Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, July 10, 1873, Image 2
f waps and Jarts.
Keep everything around you clean, and
fear not the cholera.
A New York saloon keeper sells "Irish
lager bier."
The present month of July has five
Tuesdays, five Wednesdays and five Thur> '
days. '
It is officially announced that the "back
pay" will be at the disposal of the senators and
representatives for two years from date.
A Princeton, Illinois, girl died of grief
because her new spring bonnet fell into the
river and was ruined.
The postmaster of New York says the
recent postal reform has caused a falling off i
of 18,000 free newspaper exchanges at that
post-office during the past week.
A Pittsburg man had his head shaved
because he had rashly promised his wife that i
he would not drink another drop so long as j
he had a hair on his head. j
Itissaid that a stick of brimstone placed
in a dog's drinking vessel is a preventive of
many of the ills that canine flesh is heir to, |
particularly at this season of the year. j
lhe prevailing epidemic at Memphis
and Nashville and other cities in the South <
has seriously interfered with business to and s
from those points, even so far as to compel the '
different railroad Hues to suspend the running !
of some of their passenger and freight trains. <
An Alabama lawyer, defending a murderer,
spoke for nineteen consecutive hours, :
and the jury brought in a verdict of guilty in
seven minutes. They did it to avenge themselves
for the torture they had endured. Loquacious
attorneys should limit their tongues
before they reach the limit of human patience.
Reports from north-western Iowa state
that the grasshoppers are working serious
damage to the crops in that locality. Immense
fields of wheat and oats that, five days ;
ago, promised an abundant harvest, are now
utterly destroyed, and the grasshoppers have
commenced on corn.
There is a proposition to right the mem- j.
ory of Columbus by changing the name of so |
much of the North American Continent as is ! ]
embraced within the United States to Colum- j ]
bia. The suggestion comes from the West, '
whence most all great thoughts now proceed, ,
aud is well worthy of consideration.
The abolition of the franking privilege
will redound to the benefit of the express
companies, as some of the departments of the ;
Government, aud perhaps all of them, have 11
decided to send all their heavy packages by J,
express, it being found much cheaper tliau to I,
pay postage thereon.
Mrs. Avery D. Putnam, the widow of j
the victim of the car-hook murderer in New '
York, has recovered in the Superior Court of :
that city ?5,000 against the Seventh Avenue <
Railroad Company, for negligence of the car
driver and conductor for not putting Foster
oir the car when requested by Mr. Putnam.
Mexico is one of the grateful republics.
She has voted ?50,000 for a monument to the j
late President Juarez. The natioual flag is 1
to be ruu up every time his birthday conies j J
round, and each of his daughters has been !
voted a pension of ?3000 while single, and i
i r.AA ~ l\ : 'Pi _ l i i i _ c I
ciouu aner marriage, ine nest uiograpuer 01
Juarez will be awarded $2000.
The physicians of Selma, Ala., having
agreed not to devote themselves professionally !
to any more patients who refuse to pay their !'
hills, the medical attendance in that town has ;
decreased a! most as much as the general health
has advanced. The local papers declare, if
the doctors would shut up shop altogether,
that Sel ma would be the most healthful place
in the whole South. 11
An Iowa man, a few days since, dream-1i
ed that he saw his brother's head severed from \ j
his body without the loss of a drop of blood, j (
Next day he learned of the removal of that j.
brother from a snug postmasters!)ip. A negro !
in Columbus, Ga., dreamed that he found five J
dollars in a certain place in a street. He i
went to the spot next morning, found one dol-11
lar, and is blaming the ghost who told him of j <
it for taking the other four. j (
It turns out that Gen. Beauregard, of i
Confederate fame, is the leading spirit in the 11
new departure movement iu Louisiana, acce-1
ding to the negroes greater privileges than i
have yet been bestowed upon them by legis- I(
lativeor congressional enactment. To an eu-! i
quiring friend in Nashville, Tenn., Gen. Beau- i
regard telegraphed a few days ago, explaining ! j
his position : "Our carpet-baggers must he
rooted, bag and baggage, out of the State, or j
we shall be utterly ruined. The question is
narrowing down to one of existence." !
The War Department will send to West '
Point from the Ordinance Bureau, as a trophy j1
of the late war, the first gun fired in the cause ! 1
of the rebellion. It was fired at the steamer Yicksburg,
bound for New Orleans, and sup- j,
posed to have arms and ammunition ou board I'
belonging to the United States. The firing
took place several days before any guns were j
tired at the United states troops, either at '
Charleston or Peusacola. It is a small four- i
pound cannon, formerly the property of the
city of Vicksburg. ]
Mortuary statistics show that the pop- (
ular notion that negroes are more able than
the whites to resist the attacks of malarious
diseases, is erroneous. In Alabama, the races (
are nearly equal, 521,000 whites to 475,000 (
negroes; yet the last census shows that while '
there were 4,500 deaths among the whites, i
there were 0,000 among the negroes. The j
measles carried off 281 negroes to 122 whites ;
the typhoid fever, 197 negroes to 207 whites; '
while remittent and intermittent fevers took |
442 negroes to 298 whites. Pneumonia was (
especially fatal to the colored race, 988 fatal j
cases of it haviug occurred to 498 among the !
whites. The same facts are noticeable in regard
to the ravages of malarious fevers, con- i,
sumption, pneumonia and general diseases, in j
Mississippi, South Carolina and other South-1
eru States. Possibly, the neglect of their sick
by the negroes may account for a portion of
the disparity of deaths, but the fact is still
established by figures, that in point of health, i
the Caucasian is the superior race, even in
the South.
