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Agenta .and Correspondents wanted in all Towns of tho County. SATURDAY, JULY" 17, 1875. Rast Due School Claims. It seems that our unfortunate county is still in for its full share of misfortunes. It seems that our county treasurer was one of the num ber who did not get his share of the funds appropriated to pay past due school claims in our county, not at the time the same fell due, and has not got said funds as yet, and most likely will not for six months to come. Many of the other counties got their funds, but those for our county, it is now claimed, arc locked up safeley in the suspended bank, and no doubt there will be a long suspension be fore our old claims will be paid. We must still hear the old cry of no money in the treasury to pay school claims. But it will be asked, who is lo be blamed for this? We know of one party who is not to be blamed, and that is the poor teacher who has earned the money, and still holds an unpaid certificate, unless he has been under the painful necessity of selling ing to the speculators for fifty cents on the dollar. Those who purchase old claims will still have a chance to drive their business, only they say it ia not quite so thriving as be required ine approval of the county commissioners for their payment. To say the least, our county finances seems to be rather a slow eu.v.li ; but we are hoping for better times. When ahall we find the '.nimbia sixpence" floating among our publie funds ? Conscience In Politics. This may seem to many of our readers a singular and rare combina tion. We must confess, it is by far too rare, at least, in our section ol thia country. Wo arc pleased at least with one drift in South Carolina politics, and that is an ardent inten tion, on the part of many of our citi zens,, to have good men elected to office. An honest? reliable man of either political party ia botter worthy, and can be more safely tusted in of fice than n dishonest man of whatever political party or creed. If we get' men. in office who simply serve them selves? and il VI their own poekei?, and bleed the public,, it doea not make much difference in name of what political party the pilfering is done, the publie ia equally depleted, and injuired.. If the public is really feerved, ia a favor, let it be done by whomsoever it may. We want men ?lio will do right if tho heavens fall.. After all, there ia nothing like the conscience, and bringing, things to hear upon it. And if .we, cap. find a response in this inner- shrine of the noni, we are in tho way tc right all wrongs and to secure all rights. Therefore; we shoe?d say. that the the very first quality in a public man ia a sharp, clear conscience. Doubt less he ought to have experience, sa gacity, comprehensiveness, knowl edge of human nature--the capacity to take.in all the facta and to adjust things in the beat way possiblo under existing circumstances. But, when all ja said, commend nf, to the man of thorough conscientiousness-by which we .mean the man. of clear moral dis cernment, and who intensely loves the. rjghtand aa io ton pp ly hates the wrong. Such.a raan, supposing there ia a cor responding dearness and,vigor of in tellect, will? he a moving power, and he will have plenty of business with al. We shall always ha.vo public men enough whose conscience follows them dog-like and cringing men, whose consciences ate fl.exj.hle to llie touch of interest, and. who get ofllce simply to opake it pay, and will make it pay regardless of thu means used, and, therefore, there is the greater need of men whose conscience takea ihe lead, and who go st things straight and sure, and with regard for nothing except the right of ihings. Honesty even in political malters, as well as all others, is the best policy. Balky People. Passing along a country road quite .eceutly, we found a man, a horse ind wagon, in trouble. The vehicle .vas slight, and the road was good, hut the horse refused to draw, and his driver waa in a bad predicament. He had already destroyed his whip in applying inducements to progress in travel, lie had pulled Ihe horse's ears with a sharp string. Ile had ! balked him into thc ditch. Ile had built a Gre of straw underneath him -Ihe only result, a smashed dash board. The chief effect of Ihe vio lences and cruelties applied were to increase the divergency ol feeling be tween the brute and his mauler. We said to the besweatcd and outraged actor in the scene that the beet thing for him to do was to let Lis hot se stand for awhile unwhiped and un coaxed, setting some one lo watch him, while he, the driver, went away to cool off. We learned that the plan wirked