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and (farts.
V ?The United States government will soon
issue a work, "Records of the War," filling
nearly 77,000 octavo pages.
? An amendment to the constitution, to extend
the Presidential term to six years, making
the President ineligible to a second term,
is now pending in the House Judiciary Committee
of Congress.
? The proprietors of Truth, the New York
paper that first published the Garfield-Morey
Chinese letter, have issued a card stating that
they are at last convinced that the document
was a forgery, and begging Garfield's pardon.
' ? Three hundred ice harvesters at "VJerplank's
Point, near Montrose, N. Y., struck
for higher wages on Friday, and three companies
from Sing Sing and two from Pough
Keepsie were ordered out to queu me disturbance.
? A lady io Wisconsin has prepared a surprise
for her husband, and has confidentially
told a few of her lady friends that she has
got for him a nice box of cigars. "George,"
she says, "always pays 817 for his, and I've
got these for 83.50."
? Mr. Reuben Springer, of Cincinnati, indulged
in Christmas gifts of unusual size.
He gave a United States bond for a thousand
dollars to each of eight charitable institutions
in his city. Each of the faithful servants in
his household also received 81,000.
? "Go where there is the most sin, sir," said
the old clergyman's coachman, when asked
which of two calls the dominie ought to accept
The good man thought over it, and
concluded that where there was most money
there would be the most sin. So he accepted
the call which offered him the most substantial
salary.
? Governor Murray, of Utah, has issued a
certificate of election to Allen G. Campbell,
the Gentile candidate for Congressioual delegate,
on the ground that Elder Cannon, the
Mormon aspirant, although receiving a majority
of the votes cast, is ineligible because
of his living a polygamist life, in open violation
of the laws of the United States.
? The JNew York JtieraUt commends the intention
of the Republican cardidates to contest
all five of the South Carolina seats in the
next House of Representatives, and says:
"The South Carolina solid whites may as well
understand that they cannot count on Northern
Democrats to defend or support them in
claiming Congressional seats so tainted with
fraud."
? The President has sent to ;;he Senate, the
nomination of Nathan Goff, Jr., of West Virginia,
to be secretary of the navy. He is a
native of West Virginia, residing at Clarksburg.
He was a colonel of t he Third Virginia
regimeut in the Union array, and rose
. to the rank of brigadier general. During the
war be earned the reputation of a gallant and
able commander. He has been United States
district attorney of West Virginia for twelve
years. Four years ago he was the Republican
nominee for Governor and, it is said, ran
ahead of his ticket considerably, but was of
course beaten by the Democratic nominee,
Governor Matthews.
? A Newark, New Jersey, dispatch of the
6th says: Mrs. Meierhooffer, convicted with
Frank Lammens, her paramour, of the mur
rier of her husband, John Meierhootfer at
West Orange, October 18, 1879 was hanged
at the County Court House at 10.30 o'clock
that morniug. She was very pale and deeply
affected, but walked to the gallows without
assistance, and met her fate without confessing
or uttering a word. She died in about 9
minutes, her neck being apparently unbroken.
About 30 persons were present, including the
officers and jury selected by the Court under
a recent law, and all spectator were excluded.
Lam mens was bung from the same gallows
immgd'fttp-lv afterwards, but made no
confession.
? Vermont, according to the census returns,
is almost at a stand-still in population, having
gained in ten years less than 2,500 inhabitants.
There appears also to be a movement
of the native population out of the
State, their places being taken by foreign
born, the number of the latter increasing
more than 6,000, while the increase in total
population was only about a third as much.
The sexes remain in about the same realative
proportion as ten years ago. From the returns
thus far received it seems probable that
the "centre of population" has gone much
further West and South than was at first
supposed. New England shows very little
gain, and the Eastern States generally show
little more than natural growth, while the
great West absorbs the new comers.
? When General Grant was complimented,
just before the adjournment for the holidays,
by the two Houses of Congress suspending
their business for the purpose of paying their
respects to him, comment was made on the
fact that two or three prominent Republicans
in the Senate and House of Representatives
were conspicuously absent on that occasion.
Among those more prominently mentioned in
this connection was Senator Blaine. It is said
that the reason why Mr. BlaiQe neglected to
pay his respects to General Grant, in the
Senate Chamber was, that only a few days
before, when in New York, General Grant
had declined to see him, when he called and
sent in his card. Mr. Blaine, it is said, was
also informed that General Grant had said he
would never speak to him again. Friends
here, of General Grant, also say that he is incensed
against General Sherman on account
of the strictures of the latter on the proposition
to create General Grant captain-general.
In fact, it is a current rumor that General
Grant is angry with every one who did not
favor his renomination at Chicago last summer,
and carries his resentment so far as to
refuse to hold anv Dersonal intercourse with
aDy of them.
? "Will Garfield ignore the claims of the
colored people to representation in his Cabinet
?" is the question that is seriously asked
? in some quarters. Undoubtedly be .will.
