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Jtoaps and partis.
? The New York city General Sessions'
Grand Jury made a report, Wednesday afternoon,
declaring that the most of the crimes
that come under their supervision were
caused by intoxicating liquors.
? There was never but one duel fought in
Illinois. One of the belligerents was killed
on the field. The survivor was tried for murder,
was convicted and hanged by the neck
until he was quite dead.
? A rumor comes from Paris that bonnets
are to be worn on the head hereafter. It
strikes us the head would be a good place on
which to wear a bonnet, but such a departure
will look a little odd at first
? Mormonism still continues to gain a few
converts, mainly from benighted Europe,
where the real character of the institution is
not understood. One hundred and thirty
eight converts landed in New York on Thursday
last. j They were in charge of Elder Pratt
and at once left for Salt Lake City.
? Over 300 colored refugees from the South
arrived at Atchkison, Kansas, last Friday, all
destitute. They were housed in the colored
churches. Citizens have temporarily aided
them, but all unite in saying that great suffering
must result if this migration of totally
destitute people does not stop.
? The rice fields on the Cape Fear River,
near Wilmington, which have lain idle and
grown up with weeds since the war, have
been reclaimed and planted this season by
several energetic parties, who expect to raise
at least 200,000 bushels of rice in the next
five years.
? A contemporary has been asked, "Can a
man belong to a brass band and be a Christian
?" It replies: "We see no impediment
in the way. But if he is a member of a
brass band, and is given to practicing on a
cornet or a trombone at home, it is an impossibility
for the man living next door to be a
Christian."
? One day last week, the House of the
Pennsylvania legislature adopted a resolution,
by a strict party vote, authorizing the apSiintment
of a joint committee to welcome
rant upon his arrival in this country, in the
Dame of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
provided there shall be no expense to the
State. On Friday last, Grant was at Hong
Kong, China.
? The Missouri State central committee, in
session at Jefferson City, last Thursday
night, adopted resolutions approving President
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favoring a thorough organization of the Republican
party throughout the State, and
declaring Grant their choice for President in
1880. No time was fixed for holding the
State convention. *
? There is one Democrat whom Zachariah
Chandler always treats with marked respect
That is Senator Voorhees. Reason : In the
dining-room of the Kirkwood House, Washington,
a good many years ago, Zachariah
ventured to refer to Voorhees as a traitor and
copperhead. Whereupon Daniel hoisted a
pitcher full of milk and sprawled him. The
landlord was kind enough not to charge
either for the pitcher or the milk.
? So far as is known, no genuine case of
hydrophobia has ever yet been cured in this
country. A correspondent of the New York
Herald asserts that a discoverv of a cure for
the fearful malady has been made in Russia,
the remedy being pure oxygen. A little
Russian girl was recently attacked by the
disease and the physicians thereupon made
her inhale three cubic feet of oxygen. In the
course of an hour and a half all the symptoms
disappeared and- the child remained
calm. On the next day but one, the malady
returned in all its distressing characteristics.
A fresh inhalation of oxygen was tried, and
at the end of forty-five minutes the attack
subsided and never returned.
? A man, calling himself Charles H. Pendleton,
of New Haven, Ct., recently arrived
in San Francisco, having traveled by palace
car from the Atlantic to the Pacific without
paying a cent for passage. The feat was accomplished
on a wager of $10,000, and by
means of a hammock, which was slung crosswise
between the rods which run under the
palace cars. The hammock had stays to keep
it from swinging and a contrivance to haul it
and its occupant close up to the bottom of the
car whenever the train stopped, in order to
escape observation. The hammock was lined
with oilskin, and another oilskin, with a veil
attached to keep the dust from the face of the
traveler, covered the top. On the brakerods
and other convenient places were hung
canned meats, &e., upon which the adventurer
subsisted during his journey.
? A remarkable departure seems about to
be undertaken by the Jews of the United
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brew congregations at Cincinnati last summer,
a committee was appointed to consider the
subject of colonization, and this committee
has reported that, in their opinion, tue true
emancipation of Jews consists in the greater
infusion of a spirit of manhood and self-dependence,
which can best be ddBfe by encouraging
the millions of Israelites dwelling in
Eastern and Southern Europe to become farmers
and mechanics. The committee points
to the broad, free acres of the West, ready
to yield untold wealth, and impart to millions
of Jews that spirit of true independence
that the owner and tiller of the soil always
enjoys. The Jew, as "a farmer, is truly a
unique idea in these modern days, and yet it
is but a return to the life and work of the
forefathers in the golden days .of the race;
and there seems no reason to doubt that the
shrewd business tact that is proverbially attributed
to this people, and their remarkable
success under the weight of the persecution
of ages, may be displayed as brilliantly in agricultural
pursuits as in other fields.
? The faith which the backers of Keely
continue to manifest in the "new motor," is one
of the remarkable features of the times.
Though several groups of scientific men have
examined the alleged motor and have pronounced
it a deception and a delusion, business
men, sensible and careful, are still found
ready to put up the money for him to complete
his experiments. Like Mr. Edison's
electric light, it is always nearly completed,
and awaits only a connectfng link or linch-pin
or something of the kind for complete success.
The world is thus kept hanging on the
verge of a great event whicn is to revolutionize
things, and thus year after year it continues
to hang. Keely has indeed demonstrated
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trol?compressed air some scientists said it
was, an explosive agent others said?but there
are difficulties about accepting either of these
hypotheses, and no satisfactory explanation
has been made of the "Keely fraud." It is
now announced that the Keely power has
been harnessed up to a vibratory engine and
that it had a prodigious working power, perfectly
under control. Mr. Keely is at work at
present busy "focalizing the machine." What
that means is one of those things no fellow
can find out; but it probably means that
another loan is about to be called for by the
inventor.
