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f crap* and Jacts.
Twenty-two millions of the new postal
c.ird have been issued and sold.
Liquor is sold in 8403 places in New
York.
Boston's next important convention is
to be one of bald-headed men, to be held
Juue.14.
Parasols with long, heavy silk fringe,
and having knobs and handles 'of pure gold,
are all the rage just now.
The crops in eastern Alabama are exceedingly
poor, some of them having been replanted
three times.
Lincoln used to Bay that if he had a
son who would part his hair behind, he would
maul him to death with a squash.
A queer Delawarean, by his will, divided
his property among his children, and left
his bones to his enemies "to make whistles of."
A Mississippi quack is making a fortune
by selling to the negroes a nostrum which
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straight hair.
There seems to be little doubt that the
cholera has made its appearance in New Orleans,
and one case, with a fatal termination,
has been reported in Cincinnati.
As astonishing as it may seem, yet it is
a fact, that a man recently committed suicide
in New York on account of the death of his
mother-in-law.
Numerous Western editors are trying
to induce Sergeant Bates to march through
the lava beds, bearing the American flag, and
although they offer him the odds, on bets, of
S1000 to 81, he hangs back and refuses to undertake
the enterprise.
A case has been decided in the United
States Circuit Court at Des Moines, Iowa, to
the effect that letters of administration having
been taken out was sufficient proof of death to
entitle the policy-holders to recover against
the insurance company.
Reports of the condition of the cotton
crop throughout Tennessee, Arkansas and
Mississippi are very discouraging, owing to the
very backward spring. The cool and hard
rains of the past week have beaten down the
plants. Caterpillars have also made their appearance
in immense numbers, destroying both
cotton and corn.
The latest ku-klux case comes from Georgia.
A martvr reDorts to the Bureau of Jus
tice at Washington that he receutly eloped
with his wife's sister, and afterward, upon desiring
to return home, was prevented by his
wife's father and brother, who, he says, threatened
to ku-klux him, and consequently he
asks protection from the government.
Candidates for the Chief-Justiceship are
multiplying rapidly. The most recent are
Caleb Gushing, Judge Black, William S.
Groesbeck, and Lyman Trumbull. The Cincinnati
Commercial withdraws Gen. Butler
from the field by recommending that he be
given the command of an expedition to the
North Pole.
The weeping-willow has a romantic
history. The first scion was sent from Smyrna,
in a box of figs to Alexander Pope.
General Clinton brought a shoot from Pope's
tree, to America, in the time of the Revolution,
which, passing into the hands of John
Parke Custis, was planted on his estate
in Virginia, thus becoming the progenitor of
the weeping willow of this country.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has recently
decided that taxation can only be authorized
for a public purpose, and that the donation of
money to build a railway is not for a public
purpose; and ^hat therefore, all laws which
provide to raise suoh money by taxation or to
devote it to such purpose, are unconstitutional.
This is, as we understand it, an overruling by
the court of a previous decision, in which a
statute that authorized the city of Cincinnati
to raise money by taxation to build a railway,,
in Kentucky, was pronounced constitutional.
?? A letter from New York says: "The
spring is wearing away without bringing with
it- nnv nmtprinl innrpnsp in ritv tmrip. Vprv
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few of the merchants in any department are
making money, while the majority of them
think themselves doing well if they can only
work along and meet current expenses. This
remark applies more particularly to the dry
goods business, but it is also miserably true of
other branches. The retail trade is doing better,
as a result of the numerous orders which
the summer trade is always sure to bring."
A Washiugton correspondent says a
gentleman recently applied for a patent for
boring the earth for artesian wells for purposes
of irrigation. He gravely set forth that he
made the discovery that quicksilver was heavier
than the common earth. He therefore
proposed to start a hole and to empty into it
a little mercury. By the laws of nature that
mercury would be sure to work its way downward
until it struck water, and the water
would then be sure to work its way upward
till it struck air.
The New York Tribune says: "It is
thought to be a very extraordinary thing that
Messrs. Cain and Ransier, colored members
of Congress from South Carolina, should have
nominated white boys who excelled in the
competitive examination for West Point cadetships.
It is to be hoped that the time will
come when such a circumstance will excite no
attention. These Congressmen show good
sense, if a sense of justice be good ; and if all
their kind will be equally fair, half the troubles,
if not all of them, in South Carolina, will
disappear. There must always be two parties
to a conciliation."
The Peoria Review has its own old man,
who reads that paper and no other, and thus
describes him : "Chewed tobacco sixty years
and got fat on it. Then he took to hard drink
and followed it for twenty-five years, and grew
younger every day. Now he reads his paper
by moon-light alone, through an inverted microscope,
to make the type appear small enough
for his eye-sight. Walks four miles every
morning for his drinks before breakfast.
Chops a cord of wood between each meal.
Tried to die of old age thirteen times and
failed every whack. Attends to the wants of
his old and feeble grand-son, and superintends
the funerals of his posterity with a decency
becoming his years."
The colored militia are being quietly
Kiit rorvwl 1 v anlictpd and nrcranized in this rr
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well as iu other parts of the State. What
does the mean ? If it is proposed to organize
the militia in pursuance of the laws of the
State, why not issue a general order from the !
adjutant-general's office requiring all citizens i
within the prescribed ages to come forward i
and enroll themselves? Why enlist and or- j
ganize the negroes exclusively ? Is it pro-1
posed to repeat the history of the past? We j
remember very well to have seen a company ;
of negroes marching through the streets of
this town in the fall of 1870, brandishing their
Winchester rifles in the faces of the white
people, and shouting: "Here's Your Regulators."
