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and (facts. ? By a collision of two vessels on Connecti-f cut river, last week, about one hundred! lives were lost. ? At the beginning of the present century there were 3,000,000 copies of the Bible in existence; since then 116,000,000 more have been printed. ? If we could only keep politics out of religion, religion out of politics, and hypocrisy out of both, we should have an admirable world to live in. It is the unnatural admixture of these three fiery elements that makes couutless millions mourn. ? Judge T.J. Mackey has made application to have his name restored to the pensiou roll. He had drawn a pension on account of injuries received in the war with Mexico, but was dropped at the outbreak of the rebellion for entering the Confederate service. ? The German-American Independent Citizens' Association of New York City, has declared, by resolution, that though satisfied with the defeat of the third-termers by the nomination of Garfield, they regard the nomination of Arthur as a disreputable concession to the evil elements of his party. ? A liberal citizen of Philadelphia recently subscribed 6500 annually for ten years for the support of a fellowship in Washington and Lee University, of Lexington, Virginia. It is his purpose to give, in the meantime, such a sum as will yield a permanent income of 6500 annually for the fellowship. ? The increase in the Roman Catholic pop ulation in the United States in the last twenty years, has been about 3,800,000; that of priests has been 3,745; that of churches and chapels 4,022. The number of communicants in that church in the United States is reported at 6,500,000. ? A man who firmly believes that a second flood will come next November, to cover the whole face of the earth, is building an ark at Helena, Tex. The craft will hold fifty persons, with food for forty clays and forty nights, and he will take passeugers at 8500 each. Every other vessel, he explains, will be wrecked. ? The exact official figures of the May immigration at New York are now recorded at Washington, and the total reached is 55,250, Contrasting these figures with theiC-^OO that represent May preceding, we find that ihe immigration trebled this year; and this rate of increase has been going on ever since the begiuning of the year. ? In the whirl of political excitement, it may not be generally known that a national meeting of that peculiar religious people called Duukards, is now being held at Lanark, Illinois, and that it is a convocation of striking magnitude. Fully thirty thousand people are in attendance, and they arrived at the scene by train loads. Vast barracks have been prepared for the shelter of the religionists, and the scene at the encampment resembles an army. ? Seven years ago James Creese came to this country from England, leaving his wife, son and daughter behind him. His wife and son followed soon afler, and the family settled iienr New York ritv Their intended to send for the daughter as soon as possible, but just as the necessary funds had been saved, Mrs. Creese became sick and died, and the expense of her illness and burial ate up the fund. A second time the needful sum was accumulated when the son died and the money was again diverted. The father set himself to work to lay by another fund, and had succeeded within a few dollars, when he died. ? One of the greatest obstacles a South em newspaper has to encounter, in our opinion, results from the pernicious habit of lending out the paper to friends and neighbors. In nine cases out of ten the borrower would hpcnmp a gnhcprihnr if tin mimn nnnKln in M.*the news at Ids neighbor's expense. It is a hard struggle at best to sustain a newspaper in this section with the small and scattered population to get at, and those who persist in accommodating the borrowers are dealing the most deadly blow to the efforts of the newspaper men to give them good papers. Take almost any newspaper and it will be found that everybody in the locality is a reader, but consult the publisher's books and they are apt to signify quite the reverse. ? Economists and financial writers who are closely watching the balance of trade, will be interested in the fact that the exports of merchandise from New York for the past week, according to the custom house records rendered Tuesday, are the largest, by 8800,000, in the history of the port. The exact figures are 810,802,254, against 89,240,630 the previous week, and 86,315,753 the corresponding week in 1879. Though the great bulk of the shipments were raw products, such as breadstuffs, provisions, cotton, petroleum, tobacco, <fec., yet an unusually large proportion of manufactured articles appear on the list. If the exports keep on in this ratio for a few weeks longer, apprehensions as to gold shipments may be dismissed. The balance agaiust us will settle itself. ? The difficulties of getting together a company of amateurs for a drawing-room performance are simply maddening. Even when a dead level of silent discontent has been secured by a just distribution of parts, even when the ambitious younger brother has consented to assume the role of second footman, even when the comic man has resigned his song, the labor is but commencing. Excuses begin to pour in from all the performers. One has mysterious private busicess which demands his presence in Kamsehatka. Another has received a telegram from St. Petersburg, and is off without delay. A third comes with tears in his eyes to resign his part, and S it afterward turns out that he has been dis- i missed by the false lady of his affections. The mortality in the families of the remaining amateurs becomes abnormal and alarming. I The lives of aunts and uncles are despaired i of, distant cousins actually depart this life, i and that of a favorite grandmother of the j leading lady trembles in the balance. Every j minute brings its anxiety, every hour its tele-1 gram. ? A story of Andrew Johnson comes from i a Washington lady as told her by the former 1 President himself. It is well known how, in j early life, an attachment with a charming j woman was broken off by the opposition of j her mother and brothers, who did not