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FO VOL. .VI AMANNING. S. (C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER NO. 12. THE LEGISLATURE. PROGRESS OF OUR LAWMAKERS IN LAWMAKING. A Heavy Calendar in the Houie. and Lots of Work for the Senate. At the close of the second week of the session of 18S9'the Legislature of South Carolina appeared to have made decided ly slow progr-ess, if judgment may be formed from the number of public measures carried through the fins stage of law-making. The House calendar con tained 271 measures-bills, resolutions and claims. A resolution was passed pro viding that no bills be introduced after the 12th inst., except by the committees on ways and means, judiciary, and privi leges and elections. The Senate has ex hausted its calendars much better, to be in readiness for the avalanche of bills that must be expected from the House. Both bodies will put on steam for the last pa-t of the session. THE PUELIC PRZMTIXG. The bill, by Col. McKissick, of Union, to amend the law in relation to State printing came up in the House for a sec ond reading. It provides for a less -estly method of binding the Acts and other volumes of State printing, substi tuting paper binding for cloth in some cases, and cloth for calf in others. No body made any attack on the bill, but its author rose to justify and advocate it. Many members were anxious that their local bills should have a chance and wanted to omit speeches.. . Mr. Irby presently interrupted Col. McKissick's speech by saying that no one opposed the bill. The member from Uaion looked bewildered, and rather re n taut to give up the floor, whereat the w bole House laughed. The speech was resumed, but very soon abandoned with a shrug of the shoulder, and the bill was passed without a dissenting voice. The passage was greeted with such an out burst of applause and laughter that the Speaker had to ply his gavel vigorously to reduce the hilarity of the House. MR. DAYIS'S BIRTHDAY. Mr. Childs, of Richland, introduced the following bill to amend the Section 1,636 of the General Statutes in relation to legal holidays: Be it enacted, etc,, That Section 1,686 -h- aeral Statutes of the State be amended so as to read as follows: "Section 1,636. National Thanksgiv ing days and all general election days, the 1st day of January, the 22d day of February, the 4th day of July, the 30th day of June and the 25th of December, shall be legal holidays." The bill was placed on the calendar without reference. THE RAILROAD COMMIssION. The committee on privileges and elec tions called up their bill providing for the election of one railroad commissioner at this session of the.Legislature as the successor of Commissioner Bonham, and the election of successors to the other commissioners upon the expiration of their terms of office in 1891 and 1893, respectively. Mr. Graydon immediately moved to strike out all of the bill after the enact ing clause, and insert a substitute pro viding for the immediate election of three railroad commissioners, one from each section of the State as at present, who, as soon as possibte after their elec tion, shall draw lots to decide who shall serve for the renpective terms of two, four and six years; that upon the expira tion of then: terms of office the Leisla ture elect successors to serve for six years each, so that every two years an election shall be held and that each com missioner after those first elected shall serve six years; that the terms of the three commissioners to be elected this session begin January 1, 1890, and that the Governor shall have power to fill any vacancy arising until the Legislature shall fill it by election. Gen. McCrady presented the legal views inducing the committee to make the' report it did, an~d Messrs. Graydon and Gary opposed them.. The arguments were technical, and, therefore, not of in terest to the great non-legal majority. Mr. Graydon's substitute was adopted by avote of 81to 23. *PROHIBITION DEFEATED. The bill. with an unfavorably report, to prohibit. the sale. of intoxicating liquors, introduced by Mr. Childs, of Rithland, was called fo'r by that gentle man when it was reached on the calendar, and he made a gallant but unavailing fight for it. Mr. Childs said that South Carolina had always been found in the front rank of advancement against any enemy threatening its rights, its liberties, its peace or its welfare, the empty sleeves of many of the members of the House atteeting their devotion to their country's cause. To-day she was con fronted by an enemy that checked her prosperity, retarded her advancement and hindered the progress of Christianity. Mr. Childs then reviewed all the argu ments for and against the prohibition of the liquor traffic, and said that it was evident that the flowing tide was on the side of temperance reform, and that it m~as the next great question that must be settled by this country. The bill he had introduced did not affect the question of individual abstinence, but .was openly meant to check the evils resulting from the liquor traffic. High license, he con tended, could not check or control the thing. He then appealed to the Christianity and moral sentiment of the Legislature to throw the weight of their influence or the side of the bill, and let the Statt give the matter a lair and satisfactor3 trial. The vote on the motion to kill the bil was as follows: Yeas 55, nays 48. MIScETLANEOUs MEASUREs. Among the bills passed by the House are the following: To prevent the killing of fish in the fresh waters of the State b: the use of any explosive material; ti~ amend the General Statutes relative t< the acquirement of lands by the Unite< States government; to require testimo-t -taken before masters or referees to be re duced to writing and signed by the wit Eesses; to provide for the separation c general laws and joint resolutions fror those relating to other matters in bind ing and indexing thereof; to authoriz the issue of certain notes by the tow council of Barnwell and to provide fc the payment of the same; to authioriz the town council of Camden to issue~ an dispose of certain bonds; to regulate tU salary and appointment of trial justic< and constables irn Hampton and Unic Counties; to amend the Code of Pr< cedure relating to t~he Courts of