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VOL. XI.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION ABOUT LIQUOR.
WHISKEY MUST BK STAMPED.
All Liquors are Iiiablo to Seizure
1 ITHIi>bs Kioto *
vci iiiitaius arc Ull niu
Hoi lie or Jiik.
By reason of un equally divided
court the State supreme court has
rendered a decision to the effect that
a man cannot keep two and a half gallons
of whiskey in his house for his
own personal use, without the commissioner's
stamp upon it, without
laying himself liable to criminal prosecution
under thendisponsary law.
The decision was rendered in the
case of Anderson Chastain aud the
judgment of the circuit court below
stands aflirmed. Chief Justice Mclvor
and A.ssociate Justice Gary have filed
very strong opinions against sustain\
ing the finding of the lower court. Mr.
Justice Jones liles the opinion on the
other side, in which Associate Justice
'iMw. oope concurs. In the Florouco case
recently decided, in which the court
was equa'ly divided, tho appellants
have submitted a request that a
rehearing bo granted boforo all tho
judges sitting en banc. No doubt a
similar request will be made in this
case.
Chiof Justice Mclvor, in his opinion,
thus presents tho matter in substance :
Tho defendant was found guilty and
sentencod to pay a line of $100, or go
on the chain gang for three months
for having iu his possession two and a
half gallons of corn whiskey, which
had no Stato stamp on it. On this
judgment an appeal was taken to tho
supreme court of tho State.
The appoal was taken on tho following
grounds in brief:
First. Because his honor orred in
charging tho jury as follows: "Tho
question is did he have liquor thero,
keeping it there without any stamps
on it ? If so, ho must show that, either
lie bought it through the regular
channels, tho dispensary, or that ho
obtained from the State commissioner
tho proper stamps to be put on
it" and should have charged tho jury
instead that the keeping of a small
quantity of liquor in his dwelling
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nv/uo^ iwi mr? w?n uou aim nut tu uu
bartered does not constitute a crime.
Second. That it is only the storing
or keeping' in possession of alcoholic
liquors for some unlawful use or purpose,
which is made an indn table offense
by statute and his honor erred in
not so holding.
The chief justice states that from
tho testimony, tho State constables
found in tho dwelling house, while defendant
was absent a three gallon jug
containing about two gallons of corn
whiskey, which they seized, because
there woro no stamps upon It from the
State commissioner. Thero was no
testimony to show that tho whiskey
was for sale or any othor unlawful purpose
or that the defendant had over
sold whiskey. On tho contrary tho defendant
stated that he had obtained
tho whiskey about three weeks previous
for his own porsonal use and for
no other purpose, becauso ho was in
bad health and needed it; that ho hud
never sold any whiskey and could not
tell how much of it he had used before
it was seized. It was admitted that
the whiskey had not been bought from
a dispensary and it had no stamps on
it. Tho charge of tho circuit judge
was as follows : "Tho indictment is
for storing and keeping in possession
alcoholic liquors. If a man undertakes
to keep liquor ho must have tho
stamp of tho State commissioner. Tho
question is did ho have liquor there,
keeping it without any stamp, if so
he must show that ho bought it from
the dispensary or that ho obtained
from tho State commissioner tho
stamps to put on it. Tho law prevents
thi storing of liquors, shows how it
may bo kept safoly without any troublo
and if a man is not minded to put himself
to that troublo, then ho will havo
to look out for tho consequences."
Tho chief justice goes on to say that
the circuit judge procoeded upon the
theory that it is an indictablo olTonso
for a person to have in his possession
alcoholic liquors, oven for his own
use, unless the required stamps arc
upon it. In tho first place the indictment
does not charge any such offense
for it does not charge that liquors
were fqund without tho requisite
stamps. On tho contrary tho charge
is that tho defendant unlawfully stored
certain contraband liquor. In tho
second place an examination of tho
dispensary law of 1896 fails to disclose
any provision making it an indictable
olTenso for a person to have liquor in
his possession without tho stamps of
tho State on it. Thero are several
provisions in that act making such,
liquor liable to seizure and forfeiture,
but nono declaring that tho mere fact
that a person is found in posse ssion of
alcoholic liquors without stamps shall
constitute a criminal olTonsc.
/ Tho sections of tho act. which it is
contondod sustain this prosecution, are
tho 1st, tho 25th, tho 2<>th and df>th,
and theso sections are considered in
the opinion of tho chief justico.
