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IJt tt 1 rl aDt s .. JOS, Publishersand Proprietors. ,.- LFtiniy Paper Dcofec to Literatur ic, 3[iscellany, News,A, VOL. XXII. NEWB RRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1886. No. 22. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AT Newberr y, S. C. TERMs.-One year, $2; six months GI; three months, 50 cents; two months, 35 cents; one month. 20 cents ; single copy, 5 cents, payable in advance. Expirations.-Look at the printed label on the paper; the date thereon shows when the subscription expires. Forward the money for renewal at least one week in advance. Subscribers desiring the address of 1 their paper changed must give both the old and the new address. TERMS OF ADVERTISING.-l.00 per square the first insertion, and 50 ets. per square for each subsequent insertion i A square is the space of nine lines . --of solid brevier type. Notices in local column 12jc. per line for each insertion for one month, longer at inch rates, w:th 25 per cent added. I A reasonable reduction made for ad vertisements by the three, six, or twelve months. t SENATOR BUTLER ON FREE TRADE. t A Gradual Reduction in the Tariff Fa vored, But Not Absolute Free Trade-The Abolition of the In ternal Revenue System Advocated. UNITED STATES SENATE, I WAsHINGTON, D. C., May 20,1886. s Prof. R. Meats Davis, Chairman Ex- t ecutive Committee Free Trade Asso ciution of South Carolina, Colun- e bia, S. C. My DEAR Sin : Some time ago I f received from you the following let- c ter: I [Senator Butler then quotes the m letter sent him by the Free Trade a A ssociation on the 4th of farch.] e Recognizing the right of your as- s sociation or any other number of re- c spectabie citizens of South Carolina to know my opinions on any ques- tj tions affecting the public interest, I g cheerfully respond in this form, not o having the time for public addresses it as suggested by your letter. You will permit me to say, in pass- a ing, I am much pleased at the pros aggtof a full discussion of this most tE vital subject, about which so little is o understood. and I trust it will be con- w du.ted in a spirit of candor and tol- a eration worthy of the topic, and free p from those unseemly personalities and aspersions which of late enter tt into every controversy that arises. b It does not strengthen the force of a any man's argument or views to im- ti pugn the motives or sincerity of those al who differ with him, but often de- og grades the controversy and leads to a pernicious consequences. c The question of taxation is, and ga has always been, one of the most g difficult and complicated problems of b civil government. Taxation is a ne- p cessary evil, and how to lay taxes, 5( and where and when, upon what ob- b jects and persons, so as to make the le evil as light and as little burdensome b: as possible, and operate with justice di and fairness, has always been most se perplexing and troublesome to the to minds of those whose duty it has at been and is to deal with the subject. When it comes to determine what h< shall be the objects of direct taxation, fr you are constantly confronted with b< complications and difficulties. In es South Carolina we have the ad valo- as rem system, which appears to be the cc fairest and most simple, that is. that ol a man shall pay according to the th value of his property ; and yet there er is always room for complaint of un- in ,r valuationl or uneq-l whIethier you should tax mortgagesg and at the same time the thing mort- tre gagerd, choses in action, moneys in ha hand, &c. i T1hcse and others of a kindred kr character are all subjects that have at baied the best intellects of the ablest th statesmen and politio, onoists mi of this and every cj/ 4 country. th The internal o ..ise system of is Federal direct ation has al w1 s been the most odious of all forms. sh ~The army of agents and inspectors dt employed to prevent and detect fraud PC on the public revenues are oppress- th ive to the people and unrepublican th under the mildest form of ad minis- to tration. The powers of the Federal as and State goverD aents in regard to to taxation, except as to imposts, are th current. Both may tax the same tht ti the same time, and each th must ye its own agents, separate - andusti t, to collect taxes for the at and isr der the "Ar- 0. ti>es of Conlfederation" it was found o 0 that the Federal government