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State News. Grcenvillj is liappyl Gas works. Tro croppy in Horry :County havo been injureu^uy \hc recent rains. Tho'^:ommcn(feWn? oxer?tses of Wofford college takes place to day. The. Sullivan's island railroad company cleared 6101) on Sunday last. The residence of Mr. T. C. Glover, of Greenyille, j was burned on Satur day night last. The Knights Templar of Charleston are arranging for the centennial next year. Cnpt-, .George H. Moffett, who died in Charleston from a fall received two weeks ago, was buried on Monday. Tlio .various townships in Sumter County, voted on Saturday last a school, tax from ? two to threeaud a half,miUh. ' In Marion tho colored people have inaugurated a series of hoeing bcos. Happy Marion. Happy colored folks, v Louis Banks, an ex-convict, was captured : in Charleston on Monday with <a> trunk of sitk dresses in his possession. Geo. F. Mein tyre, cx-scnator and treasurer of Golleton county, has been convicted of neglecting to turn over money to his successor. Rev. James F. Lntimer, of David son college, sails lor Europe on the 3d of July to attend a university at Leipsic. Prof. J. H. Carlisle was unani mously j elected on Tuesday to the presidency of Woflbrd college, vice Dr. Shipp, resigned. A ministers' convention will beheld at tho great Saltkehatchie Baptist church1 of Barnwell, commencing on Tuesday following tho first Saturday in July prox. During tho recent cyclone, which visited the neighborhood of Bishop >i!le', Mr. W.' A. Barnes, regarding his dwelling unsafe vacated it for an oiithouso. A few moments after be and 'Iiis family hnd escaped, the build ing came down with a fearful crash. nrChc Rev,. Ellison Capers, ot Grcon villo, delivered the annual address before the DeStael Society of the Columbia Female College, on Monday evening. His theme was "Woman; Her Influence and Sphere of Work," r i and- -be 4^nd4??*U subject ir> a masterly manner. The A iken hotel was sold on Wed nesday last. Important improvements arc to be made by the new owners, which will add grently to its appear ance;' as well as to the comfort of giicrts. Tho house will be undor the management of the former well known proprietor of . the McConncll house, Savannah, Ga. yrom the Eufaula Time? ot a late date, we aro informed of the death in that city of Col. Washington Toney, a nativo of this town, who was born ? ?n the lat Septomber, 1875, and who died on the 6th inst. Ho was a gradu at?j of tho South Carolina college. Our older citizens will no doubt ro membor ?omcthing of him.? Green riU? Mountaineer, TJie school district meetings in Marion County, on Saturdny, as far nfl hearJ from,' resulted as follows : Carmichaoi, Moody, Mullins, Bethen, Manning and LcGetto voted no tax. Marion voted one mill; Mars Bluff, one and one-half , mills; Button's ISeckj; y*re mills; Row ell, three mills; Harllecsvillo, two mills, and Wahee --'Ii'' three mills. The State Orphan Asylum, which Mas recently removed from Charles ton to Columbia, is now located in the fine house and grounds on Cam don street formerly owned by the late Hon. Frank Elmoro. Tho place con tains about four acres, equally divid ed between lawn and garden, and is well shaded. The number of inmates at present in the asylum is seventy four, of which forty-one aro boys and {hirty-one girls, whose ages are from two to ten years. "Charleston Chronicle says: August Hay lies worth, convicted at the last term of the court for burglary and larceny, was sentenced to the peni tentiary for six years. He has tv?o broth eis there already. Ilayncsworth was confined iu Darlington jail some time ago for the same offense, but made his escape with five other pri soners. The sheriff of that county on learning that his prisoner was in Charleston made application to the litlthorities for his return, but as he hiWl already been sentenced as above, the Application wns not granted. There is a young colored woman in Osknloosa who has a strange history, if the story told by herself and friends be true, ^'ho is called Maggie Adams, nnd h about sovcnteeu years of age. Until recently sho had lived with a family by the name ot Allen, in the south part of this county, who came from Missouri to Kansas. During all the years since tho war she has been in a state of slavery, receiving noth ing for her work, being compelled to do washing, etc., for various families, allowed no books or opportunities of learning, and kept in ignoraucc of tho fact that she was no longer a slave. She was kept so