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Jtoaps and Jaft*.
? Shack-Nasty Jim, of lava beds notoriety,
raised 1,200 bushels of corn last year.
? A little fellow who wore striped stockings
was asked why he made barber poles of his
legs. His pert reply was, "Well, ain't I a
little shaver ?'
? Fresh flowers are still regularly placed
upon the grave of the Lees, at Lexington,
Va., and the students' guard is still kept beside
the General's tomb. Gen. Lee's office is
preserved just as he left it.
? The female agitators of women's rights
and female suffrage, were in session in Washington
last week. Their deliberations are
said to have been discordant Among the
delegates was one colored woman from Mississippi.
? The report of the commissioner of agriculture
estimates last year's tobacco crop at
440,000,000 pounds?an increase of 60,000,000
pounds over the previous year. The
wheat crop of last year exceeds the preceding
year by 70,000,000 bushels. The cotton
crop is estimated at 4,000,000 bales.
? This is about the time of year for the
man who don't subscribe for a paper to go
sneaking home with a pocket full of almanacs
and spend his Sundays perusing the scorbutic
cripple who was cured by a single application
of somebody's goose grease. The almanac
man is a great disseminator of intelligence.
? Several heavy failures have recently occurred
in New York. Edward J. Dunning,
a note broker, has gone down with liabilities
amounting to over S500.000. John F. Henry
& Curran, the largest drug and patent
medicine dealers in the United States, have
suspended payment, it is said, in consequence
of the failure of Dunning.
? A Cincinnati dispatch of the 10r.h says
that at Concord, Kentucky, Tuesday night,
Deputy Sheriff Ruggles, with his posse, overtook
the notorious Underwood brothers, who
had been stealing horses from farmers, and
demanded their surrender. The Underwoods
immediately fired at the party, instantly killing
Ruggles. The fire was returned and
both outlaws were wounded. It is thought
that the Underwoods will be lynched by the
excited farmers.
? It is now urged in financial circles that
the government, in order to secure a wide
distribution of its bonds in the hands of its
most thrifty citizens in all parts of the country,
and as a measure of security for the people
themselves, issue bonds bearing four or five
per cent, interest and of small demonination,
? ? ?' - ? I*?~ ~ itnniAM/1 TklO Una I1TOQ
rtiUglUg HULL! iptiU Upnraiu. xuio iuuu
one of the most judicious features of the late
message of Mr. Hayes. A very large amount
of bonds would soon be absorbed through
this scheme, besides giving to a numerous
class of citizens an interest in the stability of
the government, hitherto unknown to them.
? Ex-Gov Bullock, of Georgia, who has
been on trial in the Superior Court of Fulton
county, that State, for a week or more
past, for alleged frauds upon the State during
his term of office, has been acquitted of
the charges against him, the jury having, on
Monday, brought in a verdict of "not guilty."
If this is a righteous verdict.Gov. Bullock
has been the most libelled man on.the
0 American continent. He has been openly
accused of the most unblushing thievery, and
the newspapers of his State have not hesitated
to say of him that he was no better than
a highway robber.
? In the Maryland Legislature, on the 8th
iustant, Montgomery Blair introduced a memorial
in the House of Delegates to Congress,
praying, in effect, for a full investigation of
matters affecting Hayes' accession to the
Presidency. His speech, on presenting the
memorial, created consternation on the Republican
side of the House. The lobbies
were packed. Messrs. Hinks and Merrick
both made speeches on the same subject. Mr.
Leib, Republican, moved to lay the memorial
on the table and called for tbe ayes and nays,
which resulted, ayes, 13; nays 54. It was
then referred to tbe committee on federal
relations.
? The Richmond banks have again come
to the front with a demand for the gold bullion
and other coin seized in that city by the
Union forces, and claimed to be the property
of the Confederate Government. At one
time Andrew Johnson, when President, ordered
the Secretary of tbe Treasury to return
the property to the banks, as he was satis6ed
of the legality of their claim to it. General
Spiuner, who was the Treasurer, refused to
obey the order, and succeeded in having
passed through the House of Representatives
a resolution that the money be covered into
the Treasury. This was done, and it is said
that the bullion was sent to the mint and
coined. The Richmond banks ask now that
they be paid the equivalent. They have retained
Col. Robert J. Ingersoll as their counsel,
and the subject is now before the committee
on the judiciary.
? Owing to heavy rains last week, the
bridge over Staunton river, on the Richmond
and Danville Railroad, was washed away on
the 11th instant, it being the third similar
occurrence inside of two months. The iron
bridge over the same river on the Virginia
Midland Road, between Lynchburg and Danville,
was also washed away. This bridge
was destroyed during the great flood in November
last and had been but recently replaced.
On the day of the break over the
Staunton river ou the Richmond and Danville
Road, two men, Geo. H. McLean and
J. F. Satterwaite, of New York, attempted to
walk over the bridge. As they were midway
they apprehended daDger and started to return,
but a span fell, carrying them below
some twenty feet. They floated down the
river s mile, but were overtaken by boats
and rescued. Local trains will continue to
run to the river either way daily on both
roads. Freights will be delayed on these
routes until the bridges can be rebuilt.
? The Methodist Almanac for the year
1878 contains the following statistics, showing
the condition of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in 1877: Bishops, 11; annual conferences,
88 ; local preachers, 12,583 ; lay members,
in full connection, 1,473,006; lay members
on probation, 200,281; total lay members,
1,673,287; deaths of members during
the year, 19,724; baptism of children, 56,292;
baptism of adults, 76,540; total baptisms
for the year, 132,832; church edifices,
16,099; value of church edifices, $70,133,673
; parsonages, 5,334; value of parsonages,
$9,165,047; total vafue of churches and parsonages,
$79,298,720; Sunday Schools, 19,775;
Sunday School officers and teachers,
216,274; Sunday School scholars, 1,490,233;
total teachers and scholars, 1,708,557. The
whole amount of contributions to benevolent
objects during the past four years has been
as follows: In 1874,81,892,673.74 ; in 1875,
81,052,710.36; in 1876, $915,757.34; in 1877,
$918,545.12. The total amount of money
raised for all purposes in the conference year,
1876-77, has been $16,597,850.
