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?ctaps and facts. !
? A hen in Jefferson city, Missouri, on Sunday,
laid an egg in the contribution box of a
Methodist Church. The minister was preaching
on foreign missions, and after the Bermon
a collection was taken up, when the hen's contribution
was discovered.
? Eleven States will hold elections before
the meeting of Congress, viz. : Oregon, in
June; Alabama, in August; Arkansas, California,
Vermont and Maine, in September;
West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa, in
October.
? The change from the Polish to the Russian
language is thus described : Where a
man would have said "Oischski willski givski
youski a punchski in the snootski," the poor
fellow is compelled to say, "Oiskvitch willvitch
givivitch youavitch a punchivitch in
the snootivitch."
? The Ukiah (Cal.) Dispatch is edited by
Miss Belle Lynch. She said something exasperating
about Mr. F. L. Caruthers, who
thereupon invaded the "sanctissima" and
caned the lady. Miss Lynch will graduate
in journalism after awhile; but what a town
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UKian must oe:
? Virginia militia companies were ordered
out "to suppress a lion reaming at large, a
fugitive from some menagerie." The beast
was found and killed. It was a large "yaller"
dog. A stray policeman might have
answered all purposes, but that did not happen
to be the Virginia style.
? Just before his death, President Harrison
issued an order informing all office holders to
attend strictly to their duties and let politics
alone, under pain of dismissal. This would
be a good thing to revive, but as President
Harrison did not live many days after its
promulgation, there may be danger in it.
? The most remarkable physician of any
age recently died at Portsmouth, N. H. He
graduated at Harvard, and afterwards studied
in Paris, but never had but one patient,
for whom he extracted a tooth, receiving a
fee of twenty-five cents. He was never married,
and lived to be nearly four-score years
old, leaving a fortune of $400,000.
? Judah Peter Benjamin, the most popular
lawyer in London, whose income is over
8100,000 a year, was formerly Secretary of
State of the Southern Confederacy. He is
sixty-five, was born in San Domingo, is a Hebrew,
went to New Orleans after graduating
at Yale, was a Whig, then a Democratic United
States Senator, and then a Confederate.
? An Illinois clergyman is reported to have
said the other day at the laying of the corner
stone of a new meeting house: "If the boys
and girls do their sparking in church, I say
amen to it. I have a daughter whom I cherish
as the apple of my eye. When she is of
suitable age, I would rather she should be
courted in the house of God than in a theatre."
? We read that a municipal election was
held in Vermilionville, La., last week, and
the whites divided into two parties, one of
which put up a ticket composed entirely of
whites, and the other one of whites and
blacks. The white voters were almost evenly
divided, and the election was decided by the
negroes, who gave a majority for the straight
white ticket.
? The town of Maple Grove, Wisconsin, is
excited over a recent Sunday occurrence
there. The people were mostly at church,
and in one house a twelve-year old boy was
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the family, a man came to the house completely
enveloped in a beef hide, with horns,
tail, and all complete, and so fitted that nothing
else could be seen. It was known in the
neighborhood that the occupants of this house
had money, and there was there at the time
about two hundred dollars. The object disguised
in the hide told the boy that he was
the devil, and that he had come after his
money, and he must give it to him. The boy
answered that he could not have the money.
The devil then told the boy that he would
have him and kill him if he did not bring
out the money. The boy then stepped into
the house as if he was about to comply, but
instead of bringing the money he brought a
gun and shot the man dead in his tracks.
The boy then ran to the nearest neighbor,
and, finding only a woman there, told her
that he had shot the devil at his house. The
woman went with the boy, and found that the
devil, whom the boy had shot, was her husbanrJ
? The President talks freely about his policy
and gives the best of reasons for adopting
it. According to a correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times, he said to a visitor recently
that he was not surprised at the Republican
opposition to his course, as he had expected
even more than had been shown. Had he
been a private citizen he would probably have
been inclined to oppose it himself, but when
he became President he reflected upon the
subject and having made up his mind that it
was his duty to endeavor to restore peace and
harmony through the land and protect the
rights and liberties of the whole people, he
adopted that course which he believes will
best secure these objects, and he intends to
stand firm in the execution of his purpose.
In addition to his policy of non-intervention,
he would recommend that the test oath administered
to members of Congress be abolished
as a useless and irritating reminder of
an unfortunate period in the nation's history.
He would encourage the development of the
resources and promotion of the industries of
the South as far as that lies within the power
of the national government, and believes that
the removal of causes of political agitation
of purely sectional issues and the return of
material prosperity will tend to awaken a national
feeling in the South.
? Thesaying of Hamlet that "The funeral I
halted meats did enldlv furnish forth the i
marriage table," was practically illustrated a j
few days ago in Georgia, although in this j
case the man, not the woman, offended the
proprieties. In April last the wife of a Mr. J
Caraway, a farmer, near Atlanta, in that |
State, was found lying in her own home, bru- j
tally murdered. Suspicion was directed
against Charles Tommey, a negro, and on his
being arrested he confessed to having committed
the crime. The husband of the murdered
woman was apparently overcome by
grief, but prevailed upon the populace not to
lynch the murderer, who was safely lodged
in jail, tried, convicted, sentenced to death i
and executed on Friday last. And now comes I
the curious part of the story. On that morning
Mr. Caraway, the bereaved husband,!
bought a license for a second marriage, put it |
in his pocket, witnessed the hanging, and
then quietly went off and got married. It is
not every man who can thus crowd a double
amount of eniovment into a single day, and i
Mr. Caraway may be congratulated on the ;
nerve and coolness he displayed. Xerxes is ]
said to have wished that some one would in-'
vent a new pleasure, and certainly the idea
of witnessing the hanging of your first wife's
murderer, with a marriage license to unite you i
to a second, paid for and carefully stowed I
away in your vest pocket, ought, we should i
think, to be sufficient to satisfy the most epi-,
curean old barbarian, either ancient or mod-|
ern.
