The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, August 03, 1871, Image 2
THE lOliRML ;
.IOIIN KERSHAW, 1
Editor and Proprietor, 3 1
JUA M I>EN s7fA Ki t ST 3,18?T~ \
Cumulative Voting?A Substitute
Proposed.
The great respect we entertain fur the
geijt triio/-cdiijiesiiijrthd Tax: PaJflfijKJoaventiun,
has induced-us to consider the subjoei-ld'
Will His file v< rtTniT as a 'ciirc fyr our
]?olitical gwevhtreest but we 'arc compelled
to admit that we cannot gee it in that light.
Jf there were in the State many^shades of
Varieth,'^ ?.f inter'c&ts, separating
lir? niuinln inf<i liiivnral lvirfijJC a POni'PWlit.1
"?, r ?, ? ?j. ?:?
laMtPOf- eaoh correspundingtb their respective
numerical strenjrth, might accomplish
good-re suhnto minorities, if a combination
of two or more of thuge parties, not thestrong'j^rwxiuld
overcome the strongest ; but here,,
where there are, and can he at present, but
t?#>ipurties, one of which outnumbers the
other as three to two at least, 'an agreement
uothe of tbd'iiii^ftyto be content
with only a proportiumil Representation, is
lwUunp more drift* than a surrender to the.
iuaj- r !y.
loWe-cunfcss we am'tiot willing, being of
the minority;'to give op the struggle. We
datife to 'overcome the'majority, and when
\&n}$i Che cohirbKof the State wo will be
prepared to entertain propositions from the
Mir'sido tfBHngTtd the permanency, of the
tfltrn^$isting "condition of things. If we
are to form anv.alliances with those shrewd
. .gdfitl eftien. who have heretofore, m&uipulated
the Radical part}- in this State, let us at least
lie able to .comprehend the solid advantages
wjjwhVe are to derive,'from such alliances,
and not bo misled by a myth'.r}" JJ&T the advocates
of.* Jus measure show us how we are
to gain Anything in the Senate by the cumulative
vote, and how in the election of Govern
And all other .Executive officers..'
aEbe truth is, except, that we might get
such a minority vote in th? House of Representatives
as would prevent tho passage of
measures requiring a two-thirds vote, we 1
can See "no practical advantage in their results.
But it is not at all certain that the
same result^ could not' be attained by a fair
and-sqiiare-party rote. Indeed, we have uo
sortfof dodbt of it. But, we wish to go into <
the next State canvas to win the fight for the ;
suntetnacv of honesty. decency, fair deal
ing, retrenchment and reform. How is that
to T)C Aoiie ? We admit it depends upon the
colored people. They alone can change the
goj^rumeut of this State for the better
through the ballot box. They have experienced
some of the evils of attempting to rule
thaStyte without considering the interests 1
or hf$4ing the counsels of those who really
comtitute the most important part of society.
Perhaps they may be now inclined to hear
thuae arguments which they spurned lastyear.
If jfe Would gladly aid them in establishiug"Vtfclfer
'government. Put, any movement
of this sort must come from them. Our
peoplevwrll probably never again be induced
to {ft to tliery,with overtures like those rejected,
last, year. An good government, how- J
ever, is our prime necessity, we doubt not 1
the acccptauce of any proposals coming from 1
tho ?$her side giviug promise of success.* 1
andtfjjK?ilxprinciples by wliich wc can stand.
As fe these, there can be but little trouble, 1
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Since it is apparent mat tne nuuuuur j/cuiucracg^wili
erect a platform on those questions 1
broadi*niougK for all reasonable men to stand 1
upoif/^lBtillj we do not sec, as yet, any signs 1
of that awakening of the colored people to '
the necossity of conciliation which must
fornMte hhsts of any combinat ion between us.
We <j|p not gjrently hope to accomplish a victory
without suckoouibiuatiorv, but are willing,
and prefer, to fight a square out and out Democratic
party fight, to allowing the Radicals'
to w%^k. into power without trouble. There
is something hoalthy in a straggle for the
righf^ewn when we are beaten; and, on the
othef hand, a supine submission to wrong is
ene r^at iug and -corrupting. We believe
there should now be an organization of the
Democratic party, complete and thorough.