When have the Radicals ever done anything
for the colored man after they have secured
his vote? The colored voters held the balance
of power in Indiana, New York, Connecticut
and several other States, and they
elected Garfield on his pledges) that he would
do something for them. Yet the colored
brother is severely left out in the cold in all
speculations as to Garfield's cabinet The
Philadelphia Times distinctly declares that
Pennsylvania Republicans would hoot down
any attempt to place a colored man on their
legislative ticket, while if Republican Mayor
Stokely should appoint a colored policeman
in Republican Philadelphia, the policeman
would be cracked on the head and Stokely
would never again smell office. It is enough
to make one's blood boil to see the hypocrisy
and pharisaical cant of these Northern Radicals.
Put a colored man in Garfield's cabinet?
They would see the whole colored race
to the devil first.
? There was appropriated fir the payment
of pensions for the current fiscal year over
$56,000,000, of which large sum nearly $27,000,000,
being about one-half of the amount
of appropriation, was on account of the arrearage
act. It now appears that the extraordinary
sura above named is not sufficient |
to meet the requirements for pensions for the '
current fiscal year, and that at least $18,000,- j
000 or $20,000,000 additional will have to be '
appropriated at the present session of Con-1
gress to meet the anticipated deficiency. The
commissioner of pensions has recently settled
and allowed claims for pensions aggregating
$3,000,000, and checks for tha.t amount have
been mailed from the treasury. The disbursement
of this sum will nearly exhaust the
entire amount appropriated far pensions for i
the current fiscal year, and make necessary a
deficiency appropriation in order to provide
for the quarterly payment due in March next.;
The large reduction of the annual expeodi-!
tures secured in the interest account by reason j
of refunding the public debt into 4 per cent.'
bonds, will be more than counterbalanced by i
the enormous increase occasioned by the ar- j
rearage pension act; and, large as this increase
is on this account, it has not yet reached the
maximum. J
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PROCEEDINGS OP CONGRESS.
Congress re assembled on the 5th. In the
Senate a letter was read from President elect
Garfield, tendering his resignation as Senator
from Ohio. Bills were introduced and referred
as follows: By Mr. Maxey, of Texas,
authorizing the Secretary of War to ascertain
and report the amount of money expended
and indebtedness incurred by Texas in repelling
Mexican invasions. By Mr. Keman,
of New York, regulating the coinage of standard
silver dollars; provided that only such
amount shall be coined as the Secetary of the
Treasury finds demanded. By Mr. Whyte,
of Maryland', for the purchase of Washington's
sword, bequeathed to George Lewis, and
owned by his heirs. Mr. Butler, of South
Carolina, offered a resolution calling on the
Secretary of the Interior for the report of the
Superintendent of the Census, regarding alleged
frauds in South Carolina. Adopted.
Among the nominations sent in by the President
was that of John A. Whittemore, to be
post master at Sumter, C. H., S. C.
In the House, Mr. Springer, of Illinois, introduced
a bill for the apportionment of Representatives
in Congress among the several
States and to secure to the people of each
State equal and just representation in the
House of Representatives. Mr. Springer
stated that the bill embodied more than a
mere apportionment. It was drawn in accordance
with the principle of minority representation.
It provided for the same number
of members during the next decade that
nov composed ihe House?293. Deducting
Territories and the District of Columbia, the
population of the country was 49,369,714,
which; being divided by 293, left a population
of 168,498 as the ratio for one member
of Congress. Under the bill, as prepared
by Mr. Springer, the following States will
lose one Member each: Alabama, Florida,
Indiana, Llinois, Louisiana, Maine, Massa
chusetts, Miryland, New Hampshire, Ohio,
Vermont and Tennessee. Pennsylvania would
lose 2, and N>w York 3 members. Arkansas,
California, Iowa, Michigan, "Mississippi, '
South Carolina, and West "Virginia would
gain one member each, Minnesota and Nebraska,
2 each, aid Kansas and Texas, 3,
each. The bill was referred to the committee
__ .1 tl. u:n
oil me ceusua. mc army uppruprituiuu um
was discussed.
In the Senate, on the 6th, the consular and
diplomatic bill was reported and placed on
the calendar. The Stnate bill to punish
tramps in the District o? Columbia was considered
until the expiration of the morning
hour, when the army appiopriation bill was
read twice and referred to the appropriations
committee.
In the House, the funding bill was discussed
during the entire day's tession.
In the Senate, on the 7th, a memorial of
one Moore, a member of the Patkard Legislature,
asserting that he was bribtd by Kellogg,
and asking to be examined oa the subject,
led to a lengthy debate, which occupied
the morning hour. The consular appropriation
bill was then taken up, and after a number
of amendments passed. The Senate adjourned
until Monday.
In the House, under the regular order, a
number of pension and private bills were
reported and referred. In committee of the
whole, the House considered the private calendar,
and reported to the House a number
of private bills, which were passed?among
them one to admit free of duty one of the
bells of St. Michael's chimes, of Charleston,
S. C.
In the House on the 8th, the committee on
postoffices and post roads reported back a
bill regulating the rates of postage on second
class matter. Placed on the calendar. The
remainder of the session was occupied in discussing
the funding bill.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Governor Hagood has appointed Bart.
J. Witherspoon, master in equity for Lancaster
county. (
? It is asserted that 83,780 worth of liquor j'
was sold in Abbeville, during the Christmas 1
holidays.