Among the new rules promulgated by I
the treasury department on the subject of the ['
issue and redemption of United States curren-11
oy, to take effect the 1st of July, are the fol- 1
lowing: "Banks and other parties situated
without the limits of the territory covered by i
the contract are permitted to forward curren- |
cv for redemption to the treasurer by express, j j
at the expense of the department, only in
sums of one thousand dollars, or an even multiple
thereof. The remittances should be
marked 'Under the Government Contract with 1
Adams Express Company from the point of ,
connection with that company the charges
should be prepared to that point, the bill therefor
being sent to the treasurer for settlement
through the proper accounting officers, in favor
of the consignor. Mew currency will be :
returned in all cases, at the expense of the de- 1
partment. All remittances of money by mail
must be addressed to the 'Treasurer of the .
United States, Washington, D. C.,' and must
be prepaid. Such letters may be registered.
Returns for five dollars and upwards in fractional
currency, and fifty dollars and upwards
of legal tender notes, received by express, are 1
made at the expense of" the department by express,
and for less of either returns are made
at the expense of the owner."
The Asiatic cholera is a disease of an
ancient and almost immemorial date, though
it was first observed as an epidemic in Bengal,
in May, 1817. It next made its appearance
in Calcutta ; in 181(J, it extended to the Burmese
empire; in 1820, it arrived in Bombay,
where 150,000 persons lost their lives. In
succeeding years, it visited Persia, Arabia
and Asia Minor; in 1829, it appeared in
Southern Russia, and at Moscow in 1830. In
1S31, it spread over most of Central Kurope,
and appeared in England ; in 1833, it appeared
in London and Paris. On June 8, 1832,
it first appeared on this side of the Atlantic
at Quebec, and on June 21, in New York, the
intermediate districts escaping its visitation.
It reached Boston, Baltimore and Washington
in August. In October, it spread from
Cincinnati to New Orleans. Thence it struck
across the country to Texas, and traveled up
the Mississippi to the river towns. It revisitsd
this country in 1834,1835, 1836 and 1837.
\Ve had a cholera epidemic in 1854, from
which Baltimore escaped. There have been
subsequent local visitations. The cholera, or
a disease much resembling it, and attended
with considerable fatality, especially among
the colored people, has made its appearance
in New Orleans this year, with no evidence
that it has been imported. We also hear of
it in Memphis, next in Nashville, finally in
Grreenville, Tennessee, not far from the Southwestern
border of Virginia. We also hear of
)ne or two sudden deaths in Cincinnati .from
the same disease. It is geuerally considered a j
liseasee of warm and damp climates and sea- j
sons. It may be that the Mississippi Valley I
iffords as favorable a foothold for it as the j
lelta of the Ganges. Some consider that its
expansion is located along the great sweep of;
the equatorial current of moist South-west and !
?outh-east winds, supposed by some to be the j
deflection of the trade winds into the -Mississippi
Valley, which penetrate to high latitudes
in the central part of the continent.
For ourselves, the cholera seems to us as eccentric
as a comet, and we should almost as '
soon be disposed to build up a system of med-1
cal geography of one as of the other.
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YORKVILLE, S.C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1873.
Watch the Figures.?The dofe on tlie "addresslabel*'
shows the time to which the subscription is
paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued,
the ilutc must be kept in advance.
Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that
3tir terms for subscription, advertising and iobivork,
are cash, in advance
JOB PRINTING.
Having determined to devote more attention
hereafter to job printing than we have
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, ! Freight Billheads,
Bank Notices, Labels,
Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks,
Bill Heads, Law Briefs,
Business Cards, Letter Circulars,
Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings,
Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads
Checks, Note Circulars,
Deposit Tickets, Note Headings,
Drafts and Notes, Programmes,
Envelopes, Policies, Fire A* Life Ins.,
Election Tickets, Shinplasters,
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.
XEXT*YEAR.
The evils of the present moment are generally
so many and so great, that with most of
the human family there is neither time nor
inclination to look forward into the future.
On the general pricipal, however, that a stitch
in time saves nine, many of the evils of life
might be avoided by timely precaution. Coming
events generally cast their shadows before
them ; and if we would only wisely discern the
signs of the times, many serious ills might be
escaped. ?
Guided by the experience of the past, and
reasoning from cause to efTcct, we can form a
tolerably correct idea of what will be the conJition
of things next year. Corn will be, if
not scarce, not abundant. The wheat crop of
the present season was light, and the yield
from the growing corn crop will not be heavy.
A. very large amount of the crop on the low
lands has been badly injured by the wet, and
i still larger amount, on both high and low
lands, has been more seriously injured for the
want of proper cultivation. An exceedingly
large amount of cotton was planted, and such
was the character of the spring and early
summer, that the grass took full possession of
many acres of cotton and whole fields of corn.
We cannot safely calculate on a heavy crop
cither of corn or cotton. We will feel this
next year.
There arc other things which should be taken
into consideration, when making our calculation
for next year. We will be annoyed
on the right and on the left, by night and by
;lay, by the periodical return of the .State and
county electious. The State will be overrun
by aspirants for office. There will be caucus
meetings, political barbecues and picnics, and
any quantity of mean whisky drunk, and fiery
speeches made. Judging from the past, there
will be plenty of time for electioneering and
enlightening the people with regard to their
sacred rights, and the manner in which they
should exercise them, and very little time to
work. We may safely calculate on all this,
and much more.
