Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, March 11, 1880, Image 2
Scraps and .facts. :
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? Justices Clifford and Field, are the only *
Democrats on the bench of the United States
Supreme Court. j
? Regulations have been issued from the '
Post Office Department by which gold and : <
silver coin may be sent through the mails as i j
fourth class matter, at one cent per ounce. ,
? The oldest post office in the country is ^
that at Jamestown, Virginia, where letters (
have been delivered in some form or other for ,
two hundred and eighty-three years. ,
? A Tobacco Dealer's Protective Associa- i
tion has been formed in New York, and it i9
reported that a general advance in the prices
of all kinds of tobacco will soon be made.
? According to Ben. Butler, there are at
least 130,000 men in Massachusetts who are
disfranchised because they can neither read
nor write.
? The Cincinnati Commercial (Republican)
expresses the opinion that the nomination of
Grant at Chicago will render the Democratic
nomination at Cincinnati equivalent to election.
? The Post Office Department has issued i
orders forbidding the reception of mutilated !
fractional currency at the post .offices of the |
country. This prohibition includes all coins (
which have holes in them. <
? Judge Key says the Post Office Depart- j
meat has not adopted the double postal card
because the device is patented, which could ]
not be used except by purchase, which the j
law prohibits. ,
? Democratic members of Cougress now 1
begin to fear that it will be the last of June
before an adjournment can be secured. None,
of the large appropriation bills have been
acted ou in the House. j
? Scales, of North Carolina ; Cox, of New
York; Atkins, of Tennessee; Stephens, of 1
Georgia; and Singleton, of Mississippi, are the
only Democratic members of this Congress
who were in the House of Representatives before
the war.
? The first passenger train on the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad, through to Chattanooga,
left Cincinnati on Monday morning last, and
made the run through in twelve hours and
fifteen minutes. The schedule time is twelve
hours.
? Brand ret h, the patent pill man, recently
deceased, left an estate valued at $2,000,000
to be divided araoug his seven daughters and
sixsons. His vast success has engendered a
horde of imitators, whose pecuniary profits
depend altogether upon the extent to which
they advertise. He spent a million at it.
? Queen Victoria is the richest and stingiest
sovereign in the world. The amount of
human wretchedness engendered during ber
~eign among her subjects is incalculable. The
amount of her subscriptions for its relief may
be reckoned without difficulty. She is a good
wife and mother, but not a generous Queen.
? The trial of Virgil Gully for the murder
of ex State Senator John P. Gilmer, one of
the victims of the Chisolm massacre, was to
have commenced at Dekalb, Miss., on Monday
last. District Attorney Ford conducts
the prosecution, assisted by Judge Ware,
United States District Attorney for the Southern
District of Mississippi.
? Dr. Lyman Abbott says: "As you go to
Capitol Hill, along Pennsylvania Avenue,
you come to a liquor shop with a sign extending
out over the sidewalk. On it are the
words: "The last chance." The worthy Doc
tor should have read what the sign had on it
as you go from Capitol Hill to Pennsylvania
Avenue. It is "The First Chance." The
proprietor had the wit to take all the chances.
? General Robert Toombs is an intimate
friend of Alexander H. Stephens, and the two
talk over public affairs together far-koure at a time.
A corresponds "whtTvisited General
Toombe injiifc Georgia home, describes bim as
v ?-^-raaifworo out with years and a passionate
existence, but gloryfying in the fact that he
is not a citizeu of the United States ; that his
political disabilities have not been removed,
and that he is the only and unrepentant rebel."
? The Westminister Review reckons the public
debts of the world at the present time at
$24,000,000,000. The railway indebtedness
has been estimated at $6,000,000,000, and
i municipal debts at $5,000,000,000, thus bringing
the public indebtedness of the world up
to the vast sum of $35,000,000,000. It is not ,
exneeted that this will ever he naid. but it
constitutes an annual lien on the industry of
the world of $1,700,000,000.
? A Chicago firm of clothiers offer a prize
of one dollar for every male child born in (
that city during next November and Decern- i
ber, and will increase the amount if allowed ,
to name the baby. "If we were in the dry
goods trade," they say in their advertisement,
"we could afford to make this prize five dol- *
Jars for girls. We take a right smart interest
in the increase of the male sex, aud this offer :
will cost us thousands of dollars, but we ex- i
pect to get a recompense in future trade."
? The Danville News says it is generally {
understood that the proposed extension of the ]
Virginia Midland Railroad, from Danville to .
Charlotte, will be at once commenced under
favorable auspices, and adds : "It is said by 1
some that tbe capital has been secured, and '
that the section through which it will pass will
not be called upon for any means to aid in
the building of the line, but that the Balti- ,
more and Ohio Road, and the city of Balti- ,
more, together with the Air Line Road from
Charlotte to Atlanta, will provide all the
means necessary for the work." 1
? The Senate, in executive session one day
last week, rejected, almost unanimously, the
nomination of John McNeil as United States ]
marshal for the eastern district of Missouri, j
The reason for his rejection was that during
the late war O'Neil, while in command of
Federal troops near Palmyra, Mo., in 1862, j
ordered the execution of seven private citizeus
of that neighborhood, and did execute '
six of them without trial, on account of the ,
disappearance of a certain Union man whom <
McNeil asserted had been made way with by ,
local bushwhackers. (
? Three thousand residents of Houston,
Texas, turned out on a recent Sunday to at- ;
tend a baptism in the Buffalo bayou. As the
clergyman plunged the first young woman
under the water, the great crowds that lined
the banks, as though occupants of the tiers
of seats at a circus, burst into a loud and pro- '
longed "ouch." It sounded as though the
3.000 spectators had given one concerted
shiver. The preacher stood on the bank and ,
held his hands aloft. When silence was secured,
he read the profane crowd a hot lecture
on decorum.
