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!f craps and Jarts. ? One of the Boston street railway companies has on file six thousand applications for the position of drivers and conductors. ? It gives some idea of the destructive fury of the mob at Pittsburg, to learn that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has for sale, at that point, about eight thousand tons of scrap-iron. ? The public debt is slowly getting down toward the round sum of two thousand million dollars. Last month chopped off $818,904, and the exact amount now due is $2,060,158,223 26. ? A party of painters have started westward across the Continent, under contracts with patent medicine manufacturers and other advertisers, to cover all the picturesque rocks and big trees with inscriptions. ? Tt Vina hopn Annnnnro-ri Hiithoritativelv that the United States troops will not be returned to the posts and barracks of the South, as such a removal at this season would be prejudicial to their health. ? The President has signified his intention of making a general Southern tour during the Christmas holidays. His purpose is to go to Richmond, Wilmington, Charleston, Atlanta, Mobile and New Orleans, and return to Washington via Jackson and Nashville. ? Russia has, in the last six moDths, exported wheat to the value of over $13,000,000, against wheat to the value of $8,000,000 for the corresponding period of last year. So, in spite of the war, she has food enough to feed her own people and a handsome surplus for outside nations. _r-r The. Cabinet has determined to appoint a commission to act with a similar commission from Canada, to arrange for the extradition of Sitting Bull and his braves. One member of the commission will be selected by the secretary of war, one by Secretary Schurz, and the third by the President. ? Louisiana sugar lands, according to the New Orleans Times, are rapidly increasing in value since a stable and honest State government has been secured. Plantations tbat a i ? ' * I 1 . -i AiP year ago could nave oeen Dougnt at ?iu per acre, are now worth $25, and sugar lands are now justly regarded as the safest and most reliable investments. ? Every little while we read of some one I who has run a rusty nail in his foot or some other part of his person, and lock-jaw has resulted therefrom. All such wounds can be healed without any fatal consequences following them. The remedy is simple; it is to smoke such a wound, or any wound or bruise that is inflamed, with burning wool or woolen cloth. Twenty minutes in the smoke of wool takes the pain out of the worst case of inflammatiou arising from any wound. ? A dispatch from Galveston, Texas, dated the 13th instant, says a special dispatch received there from Rio Grande City, reports that at one o'clock that morning fifteen men from Mexico entered the town, broke open the jail, shot Judge Cox and the jailer, and __i j .? ?.-? ?.1 t?I.? ?:?;i reien?e'.i iv/u liutuuuus uuuano. xuv uivu authorities called upon the military for assistance, and Colonel Prince, with 100 regulars and two Gatlin guns, started in pursuit, but failed to overtake them. They recrossed the river and entered Mexico seven miles below. The troops have not yet crossed. ? General Stewart L. Woodford is still talking about how pleasant he found everything in Mississippi. He now says: "The three things that gave me most encouragement are these: First, everybody, white and black, seemed to be at work. Secoud, there were as many acres of corn under cultivation as there were of cotton. Third, the planters, leading business men, and leading lawyers were evidently sincere in their desire to give the Union their hearty and effective support." After speaking about the South on the stump for ten year9,he is surprised to find that he knew * so little abouUit. ? Italians are unusually excited about Mt. Vesuvius, and strange stories are told of the sounds emitted from its interior which are likened to the roar of a disturbed sea, amid which is distinguished a crackling as of many buruiner loes of wood. These noises are heard. it is said, at a distance of two miles from the crater; and fears have been expressed lest a continuous discharge of lava should effect a passage which would place the observatory in danger. Some thirty persons, ladies included, make a nightly ascent to the mountain to witness the magnificent spectacle presented. ? Several symptoms point to a better condition of the mouey market. Greenbacks have decreased to the extent of three millions in the New York banks during the past week, having, it is said, gone West to move the crops. It is a popular idea that business is thriving when the rate of interest is low. The reverse is true. Active business creates a demand for money; when business is dull money lies idle in the banks and money is cheap. It is the opinion of those who watch narrowly the signs of the times, that the money market will be better this fall than at any time since 1873, and that business of all kinds will sympathize with it. ? The Boston Advertiser so classifies the reported failures in business of the first half of this year, as to show that in some sectious there is a great improvement over the condition of the first half of 1876, and in others there is an increase of failures. The sections in which there is a great decrease in the amount of failures are in the New England States and the South?and it is perhaps worthy of remark that these were the only sections not involved in the late strike. The failures in New England fell off from 824,000,000 in 1876, to 812,500.000 in 1877; and those in the South from 811,000,000 in 1876, to 85, <00,000 in 1877. In the other sections there was an increase. ? The manufacture of paper flour barrels is one of the growing industries of Wisconsin. These barrels are made from straw paper pulp, which is run into molds iu the shape of half barrels and subjected to great pressure. The ends are made in the same way, and so prrfectly does the machine do its work, that any piece in a barrel may be substituted for a similar one. The barrels have an average thickneas of three-sixteenths of an inch, and are very light. Their advantage over other barrels is found in their lightness, durability and