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THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 26, 1879.
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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
Id the Senate on the 16th, the supplemental
judicial appropriation bill was taken up.
Dawes opposed it as the most pernicious of
the Democratic measures, and tending to
shake the confidence of all justice-loving people
in our judicial system. Hill, of Georgia,
believed that the inter: t of the existing law
was good, and if it were properly administered,
no new legislation would be necessary.
But Federal judges depart from State methods,
and under the rules of their court introduce
politics into the jury system. He regretted
the necessity of recognizing political
differences in this bill, but the disgrace rested
upon those who first brought them into the
jury system ; not upon the supporters of this
bill, which would partially remedy an established
evil. Conkling thought the proper
cure for the abuses mentioned was to rescind
the present law; not to pass a new one which
does not pretend to abolish the evil. Hill replied
that he believed the practical effect of
the bill would be to compel a return to the
State system. Morgan said he entertained a
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oenei rnac a rauicai reiurux was ic^uutu iu
the Federal jury laws. If the court was satisfied
with the action of its officers, there was
no recourse. The courts consist not alone of
judges, but of judges and juries together. The
judge is appointed under a well defined law,
and the independent factor, the jury, should
. be selected under laws as carefully outlined?
not by the ungoverned choice of a marshal.
In 1862 the government thought it necessary
to introduce politics into the qualifications of
Federal jurors. Leaving the question whether
that was right or necessary at the time, a
general amnesty has since gone out for all
political crimes, and there seems to be no
reason for making the jury box the only place
where political disability is to be perpetuated.
On motion of Wallace, the words "except as
provided for in section 3,732 of the Revised
Statutes," were inserted after the clause prohibiting
the incurment of liability for future
payment, (section 3,732 allows incurment by
the war and navy departments for necessary
expenses.) Out of the clause "but nothing
herein contained shall be construed to prevent
any judge in a district in which such is
now the practice from ordering the names of
jurors to be drawn from boxes used by the
State authorities," Mr. Hill, of Georgia,
moved to strike out the words "in which such
is now the practice," so as to make the
provisions universal. Wallace opposed the
amendment. It would destroy the uniformity
sought by the bill. Carpenter said he
would vote for the amendment. He would,
at the proper time, like to unite with the lawyers
of the Senate in framing a Federal jury
law; at present there was no such thing as
trial by jury in the Federal courts. The trial
was by the marshal and clerk, and they could
pack a jury to convict or acquit as they
pleased. He wished the matter to go over
until December. Six months more would not
make much difference, and it was impossible
to mature a good system in the hurry of the
close of the session. Hill's amendment was
adopted. After further debate the bill was
passed by a party vote. The army appropriation
bill was taken up and the Senate adjourned.
JL'be House was engaged during ine uay in
the introduction of bills under the call of
States. Among the bills introduced was one
by O'Connor, of South Carolina, to re-establish
the office of assistant treasurer at Charleston.
Springer, of Illinois, moved to suspend
the rules and pass the bill prohibiting military
interference at the polls. Lost by a
strict party vote for want of two-thirds majority.
Adjourned.
In the Senate on the 17th, the army appropriation
bill was taken up and altered
as follows: The committee amendment providing
that the members of the next two
graduating classes at West Point may re-,
ceive 8750 on the completion of their studies
and return home for two years, was stricken
out, as were also the clauses forbidding promotion
in any branch of the army. A long
debate then ensued with reference to the
meaning and object of that clause of the fifth
section concerning the use of the army for
police purposes to keep peace at the polls.
Blaine offered an amendment prohibiting all
carrying of weapons at the polls under penalty
of fine and imprisonment. McDonald
and Beck then read extracts from letters and
other documents to show that interference of
the army at the polls was not an imagnary
danger but had occurred. Adjourned.
In the House, Atkins, chairman of the appropriations
committee, reported back the
legislative appropriation bill and the Senate
amendments thereto, with a report recommending
concurrence in some and non-concurrence
in other of the amendments. The
recommendations were all concurred in. Acklin,
of Louisiana, from the committee on
commerce, reported a joint resolution authorizing
the survey of the Mississippi River,
near Lake Concordia, La., with a view to the
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Passed. The judicial expenses bill
was received from the Senate and referred to
the appropriations committee. The House
then resumed the consideration of the bill
prohibiting political assessments, which led
to somewhat of an acrimonious debate. Conger,
of Michigan, denounced the bill as an
infamous proposition. McLane, of Maryland,
said the Republican party held power only by
the corrupt use of Federal patronage which
it was the purpose of this bill to prohibit.
He spoke at considerable length in favor of
the bill and in condemnation of the course of
the Republican party generally, but was repeatedly
interrupted by Conger with questions
and sarcastic remarks which finally led to an
appeal to the chair on a point of parliamentary
order. The discussion was closed by a
demand for the regular order of business, and
the bill went over until the next day. The
House then took up the Senate bill relating
to juries, but the Republican members, who
maintained that it should not be acted upon
until the judicial expenses bill had been disposed
of, resorted to fillisbustering, and after
a two hours' struggle an attempt to get a
vote on it was abandoned, and the House
adjourned.
In the Senate on the 18th, the Mississippi
river improvement commission bill was passed
with amendments providing that the commission
shall consist of seven members?three
from the engineer corps, one from the coast
and geodetic survey, and three from civil life,
two of the latter to be civil engineers. Chandler,
Piatt, Morrill and Saulsbury were the
only Senators who voted nay. The army appropriation
bill was taken up, the pending
question being on Blaine's amendment prohibiting
all carrying of arms to the polls at
Congressional elections. Beck resumed the
readiner of documents to show that there was
military interference at the polls in Kentucky
in 1865, and went on to denounce the
laws under which such outrages were possible.
