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Jtoaps and .facts. < ? Thirteen regiments of State militia have, * up to date, signified an intention to be present . at the Yorktown celebration, and 4,000 United State troops are also expected to be present. ? The American Bible Society will, for the present, adhere to the old version, or "King James' Bible," of which they have many ; thousand copies on hand, out of 1,042,000 ' manufactured last year. ? Spring wheat goes from St. Paul, Minn., ; to Glasgow, Scotland, via New Orleans, for 28 cents per bushel, and sacked flour from St. j Louis by the same route, to Liverpool,for 50 cents per 100 pounds. * , ? The English holders of Confederate bonds i are quite a hopeful set of men. They held a < iL- .f l 11 'lli-l ~ meeung me oiner aay ana aeciaea to levy a small assessment to pay the expenses of a ! committee appointed to take charge of the i bonds in trust. ? The Galveston and Pacific Narrow Gauge railroad company was organized at Galveston i recently with a capital stock of $750,000. The route of. the road will be from Galveston to Victoria, San Antonio and Camargo. Subscription books for the capital stock will be opened next week. ? Large numbers of camels are said to roam along the Gila and Salt River bottoms in Arizoua. They are supposed to have sprung from a number of beasts which were imported into Texas in 1878 for use on the sandy plaius, and were turned loose when the war broke out. ? There is a vessel on the stocks in the Charlestown, Mass., navy yard, whose keel was laid in the year 1818. For sixty-three years she has been there and her cost to the government exceeds a million dollars. Through successive administrations the old hulk has received occasional attentions, but she is not finished and never will be. ? A very silent funeral took place recently in Sheffield, England. The remains were those of an old lady who had been deaf and dumb for years. The mourners were all deaf and dumb, and the service was entirely conducted with deaf and dumb signs by Mr. Stephenson, the superintendent of the Shef field Deaf and Dumb Association. ? A statement prepared by the Post Office Department, for the gratification of the curious, shows that 2,720,234,252 letters, postal cards, newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals, and packages of merchandise, were mailed last year in the United States. The number of letters alone was more than one thousand and fifty millions, an average of about twenty-one for every man, woman, and child in the country. ? The Appletons received the copy of the Revised New Testament in England simultaneously with English publishers. They had a force of compositors on board a fast steamer, and had the book put in type and stereotype plates cast coming over, working off bound volumes a few hours after landing, and shipping them back to England before the English publishers issued any. ? A cruel blunder was made in announcing the verdict in a St. Louis murder case. The foreman of the jury handed the clerk several slips of paper, and the clerk read : "We find the prisoner not guilty on the ground of insanity." The culprit's face lighted up with delight, and he exultantly shook hands with his couusel. "There's a mistake," said the foreman to* the clerk ; "you've read the wrong slip. The one that's signed is our verdict? guilty of murder in the first degree." ? The New Orleans Democrat's crop reports last we'ek-were from Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. They were generally favorable to cotton, and especially so to corn. An increased acreage in the first and decreased in the latter are reported. The troubles spoken of are local, onrl mnlnrlo como / ] rit ti'qq thor ivraQO o nrl uuu m^iuug cuint ui J IT ^atuv/11 giaoo ?uu scarcity of labor, the general prospects being however very fine. Rice and sugar cane are both reported to be in excellent condition. ? A watch-maker in Newcastle, Peun., says a Pitttsburg paper, has completed a set of three gold shirt studs, in one of which is a watch that keeps excellent time, the dial being about three-eights of an inch in diameter. The three studs are connected by a strap of silver inside the shirt bosom, and the watch contained in the middle one is wound up by turning the stud above, and the hands are set by turning the one below. But perhaps the most remarkable thing about the lilliputian machine is that it works with a pendulum like a clock, and the pendulum will act with ease and accuracy in whatever position the time-piece is placed, even if it be turned upside down. ? Baltimore dealers have received discouraging replies to their inquiries about Western wheat. Twenty counties in southern Illinois report a half crop ; Litchfield, 111., reports a quarter crop ; and Greenville, 111., says: "Wheat prospects worse than ten days ago. Hundreds of acres will not be cut. A general failure in Illinois, Indiana and Missouri, and part of Kansas. Farmers holding wheat on hand at 81.25. Many will not make their bread and seed. Four counties adjoining ours will make a quarter and a third of a crop." Three points in Indiana report from a fourth to a half crop, Stuffton, Ohio, reports a failure, and Sidney, Ohio, Hessian fly and drought. All the accounts received are gloomy. ? A Connecticut man has invented a breech-loading pipe which can be discharged and reloaded without being relighted, and saves a vast amount of time and matches and vexation of spirit. The inventor calculates that the average smoker fills hi3 pipe twelve times a day, averaging six minutes each time?causing a loss of seventy-two minutes per day, or eight hours and twenty-four minutes per week, or eighteen days four hours and forty-eight minutes per year. At this rate a person who smokes for fifty years will waste nearly three of them in loading and unloading his pipe. The inventor estimates the number of pipe-smokers iu this country at 1,000,000, and that each pipe-lighting requires an average