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The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-01-20

ter Secretary.
Notice-F. Elder.
Hams aud Molasscs.-Beaty Bro.
4 Son.
+ Farmers Md Planters prepare
for Plowing.-J. NJ. Galloway.
1Iths-R. J. McCar1cy.
Notioo-J. Il. Gilbert.
Report Of tho Winnsboro National
Bauk.
About one-third Of tho taxes Eof
the County have been paid in.
School trustees are exempted by
law from militia duty, road duty and
Tho poll tax.
Soar Krout, Swiss Cheese and
Holland Herring for sale at tho Morn
Ing Star Saloon.
The Legislature re-assembled on
Tuesday. We presume it will be in
session till the frat of March, if not
longer.
w. We are strongly considering
the ptopriety of closiug up our local
department as long as this wretchod
weather continues.
Mr.. q. W. Crawford 10 erecting a
Sommodiuus stable on Judge Ncips
lot in rear Of the Court iIousc.
Verify, Winnsboro is improving.
We call particular attention to tho
important notice to School Trustees,
in another column. Trustees and
Teachers will do well to cut this out
aud keep for future reference,
1t is.said that there arc $4,000
miles of sp OTIS on tho SUMS surface.
This is probably the reason Why the
streets 1ont dry fas'er.
The great Southern Aggregation
Circus Company came to all end
few days since at Charlotte. The
property Of the Concern was attuched
ut tho suit of QUO Of tho employees.
There will scarcely be another ex.
tension of time for paying tuxes, and
only one third have been paid in.
There Will be great rush during
the last week, and parties wishing
to avoid this hud better settle at
once.
EF' Auditor Peaks has Received
notice from the Comptroller-Go ouersl
that the penalty for non payment Of
taxes will not attach until tho lot
Of February. After this there will
be no further extension Of time for
payn-eut.
The house Commlttce has report.
cd uufavorably on the bill introduce
ed by Curtis of kiohla lapd, retaining
the sta.s appropriation for schools
in the resrsotiyc countics,, Instead
Of send!ngr It us at preaent to colum.
bia, on the grvuud that it is uncbn.
'''''''''"'' - =. =
A aalboat belonging to tsdd Bros
wos wrecked last week on Wateree
River lind largo cargo Of. Cotton
flonted down stream. At last 90
counts, all but few bales had bee,
recovered. The accident occurred
from missing the Chanel.
Mr.. L. W. OLIVER, X. r. Agent a
Kidgeway, informs US Tint from thu
1st Sspten Der to the 25th Decem
her, 2,oaB bales of cotton were sen
from ltiageway. 'Of'thesc l3 bale
came to, Winnsbbro, aud 80 wer'
shipped TO Columbia by the .wago'
line, Last year, during tie who'll
reason 5000 bales veto shipped frou
that'placs.1. ",. - s.; l..
,At a, regular me citing Of Blackstoc1
hodge, No. lso, A. F. NJ. Held Dec
9th, la74, th . following officers wer.
elected to serve for the ensuing year
W. i. J Ihompaon, W. NJ. j, II
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-01-20

\ I Winnaboro. .in slhs State Of South
"a. C"rolinn, Mt the close vt business
Dccvmter 3lsLl8Tk.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-01-20

SoIr Krout, Swiss Cheese and
Holland Herring for sale at tho Morn
Ing Star Saloon. i
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-01-20

The Legislature re-assemb bled on
Tuesday. We presume it will be in
sessieu till the frat of March, if not
longer:
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-01-20

are impcr atively ordered not 70 issue pay
certificates to teachers in e1ce,s Of the
above stated estimates for. their respec
tive disericts@ Ehey snre ats6 requested
to keep all the schools in their Reflective
districts open an equal duration Of time.
=; w. J. CRAWFORD.
r. MEANS DAVIS.
jan l9-xltl T. r.. ROBERTSON.
County Board Of Examiners.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-01-20

A a"sboat belonging to tsdd Bros.
wns wrecked last week on Wateree
River lind a large cargo Of, Cotton
flonted down stream. , At last ao-
counts, all but few bales had been
recovered. The accident occurred
flom missing the Chanel.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-01-20

pho County Treasurer has thus far
turned over to the County Commis-
s1oners about $4,000 of tho special
Deficiency appropriation and double
that amount Of ordinary tax. =. The
latter is to be applied to claims con.
tracted since November 1874. There
has been rush maIo on the COM
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-01-20

