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I - M* - VOL. XLi WINNSBORO S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNNG, FEBRUARY 287 THE 1s Puth~tM~ *FEKIAr tY W I L A A VI T7erns.-The iR iAR.4 it )ubliahed Week y In the Town of WishAd ", At #A.00 n eriably in adtiuct, 0P-5 All trandsin )dterieemietnte to be 'Anf IN A1)V..kC t'. O',itutary Notiou And THibuttu $h10 per t quareu PRUOISLA'k V4 NoeDiok e. JMaiiary t4. A bill to amlid ah ad 64r the re demption of Ni itii lands was ordered to be enrolld.. The bill amoithlig at act entitled "An act regulating the manner of payment of adi dlainis against the several cotantiws of the state," was amohded by the additioh of the fol lowing t "That it thall be the duty of the Board of Coduty Coniission: era, immediately after the adjoidrnt ment of a ternof the circuit courtin -y county of the state, to hold a ment: g for the purpose of exaininiiig, ap ving and allowing the .juryy wit' a and coik.table tickets of such in of court ill mikvIh niaihier as reinbefore provided." Passed. Jvoint rendidtion relative to a cor in plantaitiont in the cotity lOf ichland. Paiseed. Bill to provide for the r Yrd. lessees of land at sales made for -on-paymnent of toe's being pit into ossession of th' sante. Passed. The resolitiobn approving of th'd ?ffer of a reward by the gtiverilor for tho Pomaria mi1Iurdrrs was passed. A resolution was adopted that the enat appoint a conunitteof ef iAA.1\ o r-district the state ih accordance 'ith the late census. Thirty-throe bills wore read by htle and referred. t ection 1 of the bill to amend the L idativo to the assessidout ahd ation of property was amended fd passed. The bill to regulate capital punish at was discussod until adjourn HOUSE OF ILEP1RsENTATv1Es. Mr. Crittenden introduced a joint 3rosolution authorizing and directing the state treasurer to apportion the amount remaining in his hands from k he two mill school levy, for the year onding October 31, 1875, in ox cess of the appropriation of $240, 000 for the maintenance and sup port of free common schools for the said year, to the several counties of the state, the free school funds of which were lost by the failure of the Bank and Trust Company. Mr. Hirsch, by unanimous con lout, introduced a bill to establish the office of State Auditor, and to define the duties of the samo. Senate bill to provide for the ex tension of the time for the pay. anent and collection of taxes for the scal year commencing November 1, 1875, wan read the second time and Ordered to be engrossed. - A. bill relating to the admission of n beeilos, idliots and 0opileptics into the Lunatic Aayhun was taken up 4nd( put upjoni its second reading. 3 A bill to prohibit the sale and a rchiase of scod cotton after sun d'own and before sunrise, and froms disreputabla persons was taken upl and discussed. Pe~ndling the dis cussion of the bill, the house ad journed, for want of a quorum. January 25. SENATS. ~-The president was reqJuested to ftp. -.point a member to fill the vacancy on the part of the senate in the special commnittee applointed1 at the last sessioni of the general asmbly to Oeaineli, and report as soonl as practicable, as to whether the con ditions upon which certain rights and franchises wOere convoyed by the state to the Columbia Water Vower Comnpanm y have been complied with on the part of said( company. .Hon. T, Q. Donaldson was ap~point. od. The bill to prlovide that all pay ments by the state treasurer, ex copt for interest on the public debt andl pay of membhers, offiers and emloyees of the general assembly, shall be tmade on warrants drawni by the comptroller-general, and the Y bill to amend an act entitled "ani act regulating the manner of pay ment of all claims aigainist the soy eral couInties in this state," weo favorably re~ported on. .~4 The usual number of notices of private and local bills were given. and a numbler of similar ones in trOduco'd. -Hope initrodutced a resolution prescribing thmo manner of auditing 'a paym claims under the Little JBonanizai bill. After muchl dicsso the bill tc pov ide that horoafter capital pun ishmnent shall be intlicted in privat< was killed. The joint resolution providing for anappropriation in aid of the StatA -Agricultural Society was killed by a 'eo of 20. to 10. 'On motion of Mr. Cochran, th< rep~ort (favorable) of thle commnitte< on privileges and elections on a bil] to apportion representation of thi variouls counties in this state, ir nieor1inen with the nrovisionis ') the state constitutiih was inade a special order . for Wednosday at 1 o'clock. Adju\\rtdt hW hoha tit A 1i o'clock. 