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Jtoaps and Jarts. I
? The remnant of the famous Table Rock,
at Niagara Falls, fell a few days ago.
? Rumor now has it that Gen. Ben Butler
will hereafter reside in and practice law in
New York city.
? Beast Butler says he issued that famous
order against the ladies of New Orleans, because
he knew it would please the Massachusetts
school tnarms.
? The infant son of Col. Nicholas Smith and
his wife, Ida Greeley Smith, has just been
christened Horace Greeley, in honor of his
dead grandfather, the great journalist.
? As an evidence of the regard the Americans
feel for the father of his country, there
are thirty-four counties and two hundred and
five towns and villages in the United States
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? Virginians claim that since'the whippingpost
was reestablished in that State, most of
the jails have been emptied, petty crimes have
almost ceased, and vagrants are seen no more
in the streets.
? Queen Victoria has just attained her fif.ty-eighth
birthday. Only twelve others of
the reigning sovereigns of Christendom (out
of thirty-eight in all) have attained to this
age.
? Since P. T. Barnum offered $10,000 for
the return of Charley Ross, he has received a
great number of letters from people who know
where the boy is, and want $50 or $150 to
send detectives to get him.
? Learning that George Peabody and
Grant are the only Americans to whom the
freedom of London has been tendered, the
Boston Post observes that one is noted for
what be gave, and the other is famous for
what he has received.
? The Philadelphia Times says that Associate
Justice Wright, of South Carolina, is a
colored man of full blood and a native of
Pennsylvania. He lived in Susquehanna
county previoas to the war, and studied law
and was admitted to the bar. He is without
education.
? Cooked snails are said to possess the power
of restoring tone to the coating of the
stomach when badly injured by strong drink.
The sale of snails is a source of much profit
to the peasants of Tivoli, near Rome, Italy,
and the flavor is said to be more delicious
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? A patentee of a favorite "bitters" testified
under oath that a fifteen-ounce bottle thereof
contains fourteen ounces of whisky and one
ounce spirits of juniper. A contemporary
thinks be might have thrown much more
light on the "bitters" question if he had been
required to tell what the fourteen ounces of
whisky are made of.
? Ex-Governor Chamberlain's wife is quoted
by a Cincinnati Gazette writer as saying:
"Daniel has had all the notoriety he cares
for, and more than he ever dreamed of having.
He has had quite enough of political
life. Now he is going to live for me and the
children, and make something remunerative
out of his profession."
? The New York Tribune gives a rather
formidable list of churohes in that city upon
which mortgages rest. The Presbyterian
Churches there are in debt, $706,000; Reformed,
$644,000; Protestant Episcopal,
$453,000; Roman Catholic, $229,000 ; Baptist,
$212,000; and other denominations
enough to bring the total up to nearly $2,400,000.
? Apropos of the political complications in
Europe, it may be of interest to know the cost
of the maintenance of soldiers in each of the
great countries on the other side of the ocean.
It is said that England spends for each of
her soldiers $500 per annum ; Russia, $240;
France, $234.40; Belgium, $207.40 ; Germany,
$195 ; Turkey, $184.40; Italy, $183.46 ;
Denmark, $176; Spain, $155; Austria, $144.
? The first shipment of pig iron from
America to Europe has been made. Five
tons have gone from Pittsburg to Antwerp.
Belgium is importing American car wheels,
which seem likely to come into extended use
in that country. That will indeed be a commercial
revolution when we cease to be dependent
on foreign countries for iron and
steel.
? When the members of the Louisiana returning
board were in the custody of the
House of Representatives at Washington last
wiuter, some of their sympathizing Republican
friends in the Senate raised a sustaining
purse of $1,100, both for aid and comfort and
for obstinacy. But the white members gobbled
the whole money, and the black men actually
had to borrow money to get home to
Louisiana again.
? Among the papers submitted to Attorney
General Devens, by District Attorney Howard
of Utah, are the unpublished portions of
Lee's confession, which are said to implicate
Brigham Young and other high members of
the Mormon Church in the Mountain Meadow
Massacre. The chief obstacle to effecting
a conviction upon Lee's statement is said to
be the difficulty of procuring witnesses, now
widely scattered.
? The Detroit Tribune publishes a number
p i - * i r* 1 ? J ? t_i; l
or letters irom leauiug xvepuuncuus ui tue
State in response to a circular asking opinion
upon the President's Southern policy. Seventeen
of the letters cordially approve of that
policy, as the only wise and just course; eight
give their qualified approval with regret at
some of the results. Three are doubtful and
four are emphatic in their condemnation. All,
however, are warmly in favor of standing by
the party and the administration.
? The tax collector of the first district of
New Orleans has been in office only two
months and a half, but his returns show that
iu licenses alone he has received more than
was paid into the same office during the whole
of last year. This has been done without employing
any harsh or even urgent means to
force such collections, but is due to the cheerful
readiness of all classes of the people to pay
their taxes to a government which they feel
confident will make a proper application and
render an honest account of the same. The
other tax collectors of New Orleans have
been equally successful.
? The Baltimore Sun's Washington special
says, alluding to Chief Justice Waiter "Although
not stated by his authority, it is known
that the Chief Justice was not pleased with
his experience in South Carolina, either political
or social. In regard to the trials of
the Ellenton Drisoners. the Chief Justice was
not pleased that the jury were divided on the
color line?the six black jurors being for conviction
and the six white jurors for acquittal.
The impression produced on the mind of the
Chief Justice was that some of the prisoners
were guilty and ought to have been convicted.
? And now California comes to the front
with a tale of longevity a little over-topping
anything the East has yet afforded. Her
name is Seiiora Peras Glen, a Mexican woman
of San Gabriel mission, and her age, established
by undisputed record, 140 years.
