The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, June 05, 1877, Image 2
'WINNSInono, S. U.
''ae day, June e, : 1877.
Rt. MIEANS DAV1IS, f'ditor,
JNO. B. R1DYNOLDS, Assolalto Editor.
Iauy ladios who at.tond church
are1 too muchl occuoiodc with their
own hlats to :notieco the deacon's
ais he passer it around for a collou
tion.
Thue Couity Democraiti Excutive
'Commiit.tee of Charloston have
recommItended that the Legislative
'lection ill that county 1)0 held on
the 21st of Juno, so that the excite
mont will have all quieted down
before harvest time.
'ho Charleston nitiicipal 0lo
tion bill has passed throe readings
in the House and two in the Senate
and its success is assurod. It ro
quiroes previous registration, and
providos that no person cal voto
without producing a registry cortili
cato. This prevents the wholesale
importation of John's Island negros
on election day. With a fair elec
tion the Democrats can always carry
the city.
Since November, elections have
boon held in Fairfield, Chester and
Orangeburg, and three moro le
publican counties have become
Deotro'ratic. We give a compara
tive statement of the vote:
RepnMa. nent. Maj. rm. gain.
Fairield 1>r gy i
Ortutgebuirg, 1.i99 9'l t ,ste
A gain of over six thousand votes
in three counties in seven months is
caleulated to make the heart of the
average Democrat glad. It is a
tinger board on the road to the
thirty thousand Democratic majority
in 1878.
"Eight Hundred Dollars and Mileage."
The Senate and the House are
at. complete loggerheads over the
appropriation bill. The former has
stricken out the clause paying in
terest on the public debt, but, has
added over a hundred thousand
dollars in the way of increased
salaries. As has been remarked,
this is poor teonomy. It is merely
a postponemenUt for one year of an
iuevit able paymenit, in order to
create an ulnnecessary burde~n. This
"ucans al pract ical increase' of a1 hun
dred t hoiuand dollars to the heavv
tauttionm the people already have to
hear There is lit tie probabilityv of
t he Seniate's receding' in the intrest
of econm. .lt remuains~ to he6
what action the Hlouse will take
It is due to the peopPle who have
elected the representatlives, that
theQse stand Imu ni aainst :u~v mn..
ecihmients on the trea;surv. es
l\'illy aginst this emariy i
imue. Eight hundred dliars for
-vt days services in these dayvs of
distre~ssing poverty is an enormous
$1um1. Wetre the Staite rolling~ in
we~alth we would not. be disposed to
cavil at a handsome per diem and
unlimited mileage for our Solons.
We hold that all labor has ita price,
and that the State abould employ
first class talent and pay it.
adequately --when aho can. Ini
finsh timies a miemuber of the Legis.
lature should have ample means to
support his dignity. He abould
have his wines liquors and eigars,
with which to regale his conetitu
ents when they visit the State
capital. He should have his paletot
for morning wetar, his Prince Albert'
for the serious hours of thme session
and his* faulthess spike a2nd patent
levather pumps in which to pay~
court to bright eyed -damsels or
comely ma(.rods at inauguration and
commncement balls ad such like.
flo should have all those attributes
which iark the great muan; so
that when lhe walks the Streets tbe
undeeiaai pqsanut mnerehanta, .st
Arab. and nonpaper tenders may,
remark '#Ibene goes a member of
the Legiklare," and then sita
ithbbated hreath as in the presence
of a supraoerrtrid beist. No
such aoan tbougiba to the relatimce
liberality witt Whieh the landlords'
and innktenert mn thei. min at
anise and oumlin should distract
his attention from the woightior
mattors of lawaunking. HIo should
be placed above and beyond the
terrors of oxorbitant hash bills.
Indeed a being of such transcendent
imiportanco should spuIn hash and
all things thereunto belonging, or
in any wise incIielnt or itpportainiIng,
anti hit; only ipialms should be those
of conlseiencJe, not, those of the
stoutmach. 'This i4 a pict.ur of an
ideal legislator, ia Solon of 1880, we
trusit.
But our presen t. Le(gislit ure iunist
bo content- with less. Economy
must begin at home---ini the Legis
lature. The people are , watching
with a jealous eye. They insist
that while the masses receive
less than the worth of their
labor, legislators shall not receive
more than tho worth of theirs.
