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VOL. III. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2,IS O 7 iE STATE LEGISLATURE. THE FOURTH WE:EK OF THE eESSION SHOWS CONSIDERABLE WORK. Many Measures of Public :stcrest Adopted - or Rejected--A Good Showing, in Work, for a Very Wor ug Body. CoLrsrrA, December 17.-The record of the fourth week of the present session shows up well in the matter of work hard work-on the part of both Senate and House. While the output of bills may not be very large, yet the number of important matters settled speaks well for the industry of both branches of the General Assembly. Below will be found a synopsis of the proceedings. THE UNIVERSrn. The bill concerning the University, which has been fully outlined in this correspondence, came up as a special order in the Senate. With it were ap pointed for consideration the two bills providing for a separate agricultural col lege. After the adoption of some formal amendments proposed to the University bill Senator Youmans, one of which provided for the formation of "a post graduate department or University de partment proper." Senator Sligh moved to indefinitely postpone the three bills, saying that he thought the best thing the State could do was to send all these schemes, for which she was unprepared, to the rear. His motion proving im practicable, he confined it to the Uni versity bill. Senator Izlar moved to table it, and it was tabled by the following vote: Yeas-Bell, Byrd, Howell. Izlar, Mur ray, Moore, Munro, Moise, McMaster, Patterson, Rhame, Reynolds, Smith, Smythe, Wofford, Williams, Wingard, Woodward and Youmans-19. Nays-Austin, Alexander, Biemann, Black, Crews, Edwards,Ffield, Kennedy, Moody, Shoh and Talbert-ll. Senator Auist, pro, was paired with Senator McCall, con. Senator Edwards moved to discharge the University bill and take up his own bill providing for a separate agricultural colb .e. Upon this motion he delivered an cfhaustive argument in favor of the separate college. 'The motion to take up Senator Ed wardss eparate college bill was defeated without a division. The question was then put as to the passage of the University bill, and on a viva voce vote the bill was passed, but before the vote was announced Senator Edwards remarked that he did not pro pose to have the separate college scheme ignored in this way, and if it was not given a showing he would be compelled reluctantly to vote against the University bill. Senator McMaster remarked that the friends of the University agreed with the Bnator as to the importance of agricul -di education and bad made full pro sion therefor in this University bill. Senator Sligh said that it appeared to .e the policy of the Senator from Bara well to rely on the votes he secured and vouchsafe no argument in vindication of his bill. He proposed to delay this vote somewhat, and to make some remarks to bring out debate. The Senator then made a speech in favor of the general prspoition that separate agricultural colleges were the right kind of institu tions. Senator Youmans replied to Sentr Sligh Senator Crewsathought this plan meant a renewal of free tuition in the college. He moved to adjourn the debate until 12 o'clock next day. Senator Smythe moved to table. Car ried. Senator Edwards moved to adjourn the debate until Thursday. Seator Howell moved to table, but gave way to Senator Moody, who accused the friends of the University of trying to agthe Senate and force this measure - onits throat. He asked a postpone ment. Senator Smythe said that the report presented with the bill gave arguments ua its iavor. It had been on the desks of Senators for many days, and he sup Iposed that every Senator had made up his mind on the subject. He, therefore, renewed the motion to table. It was put and caried. Senator Sligh entered a solemn pro test against the action of the majority in refusing to postpone the vote on the bill. Nobody answered. The billiwas psed to its third read ing, 19 to 11. Tere was not the change of a single vote. THE SILL IN THE HOUsE. When the bill was announced Mr. Keith, of Newberry moved to strike out of the first section the words "the college of agri culture and mechanical arts." He did not believe that the bill made adequate pro vision for the education of the youth of the Sate in the princioles and practice of agr i culture. His principal objection to con necting the agricultural and literary insti tutions was that such an union of these two deatets could not give the practical edcation which the farmers demanded and needed, and which bad been shown to be practicable in several of the other States, as M~issippi and Michigan. 