After quoting tho lirst section ho
says that.it is divided into two distinct
parts; tho iirst part makes it a penal
olTense to do any of tho acts therein
forbidden, while tho second part was
intended to render tho liquors roferred
to liable to boizuro without a warrant
and to forfeit thorn. In other words
tho lirst sentence affects persons only
and not property, while tho second
alTects property and not persons. It is
clear thai person charged must
not only have manufactured, sold,
bartered, oxcharged, roceived or accepted,
stored or kept in his possession
spirituous liquors, but must have
dono so for somo unlawful purpose, for
that is not only the proper grammatical
construction of the language, hut also
such a construction is necessary to rc
liovo tho ollicors ehargod with tho I
duty of storing and keeping of spirituous
liquors from tho penalties prescribed.
Whilo tho ovidonco shows
that tho liquor in question was kopt in
tho dofondant's dwelling house thero
is no evidence tending to show that it
was kopt lor unlawlul use. On tho
contrary, tho ovidonco is that ho kopt
it believing that it was necessary for
his bodily health. Unless, therefore,
tho act contains some provision making
it unlawful to drink or othorwiso
use for his own personal tyenolit or
gratification any spirituous liquors not
obtained from tho dispensary or not
containing the stamps of the State com- '
*
missioner it is obvious that one essential
element of the otfenbo charged is
luciung. me act win oe scarcneu in r
vain for any such provision, and honco
it cannot be said tliat keeping aud
using any spirituous liquors for ono's
own personal use or gratification constitutes
uny offenso against the criminal
laws of the State. Tho 25th section
is quoted and Mr. Justice Melvor holds
that it does not oven purport to create
any criminal otTenso, but deals only
with tho seizure and forfeiture of contraband
liquor. Indeed tho proviso
recognizes tho legality of tho possession
of certain liquors which are not
bought from tho dispensary.
Tho 2?>th section is noxt quoted,
which it is contondod was not to create
any criminal otTenso, to but prevent the
courts from ontortuining any action for
tho recovory of the price of any liquor
so seized.
So much of tho .'15th section which
is pertinout is quoted. It is difficult
to see what light this section throws
on tho subject. It certainly creates
no criminal offense except ih tho last
paragraph, which has nothing to do
with the case, in that it provides for a
punishment for imitation of stamps.
He concluded by saying: "A very
careful consideration of this case in all
its aspects leads inevitably to tho conclusion
that tho grounds of appeal
must bo sustained." Finally, ho says:
"Inasmuch as this opinion was originally
prepared beforo tho recent decision
of tho supromo court of tho
United States in Donald vs. Scott, 105
U. S., 08, was announced, I desire to
avail myself of tho opportunity now
proscnted of adding that it seems to
mo absolutely necessary to adopt tho
conclusion which I have reached in
order to avoid a conllict with tho decision
of tho supromo court of the
United States, which it must bo conceded
is a final arbiter of all questions
involving a construction of tho Constitution
of the United States."
JUSTICE GAHY'S VIEW.
Mr. Justice Cary, in his opinion concurring
with tho opinion of tho chief
justice, niter reviewing tno iuets 01 tno
case and quoting several sections of
the dispensary law applicable to the
case, says:
" When tho-o sections are construed
together, they show (irst that
the act does not prohibit, but on the
contrary in express language, permits
a person to keep liquor in his possession
for his own use. Second, that in
order to throw the protection of the
law around the liquor in his possession
for his own use, it is necessary to
furnish an inventory of the quantity
and kinds to the State commissioner
and apply for certificate to allix thereto.
"Third, that if tho liquor in his
possession is seized because it has not
the necessary certificates and labels
r? quired by tho act, and ho claims the
liquor, the burden of proof is upon him
to show that it is for his own use.
"The act contemplated that there
would necessarily be some time after
tho liquor came into possession of tho
person for his own use boforo ho could
apply to tho State commissioner for
the necessary certificates and labels.
If it was seized because it did not have
the necessary certificates and labels,
ho was even then to bo deprived of tho
liquor, provided ho could show it was
for his own uso ; but in that case, the
burden of proof would bo upon him to
show it was for such purpose. Any
other construction of tho act would
make a person a violator of the luw
who simply received as a presont a
bottle of liquor coming from another
State, although it might bo his intention
forthwith to apply to tho State
commissioner for the necessary cortieatos
and labels to aflix to it.
