Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, July 08, 1875, Image 2
Straps and Jfacts.
Willis Rusael, a promineut witness
against the Owens county, Ky., Ku-Klux,
was assassiuated, at Louisville, on Sunday
last.
Father Boehm, the oldest living Methodist
clergyman, preached his centennial sermon
in New York on Sunday. He was born
iu Philadelphia, June 8, 1775, and began to
preach in 1800 as a traveling clergyman.
A telegram at the Navy Department
from Key West, reports one death and two
new cases of yellow fever there on Friday.
The atmosphere and present indications are
unfavorable.
Women, it seems, are more easily dis- j
appointed than men. Of the one hundred j
and forty-one inmates of the Michigan insane I
asylum, whose supposed cause of insanity can ,
he traced to disappointed affections, eightyfour
are women and fifty-seven are men.
Over SI nOft Dflft nf N"utinnal Ttunlr enr
rency has been issued since May 27th, upon
which eighty per cent, of legal tenders will
he retired. Siuce the passage of the Act of
January 14, 1875, nearly ?8,000,000 National
Bank currency have been issued.
Headquarters of the National Grange
of the Patrons of Husbandry, which, ever
since the orgauizatiou of the order in 1869,
have heen in the city of Washington, will
probably be moved to Louisville, Ky., iu a
short time.
A Missouri correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune tells of a swarm of locusts from
30 to 75 miles wide, half a mile deep, passing |
through the air at a speed of fifteen miles au |
hour for sixty hours continuously, and driving
people in doors for fear of being smothered to i
death.
A wealthy man died some months ago. |
Some of his heirs were slighted, and tried to j
break the will on the ground of unsound mind
on the part of the testator. The effort failed.
It was shown in evidence that the man made
most of his money by judicious advertising.
The Court remarked : We need look no further
for proof of this man's sound judgment."
And the Court was right.
The Palace Hotel, now neariug completion,
iu San Francisco, is the largest hotel
structure in the world. It covers 96,250
square feet of ground, and is seven stories
high ; 24,661,000 bricks were used in its walls,
3,000 tons of cast and wrought iron, and 4,
561,524 feet of lumber and timber. It contains
1,060 windows, 377 of which are bay
windows; 926 rooms, none of less size than
16x16 feet, and 388 bath rooms. It contains
over three miles of halls; there are passenger
elevators and five grand stairways ; there are
4,540 doors, 9,000 gas burners, and thirty-two
miles of gas and water pipe. It requires
50,900 yards, or twenty-eight miles of carpet.
It can accommodate 1,200 guests besides 360
servants and employes. And, best of all,
there is not a dark or windowless room in the
house. It has been decided to run a length
of heavy plate glass, sixteen inches high,
along the top of the bulusters and balustrades,
as a precaution against accidents by children
sliding down the balusters or climbing the
balustrades. This plate glass will reflect the
gas jets, and at night the iuterior courts will
preseut a dazzling scene.
There is a notion quite prevalent in
the minds of the people that the drinking of
hard water is injurious to health, and most
physicians have warned people to so far as
tKjssible avoid the practice. But Dr. Lether1
TV. _ ! _!_ -I 1 _ I J i. _ J
ny, an rmgnsn pnysician, wno nas uevoieu
much time to investigating the subject, fiuds
as the result of his observations that hard
water is not only clearer, cooler, and more
free from air and agreeable to the taste than
soft, but that it is less liable to the absorption
of organic matter and to the sustenance of the
life of symotic organisms, or to exert solvent
properties upon salts of iron or upon leaden
conducting pipes. And he claims that the
lime salts exert a beneficial influence. It is
asserted that a practical test of the truth of this
new theory is to be had in the case of the residents
of mountainous districts, where the
water is almost invariably hard, and where
the inhabitants exhibit the best physical development.
He claims that water containing
six grains of carbouate of lime to the gallon
is suitable for use in all household purposes,
for such water offers the necessary
amount ofcabouate of lime for the support of
life in the simplest and most digestible form.
Moore'8 Rural New Yorker.
The Southern Congressmen will spare
their Northern friends a great deal of anxiety
during the next sessiou of the National General
Assembly. Recently, in a conversation
with a reporter of the New York Times, Senator
Ransom, of North Carolina, said that he
had recently conversed with a number of
those gentleman elected to the next Congress
from Southern States who were officers in the
rebel array, and is led to believe that they
will be more conservative in speech and national
in their actions on the floor of Congress
than very many Northern Democrats who will
be members of that body. They are determined
to avoid everything that might be construed
as sectionalism, and will strive to discharge
their public duties in such manner as
will command the respect and confidence of
the people of the entire country. The Senator
believes that those who expect to see these
ex-Coufederates moving to undo the results
accomplished by the war,advocating payment
of debts incurred by the late rebellious States,
or any other follies so frequently alluded to
in this connection, will be egregiously disappointed.
He says some of the more prominent
of this class express the belief that they
will find more difficulty in curbing some of
the Northern Democrats than in disciplining
their own number. They will, he thinks,
prefer to follow Gordon and Lamar, rather
than hot.hp,ids likp John Younf* Brown.
The following is an extract from a letter
written by a lady in Lincoln, Nebraska,
to her mother in Maryland, in regard to the
grasshoppers that are devastating portions
of Nebraska: "The grass-hoppers have been
Hying over us for the last five days, so thick
that a person can look at the sun without
hurting the eyes, the clouds of iusects making
everything hazy, like Indian summer
weather. To give you some idea of how many
there are, I will state that some of the professors
at the university, with their telescopes,
made some experiments ou them, and found
that the grass-hopper clouds were one mile
thick, and by the telegraph ascertained that
they were 400 miles wide, and have been
Hying for five days at the rate of 100 miles
per day. Thus you can form an estimate
of their multitude; but a person must see
them to believe. Last night a shower brought
them down on us like a hail storm. In a
f ? - - i *i
great many parts or tne state wnere uiey
have alighted they have cleaned up every
green thing. They have eaten up a great
deal here since last night, and if they stay
through the day we will not have much left.