? "I will pay 810,000 in cash for the delivery
to me of the kidnapped child, Charley
Ross, or for information that will lead to his
recovery. I most solemnly and sacredly
pledge my word of honor and ray reputation
as an upright business man, not to attempt
for myself to discover the identity of the persons
negotiating with me in this matter, nor
to convey to any other person any hints or
clews by which any accusation, or even suspicion,
shall be directed against them. The
parents of the child unite with me in this
pledge, and agree, if their darling child is by
this means restored to them, to abandon all
attempts to punish any person connected with
his abduction or concealment ; they agree
never to appear against such parties, and,'
with myself, will use every endeavor to shield j
^^\^^hem^rom exposure." In this way P. T.!
Barnum sets out to find the lost child. The
Springfield Republican states that the idea
first occurred to Mr. Barnum when he was in
Philadelphia two years ago, but he decided
not to countenance any condoning of the offence.
The idea returned to hira recently,
and he opened negotiations with Mr. Ross. 1
He promised to offer the reward on the con- j
dition that if the boy were recovered some ar- j
rangement should be made for exhibiting |
him. The offer was accepted on Friday, the !
family retaining the privilege of reimbursing j
Mr. Barnum; but in no case is any other j
showman to be allowed to exhibit the boy.
Mr. Ross has ascertained that Mosher, one of
the alleged abductors, wrote a novel sixteen
years ago, in which the plot turned upon the
abduction of a child.
Ihr fJsrMlr inquirer.
~~YORKVILLE, S, C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1877.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? A sturgeon, 204 pounds in weight, was recently
captured in Broad river.
? Ex-Governor Chamberlain has been in
Columbia for several days past.
? The Greenville News thiuks that there is
a million a year to be saved to the State by
abolishing the old fence law system.
? A good many farmers in Newberry increase
their corn crop by planting rows of
corn in their cotton fields across the cotton
rows, sixteen feet apart.
? E. M. Brayton, of Aiken county, a carpet-bagger,
has been appointed collector of
revenue in South Carolina, vice Carpenter,
resigned.
? The town council of Anderson has passed
an ordinance to prevent dogs from running
upon the streets without muzzles after the
first day of June.
? Recently, in Aiken county, Sheriff Hoiley's
son, aged 13, was bitten by a snake. A
pint of whisky internally, and a local application
of ammonia cured him.
? The work on the Spartanburg and Asheville
Railroad is being rapidly pushed. There
is a large gang of North Carolina convicts
employed on the portion of t^c line in that
State.
? Anderson farmers begin to complain of
drought. Much cotton, and even corn has
been unable to force itself through the crust
of dried mud, which is the result of the recent
hail-storm in that section.
? The Abbeville Banner wisely remark?
that if the people of South Carolina were as
anxious to save as they are to borrow money,
they would not be concerned about the passage
of a usury law.
? Col. Christopher Hampton, a brother of
the Governor, has purchased the handsome
residence of ex-Governor Chamberlain, on
Arsenal Hill, in Columbia, and will take pos
session immediately.
? The Spartanburg and Union Railroad
will hereafter be known as the Spartanburg,
Union and Columbia Railroad. It is in fine
condition and will form a part of the Grand
Trunk Line from Charleston to the West.
? Whittemore, who it will be remembered
asked and obtained "indefinite leave of absence"
from the State Senate, several days
ago, has fled the State, never to return. It is
no longer a secret that his formal resignation
has been duly written and signed, and will be
made public at an early day.
? Ex-Governor Chamberlain has addressed
a note to the New York Tribune for the purpose
of correcting a statement in the correspondence
of that paper to the effect that he is
a suDDorter of the President's Southern Doli
cy. The ex-Governor says emphatically that
he is not a supporter of the President's Southern
policy, and that his views in that respect
have not been changed by any thing that has
occurred since he relinquished the office of
Governor.
? The Anderson Journal says: The valuable
property known as the Pendleton Factory
was sold at public outcry on Wednesday of
last week. The property was divided into
three tracts and sold separately. The factory
proper was bid off for the bondholders by Col.
Jos. N. Brown at ?10,000 ; the Keasler Mill
tract was bid off by Capt. John McGrath at
?1,600, and the tract of thirty-one acres of
bottom land was bid off at ?400 by the bondholders.
These prices are exceedingly low
considering the cost and real value of the
property.
? Says the Abbeville Medium of the 23rd
instant: "There is a coal-black negro man
in our vicinity who will soon have a beautiful
white stomach?a stomach covered with as
pure white Democratic skin aB ever grew in
Edgefield. This no doubt sounds both ridiculous
aud alarming, but we will explain.
Some weeks back, Dr. Walter Hill and Dr.
Wallace Bland cut off from the stomach of
this negro a huge tumor, weighing many
pounds, and upon the large bare spot left by
the operation, they have planted numberless
little stars of skin nipped from their own
arras. These stars have taken root and are
fast spreading out to meet each other, so that
as we have already said, the black man will
soon have a beautiful white Democratic stom
ach?at all events on the outside. Science is
wonderful, and in this case noble. Skin is
about all the Radicals and negroes have left
us, and to be thus generous with it is certainly
very magnanimous."
? The Whittemore and Woodruff investigating
committee are in possession of a book,
which is a transcript of the accounts of the
Republican Printing Company, of which
Woodruffand Jones were the bosses, showing
the amounts of money paid in bribes, for services
rendered by the members of the House
and Senate in securing the passage, through
the General Assembly, of an appropriation :
of 8225,000 for public printing in the session j
of 1873-74. The whole amount paid in such j
bribes, aggregates about sixty thousand dol- j
lars. A few persons, reported to be Demo-;
crats, figure in the mystic pages; but they
were not members of the General Assembly,
and only received small sums. The amount
paid Cardozo "for paying out the money from j
the treasury," was, as this book shows, $17,866.
