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1Rlt-WjEEKL-Y EI4")TION.} WNNSBORO. S. C., TUESDAY, JA1NUARY 14. 1879 {VOL. 2. NO.14 Acts Passed at the Recent Short So sion of the Legislaturo. AN AOT to repeal ani Act entitled "All Act to regulate the Granting of Divorces in this St tto." Be it enalded by the So nate and House of Ropresentatives of the State of Carolina, now mnct and sit ting in Goneral Assombly, and by the authority of the sa:no : That all acts and parts of acts horetoforo passed, rolating to the granting of divorces, bo and the samo arc hereby repeled. Approved Dcccmber 20,1878. AN ACT to Punish Assault or As sault and Battery with any Fire arm coimmitted Oil Streets or Places of Public Resort. -e it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the(3 same': That any person hereafter coi victod of any assault or assault and battery committed by shooting with any firearm on the treet of any iln - corporated city or town, or in any place of public re: ort, shall be pun ishiled by fine of not loss than one bundred or moroli than one thons and dollars, or by ilpfisonmenL for not more than twelv mnths, or by both, in tile discretion of the Court. Approved December 14, 1878. Ax Ac-r to. prevent stoAc of one county or township from trespass. ing upon lands of al adjoining County or towns'hip. B it enated by the Senato and 1ouse of Representatives of the State of South Cuolina, now mt1CL and sitting in General Assemnbly, i-nd by the auithorrity of tile vamno : SECrIoN 1 That f:oi and ifter the passilge of this act it siall not be lawful for any inhabitant or inh1abl tants of the several counties all I townships in this Stato where tile electors have already or shall h-ere after adopt.tllo provisions of th') ac entitled "An act to authorizo the county conlnilssioners to submit to tile qualified electo:s of their everal counties a proposition to alter the fence l.ws and to provide for effeCt nating the same," approved June 7, 1877, commonly known as thofonco ILw," wlo aire tile owiner or owner', iiandger or inanitgers, of any horse, mule, Rss, genet, sw;iie, sheep. goat, neat cattle or live etock of any deseription, to. nilawfully, knowingly, willingly or negligently permit the said animals, or any of them, to enter into or upon the boundary lines or lands of another county or townhip which has not adopted tile provisions of said act. SEc. 2. Thiat if any horse, mule, ass, genet, swine, shee), neat cattle or other live utock the property of Rn inhabitant of a county or town-. ship whieh has adopted tle provir ions of the act aforesaid be found within the boundary linos of an ad joining county or towliship which has not adopted the s.uin, tile said aniials, or any of them, shall be taken and deemed anl estray, and any pers~on 01r pers'Ionls inihabi tanuts of tile conity or township not having adopted the p)rovision s of the said act are hereby authorized and emnpower~ed to take possessionl of the said animals, or any of them, and to dispose of the same as an es, trafy ill accordance with tile provis.. ionsf of Chaptor LXX[L Title XIN. of tile General Statutes or the amelnments thereto. SEC. 3. That tis act shall not ap ply to ownier or owvners, manager or managers of stock, who are also owner, manager or managers of freeholds or lands in said county oi township, althloughi he, she or they be non-residents of said county or township. SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acti inconsistent with tis~ act be and the same are hereby repealed. A . ved December 23, 1878, A poor nman at R~ochoster owed a rich man some money, and was unable bto pay. The rich man oh tained a judgmnent and an execution, but there was nothing onl which the sheriff could levy. Thle poor man had two large pigs, but the law~ allowe a man two, andl tile shorifl could not take them. The rich man then bought two little pigs, and had them presented to the poor man, and thoereupon took his twc large ones. An Ohio woman who died recently willed her local paper $125. That woman's chances of heaven are very good, but if a person wishes to majce sure of a happy bereafter, the amount he or she leaves to a news paper should not be loss than $10, 000. Now is the time to make up ol- that is wills for this paper. S E)AL,I VRl JF')![1 LB DIC UNIC Horriblo Fato of an Outcast Woman In Savannah, Georgia. A vhito woman named Margarot Garrell, living- inl "Savannalih, was roasted to death oil Tasday tho 70h insmAnt under peculiarfly horrie blo circoistances. It appears that finel the oeatl of her IIISlmaid by yollow fever, in 1876, the woman, who wai betwen forty-fivo alid fifLy years of age, had been living in tho house alone. She ekod out a mis orable existenco b Some inkiownm means, tho prmilisos being in a frightfully filhy condition- andl(] barren of every comfort. About 8 o'clock oil Tuesday morning a it g bor detected time smell of smoko and repairing to tho houso saw Margaret Garroll lying partly on time stcop and partly in tho door way, slowly roasting. Her clothes woro nearly buried oir her perton, and her bo(ly wias almost a charred 1s:18S. Ii tile corner of the room, near tho fire place, ho found a mid die aged wioman crouching on the floor in i stiupolled condition from liquor, Sh1 