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Jtoaps and partis.
? Two camels, raised in Texas, were sold at
San Antonio last week.
? The present wheat crop in Texas will,
Srobably, be the largest ever grown in that
tate.
? A somewhat simple woman was asked if
her husband feared God, and replied, "I guess
he does, for he never goes out on Sunday without
having his gun with him."
? The shipment of live cattle and fresh beef
from this country to England continues to in- I
a?ta.?aa amah KfAA millnna r\P lapq' ivnrth I
C(lOr, f Vti 111! VV luuivilo Vi V?V.?M4W ..W. ...
having been sent i'roni the port of New York
during the first three months of this year.
? A good little boy who was kicked by a
mule did not say naughty-words, or go home
crying to his mother. He just tied the animal
within five feet of the bee-hive, backed
him around to it and let him kick.
? The United States frigate Constellation,
from New York, with provisions and clothing
for the famished people of Ireland, entered
Queenstown Harbor at 9 o'clock on Tuesday
of last week.
? Advices from Havana are to the effect
that much damage has been done to the tobacco
and other crops by the drought of the
past three months. The total sugar crop, it
is estimated, will not exceed 400,000 tons.
? A Chicago man has had a lost tooth replaced
by one transplanted from the mouth of
a young girl, and now at a party, when the
rest of his mouth is watering for salmon
and quail on toast, that tooth aches for icecream
and frozen pudding.
? The colored Republicans of Petersburg,
Va., held a large and enthusiastic meeting in
that city, one night last week, and adopted
resolutions to take no part with Readjusters
or Funders in future elections, but to vote
simply as members of the National Republican
party.
? Government contracts for 10,000 ounces
sulphate quinine were closed, says the N. Y.
Bulletin, on Friday, at 82 89 per ounce.
The entire amount is of foreign manufacture
and in ounce Dhials. Compared with what
the cost of American would be at manufacturers'
present prices, there is a difference of $3,600
saved to the government.
? The delegates already elected to the
Chicago Convention are now counted up by
the Buffftlo Commercial?a Grant organ ?
as 207 for Grant; 88 for Blaine ; 15 for Sherman,
and 14 for Edmunds. To the Edmunds
delegates must be added 4 from Massachusetts.
This computation gives graut the
whole vote of New York and Pennsylvania.
? The coming summer hat for women is to be
of straw. It will be knocked in on the front,
jammed in on the back, shoved in on each
side and kicked in on top. Then the rim
will be jammed up all around to make the
whole effect harmonious. It will be trimmed
with strips of sheet tin, turkey wings, old
fruit cans and debris generally. It is an economical
kind of hat, as it can be made by
taking a boy's old straw hat, running a wheelborrow
over it a few times and hitching on
whatever comes handy.
? A heavy storm passed over Macon, Miss.,
last Sunday night, blowing away twenty two
houses, including the Mississippi & Ohio Railroad
machiue shops, round house, depot, telegraph
office aud master mechanic's office.
Sixteen cars were blown from the track.
Seventeen persons were killed and tweuty two
wounded. The loss of property is estimated
at not less than 8100,000. Meridian was called
on to send physicians, and six or eight
went from that city to attend the suffering.
? Internal Revenue Collector Rapier, a
i i aii ?1? ? ?1? *1...
colored Aiaoama politician, wuu gave me
Voorhees exodus committee a gloomy account
of the situation of his race in that State, finds
himself in ill-repute on his return home. He
was driven from the stand at Crawford the
other day, by the negroes, when he attempted
to instruct them in the beauties of Kansas a3
a place of residence, and on trying to explain
his Washington testimony he was told that
he had lied about their coudition, and in saying
that it took four acres of Alabama laud
to raise a bale of cotton.
? While incidentally relating some war reminiscences
recently, Gen. Steedman said that
while he was in command at Chattanooga, he
was visited by the notorious Parson Brownlow,
who became his guest. One day while
changing their underclothing, the parson exhibited
to him a most singular birth-mark on
his body. It was a pefectly formed suake, not
yet extended, but curved as serpents are
often seen. It was of a red color, and with
every feature so distinct that the indentations
for the eyes were plainly visible. Said the
General: "Physiologists, I presume,can read
ily explain the cause of the singular mark ;
but I am at a less to understand how his
whole nature became so serpentine as it was.
Venomous, vindictive and cunning, he had
as much snake a3 liuman nature in his composition."
The head of the suake in question
was just under the parson's left breast. The
body of the reptile extended down over his
ribs, and was about six or eight inches long.
? The investigation of the Whitaker case
continues at West Point, but as yet no satisU
nn Kaa? mo/1a aiiTo ?*rlo r1ia_
Jat'LUrj pru^ICOO 1JU3 uau maug cvnaiuo uio
covering the authors of the injuries inflicted
upon Whituker. On Friday last the court
exumiued several witnesses. Squire Van
Buren, one of the witnesses examined, said
that one John Dutcher told bim, before
the outrage was committed, that he had recently
been at West Point, and had a conversation
with Cadet Burnett, and that "that
damned black cuss (referring to Whitaker)
would have to leave West Point pretty soon,
and that Cadet Burnett had threatened to
put u job up on him if he did not leave shortly."
Dutcher, upon being called to the stand,
denied that he had ever made any such statements
to Van Buren. Some of the other
witnesses had heard vague reports that Whitaker
was to be "fixed," and that two or three
cadets had been away from the academy
without leave on the night of the outrage, but
none of them could give any direct and positive
information on the subject.
? In the speech which he delivered at Cairo
on the 16th instant, Gen. Grant embodied the
results of his observations in all "the States
lately in rebellion." The essential part of
the speech, as furnished by the Associated
Press, is as follows : "It has been my good
" - * V- .x *J i.1 L ^
ioriuue 10 nave jusi passeu uiruugu a mwe
bit of every one of the Southern States lately
in rebellion, and it is gratifying to me, and
I know it will be to you, that in every one
of them scenes, decorations, and speeches
were much the same as we see and hear today.
