Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, April 29, 1875, Image 2
? (taps and $act$.
The spelling mania has reached Wales,
and the people are urged to come out to the
aunghyfnewidioledigathau.
Ex-Confederate officers of distinction
are to be invited to the reunion of the Grand
* Army of the Republic, which takes place at
Chicago on the 12th of May.
Somebody who has heard of a proposition
to have separate street cars for women,
says that he sees no necessity for it, as he
never had any objections to riding in the
same car with a woman.
A Chicago man closed his testimony in
his action for divorce from his wife as follows:
"I don't want to say anything against the
woman, Judge; but I wish you could live with
her a little while."
A Memphis fortune teller told a man
that a fortune of 830,000 was coming to him
the next week, and he shelled out 850 to his
wife to buy a new suit. When too late he
learned that his wife had fixed the thing with
the old woman.
Mexico is making efforts to raise coffee,
and the State of Colim has exempted from
taxes for the next ten years all young planta
tions, besides offering a premium of five hundred
dollars to the planter who first harvests
five hundred quintals of the aromatic berry.
A Madison county, Illinois, girl has offered
herself as a prize to the one of her four
suitors who outspells the others. The trial is
to take place in the district school-house, and
twenty-five cents admission is to be charged,
the money to go toward furnishing a house for
the young couple.
Such has been the iucrease of business
by the change of gauge ou the Richmond and
Atlanta Air-Line Railroad, that it has been
found necessary to add 100 freight cars to the
rolling stock. The Tredegar Works at Richmond,
Va., is now filling an order for forty
of these cars.
The post-office department at Washington
has recently issued three cent postage
stamps made on a new principle, to prevent
the dishonest custom of washing them in order
to sell them again after having been used.
The paper of which they are made is porous,
and they, absorb the ink from the markingstamps,
thus making it indellible.
A very practical sermonizer made these
remarks on the soul-saving question: "My
brethren, a man cannot afford to lose his soul.
He's got but one, and he can't get another.
If a man lose his horse, he can get another;
if a man lose his wife, he can get another ; if
a man lose his child, he can get another. But
if he lose his soul, good-bye, John."
The work of counting the funds in the
treasurer's office at Washington, before turning
them over to the new treasurer, will occupy
about two weeks. The counting will not
be commenced probably before some time in
June. Including the funds deposited by the
national Kanlro o nrl flio wanomfo n ?*>
uubiviiui vwuoo wuu biiv icociYC) uigaiuuuui/ ut
funds in the custody of the treasurer is in the
neighborhood of a thousand million dollars.
The silverware for the great Palace
Hotel at San Francisco cost 860,000, and
among its features is quite a novelty in the
shape of silver tea caddies, with four compartments
for as many different kinds of tea,
which will be set before the guests at the
table, with scalding water at hand, that
they may help themselves to the leaf and
make their tea after the Chinese fashion.
The grasshoppers have driven more
than seven hundred Methodist Church members
out of South Kansas the present year.
Two churches and three parsonages have been
lost to the church, to say nothing of Sundayschool
teachers and scholars. One grasshoppered
preacher, who has spent thirty years in
the ministry, has received for his work this
year, from the conference $3.24.
It is said that at least forty members of
Congress intend to begin the campaign next
session by protesting, with a view to its total
excision, of the postal clause, which, in the
last hour of the Forty-third Congress, doubled
the rate upon the transmission of newspapers,
pamphlets, books, samples, and other miscellaneous
"third-class" matter sent through the
post-office.
The Georgia Railroad Company has
reduced its fares to three cents a mile, which
action is creating some comment in railroad
circles. A leading director in the Georgia
Company is of the opinion that the reduction
will stimulate travel to such an exteut as to
'materially increase the receipts of the line,
) and this will be accomplished without adding
to the usual expenses.
While we are mourning over the killing
of early vegetation by the untimely
April frosts, it is at least slightly consoling
to be told that what seems to be a uuiversal
calamity has its mitigating features. It will
be found, so western papers say, that this
cold weather so late in the spring is a providential
interposition to kill off the grasshoppers
and the potato bugs, and to rid us
of other vermin. This cheerful view of the
matter may reconcile people to the loss of
strawberries and green peas.
The followiug problem is given for the
delectation of school-boys, or even older persons
who delight in the intricacy and veracity
of figures: Twelve persons stopped at a
hotel over night. On asking for their bill the
next morning they found it to be 812. The
old men paid 84 each, the old women paid 82
each, the young men paid 50 cents each, and
the young women paid 25 cents each. How
many old men, how many young men, how
many old women, how many young women,
were there traveling in this crowd?
The Lyon Republican reports that there
is a farmer in Phelps, Ontario county, New
York, who has on hand the wheat product of
his farm for the past four years, refusing to
sell from time to time, because he believed
wheat was"goiug higher." His granaries and
every available place in his barn and outbuildings
are occupied, and there are piles of
wheat in his garret and elsewhere in his house.
He has "set his stake," he says, and will hold
011 to his wheat until it brings the price he
has named to himself, if "it isn't for forty
years."
The citizens of Brownsville, Texas,
through a special committee of the most prominent
eitizeus, have issued a report declaring '
untrue the alleged statements made by Senor j
Mariscal, Mexican minister at Washington,
to the effect that the border raids are as much j
the work of Americans as Mexicans, and that I
many of them are by ex-Confederates iu the
disguise of Mexicans aud Indians. The com- i
niittee show that no acts have been committed
on Mexican territory, and enumerate many
notorious cases of Mexican raids aud outrages
on this side of the Kio Grande.
