Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, June 10, 1875, Image 2
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
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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."
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THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1875.
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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
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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-!
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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-!
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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.
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? 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
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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
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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
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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