could in nt rey11Olthe State for the re- re soure ad revenues for its support, asduhce, an iefy, the necessity for te atdhenwoe, p erfect Union," formed it. under the present Constitution. So p1 ta,when we talk about supporting ci th tgovernment by a system of di rt taxation,~ you perceive some of w te obstacles in the way. As I have w IberC,all forms of taxation are onerous and vexatious, and the vital question is, which is the least so? I have been led to submit these observations from a passage in your letter in which you say : "We have, there'ore, resolved to urge upon the people of South Caro Ina in public meetings the propriety >f demanding of Congress a speedy ibolition of the artificial barriers and ;overnmental toll gates by which the raffic of the world is diverted from ts natural channels, and man is de. >rived by man of his Gcd-given right ,o receive the fullest returns to his abor." If you mean by this the abandon nent of the system of laying taxes )u merchandise imported from for sign countries and abolition of eus om houses, I cannot join you in the iemand. The collection of duties n imports has been in practice from be foundation of the government, Ld is much the safest and miost efti :ient mode of securing revenue for he support of the government. Con. ;ress has rarely availed itself of that >ower under the Constitution which rovides that direct taxation "shall >e apportioned among the several +tates according to their respective umbers"-never except on occa ions of great emergency, as at the eginning of the late war. The framers of the Constitution vidently calculated that duties on mports would be the chief reliance or revenue, because by the second lause of the tenth Section of Article it is provided that "no State shall. ithout the consent of Congress. lay ny imposts or duties on imports or sports except." &c., &c., clearly bowing that this power was left ex lusively for the Federal government. Direct taxation 'was resorted to by ie Federal government at the be inning of the late war, and many of ur best and most respected citizens ithe low counties can testify to the oliation and confiscation under it. hich made them paupers. The present internal revenue svs ,m of direct taxation is a heritage l the war, and if I had the power 1 ould wipe out the last vestige of it, 3 I would the war tariff and im osts. If, on the other hand, you mean by uis expression the tariff laws should a so equitably and fairly readjusted to raise the necessary revenue for e support of the government, and the same time as nearly as may be erate upon all alike, I will unite ost cordially with you. How that m be best and justly donc is a very ave problem. About the sum of 10,00,000 must be raised annually 7 taxation-partly internal and artly external. Of this sum $181, )0,00 in round numbers was raised i duties on imports. $112,500.000 by ternal revenue taxation, and the lance of the $.323500,000 (total or nary receipts) was derived from iles of public lands, patent fees. *es on national banks, seigniorage ~the mint, &c. Now the present consideration is >w can this $181,500,000 derived om imports be so imposed as to ar lightest upon consumners, or how n it be levied to raise the nece-s ry revenue and unfetter trade and mmerce. Many of the industries this country have grown up under e stimulating or speculative influ ice of a high tariff, protective in any instances, and vet raising roe revenues, prohibitory in others. ' ing a dollar into the ~asury. st as this is and ~s been to the'une cted classes, would not be wise foper to ock thle props from under och in stries with one blo0wa em down in a er-ash. It woubl >re unwise and wrong to continun is condition of things. What tib to be done? MIV idea is that tariff taxation ould be gradually and surely re ced until we have reached the mit when each article will p)roduce e largest amount of revenue, and en leave off, transferring from time time such articles to the free list should be found from expeCriene be most conveniently spared from e revenue list. Take for instance e article of sugar. I insist that e present tax of 1~ cents a pound the average-is the revenue stand d because it raises about $50,000, 0 annually, paid into the treasury a total value of $73,500,000 worth ported,-70.98 per cent. v? Mpqr It is claimed that this tax is pro tion to the sugar planter. Grant So much the better for t.he sugar anter, and that is what I call in dental protection. IIe receives a ry small percentage of pr>tection, mile the treasury is replenished ith the tax. A nd so it is with rice. which pays into the treasurv t1>0.