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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-08-26

Vermont votes September 7th for State
officers, members of tho Legislature and
Representatives in Congress.
Maino votes on September 18th for
Governor, members Of tho Legislature and
Representatives in Congress.
Colorado votes October 9th for State
officers and one Representative.
Georgia votes October 9Th for State
officers.
Indiana votes October 18th for State offis
GERS, mombers Of the Legislature and Rops
rosontativos in Congress.
Wost Virginia votes October 18th foH
State of1ioors and momtors Of tho Legisls.~
turo.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-08-26

MARION, August 19.-The coronor's
inquest in the Harroll murder case was
concluded to-day, and tho jury rendered
the following verdict: "Deceased camo to
his death by felony. The act was perpe.
trated by Ben and Richard James as priuci--
pals and Louis James es accessory thereto.
The cause of death, a chop on the right
cheek and also chop upon the top of tho
head with hatchet, axe or some sharp
instrument. The cut on tho top of tho
head is considered tho immediate cause of
his death, having entered the BRAIN"
Detectives hayo been employed to ferret out
the. motive for the crime, and everything
connected herewith.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-08-26
From tho Lexington Dispatch.1

llcssrs. E}ttors:-You ou had been prcyi..
ously advised Of ny inability to be in Lex
ington this week. | trust the reasons
assigned for my absence were satisfactory.
When I saw tho report Of tho proceed
ings of your Convention iu the Ncws ontl
Courier, my first impulse was to write n
reply to Col. Walaco's pucrial and dema.
gogical speech; but concluded to wait for
your next issue, that I might SEQ fuller
report.
Tho Dispatch came last night, and the
result of the proceedings of your County
Convention therein reported, is far more
satisfactory to me- While | am placed
under increased obligations to the people of
Lexington, am doubly grateful to Cen.
Paul Qaattlobaum, and desire here publicly
to acknowledge my gratitude to him for
his expressed approval and manly defence
of my Congressional career.
When the campaign opens hope to be
able to meet in public tho voters of Lex.
ington County, and shall then discuss the
various topics concerning which my views
have been attacked by q public speaker,
whose ignorance of them appeared 10 be
pitiably conspicuous. I'll! thcn have tho
honor to be your obcdicnt servant,
d. WYATT AIKEN.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-08-26

The Democratic State Convention of
Tennessee adopted, by vote of S25 to 1885,.
tho majority report of tho committee on
the public debt, opposing rcpudiation. Tho
platform endorses the Cincinnati nomi--
nces, roasscrts the opposition of tho party
to the repudiation Of any public obligations
of tho State or Federal Government, and
declares that the ropudiation Of either un-
der any pretext or design would bo tho
most diroful Of evils, moral, financial and
political. John Y. Wright was nominated
for Governor.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-08-26

The primary election in Aiken County
passed off quietly on the 18th instant. A
full return has not been received, but it is
thought that D. S. Henderson, ESQ, has
been nominated for tho Senate, and James
Aldrich, c. i. Sawyer, James Bush and,
Il. II. Kernaghan for Representatives.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-08-26
98S,5l4 825, ,145 705, COG

The returns from the counties, the names
of which are printed in italics, arc taken
from tho Supervisors official statement.
NcwS and Courier.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-08-26

GREEN POND, August l0.-Tho first
now rice, ono hundred and fifty bushels,
goos from this station tonight, consigned
to Dan Talmage 4 Co., Charleston. 1t is'
Combahee rico.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-08-26

The following arc instructions for q young:
student in oratory: l. Have something TO-
say. 2 Say it. 8. Stop.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-08-26
The Truth Precisely.
[From speech by Thomns A. Hendricks,
Mt Marion, Indiana

