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Straps auft darts. I: ? Three million acres of fall wheat have ] been sown in California. !' ? Artemu9 Ward once commenced a lec- J ture by saying: "Ladies and gentlemen, I j possess a gigantic intellect, but I haven't it j 1 with me." ? An examination of the calendar of Congress shows that tl?re are one thousand and j nineteen bills reported favorably from com- | inittees and awaiting action, and there are at least one hundred more in the hands of com- j mWtooQ rooitir tn ronnrf ? A lady in Baltimore, beguiled by Congressman Aiken's oleomargarine letter, bought some of the stuff fq? home consumption. She says none of tho family would or could eat it, and it was seut to the kitchen at a hazardous venture. ? The Chicago Times is reported to have made a contract with a Montreal firm for a thousand tons of printing paper, finding it cheaper to pay the freight and duties than to submit to the prices charged in the American market. ? A suit which is pending in the United States Court at Chicago, has brought out the astounding fact that oleomargarine, which is never quoted in the market and which is not kept bv any merchant as such, has a sale in this country of 98,000,000 pounds per annum. ? There has not been a death in the old family ^>f J. W. Mize, Sheriff of Sumter county, Ga., in 63 years, and he has 5 uncles and 3 aunts whose united ages are 630 years. His uncles, his cousins, and his aunts number, all*told, 156 that live in Sumter county. ? Hart, the negro who won the last great walking match, making the best time on record, is but little over twenty-one years of TT _ . I _ _ 1 11 .. age. lie is neiiner large nor smaii, urn nur short, and his hips and legs are only of moderate size; but his style of walking is almost perfect, and his roomy chest is always held well out. He is a lawyer by profession. ? The State of Delaware is about to be placed under the ban" for her failure to make provision for the education of her negro population. The only law on the subject is one which taxes the negroes themselves to support their own schools. This tax raises but a nominal sum, and hence the colored man and brother goes without an education. ? The famous Island No. 10 in the Mississippi River, which was three miles long, and which, during the war, contained two or three fertile plantations, and on which the Confederates erected earthworks to obstruct the passage of the Federal gunboats, has been entirely swept away by the river, and the present island is only a sandbank, overgrown with ootton wood and willows. ? The centennial anniversary of the battle of Yorktown, to occur next year, is attracting interest among the French at home, as well as in this country. A crack regiment of French troops will probably be sent from France to participate in the celebratiou and to recall the memories of the active and valuable assistance rendered to the American cause in the siege of Yorktown, by the French navy under Count de Grasse. ? There are said to be 10,131 newspapers in America, with a daily circulation of 3, 540,156; weekly and semi-weekly, 13,511,424; monthly, 3,625,958. The total issues for a year are 1,836,473,592 copies, which would make a pile of newspapers 87 miles high. Placing them, touching each other, in a line, they will reach 1,188,374 miles, being 47 time^around the earth and five times the distance from the earth to the moon. To .priut one issue it is estimated that 2,998,778,000 types are used, requiring the handling of 2,173,499,849.696,000 types. ? Speaking of the National Volunteer Militia bill now pending in Congress, Mr. Scales, of North Carolina, of the House committee having the bill in charge, informed a correspondent that the bill provides that the officers shall be appointed by the Governor and report to him, but of course when they are called out to repel invasion, &t\, they will have to conform to the army regulations of the United States. The bill was reported rather as the basis for some action by Congress than because it embodied the views of the members of the committee. The committee, however, agree that something should be done, and that very speedily. ? Forest fires have been raging in the vicinity of Petersburg for more than a week, and at latest advices were uncoutrolable. Barns and stables in large numbers have been destroyed, and in many instances farmers have lost'ful their crops. Horses, farming implements and a number of cabins have been burned, the occupants barely escaping with their lives. The destruction of cord-w(jod and timber is immense. In Prince George county the fire has been very destructive, invading orchards and destroying hundreds of fruit trees. It is feared that unless a heavy and early rain occurs, the fire will destroy the railroad bridges and telegraph poles, thereby impeding travel and cutting off telegraphic communication. ? The Whitaker investigation at West Point continues, but nothing satisfactory has been developed. Commander Lazalle, of the Corps of Cadets, a few days ago, testified before the Court of inquiry that he had made as thorough an investigation as possible of the alleged outrage on Whitaker when it was first , reported, but was not able to ascertain who j were the perpetrators. He was of opinion | that Whitaker mutilated himself. He thought! that Whitaker's handwriting resembled that of the so-called note of warniug, and that Whitaker could have freed himself from his bonds if he had tried before he was found. He said that if there were reasons why others should have committed the outrage to drive Whitaker away, there were equally j strong reasons why he should have done it himself to stay, as witness understood that he j was steadily falling back in his studies. ? The New York Tribune makes the following comparison of the amounts received bv prominent ministers and actors: Beecher gets 820,000; Edwin Booth, 8100,000 a year. | Dr. Hall of Fifth avenue, and Dr. Dix, of i Trinity, get S15.000; while E. A. Sothron j earns over 815,000 as Lord Dundreary, and I John G. Owen plays thirty weeks annually j for 890,000. Talinage preaches for 812,000, i and Joe Jefferson plays forty weeks as Rip i Van Winkle and earns 8120,000. The schol- i nrly and gifted Dr. Storre has 810,000 salary, I and Maggie Mitchell earns 830,000 to S50,-; 000. Dr. Cuyler works hard and faithfully : for 88,000 