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JEXeretldL; /THE 110RKY IIEKALI). / [Entered at the Post Office at Conway a> second class matt r.| consr^7-^.-sr, s. ? . rUURSDAW MCll. 10, - 18ST. State Librarian Sims died last week. Roxalana Druse was handed at Herkimer, New York, Kelt. * J S111. for one of the most heartlessly atrocious crimes of which woman's inventive ^renins can conceive. "An Observer" writes sonic njrlv insinuations anent the architect ha\ ing charge of the completion of tin* i7uii?- iiouse a? t olninhia. lie seems, from this writers account, to l>e st?eeally partial to Baltimore material ami a Baltimore firm. " Ciov. Wilson, of West Virginia, has appointed I >. B. I ,ucas I nited States Senator in plaee of t'aimleni the present incumhent, who failed of re-election. Lucas is one of the Democratic "kickers'' in the recent) Senatorial contest. A certilicate of incorr oration of the New York Southern Telegraph j Company was liled to-day. It states that its capital is $1,000,000 divided into shares of $100 each, with the privilege of increasing the stock to $o.t >00,000. The incorooraters ami 1 this number of shares hebl by each are as follows: .lames IJ. I'aee, Richmond, 3,500 shares; John 1". Wise, I Kiehmoml. 1,000; Thomas M . l.ooan, Richmond, 1,000; John * . M < X )!V, Now \ ork, 4,000, ami J. (?. \\ eever I lhioe, New York, 500. The cotnpa-1 nyV wires are to run from this eitv to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Kiehmoml, ( 'harleston, Savannah ami New (hleans, ami to all intermediate points. The river ami harbor bill failed to become a law by reason of the 1'resident not allixinir his signature. It reached him several days before tin; adjournment of Congress, but was "pocket vetoed." The IVesMcnt jrives as a reason that he did not havp the time to properly consider its provisions. We do not think it wise or prudent tocondemn the <'liief Magistrate for aetino rautiosly and thoughtfully in such matters. When our plans and purposes are thus unexpectedly thwarted by any individual or combination of persons, it hurts, and iscalculated to produce in us sourness, and the spirit of condemnation for inattention to the public weal. No doubt, in some instances public works already commenced will seriously suffer, but several months are allowed to put all public works in as irood condition as the means now at. disposable will permit. President Cleveland has noinina- 1 ted Henry K. Harris, of Georgia, third assistant postmaster genera 1 i vice Ha/en resigned, and James M. Trotter, of Massachusetts to he recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia. James Monroe Trotter is a colored citizen of Massachusetts and is in the 18th year of his utro. His early childhood was spent in the State of ()hio. For the past thirty-five years he has resided in Massachusetts, where, prior to the war, he was a teacher. Soon after the breaking out of the war lie enlisted as a private in the both Mas sachuset Is regiment of colored troops, and was promoted for acts of bravery on the battlefield until he became a lieutenant. 1'pon his return to civil life Ik; was appointed to, and filled for eighteen years, the position of assistant superintendent of the registered letter department in the lloston postollice. Froin this position he was retired in 1884, on account, it is said, of his independence in pol- 1 ,...,i i.;n ,,r " i'*" r i' porting Cleveland. During the campaign of 1884 he was appointed one of tho secretaries of the "committee of one hundred" of Boston, inn! vuou active in 111*5 support of the nominees j of tlie Democratic party. It is stated , that lie was strongly reconiinoiidod | by the citizens ami press of Hvde Park, Mass., where he resides. Notwithstanding the unfavorable report of the committee on the District of Columbia his nomination was confirmed by a vote of 110 to 11. Quite a lively tilt occurred the other day in the Senate between Hoar of Massachusetts and llo'jk and Jllack-I burn of Kentucky. Iloar took oc-! canion to arraign the Speaker of the House for arbitrary assumption of power in refusing to recognize certain parties on the floor of the House1 to propose measures of tariff revision, and proceeded to deliver a bet- ! ter tirade against the Speaker, Mr. Carlisle. Heck and lllackburn <Jo- j fended the Speaker the latter clos-' m* !