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Jtoaps and Jfartsi. j ? The prisoners in an Illinois jail set fire | to the building, in the hope of escaping du-1 ring the confusion; but the jailer had gone away with the keys, and the plotters were in- | sensible when rescued. ? It is reported that Mr. Chambers, caudi- | date for Vice-President of the United States, j on Weaver's ticket, fell from a platform ' while speaking in Texas, recently, and was ! severely injured. ? Bob Toombs, one of the best farmers in Georgia, has raised 350 bushels of white rust- ! proof wheat on 11 acres of land this season, I and has given 100 bushels, $10 a bushel, to ! be distributed among the farmers of the State j for seed next spring. I ? The Mormons are still pegging away at their new temple. It is now tweuty years since the building was commenced, $4,000,000 has been expended, it is abotit one-fourth completed, and it is said that $28,000,000 will be required to finish it. ? The cotton crops of this country for 1878 aud 1879 were the largest ever raised. The ten crops from 1852 to 1861, raised by slave labor, numbered 34,995,440 bales; the ten crops from 1870 to 1879, raised by free labor, numbered 41,454,743 bales. ? Minnesota's wheat crop, it is now claimed, will exceed 35,000,000 bushels, and perhaps reach 40,000,000. In the southern counties the farmers claim an average of twelve bushels per acre, in the ceutral the average is placed at twenty bushels, whilst in the Red River Valiey, claims rise as high as thirtyfive bushels per acre. ? A. Covington, Ga., young lady, who is worth 820,000, broke an engagement with a young man duriug the Commencement because he paid seven dollars for a horse and buggy to give her a ride. She argued that a man who would be so foolish as to pay that much for a few hour's pleasure, was not the kind she wanted for a husband. ? Father Farrell, who died the other day in New York, left, by will, $5,000 "to be used for the sober and honest poor of the dis . n 1!_! II tnct, witnoot utstinctiou or race or religion, anil $5,000 in the same bonds "for the purpose of aiding in the erection or the purchase of a Catholic church iu New York for the colored Catholics of African descent." ? A New Orleans dispatch says thai on Wednesday, at Donaldsonville, Ben. Gibson, a cousin of Congressman Randall Gibson, shot and killed a Republican Justice of the Peace named R. J. Green. The trouble grew out of the dissatisfaction of the former at Green's method of enforcing the Sunday liquor law. ? A dispatch of Monday from Danville, Va, says: "A special grand jury in the Corporation Court at this place, to day, returnei a true bill of indictment against James T. DeJarnette, for the murder of his sister, Mollie DeJarnette, last month. DeJarnette, who is in jail, on Saturday attempted suicide by taking Uudnnum, but failed. The case will be called for trial to morrow." ? The forthcoming report of the Depart meut of Agriculture will not only show a large increase in crops, but it will also show that the farming interest have been greatly benefitted in another way. This is iu the increased value of lands. Thisincrease varies in different sections of the country. There has been an aggregate increase of about 8 per cent. ? It is believed that the planter who markets his cotton as rapidly as possible, makes the most money in the long run, and is the happier for getting rid of the responsibility. The Columbus Enquirer fears that there will be a prodigious c<>ttou crop this year and very little corn. This may mean low prices and dear food. It is too early yet however to predict for certainty anything good or bad of the crop. ? Senators Wade Hampton and Z. B. Vance spoke at the Democratic ratification meetiug in Staunton, Virginia, on Monday, and we are told by the correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch, that "coustant roars of applause were kept up, except when the pathetic appeals of the Senators from the Carolinas to Virginians not to force the hated Republican rule upon the South, brought a solemn hush upon the vast assembly, and some tears to the eyes of the Re adjusters." ? Andrew Wilson, of Hillsboro, Mo., took no pains to conceal from his wife and neighbors his intention to elope with Martha Shultz. He announced a day for his departure, and the girl as openly made her preparations. At the appointed time the pair put their baggage into a wagon and started for the railroad station. In the meantime, however, M rs. Wilson's father and brother had decided what to do. They lay in ambush until the runaways came along, and fired upon them, killing both. ? Judge Tarbell, deputy first comptroller of the Treasury Department, rendered a decision lately, in which he holds that existing !??.? /Iaaa ?v.ul?a If /inmnnlortriT 11 nnn fKo itiVY uwco nut luaac tO v,uhjj;ujcjij u^/vu miv government to pay sub-contractors for carrying United States mails the extra month's compensation provided for in the event of the discontinuance of a route, and unless subcontractors make special provisions in their contracts with the orignal contractor to receive this allowance, it falls to the orignal contractor when the route is discontinued. ? The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times says: "A duel was fought near Jackscnboro, Campbell county, Tuesday night of last week, which resulted in the iustant death of the two principals, John W. Bibee and B. F. Roach. The difficulty orignated over a political discussion, each being champions of the respective candidates for Sheriff in that county. They first met in the streets in Jacksouboro, and a heated discussion ensued, followed by blows, when the combatants were separated by bystanders. They then agreed to meet Tuesday night a few miles from town, when they would end their difficulty with pistols. The particulars of the duel are as yet unknown, it being believed that no one witnessed the tragedy. Bibee was shot through the neck and Roach through the breast. Their instant deaths followed. Bibee was about 19 years of age, the son of a very prominent citizen of Jacksonboro. Roach was a married man and leaves a larcre familv. ? An Atlanta dispatch of the 31st says that Gov. Colquitt went to Jonesboro, on Friday night, with tfie Gate City Guards, of Atlanta, to prevent any attempt on the part j of friends to rescue the prisoners who were ! imprisoned on the charge of the murder of I Millie Johnson, colored, for bea ting her fath* 1 er and mother and fatally wounding her j brother. Jonesboro was in a great state of j excitement over the affair all of yesterday, i Sheriff Archer met with resistance in attempt- j ing the arrest