Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION.} WINNS13ORO, S. C. TII U RS DA . FE UAUARY 13, 1879 vOL 3. N'.A A RADICAL MANIL 7ro. O 1 A Paper Circulating in Some Parts of South Carolina, Intended to Organ. ize and Solidit'y the "Party" for 1880. -Fronthe Marion (S. C.) Star. 1 The following circular, purport ing to have been issued by the Ron. publican party of the State, is being extensively circulated among the colored people. At the head of the circular is the picture of a bobtail Shanghai rooster airing his lungs with a heavy crow. The circular looks to a warm contest in 1880. And the Demo, crats should be prepared to meet any emergency. Democratic rule is the only hope for honest govern ment in South Carolina- We deem it our duty as a watchman on the tower to publish the circular, and thus warn the Democrats of im pending danger, that they may ward it off in time to prevent danger to their organization : Crow for the Republican party i Crow for the Republicans in carrying New York, Connecticut and New Jersey I Crow for the Republicans in car rying Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Hampshire ! Crow for' the Republican party everywhere. The Republicans have carried the following States by large majori ties : Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hamps shire, Illinois, Wisconsin, Colorado, Massachusetts, Now York, Michi gan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Connecticut, New Jersey, Vermont, Nevada. We give this good news to you down'trodden R'ipublican s of South Carolina. The Democr, ti s party aays the Republican party is dead ; they will find, when it is too late, that we are wide awake, and don't expect to go to sleep any more un til the Republican party is trium, plhant everywhere. The Republi cans of the North will never submit to be governed by the red"shirted Democrats of South Carolina. The history of the Democratic party will never be forgotten by the Republis coms. As it happens, we know something about the history of the Democratic party in South Carolna. They have been anything to get into power. I will here relate a little incident that happened in the Nort h recent ly. There w is a little boy who had a pet 'coon to sell, and lie said he wouldn't sell it to a Republican or a Groenbacker ; soon a man cane along and said : "Boy I want to buy your 'coon." The boy asked ; "What is your politics ?" "I am a Republican." "Well, sir, you can't get my 'coon." Soon another man came along and said to the boy : "I want to buy your 'coon." "Well, sir, what is your politics 7" "I am a Ore nhacker, sir." "Well, sir, you you can't get my 'coon." Presently a third man came along who was a Democrat, and ciaid : "Boy, I want to buy your 'coon." "Well, sir, what is your politics 1" "Oh, anye. 9hing to get the 'coon." This is the way with South Caros lina Democrats. When the war broke out they were all Secessionists and whipped in the war ; and after the war they changed their names to Democrats, and run a Democrat against R. K. Scott, the Republican candidate fr Governor, and got beat in 1868. And then they chang-, ed their names to Reformers, and run Carpenter for Governor, against R. K. Scott, and got beat in 1870. And then they changed their names to bolters, and run for Governor Reuben Tomlinson against F. 3, Moses, and got beat in 1872. And then they changed their names to Independent Republicans, and run for Governor John T. Green against D. H. .Chatnberlain, ani got beat in 1874. And then they changed their names 'to Demo., crats, and run Hampton, the fraud, against D. H. Chamberlain in 1876. So they are anyLhing to get the~ 'coon or office. Republicans of Sonth Carolina, stand up We expect to see that y'our righhistire protected and that mn 1880 we will see South Carolina once modre in the Republican col, umn. You have but to look around, and you can see thousands of Republi,. cans who have fallen under the hand of tyranny and oppression, by the very men who claim that they ought to rule the destinies of the Republic. Down, down, down with such men. Republicans to the front. General~GreeilESmith, who once ran for President of the United States on the Prohibitory ticket, isaboutstot.ke charge of a Eentucky hoteL. .1tr onETIrD COAST LANDS. Efforts in Washington to Recover Something for the Persecuted Plan ter-s of Beaufort. WASHINGTON, February 10.