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\ ' r VOL. XLVI. ' WINNSBOIlO, S. C;. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15. 1890. N0.^5>-^_^ NEW STATE LAWS. ACTS PASSED AT THE LATE SE3 SIGN OF THE LEGISLATURE. *? xt of "iauif ot tiie "*Io>?c Importnn Kuactment* of interest 10 il?e Public. The following are ainoug the nivr< / important of the Acts passed at th< . ! jast session of the General Assembly j j FARMING OUT CONVICTS^ / Au Act t<? amend the law in regart I to the iea.-ing and hiring out of conl. victs and to provide for the purchase j of a State farm or farms and toi i the employment of the convicts there! on. j Section 1. That the board of directors of the State Penitentiary be, and j they are hereby, authorized and em powered to purchase out of the surplus earnings of ih j Penitentiary a suitable farm or farms, to be worked B and planted b^ convicts under the superintendency of said board of directors: Provided that the price p.iid therefore shall not exceed forty thousIII and dollars. And the said board is authorized to retain in its hands and apply to such purchase ail surplus money received and to be received by ^ M?>*-i^irom the operations of said instistitution during the past fiscal year: Provided, further, that no farm or farms shall be purchased in which said directors, or any of them, shall or may be directly or indirectly interested. Section 2- That no contracts for the j hiring or leasing ot convicts to be employed in phosphate mining shaii hereafter be made by said board of directors. Section 3. That said farm provided for in Section 1 sha;l have sufficient elevation to prevent the same from floods an;l overflows as near as practicable. Approved December 23,1S89. THE TARE ON COTTON. An Act to amend Section 1,195 of the General Statutes, relating to tare - on bales of cotton. Se-.tion 1. That Section 1,195 of the General Statutes, relating to tare on bales of cotton, be, and tne same hereby is, amended by striking out; the whole of said section and inserting the following in lieu thereof, so th*t said section, as amended, shall read as follows: Section 1,195. The custom of making a deduction from the actual weight oT bales of unmanufactured cotton, as an allowance ior breakage or draft thereon, is abolished; and all contracts made in relation to such cotton shall be deemed and taken as referring to the true and actual weight thereof 1 without deduction; and no tare shall 1 be deducted from the weight of such ! bales of cotton except the actual weight 1 of the bagging and ties used in baling ! said cotton. 1 Section 2. That this Act shall take 1 efi'ect from and after the 1st day of Sep- 5 tember, 1890. Section 3. 'JJat all Acts or parts of 1 Acts in conflict, or inconsistent, with ( the provisions ?f this Act be, and the 1 same are hereby, repealed. And when- * Vv y-v a /vxa rt f U a t CVC1 AO Olie* 11 UC UCl/WCCU VUC buyer and seller to deduct tare on cot- I -- ton bales it shall be as follows: For { I bales of cotton covered with seven 1 yards of standard cotton baggiug and * six iron ties the actual tare shall be, I and is hereby, fixed at sixteen pounds, e and for tales of cotton covered with a seven yards of standard jute bagging F and six iron ties, the actual tare shall ? be, and is hereby, fixed at twenty-i ur pounds; and when a buyer and seller agree to sell at net weight, and when bales of cotton are - covered. with A seven yards of standard cott on bagging and six iron ties the actual tare g shall be, and is hereby, fixed at sixteen pouncs, and when bales of cotton ^ are covered with seven yards of stanr dard juce bagging and six iron ties the v actual tare snail be, and is hereby, j fixed at twenty-four pounds. e THE KATE OF INTEREST. i] An Act to amend an-Act entitled r "An Act to amend Section 1,2S8 of the ^ General Statutes, regelating the rate s of interest upon any contract arising in h this State for the hirin?-, lending or ^ use of money or other commodity," s approved December 21,1882. r Section 1. That Section 1 of an Act t entitled "AnAct to amend Section t 1,288 of the General Statutes, regula- c ting the rate of interest upon any con- v - tract arising in this State for the hir- n ing, lending or use of money or other } commodity," approved December 21, il > 1832, be, and the same is hei eby, amen- h f ded by striking out the word "ten" ^ wherever it appears in said section and h intserting in lieu thereof the word h "eight," so 'that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: Sec- 1 tion 1. That Section 1,2SS of the Gene- s< Kn fin f V? A com A ri/N k<r? A iai uu, uiiu oaiuc io ucigwy, ams-nded by inserting af<?er the word fe commodity, on the third line of said t section, the folloing words to wit: Ex- v cept upon written contracts, wherein, P by express agreement, a rate of interest not exceeding eight per cent & may be charged. So that said section, si when thus amended, shal! read as fol? lows: No greater rate of interest than a seven per centurr per annum shall be charged, taken, agreed upon or allowed upoi. any contract arising in this n State for the hiring, lending or use of ? L money or other commodity, except | li Bto^upon .vritten contracts wherein, by ex- ; c. prepagree^t ', interest not j ^ ed. No*person or corporation lending^ B or advancing money or other commod- j ^ r shall be allowed to recover ia any i 3Court of this State any portion of the j f interest so unlaw fully charged; and the ! h principal sum, amount or value ?