a year, and Dr. Hepworth for ; 85,000, while Dion Boucicault has just finish-1 ed a season as the "Shaughraun," etc., at 83,- j 000 a week, and his managers scold him in the public prints because he would not play longer at the same price. Dr. Potter, of Grace Church, has 810,000 and a parsonage; . the eloquent Dr. Tiffany has 810,000; the once vigorous, and now venerable Dr. Chapin, j gets 810,000, while pretty Miss Neilson makes over 8150,000 a year, and Fannie Davenport AO Sk1 nnn o tlFflolr Al'OPW ironLr cKo nlflVQ coins v a ,vvy v a t-t ttrv v? vi j iiuva ouv -. ?In 1853 four gentlemen entered their sons at a boarding school at Cokesbury, S. C. They had been for years intimate friends and clergymen in the Methodist Church. These boys remained at this school, room-mates and class-mates, for two years, and entered Wofford College, standing relatively first, second, third and fourth in a large class. They remained at this institution four years, were room-mates all the time, graduating relatively first, second, third and fourth. They then i entered a law office in Spartanburg, and studied under the same chancellor. The war broke out, and at the call for troops they all <entered Jenkins' Rifle Regiment from?outh Carolina, and were messmates io the same company. Being near the same height they stood together as comrades in battle in this regiment. At the second battle of Manassas, August, 1862, just as the fight was over, and these yoimg men had gathered about a spring to refresh themselves, a shell .from the enemy's battery, the last shot fired, exploded in the midst of them, and killed the four on the spot. They are buried on the battle field, and sleep together in the same grave. Their names were Capers, McSwain,! Smith and Duncan, and they were the sons j of Bishop Capers, Rev. Drs. McSwain and Smith, of South Carolina, and Rev. Mr. Dun- { can, of Randolph Macon College. The grave is marked by a granite cross and enclosed with an iron railing. o YORK VI LL^. S. C : ~ THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 22.1880. How to Orderthe Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, county and Str.te, in full, and "send the amount of the subscription by draft or post office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirer is delivered free ol postage to all subscribers residing in York countv, who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Fi gures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the dale must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate on the 13th, the following bills were reported and placed on the calendar: To provide for the appointment of a commission to investigate the question of a tariff. To refund to certain citizens of Lynchburg, Va., taxes improperly collected on manufactured tobacco. Mr. Conkling presented proceedings and resolutions of the Republican Association of the seventeenth Assembly District of New York City, calling attention to the dangerous condition of the law relating to the c unting of the electoral vote, and asking that Congress take action thereon before the expiration of the present session. Referred to a select committee on the subject. Iu the House, the army appropriation bill, with a proviso that no troops are to be used at the polls for police purposes, was passed by a party vote. The conference report on the census bill was reported and agreed to. The Indian appropriation hill, and a bill amending the internal revenue laws, were reported and referred to committee of the whole. In the Senate on the 3 4tli, a number of bills and resolutions were introduced and referred, among them a bill by Mr. Maxey for the relief of certain officers and privates of the Uuited States array ; and a resolution by Mr. Voorhees, instructing the committee on pensions to report a bill authorizing pensions to surviving soldiers and saifora of the Mexican war. By Mr. Wallace, a bill requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase and extinguish all outstanding six per cent. United States bonds to the amount of not less than five million dollars per week. The Geneva award bill was considered, without action,after which the diplomatic appropri ation bill was taken up and passed. In the House, Mr. Hutchins, of New York, introduced a bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy. The Indian appropriation bill was considered, and also a bill pro viding a permanent construction fund for the navy. In the Senate on the 15th, the Geneva award bill was discussed, without action. in tne Mouse a um providing a conairuution fund for the navy was passed, and also a bill to equip an expedition to the Arctic seas. In the Senate on the 16th, the Geneva award bill was taken up, and after discussion by several members the Seuate went into executive session, and when the doors were re-opened adjourned until Monday. In the House, the Seoate bill removing the political disabilities of Rodger A. Pryor, was passed. ^Jso, a bill authorizing the Secretary of War to turn over certain condemned caution to the Governor of South Carolina. In the House on the 17th, the Indian appropriation bill was considered in committee of the whole, and after the adoption of a number of amendments the bill was passed. In the Seuate on the 19th, the committee on the judiciary reported a bill to provide that whenever circuit and district courts of the United States are held at the same time and place, there shall be but one grand and petit jury summoned to attend said courts at one and the same time. It provides that juries summoned for one court may serve in the other, but either court may summon several panels if necessary. The bill was read a third time and passed. The army appropriation bill wa3 reported and placed 011 the calendar. A joint resolution to consider and report what legislation is needed for the better regulation of commerce between the States, and the Geneva award bill, were discussed until the hour of adjournment. In the House, under a call of States, a number of bills were introduced, among them one by Cuthbertson, of Texas, to discontinue the national banking system. A motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill pensioning soldiers and sailors of the Mexican and other wars, was lost?yeas, 119; nays, 90?not the necessary two-thirds. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A company has been formed in Barnwell for the building of a street railway. ? In Edgefield county there are eight can- i didates for the office of sheriff. ? Mr. George W. Olney, for sixty years an ; ? 1 1 fy\ | ttciive meiTiiuu j in \jiiai xusivu, uicvt in iiiai city on Thursday last, aged ninety-one years. ? The jail of Laurens county is empty, in speakiug of which the Herald remarks: "If whisky and pistols were abolished, the county ! commissioners might take down and remove | the jail as a useless luxury." ? Mr. N. B. Barnwell, the Master in Equity for Richland county, is entitled to commissions amounting to about ?30,000 on the recent sale of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad. ? The Abbeville Medium nominates Gen.: W. A. Walker, of Chester, as a candidate for lieutenant-governor, instead of Col. Rob- j ert Aldrich, who declines to offer for any State nomination. ? At the municipal election in Sumter last week, a Republican Mayor and five Democratic wardens were elected. The Republican mayor was elected in consequence of a split in the Democratic ranks. ? Judge Wallace has written a letter to the Anderson Intelligencer, in which he positively declines to allow his name to be presented to the State Convention as a candidate for Governor. ? It is reported that the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company has paid the Rev. E. J. Meynardie ?2,000 and stop-! ped the suit which had been instituted for | damages consequent upon an accident to him | on the road near Ridgeway last Summer. ? The Radicals of Spartanburg have elected C. C. Turner and C. A. Curriraings, white,' and Joe Young and E. Jones, colored, delegates to the Republican Convention which assembles in Columbia on the 28th instant. They were instructed to vote for Washburne delegates. ? The Columbia correspondent of the News and Couriir is informed that Corbin will not allow his name to be used as a Republican candidate as Governor, and it is not considered probable that a Republican State ticket will be nominated, the intention being to make the fight for the Presidential Electors. ? At a meeting of the Executive Board of the Baptist State Convention, held in Colum bia, recently, Rev. Wm. Henry Strickland, pastor of the Baptixt church in Anderson, was 1 elected Corresponding Secretary and General Agent. He has forwarded his letter of acceptance, and will enter upon the discharge of his duties in this field about the first of July. ? There are two factions of the Radical party in Beaufort county?one led by-State Senator Collins and the other by ex-Congressman Smalls?the former working for Grant and the latter, it is said, for Sherman. At the recent county Convention, however, Smalls was called upon to explain, when he expressed himself in favor of Grant, and a solid Grant delegation was chosen to the State Convention. ? Wm. S. Bates, white, was hanged at Barnwell C. H., on Friday last, for the murder of Stephen W. Bush, in Barnwell county, 011 Christmas Eve last. As usual, the killing resulted from the use of whisky and the carrying of a deadly weapon. Bates was present at a dancing party, and while under the influence of whisky, entered the room flourishing his pistol, and without any provocation shot Bush dead. ? On Thursday last, the Richland Radical County Convention, elected E. M. Weston, colored, W. M. Fine, white, Andrew Lee, white, Andrew W. Curtis, colored, and Adam Thomas, colored, delegates to the State Republican Convention. The Convention was solid for Grant, and adopted a set of resolutions, endorsing him as their first and last choice. Elliott was put forward as a delegate, but the convention declined to elect him. He has,- however, been elected as a delegate from Barnwell county. Elliott favors the nomination of Sherman. ? Within the last two years, Dr. Benjamin Wyse, who resides on Saluda river in Lexington county, has succeeded in trapping about fifty wild geese, which he lias successfully domesticated, and they are now as gentle as tame geese. A correspondent of the Register says: "Every evening on being called they come into the lot and are so gentle as to eat food on the ground at your feet. The Doctor has a large and beautiful pond of water in his lot, and in this native element the geese spend much lime. In appearance they are very beautiful and yield every spring a profusion of beautiful feathers." ? Last week William Dodson, Pleasant Adams, Fletcher Maddox, Joseph Burton, and Richard Bates, all colored, were tried at Greenville and convicted of burning the Opera House in that place last August. Judge he is a tailor by trade, and did very well in Liberia, receiving plenty of work from Catholic missionaries, who have a large number of the native children in a kind of school, but he could not stand the climate. He appears to be intelligent, and answered any questions asked him. He is very bitter against the leaders of the Liberian movement, and says that the Kansas scheme is no better. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. I ? The private stockholders of the Western j N. C. Railroad have disposed of their interest in the road to Mr. Best for 850,000. ? The building of the depot for theCheraw and Wadesboro Railroad, at Wadesboro, has been commenced. ? Charlotte is taking steps towards having the 105th anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence properly celebrated on the 20th of May. ? Several California salmon ^have been caught from the Catawba this spring. The largest number of these fish were put in two years ago, and it requires three years for them lhomsou, Detore wnom tney were irieu, sentenced them to be hanged on the 18th day of June. Before the sentence was passed, a motion for a new trial had been made and re fused. The Greenville News says that a vejj exciting scene followed the passing of the sentence. Dodson fell upon the floor of the box, and Maddox's poor old mother ran to him and threw her arms around him with frantic shrieks, while Maddox's cries could be heard all over the court room. The relatives of the different prisoners gathered around them with agonizing cries and violent manifestations of grief. Dodson had not strength enough to .stand on his feet when they were taken to the jail, and had to be carried out by one of the officers. ? Speaking of the damage by the recent rains to the Air Liue Railroad track, the Charlotte Observer of