Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fctaps anil .facte. ? The Louisiana rice crop, it' is thought, will be 40 per cent, smaller than last year. ? The two daughters of the late Gen. R. E. Lee, Misses Mary and Mildred, are spending their summer in Norway. ? The National Greenback Labor party in Philadelphia, is to have an organ called "The Rag Baby." It is to be published in green, with a greenback vignette heading. ? The New York World reasserts that the body of A. T. Stewart was recovered some months ago and that $50,000 was paid for its return. At any rate, work on the magnificent vault at Garden City, Long Island, for the reception of the body, is still going on. ? And now it is proclaimed that cotton is no longer king. The statistics for the eleven months ending May 30, show that for the first time in the history_of the country, the expor tation of breadstutts has exceeded in value not only that of cotton, but of cotton, and tobacco combined. ? The New England girl certainly carries off the palm for originality. A young woman of Wallingford, Conn., was married the other evening, and while the festivities that followed the ceremony were at their height, the bride eloped with one of her old admirers, who was one of the guests. ? A terrible free fight oecured in Quebec, Canada, on the loth instant, between about three thousand French Canadian ship laborers, and a somewhat smaller number of Irish Catholic ship laborers. The former were defeated with a reported loss of five killed and , many wounded. ? Reports from all the Southern States make a most favorable showing for the cotton crop to date. Though small, the plant is strong and healthy and filled with forms, and the only danger to be apprehended is from too much rain, which will make the growth too luxuriant and cause the shedding of the bolls. ? The real estate qualification for voters in Rhode Island, applies only to those of foreign birth. The most ignorant and degraded native of any color can vote, if he is net a convict. The most intelligent citizen of foreign birth most own land, or he is not permitted to exercise the right of suffrage, in that State. ? Iowa continues to send cheering news about her tremendous crop of wheat Having gathered all the fall planted crop, her farmers are now harvesting the spring grain. The aggregate is estimated at fifty millions of bushels?a bushel for every man, woman and child in the United States for a single State. Iowa takes rank as the Empire State for wheat. ? The exodus in Texas is assuming a queer phase. Near Galveston the negroes, having become dissatisfied with their condition, had ! MA/1 y\ mmnnfA TKn tvKlfn t\?l/\n1o uctci lliiu^vi iv ciuigiaig* jLiao triuvv ^uwj/*v approved the decision of the colored brethren and formed a committee on emigration to raise money to send the negroes North, and soon steps will be taken to bring in white men to replace the blacks. .? The planters of Mississippi have given a number of the representative colored men of that State an excursion to Kansas, a good many white persons accompanying them. This is done to give the negroes a chance to . see for themselves the situation of affairs in "the promised land," so that they may speak knowingly to their brethren, upon their return, concerning the exodus business. ? Senator Thurman, being interviewed by a New York Tribune reporter in that city on Wednesday, expressed entire confidence in a Democratic victory in Ohio in October next. He says that Gen. Ewing will "poll the full strength of the party, irrespective of the divisions in the party on financial questions. He is confident it will be a square fight on the part of the Democrats, without any weakening dissensions in the party. ? A history of medicine in New Jersey just published, brings out the fact that yeilow fever dates in this country the arrival of the Pilgrims, and almost annihilated the natives in 1617. As there was no intercourse with the West Indies, this is regarded as proof of the origin of fever in this country between the forty-first and forty-fourth degrees of latitude. In 1798 it prevailed to some extent on the shores of the Delaware in New Jersey. ? Latest returns from the Kentucky election indicate that Blackburn, Democrat, for Governor, will have 40,000 majority, which is a larger majority than Governor McCreary obtained four years ago. The Republicans have gained several members in both branches of the Legislature. This result was due to local questions which were sprung up in the representative, senatorial and legislative districts in which the republicans were triumphant. ? The Tennessee Legislature, after great tribulation and the hottest kind of a fight, succeeded in adopting a debt compromise of fifty cents on the dollar, with four per cent., which was submitted to the people a few days ago. The proposition was defeated by fifteen thousand majority in a very light vote. This reopens the whole question again. Both the repudiators and those who wish to pay more than fifty per cent, voted against the compromise. ? "Seven thousand four hundred and forty ?ounds of quinine, five thousand pounds of 'eruvian bark, twenty-eight thousand pounds of castor oil, three thousand pounds of chloroform." These are some of the figures of the official medical report upon the drugs need by the Czar's array during the late Turko-Russian war. Putting quinine at three dollars per ounce, we see that not less than $207,840 were expended for that drug alone. There were also 420,000 yards of muslin for bandages used. ? John Sherman will go to Ohio on the 26th inst. and make speeches there in favor of the election of his friend, Charles Foster, Republican candidate for Governor. Secretary Schtrz will make a speech in the same interest in Cincinnati on tne 16th. Commissioner Raum is going to Maine to make some political speeches. In order that these high officials may not be excommunicated for violation of one of the cardinal principals of this administration, the civil service rules have been temporarily suspended. ? Perhaps the most remarkable exhibition -i' -1..