The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, June 22, 1877, Image 1
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AWI f- CIAI ??>?IOH OF lfir^THK
An Act to r?duco and fix the salaries oi
certain officers. "
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and Honse of Representatives of the State
of South Carolina, now met and sitting in
Central Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That the publio officers hereinafter
named shall receive the annual salaries hereinafter
mentioned, respectively, to wit: The
Govornor, $3,500; the Governor's Private
Seoretary, $1,275; the Governor's messen
ger, $300; the Lieutenant Govornor,$1,000,
to take effect after the next General election;
the Secretary of State, $2,100 ; the Chief
? Olerl^ef the Seoretary pf State, $1,276; the
, Comptroller General, $2,100 ; for clerical
services in the office of the Comptroller
General, $2,550, if so much be neocssary;
the State Treasurer, $2,000; the Chief
Clerk of the State Treasurer, $1,475 ; the
bookkeeper of the State Treasurer, $1,000 ;
the Adjutant and Inspector General, $1,200
; Clerk to the Adjutant and Inspeotor
General, $900 ; the State Superintendent of
Education, $1,875 ; for Clerk to Superintendent
of Education, $900; the Attorney
General, $2,100; the Clerk of the Attorney
General, $1,200; the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court, $4,000; the Associate Justices
of the Supreme Court, $3,500 eaoh;
the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme
Court, $1,000; the Clerk and Librarian of
the Supreme Court, $700; the attendant on
the library and roouMMfftfee Supreme Court,
$200; tho Circuit Judges, $3,500 each: the
Circuit Solioilora,$1,500 each, except ia the
First Circuit, whioh shall be 92,000, in lieu
of all charges against the State and oounties,
and of all fees received from defendantc;
the Keeper of the State House and State
Librarian, $500 ; the watchmen of the State
House and grounds, not to exceed two in
number, 9300 each; the Superintendent of
the State Penitentiary, 91,600; the physioian
of the State Penitentiary, 9300 ; the
i. Superintendent of the Stato Lunatio Asy*
lorn, 92,000 ; the health officer of Charles;
91,000 ; thu health -officers of Geurge1
' ' town, 9400; Hilton Head and St. Helena
Sound, 9600 each ; the Keeper of the La
zaretto, &40U ; tho Librarian of Iho University
of South Carolina, who shall havo charge
of the buildings and grounds of the University,
$500.
Seo. 2. That the County Treasurer of
oaoh county shall receive commissions upon
all ta^s collected in thoir respective counties,
as follows : Threo per cent, upon the
first 910,000 j two per cent, upon the next
910,000; one per eent. upon the next
910,000j one-half of one per cent, upon
all amounts oolleoted over 930,000 : Provided,
The same shall not exoeed 9800 or
be less than 9500 per annum, oxcept the
county of Charleston, where the commissions
shall not exceed 92,000. For clerioal services
in the offioe of County Treasurer of
Charleston, 9800 ; Provided, further, That
nothing herein ooatained shall apply to fees
and costs allowed County Treasurers for
making distress and sale of real or personal
property.
Seo. 3. That the County Auditors of
tho several counties shall reoeive the annual
salaries hereinafter mentionod, respectively:
The Countv Auditor of Charlpaton 12 flrtrt'
JProvided, That no additional compensation
shall be allowed for olerk hire ; the Ccunty
Auditors of Abbeville and Richland, $700
Wiach; the Countj Auditors of Aiken, Anderson,
Barnwell, Beaufort, Chester, Colleton,
Darlington, Edgefield, Fairfield, Creenvillo,
Laurens, Newberry, Orangeburg, Spartanburg,
Sumter and York, $600 eaoh; the
County Auditors of Chosterfield, Marion,
Clarendon, Georgetown, Horry, Kershaw,
Lancaster, Lexington, Marlboro, Ooonee,
Piokens, Union and Williamsburg, $500
<eaoh. And in addition to tho salaries of
4he Auditors, as hereinbefore provided, the
tConnty Auditors, shall receive, to defray
the expenses of assessment of property, suoh
sums as may be necessary, but not to exceed
the following, to wit: The Auditor of
Charleston County, $900; the Auditors of
Abbeville and Richland, $500 each; the
Auditors of Aiken, Anderson, Barnwell,
^^Beaufort, Chester, Darlington, Edgefield,
rairueia, ureenruie,- lAurens, Newberry?
