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WINNSBORO, S. C. Thursday, April 18, 1878, B. EZANS DAVIB, BDITOR. ONO 5. i2YNOLDS, AesoeiATE EDiToR. Lieutenant-Governor Simpson. It having been reported that Lieutenant Governor Simpson had declined to accept a renomination, an authoritative denial of the report has been made. While Governor Simpson will not seek the office, he will servo again if the people desire it. This is the proper position to take. Lieutenant-Governor Simpson displayed groat firmness during the trying days of the "dual govern ment," while his admirable coup in gaining control of the recalcitrant Senate and bringing that unruly body to order, is one of the marked features of the history of that period. Governor Simpson was once de frauded of a seat in Congress to which he had been elected by an overwhelming majority, and last summer was prevented from enter ing the canvass for the associate justiceship, because his election would ha"e made Swails lieutenant governor. There is no better and purer man in the State than he, and no erroneous report tending to in jure his prospect of re-election i should be suffered to pass without contradiction. The Tie that Binds. The News and Courier, while 1 very properly holding that the pri mary election scheme is not abso lutely perfect, still believes that it i offers the best means of unifying l the party. It, however, interposes t an objection to the requirement of a pledge from each voter that her will support all Democratic nomina- , tions. It says : We doubt the practicability and I wisdom of requiring the proposed a pledge. It goes against the grain, a like asking a man to swear that lie is honest and God-fearing. There is reason for exacting a pledge of s the candidates, beenRian thny Qonk 6 the suffrages of the people, and expect, if duly nominated, to receive the votes of the whole Democratic party, of Democrats who opposed l them as well as those who support- t ed them. To put all candidates on the same footing, and insure fair dealing, it is necessary that the ' griends of every candidate be satis-|t fled that, if their mnen be nominated, r the other candidates will not make i a new contest before the peop)le. It is equally desirable to have a solid ~ vote by the members of the party, ~ but we do not think that the Demo- 1 cratic voters will consent to pledge a themselves in the way suggested. ~ The effect of the plan, if adopted, will be to throw the nominations ~ into the hands of a small number of Democrats who are so zealous thatt they will vote on any terms. We are confident that the party can be. held together without any more. personal pledges. It is to the in terest of the people to uphold the Democratic party. Self-interest is pledge enough. And again, we object to this because we think it unnecessary, and because it will keep from the polls many sound and staunch Democrats, who expect to be trusted by the party as the party is trusted by them. This pledge is nothing more nor less than the famous "eighth article'. of the Anderson Constitution, adopted by many other counties. The objection now raised by the N?tews 'ad CJourier was heard in most of the counties two years ago, when the article in question evoked more discussion and feeling than all the other provisions of the constitui tion combined. Where adopted, it for a long time kept a number of the worthiest citizens out of the organi zation. Independence of thought had become so general in South Carolina that party dictation was viewed with abhorrence. Every good citizen constituted himself a committee of one to see that the State received no detriment, and he hesitated to bind himself to any party, because he feared that others, through mistaken zeal, might adopt a course injurious to the public weal, and he would be powerless to inter pose a check. But, as time wore on, the absolute necessity of a mutual pledge became more apparent, until in those counties- we belev, n which the-practical workings of th Democratic organization were mani fested, all objection. to the eight article ceased. It is now recognize as a necessity, the saving clause i the constitution ; and, in the lan guage of quack advertisements, "n party having once tried it, will eve