Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, October 02, 1879, Image 2
Jtoapis and ^facts.
? Two inches of snow fell at Montreal,
Canada, on Thursday last.
? Two daughters of the late Hon. John Bell,
of Tennessee, have established a boarding
school in Philadelphia.
? The cotton crop of Mississippi this year
will turn out to be a good one, and the statistician,
who is already at work, says that more
than 50 per cent, of it is produced by white
labor.
? On Thursday last, a large boulder of
native white quartz rock was moved from
the mining region near the Wilderness, and
placed to mark the spot where Stonewall
Jackson received his death wound. A simple
inscription will be engraved on the.stone.
? The various cotton manufactories in and
around Augusta, use $1,500,000 worth of raw
cotton per annum. The annual sales from
thpir nrndnct amount to about 82.000.000.
The product of the Augusta flour and grist
mills yields 81,500,000 per annum.
? Singular, isn't it, that when a man gives
his wife a dime to buy a box of hair-pins or
a gum ring for the baby, it looks about seven
times as big as when he planks it down on the
bar for a little gin and bitters for the stomach's
sake ?"
? A real duel was lately fought at Pepinster,
Belgium, by Count de Veysy, who is
noted for his enormous wealth, and Baron de
Vauloo. They used pistols, and the Baron
was killed. The Count was arrested, and,
though he offered to give $200,000 bail, was
put in prison.
'?The Postoffice Department is preparing
the proposals for carrying the mails in Ohio,
Indiana, North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Kentucky and
Tennessee, which will be published in November,
and the opening will be in February
next.
? The Comptroller General of the State of
^ * i 1_ _ J r
ueorgia, naving oeeu rniptauneu iui me embezzlement
of the public funds, has been
found guilty. Being found guilty, he is forever
debarred from again holding office of
trust, honor or emolument in the State, together
with such other punishment as the Court
may see fit to inflict.
? Joe Pentz took a rifle to his wedding, at
Mark's Gap, Texas. The sexton tried to
persuade him to leave it at the door on entering
the church, but he persisted in carrying
it across his shoulder as he walked with
the bride up the aisle to the altar rail. His
explanation was that a rival suitor had threatened
to kill him on this occasion, and he
meant to be prepared for defense.
? Gen. Sherman, in a little speech to some
school children the other day, said: "You
may think, children, when you read about us
war men, that we like battles and fighting.
It isn't so; most of us hate it So far as I am
coucerued, I have been engaged in wars and
with business connected with war, (or forty
""J T liofa if TIM f h o Aoan OnH ffrAwinff
Jf Crt 1 AUU X liULU AW n ibil ( UWi/ uuvi v ?i
hatred."
? A writer in the Galveston New expresses
the opinion that a river of petroleum is flowing
through the subterranean cavities of Texas.
It takes its rise in the carboniferous
strata north of the Colorado River, and may
be traced at various points on its course to the
Gulf of Mexico, by oil appearing on the surface
of springs, streams and lakes, while at
what is known as Oil Bay on the Gulf, the
water is so covered with oil that the waves
have no effect.
? An English journal frankly gives credit
to American genius for at least fifteen in
ventions and discoveries, which, it says, have
been adoptel all over the world. These triumphs
of American genius are thus enumerated
: 1. The cotton gin. 2: The planing machine.
3. The grass mower and grain reaper.
4. The rotary printing press. 5. Navigation
by steam. 6. Hot air or caloric engine. 7.
The sewing machine. 8. The rubber industry.
9. The machine for the manufacture of
horse shoes. 10. The sand blast for carving.
11. The gauge lathe. 12. The grain elevator.,
13 Artificial ice manufacture on a large
scale. 14. The electro-magnet and its practical
application. 14. The composing machine
for printers.
? The late report of the National Cotton
Exchange, places the total consumption of
cotton by Southern mills during the year
1878-79, at 186,489 bales, against 147,747
bales the previous year, showing a gain of
26 per cent. Georgia is by far the largest
cotton manufacturer, having 160,000 spindles
iu operation, North Carolina standing second,
and South Carolina third. Texas is the smallest
in the whole list, her consumption during
the past year having been only 381 bales.
While the consumption in the Southern States
last year showed an increase of 26 per cent,
the gaiu in that of the North was only 2 per
cent A number of new mills are now in
course of construction in different parts of the
South, and, the production thus being increased,
the percentage during the next few
years is expected to 6how a much greater
rate than in the past.
? A New York letter says: "A cool, crisp
weather is imparting fresh life to the business
world on every hand. Merchants, in almost
every branch of trade, report increasing activity.
and not a few of them report orders
considerably ahead. Immense quantities of
merchandise of every descriptiori continue to
go forward by the Southern coast steamers,
taking in every point of distribution from
Norfork clear through to Galveston. The
Eastern transportation companies also are
as busy as they well can be, and at the
freight depots of the railways along the river
front, the scene, night and day, is one of the
busiest imaginable. Everybody seems to
have employment. The hotels have as many
guests as they can accommodate, and the
business thoroughfares exhibit an animation
and bustle the like of which has not been
seen for many a day."
? The papers in every one of the great
trade centres, are paying special attention,
day by day, to the growth of business. The
Cincinnati papers gleefully announce that
the wholesale houses along one street are
lighted all night packing goods. All the
Chicago papers have been publishing broadside
after broadside, full of encouraging
interviews with the merchants, the last from
the Chicago Times of the average dimensions
of a circus tent. In New York, a series of
in tV>a Wnrlrl ctinws that. tbfl hnt.pln
are full of buyers as they never were before,
and business of all kinds is overflowing on to
sidewalks and streets in the narrow ways of
older New York after the good, old, dirty,
uncomfortable, prosperous fashion. Philadelphia
shares the remarkable impetus, all manufactures
show this summer, and the Philadelphia
Times points out that several branches ;
of foreign trade which need a southerly port1
and prompt railroad distribution^ fruits, dry |
and fresh, and the like, are centering in Dela- j
ware Bay, and by a natural process the re- i
turn and growing trade with South America,
the West Indies and Southern Europe, is also
gathering at Philadelphia.