She was married at 13, and has eleven children.
She is now living with her youngest?
a baby of 83. She was a tobacco smoker till
fifteen years since, when she left off the habit,
as likewise that of wine drinking. A singular
fact is that her hair, once of a snowy
whiteness, is turning black and silky, and
another half century, it is believed, will restore
the venerable seiiora to blooming girlhood
again.
? Twelve States will hold elections during !
the present year, to-wit: Kentucky, August
6; Vermont, September 4; California, September
5-; Maine, September 10; Iowa and
Ohio, October 9, and Massachusetts, Mississippi,
New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and
Wisconsin, November 0. In four of these
State Legislatures are to be chosen, which
will furnish successors to a like number of
United States Senators whose terms expire
on March 4, 1879, viz.: Kentucky, California,
New York and Ohio, in all of which it
is probable the Democrats will be successful.
In Mississippi two amendments are to be voted
for?one to abolish the otfice of Lieutenant
Governor, and the other to have the Legislature
to meet once every two years, instead of
every year.
? The imports of foreign dry goods at New
York during May were about $300,000 more
than during the corresponding month of 1876,
but for the portion of 1877 that has passed
the dry goods importation has fallen off near
$4,000,000 as compared with the corresponding
period of last year. Then there is less
being thrown on the market and more going
into the warehouses. In fact the country is
learning more and more to use domestic
goods, and this, with other causes, is interfering
with foreign importations. In 1871-72,
in eleven months the dry goods importations
at New York exceeded $134,000,000; now it
does not reach $73,000,000, and the decline
year by year has been a steady one.
She f othiille inquirer.
YORKVILLE, S, C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 21,1877.
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Mies Sena Young, of Hock Hill, died on
Tuesday of last week.
? C. W. Buttz, of Charleston, ex-CoDgressman,
Solicitor, etc., is suing for a divorce.
? The election for Senator of Darlington
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the Senate for the 26th instant.
? The Catholics of Charleston sent seven
hundred dollars to Pope Pius IX, on the recent
occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of
his elevation to the papacy.
? The Marlboro Planter states that ex-Senator
Whittemore is not living in Boston, but
in a retired place outside the city, and amuses
himself and family with rides for pleasure.
? It is rumored in Columbia that Judge
Carpenter will refuse to surrender the judgeship
of the fifth circuit to Judge Kershaw,
until he is forced to do so by law.
? Andrew Crawford, Jr., a young lawyer of
Columbia, has been nominated as the democratic
candidate for Judge of Probate for
Richland county. The Radicals have nominated
W. R. Marshall, former reading Clerk
of the House of Representatives, for the same
position.
? Governor Hampton left Columbia last
Friday night for New York, for the purpose
of effecting the loan of 8100,000, under the
joint resolution of the General Assembly. He
will also, while absent, attend a reunion of
the Shields Guards at Albany, to which he
has been specially invited.
? In the account of the recent fire in
Union, copied into the Enquirer from the
Union Times, the statement was made by the
Times that the origin of the fire was attributed
to the careless throwing of a match among
some loose paper by a clerk in W. R. Briggs
& Co.'s store, after lighting a cigar. Since
that publication appeared, the young man alluded
to informs the editor of the Times that
there was no loose paper anywhere near
where he threw the match, and when he threw
it, after lighting his cigar, he stepped on it
and be believes it was put out. And further,
that his brother was in the store after he left
it and saw no fire then. As we published
the paragraph imputing carelessness to the
clerk, in justice to him we give him the benefit
of his statement. The Times concludes
that the origin of the fire is as yet a mystery.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? A colored company, bearing the name of
the Mecklenburg Guards, has been organized
in Charlotte.
? The first distinction in the senior class at
Davidson College was awarded to Mr. \V. S.
Moore, a son of D. D. Moore, Esq., of Rock
Hill, S. C.
? Charles M. Lines, the pioneer shoe manufacturer
of the South, for the wholesale
trade, died in Thom:isville on the 12th inst.,
aged 74 years.
? John A. Hyman, colored, ex-member of
Congress, has been appointed collector of internal
revenue for the 2nd collection district
of North Carolina.
? It is telegraphed from Washington that
C. S. Winstead, internal revenue collector of
the 5th or Greensboro district, has been in
vited to resign. His successor has not yet
been named.
? Mrs. Victoria Bolejack, wife of Nat.
Bolejack, was divorced from her husband at
the late term of Stokes court. She was a
Miss Bunker, daughter of one of the Siamese
twins.
? A portion of the King's Mountain gold
mine in Gaston county, covering an area of a
quarter of an acre, caved in last week, which
will delay operations for six or eight months.
The disaster occurred in the evening, while
all the miners were out, aud fortunately no
human life was endangered.
? A horrible case of infanticide has been
discovered in Iredell county. Sarah Johnson,
a girl of but 17 or 18 years, destroyed her newborn
infant?an illegitimate child?by cutting
its throat A man named Houston, the
reputed father of the child, has been arrested
and placed in jail, charged with being accessory
to the deed.
? The commencement exercises at Trinity
College closed last Thursday afternoon. By
reason of his official engagements, Governor
Hampton was prevented from attending for
the purpose of delivering an address, as had
been expected. Short addresses were delivered
by Governor Vance and Hon. James M.
Leach.
? The Charlotte Observer says that quite an
excitement nas oeeu goueu up omuug mc
colored people of that section by one of their
number from South Carolina, who has appeared
among them as an advocate of emigration
to Liberia. The better and more industrious
class of colored people, however, oppose
the movement.
