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I K DEBATE ON THE DISPENSARY. THKGOVKIIXOU'S I>RA8TIC 5II.AK. I'HK I'NDKK I T UK. CunKOi'THtivr? i?nil Uoroi uinx Tnkr ;* tlnud tn (ho Anuck?Tlie Senate KefUseo 10 Strike On I the Enact inu Word*. The "Mat?. Pre. 14th. It became* noised abroad that tho dispensary bill would come up in a few minutes and the galleries and aisles wore soon filled witu spectators. It required nearly three-quarters of nn hour for Reading Clerk Cau^hmun, assisted by Clerk Fopo. to read the bill. When that job was finished Mr. John (Jury Evans be^an the task of patching up its defects with amendments. Anions those of importance was one that whiskies found in posses *loD of common carriers bo regarded as ' contra baud another s<t i-i k i ?i>r out the word " knowingly " in to persons using counterfeit dispensary tugs: u third substituting the adjective "'aloobelie*' f >r " intoxicating M wherever it tKcuri, a 11 stui unothur permitting the br.i.giug into the Statu of uicobelie liquors in quantities not exceeding one gullon, us personal baggage. When Senator Evuns moved to amend sectiou "JO by inserting the w? rd " shall " in lieu of " may " (ill ctTeet to require tho issuance ot warrants.) Mr. StnytUe sprang to bis feet. Toe amendment, lie said, to ?k away d s? eretion froMi a justice even of toe Supreme Court. bcnuioi r^wins stated thut tin r w. s notmng in trie objection, it h. d been discussed last session. Th> n Mr. ^ Evans began to regale tho uauienco with his liquid cioquence. lie emphasized the necessity ol making t ie tssumg of wui rants mandatory. It would indeed intiKo "tools of toe jiistices " and judges, but tiiey Wollid Ills > be tools of tne people. Senator Suiytbo observed that it was a novelty to him that a judge should be elected and thou not bo a juugc. " Ilave wo so little c mtidenee 111 our judges whom wo have ciccted as to leave them n ? c!istore t on The atiieiidiiiont was put. ''The noes have it," said tne president. " Division !" quoth Mr. Evans, and Mr. Buist dematiued the yeas and nays. The roll was culled wit.i the following result: Ayes?Abbott, Burton. Derlium. \V. I). Evans. John Gary Evans, Fuller. Glenn. Harrison, Hemp.nil. Magill, O'Doil, IVuke. ltugin. Kedlenrn, Stribling. Wilson aud Will lams?17. Nays? Beusiey, D.glnim, Brown. Buist. Ellrd, Fnney, Ji ukins, McDaiiiel. Miller, Moore. Mower. S.oun. Sniythe, Timtiierinai. ami Vernier 1 < Senator Buist in Ins positive way moved to strike out too enact ing words of tho bill, but first allowed Senator Evans to bandage il witn another amendment or two. When Senator Huist took tho lloor Senator Wilson desired that all the amendments should bo put in be (ore Senator Hoist's mot ion was made, and intimated that the motion would bo voted down of course. Senator Ihust answered that after his words of soberness the Senate might enan^e its mind. Mb-ucles had oeeasionally eonio to pass before. Senator Hoist's speech was a model of eloquence. Mo begun by asserting that he had never seen a good point in the bill until the amendment was offered permuting the bringing in of a gallon as personal baggage. That had a tendency to modify nun. but it was a discrimination against his city. It was to the olTect that the constituents of the author of the bill who lives within twenty-two miles of Augusta, (in., could go to Augusta ami bring back a gallon at night, li was a discrimination again>t nis people, because they lived l.'M miles from Augusta. 11 e would give as u title to tho bill " To reduce the population of the State, to add to the commercial prosperity of the cities of Augusta and Savannah, and to restrict the liberties of the people." Ho had his say on this subject in oxtenso. as the S maters knew. lie had been told tiiat there was no chance of his motion prevailing, hut " while there is life there is hope," and we are told from the pulpit that tne "vilest sinner may return.'' lie declared in vigorous terms thalthe law drove from the State good men. mereliauts whose money had helped to make Hampton Governor and thereby made it possible for his brother Senators to represent their peoplo. S -q.it ir S nythc followed in a speech delivered in snort, cleaving sentences, in which ho literuly tore the bill to fruz/.los and exposed its enormities in a t,\ le which made thorn appear'grotesque. He began by remarking that while he wanted to have soim-liiinc to say, unlike his colleague, ho Loped that what he would suy would in(iu<-ncc the Soinitors' votes. " Is this good htw t ? put on tho statute hooks?" If you have a pint of whiskey in your private home you must go to jail. You are to bo tried, not by judges, but perhaps by the most ignorant trial justice in the State. All liquors are declared to be contraband. " Tnose that you bought on the dUth of June sire to he condemned as against the good health and morals of the Slate. lie alluded to the prohibition sentiment of last year. It had been argued that the law closed the barrooms. Now you are going to open them. You are going to sell In or in glasses ? sehooneers perhaps. A Senator: " We'll strike that out." " Tnen why is it in the bill ?" inquired Senator Smythe. " We are asked to onaet this bill." Senator W. I). Kvuns : ' Who said that we are told to pass it?" Senator Smythe: "I am told that it is tho report of the S'ut > hoard of contio'." Common repot t is that $15,000 wore lost in beer beeau.-o beer spoils in bottles. You can't ufford to lose tliat year by year. Thurefore you are going to sell it in glasses. Senator Uighain was opposed to the bill and made an effective s])<x:eb agaimt it. lie had n >ted that too author of the bill had started out in section 1 with declaring for good morals, lie believed in good morals, but he uifsti wiil'vwi in consistency. It is time to cull a hull and consider what wo arc doing. Tnis Senate has the name of being a Reform body. The State has been canvassed *' against high rates of Interest. There had been complaint against the profit*of merchants, but in his county whiskiey was sold at 1 il."