Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, January 03, 1878, Image 2
Scraps and .facts.
? It is said that a number of influential
colored men in Augusta, Georgia, have com- i
meuced a movement looking to the organization
of a cotton manufacturing company.
? The death of Bishop Marvin, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, will require
the election of three bishops by the
General Conference, which meets at Atlanta,
Georgia, next May.
? The late address of the sugar planters'
association of Louisiana, shows that in 1862
the State produced 44 per cent, of all the
sugar consumed in the United States, while
that proportion is now reduced to 12 per cent.
? Sitting Bull has put on his war paint.
He has crossed over from the Canada line
with a large force of Sioux and Nez Perces,
and now look out for warm work. He appears
implacable, and trouble is ahead.
? In the vicinity of Rio Grande City, Texas,
there has been no rain since April, with the
exception of one slight shower. In conse?iionno
tlioro ia no nsottirnffA And the SO ffer
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ing stock is only kept alive by feeding on the
prickly pear from which the thorns are first
cut.
? The culture of coffee in Southern California
is becoming profitable. The plant,
it is stated, grows as vigorously as in the
coffee countries of South America, and
yields a bean of a strong aromatic flavor.
The central and southern portions of the
State are the regions peculiarly favorable.
? B. E. Smith, surviving partner of the
banking house of Bartlett & Smith, of Columbus,
Ohio, has brought suit against prominent
gamblers of that city to recover about a
hundred thousand dollars, alleged to have
been lost at play by attaches of the bank in
question. Eminent legal talent has been engaged
by both parties.
? The Missouri Republican admits that possibly
things may change hereafter, but as they
stand now, Mr. Hayes, only nine months after
his inauguration, is forced to look for his
friends among his political enemies. His administration
would collapse at once, but for
the Democratic support which a strange combination
of circumstances has given it.
? Among the difficulties of editors, a contemporary
states the case as follows: "The
truth is, an editor cannot step without tread?r,r?
nn gnmahn^c'g foOB Tf hft PXnreSSBS
opinions fearlessly and frankly, be is arrogant
and presumptuous. If he states facts
without comment, he dare not avow his sentiments."
Yet there are many persons envious
of an editor's privileges.
? The government of Virginia is highly
pleased with the operation of the Moffett bell
puuch in that State. A bill for its introduction
into Tennessee is now pending in the
Legislature at Nashville, and the New Orleans
Democrat clamors for its adoption inLouisiana.
It seems to furnish an easy and
effective mode of raising revenue, and its success
in Virginia will raise up advocates of it
in most Southern States.
? In December 1872,1874 and 1875, there
was warm weather. In 1874 some persons pro*
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nouncea it toe most pieasam ian uuu wiulcx,
up to Decmber 21, they ever knew. December
22, 1875, it was warm, and at 11.40, p. m.,
there was an earthquake. December 28,1875,
it was warm, and there was so much warm
weather that the people supposed there was
some connection between it and the earthquake.
A German proverb says a warm winter
makes full grave-yards.
? Advices from Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin
and Minnesota, state that owing to the terrible
embargo of mud prevailing in every city,
town and country road, consequent on the
opening of the winter, all commercial operations
of any magnitude are suspended. The
farmers are unable to traverse the roads, and
cattle, hogs, grain and produce are thereby
kept from market. Corn has sprouted in the
ear, and unless cold weather sets in, vast
amounts of corn will be ruined. As yet but
little snow has fallen in the North-west.
? Judge Raynor, the Solicitor of the Treasury,
having revived the efforts to collect the
assets of the Confederacy now in the Bank of
England, the subject was recently referred by
Secretary Sherman to the Secretary of State
and the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
for t.heir oninion. Both have reported ad
versely, on the ground that while the British
Government is willing to recognize the
United States as the executor of the Confederacy,
it claims that before paying the assets,
the liabilities due British subjects must be
liquidated. As the liabilities are considerably
in excess of the assets nothing, more will
be attempted in the matter.
? The total number of licensed saloons or
drinking places in the United States for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, was 165,598,
or, calculating from a population of 45,000,000,
one for every 280 persons. The
total number of wholesale liquor dealers is
4,604; brewers, 2,758; rectifiers, 1,130; distillers,
4,992. In the District of Columbia
there are more saloons than there are in Colorado,
Dakota, Delaware, Florida, Idaho,
Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire,
New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Washington
Territory, West Virginia, or Wyoming.
There are nearly three times as many
saloon-keepers in the District of Columbia as
in two-thirds of the States and Territories
named.
? Last year Texas led off as a cottdn producing
State with 730,000 bales ; Mississippi
came next on the list with 639,000 bales, followed
by Arkansas with 590,000 bales. Before
the war Mississippi produced vastly more
cotton than any of her sisters, and the yearly
increase of her yield was immense. To the
destruction of the levees on the Mississippi
river and its tributaries during the war, we
may directly trace a surrender of the grandest
and most productive region in the world to
the forest and flood. But the Aberdeen Examiner
says that it can Dot long be abandoned
to the reptiles and wild beasts. When again
reclaimed, Mississippi will make fully half the
cotton crop of the United States.
? The Washington Union thinks the time
has come for the admission of civilized In
dians to the privilege of citizenship under
carefully guarded conditions, and argues that
it is contrary to the genius of our institutions
to keep any portion of the inhabitants of the
republic disfranchised after they become
qualified by their intelligence for enjoying
the privileges of citizens. It is a well known
fact that hundreds of Indians do possess such
qualifications, and therefore there is a great
deal of equity in the proposition of the Senate
bill to admit such, and such alone to the
enjoyment of the rights of citizenship. It is
only by such legislation that the tribal relationship
can be broken up, which is at present
such an incubus upon the progress of the
Indians in civilization.
