Orangeburg times. (Orangeburg Court House [S.C.]) 1877-1881, August 17, 1878, Image 1
TWO DOLLAUS PUK ANNUM. J.
GOD AND OUR COTJNTltY.
VOLUME VI
SATURDAY MOKNING, "AUGUST 17, 1878,
ALWAYS IN' A!) VAX CK
VT IT % IS S3 8 3 (7)G>
IS a Light Running, Fast Ginning, and
clean Staple Making Gin. l'rioe lie*
<luced. First Clara.
I am taking ordern, also, for the
: jBjROVrlsr GINS,
HI TIT FEEDERS
AND CONDENSERS.
Thia Condensing Clin is a favorite.
?In RiUH and StUYH furnished if ap
plied for early, also DSrislIcs. Order
our Breather and KiiMmt li pie
Jngg in time and pave money.
JOHN A. HAMILTON,
Next to Mr. Li. H. Gornclson.
julG-tf
A LECTURE!
to young men.
Jutl Published in a .Scaled Envelope.
T*i ice six cent.*.
A Lecture on the Xn
ture, Treatment, and Radical
cure of Seminal Weakness, or
Spermatorrhoea, induced liy Self-Abuse,
Involuntary Emission, Impoteticv, N??rv
ou? Debility, and Impedimenta to Marriage
fenerally; Consumption, Epilepsy, and
'iU; Mental and Physical Incapacity,
Ac.?Hy ROBERT J". CU I.V KKW ELL,
M. D., author of the ''Green Hook," A.c.
Tho world-renowned author, in thi*
admirable Lecture,clearly prove* from his
OnD experience that the awful cohsequen
?cm of Self-Abuse may be cliccotally re
mored without medieiue, ami without dan
grrotiH Mirgical operations, bougies, instru
ments, rings, or coidials; jutinltog out a
mode of cure at once certain ami efiectual,
by which every sullcrcr, no matter what
Ion condition may be, may cure himself
cheaply, privately and radically.
'J'hi.s lecture* will prove a boon to
mm- I if?-,.. W'w. . -
fact of their refusing to put up a
eandidnto against WaOi Hampton
arguea nothing in favor of the con
?ervatiem of the eo-called party,
Their entire platform at Columbia
was adopted solely for Northern eyes
and with a viow of gotting the coun
tenance and support of the RepUbli
can party. This they endeavored to
do by charging the Democratic party
with unfaithfulness to tho man)'
pledges they had made during the
campaign of 187b"; by charging the
Democratic part)' with f and, vio
lence and ii limidation; with murders
and astattinations; with the violent
scieure of the Btate Government;
with manufacturing testimony by
which they nought to inculpate Radi
cal officials; and with unfairness in
fhe recent investigations whereby
frauds coin mi tied by Democrat* were
carefully screened from the public
eye. "?
The) ascort as their r< nsoh lor not
nominating a Slate Radical liehet
thr.l rifle clubs reigned supremo in
South Carolina which made tho
condition of ufTam extremely un
favorable for tin; success of stud) n
licked; und that ihe two years of
Democratic rule undor Wade Hamp
ton made it impossible for colored
citizen? in many counties to exercise
the right of suffrage without groat
personal dangar.
Could .Satan hiniiell have devised
tt ruoro iugcnioiu chain of lalseiioi Is
than that contained :? this ptalfbrm?
Couid he, with all his hellish cunning
lmvo coiicoeteil .. bettor plea lot a
default lhaii theso Radicals, have
done. No wonder some loading
Radicals con! I hot tell all they knew
ana e^pfccinlly in the presence of
Democrat.- Hut the truth of the
whole mutter is the Democratic
party hon been faithful to e.vcry
pledge, math', and the 'piiot and neou*
rity which prevail in the .State to
gether with the prosperity of her
citizens prove it to be line, the
Democratic party committed no mur
ders 01 ussussinationr., no frauds or
intimidations, und Ilm perfect security
with which oui eil ecus, white and
cob red, ? .!' go from pi iht to point.
night 01 da) ; r< ves if 16 he (lite, und
Radicalism in Brautort.
