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A Devil's Deed.
Green,iNe Daily Ne,rs.

HoNEA PATH, s. c., Nov. Is,
Last night, between 8 and 10 O'Clock,
Mr.. VIM. Maddox who lives about ton
miles east OF this, on Sa!udn River, was
called to his door by three unknown men,
who are supposed to have been nusked ,
nnd she: dead. Mr.. Maddox and family
had retired, end hearing Soma ono nj the
door he got up and asked what was
wanted. One of the men answered ::
Can we get to stay all night with you ?'
Mr.. Maddox replied: II haven't room"
or "the house is crowded"
One OF the party then asked if he could
get some fire? and on Mr.. Maddox start
Ing to the door with the fire. one Of them
said, "We don't want fire; 1t Is your
money we want" At this point n strug-
some injury to her husband, jumped out
OF bed, ran out at the bnck door of the
house and to Mr.. Vermillion, who lives
some two hundred yards. screaming for
help. A little son, about eleven years
old, hearing his mothers screams, ran
after her, begging her to return to the
house; and not succeeding, he himself
went back, and finding his father on the
ground, went In. and taking gun fired
II twice. but to no purpose. The men
seeing hlin running, threatened to shoot
him.. but tho little fellow kept on and
acted as stated.
Mr.. Verrnillion got up and on going to
the house OF Maddox found him lying ON
his face, some six or eight feet from ha
door, and turning him over and feeling
.is pulse found he was dead.
forgot to mention In its proper place
that ono of the men asked MADDOX to
gito him change for n $50 bill. This. ho
aaid, he could not do as he could not see
we'll, as he had but recently los. an owe.
While Mrs. Maddox WAS away, and aiter
tho killing they went in tho house and
took out trunk in which they supposed
he kept his money. This was carried a
short distance from the house ED broken
open. With the tr- Hk was found two or
three articles belonging to the murder.
ers. which 1t may be well not to mem
ton.
Triai Justice Young acting us Coroner
summoned, a Jury, and nfter examin0 all
from whom my information OF impor-
tance could be obtained, rendered u YER
dict tlint deceased camo to his death hy a
gun shot wound ut the hands of person
or persons unknown. DR.. Reid probed
tho "ound and found the ball had entered
she breast 20 the left OF the breast bone
and passing into tho heart or severing an
important blood vessel, which must have
caused instant DEATH
Efforts are being made to find the gull.
~ parties. Mr.. Maddox was a quiet, inof
fensive citizen, and at times Iiud consid-
erable sums OF money. This, it Is evil
don't, was the cause of his untimely
death. T.,
tAnother account says thnt Air. Mad
doN's son states that one OF tho three men
was certainly negro-ED. NEwa.]
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Masters Sale.
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
CocSrY OF ANpgRsoN.
n. Josephine Hawklns'an husband, John
Q. Hawkins, Plaintiffs. vs.. L. NJ. KeGton,
Rosannah +. Keaton, ct al, Defendants.
COMPLAINT for Partition Of Real Estdte.
pY virtue of pecreta7 Order to me di-
-E-hi recsed In the above eIateil case, I will
sell OF Anderson G. II. s.. c., on BALES
DAY in DECEMBER next, the following
described property, as She Real Estate of
Benjamin +. Keaton, deceased 10 w:t:
LOT NO. 2, containing one hundred and
twenty eight (i2sl acres, more or less, sd
joining lands of Reuben ClinSacalCs, L. b.
Haynie, OF nj.
LOT no: 8, containing ninety. eight and
one. half l9Sl) acres. more or less, adjoining
lnnqs Of james s. GasSsway. James +. Gas.
eawAy. Robert w. AanRs, ct a.
TRR5t5 or SALE Due-third cash the re-
naindBr on credit OF tWelyn months, with
interess from day of sale, with bond and
mortgage of tho promises to secure the pnr-
chase money, with leave to anticipate pay
ment Purchaser to pay extra for all ne
ccSsary papers.
w. w. HUMPHREYS, Master.
Noy -, 1850 20 .
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LAND FOR SALE.

MILL be sold on sALEDAY in JAN
w UARY next at public auction be-
8. c.. If not earlier disposed of at priv 90
sale, the Tract of Land whereon Mrs. Jane
E. Blackman, formerly Mrs~Norris, now re-
sides, containing $50 acres, moro or less,
and lying in Hall Township, Anderson
County.
Terms Of Sale-One-iourtli cash, and the
balance on one and two years credit, Will,
interest from date at seven per cent. and n
mortgage on the premises Purchaser to
pay for oil necessary papers. Call on me
for terms at private sale
Il. F. GRAFTON, Trustee.
Nov % 1880 %
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A RAILROAD QUARREL.

