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Jtoaps and .facts. Thirty thousand dollars have been raised by the actors throughout the eountry, for a fund for the family of the late Dan Bryant. J A little girl at school read thus: "The | widow lived on a limbacy left by her rela- | tives." "What did you call that word?"' asked the teacher; "the word is legacy, not limbacy." "But," said the little girl, "my j sister says I must say limb, not leg." Cortina, the brigand Mayor of Mata-: moras, is said to be organizing a gigantic raid into Texas. He has defied his own Government, aud between the Texans and President Laredo's effort, it is possible he may be extinguished, although he has a large body of desperate men under him. An old tale remodeled and improved by age : "Two colored men took refuge under i a tree in a violent thunder storm. "Julius, j can you pray," said one. "No, Sam," was the reply ; "nebber pray in my life." "Well can't I, you sing a nyran V Just then the lightning 1 struck a tree near by, shivering it, when the j first speaker exclaimed: "See heah, honey, sum fin' 'ligious has got to be done, an' dat mighty suddin, too ; s'pose you pass around i de hat!" The Brooklyn Board of Supervisors, being partisans of Beecher, are said to be bullying the juryman in the scandal trial into a verdict for Beecher, by refusing to take action in the the matter of compensation for j jury service until the trial is over, although the Legislature authorized them to allow five < dollars a day extra. If the jury go against Beecher they will only get two dollars per diem. It is a very contemptible trick of the supervisors. Statistics have been collected in France, Algeria and Prussia, by which it is shown that I the Jewish race has a mean average duration j of life exceeding that of Christians by about | five years, aud that this people enjoy greater immunity from disease than Christian races. ' The causes ascribed are the inheritance of a sound physical constitution, and the watchful care of mothers over their offspring. The < plagues which have visited various countries have left them unscathed. Croup is said to be extremely rare among their children, and they have very little scrofula. The "lead" in lead pencils is not lead at all, though it is called "black lead." The weight, if nothing else, tells you that. It is a miueral, called graphite, (from the Greek word to write) and is, more nearly related to coal than to lead. You have learned that both coal and the diamond are forms of the element, carbon. Graphite is still another shape iu which carbon is found?it usually contains very little iron. Plumbago is another name * for it. It cannot be melted, but at a very high heat will burn. The fine kinds are very scarce. While stopping over night at a farmhouse in Missouri, a traveler was astonished to see his hostess walk up to her husband about every fifteen minutes and box his ears or give his hair a pull. In the morning the guest seeing the woman alone, asked an explanation of her strange conduct, and her reply was: "You see, stranger, me and the old man has been fightin' for ten years to see who shall boss this 'ere ranch, and I have jest got him cowed, but if I should let up on him for a day, he would turn on me again, and my work would all go for nothing." The decline ingrain at Chicago tfithin the last week is reckoned as follows: On wheat, 8 cents: corn, 51 ; oats, 3* ; barley, 17. Taking the stocks held in Chicago on the 15th ultimo, these reductions would represent a loss upon these four articles within the week of about 8700,000, the penalty of speculative hoarding. Besides this must be reckoned a loss at the rate of 81.45 per barrel on pork, and 75 cents per 100 pounds on lard, on the stock of provisions, which have been as much a subject of speculative manipulation as glrtlU. Setting type by telegraph is the latest invention. The London Times is said to have the machine, and to be perfecting a system by which the paper will be set simultaneously in each of the large cities where it has a large circulation. This will connect the London offices with offices in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, etc.; and a person operating the keys of the machine in London will set the type there and in all the other offices at the same time. Of course the papers will be delivered simultaneously in all the cities where there are branch offices. The ingenious French have contrived a novel way to impress the barbaric mind. M. de Brazza, who has charge of the expedition to Senegal, carries an electric battery in his pocket, communicating with two rings on his hand and with apparatus scattered about his person. When he shakes hands with a savage chief, that chief will be very much astonished, for an electric shock will run up his arm, and he will see lightning playing about the head of his visitor. Naturally, he will think he is being interviewed by the devil, and will be ready to consent to anythiug in order to get away. "Fighting Joe" Hooker take3 a whack at Tecumseh Sherman. He say3 Gen. Thomas was the great general of the army, but the real hero of the war was Farragut. Sherman In* rorrar/ls no n vain and nrfitentious hum "v * -fc>?- ? ? ' "? ? I _ i bug, who has beeD rewarded far beyoud his merits or achievement. Gen. Hooker truthfully observes that Sherman "made war like a brigand, while many other generals never forgot that they were making war on their own countrymen," and that some day his raid through Georgia and Carolina will be stamped as a disgraceful act Hv the whole civilized world. The plan of propelling cars, omnibuses, i and velocipedes by coiled springs, has now j for some time been employed in Englaud, and j it is said, with encouraging results. The mo- i tor used is an arrangement of powerful springs I encased in cylinders like watch springs on a very large scale. The skill of French ma- j chinists in this direction has been called into j requisition, and steel bands capable of being coiled and of exerting great pressure have j been made in lengths of one hundred yards j each. In Sheffield, some of the steel man-1 uf'acturers have turned out springs fifty and sixty feet long, and said to be capable of' the enormous pressure of eight hundred pounds. The sad spectacle of a child eight years old being the means of convicting his father i of murder, was presented in Jersey City last ! week. Catharine Kehoe was kicked to death by her husband. Peter Keho, the little son 1 * ? ?