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Scraps aiifl ?acts. I
? The Delaware peach crop promises a
large yield this year.
? In Texas corn is selling from the fields
at ten cents per bushel.
? Ireland is encouraged byprospects of un- '
usually fine crops. The potato crop is unu-1
sually promising.
? Over 50,000 persons hold ten-elevenths of j
the registered national debt; the other elev
euth is held byW. H. Vanderbilt.
? A mail rider and his horse, in Meriwether i
county, Ga., were both struck by lightning
aud killedl ast Friday.
? One division of thirteen clerks in the
treasury department have contributed $500
to the Republican campaign fund, an assessment
of 2 per cent, on their salaries. !
? Gertrude, one of the Hood orphans, adopted
by Mr. and Mrs. M. Joseph, of Columbus
Ga., died on the 5th instant at Warm Springs,
Meriwether county.
? Col. Pelton, nephew of ex-Governor Tildan
nnrl ujlirt iroinoit cnmo TintnripfV Hv hlS
connection with the Presidential campaign of
1876, died in New York last Thursday morning.
? McCorrajck & Go's., elevator, containing
50,000 bushels of oats, 10,000 bushels of corn
and 2,000 bushels of wheat was burned last
Saturday night. The fire was probably the
work of an incendiarv. The loss* is fully
$50,000.
? New Orleans once ranked among the
largest cities of the country. * It still grows,
but has already dropped from the fourth or
fifth place to the ninth. Its census just completed,
shows a total population of 215,239,
against 197,911 ten years ago.
? Gen. Walker, the superintendent of the
census, says that sufficient returns have been
received to indicate the total population of
the country, which, he thinks, is about 48,000,000,
which is an increase of 9,000,000
since 1870.
? Sacred concerts are given at Long Branch
ami Coney Island every Sunday night. A sacred
concert consists of twenty per centum of
oratorios played in waltz and polka time,
twenty per centum of "prayers" from operas,
twenty per centum of sentiment, and forty
per centum of "Pinafore" and "Sbco fly."
? The meteor which astonished Macon a
few nights ago was found embedded in the
forks of a tree several miles from town. It
seems to have fallen with great force, burying
itself so deep in the tree that it had to be cut
out with an axe. The meteor is about the
size of a man's head, and is an amalgamation
of iron and stone.
? An authority on horsemanship says that
it is folly for a lady to put herself iuto stays
so tight that her figure is not flexible while
she is on horse-back. A stuffed doll, he says,
~ 1. - - I '3 r\nf on o Kai-oo nnr ftnv
MJUI1IU lie V CI UC p u v uii a iiviQV) uv? ?j
woman who is not so loosely dressed that she
can lace her own boots and put up her own
hack hair. While the lady is on horseback
the circulatiou of her blood should never be
impeded.
? Many people are under the impression
that England stands at the head of all th$
Continental nations as regards the number
of periodical publications. Sucb is not the
case. Germany heads the list with 3,778 ;
England follows with 2,509, and France
comes next with 2,000. There is then a falling
off America boasts of 9,129, being more
than the three nations above named put together.
? Owen Buck, of Oceanica, Md., had a
vicious, kicking horse, which he was anxious
to sell. While trying to make a bargain
with a probable purchaser, he remarked :
"That horse is so gentle that my little girl
could go up behind him and twist his tail,
and he wouldn't raise a hoof." The girl
overheard this lie, took, it for the truth, tried
the experiment on being left alone with the
hoise, and was killed by a kick.
? The Rev. Barnas Sears, D. D. L.L. D.,
of Staunton, Va., died at Saratoga, N. Y.,
on the afternoon of the 6th instant, aged 77.
Dr. Sears had long been promiuent in educational
matters, was the author of several
books on educational subjects, and was for
many years president of Brown University at
Providence. When George Peabody gave
the fund to provide education in the South.
Dr. Sears was made its manager with an
advisory board of trustees. He then went
to live in Virginia. He went to Saratoga
about a month ago for his health.
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? v/u i uesuay tveuiug ui mot **cc&, view
Etis, negro, shot and killed Joseph H. Estis,
white, a young farmer near Cascade Village
in Pittsylvania county, Va. The altercation
grew put of an alleged assault by the deceased
upon a female relative of Clem on last Saturday
evening. The girl was getting vegetables 1
in the garden of the deceased against his
prohibition and he forcibly ejected her. In
their rencontre on Tuesday Clem attacked the
deceased with a shot gun on his own premises
and killed him. After receiving the fatal
shot Joseph H. Estis shot his assailant with a
pistol, woiinding him seriously in the leg.
Clem was arrested, is now in custody and
will be lawfully tried. He was formerly
owned and brought up by the father of the
deceased.
? Mr. Stodard, second mate of the brigantine
Fortunate, which arrived at Halifax, N.
S., on the 15th instant, reports that one night
while passing along the coast of Florida, on
a recent voyage, a singular phenomenon appeared
just after dark. Two columns of
fire were seen, seemingly about a mile atfay.
They were about fifty yards apart and rose
to the height of nearly 500 feet when they
arched towards each other, but did not meet.
They burned with a steady, dull red color,
and did not emit any sparks, but at the arching
portions emitted tremulous rays or pencillings
of light similar to the aurora borealis.
They appered in sight all night and gradually
faded away as daylight came. The weather
was beautifully clar and not a cloud was visible
during the entire night. On the following
day there was a tremendous thunder
storm, accompanied by a gale of wind, but no
rain.
? Atlanta, Ga., enjoyed last week, for the
first time, the novelty of a colored juryman
in the Superior Court of Fulton county, and
so peculiar was the sensation that the news
agent sent the following dispatch to the Associated
Press, under date of the 7th instant:
To-day in the Superior Court the first negro
iuror was called. He served with eleven
well-known white citizens, was made foreman
of the jury, and brought in a verdict of guilty
against a colored man charged with burglary.