? The Cincinnati Southern Railroad, which
has had many tribulations and encountered i
many vicissitudes, is now rapidly approach- j
ing completion. Only thirty miles of the
road remain to be built to carry it to its ter-1
minus at Boyce Station, on the Western and
Atlautic Railroad. This point is seven miles
from Chattanooga, and the Southern Road
has running arrangement over the Western
and Atlantic, which will enable it to estab- j
lish its depots at Chattanooga. The Southern
expects to be running its trains through solid
from Cincinnati to Chattanooga by the 1st of
next January. TheCincinnatiSouthern Road,
as is known, has been built by the City of
Cincinnati at a cost of twenty millions. The
rivalry of Louisville and the advantages
which accrued to that city through the Louisville
and Nashville Road, impelled Cincinnati
to seek an air-line route to connect with the
Southern system of i.rans-continental roads.
The Southern road was the result of this apparent
business necessity. By it Cincinnati i
is put within 336 miles of Chattanooga, one
of the greatest railroad centres on the continent.
At Chattanooga the Southern Road
will connect with the Memphis Road, with
the Atlantic and Mississippi Valley at once,
and also with the Alabama and Chattanooga,
giving it a line to New Orleans and Mobile,
through Meridian. The Southern Road authorities
expect to make the same time exactly
to New Orleans as that made by the
Louisville and Nashville Road. The advantages
of this new connection to Cincinnati
are obvious, and great as the cost of the
road has been to the city?inexpedient, perhaps,
as heavy municipal debts are when incurred
for sueh objects?the expenditure will
be recouped to the citizens themselves in an
increase of trade. Cincinnati's pork business
will be largely revived, since the South will
be able to buy its bacon and other provisions
there cheaper than at any other point.
ffltfeviUt ^Bquirer.,
nfe vaFTHTy YORKVILLE,
S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 2, 1879.
DECISION ON STATE BONDED DEBT.
The Supreme Court, on Saturday last, filed
its decision in the State bond cases. The
decision, which is quite lengthy, was delivered
by Associate Justice Mclver and concurred in
by Chief Justice Willard. Associate Justice
Haskell dissents, holding that all the Consolidation
bonds are valid obligations of the
State. The following are the conclusions
reached by the court:
I. That all the bonds issued under an Act
entitled "An Act to reduce the volume of the
public debt and provide for the payment of
tlie same," are valid oniigauons 01 me aiaie
of South Carolina except as follows:
1. Such as wele issued in exchange for bonds
issued under "An Act to authorize a loan for
the relief of the treasury," or for the coupons
of such bonds.
2. Such as were issued in exchange for the
second issue of bonds under an Act entitled
"Ail Act, to authorize a State loan to pay interest
on the public debt," or the coupons of
such bonds."
3. Such as were issued in exchange for those
conversion bonds which were issued in exchange
for either of the two classes of bonds
last mentioned, viz., bonds for the relief of the
treasury, and the second issue of bonds to pay
the interest on the public debt, or in exchange
for the coupons of such conversion bonds.
II. If any consolidation bond rests wholly
upon any of the three objectionable classes of
bonds or coupons just mentioned, then it is
wholly void ; but if it rests only in part ui>on
such objectionable classes of bonds or coupons,
then it is only void to the extent which it does
rest upon such objectionable bonds and coupons,
and for the balance of it, it is a valid obligation
of the State.
III. That the burden of proof is upon the
State to show that any particular bond which
may be brought into question does rest, either
in whole or in part, upon such objectionable
bonds or coupons, and, if in part only, then
the State must show what part is so affected.
The judgment of the Court of Claims is set
aside, and the cases are remanded to that court
for such further proceedings as may be necessary
under the principles herein announced.
The State raised nine exceptions upon
which the validity of the bonds were chal
lenged. The disputed bonds were those which
Viori toon nnnordid?t.pd 1st. from detached
coupons from the Relief of Treasury bonds;
2d, from detached coupons from Conversion
bonds; 3d, from detached coupons maturing
on or before July 1st, 1871; 4th, from detached
coupons funded by Scott, Zealy and
Owens; 5th, from hypothecated bonds and
coupons; 6th, from the second issue of bonds
for payment of interest on the public debt
and coupons; 7th, from the Land Commission
bonds and coupons; 8th, from Conversion
bonds and coupons issued for the second
issue of bonds for the payment of interest on
the public debt; 9th, from the Conversion
bonds and coupons issued for the Land Commission
bonds. The Court has sustaiued the
first, sixth and eighth objections, and has
overruled the others.
The Columbia Register gives the following
as the results of the decision :
It excepts from being valid obligations of
the State under the Consolidation Act, as
stated in the final report of the Bond Commissioners,
"Vouchers not issued in accordance
with law and authorized to be'consolidated
by the Act" as follows :
PAYMENT INTEREST PUBLIC DEBT, SECOND ISSUE.
Amount Attached Detached
Bonds. Coupons. Coupons. Total.
8836,000 $113,595 $ 99,845 $1,040,000
RELIEF OF TREASURY.
5094,000 5100,840 5100, I/O 5',ooo,uio
CONVERSION BONDS.
$203,450 $ 29,720 $ 61,879 $ 294,059
$2,409,514
If we apprehend rightly, these are the false
vouchers which, wherever found, are held to
be not valid obligations of the State, and are
to be deducted from all consolidated bonds issued
therefor, the balance, if any; being good,
j That is, suppose a holder of securities funded
$100,000 of vouchers of valid obligations, and
another $100,000 consisting of second issue
bonds to pay the public debt, or for relief of
treasury, or conversion bonds issued for either
of the classes of bonds as above, he would
have, under the decision, the latter hundred
thousand eliminated from his vouchers as never
having been valid obligations of the State,
and hence would receive $50,000 of consolidated
stock on his good vouchers alone, or on
$100,000, as by terms of the consolidated Act;
the court holding that the Consolidation Act
did not carry these invalid obligations. We
then may estimate that this decision shuts off
?2,409,514 of vouchers as bad, and saves the
; issue of $1,204,757 bonds, or that much actual
money to the tax-payers; ana tins uecanse me
State is held by the court never to have incurred
the obligation in conformity to its
Constitution and laws.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Ex-Judge Reed has nearly entirely recovered
from the operation of removing a caucer
from his face.