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? 1 he new :ncernai revenue um repurieu
by the sub-committee of the ways and means
committee, retains the tax on bank checks;
provides that no special tax shall accrue upon
a single sale of distilled spirits by a person
not a dealer, provided the spirits so sold were
taken as security or payment for debt; that
where a retail dealer sells his whole stock at
once, he need not take out a wholesale dealer's
license; that every fraction of a gallon of
spirits shall be taxed; more rigid scrutiny and
heavier penalties are required; the registration
of cigarmakers is abolished; cigarettes
shall be put up in packages or parcels containing
10, 20, 50, or 100 each, and stamped, and
imported cigarettes must be packed and
stamped in the same way; scraps, cuttings
and clippings of imported tobacco may be
withdrawn in bulk upon payment of duty,
and manufactured without paying the internal
revenue tax until after its manufacture into a
finished, taxable product ready for the consumer.
The whole of Section 24, fixing the
j transportation ai d export bonds, is repealed,
i and provision made that where tobacco is exported
not tax paid, the bond may be cancel!
ed as soon as the packages are delivered and
, entered on the ship's manifest. The bank
tax is to cease where a bank goes into bankruptcy.
The bill is not yet encumbered with
I the proposed income tax, which will be the
important point for discussion.
She ilorknllc <??qutm.
YORKVILL.E. S, C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 17,1878.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
Congress reassembled on the 10th. In the
Senate, Sargent, of California, introduced
| a joint resolution proposing the Sixteenth ,
amendment, giving women the right to vote.
Referred to the Committee on privileges and
elections. Kellogg, of Louisiana, introduced
a bill to improve the navigation and to afford
protection and security to the shipping trade,
commerce and alluvial lands of the Mississippi.
Senator Kellogg introduced a bill to provide
for a steamship line between New Or
leans and certain ports of Mexico. This is
the same bill which passed the Senate in 1870,
and again in 1872, but was lost in the House.
Senator Matthews' resolution to pay interest
and principal of bonds in silver was resumed,
and Mr. Beck, of Kentucky, spoke in favor
of the remonetization of silver, though he did
not favor the Bland bill as it came from the
House. He thought that the Senate Committee
on Finance did right in striking out of
the House bill the clause allowing any owner
of silver bullion to deposit the same at a mint
to be coined into dollars for his benefit. He
argued that Germany had demonetized silver,
and much of it was for sale in that country
at a reduced price. Had this clause been
allowed to remain in the bill, the German
Government could bring bullion to this country
worth forty-six million dollars and receive
fifty million therefor. He spoke of the acts of
1873 demonetizing silver as unconstitutional
and vicious, and reviewed, at some length,
the financial legislation of the Government.
Silver always had been the coin of the country,
and a demonetization of it deprived the
people of one half of their means to pay
their debts. He believed in maintaining national
faith, but at the same time the people
should not be deprived of their legal and constitutional
right. Mr. Sargent's resolution allowing
ladies, who advocate the 16th amendment
to the Constitution, conferring the right
of sufierage upon females, to appear before
the Senate in advocacy of that amendment,
was rejected?yeas 13 ; nays 31. The Senate
adjourned to Monday. In the House, the
first business in order was the consideration
of the resolution reported by Wood, of
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I>ew lors, iruui tut; n ojo auu nnouo vuuimittee,
giving the various committees special
powers in regard to investigating the several
departments of the Government. Hale, of
Maine, offered as a substitute a resolution providing
that such powers shall only be conferred
upon the committees when specific charges
shall be presented to the House in writing.
After a long discusssion in the committee of
the whole, Hale's substitute was adopted and
reported to the House, but pending action it
adjourned. Cox, of New York, introduced a
bill for the coinage of silver five cents, legal
tender for five dollars, and a discontinuance of
the coinage of nickles. Mr. Luttrel, of California,
introduced a bill forbidding the employment
of Chinese on United States work or on
vessels bearing the United States flag. Violations
of the provisions of the bill involve
fines and imprisonment.
In the House on the 11th, the proceedings
opened with voting on the resolution reported
from the committee of ways and means, diranfinn
nnmmittoeo trt inVPBt.iirfttp t.hpt RftVfirfil
departments of the government. The original
resolution was carried by the Democrats
on a strict party vote. The rest of the day
was devoted to private bills, none of which,
however, were passed.
In the Senate on the 14th, Mr. Davis, of
Illinois, presented a petition of four hundred
bankers and business men of Chicago, 111., in
! favor of retaining gold as a single standard
of value, and against the repeal of the specie
resumption act. He spoke of the high standing
of the signers of this petition, but said
that, in his opinion, their views were entertained
only by a very small percentage of the
population of that city. He also presented
the proceedings of a meeting held at Bloom;
ington, 111., his place of residence, iu favor of
I the remonetization of the silver dollar, and,
j in presenting them, said that he had no agen!
11 rv fkio montlnnf Knt Ko Ko.
I Hi up kino uivvwiug) wuv uv vv
! lieved its'proceedings expressed the opinion
; of the people of the whole county, which was
, the fourth in population in that State. Rej
ferred to the committee on finance. Senator
j Kernan, of New York, presented a memorial
| from the New York Chamber of Commerce
I in favor of the passage of a law to equitably
j adjust errors in the assessment and collection
' of duties on imports. Referred to the com|
mittee on finance. He also presented petitions
I from more than one thousand bankers, meri
chants and others of New York City, in faj
vor of the repeal of the bankrupt law. Re|
ferred to the committee on the judiciary. Mr.