It may as well be understood at once
that the world has moved since that time, and
that sue*, a scene could not be re-enacted
without somebody getting hurt. If, however,
the object is to have a force prepared to send
to the northwest this summer to fight the
Sioux Indians, we have no more to say.?Ches- J
ter Reporter.
A letter from Portland, Oregon, to the
New York World, says that a new religion
has become very popular among the savages
in Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Montana.
Prophets go among the different tribes, proclaiming
that the earth will open and swallow
up the whites, and that the Indians will again ,
possess their hunting grounds. They teach
that no good Indian can be friendly with the
perfidious and cruel pale-faces; that he must
not imitate them in anything, neither in
houses, clothes, language, nor education;1
neither must he believe in their God, as a j
great chief is to be born as a deliverer of the (
Indians, who will annihilate the whites, and
take the tribesto a world of happiness. Dances ,
in which these ferocious principles are taught j
are the principal amusement of several tribes, j
The converts to the new faith are known as '
"dreamers, "drummers" and "smoke-hollows,"
owing to their habit of telling dreams and i
predicting from them the future. The latter
appellation is derived from their principal
prophet, Smokehollow, a character who has
now an assemblage of 2000 of the different
tribes encaped on the Snake River, in Idaho,
about 500 miles from Portland.
Ike ?erMIe (JNqttiw.
YORKVILLE, S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1873.
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shows the time to which the subscription is
paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued,
the date muAt be kept in advance.
Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that
our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork,
are cash, in advance
JOB PRINTING.
Having determined to devote more atten
tion hereafter to job printing than we nave
done in the past, we would inform the public
that our office is now well supplied with new
type of the latest styles, and the best machinery
in use; and with a choice stock of
inks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to
execute as good work as can be done anywhere
in the United States. Orders for
Ball Tickets, I Freight Billheads,
Bank Notices, Labels.
Bonds and Coupons, I Law Blanks,
Bill Heads, i Law Briefs,
Business Cards, I Letter Circulars,
Certilicates of Deposit, Letter Headings,
Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads
Checks, ;Note Circulars,
Deposit Tickets, Note Headings,
Drafts and Notes, Programmes,
Envelopes, Policies, Fire Life Ins.,
Election Tickets, jSkinplasters,
Festival Tickets, Wedding Cards,
will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction
as to quality of work, guaranteed in every
instance. Particular attention given to fine
work in colors.
LEARN* TO WORK.
One of the greatest misfortunes that can
befall any boy, is to be permitted to grow up
in idleness. To be born poor?the heir of
penury?is a misfortune; but scarcely greater
than to be born heir to a large estate, and at
the same time incapable, from training, to
manage a hereditary possession. Idleness
and drunkenness are the bane of society.
From no two other sources do so many evils
flow upon society. By no two other causes
are so many dreadful calamities inflicted upon
the human family.
Every member in society should be taught
to work. Parents and guardians are bound,
by the position which they occupy, to see that
their children and wards are instructed,
practically, in some one, at least, of the common
avocations of life.
This we conceive is no idle theory. In support
of it, many potent arguments might be
advanced. Such is the constitution of things
under which we are placed, that the full development
of our physical and mental endowments
cannot be effected without work. Sunshine
and pure air are absolutely necessary to
the growth and maturity of both muscle and
brain. There is a connection, invisible as it
maybe?but nevertheless near and of vital
importance?between the physical and the
mental. The scabbard must be of sufficient
capacity to contain the sword. A gigantic
mind is sometimes contained in a pale and
sickly body ; but it is a giant caged in iron
bars, and hence useless. The only way that
muscular development can be secured is by
work.
The best means to which any parent can
have recourse to prevent his children or wards
from plunging into crime, is to learn them to
work. Turn a boy free to spend his whole
youth until he is twenty-one years old, just
as he pleases, and at the same time supply
him with the means of gratifying his desires,
and if he is not a fit subiect for the neniten
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tiary by the time he becomes a man, it will
be a wonder which the world only occasionally
sees. The worst men, socially, in every
community, are those who have been raised
up in idleness and prodigality ; and the best
members of every social circle are those who
in youth were thoroughly drilled in industry
and economy.
A practical knowledge of any particular
thing is required before any one is able to
direct others. The best place to make a good
general is in the ranks. The best agricultural
school in the world is between the plow
handles. The boy that goes to this school
learns some very important lessons that caunot
be taught in any other institution. He
learns, not simply how to plow, but he learns
to plow to the best advantage. A year's
schooling between the plow handles is worth
more to a boy than a decade spent in reading
agricultural chemistry without it.
Another thing connected1 with this subject,
is that the boy who learns to work has a selfrespect,
and a spirit of noble independence,
that the boy who is under a course of training
for a gentleman of leisure has not, nor
never can have. When both grow up to
manhood, the former usually makes a man?
the latter most generally makes a drone.
The one becomes a producer and an annual
contributor to the general store; the latter
sticks to the community like an unseemly
wart or cancer?a useless parasite. This is a
vital point. Whatever has a tendency to produce
and roster self-respect in the individual,
is an important thing to society in general;
and whatever destroys self-respect in the individual,
is ruinous to the masses. Learning
to work produces self-respect; and not learning
to work begets a feeling of unnecessary
dependence and a want of self-respect.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Governor Moses has appointed J. B. Ferguson
a Trial Justice for Chester county.