wvas unable to ans1wer iy questions, ainl seemod perfectly oblivious of the presenco of tile nearly cremated body of her com panion. Sho was repeatedly ques tioned, bit could givo no informa tion as to 11w the W0man11 CaULglit fire, or hen, and despito all offorts remained in a maudlin state. On tho tablo and on the floor wore found remnants of a scanty lunch, and also tvo soda watter bottles, one partly filled with the stroi)gost and meanlest kin :1 of li1uor, j r1inlg from th3 smell, tho other it is pro sumi d having boon emptied by the deconsed anild her friend. It is supposed that tie wo:nea 111 Iben inldulgiin n a egular dirunkon orgie all night, and after daylight had becomo so stupofied by drink as to be unceonls..ious- of thecir actiuns. Margarct GI rrell, the womanNwho was burned, was from appoarances seated at a small table upon which a lig-ht was burning. and in her druikenl frenzy had probably knocked the candlo over, and sot Iiro to horsolf. Being utterly in, akpable of oxtinguishiug th6 fiimes sho tumbled on the floor, and in a semi--unconscious condifion crawled to the doorway, in which she 'Was found, and was burned almost to a crisp. The body was in a horriblo condition, and it was ovident that the unfortunato woman had been gradually roasting for some timo before she wias discovered. 'OLYGATMY NO 'IC' ELIIO.V. What the United Statos Sup1om3 Court Says i ths Urah Caso. The folloving are the salient fcat uros of the reont decision of the United Statos Supreio Ouir. in the case of Reynolds, the Utah polyga mist, against the United St.ttes, brought onl final appeal The principal questions raised are, first, whother the first amenl Sment to the Ionstitation prohibits interference with religious practices which are contrary to the law~ of the land, and scond, is whethor. a criminal a'tion can lie justfied by the plea of religious belief. Thbis Court holds1 that the constitution1 guar antee of roli'gious freedom was not intended to p)rohibit legislation in respect to marriage, anid that it is within the legitimate scope of the powver of every civil government to determine whether polygamy or monogamy shall be the law of socail life under its dominion. The laws of Congress for the suppression of the former are therefore valid and conististutional. WVith regard to the second question, it is held that a criminal practice cannot be excus ed on tho ground of religious con victions. To permit thuis wvould be to make religious doctrines superior to the lawv of the land, and in effect to permit overy citizen to blecomle a law unto himself. Government could exist only in name under such circumstances. Thlle only defence of the accused in thus case is his belief that tihe law should not have been enacted. It matters not that his belief was a part of his religior, it was still belief and nothing more. The judgment of the lowver court, in wich tihe prisoner was found guilty, is thorotore affirmed.' The Chief Justice delivered the opinion. Strango discoveries of petrifao tion are reported from Colorado, ner Pueblo. Perfectly..formed cocoanuts, but larger than the or dinary fruit, with the inside of the shell lied with, white crystal quartz, were found imbedded in mounds-of loose sand and shells, besides sever al huge petrified sea turtles, such a now freqnent the nanifia ncan.n TIII.1>t1GIfT SIDE OF,1D11IA. What an Enthusiastic Exodist from Lancastor has to say about tho Country--Plenty of 'Coons but Hard to Catch. The Lancastor Ledg'er prints the following lotter written by Win. Adons to his brother Lovi Adams, vlio lives in Lancastor : IMoxROVuA, LIBERIA, Nov. 11, 1878. Dear Brother: I am well and doing woll, and am satiSio(d. I havo drawn my lands and built may house. I was very glad to receivo your, letter dated on tho 18th of August and to hear from you all. You said you wanted to know how tho lands yielded horo. I will toll -you the lands itre rich and will bring anything you plant. You can make throo crops of corn a year. Thero arc not any horses hioro liko in America, but you can get along hero better than in America witit all the horsws. All you havo to do is to cut ofy your land and take the cor nor of your hoe had d;g a hole and drop your corn, thon koop the btushos down, and I -will assuro you you vill make as good corn as you over saw-that is all you have to do. Cotton does much the same, only it grows to trees. The water is good. You wanted to know wlethor thoro vcro any coons horo. Yes, but you can't hunt them like in America. Coons have little caves, and you have to hunt thmcn in the day time. Tell Hardy Montgomery this. Brotbers and friends, if any of you wish to como out you could not wish a bettor thing. If any of you come, bring clothes, ammunition. bo'Is, porfume, rum, tobacco, the (jhe.pc.est calico, you will get 25 a yard for ; bring blackberry, straw herrv, and all kinds of vogetables. We havO plenty of fruits here, but it ain't like the fruits of America. Bring allkinds of seeds, if you can. You will be sure to have the f'5er. So you nmmt bring oil, quinine, raltf, lieer pills, (co. Toll Hardy to bring Jerry on his back and his gun at his sido.'W.mAAt Aiuts A LANtonn's Ennoi.