Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ill E LLDGEK. | Tlmrlow S. Curler, ' ? EDITOU AND MANAUHR. . C~ " WRMM HSDiY, KKll. 1, 1800. M) " * Ol It is n notable fact that we are now completing the third month (j without a homicide among citi~ r.ens in this county, the time in- lr eluding the dangerous holiday i\ lesioni. 80 far at we racollect, | thia it an unprecedented record for Greenville. Not so long ago ? we avaraged three murders a month. The jurors who Hat at w tha last term of tha court here may t| congratulate themHolvoa that this t] unwonted freedom from blood- v thed it tha result of their work. |j ?Greenville New*. i , MM -M- A The Johnaton correspondent of j tha Augusta Herald save : l4It (] will be of interest to the friends ' of President and Mrs. Hartzog to 1 o know that their twin hofs will j s< bear the names of Clemson and J Calhoun. l>r request of the p faculty they are given these j |< nam**. inn may their luture be h for thrin even greater than those d whubf nam** they brar. TVe j heartily congratulate the proud T parents." ( ?f *? Dec. 1st tlif total deht of ?] th* I'nitsd S4atss 11 OOo.ooo. This is a large debt % when measured by ordinary standards, but of relatively small ao ^ contit when considered in eomner-. i tion w'th the fact that thirty-two t years ago the debt of the country ] ae nearly three times an large and the interest four times greater t than it is at preterit. The United Statu* i* not the only country which has a large dabt, but it i? tlia only country which i* steadily decreasing its debt while at the aama time enormously increasing ^ it* resources. * 11 Kj liatricting IVJI in tho Senate. ^ h The State. A poll of the ?..?nate wss made p yesterday bv tke State's reporter p on the Pfttton redisricting bill. Among the senators who were s outspoken either f r or against c tho bill, tho opponents had a few more votes. Enough senators, p however, expressed "themselves an (j (loiil)tful, or refused to doolare (. their "positions, to leave the (pies-, p tion in doubt. Only an aye and ray vcic on the passage of the p bill will show which side bus a \ majority. In either event, the j bill will either be passed or re- g( jetted by a narrow margin, so nearly evenly dividetl does the ,j senate seem to be. tl TtJ m it \ \ .%<*K - ?Kl I' ! Tluit modurn scourge, the Grip, I"1 poisons the sir wit It its falsi n genii*. so t tint no home is safe j from Its ravages, but. multitudes have found a sure protection; aguin-t this dangerous malady in I)/. Kind's.Maw l)i?e iverv. When y >o feel a soreness in your hones | and tnu*rl?*, h ive chills and fever, fi, w 1111 "i'H't! throat,pain in the h.v-it of ^ the he* 1, catarrhal symptoms and a stubborn cough y >u may Know v you have the <?rip. and that you *' ne*''I !> . King's Nc.v Discovery, d: It will promptly cure the worst f, cough, hvitl the inflamed membrslies, Kill the disease ?rr>rm? [ 111 and prevent tliu dreads i after *ffecta of the maladv. 1'riro 50 eta ^ and $l.uo. Mousy hack if not H cured A trial bottle free at ' Crawford Hro'a Dru^ Stora. . t I><ir/, (rn 'h Arnica Sifvi Tub MKjT Hai.vk in the \v >r| j for ( Cuts, Hruigt'M, .Soi'i'K, UleeiH, i , Ittm*uhi, Fever rtorte, Toiler. Chap ' |m> I 11 in I, ? '11iI!> aiiiH, ("oriiH, nn?l el ^ 8 in ? rupli-iiia, n i positively cum y Piles, . r no pay reqnlreil Ft is guar* ' anteed to ??ive prnfti't MMtlHffletloii or money refunded. Prloe 25 oer.ts per box. For rCile l>v Crawford Sub*tribcto Tnr Lkdc.?:r. ' i-kgislatuke. ! Le kkidav. |ieeinl to Greenville News. Columbia, dau. 27.?'The com litteo today reported favorably ,1 n Mr. Jackson's bill to prevent j se!: 10 n?e of the palmetto tree on ispensary label* and bottles. A favorable report was also '(? indo on the bill to have the elec I on of dispensers by the people. ! hlv The house devoted the entire no ay to discussion of the fertilizer ?l rivilege tax bills. nM