-.2.1 on a total value of 82.1.. .74 import ed. 15.- per cent. u:- l''ior,,. Now let me call attention to the duty on Cot:On ties. as that is an ar tiele with which all of our people are familiar. The du' on (..:ton ties prior to the last :tri1T revision was J 5 per cent. si iirin. and that is the duty to.itay . 1 pay1 s its shreo revenue int(o ti.i tr'a-urv at that r-ate. " is t wh.at ta am'.not is I will no"t stop to in vluire. but I may sIv ti:s is a vCery fair duIt. I'he 'arI' Coun: n * ion reco:n mendedaninc rease o: 50 pr cclit. Ol Cotton -e, whiea wouild have made 5 per cent. \ hat wouIl h:.e been the e:Iect of tas Not a cott on tie wou' have ibeen i imlt"orted. and consequently not a (lo.la r wotil(i have been collected on this article for the treasury. because the tariff wouid have been absol(telV prohibtor. But about 88(nn,00.(0t would have been paid by the farmlers into the poc.ets of five or six iOop ron imanulfactu rers in 'enny n tia. not a dollar into th. reasurv. The 5O per cent. was not a tied because it was stricken out of the bill. and of course this did not happen. but I advert to it to il lustrate in a striking manuer how in iquitous a highi protective prohibitory tariff is. Tih-re are many articles on the list just as glaring as this threatened to be, and it is to rectify such wrongs and inequalLies that every fair-mind ed man o(tght to addrsss himlself. Your associati: can aceomllplNis much in tiat direction boy an enlight ened agitation a: .d Iisenssion of the subject. It is a g':at fallnev to s,ip I)os the cnem try' rspers or that labor is protected by a high t:rif Jn. the reverte is true. and in Iny opfinion the recentstagnatlon a:nl de)ression in business, and the rest lessness. (tiS :tI faction aimil unlap py coondition of the Iaboring classC? in this country are due lar ely to the present high rate of taxation. The duty on imported merchandise en tered for consumlptiont in the t'nited States is Ys.0G0 per cent. average ;( c''lore,nt on dutiabie art:eies. hig,her than in 18b7. when it was 40.007 per cent.; higher than it has ever been from 1791 to 1885. except in 1824, '25. '2) and '27, when it reached 50 21. 50.54. 4U.2G ad n :7G per e;nt. re specti vely. and in 18-e and 1S:; . when it went up to 54.1$ and (1.(9 respectively, whichl latte r pooked he Nullification attitationl in South Carolir a. l'he compromise measures hat grew out of this agritation re ued the tariff gradually until it had one down to 25.81 in 1842. We re now p)aying higher tariif taxes han what was known as.--wr taxes" Of 1 805. 0). 67 and 6$ per ceint.';, ie uul atinig a large su:rp)lus in the reasury everyv year', which must lea 'd o proiligacy and extravMgance. It meourages thne most diisgraceful squandering of mone~y on so-cal led >ensons, pubiJic buildings,.rivers and. arbors, so-ca ed aid to popunlar edu ation. subsidies to steaimshlips. rail ods. &c., &c.; all of which is wrong. enmorr:i n:nrg and permecious. Is therF' 1atriotism~ enoughi in tile ount re to reduce this war taxatio)n and relin ve thne taxpayers of these un ecessarY burdens?~ We shtall see. And I nrely coniidently oni the efforts f y'our association to rontribute arely to that end. Very resp)ectfully. A Decision for t he Tenannt. An :imp:lortanlt dleci'sion in referencev o .lens wa's rendleredl last 3!omi li,. .de C ta,u'h in thne case of the a.nst .il.2es Ml:rtinn. colorni en r'nt lien to Sir. T1. B. 3Mims to s:inre th rent 'nd that when thec - to) consis'tunl p, rncipalhv o1 corn* was imade I. Mairtin uwed a part (ab out me-ourth. of the corn for thne main enance of las familyv. and that he re used to pay Mr. Miams th1e recnt. and elined to harvest the remnainder' of the crop, buit allowedi the bnogs to de. strov it. Mr. Mims indicted Martia for selling and disposing of erop un' (er lien. The .Judge after hearing the evidence, decided that the State ad not made out a case, as thce1 as no evidence to show~ that the de en(hutt ha' use th erop otheise hai. , the suppo'rt oi I ..m:ty which was not '' 'ing0of the cre p: ad he inst"ruce te jury to bring in verdict of not pity Accorng to his d(iSion, a tenant could useth ntire crop. provid1ing it was for the niniit?nance of