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Straps and darts.
? The jury of inquest on the Spuyten Duyvil
railroad disaster have found the brakemen,
engineers, conductors and management of the
road responsible for the disaster, and this
opens up a fine case for damages against the
company.
? Postal savings banks went into operation
in France on the 1st ultimo. All the postoffices
in the country are now open to receive
deposits up to 2,000 francs at 3 per cent., interest,
and special facilities are afforded for purchasing
government stock.
? At Chester, Miss., last Thursday, during
the progress of a trial, Judge Wm. Price shot
and killed Capt. King Turner. Turner and
Price were both lawyers of high standing in
Winona. A dilference arose, it is understood,
about some trivial matter in the course of a
trial in which they were on opposite sides.
? "But I pass," said a minister recently in
dismissing one theme of his subject to take
up another. "Then I make it spades," yelled
a man from the gallery, who was dreaming
the happy hours away in an imaginary game
of euchre. It is needless to say that he went
out on the next deal, assisted by one of the
deacons.
? Guiteau's supply of stationery has been cut
off, and he will not be allowed to issue any
more of his addresses to the public. It has also
been finally settled between the counsel and
the warden of the jail, that for the next week
no one shall be permitted to interview- the
prisoner and that 110 communication shall go
to him or from him.
? The following from a Washington letter
possesses interest: "The Mormon Church has
for years kept an accurate record in detail of
the private life?especially at Washington?of
every Senator and Representative, and it is
this record, I am sorry to say, which has given
the Mormons such a tremendous and fatal
power at Washington for a quarter of a century."
? One of the latest theories brought forward
by the prevalence of small-pox in New York is
that tarter emetic may be used as a substitute
for vaccination. Applied to the skin, combined
with suet or some other fat, it produces a pustular
eruption, which is said to resemble that
of cow pox and small pox. The theory is not
new, and there is 110 experimental warrant
for trusting to it as a preventive, while vaccination
has demonstrated its efficacy.
? Alabama returns as subjects of taxation
mechanical tools of the value of $22 S, 500;
farming implements, $77,500, making a total
value of mechanical tools and farming implements
of $300,000. Of guns, pistols and dirks,
$354,250; or about $48,000 more invested in
guns, pistols and dirks than in farming implements
and mechanical tools combined. The
average value of weapons in each county is
$5,000.
? Two bills have been introduced in Congress
for the reduction of letter postage to two
cents. Such a reduction would meet with
general approval, no doubt. The postal service
is not conducted with a view to profit.
The people are willing to pay for mail facilit ies
and conveniences. A reduction of letter postage
would probably decrease the revenue from
that source for a time, but the decrease would
be only temporary.
? West Yiginia has a reckless bigamist in
Dr. Love, a dentist, whose habit was to make
a round of the principal towns every year, remaining
from a week to two months in each.
He sometimes grew sentimental while working
in the mouths of women, and has sometimes
been whipped for his audacity ; but in seven
instances his advances led to marriage. The
seven wives are living and the doctor has gone
to J2U1.
? An old man named Woods, who was once
a wealthy citizen of Kentucky, counting fifty
negroes among his assets, is now living in Cincinnati,
in happy dependence upon the charity
of a colored man and his two sisters, who were
Mr. Woods' slaves before the war. They are
the members of a family separated at the auction
block, but repurchased at a round price
and united by Mr. Woods, under his own roof,
after much trouble and delay, and they are
paving a debt of gratitude.
? In the surgical institute at Indianapolis,
Ind.. a four-year old boy is undergoing treatment
for spinal troubles, which have undoubtedly
been brought about by much smoking of
cigars and cigaTettes. The father of the child,
a respectable gentleman from Clay City, states
that his son has been a heavy smoker for a
year and a half, and that cigars were given
to him from his infancy to keep him quiet.
The little fellow will smoke twenty cigars in
a day, and still cry for more.
? According to the census bulletins there are
12*2,075,500,000 feet of merchantable pine lumber
in the States of Alabama, Mississippi and
Texas, enough to supply the demand of the
country for at least sixty years. On the other
hand, Minnesota, which is one of the most important
lumber States in the North has only
(5,100,000,000 feet of this timber. The total
cut in the three Southern States enumerated
is only 038,541,000 feet, or about one-half of
one per cent., considerably less than the annual
growth of the forests.
? The first-assistant postmaster-general has
recently made the following postal order which
is most respectfully commended to the attention
of postmasters : "Post-master's will not
allow non-subscribers to take from the boxes,
nor will they hand to them newspapers addressed
to subscribers, refolded and returned
to them into the general delivery, without verbal
or written permit from such subscriber. A
violation of this regulation will be considered
as sufficient ground for the removal of the
postmaster."
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? j. lie cuuon receipts xne past tnree weeas
have been as follows, respectively, 98,747, 87,818,
78,248?in all 264,811 bales. For the same
three weeks last year, the receipts were 366,610,
and for the year 1880, 446,981 bales. So the
receipts this year in the last three weeks has
fallen 180,000 bales short of the receipts in the
same weeks in 1880, when the crop reached
only 5,750,000. It is true, however, that the
weather the past week has been bad and hauling
has been almost impossible. The price at
Liverpool this time in 1880 was 7 l-10d?now
it is 0*kl. The necessity for an advance is apparent.
? The overflow of the Cumberland Iiiverlast
week, was destructive to a large amount of
property, entailing much distress and suffering
upon the people along its banks. A dispatch
from Johnsville, Tenn., during the height of
tlie flood, said : "Every house in the settlement
is partially submerged. Some have overturned
and some floated off. Houses are daily
floating down the river, and some have lodged
against the railroad bridge, where they were
broken up by the inhabitants to preserve the
bridge from destruction. Much live stock has
lieen drowned. Many people have found refuge
on rafts and boats with some live stock. There
is already much suffering and it must necessarily
increase."
? A hasty, though somewhat accurate, compilation
of the cost of maintaining the House
of Representatives of this country at "Washington,
shows it to be about 823 a minute.
