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Emation in Soutu Carolina, C CAI't li II " r : r-- : . I , - - I I sPKftf1 1 Arr.il! I' Cremation in Soutu Carolina, C CAI'T. A. KIIOTWF.LI. I liker tb government it was nil V OH CICAST! WHASf ii T r I II CAPTAIN SETTLE, LATE flowed with 8uou violence tnat it was It. "I is all-import- If any evidence wasTanti to prove A correspondent of the New York 9. A., RADICAL CANDIDATE OK mouu-tai- n In tha canVciHa before us it much the worse for the people. The f. II I like a rushing, roaring, raging, utter insincerity of tne Umcthnati Herald stales that on the 9th of July 0 governor. success of our State 1875," the Immgton JratnraL torrent. But the first thing re- to the theory of the Convention of the Henry Beriy, a venerable and wealthy Stb: tirst-rat- e platform in regard to the most impors cognized on the tumultuous waters ticket that men of ability, of Convention that framed the amend- citizen of Marion county, S. C, died, You belong to the best blood of the mid be tant question which is now agitating but before dying made anarraugement was the cheery bark of Thomas Settle integrity and influence sh ments now pending, was that the gov- N. State. Like your Confederate and try several the public mind, the subject of reform, with two of his employes, by which, WILMINGTON, C, gliding ou so calmly and smoothly, placed in nomination the ernment ought to be moulded so as to sum of two Judicial comrade Colonel Rodman, - it is abundantly furnished by the re for the $300 aud mules, poor un countiea'of the State for local and leg- meet the want of the people. they agreed to burn his body, his FRIDAV. JULY 21, 1876. you were born an aristocrat. You are that even had it held that girl's cent acts of the President. Not con slumbers would have i islati positions. Every voter must To this end, it will be seen that the reason for desiring cremation being a no common man, sprung from obscure fortunate babe,its tent with compelling the resignation sight which was presented to II THE WILMINOTONJOBBMAL. people who be brought to the polls and to accom constant efforts of the Democratic horrible parentage. High f.tation and wealth been undisturbed. The of Mr. Bristow, whose only offence his gaze many years ago by the re- Daily Weefcly. joade war upon you, plish this acceptable tickets must be members of the Convention in the and and the Settle family are no strangers for four years had seemed to be the vigor with wbica he moval of the bodies of two of his rel- the same people against whom four put in nomination by the County Con- amendments proposed, was to take un- atives which had lain in the grave for subscription - to Terms of Cah in to each other. Your father, whose mm ml fact prosecuted, without iegard position, years before, yon naa so vaiianciy ventions. Appreciating this the necessary power from the hands of the several years. The bodies were of II Advance. honored name you bear in full, adorned county of all oarties enlaced in defrauding the course greatly decomposed, and the taken up arms were now triumphant. good people of the officeholders ana to restore it to the The Journal is mailed to sub- for years the Judiciary of our State. Mecklenburg have placed in the expenditures government, he has now rudely forced coffin lid coming off revealed a sicken Dailt per annum; The winning side that for four years people and to reduce the which caused him then to scribers at Six dollab9 Time and again you have been hon- must com- Mr. Jewell, who was disposed to ing sight, twkntt-fiv- k marching, on was actually field a ticket that of the government. What they sought should not be- Thbee dollabs and ored by the confidence of the people. had been second Mr. Bristow in his efforts for vow that his remains cents for six months; One doixak and here at last and no mistake and you mand the enthusiastic support to bring about was the rule of the come subject to a similar fate. About y-fi- doubt- vk were sevknt cepts for three months. An educated gentleman.you of her honest citizens. Among the an economical expenditure reform, to retire from the Cabinet, two months ago he made a Will in is mailed to history; were again jubilant. people and The Weekly Joubnal less early proficient in English gentleman whose name 'Q& without a moments notice. which he very explicitly stated that if d, the so-calle- nominees is see subscribers at One dolla.b and a A Convention, assembled of the people's money. Let sons did not allow his