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A Mistrial in the Casl-jhxnnon Case. KH I1T or Till J CRT roa ACyl'ITTAL AN l> FOUR FOR CONVICTION. PARLiNtifofti Feoruary 20.?The Court was opened at 10 o'clock this morning. Col. Cash, who bud spent the uiglit in jail, appeared fresh and composed. The jury who had been locked up in their room qjxtcen hours, filed into their places looking wearied and trouble I. The court-room wus dcusely crowded, and all eyes were turned to tho jury-box, seeking to read in the faces of the twelve some indication of the I result. The suspense, however, was but momentary, the foreman announcing, amid breathless silence, that the jury had not bceu able to agree upon a verdict. Judge Tresslcy salJ that the Stnte had aide connsel to defend its rights; the defendant had able and faithful counsel to defend his rights, and the Court proposed to instruct the jury in Si. n ? ? ..6...a. 11v cjipiiuiieii i uc uiw luiicuuig cases of non-ngrcemeut by juri sa, but said that lie had nothing more to add as to tho law or the Tacts of this case. He sent them out according to law, and instructed them in their proper course in the matter. The Attorney General then, as one speciilly concerned, asked that the remaining duelling cases be tried before tho minor cases which would have precedence in the regular order. The Judge responded with some asperity :? j "I think that the duel lias had enough of the I time oT this Court, and 1 intend to proceed with tho business concerning the prisoners in jail." lie added, a moment after : "It is of more importance Hint I lie jail be relieved of its prisoners than that the time of the Court be spent in vain endeavors to force juries to verdicts they do not intend to render." Just then the jury emerged from their room nnd resumed their places in the box. The court was instantly in a btisli of expectation. The foreman announced very positively that they were unable to agree on a verdict. This was final, and a murmur of relief rippled through the crowd. The Judge said : Enter a mistrial in this case, Mr. Clerk. So ended ilie first trial of this unique case, the general opinion being tbnt it will never be revived. The Judge allowed Col. Cash to furnish bail in two sun ties for $:l,000, tlie same sum (lint was fixed for bis bond at the preliminary hearing. iuc mil111 prosecution Having tailed to convict, the cases against Messrs. W. 11. Sanders and Wm. E. Joliusou, I lie seconds respectively of Col. Casli and Col. Shannon, were continued to the next term of court. It is now known that the jury stood eight for acquittul and four for couviction. Previous to the trial the friends of Col. Cash were confident of an acquittal ; but tho unexpected vigor and earnestness with which the prosecution was managed probably prepared them for a less favorable result. N. G. G. WII.VT COL. CASII THINKS OF TI1E RESULT. Florence, February 26?P. M.?Col. Cosh - returned to his home this evening. Just after llV^ptve vjtrn, "lima it nsw wortis with him. lie remarked that after the Judgo's charge ho was prepared for any verdict the jury might give.? lie protested that the evidence ndduced as to his words and actions before the duel was in a great part utterly false, and that he was shocked at tlio assurance of its presentation. Ho felt the pninfulness, he said, of obedience to the directions of his counsel in making no reply to the misrepresentations with which he believed himself assailed, but was glad that tho evident chango of sentiment in Darlington was the result of reason and not obtained through nny protestations on his part. Perhaps the best encomium Tollman's speech received was front the prisoner against whom it was directed. Ho averred that if the Attorney-General had continued his argument a little longer he himself would have beeu convinced against his own conviction and been willing to vote with the four jurymen for a verdict of guilty.?.Veirs and Courier. The I.entkn Season.?Wednesday the 2d of March, is Ash Wednesday, and, consequently, the c inunencemcnl of the Lenten season. The usual regulations for the ueaaon bwn *n. nc vrnrrcn asTsno ws: 1. AH I lie faithful who have completed their twenty-first year, arc, unless legitimately dispensed, bound to observe the fast of Lent. 2. They arc to make only one meal a day, excepting Sundays. d. The meal allowed on fast day9 is nol to be taken until about noon. 4. At that meal, if on any day permission should be granted for eating flesh, both flesh and fish are not to be used at the same time, even by way of seasoning. 5. A small refreshment, commonly called collation, is allowed in the evening ; no general rule as to the quantity of food permitted at this time is, or can be made. Hut the practice of the most regular Christian is never to let it ex coed the fourth part of an ordinary meal. 0. The quality of food allowed to a collation is, in this diocese, bread, butter, cheese, nil kinds of fruits, salads, vegetables and fish. Milk ami eggs nllowcd. 7. General usage has made it lawful to drink in the morning some warm liquid ; as tea, coffee, or thin chocolate, made with water. 