- ?? pf n tn ol tne (leaa woman, gave me lunumug oiuiv,-1 raent to the jury ; When my papa came home ; on Friday night he asked me to take off his shoes. I took them off, when he took one of the shoes and hit mamma on the head with one of the shoes. Then he told me to go out on the street and play. I went out and stayed half an hour. When I came in mamma was dead on the lounge. Papa sent me out for water to wash her. He then washed her aud put her to bed. Then he told me he was going out for the Coroner. That's all I know about it. We were both taken to the station house." Missouri is about to solve the grasshopper problem by eating the eaters. At an ex- j perimental feast at Warrenburg, in that State, to test the cooked locust question, the company were served with grasshopper soup, "which tasted like chicken soup," but was better; batter cakes mixed with locusts, and baked locust?plain 'hoppers without grease or condiment. The meal was closed with dessert, a la John the Baptist?baked locust and honey, and the enthusiastic reporter who partook of the repast says: "We believe this is the first attteaapt at putting this insect to its best use, and the result is not only highly satisfactory | to those brave enough to make the attempt,1 but should this insect make his visits oftener, and cause greater destruction, future generations will hail its presence with joy. ft will be j ? ?jublilee year?like manna in the wilderness,' or quails in the desert?food without money and without price. Now, dear reader, you may shrug your shoulders and smile, but henceforth we shall esteem grasshoppers as a luxury to be classed with oysters, truffles, mushrooms, &c." ?he UflrMIr <?tt<juirrr. yorkviltTE, S. C.s THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1875. . ... i that they had organized. The protest of the five seceding Republican Senators was also received, stating that they had taken the oath, but refused to act with the body so long as Priest and Proctor of districts Nos. 2 aud 4 were allowed to retain their scats. These obnoxious members were seated by a decision of the Governor and his Council, but being Democrats, the Republican members are adverse to an acknowledgement of their claims, and hence a snarl which will require the Supreme Court or Gen. Sheridan to unravel. THE THIRD TERM QUESTION. The emphatic manner in which the Repub- j lican State Convention of Pennsylvania spoke j in condemnation of a third term for President j: Grant, evoked a letter from that distinguished ;* functionary, which, it would seem, ought to be sufficient to quiet the nerves and allay the j fpnrs of those who have indulged the most an- i ? * j prehensive thoughts respecting the calamities j: to follow a third term. But, unfortunately, j the language employed even by a President ' to convey the thoughts of his mind to the vul- i gar public is susceptible of many differeut constructions; and while there be some who are content with the President's declaration, i even though it is coupled with a proviso that ! he would accept a renoraination only "under such circumstances as to render it an impera- : tiveduty," there are others who interpret his letter as an unmistakable bid for a renomination, and his own words are quoted in support of the proposition. "Whatever may be Graut's aspirations in this respect, we think there has been a good i deal of idle discussion upon the subject by | nr?a nnd nrdifiniana. and if Grant can- ! t , not find language sufficiently clear to disclaim J a wish for a third terra, his owu party will not J be slow to make him understand that at the ; end of his present term -he will have served j the nation long enough in a presidential ca- j pacity. As Pennsylvania has moved in the matter, so has Ohio, by the insertion of the ; following as the eleventh plank of tho platform adopted by the State Republican Convention, which met in Columbus on the 2nd instant: "11th. The observance of Washington's j example in retiring at the close of a second Presidential term, should be in the future as , it has beeu iu the past, regarded as a fundamental rule in the unwritten law of the re- j public." This is somewhat loconic, but unequivocal, ' and as the two States of Pennsylvania and j Ohio have spoken, so will the Republican party throughout the Union speak. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A respectable married lady of Williamsburg county, recently presented her husband with four children at one birth. ? Colored temperance societies have recent- j ly beeu orgauized in Darlington and Claren- ; dou counties. ? Last week, at Rock Hill, a negro child j was killed by its mother, having, through mis-! i fr o rJnon nf nmrnKino I tl K C , UtJ 111 1 li I ? ICi t LA IU Alt U U VCV/ Vi UJUl |yuiuv iustead of calomel. ? The majority for aid to the Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad, in Spartanburg county, at the recent election, was over one thousand votes. ? A dispatch to the Greenville Neivs says that ex-Treasurer J. P. F. Camp, of Spartan-! burg, has paid over $2,600 to the proper oHicers as part of the amount for which he is a defaulter. ? A new Division of the Sons of Temper-1 ance was recently instituted at Eelton, in Anderson county, and as the immediate result twenty-five candidates were iuitiated on the occasion of the first meeting. ? Mr. John Earron, who left Clarendon county several years ago to settle in California, has returned to Clarendon county, satis-, fied that there are some other places in the world that are no improvement on South ! Carolina. ? The Board of State Canvassers last week decided the recent Barnwell-Blackviilc election in favor of the latter, and the records of Barnwell county have been transferred to Blackville and deposited in the Court House there. ? The trial of ex-State Treasurer Niles G. i Parker is appointed to commence at Colum-! How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-oflice, county and State in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post-oHieo money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. | Postage.?The