? The farmers from almost all sections of
1 Edgefield county are complaining of a disastrous
falling off of late cotton bolls, caused by
the recent three weeks' drought.
? Thomas M. Cox, of the firm of Gower,
Cox & Markley, carriage manufacturers of j
Greenville, died in that place on Monday of i
last week.
? The assessed value of the real estate in
the City of Greenville, is SI ,000,890. The
real estate of the entire county is assessed at
$3,117,560.
? Robert W. Shand Esq., of Union, recent-1
ly appointed State Reporter, qualified in the |
Supreme Court last week and entered upon
the discharge his duties.
? James C. Bennett, who, some weeks ago, |
killed Dr. Horton, in Lancaster county, was !
tried before Judge Wallace, in the Court of
Sessions of that county, last week, and acquitted.
? In Williamsburg county, last week, a trial I
justice sent a negro woman to jail, who had
punished one of her children, six or seven
years of age, by applying a red hot hoe to its
seat until the skin was taken off.
? The Keowee Courier says that the Air
Line Railway has made application to the!
Comptroller General to reduce the value
of the road as assessed, and to 1 educe the
amount assessed against the road. The J
owners of the road only want to pay tax on \
it since their purchase of the same, which was
in April, 1877.
? The News and Courier puts the liabilities
of James Adger & Co., of Charleston, whose
failure was announced last week, at about one i
million and a half of dollars, while their assets
are claimed to be about one million dollars.
? The iron for the Cheraw and Wadesboro
road is being delivered at Cheraw. The
work of laying it will soon commence. President
Townsend is fitting up coaches, and it
is thought that by the 1st of December the
trains will be running over the road.
? The Charlotte Observer learns that on
T.ifio/lotr r\f loot isoolr qKaii! fwoluA milpS
from Gaffney City, a man named Houston
Jolly dropped dead while shearing his sheep.
He had eaten a good breakfast and had had
not the slighest warning, by sickness or otherwise,
of his nearness to death.
? The Ragister of Saturday mentions that
Rev. Dr. Meynardie, who has been for several
weeks confined to'his room from injuries
received in the recent railroad accident on
the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
was on the streets of Columbia the previous
day. He is reported as cheerful and
looking almost as well as ever.
? Col. Dargan and Maj. Earle, of Sumter,
who were skirmishing around last week with
the avowed purpose of fighting a dael, returned
to Sumter last Friday and both were ar
rested and each required to give a ooua or
five thousand dollars to keep the peace. A
board of houor has since settled the difficulty
to the satisfaction of all concerned.
? The Times says that the cotton crop of
Union county will not be over half the usual
average. The late cold, dry weather has
affected it worse than the long drought in th|
summer. The August crop, which it was
hoped would make up the deficiency in the
July crop, will turn out worse than it has for
years back.
? A correspondent of the News and Courier
says that 0. F. Cheatham, Esq., clerk of the
court for Edgefield county, has a four acre
patch planted in cotton, from which he has
already picked, ginned and packed five bales,
averaging 448 pounds. Mr. Cheatham be
lieves, and other good planters agree with
him, that he will yet get two bales. Three
bales o? this cotton, on account of the fine
quality, brought I of a cent above the market
price.
? A dispatch from Columbia on Sunday
last, says that on the previous day, twentyfive
sick convicts were brought down from
the Greenwood and Augusta Railroad. One
died on the way. Some were blind, some
speechless and all helpless. It is said that
more than one half of them will never do
another day's work for the State, but are
only food for the grave. The Governor appointed
a special board of physicians, composed
of Drs. Griffin, Taylor and Home, to
examine them and make a .report as to the
causes of their condition.
? The Charlotte (N. C.) Democrat gives the
following account of the recent alleged shooting
of a revenue officer at Spartanburg, and
?? ? A ? T.. J TM ?1? ?? ^am?v\o mkink urn Kfl
rcieia iu uuugc jl/iuii 111 icuus uuiui mwlieve
to be just:- The telegraph reported a U.
S. Revenue officer as being shot at Spartanburg,
S. C., on Tuesday last, aud it turns out
that the officer, Thomas J. Davis, a Special
Deputy Marshal, shot himself, having got
drunk and was behaving in a disgraceful
and boisterous manner on the streets of Spartanburg,
when his own pistol was discharged,
inflicting a wound in the thigh. Davis had
previously arrested a man from Polk county,
N. 0., named J. B. Panther, on an old charge,
had admitted him to bail, and then got drunk
and re-arrested Panther and. was flourishing
a pistol over him when the accident occurred.
We respectfully call Judge Dick's attention
to the affair, as no doubt truthfully reported
in the Spartanburg Herald of the 24th of
September. After Judge Dick is correctly
informed on any "outrage subject," we are
sure1 he will make a correct representation
and do justice to all concerned.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The Raleigh News gives as rumor in that
city, that Judge Russell, Greenback Congressman
from the Wilmington District, has made
arrangements to have Dennis Kearney in
North Carolina during the campaign next
year.
? The Charlotte Democrat says it has been
six weeks since there was a good rain iu that
locality. The equinox Bpell resulted in only
a sprinkle, but since then the weather has
been pretty cool. The cotton pickers have
had a fine time.
? At the recent term of McDowell Superior
Court, a jury of de lunatico inquirendo
pronounced Secrest, the wife-murderer, insane.
In accordance with this verdict, it is the duty
of the court to confine the prisoner in jail, or
in a lunatic asylum.
? Capt. W. L. Thoruburg, the Secretary
and Treasurer of the North Carolina Railroad
Company, died last week, at his residence
at Company Shops. He was a good
and faithful officer, a kind gentleman, a brave
soldier and au honest man.