consent to be without it." Politics is a matter of business It has its emoluments and practice rewards which prevent its ascendinj into the higher atmosphere of doti timent. The Democratic party, ii office, diffeors from the Domxocra-i party out of office. It is a join stock company entrusted with the management of the political an< financial affairs of the. State. Ix common with other business asso ciations, it must have specific con. tracts between its members-it: mutual pledges. Self-interest doe: not alwas adjust the wavering bal ance in favor of the public good Smith., or Brown, or Jones, as a mere private in the Democratic ranks with no axe to grind, can well se< that his interest demands the sub sorvienco of personal opinions to th< will of a majority. But the sam< individual as a defeated candidate for office, or as a friend of such, believing that in some mysterious way he has juggled out of the nomi nation, cannot always see that it is Jetter to submit to the will of the najority than either to gather his ;lans for an independent contest or ;Ise to sulk like Achilles in his tent, vhile Agaiemnnon grapples in inequal contest with his foes. Moreover, when no pledge is re lnired, the friends of any candidate nay doubt the sincerity of their op )onelts, and may be thus induced o look to outside influences to an lection ; for a nomination that will tot carry a solid party vote, is not vorth the seeking. But let it be :nown that every member of the >arty stands pledged on his honor to bide by the will of the majority, nd perfect confidence will result. he fight will be made wi,hin the arty, and every effcrt w11 hit ,ne periect instead of to weaken party rganization. Wherever the experiment has been ade, it has been found expedient o adopt this pledge. Without it, lhe organization is a rope of sand. :'hat some good men willniot pledge hemselves is a matter of profound egret ; but there ever has existed he obstinate twelfth juror. Thme ifort must be made to bring him vor, not to lead the other eleven mack to him. Let every Democrat ign the pledge, and then work man, ulnly to secure the nomination of the >est men. Bunt he must not be llowed to abstain fromi supporting he p)arty nominee simply because mis man was defeated. He might lo this if not p)ledged. DoN 0 AMERoN's BIDE.- Next reek Mrs. Secretary Sherman, Lccomp)anied by her young relatives, :he Misses Shlerman, Moulton and Parsons, will go to New York to soloct the innunmerable elegant urticles that compose a complete mnd perfect trousamaui. for the fajir young girl to be Mrs. Cameron. [t has not yet b)een announcedl whether the wedding will take place [bere or in Cleveland. The olo cluence of an impatient lover hmas moved tho bride elect to name a lay much earlier than was first Tnticipatedl for the nuptials of thiu clistinguished pair. Senator Domi has pleaded so earnestly and suc eessfully that he has had his proba tion abridged one hundred and sighty dlays, and the wedding wil take place within the lunar influ ences of the present month. It ih said by those who are honored by an intimacy with the renownel Clan Cameron, that the children ar< as anxious for the marriage as tl< august bridegroom. E~ven th< founder, Simon by name, erior aloud for its consummation, ani Wayne MacVeaghi is ready to oem brace Ben. Butler, and mark th4 event by a spirit of general am nesty. _______ The other night a colored mai on his way home spied somethint which he thought to be a ghost The ghost stood exactly in thm middle of the road, and he decide< to investigate it, and poked at i with a stick. The next inistant h was knocked twenty. feet into a mu hole, Moral-Neverpoke &' stie at a'large white tnul,whMa-his bac iturned, The event in Chicago society next week: will be the failure of a well known and high! conlnected.savings bank. Cards w ill be out in a day or two: No money will be spared to make it the most recherche affair of the season. Elaborate, prepara tions have been going- forward for some months, although in a quiet way. The President's wife has already purchased seventeen trunks, xnd is looking around for some nore.-C%icago Tribune. Montgomery 'Blair's prediction that Hayes will be out of the White EIouso within sixty days, recalls, mays the Springfield Republican,. 