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Zlit L etus~ and X) rald WINNSBORO, S. C. Saturday, October 6, ; 1877. R. MEANS DAVIS, Editor, J14O. S. REYNOLDS, Associat' Editor. IT IS REPORTED that U1e Russians n'r getting ready to 'skecdaddle out of Turkish territory. WE ARE PROM1sED a fresh sensa tion in tho arrest of other promi nent Radicals. Lot it come. We are prepared to boar such an event with fortitude. TuE OnIANGEBUita grand jury has found true 'biUs against almost all the old and the new Radical county officials. A few resignations are now in order. II. A cONsTRYMAN remarked tie other day that things wore getting blamed dull now; that there hadn't been an election in the State in more than two weeks. Tu DEMnOCHATIC ConVntions all .over the coutitry are approving the -course -of Prosident Hayes in recognizing the principlo of homo rule, which has always ben the Democratic corner stone. A palpa blo hit. OtAIIESTON Is getting ready for a mnnicipal contest. Every pro caution is being taken to prevent bolting. Charleston cannot afford to lose the fruits .of Democratic vitLory-morc precious to her than to any other portion of tho State 'by any petty jealousio or selfish .greed for office. The Democrats must movo to the polls in solid -array. AssoCIATE JusT ICE McIvEi lifas do livered an opinion, concurred in by Chief Justico Willard, con firming Hampton's title to the :governorship. The opinoion is delivevoa in the case of Peter Smith, which was not docided by Willard's opinion in the Tilda Norris case. The only annoying feature in this matter is that Gov. ornor Hamptin's legal title should be linked in the law books hereafter with such inglorious names as Tilda Norris and Peter 'Smith. THrE APPO'INTMENT of Enadge Northrop to the district attorney ship creates a vacancy on the bench which 'nnamt be flleod by the Loegisla ~ture this winter. No successor has .yet boon .publicly suggested. It is probable tha,t Speaker Wallace will be a candidate, in 'which case be will be hard to beat. Hie is very popular and his ability as a lawyer is re~cognized, while his mnanagemuent of 'the Honse during the trying times last wvinter', and since, evinces a level head and cahn judgment excellent qualities in a member of the judiciary. The election of such a judge wonld add greatly to the purification of the bench. THE INvEsTIoATINo Committee have been inconsiderate enough to poke into Comptroller Dunn's official record, in consequence of which that immaculate reformer looms up as in alleged defaulter. The Southern Life Insurance Company deposited with him seven thousand dollars' worth of coupons to be con verted into three thousand five hiundredl dollars worth of bonds. That corporation became tied up in law, and the bonds are now spissing from the comptroller's office. Dunn is said to have sold just thq.t amount of bonds, of cor" responding numbers, in Charleston. It is more than possible that he will have to go to jail in November for a different offence than oontompt pf the Supreme Court. SITTING BULL is naturally Sattered at the prospeeti've visit of the comn mission, and is preparing to receive them with all the pomp and cir oumstane of savagedom. Fifteen lundred warriore surround himi, and ho evidently regards himse~lf as a pretty big Inhu., A ,eyolono i '. been eavorting abo~i U.0po fatteras during the pas~ week. The Liberia Movement. Messrs. .Editors : I see my name montioned as "assistant secretary" of the Liberian organization instituted by Juno Mobley on the 29th of Septombor. I wish to say that I know nothing about such a thing until Tuesday, October 2nd. When I entered a storo, a clork oxclaimed that my name was in the paper. I was at the nevting, I suppose, an hour : and this hour was consumod be. tween the Opening and the closing of the meeting. I desire no such a position. Though it may be over so good, yet I soo .nothing so very charming or wonderful in the move mont; and the person who sug gested or appointed me to so lucrative a position could have been obeying the little rule of politeness, by inquiring of my dceire or no de8ire (of course the latter would have boon my response) for the offico. I believe in America: yet there are things which make me wish that I was somowhere else. But I verily beliove that my dissatisfac. tion here will bo healed hero quicker than the one I would incur by going to Liboria. G. T. DILLARD. Winnsboro, S. C., Oct. 4, 1877. Soldiers, Not Assassins. In the report of Governor Hamp ton's eloquent address to the Winne bago farmors the following portion was not given in full. As it was one of his most telling hits it is given hero. After speaking at some length Governor Hampton said : I must say to you-I