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WINNSBORO, 8. 0. Tuesday, February 26. 1878. R. MEANS DAVIS, Editor, JNO. S. REYNOLDS. Associate Editor. THE BILL DIVIDiNG Charleston and Colleton counties was killed in the House by one majority. EUROPE Is STILL at peace. Neither England nor Russia has captured Constantinople. Bismarck is exert ing a pacificatory influence. MR. L. C. NonTHRor has been triumphantly confirmed as United States District Attorney for South Gatrolina. This will set the minds of the other aspirants at rest. NEW YORK CITY was recently seized with a spasm of economy and re duced her expenses by cutting down the salary of teachers, -while the salaries of political offices were left unchanged. As it is, the city expends $3,399,000 for schools. WE WERE TOLD that the passage of a silver bill would depress the bonds and chase gold out of the country. Yet simultaneously with the passage of the bill through both houses, gold tumbled down and bonds went up. The quidnunes are at a loss to explain tLis. A NEw EIGHT PAGE tri.weekly paper, called, the "8traightout 1emnocrat," will shortly be established in Colum bia, under the editorial management of Maj. Henry S. Farley. Its pro spectuu indicates that its politics are to be "red hot." We extend a welcome in advance to the new courier, though we must say that this is not an auspicious season to start newspapers. WASHINGTON'S BIRTUDAY was cele brated with great eclat in Charles ton, the military parade being the most imposing that had taken place in twenty years. Governor Hamp ton, Gen.iW. H. F. Lee, Gen. Brad, ley T. Johnson and the Walker Light Guard of Virginia were Toasts and speeches wore prominent features of the occasion. Pope Leo XIII The election of Cardinal Pecci to the Pontificate seems to have given satisfaction to all parties save the ultramnontanes or irreconcilable high churchmen. The new pope is sixty seven years of age, of com manding presence, and is distin.. gished for ability- During the late pontificate he was an object of the jealousy of Cardinal Antonelli, who feared to have so dangerous a rival near the throne, aind endeavored to epress him. It is thought that the nlew pope will refuse to recognize the claim of king Humibert to be temporal ruler of Italy. Thero are three ways of electing a pope'-by acclamation, by compro mise or by ballot. The former is also called the method by adoration, and oceurs. when, after unsuccessful balloting, or without a ballot, a spnntaneous cry comeIs from all tihe cardinals for one man, or all by one impulse kneel before him* The election by compromise takes place by a delegwtion of powers by the cardinals to several of their number'who are thus charp~ed with the choice of the pontiff' There miust be-at least twvo of these dele gates. They deliberate in a separate apartment,. after taking an cath to vote according to their conscience They mnust give their decision in writing. This formality accomn. lis1he5l, the election is valid and the pope is oleeted1. None of these delegates enn vote for himself, but if they aro.moroe-than two, they can choose the pope from among their number.. The usual method is by tedious formnaltes. Eaah cardinal ballost acoeaied te. The ot. divided into fi've compartalents,. the second and foorth being white. The first contains the words "ag card" (I cardinal); thed eoond contains his name i the third, 'the pei-son I oted for, and the fifth, a cabalistie )e identified. After sealing, the 14 )ardinal places the ballots in the r shalice. After all have voted three bellers proceed to count the votes ifter counting them in a second r -halice. After reading, they are n strung and placed in a third chalico. b If two-thirds are recorded for any , ,andidate, a second sarutiny and ] verification take place, the ballots I tro burned and the result is an- t riounced. If no result is reached, the electors proceed to the "acces sion," which moans that each cardi- c aal may announce his second choice. C [f the first ballot and the accession 'ogether give any candidate two thirds, he is elected. If not, a new aallot is necessary. The -conclave t votes twice a day, until a result is reached. A Alight indication to outsiders < serves to convey an idea of what is oc -urring in the conclave. The voting papers are burned on a straw firein an iron chimney established behind the c iltar. The thick smoke escapes by i tube issuing from a wall to the left of the Grand Lodge of the Bonedictines. If the vote has given ! result, the voting papers are burned esewhero, and the