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s7 /I" vOL,XVII. OIICKENS, S. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1887. NO. 12. Ij I t1IT~1fAtItI?I1 t11~ff1ti~txN O..,12. Ji.I.iOIan L I V rai I tI i'i iU1VJI1 J1 , WHAT THIE LAwMAKEIKS HAVE I)ONE FOiL TIHI STATE. 1 several Imlportant MieaKures Recivo Flial ConsideratIon--Synopsi,s of the Proceed- 1 Ing Thereon. t CoLuhImA, December 10.-The work d of the Legislature has progressed rapid ly and satisfactorily for the past week. b The more important measures acted on t will now be noticed. t TIE CRIMINAL LAW, a The bill to regulate the criminal prac- k tioe in this State has passed the House V and Senate both and is now before the w Senate judiciary committeo, who ire C considerin the House amendments. n The following is the text of the bill as it 1 left the House: p Section 1. That every indictment shall n be deemed and adjudged sufficient and a good in law, which, in addition to set- aI ting forth the time and place, as now provided by law, charges the crime sub- E stantially in the language of the corn- N mon law or of the statute prohibiting the S same, or so plainly that the nature of the offence charged may bo easily under- E stood. l1 Section 2. That every objection to any 11 indictment for any defect apparent on V the face thereof shall be taken by de murrer, or oi motion to quash such in- p dictment before the jury shall'bo sworn, and not afterwards. Section 3. That if there be any defect b in form in any indictment it shall be to competent for the Court before which the case is tried to amend the said in- - dictment: Provided, such amendment does not change the nature of the offence charged; that if on the trial of any case there shall appear to be any variance be- o tween the aIttions of the indictment and the evidence offoeed in proof ci thereof, it shall be competent for the Court before which the trial shall be had p to amend the said indictment according - to the proof: Provided, such amendment i 'does not change the nature of thoofYence B charged; and after such amendment the trial shall proceed in all respects and with the same consequence as if no van once had occurred, unless such amend mont shall operate as a surprise to the defendant, in which case the defendant co shall ho entitled upon demand to a con- C tinuance of the cause. Section 4. That in any plea of autre th fois acquit or autre fois convict it shall lie sufficient for any defendant to state that he has been lawfully acquitted or convicted, as the case may be, or the dE offence charged in the indictment. Section 5. That every indictment for murder shall be deemed and adjudged s suliieient and good in law, which in ad dlitioni to setting forth the time and p>lace, together with a plain statement, t dive fed of all useless phraseology, of the manner in which the death of the j deceased was caused, charges that the defendant did feloniously, wilfully and o of his malice aforethought kill and mur der the deceased. Section 6. That in all cases whatso over in which it shall be necessary to make any averment in any indictment as to any instrument, whether the same consists 'cwholly or in part of writing, r print or figures, shall be sufficient to de- in scribe such instrument by any name or designation by which the same may be usually known or by the purport thereof, S rnd in such manner as to sulicien.tly t ;ontify such instrument without set ;ng out any copy or fac simile of the rhole or any part thereof. Section 7. That in any indictment for perjury it shall not be necessary to set forth more than the substance of the bl oath and the fact concerning which the perjury is alleged to have boca com mitted. o Section 8. That any person or persons i who shall be arraigned for the crime ofC murder, manslaughter, burglary, arson, rape or grand larceny shall be entitled to peremptory challenges not exceeding ten; and the State in such eases shall be0 entitled to poremptory challenges not exceeding live; and any person or per-T sons who shall be indictedl for any crimea or offence, other than those enumerateda above, shall have the rigl' to peCrempto-w ry challenges not exceeding five, and the State in such cases shall be entitled to t peremptory challenges not exceedingA two. But no right to stand aside jurors shall be allowed to the State in any case whatsoever: Provided, that in no case where there shall be more than 0110 do fendant jointly tried, shall mere than1 twenty poremptory challenges he allow- ti ed in all to the defendants. Section 9. Nothing in this Act con tained shall app)ly to any case where ann indictment has already been found and(t the case is actually pending. Section 10. That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby g repealed. The bill to p)rovide for the pa mont l by the State of the expenses of al p)ros- s ecutions in criminal eases, caused con- e considerable discussion, participated in s by several members, Colonel Hlaskell leading the light against the bill and Mr. r Rtankin defending it. Finally it was in- a definitely postponed by a vote of 57 r to 45. The next bill taken up was the one y amending the General Statutes in rela- t~ tion to lions on buildings and lands. 