Keowee courier. (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, February 27, 1879, Image 2
THE K?OWEE COURIER
BY KEITH, SMITH & CO
W?Mi?LL?, S. C.TT
THUItSDAV, FEIJIiUARY 27, 1870.
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Normal School,
"Wo publish elsewhere nu nrtiolo ndvooat?
ing tho cstablieliment and support of a non
mnl school by the State, for thc purposo of
educating teachers and training them in tho
improved methods of instruction. Old things
aro passing away and all things aro becom
ing now, but wo arc sorry lo express our
opinion that tho changes aro in no way for tho
botter. Ono would think from thc great cry
about teachers and normnl schools, &e-, that
in our heretofore days education was a shani
and teaching a dry, prosy repetition of books
without benefit or lerclopincnt, mental or
physical. What aro tho fact*? Thossi who
know tho carly history of our educational
interests will, with rare exceptions, look in
vain for such instructors aa Kennedy, Lovor
ctt, Unison and tho learned men who formerly
vun tho schools in South Carolina and devoted
their lives to teaching. Is it because there
*iro no men in tho State competent to teach
mid train thc youth of tho country? Cer
tainly not. On tho contrary, thcro arc
now ten educated men in tho country
to where thoro was ono twenty ifivo
years ago, while ovcry class and oondi?
tion of our people havo advanced in general
intelligence from contact with thc educated,
beyond thc anticipation of thc most zealous
ndvocatos of education. Tho want of good
and efficient teachers is not duo to tho absence
of men competent to teach, but to thc public
school system itself. If every fifth man in
tho county was thoroughly educated in n
college or normal school, not ono in a hundred
of such would engage in teaching. An edu
cated mind can realizo moro in nny employ
ment than in teaching under tho public school
system, unless it bo in an occasional commu
nity. Tho ?dca is prevalent in tho public
mind that paying a school tax should and
doos exempet a man from paying tuition.
Thia opinion governs men whero a man pays
only cr.z or two dollars tax and sends from
four to six ohildror. to school. Unless teach
ors uro paid well you need not expect, and
certainly will not get, good and cftioiont
tenchors. Before tho war an educated teach.-,
cr would realizo from ono thousand to fifteen
hundred dollars per year, This is what
drew into tho service men compotent to teach,
and good pay would now have a like effect.
What need of normal schools and taxing thc
people to sustain thom? Do wc expect to
produce gronter or moro learned men than
our country formerly produced, whon normal
schools were unknown and unheard of?
Look at Congress now and thirty years ago,
wi.on such men as Calhoun. Webster,
Clay, Silas Wright, Hayno, McDuflio and
other great lights adorned thc chambers of
tho Senate and llouso of Iteprescntatives.
Their mantles havo fallen upon thc shoulders
of nono of their successors. Look at our
judiciary now and when O'Neal, tho Ward?
Lavs, Huller, Johnston, Dargan and other
great jurists ndornod tho bench of South
Carolina. They knew nothing of normnl
schools, and yet whero will wc find their
equals, much less their superiors. Thcso
nro tho lights which thc .South Carolina
College sent forth to lend lustro to her name
and to adorn tho pages of history. Tbc
schools of their day and time uro exactly
what wo need now, and wo want no improve'
ments on thc books used or tho manner of
touching or tho men who were their fruit.
Tho writer, quoting from the Superinten
dent of Education, says '.Normal schools for
training teachers must bo established before
tho public school system cnn bo made to do
all tho good which it is capable of doing."
If tho system is capable of any good wo have
boon unable to see it. It has destroyed nil
thoiough education and has driven from tho
fiold nine-tenths of tho educated teachers of
tho country. Wc cannot oppose it, ns it is
part of our constitution, and wo stand pledged
to its support, but thc ovils it has done nnd
will yet do can never bo repaired. Thc State
is too peer to make such a levy as will keep
tho schools open all tho year and sccuro good
teachers, and boneo education lins declined
undor tho system. As a general rulo wo aro
opposed to tho Stato becoming an educator.
This should bo left to privato cntorpriso, as
tho salo of goods, working farms, Ac. While
this is our position in matters of general
education, wo do think thc Stato should cs?
tublish and mnintain a university of a high
ordor, whero hersons, after graduating nt
colleges, could go and complete their educan
lion in any and all higher branches. This is
done in Oormtiny and in Europo generally,
und in nearly ovcry American Staten univer
sity is established and maintained by tho
Stato. Suoh an institution would keep our
money at homo and draw largo!/ from other
States, us tho patroungoof tho South Carolina
Cullcgo did.