We aire willing to shape our policy to the views
of a. jConvention of that party, properly
organised'.. If that party should determine to
mak#any compromises with the colored people
from^mot.ves of State polity, we desire to
or. nlfnrnnlivA of combination
nuumib au M?W?
to that of the cumulative vote, which contents
itself .with a simple proportional numerical
representation, and leaves no room for expansion
of the party or the exercise of those
powerswhicb are the fiuitg of intelligence,
education, knowledge, experience and wealth.
This substitute we will announce hereafter.
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Tlic Marion Riot.
The .Marion &'tar couies to us with-a-long
article relative to the late riot in that town.
We glean tho following^ a colored man,
Smoot; on the night of the 21st of October,
was id town with his sister-in-law, trading.
Homeward bound, Smoot was met by a crowd
of colored men, one of whom raised his stick
to strike, but the said woman spoke to him,,
and he let fall the stick. Smoot then asked
Mr. Jj Wv Dickson to go home with him,
who and the trio moved on. .Alargcr^ttjoycF
gathered and followed them, i
In a 'few "fuinutes a? missile was thrown, <
whichJfushied Dickson's hat, who thereup- i
on turned and remonstrated: with the crowd, (
and wteTin formed that while they had Both- '
ing a$uist"hun, they intended to put Smoot ]
through. Surrounded by the mob, which I
increased every minute, Sraoofc was struck \
with irrtick. Dickson advised him to make *
his escape/wliioh, he. essaying. to was J
pursued aijeT fired upon. ThId shot' was the I
signal for a gftucril cry of '^iilEhiw.*? '
Smoot ran^s far as Mahheim's itorp, where c
he stumbled, afiderehe% could- rccoier/>wa9 8
felled by Othello Harllee. Smoot managed (
to get inside the store, which wa& immediate ^
ly shut., -Ilayuej the- -Senator; - burst'open a
tdie doojr, and the crowd surged in to find 1
Smoot, who had, fortunately, mad<rfiis cscape.
The crowd then went to Maj, Shaw's ^
liuuse aud searched for Smoot, w.ho,was final- '
ly induced by that gentleman to give him- 5
saH' ?ir> tr> rmist.'ibln Shaw, and he Iodcred in '
jail for safety. Fourteen rioters had trtu?
bills found against them, and at the June
Term, 1S71.. the cases were tried, but only
two of the defendants were present. Thirteen
were found guilty, bnt not being present,
sealed' sentences were left. Just at this
stage of the proceedings, they wero all pardoned
by the Governor. The citizens of
Marion luve held indignation meetings and !
passed resolutions severely censuring the action
of the Governor, and branding as false, .
the statements of his organ, the Daily Union,,
of Columbia.
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. ' 1 y - : ' PJng-ie
and Famine.',
For some'time we have" had accounts of !
the niost distressing character from Persia,
of the prevalence of pestilence and famine
at tho same time. Hardly any land has suffered
within a century so severely as Persia
is now represented to suffer. This awful
condition prevails in the provinces known 1
collectively as Khorassan. Such is the ex- '
t;ome stato of destitution there, that the '
wretched-Survivors arc often driven to dc
vouring' the dead bodies to' sustain their
6wu lives. .A worse story than this eypn is
told. People are put to death, it is said, to '
feed the famishing. " ''
f Turkish Government has taken tardy
nieasureV'to check the irirbad of the plague
upon its dominions. But cholera cannot be '
stopped in .its course..** It travels upon the 1
wiuds. The outcry in, Persia has before 1
now been the forerunner of the appearanceof
chulera in Europe and America. At ;
least we should profit by the warning and >(
maintain as rigidly as possible the purity of ^
the air by the cleanliness of our cities. While
these terrible wails from the East 1
are striking upon our ears, a pamphlet is j
given to the public by Rev. Mr. Ash, chaplain
of the British legation at Buenos
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Ayrcs, giving the horrid details of the late l
pestilence in that city. Outof 180.000 poo- \
pie about two-thirds fled and 20,000 per- t
ished. The fish in the river Plate died 1
from the poison in the waters. And the
people were compelled to drink the water }
of the river, the water of the wells being
unendurable j and it was made so because
there were no means of drainage in the city.