the fift and seventh circuits;.to amend the .la in reratioubu. the givng of bonas r quired by law; to incorporte the boat of church extension -of the Methodi --o atChurch in South Carolina; amend the charter of the Peizer Man facturing Company;. to authorize tl treasurer and school commissioner Fairfield County to borrow money to pt school claims; to incoporate the town < Westville, Kershaw County; to incopo ate the Greenleaf Presbyterian Industri: Institute and Female College of Orange burg; to amend the charter of the cit of Spartanburg. The bill in relation to attorneys' cos1 in equity cases was withdrawn by M3 Irby, who said that its purpose had bee accomplished by the Act of 1888. Other bills were withdrawn, includin that to amend the Act enabling th Coun:y Commissioners of Spartanburf Colleton and Aiken Counties to borrol money. A Senate resolution asking the Sena tors and Representatives from Sout] Car.iaa in Congress t-- take into consid eration the matter of straightenin Wateree River, ini Sumter. and Kershav Counties, was concurred in. There was a skirmish over the bill t< incorporate the Hampton and Branch ville Railroad Company, Messrs. O'Brien and Brawley desiring further time ti consider it, and Messrs. Hu.tson and Ray sor pressing it. It fically went over anc was then passed. The committee on privileges and elec. tions to which was referred the of Mr. $. L. P. Bslger, of Charleston, reportec that as he bad accepted the office o1 trial justice, he had thereby vacated hi. seat in the House. Among the bills that passed their sec and reading were the following: Pro viding for graded schools in Newberry: relating to the form of conveyance of real estate; providing a salary for the sheriff of Fairfield County; authorizing the erection of a new Court House for Spartanburg County; providing for quarantining the State 'y land against diseases and infection; authorizing cer tai incorporated towns to substitute hard labor on their streets for fine and imprisonment in cases of misde meanor; rechartering Sand Bar ferry; a joint resolution to provide for the speedy publication of the Acts of the Legislature. The following bill (Gen. McCrady's) referred to above, was read a second time and passed with amendment; while Mr. Bean's bill on the same subject was indefinitely postponed: To amend the law in regard to leasing and hiring out of convicts, and to provide for the sup port and employment or the same upon public works, and to establish an en gineer bureau in connection therewith. Bill No. 130, to fix the salary of rail road commissioners at $1,000 per annum, was killed, as was also the bill to give trial justi:es jurisdiction in cases of carrying concealed weapons, and fixing their compensation therefor. The following bills were read a second time and passed: To amond Section 510 of the General Statutes of the State of South Carolina, relating to the-deties of solicitors. To exempt certain portions of Colleton County from the operations of Chapter 97, Title 10. of- the General Statutes, re lating to the stock law. Senate. The bill to amend Section 1,998 of the General Statutes caused some debate. The amendment provides: "That no waiver of the right of home stead, however solemn, made by the head o a family at any time, prior to the assignment of the homestead, shall de feat the homestead provided for in this chapter: Provided, however, that no right of homestead shall exist or be .lowed in any property, real or personal, aliened or mortgaged, either before or after assignment by any person or per sons whomsoever, as against the title or claim of the alienee or mortgagee, or his heir, or their heirs or assigns." Senator Patterson moved to recommil thebill. Senator Murray moved to tabli Senator Patterson's motion: The motios to table prevailed by a vote of 16 to 14, and the fbill passed a third reading. NO REDUCTION OF SALARIES. When the salary reduction bill was called, contrary to expectation it wai disosed of withoun additional debate Senator Moise made the motion to con tinue, which is regarded as a fair test o the strength of each side. The yeas anc nays being demanded, the vote stoot yeas 13; nays 12, as follows: Yeas-Byrd, Buist, Danztler, Howell Iziar, Moist, Moody, Moore, Munro Murray, Rhame, Sinkler and Verdie -18. Nays -Alexander, Edwards, Fields Kennedy, Mason, McCall, Patterson Pope, Ready, Smith, Sojourner an< Wilson-12. Senator Woodword was paired witi Senator Donaldson, otherwise he woul< have voted "aye." Senator Ferguso: was paired with Senator Smythe, othet wise he would have voted "no." Sena tor Erwin wos paired with Senatc Hemphill, otherwise woold have vote< "ave." RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN. Several hours were consumed .in di bating the question of the rights of mai red women, as developed in two bills t amend a certain section~ of the Gener! Statutes, and to declare the law relatin to the separate estates of marrie women.- . The substance of the bills is in relatic to the right of married women to acquit by purchase any species of propertjy her own name and to take proper leg conveyances therejor, and to contra and be contracted with in the same ma nr as if she were unmarried, and that couveyances, mortgages and like form instruments of writing, executed by married woman, shall be effectual convey or charge her separate estat whenever the intention so to convey, charge such separate estate is declared such conveyances, mortgages or oth instruments of writing. The bill w uhfavorably reported. A general debt ensued on the motion to indefinite postpone, and the bill was finally reject by a vote of 23 to 9. The bill to limit the right of don was rejected by a vote of 20 to 10, afl a spirited debate. Fg UNDS FOR coNTROLLING DIsEASES. IThe memorial of the executive cc mittee of the State board of health,i lating to the control of contagious a infectious diseases, was favorably repo ed, and the committee recommend that the aid asked for be granted a that the amount of $50O0 be approprial for the purposes mentioned in the mer ria!. The report was adopted. MISCEL.LANEOUs MEASURtEs. eAmong the bills passeed to a seco rading 'are the following: To prohi e members cf the General Assembly fr :S accepting free passes from any railrc 2 in the State or doing