? per cent, profit, lie cutno from a county whose people did not stand up for the law. One of the member* of the county's board of control had talked up for the dispensary and had laid in a supply of two barrels before 'he .'10th of .I line. Now he ordered from North Carolina. There was as much whiskey sold in Florence now us ever, and it wasn't sold at the dispensary. " You are intelligent men; you know what you are doing, but I warn you that a day will come when it will be a aoro spot with you." Laughter.) "Is it wrong for an individual to sell whiskey and right for the State V Is that tbo kind of morals you are go tig to te ich our children V" On Thursday morn'n/ Senator .!<>' n Ga?y Kvwns called up the disponsaiy bill. Senator Jenkins spoke to the i. ortou to atrikc out the oti acting worn a, I "When I rend this hill," exclaimed the Senator. " I am so shocked as u South t'uroliniuu that I scarcely know where to bedn. If there is one principle more dear to a man than any other it is that his home is his castle. Though it bo a marble palace or humble cottage, though the windsof heaven ( whistle through the cracks, it is so : strong that a little child may stuml at ' the door ami command a king to halt j Henceforth there i* to be no privacy of | homo, aud our lire-aides arc to be exI posed to irresponsible and ignorant hirelings. When the assassin strikes, ho strikes one. when the burglar i steals he takes from one, but when you invade the liberties of the people you ! strike all. Senator Sloan followed Senator Jen| kins and prefaced his remarks by wayj ing that ho he had already stitcd his position and would not consume tiie time of the Senate. He simpiy rose to protest against tiie bill and pleud for ' its death as a means to the restoration of peace in the State once more. Senator Hrowu declared that some of the bill's features were objectionu ble. oenuior nincr expressed nimscir in boM terms, lie Iih.i1 observed with dissatisfaction tliut the pr.ieteul operation of the law had been to drive t le prohibition sentiment from the State. n.ilor \V. I) Kvuus stilted that ho iv is iru ndly to the bill ami wouid vote for it on its Una! passage if lie could su -ceed in gottmg certain amelidiiii nts i incorporated. Otiierwi.se no wou.d not. lie was opposed t > the power giv n t'ie eoiistaouoiry to invade pr.vuto premises. j .*5 tialer Hemphill proposed to be j hnei and proceeded to re.dtsii luc pro; Visions ef a hill wli en lie hud introdueed hist year. 1' lat the S Mi.it >r ventured to remark was "a proliihilion hill " and Wit.i threat gusto ne read the names from last year's journal of L.'io.so i wiio voted for toe bill. S Mi.itor Sy nt ie re.narked that the bill could n d be ainendoil. Tiiere was Ian underlying principle running through the wholeseheilie whieli could J not ht> changed. Senator John Gary Kvans replied that the Senate had tne ability and inteliigenee le amend any hill ; to st rike out underlying principles if necessary. Senator Smytiiohud not been constituted the guardian of the Senate. | Senator Kvans moved to table the motion to strike out the enacting words, j Senator lluist demanded the ayes and nays. The roll call resulted : j Ayes?Abbott. Burton. Hcnsley, Ilrice. Brown. I) 'i'liain, Ktir l, Kvans, \V. I).. Kvans, J. G.. Kuiler. Giinn. Harrison. Hemphill. McGcc. McDaniel. | Miller, O Dell, IN ak. Hawaii. Kedi learn. Sanders, Stribblmg, Tiinmer1 mail. Williams and Wilson 'Jo. Nays B.ogham. lluist. Km Icy, Jenkins. Moore, Mower, Sloan, Smytlic ; and Verdli r ?Si. Through 1 lie ( on I i oenla I lllviilc. One of the greatest engineering: < ntorprises of t he decade lias ju? t been | completed in Colorado- an enterprise fully as great as the tunnelling ol the llossne .Niountuin, whose completion i it... .... - 1 - I was riiii'iirauMi us a great. national atlair. I hit these are the days of great i enterprises, and tho piercing of the I greut divide by u tunnel nearly two miles long in one of the wildest mountain regions in tho world Las se.ireuly alt raeteil attention outside of (,-olor.tdo. The road itself?the Colorado Midland whieh pusses through tne new tunnel is one of the most wonderful ' pieces of engineering in the world. All J the way from Colorado Springs to (I leu wood it is a succession ol surprises j to tin* traveller, and that part of it , whieh runs from Leadville over the threat eontineutal dnide is only the i climax of a series of surprising vietories over tiie most apparently insur| mountahlo natural ohstaeles. The 1 Hugcrman Tunnel at the top of tne pass, which has been used since the road was open uhout seven years ago, b At i| leet ion g. and I l.dJS teet above sea-level and tne Midland is here the highest standard-gauge railroad in the ! world, and tne lushest of any gauge i except one in the Andes. Tne illustrations on pugo 1 l.'id give tin ideu of the approaches to the present tunnel, and j show how the new tunnel substitutes two miles of rail for the ten now in | use. Tne hie trustlo shown In the view from the east end of Hagerman j Tunnel is 2u0 feet high, cost (til),000 to ! build, and would have to bo rebuilt every eight years. Resides this, im' moii>o rotary snow-ploughs have to bo l kept in operatom at both ends of too | old tunnel all a inter, the snow on tiio - ? i . <* * ? Mi'M HUH' til VIHJ U1VIUO IKIUg Oil. u thirteen feet deep on t in1 level. Tuo now tunnel it is estimated will save in opcruting expenses ^'Td.OdO every year, besides injuring tlio continuous opt rut ton of tuo rami, so t.nat tlio 5d.0Ud.UUU spent nil tin; Iitntt?