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For terms apply to
MKS. M. F. MCNAMARA*
aug 11 If.
Congressional Convention.
On the 1st instant the Congress
ional Convention for the Second
Congressional District of South
Carolina, composed of the delegates
from the counties of Charleston,
Orangeburg and Clarendon mot in
the city of Columbia.
Gen. James F. Izlar, of Orango
burg was elected President and Col.
R. C. Barkley, Secretary. On mo
lion of Mr. J. M. Kiisim of Charleston ,
seconded by J. F. Rhames of Claren
don, Hon. M. P. O'Connor-was nomi
.nated umiuimonsly as tho candidate
for Congross from this disb ict.^ Mr.
O'Cou'tior. -made, an eloquent speech
of thank's and the "Convention ad
Democratic Pl?tl'orm,:.. f
/ _ .- ?' > .y"''
The Committee of the State Demo1
cratic Convention on platform and
resolution, composed oft e following
names ;'
A1 >!!eviHc?S McOnwa n.
Aikcn-G \Y Croft."'
Anderson?r\V C Brown.
Buruwuli?G B Ijurtigtto.
Beaufort?Win. Elliott.
. Charleston ? M P O'Connor.
Chester? G J Patterson.
Chesterfield?E B CCash.
Clarendon?John L Manning.
Collctoir?Carlos Traoy..
Darlington?J L Coker.
Ed.-cuold?M W Gary.
Fairfield?Jas. H Bion.
Georgetown?Not represented.
Greenville?F H Fuller.
Hampton?O J HutSon.
Horrv?E 11 Bealty.
F.ershaw?W *D Trantham.
I nncister?N. O B Chafee,
Kuurens?N S? Harris.
Lexington?D J Knotts.
Marion?W R Johnron.
Marlboro'?A R |'arkcr.
** ? -3re? hjc^jcy ? Ja.*. KXipscomb.
Ocbnet?W C JCeith.
Oranmdnirgi?S'Luhblo. . -? -
PiciTtMis?D F Bradley.
Richland?John E Bacon.
Sumter?T B Frnzer.
Spartanhurg?J II Evins.
Union?T B Jeter.
York?B II Masscy.
Williamsburg?W H Kennedy,
made the following report which was
unanimously adopted:
We recommend as the Democratic
platform of South Carolina in 1878,
enunciations of the same principles,
policies and pledges, as were contain
ed in the platform of 1870, which is
as follows, to wit: "The Democratic
party of South Carolina, in Conven
tion assembled, announces tho follow -
ing as its platform of principles: We
reiterate our acceptance in perfect
good faith of the Thirteenth, Four
teenth and Fifteenth amendments, to
the Federal Constitution, accepting
and standing upon them; we turn
from the settled and final past to the
great, living and momentous issuesof
the present and the future.
We reaffirm the platform ofjprin
ciplcs announced by the Nationa 1
Democratic party assembled at St. j
Louis, and in accordance with th o
declaration of that platlorm and thu
utterances and acts of our distinguish
rd leader, Wade Hampton, we call
upon all of our fellow citizens irre
spective of mce, color or previous
condition, to unite with us in confin
ing the work of reform and redemp
tion inaugurated, by the Democratic
party of South Carolina, for it is evi
dent that substantial aud lasting re
form is impossible within the ranks
of the Republican party of this State.
We have charged and convicted tho
Republican party with arraying race
against race, creating disturbances
and fomenting difficulties; with prosti -
luting the elective franchise, tamper
ing with the ballot-box, and holding
unfair and fraudulent elections, with
having accumulated an enormous
debt; mismanaged the finance, and
injured the credit of the State; with
levying exorbitant taxes, and squand
ering them when collected, thus wring
ing from the toil and livelihood of
the honest poor man of the State a
largo perceutuni of his hard earnings
without giving in return any comp u\? j
sation therefor, and recklessly involv- j
ing in debt a majority of the counties
ot the State. Its management of our
penal and charitable institution-* was j
a shnmo and a disgrace. \Ve clmr^?
its legislation as ilouioraluingj parti ?