business within .State; to estend the jurisdiction of ti Sjustices for Hampton and Beaufort Col y ties resident at or near VEmassee SRidgeland; to amend an Ac:t in reiat d to forfeited land, delinquent land t collector of taxes, approved M~th Dce ao ber, 1887, smd the amendments of 2. a- December, 1888; to provids for the r c ie vision, digest and arrangement of the >f statute-laws of this State; to pay certain y expenses of elections in this State. )f Bill to prohibit the sale or furnishing r- or giving or providing to minors of i1 cigarettes, tobacco or cigarette paper, or any substitute therefor, and to provide y penalties for the same, was passed. Joint resolution to authorize and direct :s the comptroller general of this State to drawn his warrant on the State treasurer n to pay the Rev. John Johnson the sum of four hundred dollars for one hundred g full bound copies of his recently pub e lished historical narrative of the defense , of Charleston harbor, including Fort s Sumter and adjacent islands, to become the property of this State, and to be - placed in the libraries and other public 1 institutions of this State, was passed. - Senator Pope secured the passage of an ; arendment to this bill requiring these boo!:s to be distributed to the libraries of all the colleges in this State, both male and female. Notes of the Sesion. The leaders of the Clemson College movement in the Legislature have assured the trustees of the University that they only want for their new college half of the lana scrip and all of the Hatch fund, and that they wit: not interfere with the mechanical department of the University, and that they propose to vote to the University the full sum of money it needs, $45,000, on condition that the Clemson College is allowed these funds. The trustees have decided not to fight the Clemson College. Of course the agricultural department will oppose to the last the dismemberment of that de partment and its subordination to the trustees of the Clemson College, and it will be on this issue that the contest will wage most fiercely. The Senate concurrent resolution pro viding for postponing from the 11th to the 1bth inst. the election of a commis sioner and members of the board of agri culture and other officers was amended by the House so as to provide for their election on the 18th inst., and in such shape returned to the Senate. This was on Mr. Benet's motion, and carried out the original purpose of the Clemson Co!!ge measures subordinating the com missioner of agriculture to the trustee of that college and doing away with the board of agriculture shall be adopted before an election be entered upon. The Senate, by a vote of 14 to 11, passed to a third reading the joint reso lution calling a Constitutional Conven tion. The vote on the third reading was 17 to 10. Less than two-thirds of the whole Senate having voted in the affirmative, the joint resolution failed. The joint resolution to amend the con stitution so as to provide for four Jus tices of the Supreme Court was killed in the Senate. The Senate has passed a resolution recommending New York as the best $lace for holding the World's Fair in 1892. Mr. Guess introduced a resolution limiting all speeches to fifteen minutes. The House promptly tabled the resolu tion. General New. Items. -Tennessee made 80,000,000 bushels of corn and 100,000 bales of cotton this year. -Col. J. H. Rathbone, founder of the order of Knights Pythias, died at Lima, 0., on Monday. -W. W. Russell has rented a house in Anderson, and will soon move his family to that city. -The students of the State University passed appropriate resolutions on the death of Jefferson Davis. -The Tupper bill to regulate the employment of children in factories meets with general disfavor. -The flags over the State House will float at half-mast for thirty day, in honcr of thes late President Davis. -The Farmers' Alliance of Oconee county recommends Capt. J. L. Shank lin, its president, as one of'the trustees of the Clemson College. -The work of refining sugar was com menced on Monday in Claus Spreckles' new sugar refinery in Philadelphia. The capacity of the refinery is 2,000.000 pounds of sugar every twenty-four hours. --It is estimated that it will take $500,000, to carry the Three C's Rail road to Charlestzon. A ccrnmittce of merchants hais been appointed '.o confer with representatives of the Company on the matter. 2 -The Australian ballot is being -seriously considered by the Virginia - Legislature.. In a column of interviews r printed by the Richmond Dispatch a :I majority of the talkers favor a system where the citizen can cast his ballot in secrecy. -Charles A. Whitemire, who was ap pointed by the President last April post. master at Newberry, and his commission '- held up" because the people did not want a negro, has got from Postmaster d General Wanamaker, a position as labor er in the postoffice department in Wash n ington at a salary of $620 per year. :e --The Sumter cotton mills will soon be n lighted with electric lighits, the Electric al Light Company having taken the con et tract. The inside wiring has been comn D- pleted, so that by January 1, at least, I1 the operatives will be working by the al new light. The cotton mill has been a running on double time for many months. to e, -A colored boy, aged 14, employed in or the barber shop of Tom Ballard, also in colored, in Yorkville, attempted suicide er on Sunday by hanging himself to a limb of as a tree. He was found, in an unconscious te condition, on the ground -the rope hay ly ing broken. He claims that Ballard's ill ed treatment led him to the act. -Preparations for the ball at Hotel *er Chiquola, at Anderson on the night of er the 31st, are being made, and every thing is on a magnificent scale. One thousand invitations are now being made out. Visitors are expected from m~ Charlestor, Columbia, Augusta, At ed ataGreenville, and many other rt- places in this State, Georgia and North rt- Carolina. The banquet and .ball will nd be given on the night of the 31st, and dwill be followed by a german on thc ed 1st of January. -The contemplated resignation e: Congressman Cothran, to accept th< position of general counsel of the Rich ud mond and Danville Railroad Company ii bit South Carolina, has already brought ou om some