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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-03-09
.P1CKENs, S. c., THURSDAY, MARCH g

to buzzard, but we are merely il,
lustrating the position that there is
something in the fitness of things
We may bo blamed for the opinion,
but somehow we can't help thinking,
that the buzzard as a songster, would
be failure! But we do not protest
that we arc not opposed to buzzards
we like them. We don't oppose
sugar as such; hut we don't like it on
our oysters, nor our eggs.
The only reason we can give for
this, is, that sugar in oysters, or on
eggs, violates our sense of the fit,
ness of things
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Hot Work AnEAD.-The Charles.
ton News and Courier says: "Ihero
is hot work ahead and plenty of it.
The thieves are not going to yield
the control of the State without a
desperate resistance; and nothing at
this time encourages them moro
than any sign ot'discord in the De-
mocratic ranks. The main point to
which the honest people should ad
dress their efforts just now is to So
cure wise and truly representative
Democratic Convention"
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A HAPPY ANswER.-That was q
shrowd girl, and not devoid of scnso
either; who remarked, whom othor
girls are making fun of hor short skirts
and affected to be much shocked at
the exhibition thoroof at party: "If
you'd oAIy pull your drosses about
your nocks, where they ought to be,
thoy'd,bo as short as mincp She was
not troubled any more.
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The New Apportionment.

Tho Senate bill to provide fora now
apporLionmont ofthc Representatives
was finally passed. to third reading
by vote of Ga to ID. Tho following
table will show the changes mado by
the bill:
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The Silver Currency Question at the
Treasury.

ARLINGTON, Feb. 26.-The prin~
cipal question at issue here outside OF
the strong financial problem, is
whether or not it would be we'll to
issue silver in the place of fractional
currency. The Secretary of the Trea-
sury is disposed to do it; but when
he makes up his mind to 60 ahead he
is confronted by the laws of supply
and demand; because silver demon-
etized in Europe can be monetized
here and in Asia or nowhere. at
present, as near as may be, the value
OF pure silver is eighteen ounces to
one ounce of gold, and in order to re.
tire it to any us other than currency,
the premium on gold would have to
go about 100. The Secretary appears
to have some doubt whether, if he
were to issue silver in the place of
fractional currency as legal tender
under the present law to sums a.
mounting to five dollars, it would
stay in circulation. II people hoard
it that would make no difference, be-
cause there is plenty; and whether
they would like silver botter than the
trad hal currency or not is soine-
thing 20 be tested. lie does not be-
believe that gold will go to 100; docs
not see how it can under any circum
stances, except war, which is not in
view. 1t will take about six weeks
to give the country all the silver il
wamts, and it would not be surprising
if at any time the printing OF fraction.
al currency would be stopped, aud a
strong, over-howing issue OF silver
take it's place. The Secretary Of the
Treasury stands doubling in every
respect that touches now thing in
relation to the currency, because Of
the collecting elements at work at
the capital. He cannot tell whether
he is to act under the Resumption
Act or not, or whether some new
fedged concern of important proper
tions may not come forward to thwart
every plan laid under the Resnmp~
ton Act; but he is seriously inclined
to issue silver in place of fractional
currency, and he honestly believes
that silver will stay in circulation
He has about $12,O0O,OOO worth to
start on, and enough coin to keep the
demand supplied. If he starts, he
means to coin silver pieces Of a dollar
and less as fast as they are wanted,
and very little gold coin in the com
parison Of the number of pieces.
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, "TI Fitness Of Things"


