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fctaps and Jacis. j ? A pair were married at Newport, R. I., I recently, after an uubroken courtship of 35 years. ? A prize of forty acres of land is offered to the couple who will be married in front of the grand stand at the Michigan State Fair, j ? John A. Cuthbert, of Mobile, Alabama, is one hundred and two years old, still practices law, and is the oldest living ex-member \ of Congress. ? A man is astouishing the people of Mil- j waukie by walking on water. He wears shoes resembling coffins, and goes three miles an ; hour at a swiuging gait. ? Douglas Jerrold said of a man who had | proved himself a thorough scoundrel: "He would sharpen a knife ou bis father's tomb- | stone to Kin ni3 motner.' ? The Houston Post estimates the cotton crop of Texas for this year at one raillion two hundred and fifty thousand bales, or one-fourth of the entire crop of the United States. ? It begins to look as if the export demand for wheat would be largely in excess of our surplus, taking our crop at the highest estimate. Should this prove true, we may look for a rise in breadstufls. ? Although New York has one hundred mone or less commodious hotels, it is very difficult to secure a room at any of them at the present time, so great is the rush of business and pleasure travel. ? The New York Cbfto/isays that the Spanish and French buyers select their cotton with regard mainly to its color, choosing the whitest as the best, and payiug comparatively little attention to the fibre. ? On the 9th instaut, the National Cotton Exchange of America, (New Orleans) issued its official statement of the crop of the United States for the commercial year ending August 31, 1880. Details as made out show a total crop of 5,740,101 bales. For the year ending August 31, 1879, the crop aggregated 5,073,531 bales. ? California has hopes of ranking among the Cotton States and talks of buildiug factories at once to work up the crop. The Merced cotton fields have shown what square miles of similar soil could do, and Kern county, further south, is now irrigating 100 acres of cotton to prove that she has 100,000 acres more only waiting to be watered to make good fiolrJa Wt WW UVIUOt ? Mack Parrow, of Graud Rapids, Mich., died after sixty-three days of voluntary fastiug. He believed he had a cancer in his stomach and quit eating. During the rest of his life he took only sweetened water occasionally and one teaspoonful of ice cream. The autopsy proved that he had been mistaken about his stomach, his sole trouble being in the brain. ? The Herald has compiled a ceusus table giving the population of all the States in the Union, the apporoximate result beiug 49,302,144. The population of the six Territories, 569,998, brings the total up to 49,865,142; and the population of four Territories not included in the table, will make the grand total of 50,000,000, or an increase of 11,700,000, or something more than 30 per cent, since the census of 1870. ? The clerks in the treasury are preparing some fifty-eight thousaud checks, amouuting in ail to 82,050,990, to pay the quarterly interest on the 4 per cent, loan due October 1. The checks range from fifty cents to 8475,000. While the treasury department will not make known to whom this quarterly interest is paid, it is generally understood that it will go into l'A naniiAiitna nnnlrof W m W uic uipuuuuo \ji vv iii* 11. v auuv.4 i/nt, who is known to be the possessor of 847,500,000 of 4 per cent, bonds, which yield him an annual income of 81,900,000. ? The Irish correspondent of the London Times writes: "The potato crop is simply magnificent. What few men can recollect seeing, is now seen on all bauds?fields beginning to wither naturally without a sign of disease. This is chit fly owiug to the change of seed, the 'Champions' being planted on all hands from east to west, and fully bearing out the good things spoken of them. The price of oats and cattle has doubled since last year, that of pigs more than doubled. Oats are a good crop, and turnips and mangolds have never looked better." ? A correspondent writes to the Statesville (N. C.) American concerning the battle of King's Mountain : "A soldier on the American side noticed a good deal of execution done in a particular spot in his line and from a particular spot on the other side. On close inspection he discovered that the firing on the British side was from behind a hollow chestnut tree and through a hole in it. He aimed his gun repeatedly at this opening and ? stopped the firing. After the battle was over he examined the place and found that he had killed one of his brothers and wounded another, who had joined the British forces and concealed themselves behind the tree." ? The trial of James T. Dejarnette for the murder of bis sister closed in the corporation court of Danville, Va., on Wednesday night of last week. The case was given to the jury at 5:30 o'clock, and at 10 o'clock they came into court with a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, but recommended the prisoner to mercy in view of the circumstances of the case. His counsel entered a motion for a new trial, and after argument last Saturday, the motion was overruled. The case will go to the Court of Appeals on a lengthy bill of exceptions to the rulings of the lower court. It is alleged that one of the jurors was incompetent because of mental aberration during the trial. After the motion for a new trial was overruled, the court sentenced the pri-oner to be hanged on October 29th, next. ? A late Washington dispatch says: Col. Robert N. Scott has issued a circular stating that the records of "The Rebellion" will be published in four series. The first series will embrace formal reports, both of the Union and Confederate, of the military operations with thp pnrrpsnondpnpp nrdprs and rptnrns relating specially thereto, and will be accompanied by an atlas. This series will embrace j about 80 octavo volumes averaging 800 pages j each. The second series will contain the cor-1 respoudence, &c. of the Uniou and Confeder-! ate authorities relating to prisoners of war and i to Stale or political prisoners ; four volumes, j The third series will contain the correspou- | dence, orders, reports and returns of the Union j authorities embracing their correspondence j with Confederate officials; eight