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Jwaps and Jacts.
? Within the past week nearly 2,500 dogs
have been caught and impounded in New
York. Of these thirty-one have been redeemed
by their owners, three have been sold,
and something more than 2,000 drowned.
? Sellers of liquor in Oregon are not required,
under a new law, to be licensed; but
every drinker must pay $5 a year for license,
and whoever sells to an unlicensed person
may be imprisoned. The names of procurers
of license are to be published every six
months.
? A despatch from Washington says that
the Allautic Coast line, via Wilmington ;
the Piedmont Air Line, via Richmond and
Charlotte; and the Kennesaw line, via
Lynchburg, Knoxville and Atlanta, are making
a desperate fight for the great Southern
mail. It is carried at present over the
Kenuesaw route, aud the indications are that
it will continue to go over that line.
? Growing crops are now taxed in California
; but the Granger element is everywhere
aroused in opposition. In some counties,
says the San Francisco Bulletin, crops have
been assessed as high as five dollars to the
acre. In others the assessment has been
placed at a mere nominal figure, while in some
few the order of the State board has been disregarded.
? The railroad car of the Emperor Alexander
can be run on any tracks in Europe,
whatever the gauge may be, owing to a peculiar
arrangement of the wheels. It contains
a parlor, a bedroom and a dining room, all
magnificently furnished. The Emperor sends
ahead a pilot locomotive. Half an hour after
the Imperial train starts, a wrecking train
follows, to be on hand in case of accident
Twenty minutes behind this is a train with
the Imperial suite, and lastly an extra escort
of three hundred soldiers.
? The Rev. Alonzo M. May was an Episcopal
minister in Iowa, who turned Methodist
and was admitted into the Methodist ministry.
On the strength of the change which he made,
the Episcopal Bishop of Iowa publicly deposed
him "from the ministry of the Church
of God," stating as the' reason that Mr. May
had "renounced the ministry and entered
upon secular pursuits." Mr. May thinks
this is rather a rough way of putting it, as he
is unable to see that in eugaging in the work
of the Methodist ministry, he has "entered
upou secular pursuits." He has issued a
newspaper statement on the subject.
? The director-general of the statistical department
in India, Dr. W. W. Hunter, believes
that he has discovered a method of
predicating before hand the year in which a
failure of the crops and consequent famine
are apt to occur in India. His investigations
show that the great famines in Madras since
the commencement of careful record in 1810,
have occurred in the years during which
there have been few spots on the sun, and
that iu such years the rainfall has been lowest
in Madras. He does not go so far as to say
that the famines are dependent upon the sun
spots in the way of cause and effect, but he
shows that when there are fewest spots on
the sun there is a minimum rainfall.
? The Rev. Dr. W. P. Harrison of Atlanta,
Ga., who has recently made an extended tour
to the Northern and Western States, in a recently
published letter, expresses the opinion
that the South is immensely better off than
the North. He says he saw more life aud
posperity in Richmond, Va., than in any |
Northern city. He met with one family that
owns 8100.000 of railroad stock who could
not get an income sufficient to justify them in
keeping a house servant; in Pittsburg, Pa.,
he heard of a house which cost 861,000 renting
for S600, and one in Cleavelaud, Ohio,
that cost 840,000 rents for 8400. Dr. Harrison
is confident that iu the recuperation
that is ahead of us, the South will be foremost.
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Texas that the statutes of that State prohibiting
marriages between white persons and
black are obsolete, the reason for their enactment
having ceased with the abolition of
slavery. It is said that the main object aimed
at by the law was Dot to preveut the amalgamation
of the races, but to withhold from the slave
the demoralizing spectacle of a fellow slave
raised suddenly from the degradation of a boudage
like his own to the dignity of a master,
a mistress, or a slaveholder, which it might
well be supposed, would naturally inspire a
hope, whatever the folly or the fatuity of
that hope might be, which would not fail to
produce results evil and injurious to the
slave.
? A curious story is current in Richmond
? to the effect that a strong effort was made by
certain lawyers and politicians there and elsewhere
to induce Miss Van Lew (late postmistress)
to refuse to surrender the Richmond
post office to her successor, Colonel Forbes,
on the ground that his appointment was null
and void, as President Hayes himself is not
legally elected. The matter was to come up
for trial in the Supreme Court of the United
Slates. The scheme fell through, as Miss Vau
Lew refused to become a party to it. Among
the names mentioned as parties to the scheme
aw T .TrvRrtaon R 1? Tint.
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tier, of Massacussetts, the Hon. Simon Cameron,
of Pennsylvania, Senator Blaine, of
Maine, and others.
?The New York Sun tells, in a very touching
way, the story of Horace Greeley's last
days, and says it was not his defeat for the
Presidency which broke the old man's heart,
but the shabby manner in which he was ousted
from the chief editorship of the Tribune.
An article of which he did not approve was
printed in the Tribune. He wrote and sent
to the office an article in which he tried to
set the paper straight. His article did not
appear. He ordered it in on three several
days, and each time the actual editor left it
out. The light dawned on him. Another
man had been put in his place. He drooped,
and was sent to a private insane asylum.
Among his last words were: "The country is
gone ! The Tribune is gone ! I am gone!"
Thus ended, in grief and disappointment, the
man who had been the brains of the paper
whose present owDer is proud to say that it
was "Founded by Horace Greeley."
? The education of Queen Victoria's grandchildren
is conducted on the principle that the
Prince Consort introduced into the family.
Particularly is this true of the children of the
Crown Princess of Germany. They have to
rise, early and retire early. During the day
they are required punctually to perform their
duties and to keep strictly the time allotted to
the various branches of study and recreation.
