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<f(tapsi and ,#act5. ? A colored man has been elected a member of the National Association ot Mexican j Veterans, which have just held a convention ! in Louisville. He is very black and was given j his freedom by Henry Clay for gallant con- i duct at Buena Vista. ? A cat show is now in progress in New York, and seems to have caught the passing whim of the multitude. Oue of the most favored specimens is "George Washington," a black-aud-white cat, with "a broad, intellectual forehead aud frank open face." It is alleged that his grandfather witnessed the surrender Lord Coruwallis ; but this point has not been established by adequate historical evidence. ? A statement has been prepared by the Treasury department showing the financial transactions of the United States for the four years ending March l, loai. me total receipts were $1,192,561,107, and the total expenditures $990,765,708. The decrease of debt is $208,824,730, being from $2,042,037,129 to $1,879,956,412. More than fifty raillion dollars a year derived from taxation have, therefore, been applied to the reduction of the debt. ? Yeunor, the weather prophet, under date of the 5th of March, writes as follows to the Albany Argus: "The spring will be fairly early, hot and dry, and midsummer cool and wet. The autumn promises to be open, dry aud fine. There is likely to be a great deal of sickness during the year; but the weather?except in a few isolated sections?will be favorable to agricultural pursuits. The winter of 1882 bids fair to be open and generally mild, with but few, and those short-lived, storm periods." ? lexas denies the right 01 a wnite man to marry a colored woman. One Ernile Francois asserted his right to marry, despite the Texas code. He was indicted, convicted and sentenced to prison for five years. The case was carried before the United States circuit court, and Justice Woods decides that the fourteenth amendment abrogates that article of the Texas criminal code under which Francois was convicted. The right of white and colored people to intermarry is, therefore, es tablished. Taste is the only barrier remaining. ? The Boers, German colonists on the coast of Africa, are resisting with arms the right of the British to govern them. They recently gained a victory over the British forces uuder Gen. Colley, at Majela Hill, which the Springfield Republican likens to the defeat of Ferguson at King's Mountain. The reference is apt. In both cases the British commander deemed his position impregnable, and affected to despise the colonists who were struggling for liberty. But in each case the undisciplined frontiersmen mounted the steep ascent, and the British commander paid the forfeit for his temerity. ? Franklin J. Wright, a lawyer of Carroll county, Maryland, was recently hanged by some lynchers in Colorado. The painful story is told thus: "Uast May he went to Colorado on business for one of his clients, and bought an interest in a gold mine. He purchased several mules, and, hiring a servant, went to visit the mine. It turned out that the mules had been stolen by the persons from whom Mr. Wright had purchased them, and the unfortunate man was found with them in his possession by a vigilance coramit tee who at once executed him and hisservaut, notwithstanding their protestations of inno ueuuu. ? Under the new coercion bill, the work of incarcerating the Irish tenantry has begun. Large numbers of the land leaguers have been arrested. It is claimed, however, that tenants are now more disposed to pay rents than at any time since the beginning of the present difficulties. Parnell has lost his influence with them to a great extent, and with the loss of confidence in their leaders has come a disposition to make the best of the situation. It is said, after all, that the laws of which complaints are made are hardly worse than the laws obtaining in most of the American States. But the fact remains that the population has run down from eight to near five millions. There is, without doubt, something wrong in this system. ? The Island of Ischiads, which has just been visited by a terrible earthquake, is situated in the Mediterranean Sea, at the north entrance of the Bay of Naples, and has an area of twenty-six square miles. Its coasts are steep and rocky, and near its centre is the volcano of Epomeo, 2,500 feet above the sea, which has not been in eruption since 1301. There are twelve smaller volcanoes. The valleys are fertile, producing corn and fruits in abundance, and wine-making is one of the principal industries of the 25,000 inhabitants of the island. The towns of Casamicciola and Lacca are famous watering places, and are noted for their warm baths. The chief town is Ischia. It has a picturesque castle, which was built by Alfonzo I of Arragon, in the tweitth century. ? Three and a half millions of dollars are invested in the Augusta cotton factories. The Augusta Factory, the Graniteville, Vaucluse and the Langley factories have a capital of ?1,600,000, giving employment to over 1,700 operatives and annually distribute among them S390.000. During the period from 1877 to 1880, inclusive, these factories paid out in dividends to the stockholders the sum of ?540,000, and expended for the purchase of cotton for manufacturing purposes ?5,673,580. It is probable that the Sibley mills, as soon as they are under way, will give employment to one thousand operatives and distribute among them annually not less than ?225,000. The Sibley alone will increase the population of Augusta three thousand souls. ? At the late meeting of the stockholders and registered bondholders of the Atlanta & Charlotte Air-Line Railroad in New York, the following board of directors was elected for the ensuing year: Messrs. Eugene Kelly, H. Fogg, W. B. Ishara, F. Smith, Richard Irvin, Jr., P. H. Dickinson, B. R. McAlpine, James H. Young, H. W. Sibley, Hiram Sibley, Skipworth Wilraer