A long, desultory and unimportant debate
followed, in which subjects were discussed
as remote from the pending bill, as Southern
school books, the behavior of Indiana
troops in the Mexican war, and the attitude
of New England with reference to the admission
of Texas. The Republicans absented
themselves all of the day in order to prevent
a quorum.
In the House, the bill preventing political
assessments went over without action. McMahon,
from the appropriations committee,
reported back the judicial expenses bill with
the Senate amendments. On his motion
amendments 2 and 3 (verbal) were concurred
in, and amendments No. 1, excepting from
the provisions of the bill section 3,732 of the
Revised Statutes, was non-conc?rred it. Atkins,
of Tennessee, submitted the conference
report on the legislative bill, which was
agreed to. A debate ensued on the bill reported
by Stephens, from the coinage committee,
Morton, of New York, making a long
speech in opposition thereto. Fort, of Illinois,
the original introducer of the bill,
spoke in favor of it.
On the 18th, the Senate remained in session
until 2 o'clock next morning, the Republicans
having resorted to parlimentary tactics
in order to prevent action on the army bill.
During the session a spat occurred between
Lamar and Conkling, an account of which is
given in another column.
In the House, McMahon, of Ohio, submitted
a conference report upon the judicial expenses
bill. [Under the report, section 2 of
the bill will prohibit the making of any contract
or the incurment of any liability under
any of the provisions of title 26 of the Revised
Statutes authorizing the appointment or
payment of general or special deputy iuar'
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snaig ior service iu cuuuecnuu ?itu cicbuuuo,
or on election day.] Monroe of Ohio, one of
the conferees on the part of the House, explained
the reason of his opposition to the report,
and, in answer to Cox, expressed his intention
to vote against it, Cox himself intimating
that he would do the same, but for a different
reason. Garfield then made a stroDg
speech, laying down the Republican policy
on the question, arguing that the bill was
a nullification of the law; that it placed the
President in an attitude where he must either
observe his oath and execute the laws, and
thereby subject himself to impeachment, or
must violate his oath and his conscience.
No President would allow himself to be put
in such an attitude, and, "therefore," he said,
in conclusion, "farewell to all prospects of
home. We stay." This declaration was
greeted with applause on the Republican
side. Springer replied to Garfield, and declared
that if the President altered this bill,
he put himself in an attitude of defying the
majority to do what was wrong. They would
not do it?-never. [Jeering remarks on the
Republican side of "what, never!"] McMahon
sustained the report against the argument
of Garfield, and provoked the derisive jeers
of the Republicans by an allusion to the
President as "His Fraudulency." The discussson
was closed by the speech from McMahon,
after which the vote was taken and
the conference report adopted by a strict
party vote of 105 to 79. The House then
took up the bill to provide for the exchange
of trade dollars for legal tender silver dollars,
and after speeches by Cox and Stephens,
adopted an amendment providing that the
trade dollars recoined under this act shall not
be counted as a part of the coinage of silver
authorized by the act of February 28,1878.
The bill was then passed without division and
the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 20th, Wallace rose to
a privileged question and presented the re Via
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J dicial
expenses bill and asked its present consideration.
Conkling said he did not know
how far the committee had confined themselves
to adjusting the disagreeing vote, and
objected to considering the report in view of
the understanding on the army bill. If another
misunderstanding arose by reason of
the crowding out of debate, the Republicans
would not be to blame. After an animated
discussion, Wallace withdrew the report and
Carpenter proceeded to speak on the army
bill. He argued that the fifth section of the
present bill would prevent the President from
using troops at the polls even when called for
by States, since the army, if used at all, must
necessarily be used as a police force. He
also criticised the language of this section as
ambiguous and indefinite, aryl denied that
the presence of a few soldiers in the vicinity
of the polls would be a menace to any honest
voter. He continued to speak at considerable
length, but on the ground covered, for the
most part, by the previous debates. Ingalls
then read a speech sustaining the President's
action in vetoing the appropriation bills, during
which there was some desultory discussion
of the charge made by Ingalls that the
Southern Democrats intimidated colored Republicans'and
that this was the cause of the
Kansas exodus.
In the House, the Speaker called for reports
of a private character, and a bill, extending
the patent of Daniel M. Cook for
evaporating cane juice, was amended so as to
prohibit suits for infringement prior to this
act, and then passed. The House went into
committee of the whole, after which the mij
nority report of the judiciary committee on
| the veto messages were presented ana orueri
ed printed.
In the Senate on the 21st, the committee
j on privileges and electious was authorized to
appoint a sub committee to sit during the recess
and continue the Spofford-Kellogg investigation.
The bill to provide office rooms for
the National Board of Health, for publication
i of its reports and papers, and to authorise it to
erect necessary quarantine buildings, passed.
The Letter Carriers' bill also passed. It
contains the increased appropriations added
by the House, and appropriates ?415,000 for
i the payment of letter carriers for the fiscal
year ending June 30th, 1880, and ?71,000 for
increased payment of letter carriers for the
fiscal year ending June 30th, 1879. Mr. Kellogg
introduced a bill to provide an ocean
mail steamship service between the United
States and South America. The report of
the conference committee, on disagreeing to
the vote of the two Houses on the judicial
expenses bill, was taken up and adopted by
a party vote. The Army bill passed the Senate
at 1.50, a. m., by a strict party vote, except
that Burnside, of Rhode Island, voted
yea. Yeas, 33; nays, 19.
