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J>tcajj.s and partis. ? Texas has 1,700 convicts, five or six hundred of whom are kept within the walls, and the rest are hired out to work on railroads and farms. Oue is said to be hired to his wife, and livej comfortably at home. ? Columbia Veterinary College, New York, recently had a huge subject for dessection in the shape of an elephant. Investigation revealed the fact that it died of congestion of the lungs. ? Three singular cases of defective vision are reported from Ocracoke Island, N. C. Three children of James Howard become totally blind each day immediately after the sun goes down. They retire, sleep soundly until after sunrise, when their sight is restored. ? The blushing editor of a Philadelphia paper wants the custom of society modified, so that women can "pop the question" as well TT- xt_- i !i - :J.J i : us men. ne minus u u one siueu uusiness us it is unfair to the ladies, and awfully hard on bashful men. ? Piuchback, the negro politician of Louisiana, is publishing a newspaper, in a recent issue of which he suggests that the first effort at the disfranchisement of the colored voters will come from the North, and the negroes may yet be led to vote the Democratic ticket in order to preserve their rights. ? A Deputy Sheriff at Richmond, Ky., being unable to collect taxes from a resideut, got a third party to admire the resident's false teeth and ask to be shown them, then darting forward, seized them. After living on soup for a few days, the resident paid his taxes and redeemed his property. ? Rev. Moses E. Lord, of Stanford, Ky., rebuked his congregation's propensity for turning round every time the door opened to admit a worshipper, by saying: "If you will give me your close attention, I will keep a lookout on the door, and if any thing worse than a man enters I will warn you in time to make your escape." ? The temperance men of Evansville, Indiana, compelled the enforcement of the Sunday law against the liquor sellers. The same law applies to nearly all business, and the liquor sellers have retaliated by closing the drug stores, barber shops and cigar stands on Sundays, and by prosecuting the publishers of a Sunday paper. ? For eighteen years the Senate of the United States has been in the hands of the Republicans, and now that it is about to pass from their control, they are blandly suggesting to the opposition that the number of officials on the Senate pay-roll is outrageously large, and that it ought in reason and good govern ment to be largely cut down. This is politics. ? Wells, Fargo & Co.'s annual statement of the precious metals produced in the States and Territories, west of the Missouri River, including British Columbia and the receipts in San Francisco from the west coast of Mexico during 1878, shows the following aggregate: Gold, 838,956,321; silver, $38,746,391; lead, 83,452,000; total being less by 817,267,132 than for 1877. ? The fact, says the Baltimore Bulletin, that the national debt of France is mainly in the hands of her own people and is distributed among the poor as well as the rich, is one of the chief causes that tend to give solidity to the government of that country. It is said that there are half a million people among the rural population of France, who live, in a frugal way, upon the interest of their government securities. ? After a marriage ceremony had been performed in one of the churches in Adrian, Mich., the bride, when receiving the congratulations of her friends, shed tears, according to the established ridiculous custom, at the sight of which the groom followed suit, with a copious flow of the briny fluid. After his friends succeeded in calming him, he said he couid-not help it, for he felt as bad about it as 9he did. ? Some of the Republican papers are beginning to enter protest against allowing in the next Republican National Convention, a solid South, which will probably not cast a single Republican electoral vote, to name the candidate whom Northern States must elect, if he is elected at all. They propose that representation in the next national convention be based upon the number of Republican votes cast at a preceeding election, rather than upon the electoral vote of States, under which system Southern Republicans would have very few delegates. ? A committee, composed of leading North Carolina agriculturists, having investigated the matter of the tax on commercial fertilizers, report that it has been productive of great benefit to the agricultural classes in several particulars. It is claimed that the analysis to which the law subjects fertilizers has checked frauds in their manufacture, and improved the quality of those imported into the State at least 33 per cent., whilst the home manufactures of fertilizers has been stimulated. It is also said that the opposition to the law on the part of the fertilizer manufacturers has mostly died out. ? Richards, a Nebraska herdsman, who is now under sentence, confesses to the murder of nine persons, and tells with perfect coolness and apparent pride how he killed at one time a woman and her three children. They were to start in the night on a long journey, and he calculated that it would be safe to murder them, because the neighbors would not readily suspect anything. He went out and dug their graves before committing the crime. "I was not," he said to a reporter, "any more excited than I am now. I had studied the matter over for a long time. I KorJ /xilfiilntpH t.hft risk I ran. and I knew thoroughly what I was doing. I went at it exactly as if I had been butchering so many hogs." ? The Charleston News and Courier says that the statement recently published in the New York Tribune to the effect that the trial of the Charleston election cases would be held by Chief Justice Waite immediately after the opening of the new year, appears to be without foundation. United States District Attorney Northrop says that he has heard nothing of it. Colonel Hagood, the clerk of the United States Circuit Court, states that there was no understanding at the time the court adjourned before Christmas that the Charleston cases would be tried at the time stated, and that he has received no intimation whatsoever that the Chief Justice intends coming to Charleston before the May term of the