Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, August 26, 1875, Image 2
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It is noteworthy that of late the Democratic
newspapers starting throughout the
United States outnumber very much the new
papers of Republican tendencies.
If in instructing a child, you are vexed
with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have
never tried before, to write with your left hand,
and then remember that a child is all left
hand.
No Chinese medical student can secure
a diploma until he can prove his ability
to saw a man's leg off with a hand-saw and
whittle out a wooden leg to replace the lost
limb.
The fastest time ever made by a railway
traiu was on Sunday last, on the New
York Central Railroad. The New York
Herald's lightning train on the Western eud
of the road ran seventy miles in sixty minutes.
?? When a Massachusetts man walked
seventeen miles to see a man hung, aud the
prisoner was respited, the disgusted traveler
sat down in a fence corner and hoarsely inquired
if this country wasdrifting back to barbarism.
The latest movement in Washington,
of a peculiar kiud, looks to the removal of
all the dead Presidents from the various
places of interment through the country and
the re-intermont of their bodies in expensive
mausoleums at Mount Vernon, around the
tomb of Washington.
The cotton year which ends September
1, will show receipts at all the ports of
about 3,485,000 bales. The exports for the
year have been 2,670,000 bales, against 2,812,000
bales last year. The visible supply
of American on boths sides of the Atlantic
is 954,642, bales against 910,502 last year
at this time.
They know how to utilize matters in
Iowa. A man there recently obtained a divorce
from his wife, and immediately hired
her for his cook. Both paties are happy.
He lives much more reasonably, and she says
she cau now have an occasional new dress
and a little money in her pocket-book.
The largest library in the United States
is the library of Congress, which contains
274,000, volumes ; next in order is the Boston
Public Library, with 273,000, while the
Harvard University Library with 198,000,
and the New York Mercantile Library, with
155,120, are respectively third aud fourth in
point of size.
There are at present two thousand men
and six hundred horses and carts engaged on
the construction of the Southern Pacific railroad
in the telegraphic pass. The work to
be done is of the heaviest description of grading
and rock cutting. In one place in the
pass the road winds around among the mountains
for seven miles, whilst actually making a
direct distauce of but little over one mile.
The irrepressible Gil more proposes to
celebrate Ihe Centennial by having 100,000
persons sing the one hundredth psalm in
honor of our one hundredth anniversary.
Mr. Gilmore evidently has never heard the
old story of all the inhabitants of the earth assembling
on a given day and agreeing to
shout at a given moment. Silence reigned
supreme. Everybody held his tongue to
hear the rest.
Voltaire said: "The more married
men, the fewer crimes, there will be. Marriage
renders a man more virtuous and more
wise. An unmarried man is but half of a perfect
being, and it requires' the other half to
make things right, and it cannot be expected
that in this imperfect state he can keep the
straight path of rectitude any more than a
boat witn one oar can Keep tne straignt
course."
A case has recently occurred at Goshen,
Massachusetts, that seems to confirm the popular
belief that beech trees are never struck
by lightning. A beech and maple standing
near together, with branches interlocking
each other, received an electric bolt from a
^ passing cloud, which shattered the maple and
passed into the earth through a prostrate hemlock
tree lying near, which was stripped of
its bark nearly the whole length. No trace
of the lightning was left upon the beech.
There are two churches in this country
which are arranged with tubes for the
convenience of deaf people, namely: The
First Church of Nashua, New Hampshire,
and the Presbyterian Church at Freehold,
New Jersey. In the latter, a number of pews
are connected first by flexible tubes, then by
t^pipes about an inch in diameter, running
dWn through the floor, and connecting with
a kind of funnel, termiuary just in front
of the Bible. The plan works well. Any
uusiuiiu i'?u put iu tut; urraugeiueuu
What is that which has three feet but
no legs, is all body but no limbs, has no toes
on its feet, no head, moves a great deal and
never uses its feet for that purpose, has one
foot at each end and the other in the centre
of its body ? This is a queer creature in
some respects, and is very popular among
the ladies and some men. It never walks out
but goes with one foot where its head might
be, dragging the other foot behind. These
feet have nails but no toes, no heel and no
bones in the foot? A yard measure.
A circular having been sent to General
Fitz Lee, of Virginia, soliciting his endorsement
of a movement in favor of Hon. N. P.
Banks, of Massachusetts, for President, aud
Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, for VicePresident
in the next coming Presidential
campaign, the general has written a reply
in which he says: "I feel it my duty to say,
that should those gentlemen be the nominees
of the National Democratic Convention
for the high offices you desire them to
fill, it will give me pleasure to vote for them,
and to aid in an humble way to secure their
election."
It is said that Governor Allen, of
Ohio, has strong faith that he is to be the
next President. In response to the prediction
of a friend that he would be the next Democratic
candidate for President, he is represented
as saying : "Well, sir, it would be just
my luck to be elected." When reminded
that he was once a "bullionist" and favored
specie payments, he recalled a vision of his
early days, and relieved himself of the charge
of inconsistency in this fashion : "I would
be in favor of specie payments now, sir, if
it could happen as it did one day when I was
in the Senate, and the secretary of the treasury
placed a notice on each of our desks that
he had paid the last dollar of the public
debt."
A dispatch from Benton, Franklin county,
Illinois, gives the following ku-klux story:
Ten disguised men have been whipping
and otherwise abusiug the people of Williamson
and Frankliu counties. J. B. Maddox,
county commissioner, received information
that the marauders would visit his house and
whip him for not complying with one of their
orders. Maddox notified the sheriff, who
summoned twenty men, and concealed them iu
Maddox's house. About 2 o'clock at night,
fourteen men approached, disguised and
mounted. The sheriff demanded their surrender,
when the leader fired, missing the sheriff.