volumes, j The fourth series will exhibit the correspon- i deuce, &c. of Confederate authorities not em- j bodied in the preceding series; four volume?, j ? There is a growing sentiment in Europe ' in favor of the government ownership of rail-! roads, and the German government is about to issue sufficient 3 per cent consols to buy j up the private railroads of the Empire. Out of nearly 20,000 miles of road, the German government already owns the greater portion. The purchase of the remainder is done in accordance with popular sentiment; for the government ownership differs from tbat of private corporations in that no attempt is j made to make the roads profitable as investments beyond what is necessary to pay the interest on their cost, and to provide for im- j provemmts and keep the line in good order. If any surplus beyond that arises, rates are reduced. The same is true in Belgium, and to some extent in France, and there is a strong I opinion that these examples will be followed until all the railroads in Europe are uuder j government control. ? Hancock is a man of destiny. In 1868 Garfield brought a bill into Congress to drop the junior Major-Generai. That was Hancock. It passed both houses of Congress and was signed by the President. But before it1 could be carried into effect, George H. Thomas, the senior Major-General, died, and Hancock going up one grade, was no longer the junior Major-General, so the law could not reach him. Then the Republicans, still led by Garfield, passed an act reducing the Ma-' jor Generals to three. This was signed by j the President; but before it could be carried into effect Meade died, and the Major Gen- j erals were reduced to three by God Almighty.: Finally, a law was passed authorizing the President to drop one of the Major Gener-1 als. Before it could be carried out, and 1 Hancock be dropped, Halleck died, and Haucock becoming the senior Major General, he could not be dropped. The man who sur-! vived all these attempts to retire him cannot be retired. The man who led them?Gar- ; field?will, as a fittiug consummation of bis | act, fall a victim to his intended victim, j Hancock will be elected Presideut.' Garfield ' will be retired.?Louisville Courier-Journal. Ihc IJorbiUr (Shuptiw.; YORK VILLE, S. C.s THURSDAY MORNING. SEPT. 16. 1880. OPENING OF THE STATE CAMPAIGN. On Tuesday of last week the State campaigu was formally opefied by a grand ratification meeting in Columbia, at which there was a large gathering of the Democracy from nearly every portion of the State. Speeches were made by Mr. Bayard, of Delaware. Gen. Racrnnd Senator Butler. Hon. M. P. O'Con ""b , nor and Col. Gibbes. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed ; but it was reserved for Anderson to eclipse Columbia, in the meeting held there the next day. It is estimated that not less thau six thousand persons were in attendance, and the grand procession of RedShirt Democracy was, in every respect, equal to the memorable campaign of 1876. Senator Bayard was also at Anderson, and spoke in the same line of argument as his speech at Columbia, a report of which is published on the first page of Litis issue. LET THERE BEY FULL VOTE. We trust the Democratic voters of York county will properly estimate the importance of the primary election to be held to-day, and that all will turn out and cast their ballots for the men of their ch oice. Notwithstanding the full and free discussion the primary system has had, and its earnest advocacy by men of sagacity and experience, who saw in that mode of making nominations, under the peculiar situation of the two political parties in this county, the only means of preventing dissensions in the Democratic ranks, there are some who do not yet seem to fully comprehend the subject nor attach to it the impor tance it demands. The fact that the system is new to them may reasonably explain the difficulties in their way, and account for prejudice where it exists. * It should be borne in mind that the primary is not a new or untried experiment. It has been successfully adopted, not only in many of the counties of this State, but in other States, and we do not remember an instance of its abandonment after the first adoption. It simply resolves itself into a convention of the people?all the voters of the party?relegating to them instead of a body of delegates, a voice in declaring who shall be nominees. The candidates for nomination come before the people, to be voted for under certain conditions, aud they in their sovereign power declare by ballot who by those conditions shall be entitled to their suffrages on the day of the general election. Hence the right, as well as the imperative duty of every Democratic voter to attend the polls to day. The rules for governing the primary election, though not entirely satisfactory to all, are as perfect, perhaps, as could have been devised in the limited time appropriated to that purpose ; and whether fully meeting the views of all or not, none should decline to vote merely on that account. It is clearly the privilege of all who are known to be in full sympathy with the Democratic party to vote in the primary election. Of.course, none but known and recognized Democrats can vote in this election. The reason for this is too obvious to require explanation; yet we have heard Democrats condemn the ieature on me ground that it is contrary to our form of government to exclude the ballot from a portion of the voters. These same disaffected persons also attach much importance to the fact that they could take a large number of Republican voters to the primary polls, which they think would increase aud strengthen the Democratic vote. While these gentlemen are no doubt honest i: their views, they evidently fail to perceive the true import of the primary election. We cannot better illustrate to them the falsity of their position, than by asking if they would admit Republican delegates to a Democratic nomiuatiug convention. The principle is the same. Every Democratic voter to-day is a delegate empowered to make heard his voice in favor of the men of his choice, and this he must do as free from Republican influences as would the nominations be if made in convention without Republican aid. We presume nearly every Republican in the county would vote in the Democratic primarv election, but the most obtuse mind, on a moment's reflection, cannot fail to see how farcical it would be. After the primary or nominating election, should there be a contest between the two parties, will be the time for soliciting Republican votes to swell the Democratic ranks ; but to day let every Democrat turn out and by his vote assist in making judicious nominations from the list of gentlemen before the people. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? During the year just passed, Georgetown ' county produced 3,750,000 bushels of clean ; rice. ? The grand jury of Kershaw county last, week presented Trial Justice DePass for "ty-: ranuical exactness upon his part in the litiga-! - i nr\ 1111 Hon of matters in .lis omce generally. ? The amount of cotton shipped from Gaff- i ney's during the cotton year ending August 31st, was 7,130 bales, against 4,845 the year before. ? Will Cannon shot Mart Gary, at Mar-; tin's Depot, Laurens county, Sunday morn-! ing, and killed him. Both parties were colored. Cannon tied. ? There is a colored Baptist church at Society Hill*in Darlington county, which has a membership of over a thousand persons,1 with continued accessions. ? A man named Maddon, in Oconee county, has been arrested and bound over to appear in the United States Court, to answer the 1 charges preferred against him for breaking open a letter not addressed to him. ? To day has been appointed for a hearing of the case in the Supreme Court between Governor Simpson and Chief-Justice Willard, with regard to which is entitled to the position of Chief-Justice. Willard being disqualified by the Constitu'ion from sitting and hearing the case, Governor Jeter has special- j ly commissioned and appointed Judge Had-1 son of the Fourth Circuit, as Associate Justice, for the trial aud determination of the same. The Court will consist of AssociateJustices, Mclver aud McGowan ar.d Judge Hudson. ? The papers are publishing long accounts of the real circumstances of the killing of the two colored men whose bodies were found in Little River, Laurens county, some weeks ago. Investigation has revealed the fact that the two negroes alluded to were known to have attempted a foul outrage upon a highly respectable lady of the neighborhood, and were quietly put out of the way by her relatives. They are charged with several similar attempts upon both white and colored females, and their fate seems to have been a source of joy to every head of a family of both colors that knew them. ? At the municipal election last Spring in Lancaster, the question was distinctly made as to whether or not licenses should be granted by?.the town council to retail spirituous liquors withiu the corporate limits. The contest resulted in the election of an anti-license council. The Review gives as one of the re suits, that the whisky drinkers of Lancaster have improved so much in behavior, that the town council no longer find it necessary to employ a policeman. Yet in the face of such a fact as this, there are men who will assert that more intoxicating liquors are drank in towns where the sale of liquors is not licensed, than in towns where it is. In other words, that people will get drunker when they can't get liquor, than they will when they can get it. STATE POLITICAL NEWS. ? Aiken county has an Independent candidate for sheriff. ? The Edgefield Advertiser says there is not a single white Radical residing in that county. ? The Marlboro Independents and the Republicans have agreed to support the same ticket. ? It is rumored that the Greenbackers will hold a State Convention in Chester on September 28, to adopt a platform and nominate a ticket. This is only another Radical movement in disguise. ? R. Erasmus Allison, of Lancaster, who is a candidate for the House of Representatives, favors a reduction of the pay of Solicitors. The present salary is 81,500, while be fore the war it was but 8900. ? Barnwell claims that she has a larger percentage of colored Democrats than any other county in the State. She claims also that there is but one white Radical in the county, and that it would take half a dozen of him to make an ordinary man. ? The Republican Congressional Convention for the Third District, met at Newberry on Friday last, and nominated C. J. Stolbrand as a candidate for Congress. Stolbrand was formerly superintendent of the penitentiary. ?: The second primary election in Union resulted in the selection of Major D. A. Townsend for School Commissioner ; Barney Glenp, H. H. Robinson and John Rodgers for County Commissioners; J. Simpson Gregory for Coroner. ? In Columbia, on Friday last, three Radi cal negroes were arrested and lodged in jail, charged with beating and intimidating Monroe Waites, a colored Democrat. They ? .1 1 * ? . .1 _ 1 A PAA were subsequently reieasea on a uonn 01 souu to appear for trial at the next term of the Circuit Court. ? L. L. Guffin, formerly a Radical politician of Abbeville couuty, but who is now au official iu the Charleston Custom House, told a reporter of the News and Courier a few days ago, that he had received a letter saying that an Independent or Fusion ticket for all the offices would be run in Abbeville county ; that the anti stock law men had developed considerable strength, and had determined to run candidates upon this issue alone. They hope to be able to defeat the regular Democratic ticket by the help of the Radiicals. The ticket has not yet been nominated, but when it is put iu the field Guffin says that he will go back to Abbeville and canvass the county in the interest of the bolters. He says that the negroes and the Republicans will support the anti stock law movement to a man, and that he believes it can and will be successful. POLITICAL NOTES. ? Ben. Butler thinks the Democrats can elect four Congressmen in Massachusetts. ? The Vermont election on Tuesday of last week gave a Republican majority of 20,000. ? Mr. English predicts a Democratic majority of 15,000 in Indiana. ? Those in a position to know, give it as their opinion that West Virginia will give Hancock a majority of 20,000. ? Hon. A. H. Stephens has been nominated for reelection to Congress by the Democrats of the Augusta (Ga.) district. ? The Prohibitionists of Massachusetts, in convention at Worcester on the 8th, nominated a State ticket, and by resolution declared against supporting Garfield. ? Senator