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WINNSBORO, S. 0. 2'HrURHDAY, AUGUST 15, 1879. R. MEANS DAYIS, BDITOA. ONO R. REYNOLDS, AsOCtAT[ EDiTOR. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET, For Governor : WADE HAMPTON. For Lieutenant Governor W. D. SIMPSON. For Secretary of State. II. M. SIMS. For Comptroller General.: JOHNSON HAGOOD. For Attorney General; LEROY F. YOUMANS. F"or State Treasurer : S. L. LEAPHART. .For Superintendent of .Education ; HUGH S. THOMPSON. I'or A{juteant <: Inspector General. E. W. MOISE. THE DEMocAIIcY of Fairfield are thoroughly united. It is getting to be almost time to think about those primaries. AILADA\[A HnD aln election last week. The Democratic Stato ticket receiv ed about eighty thousand majority and the I,ogislaturo is almost all one way. The Radicals made to organirod fight. Pretty good for Alabama. South Carolina will make a similar report in November. CHIEF JUsTICE WAITE will preside at the trial of the Ladd murderers. By his request the United States and the State government will choose the ablest counsel they can find to present the question of the conflict of jurisdiction on each side. It is a matter of congratula tion that Judge Bond will not be entrusted with the trial. TILE oRAND Edgefild memorial celebration of August 12th was a big thing, but several things oc. Curred that wore Iot on the pro gramno. It is noteworthy that in 1876, although thousands of both races met at the samo place, and thugho Chambinerlainii and oth.er obnoxious Rradicals were present, and the passions of all wer'e excited to the highest pitch, not a drop of blood was spilt. Then, on a grand1 Democratic day, four men are killed and six more wounded. T1his proves the admirablo self-control of the people in 1876. 1-. H. IKMP'oN is in a bad way. WVhen he was arrested in Massachu setts he expectedl to escape thec * ~ clutches of the law. But Chamn berlain, for whom he telegr'ap)hd in hot haste, could do nothing for him and he still languishes in jail ; while * all honest men hope that Colonel Trenatlen wvill be permlfitted to bring him to Columbia. Kimpton has a * ~ wholesome dread of South Carolina, an1d says that they put a fellow in the poenitentiary (down hero -for the slightest offence, while our jails are far inforior in comfort to Northern prhjons. May Kiimpton experience all the rigors of prison discipline in the Stato he~ has robbed. THlE nRlAss 01F 'rHE Radicals -is enough to make a book peddler weep, During their ascondency in the State they controlled the machinery of elections absolutely. For years no DLemocrat w~as al).. pointed on a board. Eveni in 1876 yhen Chamberlain asked both par--I ties to nominatoe aagr he deliberately rejected every Demo. cratic nolpination except one 01r two. Yet the Radical9 had tho, importingneo to demand that f ov ernor Hampton should appoin mnanagers of their own choosing 'They should he treated precisely as .they treated the Democrats. Any )tindness shown.to themn is mnis SoAe tjie einee THE NEwS AND ~ERALD romarked that thsoro had been too much amnesty. It was e,opetrained to observe this when it saw tho prosecutions of leading Radicals Coming to n1ought. The prosent scums to be an opportlt,c moment for repeating that romark. The spectacle of Smalls, a con donned criminal, receiving a ro nonlination to Congress ; Swails, n noted thief, running ramopant over Willian:;burg; and Elliott, a reveal ed criminal, orgarizing t party af State chairman, is well calculated to disgust the average Carolinian witli amnesty. The recent correspond once in tho New. and Coisrier be tween Colonel Maurice, of Williams burg, and Mr. Dibble, of the In vestigating Committee of tho last Legislature, has revealed a startliin fact. Swails has receive(d a promise of full and complete amnesty for past crimes, and is now as free to run for office as Governor Hampton himself, Conscious of this, lie openly defies the Democrats, and boasts that lie will