? The corps of surveyors who are testing
the navigability of the Catawba river, have
estimated the fall at Mountain Island (Tate's
Factory) at fifty feet, giving a water power
almost unlimited. Navigation at this point
will be accomplished by means of a canal, a
part of which is already cut.
? The Charlotte Observer of Sunday says:
Gen. Johnstone Jones was in the city yesterday.
We regret to learn that th? surgical
operation which he has recently undergone
has not been productive of the good results
hoped for. He is still on crutches and another
operation will be necessary.
? There will be a public meeting of the
citizens of Catawba county at the court house
in Newton, October 11th, to take into consideration
the propriety of moving for the adoption
of the stock law, and to appoint delegates
to confer with delegates from Gaston,
Lincoln and Cleveland counties, to meet at
Lincolntou on the 20th of October.
? A negro who died recently at Oxford, N.
C., was famous for his great strength. He
could lift a barrel containing thirty or forty |
gallons, and drink from the bung; could j
throw an ordinary anvil twenty-five yards, !
and could pull four men with a handspike at'
one time. He once killed a deer with a rock,
overtook and dispatched a bear with an axe, !
and caught and hamstrung a ferocious bull.
? A special dispatch to the Raleigh Obser
ver, says that in Shelby, on Friday morning
last, Benjamin Williams, a dissipated lad of
about twenty years, shot with a pistol and instantly
killed his stepmother, Mrs. Osborne
Williams. His father and a negro were both
present. The young man was angry because
his father refused to let him ride his horse the
previous night. The stepmother was very j i
kind to him. Whisky and hatred of her . 1
caused him to commit the murder. Young1'
Williams tied immediately. j!
? The Charlotte Observer records the following
chapter of accidents in Mecklenburg i i
county: First, was the accident by which Mr. i
T. P. Grier had his hand badly crippled in a
cotton gin ; then, the breaking of Dr. I. W.
Herron's leg, by his falling from a horse;
next, an infliction of what it is feared will be
a permanent injury to Mr. Allen H. Brown,
by a wagon heavily loaded with lumber running
over his knee; and 6nally the fracture
of the ankle of Miss Nellie Price, daughter
of Mr. J. J. Price, by a fall from a horse,
while returning from the meeting of a singing
school at Steel Creek Church on Saturday.
The young lady is only slightly hurt, but the
others have all sustained painful injuries.
All the accidents happened during the past
week and all the persons mentioned live within
a radius of two or three miles square.
POLITICAL NEWS.
Ttin HKin alanlii.n iatroa nlflPA it 11 TllM.
day, the 14th instaut.
? The man who saw Grant's vessel first,
and was first to propose three cheers, has already
filed his claim for a postoffice.
? Solon Chase, of Maine, is to start in a
day or two on a Western stumping tour in
behalf of the Greenback cause.
? The Democrats of Lebanon county, Pa.,'
have declared in favor of the renomination
of Mr. Tilden for the Presidency.
? Gen. Raura, commissioner of internal revenue,
is about to take part in the Ohio campaign.
He will make his first speech at Alliance.
? A country postmaster in Georgia, whose
salary is but $45 per annum, was compelled
to disgorge $2.25 as his share of the Republican
campaign fund.
? A great mass-meeting was held in New
York on Tuesday last, by the Tammany Democrats,
to ratify the nomination of John Kelly
for Governor. Speeches were made denouncing
Tilden and Robinson.
? Ex-Senator Henderson, of Missouri, in
a recent letter says: "Sherman is our man
for President. He is the only man we can
elect, and I would be glad to carry Missouri
for him."
? Gen. Roger A. Pryor made a Democrat
l vr v
1U OjjeeUU 111 JLHUUBljru, XI. X TT cuncsuaj
evening of last week, earnestly advocating
the re-election of Gov. Robinson and denouncing
the Tammany bolt as a crime
against the party.
? The Atlanta Constitution denies the statement
recently attributed to Hon. Alex. H.
Stephens, that there are not ten Tilden men
in the Georgia Legislature. It has made a
canvass, not to find Tilden men, but to find
those who are opposed to Tilden, and the result
showed "that if there was no enthusiasm
for Tilden, there was no earnest opposition to
him, provided, as a matter of course, that he
was found to be the most available man when
the national Democratic Convention meets."
? The Louisville Courier-Journal thus sums
up the political prospect in Ohio: The
claim of the Republicans of Ohio that they
will carry the State by a sweeping majority,
is all moonshine. They have performed no
such work within the past six years. In
1873 they were beaten for Governor by William
Allen. In 1875 Hayes* majority was
only 3,500 votes. In 1876 it nearly broke
their backs to elect their presidential electors
by six or seven thousand majority, in a poll
of nearly seven hundred thousand votes. In
1877 the Democrats elected their Governor
by 23,000 majority. In 1878 the Republicans
elected their Secretary of State by a
plurality of 3,000 votes, but the Democrats
carried both branches of the Legislature, and
by combining the Greenback with the Democratic
vote, the Republicans were left in a
minority of thirty-live* thousand. These are
the facts, and they give but little cause for
Republican boasting and bragging.
editobiaiTinklings.
Yellow FeYor Reports.
Only one case of fever was reported in
Memphis last Saturday, though there were
63 cases during the week?41 whites and 22
colored. There were, during the week, 31
deaths?whites, 26; colored, 5. The total
number of deaths to Saturday night are 382.
Number of cases to same date, 1,279. The
weekly report of the Howard Association
shows that they have 117 nurses on duty,
attending to 101 white and 27 colored families.
At a meeting of the Safety Committee,
held Saturday afternoon, a resolution was
adopted to dispense with the services of two
colored companies after the first of October.
Ten days' extra rations will be issued to the
men when disbanded.
The Soldiers' Reunion at Salisbury.