'Mr. Hutson spoke nezt. As the intro -ducer of the bill, he outlined its practical purs ses and said the real question is -wher we shall have an agricultural eol leg. ,o part of the University or shall it be a s ~arte one. He argued that if the pro posed University scheme failed, it would in no wise work harm to the State, and then its opponents would have the very best argument for the establishment of a separate agricultural college. On the othei hand if the separate plan was tried ano falA the.e would be no end to the disas trous consequences. If the bill prevailed and the measure succeeded, is would oblit erate .all jealousies in the State. He then showed the great economy of the measure. .There had not been a single argument that proved the necesiity of ai separate college. Dr. Pope said thaL he had hoped inal when the question of free tuition was set tied at the last session tnat there was "ax. end on it." The presen~t bill was intro Anced to forestall the farmers in their dle Sto establish a separate college, and"c yop in the $1,000( approprited by the .itch bitl." The College "annex' wa. ow 'called the agricultural"cle. i'he trustees had seen the importance, o~ the name, and he gave them gre-at or.d for their ingenuity. .He concluded by say ing: "I give you fair warmnlg t'aat 11 yot carry this thing through you will do it t< your nnst Ynn'11 hear a howl from moan tain to seaboard. The farmers are a bad crowd when they get started, and I tell you to ponder well before you pass this bill." Mr. Haskell replied. He said that the Mississippi Agricultural College had cost $80,000 a year to maintain it. No county in this State can afford to donate anything but the baldest nucleus for a separate col lege, while for the one proposed we have the necessary buildings. In reply to Dr. Pope's question, "Is it wise in the face of the clamor of the people?" be would ask, Is it wise, in the face of the clamor for economy and relief fro-a taxation, to saddle upon the people the untold expense of an experiment which has been tried elsewhere and proved to to be a failure? This farm ers of this State were 85 per cent. of the population, and if they wanted an agricul tural college they could easily get it. He showed from the catalogue of the .Missis sippi College that agriculture was taught only nine months in the whole course of three yeas, horticulture three months, and chemistry five months. The measure was an honest effort to give the farmers what is theirs. If there was no other reason against the separate agricultural college, it was sufficient that it would raise a wall of separation between the different profes sions and callings and create artificial dis tinctions between the sons of a common mother, which could but work injury to the best interests of all the people. Mr. H. F. Wilson supported the bill in a telling speech. He thought the principal argument against the separate Agricultural Co:lege had ben presented by the gentle-' man from Richland when he so graphically showed the effects of such a system in sepa rating the people of the State into ranks and colleges. The cry fcr a separate col lege had not come up from the farmers of the State. When it did, he would be pre pared to give heed to it; until then, he would oppose it. He could not exactly see the success of a system which taught young men to raise cotton at a loss of $100 per bale as he showed had been done in the Mississippi College. Mr. Davenport said that he was compara tively an uneducated man. Ile was glad he had no more of it as it would make him a bigger fool than he was. Of alt fools, said he, the educated fool is the biggest. "Scientific farming! Gracious alive! Show me a man who has ever made a farmer by reading books and I'll give $5." (This statement was greeted by ti hurricane of laughter.) The proper way to make a farmer was to put him in the field. To the intense amusement of his hearers he re peated his experience in scientific farming as derived from following the instructions found in a newspaper. Mr. Thomas, of RcilandJ, said that, in his opinion, a higher scheme of education had never been projected in South Carolina. Its conception invu!ved the highest states muanship as well as the scholastic genius. In the South Cnrelina Military Academy we have a unique school of miliary and' practical diseghne; in Cladin Coliege we have an adxmiable institution for tue col ored men and women of South C.rolina: in the South Carolina University w. would have fire dis-inct schools providing for every c.ass in the State. He believed that the call for a seperate college came fr om a minority, representing not one tent: of the farmers of the State. That minority iad its rights. They were good and trtue imco, but he did not think it was wise 'o etabl:sh the seperate college.. It was too ,espensive in view of the condition of the State, and if we had miiions to spend it would not be wise. Its tendency was to place the farmer on a lower plane rather than to elevate him -to dwarf his intellect and repress his as pirations under a partial culture. They should have the broad basis of a general education. In the present scheme there was all the agricultural interests could de- I mand and it was freighted with solid and lasting good to the State. He believed that the new University was the system de manded by the people of the State, and he hoped that tne tribunes of the people would rise to the height of the grand conception of the bill before them, and by