" A construction contrary to that
which wo place upon tho act would
even make a person a violator of tho
law who took a drink of whiskoy unless
it came from tho disnonaarv.
" Wo cannot, think this was tho intention
of tho legislature.
" For theso reasons wo concur in tho
conclusion announced by Mr. Chief
Justice Mclvor."
JUSTICE JONES' POSITION.
Justice Jones, in his decision sustaining
tho lower court, contends that the
sole question for determination is
whether tho disponsary act of 181)0
prohibits under penalty tho storing or
keeping of intoxicating liquors without
having on tho vessel tho stamp of the
State commissioner. " The construction
contondcd for by the learned chief
justice," ho holds, would practically
nullify tho dispensary law, for it is not
possible to hold that tho keeping of
intoxicating liquors in possession without
tho permission of the stamp is not
punishablo unless it was kept for unlawful
use, a.jd not be compelled to
hold tho same thing in reference to tho
manufacture and sale of such liquor.
Moreover, if a sale of intoxicating liquors
is not unlawful, unless made for
an unlawful use, then a koeping in
possession of contraband liquor for
sale for a lawful use is not unlawful.
This would make a paradiso for blind
tigers; 1 should say, rather, there
would be no blind tigers since everybody
could sell and keep for sale intoxicating
liquors openly and with
impunity.
' Tho construction wo contend for is
not only the natural and grammatical
construction of tho language usedj but
is consistent with the scheme of the
dispensary act, whereas, the other
construction is the unnatural, ungrarnmatical
and destructive of the design
and operation of the disponsary law.
The question is one of construction
merely. It is simply our duty to
declare the law. Wo have nothing to
do with its wisdom or severity. Tho
harshness of its operation, real or supposed,
should not in tho least swerve
us from our plain duty. There was no
error in tho charge t)f tho judgo complained
of and the judgment of tho cj[rc?*''
court should bo aflirmed."
?A suit for possession of a mule was
instituted by a citizen of Hunt county,
Texas, several years ago. The mule
has since died, but tho litigation is
going on still, $300 in costs has been
piled up, and J00 witnesses are now
attending the trial of the case in the
city of Greenville.
?Tho Chinese Empire has sent
notico to this government that it will
he represented at tho Universal Postal
Congress, to ho hold at Washington
next May. This will bo the first time
China has ever been represented at
such a gathering.
OONWAV i
TH4G MUDSILLS OF SOCIKTY.
Bill Arp Thinks it a Privilege to he
Ono oi* Thein-BxGovcrnor Ham
1110ml Stid that "Cotton is Kinjc."
Id my last letter 1 t?aid that 1 did not
kuow who iirat said " cotton is kinp."
This admission of my ignorance seems
to have surprised and awakened tjome
of my Carolina friends and now i know
from many sources that ox-Governor
Hammond said it In a soooch in thn
United States Senate in 1858, during
the debate on the admission of Kansas.
It was a great speech, for ho was a
great man. It was a Slates rights
speech such as Calhoun might have
made, and in it ho said * " No, sir,
you dare not make war on cotton?cot?on
is kiug. Until lately tho bauk of
England was king, hut last fall She
tried to put tho screws upon our cotton
crop and was utterly vanquished?<;ot- 1
ton is king." That speech gate much
olTense at the Nortli and won for him
the title of " Mudsill Hammond," /or
in it hctsaid : " In all social systems
thero must bo a class to do the drudgery
of lifo?a class requiring but a
low order of intellect and but little ;
skill. This class must have vigor, docility
and fidelity. Such a class you
must have or you would not have thut
othor and higher class which leads
progress, refinement and civilization.
1'hls inferior class constitutes tho very
mudsills of society and of government, I
and you might as well attempt to build
a house in the air as to build excopt 1
upon the mudsills. Fortunately for I
tho South, she has u racC adapted to '
that purpose." We call them slaves?a
word discarded by ears polite, but you '
have a sinhilar class at the North. Yes
you have it?it is thero, it is every- 1
where, it is eternal." 1
1 remember how tho Northern press
scarified him for his mudsill speech,
hut he spoke the truth and it is still
the truth, and more so for tho mudsills
are moro numorous now in proportion
to population. Almost Cvorybody in
this region is a mudsill, and if that
Dingley tarifi' bill becomes a law the I
masses will all bo mudsills for tho
privileged and protected classes. The
common people of a nation can never
prosper under a protective taritT until
a man can lift himself up by the. straps ;
on his boots. Only tho protected will
prosper aud they are but a #mall class 1
compared with tho unprotected. Even '
Mr. Atkinson, tho iioston statesman,
says tho Dingley bill will provo a burden
on the people and bring in but little
revenue. -?