should not perhaps, have alluded to it., but that som newspaper reporter-and they ought all to be killed-said I had received some letters threaten ing me. [Laughter.] Well, I did receive one or two. I should not allude to thom oxcept for the roa. son that I will give you when I have read one. I know you have no kuklux up horo. [Laughter.] "You D---n OLD REDE!, [I lghtor] : If you or any other of your stripe come to Rockford to mako a public spoech you may ;xpect to go back in a box. [Loud laughter.] There are a hundred veterans besides my self who have constituted themselves a committee that effect. A word to the wise." [Renewed laughter] Now, my friends, if there wias anything in the world that would have brought me to Illinois it would have been just such a thing as this. [Cries of "hear," "hear."~] I have read this letter to you because I knowv that it was a slander on the people of Illinois. [Cheers.] I know especially that it was a slander upon the veterans of the Federal army. [Cheers.] I knew that the men whom I had met on fields of battle wecre not cowards enough to threaten to be assassins. I knew that, and I felt it, for a brave man knows how a brave man will act. I knew that if the whole Federal army was canvassed-all the three million's of men that they put into the field --they could not find one hundred men among them all who would for get that they had been solliers and sink to he assassins. [Cheers.] I knew that, and I know it and say to you that I have met hundreds and thousands of veterans, not only in battle, but since the war, and had the solution of those troubles after the war boon left to the men of both armies who fought on many battle fields, we would have had none of the troubles and sorrows and wvronlgs and evils of reconstruction. [Loud cheers.] Tins is urow a Washington lady catches a street car: She pokes along composedly till the car is about four lengths ahead of her, then suddenly shakes her parasol in a frantic manner. Blue car thinks she moans him to stop. Still she shakos her parasol and flip-flaps her bottom flounces and wiebbles her head right and left in an abortive attempt to run with a pin, back on. A dandy sees her distress and tries to whistle the yellow car. lie puckers his nzouth and puffs, but the sound dies away in a wh-s-st. Then he runs to catch the car. Drops his new silk hiat in the gut ter', but bo tops tiho yellow ear. It's the wr4 g one. Bootblack takes up the s a~ which dies away on dandy's lips ad wbistles like a fire engine. "lxci ted spectators gather in a orowOjand bet on the result. El4 car comes up by that time, thinks it means him and stops. It's the green car she wants. WVashington Caital. The Colorado potato bug is rn.vging the faoti1n fields of rance. NEWS OF THE DAY. Cardinal Sparza, of Italy, is dead. He was mentioned as the probable pope, in caso of the death of Pius Ix. Almost all the Now York politi cians of any note are denying or explaining away Tweed's charges. The yellow fevor still continues at Fernandina. Out of 1,600 in habitants in the town, 263 are at )rosont sick, and 853 have been sick. Ex-Senator Sawyer, formerly of this Stato, has boon found guilty of conspiring, with the assistant Secro tary of the troIsury to pass a frau dulent cotton claim. Spotted Tail, Red Cloud, Young man--afraid-of-his-horsev, He-Dogo and a number of other bravos are in Washington on a visit to the Great Father. They want money, schools and good roads.1 Hon. Cassius At. Clay, of Kcn tucky, the great abolitionist, re cently killed a negro desperado who attacked him. The coroner's jury acquitted him of bLuno. Ann Eliza Young, tlo seven.. teonth widow of the prophet, has addressed an open letter to Presi, dent Hayes, asking him when he is going to clean out the Mormons. Murtagh, of tho Washington RepuNican, after having flung mud at the South through that dolecta. ble sheet for olevon years, has sold it. Ex -Senator Roboson is the pro prietor,and Public Printer Clapp the editor. Both of these worthies have been considorably daminaged by the reports of investigating committees. An extra session of Congress will be convened on the 15th instant, to consider an appropriation for the army-the House having refused in March to make any ap propriation, becauso the Senatc refused to accede to the proviso that the army should not be used to uphold ( carpet bag governments in the South. No decisivo actions between the Russians and the Turks have taken plac recently. The latter are ittroiily fortified in the Balkan mountains, and have succeeded in repulsing alt assaults. The rainy season will soon set in, when active operations must coaso for the winter. Turkey has thus far had much the best of the struggle. A