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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-09-05
ville tonight. Bring best mon, and
tool chest for .fair. Answer.
Y, E, NICi}EE

tool chest for .fair. Answer.
Y, Il. MoDEE.
COLUMBIA, December 3, 1876.
w. i MAULD1N, Greonville, S, c.;
An extra train will leaye Spartan
burg tonight. and if I don't notify
you that one will leave Greenvillo
you must take Air [ 4ine at IL o'clock,
and l will hold Spartanburg train
until you get there.
Y. T.. MABGE.
Ro ready to leave at IL.
w. T.. MAULD1N, Greenyille,
Mako mon bring blankets.
V. a. MoBEE.
Tho business these mon had at
the State Fair seems to have been
very urgent, Tho two following
dispatches SOON to rofor to the
Same gathering
CHARLESTON, Dec. 8, 70.
MAJOR r.. CT. BARKER, Columbia
Haye modified my views about
electoral vote. The course Hamp-
ton suggests is, 1 fear, necessary.
JAS. CONNER.
December 3, '76.
GEN. JAS. CONNER, Charleston
The Hunkadori Club on the way
here for q row tomorrow. SEQ
Piclens and delay train till evening.
WADE HAMPTON.
Was the course Hampton sug-
gested, and WHICH General Conner
"fcared" would be necessary, ex~
planned by the "row' the Hunkadori
Club was going to Columbia for
Of course Col. Pelton had TO be
consulted at this critical juncture of
the affairs of the Democracy, and
the following very Ineligible dis
patch was therefore sent to him:
COLUMBIA, December 4, '76.
WM. II. PELToN, Everett House,
N. u
Literati oligarchy roof insufficient
if not whence Hewitt's drcar frou
abbey rcprobate palanquin imperish~
able with lottery republicate with
century boach city evaporrted clints
curly Office occlusion were shattered
obsession paregoric imbricated
when dints lot. (No. sig.)
And this:
OoLuM,lA, December S, '7G.
WIN. II. PELroN, Everett House,
Impotuouspa paddle monody super
excellent oil to rogret ruddy by
punctilio sincere Oil to Philippe
Stephen diary suet inconsolable
nbsont still other your frcestone
duds vernon howl queen discomfort
cd superstructuro gingors here.
T.
It is not at all remarkable that
the "Queen" should be "discontent>
ed" with the ''superstructure."
Almost anybody would be.
On the 4th of December the Wal
lace (Domocratic) House of Repre-
sentatiyes Withdrew from the State
HOUSE and thereafter met at Carroll,
IA Hall. On the same day, tho
Supreme Court of tho State heard
rule against Speaker Iackey (of
the Republican House,) to show
cause why ho should not doliver the
returns received by him, as Speaker,
to Gen. Wallace, Speaker of the
Democratic House. Mr.. Mackey
answered, setting forth the facts of
his election, and denied the juris-
dictiop Of the court over the returns.
What was going on outside of the
court room is briefly but graphically
described by ono of the rifomep in
the following dispatch sent to
friend at home;
XIII.
December 4, 1879.
To r. i. DANNENRERa, Winnsboro,
S, c.;
All quiet now. Mackey speaking.
Killed ten Radicals. Nat,
Another dispatch of the same
dato is good oompapion-piece for
the aboye;
XIV.
December 4, 1876.
TO N. A. HUFFMAN, No. 8 German
street, Baltimore, Nd. :
Send Jno. Agnew by express
twelve thirty-two and six thirty
eight pistols. Circuit excitement.
Full plate. ARTHUR EMORY.
I
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-09-05
THE FUN AT THE FAIR |"
4HEASON, STRI T1tG FhT md SPOILS
--TIILS IItIB UNiS'S 1I1RL'S NEST,

