The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 25, 1893, Image 1
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?VOL. VII.
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Tito Chester Cases Decided in
Favor ot the vans Law.
News and Courier.
Columbia, May 10*?Special: The
a^ony is over. The deed is done,
and the last hope of the barkeepers
lias faded away. What expectations
there are in the future cannot be
tydiged until after the dispensary
law goes into operation, that is settled.
Few, indeed, will bo the bar
rooms in the State that will havo
any stock a month hence. The Supreme
Court of the State, the one
place where the liquor men expected
to find comfort, has turned a cold
shoulder, indeed a very cold shoulder
on the liquor interest.
l)y the unanimous opinion of the j
Court the cases of Groeschel and
Hover, who petitioned for a mandarins
to require the council of Chester
to issue an annual license, were
dismissed. The Court, however,
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only considered the bil' in so far as
the constitutionality of its passage
and of its prohibition of licenses for
more than six months were concerned
but did not conceive that under
the circumstances it had any right
to go into the constitutionality of
tho other provisions of the Act. To
be candid, the filing of the deciaion
n I .. t .. to I, .- i I... till t Y COQLlAn
, Both petition being passed upon
facts inendtiel in character have
been heard together.
The respondent denies the right
of each petitioner and traverses
some of the allegations of fact. Under
such circumstances by en argeement
of counsel for relators and re
spoudcnt it was referred to Mr. Tho- !
mas S. Moorman, to take testimony
as to the facts in dispute. The report
of such testimony was made to
this Court. At the hearing before
us the following facts were disclosed;
III 1888 (20th Statutes at Large,
140,) tho town council of Chester
were authorized by the General As
sembly of this State to grant license
to soil spirinous and intoxicating
liquors under certain restrictions and
modifications. Under the general
law of this State pertaining to such
matters no license could be given for
a loiterer neriod then one vear and
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not extending beyond the 131st of
December of any year.
On the 22d of January, 181)3, the
relators, after a strict compliance
with all the requirments of the Statutes
of this State as well as with the
ordnances and regulations of Chester,applied
for a license as retail
liquor dealers to begin the 2d of
January, 1893, and ending the 31st
of December, 1893. The respondent,
however, refused to grant a
license beyond June 30, 1893, a lie
ging as a basis for such action on
their part that the State had passed
an Act, approved December 21, 1892
whereby all licenses to bo granted
bv any towns or cities in this State
should cease and determine on the
30th of June, 1893, providing fines
and penalties upon all persons who
shall disregard such legislation, and
this refusal of Chester with the
si hn un fYrrviirwl f liQrnfnvn tiiuo i-vitf
*?uv ? v v/iikvi wuvi viv/i u " no j'u i
upon the minutes of town council.
ri' e relators under protest at every
step paid for and took out a license
until the 30th of June, 1893, hut
conceiving that they wore entitled
to licenses up to 31st December have
applied for a writ of mandamus to
force such license, and allege that
the Act of December 24, 1892, was
unconstitutional, on the following
grounds:
Here Justice Pope relates the
twelve constitutional points raised
by Major Hamilton in his arguments,
and which have heartoforc
been published* This was done in
a rather brief manner, and included
the points as to tho improper pas
s^e of the bill and its much discus
sdd readings and wanderings through
the Legislature. In discussing the
objection raised by the Attornoy
Q neral as to the right of use of the
name by tho Court it is said:
We remark that tho point raised
by the^Attorney General is ono of
serious consequence to the relators
for if it should bo determined that
only those are entitled to the uso of
the State's name who have the consent
of tho Attorney Genoral for
such purpose, out duly might ter
initiate at an early stage, but under
the peculiar circumstances of those
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petitioners, who ha?-*c determined to
waive the consideration of this objection,
neither allinning nor denying
the proposition of the Attorney General,
the Court further declares that
it will not undertake to can*nv8 the
question as to the exercise of u dis
cretion by town council of Chester,
iiixliir I Im Imru trt rofnu.) tlto nryi\1i.
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cation of petitioners for a license.