Circuit Court. Mr. Hagood further states that no juries have been ordered for the trial of the cases, and that in his judgment there is no truth in the Tribune's statement. ? A New York business man who has made a large fortune mainly through the judicious use of "printers' ink," has recently given the public the benefit of his experience. He holds that advertising should be included in the general estimate of expenses, as regularly as store rent, clerk hire and insurance. It is often said that a good stand at a high rent is better than a poor one rent free. Advertising brings a man before the public in a way that makes any "stand" good. The beat stand you can have is to be in the newspapers. These are facts brought out in the experience of the fall trade. Most of the large concerns are so extensively engaged in advertising that it is made a special department with a "head" and his assistants. The leading houses have a man skilled in the art of writing and displaying their notices. They study the various methods of reaching the public eye of every important journal as an advertising medium. ? A Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial stateg that when the army reorganization bill comes up for consideration, there will be submitted an amendment calling for the organization of a National militia in its present imperfect discipline. The proposition comes from the South, and is maid to have been suggested by the ex-Confederate Gen. Bradley T. Johnson. The .scheme is to provide for the organization and equipment of a militia force of one thousand men from each Congressional District, who shall be constituted into brigades, divisions and corps, according to States, the regimental organization to be made by the regiments, the brigade organization by the President from the regular army. Each man enlisted to serve five years and be subject to parade duty at the orders of the division, brigade, regimental and company commanders ; the enlisted men to receive one dollar per day for time spent in drill and annual encampments. Ibc fotfevtUc (JNqtiiw. YORKVILLE. S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 9, 1879. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, county and State in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post-office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirer is delivered free of postage to all subscribers residing in York county, who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Oursubscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date muxt be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. THE TAX ASSESSMENT. The comptroller general has issued a circular ordering the assessment of taxes for the current year. The totals are as follows : Abbeville, 9 mills, Aiken, 10$, Anderson, 7$, Barnwell, 10$, Beaufort, 7$, Chester, 8 11-20, Chesterfield, 10$, Clarendon, 8$, Colleton, 8$, Darlington, 10$, Edgefield, 9$, Failfield, 10$, Hampton, 9$, Georgetown, 10$, Greenville, 7$, Horry, 7$, Kershaw, 9$, Lancaster, 10$, Laurens, 10 9-20, Lexington, 7$, Marion, 9$, Marlboro, 11, Newberry, 9$, Oconee, 8$, Orangeburg, 8$, Pickens, 7$, Richland, 8$, Spartanburg, 9$, Sumter, 8$, Union, 7$, and Williamsburg 9$. Tlio acapadmonl fnr Vfirlr oniinfu ia as fnl lows: In full for State purposes, 2| mills ; school tax, 2 mills; ordinary county tax, 2 mills; county bonds, 21 mills. The taxes are to be collected in two instalments, to-wit: from the 1st of May to the 1st of June, and from the loth of September to the 30th of October. Five per cent, penalty if the first instalment is not paid in May. THE AGRICULTURAL LIEN LAW. The following is the full text of the act passed by the recent Legislature and approved December 30th, 1878, to amend and continue of force an act entitled "An act to secure landlords and persons making ad vances Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: Section 1. That all of said act be re-enacted and continued of force, except the seventh section, which is hereby stricken out. Sec. 2. That with this amendment the said act remains in full force without limitation. The seventh section, which has been repealed, simply_pFCVfded for the act to remain in full force only until the 1st of January, 1879. As now amended, the act remains in full force without limitation. NORTHERN*"SETTLERS. We have received a circular from Mr. N. Dumont, of Charlotte, N. C., proposing to hold a convention of Northern men who have settled in the South since the war, the object being to secure a correct and truthful expression of opinon from those best qualified to speak. In his circular, Mr. Dumont, who is from Springfield, Mass., says: "Northern men who have settled in the South, have in their hands the solution of the question, as to whether any considerable number of Northern men and active Northern caj>ital can be diverted to the South. Many of the Northern papers are giving wrong notions as to how Northern people are received. Many of our friends will not put much faith in what Southern men or papers say on this head. We who have consulted upon this matter deem it wise to hold a Convention of Northern men only, who have settled South since the wargood, fair representative men. It is thought wise to hold this Convention alxnit January 15th, at Charlotte, N. C., it being more central for all. Arrangements have been made with the Railroads for the round trip at one fare. It is desired in the convention to prepare a statement for publication in Northern papers, setting forth the soil, climate, prices, ease of making a living and social treatment of the individual Northern man. It is not desired to cover any question of politics or extreme views of any kind." The idea is a capital good one, and we are pleased to see that the scheme receives the endorsement of the entire Democratic press of North Carolina. A general invitation is extended to all Northern men who have settled in North and South Carolina and Georgia since the war. We hope there will be a fair representation from all these States in the Convention, feeling assured that the interchange of opinion will have a salutary effect. THE STATE BONDED DEBT. At the session of the legislature previous to the last, when what was known as the bond compromise was effected, a tax was levied to pay the interest on the whole