The Stars and Stripes were floating
everywhere. A great portion of the speakers
in every instance were men who in the conflict
wore the gray; and the speeches which
they made show their present devotion to the
flag for which we fought, and which is all we
asked of them?that they should respect and
honor the flag and become good citizens, and
^ hereafter, if it should be assailed by a foreign
fbe, that they should unite with us as one people.
From the assurance they give, I believe
they are sincere, and I hope they expressed
the sentiments of the great majority; for,
united as one people, united as generous
rivals in building up our several States for
the whole Union, and in a feeling of loyalty
for the flag, we are a great people, the greatest
natiou in the whole world."
?In New York there was established, a year
ago, the "Business Meu's Society for the Encouragement
of Moderation in Drinking,"
and its first annual report contains many interesting
facts of what it has done. The idea
upon which it was founded was that there are
gradations between total abstinence and confirmed
drunkenness, and accordingly it distributed
three classes of pledges?the red, the
white, and the blue. The first was for total
abstinence; the second was a pledge not to
drink during business hours, and the third a
pledge not to treat or be treated. The whole
number signed during the year was 22,616,
of which the red numbered 5,661, the white
4,100, and the blue 12,885. The society does
not profess to know what proportion of the
| promises was kept; but it is stated in a gene|
ral way that the results are encouraging, parj
ticularly with regard to the anti treating
I pledge. This is very likely to be true. The
| American custom of men paying for each
1 other's liquor is responsible for an enormous
; amount of superfluous drinking. A false
idea of sociability and hospitality is at the
: bottom of it, and all drinking men know that
they would be better off in health and pocket
if they should adopt the German custom of
j each individual settling his own score.
?be fjatMle (Nqnim.
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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS!
In the Senate on the 20th, the committee
on pensions reported adversely on a bill to increase
the pensions of wounded soldiers of
the war of 1812, and it was indefinitely post
poned. The following bills were passed: For
an international exhibition in New York in
1883; appropriating 8150,000 for a public
buildiug at Montgomery, Alabama; and ?30.000
for the erection of a marine hospital at
Memphis, Tenn. On motion of Mr. Withers,
of Virginia, the bill to carry into effict
the resolution of Congress, adopted October
29, 1781, relative to a monumeut at Yorktown,
was taken up. It appropriates one hundred
thousand dollars for a monument aud
twenty thousand for the celebration of the
Centennial of the battle of Yorktown. Mr.
Conkling, of New York, thought this was the
first proposition ever made to appropriate
money for the expenses of celebrating an
event. Such expenses should be borne by
the individuals participating, or at most by
the State. Pending debate, the morniug
hour expired aud the bill went over. The
Geneva award bill was then taken up and
discussed until the hour of adjournment.
In the House no business was transacted,
the time having been consumed in filibustering
by Republicans to prevent the consideration
of the special deficiency bill.
In the Senate on the 21st, the consideration
of the Genfa award bill was resumed, and
after some debate it was indefinitely postponed.
The commiit'eou naval affairs reported favorably
on Jie House bill authorizing the
equipment of an expedition to the Arctic sea.
After agreeing that the consideration of the
army appropriation bill should be the next
business called up, the Senate adjourned.
In the House the Senate resolution directing
the committees on agriculture in the two
Houses to inquire and report what the Government
should do to promote the agricultural
interest, was taken up, and a lengthy dennoiior)
Kofu'ptm \f r TJpo nrjln f\ Hf] Mr
vttvv www </v??vv? **"
Kelly on questions pertaining to the tariff',
suggested by the resolution under consideration.
Without disposing of the subject, the
House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 21st, the consideration
of the army appropriation bill was resumed.
Mr Blaine, of Maine, moved to
strike out the section relating to the use of the
army at the polls. Rejected?yeas 20 ; nays,
28. Mr. Blaine then offered an amendment
prohibiting the carrying of weapons at the
polls, by any one, under a penalty of fine and
imprisonment. The chair ruled that this
amendment was not in order, inasmuch as
it introduced new legislation. The Republicans
then offered several amendments, intended
to break the force of "the army at the
1 .lis section," by giving it such a construction
as not to prevent the use of the army on
election dav. in a manner and for the nurnose
prescribed by existing laws. All those amendments
were rejected by the same vote?29 to
19. Among them was the following offered
by Mr. Edmunds : "But this section shall not
be held to apply to any case in which, under
the Constitution of the United States, the
President may employ the military power or
the Government in faithful execution of the
laws." Mr. Blaine made another effort to get
in a differently worded version of his amendment
relative to the carrying of weapons at
the polls, but was again ruled out of order.
The bill was then read the third time and
passed?yeas, 28; nays, 18. The remainder
of the session was devoted to the consideiation
of the contested election case between
Spofford and Kellogg, of Louisiana.
In the House, the cbmraittee on banking
and currency reported a bill repealing the
stamp act ori checks. Referred to the committee
of the whole. The naval appropriaj
tion bill was taken up and passed. The
special deficiency bill was then discussed
until the hour of adjournment.
In the Senate on the 23rd, the post route
j bill was taken up, read the third time and
I passed. The remainder of the day was de!
voted to the Kellogg-Spofford contested case,
; and when the Senate adjourned, it adjourned
| until Monday.
! The session of the House was devoted to
the special deficiency appropriation bill.
On the 24th, the proceedings of the House
were confineu to the private calendar.
In the Senate on the 26th, Mr. Butler presented
the memorials of the Charleston Board
; of Trade for an appropriation for work on the
jetties of the Charleston harbor, and for the
enactment of a bankrupt law. Referred.