cheapness, for they will not C03t a third of the ordinary price. Moreover, the grooves fit so perfectly that no flour is lost by sifting through in transportation, and thus a certain per centage is saved. ? Her Majesty of Englaud is thrifty. She takes care of the pennies and lets the pounds take care of themselves. Still she has been known to express her deep sympathy by telegraph with the families of suffocated colliers, and, in some instances, has given as many as three pounds sterling to the enterprising parents of triplets. Recently, the wife of a Kentish man was taken to bed, and an inventory of the results disclosed three little Browns. The proud father applied to the Queen for the usual gratuity, and in answer received the following: "Sir Thomas Biddulph is commanded to express the Queen's regret that the request contained in Mr. Brown's letter cannot be complied with. Her Majesty's donation of ?3 is only granted when the three children survive." One of the young Browns had died. The old man is discouraged. He will strongly advise the missus not to try triplets again. ? The details of the incremation of Dr. Winslow's remains at Salt Lake, Utah, are recited by a correspondent of the Chicago Times. When placed iu the furnace at 6:30 P. M., the body weighed 126 pounds. The first appearance was that of roasting; but in twenty minutes nearly all the flesh was consumed, and the bones began to crumble. A half hour later very little could be seen of the form of the body. At a quarter of 8 a physician opened the door of the furnace, and but one or two pieces of bone could be seen, and they crumbled under the weight of the ashes. The incremation was completed in the ( shortest time on record?two hours and thir ty-five minutes. Tbe weight of the ashes, which contained a few calcined fragments of bone, was four pounds and eleven and a half ounces. The burning of the corpse was regarded as an interesting town show, for nearly a thousand people stood by while the roasting was going on. YORK\ I L L E. g. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 16, 1877. ABOUT FRUIT. We would direct the attention of our agricultural readers to the article on the first page of this issue, detailing the success with which Mr. Secretary of State Sims cultivates fruit? especially peaches?on his farm near Rock TTtM in ttiin Kftiintr Frnm this statement, it would appear that, after deducting expenses for transportation, &c., he realizes, in the Northern markets, the handsome price of five dollars per bushel for peaches, which in our home market would not coinmaud exceeding fifty cents, for the simple reason governing all commercial regulation of prices?supply greater than demand. We call attention to this subject not merely to show what Col. Sims has done, but to impress upon the farmers and land-owners of this section the fact that it is within their power to accomplish similar results. There is no section of the Union better adapted to the growth of the peach than York county. Nurserymen and professional erchardists further north cannot produce peaches equaling in size and flavor the same varieties grown here, apparently without any attention to care and cultivation of the trees. We venture the assertion that peaches grown this season within a mile of Yorkville, and in fact some we have seen that were raised in the town, would astonish the nurserymen who sold the trees. Yet, fruit far inferior to this in every respect, is daily shipped from points on the North Carolina Central Railroad and sold in New York and Philadelphia at remunerative prices. Yorkville is only four or five hours further from the same markets, and in this respect would have no disadvantage to contend with; while, as we have shown, the advantages of a superior quality of fruit would be greatly in our favor. Of course, it is too late in the season now for fruit-raisers to attempt to ship their fruit, as arrangements must be made in advance with a commission merchant to whom to consign them, besides other matters pertaining to securing quick transit, &c.; but it is cot too late for the heavy crop of fruit with which the orchards of York couuty are now groaning, to be utilized and made yield a more handsome return than twice the time and labor expended in the production of cotton. Dried fruit is always in demand, and if so prepared as to present a neat, bright appearance, will command ready sale and fair prices. One impor 1 *1 - 4. P tant fact to be borne in minci, 13 mac irun dried for market must be bright and yellow. This is easily attained by using the fruit before it becomes too ripe, keeping it free from damp, and giving it plenty of air and sunshine during the process of drying. Much, too, depends upon the shape and cut of the fruit. Peaches should be simply quartered, and cut uniformly. Apples may be cut somewhat smaller. A simple machine for paring apples can be found in almost any store that deals in hardware ; but in the absence of such machine, and which will greatly facilitate the work, any tinman can make a simple machine for coring and cutting the fruit. By the aid of these helps much more work can be accomplished in a given time. Yet without either, we contend that there is a good profit in drying fruit for market, even when the work of paring and coring is done entirely by hand. " * 1 l . 1 We have in our raina several towns wnicn do an immense business in dried fruit. We say immense, because the product of a crop sold at one town usually amounts to one hundred thousand dollars, and that town draws only a portion of the crop of the couuty. But as this is comparatively an untried branch of iudustryin this section, many may fear they cannot sell their fruit after drying it. On this score there need be no apprehension. Merchants do business for profit, and there will be found some in every town willing and . ready to handle dried fruit, if they can procure it in sufficient quantities to make it an object. Nor need the good housewives of the country be afraid of overstocking the market. It is only when the merchant is ottered but an apronful of dark, brown fruit that he is testy. Bring him the fruit in quantities of one, two and three hundred pounds, and our word for it he will be glad to purchase. We fully comprehend that when farmers and their wives and children have their minds fixed on no smaller an article of produce than a bale of cotton, that they look lightly upon fruit drying and similar occupations; but there is no exaggeration in the statement that the dried blackberries, sold in the town of Salem, N. C., last year, amounted to nearly as much as the entire cotton crop of York county. The former grew spontaneously and was pre: pared for market by women and children. ; As to the cost of producing the latter, our J farmers need not be told. As a diversified j industry is a nation's prosperity, so must our people, to become truly independent, learn to j utilize and employ all the means placed at their hands by a generous soil and a genial climate. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Mr. Thomas L. Rogers died in Charleston last week from typhoid fever. j ?York has paid the largest amouut of taxes on the July installment, of any county in j the State, except Charleston. | ?Col. R. M. Sims has been elected an honorary member of the Georgia Horticultural Society. ? Mr. Simon Laneston, of Darlington coun ty, has a child oue year old, whose thighs i measure eighteen inches in circumference. ? M. F. Thomas, colored, of Abbeville, has ! been commissioned as Captain of Company A, 11th Regiment of South Carolina Militia. ? The post band left Columbia last Tuesday, for the purpose of joining the regiment j to which it is attached. ? Governor Hampton left Columbia last Monday night for White Sulphur Springs,' Va., where he will spend a few days in recu- j perating his health. ? The annual exhibition of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society, takes place ! in Columbia on the second Tuesday in November next. j ? Col. J. P. Thomas, at one time Superintendent of the Arsenal Academy in Columbia, is engaged in writing a history of that institu-1 \ * 1 ? tion and of the Citadel Academy in Charleston. ? WorkJias been resumed on the Laurens Railroad, and progress is being made toward completion at the rate of three-fourths of a mile per day. . ? Samuel J. Lee, colored, the Solicitor of the Second Circuit, has resigned, the resignation having taken effect on the 14th instant. Lee was formerly Speaker of the House of Representatives, and was arrested a few days ago, on charges of fraud in the issue of pay certificates. He was confined in jail, but was subsequently released from custody, on furnishing bail in the sum of $10,000. ? A few weeks ago, Gov. Hampton borrowed from the Banks iu Columbia and Charleston forty thousand dollars with which to temporarily meet the expenses of the State government. On last Friday the acceptance became due, and the debt was promptly paid by the State Treasurer out of the taxes recently collected. No money was borrowed in New York, as has heen incorrectly stated ; though the Governor had assurances that he could procure funds there if it became necessary. ? F. W. Dawson, Esq., one of the editors of the Charleston News and Courier, has brought suits for libel against the Baltimore Gazette, the Charleston Journal of Commerce, New York Sun, Columbia Register, and Charlotte Observer. The offence consists in the papers mentioned having published a Washington dispatch, which appeared originally in the Baltimore Gazette, charging Mr. Dawson, of the News and Courier with complicity in printing frauds in connection with Woodruff, Clerk of the Senate. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. T T Q S n mJin A . U . OUUiUCI, ui kjjjaitnuuuig! _>. v>| <imv was recently convicted of manslaughter in the Henderson Superior Court, has been pardoned by Gov. Vance. ! ? The Wesleyan Female College at Murfreesboro, was destroyed by fire last week. Loss, 875,000; insurance, 830,000. No lives were lost. ? Dr. W. H. Wheeler, of Winston, who was the Republican candidate for State Treasurer in the last canvass, has been appointed Internal Revenue Collector for the fifth district, vice C. S. Winstead, removed. ? A correspondent of the Charlotte Observer says that a farmer who cultivates a tract of laud near Grassy Island, Stanly county, has killed, during this season, eighteen large rattle snakes. ? On the 26th ultimo, Miss Catharine Efird, a young lady in Stanly county, while riding on horseback, was overtaken by a thunder storm and rode under a tree for shelter. While reniaiuiug there, a bolt of lightning struck the tree, killing both the youug lady and the horse. ? A writer in the Southern Home claims that E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War during T ?r1inin!atrotii\n an/1 JTnhn A Mnr. rell, the noted Tennessee highwayman, were both born in Beaufort county, N. C. Murrell is described as having been a bright but bad boy?the son of a minister of the gospel. ? The United States Coast Survey party are now engaged in erecting signal stations upon some of the higher mountains in Western North Carolina, for weather observations, and many of the credulous inhabitants believe that they are to be used as observatories from which internal revenue detectives can watch the distilleries in the mountains. ? On Wednesday of last week, in Iredell county, an old lady named Charlotte Deatou, persisted in walking on the track of the Charlotte & Statesville Railroad, (although she saw the train doming) and did not try to get off until too late, when the engine struck her, inflicting fatal injuries. Her daughter got off in time, but could not induce the old woman to get out of the way. WT * I/vnwn A?Am n oot/?n J a TT&rnli7 fKflf IT C lCai U UUIU l/lIt/ viuovvuiu Mia* VXMV Tomraie, son of Mr. Thomas Craig, of Gastonia, was accidentally shot by a son of Mr. Robeson of that place, who was playing with a loaded pistol. The boys are not over ten years of age. The ball took effect near the pit of the stomach, inflicting a serious if not fatal wound. The affair was purely accidental, and is another warning against children handling deadly weapons. ? Says the Reidsville Times: A large quantity of fruit will be dried this season. In Davidson county each house has its dry-kiln, and ulready quantities of dried fruit are pouring into Lexington. Apples bring 3 to 4 cents; blackberries, 4 cents; cherries, 15 cents; unpeeled