In the next case he was refused by Asa Gunn,
colored, charged with murder, who said he
wanted no nigger to try hira for his life. The
incident caused much comment, and the addition
of the names of intelligent colored men
to jury levies in State courts is generally ap-;
nroved.
I
? In Danville, Va., last Friday night, !
Thomas Dejarnette entered a disreputable :
house and inquired for Mollie Dejarnette, an j
inmate thereof. She appeared, recognized !
him as her brother and at his request went!
with him to a private room. A few minutes |
afterward repeated pistol shots were heard ;
from the room. The police were called in
and found the door fastened. They broke it;
down and discovered the girl lying on the ,
floor weltering in blood, her brother standing !
by her- pistol in band. He immediately con- j
fessed having shot her and averred he had i
done it to wipe out the disgrace of his family ;
by his sister's couduct. He surrendered him- j
self to the officers and has been committed
to jail. He declares his willingness to accept
the penalty of the law. A medical examination
Bbowed that the girl was shot in ,
five places, two wounds at least being neces-1
sarily fatal, and that she cannot survive. I
8he protests that her brother was right in j
taking her life, and hegs that he be not pun- !
ished. On their separation after the tragedy j
the brother and sister embraced with fnutu- j
,al forgiveuess and tears of grief. The girl is i
only 17 years old and went wrong but a few j
months since. She is remarkably intelligent i
and fine looking. Her brother is about 20, !
and i9 a railroad agent and telegraph opera-1
tor at Brown's Summit, a station on the Rich* j
mond and Danville Railroad. The mother
is the widow of Dr. James Dejamette and
lives iu Caswell county, N. C., near Danville.
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YORKVIJLLE, S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 15. 1880.
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SOUTH (CAROLINA NEWS.
? The population of Abbeville county by
the recent census is officially given at 40,764,
? Mi'oa .Tnlin Jackson, daughter of "Stone
wall" Jackson, is visiting at Cheraw.
? The Spartan Rifles are reorganizing for
the Cowpens Centennial. Mr. Ed. Bacon
was elected captain.
? H. H. D. Byron has been appointed internal
revenue gauger for the District of
South Carolina.
? Fifteen arrests were made in the town of
Spartanburg on Saturday of last week. Disorderly
conduct and gambling were the general
charges.
? After the first of August, Benuettsville,
Central, Gaffuey City, Johnson's Depot, Society
Hill and Winnsboro will be money order
offices.
? Dr. James Beruey, a physician of Charles
ton, died in New York last Friday at the age
of 67. His body was sent to Montgomery,
Ala., for interment.
? The graud jury of Richland county recommeud
that all liquor licenses outside the
city of Columbia be fixed at $500 per annum
and that the recent laws against gambling be
rigidly enforced.
? The census gives the following populations
to the towns named : Edgefield, 809;
Union, 1,350; Orangeburg, 2,150; Winnsboro,
1,500; white population of Spartanburg,
1,700.
? Major John J. Salley, the oldest of a
large family of brothers, fell dead from apoplexy
at Orangeburg C. H., last Friday.
tie was aged 12, ana ms nome was suuuusia
miles from the Court House.
? The Democrats of Uoiou couuty, iu a
meeting held at the Cgurt House ou the 5th,
decided that the primary election for that
county shall be held on the 24th of August,
and that no Republicans should vote.
? Henry Manham's residence and store
house, in Marlboro county, were struck by
lightning and reduced to ashes one day last
week. All the furniture, jewelry and a large
supply of provisions were destroyed.
? The County Democratic Convention of
Newberry county met at the Court House on
Thursday last. There was a full attendance,
aud rules for conducting the primaries were
adopted.
? Speaking of ihe crops in Fairfield, the
Winnsboro News and Herald says: The
drought is breaking up over the whole county.
But the early corn is generally gone.
Much of it will not make a bushel to the
acre. Cotton is healthy but small.
? The negroes of Newberry had a kind of
celebration of the "Fourth," the principal
feature of which was a parade through the
streets by a party in funtastic costumes. The
Natioual colors were conspicuously absent
from the procession.
? Nine miles from Greenville last Saturday,
a negro named Henry Blassingame was killed
by Frank Nelson, white. According to
the testimony before the coroner's jury, Blassingame
was the aggressor. The slayer sent
word to the coronsr that he would appear and
surrender himself to the authorities.
? The Knights of Honor of Darlington
C. H., is the strongest organization in Darlington
county. They have under construction
one of the largest wooden buildings in
the town, which will be a convenient and
handsome one?over 100 feet in length, with
the lower story for a store, and the upper
one to be arranged with stage and other
equipments for a firs^-class opera hall.
? The Anderson Intelligencer of the 8th
says: The most cheering reports of the crop
prospects come to us from every section of
the county. Cotton everywhere is looking
very fine, and with favorable seasons will
make an unusually fine yield. Only the
most forward corn has suffered in the least for
rain, and as yet that has not been injured to
any considerable extent. The farmers all say
they never had better prospects, and are consequently
in high spirits.
? The storehouse together with all the
stock of merchandise and Dlantin? supplies
of Mr. J. W. Peebles, Sr., near Lawtonville, j
were consumed by fire on Wednesday night j
of last week. It is supposed that a burglary !
was committed about 12 o'clock P. M, and !
that the building was then fired to cover up j
all traces of the crime. Suspicion points to
several negroes in. that neighborhood.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The Democrats of the Eighth Congressional
district have re-norainated Hon. R. B.
Vance.
? That portion of the Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley Railroad west of Greensboro has
been located to Germantou, in Stokes county.
? It is rumored that ex-Governor Holden,
Republican Postmaster of Raleigh, will support
Hancock.
? At the late meeting of the North Carolina
Press Association, ex-Governor Holden
was unanimously elected to write a history of
journalism in that State.
