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WI\NSBORO, S. O. Tuesday, April 25,_:_ 1878. . MEANS nAVIS, ElDITOR. JNO B. IILYO.YQLs, ASSOCIATE EDIToIt. THE STATE EXECUTIVE Committeo urgo that candidates bo brought out individually and not by clubs. They regard the primary system as causing each candidate to standl upon his own merits, and thoroforo opposo even a quasi caucus nomi, nation by a club. The raco is to be open to everyone who believes that the dear peoplo wish his services. A RESOLUTION was adopted at the last county convention, urging all subordinato clubs to reorganize at' once, and to notify the secretary of tho Executive Committee of the fact. The county chairman desires a speedy responso from the clubs. So soon as he is notified that all have complied he will call a convention for the purpose of electing a county chairman and of setting the party in trim for the campaign. At the same time the new Executive Coin mittee will be installed. Primary Elections vs. Cliques :and Rings. Among other objections raised to the system of primary elections, some persons claim that it will allow cliques to control nominat ions. Now, as the system has been adopted for the purposo of smashing rings, it could not too speedily be rejected, if any such conscquences would ensue as are claimed. The way in which this dire result is to be (flct ed is said to be as follows: A ring at the court-house will iniluence certain leading men in each neigh borhood, and those will control the club elections. Of course thoso who mako this objection claim to prefer convention nominations as less liable to be controlled by a clique. How any one can argue that an election which takes placo in IL dozen differ ont precincts at once, and in which every voter participates, can be controlled more easily than the action of forty or fifty delegates shut up in one room, nay, in the court--house itsolf-tlhe very lion's don, the haunt of the so-called cliques-is a matter passing our con.. prehension. If there is a way in the wvorld of preventing the domi nation of any man or sot of mn possessing great personal influneneo or consmmatc. skill in manipulating publhc bodies, that way lies in having the deision rest in as large a num her of individuals as p)ossile, seat tered in many different lplaces, so that all can not be reached simaulta nounsly by tho voice of the charmer. The p-rimary system destroys the one-man power, instead of perpetu ating it. On the other hand, a convention is a place p)reeminently' fitted for the exorcise of wiro-.pulling and clique controL~ The influential men of e3achm neighborhood can always secure an election as delegates to a convention. The central clique can work on these, and these, b)y their influence, can control the other delegates. It is much easier to manipulate-a body of fifty than of fifteen hundred. Tihe latter go to the primaries and deposit their votes to suit themselves. The candidate of the party, not of a clique, wins. \Vhile many are sincere in their opinions, it will be found that others who oppose the primary system are realty at heart aspirants for oflico, wvho believe their chances are better beforo a convention than before the people. WVe repeat that the primary sys temn, instead of being the creature of a ring, is really an effectual cheek upon it. It is a Democratic mnas uro, as it strikes-at centralization. \Vo are glad to say that the ob,. jotions weorefer to have been raised in other counties. WVe have heard no serious objection in Faiiilh. As to the system adopted in this this county, it has met the cordial approbation of tihe Staite Executive Committee, and a copy of it has been forwarded to the county chair-. pen of the different counties as ibformlation. This county, at least, is in full accord with the State Coin BNRIC-A-BRA C. A Dublin doctor says "fatal cascs of sunstroko cannot be cured." They propose to proscribe bache" lors from school boards in Iowa. Why is a balky horse like the capital of Turkey 1 3ecauso ho is constinlt in no pull. Thirty-seven men have been han:;e1 in New York in four years. New York is the Heipiro State. The Cincinnati .E'nqubcrr observes that mnarriage is often a mirage. And still young people will make haze to the weddling. There will bo no hall club;ia Tur key this season. They can't play there without knocking the ball outside of the new boundarv lines. General Mite, the dwarf, is said to havo earned 20,0{) for his mother in the last two years. This is a fine illustration of the Value of the "widow's mite." A si:olling theatrical comp-my was at dinner. A waiter approach. od one of the members and said, "Soup !" "No," replied the guest, "1 am one of the musicians." Tho ierald man says of Con gressnan Kelley : ""He is tall, angular, and witi a voice like an anvil chorus, is very quiiit, and looks as sad ts a Phi adelpf.ii news pape1." In case England drafts men to fill ip her ali'1Ny, the Prince of Wales w-ill ind.i i:nnly exclaim, "Here, yon cnn't take met 1:1i the only su1pport of a widowed mother." On ia letter put. in a Iaiune plost olliec the otice iay, ther. ws55 the l'ollin ath llress : "M.