The acts of the moiubors are not
done in a corner. And while grave
Senators assort that the law says
they must receive a cortain s:dairy,
the people are determined that, they
must receive a smaller collpensa
tion. A senator announced a few
days since that he cared not for the
attacks of the newspapers, that.
editors are paid to write one way or
another. The senator is not wise.
Does ho know who "pays the
editors" ? T ho people pay them;
the samo people who send the sena
tors and representatives to Colum
bia. And when the editors censure
the lavnakers, they do so in behalf
of the people who pay them to re- j
port the proceedings of the public
servants. If the senators have
no regard for the warning
voice of the newspaper man, the day
mlay come, when t,hoir constit ients
are after them, that. thov will
wish they had p:uscd to listen to
counsel.
Senators may or may not take
advice. But they shall not have the op
portunity of saying that when they
paid themselves eight hundred dol.,
lats for sixty days work, the press
stood silently by. It is never too
late to retrace a false step. Let the
Senate recede. '
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
FItXLLA'. June 1.
Mr. (ary introduced a resolution
to authorize the governor to effect
a loan, which was laid ever.
A bill to regulate municipal elee.
tions in (Charleston was reaid a see
ond t.ime, the amenchnonut ofth
committee were rejected, the timei
ef holding the election wals changed
to the second Tuesday in Dce mber,
and the bill passed tona third redg.
Several biill i.f 1001 interest
'priation bill. having f - to a. rtc
was dischargedl, and (arv Hi'I ad
an~d C..rittenident were II ~
mnserting~ $105'.000 in u i~~
-100 for L~egislativ t. P- ~
the hill was ret urned to the H ou,.e.
The subject of julicial vacancies
was~ made a special orde'r for Sat ur
Senate adjourrned.
or or .hratrsNArrtrs.
The speaker reaid the returns
from Ornge burg, giving 1ThbJ
(Dem.)h 2757 votes. Straker jRep.)
2536, and Mr. lDibble was sworn in
as a ember of t he H ouse.
Trhe bill to give the Mfackevie
$100 each was killed.'
The bill to utilipe conviet labor,
and to reduce pay for dieting pris,
oners, passed to a third reading.
At the evening session, Messs
Hood. lRamberg and Miller were ap
pointed a commit tee on a free con
ference with the Senate committee
conernmng the appropriation bill.
Judge Wright was postpone~d till
Monday evening.
After other uninmpoirtant business~
the House adjourned till 8 p. mn.
Monday.
Chamiberlain, having closed up his
affairs mn Colunmbia, departed for
New York by the '12:30 train
Thursday.
A Massachusetts Repiublican, on
a vii to the Columbia, S.C., Legis.
lature, was surprised at the fmne
voies ndeasy. oratory and correct
Engishofthe ne-roes, and equially~
surprised at thme lack of pith and
logic in what they had to say.
They did most of the talking, jump.
img up and airiugg their elocution
continually, bt the. - weight of
thongeht *a alt ,uh) A
AFFAIRS IN FLORIDA.
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TJIE11J'VIT A BJI,' RlSU!,TS OFDEJIO.
RA TIC I UL.'
Stopping Leaks and Saving Money
Liberal Appropriations to Educate
the Peoplo--Reforming the Blacks--No
New Party in Florida.
Mr. Smalley, tho statf correspond
ont of the Now York Tribune,
whilo in Tallahassee recontly, had a
long interview with Goveror Drow.
The governor said : "Wo are fast
straightening out the snarls ad1(1
stopping te leaks. Close economy
is being int.rodlcod in all branches
of the government. We shall save
this year thirty thousand dollars in
our court expenses, twenty- live
thousand dollars in the cost of run
ning the penitentiary, and a vory
hairge gross sun in county expen1ses.