? The new rules of the House of Represen- 1
tatives have been finally agreed upon and
adopted, and went into effect last Monday i
morning. It is generally conceded that they |
will simplify business and put the brakes upon
interminable debate. The "morning hour,"
so called, is abolished. Committees have sim- '
ply leave to report bills when called, without |J
discussing them. There are three calendars j <
for three general classes of bills?that of the i
committee of the whole, that of general leg-! j
islation, and the private calendar, precedence ! (
being given to them in the order named. ' (
Motions to suspend the rules may be made
only on the first and the third Monday in
each month, the previous question is regula- j
ted and restricted*aud "ridere" to appropri- 1
ation bills are prohibited unless germane to i s
the subject and reported by a committee.
The chief effect of the new rules will be to I ^
restrict speech-making and add to the busi-;
ness powers of the House. *
? R. C. Stockton, a nephew of Commodore 1
Stockton, and a cousin of Senator Stockton, :
committed suicide in the Eutaw House at St. s
Louis, on Sunday of last week, by taking i \
morphine. lie left a note saying, "I die be- j j
cause I have no home to go to." He had {
held many offices of distinction. He was a
South Carolinian by birth, and graduated at;
,the Naval Academy. He was with corarao- j'
dore Perry in the Japan expedition, and at *
,tbe outbreak of the civil war resigned the po-11
rition of commander in the United States Na-! ?
ry to join the Confederate Navy, in which he (
was Captain, afterwards becoming a Colonel j
)f the land forces. Before the war Stockton j <
lad a very large plantation in South Carolina 1
md a summer residence in Newport. He ]
eaves a widow and three children, who are | j
jomfortably provided for by life insurance.!
Stockton was wholly out of means, and his i
ijoard bills fell due on the day of his death,!(
which he had nothing to meet. Mrs. Stock-1
;on is a cousin of Mrs. Jeff. Davis and was <
>nce a Southern woman of high social position. I
She IforMle ^tnjuircr.;
YORKVILLE, S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 11.1880
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THE SOCTH^AROLINA RAILROAD.
A reporter for the Charleston News and
Courier recently interviewed Mr. Peck, superintendent
of the South Carolina Railroad,
on the subject of making close connection at
Columbia with the C. C. & A. Road, thereby
placing Charleston iu closer communication
with the up-couutry than at present. The
superintendent informed the reporter that
there is no present intention of changing the
schedule on the South Caro ina road so as to
make the connection desired. He said that
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me OOULll V^ttXUllim luau nuo >ci jr ?! ? >1X1
el for the Charlotte road, and the present
schedule suits the public very well; that the
making of the connection at Columbia would
not be to the advantage of auy body except,
perhaps, the Neva and Courier."
For the information of the Charleston people,it
is deemed not amiss to say that just
such a policy as that indicated by Mr. Superintendent
Feck, has had much to do with diverting
the trade of the Piedmont section
from that city?the metropolis of the State,
in whose prosperity all our people would rejoice.
But it is idle to talk ahout the people
of the upper counties having business relations
with Charleston, when Atlanta, Richmond
and Baltimore can be reached in a shorter
time. Mr. Superintendent Peck, whether he
means to do so or not, pursues a course the
effect of which is to drive traffic and travel
from the commercial city of the State. He
forgets that while his road could be an important
feeder to that city, emptying into her
lap the products of a rich and fertile section,
it is after all but local in its significance, and
caur^t control the movements of longer and .
equally important lines. The railroad-^s^uT'"
of the State, or will hardly stop
to consult the convenience of the South Caro
lina road, nor will it be seriously affected by
the movements of that road ; and in this reBpect
Mr. Superintendent Peck might derive
a lesson from Mahomet. When that worthy,
after calling the mountain to him, discovered
that it was not likely to obey the summons,
with a courtesy rarely witnessed these days,
the accommodating prophet gracefully and
unconditionally walked* up to the mountain.
In the circumstances, Mahomet could have ]
done nothing neater.
But our own people, as well as those of '
Charleston, may congratulate themselves upon <
the fact that within a few months at farthest, '
a new outlet will be opened from this section
to the City by the Sea?a line that will be :
entirely independent of the South Carolina i
Railroad. When this line is completed, the i
management of the South Carolina Railroad i
may discover that much of the freight it has
heretofore handled will go over the new line,
and the necessity for close connection at Columbia
may then be even less than at present, i
The new line to which we refer will be over
the North-Eastern Railroad to Cheraw; thence
by the Cheraw and Wadesboro Railroad to i
Wadesboro, where connection will be made i
with the Carolina Central, which line connects 1
with the net-work of roads concentrating at
Charlotte. '
The distance between Cheraw, (the northern (
terminus of the North-Eastern Railroad) and
Wadesboro is 26 miles. The Cheraw and 1
Wadesboro road has been graded the entire 1
length, and trains are running on it 20 miles '
from Cheraw, leaving only six miles to finish, '
for which the necassary iron has been ordered (
and will be put down at once after its arrival.
Then the people of the up-country can go to 1
Charleston within a resouable time, though to 1
do so they may have to travel around their own '
State and through another?all because the 1
various lines extending from the North to 1
the South do not arrange their time-tables to '
suit the convenience of the South Carolina 1
Railroad. 1
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. i
? Green peas and strawberries are abun- <
dant in the Charleston market. 1
? From the 1st of September to the 1st of j
March, 10,028 bales of cotton were shipped i
from Winnsboro. j
? Charleston is enjoying the best trade since .
1871. She attributes it to cheap excursions j
and cheap prices. i .
? There is now on deposit in the Anderson
National Bank, nearly one hundred and forty
thousand dollars.