_. _ . ^ 1,ir Hi if liis remarks with this soathintr ? r> rebuke. "There is no necossit\ for nil elaborate dofonso horn. I simply rose to express tho hope that tho day wouhl come when tho Stato which furnished to tho Senate ('handier of tho conntry such men as I )aniol Webster and Uufus ('hoato would at last find an opportunity to honor itself and to do an essential service to the \ineriean people by sending here a son who will be at least the peer of the present Speaker of >ho Mouse Representatives in all that fjfoes to constitute fair dealing, hioh character and al>!e patriotism.M Senator iloar was so completely used up that he did not attempt a reply. Senator Mlackburn attended a dinner-parter in Ihiltimnrc in the evening and on returning In (lie Senate ('handier at a late hour found an Indian war elul> on his desk with a cord attached on which was written, "For Senator .1. ('. S. Itlackhurn, a Sioux war club placed where it will do t he most e< ?od." old m:\ys to auiji;\ ii.li:. The newspapers of this State seem to he oreat 1 v astonished at the recent decision of the Supreme ( 'ourt con li 11 i 11 <r the trial of petit laiceny cases to the court of oeneral sessions. It is an old piece of knowledge in this county. Not only the lawyers hut the doctors held this view far hack as ISS'J. In that year I Jr. I\ I*'. ( Jarv, who was a member of the I louse of Representatives, introduced a hill li \iner the penalty f<?r jictit larceny so as to brine- it within the. jurisdiction of trial justices. lion. \V. II. I'arkerof this county wtts the only meniher of the .ludieiarv ('onunitlee who took the same view and consentiently the majoritv of the committee made an adverse report and the hill was lost. Al>b< Malt iim. Why not? when the citizens of Abbeville have such a controlling' power in the State Government. One Associate Justice of Supreme ('ourt, one ('ire.uit .ludeo, now a ("onpressinatl, two members of the nrosont r Stuto (tovernuient, and how many other positions of trust and responsibility citizens from I lint county hold, wo know not. That county oimht to !>o well posted oil matters judicial and executive. s111: i SI:I> A KOOMI:I?an<;. A Voiiii^ Wife Tests Iter Husband's l.ovo and ISeconios Sorr> lor it. Xi:\v \ okk, March I. Annie Phi IT, the youno- and pretty wife of Saloon-keeper August PlalT, of No. 1V)S Avenue A, wasn't unite sure that her husbands love was all her own, and in putting him to the test she passed through an experience which she entirely unexpected. Saturda\ eveiiino I Ma IT found her moauino pit eously on the sofa, and in answer to his questions she said tiiut ha vino ascertained that lie did not hoe her, she had swallowed a dose of "Ifonoh on 1 (at s." instantly the husliand was on his knees beside her and calling her pot names, and was the point of te 111 lie hini that she had keen merely jokino when ho dashed out of the house, and, meetiiio Policeman Schmidt, of the Kourteenth Precint, requested him to lino- for an amine lance, as lus wile Ian I taken poison and was dyiuir. After the policeman laid summoned ambulance lie went to the snioon-keepor's apartments and made a prisoner of Mrs. IMafT on the charge of attempting suicide. The ambulance surgeon looked down her throat, slapped heron the back and walked her up and down the lloor at the rate of six miles an hour. Then she was taken down the stairs and placed in the ambulance, although she protested that she had not taken poison. At llellevue Hospital she screamed when she saw the doctor with the stomach pump, but she couldn't liolp herself, and the doctor's distrust can imagined when not a trace of poison was discovered. She was discharged and she was eoino home with her delighted husband when I'olieeman Schmidt inter posed. She was his prisoner for attempting suicide, and as he had already reported the case to his Captail, he was compelled to arrest her, and use the husband, who had Lpveu him the information, as coinplianant. Mrs. I'lalT remained in the sitting room of the Fifth Street Station House until Kssex Market Court was opened yesterday morn'n?r, when she was arraigned before Justice O'Hoilly, and after she had told her story she was discharged. A Pugnacious Fox. ()n Monday last, while Manning, o ,.f XI.