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The death rate among cattle in
Florida has been fearful during the re-

The death rate among cattle in
Florida has been fearful during the re-
cent cold weather.
: In White Hall Township, Able
vile County, the darkies have an organ.
ization known as the ''Laborers' Protec-
tive Union" The full-grown members
purpose to demand 500 and -ations for
the years services, and for "half-grown"
boys, IS month. They propose to reg
ulate by force those who attempt to dis
regard this rule. =,
= The new courthouse at Aiken will
be an elegant and commodious structure
and will cost $l2,793. 1t will be COM
pletcd by the contractor in time for the
September term of Court. The fnancies
of the county are in q very healthy con-
dilion, and the board will be able to
meet every bill with the cash as it falls
due.
= The New York Erening Post says;
Mrs. Barnwell Rhett. widow of Senator
Rhet! of South Carolina, and tbe widow
of former Mayor of New Orleans, will
both become inmates of the Louise Home
at Washington, established and kept up
bv Mr.. Corcoran, the Washington bank
er, for the benefit of Southern gentle
women who have been unfortunate.
= The schoo. commissioner elect of
Pickens County, O. T. Jones, having
failed to qualify by the first day of Janu-
ary, as required by law and his predeces-
sor, Il. w. Singleton, having resigned,
the Office is now vacant, and will remain
so until an appointment is made by the
Governor. the county board of examin.
ers met last week and fixed the salary Of
school commissioner for the present year
at $500.
The Rev. Thaddeus Salters, col
ored, has stood q highly creditable
examination before the Board of Exam
iners of the Episcopal Church, and will be
ordained a Deacon in St. Marks, colored
Episcopal Church, Charleston. He will
take charge of that congregation. He is
the first colored man ever ordained in the
Episcopal ministry of this State, and
highly spoken of-as he deserves to be.
He is native Charlestonian.
- Mrs. Martha Clark, wife of. @. A.
Clark, of Abbeville county, died suddenly
at her house on the evening of January
23d. She was engaged in preparing
supper, and stepping out of the house,
remained longer than was expected: In
searching for her, she was found dead.
Heart.discase carried her of. Mrs. Clark
was most excellent woman and long q
consistent member of the Baptist church.
A dispatch to the Mews and Courier
from Milletts, under date of the
9th inst, says: Information has just
been received at this place of fatal
shooting scrape last night, about Z
o'clock, at Stoney Bluff, just across the
river. Acolored man named Israel was
shot by Wilson Cokcr white, and died
to-day about o'clock. There was some
difficulty about the delivery of freight
by Coker, acting for the agent, and
angry words cnsued, whereupon Coker
drew his pistol and fred, the ball enter
ing the left breast. Israel fingered in
much pain until to-day, when he died.
Coker Immediately left, and was seen on
this side of the river to-day"
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Senator Morgan's resolution denying
the right of the Vice President to count
the vote for President and Vice Presi-
dent, and reserving to Congress the right
to decide it, passed the Senate with a
single dissenting voice, so that one
wholesome precedent has been estab-
lished amid the many dangerous ones
to which these latter days of the Repub.
lie have given rise.
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Congress evidently might improve
upon their rules in such manner as to
prevent the obstruction of business by
absenteeism. In the first place tho alb
sentee should forfeit a proportionate per
diem of his salary, and in the next place
a rule should be adopted requiring every
Senator or Representative present to vote
when his name is called. This, with the
power to call the House, would always
guarantee the presence of quorum
during the session, and absenteeism
would not be such clog upon the busi.
ness Of the country. The adoption of
the two new rules would almost termi-
nate the evil.
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Gencral.News Summary.