8. Necessity and custom have authorized the lard Instead of butter, in preparing fish, vegetables, kc. 9. Tlio following persons are exempted from the obligations of fasting: young persons under t wenly ono years of age, the sick, nursing women, those who nro obliged to do hard labor, all who, through weakness, cannot fast without great prejudice to their health. 10. llv disnensntion tli* nso ?>f flout, m?.i will be allowed At any time 011 Sundays, and once a day on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, with tho exception of Holy Thursday, and the second and the last Saturday of Lent. 11. Persons dispensed from the obligation of fasting on nccount of tender or advanced ago, or hard labor, are not bound by tho res riction of using meat only at one meal on days on which its use is granted by dispensation. Others dispensed from the fast fur other causes, as well as those who are obliged to fast, are permitted to use meat only at one monl. Spkaks fob Itsklp.?T tat the road is open in the South for the colored as well as the white man to realize a competency by industry and economy the following fact, one of a thousand similar fuels, will show : I-ewi* Duckett, a colored man living within a few miles of Newberry, is now the owner of a valuable plantation of 70(5 acres, bought ami paid for by himself since the war. Duckett thus rotated his post-bclluui history to a Dnil;/ Xr.ws reporter : "I was freed in 1805, but continued working with my former master for one year, making that year nothing beyond my living. Prom tiiat time until April, 18P?7,.I never had a dollar to eall my own. In 180ft I rented land from Mr. Duncan, taking, one-third of the crop. I sold my share in April, 18157, and realized enough from it to put me out of debt and to carry me through the following year, and had over 8400, which I lent out at IS per cent, interest While renting laud at a crt*I? rent of $1,200 a year 1 was burned out, losing (JO bale* of oollon and 1,400 bushels of cotton seed. I commenced buying land in 1809 and have continued adding to my original purchase of l;U> acres, and now own 790 acres. I own besides 9 head of slock, 10 tniik cows, 4 yearlings and 26 hogs. My crop this year in ado on the part of the farm I manage myself is 01 hales of cotton, averaging GOOlbs. to the bale, 1,200 bushels of corn, and 800 bushels of red rust proof oats. My renters mads 67 hales of cotton 700 bushels of oats and 160 bushels of wheat. My form would bring at auotion $7, ikhi, diii i woiiki not lane anyt ilng like that prico for it. Mr. l>iiiican, oashier of Ihe Newberry Dank, oin substantiate all that I have said, and that my proporty U nil paid for anil lias not a oenl of inoiinibranoo on it " Mr. William Whilinire, also a gentleman thoroughly 0 >nver*ant with Lewis Lock ell's affairs, more than endorses the statenent as to value given ' b.v him. Tho real value of his proporty is considerable in excess of that statement, in Mr. j Whit mire's opiniqu.? Qrrcntille <Eiic wiiulilij alnion o intra. 1 m. M. STOKES, Editor. I UNION." FRIDAY, MAKCI1 4. 1881. "* ] SUBSCRIPTION ?12 00 PBR( ADVERTISING. ? One n)uv?or one inch. tirst insertion, - - - (1.00 | Kmli subsequent insertion, ------- < IJborol iliacount made to merchant* and other* advertiaiuK for six month* or liy the year. Obituary Notices of ten line* or less, inserted free. j " " over ten lines, charged a* Advertisement*. ' TAKE NOTICE J Citations, Notices to Creditors and Notices of Final Discharge must be ' paid for before they will appear in 1 our columns. Oar Cotton Market. r Although the weather has been very 6ne for fitrtn work the past week a goodly amount of ' cotton has boen brought to market, with a slight leolinn in ?.!? 9V. 1?1? ? " -? : ? |., ,vvn. u<u wm it ci u suiu at J11ICCO ranging from 5c to 10.80. It should be remembered that we only quote ( the prices given us by the weigher, who can only give the highest aud lowest during the week. We hear that many charge us with quoting prices higher than was paid. This is not so. It often occurs that the market declines the day or day after our paper goes to press, for which we jaunot be responsible. Wchave no interest ( in misleading the Farmers, and would not do so for any one, while Mr. Fant, the weigher, is too houest a man to make a false report. ? ? The Lenten season commence! last Wednesday?Ash Wednesday. I?- W. C. Bee, an old and influential citiien of Charleston, died in that city last week. ? Wc have had printed an extra numbc of receipts, expecting to use them during Court. C0U K x Governor A. W. Bradford, of Mary laud, died in the city of Baltimore on the 1st inst. ? J6T We understand there has been more I work done on the farms the past week than for over S months before. The Peach, Apple and Plum trees nre budding, and if Vernier's prognostication conies true they will all be "nipped in the bud." B?- Gen. A. C. Jones, one of tlio bravest and stnuncliest old citizens ot Laurens, died at his residence in that County last week, in the 80th year of his age. We had a visit from .\lr. II. G. Bailey on Monday and were glad to learn from him that he was hard at work repairing the old Murphy Mill, and hoped soon to have it in operation again. ?