Hat 1 iMJ ~v.t intend to br neh otT on
tliin tarilT question, though it is an
alarming aud serious one to the South- 1
ern people, for wo manufacture notii- 1
ing to speak of. Everything in this
room where I am writing caino from
toe North. I have boon working in
my garden all day with Northern tools
and oven tho wheelbarrow has tin;
stamp of " Grand Kapids " upon it. I
didn't use .to be a mudsill, but I am 1
now and my hamfcs aro bo crampod by
digging and forking the ground that 1
can hardly hold the pen in my fingers.
Hut Senator Hammond did not use .
that word in auy Invidious sense. IIo 1
did not moan to sling mud at anybody.
Ho had built a mill on his farm and
know that it was necessary for tho j
mudsill to bo sunk deep down below the
water and quicksand or else tho Hoods I
would wash tho mill away. Protection *
props will not protect tho mill unless I
the foundation is laid deep and strong, 1
and it is tho toil and sweat of labor
that makes our food und clothing. Ha- '
bor is tho mudsill?tho foundation of '
socioty and government. Extinguish 1
labor for a year or half a year or even
a month and the Goulds and Astors and '
Vandorbilts would perish. Wo ar?r (
told that there is never a week's sup-j 1
ply of food in New. York and those 1
millionaires couldn't ride and wouldn't '
walk to tho West after it. I am
mighty sorry for these rich and help
loss people. .Just let tho trains Stop
running and tho cooks quit cooking I
and all tho butchers and hakors shops 1
bo closed for lack of supplies and all 1
tho horses got out of food, what would
become of tho millionaires in Now I
York city? They would bo as hoip^ '
less as a painted iship upon a painted 1
ocean. They would do lik<e Mr. Kouss^ 1
who says ho would givii any mad a" '
million dollars' wtoo will restore his
his sight. Tho mudsiljs mustpot be (
dishonored, for tboy ard tho dnly class I
who aro fulfilling destiny, for the Uord 1
said to tho man, " by tho sweat of thy 1
face shall thou oat bread." Yos, I am '
a mudsill right now, and if it is a curse 1
it bripgs a blessing with it. I work '
hard at manual labor and get all over 1
in a sweat of perspiration, as Cobo '
nays, and I fool proud" of my day's 1
work, and Mrs. Arp gots olT her ma
tronly dignity and walks out to soo :
what I have done and condescends a
fow remarks of approbation. That '
satisfies tne till next morning, when L
work sotno rnoro beforo breakfast? 1
work tnakos mo forgot to brood over ?
little troubles and It gives mo a good 1
appetite and my food digests and 1
sleep better and snore less and don't 1
cry out with tho nightmare. It Is a I
blessed privilege to bo- a mudsill, a j
horny-handed son of toll, for it secures '
good health and brings a man nearer I
to his Creator, for ho was made out ot
dirt and unto dirt ho must return. I
Adam worked in a garden and so do I.
Fvo stepped around and smiled on
Adam while he toiled artd so doos Mrs.
Arp smile on rne. So lot tho tariff roll 1
on. It won't atToct what I raise in my
garden, I reckyn. Bill. A up.
?A bill was introduced in tho Kentucky
House of Representatives making
it a high crime and uiisdoinoanor
to interrupt public speakers by throwing
or other missiles, or a felony
if injury is dono to tho speaker,
?Tho lumbermen of San Francisco,
Cal., are again trying to organize a
trust with tho hope of raising the
price from $4 to $6 a thousand. Dealers
now claim the actual cost of the lumber
la r#man f am t K o n i V> a r? m aa a m 4
ao uouui viic*u i/uu j'runuu(/ JH1UOO.
?From papers found among the
effects of Leon Cabell, an insurance
agent, who oommitted suicide at Milwaukee,
Wis., it is found that, ho was
an heir of an uncle who died in Russia
recently, leaving an estate of $4,000,000.
?Mrs. Kli/.aboth Pease, 75 years old,
was burned to death by her clothing
catching tire while lighting a pipe at
her home in Maine.
O. THURSDAY, A
W1CKKLY CUOA* BULLETIN.
Tho Weather and Cropn for tlio Week
Ending April it, IH07.