Conkling has written a letter to a Republican club in Rochester, N. Y., in j which he says that "the Democratic nominee | for President is an honorable man." ? Mr. H. V. Redfield, the well-known correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, who has been traveling in Virginia, says that he sees no chance of Garfield's carrying that State through the Readjustees movement. ? Reports from the election iu Maine, last Monday, are meagre, but from the reduced Republican majorities in the cities and towus, encouraging to the Democrats. It is conceded that the sole Republican hope is that the back counties may make up for their city Imccos nrul anvp thft ftt.flt.p. ? Senator Wallace says that not less than four thousand Republican soldiers of Pennsylvania have written to Gen. Hancock that they intend to vote for him for President. This looks as if there might be something in j the claim that Hancock will carry Pennsyl- ! vania. ? The New York Star says Gen. Hancock's old army comrades are rallying to his support iu thousands. In Philadelphia alone there ! are no less than twenty Hancock clubs, num-1 beriug in the aggregate 5,000 men, all of whom have heretofore been active members of the Republican party. Pennsylvania will j in all probability give her electoral vote to Hancock. ? The State Republican Convention ot Georgia, after overwhelmingly voting down a resolution endorsing Norwood, candidate of a minority of the Democratic Convention for Governor, declared by resolution that it is inexpedient to make any State nominations. It is claimed that the sentiment of the Convention was strongly in favor of Gov. Colquitt, the choice of a majority of the Democratic Convention, which, it will be remembered, failed to make a nomination. ? The Greenbackers hold the balance of power iu Indiana, and it is optional with them to give the State to whichever of the great parties they choose. The total vote cast at the Presidential election in 1876 was 431,070, of which Tilden received 213,526, Hayes, 208,011 and Cooper 9,533. In 1878, j the total vote cast for Secretary of State was 314,694, of which Shanklin, Democrat, re- j ceived 184,491; Moore, Republican, 180,755, | and James, Greenbacker 29,448. It will j I be seen by these figures that although the ! Democrats carried the State in both years, j that a slight defection from the Greenback ! ranks in favor of Republicans is all that j is needed to give the latter control. i NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Geo. Johnstone Jones is spoken of for the Legislature from Burke county. ? Col. Jasper Stowe, of Gaston, has received the Democratic nomination for State Senator to represent the Senatorial district composed of Gaston and Cleveland counties. ? In Davidson couDty, the other day, a negro child four years old, fell into a well fifty-five feet deeo. and was rescued alive by J I ' a little white boy, who went down and fished him out of the water. ? Mr. J. M. Alexander, of Mecklenburg, was bitten on the finger by a copper head snake one day last week, and the bite came near proving fatal. Copious draughts of whisky probably saved his life. ? Lewis J. Kirk, of Charlotte, has institu ted suit, in the Mecklenburg Superior Court, against the Air Line Railroad, in which he claims 820,000 for the breaking of an arm which occurred on that road in 1879. ? The News and the Observer of Raleigh have been consolidated. The consolidated publication will hereafter be known as the News and Observer, under the editorial management of S. A. Ashe, well known as the successful editor of the Observer. ? Mr. E. L. Pell has purchased the Southern Home newspaper, of Charlotte, and assumed editorial control of that journal. He is a son of the late Wm. E. Pell, for several years, and until his death, the successful editor of the Raleigh Sentinel, and has the advantage of a newspaper training. Mr. D. H. Hill, Jr., the late editor, has accepted the professorship of belles lettres in the Military and Agricultural College of Georgia. EDITOUIAL INKLINGS. Rare Illustration of Gratitude. The San Francisco Newi Letter tells the following story: "A certaiu stock broker in this town had a landludy, a pleasant sort ot woman, but who had an eye to the main chance. . One evening the good lady became lachrymose. 'What ails you, Mre. S?' sympathetically asked the big hearted broker. 'Oh, sir, replied the daiue, 'I'm in a heap of trouble. I do wish I was rich.' 'That's a very common disease. How much, now, would you call a comfortable independence?' 'Well,' said the lady, 'if I had two thousand dollars I'd be a happy woman.' The broker reflected. He wanted to make the old woman happy, and so he in yested in Consolidated Virgiuia to the amount of twenty shares, which gave a profit of 84,000, which he instantly handed to Mrs. S., with his best regards. The lady was overjoyed. She wept on his waistcoat, she called him her preserver; she would have kissed him, but he wouldn't let her. At last when her trans ports had somewhat subsided, the instiuct of money making began to show itself, and she requested the broker to reinvest the wholesum ? * 11 ? *_! in her behalf, tie demurred ; ne oojecieu ; he begged of her to be content with the profit she had made. He knew the uncertainty of stocks; but all in vain. Mammon reigned triumphant in the old woman's breast. She insisted ; he yielded and lost half the investment. The lady had ?2,000 left, but was she satisfied? No! She actually sued the broker for the remainder!" Sontli Carolina .Cotton Crop. Under date of September 9th, the Charleston Cotton Exchange makes the following report: The report for August is compiled from 62 replies, covering 30 counties, the average date being August 30. The charucter of the weather during August is reported by 27 as favorable and by 45 as unfavorable to the cotton crop as compared with the same period last year ; 12 reported it as more favorable, 5 about the same, and 45 as less favorable. Twenty two report cotton as fruiting well and retaining its squares and bolls, while the remaining complain of considerable shedding. As to the present condition of the crop and | its comparison with the same time last year, 35 report the same to be better, 9 about the same and 30 not so good. Picking is universally reported as having commenced and will become general, even