After the presentation of a number of petiI
tions the Senate resumed consideration of the
bill authorizing a retired list for nou-commis'
sioned officers of the army. Allison offered
j an amendment authorizing the President to
appoint each year two colored cadets at large
to West Point Academy. This led to a long
discussion as to the right of colored men to
participate in the benefits of West Point
i Academy, and the relations of the two races
when compelled to associate in that institution.
At the expiration of the morning hour
the bill and amendments went over without
action. The Senate then resumed consideration
of the Spoftord-Kellogg contested seat,
and after a number of arguments, among
which was one by Senator Butler in reply to
Blaine, at O.40 the Senate adjourned.
In the House, no business of importance
wa3 transacted, further than the introduction
of a bill by Mr. Vance to relieve the distillation
of fruit from taxes now imposed by law.
THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY.
The New York Democracy assembled iD
| State convention at Syracuse, on Tuesday |
| of" last week?there being two factions of the ,
party, the Tilden or regular Democrats, and
the anti-Tilden.
John C. Jacobs was made permanent chairman
of the regular Democratic convention. 1
The principal feature of the platform adopted ;
is a denunciation of the election frauds of
1876. The resolutions throughout strongly
favor Tilden, and contaiu the following reference
to him :
The Democratic party of New York add i
to their condemnation of the electoral con- !
spiracy of 1876, an emphatic declaration of:
their continued confidence in the character,
ability and fitness of that distinguished citizen
of New York who was then elected to
the highest office in the people's gift, and who
was in his own person the object of their joint
attack on his party, his fellow citizens and
the cause of free government. The blow
which deprived the country of its chosen ru
ler was aimed not so much at him as at tne
Democratic millions who stood behind him.
The delegates to the National Convention
were instructed to advocate the two third
rule, to enter the convention as a unit, act as
a unit and vote as a unit, in accordance with
the will of a majority of the members thereof,
and were empowered to fill all vacancies caused
by resignation, death or otherwise. The
resolutions conclude thus :
"Resolved., That in case auy attempt should
be made to dismember or divide the delegation
by contesting the seats of a portion of
the delegates, and any of the delegates appointed
by this convention should countenance
such attempt by assuming to act separately
from the majority "of the delegation appointed
by this convention, or to enter the National
Convention separately from such majority, or
should fail to co-operate with such majority,
the seats of such delegates should be declared
vacant."
Abraham S. Hewitt was elected residential
Elector at Large ; delegates at large and
alternates were elected to the National Convention
; a full list of the delegates to Cincinnati
and members of the State Committee
were named by Congressional districts, and
the convention, at 12.30, adjourned sine die.
THE A NT! TILDEN FACTION.
The anti-Tilden convention assembled in
Shakspeare Hall. Ainasa J. Parker, of Alhonv
wne plectfid nfirmanenf chairman.
V ? I :
A resolution was adopted providing for the
appointment of a conference committee with
a view to the harmonious action of the two
conventions, after which the convention adjourned
until 4 o'clock. Upon reassembling,
Mr. Haskins reported the result of an attempt
to bring about harmony between the
conventions. He feared it would end as similar
attempts had ended last year. John
Kelly then made a short but bitter speech, at
tacking Mr. Tilden fiercely, and declaring that
his nomination for President would be a disgrace
to the party and to the country, and
an action which the people would not tolerate.
The committee on resolutions then reported
an address to the Democracy of the State
and nation. After declaring adherence to
the time-honored principles of Democratic
policy, and setting forth the vital necessity of
union and harmony in the forthcoming contest,
the address proceeds as follows :
It deplores the division of the party in
New York, which, it says, they could not pre
vent and cannot heal without sacrificing selfrespect
and the Democratic oause. This division,
the address says, results wholly from
the determined and persistent efforts of Samuel
J. Tilden to secure the democratic nomim
tion to the Presidency. For this end he
has conspired and contrived to get control of
the party organizations, which he has converted
iuto personal machines and used in
high-handed aud unscrupulous ways, in total
disregard of the wishes of the people. After
recapitulating the history of the contest be
tween Tilden and anti-Tilden factions in New
York, a contest which, it alleges, is based on
Tildeu's determination to be captain or wreck
the ship, the address, speaking for the Denioc
racy of the Empire State, says ; "We protest
against the nomination of Samuel J. filden
for the Presidency, because he is unfit for the
office and his election to it would be a national
calamity, because his nomination would
defeat and disgrace the party beyoud recovery,
and because his nomination would deliver
the country to another four years of Re
publican extravagance and misrule. We protest
agaiust his nomination because his record
is not clear; hecause his political career has
been marked with selfishness, treachery and
dishonor; because he has lost the respect and
confidence of man) of the best men in the
party, to whom it looks for guidance; because
he has damaged the Democracy more than
any other man in the country ; because his
name is irretrievabl) connected with an attempt
to bribe electors and with scandals
brought to light by the cipher dispatches ; because
hundreds of thousands of Democrats
cannot conscientiously vote for him, and his
nomination would sound the knell of Democratic
defeat. The situation calls for the
ablest, wisest and best leadership the party
can have. We appeal to you to send unj
pledged delegations of representative men,
who need no instructions to select as DernoI
cratic standard bearers men who will unite
the party7, inspire public confidence, enkindle
popular enthusiasm and lead to victory.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Governor Simpson has appointed C. P.
Huggin, a trial justice for Union county.
? The Radicals of Anderson county have
| elected John R. Cochran, a delegate to the
Republican State Convention,
j ? The Republican State Convention met
j in Columbia yesterday for the purpose of
j electing delegates to the Chicago Convention.