? A correspondent throws considerable light
upon what has been well called "the mysterious
exodus" of the negroes of Louisiana to
Kansas. Mysterious it has been, and more
so for the reason that scores of conflicting
explanations have been given of the sudden
and unannounced movement of hundreds of
persons from one part of the country, where
they were settled and at work, to another,
remote, unknown to them. Letters from Louisiana
state that the instigators of the hegira
were in all probability agents of land and
railroad companies in Kansas. That the
etories told to induce the negroes to leave the
State for a new country were ever believed
by them is almost incredible; but the negroes
of Louisiana and Mississippi are the
very ones to be so imposed upon. Even
though ill treatment and injustice from the
whites make a change desirable, such a blind
rush in the dark as is now being made, is
greatly to be deplored. And the men at
whose doors the lies told are laid, deserve
more than censure. Among the stories manufactured
by them are the following: The
government is to give the negroes lands and
mules, &c., when they get to Kansas; the
government will not allow them to remain
in Louisiana, but at the end of eighteen
months will send Indians to kill those who
remain; the Queen of Spain has bought all
the lands along the Southern Mississippi, and
will slaughter them if they do not clear out,
Ac., Ac. In addition to this, gorgeously illuminated
chromos have been distributed
among them with the most glowing descriptions
of life in the West Where words fail
to convince, the chromos do the business.
YORKFIL.LE, S. C. s
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1879.
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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
On the 29th, both Houses of Congress
adjourned, soon after assembling, in respect
to the memory of the late Representative
Clarke.
In the Senate on the 30th, the considera*
tion of the House bill providing for certain
expenses of the present , session and for other
purposes, was resumed, the pending question
being whether it was in order to amend as
proposed by the Plumb appropriation of
$136,000 to pay mileage for the present session.
The bill providing for the expenses of
the Senate passed, after which the health bill
was discussed at considerable length.
In the House, immediately after the reading
of the journal, the Speaker presented to
the House the veto message of the President
upon the army bill, and it was read by the
Clerk. Little or no attention was paid to
the reading by members on either side of the
House. On the conclusion of the reading of
the message, Mr. Sparks offered the following:
Ordered that the message of the President,
just read, be entered at length on the journal
as required by the Constitution of the United
States, and that the House will to morrow
proceed to consider said message and thereafter
to reconsider the bill making an appropriation
for the support of the army for the
fiscal year ending June 20th, 1880, and that
said message be printed. Adopted. The
House adopted an order for entering the veto
message on the journal, and for its consideratiuu
to morruTT.
In the Senate on the 1st instant, the only
matter considered was the bill to prevent the
introduction of contagious or infectious diseases
into the United States.
In the House, the question came up as
unfinished business of the previous day on the
postponement until Saturday of the bill reported
from the Coinage Committee, amending
the statutes relating to coinage and gold
and silver bullion certificates. Pending the
question was an ordering of the main question
on the resolution postponing the consideration
of the bill relating to coinage and
certificates, and it was ordered?yeas 115,
nays 107. The resolution was then adopted.
Mr Rnnrta nf Tllinnis called nn the order
made yesterday to reconsider the army appropriation
bill, and the House voted upon the
question whether, upon reconsideration, the
House will pass the bill, notwithstanding the
objections of the President. No debate was
permitted upon the motion. The House refused
to pass the army appropriation bill
over the President's veto, the vote standing
yeas 120, nays 110?not the necessary twothirds
in the affirmative. It was strictly a
party vote. Only three of the Greenbackers
voted for the bill; nine voting against it.
In the Senate on the 2nd, Mr. Johnston,
of Virginia, introduced a bill amendatory of
the Texas Pacific Railway act, so as to take
some of the lands granted to it and vest them
in the Southern Pacific Railway Company,
and providing for a junction of the two
roads at El Paso, etc. Referred to the committee
on railways. The pending business
was announced as being the resolution of the
committee on privileges and elections to investigate
the fclaim of Spofford to Kellogg's
seat. Hoar offered a substitute declaring that
the former action of the Senate seating Kellogg,
was final and conclusive on the subject.
The Kellogg-Spofford contest went over with
the expiration of the morning hour. The
health bill was further considered.
The House was not in session.
In the House on the 3rd, the consideration
of the bill reported from the coinage committee,
amending the statutes relating to
coinage and coin and bullion certificates, was
resumed. Warner, of Ohio, offered an amendment
providing that gold and silver bullion,
which shall become the property of the government
6y the return of certificates to the
treasury in payment of dues thereto, shall be
coined and paid out the same as other money.
He made an argument in support of his substitute,
after which Claflin, of Massachusetts,
obtained the floor and the House adiourned.
whereuDon a Democratic caucus was !
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announced to be held forthwith.
In the Senate on the 5th, the consideration
of the bill to prevent the introduction
of contagious or infectious diseases was resumed
and recommitted in order to be amended.