The amount paid ex-Governor Moses,1
"for approving the bill," was $10,304.50. The
amount paid Nash, "for services in the Senate
and as chairman of the finance committee,"
was $5,000. Theamouuts paid Whittemore
and Y. J. P. Owens, "for services in the
Senate," was $5,000 each. The amount paid j
Tim Hurley, for services that can better be :
imagined than described, was $7,500. E. W. (
M. Mackey, it appears, received about $1,600
"for important services." The book contains |
a large number of other entries of other
amounts paid out to members, running down
as low as $25, which make up the grand aggregate.
'
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? It is claimed that sixty illicit stills have
recently been destroyed in Wilkes county.
? The cotton crop in Edgecombe, Pitt,
Beaufort, Martin and Washington counties
is reported to be unusually promising.
? The Southern Home says that J. H. Gardner,
the mail carrier between Charlotte and
Yorkville, was robbed of 815 while asleep in
his boarding house at Charlotte last Thursday
night.
? The Charlotte Democrat says that the law
preventing stock from running at large in
that county, is growing in favor every day,
and that opposition to the fence law is diminishing,
and will soon not be heard of.
? The name of E. B. Drake, Esq., editor of
the Statesviile American, is mentioned for U.
S. Marshal for the Western District of North
Carolina. The appointment of Mr. Drake
would give general satisfaction in his District;
and if the President would only confine his
Southern appointments to men of Mr. Drake's
class, the people of the South will be convinced
that he means reform in earnest.
? At the term of tbe Superior Court in
Wilkesboro, last week, Judge Schenck refused
to obey, or permit the officers of Ashe county
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to obey, tne oraer or juage uick, ^oi iue u.
S. District Court,) for the removal of the cases
of indicted revenue officers from the Superior
Court of Ashe to the U. S. District Court at
Greeusboro. The question of jurisdiction as
between the two tribunals was to have been
heard before the U. S. District Court in
Greensboro on yesterday.
? Several newspaper paragraphs aimed at
Hon. J. M. Leach, charging him with making
efforts at organizing a new party, or attempting
to reorganize the old Whig party, have
attracted attention in other States than his
own, placing that distinguished gentleman in
a false position, and evoking from him a
trenchant letter, in which he places himself
right before the people. The South has not a
truer son to her interests than is Gen. Leach ;
nor can the small fry politicians succeed in
tarnishing his enviable reputation as a public
man.
? The Charlotte Observer records the mysterious
disappearance of A. W. Loyns, a large
dry goods merchant of that city. Over three
weeks ago he started North, as he informed
his clerks, for the purpose of making purchases,
since which time no tidings have been received
from him, notwithstanding frequent inquiry
has been made for him of Northern
merchants and others with whom he transacted
business. As he left ample assets, and is
not pecuniarily embarrassed, his singular disappearance
has caused a sensation in Char
lotte. Previous to 1876, he was in business
at Florence, S. C.
? The Charlotte Democrat states that James
Patton Wilson, a native of that city, but who
has been absent 23 years, returned there last
week for the purpose of surrendering himself
to the Sheriff of the county on the charge of
having shot and caused the death of Mr. Nat.
Clayland, in Charlotte, in the year 1854.
Several of the older citizens remember the
unfortunate occurrence, but there is no living
witness of the affair. When the shooting took
place, Wilson was about 17 years old and
Clayland about 18. Wilson has eluded arrest
for the past 23 years, but returned, and
in open court, submitted to a verdict of manslaughter.
The presiding Judge sentenced
him to five years imprisonment in the county
jail.
THE APPROPRIATION BILL.
During the discussion of the appropriation
bill, in the Senate on Saturday last, the question
being upon the motion of Senator Gary
to strike out the enacting clause of the bill,
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Mr. Witherspoon, Democrat irom lorn, ootained
the floor and spoke as follows in opposition
to the payment of the interest on the
public consolidated debt. Mr. Witherspoon
said:
Fending the consideration of this section, I desire
to have something tosay upon the passage of
tins bill, and I approach the subject impressed
with the knowledge that I have no substantial
information regarding the real financial condition
oftlie State. I shall, however, take the responsibility
to enter my remonstrance against the passage
of some of the provisions of this bill. I take
it that it is true as regards the individual so far as
his credit is concerned, as it is oftlie State, that it
is important to know whether you can pay before
you make contracts to discharge certain responsibilities.
I may be permitted to state that it has
been my pride to preserve my own integrity and
credit, and I feel the same pride in upholding the
credit and integrity of my State. This discussion
in the other branchof the Legislature as brought
forward, has injected into it the prejudice of repudiation,
which I regard as entirely foreign to
the issues before us. Holding up the horrors of
repudiation, I fear, has led many of us to impose
burdens which we cannot reasonably discharge
ourselves of. Whilst I would not tolerate any
act which savored of repudiation, yet I am compelled
to say that, so far as mv views are concerned,
we should pause and reflect; so that
whilst we are trying to maintain the integrity and
character and credit of the State on the one* side,
we should not unnecessarily oppress those whom
we represent here. We are not here to crush out
the very existence of the State in order that we
may carry out this idea of State pride and State
credit. I am willing to preserve her credit, but
at the same time we must put this State in order.
We must give the people of the State a breathing
snfill. We must let them recover from the sad
effects of over taxation and misgoverninent for
the past ten years. If you give them tirno they
will, every man of them, meet their honest obligations;
but ifyou impose the burden upon them
now you dishearten them?you drive them from
your borders?you do that which,instead of building
up your State, crushes out her very existence.
When an individual becomes embarrassed, when
he finds himself in circumstances beyond his
control, when be is unable to meet obligations
which he admits to be honest, what does ho do?
Why he g<-es to his creditors, makes an exhibit of
his assets and liabilities, and says to them: "Do
you propose now, with this record before you, to
drive me to the wall, or do you propose to put me
in a position, by indulgence and forbearance, in
which I can in time meet my honest obligations ?