admirably ; that the cold ait, and the appetite for oats, and the sol itude of the road, favorable for. con templation, had. made the horse move for adjournment to some other place and time, and when tho driver came up he. had but to take the reins, and the beast, .erst so obstinate, dashed down the road at a perilous speed. We think much, of, the. opinion of the old Quakeress, when asked her opinion of war; sho replied thal she thought it quite unnecessary thus to kill and butchei people, that they would die of themselves, if-you would only let them alone. Some of' our South Carolina politicians will die politically soon, if the people, will only wisely let them alone. Not a small amount of labor and whip.Josh? J ci are* often washed on balky horses ! as well as men. "My wife ?3 the cause of it." It is now more than forly years ago that a man whom we will call Mr. Lord, called at the house of Dr. Bush, one very cold morning, on his way to Hanover. ..Sir" said the Doctor, "The weather is very frosty ; will you not take something to drink before you start ?" In that early day ardent api i ii s were deemed iudespensable in Win ter. When commencing a journey and at every place along the road, the traveler always used intoxicating drink to make him warm. "No" said Mr. Lord, "I never touch anything of the kind, and I will tell you the reason-nay wife is the cause of it. I had been in the habit of meeting some of our neigh Itors every evening for the purpose of playing enids. We assembled at each other'? shops and liquors were introduced. After awhile we met, not 20 much for playing as for drink ing, and I used to return home in the evening more or less intoxicated. My wife always met me at the door diectionately, and wtun 1 chided her for sitting up so late for me, she kipclly replied, 'I prefer doing sc, for ? cannot sleep when you are out.' "This.always troubled me. I wish ed in my. heart that abe would only scold me ; for then I could have re torted'and, relieved my conscience. But she always met me with the same gentle and loving spirit. uThi ogs passed, on th nu for some time, when at last I .resolved that I would by remaining - very late and returning much intoxicated, provoke her displeasure so much aa to cause her to lecture me, when I meant to answer ber with severity and thus by creating another issue between us, unburden my bosom of its trouble. "I returned in such a plite about four o'clock one morning ; sho met me at the door with her astin) tender ness and said, .Come in husband ; I have just been making a good Are for you-because I knew you would he cold. Takeoff;your boots and wann your feet, and/here, is- a- cup,. of; hot coffee/ "Doctor Hi al waa too much. 1 I could not endure il any longer, ami 1 resolved from-that moment I would never.touch another drop while 1 live?!, ami I never, did." He never did. He lived and died practicing total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks. That man was my father, and that woman my mother. The fact above related I received from the doctor himself when on a visit to my native village, not long since. Were thero more wives like my blessed mother there would be lewer confirmed drunkards. Woman's Influen?a. We women have much to answer for. Many among us have choseu husbands ill, rather than not marry at all ; many have brought up sons badly, from weakness or self-imjul geuce. Abuses and degrading prac tices have crept into the life of a once healthy nation-abuses and bad practices which no executive govern ment, no legal enactments, can pos sible reach ; but we women have^the lever in our hands that can raise the community to healthy and social re forms. Our inthience can arrestfdie Hood of infidelity, of luxury, of idle ness, of despising wholesome labor, irreverence to elders and superiors. Our influence can check tho grovving appetite for pestilential novels,-, for licentious plays and poems, for im modest dress. Our influence can re verse the law which excludes a peni tent, erring woman from a sisterly hand-claap, and warmly welcome a bad man who has not repented. Our influence can correct the riotous ex travagance in expenditure, wether" for personal adornment or house deco ration, or tables groaning with un wholesome food.-Fanny Aikin Kort right* j POISONOUS DRINK.