candidates for the succession. Mr ad Benet, of Abbeville, has announced him :he self a caudidate for election to till th ial vacancy, and there has been a movemen 2n in Newberry circles i ndieating the prob od able candidacy of Mr. George Johnstone on Sena.tor. Murray, when asked what hi od intentions were, said that he had ne in- made up his mind yet whether or not t oth become a candidate. THE CLEMSON COLLEGE. TIE PLANS PROPOSED FOR ITS ESTABLISIDENT. Provisions of the Bill Framed in the IRecent Conference In Columbia-The Full Text of the Document. The following is the full text of the bill introduced in-the Legislature for the establishment of the Clemson Agricul ural College: Be it cnacted by the Senate and Ilunse of iepresentatives of the State of South Carolina, how met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: Section 1. That one-half the land scrip fund, heret,-fore vested by Section 1,045 of the G.neral Statutes in the board of trustees of the University of South Caro lina, be, and the same is hereby, vested in the board of trustees of the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina; and the State treasurer is hereby author ized and required.to issue a certificate of State stock in the sum of ninety-five thousand nine hundred dollars, bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from July 1, A. D. 1889, payable semi-annually to the board of trustees of the said Clemson Agricultural Co!!ege, to be held as a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall forever remain undimin ished, the income of said fund to be used by said board of trustees for the building and maintenance of the said Clemson Agricultural College, in accordance with the purposes for which the said land scrip was donated by the Acts of Con gress of the United States in relation thereto: Provided, That the State treas urer shall issue, and he is hereby author ized and required to issue, to the board of trustees of the University of South Carolina a certificate of State stock in the sum ofi nin.ty-five thousand nine hundred dollus, bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from July 1, A. D. 1889, payable semi-annual ly, to be held as a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall forever remain un diminished, the income of said fund to be used by said board of trustees for the use and maintenance of the South Caro ina Agricultural College and Mechanics' Institute, now in operation for the bene it of colored students, as set forth in Section 1,046 of the General Statutes. Sec. 2. That the annual grant of fifteen thousand dollars, commonly known as the Hatch bill fund, made to the State of South Carolina by the Congress of the United State, according to the terms of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges estab lished in the several States' under the provisions of an Act approved July 2, 1862, and. of the Act supplementary thereto," approved March 2, 1887, be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from the control of the board of trustees of the University of South .Carolina, in whom it was vested by an Act entitled "An Act to amend Chapter XX of the General Statutes entitled 'Of the Univer sity of South Carolina,'" approved De cember 22, 1887; and the said grant of fifteen thousand dollars is hereby vested in the board of trustees of the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina; and an agricultural experiment station shall be established in connection with the said Clemson Agricult.ural College and under the direction of the board of trus tees thereof, to be supported by said grant according to the provisions of the Act of Cougress hercinbefore mentioned. Sec. ~3. That the sum of money collect d by the commissioners of the sinking fund during the fiscal year ending Octo ber 31, 1880, and now on hand to the credit of said commnissioners, shall be paid into the State treasury, and shall be appropriated to the building and main tnance of the said Clemson Agricolturs! College, and shall be paid by the State treasurer to the treasurer of the board of trustees of the said Agricultural College, upon the order of said board of trustees, signed by their president and seretary; and all moneys that shall hereafter be collected by the said commissioners of the sinking fund, arising from the re demption of lands, leases and sales of property, or otherwise coming to the said co~missioners, shall be paid into the State treasury, and shall be kept on a separate account by the State treasurer, and shall be appropriated to the building and maintenance of the said Clemson Agricultural College; and the State treasurer is hereby authorized and re quired to pa; the said moneys annually to the treasurer of the said Clemson Agri cultural College, upon the order of said board of trustees, signed by their presi dent and secretary. Sec. 4. That three-fifths of the moneys arising from the privilege tax on fertil izers sold or offered for sale in this State collected by the Department of Agriculture during the fiscal year ending October 31st, 1889, and now on hand to the credit of said department of Agri culture, shall be paid into the' State Treasury, and shall be appropriated to the building and maintenance of the aforesaid Clemson Agricultural College and shall be paid by the State Treasurer* to the Treasurer of the Boord of Trustees of said Clemson Agricultural College upon the order of said Board of Trus tees, signed by their President and Sec retary; and three-fifths of all .moneys arising from the privilege tax on fertil izers sold, or offered for sale, in this State which shall hereafter be collected by the Department of Agriculture, or those upon whom the duty of collecting said privilege haz may by Act of Assem bly be devolved, shall be paid into the State Treasury, and shall be kept on a separate account of the State Treasurer, and shall be appropriated to the building and maintenance of the said Clemson Agricultural College; and the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and re quired to pay the same annually to the Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the said Clemson Agricuitural College, upon the order of the said board of trustees, signed by their president and secretary. Sec. 5. All and every estate and