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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-05-12
A RAILROADS LIABILITY.
A Ruling on COntributory Negligence by
Judge Hammond.

IhClllpllS NOillneIcldl.I
While the United States circuit
court was in session at Jackson,
Judge E. S. Hammond presiding,
q damage suit against the Illinois
Central Railroad was tried, in which
the issue involved and the charge Of
the judge are of interest to the pub
lie, especially to that portion which
uses railway tracks as a promenade.
The case was that Of j. H. Wick,
who was struck by an engine while
walking along the track and receiv-
ed serious injuries. Wick was deaf
and did not hear the train coming.
The case was remarkable in that il
was one Of the very few on record
where the defendant company con-
.ceded that the engineer neithe1
blew warning whistle nor rung a
bell. Ii he had done both, Wick
would not have heard it perhaps
but the engineer did not know this
He testified that Wick was walking
at safe distance from the track
and when the engine was close upon
him he stepped in front of it with
disastrous results. The testimony
Of Wick was that he was walking OIL
the end of the cross-ties.
The defense set up was, as usua
in such cases, contributory negli
gence, and the practice in the feder
al court was cited, to refuse to allow
damages where contributory negli
gence and trespass were proven.
Judge Hammond, however, helC
that the State law, which had powel
to regulate railways, provided 70.
the whistle being blown and tn,
bell sounded, and held the railwa,
company responsible for damages
in case of accident where these pre-
cautions we're notobserved. He S,
charged the jury, leaving it to de
eide from the proof upon the ques
ton Of fact involved. Wick wa
awarded $500 damages, and neithe
side appealed.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-05-12

setting forth in said report, in sep
arate columns, the age, color, and
sex Of the individual, Of each dis
ease, number Of cases, number Of
deaths, together with such other
information as the State board Of
health may desire.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted,
That any individual, or individuals,
mentioned in this act, who shall
wilfully neglect or refuse to comply
with either Of the above provisions,
shall be guilty Of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction shall be efined
not less than $40 nor more than
500, or confined in the county jail
for period of not more than three
months, one or both, in the discre-
tion of the court
Sec. G. Be it further enacted,
That all acts, or parts of acts, ia
conflict with this act befand they
are hereby repealed, and that this
act take effect from and after its
passage, the public welfarerequir-
ing it.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-05-12
a wELL-TIMED SPEECH.
Congressman breckenridge Says There is
no New South.

Congressman breckenridge Says There is
no New South.
In the course Of a speech recent
ly at banquet commemorative Of
the birthday of General Grant,
Congressman w. c. P. Bpecken-
ridge, of Kentucky, said:
81 hear tonight Of a new South.
There is no new South in certain
sense, but in another sense there is
a new North and a new South and
a new Republic that has emerged
from those dark days Of strife.
eve are a new people; we see
each other better than our fathers
did; we know each other better
than our elder brothers knew, but
it is the old South upon which you
are to build. tits no maudlin new
South, denying its heroes on whom
you are to build, but an old South,
proudofits historyand of its people.
"Wel we are citizens of the new
Republic, faithful to our allegiance
and true to the flag. Having lost,
like gentlemen we abide by the re-
suit of the conflict 1t isn't the
man who apologies whom you need
to build upon, it is the man who did
his best and is deuced sorry he
couldn't do more, who makes a
foundation for a great Republic
for he feels now that this is his
country and he viii be loyal to it. :
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-05-12
eooD, SOUND SUGGESTIONS.
business Men not Politicians Necessary to
the Results Demanded.