The main fight all the morning as on the committee bill to pay 1 1 lie privilege tax into the State reaaury, said to be necessary in lew of the recent North Caro- on nn decisions. ^ Some want to repeal the tax in Itogether. | The senate spent the day oa w* rruber's county court bill. | riiA tofiW a MicMife ul 1 'clock to make up time tonight o as to hear Soma's baud. The question of reducing the ini rivilege tax was discussed at CH mgth at tonight's session of the j NV' onus. ^4(>*t of tha session was lx ovoted to this question. m Messrs. Hlythe and MeCullough joi ranted ttie tax to go dire -t to demson college. *l The house refunusl to ki!! the n* rivilege tax hill. Only sixteen l'f nemhers voted to abolish the tax w' .(together ie Then the house considered the Mr imposition to reduce the t*x to * 0 cents a ton. By a vote of 4 t o 4 1 the b (Kims refused to kill the 01 0 cent amendment. Wl Mr. Blvthe moved to make the x 15 cents. l" kr. Stevensoa then Bioved to j 01 djourn, which motion prevailed. ! j OS SATI KDAV. . ^ Columbia, 8. C., .Jan. 28.? Ih rhere was a very small attoodaaee an n the house today. j fr A debate on the privilege tax c!< ill was postponed until Tuesday. | it On *4r. Wythe's motion the i m ouse decided to teke up only fe uch hills as provoked no ohjec- p? ion and in that way a number of ills were pasted. ,,j The Thomas hill to require q eats to he provided for female I j,r lerks waa passed. |* Coagrove, of Charleston, in w| rodneed a t?i11 providing that the It ispenuary law shall ant apply in to ities of over ten thousaad peo- <]r lo. I ?r 'I he judiciary committee re- tri orted without recommendation, *1 Isuldin'a dispensary hill andjth ohnson's and Henderson's liquor pc themes. til The senate spent most of the it ay on Sheppards hill abolishing to ic protest fuo on protectable pa in ers. It was finally killed. m (ioveronnr Ellerbe i? quite m< ick. II*; had hemorrhage* laat'oe ight and in a victim of tliw ip. I,| Quits a number of bill.-, forj I i lilioad charters havr hewn of tti ired. I tn The district attorney has noti- j m; ad counsel for I'nitcd States aoi enator Quay, his son Uichard ti? , Quay, and ex State Treasurer ,,n< aynood, that lie had fixed Monty, February 20th, as the duv .^ >r the trial of the .three defend* \ an it*, on the charge of conspiracy wl i the mim^e of the money of thcjth tate on deposit in the People's, , i to unk. . k? "ttewafiss f i rippled me for years. I could not ! at< waik. I tried many physicians with- j tj(] >ut benefit. On the advice of a j friend I tried your medicine. I . was completely cured by three Dottles of _ # an Stmts arsaparisa." G. F. BOWEN, Horton Submit, Pa. ( ' I Ml I I I ill H HI HI IIMMWW HIHI W IIIIWH l II I Illlill VM. [For the Ledger. tter From Hon. J. N. Estridge Hogg \Y Mr. Editor : ? lMease allow me a ire in your paper fore few legfitivo dots. Wo have been in sion nearly three weeks, and Monroe ? leHst work done in the name Laat igth of time ainco 1 have been , bought t ming to the Legislature, owing C Curlei too tnsnv lawyers making big branch * eeches; though our lawyers are he sold t t in that class. They have tier- deal of i mid a word only whea it was owa use oessary. It is a good thing to ed by a ve some good quiet lawyers in who earr e legislature, but not too masy pose, thi ng winded oars. ton by a Wo had some warm discussions were bu i the bill to repeil the Lien law. then ha roted to let it stand, after hoar- that wsh g the strong appeal from the 1,1 '' rmers from the different parts ?f hydi the State. The rote stood ?>4 I longed t 45 against repeal. 1 always I maiden i Mil to carry out the wishes of | tb e people of my couaty if I know others, i em; and the question not hav ?* the P( g been sprung in tha county ! turbed h mpaigti, I supposed. the farmers * pl?*sei ire satisfied with the law, and I ()ne baa pysaed myself in favor of it in probahn V former communication. 