Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, October 31, 1872, Image 2
Scraps and .facts.
The Grecian ladies counted their age
from their marriage, not their birth.
United States troops are now being
quartered throughout Alabama.
A Pacific slope Chinaman gambled his
wife away, and then following her to the winner's
house, stabbed her to death.
Three thousand women in Philadelphia
are engaged in the manufacture of boots and
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English railroad companies prosecute
persons who jump from trains while in motion.
Thirty thousand dollars worth of stock
have died in a single county of Illinois from
cattle fever.
Fanny Fern, in addition to being the
sister of N. P. Willis and the wife of James
Parton, was the mother-in-law of Doesticks.
An Indianapolis, Indiana, girl, with a
$200,000 dowry, advertises for sealed proposals
for marriage.
A Kentucky Sabbath school has contributed
enough money to build a church in
China.
Mr. Hdmund Winston Henry, the
youngest and last of the sons of Patrick Henry,
died recently in the county of Charlotte,
Virginia, in the 79th year of his age.
Michigan has a law which makes it a
misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment,
to aim a firearm at any person, whether
the weapon be loaded or not.
A hog, weighing over 1200 pounds and
measuring nine feet in length, was on exhibition
at the Fair in Augusta last week. The
monster was raised >n Abbeville county, S. C.
A philanthropic Yankee has invented
a lifeboat which, if thrown into the water
wrong side up, will immediately right itself,
and, if filled with water, will bail itself out.
?? A long-suffering San Francisco criminal
has been convicted, after four indictments,
five trials, one acquittal and three hung juries.
His name wasn't Mrs. Fair.
1 he cane with which Preston .Brooks
assaulted Charles Sumner?a heavy ebony
weapon, with a long steel dagger?was recently
exhibited before the State Historical Society
at Boston.
Two hundred families from Alsace and
Lorraine are preparing to settle in the neighborhood
of Alexandria, Virginia. Since the
first of January between six and seven thousand
Alsatians have landed in New York.
Attorney-General Williams has recommended
to the President the pardon of Wm.
Teel, one of the ku-klux prisouers confined in
the Albany penitentiary, on account of continued
ill-health. This pardon is one of the number
asked for by Gerrit Smith.
Three Chinese have taken out a patent
in Paris for the invention of a new automatic
and autographic continuous telegraphic instrument,
by the aid of which apparatus the despatch,
is transmitted to the receiver as an exact
fac-simile of the transmitter's autograph.
t-? Lately an English plow was introduced
into one of the provinces of India, and the natives
were taught its superiority over their
own clumsy machinery. At first astonished
and delighted at its enects, as soon as the
agent's back was turned, they painted it red
and set it up on one end and worshipped it.
The population of Kansas is over 400,000?of
this 300,000 went there since 1865.
This population is scattered over sixty-five
counties, containing 44,100 square miles, or
38,224,090 acres. This is only about half the
territory of the State. Sixty thousand people
have settle in the State each year during the
past few years.
A strong-minded woman in Detroit
made the following gentle reply to a politician
who had called at her house to get her husband
togo to the polls and vote: "No, sir, he
can't go! He's washing now, and he's got to
iron to-morrow, and if he wasn't doing anything
he couldn't go. I run this 'ere house, I
do, and if any one votes, it'll be this same
Mary Jane."
A correspondent of the Savannah News,
writing from Monticello, Florida, states that
a growing disposition is expressed in that section
of the State to annex West Florida to
Alabama, tack Middle Florida on to Georgia,
and to allow East Florida to constitute the
State. This indicates the restiveness and dissatisfaction
of the people in a strong and forcible
light.
Itissaid that an extensive conflagration
was prevented recently, in a city, by a singular
circumstance. A stove in a room over a
wholesale liquor house set fire to the floor, after
the inmates had retired for the nierht. and
burning a hole fell through on some barrels of
whisky, bursting one of them. The fluid running
out immediately extinguished the fire
from the stove, and the steam generated thereby
put out the burning overhead.
San Francisco papers are boasting of a
little widow in that city who keeps a fruit
store, teaches a private school, runs a sewing
machine, does knitting, pinking and embroidery,
and goes out nursing all at once, and
doesn't think this life such a burden as many
do. This busy little widow must be too smart
to be matched with any man in San Francisco,
or she would not be allowed to remain a
widow. Probably having tried one man, she
is not to be caught again.
A Washington telegram of Sunday
says: "It is declared in Republican quarters
that the colored voters in Georgia will be advised
to stay away from the polls in November,
so that the plea may be made that the
electoral vote of the State should not becoun
ted for President on the ground that there was
intimidation created by the disturbances of
the October election. The Conservatives,
aware of this movement, are getting evidence
ready, and, in fact, have sent some of it forward,
showing that this charge is utterly
groundless. The vote throughout Georgia,
where even no intimidation is alleged to have
existed, shows uniform Conservative gains,
while the evidence regarding troubles in Savannah
and other quarters is quite conclusive
that it was brought on in a partisan interest
by the Republicans. The Conservatives sacrificed
everything for peace, knowing too well
that they had everything to lose and nothing
to gain by a riot."
Coming from any other source than the
sober, statistical Scientific American, we should
utterly refuse credence to the story it relates,
and after admitting: its authenticity we are
prepared to believe anything. That veracious
journal describes a strange fertilizer. At
Stratford, Connecticut, where mosquitoes are as
thick as a fog, lives an ingenious Yankee,
so they say, who puts these insects to profitable
uses. He has invented a large revolving
scoop-net, covered with lace, which is put in
motion by a wind-mill, water-power or steam.