-A few days ago, (luring one of his rounds through his palatial hotol, the land lord of a Chicago hotel entered a room suddonly and discovered a window-washer loisurely on,,-aged in roading t newsp:lper. Being very active himself, ho had no uso for a lazy man, or one who slights his work. Ho discharged the wash or on the spot, and ordered him to go to the office for his pay. The man obeyed, got his money, went to h's room on the upper floor, arrayed himsolf in his Sunday suit, packed up his duds, and descouded to the servants' apartment to take leavo of his former associates. About this timo Mr. Palnor entored but didn't recognize his quondam emiployee in his storo clotbos. "Hero, my man, you look as though there was good work in you; do you want a job ?" Tho ex-washer, somewhat sur pr1ised, admit,ted that ho stood in nec 1 of one. "tian you wash windows ?" The man allowed that ho could. "Woll," said Mr. Palmer, "I've just discharged a man wvho had been doing that sort of wvork. I p)aid him only $20 a month, but if you will take the p)lace and go right to work I'll pay you $22." The p)ositionl was quietly accepted, and in half an hour the discharged employee was scrubbing away in the samoe old room. GIvING HIS BonY To THlE SURoRONs ---Permission was granted lby the Noew York health department on Saturday for the removal of the body of Dr. A. Habell, wvho died on Nowv Year's day, from iRooselt Hospital, to the College of Physi cians and Surgeons of that city, for dissecting pur'poscs. The will by which Dr. Habell, who wvas an Aums trian by birth, disposes of his body is a curious document. It begins: "In the name of tihe Supreme Eing, Humanity, before wvhom we all bow" and concludes : "Finally, my life having been devoted to the intorestv of humanity. I desire after my death my body be devoted to the same end ; and for this reason I desire and demand that my corpse Bhalt be delivered to tihe dissecting room of any of the colleges of the city of New York which will accept of it for the puriLpose of dissection, or to any other collego elsewhere, should it not be accepted in this city." Dressmaking is to be taught in the Indianapolis public schools, bt as yet the school committee have not seen the wisdom of teaching the taior"'n trado to boys. A VORtIVAN CUMTOm. Tho Corsican vendotta is tho theme of an interceting article in the Paris Te. Thoro are two sorts of vOnOW -the direct (as the son avenging his father or the brother his brother or sistor), and the indirect or transversal, vhero the feud is kept up by distant re!- tives. So long as there ro mvin; one member of the two con te ding families the field is Opolled to reprisal. One writer ostimatos that in thirty years 30,000 mon were sac ificed to this barbarous custoi; anothr pilaces the mur ders between 1359 and 1715 at 306,000. A report to the council gonral 1852 stated that since 1821 no:-y live thousand assssina tions had oce rrod iii that island, and the situ n was so serious that Prince Bzoparto was the o-ly perso. in the island allowed by law to carry a gun. Toward the end of the second empire the prohibi tion was removed, and the vendetta broke out again with renewed force and barbarity, the murderers being absolved and even encouraged by public opinion. If the man who falls loavos an orphan in the cradle his wife or sister will keep for twenty years his blood-stainod clothing to nerve the orphan's arm. The most crushing reproach that can be affordod to a Corsican is to have failed in his obligation. In the middle ages any one who backed out was fined, and if lie remained euntumacious for a woek, banished. In 1581 the person guilty of rinbeceare had his tongue slit. Some times the quarrel extended to villages. From 1815 to 1848 the Roca-Seras and Ortolis of the villago of Sarsene had their houses 1001)-holed like fortressos, and at times their inhabitants would have to stand a seige for months, wheu the man who ventured to the win, dow or opened the door was likely to be potted from the promises opposite. Not long ago a priest, who never vmntured out save with his gun on his shoulder and ac companied by his armed sexton, was shot dead at mass by his enemy, wio was hidden in the confessional. The eminent Paoli studied during the last century in a darkened room, whero the window shutters wore lined with cork. He Was besiegod in a convent in 1756 by his Onomies, and would have been killed had not tho mother of anoth er foe sent her son, Thomas Can noni, to his rescue, sacrificing her hatrod to her patriotism. In 1794, Andrea Romianotti shot doad during the carnival festivities the son of Marrianna Pozzo do Borgo. The mother dressed herself in male attire, and, with a posse of friends, hunted the murdeier so closely that lie offered to surrender if allowed to confoss himself. She took him to the priost, knelt and prayed with him during his shrift, then tied him to a tree, and drow up her platoon, with thoir guns aimed at him, and suddenly relenting, un bound and pardoned him. The action lives in Corsican tradition, Jess because oi' its generosity than for its singularity. There are .Paroianti, a sort of peaco making magistrates, whose province it is to arrange such feuds, and their d. cisions onco prono.unced are usually obeyed ; but a meeting for purposes of reconciliation as frequently widens and intensifies the quarrel. The number of mon in a family gives it an implortance greater than the amount of wealth. Recently a young man declined to marry a rich girl, preferring to wed a pooror one who had "seventeen innsketa in the famnily"-i. c., seventeon male relatives, who would be bound to defend the neow member of the household in an emorgency. ENJOY LIFE.