prop erty, real or peasonal, which have here tofore been of the Department of Agri culture shall vest in and become the property of the board of trustees of the said Clemson Agricultural College, to be managed, controlled or disposed or by the said board of trustees for the use And benetit of the aforesaid Clemson agricultural College: Provided, That .1no sale of such property shall be maadn without the consent of the General As sai bord f tustes reherebs au ttorized to sell and dispose of the Agri cultural Experiment Station, known as the Columbia Farm, situate in the coun ty of Richland, and to sell and dispose -of the Agricultural Experiment Station known as the Spartan burg Farm, situate in Spartanburg county, the proceeds cf tsaid sale to be paid into the State treas ury, and to be appropriated to the build Agricultural Colle e, and ie' > the State treasurer to the treasr r of the board of trust::s of nid Cl'e upon the order of .aId board of trustees signed by their president and s:cretary Provided, further. Thet tie si t brd of trustees shall not sell nor dis powe e nor discontinue the .gricuitural px iment Station k )V.a as the D)rb t.r Farm, situate i: the c.: ,f.D..i,. t o n , b u t s h a l l m a i n :.; , t h e S , tr to their control .' And th' DI m of Agriculture is her-b ni ar:.d and required to cxecue all tcees other papers necessry t the dett con-sv: and transfer ci no p -roperty de ribd cud referred to inh t th, stir board of tru'cte. Sec. G. That the oard ofic the State ritry .re re .r. ;r i::d and required, upon t.h crde o : board of tiu*ees . o e t i Ce Agricullrural Ce:, g said board of trustees ail bdied con Victs not to. exceed fty in number at one time, said convicts to be employed by said board of trustees in work con neced with the erection of the bui'dings of said Clemson Agricultural College or in the preparation of the ground ani thE materials therefor: Provided, That the said board of t:ustees shall defray the expenses of the transportation of sidd convicts to and from the nc-ite-tiory. the expense of medical attentian, a. d the expense of furnishing such convicts with proper food and lodzing. Sec. 7. That the beard of tru :c o the said Clemson Agricultural e re hereby authorized a::d empowerd to procure forthwith, from ae r.t. architects :nr contractors phms :0 estimates of buildings suit b. f": t., nrposes of the said Ci c Ar rural (, liege. ond to creet said C te c >ildin gs upon suitabe site on Fo hill plantaton. situate in the cu - of Jconce, and to dets:_ the expense: ise: knt to the e f siColl.. oui!dings and tatne proper nine r" ane >f said Cen on Agricultur..l ollege 'ut of the funds and moneys hereby :a the preceding sections of this At, p priated and made ara:ble, and out of such other funds .and money as ma >y tt:e Gereral Assembly, u:; Lere:ter appropriated and madh available, and to .o all other things necessary to carry ut the provisions of this Aer, and t:.: rovisions of the Act entitled ""n Act o accept the devise.and bequnest of Tomas G. Cienson, and to establish an rgricultural College in connection there ivith," arproved 27th Novcmber, A. D. .850. Provided, That this Aec ::all aot take eriect until the exceut:,r of the ilt of the aforesaid Thomas G. Ctjun shall have executed a deed and coave uce of the propert so dev sed to - :ate: Provided, nevertheless. Th-t of he funds and moneys by the several sections of this Act appropriated, the mm of three thousand dollars shat, upon the approval of this Act, be imme iately paid by the State trea'urer to the treasurer of the b-ard of trustees of he said Clemson Agricultural Clege to defray the cst of plans and apeciications and estimates of suitable college build ings as aforesaid; said sum to be paid upon the order cf the said boara of trustees signed by their President and secretary. Sec. S. That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provis ons of this Act be, and the same are hereby, re. pealed. Two other bilts connected ha -ir.ct ith that for te es:ablism: t at the lemson Coa1ege .ave been . :roduce i in the Senat:. fr cat: r:a r ergason, of I-surers, and p-in f the tr:asfer of the dty~ of c .leEs:: ig tax on fetizr rmheIi net of Agrice're toth' Cm-"e eneral andi Jlighm$4 toue fray the expenscs of thecoled It is stated that this wilI insur siof 00a year in this item- slone. De e bill was brought~ in by fe-m r PoPe a rrovides for t-he abolition C: the. C..tire Agricultural Department and .the teat ing of all the property and duties of th :ensrtment in the board of tru:stees ot the Clemson College. th itea on thme ill. Special to the Sdreenmville News. CoLmBIA, S. C., December 13.-For a week the bill to establish and maam;~ ta the "Clemson Agricutural yoi lege of South Carolina" ha~s sota on the calendar of the House :1aspe order. -To-day it was tae up and the battle over its adoption airly 0e gun. There had been ample time for friends and opponents to :tu'y tee measure. There was n~ attc t . t snap iudgement. All (lay the Houe has discussed the bill and also m th evening session. So fhr the i,;t1 been a distinct and signal suce 'orC' the bill. Thougsh the grouhil. en contested inch lby inch in the Ie ato voluioGus eforts to emascula - te tnd curtail the bill, its friend- havo sue ceeded in retainin'.- all it' atra features. When- the bill was cle p: sentiment of the House oa it sa.e a. merits was tested by the vote on 1tt motion of Mr. MoCru dy, ofi Charlxu to strike out the enaeliai' wol..9 motion was killed by a vote . t o 7. Then the contest was ope.ned on sections of the bill, ir Hu1ta(% oi Hampton, moving to amend the br section by allowing tlie title to occ half the laud scrip fundi to remam mi the hands of the trustees of the Soth Carolina College and giving the inte" est only to the Ulemnson trustees. That! amendment wa"s rejecteu.. Then Mr. Huts-in moved that la title to fundis given by. the :ist a:f second sectiona's of the bili, am - lad scrip nd Hatc bil1ey vested in the six member. -o: cn. o. o trustees of the Cleemso oe be elected by the State. Th" - . mnent was acceti ed by the m'-en's a the maaure and 1adopted* wao. position. When Section 3, di..in the pr ceed s arising~ from the reemp:n o lands, leases and sales of prop rty by. I sirki g fund commnissionerso I h: ue of th . Clemsaon C-lie;. a : rehed the big~ Itit ofheUqcs on It was' opened by Mr. Grs-'y--, o -ceton ansd ruonoted the r .e - clear arid able spceh. .ur. In I'ii, 0 Clarendor., led in deec of ta featuor o th.e bili. Mr rad Thei att:ichws: d of Mri. Grayer. . utok t e 2 103ca:r thes frocitd a Charlestcn, and o.thes . Um speces agisttifetr 1h D The supporters of the measure were nc united on that point and on the fin: - v-" the prorisions for future approprit t-n,: from the sinkina fund was stricke cu:: ;v a vote of 58 to 45. 