may reconize our title as the point
Of departre as we'll as the goal of
the moH system of philosopher
Spare. h9tever was Eft was de-
cided bybquare to be right, and
whateveTSas unfit was wrong.
Now W do not profess to be dis
ciple of Philosopher Square, nor in-
deed of y other philosopher in par
ticular; bt we do believe that there
is, after il some Importance to be
attachd tItitness, and that it is unsafe
and UNIV o to ignore it.
We dHot propose to write an es-
say, howfer; but simply to present,
and to re lew some curious examples
OF unfitnds which have come under
our motto
Some tine ago we were i'm church
during Ne session of Sunday
School. was strange place to us,
and, as is our wont, we looked quiet
ly aroundus, if perchance we might
find some hing worth noticing. On
the uupaited pine table at the foot
OF the unR Rnted pine pulpit, we saw
two paper boxes. One of these box
ca was coBpicuously labelled, Il doz.
Paregoric the other 4 doz. Syrup CT
Squills.'
We Iooied around at the Sunday
school chiliren, and found them apo
parcntly q(ite healthy. 1t was very
warm weabcr in midsummer; and
nobody seemed to be troubled with a
cough or fold; and we could not
conceive the use of the miniature a.
pothecary's Shop on the table. The
contents OF NE boxes were unknown
Tons. Pres&tly one of the teachers
came up to 9e table, removed the
sop from one IF the boxes, and took
"nt-wha'i-a vial? No. Well, you
would never ghess; 80 we will relieve
your curiositJa He took out some
Sunday School tickets.
: In a conspicuous place in another
part Of the church sat another box,
also made of paper and covered with
o close fitting top This box was la
belled 'pomade philocome.' We wish
we could toll the reader what 'po,
made philocome'iS; but we can't. 1t
is perhaps a technical term belonging
to some branch OF science which we
have never studied--so much the
worse for us. Wewere afraid to ask
anybody at the church what spomade
philocome' was, for we did not know
that such question would be well
received But we waited till every.
body else had left the church, and
then we examined the boxsat our
leisure. The top had hole in it, ev
identity cut with knife on purpose.
The hole was similar in size and
shape to those which we commonly
see in collection boxes. We opened
the box, lie. took the top off, and in
it we found exactly what we expected
to find-nothing. But we did not
mean to let ali this examination 90
for nothing. We determined that
those boxes should furnish us with q
subject for an article on the fitness OF
things.'
Our next example we will take
from the New York Tribune. Here
it is:
'We get an exceedingly disheartcn
ing story from Saratoga. 1t struck
the Rev. Mr.. Boardman that it
would be q good thing to hold q
prayer meeting at the gate OF q race
course, and invoked the valuable aid
of,the Young Mems Christian Asso-
cialion to help him. The day came
and tue hour; but alasl there was no
meeting! The young Christians were
not to be found at the gate. A fright.
ful rumor announced that they had
pOno inside attracted nv fha yUordlv ~
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DESCENDED FROM A IIIGH STATION.
SD. d. S."the Charlotte correspon,
dent Of the Raleigh News, thus
writes mp" a female in this city,
Many, indeed the majority OF our
citizens, will know of whom he speaks
''Standing in front Of the central
hotel yesterday l saw a womau pass
by seemingly to be nonchalent of the
surroundings. THAT woman said a
gentleman near by, 'was at one time,
one of the most perfect ladies that
ever appeared in Southern society ,
| asked him how that was, for her
uncouth appearance represented
everything to the contrary. lie
answered she was II South Carolinian
by birth, was q Miss &, before
she was married, and one of the
leading bellies of the circle she moved
in. Just before the war she married
a gentleman of excellent family and
OF high standing IN social and liter
airy circles. 1t is needless drag,
he continncd-but the match was an
unhappy one. Her husband entered
the war as Colonel and is well
known in the history of North Caro-
lna's soldiers. He fell mortally
wounded in Virginia. To think six
teen years ago this person moved in
tile best society of North and South
Carolina, and to day she walks the
streets a washerwoman p Charlotte
Observer.
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no place for prayer meeting; nor
can we concieve OF much good com
ing of supplication there
We will say here that we think the
Tribune is right in not being sorry.
Mr.. Boardman ought to study the
Square philosophy.
A Northern paper (whose general
conduct indicates the sound Christian
views of the editoD in discussing the
the subject of the social status of the
negro says:
'ln our judgement, a reputable
colored man is neither better nor
worse than republic man of any 9th.
er race or class.'
Now, it is exceedingly difficult to
determine whatiis reputable man.
The dictionaries will not help us here;
for the question, whether a man is
reputable or not, is often affected by
u vast variety of considerations alto
gether independent of his moral char
acter.
From certain sentences uttered by
DIR. Hague, in his sermon in DR..
Fuller's Church on Sunday morn.
ing during the session of the Southern
Baptist Convention in Baltimore, we
have reason to believe that the Doc &,
tor regarded Mr.. Abraham Lincoln
as an exceedingly reputable mana
man of unusually pure and lovely
character; indeed, as rather sanity
than otherwise. DR.. Hague's audi
ence on that occasion did not gener,
ally agree in this view; and many of
them regarded DR.. II rs a gross vic.
lator of philosopher Squares princi-
pie of the fitness of things when he
praised Mr.. Lincoln from that pull
pit.
1t is well known that many North,
ern preachers and people regard Mr..
Lincoln az a saint Elder A. b. Earle.
without being questioned OH the sub-
ject, Id the present writer, that he
Glider E.) thought Mr.. Lincoln was
a very good man.
On the other hand we learn that
his former law partner insists that
Mr. Lincoln was an infdel; and very
distinguished man, who practised at
the same bar, thinks that he was o
very low, vulgar, obscene, unscrupu.
lous trickster. Was Mr.. Lincoln "a
reputable nan2 Well, 'it de-
pends on where you stand.'
Was Andrew Jackson ereputa-
ble' mau2 James Parton, after q
years study of the evidence on both
sides Of this question, discovered that
General Jackson was a patriotic trai'
ter; a great General ignorant of war
an erudite ignoramus; an unstates-
manlike statesman; candid dssem~
bier; law abiding rebel; a disobe-
dient disciplinarian; a Democratic
despot; an urbane savage; an atroci~
ous saint.
Now, be it understood, that we are
not taking sides on the question Of
the real character of these Presidents.
We do not express any opinion. We
are not called upon here to say what
we think of either of them. We
merely cite the cases to show how
difficult it is to define the word 'repu-
table,
Again. The Southern people
would generally take the ground, that
in their proper places, the great mass
of the negroes would bo reputable
enough; 80 that the whole question
turns upon the other question: 'What
is their proper place2' We think that
turkey buzzard is reputable enough
as scavenger; and this bird is pro-
tected dy the laws of South Carolina
Numbers of them may be seen walk
ing fearlessly about the butchers
stalls in the market in Charleston
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The Counties of Anderson, Barn.
well. Richland and Piclsons gain one
mcmlber each, and those of Beaufort,
Charleston, Georgetown and Laurcns
lose ono each.
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CHEAP LIVING IN New YoRK.-
Ronts arc down, clothing is down, the
nocessarios of life are gradually de-
croasing in charge, and man can
live in Now York comfortably on an
income ho received before the war In
no mattor has tho reduction of prices
been so marked as in ronts, especially
Of houses that formerly rcntod for
$4,000 q year or moro.-Now York
Express.
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New ORLEANS, Feb 28.-Aftcr
sovon hours debate Mr.. Wiltz moved
tho adoption of the majority report of
tho committee appointed to invcstI-
cato Kllogg,. with recommendation
that articles of mpcachmont bo pre-
pared. This was adopted by n voto
of61 ycas to as nays. Tho House
and lobbics wcro throngcd with spcc-
tators during tho debate of tho vote.
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Tho old style minuet is likely to
become a fashionable dance.
The Morning herald., 1876-11-04