of some of the parties charged i with committing the crime. Seven prisoners were brought to Atlanta by the Gate City ! Guards and put .in jail there for safe keeping. Others will probably be arrested. Sam Cook, one of the prisoners, turned State's evidence and implicated all of the others; and subse- \ quently retracted and 6aid that he was fright- ! t-ned into a confession. There is an uncompromising demand for a full investigation, and if the guilty parties are found, Georgia will have a wholesale hanging. ? The reports from the British army in Afghanistan are very exciting to our brethren across the water. Gen. Burrows was at Candahar, a city of sixty thousand inhabitants, with some 2,700 British troops. Shere Ali, with a large native force, was off some fifty miles on the look out for Ayoob Khan, who was advancing from Herat. Gen. Burrows went out to reinforce him, but found j that most of Shere Ali's troops had deserted, and gone over in a body to the enemy. Be-! fore Gen. Burrows bad withdrawn to a place of safety, he came in collision with Ayoob Khan's force, and his army was well-nigh i <le*troyed. The telegraph lines from Candahar \?ere cut just as the remnant of Burrows troops were arriving, and we are left in temporary doubt as to the realities of the situation. The | first accounts of a disaster are always apt to be j exaggerated, and while thus defeat is bad enough, it was not a massacre. The affair has stirred up the British in India to a degree, aud reinforcement are being hurried into Afghanistan. She ferkville inquirer. YORKFILLE, sT C.: THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 5. 1880. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Marlboro county has adopted the Convention plan of making county nominations. ? The Fairfield; Democratic Convention will meet in VVinusboro next Saturday. ? Spartanburg county has eleven candidates for sheriff, eleven for the Legislature, nn<t pWen for countv commissioners. ? The Governor has respited the Greenville incendiaries, Richard Bates, Pleasant Adams, Joe Burton and Wra. Dodson, who were sentenced to be hanged on Friday next, to Friday, February 6,1381. ? The County Convention of Lancaster met last Monday to determine the mode and manner of nominating county candidates for office. It was thought the primary election plan would be adopted over that of the convention. ? Gen. R. G. M. Dunovant, the last commander of the Palmetto regiment in Mexico, and the first Colonel of the Twelfth S. C. Regiment in the late war, announces himself as a candidate for Probate Judge of Edgefield county. ? Lexington, Sumter, Oconee and Greenville counties, have adopted the primary system. The two latter adopt it with the plurality rule, and Greenville will hold the election on the 25th instant. Greenville also sends Evins delegates to the Congressional Conveu tion. ? Commissioner Butler is preparing a table showing the 6??iDcial condition of every county in South Carolina. His information comes directly from those in authority. Twenty five counties have reported, and their aggregate indebtedness, bonded and floating, amounts to 81,187,435.65. ? The Baptist Workers, a society connected with the Springfield Baptist Church, of Greenville, have about perfected their committees, preparatory to organization for a j systematic effort to raise a fund to build a ! college for the education of colored young men. They are sanguine of success. ? The Cowpens committee met in Spartanburg Monday afternoon. Congressman Evins was present by invitation. The reports show satisfactory progress, and promise great success. The grand masters of the Grand Lodges of the Old Thirteen States and Tennessee have been invited to lay the corner-stone in October. The Town Council has given a site in the public square for the memorial oolumn, ? The fine residence of Col. Robertsou, of Abbeville, was burned down on Wednesday morning of last week. The fire originated in the pantry from an unknown cause. There was no insurauce on his furniture. The pictures belonging to Mr. Burt, which were in the lower part of the house, were saved. Ev erything in the upper part of the house was destroyed. ? The Charleston News and Cvurier of Saturday, says : "The Sonth Carolina Railroad Company paid out 83,000 interest on the bonds yesterday, making a total of 821,500 paid since Wednesday. The whole amouut of interest due to the Charleston bondholders aud payable at the company's office in this city, is 830,000. The total interest held in New York, London and Charleston is about 897,000, to meet which the company has ample funds." ? The Orangeburg county Republicans will run a county ticket uuder the direction of the old leaders. The Pemocrat says: "The order has already gone forth for two and three days' meetings, with the purpose of making the pulpit an agency in their diabolical scheme. The clans are to gather at midnight, in country localities, to be organized and instructed in the mysteries of the new order. Every agency will be brought to bear upon our colored voters, and if they maintain their inde " * ?* 1 x pendenceit win ne mrougn great iriuuiauuns and trials." ? After declaring that "the work of organizing the Republican party in this State is of the most encouraging character," the Beaufort News (Republican) says: "There is a majority for the Republican party in the Fifth District. A vigorous contest will this year be made, and a more determined spirit! apparently prevails amongst the Republicans. J In Aiken county the signs of life and activi- I ty are a noticeable feature. The county is j one net work of Garfield and Arthur clubs, i An address has been circulated looking to j the bringiug out of the full strength of the : party in support of the national ticket." ? Last Friday, while workmen were engaged in removing remains from the old De- ; Saussure burying ground, in Camden, to the cemetery, they exhumed the body of a lady i that had become petrified. The form was j as perfect as when buried, but had become , so heavy that it required five men to lift it. j The upper portions were as hard as stone, j while the lower limbs, though maintaining their shape, had a soft spongy touch, show- j ing that the process of petrification had not j been complete-.'