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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.
GAILLA RD & REYNOLDS,
j'laintiff's Attorneys.
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