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* j^rraps audi partis. \ ? The Rhode Island Democrats recently ! met in convention, uorainated State officers, ! endorsed Ben Hill and denounced Mahoue as "unmanly, dishonest and treacherous." ? The Philadelphians who have contracted : with the State of Florida to reclaim the Ever- j glades, gettiug one half of the land in com- j pensation, propose to accomplish the work ; by cutting a ship canal through Florida. ? "Is your wife a Democrat or a Republi- ; can ?" asked one citizen of another. "She's j neither. She's a Home Ruler." A large : party indeed ; enough to beat either Demo- I erats or Republicans, single handed, if not combined. ? A few months since an estimable married couple in Brooklyn discovered that they were brother and sister. And now a similar sad story comes from Kentucky, another pathetic proof that marriage is indeed the most momentous event in life. ? The coronation of Alexander III is not to take place until after the period of mourning, and the Nihilists threaten that it shall never occur. The great precautions taken to guard j the life of the new Emperor show that there | are serious apprehensions that the fate of his j father is closely pursuing him. ? In the House of the Texas Legislature, j last Thursday, a bill to submit to the people a constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture or importation and sale of alcoholic drinks in that State, was defeated by a vote of 54 to 34, the requisite two-thirds not voting iu the affirmative. Several of the members were absent. ? An ingenious machine, called the "telltale," has been introduced on the Erie Railroad trains. It records the speed of trains, when and where they stop, and how long. It is used especially for freight trains, 60 as to register all irregularities?such as exceeding the prescribed rate of speed on some portions of the road, and their delaying at stations. ? Dr. Buchanan, dean of the bogus medical college of Philadelphia, publishes a full confession. His bogus suicide was done by a man gotten up to resemble him and wearing his coat, who by arrangement jumped overboard from a steamer and was picked up by a waiting skiff. About 10,000 persons, including professional abortionists, quacks, heads of other bogus colleges, and druggists handling diplomas, are implicated iu his confession. ? The trial of the assassins of the Czar of Russia commenced on yesterday. A woman named Sophie Piloffsky has been arrested as an accomplice and will be tried separately. She is the daughter of a counselor of the miuistry of domains. She confessed to having given the signal to Hartmann for exploding the mine under the Imperial train near Moscow, and also the signal to Russakoff to throw the bomb which shattered the Czar's carriage. ? The Mexican National Railroad Company?the Palmer and Sullivan or Jay Gould party?has made contracts in Philadelphia for 200 4ocoraotives and 5,000 freight cars, said to be the largest single contract ever made for rolling stock in this country. In addition, this company has contracted for steel rails to lay 1,000 miles of track. All this track is to be laid and this rolling stock operated in a country which, up to the present time, has never had but one line of railroad, and that has never paid its stockholders a dollar's worth of dividends, and has defaulted over and over again on its bonds. ? There need be no doubt as to President Garfield's attitude on the Mormon question. He said to a Western senator a day or two ago: "Senator, as a personal favor to me, I want you to take up and champion this Mormon question in the Senate. We must stamp out polygamy. I want this to be one of the .distinguishing features of my administration. But we must save from illegitimacy the 70,000 children who have been born under Mormon rule, if for no other reason than this, because my predecessors, President Fillmore and Buchanan, chose to appoint Brigham Young, the head of the Mormon Church, Governor of the Territory of Utah." ? General Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of the Census, is enthusiastic over the work of the bureau. Professor W. E. Hilgard, of the University of California, who is preparing a report on cotton culture, is, he says, one of the most intellectual and scientific men in the country. His theory of soils, at first ^oufed, is now received as the highest authority. The report on cotton culture pre pared by him and his assistants, it is said, will be the most important work ever issued from the government printing office, in the opinion of General Walker. And yet we think it is a lone wav to eo to eet a work on -- ? O J - - o - a cotton culture. ? Both houses of the Illinois Legislature have passed a bill to regulate the carrying of deadly weapons, and to prohibit their sale to minors. The main features are a penalty of from ?10 to ?200 for carrying a slungshot or similar weapon, and a penalty of from ?25 to ?200 for selling or lending weapons to minors.' All dealers are compelled to keep a register, open to the public, giving the names and ages of all pefsons to whom such weapons are sold, which record must give the price paid and object for which it was bought. The bill also makes it a misdemean or, punishable by fines varying from ?25 to ?200, to carry a razor as a concealed weapon. ? The lady who is said to have the best chance of carrying oft' Forepaugh's prize for the handsomest woman, is Miss Annie Pauline Scott, of Monongahela City, Pa., who is described as a radiant beauty of the beefy sort. She is the niece of a coal miner, aud lives in a dilapidated house. When a reporter visited her the other day and asked her if she would travel with the circus as queen, she carelessly shuflled a well-worn deck of Hart's be?t playing cards?squeezers?and throwing out a bob tail flush on the greasy table, said: "Well, I reckon not; that old duck, Forepaugh, couldn't get me to travel with his show for no money. Will you take a hand at ?1 