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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-13
The Judicial Election.

We do not undervalue the good work
done for the Democracy in the last cam
paign by Judges Cooke and Mackey.
We are disinclined ever to seem unap-
preciative of thoir services in assisting us.
We speak for our people when we say we
are thankful for that work and that as
sistance, and would be pleased to see it
adequately rewarded. Such reward we
think would be given by placing those
two gentlemen on the Commission to
codify the laws, or in some equally honor
able position. But the office of Circuit
Judge is n Of the most important in
the State, and it should be filled by the
most learned and competent and expert
enced lawyer in the Circuit-one distin-
guished for long service, high character
and spotleSs reputation. Such u man has
been presented for the office in tho person
Of our townsman, Thomas Thomson,
Esq.
We greatly regret the disturbance of
the tenure Of the late incumbents, and
the ousting of the six judges, on account
of what vas virtually a technical and not
a vital discrepancy. But the action of
the Supreme Court is an accomplished
fact, deplore it as we may. Still, grant
ing that it was wrong to GUST the Judges
and the people and the General Assembly
are sorry the deed was done-yet two
wrongs will not make one right, and re-
election of all the ousted six for four
years would be a wrong. The General
Assembly find themselves obliged to till
six vacant seats on the Circuit Bench.
1t is their duty to fill those seats with the
men best qualified. The Supreme Court
has oustcd six Judges:---The General AS
Sembly have to elect six Judges:-two
distinct, and unconnected acts. The Su-
preme Court tried to do its duty with
unfcigned reluctance ;"---whether rcluct-
antly or not, the General Assembly
should do theirs. The Eighth Circuit
calls for the election Of Col. Thomson.
In all our wide borders there is no better
man. If learning professional and gener-
al, if long and successful experience as a
practitioner at the Bar, if integrity and
purity of character, be the qualifications
that fit q man to wear tho judicial cr-
mine and commend him in the eyes Of
our General Assembly, the grateful
Eighth Circuit will DON be proud to
speak of Judge Thomson.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-13
The LIQUOR Question.

The Moffet Bell Punch Law was re-
iected by our General Assembly. and
rightly so. AS a sumptuary law it tried
to accomplish very desirable ends by
most undesirable means. New York
Legislature is now considering a measur
which should unite all men of every sect,
class, or condition, teetotallers, good tenn
plars, drunkards, and especially the i'm
Vulnerable army of temperate men.
""The law which it is hoped the Legisla-
ture will retain limits the sale of liquor
bv the glass to men Of good moral ~cllarac-
ter, who can give proper bonds, and who
keep an inn-a word which is defined by
the law-and who ~ a license fec.
They can not trust, for the debt is void by
law, nor take security, for that also is
void. They can not sell to Indians, nor
to apprentices, nor to minor boys or girls;
nor to Il mans wife if the husband for
bids, nor to q husband if the wife gives
warming. These limitations are all found
ed in reason and justified by experience.
They are the defenses which society, ex-
orciSing the right of self-defense, throws
up against 4 monstrous and increasing
danger.'-Harper's Weekly.
Let somo of our philanthropic legisla
tors present such a measure, and We are
confident it will pass both Houses and be-
come law.
ASH contrast to the foregoing wise and
sensible measure, we print the following
from the New York World. 1T shows
that among tcetotallers US among the
Ten Virgins, some are wise and some
foolish.
FANATIcIsM.-Neal Dow has introdu-
ced q felony bill into the Maine Legisla-
ture which he fondly hopes will be more
ctfectual than any of its predecessors
have been in preventing tho sale of Ii
quor. The sale of liquor is to be punish
ed by a fine of $500 and six months i'm
prisonment at hard labor; second Of
Tense, a year. No liquor is to be brought
into tho State eve for private persons.
People are to be held responsible for Ii
quor found on their premises, and the
burden of proof as to ownership rests on
them. Apparatus for selling liquor
found is to he deemed evidence of guilt.
If q team is found drawing liquor, the
horses and vehicle are to be contiscated.
Common drunkards are to be sent to Jail
for a year, but released on conviction of
the seller. DrumIners of liquor houses
are to be fined $1,000 and Imprisoned for
q year. Officers obtaining conviction are
to paid premiums. And so on and so
on. General Neal BOWS legislation has,
in twelve years, increased the county tax
alton of Bangor from $4,000 to $4,000,
while the number of arrests for drunken
ness in the city has increased from 22 at
the passage of the Maine Liquor Law, to
TO. In 1870 there were 222 arrests for
drunkenness at Bangor; in 1872, All in
1874, 643; in 1875, 704, and in 1876, TO-
New York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-13
THE JUTE IND USTRY.
A Northern View Of One of the Healthy
Signs IN South Carolina.

