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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-23

AN ACT Csding the Jurisdiction Of
the State Of South Carolina to the
United States Of america, over such
Lands as may be acquired for public
purposes By the said United States O
america.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives Of the State
of South Carolina, now met and sitting
in General Assembly, and by the au-
thority of the same, That the jurisdic-
ton of the State of South Carolina is
hereby ceded to the United States of
America, over so much land as shall be
necessary for the public purposes of the
United States: Provided, That the ju-
r;;sdiction hereby ceded shall not vest
until the United States of America shall
have acquired the title to the lands by
grant or deed from the owner or owners
thereof and the evidences thereof shall
have been recorded in the Office where,
by law, the titles to such land are re-
corded, and the United States of Amer
lea are to retain such Jurisdiction so
long as such lands shall be used for the
purposes in this Act mentioned, and
nolonger; and such jurisdiction isgrant-
ed upon the express condition that the
State of South Carolina shall retain a
concurrent jurisdiction with the United
States in and over the said lands, so far
as, that civil process, in all cases not af-
fecting the real and personal property
of the United States in and over the
said lands, so .ar as, in all criminal or
other process as shall issue under the
authority of the State of South Carolina
against any person or persons charged
with crimes or misdemeanors commit
ted within OF without the limits Of the
said lands, may be executed therein,
in the same way and manner as if no
jurisdiction had been hereby ceded.
Sec. 2. Tha. all the lands and tene-
ments which may be granted, as afore-
said, to the United States, shall be and
continue, so long as the same shall be
used for the purposes in this Act men
toned, exonerated and discharged from
all taxes, assessments and other charges
which may be imposed under the au-
thority of the State of the South Car
olina.
Approved February IL, 1871.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-23

AN ACT to prouae for the Pu5hca-
ton Of the Acts, Reports, Resolutions,
o,umazs andot Papers Of the Gen.
nrnI :sselnhhn
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-23

mr.. s. s.. FITCH,s Family Physician 90
U pages; sent by mail free. Teaches how 10 all
diseases Of the person skin hair, eyes, complexion.
Write 10 ia Broadway, New York
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-23

JoINTREsOLUTIoN authorizing and
Directing the State auditor and Conn
ty Commissioners to Lsvy Certain
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-23
Approved February II, 1871.

AN-ACT to Incorporate the Charleston
Cleansing Company Of the City Of
Charleston,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-23

Mar 18
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

REMARKABLE CAsE.-A murder case
which has excited a great deal of interest
in the West has terminated in the ac-
quittal of the accused. George Wander
pool was the defendant, and he was
charged with the murder of his partner,
Herbert Field, at Manistee, Michigan, on
the 9th of September, 1869. He had
three trials, the first at Manistee, where
he was convicted of murder in the second
degree and sentenced to solitary confne-
ment for life; the second at Kalamazoo,
where the jury failed to agree and the
last, which resulted in his full acquittal
at Hastings. The verdict of the last iu-
ry appears to be in accordance with pub
lie sentiment in Michigan; and Wander
POOLS case, if he is really innocent, is
certainly one deserving of commiseration.
His property has been wasted in defraying
theexpenses Of his defense; hehas been i'm
prisoned for more than two years, por-
ton of the time in solitary confinement;
while the mental suffering he must have
undergone can well be imagined TO have
been worse than all the rest.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

A New PREVENTIVE OF EPIpEMICs.
L. A. Hardee, of Florida, advances
his theory Of conclusions as a'means OF
preventing epidemics. Mr.. Hardee be-
lieves that yellow fever and cholera is
caused by animaleula, and that concus-
sion will destroy them. He says
81 propose, if means be furnished me,
to arrest the yellow fever now raging in
Charleston. will risk my own life and
not charge for my personal services, and
pledge my reputation for this discovery,
that will eiiectually arrest this fell de-
stroyer within ten days from the first com.
bustion.
For the city of Charleston, l would
use one ton of gunpowder every night for
twelve consecutive nights. would COM
mence at nine o'clock p. NJ, using five
pounds for every combustion. | would
order the windows of every house in the
city closed, and | would use small guam
titles of powder in every room and cell
lar in the city. l would order heavy
conclusions in every damp lane or ave-
nue. in the city, and in fact would hunt
out the places most likely to be infested
with animalcules, and at the end of ten
days l would ask the physicians to report
the health of the city. | think they
would report not single case of any de-
scription of fever in the city, and that it
would be as healthy as the mountains"
If Mr.. Hardee burns powder enough
we have no doubt that yellow fever will
disappear from Charleston, and the city
with it.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29
Democratic Words.

