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Scraps and partis. A Western circus hasa wax-work group of the principals iu the Beecher trial. An edition of the Bible is to be printed in London with all the proper names accented to show their pronunciation. The Oakland Manufacturing Co., at Bath, Maine, are at work on an order for 20,000 base ball bats. Kate Field puts the amount annually expended on theatre patronage in New York city at 82,000,000. A man called on a dilatory debtor, and politely said, "If you'll pay me the amount of your bill immediately, you will oblige me ; if not, I shall have to oblige you." The Singer Sewing Machine Company has (siihucriluxl ton tkmioon/1 ? ?? ?WU VUVU9MUU UUUOIO bVI blic Philadelphia Centennial stock, the Wheeler <fc Wilson five thousand, and the Howe Company three thousand. Confederate General Riplev, who during the war was in command of the defenses of Charleston, has been engaged by the Chinese to construct works on an extensive scale for the defense of the coast and principal rivers of that empire. Since the war, General Ripley has resided in London. A. rustic youngster, being asked out to take tea with a friend, was admonished to praise the eatables. Presently the butter was passed to him, when he remarked : "Very nice butter?what there is of it," and observing a smile, he added, "and plenty, of it?such as it is." Chaviz, the lieutenant of the California bandit chief, Vasquez, is carryiug out the threat he made to avenge the latters death. With a band of mounted followers, he is ravaging certain southern counties, whose inhabitants clamor for a legislative appropriation as a reward for bis capture. The oldest practicing lawyer iu the world is the Hon. Elbert Herriug, of New York, who is now 98 years old. He was admitted to the bar in 1798, aud was a Judge vr . n i. ?1 v . ?- "n ui .uaruie v^ouri, wnen napoieon r>onaparte was made Emperor. Charles O'Connor studied law with him. The total number of accidents reported on all railroads in the country during March last, was 122, whereby 17 persons were killed and 73 injured. Twelve accidents caused the death of one or more persons, 56 others injury, but not death, and 64 or 69 per cent, of the whole, are recorded as causing no serious injury to any person. The number of accidents falls far behind the record of February, and exceeds that of January. The civil rights law receives another uidicial 3tab?this time from Texas. Uuited States Judge Moreilles states his views iu a way of his own, laying down the principle that all persons enjoy a legal right to have board aud lodging at inns, transportation on steamers and railroads, and entrance into theatres, "while they do not thereby acquire any social "rights." This idea is so illustrated by the Judge that we can hardly expect any indictments under the civil rights law as the result of his charge to the grand jury. The centennial celebration, to take place in Westmoreland, Penn., next Saturday, assumes rather a droll air in view of the fact that the resolutions whose adoption is commemorated, declared the unshaken loyalty of the people of Pennsylvania "to His Majesty King George the Third, our lawful and rightful King"?and this after the massacre of Americans at Lexington. To call such a document a Declaration of Independence is to twist it into a shape in which the original would never be recognized. The resolutions were, no doubt, patriotic in intent and spirit, but they were very far from being a declaration like that of Mecklenburg, in North Carolina. King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Islands,will send his feather cloak to the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. This article will represent more labor than any other that will be on exhibition. Its manufacture was commenced over a hundred years ago, uuder the auspices of some of the ancestors of Karnehameha, the first King of the islands, and, upward of fifty years of time was required for its completion. It is made of the feathers of a peculiar species of bird?each bird furnishing only two feathers?oue from uuder each wing. In size the cloak is a little over a square yard, and its color is a golden yellow. It used to be worn by the King on state occasions, but of late years it serves only to adorn the reception room of the palace. The medical profession is watching with-interest the effects produced upon Gen. Frank P. Blair, who is prostrated by paralysis and is being treated by the transfusing of healthy blood into his veins. He has now received three operations. The first time an ounce and a half was transfused ; the second time a little less than four ounces, and the last time five ounces. The first two times he lav almost insensible and apparently unconscious. The last time he watched the operation with great interest and articulated a few words, which he had not done for some time. He also moved his paralytic arm, and a few minutes afterward fell asleep. His wife and family are represented to be greatly encouraged. "Similar operations have been performed recently ou two patients in a St. Louis hospital, and in each iustance the result is said to have been satisfactory. The Shelbyville (Tenn.) Gazette says : "There is a weed growiug in oue or two gardens of this place which is possessed of wonderful and valuable curative properties as regards that terrible disease, gravel in the bladder. It is claimed by those who have given it a thorough test, and know whereof they speak, that it will cure the worst case of gravel in twelve or twenty-four hours ; that it will give almost instaut relief, and will dissolve the worst gravel in twelve hours; that it has been tried in hundreds of cases and was never kuown to fail in effecting a speedy and permanent cure. In one case in this couuty, where it was administered, and under the observation of an old and regular practicing physician, it passed from the bladder of a patient, within twelve hours after it was given, three tablespoons full of gravel and sand. It is good alike for man aud beast, and is a splendid diuretic. There is a goodly quantity growing in the garden of Mr. L. \V. Bar i r. 1 I u.. rett id in is piace. xi is kiiuwu ueic uy nu other name than 'gravel weed,' and was brought to this country in the summer of 1834, from Morgan county, Alabama, by Mr. Thomas Knott, an old citizen of this couuty, who now resides near this place." At a period of dullness, the Beecher trial developed a new phase of interest last week. Henry C. Bowen was placed on the stand as a witness for the plaintiff, and on some important points he contradicts the statements of Mr. Beecher flatly. Mr. Beecher ha9 all along contended, and so stated in his evidence, that the "great offense" he had committed against Tilton, which seems to have been so great as to place him on the "ragged edge of despair," and to cause him to "humble himself before Theodore as before his God," was the influence he exerted in having Tilton removed from the editorship of the Brooklyn Union. Mr. Bowen says emphatically that Mr. Beecher had no agency whatever in that movement; that he knew nothing about it, or xitmn maa Pnntpmnlafpd. until after 111 ?1 L SUV/11 av/iivu ?