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I .' * "* iie ^Micviflc IPfespger, VOL. 2. 'ABBEVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER ,8 1885. NO. 14. For Sale Cheap. TWO TISE WELT. FIXTURES. The best watar raising invention of the dnv. Invaluable to farmers. A bargain. Apply at this o ffice. tf. Aug. 12 1885. 123. Undertaking. "A OuK FAOULTIK8 AHE UNaUltPABSED. WE are prepared to conduct burials in a most satisfactory manner. All modern CJ ndertaking Appliances. Competent. inannRuaticut gunrauteea. COFFINS, CASKETS And Full Line of BURIAL GOODS, Which are Sr.covn to None. Prices Reasonable. We aim to bo Prompt Considerate and Reliable. ^ Hearne furnished on Application. Our Furniture Dep srtment Is replete with an unusually fine line of gondd. Call and Bee ltd. J. R. LEAVKLL, Jr., Greenwood, S. C. 110 WHY E H. P. IS ACCESS FIRST?It is good. SECOND?It id pleasant. THIRD-It irfsafe. FO URTII?It: does exactly what vvc claim for it FIFTH?It is made by reliable parties. SIXTH?It ha h no equal. SEVENTH?It doe* not nauseate. EIGHTH?It does not gripe. NINTH?It will cure you. TENTH?It ia tlic best Liver Medicine known, ftad costs only Fifty Cent* a Hut tic. Never Failing: Prevention of Spring: Sickness. V WILL INVIGOItATE THE SYSTEM. r ! Gives Tone to the Stomach. HelicveB Torpid Liver and removes nil exclusive bile from tha system and impurities from the blood. I Has been tried by thousands in tho past f<?ur rears and found worth v tho comou-nds fti<>n of all. TZRTZ" XT II. II. . P. only 50 cents pov Bottle. >\\ . BARRETT & McMASTER, $,v. Wholesale and Retail l)niRpists>, Aupiista, (Ja. March 18-?.t 58 v., < ___________ 2METTSSXC3. y?!% The Music Horn of the South % TJEMOVES October 1atf to Kahr'it Beautiful '; / fl. 1~ -t- -* * ?uuhuiuk, Ncm ly v|i[Htniiv me uiu ruuna. The superior advantage of this location will be appreciated by everv one, and, with increased facilities, <1. O/UOIIINSON & CO. will be enabled to furnish the Finat PIANOS AND ORGANS Manufactured at Lowest Possible Prices. Tie Music House of the South Guarantee to duplicate Prices in Northern cities, saving to the purchaser all freight and insurance, besiaes supplying Stool and .Cover. Shipped to any point iu the South. Musical Merchandise and Instruments of every description. Sheet Music and Music Books. Thn !.??? Pnhlirsfiniic 1 anw VW* NWMVHUV4W Orders filled on day of rccenptinn. P p' -S, . Write for Catalogue, Prices, Discounts end p easy terms of per meet. C. O. ROBINSON * CO. L*' .? v.. 816 Broad St., Augusta, Ga. Oct. 30,'Si tf 135 LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. 8KNA.TE. Coi.umma, S. C., Nov. 30, 1885. The sesbion of the Senate to-day was short, and except the action of that body on the bill to call a constitutional covention, of very little interest. The bill to call a constitutional convention passed its second reading, by a vote of seventeen to thirteen. The point was made by Senator Sinythe, of Charleston, that it would require a two-thirds vote to daks tho bill, but this was ovorrulorl It will be renewed and argued on the third reading of the bill, and in the opinion of many eminent lawyers will be sustained. The impression prevails howeter that it will receive a twothirds majority in its third reading and so pass. The Senate unanimously adopted resolution of thanks to Mr. J. F. 11. Tatnall for copies of the history of the the life and services of Commodore Tatnall. written by ^ol. C. C. Jones, of Georgia. Columbia, S. C., December 1. After the formal proceeding of opening, in response to the call of the President the following new measures were introduced : By Senator Mauldin?A joint resolution paoposing an amendment to Section 8, Article 11., of the Constitution providing for the election of one Senator from each county for a term of four , years. , By Senator Moody?A joint resolution requiring the School Commission of Marion County to has.! his next apportionment of the school funds for school district No. 10., upon the average atten dance during the school 1883-84. By Senator Moody?A bill to nbolish the Department of AgricultuJe. Also a bill to repeal all laws of the State which provide for the appointment and Salaries of Railroad Commissioners, and which prescribed their powers and duties. By Senator Sligh?A. bill relating the the nmnnner of asRensins real estate and personal property for taxation whereon there exists a mortgage or a lien. It It provides that in the assessment of such property "the owner therefore shall be allowed to deduct from the real value thereof