On Fridav last a fire broke out in the
blacksmith shop of the steamer John Kyle,
lying at the foot of Poydras street, New Orleans,
and in a few minutes the vessel was
enveloped in flames, which communicated to
two other steamers, and all three were burnt, i
It is estimated that thirty or forty lives were |
lost, including several ladies, who were in the
cabins of the boats when they caught on fire, i
and the loss of property in the destruction of
the boats is thought to be about $50,000.
A convention to take into considera- :
tion the best means for the speedy union of
United States and the Canadian dominions is !
called to assemble at Buffalo, on July 4. The
managers of it expect that three delegates
will be chosen from each congressional district
in the United States, and three delegates
from each parliamentary district in the British
provinces. It is hoped by them that!
through this convention arrangements may
be begun by which the union of the two countries
may be effected by the 4th of July, 1876.
The planters of Georgia are beginning
to consider whether they have not spent too
much latterly in commercial fertilizers. Up
to the first of April the aggregate amount of
guano that passed through Savannah was 5,.-338,614
pounds less than for the same months j
last year, while the figures from Augusta aud
.other-trade points show about the same rates '
of decrease. It is alleged that many of the
commercial fertilizers used iu the South dtfF
iDg the last few years have actually resulted
in serious damage to the land.
? The members and ministers of the various
Presbyterian churches, meeting in Conference
in New York, have adopted aitides of alliance,
which declare their denominational
unity and their tolerance of other religious
bodies. This is in furtherance of the effort
for the proposed confederation of the different
Presbyterian churches, throughout the world,
and of the General Conference to be held iu
Loudon this year. The sort of uuion proposed
is closely analogous to that of the Congregational
Churches. There is to be a grand council,
composed of representatives of the different
Presbyterian churches, which, however,
will have no legislative or judical powers, and
can only make recommendations, which the
churches are at liberty to accept or reject.
The Association of Congregational Ministers
has precisely as much and as little power, but
it has been able to virtually exercise much
of the authority which belongs to a realy
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jy jegisiauve douv. ine rau-i resuyiermu
Council will undoubtedly bring about a unity
of action among \ 0,000,000 of Presbyterians
in America, Europe and Australia which
will incalculably iucrease their power. If
these 70,000,000 can be induced to abstain
from sectarian jealousy and to join in an organized
effort, it will soon be recognized that
a new power has arisen. The confederated
Presbyterian churches will at once become
the chief of the Protestant bodies.
Iht IJorhrUlc inquirer.
YORKVILLE. S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 29,1875.
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? There are thirty-eight prisoners in the
Columbia jail, of whom two are females.
? The earnings of the South Carolina Railroad
during the year 1874, after paying all
expenses, were $515,456.68.
? Daniel McHarn, who resided about two
miles from Spartanburg, aged 106 years, died
one day last week.
? The Press says that in Clarendon county
the corn area has been increased about twenty-five
per cent., and the cotton crop about
twelve per cent.
? A colored man, while engaged in plowing
in a field upon the plantation of Mr. George
\V. Bell, iu Lancaster county, a few days ago,
unearthed the body of an infant child.
? The firm of Walker & Montgomery, ol
Spartanburg, have sold eighteen hundred and
sixty-eight tons of fertilizers during the present
season.
? The News and Courier announces the
death in Charleston, last week, of Mr. Stephen
Owens, who for a number of years was the
business agent of Messrs. $ S. Farrar and
Brothers.
? The band of the 18th infantry left the
post at Columbia on Sunday, by permission
of Col. Black, to play and participate at the
memorial exercises of the Confederate dead
that took place at Augusta, Georgia, last
Monday.
?The railroads from Washington to Charleston,
via Fredericksburg, Richmond, Petersburg,
Weldon, Wilmington, Florence, etc.,
have agreed to return delegates free upon
paying full fare going to the Southern Baptist
Convention, which meets in Charleston on
the 6th of May.
? The citizeus of Greenville have contributed
one hundred and forty-eight dollars to
Capt. H. C. Alley, the Spartanburg detective,
in token of the appreciation of his services in
having captured a number of the scamps who
have been committing depredations in that
and the adjoining counties.
? Constable James A. Jarrett, of Spartanburg,
captured a whisky wagon the other day,
which was recaptured and taken away from
his house by four countrymen on Friday
night, amidst the barking of dogs, the firing
of pistols, the cursing of men and the rattliug
of dry bones.
? The Winnsboro i\ew says tnat iasc weea
Coroner Ruff opened the safe of Sheriff Duval
of Fairfield, who recently absconded from
that county. The safe contained nothing but
a five cent shinplaster of the town of Camden
and a few papers. It is rumored that Duval's
defalcation amounts to about ten thousand
dollars.
? A. W. Hough, colored, has been nominated
as the Republican candidate for Sheriff
of Kershaw county, to supply the vacancy
occasioned by the death of ex-Sheriff Place.
The Camden Journal says the nominee is as
"black as the ace of spades," has filled the
office of couuty auditor and been a member of
the legislature, and is a quiet and well-behaved
man.
? The Postmaster-General advertises that
proposals will be received at the post-office
department, until the 31st day of May, for
carrying the mail, once each week, from July
1st, 1875, to June 30th, 1876, between Yorkville,
S. C., and Charlotte, N. C. It is required
that a bond of four hundred dollars
accompany each bid. The award of the contract
will be made known on or before the
10th day of June.
? The Reporter records the following incident,
which recently occurred at Blackstocks,
in Chester county : A railroad passenger, a
northern man, seeing Charles Boulware, a
colored man who lost his leg in the service
of the railroad company, toiling at the plow,
gave him a dollar as a tokeu of the northern
man's appreciation of pluck and energy.
There was in this act, though small, more
real, practical philanthropy than in forty
columns of howling about the rights and
wrongs of "the poor negro."
