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l VOL. IX | SEIZURE OF BONDED WHISKEY. JTHK ltESUI/T OF HIS VISIT. il Governor Tillman Tolls About His lie* I J coot Trip to Washington. I Tho dispensary law has raised a J question iu which thero seems to bo a ( conflict between Federal aud State authority. Under tho law in tl'La State dlstillod spirits in tho custody of the United States iu bonded warehouses I belonging to parties who violated tho provisions of tho dispensary law by soiling thom within tho Stato aro declared to bo a nulstywc, and on conviction the Stato aro authorized to scizo and contiroato such liquors. Governor Tillman has proposed in such cases to pay tho tax to tho government and seize the spirits, which was not agreed to by tho revenue authorities in South Carolina. Tho Governor inado u visit last week to Washington in regard to this matter, and on his return lie gavo tho following account of tho trip and its results : "I accomplished all I went for, and that wus to prevont any conflict of authority or friction botween tho Fedoral and State authorities. I found Commissioner Miller vory anxious of co-operating with me in the matter. There is somo doubt in his mind as to whether ho has authority to allow tho State to soizo liquor in a distillory warehouse and pay tho tax on it. The quostiou lias never boon raised boforo and thero is no judicial decision along : this line. The no have been cases of shorifTs att?ny#i.ng to soi/.o liquors and i imported gooos in bondod warehouses unuer warrants for tho collection of debts and tho courts have held that this was not permissible. Until the passage of the last revenue law, tho Wilson act as amended by the Sonato, liquor in warehouses was held under certificates, which wore used in tho markets and any one holding the cor- j titicato was considered tho owner and I could pay tho tax and remove it. Congress, for some reason, changed tho phraseology and tho law now provides that the tax must be paid by tho distiller, and under a strict construction k no ono else is allowed to do it, not oven I an administrator or executor. "I contended that the government % only hold tho liquor for the purpose of securing the tax ; that tho State's right to polico liquor within its bordors, whether manufactured or imported, was unquestioned. Tho Supremo Court in any number of decisions, concedes this in tho most emphatic lauguago, and tho Wilson act of 1890. tho last legislation by Congress on the subject, also concedes it. "Tho commissioner will submit tho kp matter to tho Attorney General, whose * "opiuiou will govern of course until the Legislature and Congress meet. Tho whiskey in question will bo proceeded against and judgment obtained, if the evidence will warrant, and it will not bo allowed to be removed from the warehouso until the matter is finally determined. I have no doubt that the polico power of tho State, which differs from tho attompt to seize for tho purpose of collecting a debt, will reV coivo recognition at tho hands of the Federal authorities, and if the law is (f at present defectivo so as 1o permit this, it will be amended when Congross moots. It may become necessary for tho Legislature to pass an act to provide for tho licensing of stills in this State and the control of tho output by tho State officers. Ono thing is very certain, the illicit salo of liquor at disE^MMtilleries will bo stopped." liquor in question was seized at in Edgefield County, and Gov-1 jPTillman expects to got it and it sent to tho dispensary. .'ig0 THE VIEWS OF COMMISSIONER j MILLER. A Clear and Strong Statement of the Government's Posit ion?An Early Decision Desired by Dot It Parties. Tho following is the letter of Commissioner Miller concerning tho question at issue betweon the State and p Foderal governments as to the jurisdic . , uon 01 eacn in tna^niorcomont or the l ' ^ftouth Carolina djRynsary law. Soc1?etary Carlislo hajfcrorwarded thie let*pr to the Attorney General and ro^^ruostod his opinion : ^ Washington, D. C., Oct. 16, 1804. Hon. John G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury : ' Sir: I onoloso herewith a letter ,? from Governor Tillman of South Carolina, and a printed copy forwarded by him of the State dispensary law, and I have tho honor to request that the same may bo submitted to tho honorable Attorney General for his opinion as to the course which should be taken by this office in tho event of seizures by Stato officers for confiscation, under Ptno dispensary law, of distilled spirits depositoi in distillery bonded warehouses under tho internal revenue laws. It is proper to stato that the natural effect of acquie^hnce by this office in tho courso propfwxl to bo taken would bo the probable complete destruction of tho bonded warehouse system within the State; the consequent cessation of the business of manufacturing distilled spirits under tho internal revenue laws, and the loss to the United Statos of further income from that source. ^ Tho dispensary law, it appears, has been construed by tho Stato Supreme Court as not absolutely prohibiting tho iiuiuuutcburu utin Httiu in umi/iuuu ?