? The campaign in North Carolina promises
to be exciting. The first speech by Governor
Jarvis was made at Burgaw, Pender
county, on the 5th.
? Levi F. Furr, of Stanley county, was
killed by a runaway team near Charlotte one
day last week. The other occupants of the
wagon were only slightly injured.
? In Greensboro, on Tuesday of last week,
Samuel M. Houston, a young mechanic, while
under the influence of liquor, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the bead with a
pistol.
? The First Regiment of the North Caroli
na State Guard will spend the first week of
August in encampment at Fort Macon. The
Secretary of War give9 them the use of the
fort and barracks.
? At a meeting of the Raleigh Light In-j
fantry on Tuesday of last week, it was unanimously
decided to attend the King's Moun- j
tain Centennial next October. The Charlotte
Grays, and the infantry company at Shoe
Heel have also recently decided to attend the
celebration.
? New North Carolina State Bonds have
been selling in New York at 71 to 75 cents
on the dollar. They are likely to be mate-1
rially increased now, the committee on securities
having recommended that they be
placed on the "regular list" of the Stock
Board of New York. They will be regular
ly called and known on the Stock Board as
North Carolina "consolidated four per cents."
? The suit of the American Union Telegraph
Company against the Wilmington and
Weldon, and Wilmington, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad Companies for the right
of way along the lines of said roads, was
decided in favor of the Telegraph Company
last Thursday, hy Judge McCoy at chambers
in Wilmington, and commissioners were ap
pointed to assess damages. An appeal from
the decision was overruled, but the case will
go to the Supreme Court under a writ of
certiorari.
? The State Republican Convention met in
Raleigh on Wednesday of last week, and
nominated the following ticket: For Governor,
R. P. Buxton of Cumberland ; for LieutGovernor,
Rufus Barringer of Mecklenburg ;
for Secretary of State, R. M. Norraent of
Robeson ; for Treasurer, Aaron D. Jenkins
of Gaston ; for Auditor, R. H. Cannon of
Hertford ; for Attorney General, Augustus
M. Moore of* Washington county ; for Superintendentof
Public Instruction, A. R. Black
of Moore. Oliver H. Dockery of Richmond
and Geo. B. Everett of Forsythe, Electors
for the State at large.
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POLITICAL NOTES.
? The Greeubackere profess to be con6dent
of carrying Maine, California, Wisconsin,
Tennessee, Texas and Mississippi. \
? The Indiauapolis Sentinel predicts that
Indiana will elect the Democratic ticket by
double the majority of 1876. N
? Since 1860 every presidential candidate
of the Republican party has been a Western
man, and every presidential candidate of the
T\ i.
.uemucruLs au ninsiem mau.
? The Chicago Times advises Hancock to
hold on to that commission as major-general,
and says Garfield knows enough to bold a
senatorship in hand until he has captured the
presidency "*i the bush.
? In the reorganization of the Indiana State
Democratic central committee, Governor Hendricks
has been placed on the committee, and
Hon. W. H. English will continue as chairman.
? The Philadelphia Prm calk for the withdrawal
of Simon B. Conover, the Republican
nominee for Governor of Florida. It sajs
his nomination has cast a blight on the Republican
campaign in that State.
? Gen. James B. Weaver, Greenback candidate
for President, inaugurated the canvass
in Alabama, by speaking at Scottsboro, in
that State, last Monday. He professes to
think his chances of election are equally as
good as those of Hancock or Garfield.
? The early elections this year are the following
: Alabama, first Monday in August;
Arkansas, first Monday of September ; Vermont,
first Tuesday of September ; Maine,
second Monday of September; Colorado, first
Tuesday of October; Indiana, Ohio and West
Virginia, second Tuesday of October.
? Colonel Forney, the veteran Philadelphia
editor, intends to support Gen. Hancock for
the Presidency. Forney has long been one of
the staunchest Republicans in Pennsylvania,
and his influence is very great. His advocacy
of Hancock will go far toward making
Pennsylvania a Democratic State in the pending
campaign.
? Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock is a grandson
of John Hancock, the renowned signer
nf the Declaration of Independence, and
President of the Continental Congress and of
the first Confederacy. He was probably
named for Gen. Winfield Scott, who won
proud laurels in the Indian and Mexican wars,
and who was a candidate for the Presidency,
against Franklin Pierce, iu 1852.
? At a meeting of the Kearneyites in San
Francisco on the 4th, there was a stormy
scene between the Greenback and Democratic
wings of the agitator's followers. A crossfire
of cheers and gipans was the result, and
at the close the Democratic faction made a
rush for Kearney, amid cries of "Hang him,"
etc. He was protected by the police, put into
a hack and driven off.
? The Baltimore Gazette reports that a gentleman
who arrived in Washington from the
White Sulphur Springs Friday, says that Senators
Cameron and Blaine, who are there,
have nothing whatever to do with each other.
The evident bad feeling between the two Republican
leaders is the subject of much gossip
aud comment at the springs. It is reported
that on one occasion Mr. Blaine directly
snubbed the Pennsylvania Senator.
? Among prominent Republicans who have
recently declared to gi-e their hearty support
to Hancock, are Hon. E. Joy Morris, of Philadelphia
; Leonard W. Jerome, ofNew York ;
George Bullock, a prominent manufacturer
of Pennsylvania; Col. Frank G. Noyes, of
\TOW H nmnshird unH Gen. Rnsenerans. The
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latter is residing in San Francisco, and will
be heard from frequently in the California
canvass.
? Mr. Weaver and his friends expect to
poll the full Greenback vote in Wisconsin for
their electoral ticket. This is pretty close on
to thirty thousand, and much more than twothirds
of it coines from the Republicans.
