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The Works of .Josephus.
A Large-Sized Striped Sit Ready for Portly
Cardozo.
COLUMBIA. S. C., Wednesday, No
vember 7.-The announcement this
morning of the verdict in the case of
the State against F. L. Cardozo occa
sioned much surprise in all quarters.
The general impression had obtained,
from the beginning of the case, that
it would result in a mistrial, this cal
culation being based solely upon the
natural and political complexion of
the jury. As to the first point-of
the twelve men who composed the
jury seven were black or colored, and
five were white ; while, as to second
point, those who claimed to know,
stated that six were Democrats and
six Republicans. In the light of all
experience concerning such trials in
this court, it was considered safe to
assume that these four opposing ele
ments could never be brought into
concord upon any question affecting
the rights of a colored prisoner,
charged with any crime whatsoever,
and particularly with any crime in
volving a connection, real or assumed,
with political questions.
When the jury retired yesterday
afternoon it was asserted and believed,
on all sides, that they left the court
room evenly divided on the question
of the guilt of the prisoner, six being
set down for a verdict of "guilty" and
six for acquittal.
Early this morning it was rumored
that the jury stood nine to three for
conviction, and a little before the hour
for the Court to open the Judge was
sent for, and the jury came in ; the
foreman handed in the verdict of
"Guilty !" which the clerk read, and
the news flew like wildfire through the
city that ex-Treasurer F. L. Cardozo
had been convicted of the charge
against him.
THE CASE OF SMALLS.
The Court convened soon afterwards,
and the ease of the State against Con
gressman Robert Smalls, for accepting
a bribe, was called. Smalls, who has
danced uneasy and interested attend
ance at the Court throughout the pro
ceedings of the Cardozo trial, now
came forward and took his seat beside
Mr. Melton.
Gen. Conner announced that the
State was ready.
Judge Melton said that Mr. Pope,
who was engaged to assist him in this
trial, was quite sick and unable to
attend court, but as he could not ask
for a second extension of time he sup
posed he would have to go on. The
case did not go on, however, as after a
few minutes' discussion, in the course
of which Judge Melton announced
that he intended to make a motion to
take the case out of the jurisdiction
of this court, it was agreed to post
pone the hearing until 3 o'clock to
allow counsel on both sides time to
.prepare for the argument on this ques
tion.
A THREATENED CONFLICT OF JURIS
DICTION
CoLMBIA, November 7-10 P. M.
-When the case of Robert Smnalls
came up at 8 o'clock, his counsel,
Judge Melton, filed a petition claiming
that, under the Civil Rights bill, the
defendant was entitled to remove the
case from this to a United States Court.
The points of the petition are that
the defendant is a person of color;
that his offence has been the subject
of much comment among citizens, and
in newspapers of the State; that great
prejudice exists against him on these
accounts, and because that he holds
- an office in Congress now under cor
test; that this contest is the result of
a conspiracy to deprive him of his
office and rights as a citizen of the
United States; that he cannot have a
fair and impartial trial of the said
cause before the Hon. C. P. Townsend,
Circuit Judge, now presiding in said
Coturt ; that he believes that the mind
of the said judge is prejudiced against
him by reason of his race, color and
previous condition of servitude; that
his belief is founded on the rulings
and charge of the said judge in a cer
tain cause, wherein F. L. Cardozo, a
person of the same race and color of
the defendant, was tried; that, for the~
reasons above stated, and for others
more at large, he cannot have a fair
* and unprejudiced trial, which he avers
is all he desires. Wherefore, he prays
the removal of the cause, now pend
ing, to the Circuit Court of the Uni
ted States for the District of South
Carolina.
Judge Melton remarked that this
case was the most important one that
had ever come up, as the jurisdiction
of the State Court as against that of
the United States Court would now
come thoroughly in question under
the Civil Rights bill. Referring to
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, page 114, he said that there
had been various cases wherein this
point had been maintained or disputed
by one side or the other ; but that he
now intends to seek a distinct decision
that would serve as a guide for the
future, and he intends to carry it to
the United States Supreme Court if
necessary.
Jndge Townsend remarked that he
was ready to hear argument. Attor
ney-General Conner announced him
self also as ready but, after the usual
discussion, the whole matter was laid
on the table until to-morrow morning.
The effrontery of Smalls in object
ing to Judge Townsend is exhibited
by the circumstance that Judge Town
send is a Republican, and was voted
for by Smails when elected in 1872,
and received 143 votes in joint assem
bly, the highest number given to any
candidate, when re-elected in 1875.
This last, too, was the Legislature that
elected Whipper and Moses. But
Smalis is badly frightened.
CLm TA, S. C, Noember 11.
nan. Then the court was opcned, and
the foremLan of the jury handed in a
verdict of "guilty."
Judge Melton got in a final excep
tion on the ground that a verdict could
not be rendered cn Sunday. The jury
was dismissed. Smalis has not yet
been ordered to jail, but holds over
for one day under his bond.