A thorough collegiate education will always
flt men for leaching as well ns for any mid
every profession and avocation in life. Now
we have colleges of good Unndiup ut Walhalla,
nt Greenville, ut Sparenburg, nt Duo Wost
und at Newberry, whero tnou eau Ht them
! solves for tendiera ut los? cxponso than tlioy
could ut a normal school ut Columbia. Tboso
colleges aro run by private enterprise, nod
their professors uro, doubtless, ns nblo to
instruct ns teachers in a normal school aro
likely to bo, und eau thorefojo offer all tho
bone?ts to bo obtained nt such schools. These
colleges, too, aro groat blessings to tho Stute,
constituting centros from which radiate light
and knowledge in cvory direction, and ns
such should bo fostcrod. Wo would not Uko
to seo tho funds of tho State employed in
competition with them, tr>> Mug to weaken
nnd destroy them. As mu . otical knowi
ledge eau bc gainod in those .ostitutions ns in
a normal school, nod "nil tho common objects
ol sight, such ns birds, flowers, plants, treos,
rocks, insects, taino and wild animals, forms,
colors und dimensions, manners, morals, laws
of hoalth, gymnastic oxoroises," &o., quotod
hy tho writer as common senso knowledge of
mefnl things, eau us woll or hotter bo loamed
nt tho institutions named than nt iv normal
eehool. At nil ovontf, wo uro satisfied with
old time books, old time teaching und old
time scholars. Wc want nono o? those mo
dern improvements known ns tho flrst und
second steps in gci graphy, arithmetic, Ac,
and nono of those first, second, third nnd
fourth renders and nono of tho (?uuokenbos'
grammars, &o. Our grammarians wore goad
enough before, und tboso so-called improve
ments otiuro moro to tho bonufit of booksel
lers than to tho better instruction of scholars.
Wc adv?calo good teachers, but not ut tho
cxpen-e of tho Stato mid to (ho (let rio,cot of
our young and thriving culicgos, nnd with
bottor pay to tendier*, n suUiciont number of
competent men would coter tho field of teach
ing.
Homestead.
Judge Aldrich recently mode an important
decision in Nowberry touching tho exemp
tion allowed to persons owning no real estate.
In thc case judgment had been obtained
beforo a Trial Justice, nnd tho defendant
claiming tho benefit oftho exemption allowed
by tho constitution, tho commissioners ap
pointed for tho purpose, set apart porsontil
property of thc description enumerated in thc
constitution, to tho amount of two hundred
and fifty dollars, but refused to set apart corn,
bacon, flour nnd fodder, these articles not
fulling under uny class mentioned in tho
constitution. Tho Trial Justice sustained
thc return of tho commissioners nnd refused
ii motion for a rc assignment. On appeal to
tho Circuit Court Judgo Aldrich sustained tho
appeal, holding that the personal property of
a debtor to tho amount of $500 of every de- |
seri pt ion is exempt. Tho Nowberry Herald
says tho judgment creditor proposes to
appeal lo the Supreme Court, where several
cases of tdmilor character aro now under
consideration.
Tho homestead, in our judgment, has
worked and will continuo lo work greater
harm than good to tho great mass of our
people. It tends to uiako men dishonest nnd
to refuse to pay debts they could and would
otherwise pay promptly. Before thc war thc
poorest oitiftons of our county oould obtain
credit for n reasonable amount," and it wan then
our experience that this class was tho prompt
est paying customers merchants hud. They
know they most pay and (hey prepared for it
as they now do for (axes, for which no pro
perly is exempt. Their ci edit wils as good
as that of tho wealthiest citizen to a certain
amount, and they could buy nt fair profits.
Thero was then less suffering and less poverty
than now, nearly all our citizens annually
paying their debts and realizing u good living
besidos.
