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Scraps and .facts. 1 ? As soon as General Longstreet is fairly ( warm in the Georgia Marshal's olfice, itisunderstood that he is to proceed to work in the , matter of organizing a new party, to be com- j posed of Republicans and Democratic inde- j pendents of Georgia. ? Prof. Proctor says the earth has lost during the past 2,000 years nearly oae hour and ( a quarter, and is now losing at the rate of one second in twelve weeks, "aud that at this rate our day will be a lunar month in length in the course of 36,000,000 years.'' ? There is good reason for the belief that the reports of disturbances in Ireland are highly exaggerated. A London correspondent has interviewed a commercial traveler who has lately traversed the island, and he earnestly jprotests that there has been no serious rising. ? Ex-Senator Thurraan, now in Paris, has written to his son in Ohio positively refusing t__ ?1 . Tv i' n io De me JL/emocrauc canaiuaie xor vjuvemor in that State this fall. He says that he made up his mind when he left the Seuate never to enter public life again, and that nothing will change that determination. ? The Texas Prohibitionists, at their State Convention last week, decided that it was not advisable to form a separate political party, the great majority of the delegates being of the opinion that the Democratic party can be made available, with the proper action on the part of Prohibitionists, prior to the meeting of the next Democratic State Convention. ? An advertiser in a Washington newspaper wants a position in any of the Govern ment departments, and offers one third of his salary for the place. Another says: "Will give any one $50 and 10 per cent, for the first four months, who will get me work in any of the departments at a salary of from $60 to $75 per mouth." ? The Kentucky Commissioner of agriculture, in a monthly bulletin just issued, says that the drought in May has done more damage to wheat in that State than was anticipated, and there cannot be more than two-thirds of a crop. Corn has suffered from bad seed and drought and must be late in maturing. Hemp and tobacco promise well. ? The Yankee daughter cf a millionaire, who was said to be about to marry one of the Bourbons?a cousin of Don Carlos of Spain? has actually jilted the prince. The chamberlain who made the proposal on the part of the prince was not satisfied with the emphatic "No" of the young lady, so she added: "Tell your master that I don't want titles half as bad as he wants cash." ? Agriculture is not moving forward as rapidly as commerce, trade or manufacyires, nor, indeed, as fast as population. A comparison of the statistics of the civilized world today with those of 1870, shows that while agricultural products have increased only 8* per cent, during this period, manufactures have increased 18*, commerce 382, and mining 47 per cent. ? The papers in the case of the Cadet Whitaker court martial, after an exs.mination by Judge Advocate-ijeneral ?wain, will De sunmitted through the Secretary of War, to the President. Until the President acts upon the case no announcement will be mi.de as to the result of the court martial. It is understood that the court finds Whitaker guilty of assaulting himself and recommends his dismissal from the Military Academy. This trial has cost the country about $40,000. ? Though the subject was first agitated in the Southern part of the State, Northern California seems now to be taking the most interest in cotton culture. This is particularly true of the ranchers along the creeks near Sacramento. One man has planted 250 acres in cotton, and at last accounts it was doing well. A San Francisco firm has taken pains to distribute good seed, and they hope to get most of the cotton consigned to them, when they will probably ship it direct to Liverpool by sailing vessels. ? One-half of the new cable connecting England and America has been laid, and the end is resting on a buoy 900 miles East of the Nova Scotia coast. When the steamer Faraday returns from London with the remainder of the cable, the two ends will be joined, and before many weeks another artery will be pulsating with the life of two continents. In these days we take but little note of. an achievement which less than a quarter of a century ago was hailed as the crowning triumph of civilization. ? Rev. Mr. Goodspeed is a member <>f the Illinois Legislature and nenasinnall v offered prayer in that body, but refused to accept the 83 for each day's services rendered, voted to all the ministers who had officiated during the session. The ground of his refusal was that a person should be paid only in accordance with the good accomplished. He had prayed that the members of the House might have wisdom, honesty of purpose, patience and grace, but he did not think his prayers had availed anything. ? A new ballot-box has just been submitted to the French Government. It has two locks, each opening with a different key, and an apparatus which clips a stub or corner from the ticket deposited by the elector, and drops the stub into one part of the box, the ticket going into the other division. Simultaneously the machine registers on a tablet before the voter the number of tickets clipped. The ballots must agree in number with the stubs, and both with the "tell-tale." and the voter sees for himself that his ballot has been cast and taken account of. ? The New Orleans papers announce that the Louisiana Land aud Reclamation Company now have in full operation their steam ploughs. The traction engines are placed upon model barges, which can be moved along the canals that intersect the land at intervals of 1,200 feet, and pulled by a steel wire rope, the great ploughshare moves through the rich soil, cutting a three foot furrow, and breaking twelve acres of solid laud a day in a manner that could not be accomplished by any animal power. The company will this year seed some hundred acres of land with rice, and prepare a large area for cultivation in the future. An experimental crop of ten acres of jute has been planted and is thriving. ? The particulars of the escape of a noted desperado, known as "Billy the Kid," from Fort Stanton, Colorado, prove him as bold as he is bad. He is only 21, slight and boyish in looks, but hardened in villainy, being guilty of numerous murders. He was under sentpnpp nf rleotli fnr rmo nf thp?p primpc casual remark, "I shan't be there at the hanging," led to the precaution of shackling him heavily and placing two arraed guards over him. While alone with one of these, Billy felled him with a blow of the manacles and then killed him with his own pistol. The other guard was easily shot on his approach to the house. The desperado then filed off his irons, mounted a horse, and rode away in full view of a hundred men, whom he defied to interfere. ? Archer, the English jockey who rode Iroquois for Mr. Lorillard, is a person to be | envied. He is the companion of l"Ms ?nd earns more than a Piime Mini ter. His reg uIar fees are twenty five d II:.