The Court is sustained on the ques
tion of receiving the verdict to-day by
several authorities, which were closely
consulted beforehand. Amohg them
is cited Judge Wardlaw's decision in
Hillier's case to be found in Strob
hart's Reports.
It is rumored that the jury stood
eleven to one for a verdict of guilty,
from the outset, and would have ren
dered a verdict yesterday evening, but
for the conscientiousness of one man.
The question of receiving the ver
dict to-day is simplified by the fact
that the Court did not adjourn either
yesterday afternoon or this morning.
The Hierald.
THOS. F. GRENEKER, EDITORS.
W. H. WALLACE,
NEWBERRY. S. C.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 14, 1877.
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
The Herald is in the highest respect a Fam
ily Newspaper, devoted to the material in
terests of the people of this County and the
State. It circulates extensively, and as an
Advertisin- medium offers unrivalled ad
vantages. 'or Terms, see first page.
The Condition of the Negro.
The negroes have been free more
than twelve years. Since their
emancipation, or at any rate since
reconstruction in 1868, they have
had all the privileges of whites
probably more. Liberal provisions
have been made by the government
for their education. They have
voted, been voted for, held office,
and some of them have accummv.a
ted, by some means, large fortunes.
But what is their condition to-day
-the condition of the rank and
file of the race ? Go to the farmer
in the country and inquire. He
will tell you that though they have
had every advantage to make and
save money, they have not done it.
What they make they spend for
showy dress or gew-gaws. They
are characteristically improvident,
looking never a day ahead. The
money they make on the farms is
gone almost as soon as it comes to
their hands. For the greater part
of the year their food is the
scantiest ; nothing but corn bread
-for months not a taste of meat.
We know this to be so. As to their
civilization, they are fast drifting
into a state of barbarism. Some
of their stiperstitions are so absurd
that they would be strange even in
the inhabitants of Central Africa.
An example of these is their ideas
of "conjuring." You Sud here and
there among them a negro who is
credited with the power of "con
juring" whom he pleases. The rest
stand in mortal dread of him, and
he can move any family of negroes
out of a house or a neighborhood in
less than twenty-fouir houris,'without
the least noise or difficulty. And
this is the way he does it: He goes
(or pretends to go) to a graveyard;
takes some nails out of a coffin;
drives them down in the yard of
the negroes and notifies them-they
leave. They believe that if they
stay it will be certain death. These
conjurers also deal in mysterious
roots and barks, by which they put
a "spell" on one, or cure another of
disease.
Their "religion" is the blindest
superstition, having no influence
whatever in making them more
honest, more chaste or more moral
in any particular. Indeed, their
leaders are frequently the most de
based of the flock, who under the
guise of religion commit all manner
of foul deeds.
. The condition of the negro is
certainly discouraging.
D. Wyatt Aiken.
In the Con gressional .Directory we
1nd the following sketch of our
worthy representative in Congress:
"D. Wyatt Aiken, of Cokesbury,
was born at Winnsboro, Fairfield
County, S. C., March 17, 1828; re
ceived an academic education at Mt.
Zion Institute, Winnsboro ; grad
uated at the South Carolina Col
lege, Columbia, in 1849; taught
school two years, settled upon a
farm in 1852, and has continued
until the present time to profess
and practice farming ; in 1861 en
tered the volunteer service of the
Southern Confederacy as a private;
was appointed Adjutant of the Sev
enth Regiment of Volunteers; was
elected Colonel of the same when
in 1864 and again in 1866 ; was
Master of the State Grange for
two years and member of the Execu
tive Committee of the Nation;dl
Grange for six years ; was a dele
gate to the National Democratic
Convention at Saint Louis that
nominated Tilden and Hendricks;
and was elected to the Forty fifth
Congress as a Democrat, receiving
21,479 votes against 15,553 votes
for L. Cass Carpenter, Republican."
Elections.
Elections were held in several
States the 6th inst.
MASSACHrSETTS.-Rice, Rep. was
elected Governor over Gaston,Dem.,
by about 10,000 majority. Legis
lature largely Republican.
NEW JERSEY.-Gen. Geo. B. Mc
Clellan, Dem., elected Governor by
13,000 majority.
C6xECTIcuT.-Republican major
ity in the Senate, 4; in the House,
35. Republican gains.
NEW YORK.-Democratic majori
ty, 20,000.
PE-Ns,LVANIA.-Carried by the
Democrats by 10,000.
Maryland, Virginia, Georgia and
Mississippi, of course, went Demo
cratic by large majorities.
WIscoNsI.-Republican.
NEBRisKA. -Republican
Neither party feels very much
elated by the elections; but the
total gains have been in favor of
the Democrats.
Freight Discriminations.