Under tho homestead law tho personal
credit of e rory citizen, who U worth less than
tho amount exempted, is destroyed, and ho is
driven to the lieu law with nil its expenso
and all tho extortionate prices asked for goods
under it. In lois way tho people have n
master, strongor, harder and moro exacting
than tho old law of collections, Ibo Hence
contracting for a tight to enter, gather, seize
and sell tho crop of thc licuor, should ho pull
a basket of corn or sell a hundred pound-) of
seed cotton for actual necessaries. This 1O*H
of ail light or control over Mis crop by the
licuor is attended with the espouse of drawing
and proving tlio lion, recording il, obtaining
nn attachment, &o., not to speak of being
compelled to pay from ono to throe hundred
per cont, for this slavish credit. Tho people
have tried it for len year?, nnd how few bairn
prospered undor it. Opon out a full and free
credit and it would bo far better than lien
orodit. This is moro especially true now,
that frequent decisions havo virtually nulli -
ficd all ibo proposed benefits of ibo home
stead, leaving untouched all the evils flowing
from it. A man may mortgage his home
stead or sell it, Ho may mortgage n crop
beforo it is oven planted. Ho may givo u
lien oo all lu; makes, and thus tho products
of tho homestead may bo sold for debt. To
do any of theso things requires a considerable
expense, which would not bo incurred were
it not for thc homostc.id. As u party may
thus defeat tho homestead and its products hy
incurring expense, why would it not be bottor
to havo no homestead and a freo credit to every
man in proportion to his property?
It has been decided already that cotton
grown on rented land, or on land owned by
tho party but not set oft' as a homestead, is not
exempt from levy and salo, hcuiuso not ono
of the articles is enumerated in tho constitu.
(ion. If it should now bo held that corn,
bncon, flour und foddor aro not exempt for a
like reason, wc will labor under nil tho bur~
dens of tho homestead law and havo none of
its protended boiioflts. Theso articles aro
cortainly not mentioned and do not full undor
any class of tho articlos nnmcd in (ho con?
stitution. lt is a rulo of construction of
statutes, &c, that un enumeration escindes
nil things not mentioned, so Hint if corn, ito.,
aro hold exempt, tho decision must rest on a
libornl construction of tho constitution to tho
ond in view, to wit, ?ho onjoymont of thc
homestead.
There is another foaturo of tho exemption
law which may curtail tho exemption of per?
I sonal property stilt farthor. If tho words of
tho constitution ho hold to restrict or limit
legislation, which wc think is tho case, then
there cnn bo no exemption of personalty to
ono not owning a homestead, for tho words of
tho constitution ure as follows, after Felting
apart tho real (?.-tate, it proceeds thus: "To
fieeuro tho full enjoyment of mid homestead
to the person ontitlcd thereto or tito head of
nay family, tho personal proporty of such
gordon of tho following charnotor, to wit, &o."
Does this positivo onnotmont noguto nny
power in tho Legislature to enlarge ns well ns
diminish tho homestead and exemption?
Thoso uro important questions and a number
of them nro alrendy, wo honr, before tho Su
premo Court and others will bo carried thoro,
until tho rights of creditors aro ?fully nscer*
tained under tho constitution nnd statutes.
Cotton-Walhalla.
Our article in tho last issue of tho COURIER,
upon tho trade of our town and tho importanco
of rotaining and enlarging it, did not give
general satisfaction to our merchants. Wo
can nt least plead that it was publshcd with
tho best intentions and at a timo when, hy
proper energy in tho future, it could do no
harm hut much good. Who is moro deeply
interested in Walhalla than tho proprietors of
tho COURIER? Who has labored moro con
stantly and assiduously to build it up, both
by advocating every enterprise of a public
character and by contributing tawards what
ever promised a benefit to our town? Our
proporty is hero. Our business and our
ii tercsts aro likewiso interwoven with
tho prosperity of tho tow::. Everything
combines to mako us well wishers to Walha)?
In, tho geographical nnd judicial, nnd, as it
should be, tho commercial centro of our
county. To regain and retain tho latter,
which it onco hold, is our highest desire, and
this can be done in tho way indicated. Throe
thousand bales of colton sohl hero would
bring over ono hundred thousand dollars,
fifty thousand of which would bo spent with
our merchants. We do not ask or expect
tho mcrehnnts to buy this cotton, for it takes
ton much capital and incurs too great risk.
Wc nro satisfied few, if any merchants, who
bought cotton lust season failed lo lose money
on their purchases, and if wo wcro engaged
in merchandizing wo would buy cotton only
for debts duo us or for trade. While this is
true, why can't wo buy cotton through nn
agency nnd ship it by Charleston directly te
its destination, without lite heavy tax ol
commissions, &c, exacted by thc deniers in
Charleston. Water transportation always
bas been and always will bo cheaper than b.v
rail, und wo feel ?uro fair arrangements could
bc m ado to get tho cotton to tho const. Thc
lit tlc risc or fall in cotton makes little dille
renee to tho large deniers of thc North, ant
during thc season tho profit and Joss ar?
likely to balance. It may bo, and it has bcei
so said, that our estimate of the cotton bough
bern is too small by several hundred bales
but if this bo granted, nil must admit om
cotton trade has annually declined and is no
what it should bc. We want to seo it revive
and expand until it shall bc larger than th?
trado of any place in thc county.
