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b V. OL. XVI LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. theenfo ryin ast i al 10weapons;.w als car n othing no Wa developeq in relation Ttne wANINi ---- NO-2 AAU. t 0 /. 4 on i cu s - W . B . w m WHAT~~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ WHPesout0 .1 1(,on in which Mr CTY I -t a I - FOlt THE 8TATL. Several Ilmportant Measures tcoeh e Fl ConsideratOi.--Syn"IO,818 of the Pvoce Inge Thereon. COnLUMrA, December 10.-The wc of the Legislature has progresed rap ly and satisfactorily for the past we( The more important measures acted will now be noticed. THE CRIMINAL LAW. The bill to regulate the criminal pro tice in this State has passed the Hou and Senate both and is now before ti Senate judiciary committee, who u considering the House amendment The following is the text of the bill as left the House: Section 1. That every indictment sha be deemed and adjudged suflicient an good in law, which, in addition to sec ting forth the time and place, as no, provided by law, charges the crime sub staitially in the language of the com mo,* law or of the statute prohibiting th same, or so lainly that the nature o the ofence charged may be easily under stood. Section 2. That every objection to an) indictment for any defect apparent 01a the face thereof aall be taken by do mnurrer, or on motion to quash such in dietment before the jury shall be sworn, and not afterwards. Section 8. That if there be any defect in form in any indictment it shall be competent for the Court before which the case is tried to ambnd thoe said in dictment: Provided, such amnd int does not chanqe the nature of the offonce charged; that if on the trial of any ease there shall appear to be any variancebo at ieu e~ftoicd iii proof thereof, it shall be competent for the Court before which the trial shall be had to amend the said indictment according to the proof: Provided, such amendment does not change the nature of theoffIenc charged; and after such amendment the trial shall proceed in all r3spects and with the same consequence as if no vari ence had occurred, unless such amend mont shall operate as a surprise to the defendant, in which case the defendant shall bo entitled upon demand to a con tinuance of the cause. Section 4. That in any pica of autre fois acquit or autre fois convict it shall bo suflicient fur any defendant to state that he has been lawfully acquitted or convicted, as the caso may be, or the loflence charged in the indictment. Section 5. That every indictment for murder shall be deemed and adjudged sullicient and good in law, which in ad tition to setting forth the time and piace, together with a plain statement, divt-t.od of all usoless phraseology, of the manner in which the death of the deceased was caused, charges that the defendant did feloniously, wilfully tand of his malice afordhought kill and mur der the deceased. Section 6. That in all cases whatso ever in which it shall be necessary to make any averment in aiy indictment a to any instrument, whether the samc consists wholly or in part of writing, print or figures, shall be sufficient to de scribe such instrument by any namo oz designation by which the same may b( usually known or by the purport thereof, rud in such manner as to sufliciently antify such instrument without set ng out any copy or fac simile of th< iholo or any part thereof. Section 7. That in any indictaent foi periury it shall not be necessary to sel forth more than the substance of th< oath and the fact concerning which th< perjury is alleged to have bee., com mitk4. Section 8. That any person or person who shall be arraigned for the crime o murder, manslaughter, burglary, arson rape or grand lareeny shall be entitle< to peremptory challenges not exceedini ten; and the State in such cases shiall b entitled to peremiptery challenges no exceeding five; and any person or pei] sons who shall be indicted for any crim or offence, other than those enumerates above, shall have the right to peremptc ry challenges not exceeding live, and th State in such cases shall be entitled t peremptory challenges not exceedin two. lBut no right to stand aside juro: shall be allowed to the State in any car whatsoever: Provided, that in no caii where there shall be more than one d< fendant jointly tried, shall more tha twenty peremptory challenges be allov ed in all to the defendants. Section 9. Nothing in this Act 0o] tained shall ap)ply to any case where r indictment has already been found at the case is actually pending. Section 10. That all Acts and parts< Acts inconsistent with this Act are hercd repealed. The