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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-08-06

1NcENpIARY.-On Wednesday morning last one
of The gin houses of Mr.. J. s. Blalock, at Mar
tins Depot, Laurens County, was totally de-.
stroyed by fire. The fire was discovered
between l and 2 o'clock A. NJ. The house
contained large lot of oats besides the usual
machinery. MIR. B. has no doubt that it was
the work of an incendiary. Such acts call for
the scvcrest punishment, and it is hoped that
the perpetrator of this will speedily meet that
which is so richly deseryed,-Col. Register.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-08-06


every variety. In its destruction one Of the or
naments of the town has been removed. The
loss Of such q building is to be lamented by
every friend Of the town. This will be remem-
bercd as the dwelling which the Hon. ]. Foster
Marshall erected in 1850. soon after his return
from Mexico.
1t was in this house that the Hon. ArmisteaJ
Burt lived. lie was absent in Cashiers Valley,
North Carolina, at the time. Ills suite of rooms
being on the second story, and the fire having
made such headway before it was discovered,
everything Of his in the house was destroyed
The fire was approaching the stairway when
Colonel Robertson and his family were awakened
by the progress Of the flames.
An incident Of the fire was the burning Of the
C'loners faithful watch dog. Leo, which re-
maned in one Of the rooms, and whose pteous
cries were enough to touch the heart Of the least
susceptfbfc. aAnscif1rts to remove nm Sor Io-in.
duce him to leave the room were fruitless. lie
remained and perished.
Colonel Robertson had no insurance on his
furniture. The pictures belonging to Mr. Burt,
which were in the lover part of the house, were
saved. Everything in the upper part of the
house was destroyed .-AJ6epiHe Press and Ban.
ner, July %.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-08-06


TnE WEST POINT CADErsurr.-Our informa.
ton receivedlast night from Cokesbury and from
those who have the best right TO kuow-in in fact,
we may say it is ofIieial-says that Mr.. C. P.
PRESLEY, of Fraziervide Abbevills County, is the
successful man, and that his alternate is Mr.. J..
A.. Towers. of Anderson C. H. This settles the
anxiety of the other fifteen applicants. There
wers'seventeen applicants in all.-Coi. R.o;,l.,
s.ss. Esisl Sslsss zsasedf ab.
on n bed beside n negro woman, who held her
child abou: three or four weeks old in her lap,
accidentally let his pistol go off, the bullet from
which struck the child in the forehead, causing
instant death. This occurred on the 18th in.
stant-an inquest was held on the 18th, which
rendered a verdict of accidental shooting. This
took place near Hodges corner-Clarendoa
Press.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-08-06

the DANGERS OF CARRYING GRAIN-London,
July 2o.-A return published in connection with
the bill introduced by Mr.. Plymsoll, before Quit
ting Parliament, for the better security of yes
seis with grain cargoes, shows that between the
years 1878 and 1880 twenty.sx steamship ps laden
wholly or partially with grain foundered at sea,
and twenty-four were reported missing, and
during the same period one hundred grain laden
sailing vessels foundered and one hundred and
eleven we're reported missing.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-08-06

The p,inister stopped at house on tho
South side last week and sought to improve
the time by giving an eight-year. old boy
an instructive lesson in morality. "My
boy" said the minister, II have lived forty
five years, and have never used tobacco in
any form, nor told lie, nor uttered an oath,
nor played truant, nor" "Gimminy crick-
cts J. interrupted the lad, "yer amt had
any fun at all, bare ye ?"-- oil Cay Der
rick.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27
THE CANoNCHEr AFFAIR.

