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[From the -News and Courier.] The Works of .Josephus. A Large-Sized Striped Sit Ready for Portly Cardozo. COLUMBIA. S. C., Wednesday, No vember 7.-The announcement this morning of the verdict in the case of the State against F. L. Cardozo occa sioned much surprise in all quarters. The general impression had obtained, from the beginning of the case, that it would result in a mistrial, this cal culation being based solely upon the natural and political complexion of the jury. As to the first point-of the twelve men who composed the jury seven were black or colored, and five were white ; while, as to second point, those who claimed to know, stated that six were Democrats and six Republicans. In the light of all experience concerning such trials in this court, it was considered safe to assume that these four opposing ele ments could never be brought into concord upon any question affecting the rights of a colored prisoner, charged with any crime whatsoever, and particularly with any crime in volving a connection, real or assumed, with political questions. When the jury retired yesterday afternoon it was asserted and believed, on all sides, that they left the court room evenly divided on the question of the guilt of the prisoner, six being set down for a verdict of "guilty" and six for acquittal. Early this morning it was rumored that the jury stood nine to three for conviction, and a little before the hour for the Court to open the Judge was sent for, and the jury came in ; the foreman handed in the verdict of "Guilty !" which the clerk read, and the news flew like wildfire through the city that ex-Treasurer F. L. Cardozo had been convicted of the charge against him. THE CASE OF SMALLS. The Court convened soon afterwards, and the ease of the State against Con gressman Robert Smalls, for accepting a bribe, was called. Smalls, who has danced uneasy and interested attend ance at the Court throughout the pro ceedings of the Cardozo trial, now came forward and took his seat beside Mr. Melton. Gen. Conner announced that the State was ready. Judge Melton said that Mr. Pope, who was engaged to assist him in this trial, was quite sick and unable to attend court, but as he could not ask for a second extension of time he sup posed he would have to go on. The case did not go on, however, as after a few minutes' discussion, in the course of which Judge Melton announced that he intended to make a motion to take the case out of the jurisdiction of this court, it was agreed to post pone the hearing until 3 o'clock to allow counsel on both sides time to .prepare for the argument on this ques tion. A THREATENED CONFLICT OF JURIS DICTION CoLMBIA, November 7-10 P. M. -When the case of Robert Smnalls came up at 8 o'clock, his counsel, Judge Melton, filed a petition claiming that, under the Civil Rights bill, the defendant was entitled to remove the case from this to a United States Court. The points of the petition are that the defendant is a person of color; that his offence has been the subject of much comment among citizens, and in newspapers of the State; that great prejudice exists against him on these accounts, and because that he holds - an office in Congress now under cor test; that this contest is the result of a conspiracy to deprive him of his office and rights as a citizen of the United States; that he cannot have a fair and impartial trial of the said cause before the Hon. C. P. Townsend, Circuit Judge, now presiding in said Coturt ; that he believes that the mind of the said judge is prejudiced against him by reason of his race, color and previous condition of servitude; that his belief is founded on the rulings and charge of the said judge in a cer tain cause, wherein F. L. Cardozo, a person of the same race and color of the defendant, was tried; that, for the~ reasons above stated, and for others more at large, he cannot have a fair * and unprejudiced trial, which he avers is all he desires. Wherefore, he prays the removal of the cause, now pend ing, to the Circuit Court of the Uni ted States for the District of South Carolina. Judge Melton remarked that this case was the most important one that had ever come up, as the jurisdiction of the State Court as against that of the United States Court would now come thoroughly in question under the Civil Rights bill. Referring to the Revised Statutes of the United States, page 114, he said that there had been various cases wherein this point had been maintained or disputed by one side or the other ; but that he now intends to seek a distinct decision that would serve as a guide for the future, and he intends to carry it to the United States Supreme Court if necessary. Jndge Townsend remarked that he was ready to hear argument. Attor ney-General Conner announced him self also as ready but, after the usual discussion, the whole matter was laid on the table until to-morrow morning. The effrontery of Smalls in object ing to Judge Townsend is exhibited by the circumstance that Judge Town send is a Republican, and was voted for by Smails when elected in 1872, and received 143 votes in joint assem bly, the highest number given to any candidate, when