-o I p lent or advanced, without any inter ' ^ est, shall be deemed and taken by the | ^ ? Couits ofthis State to be the true ! gal j debt or measure of damages to all ?in- j t tents and purposes whatsoever, to be j recovered without costs. Provided | that'the provisions of this Act shall; I not apply tocontracts or agreements j e > entered into, or discounts or ^arrange ' j mentSvjnade. prior to the first of March, 1890. ? WORKING CONVICTS ON THE STREETS, a An Act to authorize and empower e certain i incorporated towns iu th? 5 State of South Carolina to substitute. ! u X hard labor on their streets tor tine and s imprisonment iu cases of misdemean- j p k o? which come under their jurisdic- j g |3 tion- i 1 Section 1. That ail incorporated f E towns in the State of South Carolina ; t] R of three hundred inhabitants <>r more c ; are hereby authorized and empowered c I to substitute hard labor. n their streets b B for fine and imprisonment, in cases of V misdemeanor which come under their Ht jurisdiction; Provided, that in no T case shall such sentence to hard labor "V excecd a term of thirty days, unless G otherwise provided by law. ! ii St Section 2. That this Act shall take > b ! effect from and immediate ' j'tc-r rh< i date of ihs approves i. i Approved December 23, ISSi). regulating whigiit.s and measures An Act to provide a punishmerit foi making u?e of fals'? scales, weights 01 t measures in buying or veiling. section i. xnatany person or per? sons who shall knowingly make use ^ of any scales, weights or measures 2 which fail to conform to tbe standard : thereof prescribed by law, in buying or selliugany goods, watvs, merchandise I or oth r irticles, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con, vicuon shall be lined in a sum of not. . more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the count , jnil for a neiicd n?.t exceeding thirty days. Approval December 23, i3S9. THE HOMESTEAD LAW. Au Ao* to amend Section 1 99S of ti:e G neral Statutes, relating to the alienation of homestead. Section 1. That Sectiod 1,998 be amende i so that the same shall read as? follows 'Sectiou 1,998. No waiver of the right of homestead, however solemn,! made by the head of a family at any time pri-ir to the assignment of the homestead, shall defeat the homestead provided for iu this chapter: Provided, however, that no right of homestead shall exist or be allowed iu any property, reai or personal, aliened or uiori. gaged, either before or after assignment, by any person or persons whomsoever, as against the title or claim of | the alienee or mortgagee or his heir, j or their heirs or assigns." Approved Debember 24, 1SS9. TERROR AT A BULL FIGHT. A Graphic Description of the Fail ofa Plaza iu Mcxico?Many Seriously Injured, but Probably None Killed. City of Mexico, Jan. 8.?Telegrams from Villa Lordo, give particulars of the fall of the plaza last Tuesday while a bull fight was in progress. About 10,000 people were crowded in to the building, "When the second bull ! was being killed, nearly everybody rose and stood applauding and stamping t their feet, when all of a sudden ono t sideof the'plaza commenced to give way. 1 A rush followed and the extra move- i mens of the thousands of spectators only e helped to bring about the fall of the s structure, and it bulged out rapidly and I then collapsed, precipitating the unlucky c inmates, for distances ranging from 10 i to 25 feet, to the ground. Many were a buried beneath the debris. Among them ? were many ladies ot the best families of t the town. In their desperate situation, ? Sghts occurred among the men, and t many were stripped of every stitch of a clothing. The crowds on the opposite I side of the building, which numbered e several thrmcftnr? hppsrnp stri^l-pri ind fell ana tumbled over one another in t. their attempt to reach the outside of the n plaza. The bull-lighters were also c seized'with a panic aoa made their exit, ti with the bull closely following. The li damping of the-helples*, and the agoniz- si id cries of the men and women, made e ;he place a sce^e of paDdemonium. It t< vas not until outside people came to tl ;he aid of the people pinned down by 1< )lanks and other timbers that the un-. ? ortunate victims were relieved from -A heir painful position. Many physicians vere called, and the wx>unds of the peo)le attended to. The number of wound- tl d will reach into hundreds, and while .C . great many of them vare serious and ai >ainful, it is believed that not'one case r< rill prove fatal. - sc k it SPARTANBURG BLACK CAP^T D ti S< l Low White Woman Beaten and Her ? Faramoure SliocAt. partanburg (S. C.) Herald. "William Davis, "old crop ear Da- ai is" they call him, aspired to have a H1 vhite wiie, and Mary Hall, a white .. voman, aspired to have negro husband V ?hey were never married, but for sevral years have been living together ?! a the flat woods near Cherokee. This ~ elation became so indecent that the rhite people had determined to put a r1 top to it, and warrants had alieady ,? een issued for their arrest, but last k-eek the action ot the law was lore- ~ tailed by a band of masked men who ( aided the establishment. The par- sr; ies thought there was but one door to &L he house and that they had the pair aged, but when they rushed in Dais rushed out of a back door and t? aade his escape after getting a few icks as he ran. He was shot at, but ' f he was hit he was not seriously ? urt. He did not reroain long, nor j1 7?s lift riarti<;ular as to thft mnnnp.r of is going. When last heard of he had ^c jft for Columbia. e:i The woman was not so fortunate. ^ ?hey took her out and thrashed her oundly with switches. at It is said that she has left that re- c0 .ion and wil1 settle near this eity, on he Howard gap road. But the courts all not be called on to keep this ^V: air apart. The raiders were blacked like negroes, \ nd probably were negroes, though ~,c :>me of them are said to be white men. k-c The following is the accouut of the |e ffair as published in the Atlanta Con- ^c. itution under date of December otb: 5v ';In Spartanburg county la?t night a v1 10b of negroes in mask visited the ouse of John Hall, a negro who was ^ ving with a white woman, who he [aims was his wife, Uvk him out, tied im to a tree, and gave him thirty-nine ^c ishes Then thvy turuc him loose na tojaana-to leave tne county, lne " ^woman was not molested, but- c;' ,*as simply warned to leave the State. ~ "'lie white people cf the neighborood had investigated the case, and .ad de;errainedto bring it before the ext term of court, miscegenation be3g a felony under the laws of the be cate. Tb<* colored people, however, be 3ok ibe laws in their own hands, and M he parties have left the State." ds . H I-ivins: in Hi? Blood. A Baltimore dispatch says: An intersting case was received Thursday at D f.hns Hopkins Hospital The patient as animals in shape of snakes living in is blood. He is from Charleston, S. C., bj nd has suffered trom his peculiar disase more or less for twenfy years. Iany timea his blood has been examined ov nder the microscope, and the snake- jn baped parasites have always been found w resent. The blood for examination has ^ enerally been drawn from a finger tip. 'his is the first case of the kfnd at Johns ot [opkins Hospital, and few doctors in tie United States have personal know!