On tho XOth of April there were 450 internum
ta. On the 16th the mortality began
visibly to decline. It will take years for the
city to recover from the calamity.
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Progress.
The Kimball House, of Atlanta, Ga., is
said to be the finest hotel building in tho
South., It has been built within a year,
cost 8500,000. contains three hundred rooms
and was filled with guests to repletion two
weeks ago, there being at the time no uriusual
influx of travellers. Atlanta was razed
to the ground by Sherman in 18G4,' now
numbers thirty thousand inhabitants, and.
the *cry is ''still they come." Tho people j
iro thriving abundantly,- as merchants,
bankers, farmers, mechanics, manufacturers, ]
laborers, railroaders and life insurers.? i
They are now ptftting up houses, building *
factories, churches and railroads, of which |
the air line through South Carolina and the ]
Ducktown, Tenn., Roads are those most ad- <
vanced. The tone of the people is extra 1
Southern, but their progress smacks of Yan- 1
kee energy. They express great pity for J
South Carolina, and great confidence in 1
themselves and their future. They acknowl- i
edge to have suflereu the inflictions of a
wretched government, but havC evidently |
caught and retained some of the drippings
of the treasury. Mr. Stevens opposes the
New Departure and Gen. Gordon favors it. ,
Ifazzah for Georgia! Long may she wave ! <
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Mr. John Forsyth of the Mobile Register
begins to think negro voting is not so
bad a thing after all. He says: "The
South gains in political weight in 'Congress
by colored suffrage, and some of these
;n *i? i.~j i-*
uajs luc xiauaaao vtxii nivu vucj Hull llit 11
alone." He then aims at conciliating the
rabid secession elements by "telling them i
that "this is an important gain, particularly 1
as in many of the reconstructed States it is
likely to ensure, to the benefit of the Demo- ,
cratic party." This is a far more sensible i
view of the situation, and the future use to
be made of negro voters, than Alex. Stephens's
nonsense about the invalidity of the
Fifteenth Amendment. Wo shall soon ex- ,
pect to hear Mr. Forsyth shouting for the
New Departure, or even for "Greeley and 1
One Term!" '
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David Butler was the Governor of No- 1
braska. Ho was impeached and removed J
from office for embezzling the State funds.
Since then David has shown talent worthy
of the immortal Benjamin of Essex. Two j
men named Gere and Bramlee are the owners 1
of a newspaper in Lincoln, Nebraska. David 1
Butler went among their friends and pro- v
posed the presentation of a silver service to t
the newspaper proprietors. About seventy- t
ive persons responded. Gere and Bramlee >
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rere invited toa^bail^uet. Before the feast
fcwud. arose arlll in'ji most affection^te^pcocli,
jrcsente^b dilapidated pi|R^oy [,
?ri taenia "ware, weltburnished up, an$a brace <
if goblet? totnatoh.The newspaper jaaen j
eomed overjoyed 1 They laid the tditinihnial
arefully^away aad^then went to supper.
Juring the supper David?went around with ]
l subscription paper-and raised- a over
i hundred dollars, to pay for the present.
Everybody was delighted, and so was'David:- *
fit afterward turned out that the pitcher and
the goblets' belonged^) the ex-Governor him
self, and that the Original cost was exactly
twenty-dollars ^ .j, v 1
- Benjamin of Essex -should' uow try his
hand at a spqon presentation. .
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Getting at the 'Truth.?The Hon.
James B. Beck is stumping Kentucky;?
He declares that when the books of the Nary,
the Post Office, the Interior, and other
Departments pass irito hands of the Democracy.
su6h an exhibit of rottenness, will
be made as jrill astonish the world* Ho iwys
the heads of those Departments Would sooner
see Grant Emperor teddy,'with the power of
succession to'his son, than seq the evidence
of their guilt pass into the Democratic party.
Mr. Beck adds, that,lie expects to-hear
Df a big fire or some other casualty in the
Department building, if conqcalmenj can be
maintained in no other way.