-onne -Mill N\utitue Chir." It w-is inltnled for Milton MIills, New Hampshire. The Prince of W?ales creaed a great scnaitt.ion at ia fancy dress ball in .aris reechntly, by i applring ats iiobinsot Crli.wie inl his dress of skinls, and sturnu>tunted by the traditional tumibrella. Out of my 1,500 enployes, only about fifty use liquor in any fori, and they all know that just ts Soonl as I can find qupc:ally capable mnn to take their places they will have to go.- P. T. fai'n urn. A New York sculptor is engaged on a work to ho called "WingeId Sorrow." "If the work isn't too fa:lr along we suggest that, he give it the form and size of a Jersey mosquito. - W1orceoter .Irc. An optical d'lusion--Traveler: "IIi! I uiard ! I Have you seen a man walking abont with oce eve, of the name of Walker '?" uard (n1sing. ly): "N-no, sir. I dunno as I 'av. What was the name of the other eye, sir ?"--Judy. "Can that horse run fast ?" asked a boy of a .ukman thme other mnorn - ing. "No, sjonny," repliedl the purveyor of aqueous lar-teal fluid', "hie can't run very i'aust., but hi, can standl the fastest of any horse you ever saw." A young man, just en gazed on a ranche in Tuckee, Cal., was set to driv~ing at yoke of o'at t'e, amd at noon, when he wanitedc to feed them, was observe'td ftryinIg to uniserew~~ their hor'ns, in ordor to got the yoke off the animals. A little girl s-tid : "TI like the countryv because there are no eor ners. WVhen [Im at home mother tells me r.ot to go farther' than the corner (of the street, but-don't you SeO ?--there areo no corner's here, and I can go anywhere. He(re is nnrother' awfulii coinnndrum' : What is the differ'ence between thme man who has a weakness between thie shioulder-.blades anid the man who wants Congresas to vole himi $100,000 for serv~ices rendered duri ing the war ? Now listen to tihe answer : Ono has a lamo back and t,ho other a back claim. Mrs. William Crawaley lost her life recently at a fox hunt in Eng land. She was riding rapidly afteor time hounds, whlen lher' horso leap)ed a hedge and landed under a small apiple tree. Stooping to avolid tihe br1anchosx, hoer headi camfO inl viol(ent contact with the trnnk, by which her neck was broken. She was only twenty--fivo years old. Senator Anthony is growIng ft and feeble. H-e enteredl the Senate in 1859, and)( has been a memberl)O over since, being the oldest miembher in uinterr3'Iup1ted' service, and the only member wvho has seen more years of Senatorial life is Hamulin. .Both sawv the departure and the return of the Senators of the States which secedod. Foesnct an<(1 Stream descibes)0 the novel manner in which a two .inch wvater pipo that had become clogged was cleansed. A hole was punched through an eel's tail and a string wvas passed through. The eel was then started through the pipo. An occaisional jerk reminded the oI to advance, wVhich he did, going the entire length. A bunb o ag was then tied to the string and the Pipo was cleansed. A comptrison of ancient records With mioderin o bservat i ill tends to show that diphtheria is anl old disease with a new name. It made great havoc in Now England, especially in Now I-Iampshiro and Maine, at three different epoch1s, 1735-'S. 1786 and 1832. The dis ease scems to have spreal slowly from its first centres of outbreak in the attack of 1S35-'8, taking four mnontlis to reach 13oston and two years to arrive on the banks of the Hudson river. '1'he trunk , a tree three hun dred feet high-or a section of it froi Mississippi, is to ho muong the wonders of the Paris Exlii>i tion. Last vear':s geological survey in Southern, t. tah revealed the fact that the areas occupied by standing tuber are much smaller than those which are capablo of supporting such growth. The destruction by fire great.ly exceeds that of the woothnan's axe, nd it seems desira 1)le that some methods for prevent ing forest fires should be ^devised, and as It measu1rc of public economy, adolptcd in Utah, and perhaps inl other