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VoL II? ORANGEBUEG, S. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1880. No* 15. SHERIDAN & SIMS, Proprietors. SUUSCUU'TION. Ono Year.81-60 Six Months.1.00 Minister? of the Gospel.J.00 ADVBRTI8KUBNT8. ' First Instertion.81.00 ?Each Subsequent Insertion.">0 tin 1 over. JOB OaT'JJ'ICE IS'VKKPAitKlJ TO'llO 'AliL klNDS?V eJol^ 3?x?iritiiig Tho Stato Democracy. Tho Constution of tho Democratic party of South Carolina, which was adopted by the State Convention, aiul went into force in the campaign of 1878, is as follows : Article I. There shall be one or more Democratic clubs organized in each election precinct, each of which Clubs shall have a distinct title : "The - Democratic Club," and shall elect a President, oue or more Vice Presidents, a Recording and a Corres ponding Secretar}', and a Treasurer, and shall have the following working committees of not less than three members each, viz : A Committee on Registration, an Executive Commit tee, act! such other committees as to each club may seem expedient. Art. II. The meetings of the clubs Bball be frequent after the opening of the canvass, and some member of the club or invited speaker should deliver an address at each meeting if practi cable. Art. III. The President shall have power to call an extra meeting of the Club, and- members of the Cub shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Akt. IV. The clubs in each county shall be held together and operate un der the control of a County Executive Committee, which shall consist of one member of each club, to be nomina ted by the respective clubs and elect ed by the County Convention, and ?itch other members as the conven tion may add. The Executive Committee, when elected, shall appoint its own olliccrs and fill all vacancies which may arise when the Convention is not in ses sion. The tenure of oilice of the Ex ecutive Committee shall be until the \ next general campaign, unless sooner ' removed or suspended by the ^county convention. The prcsci.t County Executive Committees shall continue in oilice until the first meeting of the county conventions under this organization. Akt. V. County Democratic Con ventions shall be composed of dele gates elected by the .several local clubs?one delegate for every club, 1 and an additional delegate for every twenty-five (25) enrolled members? with the right to each county conven tion to enlarge or diminish the repre sentation according to cii cumstances. This convention shall be called to-, gether by the Chairman of the Exec- j utive Committee, under euch rules ns each county may adopt, and when us- , seoibled shall be called to order by the Chairman of the Executive Com mittee, and shall pioceed to elect from among its members a President, one or moie Vice-Presidents, a Secre tary and Treasurer. The convention shall proceed to business, and when the same is transacted, it shall ad journ sine die. AnT. VI. The mode and manner of nominating candidates for county offices or for delegates to State, Judi cial and Congressional conventions, shall be regulated in each count}' by the respective county conventions. Akt. VII. The Stale convention shall be composed of delegates from each county in the numerical propor tion to which that county is entitled to representation in both branches of the General Assembly. Art. VIII. The officers shall be a President, one Vice-Pr^sidsnt from each Congressional District, two Sec retaries and a Treasurer. Akt. IX. The State Executive Committee shall be composed of three j from each Congressional District, j The delegates from the counties com prising the Congressional District to nominate the candidates from that district, and the convention shall pro ceed to an election. Art. X. The Executive Committee shall elect its own chairman and oth er officers, and shall meet at the cull of the chairman or any five members, at such times and places as he or j they may appoint. Art. XI. The Executive Committee shall have power, by tlio vote of a majority of the whole committee, to pall a convention of the Democratic party of the State at such time and place as. it may designate; and is Charged with the execution and direc-j tion of the policy of the party in the State only to this Constitution, the principles declared in the platform, and such instructions, by resolution or otherwise, as tho State convention may from time to tine adopt; and shall continue in office for two years from time of election, or until the as scmbling of the next Slnlc convention for the nomination of a Stale ticket, unless superseded by the action of the State convention. And if any vacan cy be occasioned by death, removal, or any other cause, the committee shall have power to fill the vacancy. Akt. XII. When the State Demo cratic Convention assembles, it shall be called to order by the