expenditure of fourteen matches?which is equal to the destruction of 56,940,000,000 matches per annum. ? A leading Coukling man threatens direful things to a reporter of the Philadelphia Times. He says : "Don't you believe that Roscoe Conkling has fired .off all his ammunition yet. I know that Mr. Conkling has regretted ever since that he did not do as he was pre* pared to do at the time the electoral count was before Congress, and denounce that infamous steal and all connected with it, and he is not (Jbe only one who regrets it. Hundreds of Republicans in this State?and I was one of them?were prepared to act with him. Well, Mr. Conkling has now in his possession such positive proof of the corruption of Blaine and Garfield, and especially of the former, that were he to make it public no decent man could longer consent to stick to this administration or declare himself its friend." ? The most intense excitement prevailed on Tuesday of last week, at Clonmel, Ireland, tnUno/v nn 1 An /s f fn xtvtn k n /I Kaam nnnAlinAA/1 A rviicic saico ui laiuud nau uccu auuuuu^cu IU take place. At early morning several hundred well-mounted and disciplined horsemen, wearing green sashes, preceded by hands and followed by an immense procession of people, paraded the town. All the streets leading to the 1 court house were lined with police and mili- 1 tary. All shops and business places were ] closed. The sales passed off quietly and j things went well until toward six o'clock, when ! a cry was raised that a local clergyman had | been arrested. A shout went forth to rescue j 1 the priest. A rush was at once made on the j! police, but was repelled. The riot act was j then read, and the hussars charged and re- ] charged the mob, who hurled volley after volley of stones at the military, inflicting 1 upon many of them severe injuries. Several ^ policemen and civilians were also injured. ] The injuries in the case of one or two of the jonstabulary will, it is feared, prove fatal. The peoplewfterward gathered in the lower md of town, where they were addressed by epresenjative9 of the League. No arrests lad been made up to the evening. ? During the ceremonies at the New York Academy of Music, on the evening of Decoradon Day, Major-General Doubleday met . Bishop Stevens, of South Carolina. General Doubleday, in his speech, stated that twenty fears ago he aimed the first gun fired in the war at the Confederate cause?referring to Fort Sumter; and that twenty years ago - - - ? - - 1 an. J I Bishop Stevens, then in command ot oteveus Battery, Charleston harbor, aimed the 6rst *un of the war against the United States flag, waving over the Star of the West, which came with reinforcements to Fort Sumter, and that he offered him his hand as a token of the reconciliation between the North and the South, as exemplified in his appearance at the Academy to do honor to the Union dead. The audience, at the request of the presiding officer, Major-General Sickles, rose en masse and ratified the contract by enthusiastic applause. ffflrMle &nqnirw. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1881. GERMAN CARP. The subject of fish culture is growing in interest among the people, and we think, at no distant day, the business may become a source of profit to those having the proper facilities for constructing the necessary ponds There is no reason that we have yet been able to discover, why the owner of land, properly supplied with water, may not have his fish pond and raise fish for his own table use or for market, the same as he raises pigs aud chickens, mutton and beef, or any other table food. With this view we have printed, from time to time, practical articles bearing upon the subject, and on our first page this week we publish an illustrated article, giving directions for the construction of ponds and the modus operandi for propagating and rais ing the German Carp, which seems to be the favorite species for private ponds, owing to the comparative ease with which they can be raised and their rapid attainment of growth. For the illustrations accompanying the article, we are indebted to Hon. A. P. Butler, Commis sioner of Agriculture, who, in furtherance of an Act of the Legislature, is displaying commendable zeal in awakening the people of the State to the importance of this matter. He has already distributed large numbers in various sections of the State, and at the proper time,' which cannot be before the fall and winter, will endeavor to supply the young fish to all who raake application for them. Printed blanks for the purpose of making request of the Agricultural Commissioner at Columbia, will be furnished by his depart ment to applicants, and on being filled out and returned, will, in their regular order, meet attention. Those who raake such request should, -V 1 L _? I in the meantime, construct tneir ponas, oeiug careful to follow the directions, for, as will be seen, much depends upon a proper construction of the pond. We feel satisfied that the experiment of a fish-pond will well repay the trouble, provided the proper care is taken in its construction and the general directions for the treatment of the fish are observed. Already they have been introduced in this county by several enterprising gentlemen, who have made application for the young ones, and so far as we have learned, the most gratifying results have attended the experiment. Mr. R. "E. Guthrie, of Guthriesville, in thi^' county, a practical man, and successful in all he undertakes, stocked a pond last January, aud is even now quite enthusiastic over his prospect of an abundant supply of fish at a small outlay of expense. At our request for a statement of the success which he has met, under date of the 3rd instant, be writes as follows: As the subject of fish culture is becoming one of general interest, I will give you ray experience with German Carp so far. In January last, I received from the Department of the Interior at Washington, twenty German Carp of the "Mirror" variety, and put them in a pond previously prepared for them. I saw nothing more of them until the first day of this month, wnen I drained the water off the pond for the purpose of destroying the young fry and the eggs of the red perch that I had failed to get rid of in reconstructing my pond in December, although the pond was? drained and the bottom remained dry for two weeks before making the permanent dam. In the last draining of the pond, I found the CarD had made a erowth of ten inches in * w length, and are very thick and chubby. This extraordinary growth I would not have believed, had I not seen the fish when first put in the pond. Then they wdVe about the size and shape of an ordinary Congress pocketknife. Mr. John F. Hinson, who lives near me, and who received at the same time the same number and placed them in his pond, saw nothing more of them until about ten days ago, when he commenced feeding them. He had only thrown them food a few times, when, on going to feed them at the usual time, (about sunset) by stamping on the ground, they readily made their appearance, rolling and tumbling over each other like pigs at the trough. They also keep the bottom of the pond rooted up and muddy much after the manner of pigs. My experience may not amount to much yet, to enable me to speak advisedly, but I am satisfied that all that has been claimed for the fish can be realized by any one having suitable facilities for conslructing a pond, simply by complying with the instructions given for their culture. R. E. Guthrie. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Dr. Lander, of Williamston, suggests the calling of a State temperance convention in Columbia in July. ? The Rev. H. T. Sloan, D. D., of Long Cane, Abbeville county, has been n ominated for president of the Due West Female College in place of the late Dr. Bonner. ? The Governor has appointed Col. J. L. Orr, of Greenville, Solicitor of the Eighth Circuit, in place of Col. J. S. Cothran, appointed Circuit Judge. ? A fire occurred in Florence on Friday morning last which burned the store, stock and furniture of M. C. Buchheit, loss about 36,000; the dwelling of J. J. Cox, loss 81,500, and the small dwelling of W. E. Pearsall, loss 8500. All the losses are covered by insurance except Pearsall's furniture. The Eire started in Pearjall's kitchen and is supposed to have been incendiary. ? W. C. Benet, Esq., of Abbeville, has been t chosen by the Literary Societies of Erskine o College, anniversary orator at the commence- f ment at Due West on the 29th of June. d ? The State is to receive 600,000 young r Bhad, 300,000 of which will be put in Broad r river, the balance goiug to the Wateree and j: Pee Dee. o ? Governor Hagood has appointed Col. c Alfred Kbett of Charleston, Chief Constable c of the State. Col. Rhett was appointed by v Governor Hampton, by Governor Simpson [ and twice by Governor Jeter, and now by a Governor Hagood, making the 6fth term he has served. ? The Demooratic Convention of Charles- . ton (Third) District, on Thursday last, unan iraously nominated Samuel Dibble, Esq., of Orangeburg, for Congress, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. M. P. ~ xl ] UUotf&er. ine governor nas oraereu me election to be held to-day. It is generally understood that the Radicals will make no formal nomination, but will vote for E. VV. | M. Mackey, who contested O'Connor's seat in Congress. ? Col. E. M. Boykin, superintendent of immigration, has gone to New York to perfect ^ arrangements for securing fifty families of immigrants who have befen already ordered by the farmers, and to generally expedite ' the business. Colonel Boykin will remain ' in New York until he ships these immigrants?probably for ten days?and will arrange during his stay to prevent any complications which may arise from the present route being closed on account of the Charles ton quarantine. ? The Columbia Register is still investi gating the returns of personal property made by taxpayers in the different counties. It says: "It does look a little curious that Spartanburg has only one house to 41 inhabitants ; Pickens one to 39; Edgefield 'one to 37; Oconee one to 31; Abbeville one to 30; Anderson one to 29; Fairfield one to 27 ; whilst Barnwell and Lexiugtou have one house to every three inhabitants; Aiken, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Colleton, Marion, Marlboro, New'berry, Orangeburg aud Williamsburg have one to four inhabitants; Darlington, Georgetown and Kershaw rejoice in one house to every five inhabitants; Horry, Richland and Sumter are not lacking in house room with six inhabitants to each house." ? Col. E. S. Allen, of Spartanburg, one of the Directors of the State Penitentiary, who has recently returned from Columbia, informed a reporter of the Greenville News, that "Mr. Devitt, the shoe manufacturer, has ' J 'L. !i ?i! -I 1 A1 A AAA piaceu in me penitentiary auout ?iu,uuu worth of machinery and is making preparations to begin the manufacture of shoes with convict labor at an early day. The convict farm ten miles below Columbia is doing well, with the prospects of paying better than it did last year. The farm paid a net profit of about 810,000 last year. The land is owned by Jno. C. Seegers, who supplies also the rriules, <fec., while the State furnishes the labor and guards and superintends it, getting therefor one half the proceeds. The new penitentiary walls are being built and in internal management everything is kept in very good order." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The State Journal has been revived at Raleigh, by Mr. John Spelrnan, and is published as the organ of the anti-prohibitionists. ? The grand jury of Rowan county have found an indictment against Moses Benceni, Jr., of Salisbury, for the killing of a negro on election day last November. ? The King's Mountain gold mine, with all its machinery and appurtenances, lying in Gaston and Cleveland counties, will be sold at public auction by virtue of a deed of trust on the 2nd of July. ? The Aurora says that the prisoners in jail at Shelby made an unsuccessful attempt to escape last Saturday night. Thej had rubbed off several bolt heads, with the pieces of a broken crock, and broke a piece ol a bar from the cage, but the work was discovered in time to prevent their escaping. ? Raleigh has made a step towards temperance reform by closing the bar-rooms of the city on Sunday, to which the News and Observer says: "The closing of the bar-rooms on Sunday is having an admirable effect upon the morals of the city, say the police. If closiug them for one day in the week has such a good effect, wouldn't the effect be better if they were closed seven days ?" ? The wholesale liquor dealers of Charlotte, says the Democrat, have sent an application to Judge Gudger, at Rockingham, asking a restraining order against the recent ordinances of the board of aldermen ordering all engaged in the liquor business to close their houses on the 1st of June. The order was# granted, and is made returnable before Judge Shipp, at chambers, on the 20th instant, when a final settlement of the question will be made. >. ? The first "dry" day in Charlotte is thus noted by the Observer of the 2nd instant: "It was no doubt thought by some that violations, or evasions of the liquor law would occur yesterday ; but it is a pleasure to be able to state that, with an extra police force on duty, not a single case was detected. The ( general good order of the city throughout the day and night was a subject of remark. The ' ' i /? . 1 _ l.i_ I li ! proprietors 01 me iaie Dar-rooms generally opened their places of business or sat around the doors, holding a kind of "wake," as it were over the remains. One man was having , his house scoured out, and when asked what | he intended doing in there, replied that he was going to give a dance to the leaders of ] the prohibition movement." ? The State anti-Prohibitiou Convention was in session in Raleigh on Wednesday of last week. R. C. Badger was elected permanent chairman. Two resolutions, preceded by a lengthy preamble, were adopted, the resolutions declaring that "we, the real representatives of the cause of temperance in North Carolina, the anti-prohibitionists, here in convention assembled, find the said bill is unworthy the support of enlightened freemen and good citizens;" and that "we pledge ourselves to resist its adoption by every worthy means at our command, and call upon our fellow-citizens of every creed and race, of every shade of religious and political opinion, to join with us in condemning at the ballotbox, this most unjust, unworthy and improper law." ? The Star of Zion, published at Concord, by A. S. Richardson, colored, formerly postmaster at Chester, S. C., gives the following advice to the people in whose interest it is conducted: "The immigration movement southward should teach the colored people that new conditions and opposing forces to a our race are springing up which will require c >? . hem to become laud owners.- Those who wn the land own the people, especially in arming districts. The policy of the happy larkey to "eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die," must be laid aside, and the lew conditions which stare him in the face nust be met. Wealth must take the place if poverty, education of ignorance, morality if evil, and temperance, industry and econony must supersede drunkenness, idleness and easte. The ministers should teach the peo>le the principles upon which the progr||s ind power of the colored race depends." RAILROAD FACTS AND RUMORS. ? The directors of the Atlanta and West Point (Ga.) Railroad have decided to issue a crip dividend of 10 per cent. ? The Central Railroad of Georgia has dedared a dividend for the first time in nine rears. It is a semi-annual, four per cent. :ash and 40 per cent, scrip. ? Baltimore merchantsare making arrangecents to give President Garrett, of the Balticore and Ohio Railroad, a public reception -?n his rpfnrn from Phirnno whirh will he within a few days. ? The Port Royal Railroad has not been leased, but Mr. Wadley and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, who are the lessees of the Georgia Railroad, have bought enough of the stock and bonds of the road to give them a controlling interest, and to prevent any one else from obtaining it. ? The Baltimore American is startled at the news from Augusta, relative to the absorption of the Augusta and Knoxville Road by the Richmond and Danville Syndicate. It sees that the Virginia Midland is bottled up, and an independent line the only remedy. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was too slow, perhaps. ? A letter from Statesville, N. C., informs the Charlotte Observer that at the election in that place Tuesday, of last week, to vote on the proposition to subscribe $50,000 to the Virginia Midland Railroad, the vote stood 205 for the subscription and none against. This subscription, of course, is conditioned on the road going by Statesville. ? A contest is going between the representatives of the Richmond and Danville combination, known as the Clyde syndicate, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, for the control of the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad, which will shortly be completed to Greenwood. A dispatch from Augusta, dated on Monday last, says : "President Verdery, of the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad, will leave here to-morrow morning for Baltimore, where he will have a conference with President Garrett, of the Baltimore, and Ohio, and President Barbour, of the Virginia Midland, who are anxious to obtain control of the Augusta and Knoxville, and are prepared to make a liberal proposition. The Clyde syndicate is also working hard to obtain the road." ? MERE-MENTION. Crops in Alabama and Georeia are reported to be in a flourishing condition. It is said that Jefferson Davis has purchased a building lot in a fashionable