Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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li e 39eai; kind ~erai WINNSBORO. S. C. Tuesday, July 3, : : 1877. R. MEANS DAVIS, Editor, JNO. S. REYNOLDS, Associate Editor. Hayes easily swallows the Rhode Island clam ; but he can't put down the Iowa clamor. The President has decapitated seventeen New York Custom House officials, thereby saving twenty-five thousand dollars'a year. T1h is ii very good beginning. The question now, is not whether we are a nation or a league, but whether we are going to got back that big old round, shiining silver dollar of our daddies The Iowa Republican State Con 'vontion, wihlih met on the 27th, and contairved nine hundred dolegates, :was a scene of inproar and confusion. Resolutions' endorsing 11ayos were laid on the table by a -t.hrooe-fourthu 'vote. 'The New Harnpshire Houso, 'which contains a Repl)ublicall najolri ty, laid a siilar resolutibi ' on the ,table after heated diicussions. The resolution was offered by a Demo crat. Hayes anddits party are hv ing a nice time of it. The Duty of the Democratic Party. . The county club will meet on the 14th of July to consider time election to fill the vacaincios in the county offices. The 1)001)10 ilu.st exercisO their free will and nbiaeid judg mont in iaking .heir soloetion. A spirit of harmiony should liervado all their deliborations, 11( tio highest aim should be the good of the'whole party. 'Evey one has a )erfeet right to iJvocato his own claims, or his friend's up to the (leciding vote of the (Conventidn. After that, thu p)arty must mdo'e On as9 a unit, aiul no bickerings, disseisions, Or even htkowarnnricss roust he pormitted to mar the gerieral iiartnony. It mutst always he rememboed that thore wore at tie lait el-ecMtion hear throeo tlhotumma Radical votes : and .although. that party is guiot. now, its sloop muustmnot he mii stakem for donth. It is not dead. Nothiing i but the utmost determiiation Onb thio cart .of the Dnemocracy will l r~eut if. from again raising its l(.ud. Time position of overy true Democrat should be0 that the goodl of the part y is the paramount ohjet of its mom bors, and that every privatoe con sideoration must yield to tihe public 'wolfaro. Hayes and His Party. The refusal of the Iowa and New 'lampshinro Rop'ublican s to on dorsec the President's policy does not augur well for -the party in thove ~States. But this is not all. Simon Cameron threatens to turn byer - Pennsylvania to the .Dmndorats, 'while all the prlomlinenht Republlicans 'of Now Jersey, except two or three, "are uniting to runm for gover'nor' cx, .Secretary Robeson, a bitter oppo) "ment of the Administration. New Yom'k and Ohio are also lukewarm and disaffected. 'The Now Yorkc Jlvalcl thinks it probable that all 4these States wdml be Democratic this 4fall, 'but arguies that such an event 'Wvould n'ot harm the President, wvho 'has no aio to grind, and who does not wish h decondl term. Rather wHil it be a robniko to the Blaines and Crwndlers and Camerons, for their outrageoous conduct last year. -1t says : "The voters have not -forgot ten the violeht and uinconstitu tional in 'torfor'nco in' the Jofmthiorhi State, the rovolutionarg& threafts during the wvinter, tihe Republican opp)osition to' the Electoral Commission. Tihe 'plain trmuth is that the Camerons, Cihandioi's, Mort~ons and 'other Ro., publicans, now so bitterly opposed to tihe praaiidOnt aro0 mairkod monm. Their 'Violent and unsrupulonis cons 'duct disgIusted a great mass of R e-, publican voters, and these, the very mien who how strongly support IPresident, Haiyes anid his pahiby, will take the .imst opportunity to puhishm .'the umen who, as they Mightly tink,, 'disgraced the country and their apzrty. If, therefore, Penhuylvania, r instance, shld1 cat a Deo oratic majority in the fall, that will be, in our judgment a reproof to Cameron and men like him, and wo have a suspicion that those astuto politicians already seo this, and are adroitly trying to turn from them selves and upon the president the onus of a def it which is ieant to striko down only them-who richly domc.rve it." 