'n -~ "dment offered by Mr. Irby, o L "rer:, who was one of the leaders ij tl ":gt for the bill, providing that no :.. *e tLia n 25,000 in any one year art -, for ot more tha-n si years shoulc nfrom the sinki:ng fund for use e e o!Ee, ~asvoted dow;:n. c fourth sect'n, givir g the privi" C * :: rc to the cu!!C , the sa no :C' e were repeted, a motion by Mr. r f Georgetown, to strike out the r5eing ~verhelmingly defeated. . ErvlYy, of Charleston, then m:.ved to strike out all t't portion of th; secti. which provided for appropria Stio::3 r r scar inl future of all pro ceta fromi the privilege tax:. Lost. rouh 4 the ebate the leaders in isi: n the spc ,ific provisions of tile "id , -es r:. Driwic, G:ydon, MIe Cs 17 :.::dII , ecpre-ca1 teselves as .:cartily in favor of the general meas urec. Calmness and fairness character W. C. nect, who had the bill in charge, an ragcd it with ability. tact and diseret:. L ter.-UB a vote of 54 to 48 the u rfue to stri!:. cut any portion of ti im 4, so that the provicin reina. iv" thrde-fifths of the tag tax to ine lemen College. THE rWESTERN STYLE. .1 ;orrib!e Crine in Wisconin-A Crazy aLan Ln;:ched. The followineg dispatch of Thursday o ukee, Wis.. narrates the m:o: birutal and da tardly crime ever er trated in the name of Judge *r i. On Sunday, at Preston, Trem pie:ce Caunty, Hans Jacob Olsen was t : ro'm s house and lynched by a part y of masked men. Olsen was p'ar :ial insaneand somewhat quarrel some, and had been ordered by neigh bors to lea e the county. 1c neglect ed to do so, and was strung up. Olsen was .-eized in bed, pulled out, and his har As tied behind. despite his desper ate struggles and those of his family. Withoust even allowing him time to put on his clothing, they led him out of a house. Once outside Olsen learned what was to be done with him. He caught sight of a new rope hang ifg over the limb of a tree, which stands not more than twenty feet from the cittle'cabin which was his home. He struggled to free his hands, tearing the flesh from his wrists, until they bled freely; but finding himself unable to get ioose, he submitted in sullen silence while the rope was put around isseck, and willing hands drew him up to strangle. His legs were not tied. and his kicking and struggling was arful. The mob remai:ed sometime lest his remains might LS cut;" down. Then making threats of lynching any one who should dare cut down the body, they dispersed. The body was discovered in the morning and was not cut down until the coroner arrived. The coroner's inquest was held yesterday at Preston, and thL following verdict was re. turned: "Deceased came to his death by strangulation caused by being hanged by the neck, by masked persons un known." No ev nce as to the identity of thea lv "ers oflbred. It is Preston's o that the lynchers were led by ;Le ithe moat prominent farmers in Pr o: n .Further facts will be brought cut by egidence following arrests about toj b'- mede by~ the State. The district attcney has the casa in charge, and whlesale arrests are expected. t'Uiceucy of the Richmsond and iDanviie. I: is .d in Richmond th'.t 3r. Geo S. >ett will niot consent to serve te icaaud and Danville Railroad Com pIr as president for another year, as he wsh-' to go to Egypt with his fa~mily early in Jainuary far recreatin, and thereby~ lo'sing his valuable services to the' imond and Danville system, whi heas managcd so well and ably and- sair etorily to the public. It is thou ;bt the mannagement will decide to ac as3 president of the Ricihmond and Dville 1::. Juo H. Innman, who will uean~ excellent president, andi who is th scn choice of the * Richmond L~ed of the aystemi. Mr. Icoah is ow ures nt of the Richmond and e:ioitTerminal RailIway and Ware hoseCoinparny, and Is well acquainted wIn th'e wants of the Southern people. I -, ' m~la r Seott, is largely in terested in the Sjath. The election of Mir. ".a to suicceed Mr, Scott as presi ee~ fthe Richmond and Danville Cmpan "y will probably be made on the Ibfthsmonth, when the adjourned a- 3~ m-eing' of tz~e stockholders will Biewn~ 'o 'icecs~ by Niiro--Giyecrinc. '1 ta, PA., Decemnber 11.-At a ouarter - . - 9 o'eoe this morning :uie:-;.3s ae by a nitro -gly cer ie exuiusion at the Butler Torpedo eml ragsainetwo miles south of o;;Tb explosion occurred wheni c~u wee blugput in4o wagons at he try .JameIs 0. Woods and W illia Medili, and their wagon and temweeilown into unrecognizable hewoocis in the vicinity of the menin re being searched by hun dre~ts of maen for remains of tihe vic ti~n The~ factory buildings were I-'a .v de~olished.. Thle factory q:as crshi down, and only the smoke stc remias~2 intact. The rafters of th magan fell down over the gly. ein there. but it didi not explode. Wood's shoulders and right arma have .tL oun twenty-eight rods away. A : 'al part of M rit's trunka was takeno the top of a tree~. Thc eevi hat Woods let a can of ex ni Ci.1)1 when imuding it up tc .*e lli who was in the wvag'on. A greal oLae .;a~ made in the ground were th< T A. Eiso"'s la'test achieve o1 X invent alight. by whiicl esenat night witi ...... ad..v*ntge of day',light brtntalight, like th< cI -- o els too yelow a light 1- - ce nefee: ightfor pictures b' - eh~e: th Puls inhi atalrecolor in c i * osv Is vas siI't ii.ed I u * in ., co'o theo "Angelus" i Techr Assoiatonf A~de. *.vy ll becd its nent mneeti'.: aLILu the 21st inst. An attractiv. .pr -rammte has been arranged, ans t wiiir'o doubt prove both interestin; i .a istructiy to those in attendance A GRAND GATHERING. THE FUNERAL OBSEQUIES OF JEF FERSON DAVIS. Thousands Visiting the Bier---Many Did tinguished Visitors--A Vast Procession Follows the Body -- 'Te Ofliciatiug Clergy Representing all Denominations --A Beautiful and Imposing Tribute to the Dead Statesman. NEW ORLEANS, December 10.