- es flge of the disease. Only twenty-five - .1? _ a . * uses or mis disease are saia ro nave _r een reported in this country. . sit Judge Kelly Dead. Washington, Jan. 9.?Congressman Vm. D. Kelly, of Pennsylvania died nt b< 20 this eve iiog, of intestinal catarrh, < JJ a his 76th year. Judge Kelly wa m orn at Philadelphia April 12th, 1814 ' "W :: A. B4.BY SOLDIER BOY. 'I lie Remarkable Adventure* of Or. Charlew E. ^churloock?\ Soldier at 11 . | i cur* 01 t\ jre. . Charleston News and Courier. .Mr Charles E. Scharloock who is engaged in the drug business at the corner of East Bay and Calhouu streets, was probably the younrest soldier in the Confederate service. He entered the army as a drummer boy when only in his 11th year, and served until near the close of the war, when he was sent hunie from the fields u* Wgirua oa account of his extreme illness. -L:r. Scharlooou was born in Moultrievilte ou Ui? 20th oi'June, 1S50; and he beat the longroU for the soldiers oa Sullivan's Istaad the morning the Star of the West crossed the Charleston Bar. Youug Scharioock as a member ofthe drum corps did service in the litter corps, ana displayed bravery and fortitude rarely ever to be found in. one so young. As true Southerner, even while confined to his bed with u. desperate case of typhoid fever, he was willing, n ty, anxious, to assist in the rescue of Charleston. A lleporter of The News and Courier called ou Mr. Scharloock for an account of his services in the Confederate service, which he recultantly gave, saying he cared tor no notoriety. Mr. Scarloock said that by the request of C;*pt. Warlej', of the Darling- j ton Guards, his father consented to let '' him beat the drum for Capt. Waney's commaud, which was stationed on < Sullivan's Island, near the Huger ( house. When the Darlington Guards were ordered awav thev wished vnnnor * ^ - ??o Scharloock to accompany them, but to c this his father would not consent. He f the*.- joined Capt. DeTreville's com- 1 pany in r.he 1st S. C. V. Soon after 3 the bombardment, of Fort Sumter < young Scharloock was, with his com- 1 maud, ordered to Edisto. The com- t pany remained at Eding's Bay until i after the fall of Hilton's Head, when t the command was stationed at Fort * Moultrie. f While at Church Flats his time ex- ii jired and young Sharloock returned o ;o ais^mily, which-during his absence c jad become fatherless. Soon after ? lis return to Sullivau's Island he was t< iugaged b\ Col. Wm. Butler to in- n; truct a drum corps. Io 1862 he went ii o Virginia, where he remained lor tl >nlv a short time?his mother refusing at o a^low one of so tender an age to be w iway Irorn home. Even while at home en le had to go into service and joined hi he Union Light Infantry, uader Capt. Samuel Lord, and upon the organiza- M ion of the band was transferred to it, m ,nd in the band of the Union Light of nfantry this youth served until the te nd of the war.. wi When in his 12th year he witnessed a he terrible assault on Battery Wag- vv j er. He was detailed to the litter pe orps, where he assisted in caring for ni; he wounded. Though a mere strip- w> ng young Scharloock, after the or, lorming oi Battery Wager, was trust- ga d with the carrying of numerous let-- cic 3i-s to the friends "and relatives of <rr, lose engaged in the fight. Schar>ock was in Eort Sumter when the be. reat night assault was made on it t,0 Sier this incident the ''Brick-bat BatUion,,; as h;s command was called, ata as sent to James Island, and while frj lere became a part of the 27th South Lhc arolina regiment. While stationed tj0 b Legare's Point, the regiment was me ^viewed by the late President Jeffer>n Davis. Young Scharloock played rec 1 the band which greeted President ver 'avis, and the remark was made by as ie late President that the drum of jt . charloock was almost as large as ics ari^ layer. ab( In March, 1864, young Scharloock we ccompanied his command to Virginia, fea oder Col. Gaillard. The regiment cje amediately entered ipto active ser- Der :ce and left Petersburg for Walthall motion, where, soon after young jharlock beat the assembly, the oody fight at Walthall commenced. ^ u/ing this fight Scharlock was de- ^ iled to save the instruments; he fQr uad it necessary to remove them un- an( ir a large chestnut tree, which made c necessary for him to cross an open \ ild four times. He was under con- g^j ant fire, but escaped, as dii his in- t(;i ruments, unhurt. ^ From Walthall the regiment was . nt to Drurv's Bluff, where Schar- , ? ock acted as cook for the surgeons. *= rhi!e preparing a breakfast for Dr. ressiev and thejother surgeons a piece VCT a shell fell into his frying-pan and iri^d the pan, pancake and all. At rury's Bluff, while out foraging, s >ung Schrloock had quite a pathetic :peiience with two dying Union Idiers. He gave them water, called L^: e attention ot his officers to the men ^?r. id did all that was possible for their -mf-.-rt. . _ From constant exposure and Hard- "" ip the lad gave way and fell ill. He ^a: as Si-nt to a hospital, recovered, re- ^ roed to his duty, but fell seriously [. again. The physicians sent the *"?' >ung drummer boy to his home in *ru >uth Carolina, where he would re- mu ive the attention of lofing hands. ^ar :harloock was at home at the time tee. the surrender of Charleston. Al- wrj ough ha had but partially recovered of om an' attace of typhoid lever, he mJ ^ 4-/V Uir. hfti uutu uave rciiuiueu iaj ma wiumauu ? id not his mother prevented him. Pr0 uring the burning of Charleston t? >uiig Scharloock assisted the Charston engine companies in their bat- ex'1 5 against the raging flames. At the ose of the war Scharloock was but 14 ;ais and 20 months old. 1 ? _ - froi Three iliibes in Thirteen Days. retl A dispatch from Corry, Pa., says: ar'1 Members of the medical fraternity tha :reabouts have for several weeks past Co-li :en discnssing the remarkable case of co^ rs. L. S. Harvey, who within thirteen "citi ivs gave birth to three children. Mrs. nren arvey is about 40 years old, resides at an? Ibion Station, this county, and is the ^'s other of several children. Several eeks ago she gave birth to a three >und baby, but it did not live. Two orei ijs:if;erwards the doctor was again this mmoned ard was astonished at the rib of a second child. If wa3 dead, poi >wever, and not as fully developed as neg c first. The physician had about got pur rer his astonishment and finished look' ^ec ? up tbe records on such matters Tbi liea, ten days later, his serv-ices were tioi ;ain required. This tima there was Colt uither stillborn buoe, less fully devel- arg >ed than the second. Mrs. Harvey is ^ee >mg well, and no further additions are : pec ted. The peculiar case will be t0 ( ritten up from a physician's stand- the >iai :or me ineaic<ii journals, *< "* readj beeo tbe suoject of much discus- d?v 3d among the doctors." lan' ' the ?The Hon. Saml. J. Randall has tha ;en duly sworn in as a member of the to ouse in the olst Congress. The cere- ,Le? ony took place at his residence in wil rashingtoc. der ? j k A MUMMY UNROLLED. DETAILS OF A.N INTERESTING EXHIBITION IN LONDON. An Account Which !