and R. A. Lancaster. The directors subsequently elected the following officers: President, H. W. Sibley ; Secretary and Treasurer, C. H.Pierce,and General Manager, G. J. Foreacre. The annual report showed that the gross earnings of the road during the past year were ?951,688.43, an increase over last year of ?174,389.04. The ; expenses of the road last year were ?632,118,21, and the net earnings amounted to ! ?319,570.22. ? During the closing ceremonies of the | Grand Lodge of Knights of Honor, at Rich- j inoua, v a., recently in session, a touching in- j cident occurred : One. of the Grand officers i rose in his seat, and addressing the Chair, | said that iu the general feeling of good will : and harmony which seemed to pervade every heart, his own had been touched to the core. There was a brother in the body with whom he bad been at enmity for years. They had not spoken since the session of the Grand Lodge four years ago. He now wanted to meet that brother at the altar and be recon ciled. The brother stepped forward and, ex- ! tending b is baud, the manly words of recon-! ciliation and forgiveness w?re spoken, while the two clasped hands over the open Bible.! The Grand Chaplain rose to his feet, the whole body following his example, and while they sang "Praise God from whom all bless- ; ings flow," many eyes were filled with tears and many voices trembled with emotion. The members then joined hands around the altar, sang the closing hymn, and, with the ; benediction of the chaplain, closed the most, interesting, important and harmonious session this body has held since its organization. ? Under date of the 7th instant, Phillip Schoff, president of the American committee for the revison of the Bible, has issued a circular in which he says: In answer to many \ questions on the part of the public, I beg A. leave to make the following statement : First, The Revised New Testament will be published by the English University presses in May next, in different sizes and styles of binding, at corresponding prices. Second, The American committee give their sanction to the University editions as containing the text pure and simple. Third, The committee have no connection with any proposed reprints. Fourth, The publication of the revision will be on precisely the same footing as the present authorized version?that is, protected by copyright in England and free in this country. Fifth, The American committee will present to every old and new con- j tributor of not less than $10 toward the expenses of their work, a memorial copy of the ; Koof TTniiraraitxr orKtirin in rnval octavo, haild- ! uvg, vu..v.u.v -J ? - , somely bound and inscribed. This offer holds good until next May, and copies will be forwarded free of expense as soon as re ceived. ?be ffltMIe inquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MO) NING, MARCH 17,1881 THE QUESi ON OF THE HOC^ In order to obtain the opinion of the South as to the best way of getting rid of that bar to the highest National political prosperity known as the "Solid South," the American, a Philadelphia weekly journal, recently addressed a circular letter to leading men in each State, asking them (1) whether the carpet bag influence bad beeu helpful or hurtful; (2) how far this influence had been opposed or fostered by State legislation and public opinion ; (3) had the carpet baggers a fair chance to be honest; (4) is the carpet bag influence on the wane or waxing; (5) are Northern Democrats a help or hindrance to Southern political prosperity ; (6) what is the condition of the negro party and its future; (7) has the time come or is it near when the white people will seek affiliation with new parties; (8) what have been the errors in the treatment of the South by the Northern press; (9) what would the South like to have, what does she need and what does she expect to get from Northern politicians, the Republican party and the President ? Unanswerable letters, some of them quite lengthy, were written in reply to the circular, aud promptly published by the American. Senators Butler and Hampton each replied? the former giving full expression to his views, but the latter contenting himself by saying? "While I am in sympathy with the object you have in view?that of bringing about a better understanding between the North and the South?I cannot find time to answer your questions properly. They cover too wide a field. But I hope that the discussion they will wake will he productive of good to the whole country." In reply to the seventh question, Senator Butler said: "There is no 'new party' with which the white people of the South can affiliate. No man in the South can ally himself with the Repub lican party as it is known aud organized in my State, and maintain his self-respect, or the respect of his neighbors. Those who organized the Republican party in South Carolina made it so odious, committed so many crimes, and did so many wrongs in the name of Republicanism, that no respectable man could join it. "My opinion is that many people in any part of the country are held to a party by a very slight tenure. It is so in the South, and if the Republican parly could be made respectable in South Carolina, I think it not unlikely that good white men would join it. So loflg as the present Republican leaders in South Caro liua continue their* party organization on the race line, and make it a negro party, thereby keeping alive the impending menace of negro domination, and all the evils growing out of it, just so long will the white people remain solidly Democratic. When this race issue is abandoned by the Republican leaders, and this menace removed, the white people of the South will divide on questions of public policy, as they do elsewhere; but not before." Congressman Aiken laconically replied on a postal card that he had not time to answer the questions "on his own account," but says that his views are concisely embodied in the inaugural