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Jtoajw mH Jacts.
? The Richmond Dispatch says that if the
law is faithfully carried out in Virginia in regard
to the Moffet register, $1,000,000 of the
public debt can be paid off annually.
? Postmaster-General Key is a good deal of
a woman's rights man. He says a great number
of women have been appointed to small
offices in the past four years, and they do the
business in first-class shape. Take more pride
in office-holding, in fact, than men.
? The Commissioner of Pensions has issued
a circular to those entitled to pensions under
the bill signed by the President recently, in
which he says they do not need the services
of any claim agent, and that no claim agents
will be recognized by him in the matter.
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? >v neu a young iooucco cuewer, wuo uoasted
that his father used the weed up to the day
of his death, was asked if he didn't think it
shortened his days, he replied : "Not at all.
Each one of his days was twenty-four hours
long, just the same as if he hadn't used tobacco."
? The ice harvest on the Hudson River this
season is the most successful ever known, the
quantity secured being greater and the quality
better. The gathering will be finished this
week, and it is expected 3,000,000 tons will
be obtained, which, it is supposed, will suffice
for a two years' crop, a thing that has never
happened before.
? The jury in the Arlington case returned
a verdict for the plaintiff", Gen. W. P. C. Lee,
for the whole property in fee, known as the
Arlington estate, and which was confiscated
or sold for taxes during the war, the Government
becoming the purchaser and converting
the property into a national cemetery. The
case will be appealed.
? The New York Tribune states, in the most
positive terms, that the remains of A. T.
Stewart have not been recovered by his widow
or Judge Hilton. Reports to the contrary
grew out of exaggerated repetitions of
hopes expressed by Mrs. Stewart to her friends
in December last that negotiations then pending
would result in the return of the body before
the end of the year.
? It is charged by the investigating committee
that General LeDuc, the Commissioner of
Agriculture, only spent $20,000 of $60,000
given him for the Department of Agriculture
last session, and is unable to account for the
$40,000. They charge, too, that he turned
over to a party, in Washington city, twelve
bushels of foreign wheat for which $30 a
bushel was paid by the government. He says
he can account for everything.
? It is becoming common to send children
by express, and a number of boys and girls
in different parts of the country have been
transferred safely in this novel way. The
express agents care for their human freight,
giving them meals at hotels along the road
and accommodations in the express car.
When a transfer is made from one line to
another, the lad or lassie, properly billed, is
handed over to the expressman of that line.
? Senator-elect Matt Carpenter is not so
much of a stalwart as he wa9. In his Milwaukie
reception speech, a few days ago, he
said: "A chief duty and a chief means of
increasing the prosperity of the country, is
that the existing differences in the South be
healed. Bayonet rule has had its run as long
as it was useful, and civil government is now
the proper instrumentality to use in dealing
with the affairs of the South."
? The amount of luxuriousness bestowed
upon pet dogs in New York is something almost
incredible. Says the New York Home
Journal: "It is not at all uncommon to see a
carriage, with two liveried men upon the box,
driving through Central Park on a pleasant
morning with only a dog, or perhaps a pair
of them inside, taking a sniff of fresh air.
They have had their baths, their locks have
been dressed, and fresh ribbons adorn their
necks, while a short-haired dog is carefully
blanketed."
? The Georgia farmers are preparing to
protest in a very emphatic manner against
the recent action of the guano agents' convena!
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uou in .augusia. xnis convention nxea tne
minimum price of a ton of commercial fertilizers
at 500 pounds of middling cotton. In
many counties the planters have taken the
bull squarely by the horns. They have held
meetings, declared that they will not use a
pound of commercial fertilizers at such prices,
and pledged themselves to use their influence
to prevent others from using them. The
prospects are that the movement will become
general throughout the State.
? The whipping-post is said to have worked
well in Virginia. Cases of petty larceny and
the criminal charges of the State have sensibly
fallen off since its adoption, and the Senate
stands by the lash by a decided majority,
on a motion to repeal the law sanctioning its
use. A colony of 800 negroes working in a
Pender county, N. C., quarry, have voluntarily
adopted the whipping-post to suppress
thieving ainoDg themselves. The jury of their
own choice finds the guilty out every time,
and the plan seems to be a success in keeping
things straight. Missouri and several other
States are now considering the advisibility of
employing the same means to punish the petty
thieves and other scamps who fear no penalty
as much, and just now the tide seems to
set toward the whipping-post as more effective
with petty criminals than confinement or fines.
? The Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist
has discovered a new miracle-worker in
uic pciauii ui n lttiuicr uaiueu xvuuiusuu
James, who lives about eleven miles from that
city. Mr. James is about fifty years of age
aDd knew nothing of his strange power until
after a severe fit of illness some years ago.
Since that he has made some wonderful cures
of chronic rheumatism and neuralgia by simply
rubbing the patient with his hands. He
makes no charge for his services, and the persons
cured by him are said to be of very high
standing in the community, and one is mysteriously
hinted at as "a distinguished statesman
who once held high office in Georgia."
The Chronicle says that the "impression seems
to be that the power possessed by Mr. James
is nothing more than animal magnetism in a
very strong degree, and thus acting upon the
nerves removes the pain and effects a cure."