of the consolidated debt?recognized and unrecognized? with the proviso that no interest should be paid on the unrecognized debt, amounting to $2,818,454, until it should have been fully adjudicated to be a valid debt of the State. The interest fund of the unrecoguized debt, for the years 1877 and 1878, therefore, remains in the treasury. At the recent session of the legislature, it was enacted that out of this entire fund so remaining in the treasury, should be paid the interest on the recognized debt for the year 1879, the remainder to be left in the treasury for the benefit of any portion of the unrecoguized debt which should thereafter be established as valid. From the fund before mentioned, was also to be paid the interest for 1879 on the consolidated securities issued during the last year, aud known as the "Hampton debt." No provision, except through this accumulated interest fund, was made for the payment of the interest on the recognized debt, which is admitted to be valid. To satisfy the holders of the unrecognized debt that they would 1 suffer no injury by the diversion of what they consider to be their fund, the appropriation ! bill provides that as soon as the question of i the validity of the unrecognized bonds shall j have been finally decided, provision shall be made for the payment of the interest upon ! all bonds which may be decided to be legal,' valid and honest. It appears, however, that certain of the holders of the unrecognized debt, are not willing to be satisfied with such i a promise, and have applied to Judge Bryan, j of the United States District Court, for a temporary injunction, restraining the State treasurer from diverting apy portion of the | fund from its original purpose. Judge Bryan ; has granted the temporary injunction prayed for, and the matter will come up for a hearing before Judge Bond in the Spring. In the meantime, the payment of the interest on the recognized debt is suspended, pending a decision on the matter at issue. THE COLD WEATHER. Reports show that a cold spell of unusual severity pervades all sections of .the country. On the 3rd, at Buffalo, N. Y., the thermometer was three degrees above zero, with heavy snow, and wind blowing at the rate of forty miles an hour. The same severity of weather exists at New York, which has greatly reduced travel. The ferries are impeded by great masses of ice and boats are running with dif- ' fieulty. At Chicago, the temperature after midnight of the 2nd greatly lowered until morniner. when the mercury stood at twenty two degrees below zero in exposed places in the city. Several cases of freezing are reported, but only one fatal. Reports from all points northwest of Chicago show the cold is continued and severe, with the thermometer recording from fifteen to thirty degrees below zero. Trains are delayed on all the roads, but no accident of importance has occurred. The poor are suffering considerably. At Pittsburg a snow storm prevailed, followed by a cold wave, the thermometer suddenly falling to zero. At Richmond on the morning of the 4th, the thermometer was down to five above zero. The river, from the city to its mouth, is blocked with ice and navigation is completely suspended. The canal is also blocked with ice along its whole length. The mills and all other industries dependent upon water supply have been forced to suspend operations. Further South, the temperature is likewise unprecedentedlycold. At New Orleans on the 4th, there was sleet; at Shreveport there was six inches of snow and freezing weather ; at Magnolia, Miss., three inches of snow; and at Vicksburg, six inches of snow. RESUMPTION AN ACCOMPLISHED FACT. The advent of resumption on the second instant, caused very little excitement at the money centres. In New York business transactious moved on in the even tenor of their way. The sub-treasury at that city was prepared to meet a probable rush for gold, hut the demand was very light, while in some instances, greeubacks were preferred. The first demand was for $210, but not another dollar in gold was paid out for half an hour. Within that time there were half a dozen ap plicants for sums less than $50, but as no payments are made under that amount they were refused. National bank bills were also offered, but were not taken, only legal tenders being exchangeable. In an interview with a representative of the Associated Press, General Hillhouse, United States sub-treasurer, stated that resumption, so far as the workiug of his office was concerned, had been attended by a most gratifying success, and that there appeared to be no demand for coin, the payments thereof in exchange for paper being very insignificant. Up to 2 o'clock, the sub-treasury had received over $500,000 in gold, in exchange for which was issued legal tenders and-^^r1 icates of deposit; while on the other hand it was estimated that the disbursements of coin i for the day would not amount to over $125,- ] 000. The New York Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions felicitating the community upon resumption, congratulating Secretary Sherman upon the success of his policy, recognizing the action of the city banks in cooperating with the treasury, and thanking Congress for the establishment of the national banking law. A resolution was also adopted calling upon Congress to avert the danger attending the adoption of silver as a measure < of values by amending the existing law so as ] to further limit the coinage of the silver dol- < lar and its use as a legal tender. Copies of < these resolutions were ordered to be sent to < the Senate and House of Representatives, and also to Secretary Sherman. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. 