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?-?'..?.riBiWiMW . MIK KKOWKE ?OUUIEU. tr II Y KEITH, SMITH dc CO. -o THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1880. B?*" /'"or subscription, $1.GU per annum, it ric tty in advance; for six months, *?? cents, ?i?y Advertisements inserted al one dollar j>cr square of one inch or less for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each suoscqucnt insertion. 0 Obituary Notices exceeding five lines, Tributes of Respect, Communications of a per sonal character, when admissable, and Announce ments of Candidates witt be charged for as adver tisements. Job Printing neatly and cheaply executed. ?SP Ncecssity compels us io adhere strictly to the requirements of Cash Payments. Invading the Mountains. Tho Charleston NCKS and Courier etatoa that tho dorman Artillery of that city will picnio at Walhalla for two or three weeks in July and August. Tho ooropnny will go in full uniform, nooonipaniod by a number of their lady friends and by tho famous Fusilier Band. After storm ing tko town of Walhalla, they will establish their headquarters at that placo, nnd leaving tho ladies and tho impediments within tho corporate limits, will mallo a sortie into tho mountain fastnesses of thc Bluo Uidgo. This is tho gonornl outline of an oxcursion which promises to bo thoroughly enjoyably and thc details of which will bo arranged hereafter. Wo wolcotno the gallant artillerymen of Char leston io Walhalla, nud will endeavor to uinko their "invasion" as pleasant ns possible. Tho Frosidontial Canvass. Tho President makers on nil sides are busy. Tho Thlrd-lcrnicrs secured Pennsylvania and Now York for Gen. Grant soino lime ago. Mow they have succeeded iu securing thc delegates from Kentucky, Missouri und scattering dele gates from sonic other States. His friends in sist that tho South will also send a majority of dolegatcs lo tho Chioago Convention instructed to volo for him. Senator Blaine, of Maine, is tho next strong est candidato. His strength is mostly in tho West. Mr. Sherman, Secretary of tho Treasury, from present appearances is third in thc race, but In tho end may receive thc nomination. Massachusetts, New Jersey, Vermont, Con necticut and also sonic scattering delegates from other States havo declared for Senator Edmunds. Tho Domocrats nrc ns much divided ns tho Itepublicans. Tho majority of thc people arc for Mr. Tilden, while tho politicians oro for Bayard and others. It ?3 asserted that the n.imo of Mr. Tilden will bo withdrawn nt an carly day. If this bo so, a new man will, in all probability, bo nominated. Tho Washington correspondent of tho New York Herald, who is anti-third term, has the following correspoudonco under dato of April lClh: General Tom Oohiltrco, of Texas, who accompanied thc ex President on his Southern tour until within two or throe days lins arrived here nnd reports that tho en thusiasm for tho cx-Prcsidont nil through tho Southwestern Stftos is very great. His brief and conciliatory speeches have overywhoro, ho says, been received with shoats of applause and ho hus virtually cap tured tho Southwest. Ho believes thut tho ex President enjoys popularity in that section and that tho Southwest will ardently support him for tho third term aud give him au overwhelming vote. His reception since ho lauded in Galveston, General Ochiltree says, has been a continued ova tion. There has been nothing like it in thia country for years; tho Northern press roports hnvo cntiroly failed to do justice to it. A CAUSE OF REGRET, Tt is probable that soruo of tho other Re publican candidates will regret, now that it is too into, that thoy havo so persistently refused to show thomsolvos to thc Southern people. Several of them have been at different times urged and invited to make a tour of tho South or tako part in the can vass in that section, but they havo always refused. Mr. Rlaino hos been os far South os Richmond. Mr. Sherman baa been in Now Orloans, but it was on tho disgraceful business of whito washing tho Louisiana Roturning Boord, whom, with curious hardihood, ho reported to bo as honest men os himself. No other Ropublican of ?uf? cicnt prominence to make him n candidate has dared to soo che South since tho war except on Returning Hoard business. TUE EX-TRESIDENT'S POPULARITY, About tho ox-Presiden t's popularity in thc Southwest there is little doubt. Thc whito.pcoplo of those otates want liberal appropriations and a big slieo of tho ofllccs. Tho mass of them sro