Probably very few persons ever thought that
each little remark, objection or move made
by a member of the House costs from $10 to
8100. How many members indulge in $500
speeches every day! And yet how many there
are who indulge in 810,000 speeches, too !
Three days, almost, were taken up by the efforts
of Mr. "Robeson of "New .Tpikpv to in
crease the number of members of standing
committees. At $23 a minute, what a cost!
Members often spend $10,000 in time by objecting
to an appropriation of $100. The people
of the country should learn to appreciate
the proceedings of Congress, for they are very
high in price.
? It cannot definitely be learned what Judge
Porter and Mr. Davidge are to receive for
their services as special prosecuting officers in
the Guiteau trial, but from the hints thrown
out, it is believed that their fee will not be
exaggerated when placed at $13,000 for each
of them. The pay of the jurors is as follows :
For five, $020 ; for four, $488: for three, $300;
total, $1,408. In addition to this comes the
hotel board bill, which is presumed will not
exceed $3.50 per day per man. With this
must also be included the three balilTs in attendance
upon the jurors. This foots up the
handsome sum of $3,213 to be paid to the proprietors
of the National Hotel. For witnesses,
including mileage, there has been paid out
$8,078.35. Of this sum, $5,189.35 was paid in
l>ehalf of the Government and $2,889 for the
defendant, and of the latter $389.25 went to
the Guiteau family and their connections.
For rei>orting and printing the trial and pa]kts
used in this case preparatory to the hearing,
it is estimated that $5,000 will be required.
For seven deputy marshals used in
the halls and the chamber $1,302 will be necessary.
Then there are miscellaneous expenses,
such as the physicians' charges, medicines,
chairs for the Co; rt room, and incidentals too
numerous to mention, but which will take
about SI,000 to cover?making a grand total
of $50,061.83.
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THE LEGISLATURE.
On Monday the Senate made very good progress
in disposing of business on the Calendar.
There was little or no debate, and about fifty
acts and joint resolutions were ratified. The
concluding sections of the bill to provide for
assessment and taxation of property were read,
and the bill was passed to a third reading.
The session of the House was devoted mainly
to discussing the legislative appropriation
bill.
PROCEEDINGifoF CONGRESS.
The proceedings of Congress for the past
week have been entirely void of public interest,
debate on the Sherman funding bill having occupied
much of tne time, and the debate not
yet being ended. A motion, on Thursday, to
lay the bill and amendments on the table was
lost by a vote of eas, 23 ; nays, 45.
The House committee on the census reported
with favorable recommendation Mr. MeCord's
apportionment bill, which fixes the
number of Representatives at 320. This bill
is based on the Seaton method of computation,
and adopts the ratio of representation as 154,285.
The bill as proposed, affects Southern
States as follows : Georgia is given 10 Representatives,
a gain of 1. Arkansas gains 1,
Florida loses 1, Kentucky gains 1, Mississippi
1. Missouri 1. North Carolina 1, South Caroli
na 1, Texas4, Virginia 1, and West Virginia J.
Representative Tillman, of South Carolina,
has signified his intention to propose an amendment,
fixing the number of Representatives at
730 instead of 320.
THE UNITEP STATES AND CHILI.
In a lengthy interview communicated to
the public last Monday, ex-Secretary Blaine
explains and defends the policy of the State
department toward Chili and Peru while that
department was under his administration.
Mr. Blaine says that the demands which Chili
made of Peru in the way of indemnity were
equivalent to the destruction of the latter
country. Peru appealed earnestly to the United
States to help her and .ent a special envoy to
ask for aid. It was the policy of the State department
by giving Peru moral support to save
her from dismemberment and ruin, and in extending
such support Mr. Blaine says he followed
the precedents laid down by our most
distinguished and conservative secretaries ol
State. As an illustration he refers to the
steady influence exerted by Mr. Seward to
establish the authority of Juarez in Mexico.
By the moral power of the United States tin
French were expelled, Maximilian overthrown
and the Republican Government, with Juarez
at its head restored. It would not,' he says,
have required as great an exertion of the moral
influence of the United States to save Peru
from destruction and make Peru and Chili
both our friends, as it did to save the nationality
of Mexico. When Chili shall have taken
all the valuable territory of Peru the latter
country will either fall into anarchy or be
kept in subjection by a Chilian army of occupation,
to be supported from property of which
Peru is despoiled. Either result, he says, will
be sufficiently wretched, and the end will be
the absolute domination of English influence
in both Peru and Chili.
END OF THE GUITEAU TRIAL.
After three months of investigation characterized
by the most remarkable events ever
witnessed in a court of justice in the United
States, the end of the first act in the drama,
when it did not descend to low comedy, has at
length been reached, by a prompt verdict that
the assassin of President Garfield, is "guilty as
indicted"?a verdict that will meet the approval
of the American people, notwithstanding
to a certain extent, it makes the guilty
wretch the scapegoat of the ultra wing of the
Republican party, who last summer were clamvAvnAv.il
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in the manner by which it was accomplished.
The insanity plea was a failure, for which
the prisoner may fame his unparalelled egotism
more than any other cause. The jury no
doubt, acted conscientiously, and on this point
had better opportunities for studying the true
character of the assassin than those not otherwise
directly connected with the case, though
in their conclusion the public generally will
fully agree ; and while they will not believe he is
laboring under the disease of homicidal mania,
it must be conceded that he is a man of inordinate
vanity. Elsewhere we publish the
closing scenes of the trial.
Guiteau has issued another manifesto addressed
to the American people, in which lie
criticises the action of the jury in returning a
verdict of guilty. He does not appear to be
surprised at the verdict, as he regards the
jurors as men of the world and having only
moderate intelligence, and totally unable to
wing their imagination to (lights of inspiration,
such as impelled him to "remove" the
President. He says the jury had not sufficient
intelligence to see the point that the outward
act of shooting would have been the same as if
he had been directed by the Deity to do it?as
he proved by all his papers and talk on the
subject. According to his view they also ignored
the political and patriotic necessity for
the act, which he says all Christian and intelligent
people see.