When the unfortunate conduct of ex-
Senator SPRAGUE at Narragansett Pier, last
summer was bruitcd to the world, the
haters Of Senator CoNKLING, and the scan
dal-mougers in general, spread and en-
loved an unctious feast Of defamation,
aimed more especially at New Yorl5's favor
lite Senator The conduct of ex-senator
SPRAGUE upon the occasion referred TO was
both unfortunate and inexplicable, for it
scandalized his own household without any
lust cause or proyocation on the part of his
domestic circle. BY his singular conduct
he put into the hands Of the hyenas of the
public press the power and material with
which to heap upon his own family an
odium that was deprecated by all, except,
perhaps those who subsist upon the car
rion of domestic reputation, Every little
circumstance connected with the uulortu-
nate affair was seized upon, and by per-
version and misconstructiOn was magniied
into mountain of folly and inquity, when
the truth. if it could have been presented
then and there, would have swept the
calumnies put ahoat away as so much chat.
The slanderers piled their vocation at
will. For reasons best known to them
selves the parties most deeply concerned
remained silent and permitted the storm to
spend itself. Not satisfied with the mis-
chief they thought they had inflicted upon
the SPRAGuE family, the slonderers turned
their attention to that of Senator CoNK-
LING, and published to the world that his
domestic circle had been disrupted. Those
who were the best informed knew how ut
terly groundless such utterauces we're, fol
in the midst of all this crusade of misrep
rosentation and traduction Mrs. CoNKIINc
and Mrs. SPRAGUE were in sympathy an,
in correspondence, under terms Of intimNc!
and mutual respect and friendship, Tn
storm that had been raised was permitte,
10 spcnd itself without any effort iron
either side to aHay it, 1t had died ou
The pcn of the sanderer had retired iror
it. service aud become silent under its ow
WEAKNESS
when Congress met, Mrs. CoNKLINd cam
to Washington with the Senator and Mrs
SPRAaUE, who had been spending some
time at her home at Edgewood, took
house in this city, and since then Mri
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27
TILE rIYIL.sERyIcE brake.

The New York Times Washington CORE
spondent, Al. c." furnishes that journal
with an elaborate article from this city
which openly alleges that Secretary SHER-
MAN is engaged in IN electiopecHng cam
paign, with the concurrence and aid Of the
President, by which the next Presidency is
10 be secured to the Secretary through the
agency and influence Of the official ma
ohinery of the Government The onima-
ton that this is so is quite positively made,
and yet it seems scarcely credible that the
President in view of his stringent civil
service principles and rules, would compli'
cote himself with such measure Of self
The strong objection that
has been urged against third term has
been that the Federal patronage might be
used to perpetuate power through the
,aenoy of the Government officials, thus
Overwhelming the popular will through in
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27
POLITIC1L NOTES.

THE Maine Fusionists are evidently picnickcrs on
the home stretch.
BALTIMORE organized a big and enthusiastic
Grant Club the other night.
THE Philadelphia Bulletin gives this "Cuba's
greeting to Grant: 'shake!"
SENAToRELECT GEORGE is the present Chief JUS
tice of the State Supreme court of Mississippi.
The Chicago Times comes out strongly and
squarcly for. e. b. Wkhburne for the Presidency.
BEN BUTLER Is green with envy because Wen.
dell Philds is the most eloquent Irish agitator in
the world.
ONE the Fusion managers Of Maine Is Colonel
Blood, temporarily one Of the husbands of the
Woodruff
TIE Democrats of Philadelphia are Outbidding
both st. Louis ana Cincinnati for the next National
Convention.
II anybody desires to know the true strength of
General Grant, let him 60 to the people and not to
nnllLinians ELnLirn ILLErLL.cr ROM.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27

strumentalites that are illegitmate. This
objection, if It has any force, applies
equally to first rs to third term. If it
is pernicious in one instance, It must be in
all cases of the kind, and it is as objectiona-
bic in the present Administration rs in any
other for it to use the patronage Of the Gov
eminent to perpetuate power in the hands
of one of its Cabinet Ministers as in its head.
The people are jealous of their rights, and
they naturally become Disconnected and
dissatisfied when they find the machinery
of the Government brought into play
against them. If these allegations are we'll
founded it is well that they should be
brought to public notice Mt this stage of the
canvass. The people who DO the voting do
not care to confront the power of the Gov
eminent in their primary action under an at
tempt on its part to perpetuate power within
itself in any degree, for Administrations are
not clothed with power for any such pur-
pose 1t is good time now to apply the
civil-service brake.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27