|>irits. But it appears also that under the law a distiller in the State cannot sell his product to private persons within the State, nor, if I rightly apprem u hend tho provisions of tho third seclion, to pi ivato persons to ho shipped out of the State, hut only to the State cominlssionQ^tt^ to persons outside of the State arjK^ier regulations which would seriously inconvenience the shipper. Undor such restrictions there would hardly bo any further lawful production of distilled spirits within tho State. No distiller would be willing to produce an article to bo sold only on compulsion to a single purchaser and at the pHoe fixed by him. Tho question is broadly presented whether a State can so legislate as incidentally to deprive the United States of one of its declared sources of reve P sue, and it appears to rao a proper matter for tho. consideration of the highest law officer of the governroonj^ The Suprome Court in McCullouglpf^: Maryland, 4, Wheat, 316., deo*1 ^ that 44 the Statos havo no dp^ j * * taxation or otherwise, tox podo, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the Constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into effect tho powers vosted in the national government." In Hannibal and St. J. R. It. Co., vs. Ilusen, 95, U. S., 465, it was hold that " noithor tho unlimited powers of a Stato to tax, nor any of its largo police powers, can bo exorcised so as to work a practical assumption of tho powers conferred by tho Constitution upon Congress." And in numerous other cases it lias beon held to tho same effect. On tho other hand, in such cases as tho Boston Boer Co. vs Massachusetts, 97, U. S., 25, tho right of tho Stato to absolutely prohibit tho manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors was u phold. Applying what appears to bo tho established law to the present case, it would sooni that whilo tho State of South Carolina has tho right, in tho exercise of its police power, to prohibit tho manufacture of and traillc in distilled spirits within tho Stato, it is doubtful if it has a right, without prohibiting tho manufacture or traffic, to practically take possession of tho business in all its details and carry it on, and through its own agencies, for its own profits, thus perhaps forc'ug tho United States to surrondor tho income derived by the source heretofore rolied upon. It follows, of course, that if one State may do this, all muy, and tho police power of the States will have boon "so exorcised as to work a practical assumption of tho powers of Congress," and, to "impede, burden and control tho operation of its laws." You will note that tho Governor proposes to recognizo tho lien of tho United Statos upon tho spirits in tho warehouses for tho taxes duo thereon, and to pay tho same. Tho law (sec-1 tions 48 and 50 of tho act of Congress, | August 28, 1894) limits tho rignt of withdrawal of spirits from tho warehouse to tho distiller himself. Tho State now proposes to personate tho distiller. Such authority has boon denied by United States courts to State | officers. Seo McCullough, Jr., vs Henry Largo, U. S. Circuit Court, Western district of Pennsylvania, at tho May term, 1884?Justieo Bradley of tho Supremo Court concurring. It is to bo observed also that it frequently happens that a distiller is indebted to the government in a sum j greater than the tax upon tho spirits thomsolves then in warehouse. Such indebtedness is, by section 3,251 of tho j Revised Statutes, doclared to bo a lien (.upon the property and rights to prop] erty of tho distiller. Taking spirits by I tho Stato in the manner proposed might easily impair, if not destroy, the ability of the government to eollect | itH debt. For my own guidance I wish to be [ particularly advised whether or not I nuiy lawfully consent to permit the withdrawal of spirits in bonded warehouses in tho State of South Carolina upon seizure therein by the State and tender of tax to tho collector, or upon judgment of forfeiture by tho State court. Governor Till man peisonally requested yesterday an early reply to his inquiry. U.o was told, however, that the matter is under consideration and will be disposed of us soon us possible. Respectfully yours, Jos. S. Miller, Com. A DOUBLE TRAGEDY. , A Brother'# Bullet Caused the Tragic Death of a Good Matt. The doath in Charleston last week of Capt. B.. F. McCabo marks tho end of estrange double tragedy the first aot oT which occurred about four weeks' ago at MeClellanville, a small settlement in Borkoloy County. Capt. McCabp was a bright, pushing, energetic and public spirited capitalist. Very few peoplo outside of his inimtateB l:new that ho had a brother, George McCabo, who had been living in Texas lor yearn, ana sun iowor Know oi his return to this State. As a mattor of fact, ho did roturn some months ago, and was placed in charge of the plantations of the Borkeloy Land Company, of which his brother Frank was the president, and which owns vast tracts of land in Berkeley County, much of it purchasod from the State at delinquent tax sales. The first act of the tragedy occurred during tho latter part of September. It