1 got' '<>hr a letter from a particular friend g!'te the king me to vote for its repeal, aftar the id many letter* from farmers noighbo; king me not to vote for it? re?? about w ?al. 1 have naked many farmars, ?f fbem liy do you give a lien, and the that the ply ie, "It's the hast lean do," buried, id I don't want to take the heat would n man oirti <1 ? away from him. And ?f the n e courts hold that a prospective killed ;u op can he mortgaged, and that manded, mild be more expansive to the bncK. rmers th:m a lien. My advice tbat it is the farmers i? to make their parties, vn provisions at home and repeal f* r e lien law themselves. If they ,n live without the 'ien law on 1) It LT NI e statutes, tha satne ones can ra with it on the Htatutee. It ould be as bail to take the'cVedit Cerainoi om a man who only haa his mua- Minisl< as it would he to take the cred plica of one who has property. If a n ia wiiIin<r to irivH hia nimria n n r security, 1 think he haa a special i irfect right to do so. Groan The privilege tax question came J. ,J*rk< i Friday. The lawyers vaid Two II was unconstitutional to give the York re ivilege tag tax to Clemeon Col graceful ga, but tha Judiciary committee the intfn tiich is composed ,of fourteen night lie wyers, reported a substitute hill woman I let the aixty thousaad dollars haa heon awn out of tho hands of the farm- been de s of the State be put in the State wj|| |,e , pasurv to be drawn out as genet*- .,r( funds. Some of the lawyers on |iaT? tlot e floor of the House made a des- Jackai uata a (Tort to keep the tax on lei - Whitmii irers at 25 cents par ton. and put gtatcd tli in the treasury as a general fund, relating be used for any purpose, and it situation paid bv the farmers. Thev . i._ i ^ - ?j nun iiRd ade tlio liixht on tlie amend-. |1R(j n|,, fill to reduce the tag tax to ten Hobar v ntapurton. That will raise doiu nice tool e enough to inspect the fcrt ilizei s hahly i iridtirsraud there will lie another I)rink lendment olfer <1 to mukc- the into thin * 16 cents per ton. It ttundsin ac ImtisB it'iTi at It) cents. I mane |jjs p(,?i V hist speech in thu House tilit the new 4>ion on that fertilizer tax ocas supplied >n. Friday night and Saturday Matti< ?rning many of the lawyers man ^() ma to ma and said tliey were " . . listind that I knew the wishes of ma 1 "" 1 r> fanners batter than they did, Pr d that they were willing wo do II'? la no laterar the farmers desired in this its e matter. |KWN ()f ; It look* to mo like it ia going be a long session. The wliia* ' j matter baa never com# up yet d the appropriation ?>ill hat ner. Ther? p been reported. I am told that aiur* thai e rediatricting bill that passed e Itouae will not pane tha Sen* liaKtunis. ?. Tha Hill to maka two mora 7^! nm.U. Circuit a in the Mate lies l: < ?f , ., I browns' 1 r t come up, unit many other# lit will provoke long riiecuesione (| (I take much time. C\c*n b Mr Williams haa heen in liwrl, *?uty wit k with grippe, for several days. tirrhig'ur Keepeetfullv, >uriti? fr J. N. ESTKIIK1E. .'idihal. ,l?n.hi?, S C, Jan. 30, '!.!>. J-J-gj; ! ?mH MIIHWIIBMHHW >U> BAD UEAT. hioh hud Hewn Hitt?*a by d lb?g Butchered anil Mai kcted. Journal. Friday, Mr A C Jobnaon hree dreaded pige froni N ?, who live* in tha Olive icinity. Some of tha pork o hie customer* and a good t ha carried homa for hia Monday he waa informman from that aaction, le to town for that, purit the hoga had haen bitmad hog before they tchered, tha hog that bit ing baan bittea by a dog certainly mad, and the turn showiag aymptoma rophohia. The hoga beo M iaa Omie Curlaa, a aunt of tka man who mar am. Mr Johasoa and tha many of whom had oaten irk, were not a little ilis>y this newa. It not being nt sensation to realize that been eating food with r hydrophobia viru* in it. ison sent down to invsstiinatter, rind found that * hog* liad heen hitten.the rs TT<*r*? called