* MW ? , Tilton had been dismissed; that the dismissal of Tilton was a surprise to Beecher, and that he (Beecher) had never spoken a word to him (Bowen) derogatory of Tilton's private character until after Tilton had been dismissed. This is the main feature of Bowen's testimony, which is offered in rebuttal, either side being afraid to place him on the stand for direct examination. This circumstance alone is damaging to both parties, and it must be conitwaed that the evidence drawn from this witnesses tmt very flattering to Mr. Beecher. A Washington telegram to the New York Times contains the following interesting hit of news : "L. Cass Carpenter, a member of thelajit Congress, now an internal revenue collector of oue of the South Carolina dig tricts, who was here last week soliciting the ! cooperation of the army in collecting the rev- j enue in his district, failed to secure the favor 1 of Commissioner Douglass for his proposition. Collector Carpenter gave out a statement to the newspapers that illicit distillation was carried on in his section to an alarming extent, and that those engaged in that illegal work openly sold untaxed whisky on the streets from wagons in defiance of the revenue offi- | cers, several of whom had been murdered while attempting to suppress such sales. Upon j investigation the commissioner has been unable to discover the lawlessness described by Collector Carpenter. Disturbances have occurred in that vicinity, but not recently, and none have occurred siuce Carpenter's appointment to office, which was since the adjournment of Congress. The commissioner informed Carpenter that he had better return to his field of duty, make an earnest effort to collect the revenue, and if he made it appa- j rent that he cannot discharge his duties without the aid of the military, its assistance might then be invoked. The commissioner does not believe in confronting the people with troops upon every pretext, and he informed the collector that such aid should not i be asked for until it is clearly established that j the civil omcers are powerless 10 execute tne i laws. Carpenter's application for military i aid was referred to the supervisor of the South j Carolina District. As Carpenter wasappoint] ed Collector after the adjournment of Congress, Mr. Douglass does not believe he has had time or opportunity to eueounter the desperadoes whose sanguinary operations he reported to the department." $be UarkuiUc inquirer. i YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1875. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-ofliee, 1 county and State in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post-oftice money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirkr is delivered free of postage to all subscribers residing in York county who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by tho publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where thev receive the naper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the.post-office here, withoutadditional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The dafcon the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Rock Hill Hook and Ladder Company, has decided to attend the Mecklenburg Centennial. ? D. S. Legg was arrested in Greenville last week, and lodged in jail, charged with , having abducted a young girl from Rock Hill. ? Maj. Wm. T. Gary, of Edgefield, has removed to Augusta, where he will engage in the practice of law. ? The Lancaster Ledger mentions that the ( wheat crop in that county has been only slightly damaged by frost. ? Judge Mackey has ordered the grand jury of Fairfield county to investigate the re- ( cent disappearance of Sheriff Duval 1. , ? The Pickens Sentinel is informed by some of the farmers that their wheat has been con- , siderably injured by the receut frosts. i ? ill b'airtield couuty, recently, a coioren girl aged about ten years, in whose care an infant of her sister was left, carried the baby j to a neighboring creek and drowned it. ? James Moore, convicted of forgery at the j recent term of the Circuit Court for Fairfield ' county, has been sentenced to imprisonment i iu the penitentiary for two years. * ? Everidge Cain, colored, au ex-member of i the Legislature and public school teacher in i Abbeville, has been arrested for assault and e battery with criminal intent upon the person ( of a colored woman. ? An election has been ordered by the ( County Commissioners of Spartanburg, for the ] 31st of May, to decide in favor of or against i a subscription of 8150,000 to the Spartanburg t and Asheville railroad. i ? Mr. James K. Means, one of the oldest < citizens of Spartanburg county, about eighty- ' five years of age, died at the residence of his [ son, Capt. S. C. Means, on Saturday, the 1st ( instant. ? The ship Henrietta, the largest vessel ever t built in South Carolina, was successfully f launched at Bucksville, in Horry county, on t j the 29th ultimo. The launch was celebrated 1 with becoming honors by the citizens of Horry county. ? The County Commissioners of Richland county, for the years 1870-2, have been convicted of official misconduct, and are booked for the penitentiary. The Commissioners for the years 1872-4 have been iudicted for paying an account not itemized and not sworn to. ? Thirty-six jurors were drawn in Laurens county the other day, of whom six were whites and thirty blacks. This is understood to be a put up job in order to get true bills against a number of gentlemen charged with being ku-klux. Judge Moses has made threats that he intended to have true bills found against the last one of them. ? A true bill has been found by the grand jury of Fairfield county against H. A. Smith, once a county treasurer, for fraud