In the House, Mr. Cobb, of Indiana, made
a personal explanation in regard to the Indianapolis
Journal, of the 13th instant, relative
to a speech delivered by him some days
ago, in which he charged that in October,
1864, a Massachusetts regiment had interfered
with elections in the city of Indianapolis.
Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, introduced a
bill for the return of the Twiggs' sword to
Rowena and Guedella. Referred. The House
resumed the consideration of the bill prohibiting
political assessments, but it went over
without action. The Senate amendments to
the House bill for the appointment of the
Mississippi River commission, was taken up
and concurred in. The principal amendment
is to make the number of the Commission
seven, and it was announced by Mr. Hooker,
of Mississippi, that Professor Hilgard is to be
the additional Commissioner. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 23rd, no business of
importance was transacted.
In the House, upon the call qf the States,
many bills were introduced, chiefly of a private
character. Among the public bills were
the following : By Mr. Herbert, of Alabama,
to remove the duty on quinine and all material
for its manufacture; also, bills by Messrs.
Sanford, of Alabama, and Upson, of Texas,
for the same purpose. By Mr. Martin, of
West Virginia, to reorganize the army. The
Speaker then laid before the House the President's
veto of the supplementary judicial bill,1
and it was read by the clerk and followed by
slight applause on the Republican side. Mr.
McMahon, of Ohio, moved to reconsider the
bill, and the House proceeded to vote on the i
question of its passage, notwithstanding the
President's objections. The bill was rejected
for want of a two-thirds majority?yeas 104,
nays 78, a strict party vote. The House
then adjourned.
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Cotton blooms are reported in Abbeville,
Lexington and several other counties.
? For the first time in many years, the jail
of Barnwell county is without a prisoner.
? The Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance
will meet at Camden on the second
Wednesday of next month.
? The wheat crop in Abbeville county is
the best and largest that it has been for many
years.
? Smalls, the colored ex-Congressman, has
been given a petty appointment in the internal
revenue department.
? Up to Wednesday of last week, 1,047
liens for supplies had been registered in the
clerk's office for Newberry county.
? A correspondent of the News and Courier
says that Charleston county pays seven times
as much State taxes as the average of all the
counties in South Carolina.
? Rev. J. C. Furraan, D. D., and Prof. C.
H. Judson, have tendered their resignation as
Professors in Furman University, to take effect
at the close of the present year.
? It is reported that ex-District Attorney
D. T. Corbin is to be solicitor of the S. C.
Railroad, and to reside permanently in
Charleston.
? At Edgefield, last week, Solicitor Abney
gave out two indictments for adultery, and
the grand jury returned true bills in both
cases.
? A man in Pickens county was recently
bitten by a rattlesnake's pilot. Whisky was
administered in large doses and he recovered.
Boys, keep out of the way of the snakes?and
whisky. The latter is the more dangerous of
the two.
? The remains of Hon. Barnwell Rhett
were interred in Magnolia cemetery, in
Charleston, on Wednesday of last week. The
remains were brought from Huntsville, Ala.,
where they were temporarily interred at his
death.
? At Langley, in Aiken county, on Saturday
of last* week, a difficulty occurred at a.barbecue
between H. H. Jordan, of Aiken, and
John Hester, of Langley, during which the
latter was shot in the face by the former with
a pistol, the ball fracturing the jaw bone of
Hester. It is not supposed that the wound is
dangerous. The difficulty was the result of a
sudden quarrel.
? the Edgefield Advertiser of last week says:
"The Booth-Toney cases have been again continued.
Of these cases there are three. The
State against the Booths for the killing of
Booker Toney, and the State against Mark
Toney and other parties, in two indictments,
for the killing of Thomas and James Booth,
The first of these was continued, on motion of
I the defense. 011 aecount of the sickness of
Sampson Booth, who is in bed with fever.
The other two were then continued by the
prosecution. A negro man and woman have
been tried for assault and battery with intent
to kill. They beat a little colored girl very
unmercifully. The man was convicted and
sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. The
woman was acquitted."
? The Anderson Journal records a shocking
affair which occurred in that town a few
days ago. The Journal says; "A man whose
name wo learn was Hembree, living several
miles above this place, came to town, bringing
his little boy about seven years old, and
while here he took him into the bar-rooms
and, after drinking himself, gave the little
boy liquor to drink. In a short while the
poor little fellow was helplessly drunk on the
street, and the inhuman father was incapable
of taking care of him. Pitiful in the extreme
was the little boy's condition as he lay
in the broiling sunshine, and it excited the
indignity of many of our best citizens, some
of whom took the little fellow in charge and
did all they could for him."
? A letter to the New York Times from
Greenville, gives a cheering report from the
cotton mills in this State. Despite the general
depression in business from various
causes, among them yellow fever, last summer,
the cotton goods increased in quantity, and
improved in quality, and found ready sales.
The chief obstacle in the way was the scarcity
of competent operatives, but with the aid j
of a few taken from Northern mills, a sufficient j
number of young native women have been
taught to feed and direct the machines. They
are furnished with neat cabins in the vicinity ,
of the mills, and their pay ranges from 25
cents to 83 a day, according to their useful-.
ness. The increased local sales is specially
noteworthy.
? Thursday evening of last week, Mr. W.