-1 i? ? ?t ?;wai w? ifitOi I1UITPO l/llltllll, W1IN passing along near the Poor Mouse, lie saw a fox in tIn*, road, ami his two dogs attacked it. I'oynard was not at all timid, and met the dogs half way, and gave them a sound thrashing. They ran yelping away, utterly distrusted with such a fox. .Mr. Frank Brunson j)asscd hy soon after on horseback, and the fox (dated with his victory over the dogs looked as if he would attack Mr. Brunson, and finally escaped. Next morning while Mrs. llussey, who lives near by. was milking, she saw a fox under the barn and sent for Mr. Ihirant's hoys, who came over with the dogs. The fox, which was supposed to bo the same seen the day before, soon ran the dogs, and one of the boys had to shoot him.- Sumter Attqanoe. v V J or somo (]ntii|> plaoo; tako nil ! QQ vi !*? *>.v. *t John lii-own's Son Sends a <*il( to CIllU'lOHtOII. f I r I Several days aoo Major Henry K c Younjr received a loll or from .lohn v Ill-own, .11\, tlio son of ".loliu Brown, j, of llarper\> Kerry," enclosing a post- . ^ olVieo monov or 1 r for live dollars for j tin- roliof of tin- eartliouako sulTorors 1 v of Charleston. The amount was j small, I >n t if ovorv dollar so lit liad ,, I toon a ton of ^old tlio tfift would not liavo I>? ? ?i moro valuable or more | hndilv approcialod. Mr. Brown's ,, lot tor is tin- orandost trilmto lio could j, have paid to his fatlior's memory, and v Major ^ aunt's disposition of liis j j^ift is 1110 most appropriate that could have been made. "John |, I Jrown's soul is marchino 011," but!,, 1 it is marching to the music of a re- , united and indestiictible Union. Io1111 Itrowu's hotter. it I *t T IN I J A Y Isi.ANI), I.ARC. KltlK, ) I (j ( )TTA W A <'or.NTY, Oil 10, J- |s February 22, I88T j j To ( ol II. K. Voting, (Charleston, j South ('arolina l)ear Sir: In the , month of September last, soon after thefcalumitv bv earthquake which befel your city, I formed the ae<piaint v I auee, at this place, of Mr. IT T. Mil- j lor, of ('iucinnati, who not only spoke '? with foelino m regard to the loss and b sulVerino endured bv your people, 8< I but, on the other hand, in rejdy to | ( un impdries ouve me a chcerino ac- t< count of the ocneral industrial pros- I peritv of the South. At parting I v | said to him that if I believed a small C token of sympathy from one of the 'I family of John lirown, of Harper's I Kerry, to the distressful people of a ('liarleston would be accepted, I '* would forward the money as soon as e I could earn it. Mr. Miller express-i I' ed confidence that such a contrihu- a : tion would not be rejected. I 8 The enclosed ><0, in postoflice S( , money order, I should have sent ' earlier had I not mislaid your ad-Ml dress, which he ipive me at the time. ' i'lease accept ami bestow as in your fJ judgment shall appear best, this j< ; siiu;lit token of the kind feelintr . ^ ' ( I which I know possessed the heart of ^ I John Brown and of each one of his . family towards the people of the1. South. It was only toward her i p slavery that lie or any of his kindred . cherished ua sacred animosity." ('hat- ^ j tel slavery a wrong for hich tho , North and South were responsible i has ceased expiated in the hlood of , 1 ..It J hrethren. The storm of fratricidal war, which closed that scene in otir ? | country's drama, has left ns, we may I hope, a clear sky and a land that .j | shall evermore be made glad and , beautiful by t he sunshine of righteous- . ness lieht aiid fair dealing by all n n ?/ if 1 towards all. p I'raternalIv, yours, p .loll n IlltlUVN, .1 u. S1 Major Vaunt's .'Manly Answer. ( ' 11A KI.KSTON, S. ( " ., | | s, Keluuur-, 28, 1887. \ My I tear Sir: I received this S| morning yours of the 22d. I am j somewhat at a loss how to answer it. The answer might he so ' many- j | sided." Still, however, many-sided ^ the great cardinal point would be the ci recognition of the importance of the NN I part, that a son of John Brown, of Harper's Kerry hearing1 his name I should send to the sufferers of ('har-|S( leston as "a token of sympathy" that tt which he had to earn in order to! a! >'?! , . . '?? I'he story of the widow's mite has! become again a reality, and hy it, alone can your sioniticant oift bo i 111 J O o measured, a gift most appropriately si sent on Washington's Birthday. j p If a contribution was sent, mo