and em- < bezzlement in not accounting for the sum of i | $20,000. It will be recollected that Smith ' ; was convicted about a year ago on an indict- ] I ment for not making returns of money collected. Pie served six months in jail, and doubt ; less supposed that he had heard the last of the j matter. | ?A correspondent of the Union-Herald, \ I writing from Winnsboro, on Saturday last, says: "L. W. Duvall, sheriff of Fairfield! ; county, who had been indicted, under the in-1, | structiousof Judge Mackey, for official misconduct, consisting in habitual neglect of his ( duties as sheriflT, tendered his resignation on yesterday, through the presiding judge, in , open court, who thereupon transmitted it to , the Governor, and ordered a nol. proa, to enter. The nol. pros, relates only to the alleged ; neglect of duty, and does not relieve the sheriff from prosecution for any defalcation proved against him. It is now currently stated that Duvail has effected an arrangement whereby Vva toIII Ko DnaKlor) fn anttla in fill! wit.h ftll parties for whom he has received any moneys [ as sheriff." i ?South Carolina can contribute a relic of royalty to centennial exhibitions in the mace used by thesergeant-at-arms of the Senate on great occasions. It attracted a good deal of notice at the inauguration of Gov. Chamberlain, when it was first used since reconstruction. In "Drayton's Memoirs" a note thus speaksofit: "This mace is now the only rem-' nant of official royalty among us. Lord William Campbell would have taken it with him when he took the great seal of the pro-1 vince, but it was fortunately beyond his con-1 I trol. It is made of silver, gilded over with, gold, aud is said to have cost 200 guineas. It is about four feet long, and of some considerable weight; being surmounted with the crown and great seal of England, around the verge of which are the two faces of the provincial seal of South Carolina, highly embossed, and other ornamental devices. This mace was mislaid for many years, but was discovered in one of the banks at Philadelphia, where it had been lodged for safe-keeping, and is now in the Secretary's office at Columbia, in South Carolina." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Council Tyre died in Guilford county last week at the age of 99 years. ? It is claimed that Charlotte has a popula tion of 9,DUU. ?George Ayers, a Charlotte shoemaker, attempted to commit suicide the other day. ? The Brauch Mint at Charlotte closes on the 30th of June, iu accordance with an act of Congress. ? The managers of the State Agricultural Society have been indicted for tolerating games of chance upon the grounds at the lust fair. ? Dr. Tucker, who shot Col. Robert Hamlin iu Henderson a few months ago, was tried at the late terra of Orange Superior Court and fined $500. ? Mr. J. Armstrong, aged 63 years, a resident of Gaston couuty, wag thrown from his buggy and killed, while returning from Dallas court, on Tuesday of last week. ? A number of sharpers traveling with a Bhow that passed through Winston last week, were arrested for stealing and gambling, and committed to jail. ? Col. Win. Johnston was elected Mayor of Charlotte at the election last week over the former incumbent, W. F. Davidson. Politics did not enter into the contest, both candidates being of the same political faith. ? Hon. James T. Morehead, a younger brother of the late Governor Morehead, died in Greensboro on the 4th instant in the 77th year of his age. He was an able lawyer and had filled many positions of public trust honorably to himself and with benefit to his State. ? A man by the name of Lyons, at one time agent of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad at Augusta, was brutally assaulted by some unkuown person in Charlotte, several nights ago, from the effects of which he has since died. ? The Patriot defends the management of the Greensboro lottery, and says the drawing was conducted as fairly as anything of the kiud could be. The difficulty seems to be, that every ticket bolder was disappointed at not drawing a fortune. ? The Greensboro Patriot learns that Col. Buford has signified to Governor Brogden his intention to begin the change of gauge on the North Carolina Railroad east of Greensboro. This is considered the shortest way to test the validity of the recent legislative enactment. ? The Shelby Aurorasays: "Wm. H. Ellwood, who is charged with murder, and who moved his trial from Cleveland to Gaston, has moved it still further and proposes to try Charlotte ; but we learn that Solicitor Montgomery says he will not let hiiu be tried in that county." ? Peter Peeler, a respectable citizen, and a deputy sheriff, of Cleveland county, committed suicide by hanging himself in his bnrn on Wednesday of last week. The Charlotte Observer mentions as a singular fact that Mr. Crow, the former owner of the plantation on which Mr. Peeler lived, hanged himself some pears ago near the same spot that Peeler selected for the commission of his rash act. ? Much dissatisfaction is reported to exist in Orange county at the nomination of Josiah Turner, of the Raleigh Sentinel, on the same ;icket with Hon. W. A. Graham for the Contention from Orange county. It is alleged ;hat Mr. Turner resorted to demogogical neans to secure his nomination, while at the lame time he is not the choice of the Deraoiratic leaders of the county. ? The Raleigh Sentinel, which was a bitter >pponent to the change of gauge of the N. C. Railroad, suddenly became a convert to that neasure, which led the News to intimate that he Sentinel had been bought over by the ailroad managers. In consequence of the ;harge, Mr. Turner made an-attempt, last veek, but without success, to indict the proprietors of the News iu the Superior Court of Grange. ? The design of the medal to commemorate ,he Mecklenburg Declaration of Independ;nce has beeu completed, and a number of the nedals have already been stricken at the Philadelphia mint. In size and value the nedal is equal to the half-dollar piece, its lesign and finish are very creditable. On >ne side is a hornet's nest, which is typical of :he announcement of the King's officers that Mecklenburg was a hornet's nest of rebels. 3n the same side is also a liberty cap surrounded by the rays of the rising sun. Beleath are two clasped hands, which are typical of the united North and South at the close )f the last war. On the reverse side, within i circle, are the inscriptions: "May 20th, 177-3?Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Two thousand silver medals have been jrdered by the executive committee of the centennial celebration, and a large number of copper impressions. MERE-MENTION. Reports from various portions of Indiana 3how very little additional damage done by L'? I- * -* - a ntrwKf a P tkn 1 of InatQ nf nit; ueavjr nuat ui mc ui^ut ui uut. *ov iuuvhuv. The fruit crop in the southern portion of the State is generally considered gone, while a partial crop is expected in the northern counties. The issues of postage stamps of all kinds by the Postoffice Department during the month of April last, amounted to a little in excess of 83,600,000. This is by far the largest amount ever issued in any one month by the Department. Miss Ida, daughter of the late Horace Greeley, was married in New York to Colonel Nicholas Smith, of Kentucky, on Monday morning of last week. The couple sailed for England on the same day. The Democratic ticket was successful in the municipal election at Montgomery, Alabama, last Tuesday. Nearly half the colored voters of the city voted with the Democrats. With the view of preventing the introduction of the potato bug into Finland or any portion of Russian territory, the importation of American potatoes, or sacks, or cases, or any other articles which have contained them, is prohibited. In the United States Courts in Alabama, all cases under the enforcement acts have been continued to await the decision of the Supreme Court in the Louisiana cases. The grand jury impauneled at Montgomery, Tuesday, consists of twenty republicans and three democrats. The wheat crop of northern Georgia promises a fair yield. Bricks made in China are sold in San Francisco for less than they can be made for on this side of the Pacific. The bonded and floating debt of Chicago is 817,000,000. Ohio manufactures a larger quantity of cheese than any other State in the Uuion. J. G. Hes ter, a special agent or "detective," under th Department of Justice, who was promineut ii the kidnapping of Dr. Brattoo, and extensive ly known in common with political arrest in the Southern States, has been dismissei from the service. It is said the buffal gnats killed over four hundred head of stocl i in two days in Fayette county, Tenn., recent I ly. Ben Hill has been elected to Con ! gress from the ninth Georgia district in th I place of McMillan, dceased. "Officia j notification of the payment of the second an< ; last installment of the Virginius indemnit; j by Spain, has been received at the State De i partment from Minister Cushing. Th troubles in the raining districts of Penusylva nia continue. The miners are persistent ii their demands, and numerous acts of lawless ness are reported as having been committei by them within the last few days. J merchant living near Resaca, Georgia, wher one of the hardest battles of the war wa fought, has for some time past had employei a number of children in collecting the leadei bullets that are scattered over the tragic field 1 ? c jur wuiuu nc pajrs uieiu live tenia pci j/uuuu He has already shipped 16,000 pounds t Baltimore, where he sells them at seven cent per pound. In response to a call signei by leading financiers in New York aud othe cities throughout the country, a national con vention of bank cashiers and bankers will b held on the 20th day of July next, at Sara toga. There are now in this country fii teen universities in which colored students ar receiving instruction. The steamer Scil ler, which sailed from New York on the 28tl of April for Hamburg, was wrecked off th Scilly Isles at 10 o'clock, last Saturday night It is supposed that two hundred passenger were drowned. A mong the passengers were i number of southerners, mostly from Georgia whose fate as yet has not been ascertained. OWENS' CONFESSION. The Lincoln Progress of last week, publishe the written confession of Robert A. Owens the murderer of John W. Cheek, of Yorl county, South Carolina. Oweus is now ii Lincoln jail under sentence of death, whicl sentence will be executed on the 28th instant unless revoked by the Governor of Nortl Carolina. As a matter of interest to many o our readers we copy the confession, raakinj some verbal alterations, but preserviug th facts as stated in the text: Lincolnton, N. C., April 21, 1875. On the 22nd day of September, 1873,1 an< John W. Cheek left York county, South Car olina, and arrived at Shelby, N. C., the nex day. We stopped at the house of Newtoi Haines, where we remaiued until 2 o'clock ii the afternoon, and then started to my uncle's whn lives six miles bevoud Shelbv. Afte v ? - "" ~ J J driving three miles, Mr. Cheek determined t( go no further, and we returned. We camper in the vicinity of Shelby and drove into th< town next morning. Mr. Cheek sold 10! pouuds of lint cotton to Mr. Green, receiviuj for it SI6.20. After he had sold the cotton,! drove the wagon to the house of Betsy Fer guson, a cousin of Mr. Cheek's. At this housi I took the horses front the wagon, after whicl Mr. Cheek asked me to go and get somethiuj for us to drink. I went to a bar-room anc bought a quart of brandy and took it to th< wagou, where he was. He then took thi brandy in the house, and Mr. and Mrs. Fer guson, Cheek and I, all drank of it. Afte dinner we again drank of the brandy, and Mr Cheek began to get drunk. While at Mr Ferguson's house, a young lady came to sei Mr. Cheek in regard to going home with him 011 his return, to live in his family. Cheel wanted her to go with him in the wagon, bu she said that she could not go with him then ?? oKa ittnn Auiinrv unrrtn nnrl fniiM n nt lpnvi ao oiic nao v/uuig uvimv * *- vwu.v. ??? uutil the debt was paid. He then proposec to come for her in two weeks, and gave hei two dollars to pay the debt. I told the younj lady?Miss Haines?that Mr. Cheek wai drinking and would not think about the mat ter again, when, at Mr. Ferguson's request, ] promised to come for the young lady if Mr Cheek would agree to it after our return t( his home. The young lady then left th< house. While still at Mr. Ferguson's house, Mr Cheek gave rae a five-dollar bill and told m< to go and get another quart of brandy. I die so, returning the money I received in change We then went to a store and each of us boughi a pair of shoes. Cheek also bought a piece of harness leather. We then went to anothei store, where Cheek bought 8 yards of calicc and some tobacco, and on returning to Mr Ferguson's house, Cheek counted his money He had 89.50 and hauded me his