We suggest that it would be wise in our
people generally, in view of all these probabilities,
to make preparation for a storm. If
the storm does not come, no harm will be j
done; and should it come, we will be prepared
for it. A wise man always covers his house j
in a dry day. We would suggest that pre-1
paration be made for sowing down a large j
amount of land in small grain, and that the
cotton farms be greatly reduced. This ought, '
we honestly believe, to be done, in any event. !
Our farmers have been speculating in cotton |
for the last five or six years, and there is
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with much annoyance and no great deal of1
permanent gain. By an early anticipation
of approaching calamities, they may be either
entirely warded off or their force broken.
Every year labor in this county is becoming
scarcer. This is a fact, no matter bow it
may be accounted for. It surely is wise in
all our land-holders to make all their future
calculations with a full knowledge of this fact.
Labor will, in all human probability, be
scarcer next year than it has been any time
within the past ten years. It will be too late
next April to make arrangements to meet
this emergency. It will be too late even next
January. Preparation should be made between
the present time and the first of November.
? AtOwingsville, Ivy., on Thursday last,
Wm. A. Satterfield was placed on trial for
burning that place in April last. While one
Ilayden was testifying in regard to being employed
bySatterfied to burn '.he place, Satterfield
and his friends rushed toward him, with
revolvers drawn, when several determined citizens
interfered and avoided a collision. The
court then adjourned till Friday, when Satterfield
and his friends rushed in with two
double-barreled shot-guns and revolvers, and
were met by Mr. Hoon, the jailor, and other
citizens. Hoon fired at Satterfield, killing
him instantly, when the rest, of the party fled.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The report of cholera in Orangeburg is 1
deuied by the Mayor of that town.
? Georgetown and Aiken, were made money
order offices on and after 7th of July.
? Winnsboro has resolved to levy a tax of
one and a quarter mills for school purposes
the next year.
? James L. Jamison, colored, Senator from
Orangeburg, died in Columbia on the 2nd
instant.
?Air. Wills Rogers, formerly a resident of
Yorkville, died recently in New York, of
heart disease.
? A child was born in Charleston several;
days ago, having iwo well developed teeth in
its mouth.
? In consequence of the dull times, and in
order to reduce the expenses, the Columbia
Union-Herald has dispensed with the services
of Maj. E. W. Everson, the local editor of
fhsit. nfinor.
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? A little son of Capt. A. G. Brenizer, of
Columbia, met with a painful accident on
the 4th. He attempted to pour powder from
a flask upon a coal, which caused an explo- j
sion, and his right hand was badly lacerated, j
? The citizens of Blackstocks and vicinity]
celebrated the Fourth by a picnic in a beau-1
tiful grove near that thriving village. The j
tables were well laden, and the attendance i
li-ge.
? Governor Moses has made a requisition
on the Governor of North Carolina for the i
body of Calvin Faison, now in the jail of
Cumberland county, charged with stealing a
horse in Chesterfield county.
? Th a Phoenix of Tuesday says that the print- j
iug material?type, presses, etc.?of the de- j
funct South Carolinian newspaper was disposed j
of at auction, on Monday, and was bought in (
by the mortgagees, Messrs. Walker, Evans &
Cogswell, for the sum of ?1,000?about onethird
of its original cost.
? A storm of unusual severity passed over
the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta railroad
on the evening of the 4th. In the vicinity
of Mayesville several barns and other
| outbuildings were blown down, and trees and
j fences were prostrated fdV a considerable distance
on both sides of the railroad.
[ ? A destructive fire is reported by the ColI
umbia Union-Herald to have occurred at the
town of Frog Level, in Newberry county.
Thirteen stores and two private residences
were destroyed, involving a loss of $53,200
on which there was but ?6000 insurance.
The fire is supposed to have been the work of
an incendiary.
? The Pluenix of Tuesday puns the following
important item : "Yesterday, a member
of the Legislature from one of the upper counties
called on Treasurer Cardozo, for the purpose
that needy parties would. The Treasuicr
received him kindly, and requested him
to be seated ; and then Mr. Pursestrings excused
himself for a few moments; but the last
seen of him was as a car-dozer, bound for New
York, while the man from up about York
walked off with the owins."
! ?The Columbia Pkmnix says: "We are
pleased to record the highly prosperous condition
of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad Company?more especially
under the management of Col. Palmer and
the present board of Directors, and the able
supervision of the General Superintendent,
Mr. James Auderson. The gross earnings
for the last seven months arc about thirty per
cent, in excess of the same period last year;
and the net earnings over fifty per cent, in
excess of last year. This speaks well for the
road, and shows euergy and economy on the
part of the management. The debt, floating
and funded, has been in the last seven months
reduced about 8130,000, and the assets increased
about $.30,000?nearly $200,000. The
receipts for the current year are estimated at
$800,000, against $030,000 the previous year."
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The Concord Sun says they had a case of
genuine cholera in that town last week.
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? The engineer corps to locate me r uyeuuville
anil Florence (S. C.) railroad are now
making the necessary survey.
? A colored man testified before the Superior
Court at Raleigh last week that he was
one hundred and four years old, in substantiation
of which he gave a description of the
battle of Guilford Court House, which he
witnessed from a tree-top when a little boy.
? Governor Caldwell, the State officers and
several members of the legal profession, irrespective
of party, have joined in a recommendation
to the President to appoint Judge Pearson
to the Chief Justiceship of the United
States Supreme Court.
? The Hickory Press says that Mr. Salisbury,
a farmer near Old Fort, has been experimenting
with the different grasses. He
sowed the seeds with turnips, instead of small
grain, as is customary, and the experiment is
a wonderful success. The timothy and orchard
varieties attained a height of five feet.