Garlcld's nomination means the endorse
mcnt and approval in the most positive and
offensive manner possible of the Presidcn--
tial fraud of 1861. Ho had moro to do
with it than any othor man, and wus tho
only man who occupied toward it double
relation. After the election Garfield went
to New Orleans by request Of Gen. Grant
without authority of law as n partisan.
He went there to assist his party in making
up case, aud after his return to Washing
ton, of all his associates ho was the only
man who took his scat upon tho Electoral
Commission. by every sentiment Of fair
play he should have been excluded from
the jury box. by his own sworn statement
of what ho did in Now Orleans, Garfield
had charge Of the returns from West Fel-
capa Parish. In one of tho innor rooms of
Paokard's Custom House he did his work,
cxsmined tho affidavits, and when thoy
woro not sufficiently full he prepared or had
prepared additional intcrrogatores to bring
them within tho rules adopted by the Re-
turning Board. Tho testimony, so received
by Garfield, went back to the Returning
Board, and tho result was that West Fell
oiana with its Democratic majority was
thrown out. In Washington, Garfields
vote was that Congress could not go behind
the returns thus made. AS agent for his
party he helped to mako returns by mauipu.
lating the o7iucnoc; aud as juryman for tho
nation he hold such evidence as conclusive
and binding.
THE CAMPAIGN IN TIE STATE.-A
Republican of much prominence, who was
present at tho Republican conference in
New FORK last week, was in the city to-day,
and told somc of his political friends that
the National Executive Committee had
decided to send liberal SUN of money to
North Carolina and Florida. Tho leaders
have become convinced that both States can
bo carried for Garfield with proper effort,
and to this end money ond speakers will DO
sent to both States oary next month.
Representative Loring and Mr.. Cabot
Lodge, young Republican of much elo
quenco in Massachusetts, havo, it is said,
volunteered to 60 into tho South and mako
speeches for Garfield THO fcoling hero
among Democrats is that tho more spoakers
the Republicans send South tho bettor it
will be for tho Democratic nominees and,
that nothing will so quickly heal up the
differences In the Democratic ranks as tho
presence of q number Of Radical speakers,
III ~ Al. 4
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-08-26

RALEIGH, N. c., August Reliable
information has just been received of tho
assassination of Gen. Bryan Grimes, on tho
Gath inst, near his homo in Pitt County:
Rumor says that he was riding in q buggy
along tho highway when he was shot doad
by some one concealed in the bushes. The
murderer is supposed to have been negro
or white man, against both Of whom Con.
Grimes was On important witness in on
arson case. Tho scono Of tho murder
being remote from tclegraphio communica-
ton particulars havo not yet been received.
Con. Grimes was very prominent citizen
and reached by his high soldicrly qualities
the rank Of Major. General in the Confed-
crate army.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-08-26

The South Carolina Peace Society will
hold its ninth annual session in Columbia on,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-08-26

THE SOUTH AND TIE CENsUs.-WASH
lNGToN, August l1.-There are unmistak-
able signs that the Radical leaders intend
to try and force new enumeration of the
census in several of the Southern States
under tho plea that gross frauds Cor irrog-
uaritics" have been practiced In cxpeo..
tation that tho South would show consid-.
cradle increase over the census OF ten years
ago, the Republicans many months before
the census supervisors were appointed
started the cry that there was conspiracy
on foot among tho Democrats to secure
larger representation under the new appor-
tionment than they were justly entitled to
by means Of fraudulent enumeration. Now
that the returns of the census South are
coming in freely and showing very heavy
increase in many localities tho Republicans
renew their cries of fraud, and demand
that new enumeration shall be taken.
a prominent Office holder said to day that
he was advised that tho President was con-
vinoed that some Of the Southern States
arc not entitled to tho increase shown by
tho present census, and that stcpe ought to
bo taken to rectify the matter. This
would seem to indicate that tho President
intends to be willing instrument in tho
hands Of Republican leaders to dispute tho
returns sent here. Of course nothing can
bo done at present, but tho complete re-
turns will havo to be examined ut the cen
sus bureau before any definite action can
be taken in tho matter. 1t is olosrly the
purpose of Tho Republicans to try and
deprive tho South Of tho heavy gains in
her population, but there is not the slight
est doubt that they will signally fail to ao.
complish their ends -Balimorc Sun.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-08-26