? In the vicinity of Blackstocks and Woodward's,
in Fairfield county, nearly one thousand
bales of cotton remain in the hands of
planters unsold.
| ? Thomas White, sentenced to be hanged
J at Spartanburg on Friday last, for the mur;
der of Pet Hawkins, colored, has been respi;
ted by Governor Simpson, until Friday, the
| 14th of May, next.
, ? George Callabacker, an insane Greek,
who was sent from Charleston to the Lunatic j
Asylum three weeks ago, was killed in that;
place last Sunday night, by Hiram Kelly, j
another lunatic.
| ?The Register says that a letter was receiv- j
ed in Columbia a few days ago, in which it was
stated that ex-Governor Chamberlain, former- \
ly of this State, has been pronounced insane
by his physicians.
i ?At the recent Radical Convention in i
Sumter, Sam Lee was chairman and control-1
ed everything. The color line was closely j
drawn, and all four delegates elected to the
State Convention were colored men, iucludiug
Lee.
? Rut two prisoners have died at the penitentiary
within the last eight months. Que
of these was a wreck when returned from the
Greenwood and Augusta Railroad, and the
other entered the prison with an incurable
disease.
? The State Medical Association was in session
in Columbia last week. The following
officers were elected for the current year :
President?B. W. Taylor ; First Vice President?
Maiming Simmons; Second Vice President?
W- T. Russell; Thjrd Vice President?J.
F. McKay; Recording Secretary? j
John Forrest; Corresponding Secretary?H, ;
D. Fraser; Treasurer?T. Grange Simmons.
? Senator John H. Kinsler, of Richland,
has recently been sorely afflicted. A fortnight
ago he buried a daughter, a young
lady of eighteen years, and on Monday of last
week another daughter died, two years the
junior of the one mentioned above. On the
following Wednesday, the wife and mother
was buried. Senator Kinsler was an officer
of the Twelth Regiment, S. C. V., and has the
sympathy of his old comrades in York county.
? The latest news from young Dr. Bland,
who was shot in the recent affray at Edgefield
C. H., is given by the Augusta Evening News
of Saturday, which says: "From a gentleman
just from Edgefield we learn that the condition
of Dr. Bland is a little more hopeful today.
Dr. Taylor, of Colura jia, who is in attendance,
expresses the belief that the crisis
has now passed, though his recovery will be
necessarily slow."
? The Anderson Intelligencer says that the
business men have taken steps to build the
Anderson and Easley Railroad, in order to
give Anderson the full benefit of the Air Line
Railroad and competition in freights. Sufficient
funds have been raised by private subscription
to survey the road, and a committee
has been appointed to select a competent engineer
to do the work, to confer with the
Air-Line authorities, and make necessary arrangements.
? J. H. Fisher, Receiver of the South Carolina
Railroad, has filed in the United States
Court his report of the operations of the road
from October, 1878, to December 31, 1879.
For this period the earnings were 81,423,340,
expenses 8874,177, net earnings 8549,152.
The receiver has paid out for interest on the
first mortgage bonds 8233,216 ; for legal expenses
823,707, and for freight cars 842,105.
There is due for first mortgage interest, prior
to and including July 1, 1879, 899,488. The
cash balance on hand is 8184,051, to which
must be added the balunces due by agents and
others amouuting to 875,545.
? Notice of appeal has been served in the
case of Barton, Adams, Dodson and Bates,
four of the negroes sentenced to be hung at
Greenville in June, for burning the Greenville
Opera House. The grounds are various
exceptions to the rulings of Judge Thomson
and to the manner in which the confession of
the parties was obtained. This action will
ensure a postponement of the execution, as
the appeal cannot be heard without the consent
of the defendants until November. Mattox,
who turned State's evidence, will be recommended
to executive clemency.
? Mr. E. S. Fickling, at oue time a cadet
at King's Mountain Military School, and who
has been for a long time freight conductor on
the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
has been elected Chief of Police in Columbia.
The Charlotte Observer any*of him :
"He is one of the tallest men that ever pulled
a bell-rope or faced a mob. Mr. Fickling
was Chief of Police in Charleston for several
years after the war while the city wus under
military rule, and resigned when the carpet
bug and negro administration began. This
was a terrible time in Charleston, and Mr.
Fickling distinguished himself by his coolness.
He stood fire innumerable times during
this period.''
? The Charleston Ncm and Courier, of
Thursday, says: "The friends of Mr. G. W.
Williams will be gratified to learn that the
numerous suits brought against him in consequence
of the speculations of William Birnie,
the junior partner of the New York firm
of Williams, Birnie <& Co., are iu course of
adjustment. During the nervous prostration
of Mr. Williams, caused by these suit**., a committee
of his friends, composed of leading
Charleston merchants and bankers, united in
an effort to procure an adjustment of the
litigation. Mr. Williams would not listen to
any compromise until his character had been
fully vindicated in the courts. The foregoing
statement is authoritative. It is reported on
the streets that the adjustment effected is at
different rates, forty per cent, being the standard
in the cotton cases. The amount of cash
required for the settlement is said to be about
S300.000. We are assured that the arrange
ments are such as to secure Mr. Williams
against any possible afterclaps, and we hope
soon to see him again actively in business as
one of the first of Charleston merchants. Every
cent of liabilities in Charleston, contracted
by Mr. Williams or G. W. Williams &
Co., has, moreover, been paid to the last farthing."
EIIITOBIAMNKMNGS.
The Geueva Award.