The Hon. Robert d. Roosevelt, demo-
cratic member of congress from one of
the New York city districts, continues
his fight against the Tammany Hall
thieves with great vigor. He is the edi-
tor of the New York Citizen, in which
he last week had the following:
There is but one chance for the de-
mocracy-one means of escape from the
hopeless position in which we are placed I;
we must vindicate the party's reputation
for honesty. We are drifting. we are
driving headlong, towards ruin and ut.
ter extinction. In two months our party
will have ceased to exist, unless some
thing is done to avert such fate. We
have lost California, where there was ev-
cry possibility of success; we have lost
Maine, where there was little hope; we
shall lose Ohio, of course and Pennsyl-
vania and New York. 1t seems that we
shall lose every State in the Union-un-
less, perhaps, it be Delaware. Delaware
may stand alone to uphold our principles
and sustain the party; but the rest of the
Union will ere long be arrayed against
us, unless an effort is made to get rid of
the load of disgrace which has been
brought upon US by the notorious swind-
les of the Ring rulers of Tammany
Hall"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

The young man who recognized the
body of Rev. DIR. Gannett after the &C.
cident at Revere, Mass, and cared for it
has been presented with gold watch by
two lady members of his family. He is
clerk in Boston, and had seen DIR.
Gannett but once, at funeral.
The Tammany thieves are getting
pinched in all directions. While Hall
d Co. are feeling "the halter draw"
Carnochan, the Health Officer, has been
compelled, in one case at least, to dis
gorge. A day or two since, he present
ed to some New York ship owners, bill
for $4,000, for ship detained at Quar-
antine. The owners refu sed to pay. sent
their protest to Gov. Hoffman, he refer
red the matter to the Quarantine Com
missioners, and they struck off $4,000
from the bill.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29
A 5000 Pound Cheese.

Correspondence of the Bellows Falls Times.
Mills Mills, Allegheny Co., N. Y.
Sept. 20, lS71.-Mr. Editor Having
this eve read an account in your paper of
a mammoth cheese which has lately been
made in Chester, and one which does
credit to that town, | thought would in
form the readers Of your paper in regard
to cheese which was made by S. Il.
Smith, Springville, Erie Co., N. Y, on
the S1st day of August last and which
weighs over 5000 pounds and is little
over three feet high and four and one-half
feet across and is sacked with wire strain
er sheeting such as is used for putting on
strainer pals. The cheese contains
diamond ring worth $3.50, it is going to
be carried to the State Fair at Albany,
and probably will be cut and sold there.
The cheese was made from one days milk
and is well worth going some distance to
see; | saw it several days after it was
made and it was in perfect shape and
curing nicely. Now Mr.. Editor, please
notice this in your paper if worthy, and
oblige Windham County boy.
l.. d. G.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

YOUNG AMERICA. rising genera
ton progresses. A child Of eleven, nam
ed Richard Robinson, stole horse the
other day in Yorkshire, put up at an inn
twenty miles away, got drunk there, smok-
ed himself sick with cigars, but sold the
horse Cor a round sum and made off
Master G. Washington Conkling, of
Staten Island, has done even drawer
deeds. Although barely nineteen, he has
actually married three different women.
The third time brought him to grief.
The ceremony of marriage had been only
just concluded, the bride being farm
er's daughter in her teens, when a mat
ron of forty-five presented herself and
claimed Washington as her own. He
has been "locked up for examination,
which, all things considered, he will per-
haps think the. best thing that could hap
pen to him.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