L. Palmer, a citizen of Union county, residing J
about three mjles frofp fawn, djed at four
o'clock. He was taken sick in the fipld tjie ,
day before, it is supposed, from the effect of
tho sun, and went to his residence at dinner J
time, telling his family that he was feeling
quite unwell, and laid down, and after a few
hours of intense suffering death came to his
relief. When the funeral procession of Mr.
Palmer was about to start from the house, his
mother-in-law, Mrs Kelly, aged about 62
years, who a few momenta before appeared in
usual good health and had been active in assisting
the family, suddenly dropped dead
while talking to a member of the family.
Thus, while the body of Mr. Palmer was on
its way to the grave-yard, his mother-in-law,
who was apparently in perfect health when he
died, was lyiug a corpse in the house, awaited
the same sad rites.
? An altercation occurred last Sunday
night in Columbia, between John English, a
well known planter, and policeman William
Rose, resulting in injuries to the former, from
which he died Monday morning. At noon
Monday, Joe English, a brother of the de
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ceasen, met nose, wnen several snots were exchanged
without effect. The coroner's jury,
which was in session all Monday afternoon,
arrived at the following conclusion : That
the deceased came to his death by a blow inflicted
by some person unknown to the jury.
There is considerable feeling in the community
over the affair. Officer Rose waived
an examination until his counsel, Judge Melton,
who is at Glenn Springs, arrives. Officer
Daniel, who was also engaged in the affair,
was bailed in the sura of $500, to appear when
wanted.
? DozierFIinp, a ne^ro politician who was
arrested some time ago, charged with being
concerned in a conspiracy to burn the town
of Darlington in 1868, appeared in open
court at that place on Wednesday of last
week, and pleaded guilty of the charge. He
was sentenced by Judge Mackey to ten years'
imprisonment in the penitentiary. The Darligton
News publishes a copy of his statement
as read to the court, from which the following
extract is taken : "I was induced to join
the organization about August or September,
1876, called "The Working Club," the general
object of w,hich was to advance the interest
of the Republican party, and especially
to elect to office those who were known as
the working men of the county, as opposed to
persons who came here from other States and
counties. At that time there was no unlawful
object or means contemplated by the organization,
8c far as I know. A rule was
adopted by the organization that whoever of
its members should divulge any of its proceedings,
or refuse to obey its orders, should
be shot by a member, to be appointed for
that purpose. After this, I became aware,
for the first tirae, that unlawful objects and
means were in contemplation. After this I
endeavored by every means to furnish a plausible
excuse to absent myself from the meetings
; but found it impossible to do so, from
their vigilance and my fear of placing myself
under their suspicion. I was at the time 23
years of age- The organization was gotten
up and chiefly managed by Joseph Douglas,
a man about fifty years of age, and was a leading
and trusted man of the party. He was
at the time jailer of the county. He had always
been the right-hand man of B. F. Whittemore,
and we always considered that he
spoke something like the authority, or at
least the assent, of the men in wbom we had
every confidence. I knew of the conspiracy
to burn the town as charged in the indictment,
but dared not make aDy active opposition
to it for fear of my. life. I did none
of the actual burning, idlhough I was in town
on that night."
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NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The Raleigh Observer was bought by its
creditors, at public sale, on the 17th instant,
and will be continued under the editorial
management of P. M. Hale, Esq.
? The crops in Mecklenburg county, says
the Charlotte Democrat, "are doing well;
wheat and oats have turned out satisfactorily,
if not the best for several years. Cotton is
well worked and the stand iB very good."
? The owners of the Rudisill gold mine,
near Charlotte, have recently sold one-half
interest in the mine for $35,000, and the
Duffy mine, in Gaston county, was sold to
Boston capitalists, a few days ago, for $20,000
cash.
? Asheville now boasts of a cozy opera
house, which was opened recently by the
Thorne Comedy Company with Mi3s Bonnie
Meyer in the character of Fanchon. Prior
to the play, Miss Meyer delivered a neat address.
? One of the convicts now at work on the
railroad, near Greensboro, who was sentenced
for stealing money from the telegraph company,
says he has twenty-five hundred dollars
of the money yet. He gave his lawyer five
hundred dollars to defend him, and the remainder
is loaned on mortgage in Charlotte.
? At the term of the Superior Court for
Iredell county, last week, Alexander Bradwell,
white, and Thomas Roseboro, colored,
were convicted of burglary and sentenced to
be hanged on the 8th of August. It will be
renfembered that the young man Millen, an
accomplice in the crime, managed to elude
capture, and is still at large.
? Dan McCall, a half-witted white man, was
ruff over by the passenger train of the AirT
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Wednesday of last week, and instantly killed.
The coroner'sjury attributed no blame to the
conductor or engineer, as the man was lying
on the track, and the train could not have been
stopped in time to avert the catastrophe.
? The Charlotte Observer learns that Mrs.
Henry Underwood, a respectable widow lady
of River Bend township, died at her home
lust week at the advanced age of 93 years.
She maintained all her faculties to the last,
but has lost her teeth. It is given as a well
authenticated fact, however, that she had begun
to regain them ; in short, she was cutting
teeth, as she did nearly 93 years ago.
? The Charlotte Observer of Saturday re|
cords the death, which occurred on the preceding
day, of Mr. Joshua Trotter, of that
city. Mr. Trotter was a native of Virginia,
came to Charlotte when quite a young man
and entered the business of manufacturing
carriages and buggies, which he followed un!
interruptedly until a short time before his
death. He was a Quaker and lived fully up
to the strict religious and moral principles inculcated
by that denomination,
? Speaking of the suspension of the cotton
house of B. R. Smith & Co., of New York, the
Charlotte Democrat says: "The suspension
caused some excitement in financial circles,
but no in one Charlotte was hurt, as all their
liabilities are at the North. The firm is composed
of B. R. Smith, Junius M. Smith and
Bart. S. Johnson, all former citizens of Charlotte.