>lnr Instruct autl Kntertain the Lovers of the {Jurious nn?I U'.i >. A large and distinguished company of Englishmen assembled ia the botanical theatre of University College, London, oa December 18, to witness the unrolling of a mummy from Upper Egypt. This mummy, the London Tiuces says, ' lis for about half a c.-uwury occupied a place in the college.museum, but it is* not known how it c-i.me iuto the posses- j sion of the authorities. I: was atjength decided to unroll it, and Mr. ? A. Wallis Budjje, M. A., of the British mu>eu-n was requested to undertake the task. Toe chair was taken by Mr, -Ericbsen, president of the college, and among th'jse present were Sir. John Lubbock, 31. P., Sir A. Garrod, Professor Glad tone, Professor Seeley, Professor Ramsey, Professor Goodwin, Professor Carey Foster. Professor Havtp.r T,r>wia Mr B ..manes, Mr. Poyater, Mr. Almtaadtloi, Mr. Beerbobm Tree, Mr. Kider Haggard, Mr. Mau-nde Thompson* Dr. Fitch xud Dr. Quain, "The mummy was .placed on a -table >n the floor of the theatre-and- isoselv - . t covered with a cloth of fine linen-, of a ;>tded purple color, which had foanerly roast: tutcd i.ts outer wrapping. Before 1 proceeding to perform fie opcraliou of ] lorolling the mummy, Mr. Bu Jge'matie i-jiue prefatory obstipations-. ou Egyp-. ' iau mummie." generally. He described. : he principal methods of prcstrviug rhe ' mman body by ruummification as three k u number. The first process -required' !: hat the intestines should he extracted nd embalmed in four pots dedicated to 1 mrgods. The body was then soaked t a natron for seventy.days. A* tbo end & f that time it was washed, and...' then arefully bandaged in ]iundreds*c^.'ya>d3- j* f linen. By the second process.the injstines were dissolved out by means of . atron, after which the body wajj soaked r< i natron and then mummified. -- By the ? lird process, the body was merelv^salted " id pat into a pit. Sometinje bitumen a us used with other substances to fill the J ivity in the body after the intestines j. id been removed. ' 'At the conclusion of his observations, .?.< r. Budge proceeded to unroil the mum- -S1 V. which .was cloelv swathed in sr?nrpa ec yards of thick, yellowish linen of fine xtute.. The bands of linen varied- in 'L. idth from four to five inches to about, foot. Some of them were laid, length- w ise along the body; others we.re.wrap- ? d round and round it. At the beginog of the process of "unrolling there ts a verj perceptible sickly smell' of ;.'matics, which, as the work went on, vc place to a more pronounced and deiedly disagreeable odor. When a dl aat part of the linen had been remov, black stains, caused by the bitumen, tb name apparent, and nearer to the dy the wrappings had suffered con- "T lerably from contact with this- sub- vi oce. Two small pieces of linen with Th Dges were discovered in the course of Fo ) unrolling, and these bore inscrip- .' n3 more or less impaired by the bitun. 'When at last the coverings had been Qoved the body was fou-n.d to be of a Th y a&rK Drown coior?so dari^-indeed-, to be almost black. The skin where emained was hard and shiny, The -j us and hands lay lengthwise upon the i&n iomeo, while the heart aDd intestines re placed beneath the knees. The tures, when disclosed, stood cut very J arly, and were those of a handsome ? son, but the sex could not be deteraed. Glass eyes had been placed . in * i head, and there - was a linen plug in P'? : ear. Mr. Budge, at the conclusion . bis task, said that mummy seemed to ong to a period about 800 years be- ^D< e Chiist. It was filled with bitumen, UP; 1 nearly all the flesh was destroyed in J isequence. Parts of the skin remain- 1u< upon the breast, and the bones were to1 ! in fairlv _<rood condition. Tha in tines, instead of being put m pots, as P.n< y usually were in case of persons of nc* h birtb, were placed beneath the s. ' bei The person could not have been of y geeat importance, because there was cr* :her scarab&ns nor ring upon-the fin- a^? The incision on the left side was ?? 1 found, and was one of tha most in[i3ting features in the mummy. The r?a son appeared to have been called e<? <-Ran or Bek-Ranef. The only in- "llj iption decipherable was the name of -"-'J ris, folded over the part of the stomi dedicated to that god, and a prayer co^ the heart, of the deceased. There on 5 another piece of linen bearing the aP e, but the year had been Yiistered by S?j bitumen. From the quality of the :n, its fineness of texture, and the jges to the inscriptions, the mummy ai?c st belong to the best period of The- occ i mummifying, possibly the nina- ove nth dvnastv. The inscrmtions were (tten in the hieratic or current hand Egyptian hieroglyphics. The mum- an^ was about 5 feet and 3 inches in ght, and was that of an Egyptian, bably one of the class corresponding .anc the lower middle class of _ modern ies, The body will undergo' further ?;n .mination by scientific experts." . " bm 4 Colored People is Oklahoma. < L special to the St. Louis Republic ~ m Topeka, Kan., says: "D. B. Gari, cf tbe colored colony of Oklahoma,' "j-f red in the city yesterday, and states ; t there are now fully four thousand e.r/ ored persons in Oklahoma, and that , , ^nization work will be pushed in all a* es of the West. He says tbe people J1! entirely satisfied wich the country .r-' 1 their prospects. Colonel Mason, of .-r< isissippi, who has been there two * sks, is advocating the purchase of tfce ?ti ;rokee strip for settlement by the colli race. Several prominent negroes of ) city are moving in. that direction,.