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tug , 41 E /,.l. , EDITION.) rBOItQ r AI CRtn. : --=z' s +Fa =' 1NTJ WINNS, S.C. rII UA Y, 11i 13. l87 ;vp LAST DAYS OF CONdRESS. XXVZrXNG CIYLS IN Tlfll lIoUSE OF 1UEPR11S I.ENTATI M. Al arce War of Words -Everybody T1',Cing and No One ListeninR.. Clouds of Smoke and Littered Floors. The closing scenes of the lasb Congress were more than usually exciting. The proceedings were of such length that not even a synop sis can be given. Nor is this need ed, as no result was reached. A few pen and ink pictures of certain incidents are, however, coll:ited together to give some idea how the representatives of the people deport themselves at the Capitol. The firs t relates to the debate on the propo sition IMPEACINGi MINISTER SEWARD, who, in Chine, prostituted his office to private g in and acted in a man nor generally disgraceful. Springer, of Illinois, was spokesman of the Democrats. The Republicans back, ed Seward persistently. A Wash ington letter says : At twelve o'clock the unwearied Springer is on his legs again. The whole House rises at him. There he stands, well down in front, a tall man, with a close black board shut ting in a long face, talking furiously and two desks off is the man he is fighting, Bundy of New York, a broad ,shaulder id, florid-facod fel - lo.v, with white hair and a stiff ruff of gray beard standing out around his chin. For half an hour these men stand four feet apart, shouting at the top of their hoarse voices, Bundy cool, and Springer taking short steps up and down the aisle in his excitement. The din begins again, as Bundy and Springer gesture ; their hands miss hitting each other by a lucky inch or two. Every point and p! rse is cheered by rhout and yell. Turner, a member from Kentucky, whose speech has been getting thicker and whose bald scalp has been getting redder minute by minute for an hour until now his head looks like a boiled lobster, has some inimi.able fancy, jumps on his feet and yells, doubling his fist and shaking it half a foot or so from Bundy who turns in bland and smiling amazement. The House goes into paroxysms of laughter, and the members form a dense ring around the men. Out side, the venerable and fiery-faced Martin L Townsend, of New York, hopped around like the proverbial hen on a hot griddle. Garfield pushed his way down, to throw in a senten-a to the Spe iker ; Butler tried to talk ; Mayham, a dark-faced m,mber from New York, one of the Committee, standing by Springer, snouted a sentence that set both Turner's clenched fists in motion, like the hammers in an anvil chorus, his head gloving like a fiery furnace. In all the Chamber there wvas noth,. thing quiet but a serene Western member in the distant back rowv, with his feet on his desk 'md the smoke of his cigar quietly rising on the foul air. For five minutes the Speaker's gavel beats the devil's own tattoo on his desk, before Randall shouts in a hoarse whisper to the Bergeant-at- arms, and that officer takes down the mace, balances the big stick in front of him like an awkward ball-player, and going over to Turner punches him with the silver spread eagle. Turner collapse. into a seat. As the Ser geant-at-arms moves on, the menm bers sit down, and the moment he passes are uip again. Still- some order comes, and shortly before one the House shows a desire to adjourn. Harry White makes the motion, walking out of his seat and shaking his fingers at the Speaker a. if he were s&slirng stock on 'Change. The uproar begins again. Springer shouts, White shout', Atkins shouts, Waddell comes down the aisle red ini the face. Everybody is astonish igly red in the face. This is due doubtless, to the lateness of the haour, Waddell suggests that ,Sunday is a de nio. It is the first .suggestion of the day yet heard on this Legislative Sabbath. Another mnember who has beenU talking with singular rapidity, staggers up with a hand on two desks to may a woi-d, and ilniebing, raises one spread hand to his face with a gesture he , probably learned at 'is district school, if he ever went to one. It was plain, nothing but delay could save Seward. -Conger and White oameoto the fro$, and ia shouted motions for an adjourn m ent and a recess. They were1 voted down. Test vote, by test vote, three of thorn by roll call, had settled the judgenent of the House. Garfield and Butler began to take their shares in making delays. At length, after two weary hours of debate had gone by, and not ton hours of the session roimained, the question came on the adoption of the resolution of impeachment. Tho vote was: Yeas, 109 ; nays, 17. Not twenty Republicans had voted. A PROREIT OF THE LORD. Randall had just taken up his gavel, when a shout was heard from the gallery opposite. Behind