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Scraps and <facts. ? During the past year no fewer than 30,000,000 acres of government land have been taken up or sold to settlers. It is estimated that about half k million people have settled on these lands. ? In Montague, Texas, last Friday, Charles Harris was executed in the presence of five thousand persons, for the murder of his brother in January, 1877. He was convicted on his own confession. He was firm to the last, and the drop fell while the assemblage sang 'Sweet Bye and-Bye.M ? Thus far at Memphis, 238 negroes have VinH v#>llnve fpvpr Of thpsp hut. 24 There have been 293 white cases, and of these 115 died. The deduction from this would seem to be that negroes can take the disease very readily, but it is not by a great deal as fatal as among the whites. ? It is difficult to believe that a multitude of people, equal in number to one-fourth the population ot the United States, have recently been destroyed by famine in China. Yet such is the statement that comes on the authority of Mr. Forrest, the English consul at Tientsin. Nor has the terrible visitation yet passed away. ? Ex-Senator Corbin, of South Carolina, has returned to Washington from Colorado. He pronounces the story without foundation that while he was \flsiting in Denver, $10,000 worth of bogus gold bricks were palmed off" upon him. No transaction of the kind was attempted, and nothing occurred upon which to found such a story. ? The commissioner of internal revenue reports that the tax on matches produced a rev. enue during the last fiscal year of three and a quarter million dollars?an increase over any previous year. From five-eights to threefourths of the price of matches is due to the tax. We import no matches now, but are exporting them to a large extent. , , ? Some person, with plenty of spare time on hand, has made the following calculation as to the weight and bulk in bullion of the na lAnol cloKf Tun hillinnQ twn hiinrlrpifl mil lions of silver dollars weigh 13,200,000 pounds avoirdupois, or 6,600 tons. To transport it by railway would require 100 freight trains of 11 cars each. It would fill 100 rooms 10 feet wide, 20 feet long and 10 feet high. ? Competition between the Piedmont AirLine and Seaboard Air-Line, being the two chief routes to the North," is becoming very interesting. Its first result was to reduce the fare from Chariotte to New York and return to S28. Then came the free excursion proposition?offering to take merchants to Baltimore for 84, which i3 really nothing more than their meals and state rooms on the boats would cost. Thus far there has been no cutting of freight rates, but the busy season has hardly commenced. ? Col. Tom. Buford, the murderer of Judge Elliott, of Kentucky, is still in the Louisville jail, awaiting the time when he will be allowed a new trial, or ordered to be sent to the penitentiary at Frankfort, there to spend the remainder of his life. Buford thinks that in course of time the public feeling against him will die away, and that people will begin to look at his side of the case. "I have killed Elliott, and after a while people will begin to inquire why I killed him. They will investigate the matter, and will discover how shame* fiillv T liavo hppn cbpatpH." J - ~ ? A well-known statistician of Philadelphia asserts that fully 20,000 more people are employed in Philadelphia to-day than on September 1st of last year. This opinion he bases upon an investigation into the condition of Philadelphia's industries, extending over a period of several weeks. Every business in the city, he says, with scarcely an exception, is feeling the effects of the trade revival, and, according to present prospects, there is in store for both employers and employes a tide of prosperity such as has not been experienced for many a long year. ? Mr. J. W. Edwards, a large planter in the canebrake region of Alabama, says, in a letter to the Selma Times, that the common notion that it takes a boll of cotton six weeks to mature after- the bloom drops from the stalk, is an error. He says that from the latter part of June to the 15th or 20th of July, it takes a boll of cotton thirty days to become fully grown after the bloom drops from the stalk, and from then on to the 12th of September, it only takes from twenty to twentyfive days for a boll of cotton to get grown from the time' the bloom drops. ? A Western gentleman brought his little girl into the Highlands of the Hudson, where, for the firei time in her life, she saw mountains. They were sitting on the piazza of the West Point Hotel, looking on the beautiful mountain and river view. The little girl had been standing reverently, with her hat in band, for some minutes?looking now at the river, now at the mountains, now at the clouds?when, with a sudden inspiration, she waved her hat above her head and cried out, "Hurrah for God!" It was an act of genuine worship ; a true answer to David's call on every soul to make a joyful noise unto the Lord. ? The Courier-Journal presents the Barksdale version of the Yazoo tragedy, which puts a better face upon it, but adds that "no amount of facts now given can destroy the effects of the bad impression made at the time of the tragedy. The entire South has been incalculably injured, and the lesson of Yazoo is that personal wrongs should be borne with all possible patience by Southern men. Every disturbance in a Southern State, no matter what its origin, is of the greatest value to the corrupt minority now in power." So, it would appear that the Devil, as well as Providence, fights on the side of the Republicans. But we shall see what we shall see. Sometimes a man is lifted up that his fall may be the more calamitous. ? Ex-Senator Dorsey writes from Arkansas that the Republican party in that State is now in the process of reorganization, with the object of entering energetically into the presidential canvass of next year. He has begun the publication of a newspaper at Little "Rnr>lr mul in his nrosnectus savs that his ob ?^ i r "?