seems that Captain McCabe went out to tho stock farm, and upon approaching tho house occupied by his brother, Mr. Goorgo W. McCabo, was greeted by tho report of a gun, and a load of shot tore his coat on tho right side. A second shot was fired, and Captain McCabo received several buckshot in his loft arm. Ho then retreated and hid behind a cabin. His brother wus about to follow him, but was turned back by a colored mun who lived in tho cabin. Mr. Georgo McCabe then went into his house again, and when nextseenwas dead having taken a dose of strychino, probably rightaftor the shooting. Nothing more is known of tho incident of tho death of Georgo McCabo. Frank McCabo, after a very painful journey, was taken to the city, and for sorno time it was thought that his wounds were not of a serious charactor. Within a day or two of his death however, blood poison developed and mortification of the arm sot in, when it was too lato to perform an amputation. Thero are rumors that Georgo McCabo was at one timo confined in an insane asylum, but ho had been living in Texas for a number of years, and came to suporintond the stock farm in Borkolov onlv a fow month* slcm It. had been feared boforo this last sad occurrence that his mind was affected, and his conduct would seem to bo convincing that ho was totally unaccountable for his actions. Prank McCabe was vcr^ popular. Ho was a graduato of tlio Citadel Academy and served in the war with the cadet corps. After the war ho was captain of the Irish volunteers and at one timo president of the Hibernian society. Ho was a large investor in all the industrial enterprises started in the city and was very gonorous in nis contributions to charitablo purposes. His age was forty-sevon years. W. A. Neal, Superintendent I Vtr CcKooitentiary, i9 making his annuo berlui'ii OP the fa ns and rook quarn \ yt?to w^loh employ conNoXii-' 1 la CONWAY, S. C. f RESCUED FROM THE MOB. BLOODY ltlOT IN AN OHIO TOWN. Three M(>ii Killed niul Others Woundcd in Saving a Worth loss Wretch ? The Negro tlrute Taken Away Under lleuvy Military Kscort. Washington, c. 11., Ohio, October IS.?Jasper Dolby, the negro who assaulted Mrs. Mary C. Bird noar here several days ago, eonfessod the deed yesterday, and was tried during the day and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. Last night a mob of 2,(HK). infuriated citizens advanced on the jail and were fired on by the troops guarding the structure. Three mombors of tho mob fell dead at tho first fire and eight or ton were wounded. The dead are Smith "Welsh, aged 18 ; Jess July, aged 25, and Mack Johnson. Tho encountor between tho mob and tho troops seemed only to inconso tho populuco, ar.d for several hours pandemonium ragod in the little town, and it looked as if tho enraged people would overcome the soldiers, and eapturo tho prisoner. Uoiri force merits were hurried horo from Columbus and Cincinnati, and quiet was linally restored. The first regiment of Cincinnati and three additional companies of the furtecnth regiment, 125 men and two Gatling guns, arrived here at .'1:15 o'clock this morning The men wore formed at the depot and marched to the court house where the Columbus companies and the one from this place woro already formed. The train, which was a special, was hold and the troops escorted Dolby to the train. Thnrw no mnt.ni'iat ilmtinnut mi l i/m .. ?U.?V.JUW.UW,UU, the crowd having thinned out. ANOTHER ACCOUNT OK T11E TKACJKDY. Anothor account from Washington C. II. aaya : " The special grand jury was impaneled, the negro indicted, and ho was taken from the jail to the court house, tried and sentenced to twenty yours imprisonment in the pontentiary about as quick as it takes to write it. The militia companies formed at the west sido of the court house, whilo the sheriff and deputy James Busiek, went to the jail for the prisoner. The wost ontranco to the court houso is about forty feet from a rear sido door of the jail, and there are high stops loading to tho former. A thousand pcoplo had gathered in tho court house yard to angrily protest against thoicoursojof leaden-heeled justice. A thousand people witli curses and imprecations vowed that Dolby should never bo taken past thorn up tho high steps to the hall. The sheritf and his deputies dind already emerged from the jail door, when tho acknowledged leader of tho crowd, Henry Kirk, who married Mrs. Bird's sister, rushed toward the trembling wretch, protected by the sworn officer of tho law, and breaking through tho thin ranks of the stalwart guards, seized the culprit with a hand of iron, (^nlck as a iiash the musket of a soldier was swung with great force and Mr. Kirk was dealt a blow in tho faco. Tho angry crowd surged madly forward and in the rush swept one soldier boy around tho corner and away from his company, but he quickly returned, to his post. The curses and imprecations of tho thoroughly maddened crowd grew in volume and?the wrotched prisoner trembled like an aspen. The prisoner weakened visibly and he had to bo supported. Co}! Coit rallied jjis mcq for a supreme ell'ort and (he prisoner was almost, carried -up >?c stc.DM And iritn oniii?th<?iun Vh.