? On the 21st of July?the fourteenth anniversary
of the first battle of Manassas?
there will be a re-uniou of the survivors of
the Hampton Legion held in Columbia, under
the auspices of Gen. Hampton, Gen. Conner,
Major Barker, and other distinguished gentlemen
connected with that far-famed organization
in the late war. The objects of the
re union are to form a permanent association
for the purpose of collecting the necessary
records, for compiling a complete history of
the legion and its offshoots, from its organization,
in 1861, to the close of the war in April,
I ... !
) 1865, and to take initiative steps toward erect-11
" i ing a suitable raonumeut to the memory of <
' | the Legion's dead. Suitable addresses will i I
' be delivered on the occasion. i i
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i NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
i ? The Mexican Sensation Show, which we
think was organized in Columbia a few months j
j ago, collapsed in Goldsboro last week.
! ?Two whales were captured below Beau[
fort last week. One of them was a huge
' monster, measuring 85 feet.
? Track-laying on the Raleigh and Augus- '
ta Air-Line has begun, three hundred hands \
being emplm^d.
? Ex-Gorcrnor Graham has been nomina- i
ted for the Convention from Orange county, j (
Hon. Plato Durham is spoken of as the most ji
available man in Cleveland. j'
? W. A. Cumming, of Wilmington, proposes j |
to furnish the speakers' stand at the Charlotte |,
centennial with a drinking cup that his au- j j
cestor used at the battle of King's Mountain, j i
? A journeyman cigar maker committed j'
suicide in Raleigh, last week, in consequence j
of depression of spirits, caused by failure to j |
obtain employment.
? An order having been made for the sale j <
of the Western North Carolina Railroad, that (
property is advertised to be sold in Salisbury, ]
i on the 22nd day of June next.
? Thomas Rhodes, of Summerfield, Guil* !,
' ford county, met with the misfortune to have ; j
his residence, with all his furniture, and five j
hundred dollars in money, destroyed by fire (
ou Tuesday of last week. ,
? The Greensboro Patriot of last week says: (
"The terrible freeze of last week was very >
disastrous. It is impossible to calculate the ,
damage done in dollars and cents. The fruit (
crop throughout this entire section is effectually
ruined, the tobacco plants badly hurt, <
and in fact everything else." I
? After several postponements, and cousid- ]
erable vexatious delay to the over-sanguine ;
who had indulged great expectations and ,
built the loftiest castles, (with Mansard roofs f
and all) from the most aerial substance that |
. could have been selected, the drawing of the j
Greensboro "gift enterprise" took place last i
week. The prizes were reduced to a one-sixth f
scale, and the fine farms and maguificeut i
buildings were withdrawn, for which cash <
was substituted. With these slight deviations i
from the original scheme and promises of the j
association, the "drawing" proceeded. It is a '
noteworthv fact that a Legislature which ]
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enacted a law to establish a fixed rate of in- |
terest, did also, at the same time and place, <
pass a bill prohibiting a repetition of this <
display of liberality, which some persons are j
ever ready to make in the absence of legal ]
restraint. ]
EDITORIAL INKLINGS. 1
The Murderer, Grimes.
The Columbia Union-Herald of Tuesday,
coutains the following in regard to one of
the principal actors in the events that gave
rise to the libel suit in which the editors of the
Charleston News and Courier are defendants c
at the instance of C. C. Bowen : I
Eli G. Grimes, the important witness in the
News and Courier libel suit, arrived in the
city yesterday, in charge of Major James M. 1
Morgan. Giimes was taken before Trial Jus- '
tice Marshall on a charge of murdering Colo- '
nel William Parker White. The affidavit 1
upon which the arrest was made was sworu t
to hy F. W. Dawson, of the News and Cou- t
rier. The prisoner waived an examination j
and was committed at once to the custody of
the sheriff. The object of bringing him here 1
is to keep him as far as possible from the in- f
Huence of Sheriff Bowen. The prisoner at- c
traded a good deal of attention while on his c
way from the trial justice's office to the jail. (
lie is about forty-five years of age, below the j
middle height, stout, awkward in his movements,
and inclined to be reticent in his manner.
His face, which is a pale yellow, is *
wanting in the dimmest ray of intelligence.
Charles F. Janey is his counsel.
Disappointment of the Hitlerites.
The Chicago papers give au extended
account of the proceedings of the Adveutists
or old Hitlerites in that city on Sunday last,
preparatory to the advent of Christ, which
they claimed would take place at midnight
of Monday. Stanley Hall was crowded, and
the exercises were conducted by Elder Thurman,
who confidently predicted that the end
of the world was near at hand. When questioned
by one of the audience in regard to the
truth of the report that many of his followers
had disposed of all of their goods, bedding,
furniture, &c., Thurman replied that he had
heard that such was the case, but that generally
the people of Christ had but little to
dispose of. Some thieves, unmindful of the
great event which was alleged to be so near
at hand, started the report that the hall was
unsafe, and during the stampede which ensued
succeeded in stealing a number of overcoats.
