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EOL . XIWD N ,E E ra t VO.XI.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNINr LNG C F t I1l F I1 I 1 ii E 1 "ll U It, P'1ni.11susu W M:ExLY flr W I L L A 4 s & . A V I . 7 rts.-'hT III'R tD is publishod 'eik y in tite 'own of 1t W t-),to, al. 113.00 t. ooria.Ia in ad'v.inei,. > 1' l r i n et i aft ve-il isentent to be t'4 I/> IN A1)lVA Nrch. I) ilo"-ry Notices anl Tributes $1.00 Stain of 'South a(ir6liina --l Ounli y of FairfleIld. To Iris Honor T. J. Mackey, Pre sidi(ng Judge. . The Grand Jury of Fairfield Coun Ay, November Term, beg leave to make the following presentment: COMMITTEE ON JAIL. They have examined the County jail, find it securo. The prisoners are supplied with good blankets and wholesome food. There is, however, an offensive smell up stairs which the Grand Jury belivo is owing to a neglect of duty on the part of the jailor. ROADS AND BRIDGES. The roads and bridges of the County are in good condition. The Grand Jury recommend that the road leading from Ashford's ferry to Monti' ello be reopened as it is neces sary for the convenience of the pub lic. COTTON BUYING AT NIGT. The Grand Jury have specially considered the portion of your lHon or's charge relating to the buyidg of cotton in the seed at night. No persons have been reported to them but there is a universal complaint throughout the County of the pre valence of this practice. A groat deal of cotton is stolen at night and sold in the day time to avoid suspi cion. Corn and other growing crops are also stolen from tho fields. The Grand Jury believe that, if this evil is not soon checked agricul ture cannot be much longer carried on. WM. H1. TRAPP. The Grand Jury presents William i. rrapp's store near Monticello 1 lsa.. C0. TRIAL JUSTICEs. - The books of all the Trial Justice*s have been examined and are found to be neatly kept. In i ome instances however, too many witnesses are sublpom.ed to tst:fy in petty erser, and too m:ny are bound over to ap pear at the Court of General Ses slons. s:IEsIi*', CLERK AND PRlODATE JUDGE. The offices of the Sheriff', Clerk and Probate Judge are well kept. The present Sherin, S. W. Ruii, ha1 not recorded his oflicial bond in the Clerk's office as required by law. COUNTY AUDITOR. The County Audir's o'Tiee is it mo. I 'e : f neatness ant ex tctne.,s. SCHOOL cOMMISSIoNER. The School Commiiissi1mot's office presents a favorabole appearaleo. From his books the Grnnd Jury find that there are 6,265 children in the County between the ages of 6 andA # 16 as shown by the last census, and of this nmber only 1495 attend school. TJhe suin of $5,189 50 hats b~een expended for schiool l~prpose from Oct..*1st, 1874 to June 30th, 1875. All of the schools have not been kept openf durinmg the aforesaid time. Out of $8,000 collected for school Jiproses the State only allows $3, 90;7 90 for this County about fifty cents for each scholar. The Grand .Juruy think that the money should be kept in the County and all of our schtools would then be kept op)en, ellic:ent teta.horvs em ployed and more schools would be organized. COUNTY cOMMIssIONEUs. The County Commissioners office has been as carefully examined as time would pelrmlit. The County tax for the last fiscal year ending Oct. 31st 1875 was $20,369 96. The County Commissioners expend(1ed $20,230 05 of the aforesaid sum leaving a balance of $139 91. Under the authority of the Legis lature approved 13th April, 1875, and carrying out thio provisions of Section 10, the County Commission. ers have estimlatedl the County ex penses for fiscal year commencing Nov. 1st 1875' at 512,828 00, which the Grand Jury think is amply suf ficient to defray thle same. Tfhe County Commissioners have paid all audited claims for the fiscal year ending Oct 31st, 1875. There is an outstainding deficiency of $2, 656 86 audited in the County Corn. missioners office and1 filed in the Clerks office. This deficiency re. mains from the former board of County Commissioners. coUNTY TnEAsURER. -Trhe Treasurer's books balance with the County Commissioners and >re Every neatly and systemnati cally kept. He shows that lie has paid out during the fiscal year 1874. 