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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.
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YORKVILLE, S. C.:
TUiTPfirtiV VTOPNIND .TUNE 94.1880. ,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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