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WINNSBORO. S. C. TUBSDAY, JUNE 11, : 1878. A. MaAZX$ DAVI, EDIToo. J.O A. .MS.YOLD, A8soolIATI EDITOR. EMPERon WILLIAM is said to be recovering from his wounds. In the mean time, Kaiser Fritz has been mado regent of the empire. GREAT EKOITEMENT has boen caused in Ohio and Indiana by the discovery in a dissecting room in Cincinnati of the remains of Hon. Scott Harrison, a son of President Harrison and father of the last Republican gubernatorial candidate of Indiana. The coflin had been enclosed in a wall of brick, covered with a slab of stone, laid in cement. Body snatchers are becoming bold now-a-days, and it will not be a matter of surprise should Mr. Hayes turn up missing some fine morning. GOVERNOR HAMPToN has recently visited Baltimore on private busi ness. While thoro ho went to Washington to interview Hayes in behalf of some of the alleged ku.klux, whom Bond's puckod juries sent to Albany. Hayes promised to examine the cases. A despatch reports Governor Hamp ton as saying there is no truth in the alleged bargain between himself and the President for general amnesty. He thinks it a monstrous proposition to trade off justice in that. way. We believed all along that this was the Governor's posi tion. We don't van't too much amnesty. SOME TIME SINCE, the Cincinnati Enquirer published the details of a harrowing domestic tragedy in Western North Carolina, and the artiqle was copied far and wide. It proved to be a hoax. Still more recently it has reported a desperate battle with carving knives between two farmers of Virginia, one of whom was killed and the other morto''v wounded. This story is denied. In addition to these, it recently told how an old man of seventy eloped with a young girl of twelve from Walhalla, in this State, and was killed by her infuriated parent who pursued thom. The Walhalla Courier exposes this sensation. The connection of the place, Walhalla, with Brunbilde, the name of the girl suggesf.s the .Nibelungen Liert and Wagner's great opera, and itself is proof that this story at least was a sensation gotten up by seome clever Bohemian Veracity does not seem to be in cluded in the manufacturing imiple ments of the Enguirer. The County Convention. The Democratic County Conven - tion meets on the 15th, for the purpose of choosing a County Chairman and, most likely, of send ing delegates to the State and Congressional Conventions. The duties will therefore be important, and they should be performed with an eye single to the wvelfaro of the 9State and the party. At present, appearances indicate the unanimous renomination of the whole State ticket, on the principle that whore men have done well they should be retained -in the offces wvhose routine duties they have mastered. A renomination will be a fitting compliment to these gentlemen. If the people of Fairfield share these sentiments in common withi K other portions of the State, they should send delegates who will carry out tht.ir wishes in this ~espect. A nomination will be made for -Congress at the same time at which the State Convention meets. Major Woodward has been brought for ai-d by several clubs in the coun ty, and we should be pleased to see delegates sent to Columbia in his latorest. The second choice is a eatter to be deoided by the Con. Last, but not least, a County airman~ must be appointed. This Sta 6ffiee fratght with mnany sation. Upon the character of the Chairman depends to a great ex tent the welfat o of the party. It is his business to hold himself aloof from internal dissensions and to be in a position to heal all breaches and harmonize all conflicting elements, one who will work for the good of the party, and not for any wing, one who cannot be sus pected of exercising any undue influence in favor of or against any member of the party. This office is of such a character that no ono who seeks it is the right man to fill it. But the people should decide for themselves who is best calculated by temperament, by ex.. perience, by influence, to fulfill the duties of the chairmanship, and then they should ek.ct him to it and make him serve. No true son of Fairfiold will disobey the call of his people. As there is no salary to this office, and no perquisites, let the office seek the man. We fool assured that the Convention when it meets will be a representas tivo body, and that it will devote itself soberly and earnestly to the duties devolving on it. Let its meeting be as harmonious as it. now promises to be. Upon the first stroke depends the battle. Our county campaign should have a good send-onf. Comrux ICA:T'Iox. .ur. Editor-As it will soon be the time to select candidates for the coning campaign, we should be very careful in selecting our candi dates, there will from all probabili ties be a great many aspirants, I think we should select from our most talented and most honorable men that will go for the interest of all and not for the pay they receive. We should send men that would be willing to go there for less pay, men that will not cut all other salaries down and let their own stand un touched. I am inclined to think that cutting down the Magistrates fees was done for a selfish motive by the Lawyci s (to drive the business of the country to the L:iwyers). I think it would be wcll for the people of the country to stop sending so many Lawyers to the legislature and look more to their own interest, we don't want so much law n.king-or in other words, make