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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-08-17
NJ USlCAL HON ES
Arc Always Happy Homes.

What hath earth dcarcr in palace or grove
Than music ut night-iall from lipS that we love?
d
l'n"n Sath"r the little ones around the Piano
or O;gan after the tolls OF the day are over and
enjoy real home concert. If yDu have no
nome, get one right away, or If yen haven't any
ChlIQfGn, DOrrOW SO:np, and II EOu NO vii hnlt
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-08-17

We are determined to sell, and persons
wanting goods in our line will "mako
money" by calling before purchasing
elsewhere.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-08-17

The Recent Reunion at Ghester--A Full
Turnout--A Flag Presen5ation--The
Address Of Capt. Alston, etc., etc.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-08-17


into: Capt. r.. G. Clowney made a
motion, which was adopted, to ap-
point committee of one from each
company to frame constitution.
This committee subsequently re-
ported that they could not do their
work in tho short time allowed them,
and recommended that until con
stitution be adopted the officers of
the Association shall be a president,
two vice-presidents, secretary,
and treasurer. Acting upon this
recommendation, the following off :.
GERS we're elected, on motion of
Captain Alston
President-G on. Jno. Bratton.
-Presidents-Maj. J.L. Goker,
Capt. w. D. Cousar.
Secretary-Capt. H. A. Gaillard.
Treasurer-W H.. Hardin,
On motion, the following COM
mittee was appointed to prepare
constitution at their leisure w.
D. Cousar, Giles J. Patterson and
FL. A. Gaillard. An executive
committee was appointed, consis.
ting of j. i. Cocker, r. @. Clowney,
B. P. Alaton, w. Brand, r. w.
Brice and W. G. McFadden. To this
committee was left to determine the
time Of the next meeting. On mo-
tion, Winnsboro was selected as the
place Of the next NEE ting The
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-08-17
Get the Standard.

"7he best "haoriy. II ought to be-
IN c'''V LA'n"y also IN ercyy 1cnlemy md
IL y''ciV ShooL '-HoN. CnAs. SUMNER.
"7hedca existing English Lecicon. ."-LoN-
DON ATnEN.EUM. . 49,. -.''''
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-08-17
New Advertisements. A

New Advertisements.
Prints-J. T.. McMaster & Co.
Musical Homes-Luddcn & Bates,
Get the Standard-J. 3. Lippin>
cott g. Go.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07
HOW america Crowds EngIand,

In giving his impressions of
America, in leading English peri
odical, a recent English visitor re-
marks that the Russo-Turkish war
ought to have shown the American
manufacturers that they have little
reason to fear the English. So far
as he has been able to learn, not q
single cartridge had been made in
birmingham for either Russia or
Turkey; but when he was at Rridg-
port. the cartridge factories had
been running day and night for
months, and he saw a Russian and
Turkish Commissioner in the same
works. Thefact was the Americans
had made the rifles as well as the
cartridges for both cOmbatants. A
further evidence of the threatened
supremacy Of American manuiac-
lures, he noticed that Lowell was
sending cotton cloths to Manches-
ter, and that, in our retail stores,
cotton goods were marked at a
lower price than that at which
goods Of the same quality could
be sold at Liverpool or Lon
don. 1t is the same, he said, with
the other manufacturing industries
of America. The manufacturers oi
hardware are beating us In market
after market from Hamburg to
Melbourne. In Birmingham itseli
the merchants are importing from
the United States Ich articles as
axes, hay forks and agricultural inn
plements of nearly every iescrip-
lion, sash pulleys and small castings
of very m my kinds, although Il T.
estimated that freight and other
expenses adds II or Is per cent. t.
the cost of the goods.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07
The Mexican Dollar.