They are so thick that you can swing your
hat around and get it half full. The crops are
red with them, and our fair young State
is in mourning. Yesterday, business was
almost entirely suspended, and the day was
spent in fasting and prayer for deliverance
from this Egyptian plague."
President Grant, the correspondents say,
keeps himself rather shady at Long Branch.
Very little is seen of him. Grant will not
talk even to his most intimate friends about
the third term. But the most popular and
best natured and most jolly boy at Long
Branch is said to be Algernon Sartoris, the
husband of Nellie Grant, and son-in-law to
the President. When he is not driving his
pretty wife along the beach in a little pony
chaise, he wanders along the drive in an unassuming
manner in a loose sack coat valued
at about 86 or 87, and makes himself at home
in a good natured, plucky way that defies criticism
and makes him quite liked by all
the young people, lie is fine gymnast, a
good boxer in an amateur way, and a hard
walker; but then walking at Long Branch is
so "bl a-r-sted dusty" that he does not care to
do enough of it for his health. YouDg Sartoris
is also fond of a glass of lager, and has
taken a great liking to that beverage?in
I schooners. His usual way is to step into
j Jouss' lager beer saloon, and, with a goodnatured
nod, cry out: "Ob, I say, isn't it
; doosed 'ot. Just give me a large gloss of beah,
! won't you, old fellah ? And I say, be smart
about it, you?it's so doosed 'ot. Thanks, old
fellah. I'll take another, like a good boy."
j That is considered a democratic kind of way
! for a nobleman with ?12,000 a year, an old
| family name, and married to Gear's daugh|
ter.
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SOUTH CAROLINA AN1) THE CENTENNIAL.
Judge Mackey has written a lengthy letter
to T. W. Woodward, President of the South
Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Society,
urging the necessity of some action on the
part of the people to have the State rspresented
in the National Centennial exhibition on
the Fourth of July, 1876, to which Major
Woodward replies, in effect, that the appointment
of Gen. Wm. Guerney as the Commissioner,
selected by ex-Governor Moses, to represent
this State, precludes the possibility of
him, as President of the Society, having any
l?f in iLn nalnknofiAn Mob.
I |;ui it Ul IVb 111 blio VCibUlAUUUi JL 1 Will AUMjUl
I Woodward's letter we extract the following
I paragraphs:
I The present commissioner shall and can
never represent me or mine. He i9 the fit
representative of South Carolina carpet-baggers,
and not of the descendants of South
Carolina Revolutionary patriots.
While Governor Moses is to be blamed for
the nomination, Gen. Grant cannot be excused
for making the appointment without a remonstrance.
Why, sir, have the signers of the Declaration
of Independence of 1770?Itutledge,
Heyward, Lynch and Middleton?no living
representative? Have the names of Hayne,
Suroter, Marion, Hampton, Kershaw, isutier,
and the sons of many other Revolutionary
patriots I could name, all departed from the
State? Even in this event, could no native
born citizen be found to represent South Carolina,
one of the original Thirteen !
The insult, sir, is pointed; it must have
been designed to degrade. No, sir, I shall
not>nor do I think any true South Carolinians
will, take part in the Centennial, under the
auspices of the preseut commissioner. Some
may be present, but they will be mere "lookers
on in Venice."
The late cordial greeting given to the representatives
of South Carolina at the Bunker
Hill celebration, mukes me the more regret
that we cannot, without unmanly humiliation,
meet the true men of the North at Philadelphia,
aud thus remember, and remember only,
that we are all the descendants of the heroic
rebels of the glorious Revolution of 1776.
Verv rpsnpotfrll v vnnr nhedionr. servant.
'J T. W. Woowarij!
SUSPENSION OF* SOLOMON'S BANK.
Considerable excitement was created in
Columbia on Friday last, by the announcement
that the South Carolina Bank and
Trust Company, of which Hardy Solomon is
the President, had suspended. The institution
is the outgrowth of the Scott, Moses and
Neagleriug, and while that band of financiers
was in power and able to control the disposition
of the State funds, everything weut lovely
with the bank, and it soon became a power
in the land. But this state of things was not
destined to continue. The administration inaugurated
by Chamberlain gave early indications
of a determination to reform some of
the glaring evils of the past. Even Cardozo
betrayed his want of confidence in Solomon's
bank ; and although a bill was passed by the
last Legislature designating the South Carolina
Bank and Trust Company as the sole
rlonnaitnrv nf thp nnh*lie funds r>f the State.
the bill was vetoed by the Governor, who, in
that action, had the sympathy and support of
the State Treasurer. From the date of the
failure of the bill, the fortunes of the bank
commenced to wane, and the final collapse
ensued on Friday, by the dishonoring of a
check for $10,000 presented by the Greenville
and Columbia Railroad.
Of the deposits in the bauk at the time of
the suspension, there was of State funds $205,000
; deposited by county treasurers, $18,000;
and of private deposits about $35,000. It is
claimed, however, that the State is indebted
to Solomon in the sura of $130,000, which
would leave a balance due the State of $75,j
000. The following are said to be the assets
j of the bank :
State securities $130,000
Mortgages, 25,000
| Due by City of Columbia, 30,000
Other securities, ifco., ]~>o,ooo
Total assets, $305,000
This is supposed by those best informed to
j be about the amount of assets. The liabilities
are:
State deposits, $205,000
| County treasurers, |K,<M>0
: Private deposits, 30,000
' Other debts, sav, 00,000
I "
Total liabilities, say, $313,000
On the application of Attorney-General
Melton, Judge Carpenter, on Saturday, appointed
Hon. T. C. Dunn receiver, which appointment
was consented to by C. I). Melton,
counsel for the bank.
