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Ibe fotMl* tfspittt _ YORK VIL.LE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 19, 1879 w rk 1. *L - nr.Un ikAnnm nuw iu urucr me ciuiiuiicii? ?? iuo wd u<wi of the subscriber very plainly, give post-offic< county and State, in full, and send tne amount c the subscription by draft or post office mone; order, or enclose the money in a registered lettei Postage.?The Enquirer is delivered free c postage to all subscribers residing in York coue ty,* who receive the paper at post-offices withi the oountyand to all other subscribers the post age is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, n matter where they receive the paper, are not liabl for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office her< without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "address label" shows the time to which the subscription i paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers-dis ?' continued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood the our terms for subscription, advertising and jot work, are cash in advance. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate on the 11th, the considers ticn of Mr. McDonald's bill to authorize th use of the troops in certain cases, and to r< peal the election laws, was resumed. Mi Hill, of Georgia, began speaking on the bil at 12.85, saying he intended to reply to pei sonal allusions, but not to retaliate nor t make a personal attack on any Senator. H then went on to explain that his vote in th Georgia convention was against secessioi but the secession resolution was adopted b; the Convention, and after that it was only question of whether the citizens of the Stat should uphold its solemn action iu the Coc vention. He, therefore, signed the ordinanc of secession after its passage, as did all bi colleagues, though one third of the member voted with him against it. Mr. Blaine gav notice that he would reply to Mr. Hill a another time. Mr. Beck, from the appropri ation committee, reported back, with sundr amendments, the legislative and executiv bill, which was ordered printed and put o: the calendar. After executive session, th House judicial expense bill was laid befor the Senate and referred to the appropriatio committtee. Adjourned. In the House, Mr. Stephens, from the coir age committee, reported a bill for the ado{ tion of the metric system of weights, measure and coinage. Printed and recommitted. Mi Carlisle from the Committee on Ways an Means, reported the Senate bill allowing vie egar factories which were established an operated before the first of March, 1879, t continue their business by the use of alcoho ic vapor, even when within 600 feet of th distillery or rectifying houses, which are pre hibited by the existing law, under regulation to be prescribed. The bill was passed. Mi Carlisle also reported a bill directing the Ai torney-General to adjust or compromise th claim of the United States under the will c Joseph J. Lewis. Passed. (This is the cas in which J. J. Lewis, formerly of Hobokei N. J., left an estate of about a million do] lars, to be applied to the reduction of the m tional debt.) Proctor Knott, of the Hous iudiciary committe, submitted the committee # report upon the presidential veto message c the military bill. [A full synopsis of the r< ?" frvukllaVkA/l In n nrvl 11 mr* 1 TK yui l jo |7uuuouou mu auuiugi v/uiuuju.j *? bill relative to the removal of cases fror State to Federal courts was referred to th committee of the whole, with the understand ing that it should not be brought up agai during the present session. The army apprc priation bill was then taken up. On motio of Mr. Johnston^ of Virginia, section 9 regarc ing army appropriations was stricken ou Mr. Baker, of Indiana, moved to strike ou the sixth section relating to the compensatio; of the army when used at the polls. M] Garfield then made a speech upon militar interference, in which he said the only mil tary interference he had ever seen was whe he voted at Chattanooga for Governor of Ohi in 1862, with shells from the serried enemie of the United States bursting over his head He said the idea that the army is a polic force was so absurd that he hoped no membe on his side of the house would give the leas reason for the belief that he favored it b holding that section 6 repealed, suspended o modified any statute now existing. Mr. CI) mer replied to Mr. Garfield, saying that i April they had been called revolutionists yesterday they were denounced as nullifies and to-day the gentleman (Mr. Garfield blandly regarded that the 6th section of th pending bill, which was in effect icfentica with the 6th section of the vetoed army bil was meaningless and of no effect. Remark were also made by Mr. Cox, of New Yorl and Mr. Baker, of Indiana, and the genera amendments proposed and rejected. Th Committee then rose and reported the bil with amendments adopted in the Committes which were agreed to, and the bill passedyeas 172; noes 31. Adjourned. In the Senate on the 12th, Mr. Beck offei ed an amendment in the nature of a subst tute for the legislative, executive and judicia appropriation bill. The substitute does nc change the amount of the appropriation, bu is intended to improve the form of the bil Ordered to be printed and referred to th committee on appropriations. Mr. \Vallac< from the committee on appropriations, r< ported, without amendment, the House bil making appropriations for certain judicia expenses. Placed on the calendar. The bi.' continuing General Shields' pension of $10 per month to his widow and children was t? ken up. The amendment by Mr. Dawe granting $50 per month to Mrs. Fletcher Wet ster was adopted. Mr. Logan supported th bill, and warmly eulogized his late frienc General Shields. The resolution offered b Mr. Bayard was adopted, ordering to b printed for the use of the committee o military affairs the papers and proceeding in the original Fitz John Porter case. M: Blaine called up Mr. McDonald's bill an proceeded to reply to Mr. Hill's speech of th previous day. He read the resolution whic Mr. Hill tried to have substituted for the s< cession ordinance in the Georgia Conventio of 1861, and said the effect of the amendmenl which it proposed to make to the Constiti ? would ask action upon it. Mr. Murch, of >f Maine, from the committee on public builda ings, reported a resolution for the investiga<" tion of the mode of construction, &c., of all o e public