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T 11 'W EE K L Y E D IT.( .N W IN N S13 . S . C . T U E S.D A Y , A P RL 1 , 187 9 iV O L . 3 N O .2 6 THE FIGHIT IN CONGRESS. MfIIITA1tYlt UL11 OR CIVIL LIFTs$ Tk TIE INSUE oF T1IEC 110UI. Op oning ot' tho Great Debate- -Speech. es by Stephens, Garfold and Othere Speaker o'andaln's Ruling. WASHINGTON, March 29.-HousE. j -~At 12A40 the House went into ,commnittee of the whole on the ariny appropriation bill and the discussion was resumed, Stephens, of Georgia, opemng it. He argued in favor of the relevancy and admissibility of the section, but intimated his dis sent from the theory that the rules of one house governed the succeed ing House unless readopted. '1here was no question in his mind but that the pending section was ger, mane and was in th. direction of i retrenching expenditures. Retrench ment was not only possible and probable but certain. He discussed the laws of 1795 and 1807 and argued that thoy did not apply to the use of ti oops in civil cases, but only in casoc of invasion and insur rection. In civil cases troops wore fl nished on the call of the marshal as t )onc comnitatus, but such provis,on as autlhoiizcd the presence of troops at the polls never existed on the statute book until 1865, and all the change of legislation propos ed by the suction in question was a repeal of that law. Public senti ment North and South was against the empluymncut of troops at the pols. Theto w.s no need for such a ting. Thu country had got along witbout it for three qu.trters of a century. There would he no harm dcnc, therefore, by the repeal of t: e Lw. Alr. Stephens spoke for over twenty minut.es in a clear voice and attracted great attention. After argument by Reed, of Maine, atgainst the section und in support ai t.he poir t of ordo:, the chairman made a dec"ii,n over-ruling the Poin.t of 01 r a+nl holding that the sCeci at ivas gui mii,ano and would retrenci expenditut es. An appeal w.:s t.il;en and the decision sustained by a vote of 115 to 107. A geliota lieu,sion was then open tu, by Gai field, his argunent being that no vote would be taken to-doy. Gat lield made a very strong speech against the policy of the Democratic party in Congress declaring it to ho utterly revolution.. ary and tendin g to the subversion of the govci nmenit. He showed how, by the abstention of the majority in either house from the periorin.anc3 of their ledislative duiaties, the gover"nmlent could be br:ken, and declared that this was the first time in American history and tie fist time in two centuries in England t.hat it had been propos ed or insistetl upon that those vol. untary powers should be used for the destruction of the government, and yet that was the programme announced to the American people to-day. If the pending proposition was the simplest and umost inoffen, sive. still when it was demlanlded as a imatter of coercion, it had to be resistedl. It was not against the; proposition itself, buit against tihe Demooort,tc e methods, that hIe spoke, and what. was5 thle lw, onl the repeall of which the~ DemlocraIt4 now inaisted at the very peilli of tile national life? It was5 the la1w pIroposed by tile Democratic Senator, Powell, of Ihonfucky, reported algainls by a Rup ublic:m1 coilmmiittee and( passed in both houseA by aL me.jority of Denmociratic vetos, thle nmjori.y of Repu)iblican vote-s being agaimst it. lHe named tis vting for it Senators .Hendricks, of Indiana, . Davis, of K(on tucky, Johnson, Maryland, and McDowecll, of California, and among: t he Democratic Representatives R.mndall, of Pennsylvania, WVood1, of Newv York. and POndleton), of Ohio. Tile speech creates groat excite ment. - 3noun AcquiTT1a.-A telegram' was received herie yesterday an noulntinlg that tile man B3runer, clhar-gedl with tihe murder of tihe late P. M. Murray, of this city, in Rock Hill last summer, who was brought to trial day before yesterday in! Yorkville had been acquitted. No furthler particulars wvere received, only about, Lhr ee imintost, but it is p)reumedr. tha:t it was shown) to the sattisfactionl of the court that the shiooting was in self defence It will be remembored that the killing wasM done during the progress of an nffsay.