75*5,971 80 to defray the past in debtednoss of the County. Under an .act of the Legislature approved 10th March 1875, the County Commis sioners are authoriz~ed to levy and collect a secial tax of one and one half mills topythe past indebtede noss of the Oouniv Upon consulting with the County Treasurer and County Commissiou ers and examining their books the Grand Jury believe that a tax of one mill on the taxable property of the County will be amply sutli cient to pay all past claims that may be presented the present fiscal year. They therefore recommend that your Honor enjoin the Treasurer from collecting more than one mill. POOR HOUSE. A committee was appointed to examine the Poor House. They re port the inmates well taken care of -satisfied with their treatment and the pomisOs neatly kept. The Grand Jury recommend that the petition of Jno. P. Elkin of Alston for a renewal of his retail liquor license be granted. In conclusion the Grand Jury re turn thanks to your Honor for the able and patient manner in which you have 'aided and in itructed them in the discharge of their duties, and recommend to the General Assembly of this State your Honor's re elec tion as Judge of the sixth circuit. Respectflly submitted. D. R. FEASTER. Foreman. How FARMERS WASTE THEIR MANURE. -The crop reports of the Georgia State Agricultural Department are instructive documents. Mr. Janes, the abl and efficient Commissioner, says in his September report, on the waste of manures: It is a matter of some surprise, that only/iftecn per cent of the far mners of Georgia save, under swhelter, the manure from their stock. This is a record of deliberate and unpar onable waste. Animal manures ex posed to the leaching effects of rain, md the evaporation of the sun, loso I large portion of their soluble plant food. Experiment shows that iaoarly one-half the value of animal nanures is lost by such exposure. Farmers will consult economy by shltering all the manure saved on their farms. In composting manures that may have been exposed, it will be necessary to use imore conreontra bcd malitelial to supply the waste tims occasioned. In composting mch manures, at least six hundred pounds of acid phosphate, and fifty piounds of sulphate of ununoni'a Should should be used to the ton, or mix hundred pounds of an vuun, .iated superphosphate, compost.ed with one thousand four hundred L)ounds of manure and cotton seeds. How a Wornan Iaado a Fortuno Six years ago Mcs. Mary Ahart was living in a little tent on the edge of town. Her whole worldly possessions consisted of this ten t. a straw bed, twci or three box.es Wt ich served as chairs and ta I. h, a hrtle seven or e,ght-yeamr old girt, 1114d tWo) VOW a nd (:d!vCs. She sold ti e spare milk of tlese two cows, U a ying it. a: ounm'l town with :a tin j oil, :md~ I w itA tho product, atd from .Vurk which she 'il for her neighm h >r'S, s1p1)rOtel h ! and eii. When she could get 83 oe :;5 :mhe:ad she w.Itd luiy aniotiher calf or yearl ing. It is not our1 pulrpose, adds the .Sen tine!, to tracue her progress 'ip to) the present time minutely, b~ut tho result is she now, in less t'1anI sevent yeau m, has sev'eral hun dred heitd of cauttle, a tine farm withm nice buildings and imuprovements, a comfor table, oven luxuriant home nd, instead of carrying milk arouind by hand, rides in her own carriaige. uecr daughter is a young lady, edu "ated andi aLccomlflishe~d, T1o-ty s. Ahiart's property is valued at froum $40,000 to $5,000. And she has mamde it all by haoet id stry and good muanagement. And sliel has made it all by honest industry atnd good mniagemenmt. Sue ha's had no outside help. She never had a government contract or fell heir to Lty property. A Boston papei)r says : W~e have just palid six cents postage on am postail c'ard sent us because the s -nder' had thoughtlessly written a date on the side designmed for the address alone. iPaisting anly pr'inted or writen matter on either faice of thme card subjects it to double letter p'stage. The directions are