} As the public are generally aware, Hardy
Solomon, the Presideut of the suspended bank,
and the reputed owner of nearly all the stock
of the concern, is a large grocery merchant in
j Columbia. ills grocery store is going on as
usual, and he is represented as being not at
all dismayed; but to the contrary says private
depositors shall lose nothing by the embarrassment
of the bank, and that he will pay
every dollar he owes ; but that the State will
be forced to shoulder $130,000 which he
claims will offset that much of his public
debt. This, probably, gives rise to the following
speculations by the Columbia correspondent
of the News and Courier, who writes:
"There is a good deal behind this suspension
that the public does not suspect as yet.
The grocery is still doing an immense business,
and Mr. Donaldson says will not be affected
in the least by the failure. The public
effect will be to stop payment of interest
on the public debt, and leave perhaps not a
dollar for public officers until the Legislature
meets. It will, perhaps, disturb the funding ; ai
process and iujure the credit of the State. It' fi(
will certainly place the investigation of all j g
this State paper, the assets of the bank, in the !
i hands of the Comptroller-General. The ,
| comptroller and his lieutenant, T. P. Caven- j *
| der, one of the Bonanza commissioners, have j
| been North for the past two weeks, perhaps ol
looking up evidence in the Parker case, and Ji
perhaps not. At any rate, they have just re- >
turned in time for this suspension, and to take j je
some indirect interest in the great trial to be-1 ^
gin on Tuesday. Governor Chamberlain is
expected here on Tuesday." |
THE BEECHEIt TRIAL. 1t?
On Friday last the jury in the Beecher-Til- |
I ton trial, after deliberating eight days, reported ; U(
i to the court that they could not possibly agree ]
upon a verdict, whereupon they were dis- j Sj
charged. Nine of the jury were in favor of jr
acquittal, and three were in favor of a ver- j t(
diet for the plaintiff. Interest is now center- j 0]
ing in the case of Loader and Price, who j C)
during the last days of the trial, made affi- j a:
davits that they had witnessed, in Tilton's | C(
| house, improper conduct between Beecher j 0
and Mrs. Tilton. These sworn statements
turn out to have been utterly false, and the
j affiants are now under indictment for perjury.
The motive of the men does not seem to be c<
inauifest, as it does not appear that they had
been promised a reward, while all the inem- o]
here of Tilton's counsel indignantly refuse to
appear for the alleged perjurers, or to have d
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anything to rlo with thoir case. ?
Though the jury failed to find a verdict in
the great scandal case, for its length and in- a
tricacy unparalleled in the annals of the ad- t(
ministration of justice, yet the people have
formed their opinion either one way or the o:
other, which could hardly be changed by a n
repetition of the proceedings ; and it is hoped
that the public will be spared the infliction. ^
Regarding the probability of a uew trial, ^
Mr. Beach, the leading counsel for Tiltou, is
reported to have said, last Friday evening,
I that he regarded the result of the trial as a ^
j decided success for Mr. Tilton. A disagreeI
inent of the jury was all that had been hoped ^
for from the first, when they saw the efforts u
of every kind made to influence the jury in
favor of Mr. Beecher, and the immense k
amount of inllueuce brought to bear upon the w
jurymen, particularly the moral and social
effect of the pressure in Court of the large
delegation of the friends of the defendant. n
At first the whole toue of public opinion was ^
! in favor of" Air. Beecher, but he thinks that
that has been been very materially modified h
during the progress of the trial. b
Mr. Beach further said that he did not v
think, though he was not speaking with any G
| authority from Mr. Tilton, that the plaintiff
j would wish to begin the case again. It is not ^
likely that a case of such length would be C
allowed to be repeated, at least in the same 11
manner, as it was too much both for the 31
courts and the people. He thought it unde- w
sirable that there should be any more time
spent in the consideration of such an aflfaH^ 0
which was neither of benefit to the parties C
themselves, nor instructive for the general t(
public. He thought that there was a possi- g
bility of a new trial, on account of the heavy
costs involved and to be paid, but that such
a thing was not probable. He himself would ^
advise Mr. Tilton not to pursue the matter a
further, aud he thought that the latter would ^
not proceed unless forced by the defense. 0
There was no desire for money damages by
Mr. Tilton, and he would not have received
I ,4|
them had they been awarded him. All that
was wished was a full investigation of the .
case in all its parts, and that has been accom- J1
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! pusnea 10 me pmuiuu s shusiuuliuii. iur.
Tilton asks nothing more, for his method in a
! prosecuting was to have the case fairly brought
before the public in all its bearings, in order
that he might be set once more in his old position
before the people, which had been so a
seriously damaged by the action of the Plymouth
Church Committee, Dr. Bacon, and T
other friends of Mr. Beecher. This the plaintiff
feels has been in a great measure accom- ti
plished, and as he now stands in a much bet- ]t
i ter light than at the beginning of the trial, ti
and as public opinion is now far more favorable
to him, he has gained all that he hoped d
or desired by the trial. {'
But if Tilton feels that he has cause to couJ
gratulate himself, Beecher and the Plymouth
| congregation feel no less jubilant over the t]
! failure of the jury to agree upon a verdict. t<
j The Friday night prayer-meeting at Plymouth e
?i u. ?< ? r:
unurcn pariOOK inure ui me uuainuici \ji a
; mutual admiration society, in which the pasI
tor was complimented and congratulated by ^
1 his Hock; while he, in return, devoted the 'j
main part of a lengthy discourse to the mis- t]
representations and misunderstandings of his o
; followers ; his gratitude for their confidence, 8
! and prophesying a nobler future before the
! church.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. n
? Mrs. Flora McDonald, aged 99 years, ?
died in Darlington county last week. P
? There are at present two hundred and
eighty-five convicts in the State Peuitentiary.
| ? There are but two white officials in Edge- (j
1 field. o
i ?The post offices at Greenwood and Cokes- a
' bury, in Abbeville county, have been made
money order offices. ^
j ? The Times says that the wheat crop turns
! out better in Union county this season, than ^
i 11 nas lur umujr jetus ptiou n
| ? Prof. J. H. Carlisle has been elected Pres- c
! ident of Wofford College in place of Rev.
| A. M. Shipp, resigned. q
; ?Mr. W. E. Johnson, died at his residence d
near Mount Tabor, in Uuiou county, ouTues- b
day of last week. lc
! ? Dr. George Douglass, an old citizen of
i Union county, died at his residence near ir
Goshen Ilill, on the 27th ultimo, from typhoid
j dysentery. His age was seventy years.