1 ? Fine roe shad are selling iu Columbia at fifty cents each. ? Col. James T. Sims has been appointed ' State Librarian, vice Mr. Feininger, removed. ' ? The report of the State Treasurer for the ' month of December, shows a balauce in the treasury of 8372,134.76. ? The South Carolina Conference of the 1 African Methodist Episcopal Church, will convene in Greenville on the 22nd instant. ? Since the first instant, a triweekly mail line has been in operation between the towns ' of Chester and Lancaster. ? The condition of Governor Hampton con- tinues to improve. He spent Saturday and * Monday chatting cheerily with frieuds. ? Ex-Governor Bonhara has been conimis- ' sioned as Railroad Commissioner. He will have an office in the State House, in Colum- I bia. 1 ? The widow of Thomas Smith, the engineer, who was killed by an accident on the Air Line Railroad, in November, 1877, has sued t the company for 825,000. t ? Judge Mackey is announced to deliver a ? lecture in Kingstree, Williamsburg county, i at an early day, on "The Anglo Saxon?his i origin and civilization." ] ? Mr. Memminger, of Charleston, denies f all knowledge of the election frauds, as set y forth by Senator Blaine, and says that he was j not in Charleston on the day of the election, i ? Last Saturday night a negro named Bob a Dunlap fell from a freight train on the Char- j lotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad, a short t distance below Chester, and had one leg t broken just below the knee and one shoulder ( badly bruised. t ? The four Charleston physicians who serv- ( ed through the late epidemic in Memphis, i viz.: Dra. P. G. DeSaussure, Joseph Yates, < T. Giange Simons and A. R. Spencer, have j ] each received a handsome gold medal from ( the Howard Association, and a certificate of | honorary membership of the Howard Medi-! | cttl Society. ? The State Penitentiary was transferred to ; the control of the new superintendent?Col. T. J. Lipscomb?at 12 M., on Friday last. With regard to the retiring superintendent, the Columbia Register says: "A better and more efficient officer than Parmele never va-! cated any position, and he carries with him, i to whatever field of labor he may be called, our best wishes, as he does those of South Carolina's great invalid Executive." ? The report of the Presideut of the Char-! lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, re- j veals the fact that the earnings of that road fell short of meeting the interest due on the bonded debt of the company, by about $8,000, which, with the iuterest due on the floating . debt, $13,500; interest to the city of Augusta, [ by contract, $7,000; and taxation, $16,300; 1 exhibits a deficiency of some $44,000 in meet- ] ing current expenses. The bonded debt of i the company is about $2,500,000, with inter-; i est at 7 per cent. ? Acting Governor Simpson has appointed \ Col A. P. Butler as fish commissioner. Col. t Butler received his commission last Monday t and left Columbia on that night for Charlotte, N. C., where he expected to meet a supply of 400,000 young California salmon, which will be distributed at once under his personal supervision in the head waters of the North and Souiih Catawba, Broad, Tyger, Saluda, Seneca, Chattauga and other principal rivers in the upper portion of the State. The fish are a present from Col. T. B. Ferguson, fish commissioner of Maryland. Col. Butler gives his time to this work without a dollar of compensation, the Legislature having so ordained. ? On the morning of the 1st instant, the most destructive fire which has occurred in Charleston since the great conflagration of ,o/>i I 1_. i r? . r? _ _i.l_ .J ? iooi, oroae out on r^asi r>ny norm 01 market street, in the buildings of the Union Cotton Press and Wharf Company. The alarm was sounded about three o'clock, and in ten minutes the entire square occupied by the four large presses and the cotton warehouses, and 10,161 hales of cotton stored there, were entirely enveloped in flames. The News and Cturier says that the entire city was illuminated with a brightness so intense, that persons living a mile I'rom the scene of the fire, could read the smallest print without difficulty. The loss in property of all kinds is put down at 8556,000 in round numbers, and the insurance at $530,000. The loss to the Cotton Press Company is estimated, in round numbers, at $75,000, upon which there was insurance to the amount of $60,000. The origin of the fire is suppoajd to have been the deliberate act of an incendiary. One of the watchmen states that on his rounds, a little before 3 o'clock, he saw a man, whose color he could not tell, walking off from the shed, near the office, in which the fire started; that he halted him, and, failing to get an answer, he fired three shots at him from his revolver. The man, however, escaped and has not been seen since. A few moments later he discovered the cotton on fire in the shed whence the supposed incendiary had come, and sounded the alarm. Other persons state that the alarm had been given aud tbe fire was under headway when the pistol shots were heard. ? j NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Petitions are being circulated for signers in various parts of Cleveland county, asking the Legislature to give them the no-fence law. ? The new Supreme Court, composed of Justices Smith, Dillard and Ashe, convened in Raleigh last Monday. ? Mr. J. M. Hanna, Jiving near liastonia, gave a dinner on Christmas day, at which were present eight of his children and fortyfour grand children. ? The Catawba river was almost completely frozen over at the Carolina Central Railway bridge last Monday?an unusual occurrence. ? The Charlotte Observer learns from a citizen of Gaston county that scarlet fever is raging in Gaston to quite an alarming extent. "?The lecture delivered by Hon. George Davis, in Wilmington, on Friday night last, in aid of Mrs. Beuner, 1*3 represented by the of that city as a brilliant effort A handsome^uiiTwas re^JfsetL ? The Charlotte Observer learns that the Carolina Central Railway Company and the people of Hickory have agreed to raise $10,900 to build a branch of the Carolina Central from Lincolnton across to Hickory, there to tap the Western N. C. Railroad. ? The number of convicts at the penitentiary on the 1st of December was 349 ; at work on the Western North Carolina Railroad, 592; on the Western Railroad, 99 ; on the Chester and Lenoir, 48; and on the Georgia and North Carolina, 28; making a total of 1,116. ? The famous Silver Hill Mine, in Davidion county, has recently revealed a new supply of wealth. One of the shafts, 700 feet Jeep, caved in for about forty feet on either side, exposing a vein of silver ore, eleven feet wide, and very rich, which is now being worked and produces ore worth 8300 per ton. ? The Shelby Aurora says the State Line Council, Friends of Temperance, met at Whitaker, on Christmas day, and spread a bountiful