? During the recent bad weather, it is said j
that one thousand pairs of rubber shoes were j
sold in Greenville. I<
? An experienced gardner estimates the ;'
damage to the market gardens in the vicinity 1
of Charleston, by the recent cold snap, at not i
less than 825,000. 1
? The Governor has pardoned John '
Rodges, of Spartanburg county, who was sen- |'
tenced in October, 1879, to seven years' im- ll
prisonment in the Penitentiary for grand lar-1
ceny. ! i
? In several sections of the State, persons j'
have been arrested and committed to jail, in j i
default of bail, for carrying concealed weap- j f
ons. | (
? The census reports that seven of the eight i
townships taken for re-enumeration in South ]
Carolina, show an aggregate population in <
December of 17,372, against 17,993 reported [
by the local enumerators in June last. I
? Stolbrand, the defeated Republican candi- i
date for Congress from the Fifth District, has 1
notified Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken that he will j
contest bis right to the seat. Stolbrand al- i
leges fraud in the election. <
? Arrangements have been made for the
State to borrow from fiv.e banks in Columbia i
and Charleston, at 6 per cent, per annym, 1
whatever money she needs to pay interest on
he bonded debt.
? The necessary notice has been served by
Mr. E. W. M. Mackey, of the Second South
Carolina District, upon Mr. M. P. O'Conner,
)f the intention of the former to contest the
jlaims of the latter to a seat in the Fortyleventh
Congress.
? James Patterson, Esq., a prominent citizen
of Barnwell county, died at his home in
:hat county on the 27th ultimo. Before the
war he was a member of the Legislature,
3omraisioner in equity and secretary of State.
Since the war he has filled the offices of trial
justice, coroner and sheriff.
? An old colored preacher was recently convicted
in Orangeburg Court of having voted
two Republican tickets folded together at the
last election. In consideration of his being
"an humble and ignorant negro," he was
fined but 81 without costs, and two days in
jail by Judge Mackey.
? In the United States District Court in
Charleston, last week, John VV. Barrs, late
postmaster at "58" Station on the South
Carolina Railroad, pleaded guilty to the
charge of unlawfully disposing of postage
stamps and of making false returns as postmaster,
and was sentenced to pay a fine of
850 and costs.
? The Richland Volunteers, of Columbia,
accepted the invitation of H. C. Corbin, Assistant
Ajutant-General United States Army,
to visit Washington and participate in the
ceremonies incident to the inauguration of
President elect James A. Garfield. The company
will leave Columbia on March 1st, arriving
in Washington on the 3d.
? It is stated on undoubted authority that
the liquor dealers of Charleston propose to
test the constitutionality of the anti-liquor
law passed at the recent session of the General
Assembly. Col. Simonton, James Simons
and John F. Ficken, attorneys of Charleston
and members of the Legislature, have been
retained as counsel to represent the parties
who raised the question.
? The celebration of the battle of Cowpens,
with the unveiling of the monument of
Daniel Morgan at Spartanburg, is postponed
from January 17th to a later date not finally
determined on. The object of the postponement
is to give an opportunity for the co operation
of New Hampshire, Connecticut, New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
and Maryland, whose Legislatures meet next
month.
? Col. A. P. Butler, Commissioner of Agriculture,
has at his office at Columbia, a speci
men of bituminous coal, found by Captain
Laughlin, in Anderson county. Colonel
Butler tested a piece of it in his fire-place and
found that it would burn. Captain Laughlin
says that the specimen was taken by him from
a vein in Anderson county, about a foot and
a half thick, into which he dug about three
feet.
? Governor Hagood has commuted the
sentence of Neil W. Blair, colored, of Camden,
who was to have been hanged on the
28th instant, from hanging to imprisonment
for life in the penitentiary. Blair was convicted
nearly two years ago of the killing
of one Adamson, colored, in a drunken
brawl. He has been respited four times?
twice.by Governor Simpson and twice, by
Governor Jeter. " The commutation was made
upon recommendations signed by Judge
Mackey, who tried hira, a majority of the
jury who convicted him, and many leading
citizens of Kershaw county.
? The Newberry Herald says: "Butler
Lomax, a colored brakeman on the C. & G.
R. R., was knocked off the top of a car the
morning of the 29th of November by an
overhead bridge near Silver Street. His
skull was broken and crushed in upon the
brain. At least a spoonful of his brains
oozed out. It was telegraphed to headquarters
the same morning that he was dying.
Dr. Mcintosh, of Newberry, and Dr. Thompson,
of Silver Street, were sent for. They
had scarcely a hope of saving life. They
decided, however, to make the attempt. By
an operation known as trepaning they lifted
the skull off the brain. They barely expected
him to survive the operation. For
ten days his pulse remained below forty.
After that time he improved rapidly; and
on the 16th instant he was able to go to his
home at Hodges' Depot. He says he does
not remember anything that happened after
he left Columbia the night of the 28th of
November until after the operation. He is
a negro of more than ordinary intelligence,
and his mind seems not to have suffered in
the slightest degree, by the accident. His
age is about thirty-two."
?
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Durham has had another fire, destroying
property to the amount of 820,000. Sup
pc?ed to be incendiarism.
? Twenty-six young lawyers were licensed
bytbe North Carolina Supreme Court last
week.
? Rev. Thomas Atkinson, Bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, died in
Wilmington on Wednesday of last week.