It is reported that Fred Grant,, son of the
President, has* accepted the position of civil
engineer on the Pacific Railroad.' As the'
people of the United States paid for Fredas'
schooling and fed and olothed him for four
pears, it would seem proper that; he should-io
something for the peoplo In return. "Has"
he resigned from the army, or is he coins to
Irntfoml
n ' 1' Wwa ' .
" ' fojb the jouhnaij. m '
Mr. Editor -As1 one of the Taxpayers
)f the Town of Ctfmdeto,' may 1 ask a ^uesr
tion, wincn some one snouiu pe amc. to. ,answer
:
Have those persons who ohjocted to paying
the Town tax asscsscdaguinstthc merjhants
of Camden for the year 1870,- ever. ,
paid anything for the said year ?
I have been told that-offers had: been
made to pay the tax of Baid' yoar on tho
issessmcut of the subsequent year. I also
learned that a committee of Council had
been appointed to confer with those mar- .j
:hauts, uud ascertain whether they were ;
willing to pay a reasonable tax, or whether
he balance of the Tux-payers of Camden
should be required to pay their taxes for tho
benefit of-tliose.who refused.
Please let us know, Mr. Editor, if yon i
ian, what has bceu dono in regard to this 1
matter, and oblige . ' j
A Tay-Payxr. ' ,
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A Negro Riot at Goldsboro', N. C.?i 1
Wilmington, July 29.?A bloody riotoccurred
it Goldsboro' to-day. About 5000 negroes
irrived there from Newbern and the lower
jounties on an excursion.train, chartered by 1
he Republican State executive committee, to
menu a mass uictruu^, at which vuii^iwuiiiu
Thomas, ex-Senator Abbott, ntfarcus Erwinind
R. G. Badger wore to be the speakers;
There were few white people in town. / Many
)f the negroes came intoxicated. The police 1
wrested one turbulentjnegro, and while on <
.he way to the guardhouse with this prisoner,
;he negroes rallied and rescued him. The ?,
jolored police fired at the prisoner, who was
recaptured and taken by the police to the 1
Exchange Hotel. About one thousand cf .1
he negro mob, with clubs and pistols, rallied .
:o the hotel, attempting another rescue.
The riot commenced by the negroes throwing
jrickbats at the police, aud using clubs, when
i cross firing began between the polico and
nob. The white people forbore, but are now
irmed for the emergency. There is great
jxcitement. About thirty or more shote
were fired; three or more whites were hurt,
me negro killed, and one colored policeman
killed and two wounded. A committee of
jitizens, appointed by Mayor Robinson,
waited upon the Republican leaders and Mr.
Stanley, president ol the A. and iN. 0". Kailroad,
and requested that the'trains and nojrocs
bo carried away. To this Stanley replied
that ho would not carry them away until
ho was ready. When told that he and .
Thomas would be held responsible tor the
disturbance, he replied, "Hold us responsible
and be d?d."
A JIad Ji/TOF..?A Judge out in Westam
Pennsylvania went a river to bathe
other morning, and while he viad swimming 1
about, some abandoned scaundrel store all
his clothes, except his high hat and umfcreHar
We won't undertake to explain how mud the (
judge was, because although the English
language is copious, its most efficient and 1
vigorous adjectives are entirely unequal to '
the expression of certain degrees of emotion. ]
But he stayed in the water about four hours
experimenting with the different kinds of
imprecations, and endeavoring to solectsome
of the sturdiest objurgations for application |
to the thief. At last he co came out, and af- ^
tcr mounting the high hat, opened the
umbrella and tried to cover his retreat up '
the street toward his house. It appeared" to ^
me J uage mat an tue xeuiaie pupils of the
boarding schools, and the members of the
Dorcas societies and one Woman's Rights
Convention, were out promenading that
day; and the judge had an awful time going
through the Zouave drill with that umbrella.
When he reached home he heard that the
thief had been captured. _The judge is now
engaged in writing out his charge to the jury
in advance of the trial. Those who have
jcen the rough draft say it is the most
picturesque law paper ever drawn up in that
country. <.