III Il
Some Lively "Reminiscences Of tho
Times that Tried Mems Souls--Tele-
grams that, whethor Genuine or
Bogus, arc Mighty Interesting Read
ing.
{ from The Neso IorIt Tribune, Auyust29.1
There wore exciting timos in Co.
lumbia, S. G., during tho early days
of December, 1876. Two Houses of
Representatives woro in session in
the samo room at the State-.House,
each threatening to eject the other,
and only prevented from coming
into armed collision by tho presence
OF General Ruger and tho Federal
troops he commanded AS early as
the I'd or 3D. of December it became
apparent that tho State would be
counted for Hayes, and that an
attempt would be made to inaugu-
rate Governor Chamberlain before
the close of the week. On the 9Th
dispatches mentioned the sudden
appearance in Columbia Of several
thousand armed men, most of them
with their blankets about their necks
and knapsacks at their backs, ro-
minding old residents Of the city
worry forcibly of the days when Con-
federate soldiers were oncamped
about the Capitol of the State. The
presence Of these riAo clubs at CO..
lumbia is history; how they were
brought is story that has never
been told. The official account of it,
herewith given, presents a vivid pic
ture of Southern society in times Of
great political excitement.
Tho first intimation THAT Governor
Hampton would neol an armed
force at tho Capitol is con ntaipcd in
tho following telegram
COLUMBIA, December 2, 1876.
r. Fl. KENNEDY, Grcenyille, S. G..
Fun expected at the fair this
week Prepare for high sport. Let
best boys come, but not too many,
pnloss; we'll heeled
v u. McBEE.
The next day tho arrangements
for securing Il largo attendance at
the "fair" secm to havo been much
moro complete, as the following
dispatches show;
II
December 8, '76.
lStrlctly Con.ldnntial]
j. II. Ev1Ns or j. II. BLEss1NGAslE,
Spartanburg. S. c.:
For prudential reasons thought
best to secure presence Of few true
and prudent men from different
counties. Can't you apd a few others
como down tomorrow ostensibly to
visit State fair Can't you got
Captain Davis to start q little earlier
and reach Allston in time for pas
sengers to reach Columbia by 10
o'clock ? If train does not meet his
train ut Allston, his train will be
allowed to run through to Columbia
as soon as it reaches Allston. Men
will come from Greenville by Air
Limo road tonight to take Spartan
burg train for Columbia, Havo
extra coach for them. Send this
telegram to some one in Union, that
somo men there can come also.
T, SToDp FARRow.
COLUMBIA, December 3, 1876.
j. M. Troy, Bulb Hill, S. G.:
Radical plot discovered to eject
our members tomorrow. Bring
forty or fifty men tonight as a preo
caution. Be quiet and prompt.
r. M SIMS.
~.
December 8, 1876,
JAS. ALLEN, Florence, S. G.:
Send up tonight all the right
men possible. Inauguration may
take place tomorrow. LfriNes can
be concealed, bring them. Don't
wait till tomorrow evening. Come
to State fair ostensibly.
r. @. HOWARD.
V.
December 8, 1876.
JAS. ALLEN, Florence, s. c.:
Things are restless lcre. Cham~
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move at short notice.
III. j. CAMERON.
XVII.

D9ce1nUCf =, ISTH.
To s. Fl. CAMERON
Don't be uneasy about mo, We
will be up on to. morrow night. No
moro men leave our neighhorhood
undor present orders.
H. j. CAMERON.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-09-05
GRADED PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-09-05

Success Of the Experiment. at Winns-
boro--The Problem Of Education
Solved ia South Carolina.
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rennnued oa fourth page,
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JAS. ALLEN, Florence, s. c.:
Things are restless lore. CHAINS
berlain may attempt to be inaQgu-
rated tomorrow. Prudential rea-
sons demand the prosonce of true
mon from the country. Gould you
and others come tonight to uisat the
1asr ? r. G.. HowARp.
vi.
COLUMBIA, December 8, 1876.
W. L. MAULD1N, Greenville
1 have telegraphed Cagle too,
Perhaps you had better consolidate
men. Extra train may leave Green
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-25
TERRIBLE STORM
In the West Indies Great Des'
tructiOn of Life and Prop


New York, Sept. 23.--The recent
storm in West Indies, according to
letters received, did immense dam.
age. At Port An Prince tho Govern
ment works were entirely destroyed.
AT Jacmel the sea broke up and de.
stroyed ell small vessels at anchor and
warehouses on shore, while goods on
the wharves were washed away, in.
GLIDING 100000 pounds Of logwood
belonging to various owners on the
other side of town. The rise in the
river swept away several houses. A
hurricane also destroyed the entire
coffee and cocoa crops.
Five vessels riding at anchor were
driven ashore, among them was the
Dimonican frigate Ozania.
At Aux Cages in less than three
hours 434 houses were destroy ed, also
the powder magazine, court house and
other public buildings A large mum.
Der of persons were killed and
wounded. At Aquire lSG houses
were swept away, and in Cayaillon
only four houses remain. The ses
rushed over tho town of st. Louit
and swept nearly everything away
burying men, women and children in
its course. Lagrande Auz was near
~ swept out Of existence and at Jer.
emie only twenty houses remain, and
several vessels were driven ashore.
AT Covail 40 houses were demolish
cd. In the country districts the hur.
ricane destroyed nearly every planta
ton. At Trinidad ships. steamers
lighters and other craft were sweep
ashore.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-25

