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J> craps and darts.
Several prominent merchants in Memphis,
Tennessee, have been recently arrested
for alleged violation of the enforcement act.
There is too much dry weather. A
great deal of rain is due the United States and
it is feared that the draft will be honored "in
heap" some of these mornings.
The lady who was married in a balloon
in Cincinnati the other day, has since shown
how it affected her by blowing up her husband
higher than a kite.
The diptheria epidemic is making
alarming progress in New York, fifty deaths
from this disease having occurred there last
week, principally among children, between
the ages of four and fifteen years.
A lady wants to know what is the
meaning of "ante" and "pass the buck."
iier matrimonial companion uses it in his
dreams, and she is afraid it indicates typhoid
fever.
It was a neck-and-neck contest between
the democracy of Ohio aud Indiana as to
which should give the largest majority on the
State ticket. The official count shows that
Ohio won by a few votes: Ohio, 17,202; Indiana,
17,068.
"My dear boy," said a fond aunt to a
very fast-living nephew, "don't you know
that in leadiug this irregular life you are
shortening your days ?" "It's quite possible
that I may be shortening my days, but, then,
look how I lengthen my nights," was the reply.
On the Araoor river they have a queer
plan of performing capital executions. They
give the culprit Chinese braudy until he becomes
unconscious, and then they bury him
alive. Before he recovers consciousness he is,
of course, smothered by the earth, and so it is
a merciful plan.
It has been estimated that if the population
of London goes on increasing at its
present rate it will exceed five million by the
end of the century, and that should it continue
at the same rate during the next century,
by the year 2000 it will have reached the
enormous aggregate of twenty-five millions of
inhabitants.
Georgia is a Democratic State. She
has now two Democratic United States Senators
and nine Democratic members of Congress,
a Democratic Governor, Treasurer,
Comptroller, and Secretary of State; a State
Senate with oue Republican in it; a House
with only five Republicans out of nearly two
hundred members; and a Democretic Mayor
to every city.
In view of the recent Democratic victories,
the Washington Chronicle says: "Probably
a majority of the States will be represented
by Democratic delegations in Congress,
rendering it necessary for the Republicans
to elect the next President by the popular
vote or permit the National Government
to go into the hands of the Democracy after
the 7th of March, 1877."
Commissioner Eaton's annual report
on education shows that there is a lamentably
large number of children in this country who
do not attend school. His estimate is that
there are 10,228,900 of boys and girls, between
six and sixteen years of age in the United
States, and there are more than a million
and a half of these, who are entirely destitute
of educational advantages.
According to tha Natchez Democrat, a
dismissed colored grand juryman soliloquized :
"I don't un'stand this bisness. Looks to me
like natural for a man what's in trouble to
git his friends on de grand jury if he kin. I
reckon if de old Jedge himself was in a tight
place and he had to go 'fore de grand jury,
he'd be mighty glad to have his friends on
dar."
A S5,000 verdict against the sheriff of
Mecklenburg county in favor of the Carolina
Central Railroad, was rendered in the Federal
court at Statesville last week. The suit
was brought against the Sheriff for the seizure
of 70 tons of railroad iron under executions
iu 1119 nanus in lavwi ui ouuu&j vi tuiwis v*
the Carolina Central R. R., (known at the
time as the Wilmington, Charlotte & Rutherford
R. R. Co.)
Beast Butler inaugurated his campaign
by bitterly assailing the South and declaring
that rebellion was not crushed out, and he
must be sent to Congress to complete reconstruction.
"If I am not elected," said he,
"such a howl will be sent up from rebeldora
as has not been heard since secession." It
appears however that his constituents judged
that he had reaped sufficient glory from war
in the past, and so they put him on the retired
list. And a howl of joy is indeed rising
from all rebeldom.
The Elmira (New York) Advertiser
says: "Mr. Henry B. Fitch, of this city,
contemplates a monument to the memory of
Confederate dead, to be placed at Woodlawn
Cemetery, in this city. It is to be of artificial
stone, twenty feet in height, a single shaft
supported by a plinth, base and sub-base, not
possessing much, if any ornamentations, but
being of graceful proportions and noticeable
on many accounts. On one face are the inscriptions
"Requicscat in Pace," "1874," "Erec
ted by a Union Officer in Memory of the Confederate
dead.'"
There is a "war of races" in Europe.
German and Frenchmen do not mingle.
Schools and hotels in common are not always
popular. At Guebwiller, Madame Blanc is
the owner and hostess of a hotel. Some Germans
applied for lodging. Madame would
have taken them, but her other boarders were
Alsatians, dyed deep in French prejudices,
and they threatened to leave if the Germans
were admitted. So Madame refused. She
had a perfect right to do so if she did not keep
a regular inn. But one of the Germans in
authority thought differently. So he wrote
and threatened to close the establishment.
They want a civil rights bill in Alsace-Lorraine.
