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coassa '
GERVAIS k ASSEMBLY STREETS
COLUMBIA, H. C.
Convenient to tho Greenville and Charleston
Railroads and the Business portion of
the City. Rate of Transient
Board?Two Dollars
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AN ACT Concerning School Funds.
SkotIon 1. Be 'U em. .*H by the
Senate and House of Repreac -tativos of
the State of South Carolina, now met
and sitting in General Assembly, and by
the authority of tho panic, That the
General Assembly shall* Hvy, at each
regular session thereof, nn annual special
tux, to he known and designated aB the
"school Jix," on all taxablo property
throughout tho State, lor the support
and maintenance of Free Common
Schools, which tax shall be collected at
tho same time, nnd in the same manner,
and by the same agents, as tho general
State tax, nnd which tax shall be paid
into the Treasury of the Stato.
Skc. 2. That it he deelared a misde
meanor, on t ho part of the State Trea
surer, to npply or appropriate any funds
or moneys derived from, or collected en
account ot, said school tax, fur any pur
pose or purposes whatever, except that,
of Free Common Schools; and, on con
viction thereof, he shall pay a fine of not
less than five thousnnd dollars (S?,<)()(),)
the same to he UFcd for school'purposes,
and shall be imp: isoncd at the discre
tion of the Court.
Sec. 3. That the Stato Treasurer
shall furnish to tho State Superintend
ent of Education, annually, on or be
fore the first Tuesday of Maroh, of each
year, except the present year, which
shall be the first day of April, a certi'
ficd statement, showing the amount c!
nioueys collected or received by him on
accuuut of fmid school tax.
Sec. 4. That it shall bo the duty of
the State Superintendent of Education
to apportion, nt the law specifies, the
Free Common School funds of tho State
umung tho several Counties thereof.
Skc - H. That it shall he tho duty ol
i ach **|}btfn.ty School Commissioner t<H
nppoition, according to law, the Free
Common School funds of his County
among the several *cko.ol districts there
of: /VoriV/W/, That nny School District
believing itself wronged b.y such appor
lioumcnt may appeal to the State
Superintendent of Education, whoso
decision shall he final
Sec. <>. 'J hut it shall be the duty o'
each County Treasurer to report} mouth
ly. on the fifteenth day of each mouth,
to the County School Commissioner of
his County, the amount of collections
and disbursements made by him for the
month on account of poll tax aud all
other school funds; aud it shall be a
misdemeanor, on the part of nny County
TrciiBurcr, to neglect, fail or re!use to
make such report; and, on couviction
thereof, he shall pay a fine of not less
than five hundred dollnra (3500.00, the
same to be used for school purposes in
his County.
Sec. 7. That all moneys disbursed by
any County Treasurer, on ncc mut of
school funds, or poll tax., shall be paid
on tho ordert? of Boards of School Trus
tees, countersigned by the County
School Commissioner : Provided^ That
accounts or claims of School Trustees,
for enumerating school children, shall
be paid ou tho orders of tho County
School Commissioner.
Sec. 8. That each County Treasurer
shall make out and forward to tho Stato
Superintendent of E lucatiou, annually,
on the first day of November, a c.'rti?.'d
statement showing, by school districts,
tho amount of poll tax aud the amount
of local or school district taxes collected
by him for the fiscal year ending on the
Ills' of October next preceding ; and
should any County Treasurer fail, neg
lect or refuse to make nnd forward the
statement us herein required, the Stale
Superintendent of Education shall make
out a written complaiut to the Circuit
Solicitor for the County in which tba
said Treasurer resides, who shall prose
cute tho said .County Treasuror for tho
same, and on oonviction thereof ho shall
bo subject to a fiue of fivo hundred
dollars (S500.00,) the same to bo u a I
I for Free Common School purposes in
his County.
Approved February 20, 1873.
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AN ACT to Reoulatk tub Service
ov Process Ishcino from the
Supreme Court.
