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Stnto News. Tho JCiiglirth timber land company nrc buyhiglnnd in Clarendon county. Spartnjffiurg will shortly havo gas work$, 1 V :>} A turtle weighing 200 pounds was * caught ou Sullivan's island last week. Mrs Flora McDonald, aged ninety niue years'^ d\ed in Darlington county last week. Greenwood, aipl. Cokcsbury are to he madje inonby'brder^oOiccs after tho 1st .of July. Judge ('riilieutcr^ has decided that trial justices have, no jurisdiction in CJlSCS.'-.-y ( fr(irt'). i J^ga .Hcnryi.T. Crumpton died of Brjghk's,discusc,:at hiswrcsid^nqe near llidgcwny last ,M,onday. . Thoj various townships in Suniter county, voted a !scl:ool tax from two to three a?d a half mills. The auditor of Lnurous county has Bottled. Tuxes $74,274; fiulla boua $279 42. The Beaufort Tribune says, witness | and'jury tickets are selling at thirty cents on the dollar. " 'rhc/Knight Templars of Charles ton-arc'arranging for the centennial next year. The special term of the court of general sessions for. Iiiehland county began on Tuesday the 6th instant. Tdic ,co3t of feeding tho poor, of Beaufort county is $4.15 each per mouth, ,or 13] cents per day. A colored woman and two dogs worcikilled by lightning on Gibbca' plantation, near Florcnco last week. ,; Tlie National Bank of Greenville has declared its temi-annual dividend of five per cent, free of all,taxes. in the village of "Willistou a piece of land 30x00 was recently sold for $800. i On Tuesday last, noar Society Hill, a youth named Henry Melver, was struck and: killed by lightning while working in a field. There is a'Bhptist; revival in pro gress at'GrahiteyiHe. On last Sunday ove^lfwcntv^threo persons were bap tized. llf ? ' A diipensstion has been granted the brethren to form a Masonic lodge at Graham'? cross roads, Darlington county. George F. Mclutyrc, exrscnator and ^J^^B^r-qrHJoUcidu couriTy,~~n~aa been eon vie tedof neglecting to. turu over money to his, successor.,../ ..,:,,'?, . ; The crops throughout A iken coun tyV.Ajre roported to bo in excellent con-: dition, the late rains having brought them forward with remarkable rapid ity,., loo *??.? *;.? 1 uu "i ' A brilliant meteor, lighting up the whole heavens passed over Bak-nwell village on" Monday evening lost? be1 tween^'and! ioo'clock; ??tia d\rectio'n was from oast, to weit. "fixe A'ikcri 'tribune learns that at.a religioui moeting of^colored people at Mimray. in,That* county, on Saturday lit last, a fearful affray took place, which resulted .in the death of two or -in-' .'W'>.'<-;!! ,? ? M'>I1U 10 i three men. , ? , Id . lT*l il Q lit ' . .. ,?.:.. Ii To f ft HI A disease very, fatal to hpgsjhns op? pearcd in Horry county. It attacks fihe full grown ayimals rather-than the young. One hymptoni is, "that' the hrfiriwhen'touched, strips off as upon a Scalded surface.' ' ' ? A few days sinco a young niau from Lexington county, S. C.,,endeavored to steal away the ^daughter, of a citi zen of'Hichmond county, jiear the sixteen mile post on the Georgia rail road.. He was detected by tho young lady's mother, who determined to foil him. She therefore dressed up one of her boys in a woman's' dress and sent him out to meet the gay deceiver. The latter, however, smelt a large sized mice, ami fled oh the boys ap pearance.' Ho was 'followed by^d couple of pistol ball*. He was pur sued ?tiftCrwnrds by four men but with out success. _, i i-j A m * ill * tun A Free .Horse at Rest. ? ;.I : i i tpl *i ~? I* . . , During the -pioneer' days of Ionia, Mioh.^ the ? town had an editor, who was1 patient and long suffering. Some ofMm ninJnber.f of the church got him to give $20 toward securing a minis ter; then they'wanted their religious notices inserted free: then he was ask ed 'for $25 toward helping 'to'build a parsonage, and he finally found he was giving tlie chuudi more than no gave his family._He nevertheless "hung on" for a..time longer, until one evening he went to prayer meeting and was asked to leave his office for a wtok and go and help clear the. grounds' for a camp-meeting. That was tho last straw, ami ho arose up and said: "Gentlemen, I'd like to go to heav en with yon. I know you all. ^ on aro clever and obliging, nnd kind and tender, and it would be nico for us all, as a congregation, to go in togoth er; but I've concluded to leave you and dodge in along with somebody from Detroit, Lapeer or Grand Rapids. It's money, mouoy, all tho time, and I've given this church un til, if my \ufc should die, she'd have to go to heaven barefooted." The congregation seemed to