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Regular Boaidcro received at Reasonablo
Rites.
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AN ACT to A i rm?n i/.y. County com
missioner!! of certain counti k8 to
Levy and Collect an Additional
Tax for Certain Purposes.
He it r uncled hy the Sunn to nod House j
of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General
Assembly, and by the authority of
the name, That the County Commission
ers of the several Counties herein men
tioncd be, and they nre hereby, author
ised and directed to levy nud collect a
special tux as hereinafter specified, on
tho taxable property of the said Coun
ties, said tax to be levied at the same
time other tuxes nre levied for the fiscal
year commencing November 1, 1873;
Buid tax to be dovotcd exclusively to the
payment of the pnst duo indebtedness of
the Buid Counties, viz : For the County
of Marion, three (3) mills ; for the
County of Uraugeburg, three (3) mills ;
for the (Jounty of Riohlaud, ono und-bait
i 1 ' i mills ; for the couuty of Lauoaster,
two (2) mills ; for the couuty of Ncw
bery, two (2) mills. Provided, That all
claims for the pnyment of which the
speciul tax herein authorized is levied,
shall bo registered in the office of the
Clerk of tho Court of the county in
which such tux is ordered, on or before
the first day of October, 1873, und all
claims of claimants failing to regiotcr the*
same, within the said time, shall no: be
paid.
Sec. 2. That the county commission
ers of Horry county be, und they are
bciebyi authorized to levy and cause to
?it?.. .1 _ ???:?i .__ ._, o
mills upou a dollar of all the taxable
property in said couuty, the said tux to
be devoted exclusively to repairing the
bridges in said county, across Kingston
Lake and Socnstoe creek, and to the
payment of* tho-past i?di?vt*kJu?c.s of tho
.H>l u
-?J ?
Sec. 2i That the county cotnmissiori
ers or the county of Williatuaburjr be
aud they are hereby, authorized to levy
and cause lu be collected, a speciul tax
of two (2) mills on a dollar of all the
taxable property of the said couuty ;
said tax to be levied nt the same time
other taxes are levied for the liseal year
commencing November 1, 1873, the
Bumo to be Used exclusively fur the pur
pose of puyiug the iudebtednestj caused
by the buildiug of the jail iu the suid
couuty.
Approved February 20, l873i
AN ACt to Amend 8k>:tio*s ?tf, asU 100,
ClIAl'tkr XVII, Or the OlMltAI. StATO
tbs or South Carolina Rki.atinu to
Holders of iNfttmAfccK PoaiOiaa.
Section 1. lie it enacted hy the
Scnutc and House of Representatives of
the State of South Carolina, now met
ami sitting iu General Asscmblv, and
by the authority of tho same, That
Section OS, of chapter XVII, of the
General Statutes, be amended, iu the
tilth line?of said Section, after the words
'?bonds or stocks of this State," by
inserting the words "or of the United
Status j" also, at the clo.se of the said
Section, insert the following proviso:
"Provided, hotcevvr, That it ?bull be the
duty, aud it |is hereby required of the
comptroller General, upon notice bel?g
served upon him by the ngoi.t of any
?/aid company or association, nccompani
ed by proof sufficient to establish lb*
fuct of the ineolvenoy of auc'? coirr*^,
or association ?o d^ositir^ t0 di8*poSo
of, at public our,yj to th? highest bid
der^ aftc^ treuty-onc dujs' uotioe of said
-aie, hotico tobegivcu by publishing iu
one of tho duily papers in tho city of
Columbia, and in ouc daily paper in the
city of Churleston, so much or so jireut
an amount of such bonds or stocks so
deposited as will enable him tore insure
the policy holders of such insolvent
company or association, in suoh proper
and solvent insurance ootnpany or asso
ciation as any policy holder in said
insolvent company or association may
desire, or elect, for the balance of the
uuexpired term of such iusurance
previously taken by him in said insolvent
company or association."
