Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ "■iS" H- K B' -jjpi ' -. 'T* the primary elec tion djrst^m. Tho k.-. J the MMarros placed in heo’a tipbu leetrey Hcp. Dl u .* *o be **1 ^ ttr Q° t * araoa' Uu ac Preeldeot of Mexico. &t<Loaght a woman,• age Is nndeni* ablj her own she never owns It l A Chicago man calls bis wifs Lixe, uacauss she never tells the troth. The pyetty girls in Utah used? Se marry Young, but they won’t do so any mors. We give away nothing so generous ly, and receive nothing so reluctantly, as advice. True self-denial Is harsh In the be ginning, easy In the middle, and moat sweet in the end. Beware of Judging hastily; it Is bet- ter to suspend an oplonlon than to re tract and assertien. * glue which.will reetat* tb* action • r* - ■ I Two Jfftujoim Satkd.—Compare oar with Badioal Leglslaturea, and* in the form of a certificate from the see what the Democratic party has done for the Statft. The amount saved to the taxpayers annually by oompar- log the expeases of the Democratic Legislature with the expenses of Radi cal Legislatures amounts to nearly $2,000,000* la large aa this amount, may seem to be, l am ready to prove it If necessary, Suppose S3.0M.OOO were red need to silver, It would amount to about twenty-six toes In weight and it would tafce twenty-six teams, each haulieg 2,00* pounds, to. carry the stealings of tbesa Badhal 1 rogues for.one year. Ptblak be have cause to rejoice, and deter arise that never again is the future shall the af fairs of tbs State fall into Radical hands.—Son. W. D. Simpson at Ah* demon. TbACIO liBBULT 0V a GtKL’s EiO*K- wn»T with a Neobo.—A special to the St. bouis Qlobs-Demoera* from Hous ton,.Texas, states that three years ago of water is made by boiling one ^ound ^ f|kraier Qa(Md Uvlog In Walker oooety, and head of a very re* upeotabljp fnmlly, hired a young negro mao nafted Walker Deniog to work on bis farm. McGuire has three daugh ters, one of them, Mlsa Fannie Mc Guire, a handsome young git! of 17, and who stood well In society. Re cently Miss Fannie sloped with this negro from, her father's bouse at deal ef night and In a wagon, They es caped to the railroad depot,and thence I to Houston last Tbunsday, Salting up their abode in a negro hut on the out* skirts. Mias IfcGalre’S brother staoted to pursuit, and on Sunday last, by the ■-4' A* 1 Mght’ aa oompi • ’s of IHurr 1 til it It IS 8“ . IS, wot ▼* I four t. *• • sonot r be • • A m: n In since h V' 't: . of glus In two quarts of skimmed milk. Why la a baby like a sheaf of wheat f Because it Is first cradled and then threasbed; aodi finally beocrus the flour of the family. * The exyeases, of the recent session of the Louisiana Legislature were over 1200,000 less than any year tiring reconstruction, So mud), for Democracy. Gongre* ti« j Acklln, of Louisiana, ’u twentyro’ght yeers old, and tb» youngest man in the bousa. le dashy, handsome, educated, wealthy, ^ v dower and parts hi* b*ir In the middle. John Jasper, the colored preacher, who bae taken the grouad that the sun moves around the earth, has been tw^n BPCi:red by a Richmond party to lecture In Hortbern cities. His first lecture wlU be delivered In Wash ington. Poor young thing 1 She minted away at the wash tnb, and her noae went kerelop lo the soap suds. Some said it was overwork, others, howewit whispered that her beau had peeped over the back fence and called out, “Hello, there, Bridget I' Jh Miss Alice fcotne?" Reports from the Lower Rio Grande Indicate that about tiwanty person* were killed by the recent Indian raid ers, and ono hundred and fifty horses run oft Tbe number of killed is no doubt euaggr rated. Nitie are known to be killed on the southweet border w between Fort Ooncba and Stockton. The Manufacturer and Builder makes a close < Iculation of the ex pense and adv’t •ages of the electric d with other meth- ‘ou, and concludes »u cheaper than * not Included; and •er, taking into ac- driviug. •gla has killed five war. One was slain by an axe aHppmg from hie hand; the seoond was drowned by the upsetting otabci which he was managing ^ the tb d he shot through the head, ^ug him for a turkey; the fom tu he killed by a tree that be was felll r, and the fifth ha killed ahfii log rollhig. The negroes are to hold a conven tion in Uhariotte, on the 16th of Sep tember next, the object ofiwhlch la to petition the law making powers of the country to restore the whipping poet for stealing and other grievous offen- oes. Stephen IfcCorote, a eolored man, is at the head of the move, and ba says that there will be; delegatee from oeveal of the Southern