? Col A. C. Cowles, a prominent citizen of
Yadkin county, died at his residence at
Hamptonville, on the 4th instant.
? Tom Ealmore, colored, who was shot on
last election day at Salisbury, by Moses Benceni,
died on Thursday of last week. Benceni
surrendered himself to the sheriff and afterwards
appeared before Judge Gilmer on a
writ of habeas corpus and was admitted to
bail in a bond of 8800.
? On Friday night last a land slide oc2urred
on the N. C. Railroad two miles east
af Lexington, at which point is the deepest
3Ut on that road. The cut is 85 feet deep,
and mostly through rock, a large mass of j
which fell on the track almost simultaneously j
with the approach of the fast mail train. |
The engine and mail car were wrecked, and
the engineer and fireman killed.
? The anti-whisky law seems to be receiving
active encouragement in North Carolina.
Several towns are moving in the matter, and
a general interest is being awakened gn the
subject. A meeting of citizens held some I
lays ago, in Wilmington, endorsed it, and a
resolution was passed, setting forth "That the I
pastors of the churches of this city, with the
;hairman of this meeting, be selected as delegates
to represent the friends of prohibition in
he approaching State' convention at Raleigh ;
and that, furthermore, the chairman be auhorized
and requested to select, as soon as
possible, ten additional delegates, and to an- j
jounce their names in the secular press of this
iity." j'
? The Lincoln Progress says the work of <
ebuilding Indian Creek trestle, on the Caro-1 <
ina Central Railway, near Lincolnton, which
fell with a train of cars and was burned, a
few days before Christmas, has been greatly
retarded by reason of the very cold weather.
The only three survivors of the disaster,
who were taken to Lincolnton, have about
recovered from the shock and injuries they
received by the fall. Tho coroner's jury
summoned to hold an inquest over the bodies
of those killed by the accident, reported that
the deceased came to their death by the breaking
down of the trestle and by burning ; and
that the cause of the disaster was unknown
to the jury.
? During the recent cold spell the greatest
distress prevailed in Charlotte on account of
a lack of fuel. Fire wood sold at the rates of
87.50 for three-eighths of a cord, and in some
instances women were forced to pay twenty6ve
and fifty cents for a single stick. Chairs
and bedsteads were broken up and burned ;
fruit trees in gardens and yards were cut down,
and fences disappeared to make the people
warm. Lumber and shingle men became
dealers in fuel, and besides the fact that there
was not a sufficient supply at any price, it
was asserted that lumber was actually cheaper
as fuel than wood at the exorbitant prices
charged for it. The special Democratic executive
committee of the city adopted a
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resolution turuiug over a, uasu uamuve iu uanu
of 8200 to the Relief Association for the
purchase of fuel for the poor, independent
of their party affiliations, and the Mayor acted
as promptly as circumstances would permit
by having wood shipped by rail and distributed
among the poor.
MERE-MENTION.
In New York on Tuesday of last week, ten
persons were burned to death in a tenement
house and the house destroyed. According
to the new census, the Southern States
have a population of 13,000,000. Six
thousand miles of railroad were constructed
in this country last year?an increase over
the year previous of 1,300 miles. Robert
C. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, has accepted
the invitation to deliver the Yorktown centennial
oration. Legislation is called for
in Arkansas for the suppression of quack
doctors in that State. Texas alone could
furnish all the cotton, sugar, beef and wr ol
which the whole of the United States now
sdpplies, and still have plenty of land left
uncultivated The Michigan Legislature
has elected Conger, the mouthy stalwart
Congressman, to the Seuate. D. H.
Chamberlain, formerly Governor of South
Carolina, is counsel for Cadet Whitaker before
the court martial. -Judge William
B. Woods, the newly appointed Associate
Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
has subscribed to the oath of office and taken
his seat on the SuDreme Bench. The
secretary of the treasury has issued a circular
proclaiming the estimation made by the director
of the mint, of the values of foreign coins.
The value of the Mexican dollar is put at
89 4-10. An alarming famine is pre
vailing in two provinces of Russia. It is said
that 1,750,000 persons are perishing. The
death list of the city of New York for the
past year numbers nearly 32,900. Most
of the Kentucky railroads have reduced passenger
fares to three cents per mile.
THE IRISH QUESTION.
Parliament convened, in obedience to the
Queen's summons, on the 6th instant. Addressing
the memhcrs from the throne, she
said she had called them at a period earlier
than usual to the resumption of their labors,
as affairs of more than common urgency demand
their attention. Referring to the
troubles in Ireland, she said : t
The anticipation with which I last addressed
you of a great diminution of the distress in
ireianu, uwiug iu au auuuuuni imrvesi, was re-,
alized, but I grieve to state that thesocial condition
of the country has assumed an alarming
character. Agrarian crimes in general
have multiplied far beyond the experience of
recent years. Attempts upon life have not
grown iu the same proportion as other offenses,
but x must add that efforts are being
made for personal protection far beyond all
former precedent, of the police, under the
direction of the executive. I have to notice
other evils, yet more widely spread. The administration
has been frustrated, with respect
to these offenses, through the impossibility of
procuring evidence, aud an extended system
of terror has thus been established in various
parts of the country, which has paralyzed
almost alike the exercises of private rights
and the performance of civil duties. In this
state of things, new in some important respects,
and hence with little available guidance
from former precedent, I have deemed
it right to put in use the ordinary powers of
law before making any new demand ; but
demonstration of their insufficiency, amply
supplied by present circumstances of the country,
leads me now to apprise you that the proposal
will be immediately submitted to you
for entrusting with additional powers, necessary
in my judgment, not only for the vindication
of order and public law, but likewise to
secure, on behalf of my subjects, the protection
for life and property and personal liberty
of action, subject to the primary and imperious
obligations to which I have just referred.