realize that a free horse was being rode to death. They let up on the editor and pacified tum. lie. even bad a special tent as signed him ntithc camp-meeting, and ali was well. - ? ?? ? ? IStJUKU KVKKY saturday MOUSING ?y THK onANoKueno kkwh Company. { riTHApiP^NUKKWS; Editor/ :' ^ UKOti HUblVEB, I ItusinoKB aiannger. ' "HATVH 1>AY, JiHy"l?7l875T Uon. Julm S. Preston. Tho eloquent, but perhaps ill timed, Address of Gen. John S. Pres ton, of this city, to the alumni of the University of Virginia, on the 1st of July, is exciting severe comment from the Northern press; the New York Herald leading off in a caustic edito rial, bended, "A Confederate Ghost." The Geucral is entitled to his opinions and is always very free in expressing thcm.?Co/?nthiu J*hacntx. We don't intend to pitch into Gen. John S. Preston for saying precisely what he thinks, lie is candid and honest, and don't believe in whipping "the devil around the stump.'* When Geu. John S. Preston is taken to task for words spoken, we would like to sec it done by a South Carolinian, and one fit nad competent to copo with him in intelligence and worth. Let suckers say what they please, we bc licvo thrce-iourtha of the Southern people, spoke through him in his address in Virginia. ? There is a some thing \\\ the heart of a Southron that can't be bought or hoodwinked for any length of time. It is not policy ! It is. a foe tc policy. We mean po litical policy. That kind of policy that told Sam to say to his mcthodism, "lay thar, till I take a reel with Sal." That policy that will Bay to Gen. John S. Preston: "How injudicious in you. You ought not to talk so; you ought to have waited until wewhipped jiont ^wwaidiea^prlrty1 hi- fffffryffl) j know wo can't do it without tho aid 1 of the Yankee, the Plymouth Rockor, ?fee. Once we get the reins in the hands, of our own driver, thpn we will give the crack of the whip its true ring. For those injudicious expres sions of yours yon must take a back seat for the present. I So, General John, please "step dowu nnd out," for the present. Edgcfi?ld nitist' be in a deplorable condition7 If the following, which we clip from the Kdgeficld Advertiser, is true?-lind we hnve no reason to doubt its truth.1 Lovers of true Republican principles deplore this state of things 'as mnfch'-'sd'ns the ?Advertiser man ran, arid we hope soon to hear of their 'correction by those in high places, whtt'haVo1 the power. At the same time 'wo Would ask the Advr'rlikvi if it is'fair to strike a ma? in the face with a mill-stone for errors beyond his control. The clerk of tho court and the coronor of Kdgeficld were put in office by, wo suppose, a majority of the voters of Kdgeficld connty?Mr. Chamberlain did not put them there, that is certain. And if the Governor hul the power to remove them, wc doubt not but what it- would be clone immediately. Kdgeficld county is not. tho only county in the State where ignorance in office, and tha want of moral worth and perception is do plorcd : : "If in the course of our late very dull sale-day there was an event worthy of notice, it was the dehnt of Coroner Carrol' ns Sheriff of Edge field County. This official made Im appearance in our midst a week ago, and, as provided bylaw, entered up on tho duties lately discharged by Kx-Sheriff Wall, resigned. He comes, wo believe, from tho mountain fast nesses of Satudn. He is n negro, quite black, apparently about 30 years of age, is decidedly rustic in gait and raiment, and has a good countenance. It is raid (hatho is as unlettered ns any Hottentot that ever bought glass heads in CnpoTowm As Sheriff, of course he must conduct tho Sheriff's sabs. At 1,2 M., therefore, he mounts the Court Iltmso steps, and, in strange lone nnd parkin :c, summons an audi ence. Tho audience is not slow to gather, for 'fun is scented upon ihn tainted breeze. Yes, God knows that tainted is tho word! Whites and negroes rush to the spot. And now Sheriff Carroll waves an Advertiser with a graceful semicircular flourish and says : "Gcntlcmuns, how much is I offered fur dis fifty acres ob land?" Here Mr. John L. Addison modestly explains from the foot of the steps that the defendant wishes furthor time, and thai he, as plaintiff's attor ney, is willing?and requests that the sale be discontinued. Of this, the act ing High Sheriff understands not a single syllable, and, raising his voice higher, again says: "Gcntlcmuns, how much is I offered fur dis fifty acres ob land?" The crowd smiles. A voice says: Twenty-five cen*s. The High Sheriff again says: "Gentle lhuns, how much is I offered