pocket-book requesting me to take care of it for him, as h( was drinking. I took the pocket-book, re marking to him that he was as sober as I He then laid himself across a bed, and soot after that, Jasper Haines came and told rat that Mr. Rudisil wanted to see me. I wen! to Mr. Rudisil, who wished to employ me at a carpenter, and while talking with hint, Newton Haines came to me and said his cousit John (Cheek) was up town drinking anc wanted to know where I was. Haines askec rae to go after Mr. Uheek, as he could do noth ing with him, and there was danger of his being arrested. I found him in front of ? bar-room. He asked if I had his pocket-book and on informiug him that I had it, he saic that* was right, and proposed to go in and tak< a drink. I tried to dissuade him from taking a drink, and asked the bar-tender not to lei him have any more, saying that I had Mr Cheek's money, and would not pay for tin liquor if he let him have it. Mr. Cheek however, found ten cents in his pocket auc bought a drink, after which the bar-tendei advised me to take his pistol from him, as h< | was drinking and might do mischief with it I then took Mr. Cheek to Mr. Ferguson'i house, where we spent the night without anj disagreement whatever. There was not t short word spoken between us while we re mained in Shelby. The next morning?the 25th day of th< month?we left Mr. Ferguson's and drove uj j into town, where we bought another quart o j brandy. We then started to Dallas, N. C. i arriving there about sundown on that day i We stopped in the edge of town, near Mr Smith's, where we camped in company with ? j young man named Smith, who was also fron i South Carolina. Mr. Cheek got out of th( i wawon to heln me with the horses, but he wai p ? ~ 1 ~ ~ ! so intoxicated that he had to lie down, anc i he remained lying under a tree until after ] I had attended to the horses and prepared sup ! per. I then woke him and asked him to ea j his supper. He refused to eat aud told me t( | let him alone. After I and Mr. Smith had taken supper i Mr. Monroe Smith came to the wagon9?Mr i Cheek still lying by the tree?and invited ui in his house. We roused Mr. Cheek and pu him in his wagon, when the rest of us wen 11 into Mr. Smith's house, where we remained ai ! hour and returned to the wagons and went t< bed?Mr. Smith sleeping in his own wagon and I in the wagon with Mr. Cheek, j The next morning?the 26th?we all rose Mr. Cheek wa9 sober, and he asked Mr i Smith his name, and enquired where he wa i going. In auswer to the questions, Smitl | gave his name and said he was going to thi paper mill. In reply to Mr. Cheek's questioi as to where he was from, Smith told him tha he lived at Smith's Ford, in Uniou couutv, S C., and that he should turn for home that da; from the paper mill. It was then agreed tha both wagons would meet at 3 o'clock that even ing six miles above there, at the road leadinj from Dallas to Cherryville, and would trave together by way of King's Mountain station Mr. Cheek then turned to me and asked i ! I had anything to drink. I told hint I ha< not. He said he wauted some very badly | He then went into Mr. Smith's house. Whili i he was gone, one of Smith's little sons, wh e was at the camp, told us his brother had o whisky for sale. When Cheek returned, still wanting a dram, James Smith, of South Cars oliua, told him there was whisky there for , sale, when Cheek said to rne?1"you have the money ; go get something to 'liven us up this 0 morning." I went to Monroe Smith's and 1c bought a quart of corn whisky and returned ' to the wagon, and Cheek, Smith and I all h drank. Mr. Cheek then went back into Mr. ! Smith's house, where he remained until I got . breakfast ready, After breakfast, we har] nessed the horses, and Smith asked Cheek if ^ i he would be at the fork of the roads at 3 o'clock Y j that afternoon, to which Mr. Cheek replied ! I that he would. Mr. Cheek then remarked e that Dr. Hunter lived in Dallas, and he wanted to see him that raorniug, as he had known him in York county. Q r .i i-/v .i - o_:.u e vve men leu me camp?iur. omnu jui me paper mill, and our wagon driving into the I town of Dallas. As soon as we started from i j the camp, Mr. Cheek laid down in the wagon, e ! I drove into town and stopped the wagon near 8 j Mr. Lewis' store. I saw Dr. Hunter on the j | street some distance from the wagon, and after passing a few words with him, he asked if Q that was Mr. Cheek's team. I told him it '? was. He then asked if Cheek was with me. I. I told him he was in the wagon asleep. He o said he would like to see Cheek, and while he 8 was walking to the wagon I stepped into ^ Lewis' store. In a short while I came out from the store and met Dr. Hunter returning from the wagon. I asked him if he had seen ! Mr. Cheek, and he replied that he saw him, j e and he seemed to be resting well and he did not wake him. I told the Doctor that Cheek *- had been drinking, and then asked him if he e knew of any land for sale. He told me of two plantations for sale. I told him that was Mr. Cheek's business to that section, and 3 that we would remain in town three or four c hours, t>y winch time Mr. uneen wouia nnisn ? his sleep, and he cuuid then talk with him. 3 I then drove to a blacksmith shop to have a a shoe tightened on one of the horses, which the smith could not do immediately, aod so I went across the street to a wood shop, where I stayed about half an hour. I then returned to the wagon and found Mr. Cheek sitting up in it. I told him that Dr. Hunter had been 8 to see him while he was sleeping. He said '? he did not care if he was asleep at the time, ? and*told me to get up in the wagon aud we i would go back to Shelby. I asked him why i he wished to return to Shelby, and he said it was none of my busiuess, but to get in the ' wagon and drive on. I agaiu told him that Dr. Hunter wanted to see him, and he re1 plied?"D?n Hunter and Dallas, too ; I am I going back to Shelby." I then reminded e him that he had promised to meet Mr. Smith that afternoon. He told me to get into the wagon and go on. I then drove in the di, rection of the fork of the roads, and about 3$ or 4 miles from Dallas we met Joe Paysour driving toward town. He asked me if I was peddling. I told him no ; that we had come 3 up into North Carolina to buy land. He 1 said he did not believe it?that he thought I ' was a blockade runner. I told him I was r tt?:j t ?j u. u:.? LlOt. 11 e 9U1U 1 LI ecu IIUI UC anaiu U1 IIIIU, J that he was one. I told him