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, * Scraps and |farts. ? A New York brewer has made a contract to ship to Paris, France, from 500 to 1,000 ( barrels of beer a month. The same brewer, j ^ who won a prize at the Paris Exhibition, has recently made large shipments of beer to Australia. ? The entire White Sulphur Springs property in Virginia, consisting of 7,000 acres of land, was offered at auction on Friday last. The highest bid was $300,000. The commissioners would not accept this and the property was withdrawn from sale. ? On Friday last the State of Tennessee voted on the proposition to compromise the State debt at fifty cents on the dollar, with four per cent, interest. Probably not half the average vote was 'polled, though the proposition was voted dowu by a large majority. ? The (ieorgia .Legislature is considering a bill (which has passed the Senate) to prohibit speculation in futures. It is sought by the bill to prevent the recovery of money under the illegal contract, or, in other words, to make such contracts void in law. ? La9t year, a Knight of Honor died in Mem phis,and the incoosolable widow received $2,000. Nothing would dispel the darkness of her desolation except another knight. The yellow fever carried him off the other day, and $2,000 more will be paid over to this knightly widow. If this is kept up for several years, it may cause the O. M. A. to set some limit to the number of benefits one woman shall be allowed to receive. ? The representative heir of the great Henry Clay was in Boston last week to negotiate * the sale of the famous Clay vase, bought by the generous contributions of the enthusiastic Whigs in 1844. About everything else has gone for the benefit of the young spendthrift, and now this testimonial to his grand-father i9 put on the market The vase is of solid silver, two and a half feet high and elaborately fabricated. ? Mrs. Dorsey's property amounted to only 825.000 and not 8250.000. Her income was $2,250 per annum, less $492 in taxes. She owed $5,000. Last Spring she made a bona fide sale of the Beauvoir place to Mr. Davis for $5,500, for which he gave his notes, running for one, two and three years. So Mr. Davis has not the bonanza some people imagined, and not enough to tempt the cupidity of any reputable lawyers at the North. ? Times go by turns. It is not so very long ago since the commercial and industrial news in the daily papers was but a common story of failures and the closing of factories of various kinds. Now, one can hardly open a paper without seeing an account of good crops, the resumption of work in woolen and iron mills, the revival of industries and trades of nearly every class, and the prospect of good times once more?based, too, on a solid foun. dation. ? The Denver (Col.) New states that the , Hun. D. T. Corbin, late of South Carolina, visited that city lately, and was induced by a sharper to invest $10,000 in "silver bricks," which were represented to be very pure and a great bargain. Mr. Corbin discovered, when too late, that the bricks were of the basest alloy, and worthless. Thus Mr. Corbin was as unlucky in his silver speculation as he was in his aspirations to represent South Carolina in the United States Senate. ? Joseph Rainey, who served several years in Congress from the first South Carolina district since the war, and who was defeated at the last election, has been appointed special ageut*bf the Treasury department by Secretary Sherman, and has his headquarters in New York. Rainey boards, in New York and has a comfortable home in Connecticut. He has been advising the colored people to leave the South for Kansas, but says he will retain his residence in South Carolina. ? The killing of the Mormon elder Standing, in Whitfield county, Georgia, has developed the fact that Morraonism prevails to a much greater extent in North Georgia than had been supposed. Chattooga, Walker, Catoosa, Whitfield, Floyd, Murray, Dade, Pickens and Fannin counties have been favorite fields for Mormon missionaries engaged in - the work of making proselytes, and it is reported that the death of Standing will but add to their determination to prosecute their labors of making converts more energetically than ever. ? C. Hyllested & Co., cotton brokers, of No. 7 South William street, New York, sent notice to the Exchange last Thursday of their inability to meet their engagements. As the members of the firm were "out of town," it was impossible to obtain ':he amount of liabilities. The members of the Cotton Exchange believe that tbey could not be above $20,000, and that Southern customers were the principal creditors. The failure is said to be due to a decline of about thre^ cents per pound since the failure of Williams, Biruie & Co., and the fact that Messi-s. Hyllested & Co., were "long" on the market. ? A private letter from a gentleman in Eastern Germany, dated July 23, says: "There has been no summer, but rain nearly every day ; the therraometer in my room ranging from 69 to 75. In some places harvesting has begun, but unless we have some warm dry weather soon, much of the grain must rot in the fields. On our way recently to and from the mountains (two different route?) I observed at least half the wheat we passed was lying flat and tangled in the fields, beaten down by the rain storms ; all will be difficult to cut, and much must rot or sprout before it can be secured. Adding to this the immense amount of grain and other food crops destroyed by the inundations last month, and it looks as if America would be called upon to feed Germany as well as England and France next winter. ? This week the Northwest is laughing with a good harvest. Every day of pleasant weather now is worth millions of dollars to the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, where spring wheat is being gathered. Two or three more favorable days will probably see the greater part of the wheat in Minnesota safely housed. The total crop of the State will be from 45,000,000 to 50,000,000 bushels, averaging ten to fifteen bushels to the acre in the southern part of the State, and fifteen to twenty-five in the Park region north of the Minnesota River. It is believed threequarters of the wheat will grade as high as I No. 1, which i9 unprecedented. By the close { of the week little grain will remain out of j the stack, and the berry is reported hard, | bright and firm. The farmers of the Northwest are jubilant. ? From May 1, 1878, to May*l, 1879, there were made and sold in the City of New | York, 1,342,180 barrels of lager beer. In 1 each barrel there are four kegs, and each ! keg, at retail, averages 115 glasses of beer, making the total sales 617,392,800 glasses, j which, at 5 cents per glass, which the con-! sumer pays for it, will give 830,870,140 as the amount annually expended in New York for KoAr alnnfi. Tt is enual to about 830 Der capita of the entire population, or $i80 per ; annum for each head of a family?815 a month ; the wages, in fact, of an average farm hand who boards on the farm. It amounts, ; in another view of the case, to nearly 3 per cent, upon the total assessed valuation of! New York, and is within about 83,000,000 of . the total municipal taxation of that heavily- f taxed city. The beer score is probably larger; than the whisky score, but both togethenj reach a frightful sum. ? An American engineer, who, being en-l gaged in the construction of a railway in\ China, has had unusually favorable opportu-i nity of' examining the famous "Great Wall," V built to stop the incursions of the Tartars, [ gives the following account of this wonderful ? work : The wall is 1,728 miles long, 18 feet \ high and 15 feet thick at the top. The foun- ' dation throughout is of solid granite; the remainder of compact masonry. At intervals of between 200 and 300 yards, towers rise up 25 to 30 feet high and 24 feet in diameter, <' On the top of the walls and on both sides of it, are masonry parapets to enable the defend- J t ers to pass unseen from one tower to another. J [ The wall itself is carried from point to point! j in a perfect straight line across valleys and ^ plains, and over hills, without the slightest regard to the configuration of the ground, sometimes plunging down into, abysses a thousand feet deep. Brooks and! smaller rivers ? are bridged over by the wall, while on both j banks of larger streams, strong flanking tow- j ers are placed. j ?be fJatferiUe (frmjuiw.! YORKVILLE, S. C.: ! THURSDAY MORNING, AUG." 14, 1879. j How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name 1 of the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, < county and State, in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post office money < order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. ( Postage.?The Enquirer is delivered free of postage to all subscribers residing in York coun- 1 ty, who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no i matter where they receive the paper, are not liable . for postage, it being prepaid at the post-offico here, without additional charge to the subscriber. I Watch the Figures.?Thedateon the"addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers dis- I continued, the date mu.it be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that 1 our terms for subscription, advertising and job- \ work, are cash in advance. ' _ . ' .Mr- > THE YELLOW FEVER. ( In answer to a request of the Chicago News, A. D. LangstafF, president of the Howard Association at Memphis, has sent a telegram under date of Jast Saturday, giving particu * i . n 11 x. ] lars ot ttie condition 01 mat cny, couiuiuuig the following points : "The total number of cases of yellow fever to this hour within the city limits, officially recorded, is 330; of this number 90 have 1 died". In addition, there have been about 1 20 cases and b deaths of Memphis refugees located within six miles of the city. The dis- , ease has not communicated to any of the surrounding towns on account of rigid quarantine. The fever has increased in Memphis i very perceptibly in the past ten days and is 1 spreading from its original centre. We cannot hope for a discontinuance until frost. At least 30.000 persons have left, of whom 12,000 are located in camps Father Matthew and Marks, situated 4 and 7 miles respectively from Memphis. There have been 3 cases in 1 Camp Marks and 1 death. At least 12,000 negroes are in the city, only 100 having gone to the camps. They have declined to leave < the city, hoping to receive rations here, which i9 in opposition to the views of all parties j who are laboring here to attend to such as may be taken sick. Our only safety is in de- ' population. In consequence of the fever spreading among the negroes in the past five I days, there is a growing disposition to go to the camps. Should their appeal to the United , States for rations not meet with a favorable ( answer, the negroes will no doubt move as ( soon as they get hungry. No one but a Howard visitor or physician knows of the filthy 1 hovels that these people live in, and in which ! they are taken sick and too frequently die. < We have six physicians on duty and have , ? i icn??:?i, ?,uu naa unaer our cnarge jiaticuto aic?v mm various diseases. To these sick people we furnish nurses, medicines, stimulants and food. About 200 have been discharged. Our expenses are now 8500 per day, and will probably increase. We have on hand $18,000. This amount would have been sufficient if the negroes had followed the example of the white people and left the city. We hope not to be forced to ask assistance, but fear this non-action of the negroes will compel us to do so. The sanitary condition of the city is excellent." Five new cases were reported at Memphis on Monday, and four deaths. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. , ? At the recent municipal election in Beau- | fort, the regular Republican ticket was elected. I ? In Camden there are six bar rooms, seven churches and three temperance societies. i ? A white woman is confined in the jail of < Georgetown, on the charge of living in adul- i tery with a negro. I ? A white girl of Lexington county, aged < about eighteen years, recently eloped with a negro and married him in Columbia. ? Col. Thomas Dodamead, late superintendent of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad, will sail for Europe in a few days. ? A correspondent of the Atlanta Dispatch i nominates Comptroller-General Hagood as a candidate for Governor at the election in 1880. ? A Barnwell planter expects to put a bale of new cotton on the market for sale, by the ( 20th instant. 