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WINNSBORO, S. 0. Saturday, March 23, . : 1878 A. MsAN DAVIS, EDnrro. JO. I. MYXOLDS, AsOcIATz EDITro. CAPT. W. D. M. HARMON, the for mer editor of the Lexington .Die patch, died suddenly in that county on Tuesday night. TAXES IN FAIRFIELD this year will be only nine and seven-tenths mills, against from seventeen to twenty in the beneficent reigns of Moses and Chamberlain. Tax HoUsE KILLED the Senate bill preventing public officials and members of the Legislature from re ceiving free passes from railroads. This was the more reprehensible on the part of the House, because all the members of the Legislature receive mileage, both ways. Mr. Brice voted for the bill. Mr. Gail lard was absent, attending court in Winnsboro. CONahESs WON'T LET the newspa pers alone. Not content with im posing a prohibitory duty on type and ink, they propose to make weekly papors pay postage within the counties in which they are pub lished, and to prevent the trans. mission of daily newspapers by express. Have the Congressmen no fear of a hereafter, or do they believe with Bob Ingersoll and Brother Beecher, that there is no hell i TuE DILL TO iEDISTRICT the State has been killed. While a redistricting is necessary, the proposed change was not wise. It threw Charleston, Beaufort and Colleton into the same district, thus tying a mill 'tone about the necks of the peo ple of those counties. It also in.. eluded Sumter in the fourth district. This would have thrown both Col. Evans and Col. Richardson into the same district. The latter should be allowed to remain in the first district, which he is now contesting, so that he may at any rate have a second chance next term. . The News and Courier calls for the prosecution of Chamberlain. We have called for the prosecution of all tihe head devils until wve are hoarse. That Chamberlain is a scoundrel, none conversant with the history of South Carolina will gainsay. The question is whether he sufficiently covered his tracks to eswape legal conviction by a mixed jury. The query, "who struck Billy Patterson 1" has long been a matter of anxious investigation. Billy's antagonist struck him a well we won't repeat what sort of a lick, but how, or when, or whore has never been satisfactorily settled. Chamberlain bunged up poor old South Carolina pretty badly, but he was jusit shrewd enough to make a Billy Patterson case of it. The best way of settling with the Gov. defunct, is to hang him "on general principles." Preparing for the Pray. The Democratic members of the Legislature held an important cau cus on Wednesday night, the pur. pose being chiefly to elect judges to sit on the bond commission, and ing debt. The following report of the proceedings is given : The first matter taken up was the nomination of judges of the Bond Court, andl, without debate, a vote was taken, with the following result: Thomson 98, Aldrich 68, Hudson 65, Wallace 87, Shaw 86, and Ker,. shaw 84. Judges Thomson, Aldrich ,and Hudson were then~ declared the Snominees of the caucus. A LThe selection of attorneys to assist the attorney-general was next voted upon, with the following result : A1eetze, 88 ;Y. J. Pope of Newberry, 70 ; Mlaher, 21 ; Cothran 4 12 ;McGowan, 8; B. F. Perry, 5 ; W. A. Mloore, of Lancaster, 4 : Aldrich, 1~ The nomination of Messrs. getze anA rope was then made un inous. XThe vo esw e ig o d adssione~ f e ing dbt~, oi 6u3i~ e. OfincIp - a . tion of Mr. Coit was then made unanimous. The election of an inspector of phosphates was next in order. There was a host of candidates in the field, but Col. Thos. Taylor was declar ed to be nominated. The following gentlemen wore 1 elected directors of the penitentiary: W. K. Bradley, John Meighan, E. S. Allen, John C. Seagers and Thompson Earle. The elections being over, Mr. Buist offered a resolution, which was unanimously adopted, that a committee of three be appointed to wait upon Governor Hampton and 1 invite him to visit the caucus and participate in all matters relating to the Democratic party. Messrs, Buist, Butler and Vandiver wvero appointed said committee, and they immediately waited upon Governor 1 Hampton and bore the invitation tendered by the caucus. After a short time, Governor Hampton entered the hall, and there was deafening applause for some minutes. Governor Hampton being called upon, responded in a speech was loudly applauded. . Numerous other speeches of a a political nature were made, and it was a very late hour before the caucus adjourned. Several