usual pipe re uains smokeless. It is by this trifling circumstance that thu people assombled outside at the hours whlen the vote usually terminates know when there is a new pope. If the chimney smokes, the game has to be played over again. On the present occasion, three times the smoke ascended from the chim- I noy. At the last time, just as the peopl(e were dispersing, it was an. nounced that Pocci had been chosen. It was at first thought the final result had been secured by adora tion, but it is now claimed that he received a two-thirds vote, and that Cardinal Bilio having declined to be a candidate, his partisans, I numbering nine cardinals, gave their I votes to Cardinal Pecci ; that when I the votes were counted, all the car dinals knelt at the feet of the pope, I and that this act wts miseonstrued as an election by adoration. The new pope was crowned pri Sunday, undcr i.he title of Leo XIII. THE CO IV ORDINANCE. JEditors NEWS AND HERIAb: Sev. eral weeks ago a p)etition, signed by a large number of citizens, was handed to the Town Council setting forth that the running at large, within town Jimits, of cows and other stock, wvas a nuisance, and asking at their hands such legisla tion as would prevent the same. Rtumor had it that the prayer of the people had been heard and granted. As yet the Official Lamp Post has failed to confirm Rumor. As there are only two ways by which the 1peopl1 are informed of the doings of their Stewards (R. and the favorite 0. L. P.), and as one is not reliable and the other not generally known, I ask you to make i inquir~y and find out whose fault it is, if such a law has been passed,i that old Brin die still enjoys her " old--timne freedom. Crr. MAT TRRS LI-WASHINGOTON, 'U t Restoring Pensions--A Demorat Seat- I ed fro'n Louisiana in the House. [Cerrespondoece of 'rue NEwS AN HIEREAD.) ( \VAsHINoTON, Feb. 22.-Two bills of interest to soldiers have been up' dluring the past week. One, which i passed the Senate and will proba~bly i pass the House, restores to the pousion rolls those 1812 and other soldiers- who were dropped at the commencement of the civil war. It also gives pensions to 1812 i soldiers who served fourteen dlays, I the present requliremecnt being sixty C days, and to the widows of such~ C soldier~s if they were married prior C to 1850. The bfll- is that giving a pension of $8 per month to all I soldiers of the Mexican war.. It is a believed this bill, also,. will pass, though it meets with opposition i from those extvremie Radicals who01 will not vote money if any of it is to go to the South. Mr., Powers, t of Maine, many of whose con stituents got a land warrant fronb C the government because they lived X on the line of the British Provinces i during the mzaking of ta treaty with. Great Brliti, leads the oppositijO These warrants,. worth $L.76 each, were given to hundredls 'who never smelled gunpowde',y &nd for service when there was no war. -It is the only sontest ii which we ever gave up I writory, and it hardly becomes the 3presentative of that clas of eneficiaries to oppose a small ,ratuity to men who enlarged the tl ountry's limits, gave it military enown abroad, and are now, in . any instances, suffering from the ardships of their service. At the conclusion of the Louisi na contested election case in the p( Iouse, when the new member, Mr. gi LCklin, proceeded to the front of he clerk's desk to be sworn in a l itter went round among the Re.. o iublicans because the Speaker egan rending to him the iron-clad ath which the Southern Demo- b ratio Congressman has usually b eoen under the awkward necessity E if declining to take. But Mr. Lcklin signified to the Speaker that a t was all right, that he could take . ,he test oath and that it would not ] )3 necessary to substitute the nodified form. The reading was ontinued and the stringent iron- ' lad oath was accordingly sub cribed to in full by the new mem. S ser. The mirthful Republicans d fterward learned that Mr. Acklin, vho is not much over thirty years g f age, was a boy in his teens p luring the "Rebellion." AUSTIN. b SOUTH CAROLIKA NEWS. A small balloon was picked up in umter, last week, which had been 0 entup at Augusta, Ga., a few days f Irevious. Senator Butler will deliver the r ,unual address before the Literary 0 society of Erskine (ollege at Due $I Vest on the 3rd of July next. c Two lads recently disappear ed rom Lexington, carrying with them 1 , sum of money, belonging to an t mcle. They were traced to Colum- a iia and thence to Atlanta, Ga. f W. R. Berry, county treasurer, uld John 0. Davis, county auditor, f Pickons county, have resigned. 