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WINNSOURO, S. C. Tuesday, April 9. 1878. B. MZdANS DAVIS,, EDITOR. J1(O. 8. IEIYNOLDS, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. RADICAL SENATORs, in Washington, are caucussing in order to devise some moans of carrying the next House. They consider the Senate and President as lost in advance. A GEORGIA newspaper man wish ing to compliment a certain gentle man alluded to him as a "scarred," veteran ; but when the compositor spelled it "scared," some tall ex.. plaining was necessary. THE ENTHUSIASM aroused by Gov ernor Hampton's visit to Anderson and his speeches delivered there and along the road have evoked consider able attention from Northern papers, as marking the success of the let alone policy of the Prosident, and as proving the good temper of the people of South Carolina. CAMDEN TRIED THE experiment Of an independent municipal race this year; and now the Kershaw Gazette calls loudly for a Democratic nomi nation for the vacancy in the conn., eil caused by a tie voto. The Gazette's head is very level when it says that politics are bound to enter into every contest nowea-days. TiE RADICALs were pretty badly demoralized last year ; but they will need a second defeat to con. vince them of tho futility of their efforts once more to run the State. Already several obnoxious colored Radicals in this county are boasting of what they intend to do this fall. A determined effort will be made to reorganize the old shattered ranks for a bitter contest. '1'To coming campaign will be less ex citing, but the work will be just as hard as it was last year, unless the Democrats organize so promptly and thoroughly as to stamp out all hopes of successful opposition at once. They must wage an aggres~ sive warfare. Let every Demo, crat constitute himself a committee of one to see that the party nominees are triumphantly elected in Novem her. The State Press Association, This body of journalists meets shortly in Charleston. The meet ings, heretofore, have been so pleasant that a large attendance is exp)ected. It is a. matter of dooep regret that THE NEWs AND HERALD will rot be represented, owing to the business engagements of those connected with it. All w~ho can, should attend, for these half soci'al, half business gatherings of news paper men cannot fail to exert a most wholesome influence on State journalism. Weights and Measures. Hon A. H. Stephens is chairman of the Congressional committee on weights and measures. He is deep ly interested in the introduction of the Metric system, which reduces all tables to the scale of tens. Ho received from a friend the other day a bill which he was asked to present. Without reading it, Mr'. Stephens introduced it, and it has made him famous for the time being. The nomenclature recom mended was the original feature, comprising "hairs," "nails," "seeds," "corns," "nuts," "bipouncas," or "bips," and "kiles." Some iri'ever ent newspaper men and poets have made themselves merry at his ex pense already. Heo is a specimen from the New York World: Mr. Alexander H. Ste phlens ap pears to think that all the metric system needs to commend it to the affections of his countrymen is to mix a little idiom in its nomenelantre. With the foresight of a true states man ho disce>'ns that the American people will never come to call a metre a metre, but thinks that they may be induced to call it a yard, though in fact it is not a yard, A "seed," a "corn" and a "bipound or bip" are new units of weight, and a "hair" and a "nail" of measure. If they coincide with the units of the snetrio system, and people can be induced to say "bip" and "nail" who could not be minedt ay -ra and metre, all will be well. The trouble with his tables is that they do not go far enough. The idea is to get expressions which the masses can readily understand, and there Iro imanly such cxpressions which Mr. Stephens has not utilized. In weight, for instance, nobody knows what a biponud is, and if any man, wise ill his own conceit, thinks it to two pounds, Mr. Stephens will undeceive him. How simplo it would have been to say, for in stance: 10 h+tnl:: onke I gob. 10 gobs ni kl:e I cunk (or dokagob). 