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0 ---F PICYon, THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. VOL. 7.--N0- 12- PICKENS S. C. THURSDAY, APRIL -~ 89/- ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. AN IMPORTANI DECISION ABOUT LIQUOR, WHISKIY MUST BlE STAMPED. All Liquors ir Iialo to Seizure Unless State Certificates Are on the Botle or Jug. By reason of an equally divided court the State supreme court has rendered a decision t) the effect that a man cannot keep two and a half gal lons of whiskey in his houso for his own personal use, without the coi missioner's staimp uponi it, without laying himself liable to criminal pro secution under thtndispensary law. Th decision was rendered in the case of Andersou Chastain and the judgment of the circuit court below stands allirined. Chief .Justice Mclve.' and Associato Justico Gary have filed very strong opinions against sustain ing the finding of the lower court. Mr. Justice 1ons files the opinion on the other side, in which Associate Justice Po)o concurs. In the Fiorence case recently decided, in which the court was equally divided, the appellants have submitted a request that a rehearing be granted before all the judgos sitting en bane. No doubt a similar request will be made in this case. Chief Justice McIver, in his opinion, thus presents the matter in substance : The defendant was found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of $100, or go on the chain gang for three months for having in 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 the sup rome court of the State. The appeal was taken on the follow ing grounds in brief: First. Because his honor erred in charging the jury as follows : " The question is did he have liquor there, keeping it there without any stamps on it? If so, he must show that either he bought it through the regular channels, the dispensary, or that he obtained from the State commis sioner the proper stamps to be put on it" and should have charged the jury instead that the keeping of a small quantity of liquor in his dwelling house for his own use and not to be bartere: does not constitute a crime. Second. That it is only the storing or keeping in possession of alcoholic liquors for some unlawful use or pur pose, which is made an indictable of fense by statute and his honor erred in not so holding. The chief justice states that from the testimony. the State constables found in the d welling house, while de fondant was absent a three gallon jug containing about two gallons of corn whiskey, which they seized, because there were no stamps upon it from the State commissioner. There was no testimony to show ahat the whiskey was for sate or acy other unlawful pum pose or that the defendant h4d ever sold whiskey. On the contrary the do fendant stated that he had obtained the whiskey about three weeks pre vious for his own personal ose and for no other purpose, because ho was in bad health and needed it ; that he had 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. The charge of the circuit judge was as follows : ' The indictmcent is for storing and keeping in possession alcoholic liquors. If a man under takes to keep liquor he must have the staml) of the Stato cominmissioner. The question is did he have liquor there, keeping it without any starmp, if so ho must show that he bought it fron the dispensary or that he obtained from the State commis sioner the stamps to put omi it. The law prevents thi storing of liquors, shows how it may he kept safely without any trouble andI~ if a man Is not minded to put him self to that trouble, then he will have to look out for the consequences." The chief justice goes on to say that the circuit jud~ge proceeded upon the theory that it is an Indictable ofoense for a person to have in his possession alcoholic liqfuors, even for his own use, unless the rcquired stamps aro ,upon it. In the tih st place the Indict Aieut does not charge any such olfense for it does not charge that liquors were found without the requisite stamps. On the contrary the charge is that the defendant unlawfully stored certain contraband liqiuor. in the second place an examination of the dispensary law of 189(6 fails to disclose any provision making it an indictable olfense for a person to have liquor In his possession without the stamps of the State on it. T1heo are several provisions in that act making such liquor liable to seizure and forfeiture, but none declaring that the mere fact that a person Is found in possession of alcoholic liquors without stamps shall constitute a criminal oifense. Trhe sections of the act, which It is contendedl nustain this prosecution, are the 1st, the 25th, the '26th and 35th, and these sections are considered In the opinion of the chief justice. After quoting the first section he says that,it is divided into two distinct parts ; the first part makes It a penal offense to do any of the acts therein forbidden, while the second part was In tended to render the lIquors referred