? Washington special to Baltimore Sun:
"In conversation with your correspondent,
Senator Patterson said that he expected to
make a speech on the Butler-Corbin case when
it came up for action in the Senate. He said
that he considered himself the bitterest kind
of a partisan, that he had never given any
but a partisan vote in all his life, that he voted
to seat Butler because he was elected, and he
should vote to keep him in his seat for the
same reason. The speech which he would
make on the case, would be the last one that
he expected to make in the Senate, and it
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handle the Hayes administration without fear
or remorse, as he knew that to its acts is due
the destruction of the Republican party in
the South. His previous assault on the Administration
was no more than a drop of sulphuric
acid as compared to the ton of dynamite
which he would now hurl upon it."
? The amount of counterfeit coin in circulation
in the United States is said to be 82,000,000,
besides the great number of genuine
pieces made fraudulent by the removal of part
of the metal. Wholly spurious coins are almost
always lighter than the good ones, but
an exception, described by the Scientific American,
is a 85 piece made of gold and silver,
and really costing the counterfeiter 83.40 each.
Various ingenious modes are used in stealing
gold from coins. The most common is "sweating,"
which is done by using the coin as the
anode in an electro-plating bath, the gold being
attracted from it and deposited on another
surface. Ag much as two dollars' worth of
gold can be taken in that way from a double
eagle, without making a difference that is
readily detected except by weight. A less
scientific plan is to file the smooth parts of
the surface and reburnish the spots. The most
extensive fraud is "splitting." The operator
saws the coin through neatly, gouges out the
centre until only a thin shell is left, substitutes
a base metal, and joins the parts again.
The ring of the coin is destroyed and the
weight lessened. Sometimes holes are bored
into the edge and plugs of lead put in.
? A Washington special to the New York
Tribune says: "The resolution of Senator
Windom, relative to the migration of colored
people from the South, has had some effect.
The Senator was visited to-day by delegations
of colored people from six of the Southern
States, including among their number Professor
Greener, Senator Bruce and Representatives
Cain, Smalls and Rainey, all of whom
said they were disposed to favor Mr. Windom's
scheme if he was in earnest. Mr. Windom
was told that the colored people were not satisfied
with their condition; that they would be
willing to move, and that local clubs have al
ready begun to agitate the question. The delegation
thought that 100,000 able-bodied colored
laborers could be induced to leave their
homes if they should have even moderate assurance
that they would improve their condition.
Senator Windom assured the delegation
that he was thoroughly in earnest, aud
that he had no political purpose to accomplish
by his resolution."
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THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 6, 1879.
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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 28th, Mr. Davis, of
Illinois, presented a memorial signed by
3,190 persons, representing sixteen States,
praying the establishment of a bureau to collect
statistics in regard to and have special
charge of labor interests and the appointment
| of a special commission to inquire to what
I extent machinery has taken the place of
manual labor in general production and manj
ufacture. Referred to the committee on education
and labor. The Senate again considered
the bill to pay Warren Mitchell for cot
| ton taken from him at Savannah, which, afi
ter considerable discussion, was defeated by
the rejection of a motion to proceed to the
third reading of the bill. The Senate theu
agreed to take up Edmunds' resolutions, after
which it adjourned.
Tn tlie House, the legislative auDronriation
bill has been reported and referred to the
committee of the whole. The bill to restrict
the immigration of the Chinese passed?yeas
155, nays 72, after which the House went into
committee of the whole and discussed the
postoffice appropriation bill. Without final
action the committee rose.
In the Senate on the 29th, a number of
pension bills were passed, among them one
granting 850 per month to the widow of the
late Gen. Robert Anderson, of Fort Sumter
fame. Edmunds' resolution in regard to the
constitutional amendments were called up,
but went over.
The House was engaged as committee of
the whole on the postoffice appropriation bill.
AmoDg the amendments adopted was a provision
requiring that no deficiency shall be
made during the next fiscal year by placing
postal cars on any line. Amendments were
also adopted increasing the appropriation for
route agents, increasing the appropriation for
transportation on star routes, for railroad
transportation and for eteamboat transportation.
In the Senate on the 30th, Mr. Morgan, of
Alabama, spoke at considerable length in favor
of his substitute for the Edmunds resolutions,
explaining that the substitute rested
upon the ground that the amendments referred
to were a part of the constitution and
as valid as any other part of it. Mr. Morgan
did not conclude his argument.
The House passed the post office appropriation
bill after increasing many of the appro
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priauuuB iu iue aiuuuni as&cu iui uj mc estimates.
The remainder of the day was devoted
principally to business relating to the
District of Columbia.
In the Senate on the 31st, Mr. Hamlin,
from the committee on foreign relations, reported
adversely on the House joint resolution
in relation to the expenditures of the
fans exposition, ana it was maenniteiy post
poued. At 1 o'clock the Senate went into
executive session for the consideration of the
New York Custom House nominations.
In the House the Senate bill to erect a
military post at El Paso was agreed to. The
House refused to concur in the Senate amendments
to abolish the volunteer navy.
In the House on the 1st instant, Mr. McCreery,
of Kentucky, from the joint committee
to enquire into the expediency of transferring
the Indian bureau from the Interior
to the War Department, submitted a report
signed by four members of the committee in
favor of the transfer. Ordered printed. Hoar
presented a minority report of the committee
on privileges and elections, signed by himself,
Cameron, of Wisconsin, and Mitchell,
favoring the sixteenth amendment to the constitution
prohibiting States from disfranchising
persons on account of sex. The Senate
then resumed the consideration of Edmunds'
resolution affirming the validity of the thirteenth,
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.
Morgan, of Alabama, continued his argument
in favor of his own substitute. The
vice-President laid before the Senate a communication
from the Secretary of War, enclosing
a letter from Gen. Humphreys, chief
engineer, with regard to the plan for a national
survey, prepared by the academy of science.