in the upper couuties, by the 15th of September. No injury has been made by worms. Damage to the plant by shedding and rust, as compared with its condition on 31st of July, isstuted by 17 to be very slight; 40 estimate the damage to amount to from 5 to 33 per cent, and averaging 20 per cent., while 5 report no damage at all from these causes. The Southern Census. | A New York dispatch says that Gen. I F. A. Walker, superintendent of the United States census, is now in that city, and referj ring to the statements of an exaggerated census in the South, says: "The Republican papers are devoting a great portion of their space to what they are pleased to designate a fraudulent census in j the South, based on discrepancies existing between the report of 1870 and the present one, in certain counties in South Carolina and Mississippi. I can see nothing tangible in such allegations, but shall investigate them thoroughly. The marked increase in those districts can readily be accounted for. Since 1870 thousands have emigrated to those sections, and the natural increase iu population has been considerable. "The census of 1870 in the South was inaccurate. Then I did not have the appointing of the enumerators, fn the main, the enuI "'AM TTniln/1 Qtotoa mnraKdlq | luciaiuio uctg uiuivu u.v%. j ern men unacquainted with the country, and I ignorant, incompetent colored men. I "They were entirely independent of me, and I had no control of their work. This ; census has been entirely different, and is just 1 about perfect. If it is not it will be made so at the earliest possible moment. I shall make an investigation by means of cards of the three last censuses, and families can be traced without any considerable effort. The census of 1870 was incorrect, as the investigation will show." Gen. Longstreet in Washington. A Washington dispatch says that J Gen. Longstreet was in that city last week j making the necessary arrangements and r?- j ceiving his instructions before leaving to j take charge of the United States embassy at j Constantinople. He had an interview with Secretary Evarts, who has just returned from : the East. It did not take very long to make the General acquainted with the duties of his new position, and he was soon satisfied that he would be abundantly able to manage any diplomatic questions which are likely to arise between our Government and that of Turkey. The secretary communicated to him, however, the fact that the United States | only allows the salary attached to the position, and that the incumbent must pay his own expenses in going to and returning from his post. Formerly the Government allowed an outfit; this has been done away with. Afterwards Gen. Longstreet saw Postmaster-General Maynard. Mr. Maynard, who held the position five years, told him that he would be certain to like it; that the climate of Con-j stantinople was delightful; that it was a very interesting city; that all the foreign ministers, except the one sent by the United States, were rich and got good pay ; tbat they all gave big entertainments, at which the representative of the United States was invited ; and knowing the meagre salary which he received he was not expected to return any of the hospitalities. In conversation with your correspondent to-night, Gen. Longstreet said that he had turned over the postoffice at Gainesville, Ga., to his successor ten days ago, hut he was to go hack to settle up his accounts. His date of departure for Turkey has not yet been fixed, but it will be within the next thirty days. The Prosperity of the South. The New York Herald, after reviewing several trade issues of Southern journals, published on the 1st of September, has been impressed with the facts which they portray, and from the statistics of these publications, the Herald rightly implies that the South is no laggard in the march of prosperity. Concluding its article on the subject, that paper says: Wherever we turn, in Texas, Arkansas, Georgia, and even in Virginia, we read only of rapidly increasing prosperity and of general well doing. It will not do for Southern men, after such an official showing, to complain of the poverty of their region. The Southern States are prosperous. It would not he too extravagant to say that their people are on the whole more prosperous than those of most parts of the North. Undoubtedly the conditions of living are easier in the South than in the North. But the change for the better in the last four years is very remarkable. Everywhere we read of new industries starting into life; manufactories of various kinds are rapidly increasing and give employment to increasing numbers of the poor whites, to whom factory life is a distinct advance in the scale of prosperity. The business of market gardening for Northern consumption has been found so profitable that vegetable and small fruit gardens and or chards are found in all the States from Virginia to Louisiana. It is absurd to charge that a region thus healthfully prosperous is lawless or idle. The South produced last year the greatest cotton crop in its history, aud this year's crop will be even greater. But, over and above the cotton, it is produc ing a multitude of other things which were totully unknown in the Southern States before the war. With a more healthful political life, such as would follow from a 'divided' South, this prosperity would be still more rapidly increased." The Code Denounced in Marion. It seems that ou the night of the recent Democratic convention of Marion county, Junius H. Evans and John M. Power, of Marion Courthouse, after the rules of the convention had been clearly and repeatedly stated by the chairman, remained on the floor in violation of its rules, their defiant attitude forcing the Convention to appoint two sergeants-at-arms for its protection, one of whom was Capt. A. E. Gilchrist, who in obedience'to the instructions of the Convention, requested parties not entitled to seats under the rules of the convention to retire. At this they became more defiant, and were finally expelled by force. For thus discharging bis duty as sergeant at-arms of the Convention, Gilchrist is threatened with a challenge under the code of honor from Evans, iu view which a meeting of the citizens of Reaves' township has been held, and the following resolutions were adopted: That we, the delegates