The Mexican dollar IL a legal ten
der. 1t weighs 4l5.s6 grains and Is
100 fine, while the United States
silver dollar weighs 412 grains and
is 100 fine, making the Mexican
dollar worth considerably more
than ours. Brightley's Digest, vol.
/, page 155, gives "Laws of the
United States, act of Goth of June,
1884," as follows:
The following silver coins shall
be of legal value, and shall pass
current as money in the United
States, by tale for the payment of
all debts and demands Of the rate of
one hundred cents the dollar, that
is tOsay, thedollars Of Mexico, Peru,
Chill and Central America, are not
less weight than 4l5 grains each,
and those restamped i'm Brazil Of "a
like weight, of not less than 10
ounces, 10 pennyweights OF pure
silver, i'm the Troy pound OF II
ounces Of standard silver.
A correspondent of the New York
Evening Post says: "The aforesaid
act of Congress has never been re-
pealed, and the Mexican dollar of
4l5 grains is legal tender In the
United States. The Mexican dollar
weighs from one TO two grains more
than is required by law. They
should be at premium instead ola
discount. 1t is a swindling transac-
tion to discount them. IL Is an Op-
preston of the weak by the strong
which should not be tolerated."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07
virginia rIust PAY cnsh.
Rlchmond stnte.

A Virginia merchant applied nc
New York the other day for credit
on q bill of goods. "I can't credit
you," said the merchant. "Why
not ?" asked the Nirginian. "Well,
things are uncertain in your State
on the public debt question, and so
many people seem opposed 10 the
payment Of il that we fear the same
sentiment will very soon prevail
with respect To private debts; aud
while ! know you are man Of
honor and to be trusted, vet / do
not know what your partner may
be, or how your heirs might be ai-
fected. A State that even permits
itself to debate the question of its
obligations is already half way on
the road TO repudiation, and the
honest must suffer for the sins of
the dishonest" And II we do not
speedily stop this misehieviOus cry
of Reputation this will be the stand
ing reply 10 all who seek credit
abroad: ave do not doubt you, hut
cannot take the risk !" and soon
Virginia will have no credit in any
of the great trade centres, but must
be prepared TO bIy and sell for
"ready cash."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07

In reply to a letter Of recent dale
addressed TO Judge a. 5. Marks, by
Col. Q. w. Charlton, Of Knoxville,
the following has been published ;
C6i. c. W. Csarltoa, hnoxriHe.
MY DEAR SIR-I thank you for
your bold, manly, cordial letter,
and | employ the first moment 0f
leisure to respond to the questions
you submit to me.
Calamity has followed the with
drawal Of the "greenbackN currency
from the people. Common sense
suggests that its restOrations Is the
true remedy for the evil, and / shall
insist, with ali the energy of nature,
that the remedy be promptly APP
piled.
AS to the question Of convict la
bor, il is too clear for argument that
as the proper object Of government
is to protect the interests OF an i'm
partially, that 80 government has
the moral right to throw the burden
of punishment for crime upon any
one class of its citizens, but that all
should bear the burden equally;
and, therefore, am utterly opposed
to any measure which will operate
to east upon any one class a burden
which, as n matter of Justice, should
fall equally upon all.
If am elected, will try to sec
that justice is done 10 all. / shall
grant favors TO none. Called by the
people, / will serve the people.
ALBERT $. MARKS.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07
Temperance in England.

We print below a paragraph
which seems to Indicate serious
consideration of the principle OF
total abstinence in England, by
circles in which hitherto temper
ance has been considered a matter
quite beneath the notice of people
in good society. One thing which
in our opinion will favor water
drinkinglin London is the fact that
Englishmen are finding out the use
of ice. The greatest obstacle to the
expulsion of wine and beer from the
dinner table in that well fed metro
polls is the fact that it is impossible
to get a glass of water there which
human stomach can tolerate. Ice
water will be the most efficient
apostle of temperance to the middle
classes of England:
In England, where the theory
and practice of total abstinence
have always been scOffed at by the
cultivated majority, the awful pre-
Valence of drunkenness is leading
to the formation of a public senti-
ment against drinking as strong as
any that ever existed in this country.
The clergy have hitherto maintain
ed drinking practices, but now
many of the ministers of the Estab-
lished as well as of the Dissenting
bodies, with large section of the
medical profession and distinguished
men from every walk in life have
united in vigorous movement for
the suppression of drunkenness.
Canon Farrar, ina sermon preached
a few Sundays since in Westminster
Abbey, "declared alcoholic drinking
and drunkenness to be the one
glaring, disgraceful and perilous
national vice, by which the nation
stands unenViably distinguished
and seriously endangered" )" So
strong feeling of the evils ofdrunk-
enness as that which now pre-
walls in respectable circles in Eng
land naturally leads to the adoption
of the Christian rule of total absti-
nence. 1t does not require the i'm
position of total abstinence upon
others as a rule; it only leads a man
to say "Because this evil is so great,
and because Iwish tOsave those who
are running themselves by drink,
and because l cannot very effective
ly urge them to abstain without alb
myself, I therefore relin-
quish a luxury which I have not
abused and to which / deem myself
entitled, that j may the more sue
ce5sfully persuade those to abandon
it to whom it is proving curse" "
It begins to be evident in England
that this course of conduct
is something very different from
and the same truth
ought to be equally evident on this
side of the ocean.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07
The Outlook i'm the Iron Trade.
Buffalo (N..Y.) Courier.


