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STlr? Jaunty j KiNQSTREE. S. O. C. V. WOLFE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Entered at the posloffice at Kingstree, S.C.as second class mail matter. ~ TELEPHONE NO. 83^ ; TERMS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One copy, one year . $1 25 One copy, six months 75 One copy, three months..-...-... 50 One copy, one year in advance.... 1 00 Obituaries. Tributes of Respect, Resolutions of Thanks, Cards of Thanks and all other reading notices,not News, will be charged for at the rate of one cent a word for each insertion. All changes of advertisements and all communications must be in this office before TUESDAY NOON in order'to appear in the ensuing issue. All communications must be signed by the writer, not for publication unless desired, but to protect this newspaper. ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements to be run in Special olumnpne cent a word each issue.mini* mum price 25 cents, to be paid for in advance. Legal advertisements, $1.00 per inch Ant insertion, 50 cents per inch each subsequent insertion. F.ites on long term ?avmuenwuw rery reasonable. For rates apply at ihii; office, lit* remitting checks or jnoney orders "toP^?COUNTY RECORD. *'In men whom men condemn as ill, I find so much of goodness still; In men whom men pronounce divine, I find so much of sin and blot? I hesitate to draw the line Between the two?where God has not." ~~THiURSDAY7 MAY~7. 19147" The News and Courier is to be congratulated on the complete and | excellent report of the county conventions throughout the State furnished its readers Tuesday. It covered the entire State, to use a hackneyed phrase, "like the dew." OLD-TIME JOURNALISM. A Copy of "The KIngstree Star," Dated October 23, 1872. Through the courtesy of Mr Edwin Epps we have received a copy of "The Kingstree Star," the predecessor of The County Record and the pioneer newspaper published in Williamsburg county,being founded before the war. The copy before us bears the date October 23, 1872; Volume IV, No. 19, New Series. R C Logan is the editor, who afterwards founded The County Record. There are many things of interest ?especially to a newspaper man ? about this tattered relic of by-gone journalism. The sheet is "all home print",the page the size of The Record, but with only half The Record's pj-esent number of pages?and the price is $3.00 a year. The motto'of the "Star" was: "Re steady in a noble end, and show mankind that Truth has still a friend." The paper is well "made up" and neatly printed, being singularly free from typographical errors. But one of the 1 most remarkable features apparent tc the eye of a newspaper man is the fact that there is not a single display advertisement from a Kingstree business house to be found in the paper! Advertisements there are, several columns of them, but they are all "foreign ads" or notices" of various kinds. A double column advertisement announces the 1 coming of (even then) "the Old Reliable Robinson's Museum, Aquarium, Menagerie and Circus". In the 1 editorial column, the editor speaks ' in high praise of the Robinson show ] and especially mentions the "stu- ' ^l.endous giraffe, a recent importation". i Under the head, "The Result", 1 the following interesting political * item appears: "There have been 1,870 votes polled in this county? :( 216 whites and 1,762 colored. Moses' received 1,773 and Tomlinson 80. ( The straight Radical State and ( county ticket received a number of.( votes corresponding with Moses'.;' There was no Conservative ticket." i ^ There were many more interest- ' iog points about this relic of old- J time journalism, but lack of space ;1 {irecludes-^vejr reproduction. j1 USEJuJen s foot-ease, The auifcrptic powder to be shaken into the shoes. ;. if you want ttot and comfort for tired, aching, swoi- i ien, sweating' feet, use Allen's Foot-Ease. It re- j, iieveA cornsand bunions of all pain and prevents , btister.-; ifa* and callous spots. Just tbe thing for I lipping Parties, Patent Leather Shoes, and for ' !:t x;etv Shoes. It is the greatest comfort dlEfcovrrv of the age. Try it t'-dau. Sold everywhere, ! ojc. Don't ac<^t awj ?"b*titutf. For FKEE trial ' package, address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. I BLEASESNOWE! THROUGHOl HIS OWN COUNTY T State Convention Will Be Mc DAM Arte 11 1\G(JU1U> 1J Reports received by The News and Courier from its correspondents throughout the State indicate that i the Anti-Blease forces won a sweep- ! ing victory at the county conventions held Monday. An estimate i based on these reports puts the number of Anti-Blease delegates in the State convention at 291 and the Blease delegates at 47. The reports from the different conventions show that the safeguarding of the primary will undoubtedly be a prime question at the State convention, sixteen conventions going on record as favoring more adequate safeguards against fraud. Senator Smith was elected a delegate to the State convention from Lee county. Newberry county did not give either Governor Hlease or Fred H Dominick a place in the I State convention. In the Barnwell convention Charles Carroll Simms was endorsed for Governor because he was a Barnwell man, but failed of election