Hancock, it is claimed, will poll very nearly
the full Democratic vote, as not more than
five thousand will, it is thought, vote with the
Greenbackers. This calculation would give
the State to the Hancock electors, and prominent
Wisconsin Republicans freely admit
that the situation is not at all encouraging
for their side.
? On Thursday last, Hon. Alec. Stephens,
by invitation, addressed the citizens of Augusta,
Ga., making a stirring campaign speech
in tavor of the election of Hancock. His
words leave no doubt that he is thoroughly in
accord with the Democratic party, State and
National. He hails in the nomination of I
Gen, Hancock a return to the era of good j
feeling and an effacement of sectional bitter- j
ness. He recognises in it the signal for a
strong, aggressive and united assault upon .
that party which has abused its power and J
established most pernicious principles in home
affairs ; and he realizes that by the ranks of;
an undivided Democracy must that blow be i
dealt which shall strike dowu the euemies to ;
the Constitution and reestablish those principles
of the fathers. Mr. Stephens' arraign-1
ment of the Republican policy, as personated 1
by Gen. Garfield, was strong, and his appeals |
for Gen, Hancock, patriotic and effective. I
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Pinafore.
Jos. F. Wallace, C. C. C. Pleas.?Notice to Creditors
of King's Mountain Iron Company.
Also, to Creditors of Nancy B. Warren, deceased.
Also, to Creditors of Dr. R. L.
Love, deceased.
R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sales.
W. T. Massey, Secretary?Notice.
M. Strauss?Great Bargains. '
Latimer & Hemphill?And Still WeContinuey/
Jas. Mason, Sup't.?Change of Schedule. / t
J. M. Adams?Did You Ever. / /
Hunter & Oates?The Biggest Boom of All. /
John C. Kuykendal?Turnip Seed Paragraphs.
Hart <fc Hart, Plaintiffs' Attorneys?Notipfl to Defendants.
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Application for Charter. //
I. D. Witherspoon, Chairman?C6nnty Convention.
R. Lathan--Free School Notice.
D. S. Thorn burg?To the Public.
BROAD RIVR*R TOWN8HIP.
From Mr. E. F. Bell, census enumerator
for Broad River township, we learn that the
population of that township is 2,246.
PICNIC AT CLAY HILL.
The people of Clay Hill and vicinity will
have a picnic at that place on Thursday next,
the 22nd instant, for an invitation to which
we return our thanks.
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COTTON SHIPMENTS.
Since the 1st of last September, up to the
first of July, there have been shipped over the
Chester and Lenoir Railroad from the depot
in Yorkville 6,594 bales of cotton.
HAIL STORM.
A hail storm occurred in the vicinity of
Clover last Saturday, which was very destructive
to the crops in it/5 path. Some of the
fields were so badly damaged that from this
cause alone not more than a third of a crop
can be expected.
CALL OP A PASTOR.
At a meeting of the congregation of the
Presbyterian Church of this place last Thursday
evening, for the purpose of formally making
a call for a pastor of the congregation,
Rev. T. R. English was unanimously chosen.
Mr. English has been ministering to this
church for several weeks past and during his
residence here has made many warm friends.
THE KING'S MOUNTAIN MONUMENT.
The Raleigh Obsercer. says that 011 last
Saturday a warrant for $1,000 was drawn on
the State Treinsurer on account of the appronriivt.irm
hv that State for a monument at
King's Mountain. The Charlotte Observer of
the same date says: "Mr. F. A. MeNinch
came up from King's Mountain yesterday,
where he has been for several weeks engaged
\in constructing the King's Mountain Centennial
Monument according to contract. lie
reports the stone all on the grdhnd and the
moiiUment half completed. It will be finished
some time before the centennial celebration."
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YHE YORK DEMOCRACY.
An important meeting of the York Democratic
Executive Committee was held in the
Court House Nlast Tuesday, the proceedings of
which are published in this issue. From
Miese it will be seen that Saturday, July 24
is the day appointed for the reorganization
of Clubs and electing delegates to the County
Convention. The election on the question of
primary or convention will be held on August
7, and the County Convention will assemble/
August 21. The chairman of the committee/
also publishes a notice relative to the Congre*
sional nominating Convention. /
CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY.
Services will be held in the churches next
Sunday as follows: \ \
Episcopal?Church of the Good Shepberd-4
Rev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. The Rectbr. is)
in attendance upon the Greenville Convoda:
tion, which met in Rock Hill yesterday. He1
will officiate in the Church of Our Saviour at
Rock Hill on Sunday. Sunday-school at 3?
P. M.
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Tlios. Gilbert,
Pastor. Services at Philadelphia in the forenoon
; at Yorkville in the evening. Sundayschool
in the afternoon.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R.
Lathan, Pastor. Sunday-school at A. M.
Services at 104 A. M.
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jrresoyterian?nev. ?. iv. .caiguau, xiwiui.
Services at the usual hours, morning and afternoon.
Sunday-school in the afternoon.
PINAFORE.
Yorkville is to have a representation of Pinafore
on Friday evening, 23rd instant, the proceeds
of which are to be devoted to beneficent
objects. To properly present this operetta on
the amateur stage requires a good deal of
labor ai:d perseverance on the part of the manager
ana the actors; but this has been overcome,
and as the best musical talent in town
will be employed, it may be safely predicted
that the entertainment will be a success. We
are assured by the management that nothing
shall be lacking in the way of stage effects
and instrumental accompaniment to render
the representation complete. See advertisement.
? - GEN.
SUMTER'S BODY SERVANT.
Near Pattonville, Lamar county, Texas,
there lives an old negro man known as "Uncle
Mack Sumter," who claims to have been
a servant of Gen. Sumter of South Carolina,
during the Revolutionary war. A gentleman
recently visited the old negro, whom he rep
resents as polite and agreeable, and greatly
respected by the people of Lamar county, who
have confidence in the old man's statements,
lie gives the following as his history, which
may be of interest to South Carolina readers:
I was waiting-boy for Gen. Sumter. I
drove his family carriage. After Gen. Sumter's
death I belonged to his son Tommie
Sumter. Gen. Sumter had no daughters. At
his death he was buried in the garden on his
own premises, about thirty miles from Camden.