They breakfast at eight with their parents, and
the time between ten in the morning and five
in the afternoon is devoted to their lessons, with
an interruption of one hour for dinner. Accomplishments,
such as riding, dancing and
skating, receive the 6ame attention as art and
science. Their meals consist of simple dishes,
of which they have their choice, without being
permitted to ask for a substitute, if what is
placed before them does not suit. Between
meals they are not allowed to eat. Only inexpensive
toys are placed in their hands, and
the princess dresses themselves without the aid
of chambermaids.
?Women are marching right ahead in England,
as in this country. The 'Senate of the
University of London lately heard a petition
of two hundred men doctors agaiust the
granting of medical degrees to women, the
protest being grounded avowedly on their
fear of competition. The Senate concluded
to go on with its degree-granting, however.
The chief prize in applied mathematics and
mechanics in the university was won this
year by Miss Ellen M. Watson, oyer a hundred
or so young men; she has also won the
Meyer de Rothschild scholarship of $250 per
year. When Prof. Clifford called out her
name for the honor, he said hers was the finest
mathematical mind he had ever met with in
' a pupil of either sex, and that a few more
students like her would raise the young uni
versity above the older institutions. And
yet Miss Watson is young and pretty. She
was not the only woman to win distinction in
the college, for Prof. Huxley's daughter,
Marion, took the first prize in art, Mi9s Constance
D'Arcy the first in art anatomy, and 1
Miss Orme. sister of Prof. Mason's wife,
gained the Joseph Hume scholarship in jurisprudence.
We observe that the Paris faculty i
of medicine have given a doctor's diploma
to Zeoaide Oukonoff, a young Russian woman, ;
j at the same time complimenting her highly on ^
; her scientific attaiments.
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YORKTILLE, S, C.: 1
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 19,1877. '
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Attorney-General Conner, who accompa- '
nied Governor Hampton to New York, has 1
returned to Collimhia.
? The county convention of Newberry has
nominated Judge Y. J. Pope as the democrat- 1
ic candidate for the legislature.
? Up to the date of our latest advices from
Columbia, Governor Hampton had not re- 1
turned from his northern tour. (
? The rumor prevails in Columbia that the '
post in that city is to be discontinued, and '
the 18th Infantry ordered to Atlanta, except '
one company, which is to go to Greenville. '
? Ex-Comptroller T. C. Dunn unites with 1
Senator Patterson and other prominent South (
Carolina Republican leaders in denouncing '
Chamberlain's Woodstock speech.
? Mr. Theodore D. Kline has been appoint- 1
ed Superintendent of the Charlotte, Columbia 1
and Augusta Railroad, in place of Mr. James 1
Anderson, resigned.
? James R.Aiken, Esq., died at his resi- 1
dence in Winnsboro, on the morning of the '
10th instant, after a lingering illness, from an ?
affection of the lungs. (
? The members of the Richland Rifle Club, 1
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prisoner went to the jail and asked permission i
to see him. The jailer examined her before I
allowing her to go in, and found a small saw |
sewed up in the skirt of her dress. The ex- i
cuse she offered for having the saw was, that I
she put it there when she was baptized to keep 1
her dress down, and had forgotten to take it
out.
? David Pearce and Geo. Stevens, two negroes,
who waylaid, murdered and robbed a !
young man named Edings near Charleston, 1
May 11th, under circumstances of peculiar 1
atrocity, were hanged at 11:35 o'clock last '
Friday morning. They were baptized pre- !
vious to their execution by a Catholic priest, 1
with whom they left a full confession of their 1
crime. They died without a struggle. About
200 persons witnessed the execution. '
? Judge Wright made a temperance speech '
at Beaufort recently, but when asked to sign 1
the pledge himself, refused to do so. He gave 1
as his reason for the refusal, that "he had '
been accused of drunkenness, and, for him to {
sign the pledge in Beaufort, would be giving 1
his accusors proof that he was in the habit of 1
indulging in fluids other than tharthaparilla." J
The excuse was considered rather thin, but he [
was obdurate, and is still at liberty to drink 1
rum and molasses if he prefers it.
? The following item has receutly appeared '
in papers published outside this State: 1
uTU. ? ? fKo T iKorion nminrro tinn
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; scheme from South Caroliua claim to have i
! enrolled the names of 2,500 colored persons
| in Charleston, and 30,000 in the State, who <
I conseut to emigrate." It is rather strange that 1
a movement assuming such proportions as here <
| intimated, has attracted so little attention in <
the midst of the people most directly interest- i
ed. We doubt if there are 100 colored men I
in the entire State who would consent to em-11
igrate to Liberia, if required to defray their j ]
i own expenses.
1 ? The following report of the condition of j i
, the cotton crop in South Carolina for the i <
| month of June has been derived from
1 the replies of ninety-six correspondents, in
thirty counties of the State: The first part
| of the month was dry, afterwards showery, 1
and in portions of the State very wet. Fiftyeight
report the weather for the month favorable.
Thirty-eight report too vet and unfavorable.
Thirty-eight report it more faI
vorable than last year. Thirteen report as
about the same. Forty-five report less favorable.
Eighteen counties, containing twoi
tKirrla nf thp norpnce of the State, renort a
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I decrease in acreage since last report, owing 1
to bad stauds, etc., (grain and corn being
substituted,) from 2^ to 15 per cent., and one
j county an increase of 2 per cent., the average 1
for nineteen counties being a decrease of 3 1
per cent., equal to a decrease for the State of
2 per ceut. The stauds are reported fair to :
! good by sixty-four, and bad by thirty-two. The i
condition of the crop is reported by twenty j <
j as good and better than Inst year ; by thirty-1
i six healthy and clean, but late ten to fifteen ; i
j days; and by forty, fields grassy, cotton late,;:
condition bad, not so good as last year. Lice j
are reported iu seven counties. 11
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Ice was formed on the mountains in
Mitchell county last week.
