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lu RIWEEKLY EITIO N} r-WINNSOOS ri, RSDAY, I)ECEMBER 19, 1878 {V1 2. Ndo. 2 TIE 0. 0. AND Ao RAILROAD. Annual M)qbIn' of tho Stoohold3rs. The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad was held at Columbia last Friday. The report of the President showed that the earnings of the company for the year ending September 30, 1878, were as follows : From passengers, $140,220.23 ; from freight $25,613. 06 ; from the Southern Express Company, $5,184.66 ; from the United States mail, $20.260.03; from minor sources, $25,079 ; total, $445,357.03. The operating expen ses were $272,778 84 ; leaving a bal ance of $168,578.19. The following amounts wore paid for intorest and taxes : Interest on funded dobt, $176,165 ; interest on floating debt, $13,506.46; interest to city of Au gusta on contract, $7,000 ; L:Ixes, $1,349.66 ; making a total of $213,, 011.12, and exhibiting an excess of expenditures over over earnings of $44,432.93. There has been a fall ing off in gross receipts of $55,799. 89, occurring as follows: Decrease in through freight earnings, $45, 772.80 ; decrease in through pas, songer, $18,749.76 ; decrease in ro ceipts from Inails and miscel.laneous sources, $8,656.54; total, $73,179.10; from which deduce inreso in local freight eari-igs, $12,1B0.59, n crease in local pa'- enr unml $5,209.62 ; totai, $17,379.2iL ; leav ing $55,899.89 as the nett falling off. The .,tisties show that sinco 1874 there has been a decreaso of 76,000 miles in miloage ; 6.000 ton. tonage; 7,000 in number of*through passengers; 17,000 in number of local passengers; $122,000 in freight receipts; $50,000 in passenger re coipts and $1,000 in miscellaneous receipts. As compared with last year there has been an increase in miloage of 34,000 miles ; a decrease in tonage of 1,244 tons; a decrease in number of through passengers of 2,496 ; an increase in local passen gers of 3,346 ; a decrease in freight receipts of $33,600 (decrease in through, $45,700, increase in local, $12,100) ; a decrease in passenger receipts of $13.500 (do crease in through, $18,700, increase in local, &5,250); and a decrease in miscelltneous receipts of $8,600. There were transported during the year, 96,315 bales of cotton, ag.iinst 132,110 the previous year. The total number of pounds of iner chandise aid cotton movud over the whole road was 195,897,387, against 198,384,509 last year. Great care has been exercised in the expendi tures made during the year, and the result is a saving of $21,890 30. The mortgage debt of the company is as follows: Columbia and Au gusta first mortgage bonds, due January 1, 1890, $189,500 ; Char.2 lotte, Columbia and Augusta first mortgage bonds, due January 1st, 1895, $1,810,500; Charlotte, Co lumbin and Augusta secord mort gage bonds, due January 1st, 1910, $500,000. These bonds bear inter est at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum. BURNED To DEATu.-A Pendleton correspondent of the Anderson Intelligencer gives tihe following: "On Monday night, about half past ten, when the wind was raging, our little town wvas alarmed by the cry of fire. It was soon discovered that a small house, standing near the fork of the Anderson road, property of Mr. James Hunter, was burning. The house was occupied by a colored woman called Florence Johnson, widow of Allen Johnson, one of the men killed at Broadaway trestle two years ago She had gone to a hot- supper, and tile house was locked up It was rumored that she was in tile habit of locking up her child when. she attended such places, and in this case it unfortama4eJy was true, -for the child's remains wvere found -ini the ruins. -Even if it had been known that the child was in; the house at the first, it would have. been impossible to .save it, for on the fire being discovered the whole house was in a blaze. The woman has lost everything she owned as well as her child, saving only tile clothes gahe was wearing' at t.he time.". .AccIDENTIY SHOT.