I saw Gen. LaFayette when he visited
Carolina, and helped to spread the sheets for
him to walk upon in the streets of Camden.
Gen. Sumter wore his hair about fifteen
inches long. It was very white, and he kept
it plaited. Massie Touimie Sumter's eldest
son killed himself by cutting his throat. His
second son was named Francis Marion, and
his third De'.arge. His three daughters were
named Fannie, Natherly, and Tifannie.
I was sold by the Sumter family to Junnie
Diz, who gave me to his daughter Sallie Knotts.
I was then sold to Mr. Sampson, and by him
to Starke Messels, who brought me to Texas.
At one time during the war, while I was a
boy, I was carrying water to Gen. LaFayette
from the spring, and not accustomed to seeing
so many men together, I did not move quicklv
unniifrh to suit Gen. LaFayette, and he
slapped me with his sword.
After Gen. Sumter was taken sick lie imagined
he was still in the army, and he had
me to bring his horse "Postboy" and hitch
him close to the door, where he could see him
all the time. "Postboy" was a yellow horse
with flaxen mane and tail. I think from what
Massa Tommie told me, when he gave me
away, that I am 115 years old.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Miss Eliza Riddle, of Zeno, is visiting relatives
in town.
Dr. Miles J. Walker is at the home of his
father in this place quite sick.
Misses Mamie Currell and Annie Rawlinson
have returned home from Virginia, where they
have been attending school.
Miss S. R. Pendleton, who was engaged as
a teacher in Mrs. Metts' school for young !
ladies, has returned to her home in Virginia. I
We were pleased to meet J. S. R. Thomson, |
Esq., of Spartanburg, who with his family was
here several days last week on a visit.
Messrs. Sam. L. Latimer, W. R. Carroll,
John M. Rawlinson, Sam L. Miller, and j
Misses Fannie Miller and Freddie Alexander, 1
and James Jefleries Esq,, and daughter Miss
Mattie, are at Cleveland Mineral Springs,
Mr, W. Spenser Currell is home 011 a visit,
having been teaching in Tennessee. We learn
that he has accepted a fellowship in Washings
ton-Lee University and will enter upon the
duties of a teacher in that institution at the
beginning of next session,
The advantages of Yorkville as a summer
resort are l>eginning to be recognized
abroad. Besides families already noticed as
having come from a distance to spend the
summer here, last week Mrs. Kent Bisell,
five children and nurse, and Misses L. M. !
Sanchez and M. B. Sanchez, of Augusta, arrived
and engaged boarding for the summer
with Mrs. Metts.
Dr. "VV. R. Vaughn, of Gordonsville, Va.,
principal of the female school in that town,
was here last week. He has been recently
elected prinppStTofVlie Limestone Female
?Cnool n^lJartanburg cbunty, and his visit to
this^fate was for the purpose of seeing the
todstees of that instituuqn with the view
of deciding whether or not t<5 aceepl LlflTpo^
sition.
YORK EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
The Democratic Executive Committee of
l orK county met in tne uourt House on ruesday
last, agreeably to the call of I. D. "Witherspoon,
County Chairman, every member except
two being present.
The Chairman read the proceedings of the
County Convention, held on the 3rd of last
May, and stated that among other objects of
the present meeting of the committee would
be to determine upon a plan of submitting to
the Democratic voters to decide upon which
they would adopt, the convention or primary
system in making nominations for candidates
to be voted for in the coming election.
The Chairman then read a communication
from W. T. Massey, Secretary of Ebenezer
Democratic Club, asking recognition by the
Executive Committee of that Club and admitting
it to reprentation in the meetings of the
Executive Committee.
After discussion of the subject, Mr. J. R.
London submitted the following resolution,
which was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the committee present
from Elienezer Township Club lie invited to
apj>ear before the Executive Committee and
submit their claims to the Executive Committee
for representation as a Club in future county
conventions.
The representatives of Ebenezer Club were
then invited to the meeting, and after their
appearance in the room, Mr. London offered
the following which was adopted:
Resolved, That li. C. Pressley. Esq., elected
by the Ebenezer Democratic Club as a member
of the Executive Committee, be invited to the
meetings of the committee, as a matter of
courtesy, until the question of his admission
as such member of the Executive Committee
be decided by a county convention.
Mr. Pressley addressed the meeting, urging
the claims of the Ebenezer Club to representation
on the committee, and after a full discussion
of the subject, it was agreed that
Ebenezer Club should submit a plan of ;wljustment
to the Rock Hill Club, and if this
plan should be accepted they would then withdraw
their claim to representation for the
present.
Thff next business announced was the election
of. a secretary, to which position Dr. Jno.
C. Kuykendal was unanimously elected.
The following plan was then adopted for
ordering an election 011 the question of primary
or convention plan of making county nominations,
under resolution of the convention,
May 3, 1880:
1. That the various Democratic Clubs assembled
at their usual places of meeting, on
Saturday, July 24, 1880, at 3 o'clock P. M.,
and reorganize by electing officers for the approaching
campaign; clubs organized during
#be venr 1880 to retain their organization.
2. That on Saturday, August 7,1880, at the
usual places of Club meeting, there shall bean
election to determine by a majority vote the
mode of nominating county officers; the polls
to be opened at 9 o'clock A. M., and closed at
4 o'clock P. M., when the managers shall publicly
count the votes and declare the result.
Each vote cast shall be written or printed, as
follows: "For Convention," or "For Primary."