Thurman stated to a reporter that
thirty-two years ago, when he began his studies
of the prophecies of Daniel, he was a
farmer in Albemarle county, Va. When he
became convinced that he was called to preach
the word of God he sold his farm and gave all
he had to the poor. He crossed the Potomac
on his way North, with sixty cents in his
pocket, since which time he has traveled extensively
North and West, preaching his peculiar
doctrines. <
The Crop Prospect. <
The Department of Agriculture, which 1
I is regarded as reliable authority for reports 1
i on the condition of crops throughout the Un- 1
11 ion, has not as yet published anything con- 1
; tradictory of the many reports from all sec- '
*: tions in regard to the damage sustained by '
' the crops in consequence of the recent severe '
I weather. The furthcoming report of the De- 1
, partraent will be looked for with much inter- 1
est. In the meantime, it may be safely cal- 1
'; culated that bread crops iu the agricultural 1
regions are seriously injured, and that the fruit
crop all over the country will be almost 1
! a complete failure. From these facts, would
i it not be well for our cotton planters to devote ! *
a little more land to grain than has been 11
!; their custom for the past few years? The j following
reports reach us from the several i
States mentioned : In Missouri three-fourths j )
,: of the fall wheat crop will be lost. There J
- j will be half an average oat crop. Corn is yet,
> to be planted. The peach crop of that State j ^
i and Arkansas is nearly destroyed. Apples ' j
, and pears are uninjured. Wheat in Indiana j $
is badly injured. The rye and barley crops 's
; are also short. The crops in Kansas are in ^
fine condition. Wheat iu Michigan is badly ! '
injured. The Nebraska prospects are flatter- j
ing. In Wisconsin oats and barley are badly j 1
injured. The prospect for winter wheat in j t
Illinois is very discouraging, many wheat [i
fields being ploughed for corn.
Spelling Matches.
j The mania for spelling matches is be-; j
coming general, and the orthographic contests j
which we find reported in the papers show a 1
singular deficiency among the educated?or 1
I those supposed to be educated?in the funda-1J
; mental branch of an English education. We 1.
are well aware that not one attorney in a ]
hundred can properly spell the word signify- r
ing the plural of that honorable profession ;' t
' and it sems that the other day the gold board I [
and stock exchange of New York broke down
on the word giving the plural of money, with
the orthography of which it were reasonable
to suppose they would have been familiar.
The following sentence has been puzzling the
members of the Columbia bar for the past
few days, and the gentleman who could spell
through it without making more than ten
mistakes considered it an achievement. The
sentence as here printed is the rendition by a
person to whom it was given to spell, and it
contains over twenty errors :
"A sybilant sibyl, girt with a circingle,
though besieged with diptheria in her diaphragm,
seizes a seive and wierdly retrieves
the apostacy of escalops black as a sloe, fed
m cantelopes and peas, by singeing knats in
% diaphonous collender, as she stands on a
single tree, secured by mortice and tenon in
the abridgement of a pinnacle of aminaret,
md bursts out in dytherambic cacchinations,
while the fuschia and the opopinax, rivaling
the eschallots, distill their fragrance in the
rarafied atmosphere of the moon in sizigy."
riic Charleston Libel Suit.
The trial of Captain Dawson, one of
the proprietors of the Charleston News and
Courier, for libeling C. C. Bowen, present
sheriff of Charleston, commenced last week in
die Sessions Court of Charleston before Judge
Reed. The offense charged is that Capt.
Dawson as one of the proprietors of the News
lid maliciously publish a statement in that
paper declaring that Bowen was an accessory
before the fact of the murder of Col. White,
if the 21st Battalion Georgia Cavalry, who
was shotaud mortally wounded on the night
if the 7th of March, 1864 near Georgetown.
The offensive article of the News was based
mainly upon an affidavit made soon after the
iccurrence by Eli G. Grimes, a member of
Bo wen's company which formed a part of the
21st Battalion. This affidavit was read in
Court, as also a contradictory affidavit purporting
to have been made on the same day.
But apparently not relying upon the affidavit
if Grimes, the defense had him summoned to
appear on the witness stand in person, and on
his examination, which was close and searching,
he reiterated the statement previously
made, to the effect that he shot Col. White
solely at the instigation and by the intimidation
and threats of Bowen, who at that time
was his Captain; that he (Grimes) bore no
malice to Col. White, but that Bowen, who
instigated the murder, was incensed at Col.
White for having preferred charges against
bim (Bowen) for conduct unbecoming an oficer,
and sought his revenge in the manner
iescribed. Bowen's testimony, of course, is
;ontradictory to the statement of Grimes, and
he case rests as an issue or veracity oetween
Bowen and Grimes. Argument was heard on
Monday, and, as we are informed by a private
despatch from G. W. S. Hart, Esq., of
his place, who is now in Charleston, the case
esulted in a mistrial, after the jury had been
>ut twenty hours. The jury was composed
>f six whites and six blacks.
Irrest of Niles G. Parker.
Niles G. Parker, ex-Treasurer of the
State of South Carolina, was arrested in Coumbia
on Wednesday of last week, and rejuired
to give bail in the sura of 856,200,
lpon complaint of D. H. Chamberlain, T. C.
Dunn, S. W. Melton, W. B. Nash and Paris
jimkins, as Commissioners of the Sinking
iTund. The attorneys engaged in the case on
he side of the plaintiffs are Samuel W. Melon,
Esq., Attorney General, W. H. Wingate,
isq., and James H. Rion, Esq. The comilaint
charges that Parker embezzled and
raudulently misapplied 828,100 of the funds
if the Sinking Fund Commission. The affilavit
was made by T. C. Dunn, Comptrollergeneral.
Counsel for defendant, Messrs.
Jelton & Clarke and Bachraan & Youmans,
ibtniued an ex parte hearing before Major D.
3. Miller, Clerk of the Court, and moved that
he order of arrest on bail be rescinded. Up*
n the refusal of the UierK, a petition was
nade to Judge Cooke, who, after bearing arpiraent
in favor of the defendant, dismissed
he petition, and directed the order of the
Jlerk to be executed. The amount of bail
equired precluded the possibility of its being
jiven, and Parker was committed to the
:outity jail. It is rumored that the ex-Treasirer
was about to depart Northward when
irrested.
In addition to the charge of embezzlement,
in the next day after the above proceedings
vere instituted, complaint was made against
3arker, charging him with a more gigantic
raud, and he was required to give 8250,000
idditional bail. The second complaint is
>rought directly in the name of the State by
Attorney-General Melton, aided by James H.
