The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, June 22, 1877, Image 1
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An Act to reduce and fix the salaries of
certain officers.
Skction 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of South Carolina, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by tho authority of
the same, That the public officers hereinafter
named shall receive the annual salaries hereinafter
mentioned, respectively, to wit: The
Govornor, $3,500; the Governor's Private
Seoretary, $1,275; the Governor's messeny
?r> $300; the Lieutenant Governor, $1,000,
( ) to take effect after the next General election;
the Secretarv of State. $2,100 : tho Chief
- Clerk of the Secretary of State, $1,275; the
Comptroller General, $2,100 ; for clerical
services in the office of the Comptroller
Genera], $2,550, if so much be necessary;
the State Treasurer, $2,000; the Chief
Clerk of the State Treaeurer, $1,475 ; the
bookkeeper of the State Treasurer, $1,000 ; 1
tho Adj utant and Inspector General, $1,- '
200 ; Clerk to the Adjutant and Inspector 1
^ General, $900 ; the State Superintendent of
^ ' Eduoation, $1,875; for Clerk to Superin- '
tendent of Education, $900; the Attorney '
Genoral, $2,100; the Clerk of the Attorney '
General, $1,200; the Chief Justice of the (
Supremo Court, $4,000; the Associate Jus- '
tioes of the Supreme Court, $3,500 eaoh : '
the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme 1
Y . Court, $1,000; the Clerk and Librarian of
the Supreme Court, $700; the attendant on ^
the library and room* of the Supreme Court, (
$200; tho Circuit Judges, $3,500 eaoh; the
Circuit Solicitors, $1,500 oaoh, except in the
First Circuit, which shall be $2,000, in lieu
of all charges against the State and countios, '
and of all fees received from defendants; 1
the Keeper of the State House and State
Librarian, $500 ; the watchmen of the State
House and grounds, not to exeeod two in
number, $300 each ; the Superintendent of
tho Stato Pcniteutiary, $1,600; tho physioian
of the State Penitentiary, $300 ; the
:T. Superintendent of tho Stato Lunatic Asy*
lum, $2,000 ; the health officer of Charlcs.te?v
$1,000 ; the health officers of Georgetown,
$-100 ; Hilton Head and St. Helena
Sound, $600 each ; tho Keeper of tho Lazaretto,
$400 ; the Librarian of the Univcr- 1
sity of South Carolina, who shall have charge (
of tho buildings aud grounds of the Uni- 1
vcrsitv. $500. 1
Sec. 2. That the County Treasurer of 1
oach county shall reccivo commissions upon
all taxes collected in their respective counties,
as follows : Three per cent, upon the 1
first $10,000; two per cent, upon the next
$10,000; one per cent, upon the next 1
$10,000j one-half of one per cent, upon
all amounts colleoted ovor $30,000 : Provided,
The same shall not exceed $800 or
be less than $500 per annum, oxcept the
county of Charleston, where the commissions
shall not exceed $2,000. For clerical ser- '
vices in the office of County Treasurer of
Charleston, $800 ; Provided, further. That
nothing herciu contained shall apply to fees
and costs allowed County Treasurers for
making distress and sale of real or personal
property.
Sec. 3. That tho Countv Auditors of
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tho several counties shall receive the annual
salaries hereinafter mentioned, respectively:
Tho County Auditor of Charleston, 82,000:
Provided, That no additional compensation
shall be allowed for clerk hire ; the Ccuuty
Auditors of Abbeville and Richland, 8700
>^ach; tho County Auditors of Aiken, Anderson,
Barnwell, Beaufort, Chester, Colleton,
Darlington, Edgefield, Fairfield, Creenvillo,
Laurens, Newberry, Oraugcburg, Spartanburg,
Sumter and York, 8600 each; tho
County Auditors of Chesterfield, Marion,
Clarendon, Georgetown, Ilorry, Kershaw,
Lancaster, Lexington, Marlboro, Oconee,
Pickens, Union and Williamsburg, 8500
oach. And in addition to the salaries of
the Auditors, as hereinbefore provided, the
County Auditors, shall receive, to defray
the expenses of assessment of property, such
sums as may be necessary, but not to exceed
the following, to wit: The Auditor of
Charleston County, 8000 ; the Auditors of
Abbcvillo and Richland, 8500 oach ; the
Auditors of Aiken. Anderson. Baruwell.
lleaufort, Chester, Darlington, Edgefield,
Fnirfiold, Greenville, Laurens, Newberry.
