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iUl WEEK(LY L.I TIN. W INNSBORO.U s. C. l UPUJ15 t7 N:
A w'onuTiryscozn.
ISketch of Senator John 0. Buchanan,
of Texas. Fairfield Stook Showe
Itself.
Wills Pout (Tex.) Local. I
Amon1*ho leading men of the
State Senate is the Hon. John C.
Buchanan, of Wood county. Of
course, Wood, as the place of his
rosidence, would claim Mr. Buchan
an by a kind of pres'criptive tight ;
but every county in the tenth die
trict-and none more than Van
Zandt-feels a just pride in the
growing reputation of our young
senator. What is tliQ history of
this young man who has inspired
such respect at home and abroad,
and who in the late contest united
all parties and professions in his
support, beating. eveti on his own
soil, Bunt county's favorite son, the
veteran Martin ? Mr. Buobanan is
the son of a worthy farmar. At
quite an early age John was inured
to all the hardships incident to a
farmer's life. Mainly by his own
efforts-for his parents were poor
John acquired the clen.ents of a
good English education. Next his
mind was fired with the ambition of
being.a "knight of the green bag,"
and the implements of tho farm
were laid aside for the ponderous
volumes of Kent and Blackstone.
The result was, after a most ex.
haustive examination, his honorable
admission to the bar.. As an attor
ney, Mr. Buchanan's debut was
brilliant in the oxtreme. His fel
low-citizens.of Wood county, who,
even at that time, appreciated his
merit, elected MIr. Buchanan their
first county attorney under this con
stitution. Associate Justice Bon
nor, the then district judge, did not
hesitate to pronounce the warmest
tencumiums on Mr. Budhanan for
his zeal and elliciency as a public
,prosecutor. Before the end of his
term of office, Mr. Buchanan, for
reasons unknown to the public, re
signed, to engage more exclusively
in the civil practice of the law. It
was the farming element in the
.Terrell conventien that secured for
Mr. Buchanan the nomination for
the St.tte Senate. It was the
farmers who, in every county, con
.stitnted his reserve corps in the
isucceeding political campaign. It
-wasby the hearty co-operation of
ithe farmers in the district that this
young David in the first tilt at arms
made bite the dust that mighty man
.of war, the Goliath of Hunt county.
Mr. Buchanan's majority was large
almost beyond precedent, and sub,
sequent events have only served to
istrengthen the public confidence in
his worth. Mr. .Buchanan is a fair
type of' the bi iom -nervous ten
pernment, being of a rather slender
,though -compact build, with black
hair and eyea and dark comlexion.
He is wiry, active, enduring and
self-reliant. Slow in forming his
judgment, he is determined and
persistent in execution when his
plans are natured. Mr. Buchanan
is ambitious, but self has only a
secondary plaee in his ambition. To
build up the interests of his own
immediate constituents of the tenth
district and to promote the welfare
of the whole State of Texas are the
just and legitimate objecta of his
p)atriotic aspirations. To accomn
plish a Iixed purpose lhe wvouldl spare
neither himself nor others. Though
.genial, kindly and forbearing in his
jrivate relations, Mr. Buchanan in'
his ofiicial capacity has something
*of the austerity of an ancient
Eoman magistrate, and would exact
of every one under his superviqion
.a most rigid accountability. As' a
parliamentary leader .he would
discipline his foroes, and require
the most implicit obediencei tol
orders and nearly always would lead
his marshaled hosts to victory. The
loundstians of his fame are siready
/deeply laidj in the affections of has
fellow-citizems, and if his .vigorous
intellect and a: warm heart and
afitting.sphere of activity for the
next twanty years, Mr. Buchanan
will have achieved for himself a
renown no less brilliant than that of
Bonstona or Rusk. Lamar or PaschaL.
ELLTAN AMONG 'TMB PROPHETs.
When the debate on the resolution
for achaange of ruleshbad progressed
for ataont'two hours in fie House at
Waishimgton,,an eccentric individual
inth.4emen'a gallery-supposed
to bet&en who had sermonuized
on the~ vi of the Sabbath at
lhe el.)e" 4 I~ last 'aession--std
denly agav&Iit to his feelings by
4eolaiming .in .a loud and soieswn
tone :
'Woe, woe woe to this den .of
thieves,y"
"Befoi'e be'ilget any jtrther
ihis denunela ion he. was pounced,
upon some the dote pr'
s~iet.ans and d otito ~b.
A FRE FIGHT IN CONGRZ88.
Giving Alex !tephena and tho Green
baokers a Chance--Raking at Both
Parties.