[iion, Esq. It is charged that Parker, in the
rears 1869,1870 and 1871, in paying,as treaslrer,
coupons on valid bonds, put aside 8450,)00
of such coupons uncancelled, and in their
ilace as vouchers put coupons which he cut
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>n irom ine uuuversiuu uuijuo m uiu kjiiav,*,
vhich, according to their dates, mu9t have
natured at that time. They had his engraved
iignature on them, and required no other auhentication.
Nearly all the valid coupons
,hus paid and cut uncancelled, and thus reilaced
by bogus substitutes, have been funded
it the treasury during the present year.
It is 9aid that the State has lost by this opjration
$225,000, and according to a statement
n the Phoenix of Monday, it is probable that
,he huge swindle must now come to light, and
;he fraudulent Coupon Ring of which Parker
ivas the inside accomplice, be uncovered to
he public view. The Phoenix says that Parier
has declared to some visitors that he does
'not propose to remain in prison all alone by
limself. If efficient steps were not taken
ivithin thirty days to release him from his unpleasant
predicament, he would take steps to
-elieve his Bolitude by an accession of corn
Damons from among his old friends in office.
A.h! what a tale Niles could unfold if he
would?and may be he will."
Regarding Parker's arrangements to vacate
Columbia, which it seems he deferred a little
,00 late, the Columbia correspondent of the
Neva and Courier says :
"It was some time ago that these proceed- \
ngs were initiated. It was suspected, perhaps !
t was known, that Parker was contemplating !
i change of base. His movements had be;ouie
the study of the curious. His "Haul"
,vas disposed of, after a fashion, to pay a mortgage
held by T. B. Johnsou, of Sumter, for
510,000 and the mechanics' lien. His Aslembly
street residence passed out of his hauds.
Eiis stately roans, his brett, and his gold
nounted harness, all disappeared from the
lublic drives. Parker was about to leave us. j
[n fact, it is believed that he was to have gone |
ast night. But his friends couldn't bear the
bought, and have pressed upon him, as we
lave seen, an invitation to remain yet a while '
onger, which he could not decline. This i
nllet-doux was not exactly rose-scented. It j
)ore the signatures of Samuel W. Melton, at-1
;orney-general, and \V. H. Wingate, and the j
>eculiar and determined "fist" of James H. ;
:tion, Esq., of Winnsboro'. It is evident j
hat it is no joke that it is meant, but a aeious
entertainment; the first, but not the last!
>f tlie season. It is a shot (if we may change J
he figure,) which may not, like that fired at
jexington a hundred years ago, be heard
ound the world, but will wake up the echoes
hroughout this State, and in the financial and ,
)oliticul centres of the whole country." I
LOCAL AFFAZHS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
W. H. A J. P. Herndon?Hard Subjects?Wooden
Ware?Leather?Do Not Bo Surprised?
Bacon?Baskets?Fish.
H. F. Adickes?Notions?Kid Gloves?CigarsLisle
Thread Gloves?Shawls?Collars?Underskirts?Ladies'
Shoes?Bohemian Glass
Ware?Tidies,
j Wylie A Acurs, Chester, S. C.?Spring and Summer
Goods.
Jefferys A Metts, Agents?Just Received 200 Sacks
Navassa Guano.
McConnoll A Snider?Fine Beef.
J. H. Clawson, Assignee?Notice to Lien Creditors?In
the Matter of J. R. Castles, Bankrupt.
SENTENCE OF OWENS.
Owens, the murderer of Mr. Cheek, of this
county, who was convicted at the last term of
Lincoln, (N. C.,) Court, and whose case was
carried to the Supreme Court, by which the
finding of the Court below was confirmed, was
sentenced by Judge Scheuck, at the recent
terra of Lincoln Superior Court, to be hauged
on the 26th of May next.
ACCIDENT TO A SOLDIER.
On Monday night, private Wilson, while
sitting in a wiudow of the second story of the
building used as the quarters of the garrison
at this place, went to sleep ana tell to tne
ground, a distance of about 30 feet. The injuries
he received are internal, and as yet the
Surgeon is unprepared to decide upon their
extent.
THE NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD.
The following is the full text of a plan submitted
to the President and Directors of the
Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad
Company, by a joint committee of citizens of
Chester and Yorkville, for procuring iron
aud other material necessary for completing
the road from Yorkville to Dallas. Inasmuch
as this plau will be submitted to the
stockholders for adoption at the annual meeting
to be held at Yorkville on the 12th of
May, we publish the document in order that
such of our readers as feel either a special or
general interest in the completion of the road,
may have an opportunity of carefully considering
what may be the final result of the adoption
of the plan proposed :
To the President and Directors of the Chester
and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Pail Road Company
:
The citizens of the counties of Chesterand
York, learniug that, by reason of the unmarI
--?!_ _i l* .L- ??tl
Keiaoie cnuracier ui me scuunuca at juui
command, you are unable to purchase the iron
and other material and supplies for completing
your road, are disposed to lend you a helping
hand.
We have satisfactory assurance that the
iron and other supplies can be bought and
supplied to the road, on fair terms, provided
the citizens will give their support to the
measure, and we, as committees, are deputized
to coufer with you, and ascertain what terms
will be acceptable to you, in order to secure
their support and assistance.
The following scheme has met with the approbation
of the two committees, on the part
of citizens of Chester and York counties, and
if agreeable to you, we are willing to report
the same back to them with our recommendations
for their approval and adoption, to wit:
That the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge
Railroad Company do execute a mortgage
on all of its property and franchises, from
Chester, in the State of South Carolina, to
Dallas, in the State of North Carolina, near
the Richmond and Air Line Railroad, for
an amount not exceeding two hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars, in coupon bonds
of five hundred dollars each, due twenty years
from date, bearing interest at the rate of eight
per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually,
on the first of January and July.