Strike A?ga:mg the Farners. There is a strike in Mississippi not a strike for higher wages, but for lower prices. In Lincoln and the adjoining counties in the lower part of that State, throe-fourths of the farmers united in a strike against the merchants, their com plaint being that the merchants charge them fifty per cent. profit on the supplies advanced on their crops. They say this is exorbitant ; they insist that a pound of cotton ought to be good for a pound of bacon, and on this basis they claim fifteen cents a pound for their cot ton, and refuse to settle at a lower rate. The merchants, on the other hand, claim that they charge their customers no higher percentage than the latter agreed at the beginning of the year to pay for supplies on twelve months' credit ; that it costs them twenty--five per cent. on their investment to do business on credit ; that their losses on cotton taken on settlement are fully ten per cent.; so that, even at fifty per cent. advance on the price of supplies furnished, they make only fifteen per cent., which is not exorbitant. The farmers are not satisfied with this explanation, and their organization against the merft chants is rapidly extending. The grievance of the planters is not unreal or fancied, but the remedy proposed is of the most ~doubtful character. The lien system is to blame for this state of things, and the excessive charges for sup.. plies grow out of the credit opera tions on the farm. The merchants are not at fault that this system brings them losses every year, by which they are compelled to charge high rates for the protection of their own interests. But the farmer has an adequate remedy in raising his own supplies, and not relying upon the merchant for advances. The abolition of the lien law in South Carolina has caused the farmers to make preparations for cash purchases in the future, and the large grain crop of the present year will enable them to pursue a different course hereafter. The profit now charged by the merchant will be saved by the farmers, losses will not be incurred by making advances, farming will become a more profitable occupa tion, and the general prosperity will be enhanced by the adoption of a cash basis in all business trans-. actions. But the "Mississippi plan" is not apt to succeed in this in.. stance, as the merchants doubtless have the obligations of the farmers for supplies advanced at prices agreed upon before delivery. .Rcgiatc BRIC-A-BRAC. Josh Billings says, very truly, "You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so." A Danbury man describes a church festival for raising money as an operation wheroin onohalf of the church buys berries at fifteen cents a quart and sells them to the other half for a dollar. A Milwaukee man made three un successful attempts to blow his brains out, and then his wife told him, "Don't you try it again, John; you haven't got any." He goes about now saying he owes his life to that woman. Two of the best acts of Thomas Jefferson's eventful career were the writing of the Declaration of Indo pendence and bringing tomatoes (then called "love apples") from France to America as food for his hogs. Tyndall has surrendered the notion of spontaneous generation of life, after protracted invc%tigation and experiment. The true scientists will eventually work th,,mselves back to the grand truth stated in the first chapter of Genesis. Richmond .Enquirer: "We read that 'Mars will, on September 5th, be only 35.000,000 miles from the carth.' How to prevent a collision on that day between Mars and the fashionablo shirt collar is the problem now agitating Richmond philosophers." "I don't see how you can have been working all day liko a horse," exclaimed the wife of a lawyer, her husband having declared that lie had thus been working. "Well, my dear," he replied, "I've been draw - ing a conveyance all day, anyhow." On the 16th and 17th instant a grand nmsical festival is to be held in Boston. There will be two choruses of 1,300 voices, one of which will comprise Boston socio ties and the other out-of-town organizations. Brignoli will be among the soloists. On the organ at Halborstadt there are painted the portrait of throe monks,. who, according to tradition, sang themselves to death with sacred music, while Satan sat in a double bass, disturbing them with his groans and growls. A Frenchman, soliciting relief, said very gravely to his fair hearer: "Ma'mnselle, I nevare beg, but dat I have von wife with several small family, dat is growing very largo and noosing to make their bread out of but de perspiration on my prow." Don't be sorry when you are beaten in an olection. John P. Jones was beaten for a State office in California, wvent to Nevada, "broke," and began work with the savage energy of a man wvho had nothing to lose. Look at John P. Jones now. That defeat made his fortune. The Russians have one real hero. His name is Skobeloff. Ho leads his men in person, and they plant the Russian banner upon the captured Turkish citadels, while the "Grand Dukes" and the "Czaro vitches," covered all over with military decorations, watch the pro, ceedings with spy-glasses. 