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ESTABLISHED IN 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., 'H'URSI)AY, JANUARY 19, 1888 PRICE $.0YE tion with its tracks, by means of such switches, then it shall be lawful for the railroad desiring a connection to proceed to procure the right to use so much of the right of way of the for iner as may be necessary, in the same manner now provided for securing rights of way from individuals by railroad companies. An Act to provide for beneficiary schol ar,hips in the Winthrop Training School for teachers at Columbia rhis Act authorizes and requires the State Superintendent of Educa tion to appoint one deserving young woman (who is without the necessary means to pay tuition) from each county in the State, to a beneficiary scholarship in this institution. This sclrolarship entitles the holder to one year's tuition, an: one hundred and twenty dollars to pay her board and other necessary expenses. The ap plicants must take their chances in a competitive examination to be held by a board appointed by the Super intendent in every county in the State. The applicant must be 18 years of age. These beneficiary stu dents are required. after the comple tion of their course, to teach one year.in the free schools of the respect ive counties from which they are ap pointed, provided positions are offer ed them as first grade teachers in such schools. An Act to regulate the traffic in seed cotton in the counties of Abbeville, Sumter, York, Edgetield, Berkeley, Kershaw, Riciland, Orangeburg, Charleston, Chester and Union. This prohibits the traffic in seed cotton in the counties named, by purchase. barter or exchange, at any time between the 15tirof August and the 15tt of December, without li cense the fee shall be three hundred dollars. The applicant must be rec omnended by at least ten land own ers resident in the- township where applicant intends to carry on the business; such license shall specify the exact place whereat the said busi. ness shall be carried on, and the per son to whom license is granted shall keep at his place of business a book in which shall be entered the date of every purchase, from whom and the quantity purchased; such book to be always open to the inspection of per sons applying therefor. Any viola tion of this Act shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and the punishment therefor shall be by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, or impris onment of not less than one year, or both. An Act to amend an Act to provide for and regulate the incorporation of banks in this State. - This Act simply allows State Banks to invest one half of theirdeposits, as well as an amount equal to one half of their capital stock, in mortgages of reel estate. An Act to amend section 1,05 of the Ge:ner e1 Statutes relating to the county board of examiners. This Act amends the above section by adding the following provisions: It gives the county examiners com pensation at the rate of three dollars per diem for not exceeding five days in each year, and mileage of five cents for each mile of necessary trav el, to be paid out of the county school fund. An Act to amend Section 2482 of the General Statutes of South Carolina, relating to housebreaking. Trhis Act provides that any person who shall break and enter, or orcak with intent to enter any dwelling or other house in the night time, the breaking and entering of which would not constitute burglary, with intent to commit a felony or other crime of lesser grade, shall be held guilty of a felony, and punishable by imprison ment for a term not exceeding one year. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend Section 840 of the General Statutes relating to cases tried or ex amined before Trial Justices. This Act provides that whenever a person is to be tried for a crime, or be examined unaer section 829 be fore a trial justice, or whenever either party to a civil action shall file an atlidavit that he does not believe he can obtain a fair trial or examination before the trial justice, the papers shall be turned over to the nearest trial justice. Such affidavit shall set forth the grounds of such belief and two days' notice of such transfer shall be given to the adverse party, and but one such transfer shall be given to either party. An Act to amend sub-division S of Sec tion 88 of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to Courts of Trial Justices. This Act strikes out all of sub-di '-ision 8 and inserts a new sub-divi sion instead. This provides that in any action or'-contract where a de tendlant does not appear and answer, the plaintiff may file proof of service of summons and complaint, or of the summons, on one or more of the de fendants, and that if no answer or demurrer has been served upon him, when the action is for the recovery of money only, judgment may be given for the plaintiff by default if the demand be liquidated, and if un liquidated and the plaintiff itemize his account and append thereto an affidavit that it is true and correct, and that no part of the same has been paid, and a copy be served with the summons on defendant and he shall neither answer or demur, the plaintiff shiall have jtidgment for the sumi sued for as in the case of liquidated demands. In all other cases, when the defendant fails to appear and an swer, the plaintiff cannot recover without proving his case. An Act to amend sub-ivisioni 2. 