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? (raps and .facts. ? Nearly 550,000 persons are interred in the cemeteries of Calvary, Greenwood and Cypress Hills, in the vicinity of New York. ? Under the laws of New York State, a married woman who lends her husband fifteen cents, can sue and recover and make him pay costs of the suit. ? The surplus of wheat in California for shipment this season, is estimated at seven hundred and fifty thousand tons, which exceeds, by two thousand tens, the surplus of the crop of 1875. ? A young ghrl listened, in Owensboro', Ky., to a sermon on the horrors of hell, and was made a raving maniac. She imagines that she is enduring the tortures of the damned, and it is necessary to keep her tied. ? Fifteen Cremona violins were sold at a London public auction the other day. Two, I by Stradivarius, fetched a thousand dollars each; but an exceptionally fine instrument by Guernerino realized the unprecedented sum of three thousand dollars. ? Governor Hayes was beaten for Congress in the Second Ohio District in 1872 by Hon. Henry B. Banning. It went Republican in 1862,1866, 1868 and 1870 by fair majorities, but Hayes lost it in 1872 by 1,502 votes. Hayes has never polled more than the regular party vote and not always that. ? Dom Pedro intends to be absent from Brazil about a year longer. He will travel | through Europe, and his journeyings will be extended as far as EervDt. If he makes as good | use of his time as he has since his arrival in this country, he will be enabled to see much in this time. ? In Great Britain there are 86 horses to each 1,000 inhabitants; in Ireland 97. In Germany, before the war with France, there were 42 horses to 1,000 people in the Rhine provinces, and 175 to 1,000 in Prussia proper. The German Empire now averages 97 horses to 1,000 inhabitants. ? Dr. Schmidt, of the Athens (Greece) Observatory, has recently completed a map of! the moon upon which he has been assiduously laboring for the last thirty-four years. It! contains thirty-four craters and hills, besides three hundred and fifty rills and other objects. ? Before the next Presidential election, which will take place on the same day, November 7, in all the States in the Union, seven of the States will hold elections for State officers. In September, Arkansas, Vermont and Maine; and in October,. Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia and Georgia. ? It is possible that Geo. E. Schooley will be acquitted of robbing the express cpmpany in Nashville, on the technical ground, that as the charter of the Adams' Express Company expired in 1874, by the statutes of limitation, no such company exists at present, and, therefore, the accused could not embezzle any ?4* * f n Ain/lc U1 i to 1UUUO. ? Two men own six hundred thousand acres of land in San Joaquin and Santa Clara Valleys, California, upon which they pay about forty thousand dollars yearly in taxes. Their names are Lux and Miller, and they began their business lives in San Francisco as butchers, without any capital. The land is used as meadows and pastures. ? Mrs. A. T.Stewart has given $2,500 to "the permanent fund of the Dramatic Fund Association, $1,000 to the Prevention to Cruelty to Animals Society, $2,000 in aid to the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, $1,000 to St. Ambrose Protestant Episcopal Free Church, and $1,000 to the New York Prison Association. ? A witness was under examination in a Toronto court, in the case of an unpaid account, when the judge put the question to him: "What is your occupation?" The witness did not seem to understand the meaniug of the word "occupation," and answered with, "Eh?" The Judge, "What do you do for a living?" Witness. "Oh, ray wife is a dressmaker r ? Beginning at the 17th day of this month, and going down to the 25th, the days are of even length. The 21st was not, as supposed by some, and has been stated by others, the lougest day of the year. Between the periods named above, there is no perceptable change in the length of daylight. After the 25th, the days continue to shorten until the last part of December, when they begin to lengthen again. ? The political record of Hayes and Wheeler, during their services in Congress, is being # rapidly investigated by Democratic members of the House. Hayes was uniformly in favor of every land-grant and subsidy brought before the House during his membership; while Mr. Wheeler, during his connection with the Pacific Hailroad Committee, was a prince as a Credit Mobilier supporter, and advocated every measure of any benefit to the landgrabber. ? Lieut. Cameron, in his recent travels in Central Africa, came to a country where the iron trade was in a flourishing condition, there being many foundries, about fifty feet long by thirty feet wide, where they frequently got one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds of metal at a single smelting. Here he had seen pieces of iron worked simply by the hammer, and moulded into various shapes, including the human form, as completely finished is if manipulated by the most skillful English artisan. ? On a recent Sunday, two girls, pupils of an Illinois seminary, were about leaving their room for church, when a dispute arose as to which occupied the most time in dressing. The discussion waxed warm, a bet was made, to be decided on the spot, and three other girls were called in as judges. The contestants removed all their clothing, and at the call of "time," sprang to the contest. For a few moments the air seemed filled with flying bits of feminine drapery?shoes, stockings, garters, Ac?and the winner was all "hooked up" and her bonnet on in seven minutes and thirteen seconds, the other girl comiDg out in less than half a minute behind. ? Mr. Solomon Soule, of Stoughton, Wis., a farmer and an old resident of that section of Dane county, is on his way to Philadelphia. He and his whole family?in all eight persons?are traveling in light wagons, and to make the journey as pleasant as possible, he has built light spring vehicles, each drawn by a span of sprightly ponies. He also takes along an extra horse, to be used in case of emergency. One of the wagons conveys the j family, and the other provisions and bedding. Easy camp-chairs, instead of common seats, are provided for the family in the wagon. Mr. Soule has a driver for one of his teams and takes charge of the other himself. He has also a good tent, which he will put up for lodging in each