From Furope come the rumors or various
clashings. Prussia and Russia are said
to be at odds; a Spanish vessel has fired into
a French steamer; Austria is at loggerheads
with the Porte; France is arming, and Germany,
every now and then insults her, just to
keep her blood up; the Italian Minister
of Foreign Affairs declared, in his speech
the other day, "the existence of a party in
Europe hostile to Italy;" Denmark bears no
good will to Prussia, and the Schleswig question
is still unsettled. And yet, when war
comes?as come it will?not one of these problems
will, in all probability, enter into the
cause. These little irritabilities only keep
the nation in a fighting humor?they are in
the nature of the banderillas in a Spanish bull
fight.
Says the Washington Chronicle : The
fact that the Democracy will control the organization
of the next House of Representatives,
has brought into active labor a large
number of candidates for the various positions
Ko filial hv the maioritv of that body.
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The amount of patronage, however, is so small,
and the applicants so numerous,that the prospect
of a large number being grievously disappointed
is quite imminent. The places to
be filled are as follows: The Clerk of the
House has forty-seven persons on his rolls ;
the Sergeant-at-Arms three; the Doorkeeper
twenty-six, and the Postmaster ten ; there are
twenty-eight committee clerks; total, one hundred
and fourteen, which will enable the
Democratic J louse to reward three Democrats
in each State in the Union.
A party of ladies and gentlemen recently
paid a visit to the camp of the few survivors
of the Modoc tribe. The Indians were
found to be quite contented, though their
reservation is very scanty and some of their
lodges are very comfortless. Bogus Charlie is
now recognized as chief; is intelligent, speaks
English fluently, and can read slowly. Capt.
Jack's young widow, Lizzie, has ceased to
mourn for her late lord, and, having washed
the black paint from her face, looks no more
unconsolable than some "pale-faced widow of
a year's standing." Two ladies of the visiting
! party had the novel experience of playing a '
i game of croquet with Bogus Charlie and
Sognostie Jim, each of the Modoc9 having a ',
| lady partner. It seems that even the stoicism i
of the man i9 not proof against the excitement,
of the balls and mallet. And thus these red '
warriors, who so long defied the power of the ;'
nation, find amusement in croquet, and their 1
l chief occupation in making baskets and shoot- i
j ing at nickels at the Neosho fair. .
j There is a curious prescription in Eng- (
j land for the cure of drunkenness, by which ! i
I thousands are said to have b6en. assisted in
recovering themselves. The recipe came into i'
notoriety through the efforts of John Vine '
Hall, father of Rev. Newman Hall and Capt. i >
Vine Hall, commander of the Great Eastern ' i
steamship. He had fallen into such habitual . ]
drunkenness that his utmost efforts to regain j {
himself proved unavailing. At length he,
sought the advice of an eminent physician,
who gave him a prescription which he follow- !
ed faithfully for several months, and at the end 1
of that time he had lost all desire for liquors, although
he had for many years been led cap- i
tIttq hir o mrtot dehnsinor annefite. The recine. c
"J ~ ? ?b-ri 1 * <
which he afterwards published, and by which {
so mauy have been assited to reform, is as
follows : "Sulphate of iron, 5 grains ; magnesia,
10grains; peppermint water, 11 grains ; J
spirit of nutmeg, 1 drachm ; to be taken twice 2
a day." This preparation acts as a tonic and s
stimulant, and so patly supplies the place of j
the accustomed liquor, and prevents that ab- ,
solute physical and moral prostration that {
follows a sudden breaking off from the use of .
stimulating drinks.
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^orkuille Ghiqtiirct.;
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SIMPLICITY.
Complication, as a general thing, tends to
weakness. It may be said that in the works
of nature there is great complexity. This is j
true and it is not true. All the works of nature,
in themselves, are exceedingly simple ; j
but on account of theobtuseness of the beholder
many of them appear complex. There is
a beauty and eloquence in simplicity which
cannot be in complication. Those books
ivhicli havedone the most to mould the minds
af men, are those which are simple in their
language and simple in their style. Before
r... !n.1in!/liio1 nan ii'nilo nnnn <i Qll)iior>t ill II
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simple and ensily-to-be-understood manner,
be must first understand it thoroughly. The
same remark applies to conversation. The
man who can talk about a subject in plain,
simple language, gives evidence that he knows
ivhat he is talking about.
On the contrary, those men who resort to
musual words and make use of an affected
style in conversation, do so because they are
;alking about something which they do not
inderstand. One of the characteristics of
(American writers and speakers, is that they
ire bombastic in the use of words, and their
style is fustian. A large number of our people
come to the conclusion that the man is
tot learned who can sit down and write an
irticle or get up and deliver a speech that can
ie understood by boys and girls. This is a
;rand mistake. Any man who can write or
speak at all, can write an article or make a
ipeech that neither children nor men can unlerstand.
To do this, brass and not brains is
equired. The reputation of not a few men is
lue, with a large number of men, to the obicurity
in which they cover up every thing
U/-... M.mtn \r ii 111 f 11 iloa lira onrnntnrprl
,ucjr oajr VI nnw. mu . v. ^ -
with public speakers because they made long
speeches and said nothing that they could unitand;
whilst many a poor fellow has been
hissed because he followed the advice of Ro-.
bert Burns and
Aye free ofl'hand his story told
When \vi* a bosom crony.
Simplicity applies not only to what we say
and write, but also to what we do. In the
manners and customs of what are called civilized
people, there is a something, a stiffness,
which is really painful. It is difficult to understand
how some practices ever become incorporated
into the customs of sensible people.