Be. it enacted by tho Senate and
Houso of- Representatives of the State
of South Carolina, now mot and sitting
in General Assembly, and by tho
authority of the same, That tho Suprome
Court of this State be, and is hereby,
empowered' to require the Sheriff of
etch 'and every County in this Stute, to
whom any order or process issuing from
fiaid Court may be directed, to serve and
execute the same; and shall have the
same power to enforce such service and
execution, and to punish default therein,
us is now vested iu the Circuit Courts
in process issuing therefrom.
Approved February 20, 1873.
AN ACT to Hnforck the Payment
ok k Pom; Tax.
SKCTtON 1. lie it enacted l>y the
Senate and House of Representatives .of
the State of South Carolina, now met
and sitting in Gcuorral Assembly, and
by the authority of the same, That there
shall be assessed on all taxable polls in
the State an unnual tux of one dollar on
each poll, the proceeds of which shall
be "applied to educational purposes; and
if any person shall refuse or neglect to
pay said tax, before the expiration of
the timo fixed for the [Tayment of all
taxes, i.hc County Treasurer shall, with !
in twenty days thereafter, furnish a li*t
of all delinquent polls to the County
Commissioners of the County. Where
the persons so taxed and delinquent
hove no property to be distrained for the
payment of said poll tax, as authorized
in the Act providing for tho assessment
and taxation of property, approved
September 15, 1SG3, the person or i>er
suns !*v delinquent shall be subject to a
penalty of douhlc the amount of their
poll tnS ; and on failing to pay the same,
when notified- of the fact, within ten
days after such notice, Puch pcrsou or
persons shall be required to work upon
tho highway ot roads, in their respactive
( nun ties,, as the County commissioners
may direct, not exceeding three days.
JSec. ?. That Raid county 6'omuiiss
iotii . f.huH, ufifer receiving the deltnqtt
cnt poll lists, summon such delinquents
to appear at their office, and then and
there give them the opp irtunity to pay
the d ?uole tax ; an 1 on failing t > do s >,
such delinquents shall be required to
work upon thM highways and roads ol
their respective counties as the county
commissioners may direct ; and it the
said delinquents, being personally wawi
cd by the suid commissioners, or by \
written notice, served at their place ol
residence), shall reluse or neglect, having
had ten days' notice, to attend by theui
selves, Or substitutes equally able to per
form said duties as themselves, or to .pay
the double tax in lieu of said duties, or,
havitlg attended themselves, shall refuse
to couforui to the requirements of this
Act, v?r obey the directions ol the county
commissioners, they shall be considered
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on 0 invio
tion thereof, be imprisoned for the same,
in county jail, for a term not leas than
ten days.
Approved February 20, 1873.
AN ACT kor tiik Bettkh Protection
of Religious Worship.
/?c it enacted .by tho. J_. itn and
House of Representatives of the Stato
of South Carolina, now met and sitting
in Gonvrul Assembly, aud by the author
ity of tho name, That if any j erson shall,
willfully and maliciously, disturb or
interrupt any meeting, society, assembly
or congregation, convened for the put
pose o' religious worship, or shall outer
such meeting, while in a stato of
intoxication, or shall use or sell spiritu
ous liquors, or nso blasphemous langu
age at or near the place of meeting,
such person shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall on conviction,
he sentenced to pay a fiuo of uot less
than twouly, or more than one hundred
dollars, or bo imprisoned for a term not
exceeding one year, or less than thirty
days, or both, or either, at the discretion
of the Court.
Approved February -0, 1873.
An Act to Amk.no Section 17 ok
chapter xlv ok the cj en bra t.
Statutes ok the State.
lie it enacted by thoScnnto and House
of Representatives of the Stnto of South
carolum, now met and sitting in General
Assembly and by the authority of the
samo, That. Soctioq 17, chapto" XLV of
the General Statutes, of the Stato, bo
amended by striking out tho words
"forty fivo," and insoTt in liou thereof
the words "fifty five."