the laws in less time and at a less expensO I hleard not long av' that a L-twyer from a neighboring county, and a memLber to the legris:lture, said his time was worth six dollars per day at hlome, and he thought he should get that while at the legislatnre. I tlinik if their time is so valuable at home, they ought to stay at home and let some one else go that can sparoe the time better and perhaps fill the place in the legislature to a better advantage to the people at large. SAr'L. P. BRowN. Dark Corner, June 3rd, 1878. [It is a great mistake to suppose that the present fee-bill is the work of the lawyers in the Legislature. The bill was passed on the recom, mendation of a special committee composed of three lawyers and FOUR farmers. -EDs.] The artesian well in Charleston is now nineteen hundred and forty feet deep, and has cost over, twenty thousand dollars. The Democratic County Club of A bhoville has nominated Genm. Sami. McGowan for election to the House of Representatives. Cherawv rejects the primary elec.. tion plan by a large majority. Most other counties in the State have adopted it. Tihe Democrats all ovei' the State are holding their county conven tions, and electing their delegatns to the State convention. Great unanimity everywhere prevails. The Port Royal railroad--which runs from Port Royal to Augusta was sold at auction last week, and purchased by the Union Trust Comp my,of New York, for five hun. dred thousand dollars. Judge Kershaw, in opening court at Abbeville, called the attention of the grand jury to the ohar es of ctuelty on the' pat 9f con tei towards e ootg vork & th4 brother-in law on Saturday before last with sticks and pistols -while on his way to Camden in a buggy with his wife. He escaped and has had thern held for trial. A telegram from Senator Butler to a gentleman in Charleston brought the welcome news that the Senate had just passed the House bill to refund the duties paid in 1867 upon the bells of St. Michael's Church, which had been recast in England. This will be a great re lief to the venerable churcl!-the amount of the duties being over fifteen hundred dollars. Emerson Benjamin, colored, who was convicted at a recent term of the United States District Court, and who escaped from the deputy marshal at Kingsville, is said to be lurking in the neighborhood of his home in Kershaw county, and is represented as being aimed to the teeth and determined not to be arrested. Governor Hampton's recent visit to Presilent Hayes had for its object the release of several persons imprisoned in Albany penitentiary, convicted under the ku-klux prose - cutions, whom the Governor bo lieves were illegally convicted. The President promised an early inves tigation, and assured Governor Hampton that, if executive clemency was merited, he would not hesitate to extend it. A serious difficulty occurred not long ago at Lynch's Creek, in Kershaw county, between a couple of young men, Messrs. George Newman and George Sowell, the former being seriously but not dangerously cut in the back by the latter. Trial Justice D. M. Bethune was called in, and issued a warrant for the arrest of Sowell, who was, after some lifllcttlty, taken in custody by the constable, but effect ed his escape before they reached the office of the trial justice. New man was doing well at last accounts. Mr. R. M. Pratt's dwelling house in the Little River section of Abbe ville county was destroyed by fire last week, together with its entire contents, bedding, furniture, pro visions, books, money, &c. The total loss can hardly be estimated, but will probably reach fifteen hundred or two thousand dollars. The suspicions are very strong that the fire was the work of an incen diury, and the theory has been ad vanced that the house was first robbed and then burned to disguise the burglary. Several warrants have been issued for persons against whom suspicion is very strong. xEWhS OFTIE DAY. There begin to be unpleasant stories that the jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi are not a success, after all. The steamer Oceanica has arrived at San Francisco from Hong Kong, with five hundre'l and seventy-five Chinese passengers. The Hon. John S. Preston will deliver the University address at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, next November. The Socialistic press of Germany boasts no less than seventy..five publications, with 150,003 subscrib. ers-an increase of eighteen in the. number of the papers since last year. Senator Grover has a p)rivate tele-. from Portland, Oregon, under date of June 7, that both branchos of the Legislature are Democratic, the Democrats having fifty-one on joint b.llot, a majority of twelve. Whita ker (Democrat) for Congress is elect edl by 5(00 to f00~ majo!ity, and theore is a probability that Thayer (Demno crat), for Governor, is also elected. A Boise City, dispatch to San Francisco states th five men who wve e scouting in the Burnea Valley found all the settlers gathered at Robins' ranche, which is fortified. The valley had been raided by In-. dians, who drove away aill the stock on Sunday last. The settlers sawv about two hundred Indians, who were driving six hundred horses up the valley. It is expected that ran extraordi nary session of the German Parlia went will be convened to discus legislative measures for the re pression of the present dangerous agitation. The :Prussian Cabinet is also considering the advisability of adopting special measures to