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Jtoaps audi ?facis. ? What is the difference between a blind mule and a man who never reads a newspaper? Well, there isn't any difference. ? The imports of coffee from all countries into the United States?exclusive of the States on the Paci6c?for 1879, were 198,010 tons, against imports in 1878 of 147,030 tons. ? The Catholic population of the United States is estimated at six millions, of whom six hundred thousand live in New York City, three hundred thousand in Boston, and two hundred thousand in Cincinnati. ? Col. Foreacre, General Manager of the Air Line Railroad, is very active in encouraging the cultivation of tobacco throughout the section of country tributary to his road, and is gratuitously distributing packages of seed among the farmers. ? The Indianapolis Sentinel prints some figures, purporting to come from a well-informed source, which shows that the first cost of nine coffins, of various kinds, from plain to imitation rosewood, extra fine cloth caskets, was $160, and the retail price was $717.50. A PnuunnoH r)iorva tnVi f a tKn Atlanta 4a. viuviuuau uiopa iv^u iw xaviwuvw Constitution, dated the 18th inst., says: "It is reliably reported in railroad circles here that the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line has purchased the road from Knoxville to Maysville, and that the long contemplated road, through Rabuu, Ga., will be built at once." ? An anchor, supposed to have belonged to a Spanish frigate when Florida was under the reign ot the Spanish government, has been brought to New Orleans from the Florida coast, where it has doubtless been under water for 120 years. The anchor measures fifteen feet from ream to crown, and is entirely covered with oyster shells. ? The committee on banking and currency in the House, have instructed Mr. Davis, of North Carolina, to move a suspension of rules to pass Mr. O'Conuer's bill authorizing national banking associations to loan money on mortgage on real estate. Mr. Davis is an earnest endorser of this measure, aud will take the first opportunity to carry out the committee's instructions. ? The following is the income per day of the principal sovereigns of Europe: Queen Victoria, 86,300 ; the Emperor of Russia, $25,000; the Emperor of Austria, $10,000; the Emperor of Germany, $8,000; the Sultan, flflA fKa XT ino nP Ttoln ilflA on/] fKlP J tug i^iug \Ji A y vu) *vv/) ?"? "MV King of the Belgians, 81,640. The President of the French Republic enjoys a salary of $500 per day. ? W. W. Johuson, a colored man residing in Madison Parish, La., has recently re ceived a letter from an exodustiug friend in St. Louis, who says that a "black man can make more money in the South in three months, than he can make in St Louis in a year;" and Mr. Johnson, who is a Louisiana Republican, has no hesitation in saying that "the South is the place for the colored people." ? A New York letter says: "The indications multiply that there is to be an immense Irish immigration this coming summer. The steady demand for bills on Ireland, in small amounts, shows that. Money has been sent to bring out a great many families from the famine districts, and according to the testimony of those who are in a position to know, there is scarcely a servant girl that is not contributing more or less in furtherance of that purpose for the beneht of her relatives. There are many withdrawals of saving bank deposits as a result of this. ? An eminent divine from New England, traveling in Texas for his health, impaired l>y arduous clerical duties, upon arriving at ..C .L. i. U .1 _ one ui ine iowiis, went jii st-arcn ui me umber's shop for repairs and improvements. On entering an establishment of the biud, he observed a double-barreled gun leaning against the wall. Having a constitutional awe of fire-arms, he hastily asked the barber if the gun was loaded. A half starved native, who occupied the chair, turned round in his lather-beaten face aud exclaimed : "Stranger! ef you're in an all-fired hurry, you'll find a sixshooter what is loaded in my coat tail pocket." ? The Andersonville graveyard, as described by a recent visitor, is an unfrequented spot, ex- I cept for travelers from the North, among whom are many war veterans who were pris oners in the stockade. There are 13,715 graves, of which about 1,000 are marked "Unknown." There is a surrounding wall of solid brick, and the place is kept neat by a resident superintendent under government pay. Part ol'the stockade is still standing, but nothing remains of -the prison, and the site is covered by bushes. There is no trace of the famous brook, nor any mark of the wells dug by the prisoners. ? A Boston swindler advertised for "a lady or gentleman to address circulars evenings at home," and to the thousands of persons who responded by mail, he sent letters saying he would pay 87 a thousand for addressing envelopes. He added: "There are many who answer advertisements for mere curiosity ; to protect ourselves against such a bore, we are obliged to insist upon a deposit ef $1, which you can claim after the delivery of the first 1,000 circulars." The pay offered was so liberal that the dollars poured into his postoffice box at the rate of 200 a day; but he got none of them, for the postmaster refused to deliver them. ? The widow of a once promiuent tobacconist, of Petersburg, Va., has just received a check for between three and four hundred dollars, under circumstances somewhat remarkable. About forty-five years ago, while her husband was in business, he sold some tobacco to a merchant in Bremen, who subsequently failed and died without settling his indebtedness. A son of that merchant, Mr. H. Lamotte, recently advertised that he would pay all claims against his father's estate, and through Messrs. Bohmer, Osterlott & Co., of Richmond, sent the full amount of his father's indebtedness to the Petersburg merchant. This is an instance of such rare honesty in these latter days that it deserves to be recorded. ? Ex-Senator Christiancy, now minister to Peru, is seeking a divorce from his wife, and, funny as it may seem, his wife is seeking a divorce from him. He says she is too naughty