; Edmunds, of Vermont, submitted a lengthy
! amendment to the preamble of the resolution
! introduced by Senator Matthews, of Ohio,
) before the recess, declaring the right of the
1 Government to pay its bonds in silver, Ac.
' The amendment reads as follows: "Be it enacted
that all the bonds of the United States,
, issued or authorized to be issued by Congress,
j are payable, principal and interest, in gold,
' or its equivalent, and that any other payj
ment, without the consent of the creditor,
! would be in violation of public faith, and in
derogation of his rights." Laid on the table
and ordered to be printed, the resolution to '
which it is proposed as an amendment now j
. being before the Senate. The Seuate re- i
I sumed the consideration of the resolution of |
i Mr. Matthews, declaring the right of the gov-1
I ernment to pay its bonds iu silver. Mr. Bai-!
! ley, of Tennessee, read a lengthy argument
as to the constitutional powers of Congress in
j regulating coinage, Ac. In the House, the
following bills were introduced and referred :'
i By Young, of Tennessee, for the appointment:
of a district judge for the western district of
Tennessee; by Buckner, of Missouri, repealing
the act placing restrictions on the sale of
leaf tobacco; by Gunter, of Arkansas, granting
lands to Arkansas and Missouri in aid of
the construction of a railroad. A resolution
granting the women suffragists a heariug at I
the bar of the House on Saturday next was
i defeated, yeas 107, nays 140. i
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Col. Alfred Rhett has been appointed
chief of police of the city of Charleston.
? Col. S. A. Townes, of Greenville, died in
that city one day last week.
? The legislature re-assembled on yesterday?Wednesday.
? Hydrophobia prevails to a great extent
among the dogs of Lexington county, especially
the hounds.
? Peter H. Thorn ton, charged with the raurderof
Samuel Carrington, surrendered himself
to the sheriff of Richland, on Saturday last.
? Ex-Treaurer Parker was on the streets
of Columbia, last Monday, in charge of a
constable, and was closeted for some time
with the investigating committee. The bond
transactions of the Scott administration are
supposed to have been the subject of inquiry.
? A Soartanburer correspondent speaks in
high terras of praise of the musical proficiency
of the blind pupils in the institution at
Cedar Springs, near Spartanburg. They are
taught in the musical department by Prof.
North, of Charleston, himself totally blind,
and their performances on various instruments,
as well as in vocal music, are really
wonderful.
? A duel, with fatal results, was fonght between
two South Carolinians, near Savannah,
j Georgia, on the 12th instant. The combatants
were Robert Fishburne and Walter S. j
Harley, both lawyers of Walterboro, and
brothers-in-law. The hostile meeting originated
from a dispute concerning the municipal
election held at Walterboro on the 7th
instant, Harley having espoused the cause
which Fishburne opposed?though politically
both were Democrats. Harley was shot in
the abdomen at the first fire and will die.
Fishburne was unhurt, and is reported to
have fled.
? Gov. Wade Hampton has unceremoniously
destroyed a great deal of political capital,
says the Washington Union, b> hiB order
disbanding the militia company which
was concerned in the rescue of the prisoners
who had been arrested in Uuion county for
violating the revenue laws of ihe Uuited
States. He has also directed the Sheriff of
the county in which the disorders occurred,
to assist the officials of the N itional Govern
ment, in enforcing the law. This action of
the Governor of South Carolina is very significant,
and shows, says the Union, that he
is sincere in.his professions of loyalty to the
Government of the United States.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? A Mecklenburg genius is working on a
flying machine, which he hopes to have perfected
in a short while.
? Gov. Vance has appointed W. H. N.
Smith, an eminent Democratic lawyer of
Raleigh, to be chief justice of the State Supreme
Court, in the place of Judge Pearson,
deceased.
? The death sentences of two negroes?
Rufe Lowrance and Dick Smith?convicted
of murder at the last term of Mecklenburg
Superior Court, have been commuted to imprisonmeut
in the peuitentiary for life.
? James S. Williamson, a native of Lancaster
county, S. C., but for several years a
merchant in Charlotte, died last week from
the effects of a fall received some time ago.
His remains were taken to Lancaster for interment.
*
? A disastrous fire occurred at Laurinburg,
Richmond cojnty, on the morning of the 9th
The principal losers are Hector McLeaD, B.
J. Rivenbank, Z. Fountain, M. J. McKay,
A. Cameron, J. C. Morgan, J. J. Crouch &
Co., Cross, Sedraon & Co., E. Benbow, J. 0.
Edwards, and the post office. The total loss
is between $20,000 and $30,000, with but little
insurance. The fire is thought to have
been of an incendiary origin.
? The Supreme Court was horrified, last
week, by an application from Miss Tabitha
Ann Holton for examination as an applicant
for license to practice law. For a while the
court didn't know herself at all, and finally
had to ask for delay, and request argument
in support of this novel application. ExJudge
Tourg6e gallantly came forward to the
rescue of the lady applicant, and in a brief
argument, citing numerous points and authorities,
restored the court to its wonted
equilibrium, and after a short consultation,
the justices decided that under the constitu
tion and laws of the State, there was no impediment
to the admission of female lawyers.
Miss Holton then passed a creditable examination
and obtained her liceuse. She is described
a9 a modest, retiring brunette, about
twenty-two years of age, not remarkably
handsome, quite intelligent; is master (?) of
several languages, aud a fine scholar; a native
of Guilford county, and daughter of a
Methodist Protestant clergyman. Her brother
obtained license at the same time, and
they both contemplate removing to Minnesota
at an early day.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The National Party.
A call has been issued for a National
convention of the National party, to be held
m x x y\i A I _ J P A 4L
in ioieao, vjnio, on me lluu ui uuxi ujuuui.