-U ?J 1 ? j a.i vi piuuii auu piuiuyiucso uu ittuiu, io umt of a miner's son recently at Hollis, 111. It is said that the father, Thomas Harland, lighted a slow match leading to a blast, and signaled to be drawn up the shaft. He j struck- a projection and was thrown back to the bottom of the shaft, where he lay with a "rib broken. Realizing his father's peril, Har-1 land's young son slid down the seventy feet; of rope, lascerating his hands terribly, but reaching the bottom in time to tear the match | from the fuse and prevent the explosion. ? Judge Settle, who was ignorainously de- j feated by Zeb. Vance in 1876, says that Grant j could carry two Southern States, North Car-! olina and Florida. He intimates that with j himself on the ticket for Vice-President, this result would be certain. The cheerful con- j fidence displayed by the Radicals of carrying ' Southern States, before the election comes off) | and the furious howls they send up, of bull- j dozing and fraud after the election is over, form a very amusing contrast. Let them go 1 on claiming. It hurts nobody, and seems to do them good. ? The Philadelphia (Pa) Record publishes an article detailing the incident connected | with procuring a model for the goddess on j the Bland dollar, which is intended to repre-, sent the typical American female face. The young lady who is thus honored is Miss An- j na W. Williams of No. 1028 Spring Garden street, Philadelphia, a school teacher in the House of Refuge of that city. Miss Wil-1 lianas' modesty has never allowed her to di- j vulge the fact that the design is a prototype of her features. The engraver, Morgan, who j was brought from England to design the dol- j1 Jar, visited the Academy of Fine Arts and i Woman's School of Design, in search of a fin American face, but failed to there find an model which accorded with his ideas. B accident he noticed the contour of Miss Wil liams, who he said, "had the most perfec profile he had ever seen." She U<jrfcvine #nquim YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 21, 1879 THE YELLOW FEYER. There is very little change in the tenor c the dispatches from Memphis. For the weel ending at 6 o'clock, P. M., last Saturday, th total number of deaths was 46, and to th same date from the inception of. the diseas this season, 139. The Howard Association have 207 nurse attending 196 families, 120 of which ar whites and 76 colored. Their expenses dail aggregate Dine hundred dollars. Dr. W. L. Coleman, of San Antonio, Tea as, who was ordered by the National Boar of Health to investigate the origin of the ft ver prevailing in Memphis, has been quietl at work for a month past. While he is not a liberty to make public the manner in whic the germs were introduced, yet his investigi tions convince him that they were importe direct from the West Indies, and that thef passed the New Orleans quarantine uncha lenged and arrived in Memphis some time i June. On Sunday, twenty-five new cases were r< ported, fifteen of whom were colored, and o the same day four deaths occurred. On Monday, thirteen cases were reporte< six of whom were colored, and on the sara day there were three deaths. i.J rp Jbieven new cases were reported ou iue day, three of whom are colored, and foi deaths occurred. The authorities and boar of health officials are arranging plans for th complete isolation of the infected portions < the city. CONGRESSMAN EYINS. Hon. J. H. Evins, the Representative i Congress from this Congressional distric passed this place on the Chester and Leno: Railroad last Thursday, returning from Lai caster. It was a source of regret to his man friends here that his engagements would n( permit him to stop and mingle with them though at another time he will probably vis our county. As our immediate Represent! tire, Col. Evins has well and justly earne the confidence and esteem of his constituent Faithful in the discharge of his public di ties, and prompt to serve the interests of th public, he has endeared himself to the peop] and won their plaudit of "Well done, tho good and faithful servant." Speaking of his visit to Lancaster, the view says: We were pleased to meet in the village o Monday last, our immediate Representativ in Congress, the Hon. J. H. Evins. Co Evins, it will be remembered, was among th first of the members of Congress, to take th ground that it was the true policy of the Den ocratic party in Congress to pass the appri priation bills, after making an effort to repes the obnoxious statutes that were up for cor sideration by Congress at the last sessioi and before the adjournment of the sessioi Col. Evins saw that the Republican membei were anxious that the Democrats should b< come obstinate, and refuse the appropriatio for the government because of the vetoes c the President, and that they, thus imitatec would stop the wheels of government, adjour and go home. He saw that the .Republican with the astuteness for which they are cell brated, were striving to drive the Democrai into a false position before the country, an< in this way, make another pretext in the con ing election, to prolong the rule that the have had on the country for the last eightee or twenty years ; and he, true to the interei of his own people, who have been long suffe: ing from misrepresentation, and feeling tht the good of the South now depends on repos and exemption from sectional strife, determii ed at once that the policy was to pass the a] propriation bills before adjournment; and h threw the weight of his influence to brin about this result. He is known to be one < the first to take the ground, and probably n representative from the South exercised mor influence than he to pass the appropriatio bills, notwithstanding the vetoes of the Pre: ident. His constituents in this county, so fa as we have been able to ascertain, fully ei dorse his course in this matter; and it mus be very gratifying to him to meet the peop] and receive their approval in a matter s vital in importance, to the interest of th whole country. The Ledger also alludes to him in the fo lowing terms: The Hon. J. H. Evins, member of Coi gress from this Congressional District, pai our town a brief visit the past week. H addressed quite a large audience at the Coui House on Monday night upon the leading pc litical questions of the day. His speech wa full of information for his constituents, an was highly appreciated by all who heard i He gave us an inside view of the financial an political questions which agitated the extr session, and very justly claimed that the extr session had accomplished a great work. Co Evins was introduced to the audience b Gen. J. B. Erwin, the Democratic Count Chairman, in a few remarks appropriate t the occasion. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The wheat crop of Laurens county is ei timated at 24,000 bushels, and the oat cro at 12,000 bushels. _ TKo r? folUncnner cnvo thnf rolihifs nr becoming so numerous in Anderson county that many of the farmers are becoming an> ious to find some means for their extermint tion. ? Tlie Synod of the Associate Reforrae Church of the South, will meet at Unio Church, Chester county, on Thursday, th 25th of September. The synod embraces te presbyteries. * ? Up to the 12th instant, 1,429 liens ha this year been filed in the clerk's office fc Anderson county. The Intelligencer says th number filed is larger than in any previoi year. In one instance, a lien was given t secure the payment of $2.50. ? Wade Hampton, Jr., the son of the dii tinguished South Carolinian, was married 8 Louisville, Ky., on the 12th, to Miss. Kate C Phelan, daughter of Senator Phelan, of Mil sissippi, deceased. The ceremony was pei formed at Grace Church, by the Rector, Re\ Mr. Tschifely, and soon after the happy coi pie departed for the White Sulphur Spring; ? The Anderson Journal says that John F Cochran, a leading Republican of that cour ty, has just returned to his home from Wash ington, whither he went in quest of offic< Cochran, on his return, refused to be intei viewed, but a report is in circulation that h will be appointed United States Internal Rev enue Collector for this State. ? The first bale of new cotton sent to mar e ket this year, was received in Charleston, fror y Barnwell county, on Wednesday of las J week, 13th instant. It classed as roiddlin ' and was sold at 11 \ cents per pound. Th first bale of new Carolina which reache . Charleston last year, was received on the 7t of August, from the same county. Itclasse as middling and was sold at lli cents. z ? James S. G. Richardson, Esq., of Sumte died at Rockbridge Alum Springs, Va., o Tuesday night, 12th instant. Mr. Richar< son filled .the highly important position ( State Reporter for a period of thirjy-fou years. He has reported thirteen volumes ( cases in Equity in the "Old Equity" serie and fourteen volumes of the "Uld .Law Jtt< i ports." Nine volumes of his "New Series have been published, and the tenth is now i the hands of the printers. ^ ?The Aiken Courier Journal says: "Thei ~ has been a marked decrease of crime in ou county under Democratic rule. From D< ^ cember, 1876, to December, 1877, the ii mates of our jail averaged 31; from Deceu e ber, 1877, to December,. 1878, the averag 8 was 16 ; from December, 1878, to the pre 8 ent time, the average is 7. There is sti room for improvement, aud we hope by ai S other year to be able to chronicle a still fu 8 ther decrease." ^ ? Mr. Robt. Doster, who lives in Pleasnr Valley, just t>eyond the South Carolina lin was in Charlotte, Thursday, and on goin home was informed by his wife that a negi named Crow had insulted her. The next da ^ he went to Crow's house "to see about it. ? As he approached the house the negro drew pistol and attempted to shoot him, but tl ^ weapon missed fire, Whereupon Mr. Dost< drew his own revolver and fired. The negi ie ronoivert n wmind in his lftft arm. which, hot ... , ever, is not serious. The nature of the insu D offered Mrs. Doster was not ascertained. 3- NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. n ? There are over 1,200 pleasure-seekers vi iting Asheville this summer, i, ? The Baptists of Lincolnton are makic ie preparations to build a handsome brie church. s- ?The total receipts of cotton at Chariot ir since the 1st of last September, were 37,6( d bales. ie ? One-third of Rowan county adopted tl >f stock law at an election held last week. Tl whole county of Cabarrus has adopted tl law. n ? Mr. John G. Potts has been elected ma t or of Pineville, by the board of town cor jy- missioners, to fill the vacancy caused by tl death of John M. Boyce. ? At Beaver Dam, Union county, on tl )t 8th instant, a Mrs. Crawley was struck I . lightning and instantly killed. She was si ting near the fire place, and the fluid pass< ^ down the chimney, tearing it to pieces. ^ ?Bob McCorkle, colored, was hanged i g Taylorsville, last Friday, in the presence < j. three thousand people, for the murder of e white man named Wesley Wycoff, in Nover u ber last. u ? The Shelby Aurora is informed that M A. R. Homesley has purchased (from tl First National Bank, of Charlotte,) the me chaut mill, known as the Fronerbarger rail n about a half a mile below Buffalo Pap e Mills. 1 ?The Charlotte Observer learns that tv e women?a daughter and grand-daughter e their victim?have been arrested in Cabarri J county, and committed to jail, charged wil j causing the death by violence of an old w 1- man, Mrs. Clay, who lived in the same houi 1, with them, and was regarded as a burden the younger women. 8 ?The Statesville Landmark says that d ^ ring the past few weeks Mr. W. A. Daniels lo at his still-house, near that town, more the lt one hundred fine hogs with cholera, and n very much larger number of pigs. Hisswii s, died so rapidly that the smell became so o 3" noxious that he hauled them off by the wa If on load and had them burned. Messrs. Pa' Bost, W. M. Shook, and Silas Watts ha' y also lost heavily by the same disease, n ? Statesville gave almost a unanimous vo st to subscribe $10,000 to the building of tl r" Narrow Gauge Railroad from that place lt Taylorsville. The distance between the tv places is about 22 miles. The county all > takes a deep interest iu the extension of tl ie Statesville Railroad to Mt. Airy, and wi g vote liberal subscriptions, say $60,000, tl >f same amount given to the Atlantic, Tennessi 10 and Ohio Railroad. Two hundred convic e are to be assigned when the road is ready f grading. Dr. J. J. Mott is President of tb ir contemplated road. i- ? The State Grand Lodge of Good Ter st plars was in session last week at Winsto 'e and a correspondent of the Raleigh Observ, 0 gives some interesting statistics of the presei condition of the order in the State as gleam j_ from the report of the secretary. This shov that the number of members of the order i the State at the time of the annual repo d next precediug this, was 4,270.; initiate e since, 1,857; admitted by card and restorei 251; total, 6,378; total loss, 2,738; presei number, 3,640 ; number of lodges organize ^ and reinstated, 35 ; number of lodges in goo - * - - ? mo. tU 01 ? SlUllUKIg, 1 iSO , ICVJCIJJLO uuiiug btic Jta?, VI d G23 ; disbursements, 81,623. a ? The seventy-first case decided by the Si a preme Court of North Carolina, at the recei ' term?State vs. Lunsford, from Macon coui ^ ty?had a humorous