from Reaves' township to the recent County Convention, and the Democratic voters of the said township, here by heartily endorse the action of the said County Convention in expelling said Junius H. Evans and John M. Power from its floor. That we endorse and commend the manly, prudent and polite conduct of Capt. A. E. Gilchrist in the discharge of the delicate duties assigned to him by the Convention. That we condemn the pernicious practice of duelling as contrary to the laws of the State and of God, and in conflict with the best interests of the community aud the welfare of society. That we heartily endorse the high, moral and Christian courage of Capt. A. E. Gilchrist in refusing to violate his vows to society and to God in that he refused to meet said Junius H. Evans in mortal combat, under the socalled Code of Honor, the waning relic of a barbarous mode of settling differences between man aud man. That we hereby respectfully ask and request the Governor of the State of South Carolina to remove said Junius H. Evans from the office of trial justice of Marion county, as being unworthy of the confidence and esteem of all law-abiding citizens. Thar wd herehv annoint Mitchell M. Mar tin, one of the delegates from Reaves' toWhship to the County Convention, to institute legal proceedings against the said Junius H. Evans and John M. Power. That we respectfully ask Capt. G. A. McIntyre, treasurer of Marion county, to remove the said John M. Power from the clerkship in the county treasurer's office. A Relic Hunter Rewarded. A writer in the Charlotte Observer makes mention of the following Revolutionary relics which have a peculiar interest at the present time: Some few weeks ago I made a visit to some springs near King's Mountain, and while there I was kindly invited hy Rev. Mr. Boyce, the Associate Reformed Presbyterian minister, to take a seat in his buggy and visit Mr. Ormand, who lives three miles from the station, and see some rare curiosities of the Revolutionary war. He seemed to know the object of our visit, and soon brought out his old Bible, once owned by his great grandfather. The book is in a good state of preservation for the treatment it had during the war. It is dated 1769. It is said the Tories came to his house, took the book and opened it, and put it on a horse for a saddle and rode on it for some nnles. The horse must have had a sore-back, for the traces of blood are plainly visible on the leaves. Some years after the war the book was heard of on the lower part of Crowder's creek and was returned to the family. Mr. Ormaud also has a canteen made of mulberry and beautifully put together. It will hold water now as well as it did during the war, but the rats and mice have somewhat injured this rare curiosity. In the yard, some twenty or thirty steps from the house, stands a veuerable old white oak tree, where it is said the Tories hitched their horses, when they were committing depredations on Mr. Ormand's property. At the ground the tree measures 34 feet in circumference; i two feet above ground, 27 feet 5 inches; and i the branches across extend 115 feet. This : is truly a veuerable old tree, and now in its : old age is loaded with fruit. 1 I was also shown by Dr. Tracy (who has been a resident and practicing physician for , many years near King's Mountain) a knife, I, or rather the remains of one, that is said- to j have been carried by Ferguson during the j fight at King's Mountain. Twenty-five years ago the place where 1 Ferguson was buried was shown to Dr. Tracy ^ by Mr. Ormand, and a great desire to obtain 1 some relic put him to digging; he was re- ! warded by finding a knife, nail, screw, and gun flint. The doctor took the kuife and ;' the other relics were divided out among the ^ party. The knife is one-bladed and bears ' the impress of having been a fine kuife. The ,' handle is rounded at one end for striking fire, j1 and where the rivets go through the handle < are traces of pearl. I have no doubt that j1 this kuife was the property of Col. Ferguson, j who made his threats that he was "stationed ?' on the King's Mountain and all the rebels in i hell could not dislodge him." Dr. Tracy ] has made no effort to open the knife for fear j it might fall to pieces, and keeps it carefully \ wrapped up for future generations to look at. Xi OCAL AF7AXES. j ?? NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. J. Smith A Co.?Our Messrs. Hope and Dun- ! lap have returned from the Northern Markets. Latimer A Hemphill?Millinery. Dobson A Parish?Powder, Powder. M. Strauss?Good News. Miller A Lindsay?Oats?Potware?Flour?Groceries, Ac.?Hams?Coflee. Latta Brothers?Look Out for New Goods. Herndon Brothers?Bagging and Ties?Iron Cotton Ties?6, 6, 6?Recent Arrivals?RopeOil?Plows. J. M. Adams?Columbia Cook?Just ReceivedStoves Repaired?Bird Cage?Lamps and Candlesticks. Kennedy Bros. A Barron?Guano Notes?Wool Wanted?Rubber Belting. Hunter A Oates?New Goods, New Goods. Adickes A Colcock?Solar Tip Shoes?Persons Indebted to Us. Dr. W. M. Walker, Resident Dentist?Dental Notice. Geo. W. S. Hart, Sec. Dem. Ex. Com.?Governor's Day. A. S. Hand?A New Ferry Boat. R. L than?Revolutionary Relics. NOTARY* PUBLIC. The Governor has api>ointed Perry Ferguson, of Clay Hill, a Notary Public for South Carolina. A FINE RUN OF GOLD. The Charlotte Democrat says the Magnolia Gold Mining Company, of York county, S. C., had a fine run of ore last week?thirty tons yielding 33 ounces' of gold bullion as iisssapred at the Charlotte assay office. 