[ Correspowlence New York Iferald. ]
In order to give Mr. Step>hens and
the greenbackors a full, fait, free and
peaceable chance the House voted
this afternoon to allow the Ways
and Means, Banking and Currency
and Coinage, Weights and Measures
committees leave to report at any
time, a privilege which the Appro
priations Committee alone has had
for some years past. Some of the
hard money people are desperately
alarmed at this, and are crying out
now that this moans unlimited
greenbacks and all sorts of financial
humbug. But in fact it is the best
thing that could happen. It gives
freedom of action and enables the
House to do what it wants. The
custom of choking off the fools and
q;tremiste and bottling up their
folly in committee rooms, which has
been pursued for a number of years,
$ to save" whatever party happened
to need saving from its idiots and
was too weak-kneed to save itself, is
stle and worn out. Mr. Stephens,
Mr. Ewing and a lot of people like
them, not only in the House but in
the Senate, have been bottled up
year after year in committee rooms,
and both parties have managed to
present sham fronts to the public.
What the house needh is free spe,pch
and plenty of it, and a fair opportu
nity for everybody in it to bring
up' his pet idiocy and and get a de
bate and a vote on it. -Mr. Stephens
and Mr. Ewing are not really dan
gerous, but when they are stowed
away in committee rooms and mark
ed "Extra hazardous," they begin
by and by to be considered in some
way mysteriously - powerful beings
who might "get away with the party"
if once they were taken out and let
loose. :Whatever effect this new
privilege may have, therefore, on
p irties, it can have only good results
for the public, and if the Committee
on Rules would now get- a rule
passed making debate possible at all
times and on all subjects by repeal
ing or at least modifying very large..
ly the -force of the mischievous
"previous question," there would
be reason to expect some good work
of this Congress oven at the extra
s6ssion.
The reason why the privilege of
repoz ting at any time given to the
three committees was objected to
by many members was because they
believe that a majority of the House
will be found to favor inflation
measures, but ff this is true surely
the majority ought to be able to do
what it likes. The old restrictions,
which were in small part this after -
noon repealed, are a fraud of pre
cisely the same pitiful kind as the
device which led the Democratic
Senators the other day to make up
their Finance Committee of half
mild inflationists and half hard
money men, so that each shohld
tie the other's hand and 'the com
mittee should h at the same time
good and bad for nothing. The
Republicans made up their part of
the committee on precisely the same
principle, and the result is .that
Senator Bayard, the eminent chair
man, enj oys the empty honor of
presiding over a nest full of stale.
egge. ______
THE STATE MEDIoAL AssoowAToN.
This association met in Charleston
two days last week with a full at
tendace. The chief business was
the discussion of the question
whether physicians should practise
Euthmanaaia,.enabling patients to
die more easily by means of opistes
&c, also of hastening the end of
such as are lingering with an incura
ble disease' Dr. T. T. Robertson
stoutly maintained the affirmative
of the proposition, which was as
stoutly opposed by Dr's. Prioleau
Buist, 'Wilhite, of Anderson, and
others. Dr. Robertson maintained
that the time would come when this
woul4 be a settled practiee. The
opponents argued, some from a
~'egious standpoint, othors from
the practical one, that physician, do
not always know when a man is cer.
tai.a to die,.and also tha~t deliberate
murder might be inflicted under
this p)retext. It was almost the
unanimous opiniona of the frateraity
that the time at least had not yet
come for the discussion of the mat"
ter, and no action was taken there.
upon.
Mr. Whitelaw Reid has changed
the tone of the Triene~ since he
was offered the mission to Berlin.
The President is nao-1onger a strag
1er~ ;froni.the 'at~ah anay of 'the
1publican s, but is the veit,able
leaer ofthe pa*tty And $eh t re;
d to d nothe
THE 4RMY BILL.
Speeches by Messrs. Aiken and O'Con
nor, of South Carolina.
During the courso of the debate
Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina, said
that in in the Forty-fifth Congress
the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Gar
field) had said that whoever at.
tempted to raise sectional issues as
a platform for 1880 would find him
solf greatly mistaken, and whon that
gentleman ros in. tho Forty-sixth
Congress and denounced a majority
coming from the South is revolu
tionary, he (Aiken) could see llo
candor in the inan*or or his position.
Following the leadership of that
gentleman, the gentleman from
Kansas (Haskell) had condomned
the acts of Southern men, but ho
had forgotten to toll that ' after a
Republican rule of twenty years,
within the last ten days citizens of
his own State had burned a negro,
burned him at the stake, and
"danced to Bacchanalian music
around his pyre." The House had
also hoard from the "nigger catcher"
from Connecticut (Mr. Hawley.) The
expression would, of course, be ex
cused by the gentl6ian wlo had
said: "You gentlemen of the
South are relying upon troachorous
friends. You must know that in the
Northern States all patriotism, all
intelligence and all capital belong to
the Republican party." If that gen -
tleman was half as wiso as ho
thought lie was, and know anything
about the Southern States, he must
know that all intelligence, all prop -
orty, all virtue and all worth there
belonged to the Democratic party.