? The cotton crop for the last eight years
has been 31,570,212 bales. For the eight
years ending with 1861, wheo slave labor
was used, the crop was 28,797,841 bales.
That is, the crop for eight years of free labor
has been increased near three millions of
bales on the crop of the corresponding period
when slave labor was used. The cotton crop
issaid to be now more free from the eneumbrance
of debt than ever before, and with it
has been raised a supply of food far greater
than slavery ever compassed. The money
value of the thirty-one and a half million
bales of cotton produced in the last eight
years, has been over two thousand million
dollars in gold, and over two-thirds of this
value has been exported.
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? itegaraing oenaior j_>uuet? ocou m iuc
Uuited States Senate, and the probable ef- j
fort of the Republican members to declare it
vacant, a special dispatch from Washington
to the New York World says: "The pending
question before the Senate, when it meets, will
be the resolution of Senator Butler for a committee
to investigate the charges that he used j
improper means to secure his seat. Mr. Ed- j
munds intends to supplement the* resolution j
by one proposing to inquire into the legality
of Butler's election, with the tope, it is said,
! of uniting the Republican majority ultimate-11
I ly to declare the seat vacant. The Republi- ,
j can leaders hold, it is said, that Butler wa9 ,
i not legally elected. The interesting question ,
as to whether a majority can declare the seat
; vacant, or whether it will require two-thirds i
to expel, will then come up. It is doubtful, 1
however, if the inquiry amounts to anything. '
The Republican majority in the Senate will i
be reduced to one vote when Congress reassembles."
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THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 3, 1878.
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THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Previous to the adjournment of the legislature
for the Christmas holidays, the House
" 1 a
passed me uuuairiiuuuimi aiucuuiucub ?u mgard
to public schools, by a vote of 88 yeas
to 23 Days. The Senate having adopted the
amendment at the extra session, it is now, to
all intents and purposes, a part of the organic
law of the State.
The provisions of the amendment require
the County Commissioners of the several
counties of the State, to levy an annual tax
of two mills on the dollar upon all the taxable
property in their respective counties, for
the support of public schools. The poll tax,
as heretofore, is to be applied solely to educational
purposes in the school district in
which it is collected, and all moneys collectted
for school purposes are to remain in the
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respective counties, ana ne aisoursea oy tue
county treasurers.
The School Commissioner of this county
informs us that the school fund in York county,
to be derived from the school tax, will
amount to about nine thousand dollars for
the present year, which will be increased
by the poll tax to about twelve thousand
dollars. He is now engaged in making arrangements
to open the public schools without
delay. This is manifestly carrying out i
the pledges made during the last campaign,
and is a matter in which the people of the !
couuty should feel a deep interest. Twelve i
thousand dollars is a considerable sum, and
should be watched over and made to produce
good results. Too great care cannot be exer- i
cised by the school officers of the county in i
directing the judicious expenditure of this i
sum. The people of the several neighbor- !
hoods should go to work at ouce and make
all necessary arrangements for the opening of
the schools. New school houses should be !
built where required, old ones repaired, and .
good teachers selected. The selection of i
competent teachers should be carefully at- I
tended to, as it is impossible to have good <
schools with inefficient teachers. In this con- <
nection, we take occasion to state that the j
State Superintendent of Education has en- i
joined it upon School Commissioners, to be (
strict in their examinations of those who pro- ]
, pose to engage as teachers in public schools. <
This is proper. Every individual who can j
read and write is not necessarily a competent J
teacher. I
The School Commissioner of this county i
speaks cheerfully and hopefully of the pros- i
pects of the public schools. He represents ]
the trustees as being men who take much in- t
terest in the success of the schools, and who l
have, during the past year, judiciously manag- <
ed the small amount of money appropriated
by the legislature for school purposes. He s
thinks the schools can be opened as early as i
the 6rst of February, and that they will be
| kept open for six months, or perhaps longer, i
The prospect now is, that the matter of edu- i
cation in South Carolina will soon be reduced i
to a system, and one from which much good 1
will follow. 1
COMPTROLLER GENERAL'S REPORT. '
We are indebted to J. A. Deal, Esq., mem- 1
ber of the House of Representatives from 1
York county, for a number of legislative doc- *
uments, including a copy of the Report of '
the Comptroller-General to the ,present session
of the General Assembly. This report 1
constitutes a volume of over 300 pages, em- '
bracing the reports of the various officers required
by law to report annually to the !
Comptroller General, and therefore makes a 1
thorough exhibit of the financial operations of the
State Government. As regards the collection
of taxes for the first fiscal year under
Governor Hampton's administration, it would !
appear that the following sums have been <
paid into the State Treasury :
Ten percent, contribution, 8135,805 03 i
July collection, 212,080 13
Second collection, to Nov. 26, 407,093 00
Total, 8755,885 90
Cash on hand, November 20, 340,185 92 <
An estimate is made for the current expenses
of the State Government for the en- i
| suing year, amounting to 8425,155, exclusive i
1 of the amount required to pay the interest on
i the public debt, which is not included in the
j estimate, the forthcoming report of the Bond
i Commission being relied upon to furnish the
information accurately.
Eight of the counties, viz.: Anderson,
! Colleton, Edgefield, Greenville, Pickens Richj
land, Sumter and Williamsburg, have, as yet,
! failed to furnish an abstract of the assessment
| of the real property in these several counI
ties. The abstract from the remaining twenty-four
counties, shows an aggregate of $66,494,794.