Wo stated in our last article, and wo rc-; f
linn it, that for cash our merchants can ami
do sell goods ns low as similar articles cai
bo bought anywhere in upppr Carolina, li
fact, wu have a number of responsible ant
experienced merchants, who deal liberally foi
nil kinds of goods, li is natural for all mci
to seek tho cheapest market, and so wei
satisfied htivo wo been with the short profit
charged by our merchants that wo have no
felt it to our interest to trade at other point
in tho county for such articles as can bo lint
hore. While this is true, feeling, as wc d
the warmest interest in our future prosperity
wc cannot keep silent when wo arc con
vi need that our trade is declining nnd wi!
decline farther, unless wc bestir ourselves t
retain it. It little profits a man to Hatte
him with assertions that ho is looking wc'
and hearty, when he is starving, so would i
littlo prollt our town to declaro our c itto
trade is largo and annually increasing who
tho citizens anti tho people of tho conni
know better. Men do not eloso their cyr
and ears when they como to Walhalla, an
they know well your trado and tho roliitn
prices you oller for cotton And other proded
We do not prop rsc to H itter tho town ur n
to throw dust in thc eyes of tho public, bi
to toll what wc believe is our true conditio
?ind how it can be remedied. So long us
man thinks ho is not sick ho will nut have
physician, and so long as n community sleo|
upon its highest interest, feeling no fear <
danger in tho future, so long will it nut fe
tho need of striving lo hotter its conditio:
Whothor wc nro in prosperity or whether v
aro in adversity, it is always tho part of wi
dom to look our condition squnroly in ll
face and strivo, with tho lights before us,
enlarge our prosperity or diminish and mod
fy our adversity. Our town is to*dny proi
poring, financially, educationally nnd eon
mcroially. Wc havo room for iinprovcmen
and it is this improvement wo advocate f>
pooplc havo been moro liberal and publ
spiritod than thc citizens of Walhalla in II
malters touching the religious nnd oducatio
ni Interests of tho town and county. Such
citizenship deserves to prosper and will pro
per with anything like proper ofibrt.
Tho Census of 1880.
Congress lins before it a hill to provii
for taking thc census in 1880. Tho N<
York Herald tspeak ing of thc law of 185
says it is inadequate, its methods objectio
nhlc nnd thc objects at which it nitus inst
ficicnt. It is behind tho intelligence
tho agc nnd tho improvements adopted
Europe. Tho Herald insists on two poit
nn indispensable to a full nnd nccurato ec
sus: 1st. That lhere should bc ono in etti
for cities rind populous villages, and anoth
for sparsely settled ?''stricts. In thc form
the work should bu so subdivided (lint t
enumeration could Lo completed in a wee
or if possible, in a singlo duy, for the rons
that if it IMUS through several monti
thoro oro so ninny changes of resident
nnd boarding houses that no acournto cn
merntion can bo had. In sparsely set tl
districts it is different, tho residences hoi
moro fixed nnd permanent, while thc f
removals that may occur nro so well kno'
to tho neighborhood timt there is no difliou
in keeping track of every inhabitant. T
next point is, thot tho enumeration of t
inhabitants should bo a work distiuot fri
that of "guthcring authentic, v/.!utiblo a
complete ctalislic.i of thc yrcat branches
manufacturing ond mining industry." Tho
latter work ?equires a higher ordor of intel
ligoneo thuu thu former and should to
placed in tho hands of experts, who should
not ho encumbered with tho work of enu
meration. This is all well enough, but a
moro important matter is, that tho appoint
ment of both these classes of cousus takers
should bo inado Without regard to tho poli
tics of thc appointee. This ls especially
truo in tho South, where very few
comp?tent men of tho Republican
party cnn bo found to do cither cluss
of tho work. - Taking tho census
and statistics of tho country is an important
w< V and should bc placed in competent
ham.,. Since tho war this hus not been
douo in the South generally. If tho bill
becomes a law, wo hope to have a full and
occurato enumeration, ns co man caa form
much idea of our population or voting
tlreugth from the census of 1870.
Enormous Crops of 1878.
