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EMPSON MILUS. ?Htcr Hipp Lo YOL. ?. LAI KENS C. LIM S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1886. big job of Clothing _Baltimore Fir?. THE STATE LEGISLATURE. TIIK I til lim U l KU OF TIIK BK8910N 8DOWH CONNI DICKA m.v; WOKK aiuny Measures ?>r Public Interest Adopted or KeJeeteri?A ?ood Bhowlug, lu Wurl<. for A Very Working Budy. OoiiUUBU, Docotnbor 17.-Tho record of tho fourth week of tho present Bennion shows up well in the mutter of work hard work-on the patt of both Senate and House. While tho output of billa may not be very I irgo, yet tho number of important mattcrB settled speaks well for tho industry ot both branches of thc General Assembly, below will bo found a synopsis of tho proceedings. THE UNIVERSITY. Tho bill couceruiug tho University, which ha? boeu fully outlined in this correspondence, came up as a special order in the Senate, With it woro ap pointed for consideration tho two bills providing for a separate agricultural col logo. After tho adoption of some formal amendments proposed to tho University bill Sonator Youmaus, ouo ol which provided for tho formation of "a post graduate department or University de partment proper." Senator Bligh moved to indefluitely postpone tho threo bills, saying that ho thought thc best thing tho ?Ute could do was to ?end all those Boh?mes, for which she waa unprepared, j to tho rear. Ilia motion proving im practicable, ho confined it to tho Uni voruty bill. Sonator Izlar moved to tablo it, and it waa tabled by tho following vote : Yeas-Boll, Byrd, Howell, Izlar, Mur ray, Moore, Munro, Moise, McMastor, Patterson, Uhaiuu, Reynolds, Smith, Smythe, Wotton!, Williams, Wingard, Woodward and Youmaus-10, Nays Austin, Alexander, Biomaun, Black, Crews, Edwards, Field, Kennedy, Moody, Bligh and Talbert-ll. Senator Buist, pro, waa paired with Senator McCall, con. Senator Edwards moved to discharge tho University bill und tako up bia own bill providing for a separado agricultural coll -ge. Upon this motion ho delivered an ? . ll -tustive argument in favor of the sop rat?, v-ollego. 1.ie motion to take up Souator lvl wn'd*1 ' separate collcgo hill was defcatod without a division. The question waa then put ns to tho passage of tho University bill, and on a viva voco vote the bill was passed, but! before tho vote waa announced Senator | Edwards remarked that ho did not pro-; poso to have tho separate collego scheme ignored in this way, and if it was not given a showing lie would bo compelled reluctantly to vote against tiie University "bill, Sonator MoMuster remarked that tho friends of thu University agreed with tho Semdor aa to thc importun?e of agricul .oul ?ducation und had made full pro "ion therefor in this University bill. Senator Sligh said Unit it appeared to 0 the policy of tho Senator from Bara .veli to rely on thc votes hu scoured and vouchsafe no ai;,um? nt ia vindication of bia bill, lie proposed to delny this vote somewhat, und to make some remarks to bring out debite. Thc Senator tbeu mode a s peech iu favor of tho general proposition that separate agricultural colleges wore tho tigut kind of institu tions. Senator Youmniis replied to Senat ir Sligh. Senator Crews thought thin plan meant a renewal of free tuition in tho college. Ho moved to adjourn tho elebato uutil 12 o'clock next day. Senator Smythe moved to table. Car ried. Sonator Edwards moved to adjourn tho debate until Thursday. Senator Howell moved to bible, but gavo way to Senator Moody, who accused tito friends of tho University of trying to gag tho Senate and force this measure down its throat. Ho askexl a postpone ment. Senator Smytko said that tho leport ?resented with tho bill gavo argument* 1 its lavor. It had boon on tho desks of Senators for many days, and ho sup Eosed that every Sonator hod mado up ia mind on tho subject. Ho, therefore, rei mw eil the motion to tablo. It wua put .nd carried. Senator Sligh entered a solemn pro tost against tho action of tho majority in refusing to postpone tho vote on thc hill. Nobody answered. Tho nil I wa? nus od to it? third read ing, 10 to ll. Thoro was not tho change of a singlo vote. THU HILL IN Tili: ?OU8B. Whcu the hill was announced Mr. Keith, of Newberry moved to strike out of the first section the words "the college of agri culture and mechanical arts." lledidnoi believe that the lilli made adequate pro vision for the ?ducation of the youth of the Bato in the principles and practice of agi i culture, ill? principal objection to con necting thc agricultural and literary insti tutions was that such an union of these two departments could not give the practical education which the farmers demanded ?nd needed, and which had U-en shown to he practicable In scverulof tHeotliei States. M Ali8fiis"i[)pl and Michigan. Mr. Unison spoke next. Aa tho intro ducer of the bill, ho outlined ita practica) purposes and said tho real quest bai b wh< er wo shall have au ngiicultund col leg. i part of ?ho University or shall lt la a m . irate one He argued that if tho pro poi d l nivcrstty scheme failed, lt would lu .10 wise work hann to tho Ht ito, and then Ps opponents would have the very best argument for thc establishment of 1 separate agricultural college On ihe oiltei hand, if thc separate plan was tried am failed, thee would bo noeud lo tho dita? trous consequences. If thu bill prevailed .nd Hie measure succeeded, lt would oblit erate all Jealousies iu the .State. II? then showed tho great economy of lue measure There hail not been a single argument Hu ' proved thc mcmity of a separate college Dr. Pope said thal ho had hoped 10*1 whon thc quent ion of free tuition was sci tied at tho lost session Unit thoro was "at end on it." Tho present bill was Intro ducal io foreataU ?he farmers in llielr de t?trc to establish 0 1 -p?rate ollego, and "U >onin the $b"?,(H.K) appropriated hythe itch bill." Thc College "annex' ww JW (-ailed the agricultural "college.' ap trustees had seen tho importune* o "u? name, ?nd he gave them groat crodl for their Ingenuity. He concluded by say log: "1 give you fatr warning ttoat d yo? carry tin* thing through you win da u 1 y?