Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 ,1"W:LLI ,LY {'DI' .1(. N;} ------r ' INNSI3UItU, ;. ...__._ _._. __.---T, - --. - ............. - _-::--- -_...._.... - '' S. C. 1IIUR DA . MARCII20,1879 NO wsotri J'PETIFz1Rou8 MARSHALS. An Independent View of the Political Complication tNordiqff in the N. Y. Ilerald] It will be remembered that the aofce of United States Marshal is always a political office, the reward of partisan services ; that the deputy marshals for election purposes are therefore sure to be partisans, and that ,in fact, the law authorizes the party in power in every city of 29,000 or more inhabitants to ap point any number of its followers deputy marshals and pay the $50 apiece out of the publie treasury for their partisan servicep. It is not an extravagang Atatemdit on the part of the Democrats, therefore, to say that this deputy marshal law eu, ables the party in power to pay its canvassers very handsomely out of general tuxes. On the whole the Supervisor law seems to be a very small matter for either party to get up a ~ great ex" citoment over. The supervisors have under the law very comprohen. sive but very ill defined powers. If both shouk agree they conld prob ably defeat any election at all, but being of opposite political parties, they are not likely to agree, and there is no provision made for their disagreement' except that the Houdo of Representatives shall decide between them. Sessions 5,522 and 5,523 of the Revised; St:tutes pro vide for the punishment of anyone who shall interfere with them, either by threats or action, or who refuses to answer any inquiry made by them or give a false answer, but even tiese criminal statutes do not do nora than enable a quarrelsome supervisor, or one who has prede termined to make tr >uble fir his party's advantage, to accomplish this purpose and annoy the voters. In fact the whole Supervisor law might well be oalled an act to facilitate election rows. The Re, ublicans are extremely tenacious about supervisors, and the Democrats might very well giveup that point, if on their side the Re -publicans would give up the deputy marshals of elections, and this, in the last days of the last session, several prominent Republicans were villing to do. They acknowledged privately that the Deputy Marshals' law was lia'le to gross abuse and was not defensible before the public, and this is the plain truth about it. If the reputable leaders of the two parties would amicably discuss these laws in private, with a desire to come to a conclusion which should be f.ir and acceptable to both sides, the whole difficulty could be settled without waste of time and without any exciting debate. It is doubtful if more t'aan two d )zen in sn in both houses have ever cArefully examined the laws about which so much fuss has been and is making. The Rich ancid i5tate remarks about them : "Nobody cares particularly about the supervisors. It is the meddle some deputy marshals we are after. .Pid n of these and the supervisors, one or two of dach party to witness a fair count, will not be greatly ob - jected to we suppose by anybody." It is not possible as yet to foretell the tempei' in which the newv Con gress will regard the laws, what method the Democrats will deter, mnite on for their repeal, or what the Itepublican policy will be. One may hear a good deal of wild talk in political gatherings, but it is the talk mainly of people who have no votes in Congress and who ought not to have much influence. Some of these strongly urge that if the President abould veto any of the repealing bills C'ongress shall there. upon adjourn without making the necessary a pprop. iations. Ot3ers . ecommend that in case of a veto Congress sball at once declare the Presidency vacant and ignore Presi dent Hayes as part of the govern ment. These are samples of the wild talk to be heard in hotel lob bies and which is encouraged by the other side, who want nothiag better than a grand display of Democratic nonsense. But among the resposi ble men there has been for some days a growing determination to make the session short, to ge6 as many of the bad lawvs repealed as possible, and to put the. responsi bility for the rest clearly upon the RLepubli cans and adjourn. - - Thus caroleth the New Orleans T'imes : It becomes our duty-and fr om ,dty we -.- never sehrnk--to cobile~le the fact' tha~t spi'ing has arrived. Spring, with linen duster and smiling countenance ; spring, wijb a dower in his:buttan-hole and a grint on hbisa faces phis 'atppd down from the Pullman care i4 an d, as the Pie. raptuaQyremar, la ijn our mnidst.ondsmoe Sweet, a iieete 'OetiO spinai~ JEFF DAJ'ID JOT A MU,nD BREIe. Hampton's Clemency Justified by Re cent Developements--Arrest of the RealM urderers of of the Franklins. [Correspondence of the C'olumtaaRegister. ] DONALDSV1LLE, March 18.