- ?j - - ject is to again place Arkansas under the rule of the Republican party, and to make Gen. Grant once more President of the United States. The ex-Senator sends the further news that he will have a solid Grant delegation from Arkansas in the next Republican national convention, and with the Democracy divided and quarreling, as they now are in that State, he has no doubt about Grant carrying the State. ? The Cincinnati Commercial gives the following as the true method of telling a fish story: "A small boy, the only child of rich but respectable parents, fell into the Zoological Lake. He could not swim. Neither could any of his parents. Nor could his sisters or his cousins or his aunts, because he didn't have any. A humane catfsh, which was dining on the other side of the lake, saw his peril. It pushed its chair back from the table and swam to the body. It seized his coat collar in his mouth and held his head I above the water, and paddled bravely to the ; shore and delivered its burden into the hands of the afflicted parents. The lake is still there as a witness to the truth of the story, and may be seen for the pitiful sum of twenty- i five cents." ? The interest in the case of Freeman, the Adventist, who killed his little girl in a fit of j religious frenzy a few months since at Pocas. set, Massachusetts, does not appear to lessen, j Several pamphlets of sermons, with his "sac rifice," have been printed and meet large sales, and letters from all parts of the coun-, try, and from England, have been received by the jailer and the officers of the county, making inquiries in regard to his manner of living and his present religious belief. Scores of lawyers from all of the great cities have ofTered to conduct his defence without a pen- i iiy of cost. Both Freeman and his wife have, as yet, been unable to see that they could do 1 t otherwise than "obey the voice of God," | when he called upon them to sacrifice their , daughter. Their trial will not occur until next May, and as the defence will be based solely on interpretations of the scriptures, it must prove one of the most remarkable ever I known, both from a religious and legal point of view. fhe fotfeviUf <?nquim. YORKVI LLETS.C. : THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 4, 1879. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name 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 ma registered ieuer. Postage.?The Enquirkr is delivered free ot postage to all subscribers residing in York county, who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the pHblisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber^ Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must bo distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. r TRADE AND COMMERCE OF CHARLESTON. The Charleston News and Courier of last Monday contains an elaborate review of the trade and commerce of that city for the year ending the 31st of August. The general results of the year's transactions are quite gratifying to all who have a feeling of interest for the chief commercial city of the State, and it is with no small degree of pleasure that we note the steady increase in trade and the development of new industries there, bringing capital to our State and increasing its resources. Enumerating the commercial transactions , of the city for the past year, the review opens with the receipts in Charleston of the Southern staples and their value. The receipts of cot' * * ?j too, rice, naval stores auu outer luciuuauui^ are given as follows : Value. Upland cotton, bales 493,576 $22,500,000 Sea Island cotton, bags 9,419 850,000 Rice, tierces 40,000 1,440,000 N. S., spirits, casks, 53,870 545,000 N. S., rosins, barrels 246,100 495,000 Phosphate, crude, tons 95,680 647,OuO Phosphate, tnanuf'd, tons,.. 55,000 1,650,000 Lumber, feet 12,971,179 1,200,000 Cot. goods, dom. <fcc., bales... 10,000 1,000,000 Fruits, vegetables, packages 100,000 100,000 Total $30,427,000 Tfce exports of cotton to foreign ports amounted to 370,396 bales; the total export and consumption of rice was 40,040 tierces; th*e export of phosphate rock to foreign ports were 23,244 tons; tc coastwise ports, 72,496 tons, exclusive of exports from Bull river and Port Royal, which give an increase of foreign and coastwise exports of 94,204 tons, or a grand total of 189,944 tons; besides which 20,440 tons were received for local consumption. The receipts of naval stores for the past twelve months have not varied much from the amounts received during the previous year. The foreign exports of spirits turpentine amounted to 37,758 casks; coast wise experts, 16,808, or a total ot o<i,oio casks. Of rosin the foreign exports were 195,864 barrels; coastwise exports, 54,459? a total of 250,323 barrels. Besides the above articles there were exported to foreign and coastwise ports 12,931,179 feet of lumber. The leading articles of produce imported were hay, corn, oats and flour. The receipts of hay were 31,241 bales; corn, 353,950 bushels; oats, 97,250 bushels; flour 100,000 barrels. The exports of the staples from Charleston to foreign ports during the year just closed, show a very marked increase over the foreign business of the previous year. This increase amounts to $2,010,949 in exports and to $8,424 in imports as will be seen by the following report from the custom-house: Exports for the year endingAugust 31, 1878 $17,619,448 August 31, 1879 19,630,397 Imports for the year ending? August 31,1878 122,769 August31,1879 131,185 The review devotes considerable space to the jobbing trade of the city, from which it appears that the gross sales for the year amounted to over fifteen and a half millions of dollars?a gain over last year of $600,000. GIBAJiT ASD THIS TKLSllHSAtr. The partisan papers of both political parties continue the discussion which has almost constantly been going on for the past three years, as to the probability of Gen. Grant being the next nominee of the Republican party for the presidency. We rather suspect that many of the Democratic organs fear that he will be the standard-bearer of the Republican party in 1880; while the more stalwart Republicans, who look more to the probable success of the party in the coming struggle than the mere advancement or preferment of men, openly declare that Grant would be the most available candidate, who could "neither be beaten or cheated out of the presidency," and