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1RI- WEEKLY EDITION.} WINNSBORO, S. C., T$UESDA Y, DECEMBER 17,1878 (VOL. 2. NO. 146 WASHING TON Go I. Mr. Bla Ine's Resolution--The Appro priatlona --A Plan for Counting the Elector v,1 Vote--Investtgations Going On. CORRIHPONDENO OF THUE NEWS AND HERALD.) VASUINOTON. D. C., Deo. 14, 1878. -If Senator Blaine has succeeded in interesting Congress in what he calls intimidation in the South, his speuch will have wide eireaiation and may cause the Rldical nomina tion to be made and the Ralical fight to be fought, in 1880, on the "bloody shirt" idea. The Senator's resolution, to which he spoke, au thorizes inquity by a committee of the Benate into the question of in tiuidation at elections in the South. Unuestionably it will be am undod so as to extend the inquiry and so as to authorize a 1pec(ial coannittoo, instead of the judiciary coii.tuo to perform the work, As I sait in a former letter, Senlatogs Tuurman and Gordon have spoken on tue Demoeratic side. Senator Blaino has muceh at stake, Ra ha) s14ftUlAi ly lost prestige with Ills party silmo September, and ot-hars, inclaudng Conkling, have steadily giiae.l of late. Senator Bltine i:y be rlied upon to do bis best. he d ebate has been able and wnmorLble. I hope it will be the last evor precipi tated upon Congress upon the dis quieting questions growing out of the war between the Statts. The House has passed two more appropriation bills-the consular and diplomatiC, and the naval. They are isubstantially the 'ane as last year in amount and otherwise. Thus, early in the second week of the ses sion, four appropriation bills havo been passed. It begins t)> be said that there will be trouble in the House when the legislative, execu* tive and judicial appropiiation bill comes comes up. In this bill there will be an atte upt to provide payment for the sI)ecial election officers appointed by the Attorney Genenz, and to cover other unne .cessary and illegitimate expenses, The bill will not be reported until after the holidays, It is evident that Senator Conk, ling has not lately "lot himself out" as freely as he was in the habit of .doing a year or so ago. Some' of his friends are confident that he will oppose confirmation of the New York Custom Houne nominees of Mr. Hayes, and others equally confident that he will not. In the Senate Mr. Aorgan, of Alabama, yesterday ably and earnest Jy supported the bill of Mr. Ed munds, prescribing a method of counting the votes for President. Mr. Jones, of Florida, briedy op posed the bill, and was replied to by cr. Edraunds. This bill, favorably Tecived at first, is gaining friends in both parties. It will probably pass the Senate. Among the investigations going on now is one into the question whether not certain Representatives received money for their votes in June last on a bill giving govern, mnent countenance to the District 2.65 bonds. These bonds were au thorized by Congress to tsna an indebtedne~ss of thirteen or .flfteen million dollars incurred without au -Thority of law by certain United :States oQcers who governed the iDistrici from 1871 to 1874. Tihe qjuestion whether or not the Dis. :trict should he taxed for therm doeg niot .enter into the investigation. The charge.is that a fina,ncial insti tution which controlled most of the bonds, and which expected be awake a *nillion or so by the legislation in tquestion4 bribed memboiw of 0on gress. Two- or three memb.ers of ithe House, and Senator J.agalla, of the Senate District,eommittes, haye b,een most spoken of in this connee ition. The mone is not said to have Ibeen pair1 directly, but thke boent <of the autieipatd uise in 'value of a ,certain amount of bonds is said to hays been guarant0eed in each case. A quank dog,tor is tra,veling in Ohio, accompanied