'Tho only opposition of the nalcon cents is batsol on the Southern poli, cy of the president. Tlhe Southern question, the Hlerald believes, is settled, and any attempt to open it ,viil continue a "solid Democratic South," oven the best colored people joining the whitos to preservo tie present stato of peaco. No Norther n man that has anything to loso by civil (listufrbance, or any thing to gain by good will between the sections, will support a patrty whoso objoect appo trI to b, the ro nowal of old luarrela. The policy of the malcontents was to hye boon on their good behavior, so as to make the people forget and forgive their pett miiseondubct. Their present stupidity is suicm.al, and while the president will bo supported by all good clomonts of the people, the partisans will bo crushed out. o thQ Public. I desire to correct a current ro port that I am a candidato for the position of Clerk dCourt for the ensuing term. I a not an aspirant for the oflice. My sole interest in politics is for the pre servation of unity and harmony in the Democratic party. Rt. MEANS DAVIS. An Ingenious Mstp. AJbout the 1st of January, 1876. Prof. Hitchcock, of the Goological Survey, and his assistatits, began the construction of a raised map of New 'iamishire, the design of which was to combine all the pri sent knowl ('go ot'thme geomrapihy of the State which has been obtaincl in the goo logical survey made by Prof. Hitch cock, Prof. Iunting~ton and others. This map hats just been comploto3d, and on 'I'u.mlay was placed in the State House. The map is fourteen foot ten inches long, representhig ono hun - (dred( anil soventy.-eight miles in length (being crcnstruct ied on a sca of one mile to the inch) anmd ninety three miles in width, from the mou1 th of the Piscataquia River to the nInhwest corner of Hinsdale, showing tho entire surfaco of the Sta~te, niinc thou Lsamn d three huid red andl~ thirty-six isquaire miiles. It also shows all thme rivers and broo0ks, ponds(1 imd itken;, hil1s and mnoun tains, and thme tdwn and county linies, railroamds, oe. The nmmes of all cit ies and towun, rive:rs and piinci, pal1 brooks, lakes anid ponds1, miounl tains 11md1 highm elevationis, are given 'onlspicuoumsly, so that any one( can find at a glance whait they desire to look up. Th'ie height of the hill and mountains is given on a scale of one inch to one thousand feet, and ao taail mieasuromoints are given when The map is conmstr'uecc of pine -and bass wood, and the pr~ce5ss of t'ho wox' was this: A map was first drawn on paper of the same sizo as the raised map, wi . all the lines of towns, stream., ponds. etc., and con tour' lines for eh fivo hundred feet werie drawm'mn. Tracings of the contour lines were made on inen layers of pine an'd bass5 boards, mnaintamin ing as atccu!rattely asx possi, b)10 thmo r'itive size and shape. T1hese0 are fastined upon each -other, and thme valleys ai'c b~.vo!led ont avith ehiisols.-[Conicord (New Hlampl. shire) A1-nitor. According to the Now York .P'ublic, the railways, canmds and telegraphs -of this country are mortgaged for ab~out $2,5~00,000,000, on which the in terest is about $175, 000,000 a year. Our numuiicipalities are mortgaiged for an amoount that cannot be0 ascortamined definitely, but is about $1,000,000,000. O('r local governmoents cost to run ab~out $300,000,000 annually, equivalent to a mortgage of $5,000,000,000. The property of the country was osti mated in 1870 to be worth $3h0,000, 0,00,000. -If this vast sum yielded six per cent. a'n'nnally, it would not, according to 'tihe estimates mhade by the I(blUh1, b~ 'iO g h to ihooet the $75t),000,000 a year that the Nuitionmal, Sta-t n'nd loncal 'goVern - moemnts cost, the cost of thme raflroaids, $00,000,000l a year,, and1( "the indi.. rect and1 unknmown cost of vicious p)ublic service, a dishonoredl enrrn '03', a bad tariff, andl an excessive deterioration of labmor to cities."' Since work has beon commrenced at Vaunlauso Fadiory, the colomred population of Aiken has considerably &BRIC-A-BRAO. Gon T. TM. Logant recently doliv orod an address at Waco, e' s, to the survivors of Hood's brigade. People still insist that Chief Justico Waite did grumble about not receiving social recognition in Charleston. Robert Dale Owen, formerly a congressman, but bettar known as the ithor of "Footfalls on tho Boundarios of anothor World," and other spiritualistic books, is dead. The Bowery Savings Bank of New York, one of the safest institultions in the co-ntry, has reduced its rate of interest to six per cent., .because the rate of interest has generally fallen to this sum. Robert D. Yates, a young man of nineteen, and cashier of his father's 0a1,g saloon o'n Fulton street, Now York, is the champion checker-play er of the world. Ho has beaten several European champions. Speaking of "contradictory" No vada, the Virginia -Enterprise says "Her barrennessos are the wealthiest in the world, and from the unbosked brows of her mountains, hold, bald, bare and beotling, may be 'secen the most fertile valleys on the earth, as well as deserts where death finds