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and ^acts. If 11 : g ? Indiana has a law to prevent weak-mind- 1 ed people marryiug. A crusty bachelor in- I sinuates that the weak-niiuded are the only 8 persons whoever think of marrying. j v ? The Delaware Legislature has passed a ^ resolution authorizing the State to defend, before the United States District Court, all j persons who were indicted for assaulting t United States Marshals, or for voting illegal- j ly at the last State election. j ? Thomas L. James, the efficient postmas- t ter of New York, is the favorite candidate t of many of the leading Republicans of New j York'for the postmaster-generalship. He is \ probably as well qualified for the position, as i any man in the United States. ] ? The finance committee of the Word's 1 Fair, to be held in New York in 1883, report i that without any organized efforts, they have, i in three weeks, raised $332,500, in addition I to the $250,000 promised conditionally by ' the JNew lork Uentrai nanroaa. i ? The Senate committee on privileges and ] elections, propose to investigate and settle the question whether Vice-President elect Chester A. Arthur is a native of the United 1 States. Charges that Mr. Arthur was born ' over the Canadian line have been brought 1 to its attention, and it will institute a i thorough inquiry. ? Texas is about to enact a law which other Southern States should hurry to imitate. The acquittal of Currie prompted the following bill, which was passed on Saturday iu the Senate by a vote of 19 to 8, and will undoubtedly pass the House and become a law : "An act to prevent drunkenness and temporary insanity, produced by intoxicating li quors, from being plead in justification of criminal offenses in any of the courts of the State." ? An ingenious swindle on the government has just been discovered at New York. A gallon of shellac put in a barrel of alcohol made it varnish and exempted it from the $2 per gallon internal revenue tax. The shellac was extracted by chemical process, after the mixture was brought from Canada, and the enterprising dealers could undersell everybody else on alcohol and make enormous profits. Many honest handlers of the fluid were ruined by the competition. ? The Supreme Court of Appeals, at Richmond, Va., last Thursday, rendered a decision reversing the judgment of the Corporation Court of Danville, in thecaseof James Thomas DeJarnette, convicted in September last of the murder of his sister, Mollie DeJarnette, and sentenced to be hanged on the 29th of October, but in whose case a writ of error being granted, the execution was stayed. The case has been remanded for a new trial. It will be remembered that DeJarnette shot and killed his sister in a house of ill repute last July. ? An old fable in a new dress : A monkey, designing to teach his sons the advantage of unity, brought them a number of sticks and desired them to see how easily they might be broken one at a time. So each young monkey took a stick and broke it. "Now," said the father, "I'll teach you a lesson." And he began to gather the sticks into a buudle. But the young monkeys, thinking he was about to beat them, set upon him all together and disabled him. "There," said the aged sufferer, "behold the advantage of unity. If you had assailed me one at a time, I would have killed every mother's son of you." ? The Washington correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle, is told that the Republicans will attempt to organize the next House of Representatives in defiance of the clerk's list, so as to keep out those members whom they especially dislike. Another story is that the moment the Republicans secure dominat. .1 r? t ^ *v w?v?v shall not be, for a generation at least, any more Democratic Senators from South Carolina and, perhaps, several other Southern States. One plan is to have in each State a duplicate Legislature that will elect a Republican Senator who will be admitted. Another is to reject any Democratic Senator who shall be elected. This is lively reading, but the country is not going to the dogs to that extent. ? In a late article on carpet-baggers in the South, "Fool" Tourgee declares that 50,000 negroes had emigrated to Kansas from the Southern States in the past three years. The ' Republicans have been telling this story over and over again until they have finally got to i believing it. If it is so, General Francis ' Walker ought to be impeached for falsifying the census, for he declares that there are only 43,000 negroes in Kansas to day, and that there were 17,800 ten years ago.- Even if the negro population of that State had been at a stand-still for the past decade, this would give only 26,000 negro emigrants in ten years; so it is hard to see how 50,000 could have immigrated in tweuty-four months. The story is either a falsehood, or 24,000 of the unfortunate darkies who went to Kansas have died of ^:old and inhuman treatment. ? Speaking of the revised Bible, the New York Times of Thursday says: "It was expected by the American committee on revis ion of the New Testament, that the book should be published and ready for delivery in this country during the present month, but it is announced, on authority of a cable dispatch, received by Dr. Philip Schaff, president of the Americau committee, that the publication will not be made until May. When asked by the Times reporter what the cause of the delay was, Dr. Schaff said that the convocation of Canterbury meets to-day, and the revised Testament will be submitted to that body for its approval. The book will probably be referred to a committee, which will report at the next meeting of the convocation in May, when the convocation itself will take action. The announcement that the book was to be overhauled and the word 'hell' restored in places where 'hades' had been used, Dr. Schaff said was utterly without authority." t>I.? j * .1 ? xiic ?t ncuiu^iuu <jui x c&^uijucijl ui me Philadelphia Times is responsible for the statement that Mr. Hayes has, during his ( four years' fraudulent occupancy of the 1 White House, been