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he faileg r sWHsetiger. J. R. HAGOOD, Editor. A BURIESQUE ON COUNTY CON. VENTIONS. A Premature Meeting of a Part of The Republican Party-Holding A Caucus for the Election of Dele. gates to State Convention-One White Man Present. On Saturday morning last some of the members of the Republican party of Pickens county, met at this Place for the purpose of hold ing a County Convention for the election of delegates to the State Convention. Some of the leading lights of the colored si(de of the par ty, headed by Mr. II. B. Hendricks of Piekens,-the only white man that went into the caucuis,ald who was elected Chairman pro tem-all .of whom atteT pting to prove them selves loyal to their colors, after manouvering around awhile, met in the vacant building near the de j.ot, when without legal right they elected the Clairma n, and Clark Miller., colored, as their (lelegates to represent the party in the State Convention. It was a meeting, held without orders from the Exe cutive Committeeand was not par ticipated in by the regutlar Chair man of the Republican party for the county. Mr. A. M. Folger who is the regularly appointed Chair'maI, ha.s not issued orders for the hol ing of the Convention. lie himself not having received such, from headquarters. Conse iuently tie action of the Conven tion was illegal and the election of the chairman an(d Clark Miller was but a burlesque on the proceedings of a county convention An enger (des ire to be a (delegate to the State Convention, fostered perhaps by the pro temn Chairman was the occasion of this premature County Convention. It is said that be read t he rules governing a con - ty convention, and that he attempt e'd to convey to his audience the im. pression that he was county chair man. The townships of Ilurricane, Pickens andl Liberty were the only three that were represented in the Convention. Central sent up her repres'~entativ'es, but they came too late to have a voice. These townm .hips haid been holding private "an cuses und(er the supervision of the "hbairman, unattendied by other white citizens, and in conformity to his wish were represented here on Saturday. Tart Craig and Warren D~uke represented II urri canie, I lampton Reese, Ben Griffin, C'lark Miller and Alex Pitts repre ienited Pickens, while Alfred Blas sented Liberty. ()eutral s, delega tion came up n the $ o'clobk tra f, but reached the scene of action *ob late. The whole affair .will turn out to be nothing less than a fir'ce, and a certain gentleman's sugges tion to have the meeting let out for repairs will not prove to be an un timely one. 0 M. GiEoRGE G. SALE, ex-Asso.. ciate editor of' "The Newberry News,"has retired from journalism in order to devote his whole time to other professional duties. Mr. E. II. Aull is now connected with the 'News' as the associate editor, and we wish him inuch success in journalism. May Mr. Sale he e(ual Ily successful in his legal profess ion. --1ow soon shall an eletion be held in the interest of the C. C. G. & C. 1R. 1R. ? Colonel Campbell, of the Construction Company, has resignIed from his position as See retary. It is a mistake that the Louisville & Nashville Road has as yet taken charge of or road. Let Gov. Ilagood order the elect ion Soon. TilE HIEAVE,,NS. A correspondent of the ''New berry I1 erald," of March the ,11th, says: Astronomers tell us that on the 27th of' this month, at nine o'clo. k in the evening, Neptune on his wav West will encounter Venus or, her way East. Whei they reach the same point of right ascension they wN'ill be in conjunction. Thes e will be an occiltation of one planet )v the other. It. is a very rare occur renee. and is sai( to be a very beau tiful phenomenon ; but no one can 1)e sure about that, he -anse there is no 0one alive who ever' saw it. T1he last recordedl was in 1727 and1 the last before that was in 1591. Get your opera glasses ready for the night of' the 27thI inst. It will be somethinig you never saw before anhd may neCver see it again. There will be0 conisider'able acti' ity amiiong the planlets the balance of this mionith. Mercury and~ Ur'anuis are announedl as mo1'rning stars until the 16th, whenCi Mercury goes on night (duty and' is an evening star. Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars aind Venus are also eveniug stars. Mars is stationary in the middle of of this month and is brighter than she will be for two years. Jup1iter is stattionary at the close of the monthI. Persons having telescopes can find eon.,-iderable to look at dlU ring thme balance of the month, in the beaut ifuil heavens. Young gen tlemen aled ladies, putL your thioughits on the hea uties above and nrever I ,ok dhown) or back. Study these things. P. --Don't blow in your gun to see if it is loaded unless you want to get your name in the papers and your family is well provided r., Tle 1Fitz John Porter bilt - n e .VpIn the S natq last Thurs 1 ay. L.ogan made his usual ppeech against U, but, it was passed by a vote of 86 to 25,the result of which was received Wthi'applause and cheers from the gallery. Senators Butler and Hampton voted in favor of the bill. In 1865 Porter was court-martialed after a trial which lasted 45 days, he was dismissed from the army for disobedience.of orders. His friends believing this decison unjust, sought to have the action of the court-martial set a side by Congress, and after a long and determined effort they have succeeded. -The Columbia Register notes in that city the arrival of Col. T. Stobo Farrow, clerk of the Senate of this State and also clerk of a committee of tfhe House ot Repre sentatives at Washington, and says, ''the col. is already in the field for re-election next winter.' One office at a time col., if you please.