1 ? Erskine College has received a splendid 1 gift of nine boxes of books from Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken for the college library. j ? The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta 1 Railroad is advertised to be sold at auction, ' under foreclosure of mortgage, at Wilming ton, JN. C., on the first day ot next uctooer. j ? A. E. Miller for many years the publish- 1 er of "Miller's Almanac," died in Charleston ] on Saturday last in the ninety-sixth year of his age. He was a printer by trade, and commenced the publication of his well known i almanac in the year 1817. J ? It is stated that the following gentlemen j of Abbeville county, will be candidates in the ] next election. For Governor, Gen. Samuel McGowan ; for Attorney General, Col. J. S. < Cothran ; for Adjutant and Inspector General, 1 Gen. R. R. Hemphill. ' ? Spartanburg Herald: Dr. Christopher 1 G. Bechtler, who had been living at Gaffney City for several months, was arrested recently i a few miles from this place, on a charge of j t counterfeiting United States coin, and was ! c committed for trial at the next term of the < United States Court, at Greenville. ; t ? In Barnwell county, oue day last week, a 1 lady was bitten on the toe by a rattlesnake, i Her husband immediately sucked the poison ( out. The gentleman was in his turn affected, 1 \ his throat swelling to twice its size, but both i parties have entirely recovered from the effects 1 j of the poison. j ( ? The negro Marcus, who claimed to have been deaf and dumb all his life until recently, 1 ( when he suddenly recovered power of speecli t and sense of hearing, is pronounced a fraud. \ He imposed upon the credulity of several per- i sons in Anderson county, but exposure has i overtaken him and his improbable preteu- ] gions. 1 ? A meeting of survivors of the 6th Hegii { ment was held at Winnsboro, on Thursday t last. Representatives were present from eve-\ t ry company except K, of Clarendon county, t Company B, of York county, was represented f by Sergt. J. Z. Porter, Corporal H. F. John- s son, J. H. Coltharp and John B. Erwin. f Rev. Dr. Grier, of Due West, a member of r the regiment, delivered an address on the occasion. " 1?^ The barn, four mules, one horse, five c calves, one beef, one hundred chickens, plow i and wagon gears, fanning tools and plow ? stocks, fodder and oats, belonging to James 1 M. Eppes, at Tumbling Shoals, Laurens conn- f y, were destroyed by an incendiary fire on tl Tuesday night of last week. Investigation w evealed the fact that the barn was fired by n ;wo negroes, who were arrested aud committed tl ;o jail. ii ? Mrs. Louisa Ridgeway, of Dunklin town- ti ship, Greenville county, has a calf that is a ti jreat curiosity. The fore legs and body are f< lerfect in form, and one hind leg is well h brmed. The other hind leg is divided into r< ^wo legs, one of which conies out inside the b ;high and extends to about the knee and has h i half formed hoof. The main leg divides at n ihe ankle joint into two legs, each division s< liaving a perfect hoof. This whole compliea- o 1 .1 - *1 U tion ot legs is snorter tnan tne mree perieut u legs, and impedes the locomotion of the calf, g ? The Colleton Democrat of the 8th instant, tl javs: "The rice crops on the Ashepoo river V n this county are better thau they have been & for years. The seasous have been rather pro- c pitious for the growth and cultivation of this b plant the present year, and with harvest seasons equally propitious, there will be no doubt that the yield of the rice crop on Ashepoo will be heavier than for many years past, ii Colleton has no right to complain of the ii jrops, for to take them generally over the I jounty, corn, cotton and rice will make6orae s thing over an average yield." s ? The Union Times of last week says : "It c is really refreshing to hear our farmers tell of r the astonishing change which the late rains " iiave made in the corn crop throughout this a oounty. In many fields where it was supposed t the tassels were dead and the crop beyond the I power of rain to recover, we now hear of the 1 tassels putting on new bloom, shoots of corn r starting and silking, and a bright prospect r opening for an average crop of corn. Men c who told us two weeks ago of fields that s would not make a bushel to the acre, now tell v us they expect to make from ten to fifteen f bushels per acre on those fields. This re- 1 markable change, however, is only seen where I the crop had been well worked, aud was clean when the rains came." v ? Under the head oi "Something new 111 i cotton culture," the' Abbeville Medium says : i "It has always been claimed that cotton will i not groto when transplanted, but from the re c 3.lit of an experiment, which we have made C in a small way, the old notion will not hold t good, and cotton will grow when transplant- ) ed. O11 the 31st of June, a stalk of cotton t was brought to this office from the country 1 and placed on exhibition for two days, when v it was topped and planted in a little rich i earth Hear our office, and has now grown into 1 a vigorous stalk. When planted it had two 9 blooms on it and thirteen shapes. These all 1 fell off, but others are putting out, and the ) 3talk-will no doubt produce fruit. If trans- 1 planting succeeded in this case, would it not S be practicable upon a much larger scale, and c could not the whole cotton crop be in this r way improved?the yield increased and the t fibre made fiuer." v ? The Columbia Register says that Profess- 1 ir Bibikov, of that city, has discovered a v deposit of lignite or brown coal, in South Carolina, not far from Augusta, about a mile from the Savannah river and a few hundred yards from the Port Royal Railroad. It is , an the plantation of Mr. Paul F. Hammond, ind the same seam extends to the plantation >f his brother, Mr. Harry Hammond. From the position of the stratas, the professor says b'e would not be astonished if the whole area >f at least a hundred acres would be found to be covered by the same seam. The strata <eems to be from two to three feet thick and to lie at a depth of about twenty-five or thirty feet from the surface. He has made assays or preliminary tests of the coal found there, and the result has led him to believe that it can be used for the production of gas md for fuel. The coal itself and the shales which overlie it are strongly impregnated with alum. It also contains a good many pi rites or sulphurets of iron. Professor Bibikov thinks that both alum and copperas can be extracted from the coal and the shales. His intention is to go to the place again and make use of a borer io ascertain the real lepth of the strata, and how far the seam extends, and then to see if he can find under that strata other scams of coal, which no loubt will be of still better quality. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? There were eight deaths in Wilmington last week. ? Watermelons are selling at a cent a pound in Raleigh. ? The State Fair will commence in Raleigh an the 13th of October. ? The Star says about forty persons have connected themselves with the Second Baplist church in Wilmington during the last three weeks. ? Gov. Jarvis has offered a reward of $200 c fur the capture of N. M. Millen, the leader of c the Statesville burglars. When the others g were arrested he escaped. ? H. E. Schrider, who shot and killed Wil- ^ liam Jones, in New Hanover county, by mistake, supposing him to be a thief they were j pursuing, was tried in the criminal court of (, Wilmington, Friday, and acquitted. a ? The widow of the late John B. Randle- L man, one of the proprietors of Union cotton 1 factory in Randolph, has filed her bond as a administrator, in the sum of $100,000?the j, largest bond ever given in the county. a ? The Winston Leader notes the formation f )f a new band in Salem. It is composed of I rery youthful musicians, and will be styled 0 'The Church Band" and will furnish music ror the funerals held in the Moravian church. " ? A Raleigh dispatch of Monday says the 0 ecent rains in North Carolina have saved he tobacco crop in that State. Reports in- ii licate that the yield will be within 20 per cent, d )f last year's crop. Durham, N. C., the great n obacco centre of the State, is doubling its ^ jusiness in leaf tobacco. W. T. Blackwell j fc Co., commenced work to day on a large ad- w lition to their immense brick factory. It p vill be the largest in the United States. They c nauufactured over seven hundred thousand P xmnds of smoking tobacco during the month C YFnv /* 1.1V.J, ? The Morgauton Blade says : "Mr. J. A. u Jox and several other young men of this c own went deer hunting last week, and they o ,vere caught out in a storm and took refuge d n a rock cliff near Table Rock in this county, n tnd while in the cliff, Mr. Cox observed a j r< )ile of snakes ; the remainder of the crowd ' c< jeat a hasty retreat. Mr. Cox stood his ! tl jround and fired at the bulk of the snakes o md they scattered in every direction, singing ! g he well known tune of the rattlesnake as E hey went. Mr. Cox, upon examination, tl bund that he had killed four large rattle- g nakes at the one shot, and as he did not! sc ancy the music around him, he did not re-1 m nain to hunt up the wounded." )'p< ? Says the Charlotte Observer of Sunday:: 'Yesterday, a little after mid day, W. King,, k olored, a carpenter and laborer whose home j d( s in Charlotte, met a horrible death at the cc louth Fork trestle, on the Atlanta & Char- se otte Air Line Railroad, about twenty miles tl: rom this city. Me has been employed upon ' th lis road for some time past, and yesterday ras engaged with other'bands at work on or ear the trestle over the South Fork. About le hour designated, with his carpenter tools [ i his hands, he started to walk across the pestle, and when at a point where the dis- j ince from the ground is about seventy-five , jet, in stepping from one cross-tie to another, is foot slipped, the tie being wet, and he eeled and fell. Clutching at the uppermost 1 ench of the trestle, he caught it with one and, but the grasp was too slight and the | i omen turn of the body too great. This only jrved to give him a turn, and he turned ver and over once or twice striking the tim- j ers of the trestle, until finally he struck the round with a dull, heavy thud. When hose who witnessed the fall got to the unforunate man he was still alive. He lived only few momenta however, his nectt ana ollar bone having been broken while his ody was bruised in different places." MERE-MENTION. ? The yellow fever is said to be more fatal ii Memphis this year^thau fof the correspondng period last year. Last Friday^ the Jnited States assay office at New York, hipped to New Orleans,-334,000 ounces of ilver, amounting to $350,000 in value, for oinage into standard silver dollars. The ailroads of the United States show gross earlings, during the past year, of $490,000,000, gainst $393,000,000 during the preceding welve months. Gen. Beauregard is at lawley Springs, Vn.";i There are ninety ife prisoners in the Kentucky penitentiary, learly all of whom are under sentence for aurder. Maj. John S. Braxton, collectir of customs at the port of Norfolk, died uddenly last Saturday night. He served uith rlistintruishfid pallantrv as maior of in ' ? o O J ? J an try in the Confederals array. He was apjointed collector of customs by President Jayes about two years ago. J. C. Duff', deputy United States marshal, vas recently shot and killed by illicit disillers in the mountains of Pulk county, Tenlessee. There are 450 women dentists u the United States, and 1,350 are studying lentistry. Yellow fever has killed 21,)00 people in this country within the past en years. Of this number 14,000 died last rear. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston says hat one year's experience in the House of Representatives has thoroughly disgusted him vith politics, and when his terra expires he ntends to retire to private life. Judge ^Hckey risks his reputation for political foreight on the prophecy that Tildeu will be the democratic nominee for the Presidency next rear. California is the next State which raids an election?the date being September !d. Maine follows the succeeding Monlay. Memphis papers complain that ich refugees are doing little or nothing for heir unfortunate fellow citizens. There rere 93 deaths from yellow fever in Havana ast week, a decrease of 40 from the previous reek. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. * I- V..II. ltfmiUU5 ill ilUi ui vaiv.num Under the above head, the Raleigh Observer of Sunday has the following: They have broken out in this State, too. 