-,,.., was then a scencc of intense oxcitement. Men, armed with .&t,avos and every form of woapon, rushed blindly almost into the bayonets of tho soldiers, and some eo far forgot themselves as to rush almost on tho troops. Deputy Busick and Detective Caldwell held tho prisoner between tjiom, and noither forgot his nerve. Henry Kirk, frantic with rage, rushed down an alley;for surgical aid, presently returning wit.li a hugo 'nsier over' his face. His friends, dressed farmers, and even business i.. n of this city, rallied at his approach, and there wore hoarse erics or " Wo will got him yet!" "It's a long wuy to tho depot!" Col. Colt, commanding tho troops, stopped on the steps of tho court houso and warned tho excited people to disperse. His words fell on deaf ears. Turning to his men, ho shouted, "Load . Thore was a uniform clicking of hammers, and every soldier prepared his woapon for trouble. The startled crowd foil back a few stops, and several of tho moro timid rushed for tho corqors. They rallied almost immediately and closed in, but tho soldiers held thorn back. Once up to tho third floor of the court houso and Into tho room whore tho trials are hold, Dolby was soon legally declarod a criminal. At exactly 3:52 o'clock ho was led into tho court room, und in three minutes he was sentenced to twenty year's imprisonment, ten days in each year in solitary confinement. f4hDPt.lt/ m'ulnirrhl A /I *?* #* ?* -?? ??v.j mi wt lujuiitk ii u ivujuiauu Genoral Howesecurod telephonic communication with Major JohnC. Speaks, of the Fourteenth regiment, surrounded in the court house at Washington C. H. by the mob. Major Speaks said the mob about the court house and jail seemed to bo as largo as over, but not so noisy and defiant. lie was informed that anothor largo crowd had collected at tho railway station evidently awaiting the arrival of more troops. The wisdom of arranging it so that all the detachmonts should arrivo at tho satno time was now apparent and orders were sent to tho officers of tho different commands to effoct a meeting at some distance from town. Major Sneaks said tho troops at the court House would he able to hold it against tho mob, notwithstanding that it was known that an attempt would bo made by a volloy of musketry. The mob seemed to bo without leaders of courage or it would bo equal to almost anything. Fayotte County is settlod by farmors and tho region is distinctively rural. Thoro are no largo cities in it, Farming and stock raising is almost the only occupation. That a mob so bold and per sistent should be mettherois a surprise to the Stato millitary officers. Nover have tho mining rogien?( which we.'o supposed to contain all tho worst olomonts of the State's population, produced a mob that equaled this onoin dogged tenacity of purpose and boldness. J-gS -SVIIIIIVAL AT OOLUMltUS. KB 10 reus, Ohio, October 18.?Tho wlfVwRrain bearing 8horiff Cook | vrp , THURSDAY, OCTOI and Deputy Sheriff Dostwlok, of Fayette County, with tho negro rapist prisoner, William Dolby, alias Jasper, In custody, arrived hero at 7 o'clock this morning. Tho train boro also six companies of tho fourteenth rogUnbnt ?all IocaI companies?tho remainder of tho troops being left at Washington. Tho train was stopped near tho State prison and tho shorilT and his deputy, with tho prison in custody, walked hurriedly and unguarded to tho .main cutruuco, and in a fow moments Dolby was behind tho great stone wall of tho penitentiary, where ho will spend tho next twenty years of his life at hard labor. (Juito a largo crowd was collected at the oontral station to see tho prisoner and wOro diKitnm?intoil In ?n? inilu soldiers when the train drow in. The crowd was a curious ono, however, and noviolonbo to the prisoner would have boeii attempted if ho had boon brought to the station in the train Tho trip from Washington C. II. was without incident. Tho mob was easily controlled when tho roinforcomcnts of the military arrived at 11:30 a. in. They gathered In little knots, but olTcrcd no resistance. Tho prisoner was at once taken from tho jail and placed upon the train and the journey was begun. Col. Colt did not order tho cartridges taken from the rides until a coal flchuto two ratios north of Washington C. II. was passed, as ShorilT Cook feared an attack on tho train plight bo made, but tho train was jiot molested. Governor McKinlev arrived from Cincinnati at 8 o'clock this morning, and after a consultation with ShorilT Cook, of Kay otto County, and rocoiving a nuinbor of telegram from prominent citizens of Fagotto County, ordered all the troops remaining on duty at Washington C. II. to their homos. lie says he is assured that thero will be no further lawlessness. l'OPK'S wgikcy budget. Governor Tillman's Alleged Usurpnnation of'Powei?The way a Cun<liduto Sees It. Dr. Sampson Pope, of Newberry, lias established hcadquurtors in Columbia, whore he proposes to remain until after the election. He is confident of success and thinks he is steadily gaining votes. lie issued tho following manifesto last week in regard to tho dispensary : "I have recently read tho dispensary