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WINNSBORO, S. a. n. MKAKI DA 71S, IDroa. "MO, N. lAEYXOLDS, AsoCIATYU EDrrOu. GOVERNoR VANCE will resign next week, and will be succeeded by Lioutenant-Governor Jarvis. TuE ATLANTA Consfitution makes the startling pun that North Carolina will now add-Vance to the Senate; but neglects to add that she loses her Morri-man in doing so. The Teller Committee. This commiUce is in Charleston, engaged in the delectable task of Investigating the crookedness of the recent election. floth Democrats and Republicans aro testifying very freely, and of course very diversely. It has been pretty conclusively shown that most of the Radical sulpervisors were drunk and the rest did not attend to their business. Nothing startling has yet been developed. The Senatorships, Since the last report, other Senators have been elected. Wisconsin sends Matt Carpenter back in place of How--, who has served three terms. Carpenter was defeated in 1874 by a coalition between Democrats and bolters, who elected Angus Cameron. Cameron is more of partisan than Carpenter was. The old political hack, John A. Logan, goes back to the Senate from Illinois in the place of Ogi lv. Two years ago Logan was defeat' d 'or re election by David Da.vis, whom the Republicans made Senator to prevent, his becoming the fifteenth member of the electoral commission. Don Cameron gets back from Penn sylvania in spite of great dissatisfac tion among lils own party. Arkansas and Louisiana are still balloting without result. Voorhees is elected in Indiana. No political changes have taken place in these elections. Those Cipher Despatches. The House .has given the Potter Committee ten thousand dollars to be expended in investigating the cipher telegrams. As our readers may 'not remember the ircumstatnces connect ed with these telegrams, we will state their character briefly. A few months ago the Now York Tributne puiblished a large batch of telegrams, said to have been sent by Manton Marble, Smith Weed, and other Democrats in Florida and Georgia, to Pelton and others in New York, asking if money could be procured to buy up the Returning Boards who had offered to sell out. T1hese despatches wvere all in cipher, but Mr. Haizzard, of the Tribune, succeeded, after several months of laborious study, In discover ing the key aund decipherinig them. Manton Marble, Tilden and llewitt emphatically deied any know ledge of the despatches. Pelton was silent. A great howl went up froin the Rie * ~publican party, whow tried to conceal Its crime ini stealing the Presidency, by abusing the Democrats for being asked 6o do wvhat, they themselves did, by offering rewards of positions to the Returning Roards. How these telegrams were procured by thle Tribune is a mystery, which Mr. Potter will try to dliscover. When investigations began, President Orton, of the WVestern Union Telegraph Comn pany, wvas ordered to turn over all despatches that passed over the wires during the winter of 1876. H~e re fused, but after he and the executive committee of the company were ar rrested for contempt, the telegrams, 29,600 in number, were lhaced in a huge trunk and delivered to Senator Morton's committee. They were hi opened, spread upon the tab~le, and left night after night unguarded, the only precaution taken being t~o lock thme door. It Is now claimed that some of the Republicans gained access to the room, examined the telegrams, destroyed the Republican ciphers and sold the Democratic despatches to the T"ribume. Mr. Tilden bitterly denies any corn plicity in the frauds, and demands an investIgation. Mr. Howitt made ths very sensible point that as the Re xli turning Boards had their price anid Mr. Tildon the money, the failure to buy them proves conclusively that hie was not in that business. A plausiblo 1 -. hypothesis is that holders of the pools5 at Morrissey's, representing a million in order to save their bots. The only result that can accrue from the dis covery of these cipher despatohes is to weaken the strong ease the Demo crat. had as antagonists of fraud, and the only thing the investigation can do is to establish Mr. Tilden's inno.. cence and help his stock in thme polit' esimarket, WH AT CONGRESS X8 DOINQ. Still Tinkering at the Amendments --A Plo for Subsidios--Providing for Disabled Veterans. .WAsmUNoN, January 21.