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^ctaps and Jfarts. |
? Only three editors attended the meeting i
of the Editorial Association in Newbern, N.
C., on the 16th ultimo.
? The Charlotte Observer has the most gratifying
reports of the growing crops in Mecklenburg
county.
? Dr. Charles J. Fox, a prominent citizen
of Charlotte, N. C., died on the morning of
the 28th ultimo, aged about 65 years.
? W. W. Jenkins, son of the State Treasurer,
has been appointed postmaster at Charlotte,
N. C.
? The 101st anniversary of the Mecklenburg
Declaration of Independence, was duly and
appropriately celebrated in Charlotte, N. C.,
_ iL . ftAit ..li*
ob me zum uiumo.
? H. A. London, of Pittsboro, N. C., has sent
to the Centennial 340 pennyweights of gold,
recently taken from his celebrated mine in
Chatham county.
? Gen. D. H. Hill's name is brought prominently
forward as the Democratic candidate
for Superintendent of Public Instruction in
North Carolina.
? It has been decided in Iowa, that a man
who elopes with another man's wife, can be
tried for the offense of receiving stolen property.
? At a sale of short horn Durhams, near
Chicago last week, a herd of sixty-five were
sold and realized a total of over $70,000. The
average price for cows was $1,136, and for
bulls $814. ,
? Twenty United States prisoners, recently
convicted in North Carolina of whisky frauds,
' were received at the Albany penitentiary on
Thursday last, and assigned to their several
tasks.
? Two years ago, H. W. Edmunds, paying
teller of the Second National Bank of Boston,
was discharged because he could not account
for $10,000. The missing money was
found last Thursday, in the crevice of a safe
into which it had slipped.
?In Mecklenburg N. C. Superior Court, last
week, W. H. H. Houston, indicted in two cases
for forgery, submitted and was found guilty in
both. Sentence of ten years at hard labor in
the penitentiary, was pronounced in one case,
and judgment suspended in the other.
? A member of the Ways and Means Comraiteee
is authority for the statement that the
committee will recommend the adoption of
the bill to repeal the bank-check stamp tax,
which would cut off 81,500,000 from the revenue.
? The senate committe on banking and
currency, have agreed upon Randall's bill,
authorizing the further issue of silver coin.
It provides for the issue of 820,000,000 of
silver coins, and also for the purchase of silver
bullion not exceeding, at one time, 81,000,000.
? Rev. Thomas L. DeVaux, editor of the
N. C. Presbyterian, died in Wilmington on
the 23rd ultimo. Mr. DeVaux was a native
of South Carolina, where he first officiated as
a minister of the Presbyterian Church. He
edited the Pi-esbyterian nearly four years previous
to his death.
? intimating the strength ot the republican
candidates for the Presidency, the Cincinnati
Commercial says: "We think it settled that
Bristow will have the largest vote on the first
ballot, and that be will be rapidly reinforced
from Tennessee, Ohio and New York, acquiring
a preponderence and momentum that will
give him the nomination."
? A Chicago woman applied for divorce on
the ground that her husband kept secret from
her before marriage the fact that he had lost
all his toes from one foot. The plea was considered
insufficient, as it appears she took the
man for better or worse, and had a right to
examine his toes before the contract was
completed.
? The Southern Presbyterian furnishes some
instructive figures showing the comparative
cost of certain "unnecessaries," from which
it appears that the country pays 870,000,000
annually for dogs, 8610,000,000 for tobacco,
and 82,200,000,000 for intoxicating liquors.
The figures are given for the purpose of contrasting
the respective items with the sum annually
paid salaries to ministers of the Gospel,
which is given at 86,000,000 only.
?The national debt was said to be a national
blessing ; but it has been reserved for
a Massachusetts pastor to explain how the
debt on his church is a blessing?and not in
disguise, either. He says: "We have a debt
on our church. It has been there for a long
time. It will dou btless be there for a long
A- -? ? A* ? ? ?? \\) nnb r\ nAr?.
LllLie LU CUUIC. fT lieu nc aic aoauu iu wutribute
to any object, we refer to the debt. It
has thus saved us a great deal of money?
more than the debt itself, many times over."
? Hon. Thomas L. Jones, of Kentucky, has
' introduced a bill in the House to charter a
railroad from Charleston, S. C., to Chicago.
1'he proposed road passes through the middle
of Kentucky. The bill provides that the
Government is to guarantee the bonds of the
company, payable in fifty years, to the amount
of ?30,000 per mile, the principal and interest
(at 5 per cent.) payable in gold. The bill
will not come up for passage until the next
session of Congress.
? A letter from Z. Mott, one of a company
of Cincinnatians who left for the Black Hills
some time ago, dated at Kearney Junction,
May 21st, states that the Indians are on the
war path, killing miners at a fearful rate.
He says out of forty-two men at Dearwood,
twenty-seven have been killed by savages and
five other men were killed and scalped within
three miles of Custer City. There is plenty
of gold, he says, northwest of Custer City,
but it is impossible to get at it on account of
the Indians.
? A noticeable feature of the steamship departures
from New York is the large number
of passengers going out, especially in the
steerage. The applications for passage, weeks
ahead, are so numerous at some of the companies'
offices,that they may have to take into consideration
the exDediencv of putting on the
extra steamers which were withdrawn early in
the season, in consequence of a falling off in
business. This is altogether contrary to the
anticipations touching the volume of this
summer's travel to Europe, which generally
prevailed awhile ago.
? The Western Union Telegraph Company
has begun the work of laying the telegraph
wires under ground in New York City, as an
experiment. Iron pipes to hold one hundred
and twenty-five wires are being laid between
the Cotton Exchange, the telegraph company's
buildings and other points. Pneumatic
tubes of brass, for the transmission of written
messages by the air blast, are also being laid.
If these experiments should demonstrate the
practicability of carrying the wires underground,
the advantages to be obtained from
the system will certainly lead to a rapid extension.
