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GOOD FLOUR.
RACON. HAMS AND LARD.

A. LARGE lot of Bacon always on hand, which
"A we will sell as cheap as the cheapest We
still have few Tennessee Country Cured Hams.
They are considered the best In the market. Call
and get one and try 1t and be convinced Of their
superior quality. We keep as good Lard as the
market affords-just like homemade Lard-and
will sell 1t as cheap as the cheapest. Come and
see US. ... gtst CLARK bhOIdEnc.
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Bibles.
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r. LATHAM.
April "a IL u
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ATTHE LOWEST PRICES.

AT THE LOWEST PRICES.
TT is very important to know where yon can
buy the best goods at the lowest prices.
want the worth of your money. Their stock Of
Groceries and Plantation Supplies Is complete IN
every respect, they guarantee satisfaction on eve.
ry article sold by them, and they promise to meot
said that "competiton is the life Of trade." But
it should be based on quality and not only In
price. 5s't''. CLARK bhoinEn
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BRADFIELD'S FEMALE REGULATOR.
4 N effectual remedy for diseases peculiar to fe.
n males. Is vouched for by all who have had
occasion to use it. For sale at the York Drug
Store. JOHN G. KUYKENDAL.
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WINCHEsTER's HYP0PH0SPH1TES.
TITS claimed for this preparation that 1t is
speedy and radical cure for Consumption and
ali Chronic Throat and Lung diseases. For sale
at the York Drug Store.
JOHN C. KUYKENDAL.
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WRAPPING PAPER

old NEWSPAPERS, of large size, suitable
| ~ for wrapping, for sale at so cents per hum
dred, at the ENQUIRER OFFICE.
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SOMETHING NEW.

7 OWN the County Right for McCARTHER'S
4 NEW HORSE POWER for running Cotton
Gins The cost of making is not one-haif Of that
of the old style power, .a
NOT A COG USED IN THE GEARING.
1t is operated entirely by rope. Parties having
old style Cog Powers can have them -remodeled,
so as to use H.
THE ROPE POWER.
A Rope Power is now in operation at Mr.. M. L..
THOMASSON'S, about 2 miles from Yorkville,
or the Charlotte Road. Those desiring to change
their powers are invited to examine it.
also own the county right of
KINGS GIN SAW SHARPENER,
Which surpasses any sharpener ever used in this
county. I will have number of these Machines
operated by competent men, who will do the
work at the Gin Houses at low prices, and salts
faction guaranteed in every instance. Orders left
with me shall have special attention. I also sell
FARM RIGHTS to planters, and furnish a Ma
chine.
I represent the manufacturers of the most
RELIABLE STEAM ENGINES,
Cotton Gins, Feeders, and Condensers, and Pow
er and Hand Presses. have sold large num-
Der of TALBOT q SONS Engines manufac-
tured at Richmond, and am happy to say that
every engine has given entire satisfaction. have
these Engines, and would be glad to increase the
business by other orders. The manufacturers
are men of large experience aud means, their
works having been in operation since 1888, and
they give full warrantee on all their sales
BOTTOM PRICES,
And terms easy. T. s. JEFFERYs, Agent.
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RIDDLES MILLS.

RIDDLES MILLS.
VTNHE undersigned respectfully informs the
public that these Mills, located on Crowders g
Creek, twelve miles north east of Yorkville, are
in complete repair and we'll supplied with an
abundance of power. They are prepared to
GRIND WHEAT at short notice and with but
little delay, and fair turnout of flour is guar
anteed.
His Wool Carding Machinery is in frst-rate
order, the cards having been recently newly
clothed. G. l.. RIDDLE.
June 20 2B
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TABLE LINEN.
HUNTER & OATES.
JOHN G. KUYKENDAL.
In Hoe Signo Vinces.

VITALIZED PHOSPHATES.
CTS brain and nerve food, and will be found
useful in the deficient mental bodily growth
of infants and children in the nervous prostra-
tion and debility of young men ; in the fatigue
of the brain of overworked clergynen, lawyers
and business men, and in the sleeplessness and
lassitude of delicate ladies'" Can be had at the
York Drug Store. -
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-OF STANDARD-
s. ORGANS.

The only sale of the kind ever successfully car
red out in the United States. Five thousand
standard instruments at Factory Rates, for Cash,
or on Easy Terms.
Ten of the leading Manufacturers of the United
States, have given us the exclusive control OF their
instruments in the South, and authorized us to
place for Introduction and advertisement, One
Thousand of their best instruments in representa-
the Southern households at Factory Wholesale
Rates.
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The most inexcusable folly is to endure Dys-
pepsia with all it's miseries, when 25 cent bot
tie of DR.. Bulls Baltimore Pills will cure the
malady.
New-York tribune., 1879-05-08
PERSONAL.