the spreading eagle in the gallery an old, gray-haired man, with white beard and rude clothing, was stand ing. Men, looking up, reoembered him as a street preacher heard in summer afternoons on the avenue ; a man of much earnestness and some eloquence. "The Lord will avenge His holy day," the old man shouted, "nor can any good thing come from this desecration of His Sabbath." Randall looked up in i surprise. Religion is ordinarily left to a paid chaplain in the A:norican House. The man went fluc-ntly on to heap one prophetic curse after another on Sabbath breaking, when a doorkeeper rushed down and took him by the elbow. "Iat but doing toy duty," he said, and broke 4w.ay from the man to go on with his sin.. gular Sabbath cry. He was dragged out 'At last. THE CIVIL APPROPRIATIONS DILL. The great appropriation bill, whose pages bear the united sala ries of the civil establishment of the government, came before the House Monday morning. Two piles of bills were set atop of each other on Atkin's desk. They made a reading desk two feet high, and on them lay the Legislative bill and the. disa. agreeing report. Early in the ses sion, when the Housa met at 9, report of a disagreement was made, and a now comiference committee was appointed ; but the report of this latter disagreement, made at 11 o'clock, with not an hour left of the session, meant a final rupture be.. tween the two chambers. Atkins is a man of nervous motions ; too nervous to be dignified. The most he can do is to be impressive. In spite of the surroundings he was that to-day. Ladies had been ad mitted t., the floor. There were two or three little girls, quite at their ease, just 'a front of Atkins. One little girl in a blue dress, her hair tied up with a spre-iding blue bow behind, leisurely walked past Atkins at the climax of his remarks. When, in addition, a man gestures by holding his spectacles in one hand, one must not expect too much from the audience. "The Confeoince Committee," said Atkins, and this was the point of all his speech, "have utterly failed to agree' (bringing his clenched fist down with a blow that set the desk to quivering) "because," and Atkins turned in appeal to the Demiocrats around him, "the House insists on free elections, unfettered elections, and intelligent jurors, and the House conferees could not yield-" Foster opened a book containuing the resolution offered by Randall in 1877 to continue tihe appropriations for the next year, He offered the resolution at this time. It would have obviated the necessity of an extra session. Southard was on his feet instantly with a formal objec tion, amnd thero was a general cry of tihe same order along the Democrat-~ ic line. "On your heads then be the responsibility," said Foster, waving his arm as though he were tossing ball ceross the aisle, and a cry came back: We accept the responsibilis. With equal tact Hale, slender and self--possessedl, stood up, holding the Senate bill repealing the jury test oath, passed seventy-aix days ago, and on w: ih tile Ho e had had never acted, and he charged the longer, instead of the shorter, way of selecting this repeal was taken to force a extra eesaion T wo or three men sprang to their feet to contra.dict him, but the fore and efBec' of his remark were past conf,radietion. The speeches, as speechies go, were made on the Democrafie side by Durham and Southard, the last rising tQ . a, , itch 1Of. .earznestness which extoi,tod respeco, evdA from the Republicans. Ooming out of bis seat, and walkimag down the aisle, he leaned forward with emphatic hropping gestures to express his perfect trust that the intelligence, integrity and patriotism of the people would yindicate the step iow taken, aind a cliwh of hand clap ping broke out ol around him as ho sat down and the House insisted on its disagreement. Nor was this conlerenco commit too all or most of the mornings session. A bill making some pro vontive provision from fututro posti lenco was passed. All the routine duties of a closing sOssion were discharged, and Randall closed his term as Speaker with the second valedictory he has delivered in that capacity. 