4 and 5 of Section 919 of the General Statutes relating to Physicians. This Act requires all persons here after making application for license to practice medicine and surgery, to submit their diplomas to the State WOHK OF THE LEGISLATURE As Outlined by Senator Black of York. We give below a synopsis of many important Acts of the last Legisla ture as furraished by Senator Black for the Yorkville Enquirer and pub lished in that paper last week. This synopsis will no doubt be read with interest. An Act to amend an Act to chatige the time of listing property for taxatiou. This act provides that at the time of making the annual returns of prop erty for taxation, which is in January as heretofore, that the returns of the following agricultural products, to wit: corn, cotton, wheat, oats, rice. peas and long forage, shall be the amount actually on hand on August 1st immediately preceeding the date of said return, but applies to only such said products as sre actually in the hands of the producers. It will be seen that if any of such articles are on the 1st of January in the hands of a purchaser, whether he be a farmer gr merchant, they are liable to taxation as is any other species of property. An Act to validate anl confirm the con solidation of the Augusta, Edgefield and Newberry Railroad with the At lantic and Northwestern- Railroad, to be known as the Georgia and Carolina Midland Railroad, and the consolida tion of the last named with the Char leston, Cincinnati and Chicago Rail road. This is an act simply to validate a consolidation already made, the rail. roads thus consolidated to form the Augusta Division of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad. An Act to provide for the compensation of agents appointed by the Govenor in cases of requisition for fugitives from justice. This act provides that the agents appointed by the Governor to bring - such fugitives into this State, shall receive in compensation for their ser vices the sum of three dollars per day for the time actually employed, and be reimbursed their expenses ac ;ually incurred; the same to be paid out of the regular contingent fund of the Governor. An Act to regulate criminal practice in the Courts of General Sessions of this State. This act provides, among other things of no special interest to any person except he be a lawyer (for whom I am not .writing) that any person who shall be arraigned for the crime of murder, manslaughter, burg lary, arson, rape or grand larceny, shall be entitled to peremptory chal leuges not exceeding ten, and gives the State in such cases five peremp tory challenges; and any person who may be indicted for any offense or crine other than those enumerated above,. shall be entitled to five per emptory challenges and the State to two; but no right to stand aside ju rors shall be allowed to the State in any case. It is provided that noth ing contained in this act shall apply to any case where an indictment has already been found and the case is actually pending. An Act for the relief of sureties upon official bonds of certain officers. This Act provides that when any surety of anmy officer elected or ap pointed to any office, shall notify the proper officer whose duty it is to ap prove the bond of such officers, that he desires to be relieved from his suretyship, such officer shall give a new bond, and the surety upon the prior bond sball be released from all liability for any acts or defaults which may be commnitted subsequent to the approval of such new bond. In no case does the liability of such surety continue more than sixty days after giving said notice. If the officer, when required to give such new bond, shall fail to do so within thirty days after such notice, he shall forfeit his office and the Governor shall issue his proclamation declaring the office vacant. -An Act to puni<h cock fighting within three miles of any chartered institu tion of learning in this State. This Act imposes a punishment of a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceed ing thirty days. The Act provides the same punishment for those who are present at cock fighting as for those who are engaged in it. An Act relating to persons entering or concealing themselves in any house with intent to steal or commit any other crime. Whoever shall enter without break ing, or attempt to enter, any house with intent to steal or commnit any -other crime, or shall conceal them selves in any house with like intent, shall be deemed guilty of a misde meanor and puuishable in the discre tion of the Court. An Act to prevent monopolies in thme transportation of freights and to se cure free competition in the samet, anid for other purposes. This is a very important Acet 'to shippers and consignees of freights. This Act requires that on and after the 1st of A pril next,all railroad com panies in this State, at any terminus or intermediate station, shall