? During the parade and review of two 1
companies of colored troops and one of white
last week, in Beaufort, not a single instance j
of disorder or drunkenness occurred. j
? The Anderson Intelligencer says: "Our;
farmers are preparing to plant a big crop of
cotton this year. Many say that it will be
the largest ever planted in the county." j
? Governor Simpson has respited Neil W. j
Blair, colored, who was sentenced to be
banged at Camden for the murder of Adamson,
until June 11. |
? The Bath paper mills, near Graniteville,
which have not been in operation since Au- j
just, 1878, are to be repaired and started to
work without unnecessary delay. j
? A prominent citizen of Anderson county j
says he will give a fine hat to any one who
will find a respectable man in his section who
s opposed to the fence law after a thorough
;rial. |
? On Saturday last, the Senate confirmed!
he appointments of Cadwallader J. Pride '
is Supervisor, of the Census for the first dis- j ?
,rict; Henry Hammond, second district; I
lames L. Breeden, third district of South Car)lina.
? The Abbeville Medium says the Knights
)f Honor have lodges in that county at Abbeville,
Due West, Hodges, Greenwood and
Ninety-Six. Several new lodges will shortly
be established, and the order is becoming one
>f the strongest and most influential in the
;ounty."
? A. C.* Appleby and Arthur O'Brien, of
IDolleton county, engaged in the farce of a
bloodless duel at Sand-Bar Ferry, near Augusta,
Ga., on Tuesday of last week. After
in interchange of shots without anybody being
hurt, the difficulty between them was ad
justed.
? Jerry Moore, Riley Moore and Aiken
Moore, were tried at Walhalla last week on
the charge of murdering Alexander Bryce,
jr., formerly a noted Radical politician of
that county. The trial lasted nearly four
rlays and resulted in a verdict of "Not
Guilty" as to all the prisoners.
? The directors of the Greenwood Railroad
in South Carolina, and the directors of the
Augusta and Knoxville railroad, met in Au
gusta, Ga., on Wednesday of last week, and
arranged for a consolidation of the two companies,
the terms of which are to be ratihed
by the stockholders of each road.
? The work of laying the mattresses for the
foundation for the southern jetty in Charleston
harbor has begun. The jetty runs from
a point one hundred yards southwest of Battery
Wagner. Over six thousand feet of
mattresses for the north jetty have been laid,
and the work on the two jetties will now go
on simultaneously.
? The following named persons have been
nominated for Governor by their respective
admirers: General Gary, General Hagood,
Judge Wallace, Armstead Burt, Esq., exGovernor
Perry, General Connor, Colonel
Keith, Chancellor Johnson, ex-Gov. Manning
and Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken.
? The News and Courier has recently compiled
a summary of crimes committed in
South Carolina from the 19th of December,
1879, to March 1, 1880, a period of a little
more than two months. The list embraces
twenty-one homicides, sixteen assaults with
intent to kill, and two rapes. The causes assigned
for the prevalence of crime in the
State, is the drinking of whisky a'nd the carrying
of deadly weapons.
? Under the order of the Republican State
executive committee, the secretary has issued
orders to the chairmen of the executive committees
of the several counties, to call county
conventions for the purpose of selecting delegates
to a Republican State Convention,
which will meet in Columbia on April 28th.
The number of delegates from each county is
to be upon the basis of representation in the
lower House of the Legislature.
? Col. James H. Rion, the South Carolina
member of the National Democratic Committee,
has informed the Winnsboro News,
that it is his present intention to call a State
Conven ion on Wednesday, the 19th of May
next, at Columbia, to elect delegates to the
Cincinnati Convention that meets on the 20th
of June. Monday, the 3rd of May, is suggested
to the different counties as the proper
time for choosing delegates to the State Convention.
? At the recent session of the Legislature,
the Act for the protection of useful animals,
was amended sojt?_to_maka-;t- unlawful "for
any p&rgtfjTTrT this State, between the 15th
day of March and the 15th day of September,
in any^year hereafter, to catch, kill or injure,
or to pursue with such intent, or to sell
or expose for sale, any wild turkey, partridge,
dove, woodcock or pheasant, and any
person found guilty thereof shall be fined not
less than ten dollars or be imprisoned not less
than ten days, which fioe, if imposed, shall go
one half thereof to the informer and the other
half thereof to the school fund of the county
wherein the offence was committed."
? On the evening of the 2nd instant, at
Silver Street, Newberry county, \V. Spearman,
a respectable and successful farmer,
entered his house, accosted his younger brother,
who was just risiug from the table, saying:
"1 want to speak to you, brother," and simultaneously
drew a large knife, made a slash
at his brother's throat, cutting a terrible gash,
severing the jugular vein and causing death in
a few moments. The slayer then rushed into
an adjoining room and cut his wife's throat
from ear to ear. He then lifted the bloody
knife and deliberately cut his own throat. It
is supposed he was laboring under temporary
mental aberration, as he was a sober, kind
1 i i i nr? .i? x. x
hearted mau.anu on most aneciionate terms
with his wife and brother. Spearman was
committed to jail. He refuses to answer any
questions or to converse about the horrible
affair.
? The Supreme Court of the United States,
cne day last week, rendered a decision in the
case of the State ex rel. Douglass & Jackson
vs. P. C. Gaillaird, treasurer of Charleston
county. In this case an application was
made directly to the Supreme Court of the
state, in its original jurisdiction, for mandamus
to compel the county treasurer to receive
in payment of State and county taxes,
icank bills which had been tendered. It was
urged before the Supreme Court that the
proceedings could no longer be maintained
en account of the Act of December 24, 1878,
to facilitate the collection of taxes, although
the Act had been passed after the filing of
;he petition of Douglass & Jackson. The
petitioners claim that the Act was unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court sustained the
constitutionality of the Act and refused the
nandamus, and the United States Supreme
Court has confirmed the judgment of the
State Supreme Court.
? On the 2nd instant, a one-armed negro
named Louis Kinder, committed an outrageous
assault upon a white woman named
Byrd, residing near George's Station, Colleton
county, about fifty miles from Charleston.
A hunt was organized and the villain captured
on Sunday morning, by a mixed white
md black posse. He was taken to the scene
cf the outrage and identified by his victim.