They, so far from contributing to the
comfort of those who practice them, are a
source of great and untold pain and inconvenience.
We are, by a kind of sympathy,
pained when we read of the extreme smallness
of a China-woman's feet, and of the process
by which it is effected. Incited by the dictates
of common sense, we pronounce the
whole thing a barbarous monstrosity.
Are not the high heeled shoes and painfully
delicate waists of American ladies just
as injurious to health and simplicity, to say
nothing about the burlesque on the handiwork
of nature, which such a spectacle presents ?
Do not those high heels look as if the fair
poung Miss was attempting to make her way
through the world on stilts? And does not
the finical smallness to which some ladies reduce
their waists, seem as if they were attempting
to convert themselves into a dirtdauber
? This is a delicate subject, and someoody
may get mad ; but suicide is a painful
thing, whether it be committed by tying one
md of a large rope around the neck, aud the
other end to the limb of a tree and swinging off
into raid-air, or by crushing the ribs with a
small cord. The force of fashion is only
i?n kmr lio aKcntvlifv TIllR 1Q
:vjuaicu ijj no uuiuujivuu ...w .w
demonstrated fully by the practice of the
most civilized and enlightened people on
earth. An Knglish gentleman adheres to the
same fashion in dress at the tropics, that prevail
in his own damp, foggy native land. Beneath
a vertical sun, he does not consider himself
dressed unless clad in jet black woolen
material. Sweating and suffocation is far less
disagreeable than a slight deviation from fashion.
All this is foolish and highly injurious.
No wonder men and women are becoming,
year after year, weak and pale. Fashion, like
a hereditary disease, is destroying their vitality.
The bones and muscles of their bodies are
crushed and distorted and premature death is
courted by deviating from the simplicity of
nature. If men and women would be men and
women in the proper sense of the word, they
must be simple.
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The Legislature of this State will meet on
Tuesday, 24th instant.
? The Port Royal Railroad is carrying pasaonirprs
nt the rate of three Gents Der mile.
? The next meeetingof the Synod of South
Carolina is to be held at Yorkville, on the 4th
day of next November.
? It is estimated that near 500 white men
in Greenville county failed to vote in the recent
election.
? Governor Moses has issued a proclamation
appointing B. D. Townsend, W. B. Smith,
W. D. Mars, G. W. Melton and S. J. Lee,
members of the State Board of Equalization
for the year 1874.
? The fifty-fourth session of the Baptist
Stntn Convention of South Carolina will be
held with the Baptist Church at Chester, on
Wednesday before the last Sabbath in November,
which will be the 25th day of the
month.
? A little girl, by the name of Maggie Castens,
was playing with an empty champagne
bottle, in Charleston, on the 6th, when she
fell down, broke the bottle, cutting her throat
with the fragments. The jugular vein was
severed, and she died in a few moments.
? J. B. Harrington, who murdered his wife
in Columbia, near two months since, and at
the same time attempted to take his own life,
escaped from jail on Wednesday morning of
last week, between three and four o'clock.
The Governor has offered a reward of $500
for his apprehension.
? A despatch from Columbia to the Greenville
News, says that Judge Cooke of the
eighth circuit is favorably spoken of as the
successor of Judge Graham in the first , judi*
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cial district. It is possible ttiac o. r. xveeo,
Esq., who declared for Chamberlain in the
recent election, may succeed Judge Cooke in
the eighth circuit.
? The Columbia Union-Herald of Monday
last says: "Judge Mackey, of the sixth cir- j
cuit, has decided that the boards of county
commissioners in the several counties of the
State having been elected on the 19th of October,
1872, and their term of office, accord-!
ing to section 19 of article 4 of the constitu-,
tion, being for two years, their term of office
expired on the 19th of October, 1874, and
they are, therefore, de functus officio. According
to this decision, there will be no board of
county commissioners in this State until those
which have just been elected shall have qualified
and entered into office. The case came
before Judge Mackey last Wednesday, on a
complaint for an injunction to restrain the
board of county commissioners of Chester
county from granting a license for the sale of
liquor. The board of county commissioners
of that county have accepted the decision and
retired from office."
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Jacob Shuford, an aged and worthy citi- j
zen of Catawba county, was accidentally
drowned in a creek on bis plantation, last week.!
? The Gieensboro Patriot says the Rich-j
mond and Danville Railroad Company have
purchased a tract of land near that town, for
the purpose, as it is rumored, of building extensive
machine and repair shops.
? The Salem Press says: G. M. Mathes, of
the Winston Sentinel, and N. S. Cook, Senator
elect from Stokes and Forsythe, engaged j
in a tussel in Winston, on Saturday last. Mr. j
W. A. Walker, while endeavoring to part the '
belligerents, had his nose smashed.
? The Charlotte fair closed last Friday.
We have not seen an extended notice of the
articles on exhibition, but learn from the
Raleigh News that the racing has been of a
. ? a A! .1 Ti ii.A
most interesting cnnracier. n is me mien-i
tion of the stockholders of the Association to j
make the track a mile in length before another
year, and to invite the best horses in i
the country to the races.
