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.iiiiiiii?linn iwnw ??mi n ?um i n Sil KM DAN & SIMS, Proprietors. SUBSCllItVTIOK. One Year...,.SI rid Six Months.v.l.OC Ministers of the Gospel.-.~.].0C ADVKRTISUM KN TS ? First Instortion.,..SI -Ofl 'Fach Subsequent Insertion....~..f>U Litfcral contracts made tor 3 month in 1 over. JOB officjz : 18 PBEPAttED TO 1)0 ALT, KINDS OF J0T3 IPrinting Support Democratic Nominees. Iu entering upon Ibis the most im portant political campaign wc have ever had in this Stale every Democrat should regard the success of the Dem ocratic part}' paramount to every oth er consideration. Of course every one will have his preference as to who ehall be our standard-bearer, but in .urging the claims of certain men for ofllce there is no necessity for abusing ^others whose claims may be urged just as honestly by other good Democrats. It is not right for any Democrat to insist upon the nomination of his par ticular choice for any ofilec and refuse to support any other who may be nominated. Our zeal for one eandi date should not cause us to detract from, tho merits of others. Let all nominations be made fairly and squarely by a majority of the people, and when fairly nominated let the whole people rally to the support of the nominees. Any one who insists upon the nomination of his particular favorite and threatens to "kick out of the traces" unless his particular fa vorite is nominated, is not a true Democrat at heart, but a disorganizes Such a person is a traitor in disguise and should not be trusted. Such a course leads to independent candi dates, and all independents in a crisis like this should be treated as Radi cals, for they arc in reality no better than Radicals if from any cause they oppose or countenance any opposition to the regular nominees of the Demo cratic party. It is more important to the welfare of the Stale that the regular Democratic nominees should be elected, even though some of them may not be shining lights of the party, than that any independents should be elected, no matter how superior may he their talents.?Spartanburg Herald. A Man His Own Grandfather. The New York Truth says a man was recently sentenced to ten years imprisonment for having two children by his daughter. His relationship to those children and their mother will probably not interest him much the next ten years, but the Uera'd might vary its monotonous block puzzle in vestigation by a minute inquiry into this relationship. For instance, he is the father of the children, but be ing also their mother's father, he is their grandfather ; and as their father is their grandfather, it follows that their mother is their grandmother, who is consequently the mother of either their father or mother, and hence must be her father's mother if she is not her own. As it is impossi ble for a woman to be her own moth er, it follows that she is the mother of her father, who being her son is her father's grandson, and he being her father he thus becomes his own grandfather. But as lie is the grand father of his daughter's children, and also his own grandfather, they arc his great-great grand-children. To be the great-great grandfather of his own children, the son of his daughter, and his own grandson is a distinction for which ten 3-ears in the penitentia ry is a cheap purchase. The Indians. "Bright Eyes," the Ponca Indian maiden who has been traveling through the East in the interest of her persecuted peoplo, is singularly terse and forcible 111 her statements con cerning the Indian question. In a letter to Joseph Cook, which he rend during his closing Monday lecture at Boston, on the 15th inst., she says: "The fatal mistake of the government has L'on in taking care of the Indian and feeding him like a child, instead of making him take care of himself, like a man. The more you help a man the more you degrade him ; the more you make a man help himself, the more you elevate him. Experi ence is the best of teachers, and I might say the best of civilizcrs. The Indian has been denied the lesson of experience. When the government accepts the teaching of history that self-help is the only ngmey that ele vates man, and given the Indian rights accorded to every other race> the Indian problem will be solved." Av article upon the human figure says that *?the proportions of the fig ure are six times the length of the feet." Coming generations, when they shall excavate a Chicago young lady's shoe, will remark incontinent ly ; f'Tbero wore giants in those days," and mentally reconstruct a race of women ten feet tall. I A Dying Ism. Female suffrage, the only "ism" left to New England, appears for some reason or another to he pretty well abandoned even in that section. The subject came up a few dn}'s ago in two of the most advanced