-As is well kuown, after the reassembling of Congress Senator Edimn"ds submitted resolution- affiiing the validity of the 13th, 14th and 15thi amendments to the constitution. Liko most of lia party, lie seeniod to have no regard for the "Coustitution as it was," but niuch for the additions made to it in (lie years of excitement during and since the var. Senator Morgiai yes terday, acting for a coninitteo ap poiated at iL Senatorial Democratic cautcus, presented a substitute for Senator EdinInds' resolution. The saibstituto affiris the supremacy of the whole Constitution in its sphere, the rights of the States, &c., an(d is, on the whole, it readabIleand sound docu ment. The only great objection to it would apply to any paper under the circumstances-and that is, that it will lead to interminable discussion and thus to tho neglect of the proper busi iess of Congress. This proper business of Congress, by the way, is to pass8 the appropria tion bills, investigate and discuss sonic ieans of benefitting the industries of the country, estailish two or more steaniship lines to South America, do justice to the producing West by mi provilg tle niavigationi of the Missis Sippi, ald to the South by aiding the Toxias and Pacific Railway, and ad journ. The inore discussion we have of abstract (Iuestions, the less we shall have of legitilltte and necessary busi ness. I hope Deniocratic Senators will conltenit themiselves witi voting, aid let Replblican~is waste tiie inl the discision of the Edininds resolutions and the substitto. It is a vexed question among Demo crats inl the Senatle whether to side with Senator Conkling or tie Admin istrationl on) the suiblect of the New York Custoin House nominations. The friends of Sonator C. say there is no douLt of the rejection of the nominiees, and this, of courso, will be a victory for the Senator. At time close of the civil war, under then existing laws, every soldier ;in any way disabled in the line of his duty wits entitled to a pension duing continuance of his disability. Aflter wards a laiv was passed to the eff-et that if applicat ion wa'1s imade for a pen sion within three years from date of discharge the pension should go back to date of (lischarge. The three years were afterwards increased to live. BY an act which passed the Senate last week, having previously passed the louse, the period wasimade indefilnite, so that ainy soldier of the civil war who hereai'fer applies for and receives pension will receive payment from the dite he left service, and those whose pensions, already granted, conumence at ia later date, iill receive ''atrears of pension." The ariouit the act will cost, for pensions heretofore granted, is estimtted at froin twventy to fifty milions of dollars. The prospective cost is also great. Mr. ayes, it i unlderstood, will (decide onl Thutrsdaiy next whether to approve thie act or ntot. 9 IIILTON. A sinigular calse of poisoing from Paris green occurmred ini RuLtlandI(, Vt., recently. Mr. Stitt piled up the pota to tops ini his garden (oni which had beeni usedl Paris green pretty freely) aiid set them n fi ire. Ilis boy thought it wasI great sporIt, to runlf through and stand in the smoke of tihe fire, and th( consequence was that hie got poisor enough by means of the dust and smoke to produlce all thie char-acter-is.. tie. etyecits of arlsenlic poisoningi. Suita ble anitidoftes wer~e admninistered, and the child recovered. It is a cur-ions fact, if the newspa per's that. report thie item may be b)e lieved, that the paper on which the official cat alogue of the Paris Exposi tion is printed, was umnufactured ini a Connecticut paper- mill ; that the Speaker of the House of Commons wears ani Amnerican wateh','ima that most of the dtighte'eri oit thie British ral1w a ys use American ti me-keeper's. How THlE PLAY AFFECTED A WEST EuINE.