by a remarlably beautiful 'young woman. THer comn. ~plexion, especially, is perfect. He tells the people, in free lectures, that this fair .creatur'e was once' rather augly, but has been improved .by thes use of his elixir, which he offers for :sale at $P a bottle, Nobody buys any at the conclusion of the lecture, ibut on theifolowing day, when his agent go.es fro.mi house to house, the .sale is .Jarge, ,Sorge of our et ageps are print >1ng long articles af *ax-podu~c. Ing trees. N3ut, s ~gely, eepagb, ,they omit to ruentIortthe bire, wvhich baa prduced 9r wleks than an(bWh'ei' I,EGIRLAT'IVC l'4oCA'fgING.2, F4"ItIDAY, Dcoenjber 13, 1878. SENATE. A number of bills wuro Intio lueed, also a resolution by Gtn. Gary, exp rossing the bolief th t the NAtun.-l Bank system is ruinou-i to tiv country, The following passle a tlhirl reading : A bil, to autiorizo and require the connty conmissioners of the county of F sirfield to levy and collect a special tax in said county to meet the pist due claims for building public fence in s,id county. A bill for the furhil., pro teotion of landlords in the colioction of rents. A motion to reconsiler the vote killing the repeal of ttie del coin proiiso was lost by a ie vote. Thiis leaves the cmipromnise s it, now stands. Tile bi to regulate ril roads passed a SCCQII' r(iding by 23 to 8. Adjonened. HOUsE OF RZVR.IUINTATIVES. A conoictrret resolution request I the coiJptl)leI -gnlral to us - ponld the ado of all frfeiteJ la:id.i unil tihe adjou-Ilment of t1le prosulnb session ol the Logi!latmre. vats adopted. 'Mr. Boaty intr-0-.ac3 d a bill making t1h S1t piy cousts of court, witnesses &.,., instead of Imaking the cQmijties Inky tho.. A bill to extend the tiLne for fundimg the unquetomimble debt of the State, and a bill to urovide a mode for revoking letters test tuen tary and of admiinistration, whjere an administrator or executor his left the Stato, were retunmed from the Benato, with unimportant menudments, anl were ordereJ to be enrolled for ratilic.tion Tue railroAd bill, hills requiring executors to give buids, to grant aid to the Agricultural Society and others were sent to the Sonate, The bill protecting fish inl frOSi water was killed, also tho bill to 'ituit thle plant.ng Af citton. A 4(.-t(d deb.rc etuitid on the debt question. The House refused by 58 to 56 to kill tue bill repeatling the compromise, and tine bill vas Imade the special order for S.ttur dty, the final Yote 1o be taken on MUnday, At half-past 2 p. ir. recurrence was h1d to the muorning 1our, and Ir. George Johnstone, fur the ma jority Of the couuttee on ways and means, presented the general ap.. propriation bill, which received its first reading. The following fig, ures will show tho appropriations in the soveral depa. tmunt; of t:ke government proposeA for to e meal year, together with the sims ap propriated for tho sime parposes, last year : 1878. 1877. Exemntive and Judicial Departmenta - -$100,.84 $13.401 Ilealth Department - 6,000 4,008 Tax-Department - 22.100 22, 10u, State University - 2,0 , 00 Penal and Charitable I.stitjti-nH . . - 120,017 96,104; 'South Caroliia Agrieul,. tural Cofllge - - 7'-.00 7..0 Governor's contingent Fund ---------- -,0.00 5,u0. P~ubliestion ef Tres.u rer's Reports --- 1,0 Ii0 1,00 , C'laima - ------ - .1, '0 5.000u) Printing - - - - - 9 .300 20,000 'State Agricultural 8o ciety-- - ----- 2,40 ) 2,5(00 Deficiacies - --,13,180 None. Interest on Recognized D1ebt------- - - -0,17 189 J0 Interest on Dell'eioey Blondae issue.1 by the Co,urt of Claims 27,350 None. Mr. Buist, on behalf of a minority .of the eommitte on wavs and mana, reported an amenodnent to thmin bill providing an appro)pri stion for the entire consolidated inldebted,% ness of the State, both reogni ed .Adjourned. 