Democrats only under compulsion and through thc hostile attitude of tho Republican loaders. They could have been won over to the Republican party nt any time within tho lust four years and President Hayes failed to make a sen sible impression on tho South only becauso, undor tho throats of thc Roturning Hoard and other perpetrators of frauds, ho wat weak enough to koop tho whole nnuscu? ging in possession of tho federal ofiiccs. THE SOLID SOUTH. Tho Dcmoorols hero profess to rcliovi that thoy will retain thc solid South in tin coming election, but they know thut then is gravo danger in a split, and that witl nny nomination by thom such os that o Mr. Tilden they would loso hali a dozoi Southern States. Party- tics hang ovci moro loosely in many paris of tho Soutl to day than in tho North and West, nn that is saying a good deal. Mcantimo th friendly ottitudo ot tho ox-Prosidcnt to ward tho South placed tho Republicans hot for a while in on embarrassing positior Tho third tcrmors had not got thoi? eui but thoy aro getting it. They adroitly pi upon Mr. Edmunds, who is not n thir termer nt all, tho ugly duty of resisti? tho reform of tho Elections Marshals hv? they stirred up friends of Pinino and Shot man to commit tho stupidity in tho lion; of insisting on troops nt tho polls, and tl samo purblind set havo been moved I plead with tho President to veto both (li Election Marshals bill and tho prohibit io of troops nt tho polls. BAD JOKE ON OTHER CANDIDATES. It won. M he n had joko on Rlaino, Sher mau and Edmunds if tho third tormci jdiuuld presently repud?alo nil this folly r.n ?HM- l?l?IWiaMIMM?-tmMgmntmmmWMMMMMBM follow their loader in a brand now Ropub lican programmo of Southern conciliation and lotting bygones bo bygoucs, and haviug an era of good fooling and onoourngomont in tho South: That is tho way it looks boro just now, and thoro is not tho least doubt that Buoh a programmo, under tho leadership of tho OX President, would moko a revolution in Southern polities whioh would swoop tho Southwest and carry for him at least six of tho Southoru States. That tho ex President could accomplish this has boon for somo timo the principal argument for his nomination among 'tho third termers hero, and there oro Democrats who begin to soo that they must nominate a ticket which will carry Northern States rather than Southern. TROUBLE OV THE THIRD TERMERS. Tho troublo with tho third tormore to day is Dot about tho South but about the North. Thoy do not fool quito oortain how tho Northern Republicans will take so sudden a somersault as that whioh the ox. Prosidont is making, or whether they will trust tho now polioy, whioh looks both ways and teaches distrust aud hatred of tho South in tho North, while it smiles upon tho South in tho South. This is tho real problem whioh troubles their minds whether an open alliance between Southern Dourbons aud Northen) third termers would not alarm and disgust the North. Salo of tho Greenville and Co lumbia Hailroad. Tho Columbia papers announco tho anio of tho Grocnvillo and Columbia Railroad in that city, on tho 15th instant, under docrce of tho Court, by Mr. Barnwell, Master of Richland County. This salo 1ms created quite n stir among tho railroad speculators of thc country, North und South. Mr. Barnwell announced that ho roaerved tho rights of parties representing $377,000 in bonds of tho Bluo Ridgo Railroad Company, after which ,hc read tho opinion of Judge Kershaw in tho case nt suit. Mr. W. S, .Monteith then road tho follow ing pretest: NOTICE-D. T. Corbin and William Stono, attorneys nt law, hereby givo notice that thoy hold u judgment and decrco for the sum of $1,800, dated Juno 24th, 1870, whioh with tho interest thereon to date, constitutes alien upon tho property and securities of tho "P?luo Ridge Railroad of South Carolina," now owned nnd hold by the Grconvillo and Colum bia Railroad Company, or tho Recoivor of tho property of tho Urccnvillo nnd Columbia Railroad Company; and thnt they, said Cor bin and Stone, will proceed hereafter to assert and enforco tho lion of said judgment and decrco against said property. I). T. CORBIN. Judgo John E. Bacon also presented a protest, which reads ns follows: Tho undersigned protests ngainst tho sale of $1GO,420 of thc first mnrtgugo bonds and cou pons issued by tho Bluo Ridgo Railroad Company nnd the accrued interest thereon to December, 1S73, being tho samo bonds, coupons und interest proved before Register Carpenter in the mutter of thc Blue Ridge