel ; Senator Morgan shuffled off bis unfra grant coil before he could derivo any benefit from the fraud ; Gen. Garfield, who was pretty deep in the electoral swindle, died from a blow of an assassin, and the other day Mr. Stoughton-"Cler ical Error" Stoughton-passed away al most without a sigh. And yet the feeblo old man at Gramercy Park, who doesn't look as though he hud a day's life in bim, is still as bright and chipper to an extent, indeed, that some of the gossips say ho has his eye firmly fixed on the term which begins in 'S4 and ctaus in '88, and which would leave him, even if he should live to see the end of it, almost a non agenarian ; while as for Hayes-but then 'he's too dead to speak of.--Washington Post. NOTICE. A T.I, parsons are notified not to trade -Z^. for a Note of Six Hundred and Forty Dollars, dated about the first of Januarv, 1870, and paynblc to T. J. Sutherland, mid purporting to bc signed by me, ns said Note is a forgery. JEMES IC. SUTHERLAND. Feb Ig, 13S2 ;;i o NOTICE. A LL persons fir? hereby wnrm-d not io -?^a. ride, drive ur make paths over or through our lands, ur ?bstrnet our water courses by putting limb) r* in or vcr them, otherwise than ulong pul.lie roads JOHN HARPER, JKPTUA HARPER. Feb 10. 1SS2 31 1 $ioo KE?VARDT WILL bc paid to locate a good Mica (Isinglass) deposit-, suitable for our use. Information furnished will meet with P"S?1-fi^t^???0.lV Address, with, samples, CAROLINA MANUFACTURING CO, Care of Capt. John McGrath, ... ' Anderson, S. C. Feb 16,1882 _31 1 TIMELY NOTICE. "IITE hereby notify nil persons not to ., V. ""Y.? or ri(le "?rough our field atom ic General s Road in thc Southern part of the city, but to keep in the road, mud or no mud. JOHN E. ALLEN, C. S. BEATY. *eb lu, 1882 31 3 W. B. BEWLEY. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, ANDERSON, S. C. -^Vri'stntoraC,"CC '*n lhc Coi,rl3 of this Omca-West End of Benson House, formerly occupied by Dr. 4L F. Di wer. I-eb 1?, 1882_31__ c,n H. O. F.Ci nPAY. n. w. siMrao.N. SCUDDAY & SIMPSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ANDERSON, S. C. W1L& IS^?S* in 0,1 tbe c'ourt9 of tho righth Circuit. WARNING ! T HEREBY warn all persons not to biro JL or harbor my son, Thomas Snipes, who fa under age, and who has leRme without iny consent. I will pay five do - teJ?lffilCllTW ?? ??y Sheriff in this State, with no' rc of such delivery served on me through POM Office at Andereon Buist's, D. M. Perrys, Hiram Sibley's, * Johnsen, Robbins & Reid's rSESH SEEDS AT SIMPSON, REID k COI CHEAP FOR CASH. ' Wc will not be undersold. Feb 10, 18S2 Assignee's Sale uss ry H s ?* w ot MILLING NOTICE^ iVTY Mill will grind every THURSDAY plc?, brinK ^t?ti^?^n?r^? morning, as tho Millitarta^ ^Jri"T^" snro and mark your sacks sunri9? Feb 2, 1882 J? TOWNSEND. ly flLdmVs. Sale of Personalty. WILL be sold at thc late residence of Charles Havnie, deceased, on Bau . Uv the lbth duv of Fabruury uext, too Pu?o al Estate of said deceased, consisting ff Stock of Cattle. Horses. Mules, Hoga, vigon Farming Toola, ????Whe?t Kitchen Funiitt-c, Corn, 1< odder, Wheat, tC- ^HOSTA^ANN HAYNIE, Adm'x. Fcb2,,1882_??_-_ NOTICE FINAL SETTLEMENT. The undersigned, Administrator pf l,f. K*latc of Mrs. Martha Harkina, dec d., ireblgive iKitice that he will, on tho 3rd ?X of March, 1892, apply to the Judge of -r?bate of Anderson County for a goal Utilement of said Estate, and o discharge rr<J1?S3iU SAMUEL SMITH, Adm'r. Feb 2. 1882_2tf_5_ NOTICE FINAL SETTLEMENT. The undersigned, Administrator of the Estate ot Henry Sullivan, deceased, hereby gives notice that he wUL on the 7ih av of March, 18*2, apply to the Judge of Probate of Anderson County for a tmal Settlement of said Estate, and a discharge from said Adn,inistration.cooK Adm,r Feb 2, lsfc2 20_??_ New Crop N. 0. Malasses, TUST RECEIVED and for sale Dec 8. s^i 22 NOTICE TO CitEDTToS^ All persona havln* ?ul* the Estate of Charles H?VnU^ hereby notified to presc^tftj*** proven, wKhiu tho tims viJz&M jo grown &Tribble,A3ttoS?i5" . ROSTA ANN HAYN? Feb 2, 1882 29 Ct TATE OF SOU^H~CAB0lj By W. W. Ilumphre?Xj^J WHEREAS, John W fiKft plicd to mo to grant him itfEftk btratlon on the Personal SE?1*1 of Anderson llroek, dtxeaseA^1* These aro thoroforetoriu . iHh all kindred and cr^ito? Anderson Brock, deceased t?i?f{ pear beforo mein Court*ASY*1 bo hold at Anderson Conti thc 25th day of February law . lication hereof, to show e?u*> ii* havo, why tho said admlnistTl?L5*1, not bo granted. Given m?!S!?,,1? this Stir day of FebniiS lte?*' W. W. Wjift!