The bill to extend the time for special I
postal service was passed. Eaton introduced ;
a bill similar to the one in the House, to pro-j
hibit military interference at the elections,
which was referred to the judiciary committee. '
In the House, under the call of the States,
the following bill was introduced and refer- j
ed: By Ladd, of Maine, to prohibit military
interference at elections?referred to the committee
on the judiciary. The following is
the text of the bill: "Whereas, The presencf
of troops at the polls is contrary to the spirit
of our people, and tends to destroy the freedom
of elections; therefore, be it enacted, ticc.,
That it shall not be lawful to bring to or employ
at any place where a general or special
election is being held, in a State, any part of
the array or navy of the United States, un-'
Jess such force be necessary to repel the arm- j
ed enemies of the United States or-to enforce ,
section 4, article 4, of the constitution of
the United States, and laws made in pursuance
thereof, on application of the Legislature
or Executive of the State where such
force is to be used; and so much of all laws as
is inconsistent herewith, is hereby repealed."
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The State treasurer disbursed nearly $87,000
during the month of April.
? Rock Hiil has contributed upwards of
one hundred dollars for the Walterboro sufferers.
? The Register says there is a rose bush in
Columbia which ceased to bloom when Sherman
burned the city, and never bloomed
again until Hamptou was declared Governor.
? Mr. Daniel Horlbeck has resigned bis
position as clerk of the United States District
Court. Mr. E. M. Seabrook, it is said, will
succeed mm.
? Fifteen car loads of tobacco passed
through Columbia last Saturday, on the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad, on
their way to Savannah aud other Southern
cities, the cause of the large shipment being
the reduction of the tobacco tax.
? Dr. Thomas L. Johnston, brother of Col.
Win. Johnston, of Charlotte, N. C., died at
his home in Rock Hill, last Friday morning.
He had been in feeble health for some time,
but his death was sudden aud unexpected.
Dr. Johnston was well known and much esteemed
in the community, and his death will
be sincerely regretted. He was about fifty-six
years of age.
? Next Tuesday promises to be an eventful
day in Columbia, the occasion being the unveiling
of the Confederate Monument, erected
by the Ladies' Monumental Association.
Among the distinguished persons invited was
.Toflforsnn Davia thniicrh Vio writes that nir
cumstances will deprive him of the pleasure
of attending. Military companies from various
parts of the State, including Winnsboro,
Chester, Ninety-Six, Newberry, Greenville
and other points, will be present, while
the attendance of citizens from all parts of
the State, promises to be large.
? The General Assembly, at the last sessi&n,
having, by concurrent resolution, required the
Attorney-General to thoroughly investigate
the charges against the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad Company of violations
of their charter in the matter of freight
charges and other important particulars, and
also the charges against the said company of
habitually obstructing and continuing to obstruct
free transportation of freights from
their track to the track of the South Carolina
Railroad Company, the Attorney-General requests
all persons having information or evidence
in their possession pertaining to said
charges, to furnish him with written statements
thereof at once.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Gen. Johnstone Jones is to deliver the
memorial address in Morganton.
? The grading of the Chester and Lenoir
Railroad was finished to Hickory last Friday
evening.
? The city election in Charlotte, last Monday,
resulted in the choice of Frank I. Osr
borne for Mayor.
? Sallie Michael, who made the pipes of
that celebrated brand, died near Morganton
last week, in the 87th year of her age.
? Hon. Clinton L. Cobb, a prominent Republican
politician, who represented the first
Congressional district in Cougiess, during the
41st, 42nd and 43rd Congresses, died in Elizabeth
City on Wednesday of last week.
? Saturday last several hundred negroes
met in Weldon to discuss the question of going
to Kansas. Several speeches were made
pro and con, and a committee appointed to
ascertain particulars and report.
? Burke and McDowell county jails are to
give lodgings for a year to twenty illicit
whisky distillers and tobacco blockaders who
were convicted before Judge Dick at the
recent term of the Federal Court in Statesville.
? Walter F. Leak, Esq., of Richmond
county, a prominent lawyer> and long identified
with the political history of the State,
died at his residence in Rockingham on Monday
of last week, aged 80 years. He was a
Democrat of the old school.
? The superintendent of the work says that
he will, in four weeks time, have the Western
North Carolina Railroad completed six miles
west of Swannanoa, when he will transfer
passengers over the gap and land them within
twelve miles of Asheville.
? James McCrary, father of the Secretary
of War, writes to the Statesville American to
say that he is a native of Iredell county, N.
C., whence he emigrated at the age of 9 years
with his father, who first settled in Tennessee,
and afterwards in Indiana. The father
of the Secretary married a Kentucky lady.
? Says the Lincoln Progress: Peter Eaves,
alias Peter McCoy, who was sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary for the larceny of
money at the last fall terra of our court, stabbed
and instantly killed a brother convict on
the Chester and Lenoir Railroad near Hickory,
last week. Eaves and his victim are
both colored.
? The Charlotte Observer of yesterday says
that on Tuesday morning, Mr. Christian K.
Ross, father of the long-lost Charley Ross,
arrived at Charlotte in company with another
gentleman, who were on their way to Lenoir,
in Caldwell county, Mr. Ro98 having
received information which leads him to believe
that his son is in or near that town.
? Says the Asheville Citizen: Cherokee
Court, which was recently held, Judge Gudger
presiding, tried two capital cases; one, a
negro named Thompson, charged with killing
another negro, was convicted of manslaughter
Mra Raphael Michael. indicted for kill
ing James Ross, was declared guilty by the
jury, and the judge sentenced her to be hanged
on the 13th of June. An appeal was taken
to the Supreme Court.