re-elected in 1875. This last, too, was the Legislature that elected Whipper and Moses. But Smalis is badly frightened. CLm TA, S. C, Noember 11. nan. Then the court was opcned, and the foremLan of the jury handed in a verdict of "guilty." Judge Melton got in a final excep tion on the ground that a verdict could not be rendered cn Sunday. The jury was dismissed. Smalis has not yet been ordered to jail, but holds over for one day under his bond. The Court is sustained on the ques tion of receiving the verdict to-day by several authorities, which were closely consulted beforehand. Amohg them is cited Judge Wardlaw's decision in Hillier's case to be found in Strob hart's Reports. It is rumored that the jury stood eleven to one for a verdict of guilty, from the outset, and would have ren dered a verdict yesterday evening, but for the conscientiousness of one man. The question of receiving the ver dict to-day is simplified by the fact that the Court did not adjourn either yesterday afternoon or this morning. The Hierald. THOS. F. GRENEKER, EDITORS. W. H. WALLACE, NEWBERRY. S. C. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 14, 1877. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. The Herald is in the highest respect a Fam ily Newspaper, devoted to the material in terests of the people of this County and the State. It circulates extensively, and as an Advertisin- medium offers unrivalled ad vantages. 'or Terms, see first page. The Condition of the Negro. The negroes have been free more than twelve years. Since their emancipation, or at any rate since reconstruction in 1868, they have had all the privileges of whites probably more. Liberal provisions have been made by the government for their education. They have voted, been voted for, held office, and some of them have accummv.a ted, by some means, large fortunes. But what is their condition to-day -the condition of the rank and file of the race ? Go to the farmer in the country and inquire. He will tell you that though they have had every advantage to make and save money, they have not done it. What they make they spend for showy dress or gew-gaws. They are characteristically improvident, looking never a day ahead. The money they make on the farms is gone almost as soon as it comes to their hands. For the greater part of the year their food is the scantiest ; nothing but corn bread -for months not a taste of meat. We know this to be so. As to their civilization, they are fast drifting into a state of barbarism. Some of their stiperstitions are so absurd that they would be strange even in the inhabitants of Central Africa. An example of these is their ideas of "conjuring." You Sud here and there among them a negro who is credited with the power of "con juring" whom he pleases. The rest stand in mortal dread of him, and he can move any family of negroes out of a house or a neighborhood in less than twenty-fouir houris,'without the least noise or difficulty. And this is the way he does it: He goes (or pretends to go) to a graveyard; takes some nails out of a coffin; drives them down in the yard of the negroes and notifies them-they leave. They believe that if they stay it will be certain death. These conjurers also deal in mysterious roots and barks, by which they put a "spell" on one, or cure another of disease. Their "religion" is the blindest superstition, having no influence whatever in making them more honest, more chaste or more moral in any particular. Indeed, their leaders are frequently the most de based of the flock, who under the guise of religion commit all manner of foul deeds. . The condition of the negro is certainly discouraging. D. Wyatt Aiken. In the Con gressional .Directory we 1nd the following sketch of our worthy representative in Congress: "D. Wyatt Aiken, of Cokesbury, was born at Winnsboro, Fairfield County, S. C., March 17, 1828; re ceived an academic education at Mt. Zion Institute, Winnsboro ; grad uated at the South Carolina Col lege, Columbia, in 1849; taught school two years, settled upon a farm in 1852, and has continued until the present time to profess and practice farming ; in 1861 en tered the volunteer service of the Southern Confederacy as a private; was appointed Adjutant of the Sev enth Regiment of Volunteers; was elected Colonel of the same when in 1864 and again in 1866 ; was Master of the State Grange for two years and member of the Execu tive Committee of the Nation;dl Grange for six years ; was a dele gate to the National Democratic Convention at Saint Louis that nominated Tilden and Hendricks; and was elected to the Forty fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 21,479 votes against 15,553 votes for L. Cass Carpenter, Republican." Elections. Elections were held in several States the 6th inst. MASSACHrSETTS.-Rice, Rep. was elected Governor over Gaston,Dem., by about 10,000 majority. Legis lature largely Republican. NEW JERSEY.-Gen. Geo. B. Mc Clellan, Dem., elected Governor by 13,000 majority. C6xECTIcuT.-Republican major ity in the Senate, 4; in the House, 35. Republican gains. NEW YORK.-Democratic majori ty, 20,000. PE-Ns,LVANIA.-Carried by the Democrats by 10,000. Maryland, Virginia, Georgia and Mississippi, of course, went Demo cratic by large majorities. WIscoNsI.