5 Several speeches were made on the bill, ( and the dt bate was long and interesting. '2 After every- feature had been fully arnd I freely discussed it was indlefinitely p)ost- a poned.( Numerous bills have passedl their third e readings, among whuich--the bill to pun- li ish cock-lIghting within three miles of any chartered institution in this Stat 3. t CONCEAL~ED wEAPONS., There was some dliscussiion on the bill (by Dr. Lee, of Charleston,) to amendt the iiw as to the carrying~ of concealed weal >ns, making the offence a felon. 1. 1). 1 o. supported his bill in an abl argument and was seconded ,by J)r. l P'opo, of Newberry, Mr. Boozor, oft Edgeflld, Colonel McKissick, of Union, I and others. Mr. Gary, of EdX]geileld, e opposed the bills on the ground that thei present law was sufficient to suppress the r evil if it was properly enforced. Finally ' a vote was reached on a motion to kill the b,ill. The motion was defeated aLd the fight was rooper.ed. Mr. Wilson, of a York, Mr. Haskell, of Coh bia, Major I. Brawley, and others opposer the bill on I the grounds given above, viz., that in- k croasing the penalt.v wonu not ensur ' uu liwreement Or the law against Oar- I ying concealod weapons. Ihe discus- I Ion lasted till 10 p. im., when the House I >y a vote of 75 to 37 decided to recom- T at the bill, and then adjourned. r THE PIosPHATI: BILL,. t The phosphate bill, the provisions of hich have already been summarized in [lose columns, caused quito a lengthy c obato in the Senate. Tho various pro- < isions of the bill woro freely discussed. 1 'he first vote came up on Senator Tat- F ort's motion to make the duration of e io proposed grant ten years instead of 1; venty. This amendment was lost by a t oto of 17 nl,ys to 16 yeas. Next his mendment tc increase the royalty was >st by a vote of 25 nays to 10 yeas. r arious other amendments wore offered, ith varying results, but without indi ting the sense of the Senato upon the Leasure as whole. Finally Senator [oiso, of Sumter, moved to indefinitely ustpone the bill. Senator Murray h Loved to table this motion. The yeas nd nays were called, and the vote stood s follows: P Yeas-Alexander, Bell, Biomsn, Buist, c dward, Field, Howell, Murray, Moore, [unro, M Master, Reynolds, Sinkler, i ligh, Smythe, Talbort, Williams-17. t Nays-Austin, Black, Byrd, Crews, t rwin, Homphill, Izlar,. Kennedy, ? :oody, McCall, Moise, Patterson, o hane, Smith, Wollord, Wingard, < roodward and Youmans-18. s The bill was then indefinitely post )ned without a division. 0 SOME NEW MEASURES. Quito a number of now measures have en introduced-among them the fol wing: In the Senate: Bill to amend the trial a stice law. Bill to regulate licenses for insurance a >mpanies doing business in this State. a Bill to renew and amend the charter the Oak Point Mining (ompiny. fill to extend, amend and renew the iarter of the Farmers' Phosphate Coin my. Bill incorporating the Security Say- e gs Bank of Charleston. Bill incorporating the Summervillo ailding and LoanAssociation. S By Senator Moore, bill to restoro a d r diem payment to county boarus of Y amimers. In the House: Mr. Lesesno, bill to re- o al certain Acts so as to remit the p unty of Colleton to the operations of 2 aapter 27, General Statutes, relating to ' o stock law. A Mr. Abney, bill to amend Chapter 72, o: ., of the General Statutes, relating to siguments by insolvent debtors. Mr. Ancrum, bill to charter the Cam sn Street Railway Company. Mr. Teague, bill requiring the super- t tendent of the Penitentiary to provide parate maintenanco, lodging and train- i g for criminals under 15 years of age. ti Mr. Plowden, bill to authorize the r wn council of Forreston to borrow r oney for buildiag an acaaemy and d )arding-house. Mr. Johnston, bill to abolish the office superintendent of highways in Pick- a is county. k ABOUT TILE c'ENSUS. P There was a long and earnest debate ? the Mouse on the bill to re-apportion o representatives according to the bill 0 eviousl y reported by the proper com ittee. This bill simply provides that cre shall be a reapportionment of rep sentation on the basis of the United ates census of 1880 and divides out o Representatives among the counties, kirg four from Charleston and one oh from Aiken, Hampton and Rich ud counties, and giving an additional epresentativo to Beaufort, Edgofield, reonville, Laurons, Marlboro, Spartan u irg and Sumter counties. c There was a long and earnest debate-P e opponents of the bill resting their 1 >Jeotions mainly upon the ground that would be in violation of the State si :nstitution. cm The