? The body of Mrs. Christina Heartel, in-11
terred about 12 months ago near Selem, wa9 I
disinterred a few days since, and a post mor-j
tern, examination held to see whether or not
she was poisoned. An inquest was held, and
Dr9. Shoflner and Siewers made the test, and
upon their sworn evidence the jury returned i
a verdict of "death from natural causes."
The investigation wa9 made at the instance
of her son, who it seems had conversed with
the spirit of his mother through the medium
of "spirit rapping," aud was informed by her j
of the poisoning.
? Says the Fayetteville Eagle: "The prospects
of Fayetteville have never been brighter
since the war than at present. The early
completion of the Florence Railroad is as- 1
sured, and with it must come a large and lucrative
trade from a class of customers, than
whom there are no better to be found in the
State. The natural trading place of the country
that this road will penetrate is Fayetteville,
and however lively the competition for
this trade may be it will most surely come
here. Then the factories will most certainly
Ko roKmlf nn/1 oil tho nr?Mt*tr anrl KiiqHp c\f
ante-bellum times will return."
? The Charlotte Observer says: Mr. McDuffie
Arledge, of this city was beaten in a
brutal manner, Thursday afternoon, by one
of the scoundrels who are holding forth at the
fairgrounds. The fellow is the proprietor of
a side show of some description or other, and
his wife is traveling with him. Mr. Arledge
went to the show, and while there made some
playful remark to the woman, which olfended
her husband. He went off, and returning in
a few moments, crept up behind Mr. Arledge
and struck him a powerful blow on the right
side of his head with a bludgeon, knocking
him down and rendering him senseless. When
some of his friends arrived he was lying on
the ground, literally covered with blood. He
was put into a conveyance aud carried home.
The wound is a very serious one, but whether
it is likely to prove fatal or not we do not
know. His skull was fractured. The man
who inflicted the wound secreted himself, and
has not yet been apprehended.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The New York Democracy.
On Thursday evening, the Democracy
of New York city passed resolutions congratulating
the Democratic party throughout
the Union on the magnificent victory achieved
by the late elections. Among the speakers
were Hon. Samuel J. Tilden, Governor elect,
Thurman, of Ohio, Bayard, of Delaware, and
Eaton, of Connecticut. A summary of Mr.
Tildeu's remarks is given as follows :
He set out by congratulating the people of
the State on the Democratic victory?a victory
the beneficent results of which no party
and no class can appropriate. He advocated
the good old principles of hard money and
houestdealing, the repression of the thieves in
Washington, whose thefts far exceed those
that so much startled New York, and he denounced
the crimes perpetrated against the
American people in the South. With the
blessing of God, those who had stood up so
long for the true principles of republican government
would persevere until they achieved
a complete restoration of the original principles
of Thomas Jefferson for the Government
of the United States. For ten years or more
we had the name of peace, but at no time the
substance of peace. We had to confront an
administration that trafficked on public calamities,
and to contend with a financial policy
that threw everything into confusion. Now
the bubble is broken ; inflation fails to inflate,
and nothing remains but the good Democratic
principles of hard money. He considered
this election and its issues the most important
since that of Jefferson in 1800. In conclusion,
he again congratulated his audience on
the recent importaut victory.
On a similar occasion, in Atlanta, Georgia,
Senator Gordon concluded a speech by an appeal
for continued prudence and forbearance,
which, lie said, were the Christianity of all
politics. He said: "One boon I ask in this
hour of your deliverance. I ask you to commission
me, in your name, to pledge, upon the
floor of the Senate, your fidelity to this Union
under the Constitution ; your acquiescence in
the laws passed in accordance with the Constitution,
good or bad, until lawfully repeal
ed ; your support of all rightful authority;
your cordial friendship for every man and all
men of all sections who will aid in restoring
peace to the sections, justice to the States, liberty
to the citizens, purity to all the departments
of the government, and the Constitution :
to its supremacy over Presidents, Congress, i
and parties and people. [Loud cheers.] 11
thank you, my countrymen, for that response. I
You are as temperate in triumph as you are
great in adversity. You cherish malice to j
none, and are hostile only to thieves, usurpers,
and tyrants."
TOO MUCH COTTON.
It is stated in the October monthly report1
of the Department of Agriculture, that it is ;
estimated there are on the Pacific coast in I
California over 20,000,000 acres of land suit-1
ed to cotton culture, or double the area actu-,
ally employed in the cotton States of the Atlantic
slope and the Mississippi valley. It is
further said that this land, under proper treat- i
ment, may be made to produce from 10,000,-1
000 to 11,000,000 bales of cotton per annum ;i
representing a cash value of about $750,000,- j
000. This statement is, perhaps, highly col-1
orcd. If admitted to be correct, it proves too
much. There is is no use for the annual j
yield of 10,000,000 or 11,000,000 bales of j
cotton, in addition to the crop raised in the :
cotton growing States. As it is, cotton is not '
sold at a remunerating price whenever the
crop is large, say 4,000,000 bales. One cause
now of the depression in the staple is that
goods manufactured from cotton remain un- J
sold, and that manufactories are in consequence
running only on half time. It is possible
that new markets may be found somewhere
where the surplus may be worked off.