The lower halt ot the scoop is placed 111 water.
The upper half moves through the atmosphere,
and at each rotation draws an immense number
of "squitoese" down in the water, where
they drown and sink to the bottom. Every
revolution of the net draws in an ounce of
mosquitoes, or a ton for thirty-two thousand
turns of the machine. The mosquitoes thus
collected make a splendid manure for the
land, worth forty-five dollars a ton.
The experiment of growing cotton in
Son TTranAtanft
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Bulletin, is a success. The land selected was
at Snellings, Mexico county, an old and prosperous
settlement on the rich bottom lands of
the Mercer River, about eighteen miles from
the plains of the San Joaquin Valley, and
within one hundred and forty miles from San
Franscisco. At Snellings and its vicinity
about 500 acres of cotton was planted by different
individuals. In every plantation it is
asserted that no plan; ever grew more luxuriously,
while the amount of growth made in
a single year is remarkable. The Bulletin
says: Many of the stalks are over an inch in
diameter, and from four to six feet high, with
an abundance of branches. The number of
bolls upon a branch is large, in fact, sometimes
out of all proportion to the size of the plant,
; for branches half an inch in diameter are freI
quently seen broken down from the main
stalk by the weight of the bolls they contain,
i After such a success it is safe to assert that
i nnmtioM nfntKor farmoM in tVio Son .Tnonilin
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will take to growing cotton next year, as all
doubts as to the uncertainly and profitableness
ofits cultivation must now vanish.
j$hc forkvillc tfmquirer.
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EPIDEMIC AMONG HORSES.
The Canada papers have for three weeks
^ast paid a good deal of attention to a certain
disease prevailing among the horses of
the Dominion, and which seems to be spreading
with fearful rapidity. Within the past
week the disease crossed the Canada line,
passed through western New York, and is
now in several of the cities and larger towns
of that State. In the city of New York there
is quite a panic in view of the prevalence of
the epidemic, and according to the latest accounts
the malady has spread to such an extent
that almost all horses in the city are said
to be suffering in one form or another from
its symptoms. There are thousands of horses
which have not yet been put on the sick list,
but observation goes to show that many of
these have the germs of the disorder in their
system.
The disease has thus far been rather slow in
its development, and it is not known whether
all its stages have been seen. It is estimated
that in the city and immediate vicinity there
are from thirty to forty thousand horses suffering
from well developed symptoms of the disease.
It has begun to exhibit new and alarming
phases, which are looked on as highly
dangerous. The inflammation of the throat ex
tends to the lungs and rapidly grows more
alarming, and the coughing is fearfully convulsive?the
animal panting for breath, becomes
quite cold at the extremities. This
seems to be a warning of the fatal ending of
the DJilady, and if it continues as widely prevalent
and as it is now, for a few days longer,
it is estimated that ten per cent, of the horses
affected will die.
In Toronto, where the disease seems to have
originated, while in its height, it was almost
impossible to procure a horse for any purpose.
The street railroads were obliged to suspend
operations, a?d private and public carriages,
as well as all vehicles moved by horse-power,
were in the same predicament. According to
the Buffalo papers, the disease was brought
across the Niagara river by a Canadian, since
which time it has spread so generally that
one-half of all the horses iu Buffalo have
suffered from it. In Rochester nearly every
horse was struck down, and 300 cases proved
fatal in one day. A circus company there
had 200 horses under treatment at one time,
and the disease has made its appearance at
Detroit, Michigan, Boston, Massachusetts, and
various other points. No stable reports as yet
show that any horse has been perfectly cured.
Whether the disease will spread southward,
of course it is impossible to say; and whether
it has been spread by actual contagion, or is
due to some atmospheric cause traveling in
this direction from Canada, is not yet quite
clear. But as it is well not to be taken wholly
by surprise, we publish the following, which
originally appeared in a Toronto paper, as to
the characteristics of the disease and the
mode of treatment. That paper says:
"The disease appears to be a catarrhal fever
confined to animals, the result of some atmospheric
influence, as is shown by its sudden
appearance over a large extent of country,
attackiug all kinds of horses, old and young,
in good condition or poor. The premonitory
symptoms are dullness, a staring coat, a watery
discharge from the nose, speedily followed
by a severe hacking cough; the pulse is
quickened and the mouth hot; the nasal
membranes are injected, and the ears and
legs are unnaturally cold; the discharge from
the nose increases, and becomes of a greenish
yellow color; th* breathing is increased, and
in some cases labored and severe."
The mode of treatment as practiced in (Janada,
is thus described:
"As the disease will run a certain course,
affected animals should be carefully used, and
allowed plenty of pure air, with a liberal diet
yfif nourishing and easily-digested food. The
stables should be well aired daily, and thoroughly
ventilated ; and it is also advisable to
use disinfectants, as the chloride of lime or
carbolic acid. When the throat is very sore,
causing a difficulty in swallowing, a mild embrocation
should be applied, and the fever allayed
by mild febrifuge medicine."
In view of the alarming extent of the epidemic
in the northern cities, and the fact, as
alleged by Dr. Yerdi, of Washington city,
that the disease can be spread all over the
country by the wind, that physican commu;
nicates the following history of the disease, j
j with this remedy:
"The disease, though confined to animals j
at present, has occurred many times as an i
; epidemic among human beings. In 1311 j
! and 1403 it was so prevalent and fatal in '
; France that business was suspended, and even !