switch -off and deliver to the connecting road hving the same guage. all cars pass igover their line, and also provides tat when any railroad company own ing, leasing or operating a railroad shall have its terminus or any part of its track at or near the terminus of -. any other railroad in this State hav ing the same gauge. or shall cross the same, they shall bave the right to join its tracks by safe and proper switches with the other railroad, and shall for this purpose have the right to enter upor' the right of way of the other railroad. If any railroad com pany shall refuse to allow any other railroad company seeking a connec Board of Medical Examiners. If d upon inspection of the applicant's pi diploma, the State Board of Medical in Examiners shall not be satisfied of i w the applicant's qualifications, they ti may require him to appear before them personally for examination. The fee for examination of diplomas shall be five dollars or thirty dol lars for personal examination. The P clerk of court shall not allow any one to register without a license from the State Board of Medical Exami ners. The State Board of Medical Examiners shall meet annually in the city of Columbia on the third Tuesday of August. An Act to amend Section 2-fS35 of the fr General Statutes in Relation to burn- a] ing or cutting untenanted houses. j T 5is amends the law so as to make uI it apply to tenants having control, sE under lease, of unoccupied houses, tl also applies to crops in possession w of tenants, and provides a punish- i ment of fine or imprisonment in the u discretion of the Court. p An Act to amend Section 356 of the jc Code of Procedure in relation to ap peals to the Supreme Court. This act adds the provision at the to end of said section that a notice of t( appeal from an order overruling an t oral objection to the jurisdiction of s the Court, or to the sufficiency of a e complaint, shall not operate as a stay sc of the trial of the cause, but the trial n shall proceed and the order may be 0 reviewed only upon an appeal from s the final judgment rendered in said g cause. k An Act to amend Section 2498 of the k General Statutes relating to petit h larceny. tl This Act fixes the punishment for e. petit larceny at not more than thirty w days' imprisonment, thus restoring the jurisdiction of trial justices in tI cases of petit larceny as it was before h the decision of the Supreme Court. a A similar act was also passed re storing jurisdiction of trial justices in it cases of receiving stolen goods where c, the amount so received does not ex- tl ceed twenty dollars in value. tl An Act to amend Sections 87, SS and li 3:-8 of the Code of Civil Procedure. re- s lating to the practice in Trial Jus tices' Courts. This act remedies the anomalous condition which permitted a party V who had obtained a judgment before t' a trial justice, to apply for and ob- S tain a transcript of judgment, and file the same with the clerk of the a circuit court before the expiration of u the five days in which the defendant a is allowed to make up his appeal, and o provides that defendant may give iE bond for delivery of property levied a upon when appeat is heard and de- s termined. An Act to amend Section 1495 of the General Statutes, relating to posting r the schedule of passenger trains be- u hind time. ri This amends the present law by tl adding that any railroad company g which shall refuse or neglect to post b a notice setting forth when any pas senger train that is behind time may s be expected to arrive, shall forfeit b and pay to the State the sum of five fi dollars, one-half of which shall go to o the informer. An Act to provide for the manner in e -which 'the salaries of the respective e circuit stenographers shall be paid. T17his act makes these salaries pay able by the State. instead of by the t counties, as heretofore. An Act to prohibit Trial Jun-tices whos receive salaries in criminal business to u charge or receive any fees. Trhis prohibits Trial Justices who a receive talaries to receive fur their own use any fees for criminal busi- ' ness, or any portion of their consta bles' fees or salary, and provides a punishment for any violation of this Act. A Joint Resolution proposing an Amend ment to Article X of the Constitution C of the State of South Carolina by 0 striking out Section 2 thereof. e This proposed amendment, if c adopted, abolishes the office of Coun. b ty School Commissioner as a consti ( tutional office and brings the regula- c tion of the duties and powers of County School Commissioner under t the control of the General Assembly. E A Joint Resolution proposing an amend-- C ment to Article IV of the Constitution c of the State of South Carolina. r This refers to jurisdiction and term o of office of Probate Judge. It gives ' jurisdiction in all matters testament- L ary and of administrations-in busi- ( ness pertaining to minors, and dower I in cases of idiocy and lunacy, and v persons non comlpos mnentis, and fixes a his term of office at four years. t An Act to amend Chapter XX of the General Statutes, entitled of the "Uni- S versity of South Carolina."a This Act recognizes the University 1, and makes it