half peaches, 5 cents; peeled peaches, 11 to 12J cents. After awhile apples will be down to an average or a cents, ana peacnes about 10. The trees still hang and bend with unripe fruit. ? The Charlotte Observer reports that recently, in the lower edge of Wilkes county, near the Yadkin county line, a section that is sparsely populated and almost entirely out of communication with the outside world, there were found the bodies of three men named Speaks, Mitchell and Johnson, pierced with balls and entirely lifeless. The bodies of Speaks and Johnson were found lying close together, and the body of Mitchell about a mile distant from those of the others. It is alleged that the slain men were noted blockade runners, and the opinion prevails with some persons that they were shot by officers of the internal revenue department. ? Speaking of the recent meeting of the stockholders of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad, the Charlotte Democrat says: The road will soon be completed to Lincolnton, and the meeting was for the purpose of locating it further on. We are pleased to learn that it was determined to carry the road by way of Newton to Hickory. The village of Newton deserved it, and we are glad she has got the new road. It is to run, we learn, on the east side of Clark's creek, the Newton people agreeing to grade the road from Lincoltou to Newton, a distance of about 14 miles. If the authorities of the Carolina Central Railway will act with any sort of liberality and common-sense,! ttiof mnrl will apt. H. liirire share of the trade i -from Newton, Hickory, &c., and bring it j along to Charlotte, Wilmingtou, &c. ~ - MERE-MENTION. Major Runklee, who was dismissed from service and sentenced to the penitentiary in j 1872, on the findings of Court Martial, ap- j proved of by Belknap, has been restored with back pay, amounting to 811,000. Miss | E. T. Burke, a wealthy lady of Cleveland,1 Ohio, committed suicide by drowning, at1 Providence, R. I., last week. She was in poor health. General JN. 15. Jb orrest nas written a letter to the President, heartily approving of his policy toward the South. The j steamer Eteu was recently wrecked off Valpairaso, and about one hundred lives were lost. Only three of all on board were saved. A deputation of Chinese merchants recently waited upon Senator Morton and requested the Senator to introduce a bill in the next Congress looking to the discouragement of Chinese immigration to the United States, j and encourage the Chinese now here, to re* | turn home. Five hundred and fifty-five j murders have been committed in New York ' during the last ten years. Potatoes are so plenty in Kansas as to be hardly worth marketing. The census ga.ve Paris, in 1876j 1,988,806 inhabitants. '-^Samuel J. Tilden and Theodore Tilton are sight seeing in London. During the year just closed, the United States sold 105,000,000 yards of cotton goods abroad, ten times more than was exported the year before.; The permanent exhibition in Philadelphia is having a scant patrorrage.,,,""*,The Democratic Convention of Virginia in sevsion at Richmond last week, nominated F. M. W. Holiday for Governor. STOCKHOLDERS* MEETING. Lincolnton, N. C., August 7,1877. A meeting of the stockholders of the Chester aud Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, was held this day, in the Court House, in Lincolnton, N. C. On motion, Judge David Schenck was called to the chair, and J. F. Wallace and James Mason were appointed Secretaries. On motion, C A. Cilly, U. Matthews and | A. Costner were appointed a committee to verify proxies. ( The committee to verify proxies reported that 113 shares were represented in person, and 2,860 shares by proxy?in all, 2,973 shares, which being a majority of all the stock, the meeting was declared duly organized. ?- . a il ihe chairman then read the report or ine , chief engineer, upon surveys for the location of the road upon the different routes proposed between Lincolnton and Lenoir, when it was decided to adopt the route surveyed via the town of Newton, citizens of Newton giving their written guarantee to do the grading and trestling of the road-bed from Lincolnton to \ the town of Newton, within reasonable time. After the adoption of the report of the committee appointed to examine and report upon the guarantee of citizeus of Newton, on ; motion of Dr. A. H. Davega, it was Resolved by the stockholders, in meeting assembled, That the line of road from Lincolnton to Newton, known as the "Valley Line," be and the same is hereby adopted, subject to any slight modifications to lessen or | not increase the cost thereof. The following resolution, offered by Major ( C. A. Cilly, was adopted : Resolved, That the President of this corpo- ( ration be paid the sum of twelve hundred dollars salary for the current year, aud so much - ? 1 - il 1 i I ot the resolution passeu ai me anuuui meeting at Chester, in May last, as fixes it at nine ' hundred dollars, be repealed.. < J. G. Hall offered the following resolution, i which was adopted : Resolved, That the provisions of the resolution and guarantee affecting the grading ( and trestling from Lincolnton to Newton, i shall apply to any persons who may hereafter offer to construct any part of the road-bed 1 above Newton. 1 On motion, the thanks of the stockholders were returned to the Chairman and Secreta- 1 ries, when the meeting adjourned. DAVID SCHENCK, Chairman. j J. F.Wallace, i ^ James Mason, } ^"a 9 i AGRICULTURAL MEETING AT ANDERSON. ] On Wednesday of last week, the State j Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, with delegations from various counties of the State. assembled at Anderson, and marched in pro- , cession, six hundred strong, to the Fair j grounds. After the meeting was organized, General I Bratton, of Fair6eld, read nu essay on cattle, 'j in which he inculcated the duty of raising 1 green crops to support live stock, which in , turn would furnish the manure for the sue- 1 cessful cultivation of remunerative market ( crops. i Dr. Barton, of Orangeburg, next read an i essay on life insurance, in which he endeavored to show the superiority of Patrons' aid societies over the regularly established insur- : ance companies. He claimed that life insur- < auce could be effected at a cost of less than one per cent, of the amount insured, and quoted the reports of several aid societies, of from two to seven years' standing, to prove 1 the truth of his assertion. 