for anything, and she says he is a dreadfully cruel old fellow, with whom no one can get along. The positive facts are, however, that there is a difference of some forty years in the age of this man and his wife. Mr. Christiancy is reasonably well off, and therefore has a wide-awake feeling that he ought to get the divorce instead of allowing his wife to do so?that would be money j in his pocket. Mrs. Christiancy is very | prompt to see this point of the case, and to j deny that she has ever given any cause for j applying for a divorce. We are getting too j mucfi scandal about public characters about j this time, much more than there is any de- j X mand for. ? The project for a memorial celebration at; Yorktown, Virginia, has received a teraporary check through the action of the Readjust- j ers controlling the" Legislature of the State of I Virginia. The House passed a bill providing | for the celebration and the erection of a nion- { ument, and Senator Burnside has reported it1 favorably from the committee on military affairs, but the latter committee, under the im- j preasion that the Stats of Virginia had al- I ready ceded jurisdiction over the proposed arte for the monument, added to the bill a proviso that jurisdiction must first be ceded. Now it turns out that the bill in the Virginia Legislature by which jurisdiction was ceded i was not approved by the Governor, because the Legislature adjourned before ?he bill reached him. The Virginia Senators apd v Congressmen hope to be able to satisfy the Senate military committee on this point, so that the Senate may pass the bill making tire appropriation for the monument and celebration without requiring prior cession of juris- i diction. ? A man out West has invented a device to prevent rnarketmen from palming off old eggs. The invention is thus described : He j proposes to arrange a rubber stamp in the nest of every hen, with a movable date. This stamp is arranged with a pad which is saturated with indellible iuk. When the hen lays an egg, as is well known, she kicks slightly with her hind leg. An electric disck is arranged so that her foot touches it, when the stamp turns over on the ink-pad and then revolves, stamping the date on the eggs. The hen then goes off about her business, the farmer's hired girl removes the egg, replaces the stamp, which is ready for another. On each evening, after the hens have retired to their downy roost with the roosters, the date of the stamp is changed to the following day, and the good work goes on. In this way there can be no cheating. You go to the groj eery and ask for fresh eggs, and the groceryman says he has some egges of the viutage of March 1, 1880, for instance. You look at them, and there are figures, which cannot lie. With this method it is an object for the man to get rid of his eggs, knowing that to morrow may be too late. ffflrfewlle inquirer. YORK VILLE, S.C.: THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 25. 1880 SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. We publish in this issue a communication from Mr. John B. Peck, General Superintendent, in regard to the management of the South Carolina Railroad, and more especially giving the reasons why the Charleston train does not make close connection with the C. C. & A. train at Columbia. While the reasons given by the superintendent are no doubt satisfactory to him and the management of the line, yet the fact is not changed that by its present schedules points north of Columbia are cut off from communication with Charleston. Mr. Peck makes the point that I between Chester and Richmond the time is one hour and ten minutes more than between Chester and Charleston, but he loses sight of the fact that the distance is greater ; and a still more important fact seems to escape his mind, and that is that the mails do not arrive and depart between Chester and Charleston with the same celerity that a passenger can make the trip. A passenger may leave Chester at 1.41 P. M., and arrive at Charleston at 9.30 P. M., the same day ; but if the same passenger wishes to avoid the labor and expense of atrip to Charleston, when his business could as well be transacted by correspondence, he finds that it will require just 24 hours longer thau the time above indicated fnr Jiio letter tn hi<a r>nrrpsnnndf>nt in that city. This does not suit the requirements of business as conducted in the preseut day; and if the South Carolina Railroad Company properly estimates the importance of promoting trade and travel between Charleston and points north of Columbia, the first and most important step to secure that end is to establish close mail connectious between the city and the points named, aud give the public assurance that such arrangements will be permanent. Then the eyes of our people will turn again to their old love, the City by the Sea. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate on the 15th, memorials and petitions from various States of the Union wpre nrpsentpd nravine the abolition of du " w r"~ ?? i j n ties on materials used in the manufacture of paper. Mr. Bayard, from the judiciary committee, reported favorably the Senate bill prohibiting the arrest of election officers on election day. The bill makes it uulawful for marshals, deputies or supervisors to arrest or imprison on election day any election officer acting by virtue of State laws, for any offence against the United States law ; but warrants or processes for such offence may be executed any time after the close of such election day. Placed on the calendar. Mr. Gordon presented a petition from ex-Confederate officers, concerning the preservation of the records of the battle of Gettysburg. Pending debate on the deficiency appropriation bill for the star mail service, the Senate adjourued. In the House, Mr. Singleton, of Illinois, introduced a bill protecting from unreasonable search and seizure copies of telegraphic communications, or from the production of such papers as evidence in legislative and judicial proceedings to the same extent as communications sent by the United States mail. Mr. Acklin, of Louisiana, offered a bill proposing a constitutional amendment declaring that