jealously guarded that she knew nothing whatever of the abolition of slavery, and was en lightened and her release procured by a young colored man who somehow learned the facts and went to work to have her set at liberty.?Lcuvcmvorih (A'?h.) Times. ISSCEII KVKKY SATUIWAY mousing BY TJIK _OBAKOEBUltO NEWS, COMPANY. , THAU C. ANDREWS, EtlItorv (JKO. liULIVER, ltusinrss Manager. Saturday, July arisrsT o'overuor Chaniliorlain. "Upon this rock will I build my church and all the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Can't we go further and quote "Well done good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over few things, I will make thee ruler over many things, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." The wailings and lick-spitlings of thit most prostitute of journals the New York Sim, aud a slop-tub full of disappointed and disgruntled white-liv ered, odorous and mottled sinners, to uso old Joe's vermifuge, don't scare worth a d?n. An upright man is the noblest work of God. We are satisfied, and have reasons to know that the honest and straightforward course of Chamberlain us pursued since he became tho Chief Magistrate of this State, will continue to the cud. Let the wailing nnd gnashing of teeth continue. ? mm -i mm? Court House lirick Yard. We visited, the other day, the Brick yard established by Mr. Livingston, the contractor for build ing the new Court House, and found to our surprise a kiln containing ^aj^^j^i^hu^ia^d^^d^twenty thous burning." To us these bricks looked as fine as any wo ever saw iu the same state ?>f progress. Tho super in tendant of the work inf irmcd us that, in his opinion, he could turn out as fine work as could be turned out in any yard in the State. This will be a great advantago to our Town, and it is a great pity that the business of making good bricks here has so long been delayed. Thousands of dollars have been expeude 1 and sent out of the Town and Couuty, that could as well have circulated amongst us. Pluck, energy nnd enterprise can ac complish wonders in a short time, and you find it in every go-ahead pro gressive town. We have it here to a cortnin extent with a few, and we arc glad to say it is on the increase, spreading rapidly, and we hope soon to chronicle the fact of our whole population being inoculated with it. Then we will indeed, spread out our fins and suckers nnd take in the su bcrbs, and build us a city on seven ! hills, second to none in the State. With a country to back us, rich in all the production of an alluvial soil, and owned and possessed by a go ahead people, forward must be the watch word until we are numbered with tho cities that make men proud to hear nnmcd. Bowcn Acquitted. The testimony of a self convicted murderer was not considered good evi dence in the trial of C. C. Bowcn, at Georgetown last week. The solicitor, Mr. Atkinson stated to the court and jury that tho State had failed to make out its case against Mr. Ilowcn. That it was not usual in this State to con vict a man for crime upon the unsup ported evidence of a convicted crimi nal. Judge Shaw, a democratic judge, he it said, in his charge to the jury, sustained the able solicitor, and the natural result was a verdict of ac quittal. Wre have but little to say in the matter. We knew that Mr. Bowcn in this instance, was an innocent man, and we believe those who hounded the matter on knew he was not guilty, too. And trying to convict a man on such evidence, in our opinion, only opens the way for a great deal of trouble Iii many in our Slate, who iu ?nwiMiw^ai m wmmtmm Ii?pi?j g I "MMl1 trumping up such damnable and cor rupt testimony, simply makes the sauce for the gooso tho sauce for tho gander, and can't complain, or object, when arraigned and convicted on evi dence of their own manufacture. Wo dcploro this state of things, and if vented for the sole purpose of crush1 ing, or putting out of the way, Repub licans, leading Republicans, then it would bo woll for these parties to re collect that it is a poor rule that won't work both ways. Let us have peace. Mihi cam futuri. ? mtm 9 mwm - We, Vh & Co. Wo would like to inform our well dressed brother of the Greenville jVt'tw, that we are not the apologists of Joseph Crews, Adam Crews, Bow en or any other man. But we do advo cate justice, simple justice. Let justice be done though the heavens fall. Don't crowd or crush a man, on testimony, that an intelligent and honest jury would hesitate to convict a suck egg dog with. Joe may not figure up amongst the. most sweet