The following is given by the New
York Herald as the facts iu connection with
the Geneva award, reference to which is
frequently made in Congressional proceedings:
The Geneva Commission awarded the
United States $15,500,000 in full payment of
all claims which had been presented, or might
thereafter arise, for losses caused to American
traders by Confederate cruisers fitted out in
British ports. Under the Act of Congress
regulating the distribution of awards, 2,068
claims, amounting to 89,316,120, were allowed
and paid, leaving in the Treasury a balance
which, with accrued interest, amounts to
about 810,000,000. For this tempting prize
there is a scramble, the insurance companies
being most active. They claim that they
paid for the ships and cargoes lost, and are
entitled to the compensation therefor made
to the Goverment. But the Act of 1874 has
made whole every ship-ownet andcargo-owuer,
and every insurance company. If a ship
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ana cargo were uesiruyeu i>y u reuei uiuisci,
the Act provided for full compensation if
there was no insurance. If the vessel or
cargo, either or both, was insured, the insurance
money received was to be deducted
from the compensation. The actual loss waifully
reimbursed, and there could be no
just claira to anything further. The act of
1874 dealt with the insurance companies in
the same spirit. They were required to
strike a balance between their war losses and ;
their war profits, and if the losses were in ]
excess of the profits, the companies were!
made whole by reimbursing the difference. ;
The Act of 1874 thus provided for all real
losses and precluded all claims for fictitious
or suppositious losses. It was not known
whether the money would suffice for the full
payment of real losses, and it was accordingly i
provided that if it fell short the awards should
be paid in ratable proportion ; but that if it
should prove to be in excess, the balance !
should remain in the Treasury to be disposed
of by Congress.
Severe Storm In Missouri.
Marshfield, a town in Missouri, on
the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad,'
was almost entirely destroyed by a cyclone on
Monday afternoon of last week. The tornado
passed though Green and Webster coun
ties, following the course of the James iiiver
in a northeast direction. It struck the St.
Louis and San Francisco Railroad in four
places, and left it near Frank's Station, 110
miles from Marshfield. The latter place presents
a terrible appearance, there not being
more than a dozen houses unharmed in the
place. The Courthouse and many other
buildings took fire, and the scene was of the
most dreadful character. The force of the
wind lifted trees entirely out of the ground.
Telegraph poles and wires were carried hun
dreds of rods into the woods and tied knotted
among the limbs of trees as though they
were cotton strings. Eye-witnesses of the
approaching storm say it was a frightful
looking, black cloud, lined with fleecy white,
fuunel shapped, and moving in the manner
of a screw propeller. It moved with wonderful
velocity, literally destroying and blowing
away everything in its path, which was
about a half a mile wide at this point. Trees
were twisted off, telegraph wires snapped and
bark was literally peeled from small trees;
i houses were blown from their foundations;
cattle, hogs, sheep, horses and poulLry whirled
into the air and carried to great distances.
The noise of the storm, the crash of falling
houses and the cries and screams of terrified
people made a scene of horror that beggars
description.
Seventy-one victims of the storm have
been buried and twenty five or more are reported
in a dying condition. '1 ne number
seriously wounded is about 150. A babe,
about eighteen months old, whose mother was
killed, and whose friends were all wounded,
was found on the next day, in a ravine north of
the town, where it lay at night. It is doing
well. Another child, two years old, was fouud
on the same afternoon in a tree top, where
it had been nearly four hours. It was considerably
bruised, but will recover. It was
claimed by its parents, who live two miles
and a half from the southern portion of
the town. The child's serial flight, therefore,
must have extended over three miles.
A wagon has heen found that was carried
four miles by the wind, and a section of a
smoke stack of a mill that was carried thrte
miles and a half. It is reported from thirty
to forty persons have been killed by spurs
of the tornado in the country, and that the
town of Corsicana, in Barry county, is as
badly wrecked as Marshfield.
The storm was also severe at Champaign
ana ?L?i raso, Illinois, ana at Jonesviiie,
Wisconsin. At the latter place property was
damaged to the amount of $100,000. The
destruction of property at Marshfiehl and
vicinity will aggregate 8400,000. Of the
800 inhabitants of Marshfield, seven-eighths
of them are now without houses, clothing,
food, or the means to procure them. The
destitution and suffering are terrible.
Ending of an Old Fend.
Just before 8'clock last Saturday evening,
Charles DeYoung was shot and killed in
San Fransisco by [. M. Kalloch, son of the
Mayor of that city. The tragedy was the result
of an old feud, dating from last summer,
when the Chronicle, of which DeYoung was
editor, was a violent opponent of the elder
Kalloch in the municipial election, and pend
ing which DeYoung shot Kalloch, inflicting a
severe wound. The telegraph gives the fol
lowing particulars of the affair :
Just before the occurrence, Charles De
Young entered the busine-s office of the Chron
icle, on the ground floor, corner of Kearney
and Bush streets) and stood talking with
some geutlemen, leaning against the counter.
Directly a door opened, 1. M. Kalloch enter
ed, and drawing a pistol, without, as far as
can be learned, speaking a word, began firing
on DeYoung. The latter ran through agate
in the counter behind a desk inside, Kalloch
firing at him as he ran. On reaching the desk,
DeYoung turned face to face with his oppo
nent, with a pistol in hand, when Kalloch,
leaning over the counter fired again, the ball
striking DeYoung in the mouth. Kalloch
then started for the door. DeYoung raised
his pistol as if to fire, but strength failed hira,
for the pistol was not discharged, and sinking
backward, he fell to the floor. BysianJers
ran to his assistance, but the ball had evi
dently pierced the base of the hrain, and in a
few minutes he expired. As Kalloch ran out
of the door he was seized by a citizen, and at
the same moment an officer came up and took
him in charge and conducted him to the city
prison, where he was locked up. News of the
murder flew through the city like the wind, and
in a few moments the street in the vicinity of
the Chronicle office was crowded with people,
eager to learn the particulars of the affair.