-Republican. NEBRisKA. -Republican Neither party feels very much elated by the elections; but the total gains have been in favor of the Democrats. Freight Discriminations. We make the following extract from an editorial in the Columbia Register, and shall notice the sub ject in next issue : "The freight on-cotton from Als ton to Columbia has formerly been 75 cents per bale, and from New berry $1.25 per bale. The tariff has been raised to $2 from Alston and $2.25 from Newberry. If the merchant in Columbia, however, will agree to ship the cotton con signed to him from these points to Charleston, over the South Car-olina Railroad, a rebate is allowed to the merchant of the difference between the present and former tariff. The explanation of this new dodge to contr-ol the cotton business of this city is simply that a prominent firm has shipped vithin the last three weeks more than 1,800 bales of cot ton to Wilmington, where it is load ed upon vessels for foreign ports, and a considerable portion of t.his cotton has been bought at Alston, Newberry and other points on the line of the Gr-eenville and Columbia Railroad. It is too glaring and transparent to need comment. The regulation of the trriff at such ex orbitant rates carries on its face a gross injustice, but when the pro position for rebate is made on such conditions. the superlative degree of presumptuousness has been reached." The Auditor's Salary. What we said about the salary of the Treasurer is equally applica ble to the Auditor's salary. We think it too small for the amount and character of the - work to be done-only $600. The Batesburg MYonitor Is the name of a new paper just started at Batesburg, Lexington County. It starts out well, and we wish it success. State News. The Abbeville Fair this year was a complete success, as it always is. The trial of Congressman Smalls, (col.), for accepting a bribe of $5,000, was begun in Columbia Thursday. The petition of Smalls, asking for removal of his case to the U. S. Court, was the work of B. F. Butler, of Mas sachusetts. The trial of Chlory Carpenter, for forgery, began on Monday. It is ex pected that the Court will not sit during the Fair. The Rev. Edward T. Buist, D. D., of Greenville, died of congestion of the lungs during the last week. He was in his seventieth year. The gin and mill of Dr. G. W. Wise, about four miles from iPine House, were destroyed by fire on Sat urday night. Loss $1,000, no insur ance. Col. C. S. McCall, (demi.) was elect ed Senator from Marlboro' County, the 6th inst., to fill the unexpired tem of HI. J. Maxwell, (col. rep.,) re signed. The Schedule on the South Carolina Railroad has been changed, and in consequence the mails will reach the up-country about an hour earlier in the afternoon. The jury which convicted Smalls consisted of five whites and seven col ored. He will, it is thought, endeav or to get a release on habeas corpus through Judge Bond. Major John H. Kinsler has been nominated by the Democratic Conven tion of Richland County for Senator in Nash's place. Maj. Kinsler is a farmer, and will make a good Senator. Somebody, in the Charleston Jour nlat of Commerce, nominates Hon. W. D). Simpson for the expected vacancy on the Supreme Bench. A good nomination-he could not have made a better. The Grarnd Jr ofRihiand Coun Editorial Review. The Silver Bill, it is said, is in a air way of passing both Houses of Jongress. P. T. Barnum, the great showman, was elected to the Legislature of Con aecticut the 6th instant. Gov. Williams, of Indiana, has ap pointed Dan'i L. Voorhees to fill Mor ton's unexpired term in the United States Senate. John Morrissey, the noted sports man, has been elected State Senator in New York. His opponent was Augustus Schell. Both are Demo crats. WASHINGTON, November 6.-A number of women who are taxpayers petition Congress for relief from po litical disabilities. In other words, they want to vote. The Russians have lost 64,800 since the war began; but they are on the road to victory. Query : will the vic tory be worth the great sacrifice of human life? A Bill has been introduced in Con gress proposing an amendment to the Constitution for the election of Post Masters every four years by the voters of the city, village, town or district in which the duties of their office are to be performed. FOR THE HERALD, Broadbrimn'S New York Letter. No. 43. The New York Police Officers' Brutal Treat ment of Prisoners-Revelations of a Mad house-Italian Lazzaroni-Politics Markets-Weather, etc. It is now nearly a hundred years aeo since all England was startled by the revelations of a mad house, and the tales of woe unfolded in that dark his tory have served as a sort of magazine of horrors for the novelists of a later generation. The old time stories of maniacs starved and chained and beat en were by many believed to exist only in the brain of the romancer ; and if it were not for the damning parlia mentary investigation we might still hope that humanity was not as bad as it seemed. In the Uuited States we boast of our humanity. It is the pride of New York that a lame calf or a starving dog is not without a friend ; the galled or wounded horse