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The Genera! Assembly. COLUMBI^ San 25 -The House to-day formally cast its vote for Judge Joseph fl. Earle as United States Senator to succeed Senator Johu L M. Irby. The vote was merely formal, the only vote against the election of Gen Earle being thai of the sole colored member, for Geo W. Murray The House worked hard enough " to-day to have Recured better net results tbau it did. Mr.Sinklei's bill iutended^to protect the street car operatives was passed, without ? serious obje<*Hon, by a. unanimous vote The big discussion of the day was on the resolution permitting the "~~'imh>duction of the bill to charter the Atlantic Coast Line properties in this State uoder one head and as one cor v poration. The r?solution finally passed, with bot sixteen members dissenting. ? The formal election to day con sumed little time. After a little discussion the House decided to visit Winthrop Colle^? next Saturday, and soon after decied that the time was not yet ripe for uight sessions, by which the business of the body could be dispatched. At the instigation of Mr Living? ston the Hous* bas decided that after the 5th of Febuary no bills can be introduced except through committees. COLUMBIA, Jan. 27 -The Hooife, white it worked and talked h ird eooosb to-day, really accomplished very little, except to receive a large batch of com? mittee reports, which will mean the r heaviest Calendar of rhe preveot ses? sion The House seems to have a dis? position to adjourn debate oo measure* after they have been discussed for some time This is a very good idea wheo there is no hope of doing anything ex eept to prolong the debate to uo good end. Tbe House now seems to realize* T1. that ic has to get oo ite workiog clothes to accomplish anything much, aod it has done so The disposition, as has been repeatedly said, was not to enact aoy uorjecessary or ill-advised legisla . tion, and what bas been done op to this time bas not mer with au y object io? from any source, and so tbe hope is " (. that the good work will go on. To-day Judge E*r?e was formally elected United States. Senator to suc? ceed Senator Irby, his formal resigna? tion ?s Judge was reported to the Gen? eral Assembly by the first message rom Governor Ellebe to that effect, aod the election of his successor' was set for Friday. The Rouse after a protracted debate killed a bill which sought to provide -for tbevpunish ment of county officials who spend- more money than is appro? priated to them for ce main purposes. A decidedly interesting, important aod far-reaching bill oo education was recommitted after a long debate. The stumbling block was whether parents . should have the right to sead their children from the school district io which they Hyed toto aootber school district where there may be better schools, or where it may be more con? venient. The main qoesliou involved in the debate was whether such child red had the righi or ought to be al? lowed to go into the schools of another district where there is a special school Jevy. ? bili was passed to-day, appiyiog to. all parts of the State, requiring an itemized report of actual income of all couoty officials. The House, by a de? cisive vote..refused to make any excep? tions on the ground that what was good fe r one part of. the State was good for another, io such matters, at least. Speaker Gary announced th J fol-1 lowioe committee under a concurre:;', resolution, to which will be referred j . all biiis relative to the dispensary aud /pensions: Aiken, A W Cushman;' Laurens, O P Goodwin j* Fairfield, J G Walling ; Chester. Peter Hollis ; Pickeoe. Joel H Miller; Horry, Jeremiah Mishoe; Florence^ B B McWhite ;*Kershaw, D M Bethune ; Newberry, J F Banks, pari boro. J F McLaurin ; Berkeley, B Ii Hen? derson ; Anderson, RB A Robinson ; Spartanburg, R A Lancast?r; Lex? ington, D F Efird ; Williamsburg, J S Gresham ; Oconee, ORD Burns ; Lancaster, C H Plyler ; Darlington, AJA Perritt; Barnwell J M Skinner; Greenville, H P Goodwin ; Union, U W Wh?8onant ; Marion, J D Has elden; Edgefield, W H Yelde!! ; Beaufort. W C Vincent; Orange burg, A F H Dukes; Coileton E J Ltmehouse; Hampton, T A Hamilton; Richland LD Childs; York S H Epps ; Abbeville, A J Speer; Clar ? endon, C M Davis ; Charleston, W H Skinner ; Saluda, B L Caughman ; Georgetown, M W Pyatt ; Chester? field, VV P Polloch ; Sumter, W A Nettles Mr Buist in the Senate offered the following resolution, which was adopted : "Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concur? ring : That this General Assembly does respectfully urge upon the Sen? ators of the United States the im? portance of taking prompt action in iavor of the treaty of arbitration be? tween the United States and Great Britain, whereby the sense of the American people may be manifested that a resort to war as a means of de? termining international disputes is unsuitable to the spirit of the age Resolved. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Senators from this State, with the request that they be presented to the Senate " Mr Ragsdale's bill to regulate the practice ia trials by jury was called up as the special order Mr Ragsda'e explained the pur? poses of the bill, which was framed to make the verdict of the jury con? clusive, save when it was rendered contrary to4,he law The juries were better qualified to settle local con trover8i"e8 among their friends and neighbors than any one man. They might make mistakes, but so might the Judge The right of the Judge to set aside the verdict of the jury was not a constitutional right. It was based upon a statute and ought to be repealed It was a contradic? tion not to allow the Judge to state the facts to th? jury and yet al ow him to set aside a verdict upon'a question of fact If the Judge could say ihat a verdict was too large, why not do away with the juries and leave the matter altogether to the Judge ? He thought it undemocratic to hold that twelve good and true men could not settle any claim that ever arose in a Court of law. Ile asked to table the report and take up the bil! on its merits. Mr Henderson said that the; com? mission was unanimous in its report, because it thought the measure pro posed a scathing stroke at thc ad? ministration of justice in South Caro? lina. There waa no State in the Union that bad such a law as that proposed In every State the Judge had the right to set aside outrageous verdicts against the overwhelming weight of the evidence ' It was only proper that the Judge should have the right to cut down the dam? ages wherever they were unjust. Mr Ragsdaie asked to postpone indefinitely . the unfavorable report, and then to let the Senators amend the bill just as much as they warted to, so that they would preserve the I spirit of the bill, which was good, j His motion to postpone was lost, however. Picturesque Funeral of Pong. . - ,SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 27-The f?ne ral of Fong Ching, otherwise known as ''Little Pete,'' the murdered leader of. the_Saui Yap society, rook place yes terday and was conducted with all due pagan form and ceremony The prin? cipal services were held at Little Pete's late-residence, 819 Washington street, where his shoe factory is also 'ocated. Many large aod handsome floral pieces were arranged about the casket, most of them the gifts of Chinese, though the senders of several were Caucasians. There was much that was picturesque in the strange chantings o the priests, the barbaric notes of the Chinese musicians, the paper burning ceremonies, etc. During the morning eighteen roast pigs, two roast sheep aod wagon loads of poultry, etc , were sent to the cemetery and thither the remains were conveyed. The Sam Yups march? ed in a body, as did several other so cieties to wbioh the deceased bad belonged, and the line of carriages was fully a mile long. After the funeral a meeting was held by the See Yop society, which it is al? leged plotted Pete's murder, in cele? bration of his death. There, is general joy in the society over the event and with them it is considered that the death of their enemy is one of the big? gest victories in the history of Cbioa I town. Peace reig-oed in Chioatown last night, butf Hatchet men from all sections of the Pacific coast are hurrying to San Francisco to avenge the death of Little Pete The majority of th? Sam Yups and the upper class believe that murder will be rampant in Chinatown during the holidays, which begin Feb. 1. The noise wb?cb usually attends the celebrations ar that time will afford the Highbinders opportunity to use their weapons with little danger of detection His Wish.' "My poor friend, you^have but a few hours longer to live," said ihe kind old doctor at thc beside of .the editor of the Ruralsville Bazoo. '*?s there any wish to make-any direction you desire to have carried out after you are gone?'' ''Tell the foreman/' said the dying scribe feebly, 4 t) do by u< as we have always dooe by others, and gi?e us. as ! flattering aa obituary ootice as his conscience will permit him tu. :i? quest him, too, to run it at the t ;?f the editorial column, next to pure ? id iag matter, and'also to call attentif to it in a local paragraph. This is a x ury which we have never felt ab . to afford for ourself till now, bul .ve feel that under the circumstances it is a pardonable exhibition o; vanity on our part-a man never dies but onoe, you know. And, by the way, kindly re? quest the marble cotter to carve on our tombstone, beneath tho customary statement of the facts in tho case, tho legend: * We Are Here to Stay7 " Laurens, Jan. 27.-Hattie Fletche j and Addie Foster, two colored school j children, fought on their way from j school, five miles from Laurens yes j terday afternoon They used knives j and Addie received a wound in the j neck from .which she died in a few j hours. The operatives in the large fae j tories in the up country are petition i ing the legislature to defeat the Kib? bler labor commission bill. They declare themselves satified with the present conditions and desire no change. The Mercy of Evans. How ho Exercised Clemency fn One Case: To the Editor of The State When the poet wrote, '??The qual? ity of mercy is not strained,*' he. of course, had in view the wise and beneficent exercise of this attribute as pertaining to the Creator in his all wise wisdom. Nor, ara I convinced, did Shake? speare ever dream that the quality of mercy could be 6o strained as to sub? serve political ends and be made the reward for party services Yet, this "s precisely what John Gary Evans, late governor of South Carolina, has seen fit to do. Nearly two years ago the most brutal and cowardly murder that ever disgraced the criminal annals of South Carolina was perpetrated in Aiken county, when Marion Toole deliberately shot and killed Capt. Julius M. Rhett, in a trifling dispute o\er a line ditch Toole was indicated and tried for murder in the first degree, buta jury, of whom, perhaps, the least said th? better, saw fit, in the face of the most overwhelming evidence, and contrary to the law as laid down by the judge, to find a verdict of guilty of manslaughter with recommenda? tion to mercy. Toole was sentenced to hard labor for eight years in the penitentiary, a