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? A Western girl was recently vaccinated i
with virus taken from her lover's arm, and i
now she is swearing, chewing tobacco and
sitting cross-legged. It "took."
? Peas and potatoes are flourishing in the |
truck gardens around Xewbern, X. C. The !
former are about already to blossom, and the j
latter are several inches high.
? The Silver Valley mine in Davidson county,
X. C., employs eighty hands and produces
aljout five tons of concentrated ore daily,
which is valued at ?500 per ton.
? Col. C. J. Cowles, of Charlotte, X. C., has
offered 2,000 acres of land, situated in Wilkes
county, to Jewish refugees from Russia, if
they will agree to occupy it. The land is well
watered and timbered.
? -J.lie Lincoln j'rogress says uiau uacn laying
on the Chester and Lenoir Railroad is now
being rapidly pushed forward under the efficient
superintendence of Capt. Waddill. Iron
is laid three miles beyond Lincolnton.
? Female suffrage is being warmly demanded
iu Germany just now. At luecent election in
a Wurtemberg city, the town hall was fairly
besieged by a number of women clamoring for
permission to vote, and the police had to be
called out to disperse the crowd.
? Mason's trial is now in progress at "Washington
for attempting the life of Guiteau.
His attorney put in the plea of not guilty and
expects to acquit him on the ground that the
intent to commit murder can not be established.
? The annual production of oleomargarine
in New York city is 116,000,000 pounds?3,000,-"
000 pounds more than the dairy made butter of
the entire State. And we have no doubt but
that lots of the stuff is sent out labelled "Goshen."
? Altogether, 282 business firms were burned
out by the Haverhill conflagration. Among
these were 108 shoe manufacturers, 26 sole
leather firms, 8 shoe trimming firms, three
banks and nearly 100 firms auxilliary to the
shoe manufacturing establishments and dependent
on them.
? The Republic of Mexico, which, for years,
has been engaged in internecine broils, seems
to have come to its senses at last. It is making
wonderful material progress. The new
order of things is principally due to American
influence. A few thrifty and enterprising
yankees have leavened the whole lump of
Mexican disorder.
? The Gentiles of Utah own nearly all the
800 miles of railroad in the Territory ; half of
the taxable property belongs to them; they
own much mining property and have invested
?300,000 during the past ten years in schools,
hospitals and similar institutions. This is a
good showing* for the Gentiles, who number
32,000 against 112,000 Mormons.
? The pay of a general in the United States
army is ?13,500 a year, of a retired general
two-thirds of that amount, which is the sum
which Grant will draw for life. This, with
the $10,000 income from the fund raised for
him by his northern admirers a few years ago,
and his other investments, ought to enable
him to pull through.
? R. G. Dun & Co.'s Mercantile Agency reports
the failures throughout the country for
the seven days ending last Friday, as 128, a
slight reduction upou last week. In the Middle
States there were 30, in the Eastern 10, in
in the Southern 35, in the Western 34, in the
Pacific and Territories 12. and New York
city 7.
? The case of the 4-year old boy who became
an invalid through inveterate smoking, his
parents having given him all the tobacco he
wanted, is interesting the faculty of the Surgical
Institute in Indianapolis. They have deprived
him wholly of the weed, and hope to
cure him of spinal trouble which his habit has
caused. He had smoked an average of ten cigars
a day for a year.
? The Flipper court-martial case is in the
hands of Judge Advocate General Swaim,
who is still engaged in revising the proceedings
of the Court, which, it will be remembered,
recommended Flipper's dismissal form the
service. Gen. Swaim will make his report on
the case to the secretary of war at an early
day. As he has not yet completed his review,
all reports of his views 011 the case are mere
speculations.
? Among the presents received by Alex. II.
Stephens on his seventieth birthday was an
autograph album containing the names of
many prominent men. The velvet case of the
album was ornamented with a painting of
"Liberty Hall," whose portals have been closed
recently against promiscuous hospitality for
the first time in forty years. Mr. Stephens
has passed twenty-five of his birthdays in
Washington. ?
? Most of the towns and cities in the North
and West have resolved upon a reform in the
manner uf treating the tramps during the coming
summer. No tramp, unless guilty of a
crime, will be imprisoned or put in a lockup.
He will be furnished with a certain amount of
work, and forced to do it, and at the same
time he will be provided with food, a certain
amount of fair ]wiy ; and when this amounts
to enough to defray the expense of his traveling
forward, he will be sent off.
? It has just been discovered at Gatesville,
Texas, that a few days ago a mob in that vicinity
took from an officer a young man named
Deering, who was under arrest on suspicion
for horse-stealing and lynched him. On Saturday
one hundred armed men came into town
and demanded that the parties engaged in the
lynching be arrested or they would take the
law in their own hands. The sheriff then arrested
Bob Leverett and his two sons, and are
now after several more of the lynching mob.
?Reports from points throughout the West
all tell the same story of Hood and disaster.
The rain has been general and in many places
accompanied by wind and sleet. The telegraph
wires Tuesday night in every direction
were down and many railroads were badly
washed out. The results, however, except
from the river floods, will not be disastrous.
The most serious inconvenience is from the
suspension of traffic. Along the Ohio and the
lower Mississippi, however, the disastrous effect
of the floods seem to be increasing.
? A. C. Soteldo, one of the participants in
the recent high-toned shooting affair in Washington,
and whose pistol shot killed his own
brother, though fired at Clarence Barton, one
of the editors of the National Republican, once
served a year in the penitentiary. lie was one
of three persons who robbed Horatio C. Welsh,
in Third avenue near One Hundred and Sixtyeighth
street. New York, on the morning of
August, 18th, 1878. lie got off with one
year's imprisonment by pleading guilty to "assault
with intent to commit robbery though
he actually took Welsh's purse from his pocket
while his confederates held the victim. The
brothers are nephews of Barton Key, who was
killed by Gen. Sickles, in Washington, in 18.78.
? Under the new apportionment, there will
be 401 votes in the electoral college, in 1884.