Approved February 22, 1773.
AN ACT to Amend an Act entitled
"An Act to Incorporate the
Town ok Lewisyii.lk, SJC."
Jie it enacted by the Seuatomnd House
of Representatives of the S*j$ if South
Carolina, now met nnd sitting,in Gener
al Assembly, and by the authority of tlie
mme, That an Act entitled^An Act to
imorpora'e the town of LflEdrillc, S.
C," passed February 28W|l873 be
amended by striking outwthe words
' three fourths" wherever ^thc same
ueeur ui the Act, and insnr^ the words
?'one third."
Approved FeVrunry 20,
AN ACT to A vend C
of the General St at]
State.
]>i it cnnctul by the ScrjBRand House
of Representatives id' the of South
Carolina, now met and sitlj Ig in Gener
al Assembly, and by thtiaulliorily of
:he same, That Chapter ,j)XX of the
General Statutes of the St4* be amend
ed an follows : Strike OjJE tho word
"thirty," wherever it oceiV|'in Section
11, Mini insert the word -'iiSV-ty Irikr
out the words "ninety day y m Section
13. and ins.-rt "six nionth.^T
Approved February 20,^873.
Advice lo tlit
?
Begin, say at sixteen,,%6 look in the
glass whenever you pas-[ one, and to
make up your mind that V'-U are not as
beautiful as you mighti bo. Grow
gradually discontented >^tli your chin
pkxioti, and make up yn;.1 mind that it
must and sliall be impiiived. Talk a
go.al deal aliou* your wr Jj-f-V-ohartns to
your young lady fVi'tfM^Th.) will be.
sure to encourage you ^n your low csti
mate of them. Druw the attention of
}0ur maiden aunt?, grandmothers, etc.,
to your complexion. They will soon
discover "that it is "j our livor."
Begin a course of wucping on j'our ^
pillow at night. It wiH improve your
eyes and eye eight. V\ cur a dotted veil I
in tho street, and never expose yourself
to sunbeams. By these.,means, and by
ennstuiitly picking out little bl?ck specks
on your face, you will bee ?nie a mono j
maniac, and you |will be ready I r the
second course of procedure as follows :
Being ready, tak? any duily uewspa
per, nnd diunt out, buy and use all th i
magical ''bottUtifiera" thai Are advertised
in its columns: "Balm of Moss Rosas,"
"Down of Angels' Winga," "Dreams of j
the Violets," "Old Aunty G untcr's
complexion Wash,-' "Indian Skin Trans
former, discovered by a venerable s<juavf
while in search of the graves of her fore
fathers," and all the rc^t of them.
Some will be chalk or whiting; some,
innocent starch powder^ some, arsenic,
bismuth and white letd. Some will
make you look like the gho.-t of a work
itig baker, who had not time to wash his
fncc. Somo will fill your pores with
little blacks ; some will poison you ;
simc will hurt your eyesight ; some will
paralyze your hands. No matter, go
ahead; buy them all, plaster them on,
and oil or cold cream yourself at night
If you choose you may rub red paint on
your cheeks at the stme time. In n
year or so will come tic third strigo, iu
which yi u will OOOSUOio nil the univcr
sal panaceas on record. You will take
Smith's Pills, Jones' Uitter's Brown's
Tonics, Robinson's Mysterious Human
Health Protector, Ac. itc. You will
try allopathy, honmupithy, the wat*r
cure, electricity, magnetism, and nil the
quack medicines.
You began by being a healthy young
woman, with a few pimples on your skin,
which would have departed of them
selves after a while. You nru nnw an
invalid, ruth a parchment complexion
aud an unhappy disposition, and ono day
you look in the glass aud discover gray
hairs on your head. Nature, finding
that you would dosn yourself into a
pallid ghostlincss, tries to do what she
can for yon by giving you such hair a
will point the change less hideously.