consist of a College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts; a f College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; y a College of Pharmacy; a Normal ~ School; and a School of Law; and e such other Colleges and Schools as a the Board of Trustees may see fit to t establish, or as the funds at command ( may warrant. It makes the Clafflin c Col-ge for colored p)upils at Orange- t burg, and the South Carolina Milita- t ry Academy, at Charleston, a part of t the University. t it is a significant fact that nine t teen Acts were passed this sessionc of the Legislature establishing spe t cial school districts and authorizing 1 the levy and collection of local taxes t for school purposes. It is evidence of a 1: growing conviction among the people of the State, that in our present con- g dition it is the only way by which c efficient schools can be maintained ini each community. This is but the c pioneer movement which will, beforet many years. result in a systemn of ef ficient free common schools in every school district in the State. Thet necessity for the education of thet masses is so urgent, and the great I good that result therefrom in our moral, social, political -and materialt avancement o evident, that prejn. I ce and old fogyism may stay its ogress for a time, but these move ents never go backward, and those bo oppose them, as a rule, become eir most zealous supporters. BILL NYE ON THE TARIFF. olitical Economy from the Standpoint of a Simple-Minded Friend of Agri culture-A Point Against Chinese Cheap Lectures. New York World. While so many other men who now as little as I do about it are eely discussing the tariff it seems most cowardly in me to hang back. have resolved, therefore. to give ,terance to a few terse and ringing mtences, not calculated to inflame e country, of course, for I have sl ays tried to be temperate, especially my language, and sought to avoid sing my wonderful gifts as a word iinter and rhetorical thunderbolt ker in a way that would excite the wer case nature of man to war or nd to depress the stock market. Go any Wall street man of prominence day and he will tell you, unless he ould happen to be prejudiced be use I may have pinched him in )me deal or other, that I have aver tuned my lyre for the purpose inciting the nation to civil war or )ught to unsettle values or to wreck -eat financial enterprises. But I say iat at a time when the less a man nows about the tariff the more freely s enters into a discussion of it I tink it would be wrong for me long. to restrain myself. Go where you ill in this country to-day and you ill find men talking about tariff and ie tax on raw material who havn't ad a mouthful of raw material or y other kind in the house for eeks, except as their wives earned and brought it home to them. This >untry is full of men who have iought so hard for the common weal iat the seats.of their trousers shine ke the dome of the Massachusetts tate House. ' And now there arises in the dis Lce a large and growing surplus hich indicates that as soon as the vo parties get nearly balanced and t up nights to watch each other at ashington there is a good deal iore money coming into the Treas ry than is needed to run the mighty iachinery of Government. Friends the present methods say it is eas ;r to handle a surplus than to handle deficiency. for you can return a rplus to the people. That is true. ou can take it from the pockets of ose who unjustly paid it and then turn it to those who have no claim pon it, meantime paying good sala es to those who collect it and to ose who disburse it, allowing a oodsized percentage for what may e deflected towards Canada. Mr. Blaine desires to reduce the rplus by reducing the tax on to. acco, thus making tobacco juice as -ee as water and winningthe esteem f several voters who would trade hat patriotism they have for an ection-day cigar with a spinal >lumn to it any time. As a man ho has used a low grade of high st cigars for some years, and as a an who baR been in the haoit of apporting Mr. Elaine year after year util I had almost become a slave to ie habit, I desire to state that the yle of statesmanship which strives win my young and trusting heart 'ith the promise of seven good cigars >r a quarter is the kind that first es blished this Republic on a paying asis. Everybody recognizes the utter npossibility of knocking out finan ial stringency by means of melodi us resolutions or of paralyzing pov rty with a dark red preamble. You annot gather fresh train figs on oard the Thistle or pacify old man 'astric with the empty promise of heaper chewing tobacco. Several gentlemen have invented iethods for the prevention of rich sen, schemes by which property ould be equalized and divided per apita instead of per capital. T1he sult of this could be easily figured ut in advance. To-day Jay Gould rould be wealthy and Henry George ungry, we will say. To-morrow Jay ould and Henry George would have 65 apiece. Tuesday Henry George rould have $35 and a case of colic, ay Gould would have $60 and be at e head of a Jamaica ginger trust. Vednesday Mr. Gould would have 130 and an order on Henry George's gent for the proceeds of his