--Throengs of people continue to pour through the city hall this morning, embracing be sides the common multitude, numerous organizations, schools and societies. Many distinguished gentlemen from the South and leading cities of that section mere also among the visitors. General Stephen D. Lee, of Mississippi, ex-Gov ernor Lubbock, of Texas, and General P. M. B. Young, a cavalry leader in the Confederacy, paid their respects. Floral tributes from different sections of the South were received to-day and the mortuary chamber is filled to over flowing with beautiful designs. The caisson is being prepared and will be suitably draped. It is loaned ay the State and the route has been so arranged that the funeral car will have a smooth passage along the streets. Th religious ceremonies are to be brief and will not occupy more than a few minutes at the hall. Three divisions will march out to the cemetery. The remainder will take funeral cars at Clairborne Street. Governor Buckner, of Kentucky, is among the arrivals this morning. NEw ORLEAxs, December 11.-The day, notwithstanding the threatening and oppressive character of the weather during the past several days, could not have been more propitious or beartiful. The portentous, pregnant looking clouds of the night previous and the great banks of heavy fog that prevailed during the early part of this morning, had wholly disappeared by seven o'clock as the sun burst forth and the beantiful Southern summer day dawned for the obsequies of the Southern chieftain. The city is crowded with thousands of people representing the prominence, wealth and chivalry of the Southern States. Six or seven Governors are here attended by their staffs and bringing with them great delegations of people. 1 The floral decorations were added to 1 this morning. They came irom every State and city in the South, and are 1 superb in their design and beauty. The town is draped from one end to the other with the most elaborate showings of black. Busines fronts and residences that were barren of mourning emblems yesterday are covered this morning. and every bit of bunting there la in the city flies on its staff at half mast. At an early hour this morning the streets were thronged. with soldiers an Bremen in uniform, memb vu ous civic organizations and representatives of every profession, avocation and asso ciation, all en route to their respective meeting stations. As soon as the doors of the City Hall were opened a stream of citizens began to pour into the death chamber to take a farewell view of the remains of the famous Confederate leader. The crowd of visitors was even greater than that of esterday, there being hundreds of people from abroad whose visit to this city had been delayed until to-day. It was not until 11.30 o'clock that the lid of the casket closed down forever upon the features of the dead. The re mais3 were then conveyed to the front portico of the City Hall building where the simple but ~impressive rites of the Episcopal Church were performed. L feyette Square in front of the City Hall, the banquettes and streets were densely packed with people and the balconies and every available space from which the pageant could be viewed were crowded in the extreme. Obedient to the universal request, Mr. Davis was given a funeral in full accord with his superior rank as a military offi cer, in addition to which numerous civic and other organisations combined to render the cortege to-day in all respects the most imposing, not only with refer ence to numbers but in the pomp and circumstance of its elaborate ceremonial. There are participating in the obsequies of the Father of the Confederacy today besides veterans of jthe Lost Cause who have once again been called upon to close up their decimated ranks, many gallant soldiers whose unflinching valor displayed on numerous hotly contested fields "resulte~i not unfrequently in both glory and victory to the stars and stripes. *Te following gentlemen acted as pall bearers: Geoeral George W. Jones, of Iowa; Hon. Charles E. Fenner, of Louiq iana: Sawyer Hayward, of Mississippi; Hion. Thos. H. Watts, of Alabama; mem ber of President Davis' cabinet, Hion orary pall bearers: Governor Francis T. Nichols, Louisiana; Governor Robert Lowry, Mississippi; Governor S. B. Buck nr, Kcntucky; Governor John 1B. Gor don, Georgia; Governor J. P. Richard son, South Carolina; Governor D. G. Fowle, North Carolina; Governor r . P. l ming, Florida; Governor. James P. .Eagl, Arkansas. About 12.19 the casket was conveyed from the memorial room to the impro vised catafalque in the center of the front portico where the mxassive ~pillars were entwined with a profusion of crepe. Over the casket was thrown ;~he soft fold.3 of a silken tlag of the lost cause. and also the glittering sabre with which the dead soldier had carved fame and honor for himself, and glory and victory for his country on the crimson fields of Chapultepec and Monterey. Immedi ately surrounding the coffin were the clrgy and armed sentries, they being the only persons admitted to the plzce o- portico during the service. The rela tives of the deceased were assigned to seats in the Mayor's parlor, from the windows of which they were euabled to witness the ceremonies. The obsequies, which were according to the ritual of the Episcopal church, were conducted by Bishop Galleber, assisted by five ociting clergymen of various denomt nation, as follows: Fther Hubert, the Rev. Mr. Thor.up 'n, Mr. Davis' rector at Biloxi, Miss., t2e Rev. Dr. Marbham, the Rev. Mr. U"kewell and the Rev. Mr. Martin. Th-r were altogether fully twenty sur picd miniaters besides the attendance of numerous clergy of different denomi atons from various Southern States. A rurpliced choir of thirty-six voices accompanied by an organ, s:mg the an them, "Though I wa& through the valley of the shadow of death,'' after w hich Bishop Galleher made an address. Fllowing Bishop Galleher the Rev. Dr. Markham read the lesson, while the Rev. Mr. Martin raptated the psalm, the Rev. Mr. Bakewell the verses and the Rev. Mr. ..Thompson the creed. And thus ended the services at the City IIail, vhich, although simple and brief, were wonderfully impres sive, During this period the- immense throng, representing every conceiva ble variety