? The Lincoln Progress says the portion of
Gaston county lying between that town and
Dallas, is infested with a great many mad
dogs. A cow bitten by one of them made a
violent charge on a wagon and team a few
days ago, but was soon dispatched by a rifle
gun. The people of Gaston are considerably
excited over the number of mad dogs in their
midst.
A WONDERFUL DISCOVERT.
Dr. J. W. Davenport, a Dative of South
Carolina, but who has been for several years
residing in Dallas, Texas, has made a Chemical
discovery, which bids fair to prove of in-'
calculable benefit to the human family, while
it will also completely revolutionize all methods
heretofore in vogue for the preservation
of fresh meats, vegetables, fruits, etc. The
discovery is thus described by the New Orleans
Democrat:
A learned and practical physician?Dr. J.
W. Davenport, of Dallas, Texas?has made
a discovery, and obtained the patent therefor,
which promises to be of incalculable value
and usefulness to the present and future generations.
It is simply the ascertainment of
the chemical components of a fluid for keeping
all kinds of fruits, vegetables and meats
fresh, sweet and pure. The aim of the ingenious
chemist has been to discover the ingredients
of a pickle which would arrest the
process of decomposition and extinguish the
germ of decay of all animal and vegetable
substances without impairing their flavor or
imparting to them auy injurious effect. It is
simply a pickle of the most inexpensive sort,
costing infinitely less than brine or vinegar,
in which any meat or vegetable may be kept
in vessels, submerged for months, and when
taken out will be found as pure and fresh as
when the vegetables came from the garden
or the meat from the butcher's stall. This
pickle may be furnished and prepared at a
coet of four cents per barrel. The pickle is
so nearly tasteless and palatable as to demonstrate
its iunocuousness, and yet from the
specimen we saw yesterday at 61 Carondelet
street, green corn which had been immersed
in it for twelve months, when boiled, could
not be distinguished from the corn which had
been gathered that morning. Mutton and
pork chops, and even fat papabottes, placed
in this pickle weeks ago, when subjected to
heat, bad preserved all their original freshness
and flavor. No one would ever suspect
that they had ever been brought in contact
with any chemical fluid or substance. It
would appear that this fluid is far more effective
and reliable in preserving vegetables
and meats in their original freshness than the
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This fact being established, the superiority
both for nourishment and health of freBh
over salt meats would secure its universal
adoption, and prove invaluable for use on
ships, in armies, and on plantations. The
simple anti-scorbutic effects of such a preservation
of fresh meat and vegetables would
render it of incalculable benefit.
The Dallas (Texas) Commercial, published
in Dr. Davenport's town, speaks in the highest
terms of the discovery, the editor having
had ample opportunities of testing the same.
In the issue of the Commercial of May 14th,
the editor says :
To-day the writer visited Dr. Davenport's
residence, and reinspected some of the materials
which have been preserved by the process.
The demonstration of its success are as
complete as the evidences of the senses of
sight, touch and taste could make them.
Green corn, plucked now nearly two years
ago, is as fresh, nutritious and as sweet as if
the shucks had just been taken from it. Tomatoes
are, by virtue of the preservative, always
ripe and luscious. Asparagus can't
wilt, after snhifiction to the Doctor's treatment.
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passing from the vegetable kingdom to
the animal, the experiments?perhaps we
should say triumphs?are startling. *
* * In short, Dr. Davenport has discovered
and applied an antiseptic principle
which bids fair to do away with all canning
and dessicating business. He can instruct
whoever will, at a cost that is a mere trifle, to
have a garden all the year round, to have
fresh meats forever, and the applicability of
his process is almost limitless.
Mr. L. G. Strauss, who can be seen at the
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store of M. Strauss & Son, in Yorkville, has
on exhibition, corn, fruit and vegetables, preserved
Ly this process over twelve months
ago, retaining their original freshness as if
they had been plucked but yesterday. Mr.
Strauss will be pleased to show the samples
to any one interested in the subject of keeping
fresh fruits and vegetables throughout the
year.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Hayes aud His Party.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, says it is positively certain
that at the extra session there will be a decided
stand taken against Hayes and his policy,
by his party friends in both Houses of Congress.
It will be initiated in executive session
in the Senate, but will soon spread to the
open sessions. In the present very nearly
equal political division of parties in the Senate,
the result will be that even in the absence
of any formal alliance or understanding
with Hifluffected Renublicans. the Demo
cratic Senators will, nine times out of ten, be
able to control both legislation and the approval
or rejection of appointments.
The Belligerent Mexicans.
Gen. Sheridan telegraphs officially to
Washington, confirming a news dispatch from
Galveston, Texas, which says that on Sunday
a detachment of Government Mexican troops
crossed the Rio Grande to avoid a conflict
with a superior force of Revolutionists who
were closiug in on them. The Revolutionists
crossed in pursuit, killed several, and then
returned to the Mexican side. The military
at Fort Clark s arrested the Mexican Government
troops for violation of neutrality laws.
Gen. Sheridan regards the prisoners as a hard
set and wants to get rid of them; but the
War Department directs that they be fed and
detained. .n >
A Hint to Political Agents.
A Washington dispatch says that some
time since a special agent of the Department
was appointed from QPeof the Southern States
and assigned to duty in the South. This
duty proved arduous and sometimes disagreeable,
and led to a letter from the new special
agent, in which he insisted that his labors
should be confined to his own State, and that
the understanding when he was appointed
was that he should aid his party friendB in
organizing an administration party in bis
State. This assumption on his part called
forth a letter from the Postoffice department,
in which the following languages used:
"You were not appointed to organize and
build up an administration party in your
State or elsewhere. You were appointed to
do the work of the Postoffiee department
You serve your party best by doing that
work, and I shall take great pleasure in removing
an agent and reducing the force when
I discover that he has time to attend to party
I organization and party discipline. We must
| have no greater force than is necessary to do
' the Postoffice work, and politics is no part of
I this work."