.. The features, we learn, were well presened. The hair of the head had grown very long and adhered firmly to what was once the scalp. The remains were [ those of a young lady who was drowned in j the Mississippi river over thirty years ago, and her body was brought to Camdem in a zinc lined coffin for burial. ? A Garfield and Arthur ratification meet-! ing was held in Columbia last Saturday. ' About 1500 negroes were present. Curtis, of Richland, was elected Chairman. The meeting was address d by the notorious Sam Lee, { of Sumter; Ta t, of Charleston ; E. M. Bray-: ton and others. The speakers consumed rtf tlio lime and sunk ft themselves hoarse ll^VOV U 4 |>?iv ?r~* ? -j ? trying to introduce Garfield to their dusky ! hearers. They were assured that he would be the next President, and South Carolina would be under Republican rule in 1882. There was not much enthusiasm except by a few who had imbib3d too much of the ardent. No disturbance occurred. The Republican office holders are making desperate efforts to reorganize their party, and it is openly hinted *:hat a full State ticket will be nominated and that Braytou will oppose the Democratic . andidate in the Fifth Congressional Distric t. The Speakers intimated that the Democratic party wa9 divided in the State and now was the time for them to strike. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Fayetteville Indepeudeut Light Id- j fantry, the oldest military organization in the j South, will go to King's Mountain. ? Lloyd R. Welch, principal chief of the Cherokee Indians, died recently in Cherokee county.of consumption. ? Mr. Joseph White, a young white man, was killed on the Air Line Railroad, near Gastonia, on Sunday night of last week, while tt n t asleep on the traca. tie was a son 01 jaraes H. White, E<qv of Gaston'county. ? In reply to inquiries, State Treasurer Worth says that he thinks Mr. Best, purchaser of the Western N. C. Railroad, is acting in good faith, though he has been greatly disappointed in getting the money he expect ed. Should Best fail in meeting his obligations the State will have 828,000, advanced by Best to protect it from loss. ? The resignation of Judge Buxton, Republican candidate for Governor, took place on the 1st instant. His successor's circuit will begin at Catawba on the fourth Monday in August. The Governor will make no appointment at present, as his appointee would KnlH the nffipp. nnlv until the November elec tion. ? The colored people of North Carolina will hold their second industrial fair, under the auspices of the* North Carolina Industrial Association, at Raleigh, commencing September 27 and continuing six days. There will be a brief military display in connection with the fair, and Fred. Douglass has been invited to deliver the annual address. ? The Elizabeth City Economist says: "A colored Episcopal minister, Rev. Cummings, from Missouri, who preaches well, and is evi dently a man of culture, now stationed at Tarboro, preached, a few days ago, in the Episcopal Church in Wiudsor, to a crowded house. Black face and white gown is something of a novelty in the pulpit in this place." ? Capt. H. Pride Jones, conductor on the Charlotte and Statesville Railroad, has resigned. The Observer says he has served the company and the public honorably and effi ciently for seven years, and leaveB its service with the highest esteem and confidence of both. He has long been a favorite among railroad men and the announcement of his retirement will cause many expressions of regret. ? Adjutant-General .Jones has determined not to designate any special companies as the escort of his Excellency Gov. Jarvis to King's Mountain. General Jones thinks the whole corps should be his escort, as they will undoubtedly be on that occasion. His Excellency will meet the troops at King's Mountain, because he will be on his canvass of the State at that time, and could not designate wnere ne would De tne nay uie iroupa siuneu. POLITICAL NOTES. ? Montgomery, Ala., has a colored Han cock and English Club numbering over six hundred menibt rs. ? There is a lauguor in politics, on both sides. Hot weather has a great deal to do with it. The big fun will hardly commence before September. ? Senator Bruce, having no further use for Mississippi, and Mississippi "having no further use for him, is about to carpet-bag to Ohio where his wife has some rich relations. ? A personal friend of Gen. Grant in Washington, says that he will never allow his name to go before another Presidential Convention, and will never again take an active part in politics. ? Gen. Joseph Wheeler has been nominated by the Democrats of the Eighth Alabama District for Congress. That District has been represented by a Greenbacker. Weaver and De La Matyr are in Alabama now trying to save their man by stump speaking. ? Ausburn Birdsall, formerly a Democratic member of Congress from New York, but for ten years acting with the Republicans, writes to Col. Forney that he goes with him for Hancock, as "Democrats of the old school find sufficient reason for their course under existing circumstances." ? Of the Congressmen known generally and intimately throughout the country, all have served several terms. Garfield has been the;e eighteen years. So have Speaker Randall and Fernando Wood. Cox and Kelley are in their tenth term, and Frye and Proctor Kuott and Conger* of Michigan, have served ten or twelve years each. ? Private letters received at Washington from Texas, say that the Greenhack .managers have made a proposition to the Republican leaders there to support the Greenback Presidential ticket, affirming that if they will do so, the State can be carried by Weaver, and thus the Democrats will he deprived of the electoral vote of Texas, and the election of Garfield will be made more certain. ? The Maine Democrats haye "fused" with the Greenbackers on the electoral ticket, The Greenbackers have nominated four of the seven candidates, as follows : Solon Chase, Benjamin Bunker, J. F. Turner and Charles R. Whidden. The Democrats take the other three. There is a fair chance, at least, that the combination will carry the State, which will then give four votes to Weaver and three to Hancock. ? The New York World says. "Of the six New England States, not more than one is really safe for Garfield, while in a secoud the chances are strongly and in a third slightly in his favor. As for the remaining three, Connecticut is reasonably sure for Hancock. New Hampshire belongs to the party which fights hardest, and in Maine, according to the Herald'a correspondence, 'the situation is decidedly unfavorable for the Republicans.' " editoriaiT inklings. Hancock Assigned to the South. By direction of the President, MajorGeneral Winfield S. Hancock, United States army, in addition to his present duties, has been assigned to the command of the Department of the South during the temporary absence of Brigadier-General C. C. Augur on detached service. The action of the President in assigning Gen. Hancock to the command of the South at this particular time, will excite