We make the following extract
from an editorial in the Columbia
Register, and shall notice the sub
ject in next issue :
"The freight on-cotton from Als
ton to Columbia has formerly been
75 cents per bale, and from New
berry $1.25 per bale. The tariff
has been raised to $2 from Alston
and $2.25 from Newberry. If the
merchant in Columbia, however,
will agree to ship the cotton con
signed to him from these points to
Charleston, over the South Car-olina
Railroad, a rebate is allowed to the
merchant of the difference between
the present and former tariff. The
explanation of this new dodge to
contr-ol the cotton business of this
city is simply that a prominent firm
has shipped vithin the last three
weeks more than 1,800 bales of cot
ton to Wilmington, where it is load
ed upon vessels for foreign ports,
and a considerable portion of t.his
cotton has been bought at Alston,
Newberry and other points on the
line of the Gr-eenville and Columbia
Railroad. It is too glaring and
transparent to need comment. The
regulation of the trriff at such ex
orbitant rates carries on its face a
gross injustice, but when the pro
position for rebate is made on such
conditions. the superlative degree
of presumptuousness has been
reached."
The Auditor's Salary.
What we said about the salary
of the Treasurer is equally applica
ble to the Auditor's salary. We
think it too small for the amount
and character of the - work to be
done-only $600.
The Batesburg MYonitor
Is the name of a new paper just
started at Batesburg, Lexington
County. It starts out well, and
we wish it success.
State News.
The Abbeville Fair this year was a
complete success, as it always is.
The trial of Congressman Smalls,
(col.), for accepting a bribe of $5,000,
was begun in Columbia Thursday.
The petition of Smalls, asking for
removal of his case to the U. S. Court,
was the work of B. F. Butler, of Mas
sachusetts.
The trial of Chlory Carpenter, for
forgery, began on Monday. It is ex
pected that the Court will not sit
during the Fair.
The Rev. Edward T. Buist, D. D.,
of Greenville, died of congestion of
the lungs during the last week. He
was in his seventieth year.
The gin and mill of Dr. G. W.
Wise, about four miles from iPine
House, were destroyed by fire on Sat
urday night. Loss $1,000, no insur
ance.
Col. C. S. McCall, (demi.) was elect
ed Senator from Marlboro' County,
the 6th inst., to fill the unexpired
tem of HI. J. Maxwell, (col. rep.,) re
signed.
The Schedule on the South Carolina
Railroad has been changed, and in
consequence the mails will reach the
up-country about an hour earlier in
the afternoon.
The jury which convicted Smalls
consisted of five whites and seven col
ored. He will, it is thought, endeav
or to get a release on habeas corpus
through Judge Bond.
Major John H. Kinsler has been
nominated by the Democratic Conven
tion of Richland County for Senator
in Nash's place. Maj. Kinsler is a
farmer, and will make a good Senator.
Somebody, in the Charleston Jour
nlat of Commerce, nominates Hon.
W. D). Simpson for the expected
vacancy on the Supreme Bench. A
good nomination-he could not have
made a better.
The Grarnd Jr ofRihiand Coun
Editorial Review.
The Silver Bill, it is said, is in a
air way of passing both Houses of
Jongress.
P. T. Barnum, the great showman,
was elected to the Legislature of Con
aecticut the 6th instant.
Gov. Williams, of Indiana, has ap
pointed Dan'i L. Voorhees to fill Mor
ton's unexpired term in the United
States Senate.
John Morrissey, the noted sports
man, has been elected State Senator
in New York. His opponent was
Augustus Schell. Both are Demo
crats.
WASHINGTON, November 6.-A
number of women who are taxpayers
petition Congress for relief from po
litical disabilities. In other words,
they want to vote.
The Russians have lost 64,800 since
the war began; but they are on the
road to victory. Query : will the vic
tory be worth the great sacrifice of
human life?
A Bill has been introduced in Con
gress proposing an amendment to the
Constitution for the election of Post
Masters every four years by the voters
of the city, village, town or district
in which the duties of their office are
to be performed.
FOR THE HERALD,
Broadbrimn'S New York Letter.
No. 43.
The New York Police Officers' Brutal Treat
ment of Prisoners-Revelations of a Mad
house-Italian Lazzaroni-Politics
Markets-Weather, etc.
It is now nearly a hundred years
aeo since all England was startled by
the revelations of a mad house, and the
tales of woe unfolded in that dark his
tory have served as a sort of magazine
of horrors for the novelists of a later
generation. The old time stories of
maniacs starved and chained and beat
en were by many believed to exist only
in the brain of the romancer ; and if
it were not for the damning parlia
mentary investigation we might still
hope that humanity was not as bad as
it seemed. In the Uuited States we
boast of our humanity. It is the pride
of New York that a lame calf or a
starving dog is not without a friend ;
the galled or wounded horse will find
hosts of sympathizers in every street,
and even the nocturnal Thomas eat re
hearses his serenade unchallenged un
less a chance junk bottle or a vagrant
boot-jack should interrupt the tenor
of his melody-except from an acci
dental discharge of missiles he stands
in no bodil,y fear: for the society for
the prevention of cruelty to animals
ath declared that Thomas, while en
gaged in all lawful pursuits shall not
and must not be molested.