>ur cost. You'll hear a howl from atoan tain to seaboard. The farmers are a bad crowd when Uley get started, and 1 tell you to ponder weil before you pass lids bill." Mr. Haskell replied. He said that the Mississippi Agricultural College bad cost $80,000 a year to maintain it. No county in this Stale eau afford to donate anything but thc baldest nucleus for a separate cob loge, while for the one proposed Wo have the necessary buildings. In reply to Dr. Pope's quest.iii, "Is lt wile in thc face of the clamor ol' the people?" he would ask. Is lt wisc, in tile lace of thc clamor for economy and relief from taxation, IO saddle Upon tho people the untold expense of un experiment which has been tried elsewhere and proved to to be a failure? This farm ers of thu Stale were S."> per cent, of the population, and if they wanted an agricul tural college they could easily get it. ile Showed from the catalogue Of the .Missis sippi College Hint agriculture was taught only nine months hi the whole course of three years, horticulture three months, and ehmiistry live months. The measure was au honest effort to give the farmers what Is theirs. Il thole was no other reason against the separate ngi?cultural college, lt was sufficient thnt il would raise a wall of separation between the different proles sinus and callings and create nrtilieial dis Unctions between the sons ol' u common mother, which could but work injury to the best interests ot all the people. Mr. II. F. Wilson supported the hill In n telling speech, lie thought the principal argument against tho separate Agricultural Co lege had b en presented by the gentle man from Richland when he so graphically showed thc effects of such n system tn sepa rating the people ol thu Slate into ranks and colleges. The cry fi r a separate ooh lego had not come up fruin the fannel s of tho State. When tl did, he would ho pre pared lo give hood toil; until then, be would oppose lt. He could not exactly see the success of a sysicm which taught young m.'n to raise cotton nt a loss of $100 tier bile as he showed had been done lu lbj Mississippi College. Mr. Devonport said that ho was compara tively tm uneducated man. liewa-- glad he had no mere of il as ll would make him a bigger fool than he was. Of all fools, said he, the educated fool is tho biggest, "Scientific farming! Gracious alive! Show me a man who has ever made a tarni"! by reading books and I'll e,ive $.*>." (This Statement was greeted by u hurricane of laughter.) The proper way io make a farmer w ai tr, put him in thu field. To tho intense amusomcnt of his hearers he re pealed his experience in scientific fanning as derived from following the instructions found i i a newspaper. Mr. Thomas, of Richland, said that, hi Iiis opinion, a higher B ilieuie ol education had never been projected In South Carolina. Its conception Involved tho highest states manship ns well ns the scholastic gi nins. In Ibo South Carolina Military Academy we have a unique ECIIOO! of military and practical dlsclphni, in Chillin College we ?lave au udinlrab'e institution for tue col oreti men and women of South Caroliua; in the s nth Carolina University we would liavo live dis'iuct school-, providing foi .?..cry class in tho Stale, Ile bolloved I hal thc cull for n sepcrato college cum: tr >m u minority, representing not one lentil of the tanners of the Slate. Thnt minority had Its rights They were good and true men, Inti he dui not think it waswlsoloestablisli tho scporato college, lt was too expensive in view ol' the condition cf die Slate, and il we had mi liions lo spend lt, would not In wise. 1 ls tendency was to place the fm mci >n a lower plano ralina than to el?vale him -to dwarf his intellect and repress hu as pirations under a partial culture. Tiny ihould have the broad bads of u genera education. In the present scheme then was all the agricultural interests could de maud and it was freighted with solid am lusting good to the State. Ile believed tim thc new University waa thc system de nanded by the people of the Slate, and lu liopid thal tue tribunes of the people WOllll rise to the height of the grand coneeptioi if the bill before tbein, and by passing I misc a monument to thc wisdom of th Trustees anti the statesmanship of lld lK>dy, which shall endure to the blessing o '.he future generations of our people, am n Ibo promotion of their unity and pros perity. Mr. Padgett, of Colleton, moved to bibi Mr. Kelli's motion. Dr. Pot,*.1 (Milled fo tho yeas and noys, The result was-ycai 10; nays, 84. Mr. Blackwell moved the previous qtlof lon, which was ordered, and Hie bil passed Its second