'When Mrs. Van Cott comes sing.. ing dowvn the aisle and fixes her reviving eyes upon a man and he turns pale and trembles, she thinks his soul is awakened. Yet we have seen the very same look in a man's face when he turned round after kissing the servant girl and sud denly encountered his wife's moth.. er.-Burlington HIawkey,e. John Taylor, the new Mormon chief, took his place by virtue of seniority. His quality as a ruler is yet to be tested. No easy task is before him. To keep Mormonism from going to pieces will require a high degree of human sagacity, also something of the miracle-working power claimed by these Latter Day Saints. The miracles will now be in or'der-miracles not for the con firming of the faithful, but for the confounding of enemies. A meeting of Republicans has been called in New Yorkc city, to endorse Hayes and his policy. This is a movement in direct oppo.. sition to the Republican State con vention. Curtis, Governor Dix and other notables will speak. FURNITURE FOR SALE. SEGOOND hand Parlor, Chamber, Din king Roomi andl Kitchen furnitu~re, in good order, for sale en reasonable terms. Apply to JSTOTIOE.L A LL persons having olaims against John Mobley, 8,mior, are requested to present the.same to the undersigned and all pq*iep indebted to him wilf make im ' iat payment, and thereby sep cof ~ N. W.. JONE8. SPECIAL NOTICES. 1[ealth and Beauty Combined. WOMAN'S RIO1T.-Ono who has long studied this absorbing subject now pro ents to tle womon of our country the result of his investigations. l1o is happy to say that lie la at last discovered "Wo. man's Best Friend." It is adapted es pecially to those oases where the womb is disordered, and will curo any irregu - larity of tho "inonses. ' 'r. J.13radtlold's Female Regulator acts like a charm in "whites," or in a fu;mden check of tho "monthly menses," from cold, trouble of mind or liko causes, by restoring the discharge in every instance. So also in chronic cases its action is prompt and CAeoisive, and saves the constitution from couitless evils and prematuro decay. This valuable proparation is for sale at $1,50 per bottlo by Dn. W. E. At n. Pro pared and sold by J. Bradield. Atlanta, (i. A thousand women testify to its merits, sept 25-2w THE ELEPHANT -HAS COME With a Fresh Stock of Fall and Winter Goods, AT THE DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS AND -0 M6ilinery Bazaar. 0 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. WE take pleasure in announcing to our friends and the public generally that we are now opening the finoit and niost complete assortment of FALL AND WINTER GOODS, including Millinery and Fancy Gooils in all the latest styles and novelties of the season, such as are generally found in a first-class Millinery establishment. Fan cy and staple Dry Goods, a beautiful stock of newest styles of Dress Goods. Buttons and - TRIMMINGS. A full assortment of brown and bleathed Muslius, Poplinp, Calicoes, Ginghanis, Gents' Goods, Notions, Corsets, Gloves, H-iery,B1ustles,8kir.s, iShawlF Cloaks,&c. Men's and Roys' Hats. Boots and Shoes for Gonts and Boys, Shoes and Gaiters for Ladies, Misses and Children. A FULL STOCK OF Fresh Groceries, Confectionerips, Ciakes and Crackers, Cheese, Mackerel, Flour, Meal, Grist, Saps, Starli, Candles.Korosnne, Crockery, Tin and WVooden WavIre, Fuirniture andl Mattresses, LUMBERFOR SALE As low as the lowest. Call and examino my stock and prices. J. 0. BOAG, oct 3 THOS. R. ROBERTSON, Attorney at Law AND TRIAL JUSTICE. SW All business entrusted to him in either capacity will receiv3 pronipt atton. tion Office on Washing ton street, one doer east of Winnsboro Hotel. H. A. GAILLAIIn. JNO. S. Rlxyveone. GAILLARD & BEYNQLDS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW NO. 3 LA W RANGE. A. M. MACKEY, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, N2Vo. 1, LAW .R ANGE, Winnsboro, S. C. fa Special attention paid to the speedy collection of claims. Will practice in all the courts of this State and the United Sates. J)OB PRINTING IN ALL ITS DEPARTMENTS DONE IN T H E BEST STYLE AND AT THE LOWEST PRICES. We are prepared to furnish, on short notice, BANK OIIECKS, BILL HEADS, NOTEiS ENVELOPES, LETTEIEADS, INVITATIONS, CARDS, LAW BLANES,PSTR POSTAL CARDS, ETC., ETC. Terms for Job Work--CaSh oni Delivary.