- - 0?"Two important events occur this day? the issue of the Union Timi.s and the inauguration of President Garfield. The great difference between the two events is, Garfield goes into a big "white House," on a salary of $50,000 a year, while we remain in our snug little onestory shanty, upon the precarious income of what tlie people of Union chose to give us. Gone to ths Inauguration. Through the urgent solicitation of Congressman Aiken, his father-in-law, Rev. R. D. Smart and wife have gone to Washington, to witness the inauguration of President Gnrdeld. The absence of Mr. Smart will not close the ltaifawtf atAV ?rri -itie puipit tnornmg" afiu evening. An Attaok of Paralysis. Rev. J. S. Bailey, a prominent Presbyterian Minister of this town, lind a slight attack of paralysis on Monday last ; but it is hoped that it will not result seriously, as he is better now. The tongue and nerves ol Ihe face were mostly affected and his power of nrticulution became very weak. We siuccrely hope he will entirely recover. ? . + . One Week Longor. At the urgent request of a number of subscribers in arrears, who promise to be in town during Court and then renew Ihe'.r subscriptions, we have extended the time for discontinuing the paper to delinquents one week. After next week all who are in Arrears nor made any sm isiuciory arrangement noout it, must not be surprised ncr grumble at not receiving the paper. -? * Jamei Thomas Acquitted. We neglected last week to state that in the trial of Jas. Thomas, jr., for the killing of J. L. Lyles, in Newberry, the jury rendered a verdict of not guilty. The evidence for the State was so strongly in tavor of the defendant that his counsel did not put up any witnesses. The jury was out only a few minutes. Solicitor Duncan appeared for the prosccutiou and David Johnson Jr., of Union and George Johnson of Nowborry, ably defended t ho prisoner. Stop that Shooting. There is an ordinance against firing off guns and pistols within the corporate limits of the town of Union, which should be onforced. We have heard complaints that boys are iu the habit of carelessly shooting birds around dwellings, the shot striking outhouses and falling in the yards while persons are passing) to and fro. It is a dangerous practice and should be stopped. One or two arrests by our excellent town Marshal and the penalty enforced, would have a u.,1....? r. s. 1- ? J %uwi vtoiuco, ?w % It Htm. IV 19 4* OlII Ml shoot birds at this time of the year. Serioat Accident to a Boy. Our young friend, Keenan Boyd met with a serious accident on Friday last, by having his foot badly mashed between the wheel ot a push car, loaded with 6,000lhs. of Fertilizer, and the railroad track, lleattemptedto jumpon totliecar while in motion, when his foot slipped and was caught by the car wheel. At first it was feared that all the bones from the instep to the toes were so badly crushed that he would be a crippled the rest of his life, but we are glad to learn that he is in a fair way to recover, without any such result. A Nuisance that Should be Abated. We are informed that there is a perfect "bell- ' hole" a few milee above this town, where chick- 1 en fighting, horse racing, drinking, gambling I and other vices are openly practiced op Iho Sabbath. We aro not t)uite certain at to tyVote duly it 1 is to suppress this place of iniquity, ns it ia bey. i end the corporate limit* of tl?e t0\yn ; but when we hear that It is hecomina a ooniraan resort for < boys of respoclf\ble families wo thlol| It is our 1 duly to bring It lo Ibo Attention of the publio in i order that somctliing may be done to stop ft < qtyjuH b? reportK th*Gn?(! *VTJ. \ f*# targe Cotton Fires. C On Friday night last a fire ocourred on a dentation belonging to the eeUte of the late I V. C. Gist, in Dogansrille Township, which dea- p rcyed 88 bales of cotton, a barn and stable, the o Jiu and Cotton Press of Mr. William Lawson ti ind seriously injured the steam Engine by which a he Gin was run. It Appears that they had 1' icody finished ginning the cotton crop of the d limitation, amounting to 68 bales, and had quit ?ork for the night, intending to finish ginning c he next uiornino. Some hands sleDt in the tl louse amfbuilt a fire, AJoi& which it is supposed tl i spark flew into some loose cotton and set the ji ehole on fire. b The loss will fall heavily upon tho fatherless n iliildren of Mr. Gist, who are all quite young i tnd mainly dependent upon the rent of the t dentation for their support. The colored ten- t kills will also be great losers?some of them \ losing all they had. Messrs Farr & Co., mer- I :hanls of this town, who had made advances to .lie tenants, were the heaviest losers, as most of Ihe cotton destroyed was pledged to them for ihose advances. 22 11ai.es Bobnt tr at Sukltox. On Monday night last 22 bales of cotton were destroyed by fire upon the platform at Shelton depot. We can learn but little about the ^origin of of this fire, except that some negro children were playing about the cotton when tliqfire was f.rst discovered, and one of them jumped suddenly from a bale saylnu in an excited manner, "I diiLnot da it." Hew much of tho loss will fall upon the railioad anil how much upon private individuals we have not been able to ascertain. ?? ? ? ? Another fiad Pistol AootdentAnother of those melancholy accidents which we so frequently find r.eoorded in newspapers, from careless handling of fire arms by boys, occurred in this County, near Etta Jane postoffice, on Wednesdav. the 23d ult.. resulting in the death of Willie Reynolds, a