- The total estimated value Of the ex-
ports from Georgetown during the past
year was $2,2S1, $50.
Several arrests have lately been
made in Spartanburg County for carrying
concealed weapons.
= Cold, rainy weather has killed a
good number of cattle and sheep in
Louisiana this winter.
- Francis Hahn, near Greenville, has
six hundred gallons Of homemade wine
worth Sl.50 per gallon.
- The debt of Memphis, Tenn, isabout
one.third of the value of all the real and
personal property in the city.
- The Presbyterian congregation in
Greenvile have resolved to build a new
church with seating capacity of 600.
= Mr.. N. A. Vandorford, Policeman,
was shot and killed by drunken despe-
RADIO named Yarboro at Salisbury, N. c.,
last week.
Three years ago there were at Pick
ems Courthouse only two stores and three
lawyers; now there are six stores, five
lawyers and two law students.
- The outrage mill grinds in Aiken,
and the negro witnesses are being freely
picked up by the State courts on charges
of perjury and riot.
= The gin.housc of Mr.. J. a. Mitchell,
near Mount Willing, was destroyed by
fire on the night of January 10. The
fire was incendiary, and the loss about
$1,000.
"A valuable chalk bed has been dis
covered on the Wilkinson place at Sum.
mcrhill, three miles from Aiken. 1t be-
longs to Mr.. Julian Yates and IS valued
at $4,000.
- At recent meeting Of the New
York Agricultural Society it was claimed
by speaker that q thousand pounds Of
sugar might be made from all acre of
cnrnstalks.
- The Tennessee Radicals, with The
assistance of low tax Democrats" have
elected the Secretary Of State and
Comptroller, the straightout Democratic
incumbent of the Trcasurership being
reelected.
= At Baltimore, about midnight Of
Wednesday, the boiler of the pleasure
yatch Carrie, of Philadelphia, exploded,
making complete wreck of the vessel
and killing three white men and colorcd
man.
= The Lancaster Lcdyer:: Our County
has been fully represented in all the
wars which have taken place on this
Continent since the year 1902. Fifteen
of the Florida veterans are still living in
this country.
- The introduction of American street
cars into Rio de Janciro has produced a
great change in the social and business
life of the people. There are two kinds
of cars-onc for barefooted people, S
cents; and one for those who wear shoes
10 cents.
= Miss Parnell, sister of the Irish
agitator, and Mrs. A. NJ. Sullivan, the
wife of the member of Parliament from
Meath, are forming Ladies Land
League, in order to continue the work of
relief should Mr. Parnell and his follow
crs be arrested under the coercion bill
now pending.
John Forbes fifty years ago was the
collector of taxes for Vermillion County,
ILL.,, whicl then included the present site
of Chicago. Rather than incur the cx-
pense and trouble of Il journey over the
prairies from the county scat to that
town, he paid Chicago's taxes out of his
own nOckct.
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life sentence in the pcnitentiary. An
appeal was taken on various errors, and
in December following a new trial was
granted. No particular effort was made
to bring it about until the 1lth OF the
present month that the jury was COM
pleted and the trial begun. The defence
was based upon the alleged insanity of
the prisoner. Yesterday Mr.. Thompson,
of Lexington, spoke four hours for the
defence, and Judge McManama followed
with the closing speech for the State.
The case was given to the jury at 5
o'clock, and at late hour last night a
verdict of not guilty, on the ground of
insanity was rendered. Thus ends one
of the most celebrated cases in the an.
nails of Kentucky.
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SENATOR BUTLER EXCORIATES CONK-
LING.