Seo. 2. That Section 00, of chapter
XVII, of the General Satutea, be amend
ed, by inserting after the word "Stute,"
in tho third line of said Sectiou, the
words "or of tho United States." '
Sec. 3. Th'at Sectiou IOC, of chapter
XVII, of the General Statutes, be
amended, bj inserting after the word
"Stute," in the eleventh Hoc, the words
"or of the Uuited States ."
Approved, February 2'?, 1S73.
AS AuT to Pesisn a?v Person or Persons
who siii. Sell and Convey ant RBal
on Personal Property on which a
LlBN Or ant kino mat exist. without
oitino notice .of BOOH LlSK to the
puuciiaskr or P?HCHASERH.
Section 1. Be it enacted hy the Sen
ate nnd House of Representatives of the
State of South Caroliua, uow met aud
Hitting in General A trembly, and by tliu
authority of the That from aud
after the passage of this Aot auy person
or persons who shall wilfully an 1 know
ingly sell and convey any real personal
property on which auy lien or liens
exist, without first giving notice of such
lien or liens to the purchaser or purch
asers of such real or pcrsouai property,
shall bo deemed guilty of a niisdeuiean
Or, nnd, on couviction thereof, shall bu
imprisoned for a term not less than ten
duys nor woro thau three years, and bu
Quod not less thau ton dollars uor more
thau Uvo thounaud dollars, of cither or
both, in the discretion of the court:
Provided, That the penalties enumer
ated io this Act shall not apply to pub
lic officers in the discharge of their
ufficiul duties.
Approved February 12, .1873.
AN* AOT to Amend an Act entitled ?'?Ab
* Act to Gr\*t, Hrnkw and Amend the
Charter or Certain Towns and Vim. \ors
tub ItKIR MBBTlONBOs'*
?m
Skction 1. lie it exacted by the Sen
ate and House of Representative* of the
State, of So?th Carolins, now met and
sitting lu General Assembly, and by the
authority bf the same, That Section 2 of
an Aot cut it led "Au Act to grant, re
new and amend the charters of certain
towns and village^ therein mentioned,"
he, mid the same is hereby, amended by
striking out, on the <r>th line, tho word>
'?fourth Monday in March, 1S7!ami
insert the wnrd? "ob the fourth Monday
of April, 1873."
Approved February 14, 1873
A itoiglitm Story*
We tptot i T om the Rclgi? n dews
pspcrs the following Recount of a dread
ful tragedy that occurred in a littlo vil
l?ge near Brussels. A furmer and his
wifo had plotted to murder their niece
during her sleep, to rob her of 1,690
trances that she was taking to her sick
mother. Iu, order to foil the future
e rches of the police, they, previously
t perpetrating the crime, wore engaged
in digging a large hole in their garden,
so us to bury the body iu it, when the
young girl, Who, not bc.ng asleep, had
beard her terrible sentence, rushed out
by the window and ran to the police
station, distant one mile only.
Rut sssooo as she was out, tho daUgh
ter. of the fanner, who was not expected
home that uight, cuuio back, and n< t
wishing to awaken anybody in the
house, went noiselessly into the bed
where her c lusin had been lying a few
minutes ago. She soou fell asleep, and
thus her mother, not being aware of the
I'rovide Stiel substitution owing to the
darkucis of the night, broke her owu
daughter's npek with an axe.
This being ;donc, th# tWo wcrc ^.n? '
to the gard-n. carrying -he corpse, cn
"?.>ued in a bo lspre^d, wheu two gen
^nrmes, accompanied by the fugitive
girl, rushed into tho house with lanterns
in thoir hands.
At tho sight of their nioce, whom
they thought they had murdered, tho
two wretches took off the covering and
.found their uufortuuate child killed by
their owu hands.
The man, taking a largo butcher's
knifo, plunged it into his breast and fell
dead on tho ground. As to the womau,
who v. as prevented from committing
suicide, sho became iusauo, and is uow
shut up in a lunatic asylum, whore she
is expectod soon to dio from mental
exhaustion. A more horrible account
has ' rarely been registered in the auuals
of crime.
.Every woman may be said to XL at
forty.