The lesson to us of this state of things, and
the prospective opening of more lands for
cotton culture, is to diversify our crops, and
seek to secure independence, by raising every
home supply that we need, and the soil will
produce. The sceptre of king cotton, from
one cause or another, may eventually be '
broken in our hand. We had better, while
it is time, look to other sources of power and t
profit, and above all things develop whatever j
resources we have.? Columbia Pfornix.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
R. II. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Judge of Probate's Sales.
A. Frank Smith?Executor's Sale.
Kennedy, Lattimer A Hemphill?Bacon?Bagging
and Ties?Baskets?Hand Saws.
T. M. Dobson A Co.?Hear what Dobson has to
Say?Halloa, Mr. Jones?On my way to
Pobson'8?Flour?Groceries?Files?Salt.
A. E. Conrad?Notice.
Chas. H. Sackett, Special Commissioner, Appomattox,
Va.?Notice to the Defendants of
Joseph Simmons, deceased.
W. H. A J. P. Herndon.?The great cotton crop
of last year still on hand.
JohnO. Kuykendal.?"Mark the Perfect Man,"?
Benzine?Think of your Head?Rosadalis?
Parker's Bucliii?Drugs?Let Sutferers
Read.
Carroll, Clark A Co.?Fair Warning?Bacon?Just
Arrived?Sugar and Coffee? Cheese? Bag
ging rum 1 ic.s?canned wooas?ouinng <>u
at Cost?Hoots and Shoes?Hats?ReadyMade
Clothing.
M. Strauss it Son.?Now is your time to Invest.
J. VV. P. Hope.?Notice.
DR. REYBOLD.
This young gentleman, who for the past
three years has been connected with the hospital
at this post, for the purpose of perfecting
his medical education by the practice and
such other facilities as a hospital affords, left
Yorkville yesterday morning, his terra of service
having expired. It is his intention, we
learn, to locate in Raleigh, N. C.
FINE ESCULENTS.
During the past week, we have been favored
with quite a number of fine specimeus of j
farm produce?among them a seven-pound
turnip presented by Mr. D. A. A. Watson,
residing near Clay Hill; and also by Mr. J.
L. Parish, who lives near town, with a basket
of fine turnips and sweet potatoes. The potatoes
were unusually large and fine. Our
farmers seem to be devoting more attention
than heretofore to these important crops, and
the results, we are sure, will prove the most
satisfactory.
REDUCTION OF THE ARMY.
The impression prevails with many, and
among others the newspapers at Washington,
flinf Un ont nf tkn loof fVnrrroQa a o>f?nprftl rP
tllUl/ IJ J UUt VI l/UV 1WOV vuti^l WW) Mr gvMwawa v
rluction of the army is now in progress. Some
men of this post having been mustered out of
service last week, on applying to Capt. Hyer
to learn if it was done in accordance with
the act above referred to, that officer informed
us that there is no act in force reducing the
army, though Congress made appropriation
for only 25,000men, while the rolls were considerably
in excess of that number. By orders
issued in July, recruiting has been temporarily
suspended, but no reduction is being
made in the army except by casualty or expiration
of enlistments.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
On Tuesday night last, Charles Kane, a
discharged soldier, and two negroes named
Joseph Goforth and Charles Howie, were
committed to jail by Trial Justice Williams
on a charge of highway robbery. It seems
that on Monday night, or early Tuesday
morning, the above parties met near the railroad
depot an itinerant piano tuner named
McGrath, whom they assaulted and robbed.
McGrath was badly beaten, and after he was
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stripped ot nis snoes ana me money iu ma
pocket taken, bis assailants placed him, in
his helpless condition, under the platform of
the depot building. Fortunately, the occurrence
was wituessed by one or two youths
who, though unable to interfere, gave information
to the proper authorities which led to
the prompt arrest and commitment of the
guilty parties.
MR. CHEEK'S MURDERER.
In the Superior Court of Lincoln county,
N. C., on Tuesday of last week, R. A. Owens
was put on trial for the murder of John W.
Cheek, of this county. Owens was in the eraploy
of Mr. Cheek, and during a trip the two
were making with a wagon, while in Gaston
county, N. C., as is alleged, Owens murdered
Mr. Cheek for the purpose of robbery. He
escaped and went to Tennessee, in which
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i"5UUe ne was arresieu unu iciuiucu vjuauun
county, and from that county had his trial
moved to Lincoln. The prisoner was defended
by Col. John F. Hoke and W. A. Hoke,
and the prosecution was conducted by Messrs.
Moore and Sandifer and ex-Governor Vance.
The evidence closed on Wednesday, and the
case was argued in the afternoon. On the
same night the jury returned a verdict of
guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to be
hanged on the 27th of November, instant.
An appeal was taken, and the case will come
up before the Supreme Court in January next.
THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION.
We have been unable to procure complete
returns of the Congressional vote in this district.
The following reported majorities of
each candidate in the respective counties are
thought to be correct:
Wallace. Kershaw.
Fairfield, 1549
Chester, 1251
Lancaster, 22
Spartanburg, 1149
Greenville, 439
York, 575
Union 198
Kershaw, 381
Mita i/of)
1786
Wallace's majority, 1972
Solomon L. Hoge is elected in the third
district, and Robert Smalls in the fifth. The
result in the first and second districts can only
be determined after full returns are received.