Tho December Report of thc Department
of Agriculture, just published ut Washing
ton, gives tito latest estimates of tho past
year's crop throughout tho country corrected
down to thc first of tho mouth. Tho fol"
lowing summary of it will show how closely
it approximates to tho figures on tho subject
we placed before our readers duriug thc fall,
According to tho Report, thc corn crop
for 1878 is some ?JO.O?O.OOO- bushels larger
thuu t h ut of 1877. Thc oat crop is some
what ?ll excess of that ol 1877, making it
thc largest ever raised in this country. Thc
average yield per acre is, however, less
than in 1S77, and thc quality iu most of
thc States is inferior. Thora is no m a tor I
al chung? ?ll the burley ci'c>p from 1877,
except that California increased her acreage
from 400,000 to 050,000 acres, and almost
doubled ber yield per ticrc. Thc total pro
duct for I he year will b? in rouml numbers
42,000,000 bushels against 34,000,000
bushels in 1877. Tho rye crop is about
ono sixth larger than in 1S77, but thc fjual?
?ty of thc crop is inferior in tho Now FJU
glund (except Conn<:cticut) and Southern
Stutcs, while ie tire Stales of thc West,
Northwest and Pacific slops it is superior,
except in Illinois and Nebraska. Thc po
tato crop shows a large decline fis compared
with 1877, (hough thc average was about
thc sumo, thc difference Dein^ less (linn one
per cent. Tho average yield of tho whole
country will bc 00 bushels per acre against
94 bushels in 1877, m ok i ag n total product
in round numbers of 124,000,000 bushels
for 1878, against 170,000,000 in 1877.
Thc buy crop is 20 per cen?, greater than
last year. Sorghum is receiving increased
attention, especially in thc trans-Mississippi
States ano Territories. In Steams County,
Minn., the variety culled Amber Cane ?iv
reported as yielding us high us 800 gallons
of syrup per acre. Delaware County, Iowa,
manufactured 100,000 gallons of syrup
during thu your, and found a home demand
for th?; whole. Thu tobacco crop is largor
and cxccpiionully prod. The cotton crop
will bc up to about 0,000,000 baleo.
Tho Supply Bill.
Wc publish elsewhere a synopsis of thu
Supply Dill passed by thc last Logisiadiro
lt aggregates 8284,276.15J for thu purposes
named in thc Act. Thu four heaviest items
are thc lOxceulivo Department, amounting
lo $42,204} tho Lunatic Asylum for sup
port, salary, addition to thc building, &e ,
$71,200, und tho support of (he 1'un'ten
liury, improvements connected with it und
d?ficiences, 850,857.82. This money goes
to good and necessary, and in casu ol the
Asylum, humane purposes, lt might bc
thal (hero could und should bc some rcduc
lion in thc salaries of clerks nnd employees
in tho Executive Department. In fact,
clerk hire find incidentals in these depart
mcnts exceed thc salaries of thc officers.
One ?toil] of ?23,100 for (ho salaries of
County Auditors could certainly bc dis
pensed with, without injury to (lie State,
by giving the work of these officials to tho
Treasurer, with n ?mal! additional per cent,
or salary. 'Thc bill docs not include legis
lativo expenses, except ibo one item of pub
lie printing. It is surely n grout improve^
ment on past yours and affords tho highest
proof of thc linne:.t purpose of tho Demo
eratic purly to run tho State Government
honestly und economically. From (imo to
limo tho expenses will, doubtless, bc further
curtailed, whenever this can bc dune, until
there ooo bo no room for complaint.
BITTEN BY A MAD CAT.-Mrs Haskell,
of this county, mother of Associate Justice
Haskell, was bilton several days ago by u
mad cut. The cut was lying on tho lloor in
front of the fire, ai d without any provious
evidences of madness, flew tit tho lady, nnd
it was only with assistance that sho was able
to remove it, Finally it was removed and
thrown into thc yuri, when it was very vio
lent. It is hoped th nt Mrs. Haskell muy
cxpcricnco no bud effect from tho attack of
thc eat.-Abbeville Press and Banner.
A destructive tire hus occurred at New
berry C. II. Ten stores were bumed.
Loss, 805,000. Insurance ?15.000. This
is tho fourth limo Newberry hus thus suf
fered since tho war. llcbuilding has com?
mcnocd.
There ure 1,1172 students in ottendanco
tit tho Michigan University, a larger enroll
ment than any other collcgo iu tho United
States.
Hight colored oonviola wcro sent to tho Slnto
Penitentiary from Abbeville County at tho ro
oont Hilting of lim Court of Concral Sessions
mid Common Picas.
"Cotton-Walhalla "
WAMiALbA, S. C., Fobroary 21, 1870.
