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WINNSO1RO, S. 0. Tuesday, May 21, 1878. R. MEANS DAVIS, Euivolt. JYO H. REYNOLDS, AsSociATc Einioit. E.At RUSSELL, or as ho is more familiarly known, Lord John Russell, died on Friday in England at the ad. vanced ag of eigLty-cix. Earl Ilussoll was for a period of thirty-eight years a conspicuous figuro in the political history of his country. H1e twice occupiol the position of Premier and hold the o(lico for six years first and then for ono 3 car, but during the whole of his long lifo ho was generally a member of the Brit ish Cabinet. Since 1866, when the Gladstone Miiiistry was dissolved, Earl Russell has been in rotiremont, and has devoted himself to literary pursuits, writing several works during the twelvo years. While ho will not take rank with ti.o greatest English statesmen, ho will be known to posterity as a nan of a high order of talent, of great industry, of unblemished character, and as on devoted to the interests of his native land. Tns News and Courier thinks the Democrats in Congress are going far when they refuso to hour Alex Stophene. It may be remarked that Stophejs is gong rather far when he sets himself on a pinnacle above all the rest of tho Denocrats and refuses to entor the Democratic caucus, even if it be on the question of investigating the Florida frauds. Mfr. Stephens its a great man, it may be said, a very groat man ; still at timos ho runs of' on tangents, and it cannot be told whether ho is for the peoplo or for Alex Stephens. Mr. Stephens is a trille too intimate at tLo White Hou.e, and too well satt fied with Mr. Hayes to bo an entirely trustworthy counsellor for the Democrats. ThoiU fact that the Raldi cals in their pronunciamnento alo gizo Mr. Stephens should disgust him and make the Democrats happy that they did not yield for him to pro pose a compromiso. Having chalk ed out a course for themselves, they could but pursue it to the bitter cnd, Mr. Stephens or any one else to the contrary notwithstanding. An Investigation Ordered, The House, on Friday, succeedled in passing the resolution appoint, * ing a committee to investigato the Florida and Louisiana frauds. The whole week was consumed, the R~adicals refusing to vote and * thereby defeating a quorum, owing to tho absence of Desmocrats. By Friday, howvever, enough Demno, * ~ crats had been brought baick to make a quorum, andl tho resolution passed. The Radicals fought the resolutior, ostensibly on the gr< un .1 that it did not include several Democratic States, but, as many sup)pose, really because they feared the developments thaut might result. Upon the passage of the resolu tion the Rladicals organized them,. selves into a virtnous indignation V ~ meeting, and put forth a rezmrkable *promme) iamen to, which for inpu. dence and falsehood has rarely been equ:alted. Some of thue p)oints they make are rich. Especially that of calling those parties p)erjulrers who a few months back wero considered sufficiently 'high-.toned and hon ora-. ble to decide the vexed question of the result in Filorida and Lc'uisiaua, in spite of the strongest p)roof of frauds advanced by tho Democrats. It is too thin for the Radicals nowv to denounce the Returning Boards.. The term "conspirators" for the Democrats is also good, coming from a party that engineered the greatest~ conspracy of tihe nine teenthi confturiy. The p)rotest agains8t the op)eration of the pre e vious question under wh.ich the Radicals themselves, when they had a majority, hurried ethrough every diabolical aneasure -that could be 4~evised pgainst the SQuth, is also a~ fine piece of irony and will be so e qnstruied. It is also neat dodge to assume thaat. the. .country was nr*. osperibi.bu will n~w.ae thow been due to Democratic efforts, while the Radicals, by continually tearing afresh the wounds of the late war, have over tended to destroy all confidence in the stability of the government. The last appeal, citing the "rebellion of 1861," '. a direct proof of the recklessness of the Radical con spirator: .nd agitators. The fact is the Radical leaders have dis gusted the couitry and their only hope, after having v'lificd Hayes in every way, is to tac k themselves to his skirts and pull through in some w.y. Their pronunciamento is only a despairing howl. They see the penitentiary yawning for some of their most trusted statesmen, and they only hope by clouding up the question at issue w it irrolo vant declamation and assertion to avert itern justice from themselves. The only point aimed at by the Democrats is to provo to the world the fraud that is known to exist. If Hayes and the visiting statesmen have to step down and out in the face of an indign.;nt people, it is no Democratic funeral. 'T'lo Radical crime of the Eight to Seven Cim mission is at the bottom of what ever agitation may now arise. Had the Radicals submitted last year to the voice of the people they would not now be compelled to resort to bombast and fury. "'Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwru'1. IJ! IC-A-JJRA: C. Gln. Ben 3uutler says he has ideas, but no plhos. The new editor of the Baltimore Gauet; speaks of Don Qu:xote as "Colonel." 