THE RINGS BANK ACCOUNT The
New York Times states that Mayor Hall
has had on deposit in the Tenth National
Bank (well known as the Ring Bank
for months past, not less than two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars and from
that to half million, and that VIM. M.
Tweed, Richard B. Connolly, Peter B.
Sweeney, James HI. Ingersoll and An
drew j. Garvey, all had for months past
on deposit in the same bank. sums rang
ing from two hundred thousand to mil
lion each, as the books of the bank will
show. All these men, including Hall,
have withdrawn most if not all of their
deposits within the last ten days.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

That was singular misaprehension
Pittsfield drunken woman labored un-
der. When the portly constable appear
ed, bearing the keys of the dingy clock
up in his hand, she cried out, "Glory.
Glory! Here comes my Father to take
me to my heavenly home" She was
disappointed when she woke up next
morning.
A novel wedding took place few
days ago in shoe mandatory in Cleve-
land, Ohio. Two of the employees we're
placed on an elevator, and we're married
by clergyman. This over, a spring was
touched, and the couple assembled to the
fourth story. Returning in a few mo-
ments, they were congratulated on their
happy bridal tour. Cake was then sery-
ed on large sole-leather plates.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

WELL PUT.-Senator Morton of Indi-
ana, in his great speech at Cincinnati last
week, thus alluded to the democratic the
ory-so frequently put forth by demo-
cratic newspapers,-of "strict construc-
ton" of all constitutional powers: "The
greatest dangers that have come to this
government in its past history have arts
en- from denying itsjust powers. The re-
fusal of the President and Congress in
the winter of 1S60-61 to exercise their
just constitutional powers to snuff out re-
bellion, then just kindling into flame,
was almost the greatest crime of modern
times, the consequence of which will not
be expiated during this century"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

GENERAL GRANT A PRINTER.-The
President visited Brooklyn on Thursday,
and among other places of note in the
"City of Churches" was taken to the I'm
ion office. After being shown through
the various editorial rooms of the paper,
and upon its being said that he possibly
would not care to 60 into the composing
room, he said:
"Well, | guess have set good many
columns of type myself, in Georgetown,
Ohio, years ago."
"Why. General, /" said General Porter,
81 never heard of that"
General Grant replied that it was true,
nevertheless.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

CAvENDIsH.-BY the Probate records
in Windsor district, it appears that the
first change in the appraisal of estates
from reckoning in pounds, shillings,
pence and farthings to dollars and cents,
occurred January l, 1894, though some
appraisers appointed in the settlement of
estates used the old method of computa-
ton as late as 1898. Some probate bust
ness was done in Windsor district as ear
ly as 1887, when "B Brown, p. Clerk"
seems to have gathered the files together
and made record of them, commence
ing on the 10Th day of May, 1877, and
closing the first volume April l, 1885,
That volume is still in the Registers of
fee here-unbound-i manuscript form
aud comprises GA pages. Hon. Ebene-
ger Curtis, of Windsor, seems to have
been the first Probate Judge, in 1915,
and but for short time. In June, 1897,
Hon. Briant Brown was Judge, and in
February, 1888, we find that Hon. Elijah
Robinson of Weathersfeld was Judge
He occupied that position for IA years.
The first in order of recorded estates, as
settled, was that of John Williams, I'd,
late of Springfield, deceased, whose will
was proved and allowed March 20, 1887,
and the mother of the testator is made
executor.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

- The Illustrated Christian Weekly
for September 80, is an unusually good
number of this excellent weekly. ask
ing Blessing" from painting by Prof.
Jordan, is sweet picture of lowly life,
exquisite in its design and execution.
illustrations are given of Woodward
Gardens" the Central Park of San
Francisco. A biographical sketch with
portrait is given of CDR H. l.. Mansel, y
the famous author, Prof Baird contrib
utes an illustrated article on "Count Ray
mond and the Bishop of Toulouse"
The children's wants are attended to
in the illustrated article "The Two UNI
brella Houses" and other sketches. The
leading editorial, Sowing and Reaping,
should be carefully read by every parent
throughout the land
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