Messrs. Editors: I noticed in ibo last issuo
of tho COUKIEU nn editorial headed "Cotton
Walhalla/' and think tho author a good law
yer and un ablo editor, but his information of
the cotton trude in Oconce County, especially
Walhalla, is quito limited. Ho'asked "if
Walhalla lins bought three hundred bulos
this season, outside of cotton paid for guuno?"
1 nm pleased to stato that Walhalla shipped
this season, exclusive of guano cotton, seven
hundred bales-hero is a discrepancy of four
hundred bales-ami presumo thc statoment
as to receipts nt Seneca City and Westminster
wcro ns much overrated ns Walhalla was
underrated. Cotton this season sold ns high
in Walhalla ns in Seneca City or Westmine
Hter, and tho freight to Charleston, Philadel
phia, New York and Boston nro ns low from
Walhalla as from Seneca City or Wcstmim
Kier, heneo thc question naturally urines, why
doos Walhalla not buy more cotton? Thc
reason is simply this; Walhalla is unfortui
natcly located above tho cotton belt, whilo
Seneca City and Westminster nro favorably
located for the cotton trade, and while they
have all thc udvantages ns tu transportation
that Walhalla bas with tho favorable goon
graphical location, it ?9 quito natural that
Seneca Citv und Westminster will handle tho
bulk of cotton in Oconce County. Tho only
way Walhalla can bc made a good cotton mar
ket, situated as it is, will bo to pay moro for
tho staple (hun it is worth, and competent
buyers (as agents) arc very clear of this.
COTTON BUYER.
A NKW DECISION ON POM. TAX.-An
important decision was made by Judge
Kershaw at thc court in Aiken last week
as to thc payment- of poll tax. Under
recent act of thc Legislature a failure to
pav this tax is punishable with- line ot' im
prisonment. This will bc of interest to
those in thia county who have till along
made it n point to avoid thc payment of
this tax. In speaking of Judgo Korshaw's
charge in this matter thc Aiken lie o icio
says; Tho poll tax question is, wc hope,
forever set ut rest by tho decision of his
Honor Judge J, B. Kershaw, which was
rendered on .Monday, tho 10th instant, in
case of Dr J. D. Durham, who was arrested
and- carried before Trial Justice James K
Crosland, a few weeks since, and tried foi
failure to pay poll tax, ?nd sentenced
for samo, whereupon he appealed to tho
Circuit Court, which court affirmed tho
decision of thc Justice below. Dr. Dur
ham took thc ground that the poll tax is
unconstitutional, und'also said it was against
his religious principies to pay thc anne,
saying ho lind the money, but positively
refused to pay if. Judge Kcrslmv differed
with t'.io Doctor and gave un elaborate
opinion, a few extracts ol' which wo give
below:
ile said whatever is necessary to ent ry
on the Government must bc contributed
by thc community. The Legislature which
enacted this law wis elected by a majority
of the votes of the people, and sinon the
adoption of the Constitution tho- Inw is
binding on every citizen Tho Govern
mont is authorized to levy a tax on all
persons within certain ases, which'tax is
given lo the cause of public education As
to the Scriptural grounds, tho J uduc .said
he had novel' seen anything in the Bible
which would warrant thc Doctor in rc
fusing to nay his poll tax. Appeal dis
missed with costs.
Prisoner remanded to Trial Justice for
enforcement cf sentence.
COM* M nt A, February 20. - .dr. A. C. Terry,
the Chicago manufacturer, whoso arrival in
Columbia was nm.mumed in tho I\'ews and
Courier two days ugo. will leave for home
this evening, lt is grulif> ing to be able to stale
that his visit has resulted most satisl'aetm-ily
tn himself and to thc friends ul South Caro
lina manufacturing enterprise. Tho pleasure
of the. hitter may bc inferred when it hs said
that Mr. Terry has-finally decided to establish
a large muuuftt';loi-y of woolen and cotton
gouda upon the banks of tho Oongnrec, and
that it is intended that ibo enterprise shall bo
in lull operation by the Krst day of May in
this year. Thc necessary papers have been
and uro being prepared, nod tho undertaking
now awaits only tho construction of thc proper
buildings, which will be erected within thc pen
itcntiary enclosure. The superintendent and
directors of tho Penitentiary had-already de
termined to erect now and commodious work
shops for tho purposes of tho institution, in
place of thc Cabins which now exist, nnd have
mudo large prepcrntions for thc manufacture
I of the necessary brick- lt has now been
j decided to build upon such a scale as will
allow (bu penitentiary to use a portion of thc
shops for its own needs, mid rent tho remain
ing spaco to Mr. Terry. This gentleman will
hire and employ about ono hundred convicts,
and set them to work nt once, under skilled
instructors to manufacture both cotton and
woolen hose, Ac, suitable to tho demand of
this market. Tho machines used in this
spcciil branch of mau n fact uro aro "run"
principally by hand power, and tho enterprise
is, therel ne, to a largo extent, independent
of the delays likely to attend upon thodovcl
opcinent ot the water power of thc canal,
which, howcvoi, cnn bc readily utilizedlo any
needed extent when it shall have been made
available.