I continue to desire, not less than heretofore,
to prosecute the removal of grievances and
work of legislative improvement in Ireland,
as well as in Great Britain.
The Irish Land Act of ltJYU has been productive
of great benefits, and has much contributed
to the security and comparative
well-being of the occupiers of the soil, without
diminishing the value or disturbing the
foundation of prosperity. In some respects,
however, and more particularly under tho
strain of recent and calamitous years, the
protection which it supplied has not been
found sufficient either in Ulster or in the
other provinces. I recommend you to undertake
the further development of its principles
in a manner conformable to the special wants
of Ireland, both as regards the relation of
landlord and tenant, and with a view to effective
efforts for giving to a larger portion of the
people by purchase, a permanent proprietary
interest in the soil. This leg:slation will require
removal, for the purposes in view, of
all obstructions arising out of limitations on
the ownership of property, with due provision
for the security of the interests involved. A
measure will be submitted to you for the establishment
of county governments in Ireland
founded upon representative principles,
and framed with the double aim of confirming
the popular control over expenditure, and
of supplying a yet more serious want by extending
the formation of the habits of local
self-government.
Parnell, one of the traversers whose trial is
progressing at Dublin, and also a member of i
Parliament, took his seat, as usual, on the
assembling of Parliament, being loudly cheered
by his supporters as he entered immediately
after Mr. Gladstone. At the evening sitting,
Parnell gave notice that he would move
for a select committee to inquire into the alleged
land outrages in Ireland.
The trial of the traversers is progressing 1
in Dublin, but attracts very little interest.
The proceedings, since the Attorney-General <
concluded his address, have consisted merely 1
of the reading of speeches made by the tra- .
versers. I
LOCAL A77AZES. l
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
J. A. McLean, Judgeof Probate?Citation?James ,
R. Cook, Applicant?Dempsey Cook, deceased.
John C. Kuykendal?York Drug Store Paragraphs.
Hunter, Oates<& Co.?Our New Businexs.
LattaBrothers?Family Groceries and Plantation
Supplies.
Kennedy Bros. & Barron?Give Us a New Year
Call.
Latimer <fe Hemphill?Clothing?Selling Off.
Withers Adickes?Begins 1881 with renewed intentions.
R. H. Glenn?Sheriff's Sale.
Herndon Brothers?$10 reward?Wanted?Flour
Meal?Cow Feed?Tobaccos.
Latimer & Hemphill?John Clark, Jr. tfe Co's
Best Six-Cord.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Mr. Hyder A. D. Neely, County Treasurer,
has moved to town, and will reside here permanently
during his terra of office. He
occupies the late residence of Col. VV. C.
Beatty, deceased.
FROZEN OVER.
During the recent cold spell, Catawba and
Broad rivers?the eastern and western bound
aries of York county?were frozen over for
the first time, it is said, in 27 years. The ice
on Broad river was sufficiently thick to sustain
a man's weight.
SCARCITY OF FUEL.
The complaint of scarcity of fuel, which
comes from many towns; does not apply to
Yorkville, unless it may be in a few extreme
cases. To the credit of wood-haulers- who
supply this place, it may be said that they
were disposed to furnish all they could, when
the weather would at all admit of hauling,
and at prices but slightly'in advance of those
prevailing at ordinary times.
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KING'S MOUNTAIN CHAPEL.
At the last session of the Annual Conference
of the M. E. Church South, King's
Mountain Chapel, four miles north of Yorkville,
was attached to the Yorkville station.
The charge is now composed of the churches
at Yorkville, Philadelphia and King's Mountain
Chapel. By this arrangement each of
the churches will have one morning service
every three weeks, and there will be service
in the church at Yorkville every Sunday
night.
RECENT ACCIDENTS.
Mr. Charles H. Dixon, of this place, while
chopping wood last Thursday, cut his foot
with the axe, inflicting a severe wound, which
will confine him to his room for several
weeks.
Mr. J. C. Patrick, who lives near Bowling
Green, in the upper edge of the county, met
with the misfortune to badly crush his foot
one day last week. He was riding on the
carriage part of his wagon, his legs hanging
down from the bolster, on which he was sitting,
when his foot came in contact with a
stump in the road and was forced between the
stump and axel of the wagon, crushing his
foot severely.
CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY.
Services will be held in the churches next
Sunday as follows:
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Marion Dargan,
Pastor. Services at King's Mountain
Chapel in the forenoon ; at Yorkville in the
eveuing.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev.' R.
Lathan, Pastor. Services at lOi A. M.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
Services at the usual hours, morning and
evening.
Episcopal?Church oftheGood Shepherd?
Rev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. The rector
will officiate in the Church of Our Saviour
at Rock Hill next Sunday.
THE WEATHER.