Trenton Democrat.l
"The Legislature Of two years ago
contained a majority Of Alliance
men and farmers. In the body
which has just adjourned the poll
tician and the man with AN a1s to
grind probably predominated. It
ranked higher than the former in
point Of ability, but both were fail
ures, and wasted time and money.
Ii the people want good laws, and
the public business transacted fear
lessly and expeditiously, they must,
as the Columbia Herald suggests,
select intelligent and conscientious
business men-men who have no
political bees in their bonnets.
Choose legislature composed of
men who transact peoples business
like they would their own, and the
State will derive more benefit in
direct results than from dozen
like the kind we have been having
in late years"
The above suggestions from the
Jackson Wing are full Of good
sense. There are too many men
who think they are qualified for
Legislators because they can read
and write little. These kind of
men and men who have axes to
grind announce themselves as can
didates, and work in season and out
Of season to secure the position.
The people elect them simply be-
cause they are candidates, and have
wasted time in electioneering, and
not from any qualifications they
possess. It is shame on Tennes-
see. There are good men in every
county in the State, who would
make active, conscientious legisla-
tors, who will not scramble for the
position with the unworthy ones,
The services Of these men can be
had by simply naming them as the
candidates by the nominating con-
ventions. Very few men could OF
would refuse to serve their people
in this capacity when thus called
out. y = y The people can cas-
lily raise the standard in the way
suggested. Will they do it? We
? believe they will. 1t needs only 6
little concert Of action, based upor
: a desire and purpose to secure the
best men for the position.
tits well to think of these things
! in advance of the election Of the
: next legislature, and give the un
: worthless and axe-grinders to under
stand that they need not announc,
I themselves.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-05-12
SAVINGS.
Some Sound Advice to yonng Men who
Work for Wages.
ing it.

Some Sound Advice to Honng Men who
Work for Wages,
Knoxville Tribunel
1t is not always an easy matter
for an ordinary laboring man with
a family to support to save much
out of his wages, but there are many
young men who work for daily wa
ges who do not but who ought to
save a snug sum each year out Of
their earnings.
If this spirit Of wise economy and
honest thrift were more closely OBJ
served by those whorely upon their
labor for livelihood there would
be fewer rogues, and gamblers, and
tramps, and drunkards than there
are. There would be fewer agita-
tors, and calamity howlers, and an
archists if more Of those who labor
would make an effort to save some
thing out Of their earnings above
actual living expenses each month
and each year.
Ii the young mechanic, instead
of squandering his earnings in the
beer-saloon, pool-room, gambling
den, and bagnio, would invest them
in some such institution as saw
ings bank, a few years would find
him in position Of comparative
independence, protected against i'll
health, misfortunes Of accident,
or ready togoengage in businessfor
himself. How many Of the young
men, statesmen, and clerks are there
in Knoxville who save any moneys
Many of them have an excellent
opportunity to do SO; some Of them
do not even have to pay for their
board.
There is not much in the young
man who has no higher ambition
than to feed himself and dress we'll.
The young man who spends for
i, clothes, livery hi.:e, beer, flowers,
cigars, theater tickets, gimcracks,
{ etc, more than his wages Che pre-
I fers to call ii salary amounts to is
, pretty sure to be and deserves to be
a failure.
Such will continue through life
to be simply employees and subor-
/, dinates, if they get to be nothing
| worse, OF if through the stern ex-
{ perience and lesson Of the years
, they learn the lesson Of economy
: and common sense it may come toe
Q late to be Of much value.
j, The young man who not only
: works but saves his money, will bt
o the employer in the future Of th,
Y young man who may work but doe
f not save.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-05-12
WHAT THE SOUTH NEEDS.
A Willingness to Develop her Wonderful
Resources.

A Willingness to Develop her Wonderful
Resources.
Here is something sensible from
the Washington News, which will
be particularly interesting to the
people of this section. Its grasp
of the Southern situation is sensi-
bic, and its friendly expressions will
be appreciated by our people:
din one thing the South is most
fortunate. 1t has not mortgaged
its future or its present. What is
owned is owned outright. Where
as in Kansas, for instance, the mort
gagged debt per capita is $170, in
Tennessee it is only $23, and if one
turns to totals the figures are even
more striking. In Kansas, on a
valuation of $348,000,0O0, there is
an aggregate debt of $243, 100000;
in Tennessee on an assessed valua-
ton Of $3S2,OO0,O00, the aggregate
mortgage debt is only about S4O,-
100000. This tells a long story tc
the bankerand capitalist. Itshows
that the South has been going OF
her way conservatively, and is de.
yeloping naturally and in the right
lines. Investors, not spectators
control the situation. That may
not lead to rapid booms, but i
leads to the steady accumulation o.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-05-12

SISTER LEASE is out with a pre-
diction that in 1898 cataclysm
will destroy Chicago and drown it
in the lake Her brain seems to
have been added ever since that
egg throwing down in Georgia.
Memphis Avalanche.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-05-12