As tho pioneer of Northern eapitaltita sock
ing investment of their money and skill in
this section, Mr. Terry deserves tho special
recognition and encouragement of tho people,
lind it is earnestly to bo hoped, ns it is reason*
ably to bo oxpectcd, that he will re?oive it
without stint.
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IN T 8 M Vft ft A N* OB. - When men say that u
person is intemperate, they mean that he
drinks too much wine or strong drink, und is
damaging bis body by doing so. Now, tho
Bible, teaches us to honor our bodies. Them
aro several texts that teach this, but wo ought
to have sens,; enough tu do it, even if tho
Bible did not toll us to. Tho body is tho
houso of tho soul, tho Apostlo calls it our
earthly house. When 1 talk to you, I speak
to your soul, and not to your body, but wo
honor lino houses, und no house is so won?
derlei aa our body.
It is a sin lo dishonor our body. Wo have
no bnt-inoss to put anything into it that
would burl it. When wc put liquor into
our bodies it makes us excited, takes away
our minds, mid makes us do a good many
things that wo shall hu sorry for. Let UH
rondin tho twenty-third chapter of Proverbs
from vorso twcnty-nlno to vorso thirty-five,
and seo what the Bible says about drinking
liquor.-Apples of Cold.
WASHINGTON, February 22.-'Senator
Wodlcigh has formally notified Senator M.
C. Bullet, of South Carolina, that thc
committee on elections would on Monday
move that thc Senate tako up for considera
tion tho contest for his scat by 1), T.
Corbin.
.-..y-..;.: \ w?M?i?m?imm --,, m _?
Mooting of Nothern Settlers at
Highlands, N. C.
HIOKI.AKDS, MACON COUNT?, N. C.,
February 181 li, 1879.
lu compliance with thc acliou of Ibo CliarloUo
Convention of Northorii people, resident in (bo
South, Willoh met on tho 15th of January, and
issuod a call for delegates from all over Ibo
South of Nuri h em people who liavo tliclr homos in
In tho South, to meet in tho city of Raleigh on tho
18lli day of March, thc Northern residents in and
about Highlands met on tho above date. Hon.
C. C. Hutchinson, formerly of Kansas,*read tho
call. S. F. But brick, formerly of Michigan, was
olected Chairman, and Baxter While, formerly
of Massachusetts, Secretary, l in following
preamble nud resolutions wero then presented
and adopted:
Whereas, it has been reported abroad thal the
society and situation iii tho South aro unfavora
ble to Northern people; now, therefore, bo it
Resolved, by this convention of people from,
tho North, who have loontcd hero since tho war,
and aro now citizens of Macon County, North
Carolina
1st. Thal wo havo found tho old citizens of
tho South a kind, intelligent nnd law abiding
people.
2d. Wo have been welcomed among thom and
kindly treated in nil our associations with thom,
and our political and civil rights have been re
spected as well hero as in thc North.
Sd. Wo find hero a climate more uniform andi
lieut : li l ui than in thc North, (he summers being
cooler and (lie winters milder than in any
Northern Slate East of (ho Pacifie slope. Con
sumption, miasmas and other diseuses generated'
in low coiinhics, or by exposuro lo extremes of
heat mid cold, do not originale herc, nnd thoso
coming here willi such discuses genernlly re
cover.
dill. Thc soil nnd climate aro well adapted to
(he growth of all Northern grains, grasses, fruits
and vegelnbles.
Gili. Thc conni ry is bountifully supplied with
pure cold water in unfailing springs mid streams,
ami we-h eve one ol' tJio best-slock and dairy
countries known. Il is especially adapted' lo
sheep, and no less so lo bees, from ils abundance'
of honey producing Howers.