sail and disgrace I ul, and the venality
and corruption which characterized
every branch of the government;
executive, legislative and judicial, as
having no parallel in the history o f
nations, it created a multiplicity of'
tin necessary 1 and useless olfic '3; tjoyi
plicated in thoir system and luiiijctfi
stfrllly' expensive, and cau never p'uri*
fy itself, give good and impartial
government, or by its moral force and
character exercise in its full so ve r
eignty. the law of the land We do
imi'^cbarge this condition ofthiugi,
which every patriot must?ileeplyde
plore, upon the masses of the party,
but upon their leaders, who nadc
such fatal use of their con fid*? dee and
trust, for it is our (inn conviction that
all the good people of the State of
hoth races desire pence and prosper
ity. We therefore call upon aM of
. fi.Uj.:.._? - o
our ic; if! ? ?<>.??>, 111 osirwiii vip to
race or past party affiliation, to join
08 in preserving the good name of our
.-tat?', and in maintaining her digni ty
and character among the Common
wealths of this greatcountry We
iliseountcnunce all disturbauco of the
peace of the .State, and denounce all
instigators and promoters thereof,
ami earnestly call upon all of our
fellow-citizens, irrespective of party
lines, to exercise forbearance and
cultivate good will; ami if the' gooern
mcut of the State is continued in our
control, we pledge oursclucs to protect
the.persons, rights and jtropc ty of all its
people, and to specif ily bring to summary
Justice any who dare violate them
We desire a fair and peaceable
election, appealing to the reason and
not the passion of the people, and
have guaranteed by law a fair elec
tion and1 a fair count. We call upon
?all of the patriot sons of Carolina to
join u3. Our object is continued re
form, retrenchment and relief, that
by honesty and econ?'.uy we may still
further reduce the taxes ahd lighten
the burdens of the people, giving at
the same time absolute security to the
rights and property of all. Upon
these paramount issues we cordially
invite the cooperation of every
Democrat and Republican who is
earnest and willing to unite with us
in this great work.
We recommend to the favorable
consideration of the Convention the
followed resolutions, and re
commended that the same do p.tss,
namely: the resolution offored by
Mr. Uuist, of Charleston, in relation
to the unity of the Democratic party
to wit:
"Resolved, That the unity and in
tegrity of the Democratic party is of
paramount importance to the success
of our cause and the welfare of our
people in the ensuing election, and
we repudiate all fusion or coalition
with the Republican party, and most
unqualifiedly condemn any Indepcud
t nt movement whatever, us in imical
to the people and destructive of their
interests and welfare.
That for the development of our
growth as a people, and of our re
sources as a Stale, a bureau of immi
gration and agriculture should bo
established, having lor its object the j
encouragement of and holding out
inducements to, honest and indus
trious emigrants from other countries
to settle among us, and designed to
stimulate increased and improved
production of whatever may be grown
upon our soil; and wo recommend to
the General Assembly thospeedy en
actment of such laws as will found
euch a bureau upon a permanent and
practical basis, and provide for its
ready and active operation, to the
attainment ol this desirable end."
That this Convention views with
the deepest concern the troubles
which have arisen in the upper por
tion of the State in the enforccmen t
of the excise laws of the United States,
relating to tho illicit distilling of
wli^key, and is extremely solicit" us
tlnra this subject should be fairly
convidcrcd by Congress, and some law
devised in amendment of or supple
mentary to, the present system, that
willj remove the existing ca isas of
irriijation, alleviate the pres.mil tniuli
les oV.our people, insure obedience by
virtt.te of a recognition of the justice
of lhe .laws, and restore peace and
quiet where discontent now reigns;
andf.is preliminary to a change of
the?* laws,we invoke his Excellency,
li Hayes, President of tho United
tttn- to extend amnesty unto all
persjns in this State who have viola
ted y?em.
-il-'X lliis Convention commends
wiih entire approbation the course
whioV has been puisuciliu the late
sewten of Congress by our distingu
ished State Senator, the Hon. MC
limit as well as b> his Democratic
colic; goes, the Hon. I) Wyatt Aikuii
And :?hc Hon. .1 11 Evin", in the
Il'.uisi' of Keprosentatives; an I the
Sta^uow calls upon them in their
respective spheres of duty to exert
their ^influence and ability to effect
thededred modification oftheexo'nu
laWnj ^Hi'id SCCUi'U for our people iiio
reliuj^ which is so much needed and
Bonhj lor.
Ak'of which is respectfully submit
ted, ai d signed by the committee.
Loneliness of the Ocean.
One who has never travelled upon
thcocean expects to lind it somcwhit
thickly populated. He thinks oflltc
vast travel and tiallic that goes ovor
the wafers, ami he is ready to imag
ine that the great deep is alive with
this hurrying to and fro of nations
He reads of lands whose commerce
whitens every sea, and ho is ready to
think that tho ocean is as full of sails
as the harbor of some mighty me
tropolis. But he finds h is mistake.