Indeed we feel that the town council
having elected to place their re
fusal to grant a license to the petitioners
upon the ground that the
Act of of 1802 forbade any other
license than that granted by theni,
which ground they placed upon the
minutes of said council, they are estopped
from raising this additional
ground of refusal. The Court says
it prefers to pass directly and scpiaroly
upon only such as relate to the claims
set up by relators to have licenses
issued t<> them, without undertaking
i\\j ?l l'*lt II^Ul UI tlH/ U I Q* OOIV/II
of ?he Court was altogether unexpected
and occasioned qui ted ?
stampede of newspaper men who
have been anxiously watching for
this all important document.
The following is the text of the
decision tiled in the Chester dispensary
test case:
The relator hy petition in each of
the aboro entitled proceedings asks
that this Court will issue a mandamus
to the respondent requiring
that a license be granted to tho petitioners
respectively as liquor dealers
in the town of Chester in tin's
State from the second day. of January,
1893, up to and inclusive of the
31st of December, 1893.
to consider 01 decido whether the
I dspensary Act contains other features
not applicable to these cases
in conflict with the State Conatitntion.
We desire to say that our
judgment must be considered as to
those issues and none others. A different
course would be extra judicial
The Court enumerates four reasons
on which the constitutionality
of the Act is assailed and four reasons
on which it is claimed that the
hill is fatally defective. The ques
tion as to the illegality of the hill on
the ground of its improper passage
was discussed together. The original
bill, wh ch bas been enrolled and
ratified in the Senate, as is evidenced
by the signatures of the President
of the Senate and Speaker <>f the
House of Representatives, and also
niu.pniff.d liu tltii ! Jnvoriinr mil <ln_
? ? J'j 'I \/ ? VV1 \JJ J/UV v v ? liv/t ?? V* UU"
posited in tlio office of the Secretary
of State, shows on its face that it
originated in the House of Representatives,
received three readings in
eacli House and was, therefore, duly
enrolled and ratified. Yet it is contended
that notwithstanding this duo
regularity of the enrolled Act that
tlio journals of the two houses fail
to correspond ill every particular
with the entries of amendments on
the original bill. Thus is presented
for our consideration the question
that has given rise to not only much
discussion in the Courts of the different
States of tliis Union, but also
a contrariety in the decisions of
such Courts of such questions, nor
has our own State Supreme Court
been free from either difficulty in
our past history.
Here is where Justice Tope again
breaks arecord and says: "We feel
that this is a proper occasion to place
the Court fairly and unanimously on
record in this matter. There have
been two decisions of this Court on
this subject and both most unsatisfactory,
there being a strong dissenting
opinion in each/' The cases
of the State va l'latt and the State
vs Ilagood were discussed at length
and he quotes freely from the latter
decision, very exionucu extract,
are made from the opinion of Justice
Harlan in Field vs Clark, 153 U. S.
Beports, 649, which is in favor of a
bill as passed and enrolled, speaking
for itself. A cyclopedia of cases
are cited from various States, when
the Court says: Everyone admits
that the English rule has unswervingly
upheld the doctrine for which
we shall and do contend. Therefore
however unpleasant it may be to
reverse previous decisions of this
Court, still after full and mature
consideration we feel it to be duty
we owe the State that the case of
the State vs Piatt, supra, should be,
and is hereby, overruled, and as the
case of Hagood, supra, was really
decided upon the authority of Piatt's
case, it follows necessarily that the
case of Hagood must fall when the
foundation upon which it rests is
taken away. The announcement
that the true rule is that when an
Act has been duly signed by the
presiding officer of the General Assembly,
in open session by the Senate
and House, approved by the Gov ernor
of the State and duly deposited
in the office of the Secretary of
State, it is sufficient evidence, nothing
to the contrary appearing upon
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ito kh;C) tniii it |msocu uiu uwuumi
Assembly, and that it is not compc'
tent, either by the journals of the
two houses, or cither of them, or by
| any other evidence, to impeach such
an act, and this being so it follows
that the Court is not at liberty to
inquire into what the journals of the
two houses may show as to the successive
steps which may have been
taken in the passngo of the original
bill. It will be observed that this
conclusion by no means negatives
the power of the Court to inquire
into these prerequisites fixed by the
Constitution, and of which prerequisites
the journals of the two houses
are required to furnish the evidences,
such for instance as the organization
of the two houses, the presence of a
quorum, tho votes of two thirds of
the members by yeas and nays to
be entered on the journals in certain
cases. As to tho objection as to tho
title being too narrow, tho Court cites
four Soutii Carolina cases on the
point, and in the last ease quotes
from Sau Anton vs MahafTv, 9 U. S.