and Puritanical of the New England States, when its advocates received such an overwhelming defeat that.it is not very probibly they will renew the assault in a very short time. In Rhode Island it was proposed to amend the State constitution so as to allow women to vote on questions affectiong the schools but it was beaten two to one. In the Massa chusetts House of Representatives a general female suffrage bill was re jected by a vote of one hundred and thirty-seven to sixty. Nine years ago in the same body the vote on a similar proposition was a tic. This looks rather blue for the so-called friends of "progress; but, the real reasons for the defeat of the measures arc to be found in the fact that the chief parties in interest?the women themselves?have no desire to be ad mitted to the inestimable privileges of the ballot box. When they make up their minds in Massachusetts or any other Slate that they want to vote, and demand it, it is safe to say that the privileges will not be long withhold from them.?N.Y. IIer?ld. The Fish Law. "There shall be a close lime in all the ciceks streams and inland waters of tins Slate from the sotting of the sun Thursday unlil the rising of the sun on Tuesday, during which time all seines or nets or any plan or de vice for the stoppage or collecting of fish wbicii obstructs any portion of any crock, stream or inland waters, oilier than a dam for manufacturing purposes, shall be removed from said creek, streams or waters; and the owner in whole or in part of any such obstruction, plan or device dining the period aforesaid shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any Court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined in the sum of two hundred dol lors, one-half of which shall go to the informer and the other half to the ' County in which the case shall be tried, or imprisoned for a period of not less than three nor more than six months, or both, at the discretion of the Court trying the case." Approved March 2'2, 1878. Cure for Low Spirits. Take one ounce of seeds of resolu tion mixed with the oil of conscience ; infuse it into a large spoonful of salts of patience; distil very carefully a composing plant called "other woes," which you will lind in every part of the garden of life, growing under the broad leaves of disguise, add a small quantity, and it will greatly assist the salt of patienc e in their operation. Gallier a handful of tlio blossom of hope, then sweeten them properly with the balm of prudence ; and if you can get any of the seed of true friend ship, you will have the most valuable medicine that can be administered, lie crrcful to get the seeds of tine friendship, as there is a seed very much like it called self-interest, which will spoil the whole composition. Make the ingredicnls into pills and take ono night and morning, and the cure will be effected. Too Long a Campaign. We have been shown a letter from Senator M. C. Butler to a citizen of Chester in which he expresses grave apprehensions as to the propriety of the action of the State Executive Committee in calling the State Con vention to nominate a State ticket as early as the lirst of June. Senator Butler thinks that a campaign of live months will give the sore heads, or independent element, ample time to work up an organized opposition lo the regular ticket. Ihc people will become wearied and lose enthusiasm in so long a campaign. Besides these disadvantages a long campaign will he most disastrous to the agricultural iulerosls of the State. The Senator thinks that the campaign should not bo longer than six weeks or two months.? Chester Reporter, TilK female country postmaster is severally and individually rgitatcd. A bill has been introduced in Con gress to provide for postal cards with llexiblo flaps that will conceal tho messages written upon them. A Strange Dream. A young lady up North had a lover whom she agreed to marry, but she subsequently refused to do so. He came South and died. Ilcr dream she thus described : "She stood at night upon an eminence overlooking a rushing, icy stream. Dark clouds obscured the moon, and the air was damp and chilly. Soon she decried in the semi-darkness a boat, with a single occupant, floating with terrific rapidity toward an immense cataract. The man's face she could not see; but he was gesticulating wildly, as if imploring succor from the fale that impended him. On, on went the boat; faster and faster grew its speed; wilder and more despairingly still were the gestures of the unhappy man ; until just as the frail bark was about to go over the brink of the awful cataract into the seething wa ters below, the occupant turned, and she recognized the face of her lover, while a voice rang out from the clouds: 'Another 6oul lost, lost?and charged to you!'" The