As ho h aves the land, the ships begin
to (iU-- ^car; as he. goes on hi - way
thut JHE&Lnll vanish, and io j
lu'thi; .Uo'il nun Ir.it \\\<- \ 'TTT '
and the bl. nded sky. Stiftet ?'?'?s oe
may meet or overtake. T .alan ship
throng^, way; but then again,
there -^vill be many days when not a
single i.sail will be seen. There arc
spaces,.1 measured by thousands of
miles, [over which no ship has ever
passedJ The idea of'a nation's com
merce [whitening every sea is tho wild -
est fancy. If all the ships that ever
have been built were brought togeth
er in a^ single licet, they would lill hu t
a hamll's breadth of the ocean. Tho
space, therefore, that man and his
w orki-' occupy on tho sea is so small in
its ex tent that the hold on it. by his
power is slight and superficial. Both
together are as nothing. The ocean
covers three-fourths of the surface
of tHc globe; anil by far tho greater
portion of this vast expanse is, and
ever ; has been, f ree from man's pre
sence and visitation.
Mr. T J Giver and D T Black
made a narr iw escape from being
killed by lighting during tho storm
of last Friday night. They were in
a wagon with a sewing machine, and
when at tho fork of the Spartauburg
road about a mile from town, the
elcctrh ity from a flash of lighting
knocked the horse down, turned over
the wagon and threw the men to the
ground. The men and horse tfWO
stunned for sometime, but neither was
seriously injured, although Mr. B'ack
complains of unpleasant feelings in
tho region of the heart and his ribs.
They are all up ami about. No in
jury was done tho wagon or sowing
mitchino.? I rnum 7'iiiu ?,
Mr. Stephens tells many storiesoI
negroes, and one is of a famous cot
ton and chicken depredator, who,
si.hco the war, met the ex-vice presi
dent on the road. 'Well, Thomas,'
was the kind salutation, 'I was sorry
to hear that you had been ill trouble
about Mrs. Tripp's chickens,' 'Yes
Mars Alee, but 1 have quit all dat
now,' said the negropcnitcnly. 'How
rnany did you take before, you stop
ped ?' asked Mr. Stephens. 'I tuck
nil she hah,' was the reply.
A Poetic License Wanted.
Ho wsis si tall, square man, with a
sharp, sunburned nose, and an un
shaven lace. lie wore a chip hat,
well sweated through in front, with
a rim turned down all around, and
a dark, narrow bit of braid for a
band. His butternut pants were
neatly tucked into bis cowhide boots,
and the thumbs of his bronzed hands
were thrust into the armho'cs of his
vest. lie entered the Mayor's office
with the air of business, an 1, march
ing up to his Honor, said inquiringly :
'J'e yon the Mayor V
'Yes, I have that honor.'
'Well, 1 waul a license for my
daughthcr, Maria Ann .Jane.'
'Ah, 1 see; your daughter is about
to get married and you wish to pro
cure a marriage license. We do not
issue those papers bore. You must
go over on the North Side to the
('ouiily Building.'
'NO, Squire, you arc mistaken?as
if you had burnt up youi last shirt or
bad accidentally got into the wrong
pew in meeting, but, Maria Ann Jane
doesn't want a license to got mirricd,
mil by no means?notify more th in
considerable. She is a dame 1 smart
girl, if she is my daughter, and if I
do say it, as I hadn't ought to. She
ha?1 been kccpin* school and boarding
round up in the persimmon dccslrict
and w riting verses for the Summer
field Weekly Bugle. She thinks now
of goiu' to tcaehin' and devotin' her
bull time to literary persoots, and,
'Squire, as I'm a law ahidiu' man and
loyal to the core?throe of my boys
went clean through to the sea with
Sherman- -'Squire, and I want to do
the business for the girl on the square
and so I called to take out a poetic
license for Maria Ann Jane. You
see, Will Morrison, who has been to
college told Maria that anybody must
have a license before he writ much
p etry.'
Ileie the Mayor's face turned very
red us if suffering from some intense
that his eyes we.d .-uiluscd with tears
His secretary suddenly approached
the wiudow and gazed abstracted 1 y
out upon the trees in the tubs whose
emerald branches were gracefully
swaying in the summer biee/.e in
front of the saloon across the way.
The former fixed his curious eyes
upon the Mayor for a moment, who
finally sufficiently recovered himself
to pay :
'My dear sir, your daughter needs
no license to write p -etry. She can
write as much as ever she pleases and
it will be all right.'