The Tnrco Russian War.
i A cable dispatch of the 18th, reports a
terrible battle last Sunday between the Turks j
and Montenegrins. The cable says the ad-j
vance of the Turks from Podgoritza to Albania
has been carefully watched by Monten- j
egrin spies, and every precaution has been ta;
ken in selecting a suitable point at which to
i receive the invading party. The Turks moved
forward to Spuz, reaching that place Friday
Dight and encamping. On Saturday
morning, at daylight, the advance into Montenegro
began. The Turkish force numbered
10,000 men, under ooramand of Ali Saib.
The Montenegrins had taken up their station
at Plana, 3,000 strong. About 10 o'clock j
the Turkish advance came upon the Monten-'
egrin pickets, who fell back to the main body
An hour later fourteen battalions of Ali Sail
came up, and without halting attacked the
Mufttenefcriln position. Four determined at
tacks were made by tbe Turks, but in eacl
instance-they were repulsed by the Montenegrins,
Boursa Petrovich bad thrown up twe
rows of entrenchments behind these ramparts
The Moqtenegrins fought with a safe retreat
into wooded bills always open behind them
The third advance of the Turks was made
with eight battalions, led by Ali Saib in person.
Flushed with three victories, the Montenegrins
saw that their enemies came up tc
the attack with little heart; therefore thej
refrained from firing until they were within
200 yards, and then poured a heavy vollej
into their enemy's front, as a small body ol
Montenegrin horsemen dashed out from eithei
side aud fell upon the flanks. At first the
flanks wavered, but rapidly changing front,
killed many of the attacking party. The
centre came up without halting until it received
a second volley; then, through some
mid taken order, or because of disinclination
to advance, the Turks halted. The Montenegrins
sprang over the parapet of their entrenchments
and attacked the column with
bayonets. The Turks broke, but were partially
rallied by Ali Saib, and fell back about
two miles, in tolerable shape, to an open pieoe
of country. Meanwhile the Montenegrins
had reformed, and pursued the Turks. The
retreat soon became a rout, and the Montenegrin
horsemen pursued the Turks to Spuz,
The Turkish dead at Plana along the road
certainly equalled 2,000 men, besides many
wounded and a few prisoners.
MERE-MENTION.
Alabama is harvesting a fine wheat crop,
and the corn and cotton are clean and doing
well." News has been received of a fight
between the command of Captain Lee, of the
10th cavalry, and a band of Comanche Indians,
near Lake Quemado, on the Texas
frontier, in which four Indians and one soldier
were killed. From an investigation
of the case, it appears that McClelland, killed
in the Chisholm tragedy, had, previous tc
the affair, forfeited all claim to British pro......A
firn of T^onotnr Alabama laal
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Friday, destroyed a number of business houses,
involving a loss of $37,000. Georgia's
colored cadet, Flipper, stood eixtyfourth
in a class of seventy-six.",;,,The vote
in Georgia last week on the question of calling
a Constitutional Convention resulted in a
majority of nearly 10,000 in favor of the
Convention. R. A. Thompson, a Democratic
journalist, has been appointed Postmaster
of Memphis, Tenn. Oliver H,
Dockery, of North Carolina, has been appointed
Consul to Leeds. Kenneth Rayner,
of North Carolina, has been appointed
Solicitor of the Treasury. This is the appointment
which was declined by ex-Gover or
Chamberlain.
The revenue officers in Sonthwestern Virginia
are clamoring at Washington for a sufficient
force to cooperate with them in suppressing
illicit distilling. Caleb Cushing
has resigned the Spanish Mission. The
Commercial Fire Insurance Company of St,
Louis has failed. Senator Bogy was the
heaviest stockholder, and will lose $100,000,
His son Joseph, President of the Company,
loses $60.000. Silver is now going out
of the United States Treasury at the rate of a
million a month. Tbe officer crop is toe
large for the army. Seventy-seven West
Pointers graduated at the recent examination,
and Gen. Sherman does not know what
to do with them?especially Flipper, the colored
graduate.' "'The dollar of our fathers"
is the cry of the hard money men, while
not a few young men would be content with
the dollars of the father-in-law. Tennessee
makes $70,500 a year by leasing her convicts.
A covered bridge over the Connecticut
river, between Northampton and
Hadley, was blown over by a hurricane last
Thursday. There were six teams on the
bridge, and a lady was killed. Stephen
Brinkley, white, was hauged at Newnan,
Georgia, for the murder of his wife, nearly
four years ago. The case has been tried seven
times, each time going against the prisoner.
Insanity was the plea of the prisoner.
THE COTTON CROP.
Mr. Dodge, the agricultural statistician oi
the Agricultural Bureau at Washington, reports
as the result of the official canvass of the
area iu cotton this year an increase of jearly
four per cent, upon the acreage of 1876, giving
a total in excess of 12,000,000 acres. North
Carolina declines 4 per cent, and South Carolina
3. Georgia and Florida increase each 1
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per cent.; Aiaoama anu jenneHsee iuissib*
aippi 4; Arkansas 5 ; Louisiana 6, and Texas
15. The States of the largest acreage are,
respectively, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and
Georgia. The condition is lower than in the
past two years in June, but higher than in
the year 1874. The State averages of the
condition are as follows: North Carolina,82;
South Carolina, 51; Georgia, 89; Florida,
92 ; Alabama, 90; Mississippi, 91; Louisiana,
98 ; Texas, 91.; Arkansas, 94 a?d Tennessee,
94. There were several frosts in May in
North Carolina, and snow as late as the 10th.