Tho. Radicals of Beaufort are on
tlie war path in real earnest, hut
there secru to he dissension among
their ranks and a split in their party.
Ou Tuesday tho 26th instant at. a
niRPB meeting of colored people, tho
party leaders wore the hobby of
every speaker and had heaped upon
them all the slangaud vituperation
known in the unabriged edition of t he
Radical vocabulary, until tho Ring
tail .Roarer, Joe Robinson, made a
mad attack upon Tom Hamilton and
Myers, of the Wallace House fame,
upon whom he charged tho downfa'l
of Radicalism in this State. Hamil
ton, with his usual independence an d
grace, made a sensible and stirring
speech in which he declared thai
ofliec bad no attraction for him, nor
did he cat o whether they (Radicals)
thought him ripht or wrong. At the
bar of his own conscience he stood
for judgment, and appealed to time
for a vindication of his course and tho
purity of his motive*.
Atter this niauly address from one
in whom the colored people should
feel ? pride, ??iii? narrow headed
viper offered tho usual resolutions
reading Hamilton out of tho party
which were adopted by the meeting.
VV. J. Whipper poured fourth a
stream of wisdom in a lengthy har
angue by way of abuse of tho old
party leaders, saying that not oue,
against whom fraud in the slightest
degree could bo charged, should be a
candidate for office. Some one in
the crowd called his attention to W.
J. Whipper, when lie cried out, "I
shall not be a candidate for office."
Poor Hamilton received a large por
tion of this vial of wrath upon his
head.
There is evidently trouble in the
camp and tho champions of the
contesting parties are Whipper aud
Smalls, between whom the gamo of
io.-,onime^?c7ug>rres', geircrr/tlSly ara
ted them, out of his private means,
in returning to their homes. This
incidont does not admit of comment ?
the fact speaks strong enough.?
Columbia \{<</i}>trr.
The above is the best commentary
we have yet seen upon the unselfish
generosity and nobility of character
of our Governor. Can the Radicals
produce the record of any thing like
it, or the faintest resemblance to it iu
the conduct of D. II. Chamberlain or
any other carpet-bag or seal la wag \
official of their party. Wo have
hoard of several in.itaiico? of, not !
Democrats but colored Radicals going
to their own officials after the election
and were con tern ptioualy ?purnod and
insultingly denied even trilling favors
We have had colored people, coining
to us in want of the actual necessities
of life when asked, ''why dont you go
to y our Radical leaders and officials
for help," say they had tried them
aud were deuied time after time.
The colored people know these
things arc so, the Radical leaders
know llioy arc tacts, and yet the
people are as much the dupes of the
I leaders to-day as they ever were.
j Surely the generous act of our
Governor will lie remembered in
kindness if nothing more by his Radi
cal opponents.
EdgefieldAffray.
An old feud existing between the
families of Toncys and Booths of
eight years stand ing culminated on
Monday 12th instant in the death of
Brooker Toncy and James and Thom
as Uooth. lieuj. Booth was mortally
wounded and Win. Colcman, serious
ly. Five others went .slightly wound
ed. One of each family happen to
meet in a storo when the difficulty
occurred, and, their friends joined
them in the streets.
We arc sure nut ody more deeply
regrots this unfortunate afiair than
the law-abiding citizen ofthat houjr
o? old County; but they must dis
countenance all such acts of lawless
ness to rid themselves of the unenvi
able reputation the County has ac
quired. It has been thought by som c
that polities had much to do with t he
A Tremendous Scheme.
A I'rnjiospd Railroad Arouud Iho World
by Way of Alaska and Kains< liatka.
A Southern gentleman, Mr. 8; A.