WHAT DEMOCRATS SAY OF THE TAM
MANY THEFT.-The New York World
says they are " gigantic swindles.''
General Mcclellan says: "The case
looks, very, very black"
Hon. K. B. Roosevelt says "In amonth
more the quartette, Hall, Tweed, Sweeny
and Connolly,@ will be in Europe, in all
probability, as-it will be almost impossi-
BILE to compromise the felony"
Richard OGorman, Esq, City Counsel,
says that "some effective legal steps
should be taken by the corporation to re-
cover these moneys, if sufficient evidence
of fraud can be obtained to sustain ac-
tion."
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

RE-NoMrNATIoN OF GEN GRANT
Harper's Pictorial Weekly, which has
long been one of the very best and most
common sense periodicals in America,
has the following very just views on the
presidency
We make the preference Of no can
dldate yet mentioned test of Republi-
can orthodoxy. There are those, indeed
whose nomination might fairly be held
to show such decentralization in the par
ty that good Republicans could not sup
port them; but no such alternative has
yet presented itself in the Presidential
debate. For reasons which we have
mentioned, land shall probably often re-
peat, the denominations of General Grant
seems to us most expedient for the Repub-
Icon party. While in his administra-
ton, as in every other, there is much to
be criticised, much also of what is said
of him is sheer calumny. But il the
party shall fairly decide that it will not
fight it out upon that line, but prefers
another leader, we shall follow the flag
And if at this time the withdrawal OF
General Grant from the candidacy
would obviously unite the party upon a
more available candidate, we believe
that the President, whose patriotism and
devotion TO the welfare of the country
have certainly been amply proved, would
not hesitate to withdraw. But his re-
tirement would not produce that result.
There has been no other person mention
ed upon whom there is any probability
whatever of harmonious union. In 1867
when the question of the nomination
was agitated, if General Grant had per-
emptorily declined, Mr.. Chase would
have been unanimously selected by the
sentiment of the party. But who stands
now where the Chief Justice stood then I
In the actual situation, therefore, the re.
nomination of the President is as expe.
dent as his nomination was in 1868"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

"A Racine girl wanted her lover to
swear on the Bible that she was all the
world to him; on his refusal to do which
she knocked him down with the sacred
volume.
An attache of Gen. Crooks command,
which is now hunting Indians in Arizona
speaking Of the hitherto almost unknown
regions where it is operating, says that
the country there is beautiful, stocked
with abundance of pines and oaks, plen-
ty of grass and streams of clear water
with enough fish for even old Izaak Wal
ton.
At recent political meeting in
Texas, addressed by Gen. w. 7. Clark,
renominated for Congress by the repub-
licans of the third district, the democrats
were excited TO disloyal demonstrations
by an ex-rebel captain, and manifested
their feelings in pulling Gown and tear
ing to pieces large United States flag,
anc threatening violence to the republi-
cans.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29
8ellows falls Jimes,
BELLOWS FALLS, SEPT. 20, 1871,
The republicans Of both Massachusetts

The republicans Of both Massachusetts,
and New York held important State con-
ventions on Wednesday, of which we may
get some particulars in season for third
page or before going to press. Massa-
chusetts may be able to stand the strain
of an embroglio over Gen. Butler, while
union in New York may redeem that
State this fall.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

TERRIBLE GUSPowDER EXPLOSION
"A terrible explosion occurred at Rand's
powder mill near Newburg, n. Y. at 9
O'Clock on Tuesday morning. One and
a half tons fpowder were burned. There
were two distinct reports. Augustus
Schultz was killed, his body being hor-
ribly mangled. In Poughkeepsie, doz.
en- miles from the scene of the explosion,
buildings were shaken, doors slammed,
and windows ratified. The loss by the
explosion is $4,000.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29
Estate Of Lizzie s,oweII.