Friday says: "The train on the Air Line Road, which left here at 11:30 o'clock yesterday morning, went through to Atlanta across the chasm which has been yawning between Tuccoa and Mt. Airy for two weeks. For five miles the road bed was terribly torn up by seventeen distinct washouts. The whole surface of tho earth was removed to the bare rock in some places, and it has been necessary to build a trestle 105 feet high over the gap made by the Middle Broad, a small branch only a few feet wide, but which, when the waterspout burst, filled up to a depth of eighty feet against the railroad embankment. To repair the track and run trains over these trighttul holes in two weeks' time, and to fiave avoided the slightest accident, not a wheel off or a mr,n injured, reflects the greatest credit upon the management of this fine road." ? The Sumter True Southron says: "A colored man, who gave his name as Eugene Holt, of Virginia, arrived in town on last Friday, and stated that he bad traveled on foot from Charleston?having been ten days on the road?and was trying to get back home. He says that, with his father, mother, brothers and sisters, ten in all, he emigrated from Richmond to Liberia, in 1876. Some died on the voyage; his father and others died in Liberia, and he and thr survivors in his family, with his wife, (a colored teacher from New Jersey, whom he had married in Liberia,) being dissatisfied with the country, and having an opportunity to return, took passage about the first of the year ou a vessel from Monro- j via to New York. His wife and all the fam- j ily died on the voyage, from sea sickness, and | he came near dying himself. He got passage from New York to Charleston, and is now ! trying to get back home. He is still feeble and sick and broken down. He says that j he has no kindred ties in his old home, j but he ieels that he must go back. He says to return from the sea, grown to their full | size. ? The Charlotte Democrat says the prospect | now is that there will be a limited crop of peaches, and a pretty good crop of apples, cherries, &c., in Mecklenburg county. ? The work on a cotton factory at Charlotte, N. C., which is to have a capacity of six thousand spindles, is being pushed rapidly forward, and will, be ready for operation at an early day. ? The Charlotte Observer learns from Cleveland county that the fruit in that section is considerably injured by the recent cold weather, but the wheat is looking unusually fine. The farmers are making preparation for a larger cotton crop than they ever planted before. ? On Saturday, the 9th instant, work was commenced 5 miles north-west of Greensboro, on the Mount Airy end of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad. The survey of this road extends from Fayetfeville via Greensboro, to Mt. Airy in Surry county. The road is in operation from Fayetteville to Egypt in Chatham county, and betweeu that point and Greensboro the grading is nearly completed. The track will be narrow gauge. POLITICAL NEWS. ? The Democratic delegates to Cincinnati from Louisiana, have been instructed to vote against any effort to abolish the two-third rule. ? The Republicans of Missouri have instructed their delegates to the Chicago Convention, to vote as a unit for Gen. Grant as a candidate for President. ? The New York Sun says: "Never before was any such sura of money ready to be ex pended in a Presidential election as is now in readiness to promote the election of Grant."' ? Of 2,270 Alabama Democrats who responded to an invitation from the Montgomery Advertixer to disclose their preferences for President, 572 were for Bayard, 377 for Hancock. 350 for Tilden, 231 for Thurman, 317 for Hendricks, and 163 for Seymour. ? The resolutions adopted by the Massachusetts Republican Convention are noticeable for the absence of everything of a "bloodyshirt" nature. They "deplore the existence of sectioua. strife and animosity and of parties bound by territorial lines." This is a new departure. ? The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Bulletin, says that he is informed by a prominent Democrat, who has held a high position in the councils of his party, that Mr. Tildeu has written a letter, to beJ read at the New York Democratic Convention at Syracuse declining to be a candidate before the Cincinnati Convention, and withdrawing his name. The reason assigned for his course is the condition of his health. This same gentleman says that Mr. Tilden prepared the letter two months ago withdrawing his name, but that the intercession of personal friends prevented it from beiug made I nublic. 1 ? The Anti-Third-Term Convention, which is to be held in St. Louis on the 6th of May, is looming larger than at first seemed probable. The number of influential men, hailing from all sections of the country, who have expres sed hearty sympathy with the movement and who are expected to be present, is surprisingly large. Gen. Chamberlain, who rescued Maine from the Fusionists and handed it over to the Republicans, sends a word of cordial cooperation from Maine. Massachusetts is represented by such men as Judge Hoar, Grant's ex attorney general; Senators^ Dawes and Hoar, ex-Governor Washburn, Thomas W, Higginson, Charles F. Adams, Jr., two or three Harvard professors and ex-congressmen ; CVinnonti^iif hv aiv Ynle nrofessors and Gen. Hawley; New York by Geo. H. Putnam, Horace White,-George Win. Curtis, ex Governor Fenton, Rev. Dr. Bellows; Pennsylvania by William R. Wister, Wayne MacVeagh, J. G. Rosengarten, Henry C. Lea, E. D. Lockwood, Joseph Lapsley, Charles Wheeler, Wharton Barker and John McLaughlin. Ohio will send ex Secretary J. D. Cox, Judge Stallo aua Fred. HnssaHrek ; and we might go on taking a few names here and I there from a long list that is printed in some | of the Western newspapers. [ EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The Newspaper of To-Day. The modern newspaper is altogether a different s^ort of thin? from the newspaper of only a few years ago. Contrasting the difference between them, the Louisville CvurierJournal says: The locomotive and the telegraph made many revolutions, but none so great as that in journalism.