En<juirkk is delivered free of I postage to all subscribers residing in York county who receive the paper at post-oflices within the county ; and to all other subscribers the postago is paid -by the publisher. Our subscribers, no 1 matter where they receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-ollice here, without additional charge to tho subscriber. Watch the Figures.?1Tho</?fron tlie "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date mit.it be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and job- < work, are cash in advance ( SECEDING REPUBLICANS. Matters, politically, do not always run 3mooth, even in placid New England. The bleak and frigid climate of New Hampshire is a9 liable to political eruptions as tropical, blooraiDg Louisiana. Extremes meet. If the one State slumbers over a volcano, does not the other sleep under an iceberg ? We speak 1 metaphorically, of course. But we are nevertheless grieved to think that the mercurial 1 temperament of our Gaulic Louisianians is manifesting itself in the stoical Puritans, and 1 that, too, without the presence of Gatling 1 guns, brother-in-law Casey, Kellogg, Pinchback, Sypher, or the phantom army of ban- ' ditti, always with triggers sprung and ready 1 to gobble a loyal voter the moment he shows ' the white of his eye. And the trouble in New Hampshire, sad though it be to relate, 1 is all about a division in the Legislature. A paradox it may seem, but that august body met last Wednesday in Concord amidst great 1 excitement aud confusion. Twelve of the 1 Senators elected were qualified, among them being seven Democrats, and after electing 1 John Sanborn, President, the Republicans withdrew in a body. The Senate then completed its organization under Democratic auspices, and the seceding Senators met elsewhere and made a temporary organization. The House, in the meantime, organized with a Republican Speaker, after which a message was received from the Senate announcing bia on Tuesday, 6th day of July. The Charleston News and Courier is advised that the j recent postponement of the case does not in- j dicate any relaxation in the purpose to push j the prosecution vigorously when the trial is ! commenced. ? It is reported that the notorious C. P. j Leslie, ex-Land Commissioner aud a member ; of the Legislature from Barnwell county, has j absconded to avoid arrest on the charge of: defrauding the State of ahout 8200,000 while I Land Commissioner. Besides the charge of j pocketing the Land Commission money, Les- j lie is threatened with arrest for fraudulent I practices at the recent Barnwell-Blackville election. ? James Maloney was recently tried and convicted before the United States Court in Charleston of conspiracy to defraud the United States, and for falsely representing a rev-1 enue officer. He was sentenced to nav a fine ! of 8500 and to imprisonment in the Newberry j county jail for eleven months, on the first | charge; and 81000 fiue and eleven months' imprisonment on the second charge?the latter sentence to take effect at the expiration of the former. ? At a meeting of the citizens of Columbia, held on Monday evening last, a resolution was adopted directing that legal proceedings be commeuced against the Mayor and Aldermen who may be responsible for the diversion of the interest tax, the diversion of the proceeds of the bonds sold from the objects first prescribed by law, and against all those who may have committed breaches of trust in accepting contracts with the city while holding positions of trust. A resolution was also adopted requesting the members of the present City Council to resign forthwith. ? Sometime ago, Dennis R. Bunch and George Hardee were convicted before Judge Reed, in Charleston, on the charge of murder and senteuced to be hanged on Friday, the 16th day of April. The execution of this sentence was subsequently postponed by Gov. f Ihnmhnrlnin until thp 93rd nf Anril One week later. When the time fixed for the execution arrived, Governor Chamberlain was absent from the State, and the LieutenantGovernor, claiming to exeicise the Executive prerogative in that behalf, reprieved the criminals until the 28th day of May, which day was permitted by the Sheriff of Charleston to pass without enforcing the judgment of the Court, under legal advice that the Lieutenant-Governor had no constitutional power to respite or to fix a day for the execution of the sentence. Under these circumstances, on Monday last Judge Reed re-sentenced the criminals to be executed on Friday, the 25th instant. Judge Reed also directed the Solicitor to prepare a rule against Sheriff Bowen, requiring him to show cause why he should not be attached for contempt and indicted for neglect of duty, in failing to execute Bunch and Hardee in pursuance of the sentence of the Court. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. " .1 /? il . ? The work of changing the gauge or me railroad between Greensboro and Goldsboro is progressing. ? An argument was made in the Court at Charlotte last week against the legality of the usury law of North Carolina so far as the act applies to National bauks. ? The Fayetteville Gazette says the railroad from that place to Florence, S. C., is progressing, and that nearly twenty miles are graded. ? Col. Wheeler, who was the first Superintendent of the Charlotte Mint, forty years ago, has been appointed to take an inventory of the establishment, preparatory to closing it up. ? Geo. M. Cunningham was hung in Asheville ou Friday last for the murder of Mr. Sternburg. In a written confession, Cunningham says he committed the deed in self-defense?he and his victim having quarreled over a game of cards. ? A large number of the penitentiary convicts are now employed by the cotton planters around Raleigh. The employers pay the State sixty cents a day. The convicts work under guard, but do so cheerfully, and the arrangement works mutually satisfactorily. MERE-MENTION. The Mexican Government has recently made extensive contracts for railroad aud telegraphic improvements. Postmaster General Jewell is making an extensive Western trip to see for himself how the postal system works. A new Masonic Hall, said to be the finest building of the kind in the Union, was dedicated in New York last week. Masons were present from