smash them to smithorcens. It is indeed up hill work for the Democrats to carry the Republican county of Williamnslrg, w\-hen Swails is (fying them before his black con stitteuents with impunity. This is not all. Tho ugliest part is the possibility that all tihe Radicals have been granted amne;ty, and tant the Investigating Comminuittee spenlt thousands of dollars in a useless scssion. That the mere revelation of crimo was \asuflicient reuinetnration to the State is an absurd argument. The guilt of the Radical leaders was known all along. The committee was put on their track to send[ them into the penitertiary, not to givo them free pardon. To out:-iders t.he following ap pears to have leen the course of the investigation : First, MOses and Woodruil' and Jones were pardonied for telling on the minor thieves. Then the minor thieves were 'amnnestied" for telling ol. Patter son. Then Patterson was let off for voting to scat Senator Butler. If ary bencfits hayc accrued from the investigation they have been kept marv"elously elose. Th peope of South Carolina are long suffering :and kind. But they calnnot forgiive overything, and we are much mistaken if they do no t raise a howl yet over these investi g ations. Lively times are ahead. Four MeIn Kiled, and Six Wounded 'Tie ResMult of en Old F"aily Feud in A dlispatchm to theo Columbiia /gerfrom Edge*flold, dated August 12, says: The most dis-tiressing occurrlon eo overI r'ecorded in the history of this State took place lhere to- daiy. About qu:arter- p:mst two o'clock tI:imafteor noon a dIilliculty cimumeed in a hair-r'oom near thme public sqar lhoothu, Thomas Booth, Mimirk Tonov, W~ado LotLt, W. L. ('olemnan m11d Benjamin Booth. Several shots were fired in thme house, wh'len they all went into thle pub)lic square, keeping up the lire has they won t. Seine twemnty or twenty-,fivo shots wer'e tired in all. iro'oker Tonecy, ~James Both aind Thmolnas Booth were killed inst antfly and Benjamin B3oothi mortaill. w~oundl(ed. Mar-k Tioniey, Wm. L. Coleman, Wade Lot t Dr1. A. Wm. Sanders, Stenum-re lyiva and Clarence Seiglor woere lso wounded, but only slightly. TIhe latter three had nothing whatever 1o do with the diliculty, and were accid en tally wonded. Br'ookor Tfonley was about twenlty--six years of age, mand was ai very desperate man wmhen excited. Jmimos Booth and Benjamnin Booth were about forty and forty-five years 01(d and1 wo'ro brothers. TIhomas Boaoth wats about twenty,three years old, and a son of Ihonjamin Booth. All of them worom very desperato, anid were imn -h foared. Brooker Toney was thme man who killed Gus Harris, the notorious negro United States Mar' shal, hero last Junne, while the Cou't of Goneral Sessions w<as being held. HeT died very bravely, fighting to the last. The dirlieulty originated from an old1 and bittor family feud. It ap p0ars that some1 ten years ago one of the B3ooth family killed a brother of Brmooker Tfonoy, and ever since that time a hostilo meeting has been looked for, and from the chuaractor of all the parties it was ,known that when they did come together .it would be a bloody aftair.. To.-day they weore all drinking, met, and it wvas not long before.the matter was settled with the above unfortunato rosnlt. Politics had ,mth,n - tod with the aftir, and it occurred at least half a mile from the )laco where te D)em ocratti domnonsttration1 was held. As soon as Govcrior 1 Hampton lteard that a tight was going on lie ordered Aljiitant and Iisp1OC tor General Mois:o to take cllargo of the Edgeliold Rifles, go to the spot and gull the distirbautnci., but hap pily tho military arm wits nut needed, as the bloody work had already ceased before their arrival. The promptness of General Moiso andcl the troops under him in responding to the counnand of the Chief Execu tive of the State, as well as their coolness and courage, were highly creditable to them. Since writing the abovO we have learned that M1r. Bonjamin Booth, fither of '1'1thomas, died while being conveyed to his home. The above are all the particulars whiclh can be gathero.1 i) to this hour. SAxnwip, Is.r, .