the union of these United States shall be perpetual, and that all acts or attempts to separate or destroy this Union shall be treason against the Federal government, and shall be punished as such. By Mr. Buckner, of Missouri, for an adjournment of Congress on the 24th of May. In the Senate, on the 16th, Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill to fix a day for the meeting of the Electors for President and Vice-President, and to provide for and regulate the counting of the votes for President and VicePresident, and the decision of questions thereon. Mr. Burnside, from the committee on military affairs, reported favorably the House joint-resolution to carry into effect the resolution of Congress, adopted in October, 1781, in regard to the memorial column at Yorktown. Placed on the calendar. The discussion of i the star route deficiency appropriation bill was j then resumed and continued until adjournment. The session of the House was occupied ( mainly in discussing the section of the deficiency appropriation bill making appropria-: tion for pay of special deputy marshals. In the Senate on the 17th, Mr. Bayard, from the committee on judiciary, reported a bill to remove the political disabilities of Roger A Pryor, and asked for its present1 consideration. There being no objection, Mr. ! Hampton, from the committee on military, affairs, reported a bill to complete the survey | of Gettysburg battle-field, and to provide for , the compilation and preservation of data show- ' ing the various positions and movements of troops at that battle. Placed on the calendar. The Btar route deficiency bill was then taken up, and after sundry amendments,! agreed to. An appropriation of 850,000 for ! the immediate needs of the Government printing office was also agreed to. In the House, the deficiency appropriation 1 bill was considered in committee of the whole, The sum of 8320,000 was agreed to for salaries and expenses of agents and of surveyors' fees, ?pd expenses of gaugers and salaries of storekeepers. ,Also, the sum of 825,000 for the expenses of eollectpFS Qf internal revenue.1 Mr. MeMahon, of Ohio, offered ap amendment appropriating $6,655f90Q for tfie pay.-1 ment of pensions to army aud navy psp$jo'p- j ers. Mr. Reagan, of Texas, moved to amend this amendment by somewhat enlarging its scope. Pending discussion, the committee arose and the House adjourned. In the Senate on the 18th, Mr. Kirkwood submitted a resolution instructing the committee on post offices and post-roads to enquire and report what is the power of the Postmaster General under the existing law, as to modifying mail contracts, expediting the time of trips, increasing the number of trips, establishing post-offices, fixing the compensation for services, etc. Adopted. A long debate, without action, ensued on the House bill for the establishment of titles in Hot Springs, Arkansas. In the House, the special deficiency bill was discussed in committee of the whole. Mr. McMahon's amendment, appropriating j $6,655,000 for the payment of army and navy pensioners, was agreed to. An appropriation of $7,600 for pay of special deputy marshals was agreed to, it being provided that hereafter general and special deputy marshals shall he appointed by the Judge of the Dnited States Circuit Court in the district where such officers are to serve ; shall not be more than three nor less than two for each voting precinct; shall be of different poiitical parties, able to read and write, and well known residents of the nolitical precinct where thev perform their I 1 mm duties, aud shall receive two dollars per day as full compensation for their service at any election. On the 19th, the Senate, after an executive session, adjourned until Monday. In the House, the special deficiency appropriation bill was discussed. On the 20th, the House was in session for debate only, on the funding bill. SOUTH CAROMNA NEWS. ? Senator Butler has returned to Washington after a brief visit to Edgefield. ? The tax assessment in Pickens county | this year is 27$ mills. ?In Laurens county complaint is made of rust in the wheat fields. ? In Orangeburg county, the Radicals are organizing with great earnestness for the approaching campaign. So says the Timet. ? The Greenville and Columbia Railroad is advertised to be sold at Columbia, on the 15th day of April, under foreclosure of mortgage. ? The sales of commercial fertilizers throughout the Stale are probably larger than ever before; ? A correspondent of the Columbia Yeoman nominates W. A. Metts as a candidate for Adiutaut and Inspector Geneial. *f A ? The clerk ofjhe court for Darlington county has registered 3,656 liens this season, and the end is not yet. They range in amounts from 85 to 87,000. ? Rev. Ferdinand Jacobs, D. D, president of the Laurensville Female College, has accepted a call to the pastoral charge of the Presbyterian Church, on James Island, near Charleston. ? The Democrats of Columbia have nominated Capt. Richard O'Neale, jr., as candidate for Mayor of that city. Tuesday, 6th of April, is the time appointed for holding the electiou. ? Recently, in Augusta, Georgia, Judge Eve sentenced a citizen of Edgefield county, couvicted in his court of the offence of carrying a concealed deadly weapon, to pay a fine I of one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for ninety days. ? At Branchvillc, on Tuesday night of last week, nine houses, including the post office, were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at about 812,000, part of which is covered by insurance. The fire was evidently the work of an incendiary, as the town was fired simultaneously in two places. ? The Edgefield Advertiser has this to say about the practice of carrying concealed weapons : "The custom of meti going about with one, two and three pistols girt about their waists, or hidden in their pockets, is dirty, coarse and cowardly ; infamous, disgusting and ungentlemanly; defiant of the laws of God, of human life, and of public and private peace." ? The iVetra says that in Fairfield county the recent rains have seriously damaged the wheat and oats crops, and it is feared by some that the crop will be almost a failure. It has caused rust and mildew in it, and much of the wheat is now lying flat upon the ground. It" will require an unusual amoun<j.