12TII REGIMENT, 8. C. V. Capt. John II. Kinsler, of Richland, has accepted the invitation to deliver an address before the Survivors' Association of the 12th Regiment, S. C. V., which will hold its next annual meeting at Lancaster C. II., on the third Thursday of August, 1881. OUT AGAIN. We are pleased to see Dr. W. M. Walker on the streets again, after having been confined to his room for several days from the effects of injuries he received by the falling of a scaffold on which he was standing when it fell, lie announces that he is now ready to attend any professional calls. SKETCH OF KING'S MOUNTAIN. We have just issued, in pamphlet form, a sketch of the Battle of King's Mountain, by Rev. Robert Lathan, and will fill orders for the same at the following rates : Single copy, 15 cents; per dozen, $1.50; per hundred, 9.00. Orders by mail will be promptly filled at the above prices. OUR CLUBBING RATES. To clubs of two or more names, entered on our books and paid for at the same time, the Enquirer will be furnished one year for $2 to each subscriber. Single subscriptions, $2.50 per annum in advance. All persons who subscribe for one year, between this date and the first of October next, will be entitled to a chance in our prize drawing. PICNIC. There will be a picnic to-morrow at Philadelphia church, under the auspices of the Woman's Missionary Societies of Yorkville and Philadelphia. Rev. T. R. English, of the Presbyterian church, will deliver an address. A general invitation is extended to all who may wish to attend. Persons attending from Yorkville can go down on the regular passenger train and return in the afternoon. GOVERNOR'S DAY." Attention of the Democracy of York unty is directed to the official announcement of the public speaking to be in Yorkvillf on Monday the 27th instant. The chairman of the executive committee informs us that he shall endeavor, if possible, to secure the attendance of Senator Hampton, and besides that distinguished gentlemen, other prominent and entertaining speakers will be sure to attend. Let there be a full turn out on that day. THE CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION. We have received a communication from Major Woodward correcting the official announcement of the vote in the Congressional Convention. He received 3 votes from Fairheld, 3 from Kershaw, 2 from Chester and 1 from Lancaster. The vote of Lancaster was given in exchange for the vote of Major Woodward, (who was a delegate) and he voted for Col. Evins. Nine votes, were therefore, cast for Major Woodward, and not eight as previously stated. MR. WITHERSPOON. It is due to Mr. Witherspoon to state that as much as he would desire to meet his friends at all the appointments for the candidates before the primary election, yet owing to busi iiess engagements, auu hid uuhw <w> uuuiuj chairman, it has beer, impossible for him to meet all the people, as he desired. His failure to meet them is due neither to apathy for the cause nor indifference to the importance of the canvass just closed, but simply on account of other engagements which imperatively demanded his presence at home. CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows: Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. In the absence of the pastor, in attendance upon Synod in Alabama, Rev. Wm. G. "White will preach in this church next Sunday at 10$ A. M. Sunday School at 9 o'clock, A. M. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services at the usual hours, moriyng and evening. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Thos. Gilbert, Pastor. Services at Philadelphia in the forenoon ; in the evening at Yorkville. Episcopal?Church of the Good ShepherdRev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. The rector will officiate in the church of Our Saviour at Rock Hill next Sunday. THE JUDICIAL CONVENTION. The Judicial Convention of the Sixth Circuit, which met in Chester on the 7th instant, nominated T. C. Gaston, Esq., of Chester, on the eighty-seventh ballot, as the Democratic candidate for solicitor. There were present five delegates from York; three from Lancaster ; four from Chester ; and four from Fairfield?sixteen in all, nine votes being necessary to nominate. The following gentlemen were put in nomination: T. C. Gaston, of Chester; W. B. Wilson, jr., of York; M. J. Hough, of Lancaster; and John S. Reynolds, of Fairfield. Each nominee got his county vote for fifty-seven ballots, when, at 9 p. m., the convention adjourned to meet at 9 a. m., the next day. When the Convention re-assembled pursuant to adjournment, three more ballots were had without any change, "when Mr. Hough, of Lancaster, was withdrawn, and Lancaster cast her three votes for Gaston, giving him seven votes. After the eighty-fifth ballot, the name of Mr. Reynolds was withdrawn, which left the Fairfield delegation free to vote as they pleased. On the next ballot Mr..Gaston received eight votes ; Mr. Wilson seven ; and Mr. Reynolds one. On the eightyseventh ballot, Mr. Gaston received four votes from Chester; three from Lancaster; and two from Fairfield, giving him nine votes, and sufficient to nominate. THE PRIMARY CANVASS. ' ? ? ?????-? trnaf Ai<<litir O 4" rue primary canvas;* wracu jcoiciunj ?u Ulay Ilill. On Monday the candidates addressed the people at Rock Ilill, and on Tuesday at Fort Mill. At Rock Hill there was a very good attendance of people. The meeting was presided over by Col. Cad Jones, who asked for all a patient hearing. He also, in his opening remarks, urged upon the Democracy of York county to assemble at Yorkville on the 27th instant, the occasion of public speaking by the State Democratic canvassers. Col. Jones then introduced Mr. Witherspoon, who briefly addressed the crowd, after which he 1 was followed by the candidates for the House J if Representatives, and Dr. E. L. Glenn, one ' if the candidates for county commissioner. J No other candidates answering to their names : is called from the list, speaking was announced is closed and the crowd dispersed. Everything i passed off pleasantly. The candidates were ill in the most affable mood, and the people in :he same agreeable state of mind. The circus agent was 011 hand putting up his flaming posters, and by some misunderstanding, Mr. Wit 'lerspoon thought the date of the show at Rock Hill would conflict with the meeting at Yo'-kville on the 27th, and he appealed to the people not to be led away from their patriotic duty on that day by a traveling monkey show. At the dinner table, where were seated Mr. Witherspoon and the circus men, one of them said to the other, "a candidate for the Senate, who has no opposition, attacked our show to-day, bat if he don't mind he shall have opposition. He even called it a monkey show." A general titter ensued, and a neighbor whispered to the showman that his ojiponent was at the table. So after dinner the agent approached Mr. Witherspoon and apologized for his remark, stating that it was only meant in good humor, and that there is room for both shows. He wanted Mr. Witherspoon to let all the i>eople come to his show, and promised that all his people should attend Mr. Witherspoon's if their engagements would permit. Rock