The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-10-13
President Grant made a pretty good

f. President Grant made a pretty good
speech at Des Moines, says the Colum-
sbia Register, zat the rcuaien of the
Army of the Tennessee. H is stlmu-
lated by the adverseseourse of events
to pull up and do better. He turns
deaf ear to the piteous appeals Of
Ames to come to his rescue with
troops. He disavovs in this any pur-
pose to deny to those who fought
against him the enjoyment Of common
aud equal privileges under the govern
ment. He welcomes all such to a
common heritage, but he adds, ~"we
are aotprepared apologize for the
part we took in the war; He does
not explain himself upon the part he
has taken since the war. There's the
rub.
The suggestion Of Judge Mackey
to the grand jury at the opening Of
the present term of court. says the
Chester Reporter, the strong endorse
ment of these suggestions by the
grand jury, and the instructions de-
livered by his Honor when the report
Of the grand jury had been read, give
assurance, to a dead certainty, that
the days, or rather the nights, of
receivers of stolen goods will soon end.
Under these instructions, the grand
jury, upon evidence being furnished,
will indict as a nuisance any person
who buys at night any agricultural
produc:-cotton, corn, wheat, potatoes,
or anything else, whether stolen or
not. The remedy. we believe, will be
a potential, sovereign one. The
crops of the country being exposed to
the depredatiors of sneak and night
prowlers, and the manipulations Of
night buyers, should be, and are, the
object Of the laws special protection.
Judge Mackey is determined that the
fullest protection shall be given.
The new Post Office in Columbia,
which was opened on Monday, is a
magnificent building, containing three
stories besides attic and basement. It
is IS feet front on Main street and
113 on Laurel street, and is built of
native granite from quarries at Winns-
boro, and the corner stone was laid on
the 18th October, 1872. The number
of boxes is 1850, with larger drawers
at the bottom for newspaper Offices
and, those needing more room. In
the building also are the Offices Of the
collector of internal revenue, the Uni
ted States. commissioners room, the
district attorneys room, a waiting
room for witnesses, the grand jury room,
the U. s.. marshal's room, the y. S.
Court rvum, besides ruou1s tire
circuit and district judges, and clerks
rooms. The cost of the whole, In
cluding furniture, is about $4,000,
and not dollar stolen, for which We
give as authority the :Uaion:Herold
which, ike the little boy with the
:hatchet, never tells a lie. Senator
Tom Robertson is credited for this
work. ...... -.......s =.
The complication Is assuming form
in Laurens, and it is evident that the
Crews party are making the most Of
the unfortunate murder that they can.
Senator Owens is particularly active,
and money is not spared to get the
kind Of, testimony needed against the
Shells. A News and Goarier CORES
poudent overhead conversation be-
tween detective and party Of
negroes, in which the detective said
the negroes must stick to their rights
while they had the chance, otherwise
Laurens County was gone. That
Crews was the only man who ever
cared for the negro, and that in get
ting him out of the way the whites
would carry the county and kill the
negroes. How. much this kind Of
talk is relished by the negro it is need
less to say. Numberless afidavits are
made against the Shells, but the re-
butting testimony of respectable and
true men shows conclusively that they
are innocent Of crime. Election capt.
tai is to be made of it. It is positively
stated that the affidavit upon which
these gentlemen were arrested was
made BY detective Jas. Canton, who
was in Columbia at the time Of the
murder.
PErERsoN's MAGAZINE, that Queen OF
the Lady's Books, is on our table for No