States. The News and Courier says : It is mentioned that a sailing vasael which oame Into this port on Monday saw the bark Asor about forty to fifty miles east northeast of Charleston. She was then going off very rapidly a large number of persons appearing on deck. She was noticed about four p. m. on Sunday, which was about Dvekpum after she crossed the bar. • A Gyoioae lately passed over a section of country four miles from Rome, Ga., oieuriog everything as It went. As far as hcasd from eight persons were injured sad several hor ses and mules were killed. Trees three test la dlaun its. were twisted over and swept away. Niue dwellings were blvim down. The path of the cyclone was three hundre yards wide, passing from noutweut to norhepah Toere Is a negro 'voaan naar Ntue- tg Six, who gave birth to a child on the Ipt of: April, which is a living curl Odlty. 'JBhe child is perfectly white tram ite bead down to the lower part oft the abdomen, and there is a com plete ring around its waist, of black, •Od it la jet black fcoax the ring around its waist down to ka knees, and la white from Ra knees down to its feat, r la white. The child is living . yam ( gro, who was placed in an viaoooupled neck and locked to astaple In the floor ^Towards midnight on Tuesday a mob. of twenty men on horseback, armed with double-barreled ebot-guae, rode Into Riverside to the bouse where Destog was, and began shooting. At every shot Deniog ssMaaed and cried for help, tlll*the last four shetet. whsn his voloe was etUI. Two pounds o^ shot were left ha bis body. A whole load of bueketu>t was put into his beart. The mob then remounted their horses and rode away lo the moonlight. The corpse was left lying with Us face to the floor. Circular. Rooms os the T>m. Ex Cow. h Bahkwki.h, Coeim, Feb. 21, 11*78. J. 1. Id patessance of instructions from the State Democratic Executive Com mittee herewith transmitted, local clubs ofi the last campaign with tbek afflllated colored olubs will at once re organize by electing offleew to aerve for the next two yeara. 2. A county convention to consist of delegatee from the loaai stubs will as semble In Barnwell oa the limt Mon day in May, at 10% a. m. for the pur pose of electing a county ehalrman ami other offloers to serve for the next two years, as well as to take such other action as may be deemed prop er for the good of the party. Repre sentation in the convention will be one delegate for each club and one ad ditional delegate for every twenty- five members. Fractions over twenty- flro members will not be entitled to representation. 1. The nomination of party candi dates will take place later in the cam paign. 1 As soon as eaeh olub Is reorgan ized the president will forward to the secretary at Barnwell, a list of officers with their post offices and the number of members carolled He will also supervise and forward a similar report Rom his affiliated col ored club. Joint son Haoood, County Chairman. Jauxs M. Ryam, Secretary. N. B.—All oluba that have organized since the last campaign will report the faot, with names of ollioers and mem bership promptly to the Secretary. Circular Booms o» tkv Dsm. Ex. Con. \ BAHitwixt County March 29, 1878. ) I. The expression “local clubs’* used in paragraph 1 of streular 1 from this sommlttoe. In defining who were en titled to represeotattoa in the county oonventlon called for saieday la May, was Intended to Include the colored af filiated olube aa well as the white dubs. As there seems to be some mis apprehension about It this apparently unneoesaary announcement Is made. 1 The colored democrat and the white democrat stand opon the same footing as democrats - they have com mon and equal rights within the party. No pledge made to the colored man In the last campaign by the democracy has been tqfjelted, and none will be. t ^ Joaneon Haooo*, County Chairman. Jea.M. Rtam, Secretary ' "V , «-«**- Mr - i ■uu Circular Ike. &. Room on tmm Bna Ex. Com. k Bajuwku Conm, April 23,1878. \ L The Secretary will be at the Pres byterian Church at 9 o,dock a. m. of the flmt Mondai U May next to oeive reports from the variona etuha, 3. An tha oonventlon R enHad to meet one hour and a hail later tbeehahrmen of the nevegal delegations are request ed to meet the secretary promptly at Tble Information muet be In writing president of each-dub atteeted by the seeretary. Jas. M. Ryam,- Sec’y Dem. Ex. Com. THK 1 :. Cost. V 13 :1878. y. The foilowlng Is the circular Issued by the State Executive Committee: Ukadocaxtzrs or- tub 1 *» State Uotocuu-rrcEx Colcxbia, 8. C^ February At a meeting of the State Democratic