I ?Camden has eleven licensed bar rooms
and a temperance newspaper.
? The depot of the Air-Line Railroad at
Spartanburg is approaching completion.
' ? The Federal soldiers heretofore stationed
at Unionville, have all been removed.
? The stand of cotton in Chester is said to
! be the best known for many years.
j ?Mrs. T. R. Gaines has opened a boarding
house on Sumter street, in Columbia.
? Reports from all parts of the State show
that the taxes have been paid up clean and
promptly.
? The Phcenix mentions the arrival at Columbia,
within the past few days, of several
tons of public documents.
?The gas works at Greenville, which have
been lying idle for several years, are to be repaired
and put in operation again.
? Seven colored persons are held for trial
at the next term of the Inferior Court of
Charleston, on the charge of murder.
? The Ledger denies the report that no jury
or witness warrants have been paid in Lancaster
county since 1867. Claims of this I
character have been paid promptly since 1871.
? Measles and mumps are prevailing in I
Spartanburg county. One hundred cases of
measles are reported atBivingsville, and work
in the cotton factory there has been suspended.
? Mr. James F. Hagood, the new Clerk of
the Circuit Court and United States Commissioner,
has recorded his commission in Charleston.
? Arrangements are being made to introduce
machinery into the work-shops of the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
at Columbia, for the construction of all locomotives
required for use on that road.
? Mr. G. \V. Earle has been appointed
Chief-Eugineer of the Chester and Cheraw
Railroad Company. It is expected that the
survey of the route will be commenced about
the first of next month.
? The Lancaster Ledger says that the corn
and cotton crops in that county are on the
mend. There is a pretty good stand of cotton
and the corn crop is growing finely. Wheat
is generally poor and in most sections of the
county not more than a half crop will be
made.
? The Anderson Intelligencer says that Hon.
James L. Orr had an insurance policy for
82,500 in the Southern Life Insurance Comnnnv
nrmtbpr fnr R5 Oftft iii the Piedmont
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and Arlington, and still another for $10,000
in the St. Louis Mutual, aggregating the sum
of $17,500.
? T. C. Andrews, Esq., proprietor of the
Columbia Daily Herald, has purchased the
Daily Union establishment and combined the
two papers under the title of the "The Daily
Union-Herald." The publication of the
Herald as an evening paper having been
discontinued, the Herald-Union will be issued
as a morning paper.
? The Union-Herald says: "L. Cass Carpenter,
Esq., late editor of the Union, goes to
Europe in the early part of June, for the
purpose of recuperating his health, which has
been failing for some time. He will make
the tour pretty thoroughly, as he intends to
visit many of the principal cities, among them
Vienna, during the exposition there, and to
which he has been appointed an honorary
commissioner."
? The Reporter of Thursday last mentions
a difficulty which occurred in Chester on the
previous Saturday, on the plantation of Mr.
Asa Darby, between William McCollura,
white, and Robert Walker, colored, in which
the latter received a stab in the abdomen, occasioning
a painful, though not dangerous
wound. After the fight a number of negroes
assembled, and, after beating McColfum in
an outrageous manner, were prevented from
murdering him only by the kindly intervention
of Mr. Darby.
? Judge Carpenter last week refused the
motion for a new trial in the case of Captain
Geo. Tupper, convicted of manslaughter in
killing Capt. John D. Caldwell, in Columbia,
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| in.sc oeptemoer. .finer auiiuuuciug uia reiusal
to grant a new trial, Judge Carpenter
sentenced Tupper to five years' imprisonment
at hard labor in the penitentiary. Notice
was immediately given by the counsel for the
prisoner, of an appeal to the Supreme Court.
Tupper was remanded to the jail of Richland
county to await the result of the appeal.
? The Union Times, of Friday, says: "Since
our last, two more daring robberies have been
committed in this community. On Thursday
night Capt. F. M. Farr's smoke house
was broken into and six heavy sides of bacon
stolen therefrom. Mr. C. Gage had all his
chickens stolen the same night. A few weeks
ago the smoke house of Mr. J. T. Hill was
entered and robbed of some hams and lard.
It will also be remembered that Mr. Cohen's
store was entered and robbed of a number of
pairs of shoes, and Mr. Moses' store was broken
open two or three times and robbed.
These robberies are attributed to a number of
individuals, but no proof could be obtained to
warrant an arrest."
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Ten thousand postal cards were sold at
the Wilmington post-office in less than five
hours one day last week.
? An itinerant phrenologist who had been
lecturing in various parts of the State, was
arrested iu Wilson by a New York detective
last week, charged with receiving stolen goods.
? Col. D. Wyatt Aiken, of South Carolina,
Deputy of the National Grange of the Patrons
of Husbandry, will address the farmers
of Guilford, at Greensboro, on the 7th of next
month.
? Joseph Baker, charged with killing a negro
near Charlotte, in February, was tried in
the Superior Court of Mecklenburg last week
and convicted of murder. The jury was composed
of whites. Notice of appeal was given.
? Rev. W. S. Colston, residing near Greensboro,
fell speechless while superintending
work on his farm, on Wednesday of last week,
and died next day. He was in his 58th year,
and had been for many years a minister in
the M. E. church.