In this ddmonstrative mercy toward
dumb animals it would seem as if we
lost sight of the fact that God has
made an animal nobler than the horse
or the dog, like unto the image of him
self; and yet week after week men die
here in a condition to which the dog's
death would seem like entering the
ates of Paradise.
Every week prisoners die in the cells
of our station houses, or in the Tombs,
where they have been thrust by brutal
policeman on charges of real or sup
posed drunkenness. The cell door is
opened in the morning and the man is
found dead. The week before last *a
respectably dressed man was found in
a street leading from Broadway; he
was lying on the ground, and when
discovered, was paralyzed and unable
to walk. He had fallen in an epilep
tic fit-a disease which he had been
subject to for years-and no effort
was made to discover his actual con di
tion. He was ordered to get up, but
the man was insensible, and this bru
tal guardian clubbed him till the flag
stones were dyed with his blood. Hap
pily he never felt a blow, for there was
no cry, no complaint, no struggle of
the passive victim. Reeking with his
gore, he was placed upon a cart and
carried to the station, wherc a charge
of drunk and disorderly was entered
on the blotter, lie was then carried
helpless, to a cell, and left alone till
morning. In the gray of the morn
ing the doorman proceeded to rouse
the prisoners, but from cell No. 8
there was no response. The doorman
entered, and a brutal kick failed to
rouse the drunken sleeper ; the door
man stooped over to look at him-he
was dead ! The things that might
have identified him were stolen by
thieves when he fell in the street, and
so, with no friend to claim the inani
mate clay, they interred him in Pot
ter's field. In a beautiful town in the
State of Illinois, there was bitter and
unavaling grief for a prominent mer
chant who had gone to New York to
buy goods, and had decamped with
several thousands of dollars, leaving
behind him a lovely wife and four in
teresting children. At last the wife's
brother resolved to come to New York
and endeavor to unravel the mystery.
The trunk was found at an uptown
hotel, and there he learned that, after
supper, some weeks before the owner
had gone out and never returned, lie
went to the different departments, and
on a keeper at Blaciawell's Island saw
the coat that his brother-in-law wore
to New York. After much trouble
and investigation he learned the man
ner of his relative's death, and it then
transpired that the man had not tasted
a drop of spirituous liquor for over
twenty years. No dog could have
been buried so while Mr. Bergh has
charge of the lay college for puppies;
no horse could have been abused as
this man was, without arousing a storm
of indignation which would threaten
the safety of the police commission,
and shake the foundations of Tam ma
ny T-Tall. Spakiner of mad-haose we
usage by nurses, male and female, of
imbecile and insane patients was
shocking as it was true, and at.that
time it was thought that a remedy
had been applied which would make
such things impossible for the future.
In s2veral cases the writ of habeas
corpus had to be invoked to give pris
oners their liberty who were in the
full enjoyment of reason and had been
held in duress as insane. A man fell
in love with another woman and want
ed to get rid of his wife; the mother
was seized in her home, right in the
midst of her children, and hurried
away to a mad-house. She was not
calm, she was not gentle, as the ruf
fians tore her away. She struggled
and fought like a tiger to remain with
her children in her home. All was
unavailing-they put a straight-jacket
on her and thrust her in a cell. It is
marvelous that the utter hopelessness
of her condition did not drive her mad
forever. By morning she took in the
whole situation, and swallowing her
wrath, became as calm as possible. No
struggle, no reproach, no word of an
ger passed her lips-for she saw that
in her enforced peace lay her only
hope of liberty-but it was months
before they permitted her to escape,
and when free at last, she found that
a divorce had been procured and her
once happy home was in ruins.
Last week, in the Asylum on
Blackwell's Island, an Episcopal min
ister who has been confined in that
institution with a mild form of insan
ity for the past two years, was almost
beaten to death by one of the brutal
attendants. At the Long Island Hos
pital, only a short time since, a young
lady of brilliant attainments but sub
ject to occasional epileptic fits, was
subjected to a course of fiendish per
secutions, recalling the darkest days
of the inquisition. She was rescued
at last when almost on the verge of
madness, and the only punishment in
flicted on the wretch who had abused
her consisted in her discharge. If a
man or woman can be torn from their
homes and confined in piivate or pub
lic mad-houses, it is time that the
public knew it. Let the Legislature
make it the business of a Board of
Examiners, who shall have free entry
to every department, that the horrors
now so darkly hinted at may be swept
away forever.
Our humanitarians have not distin
guished themselves in destroying the
vocation of our juvenile street musi
cians. It is true that we are no
more reduced to harmonious misery
by that musical villainy, "Darling, I
am Growing Old," or even the more
inspiring strains of "Sweet By-and
B." But what of that ? the social
eil that offended us remains in more
disgusting forms, and instead of
wretched little musical mendicants
receiving the dole of charity, they
now parade the streets early and late,
with bags and hooks, getting their
living from the off'al of the streets
as veritable savages as wild Indians or
the Bashi Bazouks.
