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Jtoaps audi |acts. | ? Dr. J. W. Brewer, one of the post phy- j sicians at McPhersons Barracks, Atlanta, ha9 ; become violently insane. ? A Bucks county, Pa., man has just end- j ed a lawsuit of forty two years' standing and j recovered six cents damages. ? The streets of Jerusalem will soon be lighted with gas, and a line of streetcars run to the top of the Mount of Olives. ? Kansas, has just decided by a majority of 20,000 votes, to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors within her borders. ? The religious movement against "banged" ; hair is extending. Bishop Elder of Cincinnati has issued a prohibitory order on the subject. ? Sixty-two soldiers of the regiment stationed at Fort Townseud, Washington Territory, aro lairolltr morria/l t r\ onnatuo Kalnnrrinrr tn ut v IV^UIIJ uj uii ivvi i?v/ ovjuauo uviuugiug i/v Indian tribes in the neighborhood. ? The way to accept the political situation sensibly is explained in the announcement that Gen. Robert Toombs, of Georgia, will erect a $200,000 cotton factory. ? A Chicago firm got up a corner on pork a year ago, made a million and lost three million, but had the grit to go on buying, and recently cleared out their stock at a net profit of four million dollars. ? "Nothing," remarked the Philadelphia News, "so takes the conceit out of the average man as to order his paper discontinued, and then see the editor going along and getting rich without him." ? A grand army of postmasters we have in this eouutry.. The annual report of the appointment division of the Postoffice Department for the fiscal year just ended, shows that there are no less than 110,000 persons connected with our postal service. ? Eleven children at four births was the feat of Mrs. Scaunel Hickson, of Shamrock, Mo. First birth, three; second and thifd, two each ; and at the last interesting occasion there were four, all of the latter being alive and doing well. Ten out of the eleven are alivB. ? The Hancock campaign for 1884 has been started by the organization of a Hancock Club in Hudson City, Wisconsin. They lay down their platform in detail, closely following Hancock's letter of acceptance, and resolve that to promote the success of their principles they are "favorable to the nomination of General Hancock for President in 1884." ? Master Abe Kayton, of Baltimore, but thirteen years of age, performed a violin solo at the theatre in Richmond, Va., a few nights ago, which fairly carried the actors, orchestra ami audience by storm. Leader Kessuich is said to have embraced the youth and congratulated him in such terms of praise as has scarcely ever been lavished on one so young. Master Kayton was born in Richmond, but has lived for many years in Baltimore with his father, Mr. Henry Kayton. ? The modesty and honesty of Japanese beggars are worthy of the imitation of their profession all the world over. To save themselves the trouble of answering the calls of medicants, the shopkeepers in Japan hang copper coins, by strings, on nails, in frout of their shops, and when the beggar comes that way he takes one, and only one. He never abuses the merchant's generosity by taking two or more coins, nor by entering the shop to solicit a larger amount than hung on the nail. ? According to Dr. S. Gibbon, a London health officer, the Jews are the longest-lived people in the great metropolis. They are no toriously exempt from tubercular and scrofu lous taint. It is very rare that one meets with pulmonary consumption among them. In the district of White Chapel the medical officer of health has reported that on the north side of the High street, occupied by Jews, the average death rate is twenty per 1,000, while on the south side, occupied by English and Irish, it is forty-three per 1,000. ? Mr. J. C. Febiger, of the Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad, has introduced the use of cotton seed hulls in the iournals of car wheels, and has obtained a patent for it. These journals, said to entirely prevent the annoyance and danger of "hot boxes," have been applied to one passmger coach on the Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad, and after running over 26,000 miles it was found that no additional packing was needed, the West Virginia oil being used as a lubricator. On one of the paymaster's cars over the same road a distance of 7,000 miles, has been run with with like result. ? Judge Briggs, in the Court of Commtfh Pleas, Philadelphia, recently refused to excuse a juror by reason of his being a business man, and gave a sharp reprimand to those who are always seeking to be excused on account of press of business. Said the judge: "I will excuse no man for business reasons. The business men are the very ones who are continually growling because of the incompetence of jurors, and yet those very men, when they are summoned, seek to be excused, and as a consequence the business of the court is turned over to the two-dol lar-and a-half men. We might as well close the courts. The thing must be stopped." ? In Lincoln county, Nev., there is a spring of ice cold water that bubbles up over a rock and disappears on the other side, and no one has been able to find where the water goes. At another point in the same county is a large spring, about twenty feet square, that is apparently only some eighteen inches deep, ...:< 1. ? 