? The Raleigh News says the pardon of
Win. Mclntyre, of Rutherford county, now
coufined in the Albany peniteutiary on the
charge of ku-kluxing, has been received at
the office of the United States Marshal in
Raleigh. Mclntyre was sentenced for two
years, and his term would have expired on
the 1st of October next.
? Mrs. Maria Murray, a young widow lady,
wealthy and highly accomplished?occupying
the enviable position of the belle of the county,
previous to her marriage?committed suioidfi
hv hansrimr herself, on her farm, near
Ilillsboro, on the 30th ult. Criminal intimacy
between herself and a married man who was
employed as a laborer on her farm, is assigned
as the cause of the rash act.
? A fire occurred in Charlotte on Friday
afternoon last, as we learn from the Democrat,
which from its location, came near being a
serious conflagration. The fire originated in
a stable in the rear of the Parks buildings,
in the heart of the square, and destroyed several
old inflammable buildings ; but by the
exertious of the firemen, the flames did but
liltle damage to the adjacent stores.
? The Lincoln Progress says: The wheat
crop has been cut and turned out much bet- [
tor than looked for?something over a half i
crop is made. Oats generally good. The j
prospects for corn arc very encouraging ; a ;
full crop will be made, should nothing happen
to it. Cotton?there has been more cot-'
ton planted this year than any previous one, (
and the prospects for a good yield are j
bright.
? Alexander Perry Sperry, a New York
salesman, well known in many of the south- j
ern States, fell from a window of the third
story of the Ceutral Hotel, iu Charlotte, on 1
Wednesday evening of last week, from the
effects of which he died an hour after. Mr.
Sperry was brought up to the mercantile
business in Greensboro, but for many years
past has made Winchester, Virginia, his
home.
? The Raleigh Sentinel learns from a gentleman
who has recently been traveling in
the western portion of the State that the
crops in that section are very fine. The people
informed him that the yield of wheat this '
year is larger than of any year since the close j
of the war. This, remarks the Sentinel, is a j
sign of a good time ahead, for when the wheat j
crop is abundant our people, as a general j
rule, are prosperous.
? The State Supreme Court has reversed the !
decision of Judge Tourgee, recently made in j
the Superior Court of Orange county, as to
the power of the State to tax United States j
treasury notes, national bank bills and solvent |
credits. The opinion of the Court was ren- j
dered by Judge Reade. It will be remem-1
bered that Judge Tourgee held that neither j
United States treasury notes nor National j
bank bills, were subject to taxation by the
State, also that solvent credits were not taxable,
as the deposit remained money either as
United States treasury notes, or National bank
bills.
? The Hickory Press contains a lengthy account
of the arrest, in Morganton, on the 27th
ultimo, of Honorable W. A. Smith, Receiver
of the Western North Carolina Railroad, by
United States Revenue officials. It seems |
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mat me omciaisueraanueu auoess tu wic uuuro i
and papers of the railroad since it passed under
Major Smith's control, and he refused to
comply with the demand until their authority
for making it was shown. They failed to exhibit
any authority, whereupon the Major
ejected thera from his office. The officers j
then obtained warrants for Major Smith, one
for resisting their authority and another for
assault and battery, and upon a hearing before
a United States Commissioner, he was
bound in a bond of 81000 in each case, to
answer at the next term of the Federal Court
at Statesville. In expounding the law, the
United States Commissioner, a man named
Eastman, claimed he had the right to enter
any man's house and examine his private papers,
aud if the party refused, he could break
open his house or safe.
NEWS OF*"'THE DAY.
? The first bale of cotton raised on the Rio
Grande this year was sold in Brownsville,
Texas on Friday last.
? There were five cholera deaths in Cincinnati
on the 6th. The disease is abating in
Memphis and Nashville.
? Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, has called
upon Gov. Powers, of Mississippi, to prosecute
the parties who left the State of Louisiana
and participated in the duel which resulted
in the death of Judge Cooley.
? Three more Modocs surrendered to the
United States forces on the 6th. It is understood
that the Indians will be defended by
Colonel Lewis, of Red Bluff, at their trial
before the militaiy commission.
? Work has been commenced in New York
nn tho mom nint h hnlnnn in which Professors
Wise and Donaldson propose to make an
aerial voyage to Europe. It is proposed to
make the attempt about the 20th of August.
? In the New Hampshire Legislature, a
bill has been introduced making it unlawful
for any circus company to enter the State,
fixing the penalty at one thousand dollars.
? Of the twelve hundred claims allowed
by the Southern Claims Commission, and to
pay which, Congress at its last session appropriated
8789,143, all have been paid by the
Treasury Departmet except six.
? Fourth of July powder thieves, attempt- j
iug to steal powder at Centreville, Pcnnsylva- j
nia, exploded 700 pounds of giant powder
and 70 pounds of nitro-glycerine. Every
window within two miles was broken.
? In Ohio and Indiana the storms of the
2nd 3rd and 4th instant have seldom if ever
been equaled in severity in this country. Hurricanes
and tornadoes, with floods of rain, followed
each other in rapid succession, inflicting
immense damage to property.
? B. F. Butler made an electioneering speech
to a large temperance convention at Farmingham,
on the 4th, declaring against monopolies
and special legislation. He did not commit
himself to the approval or disapproval of the
prohibition temperance laws, but declared
that as long as they were on the statute book,
they should be enforced.
? The trial of young Walworth for the murder
of his father was concluded on Thursday
last. The jury returned a verdict of murder
in the second degree, and on Saturday
T.IVi.mo coiifunfind V?im to tV?r? ftf.nt.A nris
U HU^C l/avio ObillVHVVU vv vww Fy.w.w
on nt Sing Sing, at hard labor for life. In
addressing the prisoner, the Judge said he
had fearful doubts whether his case did not
justify the conviction of murder in the first
degree. The prisoner stood the trying ordeal
with firmness, without moving a muscle of his
features, and left the court with his mother
immediately after the Judge had concluded.