fur dis fifty acres oh land ?" A. voice says : Fifty ecu's. The crowd suiggers and wags its head. The yellow boy from Ohio, who stands behind the Sheriff, on the topmost step, with an open ac count book and o pencil, reminds one of the ambitious butunfortunato youth of Longfellow's "Excelsior." Again the High Sheriff says : "Gcntlcmuns, how much is I offered fur dis fifty acres ob laud? How much? JJow tittle?" Tho crowd explodes, with a loud report, right and loft, The High Sheriff's eyes become two saucers, and his good naturcd faco assumes the ex pression of a scared rabbit. He casts an expiring look upon Jesse Joncsj the little yellow boy who is Clerk of tho Court, his preceptor, and wrings the Advertiser into a lean wisp. We feel deeply humiliated to see what a lean and dirty wisp it can he wrung into ! Jesse has taught him according to his lights?Jcase's lights!?'and of course the tuition is* feeble and un availing. The crowd shrieks, screams, kicks! Nothing so ludicrous has been seen in Edgefield within the memory of man ! And now stage frightseizes upon the High Sheriff, an??.he plunges madly down the lofty steps and is quickly hid in the lower bowels of the Court House *Oh those lower bowels! What do they not hid in these days ? Oh, that dirty and inexorable maw of Radical reconstruction. The yellow buy from Ohio plunges after the High Sheriff, and is nleo received into those screening and pitying bowels; Josso enters into the maw and is swallowed up. The myrmidons all cutcmnto the maw and play with lC01'ruP^n'nBWfc^tnd Tli? 1iiVi\V I continues To shrielC37scrcnm and kick. I But under this irresistible hilarity ?among tho whitopeople?there is a deep feeling of indignation and dis gust?of unspeakable humiliation?of intense shainc-^f'W wc have come to (hi*, and must pnl vp with it!" [From tho Charleston Chronicle.} Tho (Joorgct own Comet Strikes the News ami Conner The Georgetown Cornet, a Demo cratic .journal, which is possessed of J enough independence to express an honest opinion, though it conflicts with the views of our somewhat dicta torial Broad street contemporary, takes issue in a recent editorial article with the latter on its statement that the A vies and Courier was not inter ested ? ib the Bowcn trial, and gives very pertinent reasons for tho News and Courier feeling a deep interest in that trial. It hints likewise at a knowledge of somo circumstances con nected with the case tho revelation of which might be unpleasant to our con temporary; and we shall expect'the Cowct, in the interest of justice, to state all it knows, whether- it is "forced" to do so by the News or not. Honest journals should not, in these days of reform, stop at mere innen do. Let us have the truth, friend Comet, and show an expectaut world that one Democratic editor in South Carolina has tho manhood to strike at iniquity though the perpetrator thereof is found in the ranks of it* friendi. Wc subjoin tho Comet's avticb : We beg to differ with the News and Courier in many things regarding the late Bowon trial. Now in spite of the Charleston paper, wc profess to know u little about the said trial. We were surprised to hear the News and Cour ier deny all connection with the pro secution. This whole community was surprised, and with just cause. Do we understand the "leading paper of our State" to emphatically deny all connection with the late prosecution of C, C. Bowcn? Is it reasonable to suppose that such was the case! The defense in tho libe! prosecution was riot, by great odds, the glorious suc cess that the News and Couoicr would crack it up to be. Tho hearing of that cause resulted in a mistrial and made matters neither worse no better. By law, tho cause oulu have another trial; the Aews and Courier knew this if they knew anything, nod had just and reasonable grounds to expect and fear another prosecution, if C, C. Bowcn was acquitted of tho charge of murder and pronounced an innocent man by tlio jury at Georgetown. Now doesn't, it stand to reason, that such being tho case, the New* and Courier would interest, deeply iutorcst itself to procure the conviction of Bowcn ? Did it not know that the verdict of this Court, if favorable, would be given in evidence at the Court in Charleston ? Did the Kcus and Cour ier not know that the same law that in Georgetown declared C. C. Bowcn no murderer was powerless in Char leston to place upon the forehead of the same man the brand of Cain ? Did not l\\m N?ics and Courier know thnt if C. C. Bowcn was declared an in nocent man, that such a verdict would enable him to