4'umspax, December 14, 1878. $ENATE. M~.r. Maurlmmee Introdiuced a bil ,to provide for County Bolards oif Etqualzation and to amend.the law im' rela.tion thereto. Mr. Gary-B3i.l to prevent and pu~nisha . the interxmarrying of the races ; also, WII to repeal section 2 of a joint resolution providing a mode of ascertaining the djebL Of tho State and of liquidating the same ; also, resolution ques tjomjing the right~ oft.the President pro tern, to vot0 exeept in ouaeqs of a tie ; also, resolution thatlo Seniator. eboild vote on o, myeasurs itn whicll he las a peonniary interest. . 4. bill relative to the of1de of Chief Constable .was passed also MEll to authoriza and require the eogn.ty eemissioners of Spartath~ burg, Greenville and Union 'cbun. ties to puirohase and 4Wteel coataiis lynies . do 's w Thw Joenn.ant .to thi- Slanata'M Mas of bills and resolutions. 'lhe several acts herotoforo re.. portd1 as passing both houiios were ratifled. Adjourned. HOuS OP REPRESENTATIVES. A oinbor of bills and resolutions were r0enived from tho Senate and refend to app;opriato Comilittees. A iummbwr of bills woro introdiuced, read by title, and properly referred. Tle Houllle thon proe.'Oled to the disposal of the general orders, and a nuniber of hills, of loo.l or limited into,wt, woro passod to a third reading, Adjournod. THE 'rH1REE 3IhL Y GOATS GR UFF, Once on a time there were three billy-goats, WVio were to go up1) to thle hill-1le to make themselves fat, <mi eI namo of all the three was "Gruff." On the way up was a britdgo over a burn tMy imad to cross ; 4nd under the bridge lived a groat ugly Troll, with eyes as big as saucers, and a nose as long as a poker. So first of all cane the youngest billy-goat Gruff to cross the bridge. "Trip, trapj) ; trip trap !" wcnt the bridgc. "hViio's that. tripping .over my bridge ?" roi-red the Troll. "Oh l it is only I, the tiniest billy, goat Gruff; and I'm going up to tho hill-side to mAke myself fat," s.id the billy-goat, with a s.Uall voice. "Now, I'm co.ning to gobblo you up,' said t:10 Troll. "OU, no ! pray dom't t-lco Aue. I'm too liUl,o. til Lt I ill," sai I twe billy goat ; "wait a bit till the 'second 1)illy-goat Gr1 comes ; ho is nulc bigger." "Well, be off with you," said the Troll,' A little while after came the sec. ond billy-goat Gruff to cross the bid~e, bI rip, trap ! trip, trap l trip, trap' went to b. idge. &6Who's that tripping over my bridge ?" romned the Troll. "Oh l it's the second billy-goat Giuff, tnd I'm going up to the hill side to make myself fat," paid the billy-goat who hadn't sudli a suall VOleV. qNow. I'mY cf'maing to gobble you tip," maid he Troll. '-Oh, no ! don't take me, wait a liiLtIe till the big biily-go.tt Gruff Com1108; Lie's m0uaa bi.g3r." "V wy all ! b) o3 wita you," said the Troll. But just then came the big billy goat Gruft. t)rip, tr,ap I trip, trap 1 trip trap!" went the bridge, for tho big billy goat w:s nio heavy that the bridge crea,ked and grotmed under him. "Who's that tramping over my bridge ?" roat ed the Troll. "It's I ! t'ie big billy-gott Gruff," said the billy-goat, w.i) hal an ugly hoarse v.oice of his own. "now, I'm going to gobble you up," roared "7roll. "Well, come 4long! FvB got two R pear's, And I'll poke your eyeballs out I've got besides two curling stonfles, And I'll crush.. you to bits4 body andl bones." T.hat was what the big hilly-goat said ; and so0 he flewv at the T1roll and poked his eyes out with his horns, and erushed him to bits, body and bones, aind tosse-d hin ont into the burn., and after that he weont up to tha hilh-side. 