lad about 10 years i old. son of Mr. William Reynolds of that vi- < oinity. i It appears that Frank Estcs, tvith Willie Rey- < nolds and his two little brothers, after leaving i school went into the woods to practice shooting i with a pistol which Frank had brought from < home without his parents knowledge, and while < Frank was handling the weapon it went off. the t ball entering Willie's face just under the right i eye, killing him instantly. Only Willie's two I little brothers were present to witness the very 1 melancholy accident. ^ ^ 'While la this ease.lt WalNburely an accident, the sad affair has twoUmjWtant lessons: Too i much care and caution cHZt be observed, by old and young, in handliw Ire-arms; and it is a terrible wnraing to paren|Ubrothers and other I older members of families t? jut their ftrc-arms out of the reach of the children. We sincetely sympathise wjlh the parents of little Willie in their sudden and sad bereavement, and feel deeply for Uttle Frank and his parents whose anguish must be great indoed. ? - ? . ..... A Tire at Fish Dam. We truly regret hearing that Mr. J. M. McBride, n worthy young man, just commencing business at Fish Dam, had the misfortune, on Saturday morning last, of having his store and contents entirely destroyed by lire. The origin of the fire cannot be accounted for. Mr. MoBrido had left ?'"> ,K"'i.yif ?" hour, to ? "?'/?'?? ?iiu Va?i*M to some smoke in the direction of the store. Being on his horse he gnllopped hack and found the building so tilled with fire and smoke that he could not enter it from any point. Mr. Mc11 ride is at a loss to know how the fire originsnoted. When ho left the fire in the stove was almost out, and there had been no fire in any other part of the building. If it was not fired by nn incendiary, it is possiblo that a mouse got among some matches on a shelf and knowing the phosphorus, as they will do, ignited the lot. Mr. McBride was partially insured, but thinks the insurance will not cover much over 50 per cent, of his loss. Transfers of Ileal Estate. The following transfers of Bca! Kstnto have been made in this County and recorded in the Clerk's office during the past month : J. E. Mcng to F. A, Meng, 1^1 acres in l'inukney township. W. Terry and others to II. L. Goss, 00 acres in Union township. John llodgcr to Charles Harris, 100 acres in Tinckney township. Jane Greer to 11. C. Greer, 101] acres in Union township. Joseph Mill, Guardian, to D. Johnson, jr., 250 acres, in Cross Keys township. W. O. W. Goings to D. Johnson, jr., 757 acres, in Cross Keys township. W. A. Nicholson to R. E. Nicholson, House and Lot in Union. W. M. Stewart to R. If. Stewart and others, 232 acres in Cross Keys township. ? - - A New Presbyterian Church We are much pleased to learn that the congregation of the Presbyterian Church of this town are expecting to build a new Church edifice. The old church Is very inconveniently located and will soon require extensive repairs to make it safe and comfortable, and the congregation have conoluded that it would be better to erect a church in a more central location than to spend so much money upon the old building so far from their residences. We cannot too highly commend the liberal spirit evinced in tho matter by the prominent members of the Church, as weM as some who are not members but who ought to be. Prof Berfer's Dancing Sohool. We are pleased to learn that Prof. Berger has secured a sufficient number of scholars to enabio him to oororoence his Dancing Jichool next Monday, at the Union Hotel. The Professor comes to us hiorhlv recommended as a. mire iren tlemen and a very successful teacher of the delightful and healthful art of graceful dancing.? For onrself we have never seen any wrong in learning to dance gracefully. On the oontrary, we think it is a very delightful and henellolal accomplishment, imparting grace end dignity to the walk and oarrlage of the body, strength to the llmha and h?nllh to the whole phypicM or gmizttMon, ^ i Worth Carolina Mule*, Qur old North Carolina Mwd, 0?pl, W, T. I DioHonton So hero ^ill) <\ 4WTO of Mnrtb Coro.iqn i nnilft* r.ii'l snye lift to d?tag a good bus|nosi. luving sola ?tlre?dy ^0 hood, ?l good prices. Ho )tpects to pleor out ihp drove by Tuoodoy next, lYe know the Captain to bo an honorable man, ind if bo don't know everything about a horse >r a mule he can tell you all obout falsing the &n?9t Tuba<$Q. , 111 g*B ! _ i._ i'?- a ourt Week. Next Monday the Maroli term of Court for Futon County will convene) Judge Hudson I residing. Two cases for murder ami a number 1 f cases for lower grades of oflfenoes will be c ried in the Sessions Court. There are an unu* ually large number of casps on the common 'leas dockets, which Will keep the court busy I uring the allotted two weeks of the term. ( We congratulate the court, the bar and the t itisens at large, upon having this year one of i lie most intelligent and sterling Orattd Juries I list we have had ainoe the war. The petit 1 uries are also composed of some of the very < est men in the County, upon whose judgment | nd honor any citisen can safely and confidently est his case. Upon looking over the names of I he Jurors and officers of the court we feel I ruly as if the days of Johnson, O'Neit, Munro, | Vbitner and other pure men of the judiciary