in to advise hat should he done. All said, vto am informed, Sioir-a should he killed and though one said that he ot he afraid to eat some iftat. Instead, they ware id aold. M r .Johnson daund received, hie money Mr .Johnson may decide ? Ids duty to prosecute tho *s it ib a very grave aftKN SOLDIKR WEDS NEGRESS. / iy Performed hy a Negro 5r. Unique Legal Comtions Arise. Strong Drink. to The State. iville, .Jan. 28. ? William ion, a private in Co. VI, undrsd and First New gimont, is in a most din scrape. While under encs of liquor Thursday was married to a negro l?V a negro preacher. He put in .Jail,and it has not terinined what measures iscd in dealing with him. teacher and tho woman . lieen arrested. ?n appeared at Magistrate e's office yesterday and ist he wanted a divorce, the circumstances of the i. He said that his nmv asked for a dollar and he ippod her. IU was not estcrday. Jackson is a ting young fsllow, pro*. man of intelligence. Hems to h ive gotten him nhominahln mesK. I ipenrn quite dejected over lion ami wns crushed I?y that divorces are not ! Jiere. ) i'; Iv is thn n#>gro tvo- I whom Jackson wa* hut th? name of the ! ' h;ta not hecn obtained. i tura differ at to whether le^al marriage under th? South Carolina in regard ^ nation. >a li'eertala ntvitM. liotlii.asi) more uncertain in its iiilys]? j ,ia '*(. ?>. nun ?ay that ?3 of no * ' ;Krrce. It is k. t tiirticult (<> nuke a correct N?> matter how severe jr under ;setly ^pepsin allftf k < y mi. Browns' a will euro it. Iiivalnuble in all the stomach, l>?c><mI and nerves. 011 liiitcrs is sold ? > all dealers. niiI> In Illooil Ur^p, lood meant a clean akin. No bout it. Caacareta, Candy Cathar* ffl'ir blood and keep it clean, by i the lar.y liver and driving all iiu on. the body, llegin to day to lplee, bills, bletchea, blackheads, irnnuljrWr trTi Cent*. ArTTirTTgfaction gurantecd, 10c, 35c, 50c. ?M?II ei m 1IMM -raw irauurrru-xinaiTJBMMini SAILED FROM MOBILE Faets About the Firat Embarkation of Palmetto Soldier*. 1' Special to The State. Lancaster,- dan. 25.?Capt. Amos McManus, en* of the only five surviving vetorans of th* Mex- ^ ican war, in this county, haa called 11 my attention to th* correspon- ' dene* of "B" in th* issue of Th* ' State of the 11th instant, in which , it is claimed that when the Moxi- ^ loan soldiers *mharked for Mexico c it was the second time South ;0 Carolina soldiers were ever J ^ "afloat." Capt. McManus tells * me the Palmetto regiment were 1 the first South Caroliaa troops to embark on water during a war. 1 The captain waH a member of i" j company (t of that historic regi- j j ment. He says the regiment em. . . i* harked at Mobile, Ala.. near Fort ! | Morgan, on steamers which car- 1 I riad the soldiera outsida of the i ! har to the two transport! Alham! bra and Oregon, which were wait- ! ' ins; to receive them.One battalion, 1 : commaadod 1?v Pierco M. Butler, {wan tranferred to the Alhamhra 1 an<l the other, enmmsmded by i Col. Dickerson. boardad the ^ Oresron. The transport* were c eight oa\ a in making the trip 1 , from Moble to the Ishtnd of Bo- 1 ! hoe, off t he coast o f Mexi co. It c i took two d:iva to make lb'* trip r from Hobos t<? Yarn Cruz; <4IV; ays the IiJar.d of Hohne it not 1 , far from Tumpico, ofT tha coaat | of Mexico. Capt. McNlanus ' | thinks di tTcrentl v. Ha snve Lo \f J j bos is much nearer \ era Cruz i than Tnmpico. After peace was I ; declared tha regiment embarked * I at Vera Cruz aad landed at Moj bile where it waa mustered out of service about July 1st, 184H. t Capt. McManus served gallantly f in the last war. p Presbyterian Church at Spartanburg Burned. e Special to Greenville News. 1 Spartanburg, Jan. 2S.?The r Presbyterian church hare is burn- f ing. The alarm was given at 0 o'clock. Half an hour Uior flum** r were coming front the roof. 1 The building caught from the ? furnace. The organ and all the v inside work war* destroyed. 