Chairman of IhoStatc Executive Committee, and shall proceed immediately to the trans action of business. The Convention, when it has con cluded its business, shall adjourn Sine die. And when a Convention is cal led by the Executive Committee, such Convention shall be composed of newly elected delegates. Art. XIII. Representation in Ju dicial and Congressional Conventions shall bo on the same basis as in State Conventions. A majority of delegat es shall be present at a Convention to constitute a quorum for Congress or Solicitor. The delegation of each county, in a Congressional or Judici al Convention, shall have power to fill any vacancy in the delegation. In every Convention to nominate a candidate for Congress or for the oflicc of Solicitor, a majority of the voles shbe necessary to a choice, and lue votes shall be taken viva voce and recorded, unless there is but one candidate, in which event the vote may I e taken by acclamation. As soon as the Corgrcssioual or Ju? dical Convention has nominated the party candidate for Congress or Solicitor, it shall adjourn sinr. die, and whenever a candidate fo fill an uncxpircd term of cither ollice has to be nominated, it shall be done by a now Convention of delegates fresh i fiom the people. The Executive committee of each Congressional Dis trict or .Judicial circuit shall consist of the several county chairmen of Ihe respective counties composing such District or circuit, which committee shall elect its own chairman, secreta ry and treasurer, who shall continue in olllcc for two years in a District and for four years in a circuit, respec tively, or until their succesors shall have been elected. It shall require the consent of a majority of the who'.e Executive committee in any District! or circuit to call a Nominating con vention. The Executive committee of each District or circuit shall be specially charged, in its discretion, except as heroin provided, and subject to the State platform, us well as under Ihc supervision of Iho State Executive committee, with Ihc conduct of every election for Congressional Represen tatives or Solicitors in such District curcuit, and said committee shall meet at the call of the chairman or of any thrco members at such times and [daces as he or they may appoint. Each Congressional convention shall meet within its Congressional District, and each Judicial convention shall meet within its circuit. Akt. XIV. This Constitution shall not go into force until the Slate cam paign of 1878. Bad Legislation. Under Ibis heading the Columbia Yeoman says: "By a late act of the Legislature witnesses iu State cases only get fitly cents a day. This may be patriotic, but poor people have long since learn ed that they cant live on patriotism. The people have their eyes open, and they will draw comparisons. "Why, they naturally ask, increase the salaries of clerks and employees at the S'ato House during the session, and cut down the poor man's wages, who compelled under the law, to go to the Court House and stay there lill dis missed by the Judge, at perhaps an expense of a dollar and a half a day, and only give him fifty cents? This may be law, but we respectfully sub mit, it is not equit}': neither is it true economy to a parly thai wants to hold Ihc reins of government and receive willing and cheerful obedionco to its requiromen's. A man now who is a witness in a Stale case must bring bis rations from homo, cook them himself and sleep on a wagon in a wagon yard, or lose money every trip." Here is nn old Geman recipe for happiness : "Wouldst thou be happy for a day, get shaved ; for a week, go to n wedding ; for a month, get a lino saddle horse ; for six months, build a line house for thyself; for a whole yenr? marry a beautiful young wo man ; for two years, inherit a rich uncle ; but if thou woiddst be happy for thy life?be temperate." Our Danger and Our Duty* Wc publish this week the proceed ings of the County Republican Con vention, held at Walhalla on the 27ih ultimo. Tha tone of the meeting showed a disposition to organize the party anew and press for success at the coming election. This is a Presi dential year and of course every clloi t will be made to cany the State for the Republican candidate. To accomplish this the party may put in the field a full State ticket ns well as county | tickets, as such a course would add strength to the party. Besides the greatest etrort will be made to carry a few close Southern States and ctni ncnu speakers, may, with this view, cauyass this Slate. It may be that many of the leading lights of the par ty have left the Slate, slill enough arc lelt to give us a close race unless wc exert ourselves. This has always been a party of thorough and com plete organization and voles at elec tions for the nominees. With this fact before us we cannot afford to be caught sleeping. What is our present