tad returned. i , For the Times. Physiognomy of the Hand. ' The hand cannot be offered as a complete sub- | ititute for either the head or the face in the de- < ermination of character, but it <s a ready aid i n the study of those more importaut parts.? ' Ye do not think, reason and invent, because we i iavo hands ; but our hands are the necessary t csult of an organisation calculated to think, I cason nnd invent. We cannot fail to recognise ind admire the adaptation of the hand to the nind, at all ages nnd under various circumitancea ; iu its purposeless and playful move nents in childhood ; in the gradually increasing itrcngtli and steadiness ns the intellect ripens ; n the light and delicate touch of the lady ; in he iron grasp of the artisan ; in the open-hand>dness of the liberal man, and in theclose-fistedicss of the stingy. Thus, the hand becomes the >rgan of expression and an index of character What would not the nervous young gentleman n the morning call give to be quit of these ale-telling members ? or what would ho do without a hat or a stick to amuse them ? How tffcctive to the orator is a wave of the hand.? Some men seem to owe the efficiency of their leclamation ns much to the hand as the tongue. V goneral law governs the human form, in comnon with the whole animal creation, each part :orresponds with every other part and with the whole. It follows that hands nre subject to the inme classification as heads and faces. Accordingly, we have the long bony hand which belongs to the motive system, the short fleshy hand with Llie vital system, and the small slender hand with the mental. Professor Owen, by seeing a single bone of an animal, can construct its entire orseous framework. Professor Agassis is able to do tlie same from a single scale of a fish. Their power to do this depends upon a law of comparative anatomy. If it be true, then, that animal forms generally are homogeneous, is there nny difficulty in seeing that the human form is homogeneous in all its parts? If the practical botanist or pomolo. gist can determine from a single leaf the characteristic form of a tree and of the fruit also, is it too much to believe that we may be able to tell the shape of a person's head or face by inspecting the hand ? Only a few examples will convince the observer that the lines of the hand are something more than random marks canscd by closing the hand. One who is kind and sympathetic, with little intellect, will have the line of the limt-lena vit.ihe * Miiifn vitality will have the line of the head well marked and the lino of life short or broken ; one with large vitality nnd small moral and rea soiling faculties, will havo the lines or Ihchend and licar( short and the line of life long ; and so it is with all the other lines of the hand; they are marks of character and correspond with the head and face. The an of chiromancy, or divination by the hand, has been practiced for ages. Those who professed to be expert in it were supposed to be able to foretell the future history of a person, and to discover the natural peculiarities in the disposition, from an examination of the lines of the hands. This subjuct has .been examined and discussed at considerable length by M. Desbnrrcllcs, Richard Beamish, of Europe, and many others. There is sufficient in Phrenology and Physiognomy to evidence character without reference to this system ; yet every one may read, observe, and judge for himself. Each faculty, sentiment and propensity, of the human mind has its natural language in nction. There is a significance in the different modes i f shaking hands, which indicates, so far as a single act can do, the character of the person.? llonr much do we learn of a man or a woman by the shake of the linml T la ? ??". --- dent and vigorous ? so is the disposition. Is it cool, formnl and without emotion ? so is the character. Is it magnetic, electrical and animating? the disposition is the same. As we shake hands so we feel, and so we are. Much of our true character is revealed in shaking hands. But why do we shake hands at all ? It is a very old-fashioned way of indicating friendship. We read in the Bible that "Jehu said to Jelionadab : Is thy heart right as my heart is with thine heart ? If it be, give roe thine hand." Time was, in the old country, when aristooracy deigned to extend a single finger, or, at most two, to be shaken by humble democracy. Even now we hear of instances in which the offense is repeated. It is an indignity which no true man or woman will either otTer or receive. Refinement and true gentility give the whole hand and respond coril lially, if at all. This is equivalent to saying, you are welcome ; or when parting, Adieu I Clod be with you. E. A. 0. ? Tttr. Bask Robbkry.?Mr. O. Fraier Wilson, who was arrested on Sunday for abstracting $10,800 of the City of Savannah and City of Charleston coupon bonds from the private deposit box of Commodore D. N. Ingraham, in the First National Bunk, was taken before Justice Burnet, yesterday morning, for a preliminary examination. The prisoner, who was represented by his counsel, Mr. Julian Mitchell, waved on examination, and Ihejustloe fixed the bond for hie appearance at the neat term qf tho Court of General Sessions at $10,000. Being unable to obtain anre'ie for this amsunt the aoousod