Greenville county furnishes an ab-1 (
stract of personalty, which, with the other J,
' twenty-four counties reporting, shows an ag- j i
gregate of 834,734,296. Estimating for the j
counties which have failed to report, the en- i
tire taxable property of the State is estima- <
ted as follows: Real, 886,796,002; personal, <
842,162,311, to which may be added the val- i
ue of all railroad property, as fixed by the
State Board of Equalization, 86,677,550, ma- j
king a total of 8135,735,863. i
The assessment for this year shows an in- s
crease, in the counties reporting, of 38,975 i
polls over the assessment of the previous year, j
This increase may be accounted for from three t
causes, viz.: that more attention than hereto- ,
fore has been given to listing the names of r
those liable to poll tax ; the increase by a
large number of young men just attaining (
their majority ; and the fact that by recent t
act of the Legislature, the provisions of the <
tax law include all males between the ages
of twenty-one and sixty-years, instead of from
twenty-one to fifty years, as was the law previous
to the last assessment.
In regard to York county, we observe that
the County Commissioners promptly made
their annual report, which is embodied in the
Comptroller General's report. Wm. Whyte,
Agent Catawba Indians, has disbursed to
and on their account, 8804.20?84.20 in excess
of the amount furnished him by the State
Treasurer, and for every disbursement he
produces vouchers. John L. Watson, exCounty
Treasurer, is reported as having settled
satisfactorily with the Comptroller Genaral.
Of the 420 prisoners in the penitentiary,
19 are from this county. The abstract
of taxable property in York county is given
as follows :
REAL ESTATE.
109,970 acres arable land, $ 886,991
362,768 acres wood land, 1,450,863
1,782 buildings, 336,961
449 town lots, 129,410
391 buildings in towns, 319,465
Total valuation of real estate, $3,123,690
PERSONAL PROPERTY.
2,484 horses, $ 142,117
3,292 mules, 204,13S
10,2G3 head cattle, 109,403
6,099 sheep and goats, 6,019
13,061 hogs 33,132
605 gold and silver watches, Ac., 20,831
102 pianofortes and organs 11,495
1,097 pleasure carriages, 43,403
3,833 dogs, 19,658
Average value of all property appertaining
to merchandise, 194,965
Average value of property appertaining
to manufacturing, 4,360
Value of machinery, Ac., and manufactured
articles on hand one year or
more, 108,981
Value of moneys, Ac., 56,585
Value of all credits overall legal indebtedness,
234,520
Value of taxable stocks, 14,890
Bonds not exempt from taxation, 61,455
Value of all other property, including
household furniture, 247,623
Total value of taxable personal property,$1,513,665
RAILROADS.
25 miles C., C. A A. road, at $7,200 per
mile, $ 180,000
27 miles Chester and Lenoir, at $3,000 per
mile 81,000
Total, $ 261,000
Total value of real estate, 3,123,690
Total vnlnA of norsonal nronertv 1.513.665
Total value of all taxable property,..$4,898,355
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? R. W. Shand, Esq., of Union, has been
elected a member of the House of Representatives,
to supply the vacancy occasioned by
the election of Gen. Wallace as Judge of the
Seventh circuit.
? In view of the completion of the railroad
bridge over the Ashley river, near Charleston,
the Post Office Department will, in the course
of the next few days, make definite arrangements
for a fast mail service of 96 hours between
New York city and Havana, Cuba,
via Cedar Keys and Key West, Florida.
? Deputy Marshal Kirklaud reports to the
internal revenue department in Columbia,
that on last Thursday a tobacco peddler
named G. G. Hill, from Hickory, N. C., was
arrested iu Union county by a number of
deputy collectors, and after handcuffing Hill
and his negro driver, the party started for
Spartanburg. Arriving at West's Store, they
came upon a rifle company, which was drilling,
some armed and some mounted. These,
it is charged, surrounded the revenue officers
and compelled them to release their prisoners
and restore to them their property. Considerable
excitement exists, and District Attorney
Northrop and the department at Washington
have been informed of the occurrence.
? The papers in the case of Tillman vs.
3raal!s, Congressional contestants from the
Fifth Congressional district, have been printed,
anft form a hnllfv imllimftnf 694 nflCPfl. The
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Brst few pages contain the notice of contest,
fee., and the reply ; the remainder is a mass of
evidence. Mr. Tillman claims that the State
Board of Canvassers made a fraudulent statement,
and did not compare statements of the
bounty Canvassers with the returns of the
Managers of Elections at the various precincts;
that polls were held at improper
si aces and at improper hours; that colored
Democrats were intimidated by people of
their own race, and that the white Democrats
vere iutiraidated by the United States troops,
vhile no troops were sent to protect colored
Democrats. Smalls denies all these allegations
in tolo, and answers the charges of intimidation
and irregularities with counter
charges of a similar nature.
? A Columbia dispatch of the 28th ultimo,
says ex-Judge L. C. Northrop has returned to
that city from a recent visit to Washington.
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ill matters pertaining to the District-Attorneyship,
he feels confident that the President
will renominate him when Congress convenes.
He says that the various charges made against
[lira by parties not wholly disinterested in the
ippointment, and also the articles reflecting
upon him, recently published in several Northern
papers, gave him an opportunity to
3ompletely refute them. He believes, however,
that these matters have but little to do
with the real animus of the fight, which was,
and is, being waged against his confirmation,
[t goes deeper thau that, and is a party fight,
which, unfortunately, is being made over his
shoulders. Judge Carpenter is in Washington,
working iudustrioasly to secure the same
position.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Milliard Morgan, convicted in the Wayne
Superior Court of burglary, was hanged at
Goldsboro on the 21st ultimo.
? The Seaboard and Roanoke railroad
bridge over the Roanoke river, washed away
by the November freshet, has been rebuilt.
? A correspondent of the Wadesboro Herald
writes that paper recently, that William
Hannah, of Raudolph county, while leaning
on the brick curbing around a well, fell in,
through the curbing giviug way, and when
gotten out next morning, it was found that his
skull had been broken in two places.