? It is believed that the Senate Committee
on postoffices and post roads will recommend
the restoration of the franking privilege to
members of Congress, where their coramuni- J
cations are of an official character, and the j
abolition of the official stamp now in use by j
the executive departments, and restore the !
privilege to the heads of the bureaus the same j
as it existed before the repeal of the law. j
Experience has demonstrated that instead of j
the stamp system being a saving to the gov-1
erument, it is an expense to thfrftacilnt in-1
- volved m printing tne sharps. The abuse ot I
the privilege is shp^^o be as great under
the stamping syf**m as under the old law."* I
? An exhibition of the Oestberg fire extin-:
guishiug apparatus took place it Berlin recently
in the presence of the Emperor, the
Empress and other distinguished persons.
The inventor is a Swede named Oestberg.!
Capt. Aldstrom appeared in a peculiar-look-;
ing costume, made of the Oestberg invention, I
and walked into an immense fire made of
wood, saturated with petroleum. The heat
of the fire was so intense that no one else
could approach within eighty paces without 1
being burnt or scorched. The captain how- i
:
ever, walked around in the glowing pile per- 1
feetlv undisturbed, leaning on the burning \
wood and finally quietly seated himself on ,
the coals. He remained in the fire for fifteen ]
minutes, and on coming out every one press- ,
ed round to see how much he had been in- J
jured. He was unharmed, and in spite of
the Emperor's asseveration that he had seen i
enough of so dangerous an experiment, Capt. i
Alderstram went again into the fiery oven, j
On finally emerging, he took off the suit and ,
appeared in red flannel.
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YORKVII.LE, S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNINff, JUNE 1, 1876. i
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. ]
In the Senate on the 23rd, a resolution was (
adopted directing the Secretary of the Treas- ,
ury to furnish a detailed estimate of the
amount required to execute^the House bill
amendatory of the law pensioning soldiers ,
and sailors of the war of 1812. Mr. Robert- .
son, of South Carolina, presented the resolutions
of the Charleston Chamber of Com- ,
merce, remonstrating against the admission of ,
rice free of duty as proposed by the Hawaiian j
treaty. The House went immediately into (
committee of the whole on the naval affairs ,
bill. Some five amendments were pending ,
regarding navy yards over which there are .
local struggles. Mr. Randall spoke in favor ,
of his amendment looking to establishing ]
naval stations at Tybee island or Cockspur <
island. The amendment was agreed to by a (
vote of 97 to 34. The committee rose and
the bill passed. The remainder of the session
was devoted to the Indian appropriation bill. (
In the Senate on the 24th, a bill establish- ^
ing the rank of paymaster-general as briga- ,
dier-general, passed. The naval committee ,
reported adversely on the petition of Capt. A.
Roe, of the United States Navy, for reimbursement
of property in Virginia, lost or
destroyed during the war. The House joint i
resolution was passed requesting the President i
to take such steps as he may deem proper to se- j
cure the pardon or release of Edward 0. Mc- 1
Condon, now confined in an English prison.
After executive session, and with no result in I
the impeachment of Belknap, the Senate ad- i
journed. In the House, the Southern laud i
bill went over without action. Harris, of the i
committee on elections, renorted James H. ]
Rainey, the sitting member from South Carolina,
duly elected. Other contested cases
were considered, after which Wilson, of
Iowa, offered a resolution directing the committee
on commerce to enquire into an alleged
combination of leading railroads for
the purpose of controlling traffic. The resolution
was adopted and the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 25th, a number of
private bills were reported favorably, and a
bill was introduced removing the political
disabilities of Dr. Thomas H. Williams, of
Maryland. After executive session the Senate
adjourned. The House refused to concur
in the Senate amendments to the bill appointing
receivers for National banks, and asks a
committee of conference. The election committee
on the contested case of Buttz vs.
Mackey, from South Carolina, report in favor
of. referring the case back to the people. ]
In the Senate on the 26th, the committee i
on appropriations reported the legislative ap- i
propriation bill, with nearly all the new fea- ,
tures put in by the House stricken out. The j
House resolution calling on the Secretary of i
War for the number of troops stationed in (
the Southern States, at what points and for ,
what purposes, met with objection from the ;
Republican side, and could not be entertain- i
ed. After executive session, and one of the ,
impeachment court, without result, the Senate
adjourned. In the House, Luttrell introduced
a resolution reciting a newspaper article i
stating that 8300,000 had been expended by
the Pacific coast to procure the passage of :
the Hawaiian treaty, and directing the com- !
mittee on ways and means to investigate it. 1
Adopted. A number of private bills passed <
and the House adjourned. !
The proceedings of either House on the j
27th, were devoid of interest. i
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Judge Mackey delivered an address before
the Lancaster Sons of Temperance on 1
the 26th ultimo.
?One hundred and thirty-eight cases of
mandamus regarding taxes, were brought before
Judge Shaw at Sumter.
?Great preparations are making at Charles- 1
ton for the proper celebration of the Fort 1
Moultrie Centennial, on the 28th of June.
n ni 1?
UUVCiUUi Viiamuciiaiu uao uoucu an a\xdress
to the people of the State, inviting them
to consider the 28th of June, the one hundredth
anniversary of the battle of Fort
Moultrie, as a public holiday.
? The name of Larkin Holloway, one of
the negroes who was lynched at Abbeville,
last week, for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. 1
Harmon, is among the recently drawn petit
jurors to serve at the term of the U. S. Cir- :
cuit Court to be held in Columbia next November.
? There are four hundred convicts in the 1
State penitentiary. At a meeting of the '
board of directors of the institution, held in
Columbia last week, it was determined to hire
about two hundred of the convicts to work
on the railroad between Columbia and Alston. 1
? John A. Bangle, who resided in Newberry,
and has for a number of years been ekeing
out a miserable existence, receiving medi- j
cal attention and food from the charitably in-'
clined, died in that town last week. Since j
his death, it has been ascertained that he had j1
iu bank and in secret places of deposit, thir- j1
ty-five hundred dollars in money.