bill to provide for the payme: by the State of the expenses of all pr ecutions in criminal cases, caused co considerable discussion, participated by several members, Colonel 11ask< leading the light against the bill and 12 Riankin defending it. Finally it wasi definitely postponed by a vote of to 4.is The next bill taken up was the o amending the General Statutes in re: tion to liens on buildings andl lamn Several specches were made on the bi and the dcbate was long and intesti; After every- feature had been fully a freely discussed it was ind~efinitely po0 ponedl. Numerous bills have p~assed their thi readings, among wvhich--the bill to pr ish cook-lighting within three miles anay chartered institution in this State. CONCEALED WEAI'ON.. TIhere was some discussion on the 1 (by Dr. Lee, of Charleston,) to ame the ILw as to the carrying of concal wearJ ma, making the offence a feloi DX. Leo sup~ported~ his bill in an a argument and was seconded ,by P'opo, of Nowberry, Mr. Boozer, Edgefield, Colonel McKissiok, of U~ni and others. Mr. Gary, of Edgetii opposed the bilA on the ground that present law was .suflicient to suppress evil if it was prop)erly enforced. Fin a vote was reached on a motion to the bill. The motion was dofeat4d the fight *aaroopetcd. Mr. Wilson York, Mr.' Haskell, of Coh bia, Mr Brawley, and others opposes the bill the grounds giveni above, viz., that creasing the penalty would not em - -' -- a " %A 0~ 1eOnflM4 to rc4 lnit the bill, and then adjourne. THE PROSPUATE nILL. l 'The phosphate bill, the provisions wich navo already been sunarized these columns, caused (uto a lengi irk debate in the Senato'. 'N vaious pe id- v usions of the bill were freely disus k-o~rt vote came 11p) onenator T . t a motion to make the duration on the proposed grant ten years instead twenty. Thin amendment was lost b voto of 17 nays to 16 yeas. Next amendment to increse the royaly w c- lost by ai vote of 2ays th olty so Various other amendments wore offero le with varying results, but without inc re cating the sense of the Senate upon ti s. measure as whole. Finally SonahA it Moise, of Sumter, moved to indefinite] postpone tho bill. Senator Murra 11 moved to table this motion. The y Sand flays were called, and the vote stoe as follows: Yeas Alexaider Bell, Jioman, Buisi -Edward, Field, H~owell, Murray, Moore Munro, MoMaster, Reynolds Sinkici 3 Sligh, Smythe, Talbert, Williams-17 E Nays-Auetin, Black, Byrd, Crows Erwin, Hlemphill Izlar,.- Kennedy Moody, McCall, ' Moise, Patterson Rhame, Smith Wofford, Wingard Woodward' and Youmans-18 n The bil was then indefinitely post poned without a division. SOME N.w MEASURES. Quito a number of now measures have been introduccd-among them the fol lowing: In the Senate: Bill to amend the trial justice law. Bill to regulate licenses for insurance companies doing business in this State. Bl .to renew and amend th -oha1r. charter of the Farmers' Phosphate Com pany. 'v Bill incorporating the Security Sav ings Bank of Charleston. Bill incorporating the Summerville Building and LoanAssociation. By Senator Moore, bill to restore a per diem payment to county boards of examiners. In the House: Mr. Lesesne, bill to re peal certain Acts so as to remit the county of Colleton to the operations of Chapter 27, General Statutes, relating to I he stock law. Mr. Abney, bill to amend Chapter 72, &c., o.f the General Statutes, relating to assigninents by insolvent debtors. Mr. t nerun, bill to chaiter the Cam den Street Railway Company. Mr. Teague, bill requiring the euper intendent of the Penitentiary to provide separate maintenance, lodging and train ing for criminals under 15 years of age. Mr. Plowdeu, bill to authorize the town council of Forreston to borrow money for building an ucaemy anC boarding-house. Mr. Johnston, bill to abolish the oflice of superitendent of highways in Pick ens county. ABOUT THE CENsUs. There was a long and -earnest debatc in the Mouse on the bill to re-apportion the representatives according to the bill previously reported by the proper com mittee. .'his bill simply provides that there shall be a reapportionment of rop resontation on the basis of the United States census of 1880 and divides oui the Representatives among the counties, taking four from Charleston and on( each from Aiken, Hampton and Rich land counties, and giving an additiona Representativo to Beaufort, Edgefield Greenville, Laurens, Marlboro, Spartan burg and Sumter counties. There was a long and earnest debate - the opponents of the bill resting thei objections mainly upon the ground tha a it would be in violation of the Stat f Constitution. Th esand nays wvere