NOMINATIONS IN LAURENs.-A gcntlo--
man who passed through Laurens Court
House, on Wednesday evening, after tho
result wns declared, states that the following
gentlemen were nominated at the primary
election on Tuesday, tho 18th instant:
senasor-Johu w. Ferguson.
Representatives-John w. Hudgons,
Or. j. A. Barksdale, DR.. David Anderson. ),
Clerk of Court-M. E Babb.
Sherif-John w. Watts.
County Commissioners-Jamcs Bell, j..
G. Rasor, J. II. Wharton.
Treasurer-D. p. Groggans.
School Commssioner-D. II. Dial.
Coroncr-J. j. Boozer.
.Auditor-G. NJ. Langston
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-08-26

WASHINGTON, August 17.--At last
there is promising movement for com
promise between tho rival factions
Of Virginia Democrats. General Mitchell,
q prominent Democrat of this city, has just
returned from tho First Congressional Dis
trict of that State, and was assured by
Mr.. LOWS, Presidential Elcotor on the
Rcadjustors' ticket, that his resignation
would bo published in fow days, and that
tho eleotor on tho Funders' ticket would
also withdraw, and that both wings Of the
party would then unto on now man.
General Mitchell, in company with Mr..
Lewis, called upon Gen. Mahono, and tho
leader Of tho Readjustcrs declared that,
while ho did not prosposo to interfere in tho
matter, ho wanted to SEQ tho State carried
for Hancock, and would be entirely salts
fed if tho Readjustors decided to with.
draw thoir electoral ticket. The great
obstacle to compromise has hitherto been
the refusal of tho prominent Roadjustcrs to
allow tho withdrawal of their ticket, and
notu fhoi fhcir lcodor yrofoaana hia uillinn.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-16
4 Great Warehouse Burned.


At late hour Saturday night fire
broke out in the Empire warehouse, in
Chicago. embracing the numbers from 1913
to 21O Market street, and spread until it
destroyed large amount of property.
The warehouse was occupied rs a store
room for seeds, dry goods, liquors and
bonded goods. The contents of the free
warehouse were entirely destroyed.
The insurance is not known yet. 1t is
thought it will cover the loss for the most
part. Field, Letter s. Co. usually carried
stock of $500, 600 III this warehouse.
The fire department succeeded in con-
filming the fire to the fee warehouse section
of the building, thus saving the goods
stored in the bonded house,
A revised list of the losses is as follows ::
WadswOrth and Dickinson, ON building
$4,000 and on machinery SIS, 200. Wal
lace, Kingman & Co., had in store about
$152, 900 worth of seeds, mostly timothy,
of which the firm owned s65, 900 worth,
but were secured by warehouse receipts
and insurance.
The other owners wereKObert Colgate
& Co., of New York, $15, 900; McGowan
Brothers, of Steubenville, $4,000; Conklin
& Keeler, of Binghamton, N. Y, $40, 900,
and various Chicago firms the remainder.
Chaplin & Gore lost 5000 barrels of
choice brands of whisky, valued at $685.
900 to $4,000; f. P. Howell & Co.,
flour, $1,000; Field, Letter & Co., dry
goods, 5000, 900; Foster, Lee s. Co., flour
and seeds, $4,000; Sprague, Warner &
Co., dried fruits, $4,000; Farwell & Co.,
dry goods, $4,000; o. F. Gibbs & Co.,
seeds, $4,000; the Phoenix distilling COM
pany. seeds, $4,000; Wilson Brothers,
$4,000. The origin of the fire is COM
plete mystery.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-16
STATE ITEMS.

