The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, June 26, 1877, Image 2
WINNSORO S. S C.
'Tucsday, June 26, : : : 1877.
R. MIDANS DAVIS, Editor,
JNO. S. REYNOLDS, Associato Editor.
The nomination, made by tto St.
Louis 'Glob' - Danoc: a , of ILndricks
and Hampton for the nutional ticket
in 1880, would ho one of great
strongth. If the distinguished gen
tlonen wish -to run li this c4oillec
tion, the party can we'rll aIfford to
run them.
Is Party Allegiance Dlependeni on
Public Pap ?
It is a matter of surprise and
deep regret that the Democratic par
ty of the State, which last fall mani
fested sucl rare unan niity, should
now evinco certain signs of dis'eun
sion and possible weakness. Still
more is it to bo deplored that this
discord arises not from any differ
once of opinion on matters of vital
importance to tIhe party, but from
the manner of distribution of public
patronage, its if the 1)rim)e object of
cur malgnificent Sti uggle last 1o.
voml)r was merely to secure posses
ion of the public ) pap. Suh 1 a con
dition would be mortifying to the
last degree. 'le ioivrtent in
Novemher iast was an upheaval of
the people in ther majesty to wrest
the State from tihe hands of thieves
and aliens, and to restore hwr to her
self. It was not p petty and degriad -
ing scramble between the "ins" and
the "outs." The possession of the
public olliees and the dispensation
of public )atr.nlgo were blmt a small
-incident. And yet it, now seems that
in corttin counties the whole 1)emo
cratic party is by t he ears over 5ome0
trifling atppointmilent- or nom11inlation
for a county oiiec. Williamnshurg,
at last accounts. was rent in twain,
and the contending parties, )emno
crats it? good standing, were indulg
ing in Iho 1hitterest personalities. .'ho
casus bhlb appe ars to htave arisen
over the selectior, of some person
as county treasurer. Thus for the
sake of one smail olico the whole
prospects of the people are permitted
to b seriously damaged, if not
irretrievably ruined. In Georgetown
a great deal of feeling has been
manifested over te appointient
also of treasurer. Governor IHlamp
ton having selected sote ot her per
son1 tha~n the one nominated by thie
county e'xcent ivo comittee. There,
in a county in whinch the bldacks
have so enormious a1 maijority, the
taxpatyer~s should he glad eniough to
have their oflices tilled by ainy de -
cent men, whoever they may be,.
instead of quarreling overi the par
tieular individual to bo selected.
Our neighboring county of hershaw
appeiars also( to hiave anl element dis -
itected for the hIame cause.
NowJ, whilo aniy personi hats his
-preferenee, andl enjoys the right, to
eixorcise it, still no oneo shiouild suiffer
individual feeling to interfere w ithi
his s3olemln duties as5 a' mtember of the
party ; espeiAlhly dluring tis transi
(ion stato of politics. It is impiios
&ible to pleaso every one. And at
the present tim, as the political
condition of aill the counties and
the popularity of renpectivo indi
vidIuals aro not familiar to thie Ex.
centive, he is liable to make some
miistatkes. These are of little i
p)ortanleo, relatively, so long as meon
of good charact er are selectedl. If
Smtith and Brmowm are equally honest
and egnally compet ent, t ho (choice of
either one or' the other to fill some
position that is a mere app~anago of
the party, gires no excuse for hick
-oring aind recri miation, nor for
Jlukoiwarmnecss to the interests of thie
Demttocracy.
fThis course w~oodd airgueo that the
uliterior obj ect of thet orgainizatioui is
igntored, andi that what was a mtag
nilleent Lconitest for pined(~lo, for
the trium ph of right over overoi wrong,
hats dlegonoeratud inti a scramtJblo for
five loavesu and two( smuall fishes.
The people muist decide wvhi-.-l
view they will adopt--whether
they will maintain their organization
intact at the sacritico of privaito inl
torests or individual prejudice, oi
wvhethor they wvill be divided on
-every tr'ivial question thb. Anay l<
Is party paramount to office, or
shall the procuring of an ofice for
ine's self or one's friend be the price
dlemuanded for party fealty ? If tho
latter ais sump1tion be ('olrrect then
al'e we no bettcr t hiin t he Ralials.
W-o do 1nt 1)elie've the people are
wr01g at heart'. Sober scondi
thoighit will Convince themii of their
dutty, and1( whCH i crisis ar'ise's, we0
trust the.y will be as eane'st 1and
atrd(ent in Support of the right as
they have heretofore proven th emi
selves to be.
POLI'ICAI, NOTES.