After a long review of the statements made
by the superintendent of the coast survey,
Gen. Humphreys says experience gives no
reason for believing that a national survey
can be executed at less cost than $49,000,000
for a rough topographical survey, based on astronomical
determinations; $62,000,000 for
the same based on triangulation ; and, $168,000,000
for a thorough castradal survey. The
area considered in these estimates is only that
of the States admitted before 1860, excluding
California, Texas and Oregon. The Secretary
of War also transmitted a letter from
Commissary General McFeely, showing that
his department would be thoroughly crippled
i by the adoption of the system of organization
required by the Burnside bill. At 3.35, after
a short executive session, the Senate adjourned
until Monday.
In the House, Mr. Chalmers, of Mississippi,
spoke at length on the subject of Southern
war claims?his remarks being mainly in reply
to aspersions of Northern Republicans.
At the conclusion of his, speech,, the. House
went into committee on the arrr y appropriation
bill. After some discussion the bill was
read by sections, but before any action was
taken the committee arose and the House
adjourned.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Tennessee mules are selling in Greenville
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at irom ?ito iu eicvcni-u.
? The publication of the Columbia Daily
Phcenix has been discontinued.
? On Friday last, the Supreme Court adjourned
until Monday, the 14th of April.
? Lancaster county bonds issued in aid of
the Cheraw and Chester Railroad, are selling
at sixty cents on the dollar.
? The supply of home made provisions in
Darlington county this year is greater than
any year since the war.
? In Sumter county, there are six candidates
in the field for State Senator for that
county.
? The Air-Line Railroad Company has recently
added several new passenger coaches
to its already fine supply of rolling stock.
? The Charleston News and Courier has
added a "Chess Column" to its other attractions.
This department is under the control
of Rev. C. E. Ranken.
? The Herald says that the price demanded
for commercial fertilizers, is causing the
Spartanburg farmers to buy less this season
and rely more on home-made manures.
? Capt. H. L. Farley, the late editor of the
Spartanburg Spartan, has taken up his residence
in Augusta, Ga. He has gone there
for the purpose of finishing his legal studies.
? Governor Hampton has abandoned his
trip to Florida. He has not been doing quite
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so well tor a lew days, ana it is not tnougnt
advisable for him to overtax his strength.
? The South Carolina Railroad is said to
be doing a thriving business at every point
along the line. Receiver Fisher is managing
the affairs of the road in a very satisfactory
mauner.
? At a recent meeting of the stockholders
of the Charleston Fertilizer Company, it was
determined to wind up the affairs finally, and
the solicitor was instructed to take the steps
necessary to effect this object.
? The receipts of cotton at Greenville this
year are seven thousand bales greater than
for the same time last year. There are said
to be yet three times as many bales to market
as there were at this season last year.
? The Teller investigating committee concluded
its labors in Charleston on Thursday
last, and adjourned to meet in Washington
last Monday, where E. W. M. Mackey, James
B. Campbell and R. M. Wallace, are to be
examined.
? The Herald says that Mr. Henry Massey,
who resides seven miles north of Rock Hill,
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lost a number of hogs recently from the ef
fects of acid phosphate which the animals
had eaten after burglariously making entrance
into the lint room of his gin-house
where the stuff was stored.
? XUo Alotna monh/ina that ftioro am nnmor.
ous inquiries in Greenville for chemicals with
which to make cheap fertilizers. The farm
ers of O'Neall township in that county, have
adopted a resolution in which they declare
that they are not willing to pay over four hundred
pounds of lint cotton for a ton of commercial
fertilizer, freight included.
? In Kershaw county, most of the negroes
who have made contracts for 1879, have gone
to work, four days in each week for their employer
and two for themselves. The employer
furnishes them houses, rations and as much
land as they want to attend themselves, and
lets them have his stock to do their ploughing,
but pays them no wages. Those who
work for wages alone, get from $5 to $7 per
month and rations.
? At the recent meeting of the South Carolina
Conference of the Northern Methodist
Church, the following appointments, among
others, were made: A. C. Dutton, presiding
elder of the Greenville District. Thomas
Wright, Edisto Forks in Port Royal Dis
trict. S. Anderson King, Greenville circuit.
George W. Beckham, Cherokee. J. R. Rosemond
and A. McLees, York circuit. C. F.
McElwee, Chester circuit. J. R. Beckham,
Anderson.
? A Washington letter says : "F. L. Car
dozo, colored, ex-State Treasurer of South
Carolina, who a few months ago was appointed
to a 81,200 clerk in the sixth auditor's office,
has at last arisen to the dignity of a secondclass
clerkship, reaching that elevation after
an examination in which he worsted twentyone
competitors." At the August term, 1877,
of the Richland Circuit Court, Cardozo was
convicted of conspiracy to cheat the State
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aua sentenced to tne jan 01 tnat couiuy iur
two years and to pay a fine of four thousand
dollars; failing to pay the fine, to be imprisoned
for one year more. Cardozo appealed
to the Supreme Court, pending which, the execution
of the sentence was suspended by order
of the presiding judge. A petition is
being circulated in Columbia asking for Cardozo's
pardon.
? Mrs. Elizabeth Leopard, died at Graniteville
on the 26th ultimo at the age of 107
years. She was born in Buckingham county,
Va., on the 25th of December, 1771, and emigrated
to South Carolina when she was seventeen
years of age, and lived near NinetySix.
