Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1873-10-23
NEWS ITEMS.

The cashier of the state treasury ct
New York has been arrested for embez-
cling 100000.
= Mr.. Harris the Iutendant Of the
town of Union was ruu over and killed
last week by the cars on the Air Line
railroad.
The state capital has been busy
place the past week; two circuses, and
the arrival of legislative members have
made things lively. The former, not
vithstanding the lack of currency, car,
ried out of the city over five thousand
dollars.
There is considerable dispute in Co.
lumbia, between merchants, because. Of
the refusal of some of them to receive
the scrip issued by the city.
The republican candidate, Martin,
was elected from Fairfield county, to the
state senate to fill the vacancy caused by
the death Ex-senator Ford.
The manufacture oe ploughs at
Goldsboro aud v ilson, n. g., has proved
remunerative business; over four thou
sand were made there last year.
The Isabella, Catawba, and Soup
pernong grape, the best varieties in the
country, are natives Of North Carolina.
The Re-. Lucius Cuthbcrt has been
compelled by il!-health to resign his
position as pastor oil the Baptist Cnuch
ut Aiken.
-. j. Cain, sheriff Of Orangeburg,
is said to be detlulter, and the treasur'
er of the county is monet.
The Cuuard steamship company
have determined to withdraw their YES
sells from the West India rv.ce at al
early day, and e>tai Ii II daily hne te
tween Liverpool and New York.
- The great advantages Of Port Roya
as a sea port are attracting more genera
attention than ever before, within aud
beyond the state.
The warrants for the arrest o.
ninety counterteiters, and those imp lcat
ed in East Tennessee aud North Carroll
ma, have been issued. The implicated
parties include lawyers, doctors, justices
of peace, po tmasters, United State'
deputy marshas, clerks OF courts ant
numerous merchants.
AS an evidence Of the immense
capacity and splendid condition OF th'
mills Of the Pensacol LumbeI Company
at Molino, it is stated that some day
since they sawed in six days clever
hours day., seven hundred thousant
feet of lumber, all board measure.
The article on duelling proposed il
the Pennsylvania Constitutional Con
yention was finally passed in this form
ANY person who shall fight duel o
send challenge for that purpose, or b.
alder or a better in fighting duel, shal
be deprived of the right of holding an.
Office of honor or profitin this State, anc
may be otherwise punished as shall b.
prescibed by law.''
The Mobile Register says: eff, q
predicted by competent judges. the cot
ton crop of the South should reach foul
million bales and sell at even only Is cts
putting the bale down at $50 pounds
or So SO a bale-the proceeds would
not be less than two hundred and ninet,
million dollars, or far more than tn
united capital of all the national banks
Who's afraid?"
There is difference of opinion, re re
garding the holding of an election to I'll
the vacancy caused by trial justice Lev
of Charleston, accepting his salary a
trial Justice. Levy holds that the extr;
session is part of the old legislature, 10
the term of which he has received pay
and that the state cannot be put 10 tn
expense of paying another member to Il
his place also, that he Is not dls;quaIl
fed, not having been confirmed by tn
senate. With these opinions the author
tiles differ The election resulted IN tn
choice of E. w. NJ. Mackey, and Colo
mel G. G.. Putfer.
- There is but little doubt that tn
state will come to the relief of the none
stringency by the issue of bills receivable
This course is very generally approve
of by all parties; something has to b
done, or more than one-half of the mcr
chants in Columbia will 60 by the board
- The preparatory school located j
the University grounds at Columbia
commenced on the most favorable aus
pices. There are at present eighteen stu
dents, of both colors, and within tn
next week, there is every probability tha
the number will be doubled. Professc
Fox is principal of the school. The teri
of instruction is for four years, at the Ell
of which time, the students will be pre-
pared to enter the college, or to 60 OF
in the world educated to meet the RI
quirements in entering upc1 nearly ever
profession.
'DRowN 1T IN A Bowl. "-Th
Chicago Times saws y Gen. A. Z. Burr
side, ofRhode Island, late a major.genel
al in the Union army, and Gen. Buckne
of Kentucky, late major-general i'll ii
Confederate army, dined together at Il
Sherman House, in Chicago, on Sunds