'I'ho daughters of Professor Joseph Henry will receive a life income froni $10,000. There is a bare suspicion going around that -Mrs. 1iayes would like to run the White Houso as a Crin class wvatering place. Fifty years ago the shad yield of the Putm'i ac river was 25.000.000 annrrilly. Now it is 250,000. The umoni asoning greed of man has destroyed the sources of supply. A correriponident of the Seientifc A merican wants to know "how hu1 man skin can be tanned." He must have been a romtu'uk .bly good boy when he went to school not to have learned that among the other branches. Twelve years and more ago thos ands of hoop skirts were mann fac.. tured1 annu:lly in this country. Now the business is completely dead1, not a smngle hoop skirt manufactory being in operation-mnd thousand's of goats arie deprived of their pijn, cipal article of food, The Vircginia inte~rris says $10,000,000 in gold has bren sent to foreign c'oiutriis from the Paciflc coast in the last four mionths, be. ealuse the owners wvere afraid to in. vest it onl alc(count of thle comnmu ntide upisngofth workingmen A most pregna nt serm)on in short me)tre was~ that of a man named1 B -wler in Louisiam tf l his assassin. "You many pray till you (lie, but the Liordl will never forgive you for shooting a man in th)e back." The muiderer was so impressed by those terrible words that ho has twice tried to kill himself. Baincroft, the historian, under whose dietin as Secretar y of the Navy, in the administration o'f Polk, the Naval Academy was established, revisited that famous institution on Saturday for the first time in thirty,~ three years. It. was mainly owing to his exertions that Congress was induced to foundc that school of naval heroes. The gift of the senators to, Mr. Cameron ar.d his bridwaapiro sold slvr wnocoolers. They wil doubtful have freqnent opplort unity to soe them mn use whemn the happy pair return to Washington. They are expected within a fortnight when a series of dinner p)arties wvil followv, the first to b.o given by Sonav tor Blame. The unfor tunate Volan to is hardly cold in her grave before another fatal accident, as the result of this William Toll stage foolishness, is recorded, At Rlockport Indiana, a niemuber of a traveling variety troupe attmpltedl to -shoot an appleo from the head. of a woman. Tihe apewau missed, but the bullet killed an 4ighst-year-oM4 boy who was playipg outido the Qanvass.. There, was no arrest, the dispatch states, as it was an~ acci,dent.. Such aooidenits omg ht t be m~a4e m.xdor hitM r&t 4egin9s.. | POsITIOAL NOTZ8. Ben Harrison, who ran for gover nor of indiana against B1te Jeans Williams, is again a candidate. Postmaster Grmral Key is re ported as saying he is now confident that Hayes was elected, though he was doubtful at first. The Iowa Republicans will invite Senators Blaine and Conkling and Congressmen Butler, Bauks and Tlow.send to stump the State in the fall. Colonel George C Vest, who is a prominent candidate for United States Senator from Missouri, an. nounecs himself as opposecd to' ini, versal iuffrage and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments. The Republican candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and chief justice of Pennsylvania began life as school teachers. The candi date for secretary of internal affairs is a printer. The Washington Post believes that "If fifteen years ago General Banks had shot of lhis cannon as ho now shoots off his mouth he would not be pointed out by small boys as he walks along the streets as the Union comitmissary-general of the late Confederate army." The Chicago Times goes over Illinois in detail, and concludes that the Republicans will have a majority of four on joint ballot in the next Legis;ature. It does not by any means follow that Oglesby will be returned' to the Senate, or that any out-and-out R,puhliean will bo, as inde:entdin Republicans are very conunon in Illinois. It is getting far enough along in the season now for 'a member of Congress to drop out of his seat occasionally and hie away home to see how tmines are going on in the district. Eternal vigilance and lots of money will be requir.ed to keep some of the districts straight this year, and the importance of an early inspection is full appreciated. The Repuhlican managers who are r'ising funds for the campaign are determined that the Prosidcit shall put his name down for a five thousand doilar c')nt.rilbution jut for the moral effect. of the thing. oven if they have to raise the money from some othor source. The moia effect. of such an act on the p-u t of the President of the United St:ites nrost be trecen(ous:, nQ matter what the sun is. The redistricting bill is being rushed through the Ohio Lfegis&a ture, and under its division of the itate the Democrats expect to get twelve members of Congress, leaving the Republicans eight, exactly re versipg the balance. The redietrict ing of Missouri was accomplished a ye.wr ago, which is expected to crowd out the four' Repulican members f'rom that Staite, and the Denmocrats now begi to feel as though1 they hdgot matters pretty wvell ar ranged for the next Ffouse, lEx-Gov. Rt K. Leon, of South Carolina, had ifn gietty low.