Although convicted, he does not seem to
think he will be hanged, and gives himself no
anxiety on account of the verdict, as lie hardly
expected an acquittal, though he did expect
a disagreement, in which event he proposed to
test the jurisdiction of the court in banc.
He makes a special plea to the ladies of
America to come to his rescue, and closes in
the following egotistical strain :
"Mere physical death is nothing to me. Under
the law I cannot be executed in any event
until July. I may die a dozen times before
then, so I have no "trouble about that. I shall
not go before my time. I had rather be hung,
so far as physical death is concern!, than die
from a painful illness or meet with a railroad
or steamboat accident. I hardly think I am
destined to be hung, and therefore give myself
no trouble 011 that, but I am anxious to have
my character and inspiration vindicated. To :
that end I need help, as herein mentioned. ,
My friends need not be ashamed of me. Some
I>eople think I am the greatest man of the
age, and that my name will go into history as '
a patriot by the side of "Washington and
Grant."
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Ninety-Six shipped $15,000 worth of oats
last year, which proved and invaluable supplement
to the short cotton crop.
? The town council of Sumter have resolved
to grant 110 more licenses for retailing liquor
during the term of their administration.
? Upward of ten patients have been received
into the Lunatic Asylum during the past
week, of whom a large majority are from
Charleston.
? Four deaths have occurred from the recent
collision 011 the Charleston and Savannah
Railload near Charleston. The accident is to
be fully investigated.
? A Sumter correspondent of the Columbia
Reyister says that it is stated 011 good authority
that as soon as the Central Railroad is
completed through daily trains will be run
from Charleston to Columbia via Sumter, in
opposition to the South Carolina Railroad.
? A public meeting of the citizens of Langley
passed resolutions denouning the stock
law, the registration bill and the prohibitory
liquor law. The citizens of Beulah township
in the same county?Aiken?denounce the
stock law and consider the present Legislature
a "humbug."
? The President has nominated T. B. Johnson,
of Sumter, for collector of customs at
Charleston. Johnson is ^lackey's friend, and
the Mackeyites are jubilant over the nomina?
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ment that 110 action will be taken by the Senate
until full time has been had for obtaining
information concerning the candidate.
? The Methodist Church at Florence was
burned last Friday morning at 2 o'clock. It
was set fire under the south corner sill, the
tlames catching between the weather boarding
and lathing. Shavings saturated with kerosine
were the combustible material used, as
was discovered by parties first 011 the spot.
No motive can be assigned for the act. The
parsonage, only fifteen feet distant, was saved
by the steam fire engine. Loss 011 the church,
S3,500 ; insurance SI,800. Damage to the
parsonage $300; insurance, $700.
? On Sunday morning after the recent collision
on the Charleston and Savannah ltailroad
while a construction train was aiding in
clearing away the debris from the scene of the
accident, two negro children, a boy and a girl,
attempted to jump on one of the platform cars.
The boy got on and held out his hand to help
his sister, but she slipped and fell, and the
wheels of the last two cars passed over her
neck, completely severing her head from her
body. Trial Justice Taylor held an inquest
over the body, and from the evidence it appeared
plainly that no one was to blame except
the children themselves.
? A force of revenue deputies, under the
command of Deputy Marshals Stolbrand and
Kane, left Greenville on a whisky raid -on
Wednesday of. last week. At Terry Creek
they destroyed two stills, which had been
erected oidy twenty-four hours, and at Chinquapin
two more stills were found and three
distillers, Davis, Allan and John Gosnell, captured.
The district raided is said to be one of
the most dangerous in the State, and this is
the only occasion that officers have escaped
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Gosnells, says the Greenville JSrcws, are young
men, and one of them is remarkably fine looking.
Their family is an extensive and highly
respectable one.
? Says the Lancaster Review of January 25th:
It has been rumored upon our streets that the
body of Mr. Thomas Baskins, who has been
missed from his home for the past eight or ten
days, was found in one of the pits of the Iluey
Gold Mine with his throat cut. It seems that
Mr. Baskins had been to Monroe to sell cotton,
after which he left and had got as far as
the mine when the horrible deed was committed,
the perpetrators throwing the body in the
pit to prevent detection. It is the supposition
that he was murdered for money, which
the perpetrators supposed he had about his
person. When discovered there were only fifteen
cents found in his pockets. Mr. Baskins
was a young man, being about twenty years of
age, and we hope the above may prove to be no
worse than a mere rumor.
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NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The steamer Mountain Lily, which plied on
the waters of the French Broad, has been sold
at Ilendersonville under confession of judgment
for $1,250.
? A considerable quantity of cotton yet remains
in the fields of Eastern North Carolina,
and numbers of hands are busily picking it at
$1 per hundred.
? The stockholders of the Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley Railroad are called to meet in
Fayetteville to-day to consider Dr. Canedo's
proposition for purchasing the road.
? It is probable that Judge Ralph P. Buxton
will be appointed Judge of the United States
District Court for the eastern district of North
Carolina to fill the vacancy created by the
HCcltll UL tf UUgC U1UUIVO.
? It is officially announced that but five
cases of small pox and two of varioloid occurred
in "Winston, mostly in the family of
the first patient, and that no case has appeared
since the lltli of January.
? A number of people who moved from
Rockingham county to Texas a year or so ago,
have returned to their old homes with the determination
to spend the balance of their days
in North Carolina.
? The Greensboro Patriot learns from "one
in authority" that the proposed railroad from
High Point to the factories on Deep River, in
Randolph county, is to be built by the Richmond
and Danville Railroad Company. The
survey is completed
? Col. Wm. Johnston, of Charlotte, publishes
a card, pronouncing utterly false the recent
statement that he is seeking office of the President,
and that he desires to see the Democracy
of North Carolina defeated in the next
election.