all parts of the country, and over 22,000 were in the procession. The Republican Convention of Ohio nominated R. B. Hayes for Governor. Distillery property to the value of 8125,000 was seized in different parts of the country last week. The United States district judge of Texas decides the civil rights law unconstitutional. The new schedule on the Air-Line Railroad, makes the time from New York city to Atlanta in forty-two and one half hours. There are in the United States 8,654 Blue Lodges, 543,474 Master Masons, 496 Encampments and 40,410 Knights. A proposition to abolish | imprisonment for debt has just been rejected j by the constitutional convention of Missouri. Bon. Hill in his speech the other day, said : | "The South has abandoned secession ; let the j North abandon reconstruction." The two artillerymen, Messrs. Williams and Bingham, who each lost an arm at the Charlotte Centennial, are improving favorably. It is stated that there are four thousand vacant j houses in Brooklyn, New York. Ily-: drophobia is reported to be raging terribly in Medina county, Texas, among wolves and all animals that they bite. Farmers are having ! to kill their stock. They pay seventy-five cents a bushel for dead grass-hoppers in Mis- ; souri. The Italian brigands are holding an English mother-in-law for ransom, and the son-in-law says they can hold her and be <1?isappointed. The Savannah News ' last week received a cotton bloom from Mad- j ison county, Florida. The flouring mills of Augusta, Ga., have commenced grinding new wheat. Watermelons by the car load are being shipped from Gainesville, Florida. A pitched battle occurred last Tlnirsrhiv ni!,ir Mahanov citv. Pa., between a body of striking miners and a posse under command of the Sheriff. Two hundred shots were fired by both parties and a number of men w^re wounded on both sides. President Grant and family, with their retainers,' arrived at Long Branch on Thursday of last week. President Grant is in a fair way for another term, after all. Unless something happens, the term "grandfather" will be applied to him before many weeks. Mrs. Sartoris is with the family at Long Branch. A y.cssel sailed from New York for Liverpool on Saturday with 6,159 bales of cotton, which is said to be, with one exception, the largest cargo of this staple ever taken from any United States port. It is very quiet on the Potomac this year, so far as shad fish- i ing is concerned. George Grant owns 576,000 acres of land in Kansas. The tract embraces one whole county and part of another. Montgomery Blair thinks that John \V. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, will be the nominee of the Democrats for President of the United States. He thinks that Grant will be the Republican nominee. editorialTinklings. May 20th at Princeton. The students at Princeton College,from the Carolinas and Tennessee, celebrated the 20th of May in appropriate style. Those who participated in the exercises were Messrs. J. M. Barkley, A. B. Gillespie, W. B. McKoy, F. W. Hughes, R. H. McKoy and T. H. McKoy, of North Carolina; R. A. Springs of South Carolina; L. G. Walker, W. M. Smith, H. Stevenson, J. E. Richardson, B. R. Lytle, N. Benedict and W. M. Woods, of Tennessee. The Mecklenburg Declaration was read, and speeches were made by T. H. McKoy, R. A. Springs, A. B. Gillespie and J. M. Barkley, the latter being highly complimented for his effort. A paper refuting T1 1IT.1I! .1 J 3 L>r. vveinug was ineu reuu, uuu suppci imlowed, with toasts to Mecklenburg, the old North State, "Southern ladies," &c. Poetical Sentiment on the Gallows. ? The religious fervor manifested by convicts when about to expiate their crime on the gallows has been ofteD noted ; and the zeal of their devotions and their faith in a better life and brighter land, would indicate that true repentance could be made and free forgiveness obtained only by the commission of the greatest crime known to our laws. This is all well enough, perhaps ; though it is a relief to meet with occasional instances where the poetical takes the place of the religious rhapsodies so frequently indulged by hardened criminals. And for this reason we commend the conduct of a negro named A ring, who was hanged in Atlanta, Georgia, last Friday. We are told that he "died fearless, and had nothing to say but 'good-bye,'" though on the morning of the execution ho indited a brief epistle to his father in which he represented the situation in the following poetical simile : "I expect to be a dead man in four hours. I expect to be lying under the gallows, and I hope at the time to be as sound asleep as a dead pig in the sunshine." When urged to modify this imaginative comparison " * . i - j?j lJ tie reiusea, staling mat a ueau pig wuuiu know nothing and so would he. And for aught we know, he died happy ! You do ii is in at the North. The votaries of voudouisra are not all confined to the cotton-fields of the Southern States, as will appear by the following story, which comes from West Hoboken, New York: "The death of Christopher Hoag, a respectable baker of West Hoboken, who was buried Thursday, has developed a very remarkable case of the practice of voudouisra. Oue Genet, a negro, has been practicing as a voudou doctor for some time past in the West Hoboken neighborhood, and the number and respectability of his dupes, as well as the extraordinary and brutal nature of his practice, almost passes credence. He combines surgery, medicine and heathenish incantations with recklessness and confideuce, and is singularly successful in winning converts to his doctrine. Mr. Hoag, who has just died under the fellow's ministrations, was a respectable and prosperous man of business. The African priest who duped him is as black as Erebus, and has an oily tongue and a perfect com niand of texts from the Bible, with which he interlards his discourses. His invariable custom is to scarify his patients all over the body with the figure of a cross, rubbing some fluid into the skin, which produces intense pain. The medicine given by the voudou doctor is a kind of "hell broth," very offensive to both smell and taste ; but his dupes, who are both many and of high respectability, take it with perfect faith. What Manufacturing' Does. Under the above heading the Raleigh News makes the