that the "Republicans will have enough to do to find another man who may not be." Of course, at this early day it is quite impossible to predict with any certainty as to the nominee of either party; and generally, as has been our observation, those most freely spoken of in connection with the nomination previous to the assembling of the convention, are generally least supported when the votes are cast for nominations, the majority of the convention preferring men in comparative obscurity. This was notably the case in the nominations of Pierce and Liu- j coin, who defeated opponents of national rep- j utation. It may be in the present instance ! that Grant will be the recipient of all the i compliment and adulation until the meeting of the convention, when, unexpectedly to him-j self as well as his party, the nomination will fall upon quite a different person. Nomiua-: ting conventions, like juries are sometimes said to be, are "mighty uncertain." One , thing, however, is certain, viz.: that except- j ing Grant, whose acquirements it must be ad-1 mitted do not consist in either intellect or montol oKilWw io thp jnnsf- available man now prominently before the country in the Re- j publican party. The shrewdest Republican leaders, much as they may deplore the fact, know this, and to Grant they look as their only hope of success. Although there are many denials, seemingly by authority, of Grant's presidential aspirations, yet it is a noteworthy fact that in all that has been said upon the subject, he has evinced enough of the politician not to give his party to understand that he will in nowise decline a nomination. So far as his utterances, or more strictly speaking, his owl-like reticence may direct a conclusion, with him it is an open question, and unless, after his return to this country, he sees for himself that the Grant boom has lost its force, he will not i prevent his name from going before the Republican convention. As to the pros and cons of the question, it may be stated that Grant's personal friend, j Mr. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, asserts positively that Grant will not be a candidate; j and it is also given out that he will accept j the presidency of au Interoceanic Canal Company, a project spoken of to open a canal from the Atlantic to the PaciBc by the Nicarauga route. In this latter position, it will not be denied that he could do the country no harm, if he did no good. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Chief Justice Willard is still rusticating in the mountains. ? Governor Simpson returned to Columbia last week from a visit to Glenn Springs. ? The cotton crops in the vicinity of Marion C. H., are being injured by rust. ? In a number of counties complaint is made that rifst has invaded the cotton fields. ? The County Board of Equalization in Lexington raised the value of property in that county over ?85,000. ? There are now five prisoners in the Auderson county jail, who were put there for eating other people's watermelons. ? Col. John B. Davis has been appointed sheriff of Fairfield county, to serve until the next general election. ? The Circuit Court for Fairfield county, will commence its sitting at Winnsboro, on Monday next. Judge Wallace will preside. ? In an editorial article, the Greenville City Item suggests Maj. T. W. Woodward, of Fairfield, as a Democratic candidate for a seat in Congress for the Fourth District. ? A gentleman in Anderson has made $100 from the milk and butter of one cow in four mouths, besides supplying the wants in that line of his own family. ? In the UnitecbStates Court at Greenville, the grand jury have found a true bill against Christopher G. Betchler, indicted for counterfeiting small coin. ? Capt W. E. Earle, of Greenville, has written a letter to the New and Courier from White Sulphur Springs, Va., in which he states that the report is false that he is to be on the Radical ticket for Governor, next year. ? There are said to be only three shoals in the river between Columbia and the Air Line Railroad, and their removal would open the way for light draft steamers. It is estimated that the cost of making the river navigable would not exceed fifty thousand dollars. ? The Spartan i3 informed that there has not been a lawsuit in White Plains township,. Spartanburg county, since January, 1870. It is also said that there has not been a lawsuit amongst the members of Mt. Zion Church for about half a century. ? Capt. R. B. Watson,' of Ridge Spring, Edgefield county, has twenty-three acres of cotton from which he expects to gather twenty-three 500 pound bales?and the plowing was done with an ox. Also, 5$0 bushels of peas, in prospective, are to be placed to the ox's credit. ? The contemplated re-union of the veterans of Hart's Battery, which was to have taken place on the 17th instant, at Williston, in Barnwell county, has been postponed till next year, partly from a lack of the "sinews of war" to make it a success, and partly from disappointment in securing the services of the orators selected for the occasion. ? The Agricultural and Mechanical Association having failed to offer any prize to be contended for at the meeting this fall by the various military companies of the State, a movement is on foot in Columbia, to raise the requisite amounts by citizens. Adjutant-Gen. Moise is in hearty accord with the movement, and will contribute handsomely to the sum to be raised. ? The Lancaster Ledger learns that a duel was fought near Camden, on Monday of last week, between Mr. Charles Shannon and Capt. T .H. Clarke. The weapons used were Smith and Wesson revolvers at twenty paces. Shots were exchanged without effect, and the par ties lett tne neia. n appears mat luc seconds had determined beforehand that there should be but one shot on each side. ? Postmaster-General Key has removed Miss* Maher, the intelligent, efficient and popular postmistress at Blackville, to make room for Fred. Nix, a pestilential Radical negro politician. Nix*6 whole record is a dirty one. He was the right-hand man of the notorious thief Leslie, and he has managed in every possible way to make himself odious to decent people. ? On Thursday last, on T. R. Cudd's farm, about six