passing it raise a monument to the wisdom of the Trustees and the statesmanship of this body, which shall endure to the blessing of the future generations of our people, and in the promotion of their unity and pros perity. Mr. Padgett, of Colleton, moved to table Mr. Keitt's motion. Dr. Pope called for the yeas and nays. The result was-yeas, 69: nays, 34. Mr. .Blackwell moved the previous ques tion, which was ordered, and the bill passed its second reading by 69 to 34. When the Senate bill to amend Chap ter XP. of the General Statutes entitled "Of the University of South Carolina," (which wae, in effect, to conform the' Statutes to the provisions of the bill to reorganize the University, which passed the House on Tuesday night) came up for a second reading. Dr. Pope moved to recommit, which failed. Mr. Ansel endeavored to get in his amendment~equiring the tuition fees to be paid into the State treasury instead of the treasurer of the Univeraty, which was rejected on Tuesday, but the amend ment 'was defeated by a vote of 653 to 39. An amendment proposed by the com mittee was adopted, providing for the control of the fund provided by the grant of Congress for Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges, by the Trustees of the University. Other verbal amendments were made, and the bill was ordered to a third read ing. THE AGRIcULTURAL DEPARTMZENT. The bill to reorganize the Department of Agriculture came back to the House, with the Senate amendments as em bodied in Senator Youmsa's substitute. The usual process is either to concur or to refuse to concur in amendments, but in this case, at the suggestion of Mtr. Tijadal, of Clarendoo, who had the bill in charge, the debate was adjourned and the Senate amendments were ordered to be urinted. As the bill now stands (passed by the Senate) provision is madec for the organization of the bureau under the following system: "That a department of agriculture is hereby created and established, which shall be under the control anud super vision of a board consisting of ten meat bare, who shall be agriculturalisl, tiro of whom shall be selected from the State at large, and one from each juiial~ cir cuit. They shall be elected by a joint vote of the General Assembly, as fol lows, to wit: Five for a short terrm oi one year, to be elected, one from te Stae t areand one each from the FisThird, Fifth and Seventh cir cutand five for a long term of t'.o years, one from the State at large, 'and one each from the Second, Fourth, Sixth and Eighth circuits." The friends of the bill agree to this. The difference, however, lies in the method of electing the commisioner at agriculture. The friends of the measare board or else to the people. The Senate amendment provides for the election of the commission by the Legislature. THE AGRICULTURAL EXEMPTION BILL gave rise to a spirited discussion. The bill came up for its final reading, having passed a second reading by a vote of 92 to 9. The discussion was opened by Dr. Pope, of Newberry, who moved to recommit the bill, that being the par liamentary process of squelching a bill that has already been passed. Dr. Pope explained that he made the motion be ause the bill is unconstitutional, it be ing in direct conflict with Section 1, Article 9, of the Constitution. The bill fixes one time for the farmers' products to be valued (August 1st) preceding January 1st of the return and leaves other property to be valued as of Janua ry 1st. The bill then passed its third reading, without a division. NO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. The joint resolution to call a Consti tutional Convention was fully discussed in the House, but was killed by a vote of 66 to 44. The matter may now be considered settled for the present session. ELECTION PBECINCTS. The House has passed the voting pre cinct bill to a third reading. This is in the nature of an amendment to the elec tion laws and is passed at almost every session, the object being to change or ado to the precincts. The counties affected by the present bill are Chester field, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lexington, Spartanburg, Chester, Horry, Beaufort, Laurens, Berkeley, Anderson, Oconee, Pickens, York and Greenville. NO NEW APPORTIONMENT. The apportionment bill caused quite a discussion in the Senate. The oppon ents chiefly took the ground that it was unconstitutional. It was finally killed by a vote of 19 to 15. THE COLUMBIA CANAL. The Columbia Canal bill was on the Senate Calendar for a second reading. Senator Hemphill moved its indefinite postponement. Tabled by a vote 13 to 9. Senator Talbert moved to amend by requiring the convicts to be clothed, fed and guarded by the trustees of the Canal and five dollars a month be paid for their hire. Senator Murray moved to table the motion. Carried-18 to 13. Senator Talbert ot red another amendment, re quiring the Canal trustees to feed and clothe the convicts. This was defeated by a vote of 16 to 14. C the passage of the bill Senator Talbert demanded the yeas and nays, saying that he wished hisvote recorded