The band then wheeled to make off, but
the posse fired, fatally wounding one and injuring
five. All got away except the mac
fatally hurt, who gave the names of the others.
The citizens, at a meeting, resolved tc
rid the county of these men. The band numbers
four hundred. Governor Beveridge haf
sent one hundred stand of arms to the county,
and bloody results are expected.
A Florida correspondent of the At
lauta Herald, in the course of an interesting
communication regarding Florida fisheries
says: "The best fishermen in Florida are th(
pelicans and ospreys. A pelican consumes
about a peck of fish a day. They flock
about the straits and inlets by thousands
Supposing there are 2,000,000 pelicans ir
Florida?and there are certainly more thai
that?they would eat 500,000 bushels 01
fish each day, or 182,500,000 bushles pel
year. The millions upon millions of whifo
| and blue cranes, herons, curlews, gulls, fish|
hawks, kingfishers, and other water fowl, dej
vour thousands of bushels of fi$h every twentyfour
hours. An experienced cracker esti!
mates that 700,000 bushels of fish a day are
: required to feed the birds of Florida Alone,
j This would make 525,500,000 bushels each
' year. Add to this the billions of fish swallowj
ed by sharks, bass and others, and the sum
| total will reach nearly 2,000,000,000 bushels
j destroyed by feathered and finny fishermen
on the peninsula in twelve mouths. At first
glance these figures appear enormous, but
let any man make his own estimate and care;
fully figure it up, and he will find them under
instead of over."
She ^jarkville inquirer.
YORKVILLE, S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 26, 1875.
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EM) OF THE PARKER CASE.
As we stated last week, Parker was discharged
from imprisonment by Judge Mackey
on Monday night, and afterward, when
under arrest on the charge of grand larceny,
he was admitted to bail by Trial Justice McCord
in the sum of $2,000. Parker left Columbia
on the same night, or early next morning,
on the Augusta train, which was the
6rst to leave the city after the close of the extraordinary
proceedings preliminary to his release.
The absence of Attorney-General Melton
or other counppi for the State from the proceedings
before Trial Justice McCord is accounted
for by the statement, that upon the
withdrawal of the aforesaid counsel from the
court-room after the snubbing they received
from Judge Mackey, they requested McCord
to apprize them if Parker should be re-arrested
and brought before him that night. This
the Trial Justice promised to do, and says
that after Parker was brought before him he
dispatched a messenger to the solicitor's office,
but that official failing to appear, the Trial
Justice heard only the side of the accused,
and in fixing the amount of bail was governed
by the arguments of Parker's counsel.
From the Columbia correspondence of the
New and Courier, we are led to infer that the
case is not yet considered as fiually disposed
of, and that it may assume a different phase,
involving others who have been conspicuous
in the proceedings. The correspondent alluded
to says :
Col. Rion, who arrived in the city on Tuesday,
says that he has no intention of dropping
the matter. On the first day of the October
terra of the Court of Sessions, the State will
apply to Judge Carpenter foj- a rule compelling
the sheriff to show cause why he should
| not be attached for failing to arrest Parker.
The State will also appeal rrom duageiuacaey's
decision in the habeas corpus case, and
from his order vacating the arrest of Parker
on the sinking fund case. Another warrant
is to be issued, and as soon as Parker's whereabouts
are ascertained, a requisition will be
made for him. The officers who represent the
State say that they will follow him through
all the country with a view to bring him back
to justice.
AX UNNECESSARY EXCITEMENT ALLAYED.
Jefferson Davis having been invited by the
managers of Winnebago County, Illinois, Agricultural
Society, to deliver the address at
their approaching fair in September next, on
accepting the invitation?which he delayed
fnr several weeks?a storm of indignation from
the "Heroes of America" and similar organizations
in that State, was the consequence.
Mr. Davis was objected to as being the head
and front of the Confederacy, albeit the people
of the seceded States placed him in the
position he occupied. The fact is not denied
in the South that Mr. Davis' promiuency in a
cause which failed, will forever prevent him
from resuming the position which he formerly
sustained toward the people of the whole
country, and as this fact is equally patent to
the people of the North, we think all reprehensibility,
if any there be in the matter, is
attached directly to the managers of the fair,
who, in extending their invitation to Mr. Davis,
were, no doubt, actuated more by the
mercenary motive of filling their coffers by
the sale of tickets at the entrance gate, than
the desire to promote agricultural interests or
the spirit of conciliation between the two sections.
No one can censure Mr. Davis for accepting
the invitation ; and since it produced
! the ebullition it did, he is entitled to all praise
for inditing the following letter to the Secre!
tarv of the agricultural society, revoking his
I acceptance:
| Dear Sir :?I yesterday sent to you a teli
egram auuouncing ray revocation of my con- i
I ditional acceptance of the invitation to address i
your association at their annual meeting in |
i September next. The long period which has j
! elapsed since the receipt of your first letter, |
and the cousiderate courtesy which has marked :
your correspondence, make it a duty to you i
and myself that sufficient explanation should
i be given of this change of purpose.