The iron industry of thisscountry
was not only among the first to fee
the effects of the catastrophe of 1878
but it has also suffered more in pro-
portion during the five years that
have since elapsed than any other
we can think of. The reason for
this is well known. ItWas the sud.
den collapse of railroad construction
and extension. For the past two OF
three years not One-half of the SOC
blast furnaces in the country have
been worked, and the demand fOI
iron has been so small that the
other half have scarcely paid eX-
penses. Since colonial days the
, price of iron in the United States,
malleable as well as pig iron, was
never quoted so low as at the be-
ginning of the present year. For
several months back, however, the
trade has picked up wonderfully.
As it was the first to start on the
| downward road to adversely, so it
would now seem to be leading all
other industries on the highway to
prosperity.
One of the most extensive mill
owners in Pennsylvania, in cOnVef-
sation the other day with a repre-
sentative of the Philadelphia Press,
said that there was more iron being
consumed at the present time, all
over the country, than for years
past. As a consequence prices are
showing a tendency to stiffen, and
works that have been standing for
years are starting up every week.
The outlook, according to the same
authority, is really promising.
But, perhaps, the most important
fact of all is that our manufactures
no longer fear foreign competition.
The panic has taught them this val
liable lesson: how to manufacture
as cheaply as their foreign competi-
tors. The home trade is therefore
secure, and no longer needs the arti-
fetal protection of the tariff. Nor is
this all that has been gained. Our
manufacturers are also prepared to
compete for orders in Europe, where
a great demand for iron, consequent
upon the treaty of Berlin, is begin
ming to spring up. France is lead
ing the way. She has just issued
the first inStallment of the loan OF
three milliards, destined for the
construction of local railways. Aus
rO-Hungary, by the Berlin treaty,
has obtained the power to insist up
on the extension of her network OF
railways to Constantinople and the
Kgean, which the blind obstinacy
of the Porte has hitherto resisted.
She is also negotiating with Servia
and Roumania, with a view to con-
structing the salQnipa railway with
out delay. There are ambitious
schemes, too, for the opening up OF
Asiatic-Turkey, by running rail,
road through the valley of the Eu'
pirates schemes which are meet
| ing with much favor among capital,
lists in London. The fact is, people
with capital are beginning to show
a disposition to risk it in anything
that promises fair returns, and the
construction of railways is again tC
be the favorite venture. With 6
promising market, then, for our iron
abroad and a certain and increased
demand for it at home, the irOI
manufacturers of the country may
once more take courage.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07
Facts For Greenbackors.

The Democratic House repealed
the resumption act, but the RepED-
lican Senate refused TO concur.
The Democratic House passed a
bill restoring silver to a perfect
equality with gold as "A money met
al, but the Republican Senate re-
fused to concur.
The Democratic House passed u
bill making grecnbacks a full legal
tender, equal with gold and silver,
for the payment of all debts, public
and private, but the Republican
Senate refused TO concur.
The Republican party in their
State platform declare that the H.
nancial question has been settled,
but this the Democratic party de-
nies, and declares that the financial
and labor questions are the only
issues in this campaign.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07
WHOLE NO. 2,254.
No over Production.