-s it lie wins, j fifteen if he loses and ten i n .1 i-i -I. I hi-, j I however, does not tell the stu.ies ot his earn . ings, for he receives pr?>"tiis ot enoimou- , value, like gold watch. d ..n.-md rings, rid ing horses, dog eaits. \ a. s soils of lothts, I cases of champagne, Ac. Mr Lorill. rdgave him So,000 for winning the LVthy. and Mr. < Keene gave Fordhe.m 82 MX' no coming in | first at the Grand Piix An her - ear. ings i in 1876 are reported to have ? ??? h d S6n,O00. He is a perfect denngod on the subject of 4 horses. Wherever lie mov s a crowd of open I mouthed admirers follow him. His services j < are intrigued for by owners of horses and his ! opinion of his horse earnestly solicited by his j patron. The papers chronicle his movements J and the nobility are honored by receiving his I ' visiting cards. When he goes down to thejl ace he ridea in a first-class carriage, and, on < he whole, is what our English cousins call a j 'howling swell." He was placed in the sad- ^ lie when only six years old by his father, who was a distinguished cross-country rider. The ' youngster entered a career of pony and donsey races, in which he carried all before him. His luck has followed him ever since, and he ( aas won 1,399 races. ' ( i _ ^ ^ : YORK FILLE. S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1881. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A correspondent reports the crops in Greenville county as in a promising condition. ? Mrs. Albert Means, of Spartanburg, died a week ago last Saturday. ? A steam cotton factory, with 2,032 spindles, will be put in o^eratioi at Sumter by the 1st of November. ? Asa result of the receut Circuit Court at Lancaster, the Penitentiary received an accession of ten convicts. j ? At the recent commencement of Reidville Female College, W. B. Wilson, Esq., of Yorkville, delivered the literary address. ? Henry Miller, white, recently died in Lexington county, having attained the age of one hundred and ten years, less three days. ? Mr. Henry Hill, of Edgefield county, has recently gathered fifty bushels of oats from one acre. ? The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Sims, died in Columbia on Tuesday of last week, aged twelve days. ? A correspondent of the Greenville News suggests Mr. F. A. Connor, of Rock Hill, as eminently qualified for the position of Governor of this State. ? All the iron necessary for the Augusta and Knoxville Failroad, between Augusta and Greenwood, has been purchased and paid for in cash. ? The degree of Doctor of Divinity has been conferred upon Rev. 0. A. Darby, the recently elected President of the Columbia Female College, by Trinity College, N. C. ? Mr. E. W. Cannon has resigned as a member of the lower House of the General Assembly, for Darlington county, and Mr. Jerome Y. Uhase, ot Jblorence, has oeen nominated as a candidate to supply the vacancy. ? Rev. B. M. Palmer, D. D., of New Orleans, who has been invited to assume the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of Columbia, and who has been elected a professor of the Theological Seminary, has written a letter declining the positions offered. ? Mr. D. B. Haselton, of Charleston, has invented a horse power cotton picking machine which is pronounced a success. Up to this time about seventy machines have been invented for this purpose, but none of them found practical. ? Reports come to the Commissioner of Agriculture that large shipments of damaged corn have been made from the West into South Carolina, and that its use is killing or injuring stock. It is believed that the cause is the kiln drying and sale of wet and rotted grain. ? Rev. W. J. McKay preached the Baccalaureate sermon at Adger College, at Walhalla. and Rev. E. H. Buist made the address before the Literary Societies. At the junior exhibition, Mr. J. L. Davies, of York county, spoke on "Patriotism." Prof. Legare has gone North to increase the endowment of the College, and Prof H. Strong ljas beeu called to the Chair of English Literature in the Normal School at Franklin, N. C., during the summer. ? The Auderson Intelligencer says: "Major Thomas B. Lee received from the Fish Cora missiouer last February fifteen German carp, of the previous Spring hatching, which he placed in the mill pond, some five miles above Anderson. A mill boy was fishing in the pond about three weeks ago, and caught one of these fish without knowing the nature of his prize. He kept the fish out of water until he went to the mill to take his grist home, when Mr. W. S. Lee recognized the carp, and, being surprised at its size, ascertained its weight to be one and a half pounds. This is a remarkable growth, and proves the carp to be well adapted both for stocking our streams and private ponds." ? toays the Anderson Journal: "rrot. un. Fromm opened a plumbago mine of the very finest quality last week on the Wilson Ashley place, in Martin township, from which he cut a block weighing 140 pounds, and he is of the opinion that he can get out blocks weighing from 1,000 to 5,000 pounds, or perhaps 10,000 pounds. At the request of Col. A. P. Butler, Commissioner of Agriculture, Prof. Fromm has undertaken to get up a fine collection of Anderson county minerals, to be placed on exhibition at Atlanta during the International Cotton Exposition. Professor Fromm has already discovered quite a variety of valuable minerals within our borders, such as gold, galena ore, copper, corundum, ' beryl, amethyst, garnet, epidote, tourmaline, rutile, manganese, kaolin, serpentine, chalcedony, jasper, agate, chrysolite, mica, asbestos, magnetic iron ore and plumbago." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Concord Register reports the wheat crop of that section as a fair average. The May wheat is very good, but there was not much of it sown. ? The first train of cars passed over the French Broad River on Saturday of last week. This is on the Ducktown branch of the road from Asheville. Work is being pushed on it, as well as the Paint Rock branch. ? Gen. J. M. Leiach having been classed as an anti-prohibitionist, the editor of the Charlotte Democrat contradicts the assertion by publishing that he has heard Gen. Leach say that "there is not money enough in the State to induce him to make a speech against prohibition." ? A fire occurred at Warrenton last Frilay night which destroyed two-thirds of the business part of the town. Nine stores, involving a loss of $30,500, were burned, besides several minor losses which could not ! oe ascertained. The losses are about half :overed by insurance. ? In the Circuit Court at Raleieh last *eek, before Chief Justice Waite, the case of j Harvey Terry and other vs. John D. Wil- J iams and others, stockholders of the Bank of i Clarendon, at Fayetteville, was tried. The .rial resulted in a final decree being filed in 'avor of the plaintiffs, awarding $50,000. A.n appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States was taken by the stockholders. ? In the United States Circuit Court at Charlotte, last week, the report of the.recent sale of the Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad came up for confirmation. Exceptions were filed by Messrs. Merriraon and Coleman, attorneys for defendants, which were argued at some length. The exceptions were overruled by the court and the report of the sale confirmed. ? W. T. Yarboro, for killing policeman M. A. Vanderford, in Salisbury, last Winter, was convicted last week of manslaughter and sentenced to the penitentiary tor ten years. One point made in the case by counsel for defence, and which seems to have been sustained, was that a policeman is not recognized by the statutes as a lawful officer, and hence the de ceased had not the authority to make the attempted arrest. ? The Charlotte Democrat learns that a most horrible murder was committed four miles from Taylorsville, Alexander county, last week, by an unknown person or persons. A Miss Caroline Thompson was killed in her father's house while the father, James Thompson, an old man, was in the field plowing, and the house robbed of six or eight hundred dollars. When Mr. Thompson went to the house from the field about sun down, he found his daughter lying in the yard dead with her skull crushed, and the house plundered. Another warning against keeping money in dwellings. ? Says the Lincoln Progress of last Saturday : "The Lee Light Infantry, of Chester, S. C., visited our town last Thursday and were hospitably entertained at Burton's Hotel by the Southern Stars of this place. Captain Michael Hoke, as spokesman for his company, welcomed them in a few well chosen remarks, which was responded to by Major Hamilton, of Chester, in behalf the of Lee Light Infantry. The Yorkville and Sandy River Silver Cornet Bands and the Gastonia Brass Band furnished the music for the occasion, and where all played so well, it would be hard to discriminate between them. The day was pleasantly spent, and, in the afternoon, they returned to their homes over the Narrow Gauge Railroad. We trust they will not make this their last visit." ? The cotton mills, known as George W. Swepson's mills, in Alamance county, four miles from Graham, were destroyed by fire early on Thursday night of last week. The mills, which were the property of the Falls of the Neuse Manufacturing Company, were of wood, lined with brick, 321 feet in length, f.wn stnries in heicrht. Thev wera built in 1876 and contained 4,000 spindles and 168 looms ; 107 operatives were employed. The total value of the whole property was about 8200,000, but it is understood that the cotton house, boiler house, store house, and the houses of the operatives, were not destroyed. The fire is supposed to have been caused by the explosion of an oil lamp at 6 o'clock Thursday evening. The lamp was in the centre of the mill. The fire raged till 5 o'clock next morning. The property was insured in thirteen different companies for 869,000. MERE-MENTION. There is a great locust scare among the farmers in sections of the West. Within the past three years 16,000 miles of new railroad have been built in this country, and the stock increased 8720,000,000. Another victory for the American horse, Iroquois, belonging to Mr. Lorillard, has been gained by his winning the Prince of Wales Stakes, at Ascot, on Tuesday last. A satirical innkeeper in Wylheville, Va., advertises his house as "the only second-class hotel in the world." Dr. Langfelt says citric acid destroys, in from one to two minutes, the lar ger portion of auimalculte that infest water, 1 I * l _ J _ 1 1 _ _ auu nence ne recommeoos lemonaue as a drink. Jew boys are preferred to any others as office boys by numbers of Christians in New York. They are found to be exceptionally intelligent and trustworthy. A one hour old calf sold in New Jersey, last week, for $2,500. La Grange, Texas. has a full grown cotton boll. 'The Mexican Congress, at its late session, passed an amendment to the Constitution forbidding that persons born in the United States should be eligible to the Mexican Congress in either house. The site of the old Spotswood Hotel, in Richmond, Va., is again to be built upon as a hotel. The building is to cost $250,000. Senator M. C. Butler, of South Carolina, is rusticating at Fort Snelling, in Manitoba. John King, Jr., first vicepresident, and Wm. Keyser,second vice-president, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, have resigned. It is said that Colonel William B. Johnston, of Macon, Ga., has not cleared less than $200,000 out of South Carolina and Central Railroad stocks within the past twelve months. Judge O. A. Lochrane, of Georgia, predicts that Robert Lincoln, the son of Abe Lincoln, and at present Secretary of War, will be President of the United States. He is said to be a man of great personal magnetism and possessed of much of the good sense for which