dinner, which they enjoyed "with Dut the aid of wine." Mr. H. K. Roberts ilosed his store and refused to sell any liquor luring the entire day. ? Mrs. John Booe, whose husband recently lied in Louisiana, returned to her old home n Wilkesboro, a few days ago, and on arriving at the residence of her father, Dr. James Calloway, learned, for the first time, that he was a corpse in the house, and the family was dunged in the deepest grief. ? The Legislature of North Carolina met pesterday. The session is now limited to six:y days. According to the provisions regula;ing the matter, balloting for United States Senator will begin Tuesday, 21st. Senator Merrimon and Govemor Vance are more imminently mentioned in connection with ;he position than any others. MERE-MENTION. About a fortnight ago, the widow of Lieuenant Benner accidentally took poison, mistaking it for cough medicine. Late advices lay that she is recovering slowly, but is not pet out of danger. Hon. Caleb Cushng, a prominent lawyer and politician of Massachusetts, died at Newburyport in that state, on Thursday last, at the age of 79 pears. The Legislatures of Tennessee, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolila, Texas and West Virginia, .all convened iince the first instant. There are in Georgia 85,630 persons between the ages of ten ind eighteen who can neither read nor write, \a .vimnn^npl uiilK 1 911 in 1)^71 Snmo VO Will put ? U TT IV11 IU i W I A* syw.uv >f Secretary Sherman's intimate friends say ;hat he will be the Republican candidate for jloveruor of Ohio. It is also asserted that Senator Thurinan will be the Democratic arididate for the same position. Gen. Longstreet, recently appointed postmaster at 3ainesville, Georgia, has accepted the position. A dispatch from Baltimore says that the year closed in that city with a feeing of confidence and satisfaction at the business of the past twelvemonths. Business is felt to be on a safe footing, and confidence is restored. The fare on the New York j elevated railway, for seven miles, or less, is j five cents. Cheap riding. Nearly all i the railway lines report increased earnings as compared with last year. The new cap-j1 itol of New York, nearly finished, has cos I' 516,000,000?a trifle more than three do- \ lars per capita for the population of tie State. The Alabama legislature contains seventy four planters, forty-four lawyers, fur .1 merchants, four physicians, one miller ind f one insurance ageut. The letters of the correspondent of the ] London Daily News from India, are tele- i jrnphed to that paper at a cost of 3112 a j word. Nearly all the fine pottef and 1 porcelain in the United States is imported < from Europe or Asia. A negro ninatic i n the Danville (Va.) jail claims to beGeorge ] Washington, to be 2,000 years old, aid to be j worth 82,000,000. In the Unifd States i .here are now 137 normal schools, nth more s hou 25,000 pupils. The peaceand pros- ( j perity existing in Georgia is one of the great , puzzles which the Radicals cannot solve to ! their satisfaction. Jefferson Davis' book of 1 memoirs is to be published next spriug simultaneously in New York and London, with | a French edition in Paris. Florida has seven "prominent" candidates for the United States Senate. Mrs. John Robinson, wife of the noted showman, died in Cincinnati on Tuesday of last week.* Arkansas has a State library containing over 17,000 volumes. Fifty-one metals are now known to exist, thirty of which have been discovered in the present century. Four hundred years ago but seven were known. Juan Moncasi, who attempted to assassinate the King of Spain, was beheaded at 8.55 o'clock last Saturday morning. The Second Baptist Church of St. Louis, was destroyed by fire on Friday last. Loss 8100,000. Lieut. Thomas Wallace, of the Third In fantry, stationed on the frontier, perished with cold whilst out hunting, last week. The Maine Legislature, on the 3rd instant, elected Alonzo Garcelon,a hard-money Democrat, as Governor of the State. The new First Presbyterian Church, at Qnincy, Illinois, was completely destroyed by fire last Thursday uight. Loss 860,000. The church was to have been dedicated last Sunday. The fire caught from the heating apparatus. Two brakemen were frozen to death on Northern railroads last week. Gen. Grant arrived in Dublin on the 3rd. The city of Cork declined to give him a public reception/^**On Saturday hist, the sub-treasury in New York paid out 817,000 in gold for legal tenders aud received ?1,355,000 in exchange for notes. There were sixty-one failures reported in New York during the past month, with liabilities amounting in the aggregate to 81,842,284, and assets estimated at 81,014,754. This shows a decrease as compared with November, of five failures, but an increase in liabilities of about 8300,000. The most prominent names in the mortuary list of the United States for 1878, are Gideon Welles, Benjamin F. Wade, William C. Bryant, Joseph Henry and Bayard Taylor. The total debt of Tennessee, on the 1st of January, 1879, amounted to 824,274,017. A Philadelphia dry goods merchant has added a children's room to his store, where mothers may leave their children to be amused with ro( king-horses, pictures and toys while they do their shopping. California last year produced food enough to support 10,000,000 families for more than a year. The Hartford Times asserts that the recent speech delivered by Blaine, is almost "a true copy" of one delivered by Daniel O'Connell in Cork in 1832. The Iowa State Agricultural College has a kitchen department, in which the girls are taught how to cook bread, meat, vegetables and pastry. The New Orleans mint will be opened in a few days for the purchase of bul lion. An accidental fire occurred in the Chicago post office on Friday last by which the building was damaged to the extent of more than 8100,000. No mail matter was destroyed and all \aluables about the post office were locked in the vaults and escaped injury. The secretary of the treasury has issued a call for the redemption of ten millions of 5.20 bonds, consols of 1865?six million coupons, and four million registered bouds. The Moifett Register. The State Auditor of Virginia has sent to the General Assembly of that State, a report of the operations of the Moffet liquor law, showing the total receipts from