Railroad Company, bankrupt, on or nbout Dcecmbor, 1873; and also about $70,000 ol thc first mortgage bonds nnd coupons of thc said company, nnd thc nccrucd interest thcro on to December, 1873, proved beforo thc same Register about tho samo time by Hon. Robert K. Scott, and which bonds, coupons and tho nccrnod interest woro delivered tc tho Greenville and Columbia Railroad Conv pany by tho undersigned nnd Hon. Robcrl K. Scott respectively, which cxclmngos hnvi been rescinded and cancelled for fraud ant deceit, and for want of powor to mnko sud exchanges, nnd consequently tho purchase; cannot acquiro any title to tho nforoaau bonds nnd coupons issued by tho said Dim Ridgo Rail rond Company and tho inter?s thereon. Dated Now York, April G, 1880. ANSON BANGS. For himself and associates. Thc bidding then bogan, Mr. Jamos O Gibbo.i putting tho ball in motion witl $2,000,000. Mr. W. A Courtenay, Mayor of Charles ton, representing second moTignga bond holders resident of Now York, Charlostoi and Richmond, raised thoso figures $100. Tho bidding was thon narrowod down t Messrs. Cummings and Courtenay, tho for mor bidding frequently from $100 to $90 and $1,000, whilo Mayor Courtenay confine himself to bids of $100. Tho salo continued for somo timo in titi manner, when, by somo misunderstanding n to tho bids, tho property was knocked dow to Mayor Courtenay. Protests from particsimmodiatoly ititcrosto and othors who wero present,- being mudo i to tho decision of tho Master, tho aale wi renewed. Tho bids ranged from $100 to $1,000 for long whilo, each party hoing dotcrminod n to yield un inch. Major Cummings received a dispatch fro Atlanta about half past 3 o'clook, nnd cans? n great deal of oxoitomcnt by increasing tl bids $100,000. Mr. Courtonay vory quietly bid $b moro. Tho bidding continued with but litl advance ovor $100 and ('200, until abc half past 6 o'clook, whon tho rond ? knockod down to Mayor Courtenay at $i 003,400. Tho principal owner of tho road is J Clyde, of tho Clydo Steamship Company. A duel was fought nt Lancaster, 9. C., on i 14th instant, between David Adams and Ocoi Itcinrnouth. Adams wa3 tho aggressor ti was woundod. Two hundred prominent citizons of Cinointi aro on an excursion to tho South. Thoy lu visited Atlanta, Augusta, Charleston and i vnnnnh and nro delighted with thoir trip. Mr. Thos. B, Crown, senior editor of Lanrcnsvillo /feralJ, lino been nominated n? candidate for tho Legislature from Laure flo hus accepted tho nomination and wo li ho will bo elected. A correspondent of tho Newberry lierait announcing a ticket for Stalo offioors notninn Ooh B. Frank Slnnn, of Oconco, for Si Treasurer. This is n good nomination, and shall bc pleased (o further his election in ; way wo can. Thc Greenville mill Colum bia It nil road and Its Future Policy. Tho Bolo of tho Greenville and Columbia Railroad was tho most important transfor of railroad proporty, uudor tho hammor, that lins over taken pince in South Carolina, and thc public aro naturally solicitous to know something of tho intentions of thc nowownoro of tho road. It was a signifioant incident of tho exciting Bale that, after tho bidding had boon going on for fivo long hours, tho ropro Bontntivo of tho Air Lino interest, whoso plans woro gonorally understood to bo onto? gonistio, commercially, to this city, ap proached tho Alastor, and said: "I havo come up to compliment tho Mayor of Charles ton and to givo up this tightl" Somo yonrs ago, whoo tho South Carolina Railroad obtained control of tho Groonvillo and Columbia Road, Proaidont Magrath ooncoived it to bo his duty to work both roads as if constituting a single proporty. No diversion of tho business of tho Qroonvillo Hoad was pormittod in any direction, and Charleston bconmo tho recipient of tho wholo volume, of business along its lino. This policy, so advantageous to tho intorosts of this oity, provoked much hostility in many sections of tho Stnto which claimed that it affected thom injuriously. Ki thor Charleston was not thoroughly informed of tho oxtont and cost of this fidelity to her business inte rests, or sho was lacking in appreciation of it. Certain it is that thc support which those intorcstod in tho prosperity of tho city pwod to Proaidont Mcgrath's struggle to koop tho business of thc Crconvillo Kailroud tributary to Charleston was not given. In November, 1873, Olen. Connor was appointed Receiver, and tho identity of intorcst botwoon tho two roads was at an end. Public sentiment along tho lino