1 viilii a pauujr uuuuui. me situu I'au ue plainly seen, but on looking closer it is perceived that this sand is iu a perpetual state of unrest, and do bottom has ever been found. It is said that a teamster, on reaching this spring one day, deceived by its apparent shallowness, concluded to soak one of his wagon wheels to cure the looseness of its tire. He took if off and rolled it in to the, as he thought, shallow water. He never laid his eyes on that wagon wheel again. ? Charles D. McGuffey, of Chattanooga, has been endeavoring "to get some idea" of the magnitude of the national debt at the close of the war. He has made the calculation that if four men were to sit down to pay the interest, and count a silver dollar a second, and work every second of the year, they could not keep down the interest of the original debt; and if another should sit down at two years of age to count the principal at the same rate, he would be over 107 years old by the time he counted the last dollar, interest on the principal haviug ceased from the first moment. The pile of silver dollars, moreover, which he would make in counting that principal, would be four feet square and fifteen times as high as Lookout Mountain (1,600 feet above Chattanooga) ; and if the silver were conveyed iu a continuous wagon train, ' each wagon carrying a ton, and each wagon and team occupying thirty five feet, the train would stretch from Chattanooga to Columbus. ? Among the cases set for trial in the Court of Appeals at Richmond, Va., the present session, is that of Thomas DeJaruette, who murdered his sister in Dauville, July 8th. At the August term of the Hustings Court of j Danville, he was found guilty, and sentenced i to be hanged on the 29th of October, from j which sentence he appealed. The condemned man's counsel appealed on the grounds that the court erred in accepting as jurymen the veniremen J. P. Hankins, C. H. Barksdale, G. W. Crumpecker and O. P. Bendall, for the reason that they were not free from prejudice, and had formed and expressed opinions .as to the guilt of the prisoner; second on the ground that the court erred in excluding from ihe jury the several questions propounded to J)r. Thomas W. Keen ; third, that the court | misdirected tins jury as dx? fie law; fourth, j because the court e/red ip re,fusjng tfi give to the jury the instructions asked fop by tjie j prisoner; fifth, because the verdict was cop-' trary to the law and evidence; sixth, because i one of the jurymen, Fickett Scott, was not, at b the time of the trial, of sound mind. The i counsel for DeJarnette will put in the plea : of insanity. Ihe fjerfeuillr flNqtiiw. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 18. 1880. THE FORTf-SEVEXTH CONGRESS. The election .esuits, so far as they relate to the political complexion of the Forty-seventh Congress, which will assemble on the 4th of March nest, are now precisely known. The new California Legislature will be Republican and the Tennessee Legislature Democratic, which will insure the election of Republican and Democratic Senators in those States respectively. The Senate for two years after the 4th of March will thus consist of 37 Democrats, 37 Republicans and two independents?Davis of Illinois, and Mahone of Virginia. Upon such occasions as both these geutlemen vote with the Democrats or the Republicans, the party favored will have a majority of 1. When Davis votes with the Democrats and Mahone with the Republicans, the Senate will be tied, and the Republican Vice President will have the casting vote. The House consists of 293 members, of which 147 make up a majority. Crediting the Republicans with political possession of Smith of New York, White of Kentucky, and Pacheco, of California, we make tbe table to stand as follows: Republicans 149 ; Democrats 141 ; Greenbacks, 3. As will be seen, the Republicans have a plurality of 8 over the Democrats, and a majority of 5 over all. FRUIT TREES. For several days past, nurserymen, representing the nurseries of Richmond and Greensboro, have been delivering fruit trees to purchasers in this county. The number of fruit trees sold in York annually would surprise any person who would give the subject a few moments investigation, and we doubt not to the nurserymen the surprise is a most agreeable one. 1 lie disposition 10 cultivate fruit of good quality is laudable, and the farmers are to be commended for. their enterprise iu this .direction ; but it is a fact, vouched for by a practical fruit grower, one who really takes a pride in the pursuit, that York buys more fruit trees, and produces a less quantity of fruit than, perhaps, any county in the State. He does not attribute this to a capricious climate, as we ventured to suggest in our conversation, but simply to the nerlect and inattention of the purchasers of trees. Our friend says it will not do to take a tree and after carlessly planting it in thegrouud, leave it unattended afterwards, ex pecting satisfactory results. His experience is that orchards re ,uire the same attention as any field or gar< en-crop?garden-crop was his word?aud until this care is bestowed upon fruit trees, the money invested in them will be thrown away. Of course we do not preteud to know to t what extent the charge of our friend is correct; but we do know that fruit-growing cauuot be successfully conducted, no matter how favorable may be the natural conditions, un less strict attention be given to the trees. Usually, nurserymen furnish directions for the management of the different varieties of trees, and to ensure a reasonable degree of success, these directions should be strictly followed. There can be no objection to our people buying fruit trees in any quantity they may desire ; but for them to buy trees year after year from Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee nurseries, * 1 no _ a r?c _ _ * _ and pay the shop-Keepers zu ana zo cems per .dozen for New England apples from October to