following statement, which goes to show the benefits to be derived by a community from the encouragement of manufacturing pursuits. What manufacturing establishments have done for the little town of Durham they will do for any town or village in the Southern States : "The little town of Durham on the North Carolina Railroad, in the couuty of Orange, is an example of what sagacious application of capital and industry will do for a people. Ten years ago Durham was known only as a way station on the railroad and a getting off place for the University at Chapel Hill. Today it is literally in every man's mouth, a fa miliar name all over the United States, and not unknown to the ends of the earth. What has made this mighty change? Nothing but the introduction of manufactures. True, it is mainly confined to one staple. But the manufacture of that staple moves the springs of a hundred industries. It stimulates the farmer in the production of a crop which he sells at good prices almost at his very door. It gives employment to hundreds in the conversion of the raw material into the manufactured article. It gives work to the carpenter in the manufacture of packages. It gives activity to a thousand needles in the making of bags. It draws population, and to meet their wants, mechanics are called to construct houses. The increase of population necessitates the increase of mercantile establishments, and the necessities cf this increased population beget other trades, industries and manufactures. Everybody is busy. Everybody finds employment. There is no idling, no loitering, no complaint of dull times." The Stubborn Indians. A final interview with the chiefs of the Sioux Indians was held iu Washington last Thursday, but resulted in a failure to make satisfactory arrangements for the relinquish ment of the Black Hills or any other portion of their reservation by the Indians. Secretary Delano explained the position of the Government in regard to the hunting privileges in Nebraska, and as an additional inducement to them to sign away their privilege to hunt in a certain section of the State, pledged his efforts to secure an additional appropriation of 825,000, to be paid on condition they should keep off this grouud. He also referred again to the Black Hills country and the country in Wyoming occupied by Sioux. He said he would appoint a commission to go out to the Sioux country and treat with them in reference to the Black Hills and the Big Horn mountain country in Wyoming. The Commissioner procured a map and gave them a lesson iu geography, illustrating the scale and showing them what portion of their country the government desired them to relinquish. Spotted Tail seemed unusually animated, and made a pithy speech, saying that as he 1 a.\? C? fko on mo fl voof llliu me oeuruiurj ju ityeu iu tuv ou>u^ Spirit, it was very singular that they should differ so much. The Indians own the country the Great Spirit gave them,and they never try to steal the country of any one else; while the whites, who have a big country, still want to steal what little the Indiaus have, lie closed by saying that it was not worth while to discuss the subject of selling the Black Ilills, as their (the Indians') price would be too large. The Indians left the Capital last Friday, having evidently disappointed a large number of politicians, who expected a fat job at their expense. LOCAL AFFAIHS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A. H. Davega, President?Chester and Lenoir Rail Road?Rail Road Meeting Revoked. I. L. Gun house A Co.?Great Excitement In Chester. M. Strauss?New Goods?Prints?Hats?White Goods. : John C. Kuykendal?10,000?5,000?Marsden'a Syrup?Balsam of Wild Cherry?Cathartic Elixir?Syrup. | C. G. Parish, Agent?A Few Facts?Cocoanuts? Axes?Lemons?Cradles?Crackers?Corn Meal?Crockery?Shoes?Snuff?HominySugar and Coffee, j T. M. Dobson A Co.?Groceries?Goods at Low Prices?Cradles? Counterpanes?Shawls? Saccules?Bibles?Remember?Spurs?Umbrellas?Cards?Trunks?Snuff?Ready Made Shirts?Hardware?Guns?Clothing, j Carolina Manufacturing Co.?The Carolina Sewing Machine, j J. M. Lowry?Notice to Trespassers. FINE RAINS. This section was visited with fine rains on Saturday and Sunday evenings, which, we I learn, were general throughout the county. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. We have been requested to give notice that there will be no meeting of the Board of County Commissioners until Monday, the 21st instant. .LOCK-BOXES^ Postmaster Wallace has fitted up fifty lockboxes in the postoffice here, which will prove a great convenience to those who avail themselves of the facilities they offer. The boxes are rented and keys furnished on the same terms governing similar arrangements in all postoffices throughout the country. Nearly all the boxes have been taken already. FIRE. Between one and two o'clock last Tuesday night, the blacksmith shop of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad at this place was discovered to be on fire, and before the alarm could be sufficiently given, the flames made such headway as to render it impossible to check their progress. The building, a wooden structure, was destroyed,, and such of the tools that could not be removed were injured to some extent. The loss, will probably not exceed four hundred dollars. The origin of the fire I is unknown,.but supposed to be accidental. PERSONAL. Plon. A. S. Wallace, who for the past two months has been on a visit to two of his married daughters who are living in Texas, returned to his home in this county last Friday evening. Mr. John G. Enloe, the Auditor of this county, who has been spending several weeks on the islands in the vicinity of Charleston for the purpose of recuperating his health, returned to his home in this place on Mouday evening, feeling that his physical condition was somewhat improved by his visit to the sea-shore. THE RAIL ROAD CONTRACT. We regret to be under the necessity of stating that in consequence of the inability of the contracting parties to agree upon the minor stipulations of the contract, the proposed arrangement with Major Geo. W. Melton, of Chester, for completing the Chester and Lenoir Railroad from Yorkville to Dallas, has been abandoned. Efforts are still being made to effect such arrangements as will secure the