a limit?" The reporter drew out. ? At the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's shops at Altoona, a monster locomotive is receiving the finishing touches. Its length from the pilot's point to the dead wood on the rear end of the tank is 62 feet. The weight is 92,700 pounds. Each revolution of the driv-! ing wheels propels the engine 19* feet. The ' machinery governing the sand box is a new , invention, and it is completely in the hands of j *!,/>, T r* fu-A f o 1 frinQ tin t a ; KJIC engine Utivei. AU HIV UIU4 bi?pg U|/ Viiv | Alleghany Mountains, one to Kittanuiug j Point and the other to Galitzin, the locomo-1 live behaved very satisfactorily, turning curves on the upgrade at the rate of thirty miles an hour, with great ease. The compa- , ny expects, by using this engine, to reduce the transit time between Philadelphia aud New York to 90 minutes. ? When Alexander II liberated the Ru3-' sian serfs, in 1861, he expended five hundred million dollars in providing the emancipated | people with farms, extending over three hundred millions of acres. This sura was paid to the land owners. The freed heads of families became possessed of the land they were | occupying as tenants, on paying at once three years' rental, and undertaking to pay off the balance of the money advanced by installments equalling four fifths of the former reut, for forty-uiue years. The landlords not ouly lost their serfs, but also about 20 per cent, of the actual value of the land, which is now the property of ten million families. Now that twenty years have elapsed, and there remain the installments becoming due in the next twenty-nine years, the Czar proposes to remit from 40 to 70 per cent, of the payments. ? Mrs. Hatch or Mrs. Reilly (she bore those names alternately) was for six years unable to make a final choice between two husbands in St. Louis. She was remarkably handsome, and the two men were deeply in love with her,1 while she seems to have been about equally iu love with each, and was bound to each by a marriage ceremony. She deserted one and went to the other four times, on every occasion declaring that her decision was final. A few days ago she left Reilly and began proceedings for a divorce preparatory to a new ; marriage to Hatch. The rival husbands had for years threatened to kill each other. They agreed to meet iu the office of a mutual friend, who desired to make peace between them ; but each armed himself with a pistol, and on sight they drew the weapons. Reilly was quickest, and Hatch was shot dead. ? In his last Sunday's discourse, Mr. Beecher said : "If there is one thing I consider thoroughly indecent, it is the way in which criminals are cossetted and carried out of life. When a murderer is to be hanged, women send flowers to him and would kiss an ulcer i for his sake. Priests run to him and philanthropists hurry after them. He is going to \ die. Are not 10,000 persons dying all around, and there is nobqdy to run to them ? There j is no sympathy for them. But if the monster j is to die for foul murder, the flood gates of j sympathy are opened, and the newspapers ; tell how he died trusting in Jesus. Faugh ! | What mischief that thief on the cross did ! I Can a man who has crept up to the gallows, | through common sewers at the last moment, : just t>efore the last effort to obtain pardon, suddenly blossom out into fervent religious life! I don't believe it." $hc ffaiMe #uqnim. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 31,1881 How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plain)}', give post-oflieo, county and State, in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirkr is delivered free ol postage to all subscribers residing in York county, who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The date on the"addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. GEX. MICAH JENKINS. Last week we noticed the removal of Gen. Jenkins' remains from Summerville to Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston. The subject of erecting to his memory an appropriate monument having been timely revived, we print in to-day's issue a stirring appeal by Col. Jno. P. Thomas, of the Carolina Military Iusti Ph,i?.lr.?fo "M f! in hohftlf of the uro LULVj vmii iuhvj .Li VJ ? ?? < . ?- j posed testimonial to virtue, valor and patriotism. Some years a, o a movement to this end was made by the A. ociation of Graduates of the Citadel Acadern/, but objections having been made by the G" leral's family, action was suspended, though the committee was continued by the Association. The remains of the General having now been conveyed to a public cemetery, the objections to rearing a monument to mark the grave do not exist, nor will any uow be made. We, therefore, hope this last and fitting tribute to the gallant dead will not be longer neglected. While his admirers throughout the State will no doubt contribute freely to the object, we feel assured that York county will do her full duty. For many years, as one of the principals of the King's Mountain Military School, General Jenkins was a citizen of Yorkville, and was a citizen of our town when he met his death. Yorkville and York county, therefore, feel just and honorable pride in claiming him as one who has added lustre to the State. His old comrades in arms from York?and there were several companies from this county uuder his immediate command?will feel it a privilege as well as a duty to assist in paying this long-neglected tribute to their gallant leader. Already citizens of Charlotte have moved in the matter, that city having contributed 865 for the purpose, and we hope a liberal and generous response will be made by the ..f Vr*rb- Wo trill rrln.llv rpppirp nil VI * VI a< *i v nil* vvvx ? contributions to the object and forward the amounts to the committee having the work in charge. THE IMMIGRANT MOVEMENT. It is with pleasure we note the fact that the efforts to obtain European immigration to the South are meeting with success. Besides