Dealing in cotton futures did the work,
and will do so for many more if the bad
practice is continued. We are pleased to
hear that the firm will soon resume business,
and that it has been offered material assis-;
tance and sympathy by New York houses. |
The member^ of the firm are of irreproachable
character, and all who know then} believe
that they will do all in their power to
meet liabilities. One of the firm, Mr. Junius |
M. Smith, is now lying very low at his brother's
residence in this city, suffering from the
effects of over-work and business anxiety during
the past Winter and Spring."
EDITOUIAL INKLINGS.
The Murderer of Col. Alston.
The motion for a new trial in the case
of Cox, convicted of the murder of Col. Al- (
ston, was argued at length before Judge Hillyer,
in Atlanta, last Friday. Counsel for <
the prisoner presented nineteen reasons why
the motion should be granted, and made able
speeches in support of them. After hearing
the arguments, the Judge said he discovered i
no error in the record and was bound to refuse
the motion for a new trial. The defend~
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Court in September. It will be at
least a year before the case will be finally settled.
Cox remains cheerful, and his friends
contend that he will yet be acquitted.
The Spartanburg: Lynching.
On account of the local interest attaching
to the affair, we publish on the first
page of this issue additional particulars of
the recent lynching in Spartanburg, furnished
to the News and Courier by Mr. Williams,
a staff reporter of that paper, who was in
Spartanburg at the time of the occurrence.
The indignation against Moore was very
great in the-neighborhood where he lived. A
citizen of that community writes to the
Charlotte Observer that all the churches in
that neighborhood refused to allow him to be
buried in their grave-yards. His remains
were accordingly deposited in a field near his
house. The writer, who participated in the
lynching, says he has nothing to regret, but
much prefers the position he occupies to that
of the man who allows such a crime to go
unpunished for one day longer than could be
helped.
It may be mentioned, in this connection,
that Governor Simpson has issued a proclamation
calling upon the law officers and all
good citizens of Spartanburg county, to lake
all steps within itheir legal capacity, as officers
and citizens, to bring the lynchers of Moore,
the ravisher and murderer, to punishment,
and thereby vindicate the majesty of the violated
law.
Califernia Republican Convention.
The California State Republican Convention
met in San Francisco last Thursday
and adopted a platform, of which the follow
ing are the leading points:
It reaffirms the principles of the Republican
party; denounces the attempt of the Democracy
to interfere with the purity of elections;
sustains the President's veto policy;
pledges the party to a faithful application of
the new Constitution and support of progressive
education; pledges the candidates for the
Legislature to attempt to settle the differences
existing in some portions of the State between
the agricultural and mining interests; affirms
that Congress should regulate freights and
fares in inter-State commerce, and pledges
the Railroad Commissioners of the State to
fair reductions, but does not define the amount
of the reduction. It is also anti-Chinese, and
has a declaration in favor of small landholders.
George C. Gorhamf who holds a proxy
and was placed on the committee on platform,
presented a separate resolution reciting
the receipts and expenditures of the railroad
company, and demanding a reduction of onequarter
of the rates of charges. After a long
discussion, it was adopted and incorporated
in the platform.
George C. Perkins was nominated for Governor
on the first ballot.
Death of Prince Louis Napoleon.
A dispatch from Capetown, dated June
3rd, states that Prince Louis Napoleon, Prince
Imperial of France, accompanied by other
officers, left Col. Woods' camp to reconnoitre.
The party dismounted in a mealie field, when
the enemy crept upon them and killed the
prince with assegoes. His body was recovered.
The official account?received in London
on Friday?of the young Prince's death,
says:
"The Prince, with Lieu?. Cary, of the 98th
Regiment, six men and one friendly Zulu,
left the camp at Keletzis mountain, seven
miles beyond Blood river, on the 1st instant,
for a reconnoissance. The party halted and
unsaddled when ten miles from camp. Just
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as me rnncegave-iue uruer iu reiiiuuiii>, ? vu?ley
was fired from ambush in the long- grass.
Lieut. Cary and four of the troopers returned
to camp and reported the Prince and two of
the troopers missing. From their statements
there could be no doubt that the Prince was
killed. A party of the 17th Lancers, with an
ambulance, started on the 2d instant, to recover
the bodv of the Prince, which was found
and brought in on the same day."
A special dispatch to the London New
adds the following particulars:
"The body of the Prince, when found, lay
on its back. There were eighteen assegai
stabs in it, two of them piercing the body from
the chest to the back, two in the side, and one
destroying the right eye. A locket, with hair
medallions and a reliquary, were found
around his neck. The face wore a placid expression.
He had evidently ineffectually
tried to mount, and the leather of the flap tearing,
he ran along the path to where he was
found. Two troopers lay near the body, both
having been asseiged. The Prince was very
adventurous."
Napoleon Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte,
was born in the Tuilleries, on the
16th of March, 1856, and was therefore twenty
three years old at the time of his death.
He was educated with great care, and on the
outbreak of the Franco German war accompanied
his. father to Metz, and thence to Saarbruck,
where, according to Napoleon's dispatch
to Eugenie, he received his baptism of
fire. His youth and effeminate appearance
were much ridiculed by the Germans, who, in
derision, gave him the name of Lulu. When
the military situation became critical, the
Prince was sent to Belgium for safety, and (
subsequently he joined his mother in England.