the amount due 011 Ruch mortgage or other lien, and the value of said property after such deduction shall be taken and deemed the true taxable value." Unfavorable reports were made by the committees on the following bills, and they were rejected : A bill to establish a whnrf at Pitch Landing on Soeastee Creek, in Horry County; a bill to amend the General Statutes in relation to carrying concealed weapons ; a hill to op?n a certain highway in Horry County; and a bill providing for keeping the public highways and bridges in repair. Senator Youmans introduced a concurrent resolution providing for the adjournment of the General Assembly on the 19th day of December, and it was ordered for consideration until to-morrow. The first matter called on the calendar was the joint resolution to provide for milliner a fAnvnntuo nf ' - 0 _ wv.tfvMwivai VI %f IIC puupit' 111 this State. It was evident that the measure was doomed undor the operation c f the two-thirds rule, and but little was said about it. The question of the passage of the resolution was put and the resulted, ayes 17, nays 14. 80 it was lost, not obtaining the requisite two-thirds vote. The other third reading bills on the calendar were passed and orderted to the House, and the Senate passed to the the consideration of general orders until 1 p. m., when they joined the House in ? joint assembly for the purpose of electing ft Commissioner of Agriculture, two members of tha Board of Agriculture two Directors of the Penitententiary and Register of Mesne Conveyance for Charleston County. On returning to the chamber ft number of bills were introduced, after which Senator Izlar from the committee appointed to prepare a suitable tribute to the memory of Vice-President Hendricks. submitted the following : "Whereas, This day, throughout the union, our countrymen are sorrowing for the death .of the Vice-President of the United State*, Thomas A. Hendricks; arid whereas, it is n high duty as well as a noble priviledge to honor those who have displayed eminent virtues both in public and in private life : "jResolred, That in the death of Thomas A. Hcndricks, Vice-President of < the United States, the American people ] have lost a great and good man, a distin- , girshed and useful citizen, and a pure and illustrious statesman. "liesolved, That on this day while < the remains of this patriotic citizen and , christian gentlemen are being consigned ] to their last resting place, as a token of respect and sorrow the Senate cease ' from its labors and stand adjourned. "Reftulved, That a copy of these j resolutions be transmitted by the Hon- ( orable President of the Senate to the family of the lamented Vice-Presi- 1 dent" The resolutions were unanimously adopted and the Senate immediately ad- J journed. house. Columbia, S. C., November ?). Two measures monopolized the time i of the House yesterday. There was a i bill to utilize the labor of municipal \ convicts and to empower the courts and 1 municipal authorities to impose the pun- < isment of labor within their respective i jurisdictions; and the second was the I valued policy insurance bill. Both came up as special orders and produced a long and uninteresting discussion. On the "convict bill" the committee hud made an unfavorable report. Mr. Haskell moved that the enacting words be stricken out. Mr. Brown of Darlington said he thought the bill of considerable importance and he hoped-the mom-, bers would see it in the same light. He described how it would benefit the counties. Convicts did not consider confinement any punishment. The object of punishment is not attained by confining prisoners in jail. It does not act as preventive of crime. One of the great advantages which will result from the passay:?i of the bill will b? tho im. ( provementof the highways. The pro- i posed road work is t" '~e :lone under the proper authorities?me County Com- i missioners. t Mr. Douglass spoke briefly in favpr of i the bill arid suggested some changes 1 which he thought would improve it. ! This amendment proposed to make I amendable to this law all convicts in the { penitentiary who are sentenced for a 1 term of less than three years. 