Upwards of one hundred names are appended
to the call, prominent among them being
those of Wendell Phillips, of Massachusetts
; Peter Cooper, of New York ; Thomas
D. Hoxsey, of New Jersey ; Alexander Campbell,
of Illinois ; Blanton Duncan, of Kentucky,
and Mosses VV. Fields, of Michigan,
It reads as follows:
The undersigued, believing the present financial
policy of those in control of the Federal
Government is destructive of the best
interest of the people, aud that, if continued,
will bring general ruin and uprecedeuted I
suffering upon the industrial classes, and also
believing that thorough organization and unity
of action may induce those in power to
take such steps as will avert such calamitous
results, call upon those, regardless of past political
affiliation, who will unite for independent
action, to elect one delegate in each
Congressional District, and. afterwards, by |
proper authority, two delegates for each State !
at large, to meet at a National Convention |
in the city of Toledo, on the 22d day of Feb- j
ruary, 1878, there to take such action as wis- j
dom may dictate.
Patterson's Conditiou--Will He Resign ?
Some persons are so uncharitable as \
to charge that Patterson has been feigning ,
sickness during the recess of Congress, and |
that his shamming in this respect is only an- j
other illustration of "possum up a gum tree."
As to the truth of this mild insinuation, of j
course we cannot speak; but certain it is j
that there has been much ludicrous uueasi- j
nesa among Republicans on the point of his j
threatened resignation and the fear that he j
would be succeeded by a Democrat. Iu j
regard to the current report of his intended
resignation, Patterson replied, the other day,
to a question by a correspondent:
"I shall not resigu under any consideration.'
If I am to be sick 1 should be a fool to resign,
because I can lie here and draw ray 813 a !
day. No, sir. I authorize you to say that I
will not resign, and those fellows down there
will not rob me of ray seat. I am going to
Pennsylvania when I get well enough to trav- (
el. Simon Cameron has invited me to visit
bis farm, and I think I shall do so, but I am
subject to these relapses, and I don't know
when another will come on. I have been
worn out by hard work and harrassed by
refugee South Carolinians who want situations
un:il I am entirely broken down. I do not
intend to abandon South Carolina if my persecutors
will let me go hack. My inter- ,
ests are in the State. I own real property in j
Columbia and Charleston. I wish I did not.
I would like to get out, but I cannot. These i
stories about my shamming sickness are false. |
I am unable to move, aud even this conversa- j
tiou excites me and makes me fear a relapse.
You are the only person, except Ben Butler
and ray di?ctors, whom I have seen since I
I tnn.a in Irnn Dinlr "
rr ci3 laacu oivn.
The same correspondent says that in response
to the suggestion that a ride might
be beneficial, Senator Patterson said that such
a thing would kill him, and he was seized
with a sudden fit of trembling. The gentleman
who visited him reports that he does
not look sick?that his face is of good color,
and that his eyes are bright and piercing.
A Civil Rights Law Exploded.
An important civil rights case was decided
in the United States Supreme Court at
Washington, last Monday, a statement of
which is as follows:
Hall, administratrix of Benson, vs. DeCuir,
in error, from the Supreme Court of Louisiana.
In this case Beuson was master of a steamboat,
enrolled and licensed under the laws of
| the United States, and plying between New
Orleans and Vicksburg. He refused passage
to the defendant on account of her color, and
this suit was brought under the law of the
State forbidding discrimination by common
carriers within the State onaccountof race or
color. The defence was that the law of the
State was a void act, as it had undertaken a
regulation of commerce, so far as the business
of the defendant's vessel was concerned, as it
was engaged in inter-State trade and commerce,
a matter wholly within the jurisdiction
and control of Congress. The State
Court held the law valid, and the same question
was presented here. The statute was regarded
in accordance with the decision below
as requiriug those engaged in inter-State commerce
to give all persons traveling in Louisiana
upon the public conveyances employed
in their business, equal rights and privileges,
without distinction on account of race or
color, and it is said that for this reason the
court has nothing to do with it as a regu
latioa of internal commerce, or as effecting
anything else than commerce among the
States, and as to this the Court says: "There
car be no doubt that exclusive power has
been conferred upon Congress The difficulty
has never been as to the existence of
this power, but as to what is to be deemed as
an encroachment upon it, aud it may be safely
said that the State legislatiou which seeks
to impose a direct burden upon inter-State
commerce, or interfere directly with its freedom,
encroaches upon the exclusive power of
Congress. The statute in question occupies
this position. It does not act upon the business
through local instruments to be employed
after the vehicle of conveyance comes
within the State, but directly upon the business
as it comes into the State from without,
or goes out from within. While it purports
only to control the carrier when engaged
within the Slate, it must necessarily influence
his conduct to some extent in the management
of his business throughout his entire
voyage. The decision is therefore reversed."
New Hampshire Republican Couveution.
The Republican Convention of New
Hampshire was in session at Concord last
week. A dispatch from that city, dated
the 9th, gives the following account of the
proceedings :
The Republican Convention nominated
Benjamin F. Prescott, by acclamation, for
Governor. The proceedings were stormy,
with some personalities, smelling of pistols
and coffee. The course of the Convention is
indicated by its President, William Bell, who
said: "Our election involves no question of
national policy ; it is simply a choice betweeu
Republican and Democratic rule."
The Convention manifests a very formidable
pro-Hayes element in the Republican
party. Opinions expressed by delegates, in
conversation, at the hotels, in the evening,
showed it to be impossible to pass resolutions
condemnatory of the President or his policy.
In the early part of the evening it seemed
that both parties were disposed to make concessions,
and that if the matter was not
entirely ignored, an endorsement made in
resolutions would be of a mild or non-committal
character. Strong feeling against Chandler
was freely expressed by delegates, and it
was claimed by Chandler's friends that there
had been an organized effort to crush him, secret
meetings having been held for that purpose,
and that various men had been drawn
into it. The meeting was opened at seveu
o'clock, and during the early part of the
evening the proceedings were quiet and harmonious,
though in many of the speeches
there were incidental or indirect attacks on
Mr. Chandler's recent letter. The first speech
was made by ex-United States Senator Patterson,
of New Hampshire, who, though he
endorsed the President, doubted the advisability
of introducing the matter into the Convention,
as there was a disagreement upon it.