She raised twenty-two orphan grandchildren
and great-grandchildren. At the
funeral was her only surviving son, over
eighty years of age. Around her grave stood
this son, a grandchild fifty-six years old, several
great-grandchildren over forty years
of age, great-great-grandchildren twenty-five
years old, and a number of great-great-great
grandchildren?five generations in all. There
are living at present eighty of her descendants,
and two hundred and ten have died, making
altogether nearly three hundred. Last fall
Mrs. Leopard knitted two pairs of stockings
for one of her grandchildren. She read the
Bible, without spectacles, the Sunday before
she died, and conversed with friends and relatives
almost up to the very moment of her
death, passing away gently and without pain,
from old age.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The work of grading the Winston and
Salem and Mooresville Railroad, has been
commenced at several points on the line.
i ? Alexauder Oliver, a shoe-maker in Union
county, has recently invented and patented a
method of making seamless shoes.
? Governor Vance has tendered his resignation,
which took effect yesterday. Lieutenant-Governor
Jarvis has been duly inaugurated
Governor.
? The Raleigh Observer, advocating the
narrow gauge railroad system, says a thous
and miles of road ought to be built in North
Carolina within the next five years,
v? A meeting of the farmers of Cleveland
county was held in Shelby last Monday, for
the purpose of considering whether or not
they shall ask their representatives to advocate
the passage of the fence law for that
county.
? The Charlotte Observer says: A party of
reyenue officers, under the charge of Deputy
Collector J. R. Lewis, made a raid on some
illicit distilleries near the Lincoln and Gaston
line on Wednesday, the 29th ultimo, and
made the following seizures: One copper still
and fixtures, twenty stands of beer and mash
and two barrels of whisky?supposed to be
the property of Argo Yarborough.
? It is known by many in this section that
the horse upon which Stonewall Jackson was
riding when he received the wounds which
resulted in his death, is now in the possession
of his brother in-law, Mr. Joseph Morrison,
who lives at the old Morrison homestead in
Lincoln county. Mr. Morrison rode him
down to Charlotte recently, and an enterprising
photographer got a first-rate picture of
him. The gallant old sorrel shows the effects
of age, but is still able to travel and do enough
service to pay for the expense of keeping him.
? Aunt Nelpie Outlaw, a good old colored
woman of Bertie county, came to the conclusion
the other day,:that it would be a pleasant
thing to know what the preacher aud the
folks would say about her when she was dead.
So the old woman got the Rev. Luke Pearce
to preach her funeral Sermon. This he did
in the presence of Nelpie and the congregation.
The old soul was highly delighted at
the discourse, though she is still in good
health and likely to live some years yet The
correspondent of the Raleigh Observer, who
tells the story, is not able to give the text,
but supposes it was from Jeremiah, 8th chapter
and first half of the 11th verse.
? A Charlotte dispatch of the 30th ultimo
says that Alfred Edmundson, Elijah Church
and Riley Tedder, notorious outlaws, who
have for some time been evading the officers
by concealing themselves in the mountains of
Wilkes, one of the wildest of the western
counties of North Carolina. A disagreement
took place some days ago between Church and
Tedder on the one side, and Ed mundson on the
other. The two former went to a house where
Edmundson was stopping, for the alleged
purpose of taking from him a pistol which he
had stolen. He refused them admittance,
whereupon they knocked the door from its
hinges. The moment they attempted to
cross the threshold Edmundson began firing.
One bullet went through the brain of Tedder
and another entered the breast of Church
and passed out through his shoulder. As he
fell, however, he plunged a knife into Ed?
mundson's shoulder, but the wound is not
serious. Tedder died instantly and Church is
mortally wounded.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Dealing in Futnres.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has
recently rendered a decision upon a case of
"futures," the points of which may be summed
up as follows:
Speculating in futures, where no actual delivery
of the article bought or sold is made,
but only the difference in money between the
value at the time of purchase and at the time
fixed for delivery is to be paid, is gambling
and illegal. But the intent to pay only the
difference in value, and not to deliver the
goods, must be clearly proven, not inferred
from custom. Even proof that the difference
was actually paid in money in this way will
not suffice, unless it be also proved that it was
the intent at the time of the contract, that the
settlement should be made in this way. The
Court admits the wrongfulness of this practice,
and that as practiced it is gambling, but
it will not take as proof of gambling in this
case the well known custom that prevails, or
evidences that would establish other species
of gambling.
Manufactures in the Sonth.
The advantages of Southern millsbringing
them to the cotton?have been so
clearly demonstrated by practical test, that
argument on that score is unnecessary. But
it seems that the scheme has its drawbacks
with the capitalists of the North, not the least
of which is the repudiation talk agitated in
some of the Southern States. The practiced
observer and well known correspondent, Edward
King, in a recent letter to the Boston
Journal, relates how a northern gentleman
who had been making a trip through Georgia
and South Carolina, came back strongly impressed
with the prospects of those sections
for the development of manufactures. He
had been in Augusta and Graniteville, Columbus
and other places where the manufacture
of cotton goods is carried on with great
success. He had seen a Scotchman who was
settled in Georgia, and who told him that he
is making fine ginghams as fast as the machinery
will turn them out. Every yard of
these ginghams is sold in the Southern States
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Scotchman said that he began by bringing
labor from Scotlaud, but that it proved worthless,
for reasons which he did not state, and
that as soon as the native population was induced
to labor, it furnished all the operatives
required at the most reasonable rates. He
was always besieged by girls anxious for work
and the places of "substitutes" even were battled
for. The Northern man was so much
impressed by various advantages that Southern
cotton mills must always have over Northern
ones, that he has* |ecome convinced that
the South will in the future be our great manufacturing
section. Mr. King adds:
"There are a hundred economies unknown
to our New England mills which are daily
practiced in the establishments at Augusta
and Greenville. Cotton which is brought only
a few miles does not have to be pressed so
that its masses in the bales are almost as hard
oc imn onrl on that it ia macopnroft vuhpn it.
comes to the picker. All the water wheels,
&c., which in the North are protected and
barricaded against cold and ice, are unprotected
in the South. There are so many superiorities
in the Southern location that every
visitor in this region admits them. Then the
Southerner says :
" 'Well sir, why don't you come down here
and start manufacturing on a large scale?"