of tho Grconvillo .Railroad was clamorous that tho linc should ho nindo free for business in any diroction, without dis crimination, and this policy wns urged in tho intorost of tho creditors of tho rond, no loss than for thc accommodation and pacification of shippors. Tho llccoivcr ncquicscd, and for moro than a year tho Qroonvillo nnd Columbia Railroad has Deon an open linc to all connections. It is indisputable that thc chango has boon a wclcomo ono to tho people of tho up country, whilo to Charleston its effect has been less hurtful than many had anticipated. Of the colton movement on thc Orocuvillo Road, this oity is 6till rocoiving ninety por cent; and, excepting tho items ol first and second class through freights, she has continued to supply her annual freight contributions to tho hundrod depots alon/! tho lino. This is certainly gratifying ns ti demonstration of her oupassing" advnnttigcf as a cotton market, as well as hor ability tc hold her own in a fair and opon competi tion with all other points for tho tindo of thc Stath. For many weeks past efforts havo been mado in Charleston to combino tho inter ests represented by tho holdors of thc Sec ond Mortgage bonds of thc Road, in view of tho approaching salo, in order that thu city might reassert its exclusive control o tho lin?. It was known that a strong com bination of tho holders of thc guarnutcci bonds had boen mado for their own protec tion, and that a bid of nt least 82,250,00( would bo mado to protecttheso investments that by tho terms of tho salo at leas ?750,000 must bo paid within ninct' days and 81,500,000 within twolv' months. Thus it was necessary lb any combination of holders of th Second Mortgage bonds, in order t purohasc tho Road, to provide, withii a limited period, for a very larg cash payment, Resides, tho Second Mort gago bonds were largely held ns collatcra for loans, and, while tho conditions o?" th lonna authorized thc utile of tho collateral they forbade tho use of thc bonds for an; speculative purpose. In tho nbsenco o any Charleston capitalists, both ablo nm willing to buy tho Second MortgagO bond outright nnd then bid 82,1250,000 for th property, it wan believed that tho Roni would finally fall into tho possession of th guaranteed bondholders, or elso become th property by negotiation or purchase, at prico somewhat above tho aggregate am min of tho guaranteed bonds, of tho Air Lin Railroad which was by thc location of it lino, necessarily a competitor with Charles ton for tho business of tho Greouvill Hoad. At this juncture a few citizens succccde ir? making up a syndicate to buy tho lloat and began operations by tho purchase of Iorgo proportion of tho Second Mortgno bonds. In lh?3 way they, of course, ob ta'nicd a great advantage nt tho snle, an wo have seen how effectively they have usc it. It is now contemplated, WJ aro in formed, to reorganizo tho Road under now name, to add to its rolling stock nn equipment, and op?rate it, os it has bec worked during thc past year, ns nu ope Rond for all business; but. it is ospeoinl declared that there shall bc no discrimino tion against Charleston. Saoh a dioorimi nntiou, however, would not be likely, in nt event; for almost thc on tiro cotton mov< mont of tho Road (92) per cent, for In year gravitates lo Charleston on account tho marked advantages of its market, whi from oar jobbing stores und warohoUS thcro is a largo daily movement of frcig to tho upcountry depots. Self interest w therefore, prompt tho Greenville Road consider Charleston interests. Wc cou hnvo wisher] that tho absoluto control this rond should havo onco more rested Charleston; but every effort to nooompli this result had failed, und tho nssuran from re3ponsiblo sources that is now giv of ntl impartial administration of tho lil in all that nffcctJ Charleston business certainly thc next best thing. [News and Courier. AT/.AMTA, QA., Apiil 19.-A little I named Coker, residing at Rosntcllo, stn his brother on tho bond to-day with a stoi supposing it to bo a clod of dirt, and kil him. Tho trial of tho flvo negroes charged w burning tho Academy of Music, in Crccnvi on tho 7th day of December Inst, nflor ci; days of patient investigation, ended on night of (ho l illi instant, tho jury bringing a verdict of guilty ns to all of them. Jiu Thomson, sontenced them to bo hung on 18th day of Juno. Their caso will go to Supremo Court on appeal. Two of tho pri nora who made confessions woro found gui HimaiinnauManMKnawiMii A Westorn Tornado. SEVENTY'FIVK l-EOPLE KILLED AND 200 WOUNDED. ST. LOUIS, April 18.