The late William b. Howes, OK salem, mas
left $50 600 20 the Bo.ton Athen@um
The President and Mrs. Hayes Will VISIT
Justice svayne al his New port cottage th su"m','
Senator Logan is reported to be the authOr
OF ss,eral plays which have bsen mueh alm't'' "
those che have seen them por.oTmedby amateurs
Tho Hon. Robert G. Winthrop, hr. Il. lie
Eddy and ths Rev IL Taterston are three Bosioh"Is
70 whom have been accorded fellow ships IN the hoy 7"
historical society OF Great Britain.
Cantain Paul Boy toms journey to New-OrleanS
s,couap.rsyey coatorSbls unsl aiser As Iets |cAs-
Lurz ynsn In the dad VI uight re was attacked Dy ma
Irisi f-yer mat horribly rackcd lls bones ne AV-
roiiei by ,aklng eighty grsius " Qunns at sse d"s
Cardinal-elect Newman reached Rome IN
tnou.L.fu consideration W his As and vOskneis Tor
bsds him froa fuA,liuE immediately tas CUSTOMARY
formgy Of visit u the Vatican, saying thst he ,hu'
not eIesut 10 hiua there Tor some days Inc Cu1
IA! vii receive his nat uoXt iAatsdaJ.
Mrs Julia ThuillieT LandOr, the widow Oh
the poet walter SaTkse lsnior has ius' died RI "'
yia L.udor. near Poren e. ~ her eisEu-sihih yo.r
she was lady OF swiSs extraction. and married "r'
Iandor whom sh, eighteen ehe has ved al FoieHoo
ever snco her husbsnds death. the edes u Ihsr luo
soma M Arnold savage LEutJr fcsiiLS N Ihe l"l''
esSA.e of Ipssy Court rarNlckshire
1t turns out that the illness of Congressman
lanes has been exaggerated sid sIsundSfstood 10 "
not ,uilcrnx from paralysis .t all The dineuy was ~
nr,t hard TO dedne and henco the runOr. The lncit
ing cause was indigestion and his physician now tanks
he will fiv rccovsr MA health At early dsy. Al DO
time has his mind been clOuded or shEo alsclo oi ~
face bOl been distorted
George Eliot is to give us oac more worR
New-York tribune., 1879-05-08

ize in opposition. They founded their great
conspiracy on the negro. And even after the
war had opened, with the same blind faulty
that had led them always to thrust up their
deformity and weakness, they pushed hlm 10
the front in the crazy demand tor the return
Of their escaping slaves within our lines.
They were always Juggling him into the midst
of controversy, and always lamentlng that ne
should be recognized as a factor III poll
tics And, not to dwell upon familiar details
they have been making constant outcry ever
since the war closed against negro voting, negro
representation, and negro rule have detrauded
and bulldozed him into absolute insigDlicance,
so that he counts for nothing politically; and
now that they have driven out the poor
despised and oppressed creature, and deprived
themselves of their only dependence for labor,
they pretend to say that the movement they
have caused should not be treated as political
question or used for political effect.
And they have the sympathies of class OF
people at the North who have the honest but
mistaken notion that all the wounds Ola
war growing out of the condition OF the ne
gro can be healed without regard to what be-
comes of the negro himself. They say we
must be careful in speaking OF this exodus 10
make no allusiOn to the causes which led to 1t,
or at least to the political cause.-the intimi-
dation and terrorism, the deprivation OF politl~
cal rights and practical disfranchlsement which
are generally believed to have been most inliu-
entail in driving these poor creatures away
from their homes. We may treat it as an un-
accountable delusiOn, or as the work OF mis-
chief makers bent on setting the labOrers at
variance with their employers. but not
az being in any sense the result OF
anything political, or as a continuance
of the old dispute. To refer to such matters
would be only to reanimate to no good purpose
the old sectional and partisan spirit, and
hinder the progress of reconciliation. And
these gentlemen are anxious above all things
to bury the past. Well, so we hope are all
of us. But there are some consequences en-
tailed by the past that it would be silly to
attempt to ignore. The irrepressible conflict
is not yet at an end. The Southern Demo-
Gratis as yet only half recognize the results
attained. They see that slavery is gone,
but do not admit that the right to
punish and keep down the black race
has gone with it. They admit that the
negro has in theory the right to vote,
but deny in practice his right to have it
counted The Negro Exodus stirs up the sed-
iment of by-gono politics. 1t will all come
clear and pure by-and-by, but only when the
negro's rights are assured. The mistake of
our namby-pamby friends at the North is in
supposing that the late war was an unpleas-
antness only. 1t was fight between two
civilizations, and ga fight for funeral.'
New-York tribune., 1879-05-08
Mr.. RIDDLE'S BOOK.