You feoi horrified ; you 0y to the papers
onee more, and read an advertisement
in which Daubs?as au utterly disinter
cstcd party?advises you to rejuvenate
yourself, if you arc premuturoly gray,
by the use of his Ambrosial Hair Dye,
"harmless, potent, and perfumed."
You at onco go out to buy this com
pound, which, when bought, proves to
be a grimy mixture with a very nasty
smell, and so begin upon the hair dyes,
and go on till one day there is an end of
all things for you, nnd eut of respect to
your memory peoplo call it a visitation
of Providenee, and not a visitation of
hair dye, which they would call it if
th?y told the truth.
Americans Abroad.
TUB PUKV OF EXTORTIONATE LAND
Blade rwiuarks that many Americans,
desiring to show their disregard for
money, have been doing it so long and
so extensively that they have made it
inconvenient for those of limited purses
to get nl ng decently. All over the
continent they have spoiled the servants
and the hotel keepers, and caused prices
to be advanced about fifty pet cent, on
all their countrymen. A ho'.ol keeper
looks upon an American as aetrcasure
chest, out of which he is at liberty to
extract as much money as possible, and
he is uot backward in making the at
tempt. And when an American endeav
ON to travel economically he is subject to
a variety ol slights and annoyances, and
will occasionally be tobt that he does j
not behave as 1 ibcrully as his respectable
countrymen- London usod to be better
in this respect, than Paris or Rome, but
it is now quite as bad. The hotels and
lodging houses put on nil sorts of ' extras'
and outrageous charges, nnd frequently
the mnungers do not hesitate to lie tin
blushingiy in order to extort money
from their patrons. I am quartered at
a respectable ho el, overlooking Convent
(jard.n, it was recommended to me ns a
comfortable house, and one where the
? the charges would be just and correct.
I called for my bill yesterday, and told
endeavored to iuducc me to let it stand
until I was ready to go away, but 1
insisted, nnd the bill was brought. |
There were extra charges for things ]
which 1 knew I novcr had, and they
had put on an extra shilling for en:rh '
moruiug's breakfast, alter telling me
that I could order anything on the bill
of fare. 'I hey charge three pence a day
I'm stationery, and make every man pay
lor it whether ho writes a let er or not
I protested, but it was no u-e. It was
their custom, they said to charge three
pence a day for stationery, and a man
might use as much as he" wished. Up
to that time I had not used a sheet oi
their paper, but heoeeferth they cannot
complain that I neglected it. I find it
makes good cigar lights, and when I go
away from hero it will fill up the loose
corners of my trunk very neatly. If
they luakctanythiug out of me ou the
stationery swindel, they must bo wider
awake than I think they are. I paid
their bill under protest, nnd rcmaiued.
Why didn't you go away! somebody
will a.*k- Whut is the use in moving ?
I hare had a row with them, and though
I couldn't get that bill reduced I con
vinced them they would not make much
by trying it on again. I gave warning
that I would not pay for another "extra
nud have been careful to havo none for
which anv charge could bo made. If I
went to unot .er hotel I should have the
I same row t' go through over again.
They are all alike in this respect nnd
will oheat without compunction ci con
science I am in the position of tho
railway superintendent who rcfuso l to
discharge a conductor known to be
dishonest, ou the ground that the man
had already bought a watch, diamond
pin, horse, nud other things out of his
stealings, while the uew man, to take
his place, would be obliged to equip
himself in the s?mo wuy. It is better
to bear tho ills wo have than fly to oth
ers that may be worse, and are certain
to be just as bad.
Are ladies aware that tho waterfall
and chignon are borrowod from the low
eat order of women in Japan, who always
have a weak of s for them T In the
wildcat portions of Africa, as tho draw
ings made by travelers invariably show,
chignons are worn, and the more danger
ously wild tho women, the greater tho
chignon. In Japan, also, it has been
obsorvod, the lose a woman has inside
hor head, tho more she manages to ar
ranr,o outside of it.
