The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, May 22, 1877, Image 2
WINNSBORO, S. C.
Tuesday, May 22, : : : 1877.
It. MEANS DAVIS, Editor,
JNO. S. REYNOLDS, Associato Editor.
In the Ellenton trials? now in
progress in Charleston, M1fajor
IHutson Leo was rejected as a
United States juror becauso ho had
been a volunteer in the Confederate
service. This law has slept a long
time, and few people knew of its
existence. Congress should abolish
it at the next session. It and Rto
conlstruction are now the "twinl
rolics -of barbarism."
The refreshing intelligorce has
boel received that Senator Morton
'ill not Oppose the President's
Southern policy. The paralytic
howler's seat in the Senate is tmcer
tam enough now, and as the 1)00
pie of Indiana are said to favor
IIayos, Morton cannot afford to
antagonize has party. The )enio -
crats are confident of electing a
successor to Morton next year.
The poople of Augusta are all
agog upon the subject of a railroad
from that city to Knoxville. Thme
distance is two hllul(reld and forty
miles, and the cost is estimated at
from two and it half to five millions.
The object of this road is to secure
the trade of the West. and the move
ment ' is in competition with the
Blue Ridge and the Spartmbug
.and Ashville road in our State.
Tho Pay of the Legislators.
One of the most important niat
tors that leLman( the attention of
the members -of the Legislature is
the amount of their own pay, and
front all reports, opinion is much
divided as to what it shall be.
A proposition has been made to
allow six hundred dollars to each
member present at the December
session, while two hundred dollars
is to be the compensation for the
prosent session.
This is too too much. The con
stant cry of the Democracy for ten
years has been that the Radical
logislators wore receiving exorbitant
paty ; and pledges .o9f retrenchment
in legislative matters, as well as in
everything else, have been freely
made. The Legislature has done
well in this matter, and salaries
generally have been brought down
to thoe lowest living rates. It only
remains for the reformers to put the
pruning kinife to their own salaries
and tho work is complete.
We wish it to be dlistincetly nndler,.
stood, right here, that we are by no
means advocates of excessive fru
gality. T.ho only perfect govern
mnent is that which has thoroughly
competet and trustworthy oflici als,
anmd suchl men command and always
will command good wages. But the
State is in soro straits, financially3,
and for a while at least strict
economy must bo practiced. Dur
ing thia period the nmoembers of the
Legislature must be contenmt merely
to save expenses.
Eight hundred dollars for thme
work of about two months is. pro
p)osterous, especially when there is
to be another session in tho winter.
No reason exists why a member of
the Logislatture should receive a
sum for this short timo, oqual to the
~salary of a treasurer of one of our
largest counties for a whole year's
wor~k. And ini our opiinion, any
imember who puts such am estimate
supon huivmelf, during these hard
-times, willm~ot have another oppor
.tuniity 'to servo the State in a public
capacity.
Tfho measure has not yet been
discussed ; anid we are confident
thaut the Legislature will not be
guilty of extravagance. A word of
warnming, however, at this timuo wvill
not be amniss.
Thme argament is used thlat the
burdin4 of the .Decemb~or session
woero 'peculiarly' arduous and atten
dod also with p~ositivp dangemr. This
is true. But the huardships of that
time cannot b)o measured with mnoney
and the Legislaiturc was only at its
post of ;duty. The Jmejmbers had
.agroed .to perform a certain wvork,
amnd they did it well. But they
should not sully the reputation
they have gained as 'patriots by
laying thomsolvos open to the chargo
of being morconaries. The sum of
three Imndred dollars, at the present
rate of paying public servants, is
enough for the work of last Decom
ber. For the present session livo
dollars a day might b allowed.
But eight hundred dollars for two
months' work, besides the honors
accruing, is p1 opostorous, and any
attempt to exact it will raise a ter
rific howl along the whole line.
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
FIDAY, May 18.
SENATE.
Several committees made reports,
which were laid over under the
rules.
Hon. W. A. Walker, senator elect
from Chester county, presonted his
credentials, was duly sworn and
assigned to a seat
several bills were received from
the House. read by title and appro
priately refei red.
A bill to amend an act entitled
"An act to incorporate the Piedmont
Manufacturing Comiipany," and ia bill
to amend an act entitlCd "An act
supplementary to chapter 15, title
4, part 1, of the general statutes,
relating to the militia, and for the
better organization and government
of the same," were ordered to a
third reading.