I ask for the State of South Carolina no more and
no less indulgence than that which any creditor,
who has his own interest at heart, would readily
grant. What does this bill propose to do? It
proposes to require the State to pay, besides its
levies for the expenses of the government and for
the penal and charitable institutions, 8200,000 for
public schools, inclusive of the poll tax. Let us
sustain our home credit before we talk so much
about our foreign credit. We are bound by solemn
pledges not to diminish, but to increase this
school fund, and yet we appropriate only $200,000
inclusive of the poll tax, making the actual appropriation
about $125,000. Let us show our faith by
our works.
This 5th section provides $270,000 for the payment
of the interest on the bonds of the State.
That is the specially objectionable feature to me.
Now here we have $724,400, (without increasing
the school tax one dollar,) for the people of this
State to pay. One of the smallest States in the
Union and one of the most impoverished ! Upon
what basis do you propose to raise this enormous
tax to which you must add from five to eight
mills in the counties? You cannot raise it upon
the false and over assessed valuation created by
the Republican party, whose sole objective point
was to run the government at any cost to the peoplo.
This valuation is $133,000,000, but suppose
we find that the true value is only $100,000,000.
Is it either reasonable or possible that the people
can stand this burden and live? I take the
ground that the people cannot pay it, and with
all due deference to the Senate and the House of
Representatives, I do not propose to stultify myself
bv imposing a burden which we cannot meet
and discharge. Now, mind you, there is no repudiation
in this! When you talk repudiation I
oppose it as inucli as any mourner in me oenuie.
But I consider that I would be recreant to my
trust and to the public interest if I failed to raise
my remonstrance against the passage of this bill
as it now stands.
As you see, wo will be called upon to pay two
taxes out of one crop. Think of paying twentysix
mills out of one crop. Why it is in excess of
any Radical tax ever levied. If you impose this
tax, Senators, you deprive the people, one-third
of them, of homes. You may ask how we propose
to get out of paying this debt. We don't
propose getting out of paying it at all, but we
propose building up the State first and then paying
our debts by degrees. But we can never realize
these hopes if we, at this stage, inflict this
crushing blow upon a nearly ruined people.
It will be said, how are we to meet the interest
on these bonds if they are found to be valid. The
very fact that a commission has been appointed
vests the whole matter with suspicion. If we are
to have an investigation of these bonds, why is it
necessary for us to advance the money ? I do not
ask our debtors to forgive us of the interest at all,
but I do say if tbis State asks her Northern cred- j
itors for indulgence, and affirms her willingness
to pay, they will fund the interest, and thereby
distribute the burden over three or four years,
which you are now trying to impose upon one
year. It is said our worthy Governor wants this
monev collected. Read his message, and you will
find that be distinctly desires that the debt should
first be investigated. If yon conclude to levy the
tax now, you ratify all the acts of that consolidated
Commission before hand.
Now, I am told that when the Republican party
came into the possession of this State Government
in 18G8, the3r would not touch the past obligations
of the State until they had inquired into
them. It was the part of prudence, and I think,
in this one particular, we can afford to follow their
example. It is my opinion it is to the interest of
the bondholders to have this investigation first,
as it will relieve the valid bonds of the suspicion
which attaches to the whole debt. There are debts
nearer home which we should strive to pay first;
and it is an unjust discrimination against our
home creditors for us to pass them by, and go out
of our way to meet foreign indebtedness, which
may or may not be valid.
EDITORI AlTINKLINGS.
Spicy Telegram.
Senator Cochran, who applied for the
position of Internal Revenue Collector, has
withdrawn his application in the following,
which was telegraphed to Senator Patterson:
I have the honor to withdraw ray application
for the position of United States Internal
Revenue Collector. Ex-Governor CharaKoploin'o
rannmmenHnh'nn shnnld hp Carried
out from the fact of his having fully identified
himself and his political future with the
Republican party in this State, by establishing
an office in New York. As usual, carpet-baggers
to the front. I have every reasou
to believe my appointmeut would have given
satisfaction to ninety-nine men out of every
hundred in the State?the odd man, in each
instance, an ousted carpet-bagger or a thief.
John R. Cochran.
Affairs in Mexico.
A New Orleans dispatch says that General
Lever, an agent of President Lerdo, has
just arrived in that city from Matamoras. It
is understood from him that arrangements
have been made with the States of Mexico,
Sinola, Hidalgo, Chipas, Jalisco, Tobasco and
' Champeche, to pronounce for Lerdo as soon
as an attempt is made from the American
side. This will positively be made, and General
Escobedo is in San Antonio engineering
the project. It will be first made as a feint
on the Northern Pacific side, in Sonora, but
the main attempt will be made near Matamoras.
The boast has been publicly made
by one of Lerdo's agents in New Orleans,
that he would be in possession of the Mexican
capital in three months. Efforts have been
made in New Orleans to purchase arms in
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considerable quantities, notn rines ana revolvers,
to be shipped to Sao Antonio and Matarooras.
More Frnits of Reconciliation.
Another evidence of good feeling has
recently been shown by a letter of Mr. G. R.
Messersraith, a Northern man, to Gen. M. C.
Butler, of South Carolina. Mr. Messersraith
was a bank cashier at Chambersburg at the
time Jeb Stuart raided upon that place, and
he has written a letter to Gen. Butler, who
was one of the raiding party, which letter is
full of the spirit of good-will which the
President's policy has inspired. Mr. Mesaersmith
says that long ago he decided that as
soon as all irritating traces of the war were
obliterated, he would write to General Butler
and thank him for his kind and gentle treatment
of his family, at the tryiug time when
Chambersburg was in the hands of the Confederates.
"Now," says Mr. Messersraith,
"that President Hayes has released the last
of the States from military rule, I deem it a
fitting occasion to do so, and to assure you of
my pleasant recollection and good wishes, and
to say to you now what I could not say 'when
last we met,' that I would be glad to see you
at my home, where a warm and cordial greeting
will always await you." This is a good
4ut?A of reconciliation, and Mr. Messeremith's
letter will doubtless give Senator Butler a
somewhat different character than he has had
in the eyes of most Northern people.