miles from Union, Mr. Scove Cudd and two farm hands were blasting in a well. While packing some gravel on the powder, it caught fire and burned out one of Mr. Cudd's eyes, and the physicians think he will lose the sight of the other eye. It blew a sledge hammer out of the well, and struck one of the employes and knocked him insensible for some time. The other man was not seriously hurt. ? The Anderson Journal says that the retail liquor dealers of that place recently applied for a reduction in the price of license, but the Town Council determined to maintain the old price of 8300. Upou this the dealers declined to take out license and closed their doors. One threatened to open a millinery store, and it was thought another would open a dancing school. Subsequently, however, upou consultation, the liquor-men decided to continue business and pay the 8300 demanded in each case for a license, and now there are four of the establishments running as usual. ?r The editor of the Abbeville Medium has been to Columbia, and repeats some of the political gossip which he found afloat there. Governor -Simpson, it is said, does not desire re-election, but his friends will support him for a position on the Supreme Bench. Among those mentioned as the possible successor to Governor Simpson, are Generals McGowan and Hagood, and Judges Wallace and Kershaw. Senator Howard is talked of for Secretary of State ; Gen. Kennedy, Col. Coit and Gen. Bratton for Comptroller-General; John T. Sloan, Jr., Mr. Fickliug and Silas Johnstone, Esq., for Attorney-General. ? In the United States Court at Greenville, on Thursday last, in the cases against Jasper Gibbs, Asa Smith and Eliphus F. Smith, indictments for rescue (otherwise known as; the Union rescue cases) the defendants plead j guilty and submitted themselves to the mercy of the court. The judge, after addressing the prisoners as to the gravity of the offence, and the reasons for exercising clemency in their behalf, passed the following sentence: That i the defendants, Jasper Gibbs and Asa Smith, | be imprisoned one day and pay a fine ofj 8150 and costs. And that Eliphus Smith, be j imprisoned one day and pay a fine of fifty i dollars and costs. ? The Fairfield News and Herald mentions , that Iiev. W. E. Boggs, D. I)., so much es- j teemed by the soldiers of the Sixth Regiment as their chaplain during the late war, will be invited to deliver the annual address at the next reunion of survivors, to be held at Black stock, io August, 1880. Dr. Boggs passed through all the d&Dgers and hardships endured by the gallant old Sixth, and was present at the closing scene at Appomattox. He is now pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, of Memphis, and remains faithful to his post of duty in the midst of the ravages of yellow fever now desolating that unfortunate city. ? Alexauder Bryce, jr., who was an expostmaster of Walhalla, and was once in the revenue service, was assassinated near his home, eleven miles from Walhalla, on Monday night of last week. The following are given as the facts in connection with the murder: "Bryce was at the house of Jesse F. Cox, who lives near him. In company with Cox, Bryce started home, and on the way ?.11 . _ i ? ?i> tney were accosiea Dy iwo nuraeiucu, uue ui whom asked who were present. Cox replied that it was he and Bryce, whereupon one of the men immediately Bred at Bryce. Three shots were Bred, all of them taking effect on the body of Bryce. Two of them were fatal. Bryce fell and expired instantly." A correspondent of the News and Courier says that the assassins are known, but on Thursday last had not been arrested. ? A re-union of survivors of the companies which entered the Confederate army from Spartanburg couuty, was had at Cedar Springs on Wednesday of last week. There were present on the occasion about two thousand persons, including survivors from the 1st (Gregg's,) 1st (Hagood.'s,) 3*d, 5th, 7th, 14th, 15th, 18th", 20th, 22d, a^tid 27th Regiments of Infantry; Jarnes' Battalion; 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, and 7th Regiments of Cavalry; 1st Regiment of Regu lars ; Macbeth's Battery; and Gist Guards Artillery. At the request of the committee of arrangements, Maj. D. R. Duncan presided. Several of the foregoing regiments were represented by but two or three memoers. oix 01 me reserves were preseui, one or two of whom served in the war of .1812. Maj. Duncan informed the meeting that the committee had invited a number of prominent gentlemen, who won distinction in war and in peace, "whose wounds become them as their words, and smack of honor both," but unfortunately they were unable to attend. This he deeply regretted. He then read letters from Governor Simpson, Gens. Longstreet, Hs.mpton, Kershaw, Butler, McGowan, Conner, Wallace and Major M. G. Zeigler, all of whom assured the committee of their great desire to again meet their gallant comrades, but that imperative and important duties denied to them that happiness. The assemblage was addressed by Congressman Evins, Maj. Duncan and others. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Morehead City has shipped 250,000 watermelons this season. ? The Supreme Court of the State, after a lengthy and laborious session, adjourned on Tuesday of last week. ? North Carolina's first bale of new cotton was received in Wilmington on the 28th ultimo, and sold for 12J cents. ? The notorious carpet-bagger, Judge Tourgee, has shaken the dust of North Carolina from his feet and moved to Colorado. ? There will be six or seven miles of track laid down on the Cheraw & Wadesboro Railroad during the present month. ?The Raleigh News says: From the present indications, the next State Fair will be a grand success. Ample preparations have been made, and all anticipate a grand display. ? Messrs. J. A. Cole, E. A. Moffitt and one or t.wn more of their neighbors, have com raenced building a cotton factory at Foust's old mill, on Deep river, in Randolph. Randolph already has seven factories iu operation. ? The Raleigh Observer says the salt spray thrown dp by the late storm at Beaufort has killed nearly all the trees there. The effect is about the same as that of fire, upon the foilage, which is brown and