RAILROADS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Meetings have been held in Laurens in behalf
of the Laureus and Asheville Railroad,
and it is proposed to raise $400,000 iu that
county in its behalf.
The Greenville and Columbia Railroad
Company are going to build a new depot at
Greenwood, Abbeville county. The business
of the place has increased so greatly that the
old building is entirely too small. The new
depot will be a fine building, aud the contract
has already been let out.
The track upon the Air-Line Railroad is
now completed from Greenville to the intersection
with the Blue Ridge Railroad at Seneca
city. The bridge over Seneca river is not
yet finished, which is the only impediment to
through trains from Charlotte to Seneca city.
So says the Charlotte Observer.
The prospects for the completion of the
Greenwood and Augusta Railroad are encouraging.
Letters from the treasurer of the
Company, Honorable John M. Clark, of Augusta,
aud Colonel Charles Wright, of New
York, speak of the road as sure of construction.
Mr. Clark says that "the building of
the road is only a question of time, as the
portion from Augusta to Dorn's mine will,
without a doubt, form a link of the Chicago ,
aud South Atlautic line."
The Columbia Phcenix says: "We had the .
pleasure of meeting, last evening, Mr. J. S.
Wiley, 0:1 his return from Spartanburg, where
he had been to attend a meeting of the commissioners
of the projected Spartanburg and
Asheville Railroad, on the 1st and 2d instant. Mr.
Wiley informs us that the meeting was
one of interest, and the prospect of getting a
sufficient subscription to build the road very I
good and improving. From a comparison of j
notes, it was concluded that Spartanburg and j
Uniou counties, in this State, and Buncombe
county, North Carolina, would subscribe each
$150,000, and Henderson county, North Care '
lina, 8100,000, to the capital stock, and that
Charleston would raise $100,000 and Columbia
$50,000, for the same purpose. It is proposed
to purchase the Spartanburg and Union
Railroad, and use it as a lever in the construction
of the new road, by hypothecating
it at $10,000 a mile. Running a distance of
seventy miles, $700,000 could be raised in this '
way. Should it-be found impracticable to
purchase, the present owners will aid the new j
enterprise to the amount of $100,000, and j
the many advantages which it offers to rail- j
road capitalists and contractors, will no doubt
induce a large subscription outside of those
mentioned. Engineers are at Gowansville,
ou the line of the road twenty-five miles from
Spartanburg, aud a warm feeling is manifested
in it all along the preposed track, in the
direction of the mountains."
The Lancaster Ledger, of the 3rd instant,
says: "The surveyors of the Cheraw and
Chester Railroad have reached within two 1
miles of this place. The route between this
and Chester was over a very hilly country and
several routes had to be run before one could
be established. The river was crossed a short
distance above the mouth of Cane creek." 1
LOCAL AFFAIRS. j<
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
M. Strauss A Son?Bargains, Bargains.
John C. Kuykendal?Turnip Seed?Ply Fizen?
Summer Drinks.
John Dickey, Probate Judge of Chester?Notico i
to Elizabeth Morrow and others.
T. S. Jeflerys, Intendant?Ordinance in regard to !
Dogs.
J. W. Carroll A R. M. Carroll?Dissolution.
W. B. Byers?Fair Warning
Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?
J. L. Gaffney, Applicant?Jerome B. Kerr,
deceased.
C. A. King, School Commissioner?Notice to
School Trustees.
Josepli A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?
J. A. Carroll, Applicant?K. J. Foster, de
a3 the time, and Yorkville as the place, for
hearing the questions involved. The complainants
have retained as counsel, Colonel
James H. Riou, of Wiunsboro; and the
County Commissioners have retained Colonel
\V. B. Wilson, I. D. Witherspoon, Esq., and
Messrs. Clawson & Thomson. It is generally
supposed that whatever may be the result in
the Circuit Court, the case will go to the Court
of Appeals.
THE FOURTH.
The ninety-seventh anniversary of American
Independence passed off in our town with
the quietness which has been characteristic of
the southern people for the past few years.
This want of demonstration is not altogether
attributable, as many of our northern cousins
suppose, to apathy or disregard of the day.
The Fourth of July and the events which
distinguish the day, are now held in as high
reverence by the southern people as they ever
were; but in the existing circumstances, and
under the pressure of the past few years,
which ought to be fresh in the minds of the
northern people, who make the charge that the
South has no pride in our common country, we
think the Southerners are excusable if they
do not indulge in bombastic display, empty
rhetoric and sweet cider, at a time when their
energies should be devoted to matters of
graver importance. The Fourth being a National
holiday, the soldiers stationed here
were the only persons in the town by whom it
was observed. They ushered in the day by
firing salutes, and being off duty enjoyed
themselves in various ways. At night, the
Narrow Gauge Miustrels gave a second concert
to a good audience, who were well pleased
with the performance.
COMPLIMENTS TO A YORKVILLE MISS.
In their notices of the serai-annual concert
by the young ladies of Raleigh Female Seminary,
011 the evening of the 2nd instant, the
papers of that city are rapturous in praise of
the performance of Minnie McAfee Eddins,
a young Miss of Yorkville, and granddaughter j
of the late G. W. Williams, Esq. The Sen-1
tinel enthusiastically claims Miss Eddins as !