-The Hon. James B. Campbell and Wm. Henry 'rescott. Esq., representing a committee of South Carolitna tax.. payers ; Governor Aiken, Win. C. Bee, Esq., and Robert Adger, Esq., representing the State of South Car olina under a concurrent resolution of the General Assembly, accompanied by Robert Smalls, member from the Beaufort District, had an interview this morning with the secretary of the treasury and- the' commissioner of internal.revenue in reference to the surplus of the direct tax levied in that State now in the treasury. A resolution was introduced by Smalls, and passed by the House on Saturday, calling for such informa tion as would supply the basis of some equitable legislation. The whole direct tax of South Carolina was collected from a very small section of the sea-cost, while the act provided that each piece of property should be taxed only according to its comparative value to the whole property of the State. It is claimed that the surplus should be returned to those w'o have been over assess ed. It is also urggd that the large surplus resulting from the sale of lands in St. Helena and St. Luke Parishes should not be retained by the government, but should be re funded to those whose lands were thus forfeited by sale. A bill to that effect has been introduced by Smalls. SaM LaXR CONIOITLED. [ Telegran to the Register. ] SUmR, S. C. Eebruary 10.-Sam Lee was tried to-day. Failing to appear in person, his attorney (Stu art) contended that he could not be tried in his absence. Judge Mackey quoted precedents, and ruled that he could be tried, he having been previously arrested, and having, with knowledge of his indictment, fled the jurisdiction of the court. The State proved clearly the fre quent absence of Lee and the clos ing of his office before and after the ele ;tion. At the close of the evi dence for the State, Stuart moved to quash on the ground that Lee was not Judge of Probate at the time of offense charged, his succes sor having been elected, and on the ground that his sureties having been insufficient, he was functus officio. The Judge over-ruled both posi. tions, and charged that Lee, having acted as Judge of Probate on and after the time of the offense charged, was estopped from claim ing that he was out of office ; also, on other grounds, showed that he was in office at the time. The Judge stated that as to his bond, it was clearly shown by the county auditor that Lee had obtained indul gence, and had given sufficient sureties, and that the office of Pro bate Judge was never at any time vacated. The defence then put up several witesses-some of them the riff-raff of the town--to prove that Lee was afraid to hold his office after the 9th of November, but offered no evidence as to his frequent previous absence. Counsel on both sides made brief arguments. The Judge ruled fairly and impartially. A jury of eight white and four colored, after two hours' absence, brought in a verdict of guilty. The maximum punishment is $1,000 fine and one,year imnprison% ment in the penitentiary ; the mini - mum is at the discretion of the Judge B. B. Elliott arrived too late to participrate in the trial. He will argue for a new trial to-night, but the grounds are frivolous and not likely to succeed. SUr T n. A REMINDER OP SHERMAN.-The recent visit of General Sherman to Savannah recalls one of his orders issued upon his visit to that city in 1864. Here it is : "Not more than two newspapers will be published in Savannah, and their editors and proprietors will be hold to the strictest accountabili-. ty and will be severely punished in person and property for any libel. ous publication, mischievous matse ter, premature neiws, exaggerated at temnents or any oommente toAat., ever upon the acts of-. the constis tuted authoritioi ;tliey will also be held accountable for suph articles though copiedI from other papers.' Olver Wendell itolmes used but one pen for al1 his literary work between 1857 erad Se'ggemaber, 18'78, He has sent the 914 veteran to the askrs foE .eart lilt 10-A-JBA V. A person never knows how fast he can run till he finds himself at one end of a halter rope and an unbroken colt at the other, and in a hurry to get somewhere.-Jicnne bunk Star. We thought of holding this over until 1880, but afterwards conclud ed to lot the world have it without delay: A good dentist is a surcoss ful man on the stump.