The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-01-09

6 ALSlll. For tho diRtrict court OF
Berkeley the provisions ofthis Act shall
prevail, subject to the following modif
cations, namely: Tho Clerk, Sheriff,
Masters and Registers in Equity. and
Ordinary, for Charleston Judicial Dis.
trict, shall have the same powers aud be
subject to the same duties and liabilities,
in respect to Berkeley District. az like
officers in other Districts. An appeal
from the Ordinary Of Charleston JUDI.
cial District, which under this Act,
shonld go to a District Court. shall 60 to
the District Court of Berkeley, according
70 the rules which, il such Election Dis.
trict had an Ordinary, would determine
the Ordinary that should have jurisdic.
ton OF the matter in question. The va.
rious Boards Of Commissioners in Berkc.
ley District shall report to the Court of
tina. District and be subject TO it in like
manner, os in other Districts Boards are
to their respective District Courts. The
records of Berkeley District shall be
kept i'll the Office of the Clerk Of the Ju.
dicial District of Charleston. Tine
Judge Of the District Court Of Berkeley
may hold monthly and quarterly sit.
tings Of his Court At such places in bis
District as he may appoint, taking care
to give due public notice, and all process
Of his Court shall be re,nrnable to such
place a. the Judge Of the, Court may ap.
point, and be by suitable words framed
accordingly. Jurors for, common Jnries
shall BE- summoned by the Sheriff from
any citizens OF the District, and for
special Jnries. Jurors shall be drawn
from a'box which contains the names
Of all citizens OF the District, the Judge
being at liberty 70 reject. ofthose drawn.
any citizen WHO lives MORO than twenty
miles from tho place where the Court is
appointed to be held
XLIK. All the provisions Of this
Act will apply to the District Court of
Charleston, aud all the officers Of the
Judicial District of Charleston will oc.
cupy.,h the same relations to the District
Court Of Charleston rs like officers do in
nther Judicial Districts to the Dis,ric,
Court Of such Districts, except as ia
this Act excepted in reference TO Befke.
Icy District. !
In the Senate House, the twentieth day
Of December. in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Eve.
w. d. PORTER,
President Of The Senate. \
C.. H. SIMONTON.
Speaker Of the House Of Repreuents.
tiYss.
Continued in our nere.
A woxprRTUI CoXsT.--There i
one of these eccentric and nysterionA
members Of the solar systen, that rel
9uires five hundred and seventy two
years in which to make its revolution in
i,s very eliptical orbit around the sun.
The frat account Of its appearance ON
record is l,767 years before Christ.
when some took i. to be the planet We
nss, changing its appearance and course.
1t was seen tile secord time 1893 years
before Christ, aud again l.l50 years
latef. This last WAS l3 B. g., the year
after Julius Cesar was killed in the
Roman Senate. 1t wac certainly sren
A. D $50. the fifth year Of the Roman
Emperor Justinian.
The account is. s,hst remarkable
comet was seen twenty days in the
month at September, and that for some
time after the sun appeared pale. Il
was due again in A. ID li05, and early
in the following yeas it was seen. Its
last appearance was IN 1880. Sir Isaac
Newton and Others give an interesting
acco,in. Of its velocity, heat, Be. This
comet has been gone one hundred and
eighty five years. aud will require about
one hundred and two years before j:
reaches the fsrthest part OF ita orbit, and
its greatest distance from the sun 1t
will be due here again in the year 1856.
This wonderful comet az we have said
was seen ] 1857 B. g. and il must have
appeared five hundred and seventy va
years before that which would have
been 2,3AO BIC or ak wears aftet the