'n the counties of Cl%y and Cherokee, this nuch and frequent marrying sect has begun o multiply to an extent that was very gratiyiug to them and fulFof danger to the comaunity. So the people turned on these Later Day Saints and threatened to make it lotter for'them than tlld thermometer indicaed if they didn't shut up and put out. They vere kindly allowed thirty days in which o arrange their North Carolina affairs previous to their departure to the land of the ialine Lake. Thereupon, one of the Elders mtes a letter to Governor .Jarvis bitterly omplaining of this abridgment of their reigious liberty, and requesting the Governor o interfere in behalf of his people, especially he new converts. The letter is a clever arangement of part truths and exaggerations, md in the name of liberty of worship, coolly isks for license of conduct that Is not North Carolina growth or to our liking. The Governor has written the Solicitor of he District and the Sheriffs of the two counies to see that the laws are preserved and hat the public peace is not broken. This s all that he can do. T% I !.l \M : J reopie wan muriuuu lucns imu ucuci 6w 0 Utah, and.until they get there bless Joe Smith that they don't live in Georgia, where 1 Mormon elder has been found uot on the :arth nor yet in the heavens?hut sorter be-t wixt and between. Hood will Tell! The Chicago Timet of the 4th instant ;ives the following account of a swindling ransaction in that city, in which the son of 'Honest" John Patterson prominently figires : A sensation has been created at government leadquarlers here by Silas M. Patterson, late if South Carolina, who arrived some weeks ago in his return frora California. He put up in ;rand style at the Palmer House, and introluced himself at the custom house with letters rom John Sherman, Charles Devens, S. J. laudall, D. M. Key, John R. Hawley, and thers well known at Washington. These ntroductions placed him in the good graces f William Henry Smith, Collector Harvey, ,nd all government people. He was taken ?y the hand, smiled upon, wined, dined and oasted. All went merry until one day he .ppeared in the custom house and explained o Collector William Henry Smith that he iad lost $1,800 betting on a wrong horse, nd was dead broke. He expected a draft rom Sherman ; also one from pere Patterson, n the meantime he wished a temporary ?oan n some familv diamonds, which luckily he ad with him. He was fortunate. He left handful of diamonds among the government fficials, obtaining S3.000 to $4,000 of a loan n them. Next appeared one Warren Knight, claim ng to be a diamond broker, who had given the iamonds to Patterson to sell and return the joney, which he did not do. He secured a rarrant for Patterson, who, it is said, has iouuced from the Palmer House, owing a arge bill. Knight is said to be connected nth a gang of thieves, and Patterson is susected of being in confidence with him, in a onfideuce game to rob government emloyees. ounterfeitors and Counterfeiting. Information comes from Washington rhich may be of great value to bankers, raerhants and business men generally. Officers f the secret service division in the treasury epartment, say that the business of making loney is constantly increasing. With the ^sumption of silver coinage the work of ounterfeiting silver coins was begun, and allough hardly a week passes in which a gang f coin counterfeitors is not broken up, new angs are organized with alarming frequency. Ividence of the existence of counterfeitors in lis State has already come to light. Conress appropriated $60,000 for the use of the :cret service division this year. Thirty-five ten are employed, and their traveling exenses are paid out of this sum. Several gangs of expert counterfeitors are nown to be making counterfeits of legal ten2r notes in Canada. A sample of a new mnterfeit $5 note has been received at the J cret service headquarters. In general look ie face of the counterfeit closely resembles ( iat of a genuine note. The lathe work on i the counterfeit is very Hue, and the imitation of 6bre paper on which the note is counterfeited is fair. The counterfeited fibre is in more regular lines than the genuiue, and the buck of the counterfeit is a shade lighter than ^ the genuine notes. * , The greateSl defect in the counterfeit, how: ever, is the absence of scroll work over and under the words, "Series 1875," in the upper , left hand comer of the face of the note. 'The omission of this scroll work was undoubtedly intentional 011 the part of the counterfeitors. As soon as the counterfeit is extensively advertised and the points of difference between it and the genuiue notes carefully noted and , made public, the counterfeiters will change the plate so as to remedy all the published defects, and send forth new notes. 1 Condition of the Cotton Crop.. The following is the condition of the 1 cotton crop in five southern States, as reported under cfkte of last Saturday: South Carolina.?The report of the Charleston exchange for July is based on 89 } replies from 29 counties. The weather for July, with few exceptions, is reported very hot and dry until the 20th and 25th, but in the rest of the month there was an abundance of rain. No land was abandoned except a ( trifling amount in one county. The weather , for the season to the 31st ultimo, is reported more favorable by 23, less favorable by 57, and about the same by 9. The stands are, with few exceptions, reported very good? better than last year ; the plant is blooming, forming and boiling very well, several reporting that they never saw it so well fruited at the same date. The plant, owing to excessive drought, is reported quite small in many counties, and the general fear is that if heavy rains continue much damage inay result from shedding and the plaBt going too much to weed. Slight shedding is reported from sev erul counties and rust from four counties. The present prospects are promising, but about ten days later than last year. North Carolina and Virginia.?From 23 replies from 18 counties in North Carolina and Virginia, the following report is compiled: The weather up to July 20th was very hot and dry, but since then numerous showers have occurred. No lands have been aban doned since planted. Nine replies report the weather ubout the same as last year. The stands are generally reported very good and the plant forming, blooming and boiling well, but smaller than last year. The crop in gen eral compares favorably with last year, and in many cases is better. Excessive drought in June and July caused the plant to be small. Georgia.?The following is the report of the cotton crop for July of the exchange of Georgia: Seventy-eight replies from 50counties; the dry spell which did some injury to the plant in June, has been relieved by a general rain which, although excessive in a few sections, has to a great extent repaired the damage done by the drought. As compared with last year the weather has not been quite so good and the crop less forward, but the 6tauds are excellent and the plant vigo-J i-i : i rous ID growin anu uiuuiumg mm iiuuiug well. Under these circumstances the pros.pect for theseason was scarcely so promising early in the month as last, but has materially improved and is now very satisfactory. Coraplaint of caterpillars is exceptional; they seem to be