The Greenviile and Columbia and Air
Limo Railroad do not seein to cooperate
in the matter Of transporting frcights In
consequence OF tho Grcenville and Column
bia refusing to pay charges and receive
freight from the Air Line, tho General
Freight Agent Mr.. II. ID. Carpenter, OF tho
lattor Road, hns issued tho following no
tico. under date of November 18th. viz:
Commencing this date tho Atlanta and
Charlotte Air-Lino Railway will decline
10 receive any freight destined for Stations
on Greenvillo and Columbia Railroad,
Blne Ridge Railroad, Columbia. s. c..
and points on Wilmington, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad.
This action is forced upon ua by tho
Roads named refusing to pay charges and
receive such freights from thix Company
at Grcenville and Sonec.,.
It will be secn that this order will work
very greaE disadvantage to tho business
of not only tho towns on tho Roads mon-
toned, and their branches. but also to
many other towns in tho State; to mono
OF them, however, to such extent rs to
Anderson. The question naturally arises,
What Is to be dono? Can tho sections of
tho State that must suffer such detriment
our Legislature for son.o rel;ef2 or, are
they compelled to submit to the inconvc-
nicnces and hardships thus imposed upon
them? Itscems to us that tho Greenvillo
and Columbia and Wilmington, Columbia
and Augusta Ronds arc unnecessarily OK
acting in their terms, and that tho Air
Line Road Is simply acting on the defen-
sive; but thcro may be something behind
this whole matter, Of which we nro not
advised. that has forced" tho Roads
named to take tho action they have.
AS tho matter stands now, the transfer
OF freights f. NJ the Air Limo To tho Green
willie and G. :umbia RoSd ut Grccnyille
and Seneca Is impossible, which will, of
course, force merchants OH the limo of
lost named Read to have all their Western
freighti shipped by the way of Augusta
and Columbia or Baltimore, Charlotte
and Columbia, several hundred miles
further thnn by the old route, and conse-
quently Mt much higher rate Of trans
portation. 1t stands to reason that ns
long ns the Greenv;:.:o Cox: :.:SS::.mbia
Road continues It's unjust exactions of
the Air-Lino Company, that the order
above quoted will remain in force, which
will compel the merchants OF Anderson,
1t appears to us, to again put into opera
ton the wagon train between this place
/ and Central, which was once before found
t. have such wholesome OBJECT on tho
err attic policy pursued by n former Com
! pany that controlled this Road. Rather
than submit To unjust exactions and un-
| righteous extortion this womb DO tar pro.
ferable, and il this state of aiialrn cannot
be remedied by the Legislature OF the
State, we hope to see the wagon train
i again brought into uar. 'To sope, .;;;v-.-
| over, this will not bo necessary. and that
the present managements OF these two
Roads will wol's harmoniously together.
for their own good as we'll as that of their
| patrons.
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MEETING OF THE LEGISLATURE.
Special Dispah to The anderson Tntelhgencer.

.Spccia, Dispath TO The anderson Inte'i'gcncer'
COLUMBIA. s. c., November "a.
The Legislature was organized ycster'
day, nearly all the members being pres
cnt.
The Senu 3 called Colonel j. ID. Withcr-
spoon, of York, to preside temporarily,
and reelected Colonel II. Stobo Farrow
Clerk.
The House organized by the unani-
nous reelection of Hon. John C. Shep-
pard, Of Edgefield, Speaker. and Col. j.
#. Sloan, of Columbia, Clerk.
The Governors message was received
and read, and tbs vote for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor declared, showing
that .Hagood received III 7,432,. and other
candidates 4,2T0. + B. Nj.
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NOYTCE no DEBT0Ra.

