The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-03-08

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In this connection wsrefor to the evil
dence of MIR. Pettingiil,a (under the hea1
OF pay certificates who was dealer
horses aud mules, and who says he sold thi
TO different members, aud was paid in Il .
lslatlve pay certificates, naming SpeakeSS.
j. Lee and W.. II. Jones, of Georgetown,
as two of such purchasers and,4iat hE also
received pay certificates for ihorse3 food
buggy hire" &c.
MIR. Greenfield says he did not sill any
buggles or carriages directly 10 thS State,
but sold to the members and was 5paid for
them with pay certificates He remembers
recelving certificate, which proved to be
.9ana saentsinspsyment for 9. a.earriage. At
one s!ne u pr0posttionN was ssmv3 to Ma co
sell largo portion of his stock Of carriages
and buegies if he would make out his ac-
count against the State and receive pay Ger.
tlhcates in payment thereof. which he de-
cllned. We also refer to theevidence given
by Sallas Randall, committee clerk, who
testified that house of ill-fsme in the City
of Columbia vas supplied with furniture at
the expense of the State. We also refer TO
the account of Mr.. LyBrand, dealer in
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
designated as No. 81 by A.:O. Jones, as an
evidence that, whilst reveliing in their Bac.
chanalian sports, the Muses. were not neg
lccted. The soft melody of the melodeon
was invoked to inspire what spirits would
not.
CARpETING.
We could not ascertain the actual amount
OF carpeting purchased or used, but the
bllls rehdered amounted to sevsraf tAorss,l-
dollars per annum. That some conception
may be formed Of this enormous expendi-
turc, VIC refer to the evidence of Mr.. Purse,
who measured all the committee rooms, and
Offices in the State House and committee
rooms outside, and testifcs that it. Would re.
quire only l 300 yards to carpet all Of them.
By reference to the account of Stewart,
Sutphen & Co., designated as No. 73 by a.
o. Jones, and reported from committee OH
contingent account, it will be found that
during ono session alone they sold to the
State
4,65S YARDS OF CARpETING,
more than one thousand yards being finest
Brussels. Gen. Dennis and Sergcant-at-
arms Williams both testifythat the CON-
mittee rooms were furnished with new car.
pets every session, which were carried away
in the spring of the year. Gen. Dennis
says he knows that some of it was shipped
to Massachusetts,
WOMEN AND WINE-Of the worst foes
that woman has ever had to encounter, wine
stands at the head. The appetite for strong
drink in man has spoiled the lives Of more
women, ruined more hopes for them, scat.
tered more fortunes for them brought them
more sorrow, shame and hardship. than all
other evils that live. The country numbers
tens of thousands--nay, hundreds of thou
sands of women who are widows TO-DAY and sit
in hopeless weeds because their husbands
have been slain by strong drink.
There are hundreds of thousands of
homes, scattered all over the land, in which
women live lives oftorture, laboring through
all the changes of suffering that lie between
tho extreme Of fear and despair, because
those whom they love like wine better than
they do the women they have sworn to love.
There are women by thousands who dread
to hear at the door the step that once
thrilled them with pleasure, for that step
h"S icarueu w ISci uuQeC tho lnnuencc OF
seductive poison. There are women groan-
ing with pain, while we write these words,
from bruises and brutalities inflicted by
husbands made mad by drink There can
bo no exaggeration in the statement made
in regard to this matter. because no human
imagination can create anything worse than
the truth, and no pen can portray the truth.
The sorrows and the horrors of wife with
a drunken husband, or mother with
drunken son, are as near the realization of
hell as csn be reached in this world at least
The shame, the indignation, the sorrow, the
sense Of disgrace for herself and her chill
dren, the poverty (and not unfrequently the
beggary,) the fear and the fact of violence,
the lingering life long struggle and despair,
of countless women with drunken husbands,
are enough to make all women curse, and
engage unitedly to oppose it everywhere, as
the worst enemy Of ,thoir sex.
CHARCOAL FOR ANIMALs.-It is difficult
to doctor brute animals, because they cannot
tell what is the matter with them; aud prob
ably three.quarters of the attempts made
to relieve them only make matters worse.
Generally they are sick from over-eating.