Three objects mainly induced me to accept
j the invitation: First. The hope that a personal
intercourse might remove some of the
prejudices which have been generated by par- j
, tisan factions and matured by individual and
sectional hate. Anxious as in former years to
promote the interests of our great valley of
' the Mississippi, and believing that with mutual
confidence and co-intelligence much could
be done for its advancement, I solely delayed
,' my acceptance of your invitation until n became
reasonably probable that it should be!
i met. The productive capacity of the Northwest
needs for its development cheaper and
11 safe transportation to the markets of the
Southwest, and also to foreign countries. In
11 England especially, earnest attention has been
directed for several years past to more direct
> and economical trade with the Mississippi
valley. In this connection there was a desire
) \ to confer with the Patrons of Husbandry and
, prosperous sections to discuss with them the
securing of better means of transportation for
your farm produce to the most favorable mar;
kets, and provide agencies which should en,
sure a larger return to freemen, and by such
i conference to learn the views of one member
i of the family of the Mississippi valley, a fam;
ily, the chief interest of all of which is not
. ( only agriculture, but the cultivation of such
i various crops as to make trade among themi
selves extensive and lucrative, while it stamps
f ( upon each and all the same interests and the
r; same policy. As to the foreign trade, to reu3
der such connections efficient there must needs
be a disposition to attend to the subject under i
consideration ; surely not a purpose to smother i
it by the interposition of matters having no i
just relation to it. j
I was encouraged to believe that your re- I
ception of me would be beneficial to your as- !
sociation. This was the more supposable because
several other agricultural societies of!;
Illinois had in like manner invited me to ad- j'
dress their annual meetings. Yesterday I re- ,
ceived a printed paper, it being a protest of a ! I
number of your fellow-countrymen against j!
the action of your board in their invitation to | j
me to address the meeting. Thereupon, I sent
you a telegram withdrawing my acceptance of
the invitation to participate in the meeting, and
I hope neither your association or the directors
will suffer harm by the delay in procuring an I
orator, or by the correspondence which has i
caused it. The object was to gratify wishes <
long entertained to see in its cultivated dress i
the country known to me as a trackless wil- I
derness, but that being merely a personal grat- <
ification, it may be indulged in at my convenience
or postponed indefinitely. <
I can well believe that the cause which has j 1
changed ray purpose was as unf'orseen by you <
as by me, and you may be assured that I feel |
no disaffection toward the directors or your- f
self, and have suffered no personal embarrass- <
ment from the event, as the invitation was
unexpected, and only acceptable as an expression
of general good will; so my only regret
is the loss of opportunity to promote the '
public iuterest with which the welfare of your 1
community is identified. Again expressing ]
the hope that neither the directors nor your- s
self may suffer injury or annoyance, and |
thanking you for the kindness and considera- (
tiou you have manifested, I am, yours, re- i
spectfully, Jefferson Davis.
THREATENED TROUBLE IN GEORGIA. <
For several days past there has been great 1
excitement in the counties of Burke, John- I
son, Washington and Jefferson, in the State
of Georgia, in consequence of an apprehended
outbreak among the negro population of those
counties, who, it was alleged, threatened to 1
massacre the whites and destroy their property
with the torch. The first warning of the '
threatened uprising of the negroes was conveyed
by the following letter, which was 1
brought to Irwinton on the 16th, by Mr. B.
Hall. The letter was picked up near Wil- 1
liarason's old store, in Washington county,
after one of the nightly drills of the negroes.
Its genuineness is vouched for by Rev. Mr.
Baker, of Irwinton:
"August 0, '75.?Jame9 Wallers, you and ;
your company rauststart to killing the whites 1
on Aug. 20th. Kill every one you can find.
Tell Harason Tucker to kill all the whites he
can find and go toward No. 11 station, and
there you will meet Gen. Morris and his staff
and Gen. Rivers and his staff. You do as I
tell you and Capt. Tucker. This must be a
secret. You tell brother Jack to kill every 1
white man and get every gun he can. Make I
out to the white men that you are sorry that
they think we will hurt them, and if you know
of any man that has got money make them
give it to your treasurer, and we need it.
Have all your companies ready. Kill with 1
axes, hoes, pitchforks, and get gun powder
and shot as you kill. So I close to depend on
you." i
After the above letter was found, the white <
people sent a spy to one of the negro meetings, !
who, upon his return, confirmed all that the
letter contained, while it is also said the spy
knew nothing of the existence of such a docu- i
ment or its contents. These facts, together <
with other circumstances, led the whites of I
that county, and particularly of Sandersville, ]
to make preparations for the apprehended at- I
tack ; but if such a design had been enter
tained by the blacks they abandoned it, as <
the whites were fully prepared for an engage- ]
ment, having ready for the emergency, be- <
sides the local military organizations, a bat- I
talion from Macon. <
After the excitement had somewhat subsided,
the authorities took steps to secure the j
arrest of the leaders of the insurrectionary <
movement, and about eighty have been arrest- j
ed, who are in prison in Sandersville, Waynes- i
boro and Augusta. Candia Harris, one of <
the leaders who is under arrest, has made a ,
confession, and implicates as one of the prime {
leaders of the movement, Prince Rivers, Ma- <
jor-General of the South Carolina militia.
Rivers, however, has published a card in the j
Augusta papers denying emphatically that he (
has any connection with the affair. (
Up to Thursday, the excitement in Burke ,
county had become so intense, and the fears <
of the whites were so great as to impel them j
to apply for assistance, and accordingly Lieut.- j
Col. Barrett, commanding the Augusta bat- (
talion, was telegraphed for a detail of one ,
hundred men. But for some unexplained
reason, Governor Smith refused to permit the
men to go. Col. Barrett, on making application
for the requisite order, received from the ?
Governor only the brief message: "Do not 1
send any men to Waynesboro." This action
of the Governor caused no little excitement in <
Augusta, and about t wenty-five of the militia 1
a ? * ~
determiued, if they could not go as an organi- <
zation, to the rescue of the people, to go upon J
their own account, which they did.
A dispatch from Waynesboro dated last *
Friday, says: I
The negroes are completely demoralized, J
and the older citizens think they have scatter- t
ed. About fifteen arrests have been made to- j
day of the principal ringleaders among the
negroes. Joe Morris, the head-centre of the
trouble, is yet at large, and the ^general impression
is that he has decamped. TEis~mdrh-"*
ing fully five hundred negroes gathered about *
five miles out of town, but subsequent events <
caused a panic, and they scattered in every ]
direction. The captain of the Hussars, who |
passed their rendezvous this afternoon, did (
not see a negro in the vicinity. A negro who
was arrested to-day confessed the whole plot.