against this infamous scheme. The bill passed by a vote of 18 to 11. TE STOCK LAW IN COLLETON. The bill to exempt portions of Colle ton from the General Stock Law passed the House after a lengthy debate, par ticipated in by Messrs. Dantzler, of Orangeburg; Padgett, Hill and Wim berly, of Coleton; Leserne, of Charles ton; Kieitt, of Newberry; Tin.all, of Clarend on; Stanland, of Berkeley; Ham ilton, of Chester, and some others. THE PROPOSED COUNTY OF FLOEENCE. When the bill to create a new county, to be known as the County of Florence, was taken up in the Senate, Mr. Moody, of Marion, moved to indefinitely post pone the unfavorable report of the Judiciary Committee. In support of this motion Senator Moody delivered an earnest speech, strongly setting forth the needs of the people of east Marion, and appealing to the Senate to recognize those needs by passing the bill. Senator Edwards, of Darlington, argued strongly against the bill on the ground that it would take valuable terri tory away. from both Darlington and Williamsburg, against the will of tho people of those counties. Senator Byrd, of Williamsburg, ob jected to the bill, also on the ground that it would take territory and popula tion from his county, against the will of the people. After some further debate Senator Edwards moved to table the motion of Sernator Moody to indefinitely postpone the unfavorable report of the committee. Upon the call of~the yeas and nays, the vote was as follows: Yeas-Messrs. Bell, Bieman, Black, Boist, Byrd, Crews, Edwards, Howell, Hemphill, Izlar, Kennedy, Murray, Moore, Munro, McCall, Moise, Rbame, Sinkler, T1albert, Wofford, Williams, Wingard, Woodward, Youmans-24. Naye-Messrs. Austin, Alexander, Field, Moody, Patterson, Reynolds, Smith-7. Senator Edwards then moved to adopt the unfavorable report of the committee, and reject the bill. This motion was adopted without a division, and the fate of thle bill was sealed. ABOUT GEANTING BAIL. The bill to regulate the grantiug of bail after conviction caused some debate in the Senate. It was finally passed in the following shape: "That from and after the passage of this Act it shall not be lawful for any Justice or any Circuit Judge of the State, pending an appeal to the Supreme Court, to grant bail to any person who shall have beenL convicted of any offense the punishment whereof is death or imprison nment for life or imprisonment for ten years." THE PHOSPHATE BILL. The House had a a lengthy debate on the bill reported by the phosphate com mission--which has already been out lined in this correspondence. Col. Haskell argued in favor of the bill, and Dr- Pope spoke against it-his views being, in general, those of the op nonents of the measuvo. IDr. Pope sad that this bill meant tiut there wouid be an agreement between the laud a.nd water companies to restrict the pr od'edon of posphaste. The com mite a le this Legidure deliber a tely to cate a monopoly ! To drive coor men ons of the businasr, and to 'ive the business to those five fat com panes It was a monstrons propostion. A lluding to Col Haskell's description of the complicated machiniery used in dredg ing rock, Dr. Pope intimated thatt the~ phosphate comapauies had introduced phosphate tongues into the eyes ot the committee. Ha didn't understand how those companies could be languishing when they offered to pay $175,000 per annam for this monopoly. In the course of his remarks Dr. Pope made the state paid $90,000 of the $208,000 paid to the State. Mr. Haskell produced the report of the Comptroller General, showing that the five companies named had paid$195, 000, leaving $13,000 to be accounted for otherwise. Dr. Pope said he had been misin formed, but it made no difference in the argument. He opposed this monopoly, and oppose 1 it in the interest of the farmers of the State. The bill was further discussed by Messrs. Miller of Beaufort, Maher of Barnwell and Wilson of York, in favor, and by Mr. Ansel of Greenville in oppo sition. Dr. Pope then moved to indefinitely postpone the whole matter. This mo tion was adopted by a vote of 72 to 34. A motion to reconsider was tabled by a vote of 56 to 46-thus burying the bill quite out of sight. THE RAILROAD SWITCH BILL, as it is called, passed the House after some little struggle. This measure, in substance, requires every railroad com pany to "switch off and deliver" to con necting roads cars consigned to parties beyond such lines. The object of the bill is to give shippers or consignees the choice between different lines, and to compel the railroads to recognize this choice. LOCAL TAXES FOB SCHOOLS. The House has passod the bill to fa cilitate the formation of new school dis tricts. It provides as follows: I. Each city, town or incorporated village in the State desiring to obtain the benefits of the Act is hereby declared to be a school district, with the power to levy and collect a special tax not exceed ing two mills, subject to the following provisions: 2. The school trustees shall at any time previous to the 30th of June of each year, upon the written request of a majority of the real estate owners, issue a call for a meeting, after one week's no tice, of all those citizens who return real or personal property in said district. The persons entitled to vote in said megt ing shall have the power, among other things, to decide whether, in addition to the amount of the constitutional tax ap portioned to the use of the schools, it is deemed expedient to levy an additional tax, not exceeding two mills, for the pay of teachers' salaries, or the building and improvement of schoolhouses, or for in cidental expenses. 