reading by 09 to 84. When tho Sonato bill to amend Cbaj tor XP. of tho Oeuoral Statutos ontitle "Of the Uuivorsity of South Carolina, winch woe, in effect, to conform th Statutes to tho provisions of tho bill t reorganizo tho University, which posse tho Houso on Tuesday night) carno .. for a second reading. Dr. Popo move to recommit, which failed. Slr. Ansel endoavorod to get in h imeudment requiring tho tuition fees t tn- pnid into tho State treasury insten ii tho treasurer of the University, wbic was rejected on Tuosday, but tho araem mont was defeated by a vote of 65 to 3! An amondmont propoied by tho con mitten was adopted, providing for tl .onfroi ot tho fund provided by tl irrunt of Congress for Agricultural ar Mechanical Colleges, by the Trustees i tho University. Other vorbal amendments wore mud md tho bill was ordered to a third rea ing. run Aomouivri'iiAr. DRIWUTMKN r. The bill to reorganize tho Dcpartmo of Agriculture oumo back to tho lion* with tho Senate amendments ns ci bodied in Benat?r Youuiaus's substitu? Tho usual process is either to oouour to rofuso to oouour in umeudmouts, b In b J case, at tho suggestion of M I'iou id, of Clarando o, who bad tho b in charge, tho debate was adjourned ai tho Senate amendment? woro ordorod be printed. As the bill now stan (passed by tho Senate) provision is mn for tko Organization of the bureau uud tho following system: "That a department of agriculture hereby created and established, whi shall be limier tho control omi sup? vision of a board consisting of ton mo bore, who shall bo agriculturalists, t of whom shall bo selected from tho Hu at largo, and ono from each judicial c O.M. They shall be elected by a jo vote of tho Gi noral Assembly, as f lows, to wit: Five for a short term one year, to be cleef cd, ono from t State at large, and one caeh from I First, Third, Fifth and Sovonth c oaita, and five for a long term of t years, one from tho State at Iorgo, n one each from tho Second, Four Sbxih and Eighth circuits." Tho friends of tho bili og roo to tl Tho difference, however, Hos in method of electing tho con missioner agriculture. The ?rionds ol the meas dosi.ro to give th* election either to - i H..IM.mn? nui I nam lita board or oleo to tho pcoplo. Tho Sonate amendaient provides for tho oleotion of tho commission by tho Legislature. l iri: AOBICCI.TCllAL BX BM PT ION DILL gavo riso to a Bpi rited discussion. Tho bill carno up for its dual reading, having passed a second reading by a vote of 92 to 0. Tho discussion was oponed by Dr. Pope, of Newberry,- who moved to recommit tho bill, that being tho par liamentary process of squclchiuK a bill that has already been passed. Dr. Popo explained thnt ho made thc motion be 3IU180 tho bill is unconstitutional, it be ing in direct conlliot with Section 1, Article 0, of tho Constitution. Tho bill iixos ono timo for tho farmers' produots to bo valued (August 1st? preceding January 1st of tho return and leaves othor property to bo valued as of Janua ry 1st. The bill then passed ita third reading, without a division* NO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. Tho joint resolution to call a Consti tutional Convention was fully discused in tho House, but was killed by a vote of 00 to l l. Tho mutter may now bo cousideicd settled for tho present session. ELECTION PaBOlSOTS. .Tho House has passed tho voting pre cinct bill to a third reading. This is in tho nature of an amendment to thc elec tion laws and is passed at almost evory session, the object hoing to chungo or add to tho products. Tho counties affected by tho present bill are Chester field, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lexington, Spartan Im rg, Chester, Horry, Beaufort, Laurens, Berkeley, Anderson, Oeonee, Pickcns, York ami Greenville. NO NEW APPORTIONMENT. The apportionment bill caused quite a discus-don in tho Senate. Tho oppon ents chiefly took tho ground that it wat unconstitutional. It was finally killed by a vote of 19 to 15. TUB COLUMBIA CANAL. Tho Columbia Canal bill was on thc Senate Calendar for a second rending, .Senator Hemphill moved its indefinite postponement. Tabled by a vote li to 9. Senator Talbert moved to amend bj requiring tho convicts to be clothed, fe. uud guarded by the trustees of the Cana and five dollars a month be paid foi their hire. Senator Murray moved to table tin motion. Carried-18 to 18. Seuuto Talbert offered auotbor amendniout, ro inuring tho panal trustees to feed um clotho tho convicts. This was defeatcc by a voto of 16 to 14. On tho passagi ol the bill Senator Tal bei t demuudei the yeas aud nays, Baying that ho wishei Iiis vote recorded against thia infamen scheme. Tho bill passed by a vota o 18 to ll. TUB STOCK r.AW IN COLLI'.TON. Tho bill to exempt portions of Colic ton from tho General Stock Law passe* tho Moase after a lengthy debate, put tioipatcd in by Messrs. Dant/.lor, c Orangetmr?; Padgett, Hill and Win: borly, of Colleton; Lesoano, of Charlot ton; Keitt, of Newberry; Tindall, c ?larondon; Stanland, of Berkeley; Hair ilton, of Chester, aud sumo others. THU PllOPOSBU COUNTY OK FDOltENOE. Wheu the bill to create a now county Lo bo known as tho County of Florene! was taken up in tho Senate, Mr. Moodj A Marion, moved to indefinitely INJS [?ono tbo uufavorablo report of tl; Judiciary Committee. In support ( this motion Senator Moody dolivored a ?arnoat speech, strongly setting