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Jhtaps and ?acts. | ? A man in Ancona, Italy, having married i one of the twin daughters of a widow lady, I after her death married his mother in law; j the latter died, and then he espoused the remaining daughter. ? A Mr. Brown, a New York Baptist, was summoned to serve on a jury, but refused to either swear of affirm, citing the Bible, which he said forbade anything beyond "yea, yea, and nay, nay." He was sent to jail and | fined for contempt of court. ? Indians get their queer names in the : following manner: When an Indian baby is born, the medicine man- or some one of the family, looks out of the door and casts his eye upon some object. The first thing is seen wrMoltAO f U A nk i 1 /I 'ft n n m ft U Ar? iiA IU11IISUC9 bUC LWUU O uaujc. 11CU(;U, UUblUg I Bull," "Red Cloud," etc. ? Thirty special reports to the Macon Tele-1 graph and Messenger, indicate lesi. than half j a peach crop in Middle and Southwestern | Georgia. The fig trees are killed ; plums, i half a crop; pears and cherries badly dam- | aged ; apples and strawberries not much in- , jured. ? The Whittaker court-martial costs the government, it is estimated, $3,000 for every day it is in session. Witnesses are paid 84 a day, and experts in handwriting $100 a day. The members of the court are allowed their expenses while in New York. Before the case is closed, it will have cost, it is said, $100,000. ? It is reported that General Wickhara, the most prominent Republican in Virginia, says if the Republican Senators continue to fondle Repudiator Mahone, he will stump the State for the debt-paying Democrats. This would leave Mahone with the Republican riff raff and the bulk of the negroes in Virginia. ? Things are changing around a bit. The Democrats carried every municipal election in the iron-clad Republican State of Nebraska, Tuesday, while the Republicans retaliated by sweeping the cities of that Democratic stronghold, Missouri. Not only did St. Louis show a Republican triumph, but the second city in the State?Kansas City?as well, electing a full Republican city ticket for the first time since it was organized. ? The Ohio Legislature has passed the bill submitting to the popular vote an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the sale of liquor in the State. It is probable that it will be carried, as the Cincinnati election shows the temperance people to be very strong in the State. Even if it is not, it will split up the Republicans on the liquor question and give the State t<3 the Democrats. Such is the feeling in Ohio. ? A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal says that machines invented by a Mississippian to harvest cotton by gathering the stalks by the roots, and subsequently pick, clean and gin it, has been given a thorough trial, and works perfectly. It is claimed that this will revolutionize the cotton business by reducing co3t of production one-half, and stimulating the efforts of farmers to have their crops mature all at the same time. ? Col. Wm. Winston Fontaine, Principal of an academy in Louisville, Kentucky, read a long paper before the Southern Historical Society of the city at a recent meeting, in which he claimed that Robert E. Lee was seventeenth in direct descent from Robert Bruce, ' of Scotland, and possessed very'many of his notable characteristics. Moreover, that of the five heroes who particularly distinguished themselves on the glorious field of Bannockburn, Lee, through the same channel, was the direct descendant of four. ? Assistant District Attorney Bell, in the General Sessions Court in New York city, last Thursday, called to the bar James O'Brien, alias Robert Lindsay, who, during the last political campaign, deposed that he knew H. L. Morey, the individual to whom it was alleged President Garfield wrote what is known as the "Morey Chinese" letter, and who subsequently confessed that he had perjured himself. He pleaded guilty of an indictment for perjury presented agaiust him, and Judge Cowing scut him to the State prison for eight years. ? Siuce the assassination of the Czar, extraordinary precautionary measures have been taken to secure the safety of Queen Victoria while traveling by railway. During a recent journey to London, a train of empty carriages was run about a quarter of an hour in advance of the Queeu's special train, which it piloted through the trip from Windsor to Paddington, while the entire dis - tance between the Windsor terminus aod the metropolis, was guarded by platelayers stationed at regular invervals along the route, within sight of each other. ? On Tuesday of last week, a hurricane prevailed at Commerce,Tunica county, Mississippi, proceeding eastwardly to Hernando. It made a path two hundred yards wide, laying waste houses, forests, bridge# and fences. A large number of negro cabins, full of their occupants, were blown down, without a single case of injury to the inmates. The storm is known to have killed four persons. Four others are missiDg and Supposed to have been, killed or disabled by the tornado. Some of the persons were picked up and whirled several hundred yards through the air by it, and then sat down upon the ground uninjured. ? There is now in the vaults of the treasury department, a larger amount of gold than was ever known to be in one place in the history of modern times, and probably more than could be authenticated as existing in a single treasury at any time before in the world. There is now about 8173,000,000 of gold coin and bullion, exclusive of some $55,000,000 in silver, while the bank of England has only about $75,000,000 in gold. What is more singular, is that it stays in the vaults, no matter what the demand recently, for as fast as it is paid out it returns, showing that as long as confidence is maintained, it is not a lavonte currency. ? The circular of the Mercantile Agency of R. D. Dunn & Co. shows the number of failures in the United States during the first three months of 1881 to be 1,761, with liabilities amounting to 824,447,250, against 1,432failures and 812,777,074 liabilities same time in 1880, and 2,524 