3. Specific instructions are given to auditors and treasurers as to the method of levying and collecting the tax thus voted. The Act, of course, does not affect school districts heretofore created by special enactment. FUNDING THE DEBT. The bill to fund the State bonds and stocks maturing next July caused some debate in the House-chiefly upon the matter of the rate of interest. Some members favored 5 per cent., some 4; and some 4. The 41 per cent. rate was finally adopted by a heavy vote. The bonds are to run forty years. THE APPRoPBIATIOS. The general appropriation bill, as re ported by the Ways and Means Commit tee, appropriates as follows: Executive Department.........$ 58,970 Judicial Department ........ 56,750 Health Department............ 8,050 Tax Department .............. 23,600 University Department........ 53,700 Penal and Charitable Institu tions....................... 109,935 Miscellaneous................. 106,200 Interest on Public Debt........ 390,000 Total................. 807,205 The legislative appropriation bill, which provides for the payment of the per diem, mileage and stationery certifi ates of the members and officers of the General Assembly. the expenses of the engrossing department, etc., passed its second reading without debate or com ment This is one measure that is never obstructed by anybody in either branch of the Assembly. It appropriates the total sum of $42,989. OTEE EATrBs. Qaite a debate arose in the House on the bill to give the trial justices jurisdic tion over cases of petit larceny. An hour was spent in the discussion and the bill was psed with but one dissenting voice. Mr. or tenigt upanother bill giv ing tris justices jurisiction in cases of receiving stolen goods of the value of twenty dollars or under. This was passed without discussion. The bill making Sumter a city was passed to a third reading. The bill by Mr. Pope. to carry into effect Article 10, Section 3, of the Con stitution, in regard to free schools, was indefinitely postponed. Several bills were passed without dis cussion: To reduce the number of trial justices in Ke-rshaw county; to author ize the county commissioners of Ker shaw to borrow money for school pur poses; to provide a salary of $600 for the probate judge of Fairfield. The bill to abolish the office of su perintendent of highways, and to de volve the duties thereof on the county commissioners, was indefinitely post poned. A bill to empower the Charleston, Cin innati and Chicago Railway Company to morgg tsproperty was passed. Tebltoallow sheriffs $3 per day for actual attendance upon the sessions of the Circuit Courts in their respective counties was passed after a hot debate. A joint resolution proposing an amend ment to Article 4 of the Constitution passed. The resolution gives probate judges jarisdiction in all matters testL mentary, &-c., and also in business ap ertaining to minors, and the allotment ~f dower, and in cases idiocy and lna ey, and persous non compos mentis. The tenure of oiice is made four years. The Sinkler forfeited land bill was passsed to a third reading. This is the bill to restore to the tax lists animproved lands whichi have not been npon the tex duplicates since 1875. The joint resolution requiring the Di rectors of the Penitentiary to lease 150 convicts, at $5 a month, to the Carolina, Knoxville and Western Railway Com pany, to be employed in building twelve miles of the road across the mountainous section of Greenville county, was killed in the Senate. Senator Izlar's bill extending the limit of tepoll tax paying age from fifty to sixty years caused some debate, but was passed. The following bills have patssed their second re.aing in the Seate Anthoriz ing and requiring the town council o Rock Hill to issue bonds for educationa] y:rposes; (House) authorizing the treas urer of Berkeley county to transfer tc the credit of the school districts of said county certain funds; chartering the tow" of Clover; (House) authorizing the tre -.-er of Berkeley county to place the bale oe of the trial justice tax in St. An drew . pa.