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? 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."
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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? 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,
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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~
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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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