On our first page will be found extracts
from a letter addressed by Gen. Sherman
to the committee having in charge the
arrangement for a reunion of ex-Confederate
and Federal soldiers at Salisbury, N. C. Of
the mistake in extending a courtesy to Sher
man, the Charlotte Democrat speaks as follows
:
If it was unfortunate or a mistake, or in
bad taste, for our Salisbury neighbors to invite
Gen. Sherman to join them in a soldiers'
celebration, the least now said about it the
better. If Gen. Sherman insulted them with
his letter in reply, it will afford them very
little comfort to say hard things about Sherman?they
should not have placed themselves
in a position to be insulted.
By the by, it looks like the Salisbury reunion
is going to be productive of a little
more bad feeling than good feeling. We
had hoped that such meetings would result in
promoting good and kind feelings between
Southern and Northern men when the soldiers
of both sections were invited to participate,
but now we doubt it, and doubt the propriety
of such meetings either North or South. At
the North, the "Grand Army of the Republic,"
a soldiers' organization, only promotes
hatred towards the South and a demand that
all the offices shall be given to Northern
soldiers, while such organizations at the South
result in no material good, but give our enemies
an excuse for charging that all Southern
men are untrue to the Federal Government
and disposed to rebel on the first opportunity.
The Political Situation in New York.
A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun \
thus speaks of the present political prospect
in the State of New York :
"Hon. Montgomery Blair, in conversation
with your correspondent, expresses the opinion
that if Tilden had "set up" the Kelly bolt
in New York, it could not have resulted more
to that gentleman's advantage than it has
and will. He has no idea that Kelly will
have more than a contemptible following
when the day of election comes round, and
the whole affair, according to his view, will
only tend to help, what he thinks was certain
at any rate, the nomination of Mr. Tilden by I
the next JJemocrattc uonvennon. in regara '
to Judge Blair's views as to the effect of the J
Kelly revolt, it is interesting to know that a 1
very shrewd Republican politician, who has :
for a long time been active in National politics,
and who arrived from New York yester-1
day, holds the same opinion. He says there
is nothing more certain in politics than that
the adherents of any leader will fall largely j
from him when they know that defeat iuevi- j
tably awaits them. For this reason, he says, j
Mr. Kelly could not possibly have committed j
a more foolish act than to get up and pro- j
claim to the host of Tammany that he had ,
o hopes of his own election, and all that he
could expect was to defeat Robinson. The
Tammany masses take no interest in Mr.
Kelly's personal quarrels with Mr. Tilden
and Governor Robinson. All that Mr. Kelly
is to them is as the dispenser of crumbs of
patronage. Therefore, as the politician aforesaid
sagely remarks, when Mr. Kelly confesses
himself in advance that all he hopes to accomplish
is the satisfaction of his private animosity,
that affords no prospect of material advantage
to them for throwing their votes
away, and they will make haste to enrol
themselves with the Tilden and Robinson
forces, where they may expect something.
Perhaps, after all, it did not need Mr. Kelly's
admission that his followers could anticipate
no substantial fruits from adhering to him.
They saw how Mr. Kelly was defeated in the
local elections of last fall through the influence
of Mr. Tilden, and the most densely ignorant
among them could not fail to realize
that if Mr. Kelly preferred a Republican
Governor to Robinson, Mr. Tilden and Mr.
Robinson would prefer Republican local success
to that of Mr. Kelly."
THE NEXT PRESIDENCY.
WHAT GENERAL M'GOWAN THINKS ABOUT IT.
A correspondent of the New York Herald
has been talking with some well known Southerners,
sojourning at the White Sulphur
Cn.inno aK/tnf ttia onminiT Praoiilanfidl
tjpi IUgO| 0UUUV MilV VVUHMg S? I VUtUVUUIW* V*VV
tion. He says: "The opposition to Mr. Tilden's
nomination is much stronger than the
views given would seem to indicate. One
gentleman remarked to me that 'if Mr. Tilden
is nominated, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina and other Southern States
would go for the Republican candidate.' Another
said 'the Southern States, in selecting
their delegates to the Nominating Convent ion,
will, if necessary, instruct them to vote for
the two thirds rule, which will effectually defeat
Mr. Tilden's nomination.' There are indications
of a desperate contest in South Carlina
next year, the apprehension of which is
only partially conceded by the guarded expression
of Gen. McGowan. In the other
Slates,-though the Democrats may he divided
on local issues, they will vote solidly for the
Democratic ticket in the natioual campaign,
provided, some say, Mr. filden is not at the
head of it. But this remains to be seen.
WHAT GEN. M'GOWAN THINKS.
Gen. Sam. McGowan, of Abbeville, S. C.,
has been a visitor at the Springs. He commanded
Maxcy Gregg's South Carolina brigade
after that distinguished soldier was killed.
After the war he took a prominent part in the
politics of the State, and in 1876 was one of
the Tilden and Hendricks electors. He is
now spoken of as successor of Representative
Wyatt Aiken in Congress, when that gentleman's
term expires. '
"How is South Carolina progressing under
Democratic rule?" I asked.
"Very well indeed. We are getting competent
and honest men in office, reforming the
government and exercising economy in the
offices, public and private. In the single
matter of the costs of legislation alone, we
have saved largely. In a session of twentysix
days the Legislature does more work now
than they did in four months under Radical
rule. The State is quiet?never freer from
violence. There has been an immense de
crease in crime, mod relations exist oeiween
the races, aud all are as contented as it is
possible for a people who have been lately so
humiliated and plundered. The properly
destroyed cannot be restored in a day, but
there is confidence and hope for a gradual
restoration of prosperity. It is easier to pull
down than to build up?to be the architects
of ruin."
"Do you anticipate a lively campaign in
1880?"
"There is a general belief that we are to
have a lively time next year. There would
not be the least trouble if outside influeuces
are not brought to bear. If left to ourselves
all will be well, but as it will be a Presidential
year, our State will be drawn into the
maelstrom of the national election. The colored
people appreciate the blessings of peace
and justice which they enj'oy under Democratic
rule, and would not be unreasonable if
left to themselves; but we fear that they will
be agitated by demagogues for the purpose of
securing their votes in the Presidential election,
and as a part of that agitation an effort
will be made to restore the State Government
.1 ? L_ i?i :?. c? i? ? J u.. *i,?
lu must; wiiu imu 11, iur teu jrc?io, nuu uj ujo
common consent of mankind gave us the
most offensive, corrupt and infamous race
domination ever known in the history of the
world. This is as well established as any part
in history. It seems to us strange, indeed,
that any person could be found who would
struggle, or even consent, under any circumstances,
to the restoration of such a miserable
caricature of Republican Government. Having
had most bitter experience of such infamous
rule, we do not intend that it shall be
re established without a great struggle?even
greater than that of 1876."