; the courts were closed. In 1557 it was ra- \
; ging throughout Europe, Asia, and America,
j In India it occurred as an erratic epidemic
i along great rivers in 1729, 1743,1775, 1782,
! 1832,1833, and 1837. It is both an epidemic j
and an endemic disease, that is, acting upon i
1 numbers of people at the same time, and pe- j
culiar to a nation or people, and prevailing |
principally in moist springs aDd falls, owing
| probably to the mow rapid decomposition of
j vegetable matter.
j "This disease has been epizootic, or confined j
| only to animals, especially among horses and J
dogs, in 1728,1732, and 1775. It is very -
rapid in its development and its propagation.
It is due, no doubt, to a specific poison, attacking
the nervous centre, causing a great debility
and a sort of remittent fever. Its specific
action, however, is on the mucus membrane
of the eyes, of the nose, and of the bronchi;
the back part of the mouth may become affected,
causing sore throat; the lungs or the
pleura, causing a pneumonia or pleurisy, and
the intestines, causing diarrhoea. The disease
generally begins with chillness and shivering,
which is immediately followed by discharges
of mucus from the nose, the eyes, the mouth,
the windpipe, the veins or small blood vessels,
or the brouchial tubes.
"These symptoms are accompanied by listlessness.
depression and an extraordinary
weakness, "the cough and difficulty of respiration
may not occur until the third or fourth
day.
"The disease in its favorable form ends in
about eight or ten days, generally by a critical
diarrhoea of a few hours. As this disease, like
all malarious diseases, seems to be due to
parasitic evolution, (conveyed by some insect
preying on the flesh of the patient,) only such
disinfectants as will destroy this class of organism
can be of any use. Antiseptics prevent
the evolution of gases and destroy the germs
of putrefaction. Carbolic acid is one of the
best and cheapest of these antiseptics."
By reference to our Boston ietter this week,
it will be seen that our correspondent gives
the mode of treatment successfully followed
in that city and vicinity, and is very near the
same as given by the Washington physician
from whom the above is quoted.
In order to guard against the spread of
the disease in this State, and to prevent its
being communicated by diseased animals,
Governor Scott has issued a proclamation
prohibiting the importation of horses and
mules by sea during the existence of this epidemic,
and requiring that all vessels having
such cargo arriving at the ports of Charleston,
Georgetown and Hilton Head, be directed to
remain at quarantine anchorage until they
are visited and inspected by the health officer
of said ports respectively. This is a wise
precaution, and the people generally should
use every exertion in their power to preserve
the health of their animals.
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THE PAST AND PRESENT.
Some one has said that "history repeats
itself." There seems to be a good deal of
truth in the declaration. We are very apt
to forget the past, and direct our attention
entirely to the psesent. Nothing is more
common than to hear men say that the present
RtAte of thincrs which we have in South
Carolina is altogether unprecedented. In
some respects this is certainly true; in others
it is not. Minor details being discarded,
there are several cases recorded in history
which bear a striking resemblance, in their
main features, to the present state of things
in South Carolina, and, in fact, to the condition
of things in the whole of the Southern
States. One of the main features of the present
time is, that things are generally turned
upside down.
At Rome, when the Caesar party conquered
Pompey and his party, the foundation of the
whole Roman government was razed. Some
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into exile in distant lands; others were put
to death, and many of the best men in Rome
were deprived tUf the rights of citizenship.
Rome was literally convulsed by factions.
The property of many was conhscated. Some
were reduced to abject poverty, and others
made rich. The great and good were in some
instances degraded, and the vile and obscure
were elevated to pomp and power. Cicero,
the purest and best man that Rome ever produced,
fell a victim to the mad fury of the
times. At present we complain that every
thing is bought and sold. Thereis just ground
for such complaint. The evidences of such a
state of corruption are overwhelming; but
the present is not the only occasion when
such a state of political demoralization was
manifest. Such wa3 the case at Rome during
the time of Jugurtha, the Numidian. This
crafty chieftain declared that Rome was saleable,
if a purchaser could be found. Senators
and statesmen sold their votes, and councils
and generals sold their swords. One of the
peculiar features of the present time is, that
many who are unqualified are exalted to high
positions, both of honor aud trust. So it was
then, and so it ever will be. Such a state of
things follows a revolution with as much certainty
as the shadow follows the substance.
We need not be surprised at the main features
of the present state of things in the State
of South Carolina. They are just what has
always taken place, and will always take
place after the foundations of a government
have been disturbed.
With regard to the final results of the present
state of things, the history of the past
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will take place in this country. Either purification
or putrefaction will most certainly be
the result. It may be a long time before
either of these results take place. It was a
long time from the period that Rome commenced
to decline before it fell, and it has
taken the English government a long time to
arrive at its present state of purity and stability.
The first trees that grow up on an old
field rarely live but a few years. After these
there springs up another growth different in
nature; but neither do these live long, and it
is not till the third growth springs up that we
may calculate with any certainty on permanency.
So it is, generally, after revolutions.
Those who first take hold of the reins of government
do not usually hold them long.
Often many such changes take place. Revolutions,
like waves of the sea, follow each
other. Sometimes the less follows the greater,
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All euch periods are critical. We have no
knowledge of what changes will take place in
this country, nor what will be their results.
All we know is that the present period is a
critical one in our country's history. Great
prudence is required on the part of every one.
Rash acts and rash words will not be likely to
do us any good ; but, in all probability, will
do us much harm. It is always good policy
when we do not know what to do, to do
nothing.
Grand Division of Sons of Temperance.