to the State convention, withdrawing before a second ballot could be taken.! l The Sumter convention endorsed ; the candidacy for Governor of R I! Manning and elected him State ex-. ecu tive committeeman and delegate1 to the convention. The Union convention endorsed the candidacy of Lowndes J Browning for Governor and elected him a delegate to the State convention. It also endorsed the candidacy for Congress of T C Duncan. In the Kershaw convention M L Smith and J G Richards declined to stand for office in the convention. Marlboro county did not give John L McLaurin a place in its delegation to the State convention. Senator Smith's candidacy was endorsed by the conventions of Bamberg, Orangeburg, Barnwell and Karshaw. In Laurens county a resolution to endorse the administration of Governor Blease was defeated. R A Cooper, candidate for Gov ! ernor, heads the Laurens county delegation. The Oconee convention went on record as being opposed to race track gambling in this State. The Clarendon convention adopted resolutions praising the efforts of Congressman Whaley to promote the drainage of the low country. The News and Courier's dispatch from Abbeville was not received in time for publication, but a long distance message stated, that eight Ansi-Blease delegates had been chosen. 1 No report was received for Dorchester, but a long distance telephone message last night stated | that Mr Legare Walker, of Sum- ( merville, had been elected executive } committeeman by the Anti-Blease j forces and that the delegation stood j three Anti-31ease and one for Blease. j W F Stevenson, candidate for Con- ? sress was re-elected State execu- ] tive committeeman from Chester- ( field. j j The Florence county convention ] endorsed Congressman Ragsdale. i ] In Barnwell, the convention en- t lorsed unanimouslv the candidacv ( )f Adjt Gen Moore. Resolutions } endorsing the candidacy of Attorney , General Peeples and R M Mixson ( tor Congress were passed after a hot , ight. j j Sentiment in favor of primary re- ) form is strong. In the following f counties the conventions went on ] record as favoring some plan of | safeguarding the primary from . fraud: Horry, Greenwood, Oconee, { Greenville, Aiken, Fairfield, Darling- ] ton. Williamsburg. Chester, Beaufort, Bamberg, Orangeburg, Cal- , houn, Florence, Sumter, Richland. ] DUNDER IT THE STATE. URNS AGAINST HI. ire than 6 to 1 Anti-Blease. n Detail. Varying methods of safeguarding the primary were proposed in these different conventions. The Richland convention adopted the McMahan resolution instructing the delegates to the State convention to work for the restriction of the primary to registered voters. In the Spartanburg convention a resolution instructing the delegates to oppose restriction of the primary wa3 defeated, and in the Colleton Convention the same thing occurred. The Marlboro delegation, it is understood, will work for primary reform. Resolutions opposing further restriction of the primary were passed by the conventions of Lee, Jasper, Union and Laurens counties. The Bamberg, Calhoun, Laurens, Fairfield and Clarendon conventions opposed the abolition of the countyto-county campaign. The Wilson administration was given the endorsement of a large number of the county conventions, the resolutions in many instances praising especially the President's Mexican policy and in several instances endorsing the President's * - a1 A A i? A 11 _ stand in tne matter 01 tons exemption. PROBABLE STANDING OF DELEGATES IN STATE CONVENTION. Counties? Blease. Anti-Blease. Abbeville 8 Aiken 8 Anderson 14 Bamberg 6 Barnwell 1 7 Beaufort 6 Berkeley . 1 5 Calhoun 4 Charleston 8 10 Cherokee 6 Chester. 6 Chesterfield 3 3 Clarendon 5 3 Colleton 1 5 Darlington 8 Dillon 2 4 Dorchester 1 8 Edgefield 8 Foirfiolrl fi Florence 8 Georgetown 3 3 Greenville 14 Greenwood 8 Hampton 1 3 Horry 6 Jasper.. 4 Kershaw 6 Lancaster. 1 5 Laurens 2 6 Lee 1 5 Lexington 8 Marion 6 Marlboro. 8 Newberry 8 Oconee 6 Orangeburg 12 Pickens. 2 4 Richland 12 Saluda ? 6 Spartanburg 16 Sumter 8 Union... 3 3 Williamsburg 8 York 10 Totals 47 291 WM5BURG BOY TO THE FRONT. Dr.A.B.Hemingway Chosen Asst. Professor In Atlanta College. Next to seeing the boys and young men of Williamsburg county sue ceed at home?and we need them all here?nothing gives us greater pleasure in our field of duty than to note the success of our native sons in other parts of the country. A striking example of how Williamspurg boys make their mark in the nutside world is the successful career of Mr A B Hemingway, Jr, of Rome?a product of old Williamsnurg and especially of Union High school?who several years ago electid to pursue a course in pharmacy it the Atlanta College of Pharmacy, where,by innate ability and close at;ention to his studies,he took a most ;reditable stand, being in his senior ^ear elected junior professor of ma:eria medica in the college. He was graduated March 30. this year, and nas accepted a position in the At-' anta College of Pharmacy as assistmt professor of general pharmacy,; it a lucrative salary, with excellent prospects for advancemer t. Dr Hemingway is a son of our >ld-time esteemed friend, Mr Allard B Hemingway of Rome. 0 M. I II ou'' H a year ago, | to move. 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