D. Greaves, writing from Livingston",'
Madison Count}', Miss , to the Louis*
ville V'iiirifr-Juurnn/, makes ihn start
ling, though perhaps feasible, pro
position ol a railroad from Washing*
ton to St. Petersburg. lie lay's: A
lew years ago a scheme was agitato 1
for building a great railroad I Win St.
Petersburg t<> the Hast IndicvtoY'o '"
uect with one alrca ly built,au I br In
built by the English government in
that country. Tho great French
engineer, M. Lesseps, who cut tho
Sue/. Canal, was to superintend the
work. Also a groat railroad has boon
constructed in Peru by General flou
ry Meiggs, who died a short time ago,
between Callao and Groza. These,
with the unncling of Mont Ccuis,
and the Pacific Railroad from Omaha
to San Francisco, constitute the w In
ders of the nineteenth century. And
now tonics the Texas Pacific Rail
road to San Diego, which groat work
will be built in ? few yenrx. Thor? is
no power or influence on earth that
can prevent it.
But there is another great rail
road, which, if it can bo built, will
eclipse all other enterprises in that
line, and will be the grandest rail
road in tho world, connecting tho
Old ami New World, a id thus avoid
ing all the dangers of the Atlantic
Oceau. My road will connect the
American continent with Asia and
Europe. Just think of it ! A rail
road from Washington City to St.
Petersburg, with only forty miles of
water between those great cities of
the New and Old World !
My plan is for the United States,
Great Britain and Russia, or the
capitalists of these great countries, to
construct this road. Lot tho road be
rvitic .in -idiom"incy~cun coun"ue~nr|pr
highest interest. Candidates for Alie
Legislature and County offices ar(c to
be nominate and let our best men', be
put in nomination. \
Thero is time sufficient to cauvass thjo
merits of every man in the county anjd
let this be done at the club meetinig
where the humblest mnu will fc^el
free to express his opinion. Ifth^s
be done there will bo uo occasion for
wire pulling or log-rolling when th |
Convention meets. Lot every clul'i
' by resolution unanimously condemn
any Independent movement, any Iii-!
J sion or coalition with Radical, or any;
> idea that would milit-ito in !the leaalt
against tho unity of the party. j
The Radicals aro organized and]
will certainly put out a county tickotl
against which wc must bring our;
whols force to bare. Wo can defeat)
them and we must.
Tho Yellow Fevor U still on the j
increase in New Orleans and advanc-1
ing up the Mississippi river. At
Vicksburg two cases have been re
ported, at Grenada ten or twelve
hnyo appeared, at Memphis the fever
is gaining ground, 17 new cases re
ported. Considerable excitement
prevails at Cairo, Nashville and
Cincinnati. Help is asked for and
aid is generally given from Wilm
ington N C. The war department
will respond and it is hoped such aid
will be given as the stricken cities
need.
? # gBi i -
A report, whether true or not, has
obtained circulation thatGov. Hamp
ton has sent a requisition to Ohio for
ex-Governor Scott. Tho charges
against this carpet-bagger aro mauy
and serious, tho evidence against him
is strouge and ample; and it is high
time Gov. Scott, in whoso administra
tion much of the stealing wasdouo,
should be hunted up and brought to
justice. Wo hope the roport is true.
The wife of ox-Governor Moses, of
?South Carolina,sued for aud obtain
ed a divorce?Judge Thompson
granted the decree at Sumtcr, S. C.
Thus the best friend of this degraded
seal la wag has abandoned him aud he
is a wandering out-cost in a friend
less world.
country. If not, why cites ami towns,?
Where people livo railroads can live
I may not live to see this railroad
built, but future generations will soo
the splendid locomotives, with groat,
trains of cars attached, careering over,
tlio iron rails oi this great road con
necting two worlds.
.- ? ? nwm ? cm ?
The Independent Candidate.
