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Jtoapjs anil Jarts. ? Kansas furnished last, year 81,000,000 bushels of corn and 16,000,000 bushels of wheat?more than two bushels of these graius to every man, woman and child in the nation. ? A petition is being circulated and extensively sigued in Philadelphia praying that the Centennial Exhibition be opened on Sunday afternoons. ? Governor Irwin, of California, has taken off from one to four years each from the sentences of one hundred convicts in the State penitentiary, because of the conduct of the body of convicts at a recent fire in the prison. ? The Indiana Grand Lodge of Free Masons have reinstated the clause in its regulation against Masons using or selling intoxicating liquors, and forbidding subordinate lodges from receiving into membership any who use them as a beverage. ? An old Baptist minister enforced the necessity of differences of opinion by argument: "Now if every body had been of my opinion, they would all have wanted my old woman." One of the deacons, who sat just behind him him, responded: "Yes; and if every body was of my opinion nobody would have her." TUa aiwaiiIom fUrt T inni>nArvl pAffftn X11C UUVUldl VI biJV uiTVi |^vv? vvvwvu Brokers' Association, for the week ending on Thursday last, says : "Cotton has been in decidedly increased demand by the trade, and prices of almost every description have advanced. American lias been in strong demand and prices for all grades except middling fair, which is unchanged, have advanced J to 3-16d. ? There are few who do not remember the childish wonder they once felt at hearing the resonance produced by placing a sea shell to the ear, an effect which fancy has likened to "the roar of the sea." This is caused by the hollow form of the shell and its polished surface, enabling it to receive and return the beatings of all sounds that chance to be trembling in the air. ? The Supreme Court of Tennessee has set aside a conviction for murder obtained in a singular manner. The marks of a peculiarly formed naked foot were found near the corpse of the murdered man. At the trial a pan of mud was brought into court, and the prisoner was ordered to put his foot into it Very naturallv, he declined to do so, and criminate 1 xl . 1 ) L! C. 1 nimseir, auu me jury uccupieu uia rciustu as a proof of bis guilt, and convicted bim. ? A dispatch dated at Augusta, Ga., on Friday last says: "Rains for seven days have been general throughout this section. Crops on both sides of the Savannah River are submerged. Total destruction of crops on bottom lands. The river is thirty feet high and still rising. A freshet threatens the city, but no serious results are aprehended. The rain stopped this evening and the weather is clearing up." ? Last Saturday the President sent a message to Congresss, calling attention to the embarrassed condition of all branches of the Government If there should be a failure to pass the necessary appropriation bills before the 1st of July, or otherwise provide for the emergency, he recommends an extension of the provisions of all appropriation bills covering the present year to the next fiscal year, in all cases where there is a failure to provide for the expenditures of the government. ? The San Francisco Chronicle says that the industries of the slope have entirely recovered from the depressing influences brought to bear by the bank failures; business in all branches has never been so universally good, and interest is lower and money plentier than it has been for many years. It attributes these great results in a great measure to the most successful season, and the richest barvest California has ever seen, and adds: "For a time it was feared that the supply of wheat would be so great as to depress the price to a ruinous figure, but it is now becoming more aud more apparent tbat farmers will receive a fair, if not a liberal price, for their produce. ? Regarding the embarrassment of Cochran, McLean & Co,, dry goods dealers, New York,it seems that they called a meeting of their creditors on Wednesday. The firm stated that according to the original articles, the partnership would dissolve on July 1, 1876, and they presented a statement of their affairs. For a number of years the firm has been struggling to retrieve large losses sustained because of its inability to collect money due from Southern dealers, but up to the present time it has been able to meet its obligations, as the firm desired to wind up the business at the date of the expiration of the copartnership by limitation. The meeting of creditors was called, and after the statement had been made an extension of time, was required from the creditors, notes to be given to run through seven months. Assurances were made that all the paper of the house would be paid, principal and interest. The members of the firm are confident that they will be able to do all they promise early, and have a large surplus, from three to four hundred thousand dollars, remaining. The liabilities are placed at 81,500,000, and the assets is nearly $2,000,000. ? The official report on the cause of the death, made on the 7th, of the late Sultan, signed by nineteen physical nationalities, con tains the followiug statement: Upon being summoned by the Sultan to ascertain the cause of the death of Abd ul Aziz Khan, we found the body lying on a mattress. Parts of the body were cold and bloodless, exceptthat the outside was covered with coagulated blood. The body was not rigid. The eyes and mouth were partially open. Limpid streaks of blood were upon the arms and legs. The veins and cubitual artery below the bend of the left arm were cut. Only the small veins of the right arm were cut. The arteries were intact. We were shown a very sharp pair of blood-stained scissors, and were told that Abd ul Aziz himself inflicted the above-described wounds therewith. We are unanimously of opinion that death resulted from hemmorrhage of blood vessels of the arms, and the scissors might produce the wounds. Lastly, the direction and nature of the wounds, and the instrument which is said to have produced them, caused us to come to the conclusion the case is one of suicide. ? When the Mormons were forced out of Illinois and their prophet killed, they took up their line of march for Utah, in the heart of the Continent, where they hoped to found a State based on their peculiar notions as to the policy of mingling religion and politics in the management of public affairs. But in a few years