ex. plicit that nothing but the. name and address must be written on one sidle of thme card, mnd that nothing must be attached to the other, any way. G. Wiley Wells, the only Republ. h can Congressman elected from Mississippi, cannoVt be called ani ad ministratiomi man., It was lie who nmad1e thme charge that Gov. Ames in stigatedl the Vicksbuirg riot on the ground that the "blood of twenty or thirty negroes would be a good thing for the Republican party." Gv Ames has never denied that charg yet, although lie has epsedan intention to do so. He is not likely to find too much comfort in Mr. WVells' election. J, H. Camp, whose farm is two and a half miles above Rome, on the Etowah river, Georgia, made 80 bales of cotton this season on 42 acres, 30 acres of which made a bale to the acre, Hie also made 38 bush els of corn to the acre on 40 acres, and 24 bushels of wheat to the acre. The on.y fertiliger he ised was barn. iaauro procedi 01hs w THE RFCIENT CAREER OF THE ONCE WORLD iRENOWNED e'HLSs-FLAYER-HE BECOMES A HOPELESS MANIAC. [New Orloans Cor. Chicogo Tim'e.) Fifteen years ago the n:une of Paul Morphy, the famona chess player, was as familiar as household words in almost ovory portion of the civilized world. He was a lion in his day, anid no mistake, and for a young mac-ho was not over twenty then-he made considorbe:do noi.e. For a twelve month he wis a sen sation, and then passed away from public notice and famile as suddenly as he had risen to those giddy heights. Among those who recollect the brilliant caroer of the groat chess king, there are very few who could toll you anything about his existence duri:ig the past ten years, or, indeed, whether he lives or is dead. But it is safo to assume that the revival of the subject here will lrovo a matter of much interest to thous ands, for althoug Morphy dropped from the world's view many years ago he has not by any means been forgotten ; and the very mention of his namo, almost anywhere, will suf fice to awaken a curious desiro to know what has become of him, a.nd what has been his history since he resigned his crown in the domain of chess. With the wonderful and dazzing career of Morphy in 1859 and 1860 all muon are familiiar. What led to it will here be recited . He was born in New Orleans in 1840, of a Creole fanily, rich and respected. When a mere had he evinced an aptitude for chess, and in six months after playing his first game lie developo 1 into a marvelous player. He not only beat his father and his teachers, but vanquished the best chess player in t1 e city, and in three months more had so progressed that among the ru.ost skillful players at the game in New Orle.ms-.-and there were many good one.) here-none c:mid ovon apprnUte'hhl im. At this time his famo had traveled nlot only to the North in his own [ountry, but to Europe, and then his star began to rise until it became brightly conspicuous on two conti nents. His entrance upon the life of a tpublic chess -player was eftootod against the remonstrances of his pm cts nd his kindred, who saw something ignoble in the public parade of young Morphy's talents, end the cultivation of the notoriety wh.i h woids neecisarily foil lw. But Paul was chmarmied t at tie prospect of htvcoing frmous, and no argronnt could turn him fiomn the course upon which lie had F et his saul. So he banie gret, bat it will be lecreait.er seen, that as the puire of his fame was his fauiily's sorrow, it c me so him in after years and mnic him 1 mrorbid, mi-ai-holy maun. 10 bums t last redu'c d hi ii to a mental wree*k, a-nl be is now :a iimate of a : ivd le amsy.u:m, wncere he has resided rc the past i hree ioith.ls, and wiwne1e he wiU hiperhotlp never imnerge alive, as he is c.onsid'eed to be hopelessly insan.. When Mor phiy returnedl fromn Europ)e in 1860 mfier hi~s magnificent triumphs there, it wvas not as8 a colquter~ ii that lie came, but as a mau who, having taLsted thme fruits of glory, hais found them bitter in the end, and diagnst e-l with imself and niaukind, re solves to eachxow the world and( ift I people1 forever. This wams Morphy's condlition