1t is forcibly put forth by the
Chicago Times that a decrease in
production cannot induce better
times. We give an extract fEom an
elaborate article on the subject,
which cannot fail to give matter for
reflection:
All the talk about creating pros
! perity by doing loss work, arises
from the assumption that too Inuch
is produced-thatt there is too great
an abundance of eXchangeable and
useful products. How it is possible
for any human being to assume
such thing is a mystery. 1t is
| hardly possible to find a man,
woman or child that has enough OF
everything. The great mass of the
people would gladly double their
consumption if they could. Very
many would gladly consume more
food, and most people who have
food enough would be glad to inn
prove its quality. There is hardly
one person in a hundred who would
not double his consumption of
clothing, and more than double his
supply of furniture and articles of
personal use and adornrnent, such
as watches and jewelry, If they could
afford to do SO. There are very few
people who would not be glad to
spend more than twice as much as
they do in building dwellings and
improving their surroundings. If
it were possible for once to fully
satisfy the wants Of all men, new
wants would arise, impelling to
further industry. All the manual
labor of man, supplemented by all
the aid he can possibly derive from
machinery-from the forces of ma
ture reduced to service-will never
be able to satisfy his wants. 1t is
the very fact that human wants are
not supplied-that production is not
equal to demand-that impels our
labor reformers to write essays, and
make speeches in favor of reducing
the hours of labor. They have not
enough themselves, and they see
others about them who have not !
enough, and they imagine that |
somehow they and these others can
get enough by assuming that there |
is too much in existence, and there
upon producing less.
The real trouble is, briefly stated,
that things are not producing i'm due |
proportion. Relatively too much |
of some things and too little of |
other things is produced. The re-
suit is that exchanges are clogged,
and production is arrested. It is
because production is arrested, that
men who depend wholly upon their
personal efforts cannot find employ
ment at good wages. Every man
and woman alive could work early
and late, Sundays as well as week
days, without "gorging" the mar
kets, if only he or she knew ex-
actly what to produce. The reasons
why things are not produced in due
proportion, and the means by which
production can be maintained in
due proportion, are not subjects of
in this article. The pres
ent object is to point out that gene
raj Over-production is impossible,
and therefore general prosperity
cannot be created by reducing pro-
duction equally at points.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07
Political Plagiarism

The New York Trihune accuses
the Democratic conventions OF Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Louisiana OF
ga direct plagiarism of the ideas Of
the Nationals, if not, indeed, Of
their language" This reminds us
of a remark of the noted Prof Peck,
of the AndOYer Seminary. lie had
written several famous sermons
which he was in the habit Of deliv-
ering in certain rural towns in New
England. The young "theOlogs"
were so enraptuTed with these that
they frequently stole them outright
and got them of in the backwOods.
One Of his sermons, known as the
"Peter Sermon" the old Professor
said he dared not preach in certain
parts of the country for fear OF being
accused Of plagiarism. Thus the
Democrats, who reafiirm their old
doctrine of opposition 20 monOpo-
lies, etc, are accused Of stealing
from the young National party.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07
Cocktail Story.

"Gath" writes this bit of gossip
from Saratoga to the Cincinnati
Enquirer:
"Judge Carpenter, of California,
is at the Grand Union Hotel. He
tells a good anecdote of James X.
Polk's term of the Presidency.
Polk was a temperate but not alb
stinent man, of very regular habits.
He rose early at the White House,
and had his servant bring, punctu-
ally, a very large cocktail in q tall
glass, of which he drank just one
half and left the other half for his
return from his morning walk. On
this walk he required the company
of Marshall Polk, his nephew, who
related the present incident to Judge
Carpenter. Young Polk, was also
fond of cocktail, though his uncle
did not know it, and would not
countenance it. However, they
would hardly have left the house
on the daily occasion, when
Marshall, pretending to have for
gotten something, would slip back
and drink nearly all the remaining
half of thesscocktail and pour in
some water. After returning from
the walk, President Polk repaired
to his chamber In a brown political
study, and seizing the tumbler
gulped down the water and sedi-
ment, and then exclaimed :
"Paugh !" This continued with
regularity, and the cheat was never
found out. Polk now lies before his
dwelling in Nashville, inferred in
his yard, and Marshall Polk has not
been heard from since the beginning
of the war. He may have died OF
cocktails or Of wounds"
We can't vOuch for the cocktail
part of the story, but we can vOuch
for the fact that Marshall II. Polk
has neither died of cocktails Oh
wounds, but is at present the hale
and hearty Treasurer of the State OF
Tennessee.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07
Ar-nrenrenm Disnened.