to liable to seizure without a warrant and to forfeit them. In other words the first sentence affects persons only and not prioperty, while the second affects property and not persons. It is clear that the person charged must not only have manufactured, sold, b)artered, excharged, resolved or ac cepted, stored or kept in his p~osses slon spirituiou~s liquors, but must have done so for somse unlawful purp~osc, for that Is not only the proper grammatical construction of the language, but also such a construction is necessary to re lieve the oflcors charged with the duty of stor'ing and keeping of spiri tuous liquors from the penalties pre scribed. While the evIdence shows that the liquor in question was kept in the defendant's (Iwelling house there Is no evidence tending to show that it was kept for unlaw;ul use. On the contrary, the evidence is that he kept It believing that it was necessary for his bodily health. Unless, therefore, the act contains seine provision mak ing it unlawful to drinkI or othorwvise use for his own personal benclit or gratIfication any spirituous liq ours not obtained from the dispensary or not conitaining the stamps of the State comn missioner it Is obvious that. one essen tial element of the offeno charged is lacking. The act will be searched in vain for any such provision, and hence it cannot b said that keeping and using any spirituous liquors for one's own personal use or gratification con stitutes any offense against the crimi nal laws of the State. The 25th soction is quoted and Mr. Juetice Metver holds that it does not even purport to create any criminal offense, but deals only with the seizure and forfeiture of con traband liquor. Indeed the proviso recognizes the legality of the posses sion of certain liquors which aro not bought from tb dispensary. The 26th section is next quoted, which it is contended was not to create any criminal olfenso, to but prevent the courts from entertaining any action for the recovery of the price of any liquor so beize. So much of the 35th section which is pertinent is quoted. It is dilicult to see what light this section throws on the subject. It certainly creates no criminal olfonso except in the last paragraph, which has nothing to do with the case, in that it provides for a pun ishmnent for imitation of stamps. ie concluded by saying: "A very careful consideration of this case In all its aspects leads inevitably to the con clusion that the grounds of appeal must be sustained." Finally, he says : "Inasmuch as this opinion was origi- I nally prepared beforo the recent de cision of the supreme court of the r United States in Donald vs. Scott, 165 U. S., 68, was announced, I desire to avail myself of the opportunity now presented of adding that it seems to t me absolutely necessary to adopt the t conclusion which I have reached in order to avoid a conflict with the de- I cision of the supreme court of the . United States, which it must be con- v ceded is a final arbiter of all questions involving a construction of the Con stitution of the United States." JUSTICE GARY'S VIEW. t Mr. Justice Gary, in his opinion con curring with the opinion of the chief justice, after reviewing the facts of the t case and quoting several sections of the dispensary law applicable to the caso, says: " When the:o sections are con- c strued together, they show first that I the act does not prohibit, but on the a contrary in express language, permits C a person to keep liquor in his posses- I sion for his own use. Second, that in C order to throw the protection of the I law around the liquor in his posses sion for his owa use, it is necessary to furnish an inventory of the quantity and kinds to the State commissioner and apply for certificate to aflix there- t to. "Third, that if the liquor in his possession is seized because it has not the necessary certiicates and labels r( quired by the act, and he claims the t liquor, the burden of proof is upon him tu show that it Is for his own use. " The act contenplated that there would necessarily he some time after the liquor cane into possession of the pes-on for his own use before he could apply to the State commissioner for the necessary certificates and labels. If it was seized because it did not have the necessary certificates and labels, he was even then to be deprived of the liquor, provided he could show it was for his own use ; but In that case, the burden of proof would be upon him to show it was for such purpose. Any other construction of the act would Y make a person a violator of the law I who simply received as a present a i bottle of liquor coming from another t State, although it might be his inten- I tion forthwith to apply to the State E comimLissioner for the necessary corti- I cates and labels to nalix to it. " A construction contrary to that which we place upon the act would even make a person a violator of the I law who took a drink of whiskey unless it came froem the dispensary. " We cannot think this was the in tcntion of the