forth tl needs of tho people of east Marion, au appealing to the Senate te roooguh those needs by pasting the bill. Senator Edwards, of Darlingtoi irgued strongly against tho bill on tl ground that it would take valuable terr tory awav from both Darlington au Williamsburg, against tho will of tl neoplo of those counties. Senator Byrd, of Williamsburg, o ?ected to the bill, also on thc gt nu that it would take territory and popnl kion from his county, aguinst tho will the pcoplo. After eomo further debato Senat Edwards moved to table tho motion Bonator Moody to indefinitely postpo: tho uufavorablo report of thoeomuiitte lipon tho call of ^tho yea? and r.aj tho voto was as follows: Yeas-Moflsrs. Bell, Itiemau, BUc Buist, Byrd, Crows, Edwards, Howe Hemphill, I/.lar, Kennedy, Marra Moore, Munro, McCall, Moise, H lian dinkier, Talbert, Wofford, Wilban Wingan!, Woodward, Youmam-'-21. Nays- ?. Monars. Austin, Alexandr Field, Moody, Pattoreou, Hoynob Smith-7. Senator Edwards then moved to adc tbo uufavorablo report of the com mitt ?nd reject tbo bill. This motion \ uloptod without a division, and tho fi of tho bill was soalod. ABOUT OUANTINO HAIL. Tho bill to reun?ate tho granting bail after con viel ion caused Borun deb in tho Souuto. It was tinnily pussod tho following shape: "That from and after Ibo passage this Aot it shall not bo lawful for f I md ice or any Circuit Judge of tbo HU poudiug an appeal to tho Supremo Coi to grant bail to auy person who si bavo l>eou convicted of any OIYOUHO punishment whereof is death or impris meut for lifo or imprisonment for years." TUB PHOSPHATS BILL, Thc Houso had a a longthy debato tho bill roported by tho phosphate 0* mo.ooo-whiob has already bcou < lined in thia corrospondouoe Col. Haskell argued in i'avor of bill, and Dr Popo spoke t^ainst it viows being, in general, those of tho poncuts of tho ru eas uro. Dr. l'ope said that this bill meant I there would be an agreement beta tho land ami water companies to rest the production of phospboto. Tho c mit too asked this legislature deli utely to or?ate a monopoly I To d poor mon out of tho UUBIIIOSS, and give the bnaiuosa to those five fat c panics, lt was a monstrous propoalt A duding to Col. Haskell's desorlptio tho complicated machinery used in dr lng rook, Dr. Pope intimated that phosphate compactos liad i nt rodi phosphate tongues into tho eyes ot committee. Ha didn't nndorstand those companies could bo languis wheo they ollere! to pay $170,000 .ornum for this monopoly. In tbo cc o? his roiriAfks Dr. Pope mado tho N ment that the general rights people paid $90,000 o? tho $'208,000 paid to tho Stnto. Mr. Haskell produced tho report of tho Comptroller Gonoral, tallowing thut tho live eompnuicH minted had paid $195, 000, leaving $13,000 to bo accounted for otherwise. Dr. Popo said ho had beou misin formed, but it made no dilVerenco in tho argument. Ho opposed this monopoly, aud opposol it in tho interest <>f tho farmers of tho State. The bill was further discussed by Messrs. Miller of Beaufort, Maher of Barnwell und Wilson of York, in favor, aud by Mr. Ansel of (Ircouville iu oppo sition. Dr. Popo thou moved to indefinitely postpone tho whole mattor. This mo tion waa adopted by a vote of 72 to ol. A motion to reconsider waa tallied by a voto of ?ti to 46--thus burying the bill quito out of night. TUR RAILROAD SWITUn RILL, as it is culled, passed tho House after some little struggle. This measure, in substance, requires every railroad com pany to "switch oft* and deliver" to con necting roads cars consigned to partios beyond Bitch lines. The object of tho bill is to givo shippers or consignees tho choice between diff?rent lines, and to compel thc railroads to recognize this choice. LOCAL TAXES FOB SCHOOLS. Tho FIouSO has passed tho bill to fa cilitate tho formation of now school dis tricts, lt provider, as follows: 1. Each city, town or incorporated village in the State desiring bi obtain tho benefits of tho Act is hereby declared to he a school district, with the power to levy and collect a special tax not exceed ing two mills, .subject to the following provisions: 2. The school trustees shall at any timo previous to Ute .'10th of dune of each year, upon the written request of a majority of tim tva! estate owners, issue neall for e. mo ting, alter one week's no tice, of all those citizens who return real or personal property in said district. Tho persons entitled to vote in said meet ing shall have tho power, among other things, to decido whether, in addition to the amount of the constitutional tax ap portioned to the use of tho schools, it is deemed oxpedient to lovy au additional tux, not exceeding two mill", for the pay of teachers'salarios, or tho building and improvement of schoolhouses, or for in cidenhd expenses. i?. Speed.': instructions are given to auditors und treasurers as to the method of levying and collecting the tax thus I 1 voted. The Act, of course, docs not ? nft'ect school district** heretofore created j ' by special enactment. riMMNO THE DRirr, The bill to lund tho State bond? nod | , stocks maturing next .I uly caused BOtno I ( debate in tho House-chit Hy upon thu j matter of the rate of interest. Sonio \ members favored ? por cont., SOmo 4| I < and some 1. Tho -1' percent, rate was I j finally adopted by . heavy votj. The ! i bonds are to run forty years. TUB APPROPRIATIONS, I 1 The general appropriation bill, as re-1 ported by tho Ways and Means Commit- ] tee, appropriates as follows: Executive Department.... ? 