side, and is thus repor q ed : Several boys, with a view of perpetri ting a joke, went to the house of an aged ma by night, and disguising their voices, repr seated that they were in search of hon '* thieves and offered him a reward to sho P them the road. He mounted on a horse b< hind one of them, who galloped a short di e tance, when the old man, upon complaint < r' hard riding, got down to change horses, when upon they rode off, leaving him in the darl 1 a half mile from his house. No harm wt j done except the jolting caused by the gallo] u ing. Held, An indictment for false impri onraent does not lie, as the prosecutor wer ' voluntarily, and there was no violation of tf criminal law in any respect. d MERE-MENTION. ir There has never been such a promisin e prospect for cotton in Northern Texas, as t is I present. Mrs. Potts, the pedestrienne, o o her return from New Orleans, writes to sorr friends in-Atlanta to have her some mone 3- ready, as she is out of funds necessary to me< it her wants. Gen. Samuel F. Carey, th ). champion Greenbacker, has announced b rvi.:~ e? V*i. i- j purpose lO Slump uuiu iui \^cu. juniug, n, r- j Democratic candidate for Governor. Tej t. as claims from fifteen to eighteen Congressme i* j under the new apportionment. Officii ^ census returns just completed show that th 1. population of Kansas, on the first of Marcl i- was 849,978, an increase of nearly half i- million since 1870. A Kentucky pol j. tician proposes that all the offices be sold t the highest bidders, and the proceeds used t ! reduce the taxes. The prospects for th Democratic ticket in Ohio are highly cheering j Gen. Ewing's canvass thus far has been effe< I tive, to a marked degree, and present indies ! tions point to his election by a good majority n THE SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT. st There was a meeting of Survivors of the g Seventeenth Regiment at Chester, on Wede nesday, the 13th instant. All the companies d of the regiment were represented. From h York county, the following persons were presd ent: Company C?Lieuts. John W. Hartness and J. M. Morrow. Privatas Jack Wisher, Elias Ramr, say, Thomas Hartness and Sprouse. Company E?Capt. E. R. Mills. Lieut. Elias Neely. Privates L. R. Williams, Joseph Cath1 cart, Thomas May, John J. Poag, George Deas, f John Jones, Isaac Jones., John Jackson, R. W. }I Workman, JohnG. McDowell, Lemon, Wm. ir Garrison, S. A. McElwee, W. W. McElwee, Miln ton Wylie. * * >r Company F?Capt. W. S.Moore. Privates D. * 3, C. Williams, Perry Martin, Joseph Kirkpatrick, Wm. Sherer, John Sherer, E. Moore, F. Moore, P. Caldwell, Hays Mitchell, Henry Mitchell, J. i" L. Moore, Joseph Plexico, John Pollard, Robert Parker, L. Parker. n Company K?Capt. E. A. Crawford. Lieuts. Moffatt Wylieand JamesSummerford. Privates John Davidson, I. M. Wallace, Love, John '6 Knox, Williams, Feemster, W. G. Dowij. die, G. E. Carroll, Hardin, Wm. Aiken, Groom, R, L. Hope. 5" The Survivors assembled at the Baptist i- Church, and from thence marched to the i- Court House. F. W. McMaster, of Columbia, -e who was the Colonel of the Regiment when it j. surrendered at Appomattox, took the chair j, and delivered an address to his old comrades. He began with au eloquent allusion to the reunion after fourteen years of separation of r* old comrades. They met, he said, not to discuss the causes which enforced the war, but jt as friends and comrades in arms to take a e rapid and cursory glance at the part they ' took in the war of which their dead brothers ? were the justified heroes and they the survi0 vors. The correct history of that war is as yet y unwritten, and it was their duty to keep in memory the deeds of their comrades, and fura nish and preserve materials for the historian. ie South'Carolina had furnished fifty regiments, ,r besides a number of battalions and separate * companies, but their history was so interwo0 ven with that of larger bodies, that it was a difficult matter to obtain correct histories of it each individual regiment, particularly of infantry, which was food for gunpowder. He then reviewed rapidly the history of the regiment from its formation in Columbia in 8- November, 1861. It was composed of four companies from York, two from Chester, two ig from Barnwell, one from Lancaster, and one from Fairfield, and its staff officers were John H. Means, colonel; F. W. McMaster, lieuten-1 ant-colonel; Julius Mills, major; W. Wyiio, te surgeon ; Isaac A. Means quartermaster, and iO \V. B. Metts, commissary. He then spoke of its reorganization, of its first active service in le Virginia, ana viviaiy aescrioea its participaie tion in the second battle of Manassas on the e 30th of August, when it lost 135 men killed and wounded, including its colonel killed, three captains and a lieutenant killed, and Y' two captains and a lieutenant badly wounded. d- At Sharpsburg, twenty volunteers of the 17th le silenced a battery which was shelling the causeway. At Boonesboro, it did good serie vice. At Sharpsburg twelve men of its greatly depleted ranks were killed, and others cap^ tured and wounded. It engaged in the batties of Kingston and Goldsboro, and for sevid eral months did picket duty about Wilmington. Two hundred of its men were for two at weeks in Fort Sumter during the heaviest 0f bombardment, and bore themselves well. The regiment was afterwards transferred to Johnston's array, with which it helped to fight n* Grant, participating in the battle of Jackson, and subsequently with Beauregard, on the r. 20th of May, 1864, at Bermuda Hundreds, le in company with the 8th North Carolina r. Regiment charged and captured the enemy's lj breastworks, and held them against repeated ' and desperate attacks. It was afterwards orer dered to Petersburg, taking part in the battles about that city, and. losing a number of officers and men. of Col. McMaster described, particularly, the jg part taken by the 17th in the battle of the i i- tut# It flm flOOlO. UIUIBI, YVIICIJ Lilllli icglllJCUL, niiill Lii^ aooio0_ tanee of a few men of the 26th, and the cooperation of Wright's Battery, prevented 3e Grant from entering Petersburg and capturto ing,Beauregard's army. The 26th and 17th on that day, 30th of August, 1864, occupied u- the left of Elliott's brigade. The explosion st of the eight hundred pounds of powder overm whelmed the battery in rear, the whole of the regiment on the right of the 17th, a:ad part of a Company A, of the 17th itself. The Federals 3e had designed