yeas and nays were called on the otion to strike out the enacting words. ~ uring the call of the roll there was per- h et silence in the House, most of the embers keeping tally of the votes.a Lie motion was finally declared lost by vote of 57 to 60. t Mr. Haskoll off'ered an amendment, bich was accepted, providing that this >portionment shall only hold good uIn t after the adjournment of the General isombly which will be elected in 1890. After some further debate it was sug isted that the apportionment set forth the bill had never been veriticd bya iference to the records of the census ofa 480, as filed in the oflice of the Secre ry of State. After some discussion Mr. IHaskell's b otion to recommit to a special commit- t eo was adopted1 on a division, with the aderstanding that thle committee should ( sport as soon as they had verified the gures and that the bill would then bec iken up for its third reading, thle oppo tion guaranteeing that it should not >so its place on the Calendar. The ;>ecial committee appointed by the e pleaker was comp)osedl of Messrs. Simp- ( n, Douglass andl Aldrich. la Thle committee, on the day following, aported that they had made the neces- t iry calculations, and found that the ( >presentation would be as follows: Ab- s ovillo 5, Aikon 3, Anderson 41, Barn- I eli 5, Beaufort 4, Berley 5, Charles- ] >n 8, Chester 3, Clarendon 2, Colleton i Darlington 4, Edgofield 6, F'airfieldl 3, 1. ucorgetown 2, Greenville 5, Hlampton ( ,JHorry 2, Korshaw 3, Lancaster 2, aurens 4, Lexington 2, M[arion 4, c lMrlboro 3, Newberry 3, Oconee 2, rangeburg 5, Piekens 2, Riehland 4, partanburg 5, Sumter 5, Union 3, Wil amsb)urg 3, York 't. The committee .,tated that in aipper- 3 onmng representatives to Berkeley anid to hiarleston they hiad made the calcuhe- t on accordling to the i,o,vwnshuipri in the~ dl ye portions of old Charleston since cutL a lto two counties. r The House (discussed the bill at some a ngth. A motion to indefinitely post- I. One was lost-yeas 55, nays 58- and( v io bill was then, without a division, t assed and sent to the Senate. Another t ineort wus madoe to postpone the matter, y y referring it to the Supreme Court to ,1 ass on the constitutionality of tile mleas- C re, but this failed. The three-quarter value clause insur nce bill wasi nexitaken .up, the ob)jct eing to prevent insurance com panics com inserting in their policies what isr nlown as tIhe three-fourths value clause. 'ho bill had alreadyv'been diussedn and lothing new was develope4 in relation o it. After a discussion in whioh Mr. V. B. Wilson, of York, advosated, and " Ifr. Connors, of Lancaster, and Mr. 1se8, of Sumter, opposed the measure, he bill was killed-73 to 30. TILE LABOR IiOUBS DILL. The Greenville bill to limit the time f working in factories to ten hours per ri ay caused much debate. An amend- aR 1ent, making the bill apply only to so ersons under twelve years of age, was ffered, which caused a long debate. Te an ill was discussed to-day and went over ) Monday. THE LAw OF MARRIED WOMEN. frc Mr. Hyde's bill to amend the law in W 9lation to the contracts of married we- In ten was next taken up and discussed, bo motion to kill the bill was lost-88 wA ) 23. Finally the bill was passed in ro nis shape: eiF Section 1. A married woman sfhall the ave the right to purchase any species IY f property in her own name and to take ''l roper legal conveyance therefor, and to ar :ntract and be contracted with in the ab ume manner as if she were unmarried: in 'rovided, that the husband shall not be rel able for the debts of the wife con- rel -acted prior to or after their marriage, tcept for her necessary support. eh Section 2. All the earnings and income ov f a married woman shall be her own Io jparato estate, and shall be governed by of 1c same provisions of law as apply to he ther separate estates. da TIIE DE1'AITiIENT OF AGIICULTURE. in The bill to reorganize the Department w] f Agriculturo caused much debate in the enato. It was finally passed, with an bc niendmont provided for members of 01 o Board and providing that eight of th iese members and the Commissioner of co [so shall be elected by the General As- ad imbly. The other two members are to h e the master of the State,grange and h me preeident of the State Agricultural e ad Mechanical Society. 