*l is expected to In- n ; good investment. Tlio Hiisk-1 vanhoo Tunnel, as tho ' new is culled, ponces tec main Saguj acho (pronounced suit wash) U.u:go, | which hero forma tho continental i divide, about twenty miles west of : Leadvillo. at a height of 10.8UO feet t above sea-leVel, l.'fdO feet below too | crest of t lio mountain, and 7l!S loot below the llagcrimui Tunnel. Its length i is Mill feet. Work upon it was begun j October H, I VU0. and since tnat time has been pushed unreinittingiy from both ends, twenty hours a day, witn 1 the most modern ucientitie apparatus. Tuo backbone ol the continent is of solid granite, and compressod-uir drills and dynamite have done tho work of excavation There lias been quite a rivalry between tlie *.raii^H at work on tho two ends as to w.iioli should reach tuo centre first. Toe Husk, or eastern, j gang won tlio race, for the lvaniioo j men were retarded by water, and the 1 liual junction was made a thousand feet west of the centre. The dividing wall i was pureed by tho drill at bdlo Tues- j pay evening, October 17th. and at d. 17 ! tho next. i veiling the blast was 11 red j which broke tho wall down. Tuo man who conceived the idea of this tunnel was Mr. It. II. ItrvHtit. chief engineer of tlio road. I'no man who, as engineer in charge, directed tho work was Mr. W. II. Lelllngwcl). Tho tunnel took three years to build, and cost $1,00?umh>. I' is little less tiiun two miles Ionic. The plans of tlio engineers worked out with grout accuracy. and the alignment, wiien tlio last partitions were cleared away, was perfect. Harper's Weekly. ? A dispatch from Hrorkvillc, j < >ntario, dated Dec. 14, says that ; Charles !. Lackey was hanged for t ho I murder of his father, sister and stcp! mother, lie went to the gallows with smiling face, lie walked to his dealli j as unconcernedly as most men would | walk to their dinner table. I'p to the I last, lie undented liin I im<ii? ???< ?, ..i,.! u.. I outward appearances died perfectly happy, faiekey'stieek was broken and ho died instantly. ?Mntor Nl. M. ("othier, of \VI ctcomb, O:"., huh ft hiekliory eane cut at 1'iyniout i Hock, Ma in 1(1-1, lo N t inn el Hiereo. who came over in , tlio Mayllowcr. The c.niu lias been . ; ims-od to the cidot son or uau fhu r ' for many ifouorutiou*. i } rVi ,*. i IIIIjIj Alii' ON or.llTS. \Vhm> u Mttii Owen Something Ho Wants It) I'ajr (lul-UtH'ltim and I'mivhoi'N Have tiiliv s> input liy. Atlanta i oust ituiion. " Owo uo man anything." 1 reckon that la good doctrine, but if St. Paul hud Iwfti a Gentile and a family man t and hud lived in our day ho*would have qualified the injunction. We j are just obliged to owu aomubody. A right square U|? " pay as you go' bllsl- ( nm.s might suit an old bachelor like i I'uul, but it don't suit us. Tnis is an , ago of credit. Even the national | government is in debt millions of dot- ; tars, and so are the states and counties \ and most of the churches. Hunks are j couriered to lend money, and every- , body is invited to come and borrow. With all those examples before us the I people have got in a way of going in ! uebt and tiiey van t get out of it. It is i s.nd Unit too nation owes more than it is worth and is ready bauKrupt, but j tout can t be so. Tucro are lots ol j f..ii?- ...i... . - iwirvo 11 liu e?l?U UUUlll IIS IMUCI1 US IIK'V j own, but hh loiiy us they pay .tnu interest it don t matter. lute rust is of j more import nice limn tbo principul to I a money ii Maui . A bond for tuirty yours is wot'tu luoru tnun ono for ion yours. Dolt is u hard muster, but credit is a kind friond and tiiuro is lota of fun in catcnin^u ). I've boon trying to oaten up over sineo the war. j lint aimost iveiybtKly is about a year t oiitnd ana tlioy stay so. With too avi i a>fo family man it is almost impossible to outoil up, ami so bo yets Used to too credit .-Vsloui and yohuraliy itius Wit.i a debt on his estate. That's \v..at .s too matter witii politics riyul now. i'.ie late panic interrupted tlio credit *y ii'jiu and toe pcopio are i. ail ubual it. 'I'm y want to borrow more* inoucy uud tin y ta.k about tlbo pi r capita just liuo tno yovoi-hihciit or solnct.ody owed every man, woman ami cbi ii tiiat imam and wouulii t pay it. There is some yood in i very misfort i.n -, and 1 know that tno panic Jdis I nil iiinie yinut results, it lias put the bru tes on tlio train of cxtiuvuyuuoc. 'I ho way to yet out of tie bt is to bay m t.iiny tliut you are not obnyed to li.ivo, and wo are doiny it at my house not willinyly at ail. Inn wncn tin: merebants soil lor eusli omy and wo bnvoiit yot tlio cash that stops the train even rich folks liavo nail to slow up for town lots and bonds and stocks are not cash. Merchants are not scliitiy as many luxuries as they did a year ayo. A jeweler told me liewas not selliuy one-Hiird as mueli. It is curious liow a man will unconsciously yi annate Ins debts, ft Jo; cunt pay an and bus a little money and wants to do nyht, be will pay tin butcher unit his yn-ciry mere ant in ptvfori n e t i too uiy y.ods n cr hunt l-ood is more iiupoi o.nt than c.wlnihy. Vnu can patcli up lust-year s ,-uruichls. but vicluuis must come fresh every day. l-'ood anu fire come first and liuvi the tirst licit (hi it slim purse. And the* pus hill ami water hill has to ho puui by town uiiks or these colli forts wtii La out oil . Tney he I onp t ( orporat i jus a no corporaliotis have no soius. Servant's hire ratiks pretty hipli, especially tin ecok and wasn woman. They are uiways paid. A man is ashamed lor hi> cook to think l.e has no money. liei respect lor him is hased upon the idea t hat ho is a pentlemun and ile>esiit holonp to the " poor white trash,' as tue Hep rocs call thelll. So to keep lip tin. delusion he always pays the eoioreo servants. Bui after these comes the dry poods men and they p< t a slice now and then unu take a note lor the halanee. Lately they have pot to drawiup 011 you urn. they write you a love letter uskiiip you to proteit the di alt. Or they ueiiu you a sluti ineiit about twice a month and say " JL'ieute remit.'' Tnut is all riplit and it is husim ss, hut if a man hasn't pot the nioiiey lie can't protect the dr..it, in r remit either. Tne dralt wufii't ?n any p.n ticinaruanper nohow, and as the protection was lor rovi inn idiiy, ltpocs back dishonored. 