night. His outfit is complete, and the entire family anticipate taking a good deal of comfort in their journey eastward. After seeing the Centennial he proposes to drive to Maine, his former home, and spend several weeks, and return to Wisconsin late in the fall. ? An unusually shocking tragedy occurred near Clermont Mills, in Hartford county, Maryland, last Thursday. A seventeen year old daughter of Rodger Street, one of the leading men of the county, while going down in the cellar to get something preparatory to breakfast, was, without warning or provocation, attacked by Christian Klotz, a youth from the Maryland House of Refuge, employed by Mr. Street as a farm hand, and brutally murdered, her head being nearly served from her body, by an axe, which was soon after found with the body in a pool of blood at the foot of the stairs. Before the arrival of the sheriff, Klotz confessed the crime, and said he did it out of pure wickedness. A rope was procured, and Klotz was takes to the woods, about one hundred yards from the house. The rope was placed around bis neck, the end of the rope was thrown >v^'^6*er the limb of a tree, and he was pulled up iffun the ground. Some persons of the crowd objected to hanging him, and he was cut down ' before he was strangled. Klotz, seeing that death was inevitable, asked for a gun that he might shoot himself. It was then suggested ; by him that he might as well hang himself, and he agreed to do so. He climbed the tree I unaided, and placed the rope around his | neck. He then asked if the rope was prop- j ' erly adjusted. Upon being informed that j ; it was, he coolly tied the other end of the | i rope around the limb on which he sat, and saying "good-bye," let himself drop. fsrMlr i&ttquhw. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1876.! PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS, j In the Senate, on the 19th, the committee j reported adversely on a number of bills ex| tending patents. The Senate insisted upon its amendments to the post-office appropriation bill, and asked a committee of confer-1 ence. The impeachment court decided to pro- j ceed with the trial of Belknap, July 6th. In i the House, the army appropriation bill was j resumed and the bill passed without impor-j tant amendments. A resolution appointing a j commission of two non-residents and one resi-1 dent to frame a form of government for the j District of Columbia, passed. In the Senate, on the 20th, a lengthy de-1 bate occurred on the question of printing the j list of persons indebted to the government, I sent to the Senate by the Secretary of the : Treasury, in answer to the resolution submitted by Mr. Davis, of West Virginia. Mr. Sherman objected to printing, as it would create scandal, and on his motion it was re ferred to the committee on printing. The i finance committee reported favorably on the House bill allowing the exchange of ten raillions of silver for a like amount of legal ten-1 ders. Mr. Morton objected to its present con-1 sideration, and it went over under the rules, i The committee reported the House bill repealing the bankrupt act, and moved its postponement to the first of the next session, which was agreed to. The committee on ap- j propriations, in reporting the naval appropri- j ation bill, propose to increase the various items j from the amounts voted by the House. The j House joint resolution, favorably reported J from the Senate Fiuance Committee, author- j izes the issue of the silver coin now in the ' Treasury to an amount not exceeding ?10,- j 000,000, in exchange for an equal amount of! legal tender notes, the latter to be reissued , only upon the permanent retirement of a like j sum of fractional currency received in pay-1 ment of dues to the United States, and the j fractional currency so retired and destroyed to become a part of the sinking fund. The only amendment proposed by the committee is to strike out the word "now" from the clause above. In the House, the bill directing judg-1 es of circuit courts to appoint commissioners j in every county, who shall give a hearing to any person arrested for violation of the United States laws, when he is entitled to such hearing, was passed. The bill providing that judgments and decrees of the United States Courts for money shall be a lien on real estate, was passed. Mr. Douglass, Chairman of the Committee on the Freedman's bank, made a report regarding the frauds practiced by the Freedman's Bureau in retaining money due to colored soldiers and sailors, and charging General 0. 0. Howard and Mr. G. W. Ballock with filing fraudulent vouchers and other false evidence of settlement in the Second Auditor's office. The resolution directs these settlements to be made void, and directs the Attorney-General to institute proper legal 51 -'1 -.1 L?11 I proceedings against an persuus wuu suun uc shown to be implicated in these frauds, in order to vindicate public justice and to prevent loss to the Government. It was ordered printed and recommitted. The bill equalizing bounties was taken up. It involves an expenditure of nine to ten millions. The bill passed by a vote of 141 to 46. In the Senate on the 21st, the committee on Indian Affairs, reported the House bill transferring the Indian Bureau, with the recommendation that it be postponed till December. Mr. Ingalls asked that the bill be laid on the table for the present, and it was so! ordered. The bill issuing ten millions of; silver for legal tenders, with the following amendments, passed: Providing that the trade , dollar shall not hereafter be a legal tender, and authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury j to limit the coinage thereof to such amount as he may deem sufficient to meet the export de-j mand. The nomination of Lot M. Morrill, as Secretary of the Treasury, was confirmed. The Indian appropriation bill was resumed. I TKio rJohnto nr>Aimtprl spvprnl hniirs when a ! motion prevailed to take up the House bill; transferring the bureau by a vote of 20 to 19. j In the House, Mr. Cook, of Georgia, address-; ed the House od the subject of grievances in j the Southern States and in advocacy of refund-! ing the cotton tax. Mr. Stinger, of Pennsyl-: vania, addressed the House in reference to the j Freedmen's Savings Bank. He gave a his- j tory of the rise, decline and fall of that insti-! tution, reflecting severely on its various offi-; cers, and charging that various persons con-j j nected with the management