;'"_ Y' rr' 'Iy. '._ 1. _^?" -; .4i r r - . r, , ..f -. .iru.. ,'.. t 1 -w; '. H ' r . SFamilY. Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c, Vol. XIX. .NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, M RCH 15, 1883.0o 1 ti IS PV$LlsR=D, k.x .$Br THURSDAT IORNING, 1. Newberry, B. C. ~ TROS.FP. REUKR, Fd andProprIetor. ~4~W!SS .oo per .smuun InvarITly in Advanoa. The per ts "Pat the expiration e w- tCafar k"it Is H mark denotes expiration o I BIGGEST ANDB R8 STOCE OF &OTHING : R =IITED IM,iEWBERY, CAN BE FOUND AT c1I31T& J11CP)PQCk'SI a 3ery Article i the MIae of . GENTLEMEN'S WEAR, FROM A FINE PAIR OF Shoes up to a Hat. .R B ERWEAR a Specialty. A FINE ASSORTMENT OF S othing for Youths. Announcement No.11 W ed- offer special inducements, for the next- sizty -days, to all who may want - de Clothing or Furnishing Goods, Roots, Shoes, &o. Our bargain table is.ee reglenished by adding thereto mny garments in good styles and without det, from broken suits, all of which will be ..sold, or given away, without regard to eo- This feature is especially full in Tis'a and Boys' Clothing. Call and get -.Overeoats for Men, Youth and Royas low as two dollars. WET & J. W. COPPOC. Jan 4, 1-tf WseRaueous. IE OLWA:S ARE COMING NeW Is THE TIME TO RE. PARE FOR TRW. FiMEST VARIETY OF TOMCAL FRUiT IN S-MARKET ~'Fresh Oranges Every Week. COCOANUITS, ORANCES, L.ACA CRAPES, Pents, JITsi. Cnrrants. g~ Orders Alled with dispatch. B' C ART & 00., CHARLESTON, S. C. Nov. S0, 41-Om. L SUBSCRIBE FOR THE WEEKLY PALMETTO YEOMAN, COLUMBIA, S. C. It is an8 page paper, designled forthe peo flled with interesting matter-Famfly Three Months, 50 Cents-payable in ad vance. For Six Names and Nine Dollars an Extra Copy for one year. Seiens fur nished. The DAILY YEOMA, an after noon paper, is $4 a year. C. K. McJUN EIN. 40-cf Editor and Publisher. 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THE LIVER AND KIDNEYS Can be kept pfectly hathy in any ceH ate by takinge an oc casional dose ofu SIMMONS' REPATIC COMPOUND, THE GRRAT VEGsEtABLE UVER ANID KIWiEY MEDICINE. DOWIE & MOISE, PEOPRIETOS8, WHOLESALE DRUCCISTS CHARLESTON, S. C. - FOR SALE EVERYWHERE..& And in Newberry by Dr. S. F. FANT. Nov. 2, 4L-ly. GERMAN KAINIT, (Direct importation.) PERUVIAN GUANO, (Direct from the Agent of the Peruvian Government.) FISH GUANO, (6 to 8 per cent. Ammonia.) Nova Scotia Land Plaster. SOUTH CAROLINA GROUND PHOSPHATE, Fine ground and of high grade. For sale by HERMANN BULWINKLE, BBRR'S WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. Dec. 14, 50--3m. Books and Staftionery., ONII MOR~ AGIN Ke6p it BIfor therblc The largest and best stock of BOOKS, STAIONERY ? FANCY ARTICLES Ever shown in Newberry, at the BUIL BOK STOlE, Comprismng in pA,rt Boks School Books, Pictn're Books, Hyn Books, Scrap Books, Bibls, cellaneous Books, and other Plain Cards, Cristmas Cars -Reward rted ,oadristol Board, A B CBlocks. Legl Cp, sil Pa r-wide and ar row Inks-black, nue, p rle, re, Slate Pencils, Card Cases. Backgmo Bad,Chessmen, Domi toy and plain ubber Rigs Era Fancy Papetris,8 Coore Ppr Tisu Desk, Work Boxes. No a Arks, Pens, Tags, McGill's Fasteners. cAndany oter articles not enumerated CRE AP FOR CASH. Thos. F. GRENEKER, PROPRIETOR HERAL.D BOOK STORE, Nov. 30, 48-tf. ROBSON'S COTTON AND CORN FERTILIZER. ROBU0O'8 COMPOUND ACID PHO6PHATR. These grades are rich in all the essentials constituting first-class articles, carefully prepared from best materials. Our rong experience in the trade, together with Prof. Shepherd's analysis, are guarantees that they are adapted to the wants of consum era. For sale at market rates for cash, time or cotton. J. N. ROBSON & SON, TACKLINGTHE WRONG TOM CAT. A man be owned a terrier dog A bob-tailed, ornery cuss, And that there pup got that there man In many an ugly muss, For the man was on his muscle, And the dog was on his bite; And to kick the dorg-goned animile Was sure to raise a fight. A woman owned a Thomas cat, That fit at fifteen pound; And other cats got up and slid When that there cat was round, The man and his dorg came along one day, Where the woman the did dwell. And the pupp be growled ferociously, Then went for that cat poll-meln. He tried to chaw the neck of the cat, But the cat he wouldn't be chawed, So he lit on the back of that there dorg, And bitI and clawed! and clawed! Oh! the hair it flew! and the purp he youldedl As the claws went into his hide, And chunks of flesh were peeled from bis side; Then he flummaxed, and kicked. and diedi The man he ripped, and cursed, and swore, As he gathered a big brick-bat, That he would be darned essentially If he dida't kill that cat! But the old woman allowed she'd be blessed if he did, And snatched up an old shot-gun, Which