-Mr. S;wckles, a rich sugar retiner of San Francis co. has bought over 20,000 acres of itrren wI ilderuness, in the Hawaiian Isles, hitherto consideredl non-agri culturatl, somedrymountain, some swampy. This enterp rising man, whein our reiproeity treaty, making islaiid sugar free of dity, 'appeared safo of conirmation, olilped over and ooritlled all the sugar for threo years ahead. lie is coinMig n1101ey. lie will also mn:tke a railway to port. He will then havoe pltntatiois of suiga -cane and ri''e, more llrodu. tive than any now il culltivationl. C:llifornia gets one-third of its sugar now from 11 Islands. In a few ye:rs this will be doubled. This '11terlrise has stirred up the pl:t ers every-wieo remot from port, and m.any are con temiplatinlg a regu lar syste;n of railways in the islands. H.Nrrs or CuAiut.is Mrrutirws. The lato Charles Mathews had a habit of always arriving at the theatre munch earlier than was ne(cessatry, and was dressed and ready long before h3 was required on the stage. He is said to have been exetllent Company, in somo re P:ets suporior to Charles Dick ens. DIicken-i was very quiet ill i(,c"iety, and never "came out" save with his intiui;tes, but 1at.hews revelled inl a u ii'nce, and coilI always he depended onl for fai' more than his share of the imunusement. He had a wealth of stories of all kinds; but his sspoeialty was his il)preciation of the ridiculous side of his own profession, and a power of quaint eKaggeration which was irresistibly droll. lie was an ad - miirable letter-writer, too, and would send home pages of the neatest manseript, descriptive of odd phases of life which be had encountered in his travels. An extra strlong -minded wvomtan remarked thait an old bacheldor is a Ias refr;aiial f rom nauking somec wvomani wretchedc. It umakes 1no difference to tihe In1dianU whether tihe army numbers 10,000) or five times that. Hie has his funi, his scalp~s.-and forgivoness ini the fall. IThis is just the kind4 of weather that puzzx/les a man as to thme pro priety of t:akinig his umbhrella. The propr ity of taikinigsomebody else's umbriiella senms to lie less p)uzzling. It's eosy enough to get a wvomniJ to trust in Provi.dence this~ kind of weather', liut you are asking entiro ly too mn-h it' you cxpect her to keep her p.owder dry. D)eacon Pilkins said to himself: "Falstaff asks 'w;hat's honor ?' As though it was hard to tell. But let may wife sit biehiund another woman iln chutrch, aind sh1011 tell. wvhmt's on her in less than live miintos." A story was told of a man wvho got very tipsy at a country house, was tarredi and feathered and put to bed, Hie awok-o still tipsy, inl the morning, resled over to the looking glass andio exclaimed : "B3ecomo a b)ird, by Jovo !" IA ladyv w~as recommnending to a gentleman a mledicinlo for liver com, pl1aint. "I know umany wvho prais'o it to the skies." said she, enthbusi astically. "No dloubt, madam," ho riplied, "for it has sent mlany to the skiosto paisoit." Thec police were inst,ructed to see that no intoxicating (Jrinkl was sold miichnd 1( last Sunday. Tihe St1a/6 says of the experiment: Yes terday will perhaps 1)0 'known through all history as "The great moral Sunday in -Richmond," and yet we have not seen so many men imtoxicated on Sunday for ten 'ears as there wore on~ the streets list night. tI fIS AND CATTLE POWDER?s1 FOR SHERIFF. JMessrs. I lilors : Please announco MR. 1t. E. EiLION, .JR., as a candidate fol sherilf, subject to the action of the 1)emo. cratic larty at the primary election. july 30-xttf MANY YoT1;1ts. FOR SHERIFF. JMessrs. .lilors :-Plcase announce W. J. IIEIRRON as a candidate for sheriff at the ensuing election-subject to the action of the Demoeratic party at the primary election. july 23 MANY FnIENDs. FOR -HER L F'F. The frieryls of CAPT. J. D. HOGAN most, heartily endorso him for the office of sheriff at the ensuing election-subject to the action of the Damocratie party. june 17-Ixtf 'M.NY VOTEB. FOi SH1R-IFF. 