... from the Nati0n.]
The advancement Of industrial and So
cial rcntions in South Carolina caused by
secession and emancipation was consider
ably mitigated by the development Of
the great phosphate interest, and now, as
if to make the return to q healthier po-
litic.l condition, the planting and manu-
facture of jute, begin to assume impor-
lance. It has been found that the home
of the sea islnnd cotton Is also fitted for
the. profitable culture OF jute, and the
Charleston Begging Manufacturing Com
pany. has begun to open subscriptions
with n view to starting Il mill that will
employ sixty hands, Of whom only eight
will he men. The experiments made
With tho plant in the neighboring States
Of Georgia and Florida, as we'll as in
Louisiana and Texas, all point to the
ultimate success of this new industry, al
ready more extended than those who
have given no attention to the subject
might suppose. The report OF tho com
missioner of agriculture for 1876 contains
All elaborate paper or jute, by Prot. s.
Waterhouse, of Washington tSt. Louis)
University who has studied its cultiva-
ton in India: and as the earliest plant
ings i in the United States take place in
April, there is time for all who wish to
inform themselves to do so. Some Of
the stalks grown in the States named
reached the height Of fifteen feet: the
yield was in several cases at the rate of
3, 500 pounds to the acre, and the fibre in
some instances was Judged superior to
the Indian. The seed. too, has been i'm
proved, and is one-sixth heavier than that
of India. Many branches of manufac-
ture which now use iute either sparingly
or not ut all, would be stimulated to use
it freely, not only for bagging and baling,
but for paper and all sorts OF textile
fabrics from carpets down, as the exam
pie of Dundee has 20 well taught us. A
prodnct which has become the fourth
staple in the exports of India, yielding
precedence only to cotton, opium and
rice, may easily take a commensurate
rank with US. We appear to have in
abundance the hot and moist climate and
good soil which it affects, and we certain
" have the ingenuity to compete bv
machinery with the crude and cheap
labor of India or the skilled labor of
Scotland. Wo wish success to the
Charleston enterprise.
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NUNS The Word.

A food of printers ink has been
wasted during the past week throughout
this State in the stupid work of "drown-
ing O dead dog" The Ne,O York Suns
exposures Of the dark doings Of Cham
berlain, Leslie, and their con}rsres have
been printed in e1temso by our dailies and
some OF u weaklies, just as if those
offenders were not politically dead and
gone. But although the Ne,r York Shin
has made most damaging statements with
regard to prominent and representative
Democrats who are politically alive, con-
corning those there is silence deep as
death. Far from printing them, the State
press does not even refer to them just as
if the good character Of our representa-
tive men were not synonymous with the
good character of our State.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-13
Report of tho Rond Commission.