? Col. Hart Maxcy, sou of Hon. Jonathan , r|
j Maxcy, the first Presideut of South Carolina p
i College, died near Columbia, on Tuesday of I ti
! last week. s:
? The various townships of Sumter county, C
on the last Saturday of June, voted school 0
taxes ranging from two to three-and-a-half
mills. ! j
? Judge Moses, in response to the request1 j
of the grand jury, has appointed John R.; rj
Minter, Capt. F. M. Farr and \V. S. McJun-' tl
kin, a committee to investigate the financial il
and official conduct of the Treasurer and d
other county officers of Union county.
? Henry Sparnick, editor of the Aiken j?
Tribune, and Probate Judge of Aiken county, 0
was arrested last week on the charge of grand o
larceny. It is charged that of ?3,000 in his I ei
hands belonging to one estate, he has only re- 21
turned $106. He gave bail for his appear- *
auce at the next term of the Circuit Court. [ 0
? Eli Grimes, the man who made the affida- t|
vita ntminst. (). C. Bowen. charging him with t!
the killing of Col. White, and who was a few ci
days ago arrested himself on a charge of kill- tl
ing a colored sailor at Georgetown, was taken B.'
I before Judge Shaw on a writ of habeas corpus , ^
and admitted to bail, after which he imrnedi- ?
ately left for his home in Georgia,
j ? Martin R. Delany, late candidate for the 1 ti
lieutenant-governorship of this State, was G
rreated iD Charleston last week, upon the afrlavit
of a colored man named Cyrus R.
.ivers, charging Delany with breach of trust
ad larceny. The News and Courier says v\
lat the substance of the affidavit is, that R
3yrus R. Rivers was in 1871 the chairman ci
F the trustees of the John Wesley Church of
ohn's Island ; that about the day of , C<
371, Martin R. Delany had feloniously sto- j
m, taken aud carried away from the house
Fone Telemachus Baynard the sum of two J*
undred and twelve dollars, the property of
\e above mentioned church, upon the presxt
and promise that he would pay the same
> the church. But this he (Delany) had
ot done, and had fraudulently appropriated
le money for his own use. Delany, in re* ss
jonse to a question by the justice, gave bail tr
i the sum of 81,000 to appear at the next fii
irm of the court. This cuse is based on the se
Id story that was so popular at all the Kadi- oi
il pow-wows during the lateState campaign,
nd Delany says he is very glad that it has
Drae to a head at last, when he will have the r(
pportunity of nailing the lie." ^
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. fa
? The potato bug has appeared in Wake ol
)unty, doing some damage to the crops.
? A large bear was recently killed in an
peu field, at midday, in Beaufort county.
? Ex-Governor Vance declines to be a can- J
idate for the Constitutional Convention from
[eckleuburg county. ei
? The Catholics of Greensboro are building
church, which it is thought will be comple;d
by the first of next month. Dl
? Mrs. C. P. Mendenhall, wife of the Mayor Q
f Greensboro, died suddenly last Friday ai
lorning. ?
? The second annual session of the Cotton g:
tates Congress will convene in Raleigh on a
uesday next, the 13th instant. t*
? The post-office at King's Mountain, Cleve- h
md county, and Newton, Catawba county, b
I J i.
ave ueeu muue iuuucjt uiuei uiuucs. ?j
? All reports concur in representing the
'heat crop of the State?just harvested?as E
usually fine. tl
? A Miss Todd, residing near Raleigh, was "i
illed last Friday by lightning. Her neck If
ras broken and her shoulder dislocated. y
? The last Legislature made an appropria- ri
ion for a new lunatic asylutn, and the com- h
littee appointed for the purpose have decided si
d locate it at Morgauton. p
? Judge Mitchell, of the Statesville circuit, n
aving resigned, there is considerable squab- li
ling among the aspirants to that office. The h
acancy will be filled by appointment by the a
lovernor until the next regular election. ft
? George Applewhite, colored, the last of d
lie Robeson county outlaws, was arrested in
loldsboro last Thursday. He had been liv- p
ig in that town for some time under an as- d
iimpH name. There has heen a standinc re- st
wrd of 85,000 for this outlaw. le
? At the recent meeting of the stockholders h
f the Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad it
lompany, resolutions were adopted favorable c<
> affording aid to construct a Hue of tele- lc
raph between Charlotte and Statesville on
iie line of the road. P
? The prize for the best Latin essay at b
)avidson Commencement, this year, was fi
warded to W. S. Moore, of Rock Hill. S. C. C
Lmong the regular graduates, B. W. Mebane, Vi
f Greensboro, took the first honor. S. L. w
Vilson, of York county, S. C., member of the
lumenean Society, delivered an oration on
Social Progress." r<
? Judge McKoy, in his charge to the grand 8j
iry, last week, pronounced the action of a
egro magistrate of Wilmington, in requiring g(
n accused murderer to touch the corpse of
le slain man, under the superstition that if Q
e were the real murderer blood would flow .j
ora the dead body, to be an unlawful act,
nd defined it as an assault aud battery. ^
EDITORIAL INKLINGS. si
lie Iowa Republicans.
The Iowa State Republican Conven- 1
on met in Des Moines on Wednesday of 8l
ist week, and adopted a platform substanially
as follows: ^
1. The Republic is a nation, one and inissoluble.
2. Gold and silver, the only re- 0
able legal tender, and a currency convertile
with coin should therefore be gradually
ttained. 3. A reveuue tariff adjusted to .
courage home industry. 4. The efforts of u
lie Government to collect the revenues and si
3 punish frauds are approved. 5. The Govrnment
should concede no further lands to a
ail ways or other corporations; such lands j
liould be reserved for actual settlers. 7. The
'ateut laws must be revised to relieve indus- ?
ry from the oppression of monopolies. 7.