<**-Vitality in the stalks to enable theortu "recover from the ^fi?ata,of-cuatJiird"'raildew, coming so early in the season. ? The Charlotte Observer of yesterday has the following particulars of the recent tragedy euacted at Gaffney City. Henry Littlejohn and Henry Sarratt, cousins, were drinking. A difficulty was begun without any apparent cause. Littlejohn stabbed Sarratt in the head, the knife penetrating two and a half inches into the skull. Sarratt has not spoken since the affray, and there is little hope of his recovery. Littlejohn has been arrested and is now in jail. The difficulty occurred a day after the election in the town on the question of whether or not the sale of liquors should be licensed, the election resulting in favor of the dry ticket. ? The Winnsboro Herald of last week says: "One day last week, Mr. John Patrick, of White Oak, was having some blasting done in his well, which was of a depth of sixty feet. On descending the well after one of the blasts had been discharged, it was found that an iron wedge had been blown out of the solid rock in which it had been embedded. It was picked out from the debris and fragments of rock lying in the bottom of the well, and is now in the possession of Mr. Patrick, still having portions of the rock adhering to it. How it came to be in the rock at a depth of sixty feet, we will not pretend to say; but there are witnesses of unimpeachable veracity who will testify to the truth of the fact. The wedge is valuable as a work of art, that evinces the skill of the primeval blacksmiths of this country, and as a relic of a high state of civilization that has been swept away. Mr. Patrick thinks of sending the wedge to the Smithsonian Institute. ? The Beaufort News says: "On Tuesday last, a public meeting was called at Grey Hill, which was numerously attended. Speeches were made by Barafield, Smalls, Whipper, Deas, Robinson and Thomas. Bamfield reviewed national politics and endorsed Grant as the next Republican nominee for the Presidency. He said that if Grant received the i nomination, biselectioD, with a square count, would be a certainty, and if elected, no power in the world could keep him from taking the presidential chair. Grant was a true repre- j gentative of the Republican element in this j country, and while he was President had shown more foresight- and forethought than j any of the great njen who had prepeded him ; in the Presidency, fje hoped be would bp : nominated at Chicago and would be elected,! Ex-Congressman Smalls followed, and while j he endorsed everything said by the previous speaker, he mentioned the names of Sherman and Blaine as candidates of prominence, and as a Republican he should stand by the nnm^ee of tl/e convention, whoever he might bp."' I t > 4 NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Mecklenburg Presbytery was in session last week at Dallas. ? The Shelby Aurora reports the wheat crop to be looking well in all portions of Chveland county. ? A little boy in Brunswick county was bitten by a black spider, and died within twenty-four hours afterwards. ? Wilmington and Wadesboro, distant from each other 136 miles, are connected by telephone. ? Over 82,000,000 have been paid for tobacco in the Winston market since the first of January. ? About 1,600 bales of cotton are stored in different warehouses in Charlotte. Three hundred bales belong to planters and the rest to the cotton buyers. ? Two young white men, Arthur Mendenhall and Wm. M. Albertson, have been arrested for firing into aud throwing rocks at trains on the N. C. Railroad near High Point and Thomasville. The evidence against them is complete, and they have been put in jail at Greensboro. POLITICAL* NEWS. ? Jay Gould recently told a correspondent of the Galvestion News that three out of every five of the Republican politicians nnmilialinn nf RlninP Hp fiirth. er said that the Democrats could elect the next President if they would do one thing? nominate Justice Field. ? The New York Tribune publishes interviews with a number of Tammany leaders in regard to the attempted reunion at the rival Democratic factions in that State. Mj. John Kelly said : "Under no circumstances will Tammany Hall consent to support Mr. Tilden as the nominee for the Presidency. And Tammany Hall has the sympathy and support of many Democrats throughout the State in its opposition to Mr. Tilden. Tammany Hall will send a deligetion to Cincinnati opposed to Mr. Tilden." Gen. Spinola said: "The feeling against Mr. Tilden is very bitter throughout the State, and if he is nominated at Cincinnati the rival Demo cratic candidates in this State will receive a greater vote than Mr. Kelly when he ran against Governor Robinson. Should, however, some candidates than Mr. Tilden receive the nomination, there is no power that can prevent a union of all the Democratic elements on the nominee." E. D. Gale, Col. John H. Mooney, and other Tammany leaders indorsed these sentiments. MERE-MENTION. The acreage of wheat in Kansas is reported as twenty per cent, greater than last year; and the condition as fifty per cent, better. It is estimated that the yield will exceed that of last year thirty millions' of bushels. The completion of the East Florida Railway has reduced the time of * l 1 . XT \7. _L J T . :il~ travel Deiweeu new iur& anu uncuooiivuie, to forty hours. The New Testament, complete with maps and illustrations, is now offered by a London publisher for a penny. He says that he gets his profit even at this astonishingly low price The State of Kentucky paid $10,000 bounty for fox scalps last year. The Chinese Government has determined to establish consulates in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York, for the better protection of its subjects. The New York Herald Irish relief fund now aggregates $308,137. "There has been no issue of silver five cent and copper two cent pieces since 1872.,"^r""""The trial of the Virginia Judges indicted in the United States Court for the Western District of Virginia, Judge Rives presiding, for refusing to put negroes