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.
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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.
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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.
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