the murmurs of the oncoming tide of emigration reached their ears. Then the iron horse came snorting over the plains and up the mountains, and a spur road invaded Salt Lake City, the Mecca of the Saints. Of course the influx of the Gentiles, and the ultimate results of the location in Utah of a 1 1 - ^ fBAmnn K/\Mi nrr Jarge numoer ui mcu buu huuj^ ~6 different views from those entertained by Brigham Young, did not escape the attention of that keen and far-sighted manager. It has long been intimated that he has been preparing to marshal his followers in marching order once more, and head the column in the direction of New Mexico. A late number of i the Salt Lake Tribune declares there are un-1 mistakable indications of such an intention j on the part of the Mormon prophet. Brig-! ham denies the whole rumor, ana says be has no intention of setting up a Mormon oli-! garchy in New Mexico, backed and supported by a State government, with his disciples and followers at its head. But Brigham is a close-mouthed ruler. He is not given to gabbling. He keeps his plans to himself, except so far as it is neeessary to confide them to a few devoted followers, the agents to put the machinery in motion. Certain facts are prom-1 inent in this matter which give color to the j rumor. For some years Mormon emigration has been quietly stealing into New Mexico,! More than one of the fertile valleys of that | country are dotted with Mormon settlements. Towns and villages have been laid out and j Jarge irrigating ditches constructed at a heavy cost of time and labor. This looks as if the Mormons intended to stay in New Mexico, and if this is a part of the programme, then behind that Brigham Young has deeper designs. A second exodus of the Mormons would be one of the remarkable events of this remarkable age, and that such an occurrence is within the range of probability is certain. fjflilmlle <?tujuiw. YORKVILLE, S. C.s THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1876. How te Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-ofllce, county and State in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post-office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Un.tooo?The Pix-nTTTuwR i? delivered free of postage to all subscribers residing in York county who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood tha? our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork. are cash in advance PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the House on the 13th, Mr. Hancock introduced a joint resolution directing the committee on ways and means to inquire into the propriety of relieving domestic beers from taxation. Referred. Mr. Wells introduced a bill relative to land claims in Florida, Louisiana and Missouri. Mr. Hardenberg introduced a bill extending the signal service bill, authorizing a detail of additional army fficers as professors in the military academies. Passed and goes to the President. The proceedings of the House on the 14th were confined to general debate. Mr. Smith, of Georgia, spoke in favor of a general reduction cf the army. Mr. Felton, of Georgia, spoke on general reconciliation.. Mr. Parsons, of Kentucky, spoke on the Texas Pacific Railroad. Mr. Bright, of Tennessee, spoke on the currency. The Senate convened on the 15th, but after reading the journal, adjourned. In the House, the political disabilities of John D. Sims and Samuel V. Turner were removed. The Senate amendments to the legislative appropriation bill were concurred in, and a committee of conference was asked. The army appropriation bill was discussed in committee of the whole, after which the House adjourned. In the Senate on the 16th, the Indian appropriation bill was reported with amendments. The impeachment trial was resumed, but no quorum being present, the court adjourned. The House considered the army appropriation bill, but there was no quorum and it adjourned. In the Senate on the 17th, the Belknap impeachment trial was resumed, when Judge Black, of counsel for the accused, moved that the trial of the case be continued to some convenient day in November next. A conference was had with the House, but without disposing of the question, the House went into a discussion of the army bill. HrtTTTH flAROUNA NEWS. ? In Pickens county, good butter finds no sale at ten cents per pound. ? In Anderson county, six candidates for school commissioner are already in the field. ? Joseph Hancock, of Chesterfield county, committed suicide recently, in consequence of his crop not being in a promising condition. ? Professor Felix Gauthier, who for many years was professor of drawing at the Citadel Academy in Charleston, died in that city last week. He was over eighty years of age. ? The Superintendent of the State penitentiary has thirty convicts employed in making bricks, to fill an order from Orangeburg county for one hundred and fifty thousand, which are to be furnished at $7.50 per thousand. ? On the seventh and last ballot at the Cincinnati Convention, the South Carolina delegation were equally divided?seven voting * T * J TJ TUn? nnN. ior JDiaine anu seveu iur iin^ca. yvition which voted for the latter was headed by Governor Chamberlain. ? At a public meeting held at Walterboro, in Colleton county, last week, it was stated that the destitution in the county is unparalleled in its history, and that it is absolutely necessary that the distress should be relieved. The destitution results from a failure of the crops last year. ? One day last week, a business man of Columbia who had claims due him to the amount of seven thousand dollars, ranging in sums from $1 upward, started out on a collecting tour. At the latest advices, he had succeeded in collecting one dollar and seventy-five cents. ? The western bound passenger train on the Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railway, on Thursday last, ran into a slide near Tocoa City. The engine and one car were wrecked. The engineer and two firemen were badly hurt?supposed fatally. George Berry, engineer, had his face and ear cut and collar bone broken. Charles and Henry Pollard, colored firemen, it is supposed, are mortally wnnndfid. Thev are bruised and mangled " ~ J - - ? very badly. ? The heavy rains of the past week underrained the foundations of a trestle over Broadway creek, on the Anderson branch of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad. On Friday night, the 16th instant, a special train, consisting of an engine and baggage car, which left