Orangeburg, Spartanburg, Sumter and
York, $400 eaoh; the Auditors of Colleton,
Clarendon, Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster,
Marion, Marlboro, Piokens, Oconee, Union,
Williauibburg aud Chesterfield, WOOoach;
and the County Commissioners of the sot
oral counties, as aforesaid, shall, upon the
P application of tho Couuty Auditors, draw
their ohecks on tho County Treasurers for
the several amounts to whioh the Auditors
may be entitled under the provisions of this
section, and the County Treasurers shall
> pay the said checks from tho first collection
of county funds of the fiscal
year in which the work shall be performed.
But no such cheok or order shall bo paid
by the County Treasurer until the Auditor
shall have filed with tho County Commissioners
an itomized statement of tho services
rendered by his assistants, the number
of days oaoh of said assistants were employed,
and tho compensation they were '
severally to receive, which said statement
shall be examined and approved by the said '
Board of County Commissioners: l*rovidcd, (
That no member of tho Board of County {
Commissioners shall act a? Assistant Asses- '
sor. That the County School Commission- 1
ers in each of the several counties of the '
State shall receive for their compensation $3
per diem for the time in which they arc ac- ?
tually engaged in the business of their respective
offices : Provided, The numbor of j
days in each and every year for which said
compensation shall be allowed shall in no
caso exceed 100 days, except in the county
of Charleston, where the number of days ^
shall not excoed 150 days. {
Sxc. 4^ Al^ salaries provided for in section
1 of t^Vct shalf bo payable quarter- *
ly, and bo paid upon tho warrants of the '
Comptroller General upon the State Treas- *
urer.
Sxc. 5. That all aots or parts of sots in- 8
consistent with this act bo, and the same
are hereby, repealed. r
Sxc. G. That this aot shall tako effect *
immediately after its passage.
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the millitia law.
Au Act to amond au act ertitled "Aa act
supplementary to chapter 15, title 4, part
1, of tho general statutes of South Carolina,
relating to tho militia, and for tho
better organization and government of
tho same."
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of South Carolina, now met and stittiug in
General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That in addition to the body of
militia known as the "National Guard," the
Governor, as Commander-in-Chief^ is hereby
authorized to rocieve all suoh bodies of
oiuzen soldiery as may have tendered or.
may hereafter tender their services to the
State, to constitute the Volunteer State
Troops, and to consist of suoh companies,
battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions
as may be organised by the authority of the
Oommandor-in-Ohief. These troops to uniform
themselves, and to be subject to all
such regulations as may be prescribed by
the Commander-in-Chief and issued from
the offioe of the Adjutant and Inspector
General and published.
Seo. 2. The Adjutant and Inspector
General shall appoint an Armorer, who
shall take oharge of the Stalo Armory in
Columbia, and keep in order all the arms
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ana munitions oontamed thorein. His sal- '
ary shall be $250 per annum. 1
Sic. 3. The organization known aa the 1
Fourth Brigade, South Carolina Miltia, (
oonsisting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth '
Regiments of Infantry, the First Regiment '
of Rifles, and First Regiment of Artillery, 1
with the Charleston Light Dragoons and Ger- '
man il ussars, shall be received and embodied 1
in the State Volunteer Troops. Offioers of
equal grade shall take rank in accordance <
with the period of time in which they shall
have served in any branoh of the military
of the State. The field officers of the said (
Fourth Brigade, and their successors, shall j
be deemed in law the successors of the original
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VM.w.M VUOIVUI, RUU DUBII I/O OUIl"
tied to hold an<l ?jfly nil" rights, franchises,
sod property which were of the said field
oAoers thereof.
Sac. 4. Immediately after the passage of
this aot, ths Governor shall call in all arms, 1
equipments, and nun itions whioh am in the j
hands of any peraona not authorised by law
to hold the w>, and shall requiro al) oommanda
lawfully holding any anoh State prop- |
erty to file in the office of the Adjutant and
Inspector General a fnil statement of such 1
property, with the authority nnder whioh 1
it ia held, and the present condition there- '
of. The Governor shall haro authority to {
permit the Bale or exchange of any military
property of the Stated for tho purpose of
obtaining other arms, equipments, or muniments,
or munitions more suitable to the
wants of the State.
