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Scraps and Jacts. ? General and Mrs. Grant, with their son Jesse, will sail for Liverpool from Philadelphia, on next Thursday. ? There are forty-five cotton factories in Georgia, all in active operation and paying dividends, either in money or stock. ? Jennuie June Croly and Mme. Demorest are going to Europe for two or three months, and will bring honae the fashions at first hands. ? Allen Hannah was married in New York to Miss Hannah Allen. Miss Hannah Allen is now Mrs. Hannah Haunah, and that's what's the matter with Hannah. ? One of the last utterances of Parson Brownlow was a declaration in favor of Hampton for President in preference to any Northern Democrat. ? An oil painting of Governor Hampton has just been sent to Germany to be lithographed. More than 5,000 eopies have already been ordered by his admirers. So says the New York Sun. ? A Republican paper states that Packard's mfitronolitan Dolice. before evacuating the ?- ? , r ' ? Louisiana State-House, destroyed over one thousand stand of arms by sawing off the stocks, <fcc. Only about two hundred rifles were found fit to be used. ? The owner of the American side of Niagara Falls, is to be classed either with the great geniuses c great lunatics of the age. He proposes to sell the Falls to drive cotton mills with, and has written to the GovernorGeneral of Canada and Queen Victoria about it. ? The San Francisco newspapers tell of a case of what they call spontaneous combustion of a human being. The story is that a toper, presumably saturated thoroughly with alcohol by long drunkenness, lighted his pipe at a gas jet. Instantly his mouth was ablaze, and he was burned inwardly so that he died. The coroner began an investigation. ? The impression prevails in commercial circles that the speculators for a rise in breadstuffs have overdone the business, and will quite likely come out losers. Very little of the grain, purchased to meet the expected foreign demand, has been shipped. Should the war prove a brief one of a single campaign, and involve no other European powers than the Dresent contestants, there will not be suf ficient demand for American grain to justify a natural advance in prices. ? Experienced life insurance operators say that it costs in advertising about 8125 to get an average religious newspaper to inform its readers that any given company is "one of the best$250 is the figure for the observation that "this company is unsurpassedand about 8500 will lead to the devout exclamation, "To insure in this company is a Christian duty. Pastors, urge it upon your flocks."' These statements show how experienced life insurance operators will lie?when they feel funny. ? A Washington dispatch states that a bill is in course of preparation, and will be introduced in the House at the extra session, reducing the army to 10,000 men, and thereby effecting a saving to the government of many millions. Now that the Indian wars are at an end?and it is the opinion of Gen. Sherman and Gen. Sheridan in conference there on the suoject mat we win nave iju wore vi tuoiu? and the troops are to be used do loDger for police duty in the Southern States, the advocates of retrenchment claim that there is no need of a standing army of the present size. ? Mr. G. S. JBellis, a Northern settler residing near Littleton, N. C., has an orchard of some twenty-five or thirty thousand peach trees, embracing over one hundred different varieties. He is goiDg North to make arraugemeDts for his shipraeuts and sales. He ships altogether by rail, and expects to realize $40,000 or $50,000 by his sales. He has also large strawberry fields and a fine vineyard. His success in fruit-raisiDg in the old North State has aroused the iuterest of the people there in that culture. ? The Rochester Chronicle, the leading Republican organ in western New York, says: "We are in receipt of numerous letters from Republicans in regard to the Southern policy of the President, and we are frank to say that, neither in conversation nor in correspondence have, we found, throughout this section of the State, any universal commendation of that policy. It is acquiesced in?it is accepted as an experiraeut?it is taken on trial?it is received with tremulous hope at the best. Often it is bitterly denouuced, being esteemed a surrender of principle." ? Paris fashion writers agree in asserting that a radical chaDge in ladies' dress is already inaugurated. Waists are made shorter, and the skirts fall in graceful folds. Our dressmakers declare that they cannot make these dresses hang well and produce the desired effect without stiff underskirts of some kind, and to meet these wants some of our enterprising manufacturers have introduced new, light and elegant crinoline skirts and bustles. These differ greatly from the large, clumsy hoop skirts formerly used, for they are in Princesse shape, which is close and flat at front and sides, and gracefully sweeping out at bottom of the train.?Ladies' Journal. ? Rev. John Miller was tried before the New Brunswick Presbytery, at Trenton, N, J., last week, on the charge of heresy. The Presbytery, by a unanimous vote, sustained the following specifications and charges: First. He teaches that the soul is not immoral . a.. xi?i?i?:* IUI , 111 it I ttl LUC ueui.ll U1 tUO uuujr 11. uiraauu becomes extinct until the resurrection. Second. That Christ as a child of Adam was personally accounted guilty of Adam's sin ; that like other children of Adam he inherited a corrupt nature, and that he needed to be and was redeemed by his own death. Third. That he teaches that there is but one person in the God-head. A resolution was adopted suspending Mr. Miller from the ministry ol the Presbyterian Church until such time as he shall make manifest to the satisfaction of the Presbytery, his renunciation of the errors he holds, and his solemn purpose no longer to promulgate them. Mr. Miller said it was simply a moral intellectual impossibility for him to renounce his views, and gave notice of an appeal to the Synod. ? The Cincinnati papers are giving accounts of the opening of the new Southern Railroad from that city to the Kentucky river, where there is said to be the highest railroad bridge yet built. It is 275 feet high, having three spans, the middle one 375 