In Borne sections little rain fell during the
month; in others cold rains have impaired
their condition ; imperfect Btands are general
and from one-third to two-thirds of the area
in certain counties have been replanted. The
weather has been unfavorable since replanting
and the cut-worm has been destructive;
the growth is from one to two weeks late in
South Carolina and stands imperfect ;drought
aud low night temperature are injurious ; in
some cases the early plants died and replantipgs.failed
to germinate. There is much complaint
in Georgia of a poor stand caused by
cool weather, cut worms, crickets, grasshoppers
and aphides. Some instances of replanting
and planting of other crop3 have occurred.
The unpropitious weather in Florida has
impaired the stands and condition, but the
plant is improving under the recent elevation
of the temperature. There is some complaint
of the non-germination in' Alabama
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the Atlantic coast The1 plants are backward
aDd the aphides troublesome.1 The areas
at first were too-Bet,Jmthave amce been too
dry and hot. The crop is two weeks late, in
the central and northern sections, but is in
good condition Iti the more southern counties.
In Louisiana germination has been pronipt,
growth vigorous/'and culture better than
usual. Cold nights injured early- 1 planted
areas, and .rain is needed in sooae localities.
In Texas the plant is from two to four weeks
late, from cool nights, rains and hail storms,
instead of droughts, and from destruction by
grasshoppers and cut worms. A second planting
has been attacked, and in some cases a
third planting has been made with a prospect
of a fair crop. The plants are of irregular
size, generally small but healthy and promising,
with exceptional areas infected by rilst
and lice. In Arkansas cool nights and rains
necessitated replanting, and drought has since
prevented vigorous groWth." In some coun
ties stands are good, 6elds are generally cleaner
than usual. Similar meteorological conditions
have been encountered in Tennessee, but
the plants, though small, are generally health;
arrd cleaner diiltnre prevails. In a word, the
season his been too cool for cotton, too wet at
the time of planting, and too dry since in all
the area except Texas. The plant is now
generally small but healthy, and free from
weeds, and'in &' condition to improve rapidl;
with favorable weather. Cut wOrms and
aphides have ha!d a favorable season for destructive
Operations, and .grasshoppers have
been exceptionally numerous in Texas. " '
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
>
, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Kennedy Broe. A Barron?Sundries?GroceriesSheet
Iron?Dry Goods and Notions?Now
I Is the Time?Plows.
Hunter <fe Oates?Musquito Bars?Piques?Chintz
Prints?Bishop and Victoria Lawns?Nain>
sooks?Laces, Hamburg Edgings, etc.?Our
General Stock?Summer Undervesta.
' Piano for Sale.
t G. L. Riddle, W. J. 8tephenson and Robt. Hays,
County Commissioners?Fence Law Elec_
tion in Bethesda Township.
HOME ON VACATION.
Misses Fannie Meachem and Willie McCorkle,
who have been absent for nearly a
1 year, attending school in Raleigh, have returned
to spend their summer vacation at
1 home.
? OFF FOR SWITZERLAND.
Mrs. Mary Zurcher, widow of the late J.
, U. Zurcher, started for Charleston yesterday
morning, from which city she will proceed
| via New York to Switzerland, for the purpose
of visiting the relatives of her deceased hus,
band.
I BETHESDA TOWNSHIP.
As will be seen by the notice of the County
' Commissioners, published in another column,
> Bethesda township is the first in York county
to call an election on the question of altering
; the fence laws. The election in that township
1 will be held on Saturday, the 18th of August.
I THE COUNTY TAX.
At a recent meeting of the County Commissioners,
they decided to reduce the county
tax for general purposes to 21 mills, which
amount was deemed sufficient to meet the expenses
of the county. The tax for State and
county purposes iu York will therefore be 12,
, instead of 121 mills, as stated last week.
' JUDGE KERSHAW.
Chief Justice Willard has made the as'
sign men t of Judges to bold the fall terms of
the respective Courts of Common Pleas and
1 General Sessions throughout the State. By
the assignment of tbe Uhief Justice, judge
Kershaw will preside over the Courts of the
Sixth Circuit, embracing Chester, Fairfield,
Lancaster and York counties. Judge Mackey,
of this circuit, is assigned to the Seventh
Circuit, embracing the counties of Newberry,
Laurens, Union and Spartanburg.
"FENCE" OB "NO FENCE."
We are prepared to furnish tickets for either
side in tbe pending contest over the fence
question, and will supply them at 25 cents
per hundred, or 500 tickets for one dollar, the
cash to accompany the order. The tickets
read, respectively?"In favor of altering the
fence law," and "Against altering the fence
law." Tickets will be mailed free of postage
to any couuty in the State at the above pri;
ces. Persons ordering should designate the
. kind wanted by quoting in full the words of
. the tickets desired.
REFRESHING RAINS.
Refreshing rains have fallen throughout
this section for the last eight or ten days, giv
ing quite an impetus to the growing corn and
; cotton, both of which are represented as in
* good thriving condition. The farmers generally
had their crops well worked previous
) to the rain, which fell in the most opportune
. time to be beneficial. Wheat and oats are
> being harvested. The latter is rather light,
; but wheat is fully meeting the expectations
> of the farmers, and as yet but little has been
i injured by the recent rains.
TEMPERANCE LECTURE.
W. T. R. Bell, President of the State Coun1
cil Friends of Temperance of North Carolina,
' will deliver an address in the Court House at
Yorkville, on" Tuesday nighl, 26ih instant
1 The subject of his address will be: "The
' Temperance Reform?its Difficulties and its
' Hopes." Mr. Bell has the reputation of being
an entertaining and instructive speaker, and
will deliver a number of lectures in this State
. at the suggestion of Rev. George B. Wetraore,
! President Supreme Council Frendq of Terni
perance, and by tbe cordial invitation of B.