-ie., levied in 1884 and 1885, to the credit. of past indebtedness of 1885; (House) amending the charter of the town of Dorence. Senator Patterson's bill "in relation to forfeited lands, delinquent lands and the collection of mxes,"passed-20 to 10. The Columbia Canal bill has passed its three readings in the Senate, and now awaits the action of the House. The bill to establish scholarship in the Winthrop Training School at Columbia is also pending in the House. The bill to abolish the office of Master in Laurens county was killed in the Sen ate by a vote of 16 to 15. Among the bills passed by the Senate are the following: Bill to amend an Act for the prevention of cruelty to animals. Bill to charter the Bennettsville and Cheraw Railroad Company. Bill to amend an Act to provide for and regulate the incorportion of banks in this State. Bill to repeal Section 2 of an Act to regulate appeals in criminal cases. The bill (by Mr. Keitt, of Newberry,) to establish a separate Agricultural Col lege and to devolve the duties of the Department of Apricuiture upon the Directors of such College, was laid on the table upon the motion of that gen tleman. He stated that he considered the question of establishing a separate Agricultural College settled by the action on the University bill, and that he had no desire to consume time uselessly. His motion was adopted. The bill to incorporate the Columbia Club caused some little debate in the House, but was finally passed, after changing the name of the organization to the "Columbia Social and Literary Club." On motion of Dr. Pope, the enacting words were stricken out of a bill to amend Section 1452 of the General Statutes, so as to give the Railroad Com missioners $400 for office rent instead of $200, as now allowed. The Senate bill to pension Confeder ate soldiers and sailors has passed the House and will of course become a law. The Columbia Canal bill was read and o:dered for consideration. The following bills were read the third time: To fund the deficiency bonds at -1 per cent. In the Senate yesterday the bill pro viding for a separate Agricultural Co.iege was killed by a vote of 26 to 4-Senators Crews, Biemann, Edwards and Murray constituting the adherents. The bill imposing the punishment of hard labor upon persons convicted by courts or municipal authorittes was indefinitely postponed on its second reading by a vote of 18 to 16. A bill making it a misdemeanor for any person to obtain board or lodging at a pub lic or private house and depart therefrom without the knowledge of the proprietor, leaving his bill unpaid was killed. The bill authorizing the city of Columbia to guarantee and pay the coupons on bonds to 'o issued by the Board of Trustees of .h>- Columbia Canal passed its second reading. The Joint Aisembly. At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the two housen met in joint assembly in the Hall of the 11 :4e of Representatives for tbe pur pos.: o. e' a Commisbioner of Agri culture and -o Directors .of the State Penitenti-'y. A resolution had been adopted resolving that there should be no speeches, and the nominatiocs consequently were eon fined simply to an announcement of the names of the candi'ates. Lieut.-Governor Mauldin called the two houses to order and called for nominations for the office of Commissioner of Agri culture. Mr. O'Brien nominated Col. A. P. Bu'; 1r. The nomination was seconded by Dr. Pope. Mr. Anderson nominated Mr. M. L. Donaldson, of Greenville. The nomination was seconded by Mr. Raysor. The vote r esulted as follows: Butler 98i, Donaldson 5 The following gentlemen were placed in nomination for Penitentiary Directors: Mesrs. A. A Sarratt, Thomas 0. Sanders, John S. Scott, E S. Allen, Michael F. Kennedy. The vote resulted'in the choice of Messrs. Sarratt and Sanders. Money for Life and Limb. VALtRIso, Ind., December 14.-There have been docketed for trial at next term of Foster County Circuit Court the follow ngsuits against the Chicago and Atlantic Railroad, growing out of the Kouts disaster: An administrator's suit to recover $10,000 for the deaths of several members of the Miller family; a guardian suit to recover $10,000 for Herman Miller, the injured boy who was the only member of the Miller family saved from the wreck; a suit of the Kouts Hotel proprietor to recover compensation for the care of the Miller boy: an indictment for involuntary manslaughter against JTohn B. Park and John Dorsey, who are held responsible for the Kouts dis aster, will come up; also a suit brought by Annie Burkhart against the New Albany and Chicago Railroad to recover $10,000 for the death of Andrew Burkhart, her husband, who was killed on the road of hat company. Over-Worked Women. 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Podsnap will have the society reprorers. under her uersonal instruction. Pro fessor Podsnap will lecture during the winter semester on "Personal Jornal ism" in the South. Terms:-Full course.............;'75 Diploma................ 