legislature. " or these reasons we concur in the conclusion announced by Mr. Chief Justico Melver." .JUSTICE .10ONES'i- POSITION. JIustice Jones, in his dlecision sustain ing the lower court, contends that the sole qjuestion for determination is whether the dispensary act of 1896( prohibits under penalty the storing or keeping of intoxicating liquors without having on the vessel the stamp) of the State commissioner. " The construe tion contended for- by the lear-ned chief justice," lie holds, "' wouldl practically nullify the dispensary law, for It is not possible to hold that the keeping of intoxicating liquora In possession with cut tihe permission oi~he stamp Is not punishable unless it was kept for un lawful use, and not be compelled to hold the same thing in reference to the manufacture and sale of such liquor. Moreover-, if a sale of intoxicating li quors is not unlawful, unless made for an unlawful use, then a keeping in possession of contraband liquor for sale for a lawful use is not unlawf ii. This would make a paradise for blind tigers ; I. should say, rather, there would be no0 blind tigers since every body could sell and keeop for sale in toxicating liquor-s openly and with impunity. " Tho construotion we contend for is not only the natural and grammatical construction of the language used, but is consistent with tile scheme of the dispensary act, whereas, the other construction Ia the unnatural, ungram mattical and destructive of tile design and operation of the dlspensar'y law. The question is one of constr-uction merely. It is simply our duty to declare the law. We have nothing to do with its wisdom or severity. The harshness of Its operation, real or sup posed, should not in the least swerve ua from our plain duty. There was no ci-ror in the charge of the judge com plained of and the judgment of the cir cult court should be aflirmed." -A suit for p)ossession of a mule was instituted by a citizen of Hunt county, Texas, several years ago. Tile mule has sinco died, but the litigation Is going on still, $300 in costs has been pilod up, and 100 witnessoes are now attending tile trial of the case in the cIty of Greenville. --The Chinese Empire has sent notice to thIs governmnent that It will he represented at tile U~niversal P~oskapl Congress, to be held at Washington next May. This will 1)e the first time China has ever been rep~resented at such a athering. THIE MUDSILLS OF SOCIETY. Bill Arp Thinks it a Privilege to be One of Themt-Ex-Governior- Hamii non(d Said that "Cotton is King." in my last letter I said that I (lid not know who first said " cotton is king." This admission of my ignoranco seeis Lo have surprised and awakened soie if my Carolina friends and now I know 'romt many sources that ex-Governor [inmond said it in a speech In -the Jnited States Senate in 1858. during he debate on the admission of Kansas. t was a great s)eech, for he was a eat ian. It was a Stttes rights pecch such as Calhoun might have nade, and In it he said ' " No, sir, Oou daro not make war on cotton-cot on Is king. Until lately the bank of Cugland was king, but last fall she ried to put the screws upon our cotton rop and was utterly vanquished-cot. on is king." That specci gave much 1iYcuse at the North and won for him he tillo of " Mudsill hlammond," for n it he said : " In all social systems here must be a class to do the drud rery of life-a class requiring but a ow order of intellect and but little kill. This class must havo vigor, do ility and fidelity. Such a class you nust havo or you would not have that 'ther and higher class which leads w'ogress, refinement and civilization. This inferior class constitutes the very audsills of society and of government, ,nd you might as well attempt to build house in the air as to build except ipon the inadsills. Portunately for he South, she has a race adapted to hat purpose. We call them slaves-a iord discarded by ears polite, but you iave a similar class at the North. Yet 'ou have it-it is there, it is every ihere, it is eternal." I remember how the Northern press carified him for his mudsill speech, ut he spoke the truth and it is still he truth, and more so for the mudsills ,ro more numerous now in proportion o population. Almost everybody in his region is a mudaill, and if that )Ingley tariff bill becomes a law the uasses will all be mudsills for the rivileged and protected classes. The ommion people of a nation can never rosper under a protective tariff until man can lift himself up by the straps n his boots. Only the protected will rosper and they are but a small class ompared with the unprotected. Even dr. Atkinson, the Boston statesman, ays the Dingley bill will prove a but ten on the peollo and bring in but lit le revenue. But I did not intend to br neh off on his tariff question, though it is an larming and serious one to the South irn people, for we manufacture noth ng to speak of. Everything in this oom where I am writing came from ,lie North. I have been working in ny garden all day with Northern