? Miss Nancy Hilliard, of Chapel Hill, has
been stricken down with paralysis, and is
speechless and helpless. Many a man in and
out of North Carolina, once a rolicking student
at Chapel Hill, and remembering Miss
Nancy as his landlady, will hear of her af
fliction with regret.
? Daring tho recent term of the United
States Circuit Court at Asheville, the official
conduct of Nathan Scoggins, U; S. Commissioner
from Rutherford county, was investigated,
and he was dismissed from his position
by Judge Dick. Scoggins was charged with
having accepted bribes to influence his official
action.
? The duty of electing the Mayor of Wil!
mington devolves upon the Board of Alder!
men, the Aldermen being elected by the peo;
pie. The new Board had a long and spirited
! contest over the choice of Mayor, continuing
; for several days, which, on the forty-ninth
| ballot, resulted in the election of W. P. CanI
aday, Democrat.
| ?On Wednesday night of last week an altercation
between two negroes in Charlotte,
1 Robert Smith and Charles Moore, resulted
in the killing of Smith. Moore made his escape.
His wife was arrested for aiding and
abetting in said murder, which fact she confessed,
whereupon, in default of bail, Bhe was
committed to jail. The murderer was arresti
ed in Chester on Saturday night last, and has
i been committed to jail.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
I ? The Postmaster-General gives notice that
the sending of indecent postal cards subjects
the offender to a fine of from 81,000 to 85,000.
! ?The Masons of New York have decided
to receive the remains of the late Russian
Minister Orr upon arrival.
! ? During the past week forty thousand emigrants
landed at Castle Garden, (in New York
city) which is the largest arrival ever known
, in one week.
' ? The police of Cincinnati recently arrested
a gang of dog-fighters. It was discovered
that the mouths of the dogs had been cut on
each side nearly up to their ears, in order to
enable them to get a fuller hold of each other.
? A number of firms, all lumber dealers,
located in various Northern and Western ci-1
ties, members of a combination to control the
Northern lumber market, have suspended.'
There liabilities are $9,000,000.
? Judge Pierrepont declines the Russian'
mission, made vacant by the death of Gov.
Orr, on account of his extensive professional
engagements. The appointment has been
tendered to ex-Governor Jewell, of Connec-1
ticut.
? Melvin M. Cohen has been arrested in !
New Orleans, charged with being the person j
who fired at and attempted to kill Governor j
Kellogg a few weeks ago. He was bailed :
in the amounUof five thousand dollars. Cohen
is a native of Charleston, S. C., and a |
lawyer by profession.
? The following Southern daily newspapers
have suspended publication within the last
few weeks: Charleston Courier, Augusta
Constitutionalist, Mobile Tribune, Montgomery
Mail, Macon Journal and Messenger, Atlanta
Intelligencer, Savannah Republican, and
Columbia Union.
? The Republican State Convention of Ohio
met in Columbus on the 22nd. Noyes was
nominated for Governor and Hart for Lieutenant-Governor.
The platform demands
pure official conduct, and the punishment of
unfaithful officers. It denounces Credit Mobilier,
and condemns the increase of salaries
as unwise.
? President Grant has issued his proclamation,
which recognizes the Kellogg administration
as being the proper government of the
State of Louisiana, and commanding all turbulent
and disorderly persons to disperse and
retire peaceably to their respective abodes
within twenty days from the date of the
proclamation.
? The most terrible thunder storm ever
known in the United States passed over a
portion of Iowa, near the city of Des Moines,
on the 22nd. It was half a mile wide and
extended several miles. Several persons were
killed, and much damage done to property.
A tornado also passed near Prairie City, Illinois,
on the 24th, inflicting great damage, and
killing and wounding several persons.
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Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM TEXAS.
Houston, Texas, May 22.
Since my last to the Enquirer, I have
come to the Lone Star State. During the past
few years, I have traveled considerably, but
was never before in Texas. I came by way
of New Orleans and the gulf. This is a route
now much traveled, especially by emigrants
from the cotton States. But I cannot recommend
it as being an altogether pleasant route.
The gulf of Mexico is a rough and tempestuous
piece of water, and those who launch upon its
turbulent bosom will be very apt to have a
touch of sea sickness. Sea sickness is not at
all dangerous, but it is miserably unpleasant.
The time from New Orleans to Galveston
by rail and water is twenty-four hours. The
distance is about three hundred miles, and the
fare 818.00. This is high, but the line is a
monopoly, and you have no choice but to
submit to the exorbitant demand. The whole
concern, railroad, steamship and all, is owned
by one man, Charles Morgan by name. His
income from it must be immense, as he has a
monopoly of the carrying trade and passenger
business between New Orleans and Galveston.
I landed in Galveston at eight o'clock Sunday
morning, and was surprised to see saloons,
stores and shops open the same as if there
was no such day as the Sabbath. Business
seems lo flourish about as well on the Lord's
day as any other. At night, in going from
the Washington Hotel to the post office, three
squares, I counted twelve whisky shops open,
and doing a driving business. In some were
billiard tables, where men were playing for
the drinks, and filling the air with tobacco
smoke and oaths. In others there were card
tables surrounded by men playing, swearing
and drinking.
But all Galveston does not run in this channel.
I heard church bells, and was told that
the city had a good side as well as a bad one.
But the bad one sticks out most prominently,
and gives the stranger no high idea of the
place.
This morning I came up to Houston, distant
fifty miles. The road lies over an open
plain, pretty well treeless and fenceless, but
covered with as luxuriant grass as I ever saw.