? Thomas P. Bowman, charged with murdering
his wife by administering poison, was
convicted at the recent term of the Superior
Court at Greensboro, and sentenced to be
hanged on the 25th instant. An appeal was
taken to the Supreme Court. The deed was
committed last summer in Rockingham county,
but on motion of the accused, his trial
was m oved to Guilford.
? A white man of Sampson county, is under
indictment for stealing a five-cents spool
of cotton. After two attempts at a trial in
that county, his case was removed to Pender
Superior Court, where the jury failed to agree
upon a verdict, and a mistrial is the consequence.
Thus far that spool of cotton has
cost Sampsou and Pender counties two or
three hundred dollars and the end is not yet.
? Governor Vance, in a recent address before
the students of the colored normal school
it Fayetteville, said he wished the students to
study the history of their own State, of those
lien who first secured its freedom, to study
ts institutions, and to learn to take pride in
;he fact that they are not only citizens of
\merica, but citizens of North Carolina,
rhis is what should be done in every State. |
? Charlotte had two fires last week. On
Christmas day the ice factory, together with j
he machinery for manufacturing ice, was j
sntirely destroyed. Loss, 82,300 ; no insur-1
ance. On Thursday, the residence of Rev.
Dr. Mattoon, President of the Biddie University,
caught fire and was entirely consumed,
together with uearly all his furniture,
and a valuable library and papers.
? The Greensboro Patriot gives the follow-;
ing singular case of insanity, near Ruffiu, in
Rockingham county. It appears that a gentleman
named Lillard had for some time conceived
the idea that he was called upon to
enter the pulpit and become a preacher. His
friends dissuaded him from it, and on the day
the meteor appeared, a few weeks ago, he
seemed more than ordinarily excited. Calling
some of his family out before the appearance
of the meteor, he predicted its coming,
and pointing to the heavens bade them look
iu that direction and they would soon see it.
And in a short while they did see it. Since
then Mr. L. seems to be laboring under mental
excitement and although not a biblical
scholar, constantly quotes scripture, and if a
verse is quoted in bis presence, he will at
once Duroe the chapter and page from which
it is taken.
MERE* MENTION*
"Blind Tom's" full name is Thomas Greene
Bethune. Thechildren of Andrew Johnson
are erecting over him an $8,000 monument,
which weighs twenty-eight tons. On
the 20th ultimo, an explosion occurred in
the extensive candy manufactory of Greenfield
& Sons, on Barclay street, New York,
by which, about 50 persons?mostly boys and
girls, operatives in the factory?were killed,
and property destroyed to the amount of
$413,000. The explosion seems to have been
caused by some chemical in one of the copper
tanks filled with materials for making candy.
Johu H. Miller, who will doubtless
be remembered by many citizens of South
Carolina, as a prominent agent of the Southern
Life Insurance Company, was recently
arrested at Si. John, New Brunswick, charged
with forgery committed in Augusta, Geor
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gia, oy wnicn ne swinaiea several persons out
of a large amount of money. He will be
brought to Augusta for trial. Coffee iB
cheaper on South American plantations than
it has been for several years?being now
quoted at $11 per hundred pounds. A
Memphis policeman imagined, a few nights
ago, that he heard burglars in his house, and
attempting to tire on them, his pistol was
prematurely discharged, the contents striking
his wife and child and killing them instantly.
Flora Temple, the world renowned
trotter, and the fastest on the turf while she
was in active sporting service, died last week
at the age of thirty two years, the property of
Aristides Welch, of Philadelphia. The
incursions of Mexican horse and cat tle thieves
on the Texas border have recently occasioned
some excitement in that State. By invitation
of Mexican authorities, soldiers of General
Ord's command pursued the robbers on Mexican
soil?Mexican soldiers joining in the
pursuit?but owing to bad weather the attempt
to capture the raiders was fruitless.
The farmers of Northern Alabama find
great difficulty in procuring hands for field
work, and half the cotton remains in the
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eius. iKXUH prouuueu uo,\jol uaiea ui
cotton in 1852, and 506,735 in 1877. Governor
Colquitt, of Georgia, has issued his
proclamation, declaring that the new constitution
is now of force and effect, aud that Atlanta
is the capital of the State. President
Hayes and his wife celebrated their silver
wedding in the White House last Tuesday
evening. The intimation was distinctly given
that no presents would be received from their
friends on the occasion. A New York
teacher of telegraphy says deaf mutes make
good operators. A son of Ben. Butler,
graduate of West Point, has been assigned
to the 9th cavalry, the enlisted men of which
are negroes. The regimen t is stationed near
El Paso, Colorado. There will be two
colored members in the next Legislature of
Georgia. Like a true womaD, the Goddess
of Liberty on the big halfdollars is looking
behind. It is a pity that the mint
doesn't give us the outlines of the odious fe- j
male who has just passed her. Geo.
Shannon, of Lockport, N. Y., has been fined
$75 for opening a letter addressed to his 1
wife. It is estimated that the raising 1
and manufacturing of tobacco in this country,
furnishes employment to more than one
million persons. Colored military companies
are not allowed in Ohio, as the law
passed by Republicans says only white male
citizens can hear arms. Fourteen thou
saud Baltimoreans have signed the pledge '
within two weeks.
, THE ELECTORAL COUNT.
Wra. E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, a
member of the National Republican Com
ruittee, has addressed an open letter to the
Republicans of his State, making mention of
the number of explicit statements concerning
bargains made during the electoral count, and
their fulfillment by the adoption and pursuance
of the President's Southern policy. Mr.