'T'he chairmen of the various corn mittuwde reponrted everal bills. Simtpykli rported a bill to make apipropriations for the fiscal year tnmehing November 1, 1875. Read the first tine and made the special dirder fkw Tldrsday, at 1 1: M-. ald ti'dl\ tla,' to day unttil tilsputiOd of. The act to regniuth th apUoh1t mont and salary of trial justices in Columbia was read a third time, and the enactitig thudu itrickon out. Mrs Cqsgro= 'A bill to incorpo rate the Hiberiliaii Park Association of Charh',toh. Mr. Melchers.-. A bill to amend the charter cdf the Charleston Pub' linhing tydiinhy, MCr. Uritt nden fu1oditi u th e ,i follbihg clMt~trrent resoltitions whieb was drderod to lie uWr for future cotisiderattlonI .Resolved by the hedAd oft ire= nontativesy the senate cooiiurrhig That the golieral assembly adjourn sine die oli lriday, February 18, 1876 A resolution was adopted, pro \idihg foi- the appointment of a joint committee of both houlses, to report to the general assembly sech amondmeht, as may be deemed lIbces sary to the laws governing oeyeo tiots-. The coneurroilt rendhution ap proving the governor's action in oflurilig a reward for the capture of the Ponaria murd rers was adopted aul rotimnd to the son at x. The hli'o lie adjourned. Jahinary SIG. ~AT~IL Ph' WenateA it at 12 M. Mr. M.yurt1 front the Coilrtiittob oh engrossbd bills, reported as duly and correctly engrossed Bill regulating the collection of intorost upoln certain bondii also a bill to apportion rereseltA4oln 6 the va4iku t-.ontittI1 it 011h Atate in accoilai t; With tho provisions of the constitution. The senate proceeded to the COn nideration of a bill relating to the manner of the payment of all claims against the stkte of South Carolina, and for other pmrposes. The bill received its third reading and passed.f Report (favorable, with amend ment,) of colnmittec on the judiciary on bill to anoid an act ontitled "an act to regulate the appointment and salary of trial justices in an for the county of Barnwell." Report (favorable) -f committee on incorporations on bill to incorpo rate the Great Southern Fire Kind. ier Company. Report (favorable) of committee on incorporations on bill to incorpo rate the fire insurance company, of Charleston, S. C. At 2 r. xr. the senate adjourned. HOUSE OF RFIPIERENTATIVES. IThe following business was done : ResoloI ved, That the committee on retrenchment and reform be in-. structed to report a bill to this house roducing by twenty per cent. thme amlouint allowed for printing, the per diem and pay of the Jnmmbrs of the general assembly and their oflicors, clerks, employees and at, tacheos, tho salaries of county audi tors4, treasurers, school comminssionl (,rs, their clerks andl employees, and all the salaried officers and em p)loycos, and the fees of sheriffs, clerks of court, judlgos, judges of probate, and the legal fees of the attorneys at law. Mr. Bampfield introduced the following resolution: Resolved, That any member of the house who regards the present salary of $600 as contrary to law or burdensome upon the taxpayers of the st te be respectfully requested to signify to the clerk what amount he regairds as legitimate, for whieh ho shall make out a pay certificate in favor of- such member :Provided, however, That the said amount does not exceedl $600. A bill to amend an act entitled "an act declaring a tract of laud of one hundred acres in the cotunty of Fair field be escheoated1 to the state, and to vest the title to the same in the trustees of Rlidgoway Academy," was readl the second time and1 ordered to be engrossed. .* Mr. Snencer, from the committee on engrossed bills, r'eported as duily and1 correctly~en~grossedl for a third readling thme following: Senate lbill to provide for the ex tensioni of tihe time for the payment and collection of taxes for the fiscal year commencing November 1, 1875, and for other purp~oses. IThe bills were read the third time, passed, titles changed to acts, and ordered to be enrolled. A bill relating to the admission of imbeciles and idiots into the lunatie asylum was road. Te house, without' transacting any important business, adjourned until 11. o'clock to-day. January 27. sENATk. The senate met at 12. Tile bill to close certain obsolete nemmpuonl tO bnnks n4) the fiscal offeore Was favorably reported with ametinitis,. Nash reiorted unfAvorably on the elainsa of E. IL MaMth and J. D. ,Robertsoh. Whittetnor-e lkltrodnedj~i a bill to incorporate thel Florence, Lydia, BishopvHih Miid Sumter railroad comlpallg. out*e 1i4ll to incorporate Schoca City; jpaseid ; also one for lHowes. Ville aiid to amend the charter of Mahtilng, A huiber of private and local bills were proporly referred. Ott motion of Jorvey the report of the commission on text books was referred back to thorm for further action. Adjourned. HOUSE OF RlEPRESENTAT tYEa. There wore dine noticon given of bille, ahd tWiht.y tnvo bills and reolutions introduced, read the ilrAt tiatT and ordered te be print 0d.. Inedih P osed one to author. ize the drawing of hi* jnres for thl ytar in OrangobihW County. Himmons introduced a renolutiolit bondemning the tijlpriutehdent of education bodhiiso le tdid ri6 refer to the state tuiivereity ill his pAltlual repors The joilla eem iutbt oil er*. plaihth in regard to the t. oatatiiut of convicts reported that the con victs were poorly clad atnd ! t' to live on shrt iationiea bit that tho cella *1Ib (n gnod .oullditioit and the bedding idlicient. -h crtiver sation Aomiie nil)ri- riaiarked that ehrt 'oumons ait poor clothes was epidemic in other places in the state. The domemittee to investi gate the failure of the Soth ?aro lina Bank and Trust Coinpaily Wai ordered to report in nine days. The bill to complete the state house by an annual levy of a quar W, of a mill; after much debate; was killed by a vote of 79 to 1. The alpXepi'intion bill was then' taken up. Mr. Cosgrovo wanted to insert $6,000 for the removal of the lazaretto, but failed. The pro vision to pay for blanks for the free schools was struck out. A diii kitihl took place on a motion of Mr. Ferguson to have certain notices published in the Greenville Xetcs instead of a Columbia paper. The amendment failed. Pinig thil diselssiol, a message was received from the governor, upon the subject of appropriations for state expenses. The message contains many good snggestions. After the reading of the message the house adjourned. January 28, SENATE. The governor's message, was road and entered on the journal. The committee on judiciary re ported unfavorably on a bill for: relief of ownlers of lots in the burnt district of Charleston ; also on one giving county treasurer charge of the land commission. Five gate bills, a dam bill, bill to amend the charter of Westmin ster, were passed and several per sons were allowed to change their names. A favorahle report was agreed to on the claims of John Dennis, J. W. Stewart and Joel Copes. After a session of only an hour, thme senate adjourned until Monday, at 12 M. HoUSE OF E~PEENTATIVES5. -Curtis gave notice of a bill to p~rolhibit county treasurers charg ing commissions on school funds collected by them. Fourteen bills of a private and local character wvere reported. The committee on judiciary re ported on the Orangeburg preamble and1 resolutions, which p~roposed to take away the charter of Orange burg, because p)rison1ers wore ob~liged to work on the streets of thoe town. The committee comes to the conclusion that if any - wrong had been done by the mayor of the town, the place for redress was in the courts. The committee asked to be discharged from the Atrther consideration of tho subjeut. Thomas, from the committee on claims, reported back the following claims, and recommended payment : J. Crews, sundry pay certificates and accounts, $4,116.55 ; A. Sim muons, house pay certificate, $105; A. Blythe, pay certificate, $657.20 ; George A. Darling, treasurer's due bill, $300 ; J. L. Neagle, $2,000 ; E. M. Stoebor, sundry pay cortifi cateR and accounts, $2,780.83; guards and employees of South Carolina penitentiary, $15,850.31; H. W. Duncan, $4.14 ; J. A. Molby, daily .Phaii, $98. Ordered to lie owemd for future consideration. About a dozen incorp~orationi bills wort reported on favorably ; a sim~ar number of bills about gates, dams and bridges. The committee on retrenchment reported unfavorably on thme bill to create the office of stad 'auditor, Johnston, from the committee .on contingent accounts and expenses, reported back the following accounts and reco nmendedpa ment :J. E. Green, $3.00 ; DW Cannon, $18.25; Abtain Heed, $250, M. Sulzbacher, $756; A. Watson, $100. The governor sent in a report from Dr. Lobby on the condition of the lazarotto buildings on AMorris Tfalamt1 whi-h are falling into tae sea. He asks for at- appropriation of $5,500 to roulo o the buildings and save the propertig If that is not granted; for loave to ill it ald torn. the motey lito this trent7y, Tho approp)riatioln bill was taktil up, and secoild stetioh considerd, Millor's mtidh to roduco the appropriationl for thb peliitoitiary from $40000 to $0,1000 wa adopted-, Ai t atedhiollb Watt thiuptid ap~propriating $$,000 fron the phosphate royalty to , 'ho forential of the lasatetto oft Mori-re Island, Mr. Mttiu moved to lay thi bill on the table. Not agrdod to. Pending a nmotion to striko out the enactiitg clause of the usury bill, the hotund Adjournlod1 ainary 29. The sonate WO hot Ii esossion, UOUSa OF Rt1r1LUdTATJygd After the utal numbor Qfinotioo! etc., Mr.. Ferguson ,ingrdnced a' resolution to authorsie the gover nor to offer a reward -f $500 for the apprehension and delivery Ii any jail in Sottth Garolitio di hl Sullivan, who killed J .I, Cot ib 'Greenville, last Oitobei After somie discussion lI Wail ado jted. Later in the sessiohn ayno 'itrox ducod a similar rebolutioi i* rbgftrd to one J. M. Powbrs *id killed Alick Purse ii Marion. Leslie initroduceti the follo*ibg resolution i Whereas, a copy of affidavits pur porting to have boon made by Alfred I Aldrich, charging U. P. Iiusliet sk land comtfiHniober *ithi a breach of trust, with frauddlolht illteht, and 0. I Leslie, being now a mnelUer of this house, demands that they do take cognizance of said charge and investigato the same ; therefore, be it Reoliv'cd, That a edihrutte be appointed, to consist of throe mem bota from the minority side of this house, and that they do forthwith investigate said chargo, and report the e4deince and facts in regard thereto, and that the said committee have power to send for persona and papers. Adopted, yeas, 62 nays 13. Mossrs. Livingston, Wallace and Johnson were appointed on the corn initteo by the speaker, who seletod all democrats at Leslie's requost. A bill to amend an act to divide the state into five congressional din trietd wits taken up, road, and or d(red to beengrossd. The house then wont through the private Calendar. After voting down an adjournmdat until Tues day, (2 to 2, the houso adjourned until Monday, DELTIKnER'rE SuicEin or A ORoM1 HEARTED ROOTER.-ThOmas Roach, keeper of a chicken ranch on the San Jose rnad, purchased several months ago, a lot of fine ropplo crowns, which ho kept aloof from his less aristocratic fowls in a slLall yard. The chief of this family was a large black bird of an exceedingly haughty disposition. Ho was mnon arch of till he surveyed till about a week since, whon Roach procured a white bird of the same breed andI turned it into the yard of cropple crowns. The two male birds soon joined ini battle, whic h, aftor a gal hant diojplay of courage by both con testamts, resulted in the defeat of thme black croppic. The umsuccess fiul bird took its defeat sorely to heart. In fact, life was no longer worth possig since honor had departed. The bird wvas Been trying to kill itself with its own spurs. Not succeeding, it tried to jam its head under a gate, but again failed. It flow upon a barrel half filled with rain water, and carefully survoying the situation, plungod into the cask. Roach ran out and found the bird with its wings closely folded to its side, its b~eak 01p01, and apparently endeavoring to repress the natural strugg le4 of self-preservation. It was sre-.salily rescued from its dan gerous situation, but it refused to take any further interet in life, anid after a few days of montal torture and physical suffering it died.-&mn .Francisaco Blltin. Hs K~aw HIm.-"Do you know the prisoner at the bar ?" demanded thme judge. "Know him at tihe bar, judge ?Know him at the bar I Well you're jest shoutin'; he is very~ peculiar in his way of drinkin', and no one as has ever seed himi at a! bar would forget as how ho pours out his licker in an absent minded sort o' way till the glans is ready to' ri over, th'en raisos It on wvith his eye, sights throughm it isighs like q grave yard, takes a st)p back'ard,! dlings ou t is terbacker, says, 'To yoer, old pard1,' shuts his cyor, throws b~ack his heamd and swallows thme hita toe with a groan. Know hitn at the' haIr I-you're mighty right, judge-' you're mighty right.' General Sherman, it is imstimated, will go to Eiurope next yony, where he contemplates a visit to the Pope. Thait will be Sherman's secouldmarch to the Soc. Poor Stokes I Ito will have to ro. main for a time whore ho Is. And so, by'the way, will'Jim Fisk. All the angels mentioned in the. Bible are males ; but all the angols! in.tho world at this period are; le alen. $ow to Itea6 Pew, A il ldster on the wedt side is' all itte observer of hunma ilatitre. A few days ago the aunal sale of the pews in his clutreb tdok placc . aid theri Were Very gloom-iy aletio pa thi's t168 tt the resiult dii addridtt of the Stritgeidy of the tinie4. Atn thti devoted dilergymiall was eqtil to the emergency. The wives of