I did not follow it now, but I had doue the like in time. He B said he wanted to sell me some whisky?the best that was made in North Carolina. I told p him if I thought there would be no danger from the revenue officers i would like to have a few gallons. He said he was going down B to Dallas to see about them, and for me to 1 drive out to his father's and he would be at ' home by 2 o'clock. He then gave rao directions for finding his father's house, and drove e on to Dallas. I went to his father's house " and remained autil after dinner, when I told them that I had to meet a wagon at 3 o'clock r at the fork of the roads. Mr. Cheek did not ' get out of the wagon at Mr. Thorn burg's ' house. B After we had taken dinner, Mrs. Thorn' burg asked me if "that other man" would * not.have something to eat. I told her that , he was drinking, and would not eat. About ' half past 2 o'clock, I asked Mrs. Thornburg J for the best way to get out to the main road, telling her that on meeting Smith, I would r get him to turn in, and we would both come ? back and stay that night. She sent one of ( 3 the little boys with me, and on reaching the .* fork of the roads, I found that Smith had passed. I theu turned up the road toward ' Cherryville, and when we reached the road * that leads to Mrs. Thornburg's, I told the 1 ' little boy to get out of the wagon and go on home; that I did not know how far the other ; ' wagon had gone. I While speaking to the little boy, Mr. Cheek raised up and wanted another drink. I gave j " him the flask and he drank, and then I and the little boy drank up what was remaining 1 ; in the bottle. We then drove up the road, i Mr. Cheek was now sitting up in the wagon. 1 ' I told him Smith had gone on. He replied, j ' "Let him go." We then drove on about half ' a mile, when Mr. Cheek told me to stop, and he asked for more whisky. I told him it had J all been drunk up. He said there was whisky in the wagon and he intended to have it. 1 ' I told him there was not. He said I was 1 lying, and seized the reins, turning the horses ( 5 into an old road. I asked him where he was going, and he replied, "down this road"? 3 meaning the old one. I told hiin it was a road never traveled, but he said he would J travel it, and after going the distance of 1 . twenty yards he stopped and again called for < whisky. I told him I had none, and showed him the empty flasks. I also told him I in- | 3 tended to turn the horses back into the main , 1 road. He told me to let his horses and wagon ' alone; that he would drive them where he ' pleased. 3 He then laid down in the wagon, while I ? was sitting in the fore end with my feet on I ^ the double-tree. Pie drew up his feet and | * kicked me off the wagon between the horses. | 3 I got up and asked him what he meant. He ' replied that he meant just what he had done. I told him not to do that again. He then ' r called for more whisky. Again, I told him ' 3 I had none, and he said I was a d?d liar. I i ' told him he was another; that I had no whis- | 3 ky. He kicked me again, and I cautioned ( ' him not to repeat it?that enough of anything 1 was enough. I got into the wagon again, and he kicked me for the third time. When I got up after being kicked the third time, he 1 ' was sitting in the wagon with his open knife 1 \ in his hand. Pie drew his knife on me, and i * "T \ ? i . i ?? j i ..ij r..<LAH " saui?"i neipeu to kui your u?u oiu lumci ' and I intend to kill you, when I will be satis' fied." I told him if he did kill me he would ' have to be d?d smart to do it, and I drew the pistol and fired on him. He fell back in the wagon and made an effort to rise, but did 5 not. I then asked him if he had helped to I kill my father and he replied?"I did, and ! d?n you, I inteud to kill you." I told him that if he had helped to kill ray father, he " had no business to throw it up to me; that I had never done him any harm in my life. I then got ofT the wagon and stepped off a few steps and fired two more barrels of the pistol, ' ; and failed to discharge the third. I then | went back to the wagon and looked at him ? and concluded he would never draw auother ! breath. I remained there a few minutes ! studying what to do, and knowing that I was 1 ! in a strange place, I concluded I would con} ! ceal the body and endeavor to make my es- J i ???/> T ?U?.. (/./.I. ? Ki-islu mil rvf tKo urnonn I ; tape. X tilCIl tuurv bUU uv/ujr uuv ui vnv 1 | and tying a piece of rope around his neck, I ] ''! dragged him off'with it. I did not do this to ' choke him, for I thought he was already dead, 3 as he never moved. I then turned the horses J around, and went back to Mr. Thornburg's, j e : where I staid all night. The next morning, ' 111 borrowed a saddle, took one of the horses ' and fled, passing through Lincolnton on the I 27th ; went by way of Newton to Morganton; P from there to Burnsville ; thence to Asheville, ( and from there down the French Broad into ; , * | the State of Tennessee, where I was arrested j = I and returned to Dallas on the 25th day of 1 i December, 1875. This is my humble con- t ! fession for the crime I have committed. ] I ROBERT A. OWENS. S&* The Southern Baptist Convention, after s a long and harmonious session in Charleston, o adjourned last week. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. John G. Enloe, Auditor, York county?Tax Returns for 1875. Thomson <fe JefTerys?Assignees' Sale?In Bankruptcy?In the Matter of Kerr tfc Roach, Bankrupts. R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sales. W. D. Russell?Administrator's Sale. H. F. Ailickes, Survivor of Adickes A Withers? Sale of Notes, Accounts and Choses in Action. Clark Brothers?Retail Cash Prices. Kennedy, Latimer <fc Hemphill?Pacific LawnsGaiters?Sugar?Cow Bells?StationeryClothing?Hats. LIST YOLR'TAXABLES. a ?u:? ??i. Xiuunur Jill J IOC JJUU1IBL1C3 luia wrccn, liio aunual notice to the tax-payers of York county, and gives a list of appointments at which times and places he will meet the people for the purpose of receiving their tax returns for the present year. As will be observed, the assessment is made earlier this year than has been the previous custom, which is rendered necessary in order to conform to the requirements of the act of the last General Assembly. MECKLENBURG CENTENNIAL. Col. Coward, Principal of King's Mountain Military School, has accepted an invitation extended to himself and the corps of cadets of that institution to visit Charlotte on the occasion of the