shrivelled. The elm trees were specially injured. ? Among the recent graduates of the New York Deaf and Dumb Institute, is Jesse Bunker, a son of Chang, one of the Siamese twins. Chang left two sons and live daughters, one of the latter being also a deaf mute. Jesse goes to Mount Airy, N. (!., to take charge of a fine farm left by his father. ? At Asheboro, Randobh county, last Friday, T. P. Bowman, a whii;e man, was hanged ' for the crime of wife poisoning, committed in the Spring of 1877. The case is originally from Rockingham courty, where it was moved to Guilford and thence to Randolph. This is the first executioc under sentence of civil court that ever took place in Randolph. It is estimated that six thousand persons were present. ? Quite a serious accident occurred on the stage line from Asheville to Henry, last Friday afternoon. As the stage was coming down a steep hill, some eleven miles from Asheville, the coupling bolt broke, precipitating the passengers, stage body and all upon the ground. Five persons were wounded, one seriously. The wounded are: J. M. Leach, Jr., hand, shoulder and head, slightly ; T. C. Gaston, Esq., of Chester, S. C., foot; Mr. Peter Ray, sprained leg; Mr. Grant, shoulder dislocated; Mr. Hines, cut in the hand, and one other passenger, whose name was not ascertained. ? Says the Asheville Citizen of last week : We mentioned last week that there were two Mormons at work in Cherokee county. We learn that they succeeded in making several converts, when the people quite handsomely tickeled the preachers with hickory twigs, inducing them to leave the country in haste. Not content with this, the citizens thought it advisable to "tickle" the converts also, une fellow complains that the tickling was done while he only had his shiirt to protect him. The "converts," some thirty in number, including several females?indeed a majority of the converts are women?have sold their goods and chattels aud are about moving to Utah. POLITICAL NEWS. ? It is said that the Democratic Congressmen from Illinois are already moving with the view of sending a solid Hendricks delegation from Illinois to the next Democratic national convention. Congressman Morrison and Townshend are credited with being the prime movers in the matter. ? The Democrats of Washington county, Miss., have nominated a colored man fur the State Legislature. ? A letter was received in Washington on Saturday from Gen. Ewr.ng. He says he is very confident of his election as governor of Ohio, that the people are enthusiastic, and that the vote will be large. He says also that he believes he will get the whole greenback vote. ? The Baltimore Gazette furnishes the country with the very important information that j "if the National Democracy want to be successful in 1880, they must nominate a candidate who can be elected." ? There is a strong probability of a split in j the Democratic party of Georgia. Gov. Col- J quit has determined to be a candidate for reelection, and a strong minority says he shall j not be elected. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. N. Roberta?Fresh Meats. Jack Gardner?Cotton Market Opened. T. C. Robertson, Treasurer?Tax Notice. H. F. Adickes, Jr.?Dealer in Dry Goods, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Stationery, Ac. Wilson A Wilson, Plaintiff's Attorneys?Notice to Defendants. Herndon Brothers?Wide Awake. Withers Adickes?To the Public. E. B. Cairnes, Blairsville.S. C.?Fair Warning. W. J. Jones and G. W. Timine?Steam Saw Mill. J. W. Avery, Niagara, Ontario, Canada?land to Rent. Kennedy Bros. A Barron?Salem Jeans?Boots and Shoes?Fine Fish?Sole Leather?Wool Wanted?Our Mr. Walter Barron?Groceries?Received. n ITnirl/on/lol A "Vrvl nnfortr A Hnilflflinn 60 Loaves of Bread for 10 cents?Vitalized Phosphates?Flavoring Extracts?Fragrant Ricinine Hair Tonic. SALES-DAY. There was 110 property sold last Monday? sales-day for September?and there were very few persons in town from the country. JACK GARDNER. Under the above heading Capt. J. R. Gardner appears at the front, armed and equipped to buy all the cotton that may be offered him in this market. Read his announcement, and govern yourselves accordingly. BURGLARYAND LARCENY. On Saturday night last a thief burglariously entered the smoke-house of the King's Mountain Hotel and stole about 60 pounds of bacon, a quantity of onions and potatoes, and some dressed fowls that had been prepared for breakfast next morning. AGENTS FOR THE ENQUIRER. The following named persons are authorized to receive the names of subscribers to the Enquirer and give receipts on payment of subscriptions : T. Gid Cnlp, Esq., Fort Mill, S. C. George T. Schorb, Chester, S. C. Capt. Ed. M. Mills, Rock Hill, 8. C. Joshua D. Gwinn, Esq.,.. Cl<?v?r, S. C. W. D. 8impson, Blaekstocks, 8. C. TAX NOTICE. By notice, published in another column, of County Treasury Robertson, it will be seen that the books for the final collection of taxes in York county for the fiscal year 1878-79, will be open on the 15th instant. The treasurer publishes a list of appointments, at which times and places he will meet the tax-payers o:f the county. The treasurer's books will be finally closed on the 31st of October. RELIGIOUS REVIVAL. There was an interesting religious revival last week at Union Baptist Church, four miles north of town. The pastor, D. "VV. Thomasson, was assisted by Elders B. G. Covington and A. J. McCoy. The lalwrs resulted in fifteen conversions, to whom the ordinance of baptism by immersion was administered on Saturday afternoon. In addition to these, five members were received into the church by letter. RAILROAD* ACCIDENT. Monday afternoon, the passenger train on the Chester and Lenoir Railroad, when near the shanty at the two-mile post, struck a little negro boy, son of Oliver Thompson, hurting him seriously, if not fatally. The boy attempted to run across the track in front of the approaching train, and was struck by the pilot of the locomotive, which, besides otherwise bruising him, fractured his skull on the right side. He was attended by Dr. Alexander, who reports that he may recover. FIRST OF THE NEW CROP. The first bale of the new crop in York county was sold by Mr. W. Sam. Wilson, in Hock Hill, last