Nearly five million bushels of coal are
awaiting shipment at Pittsburgh, but the
rivers are so high the boatmen can do
nothing.
A telephone exchange is to be establish
ed in Scranton, all the arrangements hav-
ing been completed to get it in working
order by April l..
Lumber manufacturers at Williamsport
are putting their mills in first-class condi-
tion, with the view of doing heavy bust
ness the coming summer.
j. L. jerks, a brakeman on the Boston
and Albany road, was killed in the West
Springfield yard on Saturday night, his
foot having been caught in a frog.
Elias z. Wallower, publisher of the Har-
risburg Independent, has been arrested for
publishing what purported to be the early
life of Mrs. Catharine Zell.
At the annual assay of the reserved
coins from United States mints, which has
just been concluded at Philadelphia, the
director of the mint says the coins were all
found to be within the legal requirements
as to weight and finencss.
Michael Meylert, of Laporte, Sullivan
county, aspires to fill the vacancy in the
Twenty fourth senatorial district caused
by the death of Senator Jackson. If
chosen he would be emphatically
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-16
Stupid and Impudent.

Mr.. Boring's idea of getting the Re-
publicans of the town to recommend him
to each other is quite worthy Of Mr..
Boring and consequently very stupid. 1t
only demonstrates Mr.. Boring's fear that
the voters of his party do not intend to
support him for mayor, without in any
way ensuring their doing so. If Mr..
Boring could hold fast to the votes of
the men who give him their signatures
he would accomplish something; but
the fact is that the more they sign for
him the less they will incline to vote for
him. They sign because the poll
ticians ask it, and the Republi-
can voter does not want to
incur their hostility. 1t is easier
for him to agree to recommend the party
candidate to his fellow Republicans than
20 refuse to do so; and it costs nothing
because it does not contain a promise to
vote for him. Mr.. Boring has the sigma
lures of many Republicans who will not
vote for him. as we happen to know :;
and his request for their recommendation
has alienated them from him more than
ever. They know that he has done an
impudent thing in making this demand
upon them. The theory of the ballot is
that it shall by its secrecy secure the
free and untrammeled vote of the people.
1t is not proper to question a man as to
how he is going tOvote. Men ofproper self
respect are apt to feel themselves insulted
BY such an inquiry for it is really nobody S
business but their own. Under the law
they are entitled to preserve the secrecy
of their ballot if they desire to do so ::
but when a political committee demand
from the voters their signatures in rec
ommendation of 4 candidate. and threat
en- them with party ostracism if they
refuse it. they are utterly defeating the
intent of the law and using the intimida-
ton which it forbids. The voter fights
fire with fire. He gives his enforced
assent. but his ballot tells another story.
The promises that politicians get are very
untrustworthy things. and Mr.. Boring S
d" recommendations are not likely to
pan out any better for him than the gen.
eral run of such endorsements.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-16

IT is Mr.. Thomas B. COchran'S fight.
He made the candidate and he expects to
make the mayor. Having made him he
expects to use him. 1t is close corpor-
alton this Cochran Boring combination.
First, Tommy gets Brother Charlie a po-
sition at Harrisburg worth 81 900 win
ter, to perform the duties of which he
does not even have to go to Harrisburg.
Then Brother Charlie has himself sub
stituted in the county committee to en-
able Cochran to carry out his contract and
deliver the Lancaster Republicans at
Harrisburg in opposition to Blaine.
Then Cochran is to elect Brother John
mayor and the police are to be appointed
in the interest of COchran's can
didates for county off ces and the Senate.
That is the programme.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-16
That List.

The Republican politicians who have
been bulldozing their party into signing
a recommendation Of Mr.. Boring for
mayor have finally advertised the list in
the Republican dailies, at fifteen cents a
line, and a right profitable thing it is
for the papers; though part of the ex-
pense could have been saved by not dupli-
eating so many of the names. 1t pays the
newspapers better and makes the list ap-
pear longer, but we hardly suppose that
those whose names are repeated expect to
be able to repeat their votes. Should
they attempt it they will find it much
more expensive than the advertisement,
and the trick of extending the list by
publishing the same names twice is so
apparent that it reveals the desperate
straits of the bulldozers almost as plainly
as the persistent endeavor of one of them
to make Philadelphia man put his name
down the other day.
Deducting the duplicates, and one
hundred and two ofiice-holders-whO
wouldn't risk the loss of their profits and
honors by refusing to sign it-and
some fifty ex-oflice-holders, and the thir-
ty-seven expectant policemen, and dozen
or more persons who have already re-
ported to us that their names were ap-
pended to it without their authority, and
a dozen or two others who tell us that
though they were bulldozed into signing
it they will not vote for Boring, there are
left few more than the regular Repub-
lican vote in one of the nine wards of the
city.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-16
A German Republican Organs Protest.