of the Bank had j j formed a ring, by which, at various times and | in various ways, money had been procured j j from the Bank on worthless or insufficient se; curity, or no security at all, to be used in divers enterprises and speculation by memi bers of the ring. He charged that the freedraen of the South had been drained of nearly ; | three million of dollars, which had gone into I j the custody of the men who had charge of1 ! the office in Washington, j In the Senate on the 22nd, the postoffice i committee reported, without amendment, the : House bill preventing the passing of obscene literature and lottery circular through the mails. It was placed on the calendar. The j naval appropriation bill was discussed and . passed. Mr. Wright, from the committee on I claims, reported, with an amendment, the House bill to pay claims allowed by the ! Southern claims commissioners, and to allow , certain clmms reported by the accounting of-1 | ficers of tne treasury department. In the House the sundry civil appropriation bill was 1 | resumed. Amendments were adopted giving | ! the printing of the debates to the lowest bid-; der, who shall give one hundred thousand . dollars bond. The Librarian and other De-; partraent officers shall also have their work done by contract. The next section was one appropriating 82,500,000 for defrayini^the expenses of the Supreme Court and the United States District and Circuit Courts, for expenses of suits in which the United States is concerned, and for expenses incurred in the : enforcement of the act relative to the right of citizens to vote, provided that the maximum i compensation of marshals shall not exceed $5,000 a year, and that hereafter no charge for mileage shall be allowed to any marshal ; but they shall receive oDly their actual expenses, and the allowance to deputies shall not exceed $5 a day. It also repeals all laws in relation to the registration of voters. The clause appropriating $25,000 for detection of crimes against the United States was stricken out and the section adopted. In the Senate, on the 23rd, a bill was introduced to amend the second, fourth and fifth sections of the gpforcement act. In the House, appropriation bills were considered. In the Senate, on the 24th, the array appropriation bill was reported, increasing the Itoinii an no tn nrnviHp fnr pontinuinp 11UUOU IbV/IUO OV MU vv ?T? v . .v. u the present force of 25,000 men and the officers' salaries as prescribed by existing laws. The House passed the sundry civil appropriation bill, and after electing Saylor, of Ohio, Speaker pro tem., adjourned. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. The National Democratic Convention met in Saint Louis last Tuesday; but at the time of closing our columns, no tidings had been received as to the deliberations of the body. Up to within a few hobrs of the assembling of the Convention, Tilden was regarded as the most promiuent candidate. Dispatches from different points give the standing of the different State delegations as follows : The Delaware delegates are for Bayard, first and last. The Virginia delegation is for Tilden; although uniustructed. North Carolina favors Bayard ; but doubts his availability. Georgia is for Tilden. Tennessee is a unit for Hendricks, with Hancock second. Louisiana favors Bayard, with Tilden as second choice. The T1 linnia dfiWation is nlaced as follows: Tildeu, 23; Davis, 10 ; Hendricks, 9. Michigan will send 20 Tilden delegates. Among other names prominently mentioned, are those of H. J. Jewitt, Parker, Allen, Senator Morrison, Tburman and Gen. Palmer. The report that Judge Davis declines to be a candidate, and that Hendricks will not accept a nomination for the second place on the ticket, is causing some confusion among the managers. There are also intimations that a bolt is probable, should a soft money platform be adopted. The temper of the Southern delegates can best be judged by the following dispatch telegraphed from Saint Louis, Sunday uight: Individual delegates from the Southern States talk pretty freely, but are careful not to commit their delegations to any particular opinion or line of action. One of them, very prominent in Alabama, is for Tilden, ana he believes that most of the representative men of the South prefer that gentleman, though his observations, since leaving home, have tended to modify some of his views on the general situation, and he thinks it likely that such will be the case with many delegates from that section. Gen. Hancock, he says, has gained largely in the South lately, and next to Tilden lie is the choice of the Southern Demo crats. Although the soutn nas tne majority 01 the Democratic votes necessary to elect a President, yet they do not propose to dictate in the least. They want a candidate who will carry the election?one who will lead thorn to victory, and place thoGGovernment in the hands of the Democracy. Governor Hendricks, this Alabama gentleman says, has little strength in the South ; still, if it is thought he is the strongest man in the North, and can carry New York and such other States as will ensure success, the South will gladly accept him and give him its full vote. If the South has any demand to make, it is that the nominee of the Convention shall be a man against whose loyalty to the Federal Government during the late war not even a shade of suspicion can attach. The nomination of Hayes by the Republicans has unsettled opinion in the South somewhat. With Blaine, Morton or Conkling on the Republican ticket, Tilden was,by all odds, the man for the Democratic nomination; but the negative qualitftes of Hayes and the strength resulting therefrom, have'modified views in the South to some extent; and although there is no doubt that Tilden is the choice of the South, it may be thought that some other man will be stronger and more successful before the people. Other Southern delegates express opinions similar to the above. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Edgefield has harvested more grain this year than ever before. ? Much of the wheat in Fairfield county has been injured by sprouting. rnL. T?:_J . **:n? O? ?