con- ' sider the young tailor a good enough match for one of their family. Years after, when the mechanic was President, while stopping at a small town in Tenuessee, he was told that the woman of his first love was liviitnr flirxro onrl Ko rloQirflrl fA raoof lior Rir . lug Wlivt V ) I?I1U 1JV W I.4VVII MV? J the offices of Colonel Bell, his intimate friend,j the woman then married and the mother of four or five children, was brought into the parlor of the hotel with her daughter, not Knowing whom she was to meet. She saw the President and sprang towards him, he rushed to meet her and the old time lovers threw their arra3 around eacb other, with tears falling from their eyes, forgetful of Col. Bell and the daughter, who stood by, forgetting everything but the feelings of youth which had survived so long. President Johnson told the story afterward, with tearsjn his eyes, to a lady whose face reminded him of his first and truest love. ? A student named Davis from up in Cherokee county, graduated this session at Wake Forest. Five years ago he went to that college with five cents in pocket?all his money. They told him he'd better go back, but he vowed he'd stay arouud there and live on the wind but what he would go through. And stick he did. He cut wood about for citizens, aud finally all the professors gave him the contract to cut up their winter wood. Professor Royall waa in the chapel one morning and heard a terrible racket outside, like a canuon touched off, and it was Davis who had fiuished all of a pile of wood except some great knotty sticks that he split Jby boring holes and ramming in powder.! He cut six hundred and odd dollars out of; \ wood during his term, and graduated only : j twenty-five dollars in debt for the whole five i years. He learned to sing and taught sing-1 ing school in the country during his spare j Saturdays. That made him some money, j He graduated with honor, and the subject of j his commencement speech was "Hew to the i line, let the chips fall where they may." He has got his axe with him and intends to lay it away in his study, aud label it: "With this I cut my way through." He has already . been offered a Professorship in some college. ( Go it, Davis.?Reidsville (N. C.) Times. Unfertile (Shnjuiw., YORKVILLE, S. C.: TUiTPfirtiV VTOPNIND .TUNE 94.1880. , xuvhul/ux How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, ' county and State, iu 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 EnquirivR is delivered free ol postage to all subscribers residing in York county, 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 Figures.?Thedateon the "addresslabel" shows the time to which thesubscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. The National Democratic Convention met in Cincinnati on Tuesday. At the time we go to press no details have been received, though the names most prominently mentioned in connection with the first place on the ticket are Bayard, Seymour, Tilden and Judge Field. Tilden's position has been announced so often, and in so many contradictory ways, toat it would be difficult to say whether or not he is really a candidate for nomination ; but it may be safely assumed * ' j .. 1-:? that he teeis tnat it is uue iu mm mm. ue should again bo made the standard-bearer of the party. His utteraiices are ambiguous and equivocal. He asserts that his physical condition is good, stories to the contrary notwithstanding, and yet he gives out to interviewers the possibility that if his name should be brought before the Convention, a trusted friend will be present to read a letter from him, peremptorily declining the distinguished honor. We rvther suspect, however, that if nominated, he ill find it convenient to accept. It may be said ; lat Seymour occupies almost the same identic il position. Each has been before the people once, and occupying thepo sition of defeated candidates, they are somewhat modest in publishing their aspirations, tiougli it is plain that either would accept if nominated. A Cincinnati dispatch of Saturday says that delegates had already arrived in considerable number?, but of course any comparison nf views exnressed bv the representatives of ? ?I ?/ different sectic is of the country would amount only to the merest conjecture. A correspondent writing from the same fairly be said to be better than those of any other candidate. Aside from his splendid public record, it is urged that his spotless integrity would afford the strongest sort of contrast with the reputation of the Republican candidate. Mr. Tilden is undoubtedly in the race, but will be fiercely antagonized by John Kelly and his braves, together with many influential Democratic leaders in his own and other States. The Southern men are enthusiastic for either Bayard or Field, while the anti-Tilden se..';ment in New England inclines strongly in favor of Bayard." Capt. F. W. Dawson, of the News and Courier, and a delegate from this State to the Convention, telegraphs from Cincinnati, under date of last Sunday night, that the most noteworthy points of the political situation at that time, were "the chaotic condiiion of the New York delegations and the attitude of the Indiana delegation. It is asserted and not denied, tha t a letter of ex-Governor Tilden is in posession of his brother here, to be produced at the proper time, iu which letter the recluse of Gramercy Park decliues to allow his name to be placed in nomination for President. The belief is that he has a faint hope that in the spasm of remorseful generosity the Convention will then nominate him in spite of himself. Of this there is no pos sible chance, and there is a hard fight for the Tilden delegates. There is no telling where the New York delegation will go. It is con- , ceded that the Democrats must nominate a ticket that will carry New York and Indiana and make Connecticut and New Jersey safe. No man has yet been named, unless it be Kandall, to whom the two factions in New York would have given their whole votes. This, at least, is the New York view of it. It is urged also that no Western man can car-1: ry New York, but the Indiana delegation tell * me that they cannot undertake to carry their i State unless Hendricks be