she fired and peppered his diaphragm With bird-shot number one. They toted him home on a window-blind, And the doctor cured him up; But be was never known to fight again, Or own another purp, Folks -may turn up their snoots at this here rhyme. I don't care a cuss for that! All I want to show is, that fighting dogs May tackle the wrong Tom-cat. SUMMARY OF THE DUTIES OF SUPERINTENDENTS OF HIGHWAYS AND OVER SEERS OF ROADS. Each. -Township constitutes a Highway District. The County Commissioners shall annually appoint a Superintendent of Highways for each highway district, who shall be a resident of the district for which he is ap pointed and liable to road duty, but exempt therefrQm by reason of hil office, He shall have general superintendence of highways in his district, under the direction of the County Commissioners, to whom he shall make a report once in three months, of the condition of the roads in his district. Each Superintendent shall divide the highways in his district into suitable sections of not less than two, nor more than five miles, and appoint Overseers for each of said sections. He shall likewise divide all persons liable to road duty in his district into two companies or sqiqads and assign a squad to each Overseer, as far as practicable, assigning the road hands to the nearest road, and shall require the Overseer to call out the hands to work the roads, repair and build bridges of same whenever he may deem it necessary, after twelve hours notice, and shall require-each hand to bring with him a hoe, axe, mattock or other tool. He shall determine the ntvnber of days for each working and the tool to be brought, provided not more than twelve days work shall be required of any hand in a year. For re fusing or neglecting to carry out any work required by the County Commissioners, or any of them, the Superintendent of Highways shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, before a Trial Justice, shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $50. Overseers for neglecting to call out hands and work roads, when required by the Superintendent, upon conviction in Trial Justice Court, shall be fined not less than $5, nor more than $20. Superintendents shall jointly di vide a highway running along the line of two highway districts, and shall assign hands itom their re spective districts to work the same. Overseers shall require their hands to do such work on bridges, as will preserve them in order, when it can be conveniently done. I bridges need such repairs as should be given out under contract, Super intendents shall report the same td the County Commissioners lyithout delay. When any highway shall become obstructed by storms or otherwise, the Overseer shall summon a suffi cient number of hands to open and repair such highway. Any Over seer - failing to call out hands, for the space of a day, after application made by any citizen, shall, unless he has sufficient excuse therefor, forfeit $15, to be collected in an action in the name of the County Commissioners. Any person liable to work on highways and neglecting to turn out, on* rdinary occasions and in opening and repairing hways, after being summoned, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction -shall be fined $3 per day. If any person shall perform more days labor than is required by law, he shall be paid $1 per day for the overplus, All able bodied male persons, be tween the ages of sixteen and fifty years, are liable to road duty, ex cept members of State and County Boards of Examiners, School Trus tees, members of Boards of Asses sors, teachers and students at col leges, ministers of the gospel, mil lers engaged in grigt or merchant mills, where they are kept open six days in the week, and the warner for five days. The Overseer shall make a list for the warner, requiring him to give notice to each person of the kind of tool to be used, which no tice shall be given twelve hours before the time fixed in the notice and shall also state the hour and place of working. If any person, after receiving such notice shall neglect to appear or refuse to work according to the direction of the Overseer, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con viction before a Trial Justice, shall be fined not less than $5, nor more than $10, or be imprisoned in the county jail for not less than five, nor more than twenty days. Any person notified to work can pay to the County Treasurer $1 per day for the time he is required to work, which shall be received in lieu thereof. Overseers shall allow two days labor for a man working one day and furnishing a horse and plow, or horse and cart, and three days labor for any person working one day and furnishing a wagon and two horses or