his aiy- r L.:, E'rhi. n-. An F.nglish paper r-eports tihat dui ring recent explorations at Nineveh petrified umbrella was found in one >n the temlies. N~ear liy was the >trifed man wiho was just about to ak-e off with it TIl': Fl 'T PIR1SID1T. A ( LA(E: I:ACK TO THE DAYS OF TWi-:NTY-FIvE YEARS AGO. Scenes at the Inauguration of Presi (lent ..e"-rsun Davis---The First Confadcrate 3oney, the First Flag, the First Soldiers and the First Cruiser. No, sir, I was not with Mr. Davis at Montgomery this week to hear limii pronounce what you are pleased to call the funeral oration of the Con federac. I was there with him tciity-five years ago and heard him iake a speech more cheerful. It was his Inaugural as President-the I>aptimlna service you might call it of the Confcderacy. I was one of the marshals aids on that occasion. and r Lpresented South Carolina." The speaker. ehatting with a group o:' his friends in the parlor of the National Ihotel, was Col. Henry 1). Capers, of Georgia. IIe has been here for several months and his erect figure and gallant bearing are i uci reimarked. IIe was private secretary of the first Confederate sec retary of the treasury, and his remi niscences of the babyhood of that short-lived government are an in teresting volume. The bitterest Northerner cannot begrudge the pathos in the spectacle of Jefferson Davis. a solitary old man, grey and feeble. standing up to speak in the Ine norial service of the rebellion, upon the steps of the very Capitol w'lere he first stood forth its chief, in the prime iof his manly strength and the ir;t flush of its hopes, on the 18th of ebruary. 1 G1. 1low many he must n:iss of the highr-hearted, hot-blooded Southern chivalry who stood proudly around him that, day ! The 1 th of February, 1861, was a ueautiful Southern day, says Col. Capers. The sun beamed down on the natal occasion like a happy father, and a soft southwest wind was lifting the leaves of the magnolia that twined with the laurel in many a large festoon but time Corinthian columns of the capitol. An immense concourse of Ieople gathered to the inauguration, but so solum1 were the ceremonies and so earnest were the people, that Col. Capers. sitting on horseback in :he outskirts of the throng, heard (is inetly every word of the eloquent >peningr prayer of I)r. Manly. The euerabie divine and Vice-President 2iect. Stephens rode in the carriage vith 3Ir. Davis, and IIowell Cobb, >resident of the convention, admin ~erd the oath of office. Mr. Davis ~poke his inaugural quietly, hut dis inetly. and upon taking the oath aised his eves towards heaven and ~epeatFd the concluding words, "So Ie:p me God," in a tone so strong and lear that they could be heard by ~very one present. There was a re ~ept ion that night and a brilliant ball. . G. 3Iemminger. of South Carolina, Sappointed secretary of the treasu y, and on the 20th Col. Capers, whom ec selected as his private secretary, pened their office in the Commercial uilding. The accommodations were imited, but convenient. There was .banking (ofice on the ground floor. 'e State. treasury, war, navy and aw departments of the new govern ent settled down in the twelve 00oms on the~ second story, none of hem very large. Young Capers ook possession of their office, swept ut the cobwebs and dust himself, at in a few articles of furniture, aeked a card on the door, hired an llice boy and waited two whole days efore anybody came to do busi Then c'ame a tall. soldierly-looking an with an eager' step and the un stable air' ol' business. iIe wanted > see the secretary at once upon an n' ortant matter. iIe handed the ongx prvt secretary an official ote and hurriedly said: --I am Capt. D)eas, sir, late of the nited States army. I have been nstruted by President D)avis, whose iote I hand you. to provide rations ndl blankets for a hundred men who mave reported to him for duty in the rmyu. I want the money, sir, to ar'y out the order of the President." Col. Capers assurcd the Captain at he~ was both wiling and anxious ie menu should be filled and covered1 uhe add ed, slhaking out a purse at containied something less than --I have been on considerable of a rolie for the last two weeks in Mont ~oerv. and my finances are at this oment pretty low. This is all the oner I am able to vouch for as be g in the treasury department of the ion federate States at this time." Patriotism couldn't be allowed to o unfed and