body to be half at any rate I make bold to say that the Capt. Randolph A-Sh- This was bad enough one would sup his per annum; One doi-la- r for six months; and you were one of its prominent mem- heads thi article how well they succeeded in their pur- burned and did not participate in the for example of at least one most illustrious pose, and sufficiently derogatory to Fifty cents three months. bers. It met in that same Commons well who has been chosen as a pose. matter that it would be under penalty English character has been a lamp a the dignity of the position he occupies, ADVEBTISING BATES! Hall where you told the chaste and candidate of the Democracy as mem The first article of the Constitution of disinheritance. During his life he and a light unto thy happened to be a lower deep two pine trees adjoining his unto thy feet story of poor girl. In ber of the next House of Representa is called a declaration of rights. but there selected TEMPLE'S Advertisements will be inserted in the every night of doubt and un- pathetic that has sounded with farm which should be used on the and he 1 1 as follows: For one inch path in Can-b- y tives. Mecklenburg has within her Among rights, the right to bear still, that 1 1 J Daily Journal you. is that same Commons Hall, for the these occasion, ana also aesignaiea me spot seventy-fiv- e cents; two certainty that baa come upon It of gentlemen who most unseemly haste. He has per I one insertion Constitution had not then changed borders a number arms is conspicuous. The Convention, where it should take place. According Porcelain Liifl Fara insertions one dollar; three insertions unnecessary to say.I refer to that emi- would represent her interests with zeal emptorily demanded of his new Secre to arrangements the cremation took TWENTY-FIV- E was again to while fully acknowledging this right, ONE DOLLAR AND CENTS? the Vicar of Bray, its name, it aiy fortune morning IVI one month nent British Divine, you and ability, but she has no son, who yet deemed it wise to condemn tary of the Treasury, the immediate place at eight o'clock on the U P one week two dollars; six professed be present when made another Carriages, buggies and r FOR CISTERNS and mOPths FIF- him who in every revolution so more dismissal of four subordinates in his of the 11th. ADAPTED to 100 DOLLARS AND A HALF; three celebrated speech, that in which you would do with greater zeal and the practice of carrying con- up feet. It l months twenty-fiv- e sect "held the So, vehicles of every description were in beeiiuse of its economical arrangement TEEN dollars; six the tenets of the that ability than Capt. Shotwell. The department, friends of the retiring will fl confessed yourself a conscious traitor cealed weapons and to clothe active demand to convey spectators to best because it not need reuairfn. DOLLARS. in England-- " No matter reason only so far vears. 150,000 sold. best livings to your flag and to your country. But, compliment paid in his nomination is the Legislature with power to pass cretary, and for that the scene, and at the appointed time Ow OaUand tMit TO CORRESPONDENTS. how many might be wrecked around a graceful one. Capt. Shotwell, our as is known. And thus the mortifying an immense crowd '&s ia attendance. BUSH SCYTHKS though a conscious traitor, you denied laws punishing the practice. Whether GRASS AND GRAIN Desiring to make the Journal the him his bark always came safely to readers will remember, under the sen- exhibition is made of the Chief Execu" The trees designated by the deceased SCYTHFI cor that you had been a willing traitor. You the Legislature will ever exercise this were cut down, and all the necessary SNATHS AND REAP HOOKS mouthpiece of the people, the Editor shore. tence of the Federal Court, a sentenoa tive of the country using the power of- - AND all por- twenty-f- declared that when you stood by the power will depend upon the people, arrangements having been rerfected, WINE CIDER MILLS dially invites correspondence from Comparatively a young man, for his office to gratify his personal tions of the State. dying bed of your honored father, no obtained by means of suborned testi- for whatever power is given to the high the' body was laid on a platform sur- DOG CHAINS AND COLLARm ive years, you have been more or ser- a small business to say twenty FISHING TACKLE, ii agony wrenched your soul than mony, was sentenced to a term of Legislature is given to the people.
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