"And the Northerner answers:
" 'Because you have no settled government.
Because you do not hang people relentlessly
when they commit murder. Because your
public debt may possibly be repudiated. Because
I could not be sure that my property
would be worth anything for any length of
time. Because?'
"And there in nine cases out of ten . the
matter rests."
The Black Death In Rnssia.
Great alarm prevails in Eastern Europe
over the rapid spread up the Volga river
in Southeastern Russia of an extremely fatal
disease believed to be the plague. It is
thought to have been brought to Russia by
two regiments of Cossacks, returning from the
war in Turkey. The disease was regarded at
first as a variety of typhus fever, and neglected,
but its terrible mortality soon compelled
the authorities to take steps for its restriction.
A rigid quarantine was enforced
against Astrachan where it originated, but
the panic stricken inhabitants of that city fled
in all directions and scattered the germs of
infection over the provinces of 8amara and
Saraloy lying albng' the river Volga higher
up, and in spite of all efforts at restriction it
soon reached Tsaritzin, an important trading
town on the Volga, connected by rail with the
whole of Russia aud Eastern Europe, and
finally appeared in Nisbnij Novgorod, only a
few hours distant from Moscow. Some' Rus
sian newspapers consider the disease only a
species of malignant typhus fever, but the St.
Petersburg Medical Journal says that it cannot
be doubted from the tenor of communications
to official papers, that it is the plague.
Dr. Zolekauer and Prof. Botkin conclude,
from its rapid spread and extraordinary mortality,
there being few if any recoveries, that
it is the Dlasrue in its worst form. The most
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rigid quarantine is enforced against the infected
towns and village*, which are divided into
districts, and notallowed to communicate with
one another. The Astrachau correspondence
of the St. Petersburg Qolos traces the origin
and spread of the plague as follows:
The epidemic appeared in the Cossack Village
of Vetylan Stanitza, soon after the return
of two Cossack regiments from the war in
Asia Minor, and was very likely brought
over with their old clothes and rags. It is
well known that there were many cases of
typhus in these regiments during the war, but
it has also been ascertained that during their
return homeward no one was attacked by the
disease. Prior to their homeward march the
Cossacks' clothes and other effects were disinfected
and well smoked; but probably the
men did .not expose all their rags and booty
to that process, and thus many articles remained
infected. The report regarding the
appearance of typhus was received by the
Cossack authorities toward the end of November.
An army surgeon was at once dispatched
to Vetlyanka. He returned with
the news that there was no typhus, but that
there were slight attacks of ague and febricula.
Several days passed by, wheu suddenly
news was brought of frightful mortality in
the Stanitza. From fifteen to twenty persons
died every day, among a population of 600.
By December 10 the mortality had increased.
There died, among the rest, the doctor of the
AstracfyflffS'egiment; the priest met the same
fate, his wife and children running away from
fear; several of the local chiefs were also attacked.
The Cossack population were seized
with a panic; they ceased to approach the
sick, and feared to bury the dead. It is reported
that the dead bodies lay for days in
the streets, with a slight covering of hay
thrown over them. At last the inhabitants
reached the conclusion that the disease was
not typhus, but the plague.
TAUitV. eniTTHFRtf fT.AIWSl
On Saturday last the House of Representatives
fairly launched on the long impending
debate on Southern war claims. The discussion
was opened by Mr. Chalmers, of Mississippi,
who made an eloquent exposition of the
attitude of the South, in a lengthy-speech of
which the following is a condensation : '
Mr. Chalmers opened by stating that he
cared nothing for the payment of loyal
Southern war claims, because loyalty to the
Union during the war meant disloyalty to
everything that he held dear. That many
men in the South had been loyal to the
Union was, nevertheless, true, and he did not
envy the cheap political capital that a Union
soldier could make by telling such men that
he had no more confidence in their honesty
than that of a mouse in a stuffed catskin.
The claims now presented come from women
and children, against whom the statutes of
limitations seldom run. The gentleman from
Wisconsin (Bragg) taking advantage of a
well known opposition, everywhere sought to
blend war claims with claims for Southern
improvements, and endeavored to throw the
odor of his dead cat over them. That gentleman
announced in advance that he was unwilling
to trust the honesty of either claimants
or court. Such readiness to suspect
corruption in others, sometimes indicated an
inuate tendency to corruption in one's self,
and he should therefore not charge corruption
on any one. The issues of the war were certainly
dead, with him. He had but one political
faith to preserve inviolate, and that
was local self government. But one political
hope, to build up the waste places in the
South destroyed by the war. He cklled attention
to the difference between the speech
made by the gentleman from' Wisconsin,
(Mr. Bragg,) not as toned down in the Record,
but as delivered and partially published in
I t -kt tr i rr it 1. ti " V
tne iNew iorK neraia, ana ine speecn coming
from a Republican member from New
Hampshire, (Mr. Blair,) both of which appeared
in the Record on the same day. When
the West bad been in its iufancy it had been
foBtered by the South. Mississippi Democrats
had stood side by side with those from Michigan
in the work of Western improvements.