rushing in through the breach b* thus created in the line, and advanced to g- carry out the idea, being met, however, by ul the fire of the 17th, a few of the ISl.h, who had extricated themselves from the covering of earth, some of the 26th, and four guns of Wright's Battery, which had escaped, under command of Maj. Coit. The evidence of ie Federal officers proved that it was this resistto ance that defeated their plans. Some of the ro enemy who reached the line were driven back so with clubbed muskets and bayonets, and few ie battles could show more bayonet wounds than this one. The 17th lost 135 men. The regi' ment was also in the battle of Fort Steadie man. ee Col. McMaster closed by reviewing the ts subsequent brief history of the regiment down [)r to the time when it surrendered its entire jg force of 37 men, composing more r.ban half its brigade, at Appomattox, many having been captured when purposely left :n an exn" posed situation, from which escape was ira?? possible, to mask the operations of the reef mainder of the army, at At the conclusion of Col. McMa3ter's ad>d dress, he read letters from Gen. Bea ireguard, 7g Capt. Coit, Col. Hudson, of the 26 th Regiment, Major J. W. Avery anjd other gentlemen who had been invited to attend the reunion of the Survivors. After the meeting adjourned, the veterans d, repaired to a neighboring hall, where boun!t tiful rations had been provided, in the discusj I sion of which, common with war reminis ^ cences, a considerable time was delightfully spent, the occasion being evidently intensely ?" enjoyed by all who participated in it. Col. McMaster, furnished the corresponi dent of the News and Courier?from whose )t report we have taken the above account of j. the proceedings?with the following statistics * in relation to the Seventeenth Regiment: Enlisted men, 1,035 l- Died from disease, 188 n Killed in battle, 207 Discharged, '230 e- Survivors, 410 IO Total 1,035 5" ? w Southern Centennials.?The closing e. victories of the war for American independence were mostly won upon the soiil of the s" Southern States. The Southern people seem to be mindful of that fact, and they are tae king steps to give them due celebration. The c, proposed Yorktown centennial was alluded ig j to in these columns a few days ago. The oc1 casion will doubtless be a grand reunion of g 1 the people of the lately estranged sections, and both Union and Confederate veterans will | gather on the historic field to render meet ie j honor to the Continental soldiers who there ; practically closed the Revolutionary war. In j the meantime we note a movement, in which j prominent citizens of North Carolina, South S | Carolina, and Georgia have united, looking to it j the fit observance of the important action of n i King's Mountain, near the southern boundaie ry of the former State, October 7, 1780. The ! 1 victory of the Americans in that battle was 1 ^ j really the turning-point of the war. It is i j worth remarking that the very next success j |e of the patriot arms of any importance was is at the Cowpens, not far from King'.i Mouu-1 ie tain, January 17, 1781, where Tarleton was j badly whipped. This event ought to be celn ebrated, and doubtless will be when the tally I of a hundred years is completed. Guilford, Court House, in North Carolina,, March, 15, e 1781, comes next in order, followed iSeptem- j J> ber 8 of the same year by the engagement at a Eutaw Springs, which preceded the fall of i- Yorktown by just forty-one aay{. me o Northern centennial list closed with the bril- j o liant actions at Stony Point and Paulu.i Hook, j e in July, 1779. The bulk of the fighting aft ; j. terwards was in the South. It is the South'-! 5- ( eners' turn now, and we doubt not they w$ll j i-, centennialize with proper spirit and cnthuki-1 r.' asm.?Philadelphia Times. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A. Berry & Son?Yorkville Bakery an3 Confec tionery?Expression of Thanks. Andrew Jackson, Judge of Probate?Citation? I: D. Simril, Applicant?Mrs. M. N. Simri deceased. T. C. Robertson, James F. Hart, Perry Wither spoon, Commissioners?Election Notice. Fred. W. Cisco & Co., New York?$1,500,000 t Loan. Andrew Jackson, Judge of Probate?CitationJames R. Miller, Applicant?H. Clark Hai ris, deceased. \fro Piinnlo I, rii.hann Vnrlrinllfi Fmnorhim f Fashion. T. M. Dobson?At CoBt. Herudon Brothers?General Orders. John C. Kuykendal?Hop Bitters?Malt and Co Liver Oil?Chloride of Lime?Condiment for Pickling?White Lead. J. N. Roberta?Fresh Meats. James Scoggina, W. W. White, A. F. Lindsaj County Commissioners?Township Ele< tion. James Scoggins, Chairman?To Contractors. S. Lander, President?The Williamston Femal College. ELECTION IN CHEROKEE. Pursuant to an order of the County Con missioners, an election was held in Cheroke township, on Monday last, on the question c adopting the stock law. As will be seen b the official notice of the Commisioners, pul lished in -another column, the township vote against adopting the proposed change. NEW DAILY IN COLUMBIA. Mr. C. M. McJunkin informs us that li will, at an early day, commence the publics tion of a daily afternoon paper in Columbis to be called the Palmetto Yeoman. Mr. M< Junkin is a gentleman of practical knowledg and experience in the publishing business, an will, we doubt not, issue a readable and entei tabling paper. BEAUT1FLL*SIGN WORK. T. P. McClain has iust painted and put u a beautiful and highly finished sign for J Berry & Son, bakers and confectioners, in tli old Masonic building. Mr. McClain is quil an artist in lettering. His letters are syme rical and perfect in form, and he possess< the happy facility of shading and otherwis arranging them so as to produce striking an unique effects. STREET ALTERCATION. . On Monday afternoon last, an altercatio occurred in the street, near the court-hous* between two young men from the countryWilliam Turner and William Bryant?in whic Bryant fired his pistol at Turner, after, as 1 alleges, Turner had struck him several blov with a rock. No injury was inflicted by tl pistol. The parties had a hearing before tl Mayor on Tuesday morning, and were fine five dollars each. BISHOP HOWE'S* APPOINTMENTS. In the list of Bishop Howe's appointmeni for the remainder of the year, are the follov ing: Thursday, September 11.?St. Mark's, Che ter. Sunday, September 14.?In the forenoon, i the Church of the Good Shepherd, in Yorl ville; and in the evening at the Church < our Saviour, in Rock Hill. GREEN POND