Zsal without knowlodgo ij firo with
out light.
Intellectual farming?Harrowing a
man's leelinga*
A man Was arrested recently for being
intoxicated with delight.
What is that from wliioh, if you take
the whole, some mill remain ? Whole
some.
Our Visitor.
He came in with on interrogation
point in ono eye, and a stick in one hand
One eye was covered with a handker
chief and one arm in adding. His bear
ing was that of a manfewith a settle 1
purpose in view. *
"I want to seo," said he, "tho man
that puts things into this paper."
We intimated that several of us earned
a frugal livelihood in that way.
"Well, I want to sec the man which
cribs things out of thft, other papers.
Tho follow who writes mostly with shoarfi
you understand.
We cxpluinod to hint that thoro were
(Scnsous when the most gifted 'among us
driven to frenzy by the Scarcity of ideas
and events, and by the; clamorous de
mand.- of an* iB-S itiiibl?publie, in mo
u.cnts of emotional, insanity, plunged
the glittoring shears ik?> our exchanges
He went olf cnlmly, burin s voice tremu
lous with suppressed fooling and indis
tiuct through the recent loss oi half a
dozen or so of his front teeth.
"?lust so. I presume so. I don't
know much about this ^business, but 1
Wjnt to see a uiro, the man that printed
that little piece about pouring cold water
down a drunken man's spine of his
back, and making him 'instantly sober.
If you plcaso I want to see that man. I
would like to talk with^im."
Then he leaned his stick against our
desk and spit on his serviceable band,
and resumed his hold ?? tho ?tick as
though he was weighing it. After
studying the stick n minute, be added
in a somewhat louder tone.
''Mister, 1 came here,to see thut 'ere
man. I Want to see htm bad."
'.Just so. I prcsuuro so. j hey told
me before I come that/lhc tnai I wanted
to seo wouldn't bo armiere. I'll wait
for bim. I live up'jjortk, and I've
walked seven miles to converse with
that man. I guess I'll sit down aud !
wait."
He sat down by the door and r.tflec
lively p?undcd the floor with hie stick,
but Iiis feelings would not allow him to
keep still.
"1 suppose none of?ynu didn't ever
pour uiuch enid water down any drunken
mail's bu?*k to make biui iusUiutly sober,
perhaps."
None of us in the office h td ever tried
the experiment.
"Just so. I thought just as like as
not you bad not. Well, mister, I have.
1 tried i*. yesterday, and 1 have conic
seven miles on foot to seo the man that
printed that piece. It wasn't much of
a p'ece, I don't think ; but I want to
see the man that printed it, just a few
minutes. You see, John Smith, he lives
next door to my house, whan I'm at
homo, und he gets how-corn; you so eve
ry little period. Now, when bo's sober
he's all right if you keep out of his waj
but when he's drunk ho goes home and
bieaks dishes and tips over the stove
and throws hardware around and mike, j
it inconvenient for his wife, and some I
times be gits his man nnd gOJ3 Out I
calling on his neighbor*, S.D'*. it Ka't
pleasant.
Not that I w:,nt ? j sftJ anvthing ab0ut
Smith ? "but, mo and my wile dou't think
nC *Ught to do so. Ho came homo
drunk lately, und broke all the kitcheu
windows out of his house, and followed
his wife round with a caving knife,
talking about her liver aud after a while
he lay down by my fence aud went to
sleep. I had been reading that little
piece: it ?rasu't much of a piece, and 1
thought if I could pour some water
down his spine, on his buck, and make
him sober it would be more comforta
ble lor his.wife, and n square thing to
do all around. So I poured a bucket
of spring water down John Smith's spioc
of bis dack."
"Well." said we, as cur visitor paused
"did it nuke him sober?"?
Our visitor took a firmer hold of bis
stick and replied with increased euro
tion.
' Just so. i suppose it did male him
as sober as a judge in less - time than
you could say Jack Robinson, but; mis
tor it made him rund. It made him the
maddest man I over saw, and Mister
John Smith is a bigger man than me and
stouter. He is a good deal stouter.