58,970 Judicial Department. 50,750 Health Department. 8,050 Tax Department. 2:5,000 University Department ...... r>:\,700 Penal and Charitable institu tions. 109,985 Miscellaneous . 100,200 11 Interest on Public Debt. . 390,000 f Total .$807,205 I Tho legislative appropriation bill, |. whioh provides for tho payment of the I per diem, mileage and stationery coriiti- j " cates of the members and o thoora of tho General Assembly, tho expenses of tho engrossing department, etc., passed ita second reading without debate or com ment. This is ono measure that is never obstructed by anybody in either branch of tho Assembly, lt appropriates the tobil sum of 8*2,989. OTHER SCATTERS, I Quite a debate arose in tho House ou j v the bill to give tho trial justices jurisdic tion over coses of petit larceny. Au hour 11 was spent in tho discussion and the bill was passed with hui ono dissenting voico. n Mr. ItavHor thon|got up another bill giv- J ing trial justices jurisdiction in caaos of J receiving stolen goods of tho valu . of I ' twenty dollars or under. This was passed without discussion, Tho bill making Sumter a city was passed to a third reading. Tho bill by Mr. Pope, to carry into effect Article 10, Section 8, of tho Con- . : .li tut om, in regard to free schools, wa? Q indefinitely postponed. j, Several bills were passed without dis- j cussiou: To reduce thu number of trial / justices in Kershaw county ; to author- f izo tho county commissiouers of Ivor- S shaw to borrow money for school pur- $ puses; to pr?vido a salary of $000 for tho li probate judgo of Fairfield. fl Tho bill to abolish tho oflioe of su perintendent of highways, and to de volve tho duties thereof on tho comity e.uuiio. -loin ,. , was indefinitely post poned. A bill to empower tho Charleston, Cin cinnati and Chicago Bail way Company to mortgago ita proporty waa passed. Tho bill to allow shoriffs SM per day ?, for actual attondanoo upon tho sessions of tho Circuit Courte in their respective oountios was passed after r. hot debate. A j oint resolution proposing au amend ment to Artiole 4 of tho Constitution passed. Tho resolution gives probate judges jurisdiction in all matters testa mentary, Ac., and also in business ap pertaining to minors, and tho allotment of dower, and in casus idiocy anti luna* oy, and persons non oornpos men.u. Tho tenure of ellice is made four yours. The Blnklor forfeited land bill was Kissed to a third reading. This is tho ill to restore to tho tax list? unimproved lands which have not boon upon tho tax duplicates since 1875. Tho joint resolution requiring tho Di rectors of tho Penitentiary to louse 150 oonvicls. at $5 a mouth, to tho Carolina, Knoxville and Western Hallway Com pany, to bo employed in building twelve miles of tho road across the mountainous section of Greenville county, waa killed in tho Senate. Senator lzlar's bill extending the limit of tho poll tax paying age from Atty to sixty years caused some debato, but was following billa have passed tlu 'r t rending in the Senate; Author./. iug and requiring tho town council of Hock Hill to issuo bonds tor educational purposes; (House) authorizing tho treas i :er of Berkeley county to transfer io tho credit of tho school'districts of said oounty cortain funds; chartering tho town of Clover; (House) authorizing tho trennurer of Berkeloy county to place the ! ht. io of tho trial justice tux in St. An-1 dr? s parirh, levied in 188,J and 1885, to '. tho v icol.'o. past indebtedness of IHS5; < Ilousei un,-ndine the charter of tho town ol > ?oronco. Senat' r Patterson's bill "in relation to forfeited lands, delinquent lands and tho collection of taxes," passed - Vit) to 10. Tho Columbia Canal bill bus passed its three readings in the Senate, and now awaits tho action <>f tho llouso. Tho bill to establish scholarship in thc Winthrop Training School ut Columbia is also pending in the House. Tho bill to abolish tiio olliee ol Master in Laurens county was killed in the Sen ato by a vote of 10 to 15. Among tho bills passed by the Senate aro tho following: Bill to amend an Act for tho prevention of cruelty to animals, Bill to charter tho Beuuettsville aud ?boraw Railroad Company. Bill to amend au Act to provide for ?nd regulato tho iucorportion of bunks in this Stato; Bill to ropeal Section 2 of an Act to regulato appoals in criminal cases. Tho bill (by Mr. Koitt, of Newberry, j io establish a separate Agricultural Col ego and to devolve tho duties of the Department ot Agriculture upon tho Directors of mob College, was laid on bo tablo upou tho motion of that gon lomau. Ho stated thut bo considered ho question of establishing a separate Agricultural College settled by tho action m tho University bill, and that he had IO desire to consume timo uselessly, lis motion was adopted. Tho bill to incorporate the Columbia Jlub caused somo little debate in tho louse, but was dually passed, after ibanging thc uamo of tho organization 0 tho "Columbia Social and Literary ;iub." Ou motion of Dr. Pope, tho enacting vords wero strickon out of a bill to :n.