The War In Europe.
The Bucharist correspondent of the
London Times, under date of last Saturday,
says that present indications strengthen the
conclusion that no important events will occur
on the Danube till the whole front line
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strong corps will be formed on the extreme
right, composed of the Roumanian array and
two Russian divisions. This force will move
up the Turkish side of the Timoc and turn
the left dank of the Balkan line by a movement
on Sophia and Philippopolis. This
column would have a friendly country on the
right from which to draw supplies. The
Russian army which captured Ardahan was
seventy thousand strong.
A portion of this force have reinforced the
Russians before Batoum, which is seriously
imperilled. Russia will respect the neutrality
of Servia. Her independence is a matter
which will only be settled by an agreement
with the Powers.
Some Russian vessels from American waters
will return to Constadt. Others will
anchor off Gibraltar to intercept vessels with
contraband of war for Turkey. An Egyptian
contingent force embarked at Alexandria
on Friday. A column from Van and a column
of Circassians from Erzeroum, are pushing
forward to cut off the Russian advance
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troyed the earthworks at Nikopolis, driving
the Russians out, who left forty dead.
The Growing Grain Crop.
If the war in Europe continues and the
harvests in the North-western States shall
come up to their present promise, money there
will be plenty. The Chicago Times publishes
considerable data in regard to the crops to be
gathered during the coming harvest in those
regions tributary to Chicago. According to
that paper, in Southern, central and eastern
Illinois, it is expected that the wheat crop will
be very large this year?fully 40 per cent,
beyond what it was in 1876 and equal to the
great yield of 1874?but the cold weather and
the rains have retarded corn-planting, and a
portion of the south-west of the State is almost
literally under water. As a natural consequence
the corn crop outside of northern Illinois
is estimated at 35 per cent, below the
average.
In Northern Indiana the prospects of a good
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narvesc are pruuuuuceu veiy uutuuia^m^,
In Wisconsin the farmers are in good spirits,
and expect a crop that may restore them to
the prosperity that they enjoyed before the
panic of 1873. From Minnesota comes the
same pleasant story, and the best agricultural
authority in that State estimates the vrheat
crop at 40,000,000 bushels. In Iowa there is
a decrease in wheat production, and the State j
, is abandoning that cereal for corn. Nebraska I
and Kansas are in dread of the grasshoppers, |
but vigorous efforts are being made to head ;
j them off, and in Kansas from 10 to 20 per j
oent. more wheat than usual has been planted, j
On the whole the crop prospect in the North!
west may he considered quite promising.
| Sixteen Execntions Ordered.
! The Governor of Pennsylvania has just!
! issued warrants for the execution of eight col-!
liery murderers, known as the Molly Maguires,
' in addition to four issued a few weeks ago.
Hugh McGehan, James Roarity, Jas. Boyle
and James Carroll, convicted of the murder
of the Taraaqua policeman, and against whom
the Supreme Court recently decided, will be
! hanged at Pottsville on the same day?the
21st of June?on which Thomas Munley, the
i murderer of Thomas Sanger and Jas. Urens,
mining bosses, will be executed. Alexander
| Campbell, convicted of the murder of John
1 P. Jones, miniug boss, will be hanged at
Mauch Cbunck, June 21st, with Michael
Doyle, Edward Kelly and John Donahue.
The 9th of August has been designated for
the execution of Patrick Hester, Hugh Tully
and Patrick McHugh, of Columbia county,
convicted of the murder of Alexander W.
Rae, Superintendent of a colliery, in the fall
of 1868. The Governor also fixed the same
day for the hanging of Thomas F. G'urley,
the murderer of Miss Whitby, of Montgomery
county. The number of unexecuted death
warrants issued by the Governor the past two
months is sixteen, all of which will be carried
into effect in June, July and August. On the
21st of June ten murderers will expiate their
crimes on the gallows of Pennsylvania. Nine
of them are Molly Maguires. There is a
prospect that Duffy, one of the Yost murderers,
will hang with his accomplices at Pottsville,
if the Court records in his case should
reach the Governor the present week. He is
desirous of executing as many murderers together
and on the same day as possible.
What Mr. Tilden Says.
A citizen of Alabama, who recently
had ao interview with Mr. TiideD, on the subject
of the Presidential election, reports the
following as the substance of their conversation
:
He said to Mr. Tilden that the people of
the South were conviuced that he had been
fairly and lawfully elected to the office of
President of the United States; that the people
of that section, in common with the great
body of the people of the whole United
States, thought that Mr. Tilden, as the lawfully
elected ruler of the couutry, should
have taken, early after the election, a decided
attitude and insisted upon his rights; that
had he done so, and the proper announcement
of the Electoral College been prevented,
the House of Representatives would have
elected him according to the forms of law,
and made itself responsible for bis induction
into the office which belonged to him.
Mr. Tildeu listened intently to the remarks
of his visitor, a gentleman nearly twenty
years his senior. He replied that he had
thought carefully and most conscientiously
over the subject in all its possible phases;
that he had become convinced that, should
he adopt the course suggested, it would be
resisted by the Radical party to the extent of
drenching the land in blood ; that he shrunk
from the responsibility of precipitating another
terrible civil war upen his countrymen,
and consented to the compromise which averted
so dread a disaster. He felt as keenly as
anv one the iniDroDrietv of the means by
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which the preseut result had been brought
about, but for all that he did not regret his
own action. As it was, the people of the
United States understood it; the Democratic
party to day occupied such a proud attitude
before the country as it had never occupied
before, and no mortal power could resist its
triumphal march to success in 1880.
Morton on the Political Situation.