comment. We cannot tell what the motive is, nor how far it is likely to affect results. One thing is certain?it is no part of General Hancock's duty, as commander of the department, to do any anything unlawful or unconstitutional, and if it were he would not do it. It might be taken as a compliment, 6i'nce it indicates that the President has the highest confidence that Gen. Hancock will perform his duties conscientiously even when an election is pending in which he himself is interested. We caunot ascribe to the President a desire to anuoy or to place Gen. Hancock in an unpleasant predicament and thus to force his resignation. The Fasting Man. Dr. Tanner, who claims his ability to go for forty days without food other than water, has been making the experiment in New York city, and is attracting the attention of j the medical profession of the country. He | hopes to show by fasting forty days that it is 1 perfectly safe for others to fast five or ten j days, and derire great benefit by doing so. ! His plan is to allow Dature to clear away the j debris by relieving the body of the excess of | food over requirement. On Monday he entered upon the thirty-sixth | day, and for the first time since he commenced | his fast, admitted that he was very weak. He said his stomach was in a bad condition, but he expressed confidence in his ability to accomplish his undertaking. His eyes were de- J void of lustre, his tongue furred, and his face ! pinched and haggard. Still his watchers asserted that he had somewhat improved since Sunday. He suffered from nausea three times afier midnight. Small quantities of raiueral water were administered to him during the | night, and early in the morning, before going on his customary drive, he swallowed two ounces of hot water. At noon he was quietly resting. He has received the following cable dispatch from Paris: "Don't waste strength in driving out. Shut off all spectators. Have only your doctors and attendants. The Standard's telegrams are republished everywhere and read by everybody. Your experiment is watched here with great interest by scientists and ridiculed by fools. The hot weather is against you. Courage, brave fellow. Hold on. Wish you success. Sigued, Dr. Marion Sims." Dr. Sims is a South Carolina physician, at present in Paris, and has a wide reputation. The New York Democracy. The Democratic campaign in New York was formally opened on Tuesday night of last week by a very largely attended ratification meeting at the Academy of Music, over which Hon. Samuel J. Tildeu presided. Mr. Tilden was enthusiastically applauded and on taking the chair, said : "I thank you, my fellow-citizens, for the cordiality of this T U.v?ta Artmo /I A?nr? 4U10 ananSn/y glCCUlig. M liavc UUTTU 11119 gv^umg from my country home to join with you in expressing and declaring the purpose of the Democracy of New York, and to sustuin the nomination of Hancock. I have come under the stipulation of your committee that, in consequence of nty hoarseness of voice, I shall not be expected to make a speech. What I have to say, therefore, will be but briefly to touch upon two points: The welfare of the people of the United States demands a change in the administration of the Federal Government. Reform is necessary to remove the abuses which have grown up during twenty years of continuous power, prolific of false principles and bad counsels. The Republican party, stifling its conscience, has made itself responsible for the intrusion, nuder the color of law, into the Chief Magistracy of our great Republic of fifty millions of people, of a man who was not elected by the people. They have set an example which, unless condemned by the people, and signally condemned, too, will subvert an elective system of government of which we are so proud, and substitute in its place a rule of dynasty of office holding over against the will of the people. A complete overthrow of the Republican party in the election of 1880 will be a retributive judgment, and will prevent repetition hereafter of the crime of'76 against the sovereignty of the people. I congratulate you upon the nomination, and I congratulate you upon the auspicious prospects of success. I see it in every quarter, and now we will proceed to the order of business of the meeting." Speeches were then made by S. J. Randall and other prominent men in the Democratic party, and the utmost harmony prevailed. For the Yorkvllle Enquirer. KING'S MOUNTATN CENTENNIAL. Mr. EditorI am persuaded that an unfair aspect was unintentionally given to the question of "the location of ceremonies" in your article on tho "King's Mountain Centennial," in the "Enquirer" of the 29th ultimo; and resulting therefrom is a misrepresentation of certain parties, to whom, I know, you will accord the privilege of correction. It was a misapprehension in the Gastonia Gazette, to state that Capt. Bell's resolution contemplated "the removal of the principal ceremonies to take place next October, from the battle ground." it was the clear understanding, I think, of every one present at the Gastonia meeting, that the "principal ceremonies," consisting of Major John W. Daniel's Oration, and the singing of Mrs. Clara Dargan McLean's lyric, and the unveiling and dedication of the monument, were to take place, as a national tribute to a national event, on the regular centennial day, on the sacred ground of the battle-field. Yes, on the hallowed spot itself, where the bones of the heroes have found a silent home for one hundred years ; on thehallowed spot, where glory has held guard for a century, as "on fame's eternal campingground;" on the hallowed spot, where nature, from its abounding treasures, has spread the beau* * *1 knn Af ty or mountain auu vjuicv niiuuutiiiicniiu mho splendid scenery; on the hallowed spot, where the very air is instinct with the genius and spirit of duty, of truth, of honor, and of liberty?that here, amidst all these sacred surroundings, with their soul-inspiring memories, assembled Americans, in honor of a great event in American history, should be exalted by the voice of eloquence, and ten thousand voices twice doubled, should mingle in a grand anthem of triumph, of gratitude, and of praise around the monument, erected by a grateful Present to an heroic and historic Past. And it is a sad misapprehension or a sadder misunderstanding, to allege that Capt. Bell's resolution, or its advocates, dreamed of altering a fractional part of this original grand purpose. The original resolution? "That on the 7th of October, 1880, there be a centennial celebration of the battle of King's Mountain held on the battle-ground"?you will pardon me for saying so?was