? It is now said that Niles G. Parker, after :'
being released by Judge Mackey, made his 11
ncnono Kv ttiP assist an ee of Joe Crews, who {
first carried him on a hand car to his (Crews') j
place on the Greenville and Columbia Rail- j
road, and froiu thence by train to Martin's j!
depot, and by buggy to Laurens Courthouse, i
From Laurens he went by private conveyance j'
to Morganton, N. C., then to Morristown, j
Tenn.,. on to Nashville, St. Louis, &c. ! (
? A letter dated Walterboro, May 21, to j i
the Charleston News and Courier, represents ! <
great Restitution and distress in Colleton 1
county. \Three townships have reported one <
hundred twenty-five families, averaging ! 1
six in family, all without bread. The mer- i
chants of V^alterboro declare their inability I
to advance supplies, and a meeting of the i
people i i to ok held on the 5th instant to 1
make efforts fiM^taining relief. <
? The LancflR grand jury, in their pre- <
sentment, made^?fellowing reply to Judge 1
Mackey's apolo^Hk'The grand jury desire to l
express to the C^B^heir due appreciation of 1
the unqualified <|^BjK)cr made by his honor <
the presiding judge, of any purpose to impute
to their body or any member thereof any corrupt
br improper motive in any action they
may have deemed it proper for them to take
in the discharge of their official duties at the
last term. The grand jury are at all times,
and ever have been, ready to co-operate with
the Court in the due enforcement of the criminal
laws of the State, according to their best
abilities."
? Governor Chamberlain has issued commissions
to Judges Reed and Shaw for four
years from the date of their election. Under
these commissions the term of Judge Reed
will expire on December 11, 1878, and that
of Judge Shaw on February 12, 1879. The
*? mitk tliO
commissions ure given 111 UlUUi utility *n?n mw
Executive judgment that, under the Constitution,
a Circuit Judge once in office, and
however elected, holds office for the full term
of four years. The former commissions were
only for the unexpired term of the predecessors
of Judges Reed and Shaw, expiring in
August next. This action of Governor Chamberlain
puts the claim of Whipper and Moses
in its proper shape. They have no commissions,
and Judges Reed and Shaw, whose
offices they seek, have commissions running
two years and more.
? McEvoy, the condemned murderer of
Maj. Gregg, at Graniteville, several weeks
ago, is said to manifest the most stolid indifference
to his fate. When he received the
sentence to be hanged on the 30th of June,
uot a muscle quivered. He has sent for his
fiddle to the jail, and he passes the time playing
on it, asserting that he will eventually
avade the penalty of the law. It is said that
a colored lawyer will appeal to the Supreme
Court in behalf of McEvoy, although it is
said the latter, when he heard that an appeal
would cost two hundred dollars, swore that
he would not give that amount to live fol-ever.
Hie Episcopal clergyman at Aiken has visit3d
the condemned man several times, but his
id monitions are treated with scorn, and McEvoy
indulges in the most profane abuse
Df him after he leaves. From all accounts,
the murderer seems to be one of those men
whom it is best to have out of the world as
speedily as possible.
MERE-MENTION.
Six inches of rain in some portions of Colorado,
and three feet of snow in others were
reported last week. Frost was so severe
in Massachusetts last week as to kill strawberry
vines. Hon. J. A. Crawford, of
Langston, Georgia, was stung on the head
by a bee last Thursday, and died in two
minutes. Secretary Bristow asks for
troops to enforce the revenue laws in one of
the counties of Missouri. John Jones,
late Treasurer of Georgia, has been indicted
for withholding over 8100,000, said to be due
L- T>L~ TV,
[/lie OlttlU. J.11C lien uciacj x/ciuuujanv/
resolutions favor hard money and Joel Parker
for the Presidency. The New Orleans
Picayune says twenty-nine negroes were killed
in Wilkinson county, Miss., during the recent
troubles there. It seems that politics did not
jnterinto the difficulties. California Demjcrats
are divided between Hendricks and
Tilden. A gold mine in Georgia was
sold last week to an English company for
5140,000, cash down. Recent heavy
mctiou sales of dry goods in New York jndi3ate
a healthy state of trade in the metropolis.
The resolutions of the Michigan
Democrats declare for hard money currency,
rhe delegation to the St. Louis Convention
stands sixteen for Tilden and six for HenJricks.
The Washington Chronicle calls
lustily for a repeal of the two-cent stamp tax
jpon checks. Nine cadet-midshipmen, 01
the second and third classes, have been required
to resign or suffer ejectment for stealing.
The latest foreign advices indicate
that a war is imminent between the great powsrs
of Europe?Russia, Germany and Austria
Dn the one side, against Turkey, aided by
France, England and Italy on the other. The
trouble arises on account of the persecutions
af Christians by the Turks.
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EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Changes in the Cabinet.
Last week, President Grant made the
following nominations: Attorney-General
Pierrepont, Minister to England ; Judge Taft,
the new Secretary of War, to be AttorneyGeneral
; and J. Donald Cameron, of Pennsylvania,
son of Simon Cameron, to be Secretary
of War. The Senate confirmed the nominations
immediately and without debate.
The action of the President in appointing
Cameron to a position in the Cabinet was a
surprise to the Washington politicians. It
is charged that Grant favors Conkling as the
Republican nominee for the Presidency, and
that he gave Cameron a position in his Cabinet
with the view of strengthening Conkling's
chances iu the Cincinnati convention. This, of
course, displeases the adherents of Blaine and
Morton, both of whom aspire to the Presidential
chair, and the latest movement of the
President promises to spread disintegration in
the ranks of the Republican leaders.
Republican Political Notes.
The Alabama Republican Convention
met in Montgomery on Wednesday of last
week. Morton was declared the choice of the
Convention for President.
The Kansas State Convention declare in
favor of Blaine.
The Missouri Convention, in session in St.
Louis on the 25th, declare for coin or paper
convertible into coin. For President, the
delegation stands: Blaine, 14; Morton, 12;
Bristow, 3; Conkling, 1.
The delegates to the Cincinnati Convention,
chosen in the Nebraska State Convention,
were instructed to vote for Blaine.
In the Minnesota State Convention, a resoI"*'""
,?>??. o/lnnforl urith thrpp rl 1SSP11 titl(r
lutiwu nao uivu v?>?v
votes, expressing a preference for Blaine, but
the delegation is not instructed.
The platform of the Illinois Convention
remits the currency question to the National
Convention. Mr. Bevcridge addressed the
Convention, endorsing Blaine. The delegates,
however, were uniustructed by resolution. A
resolution declaring it impolitic to send Federal
office holders to the National Convention
was rejected.
The resolutions adopted by the New Hampshire
Convention leave the delegates to the
National Convention uniustructed.
rronble in the Rice Region.
For several days past the negro laborsrs
in the rice-growing district on Combahee, j
pAllrtfAn nnnnfv koun Konn /in q ofpllro in !