Belton, the junction of the Anderson branch with the main stem, between 9 and 10 o'clock, was precipitated into the chasm which the trestle spanned. There was about the train, M. J. Wilson, engiueer; N. W. Lafoy, conductor ; ? Keitsinger, brakeraan; Allen Johnson, fireman, and Henry Thompson, wood passer. The engineer, conductor, brakeman and fireman were killed by the fall or drowned in the water. The bodies of the conductor and brakeman were found some 300 yards below the trestle. The wood passer, Henry Thompson, was taken out alive, but so badly injured that he died on Sat i UlUAJT* ? A short time ago, Governor Chamberlain appointed Dr. D. C. Tompkins, a conservative, as treasurer of Edgefield county, in place of McDevitt, absconded. The Advertiser says that Dr. Tompkins has declined the nomination for the reason that "He is a true and life long Democrat, and has the aims and ends of the Democratic party too much at heart to allow himself to become in the slightest degree trammeled by fealty to any other master. He is eminently a business man and might have served the burdened people of Edgefield well as County Treasurer; but," says the Advertiser, "he serves them still more nobly and more permanently by setting them the example of not handling, not touching, the uncleantbing. Edgefield is proud and pure. She does not design becoming a tool in such a wretched sham as the Chamberlain reform." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Stephen D. Pool, Superintendent of Public Instruction, has tendered his resignation, to take effect on the 30th instant. ? Catawba river, at the point where it is crossed by the Western North Carolina Railroad, was stocked last week with 75,000 young shad. ? The Wilmiugton Star says that a very large shark of the man-eating species was caught near the wharf at Smithville one illuming mot wcciv, ? Seventy-five men of the Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry, under command of Major Haigh, will visil Philadelphia as a part of the Centennial Legion. ? Josiah Turner, late editor of the Raleigh Sentinel, announced himself as an independent candidate for Governor; but afterwards withdrew. ? A fire at Lumberton last Saturday night destroyed seventeen buildings, involving a loss of not less than $26,000, on which there was probably $6,000 insurance. ? The Shelby Banner says: We are glad to learn that the report in the Banner of the 27th ultimo, in reference to Miss Ida Davis striking her sister in the head with a hammer, from the effects of which blow she died, is untrue. ? The Charlotte Observer regrets to state that Mr. Rintels, the well-known merchant of Charlotte, has been stricken with paralysis. . One whole side is paralyzed; but it being his first stroke, his condition is not considered critical. ? William Misamor, of Rowan county, tried last week in the Superior Court of Iredell, for the murder of his mother-in-law, TT ^ ? J !L_ t a. L!. Mrs. neing, was iouna guuty, uut ms cuuusel appealed, and bis case goes to the Supreme Court on an application for a new trial. ? The Raleigh ISentinel was sold at auction on Wednesday of last week for $500, and bought by R. Y. McAden, who held a large claim against it. He afterwards sold it for 87,000 to Col. Pat Donan and Geo. F. Smith, who will continue its publication as a Democratic paper in Raleigh. ? The following are the Congressional Democratic nominations thus far made in North Carolina: Third district, Alfred M. Waddell; fourth district, Joseph J. Davis; fifth district, Alfred M. Scales; Sixth district Walter L. Steele; seventh district, Wra. M. Robbins. Of these nominations all are for reelection, except Mr. Steele, who is nominated in place of Mr. Ashe, the present member from the sixth district. N ATION AL^El^BL^ ANTONY ENTION. The National Republican Convention which assembled in Ciucinnati, on Wednesday of last week, concluded its labors on Friday, by nominating for President, Governor R. B. Hayes, of Ohio ; and for Vice-President, Wm. A. Wheeler, member of the House of Representatives from the nineteenth congressional district of New York. Seven ballotings were made before a choice was obtained. Tbe following summary of the different ballots shows the names brought before the Convention, and the varying strength of each name; necessary to a choice, 379: SUMMARY. NAMES. I {1st; 2d 3d :4th 5th 6th 7th Blaine ' 285:298 2931292 287;308 351 Bristow, :113 114!l2l'l26 1141111 21 Morton 1:124 111 113 108 95 ) 85 Conkling i 99 93 90 84 82 81 Hayes i 61 64' 67 68 102 113 384 Hart ran ft, !' 58 63 68 ; 71 69 50 Wheeler j 8 3, 21 2| 2 2 Washburne, !! 1 , 1 3! 3, 4 Jewell, II 11 ! 1 1 i ?... The following table shows the vote of the Southern States on the seventh and last ballot: States. Blaine. Hayes. Bristow. Alabama, 17 ... 3 Arkausas 11 1 Florida, 8 Georgia, 14 7 1 Kentucky, 24 Louisiana, 14 2 North Carolina, 20 South Carolina, 7 7 Tennessee, 6 18 Texas, 1 15 Virginia, 14 8 The nominations for Vice-President were : Stewart L. Woodford, of New York, General Hawley, of Connecticut, Fred. T. Frelinghuy~ ^ XTam? Tamhaw Wm A WKaolfir l\f 9CU, UA XI on UOiOUJ) auu VT 111 IX* vv uvv.iv. , v* New York. The roll was called, and when New York was reached, Woodford took the platform and withdrew his name. When South Carolina bad been called, Wheeler having already received 366 votes, Kellogg, of Connecticut, withdrew the name of Hawley, and moved that the nomination of Wheeler be made unanimous, which was agreed to, and Wheeler's nomination was so declared. After the usual resolutions of thanks the Convention adjourned. The following sketches furnish a brief outline of the public life and services of the nominees of the Republican party for the two highest offices within the gift of the American people: RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. Three times elected Governor and twice a Congressman, Mr. Hayes has never yet carried either State or district by a heavy majority. A native of Ohio, Mr. Hayes gained his academical education within the limits of that State, commanded an Ohio regiment during the war, and has passed his entire professional life at the bar of the State. He is now fiftyfour years of age, having been born at Delaware, 0., October 4, 1822. He graduated at Kenyon College, Gambier, O., and obtained his professional education at the Cambridge Law School. The practice of his profession began in Cincinnati in his thirty-fourth year, when he received his first official position as city