10 culinlk iuake I I lep. There is not onc; of Mr. Stephens' constituents who could not master this nomncnlature. In long ineas luro, again, whero Mr. Stephens confuses his constituents wit.h "seeds" and "corns," how simplo and symmetrical would it be to say 10 $tep9 nmk 1 iopskipan.jum p. 11) hopsi anjltlli lju take 1 pikce. T0 p+ieces; uike i ri;ht satrt go-by. Hero is ia terminology not arrived at by fumbling in Greek dictiona. ries, but fresh from the peopl and racu of the soil. Liquid measure again should be brought home to our business and bosoms in some such way as this: 10 .swallows make 1 drink. 1) dIrinks mike I spree. II) sprees muke 1 trianglo (or jims), And an intelligible table of dry measure would be '0 nihi>les IlIke I bite. 10 bites nake 1 square nmeal, and so forth Wo hive no doubt that Mi. Stephens means well, and that ho is tryling to bring the metric system within the scope of the meanest capacity, say of two "spoons." But. ho should break at once and forever with the effete terminology of Europe. There has been ia considerable rain Itormi all over Florida, and the country is flooded. 'rhe steamship Baltic, which ar rived at New York on Saturday, brought S256,000 in silver bars. There are only twolve hundred lawyers in Missouri, an11d every one of them is a candidate for United Statos Senator. The Rev. John Jasper, of Rich mnond, owns the church in which he preaches, and threatets to CIoso it if his congregation discharges him. Phoebe Jones, aged seventy~eight years, is under arrest at Andover, Mass., for the murder of her sister, Mary Ann Jones, aged seventy-six years. Albert E. Church, professor of mathematies at the United States Military Academy at West Point, died very suddenly on Saturday evenmng. Baroness Adolpho do Ro.thschildl has just paid their weigh E in gold f.>r two bronze group)s four. d in Venice, attributed to Michael Angelo. TJhie amount was $70,000. The Boston IHerald states that two citiz.ens of Winchester-, Mass., havo dletermirned to present at) equestrian staiue of Gen. Lee to the State of Virginia, to be erected upon the C:apital Square at Rich - mend. The Paris Exposition is to openf on May 1, in tile Palace of thle Troendero. Marshlal Matc :Mahon andl his Cabinet, the Prince of \VlJ.s the Count of F"landets, the Prince of Orange, and tihe v'arious comn um)lSiners from foreign nations will be p)resent. A Rome dispatch says that it is stated that England will r'aiso no ob)stacles to tile estab)lihmlen)t of relations with the Vitican, but will reserve tihe right to indicate theI basis thereof. The Vatican has instructed the German bishops to do no thing to prejud)(ico negotiations for re-estaibling relations between Berlin and tihe Vatican. Senator Sawyer is again on trial at *Washington before a jury of six whlito and six colored mien), and( is dlefendedl by ox-Senator Carpenter. He is chlarged w~ith assisting in de frauding thte government by allow ig thme paiymelnt of two fraudulent claims amounlting to $57,613. Mr. Froudo, tile historian, has boen delivering a series of lectures on the Eastorn question in England, He thinks that England should make no defensive or offensive alli.. ance except with America, and regards lher embroilment in conti nental affairs as a most dangerous mishap. Dr. Ernest, librarian f the Uni versity of Caraccas, has forwarded to tihe British Museum the descrip) tion of a volume which is believed to be tile first music book printed in America. It contains the four' Passions, printed in the Gregorian notation on a stave of five red' lines, and was pne at .Mei:- :.. 