Our Legislature last winter cost
one-fourth loss thnl the year before,
and the next session will cost still
less. The bonded debt is about
$1,100,000. It was increased at the
rlate of $100,000 a year by the Radi
cals to met ordinary running ex
penses. Tho inmnenso fraudulent
railroad debt which was put upon
us was decided by our Supreme
Court, you remember, to be illegal
and void. WVe can easily carry our
valid debt, and provide a sinking
fund to lodeen it at the expiration
of thirty years, when tho bonds fall
due. The one -mill tax lovied annu
ally for the sinking fund will wipe
out tho entire debt. in eighteen yoars,
and it was decided by the Legisla
ture last winter to suspend its col
lection for live years, but owing to a
lisagreemnont between the two
houses about other matters concern
ing taxation this provision fell
through. \We levy a total State tax
of seven mills on the dollar, of
which two mills are for iltterest ol
the debt for the sinking fund, and
one for t'olimn schools.
( orrespondent -What is the con
dition of your public schools ? Are
they as well initained as under
t he Republican thlninist ration ?
The governor-Better, I think.
The counties are allowed to levy not
to exceed five. mills on the dollar for
school pulposes. In addition to the
proceeds of the one mill tax.
tme interest on a fund
derived from the sale of the six.
teenth section of land in every
township is distributed by the State
to the counties. The laws relating to
the schools are the same as when
the liepublicans were in power, but
they are enforced with more elli
einey. aind the .mnev is more faith
fulvly appliexl. In somile of the coun
ties the 111 heal county suipe(riuil ntd
ents were incompetent and dishon
es,. The former superintendent of
this county is under indictment for
stealing It:ec school fiind. He has
cleaed out, and destroved or car.
ried oft all the books and accounts
of his i lizo. I hear- that he is hold
ins a treasury clerkship in Washing
ton. The-re is still some opsto
to the public schools, and especiailly
to negL:o schiools, on the par1t of the
unlprogr-essivec class of wh-lites, but it
is diinisinig all the time and is
not .stronig enough to influence tihe
act io:n of thle Legislature. Ouri
1es0 initelhgment, people are convinced
that the education of the blacks is
Sea to the welfare of the State.
-and .I look~ t j see our schools con
-tanmtly improve. The innds fom
- lue ional puposes wvill be applied
' ih e 1ice impartiaility for thel
ht : cto th it wo races.
I.nmmr-p -ndent-How do the ne
g:.s .s take the ordeir of things ?
T.se g"-anor--At first they
set med to think that somethin'g
dre-adful was going to happen to
them because the Democrats had
got in power. Now that ther see
their r-ight s are not inter-fered 'with
I think they are disposed to be
more imdustrious thain before, and
quit pilfering. The curse of this
section is the thieving propensity of
the blacks. This used to be a good
stock country.- but now y-ou can
travel for miles without seeing
many cattle or hogs. Planters
canid no: keep stock, because the
negroes killed ~them in the wcoods.
Now I loirn that there is less of
this done than before, the negroes
fearing that the laws will be more
rigidly enforced a. a nst them than
under the Radical administration.
The planters think they will be able
soon to raise stock as they used to~
before the war, and stop 'the rain-;
ous practice of buying their meat,
which has been forced upon them by
the depredartions of the blacks. Th'e
trouble with the neg-roes in respect
to their- pilfering, is confined main--I
ly to the cotton counties in mid
die and we-st Florida, wher'e Lhuey
largely pre'domninate ov-er thme whites.
In conclusion the governor said of
fifteen hundred white Republicans
in the State, one thousand voted for
hime last year, while about ones
thousand negroes did thme same.1
He belieres that the Republican
party is dead. The ecarpet-baggers
haeall cleared out, and the negroes
will have no one to lead them. He
says there is no new pa~rty yet in
Florida, and he thinks there will not
lanir tineiarft r
SOUTH OAROLINA [NEW8.
Darlington exults over a four
logged chicken.
The corn crop through George
town doesn't look well. Too much
cold weather.
A number of citizens wore in at
tendance at Yorkvillo last Friday
evening for the purpose of taking
the initiatory stops of organizing a
volunteer militia company. About
sixty names woro reported as
already enrolled.
EThe small grain crops in Yorkvillo
are looking very line. As yet there
is no appearance of any blight ;
although the farmers say the crop
has not yet reached the most criti
cal stage of susceptibility to injury.
Corn and cotton are looking well.
Both crops are clear of grass and
weeds, showing clearly that the
planters have not been idle.
Several meetings have been held
at Society Hill for the purpose of
organizing a volunteer militia con
pany. On Tuesday, the 22d instant
the organization was perfected by
the election of the following named
commissioned officers : W. H.