-On Thursday: last as the negro witnesses who, went to Columbia to testify against the white men who were arrested here on charges of intimidation, were returning to Camden, some of. them go tissling andf ullint, a gun thy had il6%g, elien r was discharged, the ball passing through the side of John Middleton. not sezi , d LEGISLATIVER PROCEEDINGS. MONDAY, December 16, 1878. SENATE. In the Senate the following bills passed a third reading: To repeal the act regulating divorces, to levy a special tax in Chesterfield, and other local bills. Favorable re ports were made on the House bill to est.ablish a new school district in Fairfield, and others. The bill amending the law establishing vo ting precints, and other local bills Piasse I a second reading. AdjOurnod. H-ousE OF REPRESEN.TATIVES. The committeo on ways and means repor-ted the supj)ly bill fixing State taxes At throo an i a half mills, two mijils for schools ind county tIx trom three t- iix mills. Should tho Legislature decide to p ty in - terest on all the debt" the State levy will be four and three-quarter mills. The bill to hire out convict labor passed. A number of bills passed to u third re iding. The House refused to abolish the bond court by a vote of 57 to 52, after a lit discussion. TUESDAY, Djeenber 17, 1878. SENATE. A anher of Lise weire. re"ic ver from the i&41 , :-:13-, t;em to abolish tihe oil11o of bt.le Consti blo ; to confer gonand %ights of dig.. ging phosphates ; to establish a State board of he tith ; to fix tihe standard for assessing proporty. A f.vorablle report was made on tlih bill to hire convict labor. Adjourned. HoUSE oF REPRESENTATIVES. A number of bills were re ceived from the Senate and passed, a mung them one proviling for the ens tody of bonds of county officers and for periodical examination of the same. The House the n discussed the supply bill. Mr. Murray offered ai aumend ment providing that th3 money now on hand for payirg the unrecognized interest, be devorted to paying the interest on * the recogi ized debt for this year. Messrs. Haskell. Blue, Kennedy amid others opposed it on the ground that the money cannot be diverted and that an injunction would lie to prevent its payment, thus prevent ing mPaYment of the recognized in terest. Tihe amendment passed. After which it was found that mis apprehension. .had existed, but it was too late as a reconsideration hlad been tabled. This makes the State levy only two and a half mills, ex clusive of school and county tax. Adjourned. A DANGEROUS MODE OF ILLUSTRA TION.-Last Thursday while Major Rebertson, of Rock Hill, was lee turing his son (a lad of about fif teen) on the careful handling of fire arms a most dangerous acci: dent befell him. In the conrse of his remarks it occurred to him to describe to his son howv a gentleman of his acqjuaint.ance, wvith gun in hand, the buntt resting on the ground, many years ago, shot him. self fatally by carelessly dropping an up raised leg so as to push back the hammer and thus cause the gun to dliseharge its contents into his body. Accordingly, taking -his shot gun in hand, the butt resting on thme floor, he p)roceededl to illus trate, and as his leg went down, hang wvent the gun, the load (luckily a very small one of nlo. 10 shot) lodging itself in his left 'jaw. inflicting an ngly but, we are gl:id to nay, not a serious won. With this feat of his powers of demon st,ration the Major closed1 his lecture and has not informed us when he will complete it.-lampton lier' aid. .Tur. LAWYERS ON ToP.-The New Graphic insists that we are a lawyer - ridden people, and- in su p-! port of its state4gn t bbhrts $hati there are in tIN tUnted 8ta'tes $en ate 58 lawyers and only 20 of all oth6r oceupations, while there are in the House 2283 lawyers to only 70 who are not lawvors. The Graph iC'8 list, however, - is inaccur ate. It classes all oight' of the North (Jarolina representatives as lawyers, while in point of fact two of them-Governor .Brogdlen' and General Vance-are not professional men at aU;,.411 to is doubtless I ~plasse~ a o ea a enough to hurt.