The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, September 15, 1877, Image 2
~J etu ~jiund Xlyrad
WINNSBORO. S. C.
Saturday, September 15, 1877.
la. MEANS DAVIS, Editor,
JNO. S. REYNQL,DS, Associate Editor.
TuiP PLAN of rotation among tho
circuit judges works admirably. In
all the counties whore courts have
been hold under the now plan, the
people and the papers express them
selves highly pleased with the
change.
Interest in the Schools.
Ono of the best signs of improve
nient is the interest now taken by
our people in common school
education. It has been frequently
charged that the people of this
StatA have always been opposed to
popular education, and one of the
proofs pretended to be adduced is
that they took no part in helping
along the free common schools
established by the Itadical govern
ment. It must be admitted that
there was a groat want of interest
in the free schools, but wo need not
go far to find imoet excellent
reasons for this. In the first place
the head-contre of the. system was
Mr. Jillson, an unknown carpet
bagger, quito as niuch intent upon
making monoy as upon a faithful
performanco of his duties. Then
the shool commissioners-a pretty
Fet of fools they generally were.
Leaving out the Democratic coun
ties, and porhaps one or two otherg,
these con maissioners were totally
'inft, not only in educational quali
Aiations but in moral character.
Many of them were proacher
politicains, lik6 the Reverend
Dublin Walker of Chester, and were
of course odious to decent people.
The character of the school coin
Imissioner has very much to do
'with the character of the schools
-thelselvos. He must have the
co-operation of the good people of
the community, and this lie cannot
have if he is wanting in either moral
ur educational requisites. This
was the chlff dfMculty under Radi..
cal rule. Now that it has 'beon to
a very large oxtont removed, there
is more inducoment for our people
to do their share ; and they are
doing it. Everywhere wo hear of
increased interest in the common
~schools and increased efforts to
make them a success. The school
commissioners are of greater
fitness for their duties. The State
superintendent is in every way the
right man in the right p)lace.
Under his supervision, and with the
-attention given by the commission
'ers, the schools are bound to im..
prove. The irregularities common
in the p)ast have been stopped.
Teachers are required to pass more
igid examinations. Trustees are
looking more closely after the
schools in their respective distriets.
Above all, there is a growing con..
viction on the part of our people,
that a perfect system of free com -
won schools is a necessity. Of
course, the want of funds has pre
vented the running of tihe schools
in many cunties. But to keep
them temporarily closed is a very
wise measure. It is better to get
all old scores first settled, and then
mnake a neow start with a clean
record. This is the viowv of our
county school commissioner, and he
has carried it out with the best
results. When the proper time
arrives, with the requisite means at
hand, the schools will all be put in
operation. Then we may expect to
see at least some of the good fruits
of the system, In the meantime, it
is certain that the interest already
taken by the taxpayers will cong
stantly lncrease, and with that in
creneo the schools inust improve.
Xn Fairfield esp,eially, we think
there is an active intereat in popular
education never known before.
This at least Is the opinion of the
county 5chool cojmmisioner and of
many others.
The entire am9ut of money
charged as paid by the State to that
anaignant kn ~vof L, 0. Carpenter,
for priting 'Md advertising, i~
THE LIBDRIAN SCHEME.
The Views of a Colored Clergyman.
LirrLETj-ox, S. C., Sept. 13, 1877.
Afessrs. .Aditors :
I desio through your columns to
express my opinion to my colored
brethren concerning the Liberia
question. I am in favor of going to
Liberia when the time comes, but I
regard the present Liberia quostion
as being preimature, from the fact
that we hae no knowledge of the
God-sent Moses, Jr., to lead us to
our father's land. I rogard this as
a question which calls for our most
serious reflections, accompanied with
earnest prayers and deep medita
tions. For, having looked up to a
party of men representing them
selves as being our friends, we are
brought to political shame ; an(d a
similar class of men, in pursuit of
personal aggrandizement, are mak
ing ff-brts, in my oplinion, to aOcom
plish their ends by exciting tho ill
foolings of this people, aid -1 cebouir
aging them to revenge themselves
by seeking refuge in some land whicl
we know not. I will say to myi
colored brethren that it would not
be wisdom to give up the certainty.
with the hope of finding the unler
tainty; nqr could it bo considered wise
to attempt such a Ilight, having no
knowledge of whero to light. But
rather lot me givo you some advice.