Jainson, Captain ; W. W. Milliken,
First Lieutenant ; T. A. Gandy,
Second Lieutenant ; E. T. Coker,
Third Lieutenant.
Mr. James C. Gan'uey, a young
na: of promise, was run over and
killed on the trestle of the Broad
River bridge, on the York county
side, about 12 o'clock on Tuesday
night last. Mr. Gatney lived in
Spartanburg county, aand after
eating his supper, left his house re
In irking that he would go over into
York county. The supposition is
that while crossing the trestle the
train approached, rendering escape,
by moving in either direction, ilm
Possible. When struck bvthe'locono
tve, he was within thirty feet of the
end of the trestle. He fell below the
trestle, fearfully mangled, and was
discovered by the bridge watchman
eon after the occurrence. Mr.
R sbc rough, the watinman, on
making his usual inspection after the
train crossed the bridge, discovered
a coat lying on the track, which led
to investigation, when he found
fragnents of bone, and heard groans
beieat h the trestle. He then
called Mrs. Roseborough, who went
down to the dying man, remaining
with him, administering to alleviate
1 is sufferings until her husband
could call together some of the
neighbors.
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BRIC-A-BR AC.
Some wit is t> he found amy 1 the
penalties of the law. The Julge
said, "Prisoner, vou can have thirty
ds or25' The seedy nob'emn,
who h:l yen's ago dropped the jew
e' of his manh to I into a whiskey
b.ttle, 1 eked out from inder his
shmgey eyebrows andh answered,
"Your' Honor, as I feel pretty poo
lust now. I think I will take $25.
Thank you."
The salt Lake lm men'a .Ex;-onent
says: "How mistaken the world
are when they c represent Morim on
women in bondage to men. There
is no greater freedom than the Goa
pcI gives to women. And it is this
that makes Mormon women con.
seions of ther' power. You think
the Mormons an insigniticant body
of people -they are mighty in spirit,
and1( thit-: women are nnited in one
.:rand solid y-halanx to help) build
up Zion. to sustain their own instim
t ations, educational and social, and
wee be to him who dares to lift his
hand against Zion.
Cornell Univ'ersit y occupies a v'ery
novel and preposter'ous position. It'
was stasrtei as a neutral institntion,
where, in the words of the founder,
"a man can learn anything.'' It
turned out to be an' institution
where a man could learn anything
except the facts of Christianity.]
How to get a neuter gender for the0
chair of Hebrew was a problem.
Professor Adle:' was at last chosen,
as a man who came nearer to having
t oinio on any religious subject
thnn other. Now it is discov'..
ered that he has been delivering lee-'
tures on Nothingarianism in
New York, and that the Nothing
anians are just as much a seet a tl'e
Episcop~ah.ms or Methodists. So
priofessor Adler gets a leave of ab
sence.
F'e cher Harper, the youngest,
brother of the firm of Harper Bros.,
of New York is dead, aged seventy.
two years.
. Mooidy and Sank', t-he great re
vahihad a farewell meeting i
Botnlas~t wecek when Moody'
Pleas-d the police of that city by
offering up a prayer that they woul i
become door-keepers in heaven.
The Russians have a way of plac.
ing torpedoes under the Turkish
monitors and blowing them into
atoms; and the Turks, to be re-j
renged for the loss of their men
and vessels, slice the calves off the
legs of Russian prisoners. This, weo,
suppose, is the 'Turkish modeso
bulldozng '~ i ".i: 'I
LaW :Lrc~m
TIXOS. R. ROBERTSON,
Attorney at Law
AND TRIAL JUSTICE.
jre All business entrusted to him in
either capacity will receive prompt atten.
tion
Office on Washington shroot, one door
east of Winnsboro Hotel.
If. A 0.ALLAID. JNo. 8. RxsYOLna,
GAILLARD & REYNOLDS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
NO. 3 LA W RANGE.
A. M. MACKEY,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
No, .1, LAW RANGR,
Winnsboro, 9. 0.
r-4' Spoeial attention paid to the speedy
sollection of claims. W ill practico in all
of the courts of this State and the United
States.
ilfrrali for lla ptoi!
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A large lot of Ladies' Collnrettes,Fichus
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We will endeavor to please the most fas.
tidious. All we ask is that you call, and
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