condition? Are we not organized and united as in 1870, or did not the failure to have opposition in 1S78 scatter and disor ganize our people? It may be the middle and lower counties have kept up their clubs, but here, we think, much work must be done to give us the unity of 187D. Besides, the pas sage of fence laws has greatly divided our people, there being in many sec tions divisions and dissatisfaction. As far as possible this must be reme died, though we do nut advocate any active campaign until alter the crops are finished. We hope, however, to] see our entire Executive Committee in attendance on sal cd ay, that such action may be taken, looking to the call of a County Convention to select dch'^atcs to the Stale Convention as may be deemed necessary. The Count)' Convention will probably be called early in May. Squire Bray's Courtship. Squire Bray, of Caswell, says a North Carolina paper, was hunting another wife, but his son Bob, a wild bbide, knocked him out of it. In the caoacious breast pocket of the squire's , g:vat coat reposed a pint tickler, well filled, that he only proposed using on his way back from seeing the widow Brown. Now just before he started Bob slipped the tickler out and put in its place a small alarm clock, care fully wound up and set for 11 P. M. The squire had set the lire out und was well on with his overcoat, hold ing the widow's hand at the door and I pulling his sweelcst licks for the last. "Yes, your ?r?t husband, my dear, was one of my best friends, and we'll visit his and my lost Hannah's graves, won't we, love?" "Ah, yes, for where was there a sweeter woman than your poor Hannah?" asked the widow. "A good woman; she was good enough, but there's a living one just as sweet," said the squire, and was drawing her to him for a kiss when whizz-wizz-zi^er-whizzer hizzer ting whir-r-r-r-, ting! bang! the clock went oil* inside of him. "Oh luwd?" screamed the widow, "he's shooting to pieces ! It's Hau nah's old peunny a playing inside of him!" "She said she,d hauut cicl She oilers told me so 1"cried the squire running in a stoop fdt his horse with hands pressed to his breast and the clock still striking, ting, ting. He rode like Old Knick was after him, and never knew the racke; till he felt for bis tickler and pulled out the lit tle clock that Bob had bought at auction. The widow believes to ibis day that old man Bray is a walking volcano. The Census, ^Vc would suggest to every one to be ready for the census enumera? tor when he conies around in June. Bear in mind that this has nothing to do with the assessment of property for the purpose of taxation. Go to work now and get as near ns possible to tho actual amount and value of products of last year. This will in clude everything raised on the farm, as well as all farm animals. The names and ages of the family will be required. It will facilitate matters very much if these facts nie all pre pared beforehand. If you have neigh bors, while or colored, who do not rend the papers, anil who may be ig norant of the papers, and who may j bo ignorant of the purport of i\ cen sus, explain it to them, so .they may be prepared; to answer without re serve. ?ondemnod to Die. Thomas White, a white man, sever al weeks ago, on the streets of Spnr tanburg, while intoxicated, by some strange freak, shot and killled Pet Williams, a negro, without provoca tion. The Spartan in noticing tho Court proceedings reports the follow ing melancholy facts. Ono ennuot but feel sorry for the execution of a murderer, but something must be done to stop the reckless taking of life. In the case of White the jury did their duty, and -'the sentence is just: There were three murder cases tried at this court, a very unusual thing for Spartanburg. Hobo & Carlisle defended Thomas WhTlc and John U. Paris, and Duncan & Cleveland and Homar & Simpson defended Aaron Massey. White shot down'Pel Hawkins, colored, on the streets of Spartan burg. The strange thing is that he tlid this without knowing Hawkins, or without any provocation to shoot him. It may never be Known what was the secret spring in his mind that made him do this deed. It was a terrible deed, and lhckpeuulty is also terrible. Paris in an angry scullle killed Jack Williams, Williams mak ing' an attack with a-gun. Paris in the scullle jerked the gun away from Williams, and struck him across the head while he was rising, which blow utilised his death. Aaron Musscy killed, by shooting, his half blother Tom. They were out hunting, both having guns, and in talking over a settlement they became a little ex filed, and the gun of Aaron went oil and killed Tom. It seemed to be a clear case of accidental killing. When the verdict was announced Aaron fell infinitely more happy than lie did when Lee's army surrendered, and freedom was bestowed on him. THK SENTENCE OK WHITE. Friday afternoon tho prisoner was