Saturday. The bale weighed 440 pounds and was bought by J. M. Ivy & Co., at 15 cents per pound. On last Monday the first bale was sold in this market by Mr. W. A.. J. Robinson, of Turkey Creek. It weighed 442 pounds, classed as middling, and was bought by J. R. Gardner for J. M. Ivy & Co., at 1*2$ cents. These are fancy prices, above the regular quotations, and do not indicate the true condition of the markets. THE ELECTION. We presume a more quiet election never occurred in York county than was that of Tuesday last, to fill the vacancy hi the legislative delegation from this county, caused by the resignation of Mr. Green. The absence of public interest in the election was owing to the fact that there was no opposing candidates, and not from any dissatisfaction with Mr. Deal, the choice of the Convention. So far as we have heard, the nomination gave general satisfaction. Only 156 votes were cast at Yorkville, and we presume the voting was similarly light at all the precincts of the county. CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows: Methodist Episcopal?Rev. T. E. Gilbert, Pastor. The pastor will preach at Philadelphia Church at 10? o'clock and in the afternoon. Also in the church at Yorkville at 8 o'clock, P. M. Sunday-school in the afternoon. Prayer meeting, Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Associate Reformed?Rev. Robert tathan Pastor. Services at 10? A. M., and 4$ P. M. Church of the Good Shepherd.?Rev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. The Rector will officiate at Rock Hill next Sunday. TRANSFERS OFREAL ESTATE. The following transfers of real estate have been recorded in'the office of the County Auditor since our last report: Mary E. Gist, Executrix, to W. W. Gaffney. Tract of 102 acres in Cherokee township. M, C. and W. C. Schooley to A. Freidheim &Bro. One-sixth of two-thirds of 195 acres in Catawba township. Consideration 8130. F. H. Brown to Perry Martin. Tract of 180 acres in Ebeuezer township. Consideration $1,800. H. J. Hullender to Mary Jane Falls. Onethird interest in tract of 178 acres in Cherokee township. Consideration?deed of gift. Andrew Jackson, Judge of Probate, to Mrs. E. W. Rankin. Tract of 149 acres in Fort Mill township. Consideration 8633. A MAD DOG STORY. We are informed that one day last week a | mad dog made its appearance in the vicinity of Guthriesville, and bit a small negro boy on Mrs. Williams' place. The dog was next seen at Mrs. Love's place below McConnellsville, where it bit a cow. It then went in the direction of Brattonsville, bitiug several dogs on the way, after which it was seen on the premises of Mr. Isom, near Smith's Turnout. In this neighborhood it bit a negro boy. From Mr. Isom's place it was pursued, and killed about five miles from Rock Hill. After the dog was shot and supposed to be dead, a negro man took hold of it to examine it, when the animal seized him by the hand, indicting a slight wound. The dog was then dispatched. PERSONAL MENTION. Mrs. George T. Schorb, of Chester, is visiting Mr. J. R. Schorb, of this place. Mr. Robert D. Galbraith and bride have been, visiting Col. Wilson. Miss Ida McElwee litis returned from a visit in Ebenezer. Miss Mary L. Allison, of North Carolina, is visiting Mr. J. W. Dobsoii. Miss Lizzie Moore, who has been teaching I in Union county, is here, visiting her friends. I Mrs. George A. Albright, of Chester, is visiting relatives here. Mrs. Perrin and children, of Abbeville, are visiting the mother of the former, Mrs. McCaw. Mr. A. Springs Withers is visiting Cleveland Mineral Springs. - Mrs. S. A. Hodgson, of Cedar Keys, Florida, niece of Col. Beatty, is here on a visit. Mr. James Barry, who has Ijeen visiting the mountain region of North Carolina, returned last week. Mr. and Mrs. James Jefferys, Dr. L. Alexander and Robert Latta have returned from Cleveland Mineral Springs. H. F. Adickes, Jr., J. J. Hunter, of the firm of Hunter & Oates, and Walter T. Bar ron, of the firm of Kennedy Bros. & Barron, have gone to the northern. markets to make their fall purchases. Mrs. Gen. Law, after a visit of several weeks to her relatives in this place, returned last Tuesday to her home in Alabama. Lieutenant Jordan, of the Fourth U. S. Cavalry, was on a visit to Hon. A. S. Wallace the first of the week. Lieutenant Jordon has been assigned to duty in Nebraska, and will leave for his post on the 15th instant. DEATH OF Mn. BEATTV. We are pained to record the death of this estimable lady, which occurred at the residence of her husband, Col. W. C. Beatty, in this place, at 4 o'clock, P. M., on Wednesday of last week. Mrs. Beatty, at the time of her death, was in the 77th year of her age. i She was a native of Salisbury, N. C., and a sister of the late Col. Edward Yarborough, for a long time well known to the traveling public as proprietor of the Yarborough house, in Raleigh, N. C. She was married to Col. Beatty in November, 1825?nearly 54 years ago? during all of which period they have resided in Yorkville. Mrs. Beatty was an affectionate* tender and loving wife, an agreeable neighbor, a general favorite with all whom she met?old and young?and a devout and exemplary Christian. ?i HERE-MENTION. The Georgia papers speak of meetings being held among the colored people of that State looking to the organization of a general exodus. The United States have now more than five-eighths as much railroad mileage as all Europe, and it will be but a few years before we will have as much as all the rest of the world. Palmetto fibre, it is now said, makes ah excellent article of paper, and machinery has been set up at Feroafidina, Florida. Kalloch, who was shot and severely wounded by DeYoung, editor of the Sua Francisco Chronicle, is improving, ana it is thought that he is out of danger. Col. Theodore Parmele, formerly superintendent of the South Carolina penitentiary, is now residing in New York City, and has a lucrative position in connection with the gas works of that city. The Republican Convention of the State of New York assembled yesterday. The State Democratic Convention of Louisiana will be held at Baton Rouge on the first Monday in October, to nominate State officer8." ^ ,Congressman Reagan has serious fears that the Greenbackers will carry Texas at the next election. The distance from Atlanta to New York, by the Air-Line Railroad is 893 miles, and is traveled in 51 hours.