The next President, therefore, must have *201
electoral votes. In 1884 the South, if solid, j
111 ~ i. 1 TV i.* J ill ... A. '
win casi ioa JL?eniocrauc votes, <to inure votes i
will be needed to elect the candidate. New I
York will cast 3(3 and Indiana 15, total 51. I
In other words, under the present law, Xew I
York, Indiana and the South would cast 1SS j
votes when 15S are necessary ; under the new 1
law they will cast 201 when 201 are essential
to success. The Atlanta Constitution looks
forward to the early admission of Nebraska as ,
a State ; but we do not, and there is sure to be j
a hard light against it.
? The amounts allowed by the committee to j
audit the expenses of the sickness and burial |
of President Garfield to the attending surgeons ,
is stated by a member of the committee to be j
as follows : To I)r. Bliss, $25,000 ; to Drs. j
Agnew and Hamilton, 815,000 each ; to Drs. j
Reyburn and Boynton, 810,000 each ; to Mrs. j
Dr. Edson, 85,000. Mr. Crump, the steward,
is allowed 33,000, and other employees of the
Executive Mansion two months' extra pay. !
The committee recommends the appointment
of Surgeon-General Barnes to the rank of ma-;
jor-general, and his retirement at that grade, ,
and the promotion of Dr. "Woodward to the j
rank of lieutenant-colonel. The committee j
lias also agreed to grant to Mrs. Garfield the
remainder of her husband's salary for the current
year. The report will not be unanimous, i
Messrs. Springer and Blackburn will submit a
minority report, opposing most of the items allowed.
? An exciting scene was witnessed in Louisville,
Ky., on the 22nd ultimo, F. J. Melcher 1
owns a three-story brick house on the east side 1
of Fourth street, which was occupied on the
ground fioor by the proprietors of a grocery (
and a bar room. The water invading the first i,
story on that morning, he moved his goods
up stairs. Shortly after this he saw a crack in
the middle wall, when he removed his family
and hunted up t lie life savers, De Van, Tully
and Gillaly. and offered them $300 if they
would save his goods. They took a life-boat
and barge, and rowing out in front of the
house, began to get out the goods through the
second-story windows. There were four families
living over the bar room part and two over
the grocery?Mclcher's and another. One
barge load was taken out, including Melcher's
piano and fine furniture, and taken to the
shore and landed. When the men returned
for a second load Gillaly was the third story,
Tully in the second and De Van down in the
boat. Only a few things had been loaded when
a crash was heard ; the middle wall fell, and
the whole house from the top to the ground
lloor, with all its contents, went down into the
cellar. Gillaly managed to jump from the
third story and Tully from the second through
the awning frame into the water below. Every
building along the river front was under
water, and sever..] houses and coal offices were
washed away.
She fjovftviric (?tu}uucv.
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A TOUCHING TRIBUTE.
On the death of President Garfield, the ex- J
Confederate soldiers of Cincinnati passed a j
series of resolutions, which were published
throughout the country and widely comment-'
ed upon because of the excellent spirit they
displayed. The resolutions have been handsomely
engrossed and framed in Tennessee
colored marble, and on the morning of the
22nd ultimo were formally presented to Mrs.
Garfield by a committee of the Association,
who visited Cleveland for that purpose. C. A.
Withers, formerly Adjutant-General of Gen.
Morgan's staff, made the presentation speech
as follows :
"It is with mingled feelings of gratification
and regret that I have the honor, madam, ol
presenting to you this memorial of the ex-1
Confederate Soldiers of Cincinnati. It is
gratifying that we truthfully and feelingly
unite our voices in commendation of the lamented
dead with those of many thousands of
our common people. The occasion which called
for such sentiments is painful in its reflections,
and as fully deplored by the people of
the South as by those of any other section of
the countrv. The unanimity with which these
resolutions were passed, and the expressions
conveyed therein, speak more than any words
of mine, and you can rest assured, madam,
that in them is voiced the tribute of all the
old soldiers of the South to the sterling worth
of the late President."
Mrs. Garfield, by a great effort, repressed her
emotion, while die aged mother of the late
President wept freely. The late President's
widow, her voice trembling with emotion, replied
to the address of Major Withers as follows:
"Gentlemen?I am very grateful to you, and
to those from whom this beautiful gift comes,
and for its sake and for the sentiment expressed."
After the presentation, the wife and mother
of the dead President examined the memorial
gift and expressed their admiration to Mr.
Knipe, the maker. The frame was cut from a
single block of marble about two feet square.
The United States coat of arms is inlaid in
Mexican onyx at each corner, and the resolutions,
handsomely engrossed, are protected
by heavy beveled French plate glass. The
whole work is in exceedingly good taste. In
acknowledging the compliment paid to the
work by its recipients, Mr. Knipe said : "My
heart went out in sympathy for the President.
I volunteered to make that frame, and I made
it so that it may remain a standing testimony
of the Southern sentiment." Maj. Withers
added: "And, moreover, we want to show
these Northern politicians that we ex-Confederates
are not as black as they try to make us
out." The widow of Mr. Garfield responded:
"It had always been the General's greatest
wish that there be no North nor South. His
earnest desire was to see a united country,
and, had he lived"?here her grief overcame
her, and the sentence was unfinished.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Mr. A. E. Smith has been appointed agent
for the Catawba Indians, vice IVm. White,
resigned.
? The Lancaster Ledger reports that the
Hessian tly is damaging wheat in some sections
of that county.
? The ltight Rev. P. N. Lynch, the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Charleston, died in that
city 011 Sunday last.
? IVm. Douglass, colored, was stabbed and
killed near Abbeville 011 Monday of last week
by T. B. Millford, in a controversy about a
fence. Millford was bailed.
? The four negroes convicted of burning
the Greenville opera house have had their appeal
passed upon by the Supreme Court, and
the decision sustains that of the Circuit Court,
which sentenced them to death.
? The Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor has
paid to Mrs. Laura S. May, of Rock Hill, the
sum of S*2,000, the amount of the benefit certificate
of her husband, R. T. May, who was
a member of Rock Hill Lodge.