Speeches, advocating either a conciliatory
policy or positive endorsement of Hayes, were
made by General Stevens, Major E. W. Farr,
0. C. Moore, and others. Messrs. A. H.
Tuck and Mason W. Tappan attacked W. E.
Chandler, who is a delegate. Mr. Chandler
spoke at length, criticising the action of the
President.
He spoke of attacks made on him by two
naval officers?Messrs. Harriman and Tuck?
and intimated certain irregularities on the
part of Tuck while in office. Mr. Tuck retorted
by calling Mr. Chandler a political
tramp, and charged him with dishonorable
conduct as a lobbyist. Moore and Tappan
then spoke, the latter quite severely on Chandler.
Maj. Farr made the closing speech,
and in speaking of the Southern policy said
that he was willing to shake hands with the
man who shot a bullet through his arm. The
officers of the Convention were announced
with Charles H. Bell as President. No newspaper
reporters were admitted to the meeting,
which closed a little before one o'clock.
MERE-MENTION.
Victor Emanuel, King of Italy since 1861,
died in Rome on the 8th. Two slight
shocks of earthquake were felt at Cairo, Illinois
on the night of the 8th instant. The |
Western hog packing, this season, will be the I
biggest on record. A Dallas (Texas) I
lawyer fell desperately in love with a star'
actress who recently visited that State, and |
tried to bribe a hotel waiter to let him take |
her meals up to her room. Artemus1
Ward's description of Morraonism has been |
revived : "A religion singular for men and
plural for women." In 1877, 26,000 persons
died in the United States; 3,000 less
than in 1876. It is perhaps worthy of:
note that the six New England and four j
Middle States have been the scene of more'
Hpfalpations than all the rest of the States 1
put together. Among the nominations:
sent to the Senate by the President last Mon- j
day, were the following: J. R. W. Johnson,
postmaster at Walhalla ; Thomas M. Graham,
postmaster at Chester; and L. C. North-!
rop, United States Attorney for South Caro- j
Una. Governor Bishop, of Ohio, was i
inaugurated last Monday, in the presence of
thousands. The display of military organi- 1
zatious was fins. The Governor's address was
brief, urging economy and judicious legisla- I
tion. There was no reference to national ;
finances. !
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Kennedy Bros. A Barron?Shoes, ?c?Rice Flour.
T. M. Dobson A Co.?Great Reduction in Prices.
Fannie L. Dobson?I Have Just Commenced.
William Dickson?New Tailor Shop.
N. M. Steele, Rock Hill?Notice.
H. W. Hope A Co.?Cassimeres, Ac.?Blankets
and Shawls?Domestics?-All-Wool Flannels?Table
Damask? Ready-Made Clothing?Boots
and Shoes?Hats.
Hunter A Oates?Ready-Made Clothing?Dress
Goods?Shoes and Boots?Hats?Gent's Underwear?Hardware?Shirting?Cassimeres
and Jeans.
J. M. Adams?Yorkville Tin Factory?Granite
Iron Ware?Guttering?Sheet Iron?TiuWare
at Wholesale?Repairing.
MissesMassey A Smith?Millinery.
Joseph A. McLean, Jndge of Probate?Citation?
J. F. Wallace, C. C. C. Pleas, ApplicantEnoch
Doster, deceased.
H. F. Adickes A Sons?Hamburg Edgings?Oil
Cloth, Ac.
Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?
Joseph F. Wallace, C. C. C. Pleas, Applicant?Joseph
R. Howe, deceased.
APPOINTED AIDE.
Henry Massey, of Fort Mill, has been appointed
aide-de-camp on the staff of Major
General J. D. Kennedy, second Division
Volunteer State Troops, with the rank of Ma
CHESTER MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
At the municipal election in the town of
Cheater, on Monday laat, the following officera
were elected to serve the ensuing year:
Iniendant?J. L. Agura ; Wardens?T. N.
Youngblood, J. J. Hemphill, Joel Simril and
J. L. Yongue. This is the old Council, with
the exception of J. L. Yongue, who was
elected in the place of I. L. Gunhouae. We
learn that considerable interest was manifested
in the election.
ARLINGTON HOOK AND LADDER CO.
At a recent election of officers of this Com*
pany, the following were choBen to serve ferthe
ensuing year: Captain?J. Robert Liudsay ;
First Director?Thomas H. Glenn; Second
Director? James F. Hyndman ; Third Director?Henry
C. Strauss; Secretary and Treas
urer?G. W. S. Hart. They will be installed
at the Company's Hall, on Saturday next,
the 19th instant, at 10 o'clock, A. M., the
anniversary of the birth-day of General Robert
E. Lee.
RETURNED FROM TEXAS.
Mr. J. Pink Herudon shed the refulgent
light of his genial countenance upon Yorkville
last Monday afternoon, fresh from the
wilds of Texas, to which State he emigrated
last summer. When he left here we gave
him one year in which to learu that South
Carolina is the best State after all; but we
are glad to perceive that he anticipated our
prediction by several months. His many
friends will warmly welcome him to his old,
native home.
SAD ACCIDENT.
On Thursday last, a little son of David
Whiteuer, living on Mrs. Hortou's place,
four miles north east of town, was chopping
wood in the yard, when his brother?a two
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jetir UIU CUliu?piajriug aiuuuu uic ttuuu
pile, came so near the descending axe, that it
struck the child on the head, from the effects
of which he died within an hour after receiving
the blow. The little boy, perceiving the
danger the child was in, endeavored to avert
the directon of the axe, but was unable to do
so.
TOWN ELECTION.
The municipal electiou, last Monday, resulted
in the almost unanimous re-election of
the old officials, as follows: For Intendant?
Col. W. H. McCorkle ; for Wardens?John
R. Schorb, Joseph Herndon, Robert Wright
and Edward Wheeler. Applying Judge
Mackey's test, that ability is measured by the
success of an individual, the above members
constitute not only an able municipal board,
but are also deservedly popular?this being
the fifth year for which they have been elected
to Berve.
