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Terms of Subscription.—One copy one >py 1 year, $1.00; One copy six months, Cents. 75 Advertising Kates.—One Square, first insertion. $1 .OO; Each subsequent in sertion. O Cents. Special Rates b}'con tract io: tliree months or more. AIKEN, 8. C.. MARCH 11, 1892. The Kailroads Obtain an Ipjuuctiou. The railroad companies of the State have put another spoke in Mr. Eller- bee’s wheel in the matter of the ille gal increase of assessments. On Monday bills were filed in the United States Court in Charleston by all railroads doing business in this Slate, with the exceptions of the Sea board Air Line, Columbia, Newberry and Laurens, and Charleston and Sa vannah, praying an injunction to re strain county treasurers and sheritfs from issuing executions against or leyying upon the property of railroad companies in South Carolina for non payment of taxes on the basis of in creased assessment ordered by the board in December last. The roads had tendered payment of taxes on the assessment of the year before, but this had been refused. The time for payment of taxes expired February 20th, and the time for the beginning of suits by the State is fixed for March 9th. Judge Simonton, after hearing the prayer of the petitioners, issued an or der enjoining the treasurers and sher iff’s of the State from issuing such executions until April 4th, unless the order should be set aside. This injunction stops these proceect- ings and opens up a long litigation, and about $300,000 of State and Coun ty taxes are locked up for an indefi nite period. This loss of revenue caused by the appeal of the railroads to the law will be very hard to meet. In the effort to make a record of seem ing economy, the tax levy has been cut down to the bare requirements of the State government, and based upon a greatly increased assessment main ly of the property of corporations. The banks have appealed to the courts and have had tlieir assessments reduced to conform to law and equity. That has cut oft expected revenue. The phosphate companies took the same course with the same result of further reduction in revenue. Now the railroads have appealed to the courts for protection, and about $300,- 000 more of revenue is withheld until the United States Courts—perhaps even the Supreme Court of the United States—shall determine the questions justice and equity involved. LW will the deficit be met? That roblem which the admiuistra- |e incompetency has caused solve prominent manufacturer of Charles ton in a letter to The News and Cour ier, says: All indications point to much less shipments cf Fertilizers during March and April of this year as compared with March and April of 1891, and as numbers of Eastern man ufacturers have reduced their ship ments to the South very largely, as contpared with last year, and as some have absolutely declined to offer a ton of goods—notably the well-estab lished house of John Merrymau & Co., of Baltimore—it would appear that when the season is enaed and the statistics are carefully compiled, there will be an iuecrease in the consump tion of fertilizers shown of about 40 or 50 per cent, throughout the South. Dr. John R. Parker attempted to commit suicide in Augusta, on Mon day by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. He would have suc ceeded if it had not been that the pis tol used was a very inferior one. As it was the ball entered the right side of the head, and ranged around to wards the back, indicting a painful but not necessarily a dangerous wound. Dr. Parker is a man of 58 years of age, and graduated with honors from the Medical College of Charleston, but has never practiced his profession. The rash act is thought to have been due to a fit of insanity. Thus far mass meetings have been held in Hampton, Orangeburg, Edge- field, and Spartanburg, and delegates elected to the Democratic convention on the24th inst., in Columbia. Mass Meeting tor 17tb March. Felloic Democrats: As a party we are approaching the coming elections, both National and State, divided into factions, weakened by lack of unity and estranged by in ternal wranglings and discord, brought about by the head of the present State administration, inciting neighbors and followers of ditferent occupations against each other, aud by the abuse and misrepresentation indulged in dur ing the last campaign. The estrangement, discord and po litical distrust thus unwisely created has been kept up by a continued dis regard of the rights and privileges of portions of our people. Those who gave the movement their support from the beginning have been denounced and denominated “rotten drift wood,” when in the exercise of their duty they dared oppose the will of the executive and up hold the constitution they had sworn t» support and defend, that the legislative aud executive shall be distinct and in dependent branches of the Govern ment. Those who distrusted the ability and purpose of the present administration to fulfill their promises and carry out the reforms that they asserted they would, and notified the people of their distrust, have been, and are still treated as opponents of good government, and the State thereby is deprived of their experience aud counsel in the time of her greatest need, for men acquainted with public affairs, and this, although these men, like true and tried Democrats gave their support and votes for the tri umph of the nominees of the party. The Governor and other State officers have assumed arbitrary power, which but for an upright judiciary would have overthrown Constitutional rights aud liberty. 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