tools Lud oven the wheelbarrow has the tainp of " Grand Rapids " upon it. I lidn't use to be a mudsill, but I am ww and my hands are so cramped by ligging and forking tho ground that I :an hardly hold the pen in my fingers. But Senator Hammord did not use hat word in any invidious sense. He lid not mean to sling mud at anybody. -o had built a mill on his farm and Enow that it was necessary for the audsill to besunk deep down below the iater and quicksand or else the floods iould wash the mill away. Protectiou rops will not protect tihe mill unless he foundation is laid deep and strong, nd it is the toil and sweat of labor hat makes our food and clothing. La ior is the mudsill-the foundation of ociety and government. Extinguish abor for a year or half a year or even , month and the Goulds and Astors and landerbilts would perish. We are old that there is never a week's sup >ly of food In New York and those nillionaires Couldn't ride and wouldn't valk to the West after it. I am niighty sorry for these rich and help ess people'. .J ut let, the trains slop 'unning and the cooks quit cooking ted all the bu tchers and haker's shops Xi closed for lack of suplies and all ,ho horses get out of food, wvhat woould >ecomno of thle millionaires in New Y'ork city ? They would b3 as help ess ats a ipaineted .ship~ upo a)1 ILpaintedc )can. TIhey wold be like Mr. 1Itouss, vho says ho would give any man a nillion (10llars who will restore hiis als sight. The mudsills most not he lishuonoredl, for they are the only class vho are fulfillung destiny, for the Lord taid to the man, "' by the sweat, or thy 'ace shall thou eat bread." Yes, I amt nimudsill right, now, and if It is a eurso t bringrs a blessing wIth it. I work ard at manual labor and get all over n a sweat of perspiration, as Cobe ays, and 1 feel proud of my day's york, and Mrs'. Arp gets off her ma ,t'only dignity and walks out to see vhat I have done and condescends a ow remarks of approbation. That atisfies me till next morning, when I vork some more before breakfast york makes me forget to brood over Ittle troubles and It gives inc a good pletito andl my food digests and I deep better and snore less and dlon't iry out with the nightmare. It Is a ilessed privilege to be a mudsiil, a iorny-handed son of toll, for It secures rood health and brings a man nearer o his Greator,. for he was made out of lirt end unto dirt he must return. Adamn worked in a garden and so do I. IEvo stoed~~ around and smiled on A~dam while he tolled and so does Mrs. Arp smile on me. So let the tariff roll on. It won't affect what I raise in my gardlen, I reckon. BhILr ARtP. -A bill was intiroduced in the IKen tucky House of ltepresentatives mnak ing it a hight criim and misd.amoanor to interrupt p)ublic speakers by throw lng eggs or' othter missiles, or a felony if Injury is (lone to the speaker. -The lumbermen of San Ierancisco, Cal., are again tirying to organize a tirust with tile hope of raising tihe price from $4 to $i6 a thousand. Dealer's now claim the actual cos t, of the Ilumbler is greater tihan thec presenit piices. -F"rom papers found among tile effects of Leon C2abelil, anm intsura'nce agent, who comimitted so iimdo atl Mi I waukee, Wis., it is fountd that he was an heir of an uncle who dlied in Ililua recently,' leaving an estate of $l,U00, 000. --Mrs. Elizabeth Pease, 'L5 years old, was burned to death by her clothIng catchling fire while lighting a pip)o at her home ini Maine. The Weat hei ani Crops for the Week Endaing April :1, 1807. The following is the report of the weather bureau for South Carolina duiing the week ending April 3rd : The general weather conditions du ring the present crop season wero un favorable for the preoParation of lands for planting aId in consequenco the season is late, being varioutly estimnat ed from ten to twenty days later than usual. It is duo mainly to the exces sivo rains in February, followed by continued cloudy and rainy weather during March, with light winds, ex cept for a few days during the third decade of March when clear, cool and windy wether prevailed. This InI turn was followed by rains which sts pended plowing and planting up to date. The temperature during the week covered by this bulletin averaged slightly cooler than usual, with mini mum temperaturo below freezing as far eastward as Berkeley, where thin ice was noted on the morning of MlI-ch 28th. Frost was general on that date, killing in exposed places, but owing to the backwardness' of the season, injury was limited, being conlinol to von-' where up, and to fr * .. ls,% torially dam.