brought inlo Court and placed in the dock. A dense crowd packed the court-room at Ihc time. Judge Wal lace, feeling the awfjll solemnity of Lhe occasion, said : "Thomas White, stand up. Have you anything to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced on you r For the first limo during the whole trial the prisoner showed some tglta lion of mind. His voice was a little quivering and he said : "I can only say that I am clear of the charges ngainst inc. 1 am not guilty of them. I am innocent of it. In my eon science before God I don't feel that I done this deed. I don't think it right before God lo put me to death for what 1 did not do." These were about his words, uttered with not so much connection as hero expressed. Judge Wallace then said about as follows : "Unfortunately for you , Thomas While, a jury of your countrymen have declared you guilty, and it is my painful duty lo declare the judgment of the law. I do not punish you, and the jury docs not punish you. The] jury have found, after careful investi gation, that you killed Pet Hawkins. On that record the duly, painful as it is, devolves upon me lo pronounce tho sentence of the luw. I cannot find it iu my heart lo add one word to the keen distress you feel. All1 men must die ; but when you, a young man, full of life, just in the vigor of mauhood, come lo die a felon's death,' it must penetrate you with a degree I of distress which cannot be expressed! in words. It must occur to you, us it must lo every man, that il you had not hud n pistol In your pocket?? Prisoner : UJ did nol have a pistol ; before God?" Hero his attorney asked him to be silent. Judge Wallace was patiently wailing to hear what he had to say, "If you had not had a pistol in your pocket, and been on that fatal afternoon drinking liquor to excess, l'ct Hawkins would not have been killed, anil you would not be here lo receive the sentence of death. Pet llawkin's death and your approaching death are traceable to the common practice of th inking liquor lo excess, which practice proved as fatal as if you had administered strychnine lo Pet Hawkins and then taken it your self. Examples arc of such frequent occurrence in South Carolina, where the free use of whisky, joined with tho practice of carrying concealed weapons, brings many men to danger and death, that, it seems to me, all good men ought to endeavor to con centrate public opinion so ns lo check those two evil practices. Thomas White, I regret that it is my duty to give it as my opinion that you will be obliged to die. It seems that you have nothing to do but to make your peace with that God whose laws you have violated. Lot me, who would jdo everything in tenderness, exhort j you to save yourself from a more [dreadful punishment than the law can inflict. I will not protract this fear fid scene. The sentence of the law is that you be taken from the place where you now arc back to the jail, and there kept in close confinement until Friday, the 23d day or April next, and that, on that day, you he taken from the jail to the place of pri vate execution, and there between the hours of 10 a. m. and 13 i\ m. be hang cd by the neck until you are dead ; and may God have mercy on your soul." Languange ot the Hair. Each of our features is supposed lo have a language?eyes, nose and mouth. Hut the language of the hair has been formulated in the following manne : Straight, lank, stringy-look ing hair indicates weakness and cow ardice. Curly hair denotes a quick temper. Frizzy hair, set on one's head as if each individual hair was ready to light its neighbor, denotes coarseness. Black hair de notes persistent resolution in accom plishing an object, also a strong pre disposition to avenge wrongs and in sults real or fancied. Brown hairdo notes fondness for life,a friendly dis position, ambition, earnestness of purpose, capacity for business, relia bility in friendship in proportion as hair is fine. Very fine hair indicates an even disposition, a readiness to forgive, with a desire to add to the happiness of others. Persons with very line light brown auburn hair, in clined to curl or frizz, arc quick tern pored, anil are given to resentment or revenge. Bight brown hair in clined to redness, with a freckled skin, is a certain indication of deceit, treachery and a disposition to do something mean to a friend who can no longor be U9cd to advantage. We give the information ii9 we find it, and is about as true as such things gener ally ore. The Public Credit. It is a source of congratulation to every citizen of the Slate that the credit of the Stale is now in such a healthy condition, Recent quotations show our bonds to be above par, and all the doubt and uncertainty that prevailed for so many years have given away to perfect confidence in our securities. This result is attribu table, of course, to the settlement'of the debt