L. C. Carpenter has been elected in the third
district to fill the vacancy in the forty-third
Congress, occasioned by the resignation of
Elliott.
TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.
The following are the transfers of real estate
recorded in the office of the County Auditor
since our last report:
S. G. Hemphill to Jane E. Clinton. Tract
of 64 acres in Bethesda township. Consideration
8100.
A. F. Love to John E. Love. Tract of
107acres in King's Mountain township. Consideration
$500.
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to D. M. Hall. Tract
of 141 acres in Kings's Mountain township.
Consideration $282.
G. R. Boleyn and wife to Thaddeus Boleyn.
Lot of 6 acres in King's Mountain
township. Consideration $32.
Allen and Iredell Jones to Ann White.
Tract of 37 acres in Catawba township. Consideration
$400.
Wm. Wallace to Mary N. Sirarill. Tract
of 41 acres in Ebenezer township. Consider- j
ation $290.
S. D. Simrill to Mary N. Sirarill. Tract [
of 51 acres in Ebenezer township. Consider- j
ation $205.
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to Alex. Stewart.
Tract of 196 acres in York township. Con-i
sideration $361.
H. F. Adickes to John J. Dunlap. Tract
of 117 acres in Bethcsda township. Consideration
$351.
PROPOSALS FOR MAIL SERVICE.
The post-office department advertises that
proposals will be received at the contract of-,
fice of the department, until 3 o'clock, p. ra., |
of February 1st, 1875, for carrying the mails
of the United States, from July 1st, 18/0, to
June 30, 1876, in York county, as follows:
From Yorkville, by Hickorv Grove, Etta Jane,
Smith's Ford, Hopewell, ami Limestone Springs,
i ?la
to Spurt nil burg, C. H., 56i miles and back, once a
week. Bond required with bid, SriOO.
From Yorkville, by Blairsville, Bullock's \
Creek, Pinckneyville,'Union and Cross Keys,
to Cross Anchor! 53$ miles and back, once a week. |
Bond required with bid, ?500.
From Yorkville, by Bethany, Antiooh, Whitaker
and Swangstown, N. C., to Shelby, and back I
by Slice's Shoals, Black's Station, Clark's Fork, j
S! C., and Grand Hill, to Yorkville, equal to .KJj
miles and back, once a week. Bond required with
bid, 84(H).
From Yorkville, by New Centre, (n. o.) Crowder's
Creek, N. C., (n. o.) and Pleasant Kidge, (n.
o.) to Gastonia, 23 miles and back, once a week.
Bond required with bid, 8-'?X).
From Yorkville, by Allison Creek, Bethel,and
Zeno, to South Point, N. C., 20 miles and back, ,
once a week. Bona required wiui uui,
From Roek Hill, by Waxhaw to Lancaster, (!.
H., 25 miles and back, once a week. Bond required
with bid, $300.
The decisions of the department will be announced
on or before the 8th of March, 1875.
Further particulars may be obtained by applying
to the postmaster at Yorkville.
STATE ELECTIONS-COMPARATIVE VOTE.
I 1870. (I 1874.
1 ' I
COUNTIES. Rep. ,Dem. Rep. Dem.
(3*2.) maj. maj. ; inaj. ! maj.
|
I 1 ; I
Abbeville, 1101 . 16444
Aiken, New j 84
Anderson, : 393; 700
Barnwell, 1003 1477
Beaufort ! f>141 2700
Charleston, j <>421 2500
Chester 13:18 126(1
Chestertield, ...i 147 100
Clarendon, 772
Colleton j 2289 : 1300
Darlington, j 1175 || 1881:
Edgefield, j 843, 'j :
Fairfield, ! 1509! 1544
Georgetown 2199 1 500
Greenville,.! 1 j 3951 1 415
Horry, ! 407 ! 692
Kersnaw, 847; I 719
Lancaster, ' 232j 29
Laurens, i 1055 !| 1200j
Lexington, 541 j | 164
Marion I 189' I 207
Marlboro ! 304! '! 5231
Newberry, i 1270; i| 1655
Oconeo, 1 273; | 656
Orangeburg, 2104 i 2000(
Pickens, i 163]
Richland, 2118] j 2300
Spartanburg, i 500; ( 1117
Sumter, I 2589! ! 3300
Union, ! 118 1 1 187
Willjamsburg, ! <>39 I 1098;
York | 513 5131
Total, ! 36330 2808 1 22453' 100:18
10038
Republican majority so far 12415
Clarendon, Edgefield and Pickens are still
to be heard from. The official report may
change the result, but not materially.
THE ELECTIONS LAST WEEK.
On Tuesday of last week elections were
held in the States of'Alabama, Arkansas,
Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada,
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode
T?l-?^ Pn frtlinO TnnnoflooD ToVflQ
JLSIUIiUj UUU111 vat uiint*j AV/ii4ivoo\.W) Avai?wj
Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, and the Territories
of Arizona, Idaho and Washington.