Tho following Is tho ronort of tho
weather bureau for South Carolina
duriutf tho wcok ending April .'Ird :
Tho gouoral weather conditions during
the present crop season wero nufavorable
for tho preparation of land*
lor planting and in consequence tho
season la lato, being variously estimated
from ton to twenty days later than
usual. It ia duo mainly to the excessive
rains in February, followed by
continued cloudy and rainy weather
during March, with light winds, except
for a few days during the third
decade of March wlion clear, cool and
windy weather prevailed. This in
turn was foliowod by rains which suspended
plowing and planting up to
date.
Tho temperature during tho week
covered by this bulletin averaged
slightly cooler than usual, with minimum
tomporaturo below freezing as
far eastward as Berkeley, where* thin
loo was noted on tho morning of March
28th. Frost was general on that date,
killing in exposed places, but owing to
the backwardness' of tho season, Injury
was limited, being confined to corn
whore up, and to frni* v ,.oh as
torially damaged in N ork, Spartanburg
and t' e northwestern counties
generally. I'caches suffered most.
During t .o week tho tomporaturo
ranged between a minimum of 2d degrees
at (.roenvlllo and a maximum
of 79 degress at Shaw's Fork.
Tho rainfall was general over tho
State and was heaviest over tho western
counties where it averaged noarly
one and a half inches, while for tho
entire State tho average was 1.33
Inches. The greatest amount for tho
week was 2.7f> Indies at Hillsvillo, and
the least 0 30 at Barksdalo. Tho normal
for tho same period is approximately
0.75 lnoh.
The week was deficient in sunshine.
In places thoro was practically none, 9
per cent, of the possible being rt ported
from Elmore, Orangeburg County ; the
largest percentage was reported from
Forrestville, Florence County, with 52
per cent. The average for tho entire
State was about 30 per cent, of the
possible; tho normal sunshine at this
season of tho year being about 60 per
cent.
Ah previously stated, and for tho
reasons given, farmwork is vory much
bohind-hand in South Carolina, except
in Horry, Marlon and Marlboro counties,
where tho conditions have boon
more favorable and planting is mori
advanced. In tho northern tior of
counties from Chesterfield westward,
practically nothing has boon done towards
planting, for oven the uplands
wore too wet to prepare except for a
fow days in tho latter part of March,
after which moro rain again made
plowing iinpracticable.' It is in those
counties that tno season is most backward.
'Hut little can as yet bo said in dotail
as to crops, for planting h*s not
yet fairly begun, oxcopt that in tho
northeastern counties corn planting is
nearing completion and tho stand fair
where it has come up. In other sections
of the State somo fow farmers
have planted corn, but tho work is not
general. In Dorchester. Horkoloy and
Ooiloton somo sood is rotting in tho
ground and replanting will bo necessary.
In the oxtroine eastern entities
cotton planting has fairly begun, butin
the central and western counties vory
Ittlo or nouo has been planted and
/ory little of tho lands prepared.
Wheat and oats are looking promising
over tno entire Stato. Fow spring
lata have been sown, us the ground
was too wet. In many sections correspondents
report tho Intention of
farmers to plant sorghum cane largely
for a feed-crop to substitute for oats.
Sorghum cane seed reported acaroo.
ltico lands have been too wet to prepare
for planting, and in some districts
nothing has been done as yet; In others
ibout half tho lands are prepared.
Gardens aro very backward, for tho
gener&l reasons already assigned, and
jn account of cool weather lately. In
the truck farm districts tho season is
iiqearly one, thero having boon no sotback
from frost sinco January.
Fruit generally looks promising except
that it is greatly feared that
peaches were materially damaged by
the frost and freeze of March 28th as
far eastward as Orangeburg and Colioi
4!~ - A - i - II? * I ' ?
win cijii iitius. am is ummny um cuso,mio
frost whs mope sovore in 9omo placos
Lhan in others. In York, Spartanburg
*nd Greenville counties it is the unqualified
opinion of all correspondents
Liiat pouches were about all killed.
Flsewhoro tho extent of injury is as
yet uncertain.
Fruit, ether than peaches and plums,
is apparently safe.
Tho following extract from tho National
Bulletin for the month of March
jummarizes the extent of planting for
tho two principal crops of tho South :
"Somo corn has been planted as far
north as Tennesseo, and tho southern
portions of Missouri and Kansas, planting
in Texas and Louisiana being about
completed, and in Alabama, Mississippi
and Texas tho early planting;, is up.