failures and 843,112,665 liabilities same time in 1879. The in crease this year is attributed partly to the severe weather in the Westernr and Northern States, and the unfavorable condition in the Southern States, and the attending hindrance to business and agricultural operations. The same authority gives the failures in the Southern States for the same period, included in the above, as 526, for 85,500,000, exceeding the same period last year 83,500,000. ? The Philadelphia Times has a story of a young German named Gyumber, who has been asleep in the almshouse near Allentown, Penn., since the 13th of February. All this time he has slept with his eyes closed, resisting all sorts of noises, the pricking of pins and the application of hot irons. Music affected him somewhat, and he could be walked about the room. He ate three times a day and exhibited no special signs of ill health. On Thursday night he suddenly opened his eyes, became deathly pale, and broke out into a profuse perspiration. This was followed by great prostration. It is now believed that the worst is over and he will recover. The half hundred physicians who have seen him, seem to agree that his trouble is a stupor at the base of the brain. : ? A St. Petersburg dispatch says that all the Nihilists, except the woman Hessy Helfman, condemned to death for connection with the Czar's assassination, namely, RussakofT, j Michailoff, Kibaltzchitsch, JeliabofF and So- j phie Pie^lsky, were hanged on Friday last at j ten o'clock. Michailoflf's rope broke twice. Order was not disturbed. There was an immenae concourse of spectators. The prisoners were j escorted from the fortress to the place of exe-1 a ;ution by Cossack* and infantry, with drums md fifes. A detachment of all the regiments >f the guards stationed in St. Petersburg, j turrounded the scaffold. All the prisoners I eceived the ministrations of the priests and j cissea the cross arid each other. They were rery firm, except Russakoff, who fainted at he last moment. Appeals for mercy to the Nihilists Russakoff and Michailoff, were subnitted to the Czar, but he replied that the lentence of the Court must be carried out. Ihc fjiwMIr inquirer. YORKYILLE. S. C.: THURSDAY MORiilNG, APRIL 21,1881. AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS. In spite of all the political strife and confusion incident to a people emerging from a civil war, the South?the whole South?and especially South Carolina, is makiug rapid progress in the arts of civilization. Nature most manifestly designed South Carolina as an agricultural region. For this her soil and her climate are admirably adapted. Her mineral resources, no doubt, are great; her adaptedness to manufacturing enterprises favorable ; but her wealth, beyond all coutro versy, is in her cotton fields. Cotton is money. The gradual?nay, the rapid progress? made within the hist few years in the cultivation of cotton, and in fact in the cultivation all the products of our soil, is little less than marvelous. This progress is due to several causes, but very much to the introduction and application of new and improved agricultural implements. These are truly labor-saving machines. With them the laborer is enabled to do more work and do it far better. Tbe implements used by our fathers are nearly all laid aside as worthless. The plow, the main implement of the farmer, has been improved and is a much more efficient imnlement than that used by our fathers. The result is very noticeable. Two horses, or mules, do more plowing, and do it a great deal better, than three formerly did. Two acres of land, on ail average, produce fully as much as three did thirty years ago. One baud, at present, makes more corn and cotton than two did in the days of our fathers. It is true that agricultural operations cost more than they formerly did ; but this is an evidence of progress. As a rule, all cheap things are worthless. It is admitted that peculiar circurastauces may cause fluctuations in prices. Corn may may be dear on account of its great scarcity or the difficulty of obtaining it; but when a country is in a healthy financial and agricultural conditio^ and all its people progressing in the arts of civilizazation, marvelous.y cheap, means extremely worthless. Another evidence of progress is the improvement which is going on in the soil. Lands which our fathers plowed into gullies, * " i 1 J have been reclaimed, maae ricn, auu are uun producing larger crops than when first cul tivated. There is a lively interest taken in the cultivation of the soil. Forty years ago, but little time was devoted to manuring. Land was plenty then. The forest was cut down and the soil cultivated in such a way that about four or five crops were all that could be produced on it. It was then turned out and more forest cut down. Another evidence of progress, is that the majority of farmers of the county are in good financial circumstances, and many of them 1 are getting rich. There are numbers of men in York county who at the close of the war, were not worth a single dollar, who, to day, are the owners of good farms and a sufficient amount of stock to cultivate them. All this is exceedingly encouraging. If the past has been dark, the present is bright and the future promising. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Blackstocks, ia Farfield county, elected the wet ticket on the 4th instant. ? Jonesville, in Union county, has elected a "dry" ticket by a majority of thirteen votes. ? Telegraphic communication between Chester and Lancaster, will be established during the summer. ? Edgefield villa; e has elected a wet ticket, A A PKakn +ko mon tcllA Ullprfl Df RlftHf) XI. XX* VilOUJ i tuv .IU'4U it itv ?