1 The church and Sunday School room coat about $15,000. The 1 insurance is aot known tonight. 10 p m?The fro ia under coa- * trol. About two-iliir<lf? of the in- c aide of the church is burned. P fi SOME WARSHIPS FOR THE t! VETERAN'S REUNION. (1 Col. Elliott Ask.* that They be Sent to Charleston?North Atlantic Squadron May be There. Washington, ,I*n. 27.? Repro" sent.itive Elliott of South Carolina today called upon Secretary Hong to urge the attendance at Charleaton of some line warships during the Confederate veterans reunion to l>e held there from ' May 10th to 141h next. ^ The secretary promised to ac cede to the request if ships could be spared for the purpose. It is possible that the North Atlantic squadron will be in the neighbor- | 5 hood about the time indicated on its return from its cruise of evolu- I tion in the ^ulf and Carriocan aea. ? ^ I I !-?/"* l'ny your suhscripitop to Lkdorr! a> i ^_______ CANNIBALS FEAST ON WRECKED SAILORS. Eleven of Slii|? Mauibaro'a Crew Escape' Drowning, Ixit Fall Among Savages. Vancouver, B. C., Jan. 26-.? tftor escaping; death by (irownng, ?le"en of the crew of the sbijV riamhare were captured and eaten >y canoibala of New Guinea. The Mambare waa bound for >ydn?y, Australia, when she was aught :n the terrible gale of Deem ber. Near Cane Nelson aha >eg?in to sink. The crew, 18 all old, left the vessel in two boat* ,od toon became separated. One boat containiag twelve nen wee finally thrown ashore ibout ten miles from the caj>*. L he sailora were seized by natives rom the interior and hurried off 0 the village of the chief. One nan, James Green, escaped. KILLED AS WANTED FOR FOOIX The nailors were stripped and jound and killed day after day. 1 wild orgy -was participated in >y at least a hundred savage* yho had gathered for tke feav-t. In several cases the sailors were ortured by the obi women and hildren of the tribe. The eyes ?f one were eonged out. 1 hr loomed men stoically watched the lahorato preparations for their ieatb. \ A b?me pot tilled with boiling: vater was used for the faaet, hich on the first d ty was pro onged away into tlici night. In moat cases the men wets beleaded, their heads being stuck on >oles and paraded before the man vlio were to eufTor the same fete. HONES THROWN TO DOGS. Two victims, after undergoing orture, were tossed into a great ire and roasted alive. The halfjnawod hones were thrown to the logs and children. Greene was rescued by a ateauor Hfter tramping without food a lay and a night to reach the coset. The scenes of horror he had witirssed turned his hair snowy rhito. The crew of the steamer that entiled Greene tried to avenge he dssth of the Mamhaie's sailrs. 1 hey travelled to the chief's :ii i.... ?i iiiu^c, mil mo fcHV (llOVtt hem back to sea. 'o Subscriber* The Lkdckk Ik-^s those of it* ulueriber.- who are in ari^ara to (utic forv aid at once and settle heir accounts. If they vnnuoi UV all the\ o\v3 we will be thankill for a portion. We nsk that hi* ju.?ti?e t<> the printer be Dot elayed. I fuu 4/1 U c i- ' ' * io nn<u many a mumer ih loosing | for; something absolutely safe and reliable, that will disarm her terror of that dread rattling, strangling cough, so fearful to tho mother, so fatal to the child. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is a croup cure that can be relied on. Thousands say so. Mm. W. J. Dickson ("Stanford EveletlO writes from Truro, N. S.:? "That terror of mother*, the startling, croupy cough, never alarmed mo so long ma I had a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral in the house." "We have u*od Aver'* Cherrv Pectoral in our family for years. Once when our hoy hail a severe attack of croup, we thought that ho would die. Hut we broke up the attack by using Ayer'e Cherry Pectoral." K. H. COX, Plaucheville, La. Aacr's m<< ' ? ti u >.?<e , . . Cherry pectoral to put up in half-sis* bottles at half price?50 cents. ,