A. vote of the posse was taken and it was de
dieted not to lyncn mm, out to anow tne law
;o take its course. Kinder was then taken to
3eorge's Station and placed in the guard
louse under a strong guard. Monday mornng
he was sent to Walterboro jail, still
strongly guarded. On their way to Walter3oro
the guard was overpowered by an armed
ibrce, consisting, it is said, largely of relatives
>f the outraged lady, and the prisoner was
conveyed to a secluded spot in the woods,
,vhere he was kept till night. About 9 o'clock
hat night he was again confronted with the
ady whom he had outraged, and again idenified.
He was again taken to the woods,
vhere preparations were made to hang him.
\t the last moment he confessed the crime,
md also confessed to a similar outrage upon a
jolored woman in Newberry six years ago.
tie further acknowledged the killing of a
:olored girl near Kingstree last April, and
jonfessed to four burglaries and innumerable
hefts. At 10.30 o'clock he was hanged, and
ifter firing a volley of pistol shots into his
)ody the crowd quietly dispersed.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? High Point will soon have two cotton factories
in operation.
? All the prisoners, confined in the Wade3
boro jail, made their escape on Wednesday
night of last week.
? The Democratic State executive committee
met in Raleigh on Wednesday of last
week, and selected Raleigh as the place and
the 17th of June as the time, for holding the
gubernatorial convention.
? The Charlotte Observer learns that since
the recent raius, those wheat fields, which before
looked perfectly bare from the ravages
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oi ine wueai uug, are now green whii iresmjr
springing grain.
? A meeting of citizens was held in Greensboro
on the 2nd :in9tant, and it was decided
that the centennial anniversary of the battle
of Guilford Court House shall be properly
celebrated on the 15th of March, 1881.
? Up to last Saturday three hundred and
four visiting merchants visited Charlotte, the
most of whom, it is presumed, were induced
by the excursion tickets offered by the merchants
of the city. The Observer thinks the
enterprise was quite a success.
? The Charlotte Observer of Tuesday says :
The application made by the opponents of the
immediate operation of the fence law in South
Point township, Gaston county, for an injunction
restraining the commissioners of the
county from proceeding to build the fence,
, was argued before Judge McKoy last Friday
night, and he has not ^et rendered a formal
opinion, but it is well understood that he will
refuse to grant the injunction. .
? In the Superior Court of Mecklenburg,
last week, George Galloway, colored, was
tried and found guilty of infanticide, the 3ffence
charged being the murder of his wife's
new-born infant. Henry Home, colored, was
convicted of burglary, and both were sentenced
to be hanged on the 7th of May, 1880.
The jury, after deliberating three days on the
case of Frances Hood, colored, charged with
infanticide, rendered a verdict of guilty, ac
companying their verdict with a petition for
the pardon of the woman.
PROCEEDINGS*!)!1 CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 2nd, bill3 were introduced
and referred as follows: By Mr. Bailey
: A bill to refund the National debt. It
proposes new three per cent, bonds in exchange
for the outstanding bonded indebtedness
By Mr. Hoar: A resolution, which
was adopted, providing that the committee on
the judiciary be instructed to inquire and report
whether any American citizens have
been arrested and imprisoned for the exercise
of their constitutional right to petition this
body concerning the title to a seut of a Senator
from a State of which they are citizens,
with the power to send for persons and papers.
This is supposed to refer to the action
of the majority of the Louisiana Legislature
in regard to the memorial of the minority of
that body in relation to Kellogg's seat in the
Senate. 8jnator Logan spoke at great length
on the FitzJohn Porter bill. He opposed
the bill, holding that there was no appeal
from the decision of the original court martial.
He was interrupted by Mr. Hill, of
Georgia, and Mr. Jones, of Florida, and devoted
some time to answering their inquiries.
Mr. Logan's argument was technical in character.
He admitted that the President may
pardon Porter and that Congress cfcn authorize
his appointment, if they choose, as an army
officer. Adjourned.
The sessian.off AheJiuivse was devoted to a
consideration ot too report ot the committee
of the whole on the subject of the revision of
the rules.
In the Senate on the 3rd, the committee on
judiciary reported adversely on the Senate
bill to extend the jurisdiction of the northern
district court of Texas. The same committee
reported adversely on the House bill to provide
for the appointment of an additional
clerk for the western judicial court of North
1 Carolina. Mr. Wallace, of Pennsylvania,
i from the committee on appropriations, reported,
with amendments, the House bill to
provide for deficiency in the appropriation
for the transportation of mails on the star
routes for the fiscal year ending June 30th,
1880. Ordered printed and placed on the
calendar. Mr. Davis, of Illiuois, from the
judiciary committee, reported adversely the
Senate bill to facilitate the transaction of bus
iness in the United States Supreme Court.
Indefinitely postponed. At the expiration
of the morning hour the Senate resumed consideration
of the bill for the relief of FitzJohn
Porter, Mr. Logan, of Illinois, speaking
in opposition to the bill. Pending the conclusion
of Mr Logan's argument, the Senate
went into executive session, and when the
doors were opened adjourned.
In the House, the Speaker presented a letter
front the Secretary of War, recommending
an appropriation of one hundred and twentyfive
thousand dollars for buildings at San
Antonio, Texas; also a message from the
President, calling the attention of Congress
to the claims of certain Spanish inhabitants
of East Florida during the years 1812 and
'13?generally known as the "East Florida
claims." The bill regulating the removal of
causes from State to Federal courts was discussed
without action, after which the House
proceeded to a consideration of the Senate
memorial resolutions relative to the late Senator
Houston, of Alabama, and after eulogies
by different representatives, adjourned.
In the Senate on the 4th, Mr. Morgan, of
Alabama, introduced a joint resolution reci
ting the 14th amendment to the Constitution,
and declaring that the Indians born in the
United States are persons within the meaning
of that amendment and citizens of the United
States and of the States wherein they reside.