putting of the road in operation at an early day, the success of which, however, will depend very much upon the hearty cooperation and aid of those who are so much interested and who are to be specially benefitted by the completion of the road. By advertisement in to-day's Enquirer, it will be seen that the call issued for a meeting of the stockholders at Chester, to-day, has been revoked. SALES-DAY. The following property was sold by the Sheriff on Monday last: Tract of land levied on as property of S. K. Gill; bought by Andrew Haffner at 8871.. Tract of land levied on as property of J. R. Bratton ; bought by H. F. Adickes and others at 81000. T. S. Jefferys, Assignee, sold the homestead of J. D. Johnson, bankrupt?198 acres; bought by C. E. Spencer at 85.50 per acre. Thomson & Jefferys, Assignees, sold a lot in Rock Hill, which had been set off as homestead of R. M. Kerr, bankrupt; bought by A. E. Hutchison at 8580. The same Assignees sold a lot in Rock Hill which had been set off as homestead of W. L. Roach, bankrupt; bought by A. E. Hutchison at 8500. KING'S MOUNTAIN MILITARY SCHOOL. The second session of the present schoolyear of the above institution will begin on the 1st of next month. No school in the South affords facilities superior to King's Mountain for the education and proper training of youth. Gen. D. H. Hill, the editor of the Southern Home, alludes to the school and its accomplished principal in the following words: "The King's Mountain Military School has been well known for over 20 years. Colonel Coward, the Superintendent, is a conscientious teacher and a thorough disciplinarian, opposed TT I to sham and humoug. lie Knows so uuie ui the grand art of blowing his own horn that his great worth is not fully known. It is peculiarly appropriate that a tried soldier should be at the head of a military school. Bombproof soldiers in time of war are usually fuss and feather warriors in time of peace. Marshal Ney was not more cool on the battlefield than Colonel Coward. Now he is as unpretentious as he was then gallant." TRANSFERS OF*REAL ESTATE. The following are the transfers of real estate recorded in the office of the County Auditor since our last report: 0. J. Gwinn to J. K. Good. Tract of 51 acres in Bullock's Creek township. Consideration $5.50. J. F. Hart to Nelson Da vies. Lot of 7 acres in York township. Consideration $245. H. J. Hullender to J. A. Mullenax. Tract of 378 acres in Cherokee township. Consideration $1050. T tt n._t_i? J. IT.. OUllOIl 10 tlUUll XI loiiois. nm ui 531 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration S1500. R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to M. W. Mendenhall. Tract of 250 acres in Bethesda township. I Consideration 8500. E. S. Chambers to James Stewart. Tract j of SI acres in York township. Consideration 8300. F. M. Walker to Alexander Jackson and others, trustees. Lot in King's Mountain township. Consideration 820. iUUUDER NEAll McCONNELLSVlLLE. On Saturday last, between 12 and 1 o'clock, J Leouidas McNeel, a white man, was shot in j the yard of his residence near McConnellsville i in this county, by a negro named Fred. Jones. I The origin of the difficulty which led to the ! commission of the deed was not clearly developed at the inquest held on Saturday night by Trial Justice J. B. Williams, acting coro? i U tun a In fkn nm. i uer j UUL we leuni mat uuuco nao iu bug va?ployment of the deceased, either as a cropper or in the capacity of a hired inan, and on the day preceding the difficulty a dispute arose bej tween thera. High words ensued, and Mr. MeNeel ordered Fred.'off his premises, cau! tiouing hira never to come there again. Fred ; then left, but returned nrtxt day dressed in i his best clothe, ajsijmipg a menacing attitude and demanding a plow-line which he claime to have left on the premises. The quarri was renewed, but no one on the premises wt attracted by the altercation until the report < a pistol was heard, when Adam Chambei rushed from the kitchen to the scene of th quarrel, and found Mr. McNeel lying on th ground, wounded from the effects of a pist< I shot in the breast. Two shots were fired, th first one only taking effect. Mr. McNeel ? once asked the witness to hasten for a phys cian, saying that he had been shot, and Fre< walked away at a rapid pace. Other wi nesses were examined, though their testirnon furnishes no important facts. Dr. J. S. M< Neel testified that he arrived at the house < the deceased between 12 and 1 o'clock, c Saturday, June 5th, to see the deceased, an found him shot by a pistol hall, the same ei teringthe upper lobe ofthe right lung. Foun the deceased in a prostrate condition and d; ing. The wound was a mortal one and wi ness believed the immediate cause of the deal Ul uttcaocu, The verdict of the jury was to the eflfei that deceased came to his death from the e fects of a pistol ball fired by Fred. Jone Fred, came to Yorkville on Sunday raorniii and surrendered himself to the Sheriff, claic ing that he committed the deed in self-d fense. The murderer was committed to jai Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquire: LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, June 7th, 1875. Monday evening of last week was an occ sion of unbounded enjoyment to the pupils Mrs. Strobel's school. Elaborate prepar tions had been made for the crowning of the Queen of May, and in this delightful woi did they enter with all the zeal and enthu: asm of their happy hearts. Her Majesty wi attired with great beauty, and received tl honors showered upon her with exceedir grace and dignity. Handsome decoratio; ornamented the hall of the Female Academ where the royal entertaiuraent was held, portion of the floor was elevated and carpete which, together with the wreaths and ga lands of evergreens that hung upon the wall made the place to correspond with tl character of the brilliant event that ensue The exercises of the evening were introduc< by a song from a number of young ladie Then followed a dialogue, which was admi ably rendered. This was succeeded by tl crowning of the May-Queen. The Maids Honor, and Fairies, all of whom presented charming appearance, vied with each oth in bestowing honors upon their Queen, wl in turn performed her part handsorael Among the little misses who acted