Mr. Gary introduced a bill to
abolish all attorneys' taxed costs,
plaintiffs' or defendants' co.sts, as
allowed by the Code, and the act
ameInlatory thereto.
Bill (House) to incorporate the
town of Batesburg, in the county of
Lexington,received its third reading,
passed and was sent to the House of
Iepresentaiyes.
A resolution (by Mr. H. J. Max
well) to postpone to the next regu
lar session all bills relative to the
granting of a charter to a new com
pany, or for the amendment of a
charter heretofore granted, for the
purpose of lining and digging for
phosphates, was agreed to.
A bill to prohibit the unauthor
izeCl absence of certain oflicers from
duty, was ordered to a third reading.
Report (favorable) of committee
on retrenclunent on bill to reduce
and fix the price of dieting prisoners
was ordered to a third reading.
Adjourned.
H OUsE OF REPIRESENTATIVEs.
Mr. Stoan introduced a resolu
tion that the sergeant at.armsi fur
nish ice for the use of the House
-not more than twenty. five pounds
daily. Adopted.
Bill to fmrther reduce and fix the
number and regulate the pay of at
tachees of tihe General Assembly pass
ed its third reading and was sent, to
the Senate wi th amendmnents.
A bill to make appropriations to
pay salaries anid mileage of memtbers
snd salaries of the employees of
the General Assembly, was amendled
and ordered to) be re-eng'rossed.
Tihe discussion of tihe appropria..
tion bill *was resumaed.
At the hour appointed the Senate
camne in, and the joint assemblly pro
ceeded to elect an associate jus~ee
in the pla1ce of Judge Wilard.
Mrp. (Coit, of Chesterfield, nominat
Mr. Kei lh, color'ed llepulic an
from DI arlington, seconded the
M~,r. Gary obtained the consent of
tihe joint assembly to make a second
seconid to the nomination.
Mr. H-amtilton wyished~ to second
the nlomination of Mr. Mclvor, but
the Chair ruled that any further
second to the nomination was out of
Tile vote wyas then taken, arnd Mr.
Mclver unanimously elected, roecciv
ing 129 votes. Thlie announcement
of the result was received with
ch eers.
The House thon resumed its
session, and( discussed the appro..
priaition bill-wvhih wasl odered to
hoc engrossed for a third reading.
Adjourned.
SA Trumn~y, May 19.
TnlE SENATE was5 not in Session1.
HOUSE OF' UEPRCEAENTATIvES.
Several committees -submitted res
ports, which laid over under .the
rules.
T1he consideration of the report of
the special committee as to the
conduct of Judge Wright was post
p)oned till next session.
.The following bills wore read a
secondl~ time To regulate the
public printing ; to provc~ent thme sale
of slirituous liquors withiin three
miles of Williamsiton Female CJollego;
to regulate aplpointment and salary
of trial justices in Ilarnwoll
county ; to incorporato tihe Pied
muont Manufacturing Company -;. to
provid1o for the filling of vacancies
mn county oflicos ; to authorize the
governor to effeot a loan; to amend
an act to amend chae. of tow of
Johnston's Turnout ; to amend the
charter of the town of Yorkvillo ;
joint resolution directing the attor
noy} -general to e:<amino in to certain
facts touching the interest of the
Stato in the affairs of the Greenvillo
and Columbia Railroad Company ;
to reduco^tho pay of county comn
missionera and their clerks ; to incor
porate the town of Elko ; to regu
late tho inspection of timber ; to
fund the past indebtednoss of tho
town of Sumtor.
Joint resolution to appoint a con
mission to codify the acts was post
poned till next session.
House bill to till vacancies in
county ollices and Houso bill to
amend charter of Yorkville were laid
on the table.
Billto establish a new county from
a portion of Beaufort county, to bo
known as Palmetto county, N%
postponed till next session.
Adjourned.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The governor of Massachusetts
has vetoed the local option liquor
law.
'T'welve Republican papers in
Iowa denounce the President's
Southern policy.
Tho city bank of Macon, Ga., has
made an assignment for tho benefit
of creditors.
Both the Republicans and the
Demnocrats of Ohio are anxious
about the fall election.
]laine is in Washington, and is
quite a lion. He had as many as
two hundred visitors one day last
week.
The court house at Rockford, Ill.,
while in process of construction, fell
in on the 11tH inst., killing twelve
and wounding fourteen persons.
The Republican executive con
nitte of Iowa has issued a regular.
bloody--shirt address to the people.