-Char. To eOlserve. UNCLE R Z-]MUSP VO TM. [AlPl11 C1onstitulion.] Uncle Renus had a hard time last Wednosday. He desired to vote early, but not often, and in UR11uco thercof ho put in an ip - pearanlce ait the polling place of the first ward, near the (onstitution office, with his b'illot already pro pared, and ready to bo counted in. But. he was disappointed. The poll mas surrounded by a drunken and motley crew, and the old man Wias compelled to hang around the odges of the crowd, Fi! -dly lie wa,s c costed by a colored man with fhis hands full of tickuts: "Come up, ole man, an' vote do straight ticket." "No, you don't," said another, "You vote do red ticket." "Go w,tv fa.m hoe ; I ain't. od derin lonve1"ir yo all, an' yourdo. bet yo' wet life dit. you till can't bodder longer mie an' keep he'lthy at do saue time," rommrked Unclo Remns, indignantly. "I ain't pes terin' nobody, but w'en .I gits st-trt ed in do poe.sterin' bizness I ain't nigh as old ez I has do 'pearance tu. "Well, less go an' git a drink," said one. "I donie had my dram," replied Uncle Remus. "Hit wuz a big un', nn' it ne-or cost nobody nothin', ni,',~ 'ei ' 13 6,L'ah. You be ic go (n 11W. "Who is she fec?" asked a dusky politicianl.. "I dunno'. MIn' I tin't a keer in," responded Uncvle Rumus, "M-1:rs., John gin it unto Ime, an' dlon I %w,nt'n showed it to Miss Si'ah, and Miss Sa'ah smid it wuz all a sottin', ainld len I know'd I wuz solid." "-You bet I duz!" said Uncle Remus. -1lats. Lown'os 'n Mars. J.m is bofe goid mni, and (ey bin mighty good to de ole nigger. I dunno which er dero names is on dis 'ere p'e0e er paper, but I knows W'at Ml rs John says, and I know w'at Mliss S-dly say, an' fu Idermo' I know whar my vi:tles nomo fum. IF dat ain't knowin' who you or votin' for, den I (lone live seventy nine Year widout gittin' any spnneo. *Yu nigger better. stop yo' foolin' rouid', and go wurk. Dat's des do same ez telling you goop night." DROPPED DEAD.-J. H. Grant, a well known ex-Deputy United States Marshal, who came to South Oaro fina with the army, dropped dead i-i front of Mr. Willhalf's grocery store on Richardson street, about half-past ten o'clock Friday night. Grant had been drinking pretty freely for several weeks past, and it is supposed that liquor was the cause of his deaith.-.Register. The indifference with which so many people regard a cough or cold is truly unpardonable. These affections often le d to consump tion, and should be checked in time by the use of Dr. Bull's Cough Syup. * SHERIFF'S SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF FAIRFiELD. In the Common. Pleas. George WV. Williama & Co. arfainst S9amuel F. Mobley. I N puirsuance of an order of Court made ini the above stated case, 1 will oil'or for sale before the court-house door in Winnsboro, on the lirst Monday in January next1 withini the legal hours of sale, to'the highest bidder, at 'publio outcry, the follo,.ving-deseribodl property, to wit: Al"ta plantation, lying in Fairfield counity andt State al'oresaid, oni waters of Watoree Creek. containing Nixx utlJNDRIED AND FIFTY ACRE5, InIOro Or 10-., tiid bouundled by landas of Jamtes JTonio<, Jamens waurd and others. TERMS OF SAL.E: One-third of the purchase-money to be paid in cnsh: for the balance a credit of one and two years, in equal annual i stalmentsq, with interest from day ot sale, the purchaser to give his bond secured by a niortgage of the p)romises, and to pay fpr all pecessary papel)rs. Sherffrs Ofi4ce, 8. F. U. WVinnsuboro, 8. C., Doenmber 13, 1878. dno 14-x1t3' EXECUTO 'S NOTI1. AL ALp prerus indebted to C. DUIR LAHAM IORb, deceased, are hereby requested to nmake payment to the un dersigned; and those holding claims againasi the estate of aid deceAsed are hereby notified to p resent them, duly Stjabt. without delay to JAMES H. RION, if-x3tExecutor. BNJlD AN) A.LE I NEcd iw'kd'ot- ae Beer. Oeh. ca8 IninPf eAe ASSIGNEE'S SALE. In the District Court of the United States for the District of South Caro lina. Ex parte Jno. S. Reynolds, Assignee, in re William 1). Aiken, Bankrupt. -Petitionbi Sale of Land, etc. BY VIITUI; of an order of the Ionorable George S. Bryan, Judge of said Court, made in the above entitled petitition, the un(lersigned, A ssignee of William 1). Aiken, Bankrupt, vill expose to public sale, before the Court House door in Winnsboro, in the State of Soudi Carolina, on the first Monday in January, A. D. 1879, imnmediatelv afterthe Connty Sheriff's sales, at public outery, to the highest bidder, the followilg-described prop erty belonging to the estate of the said William D. Aikenl, Bankrupt, to wit: All that iece, parcel or tract of land, lying, being and situate about t.wo 111les ealFt of the town of Winns boro, onl the waters of Waterec Creek, waters of Waterce