March, does not seem to be building up the "solid South" in such manner as we should like to see. We don't exactly advocate free apples and cheap cider, but let us have apples in abundance of our own raising at prices which we can afford, and yet remunerative to the farmers. THE SOUTH. The leading papers of the South are disposed to accept the election of Garfield philosophically, and instead of repining aud carping over the defeat of their chosen standardbearer, are disposed to give the people encouragement and instill into their minds a ; desire to render the South independent and self sustaining. This fact has challenged the admiration of the liberal Republican papers of the North, noting which, the Baltimore Sun says: It is in order for the partisan press and orators that have been foremost in abusing "the solid South" for its rebellious spirit and revolutionary proclivities, to make honorable amends, and once again do justice. There has been no outcry, no denunciation, but a calm and manly discussion of facts, and a dispassionate argument of cause and*effect, which are altogether admirable, and might be imitated to advantage in other quarters. The South will present no factious opposition to | Garfield's administration, but on the contrary the indications are that it will give it all the i support that loyalt) to the country at large demands, and more than could be expected from a section so largely favorable to the opposition candidate. This is a recurrence of j the spirit and temper with which the South I took the result in 1876, and speaks volumes fnr tKp (TPnninp. manhood and lovaltv of the people of the whole section. As to the causes which led to the defeat of the Democracy, and the free advice now bestowed upon the South in consequence thereof, that staid, conservative paper, the New York Journal of Commerce, says : The South is just now receiving a great deal of free advice. It is copiously tendered from the North by journals of both parties. As a rule, it is well meant and not bad to ' take. The tone of the Republican press toward the South?since the triumph of Tuesday?is considerate and friendly. This' is a good sign. For our own part, we would not add to the volume of good advice now pouring in upon the South. For it seems to us that the i: South needs none. She realizes the situation, and is perfectly able to regulate her own con- 1 duct in the future. Northern people who think otherwise, would change their minds if they could read?as we have done?the post- . election cdtnments of a great many Southern < newspapers. Here and there some intensely partisan editor?who had been too hopeful for Hancock and rashly predicted his election? cannot conceal bis disappointment and morti- 1 fixation. No man likes to be proved a false jwopfret qp bis own testimony. Something 1: must be excused to editorial vanity and weak- | aess. But with these few exceptions the en- j tire Democratic press of the South takes the defeat of its candidate with complete resignation and good nature. The editors bring philosophy, born of twenty years cold experience, to their aid. The only signs of temper we discover in these utterances are shown when the writers allude to the Democratic campaign in the North. They cannot conceal their contempt for the wretched management which led their party to sure defeat. Some of the Southern editorials are very severe?but not too much so?on the fatal mistakes of the Democratic committees, national and State. Aside from these wholly deserved strictures on incapable leaders, the treatment of the Republican victory by our Southern contemporaries is calm, amiable and hopeful to a degree. They do not waste time in lamenting an accomplished fact. They are not dwelling on the past or very much on the present, but mostly on the future. They are advising Southerners to give up national politics in which success is not to be achieved, and devote their time and thought first to their private business, always more or less neglected during the campaign, and, secondly, to all those local interests of States, cities, towns and villages in which the Southern people have supreme and undisputed sway. They will not have much voice in the national government the next four years. But they are masters of matters included within State and municipial boundaries. In the home sphere there is certainly work enough for every Southerner. The better he does this? the more closely he confines himself to the development of the industries and finances of the South and the education and enlightenment of that section of the country?the more quickly will the South be readmitted to full participation in national eoucerus. This devotion to local interests would soon weaken aud ultimately obliterate the strong sectional and party lines which now separate her from the hearty sympathy of the North and West. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Legislature will meet on Tuesday next. J ? At the recent election in Beaufort county, the Radicals polled 5,622 votes, and the i Democrats 348. ? Hon. John H. Evius has goue to Florida on a visit. He will be absent from home for about ten days. ? The recent census shows that the excess of females in South Carolina, over males, is more than fourteen thousand. ? The bagging factory, at Charleston, has been so successful that arrangements are making to treble its facilities for manufacture. ? Col. Warren R. Adams, a prominent citizen of Richland, was found dead in his bed on his plantation, near Columbia, on the 6th instant. Death is supposed to have resulted from heart disease. ? William Fine, Radical candidate for clerk of court, and Jesse E. Dent, Independent candidate for sheriff, in Richland county, are contesting the election of their successful Democratic opponents. ? The recent census indicates that there are more than forty thousand colored voters in South Carolina in excess of the number of white voters, and that in only eight of the thirty-three counties, is there an actual gross white majority. ? Professor W. J. Land, of Atlanta, Ga., has made a chemical analysis of the stomach of Capt. Thomas P. Benson, the proprietor of the Palmetto House, at Spartanburg, who was found dead in his bed several weeks ago, and whose death, it was conjectured, was cuused by poison. Professor Land reports that after a thorough examination he has failed to discover the existence of any poisonous substance. Since the report of Professor Land was made, the jury of inquest have returned a verdict that Capt. Benson came to his death from congestion of the brain. ? At the annual meeting of the State Ag* ricultural and Mechanical -Association, held in Columbia on Thursday last, the following persons were elected officers for the ensuing year. President?Col. B. F. Cray ton, of Anderson ; v lce-JTresiueuia jui uic vuiigiw sioual Districts?E. R. Mclver, Darlington, first district; W. G. Hinson, Charleston, second ; J. Wash. Watts, Laurens, third; B. H. Massey, York, fourth ; A. P. Butler, Aiken, fifth. The Executive Committee were reelected as follows: Wm. Wallace, Columbia; J. M. Huffman, Lexington; IsaacS. Bamberg, Barnwell; E. L. Roche, Charleston; N. C. Robertson, Fairfield ; L. C. Thompson, Kershaw ; D. P. Duncan, Union. Col. Thos. W. Holloway, of Pomaria, was reelected Secretary unanimously. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina was in session in Raleigh last week. ? Diphtheria is raging at Lenoir. There have been six deaths recently, four of which were in one family. ? Mr. Ezra B. Wilson, 80 years of age, and a highly respected citizeu of Gaston, died last week. ? The purchasers of the Western N. C., Railroad have changed the gauge of that road to conform to the gauge of the Richmond and Danville Railroad. This change gives a continuous line from Asheville to Richmond. ? The Charlotte Observer learns that Lincolnton people are uneasy on account of a proposition to change the present lin# of the Chester & Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, by which the interests of that town will be materially affected. ^ ? The grand jury of Lenoir county found a true bill last week against Wm. W. N. Hunter, the Superior Court Clerk, for burning the county records. This was the fire that burned up nearly one block in Kinston last spring. Mr. Hunter gave bond in the sum of 81,000. ? The Raleigh Observer has full returns from 84 counties, from which it appears that while the Democrats have held their own, the PnniiKli'noni! Via no />aaV nhmit 3 /jOO VOt.CS mOTC than in 1876. These deductions are drawn from the figures we have. Other returns may change them somewhat, but we do not think to any great extent. According to the figures, Jarvis' majority is 6,331, with Watauga and Dare counties still to hear from. It will j probably be 6,500. ? A remarkable kissing case was disposed of; in the Superior Court at Kinston last week, j S. C. Spence, a well-to do and intelligent mer-j chant, was sentenced to thirty days' imprison-1 ment in jail by a magistrate's court for an attempt to kiss Mrs. M. E. Waller, a lady highly connected. Spence's counsel took an appeal to the Superior Court of the county, j In that Court the case was submitted to the jury, who returned a verdict of guilty, and Judge Gudger reaffirmed the thirty days', imprisonment, but afterwards changed the' penalty to a fine of fifty dollars. The court expressed sincere regret that the law limited the punishment, as it was satisfied that the of- J fence merited a much heavier sentence. ' THE YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. PROSPECTUS FOR 1881. IN issuing our prospectus for 188], we deem it only necessary to announce that the lending features which have characterized the editorial conduct of the Yorkville Enquirer for the past quarter of a century will bo retained, and what it has been in the past will be an assurance of what it shall be in the future. The leading departments of the paper will be retained as heretotore, and they will be conducted with the same labor and care thatiiave marked our efforts in the past. 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All subscriptions will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. . A separate list will be kept for each club-maker, who will be credited with every name sent, so that the number returned by any person can be ascertained at a moment's notice. Persons who commence making clubs, will not be permitted, after the names have been entered upon our books, to transfer the names to another club maker's list. The time in which additions may be made to clubs, under this proposition, will expire on the FIRST MONDAY OF MARCH, 1881. Therefore, persons who desire the benefit of club rates, must subscribe and pay for the paper before that date, as after the expiration of that time, it will not be furnished for loss than $2.50 unless new clubs are formed. All letters should be addressed to L. M. GRIST, Yorkville. S. C. November 18 47 tf POLITICAL NOTES. ? English says he does not feel half so bad over his defeat as Ben. Butler does. ? Nevada and California voted for Hancock. . ? Ben. Butler predicts that Garfield will split the Republican party within two years. ? Arkansas- elects four Democratic Congressmen. One county in that State sends a negro representative to the Legislature. ? Hancock carried