on the juries in violation of the United States law, was commenced at Lynchburg on Saturday last. The first case called wasthat of Judge Hill, of Buchingham, who was acquitted. The other cases will come up this week. Bald headed persons are recommended, by one who knows how it is himself, to have a spider painted on the top of their heads as a preparation for the fast approaching fly time. A pair of side lace kid shoes have recently been made at Indianapolis; I Indiana, fur a woman residing in that vicinity, whoj^23^ears old, weighs 547 pounds, rnutfTs seven feet and two inches in height. The shoes are number fifteen, just one foot in length, and between four and five inches in width. Said a parent to his little son, who had committed some indiscretion : "Do you know that I am going to whip you ?" "Yes," said the boy, "I suppose you are, because you are bigger than I am." The best excuse for suicide we ever heard was of the fellow who said he wanted to get into the next world before all the soft places were taken up. A Millionaire Advertiser.?Brandreth, the famous pill man who died at Sing Sing a few days ago, left his children?seven daughters and six sons?pretty well off. His will gives the daughters the Brandreth House property on Broadway, which is valued at 8400,000, and all the remainder of the estate goes to his sons, who are to pay his widow 12,000 a year out of it. When Brandreth started his business he had hardly money enough to pay daily expenses,.but he believed strongly in advertising, went into it as largely as be could, and finally became a millionaire by virtue of it. The regular doctors fought him a long time, but found at last that they could not fight him down, and then they gave it up. His pills went all over the world, and the money came rollthg in upon him so fast that he could hardly use it all, and it still pours in the same way. At the beginning he had no expectation of making more than a good living, but the sale of the pills kept rising year by year, and he grew rich as fast as a few lucky men have done in Wall street. He built a splendid country home at Sing Sing, spent money freely iu the village, and became so popular that when his funeral took place a few days ago almost every resident was in the procession that followed the hearse. Some very rich men go to their graves without regret among the poor, but it was not so with Brandreth. He had been a good friend to the poor, and of all the people in and around Sing Sing, and when he died they all felt that they had lost a benefactor. Finding Out if they Loved Him.? The Morganton (N. C.) Blade tells the following strange story: "Not long since an aged citizen of Burke county, possessed by a spirit of deviltry and curiosity, went out near his house and cut down a large white pine tree, and just as it fell he screamed a few times at the top of his voice, which alarmed his family and neighbors, who in ten minutes' time had assembled at the tree. In the meantime the old stager concealed himself near by and watched the proceedings, and after the tree had been trimmed up for the purpose of finding the dead body, the old fellow walked up and remarked that he found out by the operation that his wife, family and neighbors cared something for him, and he had made a half day's work by getting the tree trimmed op besides, He then thanked j the neighbors for their attendance, wjth their ! pain-killer, camphor, Ac," The storv is a true I one, but had rather a different ending from j what might be expected in, perhaps, many : cases. There are a number of families who would wait a reasonable length of time before trimming up trees or looking about much any way for the old man. LOCAL AFFAIRS. | NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. S. L. Miller A Co.?Rags Wanted. J. J. Smith <fe Co.?Spring?Dress Goods?Sundries?Shoes?Pants?Hats?Clothing. Dobson A Parish?To the Shoe Makers?Cheap Tobacco?G roceries?Seed Potatoes. T. M. Dobson?A New Name. Mrs. Fannie L. Dobson?Grand Opening on the 30th. Withers Adickes?Molasses?Honey Wanted? Soap?Wanted. M. Strauss?Good News. R. G. Whitesides, Executor?Application for Discharge. J. R. Gardner?425 Pounds of Cotton for a Ton of Guano. Dr. John May, Agent?The Corner Drugstore. I. D. Witherspoon, County Chairman?The Democratic Party. Dr. James A. Glenn?Dental Notice. BETHEL PRESBYTERY. This body will hold its next meeting at Beersheba Church, seven miles north-west of Yorkville, on the 1st of April. GONE NORTH. Mr. H. F. Adickes, Jr., started to the northern markets yesterday, to make his purchases of spring goods. personal mention. Representative Deal was in Yorkville on Tuesday. The following visiting lawyers are in attendance upon Court: Messrs. J. C. Witherspoon, J. P. Gage and \V. B. Wilson, Jr., Rock Hill; J. Hemphill, Chester. sketch of king's mountain. We have just issued, in pamphlet 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. recent'deaths. Miss Lucre'tia Whitaker aged 85 years, died at the residence of T. M. Whitaker, in this place, on Wednesday of last week. Master A. Flynn Dickson, son of the late Rev. H. R. Dickson, died at the residence of his grandmother, Mrs. McPheeters, on Friday morning last, iu the 12th year of his age. Prof W. w! duncan. On Sunday last Prof. Duncan, of Woffbrd College, occupied the pulpit of the M. E. Church in this place, conducting both morning and evening service. His morning discourse was from the 9th and 10th verses of the 19th Psalm, and in the evening he preached from John 11:3 the coming campaign. Hon. I. D. Witherspoon, chairman of the York County Democratic Executive Committee, gives notice in another column for a meeting of the Committee in Yorkville, on Monday, the 5th of April next, for the purpose of inaugurating the approaching campaign. THE CENTENNIAL. On Saturday lust, Governor Jarvls of North Carolina, sent a message to the House of Representatives of the General Assembly relative to the Centennial celebration of the battle of King's Mountain, and asking an appropriation of $2,000 to defray the expense thereof. The message was sent to the Senate with a proposition to print. DIME READINGS. A Dime Reading Society has recently