Ill V>UiiClUU WUUIJ, HUTU v/u wumv, .
sonsequence of a reduction of wages, as is alleged
by some of the discontented ones; while
)ther accounts attribute the dissatisfaction
to the system adopted by the planters of pay-1
ng wages in tickets or "checks." To obviate
,he innumerable difficulties arising from keep- j
ng accounts with the laborers, the planters
mve been in the habit of paying them in the 1
ivening for each day's work performed?fifty
;ehts being the wages of a hand. But recent-1
y, owing to the Hawaiian treaty, admitting 1
ice from that island free of duty, the planters
'caring unremunerative prices in the future, j
letcrmined to reduce wages to forty cents I
per day, for which, in the scarcity of fractional.
currency to nifeet their daily demands, they !
gave checks. These two causes are probably !
afrthe bottom of the trouble; though a writer !
in the News and Courier of Friday, characterizes
it as a political movement agitated by ;
evil-disposed white men. Whatever the cause, the
movement has assumed serious propor- tious,
the strikers marching from place to
place and forcibly compelling even those who !'
are disposed to work to join them. As a'1
consequence, all work is suspended in the rice ;
fields. Nonviolence between the whites and !
blacks has been reported. With the view
of having the ringleaders of the disturbance '
arrested and brought to trial for any viola- 1
tionsof the law of which they may be guilty, j'
Gov. Chamberlain has appointed R. H. Col-1
cock, Esq., trial justice at Green Pond in |
Colleton county, and instructed the Sheriff of, i
that county to proceed to the scene of the dis- 1
turbances and exert all of his official powers
in putting an end to all illegal action on the
rmrt. nf the st.rikerH
Rock Hill Presbyterian Church.
Our Rock Hill correspondent having i,
given a version of the compromise recently | (
effected between the Presbyterian Church at j j
Rock Hill and W. P. Russell, wliich was af-1
I 1
terwards published in the News and Courier, ! j
and being to some extent erroneous, Mr. Russell
makes the correction, which, in justice to j |
him, we republish from the News and Courier. I
To the Editor of the News and Courier :
In the issue of your paper of 20th instant, I
notice that you say: "The suit of VV. P. Russell,
Esq., of this city, vs. the Rock Hill Pres- i
byterian Church, has at last been adjusted. ]
The case was to have been tried at this term (
of the court in Columbia, before his Honor
Judge Cooke, presiding, but a compromise
was effected between the parties to this effect:
The original demand of Mr. Russell against (
the church was 81,280 ; he agreed to take 1
therefor 81,000, and pay the cost of the ac- !
tion. It is, doubtless, a very satisfactory ar- (
rangeraent of the matter."
This statement of the adjustment is in every
particular incorrect. The original demand (
was only 81,159 23, and was compromised by
our attorneys without our knowledge, after j
we had arrived in Columbia, and notified 1
them through our bookkeeper that we had ! i
arrived with our books and was ready to go i
into court.
The compromise was for 8950, as stated to '
us by our attorneys, and the church to pay all
taxed costs, including our lawyers' fees in
Charleston, and the mileage and per diem of ]
our witnesses from Uharleston. we expected
a verdict for ?1,159.23, with one per cent, per ;
month from October 3, 1874, and expressed
our surprise and regret that the matter had been
compromised in this way, after we had
arrived in Columbia, in obedience to a tele- 1
gram from our attorneys, without consulting 1
us, but we gave way to their course of action.
Please do us the justice to publish this cor- i
rection of your statement, and oblige.
Yours, respectfully, W. P. Russell.
Bast End Hasel street, May 22, 1876.
PRESIDENT'S REPORT
To the Annual Convention of the Stockhold*
ers .of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow
Gauge Railroad Company, held at Lincoluton,
N. C., on the 11th of May, 1876.
PRESIDENT'S OFFICE, I
Chester and Lenoir N. U. Railroad Co.,
Chester, S. C., May 10, 1870.
To the Stockholders of the Chester and Lenoir N. 1
G. Railroad Company:
Gentlemen: Ah President of your road, en- 1
trusted by you, in conjunction with the Board of
Directors, with the management of its affairs, it
is incumbent upon me to render you a report of
the operations and transactiops of the past year*
Gross earnings ror year ending May 1, 1870, $17,148 37
Operating expenses, 10,159 49
Net earnings $ 6,988 88
In regard to the work done upon the road and
its present condition, I refer you to the report of
the Chief Engineer.
From that report, it appears that the road-bed
was graded ready for the superstructure in August
or September last. It may seem to you that
the road-bed being ready at that time, the laying
of the track and completion of the road, so as to
make it available for traffic, has been unreasonably
delayed, and that you should have been, before
this, reaping some advantage from your expenditure.
That it is not so, none of you regret
more than I do. This delay has not arisen from
the want of assets upon the part of the Company,
but from the difficulty of making the assets
available, they consisting, for the most part, of
the bonds issued in aid of the road by the counties
of Chester and York?the individual subscriptions
having been expended upon the roadbed.
The stringency of the monetary affairs, particularly
of our Southern section of the couutry,
has rendered it difficult to dispose of the bonds
at a fair valuation, and your Board of Directors
has been averse to disposing of them at a sacrifice.
That your road has not been sooner ready
for traffic, has not been from want of effort upon
the part of the Board of Directors.
Shortly after our annual meeting, a proposition
was made by a stockholder of Chester, to furnish
the iron and fastenings, and cross ties, and lay
the track from Yorkville to Dallas for $5,400 per ,
mile. Your Board was disposed to accede to this
proposition, although they thought it too high,
and appointed a committee to arrange the details
of the contract; but they failed to agree to the J
conditions demanded by him, deeming thorn injurious,
if -not destructive, of the interests of the
Company. ]
Negotiations were attempted with some parties (
in Now York to exchange bonds for iron, but this
also, after, at one tithe, promising fairly, failed of
success. Nor was it until November, 1875, that a i
contract for iron was effected with the Roane ;
Iron Company, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, at the
rate of ?(10 p?r ton of 2,240 lbs., they receiving in 1
payment the notes of the Company at twelve and 1
eighteen months, guaranteed by 29 citizens of j
Chester and York. The whole amount of the <
purchase was ?75,000. To secure the guarantors, 1
the Company deposited in the National Bank of 1
Chester, ?100,000, bonds of the counties of York, \
and Chester and executed a mortgage on the en- ,
tire road and road-bed from Chester to Dallas. 1
The bars and spikes were procured from the 1
Tredegar Iron Works at Richmond, Va., upon ,
six months' time, the company depositing, as security,
?8,000 of county bonds.