He says a simultaneous attack was to have
been made to-morrow in Jefferson, Burke,
\\7 j '> nottimn /\P Pinlimnnrl nnn n_ (
>V (ismugiuu auu a jiui iiuu ua iwwuuuuu Wu*<
ties. It is now evident that there will be lit- |
tie or no trouble. Nine more arrests of lead- (
ers have since been made. The citizens are j
most anxious to capture Joe Morris, but the ,
chances seem slim. The people are fully
armed and well prepared to meet auy force '
should the emergency arise, but it is believed i
their services will not be needed. A box with f
fifty guns and fixed ammunition was brought |
down on the train from Augusta to-night. |
Judge Perry and other prominent citizens believe
the trouble is all over, and that the
prompt arming of the white people and the 1
vigorous measures adopted will be a wholesome
lesson for the blacks in the future. Two ne- i
groes from Sandersvillc came down on the | j
| train, and asked for Morris. They had a let- j
ter directed to Morris, saying : "The jig is up |
in Washington, as the white people are ma-11
king arrests of the leaders," and warned him 1
to get out of the way. Morris evidently con- j
cocted the whole plan of attack on the whites ,
himself. Very few of his followers knew of |,
his programme. He expected to marshal j
them, march to Waynesboro, and then tell |,
them what to do.
| A despatch from Bartow, Jefferson county,
dated on Thursday, contains the following in-1
formation:
i No further news from the front except from <:
Wrightsville, in Johnson county. A gentle- j
mau who left there this morning says thirteen i
negroes came into the town yesterday and
surrendered themselves, their guns, their amI
munition and their uniforms. The whites j (
I never knew before that they had a uniformed
company of negroes in their midst. They j
made confessions, implicating many others,
| and arrests are still being made. In this j
i county now we think that no demonstration of >
a hostile character will be made. Three of
the ringleaders in this county have been captured,
the other three succeeded in makiug
^ood their escape. The following letter has
been found in the house of the negro Candia
Harris:
Hon Mr Candia Harris : Dear Sir?T received
your kind Express Communication all Right but
tir I will say to you please to send me $H00 more !
Hollars your convention will be very Emportance
please to send it in a private letter i Will get it 1
liaveenvited Genl P R Rivers from Aiken County
South Carolina with '2000 Mens With arms I will
send You the Minnies Right away j'our convention
will hold two days containing 19 counties.
Very Respectfuley Joseph Morris
Waynesboro Burke county Ga.
The Atlanta Constitution otThursday says:
Yesterday morniner Governor Smith received
telegrams from Capt. William Wartbin, exmember
of the legislature, and Mr. Wylie,
editor of the Sandersville Herald, stating that
i formidable insurrection was brewing among
the negroes. This dispatch was confirmed by
another from Mr. Reuben Mayo, sheriff of
Washington county, stating that he had several
of the ring leaders under arrest, but
feared that an attempt would be made to rescue
them. Governor Smith at once telegraphed
back to Sheriff Mayo to summon
juch & posse comltatu&ui the citizens as would
mable him to hold the prisoners. ,
Several of thfe negroes under arrest have
made confessions to the purport that nineteen
2onuties were to be embraced in the insurrection,
and that Friday of last week was appointed
for the uprising. Ail the land and
jpoiU captured were to be divided out among
the negroes. All danger is now regarded as
iver, and no further trouble is apprehended,
[t is not believed that the great mass of the
colored people really knew of the gravity and
langer of the plot into which they were being
led, the instigators of which, it is hoped, will
kz* mitiioKfirl a a nrima s)aaart7?>a
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SOUTH CAROLIN A SEWS.
? Lancaster county will gather the largest
3rop of corn since 1866.
? Mr. William C. Gist, died at his residence
in Union county on the 13th instant.
? The Beach Island Siamese twins have
died, and are now preserved in alcohol.
? Osmond Barber has been appointed a
trial justice for Chester county.
? On the first of September, Charles P.
Pelhain, Esq., will become the editor of the
Register, the new Columbia daily.
? Mr. W. M. Mason, of Fairfield, killed
forty-three snakes a few days ago, while cleaning
up a small piece of low ground.
? A project is on foot to build a railroad
from Barnwell Court House to the village of
Elko, on the South Carolina Railroad, some
eight miles distant.
? The Winnsboro News is informed that
there is more corn growing in Fairfield county
at the present time, than during any one
year since the war.
? Three hundred barrels of flour have re- .
cently been shipped from the Carapsen Mills,
at Charleston, to Baltimore, and about 500
more will follow.
? The recent census gives the town of Sparf-onKiifff
a nnnnlo hnn lif'9 AOH?tuVi 1 tPQ 1 9QR
UUIIUUIg M VTA XMU tllilVW) Aifoww |
colored, 1,123. Greenville, 5,486?whites,
2,752; colored, 2,734. Camden, 2,172?
whites, 939; colored, 1,233. i
? After a confinement of nearly two years
in the Greenville jail, on a charge of contempt
af Court, for refusing to answer certain questions,
Judge Cooke has ordered the release of i
Mr. Edwin F. Stokes. Phjsicians testified i
that he is partially insane. i
? Governor Chamberlain has issued a pro- i
jlamation, declaring vacant the office of R.
M. Thompson, one of the county commission
jra 01 ^lareiiaon county, in uuutjttjueuue ui
;he withdrawal of the sureties on his official
bond.
? Governor Chamberlain ht.s pardoned Ben- i
arain Cunningham, convicted of grand larceny,
at the June terra of the Circuit Court 1
'or Union county and sentenced to six months '
raprisonraent in the penitentiary. The parIon
was granted upon the recommendation of
Judge Moses, Messrs. J. B. Steedraan, R. W.