'he policy of the Administration on the set- ^
lenient of difficulties between ourselves and
ther nations by arbitration is a worthy one. 1
. The Republican party of Iowa oppose a sj
lird term, and believe that President
rrant's letter fairly removes that issue from
ur politics. 9. That we demand that all ?.
iilway and other corporations shall be held ^
i fair and iuat subiectiou to the law-making
ower, constitutionally exercised. 10. En- H
orsing free education and the present system Q
f public schools. 11. Approving the Naonal
aud State administrations. 12. Corially
inviting all opposed to the restoration
f the Democratic party to power to forget ef
11 past political differences, and unite with C
le Republican party in the cause of true re>rm.
C
Samuel J. Kirkwood, of Johnson county, j g
as nominated for Governor, and J. G. Newold,
of Henry county, for Lieutenant Gover- ^
or.
aliforuia Democratic Convention.
The Democratic State Convention of
'aliforuia met in San Francisco on Wednes- ^
ay of last week. The platform adopted emraces
thirteen resolutions of which the fol>wing
pertaius to National affairs:
1. We are opposed to the unconstitutional ;
iterference of the Federal Administration in ! tl
le domestic affairs of States by which one 1 oi
ortion of the Union is ground with taxatiou j J
> keep another portion of the Union in bank-! 'p
jptcy and servitude. 2. We condemn the j
Republican party for contempt of constilu-1 w
oual obligations ; for an extravagant, parti- j *e
in and corrupt administration of the Federal j I11
loverninent; the perversion of the functions ' lj
f the latter to enrich great corporations at! In
le expense of the public; for jobbery and w
auds which have brought reproach upon j
)emocratic institutions ; for the Sanborn and , ,
ayue fraud ; for the infamous Washington
iug ; for the back-pay steal; the iniquities of ^
;ie protective system ; the curse of inconvert- 1 R
)le paper money ; the nepotism of the Presi-1 gi
eut; for the disgraceful diplomatic service ! fr
ud unfit appointments; for the attempt to C(
ass the unconstitutional Force bill, which was
jrtuuately frustrated by the determined front &!
f the Democratic minority in both Houses ^
f Congress, and for the catalogue of other !
uormities which have rendered that organi- vi
ition offensive even to the mass of those tl
ho were its supporters. 3. We are in favor i (|(
f a strict construction of the Constitution and ^
gainst the exercise of doubtful powers ; favor
delimiting of the power of legislative bodies ; P
le tariff for revenue only, aud a currency
onvertible into gold and silver at the will of w
le holder; against profligate and wasteful tl
^sterns of local improvements by the Federal i r
fovernment, aud in favor of reducing the ex- ( rf
enditures of the State Government, and of ^
aunties and towns. I
The other resolutions relate to State ques- ( "
ous. William Irwin was nominated for i
fovernor on the seventh ballot. I
LOCAL A77AZEB. tl
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Q
. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Foreclosure of Mortgage. .
r. H. <fe J. P. Herndon?Gins?Cotton Press? ?
Rubl)er Belting. j]
. F. Adickes?Prices Down,
lark Brothers?Cash Prices?Stone Ware?Well C
Buckets?Canned Goods?Tobacco?Teas? j,
Horse Shoes?Powder?Blacksmith Shop.
dI. J. P. Thomas, Superintendent, Charlotte, N. tl
C.?Carolina Military Institute.' 0
R. Schorb?Sky Light, and no more Climbing
Up-Stairs. d
H. Clawson?Assignee's Sales?In Bankrupt- ?
cy?In the Matter of J. R. Castles, Chelsea
Robbins, A. C.Sutton, Bankrupts. I
)hn Dickey, Judge of Probate for Chester Coun- i
t.v?Citation?W. H. MeCorkle, ApplicantJohn
H. Adams, deceased. t
SALES-DAY. I
The attendance in town on Monday last, g
des-day, was very small, there being no at- I
actions offered in the way of sales. For the v
rat time in several years, the Sheriff, on last
iles-day, had no property, of any kind, to 1
ffer to the highest bidder. 1
MESSRS. POOLE & HUNT.
We would again call the attention of our a
:ader8 to the advertisement of Messrs. Poole '
; Hunt, bespeaking for these gentlemen the *
? , j a
tvorabJe consideration ot all wno are in neea
f any machinery included in their varied list, c
3 published in our columns. They have on ^
and a very large stoclc of miscellaneous ma- F
liuery patterns, and can promptly fill orders
ir almost any character of work. Wherever c
ieir machinery has been used it has given e
itire satisfaction.
DEATH OF JOHN H. ADAMS. J
Our community was saddened by the anouncement
of the death, on Saturday afteroon
last, of John H. Adams, one of its old v
ad most esteemed citizens. He had been in
leble health forsome years, suffering, at times, t
reat inconvenience from asthma. Latterly,
complication of diseases attacked his sys;m;
and during the previous two weeks it ^
ad become evident that lie could not long
e among us. He passed quietly and serenel
away at 2.45 p. m., on the 3d instant.
Mr. Adams was born in the vicinity of
lethel, in this county, in the year 1811. At
le age of about twenty years, he came to
rorkville and entered into business with the c
tte Col. Wm. Wright. At the age of thirty ^
L- %?? ? nf * Lrt Pl?CoKTTtfl.
ttttrg lit: ucumuc a iuciuuci vi vuv nvguj wan
Church of this place, and some years
iter was selected as one of its deacons, and
ibsequently one of its elders, which lAtter
osition he continued to bold through the retaining
years of an honorable and useful
fe. After a residence here of some years,
e began business as a raerchaut on his own
ccount, and continued this vocation (except
>r an interval, from 1863 to 1867) until the
ay of his death.