? Lancaster county has about thirteen gold
mines which have been worked, more or less,
from time to time. But two of these mines,
though, have been developed to any great extent.
? The Democratic executive committee of
Beaufort county ordered a primary election 011
Monday last for the purpose of recommending
suitable persons for supervisor and assistant
supervisor of registration for Beaufort county.
? The Central Railroad of South Carolina,
which runs from j.ane's 011 the North-eastern
Railroad, by way of Manning to Sumter, on
the Columbia and Augusta Railroad, is completed
and through trains are running 011 it.
? The residence of J. B. Henry, known as
the Buist place, just outside of the eoporate
limits of Greenville, was burned last, Thursday
morning abo. t 11 o'clock. Mr. Henry's
family were just moving into the building,
and there was 110 loss of furniture. Loss,
Itfin I.K'inwl f,\r nun
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? The Iteporter says the new depot of the
Chester and Lenoir Railroad at Chester is
now completed. I t is 90 feet long and 58 feet
wide, substantially constructed. As a protec- j
tion from fire, the cotton platform is some dis- j
tanee from the main building, in rear of it. ;
A portion of the track is laid between the
depot and this platform.
? David McBreaty, an Irish peddler, aged
about 42 years, died in Greenville last week,
death resulting from hemorrage of the lungs,
which attacked him suddenly. lie bled very !
copiously, and an important artery is supposed ,
to have been ruptured. lie was a native of
Donegal, Ireland, and arrived at Greenville on
Saturday before his death from the North, j
Before dying lie made a will leaving &800, i
which he had deposited in a New York bank,
to his relatives in Ireland.
? Last week 174 cattle from the Dunbarton
section, Barnwell county, were shipped by
steamer to an island below Savannah, where
they will be fattened for market. They were
bought by a Georgian, who paid in no case
more than five dollars for the largest cows
and oxen. Scarcity of forage and pasturage
and the approach of the stock law forced farmers
to sell at the speculator's figures.
? The Chester Bulletin of last week says that
since the books of subscription 'were opened
in that town, $00,000 in amounts varying
from $0,000 to $15,000 has been subscribed to
the capital stock of the Magnetic Manufacturing
Company. Hon. J. J. Hemphill, Col. II.
P. Ilammet and Hon. J. J. McLure are the
corporators. The mills are to be erected at
the magnificent water power on Broad River,
formerly the site of the old Cherokee Iron
Works. The factory will l>e on the Spartanburg
side of the river and nearly opposite the
cotton mills now being erected by Mr. Deal
and others. The Magnetic Company has a
capital stock of $000,000 and will commence
business when $250,000 shall have been paid in.
Mr. Hemphill says the prospects of the enterprise
are flattering.
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Columbia lias known for many years, as the
Register characterizes it, occurred on Friday
night, in McC'rcery's wagon yard, the aggressors
being a party of wagoners, who wantonly
attacked policeman McKenna, while lie was
passing through the wagon yard. lie then
called a number of policemen to his aid, and
a lively scrimmage ensued before the party
could be arrested. Policeman McKenna received
a severe stab in the shoulder, the blade of
the knife puncturing one of his lungs, and a
man named Goodwyn, from Lexington, who
was also camping in the yard, but not engaged in
the melee, received a pistol wound in the foot.
The rioters were committed to jail, in default
of bail, to await their trial at the next term
of the Court, on the charge of rioting and assault
and battery with intent to kill.
? The memorial services held in Trinity
Church, at Charleston, last Sunday, upon the
death of the late Bishop Wightman, were attended,
probably, by the largest audience that
has been gathered within the walls of the
church, an audience which, composed as it
was of representatives of every creed and
class in in the communnity, was a voluntary
tribute to the esteem and respect in which the
great and good man whose death was commemorated
was held in the community in
which he spent the l)est years of his life. In
the pulpit were the Rev. A. Coke Smith, pas
tor of Trinity Church, the Rev. S. A. Weber,
of the Southern Christian Advocate, and the
Rev. W. S. Martin, of Florence. The services
were opened \vith a memorial ode written
for the occasion by the Rev. Thos. O. Summers,
1). D., which was rendered by the choir.
This was followed by the singing of a hymn,
by a prayer by the Rev. A Coke Smith, and
the reading of Scripture selections by the
Rev. S. A. Weber. The Rev. A. Coke Smith,
who has just returned from the death-bed of
his father in Sumter county, then delivered
an eloquent sermon upon the death of the distinguished
prelate. The text was from Phil,
i, 21: "For to me to live is Christ, and to
die is gain."
THE MORMON QUESTION.
On Saturday last the Utah Legislature
adopted a memorial to Congress in which they
say :
We, your inemoralists, the Legislative Assembly
of the Territory of Utah, respectfully
represent that in consequence of baseless rumors
and monstrous exaggerations the people
whom we represent have been placed in jeopardy
and are now threatened with deprivation
of the right of local self-government. Persons,
whose aim is to gain control of this now
wealthy and prosperous territory and manipulate
its finances, have succeeded in arousing
the ire of the clergy, and through them the
anger of many people against a large majority
of the citizens of Utah, and thus a pressure
has been brought to bear upon your honorable
body which shows its effects in proposed measures
containing provisions utterly at variance
with the fundamental principles of Republican
government, and which, while ostensibly aimed
at the marriage relations of but a small
portion of the people, will, if carried into effect,
deprive the whole Territory of vested
rights secured to it by the organization act and
the Constitution of the United States.
The memorial then denies at great length
everything ever charged against the Mormons,
and accuses the representatives of the
Federal Government in Utah of every species
of wrong-doing possible to officers or men.
POLITICAL POINTS.
" ? The "People's Ticket" triumphed over the
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Philadelphia, Tuesday. The masses of both
parties united against the corruption that has
cursed the City of Brotherly Love for a number
of years.
? The following States will elect governors
in 188*2 : Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky,
Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Nebraska, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and possibly Dakota.