pre vent the spread of socialism. An official dispatch says the Emperor's appetite is better and his condition oth. rwise unchanged. William Dixon, under sentence of death for the murder of a Jew ped-. dler named B3achman on the steamer Fairplay, was banged at Vickaburg, Miss., on Friday. .He ascended the scaffold smoking a cigarette, but made no speech. A large crowd witnessed the execution, ma~ny negro women being present. An efogt -Wsznae too t~ n respite from persons-the largest nimber yet recorded-visited the Paris E!:xhi bi tion. '1'ho want of a suflieient num bor of refreshment stalls was groat.. ly felt by the public. Tho oxpon sive restaurants are absolutely of no service to the bulk of Sunday visitors. Cakes and ale are the things loudly called for-cheap drinks for adults, and rolls and bis., cuits for famishing children. The Rev. Vosburgh, of Jersey City, who has just been acquitted of an attempt to poison his wife, aduiniptered communion in his church on Sunday, and in the evening preached from the text, "These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes and made thorn white in the blood of the Lamb." He alluded to the verdict in his late trial, upon which there was hearty applause, which ho accepte 1, he said, not for himself, but in behalf of justice. A special dispatch to the Galves ton (Texas) News, dated June 6, says: Last evening the revolu tionary pickets attacked the out posts at Now Laredo, and, after exchanging a few shots, retired. One was killed and another wound ed on the government side. The reb el loss is unknown. General Agile, the Lerdist commander, is now operating here alone, with about two hundred and fifty men, mostly cavalry. His force is increasing daily. On last Thursday morn ing a fire broke out in the five sto?y building of Colgate & Co.'s exten sive soap factory in Jersey City, N. J., and the flmes spread with rapidity, threatening the entire de struction of the factory. The fire department was called out, and a few minutes later an explosion ocr curred in the upper stories, proba bly from chemicals, throwing down the rear walls. The two main buildings, with costly machinery, were destroyed, involving a loss estimated at fully $300,000. Over three hundred men are thrown out of employment. A description is given, in Lee llfondes, of an improved device for rapidly cooling liquids-inveni od by M. Toselli. It consists simply of a cylindrical cup for holding any liquid into which may be plunged an inner goblet, shaped like an in verted truncated cone, and havino a lid which rests on the outer cup. Putting one hundred and fifty grains of nitrate of ammonia in the inner goblet, filling it with cold water, and stirring it so as to hasten the solution, the temperature of the outer lid is soon reduced at least twelve degrees C., or twenty-.two degrees Falh. The salt may be used for this purpose an indefinite period, by merely spreadinr; it on a plate after each trial. and exposing it to the sun until it crystalizes anew. M. Toselli prepares a salt wvhich will lower the temperature fifty degrets Fah in the wvarnmest countecics. Before an insurance men's con vention in Syracuse wvas re-md a paper in which it wvas asserted that purely accidental fires are very rare, and that over one-half of all conflagra tions are the result of inicend.arismn. This is a startling assertion, which is often repeated. It was sustained, by other members of the convention who said that one half the amount ptid onit by the companies wats to men who had set their p)roperty on fire. Of all crimes incendiarism is one of the most difficult to p)rove. The subject continues to be the greatest problem in lire insurance company offices. Charlotte Cushmagn lefl her for tune to hor nephew. Some youno men in such a case migh t have~ proven ugrateful and soon forgot,. ten their benefactress. He, how, ever, has erected an eleven dollar monument to her memory. Wanted--every one to be free from Pimnples, Blotches, Boils, etc.,, which can be done by purifying the blood with Dr. Bull's Blood Mixture. Used everywhere. 0 M,r..Daniels says that every time he visits a life insurance officee, lhe feels likce Diniel in the lying den. HfYMENEL AL. MAnt5Iso, nt, BIreks(th,ek. 8. o., en Thursda, Jitno ei 1878, by R7ev. T. M*. Lowry, Mll. J. , FAUi.KNun to Miss NANmUX EC. sulm. LEATHER I LEATHER 1 W E have en hand a fall stock of Sela, Harness, Uppe', Russet. K(ip and Calfskin Leather, which we will sell very cheap. BIDES I HIDES 1 Jighest markcet prios paid ('or hides, Bring then to tis. Notice to Taxpayers, AUr Iron's 01FFIe" B, W INNnolno, S. U., May 2K, 1878. r 'Ii[s ofee ill be open from the 1st . of .uno lo the 0th of Jny, 1178, to receive Tax iloturi ti for the ilseal year 18$78. By orders fromi the Comptroller General the real estate will also be re assessed at th - samo time. All male persons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years are liable to Poll Tax, and t will report. no. ordingly. I will attond at the ollowing places on the days specified, for the purpose of receiving retori,s, viz: Feastervillo. Tune 14 and 15. Monticello, June 17 and 18. Jet in- ville, Juno 19 and 20. Ilorub, Juno 2 I and 22. )okto .3une 21 an.d 25. Bear Crook, June 26 and 27. itidgoway. Juno 28 and 29. Durham's, July 1 and 2. Gladlden's Grove, July 3 and 4. Woodwurd's, July 5 and 6. I. N. WITHERS, may 30-xttl Auditor F. 0. NEW YORK WEEKLY HERALD. 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