There is an unaccountabie prrjudice in
the minds of many citizens against the
census-taker 1t is not confined to the ig-
norant classes but peryades communities
and circles pretending TO intelligence and
culture. Possibly it arises from miscon-
ception Of the real nature and ultimate
objects of the decennial enumerations of
persons and property. Perhaps there is
lurking suspicion that through it some
advantage is to he taken in the way of
assessments or military or jury duty. At
all events, come from whatever source,
there is widespread aversion to giving
correct answers to the censustaker, as
| though he were q meddlcsome paul Pry,"
going about seeking knowledge of the pri-
waite history of persons and imp ertinent
acquaintance with their domestic relations
and acquisitions. Whether 1t is an out
growth of the old English excise prejudice,
or whether it is simply a natural product Of
the idea that free institutions may and
should be exaggerated into license to i'm
patio nee of all legal restraint, need not
now be determined, but it is necessary
| that those minds in which it rests to the
extent of desire to mislead or outwit the
census enumerators should be enlightened
rs to the true inwardness and exact design
of government in making the decennial
enumerations of persons and property.
The Government" of the United States
is the voice of the people" When we say
the Government we should always
realize the fact that this word government
means "we," means you and l, and the
"rest of the people" We instituted the
Government for our mutual benefit. Let
us not forget it. All the laws enacted are
passed in pursuance of "our" delegated
authority, and are therefore Our" laws
1--WE" are the "sovereigns" here. If oul
Government and laws are imperfect it i!
"our" own fault and the corrective is il
"ourr possession. Some of us may hav,
been lax in our duties sometimes, aud suf
fered selfish, ambitious and designing mel
to do things for us and in our names tina
are not to our taste, and not according Il
the principles upon which our Goyernm en-
was founded. ESQ, we should rember tina
] eleIndl NlbllNllCC - tIlp pIlNo VI ii"Si ~ ;
and see to it hereafter that we attend pri
mary meetings aud elections in person
and do our own voting. This Gov ernmen
is great cooperative associatio of tn
people for their mutual benefit and pro
r lection. They choose their own officer
and servants to pay their own expense
. aud those of their delegates, officers an
1 servants. The census is one of the method
= devised in pursuance of this co operativ
G system to ascertain the exact nun
L hers, productions and wealth Of all tn
n members of this great co-Operatiy
t. association upon a given day, and all on til
n same day, as a basis Of representation an
n taxation in the Government All can SC
how necessary such information is in I'll
Q allotment Of representation in Congress an
T. State legislatures And all can see what
, farce and a mocSery representation, legi ST.
n ton and taxation upon such basis wou
J. be if the census enumerations should be il
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27

accurate. If all the people should persist
in making false returns of property,
making misstatements of the numbers
of persons in their families, rs to
the quantity and value of land in
cultivation and the improvements upon the
same, what miserable aud ridiculous
spectacle we might present to the world.
While one section might grossly exaggerate
another might rs grossly understate the
reality, and the result would be entire
incredulity regarding the returns from all.
When this crisis arrives, we may well
tremble for the future of the Government,
for the success of all cooperative effort is
dependent on the truth and honor of the
parties associated. When Members begin to
strive to take unfair advantage of each
other, either at the ballot-box or in making
census or tax returns, then farewell to CO.
operative government. If we would succeed
we must all adhere to the truth in all our
statements, aud under all circumstances,
for he who cheats and outwits and deceives
his Government, cheats, outwits, deceives
aud robs me and you, and all his associates.
We must not, then, look upon govern
ment as a tyrant whom it is doing good
| service to get the best of, but we should
hail it and guard its interests as the result
of our own collective wisdom. We should
esteem it as our best and greatest and most
beneiicent institution, the means which we
have devised for executing our will, and
which it is our duty and privilege to i'm
prove and perfect at will. Whatever faults
it contains they too are ours but they are
defects which should be remedied ut sight.
The trainers of our Constitution were not
perfect, even in their own day butt theirs
had been perfect work for that day and
age, our progress would have rendered some
of it inapplicable to the present advanced
condition of the country. Each decennial
enumeration of persons, property and inn
provements discloses some need imperatively
demanded by the advancement of the last
decade. And we find that the census
returns are one of the most fruitful sources
of valuable information relative to the
progress of our material and industrial
interests. The more reliable these returns
are, the more valuable to the country. They
comprise information from all good citizens
mutually given for their mutual benefit.
|
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27
PERSONAL.