? It is said that the reason why Mr. Arthur
has been so slow in filling appointments is that
he has been anticipating a break up in the
present political organizations, and that he
was consequently moving slowly and feeling
ing his way as lie went. lie has been coquetting
with the third party-ites in the South but
don't seem thus far to have made much progress
in this line.
? The colored citizens of North Carolina
have called a convention to meet in Goldsboro
011 the 20th instant for the purpose of "taking
such steps as maybe deemed advisable relative
to the gross outrage and infringement upon
our rights guaranteed by the constitution of
the United States and North Carolina," so
they say. The call is signed by a number of
colored citizens from several counties. The
chief point of grievance seems to lie alleged
injustice as to the nrivilesre of the iurv-box.
? The Virginia General Assembly 011 Saturday
elected live judges of the Supreme Court.
The Democrats nominated and voted for their
candidates in each case except in the case of
Mr. Harrington, who was elected to succeed
Judge E. E. Burke, whose term of service they
claimed would not expire for six years to come.
The Democrats in the Senate asked to have
their protest against the election spread on the
minutes, but the president pro tern, ruled it
out, and appeal against his decision had not
been decided when the Senate adjourned.
? Gen. Gartrell announces that he will be an
Independent Democratic candidate for Governor
of Georgia, but he turns up his popular
nose at the mooted coalition with the Republicans.
His platform is : uIiree education
for all children, opposition to railroad and
other monopolies, oposition to the present system
of leasing the State convicts, and a recognition
of our common Federal Government
and equality of all men before the law." It is
thought that he will end by going into the
Liberal party so-called, and it is predicted
that lie will not be an acceptable candidate to
Gen. Longstreet or the Administration.
? Says the Raleigh Netrs and Observer: Bit-'
terness cannot l)e i>erpetuated after the exciting
cause has been removed. In the speech
of Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, to which
we referred the other day as putting him well up
011 the roll of fame, he alluded to the fact that
an era of good feeling had set in, and we feel
every assurance that we are now about to
enter a period when kindly sentiments will
prevail throughout the length and breadth of
the Union. The progress made in amity and
friendship is very gratifying. It speaks well
for the Southern heart. The North waged a
war against the South, and were the conquerors.
On their side there was no occasion foiv
bitterness, and yet since the cessation of hostilities
they have been as rancorous as if we
had gained the mastery in the conflict, and
had imposed our terms upon them.
? A correspondent of the Indianapolis .Tourmil
telegraphs from Springfield, 111., that exGovernor
John M. Palmer has lately received
a letter from Hon. Samuel J. Tilden conveying
information that he had consented, at the solicitation
of his friends, to become a candidate
for the Presidency in 1884, and making overtures
to him (Mr. Palmer) to accept the second
place on the ticket. The letter is, it is stated,
exceedingly complimentary in nature, and particular
stress is laid upon Mr. Palmer's populority
with the colored voters. The correspondent
interviewed Mr. Palmer regarding
the matter, but that gentleman refused either
to acknowledge or deny having received the
letter, merely saying, "I am non-committal."
Two of his warmest friends, however, assured
the correspondent that they had seen the letter,
and said that Palmer was inclined to regard
the proposition with favor.
mkkr.Vkntion.
General Fitzhugh Lee is writing a history of
the campaigns of Lee's army. Conway,
Arkansas, will not j>ermit even express companies
to deliver liquor to citizens of that
town. There are 1,21(5 convicts in the
Georgia penitentiary. Danville, Virginia,
is preparing to build the second cotton factory.
The Mississippi River, below Memphis,
is thirty miles wide, and great damage
has l>een done by the flood. The coming
Brazilian coffee crop is stated to be from 500U
000 to 1,000,000 bags short of the last one. A
Chicago man drank four pints of whisky to
cure the small pox, but it killed the man before
having a chance at the disease. Mr.
Abel Wright placed two or three dozen carp in
a pond near Griflin, Ga., three years ago. lie
has sold live hundred dollars worth since, and
thinks he still has a million. A Rome,
Ga., man is preparing a unique directory. It
will contain the name, style, whether brunette
or blonde, address and approximate age of every
young lady in Georgia, who has in her own
name, or as heir-expectant, prcqierty to the
amount of $5,000 or upward. A soldier
lost his hand in firing a salute to Gen. Hancock,
when the latter visited Little Rock,
Ark., the other day on an inspecting tour.
The General visited the woundfd man, deplored
the accident, and promised to provide for
him. The Fisk Colored .Jubilee Singers
were denied admission to all of the hotels .in
Washington on Saturday night, and narrowly
escaped having to sleep in the streets. But
this was atoned for on Monday by President
Arthur, who wept copious tears when they
innocently sang in the White House their most
plaintive melody, "Steal Away." The
total visible supply of cotton for the world,
last Saturday, was 3,124,105, of which 2,457,919
was American, against 2,920,450 and 2,491,090,
respectively, last year. The greatest
Hood ever known in the Ohio river was February
18th, 1832; the second greatest flood
December 27th, 1847. The present flood promises
to be among the notable ones. The Commercial
says "it is already a calamity." Immense
quantities of crossties are being cut on
| the Satilla Itiver, tta., tor iNorinern ranroaus
I that are sending out schooners to carry them
North. President Arthur has made five
j hundred and thirty nominations to office since
he became President, thirty-fiye of which were
from New York. Some over-loyal spirit
has been desecrating Cyrus Field's monument
to Major Andre, and the people of Tappan, N.