Iervcase your grain crops, wheat,
oats, rye, barley, &c. True, the old
maxiim siaY.- it is better late th-m
never, but thoro is a maxim whielh
says it is bettor never late. So
commence now in the month of Sep
tember. This is the month.
It is rumored that the Rtev. B. F.
Porter is trying to got all of the
colored people to go. I take this:
occasion to contradict the rumor.
The Rev. B. V. Porte:- ill a private
interviow a few d tys sineo, stid that
he had never said that ho desired for t
the colored peoplo is a who' to go
to Liberia, but only men of culture,
such as mechanics and mon of edlu ,
cation, but he would deprive nono. 1
I myself would only bo willin. to 1
upon being persuadod in mind to
believe that I could be instrumental
in saving more souls there than
here, and am sent by my Bishop.
And wheln the hour of departuru f
comes, lot us leave ini peace, praying
the blessings of God upon the hand
and the 1p001l1 we leave b)ehind us,4
andl take peace with us. And find
ing peace in our father's land, wo. ]
we will have peace on earth, wvhich
is good will toward men.
Yourgj in Christ,
D. S. RIcE.
A PRoTEsT FROM GxEN. hOwARD.
Gen. 0. 0. Howard has addressed a
letter to Governor Potts, of Mon
tana, in which ho deprecates the
adverse criticisms of the local papers
on his management of the campaimgn.
"The effect of this treatment," he
says, "is to create disitrust on the
part of your people, with whom I
want the heartiest co,-operation. I
have not rested in the pursuit of
these hostile Indians ; I have taken
the oft'ensive at all times and never
the defensive ; they have run from
me again and again, but at last by a
forced march I struck them and
beat them. Surely I should not
be treated to insult and contumely
for wvhich there is not a shadow o;f
reason. It makes the officers of my
command indignant in the ox.re,
after having marched some of them
six andl others eight hmudred miles,
and hauving beon pushed almnost to the
extreme of human endurance, amnd
with rea.l success, to have the gross
est falsehoods sent from localities
near the scene of operations broad
cast throughout the land. The anxie
ties of loved ones at home are great
enough already without having
them aggravated by stories of in,
efficiency and slowness that are
known to b0 so p)alp)ably false as
hardly to need eontradiotion."
When you see a wvoman standling
on a kitchen chair, looking up at a
ragged hole in the plastering, wvhile
she holds a hammer in her right
hand and hoer left thumb ini hers
mouth, there is your chance for a
eandid opinion about the nail works.
..--.Burlingtlon Hfawkeye.
A farm hand for harvesting is
paid in Central Italy seven cents a
dlay, and considers himself a lucky
man to find employrnent at that
rate.
Ton thousand glass eyes are sold
annnally in the TiniteA Mtae.
POLITRL NOTES.
HaivinSovl en rm, Roturning
Board Wells is nioor agi.
The c ipaigm Ohio ik progrJeN!s
ig in a very E; sfactory manner.
The Cincinn.iti v'squir.-r has got
down to I uiinoaoto the extent of
calling Judge Wt a blackguard.
Mr John D. tgwell, a colored
politician of sop tremlelndous ill
fluence in Now J-sey, hopes to bo
forgiven "for th i(iluitv of voting
and working for ayes last fall."
The eight Doecratic members of
Congress from iuois will support
Morrisonl for Spiker at the outset,
but after his nau is withdrawn. as
they sevilm to thig it will be, two
will go to Rtandii and six to Saylor.
SoIe of the nvispapers of Iowia
ire asking the Dinocatic candidate
ror governor of iat State what ho
ieant whoen hotid in a Speech, a
2ouplu of years 0, that the Demo
natic part.y wa ead and damned.
[t does sei a tle bothering.
A Cincinnatj paper says tiat
NJudge West h gott hr-ouigl with
I1s Srpare slpeches. The
Jidge's prepar6i Spccli's have so
:r blenI largoyxplanat.ioniIIs of ild
tpologies for Q)pso spweehcs that
'vere not prepard.
'They are allig into line in the
vake of the Plm.'idlenlts New Eng
and0 t Irip. CogInWn .Iye an\CCIId
[eindc, of Verootnt, now declare
bemns -Ives in fior of the Presi
t-ni's policy- "vii .si vice eform,
it-114the.rn1 policy and all,'' as Mr.
luidee puts it.
cmplaint is lnale that the in
li'tment of So nIny of the lat-0
tate"slen of Smtl Carolina "will
It-stroy the rn1an11t. of Repubhlican,
s in that State.' If Republican
sm il South Caroina is reduced to
ne a remunaintt as his it isn't worth
dhile to savo it.