?John A. Owens, white, who was one of the
first prisoners ever placed in the North Carolina
Penitentiary, was released on the 25th ultimo,
after twelve years of penal servitude. lie
was committed for the murder of B. A. "Wethers,
in Lincoln county, on April 2, 1807.
? John A. Morris, colored, who shot and
killed Joe Roark, colored, in Lincolnton, on
the night of August 10th, 1880, and whose
trial for the offense was moved to Cleveland
county, was hanged in Shelby last Friday,
lie left a written confession.
? The "Western N. C. Railroad has been completed
to Paint Rock, find the Pigeon River
branch is also finished to Pigeon River, through
trains having passed over both roads last Friday.
Including the time extended by the
commissioners on the part of the State the assignees
of Mr Best have made good their contract
with the State and put an end to all litigation
over the matter until the arrival of the
time for the completion of the Ducktown
branch to its western terminus, by which time
it, too, will probably be finished, as there is
now a force of between two and three thousand
bauds working on that division.
MERE-MENTION.
The Kentucky Senate, imitating the example
of several other States, has passed a bill permitting
persons charged with criminal offenses
to testify in their own behalf. Lemons
eaten freely is said to be one of the best remedies
for small pox yet discovered. ? In 1881
crime cost the State of Kentucky, which is
noted for its numerous whisky distilleries,
S448,:J06.(Xi. Great excitement has been
caused in Minnesota by trichinal i>oisoning
from eating raw ham. Fifteen prominent
citizens of Minnesota were affected and three
have died. It is stated that Gen. Grant will ,
make a visit to the South, starting about the
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last of March. Mr. Scoville says that
when the excitement of the trial is over, Guiteau
will become a raving maniac.?The
House of Representatives has passed a bill allowing
Justice Hunt to retire from the U. S.
Supreme Court. Judge Edmunds, of Vermont,
is spoken of as his probable successor.?
The failures throughout the country
last week were considerably less than during
any recent previous week. Senator Hampton's
memorial address over Gen. Burnside,
delivered in the U. S. Senate on the 26th
ultimo, is pronounced one of the most eloquent
eulogies sj>oken 011 the occasion, while
it had the ring of sincerity. ?A popular dry
goods store at Mansfield, Ohio, has been closed
and its proprietors ruined in consequence of
two of their clerks dying from smallpox. The
creditors have seized the stock.
POLITICAL POINTS.
? Governor Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, has come
out unequivocally for female suffrage.
? Ex-Secretary Blaine is ill and confined to
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? The lastest rumor is that Mr. Blaine will
try to reorganize the old Southern Whig party.
? Ex-Governor Bullock, of Georgia, don't
take much stock in the independent movement
in that State.
? It is said in Georgia that Gen. Gartrell
will be the Independent candidate for Governor
of that State.
? The latest New York rumor is that Conkling
will be the next Republican nominee for
Governor, and the Tribune already predicts
his defeat. < ' i\
? Northern Republican journals are endeavoring
to make capital of the recent act of the
Legislature of this State to separate State
and Federal ballot-boxes on election day.
? An Indiana Republican has taken for the
subject of a discourse to the Hoosiers: "Can
a Democrat get to Heaven ?" to which a Democratic
editor replies: "That depends upon
how much he associates with Republicans."
? Senator Hill regards the new movement
in Georgia as an adroit coalition formed for
the express purpose of using the Independent
Democrats to bring the Republican party back
into power.
? Senator Pendleton, of Ohio, is quoted as
saying recently, that "there is but one contingency,
which, if it arise, would cause him
to retire from the Presidential lists, and that
was the consent of Mr. Samuel J. Tilden to
run again as the standard bearer of the party."
? The Wilmington Star says: North Carolina
stands 011 tiptoe to see who comes next in
the grand parade of Mahone racers. Thus far
only two are 011 the track and they look already
as if they had run a few races and been
beaten.
? A. L. Harris, a prominent Republican of
Atlanta, Ga., says: "We Republicans have
stood the brunt of ostracism in Georgia, and
if there are any honors to be divided we should
be first satisfied. The Independents can join
us if they choose, but they can't swallow up
the Republican party."
? It is said that Senator Mahone, backed by
strong political influences, is pressing the
name of Gen. Longstreet for a Cabinet position.
Longstreet is in "Washington ; has had
repeated conferences with the President, and
is to be made the foster-father of the Georgia
coalition.
? The Indianapolis, Indiana Sentinel says:
I Scoville's arraignment of Conkling, Grant
and Arthur has produced a profound impression
throughout the country. Prudent Republicans,
no matter to which friction they
belong, are likely to come to the conclusion
that it is time for the party to be exiled from
power.
? General Hancock is said to have been in
Washington for a week in "consultation with
leading Democrats," and the inference is that
the subject of the conference was a Presidential
nomination in 1884. Mr. Hendricks predicts,
in one breath, that the Democratic party
will be successful in 1884, and in the next
says that Ire will never again be a candidate
for any oflice.
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CHARLESTON'S NEW COLLECTOR.
The Charleston News and Courier gives the
following sketch of T. B. Johnson, who has
just secured the Presidential nomination for
Collector of the port of Charleston, over a
score of aspirants, including k. m. >y anace,
E. W. M. Mackey and others:
Mr. T. B. Johnson is a native of Lowell,
Mass., and about 41 years old. He went into
the Union army at the beginning of the war,
and was a lieutenant in the Sixth Massachusetts
Regiment at the time that that regiment
was sought to be prevented from passing
through Baltimore. Later in the war he was
first lieutenant of the Thirtieth Massachusetts,
and served in that regiment in the
Southwest. In the Red River campaign he
was wounded, and rose to the rank of captain.