his father was fa raous. Two rubber bags, filled with 150 pounds of dynamite, were recently discovered fV>Q Potl, orinn Kri^rro a f ftf Potora. UUUVI 1>UV VUlUUIillV Wi *U^U| U v KJ Ut A. VbVIO* burg, Russia. They measured twenty-one iucheB in diameter and were provided with fuses. Quite a number of sun strokes have recently occurred in New Orleans, several of which proved fatal. Belle Boyd, during the late war famous as a Confederate spy, is now living in Philadelphia. Her name is Mrs. Marie Hammond. Gen. Longstreet tells a Washington reporter that he knows nothing about the statement that he is to build up the Republican party in Georgia on the Mahone plan. The New York banks now hold 88,008,400 in excess of legal requirements. Zebulon B. Vance, a son of the Senator, graduated at the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Md., this year. Two million dollars worth of new buildings are now in course of construction, or in contemplation in Augusta, Ga. The highest price ever paid for middling upland cotton in New York, between 1826 and 1879, was 81.90 pe: pound in 1864 ; the next highest was 81.22 per pound in 1865. The lowest price paid in those years was four cents, in 1845. Six hundred thousand cotton j tpindles have been set in motion in the South since 1866, Georgia having one-third. Dr. { Albert G. Mackey, well known as a promiMason, died at Fortress Monroe, Va., on Vlonday last. He was born in Charleston n 1807. LOCAL AFFAIRS, j : 0 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. | c James F. Johnston, Charlotte, N. C.?General Agent for the Bay State Engines, Ac. J. M. Adams?Look Out?Potware?Galvanized J Sheet Iron?Squirrel Cage?Terms Strictly I Cash. r Sam M. Grist?Buggy for Sale. t Kennedy Bros. <fe Barron?Fifty Cents, or Half a | Dollar takes the Choice. 1 Latta Brothers?Family Groceries and Plantation i Supplies. John C. Kuykendal?Locals. \ J. J. Smith A Co.?Important to Ladies?Dry Goods. 1 J. W. Bauman?Practical Barber and Hair ( Dresser. J. A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?J. F. I Wallace, C. C. Pis., Applicant?Edward Duffle, deceased. KNIGHTS OF HONOR. At the meeting of Home Relief Lodge No. 389 Kuights of Honor, last Friday night, the 1 following officers were elected to serve the ensuing term. The installation will take j place on Friday night, July 1st: Dictator?T. C. Dunlap ; Vice-Dictator? A Springs Withers ; Assistant Dictator?R. H. Glenn ; Chaplain?Rev. Robert Lathan ; i n .... * nr t u . rv ?:_i rteporter?a. >y . mgoiu ; nuauumi ivcjiuh- i er?J. Robert Lindsay; Treasurer?L. M. j Grist; Guide?J. G. Ferguson ; Guardian ? J. \V. Dobson ; Sentinel?A. Cody. Ex-Dic- ' tator, A. Coward, succeeds as Past Dictator. ' CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows: Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Marion Dargan, Pastor. Services at Philadelphia Church in the forenoon ; at Yorkville in the evening. Associate Reformed Presbyteriao?Rev. R. Lalhau, Pastor. The pastor will fill his regular appointment at Tirzah next Sunday. Church of the Good Shepherd?EpiscopalRev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. Services at the usual hours, morning and afternoon. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services at the- usual hours, morning and eveniog. COTTON BLOOMS. Major T. P. Whitesides?brought to our office, last Monday, a cotton bloom taken from one of his fields on that morning. This bloom is two days later than the first one sent to this office last year. Major Wbitesides, who lives six miles north of town, says his own, and the cotton crops of others in bis neighborhood are in good condition. That section of the county has been favored with more rain during the summer than other portions of the county. Mr. Rufus M. Allison, living eight miles west of town, sent us a cotton bloom taken from his field on Tuesday morning. We received by mail on Tuesnday afternoon, from our esteemed friend, Mr. A. Williford, of Winnsboro, a bloom, taken from a hundred-acre field of his farm near that town. Mr. S. A. McElwee and Mr. T. M. Whita* ker each brought a bloom to our office taken from their fields near town, yesterday morning. YORKVILLE FEMALE COLLEGE. .The commencement exercises of the above institution closed on Thursday night last. Wednesday and Thursday were devoted to examinations in the collegiate department. On Wednesday night a large audience was entertained by the exercises of the Eukosraian Literary Society, and on Thursday night Hon. Porcher Miles, President of the University of South Carolina, delivered the address before as large an audience as ever assembled in the chapel of the buildiug. Of the address we have beard but one expression of opinion, and that is that it was a masterly effort. We are pleased to record the fact that under the present management the College is in a flourishing condition, the attendance during the past session number 107 pupils, a number of whom were boarders. With ample boarding facilities, an able faculty and a thoroughly competent gentleman at the head of the school, it offers advantages second to no female seminary in the State. KING'S MOUNTAIN MILITARY SCHOOL. The present session of King's Mountain Military School will close on the 30th ins4ant. The next session, which will be the first for the school-year of 1881-82, will open on the 1st of July. Of the advantages of this school and the ability of its accomplished principal and his able assistant, Prof. WraCurrell, it is quite unnecessary to speak, so well are they known throughout the State. The school affords a collegiate education, or to those who may prefer to complete their education elsewhere, a thorough preparation for colleges and universities. By the calender for the approaching schoolyear, in the prospectus of the school now issuing from the press, we learn that during the encampment of the school and anni versary of the battle from the 3rd to the 8th, of October next, the anniversary oration will be delivered at King's Mountain battle-field on the 7th, by Mr. W. Spenser Currell, M. A., a graduate of the school, and at present assistant professor in Washington and Lee University. NEW PASSENGER COACH. Mr. Mason, Superintendent of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad, is happy in what he feels