1 paid i 11 tl.? hoi the otherday to an old Irn ml ami when I reim ml er that I hoped we would How have a more limited ceil espoiidt lice, he said lie diuli t know ali^loinp about it. that he siippisei. his bookkeepers was the* puilty parly. So In i oil Her I shall pay less utleiitioi. to these billy does liedli bookkeepers. lint lust in ail conn.a the preuchei a n i the nocli r. I am sorry tor then., 'j lie li.wji r din take t are of liimscll, htil the uoetor see ma like one of tin iMiuiy ami he will wait ami wait I t i< i v he sends in his hill, ami then ua.t ami wail a^ain hefoie any m ruin atU ill.oil lb paid to it. The family think ti e iniu It of him to treat hin lihi ite win a eieditor and ho think) loo much of tin in to importnue. It is o.di aii ut.t t ticnute. eoiukntial II lata n im.t it n.u.-t not. be ii situ hec h\ a iitl.e n.utter el n.om y, and so, in tot mi aniline, the pt.t.r lainiiy tiootoi Js in daitper of pi r.so.n>t to initio 1 1 am t i.e ihe otn r nay u llttio hill o .II that w us two ^tiiis old and hi. tail me ami amtitin.t wire i.istnssin#. lint the pitacl.tr is the most heip.tss id all iii oitors. lie can i n iUv< out any bills m.r si ml any nans lie has to in al with a corporal.oil am eiiuicn coipointu lis are pretty muct. like all etuers. No one liiuiviuiaii acknowledges the debt. 11 he ackliowl elites his pa i t I.e is din n^ pn tty Well. Toe t llicers meet once a jtar ami lix the sunn y and anutl.tr set of t llict i\call aretind once a month and ask lot thctnomy. hut they do not tie t nn re. than liaii of it. i'lic pood liuinhlt preacher poes to the treasurer oceasionally and tiniiuiy asks it there is f any nemyoii hand lor him. lie yets about haif his tiucs and thanks tin Lord in his heart ami invokes a blessing upon his people. 1 wonder il there is a tow n emu eh in the land that a .? ? . j'o i i^iii M|imru iiji "il.i llii preuehcr. One tunc 1 was present with the oflicers when the preaclh i ventured to toll them that he w un very initeii embarrassed, that ho owcu 11 on xy ami eouUln't pay it. Toe ei.ureh had promised linn SfMOO, a no wi re heliind i?-dd, and the year only hall gone, One of the otliceVs sug* {Rested that lie cull the attention of the congregation to it next Sunday. No. he sum, ho hated to do tout lor the truth was that $1(50 of the 200 was due by the t.Hirers then |rjsent. Well, was a socdoluger. N?.xo year it was proposed to raise his salary to $l,dh(t, but he objected, saying that lieeomdn t all'orU to lose any more than he was losing. Hut I forgot to mention taxes- taxes that ure as inexorable and unfeeling as death. Nothing is certain in this j world ' at (h ath and taxes. I remein- , her when the rate of taxation on land was only JO cents on a hundred dollars, ' but now it is IbO cents. They seem to i 1 t higher ami higher as the years i roll on. I don't know where the blame ! is. Maybe it cun t be helped, lor there i is the lunatic asylum that costs near srlltJO,(Kid a year and there are other charities and expenses we did not have in the days of anld lung syne. Then there are these everlasting courts that never end and their cost is | muni'iibc and ^<ts inunonMT i vt'rj ve il*. What irt to lieilOllU' of t lU'tsO i 111 gr ( ( -, auyh w? lloro in tie last n,. ?t v.<i Uuplaiii .Iwiicti, which sa\a i f i, . ( *1 I that dnrim* tin- last year, from Octo- ' iK'f to ?>? d?or. ho has received H<? cdnvlcts i 1 colored. Thin i-. nearly twice u* \: ny as the year preceding. Too report for 1W>- was ItHi white* all told in the convict camps. Now there are only I "? whites. There arc now ) l,t?*l negi cs in the camps, being 91 per cent of all the convicts. Tho in- I ? reuse of < dorcd convicts averages In ' jicr cent u voiir. That rate will take only six a d one-half years to briny | the numb* up to 4.Old. When \ ill this alarming condition stop uiul u iat will stop it ? Our jail : is full all tiic year round and so are most oft) * jails in the state, and it takes time ind money to try them and feed thorn. Of courso we war t a re-i forinatory tnd we want it very badly, but it will take one of mumtnoth proportions t< hold all tho young negroes who will b sent thero. Tout college will inatri ulate live hundred the lirst your, and it will take lots r*t money 1 and more axes to keep it up. Hut wo } wont won v about future troubles. It . is well en* ugh though to foresee tlicm i and prcpu e for them. It looks like wo will n< od a tariff for revenue and j protection too. hefor*! wo got tnrough | w itli tiic i !tfro. liVLli Alti*. I I,UO tl-.l) lilUi: A col.Vl. (>. II. I ui-vin, a South Carolina j liiiwyri', I'iKiirch in a I'olico Sena- ] tion ? !! is Si nt In Jail f??r Assault. A geiitl man who would havi icalily pa-seil foi an Italian fount liuii no not stated tin ho was G. H. Hurvin. und a inember f tin: South Carolina bar, tlx'iircd o ten ivoly in a poliee court | sen n11 n yctttcrihiy, says ,iiu At.unta ; Con.-. L; tut n. Mr. lie v.n is trimly built, has it ! utaibii -Ji) c compiex'.on. sparkling black i-.N e and heavy black liu r. Hi: uitislncoc is as black us his liuir, ami was neat y twisted into two sharp pointed i iris yesterday. His pontic was uistt i e<dy groomed. lie was respectably clad in a diagonal I'rince Albert. b (toned close about his Cue.stei Heldiu form. Theo.it it-like attorney front Governor Tiili an*s State appeared as defendant t > n very unlovely series ol faets. swi n to by a midtlle-nyod lady and her wo daughters. Hi denied the char, *s, swecpinjjly, and Intilt his defense u .on counter charges as ujjly sounding mil far more damaci i^r than those all* pal against him. lb t, his defense wa , according to the recorder's opinion, I ivored with acrimony, and it xrot the lawyer into a pretty sad pickle. J( Mr. Il:t vin says he came to Atlty,ls^ a little o\ -r two months a|?o to pray aw. lie is :i leyal practitioner j l)r,,'s the Paln tto State and came hv* ' 10<J seek b?tt r fortunes, lie was sljreo foil of cash, ait quite as respect aMuin??e prospcroi -i in appearance us ii* " , vcr bee" . Owiny to limited " ln,'Sf ?ays. went to Mrs. .1. Aji that I i lO.'i Mad .: n 1-t oct t * buaJnSjriio to a j He say Airs. I?.i\is is u una latiy .ml was rccomnu^^H by tin- |?j tor of tlm I'hristn^B,0,r strei lin jind h h wife, who is the ^Bvover, I member tf Ins family, bouiaK^ja Soilt until Su inlay, when in* t^Hk. ( nis re.