next cture on antipoverty. If infant industries here are to be ustered, and protected by the way, hy is not the American lecturet rotected from competition with for ign lecturers ? Whether you regard n American lecture as a manufac ured article or raw materi al it is gen rally essentially American, and ught it not to be protect;ed ? Lec urers build up a town. They make usiness for railroads, hotels, opera ouses, newspapers, laundrymen, alors, &c., &c., and if' successful hey go anroad, and their lectures be ome an export, bringing money intc his country. Just as soon as our ecturers here produce more lectures han are absolutely required for ome consumption we can send then broad, but as it 1s now our strug :ling lecturers here are forced te ompete with foreign lecturers like Vong Chin Foo, who can live much heaper than our native-born lec. urers who have been used to dried. ,pple pie three times a day. How is it with the American far. ier ? He has ~been driven up fur her and further into a corner by the egislation of the past twenty-five rears, and yet, because be is not ac. ually starving to death, he is pointed mer contributed more to the w than most anybody else, both Q blood and money, and really got le in return. He got the priceless boc of liberty, it is true, the liberty to p: big war prices for everything I wanted, and to sell his crops for le year after year, competing with fc eigners abroad and foreigners wl came here to compete with him; li erty to pay big prices for machiner help, clothing and everything else I bought. and then ride into town on December day, accompanied by tl cold and still remains of an asss sinated bog. only to be told that tl threatened foreign war had flatteni out, and that pork had gone down four cents ! It is depressing to rh sixteen miles in the society of a h4 that has died by one's own han and every time you look around see tat same frozen smile, with chip in it, while his chest i!,throv open in an ingenuous way by mea of a hickory stick in order to shc that his leaf lard is al.l that it 1, been represented. It is not cheerf to ride all the forenoon with no of near you but this cold and pulsele clay, with no eye upon you but t leaden eye of the dead. Let t reader who never tried it ride sixtei miles when the shades of evening : gin to lower, ride over a lonely ro: over bare ground with a pair of le browed bobs, a green calico comfi ter over your knees and the clamn features of a dead and decollete hi in your lap. Then if you want feel your spirits sink out of sigi ascertain, after you have laid out s the money in your mind on a ba, of 8 cents per pound, that 3 a 4 a the quotations on an animal that y4 have loved in his infancy, hid dov cellar so you couldn't hear him sque when he was killed and afterwar helped to scrape with a case kni so that even ni death he would 1 a source of pride to you ! Men tell us that manufacture make prosperous towne, so we mu foster manufactures. On the sAt theory a violent death every mornii before breakfast was what made t flush times in California, Nevada aj Colorado. In order to have prc perity we must have more murde and lynching soirees. Why, when man was killed every day or two Leadville, lal rers got as high as $ a day. Therefore crime makes mon, plenty and wages high. I do not claim to know hovw make times more prosperous othi wise than to open my own whoopi: coffers and put in circulation t surplus which I have been clingi: to so long. I have resolved to do E Let others follow the example. V will be the next ? Let the Govei ment itself fall in. Let us good with our riches. Let us fot what I may term the Do Good Parl Mr. Gould wires me ("collect" frc Rome) that he will lend his heart a soul, such as they are, to a moi ment of that kind, and at livi rates. Mr. Gould says that he wot ad vise to communicate my plans wire, over the Western Union everybody and seek the co-operati of the Government. He thinks t Congress would be willing to ma an appropriation covering the peeses of telegraph, at least. 3 Gould also adis that be would c tainly take an interest in such mo' ment, and says he would prefei controlling interest. BILL NYE. Reviving the Grange. The following address has been sued by Secretary Holloway, of 1 State Grange: "To the Patrons of South Caroli -Greeting: Your annual meeti will be held in the city of Columi on Wednesday, the first day of Fi rmary, proximo, at 11 o'clock a. It is to be hoped that the meeti will be largely attended by membi of the Order throughout the State, business of importance will be bef< the Girange for earnest work. 