The result of the elections is unexampled in
our history, and the surprise by which it has
taken the most wary politicians is only equaled
by the overwhelming defeat of the Republican
party. A review of the election, as exhibited
by the returns, gives the following as the result
:
Alabama gives a Democratic majority of
from six to teu thousand, electing Democratic
Legislature and State officers, and five Democratic
Congressmen, being a gain of three
Democrats in Congress.
Arkansas elects a full Democratic delegation
to Congress. The delegation heretofore
has been three Republican and one Independent
Republican.
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JJeiaware eiecis me juemocrauc ncaei
throughout.
Florida elects Republicans to Congress?
Wm. J. Purruan and Josiah T. Walla?who
are present members. The Democrats have
a majority of twenty in the Legislature.
Georgia, which is entitled to a representation
of nine Congressmen, elects the entire
Democratic ticket, being a gain of two.
Illinois elected State Treasurer, Superintendent
of Instruction, Members of Congress and
Legislature. Of the Congressional delegation
eleven are Democrats, being a gain of six.
The complexion of the Legislature is as follows
: Senate?Republicans,45 ; Democrats,
23 ; Independents, 3. House?Republicans,
67 ; Democrats, 64; Independents, 22. Taking
the Congressional vote as a basis for estimate,
the Democratic majority in Illinois will
reach 15,000.
Kansas reelects Osborne, Republican, Governor,
and also a Republican delegation to
Congress, by an average majority of 10,000
against 32,000 two years ago.
Kentucky voted tor members of Congress,
and elected a full Democratic delegation.
The Louisiana delegation in Congress will
probably stand five Democrats to one Republican.
Maryland elects a full Democratic delegation,
being a gain of two.
Massachusetts elects a Democratic Governor
by 7000 majority. The Republicans elect
the balance of the State ticket. The State is
entitled to eleven Congressmen, of whom the
Democrats elect three, and the Independent
Republicans one. In the sixth district Butler
is defeated by 1500, his successor being
Charles P. Thompson, Democrat. Dr. Ayer,
the famous patent medicine man, is defeated
in the seventh district by John K. Tarbox,
Democrat.
In Michigan the voting is close. Bagley,
Republican, is supposed to be elected Gover
nor by a majority of 1000. The Congressional
delegation, which has heretofore been Republican,
will probably stand five Republicans
and four Democrats.
In Minnesota the contest was between Republicans
and Anti-Monopolists. The Republicans
claim the Legislature by 18 majority
on joint ballot, which is about the same
political complexion as last year.
In Missouri the Democratic majority is estimated
at from 30,000 to 40,000. The Congressional
delegation will be entirely Democratic?a
gain of four members.
Nevada claims a Republican Congressman
by 400 majority.
New Jersey elects a Democratic Legislature,
thus securing a Democratic Senator.
The Congressional delegation stands five Democrats
and two Republicans.
New York, according to the latest estimates,
elects 16 Republican Congressmen, 16 Democratic,
and 1 Independent Republican. Tilden,
Democrat, is elected Governor, by 44,000
majority, and the Assembly will stand 8 majority
on joint ballot.
In Pennsylvania, Latta, Republican, is elected
Governor by a small majority. In the
Legislature, the Democrats have a majority
of one on joint ballot. The Congressional
delegation stands 16 Democrats and 11 Republicans.
Rhode Island elects Republican Congress- j
men.
In Tennessee, Maynard, Republican, is
beaten for Governor by from 40,000 to 45,000.
The Legislature will have nine Republicans
in the two houses. The Congressional delegation
will be Democratic. In the last Cougress
the State was represented by seven Republicans
and three Democrats.
Texas voted only for Congressmen?returning
a full Democratic representation of six j
members.
Virginia elects 7 Democrats to Congress j
and one Republican, being a gain of three j
Democrats.
In Wisconsin the Republican majority is
6000. The Legislature is Republican on 1
joint-ballot. The Democrats claim three
Congressmen.
The elections give the Democrats a majority
of 77 in the House of Representatives, while
the Republican majority in the Senate is reduced
to eight, and will possibly be further
reduced to six. '
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
FROM CHESTER.
Chester, Nov. 5, 1874.
The election day at this place passed off
with remarkable quietness. General good
humor prevailed, and notwithstanding the
great interest manifested in the election by
both sides, no disturbance occurred. The
good order that existed throughout the day
was an evidence of the fact that the people of
this county can manage their affairs without
the presence or interference of government
troops. Whatever Radical orators or writers
may say, we are not such ueapiauuco
"bugaboos" as they would have the world believe
us to be. "
The result of the late election shows that
the negroes are beginning to have some sense.
While in the county, where their ignorance is
impenetrable, they voted in solid phalanx the
Republican ticket, in town a considerable
number voted with the Conservatives. This
difference is also to be attributed, in a great
measure, to the effort put forth in the town,
and ths apathy manifested in the county.
Our merchants closed their stores, business
was generally suspended, and the Conservatives
in town worked with an energy and will
that was delightful to behold; but in the
county indifference ruled the hour, and as a
consequence no effort was made to stem the
tide of ignorance, and divert it into a proper
channel. The impression that was made here
upon the colored vote can by no manner of
means be attributed to intimidation. Even
"Honest John" Patterson, who in a very inflammatory
speech at this place on last Saturday,
expatiated to an extraordinay extent
on the subiect of intimidation, had he been
(>
present, could not have the impudence to resort
to this way of accounting for the one hundred
negro votes that were polled for the Conservative
ticket at this point. They voted according
to their own will and pleasure, and
none can truthfully deny this declaration.