called on the motion to strike out the enacting worde During the call of the roll there was pcr Sfeet silence in the House, most of th t members keeping tally of the votes - The motion was finally declared lost b 0 a vote of 57 to (60. S Mr. Haskell offered an amendmeni -which was accepted, providing that thi o apotoment shall only hold good ur tilafter the adjournment of the Generi g Assembly which will be elected in 189( S After some further debate it was sus o gested that the apportionment set fort 4 in the bill had never been verified b Sreference to the records of the census< n 1880, as filed in the office of the Seer< 'tary of State. After somn discussion Mr. Haskel] motion in recommit to a special commi n tee was adopted on a division, with tlI d understanding that the committee shoul rep~ort as soon as they had verified t1 i igures and that the bill would then 1 'S taken up for its third reading, the opp1) sition guaranteeing that it should ni at lose its place on the Calendar. Ti a- special committee appointed by ti n- Speaker was composed of Messrs. Sim in son, D)ouglass and Aldrich. 311 The committee, on the day followin .r. reported that they had made the nec< n1- sary calculations, and found that t 57 representation would b~e as follows: A beville 5, Aiken :1, Anderson 4, Bar noC well 5, Beaufort 4, Berkeley 5, Charl< a- ton 8, Chester 3, Clarendon 2, Collet, le. 5, Darlington 4, Edgefield 6, Fairfield 11, Georgetown 2, Greenville 5, Hlampt g. 2, llorry 2, Korshaw 3, Lancaster ud Laurens 4, Lexington 2, Marion st- Marlboro 3, Nowvberry 3, Ocone Orangeburg 5, Pickens 2, Richland xd Spartanburg 5, Sumter 5, Union 3, 't n- liamsburg 3, York 4. of The committee stated that :in app tioning representatives to Berkeley a Charleston they had made the calcu tion according to the townships in t two portions of old Charleston since< into two counties. ed The House discussed the bill ait so Slength. A motion to indefinitely p( pon1)e1 was lost-yons 55, nays 58 the bill was then, without a divisi< passed and sent to the Senate. Anotl ?i effort wr a made to postpono the mati by referring it to the Supreme Court the pass on the constitutionality of the ni uytre, but this failed. kill INsURIAN( it n100r KILLED). id Th'le three-quarter value clause im of ance bill was nexListaken .up, the ob; Ijor being to prevent insurance compal on from inserting in their plicies whai in- known as the throo-foudhs value elai ure The bill had already'been discussed >ma- M 1b . -- -~ J uRaVo3ated, i r. onnors, of Lancaster, and I M08e1, of Sumter, Opposed th'e meast the bill was kiled--3 to 36;. of TILE LAnOR HOURs BILL. in The Greenville bill to limit the ti by of working in factories to ten hours ro- day caused much debate. An amer d. mont, making the bill apply only al- persons under twelve years of ag, of offered, which caused a long debate. T of bill was discussed to-day and went ov W t Monday. THE LAW OF MARRIED wOMEN. a. Mr. H do's bill to amend the law a, relation tothe contracts of married w Smen was next taken up and diseusse toA motion to kill the bill was lost-k to 23. Finally the bill was passed ; y h i 1. A married woman sfi o avethe right to purchase any speei( d of property in her own name and to tal proper legal conveyance therefor, and t contract and be contracted with in thl same manner as if she were unmarried Provided, that the husband shall not b liable for the debts of the wife con tracted prior to or after their marriage except for her necessary support. Section 2. All the earninga and income of a married woman shall be her owi separate estate, and shall be governed b1 the same provisions of law as apply to other separate estates THE DEPARTIENT OF AORIcULTURYE. The bill to reorganize the Department of Agriculture caused much debate in the Senate. It was finally pmsed, with an amendment provided for members of the Board and providing that eight of these mnembers and the Commissioner of also shall be elected by the General As sembly. Tito n-gt1T", --. TPhoeigt and Kechanical Yoce eight elected are to be one from each of the eight judicial circuits. THE UNIVERSITY. STleTill to reorganize and improve the State University caused an animated debate in the Senate-Messrs. Buist and Youmans favoring it, and Messrs. Moody, Hemphill, Sligh and Talbert opposing it. A motion to indefinitely postpone the bill was tabled by a vote of 21 to 13. After further debato the bill was made the special order for yesterday. And on yesterday it was made the special order for Monday next. OTHER MATT'ERS. Senator Edwards's joint resolution proposing to strike from the Constitu. tion, Section 10, of