Thle Iowa Decncrats talk about
lemianding a repr(seiitative inl the
ational governm.ent, and urge
'en. John M. Corso for Sergeant
t-Arms of the Hov.sc. As ti Iown
)cmocrats have not even ono mem,
icr of Congr-os, thwir prospoects arc
acrtchedly slim.
In Holmes counv, Miss., wherc
ho Deimocrats have a majority of
ifteen hundred, they have nominat
di a coloreJ man for the Legisla
ure. There isn't imich of the shot
un policy inl this sIt of thing, b)ut
he bloody 0-irt folks would doubt
ess rather the Democrats woilu
kill the "os" than fn nomnin: t
hem for the Logislaturo.
Thore is a decided difl'orence ill
Irowns even inl Ohio, where there
i ordinarily not much difference ir
,nything. One Brown was defeated
or a senatorial nomination ir
Poledo lbecauso Io was a friond of
itanley Matthews, andl anothei
3rown wvho is a friend of Genera:
iTariield was placed on the ticket.
The soft-nmoney men of Cumber
and county, N. J., held a conven
ion at Bridgeton last wvecd
wo or three hundred posn b)eing~
>resent, and nominated Charles C
irosseup for senator, ani a fuill
issemly ticket. M r. Grosscup wac
heo Democratic cand1idato for sena
or last fall, wvhen the (Orcenbaci
non of Cumberland polled 40t
'otes.
The late Secretary of State o
aouisina hacs sued ex-Governoi
(ellogg for something over eigh
hiousand dollars, which the Seeo
ary of State insists is due him froit
he Governor for aflixing the
.ouisiana seal to certain Stati
loeumnents. It will not surprisi
ny13bodly to hear that there ar<
~harges of a job in this matter, am
hat Kellogg was the jobber.
The Democratic newiipacpers o
llabamna are (engaiged in a sanguina
-y stugglo over~ the next gubeorna.
nad I until next yea. Thle que1 hGo1
nyolved is one of bi -Lin, thi
ionutheast and the n. wvest anm
~he northeast and th. .outh west
md all the other places; think theh
,re entitled to the goveirnor thi
ime. The excitomont is intense.
A lady who edits tlbo //erald, o
Dirclov'ille, Ohio, is (doing somrn
rather lively campaign work agains
Bond, the wvorkingman's candidat
for governor of that State. Sh
(toes not think he is fit to be
wvor.kingmlan's candidate because "hu
came to Circleville in 1858, starved
loacfed, wrote poetry, mfadlO lov<
stud(iedl lawv, amnd was finally cow
hidedl Iby a womin," Thus th
camnpagn opens.
Stone, District Attorney to
South Carolina, and late a miembo
of the Iteturncipg Board of tha
State, is in great tribulation. IT
is afraid to return to South Caroli
na in consegnence of an indictmnn
for refusing to obey the order o
the Supreme Court. Hle says tha
if Governor IHm>ton gets Chamn
bor back into the bt,ato he will sonli
him to the penitentiary, although
is probable Hampton knows how h
nn.n get C1hnmbm.1in whenevm, li
SOME SNAKES.
A Dold Atta,ck oq atttlemalos--.402
Rattlo3 Securod.
A Point Jervis lottor in tho Now
York kun says: Harrison Van
Deuzor anI Dan Tompkins haul
cordwood over the Monticello turn
pike, betwon that pALCO and Wurts
boro. On Saturday, as they wero
jogging along by MMelunn's, throo
miles from Wurtsboro, threo big
rattlesnakes lay coiled ip in tli
middle of the road, and set up a
chorus that made the team t -rs
stop. A stono thrown at tho rattlerm
drove them into the woods. It'sl
bad luck to let a rattlesnake get
awt-y from you. A Sullivan county
mountaineer would sooner miss ia
circus than go home and say that he
had seen a rattlesnake and then
couldn't pull its rattles out of his
pocket to prove it, So Tompkins
and Van Deuzer left their teams
aid followed the snakes. Tl.o
rattlers led them a chaso of two
miles, but the excitement that fol
lowed paid for it The mon had
been taken plum to Matt TalmuIge's
faimious den. The snakes lay about
in scores, taking in the merry sun
shino, and regretting that the
bueceberry pickers had all left the
woods. This was a pic-nic Van
Denzor and Tompkins had not
hoped for. They got clubs and
went at the snakes. The fight
lasted about ten minutes. More
than half the best ones got away
and hid in the fissures of the rocks.