act of 18SK1 closely. Section li of tho act roads as follows : 'The Governor, the Attorney General and tho Comptroller General, shall, ox ofllcio, constitute a State hoard of control to carry out tho provisions of tliisact.' Section 3 gives tho Governor authority to appoint at tho expiration of tho term or the present commissioner (seo the connection between tho acts of 185)2 and 185)2) and every two years thereafter a commissioner, etc.,' tho appointment to 1)0 approved by tho Sonato. Tho same section gives to tho commissioner tho right to purchase all supplies, etc., subject to such rules and regulations us may bo made by the State board of control ; makes him subject to removal by tho State board of control, and makes him a Suite otlicor. All rules and regulations governing said commissioner in the performance of any of tho duties of his otlleo shall be prescribed by the State board of control, etc. I fail to lind in reading said act, any duty devolving specifically upon the Governor, more than any other law carries witli it. TbtvGovernor is a member ex officio of several boards?tho penitentiary, the asylum, etc. His duties as such are simply those of any other member of them. Tho majority controls and what is done is executed by tho proper olllcers and not by tho (Jovor nor. 1 no Buperintonuent or tno ponltontiary carries them out for that inittitution, tho superintendent of tho asylum for that institution, and by parity of reasoning, Mr. Traxlcr should do so for tire dispensary. "If tho law had intended that tho Governor alone siiould manage tho dispensary it would huvo said so, but it doos not say so, for it puts two others on tho board with him, all of them ex otlicio members. It means that a majority of the board shall govern ; shall say v/hat Mr. Traxler shall do. The Governor has usuroed power which does not belong to him. lie admitted during tho canvass that ho did so when lie said that ho did not consult tho other members about reopening the dispensary. " Ho has no more right to issue orders with regard to tho disponsarv than ho has with regard to the nenitontiary and tho asylum; ho is but a simplo mombor of all those boards, and has only the authority that any othor member has. Tho board, I suspect, has not had a meeting until last week in many months. All that has been done of his own motion then is illegal, unlawful, and is a usurpation of powor that does not belong to him. South Carolina has never had but one lawful dictator, John Iiutlodge, and the powor was given him during tho revolutionary war when the State was overrun Vjy an enomy, and when it was impossible from tlio vory nature of things to call the Legislature togothor. Governor Tillman has as much right, and it is as muohhis duty, to issue a proclamation or an order, .carrying out the provisions of any other law, as ho has as to the dispensary. " Has ho (iono It? Then why does ho single out this law to bo enforced at this time? Is it to destroy the peace and harmony of our pooplo for political effect? Ts it an attempt to bring back thoso Koformors who hnvo left the fold becauso of rings9 He has sworn to oxccutjo the laws in mercy, not in a torrorl/.ing, vindictive manner, calculated to frenxv the men and frighten the women anu children. Let it bo remembered that when tho dispensary was closed many of tho constabulary went home, under instruct.ons, it was said, to opon illicit barrooms for the purpose of proving that prohibition did not prohibit. Whnn tho Suprome Court decided the act of 1802 unconstitutional, was it not as much tho Governor's duty to issuo a proclamation to prevent tho sale of whiskoy, as it is now to carry out tho dispensary? Thon why is it that ho failed to do anything thon, and now i usurps authority that doos not belong to him ?" ?South Carolina now has twelve daily papers?Ave morning and seven afternoon publications. - y'" ' ' 'V f, I " ' X * ??????? 11 I jer 25, 1894 THE SCHOOLS OF THE STATE. ANNUAL llKl'OllTOKTllKSUlMJU. 1NTENDKNT. H ow Muoh Monev Is Spout for the Free SohOolH?Valuable Information i tor the People. Special to the Nowh and Courier. 1 CoIjUMIJIA, October 17.?The report of the Superintendent of Kducation < this year will bo particularly Interest- < ing in view of the possible Constltu- 1 tlonalConvention. If a convention is ( hold it is avowed that there will be I some important changes in the school I laws of the State. Mr. May Held has I written to the census bureau to got I such statistics as will facilitate him in showing the relative amount that goes , to the colored school children. Until ] these tables are made up it will be interesting to note that the returns show j how much has been paid by the various , counties for the salaries of teachers, j The public school account for HRlnrl. u has been : Abbeville $13,902 48 Anderson 13,027 27 Harnwell 13,545 00 Beaufort 7.102 00 Charleston 00,021 00 Chester 10,212 00 Chesterfield 3,920 32 Clarendon 0,224 00 Colleton 11,187 30 Darlington 8,220 71 Edgefield 14,130 03 Fairfield 10,014 05 Florence 0,598 oi Georgetown 2,.">^i 13 (Ireenville 21,122 43 Hampton 0,493 88 LCersnaw 8,440 17 Lancaster 