A subscriber writes from Ottumwa
saying that in that Congressional Dis
trict all the greenback speakers de-
pend upon and quote the Inter- Ocean,
of Chicago, for proof of their widest
assertions, and asks '.What does ii
mean. Is the Inter- Ocean going ia
leave the republican party?' II
hasn't very far to go to do it. Wher.
ever it is going, or whenever it is GO
ing, it has done the republican party
in this State, and in the West gener-
ally, more harm than all the green
back speakers and papers put tOgeth.
er. So whether 1t goes clear out OF
the party or not is probably a matter
of perfect Indifference to all republic
ans. Indeed, it is likely that the mass
of the republicans would prefer that
it should either align itself with the
principles and the platforms of the
party, or else that it should don the
greenback livery openly and work for
that party under its own colors and
directly. This opinion we express
with regret, because the Inter- Ocean
has made such a noble record in 9TH
er fields in republicanism, and render
ed the party such valiant and devot-
eel service therein, that we have learn
ed, rs other republicans have, to en-
terrain an admiration and regard for
the paper amounting to love for it.
But its conduct in this campaign, in
standing so-called republican god
father to the more reckless greenback
theories and assertions, forces us to
express what we have said here. The
opinion, too, we know is to be re-
GREETED but still is the sincere opinion
of the mass of Iowa republicans. A
year ago the Inter- Ocean had ten
friends among the republicans of this
State where any other Chicago paper
nad one. But, by its strange and per-
slstent espousal of the greenback craze
!. Lne present campaign it has forfeit
nate Register. 1850 - 'e"''
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-25

The st. Louis Globe Den,ocru,
thinks that something like the fol-
lowing will appear in the democratic
papers Of 1880: at was at one time
very generally believed that our dis
tinguished standard-bearer, BENJAMIN
+. Butler, while in command at New
Orleans, appropriated to his own use
a large quantity of silverware belong
ing to the people of that city. We
have since made thorough investi-
cation of the facts in the case, and
are now convinced that Mr.. Butler
was in this matter made the victim
OF gross and malicious libels. He
was brave defender of his country,
and his personal honor was not tar
nished during the whole struggle by
a single act of which his supporters
need now be ashamed. Even his vi
client Abolition practices can be ex.
cused, because of the stern necessities
of the war in the midst of the which
they occurred. Every democrat in
the land can go to the polls in Novem.
Der with good and clear conscience
and cast his vote for Benjamin F. But
Ter, to rescue the land from the fanat.
les who have so long ruled it and who
have so nearly ruined it"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-25
A Good Investment,

Mr.. Hubbard, q Connecticut gen.
tleman, has a beautiful home, and
this is how he got it,:
He wasabout eighteen years of age,
when he determined to lay aside, day
by day, what he would have spent in
cigars had he been . smoker. At the
end of each month he deposited at
interest the sum thus accumulated, in
q savings bank.
As the price Of good cigars advan-
ced, he correspondingly Increased the
sum of money 10 be laid away each
day. From time to time. when his
savings in the bank reached q few
hundred dollars. he would draw them
out and make better investment.
By wise and shrewd management
the fund amounted to from fifteen to
eighteen thousand dollars few years
since. Mr.. Hubbard then took this
money and with it purchased q charm.
ing site on the Greenwich hill, and
built comfortable and commodious
house for himself and family. The
place overlooks Long Island Sound,
and commands one Of the finest views
that can be found along the Connec-
ticut shore.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-25
An Irish Jaw.