The hossile demonstration Of the
Memphis fighting editors the other
day is another case Of the army
which marched up the hill and then
marched back again. Nashville
American.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-05-12

The people should look after
nominations for legislative honors
more closely in the future and send
none but those who will listen to
the voice of their constituents.
The State Of Tennessee for the past
twelve years has suffered from an
assembly Of Legislators that did
nothing whatever to curtail expens-
es of the State, but instead have
placed hardships upon the people
by iniquitous Legislation. The time
for decisive action will soon be here
and no one should be elected one
Of our solons unless he says he will
hew to the line. The people can
afford to send no other kind Of men,
We want men who do their duty,
men who will serve their State and
constituents, men who will in honor
bound serve the masses without
fear or favor, men who have the
backbone to turn their backs on The
lobbyists and with an eye single tc
the bestinterests of the people apc
the State. Martin Mail.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-05-12

MIR. ENLoE has an article on pen
sion reform in the May North Amer
ican Review that is attracting con-
siderable attention. tits brief but
pointed, and if his suggestions
should be carried out, would result
in a saving Of S5O,OOO,OOO annually
to the Government. The Jackson
Whig.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-05-12

The senate passed the Aust bill
reducing the compensation of State
officers to $500 a year for secre-
tary Of state by an almost unani-
nous vote, only one senator voting
in the negative. These State Off
GERS hold places Of more dignity
and do more work than the over
paid clerks Of courts in the coun-
ties. and yet the senate majority
refused to reduce the extravagant
emoluments Of from $40, 900 to $l8,-
600 paid certain favored county Of
fcials. Here is a glaringly absurd
inconsistency, which can not be
satisfactorily explained. Poor fee
lobby-ridden senate. The Nash.
vile Banner.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-05-12

The rumor that ex-Congressman
Rice Pierce will be the third party
candidate next year for governor Of
Tennessee is probably not true.
Rice had enough last year Of daily
ing with despair and balancing
hope against hope. However, if
Rice wants to run, let him run. 1t
will make no material difference in
the result Nashville American.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-05-12

ToM G. Rye, esq, Of Camden,
chairman of the Eighth District
Congressional Committee, has been
appointed chief Of the western di-
vision in the pension department,
composed Of the States of Ohio,
Pennsylvania, and Michigan. His
salary is $4,000 a year and he will
take charge Of his Office about the
middle Of May. Mr.. Rye is fine
business man and will discharge
the duties of his office with fidelity.
His appointment scores another
victory for Mr.. Enloe. Paris In
telligencer.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-05-12

CONGRESSMAN ENLoE is doing
very successful work in removing
Republican postmasters in his dis
trict. Heknows how to go at such
work, and he never ceases his la
bors until the Republican scalp is
removed. If all the other districts
in the State were as energetically
represented as the Eighth, fewer
Republicans would be drawing pie
under a Democratic administra-
tion.-Brownsville Democrat.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-01-18
People Frozen to Death.

Knoxville, Tenn, Jan. 16.-Not for
thirty years has there been such
severe weather as now prevails in
this section. There thermometer is
far below zero, and a dozen OF more
people are reported frozen to death.
Business OF all kinds is ~suspened,
and the united efforts of city officials
and church members are being util-
lied to aid the poor. All trains are
late, and it is difficult to run them
on anything near schedule time.
The thermometer registered 10
degrees below zero this morning at
6 o'clock. This is the lowest since
January 4 1877.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-01-18
No: a Hypocr;te.

The following from the editorial
columns of the Washington Daily
News is one of the best temperance
lectures ever written. It was written
bv the gifted Walt. Mason, now on
the editorial staff of that bright,
newsy paper:
"Severe things are said Of ~whiskey,
and a great many Of them are
deserved; bat it would be we'll to do
stice even to whiskey. 1t is de-
scribed as a deceiver, as a tempter.
Whiskey is eminently fair, and above
board, and uses no deceit. It posts
it's warnings everywhere, and it is
mans fault if he doesn't profit by
them. Wherever you see rags,
squalor, wretchedness, you have en-
countered one of ~whiskey's warnings;
when you visit the pauper's corner
of the graveyard, and look upon the
nameless noun Is, you find them
whiskey is fair; whiskey hangs its
banners on the outer walls; whiskey
Aaunts it's emblematic skull and
cross-bones in the broad light OF day;
do whiskey justice. The man who
wrestles with whiskey will be downed;
no. matter how strong he may be or
how many tricks of the GRECO Ro-
man contest he may know, sooner or
later his shoulders will 20 to the
floor, and the referee will award the
diamond belt to whiskey. But
whiskey wrestles fair; it does not
gouge; it does not strangle; it simply
brushes its victim by superic~ weight.
Moral: Do not wrestle with whiskey.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-01-18