of mlind( when he caimie back to his New Oili ne lhome in 180), mand then was seen the first y leami of his uafter sorrow, wich reproached him for having grieved is family, and wvhich 5(ttle I upon and re fmainled with him ever after. From tihe hour of his an ival hbore he declared he hamd donIe with chmess for the rest of his lieo, and lie notl only vowved never to play or look upon01 a chmess board more, but lhe lxpre3ssly enjoined npan all whoe knew him to never allnde to thme sub ject of che in his presenice, save under pain of his severest displeas tire. It camoe to be generally uin deotood that he had thus set his face against what once been his chief tAmbition, bcaulse to its induil gence he charged not only a remorse fuil feeling at having crossod( the wtishes of his~ parenuts, but likewise the forfeiture of billihiant businiess prospects. At adl events, lie do spiised chess as mucth as lie hod on1ce loved1 it, and lie steadfastly refused to mingle in the world be. yonld the contines of his own kin. dIred. Thus he lived it sechtdod and morbid existee here until the out break of the late wvar, when, in coin }anly with several members of his amily lie wont abroad, In 1806 lie returned to New Or. loans, and renewed his life here under the samio conlditions which had prevailed before his departtire, save pernhaps that he was more re tired than ever,-- Still lie was a con spicuona character, although no one excep~t his mother could lay claim to! his friendship or his notice. HisI daily routine of existence involved a w'alk on Canal street every morning, where his dapper little figare-al ways scrupulously well dressed-' became as well-known and as regu Jarly looked for as the noonday bell. After his daily promenade lie retired' from publio ie ntil evening, when1 hhri asi. bet va miae& nlight. It is further roated thit during themo thero years he permit ted no friendly aequaintane'; he was never known to associate with any body but his mother, and persistent ly repelled advance.i from those, who, having boon fiiends of his early youth, desired to renow their nsso ciations. Ho lived a strange life, a stiange, moody, and peculiarly mournful man. Twelve months ago, he hogan to show the first positive symptoins of a bi oaking down of his montal fa cultics, and he' soon manifested such occentricities of dispositionm in pub lic life that his mother begn to be UllmLppily alarm o.I about hun. This cincorn, as it provel was not without warrant. He continued to manifont increased symptoms of mental aberration, and after vainly striving to battle with the inevitable, his mother sadly roo.gniz.d the fact that her son was insane, and threo months ago, as already roeited in this article, he was; placed in an asylum. It is a sad sequel to a his tory whose pages were once aglow with a world's admiring plaudits, and there are many in both this country andi in Europe, who will invest thi knowledge here conveyed with a tender interest, and with is revive the recollections of a in m i ), in Ins time, was famous far beyond the common lot of mortality. State Tax Union. Tis body met last Wednesday in the hall of the Richland Rifle Club. After an address from the President, General Chesnut, a report was sub mitted by Major Hamilton. Judge Aldrich, or Barnwell sub mittup preamble and resolutions Looking to determined actions in iamse the General Assembly passed a tax bill above the sum (viz., one por 'ent.) which Governor Chamb' lain is understood to have said is amply snilicient for the support of the government without detriment to the public interests. After pro tlacted discussion, the following mibst itto was offered by Major Hamilton : Resolved, That this State Tax Union does hereby call upon the )uunties in the State to se!cct d ilo pateo from each ceu'ity, in ni-bers iccording to its reprecsona tti.n in the lower house of the General ti s s m b I y , to ba assem t/.ed in genlertu convention in Co hunbia ou the su!icond T1ueSdly in D)oc ember, e t 7 P. mi., for th:e inn o0so of mi-giing thit the L:islautooe t'iopt the recolnnt lidat iOnsf c1:1n-I md.'