seutcd extracts, but who arc his accusers ? There are many at large, iu this State, who could -be arraigned to-day on accummulated evidence ot a similar nature to that which our friend of the Greenville News seems disposed to hang Crews. Eli Urimcs. This self-convicted murderer has been re-arrested. This[timc for killing, or hanging, a prisoner of war. We think this is the third murder he has committed. He confessed to the killing of Col. White, and a man in Savannah. Tho ftews and Courier seems to think the charge under which he is now in arrest is a trumped up one. We hope not. He is a mur derer by his own confession, and ought to swing. Blood calls for blood, and from the pores of the sod that covers the corpse of the lamented White issues the Nemesis. Wrc Afiontl The Blackville Sun, of yesterday, had something to say about the an nual meeting held here last Saturday for levying a school tax. That it looked like a fixed up job, &c. The editor of that paper is certainly aware of the fact that we* Orangeburgcrs always fix things up riyltl at the begin ning, and when we join hands matters mnr^i.as lovely as a nmrjjauce feas^. We expect a trcatTlu tno TicaFfuture in perusing a chapter or two on Orangeburg officials and Orangebarg politics, promised us by our conserva tive friend. In his treatise, we request our whilom brother not to for get the Ex's, and to mind his italics. We miyht be tempted to underscore for him. American Hiflcmuu We pec by dispatches, that the American team of riflemen have achieved their second victory over the Irish Team, a good deal of interest has centered upon this contest, and the result has caused considerable re joicing in this country, as demonstra ting the acknowledged skill of Ameri cans ns marksmen. However they have not mueh to brag about, tho Irishmen shot splendidly, and have nothing to be ashamed of, iu their do feat. The Paris Opinion Nationale an nounces the death of a person named Andricw, whose father was, it is said, the first passenger who ever went on a steamboat, having returned from Al bany with Robert Fulton. Now was not that too bad in An dricw ! Why in thunder did he die just now ? if he had only lived a little longer perhaps his father might havo taken the first trip with Keeley when he applies his "motor," and would have made it ns great a success as he made Fulton's old fashioned steam. We are not exactly suro whero wo can find Andricw now, or we would suggest some punishment for him. But if the chuckle head, who first got oft' the above paragraph was dead, we could spot him easily. ? ??j??. -. .??ii ? A Homo for Devin. On th<? 17th of June, while Boston was celebrating the battle of Bunker Hill, Marshall, Texas, saw another sight. Marshall was the scene of a grnnd mass meeting, having for its object the raising of a fund for es tablishing a home in Texas for Jeffer son Davis. Tlie money is to be raised by subscription, and tho plan was in augurated by the ladies. To this there can be no political objections. We arc ready to believe that Mr. Davis is a poor man, for the poor wo hnve with us alwav-. Scpnraled from the history of tho rebellion, we be licvo Mr. Davis to bo a moral man and an upright church member o, Memphis. The insurance companies have done something for him, along with other Confederates, and might do more. Seriously, if we were of tho Confederate persuasion, we should not want our hero to be pensioned off in that way by a Texas almsdeed. Tho pride of Mississippians should pre vent it. A tit ho of the money spent in keeping up the color line and sec tional strife in Mississippi would pur chase for Mr. Davis his old home stead, now owned by a colored man, and there among those who had lovod him when he represented them in a congress of the United States, before ambition to bec.mc tho head of a secession Confederacy had seized him, he could end his days in peace. We write feelingly and earnestly about this, would contribute to'a fund to keep Mr. Davis in Mississippi. He could do no harm there, and the people of Mississippi would do them selves infinite credit by cherishing him in age nnd giving him snccor in his declining years. Bad as the in dians have been since the progress of civilization in Amcric?, it cannot be forgotten that they were once the lords of the laud, and there is some thing sad in seeing them continually driven toward the sitting sun. We would save Mr. Davis from such a fate, and from Texas. Right among his own people should he find a home. We are williug to blot from memory the