At the close of the war Mr. Johnson came
to South Carolina and settled in Sumter county,
where in the course of a few years he accumulated
$40,000 or $50,000 in planting and
"merchandising." His first appearance in
politics was in 1872, when he was elected a
member of the House of Representatives, in
which body he served until 1870. He was a
member of the Mackey House and, refusing
to apologize to the lawful House of Representatives
for his conduct, he was expelled. He
was a Republican Elector for President and
Vice-President in 1870 and 1880, a member of
the Republican State Executive Committee
and a delegate to the Chicago Convention,
where he voted for Grant. In politics he is
a Stalwart, but it is said that he is not aggressive
or vindictive. While a friend of
Mackey, he cannot, it is asserted, be carried
in the breeches pocket of that aspiring politician.
Mr. Johnson is said to be a man of good
business capacity, and one who will administer
his office with a strict regard to efficiency
and the public convenience. If this be so,
there will be less reason to regret the loss of
Collector Baldwin, who has made a most acceptable
officer and of whom the renomination
was heartly desired by the business community.
DEBENTURE BONDS.
The Richmond Dispatch gives the following
information concerning the effect and operation
of the resolution recently passed by the
Richmond and Danville Railroad Company authorizing
the issue of debenture bonds. The
same paper also explains what is meant by the
"Terminal Company," in connection with the
Richmond and Danville, both of which terms
are now to the public generally :
The debenture bonds to be issued by the
Richmond and Danville Company will be a lien
on the property, but there will be no right
given to sell the railroad for nonpayment of
interest.
These bonds are to be issued and sold to the
stockholders for the purpose of raising money
to pay for the new subscriptions to the Terminal
Company and to clear off the floating debt
of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company.
The Terminal Company is a corporation
acting as a coadjutor to the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company.
The Richmond and Danville Railroad Company
is not authorized by its charter to buy
other railroads, or the stock of other railroads.
The Terminal Company has purchased enough
stock in certain railroads to control them and
does control them in such manner as to bring
their business over the Richmond and Danville
railroad, or to manage the business in
such a manner as will be beneficial to the
Richmond and Danville railroad. For instance,
the Terminal Company owns a con- :
trolling interest in the Columbia and Green- <
ville railroad, in the Cffarlotte, Columbia and i
Augusta railroad, in the Virginia Midland
railroad, and so on. So long as the Richmond i
and Danville Railroad Company owns a major- ;
ity of the stock of the Terminal Company, the ;
Richmond and Danville Railroad Company 1
controls all of the roads controlled by the Ter- i
minal Company. <
XiOCAXJ affairs.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Hunter, Oates A Co.?Although.
Heradori Brothers?Hay?Flour?Bacon?Corn
and Bran?Wagons?Fertilizers? Kainit.
T. S. Jefferys, Agent?Standard Fertilizers
James H.Timme?On the Line.
J. Beattj' Williams, Special Referee?Notice to
the Creditors of Louisa E. Lowry, deceased.
T. M. Dobson?Grand Rush for Dobson's.
John K. Ashe?Just Opened.
B. M. SprHtt A Co., Chester, S. C.?Attention!
J. N. Roberts, J? H. Good, W. P. Good?Fair
Warning.
F. E. Smith?Yorkville Omnibus.
F. Happerfield?Fresh An ivals?Marble Wo k.
Prof. N. Schmidt?Piano Tuning.
Williford A Glenn?Mules and Horses.
FERTILIZER RECEIPTS.
The receipts of fertilizers at tins place for
the week ending last Monday, were 85 tons,
making the total receipts to date, 357 tons.
SNOW AND SLEET.
There was a slight fall of snow on Monday
afternoon, which, later in the evening, changed
to sleet, and on Tuesday morning trees and
other objects were robed in beautiful crystals
of ice. The month just closed was remarkable
for the absence of sunshine, and the almost
continuous daily fall of rain.
SUPERVISOR OF*REGISTKATION.
A petition is circulating and obtaining
many signatures for the appointment of our
townsman, Col. W. II. McCorkle, to the oflice
of supervisor of registration, as provided for
by section 3 of the election bill recently passed
by the Legislature of this State.
In our next issue we will publish the leading
features of this law.
COTTON SHIPMENTS.
The cotton shipments from Yorkville, for
the week ending last Monday, were Do bales,
making a total of 4,912 bales since the 1st of
September, against 5,905 bales for the same
period last year. During the month of .January
the shipments were 380 bales, which is not
so bad a showing, considering the desperate
weather prevailing the entire month, and the
bad condition of the roads.
NEW ENTERPRISES.
Attention is directed to the advertisement
of Messrs. B. M. Spratt&Co., successors to
N. B. Alexander & Co., of Chester, dealers in
building lumber and building materials gener?
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ally, lime, lams, sningies, occ. xma is u iesponsible
firm, worthy of public patronage,
which it fully merits.
Mr. James II. Timme, harness maker, has
just commenced business on his own account
in the room formerly occupied as the York
drug store. Mr. Timme is a practical workman,
who thoroughly understands his trade,
and sets forth his claims in our advertising
columns.
CHURCH NOTICES.
Rev. A. M. Chreitzberg, Presiding Elder of
this district, will preach in the Methodist
Church to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock, it .being
the occasion of his first quarterly visit to
this station. At the same time the first quarterly
conference will also be held.
On Sunday, Rev. R. P. Franks, Pastor, will
preach at Philadelphia Church in the forenoon,
and at Yorkville at 7 P. M.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R.
Lathan, Pastor. The pastor will fill his regular
appointment at Tirzali next Sunday.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
Services at 11 A. M., and 7 P. M.
Episcopal?Church of the Good ShepherdRev.
R. P. Johnson, Rector. The rector hopes
to be able to officiate in the Church of Our
Saviour at Rock Ilill next Sunday.
A FOUNDLINU.
Jerry Johnson, colored, alias Jerry Wright,
who lives on Mr. Abe Smith's plantation, in
Broad River township, informs us that on
Sunday the loth ultimo, when himself and wife
had returned from a visit, they found in the
porch of their house a male mulatto infant,
clad in comfortable but not expensive clothing.