CAMP MEETING. The annual gathering of the colored peop at Green Pond, near Clover, on the Chester an Lenoir Railroad, commenced last week, an continued until Monday morning last, whe the meeting closed. We learn that there wei fully three thousand persons in attendance i the recent meeting, from Chester, Lancasb and York counties in this State, besides considerable number from adjoining counth in North Carolina. CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches ne> Sunday as follows: Methodist Episcopal?Rev. T. E. Gilber Pastor. The pastor will fill his regular a] pointment at Philadelphia church inthemon ing and afternoon. Services in the Methodii church at Yorkville, at P. M. Sunda; school in the afternoon. Prayer jneetini Wednesday evening. Church of the Good Shepherd.?Rev. R. ] Johnson, Rector. Services at 10? A. M., an 8 P.M. Sunday-school in the afternoon. T1 Rector will preach at the Poor House in tt afternoon. Associate Reformed?Rev. Robert Latha Pastor. The pastor will fill his regular a] pointment at Tirzah next Sunday; services i the morning and afternoon. KNIGHTS OF HONOR. An official circular from the office of tl Supreme Dictator has been sent to the subo dinate Lodges, reminding them of the follow ing law adopted at the last session of the 81 preme Lodge in reference to conferring d grees in infected districts during the prev; lence of an epidemic: Law I.?Sec. 4. It shall not be lawful f< subordinate Lodges to confer the degrees < this order upon an applicant for membe:rshi during the existence of an epidemic of cholei or yellow fever within their jurisdiction. The same circular conveys the informatic that the call for voluntary contributioi from the respective Lodges to aid members < the order in Memphis and other infected locfc ities, who may require assistance, is meetis with a prompt response, and funds will 1 ready to assist where members are not othe wise able to leave an infected town or city. PERSONAL MENTION. We received a pleasant call Tuesday l!roi Capt. Fred G. Latham, of Union county, an Col. Win. W. Gaffney, of Gaffney City. John S. Reynolds, Esq., of the*Winnsboi News, paid Yorkville a visit last week and r mained over until Tuesday morning. Miss E. Hattie "West, of Chester, is visitin relatives here. Miss Nannie Glenn returned from Clevelan Mineral Springs last Tuesday. Miss Mollie E. Smith, who is teaching schoi in the neighborhood of Bullock's Creek, mac a brief visit to her home in this place lai week. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dobson are visiting i North Carolina. Mr. T. W. Clawson and wife have gone t Cleveland Mineral Springs. Mr. If. W. Hope is visiting Columbia. Mr. Frank E. Taylor, of the house of Rober son, Taylor & Co., of Charleston, is in Yorl ville 011 a business visit. DEATH OF WN. C. BLACK, Esq. We regret to learn of the death of Williai C. Black, Esq., which occurred at his res dence near Black's Station, in this county, o Sunday morning last. At the time of hi death he was in the seventy-fourth year of hi age. Though a native of Abbeville county, fo the past forty years, Col. Black was a citize of York, and for many years of this period, oi we may say until within the last fifteen yean he was prominent in public affairs of the cour ty, and closely identified with the politics history of his section. He was the son of Joseph Black, Esq., c Abbeville, who for a number of years repre sented that county in the State Senate. H was a graduate of South Carolina College, am was cotemporary with several graduates o that institution, who afterwards became di? flnrrniiiUl /u + i-7nna TTa Studied for the laW S Abbeville C. II., and was admitted to practic in the year 1831. Soon after his admission t the bar, he formed a partnership with Hon Thomas Thomson, now one of the Circui Judges of this State. How long his associa tion with Judge Thomson continued, or ii what year he removed from Abbeville, we no\ have no means of ascertaining ; but we knov that in 1841 he was a citizen of this county an< associated with his brother, S. R. Black, Esq. in the practice of law in Yorkville. He how ever remained at the bar but a short while af ter moving to York county. While he was j man of eminent ability, possessed of quick am penetrating mind, he preferred a more activi life than confinement to the lawyer's desk, an< though after making his permanent home ii the country?for such at that time was the lo cality where is now situated Black's Station to engage in agricultural pursuits, he enterec into the political contests of the day, and ii 1844 was elected for the first time to the Houcu !- of Representatives of the General Assembly j In 1854 he went again before the people for { \t seat in the Legislature, but was defeated, hit competitors being W. B. Wilson, W. I. Claw son, A. S. Wallace, G. W. Williams, A. B o Springs and Edward Moore, of whom the foui first named were elected. In the ensuing campaign of 1856, he wai again a candidate for the House of Represen ){ tatives, and was elected, as also in the elec tions of 1858 and 1860. He did not agaii come before the people until the first electioi ? held in this State after the close of the war (ii 1865) for members of the Legislature, whei he was again elected to the House of Repre [l sentatives, his colleagues being A. S. Wallace J W Pawlinnnn and A. B. Snrinfffl. Esars After this session of the Legislature he prac tieally retired from public life, though he nev er lost interest in public affairs. Besides hi: services in the State Legislature, and after h< l" made his home in York county, he seryed fou ? years as Comptroller-General. He was ap ' pointed to the office of trial justice by Gover y nor Hampton. Col. Black's progenitors were Scotch-Irish who moved to this State from Pennsylvania and his father was an own cousin of Judg Jerre Black, e Col. Black was a member of the Methodls i- church, and was also a life member of th i, American Bible Society, having been made ; J- member of the Society in 1826. He was twic ;e married, his second wife being a Miss Logan d of Abbeville county, who survives him. H r- was buried in the Baptist church-yard a Black's Station on Monday, the funeral set vices being conducted by Rev. Mr. Oliver,, o ip Spartanburg, in presence of a large concours L of sorrowing friends and neighbors. ie THE NOMINATING CONVENTION. e Pursuant to the call of Hon. I. D. Withei spoon, County Chairman, a Convention of th ;s Democratic party of York county