--I sup pose that most of your readers have ieard,of the cold-booded murder w'hich took place in this county on the 20th of December, 1877, and which is well known in the up couniry as the Franklin murder. Jeff David was convicted at Abbe ville as the perpetrator of this hor rible crime, and sentenced to be hanged. The Governor gave him several respites, and he was finally sent to the Penitentiary for safe keeping, and perhaps the result was a commutation of his sentence to imprisonment for life. From a report brought to this town this morning, it appears that Joe Arnold is the murderer, and not Jeff David. A Mr. Pleasant Sulli van, of L-turens, has been working patiently at the case for some time. Sullivan suspected that Joe Arnold was guilty of the murder, and so directed special attention to devel opingevede nceto confirm his susbi picions. Some time after the murder, perhaps after the conviction of Jeff David, he hired the woman who was living Joe Arnold as his wife, at the time of the murder, to cook for him. He, by various means, succeeded in gaining her confidence, and a few days ago she came out and told the whole story, implicating herself, Joe Arnold- and another negro man, named Fisher. A warrant was obtained for Ar, nold aid Fisher, who were in Ander son. They were digging a well when the posSe came to arrest them. Fisher was drawing out the dirt and Arnold wis down in the well; the former made his escape after being pursued for a mile or so. The well proved a safe prison for the latter ; whence he was taken and lodged in the jail at Anderson C. H. Mr Sullivan went home, informed the woman of the arrest of Arnold, and secured her by giving her lodg ing in the same house with her former husband. - Every one must certainly com.. mend the wisdom of the Governor in this case. Had Jeff David been hanged all would have regretted it. A REMARKA BLE MAN. York connty contains within her borders many elderly persons, noted not only for the longevity they have attained, but also for remarkable characteristics. Not the least nota ble of the long list we might enumerate, is Mr. Abraham 'Hardin, who lives at Whitaker station, on the Air-Line Railroad. Mr. Hardin was born on the 22nd of June, 1789, on the line between Llncolu and Rutherford counties, near Patterson's Springs, in what is .now Cleveland county, N. C. Descended from Revolutionary stock, and born soon after the close of the war, while a youth he was contemporaneous with many of the actors in the struggle for American Independence, and from their owvn lips heard the narrative of the thril ling events of that memorable time. These stories as handed down to him by the participants in the evsuts which culminated in giving birth to a nation, -are still fresh in his re - markably retentive memory ; and his recitals of them are entertaining and instructive, not only to the younger people1, who are frequently his de lighted listeners, but alike interest ing aie they to the 'students of! history. His description of the manners and customs of the re >ple, and the prevailing fashions of male and female attire in his youthful days, are heard by many an incipient belle and beau of the present time with wonder and astomisinent. Tro Mr. Hardin, Dr'. Hunter, of Lincoln county, N. 0., is indehted for much of tha valuable infornmation contain edi in his history of the Heroes of King's Mountain.-Y]orkvile En-. quwe'tr. A newspaper and a newspaper editor that people ddn't talk about and sotmetimes abuse aire rather pqor concerns. The men and busi ness 4 t an editor sonetlies ' feels it a bit5'J. defenid,,~at ~a risks of making. enemies" of andthet Celt, are often the every first. to show their ingratitudeh. The editor who expects to receive muth~ch arity or gratitude will addn find on hlis-a take ; but hqshou1 ~6 on and say and do what he conscientlonly thinks rih ithotregard-to fry g Someoby eo the news p'apee obW o an wek2 and hav ambe 11 and i a GUEENJACI ACT)VITY. Democratic Recognition in Now York --How the Situation is Complicated by Mr. Hendricks. The greenbackers are more active. ly at work for the ensuing political campaign than most people believe. Not only has a compact organization been perfected of the distinct green back representatives in the Forty sixth Congress, but a plan has been arranged for a demonstration in New York State which will compel Democratic recognition of the greenback issue in the fall election there for State officers. This plan, as far as rgreed upon, is to hold a a State Convention at Albany or Syracuse early in the summer, or at least not later than the first of August, and to nominate Sunset Cox for Governor, that gentleman having within the gast few years changed his position on the money question and