written and voted for by myself, and I a'so sustained Captain Bell's resolution, which dealt only with the three days antecedent to the 7th, which days are a prelude'to the regular programme, and were not originally contemplated at all. Moreover, because of the grand outlet afforded by the Air Line Railroad ; because of increased railroad facilities in York countv; because of the indefatigable energy of MaJ. ffouston in securing through rates with the leading railroads of our country; because of the fact, that the one hundredth anniversary of an event is a greater epoch than its 75th ; because of the great increase in our population ; for these and other reasons, disagreeing with the "Enquirer," I am bound to tbink that unless patriotism has dwindled or civilization has declined, that the attendance at the coming celebration will be far, indeed vastly, in excess of thatof'55, or in fact, of any similar celebration that has yet occurred in our Southland. Great scarcity of water and inadequate means of subsistence on the mountain, as well as great difficulty of transportation thereto, made it appear to many of us, tbattiie estimated thousands who would be present, might find greater enjoyment amidst the State congratulations, Ac.', at a more accessible rendez.vons, for the few days that precede, and are an episode and are really preparatory to the one grand, final anniverMtr'y day. And as a matter of history, it ~* *iu<v iUa TKnhnrnflflnnfl nu ollWUlU UC lUIliCllii'Cicu i>nau i|iu a matter of custom, passed through a certain appointment of ceremonies before the eyes of the nation were devoutly turned to Mecca; and it should not be forgotten that the old Romans rendezvoused at Prseneste before they proceeded to the tetnplo of Rellona to celebrate a triumph on account of the victory of the Meltaurus. And I would state that Capt. Boll's resolution is additionally fortified by the fact of the advocacy of j this same plan by the Commissioners from the ' different States, who were present at the layingof ! the corner stone of the monument, and doubtless by many more whose experience removes every doubt. A spirit of candor has prompted my words, that as an ardent well-wisher of this great undertaking for an American recognition of an American inheritance of common interest to us all, I might not appear in a position which I neither occupy now nor have hitherto occupied either at J heart or in judgment. Yours Respectfully, W. WADDY THOMSON. CONGRESSIONAL ^CONVENTION. Chester, S. C., July 14, 1880.?In accor-! dance with the action of the Committee, a Convention, composed of delegates from the everal counties of the Fourth Congressional , District, will assemble at Chester Court House, i on Wednesday, September 1st, at 11 o'clock, | a. m., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Congress to represent the Democratic party. JOHN BRATTON, Chairman. W. D- Maulpin, Secretary. JUDICIAL CONVENTION. Chester, S. G\, July 14, 1880.?According to the action of the committee, a Convention is hereby called to meet at Chester Court House, on Tuesday, September 7th, at 11 o'clock, a. in., for the purpose of nominating a Solicitor to represent the Democratic parly in this Judicial District. The jouuties com-1 posing the District will send delegates to the same. JOHN BRATTON, Chairman, E. T. Atkinson, Secretary. THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES. THEIR LETTERS OF ACCEPTANCE. (Jen. Hancock's letter. Governor's Island, New York City, July 29,1880.? Gentlemen: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of July 13tb, 1880, apprising me formally of my nomination to the office of President of the United States, by the National Democratic Convention lately assembled ia Cincinnati. I accept the nomination with grateful appre ciation of the confidence reposed in me. The principles enunciated by the Convention are those I have cherished in the past and shall endeavor to maintain in the future. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, embodying the results of the war for the Union, are inviolable. If called to the Presidency I should deem it my duty to resist, with all of my power, any attempt to impair j_ ii. . A*..11 o i _ r* xi . n or evaue me iun iorce uuu enect 01 me v^mistitution, which, in every article, section and amendment, is the supreme law of the land. The Constitution forms the basis of the Government of the United States. The powers granted by it to the legislative, executive and judicial departments define and limit the authority of the General Government. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States, belong to the States respectively, or to the people. The General and State governments, each acting in its own sphere without touching upou the lawful jurisdiction of the other, constitute the Union. This Union, comprising the General Government with general powers, and the State governments with State powers, for purposes local to the States, is a polity, the foundations of which were laid in the profouudest wisdom. This is the Union which our fathers made and which has been respected abroad and so bene ficent at home. Tried by blood and tire, it j stands to day a model form of free popular government, a political system which, 'rightly administered, has been and will continue to he the admiration of the world. May we not say nearly in the words of Washington, the. unity of the Government which constitutes us one people is justly dear to us. It is the main pillar in the edifice of our real independence, the support of our peace, our safety and prosperity, and of that liberty we so highly prize and intend at ever hazard to preserve. But no form of government, however carefully devised, no principles, however sound, will protect the rights of the people unleas the administration is faithful and efficient. It is a vital principle in our system that neither fraud nor foice must be allowed to subvert the rights of the people. When fraud, viohuce or incompetence controls, the noblest constitutions and wisest laws are usele.-s. The bayonet is not a fit instrument for collecting the votes of free men. It is only by a full vote, a free ballot and a fair count that the people can rule in fact, ns required by the theory of our government. Take this foundation away and the whole structure fails. Public office is a trust, not a bounty bestowed upon the holder. No iucompetent or dishonest person should ever be entrusted, with it, or if appointed they should be promptly elected. The basis of substantial practical civil service reform must first be established by the people in filling eleciive offices. If they fix a high standard of qualifications for office and sternly reject the corrupt and incompetent, the result will be decisive in governing the action of the servants whom they entrust with the appointing power. The war for the Union was successfully closed more than fifteeu yea.