Article X, contain ing the mandato that all schools, in whole or in part, supported by tho pub lie fund, shall be free and open to all the youth of the State without regard t< raxce, color, &c., was killed without a divisioi as soon a.s the Senator hai cx plained what it meant. The joint resolution proposing to amend the Constitution as to JudgeE charging juries on questions of fact, was killed, on motion of its author, Senatoi Patterson. A bill to prevent the improper selling of food was passed, after the withdrawal of Senator Hemphill's jocular amend ment to make it apply to clothing, newspapers, . The committee on agriculture has hub mitted a favorable report on the bill tc establish a separate agricultural college, It was made the special order for th< 15th inst. Mr. Davenport has at last succeedet in getting a favorable report on his bil to protect the 'posstun while lie in ai unripe state. The coon will also be in eluded in the beneficent and muercifu provisions of the bill. r The House committee of agricultur had a lively discussion on the Colletoi stock law exemption bil. Seven of th committee agreed to report the bill mi r 1favorably and six favorably. The r< ports have been handed in. Dr. Pope's bill to amend the law as t -lawyers' costs so as to limit their fees fo attending references was passed to third reading. YThe joint resolution to call a Constitt: tional Convention passed the H ouse, be was lost in the Seuate. T1he joint res< slution to enlarge the judiciary by creal jing a Court of Errors (cornprisimg all th ,Justices and Circuit Judges) and pr<( viding that aless two Supreme Coil JTustices coneur wvith the Circuit Judg< the eciionof the latter should stan Unfrvorable reports were made on tli separate agricultural college bill and tl bill establishing certain scholarshipsi the Winthrop Training School for Teach -ers, but both were placed on the Caleu Cdar for consideration hereafter. TheHose aspaseda bilto exem~ the operations of the stock law. 1e No day has yet beon fixed for tl 1c election of a successor to Comxptroll p- General Stoney, whose resignation w handed to the Governor on Thursda g, Among those most promninently me is- tioned are .James S. Vernor, i'Eq., hie Oconce, lion. J. \V. D~aniels, of And, b-- son, Colonel John P. Thomas, of C 'n- lumbia, General St. ,J. Sinkler, as- Berkeley, Hion. WV. C. (Joker, of Dla on ington, J. Knox Livingstone, of Mai 3u, boro, and Colonel Johni T. Sloan, S on Clerk of the House. 2, Caipt. Stonoy will be applointed audil 4, of the SouthiCarolina Railway Compam it Tfhe price of coal has been' raised1 >r-- Neow York from $t.i0 in December,'1St udto $5.25 per ton in Decembher, 1887, a la- the latter figure vwill lie likely to preV lie during the winter. Owving to a strike mut a wage ise in the Lthigh anthrac regions, over twcnty thousand min me ,and laborers are unemployed and~ hi at- been out of work for seyoral weeks. T1 .nd( will be made an e~xcu1s for keeping :m, the price of coal, notwithstanding t ier the production has been larger the ;er, year than the year before. The Mo: to ,Journal makes an estimate of actual e ras- of production, transp~ortationi and lha ling of coal, shoawing that it could be livered to the consumer ini New York $3.60 per ton. But this is on paper oi !ur- -ihniondW Whig. es*A rgia man, who was engagedl is na'lng p a gate, was struck by lighitni 1so. He 1s recoverlog, andl the young lady's 1 ind conthnnoman ome every ungt u uua ind I"" )OwmImard I-rend of A 1141111 banunaprgii OWI.hIVN I, to Jlrinug, Ssad Colap in roopect. (froinn 1te NOw York Heral.) The Now South. It ib now nearly no Year since the boom in that section u mated Th h country has be Idr ring With the fairy tale Of the South to wakoening, of her wonderful mineral r( asources of the now towns and citi he pnig uP, of fortunes made in a da aner s t( rest Of it. Now that the formentation has sub sided, it is worth while to blow off th, froth and glance at what is uinder it in Well, thle situation is seriously strained1 In the now manufacturing cities every ~*body has been doing a little more thai 8 was safe, and, consequently is now bor a rowing. Money commands sixtet t4 eighteen per cent., and even more, n 1 the lowest rate at the banks on absolite I y safo security is one per cent. a month Sho boom nas subsided, but the peoph o are trying to sustain real estate on the c absurdly high level to which it was lifteol in the period of crazy speoulation. It e rests upon a vast trestle work of inter - related credits. Landowners, hotel keepers, agents, shopkeepers, mechanics-the humble owner of a single lot not yet half paid