"A LII persons indebted 10 Stfingef Z
IA : Lewis, A. J.. Siringer q CO... and
Stringer, Poore g Co., by Judgment. Mort
70 sci tle tle caue bafcFe tie fiTsk dav oI
Janunry, 1881 an rave coss BY doing so ns
sgsll ss nre not Haia by time ssiil 81
Murray for collection by lay; - =
fRg .A.5J STRrNGItg 3
- !. y, LEWIS. ~
JAMES SP. P(l0IfF
R0HERE a. lsfsVfls s
SSS % Ssso 50 In
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Speaking Of Col. Aikcn's letter the
Ne'cs and Courier concludes US follows /:
1--WE would not destroy tho National Do.
mocrncy, but VIC would build up the par
ty upon some moro enduring basis than
sectional issues. We would mako the
Democratic party the party OF progress,
of living ideas and enlightened states
manship. We would have 1t cut loose
from the past. put holding fast tn the
eternal principles Of right and justice
upon which 1t was first established, we
would mako it more than party OF
mere political xpcdicncy, Keeping a
higher object in view than the childish
fancy OF "being courtcd by both parties
North.' which seems to be tho Aiken
idcr.
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the part of those who are satisfied. Ills
advice to the colorcd people "to keep out of
politics, work, economic. accumulate prop
erty, educate their children, and show to
the world that they are competent to
compete with the white race in bus
mess" coupled with his slurs ON the
white people and government Of the State
shows that he is fair sample Of the aver
age carpet-bagger, and is thoroughly inbucd
with the principles Of that class He is a
friend to the colorcd mau only so long as
he can subserye his personal and ambitious
ends by such friendship. His association
with such rcncgadcs as composed the last
Republican State Convention furnishes suf
ficicnt evidence as TO what manner Of man
he is
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ANNUAL REPORT
or TIE
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
ANDERSON COUNTY,
FOE THE
Fiscal Year Ending a1nf 6,efnhar 1aen

DCRSUANT to an Act of the General
Il Assembly, entitled "An Act TO reduce
al Acts and parts Of Acts in relation to
County Commissioners. their powers and
duties into one Act. to amend the same
he following Report Is published for the
information OF the public.
The following Gains have been approved
and allowed by the Board sincs November
I, 1879:
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Edgeheld: The Ao.itc- hes entered
upon It's iourin year = III, guvd prus-
poets.
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THR sn. "a. JOCKEY E!Un
VIII have RACES on The WASHINGTON
RACE COURSE, near the City, on the
9Th. 9th, 10th and 18th December,
They are led to believe. from the number of
Entries in the Stakes and from the Stables
than they have had for the last ten years:
no Meetings of State Grange, P. OH.
and Grand Lodge a. f. If. :',>'f,g-- =
J5- All places of Amusement open with
choicest attractions.
licited for the Industrial GShibItiori.
%a5- The large crowd OF Visitors TO the
Exhibition Offers a paying opportunity 10
Manufacturers. DO, to display .haIr pro
ducts. For spacs and particulars apnly To
E. l.. ROCHE, Secretary.
Nov -, 1850 60 2
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O'N'.''''''''''7'''' 10000 s'.'.sss.SItoVS ~
/, Thos. c. Lyon, Clerk County Commits.
sioners for Anderson County, do certify
thet the above repore for the fiscal year
ending October 81, 1880, is just and true,
and that no accounts were audited and an.
proved by the Board without being certified
or sworn to. except the accounts for Trial
Justices for their Salaries.
THOS. C.. LIGON,
Clerk G. c. A.C.
Nov o5, 1880 20 :.
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assert that it is true. There is asser-
ton against assertion. In addition to
my W statement, | call attention To
a speech made by Hon. Casey Young,
in congress, on the 18th. ofApril, 1879,
in favor of the proposition to increase
the number ofinvestigatiag agents. in
which he says; Nov many localities,
where claims are pending against the
government, cannot be safely visited
by agents except during a few months
of the year, Last year a number of
agents were sent to my own district
at my request. They arrived there
about July and very soon afterward
the fever broke out when they left
without examining a single witness"
Whether my statement, or that of
"Saltus Michigan" is sustained by the
best evidence, | leave for others to
decide. In this correction | desire to
say, that as far as my information ex-
tends, both Col. Young and Senator
Harris have always done what they
could in the interest of their constitu-
ents who have claims against the
government, and nothing contained in
my first communication was intended
to reflect upon these gentlemen. Not
deeming it necessary, nor of any pub
lie interest to make further answer to
your correspondent letter, l dismiss
the subject. JUSTICE.
Memphis, March 81, 1880.
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The attempt to interfere with the
reception given General Grant and
party at Houston, Texas, deserves the
severest censure, and If the con.
temptible perpetrators can be found
out, we hope they will be dealt with
according to their deserving. This is
the first time we have heard of any
indignity being offered the ex- presi-
dent since he was rotton egged at
Galena, Illinois. A whole community
should not be held responsible for the
acts of one man or a few men, yet this
circumstance will be magnifed into
an expression of the southern people
generally, and it will be used in a
political way and to our discredit,
We have no sympathy with rufianism.
whether it crops out at Galena OF
Houston; in the north or in the south.
General Grant is entitled to the
highest marks of respect wherever he
may go. That the peOpl&of Houston
are indignant at the turning of Of the
gas during the Grant reception, and
the spiking Of the guns to be used in
firing a salute, is evident. A reward
of five hundred dollars is offered for
the miscreant who spiked the guns,
v e hope he will be found and spiked
himself.
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The Plea Of a Great raiuter for