Galena, the home of ex-President Grant, by 302 majority, and he also carried candidate Weaver's county in Iowa, by 2 majority. ? The Greenback vote for Congressmen in Indiana was over 32,000, although no mem ber was elected. The ttepuniicans eiect eigne; the Democrats five. ? General Hancock makes the fourth defeated Democratic candidate for the Presidency now living. The other three are General McClellan, who was beaten in 1864 ; Horatio Seymour who ran in 1868, and Mr. Tilden. ? Apropos of the proposition to break up the solid.South, the New York World pertinently says that in.a^solid South there is strength against Radical encroachments, while a divided South would fall an easy prey. ? Tennessee Repudiatiouists ran a separate ticket and defeated the regular Democratic ticket, and now the Radicals will make a settlement paying dollar for dollar. The Repudiationists have to pay the money, and have to undergo the mortification of a Radical Governor to hoot. ? It is now said that Horatio Seymour, Jr., who is the only Democrat on the State board of canvassers in New York, will object to the counting of the electoral vote of that State for Garfield, and upon his protest the matter will undergo investigation at the hands of Congress. ? The Presidential electors elected on the 2nd instant, will meet at their respective State Capitals on the first Wednesday of December next?the 1st?for the purpose of casting and certifying their votes?in fact, nionti'ncr ft President and Vice-President. The votes so cast and certified will be J opened by Vice-President Wheeler in the J presence of both houses of Cougress on | the second Wednesday (the 9th) of Feb*' ruary. The votes will be canvassed by both ! houses and the result then declared. The j new President will be inaugurated ou March ' 4, 1881. . ? The Galveston Nem explains the posi* , tion of the solid South by the following simile : A very sensible soldier was put on guard i over a large cannon ; but the officer in going the rounds found that the soldier had aban- ] doned his post, and was amusing himself in a j neighboring saloon. "Why have you gone ] away from that piece of heavy artillery you were ordered to guard?" thundered the officer. "Look here, captain," said the soldier, who was an old Confederate, "I've tried to j lift that cussed old gun, and I find that one | of the enemy can't carry it off, anyhow, and if two come I'm not equal to the emergency. Besides, I'm tired of war anyhow, since doubt- J ful States have been heard from." 1 ? The Greenville News publishes a. letter :j from Senator Hampton, in which he says: "I think it very important, especially to the J South, that the Democratic party should re- j tain its organization. The fact that our i friends at the North were not able to give us 1 as large a vote as thev honed for. is no reason that we should desert them. The.policy of the party will be dictated by future events. ? I regard the Presidential election as settled, 1 and I should oppose any action looking to a contest on mere technical grounds as revolutionary." t ? The somewhat versatile Georgia Senator, i Hon. B. H. Hill, lias written a letter to | the Hon. B. S. Chittenden on the situation, ; in which he says: "The most anxious event j in our history has become a. fact?a solid i North against a solid South." He likes Garfield, and thinks him able to grapple with the great questions that must conic up dur- , ing his admiuistration, and that he has a grand opportunity to win fame. He says that in any event the South will avert all revolution, not to win Republican praise, or to avoid Republican abuse?for either is impossible?but solely because it is right, and we are determined to preserve the peace of the country. ? Some days before the election, Truth, a New York newspaper, published a letter purporting to have been written by Garfield two or three years ago to one Morey, of Lynn, Mass., taking decided ground in favor of encouraging Chinese immigration to the Pacific slope, and beiug inimical to the laboring classes of the North and West. The I letter was nronouueed a forgery, and legal proceedings were immediately insiituted to prove this assertion. After a lengthy hearing, the case was finally ended before Judge Davis, in New York, on Saturday last, and Kenward Philip, the alleged writer of the letter, was held for trial on the charges of forgery and criminal libel. The National Democratic Committee has published an address in which it disclaims any action in the matter, but approves all honest measures to punish all who had violated the law. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The Next Congress. It is etated by Washington correspondents that there is already more unfinished business before Congress than it cun finish at its approaching session, to say nothing of the new business which the exigencise of a retiring administration may evolve. Next month the members of the House of Representatives will find oti their desk a calendar which contains the titles of 1594 bills which await action. Of course very few of these bills, comparatively, will become law3 at the coming session, which, exclusive of the holiday recess, will hardly comprise sixty working days. Different committees will strive for precedence, and individual members will fight for measures in which they are specially inforooforl and porfnin lnrap. business inter eats will struggle to secure modifications of present laws. On the long calendar mentioned, are 965 private bills, more than one-half of which are individual pension bills. Of the 629 public bills on the calendar, a number are for public buildings, and the friends of these will not be