? Dr. S. B. Tray wick, dentist, wasfounddead
in his office in Monroe on Tuesday morning
of last week. He complained of being unwell
the previous afternoon, and lay down on
a lounge to rest, where his son left him. It is
supposed that he died before dark on Monday
evening, as his spectacles were found on
his nose and an open book near him, as if he
had been reading, but no lamp had been
lighted. He was Dot discovered dead until j
about 7 o'clock Tuesday morning. Dr. Tray-1
wick was about 55 years old, and leaves a
family and many friends to mourn his death.
? The Charlotte Observer of Saturday says:
Mr. W. M. Russ, of the agricultural department,
came to the city yesterday morning
with two hundred and fifty thousand young
fish, which were designed for distribution in
streams and ponds along the Air Line Rail- y
road. On arriving at the depot here, the wa/
ter in the cans in which the fish were trans\
ported was changed, and a few hours after-;
wards an examination showe'd that every fish <
in the cans was dead. This water was taken
from the well at the depot, and so far as
known is as pure as any in the city. The ;
cause of the death of the fish is a mystery. I
ZiOCAX. AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
J. F. Wallace, C. C. C. Pleas?Clerk's Sale.
T. M. Dobson, Leader of Low Cash Prices?New
Goods.
Mrs. Fannie L. Dobson?Tbe Emporium of
Fashion Still Ahead.
Hunter <fe Oates?Clothing.
John C. Kuykendal?York Drug Store Paragraphs.
John Bill Worthy, Carmel Hill, S. C.?Ranaway.
R. Lathan, School Commissioner?'Teachers' Convention.
Andrew Jackson, Judge of Probate?Citation?
J. F. Wallace, C. C. C., Applicant?Mrs. E.
S. Dunlap, Isaac L. Dunlap and Rufus J.
Dunlap, deceased
R. H. Glenn, 8. Y. C.?Sheriff's Saleo.
GREEN PEAS.
Mrs. Louisa Merritt has favored us with a
mess of green peas, gathered in her garden
yesterday?the first of the season.
TAX COLLECTIONS.
Treasurer Robertson is now engaged collecting
the May installment of the State and
county taxes. He informs us that the payments
are quite light.
CONGRESSIONAL FAVOlftS.
We are indebted to Senator Butler and Representative
Evins for continued Congressional
favors. Hon. Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, will
also accept our thauks -for a pamphlet copy of
his speech in the House of Representatives,
April 25 and 26, on the Legislative appropriation
bill.
TEMPERANCE ADDRESS.
Under the auspices of the Lodge" of Good
Templars of this place, Rev. A. H. Lester, of
the South Carolina Conference, will deliver a
temperance address in the Court House on
Friday evening^ 16th insjtant, at o'clock.
The lecture will be free, and an earnest invitation
is extended to the public generally.
AGENTS FOR THE ENQUIRER.
The following namdd persons are authorized
to receive the names of subscribers to the Enquirer
and give receipts on payment of subscriptions
:
T. Gid Culp, Esq.,.. Fort Mill, 8. C.
George T. Schorb, Chester, 8. C.
Capt. Ed. M. Mills,. Rock Hill, 8. C.
Joshua D. Gwinn, Esq., Clover, 8. C.
W. D. Simpson, Blackstocks, S. C.
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A A A U VH VI SJ
There is no doubi but nearly, if not all the
fruit in this section was killed by the frosts.
There was heavy irost last Friday morning,
which cut the growing corn down to the ground.
Cotton is beginning to come up, and., excepting
in a few localities, escaped the frost. "VVe
have heard of some early planted cotton that
was up sufficiently to be injured. Generally,
the cotton crop in the county is promising.
Wheat is also promising at this time, having
been but slightly injured by the frost.
THE GODDTEMPLARIi.
At the last regula r meeting of Eureka Lodge,
Good Templars, the following officers were installed
for the ensuing quarter: A. Springs
Withers, W. C. T.; Miss Annie Jefferys, W.
li. H. S.; Miss Hattie Lewis, W. L. JET. S.;
Miss Hannah E. G :ist, W. V. T.; A. W. Ingold,
W. S.; Miss Alice Owen, W. A. 8.; H.
H. Beard, W. F. S.; L. George Grist, W. T.;
F. A. Gilbert, W. C\; John May, W. M.; Miss
Lizzie Hope, W. D. M.; G. M. Lovnrance, W.
/. ?. ; J. M. Hope, W. 0. 0.
PERSONAL.
We were pleased to receive a call, last Friday.
from Mr. Fred. H. Marks, formerly con
nected with the Columbia Register, as one of
the original founders and proprietors of that
paper. Mr. Marks is now traveling for the
house of C. C. Habenicht, 'of Columbia, successor
to John C. fiegeers, and with the commendable
object of affording our citizens the
facilities for keeping cool during the approaching
summer, solicited engagements for supplying
them with ice, of which the house he
represents now has 600 tons stored in Columbia,
ready for delivery. .
THE ACCIDEPITTQ Mr. CARROLL.
We regret tg record that Mr. J. E. Carroll,
son of J. Alf. Can oil of this place, met with
a severe accident during the Railroad excursion
last Thursday. By some means he got
between two cars, and though they were running
at slow speed, he was severely bruised
on the legs, and so seriously hurt that he
could not be brought on home that afternoon,
but was left at the Waddeli House, where he
received proper attention. On the arrival of
the train here with intelligence of the accident,
Mrs. Carroll, with a mother's true devotion,
engaged a hand-car, and taking Dr. Jackson
with her, proceeded to Gastonia to administer
to the wants of her wounded son. He was
brought home on the train next morning, and
will be confined to his bed for several weeks.
Fortunately, he sustained no internal injuries.