The object of the resolution, Mr. Morgan
said, was to determine and fix the relations
of the Indians to the Government of the
United States. It was referred to the judiciary
committee. The Senate then resumed
consideration of the Brill for the relief of Gen.
Fitz John Porter. Mr. Logan of Illinois,
continued his speech in opposition to the bill,
reviewing at great length the evidence pre
sented to the court martial by which Porter
was tried, and endeavoring to show that Porter
intentionally disregarded Gen. Pope's orders
on account of personal ill feeling towards
him. At 4:30, p. m., pendiug the conclusion
of Mr. Logan's argument, the Senate
went into executive session, and when the
doors were reopened, adjourned.
In the House, the Speaker announced the
regular order to be the consideration of the bill
regulating the removal of causes from State
to Federal Courts. The question was on an
amendment offered by Mr. Culberston, of
Texas, and was agreed to without a division.
It amends section two of the act to determine
the jurisdiction of the United States Circuit
Court so as to read as follows: "Section 2.
That any suit of a civil nature, at law or in
equity, arising under the Constitution and
I laws of the United States or treaties made,
! or which shall be made under their authority, i
of which the Circuit Courts of the United
i States are given original jurisdiction by the ;
; preceding sections, which may now be pend:
ing, or may hereafter be brought in any '
1 State Court, may be removed by the defend- i
; ant or defendants therein to the Circuit i
: Court of the United States for the proper; I
I district, whenever it is made to appear from I'
the application of such defendant or defend- i
: ants that his or their defense depends in whole i'
' or in part on the correct constructiou of some <
provisions of the Constitution or the Jaws of <
the United States, or treaty made by their! 1
authority; and any other suit at law or in j i
j equity in which the Circuit Courts of the Uni-! 1
! ted States are given jurisdiction by the prece-1 i
ding section, which are now pending or may ' <
hereafter be brought in any State Court, may J
be removed to the Circuit Court of the United j j
States for the proper district by the defend- i
ant or defendants therein, provided such de-' i
fendant or defendants are non-residents of
the State in which said suits are pending."
The amendments offered by the minority of
the committee on judiciary, making the minimum
amount involved in a suit five hundred
dollars, in order that the United States
Circuit Courts may have original jurisdiction,
instead of two thousand dollars as proposed
by the bill, was rejected. An amendment
offered by the minority, allowing the United
States Circuit Courts to take original cognizance
of a suit of a civil nature arising under
the patent and copy right laws between a
corporation and a citizen of the State in which
the corporation was carrying on its business,
was agreed to without division. The minority
amendment, striking out the clause prohibiting
United States Circuit Courts from
taking original cognizance of any suit between
a corporation or a citizen of a State, except in
cases arising under the patent and copyright
laws, and in like cases which said Courts are
authorized to take original cognizance of, or
suits between citizens of a State, was rejected?
yeas, 68; nays 167. The minority amendment
was adopted providing that this act
shall not affect jurisdiction over the disposition
of any suit removed from the Court of
any State or any suit commenced in any
United States Court before the passage hereof.
The bill was then passed, yeas, 163 ; nays,
75. Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina, from the
committee on agriculture, reported a bill
making the Department of Agriculture an
executive department of the Government.
Pending action thereon, the morning hour expired.
The House then, by a vote of 127 to
102, refused to take up the special order,
which was the political assessments bill, and
went into the committee of the whole on the
public calendar. Mr. Wood, of New York,
proceeded to address the committee on the
Funding bill, and at the conclusion of bis remarks
the committee rose. Mr. Gillett?, of
Iowa, asked aud obtained leave to have print
ed the bill to provide for the payment of the
public debt, which he said he would ofTer as
a substitute for the Wood Funding bill. The
House then took a recess until 7:30, p. ni.
The evening session was mainly devoted to
discussion, in committee of the whole, of the
pension laws and the consideration of private
pension bills. The committee rose at
10:15, and reported fourteen pension bills to
the House. The bills'were passed, and the
House adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 5th, Mr. Butler, of
South Carolina, from the committee on terri
tories, reporter! a bill to establish a territorial
government for the territory of-Alaska. Mr.
Harris, of Tennessee, presented a memorial
of the G>tton Exchange and fifty leading
firms of Memphis, praying that the mail serf
vice may not be reduced, but maintained by
proper appropriations. Mr. Maxey, of Texas,
from the committee oil post offices and post
roads reported, with amendment, the Senate
bill to des'gnate, classify, and fix the salaries
of persons in railway service in Alaska. Also,
a communication from the Secretary of
the Treasury, transmitting information as to
amounts paid for star postal service, etc. Mr.
Logan, of Illinois, contiuued his argument
against the passage of the Fitz John Porter
bill. He pointed out on the maps the relative
positions of the various forces on the field,
and said it was evident that there was no obstruction
in the front of Porter to prevent
his pushing forward to strike Jackson's
right before Longstreet could come up, as
Pope intended should be done. Mr. Logan
{iraised Pope's plan, in this instance, and euogized
Pope as one of the ablest officers in
the army. The Confederate Generals' reports
show that the Gmfederates were deceived by
Pope's strategy, into throwing their forces to
the left of Jackson's command, thus leaving.
Jackson open to Porter's attack, and it was
-1- m | r- 1 .1 D
oniy rorier a remain woucj- x u\k umi i-ouocu
the stratagem to fail. Te pass this bill would
be to condone a great crime, establish a dangerous
precedent and be an injustice to the
officers whose promotion in the army would
be delayed by Porter's reinstatement In
the House, Mr. Carlisle, of Kentucky, in
troduced a bill fixing the duties on sugars
as follows : On all grades not above No. IS
D. S. in color, 240-100 cents per pound ; above
No. 13 and not above No. 16, 275 100 cents
per pound. All over No. 16, 4 cents 'per
pound, providing that nothing herein con
lained shall be construed to alter or amend
the act of August 15th, 1876, to carry into
effect the convention between the United
States and the King of the Hawaiian Island.