'There the billy goats got so fat th -y were searcely able to w.d k homeln aga.in ; and if the fat h:ast4t falleno ff thonx, why the'y'i,a 8tilH fat ; and so -' ump, snap snout, Tfhis tale's .told .out." Pnon.inro MumnDI. -At an .early hourn Satur day morning two colored mnen were seated near a stove in a bar rooum on Assemmbly street, kept by eolored men. Har'ry Alexander, a journieyman~ butcher who is well knmown) in the neighborhood of the market, gave the lie to Cicero WiI.. huama, another colored man, when the latter seized .the iron bar used for the purpose of fastening the side door, .and struck Alexandcer several tiies- over the heid, the last blow fraretnring his skmull, Alexc ander was carried home in a wvagon, was arrested and, .crr 4kefor,e Justice Marsh)all, Who adniitted him .to bail until the extent of Alexcan der's injiuries cau beu ascer.taiied..-. iegistei. ________ The tadidest time, weo think, in a young Anne's life is when is, girn writes to himt that she wants her old lettars, and that he oa Jt.am~ On the rail-A scolding woman. Sweet ioats-Sugar-cured hams, A Aeoting show--A naval review. A homio stretch,Over a mother's knee, A country soit-A split.-b9ttom chair in thb front yard. England proposes to import dried oysters from China. Why is the tnun like a good loaf ? Because it is light WIheU it ris0s. Travclers tell qouie protty tall, stories, and house-buildorm orect others. If the women of Portiqgal are Portugueso, aro the men P,ortu-, ganders? Olo to a five hundred dollar seal, skin cloak: "Thou art so dear and yet so fur." Considerable arsenjo is fted In the manufacturo of gentlemen's underwear. Adin Faluiore, of F, ranl4fort, 1(y., weighs four hundr'd pounds, A ije.tvy Faluro Gloves with bUttons and opening at the sides se0m to grow in favor with the ladies. The Waco .eaminer estimates the wheat crop of Texas this year at twelve million bushels. Seven hundred million postago st uinp.3 are anntally defaced in the American post offices, A now town in Idaho has been named Onegirlia, because tharo is only one girl there. There is nu better anti-fat reme! dy th.in whiskey. It will make a iman lean in a short time. Isn't it queer how all the smoke in i, stove will find its way one little crack and cona out? If 4t man could live by the sweat of his brow, his living would pome mu.h easier in hot weather. A iisping young i9dy said she hoped to get married before ohe was old as "Mith Tithuthelgh." Lawyers fre never nmore earnest than when they work with a will t4at is, if the estate is valuable, A boy who went after ahestnuts on a Sunday, broko the Sabbath, his. ight leg and his uspenders. Laramie county., Wy,, employs men at one hundred dollars a nio4th to hunt down lightning rod agents. Sam--"John, do you think ji)y poetry makes music?" John "Don't know, Sam, b4t it tpakes i) Sick." To a young man struggling with a still younger mnuustacho, tH.e "darkost botur is just before the down," In the Irish language, the electric telearaph is called ageol ebada buita, the literal translation of which is "nows upon stilts." The borrowing fiend, who is always a little short of change, is an enemy, to whorm no guarter slloild be shown. ItI is when a woman tries to whis tle that the great glory of her mouth is seen wi.thout being v.ory much heard. Fiesole is one of the few Italian towns which have a right to .create nobles. A titje -o.f count can be b)ought tlhere for one hundred dol lars. ' aphilanthropist," shrieks a Now York p)aragrapher, "even if you camn do no more Ahan kielk banana and prange skins from the sidewalk."' In a discussion on crem tion at a L,ondon club a member is credited with this argumnent: "'We earn our living, why shomuld we got igre our dead ?". "Why ar tho.se .fig efying ?" asked a man of a cute chap, pojnt. ig to thme stars and stripes ne Abey flaLpped and Iluttered in the aii'. -"Thie breeze caus.es them to .do so," replied the c. o. I"Is your nyasher up 1" asked an early yjsitor of a nobleman's Yalet. "'Yes, sir," answered the valet