Orangeburg, Spartanburg, Sumter and
York, 8100 each ; the Auditors of Colleton,
Clarendon, Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster,
Marion, Marlboro, Pickens, Oconee, (Tnion,
Williamsburg and Chesterfield, friOO each ;
and the County Commissioners of the sevIf
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oral counties, as aforesaid, shall, upon tho
application of tho Couuty Auditors, draw
their checks on tho County Treasurers for
tho several amounts to whioh the Auditors
may be entitled under the provisions of this
section, and the County Treasurers shall
pay tho said checks from tho first col- <
lection of county funds of the fiscal ]
year in which the work shall be performed, i
But no such cheolc or order shall be paid
by the County Treasurer until the Auditor 1
shall have filed with tho County Commis- 1
sioners an itemised statement of tho servi- 1
oes rendered by his assistants, tho number 1
of days each of said assistants were em- 1
ployed, and tho compensation they were '
severally to receive, which said statement
shall bo examined and approved by the said (
Board of County Commissioners: Provided, <
That no member of tho lioard of County {
Commissioners shall act as Assistant Asses- *
sor. That the County School Commission- 1
era in each of tho several counties of the '
State shall roceivo for their compensation $3
per diem for the time in whioh thev are ac- e
tually engaged in the business of their respective
offices : Provided, The nurnbor of j
days in each and every year for which said
compensation shall bo allowed shall in no
caso exceed 100 days, except in the county
of Charleston, whore the number of days ^
shall not excoed 150 days.
Sxc. jk All salaries provided for in sec- ^
tion 1 of t?is*act 'shall b6 payable quarterly,
and bo paid upon tho warrants of the
Comptroller General upon the State Treasurer.
See. 5. That all aots or parts of acts in- 8
consistent with this act be, and the same
arc hereby, repealed.
Sxc. C. That this aot shall take effect *
immediately after its passage.
Approved June 7, 1877.
the millitia law. ^
Au Act to unioud an act er titled "An act ^
supplementary to chapter 15, title 4, part v
1, of the general statutes of South Car- g
olin^ relating to tho militia, and for tho g
better organisation and government of
the same." 3
Section 1. Be it enacted by tho Senate v
and House of Representatives of the State ^
of South Carolina, now met and stittiug in 1
Gcueral Assembly, and by the authority of '
the same, That in addition to tho body of c
militia known as the "National Guard," the
Governor, as Commander-iu-Chief, is here- 1
by authorized to rccieve all suoh bodies of c
citizen soldiery as may have tendered or. c
may hereafter tender their services to the c
State, to constitute the Volunteer State ^
Troops, and to consist of suoh companies, a
battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions ?
as may be organized by the authority of the 1
Commander-in-Chief. These troops to uni- 1
form themselves, and to be subject to all I
such regulations as may bo prescribed by 1
the Commander-in-Chief and issued from 8
the office of the Adjutant and Inspector 1
General and published. j
Sko. 2. The Adjutant and Inspector 1
General shall appoint an Armorer, who *
shall take charge of the State Armory in 1
Columbia, and keep in order all the arms 1
and munitions oontained therein. His sal- (
nru iiKflll V.a ftORfl nnwiii*. *
J HUM4k WV V^UV |/gi HUU UUI
Sec. 3. Tho organization known as the 1
Fourth Brigade, South Carolina Miltia, (
consisting of tho Sixtocnth and Seventeenth '
Regiments of Infantry, the First Regiment '
of Rifles, and First Regiment of Artillery, '
with tho Charleston Light Dragoons and Ger- 1
man Hussars, shall be received and cmbodiod '
in the State Volunteer Troops. Offiocrs of
equal grade shall take rank in accordance <
with the period of time in which they shall '
have served in any branch of tho military ]
of the State. The field officers of the said {
Fourth Brigade, and their successors, shall {
be deemed in law the successors of the orig- '
inal field officers thereof, and shall bo enti'
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tied to hold and joy all rights, franchises,
and property which were of the said field )
officers thereof. 1
SEC. 4. Immediately alter the passage of
this act, the Governor shall call in all arms,
i
equipments, and munitions which are in the j
hands of any persous not authorized by law
to hold the same, and shall requiro all commands
lawfully holding any such State prop- ,
crty to file in the office of the Adjutant and i
Inspector General a full statement of such 1
property, with the authority under which 1
it is held, and the present condition there- *
of. The Governor shall have authority to
permit the sale or exchange of any miliary
J. li ?i i? i qf?
property of tho Stated for tho purpose of 1
obtaining other arms, equipments, or muniments,
or munitions more suitable to the '
wauta of the State.
Sec. 5. All field officers of battalions, ]
regiments, brigades or divisions, shall bo i
elected by tho commissioned and non-com- (
missioned officers and privates of the same J
respectively.