As some dissatisfaction was expressed by some 1
of the stockholders, at the refusal of the Board to i
accept the proposition of a stockholder, without
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inent, it will be sufficient, and I hope satisfactory '
to them, to know what saving has been made to |
the company by this refusal which they depreca- ,
ted:
Stockholder'* proposition was per mile, $5,400 00 '
Ptj'sent cost, rails per mile, $0,830 j
F listening* and spikes per mile, 240
Ties per mile 450
Track laying per mile, 190 ,
Freight- 221 $3,931 00
Difference, $1,469.00 per mile, for26X miles, or a I
total saving of. $38,928 00
The crosH ties it was found somewhat difficult to j,
procure of good material. In order to expedite j'
the work, forest pine ties were contracted for at a '
diminished cost. Of these there are some eight or i
ten thousand. These will not last more than two |
or three years. ,
The Depot buildings at Chester and the Air j '
Line Junction, have both been completed, and j |
Mr. S. B. Lathan appointed Agent at Chester and j |
Mr. James H. Fayssoux at the Junction. i .
Satisfied that as soon as the road was open to | '
the Air Line for traffic, more tractive power would I
be requisite, I have made arrangements for .
another engine to be delivered on or before the '
10th of June. 1
Owing to the financial embarrassment of the
country, it has been found very difficult to dispose
of the honds of the counties. There are about
8122,500 of them now pledged for the payment of
iron and fastenings and other indebtedness of the
company. Could these be sold at a fair valuation,
it would discharge every obligation of the company,
and leave it untramelled except for the
amount due for the purchase of the King's Mountain
Rail Road.
At the annual meeting at Dallas, in Majr, 1874,
a resolution was passed authorizing the issuing
of mortgage bonds at the rate of85000 per mile. No
action has as yet been taken in this direction. I i
would respoctfully submit the propriety of doing j
so now to your consideration. If we design car- I
rying out our scheme of Road, we must devise!
some plan for raising the necessary means. I do
not think we should cease our efforts to keep the j
work alive and moving. Should the work once
stop, it will be more difficult to start it again. I
Good faith to our friends in North Carolina, re-!
quires that we should make every effort in our !
power to extend the road to its terminus at Le- I
noir. I
As you are all aware, there was an act passed |
at the last session of the North Carolina Legisla- j .
ture, amending our charter, giving us, upon the j |
failure of subscription of the county of Catawba, ! 1
the right to run directly from Lincolnton to j t
Hickory Station. The citizens of the latter place, j j
with only one dissenting voice, have voted to |
make a subscription, not exoeeding $25,000, to a '
road from Lincolnton to their town. If we can I c
hold out a prospect to them of our determination ; j
and ability to go on promptly, I have no doubt
thev will willingly lend us their aid. Then let j *
us nave no relaxing in our efforts; let us finish
what we set out to do.
Respectfully submitted. ;
A. H. DAVEGA, President. <
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
T. M. Dobson <fe Co.?Bargains!
Hunter A Oates?New Goods?Millinery?Ties
and Bows?Yarn and Shirting?Shoes?Tobacco
and Cigars?Cassimeres?Clothing
and Hats?White Goods.
J. M. Adams?Rags Wanted?Wanting?Stove
Fixtures.
W. H. A J. P. Herndon?Sweeps?Flour?Bran
and Ham*
John J. Smith?Look Out?Lard?Molasses?SeaFoam?Matches?Shot,
AcJohn
C. Kuvkendal?The York Drug Store.
Jefferys A Metts.?Railroad Shares Wanted.
THE POST OFFICE.
The post office was moved last Monday to
the room in the Jefferys building, next to the
affice of Jefferys & Metts and opposite the
store of H. W. Hope& Co.
ELECTION AT FORT MILL.
The recent municipal election at Fort Mill
resulted in the choice of the former Board,
viz.: T. B. Withers, Intendant; J. M. White,
N". G. Bradford, B. F. Powell, R. G. Gibson,
Wardens.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Last Tuesday afternoon, J. Patrick Palmer,
who lives on church street near the Methodist
:hurch, attempted to commits-' :de by swallowing
elixir of opium. The erfects of the
poison were detected soon after he had swallowed
it. Drs. Barron and Kuykendal were
jummoned to the relief of the rash man, and
by promptly administering the proper autilotes
he was soon placed out of daDger.
CHESTER AND LENOIR RAILROAD.
The work of laying the track of the railroad.
from OaHtonia to this nlace. which has
been steadily progressing for some time, was
completed last Thursday afternoon?the new
track being connected with the old road at
balf-past 6. Railroad communication is now
open between Chester on the Charlotte, Colombia
and Augusta rond, to Gastonia,on the
Richmond and Atlauta Air-Line, a distance
i)f forty-five miles.
The first freight train, loaded with a consignment
of cotton from G. W. Melton, of
Chester, to his New York factors, Messrs.
Hopkins, Dwight & Trowbridge, passed over
the road on Friday last; and on Monday afternoon,
after the arrival of the train from
Chester, a freight train loaded with cotton for
Messrs. Sanders & Blackwood, of Charlotte,
was dispatched to Gnstonia, returning to
Chester on regular schedule time Tuesday
morning. Freight trains will be run regularly
between this place and Gastonia, leaving
here at 5:30 p. m., and returning at 7 next
morning, on which passengers will be taken ;
but regular passenger trains will not be put
Dn the road until the track has been gone
over by the section-masters.
The track-layers, Messrs. Fry & Deal, resumed
work last Monday at Gastonia, for the
purpose of completing their engagement to
lay the track to Dallas, a distance of four
miles from the Air-Line road.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, May 29,1876.
The announcement of the completion of the
track-laying between Yorkville and Gastonia,
and of the connection of these two points by
rail, was received here with joyous emotions.