Y., where the monument is erected, though
not in sympathy with Andre, are mad about
it. The Mississippi State Senatelias passed
a bill appropriating $50,000 for the encouragement
of emigration to that State, and it is
thought that the bill will pass the House and
become a law. The corner stone for a
new cotton factory was laid in Concord, N. C.,
last Saturday, with religious ceremonies conducted
by the pastor of the Presbyterian
church. The census shows that in Utah,
in a population of 143,903, the Americans
number 99,909, and the foreigners 43,994. It
is evident from this that Americans are in a
majority in the Mormon Church. Walter
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D. DaviUge ana j. jv. roner, wie spui:j<u guvernment
counsel in the prosecution of Guiteuu,
have each been paid $2,500 011 account. ? The
Department of Agriculture, after making up
the figures, estimates the total product of
grain and bread-stuffs in the United States
and Territories last year at 2,003,029,570 bushels,
being 24 per cent, less than for the year
j 1880. Sergeant Mason, who shot at Guiteau,
has had a rough time, having spent the
100 days since his arrest in a filthy, dingy cell,
infested with rats, and the wonder is that it
has not killed him. Under date of last
Monday a horrible story comes from Northampton
county, North Carolina. A white woman
murdered her two infants and died from
exposure while digging a grave for them in the
woods.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 21st, the House Congressional
apportionment bill was passed, without
amendment, by a viva voce vote. The pension
resolution came upas unfinished business,
and after a short discussion, on motion of Mr.
Hawley the whole subject was, by a vote of 26
to 23, laid 011 the table as unfinished business.
The Grant retirement bill also came up, but
was laid over as unfinished business for Thursday.
After a short executive session, the Senate
adjourned until Thursday, "as a mark of-j
proj>er and becoming respect and honor to the
memory of George Washington."
The House was occupied in discussing the !
postoffice appropriation bill, and it adjourned
until Thursday.
In the Senate 011 the 23rd, a joint resolution
authorizing the Secretary of War to issue rations
for the relief of the laboring classes in
the district overflowed by the Mississippi River,
was referred to the military committee.
In discussing this resolution, the fact was
stated that the number rendered destitute in
the Mississippi Valley, by reason of the overflow
of the river, is from 50,000 to $75,000,
whites and blacks alike. The bill retiring
Grant was passed, by a vote of 35 to 17. Just
before adjournment, the military committee
reported on the resolution to provide relief on
account of the overflow of the Mississippi,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
The joint resolution was at once taken
up. The substitute was adopted and passed
without debate. It appropriates $100,000 to
be used by the Secretary of War in the purchase
and distribution of subsistence stores for relief
of destitute persons in the district overflowed
by the Mississippi and its tributaries,
and authorizes the Secretary to co-operate with
the authorities of the several States of which
such district is a part in making distribution
of the same. After a short executive session,
the Senate adjourned. *
A considerable portion of the session of the
House was devoted to discussing the i>ostollice
appropriation bill. A number of i>etitions
were presented by different members, asking
the repeal of the tax on bank deposits and on
checks and drafts. The Senate joint resolution
for the relief of the people of the Missis- j
sippi Valley, appropriating $100,000 for that j
purpose, was taken from the Shaker's table '
and jiassed.
In the Senate on the 24th, Mr. Bayard's :
Chilian investigation resolution w;is referred
to the committee on foreign relations with in-1
structions to make the required investigation
and report their proceedings to the Senate at1
the earliest possible day. The immediate deficiency
bill was then taken up and passed, j
Among the nominatians sent in by the Presi- j
dent were the names of ex-Senator Conkling
to be Associate Justice of the IT. S. Supreme
Court, and Hon. A. A. Sargent to be Minister
to Germany. In executive session the Senate
confirmed Henry F. Harriot collector of customs
for the district of Georgetown, S. C.
Adjourned until Monday.
In the House, a resolution similar to that of
Mr. Bayard's, ordering an investigation of the
relations between this government and the
Chilian government was adopted. Several
private bills were reported, among them one
for the relief of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines.
In the House on the 25th, Mr. Stephens, of
Georgia, from the committee on coinage,
weights and measures, reported a bill to authorize
the coinage of silver dollars and fractions
thereof of full standard value on the
metric system. Referred to the committee of
the whole. The postofflce appropriation bill
was passed, and the House, at 5.15, adjourned.
Congress was only nominally in session on
the 27th, the Senate having, at 10 o'clock, proceeded
to the hall of the House of Representatives
to hear the oration of Mr. Blaine on the
life and services of Garfield. The eulogy was
concluded at 1.50 P. M., having taken just an
hour and a half in its delivery. As Blaine
pave utterance to the last solemn words, the
spectators broke into a storm of applause,
which was not hushed for some moments.
The address was listened to with an intense
interest and solemn silence, unbroken by any
sound except by a sigh of relief, (such as arises
from a large audience when a strong tension
is removed from their minds,) when the orator
passed from his allusion to the differences existing
in the Republican party last Spring.
The benediction was then offered by Rev. Dr.
Bullock, Chaplain of the Senate. The Marine
Band played the Garfield Dead March, as tlnj
invited guests filed out of the chamber in the
same order in which they had entered it.
ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
An Act to amend Chapter XCVII, of the Title
V, Part II, of the General Statutes of thin
State, relating to assignments of insolvent
debtors.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly,
and by the authority of the'same,
That Chapter XCVII, of Title V, Part II, of:
the General Statutes of this State, be, and the
same is hereby amended by adding thereto the
following as Sections 10,11 and 12 of the said
chapter:
10 Tlmf. onv nsnlmunpnt; of an insol
vent debtor of his or her property for the benefit
of his or her.creditors, in which any preference
or priority is given to any creditor or
creditors of the said debtor by the terms of
the said assignment, over any other creditor
or creditors, other than as to any debts due to
the public, or in which any provision or disposition
of the property so assigned is made or
directed, other than that same be distributed
among all creditors of the said insolvent debtor
equally, in proportion to the amount of
their several demands, and without preference
or priority of any kind whatsover, save only as
to debts due to the public, and save only as
to such creditors as may accept the terms of
such assignment and execute a release of their
claims against the debtor, and except as hereinafter
provided, such assignment shall be absolutely
null and void, and of no effect whatsoever.