The New York correspondent Of
the Buffalo Courier writes: "There
have hcen but very few instances oil
Irish Catholics turning Jews, either
for love or money. 1t seems an utter.
ly unnatural step for any cause, though
it 10 sometimes taken, Surrogate
Calvin will soon have to try q will
contest arising mainly from an occur
renee of this kind. Several months
ago an old lady of Irish birth and q
most scrupulous Catholic died in New
York, and left will bequeathing
nearly oil her estate to Catholic char
tiles. Her nearest relative was q
nephew, who had been of her own
faith, but who apostatized from it
many years ago. He was an accom-
plished scholar, and q Hebrew rabbi
employed him to make some transla-
tons OF ancient Hebrew works. He
subsequently abjured the faith in
which he was born, and became an
orthodox Jew, and he afterwards
married Jewess and reared fami-
ly in the Hebrew faith. All this waa
q source Of great sorrow to the old
lady, and when making her will she
loft but . mere token to her apostate
nephew. After her death he gave
notice that he would contest the will,
and the trial will probably begin
next month"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-25
AProsperous and Happy Region
Where People Mind Their
Own Business.
From the New YORK Tin

One Of the very best cultivated
counties in the whole Republic is said
to be Lancaster county, Pa, original
ly settled by Memories, Moravians,
and Dunkcrs, who fled from Germa-
ny and Holland to avoid persecution
during the eighteenth century. They
were mining and agricultural people,
and their descendants to-day follow
the same callings that their ancestors
did. Lancaster was laid out in 1929,
and was tho fourth county in the
State. 1t contains 928 square miles !;
the value Of the farms is estimated at
about $50, OOO,OO0; of its agricultural
products, nearly $4,000, 900; and it's
minerals, some $16,OOO,OOO. The pop
ulation is about $4,000. The farms
are small, from SO to 100 acres gcner-
ally, farm of 200 acres being very
rare. These arc seldom sold. They
are handed down from sire to SON
the Pennsylvania Dutch, as they are
commonly named, being among the
most industrious, conservative of reo-
pie. They have changed very little
In the last l50 years, having the same
notions, habits and prejudices, that
they had q century ago. They are
not enlightened in any sense but
they work hard, pay their debts, pros
per materially, and mind their own
business. If the Americans generally
understood farming as they do, this
country would be the garden OF the
world.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-25
SHOCKING SUICIDE.
A Woman Takes Aor Child In Her
Arms and Jumps into q Well.

The Unionville, Mo. Republican.
of this week, gives the particulars Of
q shocking suicide and murder COM
mitted at that place on Thursday.
Our city was thrown into a state OF
intense excitement, this (rhursday)
morning, over one of the most fear
full tragedies that has over happened
ed in our midst. For some time past
the wife of Michael Schick, whose
residence joins the store OF Williams
u Roth, has been suffering from sick
ness to such an extent that her mind
had become deranged. She repeat
eddy threatened to take her life auG
put an end to her sufferings. Fear
ing that she might attempt to carry
out her threat, Mr.. Shick watched
her every move, and last evening she
appearing more than usually restless,
he sat up with her. Shortly after
three o'clock this morning she got
up and started down stairs, saying
she wanted some water. Mr.. Shick
called her back and told her he
would get il tor her. In about halt
an hour she got up AMI started to take
the clothes of Of their little boy, aged
about TWO years, saying that he was
too warm. After quieting her, Mr..
Schick sat down in his chair and be.
ing worn out with constant watching,
fell asleep. He had been asleep not
more than five minutes, when he
discovered that his wife and child
were missing. An immediate search
disclosed the fearful fact that she had
taken her sleeping child in her arms,
and, proc eeding to the well in the
yard of Thcs. Brown, adjoining,
jumped in. 1t was not ten minutes
from the time Mr.. Shick was talking
with her, until the time Of the dis
covery of their bodies in the we'll.
He Immediately aroused Mr.. Brown
and M. Francisco, and with the aid
OF some other neighbors, the bodies
were removed from the well. DR..
Pineo was called but could
be of no service, az life was extinct
when the bodies were taken out.
The sad affair has cast pail over our
city, and all sincerely smpathize with
Mr.. Shick in his sore affection.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-25

