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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.