doing little harm. Mississtppi.?From 18 counties 30 letters have been received. The weather is reported as dry in the early part of July, but rainy in the latter part, in all counties except Chickasaw, Clay, Okelibbeha and Prentiss, which report hot and dry weather for the whole month. There has been little or no land abandoned since planting. The weather, compared with the corresponding period last year, has been more favorable in 9 counties, equally as favorable in 5 counties, and less favorable in 4 counties. The stands are generally good and compare favorably with those of the same time last year. Plants are forming, blooming and boiling very well. The present condition of the crop is good, and about the same to better than last year, but it is a little late. Worms have appeared in 4 counties?Alcorn, Clay, Newton and Noxubee?but thus far have done no damage. There has been too much rain, and there are complaints of some rust, shedding and Bmall growth. A BBAYE LITTLE LADY. A correspondent from the upper Indian country tends us the following item of interest : A young boy, 18 years of age, a member of the Eighteenth Infantry band, and a son of the leader of the band, became enamored of a young lady early last winter while the band was posted at Atlanta, Ga. The young lady was sweet sixteen, and it was a case of love at first sighl. After a* brief en gagement they were married. Soon after the regiment was ordered to Fort Assiniboine, Montana. The soldiers got ready to depart, and the young lady also prepared to accompany them, and not until the Jast moment did the young married couple learn that no provisions had been made for taking the lady along. Sbe had to remain behind, in spite of protestations and tek?B( and to the infinite disgust of the boy husband. It was then arranged that he should send for her just as soon as he got fairly settled in his new quarters. But the little lady had her intentions. She didn't, propose to rest on downy couches in Georgia while her new-found husband was 'blowing a horn away out in the wilds of Montana. Not any. So as soon as the regiment departed,, she procured a pass to Cincinnati. There she succeeded in getting one to Chicago. At Chicago she presented herself to Ge?. R. Ingalls, Quartermaster-General, and stated her case to him, and at once aroused his sympathies. He gave her a letter to railroad officials, by which she got a pass to St. Paul. There she interviewed the officials of the Northern Pacific and captured a pass to Bis- 1 marck. At Bismarck she paid her respects to the managers of the Coulson Line and se- 1 cured passago to Coal Banks, ani from thence by wagon to Fort Assiniboine, and, without warning or notification, dropped down upon her boy husband at the fort. Wasn't it a nice meeting ? Well, now, you can well imagine that it was better than straw- 1 berries and ice cream. And wasn't she a I jewel of a baby wife?for pluck, endurance, determination and love ? She is described as 1 being*a very pretty lady of medium size, with dark hair and eves, a good talker, but with < all a modest, well-behaved little lady, who made the trin. 4.000 miles, without danger, al- ' though not without fear.?Sioux City Journal. \ ? ? ? 4ST Horace Greely's estate seems full of < surprises. Such property as he thought val- ] uable hus, thus far, proved valueless, while that which he had mentally charged off to j proht and loss, having no expectation of getting a penny from it, has come out handsomely. Only a few months ago Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, to whom Mr. Greeley had lent thousands of dollars without any security * beyond his word, paid every dollar of the f debt, with interest. This would have amazed 1 the lender, had he been alive, more than anybody else in the community. Now another i windfall, it is understood, has come, or is i about to come, to the heirs of the late editor i of the Tribune. Some years before his death i he had been induced, very injudiciously, it i was then believed, to buy a tract of wild land in West Virginia, for which he paid I 810,000 or $12,000, or more, and which he 8 subsequently decided to be literally a perma* nent investment. It is now said that the land has so improved of late that Mr. Greeley's v daughters havejust been offered $40,000 for \ it, and that they may get much more. Mean- t while the Tribune shares, which Mr. Greeley v left to'his children, and which he considered r almost the only productive part of his es- [ tate?and very justly, for he had for years derived a steady income from them?are with- ^ out any available worth, not having p^id a j 0 cent of dividend for nearly eight years. I L LOCAL AFFAIRS. I ? NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Witherspoon A Spencer, Plaintiff'a Attorneys.? Notice to William Adkins, Defendant. Mrs. M. E. Williams, Principal?The York Graded School. Jao. Thad. Johnson, Dean, Atlanta, Ga.?Atlanta Medical College. J. M. Adams?Dealer in Tin-Ware. Agate Iron Ware, Ac.?Galvanized Sheet Iron?Terms Strictly Cash, r. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?Application for Discharge?In the Matter of M. W. Ford, Bankrupt. Herndon Brothers?Proclamation. EARLY POTATOES. Mr. John G. Ferguson has favored us with a liberal mess of sweet potatoes of this season's growth. THE ATLANTA MEDICAL COLLEGE Has an advertisement in this issue. Its reputation is well established, and we cheerfully recommend it to all interested in medical education. THE GRADED SCHOOL. The second session of the graded school, under management of Mrs. M. E. Williams principal, assisted by Miss Fannie Miller and Miss Sue Edwards, will open on Monday, 23th instant. BURGLARY. On Saturday night last, the residence of John Barron, Sen., who lives near Tirzah Church, was burglariously entered and a quantity of clothing stolen from one of the rooms. Mr. Barron's house has been broken open several times this year, aud on one occasion a sum of money was stolen. CASUALTY IN A WELL. On Friday last, Wm. Pennington, who lived near Gaffney's, in Spartanburg county, attempted to clean out the well of Col. R. G. David aon, who lives near Broad river, in Union county ; but soon after descending the well, he was overcome with poisonous gases, and before lie could be drawn out life was extinct. ACCIDENT AT A SAW HILL. On Monday last, Andrew Love, Esq., who lives 011 the Howell's Ferry road, about five miles from town, while working about his saw mill,- had his arm badly lascerated with t he saw. Dr. H. G. Jackson was