to be the possession of a new passenger coach. The first coach put on the road, after having done admirable service for a number of years, was run into the shops last spring and thoroughly overhauled by the workmen, after which it was turned over to Mr. T. B. McClain for painting and ornamenting, and right cleverly has he performed the work. For reasons which would likely be presented only to a painter, the coach is painted in canary color in preference to the darker shades 1 now the style on most of the roads, and in the [ way of ornamentation the painter has happily ignored the Japanese gewgaws, the clumsy Egyptian figures, and the Chinese tea-chest inscriptions which decorators of the present day 1 affect to such a nauseating extent, and confined J himself to the good old American scroll work , style, which has been carried out in profusion, j but not to excess. The lettering, which j alone required six days for its execution, is ' pronounced a model of neatness, as indeed is all the work on the coach. The seats have been provided with new and improved springs, and are newly upholstered in crimson | plush. The coach is now practically as good j as new, and will be placed on the road at an ' early day. t COMMON SCHOOLS IN YORK. j The free common schools of York county j are in a healthy and satisfactory condition, t and (he system is proving itself a benefit to J the people more than at any period since its ^ adoption, either before or since the war This 0 is due in a great measure to the tact and 0 ability of the county school commissioner, t Rev. Robert Lathan, who, in the reorganiza- } tion of the system in this county, dating with 11 his election to the position in 1876, has resolved chaos into order and put the machine- n ry of the system in proper running condition, f \ When he took charge of the school affairs ft f York county in 1876, there was hanging ^ iver the county an old school debt, amount- ? ng, in all the school districts, to near 815,000.. y Vll this old debt has been paid by compro- E nise. The two school districts which were ' a he least in debt were Catawba and Fort P Hill. In both these districts the old debt ^ vas paid in full. The school district which e vas most involved was York. This indebted- F less amounted to more than $4,000. In the |'' ither school districts the old debt ranged c 'rora $800 to $2,000. / to At the present time the teachers in all the d ichool districts in the county, except Cnero-1 b tee and Fort Mill, have been paid for two ' months' service, and in nearly every school \ ^ iistrict the teachers have been paid up to date, v ind there is some money in the treasury be- h longing to each school district. I The schools, except in Cherokee school disLrict, have been open during the present year averaging four months. In Cherokee the \ schools were partially suspended until July, v in order that the old debt of $889 might be J paid. These results should be gratifying to the people, and they speak well for the ad- ^ mirable manner in which Mr. Lathan has discharged the duties of his office. r EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Another Bible Revision. A New York letter of Thursday, says: "The Churchman of to-day has an announcement that will be likely to make some stir in the religious world- namely that we are to have t still another version of the New Testament, to t be known as "The American Version," and j what is more, it is to be copyrighted under that designation. As to the particular reasons for 1 this publication the Churchman says : "The 5 fact that the readings and renderings pro 1 posed by the American Committee of Revis- < ion have been published in a separate list? i such of them, at least, as were not adopted i by the English revisers?has vexed the minds i of some people who cannot bear that anything < American should be made to tHke a back i seat, and certain others who are not willing to acknowledge that there can 'be any appeal i from the judgment of the American commit- < tee. * * This thing will probably go on until every one who is dissatisfied with any portion of the so-called revision shall put forth a new revision of his own." "The Full Extent of the Law." Judge Bond, one of the presiding Judges of the U. S. Circuit Court at Raleigh, N. C., week before last, passed sentence on a colored man who had been convicted of selling liquor without a license at religious and other gatherings of colored people. In passing sentence, the Judge said : "You have been convicted of carrying on the business of a retail liquor dealer without having paid the special tax. If you had been a storekeeper, engaged in the sale ot various articles ordinarily purchased by the people, and had surreptitiously sold liquor to a customer, your conduct would not have been so base as it now is. But you have, for the sake of the gain to be acquired by it, taken a stock of spirituous liquors to the church assemblies, picnics and little gatherings of your own people, who assemble from time to time in your county, to debauch-them with liquor. From such people as you represent, come all the disturbances of public worship, and all the breaches of the peace among the quiet people who assemble in a neighborly way to enjoy each other's society. The judgment in your case is that you pay a fine of $1,000 and be imprisoned for six months." Progress in New Orleans. A New Orleans correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, writing under a recent date, says: "In the way of railway building there is an activity in this region that is positively startling. The Texas Pacific has absorbed the ploona Ponifip onrl fhp linA mflflp f?rm- I tinuous from New Orleans to somewhere away out West. The only delay in the matter of construction is in the lack of laborers. If sufficient laborers could be had the lines hence to Shreveport, by both the Morgan route and Baton Rouge line, would be finished and in operation for the fall trade. At this hour there is more shipping in this harbor than is usual in the heavy exporting season. The tonnage is used for transporting an immense quantity of iron and steel rails for the tracks of the roads now being built in Texas and Louisiana. All this activity has a lively effect on the population here, and the consequence is there are