3. The election shall be conducted by two
managers, members of the club, if practicable
of opposing views, to be selected by the Executive
Committee, and a third member to be
eldeted by the Club at the last meeting of the
Club prior to the election, any two of whom
shall be^ a quorum. The managers, before
opening the polls, shall furnish to the President
of the Club a pledge in writing, upon
honor, to conduct the election in such impartial
manner as fairly to represent the wishes
of a majority of the voters upon the issue sul>mitted.
TIip managers or a majority of them,
shall select a clerk from whom they sliall require
a similar obligation. There shaUte a
poll-list and tally kept, and preserved at eftch
voting place. ^
4. All Democrats, qualified by law to vote,
and who are known by a member or members
of the Club in good faith to have voted the
Democratic ticket in 1876 or 1878, shall be
entitled to vote at this election. All persons
who have attained their majority since said
elections, or who have since become qualified
by law to vote, and who are known by members
of the Club to be in full sympathy with
the Democratic party, shall also be allowed to
vote in this election. Before voting, the managers
shall require each voter to male the
following affirmation : I solemnly affirm that
under the rules governing this election, I am
qualified to vote; that I have not voted at any
other precinct, and that I will abide by the
results of this election and sustain the nominations
made in accordance therewith. Any
Democrat shall have the right to challenge
the vote of any person whom he has good reason
to believe is disqualified from voting.
After stating his reasons for the challenge the
managers shall decide upon the question, and
such decision shall be final in the case.
5. The managers shall, under their hands,
certify the result of the election from the poll
and tally-list, and forward a certificate thereof
to J. C. Kuykendal, Secretary of the Executive
Committee, at Yorkville, by 12 o'clock M., on
the following Tuesday, August 10th, 1880, that
the Executive Committee may tabulate the returns
and declare the mode of nomination
adopted by a majority of the Democratic party
in York county, voting in said election.
The following resolution was offered by Dr.
J. C. Kuykendal and unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the Executive Committee
recognizing the great importance of the coming
election to decide the mode of nominating our
county and Legislative officers, and l)elieving
that a full and free expression of thttapinion
of the voters, through their ballots, on the
day of election will tend to allay any dissatisfaction
with the result that might arise, if
they, through neglect or indifference, should
fail to go to the polls, earnestly urge the people
to go out to their respective precints on
the day of election, and by their ballots make
the result?whatever it may be?the voice of
the majority of the entire Democratic vote of
the county.
Jfo other business being presented, the meeting
adjourned.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE DUEL.
The recent hostile meeting, which was unfortunately
fatal to one of the parties, between
Col. Shannon and Col. Cash, has created considerable
excitement in the State, and is the
subject of much comment by the press, not
only in South Carolina, but in other States.
This is due, probably, to the fact that there
have been few fatal duels in the United States
in recent years, and further to the advanced
age of Col. Shannon who fell in this one, and
also that there exists on the statue books of
South Carolina stringent laws for the punishment
of those who engage in the practice.
In this case it remains to be seen whether or
not the law will remain a dead letter.
Besides the account of the affair published
on the first page of this issue, we take the
following from a letter of the 8th, written by
a staff correspondent of the New and Courier,
who visited the scene of the hostile meeting:
At 11 o'clock last night, I called on Mr.
G. J. McCown, one of Col. Cash's friends in
the affair on Monday, at his residence ten ,
miles distant from Darlington Court House, j
and secured the following statement of what;
he witnessed on the duelling ground. Mr.j
McCown said: I was off at some distance
from the seconds when they met in the field
to make arrangements. They stepped off the
distance, I think Mr. Sanders did the step-1
ping. In about twenty minutes the priucl-1
pals walked and took their positions, Col.!
Cash standing down the river which was south
and Col. Shannon up the river. The prinoi- j
pals stood parallel with the river, Col. Shan-,
non's second being stationed to the right in :
his rear and Col. Cash's second standing on
the left opposite Col. Shannon's second. Col.
Shannon wore a black alpaca sack coat, white
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vest and light pants. Col. Cash had on a
black frock coat, white vest and white pants.
Before the word was given the principals
bade their seconds good bye, shaking hands
with them. Col. Cash kissed his wife's picture,
which he carried in bis pocket. At the
word one Col. Shannon fired, his ball striking
two-thirds of the distance between himself
aud Col. Cash, and on a direct line with Col.
Cash's body. At the word two Col. Cash fired,
htejball- striking Col. Shannon in the right
'Breast, about the nipple, and passed into the
body about two inches above the heart. Col.
Shannon stood some two seccuds or more in
an erect position, and, turning to the right,
dropped to his knees. After the usual formalities
Col. Cash and his party left the held.
Both parties seemed to. be very cool and collected.
Col. Shaunou looked pale, but exhibited
no fear. Drs. Wallace, Galloway and
Lee at once rushed to Col. Shannon after the
firing, and about five minutes after he bad
fallen the wound was probed. He did not
struggle and seemed to die without any pain.
I was in about twenty steps of the parties
when the duel took place. There were*bout
one hundred people standing around from one
to five hundred yards from the duel, nearly
all of whom rushed to the ground on the discharge
of the pistols and the fall of Col.
Shannon. Col. Cash's son was stationed about
five hundred yards from the field and watched
the fight through his glasses. When the
firing was done he at once repaired to the
scene, meeting his father as he lelt the ground.
After the duel, I stayed on the ground for perhaps
ten or fifteen minutes. It was a very
sad scene, and I never care to witness another.
The fact that the duel would take place was
known in the community the evening before
(Sunday,) and every oue who heard of it went
to the ground. So far as I know there were
no officers of the law on the ground. The
dueling ground is a kind of sandy barren
with a stunted growth of trees aud bushes,
near Lynches Creek or river, which runs almost
due north and south. The day of the
meeting was very pleasant and the sky was
overcas-t with clouds which shielded the combatants
from the fierce heat of the suu.