No POLITICAL tactics ever brought out
such ingenious evasions Of party crimes, as
this campaign has with the Republican
party. The national party tells the country
that the hard times will continue until we
have honest money, and the working man
must remain idle until then. Mr.. jenkins
in begging for seat in the Legislature,
lodges the main reason, and like the man
striking at the rat in the dark, hits all
around the mark and never strikes it.
aHe smothered it all up in the tarifques-
ton, and wore it down until it resembled
what the countryman described as the little
end of nothing Whitfield down to a point.
But he never told the audience why it
was they were working on half time in the
machine shops, the founderies, the car shops
and the ship yards. He only stated that
the owners of these places preferred Hayes
to Tilden, and that was all the satisfaction
the idle workmen Of Wilmington obtained.
The working men were eulogized a little
to make apology for the insult Mr.. Conrad
offered them, and the meeting closed with
q libel upon craftsmanship, truth, virtue,
honesty and integrity.
The Morning herald., 1876-11-04

PRESIDENT GRANT gave a good des-
cription of Republican civil service refsrm
when he said that mo man was ever ap-
pointed at e. D. Morgan's request who
did not have the reputation Of being e
corrupt man." That gives Morgan's
measure exactly. He is notorious cor
rnptionist himself, and the companion Of
thieves. lie has just taken his canvass in
New York out Of the hands Of the State
Committee, and put it in charge Of Ter.
wiliger, notorious as the "postage.stamp
,h,e,," because he was driven from hi'
place as Clerk Of the State Senate by the
evelations Of the New York Tribune
concerning his enormous thefts Of thu
hostage stamps provided for members
The Morning herald., 1876-11-04