The following synopsis of a colloquy
between Gen. Butler and Senator Conk-
ling is gathered from telegraph of Con-
gressional proceedings on last Tuesday:
Gen. Butler spoke at considerable
length upon the alleged census frands in
South Carolina, and criticized severely
speeches made by certain stump orator
Understood to be Conkling) in New
York, during the late Presidential cam.
paign, in which that stump orator insult.
ed and villi6ed the people of South Car
olina and accused them of q conspiracy
to fraudulently increase the census emu
meration in order to obtain greater polit-
ical power. The falsity and baseness of
the accusation, Mr.. Butler said, we're
shown by the results of the recent re.
enumeration under the direction of Gen.
Walker, who was Republican and also
gentleman.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Buffers re-
marks Mr.. Conkling said he inferred
from the little he had heard of the gen.
tleman's speech that it was designed Us
an attack upon himself, and he had only
to say that the vaporing of the Senator
from South Carolina gave him little con-
Germ. If he had done any injustice to
the people of South Carolina he would
find seasonahle occasion to correct it.
Mr.. Butler-"The Senator has said
that the vaporings of the Senator from
South Carolina are matters of no con-
cern to him. BE will pardon me for say
ing that the staggering insolence of the
Senator from New York is of no concern
to me-"
MIR. Conkling-"I do not need to have
heard the Senator in order to ascertain
that be is person with whom I do not
chose to handy epithets, here or else
where, least of all here; and, therefore.
I have nothing to add to that which I
have before said"
The colloquy here ended, and the sub
ject was dropped.
This is fair sample of the dictatorial
insolence of the strutting Senator from
New York. He is first to begin the use
of epithets in lack of reasons for reply,
and when he gets The worst of the dis
cussion upon his own selected ground he
retires in very lordly manner from the
contest. Mr.. Conkling knew that the
remarks of Senator Butler were true,
and made no effort to deny them. He,
therefore, confesses to have slandered,
misrepresented and told falsehoods upon
the people of South Carolina for partisan
purposes. Senator Butler did right to
excoriate him.
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THE TOWN MEETING.

The meeting of the citizens of the
town, which is called by the Town Coun-
Gil for this Thursday evening, in the
Court House, to consider whether the
town will build hall or buy g town
clock, seems to indicate that the Council
has decided to do one or the other, and
the decision of this meeting will be
matter Of Importance to our municipal
interests. No final action ought to be
taken without full representation of the
taxpayers of the tcwn, and full in5orma.
tion. as to the details of the undertaking
entered into. We are in favor of build
ing handsome Town Hall or Opera
House, but are opposed toinyesting town
money in any temporary or make-shift
manner. Anderson is large enough to
afford a handsome Opera House, and one
properly conducted would pay the town
a good revenue; so that we. think it
would be wiser, more beneficial and more
satisfactory to build astructure with two
or four stores on the lower floor, and
convenient Offices upstairs, at cost Of
ten to twenty thousand dollars, than to
erect q bare hall, that will not be what
ne want, at from fifteen hundred to three
thousand dollars though if we cannot
do any better we would prefer coramon
but spacious hall to no hall at all. If
the town should erect.a proper building,
with three stores on the ground aoo:, and
eight or ten good Offices above, in addi.
ton to the Opera House, We could very
safely count upon twelve hundred dol
lars per year for store rents, with from
FIVE to eight hundred per year for Offices,
and four or five hundred dollars from the
Opera House. or, at least, upon two
thousand dollars o year for rents, which
would be over thirteen per cent. upon
fifteen thousand dollars, a sum that
would secure very handsome building.
By issuing bonds to mature annually for
ten years, we would have to raise only
fifteen hundred dollars per year. The
interest at seven per cent, sura at
which the bonds could be placed at par
upon the whole amount, would be 81 ,O5O,
so that the sum to be raised the first year
would be $3.50. Deducting the proba-
BILE rents, We would have only s550.OO to
raise by taxation. By decreasing the
principal $1.5o0.00 each year, we would
decrease the interest $1O5.00 each year,
so that at the end of five or six years the
income from the building would pay the
subsequent payments, both Of interest
and principal.
Under this arrangement we would have
to raise by town taxation, to begin with,
about s6OO-for liberal calculation say
ssOO-and s1OO less each year for six
years, when the tax would entirely dis
appear. The taxable property of the
town is now $S3O,OoO in round numbers,
and is increasing every year at from
$4,000 to $4,000. At the present
amount the additional town tax necessary
to build this Hall would only be about
ten cents on the hundred dollars, and
this only for five or six years. At the
end of ten years the property would be
source of annual revenue to the town of
from $4,000 to $4,000, depending upon
the growth of the place. We hope suf-
ficient time will be taken to consider this
question fully before final action.
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Senator Butler says that the Constitu-
ton of the United States has failed to
provide Returning Board for counting
the vote for President and Vice.Presi-
dent, and hence the necessity for the Nor
gan resolution or some similar measure.
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The Wando Phosphate Works, near
Charleston, we're completely destroyed
by fire last week. The company was
very fully insured, and will not there
fore, lose great deal, except by the loss
of time and the failure to receive the
profits of one manufacturing season.
The works will be rebuilt as soon as
possible, but will not be in condition to
manufacture again before next fall
The cause of the fire is unknown.
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TOWN MEETING {!