Referred. Mr. Cox, of New York, intro
duced a bill to increase the efficiency of the
Life Saving Service ; to authorize the establishment
of two additional stations on the
North Carolina coast and six houses of refuge
on the east coast of Florida. The bill provides
for a pensiou of fifteen dollars per
month to the widows of officers and twelve
dollars per month to the widows of members
of the crew who may lose their lives in the
service, or from wounds or sickness contracted
in the discharge of their duties. Adjourned
until Monday.
In the Senate on the 7th, the Vice President
presented a communication from the
Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy
of a letter from the commissioner on pensions,
submitting a revised estimate of the deficiencies
of army and navy pensions for the fisca l
year ending June 30, 1880. The secretary
earnestly recommended an appropriation in
accordance with the estimate. The bill for
the relief of Fitz John Porter was taken up,
and Senator Carpenter addressed the Senate,
taking strong grounds against annulling the
sentence of the court martial. He charged
Gen. Porter with being responsible for sacrificing
the lives of no less than 200,000 Union
soldiers, by his failure to obey the orders of
his superior officer. At the conclusion of
Carpenter's speech, Bayard obtained the floor,
out yieiaea to a niotiou ior uu Mauuvc session,
and when the doors were reopened the
Senate adjourned uutil Monday.
MERE-MENTION.
The Presidential election occurs this year
on Tuesday, 2ud of November." The negroes
of Kansas have perfected an organization
to discourage further emigration from
the South. The present equipment of
the Cincinnati Southern Road is 40 locomotives,
22 passenger coaches, 2 smoking cars,
10 baggage cars, 25 caboose cars, 500 box
cars, 200 stock cars, 200 coal care, and 200
flat care. Reports from various counties
in Virginia say the wheat crop, which at one
time promised a total failure, now gives evidence
of an average yield. The factory
of the Domestic Sewing Machine Company,
in the city of New York, was destroyed by
fire on Tuesday night of last week. It
is stated that the paper makers of the Northwest
are unanimously agreed to make a vigorous
effort to prevent legislation by Congress
abolishing the tariff on articles used in paper
manufacture. Both houses of the Virginia
Legislature have passed a bill repealing
the Moffet bell punch liquor law, and reestablishing
a license system, which is to go in
operation May 1st. The repealing vote was
nearly unanimous. There is more money
in the South now," says the Vicksburg |
(Miss.) Herald, "than there has been at any
time since the war. Any first class paper in- ;
stantly commands loans at reasonable rates."
Mississippi was the banner cotton State last
year, having raised 75,000 bales more than i
Texas, which stood next on the list. For
want of funds, nearly all work in the govern- i
ment printing office at Washington has beerf ;
suspended, and a thousand men and women i
have been thrown out of employment. R. I
T. Wilson, a New York banker and million- i
lire, has purchased the Macon and firuns <
wick (Ga.) Railroad. He is a native of i
3eorgia. Rev. Dr. Tucker, of Atlanta, i
ielivers the baccalaureate sermon before the
University of North Carolina, at Chapel <
Hill. Senator Edmunds is fond of old i
adies and always has been. Personally, he i
s irreproachable, and this is saying a good J
leal of a Senator these times. Robert j
L. Montague, Lieutenant-Governor of Vir- j
jinia in the early part of the late war, died ]
it his home in Middlesex county, on the 3rd i
nstant, aged 63 years. At the time of bis i
death he was Judge of the Eighth Judicial
Circuit. The Chinese are leaving California
and going to New York and Philadelphia
io large numbers. A Mormon
church has recently been established in
Paulding county, Georgia. Georgia has
187,000 spindles in cotton factories?more
than any other Southern State. The
Crawfordville (Ga.) Democrat says it is true,
but not generally known, that Gen. Longstreet
is related to Gen. U. S. Grant.
STATE AND FEDERAL CASES.
On the 1st instant, the Supreme Court of
the United States rendered decision in the
following cases, which huve been regarded of
importance since their removal on appeal to
that tribunal:
Ex parte Commonwealth of Virginia, petitioner.
This was a petition for writ of mandamus
to compel Judge Rives, of the United
States District Court for the Western District
of Virginia, to restore to State authorities two
colored prisoners namod Reynolds, indicted
in the State Courts for murder, and taken by
Judge Rives out of possession of State officials
and held for trial in Federal Court on
the grounds that they (the prisoners) had
been denied in State tribunals trial by competent-jurors
without distinction of race or
color, such as the law of the State guarantees
to them. The removal of the case of prisoners
to the Federal Court was based on section
641 of the Revised Statutes. This Court
held that the section in question has reference
to legislative, not a judicial denial of the
rights secured by law, and that the Constitution
and laws of Virginia do not exclude colored
citizens from juries. The petition for
rdinoval did not, therefore, present a case for
removal under 641st sectioq of the Revised
Statutes. The defendant in this case demanded
that some part of the jury should be
composed of his own race. The denial of
that motion was not a denial of the right secured
to him by any law providing for equal
civil rights of citizens of the United States,
or by any statute, or by the 14th amendment.
A mixture in a particular case is not essential
to equal protection of the la we. It is a right
to which any colored man is entitled that in
the selection of jurors to pass upon, his life,
liberty or property, there shall be no exclusion
of his race because of color, but that is
a different thing from what was claimed as of
right and denied in the State Court, viz.: A
right to have the jury composed in part of
pnlnrpd mpn Fmm thpap nrinninles it fol
lows that the Federal Court had no rightful
jurisdiction of the case, and that the writ of
mandamus for the restoration of the prisoners
to the State authorities must be granted, and
the Court so orders. Justice Strong delivered
the opinion.