[Applause on the Democratic side.]
He had heard from men of eminence
constitutional arguments, but he
had only to listen from which side
of the House the voice came to
know the convictions of the speaker,
and that had led him to believe that
there was not so much constitution,
al construction required about the
matter. The law which it was pro
posed to repeal had been a partisan
measure, passed by i partisan Con
gress, for the purpobe of upholding
partisan power. In 1868 be had
been permitted for the first time
after the war to vote, but, on going
to the polls, he found a sentinel
guarding the approach to the ballot,
box, and an officer secreted behind
the box. He, thereupon, refused
to vote, saying that no freeman
would vote under duress. [Derisive
laughter on the Republican side.]
There had been no Democratic votes
cast at that poll. In 1872 he had
gone to another poll, and found
soldiers quartered within fifty yards
of the ballot-box, and not a Repub -
lican vote was cast at that poll.
Why ? Because they had under
stood that the military were Demo
crats, and had taken the liberty of
not voting under duress. [Laugh
ter and applause on the Democratic
side.)
Mr. O'Connor, of South Carolina,
arraigned the Republican party for
its partisan legislation, and said that
the renowned champion of the oppo,
sition (Mr. Garfield,) ehorged the
Democratic party with organizing
revolution, but- it was tile gentle..
man's own party that had dragged
the nation to the very perilous edge
of revolution, and from that gulf the
Democratic party intended to rescue
the fabric of American institutions
and American civilization.
AN Or.DED.-WOSaw on Monday
an old land grant from Gov. Wmn.
Moultrie to Win, Burton, made in
1786. The land grauted .is two
hundred acres in Ninety-Six Dis..
trict, wvhi.h at that time inelu.dedl
.Laurens, Abbeville, Newborry and
Edgefield, with the court house at
Old (Jambridge. The laud in - ques%
tion lies in,what is now Newberry
county, on Beaverdanm cr.eek. The
seal to the deed is a curiosity. It is
made of wax, is six inches in diame,
ter and half an inch thick, and is
tied to the deed with a Iinen cord.
On one side of the seal is e, Ipalmetto
tree, and on the other is an imdivid.
ial, somewhat blurred and disfigur
ed, which has the appoarance of the
Goddesse of Liberty, with .an olive
brancha in her hand. The deed ws
found among lifajor Fred6 Booze'?s
papers, and is now in possession of
Sheriff Wheeler..-Netberry# ./er,
ald.
An Englishmnan, "who had se
better days," wa riding in thes coach
to Xheadville,..the new niining town
ia CJolorado. #Wll you please,"
faid the Englishman, "open that
window ; I wamsh to seethe iiolintMin
seeery." Ana Iria, 'who was
snaoozing in a corne-:, looked ,up on
hearing the rensaa-k,.and sarvaa.
xE r. 1 1112 DA) ,
Garibaldi created a great sonsa,
tion by going to Rome to die, and,
as soon as hG has reached . there he
is getting well.
- Mrs. Oliver is going to lecture on
"What I know about Situon Came
ron." She will deliver the first lect,
uro in Alexandria, Va.
Mr, Henry M. Stanley is now on
his way to Zanzibar, with a commis..
sion -om the King of the Belgians
to reoganizo the hitherto unsuccess
ful Belgian expedition.
Gen. W. T. Sherman heard most
of the speeches in the House on the
army blil, and he favors the repegl
of all 1:, '.s t'equiring the presence of
armed soldiers at the polls.
Mr. Davis says that the "inter
view" with him that recently appear
od in the Boston herald never
occurred, and that he does not
entertain any such views as those
ascribed to him by that enterprising
journal.
The Zulus have just fallen upon
another body of English troops in
South Africa and massacred a hun -
dred mon while they were asleep.
England will have to wake up, or
the Zulus may capture London.
A letter was received on Tuesday
by Archbishop Purcell from Cardi
nal Simeoni, secretary to the Pope,
declining to accept the Archbishop's
resignation, on account of his service
to the church. The Archbishop was
instructed to select a coadjutor with
the right of succession to the See of
Cincinnati.
The passage of the anti-Chinsse
bill and its subsequent veto have
attracted great attention among the
natives. The vernacular newspapers
of Hong Kong and Shanghai, espe
chilly the former, are extremely
bitter against the proposed measure,
and claim the protection guaranteed
by the Burlingame treaty.