Beautiful, beautiful silken hair"
Phillip murmured fondly, toying
lovingly with one of her nut-brown
tresses, ''soft as the plumage on an
angels wing; light as the thistle
down that dances on the summer
air; the simmer of sunset, the
glitter of yellow gold, the red-brOwn
autumnal forests blend in enhancing
beauty in its ho2d9 Aha snd lud5tb ba afen sendt II
what to say next. There was a
moment of profound silence, and
then Aurelia took it from him and
went out of the room with it. When
She came back he was gone. They
meet now, but they meet as
stI angers, and the eyes that were
wont to beam upon each other with
the awakened love light now glare
as though life was an eternal day.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07
AIIHands Provided For.

1t was John Sherman's promise
to the hesitating Anderson and Dan
Weber that if they would only
"stand firm" and make false re-
turns, a grateful party would never
forget it of them, and they should
be we'll "cared for"
All hands have been provided
for.
Let us see. There are a good many
of them, first and last, who were
concerned in the Florida and Louis
lana iniquity but they have all
been quietly looked after aud feared
for" Only look at the lists, for the
two States:
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07

The footing of the list for 1864 IS
s61.07, while that for 1878 is but
$13.45, for the same articles. In
1864 Iaborers received at the rate of
two dollars per day, while now the
same class Of wOrkmen receive from
a dollar to a dollar and a quarter a
day but the dollar a day they now
earn will purchase nearly two and
One-half times as much as the two
dollars they earned in 1864.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07

WAsHINGToN special to the Gin
cinnati Gazette: Gov. Brown,
chief manager of the Texas Pacific
legislation, who is now here, pre-
diets that the doubling uf the freight
charges over the Union Pacific from
New York to San Francisco, which
now amount TO 81, 400 for freight
car. will result in the passage of n
law at the next session of Congress
regulating the rates Of freight over
the Pacific road. Gov. Brown says
however, that the only real remedy
is in competition, which, of course,
means the Texas Pacific.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07

There are others. And now not
one of them can remember how the
returns were forged. But they have
been we'll scared for" John Sher-
man seems to have taken a liberal
share. We find no fewer than eight
that he has taken under his wings.
He might, on a pinch, take the
whole lot. In that case he would
be like the hen that was made the
subject of boys experiment. Hav-
ing gathered all the eggs in the
barn and put them In the nest of a
setting hen, and being asked what
he was doing, he replied that he
''iust wanted to see the old hen
spread herself" and is ready to do
it, rather than have any more Of
his eggs added. But what a. pic
ture these lists present! And it
looks as if Mr.. Hayes chad an eye
on things.-HarJOrd Times.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07
Very sensible Talk.
Franklin Review and Journal.

The Clarksville Chronicle, paper
edited with far more than average
ability, and which has heretofore
advocated what is termed the "high-
tax" side of the State Debt question,
takes the most sensible view of the
action of the recent State Conven-
tion we have yet seen or heard from
that quarter. We strike hands cor
daily with our contemporary, and
shall Join most heartily and enthu-
siastically in its future programme
of operations.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07
Fipures for The yyortkinuman

The following table, being the
price list of wholesale grocers ana
dry goods dealers in 1864, and the
prices for the same goods at the
present time show the difference
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07

THE Supreme Court of North
Carolina elected in 1863, and the
last official remains of Republican
ism in that State adjourned last
week, to be succeeded by the court
recently elected by the Democracy.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-07
Arctic Of Ancient Nashville.
Columbia Herald and Mail.

Mai. B. Gordon has in his posses
sion Il bureau made in about 1895,
the first ever made in the city OF
Nashville. II was made for the
Majors father, John Gordon, by'a
Mr.. Deatheridge, who had his shop
near the southeast corner OF College
and Church streets. Nashville then
contained only three or four hum
dred inhabltants, and had log
jall-hOuse. This bureau Is quite u
curious piece of workmanship. The
drawers are so arranged as 10 appear
to be part OF the fixed round, and
unless shown one could hardly find
them. The historical society ought
to have this piece OF furniture.