-1?" I wili ask President Harrison to ap-. a nt a commission of colored men to ^ : otiatewith the Cherokees for the chase of the strip for homestead set- 0 nent for their own race exclusively. ans proposition is founded on informa-: i that the Indians are willing to have irorl nonrilp apftlA nn thf> atrin T> ic X 1'' ued that, as a resolution^ has just diss n introduced in the United States Sen- ibg to appropriate a large sum of money .shoi :arry colored colonists to Africa, if 296 government can appropriate mobey to at 4 isport the negro to Africa, it has the wit ver to appropriate money to purchase bui ds for him at home and -could buy ;dea strip for that purpose. It is urged bui t a strong and united effort be made- 'Pur this ead, and the AJro^A.merican per igue, which meets shortly.in Chicago, dea 1 be requested to take the subject uidvins consideration." ' was i THE BUTLERS AND CAMERON: c Why two I'rominent Families Stic! Together iti suite of Politic'*. Washington Letter. One of the most interesting men ii national politics is General M C. Butlei of Squ'b Carolina. He comes ot One ol the ^oldest families in the Palmetto Stated and his uncle, Pierce Butler, was a Senator in Congress while the man of whom I write w;is a hnv nnr-io wis very distinguished looking, aad was a po^erio the deliberations of our highest legislative body at a time when it was filled with great mec. His nephew, who has succeeded him, occupies an equally emminent position in an assemblage that hardly compares with the gathering of intellectual giautu that sat in the Semite Chamber during the mighty evl&ts of 1850. Those who kt.cw his uncle say that the present Senator has much ot his self.poise, fertility of mind ami integrity of purpose. As I saw Senator Butler at the Hoffman House last night, an interesting political reminiscence was recalled to me. But ior an act of kindness by Pierce Butler, which after generations came back to blcH- 'ie nephew, the present SenatoJ frot. South Carolina migh*. never have held a seat in the Senate. The circumstaucs occurred when General Simon Cameron was a second time elected Uoited States Senator. The late Governor Bigk-r was.then his colleague. He mad an-effort to induce the Senate to investigate the charge that Mr. Cameron bad secured his election by bribery. He called the matter up one day, and made ' a speech detailing the allegations and asking the Senate to take cognizance of them. Pierce Butler espoused General Of mernn's cause, and made a speech in which he said that the United States Senate was not the place in which the State of,Pe?iusylvania could wash its dry iDen, arid moved tfaar. the resolution for .. nvesrisratiori be nor, agreed to. The senate followed Butler's lead, and Camiron's-.title to his seat was not contested. rVheu the vole w:js announced that setled" the controversy, Butler walked over ; o where General Cameron sat, aad aid: ' ' : -"Now Siuion, you ought to send me . bottle of- whiskey with which to operate this occasion." 3 "By the life, Butler," replied Came- [ dd, "I'll send you a barrel of the beat '< ladejn Pennsylvania." * The liqaor wa3 sent, and ever there- ? fter the families of Cameron and But- } ;r'were fast friends. It is said that 3 time at last sets all things even." -t 'early a quarter of a century after this ^ icurrence, which has formed one of the ngular pages of the history of this a juntry. the nephew of the man who f> id'Cameron tbe service knocked for ad- ^ ission at the Senate with a contest on & s hands. A single Republican vote o ould save his title. The father called $ Jim Don to repay tbe kindness of ^ erce Batler to him when Governor J1 gler was seeking to keep him out. 3n assumed the obligation and voted & ;ain?trbj2 patty, and M. C. Butler beme a' senator. Today the two families, ^ ffering so'widely in politics and interts, are conspicuously friendly, giving e lie to the lines that were written long S ars ago: c< ime bath, my Lord, a wallet on his back, ^ lereia. ne puts almsdor oblivion's.sako, * ese scraps are good deeds past, . rgot as soon as done, w k< MOONSHINERS' FUN. ti . J in ey Catch a Deputy Collector Alone, and'Proeeeil to Have Some Sport. j.l lanta-Constitution. 1 deputy" col lector, who lives in At- ^ ta, had a memoroble experience in ye ckdale.county a few nigh "s ago. co rhe deputy has said very littie about at] s. matter and the story comes first ~l m Rockdale. ^ ^uite a number of officials ana emyees about the collector's and mar- ?* il's offices were more or less familiar ?r ;hi the story'V6sterddv and smiled s0' Dwingly when the subject was brought co no rhey all object, however, to being ?ted iu the matter and the story was d with the solemn assurance that the <*r ne of the'author would never, never,' es 3er any circumstances, be 'made pub ^ , . r ou 'It happened on the night of Decern- ex ; the 2Sth; in Rockdale. It was a onlight night, about 10 o'clock. The ai? lector was driving, and was . rife' All of a sudden, lust as he was an: a bridge.- -five or six. men stepped out m( >ad of him from opposiee 'sides of.the ,d, -with guns'right at bim. He lookback, but there wasanother gang be- e , d him, and'every one of them armed. of them had;been drinking. or; 'G-it out!" said the leader, and the lector got out. They made bim stay mc the bridge, but drove bis horse on e|.' iece and hitched it. Then they all P 1 >arou'nd' hire. 'Double shuffle!'said the leader. ?? 'The collector shuffled for his life. . ^ 1 the moonshiners yelled with delight, ' :asionally firing off a gun or pistol ' :r his shoylder or between his legs to e ' ip.up B13 courage. v "Pidgin wit'g!'was the next order, ' ^ i'he gave it to them. ' 'Verjinny reel !' was next. aQ' Ohe poor fellow's breath was gone, jjJ 1 he was; to exhausted that be could ^ dly Stand. The sweat was rolling off * 3. He begged pitifully. They kept ^ i at it -for hour and then. let. j-Q ? stop.' ' "* ' ' 'Hold up jcr hand!' said the leader. Q1Ei ' Now sw'ar'you'U never set foot in jkdale/Couoty ag'in!' The collector d'upjiis right hand and'swore by all t h'oly and sacred that .he would nev- ^ )ut bis footjn the' County again. . 'Then 'tbev took the stopper put of a tl~0, f-gallon jug of pure corn liquor and y0 ned over to bim. ,They made him f t?k'qntll'he vrss too drunk to get auy "tur nker.t Then they lifted .biro back tj0l iTa'.bdggj, covered him up, and start- Qfc( hir^rse ou'towards town. . t.Qe 'Hi? Bors'e stopped.at the stable, and au, tit 4 o'clock next morning & darkey tj1(. nd him in the buggy and i:ave the pQ] m. Ee was still sorter queer when C0E p'p:U: him on tha train?at ieadt t's What they teil me. All I ku-.iw j>a] utJt'is-t&aj..you'd better, not mention du( ihiug about'it to him." . r.lt -?"T 7 '? T ch.