5 Post-graduate course..... -;0 The Wiggins medal, founded by Hon. John Wiggins, of Tenafly, will be pre. sented at the annual comm encement to the student writing the best report of a fire in Hackensack. The following works are confidently recommended as text books: Weter's Spelling Book, Green's English Gram-. mar, Mitchell's Elementary Geog.:phy and Swinton's Histoiy of the Army oL the Potomac. TEOPOLS PODSsAP, Presid:d . I Professor JASE PoDSNa?, Registry:. The interesting advertisement pinted above recently appeared in a New .1rsey newspaper, although the name eig::a to, it was not Podsnap. The Colie.f ; Journalism is situated on the out.kirt' of Hackensack. It is a two-story rtmo building with large grounds. The Bam pus commands a fine vies of H:Aken- ! sack meadows, through which the JE I ensack River, on whose banks th old Dutch settlers used to fish, winds 1-k? a German silver threed. The Grange Mountains may be seen above th. h rizon line through a glass. Professor Podnap, who was a v reran journalist and wore a dress coa, re ceived the reporter in a cordial monner. Twenty 34tioats, reprsentir.g every county in New Je.rsey, hadi matrc --att-d at his '-hcoi of jourralism, he said, dur ing the past fal. The institution :,s in a flourishing cendition and its ir-'ruc tion wa. int-ens.:y practical. Au iusgi nary schecdaie was made ait every uoy, and students ware sent out on imac 'ary assignments. Li tisL way they b; -aine accus:onei to writing ev:y in't e C e rent news. "Come in" sid the procnsor, hear one of our reeitations. We have at least a dozen studns :lho h. ave n here only six weeks and are noi .1-i fled to edit any newspaper in the 'rr Seven of our senior class are waitag for places as mn ging editors. ,Some of our m aging editors havo aireaciy t tained great istnction i juratsm. Hendersoa Miggleton is mariie editor of the Tottenville Palladium. J. Waikr Tompkins is dramatic eitor of the Tenafly Courier." President Pudsnap took charge of his cls." ave sent out caie student," said he, "to write up a stroll throughl Hackensack, a la Joe Howard, another to write up a supposititions fire, a :hird to describe an imaginary triple muirder,; and a fourth to write up and. furnish the deal fahy othietical suic:de. In thi way we give to our students tae traisig whch they would obtain on a recier Te cassr filed in. The first staient who recited arosc and read: "Ta. ible Conflagration-Wild Scenes :m Hacken sack-The Pire D2epartment Exhaiusted -Narrow Escape of the City. A ~izisa Itrous conflagration burst out in Haiecen sack last night. The large bama of Deacon H. WV. Jones took fire lastnight. The fire belA rang with fierce cia-or sninmoning the frightened citize to the scene. The fiames mounted to the sk in lurid columns, threatening Mr. McCoxnmick'c hen yard with instanl de strction. N>o. 1 and No. 2 were on bLie ground soon after thie fire began. lIuok and Ladder No. 3 arrived only five minutes after thre hose companies, having been delayed in a rut. "The city cisterns having been dry1 for three months, the hose comniesi~. were unatble to do any?ing. Baktso water were passed from hand to ina but they we're like o>1 on thei watter. am only seemed to increamse the ii:m~es. At 2 a. nm. the fire wass bey ond control anda had burned dlown to the boouen~t .th bars,. ~The loss vCU reach c>. TIo tons of hay, a set of harnies and a n were burned. Loss $600. Insmuse $450. Samuel Snmpkias of the~ treae partment sprained his litl fnger. n try "That," said Proiessor Po nap. "is pictresque and splendid re.port. You might have put in a little ;egouy al 'le: discovery of the fire; but it is very good. Let us hear the next one." A red-haired 3oung man baiy arose and read -'A stroll through Hack Iensack." "In the corridor oi the Pos es Huse vesterdaty I accidentam. m9Mr Jeremin Tow~nsend, a sub a-l r4 er of Winkieburg townshLip. He. tht the outiok~ or uoard 'iuo. wasb bette me \ear than. ev. o two as jining neghors. Baka was looinig tolera..ly wl, but acconl nto his' olJli was atbout 8- i Icut.Of oi. - i thai 1688 n oulu vod ear fo' the R'epu-ans, aLd pre dited thtCoroner Caraway wouldt . ninety-nine mairy in Piekwick io' ship. "Piwking -his teeth in the hobb. the 'otel I aiscovered FaNrmrer '.ee ICrandall. "He is an erudite and learnedma having been grsduiated at the Tesit high school twenty-six yeairs sp. 1 tod me tat the .Republican pros:p.e in Tenally were good, and that hieha recently painted his barn red in ar of the Republican victory in New Jer - - shooand s -with him. and he told me that he was sure that the Demo crats would carry the State next year. "Sauntering into the barroom, whom should I see but Seth Stiggins, of Jones boro, one of the leading Prohibitionists of the State. He was drinking applejack through a straw. He asked me what I would have, and I told him a 'stone fence,' as something mild would suitme. He predicted that St. John would get 40,000 votes in New Jersey next. year, and asked ma whether I thought peach brandy was better than Jersey apple jack. "Old Caleb Wiggins, of Hickoy Point was sitting by the stove in the Simpkins House last night. He said that he he had lost a collar button re cently, and that he thought the tariff ought to be reduced. He is a probable c-ni.ate for pathmaster atCheesequake Creek.' So the recitations went on. The amateur reporter, w., went out to re port the imaginary triple murder. killTed about seven people and bathed New Jer sey in blood. The imaginary suicide harged himself twice, cut his throatwith a scythe three times, took a pound of Paris green, washed it down with aquart of