Upon this ten thousaud cattle were feeding.
I never before so saw many cattle in so short a
time. We passed one ranche (Allen's) where
there are forty thousand cattle! These are
shipped every day to New Orleans, Cuba,
New York, Baltimore, and in fact all over
the country.
I have no time to write now, but in a few
days I hope to give you the result of more
extended Texas observations. Nemo.
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Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
FROM BLACK'S STATION.
Black's Station, S. C., May 22,1873.
Dear Enquirer:?Thinking you would not
object to hearing something from the Air
Line section of the county, I have concluded
to give you a short letter, by way of letting
you know that we (that is, some of us) are
trying to take the advice of the Enquirer to
let politics alone, and go to work to develop
the resources of our county.
Our farmers are evidently doing better
farming this year than I ever knew them to
do. They are buying better implements, and
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applying more manure?both home-made ana
commercial?and there is a general disposition
to plant a les3 acreage and cultivate and
manure more highly.
The negroes and whites have both tacitly
agreed to drop politics and go to work. This
is as it should be, and if we had done this at
the close of the war, what] an immense amount
of suffering and anxiety would have been
spared to our county. Let us try to make
amends in the future, for our want of foresight
in the past. Let us go to work and build up
schools, colleges, manufactories and churches,
and we will thereby secure an intelligent population
and an improved system of agriculture.
THE AIR LINE RAILWAY.
This important link in the Piedmont route
from Baltimore to the South-west, will be completed
by the 1st of July. It is now in operation
from Charlotte to Greenville on the
east end, and from Atlanta to the Tugaloo
river on the west end, leaving a gap of only
forty-five miles; and on this portion the tracklaying
is rapidly going on, the grading and
bridge work being done. The direct railway
communication thus given to our people with
Charlotte and the North, and the cotton section
of the South, together with the low rates
of freight, has given an impetus to the indus-:
trial class of our county. As an illustration [
of this, I was informed by one of Lindley &
Co's. agents, that he had sold and delivered
81000 worth of fruit trees at this station, and
the trade in fertilizers and agricultural implements
i3 considerable. This station, too, j
comes in for its share of the cotton trade of i
the county, there having been over one thous-'
and bale3 of cotton shipped from this point j
since last fall. As an example of the advantages
of this railway to the upper section of
story seems not to have aroused more than the
before existing suspicion that the Benders
were not exactly the right kind of people.
Although for the past three years this sec- j
tion has been infested with horse-thieves and i
murderers, and this known to every one about
the country, it is probable the same state of
affairs might have continued for an indefinite
period had not the murder of Dr. York, a
man of family, friends and reputation, led to
the exposure. Men have been missed and ;
bodies found of murdered men for three years
past, and "vigilance committees" have hunted
and driven some men from the country ; but
it would now seem as though the leaders of
the "regulators" were themselves the villains,
and honest men had been falsely and foully
suspected and driven from their homes.
Known villains have during that time been sent
to the penitentiary, only to be pardoned out!
by Governors. And even the band of seventy-five
armed and honest men who scoured
the country in search of Dr. York, when it
was learned he was missing, seem to have had
very little judgment or discretion.
On the 28th of March last, Colonel York
and Mr. Johnson visited the Bender house, to
which place they had tracked Dr. York, and
endeavored to coax some information from
the State, the freight on a bale of cotton from i
this point to Charlotte?48 miles?is only 90
cents ; while, as I am informed, from Yorkville
to Chester, only 21 miles, it is 75 ceuts I
per bale.
OUR LITTLE TOWN,
A bautling of only six months growth, is beginning
to make some show. There are four
store houses, and two others will soon be erected.
Our merchants are wide awake business
men, and are already drawing some trade from
the mountain farmers of North Carolina.
We hope soon to have a church and a hotel,
and then we will apply to be incorporated as
a city?perhaps. There is nothing like blowing,
if 'tis judiciously done.
THE KINO'S MOUNTAIN IRON ORE BEDS.
This valuable property is now attracting the
attention of both northern and southern capitalists.
General Joseph R. Anderson, President
of the Tredegar Iron Works, of Richmond,
and some capitalists from New Jersey,
have paid us a visit, and carefully examined
these ores and seem highly pleased with them ;
and we have good reasons to hope that they
will soon pass into the hands of a company
who will develop and use this property, which
has been so long locked up for want of cheap
transportation, and thus add something to the
prosperity of our section.
A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
VJii yesujruuy, &a iue iram uuui vuanui.bc nao
moving off'frora Black's Station, Mr. Samuel
Jeffries, a highly esteemed citizen of Union
county, attempted to get into the cars; and
in doing so, was caught between the passing
car and a platform by the side of the track,
and painfully injured. It is not thought that
his injuries will prove fatal.
Feeling that we have occupied enough of
your time, we will wish you good night, hoping
that the Enquirer may live a thousand years
and never dabble in politics; but devote all
its energy and talents in assisting to develop
the material and social interests of the State.
Farmer.
THE KANSAS HORROR.
We have heretofore published an account
of the discovery of nine dead bodies on the
premises of a man named Bender, who lived
near Cherryvale, Kansas. As may be supposed,
great excitement followed the horrible
discovery, and the scene of the unnatural
crimes has been visited by thousands of persons
from all parts of the Western States.
Robbery was the undoubted object of the vilains.