-We don't knowv that wve particularly fancy the kind of a man Ingomar is represented as having been. And yet how the women folks do enjoy seeing .Parthenia lead the big spoony ruffian b~y the noae through two hiour's and a half of romance and sentimentality i It does them a world of good, because it discovers to them a power that few of them ever imagined they possessed-that subtle, heavenly influence which womankcind alone exercises. Every woman goes away from the play..house imatgining that she too is a~ Patei-n so she may become if she will only -dispose her soul to conquer her Ingomnar with love instead of broom.-sticks, and kindness instead of sad..irons. And as for the enrly Ingomar, con temptuously as we may view his maudlin sentimentality, we ennnot help having a great deal of sympa thy with him ; for, if we were in go mur, and if Mary Anderson were tc roll her great juicy eyes around usi and hold her plump, white arms and tell us about tihe "two souls,' etc., we would be ten thousand times worse than the most irrevoca' ble demon if we did not forget 0our ferocity and crouch like a quail om toast at her No. 8 sandals. Never leave home with unkini words. A IfzX OF CONDV0T. Never exaggerate. Never point to another. Never betray'a confidence. Never wantonly frighten other&. Never neglect to call upon your friends. Never laugh at the misfortunes of others. Never give a promise that you do not fulfill. Never send a present, hoping for one in return. Never speak much of your own performances. Never fail to be punctual at the time appointed. Never pick the teeth or clean the iails in company. Never fail to give a polite answer to a civil question. Never present a gift, saying it is of no use to yourself. Never call -ti.t ntion to the fen., tures or form A -ny one present. Never refer 4 a gift you have made or a favor you have rendered. KILLED BY A METEO.-On Tues.. day night last, Leonidas Grover, who resided in the vicinity of New ton, Fountain county, met his death in a way that is without par allel in this or any other country. Mr. Grover was a widower, living on his farm with a married daughter and her husband. On the evening referred to the married couple had been absent on a visit to some neighbors, and upon returning at a late hour entered the house, finding everything to all appearance in usual order, and supposing that Mr. Grover had already retired, went to bed themselves. Next morning the daughter arose, and having prepared breakfast, went to the adjoining room to call her father, and was horrified to find him lying upon his shattered bed, a mutilated corpse. Her screams brought the husband quickly to the bedroom, and an inspection disclosed a ragged opening in the roof, directly over the breast of the unfortunate man, which was torn through as if by a cannon shot and extending downward through the bedding and floor ; other holes showed- the di. rection taken by the deadly missie. Subsequent search revealed the fact that the awful calamity was caused by the fall of meteoric stone, and the stone itself, pyramidal in, shape and weighing twenty pounds and a few 'ouenes, avoirdupois, and stained with blood, was unearthed from a debth of nearly five feet, thus show ing the fearful impetus with which it struck the dwelling. Tihe posi tion of the corpse, with other sur roundings, iwhen found, showed that the victin' was asleep when stricken and that death to him was painles.-Ifndianapolis Journal. Tim TELLER COMMITTEE.-The New Orleans Picayune of Sunday, speak ing of thme departure of the Teller committee from that city en route for South Carolina, says :"It is supposed only a few days will be spent in the Palmetto State, and the committee will then return to Washington. The chief object of the visit to South Carolina is to investigate the subject of tissue bal lots. Owing to the limited time -at their disposal the committee will not enter on an outrage investiga tion, and besides, the Republican members seem to think, they have procured sufficient evidence of out rages in this State to make whatves er political capital they may need in the next campaign." A young lady, after passing the Cambridge local examination, sud denly broke off her engagement with her sweetheart. A friend ex postulated with her, but she re. plied: "I must merely say that his views on the theosopic doctrine of cosmogony