mules or oxen. Overseers have power to cut down and use timber, or use any wood, stone or earth, in or near the high way, bridge or causeway to be re paired, necessary for that purpose, but the owner shall be entitled to compensation therefor if demande.d. But no Overseer shall authorize the cutting down of' timber trees re served by the owner, or planted for shade or ornament, either in the fields, around the spring, or about the dwelling house or appurtenan ces, or the cutting of rail timber when other timber can be pro cured, or the taking of stone or earth from enclosed grounds, with out the owner's consent, Any person prohibiting or hinder ing an Overseer from cutting down and using timber, or from using wood. earth or stones. in or near roads or causeways for the purpose of making or repairing such road or causeways, or for making such r,e pairs of bridges, or shall obstruct the passage of said roads, cause ways or bridges by gates, fences or ditches or any other obstruction, or shall hinder or threaten or forbid any traveller from travelling any public road, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con viction shall be fined not less than $5, nor more than $10. Any person removing from one county to another, who has, prior to such removal, performed road duty, shall, upon the production of the certificate, or receipt of the Overseer of the district where he least resided, showing the labor performed, be entitled to a complete discharge for the amount therein specified, Persons over whose lands' any road, other than a~ public highway shall pass, may erect gates thereon, but shall be liable. to be indicted for a nuisance; should they fail to keep them in good repair. Superintendents of Highways shall cause road to beposted and numbered and a pointer placed at each fork and -for ?ieglect of this duty, each is liable to a fine of $10. Blank Liens for supplies and fofrent, fo aeia thisfie WASHINGTON LETTER. - From Our Regular Correspondent. W&SHINGTON, D. C., March 4, 1888. Protection wins the battle in this Congress. The advocates of pro tection for its own sake whipped into the party traces the low-tariff republicans in the house and suc ceeded in putting through the most extraordinary rule ever known in a legislative or deliberative body-a rule by which the house might vote to non-concur in the senate bill, while it was not allowedto vote the other way. Undoubtedly a major ity would have voted for the bill as it came from the Senate had the op portunity been given, but by the rule cooked up for that purpose it was sent to a packed conference committee, and the result is not a revision worth talking about. Judge Kelley and those acting with him preferred failure to the passage of any bill that affected the profits of certain interests they are here to protect and favor. The capitol has been exceedingly lively all the week-the final week of the dying Congress. The gal leries have been packed, and an air of bustle and excitement has pervaded the whole building. The evening sessions appeared to be especially interesting ro visitors, judging from their eagerness in swarming up the hill. The house draws belt. There is more tur moil, tinging repartee, excitement, and spectacular oratory in the lower house than in the Senate. The members enjoy the notice they receive on such occasions, and the audiences enter fully into the spirit of the proceedings. Altogether the show is better than a circus. '-You will 1see a regular parrot and monkey time from now on in the house," was the information con fided to your correspondent early in the week by a veteran house doorkeeper; and then he added, "About a hundred and ffty mem bers are going out, perhaps never to return again to Congress, and nine tenths Qf them will have some pet life and death scheme to run through in the last three days. They will fight and cathaul in an interesting manner, you can depend on it, and the galleries will have fun enough to last a lifetime." He was right. The Senate did not do as much as usual in the way of laying out pleasure trips during the vacation. The proposition for 'a Yellowstone park trip appears to have fallen dead, there will be no more -Mississippi river inquiries to make, and Senator Ingalls' railroad commission project was not pressed. Mr. Anderson, of Kansas, proposed a similar board, but a paragraph was engrafted in the agricultural appropriation bill directing the Com missioner of Agriculture to collate the facts suggested by both Sen ator Ingalls and Mr. Anderson. The star-route defendantg are whistling inudly to keep their spirits up, and bully Ingersoll is pretending to laugh at the evi dence of co-conspirator Rerdell, but as a matter of fact they are losing