tha t** wealthiest members of the churdli are not do much ,plbbrated for OtitWard timeliness as for the beaity of the siotil fild they are ex elnditIgly 'ealou0 of each othe'. Knowing that if ho cottld inoite them to 'inilry in good W.rlI, the offect worild be advantageous to the church, knowitig alto that thoro Was but one good pew in the audienie, he waited till the bidding had begun, anal then slipping round to Sister A said t "I thought ?ou Wanted that front pow?" "Yes,' dlaid the woman, Me ehe shut her lips with it deided hap, "rind I'm going tohhte it too." "Ah 1" said the pastor blaudly bSistor B. has made utp her niInd to rent its She said-this, cif course, hi in confidence--that she u ould not *e lhip properly with a red headed #brian under the very droppiige of the sanctuary." "Oh, she did, did th" answered his parishiotiet with t lung inspiration ; "the creature I" 91h1n the pious clorgtman Went arolind to sister B. and told her hat he had overheard sister A. miay that she would have that poW if she had to lay her last dollar of earthly Iress oil the altar of the sitctrary Then he wont behind a pillar of the eh3trch and hugged himself in a rapture, while the two sisters went )n soeing each other and going $10 better with a devotion that would tae warmed the heart of Hugh Iahor. By and by, when the price tad reached $1,265, Sister B. weak ahed atnd took to raises of a dollar, and when, at $1,309, Sister A. said "$1,359," she caved. Sister A. valked to the table and drow a hock for the amount, and then, ixiung her eyes on Sister B., ob served, in a tone of contemplative triumph : "I may be red-headed, 3ut I cannot allow a bandy-logged woman with a Wart on her nose to stand between me and and my sal. ration." Rlosult : The poes this rear rented for eonsiderably more than they did last year, desjpite the inancial stringency of the tunos." UCscago Tribune. Fight It Out. A story is told of a daughtof of a prominent person now in the lecture told, which is ;peculiarly interesting mid suggestive of unconscious wis lom. A gentleman was invited to bhe lecturer's houso to tea. Imme liately on being seated at the table the little girl astonished the fainily 3irclo and the guest by -the abrupt nluestion t "Whore is your wife 1" Now, the gentlemon, having been recently separated from the partner ,;f his life, was taken so completely )y surprise that he stammered forth the truth: "I don't know." "Don't know I" replied the enfant terrible. "Why don't you know 1" Finding that the child p~ersisted in her interrogatories, despite the mild r'eproof of her parents, ho aoncluded to make a clean breast of the matter-and have it over at once. So he said with a calmness which was the result of inward expletives : "Well, we don't live togother. WVe think as wve can't agree we'd He stifled a groan as the child began again, and darted an exaspera bed look at her parents. But the little torment would not beoquieted tntil she exclaiimed : "Can't agroe I Then why don't yon fight it out, as pa and mnf do 1" "Vongeance is mine" laughingly ro Lortod the visitor, after "uma' and "pa" exchangod looks of holy horror rollowed by the inevitable roar. There was lately shown at the rooms of the Society of Art, in Lon Ion, a pice of milk, "solidified by the Hooker process," and weighing ano hundred pounds, and which "has been exposed to the actioni of the uir for four years and three mnths." IUho Agricutusral G!azette, of that aity, says "its quality wais so exool innt that in a few minutes it wais re wilved, by churning, into good fresh bnitter." A new Paris telescope brings the noon to within ten miles of the earth, md a Michigan Woman thshiks that if ihe were given room to ' yell, she could got up a conversation with some other woman up there. "I don't take any stock in saving~s banks, and be ha~ngod to themI" sa id in indignant depositor yesterday. "Doe hanged to them I" retorted an other ; "you may well say it s there's inany of 'onm suspended already." When they catch a man gathering Deleware peaches at midnight, they preserte whatever good traits he has [n him by sheeting hal f apint of salt luto his legs. Man is an abstruse puzzle. When he hag a pair of shees with a break ini them lie is not satisfied until he has a new pair, and when ho has a new pair he is not satisfiba until he breaks them in. A dvnrisn in the N~wa An) flrnAn~ Our Otrh Vaults. It is the- habit of erring amani ty-and a very' comforting one, ap parehtly-to blame- Providence fou the. UMftottunes wAh by impru dence we brini upon ouit#shyt. I ' -man uate too much at sler, drliks too ntuch and smokes tuc ntan il l el spd dies of apoplly$ at forty! 