( in the vete leO ..4go) of I; a crellency } the Goevernor, and t!3 n:ider any n1eLtt.ers tone(hing the emitl we'iere of ihe ftate. laY w/adr, ThaImt the PIi-lent.(: jof iis 'a',ix Unioin do isue thi'(-. cal bui.:'111 tle nl n os, w! Il lan .uress fv n, m. l.himself, rtaingi~ ii~s um )'s uniall nonossayl}. CL:o siubtitu':o was adonted. ( 'h/.Ir itr The r- .u U'u..,/ourmd ;yA, that the rui oaud conveiition .hih iet m.at St. Luis yet erday nlih be of more inipo'rt:mee to the 'outh than all other bodies wh'iichi 1:v71 assem~led( s'neet the war' if it is tlie to unite upon a simple and efl1 'oecor:m pln for connecting our1 ~roken down system of Souther n .: iroadis with a t.oan-~oni unntal ighway to the Pacific. Onr sole lope ini :he South for miaterialI de 7elopmu~enlt re:t s up)on this Iirst step) to)wardsl thme r'econfstructin of our dabatrod inldustmios. We are not yet on our feot uniless tihe Govern neunt helps us. It was tile Govern nEnit that des.troyadl us, and4 it must be the Governng nt that makes us vhlol again.--Charleotte Observer. A singular suit over a "r .ised' 'heck has just been decidod in New York. A genuine check for $24 on ~ho Soeurity' Bank wais some t 3me ago given in chan~ige by a storekeep or for a $10:) bill. Saubseq'ienitly the sheck~ w~as rais(31 to $!,222 5i5, and Shle ondorsoenit altere. 1. Th'em 1hold r then purchaii:sed gol for the check >f a WVall street firm, after the lat Ler hlad sent it to tihe Security Bank, which certified it. Suibscqnoutly the sameo bank paid tile amount to thme Nationial Ruik of the Repnblic, which hatd thme chieek, but11 finding ouit that the check was a forgery applied to time latter bank for the dlifferenlco which was refused. The Mcoonmrity Bank the~reuplon brought suit against the Bank of the Republic, and the court direetod a verdict to be enter od for the phrintiff of $5,B02 60, which mi prob)1ably includes the costs of tihe suit. Bad seed sO1oieiO nbings forth good fruit, as was showvn by a case before a court in Now-v york on Monday..'A man namedVanWy'ck siued one0 Allen for cabbages wh) ich he might have raised hlad the seeod furnished b7y time defendant boon good. Tile jury awarded Van Wyck $2,000 damages. Oxenateini did wrong 'in calling his attention to the fact that thme world is badly governed. E~ver since that it has been nothing but grumble, grumble, grumble, until now a decent man has to be connec ted with a ohurahi, a railroad compa nyabanlking institution, or soie. g-ofthuai't, before Ije eiga stea an berespected. The Bootblck's Story When a dozen newsboys and boot blacks had collected on the Custom House stairs yesterday, and when each on0 had grown tiro:l of jaw breakers and. popcorn balls, "Little English" ronurked: "Sprasen Jim Cocoanut tells us a story." "Sposen," remarke-L all the others "Vell, gen tleuen," remarked Jim after a few digs at his head, "I will tell you a true story about a girl. Her n:uno was Marior, and sho had yaller hair, blue eyes, small foot, and she was worth a million dol lars." "Ii stamps ?" asked Cross Eyed Dick. "In clean cash, right in the sa vings bank," ailnswore I Jim. "This girl was an orplian, with no one to boss her around, and if she wanted to be out til 0leven o'clock at night she could. There were piles of fel lers after her to ma-irry her, but she stuck upl her noso at the hull caboodle." "WhTllt fur ?" afXV iousy incluired Fire-eracke r Tom. "Wliat fur ? Why, she knew they loved her money instead of herself. S5e wanltel som0e one to love her Larne siy indl like gosh. Well, one i.y when She was going down to "1k Post Ollice to s,10 if theie wiu, try m.uil, a1 rnawa1fiLi.y hiorso caie dong. M:u-ior fainted away and y:it down in the road, and she'd lave beon )r)kefl all to pieces if it hadn't bean for ia bootblack 'bout iy size. lie pu1lled0 her into a shooting gallery, brought her too, mnd then hired a hull omnibus and Look her home." "And they fell in love and were inally ni:rridd," remarked Suspen lor Johnson. "No, my fellow-ccrnt ymne," Sad 1ly replied Jim ; "g. 1 him ten ents !" "And is that all 9" exclaimed three r four voices. "All she gave him, and that turn d out to be counterfeit !" There was a long period of nilonce, and then Cocoanut Jim on;inued : "Which is a lesson to us never to nary a girl worth a million dollars. "And we never shall !" they solemnly replied.