The riilitary company that in
augurated the "revolution" in Wash
ington the other day by vot carry
ing a Unitod States flag while in
battalion drill, is composed of the
loyal clerks of the loyal Depart
mont, is c,nnmanded by an ex
Union soldier and its armory is
profusely decorated with National
colors.
A cotton mill, with English
machinery, is to be set up in Shang
hai, to manufacture cloth. The
enterprise is started by a Chinaman,
and is to be run by Chinese capital,
and of course Chinese labor, 'The
capital is to be $400,000. and the
mill is to contaii 800 looms-about
the size and capital of the average
Fall River mill.
Chili is at war with Bolivia and
Peru, in consequence of revenue
troubles. If, as is eotpeoted, tho
Argentino Confederation sides with
Bolivia, and Brazil helps Chili, the
fight will be interesting.. Brazil
covets some of the Eastern Peruvian
provinces, and may take advantage
of this embhroglio to seenre them
with the least trouble.
The tot'al number of Commnists
arrested in 1871 was 60,009. Of
these 10,500 were condemned, and
4,000 sent to Newv Caledonia. The
amnesty, signed by MacIMahon in
Janauary last, pardoned all but 902.
These, it is now p)roposed,. shell be
conveyed back to France. There
ar about 300 of them' in New York,
one-third of whom, it is thought,
A dispatch from New Albany,
Ind,, says that David Mausk,
on Wednesday nighite, murders
ed his wife by blows with a
pole ago wvhile she wvas asleep
Sarah Vaughan, who wvas living in
the family, hearing -the shrieks of
Mrs. Manck, rushed to the room,
wvhereupou Mauck struck her blows
that will probably prove fatal. He
then fled. A large party aroe pursne
ing him.
Mr. WV. W. Corcoran, whose old
age is given up to deedsof kindness,
has just purcbased th Patapsco
Institute at Ellicotys kiil, and
given the title-deEds. to the two
great nieces of Jobri .Randolph .of
Boanoke, who are aecoteplished *w
men, but very poor. They will open
a school tbero in the autaxmp, .kingf
with, ta.m the pvpils now under
thejir caro.
A bill for the relief of 'Gen. Fitz
Johto.Porter is being prepared for
ititrodpotion in Congress. It is
under~stood ,tl9tthe biil yropoae to
make hiiin a bigadiei' in the army.
His ranig.id1h~ regelar army was'
licateaticolo *J. bub ha4b.ei ot
bhon unjust4y diemi v h oild
to-day prolabi MoI p
CLERK'S SALE,
STATE O ' SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF FAIRFAELp.
W. R. Kennedy, Pliaintiff, against Jeff. J.
1osey, Defendant.
N pursuane of an order of the Court of
Common Pleas, made in the above
stated gase, I will offer for salo, before the
0ourt-house door in Winnsb,oro, on the
first M4onday in May next, within the
legal hours of salo, at public outcry, to
the highest bidder, the following do-.
scrib.d prupcrty, to wit;
All that pieco, parcel or traot of land,
lying, being and situate in the county
and State aforesaid, conitaining FIFrY-FIvI{
ACRES, more or less, being Lot Number
Six of the "Hlarrison River Tract," and
having snch form and shapo as are rep,
resented by it plat thereof now on file ri
the oft1o1 of the Secretary at State, at Co.
lumbia, in the State aforesaid.
TEtiMs OF SAiE--Cash on tilo day of Pale;
purchaser to pay for all neocessary
papers.
W. A. KER1t,
C.C, C, P. F, C.
Olork's Office,
Winnsboro, S. C.,
April 11, 1879.
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CLERK'S SALE,
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD.
Fannie M. Clayton, Plnintiff, against
David R. Coleman and Charles F. Cole.
man, Defendants.
* N pursuance of an order of the Jourt
. of Common Pleas, made in the above
stated case, I will offer for sale, before
the court-heuse door in Winnsboro, on
the lirst Monday in May next, within the
legal hours of sale, at public outcry, to
the highest bidder, the following-do
poribod property, to wit:
All that tract or parcel of land, situato
in the county of Fairfield and State
aforesaid,containing FOUR iUNDRED ACREs,
mioro or less, bounded by lands of George
W. Coleman, Francis lMobley, Mrs. Etmi,
ly Meador, Dr. William M. Meador, Mrs.
Nancy Coleman, Executrix, and others.
TERMs OF SALE:-CASH: Purchaser to
pay for r.11 necesary pi, ers.
W . 11. KF,RRt,
Clerk's Office, C. C, C, P. F, C.
Winnsboro, S. C.,
April I1, 1879.
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