strike, with greater chances than ever of success, at the paper that had fearlessly exposod and brought him to trial. Certainly it did. And it's no more than reasonable to suppose that the News and Courier would strain every nerve to avert the impending danger? We - do not wish, by anything we could say or do to weaken the hand of the News and Courier, but it must come up to taw. Wc know a little more about the case, perhaps, than tho Ncics and Courier in all likelihood suspects, and if wc are forced to re veal facts in defence of our position, wc shall not hesitate so to do. A Joke tbnt Kicked Back. They arc telling a joke, writes 'Eli Perkins,' on Charley Backus to-day. Charley tells it on himself, too. It seems Charley drovo up through Stamford, Conn., yesterday, with Lern Read, of poor dead Ban Bryant's Minstrels, for a companion. As the train got ready to leave, Charley says: 'Lem, let me show you a good joke ?I'll got a splendid joke on that old duffer sitting in the Station? KoW you watch I* Then as the train began to move 2ttfc| slo^hfogC'harlcv. ruahcj info thr, station, shook his fists iu the stranger's face, and called him a miserable, mean, thieving scotiudroh 'O, jou rascal !' said Charley, Tve got you at last, you bloody old scape grace, and nok I'll lick you to an inch of your life. I i 'Charly! Charley I' shouted Lem, 'the train is' ofl^-run !' and Charley left his astonished victim and rushed back into the car. Where! where 1 ? is tho man who wanted to lick mo all over New Eng land?' shouted the old farmer as he ran to the door of thestatiou with his spectacles In one hand and a crum pled Tribune, in the othor. Where is he?show him tome!1 'Here he is,' said Charley from the end platform of the last car nB it moved out, holding his thumb and finger to hi3 nose. 'Wall, liere I am,' said the old farmer, shaking his fist at Charley, 'and I'll be goll bluetcd, of I don't lick h?II ?' 'Ding !?dong!?dipg!?dong !' in terrupted the locomotive bell, and? Alas for Charley! the train backed back. The outraged man in the station rubbed his eyes, went out on the platform, saw Charley through the window, and went for him. Three times he chased the poor, misguided minstrel around the trniu. Ho finally caught him, and the poor man only escaped by leaving an 88 hat, and the lapels of a 860 cat in the outraged farmer's hands. Some of our young readers may like to try the experiment of making a hanging garden of a sponge. Take a white sponge of large size, and sow it full of rictt, hemp, canary, and othor seeds; then place "t in a shallow dish, in which a little water is constantly kept, nnd as the spongo will absorb i the moisture, the seed will begin to sprout. When this has taken plnco, the sponge may be suspended by cords and hung where a little sunshine will cuter. It will thus becomo a mass of green foliage, and should be refreshed with water daily bo as to be kept moist. WANTED Twenty ?ootl Hands to cut "Wood. Good Price?Cash. Apply to J, If. LIVINTiSTON. jniy :t 1K7? :U . KOHN & BROTHER DRY GOODS ESTABLISHMENT. OUR PLATFORM. mym ? hin IHE LARGEST ASSORTMENT-r-and al ways to maintain it in Dry Goods 1 lata, Clothing, Shoes, &c THE MOST FASHIONABLE STYLES? Whilst We will always ' have "plain and medium ?Style?" Tor those who prefer them, yet we will aim to he up with the high est fashion with a large portion " ? of our stock. TllO IiOWest Prices?None can buy guodfl Cheaper than thin Iloiirte. None Watch the burtiiierf? ' closer. None do as large a bn?j neM in our line. Hew, can ntiy one then sell as cheap? We con* fidently belteVe our Prices, are really Lower than any where eine. Tito Uont Atter?ion?Our saie*> IDcn will nut hurry n customer unit; aVd tliuT make ah ckch'ange neeewiugri neither will we *el| an article it at when examiner! at home will prove uhriititdsctory. 2?Ul?thor^?<>ur New Brick Establish liMhmunt and Hhow xooma is a ., modeVof convenience and .com fort, being pronounced by. every body to be the Largest of iiw kind in ilic State. We munt cordially u. inviko a generous public to pa^.n iudgnient on our taste and skill - ?j a personal inspection of tbe . premues'and stock Our friends ? . tar and , near are assured that '? everything that patient determ ined effort Can do will always be doiie io' keep our Home at the. id of the trade, A ?' ? i I : - - f ii :? in ???? IC< . - l'/t?& . vitl Ol n'.mfc . > : t i it ?>.iiM n\?mM- j-.'. i Sji il.; . . .(O Iti: .: ' iv.;;.i j i.tcvibtutti ?"!-<.? ' ?'???-? u- Mo M:-i$ i -jtl is ??;?;;' ? 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