When a man is w .'ftk within his
o\vif party, but is anxious to sorvo his
country, he come out as an indopon
den.' candidate, hecauso, forsooth, he
is "yn.-dullod in the mysteries of con
ventions;" because ho knows that
were ho to submit his claim*.taftfie
suffrages ol the party wilh who in
he claims to havo affiliated,
his defeat, would bo certain and
inevitable. Such a man's position h
iudcfensible. How humiliating it
tifvj be to havo thus openly to ac
knowledge his own we?kiuvs. Such
amin, however, reek- of nothing but
hifq?robabilry of success, and his oal
cc'ations can he Summed up aj fol
lows : *T can't gel the nomination. I
can get so many local conservative
votes, it maters not who is the noini
nee5 then my family connections arc
expensive, and those who are under
pcv&onal obligations to myself are
numerous, so that 1 can rely on bo
many. Again, there will be quite a
number within the ranks to whom
the nominee will be personally objec
tionable, and I shall secure that elo
mei I; and then I shall get the entire
Republican vote and thus you see my
election is assured." Such men are
traitors to principle?they aro uu
truai worthy; and still there aro many
such in this State who aro see'dug to
mislead tho people by faleo pretcu
sioria, iucrely for the sake of filling
office. There are many such daily
scattering seeds of discord in our
inid'^gttising falsn issues, and agitat
ing JK public mind with falso hope3.
d?HELivSauppt think that.tjf? people
tional purposes for the year commenc
ing .Nov. lit 187<), was paid out j>r>,
rata in each township where the ?lebt
exoerded the amount of cash to its
credit. Claims not recorded in tho
School Commissioner's books at the
timo of my advertisement excepted
He knows that too.
All school orders, that wero record
ed in the School Commissioner's
books at the time of my advertise
ment for services rendered during the
last fiscal year in school Districts
No. 5, No. 18, and No. 22, were paid
in full and I have on hand now a
balauco in favor of school District
No. 5, of $35 82.
If he does not know this?it ia
because he prelors ignorauco of tho
fame, as I advertised to pay in full
all claims against those Districts,
and he can not deny that, as tho
appointee of his Excellency Wade
Hampton, in carrying out his promise
"that all men should be equal before
the law." I have been always ready
and willing to give any information
desired pertaining to this ollioo to all
persons without exception.
RonERT Copes,
Treasurer of Orangoburg County.
[For theOrangebuig Time?.]
Okanuebuku, S. C,
August 13th 1S78.
To the, h.tlitor Orangeburg Times:
There appeared in cditorinl
columns of your last issuo an article
headed The. Radical Ring Convention
in which a lew remarks made by
myself in tho Republican Convention
of the 5th August were so greatly
distorted and so wide of the truth,
that I feol compelled to appeal to
your candor and fairness for a timely
correction of the same. I have noth
ing to sny as to the justice or propri ?
ety of your comments.as theso un
doubtedly wero dictated by a mis
understanding of the language used
on that occasion. Much that I said
has been inistnted and murh sup
pressed necessary to an understand
ing of tho context, but I especially
object to being represented as making
this false statement, that "not, one
school teacher had been paid." What
i did say , was that the school teachers
of this County had not ban paid in full
rJ'bo old son fnyn, "Nancy Jane,
bring me my last "Spiritof the South"
and after looking over it for some
time, said, "Mr.-, I have been
knowing you along tiinc,and like you
mighty well, hut according to my
paper I'll be d?d if it is constitu
tional to voto for you."
The candidate waited to boar no
more, but bo now swears that here
after ho will keep in with the news
paper men, when ho is a candidate. j
Wewtjn's Colored "Masons.'v |
How tho llev. Mr. Sin it it Opened a Darkej
Lodge and linked in the Money.
n " I
, ;
The good colored people of New
town, L. 1., aro. very indignant over j
tin: manner in which tin; very
"Reverend" G. l\ Smith (who, until
last '1 hurselay. ministered to their
spiritual wants, or, at leasl, those of
the Methodist persuasion) has trcate i
theiri.