ALNa
Mr.. Watts in the Nineteenth Century,
Now, it might be we'll to ask
whether great art is really a necessity
in the development of a nations his
tory fit be a necessary constituent
in general social perfection. We can
not question the progress Of civiliza-
ton, for it is easy to point to conquest
over inferior races, impotence OF in
justice and extension of sympathy ;
but it is a melancholy truth hal pro.
gress is not all clear gain. 1t destroys
as we'll as constructs. Decay follows
up behind advance, and many things
hourly drop out of existence which
humanity can i'll spare, though at the
moment it may set little store BY them.
Modern habits of Investigation have
sapped unquestioning faith and
have not supplied anything more
~consoling. Material prosperity has
become our real god, but we are sur
prised to find that the worship of this
visible deity does not make us happy,
and more than begin to suspect that
we cannot. by any earnestness of sac
ri6ce, bind him to US. The one thing
which is more than ever clear
ly. perceived is the density of the
veil that covers the mystery of our
being, at all times impeuetrable, and
to be impenetrable, in spite of which
conviction We ever passionately yearn
to pierce it. This yearning finds its
natural expression in poetry, in art
and in music. These are ministers of
the divine part of our natures. Ma
terialism may sheer at imperfect ut
~terance, but through the incoher.
ence will often thrill that note
which awakens a responsive chord
in the best side of humanity. Among
the best gifts bestowed upon US is the
sense Gin the widest acceptation of
the term) Of beauty, and the first.
among the servants Of beauty is art.
AS before said, 10 an age so given to
look for material, industrial and self
evident advantages as the present, all
elements that are not Immediately
concerned 10 the production of ma
terial advantages TO the fanciful and
impractical, only to be thought Of in
intervals OF breathing time, rarely
permitted in the real struggle of life,
Yetthepossible state ofsoeial harmony,
OF well being Of humanity, which even
common philosophy is beginning T.
have a glimpse of, can only be obtain
ed by the activity of all the intellectual
faculties working tremendously to,
gether. The Importance of demands
upon activity which provide occupa-
tions, and consequently means Of
sustenance, for different classes of
hand workers, is obvious, and they
are naturally estimated at their worth;
but it is less clearly seen that the
promotion of social sympathies is OF
not less Importance, that the activity
which secures the satisfaction of the
physical requirements alone will by
no means secure the happiness ofthe
individual, still less of a family. least
of all Of the widely extended social
correspondence to which progress
points as its object and end"
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The NIagnefic Nfafesmnn.

The following extract from an arti.
Gle on Blaine in the New York Times.
of Tuesday, has stirred uD a great
deal of bitter feeling in Washington.
and the Blaine men are whetting
their knives
There is no doubt that Mr.. Blaine
does possess a power Of attracting the
admiration of certain people to him.
Mr.. Jay Gould has felt the mysterious
influence charming him to the side OF
the magnetic candidate. Dennis
Kearney and his disciples feel conf
dent that it was the magnetic element
in Mr.. Blaine which made them his
warm admirers when he announced
himself as the ardent enemy of Chi
nese cheap labor. The eleven hun
bred Pennsylvania politicians who have
assured the Tribune that they are
Blaine men, must have felt the inhu
ence Of his magnetism. Very proba-
bly, it was this magnetism which made
that celebrated package of letters fly
from Mr.. Mulligan's pocket to the
pocket of Mr.. Blaine, and perhaps the
same mysterious force is sufi GENTLY
powerful to attract railroad bonds. As
this is a question which will OF course
be thoroughly discussed in case MIR.
Blaine is nominated for the presiden-
cy, it might be well to have it def
nitely decided now, for it can not be
denied that there is a very general
prejudice against the personal magnet
ism which acts upon property as we'll
as upon persons.
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CINCINNATI.
Accident 10 n Freight Train
Confidence Man Shot.