now ! without inst notions for its applica- i lion, there is many an object to which 1| I should annlv it other limn tlmi t..: ti which yours will i^o. j? There is amon<rst us h homo for ' tho widows ami orphans of Confeder- * ' at<i soldiers. To the widows it oives | a homo; to tho orphans, a homo and odiioation. Tho woman who beipin, and still nfivos life to, this noble char-i a ? I ' itv is as trront an ontluisiast for what ri ? T "i ^ I she dooms rij^ht as was your ancestor. ! '* To be?rin it, she mortiriurod her sole piece of jiroperty, and ever since has t! labored for it in season and out of j ' 1soasou. ? This Home was greatly injured d by the earthquake, but a generous a land wealthy nation?North and ' South is rebuilding it and will h i .... . " 11, ! nnisn it. , " Tho spirit of your act would bo b ! lost, in jiart, at least, if your jjdft Sl ' were appropriated to any other pur- 01 'pose than this?tho Homo of the b Widow and Orphan of tho Con fed erate soldier in tho "Cradle of So li cession." I b \Our generous gift, witn copies of " your and this letter, have boon sent ; to Mrs. M. Amarintha Snowdon, tho ; woman to whom I have referred. |11 I thank you ver\ sincerely for *1 your "contribution," but yet more1 r? for the spirit that prompted it. It . sho.vs, indeed, that peace and good * will have returned to this nation, j b Heartily rociproenting your prayer e fur the people, I am yours very truly H and sincerely, a ii. k. vouno* l> To John Brown, Jr., But in Bay " Island, Lake Erie, Ohio. l.v ? * ' ' iwerv man who carries a pistol ii ouolit to he obliged hv law to wear v it in a holt at liis side, and have la- ft helled ''emotional insanity." It i Sick headache, wind tin the stomach, |( hillioiisne!-*, nausea, are promptly and airreealily banished hy l>r. J. II. M< bean's . I.itile hiverand Kidney Pellets. 25 ets. a viol. ' C A. VRKNMENT DIRECTORY I I / V * ililu Hi in .i.iv at a a v a v liviii ui 1^* They woro dark and dismal days i or the people of South Carolina and lousinnna, those days of insult and >ppression, and of despair almost, ' Yhioli marked the winter of IS7t>-77 - ! i >ut the l-'sson which they taught to j he Democracy of the South was an i mportant one, and evidences are not I rantino that it has been studied and ( earned l>v the Democracy of at least i me Northhrn State as well. I The Ifepuldicans of Indiana have i leen intent, for several we?.k? past, ipon reenactinjr in the Indiana Lejr- I stature the plots and proceedings 11 vith which we wore made so familiar \ n this part of tlio country ten years i go. It euimot )>o said that they 1 lavo met with an encouraging meas- ' ire of success. < The situation then?, and the spirit ( ii which the I temocraey are meeting I he attempt3(1 aggressions of the ' tlier side, were vividly set forth in a ^ pooch of Representative .iewett, in j <he Lower House of the Legislature,! few days ago, the concluding sen- n slices of which will give an idea of; I :s force and significance. They c ere as follows: s " No, Mr. Speaker, the entire Iron- ( le is that your side has determined, t y fair means or foul, to obtain pos- ? I'ssion of this Ctoneral Assembly and .] Iius elect Henjamiii Harrison Sena- { >r. Vim can never do it; mark that! | 'lie people have repudiated him, and ; v on cannot galvanize him into politi- , ^ al life. * * * Nor will mobs or || iirests of violencs be of any avail, 'lie man who claims to bo Lioutennt (lovemor, and now here in this . all beside the Speaker, has disgracd this State by leading a mob or J ^ (| infers, desperadoes and dead beats ^ gainst the doors of the people's enate. * * "x" Kroni the day this j! ssion lirst opened till now you have ^ een intent upon but one thing, and (| nit has been the election of I'enja- ^ liti Harrison. Maddened by the let that you so nearly elected a ma- ^ irity of the Legislature, you iinnie- j . iatelv after the election sought to M meat the performance of 187b, and teal from the Democratic party the I b nits of the election. No considera- b mis of public duty or private moral- ' " V have stood in vonr ivnv. mid tl .mined to vou that the shameful his-," ?ry of our National disgrace was to'si 0 repeated in tho State of Indiana, tut the Democratic party has learn- tl il that the only way to meet Kepub- ] h can rascality is to meet it with eour- | <? geous and unbroken front, and choke 1 1' ic last spark of lifo out of the mis- j tl ruble scheme. And so we have.1' one. and we will never relax our o rasp until it is former established tl tat in Indiana the people rule and ^ loir will shall have unouostioned: way." , h There was much more in the 0 |>eec!i to the same purpose, but this . 