There is gei.erally a ridiculous fide
to every story, and there is no oxcep
lion lo the mlo in this case. Smith
seems to have engrafted himself ho
fully into the confidence of his Hook
that they t bought hiut inenpao.o ot
deception.
Among other venture* ottUido his
immediate "profession," ho instituted
a lodge of "Free Masons," and drew
therein all the colored geutry who
had any desire (and money) to bo
initialed into the socrets of tho order.
Ho fixed the initiation fee at tho
small sum of 82.50, and only de
manded 50 cents for each and every
degree.
One of these full-fledged "Free
Masons" w as sought and found by a
reporter yesterday, and the mnhtd
oprtramJi id' becoming n member w.ts
fully detailed, thereby letting out the
secret which Old Solomon himself
treasured, and for not doing the like
' the good enough Morgau" mystery
occurred.
? ' .'? - ?ea .?.."11 t.i* '
years on years aguiic, probably
about the time of the Revolution, a
man of Irish decent passing through
tho country on foot, atopped at a far
mers house ami a?.kol f>r work.
Work wis givcu him, bat he soon
left, giving as the rcaion, th it t!io
work was hard and the diet light.
He was fed morning, noon and
night on homiuey. It was homiuey
soft, homiuey still', hominey cold,h mi
iney hot, homiuey always in tho pot
When he left he shook oil' the dust of
his feet against tho place and called
it ''flomuey Town." Tunis has w irk
ed great changes since then, Chan
ges in tho appearance of the country
in tho appearance ot the poople, iu
i thoir modo of dress and manner of
living. When years ago, tho hard
worked Irishman found nothing but
homiuey, now rico, potatoes etc
aro iu great abundance. One or
two facts strike a traveler as ho pas
ses through this section. The first
is, that it is very densely populated.
There aro houses along the road,
houses along tho creeks, houses in tho
woods, houses every where., and those
houses arc all well filled.
Another fact is the thrift and con
tentment of these people. Their
houses, farms, orchards, lior.lOS and
cattle all indicate this. They aro a
laboring people, they know how to
work and are not ashamed nor afraid
to do it, and the result is abundance
and contentment. I have often
thought that such people, away from
the excitement and temptations of
the city, village and rail road places,
living in the quiet of tho country, re
lying on thoir own manhood, inde
pendent in their possession, eating
thoir bread honestly earned in the
"sw eat of their face," arc the happi
est people the sun shines on. Anoth
er fact is they aro a church going
people.and pronounced iu their reli
gious Bcntirucut and voice. I heard
an old man say: "Why sir we can col
loot an> day in tho week a largo
number of earnest aud devout wor
shippers." The Methodist I believe
largely preponderate?. I spent a few
days, when the. heated wave was
passing over us, very pleasantly with
these nobb people 1 luxuriated in
' L know it'
'Don h yo? n Mat on V
<0, yes. i belong io the "Gray
n- .1:..
eiou
lie pt- f
and urappod
? I- b.-oil;! black palui
1 ho repo.-;V..-.'s h'atid< ill
a vie.ediku ? r:p, T.i.i .Mt'iecwd ajul.
* pice/ed an ? jpcu/edj while a look
of vein ration etolc over hi.* ophntcn- ?
aneo and he rev< real iy do(l'ed his hat.
'Weil, I i!', right smart glad to
havo on-! yah hft said at last; 'ami
if you'll '"???? sol low 0 henli I'll toll
vaii h'ii'A dat infernal tool iole 03
ubuul MasOsi t'
-Vi .. . v ! ado, he throw
him.-.'.1-' -u ? : spun the ;,dge' of tliii
perch and b-i^A ii ?
Ml tu ? no >a) his house, and ha
ttiio 1.1 ?"? . ; : ? ii - hi to llte folo.
An' hi prayed and prayed, nudsAUg,
and iahg, Mid don wo to >k a oath.