It still howls about slavery and the
W;11i'.
At Cleveland, Ohio, fifteen hun
(red striking, coopers have returned
to wolrk at the colipany's terms.
The company agree not to employ
boys.
The lowest bidders to whom was
awarded the contract for plain
postal cards wvo the American
Phototype Company of New York.
The father of Charlio Ross and
P. T. Barnum, the great showman.
of'er a reward of ten thousanid dol
lars for the lost boy, and no ques
tions asked. Barnini's motives and
purposes may be well understood.
There is a woman in Georgia who
sets all the type on a weekly news
pal)ei and washes and cooks for a
large family, while her husband
writes the editorials and smokes the
cigars.
President Hayes was present at
the recent haniuct of the Newv York
Chamuiuber of Counnerce. Mr. Tilen
and Governor Robin son were invi ted
to attend(, but declined, it is said1,
beenuse ?1hey construed an aiccep)t
ance into a recognition of the legali.
ty of Rayos' title..
An effort is making to prevail on
President Hayes to make an asso
eiate justice of Judge Spofford, thme
new .Democratic senator from ;Newv
Orleans. This is a move by Kecl
logg's friends, but will not,~ help
them, as Governor Nicholls wvould
apploint a senator in Judge Spof
ford' 1)place.
Several Detr'oi t capital istIs, among
them a manm namned Stevens, engaged
a nnmber of laborers to go to the
mines at California Gulch in Colora
do0. On their arrival, the miners
found there was no work for them.
They organized a riot, besieged
Stevens and his partners in a house,
compelled them to isue a draft in
favor of the strikems for . 84,000 and
at last accounts wvere pr'eparing to
lynch thenm. Parties in Denver
have gone to the relief of Stevens.
New Yor'k had on the 15th what
wvas initended to bei a gr'and earnival
similar to the Mardi Gras festivals
of New Orleans and other Soathern
cities. But Rex was a briewer and
thme procession wais scarcely more oir
les;; tharn a long line of dr'ays and
earts 'oelonging to blakers, brewvers,
b lutchers, patent soap men, peddlers
and hucksters advertising their
waries ; and all .Gotham sei up ai
howl of disgust. The spectacular
displaiy was a coinplete humbug.
New York has had her firset and
Iprobably her last carnival.
Tho annual celebration of tihe
.Philomnath can Literary Socioty of
I'rskine Collego wvill take plaice on
June 29th. They pr~opose discussing
the subject, "Have falso systems of
religion caused moroe misery than
false systems of governont ?" The
orators for the occasion are Messrs.
R. -C. Davis, of Ga, and J. T. Chial
meors, of N. C., foi- the affirmative,
and Meissrs. J. C. S. Birico and1 J. E.
IMcDonald, of S. (s., for the neoga
Ii~iv
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Evorybody in Spartanulrg is put
ting Up ia lightning-rod.
iMr.John M. Ross, an ag'd :md res
poeted citizen of Yorkville, died on
Sunday before last.
A regiment of cavalry has been
organized in Colleton ccnnty, and
Capt. J. J. Fox elected colonel. The
officers will be commissionod at
once.
A movement is on foot among the
citizens of Yorkville to reorganize
the Jasper Light Infantry, a very
old company, and a moeting with
that object in view was hold on
Thursday evening.
Mr. E. C. Sumner, of Lincolnt.on
N.C., has been appointed superinton
dont of the (lester & Lenoir Rail
road, in place of Mrldward Thomas
-wliereat the Yorkville A/fpirer
is much surprised and somewhat
wroth.
The anusomen is in the town of
Anderson (lrilng the present season
are, for men, pitching quoits, and
for boys, spiinng tops. Both are
engaged in with a zest by numbelI)(:rs
of the ilhait ialts. So says the
Ir. M. C. Connor has succeeded
in securing the press, tV)o and
oflice of the lIte W;ilterl >o ,\'e w,',
and expect., on Or )cfoe Ju1e 1st,
next, to publish, at that place, a
straightout Denocraitic paper, ad
vocating the genuine principles of
Democratcy.
11 fourth annual ineeting of the
stockholders of the Ch ester anil
.Lenoir iNarrov (htwgo iiilroad
Colil'anv, met in the tow-n of (hes,
ter. onl the 1Wth. T1he old president
and board of direeL.trs were electei1.
This road vill now lhe ptshed to
early comlipletioni.