are loose, and you must at once understand how impossible it is for any true woman to risk her happiness with such a person." "Come, pa," said a youngster just home from school, "how many peas are there in a pint 1" "How can anybody tell that, you foolish boy ?" "I can every time. If you don't believe it, try me." "WVell, how many are there, then?1" "Just one p in every pint, pa." Mr. Horatio Seymour is to give the ad(dr oss at the celebrat~ion this year of the battle of Newtown, N. Y., fought by General Sullivan during his expedition against the Iroquois one hundred years ago. General Butler thinks the Teller Committee will not get as far as Massachusetts just now. This is a good thing for Butler. I1YMENJSAL. MARRIED-On the 15th inst., at Yonguesville, S. C., by the Rev. R. G. Miller, Mn. JOHN A. DRICE to MRs, REDEOKOA ROSBOROUGX. All of Fair field. A flN41hIf you wn to MAKE I66 ehde INL3 &J .' -am -as : a. -THE BEST SEWING MAHNE EVER PRODUCED, Whether for family use or manufactiuring, is the double-thread, look-stitcli light-running It will last a lifotinic--overy Machine warranted. rlIE Vertical Feed is the greatest ad vancO Inado in sowing mechanism since the invention of sewing machines. We invito a careful examination of it, believing no one can fail to recognizo the fact that it is the most perfec't .eVing Machine made, combining simplicity strength, durability, and economy. We do not hesitate to claim for the IMPROVED DAVIS, in addition to its superior principles, more absoluto perfection of work manship and more complete adjustability than pertains to any competing machino now in the market. Among the various in provements is the Improved Shuttle Milled Shank Noodle, Adjustable Needli Plate, New Patent Thread Controllor and Automatic Bobbin Winder. Every Ma. chino is on good substantial rollers, for which there is no extra charge. Fo tucking, cording, braiding,quilting, ruffling, fringing, embroidering, shoe fitting, tailoring, dres-making, and family use, THE DAVIS HAS NO EQUAL. References to those who have the Iim proved Dasis Machine in use in Fair. fiold county: Mrs. William McNall Mrs. William D. Aiken. Mrs. A. V. Ladd. Mrs. J. C. Rowe. Mrs Dr. T. T. Robertson. Mris. Dr W. K. Turner. Mrs J. W. Bolick. Mrs. William Stevenson. Miss Margaret Aiken. Mrs. A.P. Miller. Mrs. Eliza Williams. Mrs. James Q. Davis. Mrs. Robert Crawford. Miss J. Harvey, and others. Just think of it-a machine selling for $00 a short time ago you can now pur. chase for $30, from J. O. BOAG, Agent for Fairfiold County. Also agent for two other first-cas mnaclines-thei Now American, and thi Improved Wood. Call on J. 0. BOAG, and get the besi Family lowing Machines made. DRY GOODS. Great reduction in prions of Drew Goods, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, &o. Always a full and complete line o Fan. ily (#roceris, Tobacco, Cigars, Con feotionaries, Fruits &o., as cheap as th oheapest. Lumber and Furniture for sale lo, for cash by jan11 J.O BOAG. DISSOLUTION. rPHE firm of Cummings & Co., is thmi I. day dissolved by mutual consent. 11. fL. ELLI~oTT. JNO. P. MATTHEWS, JR., J. II. CUMMINGS. January 1, 1870. The business will hereagter be con ducted under the firm nanme'Qf Matthew & Co., the members of wvhich fir .n are: JNO. E. MATTH ESs,JR. J. H. CUMMINGS, jan Olnm T. K. ELLIOTT. NOTIOE. COUwTY CoMMsseOpNg' OFvrcE, WIN~sDnoii. S. C., Jan. 20, 1879, OTICE is hereby given that the con tNtract for letting ont the building of the county fence, from the Poor Houms to thme Richland line, and thence to Lit tle Rtiver, will be let to the lowest biddoi at Charles A. A&bell's mill on Tuesday, th< 4th day of February, 1870. Specificatioru will be made knowvn on that day. J. A. UINNANT, jan 22-z2 Ch'mn. Board. New aM Bealtlil SILVERWA RE, SUITABLE FoR BRIDLl PRESNT Coinor & CIIndlers "aa I ]is IprEn Rri el This iiiportnt organ wighs but about thrco pounds, aind all the blood in a livi; peion (ahout three g 'ions) pases through it .tjcnst once every half hour, to ive the biie and other impuritics strained or filtercd from it. hile is the natural pur alive of the bowels, and if the Liver becomes torlid it Is not senratecd froum the blood, but