The Bender house was so located as to
be a convenient stopping place for travelers,
either for dinner and a mid-day rest, or a
night's lodging, and the situation being isolated,
a fine opportunity was presented for the
perpetration of the revolting deeds which
would have disgraced the darkest and most
barbarous ages. Among the devices adopted
by the Benders to inveigle the unwary was
an advertisement kept prominently in the papers
of the West, announcing that Miss Kate
Bender, near Cherryvale, Kansas, possessed
remarkable powers as a clairvoyant, and in
the usual style of impostors of this class, professed
to cure all manner of diseases and to
read the future of those who invoked her wonderful
powers. Many a credulous person is
now supposed to have sought the aid of this
cunning siren only to meet an untimely and
horrible death. The following account of the
bloody deeds of these incarnate bends, copied
from the Kansas City Times, will be read with
painful interest:
The Bender house, is a small, rude, frame
shanty, without lath or plaster or intervening
substance, between its floor and the rafters of
the pointed roof. In size it is 16x24 feet.
Small uprights 2x4 inches are set to mark the
house into two compartments, but no wall had
ever been made other than a white cotton
cloth hung in the rear apartment and against
these uprights. The front aparment had in
it a counter, over which the butchers pretended
to sell groceries. In the rear room was
a rude bed, a table, a stove and three chairs.
The table, to which the guests of the fiends
were seated, was placed directly over the trap
door, so that the guest's back was to and
against the white curtain. In this position it
was an easy thing for the male villains in the
front apartment to strike the form clearly
lined and resting against the white cloth, and
when the blows of the hammer had knocked
the victim, with a crushed and broken skull,
senseless and helpless to the floor, for the female
fiends in the back room to cut the throat.
The execution was as simple as it was dreadful,
but, though it would seem resistance to
such well-planned murder of the trusting and
unsuspecting was impossible, the walls gave
silent evidence that some of the murdered ones
had not been sent to their doom without an
effort to defend their lives. No less than a
dozen bullet holes in the sides and roof of the
house attest that armed men, when struck
down so relentlessly, had attempted to shoot
their murderers, but, unfortunately, the aims
had been wild, and the murderers are reserved
for the hempen halter.
With the exception of Dr. York, Henry F.
McKenzee and G. W. Longcor and daughter,
whose families took charge of their remains
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and buried tbem at independence, me uouiea
of those found in the garden graves were quietly
taken by silent men who knew them not,
yet longed for vengeance on their assassins, to
the base of a high mound about a mile to the
southeast of the Bender house, and there a
second time returned to the earth to sleep until
the final resurrection.
The first of the eight bodies discovered were
Dr. York, of Independence, and George W.
Longcor and daughter. Mr. Longcor was a
neighbor of Dr. York's, from whom he had
purchased a team just before he started for
Iowa last December. He and his infant child
were buried in one grave. He, as all the other
men, had the back of the skull crushed in
and broken, and his throat cut, and the body
stripped of nearly all clothing. The child was
placed at the father's feet, without a bruise or
a mark of violence, and with all its little
clothes on, even the hood and mittens, and
many judged that the infant had been buried
alive.
The others were L. G. Brown, W. F. McCrotty,
H. F. McKenzie, Peter Boyle, and
some unrecognized.
One of the most marvelous stories ever
heard, but which is vouched for by reliable
men, is the following: One evening, about
three months ago, a poor woman, foot sore and
weary, traveling to Independence without
money, stopped at the Bender den and asked
for some supper and for the privilege of resting
awhile. She was invited in, and being
nearly exhausted, she took her shoes and
scanty wrapping off, and laid down on the
bed in the back room. She was awakened by
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pointing to an array of pistols and doubleedged
knives of various sizes, lying on the table,
said in the spirit of hellish malignity:
"There, your supper ic ready." The woman
was motionless and breathless with terror, and,
as she sank back on the bed, the devil dame
picked the knives, one by one, and drew her j
finger along the sharpened blades, at the same :
time glancing fiendishly at her intended vie-;
tim. How long this terror lasted the woman
could not tell, but at last she, in the very des- j
peration of fear, arose as though not alarmed, ?
and made a private excuse for going out. She :
was permitted to do so, and moving around to j
the shelter of the stable, barefoot and scarce 1
half clad, she darted off on the wings of fear, I
and ran for two miles to her shelter. As she |
was running away she turned frequently to ;
see if she was pursued, but no one followed
her, though she saw the light from the opened j
doorway several times, as though the devils
inside were awaiting her return. Even this,
them, but they would tell nothing. On the
3d of April they visited the house with'the
object of finding the murderers of Dr. York,
yet they did not notice the bullet holes in the
house, and allowed themselves to be fooled by
an assumed stupidity which was the disguise
of most hellish cunning. The old hag sat
mum and gloomy, pretending she could not
understand or speak English ; old Bender said
nothing; Kate, she of the evil eye, denied all
knowledge of the lost, and the younger male
villain fooled them with a well made up story.
He said that at about the time they said Dr.
York was missed he (Bender) had been shot
at in a lonesome place near Drum creek one
evening, and it must have been by those who
killed the Doctor. He described the place
minutely aud then took them to it, and it was
found as he said, and they half believed this
story, and returned with him. Col. York repeated
the story given above of the supper of
pistols aud knives offered to the lone woman,
when the old hag soon found her sense of the
English language improved. She understood
all that had been said, and flew into a violent
passion. She denied the story of the supper,
but said that was a bad and wicked woman
whom she would kill if ever she came near
them again ; that the woman was a witch and
had bewitched Kate's coffee, and then she ordered
the whole band away. While going
and coming from the creek John told Col.