0,950 51 Laurens 17,293 53 Lexington 7,.">n; 24 Marion 10,101 08 Marlboro 0,510 92 Newberry 11,250 34 Oconee 4,972 27 Orangeburg 22,720 98 Pickens 3,409 42 Kichland 20,920 20 Sumter 15,990 81 Union 0,082 25 York 21,837 51 Another table shows the wretchedly poor salaries that are paid tho touch- ^ era in thin State. How some of the ^ teachers manage to get along 1b re- 1 markable. In many oases they got ad- 3 ditional support from tho parents of ' tho children. The reports hIiow tho ' average salaries per month to be : Male. Female Abbovillo $25 00 $15 00 ( Anderson 20 00 20 00 Barnwoll 35 00 25 00 * Beaufort 30 02 30 02 ' Charleston 02 33 41 00 * Chester 20 00 10 15 J Chestorfield 25 50 22 00 j Manning 10 <>,'> Hi 05 ' Walterhoro 25 60 25 50 | Darlington 30 (K) 20 00 * Fair Held 23 83 25 12 ' Florence 20 00 20 00 Ceorgetown 20 00 18 00 i Greenville 23 oo 24 oo i Hampton 10 50 10 50 t Kershaw 21 50 10 21 t Lancaster 24 00 20 00 t Lexington 23 (Ml 10 75 t Marion 27 00 22 00 1 Marlboro 24 07 24 07 s Newberry 25 50 17 08 t Oconee 10 25 10 25 1 Orangeburg 20 25 21 12 v Dickons 20 30 22 34 1 Columbia 22 58 10 13 r Sumter 30 00 30 00 r Williamsburg 17 50 17 50 t. Yorkville....!. 14 .r?U 18 00 It will bo ?oen that in only three counties do tho fomalo teachers gel more salary than tho tnalo teachers, while in eleven countlos they both got the same, in olovon men got more and nix counties aro not reported. Tho following tablo shows the total number of teachers employed in tho Stato : Mule. Fomalo Abbovillo 77 135 \nderson 72 96 Hern well 49 80 Beaufort 41 43 Charleston 11 102 Chester 54 77 Che?terfleld 33 16 Clarendon 41 68 Colloton 55 59 Darlington 34 49 Edgefield 84 166 Fairfield 40 62 Florence 30 .32 Georgetown 53 32 Greenville 9-4 127 Hampton 34 60 Kershaw 31 50 Lancaster... 54 38 Laurons 98 84 Lexington 65 29 Marion 106 49 (viariooro c>t> 26 Newberry 61 71 Oconee 41 (12 Orangeburg 120 75 Pickens 50 41 Kichland 42 56 Sumter 48 80 Union 87 26 Williamsburg 55 50 York 80 09 Ono of the tables that will be used In the report will show how many children are instructed in the various branches. It is particularly noticeablo how few children in some of the countios are studying tho history of South Carolina. The table shows that branch to bo studied by the following number of ehildron in each of tho counties : Abbeville, 580; Anderson, 278 ; Burnwoll, 442; Beaufort, 200; Charleston, 86; Choster, 458; Chesterfield, 9; Clarondon, 601; Colleton, 200; Darlington, 947 ; Edgefield, 1,022; Fairfield, 250; Florence, 648; Georgetown, 245 ; Groonvillo, 680; Hampton, 50; Kershaw, 225; Lancaster, J213; Laurens, 242; Lexington, 593 ; Marion, 288 ; Newberry, 457 ; Oconee, 147 ; Orangeburg, 917; Pickens, 74; Kichland, 695; Sumter, 1,109; Union, 382; York, 534. ?Sho had mot him for tho first time ] that ovoning at a function, and half < an hour or so later, when somo one of the < party rathor doubted a story he had > told, ho appoalod to her. 44 You don4t < think I'd tell a lie do you?" ho askod . in a somewhat tender strain. 44 Woll," j she replied, cautiously, 441 don't know) What business aro you in ?" i ?44 Woll, Kdith, how do you like go- < ing to school ? Is your teacher nice V" i 44No, I don't liko hor one bit! She ; put mo in a ohalr, and told me to sit < tbero for the presont; and I sat and i sat and sat, and she never gave me a < prosont." -V "*r t HTATM NKWS IN RKIKF. Interesting Not oh from Various HourCOM. | 1 ?Govornor Tillman has purchased a plantation in a mile of Kido Spring, On tho Churlotto, Columbia and An- ll gusta Uailroad, whore ho will make s his future houio. ?Constable McLendon, who was a 0 central Uguro in tho Darlington (11111jultv, was in Columbia one day last week and spent most of his time in the a Sovernor's ollleo. Ho is looking very k badly, and has suffered a groat deal y from tho wounds ho received at Darlington. His case will soon come up (,i for trial. v, ?Col. .las. G. (liblKJS, State land It igont, will conduct a largo sale of State ands at Charloflon on the J.'lrd inst. g Arrangements have boon made with -f1 die railroads for cheap tickets for all j, who wish to attend tho sale. The State will offer from 00,000 to 100,000 lores of land. The land will bo sold J* it very low prices. ?Tlioso who contemplate making tI1 exhibits at tho State Fair should send n their entries by November 1st, so '.hat there will lie no trouble about. 