The number of colored people cooperating
with the whites might have been increased by
still greater effort on the part of the latter;
and I believe that as the virtue that lies in
work has been tested, the election of 1874 will
tell a tale that will astonish our opponents.
The members of the various tax-unions of
this county, through their representatives,
met at this place on Monday last. A very
significant resolution was adopted, viz: that '
the tax-payers of this county be requested not
to pay their taxes until after the 1st Monday
in December. This resolution was based upon
the refusal to receive the abstract of the late
Auditor by the Comptroller-General, and the
appointment of the present Auditor, James
M. Brawley. Some ugly rumors are current
in regard to a supposed scheme of the plunderers
at Columbia to raise the assessment of
property in this county, and thus by the assistance
of confederates at this place, fill their
pockets at the expense of the tax-payers. A
committee has been appointed by the county
tax-union to make a strict examination into
all matters appertaining to taxation in this
county, and report at another meeting. The
tax-payers of this county remember, and will
always remember, those who planned, and
those who assisted in carrying out the infamous
scheme, whereby they were swindled last
year out of their mouey?the hard-earned
fruit of their labors. The tax-payers are determined
that rascality shall be exposed, and
the perpetrators held up to the scorn of decent
men for all future time.
On Monday last, the "Walker lauds," lying
within a few miles of town, were sold and *
brought excellent prices. The bidding for
these valuable lands, which were divided into
tracts, was quite spirited, recalling to the mind
of your correspondent the palmy days of the
past. Dr. A. H. Davega bought a tract of
thirty-five or forty acres for which he gave
839.50 per acre. Dr. A. P. Wylie bought a
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iract 01 HUOUL me OUlliC IJUUIUCI in tuna, iui
which hegave 833 per acre. A large number
of tracts were sold at prices ranging between
820 and 840 per acre. This is abundant evidence
of the fact that "there is life in the old
land yet."
The string band of this place, of which Mr.
Brenecke is the leader, gave a concert last
evening at the Court House, which is pronounced
by all who were present to have been
a grand success. Mr. Schorb acted the negro
character to perfection. Qui.
THE ELECTIONS LAST WEEK.
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
[New York World, Dem.]
Grant's pretorian phalanx has been broken.
His "Third Term" banner has been captured
and reversed for a scoff and a hissing. The
hiimmpru nf his armv. the snoilers of the South.
have been compelled to slacken their held
when the prey has been wrested from their
teeth. The political sorcerers discover that
Mortonism has lost its power for a delusion of
the defenders of the Republic?the people at
the ballot box. Yet this is only the first great
battle in a long campaign. It is won triumphantly.
Yet there are others to be won.
Victory has been tied, with all her garlands
on, to the standards of the Democracy by
faithful hands which have successfully planted
those standards in the forefront of this great
battle. It is a victory for free trade; a victory
for hard money; a victory for home rule.
The news of the defeat of Butler is strange.
Everybody has been accustomed to regard
"Butler's District" as a sort of pocket borough,
any intrusion into which of rival pretensions
Butler was certain to punish with severif.v
Of ermrse we are triad of his aneres
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sor;a vote and voice, yet we are sorry to lose
Butler, not merely because his election will
eclipse the gayety of nations, as it undoubtedly
will, but because Butler was the representative
of a class and of a public opinion which
need to be taken account of.
[New York Times, Rep.]
The result of the elections yesterday in this
and other Eastern States will not be a surprise
to anybody, except perhaps a few persons
at Washington, and it certainly will not
surprise any of our readers, who have been
kept tolerably well informed as to the causes
which inevitably tended to produce the present
overthrow of the Republican party. All
that could be done honorably to avert this
defeat has been done by us, but since the last
Presidential election, many of the party leaders
have been deaf alike to advice and remonstrance.
They have apparently believed that
the people would quietly submit to anything
and everything, and that the party which
they represented was indestructible. Nothing
short of the events which we record this
morning could have opened their eyes to the
truth. If a newspaper warned them in a
friendly but firm spirit against the policy of
blundering which they were pursuing, it was
treated with a mixture of the insolence and
arrogance which they exhibited toward all
opposition. The immediate friends of the
administration possessed themselves of an
"organ" at Washington, and filled it with disgusting
slanders and with besotted arguments
in favor of General Grant for a "third term."
T i ...Ml it. 1 ^ n C tUrt 13|?noi/4ont f A /^lOAAnAM
XI Will UU 111v 1UL Ul Uic x icoiucuv w uia^yvci, j
iu common with many great men who have J
gone before him, that foolish flatterers and m
venal newspapers cannot turn aside the cur- M
rent of public opinion. The truths which he
and his supporters refused to hear from H
the lips of his friends, they must now listen to- V
day from the people at the polls. That the
Democrats will have a considerable majority
in the next House of Representatives is, so far
as we can judge, settled by yesterday's elec
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