THE MOST AVAILABLE MAN.
"Then you anticipate trouble from the Republicans
?"
"As I just said, we anticipate no trouble
whatever, except what may come from the
Republicans?or, rather, Radicals for there
is in fact no real Republican party in South
Carolina. It is a nondescript race domination,
which, for its corrupt purposes, assumes
the name of Republicanism. If the colored
people are let alone we will have no trouble
whatever. There will be, as now, peace,
quiet and prosperity. The effort to overthrow
all that has beendoneand restore the old
rule must necessarily produce disturbances
and be resisted to the last extremity."
"General, who, in your opinion, will be the
next President?"
"We have had such bitter experience of
corrupt rule that our first desire is to prevent
its restoration. We care little, comparatively,
who may be President, only provided that he
is a good Democrat and that he is willing lo
do us simple and equal justice. We ask no
more. We feel such an overwhelming interest
in the great question of self protection
that we desire the most available man. We
need, indeed, we must have, Democratic success.
To obtain that success, in which alone
is our safety, we are willing that the Sooth
shall put forward no claim to the nomination,
and thus dispose of the charge of ambition
and a desire to control."
"Will the Democratic nominee be the next
President?"
"Yes. I think the Democratic nominee
will be the next President, whoever he may
be."
"Well, will it be Tilden, Bayard, Thurman
or Hancock ?"
"We have no prejudice against Mr. Tilden.
I voted for him at St. Louis from the first.
T? tka nomnainn urti/iti fnllnuroH T flHvnmtpH
All bliu W?".KI"6" ..M.V,..
his election upon ever stump in South Carolina
as one of the Democratic electors of the
State. I did it 'con amore'?without personal
acquaintance and without the lea9t expectation
of any reward of any kind, except the
good of the country. I thought then, and
I still think him an able man and a great
reformer; but I think we are more likely to
succeed with new men. There is a freshness
and a charm about novelty. Bayard, Thurman
and Hancock are all good men. Mr.
Bayard is the first favorite of our people.
Judge Thurraan has for years done good service
in the Senate and he deserves reward,
but events may take place before the nomination
which may control it."
EWING NOT THE MAN.
"Suppose Gen. Ewing should carry Ohio
this fall, do you not think that he would
stand a good chance for the Democratic nomination
?"
"It does not seem to me that Gen. Ewing
would be a good nomination in case of his
carrying Ohio this fall for Governorj which
I hope he will do. That election, to some extent,
will- be controlled by local issues, which
would not result so favorably in a general
election."
"Do you think the Democracy can carry
"the Presidential election without the votes of
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut?"
"We may get some other States in their
place, but it would be more comfortable to
have the votes of these States. We must
have the ereat Democratic State of New
York." I
XaOCAXa A77AZES.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
J. N. Roberts?Fresh Meats.
Ludden & Elates, Savannah. Ga.?Music House.
J. W. Dobson and T. M. Dobaon?Valuable Land
for Sale.
John 0. Kuykendal?Compound Syrup of Saraaparllla
with Iodide of Petasslum?Expectorant
Mixture?Compound Fluid Extract
Bnchu?Syrup of Hypophosphites of Lime
and Soda.
T_ M Hnhann?Plonks?Shawls?Clothiiior?Yarn
and Shirting?Shoes?Shirts?Caasi meres
and Jeans?Ladies' Hose?Miles' Shoes?
Alamance Plaids.
A. Williford?To t'iiose Indebted.
Latimer A Hemphill?Jnst arrived from the
North.
Kennedy Bros. A Barron?Dry Goods Department?Grocery
Department?The American
Machine.
Withers Adickes?Come and Coming?Coflee and
Sugar?Cheese?Hardware--Hams, Ac.?
Crockery, Ac.
M. Strauss?Buy your Goods of M. 8transs.
Mrs. Fannie L. Dobson?Great Attraction.
John L. Rainey?Executor's Notice.
Clark Brothers?We ask a return of Favors?For
Sale?Fertilizer Notes for Collection?Cotton.
Herndon Bros. - On the Line.
J. M. Adams?The All Right Hot Blast?A Good
Endorsement?Stoves Advancing.
Latimer A Hemphill?New Goods?Groceries.
Witherspoon A Spencer, Plaintiffs' AttorneysNotice
to Defendants.
Whitaker A Wilson?Puy Up.
J. A. McLean, Judge of "Probate?Citation? J. F.
Wallace, C. C. C. Pis., Applicant?Joseph
E. Hetherington, deceased.
EARLYFROST.
The first frost of the season in this locality,
was seen on the morning of the 26th ultimo.
It was light and inflicted but slight damage
to vegetation.
IN THE PENITENTIARY.
Sandy Pagan, the fancy barber, who flourished
the razor in Yorkville about a year ago,
and averao-ed two auarrels a dav with the com
mon niggers who on the street did congregate,
was convicted of petit larceny at the recent
term of Burke county, N. C., Superior Court,
and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.
RELIGIOUS HEV1VAL.
A meeting was commenced at Union Baptist
Church, four miles north of Yorkville, on
Sunday last, conducted by Elder D. W. Thomasson.
Owing to the feeble health of Mr.
Thoraasson the meeting was brought to a close
on Tuesday evening. The meetings, however,
resulted in seven accessions to the church, five
of whom were received by baptism, the ordinance
having been administered on Tuesday
morning. A deep religious interest is still
manifest in the congregation.
SNAKE BITTEN.