At a gathering in Bridgeport, Conn., a
few day ago, a request was made that the
four front seats be vacated by ladies over
twenty, tomake room for those under thattonier
age. A maligant reporter says; 'It is
innecessary to add that thero was no great
imountjof moving, but there was some ratling
among the false teeth after the service
rasover.
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STATE ITEMS. ' .'iff
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The NeV Yort''.SW calk Genera) M. W. ?
3aej "tic Sir Walter fialcigb of Sooth; j
Barbital , ; i"'?
% Darlington affords only a piq-nic, pleasant ?
weather, dmt dry, a new drug store and a . J
literary clnb, in the line for news this week, j
TKe Baptist Sunday School Convention
met |n Sumter on July ,20th. The attend^ *
ance was large, and feeling zealous. Much j
The-ero^jpiri' Shtrtterare-in a desperate 8
coudition, and the Watchman says, that in J
three weeks, the prospect generally, has been s
sadly changed. t
The dwelling and several contigous houses, 1
tbo property of Mr. J. j^ShaWr were, coi*; '
sumcd by fire^ in \^illiamsburg^ last j
Monday evening. t
The Spartanburg . Republican evidently 1
has Ea-Klnx on the brain, judging from t
the quantity of apace devoted to the terriblci ^
monsters in its last issue. The county is ,
comjplefely j^nore'd. 'V v
Last .week some negroes drove front,;the,
plantation of Mr. Wm^Smith, near ChappeU-'si t
Depot;'In-' Newberry, a hard Working colored t
man. The negroes were disguised as Ku- i
jul i'-* * ;v''i ' -i-'i ,,JVKIux,
and had no apparent reason for acting a
as.they did. . , ri ; ' K '' \
' " Mr. HollingsworthV horse ran away with I
Mr. and Mrs. H. and their child, in Edge- c
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field, last week. The buggy was thrown j
against a large; oak and the three occupants j
thrown out underneath'it, but all escaped J
Without injury. t
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Charleston is in an awful stew, both on
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account of the heat of the weather and the |
municipal election, Gen. Wage ner and t
Mayor Pillsbury are.the respective candi- c
datos for the^ayoralty, We hope tochron- c
icle a victory, for tlio eitisens' party, next !
week. . ' {
Mr. S<db^on-Or Jlarmon, of .JiCxmgton i
County, lost a promising son aged ton years, on a
last Monday, r The boy.had been playing |
in some cotton seed, and was found smothdf- j
ed head-downward, in a hoje which he' "liad e
made during his play. I
-John R. McQoagc stabbed-Robert"Bree- !fl
don, on the 22d ult., at Clio, Marlborough i
County, through the right lung,-killing him t
in a few. minutes. McQuage made his es- ^
cape, but was captured on Sunday morning ^
and lodged in jail. Ho is a recent penlten- 1
tiarian, and esteemed to be a lawless charac- B
ter. I "r. p
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Two Lancaster gents went over into North. ^
Carolina, last week, to settle an affair of
honor, according to the code. After arriving
Upon tho ground, the challenger and lua
friends having chived the cud of bitter v
fancy, withdrew the challenge. The Ledger ?
does not say that any Invigorator was iin- ^
bibed on the occasiuu. j,
3badrack Webster was hung in Indcr- 13
son, last week, for the murder of. Adeline
Agn^w, whom he stabbed with a huge dirk g
knife. Between three and four thousand y
persons witnessed tho horrid spectacle.? ^
Much bad whiskey was .imbibed upon the
occasion and many fights ioJ embryo- wore
checked by the vigilance of the oolice.
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Mr. Rufus 31. Thames, of Clarendon, had -j
his dwelling and adjacent houses burned on t
the 10th nit. Not even the clothing of the a
family was "saved.. The barn was consumed *
also Mrs. Thames was so much shocked
by the occurrence, that she died in a few ^
minutes after getting out of the burning a
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uguse. The
Bennettsvillians are becoming aroused
to the importance of having a railroad, and
the Timet publishes a letter from the Wilmington,
Charlotte and Rutherford rail .oad }
company, submitting a proposition considered
reasonable by lhat paper. The proposition
is to construct a narrow guage, (three
feet,) Bennetteville to grade the road, furnish
cross ties and iron, and the company
will lease it, pay six per cent, per annnm on g
the stock and furnish locomotives and cars. j
Orangeburg came very near having a first (
class sensation on last Saturday night week.