nominated for ] President; aud further that Heudricks will take no other nomination, uor will Indiana , be helped by the nomination of McDonald ] and Euglish for Vice-President. To insure j Indiana in October and November, Hendricks must be the standard-bearer. Between the ! ( two stools, New York and Indiana, the Dem-j, ocrats are a in precarious position ; but I am | ( confident that some means of accommodation will be reached." ! ( As to Senator Bayard's chances, Captain ( Dawson says: "Bayard has no bureau, no ! , barrel and no boom. Providence is expected | to take care of him, apparently, and there is | a sad lack of push aud activity. Yet his representatives claim for him 200 votes to { start with. Bayard has more real strength 1j than any other candidate, but it is allowed to i remain latent, while other candidates are } strained to the utmost and their best points | harped upon in and out of season. At this i ? writing it is anybody's race, mainly on ac- i coun" of Indiana, and the scattering of the i vote amongst five or six candidates." j A dispatch of <londay,from thesame source, ) says: Bayard's*.rength develops rapidly and his nomination is now looked for on the second t or third ballot. The only point made against ) him is his Dover speech, and in his favor it < is urged that if bis loyalty can be questioned, I no Democratic candidate can hope to pass t muster. The truth is that with thinking s men the Dover speech is taken as what it r really was, a pita for peace and Union, and j the Stalwarts' vote the Democrats cannot ex- j pect to get. In case Bayard cannot be uomi- t nated, Ex Governor English, of Connecticu t, t with McDonald, of Indiana, for Vice-Presj- i dent, looks like the coming man." ; f As a matter of interest in this connection, i Ye give a table of the two ballots had four ' rears ago when Tilden was nominated : i First. Second. < Tilden 417 635 1 Hendricks, 140 60 Hancock, 75 69 \ William Allen '. 56 64 Bayard 33 11 Joel Parker 18 18 Thurman 00 7 Total 739 744 , On the following day, June 29, Hon. Thos. k. Hendricks wa9 nominated for Vice-Presilent. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate on the 16th, Mr. Wiudom jpoke on the Exodus committee report, and was replied to by Mr. Lamar. Mr. Hampton, from the committee on Military affairs, reported favorably the House bill to loan tents to the Gate City Guards of Atlanta, Ga. In the House, the unfinished business of Saturday, which was the resolution regulating the counting of the electoral vote, being call-'1 Drtnn Ui'nnnn noon m tKoiV RlliKiiclop. ru, u1c ivcpuillivouo I^ouiuui illVli ukiwmwvvi ing tactics aud left the House without a quo rum, when the resolution was made the special order for the first Monday in December. Iu the Senate on the 17th, the House bill grantiug a pension to Mrs. Delia Benner, widow of Lt. H. H. Benner, of Compauy C, 18th U. S. Infantry, was passed. A number of other bills and resolutions, most of which were of a private character, were considered. The President returned to the Senate with his veto, the bill to regulate the appointment of Deputy Marshals, together with a message stating the reason why he felt it hisduty to veto it. Among the nominations sent by the President to the Senate, was the name of T. G. Fillette, of South Carolina, to be assistant paymaster in the U. S. Army. In the House the sundry civil appropriations bill was reported by the conference committee, aud the report adopted. The agricultural appropriation bill, appropriating $251,300, was also adopted. Nothing of importance was transacted in the Senate on the 18th, aud at 12 M., the lime agreed upon for adjournment, the Sen ..j: 1 hlc aujuuiiicu. No business of importance was transacted in the House, aud at 12 M., it adjourned. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Congress failed to make an appropriation for the King's Mountain Centennial. ? Capt. Reid H. McCosh died at his home in Rock Hill, on Sunday of last week, in the 47th year of his age. ? Forty-one candidates are announced for the various offices in Edgefield county, and more than thirty in Laurens. ? Governor Simpson and General Hagood are in attendance on the Cincinnati Convention. ? The negroes convicted of burning the Greenville Opera House, have been respited by Governor Simpson until August. ? The negroes in Pickens are constantly holding political meetings, and have organ ized a new party called the Laboriug Man's Party. ? It is asserted, quite positively, that Judge Townsend is attempting to organize an independent movement in Marlboro county, in opposition to- the Democratic party. ? Miles E. Mason, conductor of the sleeping car ou the Air Line Railroad, and son of Col. L. A. Mason, of Dallas, N. C., was crushed- IK ArixQgzul Wwooathe moving train and the platform at Cow-, pens, on Tuesday night of last week. ? The town of Aiken, at an election held on the 18th iust., decided against a proposed subscription of $5,000 in bonds to aid in the completion of the Edgefield, Trenton and Aiken Railroad, by a vote of 202 against 6G for subscription. ? Over three hundred men are employed in the machine shops of the South Carolina Railroad Company at Charleston. They are able to turu out every kind of work needed on the road, including the building of loco motives and passenger coaches. ? The Chester Bulletin is authority for the statement that a convention to nominate a Democratic candidate for Congress for the Fouth District, will be held at Chester the first week in September. Hon. J. H. Evins, the incumbent, aud Maj. T. W. Woodward, of Fairfield, are candidates for the nomination. ? In his charge to the grand jury of Lancaster, Judge Kershaw said the frequent occurernce of homicides iu this State is directly traceable to the practice of carrying concealed weapons. In their presentment, the grand iury denounce the practice and urge upon the General Assembly the necessity of proper legislation in the matter. ? Representative John H. Evins has written to the Cowpens Centennial Committee that, in response to the request of the South Carolina delegation in Congress, the Secretary of War has contracted with Mr. J. Q. A. Ward, of New York, for the bronze figure of the hero of Cowpens, and that it will be delivered in Spartanburg in good time for the centennial day, 17th January, 1881. ? The Edgefield Advertiser of last week says: To hear Mr, H. T. Wright, who is just back from the District Conference, tell of the splendid hospitality and noble brotherly love of Yorkville, is something calculated to toork iin nno's faith in linmnn nnflirft Hft ~vv "r - ? jays, in speaking to us on the subject: "It ivas simply spleudid and complete. Indeed, hospitality and brotherly love could go no further." 