-Tho psssongors who passed through Marshfield ou tho St. Louis nod San Francisco railroad at 8.30 last night gavo n fow facts oounooruiug tho torriblo disastor which ooourrod thoro yes terday A mun who carno to tho depot nt tho end of tho town while tho train was there roportod that nt G.80 o'olock a furious hurrionuo struck that place and Icvcllod all that part of tho town lying west of tho center square flat to tho ground. Tho de bris iniinodiatoly took fire in several places and tho flames could bo seen ot ?OHIO half dozen points by tho passengers on tho train. Forty dead bodies had been token out, nnd many moro woro supposed to bo buried in tho ruins or burood up. Thoro woro also many living still imprisoned in tho debris of fallon buildings. All tho physicians of thc town wore killoe! except two or throe. There wan groat need of dootors to attoud to tho wounded, of whom it was said thoro woro somo 200. A relief traiu, with twonty physicians ond nurses and full supplies, left Springfield Mo., this morning for Marshfield, nnd probably othor trains will arrive during tho day. Tho storm was general iu Southwest Missouri, and other places probably suffered dumagc, but ns tho telegraph wires aro all prostrated no advices have been reocivod. Violent hail and rain accompanied tho wind. CHICAGO, April 10.-A very sovcro storm swept over this oootion of tho Stato last night, doing considerable damage to to property, both in this city and in neigh boring towna. This morning eighty-one wires of tho Wostorn Union telegraph com pany wcro down, and tho communication was cutoff in utmost evory direction. Thc woe thor is now turning cold and snow is threatened. A special to thc NOWA says: "Tho town of Marshfield, Mo., hus been totally de stroyed by tho storm and firo. Sovcuty fivo persons wcro killed and two hundred wounded. Tho telegraph wires aro all down." ST. LOUIS, April 20.--Telegraphic communi cation ha-? been pail ?ally restored willi Marsh field. SeVen of the persons wounded on James Uiver died yesterday afternoon and five at Marshfield. At Marsh fl old many families, homeless, have taken refuge in thc depot and empty cars. The death list al 7 o'clock lasl night numbered 78 and many missing, several of whom aro doubtless buried under the debris. Eighty-five wounded arc in thc school house. A great many colored persons woro killed or in jured. Only fourteen buildings aro left standing. Clothing is needed badly. Contri bution:; aro coining from all towns along thc line of road. .ST. LOUIS, April 19.-A telegram from Springfield via Vinita nnd.Knnsns CU? to C. W. Hogers, Oeiictal Managers of tho St. Louis nnd San Francisco Railroad, says that tho hurricane pnssod a lew miles South of Springfield about 7 last night, doing nn imi moneo amount of damago and killing n. great number of people. Fifty deaths aro reported at James Uiver five miles South of Spring* field, and a great many persons nro missing. Tho train dispatcher at Conway, fourteen miles thia nido.of Marshfield, roporto that ho arrived there from Springfield at ll o'clock, and says ho found tho country in a torriblo condition from North View, sovon milos West of Marshfield, to tho luttor point. Trees throo foot in dinmotor woro pulled entirely ont of tho ground, telegraph polls twisted off and everything wreckod. Tho town of Marshfield waa demolished, brick na well us frame buildings being torn to pieces. "Wc did not seo more than half a dozen poople ns wo came through that town. Tho placo seemed deserted. Doctors and nursoa who carno on our train from Springfield, about twenty in number, wont from tho depot alono to hunt up tho poople, there being no one at tho depot to rcceivo them. A relief train was sent from Lebanon to Marshfield nt day? light this morning with about fifty doctors, nursea and helpers, and a full supply of pro vision:?, olothing and medical stores, also material for repairing tho telegraph. A great many bodies aro lying in in tho Court IIouso. Of tho total number killed, which is not far shart of 100-not moro tho^i a dozen havo been buried. Nothing Uko n complete list of tho killod and waundod can bo obtained to-night. Marshfield ?8 tho county scat of Wobstor county and 215 milos from St. Louis, situated on a platoon of tho Ozark Mountains, but not of groat altitude or particularly exposed. LATER.