feet long, and the others 300 each, the total length being 1,125 feet. There is a bridge in Switzerland which is 254 feet high, but with spans only 144 feel long, and one at Varrugas, in the Andes, 255 feet high, with spans 125 feet long. The piers of this Kentucky bridge, except those al lirooaiyn, are tne largest in tne country, tut stone work being 130 by 47 feet, and the bast of tbe iron work 117 by 28. The frame if all wrought iron and was built out from tbe abutment toward tbe centre of each span The fastening of the junction points was ac complished in a novel way. One sunshinj day having expanded the framework, the con necting bolts were fastened, and so much se cured ; then a second day of sunshine having given all the expansion the bridge was capa ble of, the bolts were made fast permanently At the opening the other day the bridge was subjected to seven severe tests and stood then all admirably. ? A New York letter says: "The Russo Turkish war affords a fine opening for a larg( number of experienced army officers, whc served duriug the recent civil war, both it the Northern and Southern armies, and wh( have, of late, been complaining of inertia There would seem to be authority for th< statement, ?ow that the opportunity wil speedily be improved. The Turkish array of ficers who arrived here the other day, it if whispered, had other business besides the in spection of arms in the American manufac tories. They want men who know how U use tbe arms as well as the arms themselves and to that end it is affirmed, at the clubs I that they have made very advantageous of-1 | fers to several well-known military gentlemen ( who served with distinction in the armies of the Potomac and the James, and that these have been promptly accepted, and in such a way as not to expose either of the parties to i the contract to the charge of violating the i : neutrality laws. Just after the civil war, it 1 will be remembered, a good many ex-Confederates tendered their services to the Khedive of Egypt. Some of them have been in his i service ever since, and it is probably at their ' instance that the present proposals are made." Ibc ?gyfcviHe (SFuquite*. vnoirvii.T ir. r. ? x vfjhfclx. V JU LiMJ43 ^ V THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1877. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, county and State in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post-office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirer is delivered free of postage to all subscribers residing in York county, who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Rer. E. L. Patton has been elected professor of Greek in Erskine College, Due , West. ? A light frost visited Laurensville and vicinity on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings of last week. ? In Marlboro county, last week, J. W. Covington killed an eagle, measuring six feet nine inches from tip to tip of his wings. ? The Charleston News and Courier has been authorized to withdraw the name of Hon. W. D. Porter as a candidate for Chief ' Justice. ? Writs have been issued for a new election of Representatives in Fairfield on Monday, the 14tb, to fill tbe vacancies caused by the resignation of Gibson and Bird. ? The vagrant law is being strictly enforced in Union, and a large number of vagrants and gamblers have been arrested and either lodged in jail or compelled to leave the county. ? The Chesterfield Democrat, of the 4th instant, says: "For several days we have had remarkably cool nights for the season, but not sufficiently cool to injure the fruit, a bountiful crop of which is now very promising. Corn and cotton planting is nearly finished, much of it being already up." ? Adjt.-Gen. Moise is preparing a bill to authorize tbe Governor to form the white rifle clubs of the State into volunteer regimeuis, with companies of sixty men each. The colored companies will remain as they are in the National Guard. State arras will be furnished those companies, in the n v militia, who are unequipped, within thirty days. ? A brutal murder was committed last Saturday two and a half miles from Blackville, on the road leading to Barnwell. The murdered man was one Thomas Karns, an Irishman who has been residing in Barnwell county for the past six years. A white man named Darling Nevils is charged with the commission of the crime?his object being robbery?and he has been lodged in jail to await his trial for murder. ?The chairman of the committee of inves tigation in the case of Associate Justice Wright, has informed the Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier, that the commitlop will recommend the declaring of Wright's seat vacant, but are still undecided as to the form in which that recommendation shall be made. The prevailing sentiment is to recommend the House to declare the seat vacant, and call upon the Governor to fill the vacancy. Doubts, however, are expressed as to the legality of this course. ? The bill regulating the compensation of , county treasurers and auditors, which, last Friday, passed to a third reading in the House of Representatives, allows commissions to county treasurers as follows: Three per cent. ! upon the first $10,000; two per cent, upon the next $10,000, and one-half of one per cent. , on all amounts over $30,000, provided the , same shall not exceed $800 or less than $500 i per annum, except Charleston, where corarais sions shall not exceed $2,000. The salaries of the county auditors are as follows: Charleston, $2,000; Abbeville and Richland, $800 each; Aiken, Anderson, Barnwell, Beaufort, i Chester, Colleton, Darlington, Edgefield, Fair; field, Greenville, Laurens, Marion Newberry, Orangeburg, Spartanburg, Sumter and York, ! $700 each ; Chesterfield, Clarendon, Georgetown, Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lexington, Marlboro, Oconee, Pickens, Union and Wil? liamsburg, $400 each, i ?Three of the ten Lowndesville murder1 ere?Wightman Allen, John Allen and Jenk 1 Whitener?were hung at Abbeville Court | House on Friday last in the presence of about , 1,500 persons, but very few of whom were negroes. The sentences of the remaining seven, convicted at the same time, were comi muted to imprisonment at hard labor for life. The following are the facts which led to the 1 conviction of these negroes: "On