-,Detroi .PtI Press.r '.HEl 1Iiss1Nol E.all~ - vho was in Auguisti on Sudflay last, imid who represented hitmself as Jar, PWtnm-, thIea'bseiming enino. of )v "E'W: l Cat" t; atin, n lij' causeod ;!h) r''ceit ac'ci.de1. on ie C'ia lutte mI-d Angse Rlroad, Iii ns out to >0 a:nr i)m iuier. T41'0 r:ilroadll oli b<: Sy th: th'.' are ex an xiomus to imi the real Fe I ner as any body, . are l ying all. i' lheir p nyer to t"! the I fi ' 'S of j:u;t i--e if Sec uring t .m H reidess-ne;,. will cort Ltem t; least E0,000. end imder all ti e ircuimstiam Es of tihe came, they are of )pilniol that he sbi hl be madei n m:iuple of. Mr. Dishman, one of hop lrasenge-: i who wats sOeen-y inl u ed, ha.s ceupt e l the offer of two housand M.dd..rLis fron the coepany ni full iset tienmnt of is claimii againsti~ t for daimn'ges. Col rthpIOndenco, The following c'orrespondone10 nav b)e of ii est t o 0our reader. [t crcLiuly w~ill b)e to the friends of Lhe parties nmaimed: Gm:xsvILu:, S. C, Oct 1, 1875. Mr'. L. D. Piisbury, Su~porinten lent Albanyu Pen'liten tiary :Deirj Sir'-Will you be kind enough to in ormn mo4 how mniy pr-iners you low~ havie in the penitenltiary from liiut~h Car olina, anid for what oflense ire they imprisoned ? If any sol liers leasei s4tato. Very r'espectfuilly, your obedient leivant, -JT. 13. FEIltUSONi. A nn m, N. Y., Oct 30, 1875. T. B. Forgusoni, Esq.,--Si-In inswer to you11s of thle 2-Th imk ant, [ give you bolOW the nameslO of five conivietH, who are colineld hl0e tor minra]Icy, from Saiuth Caroinmi. late of their r'e:apion, senltonce, lizith, condR uet, and( oxp)iratin of sentence. This is giving thieml tile bonenit Of theO commutationl law psso'l hoe lat Wiuieor for good June 12, 1872--Pinekoey COdd. well, York Coi., 10) years, 51,000t line, homalth good, condlmctgood, timo emx p~iies N ov. 1, 1878. June 12, 1872-Willam Smith, Gaston Co., N. C., 10) y':m s, $].1,000 fino, health good, conduc(t good, Doc. '2i, 1872-.>-ltobert Moore, York (Co:, 5 yearsm, heal th poodi, con duet good, time expires' July 19, 1876, Dec. 28, 1872-H-losea Mathias, Union Co., 5 years, health good, con duct good, time expires July 19, 1876. Juno 15, 1872--John~ Wallace, York Co., 8 years, health very poor, is quite low with consumnption, timo expires Aug. 0th, 1878. Thiis is probably whlat you wanit for your purpose. Yours tuy L, D. PLBUY per Aug. H,. Bowers, Clerk, (Gdreernvitte News.. Port IRoyaI is to be maade the~ oblof gava etfatio of th ot Atlando dae The L acertainty o' Old Land Titles. The Now York 'Tribune derives from the American Land Review the history of a case illustrating this subject, which we condense ias follows: About sixteen years ago, a Mr. Ingalls owned real estate in that portion of Boston which was subsequently biurned by the great tire of conparati rely .ecent occur rence. His father bad loft it to him by wiil, first giving his mother a life interost in, which t orminated on 1845. By his will the father als, gave his two npel)iowsi, named Jon es legacies of $25,000 each, but before his death lost all his property ex c(1pt this real estate, and the legacies were never paid.* There being no liraitationi in Massachuaisetts to the time in which suit may be brought for the recovery of a legacy, the Jo1eOHs sued in 1860 for tneirs, and re:-o)vered pr11 icpal and inlterest, t.henj amounting to $143,000. The re-di ostate was sold undor. this judg mnmt (the claim of Ingalls, the heir at law, being decided by the court to ho inferior to thatof the legatees,) brought $8,000 less than enough to satisfy it, and was i.urclu.sed by the Jfonessc as an 'investimient of their legacy. They were just fairly in pl)ssession when John Rodgers brought suit for the property on the groundl that the person who owned it in 1750 willed it to his brother, "if he shall die without issue." That the brother hid