On Thursday. 7th, inst, the Bond Com
mission submitted their long-looked-for
report to the General Assembly. They
have had an arduous task, and seem to
have acquitted themselves well and faith
fully. Their report is Lonesome might
call it unnecessarily long and verbose
but it certainly contains evidence of hard
work, great care, and desire to do a deli
cate duty well. Careful examination Of
it only confirms us in tho opinions ex-
pressed in these columns ~before-that
there is no need for reputation Of a sim
gle cent Of the public debt. In our issue
Of the 2lst Nov. 1877, we said, "Of the
six millions in question, if they (the
"Commission) find any amounts great
"or small which are dearly fraudulent
"claims, they will as honorable men rep
Presenting an honorable State rightfully
'set them aside. But they will counsel
1.-THE State to pay her just debts to the last
"mill."
The Commission find the total amount
of outstanding consolidation bonds and
stocks is 81, 1896, 800, and that 81, SIT 1886 are
unquestionably valid and funded upon
vouchers about which there can be NJ dis
pute. Only 1852 are clearly fraudulent +;
for, their own words being their witness,
the Commission find that ''all the consol-
idation bonds, coupons, certificates, and
stock produced before the Commission
were issued in proper FORM" S4,793,633o of
the vouchers in the treasury are pro-
nounced valid beyond question, but the
Commission say that s3,es9, l46, although
'.were not issued in accordance with
law''-which being interpreted means
ahat thereiwas fraud on the part Of the
tgcnt; As if this would in the last affect
the interests of bona dde bondholders.
Qui jucit per alum tacit per Sc is q legal
maxim, and much though the State may
despise her fraudulent agents, she like all
high-ipinded principals is willing to suf-
fer the loss herself and will not shoulder
it off on the b%ondholder.
The Commission incorporate a good
deal Of opinion and speculation with
their Report proper, but we fail to dis
cover one good reason therein for refusal
to pay the Consolidation Debt. On the
contrary We see the strongest possible
reasons for paying it, with the exception
of the petty few hundreds of dollars Of
undoubtedly fraudulent elaims-a ridscu'
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LIS mus. The State is legally bound to
pay 1.-THE decisions of the law courts
are on tho side of the bondholders. The
State is morally bound to pay it-her
good faith and honor, pledged on
than one occasion, must not be je%oparded.
Promises are proverbially brittle ware,
but South Cardinals promise to pay must
not be broken. On the lowest ground of
all-that Of policy and self-interest-she
is bound to pay this debt. Population
is a foul dishonoring word" Compro-
misc is little better. What will it profit
this State to save a fw millions and lose
her good uamc and credit? Or rather
what will it profit this State to attempt to
repudiate and find herself compelled by
law to pay?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-13

The Nems and Courier published the
report of the Board Commission IN ertcn-
so last Friday morning: having received
it by telegraph from Columbia:-7a ire.
mendous' telegram-fourteen thousand
words, filling six columns. This is the
greatest feat in Southern journalism.
We admire the energy and earnestness of
our cotemporary. The. News and Cour-
ter will flourish forever. 1t commands
success.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-13
Re-organize the Democracy.

We publish this morning the resolu-
tons Of the State Executive committee.
All good Democrats (all Democrats are
good will read, mark, learn and inward
ly digest them. Our County Is already
busy with the work Of reorganization.
Abbeville led the van in the. last cam
paign and she will advance her banner to
the same position in the coming cam
paign. She is girding her loins and trim
ming her lamps, and will not be found
unready when the day for working comes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-13
Postal.

We thank Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken for a
copy of the Report Of the Postmaster
General" With an immense amount Of
statistics very valuable and instructive
but very dry, it contains some interesting
and entertaining statements. That por'
ton of the Report which exposes the
abuse in the Sale of Stamps" by which
"postm asters at fourth-class Offices de-
fraud the government and fill their own
pockets, is more entertaining than the
fashionable novel. Query: &re oul
friends in the country who have only one
delivery a-week taking any steps to pro-
cure two? Col. Aiken urged the impor'
lance and explained the facility Of doing
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-13
Death Of the Pope.