The child was so wrapped in a blanket as to
protect it from cold. Jt was apparently about
three weeks old, and physicians are of opinion
that it is the child of a white woman. Jerry
has no children of his own, and he says from
his experience with this one he does not want
any. He came to town to lay the matter before
the county commissioners, hoping to have
an order passed admitting the child to the
poor house. The commissioners will consider
his application at their regular meeting next
Monday.
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ROCK HILL MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
Rock IIill, S. C., January 28.
To the Editor of the Enquirer: "A town is a
considerable collection of houses and inhabitants
with three or four men who Wun the
party,' lend money, sell guano and furnish
agricultural supplies at 25 and 30 per cent,
per annum." Now my object solely in writing
this article, is to vindicate those who have
been stigmatized, contravened and traduced
by articles recently published in the Rock Hill
Herald. The article in the last issue over the
signature "Subscriber" seems to attach much
importance to an editorial in the preceding
number of the same paper, styled, "Beware of
the Future." To us these articles sound like
"Billy answering Billy," as both of them seem
direct thrusts at the action taken in the last
municipal election of our town, held January
9th, instant.
The issue in this election was not political,
but purely local, and it is a well known fact
that the candidates who were elected, and
their friends who supported them, are not aspirants
to any State or county office, and that
nothing was said or done by them that had
the slightest appearance of desiring uto briny
themselves into notice," or to exercise any undue
influence upon the negro element to secure
his vote at this or any future election ; while
some of the friends of the defeated ticket did
even go so far as to vote a negro who was
known to be under age, thus laying the foundation
for future control, thus teaching the
infant (who knew ?) to lie, cheat and practice
fraud, who, doubtless, in after years, would
use it as ft, precedent. The result of the election
was, to such men, a bitter pill. The idea
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could be successful was the most revolting
tiling imaginable. This alone gave rise to the
warning, "Beware of the Future," and the inauguration
of what "Subscriber" pleases to
call "Mahoneism."
The friends and supporters of the successful
candidates of this election are all staunch, true
and tried Democrats and very far from adopting
a "Mahone policy" or attempting to do
anything "at all hazards" to carry their point.
The standpoint from which the world judges
is that nearest the heart of the judge, in all
matters social and political, thus judging others
by themselves.
If any there be who desire to adopt a Mahone
policy, I am free to say it is one who endeavors
to carry an election or any measure by
fair or foul means?by illegal votes or any
other way that will subserve their infamous
purpose, which can be construed to mean this:
that they must have power, be it right or
wrong.
"Subscriber" can never unite or harmonize
the people by class advocacy, and his appeal to
the different organs of the State is based upon
futile grounds ; for the hard-fisted yeomanry
of this country have a voice. The "wool hat"
crowd, white and eolored, are in the majority,
and they are opposed to class and monopolies.
OnSERVKR.
THE ATTACHMENT LAW.
In the Circuit Court of Greenville, last
week, Judge Aldrich, in a decree setting aside
an attachment issued against the goods of
Killian Bros., a firm doing business in Greenville,
after reciting the facts and' evidence
in the case, gave the following as his construction
of the attachment law of this State :
"It seems hard to make creditors understand
that the attachment laws were not passed
to oppress, obstruct and worry unfortunate
debtors, but to prevent fraudulent debtors
from cheating confiding creditors. It is too
common for the anxious creditor to go before
an officer empowered to issue an attachment
and recklessly swear that he has reason to believe
his debtor, who has heretofore maintained
a high character, is about to defraud his
creditors. Thus, not only casting an iinputa
tion on one who has heretofore been esteemed
as an honorable man and merchant, but actually
stopping him in his efforts to meet his liabilities
and make the best settlement in his
power for those to whom he is indebted. I
must confess that I fail to see the slightest evidence
of concealment or an intention to defraud
; on the contrary, everything was open
and above board. I suppose it is human nature
for the Killian Bros., to be sanguine in
their expectations, and for the creditors to be
suspicious. Hence the atlidavit. But I do
say that it would be hard and unjust, not to
say cruel, to deprive these young men, \yho
have heretofore enjoyed the conlidence of their
neighbors and the community in which they
live, not only of their credit but to blast their
reputation as honorable men and honest merchants.
Let the attachment lie set aside, the
bond of the defendants delivered up to them
by the Sheriff, and the plaintiffs to pay the
cost."
THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
Tuesday, January 24.
Ik tiie Senate, the bill to incorporate the
Southern Land Loan Association was dis
cussed at some length, the rate of interest proposed
to be charged being the principal point
under discussion, when, on motion of Mr.
McQueen the further consideration of the
measure was postponed until Friday.
A number of bills were passed to a third
reading, and the following were passed and
ordered to be enrolled for ratification : Bill
to extend the provisions of the Act commonly
known as the stock law to so much of the
county of Lexington as lies between the Broad
and Saluda rivers. Bill providing for the
more complete preparation of the General
Statutes, and obtaining an index therefor.
The Code was then taken up and numerous
amendments were inserted, after which it was
passed to its third reading.
In the House, a bill to provide for the
further operations of the Lunatic Asylum,
after a lengthy debate, was amended in several
particulars and passed to a third reading.
The bill to define the duties of County Commissioners,
County School Commissioners and
County Treasurers in reference to the auditing,
allowing and payment of claims, and to
require annual reports of all claims audited,
allowed and paid by them, to be made to the
Court of General Sessions, with sundry bills
pertaining to the same, was also passsed to a
third reading.
A number of bills were read a third time
and sent to the Senate, and at 3 P. M. the
House adjourned.
Wednesday, January 25.
In the Senate, a number of bills incorporating
various railroad companies in the
State were passed to third reading.
The joint resolution to pay certain claims of
the State constabulary force for 187G and
1877, passed to its third reading, and also the
bill for revising and consolidating the General
Statutes.
The election bill was postponed.