for and the land company with millions of al>ita esaro all trying to talk up and hold upl values. The creditor dioes not daro to press the debtor, for if one brick in the row is toppled over others must inevitably go, too, and no one could tell where the trouble would end. Everybody is bi boom-for a rising tide of speculation on which lie may float out of his dilicul ties. He feels sure that this revival is c soon, but i I rates paid amount to confiscation. The borrowers are doomed. The state of aflirs in the new manu facturing city of Birmingham, Ala , is fairly representative. During the "boom" one year ago, the Etyton Land Company (which founded the cit ; sold no end of building lots at enormous price,, taking one-fourth cash and notes at one, two and threo years respectively for the remaining three-fourths. The one year notes have of late been falling due from day to day, but the makers are unable to pay. The lots were sold for absurdly high pricee-as high as $1,500 per front foot on the ragged outor edge of so-called "business" streets. The twenty-five por cent. cash payment in most instances probably represents the full intrinsic value of the property, or more than the val e, but most of the lots were bought 1o"eculation, and in many instances lote, after sale by the company, have passed 1hough rer2 i'ands at always advancing prices; so that they are now nominally OwIned by persons soveral re moves from the original buyors. Now that the boom has (ied out and there is no demand for lots, the last buyers cannot sell except at a great saeri fice. 3t the lot owners and the com pany are alike interested in keeping property up on its fictitious level. Cool headed investors who visit the city are repelled by the prices asked, to the per manent injury of the town. True, the city is ringing just now with the sounds of hammer and trowel, but most of this work is being done under contracts made last spring or summer while the fever was on. I could learn of few or no new contracts being made. The land company is now "carr-ying" those who bought its lots, and individu als who sold real estate are doing the same by their debtors. If the company could seize the lots it could not sell them, so that the notes (which bear in terest, of course) are more valdable than the "dirt," provided the drawors succeed - in palling through, and if they do not, -the company can then recover the land anyhow. 1 rom selfish motives the comn -' pany must extend the notes of delini r quients and help them along---the eon cern must be kept agoing or be smashed. With the passing of the boom business -has fallen oil and shopkeepers burdened t with frightfully high rents are in dangot of going to the wall. The company, il - may be noted, could not foreclose if ii a would, for it has not a mortgage on th< lands sold. Instead of giving the buyei Sa deed and taking a mortgage for th< balance of the purchase money the coim ii pauy gives simply a bond that the titli shall be vested in the holder when thr ei last payment shall be made. 6 The case with which these bonds couh be transferred was an clement in foster ing the wild speCculationi. To wipe ou -the claims of the holders of these, how ever, would involve a long and todiou )litigation. At D~ecatur and some othe new cities they are wiscr; they give th buyers dleeds and clap mortgages on th p~roperty for the balance of the piurchas e money. er The Elyton Liad C:>mpany passed ii is; dividenld the other day, thus indirectl y, confirming the correctness of the stat< n- ments madle above. Instead of payin of its cash dividendl the company issue r.. script convertible into bonds. The scr i o- reptresents, the comlpanfy says, $2,400 of 000) of good notes in its treasury, and el- these cannot be disturbed, they ai rl.. going to make an issue of bonds instea< ., an other words, instead 'f the usual cas dhividlend the stockholders are oj'erod' or mortgage on their own property, an y. this because the drawers of the notes ai prolzably '"lying dlown." It's a tight aqueez3. If money shouil become easy and the iron tradel shou] in be prosperouis, and there should be m(, new speculation "'boom'' ini reality, I i rid mingham will pull through. ai But if monetsry stringency continue an and speculationt continues moribund, an ite thne stoppage of railr'oad building in tI ras Northwesnt shou~ld deipress the iron ii ye dustry, as niow seemis certaini, thent tjte tis is goinag to bie a e' 1 collapse in ''L up Magic Ciity"-~ a cohllpse which will tha] mi the New Suth to its centre, for the san ast conditionse prevail in thne other towr rag the had features being ant exact ratio DatS the madas of the speculation recent 3d- carried on. All this will probably ie- scouted by those whose geonlniary int for es are involved, bat it s trute just t say. sa 80o much for the finanelal situation 'a the new ontres; as to their futuregron In and their ultimnate ptEdperity .andi hM portance there can be no'question. eaui fore there can he any new leal) forwa:i .however, there will have to be a 'wiji h .