He was conspicuous as a man of firm and
ure character; possessing exalted ideas of
uty, and living well up to his own high
andard of faith and morals. His benevomce,
always exercised without ostentation,
as advanced many public and private cbaries,
and his death produces a void in the
Dmmuuity which will be recognized for a
>ng time to come.
The funeral services were conducted in the
resbyterian Church, on Sabbath afternoon,
y Rev. H. R. Dickson, pastor, assisted by
;ev. R. Lathan, of the Associate Reformed
hurch. On Monday, his remains were coneyed
to their last resting place at Bethel,
here rest a long line of aucestry and kindred.
TRANSFERS OF*REAL ESTATE.
The following are the transfers of real estate
icorded in the office of the County Auditor
nee our last report:
D. Cook to P. N. Neely, trustee. Tract of
0 acres in Bethel township.
Marv S. Johnson to J. B. F. Riddle. Tract
f 17 acres iu Bethel township. Considera- j
on $105. i
J. H. Clawson, assignee, to S. P. Sutton. ?
'ract of 45 acres in Fort Mill township. Con- 1
deration $100. ^
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to Andrew Haffner. j
ract of 200 acres in Bullock's Creek town- i
hip. Consideration $871.
Win. E. Rose to T. M. Whitaker. Lot in i
rorkville. Consideration $15.
L. K. Armstrong to J. W. Jackson. Tract
f 107 acres in Bethel township. Consideraion
$911. ]
J. R. Bratton to John T. Lowry. Half l
iterestin49l acres in York township. Con- t
ideration $1410. (
T. S. Jefferys, assignee, to W. I. Clawson c
nd C. E. Spencer. Tract of 191 acres in <
\>rt Mill township. Consideration $1039. <
R. Patterson'ifc Co.. to Austin L. Pride. \
'ract of 120 acres in Catawba township, i
Consideration $600. t
Dennis Crosby to J. G. Minter. Tract of 1
30 acres in Bullock's Creek township. Con- e
deration $130. t
John R. Loudon to Anderson Hail. Tract ?
f 39 acres iu Catawba township. Considera- )
an $400. r
Joseph Spencer and others to John R. Lon- t
on. Tract of 39 acres in Catawba township, i
Consideration $350. 1
J. F. Wallace, Clerk of the Court of Com- t
ion Pleas, to Margaret J. Clark. Half inter- a
it in 30 acres in King's Mountain township, o
Consideration $566. a
T. A., S. R. & W. A. Moore to Mrs. M. J. c
Clark. Lot in Yorkville. Consideration t
2000. _ h
J. H. Clawson, assignee, to F. H. Dover, a
ract of 50 acres in Cherokee township. p
THE LATEST KU-KLUX CASE. F
A few days ago, Reuben Goins, of color, u
therwise known as Reuben Shedd, but which u
itter cognomen he repudiates, caused to be ti
rrested and arraigned for trial before Trial tl
ustice Wagoner, James Finley, S. W. Ro- b
inson and Isaac Griffin, citizens living about | s<
tree miles irom town, on uie uenuus vimigc i
'intimidation with intent to bury. Major |j<
. F. Hart appeared for the complainant and j t!
. J. Bell, Esq., for the accused. Reuben j n
as occupied several hours in giving in his j p
stimony. It appears from his story that he j tl
ad been for a long time living in great bodi- j t<
' fear ; that S. \V. Robinson, on whose land : ii
e is living, had made threats against him, of u
hich he had been informed by John Robin-i w
in and Isaac Griffin, both of whom had told j u
ira that in addition to the threats of violence ; n
lat had been made, Mr. Finley and S. VV. 1 v
obiuson had even gone so far as to dig the j 'I
rave in which to quietly and forever hide . li
om mortal view the cadaver of the aforesaid j e
imDlainant, after the direful threats of the a
jcused had been consummated. The loca*! g
on of the grave was given, and being fond e
7excitement as Reuben is, he lost no time in tl
isiting the spot, where, sure enough, he found tl
le grave?uot an ordinary receptacle, but a d
sep, frowning pit?a yawning chasm?and c
a concluded that it had been prepared ex- o
ressly for him, although it was 7 or 8 feet s<
aep, about 9 feet long, and perhaps 3 feet n
ide and terminated in an "L." Reuben said ii
lat from information derived from John d
.obinson and Isaac Griffin, the plot was ar- tl
inged that he should be lassoed and dragged j w
> the pit, and then he could make choice of j ti
vo alternatives?leave the State, or be killed p
id buried in the dismal hole before him.
Other witnesses were introduced to prove i o
ie existence of the pit, which is on the land o
nown as the "Griffin land but there was e
o evidence showing who digged it, or when p
; had been done. The Trial Justice ruled ' i
tiat he could hear only the testimony for j a
omplainant, which debarred the defense from ; p
ltroducing evidence. The Trial Justice, j i
lien, after a lengthy argument from counsel c
n both sides, reserved his opinion until next t
ay, when he decided to discharge Mr. Finley, ' i
nd to bind over to the Circuit Court, S. W. \
tobinson and Isaac Griffin?the former on i
is own recognizance in a bond of $300, and i
he latter to give bail in a similar amount, i
''ailing to give bail, Griffin, who is a stran-j s
er?having been in the employment of Mr. i i
finley but a few days previous to his arrest? j i
ras committed to jail. i i
On Friday last, Griffin appeared before ! 1
?rial Justices W. B. Allison and J. B. Wil*
lunm nn ? writ. nf hnheus COTDU8. and his OWO <
.ad a number of other affidavits were read, i
.11 of which contradicted in every particular 1
he statement made by the complainant on i
he Thursday previous. The prisoner, in his
.ffidavit, denied having ever made the state- 1
oent attributed to him by the complainant as c
o threats that had been made, or as to the ; 1
turpose for which the pit had been dug; and ! i
Tohn Robinson, v/ho had been summoned for
oraplainant, but whom counsel for the pros- <
cution declined to examine before Trial Jus- i
ice Wagoner, also made affidavit to similar <
>urport?denying emphatically that he had ]
ver confessed to complainant that violence t
raa threatened, or that the hole alluded to J
ras dug for complainant's grave. The case ]
ras again argued at length on the merits of I
irisoner's petition?Mr. Hart in favor of sus- <
aining the decision of Trial Justice Wagoner, <
.nd Mr. Bell advocating the release of the ]
prisoner on the same conditions accorded to
lis co-defendant, Robinson. The Justices ]
* -? -* c -u- ? Ko i
[F&Qiea me prayer ui me pcuuuun, ?uu uv
ras discharged from custody on his own reognizance.