Sec. 5. All field officers of battalions,
regiments, brigades or divisions, shall bo
elected by tho commissioned and non-commissioned
officers and privates of the same
respectively.
Sec. 6. Nothing in this act contained
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suuu deprive any soldier or officer of thoMNational
Guard" of any right to which ho
may be entitled in that organization. The
jaid "Natioual Guard" shall continue to exist,
and Hhall be a separate and distinct
body. j
Sec. 7- All pomuldsions isya^JL
offico of the Adjutant aud Inspector Genoral
shall be charged for at the rate of $1
Bach; the fund thus raised to bo devoted to '
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iofraying tho expense of getting iu, repair- ,
ing rud reissuing the artns and munitions i
belonging to the State. <
Sec. 5. All acts and parts of acts incon- j
listent with this act are hereby repealed.
Approved June 8. j
\.n Act to nuicnd section 15 of chapter 39 j
of the General Statutes, relating to the
{lower in school districts to levy aud col- 1
ect special taxes for school purposes.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and (
House of Representatives of tho Stato of \
South Carolina, now met aud sitting in
general Assembly, and by the authority of 1
he same, That section 15 of chapter 39 of j
ho general statutes be, and the same is ,
lereby, amended, by striking out all of i
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>ai/viif lOiUU 1 U1 OUIVi DUUIIUU. '
Sec. 2. All nots and parts of acts incou- 1
listent with this act, bo, and the samo are
lereby, repealed. ,
Approved June 8. i
Famine and Drouout in California. J
?The accounts from California arc very
lisuial iudced in regard to the hud crop i
prospects in that Stats, tho ruin wrought by
irhich is to bo added to tho bursting of the 1
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diver mining bubble. Doubts are expres- .
led if the entire San Joaquin valley., will
field 100,000 bushels of whoat and barley, i
vhich yielded last year about 10,000,000
>ushcls. A California correspondent of tho
Sew York Graphic writes under date of
Vlay 18: "All the news from tho Pacific
:oast is disastrous. I will give it as my do- 1
ibcrate opinion that we will have a famine
n this State before tho season is over. The ,
Irought has killed all our crops, and ucarly
lestroyed all our cattle. This is tho sue>nd
great drought sinco tho settlement of
California, and tho memory of those two will
ilways be a cloud upon the business horizon
>f this wonderful State, for capitalists will not
nvest money in ranches and cattle, and.npR 1
ihc risk of a burning season, when all their
[>ossenioon8 will be devoured and annihilated
by the sun and dust. I fear you will
won hear of more business disasters of a
most gigantic character from this coast.?
Things were really in an unwholesome state
irhen Ralston died, but the difficulty was
then averted only to end in greator calamity
and panio. It is a fact that people who
irere millionaires six months ago, are to-day
jagor to secure situations as waiters and
farm laborers. The drought alone nearly
ruined the State, but occurring simultaneity
with the bursting of the mining bubble,
it has proved more than the people of
bhe State can stand. Starvation literally
stares tho whole farming population in tho
face, and in a few weeks more they will have
neither meat, fruit nor grain."
1IIE UONFEDEKATE DEAD. iialtimoro
Juno 13.?Washington Ccmetry, where the
Confederate dead, killed in the battles of
Antietam and South Mountain, are interred.
was formally dedicated, yesterday, with
appropriate memorial ceremonies, and the
graves strewn with flowers. An oration
was delivered by Gen. Fitshugh Lee, of
Virginia. About 4,000 persons were present.
The oemetery was ineorporated in
1870, by the Legislature o> Maryland, with
an appropriation of $0,000, whioh'has since
been increased to $10,000. The States of
Virginia and West Virgina have also made
appropriations. Handsome marble monuments
adorn the graves in which about 2,000
Confederate dead are buried.
John Southworth and Mrs. Csfrr eloped's
from Pownal, Vt., and rode in a carriage
aoross the line into New York State. Mr.
Carr pursued them on horseback, and overtook
them in Rensselaer Countj. He drow
a pistol, seated himself in the carriage by
the side of his wife, and returned home
with her, compelling Sontliworth to walk
abend nil of the way. Once back in Vermont,
he had tho offenders arrested.
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OOTID VIEWS OF VICE PRESIDENT HENDRICKS.
New York, Juue 13.?Mr. Ilendricks
having returned thanks for the honor done
him, alluded to tho Presidential election aud
said the result as declared in Louisiana and
Florida aud at Washington, is not and cannot
be wade satisfactory to tho country for
obvious reasons; that it was not tho truth.