-i An AppaUins: Disaster.'* vie iEav York, Jan. 9.?An appalling lan ister occurred tn "Brooklyn this mom- dre The'*heavv - winds' of last nirrht cbe nk -tlie new Presbyterian church at daj Throop areous to its foundation, and : 30 ihia making one of the walls fell h a crash ^n p three-6tory frame idingftdjoioisg, and brought with it ;h and of^ructiop. The ruined ass idiijg was teuRD'.ed by the 'Hptt and L01 dy J?:?il.je/ ' Tbey numbered nine rati sons." Five of theru are reported 22a d. 'P$<Hv( re"c-irrle'd out of the ru- wh so seriously injured that their death sfcr< > only a question of a few hours. jus' 31. A SUCCESSFUL FARMER. i | Mr. I*'. Barber Tcclls Why ?ome People Don't Make Money at Furniinc. j Yorkville S. C., Koquirer. ; Mr. F. H. Barber is well known as : one of York county's most successful farraert' He lives at Ri'chburg, but A?rrsen aKnnf fnn tlmncon^ onroc in v n uci. au^uu xvsu tuvuoauu UVIVQ XI_I Eastern York, where he does most of : his farming. A reporter of The Enquirer met feim the other ^av dat Lessiie'.*, a station which he is building up on the Three C's. The old gentleman had just finished settling his accounts with his croppers and having made a, large cr op was in a real good humor for telling how it was done. He said to the reporter: ''You can put in the paper that I averaged more cotton to the mule than any other man in York county.1' ''How many bales, Mr. Barber?" ''Ten bales to the mule with twentysix mules?260 baits. 2sTow let me see you beat that if you can." "Wasyour crop as good this year as usual, Mr. Barber." "JSTo, no. I can't say that it was, but here is another point for you. I have just paid one negro who runs a twom Vl 1 -To r*r*-? r\Y\ mrr / y-\ 1. i ^ Tift O" ^ xuuiv iaiuu v/ii liXJ- V0<U*J U\J? JLiC makes that much clear after paying everything he owes me?iiving and everything?and nearly every one of a dozen others have cleared over $150 : apiece. "Now people say there is nothing in farming, but, I say there if- There ' is more ih it than anvthiug else? ' there's.evervthing in it. That's my ] experience and I know what I'm talking about when I say it, my young 1 friend. I merchandised seventeen 1 years, and made money. I have- a ? one-third interest in the Fishing Creek * factory, and it.'s making as much s money as any of uhern, let me tell you, 1 butT get larger returns out of the * farm than anything eJ=e? You can c make the farm pay 50 and * 100 per t cent, but you can't squeeze any such t profits out of the store or factory," c "But how is it that so many people P fail to make a living on the farm, Mr. h Barber?" C "They don't work, that's why. The maioritv of farmers want three Sun- a lays a week, and nobody can get along >y working ouiv half of the time. f< iupposa you would take three Sundays 1< t week ia your business, how would c; rou come out? You'd bust, wouldn't ai rou? That's what you would do, and y hat's what anybody else who tries it OJ pill do. Now the larmer don't have w o work any harder or longer than fr mybody else. He don't have to work rom daylight till dark. Not a bit of N S. I have a piece of land over next to y< he factory ana have had a standing ffer for the past three or four years of w 250 a year to any young mam who th rould work it by the factory bell. I ist want him to put in ten hours a m ay, and at the end of the year I'll ive him ?250. That's fair ain't it? m; 'hat's as much as the factory hands ki ork; but if he'll work by the bell he'll e worth every cent of $250. an "Then, there is another thing. A CI ood.many people try to farm, and they tie ont know anything about it. Take the ag >mmon notion about guano. Most eople put 150 pound on an acre. They in* ill lay oft .their rows about three feet part, and if the wind is blowing they ill take one of these horns, so as to eep the guano from getting out of TL ie furrow, and string it alojg the row c a fine white line. They are so care:1 about wasting it that if the string ] ippens to get broken for a foot or two co ey won't even go back to patch it !" ). Then theyput in their cotton, 1D2 kich c">mes up and starts to growing "g try nicely, but if a little dry weather the mes along the cotton turns sickly Sta id the}' say the guano burns it up. spr it it ain't, the guaao. It it, the poor the ad that' burns it up. Now think line out it. They put in that little streak gro guano, 'i'iie plant comes up and abo ows rapidly while it lasts, but so Th< on as the fertilizer is exhausted, of all urse it dies down, because there is asfi thing ]efc for it to feed on, so you Des 3 it is the poc r land that does it. Ion; 3w, to prove what I say. If a bun- ces. ed and fifty pounds of guano scorch- icfl tho cotton so it wont grow, two ove ousand pounds ought to set itjafire, Cha ghtn't it? But itwon't. It's my ex> I perience, that tie more fertilizers chil u use the more cotton you make, attj d, in order to demonstrate the mat- wit * to the satisfaction of everybody, I ver": 1 going to make a special experi- it < ;nt next spring, and put two thous- larg H An/i A r>/l a not going to burn anything up 8i"ck her. See if I do." thai 'Doyou rent your lands, pay wages tiot work on shares?" wit] 'On shares altogether.. It is the diec >st satisfactory way for all. I furnish S0D! erything?the mules, tools and sup- mer es. The cropper furnishes nothing <jiS? t the labor. If I make he makes, cou d if I lose he loses, so you see it is aD(j ; interest to work, and the harder ^ai abetter. I give them the half of ny < erything {hey make, and thai en- [1CC( irage3 them to make all they can. ja < me people don't give but two-fifchs, was t let me tell you I get as much out jC3 the half as any of them. c?i'( Jd'r. Barber is president and secretary "fj d treasurer of the Fishing Creek ,ege .nufacturing Company, haa a large jn a re at Lesslie's and lives at Rich- stre rg. He has recently connected these scm ee joints by a private telephone i ? 8 and placed himself within easy casf >akiug distance of ail ol.them at t^rc 3e- ing ing The Grady 3Iouujneat Fund. ?ase e(J fhe Grady raonuoK'Ut fund has now tj* chcci nearly .