indulging in some petty i swindling in open violation of law, by which j he has realized a few hundred dollars. It appears that a few days after his inaugura- c tiou he demanded the payment of a month's * salary (84,166.66) in advance, and the treas- < urer, thinking he really needed the money, i sent it to him. A similar demand was com- t plied with in April and another in May, but the secretary refused to pay the latter, after notifying Mr. Hayes that to do so would be an open violation of Section 3,648 of the ' Revised Statutes, which declares that "no ad- j vance of public money shall be made in any case whatever." After receiving this notification, Mr. Hayes temporarily withdrew his s request, but subsequently demanded and ob- a tained his salary on the 15th of every mouth, i This species of petty swindling renders him <] liable to impeachment. * ^ ? Michael Davitt, the member of Parliament who has recently been arrested and is 8 now confined in Dartmoor prison for viola- ^ tion of his ticket of leave, was born in county 1 Mayo, Ireland, about forty years ago. When 1 he was a boy, his father, a tenant farmer, was evicted and the family removed to England, where Michael went to school. In 1866 he 8 purchased arms to be used in "the defense of ? Ireland's freedom," was apprehended by the ' j British government, tried, convicted and | j sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment in ; Millbank Prison. After seven years' con- j finement, he was released on a ticket-'of leave, a or respite during good behavior, and in A 1877, in his native town, he originated the h Irish Land League. He visited America t in 1879 and again in 1880; in the latter year to establish branches of the Land League, a and at the first convention of delegates to the 0 Irish National Land League he was elected \ Secretary for the United States. Having \ arfeited bis ticket of leave, he will be required ' a serve the remaining eight years of his j entence. ? A dispatch from Charlotte C. H., Va.,' ays : "Wednesday evening a white woman j .'ent into John Derap's house, in Chicken- ; own, Charlotte county, and asked to stay a ; lay or two. She seemed to have plenty of i noney. Demp had only one good chamber j a the house and told her she could occupy < hat. He accordingly put her in there, givog her a bed by the side of his wife's bed. )emp seeing that she bad money, determined o murder her, and last night he crept into he room armed with an axe. It seems that ais wife and the other woman had changed "* 1 1 1 ?l-i. iwanf #n t Vl O >eas aunng toe nigm. ?sciup ?cm. >ed which he supposed the guest occupied. 3e could only distinguish the outlines of the igure and he dealt it two murderous blows ivith the axe. The noise woke the sleeper o the other bed, and the man discovered by ler screams that he had murdered his owu wife. He fled from the room, aud, fortunately for her safety, the other woman quitted :he house. Derap returned late, carried the Qody of his wife into a clump of woods near t>y and buried it by the light of a torch. He then went back and was engaged in burning the bed sheets when he was arrested. fjflrMle inquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 17, 1881. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Judge Kershaw has decided that a dentist is exempt from jury duty. ? The town council of Anderson recently 6ned two men for carrying concealed weapons?one 820 and the other 825. ? A new phosphate company, to be known as the "Edisto," has been organized in Charleston with a capital of 8200,000. ? A few Irishmen in Columbia have taken initiatory steps for the organization of an Irish Land League Club in that city. ? Joe Fant, a Union county colored man, last season, with one mule, raised twenty-five bales of cotton and two hundred bushels of oats. ? Dr. W. L. Reynolds, a well-known dentist of Columbia, died in that city on Sunday of last week, in the fifty-third year of his age. ? In the town of Darlington, there are twenty licensed bar rooms, besides two drugstores where liquor can be had on physician's prescription. ? Farmers in Pickens county are trying the experiment of sowing wheat at this late time of the year. Many are of the opinion that the first of March is not too late to sow for a good harvest. ? ' * 'I T_l__ ? The Washington papers say tnai uunu R. Cochran is an applicant for the United States Marshalship of South Carolina, rendered vacant by the rejection of the nomination of Wallace. ? Col. Butler, the fish commissioner, has perfected arrangements for the establishment of a fish hatchery on the Edisto, at Jacksonboro, in Colleton county, on the Hue of the Charleston and Savannah Railroad. ? On Saturday last, the swollen condition of Saluda river caused a breakage of one of the dams at Piedmont Factory, and the stop-* page of the mill. It is said that the mills will not, however, be stopped for a great while. ? The passenger fare on the Charlotte, Co lumbia and Augusta Railroad, has recently been reduced to four cents per mile for first class fare, and three and-a-half for second. The Air-Line Railroad has also reduced its rate tn four rents ner mile. To secure the reduced rates, passengers, however, must pro cure tiokets before boarding the train. ? The City Council of Columbia has agreed to the proposition of the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, to buy the Potter's field in that city for 83,000 cash, and $200 for fifteen years. 