'Wont it be agin the law to do it
without a license?'inquired the man.
'She has beard that Byron and Mrs.
Ilcmans used a good many poetic
licenses in their writ ins and she thou
ght .-he'd better do as the rest of 'em
did. But if it's all right without, it's
probably owin' lo the freedom ot our
institutions and sich like.'
'Exactly,' said the Mayor.
And the satisfied rustic walked out
of the office pit king his teeth with a
small piece of a fence rail.
A husband fin ling a piece broken
out of his plate and another out of h is
saucer, petulently exclaimed to h is
wife: 'My dear it seems to me that
everything that belongs to you is
broken.' 'Well, yes,'exclaimed the
wife, 'even you are a little cracked.'
A membei of a church in Vermont
do iring 'a man from the Lord,' pray
ed in this wise: 'Semi us not an old
man in his dotage, nor a young man
in his goslinhood; but a man with all
the modern improvement.'
Women have been known to re
move their jewelry under the excite
ment of a campinccting sermon on
charity and humbleness, but no one
ever saw one throw away a real hair
switch.
Men of great parts areotlcu unfor
tunate in the management of public
business, because t hey arc apt to go
out of the common road by the quick
ness of their imagination.
A fat office?the soap boiler's.
Finished and Folded Up.
'There, that is finished and folded
up, and I am heartily glad,' said
Bertha, as she took ofTher littles* er
thitnhle and laid on the fable a pret
ty blue muslin dress, on which she
had been busy for several days.
Ts it well done, loo?'asked prac
tical Aunt Mabel.
'Pretty well done for me, auntie;
mother says I improve in dross-mak
ing.'
'That is encouraging. Now, Ber
tha, do you know that something else
of yours is also finished and folded
up this evening?'
'What else can it be, Aunt Mabel?
This is the only piece of w irk I ha^O
bad abouc this week, unless it is that
tidy. I do not expect to see the cud
oftbat these six weeks.'
'.Still, you have finished and folded
up something lar more important
than your tidy or your dress even
Something that will not be unfolded
again for a^es perhaps and )'?t you
will sur?dy sec it again with every
line and fold. Your day's record is
done, ami gone from 3*011 r keeping
You may remodel the dross if it does
not please you, but youcannotchango
one jot or tittle of the day's record.'
Aunt Mabel bad the fashion of
dropping these seed-thoughts, which
often grew into strong, vigorous
plants in young hearts.
'What has the record been?' asked
Bertha of her own heart, as she
thoughtfully laid away the blue mus
lin. As little by little she tried to go
over the hours, there was much she
would gladly have changed ifsbe
could.
T wish I had spoken pleasantly to
Ned, when be wished mo to help hint
with his Hag. It would only have
tu ken me a minute or two; and he was
first sad and then vexed with my
crossness. It is too bad L left mother
to do nil her baking alone, and did
not ever prepare the cherries for her,
n my haste to finish my drcs9.' ?
hudl-buc. closed all day, sugj
still more reproachful thoughts
'5*fo wonder I have such a pdo*^
day's record, when I begau it in tod
much haste for prayer, or reading a
verso even.' The day's work did n?t
look so satisfactory from this stand
point, and she sighed aa she felt it was
all folded up.
It is well for us all thus to review
the swift-footed days, and to strivo
to have folded up in cvory one some
deed of lo\e, and kindness, and great*
watchfulness against sin, joined with
constant prayer forGod'-j help. So
shall we be able at last to moot the
record without fear aud confusion of
face.?Chi/il's World,
Best shoe for summer?'Shoo fly I'
There isn't a vegetablo that can
"atch up with the tomato.
The train" is like a naughty boy,
because the switch changes its course.
Babies aro described as c oupons
attached to the bonds of matrimony.
There is only one way for a woman
to keep a secret. To keed it going.
Where may everlasting spring be
found? In an india-rubber factory.
A musquito is a customer who tries
to get inside the bar and tako a nip
without paying for it.
A clever fellow has taught ducks to
swim in hot water with such success
that they lay boibd eggs.
Times aro awfully quiet. There
has not been a new party organized
since breakfast.
Pools are uow sohl for about overy
uncertainty except the number of
red noses at the police court.
The head waiter of a saloon in Bos
ton was referred to as a gentleman of
sou p-or-fish-al attainments.
It was a negro who exclaimed as
bo rose from his knees at a camp
meeting. "Here I raise my ebon
k nees sir !"
An exchange is trying to coar
every body to wear a smile. No use
talking, they won't do it unless fash"
ion says so.