>*??v?. ? . . ? ? last year, being intendant. ? The Supreme Court has reversed the decision of the Circuit Court, and granted a new trial to Scott Hopkins, of Chester, convicted of the murder of Stroud-. ? A State exchange estimates that it takes, on an average for the whole country, 81.74 worth of fencing to keep 81.65 worth of stock from eating up 82.45 worth of crops. ? At the recent municipal election in Lancaster, the question at issue was whether the sale of intoxicating liquors should or should not be licensed. The vote resulted : Against license, 105; for license, 48. ? In a case which came before him in Pickens county with regard to the fence law, Judge Kershaw has filed an elaborate opinion, in which he sustained the validity of the Act of the Legislature and dismissed the appeal. ? The South Carolina Railroad has leased the Georgia Railroad for 99 years from April 1st at $600,000 a year. This perfects the alliance between the Georgia, Georgia Central and South Carolina, in the interest of j the Louisville and Nashville, and will benefit! Charleston, Port Royal, and Savannah. ? Dr John Welis Simpson, the father of j Chief Justice Simpson, died at his residence it Glenn Srings, on Monday afternoon of last < week, in the 85th year of his age. The de- | leased was a native of Laurens, but removed ;o Glenn Springs about five years ago, hav- j ng been a co-proprietor of the Springs. He vas remarkable in having led as many as 'our brides to the altar, and in maintaining ; inusual vigor of body and mind during his ' ong life. ? The Governor Las pardoned Eliza Jones ifoung, colored, convicted in Chester of per-' ury aud sentenced to six months in the Peni-! entiary. Clemency was extended on the alegation of her mental imbecility, amounting tlmost to idiocy, which was sustained by j :leven of the jury, the presiding judge, the j solicitor and the physician of the Peniteniary. ? The joint annual Summer meeting of the Jtate Agricultural and Mechanical Society ind of the State Grange, will be held, by in-1 vitation, at Greenville, on July 26th probably, ] instead of August 8th as heretofore announced. 1 The change is expected to be made so as not 1 to conflict with a similar meeting in Georgia, , and to allow the attendance of a large dele- i gation from that State. i ? The Greeuwood correspondent of the 1 Abbeville Press says: "Two German immi- ' grants, recently employed in the vicinity of | Anderson, passed through town last Thursday ] on foot for Charleston, from whence they will 1 take ship for the old country. It seems that J they engaged on a farm under a misapprehen* ( sion of the terms of the contract, became dissatisfied and left." ? The Lee Light Infantry, of Chester, have i decided to attend the Cowpens centennial at Snartanbur? on the 11th of May. The com 1 o pany declined to accept the rtsignation of Captain Marshall, who was recently elected Major of the Palmetto regiment. When Captain Marshall is required to act as major of the regiment, the company will be uuder the control of a subordinate officer. ? Mayor Courtenay and the Rev. H. F. Chreitzberg, of Charleston, have had a severe correspondence regarding a statement made by the latter that the city council had made a bargain not to interfere with liquor dealers. The Mayor denounced the statement a8 a slander and falsehood, and council approved his action. The whole trouble seems to have originated from a misunderstanding by the minister of something he heard. ? With regard to the recent appointments for United States District Attorney, an<L United States Marshal, the Abbeville Press dnd Banner says: "Both these gentlemen are natives of our State, and the appointments are by far the best that could be made out of the Republican material in South Carolina. Judge Melton is a man of ability, fine personal appearance, and ranks with the first lawyers in the State. Mr. Blytbe was for several years the Solicitor of this Circuit, and discharged his duties with fairness, zeal and mercy, and was liked by the people of the Eighth Circuit for his agreeable and genial disposition." ? A correspondent of the News and Courier rritroc tVio fnlInwincp nurtipulftrs in regard to gitwu """ tJ 1 --O the lynching of a negro woman in Laurens county: "Sunday night, the 3d instant, the barn of Mr. J. S. Blalock, at Martin's depot, Laurens county, was set fire to and burned. The barn was near the dwelling house, so near that the inference was that it was the purpose of the incendiary to burn the dwelling-house too. Mr. Blalock made investigations which satisfied him that the incendiary was a negro woman named Judy Metts, living on his place. On Saturday, the 9th inst., he went to Trial Justice N. S. Harris, at Clinton, and swore out a warrant against the woman. The Trial Justice placed the warrant in the hands of Constable Samuel Gary, who arrested Judy Metts at Martin's depot, on Saturday night, and started with her to Clinton. Two miles above Martin's, a party of men on horseback overtook the constable and his prisoner. The party were disguised, having cloth over their faces with eyeholes to see through. Some of the party took charge of the constable and others took the prisoner, and carried them off in different directions. The constable says he was kept about an hour and then told to "git," which be accordingly did without delay, going to Clinton. The woman was fouud the next morning, about two hundred yards from where the lynchers took her, hanging about twenty feet from the ground by the neck to a tree dead. The coroner's inquest, on Monday, returned a verdict that she came to her death by hanging at the hands of persons unknown to the jury. Nothing has been done, so far as I have heard, to discover the lynchers. The woman leaves a husband and children. / This same woman was accused, two years ago, of burning the dwelling house of a Mr. Simpson." EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Railroad Movements. The Virginia Midland Directors met in Baltimore on Saturday and deBnitely decided to extend the road from Danvillejvia Mooresvilla, with a connection to Charlotte and to Spartanburg, S. C. The extension will be effected under the name of the North Carolina Midland Railroad, which corporation was organized under the laws of that State about a year ago. Colonel J. S. Barbour, who is President of the Northwestern Road, called a meeting of | the Directors to be held at Winston, N. C., - on the 26th instant, when the date and manner of commencing the work of construction will be decided upon. At