1 ? The grand jury of Laurens, at the late ] ;erra of court for that county, recommended i die passage of an ordinance prohibiting the I carrying of concealed weapons in the town i >f Laurens, and that the Legislature be peti- < dotted to pass such a law "as will effectually 1 dieck and put a stop to the carrying of con- ] sealed weapons and the sale and abuse of in- < oxieating liquors throughout our entire coun- < y" i ? The Aiken Journal has the following to j say about the Blackville and Barnwell Rail- | road: "This road was graded twenty five , fears ago, It has been very recently finished, I | uid the following we are told is its condition ; j ] die track is 4 by 6, wooden rails, one old I i shifting engine and two box cars. When the j i wind is favorable, the trip of ten miles is i ] made in about one hour and a half. A boy | { s carried along to open gates, as the train i i aasses through the different plantations." ? A fiendish negro named Joe Brier at- [' ;etnpted to commit an outrage on a little j < white girl in Greenville county last week, i f luring the absence of her parents from home ; j j iut owing to the presence of some smaller | :hildren in the house, whose assistance was j j lununoned, he desistul his dastardly attempt ! , tnd left the house. Upon the return of her i nirents the little girl made known the beast-; I y attempts of the negro, and at once the fa- j 1 her consulted with his neighbors, who formed j i committee of fifteen to investigate the case j ^ ind determine what action to take. After a f ull investigation a vote was taken as to wh#t g lisposiiion should be made with the fiend, j which stood seven for hanging and eight for allowing the law to take its course. The negro was then sent to Greenville, and after a preliminary examination before a Trial Justice, was committed to jail in default of bail fixed at $1,000. ? Walter S. Lynch, formerly, a messenger of the Southern Express Company, was tried at Hampton last week, on the charge of stealing a package containing $25,000, with which he was entrusted in November, 1878, while in the employ of the Express Company as a messenger between Yeraassee, on the Port Royal Railroad, and Augusta, Ga. The money was sent from Charleston by G. W. Williams & Co. Lynch claims to have lost the package. The trial of the case occupied several days, but the jury, after an absence of about twenty-five minutes from the court room, rendered a verdict of not guilty on all the counts of the indictment. ? The interesting report of Mr. J. F. Ellie, of the United States Fish Commission, gives an account of his operations iu distributing young fish in the streams of this State. In May Mr. Ellis was sent South with 2,000,000 fish. At Charlotte he turned over twenty-six cans, containing 750,000 fish, which were deposited in the streams crossed by the Air Line Railroad. The fish from thirteen of the cans wete deposited in the Broad river near Gaffney's Station, and the other thirteen cans in Seneca river near Seneca city. About 60,000 fish were planted in the Catawba river at the railroad crossing not far from Rock Hill in York county, and 300,000 fish were turned over to Col. Butler at Columbia. ? In an interview with the reporter of the Greenville News on Friday, about the Cincinnati nominations, Governor Simpson said that he had been for years in favor of Bayard, and had nominated him in 1876 as the best and most available candidate the party could put forth. His firm opinion was that Bayard was the best candidate to nominate against Garfield, and he thought he would be. He did not consider Tilden's chances good, as there was so much opposition to him in the South. Next to Bayard, he preferred Field, who was developing considerable strength. Seymour would be au excellent candidate if he would consent to run. Garfield's connection with the Credit Mobilier, Sanborn aud DeGolyer frauds, rendered him peculiarly open to attack. He was glad that the Republican Convention refused to nominate Grant. In so doing, it carried out an assertion he had constantly made, that the country was in no danger of an empire. He thought the prospects of the Democracy excellent with Bayard, and had faith in his nomination. NORTH CAROLINA. NEWS. ? The county commissioners of Catawba county refuse to grant retail liquor license. ? The Charlotte Democrat says that good rains in that section last week have been beneficial to crops, and that cotton never looked better. ? A severe hurricane and hail storm passed over a portion of Mecklenburg county, in the neighborhood of Tuckasege ford, last week. Houses and barns in its track were unroofed aud trees blown down. ? Commencement exercises at Davidson College closed last week. Among the graduates were the following from South Carolina : W. B. Jennings, Bennettsville; H. B. Zernow, Charleston ; T. H. DeGraffenreid, .Chester. _ ? . ? The Gastonia Gazette of Saturday says: A boy named Joseph Ford, was arownea in South Fork, at the Air-Line Railroad bridge in this county, on Monday, the 14th inst. It seems a party of boys went bathing, and a colored boy was swimming with little Joe on his back, and in some-way the latter was drowned. He was about six years old. ? Senator Vance was married to Mrs. Florence S. Martin, in Oldham county, Kentucky, on Weduesday evening of last week. The ceremony was performed by Rt. Rev. Bishop McCloskey, of the Roman Catholic church. The bride is the widow of John Martin, formerly a prominent pork merchant of Louisville, Ky. ? At a recent meeting of tho hoard of Aldermen of Charlotte, the price for retail license to sell liquor was raised from $125 to $500, and