their par so well, was Esther Guuhouse, the daughti of one of our highly-esteemed and promine merchants. Though only six years of ag she delivered her piece with so much emph sis and expression as to receive considerab applause from the audience. Did space pe mit, it would give me great pleasure to allu< to several little misses and young ladies wl won brilliant honors in placing upon the fa brow of their chosen Q.ueen the flowery wreai of her authority. The entertainment clos< with a dance, which was greatly enjoyed \ both participators and spectators. The Southern Life Insurance Company h: been represented here for several days by M Miller, of Augusta, and Mr. Truetlen, of C lumbia. They organized a board compost of a uumber of our prominent citizens, wl will take charge of the affairs of the Compar at this place. J. J. McLure, Esq., was chose President of the Board; C. S. Brice, Esc Vice President; E. T. Atkiusou, Esq., Seer tary, and Giles J. Patterson, Esq., Attorne The following geutlemeu constitute the Ex cutive Committee: Messrs. J. H. Smith, S. Wilson, Joseph Wylie, I. L. Gunhouse, W. Wilkes, Robert Hope and T. S. Mil! The Company promises that all money o tained from the payment of premiums on pc icies taken at this place, and issued by tl Southern Life, shall be invested here. I representatives are even now thinking erecting a handsome building at the corner Main and Centre streets. Trial Justice Sanders united in the bom of holy matrimony, a couple in low life < Thursday. A desire to witness the perfori ance of the ceremony by our youthful justic occasioned the preseuce of a considerab number of spectators. Their opiuion w; that he could tie the matrimonial knot ju no firrVif- if nnC ns wpll AS ft nilTSOn COUl , r He only needs experience to arrive at perfe tion in joiniug couples in rinculi matrimonii Mr. ?T. M. Ivy, of Hock Hill, paid our tow a flying visit last week, with the view of bu, ing a large lot of cottou, held by parties her He effected the purchase, and then went c his way rejoicing. Mr. Ivy is a gentleman < sense, shrewdness aud weakh, and when the elements are combined, a mau of power is tl inevitable result. The members of the Methodist Sunda School, with their invited friends, spent a d lightful day in the woods, at Lowrysvillc, c Friday. The traiu, which left the depot i nine o'clock, was filled with pleasure seeker who were brimfull of joyous expectation The scene of festivity was reached after brief ride, which was greatly enjoyed by al especially by tne juveniles, uonsiaeraoie ui appointment was experienced in not findin upon the grounds the party from Yorkvill who were expected to share in the pleasuri of the day. The place chosen for the picn: did not possess an abundance of shade, whic inclined a number of young ladies, who wei careful about their complexions, to remain good portion of the time, in a house that wi near by. They were joined by young gentl men, who, upon this occasion, were equall afraid of th<f "sun ; aud in spelling raatche and other happy ways, did the party withi doors find unalloyed enjoyment. Those wt were willing for Old Sol to look upon the faces, sought the shade of such trees as tl place afforded, and iu the playing of game drank to their heart's content of the pui | fountain of happiness. But picnic pleasure j alas, have an ending. The lengthening shai i ows of the evening impressed upon all tl propriety of turning their faces in the dire i tion of "Home, Sweot Home." The train, which was in waiting, was soc filled with a merry throng, who, in a sho time, arrived safely in town. As the train on the railroad to Yorkvil was aoDroachinp Chester on Friday, a ci -r r 0 ? , load of cotton wa9 discovered to be on fir ' The fire was speedily extinguished, and r j suited in but little damage. The Stonewall Fire Engine Company a] peared upon the street, with their engine ar hose,on Friday afternoon. They halted for time in front of Mr. Schorb's photograph ga lery for the purpose of haviug their "pictu taken." After the shadow had been caugh and pronounced very good, the Compar spent some time in throwing streams of wat to the great delight of many spectators. Mrs. McNinch, a very aged lady, departt this life in our town yesterday. , The dry spell, which wa9 beginning to ( d some damage, was brought to an end by a ?1 splendid rain on Saturday night. Different is portions of the county have also been blessed >f with fine rains. The agricultural prospects, rs at the present writing, are excellent. 10 The market report is as follows: Cotton, ie dull and lower; middling, 141; bacon, 14}@ >1 15; haras, 18@20; lard, 20; butter, 20; ie coffee, 25@28 ; eggs, 20 cents per dozen ; corn, it $1.25 per bushel; meal, $1.40, and flour, $4@ i- $4.75. Qui. b Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial. l' A TALK WITH GOV. CHAMBERLAIN. y Columbia, S. C., May 24.?I came down c" from Charlotte in company with D. H. Cham* sf berlain, the present Governor of South Carou lina, and the best one of the sorry lot that d have ruled her destinies since the war. Mr. 3. Chamberlain seems to be doing his whole duty, ^ and that he has incurred the displeasure of the thieves in the Legislature is a high testimoP" uial to his honesty and worth. The last Legislature was the first one in seven years that ? * ? - ?_A. J II. .iff ;h did not steal ngnt ana ien, uuu wain, uu with the plunder in broad daylight, in which ct respect only they differed from other burglars. ' ,? Under Moses and Scott the thieves used to buy flour, meal, meat, dry goods and whisky, s* aud have the bills paid out of the State treas'8 ury, and charged to the contingent fund! In Q- one year they stole more than is required to e- pay the expenses of the Ohio Legislature for 11. three years. And Ohio is a rich State. The eutire taxable wealth of South Carolina is r# only about 8165,000,000. It has been steadily decreasing since the war, and had the thieves not been compelled to let up from other causes, they soon would for want of anything ' a- to steal. The poor old goose has been plucked 0f to near the last feather. The Governor incurred the wrath of the thieves in the last Legislature by resolutely ir vetoing every measure that had money in it. 