prussc acid and finally jumped into the Hackensack River, and was rescued. President Podsnap, who had been editor of a New Jersey weeklyne for one month, expressed-himeel! pleased with the progress of the and thought it one of the greatest insti tutions of the United States. SOUTH CAROLINA BUDS. Senator Butler's Daughters Who will be ia Washington Society this Winter. A Washington corre ndent of the New York World gives a long list, ilhs trtted with portraits, of the "buds" who will enter Washington society this win ter. He says: Senator Butler, of South Carolina, is one of the most courtly and handaome men in the United States Senate, and his daughters will be among the brightest of the rosebuds of the capital this winter. Miss Marie Butler had just-a taste of_ Washington society last seasonandMisB Elise will make her first appearance an New Year's. They both seem very pretty. Miss Marie is very lish an:: highly accomplished. She French fluently, and, like her sister Elise, is very fond of horseback riding. The picture I give you of her isanequestrianr one and it is taken f-om an instane ous photograph of her seated on her favorite horse, Frisette, while. standing in one of the roads of the family estate, East Hill, near Edgefield, 8. C. My picture of Elise, who is a little bit more of a rosebud than Marie, was tsken at the same time, and it represents .her in riding costume, but does -not show forth the full beauty of her features iss Elise Butler is a beautiful girl. She - is of medium height, well four., and her large blue eyes look out over fair cheeks, roay with color. Like her sister Marie, she is a good French scholar, and she will be, as Marie was last winter, very popular with the diplomats. She is fond of reading, and is an accomplish ed talker. The Washington home o' the Butlers is in the most fashionable quarter of the city. It is within a stone's throw of the British legation, not far from Blaine's house facing Dupont Cir cle, and just around the corner' from where Secretary Manning lived last win ter and where the Count Mitkiewiea lives now. It is a red pressed brick, bcadcng the number 1,751 P street, and is very comfortably furnished. Mrs. Butler comes of one of the best families of the Palmetto State, and as for the Senator, his ancestors were the Dukes of Ormand, one of whom was lietnant general of the Royal troops during the Irish insurrection of 1641, and who was. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1644. He stuck to the Crown when Cromwell seized the Government. He proclaimed Charles II in Ireland and made an un successful attempt to capture Dublin in 1649. Cromwell, however, drove him out of Ireland during the following year, and Charles II made him a duke when he came into power. The man's name was James Butler Ormnand, and one of his descendants, Pierce Butler. who was a third son of Sir Richard Butler, of Ireland, came to this country as a major in the British army. He resigned, however, before the Rvoution and settled in Charleston, and it is from him, I thinir, that the present Butler family originates. He was a member of the first United States Senate, and one of his sons married Miss Fanny Kemble, the actress. The patern al grandfather of' the Misses Butler was in Congress, one of their granduncles was an officer in the American army and was killed in the Mexican war, and another granduncle was the United States Senator in defence of whom Preston S. Brooks, a relative, assaulted Charles Sumter, inasmuch as Senator Butler was not at Washington at the time Sumner's attack upon ~him in the Senate was made. $enator Butler's mother was a Perry, and she was the youngest sister of Commodore Oliver H. Perry, the hero of the battle of Lake Erie. A Large Fire in St. Augustine. JACKsoNS ILLE, FLA., Dec. 15.-At 2 ''clock this afternoon fire broke out in IHmblin's har-lware store at St. Augustine from an explosion in the oil -' m. The flames spread rapidly to the buildings east ad southeast, fanned by a strong wind towrs the bay. The losses are: Ham blin & Co , hardware, building $10,000. s'ek $100,000; R. H. Gordon's block '12000. partly insured; Estes & Brown, dry goods, $15,000, insurance $5,000; Pris "Brothers, dry goods, $15,000, insur ance $3,000: Aspiuwall House $10,000, partilly insured. The city market, jail und council chamber, the engine house, the S:mchez block and several other buildings wre damaged. Total loss $200,000; in surance about $6;0,000. The burnt portion south of the plaza near thec sea wzill will be rebuilh in Coquina, Spanish and Moorish style. The north side of the plaza, including the old Cathe dral a-d st. Augustine School, was burned ~ast spring. The old Cathedral was re A C::lumbia mother was putting her ilttie one to bed and said: "I think, Flossie, : are old enough to learn an evening orayer. I'm going to say it for you and C')u will repeat it after me." ' Yeth'm," isped~ the little one. '"Well, we'll begin. Are you ready'(' "Yeth'm. Ler 'er go, Gallgher!" Speaking of the coal business, let us keep cooi It is quite easy and much cheaper.