$15,000. The eUDscripas thus far are almost all from Atlanta. ung men of other parts of Georgia are ? ? * W0J*| erest-ug themselves, and while no re- r t nshave yet ueen received, tbeindica- { r us are that subscriptions from other , jrgia towns and cities will increase * : fund to at least double ibe present ^ ount. T;ie largest subscription from North came from the directors of the urth National Batik of New York, ac- ^ Lf opynitd by tbe following telegram: he directors of the Fourth National ,a\? ak of the citv of N?-w York are in:ed, by the personal esteem and admi- D"1 Ion which they entertain .'or th^bigh F00.1! iracter ami distinguished public ser- *?. esof'the late Henry \V. Grady of At- , ,E La, to subscribe the sum of five him- Wl d dollars to the monument fund, a ck fin which I send by mail this C< Yours respectfully, ing 'J. Edward Simmons. President."' cau< Sgd: F -On Tnesday morning at 7 o'clock, Tho i street car on Fourth street, St. 2; 5: uis, was bowling along at a rapid Oat; e of speed, the two horses rau S< linsta broken electric light- wire 13; ich hung like a IcGp across the Out! jet. The shock killed both horses B tantly, and stunned the driver- inat I HOME AGAIN. , A Family of Piucky Cliihlren on thcif Way From Arkansas lo North Carolina. Atlanta Journal. When the Georgia Pacific train arrived from Birmingham this morning two little girls stepped from the second class coach and looked about them in a bewildered way. "Move along," said the watchman kindly. "We don't know where to go, sir," said the eldest in h tremblitlk voice. I "Me and my sister are trying to get to our home in North Carolina, and somebody in Birmingham paid our way on the train we have just left." Frightened sobs came Irom the youngest girl. The eldest threwjier' arms protectingly about her sister,'^aticf said: ?f "Don't cry, Fannie, everything will, be all right." i An officer was called and the litthii girls were taken to the police station..] They were seen by a Journal reporter; and ask :-rd to teO their story. The elder answered : he questionsHer name was Patsy Cook and her sister's name was Fannie Cook. She was fifteeu years of age and her sister eleven. ''Two months ugo," she said, "our father and mother left with us?six of us: there are six children, you know, | and I am the oldest?for ~ Arkansas. , >3y father was a farmer and thought ( that he would do better nut. West m we left cur home, which is in Wayne County, North Corolina, about, teri j miles from Goldburg. He went to f VVoo(iruu County, Arkansas, and had c >een tht-re only a lew days when e 50th my father and mother were taken ;ick with pneumonia and died within i few days of each other. I have two ti sisters and three little brothers. We a nought a. ticket to North Carolina for w ny younges:. sister, who is four years >ld. and then had enough money left o buy tickets for Fannie and myself s o Birmingham. At Birmingham the hief of police <rot us tickets to this lace, and we will have to beg some- N ody here to pay our way to North C< !arolina; or to the next town." "And where are the boys?" was . sked. " : . . ? "Oh, they started out for home on ^ )0t and I reckon the poor little {el- on >ws are coming home as fast as they ?r' an. They are strong and healthy, ioi ad if little Edriie, who is only seven ears old, doesn't gel too tired I reck- ,, a they will soon be with us again. It i on't take them very long to walk om Arkansas, will it?" 7" "No: not very long. Who is there in nrth Powlinfl ~:ii '-i- - rn< v.*** N/uAViiua i'Uau Will LilKC CUT? 01 >U?" "Oh,- we have uncles and aunts foc ho'will lie glad to have us live with em.'' ''Why didn't, they send you enough oney to pay your way back home?'' caT "They didn't; know that papa and amma were dea-i, and we didn't low how to teli them." one The .case was referred to the mayor daj d the city warden, and a pass to an* larlotte will be furnished the lit- of t > girls, and they will soon be at home the ain. on < And the three little boys are trudg5 manfully towards the same goal. pro INFLUENZA. YEARS AGO. an " Yoi e Disease TUat Appeared ia South aroliua Many Years Azo?Sohjo In- gtr0 trostinsr Facts. das Lvauisaj s mstory or south Carolina itains the following, which is interest ; in the present prevalence of the rippe:" Many persons remember that gun influenza, after traversing the United the tes in 1789, reached Carolina and the ead extensively. It wss very fatal on lost. plantations near the northeastern ; of the State, especially to prime full _ ? wn negroes. William Alston lost lian >nt tbirty-five of that description, fron j whole mucous membrane, through aou: its recesses on the insinuses of the of Jj ontis, was most grievously affected, a sic ifness, loss of taste and smell, for a J&ni g period were among it3 consequenMore have reason to remember the ? uenza of 1S07. Gradually advancing m.eB r the Northern States, it reached Dvn^ ileston in September. s ? t spared neither age nor sex. though ^1?^ idren often escaped altogether; or if icked, got through with the disease /_ ? h the least inconvenience. The rese was the case with aged persons. _ ;oon became so general that in some pr0I r(i f Q mi 1 ioo ,? .?uiiitw luvit VYCIC JJUt B SUUUUXeD foUD >1 persons in health to attend on tb* hjg-j In a few weeks it is supposed "j?e:c 114,000 persons, or half of the popula- num i of Charleston, had been afflicted bthe disease. Of these, forty-five ]arg( !; thirteen of.whom were white per3 and tbirty-two negroes. The for- ? were generally aged persons. The chur :ase spread on all sides into the unioi ntry. The mortality in Georgetown week Beaufort was considerably greater anot] a in Charleston. The disease in uqa- quarj ;ases was so mild as to preclude the ter d ussity of application to a physician., the s langerous cases, where medical aid ated". required, bleeding, blistering," emet- , cathartics and sudorifics were ?; :fly relied upon. 1 he influenza in its commencement en/8 mbles the yellow, fever with a pain ??lzn nd over the eyes, and with red aks over their whites. A sharp acid tl2e 1 n was discharged from the eyes, and ^ouJ etimes from the nostrils. In such ~ia? s a hoarseness and-soreness of the *usia iat was usual. The sense of smell- no' 1 was sometimes impaired, the hear- : was freauentlv iniured. and in a few A - / ~ . I 1)<XU v :s the powers of vision were diminish- new A tightness and a stricture across fog at breast, with a dry cough, was com now i. The whole mucous membrane iin- chan the fauces, nostrils and bronchia contj e