buildings of the Government, with power to sit during the recess, at Washington i- and other cities. Under the point of order * made by Mr. Garfield, the resolution was referred to the committee of the whole. The ^ House then took up the bill providing for the delivery to Samuel Lord, Jr., receiver, of - four $1,000 South Carolina bonds, now in the Treasury, which were captured during the war while hypothecated by the Bank of e South Carolina with the British Consulate > at Savannah. Referred to committee of the * whole. The Senate bill relating to jurors in the United States Courts was then considered. *- Mr. Herbert, of Alabama, by instruction of 0 the judiciary committee, moved an amende ment providing that in the selection of names e of grand and petit jurors, the clerk and com'? missioner shall not have regard to political Y affiliation, race, color, nor previous condition a of servitude, but solely to the qualifications ? prescribed by law. Mr. Conger, of Michii gan, desired to move the reference of the bill ? to the judiciary committee, but was prevent8 ed by a call for the previous question. The ? Republicans then refrained from voting, and ? after an hour spent in a fruitless call of the t House, it adjourned. i- In the Senate, on the 13th, the army bill Y was read a second time and referred to the e Committee on Appropriations. The legislaQ tive appropriation bill was taken up as ree ported from the Senate Committee on Approe priations. Mr. Windom said the House Legn islative Appropriation bill was incomprehensible. He preferred the form of the vetoed bill, i- and to test the sense of the Senate, moved to >- recommit the bill that the committee might & be able to report a bill in the usual form, r. Mr. Houston opposed the motion on account d of the delay it would cause. The form of the i- bill was also severely criticised by Allison, d Conkling and Blaine. The latter said that as o the bill came from the House it actually ap1 propriated nothing, and that if a person did e not know what it was he would think it had h been taken from some joke book. Initspresis ent form it was simply disgraceful and ought r. to be kicked under the table. Mr. Wint dom's motion to recommit was lost, yeas 23, e nays 32. The bill was then read for action >f on committee amendments. At the end of e each clause the criticism of the form of the i, bill was renewed, assertions being repeatedly l- made that it was so vague and mixed that not body could tell what it appropriated or meant, e An amendment was adopted appropriating 's fifteen thousand dollars for the Bureau of Ed>f ucation, after which the bill was read the third i* time and passed. Adjourned, e In the' House, Mr. Morton, of New York, n from the ommittee on foreign affairs, ree ported, by unanimous consent, a bill to allow I- any telegraph company to land ocean cables n on the coast of the United States. In the >- course of a brief colloquy it was stated that n this is the same bill as was reported by Ferl nando Wood in the last Congress, and that it t. is a general bill intended to cut off all preit vious class legislation. It is subject, however, to the terms of such grants as have been herer. tofore made by Congress, for laying and mainn *r\ln/?ror\Vi no hi TtlP. hill J laiuiug bVlUg& U^/U VUVAVUI AMW w... ? ?? i- The bill authorizing allowance for loss by n leakage or casualty, of spirits withdrawn from o distillery warehouses for exportation, was reis ferred to the committee of the whole; also, 1. a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Trease ury to examine and settle the accounts of ir States growing out of money expended for it military purposes during the war of 1812. y Adjourned. r In the Senate on the 14th, the army appropriation bill was reported back from the comn mittee on appropriations with sundry amend; ments, and placed on the calendar. The 3, Senate took up the Mississippi river improve,) ment commission bill. The morning hour e having expired, the bill went over, and the il Senate took up and considered in committee 1, of the whole the supplemental judicial apis propriation bill. Wallace explained the bill. i, A long debate was had over the section reil lating to the method of drawing jurors and e repealing the test oath, the points raised beil ing substantially those discussed on the Ba3, yard bill, lately passed, containing the same - provisions. Wallace, having charge of the bill, siid he did not wish to force a long sesr sion and suggested that the vote be taken at i- 4 o'clock Monday. Conkling opposed the il naming of any hour for closing the debate, it There was no disposition to talk for the purit pose of delay, bat the debate should not be 1. limited. The debate on the jury clauses was e renewed. The Democratic argument was that ;, while the present law provides that jurors iD 3- United States courts are to be chosen, as far il op rtrpptinohlp in the Ramfi manner as in the tl highest courts of States, Federal judges take tl advantage of the exception, as far as practi0 cable, to make the rules of the court on the i- subject to suit their own views, and Judge 3, Bond was especially spoken of as one who in) variably chose Republican jury commissione ers under his rule of court. The other side 1, argued that any abuse of the discretion vesty ed in them exposed the judges to impeachie ment. At 5.10 the Senate adjourned, n In the House, the morning hour was conis sumed in voting upon dilatory motions, and r. the bill relative to political contributions went d over without action. Buckner, chairman of e the banking and currency committee, reporth ed a bill requiring a reserve of the national 3-1 banking association to be kept in standard n gold and silver coins of the United States in a ; lieu of lawful money. Printed and recorai-1 mitted. The House then resumed the considr i eration of the pleuro-pnueraonia bill. The !t bill was recommitted to the committee on age' riculture. Herbert, of Alabama, who had !r charge of the next business in order, the Sene ate bill repealing the test oath, stated that 11? i ir after conversation witn certain jftepuoncan e members, he would not press a vote on it ton day, but hoped to obtain a vote on Monday, i- j Tho Sepate amendments to the supplemental e post route bjU were concurred in. Young, of ,t Ohio, asked leave to offer a resolution for the n I appointment of a select committee to inquire i i- J into the cause and effect of the recent pxodus e from