a meeting in Baltimore, it was decided to undertake the work of building the road as far South as Walnut Cove, a distance of fifty miles from Danville, and a resolution was passed pledging the Virginia Midland Road to supply the necessary capital for the purpose not secured through subscription to the stock. The Air-Line Lease. A New York dispatch of Saturday, says that argument was had on that day before Judge Blatchford, of the United States Circuit Court, in the suit of Chas. H. Pond, John W. Garrett aud others, against Hiram W. Sibley, of the Atlanta and Charlotte AirLine Railway, and the Richmond and Danville Railroad and others. A motion was made to remaud the suit to the State court where it was begun and removed a few days ago to the Federal court. It will be remembered that in the Supreme Court, Judge Douohue granted an injunction restraining the Atlanta and Charlotte Railway Company from executing the lease of their road to the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company. Judge Blatchford reserved his decision on the question of remanding the case to the | State court. * The Charlotte Observer says that pending the proceedings, the charter of the Air-Line Railroad Company was telegraphed from that city to members of counsel in the case in New York. Particulars of Gen. Gary's Death. The Edgefield Advertiser of last week gives the following additional particulars of j Gen. Gary's death, which will be read with interest: 1 Soon after the adjournment of the late i court, Gen. Gary left his home and repaired j i to Cokesbury to visit his aged mother, then j lying low upon a bed of illness. Upon his return to Edgefield, on Tuesday of last week, 11 he complained of not feeling well, but still appeared promptly in his office, and on Thurs- 1 day afternoon attended a municipal meeting < in the Court House. On Friday morning, < about nine o'clock, it was announced by his 1 two nephews, Major Earnest Gary and Mr. I George Evans, who lived with him, that he j was very ill. And instantaneously Oakley s Park, his handsome home, was thronged with anxious friends. The seat of his disease was at the base of the brain ; and from 8 o'clock i. m. to 4 p. m., he suffered exaggerated nau- J *ea accompanied by terrible vomiting. About F this hour morphine caused him to sink into j a sleep, and from this tim?, to his death at midnight, he remained in a semi-unconscious state. The best medical skill at home, and J from Augusta and Columbia, was summoned i to his beside, but the most powerful stimulants and remedies failed of effect, for God * had summoned the brave spirit hence. And i there was solemn and sacred sorrow in Edge- 1 field's soul. And the stillness of death was J on Edgefield's face. More Railroad Projects. 1 A dispatch dated last Saturday, from J Spartanburg, to the Augusta Chronicle, gives some information relative to an important railroad meeting held in Spartanburg on Friday. The dispatch says: An important meeting of leading citizens was held to day in the interest of three new t lineB of railroad, viz.: The projected exten- ] siou of the Virginia Midland Railroad from t Danville, Va., via Statesville, Lincolnton and Shelbyviile, N. C., to Spartanburg ; the extension of the Augusta and Knoxville Road from Greenwood, S. C., via Laurens- j ville to Spartanburg, and the proposed road from Spartanburg, via Rutherford ton and 1 Marion, N. C\, to Cranberry Iron Works ; to 1 connect with a road already built from that < point to Johuson City, on the east Tennessee, ] Virginia and Georgia Railroad. The first mentioned line would give direct connection ' through the Virginia Midland Road with the ] Baltimore and Ohio ffcad. The second line i would connect at Augusta with the Wadley j Syndicates of South Carolina and Georgia Railroads, and the third line would secure another direct connection with the railroads of the Northwest, thus making Spartauburg , the railroad centre of Upper Carolina, and giving two competing lines of railroad in every direction?north, south, east and west. 1 Enthusiastic speeches were made and resolu- i tions were passed favoring the building of all those roads. Delegates were appointed to attend a railroad meeting at Statesville, N. C., ou the 20th instant, in the interest of the Virginia Midland Railroad. Delegates were also appointed to attend a railroad meeting at Rutherfordton, N. C., on the 18th of May, in the interest of the road from Spartanburg to Rutherfordton, Marion and Cranberry Iron Works. Evils of Iuteniperancc. A writer in the Charlotte Observer collates the following facts on the evils of intemperance, which may be read with profit in"any locality where intoxicating liquors are sold : Sir Matthew Hale, the great light of the English bench, said many years ago : "If all the murders, manslaughters and crimes, which have been committed during the twenty years I have been on the bench, were divided into five parts, four of them would be found tohave resulted from intemperance." A distinguished French lawyer said, of plpvpn hundred and twentv murders commit ted iu France duriog four years, four hundred and fifty were the consequences of quarrels in bar rooms and tippling bouses. A coroner of the city of Loudon said, "I think intoxication is the cause of one half of the inquests that we hold in the metropolis." Chief Justice Parson said, "I have been so long in the habit of hearing criminals of all grades refer all "their miseries to intemperance, that I have ceased to ask them the cause of their ruin." S. Chapman, who visited all the penitentiaries, jails and work houses in the State of New York, in search of facts, stated that "in his opinion more than five-sixths of the persons committed on criminal charges were intemperate." Hugh Maxwell, Esq^-of New York City, has stated that of the 20 cases of murder tried by him while prosecuting attorney, every one was "caused by intemperance." The celebrated Dr. Rush says : "Spirituous liquors destroy more lives than the sword. War has its intervals of destruction, but spirits operate at all times and seasons upon human life." The grand jury of the