* ago. All classes of our people must share alike in the blessings of the Union and are equally concerned in its perpetuity and in the proper administration of public affairs. We are in a state of profound peace. Henceforth let it be our purpose to cultivate sentiments of friendship and no animosity against our fellow-citizens. Our material interests, varied and progressive, demand our constant and united efforts. A sedulous and scrupulous care of the public credit, together with a wise and economical management of our government expenditures should be maintained in order that labor may be lightly bur deoed, and that all persons may be protected in their rights to the fruits of their own industry. The time has come to enjoy the substantial benefits of reconciliation. As one people we have common interests. Let us encourage the harmony and generous rivalry among our own industries, which will revive our languishing merchant marine, extend our commerce with foreign countries, assist our merchants, manufacturers and producers to develop our vast National resources and increase the happiness and prosperity of our people. If elected, I shall, with divine favor, labor with what ability I possess to discharge my duties with fidelity according to my convictions, and shall take care to protect and defend the Union, and to see that the laws be faithfully and equally executed in all parts of the country alike. I will assume the responsibility, fully sensible of the fact that to administer rightly the functions of the government is to discharge the most sacred duty that can devolve iipon an American citizen. I am very respectfully, Winfield S. Hancock. mr. English's letter. Indianapolis, July 30Oenilenien: I have the honor to reply to your letter of the 13th inst., informing me that I was unanimously nominated for Vice-President of the United States by the late Democratic National Convention, which assembled at Cincinnati. As foreshadowed in the verbal remarks made by me at the time of the delivery of your letter, I have now to say that I accept the Ltr?L trnct with iho rpnli7iiur spnse of its re "'6" ts ? ? ? | spoDsibility, and am profoundly grateful for the honor conferred. I accept the nomination upon the platform of principles adopted by the Convention, which I cordially approve, and I accept it quite as much because of my faith in the wisdom and patriotism of the great statesman and soldier nominated on the same ticket for the Presidency of the United States. His eminent services to his country, his fidelity to the Constitution, union and laws, his clear perception of correct principle of government as taught by Jefferson, his scrupulous care to keep the military in strict subordination to the civil authorities, his high regard for civil liberty, personal rights and rights of property, his acknowledged ability in civil as well as military affairs, and his pure and blameless life, all point to him as a man worthy of the conffdence of the people. Not only a brave soldier, a great commander, a wise statesman and a pure pa- ' triot, but a prudent, pains taking, practical man, of unquestioned honesty, trusted often ( with important public duties, faithful to ev- ( ery trust, and in a full meridian of ripe and vigorous manhood, he is, in my judgment, eraiuently fitted for the highest position on earth?the'Presidency of the United States. Not only is he the right man for the place, but the time has come when the best iuterests i of the country require that the party which has monopolized the Executive Departmeut , of the General Government for the last twenty years should be retired. The continuance of that party in power four years longer would not be beneficial to the public or in 1 accordance with the spirit of our Republican 1 institutions. Laws entail have not been fa- : vored in our system of Government. Perpet- i Uttlion of property or place in one family or , set of men has never been encouraged in this , country, and great and good men who framed ( our Republican Government and its traditioDB, wisely limited the tenure of office of long leases of power, Twenty years of con- < tinuoqs power is long enough and has already led to irregularities and corruptions, which j are not likely to be properly exposed under ! the same party that perpetrated them. |, Besides it should not be forgotten that the j four last years of power held by that party ,1 were procured by discreditable means, and i held in defiance of the wishes of a majority ; of the people. It was a grievous wrcng to every voter and our system of self government, which should never be forgotten or forgiven. Many of the men npw in office were put there because of their corrupt partisan services in thus defeating the fairly and legally expressed will of the majority, and the hypocrisy of the professions of that party in favor of civil service reform was shown by placing such men in office and turning whole broods of Federal officeholders loose to influ- j ence elections. Money of the people, taken j out of the public treasury by these men for , services often poorly performed or not per- j formed at all, is being used in vast sums with j the knowledge and presumed sanction of the ; administration to control elections, and eveu j MAwtkAMfi ft ^ *Uft r\? klrt/lf AMA of 1 \ II ' Q KAII f I niciiJ uci o ui tuc vauiuci* aio obi vuiug uwvuw i the couutry making partisan speeches instead of being in their departments at Washington, discharging public duties, for which they are paid by the people. But with all their cleverness and ability, the discriminating public will, no doubt, read between the lines of their speeches that their paramount hope and aim is to keep themselves or their satellites four years longer in office. That perpetuating power of chronic Federal officeholders four years longer will not benefit the millions of men and women who hold no office, but earn their daily bread by honest industry, is what the same discerning public will no doubt understand, as they will also that it is because of their own industry and economy and God's bountiful harvests, that the country is comparatively prosperous, and not because of anything done by these Federal officeholders. The country is com paratively prosperous, not because of'them, but in spite of them. This coutest, is, in fact, between the people endeavoring to regain the political power, which rightfully belongs to them, and