When an Act of the Legislature expresses
in its title the object of the
'Be True to
ON WAY, sV( .
Act, the title embraces ami expresses
any lawful means to achieve the
object, thus fulfilling the constitu|
tional injunction that every law
I shall embrace hut one subject that
shall be expressed in its title. Applying
the Act wo are now considerj
ing, we are unable to see that it
I does not fully answer the require
intents cf this section of the Consti
| tution*
ii?stiy, tne v ourt considers me
constitutional points and says: As
to those several points embodied in
the objections, wherein it is claimed
that tho Act we are now considering
is in violation of certain provisions
of onr Constitution, as well as that
of the United States, we do not see
how such questions can aris? in this
case. Tho only question really involved
here is whether said Act
violates the Constitution in forbid
ding the granting of licenses to retail
spiritvous liquors beyond tVe 30th of
June, 1893, and to that question we
have confined our attention, and having
reached the conclusion that
said the Act being in < ITect an Act
to regulate the sale of spirituous
liquors, the power to do which is
universally recognized, it is quite
clear that there is nothing unconstitutional
in forbidding the granting
of licenses to sell liquor except in
the manner prescribed by the Act.
lint whether the Act contains other
features not affecting the rights of re
lators to the licensee claimed by them
is a question that cannot properly
tiriso in these cases and cannot
therefore, he considered, for, us we
have said above, it would be extra
judicial to do so. It is the judgement
1 of this Court that the prayer of the
petitioners be denied and thy petitions
for mandamus be dismissed.
The decisioti covers twelve full
pages of legal cap writing in the
small chirography of Justice Pope.
Washington Letter.
From Our regular Correspondent.
Several important facts now loom
tip out of the fog of conjecture
which has enveloped them for some
time. First and foremost among
them is President Cleveland's final
decision not to call the extra session
of Congress before September?great
pressure was brought to hear on him
tin t*t 11 rr tin* iv?of trnn b i i\ nuibo if
V..~ .1. ...uni; .1
June. That will give tlio President
time to try to win the votes still
necessary to carry out some of his
most cherished legislative plans,
Another fact is the compromise \>y
which Mr. Cleveland hopes to gel
the votes of enough members of Congress
to make the passage of a bill
for the unconditional repeal of tlu
Sherman law a certainty. The coin
promise was it is understood suggos
ted by some of the southern Con
gressmen?possibly ex Speaker Oris}:
who has had several conferences with
Mr. Cleveland during the past few
days?who have been opposed to the
repeal of the Sherman law, unless
some other method of adding an
equal amount to the money in circulation
was substituted therefor. The
RnnlllorilAI-C in ( \\twri>nuo ui>n
ww?v?ivi tiv*>j in voo "I v? |/i iit/ir
cally unanimaus in fnvor of the ro
peal of tho tax on the currency ol
state banks, but although it was en
dorsed by the platform upon which
he was elected Mr. Cloveland hat
been credited with being opposed tc
it. The compromise consists of r
single bill, repealing both tho Sher
man Silver law and tho tax on stat<
bank currency, and Mr. Clovehuul
will support it, and he has been in
formed that enough of what arc
known as tho silver men will supporl
it to make its passage by Congrest
certain. That remains to be seen.
Mr. Cleveland has from tho organ
ization of the peoples' party taker
no pains to conceal his opposition tc
the principles advocated by that par
ty, but he has just given his approv
al to one of tho principles that hat
occupied a prominent place in ever}
national platform adopted by thai
party?tho levying of an income
tax.
According to a story going around
here tho gentlemen who are am hi
tious of becoming chiefs of division*
in the Treasury department have the
laugh on Hon. Carl ttchurz, president
of the Civil Service Keforn
League, who was entertained at din
ner during his stay in Washington
by President and Mrs. Cleveland
As the story goes, Mr. Schurz called
on Sec. Carlisle, who has shown 11
marked liking for tho resignations ol
divisions in his department, and
spent an hour trying to make the
Secrotary see how statesmanlike it
would be to retain all of the effioienl
chiefs of divisions. lie made an im
prossion, although it may not have
Your Word, Your Work, and
rTHURSDAY i
,been tkind he wished, for ho luul
hardly got out of the building before
See. Carlisle demanded the resignations
of live more chiefs. The chiefs
of divisions are not under Civil Serj
vice rules, but they would like very
i much to be.