young lady became crazy, shot her father and then shot herself. This is true, and of recent occurrence. The lady was Miss llovcy, and the lover Eugene Keanes, both of Lyons, N. Y. Was there ever a stoiy more tragical. Honesty vs. Policy, During religious services in the jail at Carson, Nevada, and after a cler gyman had addressed the prisoners on the text "Honesty the best poli cy," a thief named Jones asked if he could make a few remarks. Permis sion being given, be said : "The ex pression that 4honesty is the best, policy* was first thrown o t on a thieving world by Ben Franklin, an old humbug. I don't agree with lien Franklin that honesty should be a policy dodge If a man is honest, he ' is honest anyhow ; and if be just sim ply keeps correct from policy he is a bad egg at heart, and only waiting to get the confidence of the eorrmunity and rob them out of thousands. A man who is honest from policy would not be if he had the nerve and the chance. We fellows in here had too much nerve, and we're loo candid to conceal our real character." A Question of Sex, Not Hat. An usher in the North IJaplist Church, in Christopher slrecl, caused a sensation last Sunday evening. As the pastor, the Rev. J. J. lirouner, entered the pulpit, he was shocked by a sudden outburst of mirth in the choir gallery. Two young persons, wearing ulsters and Derby bats, bad been shown lo seats. The usher was surprised when only one of them re moved his hat. He waited some time for the offending head covering to be removed, and then reached over the back of a pew and removed it himself. Immediately he discovered, as did many olher persons that the wearer was a young lady and therefore enti tled to wear a hat in church. Above the noise of the organist's voluntary rose that of the involuntnr}' mirth of many of Use congregation.?Sun.. That Bank. The United States Senate commit tee which bus been investigating the affairs of the Freedmen's bank has completed its report, which is a StraigtitforWurd recital of the shame ful facts in this well-known case. During the last four years 8335,994 bus been expended in winding up the atfairs, of this bank, more than SnO, DOO of it having been paid as salaries lo the commissioners. ?70,000 to agents, and 831,000 as attorneys' lees. These expenses the committee considers to have been unnecessarily large?we should say so !?and re-1 commends placing the bank in the hands of a single person, with such power conferred upon him and such restrictions as will lead to the ear liest practicable settlement of the business of the institution. They are All Beautiful. It is astonishing to note the num ber of beautiful women who are mar ried noW'ft-doys. The plain girls seem Lo have taken 10 the woods, or have been left in the background altogeth er. Yet when the critical observer goes on the street or in society, he finds that there are many married la lies who arc positively homely. As some of these have been wedded with in the last year or two, the question arises whether or not tho fellow who wrote up the weddings didn't Mulhat lanizo a little. The Outlook. The indications nre that the negroes in South Carolina will run a full tick et against any ticket that may be put in the field by the Democratic party of the State. We notice from our exchanges thnt the negroes In various counties are showing signs of activity in their opposition to the whites. In Abbeville county a few of the dusky political leaders,seem determined to renew the race issue with all the force the}' can bring to bear, but they re ceive very little (sympathy from the move sober and reflecting masses whose uttentioirat present seems to he directed mainly to agriculture and the production of the great staple. Any man or set of men who would disturb them in their peaceful and profitable pursuits deserves to be whipped through the land with a cat o'-nine-tails. The people of this country have no idea of allowing the negroes to take charge of our politi cal affairs, and the sooner they and their leaders understand this fact, the better for all parties. Under no cir cumstances arc wc going to dec* corn-field negroes, or their dir y white allies, to fill the public ollices of this county, and wc hope that they may I not attempt to disturb the peace and | quiet of this county in an effort which will be as fulile^as it will be disas trous to the best interests of the pub lic welfare. Ij no country in the world is the white man governed by the negro, and wc are sure a prece dent will not be furnished by Abbe ville county.?Press & Banner. Opposition to a Third Term. The growing opposition to a third term is developing much strength with the Republicans in nil sections of the North, and Grant's pros pects are correspondingly ? waning. Sherman has expressed a willing ness