-rn! Section 1452 of the Qeneral statutes, so as to give the Bai I road Com uissiouors $100 for otlico reut instead ol >2()0. as now allowed. Tue Senate bill to pension Confeder ito soldiers ami sailors has passed the Iouseanilwillofcour.se become a law. The Columbia Canal bill was rend und inb red for consideration. The follow ing hills were read thc third ?nie: To fund tho deficiency bouds at .! per :e"t lu the ?renate yesterday the hill pro 'kline for a separate Agricultural College vus killed by a vote of 20 to4-Si lators Jrews, Bicmann, Edwards and Murray ^instituting tho adherents, The bill imposiug thc punishment of lard labor upon persons convict! d by courts >r municipal authorities was Indefinitely lost poned on its second reading by a vote if 18 to 10. A bill making it a misdemeanor t any urson lo obtain board or lodging al apil? le or private house and depart therefrom rithout tho knowledge of Ibo proprietor, raving his bill unpaid was killed. The hill authorizing thc elly ol Columbia o guarantee and pay the coupons on bonds nbc issued by Hie Board of Trustees ol he Columbia l anai passed i's pee md citing, iii.- Joint Aiuwnitily. At '"' o'clock yesterday afternoon the two muses met in joint assembly in Ibo Hall of he Baise of Representatives fort?n pur msc electing a Coinmltsloner of Agri uP.ui an' 'wo Directors of the Slate *ontleutb'ry. A re<" i|| m had been adopted re^ ilvinjj hat there should heno speeches, and th? lomlnnlioiis consequently were con ll ned Imply to an announcement oflhe namoi f tho c uididntes. Lieut, -Governor Miuildin called Ibo twi muses to order and called for nomlniltioUI or tho ofllee of Commissioner of Agrl ultiirc. Mr. O'Brien nominated Col. A. P, But er. The nomination was seconded by Dr 'ope. Mr. Anderson nominated Mr. M. L )onaldson, of Greenville, Thc nomlnatioi ras seconded by Mr. Uaysor. Tho voto icsulted ns follows: Huller ti* donaldson b5. The following gentlemen were placed ii lomination for Penitentiary Directors lessrs. A. A Barratt, Thomas 0. Sanders olin S. Scott, E S. Allen, Michael F Conned}'. The voto resulted in tho choice of Messrs iarratt and Sanders. M-iiicy for laic mid I.Ililli. VAI.I'AIUMO, Ind., December M.-Thor ?ave been docketed for trial at uexl tern f Foster County Circuit Court the follow ng suits against tho Chicago ami Atiantl lallroad, grow lng out of tho Koutsdlsastci In administrator's ?ult to recoyer $10,00 or the deaths of sovi ral members of th Idler family; a guardian suit to recove 110,000 for Herman Miller, thc Injure ioy who was Hie only member of th Idler tinnily saved from the wreck n su f the Kents Hotel proprietor to rCCOVl ompensntion for tho carool tho Miller ho n indictment for involuntary manslaughtt gainst John B. Burk and John Dorse) rno are hold responsible for tho btouts di >.tcr, will come up: also a suit brought 1) tunic Burkbart against tho New Alban nd Chicago Railroad h> recover $10,01 or the death of Andrew Burkhnrl, lu iiisbnnd, who was killed on the road ? hat company. Ovftr*Worked Women. For "worn-out," "run down," debilitad eliool teachers, mil liners, seamstrcsse nd overworked women generally, D Scree's Favorite Prescription is the Issi i ll restorative tonics It is not a "('ore ul mt admirably fulfills a singleness of pu msc, being a most potent Specific for I hose Chronic Weaknesses and Dlsess leculiir to women. It is a powerful, pc ral ns well as uterine, tonic and not vin ind Imparts vigor and strength lo the who y stem. It promptly cures weakness (omach, Indigestion, blOA lng, weak baO lervous prostration, dobllity and steeple) tess, in either sex. Favorite Prescriptl< H sold by druggists under our poslll ;uarnnleo. See wrapper around Lotti 'rico $1.00a bottle, or six bottles for fi l A largo treatise on Diseases of Wome irofuscly illustrated wllh colored plal .nd numerous wood cuts, sent for ten esl n stamps. Achires?, World's Dispensary Mrdh Association, 608 Main street, Buffalo, Hi fork. Th? detective ought to ls> goold m. localise be ls always contemplating 1 ihrvly PWC of Ufo. JOURNALISM BY ROTE. A .IKKHKV COLMCOK I'OK AKl'lliAN TO NKWHIMl'lSK I IO NOUS. Professor POIIHIIIIP omi Iho Huck nundi s< lu.<<i of .loiti-nalism, Whore Practical awl Thooro!loni Newspaper Mal?li >; >.. I mimili >>y m. trient. Thu undersigned buviug opened n Behool ol' Journalism, respectfully re1 quests a fair shan- ol' tho public p'ttroil ago. Thee* hool ?g handsomely wiuatod on thy Haokonsuok meadows. The looa* tion is healthful, from thc campus tho blue Orange Mountains aro visibk , onlv a few miles away. Cn tho apposite 'ii-1 reetien may be seen the husy Dm n nf ac-1 turing town of Newark. Too i ego o ul. Bachelor of .Journalism is confer? ' ; ou all students who pursue the full cour u \ and pass a satisfactory examination. Tho ? ilcgree ot ?Master of Joumulistn i. be stowed on all students who com; h li ;? ; post-graduate course of six monti . Lectures will he given during the year hy many Kow Jersey editors. Mis. j Podsuap will have tho society report? is ? nuder her personal instruction. ?'o-j, fesser Podsnup will lecture during tho < winterbomestor on '.Personal Journal-] ism-' iu tho South. , Terms:-Full course. ..?"*> Diploma.??5 i Post-graduate course. h) 1 Tim Wiggins medal, founded by lion. John Wiggins, of T< nally, will b pie. sentcd at the annual oommencem t to tho student writing tho best report of a tire in Hackens-uck. Tho following works are conti I ully recomnu udod as text books: We''dei s ' Spelling Book, Creon's English Gram mar, M it ebel l's Momentary Geography md Swinton':^ Histoiy ol the Army <f bho Potomac. TiiKOcotit's POOHNAC, President, i Professor JANE POU.SN.VI?, llegibt: ir. i The interesting advertisement printed l! tbove recently appeared in a New . -r * y j, newspaper, although tho moue pign. d t>> | ; it was not Podsuap, fho Coa .