TIE Cabinets that thetwo candidstes pro-
nose to themselves are indexes Of the quail
ity of the administration they would give
US. Mr.. Tilden is left free in his choice.
Mr.. Hendricks, his principal rival in the
convention, 10 on the ticket, and Gen. Han
cock Is holding a life position at double the
salary of a cabinet officer. Though both
Of them would reflect the greatest honor on
the administration, the places which they
would fill, can be offered to others. VIM.
Allen, another competitor, is probably too
old to care to take cabinet Office, and this
leaves only Thomas F. Bayard and Jot
Parker, whom both political courtesy and
a asenseof their eminent fitness would induce
Mr.. Tilden to call them in the Cabinet.
The rest of the cabinet he can select from
the Adamses, Curtins, seymours, Kernans,
Blairs and the long line Of distinguished
Democratic statesmen. Mr.. Hayes is held
fast by the letters Of the Cincinnati conven.
ton. Blaine, the jobber, must head his
Cabinet, and Morton and Hartranft must
help to make it up, with perhaps Boss
Sheppard to fill vacancy. A President
is known by the company he keeps.
The Morning herald., 1876-11-04
(3OOO Horse reed.

A favorite, and rather new kind OF masn
for horses is coming into use, composed, OF
two quarts of oats, one of bran, and hall
mint of flaxseed. The oats are first placed
In the stable bucket, over which Is poured
the linseed; add boiling water, then the
bran, covering the mixture with an OLD rug
and allowing 1t to thus rest for five hours,
then stir the mass we'll up. The bran ab-
serbs, while retaining the vapor, and the
l;nseed binds the oats and bran together.
A greater quantity Of flaxseed would make
the preparation too oily and less relishea.
One feed per day is sufficient, 1t 10 easily
dteestible and is specially adapted to young
animals, adding to their volume rather tnsn
"a their height-giyipg substance TO the
The Morning herald., 1876-11-04

The ordering of troops to South Caro-
lima to save that State was only the pre-
liminary step in programme that origin
ally contemplated an attempt to carry half
dozen States for Hayes by the bayonet.
But the fiery flash of popular indignation
has terrified Grant, old Father Taft. noisy
Zach, who puts the screws to the Office
holders, and Slippery Don Cameron, to
whom the tacile Hayes owes his nomina.
ton; and they have abandoned all hopes
of salvation by means of the army.
The Morning herald., 1876-11-04

The signals Of distress thrown out by
the advocates of HAYES at all points of the
compass during the past two or three
weeks, and: particularly within the
last three or four days prove conclusively
that the tide has turned against them, and
that their rotten craft is about to 60 to the
bottom.
The Morning herald., 1876-11-04

Ten days ago the last card which the
Hayes men were playing in this losing
game was the rebel claims, which they
said amounted to about 2,500,000 and
would surely be paid if Tilden was
elected. This baseless assertion was nm
donbted]y making an impression; and
therefore ..Tilden trumped the demagogue
trick by his bold, manly; patriotic letter.
The Morning herald., 1876-11-04

THE game is up. There is no doubt Of
the triumph of Tilden and Reform. But
the victory should not merely be made
certain. 1t should be overwhelming. Let
the people carry for their candidate and
their cause those fveor six doubtful States
whose votes will give them majority Of
two to one over Hayes and corruption.
The Morning herald., 1876-11-04

b.rnacle Of society, and leper Of politics
that sits on throne of bsyonets in South
Carolina and defies the constitution, while
men here in Delaware who pretend to wor'
ship and revere that instrument acknowl'
edge to be his bosom friends. Let them
renounce this conpanionship, or suffer
their regulations to rest with an inference
of public estimation and worth more Jus'
in its conclusions than outspoken words.
The Morning herald., 1876-11-04

No sooner was the Indiana election over
than Sitting Bull Morton fled to the Pacific
coast. Itwas Morton that raised the bloody
shirt and gave the contest its sanguinary
aspect. Does any one believe that he would
have skulked from the field had ne not
known that all was lost?
The Morning herald., 1876-11-04

The weapon Of Reform, gives nogreater
evidence of its magnetism, than the effort
of the Republican party to filch it from
the Democracy and Use it themselves.
The Morning herald., 1876-11-04
THE LA TEST LIBEL TO HONESTY
AND INTELLIGENCE.