-Eighty ono persons aro now known to bo dead, and four moro deaths aro expected to-night. Nearly all tho inhabi tants of tho town aro wounded nnd fifty or moro of them aro seriously hurt, and no doubt many of thom will dio. Thcro oro a good many dead children and nogroos whoso names cannot bo learned. Tho Valuo of Advertising. Wo stepped thc other day into tho storo of ono of our mercantile friends, and was greeted with tho lomork tbat his adver tisement had boon of groot benefit to him. Wo wcro informed that an nrliolo adver tised by him had been nlmoct ontircly sold, nnd thnt thc lalo of it wns for tho moat pnrt duo to tho advertisement. This is good and substantial benefit of lotting tho world know what u man keeps in his storo, or is doing in his ohop. A merchant lomotimcs thinks that his uso of printor's ink docs him no good, but such is not thc oasc. An advertisement benefits him in ways nnd times that he knows not of, Tt is a well known foot that tho most suoocssful busi ness mon nt tho North hnvo nttribtitod their succ?s:-) to keeping their names nnd business boforo tho public. So let our frionds never grow weary in tho good work of adverti sing.-Hoch Hill Herald. Thc Governor lins given his final opinion ns lo tho legality of tho last term of Corni held in Oconeo County. Should tho Supremo Court givo a similar opinion, mailers will bo conside rably mixed at tho next lorm of Court in thal Circuit." So says tho local of tho Columbia Register. If his Excellency had given his "opinion" In tho way of a veto of thc act changing tho time.: of holding our Courts, it would havo boen worth something, Fis "opinion" now ls not of tho slightest cweer''-"" Western North Carolina Items hy You Know Who. VrniTESlDB COVE. A mn,n from "Walhalla spooks of oponing a atoro nt Grimshnw's mill, 'ibo rioh gold minos that thoso minors (?) found nil "playod out" without any "dust." "Wo aro indobtod to Col. Thomas Grim shaw, Jr., for special favors at a timo when wo most nocdod thom. Thorn is n olauso in tho Good Tomplar's constitution which roads: "Do not look upon tho wino when it is rod in tho cup." Wo did not look at it long-wo consumed it. TUB DEVIL'S COUKT HOUSE (MOUNTAIN.) In reply to tho many inquiries, we will say that wo havo not yot rccoivod n summons to nttond tho court of his Sutanio Majesty, tho only signs of any legal business hoing tran saotod horo is tho rnvons continuo to punish tho hawks, and mountain angles, and tho wild turkoys and phoasants aro filing their bill? against tho young groon growth that is just boginning to appoar. And that Judgo Jack frost hus passed se nt on co on all tho young poncheo and oarly gardon plants, Hi? ?ontonen was immediate douth and tho charge against tho fruit, &o., was that they wcro "too fast," and for not carrying their concealed weapons long enough. Spring in fully undor way and corn plant ing has begun. Wo will nay some man could make a fine thing of it each year boro in tbeso mountains if ho was to raise socd corn, seed potatoes, oniona, millet, ito., for planting purposes cxolusivoly. CASH ir.a's VAi.i.r.r. Wo learn a new store will bo opened. This valley is full of romaneo, nnd tho low landers will crowd it this ooneon. Harney Butler, a genuine North Carolina scout and mountain guido, has been spending soiao timo in tho vnlloy. Tho Grinishuw houso and lot is for salo or rent-n good chance for nomo ono to koop summer boarders and a storo. MAMUURO. Hamburg is improving rapidly and efforts will bo made to build up a settlement like tho one nt Highlands. A now school district will be out off of thc Yellow Mountain District and form a new ono nt Grassy Camp; there aro thirty chil? dren around Grassy Camp who never havo had tho advantages of a school or onjoyed any of tho public money. Emigrants from tho North and also from South Carolina aro in hero looking around ami tho prospects aro good for a summer resort to bo built up ovor on tho lurnpiko road, if tho right Steps oro taken. Tho number of boarders that havo niado appliers lion for summer board cannot bo accomo dated on account of tho want of boarding housco. Mr. George W. Olney, for nearly sixty years an active merchant of Charleston, died yesterday in lins eily, nt tho advanced age cf nearly Ol years. Mr. Gluey was a native of Kholo Is land ami was a direct descendant of nae of thc original aettloru of thc colony, whoso family intermarried with that of Roger Williams. The father of Mr. Olney was a distinguished officer of Ibo revolutionary war, and it is related in his biography by Mrs. Williams, published in 1839, that it was in honor of his oonimaudor (hat ho named his DOH, who was boru April 2">, 178!