~, but has realized that to i!'C lowest depth of degradation there is a deeper still. Having solicited Corbin and Chami berlain to) join wi th him "in pre paIring for the press a true history of the llepublican aministrationsm in South CarL1ola," those wvorthies declined, on the ground that they did not d.esire to mix themselves up with a renegade. It is now in order for the Ohio carpet-bagger to go back to Napoleon and hang himself from the bluff of t:he river. The Republicans of Illinois, soe cf them at least, are natually talking of running John A. Logan for StLate treasurer. Logan is a great finan cier, and it would only be fitting that he should be set lip for office; but his friends thinkc that a thorough canvass of the State by him would result in the election of a Republi can Legislature, which would, of course, return Logan to the United Staloes Senate. Logan made a thorough canvass of Illinois twvo years ago and everybody on the Republican side was elected-except Logan. The conditions are not morei favorable now. .Tme public is never disappointed in its expectation of regular rumors about wvhat Ben Butler is going to (10. Somebody in Washington has just told a correspondent that lie had heard that Butler intimated that lhe would not run for Congress this year, but would make the canm~ vas's for Governor on the Greenb'iick ticket, if this is a fact Massachu sotte will have to start a new party with a limited membership to afford Wendell Pbi.llips his annual oppor tumity to) rn for governor. A namp)aigni in that State without Wen'-. dell Phillips in it somewhere wouldn't be recognized ps t all life like. The healthy growvth of tIe baby s dependent upon its freedom from the pernicious effe.ete of opim. Dr. Bull's Baby 8yup i the best reynw*nlos 'hI di*as mf LAD-ES' PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE SHOP WINDOWS.---A matter which is always rewarked by American tour-ss visiting London, who ai e invariably shocked at it, seem all of a sudden to have struck the English them selvos as improper, and discussion concerning it is now waxing hot. I refor to the exhibition in shop windows of the photographs of ladies in society, and their sale at a shilling a piece to any purchaser who may desire them Indo1cd, it seems odd to see the beautiful Countess Dudley stuck up in a doublo-easel framo along side of Lydia Thompson as Crusoe, and the Marchioness of Bute, one of the haughtiest Catholic noblewomen in the world, lying ohcok by jowl with Cornelio D'Anka, of twe Alhambra, and Mrs. Rousby as J,n of Arc. One cannot but wonder what possi blo infiuences can induce theso titled women to allow their counter foit presentments to become as common as dirt. It has come to such a pass that there is scarce a woman in the peerage whose photo you cannot purchase at the trifling outlay of one "bob." But I sup pose their view of the matter is that the Royal Family let them selves be sold, and that is a sufficient offset to the dubious association through pictures-with the ladies of the ballet.-.nglish orre, alpondcet. IESPITID.-A telegram to the Xews and Courier, from Abbeville, dated May 17, says : Jeff Davids was sentenced at the last term of the court of general sessions to be hanged to -day for the murder of George and Drucilla Franklin. The gibbet was erected in the jail yard, and every arrange ment made to conduct the execution privately as required by law. At the appointed hour Davids was pinioned and taken to the scaffold, still pro, testing his innocence. Tho knot was adjusted, the last farewells were taken, the prayers for the dying were said. There stood the prisoner, with the rope around his neck, on the brink of eternity, At this sol eimn moment a paper was banded to the executioner which proved to be a resihito from the governor for the doomed man to June 14. The re spito was wholly unexpected, and when it was re4d Davids broke down completely and sobbed convulsively, but continued to assert his inno couco. The evidence ggainst him was strong, but circumstantial. Letters received from General Beale, formerly Minister to Austria, written from Paris, annuoeo his safe at-h;val there and give the informuation that his married daughter and her husband, a Russian of rnk, c-.meected with the Legation in . am, y i -- re., covered from the bites o r a.rite dog. Both the lady and gentleman were bitteni some time ago, -the former in the face anm t'' latter in thle armII, by whIat was; '.:g i , be a rabid dog. T1he (log died of n h t the physicians called rabies, and thme two victims, whlofe wounds weie se::red with hoet irons, have recovei owd, except a slight soreness from the e muteriz:t tion. General Beale will remnainl in Paris some tuie to escape being sum moned as a witness in the notoiou,s McGarrab~an case. Nine murderers have been exe cuted in Louisiana since Governor Nicholls wvent into oflice. Those wvho have good memories enough to recall the lax administration of Kellogg and his abuse of the par donning power, will now haLve an opportunity for conmment. Says the Barn well Sentinel: "The wvife of a wvell knowvn Pemnocratic colored man, living near Edgeijeld, gave birth the other day to three whiopping .ma.le chi-Idreo, The childr.en are thriving, and have been -nanmod liampton, B3ulter and Gary." It was in 1835 that Louis Phillippe recalled his minister from Washing-. ton, a,mnd tlgeatened General Jackson wit.h war for demanding the in demnity. Such events s.eemn a 14tJe olJd to look b:wck upon. One of Brigham Young's daugh ter's has just married a former hostler in her, father's stables, wvho alr'eady haB one wife. She is .home ly, but brings her groom $20,000. Mr. Wheeler, of New Hampshire, who died worth $11,000, seems to have been a pleasant sort of man. His will says: "Expend it all on my tombstone." 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