1 le city will remove such remains from the Potter's-field as can be reached within thirty days, and work on the new depot will be begun at once. ? At a recent meeting of the stockholders cf the Pelzer Manufacturing Company, held in Charleston, the following persons were elected as directors to serve for one year: Francis J. Pelzer, Wm. Labby, Wm. B. Smith, David Lopez, Ellison A. Smyth. This company will, at an early day, commence the erection of a cotton factory near Williaraston, Anderson county. ? The Abbeville Medium says: "It is all i mistake about a cotton factory at Hodges, n this county. The supply of water is not sufficient for drinking purposes, let alone running a cotton factory. Last year an at;empt was made to get along on water, but ,he good people suffered so much from thirst, ;hat they determined to supplement the natural supply by allowing the sale of whisky." ? At the recent term of the Court of Gen;ral Sessions for Kershaw county, ouly seven jours were required to dispose of all the busiless on the docket. Only three cases were ried: One for intermarriage of the races, )ne for grand larceny, and one for assault and Dattery and assault with intent to kill. In :ach case a verdict of guilty was rendered, illen Hough, intermarriage, was sentenced ,o the Penitentiary for twelve mouths at hard abor. ? The Chester Bulletin of last week says: 'John Davie, colored, died a few days ago on ! Jr. Andy Hafner's place on Bullock's creek, j ind on his death-bed confessed to his spiritual ! idviser that he had committed murder sever- J il years ago in Orange county, North Caroli- j )a. He gave his right name as Jackson i Taylor, and said he murdered a colored man J >y the name of John Mauney, jealously about1 i woman actuating him to commit the crime. Te worked a while with Mr. J. A. Sanders at lis saw mill in this county, and has been : lere a couple of years." ? The News and Courier says there is con-1 iderable unneasiness among South Carolina Stalwarts as to who will be appointed to the irincipal Federal offices in this State by the coming Administration. The air is full of umors, aud the plans of the Radical Ring re freely talked about on the street. R. M. j Vallace's friends think there is no chance of lis confirmation by the present Senate, but hat President Hayes will not make another ppointment, and that he ("Wallace) will hold ' ver under the appointment of Chief Justice } Vaite. Taft is said to have retired from the ! race for marshal in favor of T. B. Johnston, 11 of Suruter, who has agreed to give all bis sup- ! port to Taft for collector of the port. Ac- < cording to the plan at first proposed, John- i ston was to make the race for collector, but i he wanted to be. marshal and would not sac- i rifice his preferences, and forced Taft to retire. Dent, the ex-sheriff of Richland county, < a Liberal Republican, is said to be a candi- i date for marshal. Mr. John Agnew, of Columbia, also, bas his eye, it is said, on the marshalship, but he has no backing that any one has heard of, and seems to be running only on his own merits. OstendrofT, the exclerk of the court, is in the race for postmaster of Charleston, and Warren R. Marshall is a candidate for the office of district attorney. ? Henry Johnson and Orange Isaacs, both colored, were lodged in the jail of Sumter county, on Friday last, charged with the murder of John Davis, colored. Johnston tells the following singular story: He says that "he was staying at the house of John Davis, and suspected that he was trying to poison him, and that he went to Orange Isaacs, who is claimed to be a root doctor, aud told him of it. Orange said that he also had a grudge against Davis, and that he had the power of witchcraft and could administer a certain medicine that would free him . of all responsibility for his acts, and proposed to Johnson to give him a charm aud take one himself and kill Davis. Johnson agreed to take the charm and obey all instructions. Orange then told him to obtain a guu and bring it to him, which he did. Orange then sent him to the road with orders to knock on the fence when Davis passed. At 12 o'clock M. last Saturday, Johnson gave the signal and Orange came to the road with his gun. They followed him to a pine thicket, and Orange, having approached to within ten yards of Davis, fired and shot him in the back of the head, killing him instantly. Orange then pulled him out of the road and covered him up with pine straw, aud weut about bis busi ness." Suspicion having attached to Johnson, he was arrested, and upon his confession, Orange was also arrested. Orange disclaims being implicated in the murder in any manner. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A Greensboro firm purchased ninety thousand rabbit skins one day last week. ? Four United States prisoners, confined in the jail at Statesville, made their escape on Wednesday night of last week. ? Forty subordinate Granges were represented in the late session of the North Carolina State Grange at Raleigh. ? Of the 32,500,000 acres of land embraced within the bounds of North Carolina, about oue half remains unimproved. ? During a storm in Moore county, one uight last week, a shed, under which a party of negroes working in turpentine were sleeping, fell down upon them, killing three outright and severely woundiog several others. ? Judge Dillard, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of N. C., resigned his position last Thursday, aud immediately thereafter Governor Jarvis appointed Hon. Thomas Ruffin, of Hillsboro, his successor. ? Charles J. Brown and W. C. Burton, Mormon missionaries from Salt Lake City, I ? -Ml 1 . ! flM L A. Al.t.ir I for Burke couuty, where they expect to work for th? interest of the Church at Salt Lake. ? Several landslides occurred on the line of the Western. N. C. Railroad last week. One at the western entrance of the Swananoa tunnel caught a flat car, killing three negro convicts employed on the road and wounding one guard. ? The Legislature has passed a bill with reference to publishing a roll of the North Carolina troops in the late war and it is now a law. Under a provision of the bill, the duty of collecting the names has been delegated to Maj. Moore, the historian, and it is stated that in addition to this work, he will add other facts descriptive of rhe movements of each regiment during the war. ? The negro exodusters continue to have a hard time out in Indiana. One of them writes to the Mayor of Goldsboro as follows: "Your honor will please tack this card up in a conspicuous place, as a warning to people of my color. To any of you who think of coming to Indiana, take my advice and stay where you are. If you can live you are better off than here." ? The twelve Cherokee Indian children now being educated at Trinity College, are making rapid progress. They are maintained by the United States government, and were sent to Trinity on the 28th of last September. Then they knew not a word of English ; now they spell, speak and write well. They will be kept at the college for three years, the object being to prepare them as teachers. The government watches them, and at frequent intervals an Indian agent visits and inspects their condition, etc. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. Iu the Senate on the 7th, Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, presented a remonstrance from the Association of National Banks of Eastern Pennsylvania against the passage of the House funding bill. On motion of Mr. Morgan, Senators Hamlin and Thurmau were appointed tellers for the Senate in the electoral count meeting. General Butler then spoke at considerable length upon the alleged census frauds in South Carolina, and criticized severely speeches made by a certain stump orator (understood to be Coukling) in New York, during the late Presidential campaign, in which that stump orator insulted and villified the people of South {Jaroliua j and accused them of a conspiracy to fraudulently increase the census enumeration in order to obtain greater political power. The j falsity and baseness of the accusation, Mr. | Butler said, were shown by the results of the j recent re-enumeration uuder the direction of j General Walker, who was a Republican and j also a gentleman. At the conclusion of Mr. Butler's remarks, Mr. Conkliug said he inferred from the little he had heard of the gentleman's speech, that it was designed a9 an attack upon himself, and he had only to say that the vaporing of the Senator from South Carolina gave him little concern. If he had done auy injustice to the people of South Carolina he would find seasonable occasion I to correct it. Mr. Butler?"The Senator has said that the vaporings of the Senator from South Carolina are matters of no concern to him. He will pardon me for saying that the swaggering insolence of the Senator from New York is of no concern to me." Mr. Conkling?"I do not need to have heard the Senator in order to ascertain that he "is a person with whom I do not choose to bandy epithets, here or elsewhere, least of all here; and,' therefore, I have nothing to add to that which j [ have before said." The colloquy here end- j 2d, and the subject was dropped. The Sen- s itethen resumed consideration of the pension "j appropriation bill which was discussed until 11 adjournment. c In the House, a number of bills were intro- i duced?one by Mr. Gillette, of Iowa, expres- ^ sing sympathy with the Irish people. Mr. i Aiken of South Curolina, moved to suspend i the rules aud pass the bill making the agricultural department an executive department. ] The House, however, refused to suspend the f rules for this purpose. The river and harbor appropriation bill was debated without I action. Mr. Whitthorue, of Tennessee, in- i troduced a bill appropriating 8175,000, to be J expended by the Navy Department for < prosecuting the search for the Jeaiin^te." < Referred. The House then adjourned. < In the Senate on the 8th, Senator Bruce, from the committee on education and labor, I reported adversely the joint resolution to pro vide for the enforcement of the eight hour law. He remarked that he did not concur in the report. indefinitely postponed. Mr. Maxey, from the committee on po9t offices reported the appropriation bill, appropriating one million dollars to be expended in the establishment of American steamship liues to foreign countries from Atlantic, Gulf and Paci6c ports. Consideration of the pension appropriation bill was resumed. After a long discussion devoted principally to the management of the Pension Bureau and the best method of dealing with fraudulent claims, Plumb's amendment appropriating two hundred thousand dollars for additional examiners and clerks in the Pension Office was adopted?ayes, 39 ; noe9, 21. The committee then roseaud reported the bill to the Senate, when the committee amendments were agreed to, with the exception of the Indian pensions provision, which was stricken out, and Plumb's amendment, upon which discussion was resumed. The bill was finally laid aside without action. The Senate then adjourned. In the House, Mr. Reagan of Texas, from the committee on commerce, reported back the river and harbor appropriation bill, and it was referred to committee of the whole, The bill was read by sections for amendments, and after considering forty eight of the eightytwo pages of the bill, the committee rose and the House adjourned. In the Senate on the 9th, the pension ap propriation bill was taken up, and after considerable discussion, Mr. Plumb's amendment increasing the pensions of officials, was tabled. The bill was then read the third time and passed. 'At 12 o'clock, the Vice-President announced that the time appointed for counting the Presidential, electoral vote had arrived. The Senate, with the Vice President at its head, proceeded to the hall of the House of Representatives. In the House, the Vice President called the assembly to order and said: "The two Houses being assembled, in pursuance of the ? . . % . L . A- J Constitution, that the votes may oe couuieu and declared for President and Vice-President on the 4th day of March, 1881, it becomes my duty, under the Constitution, as President of the Senate, to open the certificates of the election of the several States of the Union, in thepjreseuce of tfie two Houses, and I now proceed to discharge that duty." The tellers?Messrs. Thurman and Hamlin, on the part of the Senate, and Messrs. House and Crowley, on the part of the House?having taken their places at the Clerk's desk, the Vice-President said : "I open a package purporting to contain the certificates of election of the State of Alabama, to be reported." The certificate having been read very slowly by Senator Hamlin, and having shown that the electors of the State of Alabama had cast the votes