centennial celebration. * Col. Coward and his corps will leave here by special train on the morning of the 20th, and return on the night of the same day. We learn that while in Charlotte, they will be the guests of the Carolina Military School, in charge of Col. Thomas. Correspondence or the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, May 10th, 1875. Spelling bees, which have met with great favor in Northern towns and cities, are directing their course in this direction. Several Southern cities have already been the scenes of successful spelling matches. As Chester always keeps fully abreast with the times, she proposes to give a spelling bee in the course of a short while. The bee will be under the management of the ladies of the Episcopal congregation, who in this way hope to raise a good round sum in behalf of their church. The preliminary arrangements have * 1 # A _ Jt _ been made, and notning now remains 10 ao, save to hold the match and award the prize to the successful competitor. Mr. T. C. Gaston has been assigned the honorable position of teacher, whose duty will be to make known to the class the words to be spelt. Messrs. G. J. Patterson and James Hardin, who have been chosen umpires, will be entrusted with the momentous responsibility of deciding respecting the merits of the different candidates for spelling honors. Mr. Means Davis, editor of the Winnsboro News, has signified his desire and intention of being present, provided his engagements will permit. He will likewise be honored with the position of umpire, if fortune will smile upon him in allowing him to appear upon the interesting occasion. A considerable number of both sexes have expressed their willingness to join the spelling match.and the class will, in all probability, be greatly increased before the evening of the entertainment, which at the present time has aot been positively fixed. The young folks are indulging in bright anticipations respecting the bee, aud are making preparations for it by employing a portion of their leisure time in spelling difficult worjs. A handsome copy of Longfellow's "Hanging of the Crane" will be awarded to the speller who carries off the honors of the class. Trial Justice Sanders sat in judgment upon an abduction case last week. As the parties concerned belonged to the upper tendom of colored circles, the case attracted considerable attention among that element of the population. At an examination into the facts of the case before the Trial Justice, before whom the abductor, Samuel Brown, and his accomplice, John Lilly, had been summoned to appear, the father of the abducted girl, Moses Benson, told the story of his wrongs before an interested throng of colored listeners. He testified that his daughter was under age, that she had been persuaded to leave her home, and had entered into the marriage relation without his knowledge and consent. His counsel endeavored to secure an order from the Trial Justice, restoring the girl to her father, but the court overruled the motion on the ground that her restoration must be effected by a writ of habeas corpus, considered before Judge Mackey. The Justice held that the crime of abduction did not come within his jurisdiction, and that he had A'??I*? J nAHtiinlnr* f Kn naoo an/) I I i right to Know, urne win uecme reapeun'e the truth of the statements made to meJy ^ the Chairman of the Board of County Cdnmissioners, aud by me giveu to the EnquibSR. [nto the hands of this great arbiter of human ilfairs, I am willing to consign this matter ^ for the present. I suppose the report of the appointment of 3x-Senator John Lee, colored, to the position of postmaster at this place, is unquestionably * true. The public are extremely interested in his obtaining an assistant who will understand j the duties of the office. Rev. W. P. Jacobs, of Clinton, Laurens f sounty, delivered an address on the Thorn- E well Orphanage at the Presbyterian Church j on last Thursday evening. The amount rained ' in behalf of the Orphans' fund was on par ' with the slimness of the attendance. Mr. D. T. Legg, living in the Landsford township of this county, aud a married man, , left his home last week, accompanied by a 1 young girl of the neighborhood, and departed 1 I O iiuuiuniy UCjruiJU aupci Hiding ins uuu 3ending it up to a higher court. The trial of Samuel Brown and John Lilly, charged with the abductiou of Artelissa Beuson, will, therefore, take place at the next terra of the Circuit Court. The youthful wife was not abashed during the preliminary examination 1 before the Trial Justice, and stoutly asserted her determination to stick by her spouse to the bitter end. She boldly declared her in- 1 tention of suffering death before returning to < her father's home. 1 Iu the last number of the Yorkville En- i ^uirer appears a card from Mr. C. C. Macoy, in which lie complains of some comments 1 made by me in a recent correspondence res- j piecting certain obnoxious claims held by iifferent parties against this county. If Mr. < Macoy will refer to the communication, with i i portion of which he seems to be displeased, he will see that I observed at the time that ' my statements in regard to certain claims } ' ?? '1? K.ioorl itnnn n,i JntAr- ^ IgaiUSL LUC UUUUljr ngig uuov,-1 uj/vm mm .m.v. ?iew had with the Chairman of the Board of L bounty Commissioners. I did not make them a jpon my own responsibility, for I knew noth-Am ng of a definite nature in regard to the mat- f1 ;er, but upon representations made to uie by ^ )ne of the Commissioners. If the statement J Q( were incorrect in any particular, the fault liei n aot with me, but with the official who gave noe ^ the information. I deem it to be my duty ai i newspaper correspondent, to give publicity lo all information of a public nature. I ivould be untrue to the people did I ke# ^ back from them any news, of which they ha? rr\* Ml J_!J for parte unknown. A male relative of the young lady hearing of the disappearance of the couple, started in pursuit and overtook them at Greenville. Legg, charged with the crime of abduction, was arrested, and failing to give bond, was lodged in the Greenville jail, where he still remains. Coming from Tennessee, he settled in this county after the close of the war, married iuto a uice family, and was generally respected. His conduct, which has met with uuiversal condemnation, was the occasion of immense surprise to ths community in which he resided. The Hook and Ladder Company of Chester, composed of colored men, paraded our streets on Saturday. Attired in their {aj* - uniform, they presented a hue appearaace. The good service rendered by this company in the past is an earnest of the good work they will do in the future if the emergency requires. Their parade on Saturday was enlivened Dy music from the Chester colored band, whose rendition of various airs was very good. I have been requested to state that any assistance extended by kind friends to Mr. Samuel Banks, who recently met with the misfortune of losing his house, will be thankfully received. His address is Blackstocks, Chester county; S. C. The market report is as follows: Cotton, middling, 14} cents, and low middling, 14}; bacon, 14}@15 ; haras, 18; lard, 20; sugars, ll@15;raeal, $1.35 per bushel and flour, $4(a)84.50. Qui. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Profits of Hanufactnring. A good evidence that the cotton-growing sectiD?-aflord8 the best field for the table manufacturS^f-thej^w nished by the success attendrag^tf^m^^^^m^H of the mills in the Southern States! Not oily have the profits of these factories been largp; but unlike those of the North, they were bit slightly?if at all?affected by the panic if 1873 and the consequent stringency of trad?; nor have they been hampered with strikes of discontented operatives, which is almost a daily occurrence in the factories of New Eng^ * -A*? J land, no lar as our ooservauon exieuus, every factory in the South has run regularly on full time during the whole period of the financial embarrassment, and with the most gratifying results. The report of the president of the Graniteville Cotton Mills, in South Carolina, submitted at the annual meeting a few days since,exhibits a prosperity which should serve as an incentive to the inauguration of similar enterprises in other portions of the South. The capital stock of that company is $600,000, and the net profits for the year were $114,588.69, being over 19 per cent, upon its capital stock. During the year 10,536,500 yards of goods were manufactured, weighing 3,151,105 pounds. The consumption of cotton aggregated a total of 3,676,892 pounds, or 8,171 commercial bales, of the value of $528,602.02?an average of 14 38 100 cents per pound. '? f The New Attorney-General. The following is a brief sketch of Mr. Edwards Pierrepont, who succeeds Mr. Williams as Attorney-General: "**- * moo llnm of Nov Rnvun. lUr# X 1CII CpUlJ l WOO I/V1U MV *<VfT , VMy in the State of Connecticut, in 1817, educated at the "Old Grammar School" of that city, and entered Yale in 1833, graduating in 1837 in the same class with Mr. Evarts and Chief Justice Waite, taking high honors. He studied law, and in 1840 was admitted to practice, removing to Columbus, Ohio, where, during the ensuing five years, he enjoyed a most successful practice, and established his legal reputation. In *"nlr. iqh(j iij York, where he/ts since resided. In 1857 he was elected till a vacancy in the Supreme Court, a positiofhieh he held for three years, then resigning. When the war broke out he arrayed himselon the side of Mr. Lincoln, nominally as a&r Democrat; was a member of the Union daise committee of New York ; a member, in 1>2, of the commission for examining into tlcases of the prisoners of State, and one of theiounsel for the government in the Surratt tri- Shortly after the nomination of Mr. S*nour he declired for Grant, and on the eltfon of the latter was made district attorney holding the (ffice somewhat over a year. In 1873 he waj offered and declined the Reian mission Mr. Pierrepont was a memb of the Cootitutioual Convention of 1867when he serred on the judiciary committee." Hard Word For te benefit of selling matches and to gratify t& curiosity o philologists, some oue haii be* hunting up he hardest woras 10 be found i print, and as a result publishes the followig: The firstvord offered is aid to be the longest word in te English lanuage, used often in old playsand placed in te mouth of Costard, the clow-in "Love's Lbor Lost," act V, scene 1 :"Honorificabiliudinitatibus." The DXt in "Pilgrim of the Rhine," by Bulwer "Araorontholqosphorus." The >ext from Rabiais : "Antipericatametanaaparbeugedam^ic-Ribrationestoord ecantirn.' Theiext is the naraerf an officer now in Madrl: "Don Juan Npomucenode Buriougonatrecagagreazcoecla." Tb next is a town i the Isle of Mull : "DriUaidhvrickhillichttan." And another "Juigefrauenzimraerdirchschwindsucbttoedluugaegenyerien." "lotrophenylenediaoine" aud "Polphrasticoiinomimegalonduktion" are two words :hatrecently appearedin the London Times wdStar. 'Sankashtachaturthivratodyapaoa" and 'frapancaaksharimalumantraatora" are awes of two production of Sanscrit literature. "Lepadoteraachosefichog raieokramoielghimdrimilnnfrimmatokrchle DikoSSUphophatr i/eristerrislketruenoptegke phlokigklopokolafessiraiobaphetraganapterugon." This last 'ord 19 the longest in iny language. It may e found in the Ekkle&uzousaiof Aristophanes, very excellent comedy, and placed in the louth of one of the acwre. It consists of one undred and sixty-nine letters, and makes iventy-seven syllables, and must have crea:d some laughter when spoken. Some actors f the present day would hardly try to proounce it. en. Beanregard's Letter. Gen. Beauregard has recently written letter, his chief object being to defend himjlf against the charge of cruelty to prisoners uring the war ; but unfortunately the Genral is not very felicitous in his style, and he oes a little out of the way to justify the black ag sentiments which he cherished during the truggle. This, which General Beauregard night have foreseen, has been a sweet boon o the Northern partisan journals. They lourish Beauregard's letter as a conclusive roof that it is most unwise to treat the South vith kindness and leniency. Just at this Joint, therefore, the following undoubtedly rue statements from the Memphis Avalanche, in influential Democratic paper, will be of nterest and profit: "The few old secession leaders are Generlis without armies. They no longer possess lufficient strength to issue com mauds, even to phantom battalions. Their hold upon the Southern masses is weaker than that of the Copperhead leaders on the North. They were largely in the minority in 1860, and tolay the South reads in their exploits the history of a failure. Practically, no such an element is known in Southern politics. Carpetbaggers have for years persistently asserted that a large anti-Union or Secession party exI