? The Catawba people are in raptures over
1 steam thrasher.
? The grading on the Chester and Lenoir
Railroad, between Dallas and Lincolutou, is
completed to within four miles of Lincolnton.
? The Raleigh and Augusta Air-Line Railroad
will be completed to the Carolina Central
in the course of two or three weeks.
? Major Johu Smith, a soldier in the war
of 1812, died at his home in Richmond county,
last week, aged 90 years.
? The wheat crop of Caldwell county is immensely
large, and corn is growing fiuely.
The crop prospect was never better in that
county.
? The Greensboro Patriot gives the following
account of a case of attempted infanticide
in that town, last week: A negro woman
named Winnie Cole, gave birth to a child last
Monday and took it out in the garden and
buried it alive. Sometime afterward it was
liacovered and taken ud. but died that night.
The woman was arrested on the following day
and is now in jail awaiting trial.
? Says the Gastonia Herald: Captain
Dwight, the engiueer of the Narrow Gauge
road, was recounoitering all of last week between
Newton and Lincolnton, but did not
begin the actual survey of the road until last
Tuesday. All the company, (chain-bearers,
axe-men, &c.,) except the assistant engineer,
are from Newton. It will take about two or
three weeks to find the most practicable route
an which to build the road. One survey will
be made directly along Clark's creek, and
perhaps several others on the east side.
POLITICAL ITEMS.
? The National Republican at Washington,
says: "The course of Gen. Hampton while in
the North is worthy of all commendation, for
be said nothing which was not calculated to
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ai tneir regumr umuunjf meeting nciu uu
Thursday night last, decided to change the J
name of the company to that of the Gover- '
nor's Guards.
? The number of prisoners in the State ?
Penitentiary now amounts to 485, nearly all <
of whom are colored. All but one or two are '
males, and four-fifths are confined for the ?
crime of theft, of greater or less degree. <
? An old colored man in Darlington conn i
| ty, was lately noticed gathering tip and eat- }
ing chickens which had died of cholera. 1
When stopped from this he commenced eat- s
ing toads, and a few days ago died. i
? The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta ?
Railroad Company has adopted the use of ?
the patent air-brakes on all trains on that f
road, and these are now being supplied and ?
affixed to the coaches and engines as rapidly I
as possible. 1
? The Fairfield Register says that the crop S
prospect in that county is not promising, f
The unpropitious weather in the spring, and t
the long drought, combined to make the cotton i
very backward, while the recent raius have ]
given a great impetus to grass.
Dnnontll, Qt rjpoonuillo f K O W I fp f\f fl (
promote a triendly teenog Between tne norm
and South. Would that all our public men
were as wise and patriotic."
? The Tribune, & leading Republican paper
if Chicago, says "there is one thing that exGovernor
Chamberlain forgot to mention in
bis Woodstock speech, viz.: That there have
been no political murders in Louisiana and
South Caroliua since Packard and Chamberlain
stepped aside, and that the negroes have
lot made any complaint of being maltreated
>r abused in any way. Cau he say as much
for his own administration ?"
? Advices from Jackson, Miss., state that
;he Republican committee of that State met
-ecently and passed, by a mere majority, a
esolution of confidence in President Hayes,
rhe committee resolved to make no noinina,ious
for the State ticket at the election next
all, for the reason that the President's civil
service letter forbidding Federal officials to
mgage in campaign work, left them without
irgauizalion, a majority of the committee beng
office-holders. A vote was passed to adouru
8ine die, which was equivalent to dialanding
the Republican party in Mississippi.
? The President seems to understand the
lituation pretty well. He said last week to a
jorrespondent of the Cincinnati Commercial:
'There are men who are making a great fuss
ibout the Southern policy, when they don't
:are two cent9 what the Southern policy is, so
hey get some offices to distribute. A Congressman,
for instance, will promise a lot of
ocal offices in his district in repayment for
telling up a convention and giving him a relomination.
Under this vicious system we
ire likely to have indifferent Congressmen
md bad civil service. The system works an
jvil both ways. Because I want to try to do
loiuething toward reformation in this particuar,
to divorce local politics from Federal of*
ice-holding, there is an outcry against the
Southern policy from men who are really
ishamed to give the true grounds of opposition
,o my administration, for I am trying to car y
out the civil service reforms that we, as
Republicans, have been promising so long,
riie Southern policy is a fixed fact, and every
lay demonstrates that it was the wisest course,
til things considered, that could have been
:akeu. But it is really amusing to find this
policy assailed by those who don't really care
my thing about it, using it simply as a cloak
io cover up their disgust for civil service reform."
MERE-MENTION.
Harrell, who killed Capt. Catesby Jones,
it Selma, Ala., a few days ago, has been admitted
to bail in the sum of 815,000. J.
3. Hester has been relieved from the duties
cf an officer in the revenue secret service,
ind gone into the business of selling jewelry.
The first bale of cotton of this season
was received at Brownsville, Texas, last
Friday. It weighted 442 pounds, was classed
low middling, and was sold at auction at 20
cents per pound. After a litigation of
forty years, Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has
gained her suits, and is declared the legal
cwner of a large amount of property in New
Drleans. All the United States troops
stationed in Atlanta, Ga., except two companies
of the 18th Infantry, left, on Saturday
last, for Oregon. They will go via San Francisco,
and calculate to reach the seat of war
in twenty days. The government of
Hayti has intimated, with great diplomatic
delicacy, a preference for a white man as
minister from the United States.
The New York Herald thinks it "not at
ill improbable that New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, and even Onio, will give DeraDcratic
majorities this fall." A despatch
from Washington, says that Wallace W.