11i he ought by the lawi 1 lltbitro to have lied to eIghy, God 4s artaigned, and the mah's friends and the elorgyman who preaches his = funeral surnion call his death "a mysterious digpetsation of 1r4 dence," If a mother dresses her tendt little child ho as to show its bare neck alid arnis and its plump legs-zbitiful, we admit, but none the less too cold on that account--if she fills the child's stomach with bon bone, and its head with knowledge intended only for riper years, and the child dies, aof otturde it will, then everybody synpathioes with herandjurges;her to be resigned to the Will of Providence' And the afilicted mother Webps and woliders what she has ever doibu to doseve such. an ailscting stroke. Men who art br eught tip to know right from Wong Cheat atd lie and Swindle and afid specilata and builti up fortiines, and ilnveel them in fancy stocks, which rise into existence like soap bubbles, and by and by the bubbles burst, the fine things are Wiiwpt6 away, and these men will have the assurance to say that God has dealt harshly with them and that the punishment is more than they can bear. In nine basos oit of tel the world is what Man makes it. ;Regard the Natural laws of health and ihdulgo in no llmbIts that work death and ruin,and we shall find plenty ii lif Worih living for, and have little cause to complain of the cruelty of a kind gather, In his valedictory message to the legislature of Ohio, Governor Allen says "The matter of professional vagrancy is one worthy of your at tention. I am well aware that, owing to the general paralyration of business, a groat many honest and industrious men are out of employ ment and in their efforts to find re munerative labor go from place to place with honest purposes. But within a few years a class of vagrants have grown up in our midst, who seize the dullness of businoss as a pretext to roam over the -country, with no purpose except to secure a living begging or illicit peans. The evil should be arrested at once. The question is a difficult and deli. cate one. Honest search for em ployment must not be b randed as a crime, but vagrancy is a mis de meanor in itself, which the law should suppress." To Be Hung--"In the Cool." George Morris was brought be fore the bar of the Superior Crimi nal Court Tuesday morning, for the purpose of having the death sentence pronounced upon him. Morris came up to the bar whistling and laughing. At first he took a look at the spectators, and after wards faced his Honor, The Judge said: "George, you have ben conviet 0(d of the murder of Sarah Jones. You pleaded guilty twice, and I insisted that your case go before twelve citizens of your country. The jury that sat in the jury box duing your trial wore intelligent men. Now, George Morris, have you anything to say why the sen tencp of the law should not be passed upon you ?" He then rose, and in a clear voice, with a smile on his face, spoke as follows: "I agree with you, and I am now prepared to receive the full extent of the laiw, which I know is death." Judge Steele then sympathized with Moerris, and recited a few ap. preciative remarks telling him -that if he wanted +M go to Heaven the only thing for him to do was to repair immediately to his cell, and there to pray. He said : "Under the law and evidence in this case I am compelled to son tonce you to be hung by the neck until dead, at any plaep and time the Governor of the State of Louisi ana may deem fit." The brute took it coolly and thanked his Honor for the kind ness ho lad conferred upon him by pronouneing the sentence of death uplonl him-N. 0. Biulelin.. A noble fellow that tramp was who returned a flve dollar bill he said he had found in an old1 vest a Norwich gentleman had given him. His h onessty was rewarded with a one dollar b ill, and the next day the five turned out to be a counterfeit. "Doctor," said a nephew, on set tling the fee question for his uncle's illness, and from whose death he en tertained great expectations, "I beg for the future you will not inter fere in family matter." A party of en ' ers who are sur veying Niagara' tls find the height of the American Falls to be 1518 feet. The depth of the water under the suspension ~ridge is 12 feet. More passengers are transported between New York and Chicago thati on any other route in the United Ntnine. sohools In. South 0laiteln . The repart of the Mtate &aperih. tendent of Edneattion show s that,. bar the- returns of the County %icho C'ommissioners,. there is- a seholastaI populatior in this State of 28W,26d.. Of this popttlation,. 