The News and Herald from Winnsboro, South Carolina • Page 1

TRI-WEEKLY EDITION.) WINNSBORO, S. C. TC UEMDA RC4879 V.IOL. 3. NO.

14 GOY. HAMP'ON'S FAREWELL. UE RESIGNS AS GOVEItNOR AND. IS COMMISSIONED SENA TOR. Governor Simpson Quietly Inaugurated--Hampton's Letter of Besignation- He Explains Why He Did Not Resign Before- Allusions to His Feeble Health--Thanks for the Past and Hopes for the Future.

Governor Hampton's letter of resignation was received last nesday and he was duly commis sioned as United States Senator, and his certificate of election forwarded to Senator Butler for presentation. Governor Simpson qualified as Governor before Chief Justice Willard, the ceremony geing quietly performed in the attorney.general's office, and has issued his proclamation, in which he announces that in consequence of a letter of resignation received from Governor Hampton, he has taken the oath of office as Governor and entered upon the duties of the office. Governor Hampton's letter is as follows: OAKLAND, S. Feb. 24, 1879.

My Dve-r b'ir: In tendering, as I now do, my resignation as Governor of South C.rolina, it is proper that I should give the IOHuu which h-ve me to )ostpune doing so until the present i.ime. When the General Assembly did me the lionor to elect ie United States Senator there were some official acts which, it was supposed, could be properly discharged only by myself. I prouosed, therefore, to resume Executive authority for a few days to peirform those duties, but my health is never permittod me to do so, and the recent decision of the Supreme Court renders it unneces.sary for me to take any action in this matter. I can therefore now resign withogt any prdju.liLe to the State or any embarrassment to myself, and in doing so I feel that I conm1it the Executive authority to one in every way worthy and competent to wield it. It will always be a source of pride and gratification to me to recall my official connection with the o.hor officers of the State.

We have been in perfect accord on all the great public questions which have agitated the State, and our personal relations have been those of the closest friendship- In severs i ig my connection with them officially, I beg to express my great obligations to them, and my earnest wishes for their prosperity and success. To the people of South have done me such undeserved honor in the past, who have sustained me with such unfalterirg confidence, and who have manifested towards me, during my late illness, an affection never I have no words by which ly to express my gratitude. I can only promise to devote whatever of life and ability God may grant me to their service, oaly asking them to remember that I nevor solicited office at their hands, and if I fail in the new sphere to which they have elevated me, it will be my misfortune but not my fault. They have placed me there, and it shall be my. earnest effort to rove myself worthy of their confidence.

Thanking them for their kindness to me and invoking on them the hoicest blessings of God, I am, with great respect, veryt truly yours, WADS HAMPTON. His Excellency, GOVERNOn SIMPBoN. Fausitt has recorded a curious. experimnent on the resonance of flames. A tuning fork struck upon the table, and then held till its soiud as inaudible, was placed in the tip of the flames of a Bunsen burner.

The eound came out again loud enough to be beard at some distance. The flame acts as tesonator owing to the difference in the density of the gases which rove that twenty -ive per cent. of the deaths in lgrger cities sire caused by consup when reflect that tis terrible disease in its earlier stage tendily 14l to bottle oft Dr. Bull's' cOug 8rup (costing 25 cente), ye ooun the sufferers for their negligence, or pity them. for tlrIgorasoeei The wjhqe.

ofs Oharles Diekeng 1as been. da'nnmanulJl Q'AROLIRA 11 WS. A negro child was burned to death at Wtld's Qua.iter, Darliegton county, last Monday. Five hundred water oaks have been planted in the streets of Aikon within the past fortnight. The lien businesa is raging in Darlington county this year.

The clerk has already registered 1,476. The fertiliezr war in Spartanburg is over, and the farmers are buying fertilizers in as large quantities as ever. So says the Ilerald. A negro woman living on the pla utation of Mr. Josoph Smnyer, in Chester county, recently gave birth to two children one black and the other white.

-The meat house of Mr. Turner Carter in Chester county was broken open on Thursday night, and eight hundred pounds of meat stolen. There is no clew as to' the perpetrator3 of this robbery. Mr. Samuel McAlily's meat house in Chester county was broken open last Saturday night, and about three hundred pounels of meat were stolen theref.

oin. The thieves, to effect their obje3t, through a brick wall two feet thick. Henry Wilson, a negro, has been arrested and committed to jail, suspected as one of the guilty particsA fire broke out last Wednesday night in Messrs. Walker Fleming new biuding in Spartanburg. The fire burned the shelves, count.

era and goods in the back end very badly, and but for the prompt and energetic action of the fire company, the whole block on the north side of the public square, including the courthouse, would have been consumed. A negro womnn liNing on the place of Capt. J. N. Haffinan, in Lexington county, on Friday last left her two childrn about four years old in her house and went off.

