The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-07-19
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UNITED STATESJ JURORS,
Tho New Law Preventing Partisan Draw.
ings-Reduction Of Pay.

lilo New Law Preventing Partisan Draw
ings-Reduction Of Pay.
The new law relating to Jurors in
United States Courts makes sOme very
important changes in that business.
Heretofore tho United States Marshels
have been able to pack jury to suit
their own ideas Of justice, and in the
South they have usually picked out
Republicans fOE sthat service, and @
good deal ofinjustice has consequently
been perpetratet. The act passed by
Congress does away with this partisan
feature, as we'll as the obnoxions test
oath. The jurors fee is also reduced
from three to two dollars dav. The
section relating to the selection of
jurors is as follows: ..& .r. ....
"SEcTIoN 2: That the per diem pay
OF each juror, grand or petit, in any
court of the United States shall be so;
and that all such jurors, grand and
petit, including those sum noned dur
ing tho session of the court, shall be
publicly drawn from box containing,
ut the time of each drawing, tile names
of not less than three hundred persons,
whose names shall lave been placed
therein by the Clerk Of said court and a
Commissioner, to be appointed by the
Judge thereof, which Commissioner
shall be a citizen Of good standing, re-
siding in tho district in which such
court Is held, and a well-known mem
Der Of the principal political party" in
the district in Which the court is held
opposing that to which the Clerk NAV
belong, the Clerk and Commissioner
each to place one namc in said box
alternately, without reference to party
affiliations, until the whole number re-
qlircd shall be placed therein. But
nothing herein construed to prevent
any Judge from ordering the names
OF jurors to be drawn from the boxes
used by the State authorities in select
! ing jurors in the highest courts of the
State; and 10 person shall serve as a
petit juror more than one term in one
year, and all jurors to serve in conrts
after the passage Of this act shall bic
drawn in conformity herewith: Pro-
Vlded, That no citizens possessing all
other qualifications which are or may
be prescribed by law shall be disquali-
He'd for service as grand or petit Juror
in any court ofthe United States on ac-
count OF race, color or previous con-
dition of servitudc
THE YELLOW WFDYER. ..
Five New Cases in nIemphis--t.enewed
Alarm, and an Exodus Of Citizens.
MEMPHIS July 17.-Five new cases
OF yellow fever were reported to the
Board of Health this morning. Tho
cases consist of members of two fami-
lies named Hester. residing under one
roof at Numbers 84 and sc Clay street,
in the southern portion Of the city.
LATER.--Thc now cases of yellow
fever are members Of the families OF
Robert and James Hester, two broth
! ers, whose residences are in the same
nelghborhood as Judge Rays house.
The following persons are prostrated
with the disease: Robert Hester and
wife, Mrs. James Hester and two
children. Mrs. James Hester has been
sick four days. Her children were
taken Tuesday, as were also Robert
Hester and his wife. Yellow fever
symptoms were not fully developed
until this morning, when Mrs. James
) Hester had black vomit and at noon
was dying. The two brothers are
river men, James Hester being night
Watchman Oh the Relec wharf boat, and
h0Dert Iiestor ship carpenter. There
Will be another exodus of citizens to.
night. a,aa -
Senator Matt Carpenter was inter.
viewed the other day upon the subject
! OF his health, and said: "I tell you NO
man can smoke twenty Havana cigars
a day and keep UP tho practice without
enconntering certain DEATH" sa Mr..
Carpenter Is wrecked body and mind