1[r. Seward's famous remarks at egular intervals during the rebel ion that it would be crushed inside )f ninety days. Mr. Seward finally lit it in Janua'ry, 1865, and Mr. 3lair only has to keep saying it over ill the 4th of Jianuary, 1881, and he viii take rank as a wonderful proph :t too. General James Chestnut has ccepted the invitation of the Ladies' fenorial Association of Camden, to leliver the annual address on le aorial Day, which occurs on May .0-the anniversary of the death of he great and good Stonewall Jack on. JOME AND SEE ! 0 00 pieces Spring and Summer Prints, just arrived. 00 pieces Spring and Summer Prints, just arrived. 00 pieces Spring and Summer Prints, just arrived. 00 pieces Spring and Summer Prints, just arrived at., J. F. McMASTER & CO.'S. Centennial Stripe Pigno. Centennial Stripe Pique. Bleached and unbleached Home puns, Drills, Osnaburgs, etc. Just received at J. F. McMASTER & CO.'S. Spring and Summer Cassimeres rom the Charlottesvil.e Woolen Just arrived at J. F. McMASTER & CO.'S. A full line of Gents' Fur, Wool 2d Straw Hats. Just arrived at J. F. McMASTER & CO.'S. Gents' and Boys' Baltimore made tnd and Machine sewed Shoes. Just received at J. F. MIcMASTER & CO.'S. CONSUMPTION u1 SuffrrrIersf from tis dI'ie t hat aire anx. li t0 be' c'ured shoukt1e tr DI J. KI13sNElt's leht'itedi ConstImrtive POW l)gJ. Tlws t Il IIOATi and( L.UNUs--Inudeed, s;o sirong is. faith inI ltm, arnd also tO coninctjo y'Ott that 'y are no hum.butg, we will ronr~~td Io every ferer b)y mall. ptO.s paid, a l"ItEE 'iliA L IoX. Ve donti't watt yotar montey uintil, you1 ar fcctly3 Mattsitedl of their cutrat Ive pow~ers. If .ir lire is wvorth saving, dlon't delay In givingr solI)EHs a trial, as they will surely rice, for large b)ox, $1.00 sent to any part of Lt'lld'( States o* C anada, by mall, ont re at of prienC. Addcress, ANH & IRfRfBINS, 25-xly 860 Fult.on st.., Blrelyn, N. Y. AUGUSTA HIJTEL ener of Bro ad and WVashington Streets, A UGUST A, G I. [AS been thoroughly renovated, r'. imiode led andt newly lurnisheod. It loca'tedO in the centre ot' busineas egraph Oflice in the hlotel building. >rcas Olflico in the satine block. Post cc only onoe lock of'. All other pub convenlienes closo at haind. r' 'VT Oflico of the Hotel wvill be ni duiling the night, and gietts will b)0 )jid or ci.lied at any hour. W W. MOOIIm, Proprietor. atesq -r 4, $2.00 por dlay 20-xly_______B WEST I ALADDIN mu & SONS' t SECURITY OIL, m THE BEST HOUSEHOL.0 OIL IN USE. rranted 150 Degrees Fire-Test. ~ WATER WhIITE IN COLOR. A lly Decodorzedzc. 'ULL NOT EXPLODE. 'i HIGHEflST AWARD en:ennial ExposItIon Poe Excelenoe of Mlanufhoture AND 110IIGIltiE TEST. ~dorsod. by tho lusurance Qompan!eu, Retad tis Chrlleae.-One if .AIany. tswA1D Friai I%'it'nANCS Co. oi' BAT,TzMau, more, Dee, 2ml. l87-i. - Aer.. 0. West a &ona nlewnt.'; Haing~ ited th.o various oIls sold is city for illumtnating puirpoavs, I lake pleas. ) in recommeondlin your "A hidln Scurity ats the so,s an Oever used in ou ho ad< gnocd] Az4DREW RIEESE, Prosidont, Manufkotured by WEST A S91YS, lattores 'i87 It, and .won'will na . ns- o.e 3 A NEW INDUSTRY FoR TIE SoUT. It would be be strange, indeed, if the rich soil and fine climato of tho Southern States should be fitted for the production of one staple article only, viz. : cotton. The fact is that tho Southern States will in time become the richest portion of the country, agriculturally, because of tho great diversity of products possible. A now opening has been found for enterprise, viz.: The pro duction of winter butter, and we learn that one farmer of Tennessee and another of Arkansas are sending, fresh grass butter to Boston market- this winter. These farmers keep Jersey cows, which pasture i during the winter upon the native grasses, of which blue grass is the chief. Blue grass for winter pasturo 1 I and Bermuda grass for the summer will sustain cows in fine order, and I there is the whole winter for the production of butter. Why should 1 not Southern farmers avail them.-i selves of the advantages of their climnate and raiso dairy products at the time When Northern dairies are suspending operations ?-Anerican Agriculturist. TELEPHONIC DANERs.