Southern to Western States. Goode, of i \ Virginia, objected on the ground that a comi mittee had that subject under consideration, i SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Judge Mackey will deliver a Masonic address at Lancaster C. H., on the 24th day of June?St. John's Day. ? Dr. Wade Fowler, of Union county, has recently thrashed out over four hundred bushels of oats from six acres of land?663 bushels to the acre. ? The Ninety-Six Guardian wisely says : "A movement should be inaugurated to kill out those dead beats who lounge around country post-offices and rob regular subscribers of their papers." ? The Abevflle Medium intimates that the place of Col. D. Wyatt Aiken as Congressman from the Third District, is coveted by other persons, and that he will have competion for the position at the next election. ? In Kershaw county they are boasting of the "champion husband." He hitches himself to the buggy and hauls his wife around to visit her neighbors. He is afraid to risk her precious person with a horse or even a mild tempered ox. ? A Northern Adventist preacher has made his appearance in Kershaw county, and preached at one of the churches there on Sunday of last week. He had pictures along with him to show what kind of place Paradise would be after the second coming of Christ. ? The Intelligencer mentions that several patches of wheat were threshed in Anderson county last week. The following fine yields are noted : Dr. S. M. Holland's, 1$ acres, 55 bushels; Mr. E. VV. Byrum's, li acres, 60J bushels; Mrs. V. Burress', li acres, 34 bushels; Mr. P. Spellman's, 1J acres, 63i bushels. ? At a meeting of the directors of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, held in Columbia last week, reports submitted to them show that the net profits for the eight months ending 31st of May, 1879, show an increase of 874,000 over those for the same period last year. ? The trustees of the widows and orphan's benefit fund of the Knights of Honor, of Cam tiou would have been to extend slavery ove every foot of territory in the United States. 1 also pledged Georgia to co-operate with th seceded States, and to hold forts and othe Federal property within her limits until th Atlanta Convention should decide whethe she should gecede or not. This Mr. Blain said showed that Georgia was already i, rebellion. With reference to the retalis tory war measure, framed by Mr. Hill, h said that it was so worded as to assume tha every Federal soldier coming on Souther soil came to incite insurrection, and to pur ish him therefor. It was, he said, a measur foolishly offered and wisely withdrawn. Mi Hill replied that Mr. Blaine had said notb ing to which a sensible man need reply. True, a statement of facts had not satisfied - him, and he would make no other answer. On motion of Mr. Lamar, House bill for the appointment of a commission for the iin* provement of the Mississippi river was taken up, but without acting thereon, the Senate went into executive session, and afterwards adjourned. In the House, a bill was reported from the z committee on civil service reform prohibiting officers or claimants against, or contractors under, the United States, from contributing ' money for political purposes. Mr. Stephens, = of Georgia, gave notice that during the day ? he would report from the committee on coin>f age a bill in relation to the trade dollar, and den, on Tuesday of last week, paid to Mrs. d. M. Gayle, the sure of two thousand dol.ars, being the amount which accrued to her through the death of her late husband, Jos. M. Gayle. ? In consequence of the extortion practiced by the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company, in the matter of freight charges, the merchants of Winnsboro propose to establish a wagon train for the purpose of hauling cotton from Winnsboro to Littleton depot, on the Columbia and Greenville Railroad. The price now charged on a bale of cotton from Winnsboro to Columbia is $2.30. ? R. Lovat Fraser, aged about twenty-eight years, committed suicide at Georgtown on Thursday last, by shooting himself with a pistol. The ball entered his left breast and passed through the heart, causing death within half an hour. The jury of inquest rendered a verdict that the deceased "came to his death by a pistol-shot wound, inflicted by himself, and, in the jury's opinion, while in a state of mental aberration." ? It is stated" in Charleston, that while exGovernor Chamberlain was in that city recently, a large number of colored men met one evening and sent a committee to invite their former leader to address them on topics of interest before the country at this time. Chamberlain, however, declined to do so, and duriug his whole stay in this State was very cool to those with whom he had been very intimate as long a8 he could make anything out of them. ? Judge Wallace is holding court at Edge field this week. Four murder cases are to be tried during the terra, as follows: Cases growing out of the riot between the Toneys and Booths last August, including about one dozen defendants ; Scurry Coleman indicted for the killing of Trial Justice Taylor, in 1876; a negro woman indicted for killing a child; and a negro man for stabbiog another at a meeting. ? The crops of small grain harvested on the farms around Winnsboro this season have been unusually fine. Of wheat, Mr. W. R. Garrison made 270 bushels on eight acres?an average of 33$ bushels to the acre; Mr. G. H. McMaster gathered 39 bushels from one acre; Abraham Monroe, colored, 21 i bushels from two-fifths of an acre ; and Fred. Steele, colored, 31* bushels from an acre and a half. Of oats, Mr. J. F. McMaster made 200 bush " " - _ i *<r_ t\ r> cis irom rour acres, anu mr. u. xv. xjeuuixcu 900 bushels from twenty acres. ? The Siraras Memorial Association of Charleston, South Carolina, Wednesday afternoon, of last week, in White Point Garden, the principal pleasure resort of the citizens of Charleston, unveiled a bronzed bust of the distinguished Southern writer in whose honor the association was formed. The bust was executed by J. Q. A. Ward, and is of heroic size, resting upon a massive granite pedestal. It was unveiled by two of the grand-daughters of Mr. Simms. An address was delivered by Hon. W. D. Porter, of Charleston. ? Mr. E. Frank Lyles, of Fairfield county, aged about nineteen years, son of the late Capt. E. F. Lyles, was killed in the vicinity of Monticello by the accidental discharge of his gun, on Thursday