The body which met at Temperance Hall on
Wednesday night, closed its annual session
yesterday at 2 p. m. A large amount of
business, connected with the promotion of
temperance in the State was transacted. The
reports of the retiring officers exhibit the
gratifying fact, that the cause of temperance,
under the auspices of the organization is
making steady progress in the State. For the
three months, ending September 30, eleven
new divisions were formed, with an additional
membership of about two hundred and fifty,
and the order now numbers forty-three divisions,
embracing about 2500 members.
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ensuing year:
A. M. Kennedy, Grand "Worthy Patriarch.
G. Y. Patrick, Grand Worthy Associate.
Oliver Hewitt, Grand Scribe.
W. B. Timmons, Grand Treasurer.
Rev. J. C. Miller, Grand Chaplain.
A. C. Dibble, Grand Conductor.
D. H. Crosland, Grand Sentinel.
The next meeting will be held at Newberry,
S. C., on the fourth Wednesday in April
next, at 3 o'clock, p. m.?Columbia Carolinian.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
S. B. Hall, Judge of Probate?Citation?S. J.
Hemphill, Applicant?Sam'1 Hemphill, deceased.
Thomson and Jefferys?In Bankruptcy?Notice
of their appointment as Assignees of Jeremiah
T. Walker.
Thomson and Jetferys, Assignees?In Bankruptcy?Notice
to the lien Creditors of Kerr <fe
Roach.
Conner, Hobbs<fe Dobson?Buggiesand Carriages.
iu. oirauss oc rson?iiiiiroKu, j^uruKa?ouuwis anu
Scarfs?Long Clotii?Dry anil Dress Goods?
Damask, Towels and Napkins?Aprons,
Hoods and Scotch Plaids?Men's WearRibbons,
Collars, Ac?Mark the Man?Admire
the Ladies?I have found.
T. M. Dobson & Co.?Trunks?Traveling BagsBagging
und Ties?Cigars?Table Salt?Remember?Gate
Hinges?Rat Traps?FursPlanes?
Braces?Real Lace? Broad Cloth?
iialloo, Mister?Boots, Boots?Ready-Mado
Clothing?Shawls? Hardware?Dippers? i
Calico?Dress Goods?Pants Patterns?Flax
Wheel Irons?Coffee Mills?Iron.
W. H. <fr. J. P. Herndon?Canned Goods?Groceries.
J. Ed. Jefferys, Secretary?Mackey Chapter No.
15, R. A. M.
W. C. Caveny, Administrator?Application for
Discharge.
THE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.
By reference to advertisement in another
column, it will be seen that "York Grange,
No. 37," Patron9 of Husbandry, will hold a
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instant, instead of Saturday the 9th, as heretofore
advertised.
THE Pit EVIDENTIAL ELECTION.
Tuesday next, the 5th of November, is the
day appointed for the Presidential election.
Inasmuch as the result in thi9 State is regarded
as a foregone conclusion, but little interest
is manifested in the event in this section. The
indications are that in York county a very
small vote will be polled.
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THE CIRCUIT COURT.
The Circuit Court for this county will
rnmmenw its sittings nn Mnndav nfixt. with
Judge Mackey presiding. Upon enquiry, we
learn that at present there are but two cases
on the criminal docket, neither of which will
probably come to trial. It is likely that the
Court will remain in session only a few days.
PARDONED BY THE GOVERNOR.
Governor Scott, in the plenitude of his
mercy, has pardoned Elias Evins and LaFayette
McCaw, two negroes sentenced to the penitentiary
for three years for breaking into
Mr. Douglas' store in this county. They have
served out about one half of the time for
which they were sentenced, and were pardoned
upon the recommendation of ex-Judge Thomas
before whom they were convicted.
fttltSUflAIi.
We learn that James Brian, Esq., of this
county, who was seriously injured by being
kicked by a horse, something more than a
month ago, is rapidly recovering from the
injuries received. Well-grounded hopes are
entertained that he will so far recover as to
enable him to walk again without even being
necessitated to use crutches.
Our young fellow-citizen, Lieut. George D.
Wallace. who has heen assigned to dutv with
the 7th Cavalry, left this place on Saturday
last for Laurens Court House, S. C., where he
will be stationed for the present.
Lieutenant Weston, of the 7th Cavalry,
who was severely injured, a few weeks ago, by
being thrown from his horse, is rapidly recovering.
and the indieations are that in a short
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time he will be able to resume his usual duties.
Colonel Lewis Merrill, the commandant of
this post, is absent at Charlotte, N. C., in attendance
as a member of a court martial in
session there. Captain John Christopher, of
the 18th Infantry, is now in command of this
post.
NO MORE LAMP EXPLOSIONS.
Mr. J. C. Kuykendal, of the "York Drug
Store," has recently introduced into this place,
a new illuminator, which is known as "Mineral
Sperm Oil," and is intended to supply the
place of the common kerosine. It is one of
the products of petroleum, but has advantages
over the different grades of kerosine heretofore
in use, which render it invaluable. One
of the principal of these advantages is that
it will not explode. A number of persons in
this place have experimented with the oil,
subjecting it to every known test, with the
view of creating an explosion, but we learn
that all the experiments resulted in failures,
and the opinion is confidently expressed by the
persons alluded to, that a safe and cheap illuminator
has been found.
The "mineral sperm oil" is higher in price
per gallon than the common kerosine oil, but
its illuminating qualities are so much greater
that it is no more expensive. The light produced
by this oil, with the common sized "sun
burner," is equal to that produced by ten standard
candles, and at a cost not exceeding a
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oil for sale at the York Drug Store.
S. B. HALL'S PROTEST.
The following is the protest of S. B. Hall,
one of the defeated candidates for Judge of
Probate, at the recent election :
State of South Carolina?County of York.