solicitor, which he held till the war broke out in 1861. Very near its opening he enlisted in the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteers, aud served with the regiment till he received the command of a brigade in 1864. His first appointment was as major, his first promotion came within less than a year, and in September of 1862 he held a commission as lieutenant-colonel, and was in command of hiB regiment, which he led into the battle of South Mountain. The Twenty-third Regiment formed at the time a part of Gen. Reno's division?its command devolving upon General Cox, who afterward preceded General Hayes, as Governor, after the death of Gen. Reno in action?operatiug as the right wing of the army of the Potomac. During the action Col. Hayes received a severe wound in the arm, but remained with his regiment to the last, and was the first officer whose command established a position at South Mountain. Two years later lie had become Brigadier-General Haves, when he received the Republican nomination in the second Ohio district, a part of Hamilton county, and received home and array vote together, 3,098 majority over Jos. C. Butler, the Democratic candidate. The Ohio delegation to the thirty-ninth Congress, in which Gen. Hayes took his seat DeoomW. 1865. was remarkable for its ability, I and included au unusual number of men who j i have since gained marked and unusual dia-1 I tinction in the Republican party. Mr. Robert; ' C. Schenck, Mr. Columbus Delano, Mr. John A. Bingham, Mr. James M. Ashley, and Mr. Samuel Shellabarger, were all members of j this delegation, and the extent and variety of j the talent by which Mr. Hayes was surround-1 ed, doubtless had much to do with the obscuri- j ty in which his term was passed. He served i 1 on the committee of private land claims and 1 od the library committee, and passed through the important reconstruction legislation of the Bession with no greater distinction than a vote given uniformly and on all occasions for his party, and upon the most liberal of the measures which was presented in this Congress by Mr. Stevens-?the resolution relating to attorney test oaths?Mr. Hayes' vote was recorded in the negative. In the fall of 1866, Mr. Hayes was a second time nominated for Congress, and running against Theodore Cook, was elected by a somewhat smaller majority than two years before. The fortieth Congress had, however, held but one session when Mr. Hayes was nominated for Governor, by the Republican party, and, accepting the candidature, was elected over Allen G. Thurman, kt. a moin.itn nf O QtQ in a fntfll Vfttft rtf 482. uj u IUUJUI IVJ \;i ?|vuu iu M W?M> ??- y 000, a close and narrow escape from defeat, which Mr. Hayes successfully repeated last fall. Mr. Hayes was a candidate for re-election at the close of his term of office, but another nominee was preferred, aud it was not till 1869 that he was a second time placed at the head of the Republican ticket in Ohio. Meanwhile he busied himself in politics, and having succeeded in gaining the nomination which he had previously lost, he entered the campaign with strong odds in his favor. Geu. Rosecrans was nominated by the Democratic Convention which met in July of that year, and at which Mr. Pendleton's name was peremptorily withdrawn ; the expected candidate refused the nomination, however, and at a late date Mr. Pendleton was induced to take the Democratic nomination. Success was scarcely possible under the circumstances, and Gen. Hayes carried the State by a majority of 7,518, or about one-third that of the year before on the State ticket. The next appearance of Mr. Hayes as a candidate was last fall, when he was nominated on the public school platform, after a sharp contest with Judge Taft, whose candidacy in opposition to Mr. Hayes was no fault of his own, but was due entirely to a letter which Mr. Hayes wrote the night before the convention, of which the following is an extract: "I cannot allow my name to be used against Judge Taft. He became a candidate after I declined. He is a pure man and a sound Republican. I will not accept a nomination obtained with contest against him." The pith and point of the voluntary endorsement which Mr. Hayes gives to Judge Taft lies in the fact that the contest of the convention turned on an energetic effort to nlflPntA T,iKpral R*?nnhlican nartv bv his r'""" ? ?i i?v -j nomination. The attempt failed, and Mr. Hayes became a candidate, accepting tbe nomination by telegraph the same day. In the bitter and hard-fought canvass which followed, Mr. Hayes was successful, receiving a majority of 5,544 over Mr. Allen. The duties of the third term to which Mr. Hayes was thus raised on an anti-third platform, like the two terms that preceded it, have been so far successfully executed by Governor Hayes, without affording the slightest ground for comment. WILLIAM A. WHEELER. William A. Wheeler, of New York, the candidate of the Republican party for VicePresident, was born in Malone, Franklin county, New York, in 1820. He attended the University of Vermont, but did not graduate. He was afterwards admitted to the bar, and in 1850 and 1851 was sent as a member to the lower branch of the State Legislature. In 1857 he was elected State senator, and served two years. In 1860 be was elected to Congress, in which body he has continued to serve to the present time. He is the author of the so-called Wheeler compromise, by which an attempt was made to reconcile the political differences in Louisiana, under which the Legislature as now constituted was organized. Mr. Wheeler is a man of high character and respectable ability. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. North Carolina Democratic Convention. The Democratic Convention of North Carolina assembled in Raleigh on Wednesday of last week, and made the following nominations : For Governor, Z. B. Vance ; for Lieutenant-Governor, Thomas J. Jarvis ; for Public Treasurer, J. M. Worth ; for Secretary of State, Joseph A. Engelhard; for Public Auditor, Samuel L. Love; for Attorney-General, Thomas S. Keenan ; for Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. C. Scarborough. This is a strong ticket, composed of as good material as could have been selected from the party. The name of Zeb. Vance is known in every nook and corner of the State, and alone would carry the full strength of the party. Mr. Jarvis is of Pitt county, has long been a member of the State Legislature, and for two terms was Speaker of the House. Mr. Engelhard has been long and favorably known as editor of the Wilmington Journal, which nnaitinn h? rplinnuished a few week8 aCTO. r-"- --- -i - ? Dr. Worth, of Randolph, is a brother of the late ex-Governor Worth, and a gentleman of unsullied integrity, and possessed of superior business qualifications. Mr; Love is of Haywood county, and has been a member of the Legislature for several terms. Thomas S. Keenan is of Wilson county, an able lawyer, and is at present High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of North Carolina?the highest place within the gift of the Masonic fraternity in the State. Mr. Scarborough is of Johnson county, a gentleman of finished education, and by profession a farmer. The Convention also selected as Presidential Electors for the State at large, Daniel G. Fowle, of Wake, and James M. Leach, of Davidson. The Crop Prospect. The following report of the condition of the cotton crop is furnished by the Department of Agriculture at Washington, under date of the 15th instant: The June returns of the Department of Agriculture indicate a slight reduction of area in cotton, comparatively late planting, good stands except in case of too early planting or inundation, a growth not up to the average for the season, healthy and improving condition and clean culture, with exceptions caused by heavy rains, that stimulate growth and prevent wnrkini?. The largest local reduction of ~ " O" # ~ ~ o area has been in Louisiana, caused by overflow and wet weather in the planting season. The next largest is Teunessee, where the season has been cold and wet in certain districts. In Texas there has been an effort to substitute corn for cotton, but in one-fourth of the counties there has been a positive increase, and in nearly half the rest no decrease, while the enlargement of the total area of arable crops is rapidly increasing. The figures for acreage are as follows : North Carolina, 98; South Carolina, 99 ; Georgia, 94 ; Florida, 89 ; Alabama, 100: Mississippi, 98 ; Louisiana, 89 ; Texas, 100; Arkansas, 100 ; Tennessee, 95. The reduction is equivalent to about 8 per cent. In Virginia and North Carolina there is some complaint about bad stands and small growth from cold nights, though the plants are healthy and the culture generally clean. The late planting promises well in South Carolina. Early seeding has been productive of poor stauds. The condition averages very high in Georgia ; seasonable rains, fine weath er for work and abundant labor having been very favorable. Drought in time of planting has affected cultivation unfavorably in Florida. Stands are generally good in Mississippi and Alabama, and the plants healthy, though small. In Louisiana overflows have seriously injured the crop in exposed localities. Drought in some parts of Texas has been injurious. The plant is looking well in Arkansas and Tennessee, except in places injured ! by excessive rains and inundations. The con-! dition of the several States is as follows: North Carolina, 101; South Carolina, 98;. Georgia, 103; Florida, 82; Alabama, 94 ; Mississippi, 92; Louisiana, 89; Texas, 90; Arkansas, 95; Tennessee, 93. V* LOCAL AFFAIRS. * i CHURCH CALENDAR. ] 1 Services for Saaday, Joce gfcb, 1876. , PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, ( Rev. L. H. Wilson, Pastor. J Services at 10* o'clock, a. m., and 8 o'clock, p. m. | METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, < Rev. J. E. Carlisle, Pastor. | Services at Yorkville, at 10} o'clock, a. m., and 8 i o'clock, p. in. Services at Philadelphia at 3 o'clock, p. m. EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Rev. R. P. Johnson, Pastor. l Services at Yorkville, at 10} o'clock, a. m., and 5 ( o'clock, p. m. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. G. H. O'Leary?Saddles, Harness,Sundries, Fur- ! niture?Spring Beds?Cottage Bedsteads. 1 M. Strauss?Goods?New Goods. ] A. D. Choat and others?Caution to Trespassers. . Haslam & Snider?Yorkville Bakery. I Yorkville Female Institute?Musical Entertain- ( ment?Tableaux and Charades. YORKVILLE FEMALE INSTITUTE. ( The spring session of Yorkville Female Iustitute will close the present week. This evening, commencing at 7i o'clock, the young ladies and Misses of of the Iustitute will give an exhibition of tableaux and charades, to , which 25 cents admission fee will be charged, j the proceeds to be devoted to the benefit of the ( Reading Club of the Institute. j To-morrow evening a concert will be given by the music class of the Institute, to which the public are invited. NEW INVENTIONS. Mr. Edgar P. Williams, of this plaoe, has shown us the models of two new inventions which he has recently perfected. One of . these is a new style of insulator for the mag- , etic telegraph, obviating the necessity, as J heretofore existed, of passing the wire around i the insulator. The insulutor is attached to \ the post and the wire connected with the in sulator by an entirely new plan, which Mr. f Williams claims to be more simple and more ( efficient than any heretofore adopted. The i other invention consists of a new process for i attaching lightning rods to buildings. We ' learn from Mr. Williams that he will soon 1 obtain letters patent on each of these inven- ! tions. | SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX. < Next Saturday, 24th instant, is the day de- < signaled by law for the holding of an election 1 in the various townships to take the sense of the voters on the question of a special tax for oommonschool purposes. It will be well for the respective voters, whether favoring or opposing this tax, to bear in mind the prop- i er date, as an election for the purpose named cannot be legally held on any other 1 day than that above specified, preceding j which ten days' notice must be given by no- ( tices posted at three prominent places in j each township. So far as York township is i concerned, we are reliably informed that the .onnioUa nnfiao hoo nnt. haen Driven, and. COO sequently, an election cannot be legally held, or if held, the election will be void and of no force. OUTRAGE IN GASTON. Several nights, ago a party of about forty 1 armed men went to the house of Aaron Jenkins, a man eighty years of age, in Gaston county, N. C., where they forciby broke into a house and recaptured a quantity of illicit whisky and a number of stills that had been stored there by a deputy revenue collector, ' who is a son of Aaron Jenkins. They also 1 beat the old man Jenkins badly, leaving him for dead, and seriously maltreated a younger man who refused to reveal the. whereabonts of Deputy Collector Jenkins, for whom they were in search. On application of Collector Mott, of that collection district, Lieut. Benner, in command of the post at this place, furnished a detachment of eight men, under command of Lieut. Patten, to aid in effecting the arrest of a number of those suspected with having committed the outrage. The detach ? - * A. /? 