-Tho Hart.e ford Post records. an incident which is a timely warning to the owners t of telephones. It says : On Sunday morning, when the sudden flash of lightning was seen and was followed by a sharp peal of thunder, Dr. John A. Stevens was using the telephone extending from his home on High street to the drug storo in the Hotel Capitol. The clerk of the (ug store had his ear listening for a communication from the doctor, when, simultaneously with the peal of thunder, he re coiv ed a severe shock in the ear, the report sounding like the dis charge of a gun. His power of I hearing was more. or less affected all day. Dr. Stevens saw a flash of 1 electricity play about his end of the instrument, and on examination it 1 was found that all the delicate' insulated wire had been entirely 1 destroyed by the lightning. Had the doctor been speaking at the tube at the time of the flash he vould probably -been dangerously injured. THE -SULTAN'S PRESENT TO GEN. -GIANT.-During the afternoon the s general had an audience with the Sultan. It was strictly private, no one being present but Grant, Mr. Maynard and the Dragomans. After the itervie the Impeial stables f upon our ex-President accepting one of the sacred Arabians, which have a- pedigree as long as the moral lItw.. Grant at first refused the gift, but it is hinted that the a Prime Minister has orders to send the stallion to Marseilles, and on its arrival there, again urge its acceptance. The Eultan seemed to reel that the crise of affaiirs here ha lIad preven ted him from doing all that he should for his guest, and, knowing Grant's fndness for full- - blooded stock, tmsted he would accep)t the horse is a slight tribute to America's repreentative.--Con stantinopic -Letter - TIE USUALLY KILLS 'Ear.--The " Oglethorpe (Georgia) lic/o tells of o a most unfortunate mar. a resident 2 of Murray county, who since thesu o'-r, has accidentally kilhd five men. poc The first was slain by arn axe slip-. g p1mg his hand and strikin, the vic- cut tim on the head ; the acond he th( drowned by snagging ankinking a CuI boat in which the pair wer crossing a a stream; the third wvas addentally - shot through the brain, bng mis taken for turkey ; the fCrth was killed by a tree that had bin felled by the unfortunate man ;mnd the Ce fifth was killed by him aedentally at a log-.rolling. He wasput on trial for life on several Easions, but each time was exonorati from - all blame. He is a peacel, law- I abiding individual, and is sibly the is victim of a chain of unhapp3ircum-. 'M stances. E A GREAT MAN.--GOV. Hampn, of South Carolina, is certainly 'ifreat and good man. Ho takes prions and makes declarations that ml one in a thousand politicians wouhlare C do for fear of their popularita'ow just see how he talks about 43si. dent Hayes, whom some tce,U seekers are afraid to even spemgo, and dare not say a word in M mendation of his patrioticc<, lest it might hurt their sta ' g with the feiv malignants .still' gering on the edges of the D&d cratic party. Where is ther greater man, a more honest ma~ more imoral-man, and a moree ageonms man than'Wade Hampto qharlotte .Democrat. The St. Louis alobe-Denot 3 thinks Ulysses. is the coming rr m 1|It remarks that "Grant, after Hay 2 will.be very much. like a squa ill s 'tneal after Lerit."~ People of t Ifn' 1 G.-J).kinO did ae better undo d k. Grint,-witli 1the exception of som e little annoyance about the whiske TF~ TRII El i WEEKCLY EDITION, z1 F ObrrnIED'E'Ry WED2EDAY ' WINNSBOQRO, & V. DY TE1 WINNSBORO PUBLISHING C0' IT CONTAINS A SUMMARY OF THE LEADING EVENTS OF THE DAY, State News, (otMtty Nfws, Political News, Etc. H EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT RECEIVES SPECIAL ATTENTION. THIE LOCA. COLUMN. :s well filled with town and county newel Ch aim of the Publisher. is to issue a ?IRT-CLASS FAMILY NEWSPAP ER. Terrns of Subseription, payable invaria. Iy in advance: )ne copy, one year,---- -- -S.0 )ne copy, six inonthsq, - --- -- $1.60, ne1 copy, three miiths, - - - $1.00, ives, on~e year, att -. .-- - S2.7i, 'O-n copos, oneo year, at - - - - $2.60, w,enty copies, one year.~ at - - $2.50, 'lo every p)erson fmkmg up a~ elub of an or more subscribers. a copy wvill bo ent free for one yea. 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