the night | of Monday, December 4, 1876, Clayton Al| len and Theodore Baker, two respectable ! j white men, being on horseback, and having in charge one Osborne Rhodes, a negro crim-1 ; inal, who had been released from jail, on con- j ' | dition that he allow these gentlemen to take i 1 him to Georgia, were fired on by a band of! ' negroes in the outskirts of Lowndesville, Ab- J ? beville county, in this State. Allen was in-! ,' stantly killed and Baker slightly wounded. ! > j Sixteen negroes were arrested for the crime, 1 . ; and twelve brought to trial, two having turn- i " ed State's evidence and two being discharged for want of proof. They were defended by ablecouusel, and the jury before whom they , were tried consisted of eight blacks and four ! j whites; but after a full, careful and impar. tial consideration of all the evidence and ari guments, the following ten were found guilty, 1 viz.: Gilbert Burton, Edwin Prince, Capers Allen, John Allen, Hutson Cosby, William Johnson, Jenk Whitener, Wightman Allen, ' Eli Hunter and Asbury Allen." J NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Richard C. Badger, of Raleigh, has been 3 appointed United States District Attorney for I Eastern North Carolina. ? During a severe storm on Sunday of last 5 week, the building of the Randalraan Cotton Factory, in Randolph county, was struck by j lightning, and fire communicated to the card> ing rooms. Mr. Randalman and some of his , employes happened to be near at the time of I the occurrence, and succeeded in subduing | the flames before serious damage resulted. ? The Charlotte Democrat learns that a very rich vein has been struck in the Wells Mine in Gaston?so full of gold that the owner is afraid to leave it for even a day at a time. The mine was only recently opened by a Northern capitalist, and it is said that he has found it so valuable that he is staying on the ground himself watching operations. ? A terrible tornado visited Raleigh on Sunday of last week. Houses were not only unroofed, but more than a dozen blown down and wrecked. Store houses, Bank buildings, the Court House and Capitol Square fencing, and fruit and ornamental trees, were swept down, crushed and ruined. Notwithstanding the destruction of property was great, no lives were lost. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. J Parson Brownlow. The death of Hon. W. G. Brownlow, ( of Tennessee, recalls the following characteris- j tic anecdote of the "Fighting Parson ( Years ago he became so sick that he was | thought to be in mortal danger. Bishop Capers, and other ministers, came to see how J e leu WUtJII l'UUiriiiii?u mill cttiuikj. xuv prelate inqured of the "fighting Parson" how ( he felt with grave prospects before him ? 1 Brownlow answered: "Well, Bishop, if I j had my life to live over again, I could im- j prove it in many respects, aud would try to do so. However, if the books have been , properly kept in the other world, there it a email balance in my favor" He lived long 1 afterward, but the improvement was not per- 1 ceptible. We hope the "small balance in his I favor" did not turn out a tight squeeze. J Ante Bellum Mail Claims. i A circular, issued from the Post Office Department, directs that in claims for service < on mail contracts, rendered in the Southern 1 States previous to the war, application must ! be made to the Second Assistant PostmasterGeneral by the contractor or his executor, as < money cannot be paid to assignees. The ap- i plication roust show the character and extent i of service, length of route, how much in each I State, if it extends over more than one, and the periods for which the claim is made. All i evidence in writing or print which the claim- i ant may have, must accompany the claim. The facts must be verified by the testimony of two witnesses who were postmasters on the i route. If this is impossible, two other disin- . terested persons who received their mail at either of the terminal points on said route, i All applications and statements must be made under oath, and the credibility of persons j making oath must be certified to by the per- i son before whom the oath is made. When ] an oath is made before a Justice of the Peace, j his official character and siguature must be i certified to by the Clerk of the Court of Record in the county where the oath is made. ] Tragedy in Mississippi. Our Southern exchanges contain the j following particulars of a terrible tragedy ( that occurred in Kemper county, Mississippi, on the 29th ultimo : On Thursday evening, John W. Gully, a prominent citizen of Kemper county, was assassinated by an unknown party, and there was iutense excitement. Every means were , resorted to to discover the perpetrators. Saturday two colored men made affidavits that ! Benjamin Rush, a white man, did the deed, ' and that Judge Chisolra, who ran for Con- 1 gress on the Republican ticket in the third district at the last election, his son and Gilmer Roseubuum and Hopper, a prominent white Republican, knew of and instigated the crime. Chisolm and son were arrested and imprisoned at DeKalb. Mrs. Chisolm and j daughter insisted on sharing their confinement. Sunday, Chisolm sent to Scooba for Gilmer, for whom a warrant had been issued. Gilmer came and on arrival was arrested, but just as he arrived at the jail he was set upon by a mob and killed. The jailer was then overpowered by the mob, who immediately attacked Chisolm, mortally wounding him and killing his son. Miss Chisolm, in defending her father, shot and killed Dr. Rosseli and Mrs. Chisolm severely wounded young Gully, , a son of Gully who was assassinated. Miss Chisolm was also seriously wounded. Rosen- 1 baura aud Hopper were carried to the woods by a mob to extort from them the whereabouts of Rush, the alleged assassin of Gully. When last heard from, some weeks ago, Rush was iu Arkansas. It is supposed that Rosenhaum and Hopper were hanged. It is reported that a horrible state of affairs exists throughout that section, and people are wild with excitement. Other hangings will probably follow. Whittemore's Attack on the News & Courier. In the Seuate, on the 1st inst., Whitte a. _ _ nMitiilana firot aalr. more rose lu a (juesuuu ui jjuvucgc, u>o? mo?? ing that his remarks should be spread on the journal. He then opened a bulky manuscript