to restore the pure, simple, economical constitutional government of our fathers on the one side, and a hundred thousand Federal officeholders and their bankers, pampered with place and power, and determined to retain them at all hazards, on the other. Hence, the constant assumption of new Hnd dangerous powers by the general Government, uader the rule of the Republi can party. The efforts to build up what they call a strong government; the interference with home rule and with the administration of justice in the Courts of the several States ; the interference with elections through a medium of paid partisan Federal officeholders, interested in keeping their party in power, and caring more for that than the fairness in elections?in fact, constant encroachments which have been made by the party upon the clearly reserved rights of the people of the States will, if not checked, subvert the liberties of the people and the government of the limited powers created by our fathers, and end in a great consolidated central government, strong indeed for evil and the overthrow of Republican institutions. The wise men who formed our Constitution knew the evils of a strong government and the long continuance of a political power in the same hands. They knew there was a tendency in this directiou in all governments and consequent danger to Republican institutions from that cause, and took pains to guard against it. The machinery of a strong centralized General government can be used to perpetuate the same set of men in power from term to term until it ceases to be a Republic, or is such only in name, and a tendency of the party now in power in that direction, as shown in various ways, besides the willingness recently manifested by a large number of that party to elect a President for an unlimited number of* terms is quite apparent and must satisfy thinking people that the time has come when it will be safest and best for the party to be retired. But in resisting the encroachments of the General Government upon the reserved rights of the people and States, I wish to be distinctly uuderstood as favoring a proper exercise by the General Government of all powers rightfully belonging to it and under the Constitution. Encroachments upon the constitutional rights of the General Government to interfere with the proper exercise of its powers must be carefully avoided. The union of States under the Constitution must be maintained, and it is well known that this has always been the position of both candidates on the Democratic Presidential ticket. It is acquiesed in everywhere now and finally and forever settled as one of the resnlis of the war. It is certainly beyond all question that the legitimate results of the war of the Union will not be overthrown or impaired, should the Democratic ticket be elected. In that event proper protection will be given in every legitimate way to every citizen, native or adopted, in every section of the Republic in the enjoyment of all the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and amendments. A sound currency of honest raouey value and purchasing power, corresponding substantially with the standard recognized by the commercial world, and consisting of gold * i L!li. ana suver ana paper, couveruum uuu vum, will be maintained. Labor and manufacturing, commercial and business interests of the country will be favored and encouraged in every legitimate way. The toiling millions of our own people will be protected from destructive competition of the Chinese, and to that end their immigration to our shores will be properly restricted. Public credit will be scrupulously maintained and strengthened by rigid economy in public expenditures, and the liberties and the property of the people will be protected by a government of law and order, administered strictly in the interest of all people, and not of corporations and privileged classes. I do not doubt the discriminating justice of the people and their capacity for intelligent self government, and, therefore, do not doubt the success of the Democratic ticket. Its success would bury, beyond resurrection, sectional jealousies and hatreds which have so long been the stock in trade of pestiferous demagogues, and in no other way can this be so effectually accomplished. It would restore harmony and good feeling between all sections and make us, in fact, as well as iu name, one people. The only rivalrythenwould.be in a race, for the development of material prosperity, elevation of labor, enlargement of human rights, promotion of education, morality, religion, liberty, order and all that would tend to make us the foremost nation of the a 1. !~ ntnwnh aT hnmon r\ronrroaa CUrill 1U llic giauu luaitu ui uuuiuu ugi wu< I am with great respect, truly yours, Wm. H. English. ME RE-MENTION. In the poor-house at Milwaukee is one Joseph Duws, who before the war was reputed worth over 82,000,000. .Hon. A. H. Stephens' tailor says that, in a few months, the Commoner has increased around the girth some four or five inches. The foreign demand for American grain this year is estimated at 60,000,000 bushels less than last year. Returns of the census show that the population of the State of New York is about 5,000,000, an advance of 1,700,000 since 1870. Senn'or Hampton is catching black bass in the James river and making capital speeches in Virginia. The AirLine Head Light says there is more timber and good water in a single county of Northern Georgia and Western North and South Carolina wasted in a year, than could be found iu all Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado. General Banks, in a recent | speech, estimated that the war between the I States cost 2,000,000 lives and $50,000,000,000. A citizen of Louisville, bitten' by a licensed dog, brings suit against the j city for $10,000 damages. The point in- 1 volved is one of interest. In an alterca- j tion between J. E. Oakes and R. L. Ramey ; an a county road, seven miles from Danville, Va., last Friday night, Oakes was fatally stabbed. Ramey escaped. Both are mere youths, Oakes being 19 and Ramey 15 years old. I LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. W. G. White?Yorkville Female Institute. Joseph A. McLean, Judge of Probate?CitationJoseph F. Wallace, C. C. C. Pleas, Applicant?Walter 1$. Metts, deceased. James Scnggins, Chairman?Road Notice. Hunter <fc Gates?At Cost. J. M. Adams?Startling Facts?Wooden WareWrapping Paper. M. Strauss?Received this Week. 1 Latimer Hemphill?Wanted?New Goods. Withers Adickes?Just Received?Flavoiing Extracts?Oleomargarine?Fruit Syrups? Received this Day?Canned Goods?Vinegar? Teas?Powdor?Wooden Ware?Crockery and