Executive Committee of South Caroli na, held In this dty oa the 8tb Instant, the following resolution was adopted : Resolved, That the State Executive Committee of the Democratic party of South Carolina recommends an Imme diate reorgao&atlon of the same In view of the Campaign of 187% aad'that county oonveotlana be called aa soon ea practicable la the several counties ito elect offloers to sarve for the next 'two years. In pursuance of the foregoing reso- liution, the sxecutive committee direct* attention to so much of the constitu tion of the party, adopted by the State convention In August, 1877, as refers to the county organisations, a* follows : Article 1 There shall, be one or more demoosatle olube ocganlxed In each ^election preelnet, each of which clubs 'shall have a diet!not title, “The Democratic Club,” and shall elect a* I president, one or more vice-presidents, ;a neoordlog and corresponding secre tary and a treasurer, and shall, have .thu following working comesitteas, of not lees than three members each, viz : “.A committee on registration, an execu tive committee, and such other com mittees as U> each club may seem ex pedients Art, 2. The meeting.) of the elubs aid of a detective, found them. Thef Houston authorities asreeted the ne- i g ^ ou ij b e frequent, after the opening of the canvass, and some member of house, with a trace chain around bis . the olub or. invited speaken deliver- aa address ah eaob meeting, if practioabW. Art. % The president shall have power to eali an extra meeting of the club, and members of the club shall constitute a quorum fox the ^transaction of buslnees. Art. A The clubs la eaeh county shall be held together and operate un der tha control of n county executive committee, which shall oonsist of one member from each dub, to be nomi nated by the respective clubs and elect ed by the county convention, and such other members as the convention may add. The executive committee, when elect ed, shall appoint fte own offloers and <(111 ad vacancies which may arise when the convention is not in session. The tenure of office of the executive oom- jmlttee shall be until tbe next general campaign, unless sooner removed or ; suspended by tbe county convention. Tbe present county executive com mittee shall continue ih office until the first meeting of tbe county conven- ttoee under this osganlzation. Art. 3> County democratic ceoven- those shall be composed of delegates elected by the several tocai club*—one delegate top every club, and aa add)* tlooaf delegate foe every twenty-five enrolled members—with the right to each county oonventlon to enlarge or diminish tbe repreeentatlon according to etremnstances. This convention shall be sailed together by the chair man of the executive coauaUtee, un der such rules aa each county may adopt, and when aseembled shall be called to order by the chairman of the executive committee, and shall pro ceed to eleot from among Us members a president, one or more vice-preei- deots, a secretary and treasurer. The convention shall proceed to business, aud when the same Is transacted it shall adjourn sine die. Art, & The mode and manner of noioiDaUng candidates for county offi ces or for delegates to tbe State, Judi cial and Congressional conventions shall be regulated In each county by tbe respective county conventions. In this eonseetlou the State execu tive committee makes the following recommendations: Under article I, where local clubs of the last campaign are In existence, that they be reorganised by the election of officer* to serve the ensuing two years, and as many additional clubs formed as may be deemed essential to tbe sse- oeoa of the party. Also, that the oom- toitteee on registration forthwith make a complete registration of all voters, classifying them as white and biaek, democrat and republican. Under article 4, that the eonaty ex ecutive committee consist of the county chairman and the presidents of the local dubs. Under article 6, that the eo«nty chairman be ex-offloto chairman of the county executive committee and of all county conventions. Under article 6, that the system of primary elections by ballot be adopted as tbe mode of nominating candidates for county offloers and members of the General Assembly. While the princi ple of primary elections should be at announced, It is tbe decided judg- el the State executive committee that the nomine lions by primary elec tions should not tsks pines until a later period to tbe campaign, and to rsgard to whlsh farther recommenda tions will be made hereafter as to tbe for conducting the sakt etee- A. WAOKWEK. F. W« Wagener & Co., Wholesale Grocers, cetTOa PAsms a7ist uficr@R @eaurs. 