Sec. 11. If any person, being insolvent, within
ninety days before the raakingof any assignment
by Jiim or her of his or her property for
the benefit of his or her creditors, with a view
to give a preference to any creditor or person
having a claim against him or her, or who is
under any liability for him or her, procures or
suffers any part of his or her property to be
attached, sequestered or seized on execution,
or makes any payment pledge, assignment,
transfer or conveyance of any part of his or
her property, either directly indirectly, absolutely
or conditionally, the person receiving
such payment, pledge, assignment, transfer
or conveyance of any part of his or property,
either directly or indirectly, absolutely or conditionally,
the i>erson receiving such payment,
pledge, assignment, transfer or conveyance of
any i>art of his or her property, or to be benefited"
thereby, or by such attachment, having
reasonable cause to believe such person to be
insolvent, and that such attachment, sequestration,
seizure, payment, pledge, assignment
or conveyance is made in fraud, of the provisions
of this chapter, the same shall be void,
and the assignee may recover the property or
the value of it from the person so receiving it.
or so to be benefitted. Nothing, however, in
this section shall be construed to invalidate
any loan of actual value, or the security therefor,
made in good faith, upon a security taken
in good faith, on the occasion of the making
of such loan, or any security bona file made for
advances.
Sec. 12. "Whenever any debtor shall assign
his or her property for the benefit of his or
her creditors, it shall and may be lawful for
any creditor of the said debtor, either by simple
contract, specially or any other manner, to
institute proceedings against the said debtor
or the assignee named in the said assignment,
or any other persons properly parties thereto,
either to attack and set aside the said deed of
assignment, or to enforce the provisions thereof,
or for any other purpose whatsoever, without
first obtaining and entering up judgment
against the said debtor upon the claim or demand
so held by the said creditor or creditors.
Approved the 9th day of Februarv, A. D.
1882.
An Act to facilitate the settlement of the Estates
of Intestates.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina now met and sitting in General Assembly,
and by the authority of the same:
That if after the expiration of twelve months
from the grant of letters of administration on
the estate of any person dying intestate, it
shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of
the Judge of the Court of Probate by which
said letters of administration were granted,
that the administrator or administrators of
such estate are unable to ascertain the whereabouts
of any person supposed to be entitled
as distributee of such estate, or whether any
person, who, if living would be entitled as
distributee of said estate, be dead or not, and
that such person has never been domiciled in this
State, it shall be lawful for the said Judge of
Probate to issue a citation addressed to all persons
interested in the said estate asdistributees,
calling on such person whose whereabouts or
the fact of whose death is unknown, his personal
representatives or distributees, to be and
appear before the said Probate Court on a day
and at a certain hour to be specified in said
citation, and show cause why the said administrator
should not be decreed to distribute
said estate, as if the saiil person wnose wnere- i
abouts or the fact of whose deatli is unknown, [
had died before said intestate, and notifying
all persons entitled to the said estate as distributee
or otherwise-to appear on the day and
at the time so to be appointed, before the said
Court, to intervene for their interest in said
estate. That the day fixed in said citation, on
which cause shall be shown as aforesaid, shall j
be the first Monday in the month, and shall |
be not less than three months after the date
of said citation. That the said citation shall
be published once a week for six successive
weeks in one newspaper published in the county
in which said Probate Court is held, the
first publication of the said citation to be
made within ten days after the date thereof,
said newspaper to be designated by the said
Judge of Probate: Provided, the said Judge
of Probate shall have a right in his discretion
to order such citation to be published once a
week for three successive weeks in one other
newspaper published in such other place as he
shall think most likely to give notice to the
parties interested in said estate.
Sec. 2. That the publication of said citation,
as hereinbefore prescribed, shall be proved by
filing with the said Judge of Probate copies
of the newspapers containing the publication
of said citation and the affidavit of the publisher
or printer of the said respective newspapers.
Sec. J. That at the time fixed in said citation
for cause to be shown as aforesaid, due
proof of publication having been made and
filed as hereinbefore required, if no person
appears as therein required, the said Probate
Court shall decree distribution of said estate
to be made as if the person whose whereabouts
or the fact of whose death is unknown had
died before the intestate, an? distribution so
made by the administrator or administrators
shall be a full and complete discharge to the
administrator or administrators.
Sec. 4. That at the time fixed in the said
citation for cause to be shown as aforesaid,
due jiroof of publication having been made
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and filed as hereinbefore required, if the person
whose whereabouts or the fact of whose
death was unknown shall appear, all further
proceedings shall be discharged: Provided,
however, that if the identity of such person
so appearing shall be disputed by the administrator
or administrators, or any distributee of
such intestate or the legal representatives of
any such distributee, the said Probate Court
shall proceed to hear and determine the said
controversy, and if the same be determined
against the said person so appearing, distribution.of
the estate shall be made as prescibed
in Section3 of this Act; but if the same be
determined in favor of said party so appearing,
he shall be held and deemed to be the
person whose whereabouts or the fact of
whose death was unknown. Such dertermination
in either case, however, to be subject
to appeal as provided by law in other cases
of appeal from the Probate Court.
Sec. 5. That at the expiration of the time
fixed in in said citation for cause to be shown
as aforesaid, due proof of publication having
been made and filed as hereinbefore required,
if any person or persons shall appear, claiming
to be heir or distributee or personal representative
of the person whose whereabouts or the
fact of whose death is unknown or otherwise
entitled to his estate and claiming a distributive
share in the intestate's estate, the said
Probate Court shall proceed to hear and determine
whether the said person whose whereabouts
or the fact of whose death is unknown
died before or after the intestate, and if the determination
be that such person whose whereabouts
or the fact of whose death is unknown,
died before the intestate, distribution of such
intestate shall be made accordingly; but if the
determination be that the said person whose
whereabouts or the fact of whose death is
unknown died after the death of the intestate,
the said distributive share of such person
shall be paid and delivered by the said administrator
or administrators to the person or
persons legally entitled to receive the same.
Such determination in either case, however,
to be subject to appeal as provided by law in
other cases of appeal from the Probate Court.