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IN T1IIS XKJUSIS, <1 I1UIIJUC1 UI lcpuil/9 Ull unio
of 110 general importance were submitted by
the respective committees to whom they had
been referred, when
The report of the commission 011 the constitutional
amendments was considered. For
weeks past the report of the commission has
been at the head of the column of special
orders, and has regularly every morning been
discharged for the day. Mr. Simonton said
that in his opinion the matter should be disposed
of, and in order to test the sense of the
House oh the question of calling a constitutional
convention, he submitted a resolution
declaring that "the General Assembly are of
opinion that it is necessary to call a Convention
of the people to revise and amend the
Constitution," and providing a vote on the
question at the next general election.
Mr. Parker, of Abbeville, moved to indefinitely
postiKme the resolution.
Mr. Simonton called the yeas and nays,
which resulted in the adoption of the motion
to indefinitely postpone, which resulted in
yeas 03 ; nays, 44.
There was 110 debate, and in this way was
disposed of one the most important measures
before the General Assembly during the present
session. The defeat of the resolution was
overwhelming, when it is taken into consideration
that in order to pass it, a two-thirds
vote was required. There is 110 chance of a
resurrection of the matter, because a motion
to reconsider was laid on the table.
The house then proceeded to the consideration
of the several joint resolutions reported
by the Commission, embodying proposed
amendments to the several articles of the Constitution.
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section 2, article 10, of the Constitution of
this State, so as to provide for a State Board
of Education and the appointment of county
school commissioners.
Mr. Bice moved the indefinite postponement
of the resolution, and Mr. Haskell moved to
strike out the enacting words.
The resolution was debated at considerable
lengtli, when the question of indefinite postponement
was carried by ayes, 57; nays 41?a
two-thirds vote.
The next amendment to the Constitution
proposed by the commission was to amend section
8, article 8, respecting disqualification of
electors. The amendment proposes to alter
the section so that it shall read : "The General
Assembly shall never pass any law that will
deprive any of the citizens of this State of the
right of suffrage, except for treason, murder,
burglary, larceny, perjury, forgery, or any other
infamous crime, or duelling, whereof the
person shall have been duly tried and convicted."
Mr. Aldrich made a strong argument in favor
of this amendment, in which he showed
the inconsistency of the present article of the
Constitution which disqualified a person who
fought a duel, but allowed thieves and perju
rers and burglars to enjoy all the rights of the
franchise.
The amendment was adopted by a vote of
101 to 9.
The next suggestion made by the commission
proposing to amend the Constitution of
this State was by adding an article thereto, to
be known as article 17 relating to the term of
office of members of the General Assembly and
other State officers.
Sundry amendments were proposed to the
resolution as submitted by the commission.
As finally agreed upon and ordered to a third
reading it is as follows:
Section 1. The terms of the Senators and
Representatives chosen at a general election
shall begin on the Monday following such election
and continue for four years.
Sec. 2. The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor,
Comptroller General, Secretary of State, Treasurer,
Attorney General, Adjutant and Inspector
General and Superintendent of Education
shall hold their respective offices for the term
of four years and until their successors shall
be elected and qualified.
Sec. 3. All county officers shall hold their
respective offices for the term of four years and
until their successors are elected and qualified.
, Sec. 4. The general election for members of
the General Assembly and all State officers
shall be held in-every fourth yefr, at such time,
in such manner and in such place as the General
Assembly may provide.
5. Any provision of this Constitution in conilict
with the foregoing amendment is annulled.
That The question of adoptingthis amendment
shall be submitted to the electors as follows :
Those in favor of the amendment shall deposit
a ballot with the following words printed or
written thereon : "Constitutional amendment
relating to the term of ofiice of members of
the General Assembly and of State officersYes."
Those opposed to said amendment
shall cast a ballot with the following words
printed or written thereon: "Constitutional
amendment relating to the term of office of
members of the General Assembly and of State
officers?No."
The joint resolution suggested by the commission
to fix the constitutional area of counties
at 400 square miles was laid on the table
by a two-thirds vote?58 to 51. <
On motion of Mr. Simonton all the other <
constitutional amendments proposed by the .
commission were then indefinitely postponed. 1
A night session of the House was held, in
which a number of bills on the calendar were
disposed of. The bill to limit the exemption <
from taxes of manufactures to such as may be :
started by 1884 was killed. i
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Thursday, January 20.
In tub Senate, the bill authorizing the ;
development of the Columbia Canal property j
by the State passed a third reading and was 1
sent to the House. >
Several third reading bills, mostly Acts of <
incorporation, were taken up and passed and
ordered to be enrolled for ratification. 1
The bill to incorporate the Southern Land 1
Loan Association came up as a special order 1
and was passed to a third reading. 1
The Senate agreed to the House amendments 1
to the election bill, and a message was sent to
the House to this effect.
In the House a number of bills were introduced
by the various committees to which
they had been referred.
After the reports had been received, on motion
of Mr. Haskell a recess of ten minutes
was taken. During the recess, Mr. ISimons,
stepping upon the Speaker's rostrum, presented
to Col. John T. Sloan, Clerk of the House,
a handsome gold watch and chain, a present
from the members of the House, on the occasion
of Mr. Sloan's recent celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary of his wedding. Col. Sloan
responded to Mr. Simons' presentation speech
in a very happy manner, and at the expiration
of the recess, the general orders were taken up.
The conference committee on the railroad
bill made a rej)ort recommending that the
House agree to the Senate provision requiring
three commissioners to be an>ointed by the
(Governor and the Senate to agree to all other
House amendments. The report was continued
as a special order.
The concurrent resolution to adjourn on the
10th of February was passed and sent to the
Senate.
A night sessions of the House was held,
and a number of bills passed to a third reading.
Friday, January 27.
In the Senate, after an hour's debate, a
committee of conference, consisting on the
part of the Senate, of Messrs. T. J. Moore,
Jeter and TIarllee, was appointed on the Railroad
bill.
The bill to provide for the assessment and
taxation of property was taken up as a special
order. The bill is very voluminous, containing
304 sections, and after about one-third of
it was passed, the Senate, at 3.15 P. M., took
a recess until 7.45 P. M., when the. members
marched in a body to the Hall of Representatives
to hear an address by Dr. J. L. M. Curry,
of Richmond, Va., on the subject of education.
