The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-05-16
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TIN BLUE RIDGE StRIp CAsEs.-The
cases OF A. D. Williams .ys. the Comp
troller-General of South Caroline and
others, and John P. Southern and others,
assignees of the Blue Ridge Railroad
Compan against the same, were heard,
yesterday, before Chief Justice Waite
and Circuit Judge Hugh L. Bond-Mr.
ID. Z. Corbin and Judge Magrnth repre-
senting the plaintiffs. and Mr. Memmin-
ger and Mr.. WIN. H. Brawley the de-
PENDANTS. After argument, both bills
were dismissed. The cases involved the
validity of the revenue bond scrip issued
under the Act of March 2, 1872, to the
amount of $1,8OO,OOU. The plaintiff, A.
d. Williams. who holds about S2OO, 900
of this scrip, filed his bill to have the
same declared n contract ON the part of
the State. and for mandatory proceedings
TO have n tax levied for their payment,
&c. The assignees of the Blue Ridge
Railroad Company filed their bill to have
dc. The Chief Justice held, in the FIRST
case, TINT n bill in equity would not lie
against the officers Of State 10 compel a
performance Of on alleged contract Of the
State. That in IL suit to recover money,
the State would be necessarily party,
and that as she had not made herself a
party, there was no power in the Court
to make the decree asked for against her
In tho second case, it was held TINT the
rights of the parties had been concluded
by the decision in the State Courts in the
case ec reldtione +. +. Gary, State Auditor
to which suit Mr.. f. B. Wesley, the party
from whom the nsssignccs had obtained
their scrip, was II party. The plaintiffs
appealed to the Supreme Court of the
United States
AFFAIRS IN ORAEGEBUR0. +. X. Nc
kinlay, the former School Commissioner
and j. u. Humbert. late County Trea-
surer, will be tried mt the Court of Gene
raj Sessions this week, on mn indictment
With ten counts for forgery while in
Office. Humbert is in the penitentiary,
and Judge Reed hns ordered that he be
brought to this place Monday. Senator Il.
q. Andrews was arrested on warrant
issued by Trial Justice E. A. Webster.
He is charged with libelling G. 4. Ncnf-
fer. Senator Andrews gave bail and WAS
discharged.
The absurdity and injustice OF ..com-
pulsory" education has lately been
strongly illustrated in New York city A
youth named John Smith WINS arrested
under the Act and committed to RAN
d"lls Island on the charge of vagrancy:
and now it appears that his father is q
poor invalid. whose wife is dead, and
who il entirely dependent upon the boy
for aid and assistance. The fanatics who
passed the law ought to be made to sup
port the man. Tint would perhaps cool
their crazy enthusiasm ON the subject.
fellow in Kentucky ran away with
a ar ov,I L.
hotly pursued. The farmer got within
close range, and tiourished revolver.
Don't shoot. for Heavens sake" shout
e,l the lover "I won't" was the reply,
"'cause I'm afeared I'll hit the hoss,
Just leave thcr hoss and take ther gall :"
That compromis" WAS accepted by the
young folks, who walked un To n
preachers house, and the father rode
home on his horse.
\ despatch from st. Joseph. Missouri,
May II, says: During the last four days
the grasshopper plague las assumed MI
alarming aspect. The weather hns
brought these pests out III full force, and
farms III the neiShhorhuod nre black
with them. They nre doing terrible da-
mage to the wheat and ont crops, aS we'll
az the gardens. Discoumginy reports
are coming in from I'LL parts of the
country.
Chicago reporter. instead of sitting
down and writing two columns and n
half about mans trenchcry and woman's
trusting confidence, winding ND with
''one more untortunate. etc.. merely got
of paragraph, which he concluded AK
follows: "Her history is one of those
blank pages, upon which not n single
line has been written that is worth re-
collection"
The arbitrators to determine the long
standing boundary question between
Maryland and Virginia, met in Washing
ton city OH Tuesday. They consist of
Judge Jerry Black, who is nnmed by
Maryland; General Graham, of North
Carolina, who is named by Virginia, and
Governor Jenkins, of Georgia. named ms
the third by the other two nrbitrators
The Schiller disaster recalls the fact
that i'll October, 1907. in English SQUAD
ron. under Sir Cloudesly Shovel, went
to pieces off these SHINE Scilly Isles. oc-
cnsioning II loss of 2.OU0 lives. The
troublesome rocks of these islnnds nre
cslled, very properly. the dogs of
Scilly."
UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS. Judge
Hugh J.. Bohd, in the Circuit Court,
made tho following appointments of
Cnitel States Commissioners: f. NJ.
Stoeber. Marion, $. g., and Thomls NJ.