-qed in York, Spartan burg and t'to northwestern counties generally. Peaches suffered most. During t -e week the temperature ranged bet-veen a minimum of 26 d5 grees at Greenvillo and a maximum of 79 degress at Shaw's Fork. The rait fall was general over the State and was heaviest over the wes tern countios where it averaged nearly one and a half inches, while for the entise State the average was 1.33 inches. The areatest amount for the week was 2.75 inches at ldllvill-, ansd the least 0 36 at Barksdale. The nor mal for the same period is approxi mately 0.75 inch. The week was deficient in sunshine. In places there was practically none, 9 por cent., of the possible being reported from El more, Orangeburg County; the largest percentage was reported from Forrestville, Florence County, with 52 per cent. The average for the entire State was about 30 per cent. or the possible : the normal sunshine at this season of the year being about (M per cent. As previously stated, and for the reasons given, farmwork is very much behind-hand in South Carolina, ,-xcupt in Heorry, Marion and Marlboro coun ties, where the conditions have been more favorable and planting is more advanced. II the northern tier of counties from Chesterfield westward, practically nothing has been done to wards plaxting, for even the uplands were too wet to pre)are excelpt for I few days in thle latter part of March after wihich more rain again made plowing inpracticabie. it is in those counties that Lao season Is most back ward. But little can as yet be said in de tail as to c-ops, for planting has not yet fairly begun, except aiat in the northeastern counties corn planting is nearing completion and the stand falr where It has como up. In other see tions of the State some ftw far-met's have planted corn, but the work is not general. in Dorchester. Berkeley and Colleton some seed is rotting in the ground and roplanting will i neces eary. Ins tite extreme eastern couties cotton planting has fairly begun, but in, the central and western counties very little or none has been planted anu very little of the lands prepared. Wheat and oats are looking promis ing over tne entire State. Few sp-ing oats have been sown, as the ground was too wet. II Iany scetioss cor respondecnts repotrt the intention oi far'mers to plant sorghum cane 1 isrgely for' a feed-crop to) substitute for oats. So.ghumu cane seed rep)orted scarce. Rice lands havt, been I-oo wet to pre Pare for planting, and in some d istricts nothing has been (done as yet; in other? ab~out half the lands are pr'eparod. Gasrdens areo very hackwar'd, for the genesral reasons al readly assignedl, anid on account of cool wetatbetr lately. 1sn the truck farm d istricts the season is an early one, there having becn no set back frosm frost sinee .January. Fruit genetrally looks proanising ex cept that it is greautly feared that pecaches wvere materitslIly dlamnaLed by the frost and fr'eez.of M arch :Mh I as fatr eastward as Or-angeburg andc Colic totn counties. As is usually the case,the frost was motro sever'o in some laices thban in others. In York, Soartanburg andi Greenville counties it is the un qualified opinion of all corres pondlents thnat peaches were about all killed. Elsewhore the extent of injutry is as yet uncertain. F'ruit, cthor than peaches andi plums, Is apparesntly safe. 'Tie following extract from the Na tional Bulletin for the month of Mat-el summarizes the extent of planting for the two principal crops5 of the South: "Some corn has been planted as fat north as 'Tennessee, andl the souther-n poirtionis of Mit souri and K~ansas, ptlantt inig in Texas and Louisiana being about, comspletedl, and in Alabama, M k-sissip p1 and Texas the early p'antings, is up. "Cotton plasnting in Tiexais has pro greseod favorably, and sotme has been planted in South Carolina, but in other Stattos of the cotton bolt practically ne( planting has been done up to the close of the month."i J. WV. B3A Un, Direc tor. -President McKinley is said to have helped out a young friend who was courting a girl ho knew by telling hin to tell tl.e young lady that If she would like a Isursop~eans brida&l trip lie would app~loint the 3-ong mani to a consutlatc as a wedding present. This fixed Lhe business, for the Presidoni, has been notified that the wedding wil take place in Jutne. T1his is a clear case of br'ibory, but everythIng 18 fairs in love and wart. -A ball will be *ivn biy the Hnch. era of Gray's Inn in the greaut hallI o the inn to celehrtate 5Queen V 'ciau$ ann iversary. 'fTne l ast, a ho 1leld( ther was 500 years ag'o, when Queen lICiza beth dIanced. ---The Wo~man's Christ Ian T1eimp rance U~nioni hats written to Presid.-i MieKinley anid the governors of al States, aski ng that the replrod uctions o tric Corbett- iatzimmtons light in the kinninanana he n,.evented. SINTENCING A MUtDEctlIt. What Judge Johi Belton O'Neall Said Fortly-Five YearN Ago in Passimig Seitence on I Young Manl or Mll. dier. Nir. Robin Lovo. of ILickory Grove, sonds the foilowing-! doumtilent, whieh is copied from the Unionvillo .Journal of 1852, to the Yorkvillo E1uluirer for publication. A young manu1 ilalmed Ph ineas 11. Johnson had been conviet ed of imrder, and tle court of appeitis sitting in Columbia had refused to grant him i a new trial. The prisoner was in attendanco upon the court of appeals, a1s Vas the Custom ill those days, find it becIm1e1 the (u.1ty of JUdge O'Neall to pronounce