'I election of a Worthy Master to the unexpired.term of Bro. James Lipscomb, resigned, provision ma for the revival of the Order throui out the State, and the attention Patrons is required in tbe furth ance of the aims and objects of i Inter State Grange Encampment be held in the city of Spartanba the first week of next August. "The Encampment last Augi was a decided success, bringing gether the tillers of the soil, and tisans as well, at a season of the yi whea the crops are laid by, affordi a pleasant opportunity lor the d cussion of subjects of vital imp Vance to the farming and kindred terests of the State. We, therefo most earnestly beg that each Grar in the State. not absolutely dead, that a representative is sent to I meeting of the State Grange prepai as coadjutors in the progression what our State needs and requires every son of her soil. Fraternally Tros.W.HOL Lo WA Y, Secretary.' A n Earthquake Shock in Ontari OrTAwa, ONT, January -11. sharp shock of earthquake was I throughout this city and surroundi sections shortly before 5 o'clock t morning. The vibration was qu niarked and seemed to be travelli from the west. The shock lasi between five and ten seconds. Cro cry was smashed in many places, 1 no other damage is reported. Nothing but earthquake w as tall of about town to-day. Dr. Bell, the geological survey, says there no'further danger to be apprehend< that shocks are unusually experie ed in Canada in winter, being cam by the shrinking of the earth's stra The shock was felt at Bracebrid IGravenhurst, Maniwaka and Qu and other plaes.a -r THE EABTH TRE BLES AGAIN A I)istructed Shock of Earthquake , Throughout the State-The Most V severe in Twelve Months. s Special to the News and Courier. r- SAVANNAH, January 12.-Savan 1o na' was revisited by the earthquake b. this morning at 9.32 o'clock, city tine. No damage has been reported, ie although the shock lasted from five a to tei e :onds. Twelve months had ie passed since anything more than the s slightest tremor had been felt here, ie but the experience of September, Oc d tober and November, 1886, had not to been forgotten, and when the win le dows began to rattle and floors to >g tremble everyone knew instantly d, what the cause was. t0 WHO FELT IT AND WHO DID NOT. a Buildings swayed, glass rattled, mn the walls moved perceptibly, and Is there was a general rush for the W doors. True, there were many who Is did not feel the shock at all. Those ul who were on the streets did not, and ie as a rule those who were standing did as not. On the Bay nearly every one Je noticed it. Those who were sitting 2e down in the offices on the north side m felt it more plainly than others. d MIIStAKEN FOR THE WIND. Ld F. In the city the wind was higb, and r. the first clatter of the windows was mistaken by some fo rthe effect of the ) wind, but when the floors began to t vibrate, and that peculiar sensation, t, which only an earthquake can produce ,11 started up people's legs they imme is diately felt an impulse, to run for the re street. No rumbling was observed in the city, but it was heard in the ,n country. al THE SENSATION O TIE WHARVES. Is At the wharves of the Ocean fe Steamship C. pany the shock was >e plainly felt by all of the employees. At first it was thought that a ship rs had struck the wharf. In the Cen st tral Railroad shops the workmen 3e dropped their tools and made for the ig doors. ae AT THE TELEPHONE OFFICE. ,s In the Telephone Exchange the rs lady operators cut off every sub a scriber for half a minute. It was over before the men got out of their LO offices' and therefore must have been of short duration. REGISTERING AT THE SIGNAL OFFICE. to The direction of the shock this -r morning was not observed. In the ]g signal office the quake was not be noticed. The building is tall and is ig shaken so much by passing drays 0. and cars that the observers are not 20 apt to pay attention to any shock n- that does not knock the plaster off the o ceiling. When they had examined m their instrument for measuring the y, velocity of. the wind, they saw that m at 9.56k, Washington time, the regis d tering pencil had been deflected, as e- tnough it had been jarred. That fixes 3g the time of the shock in Savannah at Id 9.32.4, city time. A MERE SH AXELET AT AUGUSTA. Dn AUGUSTA, January 12.--The banks at of the river here rssponded to the ke shake from Savannah this morning, x. but the demonstration hereabout was Ir. a mere quakelet, so small, in fact, er. that although ifelt by many at 9.30 re. o'clock nobody was disturbed, and -a everybody set it down as the simple recurrence of the echoes of the past and a very small reverberation of a scientific sensation. TWO SHOCKS AT CHARLOTTE. is- CHARLOTTE, January 12.-Two he slight shocks of earthquake were felt nhcre this morning. The noted time aof the first shock was 9.54, and the ". second eight seconds later. Signal aBarry says: "Vibrations north to b- to south; shocks greater in western m. portion of the city." A mirror was og shaken off the mantel at P. E. Lin ~rs nell's. No other damage reported. as People excited. >re 'THE OLD NORTH STATE TREMBLES flil RALEIGH, Jauuary 12.-A slight N. shock of earthquake was felt here at de 9.55 this morning. There was also h. a strong shock felt at Shelby and of other poin*ts. er- WILMINGTON FOLLOWS sUIT. he WVILMINGTON, January 12.-A sharp to earthquake shock was felt here this rgmorning about 10 o'lc.No dam age done. AMATTER OF NERVES IN COLUMBIA. ar- COLUMr,IA, Jautiary 12-At 9.55 ~ar this morning a sharp shock of earth ng quake was felt in Columbia. Tihe is. strength of the shock, so sunsequent r. interviews with citizens prcved, was in- largely influencedi by the degree of re, nervousness each citizen felt as to ge seismic disturbances. It is certain, ee however, that the force' of the iribra he tion was considerable. Window ed sashes and such susceptible things of were 'violently rattled and the earth of tremors* were felt in all quarters of the city. There was instant anxiety about Charleston, which was relieved by a bulletin from the home office >'which the' Bureau promptly received and displayed. 