uncommonly stuffed with pblegm. ^ent he aged the disease assumed th; bepr a of a pneumonia; in the young and be m boric, that of a pleurisy.Persons who ^atic 2 of a consumptic diathesis, or who been subject to old coughs or dis- ? ) s of the breast, suffered most and the o nest relapsed. Spitting of blood Oper other precursors of consumption at- subsc :ed such patients after the diseuse subsc in their cases apparently vanished that generally disappeared. An uncom- its hs . increase cf consumptiou followed tuxes as year 1S0S, which exceeded any- the s 2 ever before known in Charles Q#? Fish ? $90,7 Rrle* lor Spnnlnr. olcmbus, 0., Jan. 0.?The follow- It: is the official vote of the Democratic cashi :us tonight for the United States tives iter: " but s irst ballet; Brice, 29; AIcMahon, 14; has t mas, 21; Seney, 2; Baker, 6; Hunt, withi IcQueeney, 2; Ooddes, 2; Xea], 2; Cana hwaite, 1. detec 2C0Dd ballot: Brice 53; McMahon, to ca Thomas, 3; Baker, 1; SeDev, 2; isais hwaite, 1. parti rice was declared unanimously nom- be e; ed. ment - GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. | ' * ^ i Facts of Intercut, Gntkercd From Various Sources. ?"La Grippe" 19 still raging in vari Ous parts of the country. ?All the Jamaica railways have iu'en taken by ao Amcncao syndicate. ?Now South Wales and Queensland have erected SS7 miles o' rai>bit proul fences. .. ? Ic requires t>v enty-tw-j volumes to t n.jijs'i"' \ixjjriciji. bailie " CiaoUB UI f Ariz ma. \ _ . ; ?The B-?l<i<^ia Jocomotive works ej?[ pect Ibis y*?r t?? mm Jut not less tban 1,000 locomotives. ^ "-pice has been found ou Mouot McCTTf'lieri,'XTa!rfor ri i a^ which' is c.itnputed r to^e 80,000 years old. ?The commission of French eogineers to investigate the Panama Canal have arrived on the ground. ?The Baltimore committee of one taccdred have fixed upon $1,000 as the fu!{ Tiita.l license fe*> lortbat city. ?^rs. Hannah B. So^itbworth, the murderess of millionaire Stephen Pettus, d?ed S.l.? rtVlnntf Tnacrlur rv,~ ~ - ?.. W. *v.. 4 UVCUU f UI-MUIU^ ?U \ UC Tombs prison ?The engagement of George Yander-^ bilfc :o Miss Mary Johnston, daughter of Del. Wm. Johhnston, of Annandale, jeorgetowo county;-is S. C. announced ?A special cable to the New York lerald from Nice says: Miss Mary.Aniernon wlr; is now staying here, emphat:al!y denies the report that she is engag d to be married.. - * ?The wedding of Wilson S. Bissell, he ex-law pratner of Grovcr" Cleveland, nd Miss Louise Sttirgep. of Geneva, rill be celebrated on February 8th. 4 ' ?a. ttiiegra-n message costing $2.37 word was recently sent from Portlar.d * Hong Kong; and ao answer received .^twelve hour!". It was first sent to ew York, thence to London, across the j.itiaent to Yokohama. ?Thus far twenty of the 211 presbyries of the Presbyterian Church have ico reported as voting on the overture i revision, of the Westminster Standees. For revision, 12, against revig3'8 - / '"M ?The State Convention of the Young / jn's Christian Association of North xo^ina will meet in Goldsborp March , 14. 15, and 16, next. State Secre*y Coulter writes that.300 delegates ly be expected. ?Thos. A. Jones, employed in 'the >1 room at the gun foundry of the ivy Yard, at Washington, has been missed because it was learned that assisted John Wilkes Booth to es9ft/ir ftin <+ ~r ' . _ vuv <uoo;aiuaiiua oi iilQCOiD. -Thomas Kelson Page nl' i'm nun of the brightest literary men of the I has accepted an invitation to deliver address in Atlanta when .the Society he Virginians of that city celebrate. ^ birthday of General T?nhprfr. 1R, Xpg <i lanuary 19th. -Walter Wright, a member of the visional government of Brazil, but Englishman by birth, is in New k. He says there is no question b the republican feeling in Brazil is >Dg and solid, and runs through all ses of society. While N. S. Pope and C. J. Poat Columbia, were out gunning on sday, a stray shot from ' Mr. Poat's pierced Mr Pope's left eye near centre. It is feared the sight of injured eye will be permanently Peter Jackson the colored Austrapugilist has sent a cable dispatch i London to the United Stafp* an. acing his acceptace of the challenge Dhn L. Sullivan to fight for $1,000 le. He will sail for New York on jary 15, in the steamer "Adriatic." B. O. Jenkins, owner of a governt distillery near Earl's Station, t miles from Shelby, K C.,' was through the body and mortally .nded by J. H. McNeilly. store >er and gauger at the distillery, cause of the quarrel is not now ivn. General T. C. Jordan, who was a ninent Confederate officer, was d dead on Monday in a house on . anch, 50 miles west of Gainesville, where he had lived alone for a iber of years. It is supposed be of heart - ?AAV iUlVCO 2ft i fortune. Sunday right in the Methodist ch at Flemingsburg, Ky., during a r, meeting, in observance of the ; of prayer. oDe minister interrupted ~~" aer during his prayer. A sharp rel ensued, and-the Methodist minis. rove the congregation out, saying cene was too disgraceful to be toler[t is not likely that any war vestvill be sent to Colombia at pres,s the result of the recent alleged re of American vessels at ports in country, as the inforiration .in possession of the Secretary of State d seem to indicate that the Colom- authorities were justified in re g clearance to vessels at points egular ports of entry. The American Bank Note Comr has commenced work on the yyjouagiz aiiiuips. j. ue stamp win >out olie-eighth smaller than those in use; and the designs will be ged. The- one cent stamp- will nue to be printed' in blue; the two stamp now printed in green, will inted in carmine, and-changes wiU ade in some, of the other denomi?ns. ... yard McAllister's New Year's ball ther night at the Metropolitan a House cost $14,400 made up of iriptions of $100 each from 144 jribers, and Mr.- McAllister says notwithstanding the rumors abont yv/v/\ *' *' i.viiig.wau tne expeiwi i wei e all kept within the. limit of., ubscription money. The Centenball, which was given' by Mr. . at the same house last spring, cost' 06. ; is said that Silcott, the defaaltlng erofthe House of Repiesenta-~ , has never been in Cftuada-at all,. 3ince his flight from;. : "Washington ieen secreted in iNe^.York State in a few fainute^iv'alk' o? the da iine. It is- re^wted that the stives are on his' track and;expect pture him within a short time. It o said there are several other. es concerned with him who will xposed and brought to punish* -