To the Commissioners of Election for the County of
York, in said Slate, to wit: John L. Watson,
James K. Wagoner and John Martin.
You are hereby notified that the undersigned,
Samuel B. Hall, who was a candidate for the office
of Judge of Probate for York county, at a general
election held in said county, for said ana other
offices, protests against the declaring of said election
for said office of Probate Judge, in favor of
Joseph A. McLean, or any other person voted for
for said office, at said general election, held on the
sixteenth day of October instant. And you are
further notified that said election will be contested
by the undersigned, and that he claims to have
been duly elected to said office, by a plurality of
the legal votes cast at said election, for and upon
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I. Because, at the election precinct at Fort Mills,
in said county, the polls were not open for the reception
of votes, at the hour prescribed by law,
and those persons who did vote at said precinct
did not have administered to them the oath required,
as prescribed in the section of the Act of
the General Assembly, entitled, "An Act to provide
for the holding of General Elections in this ]
State," whereby the votes given at said precinct
were illegal ana void, and the result thereof was
greatly to the injury of contestant.
n. b ecauseat the precinct known as Clay Hill, I
in said county, a number of electors, who desired
to vote for this contestant, were prevented from
exercising their free choice in said matter of voting
for this contestant, by reason of threats of
personal injury to them, in case they so voted, and
by other acts calculated to intimidate, and otherwise
prevent a free expression of the choice of the
electors, said threats and intimidation being used
[ by and emanating from the friends and adherents
of said Joseph A. McLean.
III. Because, at theprecinct known as Hickory
Grove, in said county, the box for receiving votes
was not opened, and the voting did not commence
bv reason thereof until long after the hour required
by law, thereby greatly operatingto the injury
and loss of votes for, and in favor of contestant,
and much to the advantage of the said Joseph A.
McLean ; and because further, various electors at
said precinct were prevented from voting for contestant,
by reason of threats of personal injury if
they did so, and by other acts or intimidation, said
threats and intimidation being made by and emanating
from the friends and adherents of the said
Joseph A. McLean.
IV. Because, at the election precinct known as
Bovdton, in said county, f ilse reports were put in
circulation on the morring that said box was
opened, whereby various of the electors were deceived
as to the persons who were candidates for
the said office of Probate Judge, greatly to the
injury of contestant, and whereby many votes
were given for other perrons, not the choice of the
electors, for said office.
V. Because, at the election precinct known as
Yorkville, in said county, various and numerous
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ant by reason of threats of violence and injury to
said electors in the event of their so voting, made
by persons present, at said precinct, on said day
of election.
VI. Because, at the election precinct known as
McConnellsville, in said county, the voters voting
at said precinct were not sworn, and qualified
as required by law, as heretofore cited, and many
illegal votes were taken by reason thereof.
VII. Because, attho elec ion precinct known as
Bethel, in said county, the persons who voted at
said precinct, on said day, were not sworn, as required
by law, and many persons wore thereby
permitted to vote at said election, who were not
legally qualified electors, and greatly to the injury
and prejudice of this contestant: Whereby, and
by reason of said Irregularities and violations of
tlie law, threats, intimidation and fraud, the plurality
of the votes cast for said office appear to
have been given for the said Joseph A. McLean,
and he appears to have been elected to said office,
when, in fact, this contestant would rightfully
have been elected to the same, by a majority of
the legal and unrestrained votes cast at said general
.election, and by reason whereof he claims
that of right ho should be declared so elected.
Octoter22 1872. -8AMUKL B. HALL.
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Clawson <fe Thomson, A*tt'ys for i. A. McLean.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? It is reported that a steara plow is to be
one of the attiations at the State Fair.
? Mr. L. C. Carpenter, of the Columbia
Union, has gone to Connecticut and New
Hampshire to stump for Grant.
? An accident occurred at Pacolet Bridge,
on the Air-Line Railroad, a few days ago, by
which a colored mau was killed and several
others badly hurt.
? The Acting Comptroller of the Currency
has authorized the "Merchants' and Planters'
National Bank" of Union, to commence business.
The new Bank has a capital of $60,000.
rinf A^Inno no rnoL
v. If ? dUUbbA) UUV^ u UVbUllUUO VUt|/V? 1
bagger in Virginia, has been elected Solicitor
of the First Circuit of South Carolina, embracing
the counties of Charleston and Orangeburg.
,
? Notice is given in the Reporter of last
week that application will be made at the
next session of the Legislature for a charter
for a railroad from Chester, via Lancaster, to
a point on the North Eastern Railroad.
? Carter, the gay deceiver who came to this
State with forged letters from Grant, just previous
to the State election, and who was ignominiously
brought to grief, has turned up in
Richmond, where he threatens to bring suit
for false imprisonment.
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? M)mptroiier-vjenerai neagie uuluuuzcb
the Columbia papers to say, that, notwithstanding
the removal of Auditor Gary, the
bond scrip suit will be prosecuted as vigorously
as ever, Messrs. Pope & Haskell having
been retained as counsel.
? The flouring, grist and saw mills and
carding machine, belonging to Leroy McArthur,
situated on Pacolet, in Spartanburg
county, were destroyed by fire on the 15th
instant. The fire, it is thought, resulted from
accident.
T /-ii ? __ i.L _ 1 K/U
JLQ ^uesier CUULUy, UU U1C JLUlll lUDiam,
the gin house and machinery, together with
seven bales of cotton, belonging to Major Jas.
Pagan, were destroyed by fire. The accident
was occasioned by a spark from the steam
engine which was employed at the time in
running the gin.