Olin A<a thc low countrie.-* lo (bo South ofr
and neal-us, do not produce profitably thc crops
most grown here, wc oam always be sure of a
market and fail'prices for OUV produce.
7th. We believe tlieixi is no other porlion#of
the Union combining so- many advantages for
Hie intelligent and industrious citizens of tho
North, who wish lo secure cheap nnd pleasant
homes, where they can follow tho pursuits in
dicated above.
After the adoption of these resolutions tho
following named gentlemen were elected ns
delegates to tho Raleigh Convention: S. T.
Kelsey, formerly of Kansas, Hon. C. C. Hutch
inson mid C. H. Allen, formerly of .Maine. Tho
delegates were empowered lo appoint substitutes
should it become necessary.
The following resolution wns then presented
mid adopted:
Ilcsolvetl, Thal a committee of three be elected'
lo secure funds lo pay ihe expenses of Hirco
delegates lo attend tho con vein icm-ol' Northern
settlers at Haleigh, wdich resulted in J. J.
Billilli, formerly of Indiana, 15. W. Wells, for
merly of New York, .lumea Sopv:y formerly of
Pennsylvania, being chosen.
A farther resolution was offered and noccptodl
as follows:
A't'.vo.'.ic.'i That Col. .lohn Ingriini is hereby
respsotfiilly requested lo solicit contributions
for ihe above mimed object from old c'nizen.s of
Macon county, who arc desirous of encouraging
Non hera emigration.
Thc Secretary was requested lo furnish copies
of Hie doings ol* this convention for publication!
in tho Kr.owr.K (.'minmi. Western- Iirporitr<.
Seneca.Advertis>r and ih- Hulviyh Observer.
l?oinaiks were made by Hon. C. C. Hutchinson
ami oilier gentlemen present and Ihe bust. of.
feeling prevailed throughout ihe meeting.
Il A XT I'll Will Til-] v.
Secret my;
Figures for tho Workingman.
.The following table being tho price-list
of wholesale grocers nnd dry coods dealers
in 1864, and thc prices for thc same goods
ut thc present time show thc difference
1801. 1878.
Crushed?sugar 80 20 80 10'
Cuba sugur 21 8
N O. molasses, gal 1 35 40
Cofieo, lb. 46 20*
Cotlon, lb; 1 50 I?
Pork, bbl.. 45 00 0 00'
Cold 2 50 1 00*
Print.i 40 6
Dohiinea 40 10
Ginghams- 40 6
Checks 55 18
liest ticking 75 25 '
Halmoral skirts 5 00 1 50
Brown drill? 00 12
Canton flan nols 05 8
Bleached muslin 55 21
Brown muslins 55 8
'Ibo footing of thc list for 1864 is 861.07,.
while that for 1878 is but 818.45, for tho
sumo urticlrs. In 1864 luborcrs received;
nt tho rotc of two dollars per day, while
now thc samo class of workman rcoeivo from
n dollar to a dollur and n quarter n day; but
thc (lollara day they now earn will purohoso
nearly two nnd one hal? times as muoh as
thc two dollurs they earned in 1864..
"Words of Wisdom.
Ono is never conscientious during action;,
only tho looker-on bas a consc' nico.
Ilabit is a cable. Wo wcuvo a th road of
it every day, and ut Inst wo cannot break
it.
A man's own good breeding is tho best
socurity against other pooplo's ill manners.
Small scrvico is lino sorvico while it lasts.
Of friends, howotor hnmblo, scorn not one,
Tho sickness of tho hoart is most easily got
rid of by complaining nnd soothing coiilidoncc.
Tho heart is like u musical instrument of
many strings, all tho cords of which require
pulling in harmony.
If ono strives to trent othors as ho would
bo treated by them, ho will not foil to como
near the perfect lifo.
A beautiful smilo is to thc female connies
nunce. what tho sunbeam is to tho landscape,
it nmbelishcs an inferior fuoo and redeems an
ugly ono.
Caro is thc lot of life, and ho that aspires
to greatness or high positions in tho hopo of
getting rid of it, is like ono who throws bimi
self into n furnace to avoid I ho shivering of
un ague
Knell inhabitant in the United Slates pays
$2 02 for tho support of tho public pchools,
and$1.80 for military purposes. Thoso two .
items of expenditure in other connu ?es of tho
world uro us follows: Prussia, 61 conts and
$2.20; Austria. 34 cents and $1.39; Franco,
20 cents and $100, Italy, 13 oems and $1.07,
Kngland and Wales, GC conts and $3.80,
StviUciUnd, 8b* conls and $1,