Jhand and a large number of the best citizens ,
>f Union county. i
? The Clarendon Press sayn planters along i
5antee have not suffered in comparison with <
ether sections of the county. As far out from i
;he river as Mr. Sprott, the present prospects i
xre good for fair crops. The crops along the ;
South Black river road are cut short, the es- i
;imate of the planters are varying from a third I
;o a half. In the "Fork of Black river" the i
estimate of a two-thirds crop is regarded as |
iioderate. 1
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. j
? H. F. Schenck has received a number of ,
lew looms which he will soon have in opera- (
Aon in his cotton factory in Cleveland county. (
? Mr. Spake of Jackson county has spoken, :
md speaks to the effect that he is a Democrat. (
He is a member elect of the approaching
Convention, and has been classed auiong the (
Republicans.
? Last Saturday morning thirteen convicts
it the State Penitentiary, attempting to make
heir escape, were fired upon by the guard, ,
ind two were killed and two wounded, one of
hem mortally. Eight of them succeeded in
naking their escape.
? The Greensboro Patriot announces the
ieath of Ralph Gorrell, of that place, which
went occurred on Saturday of last week, in |
;he"*73rd~year of his age. Mr. Gorrell was ]
me of the most distinguished members of the
North Carolina bar, and has held many positions
of honor and trust in connection with (
the improvement and progress of the State.
? The Charlotte Observer nays an effort is j
oeing made to secure executive clemency for
Wm. Ellwood, who is confined in the jail at
Charlotte, waiting to be sentenced to death for (
the ipurder of Alex. Sanford, at King's Mountain,
of which offense he was convicted at the
last term of Mecklenburg Superior Court.
The petition is being circulated by Ellwood's ,
wife, who has secured the signatures of nearly
ill the members of the Charlotte bar, the (
sheriff of the county, and all the members of,,
the jury who tried the case, except two, who j
liave not yet been seen. The petition has also I
received 300 signatures in Cleveland and
Ciaston counties.
? The Wilmington Star records a case of
parricide, which occurred near Fair Bluff, in j
Columbus county, on Saturday of last week, j,
It seems that about four o'clock on the inor- j
ning of that day, the dwelling of Eli Cole- j
mau was discovered by his neighbors to be on
fire. They found it falling in, and learned :,
from his two children?a son of sixteen years :
old and a daughter of fourteen years old? j
that their father was in the burning building.j
The children had removed nearly all the fur- j
niture from tbe house, except the bed on which
their father lay. After the fire subsided, the !
remains of the ill-fated man were examined, '
and exhibited signs of his having been mur-1
dered. Suspicion at once attached to the
3on, and on being accused, a day or two after
the deed, confessed his guilt, and says that he
shot his father in the head while lying asleep '
on the bed, aud then fired the house. The
boy has the reputation of being a very wicked 1
and vicious person, and has been heard to
make threats against his father. Both the !
children have keen committed to jail. I
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
C. G. Parish?Dry Goods?Tea?Tobacco?Kerosene?Flavors?Lard?Turnip
Seed?OatsBacon?Corn?Attention
Sportsmen.
J. H. Clawson?Assignee's Sale?In Bankruptcy,
In the Matter of J. R. Castles, Bankrupt.
William L. Webb?Oldest Crockery House in
Charleston.
T. N. Bennett, Chester?Guns Made and Repaired
Willie Ferguson?News Agent.
J. C. H. Duff?Wool Carding.
E. F Bell, Agent?Singer Sewing Machine.
PERSONAL.
Rev. Henry R. Dickson, Pastor of the
Presbyterian Church of this place, who has
been absent on a vacation of several weeks,
returned home on Saturday evening last.
SUDDEN DEATH.
Rebecca Moore, a respectable colored woman
aged about seventy years, who lived in
the northern part of town, suddenly fell dead
T unnrl n t* mnrninrr T t id Gil nnndPfl fthp
tact JL ucouaj luviuiugi AW iu mm^vwvvi wmw
was the victim of heart disease.
REVENUE CAPTURE.
On Wednesday evening of last week a man
named Jacob Mull, from Catawba county, N.
C., who was engaged in illicit whisky traffic,
wus captured, with his team and wagon, near
this place. Mull, who was committed to jail,
is said to be an old, experienced "blockade
runner," and had in his wagon, when captured,
seven empty whisky barrels, the stamps on
which were uncancelled.
SEEKING PARDON.
A petition has been prepared and will be
forwarded to the Governor, asking for the pardon
of James Moore, convicted at the last
term ofFairfeld Court of forgery, and sencenced
by Judge Mackey to two years' imprisonment
in the penitentiary. The petition
has received the approval of Judge Mackey,
and we learn that the representative of the
Singer Machine Company, who were the principal
losers by the peculations of Moore, has
also signified his willingness to sign the peti
tion.
ACTION OF'TRESPASS.
The case of John E. Austin, of Union county,
N. C., charged with feloniously taking a
mule from the premises of John Caldwell, of
this county, on the night of the 26th of last
July, was heard before Trial Justice Williams,
in this place last Monday. It will be remembered
that the ownership of the mule was a
subject of dispute between the parties, and
Austin availing himself of the opportunity,
seized the mule and rode into Gaston county,
N. C., where he was arrested and committed
to jail. Subsequently he was released, and
he now brings an action of tresspass against
Caldwell for the recovery of the mule. W.
B. Williams, Esq., appeared for Austin, and
Messrs. Beatty and Bell for Caldwell. The
jury decided in favor of Caldwell, and the
plaintiff gave notice that he would appeal.
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THE CASE OF FRED. JONES.