wholesale license from $100 to $500. The ordinance was also amended so as to apply to druggists for the sale, at retail, of wines, cordials, malt and spirituous liquors on prescriptions or otherwise. ? The State Democratic Convention which met in Raleigh on Thursday last, was the largest and most enthusiastic ever held in the State. There were fully fifteen hundred delegates present, and so large was the attendance that no building in Raleigh could accommodate them, and the meeting was called to order iu the public square in front ot the capitol. JucUre Fowle was the principal competitor of Gov. Jarvis for nomination for Governor, though Hon. A. M. Scales was also placed in nomination. Jarvis was elected by a majority of sixty on the first ballot. The balance of the State ticket is made up as follows: Lieut-Governor?James L. RobinBon ; Secretary of State?Wm. L. Saunders ; Attorney General?Thos. S. Kenan ; State Treasurer?J. M. Worth ; Auditor?W. P. Roberts ; Supt. Public Instruction?J. C. Scarborough. Gen. J. M. Leach and F. H. Busbee were selected as electors at large on the Presidential ticket. MERE-MENTION. It is predicted that the Cincinnati Convention will last three days. The business part of Sparksville, Miss., was burned last Saturday, including the Court House and Odd Fellows' Hall. L?ss, 8100,000 ; insurance, 830,000. Gen. McDowell has been ordered to prevent any invasion of Mexico by armed forces in violation of neutrality laws. The census will show that Philalelphia has a population of over nine hundred thousand.,",,,,,*On Monday of last iveek there was snow in Minnesota, and the following day the weather was cold and raw ;hroughout the North-west. General lohn A. Sutter, the first discoverer of gold in California, died in Washington, on Friday | last.' "..The proper pronunciation of the j aarae of Senator Bayard, is By ard. It j is said that the amount of money paid for l iquor during the Republican Convention at j Chicago, would buy bread for Ireland for a '' pear. A negro woman in Wilmington, N. C., gave birth last week to three children, j The first was born on Friday night, the sec-1; md on Saturday night, and the third on !! Sunday night. Currie, the Texas bully, . who murdered Porter, the actor, at Marshall, | j Texas, a year or more ago, was tried last ( week, and acquitted on the ground of insan j ty. The United States pays 830,000,000 pearly for pensions. Mississippi was the j Danner cotton State last year, raising 75,000 1 iales more than Texas, which stood next on he list. Most of the States have de-' < dared in favor of the two-thirds rule in ma- ] ting nominations at Cincinnati. It is ! bought that the session of the Cincinnati!. Convention will be a short one. There is no ] lerjous contest except in the New York dele- j jation, and it will not take long to settle that, i LOCAL AFFAIRS. 1 , ( NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. H. P. Adickes, Jr.?As Regards Cost. Kennedy Bros. A Barron?Cost, Cost. Dobson A Parish?Hams and Breakfast StripsFlour?Coffee and Sugar?Tobacco?Corn 8taroh, Ac. Hunter A Oates?The Battle has commenced in earnest. J. M. Adams?At and Below Cost?Oil Stoves. M. Strauss?At Cost, At Cost. T. M. Dobson?Selling at Cost until July 1st. Mrs. Fannie L. Dobson?Selling at Cost. J. J. 8mith A Co.?At Cost! At Cost!! Latimer A Hemphill?Qrand Closing Out, for the Next Twenty Days, At Cost, for Cash?Millinery. B. T. Wheeler?Wagons. L. M. Grist?Iron Safe for Sale. AN OLD'WOMAN. Col. W. H. McCorkle, census enumerator for York township, reports having met a colored woman one hundred and fifteen years old. Her name is Anarchy Taylor. She is livinor nn \fr John A T.atta's farm, and with her is her son of 80 years, the youngest of eighteen children. COMMITTED TO JAIL. On Saturday afternoon last, Nelson Thomasson, colored, was committed to jail, on account of attacks of lunacy to which he has been occasionally subject since last summer, when he was shocked by lightning. He became so violent, Saturday, that it was deemed proj>er to lock him up. CIRCUIT COURT. Circuit Court for York county, his Honor Judge Kershaw to preside, will convene next Monday. It is probable that the sessions docket will be light. There are but two ]>ersons in jail for trial, viz.: James Crump, colored, 011 the charge of larceny; and Sam Moore, colored, for assault and battery. SKETCH OF KING'S MOUNTAIN. We have just issued, in pamphlet form, a sketch of the Battle of King's Mountain, by Rev. Robert Latban, and will fill orders for the same at the following rates : Single copy, 15 cents; per dozen, $1.50; per hundred, 0.00. Orders by mail will be promptly filled at the above prices. OUR CLUBBING RATES. To clubs of two or more names, entered on our books and paid for at the same time, the Enquirer will be furnished one year for $2 to each subscriber. Single subscriptions, $2.50 l>er annum in advance. All persons who subscribe for one year, between this date and the first of October next, will be entitled to a chance in our prize drawing. THE WHEAT CROP. Wheat thrashing has commenced in this section. From Sheriff Glenn, whose machine has .? fa-ur f?rni?H nniniiiit.iinr to aliout 700 bushels, we learn that the rust proof variety is yielding very well, but other kinds are light. He says red oats are the finest he has everseen, but other varieties of this grain are not so good. MILITARY ENCAMPMENT. About twenty-five members of the Jenkins Rifles propose to visit Cleveland Mineral Springs next month and go into military encampment for a few days in the vicinity of that watering place. They will go provided with tents and necessary camp equipage, and the camp will be under regular military discipline and regulation. THE SHOOTING CONTEST. In the shooting contest last Friday among the members of the Jenkins Rifles, the plume I was won by Sergt. James Timme, who scored j 17 in a possible 25. The four next highest scores were as follows : L. George Grist, 14; Sergt. "VV. H. Herndon, 13 ; H. 11. Beard and Kirk Lowry, 12 each. The distance was 200 yards, five rounds. The Cadets of King's Mountain Military School participated in the contest, though not in competition with the Rifles. KNIGHTS OF HONOR. At the