The polar wave that swept the country
during the last days of the old year and the
first days of the present, has not had its parallel
probably since the cold winter of 1835.
Elderly persons recall the day, as the "cold
Saturday" which occurred in the month of
December of that year. But according to
' 1 ^ " 1J
ine recoraea temperature 01 me year, it wuuiu
seem that Sunday the 8th of February was
the day on which the greatest depression occurred.
The Array Meteorological Register
gives as the minimum observation two degrees
below zero in the South Atlantic slope, and
also states that snow fell on four days with
nine rainy and cloudy days, and fifteen fair
days. At Charleston the thermometer, indicated
12 degrees and at Greenville 11 degrees.
This was not so severe as the late cold weather
experienced here, when the mean temperature
was 8 degrees below zero.
Municipal elections.
Municipal elections occurred at Rock Hill,
in this county, and at Chester, C. H., on
Monday last. In each town the contest was
oter license or no license. At Rock Hill a
mixed ticket was elected as follows?J. M.
Ivy, Intendaot, J. R. Allen and A. Friedheira,
wardens, who were candidates on the
dry ticket; and R. J. Hagius, and J. W.
Fewell, of the wet ticket. The anti-license
party obtained a majority of the board, including
Intendant, gaining it by only one i
vote. ]
In Chester the dry ticket was composed of
Wm. A. Sanders, E. T. Atkinson, Roht. W. j
Strieker, S. B. Lathan and R. Brandt. The <
candidates on the wet ticket were J. L. Cham- <
bers, W. H. Nance, John Mclver, H. M. ;
Ross and John L. Yongue. There was some '
excitement, both sides working zealously for ;
their respective interests, and we are informed j
that whisky flowed freely. The license party 1
was successful by 71 majority. ;
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KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
Home Relief Lodge in Yorkville, of the '
above order, now numbers 52 members, with \
several applications for membership pending. <
The Lodge is in a healthy, pros ?rous con- 1
dition and offers better means for providing j
for a family in case of death than any system
of life insurance that has yet been devised t
while the annual expense is much less and no <
fear of liquidation or insolvency. Unlike
most of benevolent institutions, instead of
reaching a maximum point and declining, the
order grows stronger year by year?having
steadily increased from its organization at I
Louisville, Ky., in 1873, until now its mem- |
bership numbers over 100,000 distributed in c
every State of the Union. j \
At the meeting of Home Relief Lodge last!?
Friday night, the following officers were in-. ^
stalled to serve for the ensuing terra : Dicta- c
tor?A. Coward ; Assistant Dictator?L. M. ]
Grist; Reporter?A. W. Ingold ; Financial c
Reporter?G. W. S. Hart; Treasurer? F
J. C. Kuykendal; Chaplain?T. C. Duulap ; jj
Guide?A. S. Withers; Guardian?J. G.
Ferguson ; Sentinel?A. Cody. Vice Dicta- q
tor J. R. Gardner was detained at his home
by sickness;. but will be regularly installed
at the nest meeting.
Medical Examiner?Dr. J. F. Lindsay.
Trustees?J. F. Wallace, C.fc E. Spencer,
James Mason.
The Lodge of Protection, or Knights and
Ladies of Honor, is an order similar to the
Knights of Honor, with the exception that
Lady members are admitted. The Lodge of
that order in this place also has a good membership.
At the last meeting of the Lodge
the following officers were elected, and will be
installed at the next regular meeting to-morrow
night:
R. J. Latta, Protector ; Mrs. Clara Dargan
McLean, Vice-Protector; J. G. Ferguson,
Secretary and Financial Secretary; T. C.
Dunlap, Treasurer; J. A. McLean, Chaplain ;
Miss Annie E. Ferguson, Guide ; W. J. Jones,
Guardian ; R. R. McCorkle, Sentinel; Dr. J.
F. Lindsay, Medical Examiner.
A SOUTH CAROLINA ROOK.
Wanita, A Novel. By Mrs. Laura Gwyn, of
Greenville, S. C. Charleston: Walker, Evans
<fc Cogswell.
Mrs. Gwyn is favorably known as the writer
of verses, but we believe this is her first
attempt at anything so pretensious as a novel.
The book contains many good ideas, though
the main interest of the story centres in an
episode rather than in the main plot. The
Stories of'Timothy Timbershins, bound
in the same volume, depict the drolleries
of a Down-Easter, who located in the mountainous
parts of South Carolina, and while
the stories abound in quaint humor and
ludicrous situations, the pen-painting of
mouutaiu scenery in the neighborhood of
Caesar's Head and Table Rock is done in
master style, lending additional charm to the
narrative, and bringing prominently to view
the magnificent mountain scenery of our
State.
Price, in paper covers, 75 cents; bound in
cloth 81. Sent postage paid on receipt of
price, addressed to Mrs. Laura Gwyn, Greenville,
S. C.
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, EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
A Strange Occurrence.
The Meridian (Miss.) Mercury gives
currency to the following strange story:
Some four years ago a negro man died at
Lauderdale Station, as was supposed, of hydrophobia.