1 enough to show its spirit and the |)irit in which the Democracy of In- j( iana are waging the struggle for ? leir rights. The bold and manly v I 1 indurations of Mr. .Jowott were revived by his Democratic colleagues! itli the greatest enthusiasm, and his t.i rruignment of the Republicans was o ) truthful and severe that no at- . unpt was made to answer it. It is t II very gratifying to us, on every \ scount. The old fight is being li uido again on more eijual ground t ml more etpial tonus, and the most ^ itisfactory feature of it is that our ( >iends in Indiana have so greatly a rofited by our own recent bitter ex- t erienco. There is infinite con sola- 8 on in that reflection alone. .Wim ^ ml Courier. ILIN^ING TO A WIIA LIO'S 1 J(\W. ' b j k The whaling crows from Ainng-!^ nsett, which killed a large cow I ^ iglit whalo yesterday afternoon, | n uvt* neon unamo to move the car I ^ iisa of the monster, which sunk to in bottom of the ocean in twenty ithoius of water about seven miles i " lit. In the event of its rising to ^ ui surface, a too has been engaged : t Greonport to tow the whale's' odv to Promised Land, whoro the f, sli and oil works offer facilities for oi!in?r blubber and (rettim? out ones. The whale, which is about ^ xty feet in length, will bring the jj uptors about $1,200 for oil and one. I'apt. Charles Kd wards, who was i i command of the boat which was ; rokon up by the tail of the dying diale, had a narrow escape from j oath. He was thrown out of the 4j oat, and saved himself from drown 0 ig by clutching the under jaw of ^ lie monster, which he clung until j 3scued by his brother, ('apt. Jona- ^ tian Kdwards. Tho crew of Capt. Imrles Kdwards's boat wore also s lirown into the water, but were pick- |j d up by one of the other boats. ^ 'apt. Charles was greatly exhausted (> ltd vvnti ( Mitliitoil </i l?<*.l -1 .... i-v? ino iiuii jl ut oxpoeta to bo able to be about to torrow. The whale's body is buoyod, and s ivo boats' crows alternate in wateh- o ig it. The large ipiantity of marine ~ ogetation upon which the whales (| sod that is floating along the coast ( snds to belief that there will be j, lore whales in vicinety before >ng*_ ? , . Henry Ward Heeelier is in a dying j audition. S KMC L LOOK!!1 \ Uriel* Review of tlie Work of the Fortli-Ninth Congress. Washington, March I. The Jongress which ended its existence at iooii to day has afforded a striking llustration of the constant increase n the volume of legislation demand ng the attending of Congress which las been going on for the last three _>r more Congresses. More hills were introduced in both houses, nore committee reports made, more jills passed, more became laws and nore were vetoed than ever before. Most of these measures were of com mrativo unimportance, such as hills rrautinjr private pensions and special elief, aut horizino the erection of >ridoes, granting the rijdit of way, uwl the like; hut many, not only <>f lie hills and reports presented, hut >f the laws enacted, were of m?neral nterest and importance. A numher if hi I Is enacted into the laws were >ld ai.d familiar claimants for le<risativo favor. In this eateirory hoono the I'residential succession hill, he electoral count hill, the interdates eoinnmrce hill, and the hill or the relief *?f h it/. John Porter. The Forty-ninth Congress coinnonced its session on December I, 880, and was in session until Anrust 5, when it anjourned until )ecemher 0, and continued in sosion until its close to-dav eoverine r otal period of ten months and tweny six days. ()f this time the Scute was in session Ti I days the llouss 7>I days. There were introduced in he I louse durinir this time 1 I ,'ieS ills and 2(?2 j'^'it resolutions, on i hich over five thousand renorts j re re made beine- several thousand lore hills and over a thousand more ! sports than wore made in the Fortyi^rlit ii ('onoress, which had in its urn beaten the record. In the Senate there were intro