was ooramitted to jail. Mr. Wilson was second bookkeeper in the Bank and when arretted turned qver tq the officer all (bp nhstraptpd bonds except one $600 citjr qf Cbnriwlon bond, which bp could not account for. exoent that it mieht have boon stolen v t ' l\y a polop?d ^onxan to whose house he hod first taken the bonds and there plaoed thorn under a pillow. Thai bond was afterwards found in the yault of the bank behind some boxes. It appears ih?t in this case whjsKey was thy moving spirit, as Mr. Wilson had heap intaxico* tea for several days and when arrested gave as his only excuse for rommiltjng the ?r-i"V) H'*t \\c iploxicnled, far tho Tiiuca. Mr. Editor :-"Please allow me space in jour th >aper for an account of a Musieal Soiree, given of >y the pupils of Mra. Gilliam at the the ratilence of Col. J. L> Voung, or the ovening of loth of February. cc For the past five or six years our pcojlehave |jj >cen mainly interested in the building up of good c-( lay schools, and the impression has been crea- ta ed that music has never received the promt- in lence due it, in our Female Aoidcmy. It is, herefore, with pleasure! as well as pride, that g, L write of the flourishing condition of Mrs. William's music class and the progress of her A pupils in that ancient and almost divine art. 8t Mrs. Gilliam's class now numbers twentybree pupils, and is composed of young ladies of from all portions of the county. These Soirees are bo given every two months, and trustees, parents *' ind friends, are invited to notice the improvenont made by the pupils, and to encourage them C< in their efforts. It is almost needless to say ly [lint these entertainments are beneficial to the ** pupils, os they make them ambitious and pains- j( inking, while they are thus enabled to confer J( much pleasure on their friends. It was also *| quite a source of gratification to observe that several of the best performers were from the jn county of Union. The success of these Soirees a< is a sure indication of our progress in civilian- ' tion, aad shows that the love and cultivation of P' music is becoming very genornl. The pro- w gramme was varied with vocal and instrumcn- d< tal music of a high order, and it must be admitted that the pupils acquitted themselves most ^ creditably and satisfactorily. It is hoped the g young ladies will fulfil in the future the prom- ci iscs of the present, in their musical, mental and L social acquirements, and re beg them to accept j our thanks for a most delightful ovening. j. Union should now he congratulated on her educational advantages. INVITED QUEST. c< ? a: Tiik Excitkmknt ix New Youk.?New York, c February'26.?The 1'ott, in its financial article to-day says: During the first hour and a half v of business the Stock Exchange was a scene of a wild excitement and everything connected there- * with was at the highest tension. Excited stock si brokers bid 1 \ per cent, for money fur one day's " use in addition to (i per cent, per annum, l'ri- h ces of lending stocks fell III per cent., rallied ^ J(j?)l per cent., again declined J(jt)3 per cent., 6 and with frequent fluctuations the market was extremely feverish. This slat* of iwtngs con- i' linucd limit nbowt tl.SO o'clock, when news c again came that the treasury had given relief.? h On inquiry at the sub-treasury it was learned that Mr. Sherman had at last done somethiug c practicable, and then as yesterday there was a L sudden change in the whole situation, and where n there had been anxiety to se.l there was an 1 eagerness to tiuy. The latter, however, was somewhat modified by the experience of ; ester- I day. Hut on examination it is found that the ? treasury has really now offered something which 11 is likely to bring immediate relief, nnd it will t he strange if this does not turn I lie tide which ^ was running so strongcly toward a general panic. S Since the treasury began (little before 12 o'clock) ' to pny out money for uncalled five and six per cent, bonds the market is less stringent and the rntcabout six percenl.plusone-eighth. Already, in less than nu hour, the treasury pnid out over $1,750,000 lawful money for five am1 six per cent, bonds presented. It is reported ilint a well known banking house hns $5,(XX) 000 of i these bonds whicli will be put in at once. As r soon as the money for the $10,000,000 bonds a comes out n return to the normal condition of the money market is lobe expected. Excitement in Wai.i. Street.?Washington, February, 25.?Twenty-four National banks today made deposits of legal tenders, aggregating 32 bob ooor fur ?