111 ?ing thorn on tho books. If Is not notossary that tho things on to rod should jl io sont to Columbia at this tlino, but .he entries can bo sont to Col. T. W. Elolloway of Poniaria, S. C. O ?Capt. Harvey Drummond, living a H) nilo or two from Switzor's, had his ( mtton gin, corn mill, wlioat mill and .V aw mill all burned last weok. There vas very little insuranoo on tho property destroyed. The lire is supposed -o iiavo origintcd in tho cotton giu. rho loss outside of tho cotton and cot- 011 .on seed burned amounted to $2,500 or CJ,000. Hi ?Secretary Carlisle has asked Atorney General Oluoy for an opinion on lie constitutional question involved in tarrying out tho dispensary law in l" South Carolina in cases of dispute bo- M ween tho United States and the State m UHniulu .... ?." ' " 1 ' ' ....v.o.a uu ?..V, UVbllDIUII 1>: ll(|lllir 11(31(1 ii United States bonded warehouses M icing seized for violation of the State vt lolice ordinances. fo ?Mrs. Ella Robinson, tho wife of T. J Robinson, who is editor of the of 'ooplo's Journal, died at her homo b? lear Pickens on the 15th inst., aged .'lb rears. She bad boon in feeble health tr or some time. Mrs. Hobinsou was a t< oving wife, a fond mother, and bad pi iron a consistent and devoted member ai if the Methodisteburcb since the early le lays of young womanhood. w ?The Greenwood correspondent of .ho Newberry Voice writes as follows: hi 1 Miss Susie Davenport, of Groonvillo "Jounty, is visiting her sister, Mrs. el \lonzo ller, of Greenwood. Miss g? davenport bears the distinction of be- hi ng the smallest woman in tho State, it: she is a grown woman, .'i ft. and <1 m indies high, and weighs 7ti pounds. C iho wears a No. 12 child's shoe." U ?Tho Hampton and Hranchvillo U mil road runs from Hampton court louse, a distance of fourteen miles, in- hi o the linest farming and timber eoun- ri ry in tho State, and it is intended to to ininplete it to Hranchvillo about six- in eon miles from the present terminus, w Ivory mile of the road has been built w o far by Senator Mauldin, of (lamp- ti< on, who has the largest planing mill ) n South "Carolina along tho line. V i vus originally intended simply for i ^ |? muling of timber to Hampton fori 1J 11 nent over the Port Royal RoadJA. J i, tj] low hauling not only timber, h i'p y of cotton. ^lt" fi ?Tho Columbia State says there are w irovislons in tho Dispensary law of $1 vbicb but few seein to know and that tli Jovernor Tillman is making prepara- or ions to enforce them rigid I v. These fr irovislons, it is believed, will make it Tl intirely possible for him to enforce he law against overy man caught lolling liquor, for man once caught U1 ellling liquor can be placed in'suona ,,, xisition ttiut he will oitber have to ton or else serve a term in tho county m ail or the State Penitentiary, from p( vhich punishment no amount of mo- Ul icy will bo able to save him. It will w mt bo a matter for a jury, but any ^ :irouit judge can put him behind the ]a iars. Vl ?Governor Tillman has accepted an nvitation to uddress tho Reformers of 'airlield County at a mass mooting to . ie hold at Ridgeway. As is known . .hero will bo two tickets in the field in !r .hat county at tho ooming oloction, ind Governor Tillman has boon called (.:< ipon to urge tho Reformers to itand to their guns. It is said that 111 Senator Irhy has also boon invited and or Homo reason it has boon suggosted .hat Dr. Sampson Popo will lie there .M A) have a word or two to say. Tho ' neoting will be hold at Ridgeway on ,ho 27th of this month and overy efort is being made to got out a? large a| i crowd as possible. ei ?Tho case against Dispensary Con- Y itablo E. G. Mussey for the murder of hi Jiawford Hallow near Wolford was Si ,ried last week at Spartanburg. At qi .he conclusion of the State's testimony, ti ipon motion of tho defendant's eoun- S lol, Judge Eraser ruled out tho evi- b; lonco of J. H. Moore, who testified that 1? Vlassoy had acknowledged to him tho S iring of tho fatal shot, and refused to c< illow tho Solicitor to introduce any hi urthor ovidence to identify Musaey as r< ,ho party who committed tho offense iharged. After this ruling no evidonco omained to connect Massey with tho diooting, and the jury were instructed A) return a verdict of not guiltv. . ?The case Against Thos. B. Valines hl 'or killing William Bishop nearly a /our uko was tried at Spartanburg last y1, vook. This homicide took place at a talo near Gowonsville. and there was t large crowd present. Some of them '{. irrlved drunk and othors soon l>ecame ' n similar condition. There was a free V piarrol going on during tho day and pistols were drawn now and then, it was late in the afternoon before tho tilling began. Two men, i'arrls and w Fisher, wero killed. Caimos was accused of killing i'arris. Be loft the ^ country and was arrested in Texjis litst I* ipring. Ahlo arguments wero miule jn behalf of tho defendant by Capt. J. b A. M<K>noy, Mr. A. H. Dean, Mr. Stan- h varno Wilson and Gen. Joseph H. b Karlo, and Solicitor Sehumbert closed a the case with an eloquent presentation ?? >f facts for the State. Tho jury return- 1 ad a vordict of manslaughter with a tl recommendation to tho mercy of tho r< court. The motion for a now trial was A refused, and Caimos was then sontenc- p ed to two years imprisonment at hard w labor in tho State penitentiary. b * 1 . NO 14 QF..1Klt.