- -rvusues, a groat deal ol Sprofit and loss. Some m Who fancy that they are worth h100,00 Will have to realize that the half Of that would be a very high cash paice for what they hold, othors who are a too far extended will have to "let go," - and there must be a general adj ustnient Of values on a rational and practical basis instead of the present speculative one. P rices and rents must como down. y On First Avenue, Birminghan the y writer was in a little shop on the first floor of a two story brick building. "here wero no ilagstones in front-.-only a dirt sidewalk, with the dust rising in little clouds from the feet of pedestrians. "Vhat rent do you pay boro?" was the -Visitor's query. S l w hundred dollars a month," was thet eply. h "xclaimcd the writer, "for this little house? Wly, it's a ridiculous rent." "Oh," said the shopkcoper, "I don't get the whole house. The floor above is rented out to it famil I py $.)ab for the store alone., y. In Birmingham it was, too, that the writer met a member of a New York firw who was looking for a suitable warehouse with a view to establishing a branch of their business in the "Magic Cityw A few (lays later this gentlein Was encountered( on anl outgoing train. "Well, are You going to make a start?" "Not by a long chalk. Thoso J areall cr zy. 1. found a brick building that Would suit me, but they asked t $3,700 a year rent for that four story C barracks. Why our firm has a wr. house in New York City, only one block oil Broadway, s 'ven stories, with cllar Sr., and his wife were returning from a - a visit to their brother, Mr. leaac John- - son, who has since died, they met with a shocking accident that has since re suilted in the death of Mrs. Johnson. 1r The accident happened near Mrs. liar riet Kitching's, in Tabernacle township. l They had just passed her house when they met Freddie Holmes, neplow of i Mr. Alfred Holmes, who was riding at. horso. Freddie attempted to get out of the road, but the front whool of Mr. I1 Johnson's buggy caught the horso in the I flank which caused him to come down a on the whool, crushing it to the ground. The noise occasioned by this collisionl I frightened the mulo drawing the buggy 1 and it immediately started ofi-running I about fifty yards-when it stopped and I commenced kicking. Mr. Johnson was : thrown out of the buggy, getting his arm , broken and sustaining other injuries. : The mule dragged the buggy som dis- i tance further, kicking as it went, until . btopped by Mr. Jas. Kitching, who 4 was at the mill and witnessed the accident. . When he got to the buggy he fonod the 1 mule standing with one foot through the dash, and Mrs. Johnson lying insensible 1 in the road twenty yards behind, having .1 been kicked in the forchead. She was i carefully picked and conveyed to the I residence of Mrs. Kitching, 'Dr. A. L. H1utto was summoned, and every thing 1 that could he done for her relief was done. The Doctor, after examining her ( injuries, said thero was no hope as her I skul bad been fracturt d. T'his hap pened about four o'clock on Friday J afternoon and at, ton o'clock on Hatur day this poor unfortunate lady was i corpse. Mrs. Johnson wits a sister to i Messrs. Ben and Elias Holman.--Aiken Journal anld Roviow. IIio r ig Ii vs. Clev.,elonI. The 1'ostoilice Department has often been asken to name a postolliceo after the lovely wife of the President, and when over the rluest could be complied with gallant Postmaster General Vilas has conse nI ed. Therefore thereois a Frances or Ci a.hmnd in niearly every State, hbut yestes .ay "( le Virginny" caime forward and took th-- eatke. Th'ley have at post oflice called D~ooms-awful namean they waniited a p)ostma~ster apjpointed1 at once, so what did they (10 but ask the applointmednt of Frances Cleveland as acting p~ostmuistress. The request taig gered the high postal authoritics, and at first the request came very near going into the waste paper basket. But the clerk in charge of the Virginlia desk hap penedl to read the letter again, andt found that the itpplicant's name had an~ HL. in it, andi read "'Frances H. Cleveland," and not ''Frances F. Cleveland." lBe sidles, the clerk( also discovered that the Virginians wanted to comliment Mrs. Cleveland more than other States had (done, andl so they picked out a postmils tress with a name as near as possible to a that of the beautiful mistress of the r Whlite House. The matter was thus ex a plained to First Assistant Postmaster a General Stevenson, and lhe at ouce or a dered Frances HI. Cleveland appointed acting p~ostmistress at D)ooms, Va. Thie a next thing in order will be to change the Y name of the postoflice fromi Dooms to White Hlouso.