The sailors got their dander up this
week at a proposed reduction of wages,
and forming into a procession marched
through the streets, breaking the win
dows of an obnoxious boarding-house
keeper and raising bob generally till
scattered by the police. The courts
generally deal pretty lightly with
Poor Jack, knowing his failings when
on shore, so they let the 2' iders ofi
with a few slight fines ant. promise
of good behavior.
Just at the present time we are at
tending to nothing but polites. I
have not expressed an opinion yet but
am quietly awaiting results. John
Morrissey is an excellent gentleman,
high-toned and peaceable, and the
charm of his character to me is that
he does not know the Jack of Dia
monds from the report of the Young
Men's Christian Association. I ad
mire John Kelly. he's a trump ; in
fact I may say the ace of trumps, al
though he raises the deuce some
times. 'I particularly admire the way
in which he has squeezed old Tweed ;
having confined his revelations to
positively useful information. I am
a patriot about election times, and I
am anxiously waiting to see which of
these honorable gentlemen will come
down the heaviest. Being a civil
service reformer my appreciation of
public servants is gauged by the ex
tent of their personal benefactions,
and henceforth I shall measure my
virtue by the length of my bank ac
count after election.
Socks have been feverish all the
week. The losses have been tremen
dous in the last fourteen days, and
the bears have the bulls by the horns.
D. Howard Crosby is making it un
comfortable for the whisky interest,
and he still goes marching on. A
heavy lot of Mormons is our latest
foreign invoice. I could not find a
substitute for my Rebecca in the
whole caboodle. I think that three
such wives, if they are sample bricks,
would give a fellow the fever and
ague, and a half dozen would just
about equal the cholera morbus or
States prison for life. The weather
is a little of all sorts, business good,
and shopkeepers happy.
I am,
Truly yours,
BROAD BRIM.
FOR THE HERALD.
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, ID. C.,
Nov. 7, 1877.
There was vesterday a little progress in
legislation-the Silver bill passing the
House, and the bill to repeal the clause of
the Resumption Act which fixes a dates for
resumption, getting formally before the
House for discussion. Over both these
measures the real contest will be in the
Senate. The Silver bill had unexpected
strength in the House, and that fact will
help it both in the Senate and with Mr.
H Asyoe red nore hMltr
coAie yof he usead prpore te askitar
moeytteog te susppoet tosakdo
moneyenoug tosppr twnt thusn
representation at the Paris Exposimion next
year. Probably $200,000 will be voted.
Mr. Hayes has apparently made up his
mind to publish a new revelation on the
subject of civil service reform. He has the
fecundity in respect to revelations that dis
tinguished Mahomet and Brigham Young.
lie produces one whenever he needs one.
The new one,in relation to which a feeler has
been put out, is in the shape of a command
to slaughter the Bureau officers and Depart
ment clerks who are not Administration
men-who, as I wrote you in April last, are
disloyal to the prophet occupying the White
House. If I remember aught, the original
reform command was to destroy only those
who failed to do their official duty. The
change is not really a sudden one, but only
one of a series of changes, each making its
successor a necessity. There are two results
possible from this trifling. One is that Mr.
Hayes will sink into a mere party slave, of
all the less account in the party for what he
has done. The other is that he will take
himself entirely out of the Republican or
ganization, and rely for support on Demo
crats, Independents and those Republicans
who will follow him. To stand still is im
possible.
Whichever cause he may take, a recon
struction of his Cabinet will be a necessity.
Schurz has been a damage to him from the
first. Unpopular with Republican leaders,
disliked by Democrats, and not enjoying
the confidence of anybody, his appointment
was a mistake. Not practical, not sincere,
not stable, but eloquent and plausible, he
was of value in the campaign of 1876 ; but
ho was worse than useless the moment he
entered the Cabinet and had the work of
civil service reform assigned to him. It was
said o' Charles Sumner that he had forty-nine
names for a grindstone, but not practical
ability enough to sharpen a broad-axe. But
Sumner was a prodigy of business talent
compared with Schurz. So, whether Hayes.
continues in his own party, and becomes its
servant after failing to become its master,
or leaves it, to attempt without its support
what it will not support him in doing, it
would seem that Mr. Schurz would have to
be dropped. It would not he hard to show
that other members of the Cabinet will pro
bably have to be displaced in the near future,
but I will content myself for this time by
asking your readers to stick a pin in this
present chapter of prophecy, so that they
may turn to it soon after the elections of
to-day.
Oue bill presented yesterday deserves at
tention, and will doubtless receive it. It
provides for a "perpetual" loan of $900,
010,000 to bear four per cent. interest. The
idea of the author of the bill is that the
amount would be rapidly absorbed in this
country for pernwanent investment, and
would enable the Government to call in an
equal amount of bonds bearing a larger rate
of interest. The "permanent" feature is
what he supposes would make this loan
more acceptable than any other as an in
vestment.