''he St. l oti (,'//tnlbef) m,'ovrcr'at
suggests eundricks and Hamupton
for 1880.
lRe'presentative BHlaekhnrn, of Ken-.
t.icky, it, is ollicially announced, has
not yet decided to run for tho speak
ership.
Mr. Z. Chandler's persona. organ,
the )etroit 'ost, has followed that
profane )lt illustrious patriot into
retiremeiint.
11epui 1ica1n organs in South Caro
lina, 'from ciretstances beyond
)url c'1ntro((," are no0w sulspendtinlg.
Thier is no more State patronage.
M[r. Rcdtield wAes' that tho Ohio
Dh'iemr)t dosn1't know how re
smt11111ion cal he re'ac'hed, only lie
"k now it. c'anit); be reached by
conlt rae'thcn."
P's"ident Haves is represCnte(d as
havia expressed himself as satistied
witI his title (/e/ j)ure. 1his, of
courso. is a very groat consolation in
the face of the facts.
Stillwell, vihe man;(1 who cold not
get an 4(lice hecau1se his wif'e was
Mrs. i ayes' f:tvorito cousin, has got
the oliec for another man and grot
tile other mnani to appoint him a
The Spr'ingfie'ld _1Icpubllic-anl wvish
es it coutld helieve that Mrl(. Tilden
had 1' ille'(l hiiself piolitically 111d
buie'd04 th1)enemocratie party "by
lis,, pil'niiit iveC speech( at the Man hat tan
Club."
David A. Wells told the Prcsident
the other day that ten per ('un. of
the lal)orers of the countitry were out
of emnploymeit, and1(1 that, "unless the
adlmilistratiol shall soon manage to
bring about a diflerent state of
things neairly everybody would go
into the opposition."
Tlhe l)nocratij Xeocut-ivo col
lmitte(e of Mississippi mneltt Jackson,
on the 201 hI to mimiune a time for hold
ing the State Convention. The
('mivass for the guberllattorial 110111
nation is a very spirited one. Gon
(ral Ilium)ph1'eys is the most proni
nelt candidate.
When we soo the stalteient made
that MiaeiVi:eiglh anl 3utler are both
ort hodox Repullicans the onviction
is forceed that Republ1]icanI orthodloxy
is a mne~oh more1 lhel(d and com1oreU
hensive thug no0w thani it has sjme
timeis been.1
Col. .Jamnes IF. Paine', of Geor'giai,
soni of Bishop Paoine, of the Methodiiist
(linrehl Soill |1, a bro'ttier-inll-lw of
Suttor Gordon, classmiate of Sena.
tor' Lu~tnar, is gointg to ma~ke a light
oif the H ouse of Repriisenitative's. If
the 1r1)port t hat the S-outhtern memi
bers5 iV~ have concilded to demand this
this oflic'e is trne, Colonel Paine wvill
probably get it.
A Watshini'In telegramLn states
thaot (Governor TJilen's spJeecht is
re'gardedl at thle (Capital as "1indiea
ting nnumistakably' his pulrose to
PI.residen t IHayes if the period
sh ouhld ever arrivye whuen suichi con
test (enn bie ('onducitted onl the broad
groundil of the mier'its of the case
aind deOcided outside of any par'ti
san 01' personal influences.'
This is the manner in which
Po'stmraster Gen~erat Ieyt wrTote to
the A hansii postail agent, who didn't
seeml to know his business :"You
were not appoint ed to organize and
build upl ani adininistration partlty in
your. State ori elselwherle. Yon were
app)ointed to do the work of the
Post -ofile D~epartm!ent. You ser'vo
youri party best by doing that work,
andit 1 shltl take great pleaisure in
removing an1 algent an1( d edn'ing tho
force when'1 1 discover thait he hasi
timio to ait tend( to party or'ganization
hamvo 110 greater force than is neces
sar'y to dto the post--olieo wor'k.
'The coutrty will take off its hat tc
Mr. Koy.
At tho lato lire in Union, it is
said that a numbei' (If bloxes of Conl
federate arcives, left lby Mr. Daivis
whien pamssing thriouigi that toiwn, on.
his hurried trip slouthi, were (des
str'oyed. TIhaey had been (inrefulh
pr1Osor'ved by Colonel Young, 1lli
werie abhoutL being sonit to the
Southern Hlistorical Society ir
Richmf~ond(.
The Aiken C'ourier-Jurnal r~e
joicos in the p)ossesioni of a fonlct
r'ail which was cut, split and latit
ninety-fv-enyi' vago.n
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
?Tad dogs are causing a panic in
Picken s.