In tiie House, the report of the conference
committee on the Railroad bill, which committee
on the part of the House consisted of Messrs.
Simons, Murray and Johnston, was not agreed
to. The Senate having taken the same action
a committee of free conference was appointed.
The main point of difference between the
two houses is whether there shall be one or
three railroad commissioners.
In the night session the legislative appropriation
bill was presented and received its first
reading.
A bill was passed to its third reading incorporating
the Charlotte, Anderson and Atlanta
Railroad Company.
At 8 o'clock the Senate attended in the
House, when the joint assembly was addressed
by Dr. Curry on the subject of education, at
the close of which the House adjourned.
Saturday, January 28.
In the Senate, a number of bills and resolutions
were received from the House and rennmmIffD/io
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A bill to exempt and relieve the counties of
Colleton, Charleston, Beaufort and Hampton
from the operations of the fence law, and requiring
the State to defray $10,000 of the cost
of erecting a boundary fence, provoked a
lengthy discussion, and was finally lost by the
casting vote of President Kennedy.
The Lartigue liquor bill, which proposed to
repeal the present laws regulating the liquor
traffic in this State, was rejected, after a short
discussion, on the motion of Mr. Callison to
strike out the enacting clause.
The bill to make it a misdemeanor to allow
records to be taken from certain public offices
and to prescribe a penalty for the same, was
passed.
In tiie House, the consideration of the >
legislative appropriation bill was continued.
The bill to amend chapter XCYII of title V,
part *2 of the General Statutes of this State
relating to alignments of insolvent debtors
was taken up. and after a lengthy discussion
was passed to a third reading.
The bill to amend an Act entitled "an Act
to divide the State into five Congressional districts,
approved March 3rd, 1874, also elicited
a lively debate, and was defeated by a vote of
07 to 17.
A number of bills were read the first time
and referred, and the House adjourned.
CONVICTION OF GUITEAP.On
Tuesday evening of last week Judge
Porter finished his argument in the assassination
trial, and there only remained Judge Cox's
charge to the jury. It was now 3 o'clock, and
there was some apprehension among the spectators,
who densely packed the court room,
that Judge Cox would adjourn Court, and defer
his charge until the next morning. But in
view of the fact that the jury signified their
preference to have the case given to them at
once, the Judge proceeded to deliver his charge.
It had evidently been prepared with a great
deal of care, and was delivered in a quiet,
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there vas no more earnest and attentive listener
than Guiteau himself, who bent forward
over the railings on the dock with his face
resting in the palms of his hands and his elbows
supported by the railingt making a noteworthy
picture in the dim twilight of the room.
Judge Cox's charge swept away all the cobwebs
which the lawyers on each side had constructed.
It was a concise, clear and positive
statement of the legal definition of insanity,
of the gauge which the jury must apply to the
evidence sustaining both the sanity and insanity
claims. It left no sort of doubt in the
minds of the jury as to precisely what was insanity
as contemplated by the law, and gave
them no opportunity for any other discussion
among themselves, excepting the single one as
to whether the evidence introduced met the
legal requirements. The charge was one to
which, even the counsel for the defense said,
little or no exception could be taken, and no
exception at all was possible upon his statement
of the law.
Nevertheless it sounded to the audience,
and, as since learned, was accepted by'the jury
like the death sentence of Guiteau. The
prisoner was given the benefit of all that he
could possibly, under the evidence, ask for,
and yet Judge Cox's statement of the case was
so terribly powerful against him that many
people believed that the jury would be out but
a few moments. Once or twice Guiteau offered
some trivial comments, but they were
unnoticed by the Judge and almost unheard
by the lieople in the court room. It did not
escape notice of members of the bar who heard
the charge that in some respects Judge Cox
had been fairer toward the prisoner even than
his counsel had asked him to be, while on the
other hand he had brushed away as insignifi
cant and of no conseqence some 01 tne points
which the prosecution had dwelt upon with
seemingly the greatest confidence.
Soon after 5 o'clock, and while dusk was
becoming darkness in the court room, the
jury took the case into its own hands. A
grim visaged bailiff making his way thorough
the dense throng that stood between the jury
and door beckoned to them to follow him. A
colored Sheriff, gathering up some of the documentary
evidence, prepared to follow, and
one by one, thus escorted, the jury made its
way from the court room into the consultation
room overhead. Judge Cox, after they
had gone, leaned over the bar and conversed
quietly with one or two lawyers. Mr. Scoville
and Mr. Reed, the prisoner's counsel, chatted
with one or two of the audience. Judge Porter
sat silent, while Corkhill made the only
officious exhibition by gathering together the
documents and papers with which the tables
were strewn.
Guiteau sat in the dock for five or six
minutes, like a statue, after the jury had gone.
It was too dark to see his features, but those
who stood near him said he was muttering
something to himself. He finally looked up
toward the Judge and tried to get up, but he
seemed to have lost his strength, and the oflicers
who guarded him thought he was going
to break down. At least he said in a weak
voice, unlike that he used to interrupt the proceedings,
that he would like to be taken out
of the court into the Marshal's office, and
Judge Cox consented. Two bailiffs took him
oneby each arm and he was led through the
throng, his head bent over, his eyes upon the
floor, shuffling along until he got out of the
court room. In the Marshal's office he was
seated in a chair in the corner, and when
cue of the deputies spoke to him asking
him how he felt, he replied in a tremulous
voice that he was anxious to have it over, it
wore on his nerves very much waiting for the
jury to come in. lie would not say what he
thought of Judge Cox's charge. Fifteen minutes,
perhaps, after the jury went out Judge
O'ox decided to give a recess for half an hour.
Within ten minutes after the recess kad
ueen taken the jury called to the bailiff in
waiting that they were ready with their
verdict. They were informed that a recess
iad been taken, and that Judge Cox had
left the court room, so they remained in their
f