of the State, and Una would never have been accomplished had the whole matter not been referred to the courts for adjudication. It was unfortunate for the ciedit of the Stale that there was so much delay in refer-j ring the matter to the courts, and a few more years of uncertainty, with the debt question firmly fixed in poli tics and left lo the caprice of each succediug Legislature, would have the credit of the State beyond redemp tion.?Spartanburg Herald. Judge John Rice was a very vioJ lent secessionist and in a spcaoh urg ing secession said "Why,?Yan-J kces! If they show fight wc can whip them with pop guns?" a short lime after the war Judge Rieu was; making a speech at the same cross* road where ho had made his boast ing speech before the w ar. One of the audience asked him \i he was uot the same Judge Rico that spoke there in IHOO. "I am," he replied "Weil, didn't you say, that wc could whip the Yankees with pop-guns?" "I did and we could have done it; but,??? 'cm, they wouldn't fight us that way !" The term "watered stock," origin ated, it is said, with Daniel Drew, who was a drover in his early days. T. Carpenter a leading broker in Wall street, was a son of a farmer in Put nam county, where Drew came from, and he went lo Drew one day to sell him some stock which had been put j on the market at considerably above the actual cost of the property. Drew said : "That stock makes me think of old ('armer Brooks up in 'Put* who used to salt aud water his stock to make bis cattle weigh heavy when he sold them l** Tho broker told the story in the street, and it became an adage. A Southern Opinion. The Memphis Ledger, on the pre sent status respecliong John Cbinn man in America, says; As the stream of African humanity Hows West, it is met and crossed ut St. Louis by the Chinese ndvanee guard. If the Northern philanthro pists were really animated with a sense of justice and a desire to relieve their fellow man in distress, they could Und a large field in California. ?The Chinaman may be degraded; may be a pagan, and worship u wooden or a clay god ; may cat rats, and do other heathenish things bat he is a human being, and presumably has a soul to save and a vote lo sell on election da}'. They arc r. patient, industrious people, and had a civili zation and u literature thousands of yean ago. The opposition to them in California and elsewhere is not because they arc heathens, for their persecutors make no great pretence of righteousness. The trouble is that they are too industrious and econo mical, and are willing to work cheap er than the Cncassian and African races. Hence John Chinaman is rob bed, beaten, kicked and driven out. 1 here is something wrong in all this. The Chinaman has either a right un der existing treaties to settle in this country or he has no such right. IT he is merely an intruder, with no le gal rights, he ought to be shipped to his native country?otherwise he ought to be treated as well as an African or an Indian. Two car-loads of Chinese have arrived at St. Louis and five hundred more are coining close after them. They arc mostly going to the Eastern cities, the fare having been put down to thirty-five dollars from San Francisco to New York, where they expect to find work which they can pursue undisturbed. A Word lo Husbands. Has anybody ever written upon the responsibility which rests upon a husband with regard to the educa tion of his wife? Of course we know what you will say about her being supposed to have ''finished her educa tion" before marriage, and all that; and we all know she begins an edu cation with him as new as if she had never seen au alphabet. His views, feelings and ideas are they nothing to her if she loves him? Years after,when they who her knew as a girl come to talk with her as a matron, do they uot find her husband reflected in eve rp sentence, either for good or evil? Of course the more strongly a wo man laves the more completely is her identity absorbed in that of her hus band. This is a point that is too much neglected by married men. A good husband is almost certain to have a good wife ; and if she be not as good as he eo dd wish, at the com mencement of their married life lie could educate hor up to the proper mark. And, on the other hand, he can educate her down so as to render his house a purgatory, and perhaps bring on himself und family the greatest agony and keenest disgrace! which a husband und children can! feel. An Anti-Granl Nominee. A Washington dispatch says that; lit is announced in influential quarters that if Gen. Grant is nominated at Chicago, his Republican opponents will bold a convcutiou and bring out i another candidate and run him inde pendently of tho Democrats, Gl ecu-1 backers, and everybody else. They say it would be impossible to unite their votes upon the Democratic nom inee, whoever ho may be, and, there fore, they