-i eneo there iinili^t' lances v tiell he will have ^ ()',i'peo ,ii the so erior court. ^Htlie (i( Mr. II; vin appeared in p<^B<|iiito locxplui these eii( innstj>ne(^|ir lay aft* > 10011. but failing* to ill)', > !udyo (' I bonu s sat sfuetion, he "WViS eoinmitl) I to jail for assaulting Mrs. 1 Davis an one of her daughters. When larvin was culled to the bar ho U; l<ed era continujinco of the ease on 1 lie p. ound that Mr. 10. W. Martin, otie of ii i i attorneys, was busy in t he icy s atn e, and Mr. James, Austin unot ner eyal adviser, .who was sick abed, urn still another was detained on other yr? amis, .ludyo t'allioun iym red the i ( |iiest for continuance and proceeded t( hear the case. Mrs. I 'avis, a respectable looking udy. am ber two daughters, youny iiulics u ider twenty, and Patrolman Crusssell . were the only witnesses in the case Mrs. Davis lirst told her tory, ai I was ovi ivoino with emotion several t me during its recital. Mrs. 1) * vis sad tout nine wi eks aye llarviti nd his wife beyun hoarding with he:, and that they ware quiet enough ; nd gave her no trouble, her uily obj( 'tion to them as hoarders bony that larvin continually noyloetod J to pay I cr for houroiny tin re. She >ays ho pleaded hard times in extenuatio. of his failure to yive tin natter h s attention, and she bore with oim pat ently until last Saturday. She sail sbe was very poor, and was uird pi -s-ed to keep herself and dauyhtei comfoi tubly and respectul ly, .s she w shed to *lo. She st;i l.i-<I in-.i hi' and i it daughtris endured done siie liriv. tions in order to make Mr. ilid Sirs I lai vin com fort ablo. Aiiu/ii; otlit i* sacrifices nIio luudo to nuke ti j 1 lar\ ins, who wcro very la.stiiliou in tticir requirements, satislied, wa to sell Ikt family si'ver. vhieh t- o did. liarviu was always cady u It am excuse whcll she asked iiin for ?vh:it ho owed her, she said. >nd she was patient. Mer sixteenyour-old daughter was less -<o, how? ver, am she boldly spoke her opinion of Mr. I arvin to Mrs. liorv.n. This pinion vas repeated to liarvin, fitiii very 1111 h enraged, ho went to Mrs. Davis ai I demanded that who punish int diiu liter for speaking of him as she had > one to his w if". Mrs. I ivis refused to do so. and she .-ays lliu in swore that he would do so himself. Mrs. Davis then ordered him to leave . or home, and gave him three days to <; l another hoarding place for himself i id wife. Ile said lie would go,? and ielt t aturduy, with his hoard Inn .-.till unp: id. When uovin^ away from the Davis's, 11 iir v i it miiitehtioimlly left several pictures teliiild, which were hanging on the si tint,' room wall. In the afternoon Mr Marvin sent hack for them, but Mrs. )avis refused to let them go. stating i ? the inossenger that Marvin nail not paid his hoard and she was going to keep the pictures for collateral. ^ Yestei ay Mrs. Davis's daughter d:seovered arviu in the sitting room removing ic pictures. " 1 ran in the room ann told him not to take them," said Mr; Davis, " and he said ho would do so. 1 told him to leave thefn and he s- -nek nio In the face with his first, km eking mo silly. My oldest duughti i ran up and he struck heron tin- head .villi a heavy stick I o had in his hand The blow was a heavy one J i and raisi I a knot on her head as big ! as a goo> egg. Me then rushed at my youngest laughter, ami tore her dress ! uli her 1 his anger. We screamed | ' and rail. J for tho police, and Otllccr l'i tissolh camo in and can testify as to I tho blowtI Mr. Ms vin in a very calm, elegant ? and pn- iso way. e ha ranter i'/ed this | ( rvidencr is totally falsi*, proceeded to i regale th court with si neatly worded ; I arraignn. mt of Mrs. Davis's character. ( He said he had hoard her sing a j I naughty song, and at this statement I Mrs. Da is and her daughters burst 1 into tear* They denounced it a vile * auhunny. Marvin continued, saying < he had discovered that tho moral J utinOophi re ol the Da\ i? hoiue was not ' " such u- ho desired his wtfo to live in. ; * ami ho hud decided to move when Mrs. i l)?vl? ardorrd hiui to do ho. Au to the UMsault. ho said that he en- 1 tonal the room to jjet the pictures. an t i the eldest Miss Davis, rushed in and I litcrully smashed one of the pic-tun - < over hm head. Tl.c mother kuoekeu , I another picture on the floor. shatter-, in^ it to pieeoH. lie admitted striking i the youn;; ladv with his stick. Patrolman Crussollo testified as to 1 tlte blows llarvln dealt the younjf lady. < Marvin's attempt to blacken the char- \ ] acters of Mrs. Davis and her fatniiy , < operated strongly against him. and < Jud^o Calhoun bound him over for as- , suult. In a very courtly way, llarvin , inquired if bond would be accented immediately, and assured the judfro that the cuso had tuk? n just exactly the ( direction lie most desired. u I like it to ^o to court,"' said he. *' for there I slui I build up such a hltfh and damning \v all of evidence that this woman will liuve to leuvo the city." Despite iiis (lourish, Marvin di.l not make bond and wus sent to jail last niirht. Mo is highly educated and is said to have had iii^h stauuiitg al the l bur iu South Curolinu. SOb'TltlOltN AND INDI'K l IIV ? I l-'ushtonuhle liift- In WaNliiiiKton ( it) ?'II n? TillinuiiH of Soulli ('nrolliia ? Hci'i h Island iim an Ideal Home lor the southern l'laiuer. Newspaper correspondents at Wash! iii^tnii periodically entertain their j reudors with clever description* of I how Congre&snioii cut. Tney did not i hit upon a pretty good anecdote of the famous l-).,vcy Crockett. When tout notable pioneer returned from ti o national capital to Ins Western noinc, he was asked as to the dining punctilio ol Washington. He said? I "The It prcHuhtativos eat dinner bcj tween it and .'I o'ciock. Toe Senators [ Iced between <> and 0." One of lus inquisitors asked when the Hrosidi lit dined. Crockett serutehed his head musingly, but replied with promptness: "On, lie don t cut dinner until tile next Uuy I" Of all our presidents, Arthur was the most fastidious and , ep cureud. I siisp ct that high living more than the i- .ratitudo of his party, hastened bis 1 Cleveland is what Sir Walter .