unublan ketedi, however, .d after some delay the money was aised on the private credit of MIr. \emm inger. The soldiers thus jumpe ere a company of Geor gians, commanded by Capt. George Washington Lee. They were the first body of troops enlisted by the Coniederacv. When their provisional Congress provided for a loan of 115,000,000 "to meet the emergencies of Govern ment," they thereby provided another emergency. The Government had no paper to print their bonds, cer tificates and notes upon. They man aged to get the chief ingredient of paper money credit very well, but stuck fast a while for lack of what is usually comparatively valueless. The paper mills of the South made only the ordinary newspaper and the com mon wrapping paper of the shops. The finer manufactories of the coun try lay north of the line of separa tion. G. B. Lamar, president of the Bank of the Republic, in New York, acting as agent for the Confederate Government, arranged to have the work don-i by the American Bank Note Company, but when the bonds and notes were all handsomely printed and ready to be shipped the secret service officers of the National Government swooped down and con fiscated the whole batch. The diffi culty of finding paper and engravers was not solved until after the re moval of the Government from Mont gomery to Richmond. The Rich mond paper mills were finally able to furnish a sort of bank-note paper, but the first issue was printed by a firm of German engravers in Richmond on paper smuggled through the lines from Baltimore. The first proof sheet, of eight one-hundred dollar bills, was far from handsome, but they were in a hurry and they ap proved it. It is now in the posses sion of Col. Capers, and bears upon the back of it this inscription, made at the time, in the handwriting of Secretary Memminger: "When the money-changers become tamiliar with the peculiar features of these uncanny bills it will be as diffi cult to pass a counterfeit as if they were engraved on steel by an expert; may be more so." Secretary Memminger seems to have been both a wit and a philoso pher. Unattr.,ctive as they were in ap pearance and uncertain in the prom ise they expressed; they passed at par in several seaports of Dixie "for at least a month," as Col. Capers carefully puts it "after they were issued." Several large bills of ex hange were bought in London and Paris at par. But the fmnancial boom f the Confederacy didnt last long. When it came to be August, '61, the Canal and Citizens' banks in New rleans were the only ones handling Confederate money at par. On the 9th of August even they suspended s)ecie payments, notifying the Rich mond authorities of their intention two days in advance b)y a private cipher dispatch- Col. Capers has the original of this dispatch, in pursu ance of which the Government made uite a saving speculation for itself y buying up all the foreign ex hange it could lay its hands on in New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah. harleston and Richmond during the two days of grace. Col. Capers's recollection of those early days of the war are . tin uous swry of make-shifts and e i ents. The young Government hi. I from hand to mouth. One of th& first naval officers to report for duty was Raphael Semmes. afterwards ommander of the Alabama. iIe was on hand before they had a deck for him to stand on, and worked for short time in the treasury depart ent at Montgomery. A merchant vessi' was soon bought and Semmnes, after inspecting her, returnied to ontgomery and announced to his fellow-clerk, Col. Capers: "She is a good craft, sir, a good craft. When I have strengthened her timbers and cut her down to fighting trim, my word for it, she will do brave work, sir." She was accordingly al,sred and rmed and, with Semmes on her uarter deck, made good his predic ion to the dire cost of such as went down to the sea in ships under the Stars and Stripes ia those days. Thie vessel was the Sumter. EIMES wmTT*fLEs Fon 11Is PAPERS. But when she was ready to sail and her register made out, it was dis overed at the last moment that the treasury department of the Con fede rate States had no seal. There wasnt an engraver to be found in Montgomery, and Semmes was im patient to get his papers and be off. So he and Col. Capers, aided by a handy young arumy surgeon, and at the expense of two or three pen knives, carved a rude seal upon a piece of boxwood, which met the