The new Commissioner of Pensions
has repealed the most important
rules made by Commissioner
Kautn for the conduct of the business
of that bureau, which is now being
particularly run under the rules
which were in force during the regime
of Commissioner Black, under
tho tirat Cleveland administration.
The principal rule repealed was that
relating to what are known as "completed
files," which played such a
conspicuous part in 1 ho investigation
of tho Pension I bureau made l>y
House Committee, during the first
half of tho 'last Congress. There is
considerable talk about tin investigation
now being made of fraudulent
pensions obtained by n i attorney of
Norfolk, Yu. It is stated that the
number of fraudulent cases already
discovered are in the neighborhood
of 300, upon which more than *100,000
lias been paid.
Ex-Speaker Crisp, who has been
in Washington a week, lias gone
home feeling pretty good, as it now
looks as though ho would be elected
Speaker of the next House by tho
unanimous vote of his party. All
talk of President Cleveland encouraging
a candidate to run against him
has died out.
President Cleveland's rule against
granting personal interviews to of
(ice seekers is not as unsatisfactory
as many thought it, would be. Indued,
not a few people expressed
themselves as believing that it would
he highly beneficial to the public
service if a similar rule were adopted
by the members of the cabinet.
At first glance it appears unjust, but
if it were generally adopted and
i rigidly adhered to it won d not be;
i it would not prevent applicants fil?
. ing their papers and it would give
the heads of departments a great
deal of time to devote to the public
busincs that is now absolutely wasted
in listening to a verbal repetition
! of what is contained in the naners
which the applicants liavo ulroady
placed on file.
Treasury department officials decline
to say what, if any, action will
i ho taUon by them if the World's
Fair he opened on Sunday, as now
proposed, in defiance of the law say
ing it shall he slosed on that
' day
i Columbian Letter.
' (Regular Correspondent.)
We have just passed the second
milestone of the World's Fair; having
fully rounded out the second
week. That second mile was not
' run as fast as it might liavo hcen,
1 tending toward tho ultimate com
- plction of the exposition. Some of
, the officials made a great flourish of
( trumpets about keeping the gates
closed 011 Sunday, in order that the
1 mechanics might work unhindered,
and the exhibitor oontinue the un>
packing of his wares, and the beau
tification of his home. But like
many promises and expectations, for
some reason they did not fully ma
f terialize. If. would seem, inasmuch
as there remains so much to l^e done,
! that those whose duty it is to give
j orders would see that the same are
carried out. We had hardly recov'
ered from the unpleasant fracas, in1
spired by jealousies among the Board
of Lady Directors, and tlieT subse,
quent tearful make-up and love
^ feast, than our ears were shocked by
discordant music caused by a misunderstanding
between the director of
? music, Theodore Thomas, and the
t national commission. It appears to
j some that Mr. Thomas, that is too
small for his head, lie haying the
idea that ho showed his department
" to suit his own* peculiar notions,
i The difficulty reached such a pass
> that an investigating committee was
appointed to look into tlio matter,
and after an examination from all
those interested therein, the said
5 committee have unanimously joined
r in a scathing report of the methods
t, adopted by Mr, Thomas, and have
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^ n.?;<>niiiit3iiuuu uiui. iiu atop "llOWr.
and out.' Iu that event it is not unlikely
that Walter Damrosoh soti-in
I law of the late James CJ. Maine, may
succeed him.
j No matter what the result may he
, it is to be deplored, that at this early
stage of the Fair, that such dissentions
and cmbroglios should disturb
1 the harmony of the situation. More
diplomacy and oil should be used, so
! there would be less friction, as all
these disagreemo its often-timos give
J the general public a wrong improsfion
of what perhaps may be the real
t truth of the matter.
This Fair is Natural, yea, Interl
national in its influence and scope,
, and the cheifs of the several depart^
ment.j should rise above such petty
jealousies and misunderstandings.
1 Mr. Thomas is paid a sufficient sal
ary to give his whole attention to
5 the direction of the music, and it is
Your Country."
MAY 25, 1 ?<): *,
' too bad, thai a muu with his reputation
should endeavor to use that position
for the advancement of some
certain linn, to tho detriment of others
no doubt equally meritorious.