York that his sister Kate could do anything,
that she could control the devil, and that the
devil did her bidding. When they returned
to the house Col. York tried to induce this
wonderful mistress of the devil to reveal where
the body of his brother was. She positively
and persistently refused her satanic aid at this
time, giving as her reason therefor that she
could not do so in the day time and while
there were so many men and so much noise
about.
The pretended sorceress and real fiend then
told Col. York privately that if he would
come the next night, Friday?when best she
worked her spells?and bring only one man
with him, she would take him to the grave of
his murdered brother. Had the Colonel been
so foolish as to believe the mysterious power
of this creature, there is no doubt she would
have proved her promises good. The whole
band then left the house. They visited the
houses of Roach and Smith and Harnass, at
Ladore, and made many threats and accomplished
nothing. Their intent was good, but
they lacked an experienced detective for a
leader. So strong was their conviction, however,
of the guilt of the Roaches and the Benders
that they would have hung them if it
had not been for the persuasion of Col. York
and a few others, who were determined that
none but the known guilty should suffer. Of
course this visit alarmed the Benders, and
they fled.
No doubt is entertained that the Benders
I have not been alone in their damnable vil!
lainy. They must have had confederates to
dispose of the stock and clothes of the murdered
men, and suspicion has readily pointed
to a number of men, living throughout that
section, in different directions. Twelve persons
in all have been arrested on suspicion.
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Hillsboro (N. C.) Recorder says that among
the cases decided at the recent term of Orange
Superior Court, was one arising upon an application
made by Mrs. Annie Rumn, through
he* counsel to the Board of Commissioners
of Orange county, for relief from taxation
upon money on hand or on deposit on the 1st
of April, 1872. The application being refused,
an appeal was taken to the Superior
Court at Fall Terra, 1872. The case being
continued came up for argument at the last
terra, when it was contended for the plaintiff
that according to the decisions of the U. S.
Supreme Court in the case of McCulloch vs.
the State of Maryland, the States have no
power by taxation to impede or control the
operations of Laws enacted by Congress to
carry into effect powers vested in the National
Government; and that in Veazie Bank vs.
Fenno, Chief Justice Chase decides that Congress
has in the National Bank act undertaken
to supply a currency for the entire country
and has destroyed by taxation the State
Banks as Banks of issue to secure a sound
and uniform currency; also that in that decision
of Bank vs. Supervisors and Lionburger
vs. Rouse, the Supreme Court of United States
has expressly decided that U. S. Treasury
notes and National Bank notes were not liable
to State taxation.
It was argued by Messrs. Norwood & Webb
for the Defendant, that the deposit being a
c?pnpral one. the Plaintiff was merelv a cred
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itor of the Bank and the tax was in fact imposed
on the amount of deposit as the sum
due the Plaintiff. It was admitted by the
counsel for the Plaintiff that a certificate of
deposit had been given, but it was urged that
under a recent decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States no "credit" could he
taxed by a State, as it impairs the obligations
of the contract. Judge Tourgee remarked
that through the courtesy of Mr. Phillips, he
had obtained a copy of the decision referred
to, and it covered the point raised by the Defendant
and that in accordance with this decision
and the cases cited for the Plaintiff, he
was of opinion no State could impose a tax
on money on hand or of deposits consisting of
United States Treasury notes or National
Bank notes or upon obligations given by one
party to another.
THE POOR OF THE SOUTH.
Under the caption of "more foolish talk
about poor white trash," the Baltimore Sun
indulges the following comments, provoked
by an article in the Brooklyn Eagle, which, in
noticing the death of Minister Orr, could not,
it seems, while conceding the meed of merit to
which Judge Orr was justly entitled, suppress
a characteristic sneer at the South. The Sun
says:
"While the Brooklyn Eagle has rendered
a just tribute to Mr. Orr's mind and character,
we regret that an intelligent and independent
paper should fall into the mistake
that any considerable class of'poor whites' in
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and prejudiced partisans, ever existed in
the South, or that all 'political opportunities'
were concentrated in its 'aristocracy.' In no
part of the United States was there before the
war, as little of that poverty which involves
want as in the Southern States. The fertility
of the soil, almost spontaneously producing
the means of subsistence, the mild and genial
climate in winter?in many parts of the
South being rarely more severe than the
Northern auturaus?and the sparse population,
all contributed to render extreme poverty
comparatively unknown. There are
probably more poor people, that is, people in
need of charitable assistance, in the city of
New York, than there were in all the Southern
States put together."
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?
W. D. Russell, Applicant?Bartholomew
Fuller, deceased.
F. Happertield?Rememlter the Dead 1
Porter <te Steele?At Cost.
William Lynn?Valuable Land tor Sale.
J. N. Davis, Administrator?Rich Gold Mine for
Sale.
Carroll, Clark A Co.?It is Unpleasant to DunOnly
for the Cash.
T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?First
Meetirtgof Crediters?In the
Matter of Thos. Whitesides.
T. M. Doboon <fc Co.?Fish?Sundries?Coffee and
Sugar?Fine Familv Flonr?Wheat BranVinegar?Bacon?felloe
Saws?MattocksCash?Whisk
Brushes?Hand Bellows?
Hardware?Umbrellas?Ladles' Hats?Brass
Bound Buckets?Pork?Crockery?ShoesGent's
Hats?Baskets?Chamber Set.