was held i ? the Court House on Tuesday last, for th d purpose of making a nomination to supply th J Vv?? i-Vvrt U An vacancy uucaaiuiieu uy me icoigiiaiiuii ui uuu C. M. Green, member of the House of Repre n sentatives from this county, e, The Convention was called to order at 1 _ o'clock, A. M., by the chairman, who explain h ed the object for which the Convention ha ie been called, when, re On motion of J. C. Chambers, W. J. SU ie phenson was elected secretary, ie The chairman then announced that the Con id vention was organized and ready for the tram action of business. J. M. Hope moved that the chair appoint tg committee of three to verify credentials c y_ delegates and report on same. The motion prevailed, and the chair appoinl g_ ed the following committee: J. M. Hope, W B. Wilson, Jr., and Daniel Williams. ^ After examination of credentials, the con: t mittee reported the following delegates pra ent. Bethel?J. L. Adams, S. D. Stowe, W. 1 Stanton. Bullock's Creek?J. C. Mitchell, J^OBJaii le W. H. Mitchell, J. M. Hope. d Coates' Tavern?J. D. Cornwell, H. M. Lin< bereer ld Fori Mill-T. G. Culp, T. B. Withers, J. hi n Spratt. re Hickory Grove?J. C. Chambers, W. S. Wi it kerson, f. N. McGilL ,r Clay Hill?E. M. Steele, L. B. Williams. ' Rock Hill?A. E. Hutchison, W. B. Wilsor Jr., W. J. Waters, F. H. Brown, J. A. Giles ? J.N.Steele. Bethany?J. Randolph Wallace, Win. M< Gill, D. J. Jackson, J. B. Lowry. Black's Station?W. H. Carroll, J. B^Mint: [L Wm. McGill, Jr., C. B. Byers, R. M. Plexic< Mc Connellsville?W. N. Elder, J. P. Moon t, John W. Moore. p- McEhcee's Mill?J. L. Moore, Daniel Wi (i- liams. 3t Yorkville?W. J. Stephenson, A. E. Getty; y- R. H. Glenn, Dr. J. B. Allison, J. C. Gwin. ?, After the reading of the report, the chai 3 announced that the full number of delegate ^ to which the county is entitled was presenl j6 and asked the pleasure of the Convention. ie J. C. Chambers moved that the Conventio proceed to make nominations. Carried. ? C. B. Byers nominated Mr. J. A. Deal, c P" Cherokee township. n No other name being proposed, Mr. Wi! liams moved that nominations be closed, whic motion prevailed, when ie The chair announced that the vote woul r" be by ballot, and appointed the following tel lets to conduct the election : Messrs. Hutch! son, Withers and Elder. ^ The balloting then proceeded, the delegate a" voting by townships, after which the teller announced as the result, that 40 ballots ha been cast, all of which were for J. A. Deal. The chair then declared Mr. Deal, by unani ^ mous vote of the Convention, to be the regu larly nominated candidate of the Democrat! in party of York county, to fill the unexpire is teim of Mr. Green, resigned, momber of th )f House of Representatives. J. No other business being presented, on mc ig motion of Mr. Chambers, the Convention ad ? journed sine die. r- ?^? EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Storm on the North Carolina Coast. qq A special dispatch of the 18th instanl id from Morehead city to the Charlotte Obset ver, gives the following account of a fearfu 0 storm on the North Carolina coast: e" We were visited this morniug by a terrifii storm from the southeast, damaging persons property here to the amount of about $5t00d The Atlantic and North Carolina Railroa* d track between the town and the depot is near ly all washed up. The Atlantic Hotel an< 31 eight business houses in Beaufort were wash le ed away, while the various other damages an it inestimable. The guests of the Atlantic es caped, but the building and contents, inclu n ding all the baggage, is a total loss. Then is no information from other sections of th< 0 county, but the damage must be very great. SoRthern Historical Society. * The Southern Historical Society was ii k" session last Friday at White Sulphur Springs Virginia. General W. H. F. Lee called th< meeting to order. . General D. H. Maun presided, and Rev. Dr. Hoge, of Richmond n opened the meeting with prayer. Genera l" Maury made a brief statement of the origii n and history of the Society, which has gather s ed in its office in Richmond invaluable mate rial for.a true history of the war, and whicl ,r is publishing a monthly magazine that is re n cognized both in this country and Europ< as the highest historical authority. Th< speaker introduced General Chalmers, a gab l" lant soldier, who rode with Forrest in the 1 ' days of the war, and who now efficiently servei a a -1 nAiitiAila ? D18 country auu otitic m wo tvuuwo ? ? < nation. e General Chalmers then delivered an abl< d and eloquent address on "Forrest and his com f panions," which elicited frequent rounds ol i- applause, aud is regarded as a valuable coo t tribution to the history of the late war. e Among the prominent ex-Confederates pres0 ent were noticed Generals Toombs, Lawton ? Alexander and Gilmer, of Georgia; Maury, Lee, Lilly, Field and Gaines, of Virginia; a ex-Gov. Brown, of Georgia; Governor Mat v thews, of West Virginia; Bishop Atkins, ol v | North Carolina; Rev. Drs. Irvine, of Geor1 gia; Hoge, of Virginia; George II. Taylor, ol ? I Rome, Italy, and a large number of others. " i Condition of the Crops. ~ | The Agricultural Department at Washj ington, under date of August 15th, publishes 3 j the following report of the condition of the I crops: II The average condition for the whole coun fry is 9.1, a loss of 2 per cent since July 1st . | State averages are: North Carolina, 86, a I loss of 8; South Carolina, 82, a gain of 1; ? Georgia 87, a gain of 1; Florida, 87, a loss 3 of 4; Alabama 100, a gain of 4; Mississippi . 