Senator Morton has written a lengthy
letter on the political situation. The gist of
his letter is, thaf while he does not intend to
break with President Hayes if possible, yet
he is determined, if such a scheme can be accomplished,
that the Republican party shall
not participate in the policy that recognizes
the war as having at last come to an end, and
that regards the Southern States as restored to
the Union. He has not abated a particle in
his hatred of the South, and abandoning all
hope for the negro vote in the future, his purpose
is to offset a solid South with a solid
North. He thus concludes his letter :
"The Republican party South, with all its
errors, waged a noble contest for right, and
the courage and self-sacrifice displayed by its
members are embalmed in history. The
warmest sympathies of the Republicans of tbe
North attend those of the South in their desonarnoaf
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laic auu UUUUUC uuuuniuilj nil/u UIIV VUI uvwv r
hope that the dark, overhanging cloud may
have a silver lining, and that there may be a
day of speedy resurrection. By the voluntary
withdrawal of the army, the South has been
placed on her good behavior. Following
their bloody campaigns for political power,
they have been treated with magnanimity,
and should they fail to protect all classes and
races in the enjoyment of their rights, the
most conservative Republican will see there
is no security but to preserve the government
in the hands of the Republican party.
"As the Democracy have acquired a solid
South by force, the Republicans should acquire
a solid North by their vigilance and the
eternal justice of their cause. Northern Republicans
are now admonished that they can
endure no divisions that will endanger their
success. Should the North by unhappy discords
be divided, and thus fall a prey to the
solid Confederate South, the rebellion will
have been suppressed in vain, the fruits of the
war will be lost, and our last condition worse
than the first."
Mr. Stephens on the Situation.
The New York Tribune gives the following
summary of what it claims to be the
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Views UI X1UII. XX. XX. ULCpucua .
The Hon. A. H. Stephens gives the heartiest
and most complete sort of an endorsement
of the President's policy. He is sure
the political feeling of the South "ought to be
a hearty support of Mr. Hayes," for "he is
doinj well, very well." As for the Northern
Democrats, they "endorse him and his policy."
When a correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer asked him if they ought to indorse
a man "who holds his office by fraud,"
Mr. Stephens replied : "That has nothing to
do with it. Whether Mr. Hayes went into
office by fraud or otherwise, it makes no difference
now that his policy has become known.
And that policy is, as you see, a concession of
all that the Democrats have asked. Occupying
their ground exactly, they ean't afford to
abuse him. What do the people care who
governs? They don't stop to think whether
it's A B or C D, this man or that, this party
or that. All they care for is a good government,
and then they don't mind who is in
power?nobody except the few miserable politicians
who make a living off of office. I am
greatly pleased with Mr. Hayes, because I
think he wants to do the fair thing. He has
come up to the principles of the Democratic
party in relatiou to the treatment of the
South. That was all that in reality separated
the two parties before. He having come
to our way of thinking, I cannot help admiring
him for it." "Will this course of his
split the Democratic party here in the South?"
"Why should it ? It doesn't split up a party
often to have men who have been its opponents
to come over and advocate its principles.
It strengthens it instead of weakening
it. There are no Republicans here in the
South?noue except a few carpet-baggers and
scalawags who want offices, As for the negro,
he is nothing but a machine?an instrument
in the hands of the politicians to vote
as they want, for this man, or for that, just
as things may seem to demand. He is not to
be taken into account in making up the estimate,
because he goes just as they want him
to go."
Hayes on the Mississippi Affair,
Tko mnhKino nf fho Phiihnlm family i
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in Kemper county, Mississippi, has attracted !
the attention of President Hayes, who, it is f
said, is watching, with much interest, the j
course of Goveruor Stone, of that State, in ;
regard to the investigation of the circum-!
stances attending the affair. In connection
with the Chisholm massacre, a Washington :
dispatch says:
Advices come from Louisiana of another
trouble similar in its character, and it seems, i
so far, to have been entirely without provocation.
This case will afford Governor Nicholls
an opportunity to demonstrate to what
extent he will carry out his promises of protection
to all classes of citizens within his,
State. The occurrences at this time are re- j
garded by the Hayes party as particularly
uufortunate, for whatever may have been the
motives or circumstances causing tbem, tbey
cannot but inspire an unfavorable impression
upon tbe public mind of tbe Nortb. Hayea
and his Cabinet have now under consideration
what, steps shall be taken to call tbe attention
of tbe Executive authorities in the
States of Mississippi and Louisiana to these
occurrences, which, though recognized as local
in their character, at the same time are
claimed to have a direct connection with the
duty of the Executive authority of the United
States, to see that the pledges which formed
a part of the restoration of constitutional
relations between the Federal Government
and the States of the South should be carried
out. The South stands upon its honor to see
that all these pledges are faithfully observed,
and the Government will, the members say,
not be indifferent to its duty in the premises.
Republicans here say: "There is no occasion
for apprehension in the minds of the people
that these violations will be overlooked. This
subject, which is now under consideration,
will take tbe shape of a formal inquiry."
It is rumored that Governor Stone has declared
it to be his intention to let the Chisholm
affair "blow over" without an investigation.
rather than take anv steDS that may stir
up more angry feeliDg. This proposed action
of Governor Stone is generally deprecated by
the leading papers of the South.
Correspondence of the Yorltville Enqnirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER,
Chester, May 28,1877.
The Directors of the Cheater and Cheraw
Railroad decided upon changing the liue of
the road for the first two or three miles from
this place, and recently a survey was made in
conformity with this determination. According
to the first survey, the liue ran by the
Cemetery, and on the Chester and Lenoir
Railroad track, which the Chester and Cheraw
Railroad Company intended using for a
short distance. The objection to this route
was the steep grade from the Cemetery, which,
[ it was feared, might be the occasion of many
accidents. Hence a new line was ordered,
and, according to the new survey, will cross
the Charlotte and Columbia Railroad track
on the south side of the depot, and run into
town from that direction. Notwithstanding
the grading by the Cemetery route was completed,
still it was considered best to adopt
the new line. The grading by this way will
be, for the most part, light, and was commenced
on last Tuesday. It will be finished
in the course of a few weeks, and then the
track will be ready for the iron, a portion of
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which has already arrived at (jastonia. vv.