|ir ruirnofl* bnnks for II.Is purpose up to date amount te $11,11(1,1119. A New York dispatch says : "There has been great excitement in Wnll street, caused by tho extreme stringency in the money market. Stocks declined from 2 to 17 per cent." . ? Forty years' trial hi proved " BLACKDRAUGHT " the best liver medicine in the world. Sold by J. M. GUIDES. & Co. -? ? A Storm in tiik Northwest.?Chicago, February 28.?At nine o'clock twenty-three mnils were due at the poslotfice, and but two had arrived. The storm on the lake yesterday, nccording to an old lake captain, was the most severe experienced for years. A gentleman who arrived here trom Clinton, Iowa, said that the train passed through some sections of prairie where little farmhouses were almost half submerged by water, and that miles of railway tracks were covered. The storm of wind nud snow which began yesterday afternoon still continues. As far ns cnn dc learned through lelegrnphic reports. ? which Are badly interrupted, it Iihs been the ' severest storm of the season in Wisconsin, Illi- 1 nois and Michigan. Minnesota and Western Ohio have been only slightly visited by it.? 1 Trains on all railroads centering here are de- 1 layed, and freight trains are not attempting to move. The telegraph wires are coated with ice, and a few poles in the city have gone down under the strain of tho additional weight and the strong wind, Happy Cmioi.i.va.?The Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist has the following encouraging and librral thoughts about South Carolinians, their Governor and their prospects and prosperity generally. We hope the Chronicle is right and that the picture is not overdrawn . "South Carolinians are particularly happy. A skillful and successful farmer, who is also a gentleman of culture and true progress, fills the Executive Chair and is destined to make for himself and tho State a record of which any people might be proud. With a national increase of forty-one per cent, in her population in the past ten years; with an increase in spindles of one hundred and sixty-six per oeut ; with her troubles as to labor largely settled ; with a gradually maturing and liberal system of public education which gives one of tho greatest of gifts to the white and oolored youth alike, 8outh Carolina will eonfound her enemies aud gladden the boarls of her well wishers." ? - BLWH-DHAUOHT" cure# dyspcpaia, indigestion aud heartburn. Hold by J. M. GIBBE8. k Co. j i Mihiiku in Yohk.? Hock Hill 8. 8., February t 27.?On Saturday night at a house of ill-fnnio, t about two and a half miles from this plaoe, a \ Catawba Indian named John Harris was killed by a young man from Fort Mill named James Uuffif. The particulars of the homicide aro ' not yet known. Buffie is under arrest. and 1 Trial Justice Fewell Is now holding an Innuesl. I Dr. Crawford, who was sent for. found Harris ' dead when ho arrived. He aaya that ilia fatal I wounds were inflicted with a knife, and (bat km *tTfw?y wangled. ? ? ' Venn ?? D l A* w ? I hi ^ni>r|iiLii,?pugcneiu, reorimrj 20.?Mr. Daniel Holland, living lorat twelve . milee north of thin place, bed hie dwelling dee- . trojred by fire qn last Thursday night, together with his furniture And other household effects. His taps wilt probably Amount to $2,000, The ] dwelling, however, wns insured In the Virginia ] Hire and Marine Oornpany of Petersburg. The , origin of the tire is unknown, Mr, Holland being , absent st the time it occurred. ? ? ?w ? ? I)n, J, Mario* Sims, the distinguished phy- t siolsn, who is now sojouring in 8t. Augustine, I FU., whither he went ir. feeSle health, is, we 1 are glad to learn, steadily improving, lie will probably retpaiu in Ftav^Ja pot^e tVqic I + ' SB M m | 4 Tub Citibsxs' 8 a vinos Bask.?This inslituin has finally been wound up by (he discharge the Trustees and Committee of Creditors, ider an order of the United States Court, ou e 4th of February, 1881. The Bank had been conducted with great sucss and benefit to the community, chiefly by at able financier, Col. John 11. l'altner, when, 1878, taking advantage of the general finanal distress of the country, a run was precipited by J. L. Watson, and iusolvency proceedgs were had, in the Richland Circuit Court, r the purpose of placing the Bank in the hands J. L. Nengle, as Receiver, a la Bank of the ate. To defeat this wrecking scheme Messrs. Pope Haskell, Dacbman & Youtnans, and McMaster LcConte were employed, and they at once took eps to place the corporation in bankruptcy, itlge Carpenter adjudged this to be a oontemptr ' his Court, and issuing an attachment dis-' irfed tbeso attorneys. Thereupon Col. Ition ss employed, who appearing for a New York lent and nS an attorney iu the United Slates inft only, Was beyond the reach of the State >urt. He applied to Judge Bryan,who prompta ran I aut n n ininnaiinn O I*. II..I ,t.? id all executive officer# ot the Slate Court.? roin tliis Injunction all apneal was token lo' ' idgc Bond, and a hearing lind In Charleston,idge Mngrnlh. C. I). Mellon and W. H.Trescot' ipearing for (ho jurisdiction of the State Court;* id Col. llion, Jos. D. Pope and Col. McMaster r the Bankruptcy jurisdiction. Judge Bond,* i an able decision, sustained Judge Bryah'd" :tion and vindicated the course taken by thtt* lorncys who had been disbarred. The Bu*, reme Court of the State subsequently reversed1 te disbarment of the eminent counsel, with' hoiu all the good citisens of the Slate had been* eeply sympathising. The corporation being thns safely out of the" ^ (ale Court, the proceedings in Bankruptcy wcro upcrseded by the appointment of the following enllcroen ot high ntanding as a committee ot' reditors ; Samuel McQowau, Jos. B. Kershaw,. J. Jones, 1. D. Wilhcrepoon, IsaacM. B.