"Cotton planting in Texas has progressed
favorably, and some lias been
planted in South Carolina, but in other
States of tho cotton holt practically no
planting has been done up to tho close
of tho month."
J. W. Bauek, Director.
?President McKlnley is said to have
helped out a young friond who was
courting a girl ho know by telling him
to tell the young lady that if sho would
like a European bridal trip he would
appoint tho young man to a consulate
as a wedding present. This fixed
tho business, for tho President has
been notified that tho woddlng will
take placo in Juno. This is a clear
case of bribery, but everything is fair
in love and war.
?A ball will be given by the Benchers
of Gray's Inn in tho great hall of
tho Inn to celebrate CJueon Viotorla's
anniversary. The last ball held there
was 500 years ago, when Queen Elizabeth
danced.
?Tho Woman's Christian Temperance
Union has written to President
McKinley and the governors 0f all
States, Shklng that the reproduction of
the Cot bett FiUimmons tight in the
kinetoacope bo proveuted. .
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PRIL 15, 10fc>7.
SKNYKNCINd A MUKDKKKIl.
What Judge John Helton O'Ncall Suit
Forty-Five Youth Ago in 1'umhIii*
Sentence 011 a Young >lan lor Mur
tier.
Mr. Uobiu Jjovo of lllekory Grove
semis the following document, whlol
is copied from the Unlonvlllo .lourna
,,f 1StV> .? ??... V..-Lr..H1? i."?. 1 /...
wi iww, v\' 111 u I UI rv * 111 u uiii|Uin:i it?l
publication. A young mau named
I'hinoas II. JohnHon bud boon convict
oil of murder, and tho court of apponh
sitting in Columbia had refused ti
grant him u now trial. Tho prisonor
was in aitondunco upon tiio court ol
appeals, us was tho custom in those
days, and It became tho duty of Judge
O'Neal I to pronounce tho sontonco ol
tho court, which was done as follows :
l'hineas Johnson : Young man, how
can I say to you, in tho awful language
of tho Inspired prophet, " sot thy house
in order, for thou shall dio, and not
llvo !" Yet. it must bo done. You are
before me now, In tho morning of life
?in a few brief days yea will be cut
olT, and tho place which now knows
you, "shall know you no more forever."
it is my duty to say to you, that the
nature of your crime forbids tho possibility
of pardon hero. Your only hope
ot vardon is in tho merciful atonement
ollerod you and all men, in tbe|broken
body and streaming .blood of him who
cried, 11 Father, forgive thorn, for tlicy
know not what they do."
Your crime, awful as it is, must be
set before you, in tho hope that it may
do you and tho community good. To
creep upon a poor woman, in her own
solitary cabin, in the stillness of night,
with hor nursling at hor foot, hor iirst
born wrapt in infantile innocent slumber
by hor side, when preparing the
scanty portion of vegetables for hor
and their food, and to shoot hor as a
wild beast, hardly has a parallel iu the
annals of crime. Wliou to this is added,
tin- guilty wretch who completed this
de? d was hor soducor, tho father of hor
Utiles ones?whore, oh where, shall
wo tlnd another as foul a blot on humanity
!j
To you, at least, hor person ought to
have been sacred. For you, she had
made herself tho guilty, degraded being,
to whom beauty was a reproach,
character was infamy, and affection
was hatred. For you Hho had left a
father's house and plenty, and haiUbecome
a dependent on almost charity,
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Vfl .WVMI UUM V_,W?VJI 111^. XW JfUII, nnu uuu
glveu tho pledges of hor lovo, in the
starving, degraded children around
hor I llow could you, young man, slay
hor, who had thus given her all to
you V How could you level your gun
at the head which had often boon pillowed
in guilty affection upon your
bosom ? Komombcr, 1 beg you to remember,
that her blood will sink you
forever into everlasting torments, unless
you can feel that mercy, your Savior's
dying mercy, has removed tho
guilty weight of it from your soul.
It is necessary, too, young man, for
your own sake and that of the Hcction
of tho country (I'ea Kidgo, of Union
district), from which you camo, that it
should be said, I fear your eritno is the
consequence of tho gross immorality
and vice wfhleh has too much there
abounded. Female virtue has thoro,
i am told, lost its appropriate value.