While all classes of the community shared in
the pleasure of the glad intelligence, the joy
of the merchants reached probably a higher
point. A reduction in freights loomed up
before their delighted visions as the immediate
consequence of the connection. One of our
prominent merchants estimates the result of
this reduction to be a saving of $50,000 per
annum for this place, and he thinks this
amount will be greatly increased in the course
of time. Moreover the union of Chester and
Gastonia by railway communication has tenJed
to an increased demand for the bonds of
Chester and York counties. Within the past
tew days $22,000 of bonds of the latter county
have been disposed of at satisfactory rates.
Ihe present financial stringency is the only
obstacle in the way of the entire absorption
of the bonds of these two counties by their
own citizens. No longer any doubt can be
antertained in regard to the building of the
road for which the bonds were issued ; consequently
this feeling can no longer have an adverse
influence upon the sale of the bbnds.
Notwithstanding the present financial depression,
I have no doubt, in consideration of the
admitted safety and profitableness of the investment,
that the bonds will be rapidly taken
11 n oris) tliat kafnra tlia ulnoo nf tha nranarit
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year the last York and Cheater county bond
will have passed from the bands of the railroad
company into those of buyers.
Wednesday was a day full of joy to the
pupils of the Baptist Sunday School. At an
early hour in the morning, being comfortably
fixed in buggies and wagons, they set out
for Flint Hill, in the vicinity of Bethany
Church, about four miles from town, where
they arrived in due course of time, and at
Dnce surrendered themselves, bodies and
minds, to the pleasures of picnicing. The
day was beautiful and of such a character as
to seem specially adapted -to the amusement
in which so many merry hearts gladly participated.
The children of larger growth preferred
seats beneath the shade of towering
trees, where, in language proceeding both
from the eye and tongue, they could hold
?uch communications as were most expressive
sf the sentiments of the heart; while those of
smaller growth found their happiness in playing
games. The picnic was honored with the
presence of some married ladies, who, besides
keeping a tender watch upon the young folks,
r._i : J: _
were very useiui iu arraugiug luc uiuuci iable
in proper style. The delicious viands
that were spread upon the festive board were
enjoyed by a large number. The invitations
so cordially extended by the members of the
Baptist congregation to their friends in other
churches were accepted, which accounted for
the host of pleasure seekers at Flint Hill on
Wednesday. It is probably unnecessary to
say that this host were not only seekers, but
finders of pleasure. From the time of tl^pir
arrival upon the grounds until the hour of
their departure, they were as happy as their
hearts could desire. The day being spent,
the merry throng reoccupied their seats in
buggies and wagons, and directed their faces
homewards. Arriving in town, they drove
through the principal streets, with wagons
*ayly adorned with evergreens, and voices of
melody ringing in the air.
Wednesday was also a pleasant day for the
colored children of the town. With their
friends, they formed in procession, marched
tlown one side of Main street, then up the
ether side, and continued the march to some
juburban point, where they passed the day, I
presume, agreeably. As the march was coniucted
in single file, the line extended for a
considerable distance. At the head of the
Drocession, which presented a good appeari
_j it- :
ince, a oauner was carneu, wim iue lusunp
lion, "The Cold Water Array." It is to be
loped that the parents and teachers of the
*ieing generation among the colored populalion,
while displaying to their view a temperince
banner, will not fail to teach them the
ralue of temperance by example. In this
vay only can the accomplishment of the delired
end be secured.
Amelia Johnson, colored, who, as was menioned
in my last correspondence, was placed
n jail for seriously cutting, with a knife, Magjie
Wright, also colored, has been released on j
rand to appear at the September term of the j
Uourt of General Sessions. The condition j
>f the woman that met with the injury is rap- ,
dly improving, and in all probability she will
loon be entirely restored.
My young friend, Mr. J. L. Hardin, fornerly
of this place, and now of Charlotte, N.
1, has recently led to the hymenial altar one
of Virginia'! fair daughters. He and bis
bride were in our town last week, and were
the happy recipients of congratulations .of
friends. My young friend has acted with
?;reat wisdom in taking farewell of the single
ralernity. He will discover, by experience,
that single-blessedness "pales its ineffectual
! fires" when compared with the joys that are
found in the holy state of matrimony. In
obtaining a wife he doubtless feels that he has
become an individual of greater importance in
the world, which, in itself, is a highly pleasant
feeling.
The regular drill of the Chester Rifle Club
' took place on Friday afternoon. After meeting
and forming in line at the armory, they
nlarched through town to an old field, where
ononf aKnnf an hniir in owonnhnflr varinnfl I
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military manoeuvres. Vice-Presidents Marshall
and McFadden were in command of the
company. Orderly Sergeant Hutton, who
I was in the 18th Regiment, U. S. A., for several
years, showed bis thorough knowledge of
military tactics in discharging the duties of
drill-master upon the occasion. Theclubhas
improved considerably, of late, in their manner
of performing the different evolutions of
the soldier, and with continued drilling will,
doubtless, make greater proficiency in the art
militaire.
A car load of flour for Messrs. Wylie A
Agurs and Mr. R. M. 'Cross, which was
shipped over the Air-Line and Chester and
Lenoir railroads, arrived at this place on Saturday.
This was the first shipment of merchandise
for this point over the new road.
On the same day, Major G. W. Melton sent
one hundred bales of cotton to New York
by the same line.
A game of liase ball was played here on
Saturday between the Chester and Winnsboro
clubs. The latter arrived in the afternoon,
and were met at the depot by their brethren
of the ball and bat. The two clubs, arrayed
in their beautiful uniforms, proceeded to the
scene of action, where they displayed their
skill and grace in playing ball. At the end
of the ninth inning the game stood twelve to
twelve. Another inning was played to decide
the question of championship, which resulted
in a victory for Chester by a score of
four points to none for their opponents. The
game was hotly contested, and was witnessed
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wun luieresi uuu pleasure uy a cuusiueruuie
number of spectators.
Mr. S. B. Massey, who has been dangerously
ill for several days, has taken a change
for the better within the past few hours, and
his friends are now hopeful of his recovery.
For several days last week he was desperately
ill, and his death was expected to take place
any moment. He has been carefully nursed
by members of the society of Odd Fellows, to
which he belong.s It is to be hoped that
the disease of dropsy, with which he has been
afflicted, has reached its culmiuating point,
and that he may now be considered on the
road to recovery.