'The eight ra [ected are to be one from each of the be ight judicial circuits. THE UNIVEISITY. fa( Tllc~uill to reorganize and improve the fai tato University caused an animated "IL abate in the Senate--Messrs. Buist and Cc oumans favoring it, and Messrs. no [oody, Hemphill, Sligh and Talbert pr posing it. A motion to indefinitely at stpono the bill was tabled by a vote of fo t to 13. After further debate the bill on as made the special order for yesterday. du nd on yesterday it was made the special un cder for Monday next. oriER M.irrEns. pr Senator Edwards's joint resolution I roposing to strike from the Constitu. on, Section 10, of Article X, contain- pr ig the mandate that all schools, in pr hole or in part, supporteL by the pub e fund, shall bo free and open to allv lo youth of the State without regard to I ice, color, &c., was killed witheut a iviPion as soon as the Senator taa ex- ad iained what it meant. o The joint resolution proposing to n nend the Constitution as to Judges larging juries on qluestion.s of fact, was th lied, on motion of its author, Senator bu atterson. fic A bill to prevent the improper selling pa' food was passed, after the withdrawal Senator Hemphill's jocular amend- he cut to make it apply to clothing, reI nwspapers, . I The committee on agriculture has sub- cit it.ted a favorable report on the bill to i of tablish a separate agricultural eel lege. was made the special order for the Ilas th inst. Mr. Davenport has at last succeeded CO getting a favorable rcport on his billC protect the 'possumc while lo in an th iripo state. The coon will also be in- as uded in the beneficent and merciful ar rovisions of the bill.sa The House committeo of agriculturoetl la lively discussion on the Colleton ock law exemption b.i. Seven of the >mmittee agreed to report the bill tn .vorab)ly and six favorably. The re rts have been handed in. a Dr. Pope's bill to amend the law as to a wyers' costs so as to limit their fees forpa tending references was passed to a aird reading. ( The joint resolution to call a Constitu- ha onal Convention p)assed the Hfouse, but ~ as lost in the Seuate. The joint reso- of Etion to enlarge the judiciary by creat- m g a Court of Errors (comprising all the astices and Circuit Judges) and pro-la ding that unless two Supreme Court a astices concur with the Circuit Judge, a c d}ecision of the latter should stand lirmied. pha Unfi,vorable rep)orts wvere made on the ls piarate agricultural college bill and thea ill estab)lishing certain scholarships in be ic Winthrop '[raining School for Tieach es, but both were placed on the Calen- ( rur for consideration hereafter. The H ouse has p)asst d a hilh to exemp1t lit >rtamn portions of Berkeley county I crmn m0 operations of the stock law. bua THEi COMiTn''oLLERi GENEn]AL. pri No day has yet been fixed for the m<1 Letion of a successor to Comptroller leneral Stoney, whose resignation wvas di anded to the Governor on Thursday. CO maiong those most p)rominently men- m oned are .James S. Vernoer, Esq., of ;its )coneo, Lion. d. \ V. Daniels, of Ander- seC on, Colonel John P. Thomas, of Co.. rc ambia, General St. .J. Sinkler, of 06 oerkeley, lHon. WV. C. Coker, of Dlarnl- .th agton, J1. Knox Liivingstone, of Marl-= ge oro, aund Colonel Johu T. Sloan, Sr., In hlerk of the House. dIi Capt. Stoney will be appointed auditor mn f the South Carolina Railway Company. tha -- be The price of coal has been raised in be Tew York from$1 .60 in D)ecemnber,~188u;, ne > 5.25 per tonu in D)ecembher, 1887, and ni 10 hatter figure will be likely to prevail . uiring the winter. Owing to a strike ona ani wage ise in th,e Lt high anthracite tha agions, over twcnty thiousandi minerh N< uid laborei;' are unemployed and have dui cen out of w 'rk for several weeks. T1huis is rill be made an. excuse for keeping upj N Lie price of coail, naotwithistand(ing thai tla lio production 1 as been larger the last co; oar than the year be,fore. The11 Morning th< ournal makes ,an estimate of actual cost th< f producetion. transportationu and had- ca; ng of coal, sho wing that it could bo de- sc< vered to th e consunmor ini New York for (si 3.50) per t< n. But this is onl paper only. si -Rlichmoni 1 Whig. th, A Georg ia iman, whlo was engaged I an a' linag up a gale, w:as struck by lighatninug pe le Is recc gerinlg, iand the young hldy's bemam fo ant inue to conwc CvCrv nht, s ioa . THE: WANIN(i "MA(iIC CITY." e )ownward Treuil of the Itillatod Ala Ual,ta Towis--)el,resslon Is linuglhaiu -A Sad Collal,Me In I'rosI)ect. (From (he New York Herald.) The New South. It is now nearly a ar sinco the boom in that section cul nated. Tho whole country has been lgiug with the fairy tale of the South's akening, of her wonderful mineral re .rces, of the now towns and cities ringing up, of fortunes made in a da' d al the rest of it. Kow that the fermentation has sub .ed, it is worth while to blow off the >th and glance at what is under it. ull, the situation is seriously strained. the now manufacturing cities every dy has been doing a little more than s safe, and, consequently, is now bor ving. Money commands sixteen to ;hteen per cent., and even more, and ) lowest rate at the banks on absolute safe security is one per cent, a month. o boom has subsided, but the people s trying to sustain real estate on the surdly high level to which it was lifted the period of crazy speculation. It sts upon a vast trestle work of inter ated credits. Landowners, hotel keepers, agents, pkeepers, mechanics-the