PICNICS.
The picnic season was fairly inaugurated
last week?first, on Thursday, by the excursion
under the auspices of the Lee Ligljt Infantry,
on the Chester and Lenoir Railroad,
an account of which is given by our Chester
correspondent.
On the next day the teachers and pupils of
the public school taught by Mrs. Williams
and Misses Miller and Edwards, gave a picnic
on the grounds near Mrs. O'Leary's spring, in
the northern suburbs of town, to which a
large number of ladies and gentleman, including
the faculty and cadets of King's Mountain
Military School, were invited. The day was
?\l/\non*t41ir Kir all
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On Saturday an excursion train, well laden
with pleasure-seekers, young and old, of both
sexes, was run from this place to Pleasant
Ridge and thence to Gastonia, and all who
went report that they made an enjoyable trip.
SALES-DAY.
The only property offered on Monday last,
sales-day for May, was the land belonging to
the estate of James Brian, deceased, sold by
the Clerk of the Court, in pursuance to a decretal
order of Judge Pressley. The land
was divided into eight tracts, and sold as follows
:
Tract No. 1, (Home place) 304 acres, bought
by I. D. Witherspoon &t $6 per acre.
Tract No. 2,103 acres, bought by William
Dobson, at $4.40 per acre.
Tract No. 3, not soldi f
Tract No. 4, 122 acres, bought by Jolm Dulin
at $3.85 per acre.
Tract No. 5, 117 acre$ bought by C. E.
Spencer at $6.75 per acre. *
Tract No. 6, 152 acres, bought by M. L.
Thomasson at $4.60 per acre.
Tract No. 7, 186 acres, bought by C. E.
Spencer at $6.95 per acre.
Tract No. 8, 316 acres, bought by J. W. P.
Hope at $5 per acre.
TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.
The following transfers of real estate have
been recorded in the office of the County Auditor
since our last report:
Andrew Jacksop, Probate Judge, to Wm. S.
Belk. Tract of land in Fort Mill township.
Consideration $490.
Wm. F. Dye to J. N. McDill. Tr.act of 552
acres in .Bullock's Creek townsmp. uonsiuer-1
ation ?3,000.
J. M. Morrow to It. II. Morrow. Tract of
00 acres in Broad River township; Consideration
$210.
J. B. Poag to R. E. Guthrie. Tract of 88
acres in Bethesda township. Consideration
$900.
George R. "Wallace to Alexander Strain.
Tract of 40 acres in York township. Consideration
$480.
Jane L. Boleyn to A. P. Campbell. Tract
of 73 acres in King's Mountain township.
Consideration $140.
J. T. McMakin to A. P. Campbell. Tract
of 100 acres in King's Mountain township.
.Consideration $000.
Emily E. Wright, Executrix, to Henry F.>
Johnson. Tract of 100 acres in Ebenezer
township. Consideration $*2,200. Thomas
L. Johnson to Jane P. Means. Lot
in Rock Ilill. Consideration $02.50.
I. and A. Jones to John Rattaree. Lot of
0? acres in Catawba township. Consideration
$05.
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to F. M. Walker.
Tract of 300 acres in King's Mountain township.
Consideration 15487.50.
MERE-MENTION.
Mrs. Sarah J. B. Hale, who for half a century
was editress of Oodey's Lady's Book, died
in Philadelphia last week. Thirty eight
guns were fired in Chicago in tcken of approbation
of the President's veto of the army
appropriation bill. The wheat crop of
Georgia is reported as generally in a flourishing
condition. An agent of Henry
Ward Beecher has arranged for. the noted
preacher to lecture in Atlanta, Ga., at an
early day. The trial #of Buford, the
Kentucky Judge killer, has been continued to
the third Monday in this month, on account
of the absence of important witnesses. A
Kansas paper raises the names of Senator
Davis and Alex. Stephens for the next presidential
ticket, and Bays it would support them
through thick and thin. Physically, Mr. Da
vis is the largest, and Mr. Stevens the smallest
man prominently in political life. Forty-nine
failures were reported in New York
during the month of April, in which the total
liabilities amounted to $1,119,883, and the estimated
assets $663,121." New Orleans
has got rid of a half a million of its debt by
going quietly into the market and buying up
its bonds in small quantities at 25 cents on
the dollar. The circumference of the
head of Hon. A. H. Stephens is 221 inches,
while that of his body is 241. His weight is
75 pounds.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Practice ts. Precept.
(3. McK., the Washington correspon
dent of the Neves and Courier, in a recent
letter, makes the following significant contrast
between the way that Hampton and Blaine
treat colored office seekers at the National
Capitol:
A colored Republican from Columbia has
been given a profitable position in the capitol
building upon Senator Hampton's recommendation.
A colored Republican from Portland,
Maine, informed me only last night that when
he applied f.o Blaine, a few mouths ago, for a
similar recommendation, which would have
secured him a place, Blaine reminded him
that "the ijolored people have no political
strength in Maine!" and recommended him
to stick to t is trade. The appointee in this
instance was a classmate of Prof. Greener in
a Boston high school, and scored seventythree
upon a civil service examination in
Washington before he applied to his Senator.
Senator Hampton's applicant confessed, itf
a manly way, that he had always voted the
Republican ticket in South Carolina, and got
his appointment nevertheless. He says that
he intends to write home to his colored friends
tnat "ine JJemocrats nave acne more lor
him already than the Republicans did during
the whole time they were in power." Senator
Hampton has obtained the disposal of
four or five other appointments of laborers
about the capital, which he proposes to distribute
among deserving co lored men from
South Carolina.