1604. A NOBLE DARE DEVIL. --o WILD F1 'AKS OF A ifU1GARlIAN 11O.lSEMA .. Somo Traits of Count Nagy-Sandor, the Father of the Princess Metternich. Count Nagy-Sandor, wlioso death was recently announced, married an elder sister of Prince Richard Met ternich, and by her was the father of the ill-favored but fascinating lady whom Prince Richard married and who so long led tho fashion at the Court of Napoleon II. .lIayflir of March 13 thus sketches some passages in his curious career Not the least remarkable incident in the life of Count Maurice Sandor was his connection with Prince Metternich. The Prince was as punctilious, reserved and measured, in words and notices, as the Count was brusque, reckless and barum-scarum. When he applied to the Prince for the hand of his daughter the Prince said he did not care about having his daughter's neck broken ; but on Sandor promising to abandon his feats of centaurship, he at last gave his consent. Th'le very same evening Salndor rod his horse "Tartar" up two flights of stairs into a drawing rooml: and coolly told the prince, when he remonstrated with him for breaking his promise, that "on the contrary, he was keeping his promise and a custoinllg his horse to polite societv." He was incorrigible. He jumped anything and everything. At a cross--road he once wentt over a peasant's wagon. He crossed the Danube on the floes when the ice was breaking up, galloped up and down the Prater backwards in his saddle, and rivalled all the feats performlled in the great circusses. In 1848 he was treated to a charivu ri by the enraged populicee, Oil ac count of his connection with Prince Metternichl ; but stepping out on the balcony withi a dog-whistle and two servant.., ea11 witl a sack full of c lts, he quito out-vhistl.,l and out--miaowed his antagoiiism. Then, going down si irs .imanst8 them, le seized a stone, and throw ing it at one of his wildows, invite'J the crowd to smash the rest. Takin aback at his courtesy, they refused. Thereupon Sandor ci i:d : "Well, then, let us go to my fatther- ina -lw's aid smash his." 'I'tlis )roposal was car ied by acclamation, and the Pt ince's were duly siachied. But by this time Sander had got the crowd so under his control twat no further damalige was done, and what might. have turnen out a sco ions riot was changed into a coniivi.dl mccting ~. One day a remark ible tr:nsfor ma tion tt>ok place. He beca:ne as ner vous and timid as lie had been b)ein reckless and daring. 1He n ever mounted a horse again, refused to take the reins when lhe went out drnivinig, and always w"ainod his daughter to be cautious. This change, I was told by oneC of his most intimate friends, was due to a diream. The dream was to the eil'et that the devil suddenly app)earedl with a numiber of mirrors, which ho hold one by one before the Conut, and in w~hich Sandor saw the danger le had run in each of his explohits. Mirror after mirror wvrs held before him till the sweat poured from his b: ow, r.nd the last glass was reached. But instead of showing him this one, thme devil put it back with a leor and said, "'This is the last one ; this hams yet to come." At this mmomrent the Count aw~oke and v'owed lie would never mount a horse again, and lie did not. A Louo CALLr FoR THEmi WHiIPPNo Pos'.-The State whbich has the wvhipping post and stocks is the one in which crime of cvery kind is least frequent. Delaware, which has st.uck to what is~ cnlled this relic of barbarism, is shunned by the criminal classes as theo devil would shun holy water. If now the! wvhippinmg post and a con spicuo us pair of stocks weore held up before our bank presidents and cashiers, savings bank trustees and their like, how long wvould it be before the pr1ess found a dearth of news in the defaulting line ?-.Elizab>eth, N. J., llerald. A dnntist tried his first operation with gas on a robust colored wo man. After she had used all the gas in the office, she wheeled in the chair and shouted :'Hurry up. boss, and bring on another bag of that swooetened wind.' One of our business men who. never advertises was asked by a friend the other day how business! was, when lie replied that it was like peddling peanuts in a graveyard.' Lockport Journal. Little boy, when your mother turns you across her knee, you're ti ansparent, -Boston .P'ost. Bie. cause yu see she puts panes in yo.