idle. Several very important measures will come before the House early in the session, under special orders already made. Senator Morgan's resolution, which establishes a joint rule to govern the counting of the electoral votes, is on the Speaker's table, and is a special order for the first Monday in December. Representative Bicknell'8 hill to regulate the counting of the electoral votes is also a special order?" About a dozen public bills, which have been referred to the committee of the whole, are special orders. The most important of them is the refunding bills, which take precedence of all other measures in committee of the whole, except the appropriation bills. The Cotton Crop. ? The New Orleans Democrat of Saturday publishes telegraphic reports from 46 principal points in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama Texas, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee and Florida, showing the condition of the cotton crop up to and including the 12th instant: Louisiana?Of 9 reports received, 4 show prevalence of bad weather for picking, which has been suspended for two weeks in consequence in one of thfe parishes, and great destruction caused to the crop in another. Good weather for picking has prevailed in three parishes, wherein there is reported a good yield, considerably exceeding that of last year's crop; nearly all gathered in 1, and about one half gathered in 2. The receipts are generally less than last year at this date. Mississippi?10 reports received, all but 2 of which indicate continuous storms, which have materially damaged the crop. Estimates of the yield are lowered in 3, inci eased in 1, and remain about as before reported in 4, showing a decrease of from 10 to 50 per < per cent from last year. There are some reports from farmers holding back on account 1 of low prices. ' Alabama?Of 7 reports receiyed 2 show rniny weather; 80 per cent of the crop has , been gathered in 1 and nearly all in 5; worms aud rust have injured the cotton in 2 counties. Estimates of the yield are one third less than last year in 4, 25 per cent, less in 1 and an increase is expected in 1. j Texas?Of 8 reports received all are of an ( encouraging nature so far as the yield and ( weather are concerned ; a falling off of one- ( half appears in 1, while the crop has been ' nearly all picked in 1. In most places from one-half to three-quarters remain in the field, i Labor is very scarce and high, in nearly j every county in the State, and in some places ^ a good part of the crop will remain ungathered. Arkansas?Of 2 reports received, 1 shows the crop to be very bad on account of inclem- 1 ent weather for picking. In the other worms x and rains have reduced the yield 15 per cent. , Labor is scarce and harvesting will not be finished before January; in 1 two thirds will remain in the fields. c Georgia?Of 2 reports received, in 1 there v has been damage by rain ; 90 per cent, has al- j ready been harvested, with an estimated in- . ? - ... ! II crease of 15 per cent.; 10 the other tne crop is i fiue with a large increase over last year. I Lands are in an unusually good condition. Tennessee?Only 1 report received, show-1 ^ ing Jittle change from former estimates, ex- i J cept some damage irom recent bad weather j \ B about one-fourth yet remains jn the fields.! c The yield is estimated at two thirds of last y year. ! ^ Florida?Of 2 reports received, one shows j . the crop to be in bad condition from recent I rain ; nearly all harvested in both,- showing j ^ in increase from 10 to 30 per cent, over last! o year. I L OCAL A77AZES. ! NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. . Junter A Oates?Wanted at Once. ! I. F. Adickes Jr.?Our Stock, itcport of the Board of County Commissioners, i Sergeant Manufacturing Company?Farrar Tur- j bine Water-Wheel. Fames Scoggins, W. W. White, A. F. Lindsay? . Fence Law Elections. kL Strauss?Benefactor. ' J. H. Beard A Co.?Sugar and Coffee. P. M. Dobson?The New York House. 1 r. F. Wallace C. C. Pis.?Clerk's Sale. ! Hary McAliley Executrix?Valuable Land for' Sale. > i 5. T. Wheeler?Wagons. !| Cennedy Bros. A Barron?Look Out. lerndon Brothers?Our Mill. *r TXtftuh Wontorl < _/* / U^UII IX A inu A v/u?iv? ?? Ml?VVM? Withers Adickes?Sundries. Mrs. Fannie L. Dobson?Emporium of Fashion. | a NOTARV PUBLIC. The Governor has appointed and comraislioned Mr. Robert H. Harris, of Fort Mill iownship, a Notary Public. ADJOURNMENT OF COURT. The Circuit Court?his Honor Judge Hudson presiding?adjourned at a late hour Sat: jrday evening, after disposing of nearly all the causes on the different calendars. Judge Hudson went from here to Chester to preside it a special term, ordered for this week in that county. . FRUIT?SECOND CROP. Major B. F. Briggs showed us last week some apples as large as partridge eggs taken from a tree in his orchard. The apples are the second .crop the tree has borne this year. As further evidence of the mildness of our climate. Dr. W. M. Walker exhibited to us ?u Monday morning, an open boll of cotton, the product of a stalk the root of which is of last year's growth, and remained in the ground all of last winter. SENTENCE COMMUTED. Samuel Crawford, colored, who was con vieted of murder at the recent term of the Court of Sessions for this county, and sentenced to be hanged on the 17th of December, has had his sentence commuted by the Governor to imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. Executive clemency was solicited by Judge Hudson, before whom the case was tried, and other officers of the court, and the jury. Agreeably to the commutation, Sheriff Glenn conveyed the prisoner to the penitentiary last Tuesday. FENCE