CINCINNATI, April 1.-The west.
ern bound freight train on the Ches.
apeake and Ohio railroad had the
front trucks of a car in the middle Of
the train thrown from the track by a
bad rail when just entering the bridge
over the Guyandotte river. A span
ofthe bridge was knocked down and
eight cars fell to the river shore,
where they we're burned. The engine
had safely crossed the bridge. Loss,
$4,000.
A nan calling himself Frank How
ard, and who had op~eratedin Charles
ton, w. Va, as a confidence man
was shot and killed on Monday at
Peytonia, on Coal river, W, Va, by a
man named Atkins, who claims he did
the deed in self defense.
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Washburne 10 Be Ruled OF the
Track.

1t has been announced that Wash.
burne has been ruled off the presiden.
tial course, and Edmunds ruled on.
The Vermonter is to be the dark
horse, Grant falling.
The Philadelphia Telegraph good
republican paper-explains how thi:
came to pass. The reason is fourd in
the records of congress of the year
1862, In the previous year, the be.
ginning Of a great wal filled the land
with its clamOr and misery-flled it.
too, with peculators and corrup.
tionists who preyed upon it, and
sent brave troops into the
field vilely shod, clothed, and
armed-and there was also in the of.
nee Of secretary of war a man who, in
his zeal to reward his friends, reward.
ed them at the expense of the country.
so that it came to pass in the next
year OF grace, and war, and pecuIation
that Simon Cameron was hustled out
OF the Office Of secretary of war and,
for the matter Of that, out of the
country which his parasites had
robbed, and hat the house Of repre-.
sentatiyes did declare that Simon
Cameron, for his acts as said secre
tary, deserves the censure of the
house." Possibly others forget that
one OF the members of that house,
which on the Both day of April, 1862,
passed its vote of censure on the chief
OF Lochiel, was one Washburne, and
that none more than he worked and
spoke in support Of that vote.
The Pittsburgh Post says: There
you have it. Washburne is retired BY
the all-powerful triumviate, because
he believed in 1862, with overwhelm-
ing proof of the fact before him, that
Simon Cameron was a corrupt, inefi-
Gent var minister, who stole tho liy-
cry OF patriotism to serve the devil
greed in. He got the house of repre-
%sentatives to so detare by resolution.
Lincoln kicked Cameron out of the
cabinet; disturbed son Don's mule
contracts, and packed the old man off
to Russia. The Camerons never for
give an enemy
This is notice to Pennsylvania re-
publicans to Immediately stop talking
Washburne. Theirs not to reason
why" Theirs to obey orders or va
cate the rancho. Edmunds is the man
who is TO be used to slaughter Blaine,
Grant falling. Fall in, men--iall in,
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Gratis surrounded Mr.. McMillin to
congratulate him. and Mr., Robson
came all the way from the back of the
hall and, wedging himself through the
little crowd at Mr.. McMillin desk,
extended one hand and with the
other, making one Of his most COM
%prehensive gestures, repeated with
great JUNCTION: Manhood on this floor
is the observance Of its rules. Those
words should be hung in big letters
over the eagle at the speakers DESK
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Bidding Against Each Oiher.

hartford COurant.i
A case of excessive caution develop.
ed some serious results the other day
in this city in the matter Of a pur-
chase Of a church pew. The auction
was fixed for a certain day, but one Of
the prominent gentlemen of the
church, who for some years past has
paid $50 each year for his pew, was
unable to attend. He requested a
friend to bid it in for him. Later he
met another friend, and incidentally
mentioning that he would not be able
to attend the auction, asked this
friend also to see to it that he had his
old pew as heretofore. The auction
took place, and the pew was put up.
Fifty dollars" said friend No. /.
Fifty one said friend No. 2. Fifty
three, . 'iiity-four,h and so on till
there had been thirty-eight bids,
when one friend. thinking he had gone
as far as discretion permitted, stopped,
aud the other took it triumphantlv at
s88. Put it down for D" he
said, and the assonishment of the
other bidder knew no bounds. They
had been bidding against each other,
both in half Of the gentleman, who
had forgotten to tell No. 2 that he had
also spoken to No. l. 1t helps the
receipts so much.