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in itu it yriald. WINNSBORO. S. 0. Tuesday, January 15. ; 1878. R. MEANS DAVIS, Editor, JNO. S. REYNOLDS, Associate Editor. TE REPUBLIOANs of Goorgetown, who outnumber the Democrats throo to one, elected their county ticket last week. The successful candi dates will not bo able to give bond, it is said. On the othor hand, Wil liamsburg has redeemed horself, ANDERSON, WI10H CLAMS to be the banner county of Democracy, is al ready organizing under a new con stitution for the next campaign This is a wise course. The people of Fairfield ought to be bestirring themselvea right now. Experience in Beaufort, Sumtor, Nowberry and Georgetown teachos that the Demo crats of Fairfield can win only by thorough discipline and unanimity. The way to secure theso is by pro viding the means for a perfoctly fair nomination. Let the details be so arranged that thero can bo no sub sequent charge of unfairnessa or "log-rolling." Wo commend the inMtter to the Damocratic County Executive Committee. The Taxes. Thoro is no one in the Stato so insano as to believo that another tax can be paid this spring, yet it is equally absurd to suii))oso that the Stato government can be maintained without money. How to extricate themsolves from this dilemma is perplexing - tho Legislaturo. This suggestion is therefore made to them gratis : The lovy should be reduced to the lowest possible figuro, of course, and should be mado payable in two instalments ; one-fourth in the spring and the balanco in the fall. Instead of charging interest on the first instalment, if not paid, as was the method adopted last year, lot the fifteen per cent. penalty on the first instalment attach as soon as the last day for paying it has expired, but the property should not bo declared delinquent until after the expiration of the time for paying tho other instalment. It is rather proposter ous to charge interest on taxes, es, pecially sinco the -adoption of the usury lawv: and the imposition of the penalty is the true theory. The operation of this proposed plan will be satisfactory. There are a num ber of capitalists who will pay their instalments to avoid incurring any penalty, and the money thus collect cd will support the government during the summer. Those who have no funds can 10t the penalty attach, and pay the whole amount in the fall. The penalty of fifteen ' per cent. on one four th of the ta'x w~ill be but one-fourth of fifteen per cent. or three and: three quarters per~ cent. on the entire tax. To illus, trate: If tho, tax on A's property is one hundred dollars, he is required to pay twenty-five dollars in the spring, and seventy-fivo dollars in the fall. If' he fails to meet the first instalment, a penalty of three dollars and seventy-five centa will be charged against him, and in the fall ho pays his one hundred and three dollars and seventy-five cents. At ten mills, one hundred dollars replresents toni thousand dollars. while the whole tax with the penalty attachod is but toni and three o'ghths mills, the three-eighths of a mill being tho price fixed by the it xpayer for the privilegeo of post. ponling payment until another crop comes in. For a ten dollar tax, the privilege will cost but thirty-seven and a half cents. Last year the instalments were half and half, but as.a greater num ber can pay one-forth than one half, the additional individual pays ments may, in tho aggrogato, realize more than wvould be secured by re quiring ono-half. This is an equitas ble adjustment, and it should be accepted by all pafrties. At Raleigh, N. 0. on Thursday Tabitha Anna Calton received a license to practise law. She passed -a highly creditablo examination, and is the first woman to wvhom a license to pra'fctise has been granted in that SCates IS PATTERSON SHAMMING I o "HONEST JOHN'S" ILLNESS SCARJING TIE RCADI VaLS. Ludicrous Uneasiness of the Ropubl can Party Organs over the Case of tho Sick Senator. 8pecial to the Xew Yor* Times. WASHINGTON, January 7.