98, a gain of 6; Louisiana 89, a loss of 4 ; i Texas 79, a loss of 11; Arkansas 96, a loss of i 7; Tennessee 105,a gain of 4. At the date of the returns rains were reported generally. The severe drought which prevailed in the r large tobacco growing States, namely in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Ken- f 3 tucky during June and July, wis a great in. jury to the crop. The average for the whole . country is only 77 against 84 last year, at the l same date. Rain is reported since July 26th, x very generally, and the prospects are that, September returns will show a decided change j for the better. The August returns show a condition of the oat crop at 91 against 100 iu August, 1878. ' They show a slight improvement over the ' July condition which averaged only 89. The decline in the Gulf and Trans-Mississippi States nearly over balance the improvement 9 in all other States. e The August returns show that the condi r tion of spring wheat was 82, against 75 in " 1878; northern parts of New England' and New Yprk maintain their July condition. In the west and northwest there was a generj al decline, caused by the drouth, rust and '? chinch bugs. The decline is most severely e felt in Kansas, where the condition averaged ? only 44. The condition of the whole country t is 7 per cent, better than last year. The dee cline during July was only 10 per cent a against 31 per cent in '78, with increased e acreage, especially in unascertained territorial i, area. A considerable addition may be ex* e pected to the yield of this branch of the t wheat crop. * V' - Railroad Accident'. f On Monday morning, just about day- ' e light a serious accident occurred just beyond t Ridgeway, on the Charlotte, Colombia -and v Augusta Railroad, by which several paesen* - gen were injured?among, them Rev. Dr. e Meynardie, who had his collar bone anda rib a broken. * . * 6 Prom the Winnsboro Newt, the editor of 6 which, R. Means Davis, Esq.,. was on .board '* the train at the time, we take the following account of the accident: I The south bound passenger train on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad C met with a serious accident a boat three-quarters of a mile below Ridgeway, on Monday morning. The train had been delayed in !~ Charlotte to make connection with the Pied* moot Road. When it reached Winnsboro, l" it was an hour behind time, and from there h it ran with great speed to and beyond Ridgeway. Going down a grade below Ridgeway, a it is supposed that the centrifugal force of f the Pullman car was too mnch for the stringer track, and one of the outer rails was > forced off. This threw off the Pnllman oar ' and the first and second class cars. After dumping along a hundred yards, all three i- cars plunged, the two passenger coaches upside , J- down, down an embankment, and the Pullman poising itself as if on one leg and leaning r. against the side of a cot. The passengers in the Pullman were not injured, but the other * passengers were not so fortunate. When the coaches turned upside down they were pitched pell-mell into the roof (which had now beL coma, the floor) together with valises, umbrellas, traveling bags, whiskey samples and 1- seat cushions, while the seats themselves, with a few exceptions, hang like D&mocle's sword overhead. The'lamps fortunately went out l> and 8 pa red a conflagration. For an- instant i} confusion prevailed, then the passengers began to-pick themselves or each other up, and to examine into the casualties. The Rev. \ Dr. Meynardie was severely bruised, and in>. ternal injuries were feared. The cause of the accident seems to have . been that the train was running too rapidly over crooked and inferior stringer track. , It must have been at least thirty miles an hour. The authorities are repn&ensible for ir delaying their trains in Charlotte and then .8 having the conductors make up the lost time t before reaching Augusta. The road bed ' can't stand lightning trains. Q The Farmers and Mechanics. The summer meeting of the State Ag f ricultural and Mechanical Society and of the 8tate Grange, was held at Chester last week, l" commencing on Tuesday, the t2th instant. h President Col. J. N. Lipscomb, master of the A /^rlvooooo t\$ XTfl]. - jj OWW VJUdU^C) Jiicoiucu* -IAUU4 vwvo VI ??v* f come were made by T. C. Gaston, Esq., for [. the people of Chester, and W. A. Sanders, Esq., for the Chester Grange. These were s briefly replied to by Hon. J. N. Lipscomb, in * behalf of the State Grange, and by Hon. B. d F. Crayton, on the part of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society. < ~ The following delegates were present from c York county: B. H. Massey, J. E. Harris, J. d R. London, William Whyte, J. F.'Workman, e Iredell Jones, J. M. Spratt, Mrs. Si E. Spratt, J. W. Rawlinson, J. V. McFadden, J. A. >- Gill, H. T. Strait, R. T. Gillespie. During the meeting, Hon.* A. P. Butler, Fish Commissioner, read an interesting essay on pisciculture. A full discussion of the sub-1 ject ensued, which was participated in by Messrs. Thompson, Parrott, Butler and Woodward. On Wednesday, Hon. J. N. Lipscomb de* livered an address on the aims and objects of the Grange, which was listened to with mark!? ed attention, and was repeatedly interrupted ( with applause. j At the afternoon session, the meeting was .. again called to order, and the president intro1 duced Dr. G. B. Lartigue, who read a learn* ed essay on grape growing and wine making. B At the close of this essay, the Chair announced that the subject was open for general discus3 sion. No one offering to speak, the Hon. W. B J). Johnson, of Marion, was introduced and read an essay on fruit culture. Mr. D. P. Duncan then read an essay on the cultivation a of grasses. After some discussion, a committee of e three, consisting of Generals Hagood and j Bratton and Col. Wm. Wallace, was appoint* ed to take into consideration the propriety of ] publishing all the transactions of the Agrii cultural Society since the war. The meeting . adjourned till 11 o'clock on Thursday. On Thursday, the Hon. B. F. Crayton de- ? ! livered an address setting forth the purposes . and advantages of the annual fair. Discus3 sions then took place on the causes of wilting 3 of cotton and on the conduct of the railroad , system. ; Invitations were received from the agricul3 tural societies of Darlington and Greenville, 3 and Darlington and Pomona Grange, to hold the next summer meeting at those places. 3 An invitation from the Directors of the . Cheraw and Chester Railroad Company to f take an excursion to Cedar Shoals was ac. cepted. On motion, the meeting adjourned tine die. . The Sprague-Coakllog Difficulty. For a long time the papers have been busy with Mrs. Sprague, wife of ex-Senator . Sprague, of Rhode Island, a beautiful woman, . and Senator Conkling. It was known in "7--L;??? *u_i. r\?LI:? I. r vy asuiugiuu tuai vuu&nug nao cAticuicijr m*r ? tentive to her. At last a rupture has occurt red. Conkling went to Newport, Rhode Island, and took up his abode in Sprague's house. Sprague finally drove Conkling away , with a shot gun, and then pursued him. High ! old words followed, but no fighting or shoot- / , ing was done. Mrs. Sprague has left her husband's roof with her children. A divorce , will follow, it is said. We may look out for much fresh n as tin ess. Conkling is "done i, for." From Utica, N. Y., Conkling's home,