to accept the nomination if Ohio goes for him with unanimity. In fact he may be considered as real ly on the anxious^ bench. Blainc is still prominent, but it appears to us that Washburnc has the inside track with prospects of winning. The New York Tribune, the King Radical pa per of the North is strong against Grant, and charges him with the dis integration of the Republican party in the South, and thinks lie would smash the wdiole machine if he were allowed to run it for another term. The Now York Herald and th?. Sun each express strong opposition to him in nearly every issue of these papers.1 It now seems pretty certain that Grant will be defeated. The Campaign. The State campaign is moving on very quietly. The press seems to be amusing itself in making nomina tions. This is harmless pastime, and will get up no sharp discussions. Wo never saw the prc^s of the State in a better humor on the eve of a cam j pa gn. No now names nave been j mentioned for the govcrnorsh p. Ila good und Gary occupy the same posi I lion in the race, which they did a month ago. It is now generally be lieved that the State o?lccrs will not be nominated in June. All that the Democrats need to insure success is harmony and united voting from Ooonec to Horry. This wc must have no odds wint i' may cost individuals; ?Spartan. Neck Dislocated. Jim Duncan, who lives on tho Kil kenny farm, three miles from Barn well, fell from a wagon last week, and dislocated his neck. Dr. Patter son was sent for and found a protru sion down the neCK, and the man suf fering from something like paralysis of the arms. By sudden pressure the neck was reset, and the man thought to be all right, though he has taken up a notion that ho is going to die, and has all the colored folk's on the place singing hymns and praying lor him.?Sentinel. Who Owns the Manure. The recent decision rcndeied by Judge Hudson as to the righ'ful own ership of manure accumulated on n rented farm does not give satisfac tion. The opinion prevails that it will have the effect of impoverishing rented lands in our Stale, for no ten ant will go to the trouble of saving and collecting manure, it' he is not to be compensated for his trouble. The decision that it belongs to the owner of tho land will be carried to the Su preme Court of the State for reversal. ?Kd'j'Jhid Advertiser. Our Maimed Soldiers. Columbia, April 1.?The follow ing preamble and resolution were adopted at the meeting of tho board to contract for artificial limbs for maimed confederate soldiers: "Whereas, by its terms the money to carry into effect the net to provide artificial limbs fur soldiers of the State, approved December 24, 1879, cannot be paid out from the treasury until all the other appropriations of that session have been met by incom ing taxes yet the board deem it prop er nt once to fake the preliminary steps necessary lo its execution. "Resolved, That a circular be issu led notifying pnrlics claiming to be entitled to the benefit of the act to send their names and post olllee ad-1 dress to the secretary at Columbia | on or before July 1st, 1880, to the1 end that estimates may he made by the commission and suitable j blanks sent to applicants." County treasurers will be furnished with cop es of the circular, and they are requested to post the same in each township of the State at the places of collection of taxes during the month of May next. Tbc address is signed by Gov. Simpson, chairman, Gen. Hagood, and Dr. Baruch, chairman of the State Board of Health. Will You Do It. The Barnwe 1 People respcctfdly ' asks Mr. Charles II. Moise to rcpub j lish his testimony before the Teller Commiltee for the benefit of all for getful Democrats, and then goes on to say that "Mr. Moise is a self nominated candidate for Comptroller General at the next election ; he j throws dirt at General Hagood with out provocation?magnifies his own 'patriotism a d offers to take that po j sition if a parsimonious people will I give it to the lowest bidder. Cheap servants are generally dear, and of fice hunters are as a class as worth less as strolling n*gan grinders or ; drunken spectacle peddlers. If Mr. Moise will only tarry in appropriate seclusion at Sumter for at ieast a j half century some political convul sion may give him that notoriety j which he craves -but he can't, whit ? I wash himself into distincion by his present Cheap J hn taetics." Announcement. The editor of this paper announces himself as a candidate for any office 'in the Slate or County, from Gover ! nor down to County Commissioner, which is likely to become vacant for want of an applicant. If our Repub lican form of government should prove a failure at last, it shall not be jcharged to our refusal to servo our country in an emergency such as we have hinted nt. Indeed the fies