Both parties went into the fight with a
determination to kill his antagonist, and a
double tragedy was only prevented by a
lack of proper deliberation on Colonel Shannon's
part, who fired without taking aim, but
upon a line with Col. Cash's body. Col. Cash
is said to have drawn a fine bead on his opSnent,
and was iu most excellent practice.
e is a very expert shot, and can.cut a string
with his pistol or hit a coin at an almost incredible
distance. He comes from fighting
stock, and does not know what fear is. Col.
Shannon was also a man of most remarkable
nerve and unimpeachable courage. He was
at one time affected by a kind of nervousness
or paralysis of the wrist which made his hand
somewhat unsteady, but I have heard had entirely
recovered from the affliction during
the last year or two. Col. Cash will stand
his trial. He has not left home to avoid
arrest, and will not attempt to shirk any of
the responsibility of his acts. He told me
that he was ready to make a showing in the
courts, and only asked the suspension of popular
judgment until the case cau be properly
and fully investigated.
It is generally conceded tbat the strongest
point of Col. Cash's defence will be the
fact that he was the challenged party, and
although public sympathy is most deeply affected
by Col. Shannon's death, it is claimed
tbat to a certain extent at least, he was the
author of his undoing, and that he might
have avoided the meeting which resulted in
his tragic death. No one at first suspected
that Col. Shannon had sent jhe challenge,
ond ainna tkia funf Vina lippn mfldn miKlifl I hnvp
noticed that it has been set down to Col.
Cash's credit as a strong extenuating circumstance.
A dispatch of last Monday from Society
Hill to the Neva and Courier, says that on
the afternoon of that day, Col. E. B. C.
Cash, the surviving principal, was arrested
in Cheraw by the Sheriff of Chester6eld county,
upon the warrant of the coroner of Cheraw
county, charging him with the unlawful
killing of Wm. M. Shannon. Col. Cash has
remained at his home since the duel, in no
way seeking to avoid the expected arrest, and
expressing his readiness for trial.
editokiaiT inklings.
The Bank Bill Scandal.
There have been no new developments
during the week in the office of Commissioner
Coit. The counting of the bills has not yet
been completed, although eight expert ac
countants have been hard at work at it ever
since the detection of the stealing. The Columbia
correspondent of the News and Courier
telegraphs on this subject, uuder date
of Sunday night, that "it is impossible to state
anything except rumors about the whole
matter, and great injustice might follow from
repeating in print the suppositious and
speculations spoken of upon the streets
concerning the matter. It is impossible to
say what the result may be." The Court
of General Sessions, Judge Hudson presiding,
in session in Columbia for the past two
weeks, adjournech Saturday until next Monday,
by which time it is thought the -bank
bill matter will be brought to the attention
of the grand jury.
The Edgefield Tragedy.
Dr. Wallace Bland, who was wounded
in an affray at Edgefield C. H., on the 12th
of April last, with the particulars of which
our readers are familiar, died at his residence
in that town, on Monday of last week, at 6
o'clock P. M. After a pott mortem examination,
he was buried on Tuesday by the
Knights of Honor, of which he was a member.
A. A. Cliaby, who fired the fatal shot which
terminated the life of Dr. Bland was arrested,
and also A. A. Glover, charged with being
concerned in the affair, and on Friday,
represented by Gen. Gary as counsel for
Clisby, they made application beforo Judge
Hudson, holding the Court of General Sessions
in Columbia, for an order granting bail.
A number of affidavits were read by Gen.
Gary concerning the affray, and after argument,
the Judge granted Clisby bail in $3,000,
and Glover in $2,000.
Normal Institute.
tlueh s. 1 nompson, otate superintendent
of Education, has issued the following
circular under date of the 10th instant, which
will be of interest to teachers :
A Normal Institute will be held at Spartanburg,
beginning August 3 and ending August
27. The exercises will be conducted by
Prof. Louis Soldan, Principal of the State
Normal School, St. Louis, Mo. Prof. Soldan
will be assisted by eminent instructors in different
departments. The course of study
will include the branches usually taught in
schools. Special instruction will be given in
the most advanced methods of teaching and
discipline. Tuition will be free. All white
teachers of public and of private schools are
earnestly invited to avail themselves of the
opportunity of improvement thus offered.
Board can be obtained in Spartanburg at
prices varying from twelve dollars to twenty
dollars a month.
Arrangements have been made with nearly
all the railroads in this State by which teachers
attending the Institute can purchase round !
trip tickets at reduced prices. Tickets should 1
be bought before taking the train.
The Crops In the State.
From returns received by the State
Commissioner of Agriculture at Columbia for >
the month of June, the following extracts are
made iu reference to the condition of the various
crops:
Com is reported much damaged by dry
weather. Rain needed in every county.
Hopes are expressed that late corn may make
a full crop, but early planted com cannot,
under most favorable circumstances, yield
much above a half crop. The present condition
is returned in the northern counties at
80, middle at 76, and southern at 83, basing
an averag? crop at 100.
Wheat has also felt the effect of the unprecedentedly
warm and dry weather during
June. In some counties it is regarded as a
total failure, iu othere indifferent. The condition
on July 1 is reported in the northern
counties at 52, middle at 48, and southern 41.
The cotton prospect is unusually fine ; the
stand is good, and the dry weather afforded
the planters ample opportunity to cleanse
their crops. Rain would, however, add materially
to its growth. The dry weather has
caused a slight wilting, and correspondents
in some counties reduced the average on this
account. Other correspondents report it 5 to
10 ner ?*nL hetter than usiirI. Thfl returns
show the condition in northern Carolina to be
99, middle 100, ami southern 97.
The correspondents express much gratification
over the yield of red rust proof oats.
This variety has in every instance sustaimd
its reputation. All other varieties proved
a failure. Taking only a yield of the rtd
oats, the crop is ten per cent, better than la: t
year.