- A hand-press and a huddle of old type were no longer sufficient to set one up in business who had failed in all else. Cheap postage obtained. Then a popular thirst for news. Ultimately a popular demand that facts should be given on which readers might form intelligent opinions of their own. Journalism became a profession ; the art and practice of journalism a science ; the journalist an emancipated being. Instead of a puffing machine?an echo?a worthless stipendiary on its party?the newspaper has an independent, commercial existeuce, and is looked to by thousands of readers with respect proportioned to the strength and consistency of its opinion, its trustworthiness and its sincerity." The Proposed Bankrupt Law. Mr. Hutchins, a Democratic member of the House of Representatives, has introduced a voluminous bankrupt bill, making 100 pages. It provides that the District Courts of the United States shall be constituted courts of bankruptcies, and shall have original jurisdiction, in their own district, in all matters and proceedings in bankruptcy. Their jurisdiction is to extend to all controversies between bankrupts and their creditors, to the collection of all the assets of bankrupts, : to the ascertainment and liquidation of the j liens and other specific liens thereon, to the ^ adjustment of the various priorities and con- J dieting interests of all parties, to the mar-1 shaling and disposition of the different funds j and assets so as to secure the rights of all j parties and due distribution of the assets ; among all the creditors, and to all acts, mat- j ters and things to be done under and in virtue ' of the bankruptcy until the final distribution ; and settlement of the estate of the bankrupt and the close of the proceedings in bankruptcy. A Big Law Snit. Under the above caption the Charlotte Observer of Saturday has the following : The King's Mountaiif mine is one of the biggest properties in this section of the State. About 8150,000 was paid for it by the company which now owns and is working it. Im- j provements amounting to an equal sum have been made upon it by this company. At the next term of the Gaston court an action of ejectment will be begun against the King's Mountain Mining Company, who derive their title from a mortgage deed made by the old Gaston Mining Company, which about fifteen ' years ago worked the mine under a charter of the State of North Carolina. The plaintiflk in the action derive their claim to title from a judgment for about 810,000 against the same old Gaston Mining Company, and they , allege that all the property of the company was sold and bought in by them under this t judgment. We believe that the priority of t the mortgage deed under which the present g company holds the mine is acknowledged, but the claimants under the judgment will ] probably urge some irregularity in the mortgage deed. The complaint will be filed at 1 the next term of Gaston court, which begins on the 24lh inst., but an attempt will proba- i bly be made to have the case removed to the ] Federal Courts. < The Edgefield Affray. i The following appears to be the facts in nnnnppfinn wirti ihp rpppnt. hlnndv affrftV ^ at Edgefield C. H.: j "On Thursday, April 1st, the voters of , Edgefield met at the Courthouse to nominate j citizens to fill the municipial offices, and the ] following ticket was selected: For intendant, C. L. B. Marsh ; for wardens, Lee Holson, , W. H. Brunson, VV. N. Burnett and R. S. Anderson. During the meeting, however, [ trouble arose regarding a reduction of the ] whisky tax of the town. One party, led by Mr. W. B. Peun, favored a retention of the license i at existing figures?$200 per annum?and it j was upon this issue that the geutleuien named j above were nominated. The other party, led by Mr. A. A. Clisby, favored a reduction of | the tax to 8150, and they finally placed a sec- ' ond ticket in the field, the nominees for wardens being Messrs. A. A. Clisby, Dr. W. D. Jennings, W. E. Lynch and Geflrge Sim kins, colored. Wm. Marsh, the regular nom- 1 inee for intendant, subsequently declined to run, and Mr. R. G. Bonharn was put up in his place." The Advertiser of Thursday says: "On Monday morning, the 12th of April, the election j began at 6 o'clock. The managers were R. H. Miras, B. P. Covar and St. Julien Bland. All these were advents to the mass meeting or convention Dartv. One of the very first I "" I J - * persons to present himself for depositing a ballot was Lawreuce Cain, the mulatto man who was formerly Radical State senator froiu our county, and who is still one of the leading Radical politicians of Edgefield. He lives on the southern outskirts of the incorporation, and there is a difference of opinion as to whether his house is really within the incorporation or without. His vote was challenged by either Mr. R. G. Bonhara or Dr. Wal lace Bland, both of whom stood near the polls. Mr. Clisby contended that he had the right to vote. After some discussion, it was agreed to leave the matter to be decided by a recent survey of the town made by M. H. Mims, surveyor, which survey was said or thought to be in the auditor's office. Subsequently it was ascertained that the said survey was not iu the auditor's office. Cain in the meantime retired from the court-room, in which the election was being held, ami after an hour or so returned, accompanied by Mr. i J i ?_ ^ . \jusny, aua renewed nis uppucauuu m vulc. Hereupon it was stated tlmt the survey could not be fWitid, and the matter still being in doubt, Cain was not allowed to vote, but was informed by the managers that if he would procure an affidavit from Mr. Minis, surveyor. that his house stood within the incorporate limit", he would then be at liberty to deposit his ballot. Mr. Mims lives 12 miles northward of our towu, but still, before the hour of closing the polls, his attestation could have been procured. After this, Mr. Clisby and Dr. Bland walked out of the court room together into the high piazza which overlooks, the public square, and here took place the fatal rencontre. We cannot recount the words of the dispute. We know them not. We give the results without pretending to know or say in what order they came. Dr. Bland struck Mr. Clisby in the face with his left hand. Mr. Clisby shot Dr. Bland through the abdomen. Mr. St. Julien Bland shot Mr. Clisby through the stomach, and Mr. Arthur Glover, Mr. Clisby's father-in-law, three times in different places. Mr. Glover, it is affirmed by some, fired twice, and by others that he did not fire at all. If he fired, he wounded no one. A'nd as regards the question of | whether