of that State for Winfield S. Hancock for President and ten votes for Wra. H. English for Vice President, the Vice President continued in the same manner, taking the States in alphabetical order and announcing the electoral vote of each State, until the cer tificate from the State of Georgia was reached. This certificate showed that ou the 8th of December, 1880, the eleven votes of Georgia were cast for Hancock and English. The Vice-President then said : "It appearing from the certificate the vote of the State of Georgia was cast on a day other than that fixed by an act of Congress in pursuance of the Constitution of the United States, the result of this certificate will uot be recorded until, in the language of the concurrent resolution, under which this count proceeds, it will appear whether the counting or ommitting to count such votes will change the result of the election." The reading of the other certificates was then proceeded with and the votes of the States recorded, when the tellers then proceeded to foot up the votes cast for President . and Vice-President. Senator Thurman then said: "The Tellers report that the whole number of electors appointed to vote for President of the United States was 369, of which a majority is 185. Were the votes of the electors for the State of Georgia cast on the second Wednesday of December 1830, being the 8th day of said month, to be counted, the result would be: For James A. Garfield, of Qhio, for President of the United States, 214 votes, and for Win field S. Hancock, of Pennsylvania, for President of the j United States, 155 votes. If not counted, the result would be : For James A. Garfield, 214 votes, and fur Winfield S. Hancock, 144 votes. , In either event James A. Garfield has re- i ceived a majority of the votes of the whole number of electors appointed." Senator Thur- j man made a similar statement relative to the , vote for Vice President, "Wherefore," said ; the Vice-President, "I do declare that James I A Garfield of the State of Ohio, having re- 1 ceived a majority of the votes of the whole number of electors appointed, is duly elected ( President of the United States for four years, j i commencing on the 4th day of March, 1881; 1 and I do further declare that Chester A. Ar- 1 thur, of the State of New York, having re- j' ceived a majority of the whole number of (, electors, is duly elected Vice-President of the i United States for four years commencing on 1 the 4th day of March 1881." The Senate ^ then retired to their chamber. In the Senate on the 10th, the bill appro- ' printing 8200,000 for the purchase of ground 1 for the erection thereon of a hall of deposit ( for Government records, was considered, on < motion of Mr. Vest, of Missouri, and passed. 1 Pursuant to a resolution offered by Mr. Pen- * f dleton, and adopted, Messrs. Pendleton, An- ^ thouy and Bayard were constituted a commit- t tee to make the necessary arrangements for I the inauguration of the President. The re- t mainder of the morning hour was oocupied I in discussing and passing a number of private ^ pension bills, which had been favorably re- c >orted. The postal appropriation bill was i )assed, after which Mr. Pugh moved the t imendrnent reported from the committee, appropriating one million dollars to establish * ines of American iron steamers. A point of >rder was raised that the amendment was n violation of the rule which prohibits gensral legislation in appropriation bills. After | i long discussion, the Senate, without decidng the point of order, adjourned. In the House, the river and harbor appropriation bill occupied nearly the entire seslion of the day. In the Senate on the 11th, a number of pills and joint resolutions were introduced ind referred, among them the following : By Mr. Hoar, a resolution instructing the Judiuiary Committee to consider and report whethsr the assembling at the seat of Government aflarge bodies of organized and armed troops will not, under the command of officers of the United States or any National authority, be likely to prove in the future dangerous in practice, and whether any legislation or opinion by Congress on the subject be desirable. After some discussion the resolution was laid aside without action. Mr. Dawes spoke on the Ponca Indian question, and Mr. Wallace made a long argument in support of the Constitutional amendment proposed by him, providing for a district system of voting in Presidential elections and for the choice of a President by the plurality of a direct popular vote. At the conclusion of Mr. Wallace's remarks, the consideration of the postal appropriations bill was resumed, pending which the Senate adjourned. After disposing of some miscellaneous business, the House, at 12.30, went into commit fee of the whole on the private calendar. At 4.15 the committee rose and two dozen or more pension bills were passed, when the House adj.turned. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The Future Greatness of the South. Mr. Edward Atkinson, in charge of the cotton production department of the cen sus bureau, being asked by a correspondent what opinion he formed of the South in his late tour through it, replied as follows: "I only confirmed the opinion I had long had. Let a line be drawn from a point on the Ohio river on the western edge of the blue grass region, around the Western border of that district to Chattanooga, Tenn.; thence around the southern end of the Apalachian chain by way of Atlanta, Ga.; thence northerly ou the eastern edge of the Piedmont region to Virginia.; thence by way of Lyuchburg to Harper's Ferry, and thence by way of the Potomac and Ohio to the point of beginning, and you have iucluded an area equal to that of France, and nearly double that of Great Britain. It is not too much to say that in all agricultural and mineral resources it exceeds Great Britaiu and France combined, and is possessed of the finest climate to be found east of the Rocky Mountains. The blue grass section alone could raise enough wheat without manure to feed Great Britain. It is a grand section, but ha&been until