been organized by several ladies and gentlemen, the object being to raise funds for the purpose of increasing the library of the Presbyterian Sunday-school. The next meeting of the Society will be at the residence of Dr. J. F. Lindsay on Friday (to morrow) evening. Judge Mackey has been invited to read before the Society on this occasion, and has consented to do so. THE CENSUS SUPERVISOR. Col. C. J. Pride, Census Supervisor for this district, is in town this week. He informs us that applications for appointment as numerators reach him at the rate of 150 per week. As yet he has made no appointments, but intends t:> make them at as early a date as practicable. He desires to make them in sufficient time for each enumerator to become thoroughly conversant with his duties before commencing work. To this end full printed instructions will be furnished each"enumerator. STOCK LAW*TEST CA8E. We learn that a few persons in King's Mountain township are dissatisfied with the result of the recent vote in that township on the fence law question, and having up to this time disregarded the law by refusing or neglecting to fence their stock, have laid themselves liable to prosecution. Rev. James H. Douglass, one of the opponents of the law, has suffered his stock to trespass upon the crop of a neighbor, and the matter, which will be a test case for all cases of a similar nature occurring in that township, will be heard before a trial justice in Yorkville one day this week. THE WEATHER. The long wet spell has been succeeded by beautiful spring-like weather, and vegetation of all kinds is taking a rapid start of growth. The nights have been sufficiently cool for alight frosts, but as yet we have heard of do damage to fruit or vegetation. Wheat and I oats continue to look promising, and seem only to have been improved by the incursions i i .1 i* ij. or tbe "hopper," wnich cut aown many ntiua even with the surface of the ground. If the insect left no eggs to produce another pest before maturity of the crop, the wheat will have sustained from that source no damage at all. CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows : Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Thos. Gilbert, Pastor. Services at Philadelphia Church in the forenoon, and in the church at Yorkville, at 7 P. M. Suuday-School at 3 P. M. Church of the Good Shepherd?Episcopal? Rev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. Services during Passion week on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 11 o'clock, A. M., and on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. On Sunday Easter sermons at the usual hours, morning and afternoon. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. The pastor will 611 his regular appointment at Tirzah next Sunday. Presbyterian?Services at 7 P. M., by Rev. J. Lowrie Wilson. our premiums to subscribers. To make good our promise to distribute premiums among subscribers, we are already procuring the articles for distribution, in order to have them ready for prompt delivery. We have just received direct from England, through Messrs. Hart & Co., hardware ira- J porters of Charleston, the pocket-knives in- , eluded in the list of premiums. These knives were made to our own order, by the celebrated cutler, Wm. Thomas Staniforth, Sheffield, 1 England, and besides bearing his own stamp, a blade of each knife is stamped with the name of the Yorkville Enquirer. The ( cutlery is of the very best grade, the knives j being of a quality that retail in the stores for . $1.50 each. ] Ab will be remembered, the drawing is an- ; nounced to take place on the 6rst Saturday ( of October next. All paid up subscriptions j for one year entered upon our books between ( this time and the above date, will have a j chance in the drawing, the same as names t that have been previously entered. j STOLEN HONEY RECOVERED. After the trial of Milus Borders, last Tuesday afternoon, for the larceny of money from the store of Withers Adickes, committed about Christmas, on beiug remanded to prison, while on the way to the jail, he confessed to having stolen the money for which he was convicted, and said he could go to the place where the specie was concealed. Permission was obtained from the Court for the prisoner to accompany the sheriff and Mr. Adickes to the designated spot?a vacant lot on a back street?and after ploughing around in different directions for about fifteen minutes, the box, which was buried a foot under the ground, was turned up to the surface. It contained $187.75 in silver coin, and was the same box in which Mr. Adickes put the money on the night it was stolen. TRIAL JUSTICES' CONSTABLES. v/ii iMuiiuay auuunwi uadluu ^avo iaj who grand jury a bill of indictment, charging the accused with assault and battery and resisting an officer. Before retiring to their room, Judge Mackey instructed the grand jury that their duty first would be to inquire whether or not the accused knew the person to be an officer at the time the resistance w*smade; and secondly, they should inquire whether or not the officer resisted was a bonded officer. The instructions of the Giurt were that if the officer was not under bond for the faithful performance of his duty, a true bill could not be returned against the accused on the count charging him with resisting an officer. In other words, a special constable, appointed by a trial justice merely for the time being, no bond being given for the faithful discharge of his duty, does not constitute a lawful officer within the meaning of the constitution. The grand jury afterwards returned on the back of the indictment "no bill." circuit'court. The Circuit Conrt for York county, his Honor Judge T. J. Mackey presiding, was convened promptly at 10 o'clock A. M. last Monday. The roll of graud jurors waacalled, and the following answered to their names: \V. M. Steele, E. L. Garrison, R. J. Latta, H. H. Harshaw, W. R. Hayes, J. M. Adams, Sen., A. A. Barron, W. T. Alderson, B. G. Brown, J. C. Moore, John M. Gilfillin, Washington Hagiu9, Leroy N. Culp, George Black, J. W. Y. Dickson, Daniel Hetberiugton, J. M. Hambiight.?17. Mr. R. J. Latta was appointed foreman of the grand jury, aud