'A A ROJAR IN ORANGEBURG. elt ORANGEBURG, .January 12.-At .' 10.02 o'clock A. M., to-day quite a decided shock of earthquake was ite felt here. Some persons even ran ngout of their stores and houses. Others, ;ed however, did not feel the shock at all. ::The Court was in session at the time, Jut and the building shook percept,ibly. edThe shock, which was preceded by a :ed distinct roar, seemed to travel from north to south and lasted about five sseconds. aSUMTER STARTLED. ed SUMTER, January 12.-A very pro ta. nounced earthquake shock was felt ~e, here this morning at 9.56 o'clock. ito The roaring was very loud and came from the southwest. The tremor was sufficient to cause windows, crockery ware, &c., to rattle, in quite a start ling manner. This is the first shock relt here in many months. A SMALL QUAKE AT CAMDEN. CAMDEN, January 12.-A decided reminder of by-gone days took place here at 9.55 this morning in the shape of a small quake. NO MISTAKING IT AT NEWBERRY. NEWBERRY, January 12.-A distinct shock of earthquake was felt here this morning by several persons five minutes to 10 o'clock. The weather has turned much colder, and the in dications are for snow. A WAVER IN WINNSBORO. WINNSBORO, January 12.-A very decided earthquake shock was felt here at 9.55 this morning. It lasted several seconds, shaking the house and rattling the sash. FELT AT FLORENCE. FLORENCE, January 12._-A dis tinct earthqake shock was felt here to-day at 9.55 A. M. which lasted about four seconds. FIVE SECONDS AT GADSDEN. GADSDEN, January 12.-At 9.45 this morning we had a distinct earth quake shock, right heavy and lasting about five seconds. A SHARP SHOCK AT BEAUFORT. BAEUFORT, January 12.-A sharp and sevcre shock of earthquake this morning at five minutes to 10. o'clock. A PANIC IN GEORGETOWN. - GEORGE :OWN, Jan. 12.-A heavy shock of earthquake at 9.55 this morning. Persons rushed out of their houses much alarmed. CONWAY'S CONCUSSION. CONWAY, January 12-A sharp shock of earthquake was felt here at precisely 10 o'clock this morning. No damage done. SUMMERVILLE USED TO IT. SUMMERVILLE, January 12.-An earthquake shock was felt here this morning at 9.55, Although the heaviest felt for several months it was not so severe as to cause either excitement or damage. MONCK'S CORNER MOVES. MoNCK's CORNER, January 12. This place was shaken by a slight shock of earthquake about 10 o'clock this morning. HOW IT FELT AT HOME. It is so long since even a tretnor of the earth has been felt in Charles ton that many persons who- heard their -. doors and windows rattling about 10 o'clock yesterday morning did not at first recognize the eause, and. doubtless many will be surprised to read in this. paragraph that there really was a slight shook yesterday throughout the lower part of the State. Mr. A. E. Gonzales, general can vassing agent for the News ad Cou rer, who came down on the South Corolina Railroad reports that toe shock was heaviest at Ross's Station. The teouth's Enemies at Rome rom the BaWimore Manufactusrers'Record During the late war, the south hac ts enemies at home, as well as those who came from beyond Mason and -)ixion's fine, and so to day the souti in its great battle for material prog ress and prosperity, learns. from un fortunate experience the force of th4 truth that a man's worst enemies art they of his own household. We ar -not surprised that such papers as thu New York Herald, and others.of the same kind, should seek to misrepre entathe progress of the south and te do all in their power to retard th~ development of that section, and pos ,ibly we ought not to be surprised ai finding that there are southern paper doing valiant work in helping th~ erald's crusade, but we must con fess that we are. In 1861-65 ther4 were some few men in the south wh did not believe in the justice of th ause for which their fellow-men ha taken up arms, and they did thei~ best to aid the north, but how vastl~ more deserving of pubiic esteem wer4 these men, than are they who to-day living in the south, and professing ta be deeply interested in its welfare are yet, through the journals thai .hey control, supporting to their ut most the enemies of southern pros prity. With what fiendish glee havs many of these papers paraded undei wonderful head lines the slanderi that have been started by outside en mies of the south ! How they h.ave -rolled as a sweet morsel under their tongue" the falsehoods that the won derful advance of the south's iror center had collapsed, caring not tc first learn of the truthfulness of tthes statements. Filled they must be witi a spirit of envy, hatred and jealous of every sign of progress outside 0; the narrow circle that limits thei, horizon, for surely nothing less thai uch a spirit conld prompt them ti gloat over what they hoped was th; ownfall of the