The friends of Gen. Don Carlos Buell,
W. B. Franklin and scores of other officers
dismissed during the late war, are moving
through Mr. Hayes to have their trials and
sentences reconsidered. Many of them r"fer
to the case of Gen. Runkle as a precedent
for executive action, but it should be re
membered that in Gen. Runkle's case no
'competent authority had ever approved the
action of the Court. In the other cases
mentioned, no matter what their merits may
be, no action can be taken except by Con
grcss. SOLON.
FOR THE HERALD.
That Side-Walk.
Mat. EniTra:-He who incessantly finds
fault with those who endeavor to perform
their duty is my especial aversion. But
they who evince no desire to discharge in
cumbent obligations are eminently repre
hensible ; hence the following. The side
walk which educes Lha.' r, marks is the one
leading from tne creek towards the ceme
tery. Tfhat it is sorely in need of renovation
is forcibly evident to all who walk over it.
Now, thait the weather of rainls has s. t in,
it is highly desirable that the attention of
the municipal authorities be directed to the
condition of that side-walk. it is so inter
sected by gullies- gutters are things of the
past-that an attempt to walk over it is
closely aliied to the suicidal. There the
pedestrian experiences innumimerable ups
and downs in day-time ; but at night-ugh !
I have no fear of darkness, though taingi
ble ; but it is difficult to guess where gullies
are, and you have to walk so feelingly, you
know.
You start to church at night, oblivious of
gIllies, but wrapped in blissful conteinpla
tion of The Beyond, when, alas! your foot
strikes, with a dull thu-d, just twelve inches
below where it should have reached terra
firma ; clack ! go your teeth, and with an
e'jaculation of dismay, a wonderfully ac
ceerated locomotion, and a desperate clutch
at nothing, you plunge forward and land
beyond-a gully ; yon pick yourself up and
with a muttered "dang the authorities"
stumble churchward, a dirtier if not more
pious man. Actual experience !
I have in mind a gentleman who was in
duced to a serious consideration of the ex
pediency of purchasing a walking-stick by
an involuntary nocturnal plunge over a
gully on that side-walk. The mischief of
it is you can't fall a gentle broadsider that
makes you see stars. It is simply over
gully into gully, and you are so doubled
up, your avoirdupois so fearfully distorted
that you don't know which way to look for
stars, at all, at all. Speaking of stars, my
stars! what are the street-workers doing ?
Messrs. Eds., I heartily wish you had to
perambulate this walk at least once daily;
[thank you kindly, but we would rather not.
-EDs.] "not that I wish you any harm," as
the man said when Morton (lied, but wouldn't
you "Herald" expletives at the delinquents,
though !
I raise a wee vo'ce for street-rights, be-*
cause shake-ups of the osseous system
cease to charm, because~ the condition of
this side-walk causes a diminution in church
attendance, and-ah ! you appreciate my
reason-I have a neck to save. KB
Y'rs truly, NB
FOR THE HERALD.
R. R. Meeting.
DIAL'S CHIURCIL, LAURENS COUNTY,
November 3, 1877.
The Railroad meeting called at this
place convened at the appoinrted hour.
Dr. A. C. Fuller was called to the
chair. The subject of the occasion
being the practicability of building a
railroad from Laurens C. H. to Green
ville was ably discussed by Capt. G.
W. Shell, Dr. J. D. Patton and oth
ers. The expediency of the enter
prise having been fully considered,
Dr. J. ID. Patton offered the following
resolutions:
R?esolved, 1st. That the friends of
the Laurens and Greenville Railroad
in Greenville be invited to appoint a
committee to confer with a similar
committee hereinafter to be provided
for from Laurens-the time and place
of meeting to be fixed by themselves,
upon the subject'of applying to the
next Legislature for a charter for the
Laurens and Greenville Railroad, and
to arrange the terms and conditions
of said charter, with full power to act
in the premises.
2n-1. That the chairman of this
meeting appoint a committee of nine,
three of whom shall constitute a auo
4th. That the proceedings of this
meeting be published in the Laurens
ville Herald, Newberry hERALD,
Greenville News, and Enterprise &
Mountaineer.
The following committee was ap
pointed as directed: Wm. Mills,
Sani'l R. Todd, Col. J. W. Ferguson,
A. W. Moore, Capt. G. W. Sullivan,
A. H. Martin, J. L. M. Irby, W. L.
Gray.
On motion the meeting stood ad
journed.
A. C. FULLER, Chairman.
W. L. GRAY, Sec'y.
A Movement in Cotton.
GRANGE HALL, CLIO, S. C.,
November 1, 1877.
To the Editor of the .'ews and
Courier :-Please insert the accom
panying preamble and resolutions in
your valuable paper, and oblige many
friends and subscribers.