Chandler asserts that the Republican party,
by the advice and procurement of Governor
Hayes, made "the necessity of keeping Federal
power in Republican hands and using it
for the protection of black and white Southern
Republicans" the main issue of the Presi- i
dential campaign. Chandler says the "bloody
shirt," as it is called, was freely waved, and
Governor Hayes himself urged public men to
put forward, as the best argument, the dangers
of rebel rule and a solid South. Chandler
quotes several expressions from Ha>es to
prove that he pretended to Republicans to be
in sympathy with the carpet-bag governments
of South Carolina and Louisiana, and
then proceeds to say:
"Governor Hayes not only pledged himself
to protect, to the full extent of Federal pow* i
er, life, suffrage, and political rights in the
South, but was counted in as President only ,
by reason of such pledges given by Senator
Sherman and other Ohio emissaries, who practically
and emphatically promised that he
would recognize and maintain the lawful
State governments of South Carolina and
| Louisiana, and stand by Governors Cbamj
berlain and Packard."
As to the nature and conditions of the '
| "bargain," Mr. Chandler says : I
'One Heury Watterson, a member of the ,
i House, and a nephew of Stanley Matthews, .
j had acted as go-between (Senator Sherman in
the meantime having visited Ohio and con- 1
I suited Governor Hayes), and on the one side
' Matthews, Charles Foster, John Sherman, ;
James A. Garfield, and on the other L. ty. ,
C. Lamar, John B. Gordon, E. J. Ellia, Ran!
dall Gibson, E. A. Burke, and John Young
Brown, had agreed, first that the count should '
i not be broken in the House, but that Hayes '
should be declared and inaugurated President; ?
j and second, that upon Hayes' accession troops ]
should be withdrawn from the support of |
i Chamberlain and Packard, and that the new '
administration should recognize Wade Hamp- j
| ton and General Nicholls. After the inauguration
the bargain was fully carried out. '
Governors Packard and Chamberlain were <
notified by Matthews and Evarts to get out." 1
Except to create some "amazement," as the J
j telegraph express it, in Washington, the let- j
: ter will probably fall still-born upon the 1
J country, and is noticeable only as one of the j
many episodes arising from the last Presiden- s
tial struggle. It may also be stated that Mr. i
Watterson denounces Chandler's allusion to
him as a wanton and malicious falsehood. ?
LOCAL A77AZHS. ?
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 1
The Evening Star Company, Washington, D. C.? f
Why Not Try a Washington Paper? *W.
T.R.Bell, A.M., Principal-King's Moun- h
tain High School.
Hunter A Oates?A Happy and Prosperous New ?
Year to All. C
J. J. Evans?Caution Notice.
M. Strauss?To Each and All a Happy New Year. 0
J. M. Adams?Granite Iron Ware.
A. Williford, Rock Hill?More Fine Stock?Notice.
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T. W. Clawson and C. E. Spencer?Property for g
Rent.
B. T. Wheeler?Wanted. C
R. Lathan, School Commissioner.?School Trustees.
J. W. P. Hope?Final Notice. I
II. W. Hope A Co.?Read our Card.
Joseph A. McLean, Probate Judge?Citation?
Dr. R. T. Allison, Applicant?John Hick- c
man, deceased.
Mrs. Fannie L. Dobson?Thanks!
T. M. Dobson A Co.?1878!?Calicoes?Bleached h
. Shirting?Alamance Checks?Yarn?Shoes i;
and Boots?Gentlemen's Hats?Gold Jew- 1
elry?Ready-Made Clothing?Hardware? s
Coffee and Stiirar?Fancv Groceries?Mo
lasses?Tin-Ware?Crockery?Bacon. *
Kennedy Bros. A Barron?1878?A Happy New c
Year.
Clark Brothers?A Happy New Year to Every- c
body !?Salt?Flour?Sugar?Coffee?Bag- ^
ging and Ties?Molasses?Chewing and
Smoking Tobacco?Our Motto.
H. F. Adickes A Sons?Kid Gloves, Dress Goods, (
Cassi meres, Ac.
F. Happerfield?York Marble Yard. n
CONGRESSIONAL FAVORS. a
We are indebted to Hon. J. H. Evins, ?
representative in Congress from this Con- o
gressional district, and to Senator Butler, of c
this State, for sundry public documents. c
THE FENCE LAW. "
According to the provisions of the statute,
the fence law went into operation on the 1st '
instant, in all the townships of this county
that have adopted the change.
PASTOR OF THE M. E. CHURCH. fl
Rev. Thomas E. Gilbert, appointed to the
pastorate of the M. E. Church for the ensu- *
ing year, is expected to arrive this week, and
will deliver his initial sermon next Sunday.
SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. j
To any of our subscribers desiring the t
above sterling agricultural magazine, pub* v
lished at Athens, Ga., we are prepared to t
make the following offer: The Enquirer g
and the Cultivator one year for $4.50, the
subscriptions to be made direct to this office e
and not through a club maker. v
HOMICIDE AT CHESTER. <j
Bergen Conger, who was robbed and cru- ]
elly beaten in Chester, on Friday night last, c
by a negro named Johu Smith, an account of f
whieh is given in our Chester correspondence, c
died from his injuries last Tuesday morning. ?
Judge Mackey has ordered a special term of 8
the Court of General Sessions, to convene on a
the 16th instant, for the purpose of trying
Smith. t
TOWN ELECTION. [
In a communication in the last issue of the s
Enquirer, Mr. Frank Happerfield was \
named as a candidate for warden at the elec- 1
tion to be held on the 14th. Mr. Happer- f
field, while not insensible to the compliment
thus bestowed, declines to permit his name
to be used, and requests us to announce that ?
even if elected, he will positively decline to
serve. 1
PERSONAL. H
Mr. David C. Walker, who has been a con- *
stant employe in this office since January, 0
1871, took hia departure from Yorkville on c
the 21st ultimo, for his home in Winston, N. ^
C., where he contemplates becoming co-pro- 0
prietor of a job printing office in that tbriv- 8
ing town. We take pleasure in bearing tes- ^
timony to the upright deportment and faith- c
ful discharge of his duties as a printer while e
in our employ, and wish him the most abund- 11
ant success in bis future plans. c
A QUIET CHRISTMAS.