-The Republicans are manifesting con siderablo uneasiness with referenco to tho reported attitude of Senator Patterson. It is alleged that the daily bulletins issued announcing his condition make him much feebler than ho is in fact, and that theso reports are given out in order to prop%ro the way for his resigna tion on fie plea of failing health. It is intimtod that his resignation has already been decided upon as the result of an agreement made with the Democrats, and in cono sidoration that the State of South Carolina shall abandon all prosecu tions againsft him. It is known that Mr. Patterson intends to visit Pennsylvania as soon as he is able I to travel, remaining away for a couple of months, and that he has announced a determination not to ask any Democratic senator to pair with him. This act, taken in con nection with the additional fact that Republican senators who have called at Mr. Patterson's house have not been permitted to see him, whilo leading Democratic sonators have had long and frequent conferences with him, excites sus picion, and leads to the belief that Patterson has made an arrangement by which he is to vacate his seat in consideration of imnunity from prosecution. AWith Patterson and Sharon absent,, the Senato would stand, counting Judge Davis as a Democrat, 37 Republicans to 37 Democrats. Siould Patterson re. sign he would be succeeded by a Democrat, which would givo the Democrats ono halt of the full number of sonators, and a majority of one should Sharon continue to absent himself. The resignation of Sharon, which is rogarded by many as an event not improbable, would give the Democrats a clean majoii ty of one, should Judge Davis act with thein. Whether Patterson has decided or not to resign, it is corn tain ho has arranged not to be present at the sessions of the Sen. ato for the noxt two months, and that he will not ask for any Domo cratic senator to pair with him. Speci'l to the New York Tribune. WAshmNoTON, Jannary 7.-Senator Patterson replied to- day to a gen tlemnan who asked him in regard to the current report of -his initended resignation: "I shall not rosign under any consideration. If I am to be sick I should be a fool to resign, boe cause I can lie hero and draw my $13 a day. No, sir. I authorize you to say that I will not resign, and those follows down there will not rob) 1me yet of my scat. I am going to Pennsylvania when I get wvell enough to travel. Simon Cameron has invited me to visit his farm, and I thmnk I shall do so,. but I am subject to these relapsos,. and I dlon't know when another will come on. I have been worn out by hard wvork and1( harassedl by refugee South Carolinians who w"ant situa tions, until I am entirely broken dowvn. I (10 not intend to abandon South Carolina if my prosocutor's will let me go back. My iifterests are in the State. I own real prop orty in Columbia and Charleston. I wish I did not. I would like to got out, but I cannot. These stories,.about my shamming sickness are false. I am unable to move, and oven this conversation excites me and makes me fear a relapse. You are the only peOrson, except Ben Butler and my doctor, whom I have seen since I was taken sick." In roense to the suggestion that a ridoe might b)0 beneficial, Senator Patterson said that such a thing would kill him, and lie -w'as seized with a sudden lit of trembling. The gentleman who visited him re, p)orts that bo does not look sick that his face is of good color,. and that his eyes are bright and pierc ing. The late Chief Justice Pearson, of North Carolina, was biutied on Thursday. There is af conflict between Governor Vance and the supreme court as to wheithier the governfor has a right to appoint a chief-justice. The Governor has ap)pointed W. H. N. Smith, a p)rominenlt ltwyor of Raleigh to The fair in .Boston for' the Old Saouth brought in $40,000, and the ernedaan were nly $2rma NEIWS OF TIHE DAY. Two slight earthquakes woro felt. D-t Cairo, Ill., host week. Congress re-assembled on the 10th inst. A number of vessels went ashore during the galo on the Now England coast on Thursday night. The peopl of California are to vote at their next general election Upon the question of continuing or prohibiting Chinoso imumigration. On receiving the news of the death of Victor Emanuol, the Pop)o Baid: "I expected it, and I had par, doned him. Let us now pray for the repose of his soul." The Dizzy Blondes, a burlesque company which appeared somo weeks ago in Charleston, S. C., were recontly marched from Wood'3 Theatre, Cincinnatti, to jail. At Nashvillo on Friday a meeting, with fifty counties of Tennessee rop, rosented, adopted a resolution to memorializo Congress to reduce the whiskey tax to fifty cents por gallon. The tobacco deakrs of Now Or loans hold a meeting on Thursday and adopted a memorial to Congress asking a reduction of the tobacco tax and a drawback on the tax al ready paid. Three forged drafts, for $1,000 each, oi the First National Bank of Charleston, S. C., were discovered 0m Thursday at the N.ttional Park Bank in New York, where they had been sent by the Bank of the Re public. Tho board of managers of the R )bert . Loo Montument Associa, tion have issued an addross asking tho pooplo of the South to make a special ef'ort on the 190h of January, the anniversary of Generil Loo's death, to