H. Hardin, Esq., has displayed both ability
and energy in the management of the road,
since he was invested with the Presidency.
Rich Hill, if not the River, will doubtless be
reached in time for the moving of the next
crop.
Alex. Caldwell and Sam Westbrook, both
colored, were, on Tuesday, examined by Trial
Justice Sanders, charged with stealing clothing
from Dr. Moffat Wylie. The truth of the
scriptural expression, "Be sure your sin will
ffnd you out," is again shown by the following
facts : A few weeks ago, Alex. Caldwell and
John Moore, colored, were arrested and
brought here, charged with stealing Dr. Moffat
Wylie's clothes. The testimony against
the former was not such as to warrant the
Trial Justice in committing him, aud he was
discharged ; the testimony against the latter,
while it was weak, justified the Justice in
committing him to jail. A few days ago Tom
Smith, colored, was seen in Winnsboro with
a considerable quantity of money, which, it
was supposed, be had obtained unlawfully.
He was arrested, searched, and, besides money,
upon his person was found a watch, which
belonged to Mr. Patrick, whose store at White
Oak had recently been robbed. He is now
confined in Winnsboro jail. Shortly after
this important development, an officer of the
law went to Smith's house and obtained, af
ter tnreats or arrest ana imprisonment, rrom
his wife and daughter a quantity of money
that had been buried in the yard, and the
clothes that bad been stolen from Dr. Moffat
Wylie. In addition to Smith, they implicated,
in the stealing of these things, John
Moore, Alex. Caldwell and Sam Westbrook.
The 6rst two are in jail at this place; Westbrook
gave bond and was released. Another
band of robbers have come to grief. They
will in due time swell the host of thieves that
611 the Penitentiary.
Our county jail was 6red on last Tuesday.
Fortunately the 6re was discovered, and the
flames extinguished before any damage was
done. The perpetrator of this incendiary
act is unknown.
On Wednesday Messrs. Bennett & Moffat
tried one of their mowers upon a clover patch
in town. A considerable number of persons
were present to witness the catting of the
clover. All were pleased with the admirable
manner in which the mower did its work.
Mr. Samuel Bond, who was for many years
! a member of Harmony (Baptist) Church,.of
this county, departed this life recently at the
age of 65 years. His death, which was sudden,
was produced by heart disease. He was
a pood man and eood citizen. He leaves a
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wife and several children to mourn his loss.
There was a general suspension of business
at this place on Thanksgiving Day. Religious
services were held at the Methodist and
Associate Reformed Churches. Rev. Mr.
Carlisle preached a good sermon from the
text, "Sing the mercies of the Lord forever."
He referred in appropriate terms to our recent
deliverance from political ills. The congregation
was not large. Instead of going to
church, there were those who passed the day
quietly at their homes, or in the enjoyment of
amusements in the country. Torbit's Mill
was visited by a large party, who found happiness
in fishing.
Cold weather reappeared on Friday morning.
Fires and warm clothing were exceedingly
comfortable. The young cotton suffered
some injury from the cold. A dry spell
has also prevailed for some time, which has
resulted in some damage to the gardens.
A sturgeon, measuring eight feet and four
inches in length and weighing two hundred
and four pounds, was recently caught at Neel's
Shoals on Broad river. Messrs. Jos. Carter,
Sr., J. F. Woodsand J. N. McCollum,were the
catchers of this immense fish. They succeeded
in driving it into shallow water, when Mr.
Carter mounted its back, and held it, while
the others killed it.
At the Baptist Ctaurcb last evening, i&ev.
Mr. Sanders spoke of the proceedings of the
late Baptist Convention at New Orleans, of
which be was a member. The Home (Baptist)
Mission Board, he said, was in a prosperous
condition. It was involved in debt a few
yea re ago to the extent of 820,000 ; now there
is only a small amount against it, for the
payment of which provision has been made.
The same prosperity did not exist in reference
to the Foreigu Mission Board. A considerable
number of the missionaries had
been compelled to return home in consequence
of sickness, but having recruited their health,
and expressed their willingness and desire to
gc back to their missionary fields, the Board
was unable to furnish them with the means.
The people were earnestly exhorted to contribute
to the cause of missions. Mr. Sanders
alluded to the opening address of Rev. Dr.
Boyce, the President of the Convention, in
which reference was made, in eloquent and
affecting terms, to the distinguished dead of
the miuistry of ti e Baptist Church during
the past year. After speaking of the Con
vention, he made some interesting remarks
concerning the city of New Orleans. While
he was favorably impressed with the politeness
and accommodating spirit of the people,
he does not believe them to be a religious
people. Their desecration of Sunday he
greatly condemned. Mr. Sanders, in his cursory
remarks, made mention of a beautiful
monument at the New Orleans Cemetery,
which consisted of a magnificent granite base,
upon which rested statues of Generals Lee,
Jackson and Sydney Johnson, surmounted
by a representation of a Confederate soldier,
with musket in hand and in the attitude of a
seutinel. The statuary was executed in
Italy. Qul
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Latimer A Hemphill?School Books?Lemons
and Oranges?Sundries?8cythe Stones.
Kennedy Bros. A Barron?Six finger Grain Cradles
Sugars?Arlington Hook and Ladder
Company?Tobacco?School Books.
Hunter A Oates?Head-Quarters for Parasols and
Fans?Prints and Bleached Goods?Dresa
Goods?Seine Twine?Curtain Lace?Gents
Furnishing Goods?Cassimeres, Ac.?Boots
and Shoes?Hardware.
H. F. Adickes?Cane Matting?Blue York Cloth? J
Linen Goods?Linen Lawns?Ladies' Gai- fl
ters. 1
W. H. A J. P. Herndon?Better Your Condition? I
Hoes?Grain Cradles?Flour?Collars. ^
John C. Kuykendal?In the matter of Pills?Staple
Drugs?Appliances?Tobacco.