Horrible Deed of a Religions Fanatic.
New England just now is greatly agitated
over the insane freak of a religious fanatic,
at Pocassett, Mass., who last Thursday
killed his 6ve year old daughter as a
sacrifice to God. The name of the frenzied
murderer is C. J. Freeman. He is a Second
Adventist, and has become greatly excited
during the last few days, while attending a
series of revival meetings. A week before
the commission of the deed, he claimed to
have received a "wonderful revelation," and
has not eaten or slept since. He says the
Lord directed him to sacrifice his little
daughter, and after putting the innocent child
to death, declared it would rise again in three
days.
The child was stabbed with a knife by her
insane father, and her blood was poured out
on a table, which was improvised as an altar.
Freeman is a mail carrier, and after killing
his child, went in the pursuit of his business
as usual, showing no signs of insanity. He is
insane only on the one subject of adventisra.
He and his wife have been arrested and
committed to jail. Neither one expressed
anxiety or regret at the commission of the
act. While on the railroad train on the way
to prison, Freeman addressed the passengers
loudly, reiterating bis convictiou that he had
obeyed the divine mandate, his wife seconding
him, and both expressed no concern as to
the future.
Democratic Congressmen and the Veto.
The House Democratic caucus committee
met last Saturday morning, and it is
understood agreed upon a measure to be
submitted to the caucus, if concurred in by
the Senate committee, which under the title
of "A bill to prevent military interference
at the polls," consists of the sixth section of
the vetoed army appropriation bill, with' the
words "civil officers" stricken out and a proviso
added that nothing in the bill shall be
construed as preventing the use of the army
to enforce processes of the United States
Courts or to put down resistance against the
United States by armed men.
It was also agreed that all*consideration of
the remainder of the bill shall be deferred
until this independent political measure shall
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will provide in substance that sections 2002
and 2003, revised statutes, shall not be construed
as authorizing the presence of United
States soldiers at thB polls, except under
orders of the President to repeal armed enemies
of the United States, or in pursuance of
the constitutional requirements upon the application
of the Legislature of a State or of a
Governor when the Legislature cannot be
convened to repress domestic violence.
The action taken by the caucus is substantially
in accordance with an amended report
previously presented by the committee
to whom the whole project had been recommitted.
The proceedings are said to have
been characterized by a spirit of harmony
and good feeling.
The Kentucky Democracy.
The Democratic State Convention of
Kentucky met in Louisville on the 1st instant.
It nominates for Governor, Dr. Luke
P. Blackburn: Lieutenant Governor, James
E. Cantrell; Attorney-General, P. W. Harding
; Auditor, Fayette Hewitt. The committee
on resolutions reported the following,
which was unanimously adopted :
"The Democracy of Kentucky, in convention
assembled, re-affirm their attachment to
the constitution of the United States and the
union of the States as the best guarantee for
the liberty of the people and their prosperity
and happiness. They rejoice in the fact that
it is in thefr power to recognize that all the
States are restored to their political autonomy.
They record their solemn protest that
the popular verdict at the polls has been revised
by the action of an electoral commission,
and they declare that while, in the interest
of peace, that result was acquiesced in,
yet it shall not be held as a precedent for future
violations of right and justice. Though
thus deprived of control of the executive
pewer in the administration of the Federal
government, they congratulate the people of
the country at large that the popular will,
expressed at the polls, has secured the suEremacy
of a Democratic majority in both
ouses of Congress. In the further expression
of our views we resolve that we have
viewed with intense interest the struggle between
the Congress of the United States and
the President, and contemplate with unfeigned
anxiety and condemnation the unprecedented
attitude assumed by the executive in
his message rejecting the supplies tendered by
the people for the support of the army upon
the wholesome condition that no military
force should be used at the elections.
"Resolved, That we hereby endorse the position
taken by our Senators and Representatives
in Congress in coupling with the appropriation
bills, now pending, a demand for the
redress of grievances by the repeal of existing
laws which tolerate the presence of soldiers
at the polls, the continuance of the test
oath as a condition for jury service, and the
employment of supervisors and deputy marshals
to control elections."
United States Jnrors' Test Oath.
The Supreme Court of the United
States, in the case of an appeal from the
Uuited States District Court of the northern
district of Florida, have rendered an impor
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tant opinion in reference 10 ine tesi-oam xor
jurors in the United States Courts. Judge
Strong alone dissented from the opinion of a
majority of the Court. The gist of this opinion
is that a juror cannot, under the constitution,
be required to answer the questions
which the United States district attorney is
empowered to ask him under section 820 of
the Revised Statutes. Justice Field, who delivered
the opinion of the court, said that he
went further than this, and considered the act
of Congress imposing the test-oath (Revised
Statutes, section 821) "is not only oppressive
and odious, and repugnant to the spirit of our
institutions, but is clearly unconstitutional
and void." In view of this' opinion, Judge
Bond, it is quite clear, will have to revise and
reconsider some of his recent decisions. The
following is a summary of the decision:
In the United States Supreme Court, April
28th, the case of George Burt vs. Maria M.
Ponjand, from the Circuit Court of Florida,
was affirmed. One of the assignments of error
in the court below was brought upon the
question of a juror's disqualification on account
of participation in the rebellion and
the constitutionality of the juror's test-oath
A/>t. Thin nourt hnfds in oninion. bv Justice
Miller, that a juror is no more obliged than a
witness is to state on oath, as to the condition
of qualification, his guilt or innocence of a
crime which would render him infamous.