Christmas passed off without auy unusual
excitement. The day was excessively wet
and rainy, much to the joy of the small boys, 0
who, in consequence of the pluvious condition ^
of the atmosphere, had no difficulty in ob- ^
taining permission from the town authorities
to indulge in the display of fire-works, (which ^
had beeu interdicted) to their hearts' content
Some colored individuals, in fantastic costume,
and with discordant instruments, paraded the ?
streets on foot, but failed to elicit applause or
admiration. As a burlesquer the colored man g
is not a success, which fact none more readily *
perceive than the colored people themselves,
when acting as spectators. '
SALES OP DELINQUENT LANDS. g
On Monday last the following lands were g
sold by the County Auditor for non-payment
of taxes for the last fiscal year: C(
Lands of M. McKenna, deceased; 38 acres, u
bought by J. A. McLean and W. B. Wilson, 8)
junior. n
Lands of L. H. Massey; 4 9-10 acres, j(
bought by W. L. Roddey. jg
Lands of John Brown, deceased; 599 9 10 ^
acres, bought by M. M. and J. W. Brown. C(
Lands of Moses L. Hardiu ; 124J acres, n
bought by W. B. Williams. ^
The sale of other tracts advertised was con- jt
tinued, the Treasurer announcing that they w
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would be ottered again next ivionciay. ^
OUR CLUB MAKERS. V,
For the iuformation of those desiring to is
subscribe for the Enquirer, we give below a b
list of club-makers, who will receive subacrip- tl
tions at 82.50 per annum, in advance, the tl
lowest rates at which they can be taken : w
Miss Mattie A. Burris, McConnellsville. D
Mrs. M. C. Choat Clav Hill. *1
T. Gid. Culp, Fort Mill, d
J. C. Comer, Yorlcville.
Miss M. J. Creighton, Rock Hill.
James A. Hogue, Zadok. I
Win. 0. Guy, Bullock's Creek.
Sam M. Grist, Yorkville. ?
J. F. Jackson, Bowling Green, ti
John L. Miller, Blairsville. _
Willie Ferguson, Yorkville. "
Mrs. Jane Moore Philadelphia. T
Samuel L. Milling, Rock Hill.
A. J. Matthews, Clover.
Capt. E. R. Mills, Rock Hill, ft
J. S. Poag, Rock Hill.
J. N. Roberts Herndon's Mill. 81
Brainerd McLure, Chester, S. C. T
Wm. D.Simpson, Blackstock's S. C. p
Major Mj'les Smith Clover.
Felix H. Dover Wbitaker's.
DEATH OF W. L CLAWSON, ESQ. ll
Although not unprepared for the intelli- ft
gence, the many friends and acquaintances of ci
\V. I. Clawson, Esq., were pained to learn of V
his death, which occurred at the residence of 6
his son-in-law, ftlr. J. W. ftlarshall, near Fort E
Mill, in this county, on the night of the 22nd E
ultimo, in the 62nd year of his age. J
William Israel Clawson, was the son of "X
Dr. Jacob H. Clawson, and was born Feb- J
ruary 22ud, 1815, in this county, about four E
miles north of the present town of Rock Hill. ?
He was the eldest child of a family of four ci
children. At au early age he entered the m
icademy at Ebenezer, then conducted by Mr.
Meredith Shurley, and after passing through a*
;he regular courses of this school, he entered ci
Randolph Macon College, in Virginia, where V
ae remained until the end of his junior year. J
He then returned to his home, and soon after P
lame to Yorkville and commenced reading E
aw under the late George Williams, Esq. li
[n this, his chosen profession, he made rapid L
progress, and was admitted to the bar in L
1837, when, under the strict regulations then L
arevailing, something more than a mere cur- L
lory reading was essential to the admission of j ci
i candidate for legal honors. F
After his admission to the bar, Mr. Claw- L
ion formed a copartnership with Mr. Wil- A
iaras, with whom he continued to be associasd
in the practice of his profession until
839, when he was elected to the office of
kmimissioner in Equity, which position he
eld for three terms. He was afterwards electd
to the State Legislature, representing this
ounty in the House of Representatives for |
ne or two sessions.
Retiring from political life, Mr. Clawson |
esumed the practice of law, also devoting
ome attention to planting, which pursuits he
ontinued unremittingly until June, 1867,!
then he was commissioned Registrar in
bankruptcy of this district, by Judge Bryan,
?bich position be held up to the time of his
leath.
Mr. Clawson was twice married. In 1840
ie married a daughter of Col. Thomas Wiliaros,
by whom he reared a family of three
008 and four daughters, those of the former
rho have entered man's estate being useful
itizens, and his daughters estimable and acomplished
ladies. His second wife, who surives
him, was Miss Fair, of Newberry.
As showing the high esteem in which Mr.
Ulawson was held by the people of the comQunity,
despite the very inclement weather,
, large concourse of sorrowing friends attendd
the funeral services, which were conducted ;
n Monday of last week, in the Presbyterian !
hurch, by Rev. L. A. Johnson of the M. E.
hurch, who delivered a discourse fitting and
appropriate to the sad occasion.
In his public career, as well as in the private
walks of life, Mr. Clawson was essentialy
an old time Carolina gentleman. Strict
,nd upright in the discharge of his duties; an
ndustrious, indominitable worker, courteous
md affable in manner, of liberal mind and
tublic spirit, his loss will be deplored by the
utire community.
CASE OF POISONING.
On the night of the 24th ultimo, Martha
jindsay, a negro woman living near Bratonsville,
in the southern part of this county,
iron aiiilHpnlv tipivpd with uielrnpfl* almnincr
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inmistakably that she had beeD poisoned.