> of . Fourualisui is situ?t id on the ou ? kb ts M if Hacken sack. lt hu two-story frame I Molding wit?> large ground 'thc cant-1 j pus ooiuttiauda u uuo vio?, pf Hackee- j wok meadows, through which the li ick- j ..mack Uiver, on whoso I iul - 11 o.d Dutch settlors URi'd to tish, \% ; :><^ ' koa ' 'leriuan silver thread. Tho ( rango ' Mountains may bes ouubovothoh rizon j iuo through a glass. Professor Podsnap, who wa ... v lei aa ournalist umt wore n dreas coot-, rc-j wived tito reporter in t\ cordial manner. ! Fwontj students, representing ?very 1 jounty in Now Jersey, liad matre ated ; it his school of journalism, he said, dur- \ ing tho past fall, Tho institution WHS in i ilourisliin.mditiou and its ii 'mc- : Lion was intensely practica'. Au iiungi- j jury schedule \? is made out i vei . il >y, un?-Vtu ' nts were nt out on ii lugimuy \ tssigiiiueuts. lu this tvaj they b . unu ' iceiihtomod to writing i ?.. ry hindi < f eur .cut news. 1? "Como if," said tho professor, 'Mud 1 n ar one ol' our recitations. '.Ve hiitoj: it least u down btudiiita ivlio hav?!i hun .ero only Six week.-, and urC uoW <; adi- ' led to edit any newspaper iu the * orb!. ? . Seven of our senior chis? oro svu.iti g lor I daces as managing editors. Burne ?? j. mr managing editors have already ot-j. ained great distinction in j'nr., ism, , Sanderson Migg loton is marine editor j j if thoTottmiv.be Pul!.elm:... J. V. idker ! tompkins is dramatic editor o: tho j Penally Courier." President Podsnap toAt charge ol hil \ ?lass. "I have seid. OUT. ono Btadent," ' laid ho, "to write up u stroll tin ?ugh j [aokensnek, a la Joe Howard, auother o write up a supposititious Uro, i hird , o describe, an imaginary tm h Di . 1er, iud a fourth to write up aud t .uu lt tho letails of a hypothetical suicide. In lin . vay wo give to our students tho training vhich they would obtain eu a r< liar ^ towspaper." I Ti.o cluss lihil in. The first student vho reciicd arose and read: "Tor ible ? Conflagration -Wild Beonos in Hucken* ?ick-Tiic lue Department Kx?uiibtod i. -Narrow Escape of the City. A isat* ? irons conflagration burst out in lim kim- v nick last night. Tho ?urge bil Ll 'd' , j Deacon H. YV. .Jones tock lire hist i 'Kid. Thc lire hell rang with Uaroo clangor, 'J lummoning the frightened citi/.ous i 1 he scene. The Hames mounted t i tho 1 iky in lurid columns, threatening Mr . \ dodo mick's hon yard with insto/ de. Jj itruotiou. No. l and No. - weie on tho j 'round soon aller thc lire bogan. Hook md Ladder No. 8 arrived only flvo ? ninutes niter the hose companies, having Jj leen delayed iu a rut. "The city cisterns having luci: dry ; v or three months, the luise companies ? vero uuahle to do anything. Huck, ts of i \ viiter were passed from hand to hand, . mt they wi re bko oil ou tho watara anti j ody seem, ll to increase the ll unes. At 2 . I. ni. tile lire Was bc*, olid cootr.d amt \ tad burned down lo the btwomi Qt of the ' )urn. The loss will reach $500. 1 *o ons of hay, a set of bafnOPS and Q shout ; ? vero burned. Loss $600, tusUrAnooli llfiO. Bamuol Simpkins of tho lire d' - j .artmentsprained his Utile Unger in try- < ng to lift a ladder off No. '2." "That,"said Professor Podsnap, "ia al liotureeqUO and splendid n port. Von ' nigiit have put in a little agony Qt tho 1 ' liscovery ol tho iiie; but it is very good. 1 Liot us hear tho next ono." A red-haired young man bashfully jj1 uo.se and read "A htioll through Hack- ! msack." L "In the corridor of tho Pod, em i ,; douse yesterday 1 occidentally nut Mr. reremiah Townsend, a substei tial farm? ir of Winklcburg township. Ile said hat the outlook for Uubbard squashes vos bettet this year than over. Iiis iqnash viats had run ov*or on tho farms ii two adjoining neighbors. Buck-wheat vas looking tolerably "fell, but. Record* ng to his calculation was about H per 'out. ofY. lio xnid that 18S8 would bo a ?ood yt or for tho KepublicaiiH, and pro ioted that Cor<mer Caraway would buvo dnoty-nino majority in Piokwick town ihip. "Picking his teeth in tho hobby of .ho hotel, I discovered Farmer Aleck Crandall. "Ho is an orndito and loamed man, Having boen graduated at tho Tonally l?gh school twenty-six years ago. lio { bold mo that tho Republican prospocisi) Lit Tenafly wore good, ami that ho had . . atUv painted Ins ba. n red in honor M nf tho Itepublican victory in New Jer ley. I shook bauds v mm told mo that ho was suro that tho Demo orotfl would carry tho (State uext year. "Sauntering iuto tho barroom, whom (should 1 soo but t?cth Stiggius, of Jones boro, on?' of tho loading Prohibitionists of the State. He, wu;, drinking upplejack through a btraw. Ile asked mo what I ' i.ilil have, und 1 told him a 'stone fence,' a? .something mild would suit mo. Ho predicted that St. .lohn would got 10,000 vote , in N'i'w Jersey next year, and asked ino whether 1 thought peach brandy was better u .Jersey apple jack. "Old Caleb Wigfe - of Hickory Point was sittiuq; by i stove in tho Simpkins House lust night. Ho said fiat, bc ho bad lost ii collar button re cently, and that bc thought tho tariff ought to ls) reduct il. Ho is a probable candidate lui paid master at Cheesequako Creek.' So