W Edwards, President of the State Council
of South Carolina.
. f OFFICIAL BONDS,
j The County Auditor and the County Treasurer
of York county, recently appointed by
, Governor Hampton, have taken possession of
meir respective uumcu.
Dr. Robertson, Treasurer, has filed bis bond
inthe sum of $20,000, which has been ap;
proved by the County Commissioners, his
sureties being Allen Jones, John R. London,
J. M. Ivy and Iredell Jones.
W. A. Moore, Auditor, has given bond in
, the sum of $5,000, with S. R. Moore, S. E.
Moore, J. M. M. Cain and Dr. J. Wistar Alliaon
as sureties.
. THE CHURCH FESTIVAL.
The festival given last Friday night, in aid
of the Methodist church, was a complete success.
The ladies of the congregation, aided
by ladies of other denominations, bended
their energies to make it a grand occasion,
and right worthily did they succeed. The
, hall was handsomely deOorated with evergreens
and flowers, and the tables, presided
over by fairy forms, were laden with substantial
and delicacies. While an abundance of
every thing was provided, nearly all was disposed
of, tbe enterprise being liberally patronized
by tbe citizens generally, regardless of
denomination. This- was one of the most
pleasing incidents of the occasion, and is an
example worthy of emulation hereafter. We
learn the receipts, with the funds already in
hand, are amply sufficient to meet the expense
of the contemplated improvements on the
church edifice. TRANSFERS
OF REAL ESTATE.
The following transfers of real estate have
been recorded in the office of the County Auditor
since our last report:
Elijah !Nix to D. W. Fowler. Tract of
100 acres in Bullock's Creek township. Consideration
8900. '
Elijah Nix to W. W. Ratchford. Tract of
346 apres in Builock'q Creek township. Consideration
$2,100.
Samuel R. Moore to Elizabeth Hanna.
Tract of 258 acres in Bethesda township.
Consideration $1,030. '
Elizabeth Hanna to Mary J. Hanna and
children. Tract of 258 aorps in Bethesda
township. Consideration not given.
Alexander Strain to George R. Wallace.
Tract of 40 acres in York township. Consideration
$480.
M. Y. Darwin to John Bolin. Tract of
140 acres in Broad River township. Consideration
$700.
W. 8. Moore to George W. Cansler. , Tract
of 242 acres in Catawba township. Consideration
$400.
i Wm. D. Moore to Robert 8. Moore. Tract
off 117 acres in Bullock's Creek township.
Consideration $525.
.! T.B, Withers to Eliza Full wood. Lot in
Fort Mill. .Consideration $150.
B. H. Masaey to B. F. Massey and others.
Lot in Fort Mill township. Consideration
; $6.00. ' " a"' ' " / '
j W. I. Clhwson to T. K; Mull. Tract of
; 444 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration
$4,440. in-l'ii-.oj: .
> . / W. i. Clawson to Z. D. Boyd. Tract of
i 107 acres in Fort JJjlill.township. No consideration
g^ven,
i J. H. Clawson and Allen Jones, Assignees
of B. F. Rawlinson, bankrupt, to J. M. Ivy.
Tract of 235 acres in Ebenexer township.
Consideration $822.
E. H. Edwards to W. P. Draffin. Tract
of 172} acres in Catawba.township. ..Consideration
$5.
James A. Hogue to A. Sylvanus Wallace.
Tract of 50 acres in York township. Consideration
$300.
M. L. Thomasson to M. C. Tbomasson.
Tract of 44 acres in Bethel township. Consideration
$240.
B. F. Briggs, County Auditor, to Thomas
M. Lowry. Tract of 125 acres in York
township. Consideration $29.80.
J. W. Neel to Robert Black. Tract of 66
acres in York township. Consideration $475.
Leander Dobson to Wm. Dobson. Tract
of 27 acres in York township. Consideration
$350.
Mary Zurcher to Joseph Herndon. Lot
in Yorkville. Consideration $2,000.
John Starnes to R. B. Starnes. Tract of
46 acres in Cherokee township. Consideration
$125.
J. W. Neel to H. C. Conner. Tract of 13
acres in York township. Consideration $200.
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to William Robinson.
Tract of 209 acres in Bullock's Creek township.
Consideration $385.
A RELIC OF THE WAR.
The Walhalla Courier makes the following
mention of the first regimental flag of the
Palmetto Sharp Shooters, which will be perused
by many of our readers with interest:
During the past week the regimental flag
of the Palmetto Sharp Shooters, Col. Jenkins,
which was presented to the regiment by Gen.
Longstreet, in front of Richmond, Virginia,
hiL8 been unfurled in the store of C. L. Reid
A Co. There was no more gallant regiment
from this State, and through its bravery, as
much as anything else, its commander soon
rose to the rank of General, and finally fell
covered with glory. The flag has a blue
cross in which are twelve stars. On its folds
- * l j nr:n: 1 J Q
are inscnoeu rr uuauiauurg iuu osmn nu?,
while the entire material is pierced with numerous
bullet holes and is much tattered by
rough usage. It was carried by the regiment
through many of the most important battles
of the war, both in Virginia and Tennessee,
and was only laid aside when the battle flag
was adopted and all regiments were required
to use it. We are informed that at Seven
Pines the color bearer and eleven of the color
guard were either killed or wounded. Beneath
its folds many brave spirits gave their
| lives for their country as they then regarded
their duty. In our town are some who will
carry to the grave the scars received beneath
its folds, among them our probate judge and
Mr. Reid himself. It is a melancholy but
proud relic to the survivors of that gallant
body of men who so proudly received it in
Richmond.