Sec. 6. Nothing in this act contained j
shall deprive any soldier or officer of tho^Na- ?
tional Guard" of any right to which he r
may be entitled in that organization. The *
jaid "Natioual Guard" shall continue to ex- '
ikt, and shall be a separate and distinct
body. , ?
SEC. 7._A11 commissions iss-u^J
jffico of tho AdjutaVt aud Iuspector Gen- v
?ral shall be charged for at the rate of SI '
sach; the fund thus raised to bo devoted to ?
lofraying tho expense of getting iu, repair- ?
Dg rud reissuing the arms and muuilious ?
lelonging to the State. o
Sec. 5. All acts and parts of acts incon- ?
listent with this act are hereby repealed.
Approved June 8. ?
\.n Act to auicnd section 15 of chapter 39 ^
of the General Statutes, relating to the
fmwer in school districts to levy aud col- n
ect special taxes for school purposes. c
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by tho Senate and e
ifouse of Representatives of tho Stato of n
south Carolina, now met aud sitting in c
general Assembly, and by tho authorit3* of ^
he same, That section 15 of chapter 39 of
ho general statutes be, and the same is w
tereby, amended, by striking out all of u
ubdivisitfn 4 of said section.
Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts incou- a
isteut with this act, bo, and the same are ^
lercby, repealed. a
Approved June 8. (
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Famine and Drouqut in California. ^
?Tho accounts from California aro very y
lismal iudced in regard to the bad crop 1:
>rospccta in that Stata, tho ruin wrought by v
rhich is to bo added to the bursting of the j=j
ilvcr mining bubble. Doubts are expres- p
od if the entiro San Joaquin valley, will i;
dcld 100,000 bushels of wheat and barley, g
rhich yielded last year about 10,000,000 l:
mshcls. A California correspondent of tho t
'few York Graphic writes under date of p
Jay 18: "All the news from tho Pacific p
A. !- J! A. T Ml 1
su:i8i is uisasiroua. x win give it as my ao- u
ibcruto opiuiou that we will have a famiue ?
u this State before the season is over. The t
Irought has killed all our crops, aud ucarly ti
lostroyed all our cattle. This is the sec- u
ind great drought siuco tho settlement of ^
Jalifornia, and the memory of thoso two will ^
always be a cloud upon tho business horizon a
if this wonderful State, for capitalists will not p
nvest monoy in ranches and cattle, and run e
he risk of a burning season, wlicu all their j
losscssioons will be devoured and uuuihilacd
by the sun and dust. I fear you will p
eon hear of more business disasters of & 1
nost gigantio character from this coast.? t
filings were really in an unwholesome state 8
fhco ltalston died, but the difficulty was ^
hen averted oulv to end in greater calam- a
ty and panic. It is a fact that people who p
vero millionaires six months ago, are to-day c
lager to secure situations as waiters and
arui laborers. The drought alono nearly c
ruined the State, but occurring siuiultane)usly
with the bursting of the mining bubt>le,
it has proved more than the people of
die State can stand. Starvation literally
stares the whole farming population in the
race, and in a few weeks more they will have
acither meat, fruit nor grain."
Tiie Confederate Dead.?Baltimore
Juno 13.?Washington Ccmetry, where the
Confederate dead, killed in the battles of
Antictam and South Mountain, are iutorred.
was formally dedicated, yesterday, with
ippropriate memorial ceremonies, aud the
graves strewn with flowers. Au oration
nas delivered by Gcu. Fitzhugh Iiec, of
Virginia. About 4,000 persons were pres- '
snt. The cemetery was incorporated in '
1870, by tho Legislature ot Maryland, with 1
iu appropriation of 85,000, whieb'has since
been iucreascd to 810,000. The States of
Virginia and West Virgina have also made 1
appropriations. Handsome marblo monuments
adorn the graves in which about 2,500
Confederate dead aro buried.
John Southworth and Mrs. CaTr eloped ,i
from Pownal, Vt., and rode in a carriage i
across the line into New Vork State. Mr. I
Carr pursued them on horseback, and over- 1
look them in Rensselaer County. He drow 1
a pistol, seated himself in the carriage by '
the side of his wife, and returned homo I
with her, compelling Southworth to walk i
ahead all of the way. Once back in Ver- i
uiont, he had the offenders arrested. i
SOUND VIEWS OF^ VICE ^PRESIDENT HEN
New York, Juue 13!-?Mr. Hendriclu
having returned thanks for the honor done
him, alluded to the Prosideutia! election and
aid the result as declared iu Louisiana and
Florida aud at Washington, is not and canlot
be made satisfactory to tho country for
ibvious reasons; that it was not tho truth.