the sentence of the court, which wa dlone as follows: Phlineas Johinson : Young man, how can I sa1y to you, in the awful language of the iiiired propliet, " set thy houso in order, for thou shalt die, and not live '" Yet it must be done. You are beforo me now, In tile morning of life -ini a few brief days you will be cut olf, and the place which now knows you, "shall know you no moro forever." It is lily duty to say to you. that t1,he nature of your crime forbids the pos sibility of pardon hore. Your only hoplo ' mrdon is in the merciful atonement olrcred you and all m1n, in thelbroken body and streaming blood of him who cried, " 1'Vather, forgivo them, for they know not what they do." Your crime, aw ful as it is, must be set boforo you, in tile hope that it may do you and the community good. To creep Upoll IL poor woman, in her own solitary cabin, in tile stillness of night, with her nursling at hr feet, her first born wrapt in infantile Innocent slui ber by her side, when preparing the scanty portion of vegetables for her aid their food, and to shoot her as Ia Wild beast, hardly has a larallel inl the annals of Crime. W ien to this i added, the guilty wretch who cotpleted thib det d was her seducer, tho father of her lit'les ones-where, oh wh1er, siall we find another as foul at blot on hu manity ! To you, at least, her porson ought to have been sacred. For you, she had made herself the guilty, degraded bo ing, to whom beauty was a reproach, character was infamy, and alfection was hatred. lor you she had left IL father's lousbe and plenty, and had be Come a dependent on almost charity, for food and covering. To you, she had given the pledges of her love, In the starving, degraded children around her I How could you, young man, slay her, who had thus given her all to you ? How could you level your gunl at the head whIt ich hiad often been pi l lowed in guilty affection upon your bosom ? Rumember, I beg you to re member, that her blood will sink you forever into everlasting torments, un less you can feel that merey, your Sat vior's dyin iu iitey, has removed tile guilty weight of it from your soul. I t is lecessalry, too, young muau, for your own sake and that of tho section of the country (PIL Ridge, of UnliOll district), froill which you caoili, that it should be said, I fear your crime is the Cois( qutenco of thu gress imllnorahty and vice which has too much there abounided. F1ema3le virtue hias thlrC, I am told, lost its appropriato valtie. Seduction is not regarded ats a Crime ; and coneuhilage is not It, all rare or disgrauefill. Will you not, ats you Ip Iroach tile ga1l lows, h1a3y W iti 1110, shIm1ie u)O1n Suhl IL -tat10 of things ! You will be-, mo4St, probably, the lit-tt white 1man lng-ed in Union district, ; and(I fearful will be the commentary of your fate, upln such a 5taLtei of morals. Is it, true, tIat, you rand the deceased Olie Were Members of the Sait reli gious Community ? Can it be, that you orlget t111t te weak and lovely bi g by 3y0111 side anld your11 sister ini.1 ,e houise oif your sister, and that violaitin~g tier JontI iiece yoiu sniatchted a crowni of peace fromt her headi, to pilace upon01 it one1 of shamie ? Oh ! if thlese thlings be) so, think upon01 ttlbom-ponlder them night, iiad da~y, for thbey demand a fear fut Ireckon irg and account. F'roim you-I turn, and with me1 1 hope yout wYill in thlought, also go, to the house of your11 parents. What is there ? P'ence y No !oth, no ! I can, in imantgi nation, hear yourm young wife frtantical ly asking to beC atllowed to sharo your prison1 sotl itude ; your m lotlber, like .alchlel, "' weeping for ho'er chidren, antd wouldl not, lhe cornfortecd, for they were not ;" your father, onlcO respect like l)avid for Altsatomi, '"oh, my son', would to God thait I had died for thee !" Who hias caused this scene of moulrninlg ? NIlist, I say, gulilty young Sad( and aw fit as all thlOSe thoughts antd reincilisconces miay be, they are as niothI ig to that wivIch Is before you! l)eath, a shameful dleath, in Ia few days, mu~lst be1 met and1( sufferted. Oh !young man, do1 not die forover. God1 is before you as lho ever' 1111 b~eeni illing to be gracLiouIs. Hie still po1 its to t he atonemlent offered on Gavalry, lie still Bays, " wash anhd ho I ttave no doublt that, although a nmurtdereri like Massey, you may yet, haivI) his hiope of pardon andi~ peace. I ha~ve heard w ithi great plealsurie, that you1 haive, as5 you( believe, experionced already thbat hope. lie not, (deceived ! 