She continued to grow worse, until the night
if the 27th, when she died. A post mortem
ixamination was made by Dr. R. L. Love,
vhich confirmed the suspicions entertained
luring her sickness, and Trial Justice A. L.
Gunnery, acting as coroner, summoned a jury
if inquest, who, after duly inquiring into the
acts, returned a verdict that the deceased
lame to her death by poison, feloniously aduiuistered
by Isaac Jackson, colored. The
moused was committed to jail in Yorkville,
ifter the rendering of the verdict.
The motive ascribed for the commission of
he deed is, that Jackson desired to obtain
lossession of the poisoned woman's money,
everal dollars of which she owned, and
vas so indiscreet as to let the fact be known,
rhe accused had hut recently been discharged
rem the penitentiary.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Senator Patterson's Health.
Senator Patterson recently had an stack
of virtigo, in his room in Washington,
md at one time his condition was thought to
le critical. His illness is the result of nerv1U8
prostration induced hy the mental exiteraent
attending the recent contest in the
senate over the admission of Senator Butler,
f South Carolina, and the civil prosecution
gainst him, commenced in the courts of this
State. Later accounts represent him as reovering,
and having gone to Senator Camroll's
home in Lancaster county, Pennsylvaiia,
to recuperate. A statement is generally
redited to the effect that Patterson will reign
his seat in the Senate at an early day ;
r that if he does not formally resign, will
sk for leave of absence, in which event, in
ousideration of the cold comfort he hag reently
received from his Republican brethren,
e will decliue to pair off with a Democratic
enator, and thereby diminish the Republican
Lrength in the Senate oue vote,
he Silver Question.
A eood manv Deonle are askiD&r the
? o tg r a o
leaning of the terms, "deiuonitization" and
remonitization," so frequently used in Cooressional
debates on currency, and especiily
in the discussion of the silver bill now
efore Congress. In 1873 an act was passed
y Congress regulating the coinage. By that
ct silver was deprived of its quality of leal
tender (except for small change up to
ve dollars) and the coinage of the silver dolir
was stopped. In fact no silver had been
[lined since 1853, and silver had not been
sed to any extent as currency, except as
nail change, since 1834 ; but the law recogized
the silver dollar of 412} grains as full
;gal tender. By the remonitization of silver
i meant the restoration of the legal tender
uality to the silver dollar, and its unlimited
oinage, compelling all men to take it in paytents
of debts. At the time it was demonized,
the silver dollar was worth 103 cents;
. is now worth about ninety cents. The act
>as passed because of the inequality of value
etween gold and silver dollars ; at least, this
ras the ostensible reason. It is claimed, and
i not very vigorously denied, that the bill
ecame a law through a trick employed by
se gold men, and that a large majority of
3e members of the House did not know
rhat they were voting for when the measure
assed. It is even asserted that the Presient
was ignorant of the character of the legilation
when it received Executive sanction,
t is probable, on the re assembling of Conress,
that the Senate will pass the remonizing
bill, and that the President will interose
the veto power,
he H. E. Conference.
The South Carolina Conference of the
[. E. Church closed a harmonious session of I
x days in Columbia, on the 18th ultimo,
'be following are the appointments for the
lolumbia district:
Presiding Elder?E. J. Meynardie. Coimbia?Washington
street, J. T. Wightman;
larion street, W. S. Wightinan; Columbia
ircuit, L. M. Little; Ridgeway circuit, J. A.
Watson; Winusboro, W. A. Rogers; Faireld
circuit, John A.Porter; Chester, John
1. Carlisle; Chester circuit, M. H. Pooser;
last Chester, T. J. Clyde ; Rock Hill circuit,
. M. Boyd ; Fort Mill circuit, J. L. Stokes ;
orkville. T. E. Gilbert; York circuit, L. A.
ohnson; Black's Station circuit, B. M.
loozer; Lexington circuit, C. D. Rowell;
Idgefield circuit, S. Leard; Batesburg cirjit,
J. W.Kelly; Professor Columbia Felale
College, J. W. Dickson.
The ministers named below are stationed
i follows: P. F. Kistler?St. George's cirlit,
Charleston district; M. A. McKibben?
fillistou circuit,Orangeburg district; S. B.
ones?Pendleton circuit, A. W. Walker? !
ickeus circuit, Greenville district; D. D. j
btntzler?Spring Hill circuit, W. W. Wil- j
aras?Lancaster station, R. L. Duffie? |
. c? ?? . A ? '
ancasier circuit, ou uner uiatnci. , . x*. h. i
eater?Florence station, J. B. Maaaebeau? j
ower Darlington circuit, VV. S. Martin? [
ynchburg circuit, J. C. Russell?Gourdin ;
rcuit, G. W. Gatlin?Johuaonville circuit, j
lorence district; R. L. Harper?Marion,:
i. Wood, Conwayboro, Marion district; W.
.. Clarke, Cokesbury, R. P. Franks?Lown
desville station, S. B. Trawick?Tumbling J
Shoals circuit, Cokesbury district; A. P. "
Avant?Cane Creek circuit, Q. M. Boyd ?
Jonesville circuit, J. B. Wilson?Limestone
Springs, E. O. Price, Limestone Springs mission,
Spartanburg district
The following are the Presiding Elders of
the respective districts: Charleston, T. E.
Wanamaker ; Orangeburg, William Martin ;
Greenville, O. A. Darby ; Columbia, E. J.
Meynardie; Sumter, C. H. Pritchard; Marion,
H. A. C. Walker; Florence, J. C. Stoll;
Cokesbury, M. Brown ; Spartanburg, H. M.
Mood. ^
The next Conference will be held at Newberry.
Death of Dr. J. L. Reynolds.