- xue -t icumuui luiiio, hi vjictutuib, u?v> now turning out cloth of superior quality. ? Cotton, in the vicinity of Columbia, has been in bloom for the past two weeks. ? John J. Patterson has been chosen to represent this State in the National Republican Executive Committee. ? Mr. Lawton, of Newberry, lost 150 head of sheep and a number of goats, by the late freshet. ? J. F. P. Camp, ex-County Treasurer of Spartanburg, was tried last week and found guilty of the embezzlement of public funds. ? The breaks on the Air-Line Railroad, caused by the recent freshet, have been repaired, and trains are running now between Charlotte and Atlanta. ? It is announced that R. B. Rhett, jr., who for a number of years was editor of the Charleston Mercury, will assume the editorship of the"Charleston Journal of Commerce on the first of July. . ? Sumter was visited last week by a respectable citizen, a farmer with quite a family of wife alid children, who was without a particle of meat or bread, could get no lien advances, and hadn't a cent of money. ? Governor Chamberlain and Gen. Hawley, of Connecticut, drafted the platform of the Republican party, adopted at Cincinnati. The platform is published in full in this issue of the Enquirer. ? Aiken expects to be represented at the Centeunial exhibition by mocking-birds singing by note?taught by Professor Brown, of that town. The birds have already mastered 'l- ' "v "fito me UUrH U1 X aua.cc jl/uuuid auu uwi Spangled Banner." ? The colored members of the South Carolina delegation to the Cincinnati Convention, were quartered at the Madison House, a second-class hotel. The white members stopped at the Burnett House, Grand Hotel and other first-class houses. ? G. W. Reardon, Esq., of Sumter, gathered, a short time since, 21,000 pounds of oats from between seven and eight acres of land. The same land he has subsequently planted in corn, from which he expects, with favorable seasons, a yield of twenty-five to thirty bushels to the acre. ? A colored man in Sumter pronounced the late execution of Aleck Lowry one of the "finest hangings that ever took place in Sumter county." On being asked for his reasons, the citizen replied, "Why, sir, he give out two psalms, raised de tunes hisself, preached his own funeral, and wasunt scared a bit." ?The Register mentions that there was brought to Columbia, several days ago, a last! year's stock of cotton which had never been taken out of the ground, and which the frosts of last winter had never killed. There were several "squares"on the stock. It was broyght from a plantation a few miles below Columbia. ? A fire occurred at Orangeburg, on Saturday morning last, which destroyed the dwelling of Mr. E. Metzel, the store of J. A. Hamilton, the express office and the hall of the hook and ladder company. The fire originated in the dwelling of Mr. E. Metzel. The loss is estimated at $10,000. The property is partly insured. ? In Spartanburg county, last week, the rains raised the water courses, flooded the low lands, washed the up lands, damaged the crops, injured the railroads, and swept off N mills, dams and bridges by the wholesale. It is said to be impossible to estimate the amount of damage done to these varied interests in that section, but it is quite large in the aggregate. ? The Town Council of Ninety-Six have adopted a vagrant law, which provides "that all beggars roaming in the streets of NinetySix, or vagrants, who have no visible means of support, after due notice to leave said town, and neglect or refuse to do so, shall be arrested and confined iu the calaboose, or placed at such hard labor as the intendant or any of the wardens may direct." ? In Winnsboro, on Friday morning last, the steam mill of Mr. W. B. Creight, located near the depot of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, was accidentally destroyed by fire. A portion of the railroad track was destroyed and some torn up, to prevent its burning near the depot. The telegraph posts of both the Western Union and the Southern and Atlantic Companies were destroyed, and the wires were down for a short distance. The entire loss suffered by Mr. Creight and the railroad company, is estimated to be not less than 85,000. No insurance. ? John Lilley, of Chester, who was last Spring tried before Judge Mackey, convicted of burglary and larceny, and sentenced to the penitentiary, was brought before the Supreme Court in Columbia, last Friday, on a writ of habeas corpus. F. J. Moses, Jr., and R. B. Elliott appeared for Lilley; Attorney-General Stone for the State. After hearing the arguments on both sides, the court ordered Lilley released from the penitentiary and remanded to the custody of the Sheriff of Richland county for ten days, and to give bond in the sum of 8400 to appear at Chester county when required. The release was granted on the ground that the Court at Chester, which tried Lilley, was, from some informality, an illegal court. There are other warrants for Lilley. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Court House at Asheboro is to be enlarged and repaired. ? All the counties in the State were represented in the Conservative Convention except Gaston. ? Thp Spnntp has confirmed the annoint merit of W. W. Jenkins as postmaster at Charlotte. ? Large quantities of wheat were washed away from the bottoms on Deep river, in consequence of the recent heavy rains in that section. ? The Greensboro State learns that while Mrs. Norman, of Surry county, was picking strawberries a few days ago, she was bitten in the mouth by a spider and died almost instantly. ? John Cbrisco, near Brower's Mills, in Randolph county, was recently bitten on his arm, near the shoulder, by a vicious horse, and the physicians think the mutilated arm will have to be amputated to save the wounded man's life. ? Sixteen prisoners?all who were confined in the Greensboro jail?escaped from that institution on Saturday morning of last week. Two of them, whose terms had about expired, declined to follow the others, who made good their escape. ?Complaints of heavy rains and high waters, commencing on the 12th instant, come from Uuilford county. Several bridges were washed away and much damage was done to the growing crops. The water courses in that county were higher than they have been known for twenty-five years. ? The heavy rains in Davidson county raised the water courses higher than they were ever known by the oldest inhabitants. Saw mills, bridges and wheat in the shock were swept away, and corn planted in the low grounds is represented as almost entirely destroyed. ? Some one stole a locomotive at Salisbury a few nights ago and ran it down to Thomasville on the Central road, where he abandoned it. A night or two subsequently another man, who wanted to steal a ride, mounted