address of Hon. Johnston Hagood, the present Governor of the State. Mr. Ai ken considers that every question concering Democratic rule in South Carolina is answered by the present value of South Carolina bonds. Congressman Richardson answered the ninth question as follows: "The South hardly knows what to 'expect' from the President-elect. As is well known, Gen. Garfield was not the choice of the Southern white people for President; but I think it can be safely said they are disposed to give his administration a reasonable and fair support. No obstacle will be thrown in his way, and every measure he may inaugurate looking to the genertd good of the whole country, will receive, I ain sure, their hearty support. They do not expect any harsh or extreme course to be pursued by him. . The South 'needs' a great deal, and would 'like to have' what she needs. She needs, first and foremost, greater educational facilities for all classes of her people, especially the poor whites and the colored people. She would like to have from the General Government ^he necessary pecuniary help to enable her to properly educate them. She is unable to do this in her poverty as she would like to have it done. She has done all she can for this great cause, and beyond this really and truly 'needs' help. She needs, and would like to have, her rivers and harbors improved, with something like the liberality with which the rivers and harbors in other sections of the [ country have been improved. For years, es- j pecially with South Carolina, she has been left out in the cold, without any assistance in this direction, while liberal appropriations were being made for the rivers and harbors of other sections of our couutry. She feels that the time has come when she should receive the liberal support of the General Government in improving our unsurpassed natural water advantages. But as much as she | needs all this, the South, in my judgment, ; needs still more to have peace and quiet iu all her borders. She has before her the most'; difficult of all political problems to solve, j That problem is rhis : Can two distinct races, j one of them in t e minority, but composed i of the intelligence, culture aud wealth of the j couutry, and the oiher, the majority, com- j posed of the recent slaves of that minority, and an ignorant and illiterate mass of newly ; enfranchised freedraen, live in peace and quiet in the same country, respecting the ! rights of each other, and together work for !1 the common good of the whole? Such a j problem has never before been solved in the j history of the civilized world. In solving it, I the South needs, more than anything else, j peace and quiet, and all the forbearance, as I well as help, of the General Government." ' SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A new National Bank will soon commence business in the town of Darlington. ? The Grand Lodge of Good Templars will meet at Sumter next month. ? The Rev. Dr. Bonner, Principal of the Due West Female College, is seriously ill. ? Two men were recently arrested at Greenwood and fined five dollars each for carrying concealed weapons. ? At a recent meeting of the Faculty, Dr. J. Ford Prioleau was unanimously elected Dean of the Medical College of Charleston. ? A new African Methodist Church, to seat five hundred people, bus recently been completed at Winnsboro. ? The State Agricultural Department will pay into the State Treasury, this year, $25,000 from the 25 cents tax per ton on fertilizers. ? The Supreme Court has granted a new trial to Dodson, Adam, Bates and Burton, colored, convicted of burning the Opera House at Greenville. ? The Pelzer Manufacturing Company, which proposes to erect a large cotton factory at Williamston, in Anderson county, has contracted for 2,000,000 bricks at $5.50 per thousand. ? Municipal elections were recently held at Hampton and Varnville, in Hampton couuty. The issue in each case was "wet" or "dry." In the former the wet ticket prevailed ; in the latter the ^Iry. ? A. A. Clisby was recently tried at Edgefield on the charge of murdering Dr. Bland in that town last April. The jury, after being out for half an hour, returned a verdict of not guilty. ? The Newberry Herald says a petition is being circulated, in that county, and is receiving a great many signatures, asking the Legislature at its next session to pass a law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors in the State. ? Several citizens of Pickens county, who went to Texas last fall and winter, have returned, satisfied that, taking health and other advantages into consideration, this is a better country than Texas, and just as good as any other. ? On Saturday last, an election was held in the city of Greenville, on the question of subscribing twenty-five thousand dollars to | ward building the Greenville and Laurens Railroad. The result was 709 votes for subscription and 14 against subscription. ? The Columbia people are at last going to work in the right way. They are discussing plans to get rid of Thompson and Nagle, who now have control of the Columbia Canal, after which they propose to build a cotton factory with local capital. This is the only sensible course. ? The Directors of Camperdown Mills have made au appropriation of twelve hundred dollars for the erection of a church on their premises in Greenville, which is to be opened ~ JnnnmJnotinno nf ftlO f??tv R("C. Lan* 1/U IIIC UCIiUlillllUVluua v* vt*v v.vj. *.w.. dy Wood is looking to that particular field of religious labor. ? E. M. Brayton, the Collector of Internal Revenue, who has recently returned from Washington, informs the Columbia corres pondent of the News and Courier, that the South Carolina Republicans had a formal iuterview with the President last week, but no assurance of any kind was given them as to the appointments in the State. ? The Associate Reformed Church in Winnsboro, has decided to preseut a call to the Rev. J. T. Chalmers, of