163 & I6& East Bay and 284 Queen Street, Charleston, South Carolina, ftjle- agent for South Carolina for Old Crow Whisky. apI8-3m -BUY YOUR— Doors, Sash, and Dlinudn —FROM ONLY- CapoiBLni friTS Etunil'actor y —IN— jxnKTU&n CHARLESTON, SOUTH (5AR0LTNA. Geo* S. Hacker & Sons. Charleston, South Caroltu*. I HART & CO. Agricultural Implements. -JJ >JAi CHINA HALL, J. P. Browne, IMPORTER AND DEALER IN CROCKERY, CHINA AND GLASSW . - -r -w^pps Corner af Kleg sad Liberty Street), CharlMtor.j South Carolina- Order* solicited for the above goods, and prices guaranteed #ltb Baltimore,. New York or Boston^. ap!8 6m —... . . — -... — — ' - ' DAY, TANNAHILL & Co. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN 1 -w*- . Caraftgca, Wagons, Coach Mabttrials,. Harness, Leather, S H &’E FfNDINGS, BELTING,. * x >mlvv No. u <{ u. 1 LAP RING, 2 GREENVILLE SWEEP, 3 PLOW ( LEVlOK. 4 JtATESVILLE SWEEP, 5 PLOW CLEVICK; 6 ORANGEBURG SWEEP, 7 UKKL BOLT, No. 8 GRASS KOP, “ 9 SOLID SWEEP; 11 10 SHOVEL PLOW’ BLADE, “ 11 BULL TONGUE, “ 12 DOM’D P’T BULL TONG’E; u 18 CA^T-IR’N TtITtJf SUOV’L, 14 STEEL TURN SHOVEL. Jk. li> Jb VI H "T ^ K A. K *»-L. OW N T O C It. ’fNe »rientionof the public is called to ourlarge ami complete assortment ofgooda in all the above brauches, which we ar^dlfcncg very low to suit the times. Send Sor our prices. Carriages, Bupgi**, Roekawn^, (^ne-Horsc Wagone,. Three and Four Horae J Wagons, Buggies Umbrellasy Children’s Curriagos—all prices, Combs and 'pci s, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, Fine Trunks, H vok Bands, Bits, Harness of all des criptions, Collars, Hamas, Traces, Satchels, IImbc Strings, Horse Brushes, Buckles Ac. Oak and Hemlock Sole Leather, French and American Cfclf and Kip. Skins,.^- Linings. Pegs, Ijastr, Boot Trees, Crimps, Cramps, Tools and Findings of all kinds' Leather ami Gum-Belting—2 to 14 inches, SoapsUmes, Hemp and Gunfe ^Packing. ) The Famous Jackson Patent Truss Rod Plantation Wagph—unde or narrow .Tines, and she rehable Sweetwater Wagon— 1 5-8 Axle, all at bottom.prices.. Day, Tannaliill„& Co. AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. Augusta Hotel, ^ Corirter of iAroa^ a mil W^aslirngfecoa Streefea AUStfSTA. SBGRSIA. Has been Thoroughly Renovated, RontodeletT and Newly Furnished fiS^The Office of the ILotel will be open during the nighx, arid guests^ will be reserved, o» calfed at any hour. Stt.00 Charleston, 8. C* *pvl8 6m J. H. PARKER & CO. Factors and Commission Merchants* COTTON Ai\D NAVAL ST0KLS, Aecomasedation Wharf axd Vender Bunge, Charleston, South Carohaa* Liberal Advaneea mad* on ConxignuxtuU. janl7-ly OMir28'lv RATES Of lo.;i;d. PER D.VK. novt 6m W M MOOHK Pi-op’i’. Terriherrv afc Brickie, "7 Manufacturers of Doors, Sash, Blind*, Mofildiflgs, Brackets, &c M &r CndilGVsn Rrices. J Otto F. d ieters, WHOLESALE GROCEH> -AND DEALER IN— Agent for the celebrated Monarcli Wliiskay. Alao, I. T. A J. G. F'rost A Co.’) self-raising flwar, aud Thora Brothers Cele* brated Butter janl7-Gm Crackers. Noe. 108, 110, 112 and 181, East Bay, Charleston, S. C. A WULBERN & PIEPER, WHOLB8ALB GROCJER8 —AND DEALERS IN— Provisions, Liquors, Tobacco, etc- 167 and 169 East Bay, O H -A. K L K N T O TV H « > XT X II O A H O L I X A. janl7-6m GEORGE W. CLOTWORTHY —WITH— Daniel Miller & Co. 837 IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF ®mm, mmm, ew&s, 4®. 327 & 329 Baltimore and 42 & 44 German Sta Baltimore, aevl5-6m G. E. Contracts for House Bnlkllotr tnad® os favorable terms and all work guar- anfcee«r. Wt will either furtikh alt materfei and put up house* or »< 11 parties the lumber aud mouldings as they prefer. Will'take jobs In auy part of Bara weM, Ofleton, Orsng‘'burjr or Aiken c'Mi' ties. Address TFRRIRPRRt A BRICKLE. Bnmhercr. ». C. nov8 6m ^imon Brown’s Mottos Qjiick ^ales and Small Profits, ■:o I atn offering )he hugest stoftk of it Dry Goods, Shoes, Boot^, Groceries and Clothing’ Ever effcrwl in this coanty, at real break down prices, that must ccrialnly sU tract an endte«s and aiimiriog throng of customers. Como and examine my stock before purchasing elsewhere, as I boldly proclaim the fact that esrupctUam with u»e is absolute ruin toaoy other merchant iu the State, Cyllighest pricM paid for cotton, and liberal advance* made on all shipments. SIMON BROWN. sugSO—tf BLACKVILLE, 8. O. Hiram W. Priedenwald. WIBSENFEL.D & CO. > ’ Wholesale Clothiers, —A5£> JtOSUJtS or— Chlte, CiS'tmttf, CiaUfiss, Sattlnetts, Tweeds, Kerseys, No. 242 Weal Baltimore Street, BALTIMORE. net 15-6m