-ynn,obt. K. Frnscr, John II. Evins, C. M. Miller, ohn Meighan, Louis D. DeSaiissure, Thos. B# rascr, Samuel Dibble, Jas. II. Kion. The last five of these were constituted an Ex-? ^ , eulive Board. Dr. John Fisher was selected 9 Trustee, nnd, upon his death, he was sue.cdcJ by Col. Louis LeConte. The administration of the committee has decljpcd the fact thnt the Bank was in a solvent [indilion when the attack was mnde. For, notwithstanding the forced sncrifico of good asBts, the great expense of Bankruptcy and of ligation, nnd the large amount of debts that ad to be paid in full, being secured by collate-' . air. pledged, there has been paid in nil S3-TO. - J 43 to depositors, being lilt r? **nt. oflheir Inims. mia, a sum of $2,683 was paid aio the United States Court, as dividends not ailed for, and $200 were paid in ns a surplus ? pay final Court expenses. The committee of Creditors may, perhaps, omplain that they were raided upon by the legislature, three of their number having becu indc Judges during their administration, but hey met with no other mishap. The history of the Citisens* Saving Bank cose iresents a bright exception to the usunl result f winding up Saving Banks, and speaks volimes for the ability and integrity of the Trusccs nnd the Committee. A portion of the legal iistor> of the case can be found reported in 6 lo. Ca. 160; 11 N. B. R. R? 101, nnHJin 2 lughes, (U. 8. C. K.) 200. " BLAUH-UHAUUH l " makes chills and fever impossible. Sold by J. M. UIBBKS. & Co Tiik Irish Lostxa Cosfidknck in tiikir Lead:rs.?London, February 28.?The Dublin corespondent of the Time* says : Signs of disunion md weakness in the organisation of the I^tnd league Are becoming more numerous under the ionlinuons action of the government. Many treasurers and secretaries of the loc i tranches of the League have resigucd and ate* n favor of emigration. The payment of rent aJi#taa?mnsnea>?t W n*lnj?'uinniim j" HOW* 111 terving writs owing to the exertions of (ho 3range committ" es. The removal of the League funds to a foreign rountry is regarded by the tenants with suspision, and the alarm of the lenders who talked so sravely when they incurred no tisk has also aelpcd to shake confidence in the League. There arc unmistakable signs of ihe League tcing rapidly disintegrated, and if thoimprovenent continues at the present rate the return to it Toast a semblance of tranquillity will soon bojeneral. - ? Bkaufout Court IIoi'sk Drumtovsn.?Ueaurorl, March 1.?About 11.30 A. M. to-day I ho* :ourthouso was discovered on fire. It was no >ld shabby tenement building three stories high, tccupied by (entity offices, and was formerly he residence of the Cuthberls and Darnwells-. The clerk's, sheriff's, treasurer's and auditor'* napers were sa?ed and most of the furniture of he court room. M. Mohan, while, and Anron Middleton, colored, were on the top of the roof while Ihe interior was tumbling in. They were rescued from their perilous position by casting i rope nround (ho chimney, and they barely camped by sliding down the- rape-. lleaufort was rescued from n general eoirlhigration hy the tuperhuman efforts of the firemen and citizens. The hotel at Tort Ilnyal was burned down thismorning. It was insured for ?7,000.?New* md Courier. A trizl packagcTof ""gfJICX-PWAOOHT" frop nf phi>rm> nl Sold by J. M. GIBBES. tC?. Extra Session of tiik Senate.?washingls*,-^ t). C., February 27.? It ia learned on Irnetworliy authority to-night thnt the President baa lecided to issue a proclamation convening the Senate in special session at twelve o'clock neon, >n the 4tli of March, for the purpose of coneidsring executive business, such as nomination* 'or his successor's Cabinet, &c. Sinco the above was put in type the telepraph irings the proclamntiou of President Hayes con* rening the Senate in extra session lo-dny, the 1th of March, at 12 o'clock. A Riot at Eabli motor, Ky.?Cincinnati,. March 1.?A Princetown, Ky., telegram saya* hat last night, Bob Arnold, town marshal of Darlington, shot an 1 wounded Dennis Collin* ind Peter Oorgman, and killed n man named Kulweiler. These men were shot while attempt*ng to rescue a fellow railroad brakeman whonv iVrnold had arrested for drunkenness. A mob* if railroad men drove Arnold from the village* )ut failed to capture him. Railroad Al<jii>knt.?Passengers on ihtf Greenville train bring the information that the ip freight on the Columbia nnd Greenville Rail* oad ran over a horse just beyond Cbappell's, lie nigm oeiore, Ana iiie engine and tender and i box cai were thrown from the track. No one vae hurt so far aa reported.?Col. Rogitter. ? ??? Ltxch Law.?Alburquerque, N. M., February !6.?Fauetine Ouiterro, implicated in lbs aiurler of Col, poller, who was brought in hut night >y the sheriff's pom#, wae taken from Jallliy he Vigilante and bang It! the same place where lis accomplices were hung sometime siuoe. Foua a* a Birth ? Oreenrille, February 20. ?A colored womnn living near Piedmont Froorj gave birth yesterday to ftur children, Ihrf^ >f whom were living at last accounts, one of Ihen^ aelog born dead or having died very so<w tC'cr >lrtb. A Hoaooaum or CniM>arx.--ftfirauton. Pa.. 'ebruery 27.?The Celholio orphanegei fHyde I'nrk, Hcranton. wee burred to-night ru 10 i'clock. Fifteen children were token out 'dca^ ind two olherii ere mlesing. 1 ? * ?* 1 ?1 ? ;* _ hatr*vii.l*Cotton Faotouv uiimrd.-Qretnrllle, Me'reh 1.?The'IWeeellle C? tton Factory, welvp Qiilee from here, wee entirely ooueumcd it firo ihie afternoon. The (Ire wee eccidentnf. reluc between fifteen end twenty thouaend flolnre. Insured for About oitc-hal( tlio^ eraount.