-Whmat a truly beau tiful world wvo live in I Nature gives us grandeur of mountains, glens and oceans, and thousands of means for enjoyment. We can desire no better wheni in perfect health; but how often do the majority of peo ple feel like giving it up dishearten od, discouraged and worried out with disease, whenoi thore is no oc casion for this feeling, as every sufferer can easily obtain satisfac tory proof that Green's Augusat Flower will make them as free from disease as when born. Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint is the direct cause of soventy-five per cent of such maladies as Biliousness, In digestion, sick Headache, Costive ness, Nervous rostr'ation, Dizzi ness of the Head, gal pitation of the Heoatt, and other distressing symup toms. Tliree doses of August Flower wvill prove its wonderful effect. Sample bottles, 10 cents Trv it.' What kind of an ant is supposed to work the hardest? The sorv-ant, of course. He who is the most slow in mak ing a promiso is tho most faithful in the performance of it. To koop apples from rotting put them in a7Fcool plaeo--whero there is a largo family of children. English reporters are no longer admitted to see garroters flogged and murderers hanged. Mrs. Whitney's "Key to the CookA Book" is a good work, but it is not half as satisfying, when a man is hungry, as the key to the pantry. In Trenton, N. J., there are nine toen potteries in operation, maunu facturing white granito, cream col ored and porcelean china. The repartee of a mule is said to be unoqualed, and the way to draw him out is by pulling out one little hair from the tip end of his stumpy tail. Nearly a million and a half of go6pels and New Tostaments, print.. ed in twonty-two languages, were givon away at the Bible stand in the Paris exposition. "Mamma, are all vessels called she ?" "Yes, my dear." "Then how are all national ships called men-of-war ?" "'Jane, you may put that child in bed." A LASS. "say, what is a lass ?" his Small brother ia quiredt, And tite youth, with a smile that was sad, Made tIniver as rbv the question inspired, "'A lais Ws aj" to a lad." The young man to whom the world "owes a living" has bon turned out of doors, his landlady not being willing to take the in debtednoss of this world on her shoulders. A large mushroom is said to have forced its way through twelve inches of concrete covered with a thick layer of asphalt, in the floor of tho savings bank department of the general postoffico in London. A very curious plant is the De8 medium gyrans, or moving plant. It is a native of India, and is curi otis from the rotary movement of the leaves, which, during the heat of the day, are in constant motion. It was formerly believed that the fern blossomed and seeded only on a midsummer night, and it was thought that the seed must be caught on twelve pewter plates, through eleven of which it would pass, resting only on the twelfth. "Give me a cure for the toothache quick."- Sufferer. Place the ach ing tooth near the heels of a mule, and then touch off the mule. One touch of mule sets all nature achin, and relieves the patient too imme diately sudden to think about. Keokuk Constitution. Funny things are often found in life insurance proposals. Here is ono who says he uses liquor "only in mince pie ;" another wvants his insurance paid to "his legal sisters;"1 this one says his brother was "drowned in the Thames ;" and yet another defines his occupation to be a "Hater." We saw a man, the ether day, wVho never yet,--strange thling to say wit it,til gaze hats lookced upon A nother's wealth who ne'er was known To tutor oath in wrath to cry wVho never told con whitest, le. This man, by the way, we'd forgot ten to say, F"romn birth at dear miuto, Is stone-blind to boot. A young man sat down at the piano~and began singing for the physician's daughter, "There's a sigh in the heart." Just then the old gentleman came in. "Young man," he said, severelyr, "you are entirely mistaken. It isn't a sigh.. There may be a sigh from the' lungs, but from the heart, never. You have made an error in diagno.. sis. What are the symptoms?' We are heartily in favor of girls learning to dance, and paint, and sing, and play the piano, but we are also firm in the belief that a large number of our young ladies could be profitably employed in learning how to sew buttons on the back of a fellow's shirt, and also how to fry' buckwheat cakes without burning~ them as black as a newly.,polished stove-.lid. A man will sit up nights for as week, and-do an enormous amnount of thinking in the daytime, sad after penning his thoughts on paper and rewriting them aboifl half a dozen' times, wizll burst into an editorial room about a half hour beforo going to press with "I don't know wheth, er you1can make it out or not, it was a hVtle point- that that I btean't! seen nioticcid, and I just thoidght I'd- sctatch it off. 'Get it W thj# issue 1"