LAW ELECTION. The qualified voters of Cherokee and Broad River townships will notice that the County Commissioners have ordered an election to be held in each of these townships, on the 17th day of December next, on the question of altering the fence law. The election is ordered on the petition of the requisite number of voters of the respective townships, some of the petitioners being of those who have heretofore opposed a change in the law, but have become convinced of its advantages since witnessing the operation of the "no fence" system in ad joining townships. THE FARRAR WATER WHEEL. The attention of mill owners and others, driving machinery by water power, is directed to the advertisements of the Farrar turbine water wheel, manfactured I)y the Sergeant Manufacturing Company, of Greensboro, N. C. It is only about a year since this wheel was patented, but within this short time it has met with the most satisfactory sales, and has given complete satisfaction over all other .water wheels wherevePit has been introduced. Mr. Joseph Herndou has just put one of these wheels in his Turkey Creek mills, near this place, and he speaks in the highest terms of its performance. COLORED ODD FELLOWS. The event of last week was the parade of the Colored Odd Fellows, who, despite the mud and rain, on Thursday afternoon, appeared on the streets in full regalia, with standards and implements of the craft,"bringing up the rear of the procession with a ver itable live goat?a personification of the traditional animal so much dreaded by all novices in mystic societies. In point of numbers the procession was a creditable one, and the fine regalia of some of the officers attracted considerable attention. At flight a supper was given by the members for the benefit of the lodge. CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows: Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. There will be no morning service at this church next Sunday. Services in the evening at the UBual hour, by Rev. W. G. White. Episcopal?Church of the Good ShepherdRev. R. r. Johnson, Rector. The rector will officiate in the Church of our Saviour at Rock Hill next Sunday. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, PaBtor. Services in the church at Yorkville at 11 o'clock A. M. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Thos. Gilbert, Pastor. Services in the forenoon at Philadelphia Church ; in the evening at Yorkville. THE STATE FAIR. The annual fair of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Association was held in Columbia last week, and closed on Friday with the announcement of premiums to successful exhibitors. Among the premiums awarded, we notice the following to citizens of Yorkville: Col. A. Coward?Red rust-proof wheat, $5. R. J. Latta?Hulless and beardless barley, 85; hulless oats, $5; Australian grass seed md turf of the grass, which remains green through the winter, $5; hulless barley, $5. T. M. Whitaker?Best thoroughbred filly, two years old, $20. Miss Dargan?Lace dress, silver. PERSONAL MENTION. r>r T. Alpvnnrfpr. fnr several vears a practicing physician in this' place, has decided to locate further South, and writes us jnder date of the 9th that he has selected 3t. Augustine, Fla., as his future home. Dr. Alexander stands high in the profession as a veil-read and weU-informed physican, and < or success at his new home he has the best 1 vishes of a large circle of friends. j Gen. E. M. Law, formerly a citizen of ] forkville, but who for the past few years has ] jeen residing in Alabama, has returned here 1 vith his family, with the view of making this 1 lis future home. , Mrs. lone Nolan, nee Miss lone Sadler, laughter of the late Stanhope Sadler, of York* < rille, who since her marriage has been living ( n Florida, is visiting her friends and'relatives ' a Yorkville and vicinity. 1 j ATTEMPT TO BLACKMAIL. 1 Now York dispatches of Thursday, convey 1 he intelligence of the arrest in that city of ( 5fr. R. A- Springs, a native and formerly a f itij?en of York ponnty, on complaint of a oung woman named Emily Hinds, charging t Ira with betrayal under promise of marriage. ? fr. Springs' family now live in Charlotte, t f. C., and the Observer of Friday, speaking i f the affair, says: ' : 8 Yesterday Mr. Springs' family here re- t jeived a dispatch from his attorney, stating diat he had 6eeu honorably discharged by the lourt on the woman's own testimony, showing that it was a genuine case of blackmail. The woman, who is a tall brunette, well educated and smart, came toCharlottesome months Ago iud endeavored in every way to get some hold on the defendant in the above suit, but failing, returned-to New York about three weeks since. She was very jiertistent and was frequently seen on the street.- In addi- "* tion to the decisive actipn of the court, Mr. Springs' family claim to have the most positive proofs of a deeplj laid plot to levy blacklist. It is presuuped that the case is now effectually disposed of. CATHOLIC COMMUNION. A Plea for Catholic Communion in the A so* iciate Reformed Presbyterian church. By Rev. J. P. Marion, "horkville: Printed at the Enquirer Office. 