Fred. Jones, colored, who shot and killed
Leonidas McNeel, near McConnellsville, in
this county on the 5th of June last, and who,
on the next morning surrendered himself to
the Sheriff, in whose custody he has been
since that time, appeared before Judge Mackey
in the Court House at this place last Monday
evening, on a writ of habeas corpus, praying
to be discharged from arrest. Instead of
submitting an affidavit, the prisoner made an
oral statement, in which the slaying was not
denied, though he urged that the deed was
committed in self-defense. The evidence taken
at the coroner's inquest was then read,
when, after a short argument by T. J. Bell,
Esq., counsellor for the petitioner, Judge
Mackey decided that the case was bailable,
and fixed the amount of bond at ?500, with
two good sureties, for the appearance of the
prisoner at the next terra of the Court of
General Sessions to be held for this county.
The prisoner has not yet succeeded in giving
the required bond.
SUCCESSFUL FARMING.
Dr. John F. Lindsey, of this place, owns a
small tract of land about four miles south of
town, on which there is a bottom piece of nine
acres, that only a few years ago was a morass of
cane and flag, on the outskirts of which grew
spontaneously the varieties of grass known as
cat grass and blue grass. At no season of the
year could a man attempt to walk in any part
of this swamp without miring. It was one of
the waste places so commonly found in all
sections of the country, the native grass it
produced being attended with more trouble
and expense to procure it than the hay thus
saved was worth. The Doctor decided to reclaim
this marsh, and cause it to produce something
more beneficial than rank weeds and
cane; and so far did he succeed, that now, instead
of the wild bog which originally flourished
there, the entire bottom is a wilderness
of waving corn, the finest field of this cereal
that we ever saw growing. As the plan pur
sued by Dr. Lindsey for tbe reclamation ot
this swamp is simple, and inexpensive when
compared with the results obtained, we deem
it but proper to call attention to this instance,
find urge upon those whose lands contain similar
swamps, the importance, in an economical
point of view, of bringing them to a state of
cultivation.
The plan adopted by Doctor Lindsey was
simple, consisting only of a system of underdraining
by means of "blind ditches" cut
through the swamp, to convey the water to a
main open ditch on one edge. These ditches,
which now serve to carry off an excess of rainfall,
soon drained the water with which the
ground was impregnated to the depth of from
two to four feet, and after the growth of vegetation
was cleared away, a rich, loose soil was
found ready for the plow. The expense of
ditching this land and preparing it for cultivation
was about $50 per acre, and no year
since it has been cultivated has it produced
less than 50 bushels to the acre. Last year
the yield of the nine acres was 575 bushels, of
which 520 bushels was good, merchantable
corn. This season it will not be less, while
the Doctor feels confident that by composting,
which he contemplates doing next year, the
nine acres will yield 1,000 bushels. The plan
of cultivation pursued is not different from
that under general adoption, with the excep.i
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lion tnai ine preseui aeanuii, luobcau ui pivrring
the crop three times, as is usual, this received
but two plowings, iu consequence of
rapid growth, it being so large at the proper
time for the third plowing, as to render it
liable to be broken down. The same swamp
extended on Mr. B. T. Wheeler's land, which
adjoins Dr. Lindsey's place. Mr. Wheeler
pursued the same course as did the Doctor,
and with similar results.
There are, in York eounty, and especially
on the Fishing creek bottoms, hundreds of
acres of similar swamps, which could be made
equally productive as the one under notice,
and we hope the gratifying results of Doctor
Lindsey's efforts in this direction will induce
others to a similar spirit of enterprise.
Ha?" Minnesota woman killed eighteen bushels
of grasshoppers in one week, and got one
dollar a bushel.
ISy The new style of pantaloons this fall
will be large enough to tie back.
A TRIP TO FORT MILL.
Editor of the Enquirer: Perhapa the notes of
a trip recently taken by the writer through a
portion of Yprk county, may be of interest,
and afford some information to your many I
readers. Several considerations must occur to
every reflecting mind why a truthful and approximately
correct narrative of the progress
and industry of any part of the country should
be interesting to all. As there is a lack of information
regarding the size and configuration
of the county, in like manner?if not to a
greater extent?does this ignorance prevail as
to the progress made in the agricultural and
mechanical pursuits, and the skill, energy and
enterprise of a portion of our population. The
Enquirer, too, by being the central organ of
the county, may be the medium for disseminating
much information, become the means of
removing local animosity or jealousy, and rendering
our whole population more homogeneous
and united. Such are the views suggested
to the writer of these notes. Certain it is, that
our western farmers and planters know noth
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ing, or know Dut imperiecuy, or me eastern
portion of the county; and doubtless this is
true of the east as to the west, and likewise of
the northern and southern portions.
In company with a friend, I recently made
a trip from Yorkville to that portion of the
county lying east of the Catawba river. On
the two roads leading from Yorkville to
Thome's and Wright's Ferries, the portions
of the section seen by your correspondent
presented tolerably good crops, where they
had been well worked. The cotton, though
small in many places, seemed to be well laden
with fruit, and will doubtless make more
than the yield of last year, where uninjured
by rust and the excessive rains which for some
time had visited that section,
On Tuesday night the 17th, we arrived at
Fort Mill, and were very kindly received and
entertained at the hospitable residence of Dr.
S. A. Kell, whose house is situated on the
summit of the chief hill of the towu modestly
called the "Young Rome." Wednesday morning
the sun rose clear and cloudless, and early
the city was all agog with bustle, noise and
stir, all betokening an approaching festival
and celebration. The red coats of the firemen,
the tramp of horses and the rattle of
vehicles, as the substantial yeomen and planters,
with their wives and daughters and little
ones, came pouriDg in from York, Lancaster,
and even the good Old North State, told
plainly that the celebration gotten up by the
"Grangers" of the vicinity and surrounding
country, was to be au elegant affair.