Gordon, a graduate of West Point, was recently
arrested in Tennessee, accused of dealing
in counterfeit money. It is said that
there are upwards of seven thousand applications
on file at Washington for consular appointments.
To supply the demand, there
is only oue vacancy with a salary attached,
and this vacant post is on the coast of Africa.
'Most men love little women, and
little women love most men. Lieutenant
Bullis, of the United States Army, followed
a party of Indian raiders across the Rio
Grande, defeated them in a fight, and recaptured
the horses they had stolen in Texas.
A delegation of Alabamians, claiming to
be true representatives of the Republican
party of that State, have called upon the
President, and on that issue seek to obtain
offices in preference to carpet-baggers. It
is rumored that the position of Minister to
Russia has been tendered to Judge Bacon, of
South Carolina. Justice Miller, of the
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united mates oupreme vuun, ic^uuj ubn<ered
an opinion to the effect that a man in
prosperous business who purchases real estHte
and transfers it to his wife, may be held, in the
event of subsequent failure, to have withdrawn
funds to which an assignee in bankruptcy
may lay claim in behalf of creditors.
Joseph's baud of hostile Indians
recently came across a party of thirty-oue
Chinamen, who were coming down Clearwater
jn canoes, and for mere pastime and recreation
inhumanly killed the whole party, except
one, who raauaged to escape.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Mm. 0. Oraven?For Rent.
Jamea A. Glenn, D. D. S.?Surgeon and Mechanical
Dentist.
J. C. Spears?Wheat and Corn Grinding.
J.J. Hunter and John C. Kuykendal?important
Notice.
Latimer <fc Hemphill?Fancy Groceries?Hardware?Fresn
Mackerel.
R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sales.
Kennedy Bros. <fc Barron?Groceries?Tin WareCigars?75
Founds.
THE COUNTlTTjOMMISSIONERS.
The County Commissioners will be in session,
at their office in Yorkville, on Friday
and Saturday, 27th and 28th instant.
ELECTION* TICKETS.
We are prepared to furnish tickets for the
pending election on the fence question, at the
price of 25 cents per hundred, or 500 tickets
for 81.00, the cash to accompany the order.
THE FIRST COTTON BOLL.
Last Monday, Mr. Frank Happerfield
plucked from his held of cotton, near town, a
fully developed boll, which is the first we
have seen. He could have shown us blooms
as early as the 26th ultimo, but his modesty
preveuted him from doing so.
DK* licnvi V.
Mr. J. A. Watson, our former townsman,
and long known as one of the faculty of
King's Mountain Military School, but who
for two or three years past has been a teacher
in the Baltimore Commercial College, has returned
to his old home, and will make his future
resideuee in his native State.
ACCIDENTAL FIllE.
About 10 o'clock last Monday night, the
dwelling house of Ella Good, colored, living
in the western suburbs of town, was accidentally
burnt. The fire was supposed to
have been caused by a defect in the pipe of
his cooking stove. He was so unfortunate as
to lose nearly all his household effects, which
were destroyed with the house.
"THE FENCE* QUESTION."
Let no voter be deterred, by its length,
from reading the interesting article, in another
column, under the above heading. The writer
is an eminent divine, and writes his convictions
and the result of his observations of
Panno In u? of Vila
U1C piautiuai >TMI aiu^o \JI nig I^uvw <un uv mo
immediate home in Mecklenburg county, N.
C., where the law has been in operation for
two or three years.
THE COUNTY TAXES.
Treasurer Robertson is meetiug with reasonable
success in the collection of the quota
of taxes called for during the present mouth.
His collections up to last Saturday have been
as follows:
Rock Hill, $1,622 40
Fort Mill, 458 03
Clay Hill 694 42
Bethel, 707 16
$3,482 01
Of which sura, inclusive of the 10 per cent,
contribution, he has sent to the State Treasurer
$1,969.
CATAWBA TOWNSHIP.
On the petition of a number of the voters
of Catawba township, the County Commissioners
have ordered that the election heretofore
ordered to be held at Rock Hill, in that
township, on the question of altering the fence
law, shall be held at Hopewell Church, in
said township. Voters and others interested,
will take notice of the change, and govern
themselves accordingly. The reason assigned
by the petitioners for desiring the change, is
that Rock Hill is not centrally located in the
township.
THE FENCE LAW ELECTION.
We deem it proper to direct attention to
the fact that in the approaching election on
the fence law, voters will be required to cast
their ballots at the precinct in the township
in which they reside. This is clearly provided
by the wording of the first section of the
act. Some may be led to suppose, that, owning
land in two or more townships, they will
be entitled to cast a vote in each township in
which their land is situated. Such, however,
is not the intent of the act, which will be readily
perceived by giving it a careful reading.
FINE FRUIT.
Dr. J. F. Lindsay and Mr. M. Strauss have
placed us under obligations for some fine
peaches, the product of their orchards. Mr.
R. Anderson Lathem has also sent us a basket
of the finest pears we have ever seen?not
only fine in quality, but fine in quantity. Of
these pears, one variety is the Bell, which was
grown from budding on an apple stocK, ana is
larger and more luscious than the famous
California pear. The other is the common
variety met with in most orchards, though
giving evidence of attentive and thor.-ugh
cultivation.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Hampton in Virginia.
A dispatch from Salem, Va., gives the
following account of the reception and welcome
extended to Governor Hampton, in that
place, on the 10th instant;
Governor Hampton reached Salem at noon
to day and is a guest of Lake Spriug Hotel,
where his daughter, brother, sister and other
members of the family are sojourning. At
eight, p. m., a large concourse of citizeus,
with the Salem hand, called on the Governor,
many of whom were introduced. After this
ceremony he was formally introduced to the
large audience by Judge Graiffiu, of Salem.