-B-Jaltimoie American. The, RealIo of SateeM. - It is astonishing how many of our .5 successful buisiness meni attribuite their o good fortune neither to luck or general l. excellence of judgment, but will tell you hI bow a strict adherence to some sin~gle a rule has done it all for them. Coannoe d (lore Vanderbilt's receipit for manking e millions, with certainty and celerity, was nover to sign a note. William E. IDodge d would not hold any pecuniary iintere-t d in any eniterp'risoe that wats at all atttrac a tive on Sundlay, and bec firmly believed r- that his wealth wa Is a rewan'I for coni scientiously observing the Sabbathi day ; ~, the first Jo (hn .bicobl Astor's charms lay in d investing in nothing aside fromt his reg oe ular business, except ini real estate; andI i- A lexanuder TI. Stewart would have antici oe patedl misfortune if lie had wantonly to broken the smallest peorsonlal engage te mont. Men of success cani all'ord to to practice the'ir theories, and eveni become a, slaves to them. Meni of failure cannot to indulge in such luxuries (of conduct. ly 1'ue Headlight. 'r- -l. E. PHuYsnoc's Me'bant 'i2'alor Es 1e tablishment, Col abiA'i. O., is in fnu .blast. Only a Itakw 'dovince any mone. All that want ' first-elas fitting thl suit try hire. A full 1Io if the ,bosi '- goods on hand. d, 'The Iowa breweries have closed, the lav u being dleeled against them. Tillu: It -TEar j IT AioI' (I. IE N E r v % .: it. Ipa nag 1Fk f th1 (:o3 lifl, all Sparto: \V lnhl,aoro. Tho Couferenco disposed of much in portaut iusiness, onl the closin dat''a lho report of tlo board of edun-.atioa after a warm deblaatA, wtas tLdo)ti 1, 1 CorumWendinag eollections for roptirs u Wolford College of $7,500, endowm-ie 815,000, professors' salaeres $1,00". Viniboro was1 elected for th! nex session of the Conference. A clas of fourteen young iLen wer admitted it-to the( Conferenco on trial Roports of the conmjitftee ()n Bib:a eallse, tewpruance, Conference rel .aions )ookh an(d Periodicals werO rC-ivca. lho secretary reports 63,122 ml( ica-s; paid for niissions, ly81,(32. Tho fotallow tug are the al))Oilntflent; for 1888: Charleston District--J. 1l. i3o30 , -- liding ilder. Charlestonl Tr' - . Wells; Bethel, R. ). Stuart; l>'rin treet, J. E. Carlisle; Cunberlim, 3. Browile; .ainlay D X ' 3erkeley, B. L. HoLari>yd;', Na'an .i B. 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'Anderson;attt eaai litision toi bespli ed;iai~~ I enecta ( aity, I WX. JBarber; Walhaalla, \l. 1. Cutrlisi Ocontee mtiasb1N. Wig~ht; WXilliar ton Ftemaral# , -. Lantder, pre-c Spttnur it T. (. Ilerbt P'residinag IIdeb spartanutrg, J. Clifton; City Minpon, E. P. Tay Untion,; S. A. \Vebr; (Cherokee, XW. Zinttmanaaa; #outh Uniona, 1. 'Li. F~rid dlonaesvillaa, D. P. lBoyd, (Gatllaey Cat A. A. Gilbnrt; Lanrann.. '.l I Mnor S. 'North Laurens, J. C. Counts; Clin J. E. Mabafly; B3elmont, 8. J. McLeodi Campobello, J. P. Atta ay; Pacolet, it . Neville; Clifton, J. Attaway; Wofford (1llgo, A. Coke Smith, professor; A r-' Hodges to the Los Angeles Confer.. er ceJ. Guess to the West Texas iConferejjc0 . IEPORT ON IHAILIROADS rt Annual Iteort or the "btr itItory of the itatiroain of the County. The rst annual report of the Inter 1 Btato Commerce commission hias jtr.it t been made public. It illls 42 pages of closely printed matter, in which the tork of the Commission since its origin, tthe effects of th, nlow law u )on trade l ra rt and the o and Idefet tar trae exhaumtivoli. The report opens with a v trst tsry of roo s in the United States. Tiw Irailroadl mileage of !he United States, it i,4 ihown, is 1:3,986. The number of cerporations represented in this mileage 4is I but by the consolidation or easing of roads, the number of corpora ions controlling and o crating roads as carriers i - reduced to 760. Itis believed Shat 1,200 roads operated by ab)out fve hundrect corporations as carriers are I i1bjeet to the law. The Commission has as yet no statistics of its own collec I ie to lay before the public, but quoted frol at mnal geneially accepted as re r.liable, tle cost of construction and equipment of these roads which places it , t $7,25-1,1995,223, and estimates the funde" debt