Correspondence of the Yorkviile Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, June 18,1877.
There is some talk among our enterprising
business men of establishing a manufactory
of wagons, carriages, and agricultural implements,
at this place. An establishment of
this kind would add immensely to the welfare
and prosperity of our town. Skilled
mAiiM fln/1 Bmnlnvmflnt here, and
tucvuauivo nvuiu muu ? ,
thousands of dollars that find their way to
Northern markets, would be kept at home.
Mr. R. Braudt, one of our most worthy citizens,
is doing all in bis power to put this new
enterprise in motion. He thinks that in addition
to keepiug a large amount of money in
our midst, wagons, ploughs, guano distributors,
and, indeed, every implement needed by
farmers, could be manufactured here at a
great reduction of present prices. It is to be
hoped that before many weeks have rolled by,
the enterprise will take practical shape, and
the proposed manufactory become a fixed
fact. Let all of our business men do their
part in brHigtng abofirso desliablo a lesulL? Mr.
E. H. Strobe], whose mother lives at
this place, has taken one of the highest honors
of the graduating class of Harvard University.
He is a young man of brilliant intellect,
and promises to make a name for himself
in the world.
The fall of rain last week was too great for
the good of the wheat crop. The injury it
suffered, however, is a small matter in comparison
with the benefit accruing to the other
crops. Cotton and corn will grow finely after
the splendid seasons. The rain made its
appearance rather late to be of much benefit
to the oat crop. It had already suffered material
injury from the dry weather.
Business is about as dull at this place as it
could well be, and is principally confined to
the sale of provisions. Farmers are almost
daily having their wagons filled with corn and
bacon, and carried to their homes. Now that
the lien law has been repealed, to take effect
next January, what do they propose doing
about it ? Tbey must produce their own supplies,
or give up planting. Of course, they
will adopt, and make every effort to carry out
the former alternative. The repeal of the
lien law will, in the end, prove a blessing to
the farmer, as he will be compelled to depend
less upon the merchant, and more upon himself.
He will in the future regard the production
of cotton entirely subordinate to the
growing of corn and small grain, Corn first
and cotton afterwards will be his motto. ;
Chestnut Oroye, in this county, in accordance
with a recent act of the Legislatnrer' has
ceased to be an incorporated town. * It enjoyed
for only a brief period tfie honors and
privileges of incorporation. The Intendfant
and Wardens will divest themselves of their
municipal robes, and retire to private life.
Possessors of authority to retail ardent li- .
quors will close their shops, and betake themselves
to some other way of making money.
? ? A
lhe brignt Dopes or roe cuizeus ui vutauiui,
Grove have been nipped in the bud. Tbey
must possess their souls in patience until their
town assumes greater dimensions, and becomes
like Chester, a great and growing place.
Then they can apply for and obtain a charter
of incorporation which will stand. , ' ;i
_ - The ladies of bur town are displaying great
interest in the entertainment to be given in
behalf of the Chester Rifle Club on the evening
of the. 27th instant.. They are making j
great preparations for that great event, and i
there is no doubt of the fact thst it will be a '
brilliant success. The entertainment will in j
all probability be favored with the presence of
a number of friends from our neighboring i
towns, which, will greatly enhance the joy of J
the occasion. ; suni -> : i
Grading on the Cheraw & Chester Railroad
will be completed in the douree of two or '
three weeks, when the work of laying the iron will
begin. President Hardin is pushing the j
* f? L:. i
work witb great rapiauy. > &n eugiue ior mo road
arrived at this place oo Friday.- It was 1
built at the Baldwin Work Shops in Philadelphia.
<
The people of the Grant neighborhood are !
excited upon the subject of mad dogs. ,A j
mad dog ran from place to place and bit 1
several dogs, before he was killed. / Those I
that were bitten have been tied, and will ;be i
killed upon their showing any symptoms of i
. t*?3 :
madness. _ 1
T.J. Darby, arrested on Saturday, was <
brought before TriaL Justice McDopald this i
morning, charged :with forging bis mother's
name to a check, whereby he dtow $140 from i
the National Bank of Cbesteh He will be 1
tried it'tfce next term'of tie Court of Gduer- i
al Sessions. He is at the present time in jail,
but will be released upon giving bond for bis
appearance at Court He will rest bis defence
upon authority given him by his mother
to sign the check, whose testimony, I have
been reliably informed, will corroborate the
statement of her son upon this point
It appears that the preliminary steps are
soon to be taken in reference to building a
railroad between this place and Union. Dr.
A. H. Davega and W. H. Hardin, Esq.,
have recently received letters from gentlemen
of Union, setting forth the necessity of railway
communication between Chester and
Union, and calling upon our citizens to do all
-- *L-!- * - u_: ?_ j? A miklln
ID ineir power to umig ik uuuut, u |>u?mv
meeting was recently held at Union, at which
the building of the proposed railroad was
enthusiastically advocated. The matter will
be considered at a meeting to be called here
ery soon. At this meeting favorable action
will doubtless be taken.
Rev. Mr. Trenholm, of Charleston, will
supply the Presbyterian church at this place
during the present year. Though a young
man, he is said to be a fine preacher. " He
will enter upon the performance of his ministerial
duties next Sunday. *
More rain fell here yesterday, and indications
point to another outpouring to-day.
Complaints of wet weather are now in order.
Qui.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
SIGNAL SERVICE AT KING'S MOUNTAIN.
King's Mountain, June 12,1877.