'Wrestle contin ual ly, like good old1 ,1acob) with thme angel oif thel convenatnt, atnd say like him, "' I ill not let thee go tilt thou bless mee.' Mlay you have that blessing I May God pass you0 tilbroutgh the dar~k valley of the shadow'u oif deaith and1( enable you to say, "' I will fear no ill, fotr thy rod and tiby It alf (1oth uppilort rie,'' T1he sentinnce of the law Is that you lie taken henice to tile jaill of Union district, thait 370u there be safely andi sC1Ierel conIi ned till Friday, the 13th day of lFebruaury next, on which' day, between theO hours of 10 In the fore nl~oilon an 2 in the afternoon, you1 will he taken by the sheritT of Union dils. tric(t to the place of public execution, andli thtere be hatnged by the neck, till your b' ody be (lead, and may God have mercy Oil yourli soul -'T.he King of Corea has roturIned to hiis lacne in Seoul aftor ai yearl' reisidene inl the Rulssian Legation iii tithat city. -An aged resident of Bell wood, '.. fwtas shot ad probably fatally woun111dmd 3IlnIg a country road by some unknown h,,nter ATTE1 "Too Good 'I 1.'" IN I T Is. V 0 propose ( (or as soon thereafter as i g.ivv to tite successful eI ust ire having live thousantd ticio are all1 given out wo will givo gl VlteVst number)L- Of tickets, trado to the amilolint of 0110 dot are 0enItitledl to ia ticket. It sh as til challpust. Ulnderbdiy and undelrsollI shi our Dry Goods and Notions 1) Visit, us and got, our prices, true. Yours to savo New York F I'hasy, S. C., Miarch I, 187. Mec1LilNlalGY'S FLOOD> MIESSAGE. Two I I ilIlIretI ThotisuitI Iollairs Givenk to the! Sut 111rer441-T110 JIM Was Pal'sen ti u e ns Than anI 11our. Te110 IlreSident biont the folowing message t Congress on tho 7th inst,., relitive to tho flood suffe0 rors on tibe To tho Senato and Ilouso of ilepre son tati ves : "Iniformation Which iats recently comoc to me from thu governors of Ar kansas, Al issitsippi and 1,ouisiana and from i)'Olilult CitizenHs of tlICe States and14. 'Ul'unSCoU, wrrt the 00 1Cnclu sion that vilespread titsateur, iivoilv ing tho destruction of a ILargo amount of proporty and thu loss of huian life has resilltud from the flids which havo siibmlcrged that, seetion of the country. They ireu stated on rel ialie authority to hO tihe Imiost deCtructivo 11lOodS thalt, have Ceer devIattd 1,he M ssissippi Valley, the watel bing much higher tian thu highest, stage it lts reached botore. " Proin Marion, Ark., n:>rth of Mem phis, to Greenville, Miss., a distance of more thban 25) miles )y river, it is report ed U. Ut tbero 11.a1 notw la itla fifty towis aId villages undier Water, and thb1 territory extundiig Iromi 100 miles north of Alvipnis to 201) miles South, with i Width of forty m ileni, is su bmecrged. Illundreds of itores of un cuILiVILUd soil Id iiiuli growing' Crops are included in Wt hubiurged tlorritoriy. i this SeCt.iOnt 111011 tIhro aIre 50,000 )eo0)l Whose pIrop)erCty ias been destroyed and whosei businss s, total ly suspended. Growing crops have been1 ilined, tihou..aids of cattei hav been destroyed and t, b inihibi tatits iaru Lieat,Ii ned wiLi stILI'VatiOnl. A great majority of tih4 Sulf1 I-orrs a1e samll farIecrs and thely have thus beell left entirely dettiLtut', anld will ho il prepared for work Von aiftr' 1,10 Hlood., have subsided. "The 011Lto Mississippi valley in Arkansas is flooddd and communica tion With WiL mny,1lV joinits Cut oil. IIi NM is Sis.,i pp i aL liku ctnitio xi X -ts. 'Ihe levees in iti sliana ith ai 1 siniglo ex rising and the situationi there is re-* porLtd as belig oxtireoaiy cr'itili. "IUnder' suchl ciiistl1ances the citi zens1 of those Stateos look for co-opera ~I on and s upport, from the natLLional govenmon t in relilevi ng Iihe pres ig casos of destitLu Lion for food, clothinag and1( shielter, wich io ro beyond Lihe reacb or locali elfor't~. Thel 1.1 authorities wihoIi~o0l I hav .comuicatediY withi 1,b0 ex ecutivo recogn ize. thatL thir tirst, aid umocst, LenOrgotio diuy is to pr'ovide as far ats po5sibl witin thoir means.fl for car.ling for thoir own citizenms, but nearly al1l of them atgree in theo opi nioni that aftor theira reour0ces haIve been1 exhau~st~d a 511m aggregatingi att ioeast $15,000h and possibly $200,000O will b1) reqluliredi for i maold iat~e use. "iPrced~onis atre not, wanuti ng that in such emeragencies ats this Conigress4 has1. tatken prompit,), genorous and ill toll igent, actioni, inivol vinzg thnt ox pen dlitllre of conisiderpable sumais of moniey, w ih sattisfactory resul ts. Ini 1874 $7>!zi).000 was iiappropriated arnd in 192 $d),000( wats also appiropriated for r-e lief inf the samlie diirection, and largo sums1 in other yegars. "17The. citizens'd rlif committee of MIem phiis, wichi has takon prompt, action, hats already carod for' fr'om 6,000) to 7',00 reofugees fr'om the 11looded dihtricts, and thbey are still arriving inl thiat, cit-y in large numnbers. Sup pl ios and praovliins have been sent to tho vaiousI pints in Ar'kansas and)1 Mississippi b~y this commhlittOee, buti the mrost that can ho doneo by theose elfiorts Is to partly relievo thc 11uos-t a1cuteO uif foing. No action ha1s yet been takentI for the great maujor'i ty oIf the hInhab. - I tants living in the in ter'iorii whiose roan litLion has~it aread~y been1 deoscibed. Unmdeor tihese cond ii tIins and hingi exerted tLbemsel ves to the full est, ex ton t, the locial authiiorities have re-t i I uotan tly confefssedILI teir inihtyl13 tol fur'thbr 0010pe ii the d1itres'in-.Itg it uation unaidedi by relief fr'oma