line comparison OF meh anu oralils, -
with the Republican party, favorite re-
treat, but not always faithful mentor to
public opinion. Defect is smothered in
the sophistries Of false impression, and the
accomplishment Of purpose, with that par
ty, has no respect for scruples, in truth or
piety, in the statement of its assertions.
We find in our State that orators are
imported to assert that Chamberlain, Of
Massachusetts, the carpet-bagger Q;
South Carolina-is compared socially, NOR.
ally and mentally with Senator Thomas F.
Bayard; and we are sorry to say that men
Of the opposite party to us, residents OF
this city, are asserting that he is their bosom
friend; an afiliation sorrowful to note, for
itspeaks badly as to their own ideas Of de-
cency and morality.
We make no charge Of petty theft against
Chamberlain, but we..make a higher and
graver charge: He has choked the free
dom of the ballot-box. He has resented
the presence Of patriotism and, by this, he
has committed deeper crime than if he
had perpetrated theft.
The comparison Of such man as this
with Senator Bayard, is an infamous libel
upon statesmanship, so pure and exalted as
that which we acknowledge in the hon.
ored Senator from our State.
A carpet bagger, who was unable to make
aliving at home, and drifted into the South
for subsistence contrasted with truth,
virtue, honesty and intelligence, is one of
the greatest strains and overshots that the
Republican party has ever made to sus-
tain the highest and greatest thefts-those
which rob people Of political liberty, and
scorn the lessons Of constitutional law.
When man, who has been rewarded
by the people of State with the highest
Office within their gift, pays back the debt
of this honor with lies and insults to their
liberties, is he not deserving of the sever
eat condemnation from those insulted peo-
ple7
Is the curse that these people put upon
him any too severe?
Is the sting of the serpant that has been
trodden upon an act Of anything but rea'
sonable human resentment? Is the dis
grace Of advanced christian civilization by
choking down liberty with the barbarou'
threat Of the bayonet, the cowardly menact
Of powder and ball, and the degradation o
white, or rather Democratic citizenship
into the importance Of an alien only a
far as the choice Of ruler is concerned
deserving of the eulogy Of all honest!
lovers, all lovers of freedom, and the full
rights of fcitizenship' Not at all But
Is deserving Of the very serpents tooth ii
denunciation.
Men who uphold this in another, en-
dorse him and his policy, and they are al
but the tools to throw the dirty balls Of tn
party they represent.
Treason il - entitled to no res
pect. the words Of Senator Bayard wer
The Morning herald., 1876-11-04

The voice Of next Tuesday will answer
which of the two parties has the most val
liable claims.
The Morning herald., 1876-11-04
NEW YORK CASH PRICE LIEr.

Gallons, can and box 8 -
2S S hal half b,tr1; bsrrf'' q 'S% 3.
We have in stock. Of orr own mauu:ac-
tu, e, roofing materials, etc at the follow
ing low prices:
1000 rolls extra Rubber Roofin: at : c"ntS
per square foot. Or we viii irrnisn Ru5bst
kooting, Nails, Caps, and Slate paint TO-
an entire new roof, at ~ cents yer square
foot.
1000 rolls 2-ply Tarrcd Hooang Felt, AT T.,
cents per square foot.
5000 rolls 3-piv THrred Roofing Felt, at ~
cents per square foot.
NO rolls TarreN fheathing. a. q cent pc.
square foot
5000 gallons fine E'Dam@I Pain, missed
ready Tor use, GA inside or outside work, ai
So per gallon.
Send for Gannlc card of co'N"s. Al or
ders must be acCHfnpH with TIE money
or satisfactory city references. No -,O0Gs
shipped G. .. d., uIles, express charges arc
guaranteed.
Sample orders solicited.
N. Y. SLATE nAgNF COMPANY,
lO2 e. l0I MAIDEN Lt&r,. 15"tv YORK.
The Morning herald., 1876-11-04
INSURANCE., Sc

SIS Frizes amCuntingtD I7j3,NJ
CircularsO of inf.imHtiu fugni9 she'd F1LM.
Orders flied, Prizes cashtd. spanish Ban a
Bills and Governments pntciuS, Il.
TAYLOR & co FanlScrs.
Oct7 II Wal t.. New York
The Morning herald., 1876-11-04
THE HERALD.

THr NorN1No HERALD In published
evary morning. Bunoays exceptedJ and
Seiiverod in the CITY OF Wilmington and
surrounding places for six cents per week,
naysble 10 the carriers. Mail subscriptions,
postage frse, three dollars per annun In
06vanee. u f4'
O'BY1NE Bros, Publishers,
No. 500 shipley Street,
.sInsoI Wilmington, Del.
ViIU1Hr1op, November 4, 1879.