* '"' Rev. Lovick Pierce is quite ill at his home in Georgia. He is 95 years old. An English sporting nobleman last year paid a bill of 82,000 for medical attendance upon his pack of hounds. There is no diminution of new cases or deaths from yellow fever in Memphis. The daily reports average about the same number as were reported during the middle and latter part of the summer. EDITOR I AlTlN KLIN GS. . j Increase In Exports of Whisky* Internal Revenue Commissioner Rogers publishes a statement that the spirits withdrawn from bond for export during the last fiscal year, was 14,837,737 taxable gallons, ah increase of 9,338,485 over the previous fiscal year. For the fiscal year 1877 the amount was 2,529,528, and for 1876, 1,308,900. The increased demand abroad for American whisky is a consequence of the " - - ? t. i .1 brightening up ot business. it aiso snows the imraen8e increase in the manufacture of ardent spirits in excess of the quantity needed for domestic consumption. The amount withdrawn tor the last fiscal year represents 4,000,000 bushels of American corn. The estimate is based on three-and ahalf gallons of spirits to the bushel of grain, and the exportation brings back at least 84,000,000 in money. No account is taken in the above of the paid and unpaid tax whisky made and sold in the United States. Elections this Fall. * The following, elections take place this Fall, beginning with that in California yesterday for State and judicial officers, four Congressmen and members of Legislature. Maine, September 8?Governor and members of Legislature. Ohio, October 14?State officers and members of the Legislature. Iowa, October 14?State officers, members of Leg i .? ? j ? o i. en ? isiaiure, anu one vyougresauiou wj uu a vauucy. Maryland, November 4?State officers and members of Legislature. Massachusetts, November 4?State officers and members of Legislature. Minnesota, November 4?State officers and members of Legislature. New York, November 4?State officers and members of Legislature. Wisconsin, November 4?State officers and members of Legislature. Mississippi, November. 4?Members of Legislature. New Jersey, November 4?Members of Legislature. Pennsylvania, November 4?State Treasurer and members of Legislature. Louisiana, December 2?On the adoption of the new Constitution. New York Qreenbackers' Convention. The New York State Convention of the Greenback party was held at Saratoga last Thursday and Friday. The organization of the Convention was completed by the election of A. M. Voorhees, of Rockland, permanent chairman. The platform adopted demands the retirement of National bank notes, and an increase of the volume of currency to fifty dollars per capita or more, and the redemption of the interest bearing bonds with the surplus funds in the treasury and the new issues of greenbacks. It favors the establishment of Postal Savings Banks, reduction of official salaries, collection of labor statistics, regulation of railroad fares and rates, abolition of political assessments, and State prison contract systems. It calls for a law giving mortgagees of real estate the right of redemption for five years after sales, and a law giving claims, for labor performed, preference over all other claims. It also favors the reduction of interest and a protective tariff. The Convention then nominated Harry Lewis, of Herkimer, for Governor, and John M. Wieting, of Ousulaga, for Lieutenant-Governor. Civil Service Reform, Again. A Washington letter of the 30th ultimo says that the question of civil service reform and its relation to the political contests now being carried on in the States of Maine, Ohio and New York, has been seriously considered by the President. He has lately received several letters, asking if bis civil service order in relation to office-holders is regarded as a dead letter. To one of these he has made the following important reply, the name of the gentleman to whom it was addressed being withheld for the present. Executive Mansion, ) Washington, August 13,1879. } My dear General: I have your note as to the interference of Federal officer-holders in the Republican County Convention. This is the first I have heard of it. I agree with you, that the interference of public officials with partisan political management ought to be stopped, and that the order on the subject ought to be enforced. The truth is that the less public officers have to do with partisan political management, the better it is for the public service and for their party. A public officer can best promote the interest of his party by rendering faithful and efficient service in performing the duties of his office. If -* you will send me the names of those you complain of, with a brief statement of the facts alleged against them, I will see that the affair is looked into and justice done. I am glad to know that the rule on the subject is more '? generally complied with as it is better understood, and that the public sentiment sustains it. Sincerely, R. B. Hayes. Curlons Statistics. A writer in the Boston Transcript furnishes the following curious bit of statistical information: Allowing two square feet to each person, the PftotAn aahIjI olon/il nn cu tu c uwpuiatiuu Ul JJVOIUU WMIU Oiauu VU the public garden with a good deal of room to spare. The entire population of the United States could stand in Boston proper (not including Brighton, Dorchester and West Roxbury). The. entire population of the world (now estimated at 1,'440,000,000) could stand on the island of Martha's Vineyard, or in the space occupied by the towns of Boston, Brookline, Newton, Needham, Hyde Park <and Milton. The State of Massachusetts would, in this way, accommodate seventy times the present population of the wo'rla. The entire population of the world, placed side by side, allowing two feet for each person, would encircle the earth twenty tiroes. The States of Maine, New Hampshire and i Vermont, taken together, are as large as England. Any one of the 8tates of Georgia, Illinois, Iowa and North Carolina is as large as England. Kansas is as large