Hie?ble&S him, I never know he was
half so stobt till yesterday, and ho's
handy with his lists, too. I should sdp
pose he's tho handiest man with his
fists I ever saw.'*
"Then he went for fro?, did he ?" We
asked, innocently. *
"Just so. Exactly. I suppose he
went lor me about the best lie knew, but
1 don't hold uo grudge ngftinst Juo.
Smith, I suppose he ain't a good man
(o hold a grudge against, only I want to
sec him bad. I feel as tho' it would
soothe uic to see that man. 1 want to
show hiui how a drunken man acts when
you pour water down the spiuc of his
back. That's what I come for."
Our visitor' who had poured water
down tho spine of a drunken man's baok
remained until about 9 o'clock in the
evening aud then went up street to find
the man. The man he is looking for
started for Alaska last evening for a
summer vacation, and will not be back
before September, 1878.? Ulica FTcrabt.
' A Painful Separation:
Wc bad been united for a long time, \
and fur many years I had no fault tu '
find with her sweet disposition and her
unalterable fidelity. Night and day she
was with mo, she" neror left me for a mom
ent at table she always ate tho things that
I preferred.
I was happy for she was beautiful.
Some may admire the oriental beauties
with^tbeir dark locks, their brunette
compfficiotu and their voluptuous glan
ces; others may celebrate the goddesses
of the North, their soft blue eyes and
their slender graceful forms; ?she, she
was tiny indeed, but she was white as
ivyry.
And her hair ?
She had no more thau a billiard
ball.
But she had pretty eyes!
She was blind.
I repeat; however, that T loved her
for she Was beautiful; and you would
have admired her yourself if you could
have seen her reclining silent und m>
tionlcss on her auteuil of crimacu vel
vet.
1 hoped for a union without a cloud,
but fate had deorctded pthefWi.se. Is
there anything enduring in this world?
The Guest wine will turn sour, and the
mot faithful companion will sometimes
be corrupted.
Thus it was in my cose.
She commenced by petty attempts to
vex me, to which I at first paid but lit
tie attention, thanks to my habituii
j^odd humor; each day. however, b1?C
grow more troublesome. I ad Ircssed
leproaches to her, which she received
without a word of reply. Was this
silence an avowal of her wickedness ? 1
had the naivete to thin'; so, for we lived
together most amicably during the entire
summer.
Winter came, and my domestic troub
les recommenced with redoubled force.
I tried to soothe her with mildness, but
in vain. I threatened her, it wai
equally useless.
'?(Jh ! it is too much," I exclaimed oe.^
day. "I can stand it no JoTiger! You
must leave mc '."
But sec how powerful is the force of
habit! T f/,t utterly incapable my soil
"jl severing the bond that united us SO
closely; my resolution failed utterly.
In Paris there are several agencies
which have charge of unions. All, from
the humblest workman to the richest
"Iiis de famillc," who wi*h to cnt6r the
lists of matrimony, can find there girls
rich or poor, blonde or brunette. There
one can take his choice of the crooked,
the straight, the fat the thin, the young
or the old, the spirituello or the filly.
But there are quite as many places
for divorces as there are .for uniting
people.
1 was told of a place where I could
obtain a scpuratiou without tho least
difficulty.
I started accordingly with her. But
strange to say, she was perfectly charm
iug all the way, and I had nothing to
complain of for a single instant. Perhaps
she divined where wc were goiug. Tor
my part 1 vr as tempted to turu back,
"Suppose I do not go to thu gemtlc
man," 1 said to myself. 'Wien remom
beriug all she had uiadc mc suffer, nil
the torments sho bad inflicted upon mc,
aud reflecting that there might bo still
more in storo for me, I was couvinccd
that I would oo a fool and a coward if
I did not obtain a separation at once
The next moment I was i tit rod need into
a parlor where tbcro w ro several per
sous seated awaiting their turn. Thoy
were all called in one after the other.