On Tuesday morning last, while a little girl,
9 years of age, daughter of Mr. James Love,
who lives 2 miles south of town, was at play
near the house, she was bitten on the foot by
a "ground rattlesnake." The usual remedies
were resorted to, but the foot and ankle swelled
rapidly, and about 9 o'clock that night, Dr. H.
6. .Jackson was summoned to attend the child.
From him we learn that she is doing well'
but is not entirely out of danger.
DEATH OF Mr. STANHOPE SADLER.
We have intelligence of the death of Mr.
Stanhope Sadler, which event occurred at
Gainesville, Florida, on the 26th ultimo. Mr.
Sadler was a native of York county, having
b$en bora in the year 1798, near Brattonsville,
on the spot where the Revolutionary battle of
Houck's defeat was fought. At the time of
his death, he was in the 82nd year of his age.
Until within the last few years Mr. Sadler was
a citizen of Yorkville from his early manhood,
during the greater part of which time he was
engaged in mercantile pursuits.
CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY.
Aorvipoa will he held In the ehnrehes next
Sunday as follows:
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Thos. Gilbert,
Pastor. The pastor will be absent, assisting
Rev. L. A. Johnson, of the Chester circuit.
Services will be conducted at 7$ P. M., by
Rev. S. L. Wilson. Sunday-school at 3$ P. M.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 7$
o'clock.
Church of the Good Shepherd?Rev. R. P.
Johnson, Rector. The rector will officiate in
the Church of Our Saviour at Rock Hill, next
Sunday.
Associate Reformed?Rev. Robert Lathan,
Pastor. Services at 10$ A. Mi
PERSONAL MENTION.
Miss Alice Owen has returned from her visit
to Chester.
Miss Fannie Corbett, of Pleasant Ridge, N.
C., is visiting Miss Lessie Witherspoon.
Mr. R. H. Screven, of Charleston, brother
of Mrs. R. P. Johnson, was here on a visit
last week.
"We were pleased to receive a call, the other
day, from C. Herbert Beard, traveling agent
of the Columbia Register.
Mr. Joseph Herndon, of the house of Hemdon
Bros., has gone to the Northern markets
to make their purchases for the fall trade.
FA8T COTTON PICKING.
Our Black's Station correspondent alludes
to the large amount of cotton picked last Saturday
by Mr. J. M. Allison, a one-armed exConfederate
soldier, and his five children.
The mania for fast cotton picking is more
creditable than that for fast walking or boat
rowing, and we note that several persons have
recently tested their expertness in gathering
the fleecy staple?among them Mr. James MeCarter,
of Bethel township, who, on Monday
of last week, picked 303 pounds; and Andrew
McKnight, colored, employed by Mr. Wm. A.
Robinson, of Blairsville, who on the 24th ultimo,
picked 427 pounds.
DEATH OP Air. JAMES H. BARRY.
We regret to record the death of Mr. James
H. Barry, son of Maj. J. H. Barry, which occurred
at Rose's Hotel, in this place, at 6
o'clock on Saturday morning last. Mr. Barry
was a young gentleman universally esteemed
for the kind qualities of his mind and heart.
He was a victim of consumption, having suffered
with that disease for several months
past, and at the time of his death was in the
23rd year of his age. His funeral was largely
attended at the Presbyterian church, of which
he was a communicant, on Sunday afternoon,
on which occasion Rev. J. Lowrie Wilson, officiated,
delivering an able and impressive
discourse.
A88OCIATE REFORMED SYNOD.
The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod
met in Union Church, Chester county, at 11
o'clock A. M., on Thursday last. Rev. W. S.
Moffatt. the retiring Moderator, preached the
opening sermon from Pkilippians I :xxi?"For
me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." The
duty of self-consecration to the service of the
Lord was presented in a strong and convincing
light.
Rev. James H. Peoples, of Columbia, Tenn.,
was chosen Moderator. Committees were appointed
and the greater part of Thursday and
Friday was devoted to reading and referring
papers.
The financial condition of the Church, while
by no means as good as it might be, is nevertheless
greatly improved since the last meeting
of Synod.
Reports were read from the missionaries in
Egypt and Mexico. These reports indicated
an encouraging state of things, and Synod
determined to vigorously prosecute the work
of foreign misions.
For the want of laborers, and more especially
for the want of means to support laborers,
Synod was unable to make provision for the
home field as it desired to do. To the State
of Texas, which' asked for the whole time of
three ministers, only one could be sent for the
year, and another but half a year.
During the sessions of Synod, two sermons
were preached each day in the grove.- On
Sunday, the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper
was dispensed. Professor E. L. Patton preached
in the church on Sunday morning, and
Rev. D. F. Haddon in the grove. In the afternoon,
the venerable Dr. W. S. Plumer
preached in the church, and the Rev. W. S.
Pressley in the grove.
At noon on Tuesday, Synod adjourned, to
meet at White Oak, in Wilcox county, Ala-1
bama, on Thursday before the fourth Sunday
in September, 1880.
The sessions of Synod were well attended by
the people of the surrounding country, and on
Sunday, an immense concourse collected. It
is due to the people to say that no better behaved
a multitude ever assembled. The pulpits
of .Fishing Creek Church, of Hopewell,
aud of two of the churches in the town of
Chester, were filled on Sunday by members of
Synod. .
SURVIVORS' ASSOCIATION. ,
We would direct attention to the communication,
in another column, over the signature
of "Ex-Confederates," proposing an organi
zation of all the Confederate soldiers of York
county into a Survivors' Association. We
fully accord with the spirit of the communication,
feeling assured that much good can be
accomplished by such an association, while it
would more closely bind in common fellowship
those who alike shared the dangers and tlje
glories of the field. As will be seen, it is suggested
that a preliminary meeting be held in
the Court House next Monday, for consults
tion, and to devise a plan for the proposed organization.
Let there be a fall attendance of
ex-Confederates on the day suggested. ? .
AMONG OUR ADVERTI8ER8.
Attention is directed to the advertisement
of Mr. M. Strauss, who has just returned from
market, and is opening a fine stock of dry
goods, boots, shoes and clothing, which he offers
at the lowest prices.