south's most prosper ous cities. As well might we hav4 e-pected to see southern papers pro fessing loyalty to the confederati side, rejoicing over the reports o: some great defeat of'southern troops as to- see them rejoicing over sucl false reports as these. Were it tru: that the great iron centers of Alabam; and Tennessee are on the dow grade, and that the most stupendonu effort ever made by any people ti develop their country had proved failure, then the death knell of south, em prosperity would have beei sounded. If Alabama, which has lcd in thi fight and which staked her all upoi it, battling against tremendous oddf until she stands to-day the admitte: future great.est iron producer of th world, where to be overcome, and he iron and kindredl industries, by an possibillity be carried, it would b~ hopeless ever to look for the genera development of the industrial inter ests of the south. Alabama and Tennessee have led the way and blazed the path to pros perity through a union of manufac tures and agriculture, and yet so called southern papers have sought to injure the prosperity of these states, apparently failing to realize that the downfall of the iron interests of Alabama and Tennessee would check the growth of the whole south, and turn to other sections the capital that is now beginning to flow south ward. t+rom the iron industries of these two states are radiating influ ences that will make the whole south prosperous, that will cause the build. ing of thousands of mniles of rail roads, make valuable land that is now hardly worth the taxes, furnish home employment to the tens of thousands of the young men growinf up in the south, who would otherwise have to go west or north. This is what the prosperity of the industrial centers of Alabama and Tennessee is d'ing, and this prosperity startingI there is spreading over the entire south, and yet strange to say there are southern papers that, instead of upholding the progress of these states, are constantiy endeavoring to discredit the soundness of their de velopment and giving credence to every falsehood that is started against them. THE V vOLUTION CONTROVERSY. Mr. Elwang Rises to Explain what He Said that Mr. Girardeau'a Son in-law Said to Him. To the Editor of The News and Courier: For the sake of truth, and in order to brush away at once all present - misunderstanding, and to prevent the possibility of further complications, I deem it expedient to publish, over my own signature, the facts, as far as they are related to me, in the present controversy between Rev. (. A. Blackburn and the Southern Presby terian. In the first place, I wish to. say that Mr. Blackburn's statement can ~;'' be so construed as to do me an in justice when he does. not fully ex plain in his letter of the 7th inst, the remark which he quotes me as hav ing made. "that it (the article in the - Southern Presbyterian) did not cor rectly represent what I (Mr. B.) had said." I referred, as 'Mr. B. himself says, simply to the construction which the article puts upon his state ments in assuming them to have been authoritative. With that i - had, of course nothing to do, it was simply a deduction made by the writer from the facts presented to him. As to all else in the article relating to him self and the undersigned Mr. B. ad mitted it to be substantially correct. In the second place, I wish to say that much of what was said by either of us at that time, now fully two months ago, is only indistinctly re membered' by me because regarded as bearing only indifferently upon the chief issue involved. As far as the information given by me to' the writer of the article in the Southern Presbyterian is concerned, I can rely with perfect safety, as to minutia, only upon a written minute made at the time and approved by me; and, as it appears upon an examination of that minute that I did not "express ly"~ state to the writer of the article that Mr. B. did not speak authorita tively, I must modify the assurance given to Mr. B. that I did so state to the writer in the Southern Presbyte rian, and simply say that I cannot be positive in regard to that particular statement-I may or I may not have made any. such remark. Even if I bad done so, the writer of the article only drew his own deductions from the facts pr'esent2d to him, for al though Mr. B. plainly disavowed that he spoke authoritativeT'y in the sense that he spoke for another, vet his statements were so confidently made as to leave the impression upon my mind that, while he was expressing his own opinions, he had positive in formation in regard to the matter of his communications. - WM. W. EtwaNG. Columbia, January 9. Atlanta's Latest Show ATLANTA, January 11-The sec ond annual exhibition of the Nation al Poultry and Bench Association is now in progress in Atlanta. The en tries are numerous and the show of fowls and dogs is the best ever seen in the South. Exhibitors are here from all parts of the United States and many visitors have come from neighboring towns. Mr. August Bel mont, of New York, entered his fox terriers Champion and Lucifer and his otner dogs, Bureb, Diadem and Coronet. 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