The work of bringing order out of
chnoj goes brnvcly on, and even in
its incomplete condition, ono can
; get many times tho value of his ad;
mission fee of lifty cents. So many
! havo asked wliat that flftv rents nov.
its perhaps it would l?o wise at this
point in our letter to give an explnn
a tion.
To the west of the Sixteenth
I street entrance to the Kair proper,
there extends for a distance of several
l>looks, a broad avenue or strcot,
which has been named Midway l'alisanco
-on either side of this avenue
j from its beginning to the entrance
j above mentioned, there are situate,
i many foreign villages, such as the
( ornian, Irish, Algerian, Kskinio
and others. The admission fee to
these Severn' side show attractions
j varies from 4d5 cents to 50 cents each.
Ono fee of fit) cents, however, pays
the admission to this avenue called
Midway IMaisance, and also entitles
you to admission to the fair grounds
proper.
Once inside the grounds every
buildihg or department therein is
' free, excepting the boats (round trip,
d miles 50 Cents, the rolling oluiirs
75 cento per hour, including a man
to guide or push the same, and ths
electric railroad. Tlio impression
has gono abroad that it costs more to
got out. than to get in the Kair, and
it IS to correct tins impression, that
this statement is made. You can
carry your lunch with you, and
spend the day and evening, and go
whore you please for fifty cents. Of
course it is here, as at all Kxpositions
of like nature, that there are certain
outside attractions, managed by outside
panics, and to see these a fee is
asked.
The dedication exorcises took
place last October in the Manufacturers
and Liherial Arts lhnlding,
and truly has it been oftinios said
that that is the largest building ever
constructed* To simply walk about
this building is almost a day's work,
for there is much to ho seen, and
more coining. True, the exhibits
are not all in place, but they are
fast being placed where they belong.
The typewriter manufacturers are
grouped in ornamental and oftentimes
costly booths by themselves
on the east gallery of this building,
while a little further south on sonto
aisle, are the homes of the woman's
friend, the sewing machine manufacturer.
It is surprising the amount
of money some firms have put into
their temporary habitations, wherein
to show their wares, to last but six
short mouths, and as congress says,
"Sundays counted out.'' We like to
j put our host foot ahead, and some
everyday tools look as though they
niitrht have been made to ornament
i
the parlor, instead of for practical
work. Those silver plated ornaments
may turn a deeper spadeful of earth
or pitch more hay, hut 1 doubt it.
In the center of this building rises a
triumphl arch, which from a distance
looks as though built of marble,
but it is only a mixture of cement
and plaster paris and called
"staff." About midway of this arch
at each of the corners, arc four towers,
and just above them, a selfwinding,
chiming clock, with four
dials. A cursory glance among the
exhibits in this building brought to
view hats from Knglund, Germany
and France, Linens from the land of
Robert Burns and the 10 me raid isle;
woolens imported and domestic, and
many other beautiful things, which
wo will endeavor to treat of in detail
hereafter. When wc "shuffle off
this mortal coil'' and are through
wi'h World's Fairs the exhibits from
Vermont and Massachusetts, proclaim
the fact, that they can furnish
us with a costly mausoleum of marble,
or simple granite headstone, with
Georgia and Tennessee yet to be
hoard from.
Almost on the threshold of the
Centrel Fast entrance, to the Transportation
building there is a model
of the good ship "Santa Maria." on
which Mr. Columbus sailed the ocean
wide. How queer it locks to our
nineteenth century eyes, who are
not familiar with such craft.
It would seem as though the Installer
of Kxhibits in this building,
had in mind the great improvements
in this age, for in close proximity is
a line model of the four decker "Puritan"
plying between Fall River,
Mass and New York,
And still within the same radius,
wo find the high-set types of the ship
builders' art as seen in the beautiful
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Curr.pania, Arizona, Umbria ami others
which plow thn Atlantic. Near
by is tho model of tho famous yacht
"Luvidia, wh'eh belonged to the late
Czar of all the Itiissias. 'I'ho original
of the model is said to be the
most beautiful of its kind ever built,
as well as tho most lostiy.
A little distance removed front
this water craft is a full sized locomotive
and train of cars. Certainly
they are masterpieces in their line,
a\d, perhaps, as fine spooimens as
wore ever turned out of the shops.