Sec. (3. That nothing herein contained shall
debar or prevent any such person whose whereabouts
was unknown at the time of the distribution
of said estate as aforesaid, and who
shall within three years after the distribution
of the estate as aforasaid appear and claim his
or her said distributive share as heir at law,
or distributee, from recovering from the other
distributees between whom the said estate has
been divided as aforesaid, or any of them, his
or her said share, or such portion thereof as
any such distributee thereof may have received
from the said estate over and above his oilier
individual share by reason of the absence
of such person whose whereabouts was not
known at the time of the said distribution. '
Approved tho tltli day of February, A. D.
1882.
An Act to prescribe the mode of ascertaining the
average attendance on the Free Public Schools
of thiaSlate, and to apportion the school fund
according to such attendance.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly,
and by the authority of the same, That
the school month shall consist of twentyschool
days, and that this number shall be taken as
the unit of computation in estimating the average
attendance of each pupil in the free public
schools of this State.
Sec. 2. That for the school year 1882-1883,
and for each school year thereafter, each county
school commissioner shall apportion the income
of the school fund among the several
school districts of his county in proportion to
the average attendance upon the free public
schools for the last preceding year as ascertained
by Section 1 of this Act.
Sec. 3. That the State superintendent of
education is hereby authorized and required
to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary
to enforce the provisions of this Act.
Approved the 20th day of December, A. D.
1881.
An Act to enable persons whose Crops are Seized
under the provisions of the various Acts of the
General A; stmbly, known as the "Lien Laws,"
to recover possession of the same upon entering
into bond in accordance with the provisions ol
law now of force in regard to actions for the
claim and delivery of personal property-.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of South Carolina,
now met and sitting in General Assembly,
and by the authority of the same : That
from and after the passage of this Act, any
person whose crop or crops, whether the same
be severed frbpi the freehold or not, may be
seized under the provisions of any or all of the
Acts of the General Assembly known as the
"Lien Law," shall have the right, upon entering
into bond in accordance with the provisions
of law now of force in regard to actions
for claim and delivery of j>ersonal property, to
recover immediate possession of the crop or
crops so seized : Provided, That nothing herein
contained shall be so construed as to effect
any of the provisions of said lien law in cases
where no bond is given as herein authorized.
Approved the 9th day of February, A. D.
1882.
An Act to provide a Lo<;al Option law for the incorporated
cities, towns and villages of this
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A TERRIBLE COLLISION.
The Greenville News of the 21st ultimo gives
the following particulars of the collision on
the Air-Line Railroad on the morning of the
preceding day, from which it would appear
that the accident, traceable to intemperance,
was of serious consequences:
On Sunday morning a West-bound freight
train on the Air-Line Railroad left a place
called Flowery Branch, and had gone but a
quarter of a mile when a freight train coming
from an opposite direction suddenly came in
sight. Both trains were running quite rapidly,
and it soon became evident that a collision
was inevitable. There was a trestle between
them, and the two trains came together with
a terrific shock nearly in the middle of it.
The fireman of the West-bound train sprang
from his engine just before the collision, and
received injuries from which he died yesterday
morning. Both engines were thrown
from the trestle, and fifteen cars were thrown
off. The engines were both badly demolished,
one of them falling into the stream below and
the other in the gully, not many feet away
from it. The fire from one of the engines was
knocked out, igniting the trestle and five of
the cars, which were loaded with bacon, cotton
and general merchandise, which were almost
entirely consumed. The bridge was badly
broken and burned, and the wreckage was
scattered in every direction, the cars and
locomotives being strewn about over the
gully, on the side of the embankment and
under the demolished bridge. The fireman on
the East-bound train had his arm broken in two
places and both engineers were severely bruised.
As soon as the accident occurred the conductor
of the West bound train disappeared and
has not l>een seen since. It is alleged by par
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina now met and sitting in General Assemply,
and by the authority of the same:
That whenever a number of the citizens of
any incorporated city, town or village in this
State, equal to one-third of the number of
votes cast in the next preceding municipal
election therein, shall, in writing, on or before
the fifteenth day of November in any year,
petition for an election upon the question of
"license" or "no license" for the sale of intoxicating
liquors therein, the council of such
city, town, or village is hereby authorized and
required to submit such question to the qualified
electors of such city town or village, at a
special election to be held therein on or about
the first day of December following ; and if a
majority of said electors vote in favor of
"license," then the council of such city, town,
or village shall grant license according to the
laws now in force iu this State for the sale
of liquors in such city, town, or village for
the ensuing year; but if a majority of said
electors vote in favor of "no license," then it
shall be unlawful for the council for such city,
town or village so voting, to grant any license
for the sale of any spirituous or intoxicating
liquors, bitters or fruits prepared with such
liquors for the ensuing year.
Sec. 2. Hereafter all licenses for the sale
of spirituous or intoxicating liquors in the
incorporated cities, towns, or villages of this
State, shall be granted in such manner as to
end on the Slstdayof December in the year
for which they shall be granted.
Sec. 3. Tlmt whenever a majority of the
electors of any incorporated city, town or
village vote in favor of "license," such license
shall be granted from year to year until another
vote shall be had under the provisions of
this Act with a different result; and whenever
a majority of such electors vote in favor of
"no license," the council of such city, town or
village shall from year to year, refuse to grant
licenses until another election shall be held,
under the provisions of this Act with a different
result.
Sec. 4. This Act shall not apply to any city,
town or village in which the sale of ardent
spirits is now or shall hereafter be prohibited
by legislative enactment.
Sec. 5. That whenever the majority of the
electors UI any such iuuui|Auarcu cavj9 tunuui
village, shall vote in favor of "no license," it
shall be unlawful for any druggist therein to
sell, during the time when no licenses for the
sale of spirituous liquors are granted, any
spirituous or intoxicating liquors, bitters, or
fruits prepared with such liquors, except upon
the certificate of a regular practicing physician
in actual attendance upon a patient; such
certificate to contain the name of the patient,
and shall be filed by the druggist filling the
same, and kept for the period of one year, subject
to inspection at any time the council of ;
such city, town, or village may direct.
Sec. <i. It shall be unlawful for any physi- j
cian to give a prescription for any such liquors !
except when actually in bona fide attendance
upon a patient.