A great and sincere people will rest their
fiual judgment only upon tluuth, novcr
upou frauds, successful through technicality.
Eveu should the President and his Cabiuet
adopt a part or tho whole of the policies aud
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Ku.|fuovo ivi which me democratic party
as been contending for uiany years, and
which became so distinctly defined lust year
?even that cauuot remove or quiet the
publio discontent. Democrats will make no
factious opposition nor seek to embarrass a
Ic'fiOlu uduiluivim'.lun, l>ut will mutuiu ir in
what is right, because it is right and for
fear of the country, aad uot at all because
of auy fealty to the party that stands defeated
and condemned by the people. The
people cauuot allow the selection of their
Chief Magistrate to become a thing ofchanco
or sharp practice. The lVuud first triumphant
iu Amoricau history must bo assigned to
its proper place among the crimes against
popular governinenl, and made so odious
that no party will uarc attempt its repetition.
lie who is elected President must uot
bo inaugurated uutil that is settled and
made positivo. No Democrat can be seduced
from his devotion and allegiauce in any
way?uot by the allurcnieuts of office, nor
sveu by the stroug appeal iu tho abandonment
by the Administration of vicious pr:usiples
and daugcrous policies aud tho adoption
of better doctriues and just measures.
Democrats will not cutrust their most cherished
principles to the kccpiug of a power
which is'atiaiucd by vicious aud corrupt
measures. They will rather coutiuuo their
faith iu the right of the majority to rule, iu
accordance with the constitutional provisions.
All Democrats rejoice with unbounded
joy that free Republican governments
are once more allowed to the States of South
Caroliua and Louisiaua. They rejoice iu
tho good fruits that must follow. They
Ituow that peace and good order will prevail
; that capital will be made sccuro and
labor contented and happy ; that enterprise
will revive, nnd the cruel burdeus of the
government and public corruption will be
lifted from the shoulders of labor, and that
production will increase and laud advance
in price; but they Uow that, in the language
of Gov. Milton, it had become inevitable.
Good government iu the States was
not a free will offering upon tha altars of
the country. For years the Democrats
had couteudcd iu Congress and before the
people, for l'ree Republican States throughout
tho South, and dually it became ' inevitable,"
bocauso the right and truth were
too strong to he louger suppressed. In this,
the Democrats fiud a reason to staud more
firmly; with their party out of power, with
no patronage to dispense and no money to
distribute; but an.mated by the spirit of
our institutions and inspired by the sentiment
of the right of local self-government
as inherent in the people. The Democratic
party, duriug the past ten years, has restored
one State after another, until now the
tread of tho soldiers is hoard iu no Legislature
; but iu every State the people are
governed by laws of their own enactment,and
by law-makers of their own choosing. Mr.
Ilendricks concluded with the declaration
that this occasion had moro than a personal
significance?it proclaimed that we had no
sectional sentiment, no Eastern or Western
policies; the East and tho West, the North
and the South were one. A wise and just
policy would alike promote tho prosperity
of each.
Frequency of Suicides.?The number
of suicides in the United States during the
present year is said to bo unprecedented iu
this country. France and Germany, where
infidelity has bien more prevalent than in almost
any other cojntries, seem abo it to yield
their uuenviable distinction in this respect
to tho United States. T)ne of the leading
causes is thought to be the hard times, and,
it is remarked, "fathers of families who
have boen out of work the whole winter,
and who have managed to support thornsolves
and their households on the little
savings of yoars, in the hope of obtaining
employment in the spring, find their hopes
blighted, and in a moment of despair seek
relief from the oarea of the world in death."
There is nothing of heroic character or of
moral fortitudo in such conduct. It is
rather oownrdice of the basest kind, because
it deserts and leaves to deeper misery
the objects of a man's highest coneern for
the pusillanimous reason that he cannot bring
himself to share the fate of poverty nnd
ruin whieh he has been unablo to avert.?
It is, moroover, a erime against the Crea
tor, wbo gave life, and will take it back
when Ho, in ilia infinite wisdom, deems it
beet; a orime against the family of the suicide,
which has a right to his life and to
all that he can do for those of whom he is
the natural proteotor; and a orime against
himself, for bo has no more right to take
his own life than that of any other man.?