humble 'nor of a single lot not yet half paid r and the land company with millions capital-are all trying to talk up and ld up values. The creditor does not ro to press the debtor, for if one brick the row is toppled over others must avitably go, too, and no one could tell Iore the trouble would end. Everybody is hoping for another em-for a rising tide of speculation which lie may float out of his diflicul s. He feels sure that this revival is ming soon, but pending its fancie vent his needs are pressing. He must ye money to tid, over, and to get it is obliged to pay whatever the lender ooses to ask. In aggmy instances the tes paid amount to confiscation. The rrowers are doomed. The state of affairs in the now manu turing city of Birmingham, Ala , is rly representative. During the oom" ono year ago, the Elyton Ltnd mpany (hich founded the cit, ; sold end of building lots at enormous cer, taking one-fourth cash and notes one, two and threo years respectively the remaining three-fourths. The o year notes have of late been falling c from day to day, but the makers are able to pay. 1'ho lots were sold for absurdly high ces--as high as $1,500 per front foot the ragged outer edge of so-called usiness" streets. The twenty-five per it. cash payment in most instances bably represents the full intrinsic uo of the property, or more than the ue, but most of the lots were bought speculation, and in many instances *, after aalo by the company, havo ssed tho )u, h rc r' Liands at always vancig prices; so that they arc now minally owned by persons several re >ves from the original buyers. \ow that the boom has died out and ;re is no demand for lots, the last yers cannot sell except at a great sacri . But the lot owners and the com iy are alike interested in keeping >perty up on its lict.itious level. Cool ided investors who visit the city are 1 elled by the prices asked, to the per nent injury of the town. True, the is ringing just now with the sounds hammer and trowel, but most of this rk is being done under contracts made tpring or summer while the fever ( i on. I could learn of few or no new < itracts being made. L'ho land company is now "carrying" >se who l)ought its lots, an( indlvi(lu. who sold real estate are doing the ne by their debtors. If the company 11ld seize the lots it could not sell in, so that the notes ( which bear in est, 'of course) are4 more valuable than ''dirt," p)rovided the drawers succeed pulling through, andl if they do not, compan,iUy can then recover the land 'how. F-rom selfish motives the comn y must extend the notes of delini anits and help them along- -the con n must he kept agoing or he smashed. t.h the passing of the boom business fiflen ofi and shopkeepers burdened Ii frightfully high rents are in (1ang01r gomng to the wall. 'The company, it y be noted, could not foreclose if it uld, for it has not a mortgage on the da sold. Instead of giving the buyer .cd and taking a mortgage for the ance of the p)urchaso monaey the comn ay gives simp)ly a bond that the title dl be vested in 'the holdeor when the t payment shall be made. [l'he ease with which these bonds could transferred was an element in foster the wild speculation. Tio wipoe out claims of the holders of these, how 'r, would involve a long and tedious gat ion. At D)ecatur and some other w cities they are wiser'; they give the yers dleeds and cdlp mortgages on the )lporty for the balance of the purchase moey. ilhe ly ton Land1( C ampanOy passed its nd(end the other day, thius indirectly ufirming the correctness of the state mnts mad(e above, instead of paying cash dliv'idendi the company issuiedI Aipt convertible into bonds. The script resenats, ti'o company says, $:2,40), - ) of good notes in its treasury, and as ese cannot be dlisturbed1, they are ing to makel~ an issue of bonds instead. other wordls, instead of the usual cash ridlend the stockholders are offered a rtgage oni their own property, and is because the drawers of the notes are Thably '"lying downi." It's a tight squeeze. If money should eomo( easy and the iron tra,de should prospecrous, and there abouid be a w speculation ''boom'' in reality, I i nghami will pull1 through. lhut i f monot.ary stringency conltinuoIs, s peculation contmnuesmIloribund(, andl stoppage of iailroad building in the 4rthwest shlouild depress the iron in stry, as now seems certaini, theu [Jore ~oing to 1ho a ado collapse in " the igic City''- a co(llpso which will ihake SNew $outh to its cenitre, for the same ruditions prevail in the othier towns, Sbad features being an exact ratio to madness of the specuilation recently ~ried on. All this will probsbly be >utedl by those whose pecumiar,y inter a are involved, buIt it a true just the no0. So much for the financial situation in anew centres; as to their future growth di their ultimato prosperity and im rtanco) there can be nlo question. J ie re there can be any