1 A meat left here on Monday aitemoon 01 iasi week, and during the week thirteen arrests were made. The parties arrested had a hearing in Dallas and were bound over for trial, some of whom, in default of bail, were com- ( mitted to jail. '' i RAINS?DAMAGE TO THE CROPS. During last week, this section was visited 1 with rains unprecedented at this season of the year, since the memorable succession of rains ( to the damage of wheat crops, that occurred ( about the same time in the year 1846. Siin- i day the 11th was cloudy, and in the afternoon and during the night several showers fell; Monday was cool and showery, and by 1 Tuesday the rain seemed to be getting fairly j under way and continued to fall, ceasing only < at slight intervals, until Saturday afternoon, when the clouds broke and the sun shone out < for the first time in near a week. The rains 1 came in the midst of the wheat harvest, and 1 complaints reach us from every section of , the county of damage to the grain, by sprout- , ing, the result of the excessive rain upon it. j Not only has a portion of that sprouted which had been gathered and shocked in the fields, i but much of the uncut wheat being dead 1 ripe on the stalk, has also sprouted. Since ' the weather has cleared up, and harvesting , been resumed, the extent of the damage to the , grain in this respect, though serious, is not so ( great, however, as was at first feared. Mucb, I however, will be lost The oat crop is also I seriously injured. Considering the quantity ( of rain that fell, the damage from overflow in J the interior of the county was slight; though ( Catawba and Broad rivers were consider- , ably overflown. The latter river, on the i lands of John Whisonant, was within six inches of the higest point it has ever been known < to reach, and Catawba was higher than it has ' been since the great freshet of February, ( 1865. Farmers on those streams have suffer- ( ed greatly, as the crops on the low lands ira- i mediately bordering the rivers were com- ' pletely inundated or washed away. From the 1 Columbia Register we learn that Saluda 1 And (Toncraree rivers have also been very 1 high, causing serious apprehensions as to the damage likely to result from au overflow of the streams. MEBE-MENTION. The colored temperance lodges of Atlanta, have over nine hundred members. Hon. Jefferson Davis was a passenger on the Memphis, which arrived at Liverpool on Monday of last week. The Maine Democratic Convention declared in favor of Tilden. The government forces in Mexico are subduing the insurrectionists. Belknap's counsel have notified the impeachment managers that they will summon 197 witnesses to testify in Belknap's behalf. Spain will send thirty thousand reinforcements to Cuba, under command of Gen. Despujols " The indications are that Hon. A. H. Stephens will be re* 1 .. n.noo fi-nnn KJa diitrint without IiUIUCU liU \A>llglcoo iiuua uw -? J opposition." Mr. Blaine is reported as j having fully recovered from his recent attack, < and is able to attend to his business. A < Brooklyn man has been sent to jail for six ' months for attempting suicide." ; "Mexico 8 buys 600,000,000 yards of cotton goods an- ? nually.""""*The first prize in English com- j position at the Hopkins Grammar School, ( New Haven, Connecticut, has been taken by Spencer Laison, a Chinese iad.""""The first lational convention in the United States, was jeld in Philadelphia in the year 1830. fras called the United States anti-Masonic Convention. There are sixty Protestant Episcopal congregations in Mexico. """Bal;iraore has seventy-six Methodist church?. From the various postoffices, customhouses, &c., throughout the country come loud complaints of political assessments. Hon. Jere Black, counsel for ex-Secretary Thompson, in the case of the United States igainst him to recover the amount of the Inlian trust fund, alleged to have been misapplied while Thompson was Secretary of the Interior, has filed a plea that the defendant is not indebted as alleged. Bristow, Secretary of the Treasury, has formally resigned bis office, to take effect on the 20th inst. A iispatch from Knoxville, Tenn., dated the 19th instant, says: Almost the entire crop on the French Broad was destroyed by the recent freshet. The river rose twenty feet up to midnight last night, bat was falling rapidly this morning. Fields and islands are entirely submerged from five to ten feet. Some Farmers will replant corn. Below Knoxville Farmers will lose about one-quarter of tbe jrop. There has been very slight damage on Holstou river. / Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, June 19,1876. The indebtedness of our county appears to ne on the iucrease. ?. T. Atkinson, Esq., chairmain of the bnard of county coramisdoners, is of the opinion that this indebtedness will reach the large amount of about $10,000 at the close of the present fiscal year. He tells me that the unpaid school claims of this year in five townshipe amount to $2,700. He thinks this amount will swell to $4,0Q0 when the other townships have been beard From. The expenses arising from holding court during the past two or three terms remain, unsettled. The board of county commissioners are not yet acquainted with the smount of this indebtedness. Moreover, there are school claims for the years 1872-3 4 that are still unpaid. The chairman of the board has, therefore, good reasons for the assertion that the amount of the indebtedness of the county at the close of the present fiscal year will approximate, if it does not reach, $10,000. This debt will be provided for, I presume, at the next session of the Legislature by the levy of a special tax. Quite a number of people were in town on Wednesday. The quautity of rain that had fallen on the two preceding days put a: stop to the plough, and, consequently, farmers were drawn here either by busiuess or pleasare. For a while wagons filled the streets, giving them a lively appearance. They were soon loaded with plantation supplies, and then disappeared. While the lien business' is not carried on to such an extent this year as formerly, still there are a good many farmers who are supplied in this way. Our merchants derived little or no profit, and in many cases were losers, last year, by doing a lien business. Their experience incliues them to exercise great caution respecting the advancement of supplies this year. On last Monday Messrs. G. J. Patterson, J. J. Hemphill, T. C. Gaston, J. J. McLure, J. L. Agurs, W. H. Hardin, G. W. Melton, W. H. Rosborough, J. L. Chambers, W. B. Burnett and J. J). Means set out for Lancaster. The rain fell almost continuously throughout the doty, but the party, impressed with the exceeding importance of their mission, continued the journey uutil they arrived safely at their destination. At the hour of dinner tbey made a brief stay with: Messrs. 