The Easley Messenger, 1883-11-09

New TigmefHow Ckdeks and Wateb' ts are To Be RevolUotim*ed.The New Stan4ard to be General. The big Railroad Time Conveotloh re yYork 414, york W ;4h I wi only .WhangtAd regu regubi4t~e. - bi4t~e. regubi4t~e. fto k24th t rdgh'60t the COMA*; try, but will also affect the standarfl time,9f the erqtire eoun try. The sten stendardt - dardt stendardt adopted by that Convention reg regilate - ilate regilate the time on this continent accord according - ing according to the meridiat lines West. from Greenwich. Tiho continent is divided Into live parts, each containing fifteen barallels and eaci representing one hour. The Mirst division, called tie In Inter - ter Inter Colonial, begins at sixty degrees West of Greenwich and runs to seven seventy-flve - ty-flve seventy-flve degrees. It includes New Brunswick. Nova Scotia, and part of Canada. The next division is called the Eastern, running from 75 to 90 de degrees. - grees. degrees. It includes' all the Eastern and middle States an( the Soithern Coast States down to Georgia. rthen comes the Central division, including the ter territory - ritory territory from 90 to 105 degrees. This takes in all the Southern States not In InClded - Clded InClded inl the Eastern division and nlearly all of what are called the Wes Western - tern Western States. The Mountai division takes in the territories nearly to Cali California, - fornia, California, aml( then com.1les the Pacille di diVision. - Vision. diVision. which exteldis to the Coast. No matter where a city or )oint is in any on1e of these divisions it has just the smle thnle as every other point in the entire (tivision. - For inlstance. New York and Charleston have identical time, and so have Atlanta and Chicago. This seets a little queer at first, but It is thought that. excellent results in the way of regularity will soon be observed. The divisions will be easily learned and every body will k now that each division represents just one hour of time. Augrusta will be inl the Central (livisioln whe lmhiiburg. just acros the river, is in the Easter4. Therefore wthen it i 12 o'clock In Augusta just over the river it is oily I1 o'clock. There will be three t rains arriving at Augusta out of the Eastern division. Say they reach the city at 12 o'clock, their coni conifiectionit - fiectionit conifiectionit will run by Central division time and they can leave at 11:05, or apparently nearly nit hour before the trains they connect with arrive. NEW HoME, NEw CxrrfzN.-Dur CxrrfzN.-During - ing CxrrfzN.-During the coinIg week Shumate. Grady & Nichols will begin the construtetioni of quite a handsomo residence in the West End, ot 'Pendleton street, for W. Brun lisont. pf Pickens County. who in intends - tends intends to temove to this city. The builidhig will be of frame and contait six rooms. It wvill be in the form of ai T. The larger wing Will be 4txI6 atnd the smaller 18x20. There will al also - so also b~e a librtary in th~e residence. residence.Greenville - Greenville residence.Greenville News. -T wvo men01 from Asheville. N. C. have beent living mIyster'hiusly in i swamp in Opelousas Parih, L~a. Omi of themi calling himself Lane, muir dlered at man and was killed resistint arrest. His comnpanion was cal led Browni, anl dclimed to be his~ couisini T1he(y ackntowledige having fledI fron justtice ini North Carolina, and claimet to belong to the "Rdon ag." --Robert W. Wilson, of Pickents was commhtittedI to jail yesterdayI on charge of obtaining goods unider fa ist pr'etences. It is charIged1 that lhe miort gtage.d a horse belonging to a relative repr'esenting the animal to be his hisGreenville - Greenville hisGreenville aly News. 4th~ Inst.

-TJMe Abbevile Press andapner, in oW ring suggestions for the ap approaching - proaching approaching session of the Legislature, says; "Sotith Carollna being a free trade State it will now be in order for the fiegsiature, o repeal the. ugeonp4itp ugeonp4itp1ri - 1ri ugeonp4itp1ri acth cfAayittlnvsted in cotton .factories Is exempt from tax. ation" Fi'ee trade has nothing to do *iti'tie question. The protective tariff levies a tax on all imports for the purpose of keeping them out and giving home manufactures a monopoly. . It is in intended - tended intended to protect hiome industries from the competition. of for'eigners and to force, the public to. biy home imade goods at higher prices thanthe foreign goods can be bought for, It robs the people by compelling them to pay more than they ought to pay for things necessary for their comfortable existence. The tax exemption encourages. home mantifacturis by decreasing the cost of their production. It leaves the markcut open, but enables the cotton man ufacturer at home to make and sell his goods at less cost than he could do if he pald full taxes, the public re receiving - ceiving receiving the benefit of the reduction. The exemption of the mills does not rob the taxpayer as the mills are newly created values which had no previous existence aid have heretofore paid nothing. It benetits the taxpayer be because - cause because it encourages the building of fac factories, - tories, factories, which, at the expiration of a short time, become taxable, adding large sums to the taxable values and relleving all other property of much of its share of the burden of supporting the government and paying the debt. -Greenville News. -A CIncus BAnY.-A negro wo. wo.nian - nian wo.nian from Due West visited Sells' cir cirens - ens cirens at Abbeville. Aftet witnessing the perforlmances for some time she re retired - tired retired to a neighboring house and gave birth to a boy. Dr. Cary was called in. Mother and child done well, and the baby will be named Sells. -rTe directors of the different Nar Narrow - row Narrow G(uage railroads from Rutherford Rutherfordton, - ton, Rutherfordton, N. C., to Georgetown, S. C., hav postooned action Oi the proposal to consolidate them all under ia Boston syndicate. I) Union coniity on Monday, Uniouk atid Goshen Townships voted sub subscriptions - scriptions subscriptions to the Union, Gaffney City aid Rutherfordton Railroad, at Dravton 'Townishiip voted almost tinan tinaninmously - inmously tinaninmously against it. --U. B. White's, the~ defaulting T'reasurer of Newherry County, har bheeni senit to jail for a year, i dlefaulti of $ I,000) tine. -A colored woman gave birth to ai hiheli while ift a wagon going to New Newberry - berry Newberry to attend court last week. - . + . .-A - -A .-A cloth wrunig out from coldl wt wtter -- ter wtter pntt aLbont the tneck at night is good( for the so:'e throat. -Tw'~o million tons of tobacco are atiallill co(ttslinledl b.y the binnmalt --1nioni Connty has only 700 delin delin<pait - <pait delin<pait taix payers (of 4,900, thei dlelint dlelint<pitnts - <pitnts dlelint<pitnts bin~g p~rintcipally pols. shatbhy oldl CoUt mar~' en in ai a it lor.