'lhe fieitlsof CAPT. HAYNE Y. Mc MiEKIN rospc.et fully announeo him as a candidate for sheriff- subject t; the action of the )emtgcratic patty at the primary election. june 18 -txtf FOR SHERIFF. The friends.of MIt. BIC[IARD N. Mc MASTER1 respectfully pr(scnt his lne as a candidate for sheriff at.the ensuing elec +.ion-subject to the action of the Dcmo eratic party in the primary election. july t-xttf FOR SHERIFF. 3/ssrs. Ei:lilors:-- Please announce MR. AARON IH. POWELL ats a candidate for sherill at the ensuing election--subject to the action of the Democratic party at the primary election. aug x(;xt.f MANY VOTEMn. FOR SHERIF'. Messrs. 1z;5rs:-Pleas' announce the name of MR. JOHN 1). McCARLEY for sheriff, subject to the act ion of the Demo cratic party at the primary election. Mr. 1cCarley is thoroughly lqualified for the oflice, and will fill it acceptably to all clesses. july 1 -tf . MA.lY FaII.NpS. FOR THE LEGISLATURE. 3essrs. l1;Io,s:- Please announco MAJ. JAM FS PAGAN as a candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives from Fairfield county, stibject to the Aiction of the Democratic chubs in tl1e ensuing pri utaty election. aug 1 i-xltf MANY Dr.:ocaA-rs. FOR SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. .The friends of MIt. JNO. VINSON pre sent Lit:a w a -inii iate for School Coml missionter at the ensuitig election-sub ject to the action ofrho Dea:cratic clubs in the primary election. aug 1:-tf FOR THlE LEGUMLATv URE. J1e"srs. ElIeors:---Thle friends of MRt. T. 8. IBICE, ap)preciating his services in the past, respectfully' no:i ina him for a seaut ina the IIl)nse of Repr-esenuitati ve fromu t hiM couanty -subhject to the action uft the D)emocratic clubs in the, prinmary election. ____aUg 1 3-tf FORl THE LEGISLATURIE. 3/fessrs. J4lifor:-Th'le friends of COL. R. G. L &MAlR, having faith in his ability and initagrity, hier.chy3 announce him as a enn-ili'lh,t for the Hlouse of Replrtoenta Stves at the comning elegtion--subject to th:: na-tion of the Demuiocracy at their pi mane s-. _auig 3-x Itf FOR THlE LEGISLATURE. .A ta meet ing of the Greenbrier D)emuo erat ic C!nhii, helh d Junte 8, 18I8, the fol low ing~ resolutioni was adopted - h'#so/re,i, That~ we pre'sent the claims ot iR. Tr. n. AFeKrNSTRjY fr asat, i'n the I ,egittfgen from this eqiunty, and r'commendCl( his~ election. Estract from the minutes. S. R. RtUT1LAND, jnne 18-ft fSecretary. FOR THE LEGISLATURE. A t a meeting of the Ilakland Democorat ic Club of township number five, held on thle 28th'of April, 1878, the following resolut ion ware adoptoil: l)esore(I. That this Club, recognizing the fitness an.l ability of lHon. HI. A. (aillard as, a repiresentati vo, hereby neominate him as a candidate for re Ext.ract from lie minutes: A. J. LAMAR, may 16-.txtf -- Secretary. FOR TIJE LEGISLATURIE. Messr.~ JliIors:-Pleaso announce H1. A COAILjNARD1 as a candlidato for the House of Recpresentatives, at the comning eleo tion . The course of?uMr. Gaillard in pub11. lie life has given general satisfaction and do'nehonor to old Fgirfteld. In recogni tioni of his services it. is 'but proper that ho shouhi b)o sent to the House at tlm1e next election. This nuomination is madle entirely without the knowledge of h gentleman named. ~ h may 16--tf ''MANY FRIENDS. FOR SCIH~diL OMfMi5iO NEN Pleasd announce B3. H1. ROBERTSON asB a eandidate for School Comilssieor at-the ertsuing oleton-subject 4o the action of the Democratlo party af the prim.ary election - Jnne AAtztf uAn Fnm.... FOR SCHOOL COMM1ISSIONER, Messrs. I;ililors :,Pleago nnounco REV. WILLAID IICHAItDSQN ats a candi. dato for the position ofSchool Cominis siouer at tho,ensuing election. This gontleinan has, by his official course during the p{ast two years, shown him self to be a faithful, zealous ad @fq sient officer; and the educational interests of the county can best be advanced by retain ing hii in lhis presont position. MR. IIICHARJ)SON is a regularly enrolled member of the Winnsborp Denoentie Club, and will abide the result of the. primary election. july 1-xttf M1ANy DEMooR ATS. FOl PROBATE JUDGE, The friends of CAPT. J. R. BJOYLES nominatp him for Probate Judge at the ensuing election-subject to the result of the 1Dempcrtic prim-ry electioi. aug fi-tf FOR JUDGE OF PROBATE. 