the arrival of immigrants at Columbia last week?an account of which was given in our last issue?there have been several arrivals since, consisting of men and families, direct from Europe, coming under the auspices of Col. Butler, acting State Commissioner of Immigration. The last detachment consisted of thirty-four persons, comprising seven men with their wives, fourteen children and six unmarried men. They are chiefly farmers. These, with a third party, to have arrived last Friday morning, will make a total of seventy-four persons colonized during the first week after the movement was fairly begun. The demand /or this class of labor is also good. Mr. A. D. Holler, of Rock Hill, has secured ten cf the immigrants, of whom niue are men and will be employed in his brick yard. Others have been taken iu other sections of the State, and application has been made for 100 to be employed on farms in Abbeville county. Col. Butler will order immediately a supply of three hundred, and will have no difficulty in settling them as! rapidly as they can be forwarded. As showing the interest taken iu this movement by people abroad, a Columbia dispatch of last Saturday night to the Charleston Sunday Neuis says : Mr. Newell Vicary Squarey, representing the Anglo-American Laud Company, of London, arrived in the city to-night, and had a long interview with the commissioner of immi- j gratioD. The objects of the company are, in | view of the expected great emigration from ' Great Britain, and from Europe to America, j to purchase or secure laud to settle colonies j to engage in manufactures, &c. They de- | sire also to become agents of the American j States, cities and corporations in placing j loans in Europe and securing capital. Mr. Squarey having been sent out with another ! member of his company to inspect and re- | port upon the relative advantages of the dif-1 ferent sections of the United States as a site ! for large colonies of well to-do English far- ! mers, has, for some weeks, been inspecting the Middle States, the Virginias and North j Carolina. On his return from Asheville, I N. C., he has come here to see Col. Butler, j leaving his companion in Charlotte. He ex-' presses himself very much pleased with the j i Piedmont and middle sections of the State, as i, an eligible field for English colonies, who will !; devote themselves especially to raising cattle j and sheep for exportation. He is coufident, that he can settle such farmers in large num- j bers. He considers South Carolina as favor- J ably situated as any State for the purpose and : possessing as many advantages. It is probable that on his return in May immediate steps will be taken to direct English emigrants to South Carolina under the auspices of this company. It is very probable that Col. Butler will go to New York in a few days on business connected with the emigration bureau. In the meantime he received a telegram from New York tonight announcing the departure of fourteen immigrants to-day via Nor folk. They will arrive here luesday morning. Gentlemen are already here for those expected to-morrow. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Bethel Presbytery will meet in Lancaster to-morrow at 11 o'clock A. M. ? The State Medical Association will meet at Newberry on the 19th day of April. ? C. M. Wilder, colored, has been re-ap pointed postmaster at Columbia. ? There are sixteen government distilleries now in operation in this State, and twelve tinder suspension. ? On Monday last, the subscriptions to the capital stock of the Columbia^aud Lexington Water Power Company, aggregated 8105,900. ? On account of the great quantity of rain which has fallen during the past winter, the weather prophets are predicting a dry summer. ? It is rumored that Dr. B. M. Palmer, the celebrated Presbyterian divine of New Or leaus, is to be a Professor ill the Columbia Theological Seminary when it is re-opened. ? Mr. John L. Younge, who was for many years agent of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad at Chester, has removed to his plantation near Cedar Shoals depot. ? Thirty-eight citizens of Marlhoro* county have been bound over to the April term of the United States Circuit Court in Charles I toD, for alleged violations of the election laws in Marlboro' county. ? The Charleston News says the impression prevails aniojig the officials of the United States Court, that Ii. M. Wallace will undoubtedly receive the re-nomination for Marshal of South Carolina. ? Mrs. John R. Minter, who was burned on the 14th instant, near Cross Keys, in Union county, while endeavoring to extinguish the burning clothes of her daughter, died at her home on Thursday last, from the effects of the injuries she received. ? The real estate belonging to the late Miss Maria T. McHugh, of Charleston, was sold at auction last Thursday, realizing the sum of $29,485. The entire estate of the lady is valued at about $S0,000, the bulk of which is left to four Catholic Churches of that city. ? Martin R. Delany, colored, who, in 1874, was a candidate for lieutenant-governor in opposition to the regular Radical nominee, is m Washington seeking an office. He wants a consulship in a hot climate, but will take anything he cau get. ? At the recent term of the court at Wal halla, Judge Kershaw sentenced C'sesar Keels, colored, and MilSy Smith, white, living together in adultery, to twelve months' imprison ment in the county jail. In Edgefield, Judge Aldrich sentenced Hughes Johnson, colored, to six months' imprisonment in the peniten tiary, for carrying concealed deadly weapons. Johnson gave notice of appeal, and will remain in the county jail until the motion for a new trial cau be heard in the Supreme Court. ? The surveyors of the Georgetown and Lancaster Narrow Gauge Railroad reached Lancaster on Monday of last week. It is the purpose of the directors of this road to connect with the Cheraw and Chester at Lancaster, which will result in a continuous line from Georgetown to Lenoir, N. C. It