the time of its commencement to be 8472,834, being an excess of 8210,638 over the assessments of the preceding year, which after deducting the rebates allowed under the law, leaves a net balance of $110,761 in excess of the results of the old law. The auditor says that the result of the experiment shows clearly that the law is capable of being made a most powerful agency for raising revenue, and suggests a number of modi6cations and changes to that end. The Merciful Man--The Merciless Mule. The Raleigh (N. C.) Observer thus pleasantly alludes to the merciful man whose care for a borrowed horse well nigh cost South Carolina a Governor: A merciful man is merciful to his beast, and it is a sorry fellow who will ride a borrowed horse to death, and that is the reason why Governor Hampton rode a mule instead of a horse in the deer hunt, which proved such a costly diversion for him. He is a hard rider, and the day before had used a frifind's horse which he had wished to spare on the second day. This is all very well, but knowing the changes and chances of mortal life on a mule, even with the best of riders, and knowing that Governor Hampton knew them, we have never quite forgiven him, in our heart of hearts, for putting his State in such jeopardy. When a mule humps his back, nothing human can stay on it, and every mule is liable to hump his back at the most unexpected moment. There are many mules, but there is only one Hampton. New Year's Day in Columbia. Quite number of new year's calls were made in Columbia, among which the Register reports the following: "In the parlors of Gen. Youmans, his accomplished lady and beautiful little daughters, with several of their young lady friends, welcomed all callers. The friends of the chief justice were hospitably received by his worthy wife and several of her lady friends. The several daughters of Col. McMaster presided in his parlor, where it is a common saying, no one ever enters without leaving with regrets. Mis. W. P. Hix, one of Columbia's most noted society belles, with her usual grace, dignity and self-possessed yet cordial Virginia bearing, presided, unaided, over her cozy little parlor and hospitable board. Mrs. Robert Sliver, with Miss Bouknight and Miss Maraon, greeted most sumptuously their numerous callers, and we were an eye-witness to nearly a score of fellows leaving the hospitable mrnsiou of Mrs. W. B. Lowrance with gratitude in their eye and resolution in their heart /hat another new year's day should never (ud them single men." Polygamous Marriages. The case of George Reynolds, plaintiff in eiror, vs. the United States in error, to the Sup'eme Court of the Territory of Utah, broight up by appeal from the Supreme Coirt of the Territory of Utah, to test the cotstitutionality of the acts of Congress proh biting polygamy, was decided last Monday. Feynolds, the plaintiff in error, was tried in tie Third Judicial Court of Utah for bigamy and found guilty, and the Supreme Court of the Territory affirmed the judgmeut. The case came up to the U. S. Supreme Court upon a writ of error, the plaintiff pleading unconstitutionality of the law prohibiting bigamous marriages, the justification of religious : belief and various unimportant legal techni- i nnlitino Tliio nnnrl in o lrmnr oiul nornfnlltr UQlltlCOi JL 1J iO VV?i bj 1U w iviig V.UI biui prepared opinion delivered by the Chief Justice, holds that polygamy is not under the protection of the clause of the Federal Con-1 stitution which prohibits interferences with religious belief, that the plea of religious conviction is not a valid defence, that Congress Jid not step outside of the limits of its constitutional powers in passing laws for the suppression of polygamy in Utah, and that the udgment of the Supreme Court of that Territory must be affirmed. Justice Field dissented as far as related to the admissability j )f certain evidence introduced in the lower ! courl, but upon the main question, the conj stitu ionality of the act of Congress prohibiting (,-olygaraous marriages, there was perfect unanimity. : Minority Representation in Congress. A scheme is now on foot, the effect of ( which, if carried out, will be to break up the "Solid South" in Congress. A bill is iu process of preparation having for its object mi- nority representation in Congress, and will probably be introduced in the House soon after the reassemblage of Congress. The provisions of the bill and its effect, should it become a law, are thus given by a correspondent: It proposes to have the Legislature of each State, after the apportionment of the next 1 census, to re district the State, that the mi- ] nority as well as the majority may be entitled to representation. The plan proposed is an l ingenious one, and if in force at the last elec- 1 tiou, would have secured from the South over thirty Republican members, twenty of whom would have been colored men; while, on the ] other hand, the Democrats would have gained ( a corresponding number in the North. By ] this plan, if carried out at the next election, , the Democrats will have a small majority, but all parts of the country alike will be rep- ! resented by Republicans as well as Democrats. The plan is to so divide each State into districts that the districts may, as far as possible, be entitled to elect either three or i five members each, thus permitting the ma- < jority of voters to elect two out of three or ( three out of five. In case the district is en- i pitied to three representatives each, the elect- ; ore can vote for two candidates, ana no mofte. In case the district is entitled to five representatives each, the elector can vote for three candidates, and no more. Where the State is entitled to two representatives only, it is to 1 lie divided into two districts, each electing one member, as at present, as in this case a ma- ' jority and minority representation would be impossible. In all cases where there is no ' odd representative, after the State has been i divided as nearly as possible into districts to be represented by three or five members, a separate district is to be set apart for this representative, who is elected as at present. ' The effect of this bill will to break up the solid South and secure to the colored people a representation in Congress. It is argued , that if it were passed it