city of Boston stated in their report, some time since, that "three-fourths of the cases that came before them originated in the dram shops of the city." The British and Foreign Temperance Society, held a meeting in Exeter Hall, May 17th, 1836. A committee reported the signatures of 700 medical gentlemen in London, including the most eminent practitioners in the hospitals to the following declarations, viz. : "We, the undersigned, declare our conviction, that distilled spirits is not only unnecessary, but injurious to persons in health; that it contains no nutritive quality, that its daily use is a strung leuipiauuu iu ui uukcuuch, uwagiuumg many severe diseases, and rendering others difficult to cure, leading to poverty, misery and death, and that its entire disuse, except for purposes strictly medicinal, would powerfully contribute to the health, morality and comfort of the community." The Wheat and Cotton Crops. Reports to April 1st received at the Department of Agriculture in Washington, show an increase of nearly four per cent, in the area sown in Winter wheat. Kansas and Missouri show the largest increase. Ohio and Illinois show but a slight increase, and New York and Pennsylvania remain the same as last year. Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia each report some decrease, owing to the prevalence of snow at the date of the returns. The condition of the crop was not given in large portions of the principal wheat growing i States, but wherever it wus, i( is stated to be below the average of last year. Alternate < freezing and thawing during the month of March was the most detrimental of any weather during the winter. 1 The live stock of the country, notwithstand- j ing the scarcity of food and provender, came < out in fair health, though reported very low , in flesh. No malignant prevailing disease is . reported over any large extent of country, j Local disorders of the lungs and stomach are < often mentioned. Great losses from cold and exposure are reported from the plains of the < far West. The last issue of Bradslreet's, a New York commercial paper, gives a summary of the cotton situation, with regard to both the old and the new crop, down to the close of March. Port reports and overland movements for i" both were 5,481,345, against 4,959,194 for the j same time last year?an excess of 522,151. j Estimating the receipts for the season the J same as last year, gives a total yield for the j t crop of 1881 of 6,283,403 bales. As yet there j ^ are no indications of any sudden falling off in j receipts. The stock at interior towns is no less t than a year ago. Port receipts for the first t twelve days in April have been sixty-eight 8 thousand bales more than for the same time 3 last year. Estimating the probable increase j! of receipts during the remainder of the year,1 , the total yield is placed at 6,422,000 bales. The opinion is expressed that the present j. enormous consumption of cotton by mills will ! itill further increase. Regarding the outlook c for the coming crop, reports say that plant- a ing is about 15 days later than last year. In 3ome regions operations are fully a month f late. Fertilizers will be used more than 11 heretofore, notably so in the Carolinas and o Georgia. Present indications are that the t cotton acreage, as compared with last year, f( will show some increase in the Carolinas, | Georgia, Florida and Texas, while there will j probably be no change in Alabama, Missis-, n sippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas. I n LOCAL A77AZHS. * t NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ? . B. Allison, Clerk?Barber's Bridge. 'rof. E. W. Linebaek?Conservatory of Music. 1 V. H. McCorkle, Intendant?TownElection. * os. F. Wallace, C. C. Pis.?Notice to the Creditors of J. Henry Leech, deceased?Notice to l the Creditors ol Jane E. McElwee, deceased. . 1. Strauss?Lowest Prices. 1 .atimeri. Hemphill?Just Received. .atta Brothers?Family Groceries and Plantation Supplies. Cennedy Bros. & Barron?Wagons?50 to 75 per cent, saved, lunter, Oates <fc Co.?We have Just Received. \ M. Dobson?Millinery, Millinery. \ S. Jefferys?Do me a Favor, lerndon Brothers?500 Cords?Hams? FlourHay, or Long Forage?Bread, toter G. Thomson, Publisher, Cincinnati, OhioBook Canvassers Wanted, tones, New York?Personal and Household Outtits Furnished. COTTON SHIPMENTS. The shipmeuts of cotton from the depot in iforkville, since the 1st of last September to Tuesday last, amount to 7,047 bales, which :xceed the shipments for the same period aat year 1,103 bales, and is 160 bales more ,han were shipped for the entire year 1880. SALE OF FERTILIZEKS. The sales of fertilizers at this place during ;he present season, by fifteen dealers and igents, who represent quite a number of brands, aggregate 2,295 tons, being in excess if the sales of last season. The sales would have exceeded the nbove figures, but for the difficulty of procuring transportation at the proper time. Several orders were countermanded by dealers on notification of delay in shipment. DEATH OF AN AGED NEGKO. Peter Crenshaw, an aged colored mau, died in Yorkville on the 16th instant. He was born in Virginia, December 16, 1791, and when a small boy was brought here as a Blave and became the property of the late Dr. E. A. Crenshaw, with whom he lived until emancipation. Notwithstanding his great age?being over 90 at the time of his death ? he retained his mental faculties in a wonderful degree, and from memory's store could relate many interesting facts of the early history of this locality. EASTER ELECTION. At the Easter election on Monday, the following officers were elected for the Church of the Good Shepherd : Vestrymen.?A. Coward, W. B. Wilson, Sen., G. W. S. Hart, T. W. Clawsou, A. S. Withers, R. J. Latta, J. C. Kuykendal. Wardens.?W. B. Wilson, Sen., A. Cow ard. W. B. Wilson, Sen., G. W. S. Hart, A. S. Withers and B. T. Moore were elected delgates to the Diocesan Con vein ion, which meets in Charleston on the 11th of May. THE ROCK HILL FACTORY. A private note of last Friday from Rock Hill, referring to the progress of work on the cotton factory at that place, says: "Our factory is progressing as well as we could expect. All the machinery has been received for the picker room; also, all the cards, railways, heads, shafting, &c., and 18 spindle frames. The draw frames, slubber and speeder are ready for use. All the balance of the machinery will be here before all the cards can be ground and made ready for use. At the furthest, within two or three weeks, the spinning machinery will be in operation." CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows : Church of the Good Shepherd?Episcopal? Rev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. The rector expects to officiate in Lancaster on Sunday next. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. | Lathan, Pastor. Services will be conducted in this church at 7.30 P. M., by Rev. J. A. White, pastor of Hopewell church. Rev. Mr. Lathan will fill his regular appoibtment at Tirzah. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. There will be no services in this church next Sunday. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Marion Dargan, Pastor. Services in the church at Yorkville morning and evening. THE CHURCHES LAST SUNDAY. SIrvices, appropriate to the day, were held in the churches of Yorkville on Sunday last. The Methodist and Episcopal churches were tastefully decorated, and evening services held in them, the pastors respectively attending their charges out of town in the forenoon. Only morning services were held in the Presbyterian church, owing to indisposition of the paster. Sacramental services were held in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church, the pastor, on this occasion, being assisted by Rev. J. P. Marion, of Chester, who preached a series of able, instructive and eloquent sermons on Friday eveuing, Saturday morning and evening, and on Sunday and Sunday afternoon. PERSONAL MENTION. On Wednesday of last week, our town was visited by Hugh S. Thompson, State Superinteudent of Public Education. Mr. Thompson is an active, efficient official, and under his administration the public school system of the State is being well and satisfactorily managed. We were pleased to receive calls during the week from the following editorial brethren, who are visiting Yorkville as members of the Grand Lodge of Knights of Honor: I. S Revnolds. Esq.. of the Winnsboro Newt; " ~ ^ ' A ' Mr. D. A. Smith, of the Keowee Courier; Mr. M. B. McSweeney, of the Hampton Guardian ; Mr. W. A. Brunson, of the Florence Times, and Mr. W. B. McDaniel, job printer, if Columbia. PROGRESS OF THE RAILROAD. The track of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad is now laid within a mile and a half of Lincolnton. The iron is being furnished promptly and is put down as fast as received. As regards the extension of the road beyond Lincolnton, the Progress of Saturday says: "The Catawba people are determined to lave the Narrow Gauge Railroad reach their own without delay on their part. Work vas begun at this end of the line on Monday, md in a short time they will have the road)ed from here to Newton ready for the iron tnd cross-ties. After this work is completed, hey will have to raise twelve or fifteen thoustnd dollars before the road is extended beyond this place. If they can raise that imount, they will soon get the Narrow Gauge; >ut until then Lincolnton will be the terninus." RESOURCES OF THE STATE. " , Hon. A. P. Butler, Commissioner of Agri ulture, has issued a circular in which he i nnounces that it is proposed to prepare and lublish, for circulation, a hand book^showing 11 the fullest manner possible the resources j f South Carolina. To this end he invites i he cooperation of all who are disposed to 1 urnish, from their respgptive localities, full J ud accurate information iu regard to soils, j minerals, waters, vegetables, and miscella- , eous subjects. A blank, with interrogator i ies on various points under these heads, has d )een prepared, a number of which have been 11 lent to various parties in York county; and ^ t is earnestly hoped those who have received v ;hem will furnish the information desired, ii md thus aid the Commissioner of Agriculture h in his-important work. DEATH OF JOSEPH R. MOSS. Mr. Joseph R. Moss, an old and highly respected citizen, died at his residence, 2? i miles south-east of town, on Tuesday-night ( last, in the 79th year of his age. Mr. Moss ? was a native of Cheshire, Conn., where he 1 was born March 10th, 1803. In 1826 he came ISouth, and in September of that year ? lneated in York district. where he entraced in t 1 O O mercantile pursuits, and subsequently turned < his attention to fanning. He continuously t resided here until his death. He accumu- i lated a handsome competency ; and it may be mentioned that he clung with the fondest at- 1 tachment to the land of his adoption, never, t in the darkest days of South Carolina, waver- < ing in his devotion to the principles which he * deemed best calculated for the best interests < of the State. 1 GRAND LODGE KNlOlITS OF HONOR. The Grand Lodge of the Knights of Honor 1 of South Carolina, met in the hall of Philanthropic Lodge, A. F. M., in this place, at 8 o'clock on Tuesday evening last; the following grand officers present: M. A. Carlisle, G. D.; J. S. Hughson, G. V. D.; J. W. Perrin, G. A. D.; G. W. Holland, G. 1 It.; J. T. Robertson, G. T.; Henry Kohn, G. Gdn.; M. Kaphan, G. S. Grand Trustees?J. R. London, Thomas Ravsor, H. S. Williams. Committeemen?J. D. Dunlap, W. B. McDaniel, T. S. Moorman, R. 0. Sams, Altamont Moses. Of the forty-nine subordinate lodges in South Carolina, thirty-three were represented by thirty-three representatives. On the organization of the Grand Lodge, committees for routiue work were appointed, and the Grand Dictator and the Grand Treasurer read their reports, which were referred. The Grand Lodge then adjourned until 9 A. M., yesterday. The Order is represented as in a flourishing condition in South Carolina, there being a membership of about 1,700 in this State. MM????BafcJI For the YorkvlIIe Enquirer. THE LICENSE QUESTION. Editor of the Enquirer : With very great interest have I