Glassware. Witherspoon & Spencer, Plaintiff's AttorneysNotice to Defendants. PINAFORE. x lie amateurs navmg mis opereiia m iu.iiu reproduced it before a large and appreciative audience last Friday evening for the benelit of the King's Mountain monument fund. SALES-DAY. There was a very full attendance of people in town last Monday?sales-day for August? , notwithstanding no inducements were offered by the sale of property. There was no real proi>erly sold by the sheriff or other official. NEW MUSIC. We have received from Mr. Robert J. Herndon, the youngcornetist of this town, a quickstep, the "Amateur's Favorite," composed and arranged by himself for a full band of twenty instruments. The music is published by E. A. Samuels, Boston, which is sufficient guarantee of the merits of the composition. THE OAT8 STEALING CA8E. The case of Harrison Blalock and Isaac Wright, colored, charged with larceny of oats from the barn of T. W. Clawson, was given a preliminary hearing before Trial Justice Lewis and a jury last Friday. Messrs. Bell and G. W. S. Hart appeared as counsel for Isaac Wright, who was charged with having bought stolen property knowing the same to have been ) stolen. He was acquitted. Harrison Blalock was committed to jaW for trial at next term of the Court of Sessions. IMPKOVEMENTS. Mrs. M. M. Beard, is having her house, on Main street near the depot, remodeled, adding very much to its appearance. Mr. Springs Withers has just had his house repainted, ana is maamg otner nonie improvements which lead his friends to think he is 4 contemplating something desperate, at no distant day. We have neglected to notice heretofore that Dr. Bratton has repainted the "old Masonic building" on his property, greatly improving the appearance of the house. CHURCHE8 ?TEXT 8UNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows: Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Thos. Gilbert, Pastor. Morning and evening services at the usual hours. Episcopal?Church of the Good ShepherdRev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. Services at the usual hours, morning and afternoon. Services also Wednesday evenings at 8 o'clock. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. The pastor will fill his regular appointment at Tirzah next Sunday, on which day the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered?services to begin on Friday. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services at the usual hours, morning and evening. THE ELECTIOITNEXT SATURDAY. The Democratic voters are reminded that on Saturday next, the 7th instant, they will have an opportunity to vote upon the question of whether nominations in York county shall be made by the primary or convention plan. 4 The advocates of either system would like to have a full vote and fair expression of the voice of the party on this question, and to this end let all the Democrats turn out and vote. . It will be borne in mind that any member of * the Democratic party is entitled to vote in this election. It is not necessary that he should be a member of a club to entitle him to vote. All Democrats who voted the Demcratic ticket in 1876 and 1878, are entitled to vote. Managers of the election are specially urged to make returns of the result at their respective precincts to J. C. Kuykendal, secretary of the executive committee, by 12 M., on Tuesday next, so that tire vote of the county may be tabulated and published as early as possible. PERSONAL ^MENTION. , We were pleased to receive a call, Tuesday morning, from J. S. Reynolds, Esq., of the Winnsboro News. The name of Mr. Reynolds will go before tire Judicial Convention as a candidate for Sol citor of this Circuit. Mr. James Jefferys and daughter, Miss Mattie, and Mr J. J. Smith have returned from Cleveland ? arings. Mrs. J. S. R. Thomson has returned to her home in Spartanburg, accompanied by Mrs. H. F. Adickes, Jr. Mr. LaMartine Strauss has left Yorkville for Staunton, Va,, where he has a good busi- j ness opportunity. Rev. A. Ervine occupied the pulpit of the M. E. Church last Sunday evening, delivering an interesting anil instructive discourse. . Mrs. J. A. Baldwin, nee Miss L. W. Lowry, A whose home is in Atlanta, is visiting her pa- % A rents in this place. JA C. E. Spencer, Esq., and family, are on a AA visit to Hendersonville, N. C. Miss Sophie Bratton is visiting relatives in town. Miss Annie Jelferys is visiting relatives in Chester. ' / Miss Lilian Fuller, of Columbia, is visiting ' the family of Mr. T. P. Beard. \ Miss Willie Cross, of Chester, is visiting ^ Miss Cora Kuykendal. Miss Bessie Harty, of Charlotte, is visiting the family of S. A. McElwee. Miss Bessie Gist and Mr. J. A. McLean, Jr., are visiting at Bowling Green. Miss Lilian Crenshaw is attending the normal school at Spartanburg. Messrs. Frank A., and Hezekiah M. Gilbert have gone to Sumter on a visit. Corporal James II. Carroll, of the Penitentiary Guards, is at home on a visit. Rev. T. M. Lowry of Aberdeen, Mississippi, is visiting his parents at tliis place. . Mrs. J. B. Allison is visiting in the country. ^ SURVIVORS' ASSOCIATIONS. flip PYwnt.ivA p.nmmittees of the Countv Survivors' and of the Twelfth Regiment Survivors' Association, met in Yorkville on the 28th ultimo, agreeably to the call of Col. Cad Jones, President of the Associations, for the purpose of making arrangements for the joint celebration of the Associations, to take place in Yorkville, on the third Thursday, 19th of August, 1880. Col. W. H. McCorkle was requested to act as secretary, after which the President announced that the meeting was fully organized for the transaction of business. On motion, the following plan of arrangements was adopted: 1st. The preparation of a stand in some suitable grcve for the public speaking and the procuring of a room in which to spread the dinner. 2nd. That a committee of two survivors be appointed in each township to solicit subscriptions in money or provisions in their respective townships; said committee to rei>ort the result of their efforts to the committee, on Saturday, the 14th of August. Each member of the township committee shall have power to appoint others to assist him in the canvass of his township. All moneys collected must be paid in on the 14th of August, and all contributions of uncooked provisions must be delivered on the 18th,; nd all cooked provisions on the morning of the 19th of August. ^ 3rd. That a committee of arrangements be appointed by the President, who, together with the township committee and such others as they may select, shall make all arrangements necessary for the banquet and the ceremonies * of the day of celebration. ^th^lia^^^ommitte