Charlotte, N. C., for his services as pastor, and it is understood that he will accept the same. Mr. Chalmers has just completed his course of theological study in Union Seminary in New York city, and has been laboring for a short while in his father's congregation in North Carolina. ? Mr. James S. Simons, who has for the past two years been acting as chief deputy United States marshal for this State, has been appointed marshal to discharge the duties of the office until the successor of ex-Marshal Wallace has been appointed. Mr. Simons is a native of Charleston, and is a Democrat. He was private secretary to Governor Orr, and subsequently the secretary and treasurer of the Taylor Iron Works of that city. ? Seventy eight Democrats of Barnwell ^niinfv liHVP hppn arrested and bound over tor trial at the April term of the United States Court, iu Charleston, on the charge of violating the election laws. Of this number, three were arrested on the charge of interfering with United States Supervisors ; eight for illegal voting; three for fraud as managers ; fifty-eight for obstructing voters ; and six for threatening United States witnesses. ? D. T. Corbin recently told a reporter of the Charleston News and Courier, that, although the office of district attorney for South Carolina had been urged upon hira by his friends for nearly a year, he had declined to be a caudidate and was not a candidate now. The statement had been made that his name was to be handed in to the President, but this had been done without his knowledge. If appointed to the position, he said that at present he was uuable say whether he would accept or not. ? The Charleston News says that Judge William Henry Hunt, the new secretary of the navy, is a native of Charleston. He is the son of the Hon. Thomas Hunt, who was at one time the British Governor of the Bahamas, who married Louisa Gaillard, a sister of the Hon. Theo. Gaillard of that city, and had four sons?Theodore Gaillard Hunt, who was a general of considerable prominence in the Confederate Army; Randall Hunt, who is now a prominent member of the New ^-1* " Ko?. Tkno Hunt o rlictincrnisbarl V_/1 jcnuo UUl f XiJUOi IXUJJb) M Vliwi>a>j^uaw??v? physician of New Orleans, and William Henry Hunt, the youngest son, who left Charleston at the age of six years, and resided in Louisiana until his removal to Washington a few years ago. ? The Winnsboro News of last week says : Rev. Neill E. Pressly, Missionary of the As- j sociate Reformed Church to Mexico, left this j place on last Monday for Tampico, where he* \ will resume his labors. He has spent some six weeks in visiting his relations and friends j in this State and North Carolina, and takes \ back with him to Tampico Mrs. Pressly, who returned to this county last summer. They will spend a few days at Due West, in Abbe- i ville county, and will then start for New Orleans, from which place they expect to sail about the 13th instant. Mr. Pressly has closely applied himself to the study of the Spanish language, and speaks it about as flu- j ently as English. Last year he found time to translate the Shorter Catechism into Spanish for the use of his school. It will be pub-' lished before long by the A. R. Synod." ' LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. John C. Kuykendal?To Physicians. Herndon Brothers?Bran, Bran. H. F. Adickes, Jr ?The York Shoe Store. J. M. Adams?Clear the Track. T. M. Dobson?New Goods, New Goods. Mrs. Fannie L. Dobson?New Millinery, New Millinery. Withers Adickes?Received this Week. T. S. Jefferys?Navassa Guano. Henry F. Johnston, Clay Hill, S. C.?Land for Sale. DEATH OF A. J. MATTHEWS. We regret to record the death of Mr. Andrew J. Matthews, a respected and. valued citizen of York county, which occurred at his residence near Clover, between 3 and 4 o'clock on Sunday morning last. He was attacked on Friday night previous with a severe cold, which soon developed in congestion of the lungs. He was a prominent member of the Baptist Church, and in the 64th year of his age. NEW COACHES. The Chester and Lenoir Railroad has just added new passenger and mail coaches to the rolling stock of I he road. The first-class pas -L. L..!!,. ?... _ T 1 senger cuucu was uiuit uy uic uauitowu auu Sharpe Company, Wilmington, Del., and is a handsome car, capable of seating forty eight passengers. The old cars of the road have been run into the shops for the purpose of being thoroughly overhauled and repainted. | The contract for painting them has been given to Mr. T. B. McClain. ?. m * PERSONAL MENTION. Mr. George T. Schorb, who for several years has been living in Chester, has returned to Yorkville with his family, and in the future may be found at the photograph gallery of his father. Dr. John R. Latimer returned last week from the University of Maryland, having taken a full course of medical instruction at that institution and received his diploma. Messrs. W. Waddy Thompson, W. H. McCorkle and W. A. Jackius have been appointed Notaries Public. STEAM IN YORK COUNTY. A most gratifying fact in connection with the material advancement of York county, is the amount of steam employed as motive power, not alone in mechanical pursuits, but for agricultural purposes. Previous to the war? in fact, we might say not ten years ago?there were less than a dozen, perhaps not more than half a dozen, steam engines in the county. There are now, within our knowledge, thirtynine engines in active operation in York, the larger number of them employed for agricultural purposes, it is true, which speaks well for the progressive spirit of our agricultural community. ??? CRIMINAL BUSINESS IN COURT. There will probably be a heavier amount of criminal business before the next Circuit Court for this county, than there has been at any recent previous term. Besides the cases which usually come up from Trial Justices' Courts, there are now in the jail sixteen persons awaiting trial on various charges, from larceny to murder. Of the latter crime there ' are two casts pending, in one of which (the recent killing of the Catawba Indian, Harris) three persons, all white, are implicated, and in the other, Jun^Massey, colored, is charged with the killing of another colored man, at Rock Hill, last winter. CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows: Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services on Sunday at the usual hours, morning and evening. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Marion Dargan, Pastor. Services at King's Mountain Chapel in the forenoon. There will be no services in Yorkville on Sunday night, in consequence of repairs that are being made on the churoh building. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. There will be no services at this church next Sunday, in consequence of the absence of the pastor, who, by invitation, will be at Chester on that day. Church of the Good Shepherd?Episcopal? Rev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. The rector will officiate in the Church of our Saviour at Rock Hill next Sunday. ENTICING LABOR FROM EMPLOYERS. By request, and for general information, we republish the following Act of the Legislature upon the ahove subject, approved December 24,1880: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That any person or persons who shall entice or persuade, by any means whatsoever, any tenant or tenants, laborer .or laborers under contract with another, duly entered into between the parties in the presence of one or more witnesses, whether such contract be verbal or in writing, 1 to violate such contract, or shall employ any laborer or laborers, knowing him, her or them to be under contract with another, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty five nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten nor more than thirty days. OEFICERS OF PALMETTO REGIMENT. The official returns of the election for officers of the Palmetto Regiment have been forwarded to the Adjutant and Inspector Geueral's office at Columbia, and are as follows : For Colonel, H. S. Thompson, 285. For Lieutenant-Colonel, A. H. White, 285. For Major, J. K. Marshall, 149; C. E. Thomas, 134. Commissions will accordingly be issued at once to Colonel Thompson, Lieutenant-Colonel White and Major Marshall. The regiment is composed of the following compauies: Catawba Rifles, of Rock Hill; Jenkins Rifles of Yorkville ; Lee Light Infantry, of Chester; Gordon Light Infantry, of WinDsboro; Governor's Guards, Richland Volunteer Rifle Company, Columbia Flying A T}inM,in^ T.trrtif FtrnunnnQ of Cn U J IUI jr, xkiv/iiiaim i^igiiu ~ ~ lumbia, and Hampton Rifle Guard, of Ridgeway. The following is the present membership of the Jenkins Rifles, as published from the roll on file iu the Adjutant General's office: Captain?J. Robt. Lindsay. Lieutenants?R. A. Parish, 1st Lieutenaut; J. G. Wardlaw, 2d Lieutenant. Sergeants ? H. C. Strauss, Orderly Sergeant, i \V. H. Herndon, Ordnance Sergeant, John Brntton, 3rd Sergeant, H. H. Beard, 4th Sergeant, W. B. Moore, Color Sergeant. Corporals?James H. Snider, 1st Corporal, | Kirkland Lowry, 2d Corporal, C. G. Parish, j 3d Corporal, Jackson Beard, 4l1i Corporal. Privates? Moultrie Brattou, D. W. Bell, John Darwin, W. Hope, J. Hope, James Jef- j ferys, John May, Jr., P. G. McCorkle, S. L. Lowry, John O'Farrell, Richard Russell, Geo. Russell, James Starr, VV. B. Thomasson, Hen- ' ry Thomas, Win. Witherspoon, Robert Wil- ' liams, J. E. Whitesides, Thomas Vance. i NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Legislature fiually passed a bill ap- i propriating 83,000 to the Yorktowo centen-! < nial. I ? The woik of changing the Western N. C. . Railroad, via Newton, is now going on, a force being employed at each end. ? On the 3rd instant, Lenoir experienced the heaviest hail storm ever known in that! section. It lasted more than an hour, and , the ground was completely covered. ? Rev. J. T. Abemethy, one of the Profes sors at Rutherford College, has been appoint-; ed by the Presiding Elder of the Shelby , district, to take charge of the King's Moun- j tain circuit, made vacant by the deuth of Rev. J. S. Erwin. ? The grand jury of Mecklenburg county has reported a true bill against Farrington, for the murder of Harper, in Charlotte, a few weeks ago. Farrington is still confined to his bed, at his brother's house, in charge of a deputy sheriff. ? A dispatch from Winston announces the arrest in that town of a counterfeiter named Berry Morgan. He had been dealing in counterfeit coin, and at the time of his.arrest was engaged in the act of manufacturing bogus silver dollars. ? The Lincoln Progress of Saturday says: "Already the convenience and importance of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad is beginning to be appreciated by our citizens." Though not yet completed to Lincoln, produce is already being shipped over it from that section for southern markets. -Mr. Thos. Harrill, who has had charge | of Tmdy & Bro's wagons at their paper mills I in Lincoln county, for the past 10 years, was killed on Monday of last week, while at tempting to jump off one of the wagons. His foot slipped and he fell under the wheels of the wagon. ? The Gastonia Gazette says: "The High Shoals property, containing 11,000 acres, lyiug in Gaston county, on the South- Fork river and on the Air Line Railroad at Wooten's Station, has been sold by Messrs. Bynum & Grier the owners, to Messrs. White <fc Davis, iron merchants, of Pittsburg, Pa., for $100,000. It is understood that the property will be developed. In the same connection the' Gazette also says : "The probabilities are that aid will now be extended by Pittsburg capitalists to the Chester and Lenoir railroad connections in Virginia, to connect with a road in which she is already largely interested." ? The Raleigh Visitor tells this curious story: "One day last week, Mr. Noblett, of d..