being now a pronounced green backer. The expectation is - that with Mr Cox already in the field the regular Democrats will, at their State Convention, be forced to en - dorse him or run the risk of defeat for both wings of the party should they put somebody else on the reg" ular ticket for Governor. To make the complication still more perplexing, it is asserted by intimate personal frionds of Mr. Hendricks that he will not consent a second time to take the secondiplace on the Presidential ticket. These friends say that this decision on the part of Mr. Hendricks was reached by him at the conclusion of the ba ia- ss'o' the St. Louis Convention but was only recently declared by him in view of the movement to re nominate in 1880 the ticket of 1876. The sentiments of Mr. Hendricks on the financial question are in harmony with those of the majority of the Western and Southern De mocracy, and it is claimed that, if there is to be any vindication next year of the result of the last Presi dential election, it can be more surely attained with Mr. Hendricks at the head of the ticket. IDIC ULO US CONTEST. The present age is particularly rich in champions. We not only have champion prize-fighters, cham, pion wrestlers and champion rifle shooters, but recently champions of the peaceful art of walking have arisen in their might of action and of endurance and have taken society by storm. Now there arises a new breed of champions, more obnoxious than the last. One fellow, who must be cousin to an ostritch, offers to eat hard-boiled eggs in competi tion with any other man in the world. He will eat one hundred of these indigestible things in one hundred hours, or, if not dead by that time, will keep on until in five hundred hours he shall have finished five hundred eggs. But he whose ambitiod is most lately chronicled is the tean who ispires to be the champion pie Bater-. This glutton advertises that he will eat pies against any man in America. He proposes to eat apple pies, thirty-six inches in diameter, and to swallow more of these than can be swallowed by any other glut ton. Hardly is the ink dry on the an noneiment of this p)ie-eater before another offers to eat pies which are seventy-two inches in diameter and of proportionate thickness. It is well. There is hope for these champions ; hope that they will presently stuff themselves to death with pie, and thus blot their names fro the earth. One improvement can -be suggested. Bririg them from the boarding houses and the railroad restaurants, and let the eaters eat their fill. A fe w writh ngs, a few gentle nightmares, and all will be over. At Santa Cruz, Cal., there is a woman of Spanish. extraction, who was married at the age of fifteen yeai's, and is not yet twenty-seven' years of age, but dur-ing the eleven years of her wedded life has borne fourteen children, all of whom are dead, except one. There is a pocket telephone stretehed across from the house of a young inan in this town to the window of his swveetheart just op posite. They are to be married soon, and it is a touching sigh to watch the little sparrows perch on the string and peek at the taffy as it slides along.- Waterloo Observer. AYiemrber of enterprising persons have been engaged in collecting thei bones i ghe losee, th 6 ll ja th. aney,.dYo v Bold theMnto THE COLUMBIA REGISTER. I)AILY, TRI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY. Best Newspaper ever Published AT TilE CAP.TAL OF SOUTh CAROLINA. CIRCULATION LARGE AND CONSTAN.TLY INCREASING. W~ 7E respectfully invite the attention of the reading community to the excellent newspapers we aro now publishing in Columbia. TIHE REGIS TER is the only paper over published at the capital of South Carolina which is eon dueted as iro the leading dailies of the principal cities of the ca,untry. Wo have an able and distinguishod corps of editors-gentlemen well known all over the State for their learning, ability and sound Democratic principles;-men who have served the State and the South on every occasion when the demand arose for their services, and who may be safely depended upon as reliable leaders of the Democracy in the line of journalism. THE DAILY RtEGISTER is a twenty eight column paper, 24x38 ineh s. print ed on good paper and with large, clear cut type, containing the latest telegraph. ic news, full market reports, editorial matter on the leading occurrences of the times, and replete with interesting mis cellaneous reading. The LOCAL NEWS is full and interesting, one editor devot ing his time exclusively to that dopart ment. Our correspondence from Wash ington and other places of note gives an entertaining resume of all the important events of the dav. THE TRI-WEEKLY REGIS-'ER, with some minor changes, coinprises the con tents of the Daily at $2.50 less i er year. THE