1
MERE-MENTION. i
Jefferson Davie has accepted the Presiden- I
:y of the Texas Mechanical and Agricultural ]
College at Bryan, at a salary of$4,000. The <
nternational rifle contest between Irish and f
American marksmen, which took place at 1
Dollyraount, near Dublin, on Tuesday of last
veek, resulted in a victory for the Ameri- <
:an8. It is claimed that the pulp of the |
horny cactus, which grows to an unlimited
ixtent in Arizona, New Mexico and Southern ?
California, furnishes a desirable material for 1
he manufacture of paper. During the i
)ast year there were over 8100,000 worth of
English pointer and setter dogs imported into I
his country. A white man has com- I
neuced proceedings under the civil rights bill i
igaiust a uegro at Washington for ejecting ]
lim from a negro lodging house. Over i
AAA naiu.nunam tauo fiailpd in f.Kia cnnntrv I
,9\J\J\J ucnoj;up.o l,MVV "* " "J
luring the past year. I
The Galveston Netva estimates the wheat s
irop of Texas this year, at five millions of <
jushels. Three young men in Milton I
:ounty, Ga., while in a field threshing wheat, I
?n Wednesday of last week, were struck by s
igbtning aud instantly killed. The eel- i
ibrated race horse Lexington, died at Cincin- <
lati on Sunday last. Judge Bradley has I
leuied the motion te quash the indictments <
igainst Tweed, except in two instances, where I
ndictments had been superceded. Pri- i
rate advices from the Black liiiis expedition I
how that investigations are proving the coun- '
ry to be richer in gold than has heretofore
jeen supposed. The new liquor license i
aw of Massachusetts went into effect last <
Friday. In Boston eleven hundred persons !
paid into the city treasury an aggregate of
>88,000 for licenses. By a recent storm
tnd flood in Southern France, 3,000 human
ives were lost, and over 860,000,000 of private
property was destroyed. The proprietors
of several large distilleries were ar-ested
in Texas last Monday.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, July o, 187D.
At the late meetings throughout the county,
L/andsford township levied a tax for the supx>rt
of free schools, in addition to the general
ax, of tvo mills; Blackstocks township, a tax
)f two mills; Halsellville township, a tax
)f t. half mill. As mentioned in my last
sorrespondeuce, Chester township levied a tax
>f half a mill. No uniformity of action
vas displayed at the late meetings. Assessneuts
in some townships exceed, and in others
ire reduced from those of last year. To ilustrate:
the assessment of Landsford townhip
last year was one mill and a half, while j
his year it has been raised to two mills; the
tssessment of the Halsellville township last !
rear was two mills, while this year it has been 1
educed to half a mill. The attendance of '
he colored population at the township meet- 1
ngs was generally slim. They have proba>ly
discovered their ability to spend their *
ime with more profit in attendiug to their '
igricultural duties. The public school affairs j
if this county have been well aud wisely maniged,
since they have been confided to the
are of good and capable men. Heretofore
hey have beeu, in a great measure, in the
lands of utterly incompetent persons, and, as
, consequence, gross mismanagement of the
tublic schools was the inevitable result. The '
tublic schools will be opened in September,
nder comparatively favorable auspices ; and
nder the charge of the present trustees of .
' nnUAnla niliA 11 h aoo I
Lie uiuereub tuwuauip otnuuio, nuv nut
be management of the public funds, they will 1
e kept open, undoubtedly, during the entire
cholastic year. 1
Trial Justice Sanders was engaged the raa>r
portion of last Wednesday in the trial of t
lie case of James McLure vs. Edward Shan- v
on ; S. P. Hamilton, Esq., representing the j
laintiff' and (J. S. Bricc, Esq., appearing for u
be defendant. The refusal of the defeudant c
d pay a note given by Franklin, colored,
i consideration of the value of a mule, and 1<
pon which the defeudant was the endorser, g
^as the occasion of the suit. The case hinged j c
pon the soundness or unsoundness of the *
jule, which unfortunately departed this life (Jj
ery soon after the sale had been effected. ! c
'he main witness for the defense, Frank-' ii
u, who bought the mule, testified to the | r
arly demise of the mule after its purcnase,, ?
od to his belief that its death was caused by ?
landers. The plaintiff, through his counsel,
udeavored to show, by rebutting testimony, I e
bat his stock had never been afflicted with v
tie glanders, and that if the mule in question v
ied of this disease, it could not have been f
ontracted at his place. After the conclusion ^
f the evidence, the lawyers delivered them* | *
lives of good speeches, the youthful justice ' j.
lade a good charge, and the case was placed' v
i the hands of the jury. The jurors, after t
ue deliberation and consultation, reported
tieir inability to agree upon a verdict, and f
fere accordingly discharged. The case at-1 v
racted considerable attention, which will' ?
robably be increased at the next trial. g
The ice cream festival, given by the ladies c
f the Baptist Church, at the Cotton Hotel, i t
n last Wednesday evening, was an extremely
njoyable entertainment. The intense and opiressive
heat of the evening drew aj large
lumber to the scene of festivity, where severil
hours, in several ways, were delightfully
>assed. In enjoying delicious cream, listenng
to sweet music, and promenading thespalious
halls of the hotel, the time flew by on
he wings of the wiud, and the evening's joy
:ame to an end, alas, too quickly. The music
vas a very pleasant feature of the entertainneut.