<i?r._,i xr r< iviiiiicinnu tuuiJij, xi#. v/., ciupii/j cu a ucgiu man to help him kill hogs. At night the ne-' gro stole one hog, and had gotten some distance on his way home, when coming to a fence, he laid the hog upon the top rail, balancing it until he got over. Afterward, in attempting to shoulder the hog, it fell on the opposite side of the fence and the gammon stick, which the negro had neglected to take out, caught him around the neck and fastened him. The next morning he was found dead, the hog on one side and the negro on the other side of the fence?the 6rst gammon stick that ever hung a dead hog and a live negro at the same time." ? Last week a party of revenue raiders of the sixth N. C. collection district, made an attempt to capture Redmond, the outlaw and noted moonshiner, who still retains his haunts in Western Curolina. His pursuers nearly succeeded in their plans, pushing him so closely as to capture his boots and coat. It is stated that only a few days before, Redmond was arrested by the civil authorities and tried for carrying concealed weapons, but was acquitted, although at the time of the trial he had two large pistols on his person and a large knife in his boot leg'. There is no assertion on the part of some revenue officials, by whom the latter statement is made, that the civil authorities were aware of the fact that he was so armed at the time, but on the contrary they think they did not know it. WASHINGTON ITEMS. T n "n n ma n r\ n? nnn nf V.O I O VJi uautiujb iy?? JOJ iiuiv vuv ui WIIW Judges of the Court of Claims, has accepted the office o? first assistant secretary of State under Mr. Blaine. He occupied the same position under Mr. Fish, and was subsequently minister to Berlin. ? There are, on an average, twenty applicants for each appointment of prominence by the President. It is stated that tfoe President has declared he will consider no applications except those sent up through the regular channels. Several ex-Congressmen are the most eager office-seekers. ? LeDuc, Orange Judd, Felton, of Georgia, and Dr. Loring of Massachusetts, are candidates for the agricultural department. McPherson denies that he wants to he first assistant postmaster-general. His name is now mentioned to succeed Assistaut Secretary of the Treasury French. ? A bulletin, issued by the Census Bureau, giving the proportion of foreign and native born persons in the different States and Territories, shows that in no one State or Territory does the foreign element equal tfoe native, although in mauy*it bears a large proportion to it. With three exceptions, namely : Florida, Louisiana and Texas, the Southern States are practically without any foreign element. ? It is confidently stated that Garfield has made up his mind to get rid of Tom Brady, of the postoffice department. He is annoyed at the latter's prominence iu the "Star route," business, and does uot intend to permit any of the old barnacles to cling to the bottom of his ship. The same sort of gossip makes Tyuer give room to McPherson. The latter is strongly urged by Cameron. Tyner will, of course, be provided for somewhere else, possibly a clerkship, as it would be impossible for him to make an honest living. ? A delegation of Republicans from Ala baraa have already called upon the Tresideut I and presented a statement as to the political condition of the State. They represented that the present election laws of the State open wide the door to fraud and render its detection and punishment impossible, aud i that elections, as now conducted, are little! more than a farce. They earnestly called the ! attention of the President to the facts set ' forth in their statemeut, with a view of hav- j ing existing evils remedied as far as possible. ? The Senate was in executive session daily last week until Friday, when it adjourned until Monday?a number of nominations by , the President having been acted upon. Among the nominations made by the president are the following: Nathan GoflF, Jr.,! to be United States Attorney for West Vir-1 ginia; Lewis Richmond, of Rhode Island,' Consul General at Rome. United States Con- j mis: John L. Frisbee, of Michigan, at' Rheims; Phanor M. Elder, of Nevada, at I Guayquil; Albert Rhodes, of the District of * Columbia, at Rouen; Edward Bakus, of Illinois, at Para; Emilo Courtado, at La Union; ( John A. Holderman, of Kansas, at Bangkok; < Abbot L. Dow, at Aleppy, India ; John F. | Jeune, of New Jersey, at Nueva-Laredo; ( Levi P. Morton, of New York, envoy extra- j ordinary and minister plenipotentiary to < France; Wra. M.Evarts.of New York, Allen ( G. Thurman, of Ohio, and Timothy 0. Howe, of Wisconsin, commissioners on the part of the ' United States to the International Monatery j Conference in Paris; and Robert J. Taylor, j of Indiana, member of tbe Mississippi River ( improvement commission. v j MERE-MENTION. Mr. Hayes still upholds his Southern pol- i icy as the true one, and asserts that it has done away with much of the bitterness which formerly existed. The Connecticut Democrats are under way in the preliminary gubernatorial canvass; and Senator Eaton, whose term has just expired, is spoken of in that connection. The House of Representatives of Arkansas has voted, 66 to 17, to submit to a popular vote an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the sale of liquors in that State Last year North Carolina produced 895,000 worth of gold, Georgia, 8120,000, Califoruia, 817,500,000. John G. Whittier having declined, the Yorktown commission have invited Paul H. Hayne, of South Carolina, to compose an ode for the Yorktown centennial, to be set to music, aud rendered by performers in continental costume. The Augusta Chronicle says: If the prohibition law in the Old North State is a success, all official communication between the Governors of North Carolina aud of South Carolina will be broken off.: The Kentucky State commissioner of agriculture reports that late sown wheat is in a