is also tlmt a enrvpvinrr force is now at W'Ork between Lenoir, N. C., and the Tennessee line, on a proposed narrow gauge line through Cook's Gap and along the Watauga. It will connect with a narrow gauge that runs through portions of Kentucky an^ Tennessee. ? A new swiety for boys, to be known as the "Legion of Honor," was orgauized in .Charleston two weeks ago, and has already sixty names on the roll. Upon signing, the boys promise that they will abstain from tobacco and liquor, will neither use blasphemous words themselves nor remain in the society of tho3e who do, and lastly, they agree never to speak of another boy's sister, ouly as they would be willing others should speak of theirs. As soon as the corps numbers one hundred, the ladies will preseut them a ban ner, upou which will be inscribed : "Suns penr et sans reproche." ? The recent census has rendered necessary a new apportionment of the members of the Ho#se of Representatives of this State. The Constitution fixes the number of members at 124. The total population of the State is 995,622, which, divided by the whole number of representatives, gives 8,029 as the number required for each member. According to a table prepared by the Greenville News, the result will be- that Aiken will lose one member, Charleston four, Richland one, and Hampton one. Beaufort gains one, Edgefield on#, Greenville one, Laurens one, Spartanburg one. Marlboro one, and Sumter one. Under an exact distribution, the counties of Union, Barnwell, Horry, York, Charleston, Beaufort, Pickens, Edgefield, Kershaw, Greenville, Laurens, Sumter, Marlboro, Richland and Collelon, would have each one less thau the number to which they will be entitled were it uot for the fact that after the di vision of their total population by 8,029, the numerical basis of representation, these counties have the fifteen highest remainders, which eutitles them to the fifteen odd members not apportioned under the first division. The highest remaiuder among these is that of Uuiou, which is 8,023, or only six less than what would have entitled her to another representative on the first couut. ! ? A week ago last Saturday, near Jonesville, in Union county, Walter Long, white, 1 shot and killed Ned Foster, colored, and se- | verely wounded his brother, Gilo Foster. | The following is given as the particulars attending the homicide : "The murder was committed on Mr. Kirby's place, about three miles from Jonesville, during a dance at a j negro house. A great many negroes were at | the dance, and also a number of white men. During the progress of the dance a diffi- ' culty arose between Gilo Foster and Mary Harlan, both colored, and several blows were | struck. The woman escaped from the house < into the yard, and, running between Grant and Walter Long, white, who were standing in the yard, asked them to protect her. Gilo Foster ran up and struck her. Walker Long then struck Gilo Foster on the head : with a paling, when Foster turned and asked | who struck him. Long pulled out his pistol ! and fired at Gilo Foster. About this time Ned Foster, the brother of Gilo, ran up ami asked who shot his brother. Long then fired at Ned Foster, who walked off a few steps, and sitting down near a bush, almost instantly died. Gilo Foster was very severely, perhaps fatally, wounded. Long claims that he did the shooting in self defence, alfd that Ned Foster advanced upon him with a drawn pistol." A few days after the killing, Long surrendered himself to the sheriff of Union county. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Marshall Baxier, colored, convicted in the Superior Court of Mecklenburg, of the murder of Boh Hennigan, colored, was sentenced tn Vie lumped on the 29th of Anril. ? The Stntesville Landmark says that within the past year, 2,000,000 pounds of roots and herbs have been shipped from a botanic warehouse in that place. ? It is said, on what is regarded as reliable authority, that Judge David Schenck will resign at an early day, or perhaps has already resigned, his position on the Superior Court bench. ? The First Presbytery of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod of the South, holds its next regular meeting at Coddle Creek church, on Monday after the first Sabbath of April next, being the 4th *of the month. The opening sermon will be preached by tbe Rev. W. T. Waller, of Charlotte. ? Says the Charlotte Democrat : The reported sale of the celebrated H igh Shoals properly in Gaston county, is not correct. Certain parties have made a conditional contract and deposited a forfeit, and it may result in a sale of the property hereafter, but that is as yet uncertain. ? The Internal Revenue Department reports that the quantity of spirits distilled from grain in the State of North Carolina during the last fiscal year was 442,957 gallons, the value of which above the tax of 8398,661.30, may be estimated at an average of fortv cents ner callon. or at a total value of 8177,182 80.* ? Hon. Samuel F. Phillips, of Raleigh, who under Hayes' administration held the position of Solicitor General, has been tendered by President Garfield the appointment of Judge of the Court of Claims. Although in the line of promotion, and the last named position has a life tenure at a salary of $4,500, it is staled that Mr. Phillips does not desire to make the change. ? The people living on the line of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad, will soon be gratified at seeing the track laid. The iron has been ordered, and is expected to arrive as follows : 1,000 tons in April, 1,000 tons in May and 1,000 in June. It will he laid as rapidly as possible. This quantity will lay the track from the present terminus at the Gulf to Greensboro. Through trains from Fayetteville to Greensboro are expected to be running by the euiToPthe year at furthest. ? The Statesville Landmark relates the ?t 1 ^... I ?olni.it A vfiiinnr m n n nf thp name 1 mi/mug etui j iA j w. ,..v of Pierce was engaged to be married to a