^ N? Noticed hareby Sn^M dcrsigi-cd, Administrator wifo ^ (ive Will annexed of John n A deceased, will apply to tba J'JL* bate for Anderson County on" of March next, for a Fina! Di bis o (ll ca as Administrator of ?DI JOHN B. A DOER11 Feb 0. 1882 T O. JL. :R,E?'.K?:D HA3 A GOOD STOCK OF GENERAE MERCHANDISE AT LOWEST MARKET PRICES. . Would especially call attention to SEWING UMJM A large lot oT different kinds with all the lotest improvement*. Can ault ru?? their favorite at LOWEST PRICE. Seo my Machines before you buy. A*w> ,v* THE LOUIS COOK BUGGIES. MSs? ssa? aiJ SR?M ??SK? Middleton's and Bremer's ' ertlizers and Brenner's Acid PhoirJ AT LOWEST PRICES. H ??- Como and see me. I CAN'T BE UNDERSOLD. Feb IC, 1882 J. P. SULLIVAN. W. A. VAKDirt J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. HAVE A CASH PEICE FOR ALL ARTICLES OF MERCHANOIS! TIT E OFFER INDUCEMENTS TO CASH BUYERS, and only wanUsmsllrri W Our Stock of ?UOCERIE8 complete. Genuine Muscovado MolsatwnU gar Syrups. A large lot of CHOICE FAMILY FLOUR at prices that will not be nndertoid, We have received another lot of tho LITTLE BASSETT PLOW STOCK!,' best >n the market, without any exception. Price, $2.00. ?Wc now have better article of COFFEE than ever bufore-aeven pounds te the & Standard Northern Manufactured Fertilizers, 450 lbs. Cotton to Cae ton-payable next Fall. J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. Feb 1G. 1882 _20_.h C. A. BEEB, ?gej Wa ver'.y Hoaai BUCKLEY, BROWN & FRETWELLl A HAVE CONSTANTLY ON HAND A LARGE STOCK OF GROCERIES, ND ALL OTHER GOODS usually needed in this market, and will sell thai] cheaply ns anybody else. They are the Agents of the Celebrated Wando Fertilizer and Acid Phosphate, Call on them, EVERYBODY, and buy your Goods and Fertilizers. The Notes and Accounts of Bleckley, Brown & Co. are in their hands for coll and mutt be settled up at an earlv day. Anderson C. H.. S. C., Fob. 2. 1832. 29 ? N. O. FARMER. J. L. FAfiMB. FERTILIZERS I FERTILIZERS] Soluble Sea Island and King Guaso ON REASONABLE TERMS. "1TTB have o' hand a full supply of thc above Standard Branda of Guano, and??li VV MAKE ? TO THE INTEREST of all to call on us beforo buying their Goa WE ALSO KEEP A COMPLETE LINE OF DEY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAFS, &c, Which we will sell at the VERY. LOWEST PRICES POSSIBLE. ?S- Bo sure and examine our Stock and Prices before buying elsewhere. W?' make it to your interest. N. 0. FARMER & BRO, Feb 2, 1882 ll _ NEW CASH STORE FOR 1882! C. F, JONES * CO. HAVING bought Stock of Gooels of J. R. F/NT & CO. .beg leave to annota?! their friends and the trading public that they will keep everything usasUjnrV \ FIRST CLASS STORE. Wo make specialties of FABMCY GROCERIES AND TOBACCO. ?j Don't buy your Tobacco until you have cxanr.ied our Goods nnd Prices. WE"1 V?RI LOW? * We have on hand a lar?c lot M AC Ii*.', ii iE iL, which wo will sell at close figura- ?' want to close them out, and expect to do so, li LOW PRICES will sell theta. FLOUR, SUGAR, COFFEE, CHEESE, DRY GOODS, And in fact, everything you want at. tho VERY LOWEST LIVING PRICES SK* Ca3h. Come, give us a fair trial, and judge for yourselves. WILL ALSO SELL SEVERAL Standard Brands of lTortllizOrs At reasonable figures for Cash or Cotton Option. A call is respectfully aolicited. C. JP. JONES Sc ?O-, j ,uo" Fan t's Old Stand, noxt to Masonic Bull<W Jan 26.1882_ 28 Tl J 1882 GUANO NOTICE. 18?| SOLUBLE T?C?FICT?D STONO STILL AHEAD ! WE would call thc attention of our friends to tho fact that wo represent th? *** well-established and RELIABLE BRAND OF.FERTILIZERS,and houses arc full of Guano and Acid for the SPRIRG TRADE. All of you who ?F? usc Guano and Acid will do well io cali on us for prices and terms beforo . re,- aTI}? reputot'on of these Fertilizers arr so well established throughout tM"g ty and State that wo need no testimonials. Call and get a MEMORANDUM ?*\ and ALMANAC for 1882 FREE. WE HAVE A FULL STOCK OF GROCERIES, DRY GOODS. SHOES, HATS, AND MERCHANDISE GENERALLY, Which wo propaso to SELL LOW. . t9f ln**? ? *V" ??.11 you a ,Iat or ? ?ood Shoo os low as any ot&e* 111 me town. ^-*ut? SHOE STORE. MAXWELL & SLOJUtf | TA^^P,,C?3Uro !!L*?nderliis their sincere thanka to their many friends and who have ao liberally patronlxed them In their line of SPECIALTIES : BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS, ?ma ????fBd 8n *S*U**lion to those who havo not yet favored us with . como anil examine oar Stock. . , " , i .. MAXWELL & SLOAN, oe 27, IM, No. 4 Brick Bange, Ander???,