A Washiington desptch says that
L. ('ass Carpenter has not m111(1le a
f( uina1 resiguation. hI 1 upon t he
return of the P'esi!ent his rtsig;a
tion Vill be treated as nile aind
aceepted, alld ia new c(llet Ior lie alp.
pointedl for the third South Caroli,
na district.
MIr. John iothwell. secretary of
the Young Men's Chiristian Assoei
tion of Charleston, has been doing a
good Christian wi uk in Anderson
for the past few wcoks. Several
persons have uited wit lithe clurelh
in consequence of his lab ors, and
others are intcrestod on the subject
of religion.
The carpet-bagger dies hard.
One of his niuher 1hats bei lpretIch
ing to the colored peoplo of Aiken
the comfortable doctrine that Haves
has only puit Mr. Hamnpton into the
governorship for eigllt ( m11 1)onths
on trial. If he doesn't aiswer, Mr.
Hayes will then (ethirone him nd(11
reseat Chlamberla~in.
iMr. imon M. Mills, of Rlock lill].
mrot with the miisfortuniie to) break his
ight i leg 1ab)ovet the kniec. iHe was
onl his way toi the depot, to take the
tndat for his home, and aI. tempting
to cross ai dlep ?9vine by walkinig on
a narrow foot- way over it, tbe night
very3 dark, missed his footing andi~
fell, with tihe result ablove described.
A. S. Richardlson, colored, well
knoewn as a Oefaulter inl thte Cho stor
poist oflice, was arrested Tue sday
hoefore last on the chtarge of for'ging'
the name of Jul ins C. Stevonson to
a teacher's pay~i certificate. In default
of hail in the suml of 0one thonsimal
dlhLrs lie was committed to jail, but
hall s'inIco been dischargecd.
Col. ,John iM. White, of York
county, died at hlis r'esidee in Fort
Mill, on Sunidayv last, after a brief
illness. At the time of his death he
was forty four years of age. Hie
served with gallantry through the
late war, at the ('1oso of which he
was1. lieu tenant--colonel of then
Sixth South Caroilina RLegimen~it. As
a Mason lie was aL brighlt and~ COnl
Ispicuous memberh). bieinig at the timo
of his death Worshipful M\aster of
Catawba Lodge. He was also0 a
decaconi ini the0 Presb~yterian church
at Fort Mill. As a citizen 110 was
upright and faithful ini the discharge
ing ando liberl-anid in his donathi
tihe commiuinity will .sustain a serious
loss.
There is rathoir an uinfortunate
dlisagreemel(nt anmong the D~emocrats
of 'Williamusburg county. It -seems
tha1t the county chairman, under the
advice of the county executive comn
mnittee, reconmmenided a Mr. Loo
for the position of county treasurer,
and the aippoli nmn t was according.
ly madioo. This was not liked by3
some1 of the Demiocrats in thie In,
diantowvn section, who desi red the
appointment of Mr. 0. M. McCutch
on, and a mass meeting wvas called to
reorganize the p)arty and mrako new
ricommnd~ationls for oilicors. It
appears,howevor, t hat the nowv move
mont makes little or no progress.
It is to be hoped that everything will
soon go on smol oli- mo..
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Notions.
Ihamuburg Edgings and Insertions, at
7ets.. 1ets. and 12. ct.s, per yard.
HANDSOME ASSORTMENT OF
White and Striped Ihosiery, at all prices.
PARASOLS, SILK tnd COTTON.
Gents' Unlaurndried Shirts, Wmnsutta
'Mills, $12 per dozen.
Pereacte Shirts, $12 per dozen.
3EAUTIFUL DRESS GOODS,
Only 124 cents per yard.
CAL1COES and BLEACHINGS,
Always in great variety,
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S'IIoI'.
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DANNENBEf.
april 17
M-e R'w 40 3.CI V0
THOS. R. ROBERTSON,
Attorney at Law
AND TRIAL JUSTICE.
%' All business enrusted to lhim in
ither capacity' will recivt promnpt atten..
titon
t llice on Washington' street, One (door
eas't of Wtinsboro Jiotei
it. A (1 Aui.iti 9. h.1st. S t::o~s
QAILLARD & AYNOLDS,
ATTORNEVS AT LAW
0.3 alW.I RANGE.
A. M. MA CKEY,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
A'. *r, 11, A lit .ZNG'i,
WV1insboro, h3. C.
;r Spoejial attentlon paid to the spenudy
colletionl ofI claims. WVill practico jnt all
oif the couirts of tL.is State andi the Unitced
States.
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