0. Barber, J. Drennan and S. Crockett, by whom they were hospitably entertained. On their arrival at Lancaster the majority of the party took up their quarters at Crockett's Hotel, while the others staid at Riddle's On Tuesday morning, after being duly refreshed: by a good nigbt's rest, they met their Lancaster friends, Messrs. Gooch, Foster, Brown, Hough, Hunter, Moore, Wylie, Chaffee and Cureton with the view of devising, if possible, some plan for the early completion of the railroad between Lancaster and Chester; G. J. Patj terson, Esq., was selected chairman of the meeting. After some discussion, the plan agreed upon by the Chester committee, was adopted. This provides for a mortgage upon the road to th6 amount of $i60,0b0."' It also contemplates the grvingbf1 notes by individuals in Chester and Lancaster counties for the various amounts they are disposed to assist the railroad company. These notes of: different amounts, according to the pleasure of persons, are payable in two installments? one-half payable in February, 1977, and the other half payable in February, 1878. finance committee is to be appointed; to whortr payments of notes wilt be made, and the maker of every note will receive railroad mortgage bonds to the amount , of money that:; he pays io. The notes, amounting to $160,000, together with county bonds, amounting to $82,000, and real estate valued at $12,000, will be used as cuilaterals by the Railroad Company for the purchase of iron and all equipments required for putting the road in running order. The above-mentioned plan will be submitted at the meeting of stock- i holders of the Chester and Cheraw Railroad,, that takes place in our town on the 27th instant. Dr. Gill Wvlie, formerly of this place, and I 1?? :? "w? V?_w L1UW a prat'UUiu^ piijroiviau iu new x ui a, um recently received the prize offered by the faculty of Harvard University to the writer offj the best essay on the construction of hospi- < tale. Inasmuch as the contest embraced all i who desired to contend for the prize, both the uld and the young of the medical fraternity, throughout the entire country, the honor that bas been bestowed upon our young friend is une of which be may well be proud. His' many Southern friends will rejoice in the fact < that he has won the prize over the wipe, men uf New York, Boston, and the. North generally, where, in their own opinion, pure and unadulterated wisdom is alone to be found. In addition to the prize, be was presented with | something of probably more value?a check for $300. The entertainment, which has been in contemplation for some time, came off on Thursday evening, according to appointment. Cotton Hotel, the scene of the festivity, was filled with a large and lively crowd. Parlor, hall, dining-room?all resounded to the voice of merriment and the ring of laughter. The main supper, which was free upon the payment of an admission fee of fifty cents, was enjoyed to such an extent that in about fifteen ! minutes all the good things had marvelously j disappeared. There were some, with hands I and mouths full, and all in motion at one I time, who eat as if they were going on a fast }f about forty days and as many nights. Against an attack by persons with such ravenous appetites it was no wonder that the table of edibles found it impossible to contend, tnd, consequently, succumbed so readily. During the fight along the whole line, there srere ladies and gentlemen who were forced ? remain in the rear, and thus compelled to play the uninteresting part of spectators of ;he attack. Fortunately there were other tables that were not favored with such freedom >f approach, or they, too, would have been iwept in almost as short a period with the lesom of destruction. There the nice things, vere enjoyed in a proper way and in proper' ;ime. The entertainment, which was given >y the ladies for the purpose of raising Funds or uniforming the Chester Rifle Club, was a jreat financial success. The amount of moniv raised was about S240. This sum. tozeth :r with the contribution? that'will be made private individuals, will be sufficient to tecure the. desired uniforms^ . ! The firiia of R. D. Galbraith & Co. dislolved copartnership a feVdpys ago. Mr. R, D. Galbraith will contihue the same business it the same stand. The wet weather of last week was attended with considerable;injury to the wheat and oat crope. Rain fell a portion of every day doring the week. Prospects, at one time, of fine-yield of wheiat-jand oats were extremelv^^^K^^^ bright; but the situation has greatly-changea^^^^^m These crops may still yield tolerably wel^^^^B|^H| but .they will fall .-far short of-4he iadicatiou^^^HBB a week ago. The new trial justices of this place, W. M. McDonald and Henry Lowrey,] havp opened their offices and gone to work, 'the former has established hie headquarters1 itrtbe ?oH McAfee building; the latter in the houseu??4 as a bar-room for some time by John Liliey. L<owrey is coioreo, aun uouruiess expects to obtain the patronage of his people. It is hardly probable that our towrV Will'give profitable employment to three trial justices. . A meeting of the ChesterRifle dufcf held on Saturday afternoon, at which the presentation of a medal to the company by ! the president, C. S. Brice, Esq., took place. His remarks .upon the occasion-were appro- w priate. >'-jor S. P. Hamilton replied in behalf of the company in brief, bat fitting terms. The medal will be given to the member of the club who exhibits the best marksmanship at the target firing on the 28th instant. It is circular in form; on onemde 'a engraved a palmetto tree, encircled by a laurel wreath, and on the other side is the inscription, "Chester' Rifle - Club, June' k28; 1876." The event is awaited with bappy anticipations. The ladies will attend; and lend ^? inspiration to the contestants for the prise. , The recent heavy rains have produced a grea(. rising in Broad river. P. B. Worthy tells me that the bottom lands along that stream have been'overflowed, submerging the corn and doing it injury. The wheat, he says, had begun to sprout -'inThe force employed by the town authorities is engaged this morning in deepening the drain along one side of Main street When finished, the drain will be covered, and! will Dresent an improved appearance. Major John W. Wilkes met with the misfortune on Saturday of losing a urate by drowning in the stream known a? iDryJfork* ~iiJ The other mules that were bitched, to the wagon were saved, though wiUt difficu ty, A considerable quantity or corn was. Wflji ledout of the wagon at the time, but the greater por- -? tion of it was recovered. ' Correspondence of the LETTER FROM BOCK HiLL. Rock Hill, 8.