livet-, in the County of1'airlfield and Static 01 South Carohl 1111, Coltalininlrg ELEvEN H1UND10-D AND s XrY ACRnES, more or less, and bounded by lands belonging to Henry L. Elliott, Itemnry A Gaillard, lands belongin to the Jetalte of James 1R. Aiken, c ceased, Jands of .Judge Win. It. Itob ertson and141 hind belonging to the Es tate of James Johnston, Deceased. ALSO, All that. certain other piece, parcel or tract of laud, lying, being and situate in the CountV of P airfleild, in the State of South Carolina, about two and one half miles south-east of the said town of Winnsboro, on both sides of the plublic road leading from the said townt of Winsboro to the town of Comden in sid8State, containing six nuDimE A)ND NINETY-FIVE 11CRES, more or less, b 'unded bv land;s of Dr. It. A. Bu chiinan, lanlds formerly belonging to the Estate of Sanders lJord, Deceased, oilier lands belonging to the said William ). Aikenl, Bankrupt, and lands of Ileury A. Gaillard; and hav ing such shapes, marks, Ittts and boundaries ats are represented on a plat of re-survey thereof made by B. 11. Robertson, J3. S., on the 27th day of September, A. D. 1878-which plat will be exhibited at the sale. ALSO, All that certain other piece, parcel or tract of' land, lying, boing and situate in the county of airfield intChe State of South Carolina aforesaid, contain ing EIGHTY ACREs, 1-ore or less, a-id bounded by lands of Heiry A. Gail lard, by tie public road leading from the towin of Winisboro to the towil of Candmn, in said State, and by otlier la nds of the said William D. Aiken, Bankrupt, and having such sh-tapes, marks, butts and boundaries as are represented on a plat of re-survey made by B. 11. Robertson, ). S., on the 27th day of September, A. D. 1878 -the same being the tract of land as signed and set oir to the said William D. Aiken, Bankrupt, as a homestead. ALSO, The following.mnentioned personal propelrty, to wit. Six head ot mules. The above-described real and person al property is to be sold free from and dischaigcd of all eicumberance there on. TERMs OF SALE: For the personal property-CASH. For the real estate-One-third of he purchase-mnoney to be paid in cash, tile balance in two equal successive annual instaments, with interest from day of sale, at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, payable annually; the pur chaser to give for tile unpaid balance a bond secured by a mnortgage of the premIses sold and to:pay Assignee for allJKO.S.EYNOLDS, Assignee of W. D. Aiken, Bnkrpt,. doe 14-1awtd CLEIRK'S SALE. STATE OF SOUTE CAROLINA, COUNTY OF AUAIRFIELD. IEXpre Josep~h WV. MeCreight, John S. McGroighat. I N pursuiifnne Of a Petition made in the above staten caseO, I will offer for sale, befc re the c'ourt-honse door in Winnsboro, on) the fnest Monday in January neoxt, within the legal hours of sale, at pufblie outery, to tihe higheost b)idder. the fol lowing-desoribed proporty to wit: A lot of land i'ing, being and situate in tihe town of W onsboro, in the County anid State aforesaid, on the north-we.st corner or Vainderhorst street of said town and of Market street of said town, con taining ONE AcnE, mere or less, and fronting on Market street two hundred and ten feet, and aiding on Vanderhorsct street one hundred and sixty feet ; bounded on the soathi by said Market street, on the east by said Vanderhorsct street, on the west by lets of 0. R. Thompson, and on the north by the home'tead formerly ocoupied by James Mof'reight, deceased. The aibove described land will be sold in two Iotq, on one of whli1h stands the shop at the corner of Market and Van derborst streets, and on the other of which stands the dwvelling-house now occupied by J. WV. MeCreight. TEnMs of SAZ,E: One-half of the pureliase.money to be paidl in cash, for tihe balance a credit of one year from day of sale, with interest from said day, the purechaser to give his bond ae'enred by a mortgage of the prom. 15es, and to pay for all neoessary papon.' W. H. l(ERR, CLERE oF CoURT,. Clerik's Office, SPECIAL, GUhAIq. b e' 878 SALE BY JUDGE OF PROBATE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD. Henry L. Elliott, as Ad'ninistrator of the 1 Htate of James R. Aiken, Doeeas. ed, ag3a'ist Tlonias U. Polhc., as Trus. too of the Estate of Lovorich & Co. in