and read a speech intended to injure the character and reputation of the editors and proprietors of the Charleston New and Courier. In the coarse of his remarks, which were in reply to charges of corruption made through the columns of the News and Courier, he read several letters addressed, by either Mr. Riordan or Mr. Dawson, to Josephus Woodruff, Clerk of the Senate, in connection with the publication of the Acts of the Assembly in the Charleston News. The sum and substance of these letters is that they were ad- 1 dressed to Mr. Woodruff in a familiar style, and that the proprietors of the News agreed j to do the printing for a certain price, and pay Mr. Woodruff a commission of 20 per cent, on the gross amount of bills for collecting the same. On receiving a telegraphic report of the speech, Mr. Dawson was prompt to hasten to Columbia for the purpose of asking of the Senate a searching investigation of his acts as a journrlist, in connection with the insinuations intended to be conveyed by Whitteraore's speech. Mr. Dawson also replied to Whittemore's attack, which reply was read on the floor of the Senate by Mr. Crittenden. The reply is brief, but covers the whole ground, in which it is claimed that the printing was done at much below the regular prices for similar work ; that the commission of 20 per cent, allowed to Mr. Woodruff on such moneys as he should collect, was legitimate and sanctioned by practice common in the tllDinilcll DO irall flq 5 M PVPfV Other UCTTO ?JCh MUOIUMO MW ft V? - MW ... business ; and that the familiar manner in which Mr. Woodruff was addressed, in their business correspondence, was owing to the fact that Mr. W. had long been a reporter in Charleston, and thus became on intimate terras with Mr. Riordan, with whom he had been associated. Stonewall Jackson's Sister. The Cleveland (Ohio) Leader prints the following in relation to Gen. Stonewall Jack6on and his sister, the statement being derived from a lady who was, previous to the war, an inmate of the latter'a family: "They were orphan children, and were brought up together until he went to West Point. Like most orphan children, they were unusually attached to each other. At a later 1 time she married and settled in Beverly, Va., where her husband carried on a farm or plantation. Her brother, the General, frequently ' visited her, and during these visits he would I invariably go to the quarters of the slaves for the purpose of exhorting them on the subject i of religion. Frequently the great soldier ! would be seen on his knees in the midst of he lowly children of Africa, offering earnest out jrayers for their salvation. When the war Rai iroke out, this singular difference between the tin iffectionate brother and sister transpired, the Dne espoused the cause of the South and be- on janae the greatest of all Confederate generals, cap xrith a world-wide reputation for consummate rioi nilitary ability, and laid down his life on the whi >loody field of Chancellorsville. The sister, I n spite of the opposition of her brother, un- Chi nfluenced by bis brilliant achievements and Sat ;he opposition of her husband and her rela- Re' ;ives, sided with the cause of the Union, and i dial 'emained true to that cause to the end of the cor *ar. So great was the feeling engendered ber igainst her, that she eventually separated 1 Vom her husband and moved to Springfield, Sat Jhio, and resided with a daughter who had Est narried a Union officer." was MERE-MENTION. [q-C Hon. John Forsyth, the well known and did listinguished editor of the Mobile Register is Rlead. The President has issued his proc? . HAP amation convening Congress in extra session in the 15th of October next. Reports Tom fifty points in Ohio indicate the peach nes ;rop seriously injured. The statistical moi jureau claims an excess of exports over im- ed xirts, during the past nine months, of 8155,- re8< )00,000.'*" Senator Christiancy of Miohi- ^ jan, has written a strong letter to Senator Hill, of Georgia, cougratulating him upon t^e ,he restoration of kindly relations between Wi ;he North and the South. W. W. New- thit tomb, the well-known negro minstrel, died in 1 tfew York last week. The Delaware 26,1 peach crop bids fair to yield 20,000,000 bas- we< Sets of splendid fruit. It is rumored from Washington that'the President will visit rj Richmond and Petersburg during the sum- 8eiT mer, and probably extend his trip further foil South Chin Mock Sow, a Chinaman, Hi! was hanged in San Francisco last Friday for Mc the murder of one of his countrymen last December. Crazy Horse and other hitherto hostile In- an( iians, have surrendered at Camp Robinson, Da making, in all, 3,600 hostiles who have sur- Ri< rendered, many of whom were never before on Cri their reservations. A widow in Iowa, *D< whose husband was burned to death while under imprisonment for drunkenness, has ob- q0 tained a judgment for 86,000 against the man ]jui who sold him liquor. Col. George H. wa Butler, a nephew of Ben, recently appointed ed au agent of the post office department for the Black Hills, has been removed. The ^ pension agencies in the South are all discon- ^ tinued, except at Richmond, Louisville and Du New Orleans, with which the rest are consol- We; idated. South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama vol aud Florida are attached to the district of wh New Orleans. Kellogg remains in Wash- no.' ington and says he will contest the seat of Senator Spoffoid. Advices from the war ^ in Turkey indicate that the Russiaus are ap- for proaching the Danube slowly but formida- his bly. The Southern Cultivator says the ure position of no farmer will be safe who does Xh not raise provisions for home supply the pres- pU| ent season. for tha Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. , LETTER FROM CHESTER. yes Chester, May 7,1877. ^or A number of criminals, convicted at the au< last terra of the Court, of various offences, bad hardly taken their departure for the peuitentiary, when others, charged with the commission of crime, were brought in town and has lodged in jail. John Moore and Alex. Cald- the well, cobred, were arrested and imprisoned 0f| last week, accused of stealing bacon from < Dr. Moffatt Wylie. They will remain in their . ' present undesirable quarters, unless they can give bail