lately a railway desert, occupied over half its area by a sparse population clad iu homespun garments. The curse of slavery having been removed from it and capital pouring under general invitation and inducement, its future fills us with amazement. The cotton exposition will, we hope, give an impetus to development in the South and systematize and improve the vast energies now working within it." Kailroad Accidents. Railroad accidents, for which this winter is notable, seem still to be the order of the day. On Thursday night last, about 9 o'clock, the whole of the trestle?two miles in length?of the Charleston and Savannah Railway, near the Savannah river, fell in with a freight train on it. The particulars of the occurrence are as follows: The freight train which left Savannah at half-past 7 o'clock, fell through the trestle near the Savannah river, on the South Caro liua Bide. The accident is supposed to have been caused by the breaking of an axle of one of the freight cars, which knocked one of the benches of the trestlework out of place. This weakened the connecting benches and caused the collapse of about two miles of trestliug, which sank quietly into the swamp with the engine and train of cars still upon the track. No one was hurt, and the cars escaped with little injury. Five hundred hands have been put to work repairing the damages, and it is expected to have the trestle rebuilt bv the 1st of March. In the meantime ar rangements have been made for promptly forwarding passengers. On the same day, an embankment fifty-feet high and sixty in length on the Spartanburg and Asheville Road, two miles south of Saluda, was washed away. This will be repaired by a trestle, which is now building, and trains will run regularly in a few days. On Friday, the eastern bound trains on the Air-Line Road were delayed several hours by a land slide near Tocoa, and another near Mt. Airy, and on the following morning, the western bound passenger traiu of the same road ran into a slide near Clifton, six miles east of Spartanburg. No one was seriously injured by either accideut, but considerable delay resulted. The Inauguration. The following, from a Washington correspondent, will give some idea of the preparations and grand sights which will meet the view of visitors who attend the inaugural ceremonies in Washington on the 4th of March: With the exception of about 85,000, which i j.i /? n i._ .l. I was to ue expeuoeu ior nre-wuras, me iuuuc) uecessary for carrying out the plans of the inaugural committee has all been subscribed. From advices received by the committee, the' inaugural promises to be a grand success, and every effort is being set forth to make it the most elaborate affair of the kind in the history of the country. The new National Museum, in which the ball is to be given, is a building of one room, but a little less in size than the National Capitol, covering two and three eighths acres of ground. A dressed pine flooring is being laid throughout the hall,, which is being waxed. The limit of the number of tickets of admission?8,000?provides for about six square feet to feach person, which will prevent the hall from being overcrowded. The cloak room is being systematically arranged in order to meet all requirements and avoid annoyance. The room is heated with steam and lighted with gas. The music will be the best that cau be secured. A baud of 150 musicians from the East has il ready been contracted for. In view*of the expense attending the preparation, no complimentary tickets will be issued, except to President-elect Garfield and his family. The work on the decoration of Pennsylvania avenue will be begun at once, $10,000 having been given for that purpose. The escort of ;he President-elect will cousist of about 20,000 militia and 14 companies of regular troops ind marines. Previous to the ball a recep ion will be held in the Museum building by 3eneral and Mrs. Garfield, President and ' Mrs. Hayes, and General and Mrs. Grant, jeneral Hancock has also been invited to ' ,ake part in ther reception, and it is thought ' rom assurance's received by the committee hat he will accept. General Sherman will >e grand marshal of the parade, and will 1 nake the presentation at the parade. 1 mmigrntlon Efforts. j By the following from the Columbia , orrespondent of the Neva and Courier, it < ton, Columbia ami Augusta, the Columbia and Greenville, the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line, the Northeastern, and the Chcraw and Darlington Railroads, with which he has official relations. These rates ure much more favorable thau any other hitherto projected. For example, the fare to Columbia from the three cities named is as follows: From New York, $14.76; from Philadelphia, $13.21; and from Baltimore, $11.48. The rates to Greenville are about the same. The commissioner of immigration will publish the full schedule of fares in the monthly report of the department, and distribute the information as widely as possible. Mr. Pope, in a letter to the commissioner, states that-he is now negotiating for equally reasonable rates for the household goods aud effects of immigrants; and further, that he is u.-ing his advantages of position to supplement the work of the department by making each agent of the railroads named an immigration agent in effect, who shall obtain and forward to him all possible information as to the resources and water power of his section for compilation To obtain additional information he is seudiug circulars to every c<>unty commissioner, real estate agent and newspnj>er in the State. When the data collected proves sufficient, he will issue, from time to time, immigration circulars describing the State. Immigrants' tickets can he obtained from agents of the associated railways in any of the larger cities of the North and East. This is the most powerful auxiliary the department could have, and if the other railroads of the State would join the movement, its power and effect would be greatly augmented. Disastrous Floods. Front heavy rains and the melting of snow, several disastrous floods