more enterprising and wakeful people at work than ever 'were seen here before. The travel from Texas, through this city, is far beyond all comparison to f>reviou8 years. Every train brings full oads of people, who, by stopping over a day or more, fill the hotels, enliven the streets and stores and crowd the outgoing trains to their fullest capacity. All of this makes the railway men very happy, and keeps them busy beyond all precedent." The Cotten and TVlitat Crops. Under date of the loth instant, the Agricultural Department publishes the fol lowing report or tne conou uuu wueui urupo for the month of May : Cotton returns to this department show the total increase of .area planted in cotton to be less than 1 per cent, more than last year. The reports were as follows : Forty-one counties in North Curoliua report an average increase of 4 per cent.; sixteen counties in ( South Carolina report the acreage the same as last year; seventy counties in Georgia give an increase of 2 per cent.; fifteen in Florida give a decrease of 3 per cent.; thirtyfour in Alabama give a decrease of 2 per 1 cent. ; forty-one in Mississippi give the sain6 average acreage; fourteen in Louisiana give au increase of 3 per cent. ; sixtynine in Texas give an increase of 2 per cent.; thirty-two in Arkansas give an increase j of 1 per cent. The condition is much lower, being 93 this year against 99 last year at J same time, and 96 in 1879. The weather is 1 generally reported too wet and cold, and the ' crop consequently is very backward. 1 Spring Wheat?The acreage of this crop 1 shows a large decline since last year. The 1 area reported to this department is onJy 86 ( per cent, of that sown in 1880. The coudi- J tion is, however, fully equal to that of last ' year at the same time. Winter Wheat?The condition of this crop ' is reported at an average for the whole country ' af only 76. The priucipal complaints are 1 from Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, where, c added to the most unfavorable weather, there 1 is great damage from chinch bugs and the 1 Hessian fly. California reports a very low * jondition caused by cold weather and * 1 rough t. The Ohio RiTer Flooded. While some sections of the country are g luffering from want of rain, it appears that r .here is an overabundance in other sections, o fn some of the Northern States, notably New I Fork, there has been an abundance of rain, e is also in the Western States, in some of p vhich it has been so constant as to inflict se- it ious damage. It is claimed that never, in e< he history of the Ohio river, since 1810, has ti here occurred such a flood in the mouth of G Tune as the one of last week. A dispatch ti rom Steuhenville says : ti Almost six days of constant rain through- T ut this section, extending to the head waters w f the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, ti irought a flood that carried with it destruc- n; ion on every hand from Pittsburg to Wheel- p g, a distance of ninety miles. The excite- m aent has been intense in this city as well as tl t other points. The river at this point com- si tenced to rise on Thursday evening, and gi rom a three foot river the increasing waters pi >rced their way upward until passing over | a le high banks and completely submerging j ii Livergide Park, they entered the first stories j f all the business bouses and residences on ; 1 Vater street. The Cleveland and Pittsburg i 1 Lailroad in Steubenville was submerged for I c bout two miles. The water was up to the 11 assenger depot, while the freight department: as completely surrounded. All business on i , lie road was suspended for one day, with the | xception of a few trains north of the city. I f \>r miles the track was under water and out! j a the Ohio River, as it were, and no estimate ; j an be given of the damage sustained. Great suffering has been caused in the i ixth ward, almost the entire ward being uu- j8 er water, and over five hundred'people have ,? ieen compelled to leave their homes. j c The loss of property and the destruction of j rops in the valley will reach ?1,000,000. . During one entire day the surface of the river k-as covered with all kinds of debris, parts of [ louses, rafts, fences and barges. A stable I >assed down with a horse in it. A house was ( wrecked against one of the piers of the Pan dandle Railroad bridge. The village of Warren, fifteen miles be- 1 ow Steubenville, a town of 500 inhabitants, 1 rtAmnloffll It (iukmat*/>or1 nn/1 f kn nannln utorfl YUO CUUIHCi^CU UUU bug JsgtWJSAW " VI v iriven from their homes. No lives have been ost as far as can be learned. Hr. Best and his Railroad Enterprise. It will be remembered that last Win,er, Mr. Best, in behalf of himself and some lorthern capitalists, purchased the State's nterest in the Western N. C. Railroad, a special session of the Legislature having been jailed by the Governor of North Carolina 'or the purpose of ratifying the contract. Mr. Best failed to comply with his obligations it the specified time, and the road passed in;o the hands of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company. Many persons thought, it the time, that the whole transaction was a scheme on the part of the Richmond and Danville Road to obtain possession of the Westirn N. C. and its connections ; but the following from the Raleigh Observer would indicate that Mr. Best was acting in good faith, in his proposal to complete the Western N. C. Road and its connections, and also to build a new road from the sea coast to Salisbury : "On Saturday last, Mr. Best, on behalf of the construction company which proposes to carry out the original North Carolina system from Beaufort harbor to Tennessee connections at Paint Rock abd Ducktown, deposited with Senator Z. B. Vance, Governor T. J. Jarvis and State Treasurer J. M. Worth, commissioners of the Western North Carolina Railroad, elected by the General Assembly at its special session in 1880, the sura of 8250,000, with which to reimburse the Richmond and Danville Railroad Cumpuny for all expenditures made by that corporation from the time of the defection of Mr. Best's first associates up to the present. "Mr. Best has called upon the Richmond and Danville Railroad authorities for an account of such expenditures (which has not yet been rendered) with