Mr. Clisby shot Dr. Bland before he was himself shot by Mr. St. Julien Bland, or vice versa, there is also a very wide difference of opinion and of affirmation. And jjiese differences of affirmation come from men of equal respectability and reliability. Nor is this atilll uncommon in such affrays." The latest advices are to the effect that all the parties will probably recover from their injuries. Sale of the Greenville Railroad. The Greenville and Columbia Railroad was sold in Columbia, under foreclosure of mortgage, by N. B. Barnwell, Master in Equity for Richland county, on Thursday last. It was purchased by Mr. W. (J. L'ourtuey, the Mayor of Charleston, for a syndicate of capitalists, for 62,963,400. The competition was quite spirited and the sale continued for five and a half hours. The Register furnishes the following particulars: "The first bid was 62,000,000 from Mr. James G. Gibbes. By this time two hundred persons or more had assembled, including many of the business meu of the town, and a good many other men and boys who came merely to look on. The upper portico of the court house was filled with spectators. The second bid was by Captain J. S. Wiley, for 62,300,000. The third bid was by Major Gumming, of Atlanta, who raised it ten thousand dollars. The bidding then went on between Hon. W. A. Courtenay, of Charleston, and Major Cumming, of Atlanta, each overbidding the other several hundred dollars each bid for a time, until at length Mr. Courtenay regularly raised Mr. Cuinming's bid 6100, but Mr. I i LfJ a Uuraming conunuen 10 mu variuuie umuuuis, , generally raising the bid 8900, till one o'clock, , when his bid was 82,351,000, to which Mr. Courtenay added 8100. The bidding went on rapidly between Mr. , Courtenay and Major Gumming till Mr. ( Courtenay bid 82,394,600. Mr. Cumming raised this bid 8100, but the auctioneer did ^ not hear him, and knocked down the proper- j tv to Mr. Courtenay. Mr. Cumming demanded that his bid be , received and that the bidding go on, and his , claim that he had made the bid in proper time was corroborated by the bystanders. , The Master decided to go on with the bid- < ding. < , Mr. Courtenay offered to put up a deposit, < and objected to the bidding being resumed ] unless a deposit was made by the other side, i The Master said, "I will have to resume i the bidding without a deposit," and did so. < At two o'clock Mr. Cumming's bid was 82,- ] 409,100, which Mr. Courtenay raised 8100, | and these two gentlemen continued to raise i -.i??. u:j- k., einn eacn Oilier 3 uiua gciicimijr uj vivu- , When the bids were running up from $2,- i 453,000 to 82,454,000, Major Curaming came 1 round to where Mr, Courtenay was sitting and ( shook hands with him, making a pleasant re- i mark about the persistency of the latter in t bidding. Previous to this Major Curaming t had kept the crowd in good humor by his f jocose manner of making his bids and remark- i ing upon the bids of the other side, while Mr. i Courtenay remained very quiet, merely an-11 nouncing his bids, and doing this frequently 11 by nodding his head or raising his hand. As 11 the hours wore on, however, Major Cumming,! ( took a seat on one side and made his bids i c more laconically and steadily, and it seemed j ] to many of those around that each bidder : c whs determined to have the road, and that 1 c each had unlimited means at his coraraaud. ! c Three o'clock struck, then four and then ' * five, and the bidding was still going on, no f recess having been taken for dinner. A little r before six o'clock, however, when Mr. C'ourte- i nay's bid was $2,963,400, there was a pause ; e but the crowd by this time had rather come t to the conclusion that there was to be several 1: hours more oP it, and had settled themselves J b to tough it out. So when Major Cumming f advanced and called the attention of the Mas-! c ter, they supposed he was only going to raise 1 it a thousand or so, but. be said : "Allow me c to compliment the Mayor of Charleston on a he manner in which he has fought this mater through. I will have to throw up the iponge to hira. I have no other hid to make." The property was then knocked down to I Son. \V. A. Courtenay at 82,963,400. J During the bidding, Mr. Courtenay occu Died seats with Mr. W. P. Clyde, of New j J ifork, Col. Buford, President of the Rich-1 oond and Danville Railroad, Col. J. H. j Rion, Mr. W. H. Brawley, Gen. T. M. Logan, j )f Richmond, Va., and several other gentle nen. y It is understood that Mr. Clyde, of the l Dlyde line of steamers, has an interest in the f purchase. One of the gentlemen of Mr. Dourtenay's party took $20,000 out of his ] pocket and paid it to the Master as a deposit ^ to secure the bid till the cost portion of the ^ bid is paid. . The terms of the sale-were one third cash ; j balance in bond of the purchaser, payable twelve months from the day of sale, with ] interest from the day of sale, payable annual- ] ly, secured by a mortgage of the property 3old ; twenty thousand dollars to be paid immediately upon the close of the bidding ; the balance of the cash portion to be paid within ninety days after the day of sale, with interest from the day of sale. MERE-MENTION. Reports to the Department of Agriculture ? show that the wheat crop thus far looks as favorable as in the spring of 1879. Last Friday was hangman's day in Texas. A negro named Bill Walker was hanged at Calvert for a murder committed in 1878. At San Francisco last Saturday, the Giant Pow- ' der Works exploded, killing twelve white 1 v?? men ami iwcivc ur uitccii vuiiiamcu, v anderbilt owns $51,000,000 four per cent. United Stntes bonds, from which he derives $5,000 interest per day. Memphis and New Orleans deny that any cases of yellow fever have occurred in either city the present season. The reported cases were malignant malarial fevers. Vennor, the weather .propher, predicts that there will be severe frost between the 10th and 15th of May, over a very large portion of the United States. A Kentucky man tried thirty-nine different cures fur corns, and then took a sharp chisel and cut the toe square off. The distance from Panama to Aspinwall by water is 10,000 miles; by land it is 47$ miles. Krupp, the German gunmaker, has orders ahead for 3,000 cannon. There are 795,000 paupers in England. Don't judge a man by his family connections, for Cain belonged to a very good family. [Con>municaie<rj