The Pope is dead. At five O'Clock in
the afternoon of Friday It'll inst, Pic
Mono peacefully breathed his last in the
Vatican. In the eighty-sixth year of his
age, after a Pontificate of thirty-two
years, during the last eight of which he
condemned himself to voluntary i'm:
prisonment in the Vatican, the head OF
the Romish Church has departed this life
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-13

So enthused have some of tho members
of the Legislature of Virginia become
the Moffett register law that they
have proposed its extension to other arti-
cles. A bill was introduced into the
Legislature of the Old Dominion last
week requiring all persons selling cigars
to take out q State license and be fur
nished with q Motfett register. Every
time the dealer sells O cigar. he turns the
crank of the register, and at the end OF
each month he makes oath of the num-
Der sold and pays a tax of one cent on
each cigar sold.-,Sdvanndh News.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-13
The Need for the University.
Press and Banner +:

Editors Press and Banner:
The "Ab6evilie Medium' is laboring I'M
der quite a mistake in surprising that the
people of the country are all opposed to
the passage Of the University bill. There
are some people who have sense
enough to believe that sound and
extensive scholarship is verv rarely &C
quired when the very existence Of col
leges depends upon public patronage.
Mankind, tho young especially, are gen.
orally but the foot balls of passion, and
limited indeed must be the influence
which any faculty can exercise over
them when they know that that faculty
is placed under so great q disad vaDtagc.
Make the faculty independent of the pat
ronage Of the public, and you will soon
find the STANDARD of scholarship will be
elevated and fewer ignorant ~coXcombs,
calling themselves graduates, too indo-
lent to perform manual labor and too ig-
norant to discharge the duties appertain-
ing to pursuits involving an exercise Of
the intellectual powers, be turned loose
upon our country. To this. more than
to anything else, must. we attribute the
ignorance, the .bigotry, the prejudices OF
all kinds sc prevalent i'll u State. III
educated ministers of the gospel do the
cause of Christianity harm than the
ablest champions Of intidelity have vel
been able to inflict. This is rather para
doxical, but it is nevertheless true; the
reasons are quite obvious. So with
the lawyer, the physician, tho teach
er. They bring their different pro-
LESSONS into %dlsrepute. They pervert the
opinions all, The taste of those who come
in contact with them, to their great det-
riment and to the detriment of mankind
generally. I hope that the University
bill may pass and that u public men,
including lawyers, ministers, physicians,
teachers, and last, but moi least, politi-
clans, may hereafter be calculated by
both their mental and moral training to
direct the current OF human passion un-
der the guidance of a more comprehen-
hensive and enlightened human under
standing, to safer channels, where it can
forever How, warbling its strains of peace
and harmony.
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We call especial attention to a letter we.
print from thesNewS and Courier on the
Public Debt question. 1t is from the
pen OF "a graduate of the South Carolina
College," a foster son of our State. 1t is
uncomlnonly forcible and interesting.
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To Debtors.
DAY, TANNAHILL $50.

Manufacturers of and Dealers in
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, WAGONS,
~ SADDLES, TRUNKS, HARNESS,
LEATHER AND SHOE FINDINGS,
SPRINGS, AXLEs, CARRIAGE MA
TERIAL, MACHINE Betting AND
PACKING, 225 Broad Street, Oppo.
site Central and Globe Hotels, An.
guSta, Ga. . 7..,
We are nov receiving a large and var
led assortment of vehicles for, business
or pleasure. A full assortment of l, 2
and 4 HORSE WAGONS, best mant,sac-
ture, at the lowest prices. Call and ex-
anime u stock.
DAY TANNAHILL & CO.
Nov. Z, 1877 3m.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-13

General Gary rose to q question OF
privilege in the Senate on Monday n
read o long speech upon the Ncw York
Times article which was substantially the
same as the one we extracted last week
from the New York Sun. We reprint
his speech from the Register of yesterday.
Read 1t.
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annual tax, which additional lew will
DO devoted to the noble purpose of
placing South Carolina educationalIv on
u par with her sister states of giving
her sons, what a.great mary of them SO
urgently need-a state university,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-13
A FRIEND TO EDUCATION.
Evils of Primary Elections
NSAio Va iAulus N$CSsAohos
Editors Press and Banner:

Wv " ~Ss~ "tsS
AS the time appointed for the organi-
zation of the Dem0crotic clubs in the
county is approaching, it is to be hoped
that the Central Club will devise some
means by which the Savannah side of the
country will get a showing. The policy
of having primary elections may do very
we'll in securing a victory against the
common enemy, but it will bring
justice to the side on the Savannah. 1t is
hoped that it will not be in 1878 as it was
in 1876, a hard fight, a glorious victory
without any of its spoils. Not that the
Western part of the country covets any
Of the public Offices for the salaries which
they pay, but simply that it may be rep
resented by men who can advocate its
claims and maintain them. We have the
same right to good bridges and things in
volving an expenditure of the public
money that other people in other sections
f the country have, and we claim that
some Of us have been sadly neglected to
our disadvantage and injury.
LITTLE RIVER.
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A GREAT MORAL QUESTION.

In Virginia, now, this is regarded as a
great moral question, not one o! ordinary
policy or mere administration. 1t con-
Germs the character of the people, even
more than their material interests. Here
the clcrgymen of oil denominations pray
for the triumph of honesty and good faith.
The rally Will not be in vain. The real
popular sentiment is often much mista-
ken. There is a deepunder-currcnt ofhon-
esty, not so loud as the surface noises,
which are mistaken for the whole. Here
after it may be otherwise, for out OF repn-
diation grow decentralization and corrup-
ton as naturally as fungus from a muck
heap. 80
The Door and needy should be made to
understand the effect of Republication up
on their interests. A singular delusion
often exists among them, and men are
most alarmed about taxation who pay no
taxes. Here, in Virginia, the men who
paw the taxes are the most earnest III their
protests against reputation. And for
what is the stainless name of South Car
olMa to be exchanged? The bride is
simply contemplate. The whole con
solidated debt is much less than the .ac-
knowledged obligations of tho real State
and the real people. The disputed items
are relatively small III amount, anu u
broad distinction Is to be observed be-
tween fraud in your agent and fraud i'll
your creditors. Tho latter does not eN-
lists, and the former, so far as it exists,
has been cured by ratification in many
forms, and upon ample consideration for
Il compromise.
Oh, for the voice of a Thornwell, now,
to pierce through every false pretext, and
ring forth the words Of truth and sober
ness! For the voice of Calhoun, Of Pres
ton, of tho Fathers! You have buried
many noble dead. Could they but speak,
methinks they would say to the noble
men still living, "See to this matter.
concern yourselves about it. Open every
~"avenue to the hearts of the people and
their representatives and save the honor
"of the State"
Let your new career be as unsullied as
your old. Let no shameful lapse, no
even doubtful policy, wind up the ,glo-
rious history crowned by tho splendid tri-
umph of Hampton, with the record that
the hour of your triumph was the hour
also Of your fall-like Lucifer, never to
A GRADUATE OF THE SOUTH
H.. CAROLINA COLLEGE.
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arc still the most thorough and search
inatcSshdrtio med enc that can pc
employed: cleansing the stomach and
bowels, and even the blood. In small
doses Of n pill day, they stimulate
the digestive organs endHpromote yig-
orous health.
AYERS PILLS have been known for
more than q. quarter OF, q century, and
hayc obtained q Worldwide reputation
for their virtues. They correct dis
cssed action in the several assimila-
tive organs Of the body, and are 50
composed that distractions within
their range can rarely Withstand or
evadc them. Not only do they cure
the everyday complaints OF every
body, but also forrnidable and danger
Gus diseases that liaye bafied the best
OF human Skill. While they produce
powerful effects, they are, st the same
time. the safest and best physic for
children. BY their aperient action
they sripe much less than the common
purgativcs, and never give pain when
the bowels are not intamcd. They
reach the vital fountains Of the blood,
end strengthen the system by freeing
1t from the clements OF Weakness.
Adapted to all ages and conditions
in all climates, containing neither
calomel nor any deletcrious drug,
these Pills may be taken with safety
by anybody. Their sug~ar-coating pre-.
serves them ever fresh and makes
them pleasant to- take; while being
purely" vegetable no harin can arise
from their use in any quantity.
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