1 Mr. Mclver said ho was heartily in i sympathy with the bill and trusted ty i would puss. I Mr. Alison opposed the amendments > and gave several reasons why, in his i opinion, it should not bo accepted. l Mr. Haskell spoke briefly but earnest- < ly in support of his motion to strike out the enactin* worHa Kit# unmrmni/wi i ? , that perhaps it would bo best to recommit the bill to the Judiciary Committee. He did not like the idea of working roads by taxation. Mr. Brown rejoined that we will never have good roads until they are worked b)r taxation. Short speeches were then made by Messrs. Douglass, Robertson, Bowen, Graydon, Williams, Davies, Pope, Lyles, Jones and Pettigrew. The yeas and nays were then taken on Mr. Haskell's motion with the following result: yeas 4G, nays 67. The bill was then passed to its third reading. The insurance bill now came up on its merits, and Mr. Kavsor of Orangeburg moved to strike out the enactimr words. | Mr. Graydon, the author of the bill, spoke long and ably in its defense. He adduced sundry reasons why the insurance companies should be held down to thier contracts and made to pay the amount they agree to pay in their policies. Mr. Petti grew and Mr. Pope followed in a few appropriate words favoring the bill. The latter said that he regarded the matter as an eminently just one. To pass it will be to put an end to much litigation with the insurance companies. Messrs. Rnysor, Lyles and Kennedy then put in a few words against the bill, and they wero responded to by Mr. Folk, who roado a telling little speech in its favor. Messrs. Scuddy, McCrady and MeMaster followed in short arguments against the proposed law, and Mr. Parker took sharp issue with them in a well ] considered aririimont nf ??? length. J Mr. fcitnonton then delivered tho ! strongest speech yet made against pans- j ing the law. ' He was followed by Mr. llcady and ' Mr. I)o^le for, and Mr. Dantxler and Mr. < McHugh agninst the bill, which entfed the debate. The bill was then rojocted by a rote , of 58 to 53, thu.i dispensing of this important question for the present session. There was no other calendar work done, and nothing else of any moment occurred, save the introduction of a number of new bills and joint resolutions, which went to the proper committees, and will come up on their merits in due season. Of these new measures only a few are of any general interest, most of them being local affairs. It was not far from 3 o'clock when the House adjourned to meet Tuesday it 10 o'clock. Coi.umbia, S. C., December 1, 1885. All matters were overshadowed yesterday by the discussion of the Abbeville prohibition bill. It was known that the fight would begin early in the day, and the friends and adversaries ol the measure were present in full force. The debate was one of the most interesting heard on the floor of the Hou j this session. It will probably be continued to-day. No test vote was taken indicating the relative strength of the two parties, so it will be hard -to preiict what the outcome will be. ' Mr. Parker, of Abbeville, called for the special order at 12.30 o'clock. This was a bill to provide for the submission k.o the qualified electors of Abbeville :onnty?of the queation^pf "License" or LiconSe'Mn the incorporated towns ind villages in .said county at a special election. *. Mr. J. Ancrum Simons, of Charleston, >n?* of ttie most pronounced~anti-proliibitionists in the House, moved an intendment so that the bill should in:lude the county of Oconee. Mr. Doyle, of Oconee, moved to table this amendment which was done in a most decided manner. Mr. Simons then suggested another intendment, providing that the bill ihall apply to every county in the State, and in supp.uEllnjg that preposition said that while we now have in South Carolina a good general law on :he subject, yet if Abbeville wus to be a.. J .L . % % m - - ;r(iuu.'u me privilege asKeci lor in this bill, he did not see why tho other counties should not be granted the same rights. Ho did not see tho justice of singling out that on* county. He thought all the others ought to have the iume chance. Mr. Simons' object in jrging these amendments was so apparent that the House very promptly and emphatically tabled them. Mr. Kennedy, another vehement opoient of prohibition, offered an amendinendment providing that none of the expenses incurred in said election shall be borne by the towns or villages. 