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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. '
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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- .
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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. |
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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