will find hosts of sympathizers in every street, and even the nocturnal Thomas eat re hearses his serenade unchallenged un less a chance junk bottle or a vagrant boot-jack should interrupt the tenor of his melody-except from an acci dental discharge of missiles he stands in no bodil,y fear: for the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals ath declared that Thomas, while en gaged in all lawful pursuits shall not and must not be molested. In this ddmonstrative mercy toward dumb animals it would seem as if we lost sight of the fact that God has made an animal nobler than the horse or the dog, like unto the image of him self; and yet week after week men die here in a condition to which the dog's death would seem like entering the ates of Paradise. Every week prisoners die in the cells of our station houses, or in the Tombs, where they have been thrust by brutal policeman on charges of real or sup posed drunkenness. The cell door is opened in the morning and the man is found dead. The week before last *a respectably dressed man was found in a street leading from Broadway; he was lying on the ground, and when discovered, was paralyzed and unable to walk. He had fallen in an epilep tic fit-a disease which he had been subject to for years-and no effort was made to discover his actual con di tion. He was ordered to get up, but the man was insensible, and this bru tal guardian clubbed him till the flag stones were dyed with his blood. Hap pily he never felt a blow, for there was no cry, no complaint, no struggle of the passive victim. Reeking with his gore, he was placed upon a cart and carried to the station, wherc a charge of drunk and disorderly was entered on the blotter, lie was then carried helpless, to a cell, and left alone till morning. In the gray of the morn ing the doorman proceeded to rouse the prisoners, but from cell No. 8 there was no response. The doorman entered, and a brutal kick failed to rouse the drunken sleeper ; the door man stooped over to look at him-he was dead ! The things that might have identified him were stolen by thieves when he fell in the street, and so, with no friend to claim the inani mate clay, they interred him in Pot ter's field. In a beautiful town in the State of Illinois, there was bitter and unavaling grief for a prominent mer chant who had gone to New York to buy goods, and had decamped with several thousands of dollars, leaving behind him a lovely wife and four in teresting children. At last the wife's brother resolved to come to New York and endeavor to unravel the mystery. The trunk was found at an uptown hotel, and there he learned that, after supper, some weeks before the owner had gone out and never returned, lie went to the different departments, and on a keeper at Blaciawell's Island saw the coat that his brother-in-law wore to New York. After much trouble and investigation he learned the man ner of his relative's death, and it then transpired that the man had not tasted a drop of spirituous liquor for over twenty years. No dog could have been buried so while Mr. Bergh has charge of the lay college for puppies; no horse could have been abused as this man was, without arousing a storm of indignation which would threaten the safety of the police commission, and shake the foundations of Tam ma ny T-Tall. Spakiner of mad-haose we usage by nurses, male and female, of imbecile and insane patients was shocking as it was true, and at.that time it was thought that a remedy had been applied which would make such things impossible for the future. In s2veral cases the writ of habeas corpus had to be invoked to give pris oners their liberty who were in the full enjoyment of reason and had been held in duress as insane. A man fell in love with another woman and want ed to get rid of his wife; the mother was seized in her home, right in the midst of her children, and hurried away to a mad-house. She was not calm, she was not gentle, as the ruf fians tore her away. She struggled and fought like a tiger to remain with her children in her home. All was unavailing-they put a straight-jacket on her and thrust her in a cell. It is marvelous that the utter hopelessness of her condition did not drive her mad forever. By morning she took in the whole situation, and swallowing her wrath, became as calm as possible. No struggle, no reproach, no word of an ger passed her lips-for she saw that in her enforced peace lay her only hope of liberty-but it was months before they permitted her to escape, and when free at last, she found that a divorce had been procured and her once happy home was in ruins. Last week, in the Asylum on Blackwell's Island, an Episcopal min ister who has been confined in that institution with a mild form of insan ity for the past two years, was almost beaten to death by one of the brutal attendants. At the Long Island Hos pital, only a short time since, a young lady of brilliant attainments but sub ject to occasional epileptic fits, was subjected to a course of fiendish per secutions, recalling the darkest days of the inquisition. She was rescued at last when almost on the verge of madness, and the only punishment in flicted on the wretch who had abused her consisted in her