-n'ott called "a good ircnchinui.. lie would jirobably faro better, physically, if ho exercised more j I and ate less. i The most ascetic man 1 over knew in Congress was George D. Tillman, of j South Carolina, wuo lived somewliat i .' ke an uuoient Spartan. Ho cared l?8 ttU.inif for dainty meals and proforetl- < eribeS' chose the simplest food. lie States ''' that "the le.-,s lie ate the bet.felt." lie never wore an over. .?r undershirt in the rigorous that a,id maintained phenomenal obtain.. His incndicamcnls wore i l.? ..i. and lemons. He disnosed of II* '"'rmor in vast quantity, and! "'h <i Stonewall .laekson in love butts of tor us nature's sovereign remedy 'Rill brlil> congestion. 11? was one of should'Ui,liCtit M"'n wb?? over on to rod ? ., ( life, it;: l :-ij of the most 1 t iir,,a|( studious, profound, philoso)88tb|. n>- I) a tod th rungs and kept a ple dlow-tailed coat more as a ourloslty ! ,,,,,-an any tiling else. Invivations to , 'swell dinners wore lost upon liiin. Ho ' romainod in bis room and filled bis capacious mind wltli information upon many subjects. There is probably no man in America who knows more about metallurgy, and the same state- ' incut may be made concerning bis . ac(piiutance with the political history of all nations. He was nothing of a courtier and was the only Congressman who never put his logs under the ( 1'resident's mahogany, though every member of the House and Senate is perfunctorily requested to do so onee a year. 11 is speeches were few, hut they were singiurly characteristic, , and he was the master of his theme. J By some freak of polities he is now in ? retirement, but the day may soon arrive when his State will demand his ( prodigal talents, unshakable honesty and valuable experience. I The present governor of South Caro- , iina is a younger brother of George D. Tillman. Benjamin Tillman, in a brief period, has risen from obscurity 1 to national fame. Not long ago ho : ' was a poor struggling fanner, who * bad a bard time in support of a eon- 1 sidet able family. Ills dauntless 1 character and remarkable intellect were not e\i n suspected except by his v elder brother, who predicted that, if (, flolloidiioiti. I 1 ... -? UMIUj OVI ?! ?, I) II WUIliU UCtil'MU tin' rest di the family. He lias become a wonderful extemperunoous orator, .uul yet 1 can remember when lie mistrusted his own powers, and had to read his remarks. His leadership in South Carolina has been gained uguiiist ouils that would have appalled at most any oilier man, and, as Covbynor, ho has still to combat the most reduuhtabio opposition, which has every element ol puissance except numerical proportions. Liut the faculties ol Coventor Tillman appear to grow with contention.' Ilis speech at St. Louis on tne stiver question was a revelation to northern men who were . prejudiced against him. and hostile j editors f 1 ankueenared that, in the ; future of great parlies, ho must be 1 counted us a portentous factor, lie is , now chii lly engaged in attempting to j maintain the C >tnenburg system of liquor dispeiisulioii, as the minimizing oi drunkenness. It is a hard rubagauist the Irecdofti of the individual, but has. 1 beli ivo, produced some excellent ' results for temperune.e A doggetl op- ! position to it. in some quarters, has prevented a thoroughly fair trial, but j the governor is undismayed. If he i can curry the people with him on this subject it would be a pronounced triumph, and other States, may make a similar oxpt runcut. It is always dangerous for a ruler to interfere with people's drink, ait the (iovornor may 1 i?e certain of his following. The career of such a man will bo curiously watched, and nobody can tell what fortune bus in stor?> for him. Last Sunday I drove with a kinsman of mine to Beech Island, South Carolina, a noted vicinage of Augusta. The road leading to it is on the Uyorgiu, f de of the river, a level macadam. < >u either side are vast swamp pluntu- u lions which produce magniiicunt I w crops of corn, outs, cotton, grass, unci i whutcver else may ho hiiccchs fully | produced agriculturally. When I i tl told soino friends in Maryland that j T grass on these plantations was lun-- <?l vested seven times a year they were u increduloiH, but it is true. Alfalfa is A the most generous forage plant, but C the gathering of Vc.tch, Johnson and li IK-rinuda grasses in succession is not Ji far behind it. 1 Mantel's here toll mo ?l> I hat they have garnered 1011 bushels of A jorn or oats to the acre. There is ol lunger of an ovorllow of tho river, hut T i total loss of crops is very seldom ex- e< Derieiieed. Dairying is carried on, in lii no instance, profitably. Hogs aro tired in cheap abundance. Ono of my. tli iinsmcn raises immense (locks of st turkoys almost without cost, and his dc secret is to let them have their free- m loin frotn the tlmo they arc hatched, ar md never to coddle them. On the m xuiks of the bavaunali river there is a as tploildld gl"OVO of oaks. Olio of which is eputed to ho the largest in tho world. , A pendulum frrn no:-| ? ravol* I ler>. .lust atiiivi tliu I.vol, which i* now oo'ur ami low for the season, bold tnulhs arise. uiul on the plain ubovt i tiany duels, Home fatal, have boon e fought. In ono of tln'M? eneouutor* a t Baltiinoreun. with-slight pruetieo with o 11 pistol, killed an export with that weapon. Thia wua a very sad ea>? t Both of the principal were \ouiig no n j i>f prominence, and the slayer did i.<?t ^ long survive the slain. Ut lute your* v iucling in this loculity, and in fuet al Dver the South, has gone out of fushion. It is no longer considered j ; cowardly to decline such barbaric j methods. Across the river there is a gradual usee lit until the highlunds are rcuehod. ' The farming land is very productive 1 , when properly tilled, out only one man i . in this region admits that lie titni* this calling, at present, u protitub.e venture. This man. however, works huru ? himself and btlollildrou follow his OX* * ample. Ho combines in ;u.