-U(k/arlo,tte Obsaerver. A New OrleAts wotnan, whose hiusbanld was killed by a pet boar, haos sued its owner for $55,000 data. I ;es P'UBLIC CAUTION. . Cautionary Circular to the Grangers of the United States. [3Massachusells Ploughman. ] At a special meeting of the "Mas-' achusetts" Grange, P. of H. No. 38, old at their headquarters in Bos on, Juno 29, 1878, it was unani uously voted that the Master of the! VIassaclusetts State Grange be ro inested to send the following cau ionary circular to the local Granges )f Massachusetts and to the State iranges of the United States: BROTHEnS-We think it our duty ;o caution Grangers against the ncreasing sale of poisonous articles n our markets. Arsenic is now sold at wholesale it about five cents a pound. There has been imported into his country in a single year, two nillions three hundred and twenty seven thousand seven hundred and orty-two pounds. A single pound ontains a fatal dose for about wenty-eight hundred adult per ;ons. What becomes of it ? We answer, a considerable porh ion goes into our wall papers, Sgured and plain, glazed and un lazed ; the cheapest as well as the rnore expensive. It is found in white, blue, red, yellow, green and >ther colors. The pale colors fre quently contain more than the most brilliant. The editor of a leading Boston paper has recently stated that about eighty five per cent. of all wall papers now manufactured contain arsenic, and advises his readers to abandon their use, and paint their walls. The Boston Journal of Uhemistry states that the Inanu facture of these papers is increasing. Arsenic is. also used in tickets, paper curtains, covers of boxes, papers containing confectionery, and other ptapers. Arsenic and other poisons are also now used in the coloring mat t.r of ladies' dresses; gentlemen's under clothing, socks, hat linings, linings of boots and shoes. They are found in woolens, silka, cottons and leather. Professor Nichols, of the Massa C'm3ette Institute of Technology, found eight grains of arsenic in each square foot of a dress. Another of our chemists Tound ten grains of arsenic in a single artificial flower. A child recently died in Troy, N. Y., by taking arsenic from a veil thrown over its crib to keep off the flies. The Boston Journal of CYhemis try states that they are now putting arsenic into toilet powders used in nurseries and by ladies, it being cheaper than starch, of which they were formerly made. Many flavoring oils and syrups contain poisons. It is well to avoid them as far as possible. Tea, coffee, cocoa and chocolate are all liable to be adulterated and to some extent with dangerous articles. I.t is well to buy only of the best and most experienced dealers. Drugs are largely adultered. It is well to buy only of the most ex, perienrced and reliable druggists. Sewving silks and threads are made heavy with lead, and poison those who use them.' Thousands of barrels of "terra alba" or while earth, are every year mixed in various forms with our sugars and other white substances. Its use Lends to produce stone, kidney complaints, and various dlis eases of the stomach. A large part of our cream of tartar used in cook'. ing contains fifty per cent. or mors of "terra alba.". It is also used extensively ini con fec tion ery. Mills in various parts of the country are now grinding white stone into a fine powder. It is stated that they grind at home of these mills three grades, soda grade, sugar grade and flour grade. We think it would be a paying investment for the Grangers of each State to employ a competent chem ist to detect and publish adultera bions, and then withdraw all p)atrons age from those who manufacture or sell such articles. We think there is quite as much mood of organizations in all our States to en force laws for the pro tection of public health, as there is ror organizations to catch and pun sh horse thieves. In conclusion we can congratu - ate the Granges that farmers are 3xempted from some of the dangers. So which other classes are subject. We make our own vinegar. It is stated Ia the Scient 1$. American that prol~ablpvhalf the, vinsger now sold in onr cities is 'cank poison." We mnake our own pickles. A EassBachusette ehiemist, who analy: ed twelve packages of pickles put up by twelvo difforont wholesale dealers, found copper in ton of them. We have pure milk and genuine cream, and not the manufactured material which so largoly supplies our cities and populous towns. It