In response the Governor made a brief adflrnao
5n u'biph hp rpnnornized this demonstra
tion as a compliment paid by Virginians to
South Carolina, and expressed his high appreciation
of the bond of sympathy which
has ever existed between the Old Dominion
and the Palmetto State. He would bear
back to his State these greetings as a recognition
of the peaceful victory achieved in South
Carolina. He expressed infinite regret that
feeble health would not permit him to give
expression to the swelling emotion prompted
hy this hearty and unexpected demonstration.
He bade them good night with repeated
thanks.
Hampton and Hayes.
There is considerably more truth than
poetry in the comments of the Willmington
Star, upon the sneering remark of the Houston
Age that "the zeal of Governor Hampton
to please Northern Radicals will lead him
into that party." The Star says :
"When Charles James Fox, the incomparable
debater, was asked the difference between
orthodoxy and heterodoxy, he replied,
with great wit and wisdom: 'Heterodoxy
is 'your doxy, and orthodoxy is my doxy.'
! Both in Church and State, there is a vast deal
I nf intm1 pmnffl TurlppfK the American neo
j pie are really more liberral and just in their I
| religious than iu their political views. Let a I
man dare think for himself on any measure,
and at once a host of little bobtailed politicians
and demagogues will set up a howl and !
do all they can to drive out of the party
a man who, strange to say, has a political
couHuience. Gen. Hampton on the stump, j
with the full consent and endorsement of the 1
! white people of South Carolina, made certain i
! grave and important pledges before the elec!
tion, and now that he is Governor, he pro|
poses, like an honest and true man as he is,i
to carry out, in the utmost good faith, those
j pledges. He is well pleased with the treati
ment his Slate has received at the hands of.
President Ilayes, and he has the frankness j
and boldness to say so plainly and unreserv-'
edly. This brings him under suspicion, and
men who are not fit to dust bis shoes or sit in
his presence, set up the cry: 'Hampton is
going over to the enemy; he is praising
Hayes; be will become a Radical.'"
Hampton Tax Receipts.
The Columbia Registerof a recent date
furnishes the subjoined information in regard
to receipts given by the special agents
for the ten per cent, contribution, which may
prove of value to some of our readers :
The receipts issued by the special agents
for the collection of the ten per cent, contribution
on account of taxes, are made receivable
for taxes the present year, and the act
authorizing the same does not specify that
they are only receivable from those persous
who paid the contribution. The receipts are
made negotiable by this action of the Legislature,
and any person having possession of
them can tender the same in payment of taxes.
Doubtless, many of these receipts are lost or
mislaid by the contributors, who did not so
much regard their value, as they were anxious
to sustain the Hampton goverument,and made
their contributions as a free-will offering upon
the altar of patriotism. In order to meet
such cases, we are informed, the Comptroller
General has issued instructions by which
the County Treasurers will be required to
make a memorandum of all persons so claiming
to have mislaid their receipts, and which
will ultimately secure the proper parties a
credit for the amount paid. This arrangement
will serve as a check upon improper
persons receiving credit therefor. The hooks
of the special agents are in the hands of the
Comptroller General, and the memorandum
list (when received from a County Treasurer)
will be compared with the original entry, so
that every person will receive the full benefit
of his patriotic action. We make this statement
because it has come to our knowledge
that tax payers in some counties are perplexed
about the loss of receipts.
The Improper Sale of Stamps.
The custom of quite a number of postmasters
of the fourth class, who speculate
in postage stamps, is attracting the attention
of the post-office department, and the secret
agents of the department are engaged in the
work of overhauling those guilty of the questionable
mode of dealing. The New York
Sun exposes these trasactions as follows:
These irregularities have been discovered
exclusively in offices of the fourth class, in
which, in lieu of salary, the postmaster is
allowed 60 percent, on the first one hundred
dollars' worth ofstamps sold, and 50 per cent,
on the next three huudred dollars' worth, aud
4U percent. ou the next six tiimurea aonars
worth. Some publishers and jewellers went so
far as to send special circulars to postmasters,
offering to take payment for their goods in
postage stamps. The bait is snapped at, and
only such of the postmasters as by their own
blunders send misdirected or non directed
packages of stumps in registered envelopes
requiring the packages to be opened, are detected.
Hence only a few of their many
transactions ever come to the knowledge of
the authorities. In order to escape detection,
the postmasters frequently send remittances
of stamps by express. Many of the rural
postmasters are storekeepers, and arrangements
are made by them with the mercantile
houses from which they purchase goods
to accept either whole or part payment in
postage stamps. The result of all this is
shown in comparison of the post office reports.
Sales of stamps in some litte crossroad
offices have literally swelled from fifty
or a hundred dollars a year to several thousand
dollars. The iucrease of sales in small
offices, distributed throughout the Southern
and Western States, perceptibly decreases
the sales in the offices of the large cities.
The government loses the amount of the commission
paid to the country postmasters.
The Cotton Prospect.
The Department of Agriculture publishes
the following information as to the condition
of the cotton crop, from returns received
during the month of July :
OolMMia frnm 5fi(1 pminftPS nrnHlloinv six
IkVbUIUO II v/IU wv VVwuiovwj |??
tenths of the cotton of the United States. Seventy-three
counties of Georgia are represented.
The average condition of the whole area is 93
410 per cent, 4 per cent, less than the July
average of last year. It is less by 7 percent,
than the average for 1876, but better than the
condition for 1873 or 1874. Only Louisiana
gives a higher average than in July of last
year. The State averages are as follows:
North Carolina 88; South Carolina 87 ; Georgia
90 ; Florida 95 ; Alabama 94; Mississippi
92 ; Louisiana 102 ; Texas 94 ; Arkansas 94;
Tennessee 96. The crop is from one to two
weeks late in ttie more northern belt. Nights
have heeu too cold, and in many sections an
excess of rain has retarded cultivation, rendering
the fields grussy and the plant unthrifty.