Heductlon is not regarded as a crime ;
and concubinage is not at all rare or
disgraceful. Will you not, as you approach
the gallows, say with me, shame
upon such a spite of things ! You will
be, most probuhly, the tirst white man
hanged in Union district ; and feurful
will bo tho commentary of your fate,
upon such a state of morals.
Is it true, that you and tho dcceasod
onco were members of tho same religious
community ? (Jan it bo, that you
forgot that tho weak and lovely being
by your side and your sister in die
bouse of your sister, and that violating
her contidenco you snutched a crown of
peaco from her head, to place upon it
one of shame ? Oh I If these things bo
so, think upon them?pondor thorn
night and day, for they demand a fearful
reckoning and account.
From you I turn, and with mo I hope
you will in thought also go, to tho
houso of your parents. What is there?
l'oaco ? No ! oh, no ! I can, in imagination,
hear your young wife frantically
asking to bo allowed to share your
prison solitudo; your mothor, like
Itachel, " weeping for hor children,
and would not bo comforted, for they
wore notyour father, onco respectable,
now broken down, and lamenting
like David for Absalom, ''oh, my son.
would to (Jod that I had diod for
theo I" Who has caused this scene of
mourning? Must I say, guilty young
man, " thou art the man 1"
Sad and awful as all these thoughts
and reminiscences may bo, they are as
nothing to that whicn is before you !
Death, a shameful death, in a few days,
must bo mot and sulTorod. Oh ! young
man, do not dlo forever.
God Ih before you as ho over has
beou willing to be gracious. Ho still
points to tho atonement offered on
Cavalry. Ho still says, " wash and bo
clean."
I have no doubt that, although a
murdoror liko Massoy, you may yet
have his hopo of pardon and peace. L
have heurd with great pleasure, that
ybu have, as you bellovo, experienced
already that hopo.
lie not deceived ! Wrestlo continually,
liko good old Jacob with tho
angol of tho convonant, and say like
hirn, " I will not lot thee go till thou
bless me."
May you lutvo that blessing 1 May
God pass you through tho dark valley
of tho shadow of death and enable you
to say, "I will fear no ill, for thy rod
and thy staff doth support mo,"
The sentence of tho law is that you
bo taken hence to tho jail of Union
district; that you thoro bo safely and
socuroly con lined till Friday, tho l.'Jth
day of February next, on which day,
between the hours of 10 in the fore
noon and 2 in tho afternoon, you will
be taken by tho sheriff of Union dls
trict to the place of public execution
and there be hanged by tho neck, til
your body bo dead, and may God have
mercy on your soul !
ammI I wmm
?Tho King of Corea Tiaa roturnee
to hla palace in Seoul after a year'i
residence in the Russian Legation ii
that city.
?An aged resident of Bell wood, I'a.
wat) ahot and probably fatally woundo<
I along a couutry road by eomo unknowi
Ihunter.
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Tho President sent the following w
message to Congress on viho 7tb Inst., s
relative to tho Hood aulTerors on tho g
M isslssippi:
To the Senate and Houso of Kopre- ^
sontatives: ti
'Information which has recently t|
come to mo from tho governors of Ar- c,
kunsus, Mississippi and Louisiana and $
from nromlnont citizens of theaoStatos
and ToDnesfleOt warrants the cdnolus*
sion that widespread disaster, luvolv- ('
ing the destruction of a largo amount '*
of property and tho loss of human life "
has resulted from tho Lloods which g
have submerged that section of tho
country. They are stated on reliable ii
authority to bo tho most destructive t<
floods that liavo ever devastated the t
Mississippi valley, tho water being
much higher than tho highest stage
it has reached bolore. i.
44 From Marion, Ark., n:>rth of Mom- ^
I>his, to Groonvlilo, Minn., a distance t
of moro than 260 miles by rivor, it in
roportod that there arc now at least ^
lifty towns and villanos under wator, j
and tho territory extending Irorn 100
iu Huh north of Mem puis to 200 miles ^
south, witii a width of forty tnlloH, 1h ^
submerged. Hundreds of acres of uncultivated
Hoil and much growing
crops are included in the submerged
territory, in this section alone there S
are 50,000 people whose property has 41
i)con destroyed and whose business is 11
totally suspended. Growing crops u
have been ruined, thousands of cattle 14
have been destroyed and tho inhabl- a
tants are threatened with starvation. y
A great majority of tho sulVorers are ''
small farmers and tliey have thus been 1
left entirely destitute, and will be un- I1
prepared for work oven after tho floods
have nubsidod. "
44 Tho entire Mississippi valley in *
Arkansas Is Hooded and communiea- *tlon
with many points cut olT. in Mississippi
a like condition exists. Tho d
lovces in Louisiana with a single ex- M
ception have bold, l>ut thu water is H
rising and tho situation there is re- f
ported as being extremely critical. I
44 Under such circumstances tho citizens
of those States look for co-operation
and support from tho national
government in relieving the pressing "
cases of destitution for food, clothing >
and shelter, which yro beyond tho P
reach of local olTorts. Tho authorities s
who have communicated witii tho ox- ^
ecutive recognize that their llrst and ?