last. Mr. Lyles stopped to rest on a fence, where he was seen sitting by some negroes working a short distance away. He had been there but a few moments when the discharge of a gun was heard, and the negroes saw him fall. Upon arriviug at the fence, they found him dead, the contents of the gun having entered his head /mif of Vio Konlr near uie ejfe auu ynsojug uul ?,m> u?w., NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Hendersonville can now be reached in sixteen hours from Wilmington by railroad. ? A stringent law prohibiting the carrying of concealed weapons, will go into effect on the first of next month. ? Gen. J. M. Leach was admitted into the Presbyterian church at Lexington, last Sunday. ? The trustees of Wake Forest College have elected Rev. E. T. Winkler, D. D., of Alabama, to the presidency of that institution. It is not known whether or not he will accept. ? A colored minister in Cleveland county refused to supply a certain church because the congregation declined to give him a mortgage to secure his salary during the coming ministerial year. ? The Shelby Aurora regrets to learn that some of the farmers of Cleveland county planted more cotton than they could cultivate, and have been compelled to give the grass full control of a portion of their crop. ? Greensboro voted on the prohibition question last week, a majority of the voters deciding against the sal^of liquor in that town, j This is the third consecutive year Greensboro j has adopted prohibition. t>l_ m?c e t> t> At I 1 im \jllUMUUC Llllii U1 JJ? JLV? kjiiiicn %ju vu.i | doing business in New York, are reported to have failed. The cause is attributed to spec-, ulation in cotton futures. The same 6rm, j only a few days'ago, made $100,000 in prof-1 its on cotton ; but an anxiety to add to this ! already large sum brought disaster to them. ? Walter Grouse, aged 11 years, son of the captain of the Salem Brass Baud, D. T. | Grouse, made bis debut on a cornet, in the band which headed the funeral procession of Mr. Steiner, of Salem, on Tuesday last ? A batch of penitentiary convicts at work near the Moore county line, on the railroad between Greensboro and Fayetteville, attempting to escape last Thursday, were fired upon by the guard, and four were killed and four wounded. ?Uounsel of the negro MctJorKie, wno was convicted of murder of a white man with whose wife the negro was on terms of criminal intimacy, at the recent term of Alexander court, and sentenced to be hanged on the 15th of August, did not appeal to the Supreme Court. They said their client had had a fair trial and they could see ao ground for appealing. This is the first instance of the kind on record. A correspondent of the Salisbury Watchman says the defendant, McCorkle, at his own request, was permitted to address the court, which he did for a short time. In his talk he did not either admit or directly deny his guilt?reviewed and complained of some of the evidence against him, and that his life was being taken away unjustly, &c. Sarah Wyecoff, wife of the murdered man, was sentenced to the penitentiary for life, as an accessory to the deed. EDITORIAlTlNKLINGS. The Exedns and the Cotton Crop. The Philadelphia Record, speculating on what may possibly be the effect of the negro exodus upon the cotton interests of the country says: a' Should the next cotton crop of the United States fall twenty-five per cent, short in consequence of the exodus excitement it would entail a loss of a million and a quarter bales, which, at lli cents per pound, would exceed the sum of $22,500,000. It is not probable there will be a loss so great, but those who are fanning the exodus excitement for partisan ends expect to make it greater. Little they care how much suffering they cause the poor negroes whom they are inducing to leave their fields of labor to go in search of the "promised land," and the more distress they bring upon the white planters the better pleased will they be; little they care if all the cotton mills in the country are "shut down" in consequence of the high price of cotton and the two hundred thousand men, women and children employed in these mills and in the establishments which they feed are thrown out of employment for three months in the year; little they care if every man in the country is obliged to pay two dollars for shirts, such as are now sold for one; little do they care if India, Egypt, Mexico and Brazil should be able to produce cotton cheaper than us, and the item of $200,000,000; the value of the annual exportation of cotton from the United States, should dwindle to nothing. Senator Hampton Interviewed. The New York Tribune has recently been interviewing Senator Hampton. From the Senator's views we extract the following in regard to the South and the Presidency, and the negro in politics: There is another thing which ought not to be overlooked?that while the South is whollv Democratic and constitutes the strength of ~t! ? _ the Democratic party, we do not intend to ask a place upon the Presidential ticket for a Southern man. We want the party in the North to place two good men on the ticket, and we will support it for the national success of the Democratic party. With reference to the personal choice of the South for particular Presidential candidates, I do not think the South has any. I believe that there has been a feeling that in justice to the old ticket it should be renominated. There are many reasons, however, which may be urged against this, and the refusal of Mr. Hendricks to be put in nomination again seems to render it impossible. I don't think the South cares a copper who the next presidential candidate may be, as long as he is a strong national man. They do not care where he comes from or what his financial views may be. ; There is a great deal of misapprehension in the North as to the political condition of the negroes in the South. They seem to think that a colored man is bound to be a Republican because he is a colored man. But I know personally many colored men in South Carolina who have always been consistent Democrats, and have suffered in consequence. There are only 75,000 white voters in my State, and 90,00Q colored voters. The latter, therefore, hold the balance of power. When I was elected Governor there were only 119,500 votes cast, and only 213 scattering votes were thrown against me, and I was undoubtedly elected by the colored voters, who at that time had all the machinery of the elec TKaro tvoa nnf a