1Ex parte Commonwealth of Virginia and
J. D. Coles, j>etitioner. This was a petition
for a writ of habeas corpus to bring before
this Court the case of Judge Coles, of Virginia,
indicted in the Federal Court for the
western district of that State, for violation oi
the act of March 4th, 1875, in excluding
colored citizens from the jury lists on account
of race and color. This Court holds thai the
act under which Coles was indicted is fully
authorized by the 13th and 14th amendments
to the Constitution, and that it was Judge
Cole's duty to obey that act. If he failed to
do so he \vas properly liable to ibdictment in
the Federal Court. The petition for a writ
of habeas corpus is therefore dented. Justice
Strong delivered the opinion. Justice Field,
in a dissenting opinion, concurred in by Jus
tice Clifford, holds that the act under which
the petitioner was indicted, so far as it relates
to jurors in State Courts, is unconstitutional
and void, and even if it were not, the indictme^gjfc^ribes
no offence under it, but is void
on its facer"~ifr bolds-that nothing can be
fouud in the Constitution orTtraiHetldmettto
which authorizes any interference by Con
gress with States in administration of their
government and the enforcement of their laws
in respect to any matter over which jurisdiction
was not surrendered to the United States.
Nothing, in his judgment, could have a greater
tendency to destroy independency and
anatomy of States, reduce them to humilia,
ting dependence upon Central Governmentengender
constant irritation and destroy that
domestic tranquility which it was one of the
objects of the Constitution to insure, than the
doctrine asserted in this case; that Congress
can exercise coercive authority over judicial
officers of States in the discharge of their duties
under State laws. It will be only another
step in the same direction toward consolidation
when it assumes to exercise coercive
authority over Governors and legislators of
States. After reviewing the history of the
Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments and
declaring that tbey offered no warrant for the
act of Congress under which Coles was indicted,
Justice Field says those who "regard
the independence of States in all their reserved
powers as essential to the successful
maintenance of our form of government, can
not fail to view with gravest apprehension for
the future, indictment in the Courts of the
United States of a judicial officer of a State
f/?r the manner in which he has discharged
,w* v"w ** "" " o
his duties under her laws, aod of which ?he
makes no complaint. The proceeding is ?
gross offense to the State. It is an attack upon
her sovereignty in matters over which she
has never surrendered her jurisdiction. The
doctrine which sustains it, carried to its logical
results, would degrade and sink her to a
level of mere municipal corporation. For if
Congress can punish an officer of a State for
the manner in which he discharges his duties
under her laws, it can fix the nature and extent
of the punishment It may imprison for
life or punish by removal from office. To
these results Justice Field thinks the doctrine
held by a majority of the Court necessarily
leads.
A Danville, Va., dispatch of the 4th instant
says that in accordance with the above
decision, Judge Rives has ordered a writ for
the arrest of County Judges Coles, Parish
and others for trial at his Court in Lynchburg,
at the March term.
In a case from Tennessee, of a revenue officer
charged with committing murder while
in the discharge of his duties as such officer,
the Supreme Court decides that the accused,
whether on the charge of murder or any other
crime against the State, if committed in
the discharge of his official duties, he may
of his own motion, be tried in the Circuit
Court of the United States, and a State
Court cannot try him.
These opinions,especially in the last-named
case, are the subject of much comment in legal
and political circles, some persons even
expressing the belief that they may momentously
affect the destinies of the Republic in
the near future. Hon. J. Randolph Tucker,
perhaps the ablest lawyer in the House of
Representatives, has recently reviewed these
decisions, and his opinions, critically rendered,
are entitled to the most serious consideration.
Summing up the results, he says that
the Federal Courts strip from the State
Courts jurisdiction over crimes coumuiteu
against a State. In the Coles case a Federal
Judge drags a State Judge from the seat of
justice and arraigns him at his bar for the
trial of his motives under the probe of a presumption
of guilt which it would be wellnigh
impossible for the accused to rebut The
principles of the decision sanction the possession
of a power by Congress, which, pressed to
its legitimate consequence, would put all officers
of the State government under the supervision
of the Federal Court and subject
all the State officers to criminal prosecutions
before Federal juries. If these decisions,
said Mr. Tucker, are not arrested by public
opinion, the federation system is at an end,
and a centralized, absolute government is at
hand.
Mr. Tucker characterizes Judge Field's
iissenting opinion as strikingly able and
narked by a judicial eloquence which reminds
one of the halcyon early days of the
Supreme Bench. The constitutional princiDles
expounded by him are luminous and
iplendidly put. They present, he declared, a
allying ground for the defenders of States'
ights in their imminent contest against the j
menace of consolidation and empire.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
J. M. Adams?Economy is Wealth?Wooden
Ware?Beeswax Wanted?Potware.
Herndon Bros?Wanted?Potatoes?Hoes?Bash
Scythes?Back-bands?Bran?Bacon.
J. B. Gardner?100 Bags More of those Standard
Fertilizers.
J. D. Rattaree, Chester, S. C.?Special Announcement.
Ilunter A Oates?New Goods at Low CashPricea.
T. S. Jeffervs, Agent?Phosphate and Guano?A
Wonderful Contrivance.
T. M. Dobson?Cheap Goods.
Mrs. Fnnnip L. Dobson?Spring Hats and Bonnets
Kennedy Bros. A Barron?March, March On.
Withers Adickes? Assortment?The Largest.
F. Happerfield?Removal.
Dr. John May?The Corner Drng Store.
R. Lathan, School Commissioner?Notice.
R. H. Glenn, H. Y. C.-Sheriff's Sale.
Adickos A Colcock?Price Reduced.
J. 8. Biggs?Mules Wanted.
GONE NORTH.
Mr. T. M. Dobson started to the Northern
markets on Monday last to purchase his spring
stock of goods.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Mr. Robert J. Herndon, who has been taking
a course of musical instruction at the Boston
Musical Conservatory, returned home on
Tuesday morning.
MAIL CONTRACTS.