German hepuDllcan Organs Protest.
Lancaster Volksfreund und Bcobachter.
1t is too obvious to require demonstra-
tion that had the people of Pennsylvania
been impartially represented in this con
vention, at least seven-eighths of the dele
gates would have declared for Blaine In
spite of this, the convention instructed the
delegates to Chicago to vote for General
Grant. This is a political crime for which
there is no excuse, and which cannot be
forgiven. And the greater wrong includes
the less. After this wrong was done,
it was an easy thing for the con-
ventiOn to deny the congressional dis
tricts the right to choose their own dele
gates-a grave and high-handed usurpa-
tion-and to instruct the delegates to Chi
cago to vote as a unit. This command
will, of course, not be obeyed, as no dele
gate with an iota of self respect or political
principle will hearken to the voice of the
convention in direct opposition to that of
the people of the district which he repre-
sents. He who does so deserves political
death.
land who is responsible for this misrep-
resentatiOn in the case of Lam
caster? The very men who now ask Re-
publicans to vote for their candidate for
mayor. Mr.. ThOs. B. Cochran was made
the Grant Cameron delegate to misrepre-
sent Lancaster by the active aid of Mr..
Boring, whom Cochran in turn now under
takes to make mayor.-EDs. INTELLrGEN-
GER. ...
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-16
On the Record.

So many of the Republicans who now
recommend Mr.. Boring to their fellow
citizens have hitherto and lately so freely
expressed themselves about him, that
they will hardly he misunderstood when
they affect to believe that his election
would secure for Lancaster "an ccOnO-
mical and prudent municipal admins
tration." We are at no trouble to pick
out a hundred from the list who know,
and have frankly expressed the opinion
within Il short time, that Mr.. Boring
has not the necessary qualifications for the
office of mayor and that he forced him
self upon the Republican party as its
nominee, through his own presumption
and the efforts of little cOterie of the
party who want to get control of the
city government for their own factional
purposes.
Their recommendation comes too late,
and so many of those who signed it have
winked so significantly since, that their
signatures. obtained under the compul-
sion of being branded as untrue to the
party, will not much avail their party's
candidate.
Mr.. MacGonigle's record is before our
citizens. They have seen him enter upon
the duties of his Office, institute rigid re-
forms, impress upon the city government
business-like, orderly system, hold reck-
less legislators to full accountability,
and enforce the law and ordinances fear
lessly, fairly and fully. Such an eXecu-
tive is not to he found often, nor to be
parted with readily. TO vote him out
and to vote in a successor who gives no
promise of any of these executive quail
ties. would he an act of partisan mad
ness. of municipal suicide, which the
right-minded and level-headed people of
Lancaster are not ready to commit.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-16
His ResOlute Efforts.


From the Lancaster Examiner and Express
Aug. IL. 1878.
We express but the sentiment of all
rfght-minded, considerate, tax-paying citi-
zens, of both parties, when we extend to
Mayor MacGonigle thanks for having called
the attention of councils and the public in
general to the illegal and extravagant acts
Of the street committee or rather the ring
which has been running it and tool
calle1 the street commissioner. We hope
the mayor will not stop at ''prOtesting'
and calling the attention of councils to
their extravaganza and illegal proceedings,
but will, if necessary, proceed by injunc-
ton to restrain them, and also hold the
ringleaders individually liable when they
shall run the city in debt. 1t is notorious
that there has been in this department at
least RECKLEssNEss AND EXTRAvAGANCE
If NOT CORRUPTION, and SO far as we are,
concerned WE SHALL SUSTAIN THE
MAYOR in his efforts to compel an OBJ
servance, at all events, Of the forms of
law, and We hope he will not hesitate when
occasion requires to call the attention of
councils and the public to the shOrtcon-
ings of those in authority.