There are many things in the world hard to
bear, but whether they can be improved by
ohaugiug them for ''ills that wo know not
of," is a problem which no one in his sensos
would like to solve by self-destruction.
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Do Spirits Communicate f?If the
skeptically disposed aro prone to question
the following story of ghostly communication,
we refer tliein to the editor of tho Oswego
Times : In a village in Oswego county, says
that journal, there resides an intelligent
widow whoso husband was a Methodist clergyman.
A few years ago shu lost a much
beloved daughter, a young lady at the time,
whoso rcuuriua were deposited in the village
churchyard. 1 he mother was for a long time
inconsolable, and ugaiust (he remonstrances
of friends, was in the daily practico of visiting
aad weeping over the grave of ber
daughter. This she would do no matter
how incleuiout tha womhor, and h?? ? ? liowMi
vni; SAricuoIjr I'tipprll^rl l iiio ?oumo
One day, after she was, appareled for her
daily visit to the graveyard, ail at oace her
daughter, juot as alio appeared when in full
health, stood beside her, and looking into
her mother's faco said sweetly and as naturally
as she had ever spoken, 'Mother why
do you risk your health by those unseasonable
visits to the grave-yard ? I am not
there. It is only tiie dust of the human
form that moulders there. The spirit which
you loved is iu a far happier state of existence
than when held aud fettered by that
dust over which you slicd unavailing teaisj
Your duty, dear methor, is to the living, net
to your dead daughter, who has been made
far happier by this great change which soon
all must meet.' And after u few consolatory
remarks the daughter vanished from
sight as suddenly as sho carnc. 'Now,' concludes
the Times, 'this lady reports this as
huviug positively occurred. Sho was not
dreaming, bocause sheJwas not sleeping, but
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uiwrcu iur ncr uauy visit to nor daughter's
grave, aud iu a moment inoro would have
been on her way to the cemetery.'
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builtu "Going Wj?st."?Washington,
May 26.?General Butler always has a surprise
of some kind in storo for the public,
and now ho is "going West." It is said
to-night that he intends emigrating to Colorado,
turn sheep farmer and como to Congress
as Souator of the Centennial State.?
It wili bo remembered that tho Supremo
Court recently awarded to Colonel Craig,
the patent or title of an extensive tract of
land in Colorado, which had long been in
dispute. The story runs that General Butler
has nurch;isod from Colonel Craig 73,000
acres of this estate, aud that as soon as he
can arrange some of his private business ho
intei.di to settle upon it and engage in cattle
raising.
Forney's Chronicle explains his motives
in the followiug editorial: "Tho fact is New
England is politically worn out, or rather the
appreciation of its peoplo, aud in oonsequonco
her limits are getting very narrow
aud contracted. What Butler wants is room
and fresh air, and Colorado is just the place
to fiud these two esseutials to human happiness.
The chances of politics are seventy-five
per cent, better there than in Massachusetts,
and this is a weighty consideration
to a man who hates criticism and newspaper
men as the devil does Christianity.?
The healthy recreation of cattle raising is
another iuduccuicut, and will go a great way
tow.ird litlitnorinirfliA tiiimAi- J ?
? WMV uwuiVi VI IUV UiU uiau
for the new honors that arc sure to weloomo
such as he. Two years' residence in Col"?rado
destroys all the identity of a carpetbagger,
and entitles a man to all the privileges
aud rights of those to the manor born.
"General Butler is yet a young man, and
thrown iuto a new oountry with money
enough to bccomo a largo land owner, coupled
with his extraordinary ability and perseverance,
there is no telling tho effect of
tho transformation his presence will produoe
both in the substantial wealth and politics
of the State. The people would soon see
this, and be quick to recognize it by confer
ring upon him the highest honors in their
gift. We, therefore, prediot that General
Butler will be one of the next new United
States Senators from Colorado, and the momcnt
he is the State will become one of the
most prominent in the Union/'
An assistant of a druggist reoently put
up a prosorption of a dose of eastor oil for a
young lady. She innocently inquired how
it could be taken without tasting it. He
promised to oxplain to hor, and, in tho moan*
time, offered her, courteously, a glass of
flavored and scented seltzer water. After
she had finished it, he said, triumphantly,
''You ace, inias, you h.ivc takou your oil and
you did not know it." The young lady
screamed out, "It was for my mother V