The day of his death he was a
raving maniac. It was thought best to confine
him, but there was tipuble in getting any
one to undertake the dangerous and difficult
task. At last Dr. Kennedy, Dr. Webb and
B. T. Bust volunteered to undertake it. The
mau's wife assisted them, and with great difficulty
they succeeded in fastening handcuffs
upon his wrists. He died that day. The
wife soon after went raving and died. Within
the last six months the three white meo
engaged in the struggle with the negro to
handcuff him have gone crazy?two of them
sent to the lunatic asylum, and the third, Mr.
Webb is on the wav there. There is much
remark upon the coincidence. And now we
hear for the first time that it was rather a suspicion
that the negro had been bitten by a
mad dog known to have been prowling a
month previous, than a fact resting upon certain
proof. The singular circumstance
makes food for rejection. It may be a mere
happen so, but could not happen so again in
ten thousand millions of times.
The Clement Attachment.
Mr. George M. Cornelson is the proprietor
of a new cotton factory at Orangeburg,
which is now in ac^ve operatiop.
The factory is worked upon the Clement attachment
plan, and cost about $20,000. It is
the sole property of Mr. Cornelson, who has
displayed wonderful energy and perseverance
in placing the enterprise firmly upon its legs,
in the face of many discouragements. The
factory has four attachments and one thousand
two hundred and twenty-four spindles,
all of which are running every day. It is operated
by thirty hands under the supervision
of a superintendent. The hands under him
were chosen with a view to their capacity, and
have had experience in spinning at the Langley
and Greenville mills. The spinners are
paid fifteen cents a side of one hundred and
two spindles and can earn about sixty cents a
day; the spoolers, reelers and carders earn
from twenty-five to seventy-five cents a day.
The machinery is operated by a sixty-horse
power engine. The factory consumes two
bales, or about two thousand pounds of seed
cottoD a day, or six hundred bales during the
year. Mr. Cornelson pays from three to three
and >ne-half cents per pound for the seed
cotton delivered at the factory. The yam is
worth from twenty-four to twenty-eight cents
per pound. The profits are estimated at fifty
dollars a day.
A South Carolina Tea Farm,
From the following, which we find in
the Washington Post, it would seem that the
cultivation of the tea plant is to be tried in
this State in an earnest manner, and on an
extensive scale:
Gen. LeDuc, the commissioner of agriculture,
has just returned from a trip to South
Carolina, where he has arranged for the culture
of the tea plant on an extensive scale.
By previous experiments in that State as well
as in others, he demonstrated the suitability
of the climate and soil for the culture of this
widely used plant. In order to test the practicability
of the culture on an extensive scale
and the preparation of the leaves for the
market, a farm has been secured. This is a
tract of land on the Ashley River, thirty
miles west of Charleston, S. C., and near the
town of Summerville. It is a portion of an
sstate consisting of 1,180 acres, which was
occupied as a country residence by Governor
aP pAlaniol C^fwamnrq. nf
DittiVC) UUC Ul tuv> Viu vuivuiu* v4v?vsmw*w w*
South Carolina. He built here a splendid
mansion of bricks which were imported from
England. The house has long since fallen to
pieces, and the bricks have been carted
iway, but there still remain traces of the
former splendor. The property is now owned
oy Mr. Middleton, a descendant of one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence.
He was very much interested in the experiment
made by Gen. LeDuc for the introduc;iou
of the culture of the tea plant in this
country, and in order that a trial might be
made on a more extensive scale, he had offerjd
the use of 200 acres to the government
for twenty years, rent free.
"What is the nature of the soil!" asked
;he reporter, who had a conversation with
aen. LeDuc.
"It is a peculiar whitish loam, and the tea
jxpert, Mr. Jacksou, said that it was fully
?qual to the soil of Asia."
"When do you begin active operations ?"
"In about two weeks the land will be
jloughed. I expect shortly eighty bushels
>f seed from India. Most of the tea used in
his country comes from India. The Chinese
?nly export the poorer grades, keeping the
jest for their own consumption. The seed is
ibout the size of a hazel nut, and i3 the same I
cind that is cultivated by the English resi- i
lents of Iudia. In this country it is widely I,
ised aud known as English breakfast tea. '
t is drilled in, and then, when the plants i
:ome up, they are thinned out and trans- i 1
ilanted. We propose to plant about 100 j
cres this year, as the rest of the land has to
ie cleared."
"Well, what is to be done with such a
uantity of leaves ?"
"That is the main object of 'tbjs expert- !
ment, to get a large quantity of leaves in
order to utilize our machinery and intelligent
labor in it) preparation for market.
Two men with steam rollers can do the work
of two hundred coolie*). It is proposed to
demonstrate not elone the possibility of raising
tea in this country, but also its preparation
for market at a much cheaper rate than
it can be done abroad. When this has been
demonstrated, then the farmers-will undertake
the cultivation of this plant, turning
the leaves over tc the manufacturer who has
his appliances for preparing the leaves for
market. If this experiment succeeds I hope
to be able to make a similar one in the State
of Florida."
The New Cabinet.
Since the election of Garfield, there has
been much speculation as regards the composition
of his cabinet; but without authoritative
statements, of course but little importance
is attached to any of them. As the time
for the inauguration draws nigh, however.,
public interest centres on the subject. A recent
Washington letter gives the following
as the latest cabinet rumors in that city:
A representative Southern Democrat sayn
that if General Garfield means to take any
member of his cabinet from the South, it
ought to be Bruce. He represented 800,000
voters, and was well thought of by the
Southern Senators of the other party. In
proof of this was the fact that they had created,
on motion of Lamar, a select committee
and put him at the head of it. He had
ability, had risen from a slave to a position
of wealth and influence, and there had never
been a reflection .upon hie. character.. Ho
declared that here was a chance for the new
administration to do a just and popular act.