Cause, kerosene left on the outside of a lamp
at Meroney'B hotel, which upon the lighting
uf the lamp blazed up to the great fright of
the editor cf Newt, who skedaddled, after
an abortive attempf 10 f?n the hlflze out. ]
ft linnrarav BAIWu * blaflkct
ueorge iuercuxwi, ^ I ^
and smothered the blaze. It is not stated
how fast or far the editor ran, but as soon as ^
he left the room "an alarm of fire was j
jiven" which brought out the firemen. J
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Columbia is likely to have a publio hospi- ?
tal. Dr. Trezevant submitted the plan to ?
the City Council. It proposes to fit up the
:olloge chapel, by means of an appropriation ^
from the Legislature, the enterprise to be
thereafter supported by a joint appropriation
from the State and city; have a board of
trustees, an attending physician and surgeon, n
tnd a house apothecary, who can also do the
Jispensing of the city to the sick who are
treated at home.
The Ku-Klux Committee had a warm re- s
:eption in Yorkville about a week ago. One F
)f? them, Stevenson, and A. S- Wallace, M. ?
3., had a pitcher of milk thrown across the E
able at them, whereupon pistols were drawn c
Dut "nobody hurt." Subsequently, William
Snider reversed the saying "heavy on Sniler"
by shooting Tom. Johnson five times
vith a pistol. Snider was a policeman.?
Johnson was alive on Sunday morning. C1
Son. Van Trump charges with lyirg (no A
lew thing) when he told the Committee p
hat Yorkville was a civil, quiet place.
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" Awful Tragedy.?Aumtst aitfiiii
polling tragedy occurred iV :;$lffingbfun
!ouoty, 6a., Saturday; about two miles above '
tation No. .3J, on the-; Cocd^aj^BailrxmL; ^
Irs. Ash, the wife pf John tLAsh, formeehr :f
8fcvannah, killed her. three little children! ?j
tid afterwards committedSuicide by admin- y
storing a sufficient quantity of strychnine to
roduee almost instantaneous deaths Mrs.
^sh, formerly 3Iks Laura Dasher, of Effing-^
County, lias,' fbra shorftime past/lSeen
lightly deranged.. No serious apprehension
?*s felt, although her huaband continued to .
:eep a strict watch over her conduct. A I
BSt^fbhe" previous lie^had "purel?tsed'V "
mall bottle of&trjotyune fojr^the purpose of
lestroying thcntats'arra dogs that were rapidy
killing off theirrpooltry. ' Suudiqi night
J1 W^to.-fce^asulrchl. Nfr.jita? ^ekfadl
hre^of tfieThildren in bed withTmnfi&lf'and '
lis wife. Mr/George Patterson, a friend- '
nf hfr*' -Ash's OOrmniAd i
in adjoining jbom. AI)o^t3.o clock^heiuid '
Hr. Aafc %ere arouse* I by- the cries of-two! of *
be children and entering the room, found
Mtf..'Ash in theractf?f taking m spoon from
he moufcbof 4he;oWtat child, ,a little girl,
vhohad; struggled tmd resated until her f
:ries -woke her father and hiajBfeind? both of
vhom, feeling alarmed,- asked ner whJi she
pas doing. She replied: "Only gjrinj&the
hildrcn a little powder, and I am afraid I i
iatte.-.not giren them enough/' M|I'' A'sU^ )
astjngahe powder which the:;
noutli of ono of the^ittreri, ^isop>efed that
t whs quite hitter. - It was hot a short time '
fUwihis before ft b&mothe'r, a ydithg woman
ibout^twenty-fivtf'yea^oM, aqdher thfeein
cresting Imle 'cfciIdre'n,two girfhibd/ one I
K)y,Srere lyirig stiff and eold'irithe inns; of 1
leath. Dying1 in rapid' succession, the
nother, althongh the first pj'take the ppiaOfa,
ived to see hbr children, all ' 'dle^ ^lna then j
allowed them herself.. The afflicted J father- |
reld hlfi little djieJ iuid his wife his arms
ill they breathed their last/ The time y&s
oo short from the discovery of the
irocure-any aid; although a physician; whs 'i
mmediatwy'sdht forVI^Pe 'arrived ^n; time '
o tn&fathe# whbrin his efforts (o disov^;^atHhe^rng
was, haa!' ihralloifcd ,
nough to render his condition dangerous.