ADMIRAL AND Mrs. BoGGs areat the Ebbitt House
for the winter.
JAMES ARMSTRONG, of Texas, registered at the
Metropolitan yesterday.
MRs. GEORGE A. HAIsEY and daughter have
parlors at the Ebbitt House for the winter,
j. DEAsEboRFF, ]. II. Shook and d. H. Shook, of
Greencaste Pa, registered at the st. James yestCr
day.
GENERAL !. $. MASON, U. s. A., and Governor
Ptkin Of Colorado, registered at the Ebbit yeser-
day.
COLONEL r. VI. WALLACE, of South Carolina, q
wcll-knOwn citizen, and the United States Marshal
of that state. is at the National.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27

GIVE US A RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT.
A highly respectable correspondent who
writes over the signature ~. A. IT, has evil
IDENTIFY become greatly exasperated at the
outrages that have recently been commit
ted upon the whites of this city by colored
roughs, and in that he has our warmest SYM
pathes. He attributes these acts of out
rage to "the unbounded license allowed
" the negro We doubt if this position
can be sustained-for in the eye of the law
that governs us the negro enjoys no license
beyond that allowed to the white man.
They are alike amenable to its require
ments, and when they are respected no out
RACES occur to offend society. In that re-
gard the two races enjoy the same license
and when either are found guilty, they
should be condignly punished. 1t is to be
deeply regretted that there are bad colored
men in our midst, and it is to be hoped
that the administration of the law may be
made so rigorous that society will be rid of
these outrages upon person, life and prop
erty. This attempted in earnest will no
doubt be crowned with success, for the
courts and the officers of the law
are our only hope until they shall
fail to secure good government
under the exercise of their judicial powers,
and we agree with our correspondent
when he says: "The police falling to take
care of us, we must look ont for our
selves" We may, however, differ as to the
remedy. Heproposes that leach and every
man arm himself; the roughs do not at
tack policemen, because they carry
weapons" Our correspondent seems to
forget that every man who arms himself
with concealed weapons, is in that n violator
of the law, and subjects himself to
severe punishment thereby. There is a
stringent statute against carrying concealed
weapons in this District, which is enforced
with as much rigor as that against larceny
/ burglary, robbery, assault and battery with
intent to kill, or even murder itself So, to
arm ourselves makes us violators of the
law, unless we shall each bear on our
shoulder a rifle or shotgun, which is in
convenient in the conduct of our business
pursuits. These remedies failing, our cor
respondent proposes that our people take
the law into their own hands, and hunt
them out Of their slums and stews by a
mob, and in that way burn their shanties
"aud hang a few OF them to the lamp.
posts
This does not strike us as the best pos,
sibe remedy that can be found 1t doe.
not accord with civilization and is unbe
coming the people Of an enlightened Re.
public. We have a better safer and more
civilized remedy to propose. Give us a
government that is responsible to the gov
erned, instead of one that recognizes nc
responsibility anywhere. 1t is not unrea.
sonable to attribute much of the lawless
ness that runs riot in our midst to the ir
responsible character Of our local govern
meut. Give the District Home Rule; lie
the people elect their own rulers and law
administrators, and then they will holC
their own representatives in Office to rigiC
, accountability, and this District will hav
a governing powerwhich will be responsible
to them and will fear to prove derelict il
duty.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27

THE investigation into General BRADY's
administration of postal affairs has already
been proved to be the star" blunder of the
session. The investigators have failed even
to get out of willing witnesses any er.pdrtc
testimony to show that he has done any
thing wrong.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27

SOMEHOW the climate of Maine, or,
strictly speaking, the intelligence and
patriotism Of the people of that State, does
not encourage the reverberations Of the
~ ldrebel yell, as it were. The pine forests
fail to reproduce its echoes, The swamps
and lagoons OF the South are the only locali-
ties where the sentiment from which it is
evoked seems 10 thrive.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27