Tom Ochiltree told me yesterday, that
Southerners who heard from General Garfield
were satisfied that he meant to appoint a
Southerner, one who had been a confederate,
in his cabinet, A,mong the names which bad
been considered were Tom Settle, of North
Carolina, United States district judge; exGovernor
Davis, of Texas, who, however,
was not a confederate; General Longstreet,
and Judge Lochran: e, of Georgia. The
impression seemed to be that Settle rather had
the inside. He was popular with all classes
in the South ; had acquitted himself well as
a federal officer, and belonged to a Stats
which bad such a small Democratic majority
that his cabinet relation might lead to a
political change there. Governor Davis was
regarded as a man of integrity, but was so
independent?indeed, captious?that then*
was no knowing when he would waltz off on
his ear. Longstreet would have the largest
influence over she confederate soldier element,
and which, when well disposed, could
take care of every other element in the South .
Longstreet, when he held a lucrative office
in New Orleans at the time of fees and moieties,
gave away nearly bis whole salury in
loans to his own soldiers.
According to the ideas of Senator Daviti,
of West Virginia, the slate hetofore made up
for Garfield's cabinet is to be broken, or at
least the list will be materially altered. Senator
Davis says that Blaine will be made
Secretary of State, as heretofore announced;
and, further, Mr. Blaine will be consulted
by Mr. Garfield as to who will be invited
to fill the other cabinet positions. Your correspondent
asked the Senator if Mr. Conkling
would not be consulted when the time
came to close up the books for cabinet appointments.
"Oh, yes," said he: "Mr. Morton will
probably be a member of the new cabinet."
"Will he not succeed Secretary 8herman ?"
"No, I think not. He will probably be
tendered the portfolio of Secretary of War
or the Navy. Mr. Sherman's successor will
be a Western mun. If Mr. Garfield should
select an Eastern man, the cry would be raised
that the new administration was in tbe hands
'of the money ^powel*." * " L
The Senator was not prepared to name the
new Secretary of the Treasury.
State Legislatures.
Ou the 5th instant the following State
Legislatures assembled.
The Legislature of Maine organized witl
Republican officers. Subsequently a Republica
caucus to pomiuate a United States Senator,
unanimously agreed upon Hon. Eugene
Hale. \
In the California Assembly the Republicans
nominated Gen. John F. Miller and the
Democrats J. G. Fair for U. S. Senator.
The Indiana Senate elected Veile, Demo- / .1
crat, President pro tern. It is thought a com-^
promise will be made, dividing the offices
between the Democrats and Republicans.
. The Connecticut Legislature met and was
organized by the Republicans. Governor
Bigelow was sworn in.
The Legislature of North Carolina organized
with Hon. W. T. Dortch President pro
tern, of the Senate, and C. M. Cook as speaker
of the House. In his message Governor
Jarvis speaks in warm terms of the relations
existing betweeen the blacks and whites, and
says: "The colored people, I am glad to
say, are becoming more industrious and thrifty."
He refers with satisfaction to their industrial
fairs, held at Raleigh, and to the
favor and encouragement bestowed on these
exhibitions by the whites. He regards it as
an imperative duty that the whites should
see that in all things full and equitable justice
be done the blacks, and that the blacks
are not left to work out their own destiny
alone. The Governor favors great provision
for public schools, and recommends putting
the school tax at twenty-five cents on one
hundred dollars' worth of property. Of *
convicts, be says the entire number on October
30th was 993, which is considerably less
than at the close ot any of three previous
years. The workings of the system are satisfactory.
He speaks hopefully of the prospects
of increased immigration, and refers,
with approval, to a scheme to utilize railroad
grants and adjuncts to roads. He takes
ground in favor of the prohibition movement,
recommends appropriations for centennial
celebrations, and submits, without recommen-.
dation, the proposition to bompromise the
construction bonds issued for the North Car
olina Railroad and lease of the Atlantic and
North Carolina Railroad.
The Legislature of Tennessee organized by
electing W. B. Ro.uisay speaker of the House.
He is regarded as more of a Greenbacker
than a Republican. The Republicans were
forced to accept the declaration of the Warren
Greenbackere and ignore the caucus
nominee, R. R. Butler, to prevent the election
of a Democratic Speaker. The State
Credit, and Low Tax Democrats acted in the
utmost harmony. The House organized on
the 6th by the election of all the remaining
officers. Stewart, (Dem.) from Polk and
Bradley counties, to whom a certificate of
election was not given on account of the disagreement
of the Governor and secretary of
State, and who was decided bj& the Supreme Court
to be entitled to his seat, was sworn in.
The Republicans have filed notice that they
will contest his seat. The Senate on the first
ballot elected Geo. H. Morgan, Low Tax
Democrat, speaker.
The Michigan Legislature organized under
the Republicans. In the Republican caucus
Hon. O. D. Conger was nominated for TJ. Sw
Senator.