of the companies at $3,802, .64,330. Some idea, the Co extension of railroads they say: It is striking proof of the recklessness of cor porate management, that 108 roads rep resenting a mileage of 11,066 are now in the hands of receivers managing them under direction of courts whose atten tion is thus necessavily withdrawn from the more appropriate ruling of judicial bodies;, nevertheless the Commission feels justified in saying that the opera tion of the Act has in general been elicient. In some particulars as we un derstand has also been the case with :-imilar statutes in some of the States it lhias operated directly to increase rail road earnings, especially in the cutting ol of free paes on passengers trains and putting an end to rebates, drawbacks and special rates upon freight busiunem. Freight traflic for the year has been exceptionally large in volume ind is believed to have boon in no small degree itiniulated by a growing confi dence that the lays of rebates and ial rates were ended and that open rites on an equial biasia were now offered to all. The reflex action of this devel (piment of confldonce among business men has beeu highly favorable to the roads. The tendency of rates has boon down ward, and they have set down perma neut advances exce)t when excessive (oipetitioni had reduced them to a joint at w hich they could not well be mAintained, no destructivo rate would htave occurred, but increased stability in rates has tended in the direction of stability in general business. There is, however, g reat mischief resulting from from frequent changes in freight rates oil tho part of some of the companies. iChanges that in some cases it is dilticult to saugg; tt an excuso for. The report closes with the following suggestions for aionmdnents to the now law: "Incident aly in this ropot some need of amend iuenit has been pointed out. Especially ought the law, as we think, t-. indicate in plain terms whether the express busi ness and all other transportation by the carriers named in the Act shall be gov ernUd by its provisions. The provision against the uddeni rising of rates ought to bie clearl~y made appjlicalo to joint rate; as well asi to ot hers. Tholi Commis 510on ought also to have the authority anid the means to bring ab~out something like uniformiity in the method of pub lishiing rates which is niow in great con tusioni, and to carefully examine, collect and supervise then schedules, contracts,. etc., required by tihe lawv to beC tiled, as well as properly to handle the mass of statistical information catled for by the twentieth section. For all these pur pioses, as welh as for others improperly pirovidled for, a considerable ad lition to the force employed with tihe Commission will be indlispenlsable. Other matters, and particuilarly whetheir tranisportation by water shaill be made subject to the Act are submitted to the wisdom of Con gress without recounnendation." -The~ Fa.tal Tree. in] 1%t., le'ot (Gaines was a little more than an Indian tort. Early in the Upring of that memorable year, while hostile Indlins thronged this seotion, and~ before they were re. oved by Uncle Siamx across the river above us, a party of the troacherous wretches stole up the thuen densely wooded lie e of the TIown Branch, and lpassedl out to the Bulfton settlement, whe tre they were met by sol di1 rs and thrashed b~ack to their reservau tion. ,Juist where thle lbufaula road crosses thre Towni lranch, a beautiful spring bub bled fromh the ground, and p eople in the vicinlity (lid their wvashing there. On the day referred to above, a -lady was at the spring washing, when the red miscreants passed. 'They brutal ly murdered her, and after removing her scalp left her body lying by the spring, her bleeding hem Ipilltowed on the roots of a stately beech. Time has done its wvork. '.1lie Iniatns are gone, SCOnlos have chnged and~ the toworinig beech hasi long since gone to decay, and only its wormh-eaten stump~ remains to mark * lhe spot where long years ago this sad traed~y of death occurred. A friend poirntted us to thle fatal spot and gave us Sthe above facts. They were new and in Stre~sting to uts, arnd wilhl dou jsa prove to our redr. Tyul have aniged. --Fort (laines, , ., W ~~4That are you doinlg now;: Qms?"' Fasked the minister, lpatroinizlngty. ''1 am a writer for the pre ." said the ldpodly. -t, "'Indeed, Iyou are qilte young habt; i. what do you write!" "I direct I; Funitetona~l deraing.emnIt of tbd female4 ,1. systemr is qicikly eprled by' the use of D~r. ;I. V. Pierce's "Favorite I rescription," It relremoves pain anid restores health *And is; strength. By all drugglsts.