Messrs. W. M. Steele and W. R. Hayes, on their own application, and for sufficient cause, were excused by the Court from serving ou the jury. After the jury was impaneled, his Honor proceeded to charge them as to their duties.' The charge was brief, but comprehensive? first as to their duty in acting upon bills properly brought before them by the Solicitor; second?to examine into and report upon the administration of the public officers of the county; third?to report upon the condition of the public roads of the county, and whether or not the duties of highway surveyors have been properly discharged ; also, whether or not a proper system has been adopted in worKing tne roaas; rourtn?to examine me condition of the county jail, ascertain whether or not the prisoners are kindly cared for and provided with plenty of food and comfortable bed clothing, and whether or not any discrimination is made betweeu them on account of race or color; fifth?to investigate the management of the poor department of the county, as to whether the house for the poor is humanely and economically managed ; sixth?to report upon the administration of the office of the trial justices in the county. At the conclusion of the charge, Mr. So licitor Gaston gave out some indictments and the grand jury retired to their room. The following petit jurors answered to their names: Q. J. Hoke, George Gunning, Levi Hardin, Washington Jackson, W. B. Watts, J. T. Nivins, W. N. Elder, J. R. Smith, T. A. Givens, J. M. Adams, Jr., (Bethel Township) W. H. Crook, S. M. Fewel, W. M. Porbis, S. A. Crawford, A. C. 8troup, W. J. Miller, | J. M. Love, J. A. N. Glenn, Wra. Floyd, J. D. Gwin, J. R. Stephenson, 8. J. Hutchison, J. M. Lindsay, John Z. Allen, J. L. Pursley, Mitchel Meek, W. BL Mitchel, W. E. Campbell, Isaac Parr, Daniel Dover, Wm. Burris, J. L. Martin.?32. W. N. Elder was appointed foreman of Jury No. 1, and J. M. Lindsay foreman of Jury JNo. "L. Messrs. W. J. Miller, S. J. Hutchisou, and John Z. Allen, on their own application, and for sufficient cause, were excused by the Court from serving as jurors. - The sessions docket was then taken up and the first case called was that of the State vs. Allen Waters and Clarissa Archer, colored, charged with larceny of cotton from the field. Prosecutor, Henry McClellehan, colored. Mr. Solicitor Gaston, for the State; T. J. Bell, Esq., for defence. Quite a number of witnesses were examined, and the case was then submitted without argument. Verdict, not guilty. The following cases were also disposed of on Monday: State vs. Milas White, colored; robbery. Prosecutor, Willis Kennedy. Mr. Solicitor Gaston for the State; Messrs. J. C. Witherspoon and J. P. Gage for the defence. Verdict, not guilty. State vs. George Reid, white ; malicious mischief. Prosecutor, Robert Tennant. Verdict, guilty, but recommended to the mercy of the Court. State vs. Sally Brooks, colored; obstructing railroad. Prosecutor, James Mason. Mr. Solicitor Gaston for the State; W. B. McCaw, Esq., for defence. Verdict, not guilty. On Tuesday the following cases were tried: State vs. Milas Borders, colored ; larceny. Prosecutor, Withers Adickes. Verdict, guilty, but recommended to the mercy of the 1 Court. State vs. Solomon Wylie, colored; burgla- 1 ry. Prosecutor Madison Bratton. Pleaded 1 nnilfv ' gUIIIJ. State vs. Horace E. Johnson, Samuel N. : Johnson, John Johnson and Robert Camp. > Riot. Prosecutor, Mary A. Briant. Mr. So- < licitor Gaston for the State; Mr. Bell for de- i fence. Nolpros as to John Johnson. Ver- 1 diet as to the others, not guilty. < State vs. Coke Duncan, colored; assault < and battery with intent to kill. Prosecutor, I Laban Allen. Verdict, guilty of assault aad battery. 1 ?? c Who Can be Elected.?The Presiden- 1 tial campaign seems already to have reduced 1 itself to a few easy and simple proportions. { Sherman is the only man that can carry t Ohio; Hendricks is the only man that can r carry Indiana; Horatio Sevmour the only man i that can carry New York; Tilden the only i man that can carry Kentucky; Grant is the t only man that can carry Illinois; Blaine is ? the only man that can carry Pennsylvania; r Bayard is the only man that can carry Dela- <) ware; Thurmau is the only man that can f carry West Virginia; ex-Governor English I is the only man that can carry Connecticut; c McClollan, Randolph and Parker are the ( only men that can carry New Jersey ; Judge a Settle is the only man that can carry North ? Carolina ; Judge Field is the only man that n can carry California, and General Ben But- t ler is the only man that can't carry Massa- h chusetts. Any one giving the situation as t ihus presented a moment's attention, can easily <5 see who will be elected President.?Philadd- 1 ohia Times. J Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester S. C., March 23.?Since my last report of Court proceedings, the following cases were disposed of on the common pleas docket: H. C. Rothrock vs. A. L. Buchanan. Suit for crop of wheat before the land was sold to defendant. Verdict for defendant. OttoHuglevs. Oscar Massey. Claim for damages by the loss of an eye from a pistol shot from the defendant, claimed to have been accidental Verdict in favor of defendant. New trial granted. L. R. Wilks vs. Amzi Triplett. Damages for enticing away a laborer. Nonsuit. A. H. Davega vs. the Town of Chester. Damage of plaintiff's property by the removal of earth from the lot of plaintiff for the purpose of repairing the streets. Damages claimed $1,000. Verdict for $1: 0. D. Macauley ACo. vs. C. C. A A. Railroad. Suit for recovery of damage sustaiued by loss of 14 bales of cotton. Verdict in favor of plaintiff for $607. C. M. Brown vs. John Walker, sheriff. Claim for damages by sale of personal prop erty set aside as homestead. Verdict of $100 forplaiotifF. The jurors were then dismissed,, and after sundry orders were taken, Court adjourned about noon on 8aturday. The County Democratic Executive Committee will hold a meeting in this place on the first Monday of April. A union meeting of all our church congregations was held in the Presbyterian Church . last Sunday night, in the interest of the 1 American Bible Society. The pulpit was oc- < copied by all the local ministers, and an able 9 discourse on the Bible was delivered by Rev. ^ A. H. Lester, pastor of the M. E. Church. After the delivery of the discourse, a collection was taken up in the interest of the gospel. Prof. Phnrazyn, the wizard, gave two performances in Coleman's Hall l^st week. He is a magician and ventriloquist of wonder- , ful skill. On yesterday I examined some Indian relics, taken from a mound by Dr. Wm. McCallum, of Broad river. They consisted of human bones, portions of a dog's jawbone, a number of small shells, an arrow head, a pipe and a silver ornament, which may have beeu a talisman to waft the departed spirit to the "happy hunting grounds." The curiosities were left at J. J. Stringfellow's drug store. 