car rtc thrigh the vcins to all pnrts of the syssem, in trymg to escape through the pores or the skin, causes it to turn yellow or a dirty browa color. The atomac becomes diseased and Dye pepsia, Indigestion, Consti pation ierndache, Bil-i ousniess, Jaundice, Chills, inslari Felers, Piles, 4 Sick and Sour Stqnach, and general debility fol low, It utai 's rUPATIZXX, the great vegetable. discovery for torpidity, causes the Liver to throw aff from one to two ounces of bile each time the P blood passes through it, as long as there is an ex cessof h ile; and ite effect of even a few doses upon yellow conplcxon or a brown dirty looking skin, will astonish all who rg it-they being the firt symptomus to disappear. rhe cure of all hiU ous d secs aiid Liver cointlea it; made cer-tain, by taking liuraTIMu in accordance with dirctions. * icadache is generally cured in twcnty minuates, and no disease that arises from the Liver cau exist, if a fair trial is;iven. SOLD AS A SUBSTITUTZ FOR PILLS BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Price 25 Conts and $1.00 The Ihtality of Consumption or Throat and Lung Diseases which sweep to the grave at least ono-third of all death's victime, arwtas from the Opiumn or Morphine treatuten, which simply stu pelis as the wurk of death goes on. $io,ooo will be paid If Oplumn or Morphine, or any preparation of Opium, Mopine or Prussic Acid, can he found inl the Gtoint Fi.ownt Covua Sypri, which has cured people who are flying to-day with bIut one renianiug lung. No greatar wrong can be done than to say that Coosumption Is incurable. 'hat GLonU FLownit CoUe.n SRUoP will cure it when 0 all other means lave faIled. Also, Colds, Cotigh, Asthns, lronchitis, snd all discses of the throat pnd lngs. Read the tostiosui.js of tIu. lion. Alexander 11. Strphens, Gov. SmIth and Ex-Goi'. 1-rowt of Ga., 1ion1. Geo. Peibody, as well as those of other remarkable cures in our hook-free to all at the drug stores-and be convinced that if oyou wish to ie cured you canl be by taking the G.onH FL.owsEt CoUGH SYtur. Take no Treches or Lozenges for Sore Threat, when you caii get Gi.oni FLoWi!R SYaur at saAMe 0 priee. For sale by all Draggists g rice 25 Cents and $1.00 Grlave mistakcs are inace i the tretment of all. liaces G1 t;arise inrol;-i-ren in t'.c blootl. Not Case o Ser , ils White 51 :lling, N recous. Sor's ~l t-t . i--.c , ins a thourild i1 treated withut t- t:s-: of Mcrtry in sine formi. M.ercury rots Lhe I nct, tund the disea.s it I.ro d::es are w;rse thunv ,a o:,v-r kind f o r skdiss Can 1-. 0 '1an~n0 'rt::i GIA or 0 r::;' i i l -$... r is the ii y :iedicine Iupon :.' hope t r . o-n. Scroiula, y ph at.i Mercurial disc.. % In ill st.ges. can L3 1 re-sswe'y foudl, and that st ene :.:cer. U:rg ;- 1 lL pd by the Mlvsi .tr.ury, (r aiy ;; r: t. ipur.y veg.L"ie rad ltIa. -es . .I e. u- in it. %.a y :.' i i 'rlCists $a oo. 0im non F:. Cot;,i vatr and if rtr.Tur.t.'s -11arm : 1n: - e t foe saie L~y .li 1rugz gisinz ucetad ., b.utes. A. F. TA.. LL & CO., Proprit.os, -Pli ' -p' \P ; White Lead ant lixed Paint Co. CAPITAL STOCK, $100,000. Thesen Painte are inlxed, ready for use, any shade nir coinr, anid sobli itany qanititie. from One Qutart to a liarrel. Th' Pant aomde ur hteLa Theso aLise aoi behldi rsohmhit andead~ for ss; are onn third citaper aind will last thre. ihne as loiig as Pailnt mihxeud in the ordhinary way. ; 25 REWARD! -will ba paid for tevery mune of atdultoration found in them. Thlousands of houses anad some of the finest villa in Amnerica are palitetd with these P'amnt. Henid for Tl'-athnonals of fameC alto for Samnipo Colors and P'rlco L1sts, to the f1.08E MIEAD PAINT CO., 03 Chambors St., New York Cor, MORGAN &WASHINIGTON STS., JERAFvIrytl REMOVALe MESSRS. F. Gorig. & Son would iorm' their friends and ens., tomnors, and tho p)ublic generally, that they have reumoved into their own storo, next to Sugenhimner & Groeschol's -combining the twvo stocks into one, and mnaking a COMPLETE STOCK OF Hardware, Tinware, Woodenware, Saddlery, &o, ALTL PART~IES indebted to F. GEIG or to F. GERIG & SON are requested to settle at once, as we expect to keep only one set of books. F". GERIG & SON, jan 15-f trmos,