'k In this he was sustained by the Conservative si- members to a man, and by a few Republicans, as so that nothing could be passed over his head. ie He is master of the situation, and has been honored by the indignation of the rascals, and the applause of the oppressed taxpayers. 08 But his course has led to a split in the Rey. publican party here, which may ultimately A bring about Conservative ascendency, d, "Governor," said I, "you were elected as a r. straight Republican, were you not ?" [8 "Certaiuly, and I have never been anything ^ else. I was elected against a Liberal Repub, licau, for whom the Democrats voted." "Then why should there be so much oppo^ sition to you of late from your own party ?" 40 ?ioa T o no offnm ntnrl fn /IOPPV iJCtaUOU X UATQ UbbVUl^ivu kV VM* VMV r- the pledges of reform that were embraced in ie the platform, and that I made on the stump." f "That has aroused indignation, has it?" "Yes, sir, indeed. You see the party has a ever been going into campaigns promising reer trenchment and reform, and never perforra10 ingit. To attempt to carry out these pledges, y. as I have been trying to do, was something new, and has aroused an opposition that I er thought did not exist, even in South Carolina." t "Are you aware, Governor, how deeply you have injured yourself with your party by car'e? rying out the pledges made in the campaign ?" a* "I am. It was not expected that I would le attempt to inaugurate reform or put a stop >r- to the stealing of the Legislature. It was supposed that all the promises of retrenchJQ men t and reform were put in to catch votes, . and not with any idea of carrying them out. "" But I determined to stand square up to the platform and put in a clean record during my id term of two years, letting the consequences to >y me personally be what they might." THE DISAPPOINTED LEGISLATURE, as "The plunderers iu the last Legislature," r> continued the Governor, "were greatly disap0. pointed. For the first time in their official , lives they had to go home without having ' n Um tkniM on 1 ni*ioo unr) o ) 1111A iuauc aiijtiuug uui iuui oaiatiw ?uu m i??v*v )0 minor picking." 'J "Were there no measures with money in >n them?" I#| " Oh ! yes; but I vetoed them. I was dee. termined they should not have an opportunity to make a dollar if I could help it. A very large number of the members of the e* South Carolina Legislature came to the Capital for the purpose of selling their votes and J. making all they could out of the office, and Is. that they should be thwarted of course occa* I,, sions indignation, but I am sustained by the t honest men of both parties, and that is iny reward." "Do you intend to fight it out on that line, 15 Governor?" of "I do, be the consequences what they may of to me personally; and I am determined, the two years that I am in office, to do all I can aaa/1 aPfha fitofa on/1 1 icrVifpn )Q the burdens of the taxpayers. I know it is unpleasant to be at variance with a portion D" of one's own party, but when I subscribed to :e> the pledges in our platform, I did so deterle mined to carry them out as far as possible, and as not merely to catch votes." St WHOLESALE STEALING. d. "You propose to cut down expenses all c. around, I believe ?" "Yes, every cent that can be saved to the State I propose shall be saved. Reform, if it n was not of itself right, has become absolutely y* necessary, or the State will sink. Matters e. can not run for six years to come as they have in for the past six years. Why, just look at it," 0f continued the Governor, with some warmth ; se "here is a small State, two-thirds of the property of which was swept away during the war, 18 leaving an actual taxable basis less than many single counties in the North, yet from the 'contingent funds' alone in the past six years e- there has been taken the astonishing sum of ,n 8376,832.74. One-fifth of that sum would lt have been ample?the rest might be put down to stealage. ' "Then the legislative expenses proper have 9> been beyond all reason. The last six sessions, a up to the time I was inaugurated, cost the 1, State, under the head of 'legislative expenses,' s- the enormous sum of $2,147,430.97. These ,g figures, I may say, are unparalleled in the history of American legislation. It is steal' ing, pure and simple. The session of 1871-72 f3 alone cost $617,234.10, besides there is out10 standing of bills payable, issued on account h of legislative expenses, $192,275.15 more. I ? - .1 ./? ll.^ re would HKe to compare tne expenses 01 wits a Ohio Legislature with this; yet Ohio is worth w ten dollars where South Carolina is worth ^ one, and her Legislature is correspondingly able to indulge in the luxury of contingent y funds and an array of attaches. s> "The average expense for attaches and n contingencies of the South Carolina Legisla10 ture per session has been $258,424.65! And jr these enormous and disgraceful figures represent only the actual payments made. There is still afloat a vast amount of unpaid claims 8' of the sort, not less, at least, than $500,000." THE GREATEST STEAL OF ALL. 8' "Then there was the Printing Fund. The cost of printing and advertising for six years was$l,104,569.91. Think of that! Largely c- over a million of dollars expended for 'printing aud advertising.' And what has the State | to show for it? Absolutely nothing. For IQ | three years?1871, 1872 and 1873?printing rj. and advertising cost the State $918,629.86, or I over three huudred dollars a year, or about ! one thousand dollars a day ! And this in a 'e i State the entire taxable wealth of which is ir less than many single counties in the North, e. Do you think it is time for reform ?" e-1 I thought so. IGNORANT OFFICALS. p. J "When I came into office," said the Gover|?j nor, "there were at least two hundred trial i justices in the Stato who could not read or a write. The duties of a trial justice here are I" precisely the same as the duties of justice of re the peace iu other States. Yet previous govit, ernors had appoiuted and commissioned over ,y 200 men to the important duties of this er office who could not write or read a word of the English language. It was a farce and a fraud; for how can men thus ignorant intelligently try causes, civil aud criminal, brought I before them ? The idea seems to hold that lo men must be rewarded for political service by