occurred in northern sections last week. Dispatches of Saturday report the Shenandoah aud Potomac rivers at Harper's Ferry as having commenced to rise on that day and continuing steadily throughout the day, flooding the lower part of Washington City to the depth of four or Ave feet and doing much damage. A Cincinnati dispatch of the same date says : Telegrams received here represent Warren, Ohio, as inundated and boats are in demand to remove the people of the Second Ward from their watery isolation caused by an overflow of Mahoning river. Tuscarawas Valley is overflowed. New Philadelphia is in '.udated. But little, if any damage, is reported in Kentucky. Much snow is reported in Southern Ohio. The Ohio river is rising rapidly. A portion of Toledo, Ohio, was inundated, the water rising to a depth of three feet in the Island House Hotel and Union depot, cutting off communication with Summit street, except by means of boats, and preventing the entrance of passenger trains The westerly end of the Pennsylvania Kailway bridge was carried away. This . bridge was rebuilt last summer, and was a substantial iron structure. In Water street the water was five feet deep. The Lehigh river, in Pennsylvania, was swi.io 1 it otoAlltin Toja fpnatloa tvpra QWPnf I aiau ? 1 tCltJ JT ouviivu. A iiu b* vvvivw ..v?v wuv^? , from under the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Penn Haven. By the overflow of the Schuylkill river at Manyunk, nearly all the mills at that place and a number of dwelling houses were inundated. The loss on stock and machinery will reach 8100,000. A later Washington dispatch of Saturday says: Reports of floods at various points are being received. The water in the Lehigh river, at Allentown, Pa., raised ten feet since last night. Half of the bridge, one hundred feet long, connecting Kline's Island with the main shore, washed away. Two families are on the Island, with no means of escape. At Milwaukee, Wis., the heaviest snow storm ever known there prevails, and all trains have stopped. A heavy rain storm is reported at Waterbury, Conn., and the river is rising rapidly. An ice gorge has formed in the Delaware, four miles below Milford, Penn., and a large family, named Buckley, are on the island, in the middle of the river, crying for help, surrounded by ice and water, and no assistance can be given them. MERE-MENTION. There are rumors that the Richmond and Danville Railroad will lease the Charlotte and Atlanta Air-Line Road. The Atlautic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad was sold last Thursday to a syndicate of Philadelphia capitalists for 88,605,000. '"The "Southern Oil Works at Memphis, Tenn., were burned last Thursday morning. Loss *'25,000. Reports of freshets, floods, ice gorges aud bridges carried away, come front all parts of the Northern States. The Sun sa)s the World's Fair in that city is at the point of death. The State of Kansas is going to place a statue of John Brown in the National Gallery at Washington. A sleeping car costs about ?12,000, and earns at the rate of ?1,000 a mouth, so that in one year it has paid the original cost. Gen. Walker estimates the population of the United States in 1890 at 64,600,000 The Indiana Legislature is likely to pass an act reviving the whipping-post. The punishment is limited to twenty-five lashes on the bare back with the cat o'-nine tails. The Chicago Tribune says, "there is a corner in provisions in that city, which dwarfs any previous manipulation, even the great one of last year. Within a week there have been purchased 25,000,000 pounds of short ribs, 24,000 barrels of pork and 10,000 tierces of lard. The parties interested are mainly those who ran the successful deals a year ago, and it is their intention to put the price far above the present prevailing rates." Strawberries are selling in New York for 86 a quart. The bridge over Ocmulgee river at Macon, Ga., used by the Macon and Augusta Rail- ( road, has been washed away twice within thirty days. Parnell, the Irish agitator, wiH visit America again iu a short time. During the month of December, the so called fast mails failed to make its schedule twenty-one times. In January there were twenty four failures. The President has recently nominated -Hon. Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Strong protests are go- | ing forward against his confirmation by the j Senate. Justice Woods, of Georgia, has rendered a decision asserting the right of that j State to prescribe rates of fare and freight on ' railroads within its limits. The Atlanta j i Baptist Seminary for colored persons, has i now 41 students, of whom 22 are preparing for the ministry. Hon. Fernando Wood, member of Congress from New York, died at Hot Springs, Arkansas, on Monday, the 14th nstant. Nearly one hundred mission- i tries have sailed from this country for for- : tign fields in rite past five months. I ivould seem that the effort to secure iromigra;iou to this State is assuming practical shape : The immigration boom is fully under way. [lol. A. Pope, the general freight and ticket , u i ] wovfl rvf Vi pmn. I . IgClil Ut lUC aoowvtai^u iiaunujuui * <<g<i? a and the Carulinas," and who has receutly been appointed immigration agent for North Carolina, is vigorously assisting Col. Butler in his endeavors to secure settlers for this state. He has prepared a table of the reduced rates he has secured for immigrants and settlers from New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore to all stations on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta, the Wiltniug LOCAL A7FAXRS?j|^^| NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. R. Latlmn, School Com in isslonor?School Xotice^^HHBI Ta*. F. Hart?Lota for Sale. John R. Ashe?For Rent. R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.