immediately summoned, and found that though the bone was uninjured, a severe flesh wound had been inflicted. SPECIAL ELECTION. A special election in this county, to elect a member of the House of Representatives to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon. C. M. Green, has been ordered by Speaker Sheppard to be held at the several precincts of the county on Tuesday, the 2nd day of September next. The commissioners of election will appoint the managers of the election at an early day. UNITED STATES COURT JURORS. On Tuesday of last week, jurors for the United States Court for Greenville were drawn under the new law. Among the names drawn are the following in York and Chester counties : Grand Jury.?John Lee, Chester; Wm. B. Allison, York. Petit Jury.?John R. London, J. E. Lowry, York; Leverett M. Loomis and James D. Long, Chester. The special term of the Court will begin on the 25th instant. CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows: Presbyterian Church?Rev. L. H. Wilson, Pastor. There will be no services at this church until further notice. Church of the Good Shepherd.?Rev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. The rector will officiate at Rock Hill next Sunday. Associate Reformed?Rev. Robert Lathan Pastor. Services at 10$ A. M., and 4$ P. M. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. T. E. Gilbert, Pastor. Preaching at 10$ A. M., .and 8$ P. M. Sunday-school at 4$ P. M. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening, at ^o'clock. TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE. The following transfers of real estate have been recorded in the office of the County Auditor since our last report: Benjamin Galloway to Spain Meacham and others. Lot of 6$ acres in Cherokee township. Consideration $24. D. A. Johnson, executor, to the Town Council of Rock Hill. Lot in Rock Hill. Consideration $25. N. E. Erwin to A. L. Beach. Lot of 5 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration $400. Jane Neely to Caroline Steele. Lot of 1 acre in Catawba township. Consideration $40. THROWN BY'HIS HORSE. Last Saturday morning, Mr. Wm. Hammel, son of John Hammel, who lives about five miles east of town, started from his house to attend a singing school at Old Tirzah Church. He mounted his horse?a high-spirited animal?which, as is supposed, immediately ran away and became unmanageable, throwing him to the ground, as a short while after starting, young Hammel was found lying in an insensible condition, about 150 yards from his " " ' TT 5 iailier s 110 U8C. nty WiUS iiiuiieuiot/Cijr ta&cii IV the house, and Dr. Sandifer, of the neighborhood, was called to his assistance, and on Monday afternoon Dr. Bratton was summoned. The injuries appear to be about the head, and the young man is considered in a precarious condition. PERSONAL MENTION. J. S. R. Thomson, Esq., of Spartanburg, is hdire this week on professional business. C. E: Spencer, Esq., and family are visiting Cleveland.Springs. Miss Missouri Williford, of Rock Hill, and Miss Nannie Glenn, of this place, left here Tuesday morning for Patterson's Springs. Miss Sue P. Lowry is visiting friends in Chester. Mrs. Clara D. McLean returned from Warm Springs, N. C., last Thursday. Miss Irene Harty, of Charlotte, is visiting relatives in this place. Messrs. John F. Oates and J. R. Lindsay have returned from their trip to Hot Springs, Arkansas. Miss A. D. Clark is visiting her relatives in Lincolnton. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Smith, who have been visiting friends in the same town, have returned. Miss Alice Owen is visiting friends in Chester. Misses Minnie and Fannie Rothrock, of Chester, are visiting Mr. W. C. Latimer. Mr. Thomas Beard, of Columbia, father of T. P. Beard of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad, is visiting the latter at this place. Mrs. J. A. Moody and Miss Carrie Moody, rf Columbia, are visiting the family of J. M. Rawlinson. Miss Lucy Neel, of Ebenezer, is visiting Miss Luella Smith. Col. WILLIAMS' GRAVE. We acknowledge the reception, through our Black's Station correspondent Ego, of a beautiful crayon sketch, by Mr. S. M. Jeffries, of the spot marked as the grave of Col. Williams, vho fell at the battle of King's Mountain, rhe drawing represents the valley of Broad iver, with the railroad in the distance, formng a beautiful and picturesque landscape, vhiip thp artistic execution is admirable. Ego 'urnishes the following facts in connection vith the grave of Col. "Williams: Col. Williams fell mortally wounded at the tattle of King's Mountain. On the night lucceeding the battle, our men bivouacked on he bank of Broad river. During the march o the river, Col. Williams died at a point vhere Mr. A. Hardin now resides. His body vas taken on until the men went into camp, vhen it was buried in a field near the river tank. John Randall told Wm. Camp, Esq., vho was a very intelligent and reliable gentlenan, but is now dead, and who took great inerest in Revolutionary incidents, that when a toy he was present with his mother at the burial >f (^1. Williams. He told the circumstance o iff. Camp, and showed him the ruins of an Id house. From that point on a sunset line, etween there and the river, in an old field, Col. Williams was buried. Mr. Camp made. this statement to Capt. John B. Mintz, who now owns the land. The old field having grown up, Capt. Mintz had it cleared a few years ago, and in cutting down the timber, discovered the grave in the direction as described .by Mr. Randall to Mr. Camp. The grave was covered by an immense grape vine which rendered it difficult to find it, though it had often been searched for. No other grave has ever been found near that place, and as the people at that time buried their dead at BufTajo Church, near that place?the church having been established before the Revolution?this fact, with other circumstances, removes all reasonable doubt of the identity of the grave. ???mdm Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. * LETTER FROM BLACK'S STATION. Black's Station, S. G\, Aug. 11, 1879. We are still having an abundance of rain. The farmer88ay that the upland corn has been greatly improved by the rains, and that a good ?ill La a?? !itlanrlo tnliilo tKo CrUp Will UC plUUUtxu uu upiauuof nuiiv miw present prospect on bottom lands is as fine as ever was known in this country. The cotton crop in this section is also the very best * There is now more sickness here than is usual in this section at this season of the year. Mr. Z. P. Moore, of