THE RULIN*G PASSION.
Joseph Montgomery, colored, of Bethesda
township, was sent, under sentence of the
sessions court of this county, to the penitentiary
on the 16th of January, 1877, having
been convicted of house-breaking and sentenced
for one year. He served out his term,
less one month for good behaviour, and returned
to this county. On the 15th of January,
1878, he was again committed to jail
for a similar offence as that of which he was
convicted a year ago, and will be tried at the
approaching term of the sessions court. This
time he depredated upon the premises of
Garland Jones, also colored.
MURDER OP A SOUTH CAROLINIAN.
By a private letter from Hico, Texas, we
Iearu that over a year ago, a man calling
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Spartanburg county, in this State, arrived at
Hico, where, for a while his deportment was
very good; but last summer he commenced
dissipating, and in a drunken brawl near
Hico, on the 23rd of July, was shot, from the
effects of which he died on the 27Lh of that
month. He refused to give the address of
any of his relatives. Should this paragraph
meet the eye of any of them, and they desire
it, we can place them in correspondence with
a gentleman who will give further particulars
regarding his death.
THE FENCE LAW.
Preparations are making for carrying into
effect the provisions of the fence law as adopt
ed by several of the townships in the county.
We learn from the County Commissioners
that a portion of the boundary fence has already
been located?from the residence of
Mrs. Kell, ou Bullock's creek, to the corner
of Bethel township?a distance of about 15
miles. It is estimated that from the starting
point to the corner of King's Mountain
township, a distance of ten miles, there will
be only about two miles of fence to build, as
the work can be accomplished by connecting
with fences now standing. The fencing will
cost, it is thought, about $70 per mile. On
the remaining distance to the Bethel corner,
perhaps one-half of the line will have to be
built anew. The line of the boundary fence
from the Bethel corner to the North Carolina
line, has not yet been located. The operation
of the fence law will extend to all the townships
of the county, except King's Mountain,
Broad River and Cherokee?the two latter
not having voted on the question.
DRAWING OF JURORS.
On Tuesday last, the following named persons
were drawn as grand and petit jurors.
The grand jurors are required to serve for the
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year 1878, and the petit jurors at tne term ui i
the circuit court which commences on the
first Monday of February, next.
GRAND JURORS.
Whites-W. Y. Jones, E. R. Mills, A. S.
Hopper, W. S. Love, M. F. Duncan, B. F.
Garrison, J. T. Ferguson, W. S. Adams, W.
G. Dowdle, J. M. Baruett, D. J. Smith, M.
L. Dickson?12.
Colored?Allen Bratton, Samuel McFadden,
Green Hunt, Daniel Burris, Milton Allison,
Alfred Meacham?6.
PETIT JURORS.
Whites?J. M. Adarm:, M. C. Byers, S. J. j
Hutchinson, R A. GilfiMen, Green Bolin, D.
T. Partlow, J. B. Adkins, A. E. Gettys, W. J
T. McKuight, R. B. Bradford, J. H. Wylie, j
J. H. Hood, W. T. Poag, J. A. Byers, J. D.
Hamilton, Win. White, T. L. Carroll, C. D.
Anderson, Sam'l Blair, Sr., John Clinton, J. |
W. Sturgis, W. L. Roddy, B. G. Sandifer, J.
T. Lowry, J. G. Brown, 8. B. McCully?26.
Colored?Wm. Jones, David Smith, Miles
Oates, Phillip Harris, Frank MeKinney,
Cicero Cain, Henry Franklin, Lee Guyton,
James Archer, Joseph Hemphill?10.
DEATH OP A FORMER CITIZEN.
A correspondent informs us of the death,
at Carmi, Illinois, on the 15th of November '
last, of Mr. Daniel McElherau, who will be !
remembered by a few of our old citizens as !
formerly a resident of Yorkville. He was !
an Irishman by birth and a tanner by trade, ;
and came to the United States in the same
vessel which brought Mr. Thomas Palmer,
formerly of this place, but who now resides
in Charlotte, N. C. At one time Mr. McElheran
was in the employment of Col. W. C.
Beatty, who had a tannery conducted at the
place in this town now owned by Mr. Joseph
Herndon, and used by him for the same purpose.
In the year 1836, Mr. McElheran engaged
in the tanning business on his own account,
on the premises now owned by Miss
Eliza Johnson, one mile and-a-half from
town, on the east side of the Lincoln road.
He continued there, however, but a short
time, when he removed, with his family
to Illinois. At the time of his death, he
was about 85 years old.
TKANSFEK8 OF*REAL ESTATE. .
The following transfers of real estate have
been recorded in the office of the County Auditor
since our last report:
Thomas Spencer to John T. Spencer. Tract
of 150 acres in Catawba township. Consideration
8400.
A. Frank Smith to A/Smith Corry. Interest
in Manning tract in Cherokee township.
Consideration $1,500.
VV. B. Briggs to A. C. Strout Tract of
132 acres iu King's Mountain township.
Consideration $215.
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to R.J. Leslie. Tract
of 148 acres in King's Mountain township.
Consideration $345.
State of South Carolina to Randall Bratton.
Tract of 40 acres in York township.
Consideration $160.
Thome L. Johnson to Hannah P. Spencer.
Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration $175.
E. H. Abel to E. and B. F. Turner. Tract
of 120 acres in Cherokee township. Consideration
$410.
Hyder A. D. Neely to R. H. M'fg. and Industrial
Association. Tract of 1021 acres in
Catawba township. Consideration $410.
R. A. Caldwell to VV. P. Camp. Tract of
931 acres iu Cherokee township. Consideration
$93.50.
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to John R. Harris.
Tract of 96 acres in Fort Mill township.
Consideration $408.
James F. Isom to John A. Kidd. Tract
of 731 acres in Bethesda township. Consideration
$600.