Rumblebees sometimes buzz in the most unlikely
bonnets, confusing the heads thus inverted with
the March madness of h8res OF tho midsummer
madness Of matters. Faculties of unqucstionabls
vigor and general soundness arc not always proof
against the invasion of Illusions. johnson had no
doubt OF the Cock Lane Ghost, and Luther would
not have wasted an ink horn on the devil unles he
had deemed him real and imminent There was in
fact no ghOst in Cock Lane, and the demon which
darkcncd the vigil of the R-former rose out Of the
vapors OF fasting and the spiritual gloom of his
IN prisonment in the Wartburg but even 10 the
bust and rugged Understandings Of the lexicOg-
rapher and tho apostle the spectre and tho arch
enemy seemed real and visible. An occa-
sionsl hallncination may not, perhaps impeach
the general soundness Of tho intellect which it is
cast, but frequent or persistent vEitatOns Of the
sort are not usually considered tho signs of Lowell
understanding. Belief in witches. second sight, the
philosophers stone, and other the like more or
less popular and time e-hoDorsd delusions may per
hsps exist separately sltogether in certain minds
without! disqualifyiug shom for every useful fune-
ton but such loose and liberal faith s not tie orna-
ment Of the soundesI faculties person Nigh make
ato!srably harmless alderman perhaps not nelll-
cent notary public or attorney. who did seriously
believe In the authenticity of messages from
the spirit land softly banged forth in hesitatIng
tattoo on the neither side OF dinngroom tables but
ws should not like to truss him as chancellor or
bishop. lie would be aps to fal in serious judicial
or theological crises. and import mystical coufu-
sons into the sentences OF his decree the solenni-
ties Of his ritual Nor is il precisely gratifying to
encounter psdagogus whose head is added wish
such vsgrsnt bsliois. His duties are bumbler than
those OF ths eXpouRder Of The law sac Gospel but
there are non. connected with the organization of
society which of Inors intrinsic consequences.
Thoss OF the arch director Of a system of p.da-
goeues are mAnifestly Of superlatiys Importance.
and there is conceivable bonns, IN which humble
bees are out Of place than in his Yet the head
gear OF Mr.. Henry Riddle now and for many years
past Superintendent Of the Public Schools seems
oopiously infested with thoso monotonous and mad
denng insccts IIe has written book which pur-
ports to record from the spirit land trans
mited through tho medium of his son and daug ghter
New-York tribune., 1879-05-08
TILE NEGRO EXODTS.

If is feared by several well-meanlng persons
of the class who think the public is a sick wO-
man that must be fed on whey and not agi-
tated with disturbing controversies, that the
Negro Exodus will be treated as a political
question, and that designing and mischevous
politicians will use it for political effect. The
possibility of such a thing shocks Them They
say it will reopen the wounds of the war, re-
vive old animOsities and renew sectional agi-
tation And there does seem to be danger Of
it. 1t is, perhaps, not too much to say that it
has already happened. 1t would be difficult,
indeed to lay hold Of any social ques-
ton of such general public interest
as this, which is not made use Of in
greater or less degree by the designing
politicians for political effect. The tendency
in that direction in this particular instance is
the most natural in the world. There Is not
o single feature in the whole business which
is not essentially political in character. In
the first place it relates TO the condition of
the negro race, and that is the point around
which all our politics have revolved for the
past thirty years at least it touches the Ques-
tion of the political rights of the blacks involves
the relations OF capital and labor, concerns very
and the related questions concerning the de-
velopment Of material resources, lines of i'm
migration, character of productions, sources
of revenue. centres of population, and so on.
That the exodus should he discussed in tho
light of its political significance, and with tho
exception OF its phianthropic aspects, exclu
siyely so, is simply unavoidable. Our Soothing
Syrup friends might stand at tho door with
clubs day and night without being able TO
change tho natural drift of the debate or pre-
vent the result which they so greatly depre-
cate, of renewing sectional agitation and re-
viving the animositcs Of the war
The negro is in our politics and apparently
TO stay certainly to stay until he IS in the
full enjoyment of his rights a. citizen, and
in his person the veracity Of the Declaration
upon which the Government started into
existence il fully established. We may az
well meet that fact squarely and make up our
minds that all the mush and gush OF recon
ciliation and peace which leave him out of
view are waste Of word, and time.
For this is problem in which he is.
as he has been through all these years
of controversy, q most important factor. Our
differences have had their root in the black
man, and be cannot bo ignored In any efyort
to reconcils them. Aud if We may be permit
ted to go back u little in tho history Of the
dispute over him, We can add truly thai he has
been thrust into politics and kept there by the
very men and tho party who are now depre-
eating his continuance as q disturbing element
There was no Abolition party in Congress till
these men began TO crowd tho negro into every
question Of public policy and make him the
essence of platforms and test of candidates.
They pushed their fugitive slave laws
and their Kansas-Nebraska bills 10 the
point where the North was compelled. in de-
fence of ito own system of free labor, to organ
New-York tribune., 1879-05-08
TILE W1Y 10 DO II