T1HE Town Council of Anderson, 8. c..
L respectfully requests the citizens Of
the Town to meet in the Court House on
THURSDAY, the 10th inst, at o'clock
p M, for the purpose of considering the
proposition to erect Town Hall or put
Clock in the Court House st eeplc.
b. order of the Town Council Of Ander-
son, S. C. THOS. c. LIGON,
Feb TO- 1881 3l-1 Clerk.
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PLYMOUTH ROCK EGGS.

T1HE Plymouth Rock is one of the finest
Il and largest Chickens grown, and is
becoming more popular rs it is better
known I have limited number of Eggs
from this stock, and also from other breeds,
which are pure, and which will sell at
two dollars per dozen. Orders addressed to
ME at Anderson, S. G., will receive prompt
and careful attention. Persons wishing
Eggs should send in their orders at once,
stating the kind of Eggs desired, US they
will be filled in the order received.
FRANK GRAFTON.
Tan Of. 1881 % II
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The Convention of Judges of the su-

The Convention of Judges of the Su-
preme and Circuit Judges, which met in
Columbia last week, appointed Messrs.
G. Fl. Simonton of Charleston, w. H.
Parker of Abbeville, and J. F. Hart of
Yorkville, as commissioners to codify the
laws of this State, under the Act passed
ut the recent session of the Legislature.
The gentlemen appointed have large
experience at the Bar, have established
fine regulations for ability, energy and
faithfulness in their profession, aud COM
bine the requisites for satisfactory dis
charge Of the duties assigned them.
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SALE OF
Valuable Real Estate.

T WILL sell on SALEDAY IN FEB
/ RUARY next, if not sold at private
sale before that date, the Valuable Tract Of
Land whereof the late Rev. Thomas H.
Cunningham died seized and possessed, sit
uatc in Savannah Township, Anderson
County S. c., adjoining lands of Mrs.
Elizabeth Cunningham, J. G. Cunningham,
B. +. Crayton, B. A. Davis, ct al, contain,
ing Three Hundred and Nineteen (319)
acres, more or less. Onc-half of the Tract
in state of cultivation, the other half in
original forest.
For terms apply to Thomas Steen & Co.,
Auction and Commission Merchants, Green
Vile, S. c., or DR.. R. T. Diver, Anderson,
S. G.. "
Mrs. C. f. CUNNINGHAM,
Per r. STENHOUSE, Agent.
Jan 6. 1851 26
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NOTICE FINAL SETTLEMENT.
IN The undersigned, Administrator Of
the Estate of r. Sanders Smith, deceased,
hereby gives notice that he will apply to the
Judge of Probate at Anderson G. H., on
the End day of March, 1881, for Final
Settlement of said Estate, and discharge
from said administration.
The Choses in Action belonging to the
estate, and appraised worthless or doubtful,
will be sold at Anderson G. Fl. OIL the above
stat ed day at II o'clock a. m.
C. C. SMITH, Admir-.
Jan q, 1881 20 s.
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N1OTICE FINAL SETTLEMENT.
IN The undersigned hereby give notice
that he will apply to the Judge of Probate
at Anderson G. H., S. c., on the 3rd day of
March, 1881, for a Final Settlement and
discharge from the Estate Of ]. ]. Acker
deceased.
II. l. EPTING, Admir-.
Feb 3, 1851 30
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GREAT SALE of BUGGIES.

T OOK out for the great sale of Open and
IL Top Bnggies. They will arrive in
Anderson on or abont the 10th inst. The
work is guaranteed for one year. Manu-
facturcd by the Globe Manufacturing Co.,
of Cincinnati.
W. S. DODD, Waycrly House.
Feb 3, 1881 30
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SAVING NOTICE.