COUNTY NOMINATIONS. Mr. Editor: I have read with interest, in the last two issues of the Enquirer, the communications of "Straight-Out" and "W. T.," on the subject of the proposed plan for making nominations for York county in the approaching canvass. I am glad to perceive an interest being manifested in this important subject at this early day; and as yonr col urans'are open to a full discussiou of the subject, I hope the advocates of either plan will fully ventilate their views in the columns of the Enquirer, so that they may thereby be disseminated among all the voters of the county, ahd as the people read and reflect, they will be more competent to act. While "Straight-Out" merely desired to bring this subject before the people, I think he advocates, in a latent way,, the primary plan; and " W. T.," seems somewhat in doubt, a9 to which would be preferable. Latently he evideutly favors the convention mode, but while he does not udvocate the oue, he is cau tious not to denouirce the other. I do not propose, iu this brief communication, to be equivocal.: I will lay in the ou - set that I heartily advocate the primary sys ' tern, aud for the good of the Democratic par ty and its success in the approaching aud future campaigns in York cotiuty, I hope it may be adopted. The greatest fear that "W. T." sees in the adoption of the primary mode is what many thoughtful persons on my side of the county think would be obviated entirely by that system; while they think, should the convention plan be adhered to, the identical result will follow, to wit: "a xplil in the Democratic ranks." It is to preserve the unity desired by "VV. T." that the primary plan is advocated. True, we have in our midst a class of men who are more or less contentious, but the danger from them would not be so great if defeated at i the primary ballot-box as if their aspira- ( tions were thwarted by a convention of delegates. If defeated at the primaries, they ( would need no further evidence of the futility , of persisting further; if ignored by a convention of 42 delegates as against the Democratic voters en maue, they might be induced to , go before the people as independents. I doiuiot entirely agree with some, that the wishes of the people can be properly reflected in a convention composed of delegates. The delegates may be honest; their motives and intentions may be pure; but % convention ! composed of a small body oflmen?some of whom are unused to the wiles of the politician?is easily wielded, and it not infrequently happens that the will of a few members, ; though directly opposed to the wishes or inteu- : tions of a majority, prevails, and the inno- j cent delegates come out of the convention wondering how they had, even by iuiplica- ] tion, favored the successful nominations, made ' apparently against the will of the majority of delegates, and jertainly against the in- ^ 3tructions of the people. I do not charge that a York Democratic Convention han ever been thus manipulated; but that such wire- ] working has been done in county conventions 1 - ? i - j iirL.i i i cannot ne uemeu. w nui naa ueeu uuuc m : cne county may be done in another. < Free discusion io Democratic clubs would < go for aought if the delegates could not car- < ry out their Instructions in the convention. < Free discussion in the clubs would only lead \ to more intelligible and satisfactory action at | the primaries. ? I must confess I do not see the force of the ( remark of "YV. T.," as applied to the fear 1 that should a split occur by reason of the conmention plan, it would be confined to Democratic ciubs and not to the entire county. ^ Probably the clubs constitute one half the voting strength of the party. A "split" imoug this number of voters would surely be * iisastrous, unless the party is stronger than . [ am aware of. And speaking of the rela- ? ;ive strength of the club9, brings me to an im- 1 cortant point. There are, as f have intiraa- * ;ed, a large number of Democratic voters ,vho, for obvious reasons, do not or cannot < jecome members of the clubs. Not that they a jondemn that or any effectual mode of organ- * zation; but it is incompatible with their ideas, f ind hence they fail to join, though their fealy to the party is as strong as he who wears l shirt of the deepest scarlet hue. These nen feel that they have a right to be heard t 11 making a seleotiou of candidates. I enter- n ain the same opiuion, and cheerfully accede c o them all the rights they claim. I go fur- I her and confess that when deliberating in a a ilub meeting or riding in a Democratic pro- J :ession, I have more than one time felt that t [ was enjoying privileges denied to Dem- t icratic citizens equally orthodox in the prin- a :iples of the party as myself. It is to thor- e Highly identify this respectable class of voters t vith the Democratic party?that portion | a orrr.ing the clubs?that I advocate the pri-' c nary system. Let clubs be organized. There ! S s uoobjection to them, inasmuch as itstrength- j o us the party to that extent; but in the mean-; I ime, with proper conditions aud restrictions i " lereafter to be provided, let all Democrats o ie permitted to go to the primary box and ex-; n iress their preference for the men of their j v hoice. Then indeed will the Democracy of 5 fork present an invincible front with solid f olumn, perfect organization and unity of. t! ctioo. Red-Shirt. I p LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. . D. Witherspoon, Chairman?Democratic Cluhs. f. F. Wallace, Administrator?Notices to the Creditors of the estates of James Brian, T. Madison Nee!y and Alexander Glass, f. A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?J. F. Wallace, C. C C. Pleas, Applicant?William P. Berry, deceased, jatimer A Hemphill?Special Attention, r. J. Smith A Co.?Dry Goods?Prints?Dress Goods- -Table Damask?Cottonades?Tri in ming Silks? Volions?Hats. fVithers Adiekes? list Received?Soaps, Ac. Junior A Gates?A Full and Complete Stock of GixkIs. r. M. Dolwon?Good News and Glad Tidings to .11 w...1,1^.1 an iTiaiiMiiu, VIrs. Fannie L. Dooson?The Emporium of Fashion. W. H. McCorkle, Intendant?Municipal Election. FtohertJ. Herndon?Teacher of Brass Bands, r. M. Adams?Nevf Goods. H. H. Beard A Co.?Read and Take Notice. Kennedy Bros. A Barron?Dry Goods?Notions? Spring Clothing, Ac. Herndon Brothers? Bread, The Staff of