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

and Kennedy 6. The next ballot in which
there was any change. Evins received ii
Woodward 13, and Kennedy T. Thus tho
vote stood on the last ballot in which al
three Of the names were before the conyen
ton.
At this juncturc Of afflirs, in order tc
put an end to what seemed destined to be
an interminable balloting, it was proposed
to put the names Of Evins, Woodward and
Kennedy in hat, and draw out the names
oi Two aud run them against each other
and drop the lowest and run the highest
against the name remaining in the hat
This proposition did not come from Evins'
friends On the contrary, they opposed
I 10, uud VIC, us tho representatives, -ssviss'
friends, made two or more spc .chcs against
it. Notwithstanding the persistent opposi.
tion of E.ins' friends, the proposition was
adopted and the proposed plan was carried
out. The names Of Woodward and Ken
ncdy were the two names drawn out of the
hat, and they were run against each other,
Woodward receiving Is votes and KENNEDY
III votes. Consequently Kennedy was
dropped in accordance with the plan agreed
upon and Woodward was run against Evins.
whose name remained in the hat, aud Eyins
received 10 votes and Woodward 5 votes,
resulting in the election Of Evins. This is
plain statement of the facts of the case,
the correctness of which will be vouched
for, doubtless, by all the delegates to said
convention.
1t will thus be seen that Evins received
the highest vote on the last ballot in which
all three were voted for, and when baliotinc.
under the plan agreed upon, was reduced
to single contests and Woodward beat Ken.
nedy, that Evns tlcn beat Woodward four
votes in single handed race in fair ballot
We cannot, therefore, sec that Mai. Wood
ward has any just ground to complain, as
Col Evins received the nomination on Il
Fair ballot, and not by any "gambling pro-
cess" or by ''luck," as charged oy Maj
Woodward. but because he was the choice
OF majority Of the convention and received
more votes than Maj. Woodward.
alajor Wood ward also does Colonel
Evins great injustice when he intimatcs that
he assumes "to demand ThhM Term at
the hands of the people Of the Fourth Con-
grcssional District"
Colonel Evins has never assumed anv
such attitude. On the contrary. he has
always acted upon the principle that ''the
Office should seek the man instead of the
man seeking the Office" He did not seek
the Office III 1876. but was put forward by
his friends agaiuss hts inciiuutiun, uuu siuce
his election to Congress he has worn his
honOrs with his characteristic modcsty.
CHICKEN CHOLERA. In respect to the
chicken cholera: pastcdr has gone one step
further than the results of his experiments
on the spread Of anthrax have taken him.
The microscopic organism by which this dis
case is communicated has been described
and figured within the last two years. Like
other such organisms, this can be cultivated
in a suitable media that furnish the proper
sustcnancc for it, one of the best Of which
is chicken broth, in which the organism
multiplies with astonishing rapidity Pas
tcur has found that Guinea pigs may be in
oculatcd with this virus without necessarily
causing death ; nothing may come Of the
operation but an abccss at the place of inoc
ultion, and the animal may remain in all
other respects apparently in perfect health
This abccss may continue for several weeks !;
the matter discharged from it contains the
organ-microscopic germs Of the cholera in
abundance; if this matter falls on the food
of chickens or rabbits living in company
with the infected animals, they may take
the disease fatally. Without knowledge o!
this fact it might be stoutly maintained, and
with apparent reason, by a witness Of such
mysterious appearance Of the disease, that it
was spontaneous in its origin.
The communication Of the disease take
place readily through the cXcrcmCnts of the
infected animals, these being highly charged
with the organisms, and Pastcur aflrms
that this is the most important means of
the spreading it through the flock To ar
rest its progrcsSs the fowls should be scpa
rated from ono another for several days
their quarters should meanwhile be thor.
oughly washed with an abundance of water,
aciduatcd with little sulphuric acid,
which is particularly deadly to the organ.
ism all the cXcrcmcnt should be carried
away, and then the healthy birds may be
brought together again; the disease runs
its course so rapidly that in those few DAYS
all infected birds will have died The par.
ticular point OF interest established by Pas.
tcur is that the virus may be tempered down
so that it can be used against the disease in
the same manner that the vaccine virus is
cd against small.poX--but with this i'm.
portant difference, however, from all other
species of incubation hitherto practictd
that the virus is known to consist of Il liv.
lng organism, while this point is not yet
proven III regard 10 the vaccine, the foot.
rot or the peri pneumonia virus paStcm
athrms that in from sixteen To eighteen
cases ont of twenty cases Of iuucu!n,ion
with this mi!d virus, the fowls re not Of.
icctcd by subsequent incubation with the
virus Of full power; protection from the
disease was made more certain by one rcpc.
titiom Of the inuculntion -Ncr lnLE TrLN.