"Silver threads among the gold," was
eudered by a young lady from Yorkville,
lotwithstanding her youthfulucss, with great
iweetness and expression. The request for a
epetition of the song, which was complied
with, evidenced its fine execution. I know of
10 place where so much pleasure can be ob;ained
for so little money.
Fine rains fell last week throughout the
jouuty. The eastern side probably came in
'or the major portion. A continuance of
ine seasons cannot fail to produce such crops
is will fill the land with joy and gladness.
With barns filled to overflowing, and the poitical
situation improving, the darkness of
lespondeucy will vanish and be succeeded
>y the dawn of a bright day of contentment
ind prosperity.
Gen. W. A. "Walker has been made the
Chairman of the board of Commissioners of
Election for this county. This is a most excellent
appointment. As far as lies in his
lower, the election that takes place on the
28th instant for Sheriff and a member of the
Legislature, will be fairly conducted. The
Republican County Convention assembles
this week for the purpose of nominating candidates
for these positions. Extraordinary
quietness prevails among the ranks of both
political parties in regard to the election.
When the Republican candidates have been
placed in the field, I suppose an effort will be
made by the leaders to impress upon the
'truly loyal" the propriety of voting "all
right" on the day of election. The Conservatives
are manifestinggreat indifference, which
:s probably owing to the feeling of their inability
to overcome the opposition of their opponents.
There is some talk of the Republicans
nominating Mr. John W. Walker for
sheriff. If so, the Conservatives will give
lira their cordial support.
The following gentlemen were elected officers
of Chester Division, No. 10, Sons of Temlerance,at
the last meeting: J. K. Marshall,
W. P.; W, H. Elliott, W. A.; W. I. Clawlou,
Jr., R. S.; R. H. Jordan, A. R. S.; R.
EI. Cousar, F. S.; W. T. D. Cousar, Treasjrer,
and Graham Albright, Conductor.
The celebration of Independence jjay at
this place is confined to the colored popula,ion.
A colored fire company from Columbia
ire assisting their brethren of Chester in perpetuating
the memories of '76. Notwitbstandug
the intensity of the heat, the two companies,
with their fire apparatus, marched
through our principal streets, nnder the inspiration
of the beating of drums and blowing
)f horns?a spectacle of wonder aBd delight
;o the country colored element who are in
town en masse. The procession, after a considerable
amount of marching and countermarching,
halted at a grove near the depot,
where the orations were delivered. Whether
they partook of the spread-eagle nature, or
were political harangues, is not in my power
to say. The speaking was followed by a din/innvea
wno nninVpH TflA nlttfl*
J CI | TT Illl/ii f VI WUIOO, IKM vujvjvu. ? y
tatiou negroes sung, patted and danced the
'glorious Fourth" away.
Gov. Chamberlain displayed great wisdom
in vetoing the bill passed at the last session
of the Legislature, making Hardy Solomou's
Bank the depository of State funds. Had he
not vetoed the bill a million or more would
have been swallowed up in the smash, or in
the capacious pockets of the manipulators of
the Bank. The report is current that three
thousand dollars of Chester county funds was
on deposit in Solomon's Bank,, which, if true,
will be irrecoverably lost Qui.
?
The Recent Whisky Campaign.
Full statistics of the late movement
against the illicit whisky trade have been prepared
atthe Treasury. The estimated value of
real estate seized is 81,500,000. The amount
asessed against distillers is $317,000. Suits
have been instituted against rectifiers for $347,000.
One hundred and fifty-two lots of
spirits were detained, and of these 85 lots
were confiscated, aggregating 1,002 barrels,
valued at $75,000. There have been 83 officers
of all grades dismissed in connection with
these frauds, as follows: Three collectors,
two deputy collectors, two supervisors, four
revenue agents, two district-attorneys, 37
gaugers, and IS storekeepers. Suits for $10,000
each have been brought on bonds of 25
gaugers. None of these actions have been
instituted upon vague evidence; but all rest
upon legal proof carefully collected by Treasury
officers, and put in shape for use by district
attorneys uuder charge of H. T. Yarpan.
Frauds of rectifiers in shipping large
packages of spirits and entering only a fraction
of the amount on coupon of the stamp,
noa loH fn thp nHnntinn of ji series of BtaiUDS
""" """ "" ?I" -- i
for rectifiers of different sizes, so that hereifter
such difference between package and
;ntry on the coupon cannot exist.
In addition to the above facts there are also
umors afloat in Washington affecting certaiu
jrominent treasury officials in connection with
he frauds, which it is expected will develop
heraselves very soon. Secretary Bristow is
laid to be in possession of evidence establish*
ng their criminality, and expresses a deternination
to prosecute them to the fullest ex*
ent.
[\HE CONDITION OF THE COTTON CROP.
The Committee on Information and Statisics
of the New Orleans Cotton Exchauge, to
vhoru have been entrusted the duty of comtiling
the national cotton crop report, made
ip from returns of various exchanges, sub itted
the following report for June :
New Orleans, Department of Louisiana.?83
etters from 37 parishes unite in reporting
enerally favorable weather. There has been
io additional acreage put in cotton since the
5th of May, but there has been some reilanting
of the lands overflowed and to per*
ect the stands. The plant has been better
ultivated than for many years, and is grow g
and flourishing well. Many blooms are
eported, and the present condition of the
rop is most flattering and much better, and
bout one week earlier when compared with
astyear. ^
Mississippi.?103 replies have been receivd;
average date about the 5th inst. The
leather is nearly universally represented as
ery favorable, the stands fine, and plant
arming well, though too early for many
dooms. The present condition is stated to be
rery good, and much better when compared
nth last year. No additional acreage has
>een put in cotton. Replanting has been done
rhere the stands were imperfect. Labor coninues
plenty and efficient.
.Arkansas.?50 replies have been received
rora 20 counties. Since the 1st of June the
veather has been hot aud moist enough to
iromote a rapid growth and cause the plant
o form and square well. The stands are very
;ood, and no replanting has been needed, exept
in a few exceptional cases. Bradley couny
reports the first bloom on the 8th inst., but