K great aud sincere people will rest their
iual judgment only upon thiuth, nover
tpou frauds, successful through technicality.
Oven should the President and his Cnbiuet
idopt apart or tho whole of tho policies aud
mrposcs for which the Democratic part}
las becu contending for many years, aud
rhich became so distinctly defiucd lust year
?even that cauuot remove or quiet tho
ublio discontent. Democrats will make uo
ucligua opposition nor seek to embarrass a
;C'fiioU> udiuiuifttV.ion, but will aimruiu it in
rhut is right, because it is right and for
ear of tho eouuliy, and not at all because
f auy fealty to the party that stands deleaed
aud coudomned by tho people. The
eoplo cauuot allow the selection of their
)hief Magistrate to become a thing of chance
r sharp practice. The fraud lirst triuuiphut
iu Anioricau history must huassigucd to
Ls proper place among the crimes against
opular government, auti made so odious
hut no party wi.il daro attempt its rcpetiion.
lie who is elected President must uot
e inaugurated uutil that is settled aud
lade positive. No Democrat can be seducd
from his devotion and allcgiauce in any
ray?uot by tho allurements of oflice, nor
veu by the stroug appeal iu tho abaudouieut
by the Administration of vicious priuiples
aud daugcrous policies aud tho adopiou
of belter doctrines and just measures.
>emooruts will not eutrust their most ohershod
principles to the keepiug of a power
rhich is 'atiaiued by vicious aud corrupt
icasures. They will rather coutiuuo their
nith iu tho right of tho majority to rule, iu
ccordauco with the constitutional proviious.
All Democrats rejoice with uubouucd
joy that free Republican governments
re once more allowed to the States of South
laroliua aud Louisiuua. They rejoice iu
ho good fruits that must follow. They
uow that peace aud good order will proail
; that capital will be made secure and
tbor contented and happy ; that enterprise
rill revive, und tho cruel hurdeus of the
pverumeut and public corruption will be
[fled from the shoulders of labor, aud that
rouucuou win increase aua laud advance
a price; but they know that, in the ian;uagc
oi'Gov. Morton, it had become ineviable.
Good goveruuieut iu the Elates was
iot a free will offering upon tha altars ol
he country. For years the ]'eurocrats
iad contended iu Congress and before the
eople, for free -Republican States throughut
tho South, and liually it became 4iineviablc,"
becauso t'uc right and truth were
oo strong to be louger >uppressed. ] u this,
he Democrats hud a reason to stand wore
irmly; with their party out of power, with
10 patronage to dispense and no money to
listribute; but au.mated by the spirit of
>ur institutions and inspired by the scntinent
of the right of local self-government
s inherent in tho people. The Democratic
tarty, during the past teu years, has restord
one State after another, until now the
read of tho soldiers is heard iu uo Legisaturo;
but iu ercry State the people are
governed by laws of their own enactmont,aud
ty law-makers of their own choosing. Mr.
Iendricks concluded with tho duclaratiou
hat this occasion had more than a personal
iguificancc?it proclaimed that we had uo
ectioual sentiment, no Eastcru or Western
>olicies; tho East and the West, the North
iad the South were one. A wise and just
Kilioy would alike promote the prosperity
>f each.
#?
Frequency of Suicides.?The number
>f suicides in the United States during the
iresent year is said to be unprecedented iu
ins country. Fiance and Ueruiany, where
nfidolity hasb-cu more prcvaleut than in alnost
any other countries, seem abo it to yield
heir unenviable distinction in this respect
o the United States Uno of the leading
:auses is thought to be the hard times, and
t is remarked, "fathers of families wlic
rave boen out of work the whole winter
md who have managed to support thorniclvcs
and their households on the little
tarings of years, in the hope of obtainiug
employment in the spring, find their hope*
flighted, and in a moment of despair seek
.. i:.i- r a _* .1. n ? .1 ?i
CIIU1 JIUIII IIIU UUICS U1 LIIU WUUU 111 Utiillll.
rhcre in nothing of heroic character or ol
noral fortitude in such conduct. It is
-ather cowardice of the basest kind, be:auso
it desorts and leaves to deeper misery
,he objecis of a man's highest concern for
;he pusillanimous reason that ho cannot bring
limself to share the fato of poverty and
ruin which he has been uuable to avert.?
It is, inoroover, a crime against the Crea
tor, who gave life, and will tako it back
irhen Ilo, in ilia infinite wisdom, deems il
best; a crime against the family of the su
icide, which has a right to his life and tc
ill that he can do for those of whom he it
the natural protector; and a crime against
himself, for he has no more right to take
his own life than that of any other man.?