The rains have been general and loug continued
iu Texas, but fine weather is producing a
rapid improvement. An overflow of the Arkansas
river has drowned out 60.000 acres of
cotton. The low lands in Tennessee have
been destructively inundated. While here
the losses have been mainly owing to rains,
there are localities east of the Mississippi that
have suffered from drought. Insects have as
yet done little damage. The cut worm is reported
troublesome in Florida. Lice are
abundant whenever the plant bus become unthrifty
from cold nights and excessive moisture.
Grass worms are doing some damage,
mainly in Texas, and the cotton caterpillar
is reported in Harden, Atascosa, Bazoria,
Uvalde, Jasper and Victoria counties, in
Texas. Cotton blooms in the Gulf States were
reported at several points on the 19th and 20th
of June. .LaOor is graauany oecouiuig iu?hc
efficient. A great improvement in the morale
and efficiency i3 reported in Louisiana.
A Deserving Woman.
The Charleston News and Courier publishes
the subjoined letter to Col. D. Wyatt
Aiken, from a lady residing on the lower coast
of South Carolina:
I am living on a single acre of land, which
I expect to buy if I can ever raise the money ;
price 850. This acre I have had plowed, for
which I paid, and with a wheelburrow, chip
manure and rotted pine straw, I myself have
made so many Irish potatoes that after grabbling
for six weeks to supply my table, where
I and nine children sit regularly, I have in
the past few days dug over three barrels. I
have corn taller than my head, early cow
peas, tomatoes turning, okra in bloom, and
over one hundred heads of beautiful young
cabbage, some squashes and cucumbers destroyed
by my neighbor'3 pigs. I am not in
^ < __
(U'spjur, nowever ; iui no guuu ? n?j
finish setting out their slips, I will buy enough
for quite a patch, and pay for them in labor
returned, by working on the sewing machine.
Some persons say 1 am fanatical. Be it so;
better that than gadding about and consuming
precious time in idleness. I am quite indifferent
to the taunts I hear of such work being
unlady like. I am only doing work that has
to be done, and I would like to have it nicer, |
but there is no alternative. With all my j
striving I find but little margin for clothing,
and uoue for the education of my dear children.
To the above the News and Courier adds :
"Without her knowledge or consent, we pub-'
lish the above extract from her private letter, J
that it might encourage many a one now sitting
upon the eaves of despair, or shame into
more active life some of the many drones we
have in almost every community in the South.
Is there not some good Samaritan among our
readers who will loosen his purse strings and
send Col. Aiken enough money to pay for
that acre of land ?"
We call attention to the subject, trusting
there are some among our own readers who
are willing to help the heroic woman buy that
acre of land. Contributions for the purpose
will he received by the editors of the News j
and Courier and faithfully applied.
-
For the Yorkvllle Enquirer.
THE FENCE QUESTION.
Kino's Mountain, N. C., July 13,1877." _
L. M. Grift?Dear Sir:?I am more interested
in the proposed change in the fence
law than any question that has been' before
the public for a long time. I am wide awake.
I hear that some of the leading citizens of
York are not in favor of the change, and I
am goiug to publish?by your permission.?a
few papers that will be irresistible; papers
from men who know how the law works in
Mecklenburg county, N. C. I herewith present
a letter from Rev. A. Ranson, D. D.,
widely known, and a practical farmer as well
as a leading churchman. E. ?. Boyce.
Huntersville, N. C., July 9, 1877.
Rev. E. E. Boyce?Dear Brother .-?The
same mail which brought your postal, brought
a like request from B. F. Craytou, Esq., of
Anderson, C. H., S. C. I do not know that I
can do any better than to repeat what I have
written to him:
Dear Sir:?Your request for my "observaAvnAwiAnAA
Sn tko moHoi* rtf fonoin r*
LIUUO nuu CA|IG11QUWO IU buu luovvvi vi ivuviug j
up the stock," has been duly received. Feeling
a deep interest in the welfare of South
Carolina?ray native State?I hasten to reply.
This is the fifth year that I have had an opportunity
to observe the working of the system,
and the third that I have been experiencing
its benefits.' These are, I am fully persuaded,
as follows:
1. It saves a heavy expense.
2. It brings valuable laud into cultivation.
3. It improves land and enhances its commercial
value.
4. It is favorable to renters.
5. It enables men to retain small, untimbered
farms, and others to obtain farms for
the first time.
6. It promotes the cultivation of the grasses.
7. It facilitates the improvement of stock.
Now, each of these points I propose to illustrate.
My interest in land comprises one
hundred and fifty acres. It had through it
a long lane aud a short one. While we were
canvassing for the stock law, I often said I
would rather have it than a present of five
hundred dollars. But, now, I go up upon
that. Were it possible for no one to be affected
by it but myself, I would not return to the
old system for one tbousaud dollars. That
will sound extravagant to inauy, no doubt.
But consider this : Besides my present pasture
aud lot fencing, two thousand paDels of
r.n?t fnn/io ntn.iM ho roonirofl T^ilf. wn.ild OT1A
UCH 1CUVV ni/UlM uu iv^unvu.
thousand dollars build that, aud leave a sum
whose interest would he sufficient to keep it in
repair from year to year? I reckon not.
Then, why should I he willing to go back for
the consideration of one thousand dollars ?
Thus, in a financial point of view, I regard
the chauge as being, practically, worth to me
and my children, at least seven dollars per
acre on our land.