discharge. If a man or woman can be torn from their homes and confined in piivate or pub lic mad-houses, it is time that the public knew it. Let the Legislature make it the business of a Board of Examiners, who shall have free entry to every department, that the horrors now so darkly hinted at may be swept away forever. Our humanitarians have not distin guished themselves in destroying the vocation of our juvenile street musi cians. It is true that we are no more reduced to harmonious misery by that musical villainy, "Darling, I am Growing Old," or even the more inspiring strains of "Sweet By-and B." But what of that ? the social eil that offended us remains in more disgusting forms, and instead of wretched little musical mendicants receiving the dole of charity, they now parade the streets early and late, with bags and hooks, getting their living from the off'al of the streets as veritable savages as wild Indians or the Bashi Bazouks. The sailors got their dander up this week at a proposed reduction of wages, and forming into a procession marched through the streets, breaking the win dows of an obnoxious boarding-house keeper and raising bob generally till scattered by the police. The courts generally deal pretty lightly with Poor Jack, knowing his failings when on shore, so they let the 2' iders ofi with a few slight fines ant. promise of good behavior. Just at the present time we are at tending to nothing but polites. I have not expressed an opinion yet but am quietly awaiting results. John Morrissey is an excellent gentleman, high-toned and peaceable, and the charm of his character to me is that he does not know the Jack of Dia monds from the report of the Young Men's Christian Association. I ad mire John Kelly. he's a trump ; in fact I may say the ace of trumps, al though he raises the deuce some times. 'I particularly admire the way in which he has squeezed old Tweed ; having confined his revelations to positively useful information. I am a patriot about election times, and I am anxiously waiting to see which of these honorable gentlemen will come down the heaviest. Being a civil service reformer my appreciation of public servants is gauged by the ex tent of their personal benefactions, and henceforth I shall measure my virtue by the length of my bank ac count after election. Socks have been feverish all the week. The losses have been tremen dous in the last fourteen days, and the bears have the bulls by the horns. D. Howard Crosby is making it un comfortable for the whisky interest, and he still goes marching on. A heavy lot of Mormons is our latest foreign invoice. I could not find a substitute for my Rebecca in the whole caboodle. I think that three such wives, if they are sample bricks, would give a fellow the fever and ague, and a half dozen would just about equal the cholera morbus or States prison for life. The weather is a little of all sorts, business good, and shopkeepers happy. I am, Truly yours, BROAD BRIM. FOR THE HERALD. Our Washington Letter. WASHINGTON, ID. C., Nov. 7, 1877. There was vesterday a little progress in legislation-the Silver bill passing the House, and the bill to repeal the clause of the Resumption Act which fixes a dates for resumption, getting formally before the House for discussion. Over both these measures the real contest will be in the Senate. The Silver bill had unexpected strength in the House, and that fact will help it both in the Senate and with Mr. H Asyoe red nore hMltr coAie yof he usead prpore te askitar moeytteog te susppoet tosakdo moneyenoug tosppr twnt thusn representation at the Paris Exposimion next year. Probably $200,000 will be voted. Mr. Hayes has apparently made up his mind to publish a new revelation on the subject of civil service reform. He has the fecundity in respect to revelations that dis tinguished Mahomet and Brigham Young. lie produces one whenever he needs one. The new one,in relation to which a feeler has been put out, is in the shape of a command to slaughter the Bureau officers and Depart ment clerks who are not Administration men-who, as I wrote you in April last, are disloyal to the prophet occupying the White House. If I remember aught, the original reform command was to destroy only those who failed to do their official duty. The change is not really a sudden one, but only one of a series of changes, each making its successor a necessity. There are two results possible from this trifling. One is that Mr. Hayes will sink into a mere party slave, of all the less account in the party for what he has done. The other is that he will take himself entirely out of the Republican or ganization, and rely for support on Demo crats, Independents and those Republicans who will follow him. To stand still is im possible. Whichever cause he may take, a recon struction of his Cabinet will be a necessity. Schurz has been a damage to him from the first. Unpopular with Republican leaders, disliked by Democrats, and not enjoying the confidence of anybody, his appointment was a mistake. Not practical, not sincere, not stable, but eloquent and plausible, he was of value in the campaign of 1876 ; but ho was worse than useless the moment he entered the Cabinet and had the work of