TIhe Yorkville M~ethodlists hav-e
had a successful festival.
Sheriff Doby, of Kershaw, has
gone oil' and got married.
Senator Cochran has resigned his
position in the town couniicil of An
An exchange calt:; Chamberlain a
h.pocrite and spells it. 'vith at "i"
and tw c "p's."
Judgi Reed l'as appointed MEr. \.
St. J. Jervey solicitor pro tem. of
the 1irst judicial circuit.
The count , commissioners of
York have red'ced the county tax
from three to two and a lalf mills.
''ie Cheraw and Chester Railroad
Company has purchased an engine
and is beginning work again.
The United States Signal Corps
has established al observatory on
King'.; Mountain.
Gen. James Chesnut and Gen. J.
D. Kennedy have resumed the prac
tieO of law in Camden.
Buttz having been kicked out of the
solicitorship, some curiosity is felt
as to what he will do next.
Mr. E. H. S;tr-obel of Chester,
formerly of Charleston, has taken
one of the highest honors at Yale
College.
The charter of the town of
Chiesnut Grove. Chestor, has been
abolished. Too few inhabitaiits and
too many liquor shops.
Ther Kersiaw (Tahett man thinks
cotton will bring IiIt een cents a pound
this fall. He takes a cheerful view
of things.
Governor Hampton, on his way
to Anlnrn, N Y., declined to be
interviewed by reporters, and avoid
ed all public demaonstrations.
There was thirty-five deaths in
Charlestonfor the week ending the
16th--wliites eight, colored twenty
Thirteen townships in Anderson
htve petitioned for a vote oil the
fence law. Three are yet to be heard
from.
E'x-Lieutenant-Gov. Gleaves has
been appointed by Governor 1Iamp
ton one of the trial justices for
Beaufort county.
Ion. C. G. Memninger of
Charleston has declined both the
)emnocrat~i' and the Radical nomina
tion for the Legislature.
Reulber 'Toiulinson, who ran
againist. :Moses for governor, is anl
aspirant for the Collectorshiip of
tho port of Charleston.
Mrs. \fary Zurcher, wife of tfhe
lat. J. C. Zircher of Yorkvil.e,
former'ly of WXinnsboro, hais gone to
Switzerlanid to visit heri relatives.
In several counties of the St ate,
steps have already been1 taken to
submflit tihe fence question to the
taxpayers.
Capt. H. S. Lobby, who kille .1 Mr.
J. C. Blulow, formerly of Fairtield,
at Siunnnoervillo inl Oct.ber last, was
tried on Thursday and acquitted.
Mr. J. S. Burch, of D~arlington,
sheared a Cotswoi l shee recentfly,
the fleeco of which weighted thir
teen pounds and thireo q1uarter's.
A swarm of bees passed over the
State Hiouse. on Thuirsdaiy. In the
dauys of ancient Rome it would have
bieen conlsideredi an omienl of busy'
times. to como1.
The Baptist Theological Seminary
is to 1)e removed fro Gr1(~ieenville, S.
C., to Louisville, Ky., and the
Greenville peoplec are, as a conse,
quence0, dissatisfied.
The Methodist District Confer
ence will meet at Ninety-six, on
July 12 Lh. Rev. J. A. Clif ton will
preachi the openinig sermnon, and.~
Bishop Wightmnan will preside.
On Saturday before last Mr. H.
A. Canuble, of Greenv~illo, accidental,
ly let fall a navy revolver which lhe
1was hiandlling, and caused an explo
51ion, ~end (inlg a baull thrioughi bothl
legs.
('orni, cottonl, pieas anid vegetables
in Lexington county areo growing
rapidly. Farmercis t hink a full ero
will lhe made1 if the seasons bo fav- -
orale fromi thi iis 'ime11.
Mr. John Rothwell w'llhol 111(
convent) ion under~l then auspices of
the Young Men's CJhristian Associa
ftion in Darlington, beginning on
T~lhurlsday the 28th inistanit.
TIwo niegroes, D~avo Pier'(' uand
and senttencedi to (loath in C~hark'ls
ton, foi: the mrder'(l o)f Mrf. Ed'ings
wvhile on111 hsway~ to pay off phlos~
phiato hainds, last May.
Last week a son of John Oarvin,
of Rock Grove township, Aiken
county, wvhiilo riding a muo to the
field, prop retory to goin~g to work,
.was thlrow of and so injured about
the head thiat lock-jaw ensned, and
Atnh was thn rnan1L
T. J. Darby, of Chester, has boon
trrestod upon the charge of forging
his mother's 1a110 to a choek
wherel)y he drewv one hundred dol
Lars from the National Bank of
Chester.