Miss Shoemaker. It" was to have been a runaway match, and the couple were to have met at a given point and thence proceed to the house of a minister or magistrate of the neighborhood, there to be married. The bride that was to have L ""en backed out, however, a^ the last moment. Her courage failed her, and the affair was about to go by default, when her sister, to whom she had confided all of her plans, volunteered to fill the appointment and did actually meet the young man and marry him. ? Major James A. Sadler died on Thursday last, in Charlotte, in the 71st year of his age. Announcing his death, the Observer says : About a year ago he suffered a stroke of paralysis, since which time he has been confined to the house, his constitution being impaired from this and on account of his great age. It) the death of Maj. Sadler a landmark has been obliterated. He commenced life a farmer, but later engaged in the hotel business. Long before the war he kept hotel where the Central now stands, and was known far and near as a model of the old tjrne landlord. His liberality in entertaining is said to have been carried to a fault, it being his custom on great occasions to entertain distinguished visitors, and numbers of others, without charge. That he was very popular, his courteous manners, which so conspicuously marked the man and remained with him to the last, are a sufficient indi cation. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The Cowpens Centennial. At a recent meeting of the Cowpens Centennial committee, held in Spartanburg, it was ordered that a programme for one day, the 11th of May, be prepared. It was also ordered that the Governor of South Carolina be requested to preside at the centennial ceremonies, and that the Governors of the other thirteen original States and Tennessee, be invited to act as vice-presidents; also that the Governor of South Carolina, in behalf of the association, extend invitations to the Governors of all the States to attend the celebration. Gen. H. J. Hunt, of the United States army, having accepted an invitation to review the troops#on the occasion, it was ordered that j the following gentlemeu be invited to act as j his ajdes, viz: Colonel. S. B. Pickens, ofi Charleston; Lieut. Daniel Morgan Taylor, 1 U. S. A.; Col. McHenry Howard, Balti-1 more, and Mr. J. B. Washington, Charleston. ! An invitation was extended to the President of j the United States and his cabinet to attend the celebration. Dr. H. E. Hcintish, Dr. J. i B. 0. Landrum and S. S Ross were appointed i a committee to superintend the erection of i 1 ?1 ' x flio nniroilincr ! Hie IllOUUIIieill ttlJU jllCjJUID IUI KW^ & of the statue of Morgan, and to superintend the construction of a stand for the speaker. The following programme for the 11th of May was arranged : Sunrise.?Salute, 13 guns. 10. a. m.?Military review by General Hunt, U. S. A. 12 m.?Centennial Ode, Centennial Ora-! Lion. Unveiling the Statue of Morgan. 6 p. m.?The Governor's Reception to State Suests. 8 p. m.?Display of fireworks. 9. p. m.?Reception by the City Council to the Washington Light Infantry and their Sucsts. ' LOCAL AFFAIRS. . NEW kDVERTISEMENTS. Elias Burris?Caution. J. A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?W. 1 M. Matthews, Applicant?John A. Mat- I thews, deceased. J. A. Darwin?Cotton Seed Planter and Guano Distributor. W. N. Elder?Administrator's Sale. Wells Brothers?Mill Machinery. T. M. Dobson?New Goods, New Goods?Emporium of Fashion. M Strauss?Look Out for Now Goods. II. F. Adickos, Jr.?Just Opened this Week. Herndon Brothers?Piedmont Wagons?Kainit. J. M. Adams?Excelsior Cook Stoves?Pot Ware. Hunter, Oates it Co.?Wo Have Just Received. J. R. Gardner?To My Customers. ??? MILITARY ITEMS. Col. Hugh S. Thompson, has issued General Order No. 1, assuming command of the Palmetto Regiment, and announcing the following appointments: John P. Arthur, Adiutant. with the rank of Captain ; J. M. Mor ris, Quartermaster, with the rauk of Captain ; and C. M. Tew, Sergeant-Major. The other members of the stuff will be announced in a future*order. There will be a special and important meet- J ing of the Jenkins Rifles at their armory to- morrow (Friday) night. CONE TO MARKET. Our merchants are already making preparations for the spring trade, which, it is an tieipated, will be brisk. Mr. John J. Hunter, of Hunter, Oates & Co., and Mr. J. R. Kennedy, of Kennedy Bros. & Barron, left for the northern markets last Thursday. Mr. H. F. Adickes, Jr., left on Monday. Mr. John J. Smith, of J. J. Smith & Co., will start today; and Mr. M. Strauss will start on Tuesday. Mr. W. C. Latimer, of Latimer & Hemphill, has already heen on and made purchases' for his house, and returned lust week. CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows : Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. Services at 10 30 A. M. Church of the Good Shepherd?EpiscopalRev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. The rector will officiate in the Church of Our Saviour at Rock Hill next Sunday. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. In consequence of the absence of th^ pastor, in attendance upon Presbytery at Lancaster, there will be no services in this church next Sunday. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Marion Dargan, Pastor. ()wincr to renairs that are beititr made on the church building, u<> services will be held next Sunday. COMMITTED SUICIDE. On Monday last, about 10 o'clock A. M., as is supposed, Mrs Bertie Sims, wife of Joseph M. Sims, living ahout three miles from Bullotk's Creek Chinch, in this county, committed, suicide by hanging herself with a cord suspended from a rafter. She was about 30 years of age and mother of one child. At the time of committing the act she was in a j delicate state of health, which, it is thought, | affected her mind, and that she caused her self destruction while in a fit of temporary insanity. Trial Justice Davidson, of that neighborhood, who was here attending Court, was notified of the occurrence on Tuesday morning, and he returned immediately for the purpoae of holding an inquest. STEAM vs. WATER. The Charleston News and Courier reproduces from the Enquirer of last week, the report relative to the use of ste-am as a motive power for running cotton mills, submitted to citizens of Yorkville, interested in establishing a cotton factory at this place, and adds: The inquiries made by the promoters of the Charleston Manufacturing Company brought them to conclusions similar to those reached by the Yorkville committee. Cotton mills can be profitably run by steam in the South in competition with mills run by water alone. A place like Charleston, too, has special advantages, in the cheapness with which machinery, supplies and fuel can be brought here by water, in the low rate of transportation for the manufactured goods, in the abili ty to obtain the raw material, at the lowest V?.fon all Mm vonp rnnnd and in the ahilitv i aicOf uii vk$\j j VM* iumw<?| ... j of the operators to obtain houses and enjoy the advantages of churches and schools without expense to the company. We lay stress upon these facts, and Lbe report of the Yorkville committee (which coincides with'the experience of both New England and Old England) because there is an ingrained iden, which is hard to eradicate, that cotton mills, to be profitable, must be run by water power, and must, therefore, be confined to the places where water can be had. CIRCUIT COURT. Circuit Court for York county, his Honor Judge T. B. Fraser presiding, convened at 10 o'clock A. M., on Monday last. The following giand jurors answered to their names: N. B. Bratton, Joseph Miller, Rufus Hunt, Jason F. Thompson, Henry Franklin, Henderson Martin, Henry Massey, W. S. Plexico, John R. Hogue, R. B. Hartness, W. L. Sandifer, Alexander Lewis, Ella Good, S. L. Reid, W. Banks Good, Pleasant Crook, J. V. McFadden, Regulus Jackson. Upon his affidavit that he is engaged as a teacher of a public school, Mr. Sandifer was discharged as a juror, and Mr. Crook was excused for the balance of this term on account of sickness in his family. The jurors retired to their room, by direction of the court, for the purpose of electing a foreman, and after returning reported the selection of Henry Massey. They were then sworn in by the clerk, after which his Honor proceeded to instruct them as to their duties. He charged that the grand jurors of a county occupy a responsible position, as under our form of government no man can he put unnn iiiatn'ul iin|p5< # triiR hill for the offence charged has been found by the grand jury. There are other important matters for a grand jury to consider besides the bills given out by the Solicitor; but, except in extraordinary cases, it is not proper for a grand jury to direct their atteniion to matters of geueral legislation or political questions ; though, perhaps, under extraordinary circumstances, such necessity might arise. They should, however, give special oversight to all matters pertaining to the local laws obtaining in their county. Much good has been done in the past by grand jurors in bringing derelict county officials to justice, nnd by having an eye to the conduct of county officers, the grand jury may accomplish a great deal iu the interest of the people. He knew of nothing on the part of the officials of York county requiring i special investigation by the grand jury ; but should any intimation of failure by any of 1 the county officials to properly discharge their j | duties fall under the observation of the grand i jury, it is their duty to give the matter . thorough investigation. Especially should j oversight be given to the officers charged with the handling of the public taxes?the offices of County Auditor and County Treas- j 1 urer should be inspected from time to time ; j and the grand jury should have some eye to a the way in which the county funds are dis- C tributed by the County Commissioners. The tl Commissioners of a county are vested with si large powers in the administration of their fi office, and in the performance of their duties, f the grand jury should see to it that no par- t tiality is practiced. p Mal administration in inferior tribunalstrial justices' court?is a subject of complaint in some of the counties. Should this cause j exist here, it is the duty of the grand jury to j investigate and report upon the same. t It would not be improper for the grand 1 jury to have an eye to the way in which the j public schools of the county ure conducted, j The private system-of coudacting schools, which, until within the last few years em- * braced the principal system in this State, is now 1 fast giving way to a system of public schools, maintained by public money; and as these | schools are relied upon to a considerable ex?Ua !nal..iAt!iin i i, f t.111 rro It /.n and f icut IWft LUC IIJOVI UV/tlUUf (IIIUIICVIIVV M?.V* character of the growing youth, it is irapor- 8 tant that such institutions should be properly guarded. If, on investigation, the grand jury find any violatiou of the law by any of the county officials, having control of the public schools, or other department of the county goveniiuent.it is the duty of the jury to act upon the same.. Another matter to which his Honor would refer, is the fact that besides the conduct of public officials, it is also the duty of the grand jury to net upon the violation of the lawby private individuals. From some cause, it seems that grand jurors are loth to act upon j cases of violation of the law by private citi* I zcns ; yet it is their duty to investigate any such violations coming within their knowledge. His Honor then referred to recent i Acts of the Legislature in regard to duelling, ' currying conceded weapons and retailing intoxicating liquors; and charged the grand , jury that it is their duty to promptly act i upon any violation of these laws of which they may have information. In conclusion, he instructed the graud jury that if iu their opinion any local laws per- ( taining to the welf'are#of the county required ainendmeut or alteration, it is their right to make such suggestions thereon as they may deem proper. Mr. Solicitor Gaston then presented a number of indictments, which the graud jury took and retired to their room. The petit jurors drawn for this term answered to their names as follows : John Dulin, H. F. Adickes, Jr., H. F. Johnston, Benjamin i Withers, Fenton Diggs, J. A. Hope, W. H. Taylor, Alexander McKinney, P. W. Lindsay, Sen., D. P. Boyd, J. A. Pursely, John R. Loudon, D. G. Kimbrell, Sampson Hantia, R. J. Hagins, J. T. Bigham, Wash Cbilders, R. H.Cornwell, Ww. Ross, James Scoggins, W. W. White, Feemster Bratton, Michael Dover, Robert Hays, J. W. P. Hope, An/1 >nw Tii/itunn .Tolin T? Aahp Riihcrt nuvitcm u<ivnowuy v?