"North Carolina's delightful mockingbird j
but we respectfully insist that this honor j
must be shared with our own State. While i
we concede to a North Carolina institution
the merited distinction of directing her musi- j
cal training, we confess too much selfish pride
to yield the honor of the young lady's native
home, a State which has given to the world
queens of song no less famed than Patti and
McCulloch. We quote from the Sentinel: i
"She has a remarkably fine voice, that has
been cultivated most conscientiously. If she
were trained by some continental instructor,;
and were subjected to the severe and prolonged
discipline which all great cantatrices must
inevitably pass through, before they attain to
their highest capabilities and most exquisite
art, she would take rank among American
singers with that select few who only yield the
palm to the incomparable Miss Kellogg. But
without this training, having only received
such as our schools can furnish, she is a singer
of rare accomplishments and great promise.
Her notes are liquid, pure, sweet and full, and
ceased.
R. IT. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriffs Sales.
T. M. Dobson A Co.?Bargains?I Am on My
Way?Dross Goods?Baskets?Promises?
Coats?Fish?Flour?Bacon?Trunks and
Valises?Matches?Spoons?Brushes and i
Dusters?Clothing.
t
EPISCOPAL CONVOCATION.
T!ie Columbia Convocation of the Protest- j
ant Episcopal Church, embracing the middle
and upper counties of the State, met in the
Church of the Good Shepherd, at this place,
yesterday. Quite a number of the clergy and
laity are in attendance.
THE RAILROAD SURVEY.
We learn from the Newton Vindicator of
the 7th instant that Flemming Gardner, Chief
Engineer of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad,
with a corps of assistants, is now in the vicinity
of that town surveying the route for the
proposed road. The linecrosses Clark's creek
nearLincolnton, and coming up the west side,
again crosses ne^r Newton.
SALES-PAY.
Last Monday was sales-day, though no
property of any description \va3 sold by the
sheriff. The attendance of people from the
country was very small. The farmers are
now in the midst of the "busy season," when
their time can be more profitably employed
looking after their crops than by "coming to
town" even on sales-day. From farmers
with whom we have spoken on the subject of
the crops, we learn that the grass is well
nigh 6ubdued, and cotton at the present time
is very promising. Corn is late, but looks
well, and wheat and oats are yielding better
than was expected before the harvest.
"MAD DOGS."
On Friday last, a dog which was pronounced
to be in rabies, or "mad," was shot in this
place. This fact has impelled the Town Council
to pnss an ordinance prohibiting dogs from
running at large on the streets of the town.
The ordinance is published in our advertising
columns, and is of importance to the owners
of dogs.
As a sanitary precaution, the Council also
request the citizens to disinfect their premises,
and for this object, on application to the
Treasurer, sulphate of iron, which is considered
as a good article for the purpose, will be
furnished gratuitously.
A STRANGE BIRD.
Mr. W. A. Wyatt informs us that he recently
killed a strange fowl on Allison creek,
near Miller's mill. The bird was three feet in
height and measured six feet from tip to tip
of wings. Its bill measured eight inches in
length and next to the head was the same
number of inches in circumference. Its quill
feathers were of a dark bottle green, and its
head and neck a dove color, and the body
perfectly white. The neck was thick as a
man's wrist, and constructed for strength.
Its feet were six inches in breadth, containing
four toes each, which were eight inches in
length. The bird is evidently a stranger in
this section, though some days before this one
was killed, a number of them were seen near
the same spot.
THE COUNTY BONDS.
In to-day's paper we print the temporary
order of injunction, granted by Judge Mackey,
to restrain the County Commissioners of York
from issuing the bonds of the county in payment
of the subscription made in aid of the
construction of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow
Ghuge Railroad. In connection with the
order, we also publish the complaint of the
plaintiffs. As maybe seen, Judge Mackey
has appointed Wednesday, the 16th instant,
she trills with the ease and perfection which
almost rivals a regular prima donna. She
sang 'Who's at My Window,' and 'L'Usig- i
nuola Messicano,' receiving prolonged and
rapturous applause. She was so encored as
she concluded the last song, that she grace* j
fully approached the piano, and sang with
marvelous delicacy, sweetness and effect, the
'Cuckoo Song,' in which she surpassed herself.
She was the recipient of some eight or a dozen
boquets, which wefe not half so delightful as j
her own melodious voice. One of her great j
excellences is the ease with which she sings,
for she has only to open her mouth and a full
tide of melody flows out."
The News of the same city is equally complimentary
:
T.M....no Ilio kri.rkf atnr nf flif>
imaa xjuuiua ?i?n m*> uw ??. ?..w
evening, and sang 'Who's at My Window'
with such force and beauty as to extort a rapturous
encore. We are informed by a critic
that she surpassed Miss Ridgeway in the same
effort, who sang with Ole Bull last autumn
from the stage in this city at the high key of
S300 per week."
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Beecher on Woodhull.
Henry Ward Beecher has published in
the Brooklin Eagle a card regarding his complications
with Mrs. Woodhull, Bowen, Tilton
and others. lie makes a plump denial
of the charges preferred agaiust him in the
various rumors which have obtained circulation
recently, and closes his article in the following
words:
"I have just returned to learn that application
has been made to Mrs. Victoria Woodhull
for letters of mine, supposed to contain
information respecting certain infamous stories
against me. I have no objection to have the
Eagle state, in any way it deems fit, that
Mrs. Woodhull or any other persons who
may have letters of mine in their possession
have my cordial consent to publish them. In
this connection, and at this time, I will only
add that stories and rumors which have, for
some time past, been circulated about me are
grossly untrue, and I stamp them, in general
and in particular, as utterly false."