In keeping with the spirit of this
Columbian your, the online has been
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dor comes tho burgage and combination
car "Mnrchena ' with its barber
shop, library and reading room.
Then tho lining car "I.a Uabida"
following this, tho sleeping car
Atnorico, and then in order named
I tho compartment car "Ferdinand"
'and the observation car "Isabella."
i Surely there never brforo was such a
train, and with snch appropriate
I names, oven lit for royalty itself.
Possibly there will bo many who arc
now on their way to Chicago oxpect
ing to find (he buildings for which
tho legislatures of their several
states appropriated money to build,
entirely finished. In ibis they will,
in <[uito a number of instances, bo
disappointed. Several of the stale
' buildings seem to be complete, but
jit is only when one gets inside the
shell that the meat is not found.
| Much remains to be done inside, and
in many cases outside.
And now as the shades of evening
' liotr; n f a f?? 1 I o ???I uhukIiim ft?/1
% V? 1 (( t I ^ UIIVl ? i|IU4X7| LV;?t ill <1
liomo, considering on our way l>o\v
many improvements will have been
intnlo during tlie weok to furnish
food for our next lot tor, we nro suddenly
startled by tho loud clanging
of gong, and in another moment
there passes swiftly and noiselessly
by (except for the sound of the gong
Inn ambulence, carrying to the hospii
tal established within the grounds
sonic unfortunate, to ho tenderly
cared for by trained nurses, which
, forms an exhibit by itself worth
J study and careful consideration.
:
Weekly Weailier rrop llulletin
of Sout li Carolina for t lie
Week emlinu Monday
May 15. IH0:V
'Clio temperature for the past weok
has been decidedly below tho normal,
especially the lirst four days
and has caused much cotton to die
and retarded the growth of' all
crops.
Tho rainfall was below the normal
and beneficial to all crops except
j cotton.
During the past few days of sunshine
and warm clear nights, crops
have improved rapidly.
The rain this afternoon and eve
ning over the western counties was
begining to bo needed and accompanied
as it was with high tempera
tare will be of incalculable benefit
to the farmer.
TIIK OKOIU1IA 1IOUI)Kit roi M IKS.
Cotton?Cold winds and cool
nights have greatly injured cotton;
on sandy or gray lands much has
died leaving a bad stand. Young
cot'.on is being killed by cut worms.
Tho young plant looks blue <rr rod
and cannot grow for lack of warm
rains and sunshine. Some replanting
being done. *'hopping progressing.
Corn?Cut worms are killing
com in most localities, lowland corn
being destroyed by bud worms.
Corn looks well.
- VVIieat and oats are almost a
failure; will run about half a crop.
Wheat is good in somo parts of Barnwell
county. Small grain, gardens
and fruits much improved by rains,
TUB COAST COl'NTI KS,
Cotton?The temperature was
too low for cotton but beneficial to
vegetables, irish potatoes especially.
Bains and sunshine have been beneficial
to all crops. Some cotton killed
by cold winds has been planted
over. Correspondent from different
sections report "cotton good and
being rapidly hoed to a stand ' ?
Chopping out cotton is nearly over
"with an average stand' "Cotton
1 not a good stand but is being put to
a stand and not much replanting
being done"?"Sea Island cotton is
a fair stand."
(iergetown county reports no
stand oti bottom lands hut hill side
and KJI lid \t lsltwlu nrn Ir,r?bir?rr ur. It
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Corn?corn generally growing well
but bad stands. Worms very destructive
to corn and rice and will
continue to injure corn until steady
warm weather. Oats Kcccnt rains
saved spring oats; another good rain
will make a 1 crop. Gardens doing
well. Fruit plenty. Good season
j for putting out sweet potato slips.
I TIIE NORTH < \ ROI.I N'.V ItORHKR COl NTIKS.
Cotton?The nights have been
too cool for cotton and much of it
looks sick and shriveled ami on sandy
soil and in damp places is reported
dying. (locing commenced stands
poor. Corn has been greatly improved
by rains and looks well although
much injured by cut worms;
some ou bottom lands reported as
dying. Upland corn being worked.
Wheat and oats. Winter and fall
1 oats are almost a failure and spring
NO. 45.
oats not much better. Small grain
has been greatly improved by recent
rains* Wheat doing fairly well.