>, two days after General Washington ar rived at New York lo nssttmo the Presidency. Mr. Olney's long life, therefore, ban covered tho existence of tho general government lo thc present limo. Ho was ono of thoso New Un glivnd mon, thc contemporary of A. S. Willing ton, Tristam Tupper, Smith Mowry, and others whom our citizens will readily remember, and the Inst survivor of them, who came to Charles ton in tho carly pail of thc century, and whose cnlerpriso and public spirit, did so much to build up tho business interests of thc eily. Mr. Olney removed herc shortly after tho close of Ibo second war with Great. Britain and began business, first in Market near State street, nnd afterwards on Vondtio range, whore he re mained unlil his retirement a few yours ago. Daring this extended business career, a career eminently distinguished by probity and useful ness, Mr, Olney was ono of Hiebest known mid respected of our citizens" His vigorous health enabled him to enjoy old ngo as fow nonngoiin rians do, and bis menial faculties were prc scrvod almost to tho last.-News >.iwl Courier. In 1853 four gentlemen entered their sons at boarding school nt Cok cs bu ry, S. C. They had boen for four yearn intimit? friends and clergymen in tho Methodist Church. These boys remained at sohoo), roommates and olnssmntcs, for two years, and entered WoiTord College, standing rel atively first, second, third and fourth in ti large class. They remained nt this insti tution four years, wcro roo m tn a ten nil tho time, graduating relatively first, oooond, third and fourth. They then entered a law office in Spartanburg, ond studied law under the sumo chancellor. Thc war broke ont, and at the call for troops they nil en tered Jenkins's Killo Regiment from South Carolina, and were messmates in thc samo company. Hoing nour thc same height they stood together ns comrades i:i battle in this regiment. At tho second battlo of Manoseas, August 1801, just as the light was over, and thoso young men had gath ered about a spring to rofrcsh themselves, a shell from thc enemy's battery, tho last shot fired, exploded in tho midst of them and killed tho four on tho spot. They oro buried on tho samo battle field, nnd sleep together in thc samo gravo. Their nimios wcro Capers, McSwoin, Smith and Duncan, nud they woro tho sons of Bishop Capers, Hov. Hrs. MeSwoin nnd Smith, of South Carolina, and Hov. Mr. Duncan, ol' Vir ginia, tho last being a brother of Kev. Dr. Duncan, of Randolph Macon Collego. Tho grave is marked by a granito cross and en closed with an iron railing. Tho Supromo Court is in sossion, A monument to cost $25,000 is to bo erected over tho gravo of tho late Gen. Jamos Shields, at Carrolltoti, Mo. During tho courso of aomo excavations and Icvclings which have boon carried out within tba historio linos of Plovnu by tho Bulgarian government IC cannon and 10,000 muskets havo been found which Osman Pasha caused to ho buried beforo ho surrendered to tho Hessians, -ninii in i nimm? ? minim n-i-1 ? '.??? Bulldozing in tho North? WASHINOTON April 10.-Senator Wn^oo'a select committee to inquiro into tho alleged frauds in tho Into election submitted a long report to tho Scnnto to-day, to tho effect that a wldo-spreud system of what is called "clvillzod bull-dozing" io practiced in Massachusetts and Rhode Island by which tho employees of largo corporations nre, by open or secret threat of dlschnrgo from omploymont, coerood into voling ns their cmploycos desiro. This wau conspicuous in tho recent efforts to dofonfc Buller nnd Tilden, in making cmploycos voto tho Republican ticket. Tho committee (Ind that tho remedy must bo by Stnlo, not Congres sional legislation. Tho Federal Government has no voters of its own creation. It eau punish for cl imes ns to manner of violating, but offenses nguinst tho right itself must bo pun? ished by Stato Inw. BILL ARP ON THE PRESS.