'riTe friends of MIR. OSMOND R. THOMIPSON, appreciating his. valiable services as Probato Judge, and having the highest confidence in his integrity and peculiar titnesu for the office, beg leave. to present hin to the vqtcrs of Fairfield county for a re-election-subjcot, of. course, to a nomination by the D.emoorat ic party, july 3t)-tf TOWN O.WDINANCES. BE IT ENAGTED AND OlIDAINED, by the Intendant and Wardens of the Town of Winnsboro, S. C.z in Coun-! cil wet, and by the autlhority of the same, that it shall not be lawful for any dog not accompanied by its owner, or some one in charge, to be upon the streets of the town witi-. out a inzzle, between the first day of July and the first day of October, of each year ; and any dog violating this. provision shall be taken up Ad inippoihndpd by the police 'or twentyi four hours. 2. ANn BE IT FURTHER ENACTED and ordained, that the owner,'if kno wn., shall be inforimed of s.id inpound ing ; and any dog may be reclaimec by its owner upon the p:ayinent of one dollar. If any dog be not reelaime4 wiin the twenty-fouri hqurslit shall be killed by Ilhe police, ,-), -Polln in Coupcil this the thirt.y-first day of July, A. D. 1,71, under the Corpo '-r-' rate Seal of the said Towl} Council. JAME, A. BRIcE, Attest : Intendant. Win. N. CJANpLER, Cli k. AN ORDINANCE TO RAISE SUPrLIES FOI} THE MUNICIPAL YEAR 1878- 9. BE IT ENACTED AND ORDAINED, b the intendant and Wardens of the Town of Winnsboro, S. C., in Council met, that-. 1. For the purpose of raising supplies for the year commnencing the first of April, 1878, and ending the first of A pril, 1879, a tax for the sums and in the manner hereinafter mnenti'oned shaill be raised adpaid into thipt.4e nulry of the said to'va fr the e and service thereof, that is to say : two and one half mills ad valo .gm upOn -every dollar of the value of all thp real n'nd pepr sonal p)roperty wvithmin the corporate limits'of t he Town~3 of Winnsboro i three dlollars to b)e paid by every male inihabitant of said 'town, be tween th.e agee of eighteen and forty-five years, in lieu of working upon01 the stree;ts of said town ; and three per cent. npon the amount of all sales at auction. 2. All taxes assessed and payable under this Ordinance shall be paid in t,hio following kinds of fnas and no other : Gold and silver coin' United States Currency and Nation al Bank Notes. 8. All taxes assessed herein shall. be' duo and p)ayable between the first day of October, 1878, and the thirtieth day of November, 1478, in, clusr..e ; and all taxes remaining due and unp)aid on the first day of December, 1878, shall be collected by distress or otherwise, as nowv prescribed by law, together with all legal costs. . 4.Allperonsholding property m h oporate limits of the said Town of Winlooare required1, beween the first day of Abgnet' 1.87.8, and the sixteent'h day of Sep. teomber, 1878, to make a sworn re. turn o'f said property for taxation to the Towh Clerk, an'd the said 'I'own Clerk is hpreby required, when p)roperty-holders fail or re fuse to make said sworn return, to add fifty per centum to thb' rpeturn of the previons municipal year. -M Done in~ Council this the bhirty-first day .Qf July, 4. D.,, 1878, tunder the Corpo.. wr'rafe (cal .of the said Towry Conneij. JAMES A. Baron, AtteaLt; Intendant. WM. N. CHAtNDLER,COlerk. J.. &~ P. COATS' SPOOL THREAD 500 Dozen, 'just received, for sale arealat Of, centa per doze~ cash, and to meobants at NeowYr Trade Price. --r -july 27 ' MCMASTER k BlRIOE. RYT. . MBAs:'%iela 5 '