The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-11-13

is dead The man who shot him has
been surrendered by his bondsmcn, and
will soon be put on trail for murder.
LANDS, who SHOT Carruth, is the son
of an old Pennsylvania Dutch couple
from the L,ndis valley. He marricttthc:
uppiSh Miss Mead, who liked money,
but soon grew weary Of Sinclanl life,
and now l.andis is divorced and indicted
for murdcr. Moral: Marry abreast Of
you.
WuEN the law OF Massachusetts pro-
viding that all railroad trains shall come
to Il full stop before crossing Il track OF
another line was enacted it gave much
dissatisfaction to railroad men. The law
has, however proved :. good one, and it
is said that no railroad man of The state
would now Consent to its repeal
TIE new state constitution Of Nebraska,
contains Il. provision that the United
States senators for that state shall here
after he elected by direct vote Of the
people. 1t will he All interesting qucs-
ton now To hes settled whether this is
not in conflict with the constitution Of
the United States.
a DEVASTATING fire swept through,
Virginia City, Nevada, last week, laying
the greater part of the city. in ruins, and
leaving thousands of people homeless
and destitute. No greater calamity has
bcfallcn any western town for many
years, and, if the prospective dcstitution
is rs great rs represented. and the mann
Der of people lei! hou-rc>S rs many rs
reported, their suffering will appeal to
the charitable the whole country over
THOUGi the losses hv the burning of
Virginia City are somewhat less than
was first reported thcy are, terribly Sc
we're, and the suffering is aggravated hv
the fact that tie city WIS built and in
habtcd for the most by working people,
whose oniy-weal,! WAS i'll their labor and
thrift aDA enterprise. The fire has not
consumed the surplus wealth Of Il rich
old community, but the tools, the
mechanism, the working forces, the daily
bread Of :, whole community.
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JAY GOULD OWLS twenty million dol
lars of !css,ntll Of = the Union Pacific
railroad, and controls several millions
more, giving him. ai-potcnt voice in
its management and one OF tho largest
slarers i'll its profits. The total of stock
is fifty million dollars. If the case now
before the United States supreme court
is decided in favor Of This road, Gould
will be gaincr in IN amount double the
price Of his stock, DIS Tic government
will he mulctcd III over three hundred
million dollars. u
THE mysterious murders tliat have he.
come so frequent i'll Now England of late
are discussed Il great deal in the papers
there. One descendant Of the Pilgrims
offers i'll an exchange the following val-
liable suggestions. To coroncr's .iuries:
"Takc up the corps and make the man in
charge touch her If she blccds that is the
i,iaii had the sand evidence with one
some fifteen years ago this will'show yo,,
the corrcck way OF holding coroncr's
jury this is asatrllc as god in heaven try
this and you will satisfy the whole Of the
New England stats Just us tell 80 lelp
mi god"
NoRMAN WIZARD, of Washington, who
is conducting ordnance cxpcrinftntSat
Boston, fired, last Saturday, mi g inn
proved chilled iron Wizard projcctilc,"
which penetrated Il heavy iron plating
twelve inches At II distance of ,G55
yards. The shot weighed 53l pounds,
and the charge consisted of 20 pounds of
hexagonal oriental powder. The shot
struck the exact spot at which it WAS
aimed; the plating was entirely pcrior.l-
ted, and showed marks of the nangcs of
the shot. lis rotary motion velocity
was $40 feet per second. The expert
ment was witnessed by several hundred
persons, including several hundred army
and navy officers and students of tech
nology.
In lS7fmerc than nine per cent. of
the children of the Fatherand ,efo srd
to present themselves when called upon
to enroll as soldiers. In other word.
the dcscrtcrs from the armies aggregated
cighty-two thousand four hundred and
eighteen men, almost as many as the en-.
tire rank and file of the British army
is undoubtedly true that sixteen thou
sand six hundred and scycnty-two ot