'My intention for making this proposition," said he, "'is to require these temperance people to pay the fiddler. If they are anxious to hold this election .i.?..u -t nicj oiiuuiu pnjr iiiu i-ApuiiNus mem* jclves." Mr. Parker: "It is apparent that this bill is one of too great importance to be killed by filibustering tactics on the part of those who oppose it, and I move to lay the amendment on the table." Adopted. Mr. Graydon moved In atike out the enacting words of the bill and in support of that motion made an earnest speech ot consul arable lenpth He said he was opposed to all this class legislation. It is wrong in principle and wrong in policy. In the county o( \bbrville there were only three places in which liquor was allowed to be sola?Abbeville, Hedges and Troy. But now no liquor :an be sold in Troy because the people of that place di sired the business to be ?t >pped. Ho was in favor of prohibition in Hodges besauae a large majority of the residents are opposed to whiskey. But in the town of Abbeville it is different. There a large majority itre in favor rtf granting liquor licenses. The town charter granrs this privilege. The injustice of thia bill towards the people of the town is manifest when it is seen how the county people can vote for the business to be stopped in a town, while a flrreat majority o( it* inhabitants may be in favor of granting,li roncea. mere is aosoiuieiy no neceaalty o! forcing a no-license law upon Abbeville. Everything there ruus along as smoothly and quietly a* it would be possible even under the moat stringent prohibitory laws. We have very strict Taws in the town against drunkenness, and punish offender^. One of the most potent arguments is that prohibition dou't prohibit. Look at the towns of Ureenwood and Ninety-Six. In these places they have strict anti-liquor laws, but how are they enforced ? In these places all the liquor on? wants can be got from the drug stores even without a physician's certi6cate. Experience shows that * wherever prohibition has been tried in South Carolina it haa proved* failure. Mr. Graydon here quoted from a Darenporte newspaper, showing how prohibiticc bad resulted in a failure in toe State of Iowa, tie commented upon the statistics and deduced tho conclusion that if the anti-whiskey statutes are imperative in Iowa they will bi equally ineffective in South Carolina. He op> posed the bill for the additional and v eightj reasons that, in hia opinion, this liquor question will in the near future be injected intc politics and embarrass the Democratic part v. "I hope,", continued he, "that we will nevei ec enacted in South Carolina similar nee no i to those which .occurred in Atlanta last week, If tho whit* people in South Carolina should become divided on the temperance question the negroes will then hold the balance of pow?rt It is ssid that this is a local measure, . but it is one which a fleet* the whole State. I don't want to see the excitement which such an election will create in Abbeville county. My idea is thut those who favor legislative prohibition make this error?they say that whiskey drinking is a bad thing. We admit i it. Thev say that drunkenness is a terrible thing. We acknowledge this. They say that the drunkard could not get drunk .it whiskey was not allowed to be sold in his reach. They thtn declare that it is wrong in the legislature to grant the right to sell whiskev. ; This is the mistake. The legislature does unt fprant the right to sell whiskey, it only reguates its sale and deprives certain persons of the privilege of dealing in it. We do not want any more legislation on the subject. Wc have just as many laws as we want. The eale of spirituous liquors is now prohibited Everywhere in the State except in the incorporated villages und towns. it seems to me that the State goes too far in passing these liquor lows. These legislative attempts to regulate the morals of the people are foolish and unjust, and I am utterly opposed to them. I object .t - i < -- , ? .uv ..... vv. cuuwniii buuau mn? ior inc 1'UgU- j lation of the people. I am not in favor of the 1 Stnte treatiuu all the people aa if they were i children. This paternal legislation I con. demn. I am in favor of temperance and will jjo as fnr an any member of iliis House in finding a remedy for the evil, but this is not my way of reaching it. If this case could be reached without interfering with the rights , of citizens I would be in favor of it. If it is for these reasons and others I could give which iuduce me to ur?ie the rejection of this bill. I don't believe this measure i* in the true interest of temperance. There is a danger of reaction, wlu-n matters will be worse than they were before." Mr. W. H. Parker of Abbeville; in , whose charge the bill was given by the ! petitioners of his county was about to begin a reply to Mr. Graydon, when the Sergont-at-Arms interrupted him by nnnA?in/?!