would remove the ob- , jections raised by Senator Blaine to the pres ent unequal representation of the colored population of the South. It is not expected 1 that the bill will pass at the present session of Congress, but it will be introduced to attract public attention and excite public discussion on the subject, preparatory to its re- , introduction at the next Congress. Denominational Progress in 1878. The New York Times thus sketches the progress of religious revivals and accesoinno fn .Via olmrnliao nf difloronl rlannmina. OIVIIO bU illW VlliUiVUU} VTA VilllVI VUV UVUVlUiUM tions during the year just closed : The fever of revivalism which ran over the country after the great meetings opened in Brooklyn, some years ago, by Moody and Sankey, has been dying out, year by year, until almost every trace of it disappeared the past year. The evangelists worked more quietly in New England towns last winter, though not fruitlessly, while for the present winter they have separated. The churches, however, have not been idle, and the results of the year in the accession of new members ] are, perhaps, not surpassed by those of any of the previous fburyears. The: Protestant Epis, .copal Church has been unusually prosperous, flnit-W-tvikd. annh itn jpoypitfin ! overruti by 12,000 the very respectable num ber of 300,000 communicants. Of the most populous denominations the Methodist Episcopal Church has had about the usual increase, and so with the Presbyterians and Baptists. 1 The Lutherans, as a German community, have been adding rapidly to their numbers in \ the past few years. The highest estimate of J their preseut strength is over 800,000. There is scarcely an exception among the various denominations, large and small, to the rule of j increase of communicants. The efforts at \ paying offlong standing and oppressive church debts have been continued, too, and many ( congregations have been freed from trouble , some bondage. There has, perhaps, been less of church building than in former years, but < there are good reasons for regarding this as indicative of prudence and heathful progress, ^ and not of decline of church enterprise. The ? disposition to build large and showy churches I nnon striwJit io lionnilv nouqinrr qwqv hut. thfl I upvu viwvj.V .w, i r??& ji ? ? erection of plain and cheap buildings in the far West and in neglected communities fur- e nishes opportunity for a practical benevolence which several denominational societies are ^ busy in dispensing. 8 THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. i Since the adjournment of the legislature, * the State Superintendent of Education has r addressed a circular to the School Commis- 1 sioners of the several counties, which contains t matters of interest to the trustees of free schools and the public generally. From the 1 circular we take the following: C 1. In making the apportionment of the school fund for the present year, County a School Commissioners should take care not to a exceed the amount which will probably be collected. Boards of trustees should be cau- 0 tioned not to make contracts in excess of the t school funds of their Districts. All such contracts are void. it 2. One of the evils of the public school system in the past, has been the establishment of too many schools. The results of this er- f ror have been to divide the fund of the 1 School Districts into small portions, thus re- . ducing the salaries of teachers and thereby 11 impairing the efficiency of the public schools. " The smaller the number of schools in each District, the better will be the pay of the teachers, and the more efficient the work P which will be done. The schools should be * so situated as to afford all ^proper facilities to the pupils of the different localities, but it o is believed that in many instances this can b best be done by reducing the number of schools heretofore established. The salaries w of teachers are not regulated by law, nor It would it be practicable to do so. The sala- J ries which can be paid must depend upon the $ amount of the school fund, which varies in different School Districts, and upon other con- ei ditions which Boards of Trustees must take a< into consideration. As a general rule, I p would advise that the rate of pay allowed i; teachers be as liberal as possible. The ser- $ vices of competent teachers cannot be obtained for inadequate compensation. jj 3. No amendments to the School Law were | made at the recent session of the Legislature. ^ Several acts and joint resolutions were passed " affecting the school interests of certain counties in the State. Their purport cannot be g| indicated in a circular. u 4. Iu answer to repeated inquiries on this j>( subject, I would say that I know of no law prescribing the age at which pupils shall be allowed to avail themselves of the benefit of the public schools. 5. The school fund collected for the past v< fiscal year was 8316,197.10. Taxes which 111 will be hereafter collected by execution, will w increase this amount. ^ It is probable that the school fund of this year will be at least equal to that of the past year. The proper expenditure of this large sura imposes upon the various school officers a high and important trust. The people of H this State have a right to expect that the C school funds shall be expended not only hon- se estly, but wisely. To secure these ends, T County School Commissioners are earnestly tl advised to spare no effort to obtain the hearty si co-operatioii of their subordinate officers, ana al by all means in their power to arouse among fe the people of the several couuties an increased th interest in the cause of public education. in Very respectfully, a Hugh S. Thompson, ra State Superintendent Education, S. C. sh LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. M. Adams?All Right Cooking Stove. W. R. Jones, A. M., Principal?Yorkville Female Institute. R. M.Carroll, D. H. Carroll?Dissolution. 9. E. White?Assignee's Sale?In Bankruptcy. > Andrew Jackson, Judge of Probate?Citation ? R. B. Kennedy, Applicant?Nathaniel P. Kennedy, deceased. John W. Lyles, Strother, S C.? Strayed. James A. Glenn?Dental Notioa. W. Porter Good?Removal. v R. H. Glenn, S. T. C.-Sheriff's Sales. J. F. Wallace, C. C. Pl8.