a locomotive at Winston and started in the direction of Greensboro, but was soon overhauled and lodged in Winston jail. ? Mr. Jacob Rintels, of the firm of Wittkowsky & Rintels, of Charlotte, died on the morning of the 20th instant. He was stricken with paralysis eight days before his death. The death of Mr. Rintels will cause no change in the business of the firm with which he was connected, aud for the present it will continued as formerly. ? The Morganton Blade, of the 20th inst., says that never, within the memory of man, has that section been visited with such destruction to crops and property as the storm and freshet of the previous week. The Blade estimates the damage in that county at $100,000. Beyond the mountains, the French Broad was five feet higher than it was ever known before, and several dwellings were swept away by the swollen stream. At one point on Catawba river three mills and two bridges were seen floating down the stream. At the railroad bridge, near Catawba station, the river was two feet higher than ever known. MERE-MENTION. A jury of inquisition have pronounced Mrs. Abraham Lincoln restored to reason and capable of managing her estate. The Springfield Republican defines the difference between a Republican and a Democrat to be, that one votes the Republican and the other the Democratic ticket. The Bankers' Convention has been informed that owing to the financial depression, the tax on National Banks will not be reduced this session of Congress. Mr. Blaine has declined an offer of $2,000 a week to make a lecturing tour. He has been recommended for Senator by a mass-meeting at Bangor, Maine. The employes of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, 4,600 in all, who are employed in the wnrks of the company at Elizabeth, New Jersey, visited the Centennial in a body, last Thursday. The damage of the recent freshet, at the lowest calculation, in Richmond couDty, Georgia, has been at least 80,000 bushels of corn, which would have been the product of the soil had it not been washed away. The health of Commodore Vanderbilt contiuues to decline. The real ' 1 f A! Eastern pjague nas ior some mue uccu prevailing at Bagdad, though its violence is diminishing. It is said that Mr. Blaine will succeed Mr. Morrill as Senator from Maine. General Crook's command, with a number of friendly Indians, is moving rapidly into the Sioux country. Advices from lower Illinois say the water courses in that State have been greatly swollen?submerging thousands of acres of wheat and corn. The treasury department received last week $50,000, in half dollars, quarters and dimes, from Carson city. An additional $50,000 is expected within a few days from the same place. Treasurer New, and Bluford Wilson, Solicitor of the Treasury, have resigned. General Cook, formerly of the Confederate army, is chief interpreter in the Bureau of Information. He speaks thirty-two languages. It is reported that the Indians killed forty men on Thursday of last week, at a point sixty miles South of Sidney, Nebraska. Over one hundred men have been killed in that section within a week. The 4th of July, 1776, occurred on Tuesday. It falls on the same day this year. The Chicago Times heads the news announcing Hayes' nomination : "A Fool for Luck." The colored Methodists will observe August 4, and the Southern Methodists August 3, as a day of fasting and prayer.... Dispatches received in Washington from Governor Heudricks, of Indiana, say that he is noc a candidate iur the Vice-Presidency, and would not accept a nomination were it tendered. Justice David Davis has written a letter declining to allow the use of his uame before the Democratic Convention, which met at St. Louis on Tuesday. Henry Thurston, of Texas, claims to be the tallest man in America ; his height is seven feet eight inches. The Bible is now read in 14,500 of the 17,000 public schools of Pennsylvania. Rutherford Birchard Hayes is the full name of the Republican nominee for president. He is at present Governor of Ohio, but it is said will not resign unless he is elected president. "A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush." A man at Warrington, England, recently sold his wife for half a gallon of beer. Alabama will clear 815,000 from her penitentiary this year. The National Glass Company of Bel lair, Ohio, have succeeded, by BasI lin'o mntVinrl nf t#morVionillor rrlflqq in m&kinP bits a IUOIUVU Vi wugtfvutwg .? 0 a common lamp chimney, with which an eight penny nail was driven through an inch and a half board. Commodore Vanderbilt has given $300,000 more to theJVanderbilt University, at Nashville, making his entire donation $1,000,000. Kentucky is exulting over the possession of a child without a bone in its body. The attendance at the Centennial is constantly increasing, especially from the South and West. When two gentlemen at a party inadvertently exchange hats, the man who gets the worst tile is always the first to discover the mistake. Hayes, the Republican nominee for President, was a j Federal Brigadier during the war. While acting as such, he was captured by Confederate General Harry T. Hays. Col. John S. Moaby, of Virginia, has announced his purpose to support Hayes and Wheeler. A military order which goes into effect July 1st, discontinues the Division of the South, throwing Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri under Sheridan, which is intended to keep the troops in the South better in his hand, should he need them to fight the Indians. Correspondence of the Yorltviile Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, June 26,1876. The apprehensions of farmers respecting *' - 1 - ^ ?annll l1t\An me eneci ox xue receut iaiujr dj^h upu ui? wheat crop are, fortunately, not realized. The late gloomy forebodings have given way to more cheering accounts, and the prospect of a fine yield of wheat throughout the county is still very good. One farmer, who carries od extensive planting operations a short distance from town, says that his wheat was injured very little by the rain. Another reports no injury. While there are those who are inclined to take too hopeful a view of the situation, there is good reason for the indulgence of bright anticipations respecting the' wheat crop. A realization of these anticipations, while filling the mouths of the poor and needy with bread, will considerably improve our financial condition. Th?? money that will be put into circulation from the sale of