1 The subject of the usury law, in which ' much interest is manifested, was brought up ] in a paper against usury laws from Ashley 1 firnntro "Wn 1 nf Charleston. It was read ' by Master E. B. Roche, of that Grange. The subject of usury was treated from the earliest 1 ages, aud the deduction was made that no i law can regulate the use of money, but that i it foliows the general rule of supply and de- < ruand. I At the close of the reading of this paper, i Gen. Gary was called on and came promptly forward to reply. He alluded to his labors in i the Senate in favor of a usury law and against . paying the State debt, and narrated an in- i stance where he had enabled a neighbor of I his who owed a merchant in Augusta 86,000, i to get off by paying only $2,000, by cancell- j ing the excessive claim for interest. i At the close of Gen. Gary's remarks, Maj. 1 Theo. G. Barker was loudly called on, but I the presiding officer decided that it was out of order to call for a speaker, and Major ] Barker did not come forward. Dr. A. B. i Rose, however, did come forward and made a t sensible and telling speech against usury laws, in plain common sense language, that evident- : ly had its effect on the assembly, which, as a body, was undoubtedly in favor of the usury law. Col. D. Wyatt Aiken made one of his usual off-hand speeehes in favor of the usury law, directing his argument principally against the paper of the Ashley Grange. He was re- ; ceived with enthusiastic cheers, and was repeatedly applauded in the course of his short address. Maj. Barker now came forward, avowed his responsibility for the abolition of the usury law, and defended his course in a lucid and torciuie arguraem. Col. Rucker followed in an earnest, impressive speech in favor of re-enacting the usury law, the most plausible argument he used be ing that if capitalists were not satisfied with a . legal rate of iuterest, they could put their money into manufacturing enterprises that would give employment to their money, their time and their talents, and greatly benefit the community as well as themselves. i i m .c i?u:~ ? Mr. mcnara xozer, 01 v^uiuiuum, icnu ? i short, practical essay on agricultural steam engines, which was listened to with much in- 1 terest. 1 The proposed change in the fence law was ' I discussed by Mr. B. F. Crayton, of Anderson, j i Judge Mackey, Col. Lipscomb, of Newberry,!? Col. R. S. Bedon, of Colleton, Col. J. S. Rich* i ardson, of Sumter, Col. D. Wyatt Aiken aud i i others. 1 i The next annual Fair of the State Agricul-, < tural and Mechanical Society will be held at 1 Columbia in November, next. ! ] On motion of Col. Wallace, it was resolved i ; to memorialize the Legislature for an annual ? appropriation to the Society of $5,000. The next annual summer meeting of the 1 State Agricultural and Mechanical Society, i and the State Grange of the Patrons of Hus- < bandry, will be held at Spartanburg. i c LOCAL AFFAIRS* NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation? W. I. Clawson, Applicant?Lucian P. Sadler, deceased. Keenan Brothers, Proprietors?Columbia Hotel. T. M. Dobson A Co.?Bargains?Misses' Shoes? Ready-Made Clothing?Men's 8boes?BivingsvilleShirting?Cottonades?Millinery Guns?Groceries. William J. McGill?McGill's Mills. Key Found. W. A. Moore, County Auditor?Tax Returns. SALE OF "COTTON. One of our cotton-buyers bought 62 bales of cotton, of last year's crop, the other day, at an average price of ten cents a pound. MAJOR J* F. HART. This gentleman, whose health has been bad for some time past, is now at the Springs in Cleveland county, N. C., where, we are pleased to learn his health has been almost completely restored. He will return to his home in a few days. ALABAMA STATE FAIR. We have received from General E. M. Law, Secretary of the State Grange, the Premium List and Regulations of the Alabama State Grange Fair, to be held at Montgomery, commencing October 30th, 1877, and continuing five days. TAX RETURNS. By a notice of the County Auditor, published in our advertising columns, it will be seen that pursuant to instructions from the Comptroller General, the books of the office will be kept open at Yorkville for receiving returns of property until the 1st day of September. RELEASED FROM JAIL. On Friday last, Robert Stinson, the old negro who shot Ahe Moore, and voluntarily sur rendered himself to the authorities?an account of which we published at the time?appeared before Trial Justices Darwin and Lewis, on a writ of habeas corpus, and after an investigation of the case, was discharged on his own recognizance in a bond of one hundred dollars. The wounded man will recover. NOTICE TO*TEACHERS. We are requested to announce that the School Trustees for York township, will meet in Yorkville on Saturday, 25th instant at 10 o'clock, a. m. for the purpose of considering applications for the position of teacher in the several schools of the Township to be opened at an early day. They must he based upon a certificate from the Examining Board, and * ' J J 1 1 3lioul(l oe la writing, enoorsen uy a uumuer of citizens who expect to patronize the schools respectively. LETTER FROM MRS. ZURCI1ER. We have received a letter from our former towns-lady, Mrs. Mary Zurcher, dated Teufen, Switzerland, 30th ultimo, in which she describes her voyage to that distant country as having been very pleasant. She is delighted with the charms and scenery of Switzerland, and we infer from her letter that she designs making it her future home. Mrs. Zurcher is a native of this State, but married the late J. U. Zurcher, a native of Switzerland, who was for many years one of the most respected citizens of Yorkville. Her trip to Switzerland was prompted by a desire to visit the r^lativpji nf her husband. THE FENCE DISCUSSION. "Maul and Wedge" desires to be beard again in reply to "F. H D.," and develops himself as follows: ' "Come around again," says F. H. D. Please give this a place in your paper. I make my own roila o*?d hnilH my nwn fonoo t but t)iArA nrn n good many widows and children