T. M. Dobson A Co.?Millet Seed?Shoes?Pocket
Knives?Parasols?Umbrellas?Fly Brushes?Cork
Corsets?Bed Ticking?Cottonad
es?Ready-Made Clothing?HardwareDress
Goods?Black Alpacca?TrunksSheeting?Grain
Cradles?Groceries?Valises?Curtain
Lace Spool Cotton?Carpet
Bags?Meal Bags?Store Door Locks?Machine
Needles.
E. E. Snmner, Superintendent?Chester and Lenoir
Railroad.
Hoyt, Emlyn A McDaniel?The Columbia Register.
FORT MILL MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
At the recent election of town officers for
Fort Mill, J. W. Ardry was elected Intendont
and R Cihunn T. R. Withers. R. 8.
Wilson and R. Younge, Wardens.
COOL WEATHER.
For the past week the temperature has
been unusually cool for the season. For several
mornings past, fires have been absolutely
necessary for comfort. Farmers tell us
that the weather is very favorable to wheat,
though not beneficial to corn and cotton.
COUNTY INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE.
Dr. W. M. Walker, foreman of the grand
jury of this county, has appointed Messrs.
Walter T. Barron and Robert Black, members
of the jury, to act in conjunction with
himself as a committee to investigate the
various public offices of York county, in
accordance with the order of Judge Mackey,
made at the last term of the Circuit Court
FINE APPLES.
Mrs. J. Alburtis Batch ford has favored us
with some very fine apples of last season's
growth. They are of the variety known as
the "Shockley," which seems to be well adapted
to this climate. They ripen in October,
and are remarkable as good keepers, as is attested
by those sent as, which were as sound
as when taken from the tree more than six
months ago.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
On Sunday morning, last Johnnie, aged
about twelve years, son of Mr. W. Y. Jones,
of the Bethesda neighborhood, was thrown
from a horse, after which the animal stepped
on his leg, inflicting a compound fracture.
The large bone of the foreleg protruded 1}
inches through the skin, and madeau incision
of 2} inches in the flesh?producing an ugly
and painful wound. Dr. J. H. Clawsou, of
this place, was immediately summoned, and
was assisted in setting the broken limb by
Doctors Sandifer, Love and Crawford.
THE PR0P08ED MILITIA COMPANY.
A goodly number of citizens was iu attendance
at the Court House last Friday
evening for the purpose of taking the initiatory
steps of organizing a volunteer militia
company. In the absence of Maj. James F.
Hart, Chairntau, Maj. W. B. Melts was called
to the chair, and A. Springs Withers acted
as secretary. About sixty names were reported
as already enrolled. After the transaction
of other business, the meeting adjourned
until to-morrow (Friday) eveniug at 5
o'clock, when there will be au election of officers
and a full organization of the company.
THE JENKIN8 MONUMENT.
We are in receipt of the following note on
thesabjectof the proposed monument to be
erected to the memory of the gallant Jenkins :
Tirzae, 8. Cy May 25.
"Soldiers! remember you are Carolinians ; a
your country is in peril 1" These were the
inspiring words of our noble chieftain, Gen.
M. Jenkins, on the memorable day of the
battle of the Wilderness. Should we not be
Carolinians in peace as well as in war? Let
us, then, perpetuate his name and his deeds
with a monument "more lasting than brass,"
and one befitting the illustrious hero and patriot
who sacrificed his life on the altar of his
country. Comrades of those eventful days,
extend the call I Company G, P. S. S.
THANKSGlVlNG DAY.
In Yorkville, Thanksgiving day was observed
by nearly every body on Thursday
last. With the exception of one bar-room
and a small store kept by a colored citizen near
the depot, every business house in town was
closed. Divine services were held at the
Episcopal and the Presbyterian churches.
At the former, the Rector, Rev. R. P. Johnson,
officiated. At the latter, Presbyterians,
Methodists, Associate Reformed Presbyterians
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BUU juapuoui uuitcu IU wwioiup, auu wore ?udressed
by Rev. W. S. Martin, pastor of
the M. E. Church, who, without the formality
of taking a regular text, delivered an able
and entertaining discourse suited to the occasion.
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The colored people were generally disposed
to observe the day. Ex-Representative Nelson
Davies, who has a store near the depot,
closed bis doors, and we are informed that the
only reason why services commemorative of
the occasion were not held at the colored
churches, was owing to the fact that sufficient
notice had not been given, and the members
generally were not aware that such a day had
been set apart by the Governor.
HERE-MENTION.
Postmasters in the South and West complain
of silver accumulating on their hands.
They are compelled to take it in sums of $5
for stamps, and cannot disburse it. Gen.
Joseph R. Hawley, now of Connecticut, and
President of the Centennial Commission, is a
native of Wilmington, N. C. Ex-Admiral
Serames, of the Confederate Navy, is practicing
law in Mobile, Alabama. On the
same day last week, five steamers sailed from
New York for European ports, laden with
grain and beef. Four inches of snow fell
in inassacnusetts on * naay last. Tbe arch- ?^
itect of the Ruckford, Illinois, Court-house,
recently fallen in, has been adjudged guilty
of criminal and fatal negligence. Two
Connecticut bank officers have been sentenced
to the penitentiary for five years each, for
giving false representations of their bank affairs.
Mexico has increased the duties
upon imports. Ex-President Grant has
sailed for England. Fletcher Harper,
the youngest and the last of the original firm
of Harper & Brothers, is lying at the point
of death with gastric fever An extensive
system of piracy has been discovered on
the coast of Nova Scotia. The request
of Governor Emory, that troops be sent to
Utah, has been referred to General Sherman.
General Crook will be sect to Utah to investigate
the necessity for the movement.**"^'Attorney-General
Devins has given employment
in his office to Thomas Simma, whom
as United States Marshal of Massachusetts
j uuder Fillmore, he overhauled as a fugitive
i slave from Georgia." The Postmaster
General reached Atlanta, Ga., last Saturday
evening, on a tour through the South, his object
being to secure improved mail facilitiea
for the Southern States. 1