courage rapidly, in spite of these vigorous efforts. On Monday was reported about town that Dorsey had "skipped," as they say out west, but this proved to be incorrect. Mr. Ingersoll is laboring to make it appear that Rerdell is the only man on trial, but the latter has admitted his guilt, and however bad the othcr defendants succeed in making him appear it cannot help them. He was their tool and trusted lieutenant, and of course he is a bad man, or he would not have answered their purpose; but he is now scared into telling the truth about the whole affair, and it makes things look very squally. He has described the books of the firm, the entries in them, and the check stubs, etc., with minuteness of detail that carries -conviction, and the defense refuses to produce the books to re fute this evidence, thotigh three times served with notices by the government to do so. The denial of Judge Belford that he ever had any dealings with the crowd, or ever had -such a check as Rerdell described, is the first ray of conso lation they have sqtieezed out of his testimony. But, as a matter of fact Judge Belford's denial, which everybody acce#ts as true, does not impacnh Rerrdall in the least The fact that Belford's name was written into' a stub or even into a check payable to bearer, could easily have been one of the tricks of the gang. The refusal of the defense to pro duce the books to discredit Rerdell is accepted as proof that in the main, his memory regarding them is accurate. The opinion is now almost universal here that the only possibility of escape for the defend ants is through some failure on the part of members of the jury to per form their clear duty. The detective scandals that are being unirhedi are aut s ugly as could be imagined. In reading the revelations which daily appear in the prints it seems wonderful how anybody ever escaped burg larly and blackmail. There was a pefectly organized scheme of rob bing private residences, and al though 'of course there is a chorus of. denial, the detective force ap pears to have been as expert in preventing recovery, except on the payment of large rewards, as the thieves were in taking what did not belong to them. We even find that, as in the case of the Chris tiancy jewels, the detectives sug gested and planned robberies. The District commissioners are a good deal stirred up over it, but'so many facts have come out that they seem to have made up their minds that during their incumbency the city was not governed to any appre ciable extent. The President has taken his time to find the other District commissioner, and is evi dently doing like one of those old classic fellows did who went around with a lantern looking for an honest man. If the President would turn his eyes away from his own "grand old party" he wouldn't find the object of his search so diffi cult. Mr. Arthur's extraordinary procrastination in the matter of im portant appointanents is the subject of much unfavorable comment, Whether it arises from cowardice and indecision, or from crafty motives, it is equally discreditable. PHONO. THE LAW OF MISTAKES. The source of almost every law suit is to be found in mistakes of law, says Youth's Companion. Ex perience has proved that the ablest men sometimes make blunders, and the law has decided that a real mistake of fact in an important part of a contract will excuse the party mistaken from performing his part of agreement. For instance, a man made a con tract with one ice company and re fused to deal with another. When the bill was presented he found that the latter company had sup plied his ice. He refused to pay the .bill, and it was decided that the mistake freed him from liability. A horse was sold by a trader and paid for on the spot. While the trade was going on the horse died. The buyer brought suit for the money paid, and it was decided it should be paid back, since both parties have made a mistake of fact, in supposing the horse to be alive when the trade was ended. If a farmer intending to sell hay sells oats by mistake instead, he may refuse to deliver the oats on that ground. It sometimes happens that a bill)s paidlwith counterfeit bank notes. In such a case the payment is void and the receipt is worthless. A mistakelia the quantity of the thing bargained for is no ground for breakring an agreement. If a man buys a cheap thing, with the idea that it will serve his purpose as well as a more expensive article, he cannot, because he was mis taken, send it back and recover the money paid. A mistake of law is no ground for refusing to carry out a contract. This rule is founded on the old maxim: "Ignorance of the law doth~ not excuse.". And every man is supposed to know the law of the land he lives in. .Suppose