Whether pardoned by the general amnesty or
not, the crime of treason is one which a ju
ror cannot be required to disclose in this
manner. If he be guilty, his challenger must
prove it by other competent testimony. In a
separate concurring opinion, Justice Field
gave his views as follows: "I agree with the
court that Juror Holmes ia this case could
not be required to answer questions put to
him, but I go further. I do not think that
the act of (Jongress which, by requiring the
test oath as to past conduct, excludes a great
majority of citizens of half the country from
the jury box, is valid. In my judgment, the
act is not only oppressive and odious, repugnant
to the spirit of our institutions, but is
clearly unconstitutional and void, as a war
measure to be enforced in insurgent States.
When dominated by national forces the act
could be sustained, hut after the war was
over, and the insurgent States were restored
to their normal and constitutional relations to
the Union, it was as much out of place and
inoperative as would be a law quartering a
soldier in every Southern man's house."
YETO OF THE ARMY BILL.
On the 29th ultimo, the President returned
the army appropriation bill to the House,
without affixing his signature, accompanied
by a message stating at length the reasons for
the veto. The following are the main points
of the message:
The President says that if the bill contained
no other provisions than those for the
support of the array it would receive his
prompt approval; but it includes further legislation
and involves questions of the gravest
character. He recites the Statute now in
force emhodied in Sections 2,002 and 5,528 of
the Revised Statutes, and says that the adoption
of the proposed amendment may be considered
in two aspects?first as it affects the
right of the United States Government to use
the military force to keep the peace at elections
; second, as it affects the right of the
Government, by civil authority, to protect
elections from violence and fraud. He then
quotes and calls attention to Sections 2,003,
5,529, 5,530, 5,5$I and 5,532 of the Revised
Statutes, and Section 15 of the army appropriation
bill, ,passed June 18, 1878, together
with remarks upon the purpose and effect of
the latter as stated in the speeches of the senators
and representatives who supported it.
From these laws, he says, it appears that
there can be no military interference with
elections, and that consequently there is no
nanoaoitu fn. fVio cnantmont nf Snotinn A nf
this bill! He tbeo calls attention to existing
laws for the prevention of discriminations on
account of race, color or previous condition
of servitude, and to punish fraud, violence
and intimidation at Federal elections, and
says: "These laws it is the duty of the executive
department of the Government to enforce.
The intent and effect of the sixth section
of this bill is to prohibit all civil officers
of the United States, under penalty of fine
and imprisonment, from employing any adequate
civil force for this purpose at the place
where their enforcement is most necessary,
namely, at places where congressional elections
are held. If the proposed legislation
should become law, there will be no power
vested in any officer of the Government to
protect from violence officers of the United
States engaged in the discharge of their duties.
Their rights and duties under the law
will remain, but the National Government
will be powerless to enforce its own statutes.
The States may employ both military and
civil power to keep the peace and to enforce
the laws at State elections. It is now proposed
to deny to the United States even the
necessary civil authority to protect the National
elections. No sufficient reason has
been given for this discrimination in favor of
State and against National authority."
VYitn regara to tne manner in wmcn a 10
sought to repeal the law authorizing the use
of troops at the polls, he says: "The object
aimed at is altogether foreign to the purpose
of an army appropriation bill. The practice
of tacking to appropriation bills measures
not pertinent to such bills did not prevail' until
more than forty years after the adoption
of the Constitution. It has become a practice
which all parties, when in power, have
adopted. Many abuses and great waste of
public money have in thjs way crept into appropriation
bills. The public opinion of the
country is against it. The States which have
recently adopted constitutions have generally
provided a remedy for the evil, by enacting
that no law shall contain more than one subject,
which shall be plainly expressed in its
title. The constitutions of more than half of
the States contain substantially this provision.
.The public welfare will be promoted in
many ways by a return to the early practice
of the government and to the true principle
of legislation, which requires that every,
measure shall stand or tall according to its
own merits."
He says: "This Congress has ample opportunity
and time to pass appropriation bills,
and also to enact any political measures which
may be determined upon in separate bills by
the usual and orderly methods of proceeding,
but the majority of both houses have deemed
it wise to adhere to the principle maintained
in the last Congress by the majority of the
House of Representatives, namely, that the
House of Representatives has the sole right
to originate bills for raising revenue, and
therefore, has the right to withhold appropriations,
upon which the existence of the government
may depend, unless the Senate andthe
President shall give their assent to an?
legislation which the House may see fit to attach
to appropriation bills. To establish this
principle is to make a radical, dangerous and
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unconstitutional change in the character of
our institutions. That the majority of the
Senate now concurs in the claim of the House
adds to the gravity of the situation, but does
not alter the question at issue. The new doctrine,
if maintained, will result in the consolidation
of unchecked and' despotic power in
the House of Representatives. A bare majority
of the House will become the government.
The Executive will no longer be what
the fraraere of the Constitution intended, an
equal and independent branch of the government.
The principle of this bill places, not
merely the Senate and Executive, but the Judiciary
also under the coercive dictation of
the House. The House alone will be the
judge of what constitutes a grievance, and also
of the means and measure of redress. An act
of Congress to protect elections is now the
grievance complained of. But the House
may, on the same principle, determine that p
treaty made by the President, witb the advice
and consent of the Senate, the nomination
or appointment to office, or decision or
opinion of the Supreme Court is a grievance,
and that the measure of redress is to withhold
the appropriations required for the support of
the offending branch of the Government.