For the accommodation of their numerous
customers, Messrs. Latimer & Hemphill have
opened a millinery department in connection
with their dry goods house. This department
is under charge of Mrs. Perkins, of Baltimore,
who comes recommended by Armstrong, Cator
& Co., as being second to no milliner in
that city.
In our reference, last week, to the business
conducted by Mr. W. C. Owen, we should
have more explicitly stated that as agent for
New York and Philadelphia houses, he will
receive orders for custom-made clothing. He
has a fine line of samples from which to select.
Correspondence of the Yorkrille Enquirer.
letter from rock hill ~
Rock Hill, 8. C.', September 29.
Since the decline in the price of cotton, the
receipts at this place have not been quite so
heavy; notwithstanding, our town has been
lively enough. The force of circnm tances
which compelled some of our farmerato dis
pose or a portion or tneir cotton at. low ngures,
has determined them to hold the balance
of their crop for a better price.
Another new enterprise has been added to
the business of oar town. Mr. Brook field,, of
Charlotte, N. C., commenced an auction house
here last Saturday. The day was very proSitioua,
there being a large crowd in town.
ud^ing from the crowd collected around the
auction-room, he must have done a good business.
While we do not advocate such estab- '
lishments, they clearly indicate the prosperity
of a place.
The reference in the long and ably contested
case of J. J. Roach vs. J. M. Ivy, was
finally concluded here last Wednesday^ Maj.
S. P. Hamilton and Col. W. B. Wilson officiated
in adducing the testimony pro and
eon before J. J. Hemphill, Esq., referee.
John Williams, the colored man whose lew
was amputated some -three weeks ago, died
last Thursday. We learn that his death was
not the result of the amputation, but from
piemia, which disease had commenced to prey
upon his system prior to the surgical operation.
' ' *
The bridge over Fishing creek, in Chester
county, was completed last Friday. The
county commissioners, Messrs. Thompson and
Gill, were there to receiveit from the hands
of the builder, Mr. A. D. Holler, of our
town. The commissioners pronounced the
bridge a master piece of work. I bad the pleasure
of- being present at the time of its
completion, and was among the first to cross over
upon it. Persons who have lived there 4
for a number of years, and have deen three
bridges swept away by the high waters, do
not hesitate to say that the bridge just finished
is the best they have ever seen erected
there.
I visited the mills situated a short distance
above the bridge, and now owned by Mr. F;
H. Barber. They are in fine running order.
The water power is among the best in the
State?there being a natural fall of twentyseven
feet in about five hundred yards. There
is an island in the creek which divides the
water, throwing the largest body of water on *
the opposite side from the mills, and with
very little labor the entire stream could be
turned, and made to run on the side npon
which the mills stand, thereby giving waterpower
sufficient to run a dozen mills and a
targe cotton factory. Even now the power is
sufficient, but to form this new and natural
aqueduct, the entire force can be utilized to
run all the machinery. Mr. Barber contemplates
erecting a cotton factory there. He
desires to organize a joint stock company,
putting the shares of stock at fifty dollars
each. Such an enterprise would be but the
consummation of what has been long and
much needed and wished for. , Situated as it
is, in the very centre of one of the best cotton-growing
sections in the State', it would
open a market for the consumption of the
staple at the doors of the farmers and give
employment to many who are poor, aud not
able to engage in agricultural pursuits. We
notice one peculiar advantage this location
has over many others: the water never gets
too high nor too low to run the machinery.
We take pleasure in calling attention to this
grailu enterprise, iuu iuc vppvu tuuii/j uun
afforded for enhancing the vaine of oar prop-'
erty. .....
While visiting these mills last Friday, I
had the pleasure of meeting a Centenarian,
Mr. Peter Hollis. In 1836, when troops were
being raised for the Florida war, he enlisted,
giving his age as 57. While assembled for
the purpose of enlisting, the question arose as
to who would be able to mount and equip
themselves. Mr. Hollis cried out: "Put me
down, horse, man and rider T He is well
{)reserved for one of his age, and no one, to
ook at him, would take him to be more than
70. Lux.
Correspondence of the Yorkrille Enquirer.
LETTER FROM BLACK'S STATION,
Black's Station, S. C., 8ept. 29, 1879.
The present fall has been the most pleasant
imaginable, and the fanners have gathered
their cotton as rapidly as it was ready. Last
Friday and Saturday we had a keen, cold air,
and frost was seen in the morning, though
little or no damage was done. This is quite
early for frost in this locality?a warning that
winter is approaching.
Joseph Hardin, who was ordered to appear
before the late term of the United States Court
at Greenville, under charge of resisting U. 8.
officers, was convicted and sentenced to 3
months imprisonment and a fine of $100. He
is at present undergoing imprisonment in the
jail at Spartanburg. Mr. Hardin was ordered
to be taken to the York county jail, but was
lodged in the jail at Spartanburg to remain
over from Saturday night until the following
Monday, and in the meantime Marshal Davis, ' ,
who had him in charge, was shot and wounded,
? J ii ? J: v.-u-ili.
aim lulus uiaauicu liurn piuuctum{$ tu jl ui&yiuc
with his prisoner.
Mr. Hardin, with many others, had judgment
suspended in their cases at the August term,
1879, for illicit distilling. Owing to the extra
charge against him for resisting the officers,
and under the instructions of the AttorneyGeneral
to prosecute such cases, he was allowed
a continuation of his case, under bond,'
from one court to another. The three last
courts had excused him; but W. H. Carroll,
his bondsman, delivered him up at the late
term, and hence his trial. The Judge and
District Attorney signified their willingness
to sign a petition for his pardon.
J. M. Allison, a one-armed ex-Confederate ?
soldier, with his five children, on a wager of
$10, undertook to pick 1,000 pounds of cotton
in one day. The following is the result of their
day's work, from sunrise to sunset, resting I
one hour at noon : J. M. Allison, 183 pounds; )
Hayne, 15 years of age, 251 pounds; Mary, 13 /