In a few weeks, we will have finished a neat,
suhstnutial and convenient barn, forty feet
square. Began it a year ago. Did most of
the work ourselves; and worked at it only
when farm work was not needed, or could not
be done. Fifty dollars will cover the whole
amount paid out for hired labor, nails and
the sawing of plank. But under the old system,
we could not have touched it at all;
would have been kept in a continual strain to
renew our fences. And thus the new system
gives all farmers an opportunity to make necessary
improvements, to drain land, to make
compost heaps, and to give their sons a better
education.
2. On this point, I need only remark that
'L - L? * 1-.-J I- O ia ?V,o I
LUtJ LICSL JttllU IU UUUkil uaiuinia 10 uuuni >uv
fences. That is obvious to all. Now, were
they removed, and the ground they occupy 1
cultivated in wheat and corn, would not the
yield bread all the peopk if the State ? All
through the old fields, too, are many rich 1
spots. Our people have hunted up all these,
and are letting the poorest of the laud they
had been cultivating lie and rest. Besides, it is
a nice thing to be rid of the brush aud briers
in the fence corners, and to drive out into the
clean road to turn.
3. Our most observing people are now convinced
that the injury they did their fields
by pasturing them, was far greater than all
the beuefit to the stock. If turned in, for
only a few days, to glean the wheat, oats and
corn left, and not suffered to remaiu in when
the ground is wet, the damage would be '
small. But not one in a hundred would be \
so careful. Forty-five years ago, I heard men
discussing the question: "Why is it that a
field, cleared now, will not produce more than
half of what the same kind of land, in au
adjoining field, produced when the country
was first settled ?" Some young men were
disposed to deny the fact, and to hiut that
the old men had forgotten, or had fallen into
the habit of telling "big stories." But Mr.
James Hamilton Lowry, of Laurens Dis- i
trict, who was then an old man and a close i
observer, explained it thus : "When I was a j
boy, the untrampled earth was, almost every
' ?? nf i/klr ilAlll/) Ka '
wnere, au juusc mm a nai?iug duv.b wuju wv.
easily run down twelve or eighteen inches.
Perhaps, for hundreds of years, the growing
roots had been raising the ground, and as they
died aud rotted they left it very open. It
held the most of the rain, and slowly supplied
the crops as needed. But by the time the ,
cattle men had destroyed all the pea-viues and ,
canes, the ground was trampled hard, aud
ceased to produce, as I know it had done be- j
fore." I believe he wus right. And if you (
could see the crop of vegetation on our old (
fields which were formerly clipped bare by
everybody's hungry stock, you would thiuk
so, too. For vegetation growing and decaying?the
top above and the roots beneath the |
surfaee?is what enriches laud. But when it
is cropped off, just when starting to grow,
and the ground trampled hard, there is no
chance for the land to improve. Now, that
which hinders the recuperation of old 6elds i
cannot be good for tilled land. Let no hoof 1
go on it, only to haul out manure, to till the ,
crop, and to gather it in; then, far less sub- {
soiling will be necessary to maintain the primeval
looseness of the soil. j
4. While canvassing for the stock law,
some asserted that the enclosed district would
soon be without laborers ; that renters would i
have no place for their stock and would move
out. But some of us believed that the thing
would work just the other way. With us,
and I suppose with you, renters had to repair
fences to protect their crops. But they soon
saw that it was much easier to move old rails
and make a pasture, than to repair fences
around all the fields. Nobody has ever
thought of refusing them a pasture, any more
than a house. Nor are the rents any higher
than when they had all the fences to repair.
Take a case illustrative of many. Mr. C., a
renter, was much opposed to the proposed
change. He and his sou went to an election
and helped to defeat it, for a time, in their
township. He boasted that he and his son
could kill the vote of the laud owner and another
tenant as often as they wished to try
that thing. But the law provided for it, and ,
it was convenient to take that and a few other
farms, whose owners were willing, into the '
enclosure of another towuship. Mr. G. was i
furiously mad, and threatened to leave,j
though it was the first of April. By moving <
about sixty panels of old fence, he got an excellent
and convenient pasture?much better !
than the land owner had. Still he grumbled? i
he did not like to be beat in that kind of way. i
Toward the close of the year, it was signified |
to him that he might go out to where he could !
find things as he liked them. But he made a j
contract to rent over in the towuship which i
had voted for (hestock law. However, before i
he moved, he and his man disagreed ; but not <
about a pasture. Then he had to move out i
and take a large old place, where he could I <
repair fences to his heart's conteut. Now, j i
guess what he did. He and an adjoining <
laud owner, who had also been opposed to the 1
change, resolved on having a little stock law be- i
tween themselves. Accordingly, they put up i
gate-i, euclosed both places with one outside i
fence, and made at pasture for themselves. A
might/ revolution of thoughts and feelings in
one short year, was that I But this year they
arabappy in having the great enclosure extended
far beyond them. And many such
like cases have we.
5. When moving for.the change/many, of
us held it as theory that the stock law would
enable many to hold on to farms from which
the old fence law was about to drive them.
Now we are happy to know that we wet*e net
mistaken. -Almost every neighborlwxwMwruishes
one or more cases to the point. Take
one as a fair sample: Mr. ff. owns about sixty
acres. He had cut his last rail tree to repair
bis fencing. His neighbors?the brothers ?
G.?had talked the matter over, not veiy secretly,
that he could not '.'hold.the fort much
longer;" that the place would be ofverylittle
use to any one who did not have adjoining
land ; that they would get it at last and divide
it in a certain manner Itetween themselves.
But the stock law came to the rescue of H.;
aud the brothers G., who favored the law,
have candidly acknowledged that "that game
is spoiled."