There he entered the training school at Woolwich
and made quite an impression by his re- (
markable intellectual gifts and his winning 1
manners. He was extremely popular with 1
the English, and when he embarked for South
Africa had quite a promising future before
him. His death will cause grief in England i
as well as in France. He is the last of a I
long and illustrious line, and with his death
perishes the last prospect of a re-establishment
of the empire in France.
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For the Yorkville Enquirer.
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TP1MIPBS5 TANVENTinW.
On Friday, the 20th instant, a number of ]
the School Teachers of York county assem- s
bled at the Court House and proceeded to i
organize a Teachers' Convention. Mr. E. P.
Castles was elected chairman, and F. A. Gil- ^
bert secretary. ^
It was resolved to hold another meeting on
Friday, the 11th day of July, at Yorkville, (
and that a general invitation be extended to i
all the teachers of York county to be present, j;
It was farther resolved that the School *
Commissioner of. the county be requested to
draft a system of rules and regulations for ^
the future government of the Convention.
The Convention then adjourned to meet at j
Yorkville, on the 11th day of July, at twelve l
o'clock, M. f
E. P. CASTLES, President.. i
F. A. Gilbert, Secretary. j
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LOCAL A77AZHS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
W. Holmes Hardin, President C. and L. Rail.
road?Stockholders' Meeting.
Latimer <k Hemphill?The New Jasper Cook
Stove.
John C. Kuykendal?Winchester's Hypophosphltes?Vitalized
Phosphates?Bradneld's
Female Regulator?Scott's Emulsion?Acid
Phosphate?A Timely Suggestion.
J. M. Adams?Cheap Cooking Stoves?Patent
Dinner Bucket?Wooden Bowls?Repairing.
T. M. Dobson, Leader of Low Cash Prices?The
Cash House. ?
Mrs. Fannie L. Dobson?'The Emporinm of Fashion
is Still Ahead on Millinery.
R. Lathan, School Commissioner?Free School
Notice?Notice to School Trustees.
G. L. Riddle?Riddle's Mills.
T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?Applications
for Final Discharge?
In the Matters of W. A. Hill and Edward
Lipscomb.
APPOINTMENT OF AUDITOR.
Governor Simpson has appointed Mr. C.
Scott Wilson, Auditor of York county.
STORES TO'BE CLOSED.
The merchants and business men of Yorkville
will close their places of business on the
Fourth of July.
CLOSE OP SCHOOL8.
The session of the graded school taught by
Mrs. Williams and Misses Edwards and Miller,
closed last Friday, as did also the session of
the school taught by Prof. W. R. Jones. The
session of the academic school, taught by Mr.
F. A. Gilbert, will close this week.
PF.DESTRIANI8M.
Cadets Wilkins, Johnson and Farmer, of
King's Mountain Military School, on leaving
to spend their vacation in the mountains, decided
to try the novelty of a pedestrian tour,
and started for Greenville Friday morning on
foot.
POSTAL MATTERS.
A new post office, to be known as Rocky
Mount, has been established in Chester county.
An order has been made by the post office
department to increase mail service to twice a
week between Yorkville and Union Court
House, (horse route) the increase to commence
on the 1st of next month.
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THE YORKVILLE NEWS.
The first number of the above paper, by Mr.
W. M. Warlick, was issued last Tuesday morning.
As its title implies, it is a newsy and
quite readable sheet. We welcome our young
friend into the field of South Carolina journalism,
and especially in our own community,
where he has cast his lot, and hope his brightest
anticipations may be fully realized.
WIRE PENCE.
The attention of those interested in a cheap
mode of fencing, for pasturage or other pur
19U1ICUICU IU 11IU ^U1T(?111MA4 TTilU ivuw^
lately introduced. A fence can be built with
it cheaply, and it will turn stock of all kinds.
We have recently built a short fence witH it,
and will take pleasure in exhibiting it and
giving any desired information on the subject
to those interested in the matter.
VISITING LAWYER8.
Besides the local members of the Yorkville
bar, the following lawyers are in attendance
upon the present term of the Court: Mr. Solicitor
Gaston, Giles J. Patterson, Esq., Wm.
A. Sanders, Esq., Chester; J. D. Wylie, Esq.,
Lancaster; John S. Reynolds, Esq., Winnsboro;
W. B. Wilson, Jr., Esq., J. P. Gage,
Esq., and J. C. Witherspoon, Esq., Rock
Hill. _
KING'S MOUNTAIN MILITARY 8CHOOL.
The session of the above institution closed
on Thursday last. The examination was generally
satisfactory, '[here was but one graduate?P.
T. Youmans, of Columbia, son of the
Attorney-General?who passed his severe final
examination in a highly creditable manner.
The hop, which was given on Thursday
night, in compliment to the graduating class,
was a delightful event, and one of the most
successful ever had at the barracks.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
At a regular meeting on Friday night last,
of Home Relief Lodge No. 389, Knights of
Honor, the following officers were elected to
Serve for the ensuing term:
I. D. Witherspoon, Dictator; J. F. Wallace,
Vice-Dictator; J. J. Hunter, Assistant Dictator;
J. M. Rawlinson, Chaplain; A. Springs
Withers, Guide; A. W. In gold, Reporter; H.
W. Hope, Financial Reporter; J. C. Kuykendal,
Treasurer; J. G. Ferguson, Guardian; A.