for their appearance at the next ... term of the Court of General Sessions. ^ As the eleotion for Senator from this coun- ty, to fill the vacancy created by the resigna- ^ lion of D. I. Walker, takes place next week, ^ it may be well to give the names of managers at the different polls: Chester?J. C. Mc- ^ Fadden, G. A. Dreunan and W. M. Holmes ; gaj Lowrysville?Grandison Williams, J. S. Guy nu and Henry Lowry; Chestnut throve?C. U ? . Gill, L. D. Poag and Alex. Kelsey ; Rich ? Hill?J. M. McDaniel, J. S. Drennan and Toney Jacobs ; Torbit's Mill?I. McD. Hood, ?' Sr., J. (J. Fleuniken and Henry Torbit; Car- ' mel Hill?Dr. W. M. McCollum, Wm. Wise 'eL and T. C. Worthy; McAliley's Mill?T. P. ??J Carlisle, J. C. McAfee and Levi Sanders ; Moffat's Store-R. B. Mills, J. W. Caldwell ne and James White; Boyd's Store?T. P. Mc- ^ Keown, J. E. Johnston and Squier Boul- ? ware; Rossvilie?C. H. Ragsdale, J. R. Gulp and Tilman McCrorey ; Landsford?W. W. Jordan, C. W. McFadden and R. G. Burnes. ?u{ The Democrats have two, and the Republi- ajj cans one, among the managers of each box. The campaign, though it will be of short ^ duration, will be conducted on the part of the jav Democracy with spirit and energy. Judge T.J. Mackey will speak on Thursday of this ^ week at Carmel Hill; on Friday at Rich ftQ. Hill; on Saturday at Blackstocks, and on next Monday at Chester, in advocacy of the claims of the Democratic candidate. " Notwithstanding the hard times, some building is going on in our town. Several ?* houses are in process of erection, or undergoing repairs. Those belonging to the first class are two structures?one adjoining the Metho- ' dist Church, and the other in the vicinity of the Baptist Church. These buildings, when completed, will be of great improvement to ?01 the portions of town in which they are loca- ln > tl. i rr<?i m , ;?^i sar Lea. ine nouse in jumi uiicoici, uuuupicu iui ? several years by Maj. James Pagan, has been . put in a state of excellent re])air, and pre- ^ seuts a beautiful appearance. The Episcopal P1" Church is also undergoing the ordeal of ren- v i ovation. When painted, and other improve- ao< ments have been effected, it will compare fa- *or vorably in appearance with other church . buildings in our midst. Probably there is no 8811 town in the State which has exceeded Chester k in the number of new houses erected and oth- | ers repaired since the war. a' The Chester Rifle Club held a meeting at their armory on Friday afternoon. Captain 8e? C. S. Brice, who had returned from Coluinbia the same day, spoke of an interview with da' the Governor and Attorney-General, in ers which he had been informed by those officials tre - * -- -*?-c .1 f tn&L U Wfl8 IDG lntentioa OI LUC AUiinuinimtion to organize the militia of the State as "ha soon as practicable. The Chester Rifle Club es8 will form a part of the militia. Capt. Brice C(>1 advises the formation of a battalion to be fr? composed of the volunteer (white) companies of Chester, York and Winnsboro; this bat- t?( talion to be tendered to the Adjutant-Gener- or al as part of the militia, and to be reviewed an< by the Governor, in Columbia, once every pfj year. The Rifle Club decided to take part 'n? in the celebration of Memorial Day. The feD arrangements for the celebration have not yet tre been perfected, though the two military com- er8 panies of our town, with the citizens general- stri ly, will doubtless unite with the ladies in ap- rp8 propriately celebrating the day marked with lis! such sacred and endearing recollections. to The Chester Sabre Club met on Saturday, ert and re-elected officers for the ensuing year. exI Theelectiou resulted as follows: W. A. Walk- fen er, Captain ; T. M. Sanders, First Lieuten- an( ant; J. B. Cornwell, Second Lieutenant, and cot Robert Love, Third Lieutenant. This is a the large company and composed of excellent em material. the Dr. A. H. Davega returned on Saturday eitl from Raleigh, where he had gone to obtain raa the couvicts furnished by the State of North coi; Carolina for work on the Chester and Lenoir '1? Railroad. He brought twenty-seven con- J victs, under charge of a guard, to Dallas, the They will be put to work at once, grading ap| the road between Dallas and Lincolnton. the When not employed, they will be kept in a tur stockade, which will be under the charge of ish Mr. William Clawson, of this place. tie Mr. Rush, a Baltimore drummer, walked pre of a window on the second floor of the ilroad Hotel on Friday night. At the e of his misfortune, he was laboring under erroneous impression that the Hotel wm fire, and was endeavoring to make his ese from the building. His wounds are sets, but not dangerous. He represents a isky house in the "Monumental City." lev. John E. Carlisle, of the Methodist urch, having recently married, returned on urday with his bride, who is a daughter of r. Dr. Jones, late President of the Metho; Female College at Columbia. They were dially welcomed at the parsonage by mems of the congregation, rhe Democratic Club of Chester met on urday at the Court House, C. S. Brice, |., presiding. The object of the meeting ) the election of six delegates to the CounDemocratic Convention, that meets here lay for the purpose of nominating a can* .1 ^ . n A ate tor the state senate rrom tnia county. A. Love, C. S. Brice, J. L. Agure, John there, Malachi Grayson and William Sana, were elected delegates to the Conveni. The last two of the persona named are ired. This is an evidence of the willing* s and determination of the Chester Decracy to recognize the claims of the colormembers of the party. The following )lution was unanimously adopted: Re<ed, That it is and be the sense of this ib, that the interests of the county and the mocratic party would be best subserved by nomination and election of Gen. W. A. ilker to fill the vacant Senatorship from i county. dr. Peter Halsell, an old and worthy citiof this county, departed this life last sk. Qui. Chester, May 8. rhe Democratic County Convention asibled yesterday at the Court House. The owing delegates were present: Carmel II?H. C. Brawley, J. H. Hardin and J. M. Collum ; Lowrysville?Grandison Willis, Robert Hope and J. G. Lowry ; Lewis' rn Out?Julius Mills and W. H. Crain ; zlewood?W. F. Coleman, D. T. Marion 1 S. M. Wylie; Torbit's Mills?Daniel nlap, John