That a Board of Finance, composed of five
men, living in the counties of Chester and
York, two, at least, from each county, iu good
financial credit, and of such judgment and
character as will command the confidence of
the citizens of said counties, be authorized
and appointed, or elected, in whose care aud
keeping shall be deposited all of the bonds
issued under said mortgage, and also all of
the bonds of the counties of Chester and York,
issued to purchase stock in your road, not now
sold, to be held by said board on following
trusts, to wit: To provide for the debt of your
road, now secured by mortgage on so much of
the road as lies between the towns of Chester
and Yorkville, and to retire the same as it
falls due, or prior to maturity, as in the discretion
of the Board may seem advisable;
and as a collateral security to indemnify
and save harmless the party or parties that
shall buy or furnish the iron and the other
supplies necessary to put the road in complete
and profitable running order from Chester to
Dallas, that said Board have authority to
sell and dispose of, by sale, any of said securities
at such price or prices as they may deem
advisable, and apply the proceeds thireofto
the extinguishment of the debt to be contracted
for iron and rolling stock and other
supplies, and to such other debts as may exist
against the Company; and if the said
Board fail to sell a sufficiency of said bonds
at satisfactory prices, in due time to raise the
necessary funds to meet the debts aforesaid
as they become due and must be paid, that
said Board be authorized to borrow the required
amount of money on the best terras
they can, at a rate of interest not exceeding
ten per cent, per annum, secured by the note
or notes of the Railroad Company, and a deposit
of said bonds (mortgage or county bonds
at the option of the lender) in nominal
amount double the sura so loaned by each
creditor.
That said Board shall be kept up and continued
till the debt to be contracted for iron
and supplies, the preseut mortgage debt, and
each and all debts contracted t > raise money
to meet the said first two named debts, shall
be paid, either by sale of said bonds or collections
therefrom, or from other sources.
That at each and all elections of said Finance
Board, subsequent to the first, the creditor
or creditors of said road holding the said
mortgage and county bonds, or any portion
of them or either of them, as collateral security
to debts due them respectively by said
road, shall be allowed to uominate and have
elected or appointed (if they choose) three
members of said Finance Board, and the j
Uoarcl ot Uirectors me remaining two.
The foregoing proposition made at a meeting
of joint committees of citizens of York
and Chester, April 26th, 1875.
MERE-MENTION.
Trion factory, in Chattanooga county, Geor-j
gia, was burned Saturday night, involving a
loss of $150,000, and throwing 350 operatives
out of employment. The cold weather!
during the past few days has done great dam-'
age to the fruit throughout Eastern Ohio, but j
the wheat crop of that State is reported un-|
injured. General Custer says it takes an
Indian four minutes to scalp a victim. An
Indiana man had the ramrod of a shot gun
fired through him, and the only damage was
"a durn queer feeling." Ohio has a new
religious sect called the Eternalists, and they
are eternally fightiug to see who shall lead
them. The prospect of a tilt between
ex-Senator Brownlow and Senator Johnson
does not fill the people of Tennessee with
alarm. They got used to disturbances of that
kind long ago. Roswell C. Smith, the
author of "Smith's Grammar," died one day :
last week. John Harper, the senior !
member of the publishing firm of Harper & j
Brothers, died in New York on last Thursday
evening. Gen. John C. Breckinridge is
very ill, though dangerous results are not immediately
apprehended. Several thou-.
sand ticket-holders in the late Louisville Library
Lottery have placed their coupous in
the hands of Blauton Duncan to bring suit'
against the managers for breach of contact <
to recover their money. The Postmaster- i
General has been officially advised that the 1
postoffice at Carizo, Texas, has been plundered
by Mexicans, and that Dr. Lavell was raur- i
dered. Lieutenant Austin, of the 6th 1
cavalry, reports a 6ght with the Cheyennes in J
Kansas, in which niueteen Indians, including i
two chiefs, were killed. The soldiers lost a <
sergeaut and a private. A collision occurred
on the Baltimore and Potomac rail- i
road on Monday evening, in which nine per- <
sons were severely injured and both trains 11
badly wrecked.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, April 26th, 1875. ?
The cold weather of a few days ago did
immense injury to fruit and vegetables. The i
greater portion of the fruit has certainly gone <
to that country "where the woodbine twineth."
Vegetables have suffered the same unhappy ;
fate. House-keepers joined in a general lam- 1
entation over the nipping of their beaus and
potatoes by the untimely frost. However, !
they console themselves with the pleasing re- j
flection that the injury is not lrreparaDie. An 1
abundance of time is still left them for repair- <
ing the damages of the cold. Wheat and i
corn were also considerably injured by the
frost. In low, damp places, corn was so effect- |
ually killed as to require replanting. Elsewhere,
an extinguisher was put upon cotton. ;
I am happy to state that in this county no <
cotton was killed, and for the simple reason )
that there was none to kill. <
One of our largest aud most successful ]
farmers is very lugubrious in regard to the i
agricultural prospects. He thinks this year
will be another '45, when the crops were ut- !
terly ruined by a protracted drought. Upon
what be bases his opinion I am at a loss to
conceive, unless it be from the excessive (
amount of rain that has already fallen up to
this time. Of course, no undue apprehensions i
will be excited by this conjecture of our friend,
for the veil of an impenetrable mystery hangs ,
over the future that "Old Prob." himself cannot
lift, and gaze upon the hidden secrets.