The Fourth in Columbia.
The Phoenix furnishes the following account
of the way the day was celebrated at
the capital:
"Tne city bell proclaimed, in weak tones,
Friday morning, the dawn of another national
holiday. Shortly afterwards, the popping of
crackers, firing of pistols, blowing of horns,
etc., made known the fact that young Columbia
was up aud about. The day was very
nratiarolltr Iron* nOflrlvAVPrv fltfirfi heinP' cloS
gvuw.uoj 'J ~-~-j a ---ed.
There were barbecues, picnics, fishing
parties, etc. By 5 o'clock, the colored military
began to congregate at their respective
rendezvous, in anticipation of a review by
Brigadier-General Bivers, at 6 o'clock; but
owing to unforeseen circumstances, it was 10
o'clock before the reviewing officers arrived on
the field?the extensive plateau at the foot of
Green street. The sun was boiling hot, but
"the colored troops stood it nobly." There
were six or seven companies in line. About
fifteen mounted officers?several of them
white?accompanied by Gov. Moses, in citizen's
dress, reviewed the regiment. The turn
out was rather 9lira, there being only about
200, all told. The Post Band furnished the
music. When the review concluded, there
was a rush for Sidney Park, where it was expected
a barbecue would be furnished, but
the expectant crowd was disappointed. An
order for the necessary amount of money had
been given by the authorities, but the cash
was not forthcoming. There was much disappointment
and considerable grumbling.
Several speakers entertained the assemblage
for an hour or two."
Mad Dogs and Hydrophobia.
The Council of Hygiene, of Bordeaux,
France, have issued a circular for the better
protection of the people against the dangers
of hydrophobia, in which the question is fully
discussed. They state that madness of dogs
has a period which is premonitory and harmless,
and if these periods were generally known
the dogs could he put out of the way before
becoming daugerous. The Council issue the
following instructions, the observance of
which would prevent many distressing cases
of hydrophobia:
"A short time, sometimes two days, after
madness has seized a dog, it creates symptoms
in the animal which it is iudispensable to
recognize:
"1. There is agitation and restlessness, and
the dog turns himself continually in his kennel.
If he be at liberty, he goes and comes,
and seems to be seeking something; then he
remains motionless, as if waiting; then starts,
bites the air, as if he would catch a fly, and
dashes himself, howling and barking, against
the wall. The voice of his master dissipates
these hallucinations, the dog obeys, but slowly,
with hesitatiou, as if with regret.
"2. He does not try to bite; he is gentle,
even affectionate, and he eats and drinks, but
gnaws his litter, the ends of curtains, the padding
of cushions, the coverlets of the beds,
carpets, etc.
"3. By the movement, of his paws about
the sides of his open mouth one might think
he was trying to free his throat of a bone.
"4. His voice uudergoes such a change
that it is impossible not to be struck by it.
"5. The dog begins to fight with other
dogs; this is a decidedly characteristic sign
if the dog be generally peaceful.
"The three symptoms last mentioned indicate
an advanced period of the disease, and
that the dog may become dangerous at any
moment if immediate measures are not taken.
t> Jo Koaf fr? rhftin him nn at once. or. better
still, to kill him."
The New 0rlcau9 Duel.
On the 1st instant a duel was fought
near Montgomery Station, Mississippi, between
R. B. Rhett, junior, editor of the New Orleans
Picayune, aud ex-Judge Thomas J. Cooley, of
the same city. The weapons used were double-barrel
shot guns, distance forty yards.
The ground was promptly selected, the distance
measured, acid parties placed iu position.
At the first fire, Rhett's shot ranged high, and
Cooley's to the right. Cooley delivered his
fire first. At the second fire, both fired simultaneously
and Cooley fell, mortally wounded
by a shot entering his left side and passing apparently
through his heart. He expired in
six minutes, without apparent suffering, only
speaking the words to Dr. Holliday, "I am
shot through the breast." The gentlemen engaged
in the affair exchanged the usual civilities
after the second fire, and separated with
the expression of mutual respect and consideration.
The difficulty is one of the results of the
libel suit of Hawkins vs. the Picayune, which
went to trial a few weeks ago, and was decided
adve.sely to the Picayune publishing Company,
multcing them in damages to the amount
of ?18,000. Judge Cooley was counsel for
i,,i thp cnnnlusion of the trial
the Picayune, in its editorial columns, was
very severe in condemnation of the course
pursued by Cooley in his argument for the
prosecution, pronouncing as false many of the
assertions made in his speech. Judge Cooley
then addressed a communication to the editor,
calling for explanations, which, not being accorded,
he followed it up by publishing a card
assailing Col. Rhett. A challenge promptly
followed, with the fatal results above detailed.
Judge Cooley, the victim, was a native of
Louisiana, and graduated in the academic department
of the Transylvania University of
Kentucky, in 1847. He was subsequently appointed
parish judge of Pointe Coupee, and
his first appearance prominently before the
New Orleans public was as a representative
from Pointe Coupoe in the Reconstruction
Convention, in which he took u leading part.
When the reconstruction election took place,
Judge Cooley having selected New Orleans as
his residence, was nominated by the Democracy
as their candidate for the judgeship of
the Sixth District Court, to which position he
was elected, and which he maintained until
the recent election, when he declined submitting
his name before the convention. At the
time of his death Judge Cooley was about forty-seven
years old, and was a man of extraordinary
abilities.