regular meeting of Home Relief Lodge No. 389, Knights of Honor, on Friday evening last, the following officers were elected to serve the ensuing term : Dictator?II. W. Hope ; Vice Dictator?J. R. Gardner: Assistant Dictator?J. F. Oates ; Chaplain?T. C. Dunlap; Guide?A. Springs Withers ; Reporter?A. W. Ingold; Financial Reporter?G. W. S. Hart; Treasurer?J. C. Kuykendal; Guardian?J. G. Ferguson ; Sentinel?A. Cody; Medical Examiner?Dr. J. F. Lindsay. ROCK HILL CORNET BAND. The Rock Hill Silver Comet Band arrived in their band wagon Tuesday evening, and went from here yesterday to King's Mountain to furnish music for the occasion of laying the corner stone of the monument. They returned by way of this place and remained here last night. During the evening they rendered several fine selections, much to the enjoyment of the citizens. The band is composed of gentlemen of fine musical talent and is organized as follows: Iredell Jones, Captain; R. H. Hope, Leader; W. M. Steele, Robert Frew, W. C. Hutchison, M. A. Iiattaree, John Anderson, Ed. Robinson, J. M. Robinson, and R. J. Hagins. DEATH OF A FORME IT CITIZEN. A letter from Louisiana, Mo., of the 7th of May says : 'One of the oldest and best-known citizens of Pike county, died last night?James E. Glenn, Esq. Erysipelas was the immediate cause of his death. Mr. Glenn was about 90 years of age. He had long been a prominent citizen of this city. For thirty consecutive years he was constable of this township, and he had held many other positions." Mr. Glenn was a native of York county. He was the uncle of Sheriff Glenn, and soon after the war of 1812, in which he served as a sold ier from this county in Capt. Kendricks' company, he emigrated to the West. THE KILLED AT KING'S MOUNTAIN. In the battle of King's Mountain, isd were killed on the American side, of whom the names of 19 have been handed down as follows: Staff?Col. James Williams, Major William Chronicle. Captains?Andrew Edmonson, William Edmonson, John Mattocks. Lieutenants?Wm. Blackburn, Reece Brown, Robert Edmonson, Thomas McCulloch. Ensigns?John Beat tie, James Corry, Na- 1 thaniel Dryden, Nathaniel Guist, James Laird, James Philips. Privates?William Robb, John Boyd, Henry Ilenigar, Duff. These names have been procured only by the most indefatigable labor and assiduous i inquiry, by Rev. Robert Lathan, who has ] for years made the history of the battle and ( incidents connected with it the subject of much study and research. { CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. I Services will be held in the churches next < Sunday as follows: , Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Thos. Gilbert, Pastor. In consequence of the absence of the J pastor, there will be no services at tin's church < next Sunday. Sunday-school in the afternoon. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. 1 Lathan, Pastor. The pastor will fill his regu- < lar appointment at Tirzah on Sunday next. . The time for Sunday-school at this church has been changed to the forenoon. The bell will ring at 9 A. M., and Sunday-school exercises 1 begin half an hour later. < Presbyterian?Services at the usual hours, \ morning and evening, by Rev. T. R. English. ( Sunday-school in the afternoon. j Episcopal?Church of the Good Shepherd? e Rev. 11. P. Johnson, Rector. Services at the j. usual hours, morning and afternoon. Sun-! J [lay-school at P. M. j COTTON'BLOOMS. ! t During the past few days we have received j rotton blooms from the following persons: 18 Baker Russell, colored, who works land of ] J. B. Ilood, in Bullock's Creek township; t plucked last Friday. | ( William Aiken, who lives two miles below j Philadelphia Church ; bloom pulled Saturday a morning, (r A. C. Sutton, of Fort Mill, sent us a bloom r under date of last Saturday, and writes that p Beveral of his neighbors have blooms, and the crops in that section are very promising. S. C. Johnston, of Clay Hill, encloses to ns a bloom taken from the field last Friday, and writes that corn and cotton crops in that neighborhood are very promising. D. T. Byers of Broad River township, sent us a bloom last Monday, taken from his field that morning. W. W. Carson and Wm. Quinn each have sent us blooms taken from their fields last Monday. personal'mention. Miss Bessie Gist returned last week from school at Gordonsville, Ya. We were pleased to meet Mr. A Williford, of Winnsboro, in town last Monday. Messrs. John S. Moore and Wm. I. Witherspoon, students at Fort Mill Academy; and Messrs. J. A. McLean, Jr., and J. E. Mason, students of Davidson College, are at home during vacation. Mr. L. W. Perrin, of Abbeville4 Past Grand Dictator. Knicrhts of Honor, has been here for several days on a visit to bis mother-in-law, Mrs. McCaw. At the meeting of Home Relief Lodge K. of H., last Friday night, Dictator Perrin was present, and imparted much information of a beneficial character to the meml)ers. The following officers of the State Grand Lodge, A. F. M., arrived here Tuesday afternoon, and accompanied the members of Philanthropic Lodge to King's Mountain, for the purpose of assisting in the ceremonies of laying the corner-stone of the proposed monument: Augustine T. Smythe, M. W. G. M., Charleston ; James F. Izlar, D. G. M., Orangeburg; Charles Inglesby, G. Sec., Charleston; J. B. McFadden, Sen. G. Deacon, Chester; Geo. G. Gill, Jun. G. Deacon, Chester. OLD MASONIC RECORDS. Among the books and papers of the late Col. W. C. Beatty, has been found the journal of the first lodge of Free and Accepted Masons instituted at Yorkville. The warrant .for this lodge was issued from the Grand Lodge at Charleston, under date of May 3,1794, and emnowered "Samuel Lowrie. Master: Mat tliew Buyers, Senior "Warden; and John Gallagher, Junior Warden, to open and hold a lodge designated by Number 32, at Yorkville, York county, in the State of South Carolina, or within 15 miles of the same." A dispensation of the ''same date, under the same seal, signed Thomas Stewart, Deputy Grand Master, and countersigned by Alexander Alexander, Grand Secretary, directed to William Polk, James Porter and John Long, or any two of them, authorized and empowered them, or any two of them, to install the said Samuel