of potriotism are burning so strongly in our bosom that wc believe the great er the responsibility the more willing we would be to makethc sacrifice. Notices of such vacancy by postal or otherwise will be promptly consid ered.?Monitor. The Hiil-Raymond Scandal. The ease of Jessie Raymond came up in the Circuit Court at Washing ton last WvCk upon a motion by Sen ator Hill's counsel that the case he stricken from the docket, on the ground that the suit was instituted by the plaiuMil's attorney without the plaintiff's consent and against her protest. The court took the papers. Later in the day Mrs. Lockwood ap peered with Miss Raymond, and the latter in open court swore to an affi davit that she had authorized its prosecution, und that her claim for damages was a just and true one. The court took the motion of Senator Hill's counsel under advisement. Akotiiek of those "trilling acci dents" which make travel by the New York elevated roads interesting, if not secure, occurred on Monday, when two trains collided at a down town station and scattered their bro ken iron and timber on the street, bclo.v. As the only person injured was a youth who was passing under the tracks at the time, and had his skull fractured by a stray p:eco of iron, the railway company may still boast of tho immunity which its passengers enjoy from danger. Had the youth in question taken the cars instead of recklessly walking on the sticets below he would have escaped unhurt. The moral is very evident, but rather rough on pedestriauo who can't afford to ride. A Singular Will. The Rev. Mr. Parry, a clergyman near Worehcster, Mass., recently deceased, has left a will bequeathing to his Christian friends hia unspeaka ble and everlasting love, to his ene mies his forgivness, and his books to a parish er. H is sermons, letters and manuscripts arc to be burned unread; his death is not to be announced in a newspaper ; his poorest clothing is to be nailed up in a box of unplancd boards ; at his funeral no one is to look at his body; there must be no flowers, no clergyman, no strangers, no service except the reading of two Psalms by "Deacon Bow leer ;" he is to he taken in an ex press wagon to a grave in any lot one of his parishioners will s?ive him, but there must be no head-stone or any 'sign to mark his place of burial, as his, "Lord and God will need no re minder of the place where his dust reposes." His wife, from whom he sometime before seperated, is,forbid den attending his funeral. She bus asked that the will be not admitted to probate. m John Sherman. This gentleman has undertaken to account for the opposition of the Chi cago Tribune to his candidacy by showing that it is because of his refusul to allow Mr. Modill, the editor of the Tribune, to bulldoze him into chang ing Ids financial policy in the winter of 1878. Mr. Medill proves from Sherman's records and the files ol the Tribune that at the very time named the two were in entire accoril both op posing the repeal of the resumption and both favoring the remonetizalion of silver, as one of them, the Tribune does yet. This seems to dispose of Sherman, but what could the Tribune expect of the man who solcmly as sured the country of the good charac ter of the scoundrels in the Louisiana Returning Board? The Negro. Of the social life of the Southern negroes, the New Orleans Picayune says: "There is not a more social race under the heavens than negroes. They have much more social enjoy ment than the while people do. They naturally elaborate social enjoyment out of all kinds of gatherings?even funerals, baptisms, and religious meet ings, as well as balls, picnics, railroad excursions, parlies, politics, etc. They do not desire to mingle socially with Ihe white people. They are as par'.ial to their color as crows and blackbirds are. They don't even want white preachers to preach to them?even a Radical preacher, only in exceptional cases." J. H. Runkle. No doubt many of our readers re member one J. Ii. Runkle, one of the great lights of radicalism when that I patty held high carnival in th:s Stale. He was elected Solicitor in the Fifth Circuit and lived in Columbia, where he committed suicide in 1877 by shooting lrmsclf. Not long since n person visited 'his town soliciting subscribers to a book purporting lo give the lives and villianous acts of a number of Western desperadoes, and among the list of its hctocs is the name of ''J. H. Runkle, who killed himself in Columbia, S. C, in i?77." And of such was the Radical p:*rty composed in South Carolina.? Union Times. A 8old Move. The Town Council of Barnvrell, sa)s the Yeoman, tired of writing for legislative enactments on the subject, have taken the bull by the horns, carried the war into Africa, and bearded the lion in his den, by pass ing an ordinance prohibiting the car* rying of couccnhnl deadly weapons within the corporate liyiits of that town. Now if Kdgclield will follow suit, peace would reign in Warsaw, and the millennium might he hoped for at no distant day. Truly the wothlj move, and this time, in the right di rection. Tun Republican parly which makes the brazen claim that it monopolizes all the honesty, patriotism and piety in the country, is confronted again by the wreck of tho Freed men's Bank. After sie -ding nearly nil the money of the "poor black man," the benevolent Republicans who under took to "setlle" the affairs of the con cern have scooped about $400,000 in salaries and "incidental expenses."