Might furlongs make a mile-?Tho
Grand Rapids Times says there is a farm
er near Tackson who has a mile of yejing
ones. He has four boys and four girls.
His name is "Furlong."
LORD.
A writer from London to the Toledo
them T preferred to pay
Negro Juries,
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial has been in the Red River
Country, where the black population so
largely preponderates, and the juries
are selected from both races. He says :
"I asked a white man who had had con
siderable jury experience, how it worked.
He said "it worked tolerably well after
a fellow got used to it.'
"Did it take much effort to get used
to it?" I asked.
"Yes, sir, you bet it was the con
foundest hardest thing to get used to
ever you heard of* I haven't got used to
the smell yet. Of n hot day iu n close
room with a lot of fat niggers sitting on
a case, it's pretty hard. Rut we have
to submit, for if some of us white peo
pie didu't go on tho jury it would be all
niggers, and that would be ruin."
"How are the juries divided f" I
asked.
"Oh, just as it happens, so there is
some of each race on every jury. Some
times there'b only two niggers, some
times four, sometimes six, and ho met mie
ten."
"How are they about agreeing upon
verdicts?"
"They are better than tho whites.
The niggcis never hang a jury. When
I am on a jnjy with them, and the suit
is on an account, for instance, I just
figure up the amount, and say : 'Boya.
here, Jones owes Smith so much and
so much and so much, giving tho figures
much, giving figures, which leaves Jones
behind with Smith so much, and that's
what we must ronder judgment for*"
They all agree to it, although they don't
know any more about figures than a hog
does about theology,"
"I'll say this for the niggers," he
continued, "tho? are not stubborn on a
jury at nil; but as far as my experience
goes, they aro always anxious to do the
right thing between man and man "
"When their own color is involved
how is it ?" I asked.
"Just the same. They do not shield
their own people*. They'll hang a nig
gcr for murdor just as quick as they will
a white man, and a good deal quickor.
Sometimes I think they arc a little too
hard ou their own race. Rut I suppose
they fear we will charge thorn with par
tiality. On the whole, a nigger makes
a pretty fair juryman,"
"Was there no great opposition to his
serving in that capacity ?"
"Oh, yes, thunder was to pay for a
while. Whito men said they wouldn't
sit with a niggor, they would die first,
and all that, but they had to swullow
the dose, and have now got used to it.
There is nothing like being used to any
thing is there ?
Masquerading iu Roy's Clothes*
A correspondent at Little Rook, Ark.
writes : That a marshal has just return
ed from Allenville, Mo., having in his
custody a young girl named Mollie
Sherwood, who for intervals during the
past two years hss been passing for a
boy undej the namo of Rill Henderson .
About two years age her parents resid
ing iu Cape Girnrdeau, died. She was
then thirteen years old, nud her two
brothers placed her out to work in a
bo'el at Allenvil e. Becoming tired of
this employment, she donned boy's cloth
ing, called herself Rill Henderson, and
applied for and received a situation ns
post boy to carry the mail to nnd from
Allenvillo. For one year, unsuspected
she fulfilled the fuuetions of this post.
Then her sex was suspected, and at
Allenville she was placed under arrest
nnd compelled to wear the female garb
After this sho tried working in a hotel
as maid servant, but soon tiring of this
again resumed tho trousers and worked
as a farm hand. Subsequently she
came to A gust a, iu this State, as a
drover's assistant, and thence went to
Jacksouport to work in a livery stable.
After a while the man and boys about
tho ?Uble, believing her to be a woman
began to oall her names, * and, as she
says in order to get away from the place
she took certain horses belonging to the
stablemen and madooff with them. The
marshal followed hor and overtook her
with the horses at Allenville and arros
ted her on a charge of horse stealing.
The people there knew her well and
were inclined to prevent tho officers from
arresting hor. Pistols were drawn od
both sides, but fiua,ly the girl went of
her own free will with the marshal.