Hamilton and W. J. Henry; ih Hill?John Knox, O. Barber and Jack tig. Halsellville, Rossville, Blackstocks i Landstbrd were not represented in the nvention. The names of the delegates m Chester have already been given. The nvention sat with closed doors. Maj. Jua Mills presided, and your correspondent 3 chosen Secretary. A motion was adoptthat a majority of the votes of the delees be sufficient to effect a nomination. On tion of J. L. Agurs, Esq., General W. A. alker was nominated to 611 the vacancy in s Senate occasioned by the resignation of iblin I. Walker. No other nominations re made, and Gen. Walker received every :e of the Convention with one exception, ich was given to Capt. 0. B irber. The nination was made unauimous. A comLtee was appointed to inform Gen. Walker his nominatiun, who, soon appearing, inked the Convention in appropriate terms the honor conferred upon him. It was intention, he said, to vote for those roeasis which would benefit the whole State, e Convention then adjourned. The Reblicans have not yet made any nomination Senator, and the general impression is it thev will not do so. The McAliley property io town was not sold iterday by the Sheriff. The money was thcoming from the defendant in the suit, i the matter was settled. Qui. ' THE FENCE LAW. The bill in relation to fences in this State, i been engrossed for the third reading in s Senate. The following are the provisions the bill: section 1. That upon the written applica of fifty tax-payers of any township in any mty in the State, who may desire to subute the fencing of stock in lieu of fencing : fields, it shall be the duty of the commisners of said county to order an election in d township, between the 10th and 20th of igust, or 10th or 20th of December in any ir, sixty days' notice thereof being given in ) or more of the newspapers published in d county, specifying the time and place or rpose of such election, and the form of bal^n * mi ok n1n/iti'#\n an/1 fn onn/tinf IU UC UOCU (lb OUVili OlCi>bii/U| uiiu ia/u|/j/wiuh ee managers of election, who shall, without npensation, hold and conduct said election, i immediately upon the close thereof make urn thereof to the Commissioners of the inty, who shall declare and publish the ret of said election in one or more of the ivspapers published in said county ; and if a jorityof the qualified electors of said townp, voting at said election, shall have voted the adoption of this Act, then the same ill be and become of force in said township, the first day of January next succeeding :h election, and from and after that date, laws now existing in regard to the erection J maintenance of fences in said township ill be null and void ; and it shall not be vful for the owner or manager of any horse, lie, ass, gen net, swine, sheep, goat or neat tie of any description, to permit the said imals, or any of them, to run at large bead the limits of their own lands in said rnship. Bee. 2. That upon the written application fifty tax-payers in each township in any inty in the State, it shall be the duty of the mmissioners of the county for said county, order an election to be held in each townp in the county, on the same day, in the oner, and under the regulations of the foreng Section; and if a majority of townships said county shall adopt this Act, then the ne shall be of force in said county on the it day of January next succeeding said elec , and all the provisions of this Act, apcable to townships, shall apply to the coua; but if a majority of the townships shall nrlnnt the Act. then the same shall be of ' ~rw 9 #?; # ce in the townships in which the same shall adopted by a majority of the votes cast at rl electiou in said towuship. Bee. 3. If any of the animals enumerated in i foregoing Section shall hereafter be found arge, or upon the lands of any person other in the owner, in said township, the mana or owner of said animals shall, if he be a izen of said township, be liable for all fnage done by the said animals to the ownof the crops or the lands upon which they spass. 3ec. 4. Whenever any township or county ill adopt the Act, and it shall become necary to protect the lands in said towuship or inty from the incursion of stock or cattle m any adjoining township or county, the mmis8ioners of the county are authorized erect fences along such lines of the township county as are exposed to such incursions, i for that purpose to enter upon the lands any person in said township or the adjoin; township or county, and to erect such ce thereon, without being guilty of any spass whatever. And the said Commissionshall have power and authority to conuct fences across any public or private id: Provided, That proper gates are establed on auch public or private roada; and levy aod collect a tax upon the real propy of said township or county to defray the lenses of erecting and maintaining said ces, Baid tax to be collected at the same time 1 in the same manner as other State and mty taxes are levied and collected. And i County Commissioners are authorized and powered to make such arrangements with j : owners of property contiguous to and on i tier aide of the township or county lines, as j y accomplish the object of protecting the j inty or township from the incurson of cat-1 or stock. 5ec. 5. The laws now of force in regard to erection and maintenance of fences, shall ily to any fence erected in pursuance of i foregoing Section ; and all persons dis- < bing or injuring said fences, shall be pun-j able as provided in said laws; and all cat-! breaking said fences shall be dealt with as : ivided in said laws. > LOCAL affairs. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. John M. Rawlinson?Rawlinson's Hotel. T. M. Dobson <fe Co.?How To Save Money. Clark Brothers?Guano. R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sales. IT Walter Greene and E. T. Harmon, Agents?Fruit x Trees. J. M. Adams, the Tin-man?To the Pnblic?Rags, Beeswax, Old Pewter?Stamped Tin-WareCountry Merchants?Wanted. John C. Kuykendal?The Great Desideratum?If Any be Sick with Asthma?Make Your Tricks Early?An Attractive Outlay?Call Especially. Hunter A Oates? Dress Goods?Hats, Ac.?Cheap Goods?Shoes?Cottonades?HardwareCrockery. M. 8trauss?New Assortment. T. S. Jefferys, 'Agent?The Buck-Eye Reaper and Mower. THE WHEAT CROP. The wheat crop in this county is very promising up to the present time. Should nothing occur between now and harvest to blight the crop, there will be an unusual yield. For the P past few days the weather has been quite C cool, with occasional rain, which has proved w a drawback to cotton plants, but not seriously & affecting other growing crops. The promise t0 of an abundant fruit crop continues good. w SALES-DAY. Monday was a cool, damp and disagreeable day, and consequently there was a very small ^ attendance of people in town from the country. ^ The only property sold by the Sheriff, was the land of Chesley C. Gwinn, sold under ex- cl ecution, at the suit of Thomson and Jefferys, ai and others, aod bought by J. U. (iwinn, tor ei $385. gi A NEW COUNTY PROPOSED. The Rock Hill Herald, of Thursday last, says : "The subject of a new county, with Rock Hill as its centre, is now agitating the minds of our people. A preliminary meeting { of the citizens of the town and the surround* ing country was held yesterday. It is hoped that these efforts will be crowned with success, as many of the people of York county are put to unreasonable trouble and expense in w attending Court." ^ THE COLUMBIA REGI8TER. Col. James A. Hoyt, for the past sixteen ^ years editor of the Anderson Intelligencer, has taken editorial charge of the Columbia ^ Register. Col. Hoyt is a bold and vigorous writer, and under his guidauce we predict for c the Register a new era of prosperity. j, The Anderson Intelligencer, from which ^ Col. Hoyt has just withdrawn, and which, by the way, is one of the best weeklies in the c State, will be continued by Murray A Clink* tc scales, who, for several years, have been part- K ners with Col. Hoyt in its publication. ^ LOCAL MENTION. ? The annual convention of the stockhold- t< ers of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, will be held at Chester to-day. An extra train will leave the depot at 8.30, a. m. Stockholders will be carried 6< over the road, by this train, without charge. 0 ? A special term of the Court of General u Sessions and Common Pleas for York county, l( will commence its sitting at 10 o'clock, a. m., 0 on Tuesday next, 15th instant. ? The Board of County Commissioners will hold a special meeting, iu this town, on Tuesday next, for the transaction of such bus* 84 iness as Requires immediate attention. 1 ? Mr. John M. Rawlinson has perfected 8 arrangements for - re-opening the "King's Mountain Hotel," on Monday next, as a house ( of entertainment. . _ J TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE. fa The following transfers of real estate have q been recorded in the office of the County Auditor since our last report: M. J. Clark to J. Randolph Wallace. A tract of 46 acres in King's Mountain township. Consideration $675. q Marv C. Simons to Samuel A. Glenn. ? I * M Tract of 157 acres in Bethel township. Con- n sideration $1,500. d J. D. Mitchell to J. A. Hill. Tract of 60 f< acres in Bethel township. Consideration C $242. James R. Kennedy to W. C. Latimer and J. S. Hemphill. Lot in Yorkville. Consideration $270. b Iredell Jones to Charles Springs. Tract of r< 83 acres in Catawba township. Considers- b tion $450. ti PRISONERS IN JAIL. a There are tweBty-four prisoners in the coun- ( ty jail, of whom twenty-three are colored, p awaiting trial at the Court of General Sessions * to be held next week. The following are their ^ names and the offences with which they are charged: q * L D.!t n U' AAvn Ran TnnOfl . au| ifuhubuu, uiiin mvucunu) mm vuhw b and Isom Buchanan?burglary and larceny a of Latimer A Hemphill's store. t< Frank Berry, Abram Poag, Lewis Steele, 8' Jack Wallace, Jordau Campbell and Andy u Barnes?grand larceny. ' Jim Houston?cruel treatment to a' child, fa He is also charged with being an accomplice d of the burglars of Latimer A Hemphill's n store. Mary Fisher?arson; attempting to burn the Harris hotel properly. * Jack Copeman?Larceny on J. D. Kell. Emanuel Hill?Larceny of a coat from E. Thomas. 1 ' :: p Lem Russell?Assault and battery on po- m liceman Neal, of Rock Hill. b< Monroe Killian?Burglary and larceny on 41 T.S. Neely. ' jj Henry Jordan and Richard Robertson? ^ RiirorlRfT *nd larcenv on J. J.Steele. D-J , Dinah McCIellan, Chas. McClellan, Joshua 0I Henry and Jenny Henry?assault and bat- vi tery. ' "" G Cad. Edkies is serving a sentence of 80 days for assault and battery?having been sentenced by a trial justice; and James Caveny, white, is in jail on a peace warrant. --ggg j? Woman's Rights In Louisiana. 01 ft! On the last day of the session of the Louisiana Legislature, Hon. Richard Henry Wilde, Democratic member from New Or- T( leans, presented the following: We, the wo- a< men of Louisiana, petition your honorable tt body to give us equality under the law. We j*1 call to the attention of your honorable body that the women pay half of the taxes of the a| State without representation, and ask this T, email boon in acxnowieagrneni 01 our luieresb ic in your success and our sufferings in the con- sc tests through which you have passed. The ^ petition is signed by Mrs. E. E. Norton, Mrs. ^ N. B. Wheeler, Mrs. Peter Conrad, Mrs. M. n P. Turner, and one thousand other ladies, all of whom are owners of real estate in their gt own right and pay taxes. The petition ol brought General McMillan, Republican, to ?' the floor, who asked the earnest attention of w the House to this most vital issue of the day. tr By unanimous consent the petition was re- f0 ferred to the Judiciary Committee, who will w report back at the next session. Both politi- oi cal parties are in favor of bestowing suffrage ' rc upon women, aud, without doubt, at the next session of the Legislature, a constitutional P amendment to that end will be adopted without opposition. The matter will then go to ^ the people for adoption at the next (flection fo in November, 1878. at BY TELEGRAPH. THE STATE CAPITAL. HE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP. CONTUMACY OF THE RADICALS. JUSTICE WRIGHT. HIS REMOVAL PROBABLE. ? NO APPROPRIATION BILL YET. [Special Dispatch to Uie Yorkvllle Enquirer.] Columbia, 8. C., May 0, 1877. The Radical majority in the Senate still areisfc in refusing to go into an election of hief Justice until the House admits Mackey ith the Charleston delegation. The House immuiee are