Col. A. Coward, Principal?King's Mountain
Military School.
J. Harry Clawson, Assignee?In BankruptcyNotice
to Lien Creditors?In the Matter of
Stephen P. Sutton.
A SUPPER AND MUSIC.
A supper, with instrumental and vocal music,
will be provided by the ladies of the Epis
copal Church, at the Court House in Yorkville,
on Friday eveuing next, May 30th, for
the purpose of raising a fund for needed repairs
of the church building.
' 1ST Entrance fee, 25 cents.
ADMITTED TO BAIL.
Simon Ferguson, who was committed to
jail, at the late term of the Circuit Court, on
a charge of receiving stolen property, was released
last week on a bond of four hundred
dollars, for his appearance for trial. Hugh
Warren and Wm. Thomasson are sureties on
the bond.
MUNICIPAL 'ELECTION,
At an election held at Fort Mill, on
Wednesday, 21st instant, the following named
persons were elected Intendant and Wardens
of that place for the current year:
Intendant.?B. F. Powell.
Wardens.?A. G. Bradford, J. M. White,
T. B. Withers, R. Young.
PER80NAL.
- We were favored last week with a call from
Mr. W. J. Vereen, of Cheraw, 8. C., who is
connected with the ready-made clothing establishment
of Anderson, Starr Co., No.
502 and 504 Broadway, New York. Mr.
Vereen is now making a tour of this State in
the interest of the house he represents, which
is one of the most reliable in New York. Orders
which may be made through Mr. Vereen
will meet with prompt attention and be filled
. to the satisfaction of purchasers.
THE GENERA'L STATUTES.
We are indebted to Mr. Josephus Woodruff,
clerk of the Senate, for a copy of the new
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the constitutions of the United States and
South Carolina, with all the amendments, the
ordinances of the constitutional convention of
1868, the general statutes, and the code of
procedure, an analytical table of contents, and
a copious and apparently well arranged index.
It is truly a valuable book, and one for
which we return our thanks.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.
We have had an abundance of rain in this
section during several weeks past, but fortunately
the crops had mainly been planted before
the rainy season commenced. We learn
from all sections of the county that the cotton
has come up well, and the stand is good. The
superabundance of rain, however, has given
grass a rapid start, and the farmers are putting
forth all their energies to clean the growing
crop. Corn is promising, so far, but indications
are that the wheat and oat crops will
be light and inferior. w
PHYSICIANS FOR THE POOR.
At a meeting of the Board of County Commissioners
held last week, physicians for the
destitute poor, in the townships mentioned,
were appointed as follows:
King's Mountain.?Dr. A. P. Campbell.
Cherokee.?Dr. A. F. Hambright.
Broad River.?Dr. J. W. Allison.
Bethesda.?Dr. L. Alexander.
Ebenezer.?Dr. J. C. Hicklin.
Bethel.?Dr. T. W. Campbell.
York.?Dr. J. H. Clawson.
No appointments have been made for the
townships of Bullock's Creek, Catawba and
Fort Mill, for the reason that there have been
no applications for appointment from those
townships.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Wheat Prospect.
The papers of the great grain-growing
districts of the West continue to report that
the spring has been most favorable for the
putting in of wheat, and that a greatly in- . ~
creased breadth has been planted. The crop
will probably be a very heavy one. The
plants are remarkably thrifty, and the principal
danger seems to be that they will grow
too rank, so that much will "lodge" and be
injured and destroyed by wet weather about
harvest time. It is altogether certain now
that the export demand for American wheat
will be very heavy during the coming year.
Farmers, therefore, need feel no apprehensions
of a dull market. Their wheat will be all
wanted at good prices. Their chief trouble
will arise from insufficient transportation.
The St. Louis Democrat publishes a large
batch of correspondence from all parts of
Missouri, Southern Kansas and Iowa, which
predicts a large and excellent wheat crop, but
short crops of oats and corn.
The French Bepnblle.
Thiers has resigned the presidency of
the French Republic. When his resignation
was offered in the Assembly, it was the occasion
of great excitement among the members. He
addressed the Assembly, urging the definite
establishment of the Republic. Opposi
tion to his resignation was mamtest, ana a
motion was made that his resignation be not
accepted, which was rejected by a vote of 368
to 339. The resignation was then formally
accepted. The Assembly is divided into two
parties, known as the Left and Right The
j Left supported the policy of Thiers, and on
his resignation being formally received, they
endeavored to secure a postponement of the
j election of his successor, but the Right insisted
upon choosing a President at once. A vote
was taken, and resulted in the election of
Marshal MacMahon, who received 390 votes.
The Left abstained from voting. He has signified
his acceptance of the office, and order
prevails. It is thought that whether MacMahon
presides as President of the Republic or
Emperor of France, he will fearlessly perform
his duty, and give to the people what they
absolutely need?a stable government.
The Modoc War.
Gen. Schofield officially confirms the
report that a part of the Modoc warriors have
unconditionally surrendered. Gen. Davis reports
that he will push the pursuit of Captain
Jack and his party, and hopes to end the war
soon.
The band which surrendered comprised
: fifty men, women and children. The few
horses they had were gaunt and weak, and
scarcely able to bear the women and children
as they rode into the camp. All the braves
wore portions of the Federal uniform, and all
entered into the camp in funeral procession.
There was no noise among the soldiers, and