resolutions suggestive of t of the future of the Democratic I party of South Carolina were offered 0 and adopted. Mr. Buist offered the following, I which was adopted: t Resolved, That it is the sense of e the Democratic members of the 1 General Assembly in caucus that no a Democrat having the interest of the s State at heart should unite with Republicans on an independent ticket, and~ 'that this caucus, through its President, recommends to the Democratic caucuses of the v next Legislature that all such Rep- c resentatives elected as independents be not allowed admittance into the r Democratic caucuses of the next General Assembly. t Mr. C. H. Simonton, of Charles ton, offered the following resolution, t which was unanimously adopted N and vociferously cheered : c Resolved, Thiat we recognize the debt of gratitude which the State owes to his Excellency Governor i Hampton for the sagacity, wisdom and eminent ability he has exhibited E in the administration of his high s office under circumstances of great t public difficulty and trial; that he possesses the cntire confidence and < respect of the people of South t Carolina, and we feel that in his hands the honor and interest of the i State are safe. The caucus then adjourned. The resolution offered by Mr. I Buist was well timed, and it will have a fine effect as sounding the key note of' a campaign against Radicals and deserters alike. Par ties wvho would seek office counter to the Democratic party should be refused all counitenance. A very pleasant feature of the1 occasion was the invitation extended to Governor Hampton to attend the caucus, and its acceptance. It reminds us of the brave old days of 1876, "When no man was for party, But all were for the State;" when there was no administration wing, and no anti-administration wing ; but wheni governor, State< officials, Legislature and all, counsel ed freely together for the welfare of the people. We take this as an ausl)icious omen of the harmony and enthusiasm of the party in the coming campaign. ft is possible to make the fall election a wvalk-over the track, and it is possible to throw the State into great peril by bickering and internal discussion Governor Holliday, of Virginia, enjoys the proud distinction of being the only man over elected Chief Magistrate 'of the Old 1 Dominion without opposition. Let a similar boast be made for Governor Hampton next year. T1IR STAT.E LEaI8LATURE. WVEDNESDAY, March 20, 1878. SENATE. A number of bills passed their4 third reading, among them one pro, viding for the payment of deficien cies during the fiscal year beginning Nov. 1, 1876, and one amending the act utilizing convict labor. The bill to create the the counties of B3erkelay and Edisto from por.. tions of Oharleston and Colleton came up. Mr. Camnpbell moved to strike out the enacting olause of the bill, which was greed to by a vote pf aK~18,. nl~ .;... ci.~tionce' wero he law in relation to elections ; to ipportion the number of Aldermen n the several wards of Charleston ; to re-establish the office of Master n Equity. The fee bill then passed its third reading, and was returned to the Elouse with amendments. It was resolved to enter into an >lection for three judges for the )ond commission on Thursd-y at , p. m. The phosphate bill passed a sec )nd reading with amendments. The Speaker of tho House ontored he Senate and ratified a number of >ills, among them the following : To provide for the organization of he State University ; to limit the iumber of trial justices in the sover id counties of this State ; to mako 6ppopriations for the payment of the >er diem of members, &c. ; to re luire county treasurers to pay out chool funds in their hands under ertain circumstances ; to amend an et for the better protection of mi ratory fish; and several bother acts pening public roads and highways. The Senate thou took a receos intil 7:30, p. m. At the evening session a bill mending the tax act passed a sec mud reading. A message was received from the ovornor announcing that he had o.