im mediate need. Semmes got his reg ister aned the Sumter set sail under. the Stars and Bars. There was quite a time over the adoption of that flag. A considerable number were in favor of sticking to the old flag, with slight modifications. but Mr. Miles, of South Carolina, chairman of the Congressional flag committee, argued at length in his report against this sentimental idea, and added, by way of a clincher, that Liberia and the Sandwich Islands had flags very sim ilar to ours, and the committee was not disposed, therefore, if for no other reason, "to keep, copy or imitate it." They have no inclination to borrow second-hand what has already been pilfered or rppropriated by a free negro community and a race of sav ag es." The very first Confederate fla, that the sun ever saw, Col. Capers testi fies, was hoisted by Judge Clitherall at Montgomery. IIe was in the con fidence of the flag u.ittee, and as soon as they told idm the design selected lie got his lady friends to gether and had one made. On the day the committee was to report to Congress he mounted the roof of th, Capitol, fixed his flag to the halyards of the staff and waited. The recommendation of the com mittee was approved. le got his signal from below, and in the twink ling of an eye the new ensign of the South was floating proudly in the caresses of the gentle March wind. The news spread quickly through the city. and when Judge Clitherall shouted down from his lofty perch, --Three cheers for the Confederate flag" the crowd answered with a mighty greeting that, it was thought at the time, must have given an ear ache to the bronze statue on the far Northern Capitol.- Wash. Letter to the Netw York World. A Chance For Capitalists. The information comes from New York that the labor troubles in the North and West have had a depress ing effect on the movements of capi tal, that owners of money are waiting for quieter times before investing it. This was naturally to be expected. People will object to placing their property where it will be liable to destruction, or to injory that will de preciate its value, and these strikes of railroads and factory operatives, attended as some of them have been with violence and bloodshed, not only depreciate the value of the par icular corporation against which they are directed, hut react on all he business of the section of coun ry where it takes place. This makes aitalists timid, and they would ather keep their capital locked up, referring safety to prospective divi :ends or accretions of interest. At this period of turmoil and doubt n the business world. South Carolina olds out special inducements to apital to locate within her quiet nd peaceful borders. IIer popula ion is agricultural by a large ma ority, and agricultural people are al ways disposed to be conservative. here are no such aggregations of ommunistic foreigners as those which precipitated the Western riots, o gigantic corporations controlling housands of oppressed operatives ithin this State. Our manufac uring enterprises are comparatively mall ones, but they are young and igoro' >and growing at a rate con istent N'ith health and continued uccess, and up to this time none of hem have had any trouble of conse uence with their employees. In eed, if the employees of these fac ories were not, as they are, mostly atives of the State, identified with er people and having close family tes with every other class, it would e almost impl1ossible, from the comn >aratively smallness of their num ers, for any obstructive action they ight take to have any serious per. anent effect upon the business of he factories themselves or of the State at large. The undeveloped material wealth f the State is acknowledged to be nlimited, and such investments of Northern capital as have been made ave given perfect satisfaction, both s to security and profit. Security eing the first consideration and rofit the next, we do not hesitate to laim for South Carolina a prominent pace in the favor of investors. Gi antic fortunes are not made here in day or a y-ear. One, two and three er cent. p)rdts are not promised or ealized, but the reasonable, steady ewards of legitimate business can e counted on with confidence, and e are free from that speculative ania which ruins a hundred for the sake of one.- Colin a Record. There are lots of people who mix hei- religion with business, but for et to stir it up well. The business nvariably rises to the top as a re sult. -Wahmr (3Mass.) A<dvertiser. EDWIN HENRY BOBO. February 29th,1836.