The Davenport Democrat which
next to the Dubuque Herald is, per.
haps, the leading journal of the dem.
ocracy of this State, says:
The platform of the Connecticut
democracy, adopted at the State Con.
vention held at New Haven on Tues.
fday, is one Of the best of the wear
and is emphatically hard money. II
enunciates this sound and time-hon.
ored doctrine:
That the constitution of the United
States recognizes gold and silver as
the standard money of the Union, and
this standard is the most stable basis
for the commercial necessities of the
world. The democratic party of the
Union has never failed to recognize
and support this essential principle
A great and costly war, and republic.
an financial fraud and corruption
brought an irredeemable currency un.
der which the prices of every com.
modify have fluctuated, industrial in.
terests have suffered, labor has beer
deprived of its just reward, and many
business men brought to bankruptcy
But the laws of trade, with a large
balance of foreign exchange in favor
of this country, have brought us tt
the door of redeemable currency
and a sound basis for an improved
and prosperous state of affairs, which
will place the creditor and debtor O
the government on the same financial
plane.
To this every democrat in tht
country will come finally and so will
everybody else, because common
sense and common honesty demand
If
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-25
The Wallets Prescription

The story is told out West OF an
English surgeon and his Irish valet
coming across an injured herder, re-
quiring the amputation of limb, in
the earlier days of railrosding on the
plains.
"Pity, pity" remarked the ply
stefan to his servant, "but ave no
chloroform with me to hease the poor
fellow"
This information seemed to affect
the sympathetic valet deeply for time
but after little he suddenly bright
ened up and confidingly whispered
in his masters ear
"Egad, docthur, couldn't VIC knock
him sinseless wild a club"
The injured ranchman, who had
overheard all, settled the question Of
anesthetics by pulling out revolver
and ordering the "chopping" to 60
ON without any more dashed non
sense.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-25

The reader will readily see on ex.
animation of the above just what the
1870 notes were-interest bearing obi
cations just as really as the bonds
themselves. But it should be under
stood, too, that the larger part of the
issues of the 7-3Os were in greater
amounts than the example cited.
Thus, the report of the Secretary of
the Treasury shows that Of the issues
Of July II, 1861, while SITS, 800, was
in sums of fifty dollars; there were in
800 notes, $l9, 400, 800; in $500 notes,
$35 1851 800; in 81 900 notes, So, 293, :
900, and in 8, 900 notes, $14 SOC, 900. OF
the issues of August Is, 1864, only
$ls, 17G,9 800 were in sums of fifty dol
lars; in 500 notes, 500, $40, 600; in $500
notes, $s5,S21 900; in 900 notes,
Sis, 523, 900, and in 5000 notes, 500
$4,000. So also, in the same proper
tons as to the issues of June Is, 1865,
and July 10, 1865, respectively. These
facts show conclusively that to claim
the issue of the 7-3O notes as having
been part of the circulating medi-
una part Of the volume of curren-
Gym 1866, as was done by DIR. Nc
kinnie, and is done by all greenback
orators and organs, is to put falsehood
in the place of truth.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-25

We hear q prominent democrat O
this county says: Eyes, we know this
money craze is all wrong, but the re
publican party must be beaten anG
TOR that purpose we will Join in will
me nationals and when we hav.
.nfAshed the republicans by thl
means we will then take care of thu
money matter and AK ii up on SOUND
specie basis = -
That Is to say, we deoocrats wi,
use the greeDbackes to help - f,oh
our battle and when we have use1
them and got victory, we will a..
tend to money matters as we want
70; we will make these greenbackers
MINK we are with them long enough
70 neip US into power, then we will,
snow them thing or two. All, that
Ia the plan, is it. Well, that doesn,t
strike any fair man as a very honest.
iaar way Of doing. More than that.
nom the way this playing with the
nationals by the democrats il going
on, 1t looks as though the nationals
We're likely to fool the democracy in
stead OF being fooled, and get away
with the whole democratic party
horse, foot and dragons. In Main.
democracy has shrunk into tn,
smallest party in the field, and /,
Massachusetts, they are endorsed an,
their convention broken literally
the party is obliged to get off by itsel
In order to have any convention a
all. Democracy are now learnin,
that 1t Is hard to cage again furious
untamed animal after once lettin,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-25
Wife and Child Murder.

INpIANAroLIs, Sept. 23.-The wo.
man and child found murdered yes.
terday, west of the city, proves to be
the wife and child Of man named
VIM. Merrick, who keeps q livery
stable on the corner Of South and Ills
streets. Merrick was arrested this
morning, but denies all knowledge OF
the crime. He cannot give any defin.
lite information as to his whereabouts
His family says he sent his wife, be-
fore confinement, to some place in the
city, but don't know the street or
name Of the person in whose charge
she was.