WEEKLY REGISTER is a large, handsomely-gotten-up eight page paper, 29x12 inches, containing forty-eight col unins of reading matter, embracing all the news of the week and the most im portanteditoria land local news. TERMS-IN ADVANCE. Daily Register, 1 year - - - - $7 00 " " 6 months - - 3 50 "3 " -- - 1 76 Tri-Weekly Itegisi er, I year - - - 5 00 " " 6 months - -250 " " 3 " - - 125 Weekly Register 1 year - - - - -200 " " Omonths - - - 100 "f " 3 " - - - - 50 Any person sending uP a club of ten subscribers at one time will receive either of the 'papers free, postage prepaid, for one year Any person sending us the money for twenty subscribers to the Daily may re tain for his services twenty dollars of the amaount; for twenty subscribers to the Tri-Weekly fifteen dollars of the amount.; end for twenty subscribers to the Weekly, five dollars of the amount. As an ADVERTIsING MEDIUM, the Regis ter affords unequalled facilities, having a large circulation, and numbering among its patrons the well-to-do people of the middle and upper portion of the State. Terms reasonable, For any information desired, address CALVO & PATTON, PnoPnIEToRs, Cohumbia, S. C. J Parties desiring copies of TIn REGIsTER to exhibit in canvassing will be supplied on application. jan 28 THE THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR. The Most Popular Seien.iic Papor in the WVorld. Only $2.20 a year, including postage. Weekly. 52 Numbers a year. 4,000 book pages. T HIE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN is a First-Class Weekly Noewspaiper of six teen pages, p)rinted in the most beautiful style, profusely illustrated with splendid engravings, representing the newest in ventionp and the most recent A dvances in the Arts and Sciences; including now and interesting facts in agriculture, hor ticulture, the home, health, medical p)rogress, social science, naitu ral hi story, geooy, astronomy, The~ most valuable practical pap)ers, by eminent writers in all departments of soence, will be found in the Scient-ific American: Terms, $3 20 per year, $1.00 half year, which includes postage. Discount to Agents. Single copies, ten cents. Sold by all newvsdealerd Remit b~y p)ostal order to MUNN & CO., Publishers, 37 P'ark Row, New York PATENTS. In connection with the Scientific American, Messrs. Munn & Co. a.1e Solicitors of Ameriean and Foreign Patents, have had thirty-four years ex perience, and now have the largest es tablishiment in tho wvorld. Patents are obtained on the bast terms. A speeia notice is made in the Scientific Ameri can of all inventions patented through hi agency, with the name and resl dance"of th.e patentee. By the immenso circulation thus given, the public atten tion is direecd to the merits of the new patent, and sales or introduction often easily effected, Any person who hAs made a new dis covery or invenmtion, can aseortai free of charge, whether a patent can probably beobtaine,by wrting to the un4er signed. -We also send free our lan~d Blook about the Patent Laws, Pat6nts Caveats,. T1rado-M $ta their cost,, and how proquredi, with 1into for prooeting advanoos'.oh invet% s. A4dress for the palper, of dk'et Branch Office. Oorler P and 7th sos abigon FRESH GOODS ! JUST RECEIVED. -CONSISTING IN PART OF 24 bbla. Molasses-all grades, 400 lbs. Choice Buckwheat Flour, 10 boxes Cream Cheese, 2 boxes best Italian Maccaroni, 12 bbls. Sugar, all grades, 14 sacks of Coffee-10 Rio, 4 best Java, 50 bbls. Choico Family Flour. BAGGING AND TIES. LARD in bbls., cans and buckets Bacon, Best Sugar Cured Hams. Choice Red Rust Proof Oats, Seed Rye and Barley. Nails, Trace Chains, Horse and Mule Shoes, Axle Grease, White Wine and Cider Vinegar, Smoking Tobacco Durham's best, Chewing To bacco. Raisins, Currants and Citron. ALSO, Fresh Canned Salmon, Peaches and Tomatoes, Mixed Pickles, Chow Chow and Pepper Sauce. ALSO, A fine lot of BOOTS AND SHOES. All of whi"h will be sold cheap for Cash. nov 9 D. R. FLENNIKEN. - WINES AND LIQUORS. IRESPECTFULLY inform my friends and patrons that I have in stock a full stock of Wines and Liquors, from which coleotions may be made to suit the taste of any. p.r PURE CORN WHISKEY A SPE CIALTY. -ALSO Tobacco cad Sogars in great arlot y. Call at Our House. mcli 8 JOHN D. McCAILEY. FIFTY PAIRS FINE WINTER CASSIMERE PANTS IT 00ST FOR 0A81I. These goods are of nice pattoin and good sityl e. Call early and get ia bargain, fe 2McMASTER 4 B3RIOg. REMOVAL. A BOUT the 15th of March we pro ?.pose to remove our stiocc .of gosto the store how oc,cupied by J. M. Beaty & Co.'. where we will be pleased to see all our former friends atrd customers. Previotta to that event we will soil At BOTTOM FIGURES, to. avoid unneceary .trouble da moving. Just received a Q of fhne un.~ canvassed hais4 4go, Ilw mcoh 4 #6 th lowes6 cash p,t*i ..