T. N. EDENS,
J. T. CoVINGTON, Committee.
A. W. HAMER,
Whereas, the cotton buyers and
speculators of this day are organized
and bound together as never before,
aiming only to promote their own in
terest, and are not satisfied with their
exorbitant charges for handling cotton,
but threaten to buy only its net
weight, thus. imposing upon the pro
ducers the loss of bagging and ties,
thereby inflicting upon the cotton
growers of this country an annualloss
of millions of dollars; and,
Whereas, we know that, under the
adverse circumstances which now sur
round the planters, it is a question
whether they can afford to raise cot
ton at the present prices; we believe
it is high time for the Patrons of
Husbandry to speal out, and devise
some plan to defeat the buyers and
speculators in their imposing designs,
and therefore recommend that all the
Granges throughout the country adopt
the following reEolution :
Resolved, That Patrons utterly re
fuse to bale and sell cotton exclusive
of the bagging and ties, and request
their representatives in Legislative
and Congressional halls to discounte
nance and oppose anything that is
likely to militate against or be detri
mental to the farming interests of our
country.
Even if we are not smart we know
what to do when troubled with a cough
or cold. No doctor bills for us. We
take a 25 cent note, go to the nearest
drug store and- buy a bottle of Dr. Bull's
Cough Syrup. One dose relieves us
and one bottle cures us entirely.
The Russian Court invited Dr. Ayer
and his family to the Archduke's wed
ding in the Royal Palace. This dis
tinction was awarded to him not only
because he was an American, but also
because his name as a physician had
become favorably known in Russia on
its passage round the world.
([Pueblo (Col.) People.
ECONOMY IS WEALTH,
Poor Richard says. If this12ie true, then it
is wise in every family to use Duryeas's Satin
Gloss Starch in preference to any other, be
cause it is the most economical ever manu
factured in the world. It is the most econom
ical because it is the best; it is the cheapest
because it is the best. It is purer, whiter,
and stronger than any other starch. It has
received the highest award over all competi
tors in the four quarters of the globe. Don't
be deceived by your grocer. Ask for Duryeas'
Improved Corn Starch for food, and Duryeas'
Satin Gloss Starch for laundry purposes, and
take no other.
NOT STRANGE BUT TRUE. WORMS
do exist in the human body and often are
the cause of disease and death. Shriner's
Indian Vermifuge will destroy and expel
them from the system.
MlTarried,
Nov. 7th, by Rev. R. D. Smart, Mr. A. M.
HOWELL, of the Greenville News, and Miss
EmuA T. MooaE, daughter of Capt. A. W.
Moore, of Cokesbury.
N71ew 6' 1iscelaneous.
NEW CROP
NEWV ORLEANS MOLASES.
J. N. MARTIN & CO.
Nov. 14, 46-2t.
The Wade Hampton.
I am happy to inform the public that this
NEW COOK STOVE, made expressly for
this market, will be on sale in a few days.
Be prepared for it.
W. T. WRIGHT.
Nov. 14, 46-lt.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF NEWBERRY.
IN THE PROBATE COURT.
Jacob W. Singley, et alsPetitioners, vs.
Levi C. H. Singley, et al, Defendants.
Petition for Partition of Land.
By virtue of an order issued out of said
ourt, in the above stated case, to me di
rected, I will sell, at public outcry, to the
highest bidder, at Newberry Court House,
on the First Monday in December next
(Sale-day,) within the legal hours of sale,
all that tract of land situate in the County
and State aforesaid, containing ONE HUN
DRED AND FIFTY-FOUR ACRES, more
or less, and bounded by lands of Jacob
Singley, H. M. Singley, Jacob Bedenbaugh
and Geo. A. Counts, the same being lands
belonging to the estate of Mary Ann E.
Singley, deceased.
TERMS-ane-third cash, balance ca a
credit of one and two years, with interest
from day of sale, secured by bond of the
purchaser and a mortgalge of the premiseS
sold. Purchaser to pay for papers.
D. B W11EELER, s. N. c.
Nov. 10, A. D. 1877-46-3t. f7 50
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF NEWBERRY.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
H. C. Moses, Clerk, &c , Plaintiff, vs. J. A.
Ferguson, as Adm'r., Defendant.
Order for Judgment and Foreclosure.
By virtue of an order from said Con.yt in
the above stated case, to me directed, I
will sell, at public outcry, to the highest
bidder, at Newberry Court House, on the
First Monday in December next, within the
legal hours of sale, all that tract of land
situate in the State and County aforesaid,
ontaining TWO HUNDRED ACRES, more
or less, and bounded by lands of Wmn. Ray,
Holloway Hill, and part of the same tract
Qit,lntP in Laurens County.
Xew J' .iTiseellaneous.
STATIOIIIY
JUST RECEIVED.
TWENTY-FOUR VARIETIES,
BOX PAPETERIE,
From 25 cts. to $1 per Box.
PICTURE BOOKS FOR LITTLE
FOLKS,
Handsomest and largest lot ever
brought to this market,
10 cts. to $1.50.
PHOTOGRAPH AND AUTOGRAPH
ALBUMS,
Very beautiful.
ETIQUETTE LETTER WRITERS,
The very thing.
PORTFOLIOS, WRITING DESKS.
MIRACULOUS PENS.
BLANK BOOKS.
ENVELOPES, largest to smallest
size.
PAPER-NOTE, LETTER, CAP, LE
GAL, BILL, &c.