I am quite sure that the area of land in our
county planted in corn this year will exceed
that of the past few years. The disastrous
policy of planting "all cotton and no corn"
has been attended with such bitter results
that its abandonment is near at hand. A
farmer who plants on an extensive scale tells
me that he proposes to plant a sufficient <
amount of corn to answer his purposes. It is i
also his intention to raise hogs, and thus be
enabled to make his own meat. He proposes !
building a pen at a proper distance from his <
dwelling house, into which the hogs will be .
driven at night so that they cannot be stolen. I
A large number of farmers in this county I
will take the same commendable course in <
providing their own supplies. I
J. A. Haseltine, Esq., President of the i
Chester and Lancaster Railroad, was in town I
last week. The object of his visit was to get i
an interpretation upon that portion of the act (
of the L0gislature authorizing the issue of ]
bonds by Chester county in behalf of the road i
of which he is President, which requires that t
after being signed by the County Commission- (
ers, they shall be registered by the clerk of c
the county. The point at issue was, who was (
the clerk of the county;' whether the clerk of 1
the court, or the clerk of the board of county s
commissioners was the man. Judge T. J. t
Mackey solved the knotty point on Wednes- t
day in deciding that the clerk of the board of 1
county commissioners was the clerk of the
county. The opinion gave geueral satisfaction,
for it will result in saving about a thousand
dollars to the county. J
Mr. Haseltine reports satisfactory progress 1
in the grading of the Chester and Lancaster '
Railroad. Beginning at this end of the line,
a distance of eight miles has been reached, *
while at the other end two miles have been (
graded. Captain Fry will begin, in a short 1
time, the construction of a bridge over Hoop- c
er's creek, which is about six miles from our 1
town. Mr. Haseltine goes to New York in a
few days for the purpose of effecting a negotiation
of his bonds. Judging from a com- .
munication lately received from a Northern l
party, he is not only extremely hopeful, but g
almost confident of his ability to succeed in t
his undertaking. 1
The meeting for the election of officers of
the Building and Loan Association of C'hester,
for the ensuing year, was held last week. t
W. S. Gregg, Esq., was re elected President; e
J. S. Wilson, Esq., Vice-President; J. L. c
Harris. Treasurer, and W. A. Sanders, Esq., t
Attorney of the Association. The following c
gentlemen were chosen Directors: G. W. ^
Melton, W. T. D. Cousar, C. S. Brice, W. r
H. Hardin, G. A. Albright, A. \V. Clarkson, s
D. B. Rothrock, \V. B. Burnett and B. G. c
Yocum. The Association is in an exceeding- a
ly prosperous condition. Shares of stock are ^
at 84.30 premium. The interest on the mon- 8
ey invested by the stockholders averaged 1
one and a half per cent, during the year. c
On Friday last a raeetingofthe prominent v
citizens of our town was held at the rooms of J
the Board of Trade, for the purpose of devis- 8
ing some scheme whereby the iron for laying ?
the track of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow (
Gauge Railroad can be immediately obtained, j
As the plan entered into by twenty citizens 1
of York and Chester, of giving a joint note for <3
875,000, payable in three instalments, had 9
proven unacceptable to iron men of the North, 1
it was determined to hold a meeting, and, if c
possible, adopt some plan that would be free r
from all objections. Mr. Joseph Wylie was ]
called to the Chair, and Mr. T. C. Gaston, a
was requested to act as Secretary. At the
request of the Chairman, Maj. G. \V. Melton *
explained the object ot the meeting in an extremely
practical and sensible speech. He
first alluded to the failure to make any arrangement
with Northern iron men upon the
joint note of twenty citizens of York and
Chester, and attributed the failure of effecting
a negotiation to the length of time before the
maturing of the note. He then referred to
the immense advantages to accrue to our
town from the building of the Chester and
Lenoir Ilailroad. A good portion of the
road was already graded, and ouly seventyfive
thousand dollars was needed for buying
the iron to lay the track. Major Melton 1
said, in an emphatic manner, that this great' ^
enterprise must not fail, and called upon our c
moneyed men to assist him in carrying it d
forward to a glorious completion. He said a
that, with the exertion of the proper effort, t
the road could be in ruuning order in the c
course of a few months, and that if the assets c
of the company ^ere managed properly, a . c
large portion of the indebtedness could be c
liquidated by the beginning of next year. | ^
Before closing, Major Melton spoke of the t
brilliant future of our town, if the busiuess s
men would only do their whole duty. He
said that with the concentration of several I
railroads at this point, Chester was destined ?
to become a city of considerable proportions, j
That even in five years, with the completion of t
the Chester and Lenoir, and the Chester and f
Lancaster road, instead of doing a business ; I
of a millioD and a half, she would do a business
of five million dollars. In referring to
the Chester and Lancaster Railroad, Major
Melton said that it would be completed and
in operation in time for the moving of the
next crop. His address rang with business
From beginning to end. He is one of our
most public spirited citizens. Upon motion
of Major G. W. Melton, seconded by C. S.
Brice, Esq., and endorsed by the meeting,
a committee was appointed by the Chairman,
charged with the duty of devising some
scheme whereby the iron for the Chester and
Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad can be procured
without delay. The following gentlemen
constitute the committee: Major G. W.
Melton, James Hemphill, Esq., G. J. Patterson,
Esq., J. J. McLure, Esq., J. L. Agurs,
Esq., J. Curtis, Esq., and Captain W. T. D.
G'ousar. On Tuesday the meeting will re-assemble
to hear the report of the committee.
Messrs. Joseph Herndon, H. F. Adickes, J.
F. Hart, J. F. Wallace, I. D. Witherspoon,
T. M. Dobson, and J. L. Clark, of Yorkville,
were in town to-day, for the purpose of consulting
with the members of the committee
ippointed at the meeting on Friday, in regard
to the adoption of some plan that will be most
jflectual in accomplishing the objects of the
meeting. L. M. Grist, Esq., and Colonel W.
H. McCorkle.of Yorkville, were also in town
for the purpose of attending a meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Chester and Lenoir
Narrow Gauge Railroad Company. The two
committees met, conferred, and then stated
the result of their deliberations to the Directors
of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad Company.