,'At a,repular meeting of Ylaokstoct
Hodge, No. ls0, A. F. NJ. Hell d Dec.
9th, lH74, tho following officers were
elected to serve for the ensuing year :
W. i. K hpmpson, W. NJ. j. T..
Craig, s. w.; r. 7. M"ckbce, J.
"; a. &. Craig, Treasurer; &. l..
Hsnnedy, Sec..i W. W. Curnwell,
s. D. :; s. l., Mckoovp, J. D. j.. 8.
Douglass, j. r. Graf s, Stewards +.
d. Mobley, Tyler.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-01-20

OFF FOR NKw YoRx.-Mr. Il. L..
Dannouberg the senior of tho ontet
Prlsieg firm of Dan ,ohberg e. Co.,,
iett On Wednesday, for New York,
to which place he goes to purchase
full stock of Spring Goods. The
stock now 0n band will be sold at
cost, and "a there are yet in it
many desirable articles, purchasers
viii do we'll to pay this houso
call. They mean business.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29

The decision of Vice. Chancellor
Malins on the application to wind up
the Emma Silver Mining Company has
been rendered in England. The Vice
Chancellor said there could be no doubt
that the directors had been abominably
cheated and imposed upon by people
from the other side of the Atlantic, and
his own individual opinion was that in
such cases the better plan was to con-
slider the money as gone, and to wind
up the company; but the Act of Par
lament enabled him, if he thought it
expedient, to direct that meeting
should DO held for the purpose of as
pertaining the wishes of the contribu-
tors. The majority opposed to the
petition was as great, and the minority
in it's favor as small, as he had ever
known in case where there was any
difference of opinion; and he therefore
came to the conclusion that on the
whole he would not be doing right If he
ignored the wishes of the majority. He
therefore directed that the petition
should stand over till next term, in
order that meeting might be called to
enable the shareholders to express
their deliberate opinions. That meet
ing will be presided over by gentle
man appointed by the Court, and not
by any of the present directors.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29

THERE was a double service in
Methodist church at Nottingham,
Manitoba, on recent Sunday. A
quarrel had divided the congregation,
and each party claimed to be dominant.
Each had called new minister, and
the two clergymen were on hand to
begin their labors. The first to arrive
took possession of the pulpit, and the
other sat behind the chancel rail. The
man in the pulpit gave out hymn,
the other man gave out another, and
both were SING confusedly by the rival
sections of the assembly. Then the
man behind the railing started off on
his sermon, and the other began to
read a chapter of scripture. When
the reading was over. and it was plain
that the preaching was going to last
much longer. the partisans of the
reader sang another hymn with loud
organ accompaniment. The musical
noise drowned the voice of the clergy
man in the pulpit, but when it was
over he was found to be preaching
right along. as though nothing unusual
had happened. The clergyman in the
chancel. less. cool, was unable to fix
his thoughts on discourse, and so
remained silent and beaten. At the
close of this extraordinary scene
deacon explained that it bad been en-
acted " under legal advice, and to fur
Their the cause of Christ"
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29
r Ell Z c r APP HIC.
EASTERN DISPATCHES
ESPECIAL TO THE SILVER STATED
New York, April %.

New YORK, April %.
The annual meeting of the Directors
of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Company was held to-day at the Com
pany's office in this city. The report
of the President was submitted, and
proved to be very satisfactory. 1t shows
the company has now total OF 28,477
miles of wire, with 1885 offices; 73O
miles of wire has been put up during
the last month. The capital stock is
S4,57s,OO The company has now
5000, 600 available for extending lines
and acknowledgment.
OMAHA, April %.
The party of sixteen miners taken out
of the Black Hills by the military will
arrive here tonight on a special train.
The delegation of Indian chiefs on their
way to Washington are hourly expected
at Cheyenne. They will be taken
charge of by General Savele, who will
take them East. They are reported to
express strong feeling for their in
terests in the Black Hills. 1t is re-
ported that the Government contem-
plates the erection of military post at
Harney's Peak in case the country is
thrown open to settlers.
The Union Pacific is again repaired.
Trains crossed the break at noon to-
day, and the company announce they
are again ready for business.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29
SPECIMEN COLLECTORS.