*>?? ' w.iuviMiviug tuav IIIU OCllUlt' W1US Waillllg j to bo admitted. ( The Senators, bonded by President 1 Shoppard and Clerk Farrow, then on- j tered the hall. < The joint assembly was called to \ order by President Sheppard, who < stated that the bodies had come togeth- ' or to elect a Commissioner of Agricul- j ture, two motnbers of the Agricultural Board, two Penitentiary Directors and a ( Register of the Mense Conveyance for , Charleston County. Nominations for a Commissioner of ( Agriculture being in order. Mr. Mclver, of Darlii.gton, placed in nomination the name of the present incumbent, Col. A. j P. Butler, whom he praised in the highest terms. Senator Moodv, of Marion, in a brief i speech nominated M. L. Donaldson, of ^ Greeeville. Senator Youmans of Barnwell, seconded Col. Butler's nomination, and Mr. i> - r i? 1 - > ? - - 1 uu.^gts 01 x iCKens, mat Air. lJonaklson. , Dr. Summers, of Orangeburg, also seconded the nomination of Mr. Donaldi son. The roll was culled and the following j announced as the result: Butler 97*; Donaldson, 49; total, 146. Necessary to a choice, 74. Col. Butter was thereupon declared elected Commissioner of Agriculture , for the next two years. I Nomination for two members of the , ' Board of Agriculture hoini* novi ir? o ? - ? """'O * " order, Mr. C. J. C. Hudson nominated | Wm. D Johnson, of Marion, and Mr. W. ( H. Parker named the Hon. A. .J. S. , Perry, of Charleston. No o;he nominations were made and those gentlemen were unanimously elected. i Mr. Brown, of Darlington, nominated i as a Director of the Penitentiary Mr. John A. Scott, of Marion, and Mr. J. T. R. Thomson, of Spartanburg, suggested Mr. K. T. Allen, of his county, and Mr. < C. H. Simonton of Charleston, entered i , a third racer in the person of Mr. E. B. nr.*-j iliui lajf Ul AKIUVISUKI* ' Oh the first ballot Mr. Alien and Mr. Siottwere tlocted, the former rceived I ing 119 Totes and the latter 89. Mr. 1 i Murray got 74 votes. The present incumbent, Mr. Charles Kerrison, was unanimously choscn the , Register of Mesne Conveyance for Charleston, and the joint assembly dis1 solved. M? soon as tho Senate withdrew Mr. Parker i took the floor aad made a powerful plea for I the bill under consideration. ; i lie said that by a peculiar concatenation of ( i circumstances he baa been deputed to champion this measure, and been forced in the no- , sition by one of the journals of engineering . the prohibition cause in the House. While i 1 not strictly a prohibitionist in practice, vet he was placed in charge of this very impoi tant i prohibition measure. Id beginning an argument in favor of the pending Dill he would not, I be said, devote himself to describing the erils < of intemperance, It is only necessary to take \ up any newspaper of the day to find illustrations by the eolumns. The evil* of intemperance are too well known to require com- 1 ment. That wisest of all men said : "Look not upon the wine when it is red." If he was I living to-day he would car : "Tread not the ( path to the bar-room." We do not come here ' to argue any arbitrary, harsh or unjust legis- ; lation on the subject or liquor selling, but for something to protect society frem a curse. < We ask that this largely and respectably ] signed petition be heeded. This petition contains only the names of substantial, respect - a Die cmzons. tveaia nntnt tbe lignatures I i of the negroes or tbe ladies and children. , The beet and staunchest men at every voting I precinct have signed this petition, asking 1 i that they be given an opportunity of express* ing their will at the polls on the license ques, tiOn. This is s voice from the.connty ot Ab- i Seville, asking something for Abbeville alone/ It is a local measure. The speaker who opposed the bill urged this point as an objection ;o the passage of the law, but it ill in reality something in its favor. We onlj ask thai jrou allow us to test this question for our' selves in Abbeville. If it should go against is we would cheerfully submit to the decision if the majority, but if it- should be determined for us then we would sac that the laws bo enforced. We arc informed that it would be i dangerous precedent to enact this law* There is danper of a political dis-npjion. But Marion, Marlboro, Oconee and other counties lave tested it and there was no disruption :herc in the Democratic party. Is it unjust >r unreasonable for us to come here in behalf jf the petitionrrs and ask the legislature to us au opportunity of lawfully testing Ihe scuse of tho liquor advocates and the tnti-whiskey element in our own county? IVe are met witb the old objection that prohibition don't prohibit. It is true that it docs lot annihilate? Honor* hi,( ?u:,-: J ww? HI WIOTUI |n WI1IUI' ;i<?D laws ure passed and