a daunghter, and she a daughter, th:rougih whomli the property passed ultituately by sale to Ingalls, and. that the phrase qluotedl necessitated a ('onstructi-m of the will of 1850, shichm would give the property to the tostator's heir at law, Peter Rogers, the father of John, the present litigant. The courts sustained Rgers' claim, and he ousted the .Jameses. Then a young lawyer looked further back into tho chain of title, and found th .t the proper ty was sold in 1710, but the deed did not contain the usual "and1 to his heirs," and consequently the property should l,,vo reverted at the purchaser's death to the reller and his hoirs. '1 h .se heirs were hunted up, their title hn.a it by i real esb- F, oiiertt, ai).l tho p ty rec'o'-ere1 by him, and alter the gro it flre swept over it lie bought. an i ljoining lot and elceted upon the property thus enlarged, large stores. I;itm in the montime Ingalls who was u&.te-l by the Joneses, set hi usef to diggingr in a mine ich had proved so fruitful. and tracing Ole chain a little furtbor back, lie foand that the property had ben o,vnetl in 1860 by hislineal ancestor (wioso heir at law he now was,) and willed on condition that it siould never be built upon, and that tho building of the now store viti:ttod the will and imado him the leg.d owner again of the property, and a far richer man than lie was c.:se teaeims two trtuths ; that truth is oftIli m:re imnpirobaible than fiction; aid that one can not he too careful in verifying the validity of every link in the chain of their title to real estate. South Carolina and most of the States, however, have at soe i period enacted statutes to give title by the individual possession for a term of yearms, which would, we prlcot:-ne, heal such imperfections an-1 uncertainties as must, is wvould seem, still exist in Mssachmusetts The colore &KItin the Nava Aca~demy, Henry E. Baker Jr., fi cm Mississipi, was dlismissed from the acadlemy last wveek by the secretary oif thoe navy, at the reqnest of the supe)rinltendent. Th'is~ cadet has oc cai~Monedl con sider'able trouble since his 'entrance, more than a yea~r ago,' iito the naval school. Numbers of his ehitsmates andl othel s at the sMhool have,' been rep)orteJ, and seve ral eveni dismissed,. for molesting or troub~ing him in various ways, but thet hypothesis that he was only an inn.cnt victim of inprovoked ag gosHsions is proven. unmtenable by the cmcurient tostimnony of his class, aind by', the rep1ort of ai hoard of in quliry in iregard to the latest difficul ty ini which his name appears. It wasC cleirly shown before the board that Baker used, on the occasiion re forre0.1 to, lanigua~go too gross for' publ1ication amid totally inocxcuisale andic this fIng'rant broachm of decon*v, coup~ed wi th the prev'ious aceumula tioni of minor offenses which lie has comii tted, induced the superinton. dlent to request his dismissal. TIIuEAGuEr' Uicor IN -ruEnO, ---The hay crop of tile United States for the last year is reported to be over 27.000,000 tone, cured, This at $20 per ton), is about flvo liiimdrod and forty million dollarm. The value of ainim ls sinughtered for food in that year was $306,000,000. The butter crop wasi $614,000,000. This all came from grass, There was produced 235,000,000 gallons of milk, worth $215,000,000. This, too, came from grass. Next 53,000,000 pounds of cheese, worth $5,000,000, next 100,000,000 pounds of wool worth $80,000,000, Putt all this to gother and the grass crop of 1874 of the United States was no losa than ?1L423,000,000. The total dabt noe of the Unit.oil States was 52,447,. 