deplorable condition, and that the earlier sown is doing fairly well. Last week all of the railroads in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin were blockaded with snow, and great suffering and inconvenience was the result. On Sunday of last week, an earthquake in Italy, threw down three hundred houses at Casaraacciola, and killed many people. The cotton crop, marketed up to this time, aggregates nearly five millions of bales. On Wednesday of last week, the State Senate of Texas passed a bill, by a vote of 23 to 7, to submit to the people a constitutional amendment prohibiting the importation, manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors iu that State, except for medical and sacramental purposes. The business men of New York are making strong efforts to have Mr. Henry G. Pearson, present assistant postmaster, as postmaster of that city. The prosecution of the Gullys, charged with murdering Chisholm, a Republican, in Kemper county, Mississippi, has been ended by the burning of the county Court House with all the records of the case. The Republican caucus of the members of the Maine Legislature have nominated Wm. P. Frye for the United States Senate, to succeed Mr. Blaine. Postmaster General James is a New Yorker and a printer by trade. It is conceded that he is the gem of t he cabinet. Angus Cameron has been elected by the Wisconsin Legislature United States Senator to fill the unexpired term of the late Matthew H. Carpenter. On Thursday last, President Garfield was presented with a silver brick by Colorado admirers. On the brick were engraved the words : "The money of the Constitution." Stop sending bills under a one cent stamp. The new ruling of the postoffice department is that a three cent stamp must be used in every case. William H. Vanderbilt says a man worth $1,000,000 is better off than one with 8100,000,000; but it doesu't occur to him that he can distribute the odd $99,000,000 and thus improve his own condition. Advices received from the United States consul general at Constantinople report the outbreak of the plague near Bagdad. The spring meeting of the hew Louisiana Jockey Club will commence Tuesday, April 19th. The club propose to run some of the races at night by the electric light, and have accordingly ordered a forty Jight machine. ? ? EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Prohibition iu North Carolina. Both House3 of the North Carolina Legislature have passed a prohibition bill, the principal provisions of which are as follows : The first section makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not less than $100 and not more than 81,000, with imprisonment at the discretion of the court, for any person to manufacture, buy or sell in this State any spirituous or malt liquors, except wines and cider, otherwise than allowed in the act. The secoud section prescribes that spirituous liquors may be sold for medical, chemical and mechanical purposes by druggists, apothecaries and physician" duly licensed, who shall not keep on hand a greater quantity than thirty gallons, nor sell a greater quantity to any person at one tirae#than one gallon. The county commissioners are to graut licenses to not more than five physicians, druggists, etc., in the county, who shall sell only for the purposes indicated, etc, etc. The act is to go into 1 elfect on the first day of October, 1881, but if j at an election to be held in August the people j vote "against prohibition," no one is to be ( punished for violating any of its provisions. The act contemplates total abstinence, except |1 as to wines and cider, and except when spirit- ' uous liquors are prescribed as a medicine, or 1 perhaps as a tonic. , The National Banks and the Funding Bill. I According to the Washington corres- t pondent of the New York Herald, the na- 1 tional banks which recently withdrew their i circulation, pending the progress of the fund- i ing bill, are in considerable trouble about it, t now that the fuuding bill did not pass. The j banks want to get back their circulation r again, but the treasury officials doubt their ] right to demand this. The correspondent 1 says: 1 "The national banking law allows banking f associations, on the deposits of bonds, to re- t ceive a certain proportion of circulating notes, and this process requires about thirty- ^ two days, the plates having to be engraved F and the notes printed. The law also allows I banks to withdraw their bonds on depositing v lawful money of equal value, and the treasury Q then redeems the bank notes with the lawful j money?namely, the greenbacks so deposited. | 8 The question raised is whether the banks s' ivhich recently withdrew their bonds in this n nanner by substituting greenbacks may now ' n igain deposit bonds and take all the green- I . jacks, and thus come back to their original j josition. It is held in influential quarters in I ? ;he treasury that they cannot be allowed to t lo this, but they must come in as new asso- j g nations and await their turn to receive new a jotes for their bonds, and the treasury must j , etain the greenbacks they recently deposited j . vith which to redeem and cancel the out- j'] itanding notes. Otherwise it is held the v janks might play fast and loose with their irculation at their pleasure, and thus would )e provided by such construction of the law in easy method to lock up greenbacks and listurb the njouey market at any time." it ate Sunday School Convention. Mr. Charles Petty, chairman of the jxecutive committer, publishes the following programme of exercises for the State SundaySchool Convention, which will be held in ^ Columbia on the 13th and 14th of April: The Convention will be called to order at 10 A. M., the first day. The following subects will he discussed in the following order, mless. otherwise ordered. Ample time will be given for miscellaneous business and questions : Rev. \V. P. Jacobs?The proper use of illustrations