<X,Jonel9,'-'1876.i: We are heartily tired of the-rain-- and-the flies. The flies reign supreme. < One cannot sjt down and read in perafbrihenit or even indite a billet dour to his lady, love without having ifinspected by Master Fiji The rain has favored us with too' frequent and' abundant showers for the past seven day*r' The days were dreary, gloomy and cheerless* with* out a sight of the day-God. But we con? soled ourselves with the thought that "behind the clouds the sun's still shining.". With that ^ consolation we did not commit puicide,'as I imagine we were nhder th& atmospheric in- **4 fluences which snrronnd thftf city or ILofldbn. The farmers were in the very midst of their harvest when the rain commenced,*nd alarming damage befel the wheat, and.oat crop in consequence of the week's . rain, {aininI The repeated rains have so swollen the raters of Catawba river that it bas:: become appalling to the farmers owning -land upon its' banks. It is to be hoped that the low lands will not be subjected to a similar overflow of so me three yearsago. There would belittle left of them should such a calamity occur, . j ^ I am credibly informed that the Bev. Mr. Hinton, living hear Lewis' Turnout, had his horse to stray from his premise* about ten days ago. The horse is a fine five-year; oki bay, and one of that description was taken up * I several. days ago by the Rev. J. C. Burge. The herse is now at the plantation of, Rev,, Thomas Garrison. fte two joung mei^ Messrs. Conner, who ' did the shooting 'at Col. Cad'l^ones1'place S some time ago, have stepped out??! guess on /I a visit to some of their relatives; w jm Dr. J. W. Fewell recently performed, suecessfully, two of the roost .difficult surgical-, I iitwraHnng linnwn in the . nrafemion. The Doctor W88 asaUtedbyother members of, the fraternity. The Doctor is youug audi very energetic and deserves the patronage of the people. ? to Two fish-ponds adorn the lovely little brook' familiarly koowii as Finley's branch, which | divides, the towu into two parts. The^pondij 'are not only ;fn ornament, tutif properly mapaged they can be foade .very prttitaftfe. TBe'toWn being thda' divided; it ii'kno#h';iisJ New Ybrk an'd'iBrooklyn. Thtffc 'ik^'hlese resetnblanpe borne to New York by thiapiace, in a.great many waya- All;it; uoka is the ^ sise. New York has thatadlvaiOUnge.. Dr. T. L. Johnson made, a discovery the , ,u?.-M3rr.Jv f?> vW-> other day, which, perhaps, would be of some interest tb your readers. C&ptnKnga mole" which was depredating in hisflower-garden, \ he Bcalped him beneath the skio *?f found two little eyes aboet the aiiaof apin-head. Holding ,qpthe skip between hip, and,th* light, b^fpujid two thin light plape?,;ifrhichr would cbrre8Dond for the eyes to peer through,. , This would seem to dispel the popular belief that the ootble has Doejre^ : I thiok I can safe^ Saythat the gardens here are betterand inore forward^thaa-anywhere above Columbia. Capt. E. R Mills has the finest white-beaded cabbage?firm and. solid?weighing from six to eight pounds. The many flower-gardens, too,, of our town are perfectly charming. 1*hey delight the eye and scent the air with delicious perfume. "The world is full of beauty to a heart that's full iof love." .hWvradidif Lux. THE STATE DEMOCRACY. Rooms of Dem. State Exl Committee, ) Columbia, Jutie'8,1876.' j j At a meeting of the Democratic State Executive Committee, held in Columbia, June 8tb, 1876, it was resolved?,i,/ 1. That the following form of organisation recommended by, the former Executive Coramittee^.and adopted in several of the counties, hfl'rfinommended bv this Committee for adofr ^ tion in all counties in which local or precinct ~? 1 1 Clubs are not already organized. * ' 2. That CJnbs already organised art refer- > red to this form of .Constitution for guidance on all points not emhra&ed hi the Constitu-( tion under which, tbey are organized; , a Article 1. The name of this organization shall be "The " : Art. 2. The officer^ of 'the Club shall be a President, two Vice-Pnesidenta,: Recording Secretary and Treasurer, a Corxespoading ^ Secretary and .#n Executive Committee of fi ve membersf.who.shall serve for such time.as. ^|H may be fixed* by resolution i ?ana any vacancies for these offices shall be filled by ah'elecv biuu at tuc lilOlf UlCVMUg AlWt DUO 9QUSO AO C*U~ noanced. -x-{ < jbf *mhOt -Art. 3. It shall be the doty of the ^Executive Committee to colleot and disseminate in- formation, and advise the Club with regard to sucb policy as in their judgment shall best ^ subserve and promote the general good of the country. " " Art. 4. The President, with the sanction of a majority of the Exeoative Committee, * shall have power to call extra meetings of +"* the Club, and one^third of the total member* ship of the .Club shalhconstitute A^tKurumior the transaction of business. Art. 5. A regular meeting of the Club shall be held on the Satu. ^ay in every months-;,i - : : '* .-T Art. 6. Any male citizen of the vicinity may become a. member of the Club by signing the Constitution, and pledging himaalftQjtietain andjsupport to the Jbeat of bis ability all nominations made by the Democratic, parity, either Id State, county or municipal elections. ju 'A&r. f. ,:It shall be the duty Of the Execu-; tive Committee tor prepare a full and eoitect roster of the Club, giving the nhine, residence ' and occupation of each .member, aod.alsoa complete record of t he Dames. wlrffSfdeooes,. ^ of all voters within the township. Art. 8. That (he members -of this Club y A