WILL commence SAVING LUMBER
in few days.
All persons who want Saving done will
bring in their logs at once.
A. II. OSBORN,
Anderson, S. G.
Feb 10, 1881 81
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-02-10

and people were willing to trust him.
And after it was all over he went one
day to see Louisa, and told her that he
found she was right; his state of mind
was far from desperate. Indeed he
was almost happy.
After that he went to see the little
schoolteachef quite often-indeed so
often that he seriously interfered with
her dutiee and when she came to know
him quite weH she used to tellhim so,
with the sauei1.u toss of her her head,
aud faint blush on her pink cheeks"
Il can't help it, DEAR" said Mr..
Glover he often called her so for he
was many years older than Louisa, and
she was such a child-like little crea-
ture. 'You are my counselor-my
comforter-my all in the world More
than wealth, or houses, or land-and
though it looks as if | was going to be
a rich man some time, Louisa, it will
be nothing to me without the !wisest
little woman in the world to show me
what to do with my money, and the
best way make it real source of
happiness to myself and others"
So 1t come to pass that Louisa said
Yes" being much entreated, and she
went to live in the house she mad
vaguely dreamed of years before
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Married at A Distance.

Recently in Texas a couple bend on
marriage procured a license and set
out with one or two friends to look up
a parson. They reached the river
but alas! the would-be bride could not
cross. They were in n pickle.
The only parsen for long,
weary miles was just across the
river, while visions of irate parents
with double-barreled shot-guns formed
a very long and troublesome process
sion through the minds of the lovers.
The weather was cold, the river wac
up, and what could they do? One of
the escort suggested that he would
swim the river and see, if possible, the
parson, who, undoubtedly, would fix up
plan to tie the nuptial knot. He did
so, found the preacher, and soon had
him down on the river bank. The
water was cold and deep, and he re-
fused point blank to cross over, to the
very great distress of the young couple
on the other side. Necessity is not
only the mother of inventions, but is
the mother of expedients. The parson
concluded to mary the couple across
the river and they joined hands and
took their stand near the waters edge,
while the preacher, on the opposite
bank, in stentorian voice pronounce
the marriage service and declared
them man and wife.
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The Pennsylvania Industrial Home for
Blind Women.

The Pennsylvania Industrial Home
for Blind Women located at POwelton
and Saunders avenues, West Philadel-
phia, is i'll every way one of the most
deserving charities of that charitable
city. The Home was established in
1868, on a donation of $500, for the
purpose of providing refuge for those
women deprived of their sight who
were unable by reason of their poverty
to pay for instruction that would en-
able them to earn living. The loca-
ton selected at that time-NO. 1929
Locust street-although an excellent
one and well adapted for the purpose,
soon became insufficient to accommo-
date the rapidly increasing family, and
it was determined to build a more
commodious asylum, which was duly
accomplished, the new buildings being
occupied in November last.
The new Home will accommodate
between sixty and seventy persons.
For their comfort everything is amply
provided, and although deprived of
one of the greatest blessings, the in
mates are as happy and contented as
can be imagined. A regular routine of
NOIh ID SlOSuCO WV n,
as perfect almost as that performed by
those who have the use of their eyes, is
one of the many things made. Stock
ings, Jackets, and other articles made
from wooden yarn are knitted with sur
prising dizziness and care. Basket
making, cane-seating chairs, brush
making and numerous other occupa-
tons specially adapted to the fingers
of the blind, go on from day 70 day,
and the sale proceeds GO to the fund
for the maintenance Of the institution
Elk Governor Pollock and Miss A. Hill
laye-in fact, all the officers and di-
rectors-have been untiring in their
efforts to provide for the spiritual and
temporal comfort of the inmates, and
they look to the public for substantial
aid to assist in supporting noble char
itv.
So successful have the efforts of the
managers been in making the time pass
pleasantly and protitably for the blind
women, that a sister of the Duke of
Argyll, blind from birth herself, open
ed an interesting correspondence with
one of the managers, inquiring into the
workings of the institution, and being
pleased with the complete method en-
ployed, established a similar home in
England, following out the plans of
the Pennsylvania charity as near as
pOssible.-Er.