When she returned she0 found one. of With all its clothes bunrt off and it so badly burned that it died o.a Saturd ty morning. Thu accident is reported as being. the result of gross caroelo.3n:s3 on the mot ber's part. The colored men of Anderson are talking about holding a meetingl and declaring war against all tramps and colored refugees from They claim thi ecfourths of the trouble pesons of their race got is caused by vagabond negroes fro.n across the Savannah river, and say: that unless something is done t) put a stop to their coming they propose to take esvery such fellow up and deal with him themselves.

The case of the State against Isaac McLain, indicted for murder, was tried at Anderson lapt week, mini elicited much interest. It will be remembered that this was the case where Mr. McLain, on horseback, ran over Mr. Drury Snipes year the residence of Colonel Ruck-. or, throwing him upon the grounAd4 and causing his death.

As tha evidence was insufficient to prove malice or crimmnal cauelessness, theo defendant was acquitted.jThe Newberry Pomona Grange met at Trinity on the- 14th ult. Among other business transac ted a resolution was adopted in oppoi tion to the extra term of court ordered by Judge Aldrich for MLy. The G.rangers -say they are desirous that the dockets of the court should be cleared and the old business that, now clogs it should be wound up, but declare that the month of May is not a fit time to call farmers from their farms to act as jurors and4 witnesses. I Gen. M.

W. Gary, learning that the parsonage on Ward's circuit in Edgefleld county was was unfne- aished, promptly and without solicitation ordered an elegant chamber suite of walnut furniture from a dealer in Augusta and donated it to the The furniture has I been received and placed within the building. At the Quarterly Confer.enee recently held at Batesburg, the Presiding Elder, Dr. E. J.

Moynardie, publicly returned the thanks of' the Conference to General Gary. A colored girl about eleven years of age was burned to death on the plantation of Mr. S. McCully inj Atderson cobunty one day last week. She, with ereveral smaller ehildren, had been left alone by their parents, and while playing around the hearth her clothes caught on fire, and becoming frightened she.

rahi to the of Mr. MoCully, a dietance of ro lIe, her. olothes being almost a burnt offwe she Anaohed his place. 8She survived only a few dt ite sheriff of Darlington has captured Ben James (and Robert McCall, two of the pz'isoners who escaped from jail reogttly. It has leaked out, as predictod, that the tools with which the prisoners recently made their bseapo wore, passed into theta through the window from the A blanket was torn up and st.rings nade by some of the prisoners iu'tho with which the tools were drawn up.

Mary King, it is said, was instrumental in getting up the necessary tools and effecting the arrangements for the escape. An experienced deteotive in the garb of a tramp has been operating tround Anderson for ma days, and has succeeded in captt ug several negroes, who, it is sul sod, were implicated in the burg ry of Mr. Kennedy's store. Qa a negro o-lled Bob, but whose name is llfason Dykes, is an esea criminal from Georgia, for whose capture a I reward of fifty dollars li been of, rerod. He made a confosion to the detoctivo in jail, implicating several parties in the burglary already nuntioned, sonme of whom are now in custody.

One day last week a colored man named Saul Boozer came to his loath in a horriblo manner, while ejeaning out a well in Newberry oounty. He was in the ell, other parties drawing up ax lare tub fiiled with rock, taken from tl well. The tub was placed upon aplank across the mouth of the well. which plank broke, the whole weight of the tub; and ittcontents falling on Boozet, breaking his head in a fearful man nor. Boozer was a good Democrat, never having voted the ticket in his life.

HrIonwAY lioma.n.-We learn that one night last week, Mlr. Mar tin Williams, who lives on Clark's Fork, and and is engaged in iner)handizing, while riding in a buggy tlone in the vicinity of King's h.Inntain battle ground, was overtaken by a white stranger to him-who asked pormiseion to ride. The request wao gianted, and the occupants of t'se buggy had not proceedod far until they wore met ay a party of four men, one a negro a gun. Ir. Williams was issaulted by this party, knocked 3onsoless, and robbed of what mQney so had with him-about ton dollars.

was left in an unconscious condi. ion, lying in the road, and luantly his horse and buggy werer ound some distance from the scene )f the outrage, the horse tied to a tree, where it had evidently been Iriven by the band of robbers. It is thought that the man who asked for a seat in Mr. Williams' buggy was mn accomplice of those whom they Lfterwards met. As soon as Mr.