But tho mIen gathered tli rattles off
of fifty-six very fair speciens.
Some of the snakes they killed were
three feet long. They took home
492 rattles, and expect to get at
least four gallons of oil for liniment.
The den was a favorite one of the
celebrated snako cntcher, Matt
Tahmage. Ho used to take humi
dreds out of it alive. Ho lived in
Wurtsboro, and a rattle-snake bite
never had any effect on him. He
followed snake raising, and lie had
some of the most curious and rare
specimens of the snake family ever
collected. In 1873 he captured ai
large pilot or copperliod. Ile imlde
a great pet of it, but finally it bit
him on the thiumb. I, paid no
attention to it, althou1 I pilot's
bite is especially drcleu,e, being
very leadly. Taung's thmh
begn to swell after some (litys. His
arm then cemnenced gettigim larger
and by and by he got blind and
sniffere( untold agony. He lived
several weeks, cont.ilming to swell
all over, and at last ho died. His
I den has, probably, not been visited
01310ro since hio det,b.
The Columbia correspondent of
tho ENews aud Courier gives the
following as tho substaneo of the
agIemenit with Jones anI Wood,
rufr, the hate clerks of the House
and Sonate : A nolle pros. to be
entored on the indictments ag'ainst
them ; they to testify in behalf of
the State when cailled upon to do
so. Each surrenders twventy-cight
thousand dollars of bonann- war
rants and all claims against thoe
State for printing, &c. Jones also
surrenders his Beaufort prioperity,
valued at twelcve thousand dollharis,
and Woodruff surrenders the Re
publicani Printing Company's build
ing and Iixtures in Cohlmnbia, valued
at about seven thousand doilars,
and also claims against the Bank of
tihe State for one hundred and
thirty thousand d.ollar's. B3oth
Jones and WVoodruff saved their
reOspec ti vo residencees ini Chairles ton
as set,tled upon the wife in Wood-.
r'uff's case, aind the children in that
of Jones.
A machine hs ee inveuted in N.
Y., monnted on waugoni whools,wvhich
is intended foir use on farms in the
West. It deluges the ground
behind it with smoke from burning
chips and brimstono, and holds the
smoke down long eniough to suffo
ecato ever'y potaLto bug, locust and1
otherinct that cme within its
influence.
'rho Harru'isburig Teldegraphs has
Imade upl ani issne for the parties ini
Pennisylvainii t.his fall. It has con
cluderd that it will go back and
fight the war ovcer again, wvhich is a
valorous thing to do. pa'ticulairly
as the editor of the [Telegraph
wan't ar'ound when there was some
r ieal fighting to do. It would b)e
humiliating if lie shouldn't be able
Sto find an antagonist, now that his
blood really begins to boil.
Blue glass is coming to the sur'facc
- ag'ain. Now it its related that a boy
3 in Vermont p)ut a blue crysi,al onhi
five dollar watch, and in throeo days
r he had( aL $300 movement amid a gokl
case. --
'Three men wocro found hanging
Sfr'om a tree in Texas, and one ol
them wvas p)laearded: "They stolk
Shorses'; hero is whero we found1
thom, and hero is whore we lefi
Sthorn." _______
I The lRopublican speakers in Ohio
t soem to be doing all that could
s reasonably be oxpeeted of themn tc
a insur'e the defeat of the lRopublicain
ticket,
It was very caroloss leaving the
)irrot in the pirlor Sunday evening
>ut siv never tihought anything
thout if. unfil Monday mnorning
%-hen ho roused the wholo house by
a tking a sinacing noiso and cry,
ng: "Darling Susio ! Darling
1usie!" ITO kopt it up all day, too,
n 1 the old folks are much interested
1n the case.
The groatt Corliss ongino in na
hinery hall, Philadel hit,, has boon
lckn down and paced ready for
em.11oval to Providenco, I. I. Seven,
y railroad cars will be noded to
,arry it.
"Gentlemen, I introduco you to
my friend, who isn't as stupid as ho
tp>peir to be." Intioduced friend,
with vivacity-"'at'si precisely the
iffor'ornco between my friend and
myself."