Tobacco is reported in fair condition, but
lack of rain has caused a failing off of about
20 per cent Fair seasons might yet bring
up the deficiency.
Rice in some places is suffering for rain,, but
the prospects have net yet been materially injured.
The condition of this important crop
is at this time estimated in the northern counties
at 93, middle 100, and southern 85.
Millet, clover and grasses have been injured,
but good seasons will bring them up to
an average.
The prospects for sorghum are good, with
good seasons from th?s time. The condition
for the State is rep^ ,ed at 100 per cent.
It is not expected now that more than half i
a crop of fruit will be gathered.
Gardens have been seriously injured.
Dairy products are reported 20 per cent,
less than last year.
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vups ui wuui nre.d per ceuu uetier mail
last year.
The Callows Last Friday.
The extreme penalty of the law was
visited upon six criminals last Friday,
as follows;
In Charleston (S. C.) Daniel Washington *
alias Carter, a notorious negro desperado and
leader of a gang of outlaws and horse thieves
who infested Charleston and adjoining counties
for several years, was hanged for the
murder of Allen Collins, a colored witness
who bad been summoned to testify against
him in a horse stealing case. The murder
was committed September 11th, 1877, but
Washington was not; captured till the early'
part of 1879. He was convicted and sentenced
to death, but appealed and the appeal
being decided unfavorably he was banged
to-day. The execution was conducted in
private and death was immediate. In his
last moments he was attended by two Catholic
clergymen.
r? ?: A ii a.
lii viuciuuau, Alien juiieei uie
murde/er of Vellie Black, a prominent tobacco
merchant of that city was hanged according
to law in the yard of the Hamilton
county jail at 12 minutes past 11 o'clock, and
cut down dead twenty minutes later.
The execution of the negro Alexander
Howard, for the murder of an old white man,
Babel Autry, in Sampson county, N. C., on
the 25th of July, 1878, took place at Goldsboro,
at 2 P. M., and was witnessed by
about 2,000 people. Howard protested his
innocence to the last and made a very long
harangue from the scaffold, but the crime
was fully proved against him by his own
step-son, who, was an accomplice in the deed.
At Waynesboro, Ga., Henry Ryan, colored,
was hanged in the presence of an immense
crowd of people, principally negroes. They
came from every direction, many riding as
far as forty miles. Ryau's crime was the murder
of an elderly while woman for the purpose
of robbery, and met with the execration of
the people of the whole eouutry. On the
day before the execution he made a full confession
of his guilt, which he had previously
deuied. During the past two weeks he inade
several attempts to escape, but was detected
each time. At 12 o'clock he was escorted
from the jail to the place of execution by a
company of cavalry, followed by a-concourse
of about sewn thousand negroes. At the
scaffold he made a long and somewhat remarkable
speech to the crowd. He said : "I
stand before the congregation. It is a very
happy meeting to day. I am glad God is
with me. I did this act and am very sorry
for it I did it and am not ashamed to own
it because God said he who goes back upou
Him rill never reach His happy home. I
have violated the law of Georgia and the law
of God. God loves the degraded and the
good. When I cloiie my eyes in this world
Jesus comes to my soul. Bugs and ants
have my body. I took the woman's money
and gave her three licks over the head." Just
before the black cap was put on, Ryan said
"God-bye to all," to which the crowd responded"Good-bye."
The drop fell at half-past 12 ^ 4
o'clock, and death ensued almost without a
struggle.
George Sanford and Richard Kee, both
colored, were hanged at Osceola, Ark., for
the murder of Armstead Penu, colored, on
the 26th of November last. They confessed
their guilt.
CONDITION OF THE* COTTON CROPThe
condition of the cotton crop in the
different States is made up by the respective
Exchanges of States named from reports to
to the 9th instant:
South Carolina.?The crop report of
the Charleston Cotton Exchange, based on
77 replies from 30 counties, is as follows:
The weather for the month of June is universally
reported as very dry?no rain, in fact,
having fallen except in some sections. A
few report too many windy and cool nights,
and the balance excessively hot. The weather
for the season to the 30th of June is reported
88 more favorable by 33, about the
same by 16 and less favorable by 28. Only
a trifling amount has been abandoned and taking
tho whole State, no more than in average
years. The stands are reported as good to i
very fine by 69, and poor by 8. Early planting
is universally reported as blooming and
forming well, but late planting has been so
retarded by drought that it is quite small, and
not yet blooming in some sections, but all
report that with rain soon it may yet catch
up. Present condition of crop as compared
with lust year is reported by 4/ better, by 14
as about the same and by 16 as not as good,
but all report tbe crop as exceptionally clean,
long and dry, giving planters every opportunity
of getting rid of grass, and generally
keeping clean, eveu in increased acreage,
which at date of our last report many thought
it could not be accomplished with the limited *
labor at command.
North Carolina, and Virginia.?All
late planting in those States is backward, owing
to drought. Early planting is blooming
and forming well, blooms beginning as early
as the 20th of June. Forty-six counties report
the condition of the crop as very good,
27 as lair, 7 as poor, 1 the same as last year,
and 1 makes no report; 46 show a better condition
than last year, and teu to twelve days ?
earlier, 18 the same condition, and 16 not so
favorable, owing to dry weather. Ten replies
indicate a very foward and promising
crop, show fair condition and prospects,
but great need of rain, (the late planting,
amounting to 15 or 20 per cent, of the crop,
is suffering in consequence), 5 indicate bad
and unpromising condition, and 29 make
no replies. Lice are reported in one county.
Mississippi.?Stands good and the plant i
blooming and forming well. There is some
little complaint of grass as comparred with
last year, but otherwise the p eseut condition
is as good to better, very few reporting it not
so good. Op an average of the State, the
present condition is good and compares favorably
with last year. There is some complaint
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