expecieu to rvpuri> wubj u? morrow, but it is uot believed that Mackey ill be admitted. The action of the Radical majority of the mate, if further persisted in, will likely inice the House to withhold appropriation for le pay of members. The House committee are still considering; larges preferred against Justice Wright, id may recommend bis removal by theGov nor or address of the General Assembly, to roid the delay and expense incident to imjacbment No appropriation bill has yet been recomlended by the House committee. L D. w. , Correspondence of the Yorlcville Enquirer. LETTEB FBOM DUE WEST. Due West, 8. C., May 7, 1877. The Junior Exhibition of Erakine College as held in Lindsay Hall, on the night of le 4th instant. The speakers acquitted them* ilves admirably well, presenting their pieces, i the main, in an eloquent, clear and unemarrassed tone. The audience was as large i usual on such occasions, notwithstanding je threatening aspect of the weather. The blowing is the programme of the orations: "(Coming Events cast their Shadows Before."? . B. Bonner, Due West, 8. C. "The Model Statesman."?J. Boyce, Jr., King's [ountain, N. C. "Westward the Star of Empire Takes its Way." . A. Douglass, Winnshoro, S. C. "Labor Ipse Voluptas."?J. W. Franklin, Clln>n, S. C. "The Chevalier Bayard of the 8outh."?A. S. Kennedy, Due West, 8. C. "A Nation's Best Hope."?W. T. Matthews, falfsville, N. C. "Influence of Authors."?R. E. Robison, Colin Plant, Miss. The eetimatioD in which the speakers and 4 leir orations were held, was manifest from le numerous rich and beautiful bouquets mt up to them during the evening. Much f the pleasure of the occasion must be attribted to the Due West Cornet Band, who injrspersed the exercises with choice selections f music, rendered in the most artistic style. A fearful hail storm occurred here and in lis vicinity on the night of the 5th instant. 'he cloud formed in the north-west about sun 3t, and, accompanied with vivid lightning nd a continual roar of thunder, presented a rand but sublime appearance. Vegetation iffered considerably by the hail, which fell >r several minutes, stripping leaves from the rees, and ruining much of the youog fruit. 'he growing cotton was not seriously injured, aving been but recently planted, and conseuently just coming up. J. B. THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. Tuesday, May 1,1877. In the Senate, Mr. Cochran presented lie memorial of the Anderson Board of 'rade, praying the passage of laws to preent the several railroads of this State from taking unreasonable charges, and from so ^ iscriraiuating as to injure one community ir the benefit of another. Referred to the lommittee on Railroads. The bill to reduce the pay of commissionrs and managers of election was considered, nd received its second reading. The remainder of the session was occupied y Whittemore on a question of privilege, in sply to charges of corruption made upon im and the Clerk of the Senate, bj. the lews and Courier.: He denied the charges i toto, and preferred charges of corruption gainst the proprietors of the New and Courier. Nash also rose to a question of rivilege in connection with charges made gainst him by the Nevoe and Courier, and iid he would,, to-morrow, speak further on le subject ,,,, Mr. Bowep said the charges preferred gainst the clerk and Senators were of such serious nature, that be felt it his duty to love that a committee of five be appointed i investigate the same. Whittemore said he aould make the same motion.to-morrow^ afir Nash's remarks; and Mr,Bowen't motion as withdrawn to.alio* biro, tq,do so. A In the House, the Speaker announced the rilowing committee' to investigate the |Cbniiof nf .titrlmr w mliht p uvv vt vuvi^w ?? ii0uv? aw|/i wvummvw jwi ort, Bradley/Palmer, Blue tad Yerner. ' Andrew,"(colored,)- of Sumter, who was bsent yesterday, was called on to purge bim>lf, of contempt before admission talus seat .ndrewsdeclined to make Unrequired apolgy, claiming that as he wae^npt member of le House, he would not be in oo^mpt tfie rouse insisted that the necessary apology be lade, and a motion was made thitAbdrews 9 rejected nnless he did make it" Andrews kid he would not tell a falsehood' for ? seat > the Legislature., This,of course,..brought own on bira nearly all the Republicans who ad already passed through the. ordeal, and le vote was taken, resulting 71 "to 23 in favor f bis rejection. The following Republicans oted'for bis rejection: Boston, Coleman, reen, Keith, Miller, Minort, Meyers, Hamil> and Ferriter. Ferriter moved a reconderation of the vote; which motion was laid a the table. This, under the. rules, settles ie matter finally against Andrews. ,[t" The special orderfor 1 P. M. being the mairity and minority reports of the committee a the rejection of Straker, of Orangeburg, ad Thomas, of Newberry, on the ground of pardonable treason, Hamilton moved to lay ie majority report on the table. Xost by "a ate of 48 to 28. Hamilton then moyed to iopt the minority report, which recommends ?* ie seating of these two Mackeyites. A de4te followed, which was participated in bj [amilton, Wells, Smith and Miller in favor Fthe minority report, and Youmans, Gray ad Conner against it. The Republicans ao* 4 Eincea no reasons wny loose arch conspira>ra should be admitted, but confined themslves to a recitation of the oft-repeated cry v 1 tat the Democrats had promised equal lights > all. The Democrats took the ground that tese two meu being the prime movers in the >bellioo,and having much more intelligence tan the common herd, should be held to a ricter account. Mr. Conner, in the course f his argument, read the infamous resolution Fered by Thomas, during the deadlock last inter, declaring the legal members to be inuders, interlopers, insurrectionists, Ac., and ailing upon the so-called Governor to use irce to eject them. Upon this resolution, it ill be remembered, followed the organization *the constabulary force, composed of the tughs of Charleston and Columbia, and the isults that were heaped by them upon the >emocrats in the hope of provoking a collisn. Miller, of Beaufort, made the point in is argument that the Democrats should reera ber that they had but, very recently reeled against the general government, and lould appreciate the position of those now in - .3