-Clerk'aSale. R. Lathan, School Commissioner? Examination * of Teachers. YORKVILLE FEMALE INSTITUTE. The advertisement of the above institution will be found in another column. The exercises of the school will be resumed on Monday next, under control of W. R. Jones, A. M. Princiml. As a teacher. Mr. Jones has given general satisfaction since his connection with the school. YORK CIRCUIT COURT. By act of the recent Legislature, York has been placed last in the order of the comities composing the Sixth Circuit, and consequently the next term of the Court for this county will not be held until the fourth Monday of March. Judge Pressley has been assigned as the next presiding Judge of this circuit. THE COLD WEATHER. The coldest weather known in this region since 1870. has been upon us for the hist week. On Saturday the thermometer indicated twelve degrees above zero, showing a difference of seven degrees ljetween the temperature here and jatJBichnimnL where it was Jive degrees above zero. i DWELLING HOUSE BURNED. We learn that on Sunday night last, tlie dwelling house of Mr. Benson F. Hardin, three miles south of McConnellsville, on the Chester and Lenoir Railroad, was destroyed by fire. Mr. Hardin succeeded in saving but little of his furniture. The origin of the fire is supi)osed to be accidental. . , COUNTY OFFICERS. On Thursday last, Col. Andrew Jackson, Judge of Probate elect, assumed the duties of the office. The new board of County Commissioners entered upon the discharge of their duties last Tuesday morning. The board was organized by electing Mr. James Scoggins, chairman, and Mr. W. J. Stephenson, of the old board, received the appointment of clerk. ? ? THE 8TOCK LAW. At the request of several subscribers, we reprint this week the stock law as it applies to every section of the county which has adopted the no-fence system. Those who disregard the law should bear in mind that there are penalties provided for transgressors, and that the best plan to prevent ill-feeling among neignoors is to give no opportunity ior applying legal remedies. CONDITION OF Mr. WILLIFORD. Upon enquiry of persons from Rock Hill, we learn that the condition of Mr. C. L. Williford, who was shot and Beriously wounded on Saturday of Christmas week, has not changed for worse. He rests comparatively easy, the pain which he at first suffered. having somewhat subsided. Mr. Thomasson, who was wounded in the same altercation, was removed, last Monday, to his home, about five miles from Rock Hill. THE CAROLINA 8PARTAN. Hugh L. Farley, Esq., who has been editor of the Spartanburg Spartan for the past five yearsriaa .2e!,)',^S0i his* connection with the pal>er and is succeeded in its management by Hon. Charles Petty, who becomes the sole editor and proprietor. Mr. Petty is a graceful and polished writer, whose pen has frequently idorned the columns of the Enquirer. He ms ouobeat wishes for success and prosperity ^ in the journalistic field. TRAN8PER8 OF'REAL ESTATE. Tlio fAllAirmrt ft?onofni?a nf vnal nofofo havn JL llO luuwnill^ IKUJOltlO 111 ICOi COIOIC llOTC ^een recorded in the office of the County Auditor since our last report: R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to A. F. Fewell. Tract )f 13 acres in Ebenezer township. Considerition $1,226. A. C. Ivy to J. M. Ivy. Lot in Fort Mill. Consideration $700. B. T. Wheeler to Jason Thomson. Tract of 176 acres in King's Mountain township. Conlideration $3,808. B. T. Wheeler to. R. J. Love. Tract of 103 icres in King's Mountain township. Consid:ration $824. Stanhope Sadler and wife to Kennedy Bros, fc Barron. House and lot in Yorkville. Consideration $1,600. J. P. Hutchison and others to Jasper Huitohson. Dower of Susan Hatcher in tract of and in Ebenezer township. Consideration lot given. J. A. McLean, Judge of Probate, to H. F. \.dickes, Jun. Lot in Yorkville. Consideraion $51. J. A. McLean, Judge of Probate, to H. F. ^dickes, Jun. House and lot in Yorkville. . Consideration $1,500. Wm. Lynn to Nancy Lynn. Tract of 462 cres in Bullock's Creek township. Consider lion James C. Poag to T. C. Robertson. Tract f 28 acres in Catawba township. Consideraion 825. James C. Poag to Annie J. Robertson. Lot q Rock Hill. Consideration 8825. SA1.E8-OAY. On Monday last, sales-day for January, the allowing property was sold : By virtue of fieri facias the sheriff sold a lot a Rock Hill, levied on as the property of onathan N. McElwee, Jun. Bought by J. i. McElwee for 82,035. House and lot in Fort Mill, levied on as the roperty of N. G. Bradford. Bought by J. [. Foster for 8242.65. A tract of land in Bethel township, levied n as the property of S. W. Jackson. Bought y J. C. Patrick for 8500. A tract of land containing 40 acres, situated rithin the incorporate limits of Yorkville, ivied on as the property of R. J. and Mrs. M. . Withers, was bought by R. J. Withers, for 350. The Judge of Probate sold the lands of ;he date of Leonidas S. White, deceased; 149 cres bought by Mrs. E. W. Rankin at 84.25 ?r acre; and the reversion in the dower lands, 29 acres, bought by Mrs. D. A. White for 16. J. P. Moore, assignee of bankrupt estate of i. F. Hardin, sold a tract of 100 acres, lying iree miles south of McConnellsville. Bought y J. L. Guy for 8700. W. B. Wilson, Jun., assignee of bankrupt date of Drakeford, Massey & Co., sold the ore-house and lot of said bankrupt firm sitate in Fort Mill. Bought by A. Friedham >r 8500. Also, a vacant lot of one-eighth of a acre ; bought by J. Stanyarne Wilson for 31. ' A number of delinquent land sales were adsrtised by the county auditor for non-paylent of taxes ; but the larger number of them ere adjusted, or where sales were made, the ,nds were bought by parties inclined to favor le delinquent tax-payers. THE STOCK LAW. Section 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate and touseof Representatives of the State of South aroiina, now met and sitting in General Asmbly, and by the authority of the same, hat in the several counties and townships in lis State where the electors have already, or tall hereafter adopt the provisions of the K)ve entitled Act, commonly known as the nee law, the boundary lines of the lands of ie inhabitants within the territory so adopt* g the same, shall be deemed and taken to be lawful enclosure thereof, and the owner or anager of any horse, mule, ass, genet, swine, leep, goat, or neat cattle of any description, i