? Sav. News. Desecrating the Temple. ?*J. B." in the Associate Jtejormed Presbyterian of last week, among oth er tilings comments on the vulgar practice of chewing tobacco in chinch. Wo regard it as positively impolite to chew and spit tobacco on the floor, of any building in the presence of la dies, and a hundred fold more so, when In a house dedicated for relig ious worship. "J. 13." says: The floor of the church bespattered with tobacco juice, very much to the inconvenience and displeasure of the ladies whose dresses are soiled thcrer with. To our tobacco chewing friends we would say, have you no heurths nor floors ut home upon which you can discharge the superabundant sali va, is there no open space out in your yards, or on the highway, or in the open field, where you can relieve youi selves of the constantly accumulating liquid that yon must serve the carpets and floor of the Sanctuary in this way ? If it were put to a vote whether gentlemen should be indulged witli the privilege of chewing tobacco in the church and discharging the liquid of their mouths on the floor where they sit, the negative would prevail with an overwhelming majority. The women all over the country, would, with one voice, say no, no, the non chewing gentry would cf coarse say the same thing?while many who* in dulge in the weed would vote the same way. A Brave Girl. The Coving ton Star says that a certain young lady not a thousand miles from that place utilized her. leap-year privileges and "popped .the queslien" to her sweetheart a few weeks ago und was accepted provided the old folks were willing. They ob jected however, when the girl with commendable gallantry, stole the young man away, eloped with him to the resilience of the village parson hard by, where they were "spliced" in the holy bonds of wedlock in the neatest possible manner. Now girls, here is an example in leap year privi leges which is at le:.si worthy of con sideration Next. How it Stood. At the National Democratic Con vention, held four jears ago at St. Louis, there were seven candidates. Tilden received 403 1-2 votes on tho first ballot; it required 492 to nomi nate. On the second ballot, Tilden received 508 votes, and was declared the nominee. Of the other candidates, Hancock received 95 votes on the first ballot, and GO on the last. Bay ard had 38 votes on first ballot, but declined to 11 on the second. Time woiks wonderful changes and occa sion illy it reverses figures. While the lump holds out to burn we suppose the most stalwart sinner may return. The Bangor Wh g is already inside the lines, having just declared this is u constitutional gov ernment ; that the constitution has in itself all the strength required to pro tect nud maintain our institutions ; that the contest for the Presidency is a civic one, and that we are now pre paring for an appeal to the ballot-box - and not lo civil war. But it is sad to rcllect thai the Whig is only dealing out this soothing syrup to the In'itd term gudgeons in the interest of Blaiue, and that in reality it lias as linle regard for the constitution as it has lor the average Maine mining stock, provided the constitution inter feres with a pet scheme of ihc Radi cal leaders.?Boston Post {Dem.) In some places rats have become a great pest in farm houses and barns. Copperas is the dread of* rals. In every crevice or every hole where u rat treads scatter the grains of co|?- . perns, und the result is a stampede of rats and mice. Kvcry Spring a coat of yellow wash to the cellar* is a purifier as well as a rat extermina tor. To make a yellow wash add 1 pound copperas to each half bushel of lime. Chickens are strengthened . and cured of cholera, by dissolving a small piece of copcras in their drinking water. > The National Republican League of Philadelphia has issued an address against Grant which concludes as follows: "In view of the peril which ihreutcns the nation, it becomes im perative on all patriotic Republicans lo declare Unequivocally that, if driven to the alternative, they will, even prefer a third candidate lo a thiid term." What a pity liiere are no names signed to that I