wheat will partially relieve the money stringency that bangs like a heavy burden upon the necks of the people. May theFates hasten the coming of the desired relief! The cry of "no money," "bard times," etc., is sickening to the ear. The late wet weather proved more damaging to the oats. This crop is more liable to injury from rain. Still, in all probability, a sufficient quantity will be produced to satisfy the wants of farmers. A prominent farmer remarked to me recently that he expected to make eight hundred bushels of oats, four hundred of whieh it was his expectation to AWA*\ Kao nnooorl tKn nr/)oa1 Kt? QC11. UiliUC LI io u1 v|/ lino vuv v?vivm? vj water and wind, be probably does not hope for more than one-half of the amount at que. time promised. On Wednesday morning, Judge T. J. Mackey heard a motion for the discbarge, without bail, on writ of habeas corpus, of Mordecai David, of Columbia, recently committed to jail upon the charge of breach of truBt, with fraudulent intent. The attorneys in the case were from Columbia; the State being represented by L. F. Youmans, Esq., and the defendant by Messrs. Edward Arthur and Solomon Epstein. The facts that were brought out on the hearing of the motion were briefly thes^ In 1872, the prosecutor, J. A. Haneman, of Spartanburg, sold to the defendant, Mordecai David, goods to the amount of about $5,000, for which payment was made by the defendant, with the exception of a balance of $1,699.48. After waiting several months for the payment of this balance, Mr. Haneman addressed a letter to the wife of defendant, in which he stated that he had sold her husband goods, and had trusted to his honor to make payment for them. On the 15th of the present month, on an affidavit of the prosecutor, in which he charges the de fendant with having fraudulently applied to his own purposes the proceeds of the sale of goods, obtained from him, the prosecutor, a j warrant was issued by Trial Justice Marshall j for the arrest of the defendant, but upoo his giving bond, he was discharged. Afterwards his bondsmen surrendered the defendant, and he was committed to jail. On Wednesday he applied, through his counsel, for a discharge, | without bail, on the writ of habeas corpus. I The counsel endeavored to establish, by sevI eral affidavits that were read, the fact that j the defendant was not an agent of the prosej cutor, but had bought goods from him, and | was indebted to him to the extent of the I amount claimed, 81,699.48, for the recovery i of which, it was contended, a suit in the court I of Common Pleas should be brought. The j prominent point in Mr. Youman's argument j wa3 that the defendant was simply an agent | j of Mr. Haneman, and had acted fraudulently in applying to his own use the proceeds of jthesaleof goods that were in his possession ' as agent. The agency theory, however, was ^ upset by the production of a letter of the ' prosecutor, to the wife of defendant, in which he stated, in clear and unmistakable terms, j i that he had sold the goods to defendant. The 1 counsel tor tbe State held that the aeienaant could only be discharged on bail, and read extensively from English authorities to sub- ! tain this position. The presiding judge, in rendering his decision, took the ground that the defendant was not an agent of tbe prosej cutor. This opinion he based upon the state| mentsof prosecutor made in a letter to the ! wife of the defendant. He also decided that ! the delay of four years on the part of the ! : prosecutor in taking action in the matter, was j ja presumption against the perpetration of fraud by the defendant. The Court, he decided, bad a right to inquire into tbe truth of the allegations contained in the affidavit, up-j ! on which the warrant of arrest was issued, j and these, he stated, were contradicted by the affidavits read before the Court. The discharge of the defendant was accordingly di-1 ' reeled, and an order to this effect signed by { | tne presiding juage. On Wednesday afternoon a public meeting ' was held at the Court House for the purpose I of hearing the report of the committee of cit-! izens appointed to confer with a committee of citizens of Lancaster, with the view of devising some scheme for the early completion of the railroad between Chester and Lancaster. On motion of J. J. McLure, Esq., J. S. Wilson, Esq., presided over the meeting, and W. A. Sanders, Esq., performed the duties of Secretary. The chairman, after a few remarks, called upon G. J. Patterson, Esq., i chairman of the Chester committee, for a re- ; port of their work, which he made. Mr. Patterson referred to the storm of rain they were compelled to breast to confer with their Lancaster friends. He theu read the report of the two committees, which comprised the ! scheme, the main points of which I gave in my last correspondence. One important feature of the scheme was notstated, viz.: that of the $160,000 railroad mortgage bonds that were proposed to be issued, the scheme contemplated the issuing of $40,000 in amounts of $100, aud $120,000 in amounts of $500. The finance committee, of which mention was made, will consist of five members?three citi-1 zens, two from Chester and one from Lancaster ; and two directors?one from Chester and one from Lancaster. With the adoption of the scheme by the stockholders, G. J. Patterson, Esq./and J. L. Agurs, Esq., will represent the citizens of our county in the finance committee. To satisfy the Lancaster committee, a clause was added requiring the agreement of four members of the finance committee to give effect to any action of that committee. The chairman of the Chester committee, having finished the reading of the report, dwelt upon the practicability of the plan. Judge Mackey then addressed the meeting. He began by referring to a meeting of Spartans, in which the question of the best mode of resisting the attack of their enemies, the Persians,, came up for consideration. After an expression of views, a member of the meeting said that the city could only be sueceesfully defended by the brave hearts and strong hands of its citizens. The speaker showed the applicability of this remark to the emergency existing in reference to the nnmnlatinn nt' fh# rnilrnnj) h(>tWPPn t.hi? nl&Tfi bVUi|/>V?UU ? ?"V J and Lancaster. He spoke of the want of interest in the enterprise by the people of Lancaster ; and then enumerated the advantages that would flow to them from the finishing of the road. Cotton that cost $5.00 per bale in transportation from Lancaster to Camden, could he shipped to New York for $3 75 per bale. Judge Mackey approved of the plan submitted by the committee. In bis opinion it was practicable, and only needed energy and determination, on the part of citizens, to give it effect. He said that his position did not permit bim to subscribe to the capital stock of the Chester and Cheraw Bailroad Company, but he promised assistance in enforcing, if necessary, the collection of subscriptions of all subscribers. J. J. Hemphill, Esq., made a few remarks. He spoke of the safety of the scheme adopted by the joint action of the two committees, and of the reliability and financial capacity of the members of the finance board. J. J. McLure, Esq., advised the taking, by Chester, of all, or a greater portion of the $160,000 in bonds required to build the road, in order that she 1 . 