He warned Northern Democrats last session
that a refusal to recognize the just demands of
the South might result in the defeat of Southern
Democrats and the sending of other representatives
who would form alliances -flvith
other parties. The rapid growth of independent
candidates in the'South had already
sustained his declaration. He had nothing
to take back, not a line, not a syllable. He
repeated all that he had then said. He
hoped that the solid South might still be
solid for the Democratic party, but for that
portion of it that had the courage and the
, manliness to treat the people of the South as
equals and not as inferiors in the Union. The
gentleman from Wisconsin, after haviug slept
in his speech for nearly a year, after "nursing
his wrath to keep it warm," had come forI
ward to excommunicate him (Chalmers) from
the Democratic church aud to give a general
j ticket of leave to the rest of the Southern
I men who dared to ask for justice and for the
| equal distribution of appropriations from the
Federal treasury. He (Mr. Bragg) had assumed
to speak in the name of Northern
Democrats, and even if he had authority
thus to speak, it was the first time anybody
had ever heard of a minority undertaking to
turn out the majority of a party. But this
great leader from the solid Democratic State
of Wisconsin proposed to show him to the
door of the Democratic party, and when the
South asked for a small proportion of government.
aid. he treated her like a mendicant,
and said to her, like Van Beekman to old
Rip Van Winkle, "Give her a cold potato
and let her go." As the representative of
Northern Democrats, the gentleman from
Wisconsin had stated that they would not
sell out body and soul to Southern Democrats,
and intimated that they could do better
by getting recruits from the North without
the South than with it. He should like
to know who had appointed that gentleman
salesman of the Northern Democrats. How
many Northern Democrats could he deliver
if he found a purchaser ? That geutleman
reminded him of the "cowboys and skinners"
of the revolutionary war, who belonged to
neither party, but robbed indiscriminately
I from both, and fl^d in terror when danger
i approached. The gentleman struck first on
j one side and then on the other, and when|
ever a question came up requiring fearless
j courage and manhood, he rushed in frantic
j terror into the Republican ranks to shelter
his political head. If such men were Democrats,
he asked upon what principles of Democracy
they stood. The principles of the
Democratic party at the end of the war had
j been peace and restoration, that the dead past
might bury its dead and that the bloody
shirt should wave alone from the flag pole of
Republican banners, but the gentleman from
Wisconsin had found a bloodier shirt than
had ever waved from the battlements of the
Republican party, and he was stretching his
legs in the frantic effort to climb up to the
Republican platform and rob it of its last
banner.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVEEITI8E8IENT8.
PiedmontWagon Co., Hickory, N. C.?Bargains
in Wagons.
Latimer <fe Hemphill, Agents, Yorkville, S. C.?
The very latest and very best Sewing Machine.
James Scoggins, Chairman Board of County Commissioners?Road
Notice.
H. F. Adickes <fc Sons?Coffee?Books?Valentines?Trays?Irish
Potatoes.
T.' S. Jefferys, Agent?The Phosphate War Ended.
R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sales.
J. F. Wallace, C. C. Pis.?Clerk's Sale.
Herndon Bro.?Bread, Bread.
T. M. Dobson A Co?Positive Notice.
W. B. Metts, Agent? Etiwan Dissolved Bone.
R. Latban, County School Commissioner?Notice
to Teachers.
?
PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.
Hon. J. H. Evins has our thanks for the
Annual Renort. of the Clommissioner of Acri
culture, and other public documents.
PER80NAL.
We were pleased to meet in town, this week,
Mr. C. L. Williford, of Rock Hill, who has so
far recovered from the wound he recently received
as to enable him to be out.
REMOVAL.
Mr. T. S. Jefferys, banker, has changed his
location one door south of the room formerly
occupied by him. His new office is fitted up
quite handsomely and conveniently for the
trasaction of business.
SALES-DAY.
On Monday last?sales-day for February?
the sheriff sold the following property:
House and lot in Yorkville, sold as property
of W. B. Williams. Bought by W. C. Beatty
for $-200.
Tract of land, 180 acres, in Broad River
township, sold as the property of J. D. Wylie.
Bought by J. L. Hoffman for 8300.
Tract of land, 405 acres, in Fort Mill township,
sold sis the property of B. H. Massey.
Bought by B. F. Massey for 81,500.
THE 8CHOOL8.
King's Mountain Military School opened
last Monday, with good prospects for the ensuing
session.
Mr. F. A. Gilbert's school for boys, also
opened on Monday with a fair attendance of
juveniles.
Prof. W. R. Jones is teaching in the Female
Institute building.
Mrs. W. B. Williams and Misses Edwards
and Miller are also conducting a school in the
Latta building. These two last-named schools
are aided by the public school fund.
HAD DEATH.
We regret to announce the death of Mr.
Francis T. White, a young gentleman of nineteen
years of age, which occurred at the residence
of Mr. J. Albertis Ratchford, two miles
south of town, at 8 o'clock P. M., on Tuesday
last. The deceased is a son of Mr. Matthew
White, of Chester county, and after suffering
from an attack of diabetes, was advised by
his physician to visit York, thinking his condition
would be improved by the change. But
so far from improving, he grew worse rapidly
until death ended his suffering. His remains
were taken to Chester yesterday for interment.
