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? 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."
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? 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
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>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.
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? 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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