1 .1 . TT _ _ 11 1 _ J might control tne enterprise, ne anuueu to the advantages accruing to Chester from the completion of the road; among these was her becoming a terminal point, and, consequently, growing rapidly in population and wealth. The outstripping of Chester by Charlotte was ascribed to the fact of the latter place being a terminal point along the line of the Columbia and Charlotte Railroad. Mnjor G. W. Melton talked at considerable length upon the merits of the plan reported by the coiumittee. His chief aim was to show the perfect safety of the lender in advancing money for the benefit of the railroad company. His confidence in the ability of the company to meet their obligations was so great that, in his opinion, the payment of the second and last instalments upon-notes given by individuals iu the two counties, which fall due on February 1, 1878, would never be re quired by the company. The company, he said, by that time, would be making such handsome profits as not only to dispense with the money promised by its friends in the hour of need, but would be able to meet the interest on its mortgage bonds. As the ground for the belief in the handsome returns to be made in the future by the company, be stated that if the Chester and Lenoir Railroad Company, in a road of only twenty-one miles, and with Rock Hill and points on the Air Line Railroad taking off a good portion of the trade, could return gross earnings in one year to the amount of $19,000, the Chester and Cheraw Railroad Company, with a longer road and freed from the other disadvantages, could return gross earnings to the extent of three times that amount. Major Melton endeavored to impress the idea upon the minds of those present that the Company principally wanted credit, and that the adoption and carrying out of the scheme proposed by the committee was the best means for the attainment of that desirable end. He approved of the suggestion of the preceding speaker that Chester should advance the greater portion of the money required for the completion of the road, so as to have it under her control. He said it would be well if an arrangement could be made by the citizens of Chester for the obtaining of the entire amount, $160,000, by the time of the meeting of the stockholders. Before the adjournment of the meeting, a motion wag made and carried that the committee be requested to urge upon the stockholders the adoption of the plan reported by the two committees of Chester and Lancaster. On Saturday, a public meeting was held at the Court House with the view of levying a special tax for the support of public schools of this township. James Hemphill, Esq., was chosen chairman, and Joseph Wylie, Esq., secretary of the meeting. J. J. Hemphill, Esq., read the report of public school trustees of Chester township, comprising operations daring the past year. The number of childreu that attended the free schools were 1,604, of which about 1,300 were colored. There are 15 schools and 15 teachers in the township. $29.76 was the average amount paid to male teachers, and $17.73 the amount paid to female teachers. $1,799.33 was the amount paid out to teachers. $560.90 was the amount raised by the special levy of last year. There was a deficit of $1,228 in payment of teachers. The report was found to be correct by a committee, to whom it was referred. After some discussion, a special tax of one-fourth of one per cent was levied upon the taxable property of this township for public school purposes. A resolution was passed providing for the public examination of teachers by the board of examiners. The object of this resolution was the procuring of competent teachers. The meeting was slimly attended. The funeral services of Mr. John McNinch, who died on the day previous, were held on yesterday at the Presbyterian Church of this place, Rev. J. E. White officiating. Mr. Mc* Ninch lived within a few miles of town, and was in the 76th year of his age at the time of his death. During last year two daughters of his died about the same time and were buried in the same grave ; during the war two sons died about the same time in a Richmond hospital, and were buried in the .same grave. His aged wife and two sons are all that remain of the family. He was a good man, and worthy citizen. May his soul rest in peace. An infant child of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Burnett, died on last Wednesday, and was buried on Thursday. A protracted religious meeting, conducted j by Rev. Mr. Woodfin, of Columbia, and Rev. i Mr. Smith, of Union, came to a close on yes- J terday at the Baptist Church. They are both j excellent preachers. Mr. Smith does not round bis periods, but points them. He does - ii j : i: l ??t ! 01 can a Bpaue au agricultural nupicuicut. The stockholders of the Chester and Cheraw Railroad Company meet here to-morrow. The scheme lately devised by the committees of citizens of Chester and Lancaster for the completion of the railroad between these two places, will doubtless be adopted. Qui. - - . I _ _ M. ' LOCAZi AFFAIRS. | CHURCH CALENDAR. Services for Sonday, July 2nd, 1876. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Rev. L. H. Wilson, Pastor. Services at JOi o'clock, a. m., artd 8 o'clock, p. ni. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Rev. J. E. Cabllsle, Pastor. Services at Yorkville, at 101 o'clock, a. m., 'and 8 , o'clock, p. m. 1 ASSOCIATE REFORMED CHURCH. * 1 l*ev. R. Lathan, Pastor. Services at Yorkville, at 101 o'clock, a. m., and o'clock, p. m. EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Rev. R. P. Johnson, Pastor. Services at Rock mil, at 11 o'clock, a. m., and 8 o'clock, p. m. new advertisements. G. W. S. Hart, Plaintiffs' Attorney?Notice to ** Wm. C. Beatty and others; Defendants. Kemp P. Battle, President, Chapel Hill, N. C.? University of North Carolina. John C. Kuykendal?One Hundred Years AgoHard Pan?To Physicians. T. M. Dobson & Co.?Thanks. R. Brandt?The Chester Furniture Store. recruits' arrived. " Eight recruits, forwarded from the recruiting depot in New York, arrived here-last week,'having been assigned to the company stationed at this post. ? .f. overflow of catawba river. ^ From our Rock Hill correspondent, we learn that the late freshet in Catawba river was very destructive of property and tie growing crops aloDg the banks. The corn that had been plauted was under water fortyeight hours, and was of course ruined. But the farmers, with commendable energy, have gone to work to replant and try to repair the damage of the rains. PRIZE MAPS. "... We have been shown by Mr. Jones, Principal of Yorkville Female Institute, pencil maps, drawn from memory, by the second and third geography classes, taught by Miss Fannie Miller. The maps were drawn in competition for a prize offered for the beet map produced by each class. Miss Lizzie Hope, aged 14 years, of the second class, and Miss Hattie Lowry, aged 11, of the third class, were the successful contestants for the prizes in their classes. Many of the rejected maps were I well drawn; and that of Miss Hattie ^West, I of Chester, is, in our judgement, nearly equal j to those for which the prizes were awarded. ? ?? ? KING'S MOUNTAIN MILITARY SCHOOL. ' The first session of the present school-year of the above institution, closed on Monday last with an examination of the various classes, which examination was begun on Thnrs- . ?j^| day previous. In this School, public examin- ^ ations, with their attendant display, an ig- I nored; but the classes are subjected to a rigid I review of their respective studies doring the 1 session. We learn that thev Dassed the or- I ... . ^ A / *vT. ^ ? I deal quite (satisfactorily. The School having been invited to participate in the Centennial celebration at Fort Moultrie, a detachment of Cadets, under command of Col. Coward and Capt. Graridy, started to Charleston, in ia ' . special train, last Monday evening. j THE FRESHET IN BROAD RIVER. J. M. Smarr, Esq., writes ns a note from Hopewell to the effect that we had been mis* informed as to the height of the water in Broad river during the recent freshet. From records in his possession, Mr. Smarr gives us the following information regarding high wjiter in that stream : At Howell's Fetiy,which ^ , is seven miles below Mr. John Whtsonant's 1 plantation, the river was 24 feet high on the J 24th of August, 1850, and on the 28th of August, 1851, it was 27 feet high ; while du- - i d ring the freshet of week before last, it was . ] but 22 feet high at the same ferry. From I these facts, Mr. Smarr argues that only seven <5j miles above Howell's Ferry the river could not have been as high as had been represented to us. .. .. I SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX. > We stated last week, ou the authority of a member of the bar, that in consequence of the informality of the public notice required to be given for the holding of an election in York township, on the question of levying a special tax for school purposes, that no etoo- * tion could be held on the day designated, nor could an election be ordered to beheld at any subsequent day during the year. This opin:? u I? ?? k. i IUU WUUIU 6CC1U tu LTO C11UUCUUD, flfl uj au ( examination of the law, it- has been found that a special meeting of the school trustees may be held at any time to determine whether or not sach election shall be ordered itf a j township. Accordingly, notice has been given . i that an election will be held in Yorkville on Saturday, the 8th of July, to vote upon the question of levying a school tax in this town- \ ship. vi < ! : : ii. THE TABLEAUX ENTEBTAUfMEHT. J The entertainment given last Thursday ; evening, by the young ladies of Yorkville I Female Institute, assisted by a number of young gentlemen, was a success in every particular. Quite a number of tableaux vivanta were presented in a creditable and effective manner, and several charades were enacted in fl a style reflecting much credit upon the per- * formers. "Match Making" was especially well rendered, in which Capt. Grandy, as Mr. Meddleton, and Miss Matti'e Hilton as Mrs. Meddleton, captivated the audience by the effective rendition of their respective oharao- JM ters ; while Mr. J. P. Herndoo as Limber- ? tongue, and Miss Annie Rawlinson as Wait- ] ing Maid, were equally happy in their respect- \ j ive roles. The auxiliary characters were also J well produced by Misses Blanche Atiickes, Allie Hacket, Minnie Lowry, and Messrs. \ tr__i T J ?j llttrt, UlUUOajf OUU TT llOVUt iuouj varuv* pieces were also well rendered, but want of space prevents us from giving them the mention they deserve. Suffice it to say the whole entertainment was meritorious, and was heightened by the charming music with which the acts were interspersed. ^^3 YORKVILLE FEMALE INSTITUTE* } The spring session of the. above Institute closed on Friday night last, with a vocal and instrumental concert. The Institute receiv- , ed, during the session, a satisfactory patron- j age, and we congratulate the Principal, not only on this fact, but also upon the suecess which has evidently attended bis efforts and the efforts of his assistants, in imparting instruction to the pupiU. The primary departraent is in charge of Miss Fannie Miller, an accomplished young lady, well qualified as a teacher; and the musical department is conducted bv Miss Sue F. Lowry, who, graceful " and skilled in music, also possesses, id an eminent degree, the happy faculty of imparting musical instruction to her pupils. To her / taste and skill, as well as the proficiency, of her class, is the large and delighted audience of Friday evening indebted for the agreeable t and entertaining feast ofmosic provided for them. Every performer, from the yonngpt to the eldest, acquitted heraelf handsomely k and creditably, leaving so little room tordis- ' / ? crimination, and giving such unbound^; ?&. v. isfaction to the assemblage, that we merely give the programe as rendered: ' S'' 1. Over die Summer Sea. School. 2. Quartette?Dame du Seville Waltxee* Schn