Williams regained consciousness, he vent to the house of Robert Caveny, I iear by, and related the circun- tances. Mr. Cuveny accompanied ii in search of the robbers, which, iowever, resulted only in the discav- try of tile horse and buggy as stated bove. Mr. Williams, though tunned by the blow he reeived, is tot dangerously CONVIcTED OF ease the State vs.

Aif. McNinch, John 3lackwell and J. L. M. Irby, chargi.

with the murder of Wim. C. Xii- oro, was tried in tihe Court of Sessions at L.aurena~ last veek. Upon motion of the Solici-' 1 or, thle defendants wore soverd in heir trial. McNinch was first triod.

rhe trial began Thursday morning i xnd terminated Saturday night. L'he jury were out about threoe jnarters of all hu and returned a rerdict of "Guilty." On Monday Erby's case was called, his ounsel were about to move for a 1onltinuanlce, when the Judge asked the defendant was in court. Upon a being ascertained that he was resent, the Judge ruled that in to hear any argupient on the: soint of a continuance it was tary that the defendant be present'1 in Uourt, and ordered that ho be salled. No answer being made the crier's call, the Solicitor moved it once for a bench warrant, which, I ifter due search b)y the sheriff, was returned with "non est endorsed on it Irby had gone. His bond was for $8,000.

On it are1 live or six of thme best citizens of' Laurens county. It is said that put up the money, before he left, to -pay his forfeited bond. biothing has been heard of Irbyi uiko Is departure- G3ovex nor ion offers a reward of $150 for his irrest MuAit HBlstead 'has recenmtly sole' propritor of the 015n. 's A Macon man dropped his pistol the other day and shot his washurwoman through the jaw. The Domocrats and Groenbackors Af Boston have coalosced, and noni, nated George Walker ful mayor.

A Philadelphia firim has received argo orders for iiachino tools from Frience, England and other foreign tries. There is soio life yet left in Dleinphis- The Masonio Temple is finished, and work on the sustom house is being prosecutodi Bogardus broke one thousand )alls iii sixty-four minutes at the air grounds in New Orleans one lay last week. Tho King of Siam has a bo ly uard of 400 young, strong an 1 lindsome women. They aro eoad the hills The No Stocking Bru iettes." There is a rumor that Secretary 3churz is engaged to marry one of daughteis of a highly-placed fficer of the Government. At Boston Miss Reynolds, who ttteimpted to walk 3,000 qti'irtor niles in 2,000 quarter hours, after ompleting 791 quarter miles with'row at two on morning and the contest was given 'p.

The Little Rock OGzette opposes Ahe nomination of Tilden in 1880, mnd expresses the-belief that in this expresses the almost univorEial ientiinent of the Democracy of 1.rkansas. Judge Alexander is holding United Court at Danville, Vit. county court ju.lges have been udicted by the grand jury for failig to allow jurors to serve. 3reat indignuation prevails. The making of condensed miik in switzorl-ml is very prolitable.

The 1nglo-Swiss C.np.my last year $300,000, and, after sottiig i ide half of this as a reserve fund, leclared a dividtnd of 18 per csnt. Fifteen thoustnd people attended ho Arion imisked ball in New York ist Friday evening. TheC Gy7'rmlan sinister to time United States and ho leading city officials, including Iyor Cooper end ex Mayor Ely, VeO presclt. A dispatch to the tlv'eston News roin son, Texan, s.tys that on lhursd.y night a stago with four assa11gers was halted near Pegley tation by two highwaymen- The iassengers wore ordered out singly, heir valuables taken from them, nd the mail bags rifled. A decision has boon rendered by be attorney general that elect are entitled to the fianking privilege from the commen cesent of the term of service whether worn in or not.