was estiinated by a medical comiifission of the Boston Board of Health, in 1874, that nearly $W00, 000 was paid in that city, in Ithat year, for what purported to bo. but was not milk. In a similar period of Limo Ithere were 487 deaths of "Cholera Infan tutn" in Suffolk county, while in the same population outsido the city there were less than one hundrpd. And lastly, we are not compelled to eat oleoniargine ohocse, or any part of the ninety million pounds of oleomargarine butter, which 'it is estimated will be made in' this country this year, in which, as we aro told by the Chicago Lice Atock Journal, Professor Church has found horso fat, fat from bones, and fat such as is principally - used for the making of candles, a d in the preparation of which, a has been recently widely pub shed, upon what seems to be reliable authority, not suflicient heat is used to kill the parasites which enter and brood in human bodies. B1'\. P. VARE, Macter Nif State Grange of Mass. The above paper was prepared by 3rother George T. Angell, Cliaplain of the "Massachusetts" Grange, of Boston, and who is also director of the American Social Ueienco Asso ciation, an(d President of the Massa chusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A SAD SUICIDE. - On last Sunday evening Miss Julia Scott committed suicide at White Pond, at the resi dence of her brother. The circun stances as told us were as follows : While her brother's family was at supper she told a colored woman who was in the room with her to go out and stay until she called her. With one of her shoes in her hitnd she followed the woman out of the door into the piazza, wont to the water bucket and returned to the room. Almost inimnodiately the report of a gun was hea:rd, and the startled family rushed into the room where they found her body on the floor and tho gun lying by .,it. One of her hands was blackened by the smoke of the powder and her clothing was on fire. It seems that after returning to the room she had cocked both barrels of the gun, placed tho muzzle against her body and pushed the trigger with her foot. The charge passed through her heart and caine out just below the collar bone, producing almost instant death. Miss Scott was about eighteen or twenty years of age. She had been in bad health for some time and her untimely death is v.ttributed to temporary mental aberration. An inquest was held on Monday by Trial Justice Keenan.-crnwell People. A GENTLE HJINT.-tn our style of climuite, with its sudden changesof templera ture-rain, wind and sun - shine, often intermingled iS a sin~ glo dap-it is no.wonder that our children, friends and relatives aire so frequently taken from us by neglected colds, half the deaths re sulting directly from this cause. A .bottlo of Boschece's German Syrup kept about your home for imo diate use will prevent serious sic'k niess, a large dloctor's bill, and per haps Jeath, by the use of three or foui' doses. For curing Consump tion, Homnorr'ihn ges, Pneumonia, Severe Coughs, Croup, or any dis, ease of the Throat or Lungs, its success is simply wonderful, as your druggist will t(ll you. German Syrup is now sold in every town and village on this continent. Sample b)ottles for trial,10Oc.; regnr.. lar size, 75cts.* AN INGENIOUS GAMBLING IN8TRU MENT.-An eXcedingly ingenious apparatus, designed to facilitate cheating at cards, was recently captured in a gambling room in San Francisco. It consists of an are rangement of springs in a frame which passes around the player's arm beneath his coat sleeve, and contains the cards designed to be used in cheating. Attached to the apparatus is a string which passes around the player's body to his left band. By means of the string the pl1ayer can throw out the cards so as to "stock" -his hand and with draw those that he does not con sider strong enough to play against his opponent. The machine,. bore evidence of long service, and has doubtless emptied the pockets of many a greenhrn - HI.k FoQHT W1ITI 2IAXRS, Jim Currie, the Murderer, as a "Brave Union Soldter"--Detaile of The Texas Tragedy. Lillle Rack (Ark.) Gazelle. The murder of Mr. B. 0. Porter, of the Diplomacy dlranatic company, was one of the most brutal known in the long list of "Lone Star" death dealing. Of course the people of Texas, as tho people of all other civilized States, look upon such a