8l. INVITED HIM TO CAlFi, On the train was an officer from Muskegon who had in charge a young brunette of many personal charms, not the least of which were a pair of wicked black eyes, which the spoiled gir ]knew well how to use, The deputy sheriff was taking her to the house of correction, to which she had boen sentenced for a term of three months after having beeu convicted of various irre ularities in the town of "sand an sawdust." Among the passengers who boarded the train at Lowell was a comier cial traveller. The officer had left his seat by the side of his pretty prisoner and was conversing with a friend at the other end of the car. The "drummer," espying the the young lady, at once began a game of flirtation, and soon, upon her own invitation, he was seated by her side. Then commenced a most de lightful conversation, which was thoroughly appreciated by those passengers who were near enough to overhear. The officer watched the pair narrowly, but did not inter fere, and soon every passenger in the coach understood the situation. The cruel Muskegon girl enjoyed the affair hugely, and was beard to invite the gentleman to call on her at her uncle's house on Lafayette avenue on Sunday. All the passen. gers were in the joke, but the man of the road was blissfully uncou seious that thelpartner of his flirta tion was on her way to prison. When the train arrived in the city of Muskegon the officer stepped up and, displaying his star said : "Come Miss.' The girl arose and, turning her black eyes on the bewildered commercial travell'er, said "We are allowed to receive calls at our mansion, but my sentence is only for ninety days, , and if you hap pen Around this why ' at the and of that time, I shall be pleased to see you." Dr. Geo. Har ison Gray, ;:who recently committed suicide in 1Vow Orleans by shooting himself through the head, is said to have been the stop-son of the sole owner of Web ster's Unabridged Dictionary, a man seventy-eight years of age and worth several millions. Dr. Gray's story is that owing to domestic diflicluty he left his home in New Haven. Ct., eighteen months ago and went to Texas. When the yellow fever raged at H<. y Springs, Miss, he won there expecting and hoping to become a victnli, as he was nearly destitute and tired of life, but in vain. Then he tried to obtain a passage to Russi.r, intending to devote himself to the plague-strick en, but he was unable to aecure a passage. Having at last roached4 the end of hise resources, he took his life. REMOVAL, BOUT the 15th of Iar'eh we pro - Apose to remove our stock of goods to the store now occupied by J. M. Beaty & Co., where we will be pleased to see til' our former frien~ds ard customers. Previous to that event wve will sell at BOTTOM FIGURES, to avoid unnecessarg trouble in moving. Just received a lot of fine uin canvassed hams. Also, Plows!l Plows! I Plows 11 1 J. F. McMASTER & CO. mnch 4 JUST RECEIVED, H AflS--Uncanvassed Sugar.Cured. Canned Goods--Tomnatoes, Peoha.. es, Salmon, Sardines, Pickles, &c. Teas-Gunpowder and Young Hlyeon, J. M. BE ATY & (00, moh 1 DISSOLVED BONE~. DON'T buy Guano, but got Dissolved $one eo mix with your compost heaps, Etiwani Dissolved Bone for sale by Me?MASTESl & B10J. fob 13 -THE BEST SEWING 1ACHINE 1EVE.R PRODUCED, Whether for family use or manufacturing, is thle double-thread, look-stitch light-running MT~EDw :DA-VIS, [It will last a lifetime--cvpry l\Iaohin warranted, I IIE Vertical Feed is the greatest ad. vance nmado in sowing mecbanism ;inoo the invention of sowing machines. WVe invito a careful examination of ,it, believing no one can fail to recognize the act that it is the most perfect Spwing 1Iachino made, combining simplicity +trnngtlh, dhlrability, and econoimy. We t1o not hesitate to olaim for tlo IMPROVED DAVIS; LI additiol to its superior princ iples, more absolute perfection of workmanship and more complete adjustability than pertains to any oomupoting machine now in the market. Among the various iu >rovenlents is the Improved Shuttle, illied Shank Noodle, Adjustable Neodle Plate, New Patent Thread Controller and Automatic Bobbin Wir' er. Every Ma. ohine is on good substanti .1 rollers, for which there is no extra ollarg. For tucking, cording, braiding,quilting, rufiling, fringing, embroidering, shoe. fitting, tailoring, dress-making, and family use, THE DAVIS I AS NO EQUAL. References to those who have the Iui proved Davis Machino in yso in Fair field county: Mrs, William McNall Mrs. William D. AikenQ, Mrs. A. W. Ladd. Mrs. J. C. Rowe. Mrs Dr. T. T. Robertson, Mrs. Dr W. K. Turner. .Mra J. W. Bulick. Mrs. Willi.am Stevenson. Miss Margaret Aiken. Mrs. A. .Miller, Mrs. Eliza Williams. Mrs. nJanes Q. Davis. Mrs. Robert Crawford, Miss J. Harvey, and othero, Just think of it--a machine selling for $60 a short tim ago you can now pur chase for $30, from , O. BOAG, Agent for Fairliola County. Also agent for two other first-class mnachines- the Now American, and the Improved Wejd. Call on J. 0, IIOAG, and get the )eti Family Sowing'Dachines made, DRY GOODS, Great roduction in pric"3s of Drese Goods, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, &c. Always a full and complete line o [araily (rocoriea, Tobacco, Cigars, Con Iectionaries, Fruits &o., as cheap as the .lheapest. Lumber and Furniture for sale low or cash by jan It T. O. 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