1 rovernor Hampton has accepted heir resignations, and Pickens now C tas neither treasurer nor auditor. a A few days ago an unknown olored man was run over by a train I in the Air Line Railroad, near i Cing's Mountain, and fearfully nanglecd. He is supposed to have v >een drunk an d asleep. It is currently roporte d that an r sraelitish lady in Columbia is k bout to come into possession of I everal million dollars' worth of I )roperty, -by the death of a relative I Ex--Judge Northrop has been 1 onfirmed by the United States f ienate as district attorney for I ;otuth Carolifia. This wvas ini spite 1' if the fach that the committee to ( rhomn his esse had been referred ii eported adversely to him. s Maj. WV. F. DeSchaimps' gin Louse, near Sumter, was burned on v h'ursday night by an incendiary. O here was nothing in the hiotie r xcept the machinery. Loss $500. ri to insurance. Inacendiarism is be- ni oming quite common in Sumter JE ounty. p ci Robert McEvoy, the murderer, has >een sentenced by JudgeThomson to 'e hung at Aiken on the 15th of larch. A petition to commute the leath sentence to imprisonment for fe has been drawn up by his coun el, and it is said that some extenui- ai ting circumstances hitherto un :nown will be presented to Governor c< [ampton. The verdict of the coroneu' jury, t a the case of Pickens Gcggins ecently murdered near Good o lope Church, Edgofield comtty, is o hat John Goggins, Henry Gorgins Lb nd Mrs. Emma Goggins. widow of he deceased, (a girl of fifteen, and tiz ut recently married) are the nur'.* erers. The party were perfectly of ool in giving their evidence, not a S I ear being shed by one of them. he widow is very pretty~ and was g audily dressed during th( examina. cl 'on. ________re th CoNSUMITION CuRED.-4n old hA mhysician, retired from practice, hi aving had p laced in his l4nds by di *n ]!ast India mission y the p4 ormula of a simple vegetab reme- co ly, for the speedy and ye anent th ure of consumption, br chitle, acl atarrh, asthnma, and all Lthr -and eh ung affections, also, a posi and adical cure for -nevous bility nd all nervotts eetnplaints after we aving tested its wonderful c ative ho owers in tousands ,of case bag bu slt it his duty to make it kn< ig o of is suffeing fel!ows. Aetuat by dri his.montive, and a deir to iove cui uman suffering, I will send, f of A har-ge,. to all who' desire it, js col eoipe* in Gefmaw .repch, or, . d gh with ?fplydir tios. forapr .. whu sing, n by ' by or 'op . W. SheV mo Pow 'i MOUNT ZION INSTITUTE. D IJUING ihe ontinuance of the grad ed school in connection with Mount Zion, students in the Ancient and Modern Langu ago Highor Mathcmatics aId the Beiences will be received Into the Institute upon the payment of $2.60 per scholastic month of four weeks IR. MEA.N8 DAVIS, feb -sW Prinaipal. Egg r'ogq for Christmas. TlE undersigned respectfully calls thE attention of the citizens of Fair field to the fact that he has a full stock of the finest LIQUORS and WINES in the Boro, and guarantees its p)urity in every instance. In his stook are the follow ing: Dupuy, Otard & Co.. Cognac Brandy, Old genuine Jamaica Rum, genuine 1868 Cabinet Itye, genuhve 1868, Roanooke Rye Whiskey, genuino Knickerbocker Rye Whiskey, genuine N. C. Apple Brandy, genuine N. C. Sweet Mash Corn Whiskoy, gon uine Stone Mountain Sour Mash Corn Whiskey, genuine Dauche, Fils & Oo., Champagne, fine Pale Table Sherry; and a full stock of all Domestic Liquors, Wines, Ales, Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, &o., &c.l Ros poo4uy eeS F. W. HAIBN ICHT. rTHE subscriber has removed his Boot I and Shoe Manufactory to a few doors below W. It. Doty & Co.'s, grocery store, and opposite J. M. Galloway's hardware store, where he will be pleased to see his friends and oustomers. He has lowered the prices of all kinds of work in his line, viz: Fine French Calf Skin Boots to $10. Gaiters, $7.00. Shoes from $3.00 to $0.00. Mending'and repairing promptly at tended to at reasonable rates. f. All work warranted. jan 6 J. OILENDINING. SHERIFF'S SALE. BY virtue of sundry exoeutions to me directed, I will o~hr foi sale, before the court-house door, in Winnsboro, on the first ilonday in Mira'i next, within he legal lhours of sale, for cash. the ollo wing described real estate, viz: All taat pieco, patrael or tract of land being and situate, In the county of Fair teld and State of -South Carolina, and partly in the towp of Winusboro, con taining TwVsN rY-1!v Aao.q, Inore or less, bounded on the west by laiads belong in, to James B. MLCants, on the south lots lately belonging to %.rt. Hessio Fraser, on the north by the public road leading 'ut. of the town of Winnsboro to Kincaid's Bridge, and on the east by Scion Church and Garden Street, in the town of Winnsboro, levied upon as the roerty ot'no.A. P.rasr, 'at the suit of , '9'. .. -*, AI . 