Lowrie, Master; Matthew Boyers, Senior Warden ; and John Gallagher, Junior Warden, of said Lodge No. 32, in the true and ancient Masonic form." According to the journal the lodge was duly instituted on the 10th of July, 1794, with the above officers, there being present 9 members of Phalanx Ledge, No. 7; 4 members of Pinckney Lodge, No. 25; and one member each from Rutherford Lodge, No. 7; Water Itee Creek, No. 15; Salem, No. 27; Cole Rain, No. 235; Londondary, No. 305; and Columbia, No. 10. Immediately after the Lodge was "constituted and the officers thereof, according to ancient custom and usage installed, the Entered Apprentice's Lodge was opened," and after being duly elected, John Allison, James Mitchell, and John Harris were duly received in the degree of Entered Apprentice. The Lodge then closed "and to stand closed until the first Monday in August, to meet again at this place at 12 o'clock." The next entry is under date of August 4, 1794, and records the proceedings of the Lodge which was held at John Eggleston's, "agreeable to the last adjournment." According to the closing paragraph of the journal of this meeting, as well as nearly every meeting thereafter, contained in this record, which extends to December 27, 1802, the fraternity in those days believed in creature comforts. This paragraph reads: "The bill of the night; 4 bottles of wine and decanters of whiskie, ?1, 1; 1 bottle wine afterwards, s 4, 8; making a total of ?1, 5, 8." At the next meeting, on September 5th, the Lodge took the name of Philanthropic, and under this name worked regularly until 1828, when the Lodge was suspended, and so remained until 1852, when it was re-instituted under the same name, but taking a different number. Few names occur in the proceedings familiar to the present generation. At the last meeting recorded in this book, (December 27, 1802) the following members were present: Jonathan Sutton, W. M.,pro tem; Alex. Ross, S. W. pro tem; Joseph Kerr, J. W., pro tem; James Mitchel, Treasurer; John McCall, Steward ; John Bates, Secretary; Samuel Walker, S. D.; George Ross, J. D.; Joseph Wallis, Tiler; James Martin, James Ditty, (visitor), Wm. Tomlinson, Wm. Smith, Arthur Ross, (visitor), Wm. E. Hayne, Andrew McCullogh, (visitor), Robert Faries, Hugh Finch, (visitor). The journal will be placed for preservation in the archives of Philanthropic Lodge No. 78, of Yorkville, the early history of which it forms so interesting and valuable a part. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Fire iu the Oil Regions. The town of Titusville, Pa., was destroyed by fire last week, the conflagration resulting from a stroke of lightning. The bolt struck an oil tank containing twenty thousand gallons, which immediately exploded with a terrific noise. A column of fire rose that appeared to be five hundred feet high. The oil then began to run in rivers of fire in every direction. In a short time two other great tanks, each holding thirty thonsand gallons, were also in flames. A small creek separated the site of these tanks from Titusville, and it was hoped that the town would escape. But soon the oil ran in a fierce, boiling torrent down the hill, and such were the bulk and fury of the mass that it 9wept clean across Oil Creek, and in a few moments the lower part of Titusville was in a blaze. But the conflagration increased, and the neighboring towns of Oil City and Corry were appealed to for help. It is said that the J ghallower parts of Oil Creek were actually ; licked dry by the heat, but more probably the < draughts of the engines caused the depletion. ( Help came from several other cities, bringing ( steam fire engines and firemen, but the conflagration v old not be controlled. Two hundred and fifty thousand barrels of oil, and . property to the amount of $1,500,000, were j destroyed. \ Srant's Opinion or me nomination. < Speaking of the probable difficulties 1 n the way of raising funds for a successful 1 jonduct of the campaign by the Republican t wrty, the Baltimore Sun says: ( The opinion is expressed generally that it f vill be hard work to collect money to carry I >n the Republican campaign, as the men s vho would have given large suras had either t jrant or Blaine been nominated, will now s >utton up their pockets. The most important md the most significant utterance which r ?as come from Gen. Grant, was expressed by 5 lira on his way through Chicago to Milwau* I cie, the day after the nomination. He said hat he regretted the position in which he [ tad been placed, but it was not of his own i eeking, and he intimated that he had been 1 ed to believe that there was no doubt of his 1 lomination. While he spoke highly of Gen. ( jarfield, and wanted all his friends to sap- e >ort him, he did not consider his election as i certainty. He said that if the Democrats \ nade a wise selectiou at Cincinnati, ?nd com- a nitted no mistake in regard to the financial e dank iu their platform, in that event he would consider the result ins involved in much doubt.^Gen. Grant evidently agreed with the statements made by his principal supporters, that he wag the only candidate whose election was a certainty. The Work of Congress. During the session of Congress just terminated, eleven hundred and ninety seven bills and joint resolutions were introduced in the Senate, and forty-two hundred and eight in the House. Duriug the first, or extra ses- ^ sion, seven hundred and seventy three, and twenty five hundred and twenty-six were introduced in the Senate and House respectively, making a grand total of eight thousand seven hundred and eighty-four bills and joint resolutions introduced during the present Congress. At the hour of adjournment there remained about eight hundred hills and joint resolutions on the Senate calendar and about fourteen buDdred on the House calendar. The amount appropriated during the session, < included in the regular annual appropriation bills, river and harbor b:lls, deficiency bills and miscellaneous appropriation bills, aggregates about $136,000,000. The following important public measures failed to receive final action and remain upon the calendar of the House, or on the Speaker's table: A bill to regulate customs