civil service reform assigned to him. It was said o' Charles Sumner that he had forty-nine names for a grindstone, but not practical ability enough to sharpen a broad-axe. But Sumner was a prodigy of business talent compared with Schurz. So, whether Hayes. continues in his own party, and becomes its servant after failing to become its master, or leaves it, to attempt without its support what it will not support him in doing, it would seem that Mr. Schurz would have to be dropped. It would not he hard to show that other members of the Cabinet will pro bably have to be displaced in the near future, but I will content myself for this time by asking your readers to stick a pin in this present chapter of prophecy, so that they may turn to it soon after the elections of to-day. Oue bill presented yesterday deserves at tention, and will doubtless receive it. It provides for a "perpetual" loan of $900, 010,000 to bear four per cent. interest. The idea of the author of the bill is that the amount would be rapidly absorbed in this country for pernwanent investment, and would enable the Government to call in an equal amount of bonds bearing a larger rate of interest. The "permanent" feature is what he supposes would make this loan more acceptable than any other as an in vestment. The friends of Gen. Don Carlos Buell, W. B. Franklin and scores of other officers dismissed during the late war, are moving through Mr. Hayes to have their trials and sentences reconsidered. Many of them r"fer to the case of Gen. Runkle as a precedent for executive action, but it should be re membered that in Gen. Runkle's case no 'competent authority had ever approved the action of the Court. In the other cases mentioned, no matter what their merits may be, no action can be taken except by Con grcss. SOLON. FOR THE HERALD. That Side-Walk. Mat. EniTra:-He who incessantly finds fault with those who endeavor to perform their duty is my especial aversion. But they who evince no desire to discharge in cumbent obligations are eminently repre hensible ; hence the following. The side walk which educes Lha.' r, marks is the one leading from tne creek towards the ceme tery. Tfhat it is sorely in need of renovation is forcibly evident to all who walk over it. Now, thait the weather of rainls has s. t in, it is highly desirable that the attention of the municipal authorities be directed to the condition of that side-walk. it is so inter sected by gullies- gutters are things of the past-that an attempt to walk over it is closely aliied to the suicidal. There the pedestrian experiences innumimerable ups and downs in day-time ; but at night-ugh ! I have no fear of darkness, though taingi ble ; but it is difficult to guess where gullies are, and you have to walk so feelingly, you know. You start to church at night, oblivious of gIllies, but wrapped in blissful conteinpla tion of The Beyond, when, alas! your foot strikes, with a dull thu-d, just twelve inches below where it should have reached terra firma ; clack ! go your teeth, and with an e'jaculation of dismay, a wonderfully ac ceerated locomotion, and a desperate clutch at nothing, you plunge forward and land beyond-a gully ; yon pick yourself up and with a muttered "dang the authorities" stumble churchward, a dirtier if not more pious man. Actual experience ! I have in mind a gentleman who was in duced to a serious consideration of the ex pediency of purchasing a walking-stick by an involuntary nocturnal plunge over a gully on that side-walk. The mischief of it is you can't fall a gentle broadsider that makes you see stars. It is simply over gully into gully, and you are so doubled up, your avoirdupois so fearfully distorted that you don't know which way to look for stars, at all, at all. Speaking of stars, my stars! what are the street-workers doing ? Messrs. Eds., I heartily wish you had to perambulate this walk at least once daily; [thank you kindly, but we would rather not. -EDs.] "not that I wish you any harm," as the man said when Morton (lied, but wouldn't you "Herald" expletives at the delinquents, though ! I raise a wee vo'ce for street-rights, be-* cause shake-ups of the osseous system cease to charm, because~ the condition of this side-walk causes a diminution in church attendance, and-ah ! you appreciate my reason-I have a neck to save. KB Y'rs truly, NB FOR THE HERALD. R. R. Meeting. DIAL'S CHIURCIL, LAURENS COUNTY, November 3, 1877. The Railroad meeting called at this place convened at the appoinrted hour. Dr. A. C. Fuller was called to the chair. The subject of the occasion being the practicability of building a railroad from Laurens C. H. to Green ville was ably discussed by Capt. G. W. Shell, Dr. J. D. Patton and oth ers. The expediency of the enter prise having been fully considered, Dr. J. ID. Patton offered the following resolutions: R?esolved, 1st. That the friends of the Laurens and Greenville Railroad in Greenville be invited to appoint a committee to confer with a similar committee hereinafter to be provided for from Laurens-the time and place of meeting to be fixed by themselves, upon the subject'of applying to the next Legislature for a charter for the Laurens and Greenville Railroad, and to arrange the terms and conditions of said charter, with full power to act in the premises. 