as England and Scotland together. Ireland is as about the size of Maine. France is more than twice v as.large as England; Wales and Scotland . together. Texas is 35 times as large as Massachusetts, or as large as Maine, New Hamp- > shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio and Indiana combined. The entire population of the United 8tates could be provided for in the State of Texas, allowing each man, woman and child four acres of land. The entire population of the world could be provided for in the United 8tatea, allowing each person one and a half acres of land. Death of Gen. Hood. Gen. John B. Hood died in New Orleans at 4 o'clock last Saturday morning, of yellow fever. It will be remembered that his wife died of the same disease the preceding \ week. Since the death of the mother, one of the daughters has died, and another is dangerously ill. The New Orleans dispatch announcing the death of Gen. Hood says: General Hood had hopes of recovery to the last. Perceiving slight favorable symptoms, he said to Dr. Bemiss, "We may yet dislodge the enemy." As a measure of precaution, none of the military associations, to which Geo. Hood belonged, were invited to the funeral. He was buried Sunday afternoon. General Hood leaves eleven children, the eldest 10 years, and the youngest, twins, 3 weeks ' ^ old. His physical condition had been bad for some time past, caused, it is alleged, by anxiety rising from financial reverses and the terrible blow he received in the death of bis wife. The General left a manuscrint of a history of the war, which he intended to have published this fall. John Bell Hood was born at Owingsville, Bath county, Ky., June 29, 1831; graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and was appointed brevet second lieutenant of infantry July, 1853; transferred to the cavalry as second lieutenant 1855, and promoted to be first lieutenant 1858. He was mainly engaged in frontier service in Texas until. 1859. He was severely wounded in an encounter witb the Lipan and Comanche Indians July 20, ^ 1857, and was on leave of ^absence in 1860. * He resigned his commission April 16,1861, and entered the Confederate army, serving in every position from first lieutenant to that of commander-in-chief of an army, with the rack of Lieutenant-General. He took part in the * Chickahominy campaign, and subsequently fought at the battle of Manassas, Sharpshurg and Fredrickshurg. At-Gettysburg, where he commanded a division of Lougstreet's corps, he lost an arm on the second day of the battle. Rejoining the corps when it was sent to Georgia, he was at the battle of Chicamauga, where he lost a leg and was made a Lieu- * ' "V tenant General. He subsequently commanded a corps in the army of Gen. Jos. ?. Johnston, whom he succeeded in July, 1864, and was thereafter in command of the Confederate army in its operations against Gen. Sherman. After the evacuation of Atlanta, he marched westward and fought the sanguinary battle of Franklin, Tennessee. Soon after, another battle was -fought near Nashville, December 15,16,1864, and a short time after was succeeded by Gen. Dick Taylor. Since the war he has lifed in New Orleans, princiC engaged in insurance business. Gen. I was a brave and able officer, but was not the equal in generalship and executive ^ ability of General Johnston. ? t ROCK HILL AND VICINITY. [From the Herald, 38th ultlmo.j Miss Jane C. Wade arrived here on Sator day, and left on Monday for Ebenezer, where ?1?a **v?11 in La nLn?raa A OA^AaI ouc mil iaao wuaigo ui ? ovuwb* Mrs. Jane Hagins, of Ebenezer, departed this life on last Friday morning. 8he was quite an old lady at the time of her death. Rev. Mr. Saunders, of Chester, has been engaged the last two or three days in assisting Rev. Mr. Edwards in a protracted meeting at ftarmony Church. He is an excellent preacher, and full of zeal in discharging his ministerial duties. The meeting at Harmony has resulted in several additions to the church. The rainy weather last week was damaging upon cotton. Some farmers are of the opinion that in consequence of the unfavorable weather during the present month, the crop will be reduced one half. Others, taking a more cheerful view of the situation, think that with dry and sunshiny weather the yield will yet be good. Mr. Gregg Cherry, of the vicinity of Landsford, brought fifteen bales of cotton to this place on Tuesday. While it was not new cotton, still it was a sight joyful to behold, as our eyes have not rested on the fleecy staple for some time. It was bought by J. M. Ivy & Co., at 10} cents per pound. Enoch Elackman, of the Landsford neighborhood, was afflicted on last Friday with the loss of two children, from brain fever, aged - I . rpi I _i. iL. eigne years, rxiey were uuru at tue sauje time, died at the same time, and were buried in the same grave. This is, indeed, a very strange and sad coincidence. The late meetingatthe Presbyterian Church of this place passed off pleasantly. The ser* , vices began on last Friday morning, Rev. Samuel Wilson occupying the pulpit He preached also at night On Saturday mornn_ if_ r??j if.a.Ji.i m i_ mg xvev. mr. jooyu, ui mo irietuouiBi v^nurcn, delivered the sermon. The congregations at night and on Sunday were favored with the ministerial services of Rev. Mr. Brantley of the Lowrysville Presbyterian Church. In ^ the Sunday morning service his remarks were based upon the text; "Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree." Rev. Mr. Wilson edified the children of the Sunday school in the afternoon with some happy thoughts. The services closed on Sunday night, Rev. Mr. Brantley preaching ine sermon. While no accessions were made to the church, the hope is devoutly entertained that much good was done. I A number of young men left here on last Friday to attend a picnic. They arrived at the festive scene in due time, but the prospect of enjoyment was so poor that they soon left and drove to Yorkville. They had a pleasant time walking the streets of that quiet, sedate town, and looking at the pretty houses and sweet girls, of whom it delights to boast At night they attended the festival given in behalf of the Band. The entertainment proved delightful to them, for they enjoyed