thc recitations wont on. The amateur reporter, who went out to re port tho imaginary t 'pie murder, killed un.ml -eveii people and bathed New Jer soy ic blood. The imaginary suicide i: i - ged himself twice, cut his throat with ii scythe tinco tintes, took a pound of Pan green, washed it down with a quart i?f prusso acid and tiualiy jumped into I it Haokonsack Uiver, and was rescued. President Podauap, who had been editor of a New Jersey weekly newspaper ?ol- oin month, expressed himself highly ph aescd with the progross ol tho school, md thought it one of thc greatest insti tutions of the United States. SO ll 1U e.YHOI.INA lillis. Sunni ol llutler'H Ilaugliters Who ? ill he itt Wtuililngloii Society tats Winter. A Washington correspondent of tho Now York World give . a long list, illus trated with portraits, of the "buds" who will cuter Washington sooiety this win ter, ile says: Senator Butler, ot South Carolina, is ono of tho most courtly ami handsome men in thc United States Senate, and bis laughters will be among tuc brightest of ho rosebuds of tho capital this winter. Miss .Mario Butler had just a taste of Washington r-oeicty last season, and Miss I aise will make her first appearance on Sow Veal's. They both seem very iretty. Miss Mario is very stylish aud .ighly accompli sited. Sue spooks French I i !>:ly, and, like her sister Btise, is rory loud of horseback riding. Tho )?.. t ue 1 give you of iuT is an equestrian ?no an 1 it, i.. taken hom au instantan? it?, pb itogruph "f lior seated on ber a vor ito horse, Frisette, while standing ii ?,. ie o? th,- roajs of the family ostuto, lied Hill, near Gdgo?eld, S. C. My pieter.? ot Eli SO, who is a little bit nore ol a rosebud than Mario, was taken it tho same tum-, and it represents her ,n riding costume, but docs not show ? V h tl.e fud beauty o! her features. Mina H iso limier is a beautiful girl. She is of medium height, well formed, and iior l.irgo bluo eyes look out over fair ?lue!,.- rosy with color. Like ber sister Marie, s! e e. a good French .scholar, and bo wal be, as Mario was last winter, i ry popular with the diplomats. Sbo - fond ol reading, and is an accompiish id od;;, r. The Washington home of bo butlers i- in tho most fashionable [ tour ot tho eily, lt is within a stone's brow ol' Hie liritisu ligation, not far rooi HI line's house lacing Dupont Cir ilo, and just around the corner from vbero Secretary Manning lived last win er and where tho Count Mitkiowiez ives now. lt is u red pressed blick, leaving tho numbai l,7?l 1' street, and s wry comfortably furnished. Mrs. [haler comes (d' one of the liest families d' the Palmetto State, and as for the ?Senator, his ancestors were the Hukos of Irmaud, one of whom \\>f lieutenant . ii ral o? ti." Uoyal Iroopfi during tho ii-ii insurrection ol' KUI, and who was .ord [jiouteiiiinl of ireland in 1014, Ho ii md; lo the Cru .vu when Orouiwell cized tho Government. He proclaimed 'luirles II in Ireland and made an un lucoessful attempt to capture Dublin in GU). Cromwell, however, drove bini ?ut oi Ireland during tho following year, .nd Charles li ruado him a duke when ie came into power. The man's name ans dames Butler Irmaud, and ono ol his descendant?, 'levee butler, who was ii third son of >ir Richard Butler, of ireland, came to his country as a major in the British nny. He resigned, however, before tho ? volution and settled ii; idiarloston, nd :t is from bini, I think, that tho nt M n* butler family originates. Ho ins a momber ol th. - first louted States ienate, and ono of bin SOUS niarricd Miss 'anny Kemble, tho actress. The patcru ,1 grandfather of the Misses Mutier was n Congress, one of their granduncles van un ollicer in tho Amorioun army and pas killed in tho Mexican war, and ,nether gr&uduuclc was tho United (totes Senator in defence of whom 'reston S. Brooks, a relative, assaulted 'liarles Sumter, inasmuch as Senator tn tier was not ut Washington at tho imo Sumner's attack upon him in the ?..nato was made. Sonator Butler's nother was a Perry, and sbo uns tho oungest ?istOi of Commodore Oliver H. 'erry, the hero of tho battlo of Hideo ?ric* \ Large Pire in Ht. itugnsilae. J ACKSON VIM.K, Pl. A., Dev'. 10-At 4 ?'clock this afternoon lire broke out lu bimblln's hardware store at st. Augustine rom nu explosi?n In tho oil room. The linne-, spread rapidly to the buddings cast od southeast, fanned by u strong wind owards tho bay. Thc hm s arc: Ham .im oe Co . hardware, building $10,000, tock $100,000: H. H. Cordon's block 119,000, Partly insured; Kstes & Brown, Iry M?"('s. flo.OOOi insurance $6,000] ?uris brothers, dry goods. #15,000, hiKtir nce *'.i,(K)0, A-pinwall House $10,000, mrtinlly Insured. Thc elly market, jail ntl council chamber, thc engine house, thc MUK lie/, block and several other buildings vere damaged. Total loss $'?00,000; la urance about $(10,000. The burnt portion south of tho plata lear th? seawall will be rebuilt hi Coquina, -ipmidi 'md Moorish ?lyle. Tho north ide of thc plaza, Including thc old Catlie lrnl and SI. Augustine School, was burned ast spring. Tho old Cathedral wis re itoicd. A Columbia mother was putting ber little one lu lied and mid: "I think, Fiossle, r*ou aro old enough to learn an evening prayor. I'm goleg lo say lt for you and ?rou will repeat it aller me." 'xeth'in," d Un lillie one. "Well, we'll begin, are you road vf' "Yclh'm. Lor 'cr go, Speaking