LifeMolasses?Flour?Plows. M. Strauss?Great Inducements. W. M. Walker. D. D. S.?Dental Surgery. THE CANTATA. Do not forget the beautiful cantata to be presented by the young ladies in the Court House to-morrow evening. ' PERSONAL* MENTION. We were pleased to receive a call last Friday from Col. W. S. Dogan, the enterprising canvassing agent for the Columbia Register. POST-ROUTE MAP. We make our acknowledgements to Hon. J. ' II. Evins for a copy of the post-route map of South Carolina and Georgia, received through W. L. Nicholson, Topographer of the Postoffice Department. EARLY VEGETABLES. Mrs. F. C. Merritt placed us under obligations last Monday morning for a basket of garden vegetables, consisting of peas, Irish l>otatoes and lettuce, the first of either we had seen this season. MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. Mr. R. J. Herrulon, recently a student of the Boston Conservatory of Music, offers his services as teacher of brass bands. He has already acquired quite a reputation as a musi- m cian. His card may be found in another column. 1 , ' # MUNICIPAL ELECTION. Voters within the corporate limits of the town of Yorkville, are reminded that the next election for intendent and wardens will be held on Monday, the ldth proximo, ah omcial notice to this effect appears in our advertising columns. DEMOCRATIC CLUB8. Hon. I. D. Wilherspoon, county chairman, publishes an important notice this week to the presidents of the various Democrat ic clubs, requesting them to assemble on Saturday, May 1st, at 3 o'clock P. M., to elect delegates to a county convention to be held in Yorkville at 11 o'clock A. M., on Monday, May 3rd. SKETCH OF KING'S MOUNTAIN. We have just issued, in pamphlet form, a sketch of the Battle of King's Mountain, by Rev. Robert Latham 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. NEW STORE BUILDING. Mr. T. M. Dobson has a force of workmen employed in building a new store-house on his lot next adjoinirfg that on which the store now occupied by him is situated. The new building will have a front of 30 feet and extend back 100 feet. He proposes to make it the finest store-room in town, and expects to have it completed by the first of August. SURVIVORS' ASSOCIATIONS. Members of the York County Survivors' Association are reminded that a meeting of the Association is ordered at Yorkville on Saturday the 1st day of May. . An important meeting of the executive committee of the Survivors' Association of the 12th Regiment S. C. V., of York county, is also ordered on the sjyne day, at 11 o'clock A. M. OUR CLUBBING RATES. * * To clubs of three or more names, entered on our books and paid for at the same time, the Enquirer will l?e furnished one year for $2 to each subscriber. Single subscriptions'*!^. 50 / per annum in advance. All Arsons who sub- > scribe for one year, between this date and the first of October next, will be entitled to a ^ chance in our prize drawing. . CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATION. We have seen a letter from Hon. J. H. Evins, representative in Congress from this district, to Col. A. Coward, chairman of the executive committee of the King's Mountain Centennial Association, in which, the writer expresses the belief and tlie'liope that Congress will make an appropriation for the celebration of the King's Mountain centennial. Mr. Evins has made an argument before the military committee and induced them to agree to report in favor of an app^priation of ?5,000, which he Is confident will l)e adopted. CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday a3 follows: Methodist Episcopal?Rev, Thos. Gilbert, Pastor. Services at 10$ A. M., and 7$ P. M. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. Sunday-school at 4 P. M. The pastor will fill his regular appointment next Sunday at Tirzah, conducting sacramental servives, which will begin Friday evening. Episcopal?Church of the Good ShepherdRev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. Services at the isual hours, morn'tig and afternoon. Presbyterian?S. rvices at 10$ A. M., and 7$ P. M., by Rev. T. R. English. ROCK HILL COTTON FACTORY. From Dr. Robertson, who was in town last Monday, we learn chat the above enterprise is jeing pushed forward with every prospect of success. Mr. Hutchison, President of the Jompany, returned from the North last Saturlay, whither he went some days ago to make irrangements for procuring machinery. He contracted for 3,100 spindles, to be delivered the 1st of November, oy wnicn time it is contemplated to have the building completed. The building will be of capacity sufficient for 5000, spindles, and machinery to that extent vill be supplied after operations have been lommenced and after the managers liecome ionversant with the business they have underaken. The machinery will be driven oy iteam. It is estimated thatTrom ?80,000 to ?70,000 capital will lie required, ?40,000 of vhich is already subscribed, entirely by citzens of Rock Hill and vicinity, an no fear s apprehended of failure to secure the re- * nainder of the required amount when it shall >e needed. * * ^The enterprising citizens of our sister town i ,re to be commended for this evidence of I heir public spirit and liberality, which we M eel sure will be crowned with the full meas'* ? HHnnaoa if /loaOrVOQ lie Ui OUVVCOO IV uvuwi *VO? A Sweeping Postal Reporm.?Superinendent W. B. Thompson, of the railway nail service, has on foot a proposition to hange the names of all post offices in the Jnited States which conflict with each other, s well as those which are now compound. Ill offices of the same name in States where he abbreviated designation is likely to be misaken, such as Pa., Va., Ga., La. and la.; Md. nd Ind.; Cal. and Col.; Mass. and Miss., tc., are to be changed. It being thought that his will facilitate in a great degree the safe nd swift carrying of mail matter, as the hance of a letter being sent to the wrong Itate will be completely obviated. All post ffices of compound names?such as "Spring lill Academy," "Robesou's Cross Roads," or Johnson's Four Corners"?will, in carrying ut this idea, have their titles changed to araes of one syllable. This sweeping reform rill necessitate the renaming of 1,200 to 1,00 post offices in the United State. The '<>stma8ter General is in full accordance with be idea, and jt will without doubt be at once ut into operation.? Washington Post,