PENS, PENCILS, INK, &c.
The largest and handsomest variety
ever exhibited in Newberry, at the
HERALD STATIONERY STORE.
Nov. 14, 46-tf.
PLiNiTIONS TO RENT
The different plantations belonging to
the Estate of Henry Burton, dec'd., will be
rented to the highest bidder at Newberry
C. H., on 1st Monday in December.
W. M. DORROH,
C. D. BURTON, Executors.
J. D. PITTS,
Nov. 14, 46-St.
STATE OF SOUTH Q,AROLINA,
COUNTY OF NEWBERRY.
IN THE COURT OF PROBATE.
Ebenezer P. Chalmers, as Administrator of
the Estate of Summerfield Montgomery,
dec'd., with the Will annexed, Plaintiff,
against Susan Montgomery, Defendant.
By virtue of an order from the Probate
Court for Newberry County, in the above
stated case to me directed, I will sell, at
public outcry, at Newberry Court House,
within the legal hours of sale, and to the
highest bidder, all that lot or parcel of land
situated in the town of Newberry, bounded
on the North by lot of John S. Renwick,
on the South and East by lot of C. & G. S.
ower, and on the West by Adams Street,
and containing ONE HALF ACRE, more or
ess.
TERMS-One-third cash, the balance on a
redit of twelve months, with interest.from
ay of sale, to be secured by bond of the
urchaser and a mortgage of the premises
old. Purchaser to pay for papers.
D. B.~ W HEELER, s. Ni. c.
Nov. 10, A. D. 1877-4--3t. t7 50)
TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF NEWBEiRRY.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
ohn M. Neel, Adm'r., vs. Elizabeth Neel
and others.
By virtue of an order in the above stated
cse, issued out of sai4. Court, and to me
irected, I will sell at public outcry, to the
ighest bidder, at Newberry Court House,
on the First Monday in December next,
etween the usual hours of sale, all that
ract of land situate in the County and State
aforesaid, containing ON r. HUNDRED AND
INETY-ONE AND SIX-TENTHS ACRES,
ore or less, the same being the tract
ought by Mary Galloway, widow, at the
sale of the real estate of John Galloway,
ec'd., and bounded by lands of A. J.
ongshore, John T. Peterson, William
angford and others.
erms -hrIcs,teblneoedit of one and two years, with interest
from day of sale, to be secured by bond
with good sureties and a mortgage of the
remises, with leave to purchaser to pay all
n cash. Purchaser to pay for papers.
D. B. WHEELER, S. N. C.
Sheriff's Office, Nov. 5th, 1877I.
46-St. flO
.STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF NEWBERRY.
IN THE COMMON PLEAS.
. B. Wheeler and J. M. Wheeler, as Ex
ecutors of Jacob Wheeler, dec'd., Plain
tiffs, vs. John F. Banks, Defendant.
Complaint for Foreclosure and Relief.
By virtue of an execution to me directed
in the above case, I will sell, on Monday,
the Sd day of December, A. D. 187i7, the
following described tract of land, levied
upon as the property of said Defendant, to
wit : All that lot, tract or parcel of Ian
ying and being situated in the Countya
State aforesaid, containing TWO H
RED .AND NINETEEN' AND TH
OURTH ACRES, more or less, lyin
rim's creek; bounded by lands of P
oon, J. F. Banks, T. N. Kibler and othe
being the same tract of land conveyed
said J. F. Banks by J. A. Sligh and Alice
. Sligh, his wife.
TRMS-One-third cash, and balance on
credit of twelve (12) months, with inter
est from day of sale, to be secured by bond
of the purchaser and mortgage of the prem
ises. Purchaser to pay for papers.
JAS. W. EICHELBERGER,
Coroner of Newberry County, S. C.
November 9, 1877-46-3t. t-10.
DSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION.
called the
S on of disease.
Rev. H e nry
Ward Beecher
LIVER says: "{Itsa
matter to save
the soul ofa
man who has
bad indiges
CURE. ton;n"rsmal
the devil out
of his heart
' while he still
lurks in his
tmach." SIMMOS' HEPATIC COMPOUND
ill cure this disease.
If administered in time to remove the bile
from the stomach, it will counteract the
auses which commonly produce Yello0w or
the Bilious Fever, the Bilious Colic,PleuIrisy,
Dysentery, Worms, Bilious Vomiting, Sick
and Sour Stomach. Hecadache, Loss ot Appe
ite Fltuecy }pileptic Fits Hypohn
ton, Habitual Costiveness, and in Ague and
Fever, Simmons' Hepatic Compound,when
taken with Quinine, produces the most hap
py results. NO better cathartic can be used
preparatory to or after tak-in Quinine. We
advise all who are afflicted wth this disease
t give It a fair trial once.
For sale Wholesale and Retail by
DR. S. F. FANT
POPE & WAEDL,AW,
DR. W. F. PRATT,
DR. W. E. PELHAM,
Newberry.
Dowia & MoxsE, Proprietors, Charleston,