85,1368 are- white ntlt 138; are colored.. The State eeinstt gimes a scholhatie jpulation. of only 2Wt,8U 01 this glariag diacrepaney oudelanati~i o1 red. It arises probably homthe inaerfecb matrner it whah, the. returns were gathered. alid probablW from anothe Or cause. The geholastfe- age * from six to sixteen year,, inclusaive, and beyond those limaits n child is entitled to the- benefits of a fkee education; There is, therefoire. sh inducement offered to parents te huisreptesent the ages of their ehlldzen, when making returne..to thb School ~ Com. niNIsiohers, that to s not exist it making returns for the general consti. Th. Saertatbhdent, in hia rtpdkt, accepts the returns shown by the scholastic ceens, as the basia ttpoh Which to make his estimates aid troth which to deduce hia in. forences. Since the Inattyttration of the eye. tem in 1809 the number of -children Within the prescribed ago has in= creased 42,085, or upwards of twen ty-one per cent. The whole State is divided into four hundred and tweit ty-eight school distrihte, each int ehm go of thi'e6 trustees appoinltot by the loai'd of Examiners of the respectivo Counties. Last year 9,880 schools were oponed, affording instruction to 47,001 white and 58,964 colored children. There were employed 1090 white male, 786 white female, 698 otored male and 290 colored female teachers. The average monthly salary of male teachers Was $81 64, and of female teachelf- $29 21. The average in the CitW'of Charlecton was much greater ; for males being $121 66, and for females $39 45. The length of the session varied greatly in - different counties ; that for - Charleston City being ten months, and for Horry County only two months. The average session throughout the State was four months and a half. The total num ber of school buildings was 2,747, of which the estimated value, from very incomplete returns, was $313, 289 70, showing an increase in value over the previous year of $38, 486 35. The total school revenue for the year ending October 31, 1875, was $489,542 75. The State appropria. ion amounted to $240,000. The net proceeds of the poll tax, with a voting population of about 184,000, realized but $63,443 42. The local distriot taxes realized $130,721 17, and from other sources $54.378 16 were received. No local school taxes were raised in Anderson, Georgetown, Greenville. Lancaster, Lexington, Pickens, Oconee or Union Counties. During the year ending June 30, 1875, $369 685 43 were expended for teachers' salaries, and $6,859 43 for rent of school houses. The returns of expendi tures are very incompletq, however, and do not embraco the mopthbs of July, August, September and Octo ber. The State is burdened with an enlormous floating debt, contracted bthe issue to teachers of pay cer tifcates, which have never been re deemed. The deficiencies reported for the fiscal year ending October 31, 1872, amount to $184, 900 362for the next y'ear, $108 00, and for the year ending October 31, 1874, $28,558 11. Theso aimounts are shown by a registry of the' claims, and it is highly probable that the deficiency is mnuch greater, owing to the faire to register by claim-hold ers. The deficiency for the present year. is not stated. The Superintendent deems the revenue now raised totally inade quato to produce theresults desired. He estimates that a thorough sys temn of instruction for a period of nine months in the year would re quire a revente of $900,000 while for the session of six months pro. ucribod by law $00.000 would be necessary. Mr. Jilison very rightly concludes that as the State aportionment of two mills for schools realizes only $240,000, the amount raised by local taxation will be a measure of the sucess of the system. It may also be remarked, en passane, that the local taxation will be proportionate to the amount of bonefit received by the people. So soon as the school officials prove themselves competent, honest and faithful in the discharge of their duties, thereby gaining the confidence of the masses, just so soon will there be marked improve ment ic the schools and a large in ereftee in the revenue. But with the present high rate of taxiation, the peoople will hesitate before contriba ting voluntarily to the support of an institution wich, capable of con ferring the greatest blessings,is now, ba system of ,mismanagement, an object of distrust. Itis a gratifying fact, however, that the time iway come when they will occupy the high position to which they are en titled in republicnn institutions. 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