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TRAN8FERS OF REAL E8TATE.
The following transfers of real estate have
been recorded in the office of the County Auditor
since our last report:
W. H. Stewart to A. R. Banks. Lot in
Fort Mill Consideration $1,700.
W. A. Burns to M. F. Beattie and others.
Tract of 50 acres in Broad River township.
Consideration $255.
W. B. Metts to B. T. Wheeler. Tract of
119 acres in York township. Consideration
$2,600. Same to same. Lot in Yorkville.
Consideration $400.
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to J. A. L. M. Stewart.
Tract of 224 acres in Bethel township.
Consideration 81,062.
W. J. C. Roberts to E. and B. T. Turner.
Lot at Whitaker Station. Consideration $150,
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to Willis Brannon.
Tract of 136 acres in Cherokee township.
Consideration $68.
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to George Parker.
Tract of 65$ acres in Cherokee townsnip.
Consideration $32.62.
John B. Withers to L. E. Parish. Tract of
90 acres in York township. Consideration
$700.
S. E. White and others to Mrs. F. H. Brem.
Tract of 202 acres in Fort Mill township.
Consideration $2,100. ., ! .
T. M. Dobson to J. W. Dobson. Undivided
interest in tract of land in York township.
Consideration $500.
Mrs. Ann White to Town Council of Bock
Hill. Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration 825.
Industrial Association of Rock Hill to Ivy
& Fewell. Tract of 102$ acres in Catawba
township. Consideration $410.
J. Nicholas Jackson to Eliza Jane Greene.
Tract of 50 acres in Catawba township. Consideration
$300.
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to John J. Ash. Tract
of 118 acres in Bethesda township. Consideration
$515.
John S. Bratton to Wylie A. Wyatt. Tract
of 75 acres in Bethesda township. Consideration
$800.
John S. Bratton to H. J. Dunlap. Lot in
Yorkville. Consideration 81,000.
J. W. Thomas to W. C. Thomas. Undivided
interest in tract of land. Consideration
$112.
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to F. H. Barber. Lot
in Rock Hill. Consideration $2,035.
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to B. F. Massey.
Tract of 405 acres in Fort Mill township.
Consideration $1,560.
R. W. Workman to Ivy & Fewell. Tract
of 00$ acres in Catawba township. Consideration
$333.75.
Mrs. Ann White to Mrs. J. D. Smith. Lot
of 0 acres in Rock Hill. Consideration $512.34.
Cynthia E. McCreight to Eliza Fulwood.
Tract of 60 acres in Fort Mill township.
Consideration $600.
J. F. Wallace, Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas, to A. Haffner and others. Tract
007 uorfm in Bnllnek's Creek townshiu.
Consideration 8681.
R. B. McFadden to J. Hartwell Edwards
and others. Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration
8180.
HERE-MENTION.
Another crisis in the government of France,
though happily without a revolution. McMahon
has resigned and M. Grevy, a moderate
Republican, has been elected President of
the French nation. The largest demand
for the new silver dollars during the first half
of the past month, came from Charleston, S.
C.?$12,000. The next largest was from Columbus,
Ga.?$10,000. No other city took
more than $5,000. The Legislature of
Louisiana has elected B. F. Jonas to succeed
Eustis in the United States Senate. Jonas is
a Democrat. The Virginia Senate has
refused, by a very decided majority, to repeal
the whipping post law, taking the ground that
a great saving of expense has occurred and
there has been a very notable decrease of petty
thefts. Georgia has about seven regiments
of colored militia subject to duty for
domestic defense. A resolution has been
offered in the Florida Legislature instructing
the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the
expediency of appointing Presidential electors'
by the Legislature.
Wm. Barnes, recently convicted at Frenchi
burg, Ky., of the murder of Thomas Stephens,
in March last, has been sentenced to imprisonment
in the penitentiary for ninety-nine
years. Barnes is said# to be a reckless desperado.
Governor Marks, of Tennessee,
gives point to his message on the reduction of
State expenses, by relinquishing $1,000 of his
own salary. The statement for January,
shows a decrease in the public debt of $2,751,980.66.
The Secretary of the treasury
has issued another call for twenty million 5.20
bonds. The directors of the Bank of
Glasgow, which failed some time ago, have
been sentenced to imprisonment for periods
ranging from eight to eighteen months. They
were convicted of fraud, theft apd embezzlement,
and uttering false abstracts of balance
sheets.
4 4- - Correspondence
of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, S. C., February 4.
The graded school system, but recently inaugurated
in Chester, bids fair to prove an
entire success I learn from Prof. W. H.
Witherow, principal of the white school, t tat
it now numbers 114 pupils. The academy
building has been repaired and furnished
with seats, desks, etc., for the pupils, and altogether
it will prove a very suitable house
for the purposes of the school. Another male
teacher will soon be added to the corpe of instructors.
The colored graded school, under the management
of the Rev. S. Loom is, is also in
successful and satisfactory operation.
I learn that the loss sustained by Davega
& Howze, by the recent fire, has been satisfactorily
adjusted. They were insured in different
companies, and the promptness with
which the companies met the loss has given
quite an impetus to the insurance business in
our town.