need 2.8.V, hills and I 18 joint reolution, o - which I ,U88 written re orts were made, boin?r upwards of ve hundred more hills and over mr hundred more reports than in lie record breaking Forty-eighth '< in cress. The total numher of laws enacted ills (approxin atclv) IJUH, of which ,0~>8 originated in the House and IS in the Senate. Two hundred ml sixty-four of these became laws j v the expiration of the constituonul ton days limitation. Fifty i ills failed to become laws owino to lie adjournment-of ('onoress, nine f tliciu at the close of the first sesion. There were 182 hills vetoc* by lie I'resident, or twenty-one more istances ol tho exercise ot tho I'res- j lential prerogative <?f tho voto than 11?I occurred from tho foundation of: lio government down to the begining of this Congress. ()f tho veto<1 hills, ninety-throe originated in lie House and thirty-nino in the ionato. Hut one private hill (that granting pension to Joseph Hoiuiser) and no public hill (that providing fori lie erection of a government build ig at Dayton, Ohio,) succeeded in assin?r both Houses over l'resn lout's veto, although several others ! btained the requisite two-thirds ote in the Senate, only to fail in ' lie House. We desire to call the special atteuion of our readers to the March issue j f the Southern Cultivator^ of Atlanii, (in., as it contains matter of vital j utorost to the farmers of the entire | louth. The "Thoughts for the | lonth" and "Inquiry Department," >y Dr. Win. L. Jones, are full of! imely practical suggestions in re- j pird to preparation of soil and so- i action of crops for the coming seas-1 >u. "Silos and Knsilage" also from most interesting department, and he building of silos above ground is liown to be feasible. "The poultry j ard" department is well illustrated , ml contains orhdnal articles from n xperieneed and successful breeders, n addition to departments devoted ;> live stock, horticulture, and other indred topics, concise reports are of irmers' conventions, State Agrieul-j ural Societv meetings, and (irange Jonventions in a half do/on South- ! rn States. "i/c Southern Cultivator is in no anse a local publication, but propos- j s to keep its readers posted in re- j aril to agricultural matters iu every Southern State. Nor is it the olli* ial oriran of anv oarticular farmers' rgani/ation, but open to all and tlio , rionds of all, with a helping hand 1 nd ehcoring word for every movo- . icut dial proiiiinCo to benefit the! inning interests of our section. Condent that the present industrial boom1' must be followed by a mark- < d improvement in ngricnltural cir- i les, The Cultivator has arranged to nlargo the sphere of its influence nd afford every possible assistance i making this prediction bear abunant fruit. There nover was a bright- j r outlook for tlie farmers of the i iouth, and they are earnestly urged o join The Cultivator in its efforts | > place the agricultural dovoloplent of the South squarely along ide of its irwln*Ur!ui np/nfi-noo V ;* - r.wtt.?0o. iberiil support of this excellent lonthly will encourage its publish- , rs to still greater improvement in ts now well-filled and attractive I ages. The price of subscription is nly *1 .50 per annum for single subcribors; in clubs of five or more, $1.5 each; in clubs of ten or more, $1.00 aeh. Sample copies sent freo; nd- i ress, The Cultivator Publishing 'oinpany, P.O. Drawer Kight, At?nta, Go. Far be.ter tlian the harsh treatment of icdieines which iiorribly gripo the patient ml destroy the coating of tlie stomach < )r. .). 11. McLeans Ohlll and Fever cure, old at r>() cents a lw>ttlo, - TITfi I ion. The Railroad commission lias just rendered a dec'aion upon a matter presented to their attention, which I must be of peculiar interest from the 1 faet that it is the lirst of the kind, in some particulars, they have been ' called upon to decide. Hie question raised was an alleged discrimination l?v the Cane h'ear and Yadkin Valley Railroad in charging a higher rate for freight from ! Charleston to latum, a station on i this road, than was charged to liennettsville, the next station beyond. Complaint was made I?v a shipper of fertilizer that ho was charged a i imio. ..r v i in ? . i * i , W. I > <1111111 IMICIl IIIC { nito in lieunettsville, a Ioniser haul, | was hut ? 