Allftr* UUU 111 tUCll JlttlKJO. iiiuu MUU uv. ? -J rel or a fisticuff fight at that election. The | Republicans could not put a ticket in the field because the colored people were satisfied. The Cotton and Grain Crops. The June returns to the Depar tment of Agriculture at Washington indicate an increase in the area planted in cotton of somewhat over two per cent. * The per centage, as compared with the average of 1878, is as follows : North Carolina, 47 counties reporting 106; South Carolina, 18 counties, 100; Georgia, 71 counties, 102; Florida, 12 counties, 97; Alabama, 28 counties, 103; Mississippi, 39 counties, 100; Louisiana, 18 counties, 98; Texas, 58 counties, 107; Arkansas, 40 counties, 101; Tennessee, 18 counties, 103. The average condition is not so high as last year, being 96, while in '78 it was 99. The stand is generally good, but some two weeks later. Reports on the crop of winter wheat show the average condition at ninety against nine- f ty-eight last year. The Pacific coast is con-f siderably over the average, Oregon rising t6 104. The South Atlantic States average ^ ' ^ i! 1AQ l-sAA ninety-six, ooutn Carolina reporting iuu, uu^ i Georgia 112. The States north of the fifto river average ninety-five ; Indiana reaches 103. New England averages ninetf-four. The Southern inland i-jtates average Eightyeight. The Middle States average eighty-six. The Gulf States average eighty-three. The trans-Mississippi States average seventy-nine. The drought has been- felt more or less severely in all parts of the country. From the South come some complaints of winter kill- : ing, and from the north and west of the Hessian fly. Grasshoppers have also been heard of beyond the Mississippi. i The average of wheat sown last spring is i about 4 per cent, increase over last spring. On the Pacific coast, California reports over 10 per cent, increase, while New Orleans falls off 1 per cent. The trans-Mississippi States and New England have increased 5 per cent. ( Texas retains her previous acreage. Of the ; States south of the Ohio river, Ohio and In- j diana make no reports of spring wheat. The , j other three States fall off 3 per cent. Minne- j < sota increases 9 per cent., while Iowa de-11 creases 1 per cent. The Middle States fall j off 10 per cent. The condition of spring i1 wheat is about the same eis winter wheat?90 per cent.; all States being below the average. The crop has been subject to the same climat- j ic influences as winter wheat. Ia the Terri-1. tories wheat raising has advanced westward ;' more rapidly than statistical inquiries have 1 j been able to reach. There is a vast increase, which must be left to subsequent inquiry.11 The department has information that one j \ county in Dakota, which, last year, sowed but J fifty acres, has, this year, under vigorous j ( growth, over 4,000 acres. In many other ; cases an immense increase is reported. I ] LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Hunter A Oates?Inducements Extraordinary. Herndon Brothers?Wanted. Hart A Hart, Plaintiffs' Attorneys?Notice to the Children and Heirs, and the Administrator of Jane Barber, deceased. J. H. Clawson, Assignee?In Bankruptcy?Dividend Meeting?In the Matter of Jeremiah Moss, Bankrupt. S. S. Smith?Administrator's Sale. Dr. James A. Glenn?Dental Surgery. Dr. J. B. Patrick?Dental Notice. M. C. Dixon?Piedmont Nurseries. H. F. Adickes A Sons?Croquet?Laces?Dress Goods?Gloves?Leinon Sugar, Kennedy Bros. A Barron?Cuffs and CollarsAprons, Ac.?Piques, Ac.?Mitts, Ac.?Ties, Shoes and Hats?Collarets, Ac.?Churns, JtiucKets, ate.?LiOOKing uiasaes, <xc. PIEDMONT NURSERIES. We would direct attention to the advertisement of M. C. Dixon, proprietor of Piedmont Nurseries, Greensboro, N. C. Mr. Dixon is a thorough business man, and will fill orders according to promise. As will be seen, he proposes giving those who order direct from his nurseries, the benefit of the traveling agent's expenses and commissions. RE-UNION OF SURVIVORS. There will be a re-union of the survivors of the Twelfth S. C. Kegiment, C. S. A., in Winnsboro, on Saturday, the 28th instant, one object of the meeting being to take initial steps toward having a celebration in August. Companies A, B and H, were from York county, and to the survivors of those companies, as well as all other survivors of the regiment, an earnest invitation is extended to be present. Ample preparation will be made for their accommodation. IMPROVING THE YORK DRUG STORE. Dr. Kuykendal, who, these long sultry afternoons, receives the full effect of the rays of the sim, since moving to his new quarters, has overcome the difficulty by erecting a neat, substantial wooden shelter in front of his drug store. This is considered a decided improvement on the canvas awning. He is also having the interior of his store repainted and beautified. Those who doubt the efficacy of paint should contrast his building, as now finished on the exterior, with what it was before he took possession of it. DENTAL NOTICES. The attention of those requiring the services of a dentist is directed to the respective no rices, in our advertising columns, ui nwwio Patrick and Glenn. These gentlemen visit Yorkville regularly, and are well known to our people. By the way, an error, made by the writer himself, occurred in the advertisement of Dr. Patrick, announcing his present visit to this place, published last week and week before. He will not be here at the time stated in that notice. He intended to say that he would be here on the 15th' of June, instant. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. At a regular meeting of the Jenkins Rifles, on Friday night last, the following non-commissioned officers were appointed by Captain Glenn, to serve for the ensuing year: First Sergeant, Rufus A. Parish; Second Sergeant, William H. Herndon; Third Sergeant, Henry C. Strauss; Fourth Sergeant, Wm. I. Witherspoon. First Corporal, H. H. Beard ; Second Corporal, J. N. O'Farrel; Third Corporal, William Allison; Fourth Corporal, Samuel L. Miller. The Adjutant-General has issued an order postponing the inspection of the Fourth Brigade at Columbia on the 4th of July, till Fair week in November. YOUNG SOUTH CAROLINA ABROAD. Among the recent graduates from North Carolina schools and colleges, we find the following South Carolina names: Davidson College?B. Palmer Reid, Reidville; Arthur P. Brown, Liberty Hill; James A. Wilson, York county. Carolina Military Institute, Charlotte?T. S. Carter, R. E. Wylie, Lancaster; Albert Gilbert. Abbeville; J. B. Guess, Barnwell; A. K. Sanders, Sumter. State University, Chapel Hill?A. Springs, York county. Peace Institute, Raleigh?Miss Alice B. Kinloch, Miss Laura G. McCants. . In the list of graduates from Wofford College, Spartanburg, last week, we notice the name of J. Lyles Glenn, Rock Hill. THE CROP PROSPECT. Wheat thrashing has commenced, and from persons in charge of thrashers, we learn that the crop is yielding very well. York will produce more than an average crop this year, which may be attributed to the favorable season and the further fact that more than the usual amount of land was seeded last fall. The best yield we have heard of from any lots about town, is reported by Mr. Lon. Rose, who raised 55$ bushels on 1$ acres. The growing crops are reported as doing finely. True, in some localities of the county, cotton was retarded by the cool weather in Mav! but recent rains and the genial warmth of the sun have given it a good start, and the plant is now looking vigorous and healthy, with good stands. Cora is also promising. Never, at this season, have we heard as little complaint from the farmers as the present year. THE WRONG HAN. On Saturday last, a stranger arrived here who registered at the King's Mountain Hotel as S. J. McElroy, Seneca City. He answered very cleverly the description of Edwards, the escaped murderer from Union county, for whose apprehension a large reward is offered. Those who were on the alert for the refugee from justice, closely watched the actions of Mr. McElroy, every movement he made only confirming their suspicions, and they came to regard him quite too dangerous a character to be at large. But finally, when the subject was delicately mentioned to him, and he was requested to show the scar over one eye which he so deftly concealed with his hat, he lifted that article of head-gear, and like the strawberry mark on the arm of Box, it wasn't there. He proved to be quite an innocent man, engaged in a legitimate business, and waca amused at the excitement he iuxfxnnocently created^ -SHOOTING WITH "iNTENT TO KILL. Reuben Sliedd, colored, alias Reuben Goins, of color, after a somewhat protracted retiracy from "public conspicuity," has again appeared before an admiring constituency in his favorite role of a persecuted man, for whose innocent blood his numerous enemies thirst as the hart panteth for the brook. It will be remembered that on the occasion of Reuben's last public appearance, about four years ago, lie preferred charges against two citizens, alleging that they had conspired to kill him and had already prepared his grave, so that after his yielding up the ghost at the hands of bloody assassins, there would be no unnecessary delay in the funeral, but he could be quietly committed to mother earth by the lurid glare of a torch lighted on the brink of the yawning pit, and none would ever be the wiser as to his sudden disappearance. But the charge?"grave" as it was?could not be sustained. Reuben's life was shown not to be endangered, and the grave which had such terrors for him proved to be only an excavation made by a man who wanted to start a gold mine. Consequently, the complaint was. dismissed by Trial Justice J. K. Wagoner, also colored; and ever since that famous at tempt at prosecution Reuben has remained comparatively quiet, until recently, when he discovered that some one had shot at him with intent to kill. As we understand the facts in the case, 3ome cats were fighting in a dark corner on Liberty street last Thursday night. Reuben was standing near the scene of the feline quarrel, but on the opposite side of the street. About that time, some one?who, it is not definitely stated?passing along Main street near the intersection with Liberty, could not resist the temptation to draw his nimble pistol and fire at the cats. At least this is the generally accepted theory of the firing; but Reuben, doubtless looking for a grievance, liere seized upon the opportunity, and sounded his favorite alarm of attempt to kill, and shouting murder at the top of his voice, hastened to his house to get his trusty fire-lock in readiness, determined to defend himself until the opposite bank of the last ditch were reached, if necessary. While sitting in his door, inspecting his "weepin" and parleying with members of his family as to the advisability of madly rushing forth to battle, a suspicious noise, as of an approaching enemy, was heard in the yard. Reuben's courage having already reached the sticking point, in voice of thunder he demanded to know who was approaching. Thrice did he repeat the challenge, and no response being given, he blazed away, swearing by the beard of Ishmael that he would sell his life as dearly as possible. The detonating report of a musket, a howl and a low, deep wail followed in rapid succession. Reuben felt relieved, and while deliberating over sending for the coroner and manfully surrendering himself to the officers of the law, a light was brought, and investigation revealed that in his mighty wrath, Reuben had shot and killed a neighbor's favorite dog. PER80NAL MENTION. Mr. Robert J. Herndon returned last Saturday morning from North Carolina, havingbeen absent to play as one of the leaders with the "Salem Cornet Rand at Chapel Hill and Wake Forest commencements. We are glad to learn that our young townsman acquitted himself creditably on a leading instrument with this old and proficient musical organization. Miss Belle B. McCaw returned last week from Virginia Female Institute, at Staunton, where she has been at school the past collegiate year. Rev. W. A. Rogers, pastor of the M. E. Church at Winnsboro, spent Saturday and Sunday in Yorkville, the guest of his kinsman, C. E. Spencer, Esq. Mr. John E. Mason, a student of 'Davidson College, returned last Friday to spend his vacation at home. Mrs. Webster, of Spartanburg, is on a visit tn her father \fr .T "Eil JeffervR. Mr. J. Dunn Colcock arrived in town on yesterday morning, after an absence of several weeks. THE CHURCH E8 NEXT SUNDAY. Services will he held in the churches next Sunday as follows: Church of the Good Shepherd?Rev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. Morning service, 10$, A. M. Evening service at 8 o'clock. The Rector will preach to the inmates of the poorhouse at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. M. E. Church?Rev. T. E. Gilbert, Pastor, Services at 10$ A. M., and 8 P. M. Prayer meeting, Wednesday evenings at 8 o'clock. Subject of moruing discourse next Sunday, Christian magnanimity. Subject of evening discourse, No night in Heaven. Presbyterian Church?Rev. L. H. Wilson, Pastor. Services at 10$ A. M., and 8 P. M. Prayer meeting, Wednesday evenings at 8 o'clock. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. Robert Lathan, Pastor. This church will be closed next Sunday, in consequence of the absence of the Pastor, who will fill his regular appointment on that day at Tirzah. preaching at 11, A. M., and 1, P. M. The subject of his morning discourse will be the duty of parents to children ; and the subject of the afternoon discourse, the duty of children to parents. ' CHESTER AND KING'S MOUNTAIN. In reference to the omission of Chester among the counties invited to participate in the preliminary meeting at King's Mountain on the 25th of July, the committee publish the following card: We notice in a paragraph in the Charlotte Observer headed "Talking with Judge Mackey," that the judge regrets that Chester county was left out of an invitation to counties in South Carolina to send delegates to our centennial meeting. We desire to say that our meeting advertised for July 25th was intended to be merely initiatory in character, and that at that meeting we expected to pass resolutions looking to general representation at the centennial. But the proposed July meeting has already assumed proportions far beyond our expectations, we, tnererore, aesire now to extend through your paper a general invitation to every cpunty in both" States of North and South Carolina to hold meetings and send delegates to the July meeting, and we assure all friends of the King's Mountain centennial movement, everywhere, that they will be welcomed, whether as visitors or delegates, to that meeting. Come one, come all I Senators Vance and Butler have both signified their intention to be with us. W. T. B. Bell, B. F. Dixon, T. J. Walkeb, W. A. Mauney, Phillip 8. Bakeb, Committee. TRAN8FER8 OF REAL ESTATE. The following transfeis of real estate have been recorded in the office of the County Auditor since our last report: Julius Mills to J. G. B. Neely. Lot at Smith's Turnout. Consideration $50. Joseph P. Moore, Assignee, to James L. Guy. Tract of 492 acres in Bethesda township. Consideration $2,144.71. J. F. Wallace, Clerk of Court, to Margaret E. Bussell. Tract of 43 acres in York township. Consideration $40. Margaret E. Bussell to Joseph F. Wallace. Tract of 43 acres in York township. Consideration $505. Permelia Glenn and others to Jno. F. Glenn. Tract of 80 acres in Bethel township. Consideration $1,000. M. A. McConnell and others to J. P. Moore. Tract of 121 acres in Bethesda township. Consideration $740. Hugh Burris to J. P. Moore. Tract of 157 acres in Bethesda township. Consideration $950. John O. Darby to W. L. Goforth and others. Tract of 2,510 acres in King's Mountain township. Consideration $4,000. J. W. White to F. H. Barber and others. Tract of 167 acres in Catawba township. Consideration $846. Daniel Lindsay to Mary A. Beckham. One lot in Yorkville. Consideration $50. C. J. Bobert8on, Executrix, to H. F. Adickes, Jr. Lot in Yorkville. Consideration $5 j. W. Neil to Bobert W. Shaw. Tract of 90 acres in King's Mountain township. Consideration $400. John McGill to Wm. M. McGilL Tract of 250 acres in Cherokee township. Consideration 83,500. John McGill to N. E. and B. M. Plexico. Tract of 249 acres in Cherokee township. Consideration $2,000. John B. Whitesides to John McGill. Tract of 249 acres in Cherokee township. Consideration $2,000. E. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to W. W. Jenkins. rn - ^ ' cif\f\ AAMAA fAtirnahm JL raci ujl 2w (u>1 co ill jl kji rv wniiom|/t wu sideration $1,401. B. F. McSwain to W. A. Mauneyand others. Tract of 143 acres in King's Mountain township. Consideration $300. L. M. Davis to M. E. Davis. One lot in Rock Hill. Consideration $1,000. MERE-MENTIOft. The President has sigued the bill for the exchange of subsidiary coins into lawful money, and to make such coins a legal tender in all sums not exceeding ten dollars. The ex-Confederate General Longstreet had bis pocket picked of a gold watch and chain in Gainesville, Ga., a few days ago. John Brown, Jun., is going to Kansas to help the colored refugees. There are 39,679 post offices in the United States. Mr. Alexander H. Stephens will, it is said, spend the summer in Quincy, 111., as the guest of Gen. Singleton. Ex-Senator Stanley Matthews is reported as expressing the belief that President Hayes will be re-nominated. The talk among Washington Democrats now is that if Ewing carries Ohio, he will oecome the most prominent candidate for the Presidency entertaining greenback views. A fire j at Point Breeze, Pa., last Thursday, destroyed 135,000 barrels of crude petroleum and 40,000 barrels of refined oil. There are i now at Atlanta, Ga., six companies of the Fifth U. S. Artillery, and five companies of the Thirteenth Infantry. ""A Cuthbert, Ga., belle sleeps with her jaw on a hickory , nut to promote a dimple. "There was a baby show in New York last week. A prize of $100 was offered to the handsomest infant, and $50 to the fattest baby. A Northern tobacconist has manufactured what he calls the "Bob Ingersoll cigar." It burns well at the end. Coffee growing has proved successful with a few planters in southern Florida, and its cultivation there promises to be extended. The Democracy of Ohio have nominated for Governor, Thos. Ewing, now member of Cougress, aud for Lieut Governor, A. V. Rice. They were both Generals and served throughout the "war for the Union." The Democrats are jubilant over the nominations. ATROCIOUS CRIME AND LYNCHING.