Policemen were at once stationed at the doors
of the office, to keep out the inquisitive crowd,
and only personal friends and reporters were
admitted in the office. W. H. DeYoung,
brother of the deceased, reclined on a lounge,
surrounded by friends, evidently overcome
by the tragedy, but with dry eyes and his
voice (" .It. He was not present at the time
of the si. joting, having left home after dinner
a few minutes later than Charles. The deceased
lay ou his back, on the floor, his face
and breast dabbled in blood, eyes closed, and
face bearing a calm expression, as is noticeable
in case of those dying of shot wounds.
Only one wouud was found on his person, although
at least four shots were fired by Kalloch?two
having pierced the glass door and
partition of the office, and a third lodging in
the window case.
Young Kalloch, on being arrested, was, as
the arresting officer remarked, the coolest
man he ever saw. He still carried the
smoking pistol in his hand, which he surrendered
to the officer on the way to the station
house. He observed strict reticence on being
shown to his cell, and positively refused
to have any intercourse whatever with representatives
of the press. In the absence of
any explanations from the assassin, of the
cause of the act, it is generally understood to
be attributable to a pamphlet which has re
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tacking Mayor Kalloch, the father of the
young slayer. During his recent visit East,
it is believed the deceased devoted great attention
to gathering up matters regarding the
past life of Mayor Kalloch, for the presumed
purpose of either using it at the expected trial
of the deceased on the charge of shooting
Kalloch, last August, or of making it subserve
journalistic purposes. The pamphlet
above referred to was a document of some sixty
pages, and recounted the details of Kal|
loch's scandal in Boston and other matters
j of a scandalous nature. The pamphlet was
! anonymous, but-young Kalloch evidently con[
sidered that deceased was responsible for its
publication and acted accordingly.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? George Galloway, colored, sentenced to
be hanged in Charlotte, on the - 7th of May,
has been respited until the 2nd of July.
? A monument will be erected on the battle-field
of Alamance on the 16th of next
month. The inscription is written by Col.
Wheeler, the historian.
? It is said that the blockader, Joe Reynolds,
shot through the neck some time ago,
near Liucolntou, by Revenue Officer Stockton,
will live, but will never recover from the total
nnrnlvsia nf liis nirlp
? Mr. Best, the purchaser of the Western
N. C. Railroad, will take formal possession
of that property in a few days?the necessary
legal forms having been gone through
with.
? The Monroe Express relates the fact that j
a mule became frightened at the smell of gu-1
ano and ran away?a mule, mind you. A son
of Mr. Boston Belk was run over and very
badly injured.
? The Charlotte Observer of Saturday says :
It is stated that a letter was received in this
city yesterday from a gentleman who has an
opportunity of knowing something of the
purposes of railroad syndicates, that W. P.
Clyde, of the Clyde line of steamers, who re-!
cently purchased the Greenville & Columbia
Railroad, will no doubt buy the Carolina
Central, connecting Wilmington with Charlotte,
at the mortgage sale which is to take
place in Wilmington on the 31st of May.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Whitaker & Wilson?Mules for Sale.
Withers Adlckes?Hardware.
JnoC. Kuykendal?York Drugstore Paragraphs.
T. M. Dabson?'The New York Houbo.
Mrs. Fannie L. Dobson?Fashionable Millinery.
Kennedy Bros. <ft Barron?New Goods.
Latta Brothers?Family Groceries.
R. C. Young?Surgeon Dentist.
C. E. Spencer, President?York Township Club.
Dobson <fc Parish?Flour?Plows?Molasses?Coffee
and Sugar?Cradles?Breakfast Strips.
Herndon Bros.?German Millet?Beef?FlourHams?Plows.
Latimer <fc Hemphill?.Window Shades?Grain
Cradles.
Clark Brothers?Specialties?Notice.
M. Strauss?Bring the Money.
HUMAN BONES IN GUANO.
Mr. J. Highland Crawford informs us that a
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1CW UU>3 Willie Ul3LliUUtlil^ UlCli J liictli O
guano, he found in it two joints of a human
finger on which there was a guttapercha ring.
FINE STRAWBERRIES.
Mrs. Rufus G. Whitesides favored us, on
Monday last, with a basket of fine strawberries
of "Wilson's Albany variety, for which we
return our thanks.
"A VOTER."
If the writer of a communication over the
signature of "A Voter," on the subject of
county nominations, will furnish us with his
proper name, we will give the article a place
in our columns.
THE CANTATA.
The Cantata at the Court House last Friday
evening for the benefit of the Episcopal Church,
was very creditaby rendered by the young
ladies and gentlemen having it in charge.
A large audience assembled, and every body
was pleased.
' THE CENTENNIAL ASSOCIATION.
The chairman of the executive committee
of the King's Mountain Centennial Association,
requests us to remind members that the
next meeting of the executive committee will
l?e held in Spartanburg, at 4 o'clock P. M., on
Wednesday next.
CLUB MEETINGS.
Members of Democratic Clubs throughout
the county are reminded that the county chairman
has ordered meetings of the Clubs in the
resi>ective townships at 3 o'clock. P. M., next
Saturday, for the purpose of electing delegates
to the County Convention, to beheld in Yorkville
on the following Monday.
SALE OF COUNTY BONDS.
On Monday next, by order of the Court, certain
bonds of York county, in aid of the Chester
and Lenoir Railroad, will lie sold at public
outcry, at the Court House in Yorkville, by
the clerk of the Court. By a recent decision
of the State Supreme Court, these bonds have
been declared a valid obligation of the county,
and they may be regarded as a first-class security.
On the same day, and by similar order, certain
bonds of Chester county, in aid of the C.
and L. Railroad, will be sold at public outcry
in the town of Chester.
CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY.
Services will be held iu the churches next
Sunday a3 follows:
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Thos. Gilbert,
Pastor. Services at Philadelphia church in
the forenoon, and at Yorkville at 7 P. M.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R.