raise funds for the erec t.on of the memorial. John F. Henry, Curran & Co., of Now York, dealers in patent medi.. cines, have suspended. The con cern is one of the largest patent medicine firms in this country, and in the Mercantile Agency books it was marked as having a capital of $500,000 to $750,000. A disastrous fire occurred at Laurinburg, Richmond county, North Carolina, on last Wednosday morning. Ten @ stores and the post--fce were destroyed. The total loss is between $20,000 and $30,000, with but little insurance. The fire is thought to have been of incendiary oligin. Robert Bonner has recently pur chased the young trotting mare Maud Macey, which is said to bp the very best one that ever left Kon tucky. The price paid was $10, 000. Maud Macey is now six years old, chosnut in color,151 hands high, and has a record as a five-year old of 2.27g. The outspoken utterances of Governor Holliday, of Virginia, on the question of the public debt, leads the Richmond IDispatchi to say that it is mere hypocrisy to say that Virginia cannot pay her dlebt. It adds that she is amongst the least taxed of the States, and that her means and ability aro constant ly increr sing. Wmn. S, Pontin, of Neow York, a young man, only twenty-four years of ago, who was to be married to a very beautiful young lady last Wed nesday night, commindtted suicide that afternoon by shooting himself. No cauise could be learned other than that Pontin had invited his father to his wedding, and the latter had refused to attund. It is now an acknowledged fact that CoNSUMPTIoN C.N BE CURED. ?t has been cured in a very great number of cases (some of thorm applarently desperate ones) by Schenck's Pul, monic Syrup alone, and in others by the same medicine in connection with Schonck's Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, one or both accord ing to the requirements of the case. The old supposition that "Cons sumption is incurable," for many years deterred Physicians from at temp)ting to find a remedy for that disease, and patients afflicted with it reconciled themselves to death withon t an effort being made to save thorn from a doom which was con sidered inevitable. Dr. Schonck himself was supposed at one time to be at the very gate of death, his physicians having pro-. nounced his case hopeless and abandoned him to his fate :-e was CURED by the aforesaid medicines, and afterwvard enjoyed uninterrupt ed good health for more than forty years. Thousands of people have used Dr. Schoek's preparations with the same remarkable success. Schenek's Almanac, containing a h orongh treatise on Consumption, Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, &c., can be had gratis of any druggist, or of I. H. Schenek & Son, Philadelphia. Full directions for the use of Bohenck's medicines accompany each ackage. Sehenek's Pulmonic Syrup,, Sea Weed Tonic, and Mandrake PilIe we for sala e yan dru.nists * H.YMENEAL. .Al1l). on Ihe 2011 Ult. al. ti he residenco of 31r. .Joeph Nevits. by R1ev. John 1). 10hon, MIt. LKtOY I'E to I1188 LAURA W1'i'IIEIRS. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, A COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD. ti Court of Comnmn Pleas. r Win. 11. Kerr, as Clerk of the Court of. C'ouiion Pleas for tho County of Fair field, Plaintiff, against Martha J. Means, Fannio A. Means, Maria 1). elans, I Martha Means, Sarah T. Means, John C. Means, (abrilalla Mleans, T. Rom ' Robertson and Goo. W. Williamus& Co., Defendants. t To the Defendants, Maitha J. Means, 1 Fannio A. Means, Maria D. Moans, t4 Martha Means, Sarah T. Mleais, John (. Means Gubriella Manns, T. Ross ( Robertson and Geo. W. Williams & b Co. yt'U are hereby summoned and re (quire to answer the complaint in this action, which is filed in the oflice of tho Clerk of Common Pleas, for the said county, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers at thoir office, No. 3, Law Range, Winnsboro, S. C., within twenty diays after thoservice hereof, oxclusive of the day of such service; and if you. fail to answer the complaint within the timo aforenaid, the plaintiff in this notion will apply to the Court for the relief demand ed in the complaint. GAILLARD & REYNOLDS, Plair.tifls Attorneys. Filed Decombor 31, 1877. Wm. fl. Kerr, C. C. C. P. F. C. To the Defendants, Martha J. Means, Fannio A. Means, Maria D. Means, Martha lans, Sarah T. Means, John C. Neans and GabriellaMeans: TAKE NOTIcE that the summons in this action, of which the foregeing is a copy, wts filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Fairlield county, on the 31st day of December, A. D. 1877. 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