Senatorial elections occurred in
several States yesterday with the
following results.
:. Edward Murphy, Jr., Democrat
elected in New York.
Stockbridge, elected in Michigan.
Turpin, Democrat elect in Indiana.
Cockrill Democrat elected in Mis-
souri,,
Halle, Republican elected in Maine.
Bates, Democrat elected in Ten
nessee.
Lodge, Republican, elected IN
Massachusetts,.
Gray, Democrat elected in Rhode
Island.
Other States will elect today.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-01-18
MORTGAGES SALE.

FINDER the power vested in me in a
~ mortgage. executed by John A. Bund-
rick, Of date January 2d, 1891, to secure the
payment of a bond of even date. beth ex-
ecuted and payable to Matte Ell oogler,
now Matti, E.. Hegman, the said mortgage
being Of record III r. NJ. q. tor | e :ington
county. Book j.. page 359, and recorded
the ":rd day tf January. 1891. and the con-
dition Of he said bond having been broken,
l will sell, at public outcry, before the
Court House d. or at Lexington. S, c., Oh
the first Monday in February. 1893. being
the 9Th day of February, during the legal
hours of sale, all that certain piece, parcel
or tract OF land. in the county OF Lexington
ard Stute of South Ca DINA. in Broad
River tow hip on branch water Of Broad
River, adjoining lands Of estate Of Jesse
Julian, decea ell S. f D. Lennon, Kisah
Lever, D.A Richardson and Sidney Amick,
being the lwds on which said John A.
Bundrick row lives.
Terms of sale cash. and if not complied
with at once. land will be again sold same
day at purchasers risk. Purchaser to pay
for papers.
Ian II. 1893 -3wll Mortgage.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-01-18
Items from Summit.

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
- Mr.. Jas. Smith has moved his
family here and entered histwolittle
ghls in school. His large new house
will be completed ere long ana~will
add much toward identifying our
little town. -. =. -.
Our preacher gave US a pratical
sermon last Sunday which, no doubt,
will dc much good. The beautiful ser.
vice as laid down in the Communion.
Service was rendered very impress
sively, all the responses being sung
by u choir. Miss Beulah .Oswalt
and Miss Quilla Eargle, two Of our
school girls, presided: al the Organ.
Our people. are great lovers of music:
Some of our boys have organized a.
harmonical band with organ and:
guitar accompaniment, and they are
already making considerable progress
Mr. R. L. Eargle has purchased:a
very valuable lot from Messrs. Amick:
It contains two nice cottages -.
DR.. P. ". Hite oflCaughmans will
move here. in about two weeks. The
doctor will occupy n Of Mr..
Eargle's houses till he can build one
for himself. DR.. Hite is a model
young man and we bespeak for him:
a liberal patronage. ,
Mr.. Eargle will commence getting
out lumber at once with which to.
build him a large store house.
Our people are highly pleased
with the Dispensary Law and anx-
iously wait for the time to come when
it will 60 into effect. Respectfully,
YLEcHs.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-01-18

4 Merchants Protective Union
against bad debtors was organized
in Manning on the 10th instant.
The Democratic caucus in Maine
has nominated Arthur Sewan Of
Bath for United States Senator.
The New York Cremation Society
has decided to make a crematory ex-
hibit at the Worlds Fair.
Ex-Congressmap Carlos French
was nominated for United States
Senator yesterday by the Democrats
of Connecticut.
H: Clay Evans, the newly appointed
First Assistant Postmaster General,
yesterday assumed the duties of his
Office.
,gq Owing to the extreme cold weather
the Edgar Thomson Steel Works,
Braddock, Pa, have been compelled
to shut down. The ore is frozen and
the operatives refuse to work.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-01-18
Ice Gorggin the French Broad.