?: The President of the Senate has issued a
proclamation ordering special elections to be
held in Chester and Union counties on the
5th of November for a State Senator for each
county. In Chester to supply the vacancy
occasioned by the death of Lucius Wimbush;
and in Union to o >ly the vacancy occasioned
by the death of H. W. Duncan.
? Politically, the next legislature win De
constituted as follows: Senate?Regular Radicals,
21 ; Bolters, 4; Conservatives, 8; Conservative
gain, 3. House?Regular Radicals,
80; Bolters, 19 ; Conservatives, 24; Conservative
gain, 11. In the Joint Assembly?
Regular Radicals, 101; Bolters, 23 ; Conservatives,
32; Conservative gain, 14.
? The State Fair commences at Columbia
on Monday, the 4th of November. Arrangements
have been made with all the railroads
of the State by which everything intended
purely for exhibition at the Fair will be
brought and returned free of cost. The fare
!li Jnmonilcil TuVion tVi? nrtir>lp.q arp. first
mil UC uctuauuuu 11 uvu K..W
shipped, but the owners will be reimbursed
on the return.
? A dispatch from Charleston to the New
York Sun, in reference to our State election,
says: "Gov. Scot' threw all his influence in
favor of Moses, hoping to secure a seat in the
United States Senate. Chief Justice Moses
will receive the place. Every one is thoroughly
disgusted with his past course. He
has lost all his influence with black and
white."
? The Columbia Phoenix, of Tuesday, says:
"We are authorized to state that Gen. F. J.
Moses, Jr., (Governor elect,) opposes the assessment
and collection of the tax to pay the
interest on what is known as the doubtful
bonds?amounting to about $6,000,000?but
is earnestly in favor of the payment of the interest
on the bonds legitimatized by the TaxPayers'
Convention?amounting to about
$10,000,000. This is reform in the right direction."
? The Chester Reporter of last week mentions
the following as incidents of the late
election : "Dr. W. M. McCollum, for whose
arrest every possible strategy has been resorted
to by the military authorities, appeared at
Carmel Hill on Wednesday last and voted
for himself for Governor of South Carolina.
Garland H. Smith and his son Walker
Smith, both of whom have been pursued by
the military authorities day and night for
nearly twelve months past, deposited their
ballots at Torbit's Mill."
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Mr. W. C. Durham withdraws from the
Cleveland Banner, and leaves the paper in
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the lianas 01 non. ri&w -uuruauj, uj wuum
it will be continued. The new editor advocates
the election of O'Conor for President.
? R. A. Shotwell, now confined in the Albany
penitentiary as a ku-klux, publishes a
card denying the statement made some time
ago to the effect that he had sought pardon
by offering to electioneer for Grant
? It is said that Baynard, who was to have
been hanged at Hendersonville last week,
made his escape from the jail, just before the
day appointed for the execution, by dressing
in the clothing of his wife, who had been admitted
to see him.
? The Fair of the Carolinas, held at Charlotte
last week, is represented as having been
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! Aiken, of this State, is highly spoken of.
I The list of premiums awarded has not yet
reached us.
? Sulphate of baryta has been discovered in
the western part of the State and is being I
shipped in large quantities to the North, j
where it is used in the adulteration of paints,
and returned to the thrifty Southerner at a
handsome profit by the cute Yankees.
? Mr. Mills, editor of the Biblical Recorder,
will have his joke. His last is to this effect:
"When the king takes snuff the nation sneezes.
Dr. Wingate had a sore on his lip and could
not shave. Now the razor trade is very dull
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among tne .oapiisi preacneru.
? The North Carolina straight-outs attempted
to hold a convention in Charlotte on Wednesday
last, but the Observer intimates that
it was a failure. Our own irrepressible
Stokes was present to shed the light of his
countenance upon the affair.
? At the Cotton States Fair, recently held
in Saint Louis, Mo., the first premium of
8500 for the best sample of cotton was awarded
to J. R Means, of Cabarrus, and the
second and third premiums respectively to
Baxter H. Moore and W. R. Burwell of
Mecklenburg county.
? The safe of the clerk of the Superior
Court of Randolph county has recently been
robbed of about $15,000 which had been deposited
by various parties for safe keeping.
It seems that the safe was entered at different
times by means of a key made to fit the safe
by a man named Davis, who had access
to the office. He and his accomplices have
been arrested and are now in jail.
? The property formerly known as Edger\U
O f ftUA VPflN
nuiwi, UIIU until TTitUlU one fscioi* WIIV
used as a female seminary, in Greensboro,
was destroyed by accidental fire on Monday
of last week. The building was erected by
Governor Morehead in 1838, and until temporarily
closed by the war, was considered
one of the first female institutions of learning
in the South. The property was purchased
some time ago by Julius A. Gray, and used
by him as a private residence; though on the
day the fire occurred a meeting was to have
been held to perfect measures for reopening it
as a seminary.
EDITORIAL*"INKLINGS.
The Wheat Crop.
The latest Agricultural Report, dated
the 24th, says:
"Returns have beec received from counties
representing a large proportion of the wheat
growing section of each State which indicate
an increase of about fire per cent, over the
product of last year, which was estimated at
230,000,000 bushels. It is probable that the
completed estimate will not fall short of 240,000,000
bushels upon an area of a little less
than 20,000,000 acres. This will make the
yield between twelve and thirteen bushels per
acre, which may be considered an average for
the United States. The increase in the States
west of the Mississippi appears to be about
15,000,000 bushels.