Den he gibe us some aprons, dud wo
I put 'em on, and marched '/?wind do
" house ['reo times on the outside. Don
wo weni hiiel; inside and hu prayed
some taoh, auil dim wo saug. Ucuho
gib r.i do ??: iji --i give it to you n
while ago?free iim03 squec/.e, and wo
were Mas- ns*'
'IIoW ni't^n did von so.not;. in t.\n
week ?'
'Two limes. Sometimes free.'
?Did you tako any degrees?'
'Yes, I got fob degrees up befoh ho
got in dc trouble.1
How did you take them?'
'(). dey wos just de samo as de fust
thing, only lie mumbled lots we didn't
know nudln at all about. An'you
say I'ze no Mason ?'
'Assuredly not.'
'I wish,' he said sadly as he rose to
his feet and looked around, T do wish
I know'd wliar In; went lb.'
'Why?'
'O uufiin much, only I'd give him
a decree in Masons he'd rccommem
bcr; I'd just grip him free times; data
what I d do; an' if you find out whar
he is, you just let mo know and dar'll
^ be aon^jun about hes-h ! I don't
Attachment. It is estimated that a Capital
Stech of 5^0.000 will be sufficient to in
augurate the Enterprise 011 a prosperous
basis.
.Suhycription List? will he f> und at Mr.
Kirk Robinson's Orange Store, and with
Mr. J. L. Hoidtnian, comer Church and Kt.
raid's Stroetf.. Furllier information can be
obtained from those gent lernen, or from Mr
liar pin Uiggs.
SAMUEL Dl HULK,
MOUOAN J. KELLEK,
KI It K KOlilXSOX,
JOHN S. KO'.V.MAN,
JAME? STORKS,
aug 17 - tt Committee.
The Slale of South Carolina,
(litANounuRO County.
In tho Common Pleas.
Amanda C. Wingard, wife of A. A. Win
can!, Plain till', against Hattie A. K.
Weeks and others, Defendants.
Pursuant to the Order of the Court in
the above stated case, 1 will sell before the
Court House, in Orangeburg, on Monday
the 2d day of ?September next, during tho
ii.-u-.d hours of sale, the Mill and Mill Priv
ilege?, and Fixtures, formerly belonging to
Juuy Weeks, deceased, and located on that
portion of his lands in Orangebnrg County,
allotted, on the partition of his Estate, to
11. A. K. Weeks. Terms cash.
W . M. Hutson, Master.
August 12, 1878. 17?3t
The Stale of South Carolina
COUNTY OF Oil ANG EB U KG.
COURT OK COMMON 1M.EAB.
Hannah Marcus, Plaintiff against L. P.
Hast, Defendant.
Copy Summons for Kelief- ? (Complaint not
Served.)
To the Defendant L. P. Hast?
You are hereby summoned and required
to answer the complaint in this action,
which is filed in the Office of Common
Pleas, for the said County, and to serve a
copy of your answer to the said complaint
on the subscriber at his ofhee, Orangeburg,
South Carolina within twenty days after
the service hereof, exclusive of the day of
shell service; and if you fail to answer the
complaint within the time aforesaid, the
plnintitl in this action will apply to tbe
Court for the relief demanded in tbe com
plaint.
Dated July 30th A. D. 1878.
JAS. F. 1zlar.
Plaintiff's Attorney.
To L. P. HAST, Defendant nbove named?
Take notice that tbe Summons and Com
plaint herein were tiled in the Office of the
Clerk of tbe Court of Common Pleas for
Orangeburg County South Carolina, on the
30th .lav of July A. D. 1878.
August Mth, i878.
JAS. F. 1ZLAR,
PlaintitPs Attorney,
aug 17 td
riM> Make Money I*len?antty
B. and fast, agents should address FIN*
LEY 11A UV EY & Co., Atlauta, Ga.
intic l ly