1.HO. Die railroad uuult the point that at Hennettsville tliov had to meet ! competition with water transportation by the lVe I )ee Kiver, the land; injr on whii'li. ho wo vet, is some twelve miles from the station mentioned. As the route over which the freight i was sent from Charleston has a portion outside the State, taUino in Wilmington and Shoe Heel, N. (and thence eotnio?r hack into South Carolina, there was some question of the jurisdiction of tne t 'ommissioners. The Hoard heicl that it <iid have jurisdiction, as the point of departure and arrival were both in this State. They also held that there was a discrimination and violation of law in ehare-ine- higher rates, as while the law reeoonizoil lower rates at a competing point, tlmy did not eon sider Henneltsville a eompetino point, on account of water 'transportation, for the reason that the river landing was so distant from the railroad station. ICeliei* lor <'onfederates. I he hill for the relief of confederate soldiers and their wives, which has passed both houses of the Alabama Legislature, <> tains the f<?llowing provisions: 1. Appropriates *:*0,000. )>. Includes all disabled soldiers now citizens of Alabama; also widows of soldiers w ho died during the war or within twelve months after the ( lose of the war, and who have never married T I )oes not apply to soldiers ami widows who are worth $1,000 or inoro. ?">. Kiftooii hundred (h)llars to be paid hlind soldiers who lost their sioht dur ino the war. 0 Applications must he. made toJiidf/Q of lYohato. The .liuloe of Probate is toward eertifieatos to State Auditor. The Auditor is to issue warrants seven months after passage of the . ct. (Joh/t/tbin Hcifitter. ' 'lie Co-sips Were Disappointed A Washington letter says: A 1 Vnnsylvania t 'onjrressman came near eausinjr a lively scandal last week J by beino- caught kissino a lady in one of the corners of a hall at the ArliiiLfton Hotel, tml when the lady i i * i was discovered to be Ins own wife, they were both told the story that 1 Senator Sherman's wife tells with misto of how, when she first came i i here a bride before the war, that lady of much social experience, Mrs. John J. Crilterden, solemnly warned her that if she was seen so constantly with her husband they would certainly ho talked about. Mrs. Sherman says that, beino you no and very shy then, she felt it a jrreat hardship that she could not even enjoy her husband's society in public with impunity. Capt. (Jreely Confirmed. Washington, March I.?The Sen- 1 ate has confirmed the nominated of ('apt. A. W. (jreely to be Chief Siirnal (Xlieor, with the rank of Brigadier (leneral; also the follow-, inc: Henrv IP I bin-is ?.f i r-? " J " " * * v" 11 # ho Third Assistant Postmaster (ieuerai; I )al>ney II. .Maury of Virginia, tt? he Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United Slates to the Republic of ('o 1 oinhia. The Oldest Nojjro. Ed. Oliver, eolored, in listing his property, before Auditor Jones, last Friday, said he was too old to pay a poll tax. lie said he was horn in 1008 and prepared to prove it, if Mr. Jones would allow him to got a note from his old master. This would make hi11 881 years old. -Abbeville diiim. A young fellow out west, with plenty of time and genius, has tigered out. how a man can hccomo his own grandfather, and this is the way he does it: "I married a widow who! had a grown' up daughter. My father visited our lioino very often, fell in love with my daughter, and married her. So my father became my son-in-law, and my step-daughter my mother, because she married my father. Some time afterward my wife had a son. He is mv father's hr<.il>- I or-in-law and in> undo, for ho is the brother of my stop-mother. Mv father's wife, namely, my stepmother,1 had u son. lie is my brother, and at the same lime my grandchild, for he is the son of my daughter- My wife is my grandmother, oecauo she is my mothers's mother I am my wife's husband and grandchild at the same time: and as the husband of a norBon's grandmother is his grandfather, I am my own grandfaher." * Kxposure to rough weather, gotting v/ot, living in damp localities, are favoraide to the contraction of diseases of the k'dneys and bladder. As a preventive, and for the cure of all kidney and liver trouble, use that valuable remedy, Dr. .1 It Me I.can's Liver and Kidney balm. $1.00 per bottle j Schedule of "V *<- > , , , Washington, February W\. A brief chapter of unwritten war history was related l?y (.'apt. Greene, of Charlottesville, Va., to-day, as he with a ^rroupof Kx-( "onfederates were studying the panorama of the baitle of I in 11 Kun. Saul he: 41 It is a fact not generally known that a serious aecident occurred to Gen. Kobert K. Lee the mornintr after the second battle of iit111 Kun. Gen. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were seated on a loir, near Sudlev Springs, when some (.'onfederate soldiers who had crossed the ford imagined they had struck Cope's whole army. They instantly became stampeded and rushed pell iiiciI I?v t ho t wo officers. Uon. Leo's horse, old Tra\oiler, broke a way, and tlio (iencral in liis efforts to cuteli linn was thrown violoiitly to the ground, breaking both his hands. (it'ti. I .ee went to South .Mountain and Antietam in an ambulance, and travelled in * his manner through the campaigns that followed, carrying his hands in a sling. Acc?T^|yrg to inv best remembrance he lienor * fully recovered from the injury." A i'ii' ) "/ /, Hrvnhf. No Iv\ t ra Session. W'asiuni.ton, March t. It is said at the W hite House that there j is no probability of a special session of the Senate being called by I the I'resident for the purpose of acting on nominations, or tor any other purpose. The Inter-State Commerce Commission and the >miecessor to Secretary Mnnm g will probably be appointed next week or the week following. ?*?* Cm 1 Ids i*redici ion. Vikn.na, March I. - The prediction by I >i. Fa lb, the meteorologist who foretold the recent eartlupiake, has been issued. The forecast .s follows: ! here will be considerable atmospheric disturbances, heavy gales ami rains, ])ossibly accompanied l?y shocks of earthquake, on t w ent \ -seven (lavs of t ho present year March 22 and 28; j April 7 and X; May >7, t> and 7 ; lone I 8, I,,7, 21 and 2X;.lulv 20 7' 1 and do; August 8, 10 and 20; September 17 land IX; October Hi; November >. i | ami lf>; and I )ecentber 12, 18 and I I I. Senator SewoH's Sticccssar. Tkkn-tox, N.J? March 2. The Republican legislators spent the day in caucus to determine upon a I )einoj crat for whom they should vole for Senator, with a view to beating (iovernor Abbett. Tliev could not agree upon o.\-( iovertior liedle nor t'iiauI cellor Runyoii, but selected lbdus Blodgett, who is Superintendent of I the New York and Lone Branch Railroad, tin the lirst ballot in joint legislative session Abbett received 8S and Blodgelt 80. On the second ballot Bludgett Received 1 votes, just enoug to <dect him. lie therefore succeeds Sewell, a Republican. ?* O In advance of the -ickly season render yourself impregnable; a malarial atmosphere or sudden change of temperature is fraught with danger; use Dr. J. ii. Me bean's Strengthening Cordial. $1.00 per ottle. A Woman livings Down an Single. ScOTi'sifiti,, In*t?., Mancb 1. A gray eagle, measuring1 seven feet from tij? to tip, was killed five miles Southwest of here yesterday by Mrs. John Rickard, who shot it with it title from a distance of 100 yards. It is now on exhibition at the court house. There sre many accidents and diseases wlich alTect Stock anil cause serious in onvenienee and loss to the farmer and in his work, which may ho quickly remidied by the use of Dr. J. II. .McLean's Yolcanh Oil Liniment. Jacksoxvii.i.k, Ki.a, March 2. Genornl .1. .1. Finloy, of Ocalla has boon appointed l>y Govern >r Ferry, I ni'ed Slates Senator to succeed the lion. Gliarles \V. Jones, whose term expires on March 4. Genornl Finloy is a lawyer by profession, ' served with distinction in the < 'oirfederate army, has been a member of the Supreme Court of Florida, and was three times a candidate for Congress, being elected once and defeated twice by Colonel Bisboe, Itcpubli can. If you suffer pricking pains on moving the eyes, or cannot bear bright, light, and Had your sigin weak ami tailing, you should promptly use l>r I. II, McLean's Stn ngthening bye Salve. 25r. a box. LUCY IIIXTny i 11 WW Tlios. C. W illiams & Co.'s CKLKBRATKD TOBACCO. * LUCY IIINTON! Tin' Loading1 Tobacco ft tlio South. 10 I\OII (>io MI, VI M VI M, I-I S. (i TO 1,11, Burroughs & Collins, CON WAV, S. C., Wholesale VkviiIn lor Horry I'onIII} . inch 3 32 Gm.