nothing to destroy." The origin of "Molly Maguiro" seems to be this : Some fifty years or more ago a poor old woman in Ireland had her cottage pulled down over her head by her landlord. Hir n timo was Mol io Miguire, and site died of grief and exposure. Thereupon bor son and somo neigh.. bor lads formed themselves into i secret band, and vowed and took fierceo revenge on Irish landlords in gonorall. Thne lald spreal rapidly, and they C:lled themselves the "Mollie MaI~tgsires," and Irish miners brought the name to America. A luai in Tc'as, named Garner, was seoptijecil to be hanged. But his wife brought morphine into the jail in ier unath, an( the couplo posoned them:sclves. Fearing, how over, thaLt the dose wias not sufi cientt, Garner'ist strangled his wife, Mnd then stfufl'ed cotton in his own nostrils, cramume1 a handkerchief (dowl his th1roLt. and twisted a wire li'wket-shandlo 'around his neck. They died, and three thousand peo ple who had assembled f1o soe Gar nor hung, went away disappointed. The Rev. Howaid Crosby, pastor of the fourth avenue Presbytemrian church, Now York, is a muscular Christian, and has all tho roughs afraid of him. Not long sinco he dragsed a burly, half-drunken fallow out of it hors car, whore he had insulte(l a lady, and Hung llin inta' the sitrtot. A short tirle Wofore the horse car exploit, while sitting in his room one cold afternoon, he saw a slouching ruffian wantonly attack ai coul of harp boys ini the stroot,. knock them downm and send his bin' foot thirughithe harp1 thait ono o~f the little fellows carried. Dr. Cros b~y w'as olit ni ddors' instan'tly, baro-' headed, in the cold. Ho made for the cowardly brute, pursued him some -.litaincme, and finally captured him and locked him up. He takes great ploasuiro in not only thlrashing. a rowdy but in afterwards seeing that'lho gets his desei'ts in jail or' thme penitentiary. The roughs don't attend 1h5 is lmrch, but they all know him. SOUTH'CAROLINA NEWS. Judge 'Ker'shaw hans, of 'edursb, given great satisfaction at the Edgefield 'court. Tho tow'n of Walbialla is in cesta si0n over' aimineml spr'ing discover'ed mn its cm'oroato limits. Many cjolored men at Florence voted the Democratic ticket in the recent Senatorial election. The Cecrg-otoivn 'Cdnet, wich wvill hereafter be knio'i as QI toANews and C~oinct, his renonneatd patent 'o itsides. The tax for Oconee county last year wits $26,MGf. This year it will be $17,411, a saving~of nin thou sandl dollars. Anderson has orgabi~ed two first class base bail clubs. (Col. J. B3. Moore is presiddnt, and Col. James IL. Orr, Jr., vice p)resident of tihe sen1ior clhb. Ten thousand dollai'd was sub-, scribed for the endowmonit of WValhalla College on Tuesday even - ing befor'o 4 o'clock. This sub scr'iption hans 1)oon made by tweonty meon, each giving $500, snan 'all on-. tirely responsible. T1his College takos the placo of Newborr'y Luther au Coll'oge moved bAck to Newberry. "Calamity Jdhio" is 'a llack Hills character, who reminds oine strongly of Brot Har'to's -horoines. As she sits astride hler horse5 there is fiothing tin her attire to distinguishl her sex save her small, neat fitting gaitor's and swoop~ing raven locks. :She wears buckskin clothes, gayly beaded and fringed, and a broad brimmed Spanish hiat. She comies ikom a Virginia City, Nevada, family The Electric Light in Warfare. 1Iorn the London Globe, June' 1. The adoption of the electric light as a means of illuminating tho path of ships at sea during the night has boon followed by tho application of this powerful illuminating agent to the purposes of naval warfare, and some of our ironclads. hIve boon fitted with lights and reflecting ap paratus, which will be of great ~nor vico in proteeting them from such night attacks by torpedo boats as those lattly i'nde on Turkish iron clads in the Black Sea and Danube. The Russian government, it seems, are turning thair attontion to "the us(es of the electric light as an illuminator for military purposds. In some experiments recently made at St. Fotorsburg, with the sp'ecial object of increasing the distanco to yhich time light produced by cle'ctri city may be thrown, it was found that the power of the light is great ly augmented by covering the carboh burner with a thin sheet of copper. By this means the celebrated Altencek lamip was made to increase the power'"of its light from 10,210 to 16,255 candles, and even this great power was raised to that rep resented 'by the light of 20,275 candles by a sligl alteratio in the position of the carbon and its eovur ing--viz., by .hirniig it toward toe direction of the