There have recently been some transactions
in real estate, in the county, of sufficient importance
to demand notice. The large plantation,
three miles east of town, belonging to
the estate of Biggers Mobley, deceased, was
disposed of at private sale by the administrator
of the estate. One body, of 330 acres,
seutb-of the Lancaster-rued, was -bought by
Wylie & Agurs. The homestead, including
590 acres;-was purchased by Mr. A. Triplett
for ?4,500. Another tract of 580 acres was
bought by Mr. Hamilton McCandless for $2,500.
At the close of the war, Mr. Triplett
was a man of limited means j but by indusity
and economy, he is now the owner of about
1,800 acres of good land. Mr. McCandless
came here from Ireland, about ten years ago, .
avortinti llDB WnmA I hp nOR.
a 1114 ifj ma unu v*vi hum umw wwu-w - ?- j- ?
sessor of about 1,000 acres. Chester would
gladly welcome more such good citizens.
On Friday night last, the Methodist congregation
at Capers' Chapel, in the West
Chester circuit, gave a festival for the benefit
of the parsonage. Owing to the inclement
weather there was not as good attendance as
had been expected; though $70 was realized
by the entertainment, while a pleasant time
was enjoyed by all who were present
The "soap man" paid our town a visit the
other day. He sold soap and glass-cutters
and gave each purchaser a premium of ft
mocking bird whistle. He was himself ah
expert?a virtuoso, so to speak?on the magic
whistle, and to hear and see him blow the
instrument, it seemed as natural and easy as
fiddling. Consequently, he drew ft crowd,
sold much soap, and soon had a goodly number
of the irrepressible small boys to assist
him?with the whistle. The boys evidently
have a better opinion of the whistles than the
soap, and use them more extensively. ''
On Saturday there was a good attendanoe
of people in town from the country, and business
was brisk.
The farmers are progressing satisfactorily
with their arrangements for the coming crop;
though there seems to be much dissatisfaction
among them on account of the new rates at
which the standard fertilizers are to be sold.
Services were held in all the churches last
Sunday. ? The Associate Reformed congregation
still worship in the Court House, but expect
soou to occupy their new church.
Only one piece of property was sold by the
sheriff, yesterday?a tract of laud of 200
acres, levied on at the suit of Wylie & Agurs v
w. J. A. Waters. Bought by Wylie & Agurs
for $300.
After the sheriff's sale, a number of horses
and mules were sold at auction on the public
square, the prices obtained ruling low.
Am*...***- Vi/v?NMAn mad a ofnlan Ana
a uivJiig tllC UUJOCC tt no a otuiv/u vuv, nuivii
had been exchanged for another, the stolen
one having been taken in Union county. The
alleged thief was arrested and lodged in jail,
and the money be had received was secured
by the police.
The Globe Comedy Company gave a good
entertainment here last night, with Brennecke's
string band as orchestra. The performance
and music were both good and
highly enjoyed by the audience.;: vj .
i/ M;l/ Chester. ;
THE 30BTHERN METHODISTS. *
1 .
The South Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church (Northern) has
recently been in session at Greenville. The
proceedings are said to have been more of a
political than of an ecclesiastical character,
and the report of the "Committee on the
Scate of the Country," is characterized as the
"first campaign document for 1880." The
Greenville New, in regard to the report,
says:
It is entirely devoted to politics, prepared
in the kind of language to reach and have
effect with the colored race, and calculated to ?
do more mischief among the negroes: than the
speeches of a score of Radical politicians.
It treats of 'fraud and intimidation, political
rights,' Ac., in a style characteristic of adven?
turers and demagogues. It was a prepared
paper, and intended for no other than political
purposes.
The speeches that were madeon the motion
to adopt this report, were of such a character
that if they had beeu delivered upon the
stump during the campaign, .they would have
been unhesitatingly denounced as incendiary
harangues. The chief, speaker was the Rev.
Dr. Webster, a well known carpet-bag politician
and mischief maker, whose mission since
he has been South, has been to set the blacks
and whites against each other, and by lying
letters to Northern religious prpers, to keep
alive the embers of sectional hate. This reverend
hypocrite gave full vent to his spleen.
He began at slavery times and brought up
events to the present day. He gloried in the
Federal Union, in the Federal flag; and
thanked his God that it now waves over Fort
Sumter. He spoke of the stealings, of political
parties, ana said the greatest and moat
masterly steal of all was when the Stars and
Stripes were taken from Fort Sumter and the*v
flag of the Confederacy placed in its stead.
He spoke of frauds and intimidation in the
elections of this State, and asserted that his
tale was true about his old colored brother refusing
83,000 to vote the other way. In short,
he made a capital campaign harangue, as biti
J _ J* A! ... J* i.j ' n i*
ter aau vmuicuve as ever disgraced a Radical
raeetiug. ' u
Webster was followed by a negro preacher
named Berkely,and when he got through, the
Conference was in a state of such wild excite*
ment, and the disorder became so shameful,
that the Bishop, Jesse T. Peck, a respectable
Northern clergyman, who was presiding, could
stand it no longer, and with a wave of his
hand commanded them to their seats, and let
them know very abruptly that it was not a po- 4
litical meeting, and he would have no more
of it
In this connection, the following in regard
to this branch of the Methodist Church, may
be of interest to some of our readers:
When the Methodist Episcopal Church of
the United States was riven in twain by the
Slavery question, all the congregations in this
State joined the Southern division, which
adopted the title of Methodist Episcopal
Church South, while the Northern division
retained the old name of Methodist Episcopal
Church. Until the close of the War of
Secession, therefore, there was no Methodist
Episcopal Church, so called, in this State.
With the Federal army, however, came the
emissaries of that religious body, and soon
took possession of the colored congregations