0 huulsvs. same defendant. . m S. W. RUFF, Sheriffs Office, S . F. Win.nsboro, S. C., February 11, 1878,& feb 16.-x2tl JOB PRINTING IN ALL ITS DEPARTMIENTS DONE IN TilE lEST STYLE AND &T THE LOW EST IPRICES, We are prepared to furnish, on short notice. BANK CHEcKS, BILL HEADS, NOTES ENVELOPES, INVITATIONS, CRS AW BLANKS, POSTERS5 1'OSTAL CARDS, ETC., ETC. Terms fpr Jo0 Work--ash oig Delivery. A&f business. coiniriuttieoab shoulk be aidressed to the Winnsboro Publiahng Company, W'INNSB0 6j 8, t. To Inventors~ au4 *anaturer1, SOIOPIO01p OWPAT! T4 AND ATT9~y AT L&W i lit on f9or ai..ratest and. aEowon NE WS OF THE DA Y. Kentucky has decid.ed to restore e whipping-post. Barnum has now accumulated ghteen elephants for the next ggest show on earth. Gen. Joe Johnston has been ap )inted a conmnissioner from'Vir iia to the P"aris Exposition. Eighteen huindred revolutionary dies havo boon flogged by order the Russian government. A bill to abolish actions for each of promise of marriage has en introduced into the English Ouso of Commons. The number of Chinamen who ,rived at San Francisco in January as only 228, while 882 returned to Aeir native land. The sheriff of New York is said make a very good thing of keep ig boarders in Ludlow street jail. ome of them pay as high as' thirty ollars a week. Somebody recently proposed to et up a subscription for the arents of the lost Charlie Ross, ut Mr. Ross declines to counten nce the movement. A tax of ten per cent. is levied in 'aris upon all tickets taken at leatres, public balls, music balls, r any other place of amusement, >r the benefit of the poor. WM. N. 'Stevens, a full-blooded egro, is said to be one of the most loquent speakers in the Virginia enate. He is a graduate of two olleges, and was born a slave. The Hon. Alex. H. Stephens says e wants to die in harness, and hat, if his health continues reason bly good, he will be a candidate >r election to the Fortv-sixth oongross. The Landon Standard's corre pondent at Berlin says that Prince lismarck considers Cardinal Pecci's lection to the Papacy the most uitable one at the present time. Col. Forney writes from London hat he dos not anticipate a enoral European war,: because Russia is too strong, Turkey too ?oak, England too prudent." The Irishmen of the North are 3aking preparations on a large cale for the celebration of the cen enary of Ireland's favorite son, tobert Emmett, on the 4th of I rch. .. ania girl of a lIively disposition, married Mr. Joseoh Stock "just in n. By-and-by she mai iied a Mr. ~overidge in (lead earnest, where-. pen Mr. Stock turned up and had arrio arrested for bigamy. Carrie now in jail, and sho is trying to e where the fun is. The Democratic State ,Conveo-. ention of Indiana elected ex.-Gov eno Hendricks president, passed -asoutions strongly in favor of the stiremeont of the Nation~al Bank tes, and bitterly denouncing the lectoral frand by whj 1h a free 3ople wore cheated but of their loice. A .deaf mute reently died in lorida, aifter gainingi th e reputa en of being aL imit thorough lographer'. .lHe made use of a under of fils oivn Construction, d received by placing his hand rer it in such a tnanner that he uld feel dlistinctly every vibration the armature. When an est ate is sold in Ireland e Irish bontd of works is empow ed to advance a certain sum to Ip a person who has been a tenant the estate to purchase his farm, e money being a first chnarge orn e land sold. Lately, when an tate was sold in Tyrone, flve-.sixths it were bought by former ten ts. It is now stated on good authori. that Pope ;Leo :XIII. was not osnby Aidbr'atlon, bu$ by' the 4mmste majority of the votes of s Conclave ; that Cardina~l Bilio ving declhned to be a candidate partisans, numbering nine Cav als, gave their. otes to birdida 'cci ; that wvhen the votes were anted all the Cardinals knelt at i feet of the Pope, and that this has been miscons trued as an etion by adoration, [ni 1852, a family of eight persons re murderedlin .Brasil, and ,the use0 contafig ,'t4. boedes was, rned.. A rich planter and three. his slaves, were tried for the me, convicted upon purely cir~ nstantial evidenoe, an4 a1t( mari 1M~ Iithae fe sion, owiW*, e ii he boledge of the parties yho, e hanrged for t.'