LET us all labor to add all needlul guar
antee for the more perfect security Of free
thought, free speech and free press, pure
morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and
of equal rights and privileges TO all men
irrespective of nationality, color or religion.
u. S. Grant.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27

No doubt many Of the contributions now
being made 10 the Irish relief fund are
prompted by pure motives Of charity, but it
is fair to presume that some Of them are
made by politicians especially for the pur-
pose Of catching the Irish vote. OF this
latter character was the tender Of the use
Of the hall Of the House Of Representatives
for the PARNELL meeting in this city next
month.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27

THE Cincinnati Enquirer insists that there
will be two contesting delegations from New
York at the next National Democratic Con-
vention, "just for the sake Of perpetuating
"old-time traditions" And, despite this re-
liable prophecy there are those who i'm
agine that the Empire State is placidly
Democratic.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27

II is the part Of wisdom to remember
that the existing condition of affairs in the
South, by which we mean the apparent
peace aud quiet Of that section, is accounted
for by the absence of any occasion for po-
litical excitement 1t is the quiet that pre-
cedes the storm, in fact, and the portent of
terrible violence when the outbreak does
come, as it certainly will during the coming
Presidential contest. The Bourbon appe-
tite for spells has been whetted by the en-
joyment of Office in the Southern States,
and will not be appeased without AN effort
to gobble up the patronage of the General
Government The risks run and the crimes
committed by the bulldozers in behalf OF
bogus Home-Rue will accordingly be null.
tipled this fall in the exact ratio of the in
creased importance Of the stake to b,
played or fought for.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27
mo fooliug any longer"- Corporal Dacis.

THE author of Beautiful Snow" gains
no new admiration this winter A poem
upon "Bootee-full Slush" would be popu-
lar, however-outside of Washington.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27

THE latest feature Of the anything-to-
beat GRANT movement is the manufacture
of bogus letters purporting to have been
written by the Revolutionary Fathers"
against a Third Term for the same person
even after the lapse of four years Of UNI
official life
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27

sary IN my Pile treatment or Female Weaknesses, but
must see All patients to know their cOndilion) then
any person can use my remedies themselves. Ca.
nrrh cured aud deafness caused by caurrh. Loss VI
mental power, vlgor and general debility by either
sex restored For further Information, and dimcul,
lies OF which treat, YOU must make application Al
my office, No i3y Ninth street northwest, RILEY
HOLDING, once aud residence. Consultation nee
to all uedly
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27

THERE has been some hurryin the House
about contested election cases, but it gem
orally understood that no final action will
be attempted in any Of them until the De-
cenber session. At that time the partisan
necessities of the Bourbon majority will
have become distinctly apparent, and it
will be known exactly how many Republic
cans must be counted out to give the OPP
position a majority by States.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27

THE Yicksburg Miss Herald simply tells
the truth when it declares that the true
reason why violence and crime are not pun
ished in that State is that the petit iuries
fail to do their duty. Until public senti-
ment is radically changed in that locality,
and in the entire South, for that matter,
the juries will continue to condone crime
and permit the violent classes to escape
punishment And this is not only true of
offenders who enjoy the sympathy of jurors
for partisan reasons, but also Of other Grim
mails. 1t stands to reason that the popular
prejudice which acquits man for political
murder will demoralize any community to
the extent of inducing a lax administration
OF justice in other respects.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27

BLAcKwooD's Edinburgh Magazine american
edition. for January has an interesting arti-
Gle on "A Turkish Eaendi on Christendom
aud Islam" aud another on Mr.. GLADsToNE's
pnurimopo
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27

LIVERY DESCRIPTION OF PRINTING
IL AT REASONABLE RATES,
AT THE REPUBLICAN OFFICE,
1903 nc street northwest
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-27
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
CANDEE, or NEW YORK,
.<4t5fd3sSta sPECIALlSG

treat Homorrhoids or Piles VIII
alVe eIOO for ANY case Of Itching,
blind or Projecting Pies
my remedies will not help all ! cure.
i use only external and internal
remedies; no Causllcs, no acids; an I'M
mediate relief; no detention nom
business. treat and cure all Female
NJaal uapaaa fnn upgeg-