1'here are many things in the world hard tc
bear, but whether they can be improved bj
ihaiigiiig them for ills lh:?t wc know nol
of," is a problem which no one in his sen
scs would like to solve by self-destruction
Do Spirits Communicate??If the
i skeptically disposed aro proue to question
1 the following story of ghostly communicatibn,
we refer them to the editor of tho Oswego
Times : la a Tillage in Oswego oouaty, says
that jourual, there resides ao intelligent
widow whose husband was a Methodist clergyman.
A few years ago she lost a much
beloved daughter, a young lady at the time.
wlioso roimrius were deposited iu tho Tillage
churchyard. Tho mother was for a long time
iuconsolablo, and agaiust (ho remonstrances
of friends, was in tho daily praotioo of visiting
a ad weeping over the grave of her
daughter. This she would do no matter
liouVli wis sapioiulj) vnpnvi!n/1 fKio . .!
One day, after sho wa% npparclod for her
daily visit to the graveyard, all at once her
daughter, just as sho appeared when iu full
health, stood Leside her, and looking iuto
her mother's faco said sweetly and as naturally
as sho had ever spoken, 'Mother why
do you risk your health by these unseasonable
visits to the grave-yard ? I am not
there. It is only the dust of the human
form that moulders thero. Tho spirit which
you loved is iu a far happier slate of exist
.1 - _1 Ill in.. 11 - *
onco uma wncn neia &uu icitereu oy mac
dust over which you ahed unavailing tcaisj
Your duty, dear mother, is to the living, not
to your dead daughter, who has been mudo
far happier by this great change which soon
all must meet.' And after u few consolatory
remarks the daughter vanished from
sight as suddenly as she came. 'Now,' concludes
the Times, 'this lady reports this as
having positively occurred. Sho was not %
dreaming, because shejwas not sleeping, but
attired for hor daily visit to hor daughter's
grave, and in a moment more would have
been on her way to tho couaetery.'
Builwei "Going West."?Washington,
May 26.?General Butler always has a surprise
of some kind in storo for the public,
and now lie is "going West." It is said
to-night that he intends emigrating to Colorado,
turn sheep farmer and como to Congress
as Souator of the Centennial State.?
It will be remembered that tho Supreme
Court recently awurded to Colonel Craig,
the patent or title of an cxtonsivo tract of
i i :_ i ht.i. i?i i L
liinu tu V/Viuiiiuu, wuiuu iiuu Jong uceu lu
dispute. The story ruus that General Butler
has pu.ch;isodfrom Colonol Craig 73,000
acres ol* this estate, and that as soon as he
can arrange some of his private business ho
intei.ds to settle upon it and engage in cat.
tie raising.
Forney's Chroniclo explains his motives
i in the followiug editorial: "The faot is New
1 England is politically worn out, or rather the
appreciation of its people, aud in oonsequonco
her limits are getting very narrow
, and contracted. What Butler wants is room
I and fresh air, and Colorado is just tho place
to fiud these two essentials to human happiness.
The chances of politics are seventy-five
per cent, better thero than in Massachusetts,
and this is a weighty considers
tion to a man who hates criticism aud newspaper
men as the devil does Christianity.?
The healthy recreation of cattlo raising is
another iuduccincut, and will go a great way
toward tempering tho humor of thoold man
for the new honors that are sure to wcloomo
such as he. Two years' residence in Colorado
destroys all the identity of a carpetbagger,
aud entitles a man to all tho privi
leges aud rights of those to the manor born.
"General liutler is yet a young mau, and
thrown into a new country with money
enough to bccomo a largo land owner, coupled
with his extraordinary ability and perseverance,
there is no telling tho oflect of
| the transformation his presence will produoe
both in the substantial wealth and politics
of the State. The people would soon see
this, and be quick to recognize it bj conferring
upon him the highest honors in their
- gift. Wc, therefore, prediot that General
Butler will be one of the next new United
> States Senators from Colorado, and the mo'
merit he is the State will become one of the
most prominent in the Union."
An assistant of a druggist reoontly put
. up a prosorption of a doee of castor oil for a
> young lady. She innocently inquired how
1 it could be takon without tasting it. He
' promised to oxplain to hor, and, in tho moan'
time, offered her, courteously, a glass of
, flavored and scented seltzer water. After
' she had finished it, ho said, triumphantly,
1. "You see, i.tiss, yon hive taken your oil and
- you did not know it." The youug lady
screamed out, "It was for my mother