The planters represented in the Labor Con-
vention at Vicksburg passed long series OF
resolutions to the effect that the colored race
had been placed by Federal and State Con-
stitutions on an equality with whites, and was
entitled to all the political rights of Amerl-
can citizenship. They pledged themselves, 1t
the negroes would remain at their work ana
abandon the deplorable march TO Kansas. to
use all their power and influence to secure
free and fair elections and to put STOP 10
bulldozing. We dare say the gentlemen VINO
voted for these resolutions were sincere III
their promises. Mississippi was the ilrst Stlte
to adopt the shotgun policy on large and Ell
fectiye scale, and has been the severest sui
ferer from what is known as 1.-THE Mississippi
"plan of carving elections against the wishes
of the majority of voters. Thousands of
labOrers have abandoned the fields, gathered
up their possessions, and removed TO the
North, where negroes are treated gust Ike
"white folks" The emigration movement
has become sort of popular mania. Inc
crops are going to waste. he State Is threat
ened with industrial disaster The planters
knew that they could reduce the colored peo-
ple TO political subjection; they never real
lied how great store these poor men set by
the privileges Of which the bulldozer deprived
them; because the blacks would not fight for
the right to vote as they pleased, their mas
ters supposed that they would acquiescej 1t
never occurred to them that these peaceable
and humble people would suddenly rise up
and march away. Undoubtedly they are
alarmed at the consequences OF their conduct,
and they are ready to reform. Indeed, they
have no choice except between reform and
ruin.
But the proceedings at Washington are de-
stroying the effect of the resolutions adopted
at Yicksburg. The Southern Democrats ought
to have learned by this time that 1t is not
safe to assume that the ignorant field
hands do not understand the Democratic pol
icy. These people know much more about
public affairs at distance than their white
nelghbors suppose and it will be idle for the
planters of Mississippi TO meet In convention
and "pledge to the cOlOred race a practical
"exercise of all the rights guaranteed to the
"colored man under the law" while the rep
1esentatives of the planters are fighting in
Congress for the notification of the only laws
under which those rights can be protected
The meaning of the present contest over the
Army bill is comprchended in Mississippi
cotton-felds as well as in New-YOrk. II the
Democrats wish to persuade the negroes that
they will enjoy in the South all the rights
guaranteed to them under the laws, they must
first stop trying to destroy those laws
Perhaps the exodus to Kansas may have
good effects which none of us have antlcl-
pated. 1t may result in important reforms II
it demonstrates to the alarmed planters that
the black man is not willing to live in
country where he is not allowed to vote as he
New-York tribune., 1879-05-08

requires him to "take care that the laws be
faithfully executed" it looks to them as II
there were danger of history repeating itself.
Not with their consent will the stage
be set for q repetition of the tragedy OF 1861.
They will permit no confederate system OF
government to be established at Washington.
They believe the United States to be Nation
clothed with full powers to enforce Its laws
and they protest against those powers beng
diminished one iota. They hold that the Ma
ton is the creation of the people, and the
highest expression of their will, and the only
sovereignty within its bordersj and they VIII
seize every opportunity, whether it be at
Township, State or National elections, to re-
buke the party that has the effrontery TO
haunt again in the face of the country the
political heresy which led us into bloody
New-York tribune., 1879-05-08
POLLT[CAL NOTES.

Ths Tiden movement ID about TO take frssh
boom.
King Csueu, can muzzls the House. but not ths
country.
Reform is nsver so refulgens rs in She party's fav
Orita acs Of BoatBnatching
Thurman aud Sherman as candidates OF She two
parties would bs full 0f p0etic0l possibilities.
The Democrats swear they didn't back down.
Rather than quarrel about IT, leEssay they sneaksd
out.
The Democratic majority still surrounds tho EX-
ecutivs Mansion, but it ia " besooching not bcseg
ing"
President Hayes seems TO think that an Rroeu-
tive ought 90 be clothed with somo authority to
ecute.
Still nothing but thls awful silence from Beck.
hon his chin does break loose what a racket there
will bol
For eighteen years, now. the Democratic party
has done all it could to Danish National bayonets"
from the South.
The Democrats are sure the President will sign