*try, thrift and diversification of crops and labor. We halted at FtodolitTe, ttlO stately ' home of Maj. Hurry Haiumotid, wln*?c father, tho celebrated Governor and ! ! Sonutor. t hose this s|M>t for ttie oreo- I 1 tiou of one of the largest and finest * dwellings in the South. Tno passage- | way dividing the liuuse is as btvad u> i the whole front of an average Bait, inoro residence. Tho rooms are a. in the same ample proportion, and adorn- 1 ed with pictures ami statuary broug .* from Ilaiy. In old days the nosp.ta ty of this mansion was boundless unu v baroniui. Many distinguished ] . r us * h iVO been entertain. it here, i n i Mttj. Hammond emulates the trauu on ! his race. Ho la a inuu of varii I at extensive culture. H-- is unr.vi t> . scientific knowledge of tho i ri in interests of the South. and I'rosidout Cievclund couiil not possih:\ ..net . person of more eminent tituess tor as sistanl secretary of agriculture. It is a memorable delight to spend a day 1 with this gentleman and hi.-. attruclix. family. I met there Hon. TlioniusJ. 1 Davies. who has long been u type ol i ttie energetic Southerner ai d a pioucct S I of Kaolin development. The view from the porches of lied- I ' elide is entrancing. Tncre is a grand I ' panorama of the glorious Savannah i valley, whoso health of verdure ex- i * pands before the eye for many miles, j ' 111 If I til 1*1 lllirli ivliii.ll I ho Milll.i .h.i.iiin I ? v, ^ | v glistens in serpentine silver as the? ! sunshine plays upon it. Tho <-ity of i Augusta is easily discerned toward tho i western horizon, and pull's of steam 1 or the tmiflled roar of trains indieat I the passage of the I'ort Koyai railway. ! Gazing on this prospeet from such environment. I could not but think how perilous it would he to have habitation there, for how could anyone, unless by the, grace of heaven, ever leave it without regret, even for a better abode??James 11. Randall in Haitimore Mirror. A (jl'Ahlll'lM/10 l.YN'CII IN'G. Pour Negroes Suspended From One Unit) a nd Shot. Birmingham, Ala.. Dec. 12.?A re- i port has just reached here from Salem. Ala., of a quadruple lynching, which i occurred in Dallas county on Sunday. Saturday night four negro trumps attempted to break into tho house of Mrs. Win. Jones, during tin* absence of her husband. She shot one with a pistol, when all lied. Mrs. Jones gave an alarm, and the negroes were soon captured. All confessed their guilt. They were taken to a tree in a neighboring swamp, and just at sunrise all four were suspended, in a very quiet manner, from the same limb. A volley i?f shots wore fired at the swaying forms, after which the posse rode away. The scene of the lynching is a few miles from tho place where three tie- j jroos were lynched last week for the ( murder of Keuhcn Smith at Berlin. t, I in- niunii ? as Kepi SO SCCrel milt I ( nothing was know., of it here until to- | lay, when the news was brought by a v imminent citizen of an adjoiniug ? ;ounty, who was in Solma eounty last , light and heard the story. ( Tuk South's Ghkat Nkkd.?When ( 1 ulian Kaiph wus in Chattanooga he c said to a newspaper man : " Tno no{ro is today hurting the South to such m extent as to make the damages done j >y the war a small thing as compared ( villi what the negro has done and will lo in turning aside white immigration, t is useless to expect the German, talian, Austria, Swede, or any other ^ European labor to come to the Si uth if ' lis agents see everywhero crowds and von hordes of iuie hoicks sunning iiemselvos in every town and village. ^ \nd yet you have vast tracts of supcrino land which would invite honest '' aborers and would make your c uintry ich-rich with that wealth which jver springs from labor and ever re- ' rentes and reinforces itsCif. Tin- .' iroblem is almost paralyzing to the nind. It must solve iisetf. 1 think. ^ nysolf, that your lands aio.-o r eh that ^ diey Will ul'liw the people of I'dirope. mil the negro will cither have to work i ysteinaiieahy like the white man. or >e crowded out. W.ion L compare dississippi, Georgia, South Carolina . tnd Alabama with such almost worth- J ess States as the Dakotas and with u air great arid bolt which can he made sv emnnerative only at gr. at expense >y irrigation, I cannot understand why 1 hose States are tilling up with new icople and the South is neglected. It . ^ mist he partly because the tide of im- , ^ nigration set in when the South was A rouh'ed by the results of the war. be- .. auso tho South lias never been adertlscd by great trunk lines with land s< rrants and because of tho ovcr-abundlit negro, who seems to represent la- ^ tor ami yet never lubois n lupendently || o as to enrich the cour.t y l?ut works s a depentdant if he works at all 1,.II if i - ' s' ? wv/?v mi, ii i limy ii wluloul o [ en ling, you iiood Northern farmers nd Europeans to show your agt'icul- t' urists that it is not disgruccfui or unignilied for a farmer to work his own wd. In that sentence there is more hail a fat volume to those who think st r themselves. Your ojuI and iron 0 aterests hereabouts will bring more cc nd more woulth as you go deeper and lii 'ider into manufactures " vi ? h( ?Judge Alexander White died on 10 1 nth inst. at his homo in Dallas, exas, aged TH years. 1 lo was a native ^ ' f Franklin, 'i'enn., hut spent his laturor years at Talladega and Selma, llj: la., each of which lie represented in il> engross bo fore and after the war. ?a i 1871 President Urant appointed I'11 ndgo White to till an unexpired term i ohiof justice of the torritory of Utah, So ftor discharging the duties of tins mi lleo with distinction he went to as; exas. settling at Dallas, whore ho lis mtinued to reside until the time of fei is death. <*<;< ?The Jewish Spectator attributes va lo recent business depression to tiio ou retelling of the orodit system?the mi jpendonoo on thoso promissory not is. ug ortgagos, loans and other seeurit.es id collaterals which are counted as As onoy. but do not bring it when they kn k for it. th< STATU M:\VS IN IIIIIKF. mcrcstlua Voles IVoiii Various Sour, row. Major John F. Jones of llhioksbur# i at the head of a >\ndioato thut will stablish it plant of aoid r hum tiers at bat place. Work will com mo lire at >UOO. A petition is in ritciilution asking Ik legislature to repeal tiio laws nvhibitiup liu- sale of (iqtioi1 in Vorkille. in oi-dot that a dispensary may >o established. Capt. lion Ferry, of F.dgetield, has joue to Washington where ho ox poets o secure a pes 'ion in the mounted mliee force of'.hut city. < 'apt. Ferry v s well tpialih d for that position, beng both honest and i apablo. Col. John 15. Calmer, formerly of hiinhia. and we! known throughout he State oil account of his eonueetiou vith the Scottish loan e nnpunies. and ?lherwisc. died at Winter Fark, Flu., sunday rvurtiug, l)ee. lhth, ugod G7 p'oars. I ho hi!! to re|k>al the charter of .he Fort U >val and Auimsta Hail road ?