Sec. 7. That any person violating Sections
5 or 6 of this Act shall, upon conviction, be
fined in a sum of not less than two hundred
dollars, or imprisoned for not less than three
months, or both fined and imprisoned, in the
discretion of the Court.
Sec. 8. All elections under this Act shall be
conducted according to the laws now governing
the municipal elections of the city, town, or
village in which they are held. i
Sec. 9. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent
with this Act are hereby repealed, so far j
as they may interfere with the provisions of :
this Act. I
Approved the 9th day of February, A. D.
1882. ?
LOCAL A77AZHS;
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sonthorn Express Company.
T. M. Dohaon?Emporium of Fashion?74 and 49
Cents?44 Cents?24 Cents?Salem Jeans?
Dobaon'a Favorite?At Cost^-Old Oaken
' Bucket".
J. M. Adams?He Means Business This TimeGarden
Seeds?For Sale Cheap for CashWanted?Socks?Writing
Paper. t
John R. Ashe?The New Store. ; i
Herndon Brothers?Attention !?Wanted?Wattle...
*do Phosphate-?Not Wanted. AtJtwi? mm* urn.
Dobson <fe Parish?Seed Potatoes.
W. O. Latimer?New Goods.
Col.cockt Miller A Co.?Atlantic and Oriental Acid
Still Ahead.
Waverly Magazine.
J. D. G win, Clover?Right Along this Way.
ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
In this issue will be found several Acts of
importance passed at the last session of the
Legislature.
JUDGE W1THEHSPOON.
Speaking of the Circuit Court of Chesterfield,
a correspondent of the Neves and Courier ?
says :''Judge Witherspoon is presiding, and
the members of the bar, as well as the citizens
trenerallv. are loud in their praise of him, and
more than content with the choice of our Legislature."
COTTON AND FERTILISERS.
Business revived a little during the fair days
of last week, and some cotton was sold. The
shipments for the week ending last Monday,
were 112 bales, making a total of 5,343 for the
season.
The receipts of fertilizers for the week ending
Monday were 204 tons, making a total of
1,041 tons received at this place to date.
SOUTHERN EXPRESS.
As will t>e seen by advertisement elsewhere,
Mr. Horace H. Beard has been appointed agent
of the above company at this place, nir* Mr.
F. E. Smith, resigned. The office of the company
will hereafter be at tlie depot,'where
packages will be received for forwarding at all
hours of the day. Express freight for consignees
in town will be promptly delivered, as
heretofore. _ /ft SWIIlM 3HT
PERSONAL MENTION.
We regret to announce that Rev. R. P.
Johnson, who has been in feeble health during
the past winter, is again confined to his room.
In consequence of his continued feebleness, he
will be unable to fill his Lenten appointments
at this place and Rock Hill the present week,
or officiate at the latter place next Sjmday.
His many friends earnestly hope that he may
be soon restored to his wonted health and usefulness.
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CHURCH NOTICES.
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks,
Pastor. Services at Philadelphia Church at
11 A M r?n Sntnrdav noYf and at the same
hour on Sunday. Services in the Church at
Yorkville, at 7 P. M., on Sunday.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R.
Lathan, Pastor. Services at 10$ A. M. Sunday-school
at 9.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
Services at 11 A. M., and 7 P. M.
Baptist?Rev. W. L. Brown, Supply. Services
next Sunday at 7 P. M.
GARFIELD MONUMENT ASSOCIATION.
We have received from Gen. W. A. Robinson,
member of the General Committee for
North and South Carolina, an address to the
American people by the Society of the Army
of the Cumberland for contributions in aid of
the proposed monument to General Garfield,
late President of the United States. Although
this address emanates from a society, it is designed
that the monument shall be a national
testimonial, and to this end small contributions,
to be freely given, are solicited. Gen.
Robinson has sent subscription lists to banks
and postmasters in tliis State, and it is presumed
that all who have received them will
forward to the proper persons such sums as
< may be subscribed.
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BURGLARY OF A STORE.
On Thursday night last Mr. M. Strauss' dry
goods store was burglariously entered, through
a window in the rear of the building, the thief
having cut through the shutter a hole which
enabled him to withdaw the bolt securing the
iron bar with which the shutters were confined.
Hoisting the sash, he then went in and helped
himself. Money would seem to have been the
object of the burglary, as the safe, which had
been left unlocked, was found to have been rifled
and its contents scattered over the floor.
There was about $20 in change in the safe,
which was all the ready cash that regarded
the burglar. Mr. Strauss does not mis3 any
goods of consequence, except about half a box
of tobacco, and probably a pair or two of ladies'
shoes.
GUITEAU.
The latest concerning the assassin is the
following from the Washington Star:
Guiteau, who is confined on the east side
of the south wing of the jail, does not look so
shabby since he donned his new suit of blue
cloth, and in the afternoons, when he is allowed
to use the corridor for pedestrian exercise,
walks in a lively way and seems to be rapidly
regaining his spirits and flesh. As heretofore
stated, whenever he is kept to himself for a
few days he goes down in health, and becomes
feverish and ill-natured. Allowing him to see
visitors occasionally, he soon regains his tone.
Among the few persons admitted to see him
yesterday were two ministers. The most of
the conversation with them was as to his improved
looks and his photographs. He took
one of the fac-similes of the flattened bullet
shot at him by Sergt. Mason, and holding up
a photograph and putting himself in Position,
said it was perfectly wonderful that the ball
should have made such a good likeness. The
ministers had some little conversation of a
spiritual character with him, in which he said
he was a Christian, and was endeavoring to
live as one. As they were leaving he passed
out a card on which he had written: "I
offer this sentiment: The Republican partyWrecked
by Garfield, saved by Guiteau's inspiration
and Arthur's statesmanship." He
does not seem inclined to talk of his case much
now, and such conversation with visitors is
prohibited. Although apparently indifferent,
some of the officers are of the opinion that he
| is becoming really more serious than formerly,
and that he engages in light conversation as a
means of forgetting his crime and his approaching
fate.