BY an Act of the last Legislature
$4,000 of State funds was approprla-
ted for the collection and exhibition OF
specimens of the ores and minerals OF
Nevada at the Centennial. The ex-
penditure of the appropriation, by the
provisions of the Act, was left to the
Executive Committee of the State
Board of Centennial Managers. The
members of this Board receive no CON-
pensation for their services, conse-
quently but few meetings are held, and
a quorum is seldom present at the
meetings. As the time for action had
arrived, and no person had been Sc
lected by the Board to carry out the
objects for which the appropriation
was made, the President of the Board
assumed the responsibility of naming
one, subject to the approval of the
Board. The person selected was w. r.
Stewart, than whom no person in the
State is better qualified. Stewart at
once entered upon the duties assigned
him, and some time since visited the
mining camps situated along the rail-
road in Humboldt and Lander counties.
Some doubt was expressed as to his
authority by Republican journals, but
none as to his qualifications. Last
week meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Board was
held at Carson, all the members pres
ent being Republicans. 1t appears
that the appointment of Stewart to rep
resent. the State in the collection and
exhibition of specimens did not meet
the approval of a majority OF the Com
mittee, because of his political princi-
pies. It would not do to give per-
son entertaining political ideas differ
ent from the Board, control of the COL
lection, even though his qualifications
and fitness for the position were
acknowledged to be superior to all
others who aspired to the place. The
Board therefore appointed its Secre-
tary, H. r. Whi.ehill. chief and W. F.
Stewart assistant collector of specimens
in Nevada. Stewart is now in Lander
county collecting samples of the ores of
that county for the exhibition, and
though he will probably be expected to
do all the work as assistant, the credit
of course will belong to the principal.
SO much for politics where politics do
not belong. and should not figure In
any respect whatever.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29

THE Pasha of Egypt has offered to
the Hon. George H. Batcheller. OF Sar-
atoga, the Office of Judge in an Egyp-
tan Court, to be composed of repre-
sentatives of the principal civilized ma
tons. He has accepted the place, and
will leave for Cairo about the middle OF
Nav next. Mr.. Batcheller has gained
an enviable reputation in the Legish-
ture of New York, and no doubt 1t Will
be increased during his period OF SER
vice in Egypt.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29

THE great scandal figures pro"in
entlv in trades and fashions IN Tue
East. A correspondent writes ina. 'no
patentee of a collar calls it the Iii'on
Favorite. +" another fellow sells " E'iza-
beth Rrff,es." another Bessie's Neck
tie" A prominent restauranteur on
Park Row hangs out his prize Goa anu
salmon with the labels Theodore III
ton" and Henry Ward Beecher; an
other small place on Ann street plac"roS
;ts front with .Tilton Stews, "Beecher
pot-pies." and Morse Dumplings. "
Tban we have Moulton Hats,
"Bowen Bitters, and " Halliday
Cough Drops" The bar rooms and
restaurants are posted with cartoons
and the street corners crowded with
urchins selling ballads on the scandal.
The divorce courts also feel the erect
of it, and prominent clerk OF one Oh
the courts assures me that since the
publication of it, applications ior oi-
vorce have increased fifty-fold.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29

PHILOSOPHER Pickett. who WAS sent
to Jail some eight months since by the
Supreme Court of California for con-
tempt, was released from custody last
Thursday. He says he intends to sue
the Judges and officers of the Court for
damages for false imprisonment.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29
WESTERN DISPATCHES
ESPECIAL TO THE SILVER STATED
FROM CALIFORNIA.

YREKA, April %.
Crops in Shasta Valley are suffering
for want of rain, and large portion
will prove total loss. In many in
stances the farmers are turning stock
into the grain fields to feed, the crop
being useless for any other purpose.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29

MACKEy, the State Treasurer of Penn
sylvania, has made affidavit that the
State 10 practically bankrupt, there
having been bat one dollar and seventy
six cents of available cash in the Treas
urv ON the 31st of March.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29

TEE murderer Sharkey's case is
still in allegiance at Havana. Want of
an extradition treaty with Spain is the
principal obstacle to his being re-
turned TO New York.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29
r O r ElC N N z w s