After about oue hour of anxiety a Bar
Vant came to me and said, -'Monsieur, it
is your turn, please walk into the next
room." 1 wont in taking her with me
The person before whom I found my
self had ou a long dressing gowu, and a
red skull cap ou his head.
"You wish me to take her from you!"
he said And at the same moment he
took hold of my arm.
' Oh, uo !" I cried; lot me keep her,
do not tear her from me !"
?'Coward K" said the man in the red
cap, pushing mc back in a chair and
seizing mc by the head.
Ah?ah?ah?!?"Hero, Monsieur,
here is your tooth.?^Qourrier t/< < Etats*
Unis."
A ^Ilugc on Fire.
A FEARFUL EXl'EUIEMCE.
A Michigan paper publishes a private
letter lronr State Senutor McGowau to
his wile, giving an account of tho groat
firo at Michigamtni. After describing
the spread ol tho flames in"the foriests
8u?rounding the vtlhgo, he says :
"Wo Baw it was useless for u-j to try
to do anything [except, if possible, save
our lives. We ran t(? the lake and got
out on a point. Hut the direction of
the shore v.east ?-^ei- on .1 Om
fire was sweeping down upon as. I
went to the edge of fchrg water, aud
looked up and down. The line of sifcty
seemed to be in the ' water, and in I
weut. I picked up a board six or eight
leet long and waded out to got a better
view of the'situation. Just east of me I
saw somdfttacn trying to get a hewn
stick intfl^uc lake. 1 went to them,
but they had given it up und were Mook
n x . j _ T_1 .?_._?
tog lui uuuiuo. x '?',->- > mcui iu j'-iv tu
the timber, and, at my solicitation, they
tried again und wc succeeded iu launch
ing it. One of tho men had a plank,
und I bud my board. We laid the board
and plank acrcss the timber, which was
probably twenty-five foot long, and with
this laft six of us put to sea in the teeth
of a furious wind that sought to drive us
into the fire. After struggling awhile,
I t >Id the man to kop the timber fro-u
turning, and I clambered up astride of
t, near tho ,,bpw'* cud, and, with my
board for a pnddlo, struck out. It was
terrible work. The winds aud tho
W^VCfl were against us. The lake was
white with foam. \\ o ha i made abtut
lour rods from shore wheu ouo of tao
tulleat men, letting himself down, sail
his led.were ou a rock. Our strength
was almost exhuuited, so we told him to
boll us. I slipped down from my
woodon horse, aud on examination .we
found the rook largo enough to allo;r
two of us to stand on it. Wc took a
long breath, and went iuto cotnamtcc of
the whole on the situation. If wo sh^ull
undertake to row our craft farther from
the fire, we Would, soon bo overcome,
and tboh be Viown directly into it. The
Qnaii'imous verdict was, that We Would
take our chances here. The fire was
around us, above us, every where. The
water was full of struggling pioplc. Wc
held to the stick. Two of us would
stand on tho rock at a time and anchor
the rest, who floated like sea weeds from
along the sides of the timber. Wheu
the hot uir swept down upon us, we put
our faces close to the water and sin-,
our mouths. For an hour and half wc
were there in tho ffater, and I bosaun
terribly child.
Hy and by the worBt of the fire was
over, and a couple of Swedes came to
ward us with a boat. 1 was the worst
used up of any of the party, thoroughly
chilled and exhausted. 'My companions
called to tbciu to come and tuko me off.
Thcji helped me into tho boat, and the
Swedes took me to the littlo steamer
which was anchored further out in th?
lake. I gave them $2 to go back and j
bring off another o; the. boys who was
ulso badly chilled. As soon as I got
aboard the boat I commenced wringing
my clothes as well ns 1 could and exor
cising ull I was able. The hot air and
smoke hud made my lungs so sore I
could not breatho deep, aud every
breuth was paiuful. However the air
was still wurm from the fire, and I grad
ually grew warmer. AVo sent every
bout wc could, after the poople in the
\?uicr, and ou the points, until at last
our little steamer was loaded. The fire
hud swept by where our raft was, and
the balance of our little party bad lot
loose from the rook aud floated ashore.