-May 18th, 1886. The death of a man who has served his day and generation, or the pass ing away of a child is always a shock to the immediate friends; but it is a public calamity when a mature man, a public servant of the people, an energetic, wide-awake, progressive citizen, with apparently many years of usefulness ahead of him, is called away from the scenes of a most act ive life without warni:g. Such a ca lamity has befallen our town, county and State in the death of Mr. Bobo. When it was announce'd last Satur day morning that he was dangerously injured, with little chance of recovery, I a thrill of sympathy aad sorrow was sent throughout the town. and as~the news spread over the county. with saddened hearts our citizens heard it, V and throughout the county the first inquiry at all the church gatherings d on Sunday was as to the condition of Mr. Bobo. That spontaneous trib ute of all our people shows that the county placed a high value on the r man and his services. r lie was born in our town when i: was a straggling village and here he received his primary education and i preparation for college. He was sent to Oxford College, Ga., and , graduated at that institution in 1855 i under the presidency of Dr. George t] F. Pierce, afterwards Bishop. In 1856 he had charge of the Bethel s Academy at Woodruff, and at a pub- h ic school meeting there during that u summer, Major John D. Wright made V an address on education. Mr. Bobo was called out and spoke also, show- t ing that even in his early days, he e had decided convictions about cer- q tain educational questions that now b vex and harass the State. He then s thought it very unjust that the State , should apl,ropriate $147 to the sons d of rich men for an education and only four dollars to the children of the t poor. d At the close of the year he mar- t ed Miss Drummond, who survives y him, and about the beginning of 1857 t he set out for Texas to cast in his lot h with that young and growing State. t But soon after he got there his health h failed and lie began to pine for the t red hills and pure water of his native h county. He returned and never for b a single moment after that did he s talk about leaving his State again. f e was soon restored to perfect 3 ealth and began the study of law in a the office of Bobo & Edwards. He c as admitted to pra.ctice in 1858 or t 859. When the war came on he h joined a company formed at Wood- o ruff, of which Mr. Roebuck was cap- t< a. In the orga;ization he was lected second lieutenaut. At the h e-organization of the company A. e . Woodruff was elected captain, ti nd Mr. Bobo first lieutenant. He 1 was made adjutant of his regiment, ir the Hlolcombe Legion, which position a e held at the surrender. He was in d ll the engagements of his regiment a nd was always at his post. The e State had no better and more faith- ij ful soldier than lie was. At the elo-e i2 f the war, Colonel Edwards, havi"s.y been killed, lie went into the office oi Bobo & Carlisle. It is sad to think that for half a contury the name of a Bobo has been prominent in ourn courts and that now it baseeen taken from the list of our lawyers. During the days of radical misrule i nd oppression Mr. Boho was bold ti nd fearless in denouncing the wrongs a nd injustice perpetrated by those ti who were ruuning the State. For as year or more, in our darkest days, d he had editorial management of The , Spartan. and his editorials had no a ncertain sound. lie was a promi- c nent factor in working out our politi- d cal redemnpticn. Ile was ready with w pen and tongue to vindicate our rj rights, iIe was not a man to tem- o porize, or pull wires, or plan accord ing to the demands of a milk-and water policy. Itf a thing, in his eJ opinion was wrong, it was very wrong, and needed abolishin -at d In the campaign of 1880, for the 0: frst time in his life, lie became a candidate. lie and Col. T. J. Moore s' bad a warm contest for the Senate. ~ ie was defeated, but lie took his de- IP feat like a man and cheerfully sub- I mitted to the will of the people as expressed in the p)rimary election. In 1882 he was elected to the Legis lature, and in 1884, he was chosen. by a most flattering vote, State Se ator, which position he held at the time of his death. As a legislaior he was most attentive to his duties