Colonel R. B. Rhett, jr., the surviving principal
in the duel, is well known in South Carolina,
being a native of Charleston, and a son
of R. Barnwell Rhett, a prominent politician
in his day. Colonel Rhett was editor of the
Charleston Mercury for several years previous
to the outbreak of the war, and conducted the
paper as its editor until about a year after
the surrender, when it was discontinued. He
removed from Charleston to New Orleans one
year ago, in order to assume his present duties
as editor of the Picayune on the Cincinnati
platform.
Correspondence of tlie Yorkville Enquirer.
THE RED RIVER COUNTRY.
Chattanooga, July 5, 1873.
I spent some time in upper Louisiana, along
the famous and peculiar Red river, and intended
to have written the Enquirer more
fully the result of observations than contained
in the letters from Shreveport, but was prevented
by other engagements. I take this opportunity
to put a few notes on paper that
you ought to have had four weeks ago. If ^
news was like whisky?the older the better?
the reader would be the gainer by perusing
ancient letters ; but as the reverse is the case,
I will endeavor to be brief.
Red river is a remarkable stream, having
its headwaters near the line of New Mexico
and flowing eastwardly, forming the boundary
between Texas and the Iudian Territory. Entering
Louisiana, it takes a south-eastern
course and empties into the Mississippi, some
two hundred miles by river, above New Orleans
In Louisiana, it flows through the finest
cotton country in the world. For five hundred
miles magnificent plantations lie upon
either side. They are magnificent in extent,
richness and depth of soil; but the improvements
are in all stages of dilapidation and
decay. The war, closely followed by the interminable
political troubles, has depressed
property in that region, until the finest cotton
ground under the light of the sun, can be
bought for ten dollars an acre. J was shown
plantations worth, before the war, from seventy-five
to a hundred thousand dollars, that
could now be bought for from fifteen to twenty
thousand. Everybody wants to sell, but
there are few buyers. Perhaps better opportunties
for buying cotton ground were never
offered than can be had in Louisiana at this
time. The planters are discouraged on account
of the never-ending turmoils, and want
to leave a State in whose future there is so
little hope.
The Texas fever has possession of a good
many of them. There is the same mania for
going to Texas that we observe in other, and
even better regulated States. This is, to say
the least of it, foolish; for nowhere in that
tYtii/iVt.vMifttoto will fha anil nnmnam vifh
iiiuvii'^uugu kjk*ntn vnv ousa vviw|/m*v ?? ?v??
the Red river section of Louisiana.
You have been troubled some in your State,
I believe, with the Texas fever. The only
cure I know for the disease is experience.
Let a man sell out his home in an older State,
go to Texas, and in six cases out of seven, he
will regret it in less than a year.
I came down Red river from Shreveport on
the steamer C. H. Durfee, and among the
passengers were several disgusted Texians returning
to the older States. They did not
find Texas the El Dorado they expected.
They complained of fever aud ague, poor water,
hot weather in summer, and cold blasts
in winter, scarcity of timber in some parts,
and too much of it in others. Texas, to be
sure, has a number of advantages, but the
disadvantages well nigh overshadow them.
THE GRANT PARISH FIGHT.
As you are aware, the chronic Louisiana
troubles culmiuated two months ago in a
bloody battle between the whites and blacks
in Grant Parish ou Red river. One hundred
men were killed outright. Many versions
were given of the affair, all of which were
more or less untruthful on account of party
bias. The facts in the case are these: Both
parties claimed to have carried the Parish at
the last election. Gov. McEuery commission'
ed one man as sheriff, and Gov. Kellogg
another. These two sheriffs each tried to
hold the Court House. Nash, the Democratic
sheriff, summoned the whites to help him
"enforce the law." Shaw, the Radical sheriff,
summoned the negroes to help him "enforce
the law." Both parties assembled, to the
number of two hundred or more, and a fight
was the consequence. The negroes were whipped
and driven out of their rude entrenchments.
Part of them ran down the river and
got away, while the rest took refuge in the
Court House. The whites could not didodge
them. They at last fired the building.! Before
doing this, however, they claim that the
negroes proposed to surrender, and that, while
"negotiations for peace" were going on, the
! negroes treacherously shot two white men,
Messrs. Hodnot and Harris. This exasperated
the whites, and they fired the Court House
and shot the negroes down as they ran out.
Seventy-nine were thus killed. The white loss
was four killed and eight wounded. Several
negroes were killed before the Court House ^
! was fired, so that the total deaths by this fool|
ishness amount to a full hundred.
The trouble is over now, and peace reigns in
Grant Parish. It is lamentable that a conflict
i between the races should have occurred; but,
taking all the facts in the case, itis not strange.
MINOR MENTION.
The water of Red river is, as its name in|
dicates, red. It takes it from the soil of up!
per Texas and the Indian Territory. People
living along the river use cistern water, and
only resort to the river when their cisterns
are dry. It is really not fit to driuk, and no
! man, having proper respect for his inside, will
swallow it. The steamboats use Mississippi
water, which they store in tanks for the purpose.
The people along Red river have no way to
communicate with the world, other than by
steamboat. When the river runs low, as it ^
always does in summer, the condition of affairs
among the population is best described by the
word "dry." Being without the usual quantity
of reliable news, they of course have an
immense amount that is not reliable. "Grapevine"
dispatches, I believe, is the name for it.
In hitrh water. steamhnats nass from Shreve
a~ ' i
port to New Orleans in three or four days, or
even less. The distance is seven hundred
, miles, and of course half a hundred stoppages.
In low water, however, boats have been out a
month. At such times, with provisions exhausted,
whisky out, the boats stuck on a
sand-bar, and nothing for the passengers to ,
live upon but hope and Red river water?at
such times, I say, a man might, if he was
standing around, hear a trifle of profanity.
; Nemo.