Lathan, Pastor. Services at 10$ A. M. Sunday-school
at 4 P. M.
Episcopal?Church of the Good ShepherdRev.
R. P. Johnson, Rector. The Rector will
oificiate in the Church of Our Saviour at Rock
Hill, on Sunday next.
Presbyterian?Services at 10$ A.M., and 7$
P. M.,'by Rev. T. R. English.
Baptist?Rev. J. H. Booth, Missionary.
Services at 11 A. M., and 3 P. M.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
The Grand Lodge Knights of Honor of South
Carolina, held their annual meeting in Sumter
last week. Thirty-four lodges were represented.
The following officers were elected and
installed for the ensuing year: M. A. Carlisle,
Grand Dictator; John S. Hughson, Grand
Vice Dictator; J. W. Perrin, Grand Assistant
Dictator; S. Lander, Grand C.; J. G. Cunningham,
Grand G.; G. W. Holland, Grand
Reporter; J, T. Robertson, Grand Treasurer;
H. Kohn, Grand Guardian ;M. Kophan, Grand
S.; J, R. London, Thos. Raysor, H. S. Williams,
Grand Trustees. G. W. Holland was
appointed representative to the Supreme Lodge,
with Dr. Geo. Howe, Jr., as alternate. The
next meeting will be held at Yorkville.
FALL POTATOES.
Mr. M. Duffy, of Smith's Turnout, in this
county, writes to contradict the theory advanced
in our agricultural department recently
as to the best method of planting Irish potatoes
for fall crop. The writer referred to says
the potato tor. this planting snouiu 1101 De cue,
while Mr. Duffy's experience is just the opposite.
He advises the cutting of the potato
into three or four pieces?owing to its size?
and says, from his own experience, planted in
June or July it will sprout at once, while if
the potato is planted whole it will not sprout
before the spring of the year. Mr. Duffy has
been very successful in the cultivation of potatoes
by summer planting, having obtained
the premium for them at the Charlotte fair in
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SURGICAL OPERATION.
Mr. Wm. M. Corkill, a printer of this place,
and during the war a member of the Sixth S.
C. Regiment, was wounded in the battle of
Seven Pines, receiving a musket ball in the
left thigh, near the groin. The ball was never
extracted and the wound healed up externally;
but for the past four or five years inflammation
has existed, attended with so much pain as at
times to disable him from work. He finally
determined to have the ball extracted, if possible,
and for this purpose visited Charleston, a
few days ago, placing himself under Doctors
Kinloch, J. Ford Prioleau and Parker. From
a letter received Monday, we learn that these
physicians attempted to perform an operation
on Friday, but failed to discover the ball,
though they took out some necrosed or dead
bone. It wiil probably be two week before he
will be well enough to return home.
DEATH OF Col. Win. C. BEATTY.
Aout 9 o'clock 011 Wednesday night of last
week, the report was rapidly spread over town
that Col. Wm. C. Beatty had suddenly fallen
dead near the rear gate of Mr. Joseph Herndon'slot,
on Madison street, which leads from
Main street to Col. Beatty's residence.
Under the circumstances it was deemed
proper that a jury of inquest should be impanneled,
which was done under direction of Trial
Justice J. S. Lewis acting as coroner, as follows:
J. D. Colcock, foreman, L. M. Grist,
Rev. R. Lathan, T. S. Jeffreys, A. W. Ingold,
J. R. Lindsay, J. G. Wardlaw, James E. Jefferys,
F. A. Gilbert, James L. Wilson, W.
P. Good and John J. Smith.
After viewing the body it was removed to his
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resilience anil a niuiiuei ui wmicosca
ined, the testimony going to show that between
the hours of 8 and 9 o'clock that evening, Col.
Beatty discovered that several cattle had entered
his field near his residence. He undertook
to drive the cattle out of the field to
the residence of a neighbor to whom they belonged.
Before succeeding in accomplishing
this purpose, he made two trips from his field
to the lot of his neighbor. On the second trip,
he was accompanied by two or three small
children, who had joined him to render assistance.
On reaching the sjwt where he was
found, one of the children stated in her testitiinony
that he complained of feeling tired, j
and said he would sit down to rest. The cbil
dren then left him sitting on the ground, and J
soon afterwards a colored woman in Mr. Hern-1
don's yard, being attracted by groans, went to !
where they proceeded, and there found Col.
Beatty lying on his back helpless. She immediately
summoned several neighbors to the
spot, and on their arrival restoratives were
applied, and efforts made to resuscitate him,
but he was gasping and too near dead to speak,
and soon afterwards breathed his last. The
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jury agreed upon a verdict that he came to his
death from over exertion of mind and body.
Col. Beatty had been complaining for several
days of feeling unwell, but 011 the day of his
death he was 011 the streets as usual. "We
publish in another column a brief sketch of
his life, written by Rev. Robert La than.
"WHEN SPARROWS 1IU1LD."
This is the title of the new Prize Story, the
publication of which will begin in the Charles
ton Weekly News on Wednesday, Mny 5. The
author is Miss Jeanie Drake, of Charleston,
S. C. The story begins in the Pyrenees, and
the opening chapters contain some graceful
sketches of Pyrenean life, which are deftly interwoven
with the beginnings of a charming
love-story. The scene afterwards changes to
New York, and is diversified by some lively
pictures of New York society. Later, the
Carnival in New Orleans is introduced, and is
vividly described. The story is artistically
told, .and the dramatis per sonae are cleverly
sketched. The committee who awarded the
author of When Sparrows.Build, the prize of j
one hundred dollars in gold, offered by the proprietors
of The Weekly News, say in their report
that it is "a clever and charming tale,
good in incident, characterization, dialogue,
humor and sentiment, very interesting, and ,
full of evidences of culture and literary skilj."