Wo wcro all saved. The mill was still
standing, but not out of danger. After
they bud sounded the whistle, the peoplo
coin?euccd gathering there. I oan not
describe the scone here. I don't wan't
to try. The womon and chttdigp and
men rushing about aud crying aud beg
ging to know something of the absent
ones. You may imagine it, don't oak me
to toll it. The whole village was burned.
Out of 120 houses; only three were left
standing, and one or those was burning
before we left. It was impossible to tell
bow many lives were lost.
Scene in a Smoking Car.
The following amusing incident oe
currcd recently in tho smoking car of a
C. C. and J. C. railroad train, between)
Shelby and Cleveland. Says the Cleve
land Times:
A woman with a poodle dog entered
the cur just prior to the departure of the
train from the former point, and after
depodting her dog on the seat, turned
over tho bask of another one, so that
each scat faoed the other. Together,
sho and her oanino companion thus
menopolizod tho entire seats. Appear
ances seemed to indicate that the car was.
one exclusively for the convenience of
those addicted to the use of the "weed;"
but of this fact sho was soon advised by .
the conductor, who advised her at the
same time that the accommodations in
the other coaches were superior Co iu?iv
where she was then. However, she in
sistcd on remaining, urging that her pre
sence would deter the occupants of the
car from smoking, and shs would con
se.'jueutly experience no. disoomfort
from tobacco fumes. Long before the
train reached this city, however, a gentle
man sitting directly4in front of her pro
duccd bis case, and, taking therefrom a
cigar, h . -xn puffing away at it in a man
ner which seemed peculiarly oaloulated
to aggravate the woman back of him. 1st
an instant stragtegtio movement, she
wrested the obrftxiouacigar from his hand
and threw it out of the window, exclaim
ing, "If there is anything I do hate, it
is tobacco rcsoke." The passengers who
had witnessed the affair were'convulsed
with laughter, but the offending smoker
suppressed whatever emotions may bavo
b ???n struggling for expression in words
or action, and mtintaincd throughout
the same impor&rbable gravity which,
had characterized him from the first.
Calmly rising from his seat, he opened
the window nearest him, fastening It up,
and reaching over the scatbaok, took up
that woman's p>odIe dog aud threw it
out of the window as far beyond as
possible, at the sime time saying, "if
there is anything I do hate, it's a poodle
do- !"
Ait Erect Posture.
A writer o 1 heilth vary justly eon
demns the habit of Iouaging, in wbioh
large nambors of persons indulge, as
injurious to health. Ho says: 'An
erect bo.lily attitud s is ot vastly more
importance to health than it is generally
imagined. Crooked b> lily position*
maintained for any length of time, are
always injurious, wluthjr in th3 sitting,
standing or 1yiu* pwturj, whether sie 3p?
inf* or walking. To sit with thcboly
leaning forward on tho stora ich, ot to
one side, with the hsols elevated to si
levol with tho head, is not only in htl
taste, but exceedingly detrimental to
health. It cramps the stomach presses!
the vita! organs; interrupts the free nan*
tions of the chest, and enfeeble* the
functions of the abdominral and thoracic
organa, and", in fact, unbalances the
whole muscular system. Many children
become slightly hump backed, or severe
ly round shouldered, by sleeping with
the head raised on a high pillotr; when
any person finds it easier to sit or stand,,
or sleep in a orookei position than in i
strait one such persons may be sure hi*,
muscular system is badly deranged, and
tho more careful he is to preserve a strait
or an upright position aud gets bulk td
not tire again the better."
The book to which references is meet
frequectly made nowadays?Tho pocket
book.
A gentleman in a fit of absent mindel
ners told another that he had two sons
?both boysi
Pst was asked tho other day if he
understood French. "Yes, yer honor, if
it's spokon in Irish."
*Why is a man who makes addition*
to a false rumor like one who has oocfi
donee in all that is told htm ? Besens?
*
he re lies on all that he hears.
There is a time for all things. The
time to leave is when a young lady os&s
you what kin l of a day it is for wsj^