Ice eorgsin the French Broad.
Asheville;; N. C., Jan. 1e.-A
special TO the citizens; from Hot
Springs says that SHOW to: the depth
OF, six inches has falhn~there and ice
has formed in n The. French
river: for a mile and5:a ball. An ice
gorge has piled Up in the river of a
height fourteen feet at the hotel
bridge:and is twenty atthe Western
North Carolina railway bridge. 1t
is reported that at Paint Rock, on
the line between North Carolina and
Tennessee, tine snow is nine inches
deep, and that the Thermometer
dropped to fourteen degrees 5belew:
zero last night
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-01-18
Died at His Case.
A Tribute tethe Life Of an Editor of
Alabama.

Alabama.
Birmingham Age: s..
It was New Years Sunday, and all
over the: land in. many thousand
pulpits Godly men. preached sermons
filled with the glory: and pathos OF
the day and the theme. But whether
in gilded :auditoriums or beneath
roushhewn boards. no sermon in all
Of yesterday was filled. witha diyiner
truth, or taught a purer lesson than IN
the sermon that is in the death Of a
simple and honest land faithful
country editor Of the little town of
Calera. g..
He Was a country editor: His life
was spent in tke struggle to publish
a paper in the communities where
patronage is scarce IF did his own
work. He reviewed bis exchanges
and wrote his editorials and gathered
up,his news. and set tie type and
locked Tin the forms. and with his
own h and Piled the little country
press. Hs.solicited patronage, made
his own receipts; He was, all in all,
a man Of toll. He was the n man
in his county WHO touched all the
people. II. t4;. :. >.
An&for:manS, many years he did
all and more, and no, man can
lay a chaFgeto*his simple character.
We have seen him here.an elsewhere,
often and often, always the same,
ready with 8: smile, ready to hghtfor
his convictions a shy and modest
man, With an air of country embar-
rassment that never did forsake him.
This simple, frugal, loyal life came
to a cioseAwhens We cannot know.
But the man wss found dead at his
case yesterday in the little Office at
Calera. J.. %.
Dad at. his case" with the cold
hand grssping the iron stick of his
trade: "
dead at his case, where his duty
lay, where he toiling far in the
night when the summons came. ~
What a New Year:we should have
in this land if every, man whose sum-
mons shanceeme shall be foundat his
case, with stick:in. hand, as was
Samuel H.. Gist, the: editor and pub
Usher of the Calera journal. -.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-01-18

organization in which the majority is
supreme-Second county organize
tons in which county majorities are,
supreme. In Lexington and Orange
burg the white vote stood almosttwo.
to n in favor of financial legisla-
ton, and in Charleston it stands al.
most ten to one against it. What
good reason is there for demanding
that the majorities in Lexington and
Orangeburg should be stihed, when
when it can be helped. Again what
good reason is there for demanding
that the majorityin Charleston should
be stifed if team be prevented. Now
I conceive it to be the duty of a
representative to carry out the wish
of the majority of his constituents
if it can be done by suitable leglsla-
ton. This bill proposes such an, ar
rangement as will permit the ma
i~orities of Lexington and. Orange
burg in connection with other coun=.
ties to elect a man who will :repre=:
sent their political principles; italso
provides that the people Of Charles
ton and the counties to be associated
with it can elect a man who wilfSrep-
resent their political faith. So ifthe,
bill is permitted to become a law, all
the majorities can be fairly repre-
sented; we can all live in peace, and
stop ibis everlasting fight between
white man and white mar.
It will not do to say, the object of
the bill was to throw Charleston IN a
District which would give her a Re
publican Congressman for it was
agreed by myself and other friends.
of the measure, hal we would take
in with US, by amendment on second
reading, the county of Sumpter and
the Lower township in the county OF
,Richland, which with the colored vote
in Orangeburg and Colleton would
give us about the same Republican
majority to overcome, as Charleston
would have; leaving us all in the same
bost. =. '.: c.. NJ. EFIRD.
january II, 1898. .
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-01-18
NEW York Frozen S1.id.

New York. Jan. 16.-Last night
was another cold one, and the result
was that the inner harbor is now
practically closed to'all craft. If the
weather should moderate at once, it
is not probable that the bay steamers
would resume their trips inside four
OF FIVE days.