This gives iambers elect to the Forty-sixth ongressa that privilege fron the Lth of March instant. A little negro child, about ten 'ears old, killed his I a'iy brother a few ys since in Warren umnty, 0 Iis mother made him nurse tihe against his will, andl when she eturned from, washing cl othes, (lund the baby inl convulsions, withm rmarks on his face, showing where it iad beon bruised and beaten. The will of Mrs. Emily Grace fathan, widow of Benj am in Nathan, iihose murder caused such-a sensamion, was filod for prob)ate ini the lowv York Surrogate's Court last rook. After leaving money to arious Hebrewv charities, she res an equal division of her estate mong her children.

Tile will aina a provision that sholid any I her children marry outsido of the lobrew faith their sh.ire of the states is to be forfeited. The Duval Savings Bank at Jacksonville, was last voek of $3,500. A man drove up to front of the bank, called out Abbott, the only per'son the bank, and engaged him a few noments in conversation. A conederate meantime entered by a side loor and took the money from a Irawer. Tile police arrested a man suspicion, and found $800 on als person.

lHe has confessed and wo other arrests have been made. A Washington telegram, dated ast Friday, says: "Tihe Cabinet iession was mnrainly devoted ao the Chinese question. It is an wounced authoritatively that the President will veto the penigng bill, uad in this he will be supported.by be entire he veto mesa page 'bill be sent to Congress Saitur, or Monldfiy A dispatch from Nolsonvillo, Ohio, statos that tho house of J. Ml. ford was burned on Satiurd'ty mornf ing.

Mr. Siunsford and six of his I children worc burned to death. His wife and one child escaped. The Mayor of Shoflield; stated at a meeting last week that in one district of that-town there are four thousand persons destitute and four hmahclrod families actually starving. A relief fund has-been formed, John Miller, a well known resident of Memphis at3sassiM naited on Saturday night at his' country residence, fIlfteen miles from Stanton, Tenn.

He wis shot by an unknown party lying in ambush, who fired at him with a shot-gun as he appearod in his door, In Portsmouth, on Friday morning, the body of a youth named Alexander T. Winn, cightoon years of a.t', was fouud in an outhouse, perfectly naked, hanging by a short rope and' perfectly lifeless from strangulation. it is supposed be commiited suicide, though some of his friends surmise that he was mur. dered. Winn was the promising son of a widowed mother.

No cause is assigned for the rash act, MURDERED Fon His GoLD.A disaptch to the Memphis Avalanche from Iuka, gives the following account of a double mur. der wpotra ed near that city last Wednesday Major A. Ml. Hutch, ens, accompanied by Thomas McNatt, both highly respected citizens, llft Iuka together in the after, noon go home, being neighbors. Hutehens had drawn $1,7000 in go'l from tie express office, sent by a Cincinnati houso to be used in purchasing a farm.

Late in the McN.ttt's horse reached home riderless, with blood marks on the saddle. This aroused the Rsuieious of MIcNatt's family, who feared foul play, and a search was which revealed the dead budy of McNatt, terribly abcut two 'miles from his home. One hundred yards farther on Major Ifutchens' body was found in like con lition. It is, thought th some parties who knew of the gold being at the express office waylaid and murdered both men in order to scure the money. DR.

G. II. LADD, returned to Winnsboro, and 11resumed the praotico of medicine, olers his professional services to the citizens of the town and county. Ozico in auk Inngo, up stairs, ne'xt to and IIerald ofico. Entrance strev.

mar 1-xt3u1 AUDITOR'S SALE. T) orders Iromn the Comptroller Gen. .) the followi tracts or pareols of lantis, or as mhucih theroof as shall be necessary to pay the taxes, costs, and for th. ieal year 18,7, will beotiorod for sale by the'I'reasurerof Fair. fiehl county, in froant of the oourt-house door in Winnsboro, on ''uosday, the 4th day of March, 1879.

'rOWNsHIP NO, 10. Mrhs. E. K. Anderson, 1457 acres.

Auditor, February 22, 1879. b25j--aw2wy JUST RECEIVED. IA Sugar-Cured, Canned Goods--Tomatoes, es, Salmon, Sardines, Pickles, Teas-Gunpowder and Young Hlyson. 3. M.

BEATY CO, New Summer Cook. HOT BLAST STOVE. DOES NOT II EAT THlE Pour leet for all kinds of Uooking arnd Heat ing IrQzns. Alwaya ready and reliable, The most satisf etory Stove mad. And tho Oheapest.

Sondl for vircu lars.WHITNEY HALL 123Oh esIwt PhIta THE BAY STE "Standard Screw" Shoes.