LONDON, April %.
The Marquis of Tavistock, Liberal,
was elected to Parliament from Bed
fordshire without opposition.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29

MrNsRs' MEETING. A meeting of
mine owners in Winnemucca District
will be held at Tollman & Ivory's
saloon next Saturday evening for the
purpose of amending the mining laws
of the district and electing Recorder.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29

JACK WAY has been arrested in Eu-
reka for chewing mans thumb to
such an extent as to render amputation
necessary.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29

TEE friends of ex. Senator Carpenter,
Of Wisconsin, have nominated him for
Attorney General, to succeed Williams.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29

AT the Centennial celebration OF the
battle of Lexington, President Grant
in response to three hurrahs, lifted his
hat and delivered speech. 1t was not
very long or very much to the point,
but it was a speech nevertheless and
to show the oratorical and eloquent
powers of the President we puoiish IL
in full. 1t was delivered in low tone
and unheard by all but those who stood
nearest the great man, and was IN the
following words, 1--WE won't stay here
long, will we?" Who after this Will
dare 70 insipuate that Grant Is not
great speaker.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29

A SPLESDID WAGoS.-A splendid
looking light wagon, built at Petaluma,
California, has arrived at the depot for
I. Button.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-29
MARI

on the 2sth of April, at the Winnemucea
Hotel, by the Rev. G.. Il. Hinkle, John stan
field, of Golconda, to Miss Ella Brown, OF
oregon.
NEW TODAY.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20
A Petrifed Forest.

About midway between two summer
resorts in California, Mark West
Springs, SOnoma county, aud Oolistoga
Springs, Napa county, is to be found
one of the uniqaest curiosities of this
wonderful land. It is the celebrated
petrifed forest, situated in the heart of
a wild and mountainous region. At a
distance it appears like a mass of fallen
trees, and on approaching clos ly broken
sections of prostrate pines with their
stumps standing an stu look as if a
wind storm had swept through the for
est, snapped their stems, and thrown
them to the ground. Examining one of
the stumps, the circles indicating the
annual growth may be plainly counted,
ami the exact age of the tree deter
mined. Passing on to a fallen trunk,
every Knot and fssUre in the bark is as
clearly visible as though the woodlands S
ak had felled the tree but yesterday,
while around, thickly strewing the
ground, lie fragments, chips and broken
pieces of wood, evidently the work of
a wood-cutter. But all are turned to
solid stone stems, stumps, sivers, and
sticks, all ring, when struck, with a
metallic sound, and are simply silicified
rock.
The largest of these trees that has yet
been measured is eleven feet in diam.
eter. Occasionally a trunk has been
split into lengths of from three to seven
feet, but the cracks separating the Sec
tions are so slight that unless closely
examined they would avoid discovery.
The general color of the petrifactions is
a grayish white, but there is a single
exception in tree that has the appear
ance and qualities of stone coal. The
proprietor of the forest declares that it
burns as well as the best variety of coal
The iDclosure where these curiosities
lie is cleared of underbrush, but con-
tains many living specimens of oak,
pine, manzauita, madrona, and other
trees peculiar to the vicinity.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20
A Dogs Remorse.

The following interesting letter is
published In the London Spectator
Being accustomed to walk out be-
fore breakfast with two sky terriers, it
was my custom to wash their feet IN
tub, kept for the purpose in the garden,
whenever the weather was wet. One
morning, when I took up the dog to
carry him to the tub, he bit me 60
severely that was obliged to let him
go. No sooner was the dog at liberty
than he ran down to the kitchen and
hid himself. For three days he refused
food, declined to go out with any of the
family, and appeared very detected,
with a distressed and unusual express
sion of countenance.
"On the third morning, however, upon
returning with the other dog, 1 found
him sitting by the tub, and upon COM
ing toward him he Immediately jumped
into it and sat down in the water. At
| ter pretending to wash his legs, he
| jumped out as happy as possible, and
| from that moment recovered his usual
spirits.
''Ihere appears in this instance to
have been a clear process of reAsonong,
accompanied by acute feeling, going on
ID the dogs mind from the moment he
| bit him until he hit upon a plan of
| showing his regret and making repara-
| ton for his fault. It evidently occurred
to him that I attached great Importance
| TO this foot bath, and If he could con-
vince me that his contrition was sincere,
and that he was willing to submit to
| the process without a murmur, should
| be satisfied. The dog in this case
reasoned with perfect accuracy, and
! from his own premises deducted 8
legitimate conclusion which the result
! justified"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20
THE TWO ANGELS.