Hill gives continued evidence of the enterprise and prosperity for which it is so justly noted. Merchants are receiving new - goods, and the fall trade is opening quite satisfactorily. The building for the cotton factory is going up as rapidly as possible. The brick work has reached in height the second story, and Capt. Hutchison informed us that with no untoward occurrence the house will be finished and ready for the machinery by the 1st of November, which is as early as the machinery can be delivered from the manufacturers. Among the business houses recently built in Rock Hill, are two elegant brick buildings adjoining, one of two stories, the dry goods store of A Friedheim & Bro., and the other, a three story house, built by Dr. T. C. Robertson for his drug store. The third story of this house is fitted up for a Masonic lodge, and was appropriately dedicated last Tuesday evening^ ??G???M MERE:-MENTION. The Adjutant-General of Texas reports that the State has 6,000 criminals at large, 1,000 of whom are murderers The Arkansas election gave about 60,000 Democratic majority. Each Kentucky penitentiary convict ccsts the State eleven cents a day. All but five or six of the newspapers in Tennessee oppose repudiation of the State debt Half of Scotland is owned by seventy persons. Negro jurors were chosen in Kentucky for the first time last week. "If the cotton crop of 1880 -1 1J L Q AA.fi AAA L-l ?? 1 snouju reucu u,wu,vw umco, cw uw uccu predicted, it will require 75,000 miles of hoop iron to tie it. General Longstreet has received his commission as minister to Turkey. General Grant emphatically declines to be President of a CJororado Mining Company, which evidently expected to bolster its stock by the use of his name. President Hayes and his party, on their trip to California, were heartily welcomed at Salt Lake City. Leading Mormons paid their respects. Along the Florida coast last week several vessels were stranded and great 'loss ensued to shipping, in consequence of prevailing storms. The orange crop was also seriously injured. Clayton Hillsman, a colored boy eleven years old, has been sentenced to be banged at Monroe, Ga., on the 29th of next month, for the murder of a three year old child. Twelve or fifteen Cherokee Indians will attend Trinity College, N. C., this year at the expense of the United States Government, not only to be instructed in the English studies, but also agricultural pursuits. Since 1860 every Presidential candidate of the Republican party has been a Western mac., and every Presidential candidate of the Democrats an Eastern man. In view of the present low price of print v .i t* i n? -a. gooas, ine ran ruver munuiaciurursare cuusidering the propriety of reducing the wages of their operatives ten per cent. Information comes from Virginia that the tobacco crop has been injured by worms and heavy rain. In the section around Petersburg the crop is smaller than has been known for many years. Sam Hill, who killed Simmons, the seducer of his wife, in Atlanta about two years ago, for which he was^ sentenced to the penitentiary for life, but subsequently, by a second jury on a trial for lunacy, was sent to the asylum at Miledgeville, escaped from that institution a few days ago. There is talk of Grant being made president of the Western Union Telegraph Company in October. Teias, settled as densely es New York, would contain 22,000,000 people. The Queen of Spain was delivered of a Princess on Saturday last. The young Princess was baptized on Tuesduy, with water brought from the river Jordan, specially procured for the purpose. Before the Superior Court in San Francisco, last Monday, I. M. Kalloch, charged with killing Charles DeYoung, pleaded "once in jeopardy." The plea was entered on the ground that information charging the defendant with the murder was set aside. A ' ? ? ? ' ?? i ? i -- i i-j INew x orK posiomce ciera nas ueeo urreaieu and bound over charged with purloining letters supposed to contain money. The an-' niversary of the battle of North Point was celebrated at Baltimore last Monday by veterans between 80 and 90 years old Gen. Hunt, stationed at Atlanta, will appoint three officers of the Fifth Artillery to attend the competitive drill at the King's Mountain Ojntennial and act as judges. The Light Battery will probably take part in the ceremonies. Correspondence or the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, September 14.?From 200 to 300 bales of cotton were shipped from this place during the past week. The highest price the staple has commanded is 101. Crops in Chester continue promising. Rain fell for several days last week, though no special harm resulted therefrom. With a continuation of fair weather from this time, cotton will open well, and much will be picked.. Last Tuesday night the Plantation Serenades gave an exhibition in the Court House, the proceeds of which were for the colored cemetery fund. The canvass before the primary election is now progressing in this county. The track of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad is cow laid to Cane Creek, within two miles of Lancaster. Willie S. McLure died at the residence of Gen. Walker on Saturday morning last of typhoid fever. He was a son of the late James S. McLure, and aged about 23 years. The Republican Judicial Convention is ordered to be held at this place on the 24th instant. Chester. Commercial. YORKVILLE, September 15.?Cotton 91 to 10$. LIVERPOOL, September 13.?Cotton tending wlrljHn? n nlonJo 71/1 up I UHUU11115 uj/iaiiuof 0 |u? CHARLESTON, September 13.?Cotton firm ; middling, lli. NEW YORK, September 13.?Cotton steady; uplands Hi. Futures closed irregular but firui; sales 140,000 bales, as follows: September, 1132-34; October, 11 01 to 11 03; November, 10 95 ; December, 1C 95-96 ; January, 11 05 to 11 06 ; February, 11 19-21; March, 11 33-35; April, 1147-49. Comparative Cotton Statement. NEW YORK, September 10.?The following is the comparative cotton statement for the week ending to-day: 1880. 1879. Receipts at all ports for the week,....60,692 29,777 Total receipts to date, 81,346 31,173 Exports for the week, 42,099 7,180 Total ex ports to date, 53,158 17,169 Stock at all United States ports 155,677 65,530 Stock in all interior towns, 15,704 5,696 Stock at Liverpool, 597,000 341,000 American afloat for Great Britain,..53,000 26,000