they;are xigidly enforced prohibition doea prohibit- We have in \bboville a good city government, I confess. It is as peaceful, orderly a place as there is in the State on private days. But on public oc* :asions it ia entroly different. Then people :onie in from the country and fill the bar ooiub. Usually one town marshal can prejerve order in Abbetil'e without any difficulV, but on public days it taken nearly half a lozen constables to keep the peace. Then nay be seen the sad spectacle erf respectable nen who have given way to temptation, taken jy the collar ? the guard house. This is . nougb to mill . the friends of temperance do something to cure the evil. On th* calendar it' this House the bill now before us has been Tor the past twelve months. The opponents )f the bill have bad ample time to make their :ase and present counter-petition#. ,- JIt is true Lhat drug stores ir. dry towns do ffblatc the uws ay Helling liquor on the bo;utT certificate if physicians, but 1 hope the time will soon lotua when examples will be made of these violators of the law. In my county we convictid one of these druggists and he was put in iail. Others will soon comc to judgment. Towns that have been for the past two year*, dry are unwilling for the laws Affecting therm to be changed, Without doing anv violence to public sentiment, without depriving anybody of his inalienable rights, the tnoib if the army of' prohibitionists is beasiJiarching through the State. x Ninetytwo municipalities in South Carolina are now iry. I don't see how any intelligent peraon :ati object to the passage of this bill. Among the new measures are the following: Bill to prescibe what salaries* the clerks of the House of Representatives shall receivebill authorizing Trial Justices to issue warrajtB for the snforcement of agricultural liens ; bill lo provide for the appointment of a. special Master under certain circumstances ; bill to repeal the law to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquorsoutside the incorporated towns and cities ; bill to regulate the interest upon, iny contract arising in this State for thehiring, lending or uso of money or oth?r commodity at the rate of seyen per :ent. per annum. Some eight or ten ather bills received their first reading. There are measures of only local interast, however, so it is not necessary toenumerate them. The usual petitions, presentments of grand jurie*, notices of new bills, etc., were submitted and appropriately referred. A number of committee reports were also read. The unfavorable committee report on the bill to provide for a marriage license in this State was adopted aifd the bill rejected. The bill to reduce the pay of Sheriffs , For dieting prisoners from thirty-five cents to twenty-five cei.ts a day, was rejected. It was nearly 3 o'clock when the House adjourned to meet at 10 this tnorning. . Down They Go. It is rumored in New Yo?-k that Hon. R. P. Flower lost $600,000 by oil declining two points, and that Jay Gould \nd his friends have scooped tho pile. This rumor sets Gath to easy it is for a man to loso in an hour, by gambling at the great centra the fortune that had been laboriously earned in a life-iime. And this leads Mr. Towwnsend to ruminate further, thus : Think of Heath, the broker, being in Ludlow street jail at the suit of Morosini ! Think of Stokes running a hotel with the great mining opperator Mitckay, and of Gauld, the partner of , Fisk, passing that hotel every day, and of Fink back in Brattleboro in his vault. Think of Cyrus W. Field, who celebrated tho laying of the Atlantio cable nearly thirty years ago, having earned no more rest nor holiday than to be down in this puddle, of Wall street. Think of poor old Beeoher preaching away in Brook lin like a street oar horse, nobody paying much attention to what iiu Mjro, mm no aewpernieiy intent on getting the remainder of bin living out of this world, and of RtiHsell Sage, who undertook to Aell pats and oalls to univernal mankind, being compelled to close up the shop. Think of poor old Boody yesterday dying and getting only ten lines in the newapapera, when he created great railroad ayatema, and of Dr. Durant, who built tho Union Pacific, breathing his life away in some provincial town, hi* last enterprise to build a ?:i_ a t _ i J_I?i ? imiiuMiMirDUgll ills AUnonWCK QOtfOTtl). The one ajlid and unshakahly colossal fortune of the country aeema to be that of the Aatora, which is built on real estate in the commercial raetropo- ^ lia of the country. And yet "even thia shall j>afts avray?Angvata Chronicle.