duties on sugar; a bill to refu'ute customs duties, known as the "Tucker Tariff billa bill to facilitate the refunding of the national debt; a resolution for counting the votes of electors fox President and Vi ;e President; a bill to regulate the pay ^ an 1 number of United States supervisors.; a bih for the relief of Gem Fitz John Porter ; a bill to define the teinrs of office of chief supervisors of elections, and a bill for thj appointment of a tariff commission?the Eaton A bill. The Kellogg-Spofford case goes over without receiving fiual action in the Senate. Latest Crop Reports. " ' Under date of the 16th instant, the Departmeot of Agriculture at Washington issued the following statement as to the conditiou of the croj>8: Cotton returns indicate an increase in the area planted as follows: Forty countiee in North Carolina report an average increase of 6 per cent; nineteen couuries in South Carolina an increase of 7 per cent; seventy-five counties in Georgia, 8 per cent.; thirteen >!? T?I ,_:J? O fn>.. COll lJIl&tt 111 ? Kinua^ U pel UIU , urn bj uiu in Alabama, 8 per cent.; thirty-nine in Mis* aissippi an average of 3 per cent.; eighteen in Louisiana, 4 per cent.; seventy-three counties in Texas, 12 per cent; thirty in Arkansas,, 7 per cent, and twenty-five in Tennessee, 15 per cent The condition is reported better than last year at the same time, tfnd is 99 this year against 96 last year. The weather was favorable everywhere, but rather too much rain in Mississippi and Louisiana. Wheat.?The acreage of spring wheat shows a very slight increase over that sown last year. There is a decl*r?j in the area . sown in the States of Wisconsin and Iowa of nearly 12 per cent In the New England States the area hi the same. In Miunesota the increase is 1 per cent In Nebraska the increase is 9 per cent., and in California 12 per cent. The condition of winter wheat is remarkably good, and is 94, which is 4 per cent above the average of last year. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois report above 100 ; but Kansas only 72 on account of the protracted drought t Origin of the Term, "Dark Horse." The origin of the terra, "dark horse," as applied to probable candidates, brought out at the latest moment hy nominating conventions, is given by the Cincinnati Enquirer as follows: Once upou a time there lived in Tennessee an old chap named Sam Flynn, who traded in horses and generally contrived to own a speedy nag or two, which he used for racing purposes whenever he could pick up a "soft ma".ch" during his travels. The best of his flyers was a coal black stallion named Dusky Pete, who was almost a thoroughbred, and able to go in the best company. Flynn was * - > >i n.i.. t 1.: accustomed to samite reie wneu biiprouu^iug a town and ride him into it to give the impression that the animal was merely "a likely hoss," and not a flyer. One day he came to a town where a country race meeting was being held, and be entered Pete among the contestants. The people of the town, not knowing anything of his antecedents, and not being over impressed by his appearance, bucked up two or three local favorites heavily against him. Flynn moved quietly among the crowd, and took all the nets offered against his nag. Just as the "flyers" were being saddled for the race, old Judge McMinarnee, who was the turf oracle of that part of the State, arrived on the course, and was made one of the judges. As he took his place in the stand he was told how (he betting ran, . and the folly of the owner of the strange entry iu backing his "plug" so heavily. Running his eye over the track/the Judge instantly recognized Pete, and said: "Gentlemen, there's a dark horse in this race that will make some of you smell h? before supper." The Judge was right. Pete, the "dark horse," lay back until the three quarter pole was reached, when he went to the front with a rush, and won the puree and Flynn's bets with the greatest ease. _____ ? * ? Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, 8. C., June 21.?The dry weather in this section still continues, and vegetation is almost parched up. There has been but little rain in this county for a number of weeks. The cotton crop, however, is represented generally as lookinj well; but corn has suffered from the depre Jations of the cutworm. Fruit will be abundant Very fine peaches are already being sold in this market. Last Thursday a special coach, attached to the pa.-senger train on the C. C. A A. Railroad, filled with the young ladies of Colcmbia Female Colhge, in charge of Prof. J. L. JoneB and Prof. J. Walter Dickson, passed through here on an excursion to Washington, D. C. Thirty convicts arrived here last Friday from Columbia, and will be put to work on the Cheraw and Chester Railroad. A stockade for their safe keeping has been built at Catawba river. Messrs. 8. C. Walker, D. O'Neil and Duncan Cross will act as guards over the convicts. An inouest was held here on Saturday over the body of John N. Nowell, colored, aged ibout 22 years. He was employed on the gravel train of the C. C. & A. Railroad, and n attempting to get on a car while the train ivas in motion, fell between the car and tenier. Five care passed over him, killing him nstantly. The accident happened three miles lortb of town. ; A music stand for the accommodation of he Chester Silver Cornet Band, has been irected in East Lake Park, on Saluda street, tnd was occupied for the first time by the i >and last Friday night. They discoursed ome splendid music. The band will play at his stand every Friday evening during the ummer. Communion services will be held at Carnel Hill (Presbyterian) church, on the fourth Sunday of the present month. Services will >egin on the day preceding. A meeting in the interest of the Greenback >arty is to be held at Carrael Hill next Satirdaj. J. Hendrix McLane and C. W. kleynardie, Esq., will address the meeting. am informed that Mr. Meynardie is not a Jreenbacker, but will addres;3 the crowd, nevertheless. The closing exercises of the graded school vill take place next Friday. There are ibout 200 pupils in attendance, and the exrcises will doubtless be very interesting. Some of the census enumerators for Chester