-Tho N. > Y Southern Tier Leader, in noticipg a movement in Nebraska for prohibit ing the adulteration of liquors, and the law of Kew Jersy, enacted a year ago, for a kindred purpose, say st: "It is not known that a single prosecution .has been made under this law.. It has been a dead hkter from ihq njpmout.tif Un ? BM^jMfc And so it will prove in Nebraska, or wherever else the experiment is tried. We might us well raise adders- aud serpents, and presume th ut our child ren will not be stung or bitten, QB to legalize the sale of intoxicating drinks, and expect that the people will not be poisoned. The very words are synonymous. To intoxi cate is to poison. Docs it make so much difference with what the deadly work is done? When the people are tully persuaded that the whole busi ness is a curse and a.shaine, that burs and saloons are simply poison shops, and that brewers and distillers, as Wesley said, are poisoners-general then will they not arise in their strength and majesty, and delegalize. prohibit, and crush out tho aboodn traffic?" It may seem strange, but it is nevertheless true, that alcohol, regu larly applied to a thrifty farmer's stomach will remove the boards from the fence, let cattle into his crops, kill hist fruit-trees, mortgage his farm and BOW his field with wild oats and thistles. It will take the paint oil his hulding, break the glass out of his windows and Oil them with rags. It will take the gloss from his clothes and the polish from his manners, . subdue his reason, arouse his passions bring sorrow and disgrace upon his family, and topple him into a drunk ard's grave. lb well do this to the artisan and the capitalist, the matron and the maiden, ns well as lo the farmer ; for, in its deadly enmity to the human race, alcohol is no respec ter of persons. A LETTER FROM PURGATORY.-"A ; rather amusing story," says Colonel i Stuart, in his "Reminiscences of a i Soldier," "was told to me some time ago by an old lady who had aa an cient servant that had lived with her for many years, named Ann Brady. One day Ann came in to her mistress in the parlor, crying. 'Now, M^t I the unfortunate woman? Och, what will I do at all, at all?' ? What's the matter, Ann?' said her mistress. ?Ooh, ma'am,* replied Ann, 'the post man's outside, , and he's got, a. lotter for roo from purgatory, and. Ii koow. it's from my oujd mother, who's boon. Lhere this lin yean?, und it's all about me not paying tor the niasses 1 said I would. Och?se !' but I am the miserable-woman.' On the mistress going out, she found the postman in ?t of laughter, with a letter directed to 'Ann Brady,* from the Dead Letter Otflce. Nothing could induce her to tl touch it, the 'dead' to her meaning fl purgatory, and nothing else; and her mistress was obliged to open the letter for her, and found it was one Ann had written to a nephew in Blare, bul as he had gone to America , the letter- had consequently been jo returned." Our Homes. Our very existence is embodied in the word home. It ts where our lives | j are molded. Its adornment, there fore, ian matter of great importance to all. Let us s<? deon rato it that life may he a blessing.. With what shall we beautify our homes ? Flow ers must certainly rank first. Equally suited to palace or cot, they lend an indispensable charm to the adorn ment of our homes. Especially du- . ring the long winter mouths, when * nature herself.almost sleeps, then it is that the pure white camellia, the brilliant chrysanthemums, the hya-| ciuth and crocuses, shed their loveli ness on everything around, dispelling | the monotony wilbla which, their ab sence without causes. Decorate the walls with pictures, arranging them tastefully, and thereby engender a love for art, as flowers do for nature. Adorn the shelves and cases with in structive books, that their study may in turn adorn the minds of the house hold, who, so beautified, are the highest needful home adornment. And thus our homes should be our tutors, teaching humanity that love for the beautiful which lifts up and ennobles the race. EVILS OF SELF-PRAISE.-There is no surer soul-death, no more inevi- < table paralizing of worth and force 1 than self exultation and self-pr-iise The H had ow of self blights growth, maims power, cripples influence Tnere are men in some aspects al most great, in others pitifully small ?llffiinmft tiny wit! tint uland, out 4jf] their own shadow. There are men who have the ability and the will to perform the most valiant service for une and another great cause, who are I ^ wise, brilliant, eloquent ; who have yet been of little or no worth to their fellow-beings, simply because they are willing to do nothing without se- j ] curing, full credit for it,, to rear no column in the temple of? regenerated humanity, unless they can iuscribe their names on its capital. ? A SOFT ANSWER.