-day approved the legislative ap'. ropriation bill for payment of per ie,n and mileage of members, &c. A bill to authorize and direct aymont of certain salaries duo to lie late pr.ofessors and other persons nployed in the South Carolina Jiivorsity passed its second reading; iso a bill in relation to the normal chool. Adjourned. HOUsE' OF REPRESENTATIVES. Several conference committees tere appointed to meet similar ommittees from the Senate. The military committee reported nfavorably on a bill to purchaso the runs of the Columbia Artillery, and he bill was placed on the calendar. On motion of Mr. R. R. Hemphill, lie joint investigating committee vas allowed to sit until its labors be ompleted. A resolution to prevent lobbying vas laid over for coneideration to norrow. A bill to amend an act to regulate ervice of legal process in railroad id telegraph companies was sent o the Senate. The Senate bill to prevent public )fficers and members of the Legisla.. ure from accepting railroad psses vas defeated by a vote of 46 to 51 wenty-six Republicans and twenty. ive Democrats opposing it. A number of bills and resolutions )assol a second reading, among them concurrent resolution respecting >rosecutions based on the report f the joint investigating conmmiLtee m public frauds ; a joint resolution ~o authorize and direct the county sommissioners of Fai?field and Rich and counties to rebuild and keep in 'epair a b)ridge across Little River', ~he said river being the dividinig line >etween the coun lies of Fati ield md Richland ; a bill for tho pro-I ~ection of certain insectiverous and >thor birds therein namedcc. At the evening session severad >ills and resolutions wore received ~rom the Sonate, but no other busi iess was transacted in viewv of the act that a caucus had been an ocunced to fake place at 8:30 o'clock. Mr. Muller offered a resolution hat the members fund their pay ,ertificates at fifty cenits on the dlol-. ar, but it was unanimously voted lown. Adjourned. TaUnsDAr, March 14, 1878. SENATE. A large number of bills and joint 'esolutions were ratified. The House concurrent reso lution Luthorizing the committee on frauds o sit for one month after the ad,. ournment of the General Assembly, vas opposed by Mr. Cochran, who ;tated that the committee would land in its last report before the1 idjournmnent, and this clause was iecordingly stricken out. The remainder of the session of hbe Senate was devoted to the clear-. ng of the calendar. Adjourned. HOUSE OF IIEPEBEENATIVEs. The supply bill came back from ~he Sonate with amendments, in all >f which the House concurred, and ~ho bill was ordered to be enrolled ~or ratification. The State tax is. Sherefore, definitely and finally Ixod at 4}. mills, exclusive of the 2 nill educational tax, with an average t~ax of 8 -mills in the dontaties. The judiciary-committee reported !avorably on the registration bill, md it was laid over for future con Aideration. The phosph at bill vas received from therSenate .witi - mrend mentes; Phpse amenjktI &6ur tha, DExC-A-BRAC. Londbn girls receive one cent for embroidering the "clock" on a stock.. ng.i The Snor/ i: tho name of a news pnper soon to be issued in Brenham, Texas. The abolition of .hell has reduced the emphatic vocabulary of North Carolina to nonsense. At Cairo the Khedive placed a palace at General Grant's disposal, and accompanied him to the pyra iuids. It is noticeable that the shoulders of ladies who hold up one side of their dresses are becoming very uneven. The Rev. Job Washington, of Rockport, Me., ninoty-two years of age, has concluded to give up to bacco, believing it to be injuring his health. He has used it seventy eight years. Here is a title of a book taken from the catalogue of the fair at Leipsic : "Goring, uber die Po rabroinmetasulphenylpropiousaucre und die MIetasulphenylpropious aucre." Polk's private secretary, "Old Col. Hopkins," is, according to a Denver paper, a street beggar at Santa Fe, New Mexico, though still displaying good breeding and excel lent school manners. "Vell, I swan, Billy," said an old farmer to an undersized nephew who was visiting him, "when you take off that 'oro plug hat and spit two or three times there ain't much left of you, is th'?"-UIncinnati Breakfast Table. The bronze gates of the Vatican which open on the Arcades, and re main opo:n while there is a living Pope, were closed at 5:55 on the evening of Feb. 7, a proceeding which at oneo denoted that the Holy F,,Uher had passed away. The original bill of sale of a ne gro man and woman by the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, of Northampton, Mass., in 1755, to the grandfather of John 0. Pettibono, was among the curiosities found in the house of the late John O. Pettibone, of Simsbury, Conn. Yo,u can teach a boy that if he plays the t'.reo and four domino on a three, leaving the six exposod to the other end, it counts ten, in about five minutes ; but it will take him all day at school to learn that four units and six units make ten units.