-Your papor is a groat ooiufort to me; in cvory numbor I lind something to put away in my mind and memory, something that I did not know boforc, and whioh will bo of advan tage to mo in (imo to como, tf a man oan read ho can get n good education by taking ono good paper; he can koop up with tho world und uinko himself an ontortnining member of society; ho can talk up a littlo on most any subject. Dook loaming is a very good thing, but I. know a man who lins n power of that, but ho passes for a fool in his nnborhood. Somo papors aro not much account to appearances, but I never took ono that didn't poy mo iu como way a good neal moro than I paid it. Ono timo nu old friend started a littlo papor away down in Southwestern Georgia and sent it to mo, and I subscribed just to encourago him, nnd so after n whilo it published a notice that un administrator had an ordor to sell several lots of land at public out3ry, and ono of tho lots wns in my county. So 1 inquired about tho lot, and wroto down to my friend to attend tho salo and run it to fifty dollars. Ho did so, aud bid off tho lot For me at thirty dollars, and I sold it ia a month to n mau it joined for a hundred, and so I made sixty eight dollars clear by taking that papor. My father told mo that when ho way o young mnn ho saw n notice in a poper that ti school toucher was wanted away off in a distant county, and ho wont down there and got tho situation, and a little girl was sent to him, nnd after a whilo she grew up mighty sweet and pretty, and ho foll in love with her and ?mtirriod bor. Now, if ho hadn't took that paper, what do you reckon would have becomo of mc? Wouldn't I bc somo other feller, or maybe not bc at all.-Dixie Farmer. ADAM AND EVE AND THAT APPLE. How many apples did Adam nnd Evo oot? Some my Eve 8 and Adam 2-a total of 10. Now wo figuro tho thing out far differently. lOvo 8 and Adam 8 also. Total 10.-Dation Journal, We think tho figuros above ore entirely wrong. If Evo 8 and Adorn 82, certainly tho total would bo 90. Scientific men, however, on tho strength of thc theory that tho antediluvi ans wero ti race of giants, reason something like this: Eve 81 nnd Adam 82, total 103. - Gloucester Advertiser, Wrong again. What could bc clearer than, if Evo 81 and Adam 8l2f tho total was 198?-Lawrence American. If Eve 811st and Adorn 812, would not the totol bo 1023?-Boston Journal. I believe this to bo tho truo polution: Eve SM Adam, Adorn 8124 Evo, total, 8938.- Vrrit?s. Still another calcu lation is as follows: If Evo 814 Adam, Adam 81212 obligo Eve, totnl, 82,807. Wo think this, however, not a sufficient quantity; for though wo admit Eve 814? Adam," Adam, if he 803112 keep Evo company, total 8,982,950.-A7. Y. Mail. All wrong, hive, when she 31812 many, and probably felt sorry for it, but her com panion, in order to relieve her grief, 812. Therefore, Adam, if he 818148 lOfy Evo's depressed spirits. Hence both ate 81,948, 864 (."..pies'--40,048,422 npieoe. ?Thon? were giants in those days." WASHINGTON April 17.-Tho Domo? eratic members of tho Senate committee on rules and of tho Senate .select committee on the subj cot of oounting tho electoral votosj held a long privato meeting tooday, with a view to agreeing upon somo recommends-" timi for action in rogard to tho electoral count to bo token by thc Sennte at thia session. It wns substantially to recommend that tho two houses of Congress shall adopt u new joint rulo providing that in onso only ono oor tili jato of tho electoral voto of a State bo presented to Congress, it sholl not be rejeotod, oxocpt by tho nffiirmativo volo of tho two houses, and that in caso of dual returns neither shall bo counted unlc8S> the two Houses ngroo that ono of thom io the true and valid return. This proposi tion wus substantially tho sumo that waa offered by Senator Morton in tho 44th Congress, and then adopted by tho Sonato in the torin of n bill, whioh, however^ failed to receive iinr.l action in that body in. oousciiucnoo of Mr. Thurman having on tered 0 motion to consider its passage Tho former 22d joint rule on tho Rubjook required every vote to bc rejected to which any objection waa sustained by cither Houso*. CrtAnr.RSTON, S. C., April 20-Tho casos, in tho United Stntos Court against Goorgo W?, Williams, ns a partner in tho firm of Wil liams, Birnie & Cu., growing out of cotton speculations in Now York, woro sot for trial to-day, but wero not heard, nnd tho undor* standing ls that a settlement has boen offootcdj mainly nt tho roto of forty conto on tho dtdlar. Tho amount of tho clnim was noarly thrce^qiturtors of a million dollars. AUGUSTA, April 10.-At midnight sonto negroes whilo gambling quarrelled. Gilbort King shot another negro named Dent, who died immediately. King oscoped in tho moioo and gen oral row. Williams was ima plicated und captured. There was a wind storm to-dny on both nidos of the Savannah, but no serious dum-? ago. A few doses of Sht'lnor's Indian Verm?fugo, given in time, may savo you many 'lollara In money und (he life of your child.