-Ujn ion Times. A FrIST CLAss APPOINTMENr. I ov. Thompson ihas appoinuted I. W. Shand, of columbia, T. Q. Donaldson, of' Gl reenville, and Thomas W. Bacot, of charleston, as tie commissioners ''to consider and report a plan to simplify the mode of assessing and collecting4 the taxes of the State and CouLn ties.''--Union Times. ---A woman living in chambers h'rg, N.' J. claimns to have A snake 15 inches long and thick as an or dinary lead penrcil removed from her stomach. As evidence she ex-I hibits the snake, which is sai(l to have lived two days after its remo val, and is now preserved in a bot tie of alcohol. ' -Ludwig Miller, 'of Atlanta, has been in the habit of jumupingi on the pilot of the railroad engined and riding into the depot. Ile triedI his usiual prank the other day, when he wvas thrown under the en-f gine, meeting a terrible death. Ihis' headl was cut off and both eyes were torn from their seekets. I)EATH OF M. E. Bunn.-M. R Babb, Clerk of' Court at Laur'ens Court Ihouse, died Sunday morn-i ing last, aged 42 years, from can cer, with which he had been suffer-i ing for a long time. lIe leaves ar wife and 7 children. -A well-informned wi!iter inl the Mo bile' Regi'ter says : "I believe as tirmn ly as 1 (do ini my1 OWnl existene, that if the cot ton) States will plant 15,000 acres in cotton and 2,000,000 more in~ corn and1 oats. raise bogs and1 mnules, as before the war. they will in five years, he in)dependentI of banks and city merchants, their lands wvill he worth 100 per cent. more thanU now, and all the Ind(ustrnial interests of the country prosper as they have not sin1ce '50.'' -The P~hiadelphi~a R~cord1 ventures I upon tihe following remar ks If Mr. TPilden should (lie we would be very sorry, but it would only3 eut dlowni the D)emoeratie majority in Ne w York one l vote. The patrty will survive the loss. A party ii hose vitalihy depended upon: efaIhng strenigth of a single aged ma ol ebdyor, in~deedl. Le't ts nars to more s-rlona cnidrations. T tRUT110 B 1WvORK OF TH E'ONLOADED PISTOL.-l*w York, March 16.-Inl Br1ooklya, - to-,day, Miss -Cela Renny, .eventeon years bf age, was visiting thle iouse of John Cassidy on Oth Avenne Brooklyn. While the Cassly famiy ind their guests were chatting in th'e parlor after dinmer Dennis Reilly, 30 years old, one of'the party, drew a re. volver and pointed It at Mary Cassidly, -aying he would mesmerize her. When ;he exhibited symptoms of fear he laughed, and t.irning Around, levelled the weapon at 'Miss Renpy's head an( pulled the. trigger. A loud r.eport fo.. lowed, and without uttering R word Mfiss Renny fell forward upon the floor rlead, the. bullet having pierced her brain. The screams of Mrs. Cassidy nind her daughter aroused the neigh borhood, and Reilly, who made no ef fort, to escape, was handed over to the police. Ile seemed utterly overcome with horror at the occurrence, and said that he thought the revolver was emlpty. All the other chambers wern inloaded. The coroner will investigate. Such accidents are becoming almost, daily occurrenlces, and the law will have to intliet hanging or some o~lter ueveei pinishillent to prevent fools frn carelessly handling Ilre-arms. It. would he well to have a law doing en tirely away with the present stock of pistols. an( strictly preventing the maifactiire of any more. --The "Keowee Colurier" says A ve'ry reiarklable event occrirI1ed near WaI ulhal on Vednlesday mrin eoI'imr March 121. in the denth of two ve r ofl and much respected persons-Mr. iId Mrs. John Sharp. of otir county. Mr. Shar) died at t-enl ininnites to two ,Ind Mrz. Sh1-1rp 11t tenl mii utes to four o'clock. A. M. They were 79 years old, th teri'e beingij' IItL thirty-one days dit'e;-. 'nee in their ages. They had been IIt'rried 58 years and r'aisel fourteen1 chibrldlfein of their own, and five orphan and chidre7. Th1v have nnmeirous rnlhdrnsrviving( themi. Ther, will be 1ur'ied at. Beltel Pres)vteri n (hurch in one grave and in one cohin on Thrsday morning at eleven o'clock. 'I'Ii aged and lovely couple were not far divided in thir 1 i deat h. It. is thte I of very few to live so long togetler, witne'ss so naniy changes in the world, Iu die so nlear togeth(er'. -Keep the Ioney Imlovinz. )on't nilt it away. Pay yor lebts a fa . ;. you call. Have patien'ice with one' AnIothe. 10y your goods of home merchants. Enicourage homie enter prise and give your patronage to our rwn mechanics andI~ we will all pros petr.-Keowee Courier. The abovec appIlies to every place, and( to newspalpers as wvell as mer.. r'hlantts, mechanics. etc., t her'efore, sul. scr'ibe for I he "E A sLv M ESSENG EP, which is only one (dollar per year, an1)1 make us heajppy. --The plan of chieckinig cot ton has been piopuilar' wht~ereve fairly tried. IR tan he cuiltivated with less labor and :he yielhl Is generally greater than wvhen )lan ted itn( ills.. The larg'est co naJde by Mrv i. Watth'n, iof Harnwell ~Ounit y, on)t checked cotton. If entough ~eedl are drIoppe~d in) the check therec will be nto difllilty in securing good tand(s. A goodl ploughman can cult i vaite c ar'efulily checked cottLonl witJhot 'alling ini the help of the hoe hand. --Thle "'Savannahd News"' says that here may he In Atlanta a wildI desireC o whoop- up T'ilen biut this dlesire asn't cropped out to any mlarked ex ent mn any other part of the State. Sinlce 188) Tfilen ha~sni't done anything hat shiould( cause the p:'ess of the State ;o butbble over wit h enthusiasm for him md~ at that time there was no very narkedl sentimient in his fav'or. --It is said the new Spring bonnet vili be a (lnIke