&saod its riii.il ivailing llko a flash in ^ ,ho Scout** Senator lluist moved to A uc.ottuiteU piv-tponc it, and when tho * '7 . v'to was taken on \ he and Senator lenkius voted against tho repeal. . i lv l r. F thii'.lurd, treasurer of i.iv.te- was I to be short in his UWUtll-i *o .. nt *?f *017. lio .> i i> it IK has found . ? - his claim for roa owed by tho ,n,l w ill bo passd not talk t Judge Sit T > iso. but said -..iy violators \ ^ tlM muling tho F t :;t lo would keep ji gi ; leasing those arrestTin t p- n't t t e railroads of South " ina t > tho llvilroad C untnission u the month of September have boon ompletcd and -how.-, that the decrease n the earnings continue. The eomwutive figures for Septptnbor this ,'ear ami last are as follows: Total arnings, 1S0'J. $.")S2.b.'17 .'11; 181K1. $,">(>5,)"?8.7>?: not doorcase. $17.87b.f>8. ? During the last session of the Soutli arolina ('onferenoo ? f the Methodist Episcopal Church. South, at Sumter, jharges were preferred against Rev. P. II. Kidwell of Columbia with ro'orenco to the di-pen-ary matter, in .vhieli young Walter Kirkland was oncernod. Tho conference concluded ,hat the charges against Mr. ElwelL .vcrc not sustained and the case wn? lismissed. - Id the United States Court .fudgo Urnonton has tiled a ii< croc for $10,000 lumugcs in the suit of Mitchell King >\s. the United States. The plaintiff is .ho owner of a rice j)lantation on the ionth Carolina side of the Savannah ivor, which he claims was rendered inlit for planting' purposes by reason if the work of creeling a dam for the lecpening of tin water on the Savaniah river and improving the harbor of savannah ?The most prominent gentlemen in outh Carolina brought forward to ate as .1 adge Simonton's successor arc ludges Wallace and Hudson, F.x-Conjroosmen Hemphill and Klliott and ol Hdw. MeCrudy. It is stated, liowvor. that Representative Hrawloy of 'harleston can seeure the appointment 1 he so desires. Mr. Hrasvley is 52 rears of age and a native of South Carolina. Ho was educated at tho itatc College and served in the Coned crate army. Ho was Solicitor of he Six til .ludioial Circtiit and has icrvcd in tho South Carolina Logislaure. ?Tho whiskey war in Charleston is jetting warmer and warmer. Tuesday t, culminated in an altercation on King itreet between Oscar I'ruuso, a onoirmed ox-Cenfcderato soldier, and 'hief Constable Caillard. of the whisky onstabulary. (Jailbird stopped a dray m the street to examine its contents or contraband liquors. IYhusc, who vas a bystander, spoke to the driver md told him he could drive on. as the '.unstable had no right to stop him,, unstable Caillard ordered I'ruuso off, nd tho latter cursed him, whereupon) Jailbird used liis stick on the one-armd man and beat him pretty severely. A Long Fast.?A dispatch from 'ortiund, Oregon, saws that Mi-u ieoi'ji'o II. Williams has finished her nrty-duys f.irt ha' the purification of he ho ly, and is now in condition to reoive revolutions from the Holy Ipii il >10111! n.1 he:- to predict just when he world will end. Mrs. Williams is the wife of l'resiiei t (h unt's at term y i, ral and tho jader of a hand of lvlieionis to who ?i*U s- t>> he icvo that tl.e world is abut to ltd. She is < assod by some with lie Christian Scientists, because sho rcac >.s t .at insecure a purilieation ! the b. !y it is n?saury for till to j^o ' thr<ni;:ii t'ae wilderness/' which coniats of an almost absolute fast for n ty days and forty nights. Tho iiu'istlun Scientists, however, disclaim II connection with Mrs. Williams and er teachings, and characterize hor as fanatic. Tula was Mrs. Williams's second rip through tho wilderness, and before he be^an t she s lid the end of tho orltl was at hand. No deflnito day as set. hut she said it would ho preceded by riot in-/ and anarchy throu^hut the universe. She said that t.hia inter thero would )>o a eo itest ha .veoii hihor und capital, ana that tho uthorities would bo powerless to quell ie uurisinir of tho sulTorintf fioor. alatnity after calamity would befall a : the wnolo country would ho dova,at id by tiros and floods: soourjjos ould eiaim thousands of victims, und lore wniil'l > DCITIUIO UCSII'IU'I iOll of fe and property in divers ways. Mrs. Williams's lir>t fast was of g ?v< nty days' duration. Siu; claimed int. too Lord nad directed her at the id of the forty days to continue it lirty days longer. ?Christian Roid, the well-known ory writer, is the duu^liter of Col. harles Kishcr. who held the largest mtract on the Western North Carotin section of the Richmond and Dunlin system. When the State became mkriipt lie lost ull he had put into u iu/???h " "'l 1- - - 1 ? mm iiih cm ugh tor bravely sot> it to ropuir the family fortunes by fit ii?yr ?torU:? under the ubovo nom* ^ )-plume. Christian Reid some years, jo married Mr. Tierinan. a geologist, ill moved to Mexico. She writes ocsionally for Roman Catholic nows.pors. ? B. L. Duke?, of the firm of Itufco >ns Co., of Durham, N. C., ana ado an individual assignment. Ilia sets are estimated at $700,000 and hia ihllilies at YoOO.OOCk There are prerred creditors to tho amount of $145,0. He was largely interested in viouH indu trial enteriirisos. it ia rrently reported that fie lost half a llion in cotton futures a few months o. ?Edward .1. Aston, ex mayor of iheville. and one r\( she most widely own moil in Noj>^h Carolina, died opr c lUth ins\., aged 07 years, \ -