a debtor gives his note, proniising to pay -a sum of money with lawful interest, thinking that the legal rate is six pier cent. If ten per cent. is the legal rate, his ignorance of the fas wilhiot ex cuse him from, paying the ten per When well-known legal words are used in a contract, with a mi taken idea of their meaning, they are binding, in their legal sense, upon the person using them. If land is deeded to a man'and to his heirs, he receives the estate~ab. solutely, although both parties in tended that he should only have the estate during his own life. Some mistakes of law put an end to agreements on the ground that they are rather mistakes of fact than of law. An executor of a will pays money to a person whom he thinTi(is an heir. If the supposed heir be an impostor, the money can be recovered. If, under a compli cated will, a person buys rights which are his already, he may get back what he paid for them. Mistakes of law in civil cases only cost money; but mistakes of the criminal law have more serious effects, in the loss of respectability and reputation. Here the plea of ignorance df the law will not be accepted. A criminal must suffer the penalty of his deed, though he thought it lawful when he com mitted it. Formerly an outlaw might be slain by anybody; but if a private person should now kill an outlaw, with the idea that he had a right-to do so, it would be punishable as murder. An old law book gives a curious instance of the plea of ignorance. Sir John Johnston, a Scotchman, was tried for stealing and marrying one Mary Wharton, an heiress, "to the great displeasure of Almighty God, to the great disparageiennt-of the said Mary, and to the utter sorrow and affliction ofherfriends," When he was found guilty and sen tenced he asked, with surprise, if it was a hanging matter. He was told that it was, and'he was sen tenced and "executed on a gibbet before his lady's door in Great Queen street." Happily, the days of harsh and cruel laws are past, and penalties are now imposed to reform the offenders rather than to avenge the offense. THE SOUTH AND THE YAN KEE. The impression still obtains that the southern people cherish such a deadly hatred to Yankees that they will neither smell, taste nor handle anything contaminated by Yankee hands. This is a most egregious error. The southern people love the Yankee, and they show their affection in a thousand different ways. When they retire at night they unbutton Yankee buttons to Yankee made coats, wasets pantaloons, shirts, and drawers. They pull off Yankee boots with Yankee bootjJacks, and divest their feet of Yankee socks. They march to Yankee bedsteads, turn down Yankee coverlets, tankee blankets, prostrate themselves on Yankee mattresses, and lay their heads on Yankee pillows. The bed bugs are the only things not made by Yankee hands, and imported from the land of Yankees. On rising in the morning we tread Yankee carpets, stumble over Yankee chairs and sofas, build a fire with Yankee coal taken from Yankee scuttles, in Yankee grates, catch the ashes in Yankee pans, and use Yankee pokers, Yankee .shovel and tongs. We repair to Yankee wash stands, pour water from Yankee pitchers into Yankee bowls, and wash with Yankee soap, then use Yankee towels and Yankee tooth brushes. Next we march to a Yankee bureau, stand before a Yankee glass, and use Yankee combs, Yankee brushes, Yankee -powder, Yankee cologne, in, Yankee bottles. We sit down in a Yankee chair to a Yankee table, covered with Yankee cloth, Yankee knives-and forks, Yankee dishes, and feed upon Yankee fodd. We call for Yankee toothpicks, seize Yankee hats from Yankee racks, turn the key to a Yankee lock, open a Yankee door, enter a Yankee buggy, seize the.Yankee reins to a Yankee harnesa, ad re pair to our place of business and spend the day in trading on Yankee industry. The South is rich .in resources, but ont people 'are so fond of the Yankees that they lavish their wealth upon-them. [Memp.ni Anneat - p - l teM eefsin .; JOB" - TERMS C Y8A A CIW . "Papa, what r a "A person who tries: people drink more w'kl "How do men drink 3lore lsky a:'" "By pssing a against mking: an fe ca#ng drinks." "Pow does this law J ~Bcasethey: dn"el hdi dku Mytisb~t r "b-it good thdrlnc pcrapnyer o -Nv donk top.:In -If t i'og -- ar to a theseothings. soul but peol~ea tb TheNord donot a cOh t act aalst many bad pesplo "Wel .no;I a Cliertan "Ioade u wa_lairie "0IeI it yon to go to lf as ornit&ee. - deterie 8ed or ecrY~i There w ne:a gonss atheb l0on de he go a:ega nia - time h rats K loie gt wthe and fied;am bu ooy. caray r i obeago Seest hno .ot.at ch angianknsyew a hesel bod eterm ldnneve uema seleoghiue ii 4h. ~he Thewln gustt tie t e ubl* Many vetridt werelyutred t b goii