-- t o York Mai Beecher has just, dawn a $4,600 house in Chicago. Donald G. Mitchell is writing a history of Venice. Theodoro Tilton has imide. $15, 000 this winter by lecturing. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines now has her eyes on Kalamazoo, Mich. Hans Christian Anderson's fairy storios have been translated into Arabic. Senator Timothy 0. Howe is a n:itivo of Maine and an admiror of Blaine. King Humbert is going to have his international exhibition at Milan next vear. Jam3s Gordon Bennett is said to have made $60,00() on O'Leary's walking victory. Bret H:rto admits that ho is not a success as a newspaper man, and so does Mlark Twain. Thirty-eight of the forty-six ofli cials of Dubuquo, Iowa, city and county, are Irislmen. The real ostato of Jerry C. Tullis, the Cincinnati imillionairo and misor who died from want of nutritious food, has been appraised at $2,782, 055. Bishop Conroy, of Ardagh,Iroland, is visiting in California and is being received with high honors. Governor I-Iibbard, of Connecti cut, is said t<"have vetoed more bills than any three of his predecossors combined. Mis. Gilmer, whose lU banid was nutrdered with Judge Chisholn, in Kemper county, Mississippi, has b<el -ppoinLcd a clerk in tao War Dep:rtmen t. The Japanese Emb)assy, number.. ig lifty- eight persons, including the president of the Exhibition Commission, arrived at Marseilles, France, last week. Mrs. Tyler, widow of ex-President John Tyler, was confirmed by Arch bisho1) Gibbons last week, at the C.nvnt of the Vi.itation, George town, 1). C. G.il Hanii m thi'k it no im pea 1: ) :ni o: tn's . r ti1y t,) ho a :.a ghter, sis.ter o. fri n-1, I>n says 1 i. a 'readful indorsenent of a man to in ry a>in. D miel H iggin', an Irish lab-rer, recently (1isch:rged from the lii'h moid, Va., j'i, is said to have fallen heir !o 8.00.00) worth of pa ol"eoity in Sid.mey Australia. Stoncwall ,Tnekson's colored body servant is not so numerons as Wash-. in'wton's. HeC lives at Lexington, VT.. hiq m- ve 'ns a home, and his L is pronom1 MI ~im in terna ti :n -I arbit ' ''n board settle tlhe (Vi-stion which is the sweetest s'nger of the three, Ma[rio Rloze. An Louise Cary or Clara Louise Kellogg. The New York J%>'ning I'o.t (a high an tioritv in literary criticism. by the wvay) Pronounnees M~rs. Rebhecca Haerding Davis one of the able.st, if not the' ablest, of living American novelists. M. JRartholdi, ther designer of th~e colossal statute of L'herty for New York harbor, has made two hundred nlopics of his pronosed work in lls ter and is peldling them in the American colone in Paris. Mile. Patti's last por formnce in Naples b)ronlgh t a thi rt.y-ono-theu san 1-franc -house twen ty-three calls I,e'ore flhe curtain, more than a thonisand baonquets and a crown of gold on a cushion of flowers. The Count. do Chambordl, the Bourbon aspirant to the French throne, has bought a small island in the eastern p)ortion of the Medi terranean. Sea, whore he prloposos to reside and be monarch of all he surveys. A diver belonging to the British ship Vernon had his life Rayed by the t eleph one. While under water his 'vtrengtht left him ntil he was too w'eak to signal with the rope, and had only timo to call "Pull me up" before ho fainted. Simon Cameron turned several (loule somersaults in escaping un hurt from the wreck of a train on the Van dalia line, near Troy, Ill., on Saturday night last, while he was returning from the Hot Springs. When he concluded his performance he said :"That's not so bad for a man of eighty." The Pope received ex-President Grant, his wife and son on Satur, day. M%. Chatard, rector of thte American College, awaited General Grant in the hal) of the Swiss Guard and accomipaniod him to the Pope's apartme~nts, where Cardinal Moe. Closkey presented him to the Pope, who received him with o.