most energetic duty is to provide as ^
far as possible within their means for 1
earing for their own citizens, but
nearly all of them agree in thu opinion (]
that after their resources have been
exhausted a sum aggregating at least
8150,000 and possibly $200,000 will bo
required for Immediate use. P
" I'rccedonls aro not wanting that "
in such emergencies as this Congress H
hus taken prompt, generous and in- w
tolligent aetion, involving tho oxpon- "
dituro of considerable sums of money,
with satisfactory results. In 1871 v
$51)0,000 was appropriated and in 1HD2 e
$50,000 was also appropriated for re- 0
lief in the same direction, und largo a
sums in othor years. t
"The citizens' roliof committee of t
Memphis, which has taken prompt u
action, has already cared for from 1'
<5,000 to 7,000 refugees from the Hooded r
districts, and they are still arriving u
in that city in largo numbers. Sup- plies
and provisions huvo been sent to
the various points in Arkansas and
Mississippi by this committee, but the
most that can bo dono by these efforts
is to partly relievo the most acute suffering.
No action has yet boon taken
for the great majority of tho inhabitants
living in tho interior whose condition
has already boon described.
Under these conditions and having
exerted thomsolves to tho fullest extont,
tho local authorities have roluctantly
confessed their inability to
further cope witli tho distressing situation
unaided by rolief from tho government.
1 " It has, therefore, seemed to me
that tho peoplo should bo promptly
informed of tho sulToring noods of
theso stricken people, and I have com- <
municatod these facts in the honest <
belief that tho legislative branch of
tho government will promptly rein- '
force tho work of tho local authorities
1 of the states named.
1 " William McKinlky.
1 " Kxecutivo Mansion. Aorii 7. 18l<7."
Tho President's measure, when road ,
in both house*, was promptly acted
upon.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, offered
a joint resolution appropriating $150,- ,
| 000 for supplies* to the Mississippi
, river sulTorors and it was immediately
taken up by tho Senate.
Congressman Catchings, of Mississippi,
offered a resolution appropriate
' in# $200,000 for tho relief of tho Hood
s sufferers.
1 Tho Senate passed tho Jones rosolu- (
tlon and the House tho Catchin^s re- (
, solution. Tills would have loft an
1 awkward situation, but tho Senate
a yielded precedence to tho house and recalled
its resolution,' and (?nen prom
?
NO 6.
pMy passed the House resolution,
which now goes to the President. it
appropriates $200,000.
Tho President signed the resolution
for the relief of the Mood HUflerors at
1:65 p. ra.
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2. NORTON, Druggist Conway, S. C.
?A train load of broom corn has
irrivod at Kansas City, Mo., on its
vus to Onondaga, Now York, where it
vill ho made into whisk brooms. Tho
hlpment is tho largest ovor made from
my point in tho world.
Mrs. A. Invoon, residing at 720 Henry
?t., Alton, 111., Buffered with seiatio
henmutism for over eight months,
i.ic doctored for it m arly the whole of
his time, using various remedies
ecommonded by friends, and wus
reated hy tho physicians, hut received
orellof. She then used one and a half
ottles of Chamberlain's 1'ain Llaim,
rhloh effected a complete cure. This
* published at her request, as she
rants others similarly afflicted to know
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?Tho government of Swit/.erlund
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with a provision of the original
onoession. Tho cost would bo about
20,000,000, it is estimated.
Itch on human, marine on horsos,
ogs and all btock. cured in .'10 minutes
y Wool ford's Sanitary Loton. This
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Conway, S. C.
?Tho ucrcugo of cultivated land
i Georgia has docreaticd from 200,000
u 200,000, as Indicated hy tho tax reurns.
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?Tho Candlan government, In aditiou
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