8enator M. C. Butler passed through Chester last Sunday on his return to Washington. The sales of cotton last week were light The best grades brought 12. The weather is fine now, and crops are looking well. Chester. For tb? Yorkrllle Enquirer. THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. what superintendent peck has to say of its management. Charleston, March 15, 1880.?An ex tract from the Enquirer, published in the New and Courier of this morning, requires a word of explanation on my part, inasmuch as the report of the interview upon which your editorial was based, was moulded to suit the peculiar ideas of the reporter. In reply to the question of the reporter as to whether the South Carolina Railroad intended to make a connection with the train of the C. C. & A. Road leaving Columbia at 10.55 A. M., I replied that there was at present no such intention ; that to do so, would require the morning train to leave at 5.45 A. M., instead of 7 A. M.; that the travel to the line of the C. C. & A. Railroad would form but a very small part of the total travel by that train, and that such a change would put to serious inconvenience a large portion of the public without materially benefitting the other. I explained to the reporter that the train leaving Charleston at 9 P. M., and arriving at Columbia at 6.50 next morning, to which was attached comfortable sleepers, allowed the visitor to Charleston to transact an entire day's business and to arrive at his home on the C. C. & A. Railroad at the same time as though he left at 5.45 the next morning; that this train carried the mails, and hence all the additional accommodation this change would give, would be to the letters mailed after 8 P. M., and to the Nexct and Courier. That in view of these facts, I did not consider it would be just to the people living on the line of the Greenville and Columbia and the Spartan* burg and Union Railroads, to put them to the inconvenience of leaving at 5.45 A. M., for the sake of. getting the News and CouriauHL. _ to the line of that roadljoiTday^arfierT I admitted, of course, that it was desirable to do this, and stated to him that whenever the C. C. & A. Road would adopt the same rate of 8peed as was made by the trains of the South Carolina Railroad, it would be practicable to leave Charleston at 6 30 A. M., and make the desired connection, and that such connection would be cheerfully made. I beg leave to say that yon are in error in the statement that Atlanta, Richmond and Baltimore can be reached in shorter time than Charleston. You can leave Chester at 1.41 P. M., and arrive at Charleston at 9.30 P. M. the same day. You leave Chester at 1.56 P. M., and arrive at Richmond at 6.30 next morning. Returning yon leave Charleston at 9 P. M., and arrive at Chester at 1.56 P. M.; or leave Richmond at 10.35 P. M., and arrive at Chester at 1.41 P. M. Your absence from home in one case is 48 hours and 15 minutes; in the other, 47 hours and 45 minutes. You will be abeent one day more than this if you go to Baltimore or Atlanta and have a full day at either place in which to transact business. No change which the South Carolina Railroad could make would allow you to be absent from home any less time than by the present arrangement. You could only save one night's travel; and if you go to Richmond, Atlanta or Baltimore you must travel two nights in- ' stead of one. The refusal to make the connection desired by the News and Courier, does not, therefore, arise from any desire on the part of the management of the South Carolina Railroad to force the mountain to come to Mahomet, but from the conviction that Mahomet is already as near to the mountain as it is practicable for him to get I desire also to say, that in arranging its schedules, the convenience of its patrons and not what you please to call the convenience of the South Carolina Railroad, is considered. Nor am I aware that it would be any more convenient to the South Carolina Railroad to leave Charleston at 7 A. M., than at 5.45 A. M. But where, as is often the ease, all cannot be fully accommodated on account of conflicting desires, then the convenience of the greater number is proviled for. So far as I know, this is the principle which "controls the movements of longer and equally important lines." The management of the South Carolina Railroad do not underestimate the importance >f promoting trade and travel beteen Chareston and points north of Columbia. It ias done and is doing all in its power to lo this. But it cannot ignore nor change he fact that the interests which control the nanagement of the C. C. <fc A. Railroad lie n diverting trade and travel in another diection, ana that whatever is accomplished in his direction, must be done solely by the South Carolina Railroad, without the coope? :< ?? c n auuu, li uub a^aiuov iuo iuuucuv/O vi biiu v. v? fc A. Railroad. I mention this, not to com* tlain of the management of the C. C. A A. iUilroad, but to show you that it has been ither causes than the policy of the South Carolina Railroad, which has diverted trade ind travel from the metropolis of the State. Jo far from the policy of the present manageuent having done this, our records show that he business of the South Carolina Railroad las been increased during the last yet*, over % hat of former years, from point* on the C. C. it A. Road. Yours respec tit??? : S *=-!. j' John b. Pbok, Gen. Sopt. 8. C. Railroad,