Our town was favored with a very refreshing
shower on Saturday evening. Gardens
and crops were much benefited thereby.
Qui.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM ROCK HILL.
Rock Hill, S. C.. May 30,1876.
The regular May term of the Circuit Court
for Laucaster has just adjourned, after a sitting
of two weeks. Much business was dispatched
during the time, greatly to the credit
of the people of the county. There were but
few cases on the criminal side of the Court.
The pleasant associations of the Court and officers,
during the entire time, was like that of
other days.
For two weeks past the weather has been
that kind greatly to he desired just at this
time of the year. With telling effect the sun
has smiled warm and brightly upon the growing
crops, ^be few gentlemen from the country,
whose basiness called them to our town :
during the week past, give glowing descriptions
.of the condition of the crops. Should no accident
befall them, they bid fair to be far better
than for some years. The oat crop is,
without exception, unprecedented. Mr. A.
Williford has a field of the best and most
beautiful wheat that has growu in South Carolina
for full many a year. The wheat stands
at an average height of 5 feet 9 inches. The
land upon which it grows was, before Mr.
Williford bought it, considered worn out; but
he has improved it, since he has owned it, so
as to make it productive of anything sown
upon its soil. The land is known as the "Allen
Robinson place." On the same ground
alsogrows fine timothy and clover, ready for
a most excellent pasture, when the wheat
shall be harvested.
The subject of labor to us has been one of
more vital importance than any known to the
j farming interest of our country. I say farmI
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lllg UUli 1l io uut iuuuucu tu turn.
aloDe. The present system of labor adopted
is one peculiar to tiie circumstances and necessities
of our people. To some it has been
profitable ; to others a shocking loss. Would
that some wise head woulddevise some plan
by which a great benefit would result to all.
Foreign labor was introduced to substitute
our present class of labor, but it was not conducive
to the benefit of all?I might say of
any?for the loss sustained by those investing
in the project was enormous, with no remuneration.
Consequently, it was wisely abandoned.
Several of our townsmen and those of the
country around, groan now heavily under the
burden of useless expenditures, with no possible
hope of any return, in the cause of immigration.
One Charles McHenry, of guard-house notoriety,
has disturbed materially the peace of
our quiet little town for the past several days.
He proposes to extract nails and corns from
the feet of man; but he unfortunately has
been so well corned himself during his stay
here, that he has relieved but few in that respect.
His nightly abode has been the guardhouse.
He displayed several newspapers, all
branding him with habitual drunkenness,
which he claims Dreceded his arrival in the I
towns from which they emanate.
On Friday, the 19th instant, one William
Greene, originally from this county, took the
liberty of calling at the house of an old colored
man named George Gilmore, living near
Smith's Turn Out, and obtained from George j
a horse he had there belonging to Hyder
Wylie, of this place. Greene had learned
from Hyder that the horse was at Gilmore's;
so he went immediately to Gilmore's, saying i
to him that Hyder had sent for the horse. He
rode the horse to Chester, put up at Mr. Mc- i
Ninch's stable, borrowed $10 from Mr. McN., !
and left for parts unknown. The horse has
been recovered by the proper owner.
Some unknown parties, on the night of the 1
27th, hungry for molasses, broke into Mr. A. 1
' Friedham's warehouse. His loss he cannot
I ascertain. i
j Notwithstanding the scarcity of money, j
Mr .T. .T. Hacins is having auite a Drettv cot
?? o a A ? i
tage built. It is neat, convenientand artistic i
in arrangement. . ]
The regular spring meeting of the Presbyterian
church began on Friday morning the
26th instant, presided over by Rev. R. E. ]
Cooper, the pastor, assisted by Rev. J. B. i
Mack, recently installed as pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Fort Mill. The meet- i
ing has been interesting and instructive. The
usual pleasures were realized as ever upon
such occasions. Lux.
It is with Pleasure that I Add my Tes- i
timony to the excellence of Dr. Jayne's Ex- i
pectorant I have used it in my family for i
several years, and c&n truly say that I know
of no medicine equal to it for checking and i
curing the Coughs and Colds to' which children
are subject at all seasons of the year. I
have also realized great benefit from it myself,
and have recommended it to others, who al-1 <
roost invariably have learned to value it 1
always prescribed it to the students under our I
care when necessary, and the teachers willingly
add their testimony to nfine in praise of :
this medicine.?J. S. Edward*. Principal of
Providence Conference Seminary, East Greenwood,
R. I.
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ATROCIOUS MURDERS.
It is seldom that it becomes necessary to
chronicle a more atrocious crime than the
murder of John D. Harmon, aged seventyfive,
and his wife, Catharine A. Harmon,
aged 6fty, perpetrated at Winter Seat, in
Edgefield county, near the Abbeville line,.on
Wednesday night, the 17th ultimo. The
murders were committed on Wednesday
night, about 8 o'clock, it is supposed, 'iff the
front or sitting room of Harmon's residence?
a two-story structure situated oo the right*of J
the road leading to Augusta, about a quarter A
of a mile from the bridge crossing Hard La*
bor Creek, and distant from the nearest neighbors
about half a mile. The house was occupied
by Mr. Harmon and wife alone, and
one cabin in the yard was tenanted by tbe
cook, Betty Perrin. About forty yards from
the dwelling stood the storehouse, in which
Mr. Harmon kept an old remnant of goods
and supplies for his own private consumption. RR
The murder was first announced on Thursday l
morning by a negro man, Stephen Lake, who,
according to his own story, had gone, as was
his custom, to get the crib keys. The alarm
was instantly given and a runner wis dispatched
to the various neighbors with the i
horrible intelligence. Eight or nine gentlemen
repaired to the house and at once entered
by the front door which was unlocked and
by which, as was supposed, the murderers
effected an entrance. >> i
THE SCENE OF THE TRAGEDY7 f j
The sight which met the gaze was most
horrible. The room was filled with smoke,
and tbe odor of blood and burning kerosene.
To the left of a centre table, on which were 1
placed four lamps, a Bible and a vase of roses, I
and upon which rested the bludgeon that had
* ' ? y i i i # *jr I
Deen used in tne muraer, lay ine Doay or mr.