that can't build fence, and some have no place to build on. I see there are a good many fast young men prowling about. All I wish is, that every man will think for himself and act accordingly. Not long ago, I discovered an animal prowling about my residence. I discharged the contents of my old shotgun, to let it know that I was at hand. I did not think I hit a calf. From the way It bellows, I suppose I did. If the rail-maker gets out of employment, I suppose he can have a chance to procure other employment as satisfactory as that on which he has been engaged. When you get the fence law in good running order, I will perhaps see it. Now I leave the case with you to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. I am done. Maul and Wedge. THE FENCE ELECTION. The election last Tuesday on the question of altering the fence law was conducted very quietly in the different townships in which it had been ordered. No undue excitement prevailed at any of the precincts. While colored men voted in favor of the proposed 1 A!?? ntklfo mon^.lun^.nvnprfl? cnange, mere wcic nmtDJutu who voted agaiost it It was not expected that the change would be voted for by a majority in York township; though the majority against it would have been considerably reduced had there been a larger turnout of those who favor the change. The advocates af the change did not vote their full strength, while the opponents were out in full force and were active until the close of the polls. As will be seen, the question carried in Bethal, Bethesda, Bullock's Creek and Catawba townships. After the system is put into operation in those townships, and its advantages perceived, others will adopt it. Such changes can only he brought about gradually, and though it may be some time first, yet we venture the prediction that the time will come when those who are now most violently opposed to the change will become its warmest advocates. The following is a tabulated statement of the vote : YORK TOWNSHIP. Against altering: the Fence Law, 431 Tif favor of altering the Fence Law, 'zm Majority against altering the Fence Law, 150 catawba town8hip. In favor of altering the Fence Law, 388 Against altering the Fence Law, 375 Majority in favor of altering the Fence Law,.. 13 kino's mountain township. Against altering the Fence Law, 252 In favor of altering the Fence Law, 83 Majority against altering the Fence Law,... 169 ebenezer township. Against altering the Fence Law, 240 In favor of altering the Fence Law, 167 Majority against altering the Fence Law,... 73 bethel township. [n favor of altering the Fence Law, 176 Against altering the Fence Law 130 Majority in favor of altering the Fence Law, 46 bullock's creek township. In favor of altering the Fence Law, 292 Against altering the Fence Law, 271 Majority in favor of altering the Fence Law, 21 bkthe3da township. In favor of altering the Fence Law 355 Against altering the Fence Law, 290 Majority in favor of altering the Fence Law, 65 BURGLARY AND KUBlitKi. On Wednesday night of last week, the store house of J. W. P. Hope, near the depot, was burglariously entered and a number of articles, including the cash drawer, stolen therefrom. Although the burglars intended to jonvey the impression that they entered by j forcing the door on the west side of the house,1 It is very clear that they effected their object n'mnlv hv unlocking the door of the Dorth '?r j -j jod of tho building. Near this door was j ibund about twenty keys of different sizes and | patterns, and with the keys, some burglar's mplements. A number of new railroad ipikes was also among the outfit. Mr. Hope has been missing articles from lis store for some time, and is now fully satsfied that it has been unlocked and quietly ;ntered for that purpose. To avert suspicion )f entering the house in this manner, the thieves, on this occasion, left a door standing open, which, from all appearances, was pot opened on the outside; but by omitting'to carry away the keys and implements, with" which they were abundantly provided, the in? dications are clear that there is a regularly organized band of burglars in our midst. Mr. Hope cannot precisely estimate his loss. Two pieces of jeans eloth, four large jars containing candy, and the cash-drawer containing a number of papers and abbtit' twenty dollars in change, were taken. The empty jars and the cash-drawer were found next morning in a field about a mile east of town. The papers, some of which were valuable, were left in the drawer intact. FORT HILL ITEMS. A letter from Fort Mill mentions the fact that crops in that section are suffering for want of rain. With a seasonable rain at this time, more corn would be made in that portion of the connty than in any year since the war. Several days ago, a few miles above Fort Mill, a negro came to his death under the following circumstances: Allen Wier, color ed, had been annoyed by a cat, which be threatened to shoot, and started oat to do so; but failing to find the troublesome feline, met with Elias White, also colored, and told him as he couldn't find the cat, be would shoot him, (Elias.) A scuffle ensued, when the gun, in Allen's hands, was discharged, inflicting a wound on Elias, from which he died a few days after. It is claimed that the gun was discharged accidentally, and there has been no judicial investigation of the affair. The Sons of Temperance and the Fort Mill Grauge, will unite iu a picnic atSpratt'sSpring to-day. Rev. J. B. Mack will deliver a temperance address. The youug men of Fort Mill have organized a militia company, to be called the Fort Mill Light Infantry, which company has been accepted by Governor Hampton. The following are the commissioned officers of the company : Captain?T. J. Cureton ; First Lieutenant?J. J. Drakeford; Second Lieutenant?Henry Massey; Third Lieutenant?W. M. Morrison. Sumter, aged about two years, infant son of J. D. Cornwell, died on tbe 7th instant. Trial Justice Powell has had several cases of petty stealiug to dispose of during the past week.' county"indebtedness. Upou the petition of fifty tax-payers, Governor Hampton has appointed a commission, consisting of Cadwallader Jones, of Rock Hill; 8. E. White, of Fort Mill; and Wm. C. Black, of Black's Station, to investigate