this place, died last Tuesday morning of bilious fever. At 9 o'clock next morning his remains were taken to the Methodist church, when Rev. B. M. Boozer delivered the funeral sermon before a large congregation, after which his remains were j followed to the grave by a procession, composed of the teachers and children of the Methodist Sunday-school, of which the deceased was su]>erintendent There is a revival of religion progressing at the Methodist church. Rev. B. M. Boozer is assisted by the Rev. R. C. Olliver and. the * Rev. R. R. Dagnal. Quite an interest is taken in the meetings, and a number of able and instructive sermons are being delivered. Mr. Elijah Turner, a merchant of Whilaker's Station, died on the 8th instant of consumption. A negro, proclaiming himself to be Jesus Christ, passed near here a few days ago. He is supposed to be the same colored individual spoken of by the Chester correspondent of the Enquirer as having been recently marched out of that town at the bead of a procession * of policemen. Two thieves, Joseph Deal and Levi Lockhart, colored, were arrested and tried last Saturday before Trial Justice Camp, charged with stealing com from the premises of J. Mv Deal. The former turned State's evidence, and his testimony convicted his partuer, who was sentenced to thirty days' imprisonment John Melton and Abe Moore, the latter colored, who have rented the farm of Mrs. McCosh near this place, recently detected a negro stealing corn from their field, when they gave hira the alternative of answering before a trial justice or taking twenty-five lashes on the bare-back from them, and then leaving the neighborhood. He chose the latter, on condition that he should not be tied, as he said he wanted plenty of prancing ground. His proposition was accedtd to, and Mr. Melton gave nim twelve stripes, and Abe laid on thirteen, repeating between each blow the eighth commandment?"Thou shalt not steal." The negro was then released and he left the scene of his exploits. A difficulty occurred near here a few days ago, between Coke Duncan and Seaborne Allen. The former shot the latter in the thigh, inflictingaslight wound. A warrant was issued for Duncan, but thus far he has evaded arrest The township assessors, appointed to revise the assessment of the real estate in this township, met on Thursday and Friday last and completed their work. Rev. J. H. Tillinghast, an Episcopal minister from Eastover, Richland county, preached last Sunday in the Methodist church at this place. Mt Paran, Antioch and Buffalo churches, * I mAinUw Karro inuf oIaqo/1 ^ tfinitPaA nf Ml fcllu) v IVtlllVJ y umi v jm?v viww. w ?revivals. ?00. ? ? . Correspondence of the Yorkvilie Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, S. C., August 12, 1879. The weather here now is exceedingly fine; the air is cool, pleasant and bracing, and we do uot feel the necessity of going to the mouutains. For the past few nights blankets have been comfortable. ? The Sixth Regiment Survivors had a pleasant reuniou at Winnsboro on Thursday last. A number of our citizens went down and report that they had an enjoyable time. Rev. Moffat Grier, D. D., of Due West, delivered an admirable address, and a sumptuous dinner was eaten by the Survivors and their invited guests. The next reunion of the Survivors cf the Sixth Regiment will be held at Blackstocks. Dr. Grier remained in Wiuusbtro, and preached in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church of that town on Sunday.. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad, was held last week at Ricbburg. The reports of the officers were read and received with satisfaction. The road is represented to be in fine condition financially and otherwise. The floating debt has been materially decreased ' within the past .year, by the sale of county i and mortgage bonds. President Hardin bas I displayed considerable ability in the construction and management of the road. The following gentlemen were elected-officers of the company for the ensuing year: Directors?W. H. Hardin, John J. McLure, Joseph Wylie, O. Barber, Chester; John B. Erwin, Wm. Stevens*Dr. Foster, Lancaster; W. A. Evans, E. N. Bedford, ? Hardin, Chesterfield. Mr. W. H. Hardin was elected President, and David Hemphill, of Chester, Secretary and Treasurer. The next annual meeting will be held at Lancaster on the first Tuesday in August, 1880. The new locomotive for this road, the "Richburg," grrived last week. It is a very handsome engine, weighs 14 tons, with 31-fect driving wheels, and will be used on the regular passenger trains. The engine first bought .will now be used exclusively on the material train. The survivors of the Seventeenth Regiment will meet here to morrow. Among other fea tures of the occasion will be a fine dinner. Senator M. C. Butler has engaged rooms at the Cotton Hotel, and expects to attend the meeting of the Survivors. Allen Gale, colored, while under the influence of mean whisky, last Friday night, made a rumpus with his wife, and she, with more vehemence than affection, caressed him over the eye with a frying pan. Mr. David S. Watson has returned from the springs very much invigorated, and taken his position behind the counter, awaiting the calls of the fair ones of Chester. Mrs. M. J. Gaston and daughter Janie, left last week for Catawba Springs. Mrs. Daisy G. Bacot and Miss Jennie Reynolds, of Winnsboro, and Miss Dora Elinck of Charleston, are here on a visit to W. T. Robinson, father of the first named lady. * Our theatrical atnateurs are rehearsing "Pinafore," and we may expect its rendition on the Chester boards ere long. The "boys" had their annual fishing frolic at Landsford last week. They returned on Saturday without any serious accident, and report having had a fine time and pleBty of fish. Your correspondent's family recollects various promises of a mess of finny frame, but it must be only a dream. Camping on the river must be a rough life; for some of the boys looked as if they had been "drawn through a knot hole" after their return. Bill McKnight, colored, has shown me two cotton bolls, which are a curiosity. Both bolls iL. -J.. -C ! 1. Ll i^l arc uic pruuucuuu ui a eiugie uiuuiu, yet mey appear to be twin bolls. One-third of his crop is distinguished by this peculiarity. Ou Saturday last, Mr. J. H. Smith,"of the Cotton Hotel, was unexpectedly summoned to King's Mountain, N. C., to attend his wife, who is quite ill there. Mr. Smith has our deepest sympathy. He has been sorely afflicted recently. Chester.