read the articles by Countyman and Belhel. I need not tell you I most heartily endorse every ^yord they both say. That thing the world calls whisky, is making fearful progress in the work of destruction. Something must be done, and done soon, or'the country will be iu a deplorable condition. In fact it is in that condition now. If I understand the laws of our State, you people who inharbit corporate towns can pre vent the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. Although I am no lawyer, and confess that I know comparatively nothing about law, still I scarcely think I am mistaken in this matter. I believe it is a fact. Now, there is very little intoxicating liquors sold in the county. Legally, as Bethel states, no license can be granted to any one in South Carolina, not residing iu au incorporated town, to sell spirituous liquors. This I regard a move in the right direction. Since the towns have the legal power to withhold the license, I hope the people of Yorkville, will, at their next town election, exercise that power. It may be that all the inhabitants of your town have the ability to keep out of grog-shops; but I assure you such is not the case with all us country people. I have seen your town, on several sales-days, look like it was a great fair ground, in which all the old poor horses and mules in Christendom had been collected, and were on exhibition, and (he exhibitors resembled demons escaped from the kingdom of darkness. I scarcely think your people will say those were lovely days. Some of your townsmen may say that it was the country people that got drunk and made fools of themselves. Grant it; but you town people furnished the stuff to get drunk on. View this matter as you will, it is humiliating. The whisky shops are the great feeders of the renitentiary, auci nerearter all the whisky shops in South Carolina can only be in the incorporated towns. Let Old York bestir herself and rid herself of these pests to society. I assure you, Mr. Editor, that the people in this, and I suppose every other section of the county, are anxious for your redemption from the curse of barrooms. Bethesda. For the Yorkvllle Enquirer. LIQUOR SELLING. Mr. Editor: However others may feel, a sense of weariness oppresses me over the discussion of the subject of liquor selling in our otherwise quiet and pretty town. This traffic, its results, the crimiuation and re-criminaiion respecting both, seem to be the greatest cause of dissension among an otherwise happy people. To take a brief retrospect, we commence with the article, in the Enquirer of a recent date, signed "Citizen." It was followed by a reply from "T." In the article of the latter, the most distinctive feature was this proposition?"The action of our Council, consistent with the wishes of a majority of our citizens, must be laid, right or wrong, at the door of the citizens." That the proposition cannot be controverted, every fair mind must admit. To state it more simply (begging "T's" consideration), every master is responsible for the acts of his servaut done in pursuance of his express directions. But, we venture the assertion that many of our good citizens have never thought of the personal responsibility attaching to each voter, so far as results are concerned. Some of them would fix a degree i of responsibility upon the liquor seller, for the loss of an inebriate's soul; others would carry it further on, and include the manufacturer; but all pass by the voter who casts his ballot I for its sale, when that becomes the issue of an election. i A bitter thought, too, is evolved out of the j proposition of "T"?he even uses the plural I number?that citizens, majority and minority < alike (for practically they cannot be separa- < ted?at least, on earth,) find the results laid 1 at their door. # i But, we pass on to the article contributed ' to the last issue of the Enquirer, by "Bethel." ( And here, a sadder thought forces itself upon 1 the writer. A man bends over the infant s kiij can W?tYt a nrnnfl pnn. ] 1UI ill VJl IJiO UlOV'UUiU UKJkty IHkll M wvv? vw>. a sciousness of strength. From infancy to child- j hood, childhood to youth, youth to early man- c hood, the father watches with tender solici- 5 tude the reproduction of himself, and then J tremblingly releases parental authority as 1 early manhood ripens into the full stature of c man. There is nothing left him then, but the c prayer of Stonewall Jackson, "0, God! pro- x tect ray * * child." "Bethel !" you 1 have touched a chord that must vibrate in t the hearts of even liquor sellers, for the sake 1 of their sons. That is the highest test, for so f God tried the faith of Abraham in demand- t ing the sacrifice of his "only son, Isaacand c so he evinced His own wondrous-Love, in that a He ' spared not His own Son." r But, a question : Are the minority of our r citizens, opposed to liquor selling, doing their 1 full duty to repress it ? For the third time, o and by a handsome majority (57), Lancaster r has said, "we will not offer liquor for promis- s cuous sale." Rock Hill has also done it. c So have Black's Station and Fort Mills ; and f af the municipalities in York county (in i which alone liquor can be sold,) Vorkville s Is alone in her glory (?) ! What others have a one, we can do?if We would only work for A word to "Countyman": Your article is well-merited rebuke to the gratuitous and iranton insult, that the men of our county, n convenient reach of Yorkville, are attracted lither by the liquor shops. A Father. Yorkville, S. C., April 20, 1881. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The last Legislature of North Carolina 4 nade an appropriation for a mouument to governor Caswell, the first Governor of that state. The monument will be inaugurated in Winston, on the 4th of July. ? The Charlotte Democrat says that in lome localities in that section of the State, here will he plenty of fruit of all sorts, iuiluding peaches. In some places the peach ;rees never bloomed, while in others blooms fvere and are plentiful. m, t, * i , ,L., nr T ? me ruueign uoserver icarna uitii w.u. Vlunden, Republican member of the Legislaiurefrom Pasquotank county, eloped on Monlay, 11th instant, with the wife of J. A. John* ion, of Woodville, Perquimons county. They jarried off a large amount of money, supposed to belong to Mr. Johnson. Mrs. Johnson is about 3b years old, and is still pretty. Munden is about 40 years of age. There is no clue to their whereabouts. ? According to an account published in the Gaston in Gazette, a reign of terrorism prevails at Cherryville, in Gaston county, all attributable to whisky. It is charged that on Friday night a crowd of rowdies applied gun powder to the calaboose and blew it to attorns, because one of their associates had previously been confined in it. The Mayor of the town is powerless to enforce order, and fearing private injury to himself or property, has res'gned. ? A prohibition ticket will be voted for at the next muuicipal election in Charlotte. The ticket is composed as follows and was ratified by the Prohibition Association on Monday night: For Mayor?Hon. F. S. DeWolfe. For Aldermen: First Ward?C. Scott, C. A. Frazier, R. M. Miller. Second Ward?Jno. L. Brown, Wm.-Houser, A. P. Hunter. Third Ward?D. W. Oates, H. Edwards, A. W. Calvin. Fourth Ward? Jno. Wilkes, E. K. P. Osborne, D. P. Hutchison. Mr. DeWolfe is the present Mayor of the city. Col. Wm. Johnston is "the people's" candidate for Mayor, on the license ticket. MERE-MENTION. The Citizens' Bank of Atlanta, Georgia, suspended payment on Tuesday of last week. Heavv frosts are reported through out Texas last Friday morning, doing considerable damage to corn, cotton, fruits and vegetables. The 13th instant was the sixty-third anniversary of the adoption of the present United States flag as the national ensign. Garfield has promised to speak at Yorktovm. Glove's Gap, a village in Marion county, West Va., is desolated with small pox, there being nobody to bury the dead or attend the sick. Near Lawrence, Mass., on the night of the 13ih instant, Arthur Foster, a student of divinity, was shot while attempting to rob a dwelling. Sergeut 'Bates? the flag bearer is reported to be dying." Both branches of the Indiana Legislature have voted to submit to the people propositions to amend the constitution so as to enable women to vote, and to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors."* The telephone is to be withdrawn from Charlotte because of insufficient patronage. A young lady died in Rome, Georgia, on Friday, from the effects of a sprig of cedar swallowed a week before. The latest returns from Cbio, 9 * state thi.t eight thousand persons were killed aad tea thousand injured by the recent earthquakes. TH E CHIO VOLCANIC ERUPTION. The most remarkable earthquake of modern times occurred on the Island of Chio, an island of Asiatic Turkey, in the Grecian archipelago, off the coast of Asia Minor, a few dayu ago, particulars of which have only just come to hand through correspondence of the London Times. The correspondent says: I havs now made, from personal observa- ^ tion, and with the help of others, a pretty thorough canvass of the state of affairs through this Island. The total number of dead is scarcely less than four thousand, although tome allowance may be due to the fact thai; immediately after the disaster, many persons crossed to the mainland, and some of those now reported as dead may be there. The villages on the southern side of the Island are completely wrecked?hardly a single house being left standing. The centre of the volcanic action seems to have been near Menita, overlooking Megalo Bay, on the east coast, where three huadred persons perished out of a population of 1,200. At Vannes, 26 perished out of a population of 600; at Philitia, 60 out of 250; at Klamonti, 40 out of 1,500; at Armilla, 40 out of 600, and at Kinri, 130 out of 480. On the western side of the Island, at Mesta, many houses fell, but nobody^was killed. At Vesta three fourths of the buildings were wrecked, but only one person killed. At Lethi, 23 persons were killed out of 600; at Argonima, 40 out of 400, and at Anabatos, 12 killed ; the latter is the most northerly town on the west side, which suffered severely. The oth er towns were severely shaken, but are not in ruins. The departmet of Chio and towns southeast, of it suffered most of all. Kallimassia is simply a mass of ruins and it is dif- * ticult to distinguish one house from another. I cannot conceive how any considerable number of the population escaped, yet only 448 perished out of 1,800. The neighboring villages suffered similarly?seven of Jhe principal ones, containing 8,570 people, are believed to have lost 1,327 dead. At least nine-tenths )f the houses in the southern and southeastern portions of the Island must be rebuilt or repaired. The population are now tenting )ut and are in great need of food and shelter, rhe northern part requires help, but topless extent. Those severely wounded are nearly til bein<- brought up to Chios by men from ihips. 'I he work of clearing away the ruins las begu x here, but in the villages the peo)le are still panic stricken. Little can be lone as long as the shocks continue. Of the 200 persons, for example, who perished in the Liopotamoi, only 65 of the bodies have yet ieen recovered, pnd a similar proportion in f ither villages. Ahout ?0,000 people are lamping in the southern half of the island, vith nothing but what they have on the:r lacks. Pretty good progress has been made owards systematizing a relief organization. rhe people are further demoralized by the reaching of a foolish Greek priest, who warns hem all to flee, as the island is about to be lompletely swallowed/up. The Archbishop md Governor are seeking to allay the excitenent, but many are still emigrating to the nainland and the adjacent island. At Kalimassia, a German Doctor, who was in one f the houses at the time of the disaster, elates that the first warning he had was eeing dishes on the table jump up and fall in the floor. A few seconds later the walls ell outwards. From this and similar testinony, I believe that in this district the fir*t hock was nearly vertical, followed irameditely by a. horizontal oscillation.