-Sheriff'a Sale. Dr. J. C. Patrick?Dental Notice. Hunter, Oates it Co.?Unprecedented_Reduction in Winter Goods. Mrs. Fannie L. Dobson?The Emporium of Fashion. Latta Brothers?Family Groceries and Plantation Supplies. T. M. Dobson?Don't You Forget It. John B. Cleveland?Administrator's Sale. Latimer it Hemphill?Standard Maintained. Thomas Crawford, Secretary?York Medical Association. John 0. Ruykendal?Letters from Two Good Farmers and Something about Acid Phos- < filiates. T. 8. Jetferys, Agent?Tanner Engines. . Look Out for J. M. Adams. A Withers Adickes?To Arrive. oil Herndon Brothers?Turbine Wheel?Irish Pota- *| toes?Wagons, Wagons. W. H. McCorkle, Intendant?Town Ordinances. J. A. Sanders, Sr.?Application for Discharge. / Clark Bros.?White oats. / PERSONAL MENTION. Mr. Richard Hare, an old citizen of Yorkville, but who left this State for the West ; about five years ago, returned last Friday, thoroughly satisfied that after all, South Carolioa is the best State of any in which he has yet lived. Mr. Hare is a builder, some of the best houses in Yorkville having been erected by him. He will probably locate in this place or Chester. RATTLESNAKE KILLED. S. R. Gateroy, colored, who lives on the place of John A. Thomas,'in the vicinity of Clark's Fork, informs us that on Wednesday of last week, he killed a rattlesnake two feet long and having eight rattiest The snake was first discovered by Mr. Thomas, who saw it crawling from a hollow stump in a field, presumably to enjoy the luxury of a February sun bath. * CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows: Episcopal?Church of the Good Shepherd? Rev. R. P. Johnsou, Rector. The rector will officiate in the Church of Our Saviodr at Rock Hill next Sunday. Methodist Episcopal -Rev. Marion Dar^ r* * XT gai), rastor. services at i org vine wurujug and evening. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. Sei /ices at 10$ A. M. Presbyterian?Rev T. R. English, Pastor. Services at the usual hours, morning and eveuiug. RAILROAD IRON. The terrible weather since Christmas has seriously retarded the work of track laying on the Chester and Lenoir Railroad. When work was resumed on the road, it was expected to reach Lincoluton by the 15th of this moath, which could have been easily accomplished but for the untoward weather. A distance of 5$ miles of the track is yet to lay, the iron for which has been bought and shipped, but at last accouuts was detained in the Delaware river, near Philadelphia, by the ice embargo. When the freeze breaks up, work will be resumed and the track laid to Lincolnton as speedily as circumstances will permit. THE BIGRUERS. TT.Hfo runner! Pnmnnnv wave f.n JUIIVW WVU WV? W V w 0? ? - entertainment last Thursday night to a very good house in Female College Hall. The music feature of the programme?and music is the Bergera' specially?was excellent. The selections by the cornet hand were faultlessly rendered, and the cornet solos by Mr. Hoibrook, and the saxophone solos by Miss Etta Morgan, were performed in creditable style. Solos on the xylophone and zither were also well rendered. In her recitations, Miss Marie Bowen displayed fine talent as an elocutionist. But probably the most entertaining feature of the evening was the ventriloquial performance of Mr. Charles W. Brewster. Not alone did he keep the little ones in ronirs of laughter at the sayings and actings of his 'block head" family, but much that these interesting manikins appeared to utter in a serio comic way was enjoyed by the older persons as well. Mr. Berger promises to visit Yorkville again%about April, when his company will be augmented by a commedian aud perhaps other attractions. < PORTABLE STEAM ENGINE. Those interested in steam engines, are actvised to call at tho warehouse of Mr. T. S: Jefferys, of this place and inspect the portable Tanner engine which he has on exhibition. Aside from the substantial manner in which it is built, this engine possesses several points of excellence over other engines, an importaut one of which is its absolute safety from damage b/ sparks, being provided with an entirely new arrangement for extinguishing sparks wuh water while yet in the smoke stack, after which they can be removed from a receptacle beneath the smoke stack into which they fall. For farm and agricultural purposes, this is a very important consideration. Mr. Jefferys will be pleased to show this eugine to auy one contemplating a purchase. It is his purpose to have always in stock one or more engines, so that a purchaser may be supplied at once and without delay. Since the war he has sold about twenty engines in this county, besides doing much in the way of introducing improved and labor-saving agricultural implements of ill kinds among the farmers of York. In this enterprise we are glad to know thau he has met with reasonable success?not alone because success was deserving, but it speaks well for the enterprise and intelligence of our farmers. As they adopt machinery and labor-saving implements in the prosecution of their work, in the same ratio will success and prosperity attend their efforts. Mr. Jefferys represents the manufacturers of almost every first class fanning implement, and from him they can be procured on as favorable terms as direct from the makers. ?????m BUTLER AND CONKLING. Under date of the 7th instant, the Washington correspondent of the Baltimore 6'un, gives the following version of the spat which occurred in the Senate ou that day between Senator's Butler and Coukling, briefly referred to in the Congressional proceedings: Senators Butler and Conkling were to-day the parties to the first personal debate that has disturbed the quiet progress of the present session. The South Carolina Senator, in a speech upon the alleged census frauds in South Carolina, referred freely and unsparingly to Senator Coukliug in having made in stump speeches, during the late canvass, false and maliguant assaults upon the Southern people in connection with the topic of his speech. Mr. Conkling was apparently much occupied with correspondence during Senator Butler's speech. At its close, he arose deliberately, and disclaiming any purpose to misrepresent or to injure any State or the people of any State, be proclaimed in characteristic phrase and manner his contempt for what lie designated the "vaporings of the Senator ftora South Carolina." Mr. Butler