541,627. In .Ather words, tie g c.a or6p of the Unital S tats canl ofe natQindobti two years Governor Chamberlain, on Mon day, sent the following message to the Legislature relative to the death of Vice-President Wilson : DEA'r OF vICE-PRESIDENT WILSON. Ge,. Necmen qf the Senate and lfouse of Representaitues : The country is saddened by fiho news of the death of the Vice President of the United Sttes. Henry Wilson died at the National Capitol on tho morning of yesterday, the 22dinstant, at the ago of sixty-threo. He was the child of extreme pov orty, yet, undor the generous influ ences of our free government, ho rose to the highest honors of the nation. He was a man of deep con victions, an ardent iriend of univer sal froodom Iiand universal suffrage, devoted to the hoior and famo of his country. Born in poverty, his rapid changes of fortune brought him only the moderate support of his ofli'cial sala ries, and he died rich only in the gratitude and praises of his country men. his last days were made doubly illustrious by his earnest ad vocacy and porfeet exemplification of integrity in oflicial station, and by his offortV to reRtore peace antl prosperity, with justice and freedom, to this section of our country. His death at this timo is a national ca lunity. His mamary deserves the honors of all who lovo freedom, or respect public virtue. He said to me at Lexington, in April last, "How I would. like to come down and help South Carolina celebrate the battle of Camden or King's Mountain, and if God spares me, I will." Alas I that God hae not spared him. But his great example of patriotism, broad as his whole coun try, of fidelity inl victory as well as in defeat, will be among the imper. ishable treasures of tile Republic. I respectfully recommend to the Gon iral Assembly that suitable notiiceo be taken of *le death of the vice-Presiden t. Very rec.metfully, D. II. C....:u:RIAIN, Governor. TrE BLUE AND TM GRAY.--A movement is afoot to assemble a l;rgo number of the soldiers of the attle war in Phiilado.lphia vomntime during the Centennial. It is nro poseld to have the Northern and Su thorn armies represented by their loading gencrals,;and thousands of the rank and file from every State. The purpoei is to show the world, by a gran d and impressive domon ration, that the mon who were in arms against each other a few years ago, are now united in the celebra tion of the one hundreth birthday of their country, and are inspired by a spirit of patriotism and a fooling of common nationality. A Texas Judge is eredited with the following decision :"The fact is, Jones, the jail is an old, rickety affir, as cold as an iron kedge. You applied to this court for a release on bail, giving it as your opinion that you would freeze to death. there. The weather has not mioderiecx, aind to keep) yon from freezing I will direct the Sheriff to hlang you at 4 o'clock this after noon. Tinik of the President of the Unitecd States implicated ill whisky ring rob~bers of tile treasury, which enabled the 1th ieves-inchl ding his~ eciellncy-to divide $75,000 a wooek ! Sh-ades of Washington, Jef ferson and Jackosoni ! Does not the last grave-worm that fed oni your noblo1 corpson, writhe wi th inidignla tion andl dligust, at time degradation of thle oflico which ye once made glorious 1---ligh/ Sentinel Ini tile powcet of a mantI wh'lo was killed wihile drunk inl a Cinicininati gaimblling house was fonnd the fol lowing memfloran~dum : "Took my last spree May the 18, 1875. Five rules from this dato. First-Is never to oat but three meals a day. Second--Is noveor to eat anything betwoon nmals. Third--Is to eat as little as I ennm every meal. Fourth -Is never t > dlrink any kind of in toxicating drinks. Fifth--Is never to use any tobacco." An Iowa father was going to cut his boy's nosre ofl because the child "snulod" at the dinner table, but an older son smashed a c'hair over the father's head and gave him all the business he could attend to. On Friday afternoon last, about 4 o'clock, the gin house of Mr. Wil liamn Moody, inl M~arion, was burned containing about twventy bales of cotton atnd about five hundred bushlls cotton seed, besides a first rate gin. The crown pi in('e of Germany has onie of the miosft frank and symplla thetic' enunitenahees to be seen in thme whole Ofmphmo. IE intellect he rankcs hetwieen a. hotel and .Bis, marck There was taken out of dead let trduig hefiscal year thea tonishingly large sum of,$3,500,000. All of this was I-eturned to its owners with the exception ofi $400,000, ______ OffIl--i retuins for the past nine crealf's in~ 'I -me .r'l ftofi