On the same principle, the law facilitates tlie
dividing up of large old farms, now unwieldy
and unprofitable to their owners. Many of
.L? L_ I U..?
uiese uavo several uuuuicu avieo yi wicaivu
land, all in one body ; and skirting'around
this, in one place, thirty; in another fifty; in
another seventy ;and in another one hundred
acres of woodland. These, with some of the
old field, could be readily sold under the fence
law system. But the owner cannot do that,
because it would render more than half uf bis
land, practically, worthless. The stock law,
however, has began a change already. There
are men who prefer an exhausted old field?*
that is pretty level and clear of stumps and
stones?to the best heavily timbered forest. J
There they caq use the improved implements 4
of culture. And they claim that with the '
same outlay of labor, they can pay for their
fertilizers and lay up more money than they
could clearing land, rolling logs, and burning
them for a dozen of years, hitching on roots,
and hoeing around trees and stumps. Hence,
there is arising a class of enterprising farmers
who, if not able to buy a plantation, wHI buy
a field. Now, far less importance is attached
lnn/1 all in nnn kn/lfr fknn utao
ivj iiaviug lauu an 1U uuc uuuj biiau nau iy?raerly,
if only there is a road from one place
to another.
6. As to the grasses, I have this to say: I
have rode about a little this spring and summer,
and being one of the pioneers in the grass
business, I have noticed carefully the clover,
millet and lucerne (which is the best of all
the forage plants) that have been sown ; and I
feel that I hazard nothing in saying that
for every acre five or six years ago, there are
twenty now. It is true the stock law has
made these a necessity. But human nature is
a curious thing. It is hard to get up out of
the old ruts. Our judgment may be well convinced
that some change should be made;
still, we need something to push us a little before
we will move. Ten years ago ther$ were
very few among us who did not say that we
ought to sow clover, and peas, and corn, and / "
such like. But nine-tenths of our farmers did
not do it It was so much easier to ran in the
old rut. Now, however, since the change has
forced them out of it, no one regrets having
made a grass lot of any kind. All say it is
the best investment they have; and many
wnnrlpr thuf. thpv did not. <?pt nt it Kofnrp
7. As to the improvement of stock, it is tod
soon for marked results. But even those who
oppose the change uuite with others in the
opinion that, as the matter is now completely
under control, it will be as easy and far more
profitable to have good stock than bad.
There are yet mauy things which I would
like to say; but this communication is already
so long that you will never read it, unless you
are an enthusiastic stock law man. I would
say, however, don't be discouraged. You will
he sure to get it, though you may he defeated
the first trial. We were at the first election ;
and in some of the townships at the second. I
never knew anything more unpopular, when
first meutioned; never, anything to make
friends so fast. Were it at all practicable. I
would be much pleased to spend a few weeks
in my old mother State and help to canvass
for this thing. I was identified with the
movement here, from the first, and wrote several
articles for the county papers. I have
studied the suhject. I think I understand it.
If you cannot carry the State, go it by counties.
If you cannot carry a county, go into it
by townships. Take old rails and fence a single
township, if two or more cannot go together.
You will never have the fence to repair.
The adjoining townships having seen the working
of it for one or two years, will come in.
It worked so here. Yours truly,
A. Ranson.
THE STATETlOCSE PLOT.
Several days aero, one James Shannon
dropped a note to the editors of the New and
Courier, informing them that he could give
some of the inside history of the latter days
of the Chamberlain administration in this
State, he having been one of the men who
guarded the State House doors. Upon the
reception of this communication, the reporter
of the Neves and Courier was directed to seek
Mr. Shannon and obtain his statement, which
is as follows:
Mr. Shannon gives an interesting narrative
of his adventures from the time that he received
his dicharge from the United States
navy, July 21, 1876, until his arrival in this
State. He says that he made his way in
3earch of work from Brookland across the
country until he reached Darlingtou on the ^
8th of November last. Upon his arrival
there, he accidently came iuto coutact with
Burucb, then a Trial Justice, and now
Sheriffof that county. Through him he was
introduced to Whittemore as one who could,
probably, procure him employment. Whittemore
seemed to think he found iu Mr. Shannon
a man with nerve and recklessness enough
to do the work which he himself said that his
"niggers" lacked the courage to do. He accordingly
promised him a situation as United
States deputy marshal, to execute warrants
which he was prepared to issue. Mr. Shannon
witnessed much of the process of manufacturing
affidavits against some of the most
nrnminant. and rparw.tnhlfl whitA men in thfl
county, who were marked out for arrest aud
persecution.
He described the modxu operandi quite
minutely. He says that Whittemore kept
his blank affidavits ready, and sent out his
agents to drum up negro intimidation wit*
uesses. A negro who made his appearance
was invariably given to understand about
what he was to swear to, and against whom.
When he was too stupid or too couscieutious,
(this latter rarely happened,) his language was
twisted and contorted to suit. About forty
of these were prepared ; one, he remembers,
against Col. Law, a prominent Democrat of
that county. The manufacture was continued N
until the time arrived for the convening of the
Legislature, when Whittemore left for Columbia.
Almost immediately upon his arrival
thorp hp apnf. rlnnn An urcent massacre for
Mr. Shannon to come up, tendering him the
position of "Arresting Sergeant" of the Legislature,
and offering at the same time to defray
all expenses. His idea evidently was that he
had gotten hold of a desperate and courageous
man who would hesitate at nothing.
On the morning of Mr. Shannou's arrival,
he was met by Whittemore, who went into
the State *~uuse, and returned in a few minutes
bearing a commission as Deputy Serjeant-at-Arms,
which he banded hint. Mr.
Shannon immediately went on dut}', and was
given virtual command of the negro constabulary
about the doors. Here he remained
until the storming of the House by the Democratic
members. He states that that movement
was a complete surprise. He was the
only man at the door at the time, and was
iwept out of the way, despite his resistance.
On that day, about three hours after the entrance
of the Democrats, Mackey came to Mr.
Shannon and asked rather abruptly if he did
not have a pistol. Upon his replying in the
negative, Mackey told him to call at his office