Under direction of the Fort Mill Grange, a
procession was formed iu front of Grauge Hall,
and headed by the local band, and followed
by the Grangers, the firemen in uniform, and
the citizens and people generally?male and
female?the long procession wended its way
to the newly-erected Presbyterian Church.
The church building, supposed to be capable
of seating 400 persons, was densely packed,
and did not contain more than half of the assemblage,
which was estimated at from 800 to
1,000 persons. Many, no doubt, were attracted
by the expectation of seeing and hearing
Col. D. Wyatt Aiken, who is one of the
champions and expounders of the Grange organization
and its principles; but owing to
some cause he failed to arrive, though his
place was ably filled by that gallant native
son of York, Gen. D. H. Hill, the senior editor
of the Southern Home.
General Hill's address was an able and exhaustive
summary of the arguments in favor
of the Grange organization, as well as a complete
refutation of the many objections which
have been urged against it. It must have enlightened
the minds and gladdened the hearts
of the Grangers and citizens gt..erally to have
listened to the sterling good sense and admirable
advice the address contained; and without
going into detail I would particularly
mention that the speaker exhibited more than
his usual animation and fire, when he showed
by unanswerable arguments that the Grange
movement, neither in its incipiency or in any
stage of its progress, warred against any legitimate
business or pursuit or avocation or profession
of life, whilst the whole batteries of his
wit and sarcasm, and even scorn, were poured
out against those noisy and selfish creatures,
who are continually throwing cold water on
the movement, and thereby contributing to
depress and tie down in chains of solitude and
ignorance, the farmers of the country. Like
Burns, the General held that?
"The rank is but the guinea-stamp?
The man's the gowd for a' that."
After the conclusion of the address, two
long tables were spread and filled to overflowing
with solid and choice viands, well prepared
aud cooked?such only as the Grangers'
wives and daughters can do?and every body
had enough, and to spare.
After the repast was over, our attention
was arrested by the music of the violin, proceeding
from the basement story of the Grange
Hall; and hieing thither, we found a large
number of the votaries of pleasure making
merry with the attractions of the dance. The
beauty and chivalry of the "future London"
and of the neigboring villages of Rock Hill,
Chester and Lancaster, had gathered there.
Even the interior town of Sumter sent representatives
of her refinement and grace to en'
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liven the occasion, ai nigm me scene was
renewed, and so ended the Grange festival.
"All went merry as a marriage bell" with
the guests and citizens of the "Queen of the
Catawba."
Fort Mill, as a station or interior village, is
pleasantly located on the C. C. and A Kailroad,
about two miles, at its nearest point,
from the Catawba river, on the eastern side, 8
miles from Rock Hill, and 17 miles from
Charlotte. The town takes its name from an
old fort, about a mile south-west from the
place, supposed to have been built and used
by the English settlers on the Catawba as a
protection against the predatory incursions
and invasions of the Roanoke tribe of Indians.
The town has made considerable progress
in population, in building, in trade, and
in the industrial arts during the past five
years. Being the centre of one of the richest
and most fertile townships of the county, it
annually ships from 6,000 to 7,000 bales of
cotton ; has ten stores inclusive of all k iuds;
a drug store ; two public halls?one Grange
and one Masonic; three churches?Methodist,
Baptist and Presbyterian?and a fine
brick academy in process of erection. Also,
three physicians; two places where the trav
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eier may siup auu uc reneauew?x/ia&ciuiuo
and Hotchkia3'; only one liquor shop; and
many substantial and elegant residences, and
a fixed resident population, at the present
time, numbering between 300 and 400 souls.
In company with a mutual friend and Capt.
Sam. White, your correspondent visited the
fine cotton and corn farms and mills of Capt.
White, on Steel creek, east of Fort Mill. The
Captain is an energetic, earnest, practical aud
thorough-going farmer?a Granger?and expects
this Beason to make from 150 to 200
bales of cotton, with provisions in abundance.
His mill saws 3,000 feet of lumber per day,
and his grist mills are provided with the most
approved machinery.
We likewise visited, in company with Col.
. John White, his farm, lying west of Fort Mill
I aud along the "Catawba river. Hp, too, has
a fine farm with a fine corn crop. Much of
his extensive cotton fields will average, under j
j favorable conditions, from 1,200 to 1,500
pounds of cotton to the acre. The Colonel
has recently erected and completed an elegant
{ and tasteful brick residence at a cost of near
$10,000. He has the contract, and is carrv'
ing it out, of building a substantial brick
^.academy for the use of the town, and is also
erecting a water gin and press for himself,
and besides, is an earnest Granger.
These two farms are only mentioned because
they came uuder the critical observation of j
the writer, and perhaps are fair illustrations
of the fertility of the soil and the present
promising crops of Fort Mill township. On j
all sides Prospero seems to have waved her ,
wand, and the fabled horn of Fortunatua to
have poured out its contents.
Many considerations present themselves to
the writer why this township is destined to
become the gem of the county. Most of the
land is still in a virgin state, having been but
recently cleared?and a larger part being yet
in forest. The population is naturally a good
one; and awakened by the bugle blast of the
Granger, and adapting themselves to the progress
being made in agriculture at the present
timo, will improve, beautify and adorn
their farms and homes.
The writer cannot conclude these rambling
observations without testifying to the good
order, sobriety and hospitality of the good people
of that locality during his brief sojourn
among them. In an assemblage of persons
numbering 800 or more, from all directions,
not a drunken man was seen, nor a single ar- *
rest made for disorderly conduct. And with- X
out discriminating, I would particularly mention
the hospitality and kindnesS of Dr. S.
A. Kell, who is rapidly rising in his profession,
and is destined to be a fixed institution
in Fort Mill. I would also mention Mr.
Henry Banks, who, with one of Alabama's
fairest flowers, has recently settled on the
Unnonotoorl aP Vi i q fotkor tko lata Pat? WT m
uv/ui^ob^au \j i mo iwnivi | nit iaic ivcfi ?f uii
Banks, and who, by his skill and energy, will
doubtless build up a high school for this place.