God called the nearest angels who dwell with him
The tsndeFest one was Pity, the dearest one was
Love.
81 Arise, - he said, " 1ny angels wall of woe and
sin
Steals through the gates of heaven, and saddens all
within.
Z" Ny harps take up the mournful strain that from
lost world swells;
The smoke Of torment clouds the light and bliRhts
the asphOdels.
" Fly downward to that under world, and on its
Let Love drop smiles of sunshine, and Pity tears
like rain"
Two faces bowed before the throne, yelled in their
golden hair;
Four white wings lessened swiftly down the dark
abyss Of air.
The way was strange, the flight was long; at last
the angels came
Where swung the lost and neither world, red
wrapped in rayless flame.
There Pity, shuddeIing wept; but Love, with faith
too strong for fear,
Took heart from Gods a'mightinsss and smiled
smile Of cheer.
And 10! that tear of Pity quenched the flame whereOr
And, with the sunshine of that smile, hope entered
into hell!
Two unveiled faces full Of joy looked upward to the
Four white Wings folded at the feet of Him who sa
thereon!
And deeper than the sound of seas, more soft thar
falling fake,
Amidst the hush Of wing and song the Voice Eterns
spake:
'' Welcome, my angels ye have brought a hOliei
Hencefor,h its sweetest song shall be the song o
sin forgiven :"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20
The Channel Tunnel.

The Channel tunnel, if 1t becomes an
accomplished fact, Will test very severe
" the abilities of the ''ventilaticg"
architects and engineers. The Engi-
Beer, after celebrating curious statis-
tics on the subject, arrives at the con-
olusion that, having regard to the num-
Der of trains sent through daily, it win
be necessary, if ordinary locomotives
are used, to renew the air in tho tunnel
entirely every hour and, as the tunnel
viii De twenty miles long, and all the
air must be withdrawn from one end oI
the other, a current of air must be pass
ed through at the rate Of twenty miles
an hour. These results are, of course,
on the supposition that the air would
be rendered Irrespirable by the coke
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20
Ramapad Men.

You can see any day in the streets of
any city, men who look damaged. Men,
too. of good original material, who
started out In life with generous aspira-
tions. Once it was said that they were
bright, promising lads once they look
ed happily into the faces of mothers,
whose daily breath was q prayer for
their purity and peace. All what II
some of them have vowed their souls
away TO confiding wives, who silently
wonder what can be the meaning Of this
change-the cold, slow-sleeping shadow
that is corning over the house and
heart. Going to the bad The spell
of evil companionship the Willingness
TO hold and see money not honestly
gained the stealthy, seductive, plausl-
bic advance of the appetite for strong
| drink the treacherous faciDatlon OF
/ the gambling table the gradual loss
/ of interest in business and IL doings
which build a man mp the rapid weak
ening Of all noble purposes the decay
/ of man2iness the recklessness aud
1 bIaspbeluv against fate the sullen de-
/ spair of ever breaking the chains OF
/ evil habit what victories Of shame and
contenpt. what harvests of hell have
/ crown from such seed as this. Sheer,
| II Won will, like a fool, at the sugges
ton of reform, II oIals, religion; every
/ man knows IN his better moods-tha'
all there is of true life is personal vir
the and rectitude of character. Goinf
70 the bad But there is hope. Earti
and heaven are full of hands eve
reaching to help the lost man back Z
the better way. All the goOI there i
in the universe is in sympathy with tha
little goodness which inwardly Teprovs
and protests.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

smoke evolved, and the obvious altera-
tive is to apply motive power by means
other than those in use on ordinary
railways. It is yet TO be decided by
the engineering world whether the cree
tion of q shaft or shafts in the channel
is:practicable; and thsre is no work in
existence at all analogous to the pro-
posed structure. That through Mont
Gents is comparatively short and admira-
bly, situated for purposes of ventilation,
while the Metropolitan Railway is rid
died with openings. shafts, and holes in
every direction, and even London smoke
and dirt fail TO make its atmosphere
more than dense, or in some parts diss-
greeable.