-How a soft an- I ?wer can turn uway dissatisfaction, as well as wrath, is illustrated in the ] following anecdote of tho- late Presi dent Waj land : Deacon Muses Pond { wenl to Dr. Wryland once with the \ complaint that the preaching didn't 1 edify him. "Pin sorry," said thc pastor ; ''I know they are poor ser mons. 1 wish I could make them better. Come, let us pray that I may be able to do so." The deacon tell ing the slory used to say, "Dr. Way land prayed, and I prated ; he cried, and 1 cried ; but I have thought a hundred times that it was strange that he did not turn mo out of the house. I tell you there never was a better man nor a greater preacher i han Dr. Wa} lund." Napoleon said thal "war was the burliness of barbarians." Don't let your wealth inflate you. Rich men sometimes die of small-pox. Kindness, like the gentle breath.of spring, melts the icy heart. One act of charity is worth a cen tury of eloquence. Thero is no substitute for thorough going, ardent and? sincere earnest ness. Wm. M. MUD & CO., IMPORTERS AND? MANUFACTURERS OP Oils, Whita Lead, Zinc, Gators* Window-$lass, &a,| 201 East* Bay, CHARLESTON i So.. Ca.. Joly 17, 4*-& A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure j and Instruction." Harper's Bazar. I. LUST RATEEN Notices of the Press? The BAZAR, is- edited with a co n td bu - on of tact and talent that we seldom nd in any Journal; and Hie )otiriinl it el!' is? the organ ot', the great world ol ashlen.-Buston Traveller. The BAZA it commends itself to every lembcr of the household-to the chi bi en by ihe droll ui.d pretty picture?, to tie young ladies hy it? fashion-plates lu lidless variety, to the provident matron y its patterns for the children's clothes, ? paterfamilias by it? tasteful designs for mbroideredydippers and luxurious drcss ug-irowns. But the reading matter of he Buzar is uniformly of great excel lence. 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Address li A H l'Eu & BROTHERS, New York. S. i. R?8T1?WW CONTINUES to sen hts LIQUORS mdSEGARS .A.T (DOST, He keeps on hand and is reciving daily, tres li supplies of DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, TIN WARE, CROCKERY, And a general supply of merchandise. AUU BEFORE BUYING. C D. KOTJOHN, !. H. WILSON. J. T. WILSON. SAM'L H. WILDON & BRO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers mm mww.iM t TEAS. WINES; ALES. AND LMPORTED SEGARS. 308 King St., Charleston, S. C. May loVtf. jQU. A? C. DUKES, Dealer in all kinds of Drugs and Medicines. Dr Dukes has had Nine Year* Experi mcehi Drugs and Medicines and thorouh y understand* ills business. He keens tonstHiitly on n large supply of Good*1 isuully found 'in a First-class Drug Store, K^nareful attention paid to thc com lonuding of Prescriptions and all orders jromplly attended to. Call on him tit ils Popular Drug Store. Orangebur>i. Keb. 13. 1875 Rare Bargains -AT KOHN'S. T. KOHNft BRO., Having removed to their Kiew Brick Store, are now setter prepared to meet the (vants of their customers dian over. Their elegant sfcook of SPRING AND SUMMER CIL?TKliN? cannot be.aur gassed anywhere., Gall at the old st and J Theodore Kohn & Bro. A D V ? Ii T I S i<, M E N T S. M lsC K I. L AN KOUS. f^lRAND OPENING I 1 will open this morning a lot of th? Finest eas, ever offered in this market, consisting o UNCOLORED JAPAN OOLONGS. SOUCHONGS, YOUNG HYSONS, and GUNPOWDERS, And iu order to cultivate a trade for these fine grade* I will noll them VERY LOW. I have also received this morning another car-load of Solomon's Fancy Flour Freeh ground and Made especially for me from tho Finest Selected Wheat, I have never had ? complaint ot this brand of flour. IMPORTANT NOTICE 1 Inferior KEROSENE OIL it do dan gerous and so many accidents h ?ve oe curred from its use, 1 have been induced, at the repeated solicitation of ny custo mers, to purchase a supply of puro Oil for their use. I have just receive ten barrels ot i 'PUEE WEITE mnosEmr^ Of 124 fire test. I will sell thia Pure Oil cheaper than the same grade of Oil can be sold at lu this city. Families use? lng this Oil are safe. The use of the common Oils now FLOODING THE MARKET is equivalent to bringing Into the family, destruction and death ! I have also received : 10 Tierces Fresh Cured Davin' Hums* 10 Boxes Cream Cheese, direct frota, the Dalry., 25 Firkins Goshen Butter, direct from the Dairy, which has all the freshness and flavor of the Howl ers. 5 Tierces of Baltimore Sugar-Cured; Strips, 10 Barrels of Extra Mess Mackerel; averaging twenty ounces.. 25 Sacks LagRAvra Coffee* eqgal t? Java. 50 Sacks ?# Assorted Rio, by last Rio? ileaattr. With a thll supply of CHOICE QRO?P???SS% Fresh and? Good-. My stock Is full,, with. Ptrices low. and. good.tupes coming. II m. Thanking the pupHc for their very llb, eral patronage, and soliciting I?s .contin uance, I.will. do.. my best, to merit. ?h<\ m.a.. Columbia, Bo.. 0?,