2n-1. That the chairman of this meeting appoint a committee of nine, three of whom shall constitute a auo 4th. That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Laurens ville Herald, Newberry hERALD, Greenville News, and Enterprise & Mountaineer. The following committee was ap pointed as directed: Wm. Mills, Sani'l R. Todd, Col. J. W. Ferguson, A. W. Moore, Capt. G. W. Sullivan, A. H. Martin, J. L. M. Irby, W. L. Gray. On motion the meeting stood ad journed. A. C. FULLER, Chairman. W. L. GRAY, Sec'y. A Movement in Cotton. GRANGE HALL, CLIO, S. C., November 1, 1877. To the Editor of the .'ews and Courier :-Please insert the accom panying preamble and resolutions in your valuable paper, and oblige many friends and subscribers. T. N. EDENS, J. T. CoVINGTON, Committee. A. W. HAMER, Whereas, the cotton buyers and speculators of this day are organized and bound together as never before, aiming only to promote their own in terest, and are not satisfied with their exorbitant charges for handling cotton, but threaten to buy only its net weight, thus. imposing upon the pro ducers the loss of bagging and ties, thereby inflicting upon the cotton growers of this country an annualloss of millions of dollars; and, Whereas, we know that, under the adverse circumstances which now sur round the planters, it is a question whether they can afford to raise cot ton at the present prices; we believe it is high time for the Patrons of Husbandry to speal out, and devise some plan to defeat the buyers and speculators in their imposing designs, and therefore recommend that all the Granges throughout the country adopt the following reEolution : Resolved, That Patrons utterly re fuse to bale and sell cotton exclusive of the bagging and ties, and request their representatives in Legislative and Congressional halls to discounte nance and oppose anything that is likely to militate against or be detri mental to the farming interests of our country. Even if we are not smart we know what to do when troubled with a cough or cold. No doctor bills for us. We take a 25 cent note, go to the nearest drug store and- buy a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. One dose relieves us and one bottle cures us entirely. The Russian Court invited Dr. Ayer and his family to the Archduke's wed ding in the Royal Palace. This dis tinction was awarded to him not only because he was an American, but also because his name as a physician had become favorably known in Russia on its passage round the world. ([Pueblo (Col.) People. ECONOMY IS WEALTH, Poor Richard says. If this12ie true, then it is wise in every family to use Duryeas's Satin Gloss Starch in preference to any other, be cause it is the most economical ever manu factured in the world. It is the most econom ical because it is the best; it is the cheapest because it is the best. It is purer, whiter, and stronger than any other starch. It has received the highest award over all competi tors in the four quarters of the globe. Don't be deceived by your grocer. Ask for Duryeas' Improved Corn Starch for food, and Duryeas' Satin Gloss Starch for laundry purposes, and take no other. NOT STRANGE BUT TRUE. WORMS do exist in the human body and often are the cause of disease and death. Shriner's Indian Vermifuge will destroy and expel them from the system. MlTarried, Nov. 7th, by Rev. R. D. Smart, Mr. A. M. HOWELL, of the Greenville News, and Miss EmuA T. MooaE, daughter of Capt. A. W. Moore, of Cokesbury. N71ew 6' 1iscelaneous. NEW CROP NEWV ORLEANS MOLASES. J. N. MARTIN & CO. Nov. 14, 46-2t. The Wade Hampton. I am happy to inform the public that this NEW COOK STOVE, made expressly for this market, will be on sale in a few days. Be prepared for it. W. T. WRIGHT. Nov. 14, 46-lt. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. IN THE PROBATE COURT. Jacob W. Singley, et alsPetitioners, vs. Levi C. H. Singley, et al, Defendants. Petition for Partition of Land. By virtue of an order issued out of said ourt, in the above stated case, to me di rected, I will sell, at public outcry, to the highest bidder, at Newberry Court House, on the First Monday in December next (Sale-day,) within the legal hours of sale, all that tract of land situate in the County and State aforesaid, containing ONE HUN DRED AND FIFTY-FOUR ACRES, more or less, and bounded by lands of Jacob Singley, H. M. Singley, Jacob Bedenbaugh and Geo. A. Counts, the same being lands belonging to the estate of Mary Ann E. Singley, deceased. TERMS-ane-third cash, balance ca a credit of one and two years, with interest from day of sale, secured by bond of the purchaser and a mortgalge of the premiseS sold. Purchaser to pay for papers. D. B W11EELER, s. N. c. Nov. 10, A. D. 1877-46-3t. f7 50 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. H. C. Moses, Clerk, &c , Plaintiff, vs. J. A. Ferguson, as Adm'r., Defendant. Order for Judgment and Foreclosure. By virtue of an order from said Con.yt in the above stated case, to me directed, I will sell, at public outcry, to the highest bidder, at Newberry Court House, on the First Monday in December next, within the legal hours of sale, all