Believing that this bill is a dangerous violation
of the spirit and meaning of the Constitution,
I am compelled to return it to the 0
House in which it originated without my approval."
CONGRESSMAN ETTNS ON THE YETO.
The Washington correspondent of the Newt
and Courier has been at the pains to interview
the South Carolina members of Congress
in regard to the present state of affairs
at the capital. The expressions of opinion > ^
are pminpntlv conservative. As our readers
are more directly interested in the views of
their Representative, Col. Evins, we quote in
full the report of his remarks:
He thinks a conservative course is the
wisest to be pursued, and indeed the only safe
one. The Democratic majority have done
all they could to.secure the repeal of the
odious Jaws in question. It was in the power
of the President to defeat their efforts, and
he has exerted that power. The responsibility
for the failure rests upon him and his
party alone, as the Democrats cannot pass the
measures in the face of their opposition.
We ought now to accept defeat gracefully
and pass tbe appropriation bills at once, without
the political riders. We ought even to
pass them first and then offer bills repealing
the obnoxious laws as separate measures.
This course would leave the Republicans
without excuse for their opposition, as we
would be acting in manifest and perfect good
faith and they could not say we were holding
back tbe appropriations by way of threat If
they refused at last to pass these measures we
could go before the country and let the people
decide upon them. I have no doubt as
to wbat their decision would be.
It is important for us to get these issues before
the country without affording any occasion
for having our motives so much as
doubted, and without tbe measures themselves
being entangled with any other ques- *
tion. They should be fairly and squarely presented
for judgment npon their merits alone.
By adopting wis course we would relieve ourselves
of any charge that we have used goercive
measures or questionable methods. We
should not allow ourselves, as Southern men,
to be diverted from what we think is the true
interest of the people, by any pleas of party
necessity on'the part of the Northern Democrats.
We are really the majority of the
Democratic party in each branch of Congress,
and will be held responsible for the legislation
of Congress. We have the right, therefore,
to dictate the policy to be punned. A ay
attempt to adjourn without passing the appropriation
bills will be considered revolutionary
by the country, and we cannot afford
to be put in that position. We have been betweeu
the upper and nether < millstones long;/*. >
enough. We are willing to do the voting ..
and allow the Northern Democrats to hold '
the offices; but we claim the right to shape
the policy of the party for which we must
and will be held responsible. What Conkling
said in his recent speech is true, that we ,
are the controlling power in both branches,and
while it may be very pleasant for Northern
politicians, seeking their preferment, to
keep up sectional strife, our interests demand
that we shall have a cessation of such strife.
Should we adjourn without providing the
means of carrying on the government, I believe
it would solidify the North as much as
did the firing upon Fort Sumter in 1861.
Our Northern Democratic friends might then
find the tide too strong for them, and leave
us in the lurch by seeking new alliances with
the National or Greenback party. We cannot
afford to take the risks which they can.
We cannot afford to play cat to their monkey
any longer. If there are any chestnuts to be
had they will get them?the burnt paws are
ours every time. They stand in a very different
position before the country from ours. It
is natural that the Northern men should look
upon us with distrust, coming as we do into
control of the government so soon after the
war, and we must learn to labor and to wait.
I do not mean that we should abandon this
struggle. We must renew it on every occasion
until we accomplish our purpose, out we
must confine ourselves to the use of regular
and constitutional methods.
It is in no sense a "back down" for us to
take this course. We have certainly pressed
the matter as far as we could. I' do not consider
that the party has been committed to
doing anything more than to exhaust all the
constitutional and parliamentary means to
secure the repeal of these laws. The declarations
of individual members of the party in
Congress that we would withhold the appropriation
in the event of a veto, binds no one
but those who made them. There has certainly
been no authoritative declaration of the kind,
and I fail to see how we have been committed
to such a course. True, the Republicans
have given this as our "programme," but it
will hardly be considered incumbent upon us
to stand up to their declarations as to what
we intend to do or not to do. .. '
The discussion has done a great deal of
good already by awakening the people to a ...
sense of the real danger we are in of having
legislation, which was the outgrowth of war,
established as precedents. We were bound
to protest against these measures as soon as
we came into power; we have done so and
have placed the Republican party and the
Executive on record as standing by bayonet
rule, packed juries and the use of all kinds of
partisan machinery to carry elections. We
would be unwise, indeed, to follow any course
now which would lose us this advantage of
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with material for an offensive campaign on
other grounds. We must be Circumspect,
and I think the present occasion furnishes us
with a needed opportunity of giving the lie
to all the fierce denunciations Which have
been delivered on the Republican side of the
House, and to show to the country that we
can be safely trusted with power. A further
resort to any questionable .means for securing
a repeal of
every jpffrpoie"~for which the Republicanshave
.labored throughout the whole discussion.
M*. Evins further explained that though
the Southern Democrats did not inaugurate
thie fight, they will be held responsible for all
the consequences, and should now act with
a regard to this fact. He agreed with Mr.
Bayard, he said, as to the passage of these
measures separately at the outset, until it was
urged (by Raudall and others) that by factious
opposition the Republicans could pre/
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/ventioe pasaage ui me measures ior moutns.
They (the Republicans) declared in their
Caucus that no legislation should be had except
the passage of th? appropriation bills
without any riders, and that they would shut
US up to that mode of passing these measures
'if we should attempt to pass them at all.
SENATOR HAMPTON
was engaged when the correspondent called
on him, and remarked only tW the feeling
among Conservative Southern men is that the