- Wheeling Leader. London LSporting .News:-"A thrifty father took his boy to a doctor. 'If you can cure him for less than the funeral elpensos,' said he, go ahead ; but 3f you can't sonny'll have to take hife channes.' " Great zeus ! George Roogeon. coiroplie and Domitr Johannioes trawtu have just beo.adnitted to American citizenship 'n Portland, Oregon. They are oks by birth, and also by name--s hy. The London 7imd regards the resumption of speciq )aymonts in America as settled. declares that so great a revoluti was never accomplished with s ittle disturb, ance of interests ai so slight a shock. The roof of the ca tol at Wash ington will rattle -e an empty wagon bed behind a umaway teamt, and the Goddess o Liberty will dance an Irish jig pn the dome, when those two gianis, Logan and Voorhees, shake their manes and plunge headlong inta each other. A minister told a boautilil young girl, who was about to become a bride, that she must' remember that the man and wife ar one. "Lord I" she, "if you were un er my father and mother's windo when they are quarrelling, you'd,t ik they wore at least a dozen." Professor Wise, the veteran bal loonist, says balloons may be built of boiler iron, if buillargo enough. When the surface is doubled the cube is quadrupled, and a balloon 400 feet in diameter, of copper plate, would lift up a man of war vessel and sail away with.it. Dr. Carver, the marksman, gave an exhibition of his skill in a Now Haven theatre recently, and, after perforating a trade dollar with a rifle ball, he tossed the coin out inta the audience, accidentally hitting a young man on the headl and making a wound which bled freely. A doctor, writing to the New York Sun, says that after ten years' special investigation of the topic, he finds that this country is losing far more lives by consumption and diphtheria-direct result of vacci nation-than we are saving by the practice of vaccination. It was left for the Elmira Gazette to discover that "the prominent re, ligious features in some men's devo tion is the amount of noise they make in yelling 'amen !' and theoex, treme silence they assume when asked how much they wvill give to wvards some charitable object." "Do you call that clothes ?" sternly said a British customs offi cial to the woman wvho had swvorn that there was nothing in her trunk but clothes for herself and husbauid, and as he spoke he pointed to six bottles of brandy. "Yes," said she softly "those, are his night caps." A colored firm recently dissolvedt partnership, and posted the flollow. ing notice to the public: De disso-' lution of cop&rspips heretofore re sisting between. ne and Mose Jone's in de bark-er nrofession, am hereto fore Pissolv. d Pureons who o ' e must pay de subscriber. Dem what do firm ose must call on Jones, as do firm is insolved-" Danbury News :-"By boring a hole through a silver dollar and tying it to a tag a Connecticut man sent it through thme mail for a cent, whereas if he had put it in an envelope it would have cost him three cents, No one but a Newv Englander would have throught of such device, and it is this prompt, grappling with the situation that gived New En)gland its mighty in-. fluence upon'the world." London TrutA :-"At the same time that he is such a fluent musical writer Offenbach is uncommonly industrious and energetic. Even when acutely suffering from gout, which is a frequent ailmeont with him, he never gives up writing. 'This aogreed leg will not let me walk,' he said one to a friend while 1 spiffering agonies in his arm chair, 'ldt it will not preveknt me from wrting 5 walts.' And so he wrote 4n *oeaf hn" One awful cold night--colder than two of th' coldest nih !. on soli dattd-a hi uter namelld Rosking built an extra bif? firo in his log cabin to keep warm, an' he kept a piling on the wood until his shanty was all ablaze, and when a few prsions livin' round there saw the light an' run to his assistanco, they saw Hosking a-sottiu' in the midst of the flames a-shiverin' an' a-rub. bin' of his hands as though he couldn't got warm ; and when the shanty was all burned to ashes they found him in the ruins a-sotting on a big hickory log, frozen to death. -Jiinn esota's Ii Perkins. Paris journalism is still improv.. ing. The editor of La Conedie .Politique announces that ho is prelring z series of articles con ccrnin,; "the rapid and scandalous fortune of the man whoso eye was put out in the Cafe Procope." Ho requosts M. Gambetta to attack him for defamation should any of his assertions bo without foundation, and promises, in order that his victim may not feign ignorance, to send him a registered letter every Saturday containing the attacks which are to appear in the next number of his paper. A railroad company suspecting dead-heads put a detective on the track. One day lie heard a passen ger remark that it was very easy to go from B - to D without a ticket. He watched the speaker and was surprised to see him hand the conductor a ticket. Getting into conversation with the passenger lie said : "I'd like to know your plan for traveling without a ticket, and don't mind giving you a couple of dol. lars for it." "Done," said the man, pocketing the bill. "Wben I want to travel without a ticket I walk. Samuel J. Tilden evidently does not metn to let Senator Thurman get ahead of him in the affections of the Solid South. Some time ago the library societies at Chapel Hill University, North Carolina, engaged Mr. Thurman as their orator for next Juno. Now the boys at Trinity College, also in the land of tar-heels, have prevailed upon Mr. Tilden to ornament their con mencenent. Sonti' Bayard, who has a son at the University of Virginia, will hold forth there, doubtless, and from the way things look at this moment the country bids fair to witness the sublime fpoctacle of a whole army of Demo cratic statesnen flocking toward the cotton holds at the close of the present academic year. FERTLZER FOR 1RIsi POTATOES. The best manure for Irish potatoes, i$ a compost abounding in . well rotted or decomposed vegetable matter, mixed with ashes and used in connection with a moderate quan tity of well- rotted stablo manure or cotton seed. Cotton seed or stable manure alone will make good crops, but the quality is inforior to that of those raised from the combi nation suggested above. The com post may be app)lied in any quantity, the more the b)etter-thoe ashes, twenty to thirty bushels, cotton seed ten to fifteen bushels, stable manure (rotted) t'wo or three wagon loads (t wo horse), per acre. The indiferenco with which so many people regard a cough or cold is truly unpardonable. These affections often lead to consump tion, and should be checked in time by the use of Dr. Bull's Cough PLOWS! PLOWS!! WTE havo just rece ived a lot of VSteol TI'urn Shovels, Straight Shovels, Bull Tongues, Scooters, &c. ALSO, A. lot of Heel Bolts, Plow Rods, Lalp Rings, Clevies, Open Links, Traces, Back Bands, Plow Lay Iron ind Plow Steel Buying the above goods in quan-. ities, and from first hands, we are prepared to sell them as low as any )no. LEATHER. Just arrived a lot of Harness, [Jpper, Kip and Calf Skins, Planta ~ion and Sole Leather. AT COST. As it is late in the season, and we iave a large stock of Andirons, shovels and Tongs on hand, we will slose them out at ost for cash. feb 4 W. (mit A SN. FACT. fN order to prepare for our spring stock, we from this day offer extra inducoments to CASH CUSTOMERS. Dress Goods. Shawls, Jeans, Blankets, Flannels, Cassimeros and Clothing at prices that will ASTONISH YOU. McMASTER & BRICE. jan 28 CL EARING --OUT SALLE. ROI this date we offer our en. tire stock of fall and winter goods at very low prices, to make room for our I SPRING STOCK I Persons wishing any goods in our line will do well to give us a call before purchasing elsewhere. Wo can make it to- your advantage to PURCHASE FROM US; so come and ace. J. F. McMASTER & CO. jan 29 FOR SALE ! ------0----. One light Two-Hlorso Wagon. One heavy Two-Horse WVogon. One One-Horse Wagon. Ono Top Buggy. One Open Buggy, second hand. -Prices of all work reduced. ov 28 DESPORTES & MONTS New Summer Cook. The Safety a HOT BLAST OIL STOVE. p#t- DOES8NOT IIEAT TIS JHOUSE Perfect for all kinds of (Jooking and Heat ing Irons, Always ready and reliable. The most satIsfactory Stovo made and the Cheapest,. pe Send for cirou lars. WHITNEY & H ALL MF'G. CO.., ?-ly 123Osta nut St., rh il (IHEE1*E I OHEE.SE i OHEEd E$ f5 O LL11S. Choice Factory Cheeso )A.s low as the lowest. o.t lq T. G. DMS80Qf& NORITHERN APPLES. :l H 01CE Red King~s Ai'BlalderIn's, $2 00 per bushel, niov 489 U. 0. DEdeMES.