18*0. Such is the title a neat volume of 88 closely printed octave pages, written by the pastor of the A. R. C lurch at Chester, just issued from the press. The volume, as may be judged from its size. is an exhaustive treatise on the affirmative side of the questionunder discussion, the author maintaining his , vnoitinn irit-Vi a mnrbprl nHilifv vpt. in ft inirit of frankness and candor unmarked by bifcter or acrimonious feeling tcward those who differ with him in opinion on the subject treated. The book will be read with interest, not only by the members of the denomination for which it is specially written; but communicants of other churchftl), interested in the question of "open communion," will find in ' ? its pages much interesting matter on the subject. The price of the book is 75 cents, for which it will be sent by mail-to any address free of postage, by addressing Rev. J. P. Marion, Ghester, S. C. CANVASSING THE STATE VOTE. The board of State canvassers met in Co-' lumbia on Thursday last, since which time they have been canvassing the returns. The ? electoral count will not be furnished for publication until the whole State has been canvassed. The vote of York pounty and of the Fourth Congressional district with the excep- > tion of Kershaw county, and the Sixth Judicial Circuit, as completed by the board of canvassers, is as follows : YORK COUNTY. ' Democrat. Hagood, Governor 3,866 Kennedy, Lieutenant-Governor 3,851) Si ma, Secretary ot State 3,848 Coit, Comptroller General 3,659 Youmaua, Attorney-Generak 3,858 Thompson, Superintendent Education 3,859 Richardson, State Treasurer. 3,869 Manigault, Adjutant-General 3,859 Greenback. Blair, Governor 2 \ /I t-i. r O V7JFU, J'tCUlClinufUu> ui m Cooke, Secretary of State ~ 2 Agnew. Comptroller-General 2 Willara, Attorney-Genera! 2 Love, State Treasurer. 2 Elkins, Adjutant-General 2 FtfcRTH D78TRICT. Evins, (D.) Blythe, (B.) McLafie. (G. B.) Chester 2,909 1,124 6 Fairfield 3,740 1,080 19 Greenville,...4,050 2,372 43 Lancaster.?... 1,940 t 61 Spartanburg4 884 1,81G 37' Union 2,909 747 286 York 3,857 2,349 9 . 24,801 10,080 450 SIXTH CIRCUIT. ~ Gaston, (D.) Chester 2,912 Fairfield 3,704 Lancaster 1,942 York 8,706 12,384 There are contests from Richland, Orangeburg, Charleston, Sumtei; Barnwell, Colleton, Georgetown aud Williamsburg counties, which will be heard during the present week. JUDGE MACKEY'S VIEWS. Judge Mackey, who presided at the recent term of the Circuit Court of Greenville, was interviewed on the political situation by a reporter for the Greenville News, and the following is the result of the interview as reported in that paper of Sunday: Judge Mackey is an idol of newspaper men, inasmuch as judicious tapping will always elicit something interesting. In the course of a conversation with a reporter, for the . Daily Newt, he gave some interesting facls regarding the proposed contest of thfl vote <f New York. He states tnat tne. JL/emocrauc Committee have in their possessiob proofs of the colonization of 22,000 voters from Vermont, Massachusetts, tiie District of Colurabia and other points, and have the details of the movement, the lines they traveled over, the railroad tickets they used and other overwhelming evidence which will be laid before Congress. The Judge thinks the Solid South should stand by the Democracy now. Having fal- . tered once in 1876, we would lose the confidence of the National party by another failure to support it in its efforts to obtain justice, and discourage our friends to the point of deserting us and allowing the North to solidify sure enough, in support of centralization of government, the two parties dividing the spoils of the South. Congress, he says, can easily ?et behind the returns and demonstrate to the satisfaction of the country the means by which the Republicans obtained their apparent victory. ^ Judge Mackey is a vigorous defender of John Kelly, who, he considers a much maligned man. He states that the real history of the nomination of Grace for Mayor of New York, is that under the compromise between the two factions, Irving Hall was to name twelve meu from whom Tammany was to select the nominee. Mr. Grace being among the twelve, was chosen. A. H. Stephens has described John Kelly as the most spotless party leader he ever knew, and Judge Mackey thinks the description a peculiarly just one. In all the bitterness of the attacks made upon him, not even the New York Herald has dared to assail his personal character. Kelly spent his money freely for Hancock, and Hancock himself has the 1 i highest opinion of him and has frequently expressed it "?- , , Judge Mackey ascribes the headway made by the Republican party North to two causes. One of fch^pa was the failure of the Deraonunv tn declare for a tariff Drotecting the industries by which 600,000 men live, for fear of offending the West. This policy, however, while not gaining a vote in the West, alienated the great mass of these working men. He argued at more length than the columns of the Daily News will beai8, to convince the wielder of the pencil that the popular idea that a protective tariff raises prices to consumers is erroneous, bis theory being that protection stimulates home com* petition, which lowers prices more rapidly and surely than all the free trade in the world, ind he adduced many instances, such as saws, ' ' ;alico, etc., cheaper now than before the war, in support of his claim. The other reason, he thinks, is the tbor>ughly satisfactory administration of Presilent Hayes, who goes out of office with an insullied name. The. <easy resumption of ipecie payment under bis administration old at the North. The Jud^e thinks that we at least should hold him in grateful renembrance as the restorer of civic rule. An>ther point in his favor is that he bad the de:ency to "go west" and avoid saying anything or GarfieJd. His travels N?rth lead him to beljeve'tlmt he Solid South is {bared by the masses oflly ?n account of its supposed solidarity for ree trade. The "bloody shirt" issue is en* irely forsaken. "The Solid North," said he Judge, "is a myth." He then went on to tate as the result of elaborate calculations, hat a change of four per cent., or four men