Harmon. The murdered man was lying on
his back, with his head turned up exposing to
view the ghastly gash in his throat, wnicli had
been cut from ear to ear; with his right-hand
raised above his body clutching a pencil; and
with his left in the same position slightly nearerthe
wound?the pencil touching the left
hand, but pointing directly to the yound.'Between
the knees of Mr. Hartnoh lay his
hat, and near his feet his spectacles. About
four feet from Mr. Harmon, near the fireplace
and in the left hand corner of the room, lay
the body of his wife with two gashes on her
head, one on each temple, and her throat cut
from ear to ear. She had fallen upon her
front with her face slightly turned towards
her husband, and had apparently died' without
a struggle. The floor was dyed with
gore?the blood from Mrs. Harmon's body j
passing across the room and nnder the person '
of her husband. The fire, which had been
kindled by the assassins for the purpose; of v
covering up the traces of their hideous crime,
was still burning when the room was entered
on Thursday morning. It had been kindled
with a garment saturated with kerosene and
was slowly working its way. The 'oil had
been procured from the store room in a ten.
cm linn tin can which was suDDOsed to have
? r4 r , t ?
contained about half a gallon of oiL, The '
dwelling and storehouse had been robbed of I
everything of value in clothiDg, money jew- ]
elry and provisions, in the search for winch'
the fiends must have spent the greater portion ?
of the night, and just before day set tnr kerosene
on fire. '
THE INQUEST. {
Dr. J. A. Barker, a trial justice of Edgefield
county, living some twelve miles from the
scene of the murder, was sent for, and made
his appearance about four o'clock on Thursday
afternoon. A Jury of inqacst was at otfed;
impanelled, with Mr. John Callison as fore^
man. The bodies of the murdered victims
were examined by two physicians and then .
delivered to their friends. Mr. Harmon had
been struck between the eyes with a dogwood
club, peeled for the purpose, and the back of
his head was found to be almost a perfect
jelly. After these blows his throat han been A
cut. Mrs. Mhrmon, ffam all apiwmraijca^*' -l
had been killed entirely with the knife, v The
evidence of Stephen Lake, Betty Perrin and ^
Larkin Holloway, all colored, was taken*.
That of Stephen Lake was so conflicting that
he was committed to jail at Edgefield. Among ,
the facts developed at the inquest wefc thede:
That Mr. Harmon, on Wednesday, was in the . '
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neia aropping couon, ami ijutkiu uuuvwajr
was ploughiug; that the latter, at eleveno'clock,
dropped his plough, saying that, be
was sick and would go home ; the next d?j,
after the murder, his tracks were discovered
leading to the spot, where ether lot marks
were fonnd, and where a dogwood club had'
been cut and stripped and the bark buried;!
This club was found near the murdered cou*.
pie, a blow from which had crushed Mr. Harmon's
skulL The cook's story was that. she
awoke late on Thursday morning, went lo the ?
house and knocked, but failed to get any 'Answer
; then went to Stephen's house; and found
him asleep. They then proceeded to the
dwelling and Stephen went in through the
front door, which was open, and in.tbe parlor
found the dead bodies in a pool of blood, their t
clothing and the floor saturated with kerosene,
the latter on fire, the blood surrounding
the bodies preventing the flames from burnihg
them. The alarm was then given. ' '
The bodies of the murdered couple were
buried in one grave at Rehoboth- Churoh-vons
Friday afternoon, the funeral sermon. being
preached by the Rev. R. P. Pranks. , ,
The inquest was adjourned from day to (Jay,
the excitement in the community running
very high, and fresh developments constantly
resulting as to the fearful crime, culminating
on last Tuesday morning in the : ! ;
CONFESSION OF ONE OF THE MURDEBEB& *> ^ A
negro named Austin Davis, alias 8am
Perry, was caught Tuesday night below Edgefield
Court-house. At first he denied all
knowledge of the murder, but finding the
proofs accumulating against him, he finally
made a cleau Breast of the whole aflhir. The
substance of his confession is as follows:
"After working for one month for Mr. Hanmon,
I left on Monday precediag the day of '
the murder and returned on the Wednesday
following and met Lark Holloway on Harmon's
place about 11 o'clock, A. 'M. We
parted, he going to his house, and I retiring - "wB
to shade to rest. He returned to me about
one and a half hours' by sun and cut a'dogwood
stick, (the same as exhibited to jury.) 1
asked him what he would do with it. He replied:
'You will see.' I then came to MrHarmon's
residence, arriving about supper
time. I sat on the stone steps a few moments,
and went into the house. Next time T saw
the dogwood stick it was in the dwelling -in?
the hauds of Stephen Lake, I being in the
house when Stephen Lake came in.- Mia
Harmon was alone in the room when I entered., ? :
Mr. Hannon came in shortly and says:'Well,
Sam, you are back again. "I replied
'Yes, sir.' Mr. Harmon then asked me if I
were going to work for him. I replied, 'Yes, '
sir, I suppose so.' He then asked me for how
much 1 would work for him for two and a
U/ili? MAAnika ataH n<v VIA TXT/M
UOll LUUUUJOj OM?WU^ MV TTUUIU KUO 1UO
at the rate of $100 per year. He got down
his almanac, and with his lead pencil figured
what it would be per day and per month ; and I
whilst figuring, Stephen Lake came into the
house and after him Lark Holl< way and Til*
da, his wife, and 8tephen Lake's wife, 8usan.
Bettie Perrin, (the cook,) came into the room
at the rear door, at the same time. Stephen
Lake took his position between Mr. and Mrs.
Harmon, and when Mr. Harmon's attention
was engrossed with his calculation, Stephen
Lake struck him violently on the head*with
the dogwood stick and immediately afterwards
struck Mrs. Harmon, and repeated the blows
upon the beads of each, both falling prostrate.
Marshall Perrin and Jeff. Settles, at this time,
came into the room, Marshall having a small
pine stick in his hand, with which he struck '
Mrs. Harmon twice or three times, after she j
was down. 1 remember seeing others at the \
door, names unknown. After Mr. Harmon I
fell, Lark Holloway turned him over, and J
CtnnUan T.alro niillod ruifctiin Irniffl nnH Mlthid I 'I
throat Holloway then went to Mrs. Harmon
and turned her over, and Stephen Lake out
her throat also. After this I struck Mr. Hariron
with this dogwood club, (same-as used by