part of Washington city. Mexican investments in the past seven months have absorbed $78,000,000 of American capital. The Census Bureau states that the net debt of the three hundred cities and towns in the United States having more than 7,500 population, is over $570,000,000. The cotton crop of free labor amounted to 6,400,000 last year., The greatest crop ever raised under slavery was, in 1860, and 1,600,000 less than that of 1880?'81. The Georgia State Temperance Convention has been called to meet at Atlanta on the 4th of July to consider the local option question. The balloting in the New York Legislature last Monday to elect Senators to fill the vacancies occasioned by the resignation of Conkling and Piatt, re suited in no choice, lhere are no hopes of an election at this session, and the^probability is the Legislature will adjourn without electing Senators. BARBER'S BRIDGE. a reply to the county commissioners. Editor of the Enquirer: I deem it but just to myself ttf reply to Dr. Allison's card in your last issue, in reference to Barber's Bridge. It is admitted that the Commissioners have "the right to reject any or all bids," but was it economy to reject the lowest bid for the reason he gives? If I could not have given the security or built the bridge according to contract, then they could have rejected the bid on bridge. Let me make the calculation. It takes 1,500 feet of lumber at 3 cents per foot, face measure, an extravagant price? This lumber, $ 45 00 Haul ins said lumber, 10 00 30 trees for sleepers, Ac., at 40c., 12 00 25tb 40-penny nails at 4c 1 00 160tb iron bolts, Ac., at 6c., 9 60 I can do all the work for 30 00 Making in all $107 60 ?Leaving me a profit of 837.40 on a small job. I have been engaged as a contractor in building for the last twenty-three years, and profess to be master of my trade. Dr. Allison says, "I was not represented." That is a mistake. He also says "Mr. T. G. Gulp was present with security." That is a mistake, for Mr. Culp was with me at my farm on the river. Another mistake: Dr. Allison told me, when on his way home that Messrs. Culp were to do the work for 8225, first refusing to tell me what they got the job at; but I told him I saw no use in keeping it a secret any longer. You see it is published at 8245. That is another "thing" I don't un Jerstand. JN. G. BRADFORD. [It is due to Dr. Allison to say that he wrote that L. N. Culp was present at the bridge letting. By a typographical error the name was printed incorrectly.?Ed. Enquirer.] Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM BLACK'S STATION. Black's Station, S. C., June 6.?The Irought still continues here, and the crops ire very much in need of rain. With the exception of blackberries, the fruit crop around lere is a failure. Within the last few days, U. S. Deputy Collector A. G. Smith, assisted by Deputy Marshal G. W. Moose, have captured and deitroyed three distilleries near this place. The stands of beer were broken down, and afterwards the buildings were fired, which completely consumed them. There was no still 'ound in either building. The plan of the listillers seems to be to withhold the still unil all is ready for distilling, when it is irought from ita place of concealment and | nit into use. After its work is done it is imnediately taken out to prevent capture, of which it is constantly liable. The Masonic Lodge at this place will cele- ; irate St. John's Day on the 24th of this nonth. Several other lodges will be repre ented, and an address will be delivered by j Ton. F. A. Conner, of Rock Hill. There j vill also be a picnic on the same day, on which occasion the services of the kind ladies will be brought in requisition, as they always 1 .re, in order to render a sociable entertainneut a success. Eao. 1 LOCAL AFFAIRS. I I r NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. r John C. Kuykendal.?Locals. M. Strauss.?During the month of June. ' Clark W. Moore and others.?Notice to Trcaspas- 1 sera. John S. Bratton and R. S. Hope, Administrators.?Application for Discharge. i James Mason. Sup't.?Schedule of Chester and i Lenoir .Railroad. 0 A. Pope, General Passenger Agent.?Schedule of , Richmond and Danville Railroad. Yorkville Female College.?Programme. < Col. A. Coward, Principal.?King's Mountain Military School. W. P. Hobbs, Agent.?Fresh Mackerel. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. 1 Another change has been made in the schedules of the Air-Line Railroad and the Chester and Lenoir. .By the present schedule the Lincoluton train now arrives at Yorkville at 10.10 A. M., and from Chester it arrives at 3.55 P. M. The new schedules are published on the third page of this issue. DIED IN TEXAS. Mr. A. B. Snrinp9. Jr.. a native of York county, died at San Antonio, Texas, on the 29th ultimo. His father, Col. A. B. Springs, was with him in his last sickness, and brought his remains to Charlotte, where the pareuts of the deceased now live. The funeral took place from the First Presbyterian Church in that city at 8 o'clock last Sunday morning. YORKY^LLE SILVER CORNET BAND. The new silver instruments recently purchased by th^Yorkville Cornet Band have been received, and on Monday afternoon the Band, in their new and beautiful uniform, made a street parade, discoursing fine music. The Enquirer acknowledges the compliment of a piece played in front of the office. The Band numbers nine pieces, and under the leadership of Mr. R. J. Herndon displays considerable proficiency. SALES-DAY. On sales-day, last Monday, the following property was sold : By the clerk of the court, house and lot in Yorkville, sold at the suit of S. A. McElwee vs. Egbert R. McEltfee and others. Bought by S. L. McElwee at a nominal bid of $675. By the Sheriff, house and lot in Fort Mill, known as the B. F. Powell place ; sold at the suits of T. T. Youngblood and others. Bought by W. I. Jones for $305. MAY TAX COLLECTION. The total amount of taxes paid during the May collection aggregates $11,697.36.1 on the following subjects: State $4,592 53 4 County, 2,755 52 8 Railroad, 2,295 35 4 Fence, (Broad River T.',) 37 95 4 School, 1,836 99 1 Poll, 178 00 0 Total, .