* A /inmuuinAnflailt ftf ftlA HrPPrivillp Rtlm XX WlA^O[A>UUV?IV v* WMV V* WM ? ? -? ? terpriu and Mountaineer, under date of June 11th,. details the following particulars of a horrible crime perpetrated in Spartanburg county: On Thursday,'June 5, a nice looking young woman passed through Vernonsville, Spar* tanburg county, making inquiries for a Mr. Woodward, stating that her name was Woodward, that she had two sisters living'with Benjamin Morgan, near "The Traps," in Pickens county; that she was looking for Mr. Woodward, an uncle, or Paschal O'Shields, and that she had walked from Pickens. She was dressed in a neat black dress, with brown straw hat, and striped shawl on her arm. She was directed to Jefferson O'Shields, at Reidville. From the stores she passed on about a half mile farther, asking for Woodward. Finally, abandoning all hope of finding the person sought, she turned towards Reidville, asking directions. She arrived at the house of John J. Moore as they were sitting down to dinner. She accepted an invitation to eat, and departed. Mr. Moore accompanied her a short distance to the main road, when Bhe took her final leave, nothing more being heard of her. On Sunday, 8th instant, two men passing the road noticed an unusual number of buzi rt> p r\?x : i 1 L zaras just on irom it. vsu moupiug nuu iuu?iog that way they saw something unusual, and then first recognized the smell of carrion. They went towards it, and discovered the body of the woman. The buzzards had picked out her eyes, the body was much swollen and discolored, the clothes were thrown up about her waist, ber tbroat was cut from ear to ear and into the backbone, a bullet hole was in her right -breast, worms crawling in countless multitudes in every cavity?the hair was kept in motion by them. God grant I may never again see such a sight I T. P. Gaston summoned a jury, but night set in before much could be done, and the inquest adjourned until sunrise this morning. To the credit of the jury, be it said, nearly every one stayed to help watch the corpse, which could not be moved. This morning they finished, with a verdict?"Death by Snshot and incision in throat, by person unown." Suspicion, however, was soon directed to Moore, the man who accompanied her-from the house to the main read, and he was arrested and committed to jail in Spartanbuig. Subsequently?on Monday night last?he was taken from the jail by a body of men and summarily executed, the full particulars of which we copy as follows from the Spartanburg Herald of yesterday: "Further facts having since been discovered tending more conclusively to convict Moore of the diabolical act, public indignation rose to the highest pitch, and on Monday night a body of mounted men, estimated at between two and three hundred, approached the town about 11 o'clock at night, for the purpose of taking John J. Moore out and hanging him. News of the approach of the body of armed men was whispered about town date in the evening, and considerable excitement was created. Sheriff Thompson endeavored to get up a posse comitahu to guard the jail, and a collision being apprehended, efforts were made to induce the mounted men to desist from their purpose. Their minds, however, were made up, and they rode into the town, and surrounding the jail, demanded the prisoner. The Sheriff, 6nding that he could not get & posse eomiiatus sufficient to protect the prisoner, secretly took the prisoner out of jail, under guard, and had him carried off and secreted just outside of the limits of the* town. . The mounted men searched every cell and room in the jail, and upon being satished that the prisoner had been carried off, they scat tered in every direction and conupuea ineir search until they found the prisoner under the Chinquepiu trestle of the Air-Line Railroad, one mile from town, where 8heriff Thompson had left him in hsnd-cuflb, under guard, with orders to take the cars on the 12 o'clock train towards Charlotte. "Taking possession of their prisoner they. rallied their forces and rode through the town with their prisoner and carried him off to the spot where he had committed his diabolical deeds and hung him, we are informed by a person present, at 7 o'clock this (Tuesday) morning, in the presence of about one thousand persons, among whom were two' sisters of the lady whom he had tourdered, who aftrived from Pickens yesterday. He was permitted to take leave of his ftmily and was placed in a buggy under a tree upon a limb of which the rope was tied and adjusted round his neck. He was then given permission to * speak and made a few remarks denying his guilt aud saying?"That he didn't blame them, thinking as they did, for what they were about to do; but hoped that after he was dead the right man would be found and they would say that John Moore, fof once, spoke the truth." When he closed his remarks, the buggy was driven from under him and his body hung until life was extinct "Thus ended the career of John J. Moore, a man of notoriously bad character?perhaps the worst man that ever lived in Spartanburg county?a man who, himself, haa admitted that "he had committed eveiy crime known to the law except suicide." It is a monument to the peace and law-abiding character of our people that he has been permitted tolive in this county, implicated, as he haa been, in so many crimes and rascalities." Correspondence of the Yorkvilie Enquirer. LETTER FROM BLACK'S STATION. Black's Station, 8. C., June 17,1879. Our Jown was thrown into considerable excitement this morning about a dog that passed through, exhibiting signs of having hydrophophia. An effort was made to kill it, but it escaped. The mountaineers around here, and many who are descendants of that gallant band who fought at King's Mountain, are interested in the much-talked-of Centennial celebration of that battle, to take place in October, 1880. " J- J - a rom its nature uuu uiituuisutuwo, uu ocui in American history deserves more notice; yet there is no monument to mark the placenothing but a rude slab with the names of the fallen heroes inscribed upon it. The name of Col. Williams, which is well identified, should have as much as a plain marble shaft. John B. Mintz, on whose place this gallant officer is buried, leaves a grove of trees on the bank of Broad river, only which now mark his resting place. Mrs. Potts, who is on a pedestrian tour, for a wager of $6,000, from Philadelphia to New Orleans and back, the round trip making a total distance of 2,400 miles, reached here last Friday evening at 7.15. She stopped at the boarding house of Mr. Ira Hardin, declining a chair which was proffered her, and taking a seat upon the steps, saying it was the easiest position after walking, affording better relaxation to the muscles. She remained there until supper was announced, and after partaking of her meal, she took, up the Yorkville Enquirer, with which she seemed much interested. When Mrs. Potts left Philadelphia, she weighed 115 pounds, but at Gastonia, on Friday, she weighed only 105, though she thought the scales on which she was weighed at that place were inaccurate, as she claims to have improved in weight and strength ever since she started out. She left Philadelphia on the 12th of May,