John A. Kidd to James. F. Isom. Tract
of 68} acres in Bethesda township. Consideration
$600.
Iredell and Allen Junes to Plim. Hutchinson.
Tract of 23 acres in Catawba township.
Consideration $115.
J. R. V. Blake to M. A. Blake. Tract of
523 acres in Catawba township. Consideration
$1,938.
Mary Currence to J. M. Robinson. Tract
of 93 acres in Bethel township. Consideration
8100.
Joseph D. Jackson to Elizabeth C. Tate.
Tract of 31 acres in Bethel township. Consideration
$600.
Alexander Harris to Rattaree & Daniel.
One-fourth of an acre in Catawba township.
Consideration $130.
Richard Young to Kelly B. Young. Lot
in Fort Mill. Consideration $1,500.
J. L. Kell to Robert Hayes. Undivided
interest iu 500 acres, with improvements, in
Bullock's Creek township. Consideration
$250.
Richard Young to trustees of Fort Mill
Baptist Church. Lot in Fort Mill. Consideration
$450.
Wm. W. Jenkins to John W.Lawrence.
Tract of 250 acres in King's Mountain township.
Consideration 81,000.
R. J. Latta to Wm. Ferguson. Tract of
160 acres in Bullock's Creek township. Consideration
$1,171.
R. J. Latta to S. T. Ferguson. Tract of
148 acres in Bullock's Creek township. Consideration
$829.
R. A. Stephenson to Samuel M. Hartness.
Tract of 50 acres in Broad River township.
Consideration $200.
Jane C. Mott and F. M. Corry to Willis
Brannon. Tract of 43 acres in Broad River
township. consideration sz.^ou.
G. H. O'Leary to W. P. Hobbs. Lot in
Yorkville. Consideration $43.
Miss Sue F. Lowry to Robert Morrison.
Tract of 258 acres in Ebenezer township.
Consideration $2,128.
M. H. Williams to George W. Barnbill.
Track of 78 acres in Catawba township.
Consideration $225.
Walker Steele to John McCarter. Tract
of 146 acres in King's Mountain township.
Consideration $207.
R. H. Glenn to J. L. Gardner. Tract of
23 acres in York township. Consideration
8150.
Iredell and Allen Jones to John Rattaree.
Tract of 39 acres in Ebenezer township.
Consideration $351.
W. P. Hobbs and C. Hobhs to W. W. Jenkins.
Lot of 6 acres in Yorkville. Consideration
not given.
A. H. Moore to R. E. and M. H. Porter.
Tract of 63! acres in Cherokee township.
Consideration $457.88.
R. E. Porter and G. W. Young to A. H.
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township. Consideration $457.88.
W. M. Adams to James A. Watson. Tract
of 830 acres in Bethel township. Consideration
$2,100.
A. J. Wilson to T. M. Whitaker and C.
L. Williford. Lot of 5 acres in Yorkville.
Consideration $125.
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to Foster T. Wood.
House and lot in Rock Hill. Consideration
$650.
J. A. Carroll to C. G. Parish. House and
lot in Yorkville. Consideration $1,000.
Samuel E. White to T. T. Youngblood.
House and lot in Fort Mill. Consideration
$850.
Isabella Steele to John Hainmel. Tract of
17 acres in York township. Consideration
$245.
Solomon Harris to A. B. Bradford. House
and lot in Fort Mill. Consideration $2?5.
S. E. White to S. E. White. Trustee. Lot
in Fort Mill. Consideration $250.
YORKVILLE GRADED SCHOOL.
In connection with the Female Institute
at this place, the Principal, Mr. Jones, is also
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the graded schools which have obtained great1
popularity in other States, that we know not'
a better appellation, at present, for this time-j
honored institution, than the caption at the
head of this article.
The County School Commissioner has designated
the corporate limits of Yorkville as
a free public school district, and the school
fund, to which the district will be entitled j
from the public taxes, has been augmented by
private subscription to such an extent as to
secure a portion of the Peabody fund?the
aggregate sum from these different sources
being deemed sufficient to sustain a free'
school, of high grade, for at least ten months j
of the year.
Under these auspices the school opened
last Monday morning. On Tuesday we paid
a vist to the school, and were much pleased
with the order aud system with which it bids
fair to be conducted, and is, in fact, already
observable, notwithstanding the number of
pupils in attendance, and the short time the |
Principal and hia assistants have had in
which to organize and arrange the different
classes.
As the plan upon which the school is to Ee
conducted is somewhat novel?it being, so far
as we knot?, the only school of the kind in
the State?for the benefit of the public we
sought some information as to the leading
features of the school, which was kindly'furnished
by the Principal.
There are now 77 pupils in attendance, 55
of whom are in the academic department.
Three of the pupils do not live in the school
district, and consequently pay the Principal
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ior ineir tuition. aii wane cnuureu, uiaie
and female, between the ages r of 6 and 16
years, living within the corporate limits of
Yorkville, are entitled to the benefits of the
school, without the payment of any fees for
entrance or tuition. In the free school department
all branches are taught (except music
and other ornameutal branches) necessary
to a thorough preparation for college. The
school, under the present management, will
continue for two sessions of five months each,
under the control and supervision of the district
school trustees?Messrs. James Mason,
C. E. Spencer and Frank Happerfield.
Such is an outline, in brief, of the features
of the school, which we have every reason
for believing will prove a decided succesjs*
Mr. Jones is now assisted by Mrs. Clara Dargan
McLean and Miss Fannie Miller, and
says be will increase the number of teachers
as the demands of the school may require.
The musical department, which, of course, is
extra, is in charge of Miss Sue F. Lb wry,' who
is a teacher of rare accomplishments, and has
heretofore giveu entire satisfaction to her
patrons. A . "}>
While the institution has all the features of
a free public school, to the benefits of which
all the white children within the prescribed.
ages, living in the corporate limits of the
town are entitled, it is but proper to add* that
none others are proscribed from attendance.