the gov "C It hats, therefore, seemoed to m1e that tho p~eople sho~ld~ be prompflItly I nformned of thle Miutiering needziocs of Lthese0 str'ic kon people, amid 1i havo com municateod thoe facts in the honest be!lief thait, tile legislativo branch oif thei governmen101t, wvill prnomfptly rei n-I for(ce the woirk of the0 loca1 aLuthorltIes of thle states namI))ed. "l'xenztivye Mlan.'ion, Aprmi '1, 189)7."' T'hte Prembdent' a msge, when r'ead in both hous11es, was pirmptly acted ISenatd~li r Jones, of Arkansas, otT -redi a jint, r'esahiution appropiati ng $1.)' , 4)10 for sui jpplie~s to the M is,i n'ipp I river sulferor's and it was limmediatoly 'tak on up by the Seate. TTION. o Be True, m1 the first day of September, ho tickets aro taken up) to .)lor a $75.00 SUlRRY. We t struck oft and when they to tie customner holding the the Surry. l'Every timo you lar in any department, You all be our ain to soll as cheap 11 he our Motto, especially in qpartmeit. and know that what wo say is YoU m1oney, acket Store. CIAY'DE & NALLY, '1Os. Congressman Catchings, of M issis uippi, oilered a resolut ion appropriat ng $200,000 for the relief of the flood utiforers. Tihe Senate passed the Jones resolu ioln and the I louse the Catehings re olution. This would have left an wk ward situation, but the Senate iclded precedence to the House and cealied its resolution, and then prom 'ly passed the Houso resolution, vihich now goes to the Presidout. It LI)prop)riates $200,0(10. f'lo President signed the resolution or the rellof of the flood sulforors at :55 p. mt. WAYSIDE, GATilEltNGS. Iits ot tinllor and Nuggets of Truti 'or the Mulittudo. -" Stick to me closely," said the envelope to the statmilp. " By gum, I will," replied 10 sItnp. -13y IL juLicial decision in a New York court, tobacco is hold to be an article of necessity rather than a lux LI I'3'. -In i ali forni thite raillroadS CO-O) eIrtLU vith Lithj ptoplo )y carrying road mtte rial at, actual cost of trans)Ort'a L~ion. -In the I oclcy Mointain ranges Ltero are alutit 2,010,000 wild horses vI ich anybody cmi iAve for the catch ig. A young woman of Hillsboro, N'. Ii., fitnished a piece of fancy work, in whici, by actual count, there were Ii i,l t ~iihs. -".(onc- is a sly dog," romarked Aiken. " lieu lways bits something Up is sIeevu.'' " lias, ch ; whatt is it ?" 'Te seam."' -When a mian is sure that his friends never talic about him behind his back, it is cerin thtt all his friend are1- dfead(. ---0r.e hitindred years ago ia man wa'is avrretL- Ld in Londion for wearing a tal silk haL, the first, article of head gear of titat, kitnd over 8011 inI the -Thetmn who can't alford a new dIress for Itis wife and books for the boys andi girls, often htas no di liculty in l11idig money for' toba~co and whtisky. -T 1he secretary of war is to have aL spiceial Iflag to be d islatyedl wherever iho is preset, in Itis ollicial capacity. it is a blood red llag with eagles and th inrgs itn it. -A I uston antiqu iarian has in hiis possession a b >ttle of the tea wi ch, on the nighlt of December' 10, 1773, was emtiplied ft-om the British vessel by the 13ostont Tota I'arty. -A mtan will dIe for' want of air In five miiinuites, for' watnt of sl0OJp in ton days, for want of wvatetr In a week, and for wanit- of food at, varying periods, depentdent ont cirtcumistuances. --At Coggin's miii, near' Sisson, Cal., the loggers cut, a tree a short time ago wh1ich was estimatte! Li) b)o jus-t 104 year's of age. ItL was 8 feet int ditameter aind pro'iducted I15,0010 feetI, of Ilumber. -A K an-sas young ttan has caused the arrest, of a girul oni the charge that she " did sutdden ly, for'cefully and in tenttiontally hutg him, thereby causing nim i great, confusion and mental an - --A goose with remiarkcable matternal instinlct has been found nealr Herry, Ky. fler br'ood was recently drowned, andti tan oldi sow (tying about, the same tme, thte goose adopted the little or -'lTho average miani tatkes five and a half Ipounlds of food and dink each 'liy, amttouting to one ton of solid and ttidl nou1rishmllent annually. In 70 years Ito et and urinks 1,000 times his own .veight. -A '. Uregoniani has devised an open 10)y tmble. containing a small sponge, to ho placedl on the inger and usett as a moistener ini sealing enivelop~es. Once molisitened the sponge can l'o used oni mnany envelopes. -"' WiIl lam," said the teachor, "can you tell me anything abot, the shapo) of the earth ?" "' Only what my father found out, in the newspaper'."' " What Is that ?" "lHe says it,'s in mighty bad shaipe just at present,." - loiuri cakes of manu11itfactu red ice averaging moiro than 9,000 pounds each worio taken from the vats of an Orange, Tox., comtpany. One weighed 91,000 poundis tand measured'tJ~ 16 feet by 8 feet, and1( was f14 inches thick. - -The~ Cubhan tohaeco yild the past a'~r hats been 75,00;0 bales, instead of ,I0(J(0 bales, the yield the year before. 'he suga.- Cr01) has been reduced to one-fourth its former size, and will be smaller th' coming year