Bankruptcy. L D. Childs, William D Aiken end Others. I N pursuanco of an order made in tho above-stated care, I will offer for sale at public auction, boforo the court house door at Winnsboro, An the first Monday in January next within the legal hours of sale, the following-described property, to wit: A tract of .land, containing ONE HUN DRED ANu siXTEKN Ac3Es, more or less, situate in the County and State afore said, near the town of Winnsboro, ad jeining lands of W. R. Robertson, Wil. 1iam D. Aiken, H. L. Elliott and H. A. Gaillard. ALSO, A tract of land, containing FoUn HN.. DED AND Firry ACaE4., more or less, sitt ate in the County and State aloresaid, I.nown as the Win. T. Thorn land, ad joining lands of said Win. T Thorn, Dr. Wun. Thorn, John Bratton, E. P. Mobley and others. ALSO, A tract of land, situa;o In tho County and Atato aforesaid. containing roun HUNDR.D AND THInTY-PIvE ACRES, more or less, known as the land lately belonging, to Dr. Win. Thorn, adjoining lands above describnd of Dr. Win. Thorn, James Jones, Tilman GladdoI and others. ALSO, A tract of land containing Ftvp nw DRED ACRES, moro or less, lying and situatn in the County and State aforesaid, on waters of Wateree Crek, near Wateree River, and adjoining lands of Est. Lewis, Mrs. DnBose, and lands lately the prop erty of John larrison. TERMS OF SALE; One-half of the purchase-money to be paid In cash, an I the balance on a credit of twolve months, with interest from the (lay of sale, to be secured by the bond of the purchaser and a mortgago of the promise--tho purchaser to pay for all necessary papers. 0. R. THOMPSON, Ofjle.o of Judge of Probate, ' J. P. F. C. Winn boro, 9. C, December 13, 1878. deo 14-lawtd SHERIFF'S SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF GREENVILLE. Sarah 13. Lewis v Enenrix e.,. SIV41 N, Lewis, Mary 0. Lewis, Eliza A.' Lewis, Robert N. Lewis, d ad. T pursuance of an order from T.. 11. lCooke, J'udge of the eighth circuit, I will oWer for siale, on tho first Monaty in January next, before thecourt-iouse door in Winn -boro, -vit.hin thb lag:u hours of sale. to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit: All that tract or parcel of land, lying in-1 being in the county of Fairfield, ad joining lands of Dickson, C. Singleton and otherm, containing FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO ACRES, inore or less, as is fully represented by plat of the same to be exhibited on day of sale. ALSO, All that tractor parcel of land, situate in the county of Fairfield, adjoining lands of Dic'son, C. Singleton and others, containing THREE HUNDRED ANP FIVZ ACRES. as represented by plat of same to be oxhibitud on day of sale. AW:iO, All that tract of land adjoining lands of Dickson, John \Myers and others, con. tamuing FoUZI UUNDRED ACnES, more or less. ALSO, All that tract of land adjoining landq of C. Hingleton, Johnz Myers and others, containing Two BUNDRED AND EIGHTr. FOUn ACRES, more or less. ALSO, All that tract of land, containing oNs H UNDRED AND FIFTY-FoUli ACRES, adjoining lands of J. E. Robertson and John Myers. ALsO, All that tract or parcel of land, adjoin ing lands of J. E. Peay and Thomas Jones, containing NINETY-aix AoRES, more or less. ALSO, All that tract of land, containing oWB HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT ACREs, more or less, adjoining lands of Thomas Jones and J. E. Robertson and others, as represented by plat of same. TERMS OF SALE: One-third of the purchase-money to bo paid in cash, and the balance in one and two years, with interest from day of sale, at the rate of ten per cent. per annum, the same to bo scured by the bond of the purchaser and a mortgage of the promises. S. W. EtJFF, Sheriff's OffRe, 8. F. C, Winnsboro, 8. 0., Decamber 4, 1878. dece5-t1z2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS. PnOsraT JUDGE'S OFFICE, WINNsono, 8. C,, Novemiber 18, 1878. LL proshaving clims againstth. hereby notifted that they must establish the same before the Judge of Probate of Fairfield county, at his offioe,on or before the 1st day of January 1879, or be do barred from payment of the same, .nov 2l-Xtlawfiw 3. P. F, C, JUST RECEIVED. A flao lot -of Florida Oranges, Fresh dandies, Northrr Apples Coooanuts&q a ., - Whioh wo will soll'chani' Lt'aa.