Pupils from adjoining'school, districte-r-as
well as boarders from a distance?will be received
in the school by paying regular rates
for tuition, which will be furnished by the
Principal on application.
OUR CLUB MAKERS.
For the information of those desiring to
subscribe for the Enquibeb. we give below a
list of club-makers, who will receive subscriptions
at $2.50 per annum, iu advance, the
lowest rates at which they can he taken:
Misa Lorenna Adams, Bowling Green.
H. Parks Allison, King's Mountain, N. C.
Miss Mattie A. Burris McConnellsville.
John P. Boyd, Wrightavllle.
A. E. Carroll, ..Chester*
Mrs. M. C. Cheat, Clay Hill.
R. LeRoy Crook, "'.....Rook Hill.
T. Gid. Culp, . .....Fort Mill.
J. C. Comer, Yorkville.
Miss M. J. Creighton, Rock Hill.
J. B. Culp,.... Rock'Hill.
A. J. Davinney, *.. ?.Yorkville.
Felix H. Dover .Wbitaker's.
Willie Ferguson, Yorkville.
E. M. Faris, Gastonia, N. C.
Wm, O. Guy,. Bullock's Creek.
Sam M. Grist, ...Yorkville*.
Mrs. Mary C. Grier, > ....?.Bethel. 8. C.
J. D. Gwinn, '. '. Clover.
H. Clark Harris, ....Pineville, N. C.
James A. Hogue Zadok.
H. F. Horton, Etta JaneS. C.
J. F. Jackson,..?.? Bowling Green.
David T. Lessley, Coates' Tavern.
Mrs. Sally R. Logan, ; Guthriesville.
James R. McCully .. Bowling Green.
John L. Miller, Blairsville.
Mrs. Jane Moore, Philadelphia.
Samuel L. Milling, ?. ?...Rock Hill.
A. J. Matthews, Clover.
Capt. E. R. Mills, .............Rock Hill.
D. Cliesley MoKinney Hickory Groves
Thomas P. Mitchell, .". Black stocks.
Brainerd McLure, Chester, 8. C.
J. L. Poag,. Rock Hill.
J. Clinton Patrick, Bethel.
C. P. Ramseur, Black's Station.
T. Jefferson Roach, Rock Hill*.
J. N. Roberts, Herndon's Mill.
George L. Riddle, Zeno..
Mrs. 8. N. Russell, Blairsville.
Wm. D.Simpson, Blackstock's S. C.
Willie T. Smarr, .. Bullock's Creek.
Major Myles Smith Clover.
Samuel S. Smith, Wrightvllle.
J. M. Williford, ? -Rock HllL
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Correspondence or the Yorkville Enquirer*
LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. t <
Rock Hill, 8. C., January 14.
If the old sayiug be true that the first:
twelve days of January represent the twelve
months of the year as to the condition of the
weather, the present year will certainly be
quite a varied one, as we have had all the
various kinds of weather known to this climate.
Trade in our town has beeD remarkably
brisk for the season. There seems to be no
lack of confidence on the part of the merchant
towards the farmer, notwithstanding
the repeal of the lien law and the enactment.
of the usury law, which would seem calculated
to impair the credit of those requiring advances
to enable them to cultivate a crop.
The fence law is being rapidly carried into
effect. Pasture fences are being erected,
which will enable the farmer to pay more
careful attention to his stock than he has formerly
been accustomed to doing; and if it'
should lessen the number, it will roost certainly
increase the value.
Our town has undergone some slight changes
in the mercantile aspect?a dissolution
of partnership and a withdrawl of partners
in the smaller firms. Our friends, Smith &
Roach, have just completed a handsome two
story brick store on Depot street, iu which they
propose to continue their business in the for- ^
raer style, but rather enlarged, under a new
and more spacious roof, but under no new
manner or form. , ..
Mr. J. M. Howe, a native of this county,
who has for years been the master of the tai|
lor's trade in quite a number of places, has
1 begun a Dew business here?that of selling
groceries of every variety?under the name
and style of J. M. Howe & Co., occupying
the Morrison Exchange building, also on De
pot .street. We wish him much success in
this tiis new undertaking, as we feel satisfied
he commands the respect and patronage of all
who know him.
A full attendance of the citizens attended
at Holler's Hall, on Thursday afternoon, for
the purpose of nominating candidates for Intendant
and Wardens. The Dominations
were made by ballot, and resulted in the
selection of Capt. J. M. Ivy for Intendant;
Messrs. A. Friedham, R. J. Hagins, W. L.
Roach, and W. L. Roddy, for Wardens. A
resolution was offered and carried to support
the nominations. Capt. Ivy has already served
the people in that capacity for two years?
much to the satisfaction of a majority of our
people. He acknowledged his gratitude in a
few remarks, made before the meeting, upon
receiving the nomination for reelection, ?
thanking them for the confidence they bad
reposed in him. The election takes place today,
and will doubtless result in the success
of the above-named nominees.
It is with feelings of the most profound regret
that we are called to record the sudden
and unexpected departure of our respected
and beloved friend, James Daniels. He was
one of the oldest residents of tbis place. He
died leaving no enemies. He was interred in
Laurel wood Cemetery, with Masonic honors.
We are gratified to note the feeling notice of
his departure, in the Hampton Herald, followed
by a touching and appropriate memoriam,
offered by the Masonic fraternity, of
which he had been an honored member for
many years.
Thursday night last, the icy band ef death
stole from the bosom of our esteemed friend,
Alexander Fewell, Sr., his beloved wife. The
matrimonial tie of affection had bound them
inseparably together for fifty-nine years. She
died at the ripe old aee of seventv-eiarht
years. We tender our heartfelt sympathies
to the bereaved family, and sincerely hope
that the tender mercies of the all-wise God
may soothe and comfort their aching hearts?
that this affliction may redound to the salvation
of their immortal souls.
Rev. J. M. Boyd, the Methodist minister
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