The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-11-08
The court Of General sessions.

Rne SOuTtO1 OChTA sa soSSSiouo'
s The following additional business
was transacted after We went to press
last week:
The State VS.. Jesse Hutton, assault
and battery with intent to kill-Not
Guilty.
The State VS.. Major Brooks, rape,
assault with intent to ravish, and as
sault and battery of high and aggra-
waited nature-Not Guilty.
The State VS.. j. w. Sanders, adul-
terry, Guilty-Sentence, fine of 800
and costs or six months in the County
jail.
The State VS.. U. B. Whites, Sentence
twelve months in the County jail, or
$4,000 fine.
PREsENTMENT OF THE GRAND JURY.
November Term, 1888.
To the Honorable j. II. Hudson,
Presiding Judge:
The Grand Jury, by this their final
presentment, would respectfully show
to this Honorable Court:
That we have visited the various
County offices and buildings, and find
them generally in good condition. The
Jail is clean and the prisoners we'll kept
and comfortably provided for.
The County Poor House needs some
small repairs, especially upon the cell
ing. and upon the chimneys. There
are now eleven paupers therein, and
we are informed this has been the aver
AGE number of inmates for the fiscal
wear. The entire cost of this institll-
ton for the fiscal year just past was
exclusive Of clothing and bedding, but
including keepers and physicians sala-
ries) $723.l2. This makes the weekly
cost of feeding, keeping and doctoring
each pauper, 81 .26.
Our County finances appear to be
yearly growing more prosperous. In
1879, the funded Indebtedness OF New
berry County was, IN round numbers,
s36, 900. After deducting the funds
now in the hands of the County Treas
urer, applicable thereto, there will re-
main of this Indebtedness, only about
$4,000; and this sum will probably be
entirely paid by one more payment, in
1884.
Besides this, of the ordinary County
funds for 1882, there was u surplus
brought forward, OF about 5000. This
should enable our County Commission
ers to carry forward to the fiscal year
1S83-S4 an equal, if not larger,
amount, thus enabling thern'to pay all
demands against the County, in cash.
We would suggest that the County
Commissioners erect more shelving and
book cases in the Offices of the Clerk OF
the Court and of the County Auditor.
Repairs are needed upon the follow
inc roads, VIZ, on the Long Lane be-
tween n. S. Crosson's and the David
Wicker place: OF the Charleston Road
between T. B. Kemerly's and Indian
Greek: and on the Ruff Road near DIR.
j. C. Halfacre's and the road from w.
W. Waldrop's to the Mendenhal mill.
We would for the third time call at
tention to the dangerous condition OF
the bridge near Henry Dominick'S
mill and again urge the building OF a
new bridge over Cannon's Creek near
Pomaria, on the Charleston Road. Al
so a bridge over Duncan's Creek On the
same road.
At the February Term, we made
most thorough examination into the
County Treasurer's Office, and then
found it in proper condition. We are
Of the opinion that this examination
could be made just now, only with the
greatest difficulty, as the taxes are still
in coarse of collection. We have
therefore attempted TO make no exami'
nation in this Office at the present term
of the Court.
1t appears to us that the Office OF
Joseph S. Reid, one Of the Trial Jus.
tices for the town OF Newberry is i'm
properly kept; and the following mat.
tiers seems to us to be irregular in hi:
transactions. 1st. Cases for heinous
ofenses, such as rape, riot, perjury,
aggravated assaults, &C., are allowed
by him to be compromised and settled
between the prosecutor and the defcn'
dants, upon the payment Of costs. even
after the preliminary hearing, and az
ter the defendants have been properly
bound over to this court. 2nd. Fines
have been imposed upon conyicts anC
then, in part or wholly RENTED, by
him. 3rd. Very few of the fines Inn
posed have been collected, nor have
the alternative sentences ofimprlson-
ment been enforced.
We have been assisted in our investi'
cations by Mr.. F. Werber, Jr., a:
special expert, at the June Term one
day. and at the present term three
days. All of which is respectfully
submitted. S. A HUNTER,
Foreman, and others.
Nov. 1st, 1888.
The following special order wa:
passed:
Upon hearing the presentment Q.
the Grand Jury, and on motion OF u
r. Duncan, Solicitor, it is ordered thai
so much Of said presentment as relate:
to the furnishing OF shelves and book
cases for the offices OF the Clerk anc
County Auditor be referred to the
Board of County Commissioners. Il
is further ordered that the portion o
the presentment in regard to certain
bridges in Newberry County be re
ferred to the County Commissioner;
by service of copy OF said present
ment, and that said Board OF Count!
Commissioners do report TO this Cour
on or before the next session thereof
what action has been taken by then
in regard thereto.
J. 81. HUDSON,
Presiding Judge.