Contracts for carrying the United States
mails on all the routes, except one, leading from
Yorkville, were awarded to non-residents of
the State. "Bethel" route, which after the
1st of July will extend from Yorkville to Garribaldi,
N. C., was awarded to Mr. J. N. Roberts,
of this county.
YORKMARBLE YARD.
Mr. F. Happerfield, proprietor of the above
establishment, has just built knew, handsome
and commodious shop near the depot, to which
he has removed from the house so long occupied
by him up town. He gives notice that he
is now tetter than ever prepared to fill all orders
for work in his line.
SKETCH UP KING'S MOUNTAIN.
We have just issued, in phamphlet form, a
sketch of the Battle of King's Mountain, by
Rev. Robert-Lathan, and will fill orders for the
same at the following rates: Single copy, 15
cents; per dozen, $1.50; per hundred, 9.00.
Orders by mail will be promptly filled at the
above prices.
BURGLARY.
On Thursday night last, the office of Trial
justice Lewis was burglariously entered, and
a trunk, containing the papers pertaining to
his office, broken open and the contents scattered
over the floor. It seems that none of
the papers were carried oft; though no other
motive can be assigned for the act than a desire
to obtain possession of papers. No arrests
have been made.
, ARHE8TED ON A BENCH WARRANT.
On Tuesday afternoon Sheriff Glenn was
i telegraphed by Sheriff Walker to be on the
lookout for Aleck Berry, colored, a refugee from
justice from Chester, who might arrive at this
place on the afternoon train, and for whose arrest
he had a bench warrant. The matter was .
given in charge of town marshal McClain, who
i repaired to the depot and awaited the arrival
i of the repair train, soon expected from Ches'
ter, on which he found his man. He was
lodged in jail over night and returned to Chcs
ter yesterday morning.
8TATE AND COUNTY TAXES.
The following is the tax levy in York county
for the current fiscal year:
For State purposes 4} mills
For School purposes, ..2 "
For ordinary county purposes, 2 "
For interest on county bonds 1} "
For retiring cotfnty bonds I "
Total X Ill mills
- - B^idesthe above, an additional levy^bich
cannot~yet be detergRM^will be^made in
King's Mountain townshipto pay expenses
i of building boundary fence.
CIRCUIT COURT. .
For the information of jurors, suitors and
witnesses at the ensuing term of the Circuit
Court, we would state that members of the
Yorkville bar having applied to Judge Mackey
by written request, that his Honor "will discharge
the petit jurors, immediately upon the
adjournment of the Court of Sessions, until
Monday of the siecond week, and that the remainder
of the first week be devoted to the
transaction of such business as may be had
without the intervention of juries"?his Honor
replied that he will cheerfully comply with
the request.
CHURCHES NEXT 8UNDAY.
Services will be held in the churches next
Sunday as follows:
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Thos. Gilbert,
Pastor. The pastor will conduct services at
Philadelphia Church in the forenoon, and at
Yorkville at 7 P. M.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R.
Lathan, Pastor. The pastor will fill his reguular
appointment at Tirzah next Sunday.
Episcopal?Church of tlie Good ShepherdRev.
R. P. Johnson, Rector. Services at the
usual hours next Sunday. Services also during
Lent on Wednesday at 7 P. M., and Saturday
at 11 A. M.
Presbyterian?Services at 7 P. M., by Rev.
J. Lowrie Wilson.
OBSTRUCTING THE BAIL HO AD TRACK.
On Friday last, after a hearing before Trial
Justice Lewis, Sarah Wilson alias Sarah
Brooks, colored, was committed to jail for
trial in the Court of Sessions, charged with
placing an obstruction across the railroad
track half a mile below town, causing an accident
to a number of colored section hands
on a dump car. The obstruction consisted of
a fence rail placed across the track, which the
dump approached at full speed on a down
grade, and could not be stopped after the discovery,
in time to avert a"catastrophe, which,
however, was of no more serious nature than
the dumping of the passengers into the ditch,
one of whom was slightly hurt. The woman
stood by unawed at the mischief she had
wrought, and when confronted by the startled
passengers, the whites of whose eyes in fine
phrenzy rolled as they gathered themselves up,
frankly confessed that she did the deed, and
defied the crowd. On information being given
to the superintendent of the road, he promptly
and properly caused the woman's arrest.
She now claims that the obstruction was not
placed upon the track with malicious intent.
There are two theories as to her conduct, and
they will be fully ventilated on the trial in the
Sessions Court.
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZER TRADE.
Of manufactured commercial fertilizers
there are 37 different brands in this market,
represented by 15 agents or dealers, to which
may be added 3 brands of domestic fertilizers,
? - * - : 1- -2 -t-i T- .L
tne iormuia or cnenucais iur iuaKiug wuicu
are furnished by some of the same dealers.
The trade in fertilizers has been unusually
brisk this season, and from the most reliable
data we can obtain, exceeds the sales of last
season to this date by 583 tons of manufactured
fertilizers, and of formulas or chemicals
for the home-made, the excess over the sales
to this date last year is 343 tons; making an
increase of 926 tons over sales last year. The
relative sales, as we learned by a canvass
among the agents, are as follows:
TO THIS DATE.
Manufactured fertilizers, tons, .. 1283
Formulas for home, tons, 406?1068
TO UAMK DATE LAST TEAR.
Manufactured fertilizers, tons,.. 680
Formulas for home, tons, 62? 742
? TOTAL SALES LAST YEAR.
Manufactured fertilizers, tons, 1245
Formulas forborne, 62?1307
A notable feature in the above sales is the
increased demand for home fertilizers, the
sales of which having increased from 62 tons
last season^ to 405 tons to this date the present
season.
Notwithstanding prices rule higher, and
freights are higher than last year, agents report
either limited stock on hand, or stock exhausted,
with little prospect of increased supply
beyond shipments now in transitu, which
will probably increase the stock in this market
150 tons.
The shipments over the Chester and Lenoir