The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-05-08

AniS Court met, yesterday, at 1O A. M.
The grand jury reported the following
true bills: The State against Washing
ton Doherty, grand larceny, and the
State against William Capeler, grind lar
ceny.
The entire day was occupied in tho
trial of the two former Boards of County
Commissioners, the Attorney-G General as
sisting the Solicitor in the prosecution,
and Messra. Bachman & Youmans repre-
senting the defendants.
In the case of the State against j. II.
Bryant, John j. Goodwin and Uriah
Portee, County Commissioners from 1870
to 1879, the indictment charged official
misconduct in their having neglected to
make IN annual publication of nll claims
audited and allowed, and the amounts
claimed, together with those actually
paid. There being three defendants,
the defence was allowed fifteen peromp-
tory challenges and the State six. Mr.
ID. b. Miller testified for the State. No
testimony was offered by the defence. the
Court having ruled, in the cross s-exami-
nation of Mr.. Miller, that no testimony
tending to show that there was an All
senee of criminal intent on the part of
tho defendants was competent for tho
jury; but that, in case Of conviction, and
before judgment. nf1idavits to that effect
would have its proper weight with the
Court in pronouncing its sentence. In
tho course of his argument to the jury,
MIR. General Melton said: "All
the checks and balances that State-crnft
can devise to hold public servants to o
strict accountability, are comparatively
worthless compared to the modern expe.
dient Of publicity" He then read to the
Court an extract from Prof. I.ieber's
'Civil Liberty and Self-Government,"
relative to the importance Of publicity to
the government of free country. AIr.
Youmans argued the case in behalf of
the defendants. The jury retired YER
dict of guilty
The case of the State against Ellison
~ Weston, Wm. M. Hnyne and Uriah
Portee' the Board Of County Commits
sloners from 1872 till 1874, indicted for
paying m account of VIM NJ Taylor
without its having been previously item
lied, or particularized, and sworn to,
WAS commenced, but Mt 4.30 p NJ, the
Court ndjourned, i'll order to give to Mr.
ID. b. Miller time to search tile records
of the Board relative to questions pro-
pounded by the Acknowledgement until
10 A. NJ. to-day.
CoNsIoNEEs by South Carolina Railroad
Company, May7 1875: Bowen l. LaF'ar,
]. H. Alice. j. Altee, F. A. Brown, C.
Hamberg, c. j. Laurey, j. Taylor. Geo
Symmers. Cooper & Taylor, A D. Cump-
sty 4 Co., w: Johnson, j. c. Dial, p. W.
Kraft. w: @. Fisher, G. Dicrcks, J. Ag-
new 4 Son, H. Solomon, C. H., w. B.
Love Il Co., NJ. II. Berry, p. Cantwell.
H. Terry, r. A. Mcdonald, Geiger & Nc
Gregor, H. NJ. Gibson, f. H. Heinitsh,
b. F. Griffin, r. l.. Morris. II. Solomon,
Copeland Il Benrrlen.
The TORNADO OF SATURDAY LAST
Certain portions Of our unfortunate
County were laid waste Oh Saturday af-
ternoon last, by tornado almost equal
in its fury to that of six weeks back.
Like the former one, it first worked
widespread and horrible destruction in
certain Counties of Georgia Oglethorpe
and Burke principally and then passed
into Edgeteld. We hear of it first in the
Dark Corner and ut Liberty Hill. In the
Dark Corner, DIR. doe. Jennings seems to
have been the greatest sufferer. Twelve
OF his outhouses were blown down and
many of them completely destroyed.
Fences and timber in this section, as
also at Liberty Hill, were terribly sacri-
feed. DR.. Joe Jennings informs us that
the highroad for five or six miles below
his house il totally impassable--c com
pletely blotted out by fallen timber
The next section seriously devastated
WAS Gilgal. The citizens of this neigh
borhood have suffered terribly. Dr. John
Barker has written us letter, the details
OF which are shocking. He says: THE
storm hos destroyed seven Of my houses,
and has not left panel of fence standing
on my plantation. My oats and wheat,
in fact my entire crop of oil sorts, is to-
tally exposed. My dwelling and furni-
ture are badly damaged. Both my
carriage and my buggy are in flinders.
My loss is beyond description or calcu-
lation. And what l say Of myself, may
be said of my ncighbors. They have
been terribly broken up. hear Of num-
bers of valuable horses and mules being
killed. The cries of frightened women
and children during the storm were
enough to make the strongest man shud-
der.
From another source we hear that the
following citizens Of tho Gilgal section
lost their gin houses, besides being 9TH
erwise badly damaged: Col. Sam Strom,
Mr.. Luke Culbreath, Mr.. John Rey-
holds, Mr.: Ebb Reynolds, MIR. j. is.
and VIM. Williams, and Mr.. Jabex Mar
tin. We hear further that Mr.. Dong.
Zimmerman, Mrs. Joshua Harris, Mr..
Abner Bushnell, DIR. Mayson, and many
others sustained very heavy losses. Six
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