/uu ?*wnv) ????.. Davidson, John Barron. Messrs. Adickes, London and Withers, upon their own application, for sufficient reasons, were excused from attendance upon the court as jurors. There being a panel of only twenty-six, the Court ordered a special venire for ten additional names, which, under supervision of the jury commissioner, Mr. D. C. McKinney, were drawn as follows: John R. Gardner, Wra. Gist, Withers Adickes, Anthony Herudon, Robert M. Steele, E. G. Feemster, J. C. Gwin, James S. Hemphill, R. G. Brat ton, Samuel L. Miller. No bills having been acted upon, at 11 o'clock the Sessions Court took a recess until 2.30 P. M. The following cases on the sessions docket were disposed of at the afternoon session on Monday and on Tuesday : State vs. Stephen Meek, colored, perjury. Prosecutor, Isaac Sims, colored. Verdict, not guilty. State vs. Amos Byers, colored; burglary * ? wt a ana larceny, rrosecuwr, ??. a. ummuu. Defendant pleaded guilty of statutory burglary. State vs. Cicero Cane, colored ; grand larceny. Prosecutor, F. P. Mullinax. Defendant pleaded guilty. State vs. Reese Massey, colored ; malicious mischief. Prosecutor, J. L. Mcore. Verdict, guilty. State vs. Henry Poag, Taylor Crawford and Edwurd Crawford, colored ; grand larceny. Prosecutor, Michael Duffy. Veidict, not guilty.' State vs. Henry Weddington, colored ; forgery. Prosecutor, R. T. Fewell. Verdict, guilty. mammammmmmmmmmmM MERE-MENTION. The opera house at Nice was destroyed by fire on the night of the 23nf,.and sixty nine ! persons perished. The headquarters of ' the Yorktown Centenniul Association were formally opened in Richmond last Thursday i night. The President has decided not ' to call an extra session of Congress. He ' announced his decision on Saturday. Gen, Grant has resigued the presidency of the World's Fair proposed to be held in New 1 York in 1883, and Hugh J. Jewett has been elected as his successor. Gentlemen interes ted in appointments in the Southern , States have suggested to the President the re- < calling of Gen. Longstreet from Turkey and making him Marshal of Georgia. A western journal significantly says:"We must conquer Mexico by commerce and annex her by railroads. In the case of Kalloch, for the murder of DeYoung, in San Francisco, t the jury, after being out twenty-four hours, t returned a verdict, last Thursday, of not 1 guilty. More than ten and a half mil- 1 lion gallons of wine were made in California * last year. Of this quantity, 9,500,000 gal- j Ions were dry wines, 700,000 sweet wines, and ^ 4:0,000 braudy. New York city annu- r nually sends out 40,000 "drummers." The I Louisville and Nashville Railway Company 1 has contracted for forty new locomotives and !j two thousand cars, to be delivered during the 9 spring and summer. The Washington a " 1 CT A 1 k I f t correspondent ot tne .Baltimore ourt saya mat. the President has appointed D. T. Corbin . UniLed States Marshal for South Carolina. 0 Among the naval cadets graduating on the 22(1 instant at Anuapolis as cadet midship- t men, was Franklin J. Moses, of South Caro- 0 1 ina. The town council of Buena Vista, b Georgia, has passed an ordinance fixing the 0 price of aJicense tcf retail spirituous liquors, ^ at one thousand dollars per annum. Mr. g Mahoue addressed the Senate last Monday, t! justifying his course in acting with^e Re- v\ publican parly. He was especially sarcastic * towards Senator Brown, of Georgia, and at J the conclusion of his speech was warmly con- ^ jratulated by Conkling, Sherman, Dawes t< nd other Republicans. The Russian ,'zar gets ten million a year, and it does seem bat a man can afford to he blown up for a alary as large as that President Gareld's two elder 30ns are said to be pesteied i>r their influence to the extent of forty liters 11 day by former schoolmates who want msitiofis. GEN'. MIC'AII JENKINS. To the Editor of the Neim and Courier : n a recent issue of The News and C'oukikr on refer to the removal of the remains of he late Gen. Micah Jenkins for interment n Magnolia Cemetery. You properly say hat the grave of Jenkins should not remain inmarked, and you justly add, "ihere should >e no delay about it. It were a reproach to sach and every one in South Carolina, who vore the Confederate grey, to deny to a sol lier so conspicuously brave, so lily the in the hick of the fight, so thoroughly faithful and :apable, an enduring nrark of our reraemtrance and our love." An one who was Micah Jenkins's life-long "riend, I respond heartily to your patriotic luggestion. But for private .and public rea* ioos I beg to make a brief appeal in behalf )f one of the martyrs of the "Lost Cause." The record of Micah Jenkins is well known 0 his old comrades. Though brief, it was leautiful ^nd symmetrical, and had a noble jnding. Entering the Citadel Academy when quite 1 youth, he began hi. cadetship with an ambitious spirit. I can recall his remark to myself made soon after his matriculation, that he intended to be first in his class. This promise to himself it is known that .ie fulfilled. He came out officially first, and it is certain that he was second to none of his classmates in ethics or scholarship. In n.y t judgment, it may justly be said, that