-. $11,697 36 1 The above is io excess of the May collection last year, the amount then paid in aggregating about $9,000. CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows : Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. The pastor will fill his regular appointment at Tirzah next Sunday. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services at the usual hours, morning and evening. Church of the Good Shepherd?EpiscopalRev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. Services at the usual hours, morning and afternoon. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Marion Dargan, Pastor. There will be two services at King's Mountain Chapel, Saturday and Sunday, at which the pastor will have assistance. No service in the church at Yorkville. YORKVILLE FEMALE COLLEGE. The annual examination and commencement exercises of Yorkville Female College, will begin on Monday next, the 13th, the programme of which is published in another column. The commencement sermon will be preached on Sunday, the 12th, by Rev. George Howe, D. D., of Columbia. The address will be delivered at 8 P. M., Thursday, by the Hon. Porcher Miles, President of the Uni versity of South Carolina. As will be seen by announcement of the Principal, it is in contemplation to run an excursion train from Chester on that afternoon for the convenience of the citizens of that town and those on the line of the road who may desire to witness the exercises of that evening. THE MEETING FRIDAY NIGHT. There was a very good attendance of citizens at the Court House last Friday night at the meeting called in the interest of the Jenkins Rifles. On the entrance of Col. A. Coward, Capt. Lindsay vacated the chair in his favor. Stirring speeches were made by Col. W. B. Wilson, Maj. J. F. Hart and Col. Coward. At the conclusion of the speeches, several young men enrolled their names as active members of the company, and the names of a few contributing members were also added. There will be a meeting of the company at the Court House to-morrow night, at which all who feel an interest in its per! petuation are invited to attend. Persons desiring to enroll their names can do so by applying to the Orderly Sergeant, Mr. H. C. Strauss. CIRCUIT COURT. The next term of the Circuit Court for York county will convene on the fourth Monrlow r?f fhia mnnth at. whiph his ffnnnr ""J ? > - - e>A. P. Aldrich will preside. On Monday last tl^e following juror3 were drawn to serve at the approaching terra : While?W. M. Matthews, D. J.. Jackson, Samuel J. Farris, James S. Reid, J. Wilson Marshall, S. A. McElwee, J. H. Matthews, Wm. A. Isom, John R. Harris, B. F. Rawlinson, D. R. Clinton, John M. McCullough, S. G.( Keistler, J. A. Deal, J. W. Roddy, James H. Neely, M. V. Darwin. John L. Watson, R. A Blanton, Henry E. McFadden, Moore Burris, Thomas L. Bnuidon, Wm. R. Hayes, J. D. Jones, R. G. Whitesides, J. A. M. L. Stewart, John T. Thompson, D. M. Ford, Thomas Boliu, John W. Rhyne, J. H. Good. Colored?Ralph Keenan, Benjamin Galloway, Moses Evans, Madison Alexander, Randall Bratton. PERSONAL MENTION. After a long absence from the home of his nativity, Rev. W. Meek McElwee, D. D., returned to York county last week on a visit to his relatives, among them his brother, Mr. J. Newman McElwee, Sr. Rev.'Mr. McElwee ( is a native of York, and in 1826 was settled : as pastor of Tirzah and Sharon congregations j in this county and Carrael Hill in Chester. : He resigned the pastorship of Carruel Hill in 1 a short time, and in the Spring of 1832 also ( resigned the pastorship of Tirzah and Sharon. J Soon after this resignation he went North 1 and settled as pastor of Service and King's j Creek congregations in Beaver county, Penn- * sylvania, where he now resides. He contiu- ^ ued in this charge until only a few years ago, < when he resigned it on accouut of the infirrai- " ties of old age, he being now about 80 years . old. He graduated from the South Carolina ^ College in 1820 in the name class with Rev. , Samuel L. Watson. M EDITORIAL INKLINGS. 1 riie Virginia Read}listers. The Virginia State Convention of the < Rearljuster party, of which Mahone is the 1 feader, met in Richmond last Thursday, 700 ] delegates, including 75 colored men being I present. Mahone was received iu the Convention with great enthusiasm and made a j speech. Resolutions approving his recent 1 course in the United StatesSenate were uoani- j mously adopted. The following nominations j were made : W. E. Cameron, Readjuster, for J Governor; Jno. F. Lewis, Radical and U. S. ^ Marsha^ for Lieut.Governor; and Mr. Blair, 1 Readjuster, for Attorney General. There ' were several incipient rows and bolts in the Convention which Alahone suppressed, he and 1 Riddlebarger both declining the nomination for Governor. American Horses in England. In the raoe for the Derby stakes at Epsom, England, on the 1st instant, P. Lorillard's bay colt Iroquois was the winning horse. The second place was secured by W. T. Sharpe's brown colt Peregrine, and the third place by John Watson's bay colt Tom Moore. Jockey J. Osborne rode Voluptuary and Leraaire rode Tom Moore. The horses went to the starting post at 3.04 P. M. The betting immediately before the start was 11 to 2 against Iroquois and 14 to 1 against Don Tulano. Jockey Archer, who rode Iroquois, received a tremendous ovation on returning to weigh in. Iroquois won cleverly by a half length, with two lengths between Peregrine and Tom Moore. The time of the race was 2 minutes 50 seconds. Mr. Lorillard's winnings are said to be about 82,000,000. Archer, who rode Iro quois, is an English jockey. Such is his reputation as a rider that it is said he receives a retainer of $10,000 a year from one man, for the privilege of calling on him first; $5,000 from another for the second call, and -$1,000 to $1,500 in addition