--Rome S.'ntinsei. A poe1' es. weighing 160 pounds yearns "to twitter as a bird on some lone spray." When she gets on a spray and begins to twitter there is going to be an item for the local paer unle.ss the spray is as thick as an underground gas-pipe.,--. KNorristown Hlerald. An English clergyman invited some colore.l proachers to dinner wit,h somo whte gnests. The col ')red g' nanu t' th d not appezar, th h i c hai ed cit except some Christy a. instr;, whomn he soon got rid of. The RIussian Premier Gortschakoff, who is very old, recently fell in love with a Ph: yne of French birth, 'ond he too publicly paid his attention to her The old1 man was gone about her, loved and worshiped and mourned, for she wvent away with a mere plebeian. Boston Transcript :-"Mr C. K. Ross, the father of 'Little Charley,' is spending some weeks in and abont the city, following up certain information in relation to parties connected withu Mosher and Douglas, the parties who made the abduction and who were killed at Bay Ridge. Our police and the governor and council are giving overy facility to assist Mr. Ross in his almost hope less search." Why let your Baby suffer and perhaps die, when a bottle of Dr.' Bull's Baby Syrup would at once relieve it and effect a cure. Price 25 cents. * MUNCIP'A L NOMINA TIONS. .Mles,rs. .Editors :--Please an nounce the following ticket for our next Town Council: Intendant. JNo. 3. NEIL. Wardens.. - J. H. CUMMINoS, T. R. fl.jBEnRsoW, 3. F. MM ABT ER, IR. J. MOCABLEY. The above named are active, rep resentative young men, and we feel satiBoned that all the varied interest% of the commurnnity ,wiU e ~rote 19.t$ DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CLUB. A meeting of the Fairfield County Democratic %Aub, will be hold on the fifth Saturday in March. The Club will be composed. as heretofore, of five dole gates from each local or subordinate club. Tho purpose of the meeting is the cosideration of such measures as will place our county organization in accord with the form presented by the State Democratic Convention of August, 1876, and also of such rulea and regulations for the government of our county organi zation as will secure its fullest support of its own nominations, guard it against the dangers or discord and internal dis sensions, f1i its ranks and strengthen its lines for the campaign on which it is about to enter. These preliminary steps, wisely and deliberately taken, will place on'r party in the strongest position possible to us, and .enable us to adopt promptly any course that the emergencies of the eam paign L,ay require. JNO. BRATTON, march 2-f1t4 County Chairman. OTTO F. WEITERS, Wholesale Grocer -AND Commission Merchant, Nos. 110,112 and 181, CHARLESTON, S. C uot 4 Ayer's Hair Vigor, For restoring Gray Hair to its natural Vitality and Color. A dressing which is at once agree able, healthy, and effectual for preserv ing the hair. Faded or gray hair is soon restored to its original color, with the gloss and freshness of youth. Thin hair is thickened, falling hair checked, and baldness often, though not always, cured by its use. Nothing can re store the hair where the follicles are destroyed, or the glands atrophied and decayed. But such as remin.~ can be saved for usefulness by this npplication. Instead of fouling the hair with a pasty sediment, it will. keep it clean and vigorous. Its occasional use will prevent the hair from turning gray or falling off, and consequently prevent baldness. Free from those deleterious sub stances which make some prepara, tions dangerous and injurious to the hair, the Vigor can only beneflt but not harm it. If wantcd merely for a HAIR DRESSING, nothing else can be found so desir able. Containing neither oil nor dye, it does not soil white cam bric, and yet lasts long on the hair, giving it a rich glossy lustre and a grateful perfume. PRRPARED BT Dr. J. C. AYER & CO., Lowell, Mass., Praical and Analytteal Ohemits. SoLD BY ALLZ DRUGGISTS EVERYwRgag, J.E.AMger &..Co., 137 and 139 Xeeting Street, CHARLESTON, S. C., FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC lIARD WARtE, Cutlery, Guns, Sad dIery, Bar Iron and Plow Steel, Cuoum her Pumps, FAIRBANKS' SCALES. Agents for South Carolina for the Patent Steel Barb Fenoing, and the celebrated Farmer's Friend Plows, one, two and three horse, at redluced prices. LAberal Terms to the Trade. Large assortnient of Agricultural ,im. plemonts. A gricultural Steols aspecialty, Bull Tong es, Turn Shovels, Socoters Siweeps, I feel Bolts, A so~ rough stee~ Shaes,