Territories. A lNW ii AY 1- T 1AY OL D E tJT3. "An O'd Subscriber" sends us the following accoun1t of "a now way to pay old debts :" W, have a custom c r ini Mis:soulri who nakes his set tleneiits to us in nlotes, which, when du., we forward to our West 01rn Cotrr"spondent to collvet. Hfe is generally} sctcesul'l, but times have been pretty hard of late and a settle - mIint\ was a1,)pparently impossible. However, greatly to our surprise, a few days a;;o we received a settle ment for lie note with a letter fromu the maker of it, of which the follow ing is an exac't copy "GJ;xT'r.l:an:-Your favor of the 27th instant, as well as several writ - ten previous to that time, havo all been received ail I filed away where future genraf ions ('aln see them and tnrder :t:)ir how 1aftll hard up I was in 1878, and now, as that draft is paid, I clnnot resist telling you how I lailtnallgetI to do it. You reneliber the oll age : "It's an ill wind that blows no good.' Well, yester day there was a first-class hanging at Wrrrenshnrg. thirty m ei! west of here, and the better class of Sedalia were anxious to see it, so mi1y natural desire to )leaso the good peoplc) prom:pted mine to char ter a train for the occasion, which I did, and the result is that I male enough to ply oil yolur debt ; but I don't think another hanging aromnd here just now would pay, as many who welt to Illy (ntertainncnt would not have lone' enough to pay their way, andl besides it w<ml work a great hardsh ip in their families, as inos; of themi re<puire wood)( and smul othe ne (ce.sities. Hfopi ng fto be moriie promptaht nlext I tme etc., ete"-Nw York~ ,omm,ercial Aid Sva MF, nF DyU>-It is cal clul that thuree- fXur1ts of the I tm' (o'milpi(ed in (every debt.e in theli H on c' of C.munon'1s jis conm55uned '1n Iimrlhngi shuolrcei, falsoehosd, corrup) floorl of the Holuise. A 'eformt paper hints that Dr. Tatpcer, the deputy lead er of the opp 'sitiont, lias becepm'o I 5 ('ista'usted wi th MrIi. Josiah Plumb's15 Silbrois to talk l>nger thanl he tailks himself, that hto has registered a VOW ini heaven to mcka no mtore five.. hou sp hs Mr'. P'tfhimb, who is mebrfrom Niagara, spoko fonr' hour11s the other' (lay, at an estimatlted expense to the connltry of 85,7 12 the cvere go( cost of a iy's sittingo in1 thte IHonsoI( being 88,570, anid the avroag ltongth1 ix' hours. A N ECcF.N'PRTC EAHL. -The I)uke of Porttlandl(, even in Liondton, is not nuch heard of'. On subllscription lists 110 pults down the figure 1, and aftei' it, not two nloughIts, butt tree. Thtis is ani invaiatble rulo. 'When there hans been great dii .ftro's ini England ho has empl)oyed L1, O l( a borer's at at timie to dig i. pit, and ordered them to fill it~ lp again. He is a miartyr to a hot' e of bodily ail inlen ts. A ZEIIm oc Nl:c o.-Thoe Nintv'.. Six (/uurdian s/ys: "A colored womtani in this y cinity gave birth to at chtid w hose >ponirnc is quite at ('uriosity. F! 'om the wvaisit to the (rown of the e ild's head1( its skin is puro1' w~hi te from the hi p to the knees the sk' is coal1 black, and from there < own the skin is white. The head1 i ooeed with hair as white as tI driven snlow and n uisuailly Ion for at child of that ago." A qjuic andl plensant home is mtsHured t all mothers thlat use Dr. Butll's Bj y Syrup for their little onles. I conitains nothing injuri-.. ouls. .* ") EST' ry Goods Hlouso in theo South ...Ali xpress Ireights pai<t wht (ro the ordor he~ 0.00. ,Winto a P'ostal for Sam.. ples an. rico List. *V. RICHAlRDS& BR1O. cot 2q Augusta, 4a. * LEATHER! LEATHER! W E have onl hand a full stock of Sole, Harness, Upper, :,usset, Kip and Calrskit Leather, which we will gell very ch-.'.p. IIDES ! HIDES 1 Highest market price paid for hidet. ]3inlg them to us. april 25 J. F. McMASTER & CO. HAMS ! HAMS!! j UST 1IECE1VED a lot of choice Mag nolia llam1s unlcanlvassel, Lard and Bacon. ALSO, Flotr. ?. t":l .tn.1 Pk tal Grist always fresh and ev ery 1ting usually fouald in a lirst class (Grocer; llouse. ALSO, The Jiuest Wines. Brandies anti Whis kies that ean be hai. All kinds of cool drinks pi epared in the most tasty man ner at 11. J. J1cCAIULEY'S, april 18 Jas. R. Aiken's old stand. SPIUNU HAS COME, -AND New Style Goods -HAVE US'' ARRIVED, including, all t1tti P) noveltie s of the season, at the Winns boro Dry (loads, laney (oods and Millinery Bazaar. MRlS. ;OAG w i,he5. to return her sin - core tlimnks to her" frientl, antd the pubhlic e nerally fior t lie iast patronavg, solici ting a tout11in1uane of the suoe. 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