new leap forward, *,wever. there will have to be a mipin out of mero paper valuos, a great deal of charging off to profit and loss. Some men who fancy that they are worth $100,000 will have to realizo that the half of that would be a very high cash price for what they hold, others who aro too far extended will have to "let go," and there must be a general adjustmont of values on a rational and practical basis instead of the present speculative one. Prices and rents must come down. On First Avenue, Birmingham, the writer was in a little shop on the first Iloor of a two story brick building. I'here wore no flagstones in front---only a dirt sidewalk, with the dust rising in little clouds from the feet of pedestrians. "What rent do you pay hero?" was the visitor's query. 'wo hundred dollars a month," was the eply. ''What!" " xclaimed the writer, "for this little house? Why, it's a ridiculous rent." "Oh," said the shopkeeper, "I don't get the whole house. The floor above is rented out to a family. I pay $200 for the store alohe." In Birmingham it was, too, that the writer met a member of a Now York firm who was looking for a suitable warehouso with a view to establishing a branch of their business in the "Magic City." A few days later this gentleman was encountered on an out-going train. "Well, aro you going to make a start?" asked the writer. "Not by a long chalk. Those peoplo are all crazy. I found a brick building that would suit me, but they asked $3,700 a year rent for that four story barracks. Why our firm has a ware house in New York City, only one block oil Broadway, seven stories, with cellar aid sub-cellar, and for that we pay only $3,500." A $hockiuK Accai,e,nt. On Friday last Mr. John Johnson Si., anu his wife were returning from a a visit to theoir brother, Mr. lFaac John son, who has iinco died, they met with a shocking aeoAnt that has since re sulted in the death of Mrs. .Johnson. The accident happened n 3ar Mrs. liar net Kitehing's, in Tabernt.cle township. They had just passed her house when they met Freddie Holmes, nephew (if Mr. Alfred Holmes, who wts riding a horse. Freddie attempted to <et out of the road, but the front who& of Mr. Johnson's buggy caught the horse in the flank which caused him to come down on the wheel, crushing it to the ground. The noise occasioned by this collision frightened the mulo drawing the buggy and it immediately started olf-running about fifty yards-when it stopped and commenced kicking. Mr. Johnsun was thrown out of the buggy, getting his arm broken and sustaining other injuries. The mule c gged the buggy somo dis tance furth-,r, kicking as it went, until stopped b' Mr. Jas. Kitohing, who was at the mill and witnessed the accident. When he got to the buggy ho fouod the nule standing with one foot through the lash, and Mrs. Johnson lying incusible n the road twenty yards behind, laving >een kicked in the forehead. She was sarefully picked andl conveyed to the esidenco of Mrs. Kitching, D)r. A. L. Ilutto was summoned, and over.tiing bat could be done for her relief was lone. The Doctor, after examining her njuries, said there was no hope as her kul had 'cen fracture d. ''his halp kenedl abiant four o'clock on Friday ifternoon and at ten o'clock on hat.ur ay this )ooi unfortunate lady was a orpse. MIrs. Johnson was a sister to lessrs. lIen and Elias llolman.---Aiken lournal and Reviow. IIu,noring 11rs. Cle-,+l:uii1. TIhe Poestollice Department has often te' n askenr to name ai postoflilee aft er the ovely wife of the President, and wheon 3ver the ri-iquest could be complied with lallant Postmaster General Vilas hasi sons eted. Th'lerefore thereois a Frances r Ci 'aad in nearly every State, hut 'este. :ay "'( lie irginny"' came forward eu took the- -mke. 'Thley have a post >llico ca! led l)oomsi-awful name and1( lhey wvonted a p)ostmaister apin))Oted at )ince, so what did they do but ask the tpp)oinltmonet of F rances (Clev(land as reting postmistress. The reque:st t-tay crecd the htigh piostad authorities, and at irst the reqjuest camo very niear going nto the wvasto pap)er basket. But the 3le-rk in charge of the Virginia desk hap pened1 to read the letter again, and found that the itpplicant's name had an 1L. in it, and read "'Frances IU. Cleveland," md not ''Frances F. Cleveland." Be. sides, the clerk also discovered that the Virgi nians wanted to comp)linmen t Mrs. Uloveland more than other States had lone, and so they picke out a p)ostmis tress~ with a name as near- as possible to that of the beautiful mistress of the White Ilouse. The matter was thus ex plained to First Assistant Postmaster General Stevenson, and lhe at once or 'bred F"rances II. Cleveland appointed actinig postmistress at D)ooms, Va. [The next thing in order will be to change the name of the postoflico fronm D)ooms to White Hlouse.