Amicus.
MERE-MENTION.
The Governor of Tennessee has appointed
Hon. D. M. Key, of Chattanooga, to the seat
in the United States Senate made vacant by
the death of Andrew Johnson. A colored
woman has sued the Pullman Palace
Car Company for $10,000 for refusing to allow
her to ride in a Pullman Car from Cincinnati
to Washington. The body of
Grim wood, who accompanied Donaldson in
his last balloon ascent, has been found near
Whitehall, Michigan, and returned to Chicago
for interment. Among the bids recently
opened for printing check stamps, one
firm offered to do the work for nothing, and *
another offered to pay $2,000 for the privilege.
The stamp affords an advertisement to the j
printer. The New York State Democratic
Convention will meet at Syracuse, on
the 6th of September. Henry(T. Helmbold,
the Buchu man, has returned from Europe,
and been placed in an insane Asylum
at Philadelphia. McCreery's majority
for Governor of Kentucky is 36,139. The
House will stand Democrats 90 and Republicans
10. Nineteen hundred mortgages
have been recorded in Hinds county, Miss.,
during the present year/ The Air-Line
Railroad makes the run from Richmond to
Atlanta?a distance of 548 miles?in twentysix
hours. The largest mirror in the
world has just been put into the parlor of one
>jf the Saratoga hotels. Two platform cars
were required to transport it. It is a notable
fact that while not one ex-President is
living, the wives of five.of them survive?
Mrs. Polk. Mrs. Fillmore. Mrs. Tvler. Mrs.
Lincoln and Mrs. Johnson. Postmaster
Pease, of Vicksburg has been sued for three
cents over-charge on a letter. Benjamin
Barker, a murderer of Monroe county, Pennsylvania,
has been surrendered by his wife,
who receives a reward of $1,100. The
Presbyterian population of the world is 30,000,000.
A Kentucky court lately sent
a man for two years to the Penitentiary for
killing a man, and a second culprit was sent
for four years to tho same place for stealing
hogs. Three hundred passenger trains
daily enter aud leave a single depot in Jersey
City, opposite New York. The hay crop
in the United States for the past year was over
27,000,000 tons, valued at 8500,000,000/
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Lleht.-Goreruor Gleavcs Explains. ?
Lieutenant-Governor Gleaves has published
a letter in vindication of his recent ?- A
terference in the sentence of death pronounced ^
upon the murderer Gibbes, whereby he commuted
the sentence to tweuty years imprison- ^
ment in the penitentiary. He claims that
under the provisions of the constitution he
is empowered to act, under certain circumstances,
during the absence of the Governor,
and that the case in question was one of emergency,
in which he believed the Governor was
not only disqualified from acting on account
of his absence from the State, but that it was
impossible to lay before him by telegraph all
the statements and circumstances which re
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quired immediate consideration, in ine meantime,
the Lieutenant-Governor desires that
the question involved shall be determined by
either a decision of the State Supreme Court,
or by some specific enactment of the Legislature.
In reply to the letter of Governor Chamber- ?
lain, Judge Reed has written to his Excellency
the following under date of the 14th inst.
Dear Sir Your letter addressed to me,
in reference to the attempted commutation of
the sentence of the convict Joseph Gibbee, by /
Lieutenant-Governor Gleaves, has just reached
me at this place, where I am indulging,
temporarily,.a brief summer vacation. I was
preatlv sumrised and shocked udoo receipt of
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the announcement of the action of LieutenantGovernor
Gleaves, for Gibbes had been justly
convicted after an impartial trial and an able
defense, and was, in my judgment, the ringleader,
the head and front, as compared with
his associate, John Smith, who has suffered
the extreme penalty of the law, in one of the
most atrocious, pre-arranged robberies and
murders that has even been committed in the
country.
I had determined, therefore, at once that,
upon the reassembling of the Court of Sessions
for Charleston county, it would be my
duty to take such action as might be deemed
necessary to determine the power of the Lieutenant-Governor
in the premises, if there be -
any doubt about it, and to vindicate the constitution,
the laws and public justice. Entertaining
these opinions, I need scarcely add
that I concur in the suggestion of your Excellency,
that an official duty rests upon me to
see that the matter is properly inquired into,
and that justice, as it maybe adjudged in mercy,
shall be done, however painful or prejudicial
the responsibility so unexpectedly thrown
upou me. -
I have the honor to be your Excellency's
obedient servant, J. P. Reed,^
Judge F^rst Circuit.
THE CROP OUTLOOK.
Late advices from Memphis say that a rapid
decline in the river has dispelled all fears of
further damage to the crops; but so great is
the diversity of opinion in regard to the damage
done to the cotton crop in that district,
that it is impossible to estimate the amount,
which varies from twenty to eighty thousaud
bales. There is no precedent by which the
overflow on cotton at this season of the year
can be approximated. The number of acres
of corn ruined by the flood is largely in excess
of the cotton. ^
The statistics of the sugar cane crop for July,
at the agricultural department, show that
Mississippi has an increased acreage of eight
per cent.; Georgia one per cent. Other sugar-producing
States show a decline: Louisiana
two, South Carolina three, Texas five,
Alabama six,Florida fourteen percent, below
last year's acreage. Louisiana reports an
average condition, and Mississippi three per
cent, above. Other States are all below from
three to ten per cent.
The Cincinnati Price Current has reports
from three hundred and fifty points in nearly
as many counties, and gives the following
summary of wheat. The reports indicate in
Ohio and Indiana a full average acreage;
yield somewhat short, large losses by rain,
and quality very inferior.
The Illinois crop is below an average; condition
largely bad, and quality inferior.
In Iowa the acreage is as about as usual.