The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-12-12
THE MorrETr PUNCH IN VIRGINIA.

THE MoFrETr PUNCH IN VIRGINIA.
The report of the auditor of pubt''
accounts to be made to the General AS
,embly of Virginia, at the session to ee.
gin on Wednesday, will show that the
Moffett register system of liquor taxa
ton has realized about S5OO,OOO. Ihls
is less than was claimed for it when 1t
was before the Legislature, but 1t Is
more than has been expected at any
time within the past six montns' anu ID
two or three times as much as the o'o
license plan produced. 1t is antlc'pa'
ted that the auditor will recommend that
the loose places in the Moffett law be
tightened, and that better register be
adopted. There is now very little active
opposition to the law.
POSTMASTER GENERAL KEY has sent
q letter to the Speaker of the House OF
Representatives, forsshadowing n dis
continuance of the postal car service IN
all parts Of the country on the first day
of January next, unless Congress shall
in the meantime make an appropriation
to continue it. The total appropriation
for railway mail transportation during
the current fiscal year will fall short OF
meeting the cost of the existing railway
service of all descriptions by about halt
million dollars. The cost of the postal
car system is about one million dollars
per anuum, and the entire Withdrawal
of the postal cars from the 1st of JAN
uary to the 30th of next june will
therefore, effect saving Of 100000,
and bring the expenditures for railway
transportation within the total appro'
priation for the fiscal year.
ANDREW RoMER, a native Of Hun
oary. who was naturalize1 in the United
States in 1854, and who has been en-
ployed as an engineering mechanic ir
the arsencl in Constantinoplo, from
which he was dismissed three month:
ago, was arrested on the 2Sth Of Nov
Mr.. Maynard, United States minister al
Coustantinople, protested that, in ac'
cordance with the terms of capitulatlon
Romer ought to have been sent to the
consular prison. Grand VIzicr Safve'
Pasha expressed regret at the mistake
and promised to arrange the matter. but
nothing was done up to the time of tho
accession of the new ministry, Mr.. Moy'
uard will to,day demand to be Informed
the charges against Mr., Romer. Ths
Porte has not informed Mr.. Maynard
that Romer was charged with conspiring
against the Sultan.
THE Indian Government has received
the reply Of the Ameer of Afshanistar
to the Vic"roy's ultimatum. 1t is dated
November 10, but is believed to have
been written after the receipt by the
Am4eF Of the Pfc RGEs stq66gtff tq66 tfeerf eerftAfstsss The
alleged friendly intentions Of tho British
Government, and declares that its actor
ic the past is not such as to raise pre-
sumption Of friendly intentions. He
explains that his refusal to receive Sil
Neville Chamberlain's mission was mol
intended to be hostile, but was due tc
the fear Of loss of independence. He
desires that no ermity should exist be,
tween Afghanirtau uuu V'o DF'''Sh UoV'
erument, and wishes TO resume the
rurmcr IrIendlv relations. and says thai
he will not resist the visit Of small
temporary mission.
A GENUINE OUTRAGE.-OD the night
of the 21st altimo, quiet and well dis
posed colored man, Marcus Williams,
was going from Wilson's store, near
Murfreesboro, N. c., to his home. which
was about half mile from the store.
On the same evening he had been ap-
preached aud notified by a colored friend
that because he had voted for Major
Yeates for Congress, che had enemies,
and had better look out" When Wilson
was about one hundred yards from his
house, he vas attacked by three colored
men, whom he had just passed on the
road, and, after being brutally beaten
and thrown IN pond OF water, he was
left for dead. But he was not dead, and
is now living witness against the three
would.be Ku Klux. The most incon.
testablc evidence shows that this at
tempt on this honest colored mans life
was made because he saw fit to vote the
Democratic ticket Washington Post.
SENATOR GORDON, says writer in
the Atlanta Constitution, was wounded