every time he rides. Another Graud Telegraph Enterprise. In Albany, N. Y., on Saturday last, articles of association were filed for the incorporation of the International Telegraph Company. According to an Albany dispatch, the enterprise is to be a magnificent undertaking. The capital will be $10,000,000. The route of the line is to be from New York by way of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, through the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas to the Rio Grand River; also from New York by way of Albany and Rochester to Buffalo; also from New York by way of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad to Buffalo, thence west through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois to Chicago ; also from Philadelphia to Cincinnati aud St. Louis; also from Cincinnati through Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas to Houston and Galveston; also from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, Colorado amf New Mexico to Mexico; also from Chicago west to Colorado; also from New Yprk to Portland, Me.; also from Boston to Montgomery and Quebec. CHESTER & LENOIRN. G. RAILROAD CO. ANNUAL UONVENT1UN U*' SlUUJ\il(JL,ue<ua. Lincolnton, N. C., June 2, 1881. The stockholders of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, met in annual convention at 12 o'clock, M., this day, in the town of Lincolnton, N. C. The convention was organized by calling V. A. McBee, of Lincolnton, to the chair, and appointing G. W. S. Hart, G. D. Heath and James Mason, secretaries. J. F. Wallace moved that a committee of three be appointed to verify proxies, which* motion being duly seconded and adopted, the chairman appointed as the committee : J. F. Wallace, James Mason, of York, 8. C., and W. H. Motz, of Lincolnton, N. C. The committee submitted the following report: "The committee appointed to verify proxies, report that there is represented in this meeting, in person and by proxy, 3,188 shares of the capital stock of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, which is a majority of said stock. J. F. Wallace, Chmn." On motion, the report of the committee on proxies was received and adopted, and the chairman then declared the convention legally constituted and ready for the transaction of business. president's annual report. The Jfre^dent'8 annual report was read as follows : Lincolnton, N. C., June 2,1881. To the Conventionof Stockholders, Chester and Lcnoiv N. 0. Railroad Co : Gentlemen:?I herewith submit,my report of the operations of this Company for the fiscal year ending April 30th, 1881 : Gross earnings $14,867 38 Operating expenses proper, 22,991 15 Excess of earnings over expenses,...$21,876.23 This shows a steady and satisfactory increase of business, with but a small increase of expense of management, as will be seen by reference to the report of last year, stating Gross earnings from all sources ,$36,555 85 Operating expenses 18,155 25 Excess of earnings over expenses $18,400.60 The income has increased for the year just closed, over the previous year, ?8,311.53, while the previous year showed an increase over the one preceding, of ?3,758.46. Since the close of the fiscal year, the extension between Dallas and Lincolnton, (fourteen miles) has been practically completed and opened for traffic. This has been done at a cost to the company, (including partial regrading and combination bridge over South Fork,) of ?74,045.30. Included in the above expenditures, however, is the cost of seventy-one tons of iron rail, with necessary bolts and fastenings, and between seven and eight thousand ties, V??iKnart mirnliQon/l anri nmVl frtr hnf W1I1U11 nave UCCU puiuiiowvu l*uu j/|?iv4 j.v/1 } muv not used. These supplies are in hand for immediate use, in case arrangements are made by you for continuing the extension to Newton. During the year, one additional locomotive, costing $5,715.15 ; one first class passenger coach, costing $3,000; one mail and ten freight cars, costing $4,281.87, have been added to the rolling stock of the company. These additions give all the facilities for transportation that our business is likely to require at present, and until the extension to Newton is made. In , that event, a considerable outlay will be necessary, as two daily passenger and mail trains ( must be operated where one only is now re-quired. At your last annual meeting, bonds, under a first mortgage, were authorized to be executed and issued to the amount of $250,000, for the purpose of funding the previous mortgage and floating debt, and for the equipment and 1 extension of the road. Of these bonds, the 1 Treasurer has sold or substituted, of face value, < $108,000, at prices ranging from 80-100 to par, and realizing $168,325.40. There were out- < standing, under a previous mortgage, $4,000 | of bonds which the holder refused to part with, { and by authority of the board of directors, , a similar amount of the new bonds have been J deposited with the National Bank of Chester f for substitution, whenever the holder of these < old bonds may choose to exchange them. ] Under the terms of the resolution, $50,000 < of the bonds issued were to be reserved, to be ] applied exclusively for placing the iron and j ties on the road bed between Lincolnton and , Newton, after the grading, masonry, bridging and.trestling had been completed on that part of the line. At a meeting of the Directors ? held April 21st, I was authorized and directed i to proceed with the construction between Lincolnton and Newton, as soon as funds were < available for meeting the expense of constructing the whole section. The estimates I have , received, and which I am satisfied are substantially correct, give $62,000 as the cost of iron, ' cross-ties, fastenings &c., and laying track from Lincolnton to Newton. If the $48,000 J 'ace value of bonds on hand were sold at par, ;hey would not furnish a sum sufficient, even with the material on hand, to construct the mtire link. Feeling