3%!'TIO3D.
Y placee of businoes.s will bo closqed Onl
Mon-lay nxt, tho 17th i ist., on
accvounlt of holiday.
Hilp 15) 1I I. L DANNENBER0.
Te Sate of South Carolina,
COUNTY OF FAI'FIELD.
In the Common Pleas.
Wm. II. Lyles, Plaintiff, against Geo. W.
Kirlipatrick. Defendant.
)UtSANT to the decretal order of His
1lonor T. J. Mackey, mado in the
aIhovo stited case on the 21st day of May.
1877, 1 will sell before the Uourt Hougo
door, for Vairfield County, on . onday,
the 1,st (lay (if October, 1877, for cash, tho
tract of land described in the pleadigs in
the a'bove caulse, Viz:
A.1 that tract or parcel of land,situato in
Fairiield county, on Shadrach's Branch,
waters of Broad ltiver, in the fork of tie
pubilie roads leading from Shelton's Perry
tio) meicello, amd from Chester to Ash,
ford's F,-rry, bounded o. the south by
111ads of Estate of J. J.'MCMahon, de
ceasd(ld; on the uast, by lands of (leo. W.
Kiripatrick and the aloresaid public road
lealding from Shelton's Ferry to Monticello;
and on the west by the said publi,- rod
leading from Cha-r to Ashford's Feiry;
and conltainilg ONE HUNDRED AND EIoHTY,
NiNE ACRES, maore or .
This latil is sold subject to tle lion of
a mortgage debt itut 1.y G. G.l . Chapman
to tie Estiate of E. F. Lyles, also to a
judgmint t.lht tu by said Q. M . Chap.
mani to Tims. MI. L ls, in the Whole
aiminting to about the sum of six hun
1iri- h al'ir: uind zny bld received will he
13onSider--0d :is ovvr andl atbove fl.ai amuount.
Tlt! 111and isv.olt as the property of the
delendanat inl the above (n1titf' f action.
6. W. ItUFF,
Shi( rif"s Ofice, S. F. C.
N% inn ihoro, S. C.
September 5, 1877.
sept 15-t(dS
bTOTIQE.
\ TLJ Iersonn having claims against
.. John %ubley, S.nior. are requested
to pres' nt the saime to the undersigned ;
amd all persons indebted to lffin will
IIake imniediatto payment, and thereby
save costs of suit.
sept JIl-xilim N. W. JONES.
EtIener & Edmond,
RIcuIMo\D. VA
M,ANUFACTUERSH of Portable ann
.V.Stationary Engines and Boilers C)
all kinds, Circular Saw Alills, Grist Alills
Mill GAe.ing, Shating, Pulleys &c.
AMERICAN TURBIINE wVATEnI WHEEL.
Callleroh~' Siwcinl Stenam Thilnps
oc 9Send for Catalogne.
F URNIT U RLE,
-VTINDOW Shmad.s Picture Frames,
VVChildren'sa Carriages, Lumber and
Shingles.
Use econor.ay by buying thme best, and
buy whore vou ain got the cheapest.
april 26 R. WV. PlU1LLIPS.
EP. J. McCarley
T'"""" *t" callattetio" **'''s new
Stock of iioots and Shoes, all sizs
and at unprecedentedly low prices
ALSO,
An entirely new Stock of Orocries.
Sugar of all grades,Coffoo, Ri1co, Homiiny,
Meal, Soap), Starch , Hoda,Pepper, Tea,oetc.
Fine8$eed Irish Potatoes.
Choicest Brands of Flour.
Bost Corn and lyo Whliskey in townI
Tobacco and Cigars, Molasses, J3tard,
ilacon Hlams&o Lowest market pricos.
for cash.
mar R. J. McCARLEY.
Noticolto Oreditors.
IN TnlE PROBAT CounT,
August 21, 1877.
rJ7HE creditors holding claims against
. the estato of Henry T. Crnmpton,
dceased, arc required b~y order of thist
court to establish thoir demands Abeforo
me at Fairtlold (curt House on or before
lhe lirit day of November no t.
0. R1. T IIOdPSON,
aug 23--4w Juidge of Probate, '
Shirts I Shirts I Shirts!
-----r
W AMSUJTTA Muslin and 2200 LInon
at$.0per $0lf00ozen
P 2 2al n C a i c a $. 0 p ~a n d? 4 $ 9 , p o