personal record of Mr. Davis from the year 18G0 to the close of the re bellion. Let him be as if the war had not been, nnd let him begin anew. It was something of this feeling that caused Henry Ward Beecher to plead so strongly in his behalf, and it was such a spirit of forgiveness that prompted Horace Grccley, the ablest abolitionist of the north, to put his name on the prisoner's bond. Let Mr. Davis be regarded for what he was before the war. He can stand upon that, and there are northern and western men who would subscribed to a fund for making him a home in Mississippi. The solicitors in Texas pursue a different course, They pro pose to do good to Mr. Davis for the good ho did to the Confederacy. Mr. Bcngan in his speech at Marshall re hearsed the services of Mr. Davis as a Confederate chieftain, his sufferings and his poverty at the close of the war* ?<? ?*-1.-<#? ?? rffS? When it comes to rewarding men for what they sacrificed, suffered and accomplished In the Confederate cause, there will be found plenty of men more deserving than Jefferson Davis. In saying this we but echo the sentiments of many who fought on the southern side. Mr. Davis is en dowed with great ability; he is able to conduct large business enterprises; he is able to write, travel, to make speeches in Texas, and in many other ways to earn a comfortable living. But the maimed private soldier, who had nothing but his strong limbs to keep him from penury, who cares what he suffered or what becomes of him ? Every southern city has its crippled Confederate soldiers who are obliged to ask for alms, and they oftener get a cold refusal than tho smallest sum of money. The eloquent empty sleeve hangs by their side, or they stump upon the rudest sort of an artificial leg; for years th i>y wore the little faded gray jackets, having no | means to buy other clothing. Re- j mem bering the generals whose pre cious lives wee spared to write letters and disturb the peace, who is there that remembers the private soldier? Who ever heard of a monument being erected to the memory of a man who sent bullets to the enemy? Fame is reserved for the men who stood use less in rear of the gunners, holding swords. Who ever heard of a private at a soldiers' re-union ? Thero are no such persons around the later day mimic camp fires, where the weapons are words nnd the glory belongs io the colonel. Whnt were the sufferings of Mr. Davis, who ran away, compared with ?hose of the maimed soldiers who fought his battles? Sentimentality is unreliable, and always overlooks the real heroes. Mr. Dnvis deserves n farm in Texas, even if for nothing more than services rendered in the earlier days of that state. Everybody acknowledges that, and two colored men subscribed fifty cents each for his benefit at the Marshall mass meeting. Let lb* homestead in Texas be secur ed, if at all, on account of his union glory, nnd not because of his Con federate services, to the overshadow ing of the true heroes and sufferers. ? / Wen- Ffcntftl. T. KOHN & BROTHER "'? ? ??? '?'< ?j-v;.-V;!;..:--:-ij,-iv.,.>o'1 DRY GOODS ESTABLISHMENT. OUR PLATFORM, IHE LARGEST1 ASSORTMENT?and ?t . ways to maintain it in Dry Goods Hats, Clothing, Shoes, dec. THE MOST FASHIONABLE STYLES? Whilst we will always have "plain and medium Styles" for those who prefer them, yet vre will aim to r.e up with the high est fashion with a large portion of our stock. The Lowest Prices?None can buy goods Cheaper than this House. None watch the business closer. None do as large a lm?i ness in our line. Kew can any one then sell as cheap? We con fidently believe our Prices are really Lower than any where eine. TIlO Best Atrenioil? Our Sales men will not hurry a ciiMtomer to choose something that dnM nut suit, and thus make an exchange necessary; neither will we tell an - nrticle at when exJBiii?e<" " ?<!>ulto win piflle WkauMKtiT FlivtllOr?Our New Brick Establish linhtnent and Show woroi is a model of convenience and com fort, being pronounced by every bodr to be the Largest of its kind in the State. We most cordially invite a generous public to ps. s judgment on our taste and skill hy a personal inspection <>f the premises and stock Our friends Inr and near are assured that everything that patient determ ined effort can do will always Ue done to keep our llou.ie at the head of the trade. Lot* of NEW STYLES in SUMMER WEAR FOR Ladies, Gents and Children. S-oeoial Notice.?A new lot of the Celebrated DIAMOND Per fect fit SHIRTS arrived T. KOHN & BROTHER. T, KOHN <fc BROTHER. T. KOHN A BROTHER.