transaction with horror. Addition al particulars only show the mat ter up in a moro murderous light. J. S. Shopard and Earnest Stanloy, of Emorson's Minstrols, arrived in tho city recently, and from them wo learn tho following facts, they being present at the time of the shooting . - Previous to the murder, James Currie met Shopard and Stanl,3y, and seemed very mnuch dispo,ed to creato a disturbance, insomuch that that the two gentlemen avoided him. On the following morning the Dip' lomacy company was in a restaurant at the (epot, as previously stated, when the murderer, Currie, walked in. M,aking an obscene remark, Mi'. Porter very gentlemanly called him aside and remonstrated with him, telling him that he should not speak so in the prseico of ladies. "What the lh-Il have you got to do with it ?" exclaimed the assassin, drawing two revolvers. Mr. Maurice Barryiore walked up at this time, and, drawing off his coat, remarked "We are both unarmed t but if you will lay down your pistols, ITl give you all you want." Vithout saying -anything more, and without. any other provocation, Currie fired both pistols almost si multaneously--one at Porter and the other at Barrymora--and quick as a fiash be fired both pistols again. The first discharge intended for Porter struck b'im in the lower part of the body, and the next ball went through his bowols. The first shot intended for Barrymore missed, and the next struck his right arm. Por ter fell to the floor and died within I forty minutes. lie suffered greatly, his last words being, "Give me moro morphine." A'ter Porter fell, Currio fired at Miis' umming with both pistols, and missing her, advanced and placed the lie muzzles of both weapons to her bosom. TLe affright ed woman shrank back, and evaded the deadly discharge. The brute then turned and fired several times at a boy, and then at some ono else; and then, when lie saw no one else whom ho desired to murder, to show his utter lack of feeling, walked up to a dog lying on the floor and stamoped his head. Of about forty mon who gathered around the place, not one had nerve enough to attempt an arrest. Cur rie, after doing all he could, walked back into tho restaurant, and in an insulting manner demanded "What do I owe here ?" and then adding, "I'll see you again," walked out and gave himself up. Dallas ( Teas) Herald. James Currie was born of highly r'ospectable parents in New York. A t the commencement of the war he enlisted in the Federal armv and served as a nonm-comnmissionec ofl1i cer in President -Hayes' regiment until,it closed. He then went to Kansas and was employed as en gineer on the Kansas and Pacific road until 1867, when ho joined General Forsyth in his indian Q;po difion,.as a scout. ie was in the fight on the Republican Fork, when sixty Federal troops were .attacked by the Indians and all biassaered except ten, Currie -being~ one who escaped. He again returned and took a positi.)n on the Kansas Pacific iraihoad. When in Kansas, it is said he killed a cigar-manker for intimacy with his mistress. He is smkid to 'be feared by even the greatedt deepers adoes. Bill Hlickock, known as "Wild Bill," the most desperate man in the Black Hills, and who was there killed, used to state that ho was afraid of but one man, and that man was Jun Currie. His health failing him in Kansas, he journeyed south, and .was 9mployed as an engineer on rhe Ncwv Orleans. St. Louis and Chiesgo raiload. About six years ago ho came to Texas and was given employment on the Texas and Pacific road as engineer. This position lie held until' about two years since, when he was selected as a detective on the roads Mrs, Ursula Hmupbreysville, of Northfield, Conn., though one hun-~ dred And one years old, is still able to be about. T wo rears ago she rode a tuowing machmne, and drove the hoream thiryugh th e 04 CJLUMBIA REGISTER. DAILT, RI-WEEKLY ANT> WREKLY. Best Newspaper ovor PubJise4 AT TIlE CAPITAL4 OF SOUTH CAROINA. CIROULATION 'L'ARGE AND CQpt1T,lXTLY INCREASING. W E rospeotfully invite the attentiQn of the reading commupity to tho excellent newspapers- we are now publishing in Colnibia. THE REGIg TER is the only paver evor published at tho eapital of South Carolina which is con ducted as e.'o the leading dailies of the principal cities of the oountry. 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