--Baltimoio Amerienn. It is astonishing how many oif our successful business men attrib ute thiri good fortune neither to luck or general excellence of judlgmient, butt will tell you how a strict atdherenice to some single rutle has done it all for the(m. Coninoo lore Vanuderb ilt's receipt for nak ing miillioins, with certainty atnd celerity, wits never to sign a note. William h-1. IDodge wouthld not hold any pecuniar-y intteret int anty enterprnise thatt wias at all attratc hive on Sutnday, andt bte firmly believed that his wealth was a rewardi for cont scienttiously obiservin tg the Satbbath da3 the first . lhn .hiIcob AstOr-'s charmu lay in in vesting in niothting aside fromt htis reg tul business, excepjt ini reail e-itide; and1 A lexandelr Tf. Stewart would have tatici p)ated-t misfortune if lie had wantonly bro'ken the smallest peCrsonial etngage rnet. Metn (if success cant all'ord toi practice their theories, andt even b)ecomte slaves to them. Men (if failure canntot indulge in such luxuries of conduct. 'he HIeadhlighit. .1. E. PJtYsroU's Merchant TLailor 1:s tablishmuent, Columbia, S. C., is in futll blast. Only a leek will convince any one. All thant want a first-class fitting suit try him. A full line of the best goods on hand. The lowa~ brtewerhes have closed, the law beintu deided utuaI it himm Till: 1Ii;T)Ioi (7' I''lINTI';LNT.s I ' OIt (lin i \Cu, of. 4 Ilt., (, 441 1th 14 fe 4, " aI 11 arl.l4 bIrlg--T'h N\ h(MIun (4 )) IIt'I4 :St \\'t nn1hboru. The Cuference disposed of umucl ini portanut business on the closing4 day. 'T1he report of the b oard of edu sntion, ifter a warm dehute, was adopt d, ie coincudiug collectionu for rop.irs (n Wollord College of $7,500, enduwment $15,000, professors' salaries $1,00''. Winnsboro wam elceted for th next scssion of the Conference. A class of fourteen young mien were admitted inte the Conference on i ri;a, lteports of the conlnuiticcs on 1;i '!e Canse, tenp(ranco, Conference rel.it iou s, books andt periodicals were rc.ircd. Tho secretary reports 13,1 2 mimbers; paid for missions, $1-l,l32. The ftllow ing are the appointments for 1888: Charleston )istrict---J. M. Boyd, 1r' siding Elder. (harleston, Trn , !. N. Wells; I3ethel, . 1). Sluart; pr'in; street, J1. E. Carulisie; Cumiberhu:ti, I. B. Browne; Cainhleoy, I). A. C.hou. Berkeley, I. L,. ii blfroyd; Suimmll:mvil. J. B. Coupbell; CyIpe"cs, 11. WV. \\hi' taker; I idgeville, J. A. Moe t. George's, T. luysol.; North ( ..rge' P. L. Kirttn; Colleton, J. C. Y1nn,. Round 0, W. WV. \Williams; \alt rhore, E. B. Loyless; Hlmpton, A. If. I1i Allendale, ( . Wi ilis; Buac1k i'. :ni J. Brown; li.tlrdccvlle, (l. B. \' hitt:. er; lianft'ort, E. J. Meynardie; riuti al Benson Aca(lemy, J. E. Watteu. (i'umil 1)is1-iet.- . lt. .bmne . 1'r: sh(tling, ilder: (2ollltlmbi:: \\ as 11. 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I )iqen e -1.' T . a ; Il r Blutl',(*3 W . 2l4T1.I44' 4. I I i t'n Duran'tei; Iheraw, W.' J. ) I b h it ;4.4:y4 i JIirlington ( c l i i,lJ (. )1 e(4 ain; l w. r~ arlington, J.. .)? 4lr);44~I1 rim , vile'. '40. 4) Beard;1 Il)lnghmn IX.. . '4.look; 4 144 East.144ing )1a , 11. . In th.: W. I4)4. .144 J ko ; i re '4 iren4o -it , 1;A A lIi; i calters', . ). Blac aI; i o r \g ton11, A. 1.tr Georgetow en-end,114 L. '4. Loyalt-~; Joe4la,oi)', . H. (, j-r Sj)aronbDiti i'. 1. 1141, ;-r, i,ing hler. Sjbtri :4n, W. jA,.1.:wr Clinten;ary Mi. A.V. W.nll; Iiua' Neckoi, J. . Frie;n; Northk(' 'hub >ro, L.i1 Wood;rlija n mt)4 sv4ille)4, 1. W X. it I)'l Henuetts8vi 44 cirui~. It?, (1C Stoll;, (24!i,, A. D. Gianet; Liurenir, '[. L. Mori; North Laurons, J. C. Counts; Clinton, J. E. Mahaly; Belmont, S. J. MoLeod; Campobello, J. P. Attaway; Pacolet, J. .d. Nevillo; Clifton, J. Attaway; Wofford ('ollcge, A. Coke Smith, professor; E, U. IIodges to tho Los Angeles Confer ence; 1. J. Guess to the West Texas (onferenice. IEPOIT ON RAILIOADS. The First Annual Report of the iter. Itate Com,niIssion.-A Very Interesting l,ii tory of the ItallrotIs of the County. 'rho first annual report of the Inter State Commerco Commission has just been mado public. It fills 42 ages of closely printed matter, in which the work of the Commission since its origin, the cfl'ect (if the now law upon trade end transportation, and the faults and defects are treated exhaustively. The report opens with a very inteosting his-. tory of roods in the ,United States. The railroad mileage of the United States, it is shown, is 137,986. The number of eerporations represented in this mileage is 1,425, but by the consolidation or leasing of roads, the number of corpora tions controlling and operating roads as carriers i- reduced to 700. It is believed that 1,200 roads operated by about five hundred corporations as carriers are subject to the law. The Commission has as yet no statistics of its own collec tion to lay before the public, but quoted from a manual generally accepted as re reliable, the cost of construction and e<qupment of these roads which places it