trifling estimate cer? tainly of the sancity of human life, when it is remembered that a negro was sentenced for the same time at the same session of court for stealing a chicken. Toole's lawyers made a bluff of appealing the case, but it never got to the supreme court, and- really nev er was intended to come before that tribunal ; the whole proceeding was an effort to block the wheels of jus? tice at least for a time, for these legal gentlemen well knew that* a second trial would have resulted in the prompt conviction of their clieDt of murderer in the first degree After almost a year of delay, Toole was finally taken to the penitentiary to serve his sentence. This was no sooner done than his friends began to stir themselves actively in circula? ting a petition for his pardon The judge and the solicitor both refused to sign this petition, but the friends of Toole were not discouraged. They appealed to the governor ; they knew their man. And here comes the disgraceful part of the whole mise rabie transaction. Evans, after faith? fully promising the friends of Mr Rhett that he would in no way iuter fare with the sentence of the .court, has at length, after ten months' im prisonment, accorded to Murderer Toole a full and free pardon ; thereby setting a premium on homicide, and debauching his exalted office in or? der id rewaripolitical services. And this is the governor of South Caro lina, the would be successor of Hayne and Calhoun ! Verily have the mighty falleu, indeed, when 6uch a man could have become their wier ? And why was this travesty on jus tice committed ? For the sake, as I have 6aid before, of rewarding poli tical services, and on account of petty personal spite against the dead But the people of South Carolina have risen in their majesty and re legated Mr Evans to the obscurity of the political graveyard. There let him rest, aud with all law abiding, honorable men Jet me gratefully mur mer, "Thank God " W. B Rhett Montgomery, Ala. - i * * - mm Heavest Since 1888. NEW YORK, Jan 28.- New York awoke tr.is morning to face the heavie.*-', snow fall in this regioo for some years. Ir. started io with determination the evening before aod kept a continuous down fall until the city was buried at 10. a m. to-day beneath a robe of over 10 inches deep But the snow was dry and the wind was not strong enough to create 8ny heavy drifts or other bliz? zard conditions For this reason it readily yielded to treatment and re? duced tho discomfort to the lowest notch. The storm gathered from the south Atlantio coast along the Carolinas. Moving uorth, it oamc in contact with the colder temperature in this latitude, and also struck a heavy cold breeze from f?he northwest. This made New York the otorm centre. While snow was falling all over the middle Atlantis States, this region got the heaviest does, by far. Delays in all sorts of trsfiBc, dogged surface ?ines, congested thorougfares, crowding and yelling truckmen, nerv? ous and pushing pedestraios, the loud grinding of snow plows and the deter? mined work of th? shovels make up the regulation tableau that always comes with a metropolitan storm. Four horses to each car appeared on nearlv all the car lines, but they had slow work of it at bes: through the morning. Cable tices were troubled by slippery cables, which made pro?rrss slow halting cn them loo,, so thar, a ?ari:? amount of passer.srersHr^iiic wa.i divert? ed to the elevated roads. The s?;ow fail in tbiV vicinity was the heaviest sinoc the his\tfic blizzard of 1888 That record breaker scored 212 feet, on a level, while ts? storm of to-day bas 10 1 2 inches to ii * credit The storm effectually closed ?he port this forenoon and last night, n| vessels venturing out or attempting to come past the bar. B'?STDN, Jan. 28.-Not since the blizzard of 1888 bas there been a Morm of such severity throughout New Eng? land as that which has prevailed during the pa*t. 24 hour?. Al! sections repoit heavy snow, varying all the way from 15 to 34 inches on the level, while the high wind that ha9 beeD blowing has in many instances, pilod up drifts of 5 to 10 feet iii? height.. Country roads are ev? ry where rendered almost impassable, while steao railroads, electric railway, telegraph aod telephone service has beeo pretty thoroughly demoralized Tn many places, schools have been closed, factories of shut dowo and busi? ness of all kinds practically suspended The stor?i in this city developed into very near a blizzard and the snow fall has been about 24 inches. There is Nothing So Good. 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No purely imitative dancing could fail to gain by being an exact copy of the performance of the long necked, spindle legged sand hill crane. Its steps are not only grotesque, but they are of a kind to make the gravest onlooker lose his dignity and laugh like a delighted boy at the circus. This Lincoln park bird at the outset of his dance is the personification of dignity. When in the days of his freedom he tripped it on his native sand hills for the sole benefit of his mate, be did so only in the spring? time, but now, in his lowly captive state, he dances in and out of season if the keeper ^ho feeds him will but wave his arms and take an awkward step or two to give him encouragement. The crane begins its dance by shoving one long leg, with its claw attachment, straight out in front of his body. Then be lowers it and draws it back slowly until it is within an inch or two of the ground. Then there is a lightninglike double shuffle, and the other leg ia pointed to the front. 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