of religious and social pre dilection, profession and nationalj y stood in reverenti:! siience and with beads uncovered. At the conclusion of the rco;ie;o trvtces the casket; was borne by " detacbtnent of sol-.c diers to a handsomeiy decorated cais s-n vhich had been especially prepared for its reception ann on which it wast be conveyed to the cemetery. From the caisson arises a catafalque, consisting of a unique and beautifully detigned canopy measuring eight feet in leugth and four in winth and supported by six bronze cannon braced with muskets. The dome - of the canopy is ornamented in bronze with furled United States flags draped on either side. The sides of the cata falque are superbly draped in black cloth with bullion fringes and gimp. The casket rested on a slight elevation and the caisson was drawn by six black horses, two abreast, caparisoned in artil lery banners and plumes and each animal led by a soldier in uniform. With mar velious military precision the variooe battalions wheeled into licr", preceded by detachment of the city police and followed in turn by the clergy, pallbear ars, and soon by others in their rtspec ive order until the mammoth procession was formed. The prceession, after leav nag the City Hali, proceeded up St. Tharles to Callipe and from Callipe into panp, thence to Chartres, to St. Louis, :o Railii and carried in the direct route :o the cemetery. I: was an Lour and ten ninutes passing a given point. AF the grand funeral cortege travereed .b .treets, from the turrets of every thurcb a knell was tolled, the clank of abres and tramp of iron-shod feet echoed long the interminable line, while sou* ubduing dipges blended with the solemn )ooiming of the minute guns. The parts )> the city not directly located on the. ine of march, or in anywise remote from he scene of the pageant, were literally lepopulated, their inhabitants having athered in countless numbers oil the . anquettes and in other available placee rom which an easy view of the marcbicg olumns could be had. NORTHERN OPINION. Views of the New York Pres and people suggestion of a Family Feind. iew York Special to the Baltimore Sun. The news of the death of Jefferson' Davis reached here too late for more. han a brief line in the very latest edi; :ioh of.two ofthe morning papers. The ;eneral public did not know of it till he afternoon. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. The evening papers gave portraits mud long biographies of the dead thief, and kindly editorially commen ed on his death, with only one ex teption-the Mail and Express. This vas the drivel he got into a small aragraph: "Jefferson Davia is dead. l rebeJ4n which he leiilliv where he has been worshipped as the hief champion of the false doc:rines ;hat justified secession as a State's right. The form which the present rebellion takes is clearly described by President Harrison and Attorney leneral Miller in their references to he suppression or intimidation of-the bui:rage." The Evening Telegram says: The lead chieftain had many lovable qual ties, which the impulsive people of ;he South appreciated to their fullest txtent. Not a breath of suspicion. ever tained the absolute honesty of his public life. His personal friendships evere sacred as his domestic joys. The -ause for which he risked his section and himself was lost, but no wreck of bis political fortunes, no matter hbn :omplete, could ever dark'en th' bil lancy of his intelilect or the undinch ng courage of his convicstions. He was one of the greatest and inosb gifted son this country ever produced. His misguided genius must be left to . his tory." The Sun says: "We presume that in the future every one of those associ' ated with Mr. Davis in his effort to rceate a new Confederacy will be practically forgotten, andi that his name will stand alone as representing the idea connected with the struggle. Mr. Davis probably never regrettd the knowledge which he* mus-. hav'e had that thus history will associate his nme. * * *~His name will ha historical, and in the future when men read of the measures with which his name is associated without passion- or prejudice; it-will doubtless-be a.sserted that he was the able- and siitcpre representatives on one sida of -la inevtable and stup~ds'enflict of The Eveninig Post concludes its con ment with: "We have given in other column a sketch of the career of the denarted leader of the long zdeparted Confederacy. We have there stated our belief that nobody could have done more than Davis did to give success to a causec that was doomed at the out set to fall before superior force. It fol lows that he was one of the ablest men of his time, for it was by no stroke of chance that he was chosen to guide a masterful ra.e .through a struggle for . national existence. He was selected because he was believed by good judges, and with practical uxnanimity, to be their best equipped representa - tive and strongest man." The Commercial Advertisegys: "With all his faults, mistakes. and bunders, Jefferson Davis was through out his public career a man of spotless integrity and honest devotion to what he believed to be the right. His par ticipation in the council halls of - the Union in a con-;piracy to break up the union by using its own weapons against it nust be stamped as a wrong. 3any of the methods employed in the eerly days of secession where beyond question unrighteous and wrons. But in the cause for which they were done he honestly believed. These views may be taken as a gen eral concensus of New York-s opin ion. There is nowhere, proba~Ay wxhere the influences of Southern residents is so potent, and nowhere, probably, where the inclination to let the war rest is so strong with the death of Mr Davis that last obstacle to complete forgetmuiness is remaoved, and there is regret at once for the loss of so able su1 Amierican, and that he could not make his talents ava 1 able in the great prgress of the new and regenerated -W G. Silliiaglaw, whio lives a fev: miles from York'rilie, cxhituited on Sat" tdy so..r.c Ile specimeas of pottery mad froml clay tak.:n from his plata' i 'The clay had bonen sent to a fc tor to tet its qualities. The test prov ing stisfactory, Mr. Shillingiaw now contemplates orggnizing a company to manufactu're pottery of every descrip tinn.