-..r arko "How can I leave thee ?"' he was singing in a very tender tone. He wasn't very popular with her par onts and it was verging on twelve o'clock, and the old man came in and showed him how he could leave her. It is questionable at least to allow the baby to exhaust itself and annoy the household with its con tinual crying when that tried remedy, Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup, will quiet it at onco. Prico 25 cents a bottle. * "I notiss ono thing, the man who rides qn the kars every day is sat.isfied with one seat, but the man who rides once a year wants at least four."-Josh Billings. NOTICE. TO THE SSPASSERS. F ROM and after this date, all persons aro prohibited from hunting, fishing or in any way trespassing upon my plan. t,ttion. Those disregarding. this notice,. most take the consequences -as the law will be enforced to its fullest" extent. IAMPTON JOI.INSON, april 9-t lx3 Ridgeway, S. C. Removal. T HE undersigned bogs 12a-ma to ii form his friends and customers and the public generally that he has removed to the eonimodious and centrally located store formerly occupied by James 11. Aiken, where may always be found a full and well selectcd stock of Groceries Provisions, Wines and Liquors. .Xr Highest Prices paid for Cotton. ffb 7-61 R. J. foOARLEY. AUGUSTA HuTEL C.rner of Broad and Washington Streets,, A ' UST., G t. .ls, hie(''n thoroughly renovated, re mt ie-tI nitl newly furnished. It is htu.te I ill the centre ol' biinesH 1pgiih (lMice in the lHotel building. rt dice in t ie s,name block. Post (i iln Iy onm. bl:hck off. All other pub ei (n1 vinete. close at hand. 4'' Tin Oflice of the Hotel will be. l'eni di i ( '- nighit, and guests will be reeevei er er lie-d at tiny hour. W W. MOO lIE, Proprietor. Pate's -1, $2.0) per day oct 20-xly PMNO&PRGAN n l:h ti: 'i ('til mp tie wit Ii the "'(mtld. I,u(n) Sulph iI 'itlr'n- f rotn Mell lC M.kers at i.'" a'(. i ;a t 1I. )Ilil lit.i own ;agtnts it '. torn T'riI.s to all. New I'lano., $Ii, $115Q, Nt"% or~ ni.-. $1'i. 101* . i s1 year's 1 '''.' 1 ": Ie. l iItv trial. .1titter's uate ;1'1 al tuniUen ,;. 89litre dlealltn; the honest I: , u b. ::.l hi .l l) t . r.tlns in Ihe I.T. 8. From $5) ltS .i 1 sl e sIved in bthl.g from"la I'I)l).N *v ltA I Sou clrn 'u wholesale P'iano aoiui ocgan lInpot, 'av.unnah i, G... moar 11-1m WATERS' ORCUESTRION ggines ORGAN is tho ,auont beautiful in style and perf fee in to. no ever mnmde. It ha. the celebrated Coneer. to stop, which is a fine llmit ation oftha lluiman voice, and two and a. half Octaves of bell. tuned in perfect har. miony wvith the reeds, and l(their ef'ect is ung. teal and electriiying. V~ATrERl' (CLA R 10. NA, OI1CIIESTRIAL, CNCERTon. VEelP. E R.CENTENNIAIL CIIMES ChA PEL, and COTTAO E OltflANS, in Unique French Ca sea comblino PURLIT Y of v4IINU toith grent i olume111 qf tone, smniable for Paror or Chiurch. WATE RS' PIANOS, A"n ARE TiHlE BEST ADE the Tone,Touch, WVork mnusip, and Dunrnbillt y Unsurpassed. WVarrantecd for' NIX YEARS. PR ICE E~ X I EEL.Y LO0Wfor ensh.Mon. thity lustiaallments received. Instrmente to let until paid for as per contrnet. A Liberal liscnunti to T1nhers. Ministers, Churches,8thol,ee, AGENTIS WVANTED. Speelnliuducemnente to tihe trnude. IlIustrated Cataloautea Dalled. cecond-hund Instrmentmant (GREAT BAR= (IAINN. IIORACE WATERS de 80N8S Dlnnnfuecturera and Dealers, .40OEAST 3 4thh'T.,UNION UQUARE1,N.Y 3. Clenining, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, w. INN\lto1, 8. C. LYON'S /STIFIFEINERS PREVENT roots and Shoes From lRunning over, Vca'llig Off on t6 Sille ad Ripping in the 8RA8. naarohi 26 DON'T MISTIHE. HI.E entire stock of Furniture, Mat.. trosses, Windowv Shades, Rlaby Catrringes, etc., will be sold at greatly redcedc prices, from thisnday, regardless of cost, to oloso out at The Chester Furnituro Store, Opposite the Court House, RI. BRANDTr, bauary fO 1878. trophietor,