at $7,25i,995,223, and estimates the funded debt of the companies at $3,802, 't330. Some idea, the Commission say of the magnitude of the interest which the Act undertaken to regulate may be obtained from theso figures, but they fall short of measuring, or eveh of indicating its importance. Comment iug on the evils that have grown out of and abuses that have grown up with the ext.nsion of railroads they say: It is striking proof of the recklessness of cor l>orate 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 necessarily withdrawn from the more appropriato ruling of judicial bodies, nevertheless the Commission fiels justified in saying that the opera tion of the Act has in general been helicient. In some particulars as we un derstand has also been the case with ui.mlar statutes in some of the States it has operated directly to increase rail road earnings, especially in the cutting oil' of free pawses on passengers trains and putting an end to rebates, drawbacks and spooiab rates upon freight busines. Freight traflic for the year Jas been oxceptionally large in volume and is believed to have boon in no small degree stimulated by a growing confi dence that the days of rebates and iecil rates were ended and that open rtes ott an equal basi; were now offered to all. 'the reflex action of this devel (m1) tnt of confidence among business men !tas been highly favorable to the roads. The tendoncy of rates has been down ward, and they have set down porma uut advanc.i CCj)t when excesbive oipelition had reduced them to a l-oint at which they could not well be Suntined, no destructive rate would lim;ve orcurred, but increased stability in rades [as tended in the direction of .stahilty in general business. ''here is, is ec ver, y,reat mischtief resulting from from frequent changes in freight rates on the part of some of the companies. (langes that in soie eases it is (liticult to ugg. st an excuse for. The report closes with the following suggestions for ainentuats to the new law: "Incident ally in this roloi sonic need of amend muenit has been p)ointed out. Especially oughlt the la1w, as we tink, t>) indicato in plain terms whether the express busi ness and all other transportation by the carriers named in the Act shall be gov erned b)y its provisions. The provision against the sudden rising of rates ought to bie clearly miade atpplicale to joint rate-i as well as to others. TIhe Comnmis sion ought also to have the authority and( the,means to bring aboiut something like umfiormity in the mecthodl of pub lishing rates which is now ini great cQn fusion. andi to cairefully examnino, collect and supjervise tho schedules, contracts,. etc., requiredl by the law to be illed, as well as properly t.o huandle the mass of statistical information called for by the twentieth section. For all these3 pur p oses, as well as for others improperly provided for, a considerable ad lition to thle force employed with the Commission will be indispensable. Other matters, and p)articuilrly whether transportation by water sliall be made subject to the Act are submitted to the v:isdom of Con gress without recommeinndation." Thte l'atal TFree. In 1K8:I, loi t Ga ies was a little more lthan an Indian foil . Early in the f.prinug of that memnorabile year, while host ih Indi(ians thronged this seetion, andl before they were reur oved by Uncle Samu across the river abovo us, a part,y of the troachierou,s wiretches stole uip the t hen dlensely woodhed lie e of the TPown hiranch, andj )ased out to the Bluffton set tlement, wi lere they wvero met by sol dit rs and t.hrashued back to their reserva lion. du ist where the lufaula road c-rolses the Towni lranch, a beautiful spring bubbled fronm the ground, and peopl)e in the vicinity (lid their wvashing there. On the (day referred to ab)ove, a lady was at the spring washing, when t he red( miiscreants passeid. TIhey brutal ly nordered her, and after removing her rcalp left her body lying by the spring, lier bleeding head pillowed on the roots of a stately beech. Time has (lone its wvork{.lie Indians are gone, scenes have changed anid the towering beech lems long sincee gone ti id(ecay, and onily its worui-eatten stiinup reminsui to mark thle spoit wvhere long years ago this sad tragedy of dleath occurred. A friend poin1tedl us to fle fatal spot and gave us the above facts. 'The,y woero new and in teresting to us, and1( will doubtless prove so to our readIers. Truly, things have changed.--Fort (aincs, (Ga., Star. "W hat. are you doing now, Trholms?" asked thlie Imiister, pat roniz'ingly. "I1 am a w i itr for the press," said( the hidio proudIly. "Inol, you are quite youn gfor that; what do you wvrite?" "'I dilrect wrappers." Iunct iounal (deraungemnent of the femnale Msstem is <piiily eured byr the use of D)r. I1. V. Pierce's "'Favorite P rescription." It rceoves [il in nd restores health andl strength. By all druggIsts.