\Ii NKWS SUMMARY. latest Items and (hirious Notes tVoin Our Kic'limiKt'H. ?The Georgia Legislature will ensr upon the ejection for United states onator on tho flth of November. ?i'rofossor Clarke, who fills tho hair of botany in the University of hicago, is not yot 21 years of ago. ?A Japanese gontloraun can live nd dress well, have a nieo homo and eop a couple of servants on $o(X> a ear. ?Tho Knglish income tax has been hanged eighteen times slneo 1842, arying from 2 ponce to tho pound to 1 pence. ?Queen Victoria has twonty-two randehildron and the rheumatism, ho two complaints scorn to increase i like proportions. ?Now Orleans has tho honor of hav?g a first-class orchestra composed atiroly of women, and their services ro in groat demand for entortainiciits and parties. ?Several years ago a West Virginia 3gro was made totally blind by a gotning Hash. Recently ho received shock from an electric battery, when is sight was miraculously restored. ?There arc two nogro women near wonsboro, Ky., aged 102 years, relectivoly, who havo never known a .??^i. ?> ?i - ?j d oiviviiura UUU w nil 11 TO HIil11 Ul)lO ? perforin a full clay's work in tho jld. ?Tho ourront statomoot that the opuhliciin national committee has not sot money to North Carolina for thin impaign in now positively denied, i Ih Haid money in being freely furshed. ?It is Htatod that tho governor of pria luiH refused to give a native of amaseurt a license to eHtahlirth a brow y in Jerurtalem, on the ground that to Jowirth and Christian rosldonts do it want it. ?Tho Waldotirtian colonirtts near organton, N. C., are Haid to be in a ry destitute condition, not having oil to eat. Homo charitably disposed dies have started a fund for their benit, and a considerable amount has jen realized. ? Mr. Georgo W. Vandorbllt has ansplantod several immense palinct> trees from South Carolinu to his xlatial homo near Asheville, N. C., id when ho hiks finished his palm eolctlon tho young bachelor millionaire 111 doubtless bo able to boast of postssing tho tlnoat private conservatory i tho United States. ?Tho steamer Moyuno, recently our uised in Fngland by tho Japanese )vorninont, Iiuh arrived at Yokohoma, living made tho passage from Cardiff i thirty-throo days, steaming H,iMX) liloH without stopping. Although hlnoso war ships were on the look out >r her she hud no difficulty in eluding tern. ?When the Hteumer Gaelic sailed ,st week from Sao Francisco she carod about $750,000 in silver consigned t China, where it will he used in payig off the army. Most of tho cargo as for Japan. The hold was tilled ith canned meats, and the supposit?n is that it meant for supplies for Japanese army in Corea. A largo part of the extensive plant tho famous Tredegar iron works in lchmond, Va., was burned last week. 10 lire originating in the car shops, he horse shoe, blacksmith, pattern 1(1 car shoos Jinil nnmnwinu uVwwlu oro consumed. The loss in ul>out f>0,000. Thin company mudo most of iO cannons for tho Southern Confod acy, und since tho war has mudo eight cars, railroad axles and such, ho loss is fully covered by insurance. ? It isostimutcd that only about H7,M) people will have to pay Income tax lder trie recent law exacted by Conress. Tho people who will bo beno;ed by tho tax number considerably mr (K),000,000. It will oppress no>dy, for tho persons whom it affects o amply able to pay tho tribute lileh the Government doinunds of loin. Tho law cannot prove unpopur with the masses, because it is admtagoous to a vast majority of tho jo plo. -~-Rov. J. 11. Jones, who took au aeve part in defeating W. C. P. Brookiridgo for ro-olection to Congress, has jen discharged by tho Providence '.urch, noar Lexington, Ky.. of which d was pastor. In tho church were a umber of strong Breckinridge men, :ul the recont election of church olHjrs nut them in tho majority on tho >ara employing tho pastor, when )nes was asked to sever his connocon. ?A prominent treasury official, who frees with Secretary Carlisle that ;ery Cleveland Democrat in Now ork should give Senator Hill loyal ipport, says President Cleveland und onator Hill stand by side on tho tariff nestion and also on the financial auosou. In tho tight for tho repeal of tho h(?.rmun nilvni* Kill IK.. -? 1 u. ui.i miu nvuni/UI HbUUU y tho President when many of tho itter's most devoted followers in the Himte went olT and signed thoGormun impromiso agroement. Senator Hill eld out and by so doing obtained tho ipeal of the obnoxious measure. ?Tho first consolidated mortgage oed of the Southern Hallway Comany vas filed in Knoxvillo, Tonu., ist week. It includes all tho roadad, buildings and equipment of the >ad, in Virginia, North Carolina, outh Carolina, Tennesson, Alabama, oorgia, and tho District of Columbia. .-,v ho mortgage is for $120,000,000, In ivor of the Central Trust Company, f Now York. Gold bonds to run one unil red years, at 5 por cent., are to bo auod. Tho mortgage will bo roglsired in 170 counties through which io road runs. It contains over 50,000 ords. ? A uniquo and remarkable transit ostein 10 in operation at Bellport, L. It is a bicycle railroad, with cars sating forty or fifty persons?the cars oing run on a single rail and oonnootlg with a guide overhead, supported y upright poles. The motor and caiv. ro propelled, heated, and lighJU'd by leotrloity obtained from this guide. 'he trains are noiseless whan moving, boy cannot leave the track, ahd have oachod volocity of a mllo a minute. l superb automatic block system to revent collision will bo Introduced, rhloh shuts off the power In the olu look when ontering the new ono, ' ~ * - - ?iV<w A'-*"'-*? ' a*'.".