A short account of a recent visit to the
pinnacle of King's Mountain, may not prove
uninteresting to the readers of the Enquirer. ,
At the present time a corps of United States
Coast Surveyors, with their fine instruments,
is located on the mountain, and on a clear
day it will well repay any one to make the as
cent?not only on account of tbe grandeur ot
tbe landscape presented before the naked eye,
but to become interested in tbe minute distant
objects the glass reveals.
Yesterday, in company with Mr. Mauney
and lady, your correspondent and bis better
half made tbe ascent of tbe pinnacle of King's
Mountain, which is about five miles distant
from tbe scene of tbe battle of Revolutionary
history. Tbe day was clear and beautiful,
and we started from the village of King's
Mountain at 1 o'clock, p. m., reachiug the
summit of the mountain an hour later.
It is now a pleasure to climb the mountain,
since the Sigoal Corps has established a post
on its top. Until tbe corps came here, there
was no way of access, except by the most fatiguing
walk from Shear's Gap, a mile from
the pinnacle. The Signal Corps, at considerable
expense, constructed a track, leading up *
from the west, immediately at the base of .the
pinnacle, from which the ascent is made easy
by flights of steps. Formerly, this part of
the mountain was scaled with the greatest
difficulty, and in many cases the gallantry
and nerves of the beaux have been severely
ll _ t a!_ _
tested 10 oeipiog tneir sweemearis aiong we
rugged waj. But now there is uo danger to
be feared, the passage to the top being rendered
as easy and safe as the ascent to the
second floor of our dwellings.
Arrived on top, what a grand panorama
meets the gaze! The earth is at your feet I
A house has been erected for the members of
the corps and their instruments, and while
there we had the pleasure of taking several
magnificent views with the elegant glass
erected for making observations. Turned on
Yorkville, the glass revealed the Presbyterian
Church in Yorkville?17 miles distant. Also,
the roof uf the Aditkce building, ami many
other objects of interest in the town. Turned
on the line of the Chester aud Lenoir Bailroad,
we could plainly discern the trestle over
Crowder's creek. We were much interested
in viewing objects adjacent to the mountain. jo***
Looking at the residence of our old friend, J.
R. Falls, we saw?at a distance of 10 miles?
a lady standing in the yard. The Davega
House at Gastonia, the Court House :at Dallas,
and an infinite number of objects, at
many miles distance, were brought distinctly
toobrview.
I do not know, of a point in our Southern
country that now has more attractions for
pleasure-seekers and excursionists than King's
Mountain, while from King's- Mountain village
on the Air-Line Rail fond j the locality is
easy of access. ^
The gentlemen of the corps are exceedingly,
polite to visitors, and are pleased to. have
them, thereby relieving the.motyggpy of their
quiet mountain life. ; : r
I cannot close without j^<#obd for our
bright, young village, containing it population
of 350 inhabitants, with A'bmirCb, a fine and
prosperous school, and' in the midst; of ;a
peaceful, industrious and,.thriving, community.
!itj; ? 11'>(V . oil' .'(} XlTCOLA* >.
".ranim
Correspondence of the ^odnjUlf) jBiqsirer.
LETTER FBOV BLACK'S CTAttOir.'
n' Black's Station, S. C., June 16, tS7i.
, Ikfu- J^OITOR1 send yqu specimens of
some of the minerals of this: section* .The
barytes I send yon is being mined here now
on an extensive scale by J. H.: Chad wick <fc
Co., of Boston, Massachusetts. This m^dhtl
has been traced from Fauquier county, Virgima,
through all of the counties. Of ^N/orth
Carolina?en the same hearing to this point in
York bounty?-South Carolina. Itsfipeoulhte
east side of Broad river and si seen no more.
The vein here has more body and is1 of i finer
qdality than'has been foand anywhere else
/V .-fi- . ' m fJ JU*! : 'fmlui in'
along the entire formation. The<-present
Company is experimenting. If they fipd the 1
vein ex tens i ye, they will .erect., their; mills
here for manufacturing the ore,;aa it will .Wave
-? " -I * 11 .? J \T .I
toe expense 01 snipping me cruae oreauorm.
The quality foand here is kaownas sulphate
of baryta. It has &8 rts base, fori am* which
is never found fijee in nature, .^|epto^;fr^Tj
in combination, with (he sulphurettf and oxygen,
which form the sulphate of baryta*, n it
is found in nato re abundantly as heavy spar.
It cTyBtalizes in tabular plates. Its specific
gravity is one-third greater, than th*t' Of fron.
Its milky winteness and great Weight give to
it the. yalpe it oaf as ap ^pltef^,to/r. Jtt u
used for that purpose in sugar, candies, flopr
and white.dead. It is interwoven in: thin
whiieelotb to give it body.' The only legitimate
Commercial valuh: it has1 is for glaring
linen cloths and making.,a cheap mineral
piiint During the present week, the Corapaoy
have shipped from this place one: hundred
tons of the ore. " muu l iipw
The lime also found here iifabundant and
_r ....lit. c i.u:u: .. t. .:i:
ji a guuu i|uaiiy iur uuuuiug, auu as ? icruuMr..
The track of the Air-Line Railroad is
J >;u-;i r :i. " j-ii*"' ? . ilvj i'liiy un:' .1
laid..down for. mil/?? on the lime rock. <;,The
lime,rock could be burned aod leaded in
bulk on the care from the kiln and ehipped
along the Chester and Lenoir Railroad as far
u Chester, and sold at an avettege pride of
t'Wetitj'dents per bushel; yet, it is undeveloped
to. any e^tept, and you buy jour lime mis*
factored in Maine. ,< "
The rich and interesting mineral, belt that
reaches across from this point to Yorkvilie,
has gold, silver, lead, copper; iron and manga- '
ogee and a variety of Valttable clayB, and