the view of tendering the exact amount which wauld repay them for the money they have disbursed in prosecuting the work on both branches of the Western North Carolina Railroad, with interoaf a ml olor* mul;a nrnnor nnmnonaafinil fnr tot, ?u<. u,?u !U..av jviupu* wui^u..??v.wu any trouble thrown upon them by their coming to his assistance. "While the construction company have good reason to believe that the sum deposited is amply sufficient to cover every possible expense, they have signified to the commissioners their willingness to make an immediate deposit of any further sura which the Richmond and Danville Railroad company may show to be necessary for that purpose. "It is impossible to believe that any company of geutleraen who are so entirely identified with North Carolina, aud so largely dependent upon North Carolina patronage as are the Richmond and Danville Railroad company, would think for a moment of hindering a scheme of such vast importance to the State ; for surely the public would look with grave disapprobation upon any such course." Knoxville and Augusta Knilroad. A called meeting of the board of directors of the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad, was held in Augusta on Saturday last. The President recited all the facts connected with interviews recently had by himself with the representatives of the Virginia Midland and the Richmond and Danville Railroads. He submitted a written proposition from Col. Barbour, in behalf of the Virginia Midland, which looked to an identification of the interests of the Virginia Midland and the Augusta and Knoxville. Mayor May addressed the meeting, expressing his individual desire that the city should retain its interest in the road. Several propositions had been made by other parties to secure the city's interest, and the propositions had been submitted to the City Council, but he would candidly say that in reviewing all the propositions that had been submitted, he saw nothing in any of them that was particularly inviting. As regards the proposition by the Virginia Midland Company the following resolution was adopted : Resolved, As the sense of the Board of Directors of the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad, that it is expedient to entertain no proposition looking to a transfer of the property of this company, or of a controlling interest therein to any party or parties whatever other than the present holders, until the line is completed and in operation to Greenwood, and, in no event, will this Directory entertain any proposition that is not preservative of the interests of the bondholders of the Augusta and Kuoxville Railroad Company. In connection with the proceedings of the meeting, the Chronicle says : We understand that the proposition of the Baltimore and Ohio was, in effect, that it would subscribe 8200,000 to the stock of the Augusta and Kuoxville, such subscriptions io be used for the building of a railroad to Elberton, the books to be formally closed and to more subscriptions received when 875,000, n addition to that taken by the Baltimore 1 ind Ohio, is subscribed. The Baltimore and ,*)hio pledges itself to vote for the present 1 nanagers of the road uutil the line to Green- i vo.od is completed, when it will take control : >f the road. This, in brief, was the proposi- 1 ,ion, which, in its full terms, was not made I cnown outside of the Board. I "The proposition of the Clyde Combination, < t will be remembered, was not made to the I 3oard of the Augusta and Kuoxville, but to < he city authorities for the control of the i iity's stock. This proposition included a f lumber of items. The syndicate proposes s hat the city shall transfer to them its two c housatid shares of stock in the Augusta and 1 Cnoxville Railroad, but such transfer is not \ o be made until the necessity shall arise for lacing a mortgage upon the consolidated f ine, from Knoxville to Augusta, and when c uch transfer is to be made, satisfactory seen- t ity shall be given the city for the completion c f the consolidated line from Knoxville to q Lugusta, and for the carrying out of the oth- n r provisions of the contract. The syndicate n roposes to give to the city, in exchange fur y s stock, shares in the consolidated line, qual in dollars to the amount of shares n ansferred, to-wit: 850,000. The road to h Ireenwood shall be completed under the con- r *ol and management of the present authori- e es of the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad, a he road to Elberton shall be completed d ithin two years from the date of the coraple- f< on of the road to Greenwood. In any li lortgnge, upon the consolidated line, suitable ci rovision shall be made for securing the pay- ft ient of the present bonded indebtedness of Vf le Augusta and Rnoxville Railroad. There p iall be no unjust discrimination against Au- n jsta or its citizens in regard to freight or lit tssengers. All the contracts of the Augusta I A * ,nd Knoxville Railroad shall be carried out d good faith. "These are the propositions of the two rival iues, neither of which has been accepted. The matter, a9 the road now stands, will be iwned and operated by its projectors." . 'he Condition of the Cotton Crop. The commercial paper, Bradntreet's, of tfew York, published on Saturday last the ollowing report of the condition and proswet Oj the cotton crop, based on over seven lundred replies from correspondents in the :otton growing States, dated June 8. The total icreage planted this year shows but a raoderite increase, about two and one half per cent. >ver that of last year. A larger increase was tot mude, owing partly to the effect of the mproved condition of the South in opening ip new and for the time being more profitable ields of labor, notably in Texas, where rapid ixtensions of railways are taking place and ittracting labor from the cotton fields. The returns from the different States indicate as follows : That the acreage in North Carolina and Virginia is greater than last year 7 per cent., iu South Carolina increase 6 per cent., in Georgia increase nearly five per cent., Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana about the 3ame as last year. Full returns from Texas indicate an increase of 4 per cent, Arkansas an increase of 4J per cent., being less than