Gardens are suffering from cnt worms
?Grass growing rapidly ? Melons
look well ? Foreign variety of plums
dropping off but other fruit all right
and plentiful.
i iik minnr.K < ?n xn r-.a.
Cotton?Many complaints are
made of tho the havoc caused by
cut worms nnd bud worms. Planting
completed. Hoeing begun. Cotton
has been decidedly injured by
cold and largo quantities of the
plant are dying, with no seed at
hand to replant. Reports from
Richland county are encouraging;
; tho cotton doing well, the stand
about tho average. Replanting finished
and most farmers commenced
chopping. Corn corn whilo benefited
by recent rains has been retar:
ded by cold. The stand is good, and
generally doing well. Wheat and
J oats are growing well but will not
bo an average crop.
Central Ollice, .J. II. IIaumov,
Columbia, S. C. Director.
1)1 VOItC 101) I X l>.\ KOTA.
Separation ol' .Fudge II. 1>. I>.
Twiggs and Wife of Angus
tn.
Sioux Falls, S. I>., May 10?.Judge
II. I). I). Twiggs, of Agusta, Ga., for
night, years a judge on the supremo
bench, and prominent in politics,
has been divorced from Lucie 10.
Twiggs, a leading society woman of
I Augusta, and a relative of Senator
I John II. Gordon, of Georgia.
The case was brought in llrookings,
! a small town near here, lo avoid publicity.
Mrs- Twiggs was made to answer
the suit to make the decree binding,
but no serious tight was made in
the ease. The minor child was given
into the custody of the mother.
The marriage occurred in May, 1801
and in 1888 Mrs. Twiggs, unable to
live happily with her husband, deserted
him. h'ivo children wore born of
the union.
The Judge Marries a Youii.il
Widow.
Ciiattanooov, Tenn*, Muy 10,?
fudge II. 1>. I). Twsggs. of Augusta,
Ga., who recently secured a
divorce io South Dakota from Lucie
K Twiggs, a leading society woman
of Augusta und a relative of Senator
j Gordon, arrived in Chattanooga at
: noon today, and was immediately
married, at the Station House, to
Mrs. Cornelia K. Harrison, a Charm
| ing young widow, of Charleston, S.
(!. Mrs Harrison hasbeon living at
tho Station House for the past month
with her live year old son, awaiting
tho granting of the d'vorce to Judge
Twiggs. Tho judge is fully thirty
years tho senior of his new brido.
Pension KiTorm,
Washington f D. C. May 15.?
An important order revoking the
celebrated "completed (ilea" order
of ox-Commissioner Uautn has been
issued by C'onimissioner Lochren.
Tho order says that hereafter all
ponding claims in each class will
I bo taken up for consideration in the
! order in which the considered ovi!
hence is filed, the object aimed at
being a practical return to tho methjodin
vogue prior to 1880. WhenI
over any evidenco shall be received
| in any cose, such evidence will be
I strapped to the ease and the file card
will be at once placed at tho top of
1 tho hie box of the examiner in
! whoso charge the case may be. Whenever
any examiner shall have disposed
! of all the cases on his desk, addi|
tionnl cases presented by the file
cards at tho bottom of such examiner's
file box shall be placed oil his
desk for consideration and action,
and the proper call for evidence shall
i be made, or pending inquiries an
swerod, or the case, if found to be
complete, shall at once be submitted
to tho Hoard of Keview for final ad
judication.
it is calculated that under the
now administration a check is going
' to bo given to the rapid growth of
the pension list, even without the
assistance of any legislation. When
fcho pension appropriation bill was
passed at the last session of Congress
' it was expected that the amount
appropriated would be about $15,01)0,000
short of the expenditures
for this fiscal year. It was anticipated
that a deficiency of that amount
won hi have to be provided for at the
coming session. The average number
of original pension eases passed
on each month is expected, however,
i to be but about one third what it
was under the former administration
of tho ofiice and that instead of a
deficiency there will bo a surplus of
about $0,000,000.
"The flowers that bloom in the
spring*1 are not more vigorous than
arc those persons who purify their
j blood with Ayer's Sarsapardla. Tho
fabled olixor vita* could scarcely
impart greater vivacity to tho countenance
than this wonderful niedi*
1 cine.