of the graduates of the South Carolina Military Academy, he was one of the brightest and bravest. After graduation, in connection with Col. Asbury Coward, he founded and managed the Ring's Mountain Military School, which continued in successful operation until the war between the States began. Following the dictate of his ardent, patriotic spirit, with motive as pure as ever carried Christian knight to the battle of former days, he entered the service of the Southern Confederacy. Here his well known record" was brilliant. He rose to be a brigadier-general . in an array where the material thereof generals; are made was alike choice and abun. .n.1 ! n-oo uiKaf auoma fr\ iu hi* lintimp. ' IJUUli J auu XI/ lino *V t?c?iv ov in w WW WW >>.? ly death that alone cut him off from higher honors. Brave and dashing as a Murat, Micah Jenkins was further a Bayard, "without fear and without reproach." He was more. A scholar, gentleman, a Christian man, he was a Sidney w ho, on another Zutphen, would willingly have passed the cup of cold water to some d)ing soldier whose necessity may have been deemed greater than his own. ^ Nor was Jenkins the man of sanguinary instincts and military preferences that some considered him. It was my fortune to meet him on his last visit to South Carolina, not long before he fell on the soil of Virginia. He spoke in the'confidence of warm, reciprocal friendship, and referred to the idea which he knew prevailed respecting him, that he was fond of war's cruel sport. He earnestly disclaimed the sentiment. While recognizing his duty in the struggle, and thinking not for one moment of turning his hack upon thfe burning ploughshare before him, he yet expressed a yearning for peace, and long* d to return in honor to his home and his fireside. But this beamiful dream of the soldier was not to be realized. The laurels of industrious soldiership were soon to be entwined with the cypress wreath. On May 6,1864, in the Battle of the Wilderness, he, the young and strong, fell with harness ou in the paih of Atti V7 uuw The General Assembly of South Carolina passed the following resolutions : "Resolved, unanimously, That in the death of Gen. Jenkins, South Carolina mourns the loss of one of her noblest, most patriotic and accomplished citizens, anil the army of our country a brave, energetic and skillful officer. Rwotved, unanimously, That we recur with pride to his brilliant and eventful career, and will ever cherish in our memories the record he has left us of gallant deeds done, and above all, we will not forget theChristiau virtues which adorned his character, the recollection of w) ;eh adds increasing lustre , to his already illustrious nathe. "Resolved., unauimcudTy, That we hold up his many virtues to his comrades who are yet spared, and bid them emulate his example. Ruolvcd, unanimously, That these resolutions, together with the correspondence between Lieut.-Gen. Longstreet and Governor Bonham, in relation to the death of Gen. Jenkins, be spread upon the journal of this House, and copies of ihe same be sent to the family of the deceased." Nearly seventeen years hare rolled by since Micah Jenkins laid his young life a bleeding sacrifice upon the altar of his country. For*hearly seventeen years his remains have filled an unmarked grave?unmarked, save by the band) of domestic love. This public neglect, you rightly suggest, should no longer stand a reflection upon the State that Jenkins so faithfully s'erved. Over bis new grave at Magnolia, not far from his native, ancestral Edisto, let the modest shaft rise. I do not propose a costly monument ; our dead heroes are too numerous and our resources in the South are not ample enough for extensive mausoleums. But let there be, at least, at the public instance, a , simple monument to the memory of the ^ high toned, gallant Jenkins. The graduates of the South Carolina Military Academy will, I know, do.their port. But not with them alone does the duty rest. The fame of Jenkins is the property of the State, aud let all contribute as private friendship or public spirit may dictate. As you have suggested the act, I hope that The News and Courier will receive contributions for the Jenkins Memorial. As soon as [ am advised that your timely suggestion has aken the shape of action in the manner sugjestel, or in any manner that our friends in four city may desire, I shall remit you such a contribution as I may be able to secure. ? Jno. P. Thomas. Carolina Military Institute, March 20, 1880. COTTON FACTORY NEWS. ? The Charleston company organized to 'stabiifh a steam cotton mill?the first in hat city?announces that enough subscripions have been secured to warrant it in closing he books, and that arrangements have been nade to obtain in the North enough to com>lete the subscriptions. ? The Chester Bulletin says: "Mr. F. H. Barber, of Rock Hill, president of Fishing >eek manufacturing Company of this county, eturned last week from his trip to the North, ie was goue about two weeks, and purchased hree thousand and eighty spindles, and othr machinery of the most improved patterns. ?he contractors for the building, will, in a hort time, put a large force of hands to work, * nd the building will be completed by July, i'he machinery will be delivered about the nf A iioriidt. mid hv th? 1st of Sentemher it 5 expected to have everything in operating rder." ? The Carolina Spartan says: "About welve months ago it entered into the mind f one the proprietors of Glendale Factory, to uild a larger one at the old Hurricane Shoals, n Pacolet, about seven miles from Spartan>urg. Before the public kuew anything bout the matter, Mr. Converse came up to par tan burg and purchased from Mr. Bnbn, be old Rolling Mill site. Subscription books ^ere opened, the stock was rapidly taken, nd preparations were soon made for the ictory. The first subscription of stock was 200,000, which was soon taken. About the egining of this year, the stock was increased 3 8500,000. The place will hereafter be