"We totifesg that tCd parclonmg record of
Jovecnor Scott of- SqiHH t'aro^n^ff a,;flri?e
oo extended for the oauree of j>istuJej;,pe?9e
nd^jrality ^ that'StateC IfcLJPpO? - W
official figures, d^ring ^yejW r^ofe
)ctofccr 15,187,0, ,Gp>-pron<^$cotl^ granted
wo hundred and seven pardons to convictd
crimrpaLs, the ounces commuted beijig
11 tile way from homicide to "petty larceny.
The record: shows among the list of pardond
individuals, twenty .six burglars, two
lighway robbers and one hundred and thirtyhreo
thieves. The scoundrels are tunied i
3osc to prey upon the community j and oth- j
rs, taking courage from their example, embark
in the same career of rascality, feeling
ssured that if cdnght, they will enjoy the
nine executive clemency. It is said that
political considerations lie at the bottom of '
oany of these cases, .and the inference is eaitled
to credence and weight. %
Southern, (Ar. V.) Home.
On Monday mornirg the dead b My of a
rhitc man was found near Florence H was
ecogtiized as that of a man who had left
!t. Stophcn's Depot some six weeks ago, <
or his home in North Carolina. We are not
niformcd whether violence' had been comaittcd
upon the man or not. 1
A pew in*a Long Islajid Church was, last
Sunday, the sconce of a euchre party. "Two
oung men played, while a young lady bewcou
them allowed her lap to serve as a
able. The whole party wcro hustled out. . H
McGefian, the Ohio xnnrderor, whose
iounsel Vallandighjim was'when ho shot
limself, recently escaped from jail, and has
lot yet been rc- captured. He was one of
even prisonors who dug tlicm-sclves out and
led- ' . feu
While a California-wasp and tarantula
vcre fighting, a toad . swallowed both and
oon after expired in greatrpain. ~
CHEAP STORE!
WHOLESALE & RETAIL GRAIN
AND FfiOMON STORE!
THE ATTENTION OF BUYEE8 IS
elicited to my largo and constantly replenshed
Stock of
TORN, " SUGAR' v
RYE, FJiOUR,
OATS, . MOLASSES,
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JJAUUjM, ouiir,
LARD, STARCH,
CANDL.ES.
7L0UR?From finest to oomrooo graces, at
low prices.
SUNDRIES?Crackers, Cheese, Pickles,
Mustard, Tobacco.
SEEF?Fulton
IERRINGS?Potomac and Roanoke.
1ACKEREL?Halves and Quarters.
IALMON?Barrels, Kegs and Cans.
IHAD ROE, Cod Fish, Hams.
JOFFEE?Old Gov. Java, Lagnyra and
Rio.
?ERMS CASH.
Staple Goods only. Shoes, Rope, Bag- <
ing and Twine.
Will make heavy advances on Consignrents
to his friends in Baltimore. i
D. W JORDAN, 1
Aug. 3--?tf. Agent
NOTICE
IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE UNDER
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IQNED will make application to tne juugu vi
robate of Kershaw County on the 12th day of
ugust, 1871, for FINAL DISCHARGE AND
ETTERS DISMISSORY, as Executors of the
state of JASPER CHRISTIANSEN, late of
amden, deceased. HENRY GERDTS,
JOHN H. HARTZ,
Executors Estate Jaspe? Christiansen.
Aug. 3?2t.
removal!
On and after March the 1st., the undersigned"
in be found at his residence, on MONDMKN^T
L SQUARE. Patients waited upon atthoir
isidcnces at any timo if solicited,
eb. 23. I. H. ALEXANDER,
tf Dentist.
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