must have an independent candidate of their own party. The uames of Wm. M. Kvarts, Geo. Win. [Curtis and Julius H. Secy Its are men I tinned in this connection. With such a candidate in the field in opposition to Graut they seem to feel confident! that the latter would certainly lose the electoral vote of New York, Con-' necticut und Ohio, and very likely! that of Maine, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. ?ki'Tis said that absence conquers love," quoted a husband, in writing homo to his wife, from whom he hud been some time away. "I hope, dear, it won't be so in your casc."j "O, no," she replied in her next let ter, "the longer you stay away the better 1 shall like yon," Ho had to[ take it thus ambiguously, as ho was afraid lo risk asking an explanation. SunscRiuB for thp. Ojqakobuuro Democrat. Tho Counly Convention. OkWC'e'?f County Ciiaiumak or tub Democratic Party ok OltANUKUUUO County. Okangujuko, S. C, March 29, 1880. By and wilh Ujc advice of tlie Coun ty Executive Committee, I, Malcolm 1. Browning, County Chairman, do hereby call a Convention of the Dem oerotic Tarty of Orangeburg County to meet on the second Saturday fii May proximo, being thv eighth day of the month, nt ten and a half o'clock A. M., for the purpose of transacting the following business then and there to lie brought before the Convention : First, to elect six delegate* to rep resent the County of Orangeburg in the State Convention to be hohlen at Columbia on the first day of June next. Second, to express the sense of tho Democratic party of this County upon the questiou of "die repeal of the two thirds* rule now of force iu National Conventions.''. Third, to express the sense of the party in this county upou the ques tion 14whether the nomination of the State ticket should be made at the June Convention or at a subsequent time. Fourth, to elect a County Kxecu tive Committee to serve for the next two years, Fifth, to elect a County Chairmau to seive for the same period. Sixth, and lo do and transact such other business as may properly lie brought before said Convention. The basis of representation in said Convention will be one delegate for every club, and an additional delegate* for every twenty-live enrolled mem bers. Fractions of twenty-five will not be entitled lo representation. Presidents of Clubs are herein di rected to call their clubs to mee*. on or before the lirst Saturday in May, the first day of the month, for the pur pose of electing delegates to the afore said County Convention, and of re-or gauizing their clubs. It is urged upon, the elubs to elect as delegates only. those who can and will attend the Conveu'-ion. At these meetings of the clubs, they will proceed to elect their officers to serve lor the next, campaign, and also each club wilh nominate a member of the County Executive Committee to be elected by the County Convention. The retiring County Chairmau hue requested our local papers to publish the Rules of the Democratic Party so that the Convention, the clubs and the people may be fully and intelli gently informed as to the method of organization. The plan being thus furnished forth, the interest aud atten tion of all are invoked to its details. The clubs will organize and elect their officers as in the said Rules is provided. Secretaries of clubs will furnish to one of their delegates, the list of officers, delegates and members of the County Executive Committee chosen at the meeting aforesaid. Let this publication of the "Party Rules" and this call for organization under them be tli3 bugle-blusl wbo?e clear and cheery notes will command attention ! Full altendauce and deep interest should characterize these primary meetings of the clubs for these are the primal steps, which, well taken, go very far towards pro moling satisfaction in the work ahead of us, and towards ussu ing harmony throughout the campaign, and sum* cessful issue out of uli its events I Malcolm I. Browsing, County Chairman. J. L. Hf.idtman, Sec. County Ex. Coin. He Made a Mistake. A few days since at a railroad sla liou while a young couple were await ing the train, the gentleman was ad monished by tho biting keen air lev protect his neck from a prospective^ cold, by adding a scart to his, wear ing apparel. He opened Ivis. truveliin/. bag, look out and arranged around, his throat what he supposed to be an,, embroidered sciufvbut was convinced of his error by lookiug into the glass after he had seen the quizzing smiles on the faces of the spectators and was completely abashed to ttud that he bad. adorned, bjoi so If wilh lue o nalcly-cloekod stockiugs of his beau tiful and. no.w deeply blushing bride, A prominent Congressman took his daughter to task the other eyen iug because she permitted her lover to slay, a while after 10 o'clock. ,cPapa," she said, "wo were only having a little extra sessionw"