She is now in the Jacksonpost jail
awaiting trial for horse stealing. Tho
girl is a pretty blonde, and during all
her vicissitudes her virtue has never been
questioned.
Some years ago a new file oompany
trn* organized at Reading, and the mem
hers one evening thought they would
hare a little innocent fun at the expense
of Hopkins, their president. They de
cided to rush round with tho engine to
Hopkins, house after dark..to throw up
their ladders, pull out their hose, climb
on his roof and scare him with the be
lief that his dwelling was on fire. Rut
the very day Hopkins moved out of the
house and a Presbyterian clergyman
moved in, without the company being
aware of the change. So about eight
o'clock they dashed out, and went
through all the movements, getting on
t he roof and splashing water around and
creating a terrific disturbance generally^
A rival company noticing what was
going on, also hurried to the scene and.
without understanding the joke, attack
cd their hose to a plug, smashed in the
front windows; and began to empty a
two iuch st ream qn the family off* that
Presbyterian clergyman. Thoy sqirted
into all the rooms, split op the window .
shutters with an axe, broke down the
front door, ran out the furniture, tors off
the shiuglcH, and bawled through trnm
pets until tho hitedgirl had convulsions
on the kitchen stairs. The first compa
ny tried to explain, but the new comers
thought on effort was being made to get
them out of the way, and a fight ensued
and presently firemen wero sliding off
tho roof, and pelting down the chimneys
and bleeding over the entry carpet, and
having boisterous encounters with span
ncrs and brass horns on the stairs. And
the next morning that Presbyterian di
vine aud his family moved out. They
baid the place . . ..
and sensational for a quiet domestic
circle. They waolcd ? house whora
there was calmness and peace: where
they could have more security for their
privanoy nnd pianos, and for their front
doors and shingles, aud peace of mind
.and window sashes
Better Than Whiskey.
"Rill Arn" write?; "Gentlemen, them
is one thing about drinking. I almost
wish ovcry man was a reformed drunk
nrd. No man who hasn't drank liquor
knows what a luxury cold water is. I
have got up in the night in cold weath
er after I had been sprccing around, and
gone to the well burning up with thirst,
feeling liko tho gallows and the grave
aud the infernal regions were too good
for me, and when I took up the buckot
in my hands, nnd with my elbows tromb
ling like T had the shaking ague, put
the water to my lips, it was tho mostdell
cious, satisfying, luxurious draft that
ever went down my throat.
"I have stood there and drauk until I
could drink no more, nnd gone hook to
bed thanking God, for the pure inno
cent, and cooling beverage, and cursing
myself from my inmost forever touching
the accursed whisky. In my torture of
mind and body I have made vows and
promises, and broken them within a day. -
Rut if you want to know the luxury of
oold water, get drunk and keep at it till
you get on tire, nnd then try a bucket
lull at the well iu tho middle of the
night. You won't want a gourd fall?
you'll feel liko the bucket ain't big
enough, and when you begin to drink
an earthquake couldn't stop yon.' I
know a hundred men who will swear te
the truth of what I say, but you see it's
a thing they dont mean to talk about;
it's too humiliating."
???? ? - ? ? ii
I Say ?A gentleman who was in the
habit of interlarding his discourse with
tho expression, "I say," having been in
formed by a friend that a certain indi
vidual had made some ill natured re
marks upon this peculiarity, took the
opportunity of addressing bim in the
following amusing stylo of rebuke: ul
say, sir, I hoar you say 1 say 'I say' at
ovory word I say. Now, sir, although I
know I say ?I ?y' at ovory word l lay,,
still I say, sir, it is not for yea to say
I say 'I say' at every word I say/'
Husband and wife sailed (torn Derff
for Glasgow, en route for Kdinburg,
recently, the wife having on her kos*
the thirty-third child. Of the thirty,
three thors aro at present alive tweity
four. It is more than probable that %
similar cose could not he pointed out,