The report states the percentage of the product
in comparison with last year in each of
the States as follows: Maryland, 66; Virginia,
101; North Carolina, 136; South Carolina,
103; Georgia, 180; Alabama, 133; Mississippi,
101; Texas, 320; Arkansas, 102; Tennessee,
200; West Virginia, 104; Kentucky, 175.
Popular Vagaries.
There are several delusions in connec
tion with the offer of great rewards by the
Government for impossibilities, which have
laid hold of the minds of certain people as
firmly as the belief that a "pot of gold is buried
at the base of the rainbow.". A revival
of some of these absurdities, long since exploded,
is thus noticed by the Washington Pair
riot:
"Amoug these is one, that when a million
of cancelled postage stamps are collected and
sent to the Department, the sender will receive
a sum sufficient to make him or her independent
for life. A short time since a fei
n i 11. i n
male eunaay-scnooi teacner m uonnecticut
became so impressed with the idea that she
could thus secure a fortune, that she set all
her scholars collecting cancelled stamps, and
letters, match-boxes, patent medicine .packages,
and every thing of the kind, were stripped
to make up the quota, and a first installment
of several thousand was sent to the Department,
when her hopes were dashed by the
information that the scrape of paper were utterly
worthless, and the absurdity of the idea
was again for the thousandth time made public
through the press.
"Now we have a revival of the equally or
more absurd notion that an immense reward
from the Government awaits the discoverer of
perpetual motion. On this, hundreds of crackbrained
inventors, setting at defiance all laws
of nature, have spent weary days and years,
and almost succeded; but just as they are
ready to demonstrate that the thing is practicable,
some little miscalculation comes in,
and a remoddeling has to be made, until patience,
means, or life is exhausted, and the
subject is laid aside for the next one to take
it up in turn. At last comes one crying
'Eureka!'?and so fearful is he that some
one else will come in and clutch the prize,
that he sends the following message in advance,
requesting the Commissioner of Patents, who
is supposed to be the custodian of the immense
prize: 'Hold on ; I have made the invention
and claim the money. I will come on to see
you and show you the wonderful machine.'
And no doubt he will, if he can raise money
enough to pay hla expenses."
The North-west Boundary Question.
This question, involving the title to
San Juan Island, so long unsettled, and which
years ago brought England and the United
States to the verge of war, has just been decided
by the Emperor of Germany, who was
constituted the arbitrator by the Joint High
Commission, before which tribunal the question
arose. Six months ago all the proofs and
arguments were submitted, and the Emperor,
after consultation with the most learned jurists
of his realm, decides that the Canal de Haro
is the proper boundary between the Continent
and Vancouver Island, as claimed by the
United States government. The Island of
San Juan and the group of islands between
the Gulf of Georgia and the Strait of Juan de
Fuca are thus left in possession of the United
States. The territory assured to our Government
is thus described :
The island of San Juan is about fifteen miles
in length, and in its widest part about seven,
and contains about forty thousand acres of
land. The northern portion is mountainous
and heavily timbered, but the southern part
has many beautiful prairies and is exceedingly
fertile. The pasture is so nutritious that
the mutton raised upon it is remarkable for
the delicacy of its flavor. There is near the
harbor a valuable quarry of limestone. These
disputed islands contain the only limestone
quarries as yet found on the American side of
the waters of Puget sound, and up to the
working of the quarry on San Juan all limestone
used for building purposes in this portion
of Washington Territory had to be
brought from Vancouver's island or Uaiitornia.
Coal is also found in this archipelago.
Off the lower end of San Juan are the best
fishing waters on the sound. Great quantities
of halibut, codfish, and salmon are taken by
the Indians, who for this purpose resort to
this vicinity at certain seasons. When the
Hudson Bay Company used San Juan as a
fishing station they were in the habit of putting
up yearly 3,000 barrels of salmon. From
this source alone a profitable business might
be established. The population of the island
is at present about 400, of which 200 are military.
There are seven large islands between
the disputed channels, besides many small
ones, but San Juan is the only one which can
be said to be settled, though a few Americans
have taken up land claims on Orcas, Lopez,
and Blakely.
The Election in Charleston.?The entire
vote in Charleston has been counted, and
it is found that the "Bolters" and the Boweuites
carried nearly everything. The constitutional
amendments were adopted by large
majorities. Tomlinson's majority over Moses
is about 1,350. The following is a list of the
officers elected:
Sheriff? C. C. Bowen.
Coroner?Aaron Logan.
Clerk of Court?Jacob Williman.
Probate Judge?George Buist.
! County Commissioners?W. H. Thompson,
G. L. Cunningham, L. Dunneman.
School Commissioner?B. H. Hoyt.
Senator?W. R. Jervey.
Representatives?C. J. Andell, R. B. Artson,
B. A. Bosemon, James Brennan, Richard
Bryan, A. P. Ford^W. A. Grant, J. J.
Grant, J. F. Greene, Tim. Hurley, Edward
Petty, 0. R. Levy, C. F. North, 1. Prioleau,
J. Tingman, N. T. Spencer, J. Vanderpool,
S. D. Russell.
Solicitor?L. C. Northrop.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM "DOWN EAST."
Boston, Mass., October 25,1872.
After another severe tussle with old "Rheumatics"
Hunkidori is himself again ; and,
although 1 came off second best in the scrimmage,
I am able to be around. The weather
being tolerably comfortable for sight-seeing,
we will take a walk over to Berkeley street
and look at the
institute of technology _
And Society of Natural History, which was
pannrlo/1 for flio r\npnnon aP rricinrr inofrnnfinn
ivuuuuu ivi uuv ^vii|/ugv ui iuom uvwuu
in applied science and the industrial arts.