Rev. Dr. J. L. Reynolds, the eminent
divine, died in Greenville, of neuralgia of the
heart, on the 19th ultimo, aged about 62
years. He was a native of Charleston, and
was one of the most scholarly of Southern
divines. He was an entertaining and instructive
writer, and author of quite a number of
essays and works which bear unmistakable
evidence of deep thought and clear, incisive
rnind. He was a professor in several institutions
of learning, and filled a chair for a
long time in the University of South Carolina
at Columbia. He was born in 1815, and
was one of the leading Baptist ministers in
America. Rev. Dr. R. Furman writes to
the News and Courier of him :
"The natural endowments of Dr. Reynolds
were of a high order. His miud was thoroughly
trained and disciplined by early culture
and by long years of patient, perserving
study. His course of reading was varied
and extensive. By habit and by choice he
was a man of letters. He was a true lover of learning.
But he especially excelled in the
departments of Roman literature and of belles j
lettres. As a theologian his attainments I
were extensive and his views eminently evangelical.
Hence while he commauded the respect
of all denominations of Christians, he
was peculiarly loved and revered by the
members of his own denomination as the
courteous and able exponent of their doctrines
and principles.
"As a speaker he was more than ordinarily
gifted. His personal presence was attractive,
his voice sonorous, musical and well
modulated, his gesticulation natural and appropriate,
and his vocabulary exceedingly
rich. His style, whether of composition or
of extemporaneous address, was fasbioued
after the finest models of ancient art, and was
in a high degre einbelished with the adorn*
meuts of rhetorical elegance and grace."
Senator Blaine's Views.
The St. Louis Democrat publishes an
interview with Senator Blaine, who was re*
cently in that city, en route to the Hot Springs.
Speaking of President Hayes and the Republican
party, Senator Blaine is reported to
have said:
"Mr. Hayes has undoubtedly placed him*
self in a position where he cannot receive the
cordial support of the party that elected him.
The line is in fact already so clearly drawn
between him and the parly, that there can be
no doubt as to how each stands. Mr. Hayes,
in a party view, is neither on the Republican
side nor on this-line. He is on the other side
of the line so far as all the practical resulta
of his administration are concerned. It is
absurd to suppose that there cau be any harmony
between him and the Republican party
as long as he pursues his present course. The
people know whether he has carried out his
pledges as the President elected by the Republican
party." Being asked about the
Southern policy, Seuator Blaine said that on
this subject there was, of course, a difference
of opiuton, but the difference was very slight,
and it was safe to assume that there was no
great division of sentiment in the party on
the matter. "Many honest Republicans,"
said the Senator, "believe that the Southern
people are as loyal to the Union as we are in
the North, but of this there is a serious doubt.
The Southern people, it is true, are, according
to all appearances, peacefully inclined
and show a disposition to maintain the supremacy
of the National Government, but " ^
men who were in the rebel array cannot so
readily give up their faith, and their professions,
in my opinion, are only skin deep. The
Southerners are laying low until they get on
top. They lead the Democracy, and should
their party get iuto power in 1880, they will
show a hand that will surprise that class of
Republicans, who believe that rec nciliation
baa been complete. The Southern people are
not io fact reconciled. They are playing policy,
and their purpose is to get possession of
the Goveanment and rule it as they did before
the war, and then all the established results
of the war, and reconstruction would be
set aside."
A CARD FROM CORBIN.
D. T. Corbin has published a card in reply
to the charge that he illegally withheld
828,000 royalty due to the State from the
phosphate companies, and paid the same to
the members of the Chamberlain Legislature
as bribes for their votes to secure him a seat
in the United States Senate, and that he
cashed worthless legislative pay certificates,
and afterwards attempted to turn said certificates
into the State treasury in lieu of the
royalty due on phosphates. In his card, Corbin
says:
"I wish to state, once for all, that all such
statements or charges are wholly false. I
have Dot illegally held $28,000 royalty due
to the State of South Carolina, or any other
sum. About five years ago, I was employed
by the Attorney General of the'State to
bring an action against a phosphate company
for damages for trespassing upon the phosphate
beds of North Wimbee Creek. The
questions made in the suit were no?el and
important, and involved great labor?the
suit running through about three years. The
rest li of the action was that I obtained a final
decree nyainst the company for $28,000 on
accouui of phosphate rock dug, mined and
removed; and further, that said company
should annually pay to the State one dollar
per ton royalty for every ton of phosphate
rock miDed by them in future in the bed of said
creek, which will produce probably $20,000
annually. The Legislature being about ended,
I applied to the Attorney General for
compensation for my services. He replied, in
substance, that the Legislature bad made no
appropriation for this purpose, and suggested
that I should be paid out of the fund collected
and that the court should determine
what the services were reasonably worth.
Upon this suggestion, applicatiou was made ^
to the court, upon which a reference was ordered
to ascertain and report what per cent
of the money collected in the cause should
be paid for the services rendered. The referee
reported a fee, and the court (Judge
Maher) confirmed the reported fee to be paid
for the services rendered, and the court directed
that the same be retained out of the
fund." Besides this he says be also paid bis
fees out of the same fund for conducting a
suit against the Savannah aud Charleston
Railroad Company.
lu conclusion, he says: "When Judge K.
B. Carpenter enjoined the State treasurer and
the Carolina National Bank last fall from
paying out the funds of the State according
to law, and the wheels of the State government
were thus stopped, I loaned about $20,000
to F. L. Cardozo, State Treasurer, to meet
the immediate wants of the State government.
This was some time after my election, and was
in no sense a secret transaction. This money,
1 am informed and believe, was mostly used
by the State Treasurer, in part payment of
the regular salaries of the members of the
Senate and House. How this payment by
the State Treasurer of the regular salaries of
members cau be regarded as paying them for
their votes by me, under the circumstances, I
am at a loss to comprehend. No investiga