assured that I could not build and equip to Newton without incurring i debt of between ?15,000 and $20,000, and peing unwilling to assume such a responsibili;y, I refer the matter to your deliberations. The rolling stock of the road, the road bed, md material is in good condition, much of it practically new, and not likely to require any , arge expenditure very soon, except the filling ind embankments between Dallas and Linjolnton. These will require the services of i construction train and hands for a considerlble part of the summer. The old road bed will also require a considerable outlay for repairs of trestles and for new ties, about one tenth of \yhich need replacing. Were this * lone, the entire road would be practically new, aid in first class condition. The officers and employees of the road, under my control, have discharged their duties with satisfaction, and I take pleasure in commending them to your confidence. W. Holmes Hardin, President. Treasurer's report. The Treasurer of-the Company read his -'s MAINnwt A O A?1 I Atl'fl icputt flo iwnuno James Mason, Treasurer, in account loith the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, commencing May, 1st 1880, and ending April30th, 1881, including both dates: Dr. To Cash on hand, 8 1,962 11 " 44 for freights, 33,935 56 " 44 for passejigers, 8,560 75 " 45 for U.S. Mail, 1,&30 29 " 44 for telegraphing, 138 09 44 " for express freights, 240 00 44 44 for insurance on cotton and car burned, 125 00 44 44 for 3961st mortgage bonds sold 168,325 46 " 44 for 101 Chester Co. bonds *%. sold, 10,067 00 44 44 on account of York county bonds, 7,205 00 ' 44 44 borrowed, 14,200 00 44 44 from other sources,. . .. 162 69 $246,751 95 Cr. By Cash paid officers and employees, in depots, 'on trains. engines, and in s)iops,$ 9,164 00 " " . " for maintenance of way, 9,229 79 " u " " material, 2,909 06 ? ' " " tallow, oil and waste, 482 43 " " " wood. 1,785 90 " " " " overcharges, 151 61 " " " " incidental expenses, 273 36 ? " " " taxes, 1,711 80 ? " " " insurance, 247 75 " " " " cotton and car burned, 113 06 " ? " " debts contracted prior to 1st May, 1 1880, 92,118 81 " " " " rail road iron, spikes, fastenings and bolts, 45,788 32 " " " " construction, crossties, trestles, and extraordinary repairs on engines and trestles, 22,246 97 " " " u new cars, 7,281 87 - cr ? " u " new locomotive . engine, No. 4,... , 5,715 15 " " u " bridge over South Fork, -9,115 05 u ? (t U cash borrowed and interest, 14,232 38 " " " " coupons on 1st mortgage bonds, due Jan. 1, ^881, 5,565 00 " " " " stock killed, 25 50 " Cash on hand, 18,594 14 $246,751 95 YORK AND CHESTER COUNTY BONDS ACCOUNT. Dr. ; To 259 Chester county bonds in Nat. Bank of Chester as . collateral for iron debt, $25,900 00 v " 11 " county bonds in hands ; of Treasurer, 1,100 00 "2 " . county bonds in^at. Bank of Chester, as collateral to Mrs. Brice,.; 200 00 "88 " county bonds in the hands of J. H. Smith as collateral, 8,800 00 " 311 York county bonds in Nat. Bank of Chester as collateral for iron debt, .C 31,100 00 $07,100 00 Cr. By 25!) Chester county bonds sold by ** Clerk of Court of Chester county to pay iron debt,.. ..$25,900 00 " 101 Chester county bonds sold by Treasurer 10,100 00 " 311 York county bonds, sold by Clerk of Court of York couuty, to pay iron debt 31,100 00 $67,100 00 FIRST MORTGAGE (Dated January 1st, 1877;) ACCOUNT?Bonds $500.00 each. 8 bonds Nos. 1 to 8, inclusive of * both numbers, sold, $ 4,000 00 v 592 " Nos. 9 to 600, cancelled by the trustees?see stockholders' meeting order, May 1880, '. 296,000 00 $300,000 00 FIRST MORTGAGE (Dated July 1st, 1880,) ACCOUNT?Bonds for $500 each! 8 bonds, Nos. 1 to 8 inclusive, deposited in the Nat. Bank of Chester, to take up the 8 bonds dated Jan'y 1st, 1877, $ 4,000 00 396 u Nos 9 to 404, inclusive of both numbers, sold,..... 198,000 00 96 '' Nos. 405 to 500, inclusive of both numbers, deposited in the Nat. Bank of Chester for safe keeping, 48,000 00 $250,000 00 - LIABILITIES, APRIL 30,1881. 8 m< rtgage bonds, dated Jan'y 1, 1877, due in 20 years, $ 4,000 00 396 " bonds, dated July 1, 1880, due in 20 years 198,000 00 W. II. Motz, judgment debt, about 1,600 00 Floating indebtedness 3,341 41 $206,941 41 Respectfully submitted, JAMES MASON, Treasurer. . EEPOBT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE. The Finance Committee submitted the following report: Youkville, S. C., May 30th, 1881. ' To the President and Board of Directors of * the C. & L. N. O. Ii. J?. Co.: The undersigned, a committee appointed to examine the books and vouchers of the Treasurer, for the fiscal year ending April 30th, 1881, beg leave to report that they have carefully discharged the duties assigned them. They find that the books aud vouchers agree, and that the amounts of money received by the Treasurer agree witli the reports made to the President by the Conductor and the several agents of the Company. Respectfully submitted. L. M. GRIST, 1 J AS. L.CLARK, I Committee. W. H. McCORKLE, ) On motion of James F. Hart, the reports of the President, Treasurer aud Finance Committee, were received as information and ordered to be laid on the table. L. M. Grist, of Yorkville, moved that a committee of seven, to consist of one stockbolder from each county through which the road is chartered, be appointed to nominate a President and Board of Diiectors for the enluing year. The motion was adopted, and :be Chairman appointed as the committee: L. M. Grist, of York, S. C.E. T. Atkinson, )f Chester, S. C.; Jonas Hoffman, of Gaston, N". C.; Caleb Motz, of Lincoln, N. C. ; M. L. VIcCorkle, of Catawba, N. C.; and S. F. Harper, of Caldwell, N. C. The committee retired for conference, aud lubsequently submitted the following nominations : For President?W. Holmes Hardin, of Chester, S. C. For Directors?John L. Agurs and J. H. Smith, of Chester, S. C.; Joseph F. Wulace and James F. Hart, of York, S. C; L. k. Mason, of Gaston, N. C.; V. A. McBee, of Lincoln, N. C.; S. M. Finger, of Catawba,