The final result of the conference was
the adoption of a plan for securing the iron,
which plan will be submitted to the stockholders
at the annual meeting, to be held at
Yorkville, on the 12th of May.
The stores of I. L Gunhouse & Co., Wylie
& Agurs and Hardin & Heath have been
filled with new aud beautiful goods. Of
course, the ladies are in a state of ecstacy.
Rev. R. W. Sanders, of Greenville, has accepted
a call to the charge of the Baptist
Church at this place.
The market report is as follows: Cotton,
middling 14} cents; low middling, 14; bacon,
14*015* cents; lard, 20 cents; meal, 81.40
per bushel, and flour 84.00085.00. Qui.
^ a _ ! nw 1 awc
UHester, April Zl, loill.
A meeting of citizens took place this morning,
according to appointment, at which the
committee appointed at the meeting on Friday,
made their report, the nature and provisions
of which it is unnecessary for me to
state, as they will be found elsewhere in the
columns of the Enquirer. J. J. McLure,
Esq. and G. J. Patterson, Esq., in behalf of
the committee and the report submitted by
them, favored the meeting with some practical
and excellent remarks, of which I would
be pleased to make a full synopsis, had not
ny communication already reached a protracted
length. The report was unanimously
idopted, aud the same committee, with five
ether additional members, Messrs. W. H.
Hardin, W. S. Gregg, H. M. Ross, Nathan
Simpson, and J. \V. Wilkes, were appointed
o secure from citizens subscriptions of mon}y,
to be furthcoming at the time of the falling
lue of the various notes, in case the Railroad
Company cannot meet them. If the jierfect
larmony of the meeting is indicative of the
pirit of our people, I think I can safely say
hat the citizens of Chester are determined
hat the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge
Railroad shall become a fixed fact. Qui.
THE LEXINGTON' CENTENNIAL.
At the centennial banquet at Lexington,
Massachusetts, the speeches which elicited the
nojt enthusiasm were delivered by Governor
Chamberlain of South Carolina, and General
W. F. Bartlett of Massachusetts. Governor
Chamberlain, after rehearsing the struggles
>f the Revolution and referring to the uubro1
? ? ? ^ _ j i? a. a if
jen trieudsmp wnicn exisieu ueiweeu masaa;h
usetts and South Carolina throughout that
rying perjod, said:
I know that I am commissioned here to-day
o say for South Carolina that she joins with
iqual gratitude and reverence with aU her sis*
ers of the early days in honoring the 19th of
Ipril, 1875; that she claims her share in the
jlory of the struggle begun at Lexington ;
hat as of old she bade Massachusetts cheer in'
he struggle, so now she unites with her in
hese patriotic services.
It is not for me, it is not for any one, on
his occasion, to speak of later events in which
hese two ancient allies stood face to face as
memies. Who that has an American heart
loes not rejoice that back of all the recent
>itter struggle there lies the gracious heritage
>f those common labors, dangers and sacrifi:es
in founding this common government?
>Vho that looks with a just eye, even on that
ecent struggle, does not now see on either
ide, the same high elements of character, the
:ourage, the devotion to duty, the moral liueiraents
of the Adamses and Hancocks, the
Jadsdens and Rutledges, of a hundred years
igo? Who that has faith in the destinies of
Vraerica does not see in this early friendship,
lye, and even in this later conflict, the poten:y
and promises of that coming Union under
vhose protection liberty shall forever walk
land in hand with justice, wherein the North
ind the South, reuuited in spirit and aims,
* 11 ' LAnil nofflAll/l
nan again respuuu lu cvcij tau ui ^awiv>.u
luty in the old tones of Samuel Adams and
Christopher Gadsden, of James Otis and
Fohn Rutledge? That spirit still lives, felow-citizens,
in South Carolina. If in later
lays she has erred, forgive her, for even then
he dared and suffered with a courage and paience
not unworthy in its strength of the days
?hen Gadsden and Rutledge illustrated her
:ivic wisdom, and Sumter and Marion her
nartial prowess. "Magnanimity," says Mr.
3urke, "is not seldom the truest wisdom; and
igreat empire and little minds go ill together."
Fellow-citizeus, I offer you to-day the fraernal,
patriot greetings of South Carolina?of
ill her people. She marches again to-day to
he music of that Union which a hundred
'ears ago her wisdom helped to devise and
ler blood to cement. There in that hallowed
Jnion, endeared and sanctified by so many
dessed memories, and radiant with so many
>roud hopes and promises, there, there she
'must live or bear no life." Oh ! welcome
ler auew to-day to the old fellowship. The
nonuments of marble and brass which we
aise here to-day will crumble. Let us, thereore,
build in the hearts of all the people that
mnnmnkoUlo monument "(in 1 n H PStr IlOtlblO
(mpci louauig ijiuuuiuvuv)
Jnion of indestructible States."
GEN. BARTLETT's SPEECH.
Gov. Chamberlain was followed by Gen.
iV. F. Bartlett, a native of Pittsfield, Massahusetts.
He commanded a federal brigade
luring the late war; lost a leg at Yorktown ;
,ud an arm at Gettysburg; was shot twice
hrough the body in the Wilderness, and filally
was taken prisoner in the attack made
n the Confederate lines at Petersburg, in
onnection with the famous "springing of the
nine." Since the war he has been settled in
/irginia, where he now resides, in charge of
he Powhatan Iron Works at Richmond. H6
aid :
Of the relations of the North to the South
am not an unprejudiced observer. On the
outrary, I have a prejudice, which is shared
>y all soldiers, in favor of peace, and I think
may safely say that between the soldiers of
he two great sections of our great country
raterual relations were established long ago.
have also a strong prejudice against any
s