wjbl4 grea innocence ; "-the butler and I carried him up about thr~.9'-'co.. A sowi ng mnachinc agent, who was very ill, being boldJ ibat he must prepare to p.iy the debt of nature, wanted t,o kpowv if it couldnr't be paid on the monthly instahmnn, piw. Sonr,e one has suggested that if the hiventor of the -phonograph would bring ouit a litQ, taohmne to 12 ,at.):,he.d Wto0lfrott door, ieo wanl ana w ib 1ha anMa4 called for the rent, ilCome agaill next month," it would have a good sale. So it would; and if lx want. ed a narne fQr it ho mnight call it the postponograph. The New York flerald tolls of Van Amercan young lady of eightoon springs." Probably her name is Sbfa,-Boston P0ost. Mistake-Sara Toga.- Vomnmercial Bulleain. A Mausician, George Sharp; had his natno on the door thus: "tG. Sharp." A wag of a paintor, who knew something of music, early one morning made the following unde, -niable and significant addition': "Iq a flat." Twelve thousand different works have boon published in regard to the American war. A good deal of this war literature firht saw the light in Europe, but the bulk ap - peared in the United States. Not over one por4on in three has legs of equal length, and every man shotild be postod on the relative length of his 'rubs that ho may know which one to use for shork and which one for long kicking. When coffins in Russia are cov ered with cloth, the clor indicates the character Qf the deceased. If the body is a young person, crimson is used; if a widqy, broiyn ; if a father, yellow ; bUit blac% is never used. "What," asks a correspondent, -tcauses the liair tW fall out " Be fore we answer we nust Inow whether you are married or single. This is inportant to t ltue under. stapding of the casc,-4J{co/gu Uonstit ution. 4 young husband who wia ad vised by his wife to put on his over. c oat to woar down towh one cold mornil)g, conlpliId with her reqiest by pinning a pawn ticket on tho lappel of his underepat. She coul4 not see through it. French papers state that Qatn bett.a is about tQ Pparry -a W1ow1 with a fortune of $8,000,000. If thn rirhjt-Mfand nld everiastingf truth were told it woqld, proably be that he was about to inarry a fortuno of $8U000,0M0vwith a widew, There wero one hundred and eip hit murderas laqt yAr in Switzor. land, in a popitlatiol if' lissi th:m three million. (apital punishnent has boon abolished in the cogntry. Thorp werp five hundred and nin, ty seven spicides, greatker pro., portion tb.an pbtains in py pther Eur9ppa4 cwltry. The )argest Sun.aay.rschool in tho world is probably at Stookport, Cb,ostcr county, England, with a population of' only 53,014. ' ho school buildi4q cost $100,009, and has between eighty apd ninety toeching rooi4s. Since the inFititu tion was opened 5,085 teaphors have been employod and 90,804 schQljr.q rtgistprad. From Ceutonqial Ifeadquarters.-, "I find Dr. Bull's Cough, 6yr4p excellent, having r1ady sale and rendering n9ore satisfaction than ~any Cough Syrqp I baye eyer sold.. ,~.B ajoney, ML. D., Fiftet and Carpenter St.reets, Phla'del phia, a.* NE ase).Iilauk,o ott dLager .)Ber. One ease Indian 1aleh' Ales ehea p for cah at tlio atore of' jdoo 14 W.. I. DONLY. -NO TICKJ 7H ~IE subscribor ho~s still a large ste .Lof gooda Onl hjand, cons.isting of D~ry Goods, .Clothing, #8hpes, Doots, Caps and everything that makes iyp a,onee stock of goods, all of whichb we will soil a4 and .below cost for Cash tiil ti 25th .of thai, month. 4ltoy thot timne the.entire stock w,ilf be clse cut at auction. - doe 12 8. 8. W ' N .JANUARY next we will issue shaq ..first number of A monthly journal de .e in. terests of Teaecrs, medr,~ th Cause of Edluention in genera . To bring* it within the y.eaqIk ht inl; we have'-ired the 1ubsorptierl )p$oe e~ the 5ow ;st9%p par Educati tq~ alpgQy - Q ygease