The cabinet of this society, which" is very
rich in many branches of natural history, is M
open to the public for several hours every
Wednesday and Saturday, and these opportunities
are availed of by large numbers of
strangers and residents. An excellent library
is connected with the institution, and many
interesting lectures upon various topics are
delivered during the season for that kind of
entertainment. Connected with the institution
there is a museum containing a large collection
of photographs, prints, casts and drawings,
to illustrate architecture; models, of
various kinds, to give practical instruction in
geometry, mechanics and building; various
patterns of machinery, to illustrate mechanical
movements; models of mining machinery,
and a great variety of other useful articles.
This school provides six courses of study?
mechanical engineering, civil and topographical
engineering, chemistry, geology and t
mining engineering, building and architecture,
and science and literature, and there are at
present zt>4 students, from different parts of
the United States, in attendance. Degrees
and diplomas are conferred upon graduates
according to the course of studies pursued.
This institution is doing much useful work.
The building is an excellent structure of
pressed brick, is on6 hundred and fifty feet
long, one hundred feet wide and eighty-five
feet high. The basement floor is devoted to
chemistry and its appliances. The first floor
contains the officers' rooms, lecture rooms,
museum, and laboratories; in the second story
are five lecture rooms, and a large hall 95 by
65 feet; and above are other lecture rooms,
museums, studies for the tutors and another
large hall; the whole being an interesting and
entertaining place for persons interested in the
above sciences.
AN OLD CHURCH.
The old South Church, the oldest, in this
city, and probably the oldest in the United
States, is one of the landmarks of Boston. It
is situated on Washington street, the principal
fashionable and business thoroughfare of the
mtv and ?h said tn havA (mm tha third flnn
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gregational Society established here. The
society was organized in 1669, and the first
building erected for worship was in the same
year. This is perhaps the most noted church
in the United States, and is internally very
quaint and interesting. It has a sounding
board over the pulpit, high-box pews and a
double tier of galleries, and its whole appearance
attracts the visitor's attention and naturally
leads him to inquire into its history. A
tablet high upon the Washington street side
gives briefly the main facts. The Old Sooth
is often mentioned in the history of this city
before and during the Revolution. History
tells us that in this church Joseph Warren
stood and delivered his fearless oration on the
anniversary of the massacre of March 5,1770,
in defiance of the threats of those in authority,
and in the presence of an armed soldiery. In
this church were held the series of meetings ^
that culminated in the destruction of the detested
tea, on which the colonists determined
not to pay a tax. In 1775, the British soldiers,
desiring to insult those by whom they
were so cordially hated, but whom they held
so completely in their power, occupied this -i
meeting house as a riding-school and grogshop,
and as a place for cavalry drill. There is
an ancient custom, that of preaching an "election
Sermon" in this church, which is kept up
to this time. As soon as the two branches of the
Legislature meet each year, and are organized,
the Governor is notified that the "general
court (legislature) is ready to attend Divine
service," the procession is formed and the
members of the State government march to
this church to hear a sermon delivered by a
minister designated by the preceding legislature.
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.ft. new aeusauou, wmcu is now uxw oupiu ux
general conversation, has entirely overshadowed
every other subject, and may not prove
uninteresting to your readers, so I will tell
you about
THE HORSE DISTEMPER,
Or "catarrhal fever," which has prevailed to
so great an extent in Canada and the State
of New York. This disease has made its appearance
in this city, though not so fatally,
perhaps, as in some other places. There is
nnfhinw tallrod r\f ViPrA nnw hut t.hfi hnrsfl din.
ease, and almost every man one meets, instead
of asking after your health, inquires instead?"How's
your horse ?" The disease is
epidemic and is spreading rapidly. No class
of horses seems to be exempt, and cases are
daily multiplied with astonishing rapidity.
Almost every horse seen on the streets shows
evidences of thr disease in the discharge of
an offensive mu<jus, accompanied by blood,
from the nostrils and mouth. The horses become
suddenly weak and scarcely able to
stand, and those that succumb to the influence
of the disease lay down in their staMB
and in the streets and die without apparent
pain. Thus far the deaths of horses in this
city are small compared with that of New "
York and other cities where the disease has
prevailed for a longer period. It is the opinion
of many skillful veterinary surgeons that
if the cases which occur are taken in hand
early and properly treated a cure can soon
be effected, but if the disease is allowed to
take its course, and the horses kept at hard
work, there is much danger of influenza,
which is a difficult disease to master. Out
of one hundred horses belonging to the com*
pany engaged in transferring passengers and
baggage to and from the depots and hotels,
ninety are troubled with a cough, general
langour and a discharge from the nostrils.
The horses of the large express companies
on/1 frnnb-mon ore mnrn nr 1ms ofl/wiv1 and
the business of transportation has almost entirely
ceased. Many of the cars on the principal
street railroads have stopped running,
and all the omnibusses of one line have been ~ ^
hauled off duty in consequence of sickness of
the horses. Some of the owners of large
stocks of horses seem to be very uneasy, while
others don't appear to borrow much trouble
about the matter, and continue to work their
horses as loner as thev will eat. takiner erreat
care not to overtask them and feeding them
on a light diet. Until to-day the weather
has been very favorable to the disease; but
this morning a chilling East wind set in and
the cases have increased very rapidly. It is
estimated that not less than three thousand
horses, in this city alone, are more or less affected
with this "catarrhal fever." As there **
is a possibility of its spreading towards the
South, I here append the recipe for the cure