that tract of land situate in the State and County aforesaid, ontaining TWO HUNDRED ACRES, more or less, and bounded by lands of Wmn. Ray, Holloway Hill, and part of the same tract Qit,lntP in Laurens County. Xew J' .iTiseellaneous. STATIOIIIY JUST RECEIVED. TWENTY-FOUR VARIETIES, BOX PAPETERIE, From 25 cts. to $1 per Box. PICTURE BOOKS FOR LITTLE FOLKS, Handsomest and largest lot ever brought to this market, 10 cts. to $1.50. PHOTOGRAPH AND AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS, Very beautiful. ETIQUETTE LETTER WRITERS, The very thing. PORTFOLIOS, WRITING DESKS. MIRACULOUS PENS. BLANK BOOKS. ENVELOPES, largest to smallest size. PAPER-NOTE, LETTER, CAP, LE GAL, BILL, &c. PENS, PENCILS, INK, &c. The largest and handsomest variety ever exhibited in Newberry, at the HERALD STATIONERY STORE. Nov. 14, 46-tf. PLiNiTIONS TO RENT The different plantations belonging to the Estate of Henry Burton, dec'd., will be rented to the highest bidder at Newberry C. H., on 1st Monday in December. W. M. DORROH, C. D. BURTON, Executors. J. D. PITTS, Nov. 14, 46-St. STATE OF SOUTH Q,AROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. IN THE COURT OF PROBATE. Ebenezer P. Chalmers, as Administrator of the Estate of Summerfield Montgomery, dec'd., with the Will annexed, Plaintiff, against Susan Montgomery, Defendant. By virtue of an order from the Probate Court for Newberry County, in the above stated case to me directed, I will sell, at public outcry, at Newberry Court House, within the legal hours of sale, and to the highest bidder, all that lot or parcel of land situated in the town of Newberry, bounded on the North by lot of John S. Renwick, on the South and East by lot of C. & G. S. ower, and on the West by Adams Street, and containing ONE HALF ACRE, more or ess. TERMS-One-third cash, the balance on a redit of twelve months, with interest.from ay of sale, to be secured by bond of the urchaser and a mortgage of the premises old. Purchaser to pay for papers. D. B.~ W HEELER, s. Ni. c. Nov. 10, A. D. 1877-4--3t. t7 50) TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBEiRRY. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. ohn M. Neel, Adm'r., vs. Elizabeth Neel and others. By virtue of an order in the above stated cse, issued out of sai4. Court, and to me irected, I will sell at public outcry, to the ighest bidder, at Newberry Court House, on the First Monday in December next, etween the usual hours of sale, all that ract of land situate in the County and State aforesaid, containing ON r. HUNDRED AND INETY-ONE AND SIX-TENTHS ACRES, ore or less, the same being the tract ought by Mary Galloway, widow, at the sale of the real estate of John Galloway, ec'd., and bounded by lands of A. J. ongshore, John T. Peterson, William angford and others. erms -hrIcs,teblneoedit of one and two years, with interest from day of sale, to be secured by bond with good sureties and a mortgage of the remises, with leave to purchaser to pay all n cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. D. B. WHEELER, S. N. C. Sheriff's Office, Nov. 5th, 1877I. 46-St. flO .STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. IN THE COMMON PLEAS. . B. Wheeler and J. M. Wheeler, as Ex ecutors of Jacob Wheeler, dec'd., Plain tiffs, vs. John F. Banks, Defendant. Complaint for Foreclosure and Relief. By virtue of an execution to me directed in the above case, I will sell, on Monday, the Sd day of December, A. D. 187i7, the following described tract of land, levied upon as the property of said Defendant, to wit : All that lot, tract or parcel of Ian ying and being situated in the Countya State aforesaid, containing TWO H RED .AND NINETEEN' AND TH OURTH ACRES, more or less, lyin rim's creek; bounded by lands of P oon, J. F. Banks, T. N. Kibler and othe being the same tract of land conveyed said J. F. Banks by J. A. Sligh and Alice . Sligh, his wife. TRMS-One-third cash, and balance on credit of twelve (12) months, with inter est from day of sale, to be secured by bond of the purchaser and mortgage of the prem ises. Purchaser to pay for papers. JAS. W. EICHELBERGER, Coroner of Newberry County, S. C. November 9, 1877-46-3t. t-10. DSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION. called the S on of disease. Rev. H e nry Ward Beecher LIVER says: "{Itsa matter to save the soul ofa man who has bad indiges CURE. ton;n"rsmal the devil out of his heart ' while he still lurks in his tmach." SIMMOS' HEPATIC COMPOUND ill cure this disease. If administered in time to remove the bile from the stomach, it will counteract the auses which commonly produce Yello0w or the Bilious Fever, the Bilious Colic,PleuIrisy, Dysentery, Worms, Bilious Vomiting, Sick and Sour Stomach. Hecadache, Loss ot Appe ite Fltuecy }pileptic Fits Hypohn ton, Habitual Costiveness, and in Ague and Fever, Simmons' Hepatic Compound,when taken with Quinine, produces the most hap py results. NO better cathartic can be used preparatory to or after tak-in Quinine. We advise all who are afflicted wth this disease t give It a fair trial once. For sale Wholesale and Retail by DR. S. F. FANT POPE & WAEDL,AW, DR. W. F. PRATT, DR. W. E. PELHAM, Newberry. Dowia & MoxsE, Proprietors, Charleston,