The price of The Weekly News, a mammoth
family newspaper of six pages and fifty-four
columns, is $2 a year. Lower rates to clubs.
Publishers, Riordan and Dawson, Charleston,
S. C.
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Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, S. C., April 27.?Last Sunday
communion services were held in the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian Church, the pastor,
Rev. J. P. Marion, being assisted by Revs.
Chalmers and John A. White. On the same
day, Rev. W. T. Matthews, of the Theological
seminary, preacneu at tne rresoytenan cnurcn
in the absence of the pastor, Rev. G. A. Trenholm.
Rev. Ellison Capers conducted services
at the Episcopal church. There was also
preaching at the Methodist and Baptist churches
by their respective pastors.
The picnic season is now at hand. The
Baptist Sunday-School will have one on May
7th, and expect to make an excursion on one
of the railroads. A picnic is also spoken of,
to lie at Catawba Falls, next Saturday.
Yesterday the Odd Fellows of Chester celebrated
their iinniversary by making an excursion
to the Catawba river. It was a pleasant
trip. Mr. Will Beattie, the depot agent, Capt.
Ingram, and the gentleman in charge of
the ferry, dicl all they could to make it pleasant
for the party. All returned to Chester (
without a mishap. On the road active preparations
for the coming crop were to be seen
on every farm. Much of the cotton already
planted is coming up, and the farmers were
busy, planting more. Some of the wheat and
oat crops look well, but others show the dam- i
aging effects of the latter frosts. i
The dam for the Fishing creek cotton factory
is completed. The incorporators of the
company were to have held a meeting to-day
for the purpose of perfecting the organization.
It is understood that the most improved machine^
will be procured, and it is intended to
have it in oiieration for spinning cotton by
next fall.
Last Thursday a bale of cotton caught on
fire at the Lancaster depot of the Cheraw and
Pliootar TJiilrna/l and lint fnr flic nriwnnt at
tention of the agent aud others, the results
might have been serious.
Messrs. C. W. Meynardie. of Chester, and
John S. Wilson of Yorkville, left here yesterday,
for Columbia, to pass their examination
before the Supreme Court to obtain license
to practice law.
The Democratic Clubs are moving in this
county, prejiaratory to a vigorous campaign.
W. A. Sanders, who has been named for Solicitor
of this circuit, declines to permit his
name to go before the convention, so I am informed.
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The lady members of the Presbyterian church
will have a festival at the Female Academy
on Wylie street next Friday evening, for the
benefit of the parsonage fund.
Mr. R. W. Abell and Miss Mattie L. Erwin, \
of Lowrysville, were married on the 22nd instant,
by Rev. E. Brantly. Chester.
Written for the Yorkville Enquirer.
Col. W. C. BEATTY.
William Carlisle Beatty was born in
Yorkville, S. C., on the 20ih of November,
1803. His education was begun when he
was quite young, iu the village school. When
about twelve years old. he commenced, under
the Rev. Aaron Williams, the study of Latin
and Greek. From the school of Rev. Mr.
Williams he was sent, when in his fourteenth
year, to Statesville, N. C.,'" and placed :n a
school taught by the Rev. John Mucnat.
At Statesville he remained about a year,
when Mr. Muchat having taken sick, and the
school being temporarily suspended, young
Beatty returned home.
Shortly after his return he was placed under
the instruction of Mr. Nelson, at Ebcnezer,
in York county. In October, 1820, he
entered the Sophomore class, half advanced,
in the South Carolina College, and graduated,
in December, 1822, with the first honors of
his class.
After leaving college, Mr. Beatty began
the study of law in the office of Col. Thomas
Williams. It was not, however, his intention
at that time ever to practice law. His object
in reading law seems to have been to prepare
himself for entering upon a political career.
The public life of Mr. Beatty commenced
about the year 1824. At that time the publication
of a weekly paper was undertaken in
the town of Yorkville, by Messrs. Harris &
McKee. For the period of about a year Mr.
Beatty edited this journal, advocating with
great energy and zeal the doctrine of States
Rights aud a limited construction of the Constitution
of the United States.
During the Nullification struggle, Mr. Beatty
took an active part. In connection with
his brother in law, G. W. Williams, Col.
Thomas Williams and Gen. James Rogers,
he began the publication of the Yorkvdle
Patriot. The object these gentlemen had in
view by this publication, was to counteract
the Nullification doctrine and disseminate
Union sentiment. During the period of the
Nullification contest, Mr. Beatty devoted his ,
whole time and all the energies of his nature
to the political issues of the day. He talked,
made stump speeches, and wrote for the Patriot.
He encouraged the Union men, and
j:j In/v fittiin his nnwfir in disnnmfir.
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the Nullification party.
In 1832, he was a candidate for the House
of Representatit es, on the Union ticket, but
was beaten by 1/ votes.
In 1836, he was the Union candidate for
the position of State Senator for York county,
John Sitgreaves being his opponent. Mr.
Beatty received 956 votes, and Mr. Sitgreaves
952.
In 1864, Mr. Beatty was chosen a member
of the House of Representatives, and again
in 1874. >
Shortly after returning from college, Mr.
Beatty joined a troop of cavalry, and not
long afterwards was elected captain of a.n
artillery company. Subsequently he was
elected major, and then colonel of the Thirtyfourth
regiment of militia.
Although Col. Beatty began the study of
law soon after leaving college, he did not enter
upon its practice until the year 1846, at
which time the law firm of Williams <& ?
Beatty was formed. This copartnership continued
until 1866, when Col. Beatty was ^
elected district judge. When the office of
district judge was abolished, Col. Beatty returned
to the practice of law.
In his early life, Col. Beatty was skeptical
in his religious notions, but about the year