by the superintendent and teacher. Rev. W. H. Stricklund?Sunday-Schools and Missions?Twin Sisters. Major G. J. Patterson?Best Way to Retaiu and Interest Adults in Sunday-School Work. Rev. A. Coke Smith?The International Lesson System?Its Merits and Defects. Rev. J. Hawkins?Suuday-School Libraries and Literature. J. Adtrer Smyth?Methods in Preparation he Grand Duke Michael.from Michael Malice, in a close carriage, escorted by eight Cosacks. The Brat bomb fell near the carriage, lestroying the back part of it. The Czar and lis brother alight id uninjured. The assassin, m being seized by the Colonel of Police,drew l revolver, but was prevented from Bring. The econd bomb was then thrown by another >erson and fell close to the Czar's feet, its exilosion shattering both of his legs. The Czar ell, crying for help. Colonel * Dorjibky, hough himself much injured, raised the Dmperor, who was conveyed to the Winter 5alace in a sleigh. The second bomb-thrower ras not arrested, but disappeared in the rowd. On Monday the imperial family swore alle;iance to Grand Duke Nicholas, who was iroclaimed Alexander III. larfleld and the Temperance Canse. On Tuesday of last week, the ladies of he National Women's Christian Temperance Jnion and the Mrs. Hayes Memorial Commission, who went to Washington to participate in the formai exercises pertaining to the nveiling of Mrs. Hayes' portrait and the lacing of it in the Executive Mansion, assmbled in the east room. They were groupd about the painting, which occupies the rst panel in the east wall, next to the panel diere the portrait of Martha Washington angs. The President, accompanied by bis ife and Mrs. S. Sheldon, were ushered iu y Private Secretary Brown, who introduced > the Presidential party Miss Frauces E. Millard, President of the Woman's Nation1 Christian Temperance Union. Stepping irward with the President to the front of le picture, she turned, and, in a few apropriate words, presented the picture in the ime of the women of the Nation. The resident received the picture, saying: "I ive observed the siguiBcance which you ive given to this portrait from the standHot you occupy, and in connection with e work iu which you are eugaged. What )U have said concerning the evils of internsrance meet my most hearty concurrence, have heen. in mv wav. and in amnrdanra ith my own conviction, an earnest advocate temperance, net in so narrow a sense as me, but in a very definite and practical use. These convictions are deep and will be aintained. Whether I shall be able to eet the views of all the people in regard all the phases of that question, remains to i seen. But I shall do what I can to abate e great evils of intemperance. I shall be ad to have this picture upon these walls, id shall be glad to remember your very nd expressions to me and my family, and your efforts to better mankind by your ork. I hope that you will be guided by i nd leaching. Rev. J. L. Girardeau?Perils of the Youth f To Day. Rev. C. C. Brown?Organization aud Reorda. There will be a maaa meeting Tuesday vening, the 12th of April, under the .direeion of the committee of arrangements in Columbia. It is desirable that each county send up a ull delegation. Arrangements will be made rith railroads for reduced rates for delegates. )eJarnette's Affiancee. ? The proverbial fickleness of the fair sex las received a new illustration. Last Sumner, when Thomas DeJarnelte killed his siser iu a house of ill fame in Danville, Va., le was engaged to Miss Mary Allen Murray, if Milton, N. C., who visited him very fre[ueutly for several mouths on his incarceraiou. DeJarnetto was sentenced to be hangd, but the Supreme court granted him a lew trial, which will be begun in a short ime. Recently Miss Murray has not been o constant in her visits to the prisoner. It eems that at the time of her engagement o DeJarnette, Charles Gordon and Alexanler Bonhura, two young men of Milton, were ilso rival suitors for her hand. About a reek ago, says a Danville dispatch, the anlouneement was made by the young lady ind her friends that she was to be married o Mr. Bonhita, and the marriage was fixed or next Thursday night. Friday evening dr. Gordon went to see the young lady, and he told him that she had come to the con lnsim flint ha waa t.hfi nnlv one she had tver loved, and she waa willing to marry lim. Gordon, although he kuew that ber narriage with Bonhum waa fixed for next Thursday night, proposed an immediate solirani?ation of the nuptials. Saturday mornng be obtained the marriage'license, and ilonday evening a magistrate, with witnesses, net the couple by appointment on a bridge vhich crosses the stream near the suburbs of dilton, and there Miss Murray and Gordon vere quietly married. DeJarnette is quite 11 in his cell, whether because of the mariage or long confinement is not known. Plie Czar of Russia Assassinated. The United States Government has eceived official information of the assassinajon of Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, vhich occurred on Sunday afternoon last. A lispatch to the London press from St. Peters>urg, gives the following particulars of the iffair: As the Emperor was returning from the >arade in Michael Garden, about 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, a bomb was thrown, which xplcded under the Czar's carriage, which vas considerably damaged. The Czar alightd unhurt, but a second bomb exploded at his eet, shattering both legs below the knee and* nfiicting other terrible injuries. The Czar ias immediately conveyed in an unconscious t&tc to the Wiuter Palace, where he died at 130 o'clock on the same afternoon. Two persons were concerned in the crime, ne of whom was seized immediately. The xplosion also killed an officer and two Cottacks. Many po icemen and other persons vere injured. Another dispatch says : The imperial carriage was attacked on the Skaterinofoky Canal, opposite the imperial table, while the Emperor was returning with