nd was considered one of the lead ers in both houses of our General As sembly. In debate he was ready, lear and generally concise. Some- ~ ties in orde to make a proposition a very clear, he was apt, as most pub lic speakers are, to use too many words. le was logical and method cal in his arguments and he wrote vith clearnesz and force. He was ,onsidered, by the bar and by the eople one of the first lawyers of the State, and Judge Wallace gave it-a tis opinion that, in many respects, Ifr. Bobo had no superior in the tate. le was an earnest advocate. Vhen he took hold of a case, he en ered into it with heart and soul. s a citizen he was public spirited, 1ways ready to aid in any public en. erprise. One of his last acts per ormed for the people was going to oanoke in behalf of the proposed ailroad from that point to this place. le had just returned from attending he Supreme Court in Columbia last 'hursday afternoon. The very last usiness he attended to on the street ras an informal railroad meeting in le office of Duncan & Sanders Fri. ay afternoon just before he started ome. His wife and children have 11 the comfort that a generous and niversal sympathy can give. His emains are to be buried to-day, Wed esday, at 10 a. m., at his late resi ence. The following is an account f the accident that caused his un mely death: Saturday morning as Mr. Bobo as driving to town in a buggy, hav ig a six-year old granddaughter in ie buggy with him, he was thrown ut near Mr. Maxwell's house and everely injured on the left side of is head and jaw. The little girl is nable to tell how it happened. Ehen asked about it, she said her randpa didn't have time to say any iing. She was not injured, with the xception of a slight scratch or two. 'he injury to Mr. Bobo was caused y his being thrown against a hickory Lump, nearly three feet high, on the est side of the road, about a hu red yards from Mr. Maxwell's house. y some means he was dragged about venty feet from the stump. He was riving a youijg horse that was in ie habit of dodging very suddenly. t is supposed that he gave one of ese sudden jumps and the buggy aving no back, the little girl was grown backward. She says she was olding to Mr. Bob's leg. In at mmpting to recover her, or to ease er down to the ground, he lost his alance and was hurled against the ump. The horse was not much -ightened, for soon afterleaving Mr. [axwel's he got into a lively trot nd went on towards town and was iught near Miles Lee's shop. Nei 1er horse, harness or buggy was art. This happened about eight clock. Several persons were two >three hundred yards away, and [r. James Maxwell and some of his nds hurried to the scgne of the ac dent and found Mr. Bobo lying on e ground and no sign of breathing. hey picked him up and carried him ito the house and he began to breathe soon as they had walked a short Lstance. Doctors Nott and Moore ere called ie and remained during e day ana night. They were re eed Sunday by Dr. Means. Dur g these two days and nights res ration had to be restored at times artificial means. He lay in an aconscious condition with scarcely iy sign of sensation. The greatest ijury seemed to be about the base the brain near the ear. There ere some slight bruises on his body. ;was hoped that if he could live rough Sunday night, that there ould be signs of rallying and re urning consciousness~ Monday, but ich hopes were& vain. It was evi nt all -day that he was growing eaker and that his iron constitution d fine physical powers had sc imbed to the shock received Satur ay morning. He continued to grow eaker and weaker and passed away tiesday morning a little after two clock.-Carolina Spartan. There are many Spartanburg farm s who are not willing to take the iliman resolutions straight. They >not wish to add to our taxes two three hundred thousand dollars in der to start an Agricultural Col ge and a female college. The re ult will be an investigation of plat rms before men are voted for in the imaries. A healthy discussion of is subject will do the county good et the people speak out plainly and ith due respect to the other side. ur columns are open to a fair dis ission. Next week the Tillman ~solutions will be published.-Caro na Spartan. Joy never kills; and if it did there oudn't be any need for an editor >get his life insured on that account. If you ich for fame, go intor a raveyard and skratch yourself ainst a tnme stun.