and ascertain the actual bona fide indebtedness of York county. The following is the Act of the General Assembly providing for such commission in the various counties in the State, and under the provisions of which the commission for York county are empowered to act: Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sittiug in General Assembly, and by tbe authority of the same, That upon the petition of fifty taxpayers of auy county in the State, stating that said county is in debt, and that the validity of said debt, or some portion thereof, is doubted and challenged, it shall be the duty of the nniro.nn. nf thofifsta (n annninf a onmmia VJIWWtiVI VI IUV N/VWW WW *~f T""" v " ???M..W sion, consisting of three competent and discreet citizens of said county, to investigate and ascertain the true and real bona fide indebtedness of said county, who shall report in writing to the boird of couuty Commissioncm n oitueuieut uftjaid buna fide indebieduesa, and shall also report to the General Assembly, at its next session, the amount of said bona fide indebtedness. Sec. 2. That the said commission shall have the power to send for persons and papers, be authorized to swear witnesses, and to call all persons having claims to appear before it, and establish sucb claims, after due and sufficient notice, by publication of thirty days in the paper of said county; that pending said investigation the proper officers of said county and counties are hereby directed and restrained from levying and collecting any special tax for the payment of said past county debt, created prior to the first day of November, A. D., 1876. Sec. 3. That the members of said commission shall each be entitled to receive $2 per diem for each day actually employed in such work, not to exceed in all thirty days. Approved June 11,1877. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Ohio Soreheads la Council. A meeting of the anti-Administration Republicans of Ohio, was held in Columbus last Thursday. Resolutions were adopted bitterly denouncing President Hayes for his Southern policy and declaring the second resolution adopted by the Republican State Convention at Cleveland inconsistent with the proposed declaration of fidelity to the principles of the Republican party. This resolution of the State Republican Convention reads as follows: Betolved, That the Republicans of Ohio reaffirm their unfaltering confidence in Rutherford B. Hayes as a statesman, patriot and Republican, and cordially approve and support bis efforts for the pacification of the country and the establishment of its civil service upon a basis of purity and efficiency. The discontented Republicans of Ohio say this resolution is a falsehood, adopted solely for party expediency, a libel upon the Republicans of Ohio aud unworthy of the grand record of the party. The meeting also adopt1 1 r ed resolutions inviting correapuntieiiuw irum Republicans throughout the State, and advice as to the course to be pursued during the present campaign. An executive committee was appointed to receive correspondence. The Indian War. A dispatch from Deer Lodge, Montana, dated August 11th, gives the following account of a battle between the Indians and Gen. Gibbon's command : W. H. Edwards has just arrived from Big Hole, bringing accounts of a terrible battle between Gen. Gibbon's command and the Nez Perces, on the Big Hole river, August 9th. Gibbon's command, consisting of 182 men, 17 officers, 133 regulars and 32 citizen volunteers, crossed over from Ross Hole on Wednesday, starting at 11 o'clock ; the same night they moved down all of the troops with the exception of a few left to guard the transportation, a few miles above, close to the Indian camp, which was on Big Hole, about three miles below, where the Bitter Root and Bannock trail crosses. At daylight the bring was opened by the volunteers on an Indian going after the horses. The charge was then made on the camp, and some bard fighting took place in the next two hours, during which time a large number of men and Iudians were killed The soldiers then charged the lodges, but were re- ; pulsed. The Indians then attempted to cut j the soldiers from a high wooded point, but the latter charged, beating hack the Indian ad- i vance from the point which they held, and at once fortified. Fighting continued all day, j and was still progressing fitfully when the j courier left at 11 o'clock. The fighting was ! desperate on both sides. Failures of Fruit Crops. At the Fruit Fair, held at New Gar-1 "NT (\ loaf wppW .T. Van Liindlev read an UV>U| XI VIJ *MWV ?. WX-, W. ^ . interesting essay on fruits, in which he made the following allusion to the occasional failures of the fruit crops. York county being in the same latitude as the section to which Mr. Lindley refers, and subject to similar climatic effects, his remarks are of interest to the fruit-growers of this section. He gave the following statistical information on this subject: > The'last three jeers have certainly been discouraging to fruit growers, more especially to strangers who are in our midst, and those unacquainted with the 'history of the fruit crops of our State. Many have threatened to cut down their orchards, and many who had none, would not plant. I will give^ few facts for the encouragement of that' clars in regard to the failures and crops during tfre last sixty years, as handed down to me by my father, who is now 72 years old.andlias made fruit a close study from childhood up. As I said before, we have just passed through three blank years for fruit JNow let us go bacx to the.years 1819-20, and 21, and . we find the same thing; three years and no fruit?just such vears as we have just passed tbrongb; the four years previous to that time, there were fruit years; from 1822 to 1844, one year in four was a failure in fruit; then in 1849, heavy frost April 16, killing the froit and all tender vegetation; 1860 was a good fruit year; 1851 none; then come five years in succession of good crops, 1852 to 1856 inclusive ; 1857, fruit killed; 1858, good crop; 1859, about balf peach crop on bills, none in the valleys, fair apple crop; f60, good crops; '61, half crop; '62, '63, good crops; '04, fruit all killed except apple; 65, '66, '67 and '68, fair crops; '69, partially killed; '70, fine crops; '71, half crop; '72, good crops; '73, late frost, April 26, killed tender vegetation, but what was very remarkable, left half a fruit crop; '74, '75 and '76, almost entire failure, a repetition of 52 years ago. 1877 shows for itself. So we find in the last 60 years, nine years of failure in all fruit Eleven years peaches were killed, leaving a fair crop of apples and forty good fruit years, and if ?lio flit lira fa f n ha iiMaaH hr tha na>L then " ?W ~J , we need not expect a failure more than one ; year at a time and then only one year in four, for the uext 52 years. Romantic Sequel to a Crime. At the Spring term, 1857, of the Superior Court of Guilford county, N; C., Jas. R. S. Chipman, a young man, scarcely'twenty-one years of age, of fine education, and the prided son of wealthy and highly respectable parents, was convicted of the murder of Martha Pinnix, a girl who was employed in the capacity of house-keeper in the Chipman family. It was in the month of November, 1856, when one day the girl made a pretext for visiting a neighbor's house, and not returning in due time, search was instituted, and her dead body was found lying in a field about a mile from the resideuce of Mr. Chipman, her brains kaninn knan klnirn ml t Kit t k.asv Hlo/itinrrrA IJAViug UWU 1/ivnu vuv w mww*j of shot from a shut gun. Circumstances pointed to young Chipman as the perpetrator of the deed. The murdered girl was enceinte, and he was suspected as the author of her misfortune. The suspicion led to various other circumstances, all of which, linked to* gether, formed a complete chain of circum* stantial evidence sufficient to warrant hiacouviction of the crime charged against him. He was sentenced to be hanged, and only a few nights before the day fixed for the execu* tion he broke jail and made good his escape. Now comes the sequel of the story, as related by the Raleigh Observer: In 1863, a man by the name of Paris Stewart, from the same county, was conscripted in the army of the Confederate States. He reported for duty at Greensboro and was assigned by the enrolling officer at that place to the command of a guard of twelve men stationed at Deep river bridge, near Jamestown, on the North Carolina Railroad. On his return from Greensboro to his home, in company with his brother, on the day of his enlistment, be made the following startling dis closure; said he: "1 have uow entered the army,-ami iu a short tttnr I wilfcbe dead. There is a secret I wish to communicate to you. I am the murderer of Martha Pinuiz. I was betrothed to her, and knowing the marriage would be an unhappy one, I killed ber, and by a strangely fortuitous circumstance, the crime was 6zed upon Rom. Chipman. When I am dead you tell Chipman's sister, for whom I have a special regard, that it was me, aod not her brother, who murdered Martha Pinnix." ?J The next day after this conversation Stewart took command of the guard at the bridge. That night, an half hour before the passage of the cars over the bridge, he approached the guard on tbe bridge, told them to go to their quarters?that he would watch till morning. He took his seat on the bridge and permitted the train to run over him?a plain case of suicide, and so reported at the time. Yesterday, the sister of Mr. Chipman, who resides in Texas, visited the Governor, and exhibited the affidavit of Stewart's brother and each of tbe guard on duty at the bridge at the time of Stewart's death in corroboration of the above facts. She also had a petition signed by the most influential men of niiiilfni?/l nnnntv riMvino tha narHnn nf Ptiin. VJUII1VIU WUUIIJ |/?WJ ?Wg WMW w? V/ M l|? man. The Governor did not hesitate, but issued the pardon at once. Cbipman is now in California, but as soon as he is notified of his pardon, will return to his old home. TRIP TO THITMOUNTAINS. The scenery presented by the mountain range forming Blue Ridge, gr^nd and magnificent. Let us pass through Hickory Nut Gap. It is nine miles long, and a beautiful stream, Broad river, courses its way over its rocky bed for nearly half the distance, appearing now and then in the path of the traveler, not to dispute his way, but to gladden him by the sight of its cool and refreshing waters, and to add life to the scene by its brisk and tumultuous movement It is, perhaps, not saying too much to declare that the scenery afforded by this Gap is not surpassed by anything ot a similar kind in the world. It is one of Nature's pictures, sketched in her highest style and finished in her most consummate manner. Here are , found blended the elements of the wild and picturesque, the beautiful and the gay, the graud and the sublime?forming, indeed, a picture which enchains the beholder, but defying all powers of description. But to view the mountains as they are, the tourist must leave the high way and penetrate their recesses. This may be done on horseback ; but as Christopher North remarks, if 4 in lad or manhood, and accustomed to the use of limbs, which Nature has given you, why not be a pedestrian and ascend the rugged and precipitous cliffs ? Then from their lofty eminence survey the wondrous panorama which ? is spread out before you in the almost limitless distance, and gather with your own hand the wild flower which springs up in your path/ and suffer it not "to waste its sweet fragrance on the desert air." Harris' and Levanthorp's views, from the top of Bald Mountain, are also worthy of i mention. Here we obtain a grand sight. The mountains rise countless in number, vast in extent, and superb in assembled grandeur. On top of the mountain, bursting from the side, is a stream of as cold and pure water as earth affords, known as Murphy's Spring, where the traveler quenches his thirst. Huge oaks shoot out their branches over his head, forming a beautiful canopy, under which he may rest from the labors of the ascent, and acquire fresh strength for the task of further exploration. But who is adequate to a description of such scenes but he to whom it is given "To muse on Nature with a poet's eye?" Pursuing our way, we reach the town of Asheville. This town is beautifully situated on the banks of the Swannanoa river, and commands an extensive mountain prospect.