shown in May, owing to losses by overflows, &c., and Tennessee about the same. Of late years a large increase of acreage and nn yield has been going on in the hill lands of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. This is due in part to aji increased use of fertilizers and to the natural extension of planting iuto the upland regions. In Texas and Arkansas the increased acreage is to be traced in a great degree to the effect of immigration in cultivating lands. In North Carolina and Virginia, with increased fertilizers, forty-three correspondents report crop healthy, twenty-two moderately so and seven not so healthy. Plant generally late, but clear, and damage by worms small. Labor generally sufficient. In South Carolina, with large increased use o/ fertilizers, the plant, which is nearly all up, is reported healthy in all but three locations and largely free from grass. The crop is behind hand about twelve days, and labor generally, sufficient. In Georgia and Florida, with a large increase of fertilizers, the plant generally healthy but not in so good a condition throughout as last year. Labor generally adequate. In Alabama the plant is generally healthy and nearly all chopped out. Condition of fields good and labor sufficient. Overflows at some points caused land to be thrown out. There has been an increased use of fflrftli'wra In Mississippi, with increased, use of fertilizers in uplands, the crop is nearly all up and generally healthy, but one or two weeks later than last year. The plant is largely chopped out. Some damage is reported from lice and worms and overflows. In Louisiana they are using fertilizers to a small extent only in about a quarter of the parishes reported. The crop is healthy and well chopped out. Some damage by lice and worms. The plant is backward and labor scarce. Damage by overflow and grass may be averted with good weather and work, except in two parishes. In Texas, unfavorable weather in May retarded the crop, and ninety-nine reports speak of the crop as grassy and only forty-three pronounce it clean. Hard work and the weather are improving the condition of the , plant, however, which is generally healthy. Fears are entertained that with bad weather labor will be insufficient. In Tennessee the crop is generally healthy and largely clean and nearly all chopped otrt to a stand, but generally behind hand. Labor is satisfactory. Some damage has been done by flooding the river bottoms. In Arkansas reports from forty-five correspondents speak of the crop as unsatisfactory, the original increase of 6 per cent, being reduced by losses from overflows and grass. Comparatively no fertilizers are used. The crop is reported up and latgely healthy, but in the majority of reports it is said to be behindhand. Labor is reported scarce in sixteen counties. Supplementary telegraphic advices to the editor of Bradatreet'a as to the weather and state of the crops to June 16, are in the main favorable. COTTON VIEWS ABROAD. MONTHLY CIRCULAR OF SMITH, EDWARDS & CO. Messrs. Smith, Edwards & Co., Liverpool, in their last monthly report on cotton, remark : The prospects of our market have not altered materially during the past month. The favorable features are the healthy state of Manchester and the large absorption of cotton that may be expected during the summer and autumn, and the very moderate figures of stock that we shall reach before long. It is rather a remarkable fact that the excess in visible supply for England is now only 36,000 bales over last year, while our spinnere hold considerably less than last year. These figures evidently point to very moderate stocks in the autumn and possibly some attempts to squeeze up the market as happened the last three years. At the same time the accounts of the growing crop in America are extremely favorable. A somewhat larger area has w been planted, immense quantities of fertilizers , have been used, and the first point has been gained for a large yield by a favorable season during May. American opinion is in favor of increased cotton crops and lower prices for the more distant positions, and this is shown by the weakness of new crops and the absence of all desire to buy on speculation. On the other hand, it has to be said that at this time of the year sanguine expectations of yield generally prevail, and usually in the autumn a contrary current of opinion springs up; it was markedly so last year, and it may happen again, and if any serious backset occurred when our stock in Liverpool was small, some temporary excitement might be superinduced. The chance of this will prevent speculators "bearing" the market for the next crop at the low prices which now prevail, and it seems not unlikely that a time of quietude is * before-us, in which the steady action of the trade will support the market without much bias from speculation either way. It is generally thought that ho further financial difficulty will be experienced in the settlement )f contracts, and as the stock will rapidly *un down, and money is very cheap and abundant, there is not likely to be any preslure to sell; the lower grades are still the iheapest, and it is quite possible they may rnrden during the summer and autumn, vithout an advance on the better kinds. One feature is worthy of notice. The low >rices ruling have diverted from England a :onsiderable share of the Bombay crop, and he consumption will run more upon Ameran than ever known before. The large [uantity of dirt in this crop also involves nuch waste in cleaning, and considerably ore bales will be spun up than in such a ear as last, when the quality was ve'ry good. The Manchester market, during the past nonth, ha3 been healthy in tone, and prices ,ave been well maintained, but we cannot eport much activity. The demand hasslackned for the large Eastern markets, and some nxiety prevails respecting their power to igest the immense supplies that have gone jrward. As manufacturers, however, hold irge contracts for cloth, extending in many ases as far as August, they are rather indif?rent about fresh business and no serjous weakness ^vill be caused jn Manchester at resent by the quiescence of the Extern deiand. The more important question is, will revive in the autumn if crop accounts from imerica keep as favorable as they are now