Cody, Sentinel.
KING'S MOUNTAIN CENTENNIAL.
At the suggestion of a number of citizens,
Senator I. D. Witherspoon baa issued a call
for a public meeting of the/citizens of the
county, to be held in the Com*t House on the
first Monday of July, for rile purpose of appointing
delegates to attend the Convention to
be held at King's Mountain, N. C., on the
25th of July, to take preliminary steps for the
centennial celebration in 1880. The occasion
is an important one, and we hope there will be
a full attendance of the citizens of all parts
of the county.
THE WOMAN PEDESTRIAN.
Mrs. Potts, the woman who is trying to
walk from Philadelphia to New Orleans and
return in five months for a wager of $5,000 a
side, of whom our Black's Station correspondent
made mention last week, arrived in AtAa
K a IrtlA/ilr loof CofiirHoTT offfir.
1(111 t(l, VT(I, J ai U V VIVA/a U*UV U4 UMJ U4W?noon.
A crowd of over one thousand awaited
her and cheered her as she entered the depot.
She says she is determined to perform
the feat and is now 200 miles ahead. She rested
in Atlanta until Tuesday, when she resumed
her journey. ' .
CHURCHES NEXT 8KJNDAY.
Services will be held in the churches nefct
Sunday as follows:
Allison Creek Church, Presbyterian, Rev.
L. R. McCormick, Pastor; (country.] Preaching
and Sunday-school at the usual hours.
Church of the Good Shepherd.?Rev. B. P.
Johnson, Rector. Services at 10} A. M., and
5 o'clock P. M. Sunday-school in the afternoon.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev.
Robert Lathan, Pastor. There will be no services
at this church next Sunday.
Presbyterian Church?Rev. L. H. Wilson,
Pastor. Services at 10$ A. M., and 8 P. M.
Prayer meeCting, Wednesday evening at 8
o'clock.
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. T. E. Gilbert,
Pastor. The Pastor will preach at Philadelphia
at 10$ o'clock A. M., and 1 P. M. Services
in Yorkville, at 8$ P. M. Regular monthly
meeting of Sunday-school Missionary Society
at 4 o'clock, P. M.
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PERSONAL MENTION.
Miss Sallie Adickes, who has been engaged
is music teacher in Kenansville, N. C., returned
to her home last week.
Mrs. Annie Dickson, of Columbia, is on a
visit to her parents in this place.
Miss Belle Thomas, daughter of Ed. Thomis,
of the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad, arrived at her home in this place on
Saturday last,
Miss "VVade, of Columbia, who, for several
months has been teaching a kindergarten
ichool and calisthenics here, left on Saturday
morning.
Misses Blanche Adickes, Katie Johnson and
Fannie Meacham, who have been attending
;he Episcopal Female Institute at Winches;er,
Va., returned Tuesday morning. Miss
Adickes graduated from the institution with
listinction, receiving a diploma and star
medal. Miss Johnson received a medal for
food deportment, and Miss Meacham was
iwarded a medal for proficiency in vocal music.
Mr. Arthur G. Hart, a student of King's
Mountain High Sohool, returned last week to
ipend his vaoatlon at home.
Major W. B. Metts has, for some time, been
iuffering from the effects of a malignant tunor
on his neck. He came home last Saturday
rom Columbia, where he had been under medcal
treatment. He returned to Columbia on
'esterday, for the purpose of having a surgical
operation performed by Drs. Talley and Taylor,
of that city.
Mr. Robert J. Herndon left on Monday for
Durham, N. C., having accepted an offer to
teach the cornet band of that town.
CIRCUIT COUHT.
June term of the Circuit Court for York
county, his Honor Judge Thomas Thomson
presiding, convened at 10 o'clock, on Monday
last. The following grand jurors?having y
been qualified as such at the first of the year-"
answered to their names and took their seats
hi the jury bo;c: S. L. Adams, foreman; F. H.
Barber, Madison Bratton, Beatty Blanton,
C. B. Byers, A. Cherry, J. A. Campbell, W.
B. Davidson, D. W. Fowler, E. C. Falls, J. C,
Hoke, Wm. Hardin, W. D. Lessly, R. S. McConnell,
John Ramsey, J. J. Waters?16.
His Honor then briefly addressed the grand
jury, stating that inasmuch as they had been
previously charged by the eminent Judge who
had preceded him, he did not deem it necessary
to give them further or lengthy instructions
as to their duties. As some doubt exists as to
whether the swearing of a grand jury, when
first impannelled, is sufficient for the year
during which they are to* serve, his Honor,
while believing it sufficient, stated that he
would not risk an uncertainty, and gave that
as the reason why he caused the oath to be administered
to the jurors.
As to their duties, his Honor instructed the
grand jury to examine the offices of the county?those
of the Clerk of the Court, the Sheriff,
the Judge of Probate, and especially the
office of the County Commissioners, for upon
the discharge of their duties, more depends for
the welfare of the county, excepting the Judge
of Probate, perhaps, than any other county
office. The grand j ury would, therefore, examine
all these offices, with as much care as the
time at their command will admit, and report
on the same.
Tho mnil inrv were alsn instructed to ex
amine and report upon the condition of the
jail and the poor house, and also the treatment
of the inmates of the respective institutions.