STATE OF VERMONT / The Probate r
DISTRICT OF WEsrMINsTER S. in and fee sSseif +
trio; To all persons interested in the estate q :.
.ZIE STOW ELL late Of Putney in said aE.Is,.,
ceased 6zEE1nsg
NoU are hereby notified that Haynes b r.
Il administrator of said estate will present ~ q
count for allowance and ask for a distrio =
the funds in his hands among the heirs 81 " "
sion of said co art to be held at the probate CT
Townshend in said district on the first " e. e. q
of October ISL. and that said court Will tas-Ss
there decide upon the allowance OF ssll - -
and decree distribution OF said estate. at wnla =
and place you can be heard in the premise.
shall see cause. c. B. EDD1. hutN
September 6. ISL.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

THE PERIL OF Mr.. TwEED.-All the
signs indicate that Tweed and his politi-
cal crcnies will be invited by the demo-
cratic state convention to walk the plank
although the Boss still processes to be
perfectly easy in his mind and sure of
his ability to maintain his position. Mr..
Tilden has sent out circular letter in
which he exhorts democrats everywhere
to send to the convention, men of integ-
rity, honor, judgment and discretion, and
tells them that wherever the gangrene
of corruption has reached the democrat
ic party, we must take knife and cut it
out by the roots" The Herald, though
still distressed by apprehensions of that
New York commune which it sees fore
Swallowed in the post-prandial consulta-
tions in Grammercy. square, is satisfied
that Tammany is "gone up" and that a
new ideal is in order. And now the
World definitely abandons the ring to
its fate. 1t says there will not be !" any
loosening of the grip which has already
been got by hostile democratic hands up
on the municipal authorities y that the
malfeasance is " fully established that
the charter must bereformed, new may
or elected, and new heads of department
appointed :" and that it concerns no.
body so much as the Tammany chiefs
themselves to look this prospect fully in
the face" This detection of the World
is serious, though not necessarily fatal
1t will strengthen the hands of Tweed's
enemies in the rural districts, and may
! even draw away from HIM some of The
kid-glove politicians who frequent the
Manhattan club. But, aside from his
money-bags and his really wonderful
mastery Of the arts of corruption, hi:
strength lies in the personal devotion tC
himself with which he has inspired the
rank and file of the city democracy, o.
which there was an example, Friday
night, when he was renominated for state
senator. He counts adherents by the
scores of thousands who never read the
World,-or any other paper, for that
matter,-and who know nothing and
care nothing about the city accounts
With them at his back, he is able tc
give the Tildens and Marbles good dea
of trouble yet.-SpringtfeId Republican
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

| The PERILs OF CHLoRoFoRM.-Mis
Julia w. Doolittle, residing in Brook
Ign, N. Y, visited the dentist office of
X. G. Brewster, to have eight or sen teeth
extracted, preparatory to using false
set, and while undergoing the operation
died. She had called at the dentists of
fee on Saturday, and taken laughing
gas, but this failed to produce insensibil-
ity. The dentist said she might take
chloroform, but that he would not adj
minister it, and she would have to en-
gage physician. She obtained the SER
vices of DIR. Geo. S. Little of No. III
Carlton-ave., who went with her, yester-
day, to the dentists office, and admins
tered chloroform, after which j. w.
Eggleston, an assistant, drew four teeth.
DR.. Brewster, after extracting five teeth,
found that she was gradually sinking
under the effects of chloroform. DR..
Little applied restoratives and removed
her from the chair to sofa in an adioin-
ing room, where galvanic battery was
applied for at least an hour without pro-
ducing any effect xceptartifcial respira-
ton. Other physicians were called in,
but their efforts utterly failed to restore
animation.
DIR. Little made the following state
ment to Tribune reporter: Miss Doc.
little called upon me and stated that she
wanted to have several teeth drawn
she made an appointment with me to
meet her at Mr.. Brewster's on Monday
morning; went there at the hour named,
and when she arrived administered to her
very small quantity of chloroform-
only four drams-upon a napkin, and
she was soon under its influence: the
dentist extracted the teeth; when felt
her pulse going down, l sent out for
whiskey and applied restoratives in 10
minutes her heart ceased to beat: she
had stated that she was in good health.
Miss Doolittle was about 80 years of
age, and was employed as an instruct
ress on sewing-machines in Wilcox &
Gibbss sewing machine establishment.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-29

CHEAP FARMS AND CHEAP HOMES
Hon. o. f. Davis, land commissioner of
the Union Pacific Railroad, offers land
for sale in Nebraska at very cheap rates,
the particulars of which will be found in
his advertisement in another place.
Those who think of emigrating west, and
others will do we'll to give this offer their
attention