A .c )lored man having the Radicul
lickets for Camp Grond precinet,
ltichland, in the recent election, fell
into ia creek On the wily oant and lost
the tickets in saving a whiskey
bottle lie had with him. Sensible
:irkey.
Mr. Frederick W'u.z, who I:
been an engineer on the Charlotte,
Loluimnbia ind Augusta Railroad,
lied at. his homo in Colum-.
bit on Monday mo rn'ng, if .er two or
Lliree weeks of illness. He leaves a
Widow and two children.
Prelinimiary steps are soon to ho
ttkeni for building a railroad from
Union to Chester. A public meet~
ing was recently hold at Union, at
which the building of theo proposed
railroad was ent hiusiastically advoca
ted. The matter will be considered
it a meeting to be called in Chester
very soon.
Te110 Repulhhician party of Darling
ton county met in solonri conven
tion last W\ednesdity, and adjourned
wiIbout nuitking anly lomiation for
Whhit.tilore's stuccessor. A few of
the "gyred hots" got t >gether after
W~ar5ds, mind set up Mr. I)elerry
Ellis, the old stage agent, to be
knocked over by ( 'oluel Coker, the
Democratic nloiinte
NEWS OF TH1E1 DAY.
New Jersey has two dozen politi
cians who waint to ho goverinor.
Ten Mollie M iguires were
hanged in Pennsylvania on Friday.
Mr. W. r. Withers of C'mden,
(lied on the 14th inst., after a pain
ful illness.
lfKathlcel M ivourneen" was Fo
successfully rendered in Camden as
t) receive an encore.
The New York cotton (exchange
wants to take thlree days 1 oliday
about the fourth of July.
While Russia is getting away
with Turkey, tie Turks are giving
the Mlontenegrins the deuce.
A detective has been aiong the
internal revenue collectors of North
Carolinam, and those who are no't ar
rested have mostly fled the State.
The city of St. Jolns, Now Bruns
wick, has been nearly destroyed by
fire. Fifteen thousand people are
homeless
The Turks were Ib:dly defeaited in
a battle at ) :lchab-1 isi, A"t Minor, on
the 16th inst. The British minister
lias counseledl the sultaun to make
p)eo.
The TIdians in Montimn. muiiuher
ing about lifteen 11111dried warriors,
have risen, massacre't m any whites
andl~ defented the trooIps sent
against them. Thoe settlers are
fleeing in every direction.
Col. George P. Kane has becen
nonmated 1by the Democrats for
mayor of Baltimore. Hie was a
Southern symp~ath izer duiring the
war, and was incarcerated in Forts
Lafayetto and Warren.
Four lumps of gold, which eggre
gated the weight of eight onnees,
have been found in the purie state
on the plantation of Mr. Jesse
Smitlherman, neaitr Troy, Mi ontIgomoe
ry county, North Carolina.*
Bcher and the Plymonth con.
gregati~on are log-rolling for the
retention, as collector of .Brooklyn, of
C1llector IFreeland, wvho wo s an imnpor
tant witness for IBeechor in his
trial.
Gon. B. F. Butler delivered a Ie
tuire oni "The Irish Soldier" in Nowv
Yerk a few evenings since in
aid1 of St. Cecilia's Parish. Charles
A. Dana of the Lin presidled. A
catse of the lion and the lamb.
TJh~e Troy, N. Y., M~oulders
Union, one of the strongest in thec
coun try, resolved Friday nmght to
allow menmbers to work in any shopi
on siuy terms-a virtual dissolution
of thoe union. This action ends1 S
strike of eight months' duration.
eeuing last week Itho revenue offi,
earsin enneseeraided illicit (1is
Itillerirs in svrlmuti on
ties, nnd broke up fourteen dis.
tilleries ; got into ai light and killeil
an illicit distiller, badly wounidot
two andu captuirod1 twelve.
A Mrs. Ronmm, living about ff
teen miles east of Maron, Ill., hi
just given buirth to four boys ; Mrs
(Iathirie, residing near Mrs. inRomm
to three girls, and Mrs. Kressler
living only a few mtiles from ti
latter, to two girls and1( a bocy. The(
threc mnothers and ten, babies are al
doing wvell.
OBITUARY.
DIED), In Fairfildk counity, Juno 91, InIT, r
fthrash, LUCY B., Infant, (inughter of Th'Ioma
L.. anti Miaggio A. Powell, agetd 8ix mnenths.
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