object .required .to be lighted. It was found that this light was siiilicienitly powerful to rendor objects visible at night at a distance of over 1hreo thousand yards. These results show that the improvements nowv being made in the system of electric light, or the limo light as it was originally called arc likely to have an important bear ing on the condition of modern war fare. To a garrison provided with two or three such senticel night surprises would have no fears ; and in the arte, of pear tho vivid and easily controlled light thus pro duced will have still -more valuable results. THE GALLEYS. rom the, All the 1 .r Ioud. It was by a reviva. of classical strategy that Englatnd was, in the seventeenth century, ptt into ex tremest peril Louis the 1;Jagniti - cent's galoys in Torbay wero a more real danger than the fleet with which Do Rayter had burned our ships in the Medway. For, however .rent the alarm caused in London by the sullon roar of the Dutclh tuns, the Hollanders had not a single regiment to disembark, whe'eas the French king had sent to the Devon coasut a formidable force of whitecoated grenadiers, to co-oferate with the expected Jacobite rising. The galleys were Lin especially Fm'rench;, as they had )Cen uln especiially Roman, institu Lion. The foreo hlad been p~atronmized l~ severaV-Xiiigs,'nor was it until Lihe reig of 1'ouis XIII. 1-hat tihe ~enoral di the gifileys was made mulordinahi to the high admiral of Vranco. For harassing an enemy's .oast, and for the transport of broops, this fair-weather iotilla was insurpassed. .But a galoy of -Louis KIV. 's time, rowed -by wretches 3hained to tile oar, the vilest felons ningled with runaway P-rotestan ts, whoso sole crime was their attemipt to escap~e to Hollandl or England, was thd nearest applroachm to a float ing pandemonium ever devised. To every teun convicts was allotted 'a Turkish or Moorish prisoner of wvar, whose knotted ,or d fell on the bare shouldors of all who flhiched while boatswain and oflicors patrolled tba nar~lrowv spaco betwooni the row b~enc~hes, and1( phied l atan and lash un~sparinlgly. It was by slhoor fear. of phlysical suffering tilit the chini ed rowers woro' urged to keep tihe grchrt oars rising and falling with such mechanical regularity. Tihe galley-slaves were not expoeted to tight ; there were soldiers on board to d6-t-hat. But they were expected to row, and no p)lea of illness or ex haustion was admitted. So far froin the, sick or wveary be~g ser,t to an mnfrmary, they were debber'.te ly beaten to death. Fainting, bleeding, the misbi'ahb 'retches were-to- the hist regarded as so much mechanism, to be stimulated by cuts of thli whip, andl when They died, their -bodies were unchained frm benich a1d oar, anid tossed- into the sea. T.IURN IPI SJ5E D. fresmh supity of all varicties of Tut July 3, MOMATEft &mElIE (ibUJ-NTIY CONV-ENH ON. rTjH I Democrafic Cou nty Club of' Fair lld is hoby called to meot at the court-house in Winneboro, en Satuziday' f-hto fourtoonthi day of Jnly, .1877, at clovo$i 5 olook, a. . m. Each antb rrdimnate 01ub is entitledi to send fl'vo delegates. 'ht p)residemnta of the diff'o'ront 3lubs are requmred to communichle this notice to their several Clubs witbout delay. By order of the Demooratie County Excutivo Committee. JNO, BlATiTON, JNO. 8. yireNoLs, Ohairman. Sooretary. Jnne 2_ -. NEY(ANUHERALD rEIKLY EDJITION, IS 1 LItjUilmV n vk~1 w ,l)NE9DAY AT \V I N N 8-1 o R 0, S. 0, .1 Ur -rna iVUNNSB01 PUBI4LIIIING Co IT CONTA.NS. A SUI\AltY %1 'IPm. LEADING EVENTS OF TiP; DAY. State News, . . CoiiLy Nw,) ToliticP News. Etc. THE EDNTORfAL DEPART NJN RECEIVES SPECFiTA TTENTION. THE 'LOCAL COLUMN is wall filled with town and county now', The aim of the Publishers is to issuo'a FIRS'-CL AS-'FAMTLY NIWSPAPR. Trermis of SublscipItion, p1yale~l inivarla lly ini advance: One copy, one year, - - - - - $3.00. One copy, six mi~uths, '. - '.. .. . Ono copy, three mtonths, - - - $1.00. Five copies, one year, at - '. - - $2.7;. TVen dopies, one year, at ^-- - - '$2.60. Tw~enty copies, one year, at ~- - $2.50il. TJo every person~ inkkinig up a' club cif ten or more sul~serib~ers, a copy will be sent free for one year. "Thle nmeus eonti. tuting a club need not all be 40 tlio sanjo JiOB PRINTING EN ALL ITS DEPAR'dMENTS )DNE Ii\T TIlE BEST STYLE AND KTTHEi LO1WEST PRICES. We 'ro prepared to 'fiunish, o'n sh611 notice, BANK 6IIECKS, lILL, IEEADiS, OTES ENVELOPES, ULETE HEADS( .1'NVTATIOS, .CARDS, LAy W BLANJKR, . .. PSES PiOGTA1J/OARDS, E~TC., ETC. Termns for Job Work--- Cashi or D~elivery. 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