Though a person may have committed
a crime and been placed in jail, yet he is notto
be treated inhumanely or punished previous
to conviction, it is the duty of every county
to provide well for its poor, and the best test
of the moral standing of a community is by
the manner in which they treat their poor. It
is due to this unfortunate class that they be
properly and humanely treated as inmates of
the county poor house, and the grand jury
should enquire into the manner in which those
having the poor in charge discharge their duties.
On the subject of gambling, his Honor
charged that the laws bearing upon this subject
do not seem generally to be perfectly understood.
Persons may innocently engage in
games without betting, arid yet be liable "to the
penalties of the act. While certain games,
without a wager, are permitted in dwellings,
yet if persons go upon the streets or on the
highway, or in the woods, and play at these
games, only for amusement, they violate the
law and are liable to prosecution for unlawful
gambling. The reason given for this act of
the Legislature is that gaming in public places,
in the woods or on the highway, even for
amusement, is demoralizing in its tendency
and leads to gambling.
On the subject of granting licenses to sell
liquor, his Honor charged that the question
rests solely with the grand jury, and the rule
by which they should be guided is whether or
not the.granting of license, in any case, wpuld
be for the benefit of the county. If application
for license be made, and the grand jury
think that hv crrantinflr the same, and the es
tablishing of a house for the retailing of spirituous
liquors would not lead to the congrega- ting
of people to it, causing them to neglect
their work and have an othenrise demoralizing
effect, then they might grant license; but
if they thought it would have a ecutracy effect,
leading to brawls and fights, why then
he thought they could not but feel it their
duty to withhold the license. In this, as in
all matters coming before the grand jnry, they
are to act for the welfare of the whole county,
and not for what might be conceived to be for
the advantage of one individual. Hence, if
the grand jury conclude that the evil arising
from the retailing of liquor would exceed the
price obtained for the license, it would be better
not to grant it. His Honor, with a slight
gleam of humor, explained the act of the
Legislature upon this subject as being a little
singular in its provisions. While County
Commissioners are empowered ,to grant license
for the sale of beer, wines, &c., the
grand jury only are constituted the judges of
those who shall retail whisky or brandy, and
they are likewise, according^ to the act, supposed
to be competent to judge of the quality
of the liquor to be sold.
With the admonition to the grand jury to
keep inviolate the proceedings of their body,
his Honor closed.
The following petit jurors answered to their
names:
Martin Armstrong, G. R. Boleyn, Samuel
Brown, J. L. Biggerg, Wm. Borders, Joseph
Black, Green Bratton, W. S. Creighton, W.
M. Castles, Wm. Choate, A. J. Davinney, Jefferson
Ellis, Frank Edwards, D. J. Good, W.
H. Herndon, J. P. Hutchison, Allen Hall, W.
N. Jackson, Iredell Jones, J. M. Jackson,
S. J. Kimbrell, J. B. Lowry, 8. M. Love, W.
J. Martin, Thomas Martin, J. C. McCully,
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W. C. Reid, L. L. Smith, H. C. Strauss, J. F.
Workman, Wm. "Whyte?34.
Messrs. W. J. Martin, Biggers and Reid
were, on their petitions, and for sufficient reasons,
excused by his Honor from serving as
jurors during the present term.
The following cases were disposed of on
Monday: .
State vs. J. W. Smith; burglary. Two cases.
Both cases transferred to the contingent
docket.
State vs. Martha Moore; adultery. Continued.
State vs. Nancy Bigham; adultery. Continued.
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State vs. A. W. Parks; breach of trust.
Prosecutor, Wm. Bacharach. Solicitor Gaston
and W. B. Wilson, Jun., for the State;
Messrs. Bell and Hart & Hart for defence.
Indictment quashed, on the ground that the
goods alleged to have been stolen were of
value under jurisdiction of this Court.
State vs. Wm. Leech and Lizzie Leech, colored
; assault and battery. Prosecutor, B.
Byas, colored. "Verdict, guilty as to William
Leech.
State vs. Benj. F. Grant, colored; forgery.
Prosecutor, Peter Ihrie. Pleaded guilty.
State vs. Jos. Flannigan, colored; burglary.
Prosecutor, Wm, J. Boyd. Verdict, guilty.
State vs. James Hutchison, colored; grand
larceny. Prosecutor, Robert J. Harper. Verdict,
guilty.
James P. Caston, charged with the murder
of C. L. Williford, at Rock Hill, on the 2nd
instant, was formally arraigned, and after
pleading not guilty, was remanded until "Wednesday
morning, the time set for his trial.
The following counsel are retained in this
case: Mr. Solicitor Gaston will be assisted in
the prosecution by Giles J. Patterson, Esq., of
Chester, and Messrs. Wilson & Wilson, of the
Yorkville bar. The defence will be conducted
by Messrs. Witherspoon & Spencer, of the
Yorkville bar; Messrs. J. P. Gage and J. C.
Witherspoon, of Rock Hill, and J. D. Wylie,
Esq., of Lancaster. y -v
There being five vacancies in the regular
panel of petit jurors, his Honor, on motion of
the Solioitor, granted an order that the vacancies
should be filled by drawing the requisite
number of names from the jury box. In
accordance with the order, on Tuesday, the
jury commissioner drew, the following names:
Oscar Chambers, colored, T. S. Jeffreys, L.
R. Williams, J. H. Crawford and J. A. Carroll.
Nearly the whole day, Tuesday, was consumed
in the trial of Joe Watson. Jack Garrison,
Wm. Choate, Prince Biggers and James
Watson, all colored, charged with rioting.
Prosecutor, James Bigger. Mr. Solicitor Gas- ^
ton for the State ; Messrs. Bell and McCaw for