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Straps and ,facts. :
? The Republicans will not carry Ohio J
this fall, so says a correspondent of the New 1
York Sun, who declares that Foster, the Re- j
publican candidate for Governor, is fully
prepared for defeat. J
? The greatest cock fight ever known in the <
West, occurred at Avondale, Ohio, a week
ago last Thursday. Five hundred cocks
fought, one hundred and fifty were killed, ten 1
mains being in progress at once. Over 2,000
people were present, and $50,000 changed
hands.
? The business failures in the United States i
and Canada during last week were only sixtysix,
according to BradstreeV s, i,he smallest
number reported this year, and a decrease of
twenty from the previous week. This is a
gratifying contrast to the figures given three
months ago, when one hundred and fifty
/? M 1 1 t_
iauures were recoraea in one wee*.
? The Vicksburg, Miss., Herald, rebuking
a narrow-minded correspondent, says : "We
are heartily in favor of the South, from the
Potomac to the Rio. Grande, being thoroughly
and permanently Yankeeized. Yankee energy,
Yankee schools, Yankee cultivation,
Yankee railroads and Yankee capital are
badly needed in the South, and will be welcomed
by every Southern progressive patriot."
? Even Palestine feels the impulse of modern
progress. A new city is going up on the
west side of Jerusalem, outside of the gates.
Along the turnpike to Jaffa runs the telegraph
wire, aud on the plain of Sharon stands the
large "Jewish Agricultural College," surrounded
by a model farm and thrifty nurseries.
Bethlehem is a thriving town?largely
it is nominally Christian?and in carries on
extensive manufactures in mother-of-pearl.
? At Grand Haven, Michigan, recently, a
dozen respectable farmers attempted to lynch
a murderer. They appeared at the jail, overpowered
the deputy sheriff and compelled
him to give them the key to the murderer's
cell. They then went in and secured their
victim. The sheriff was absent, but his wife
was aroused by the noise, and discovering the
situation, closed the outside door, which the
lynching party had left unguarded, and imprisoned
the whole party. She then sent a
servant to ring the fire alarm, which called
out the citizens, and completely frustrated
the whole attempt.
? A Tennessee woman is attracting much
attention in consequence of having recently
given birth to seven girl babies. The father,
strange to say, is delighted. The seven babies,
while not large, weighing from four to
five pouuds each, appear to be healthy, well
developed children. The occurrence has created
considerable excitement in ;he neighborhood,
and the people for. miles around dock
to see the woman and her babies. The husband
is described as being of small stature,
and, in fact, exceedingly thin, v-'hiie the wife
is said to be strong and healthy, lhe physicians
are considerably excited over the affair,
and some are talking of paying them a visit.
A most singular feature of the children is
that all of them have blue eyes, and so closely
resemble each other that is hard to tell "which
from t'other."
? It is estimated that during the fiscal year,
ending June 30, there will be used three hundred
and twenty million postal cards, making
a total for the last four years of almost precisely
one billion. The proposal for bids for
the next four years called for two billions,
and it is not unlikely that the number sold
next year will amount to very nearly five hundred
millions. The three hundred and twenty
millions sold this year, if connected end to
end, would run in a girdle around the world
with enough to spare to make a showy knot.
These cards are often bought in very large
quantities by business houses for advertising
purposes, orders having been received for
twenty, thirty and forty thousand at once;
but the great bulk of them are sold singly or
in small lots for purpose of correspondence.
The future of the postal card depends in some
degree upon the rate or letter postage. It
that is dropped to two cents, the sale of cards
will be materially reduced.
? Frederick Douglass recently visited the
estate of Edmund Llo^d in Maryland, whence
he departed as a slave fifty-six years ago. He
was received with the greatest courtesy and
kindness by the great-grand-sons of his former
owner, and on entering the old hall
where he had often played as a slave boy, he
was invited to partake of the hospitalities of
the house. Douglass was visibly affected at
the great kindness and consideration shown
him, and drank the health of the family. It
became noised about among the colored people
that Douglass had arrived, and on his return
to the boat he was met by a number of the
descendants of the old slaves with whom he
had been acquainted when a boy. In conversation
with them, he revived many of the
early incidents of his life. Mr. Edmunc
Lloyd and his two brothers accompanied
Douglass back to the cutter, and after an expression
of his gratitude to them, and a "God
bless him," for their father, he departed.
? At the National Temperance Convention,
on Wednesday of last week, in session at
Saratoga, New York, the Committee on Organization
reported the list of Vice-Presidents,
among whom were Gov. Jarvis, of North
Carolina; Maj. D. B. Townsend, of South
Carolina ; Miss E. F. Griffin, of Alabama ;
Go'v. John Pipes, of Louisiana. A long series
of resolutions were adopted, insisting on
the duty of total abstinence; recommending
the instruction of children with regard to
the effects of alcohol, considered from a scientific
stand-point: urcriner the churches to
work more actively in the good cause; condemning
the sale of liquor on the Sabbath
day ; recommending the use of unfermented
wine for sacramental purposes ; calling attention
to the responsible relations of the national
Government to the liquor traffic ; asking for
an amendment to the Federal Constitution
which shall forever prohibit the sale of all
brewed, fermented or distilled beverages
throughout the land, and insisting that the
Government make total abstinence a condition
of appointment in the public service.
? The rates of freight, as obtained by a
leading grocery firm of Augusta, from the
agent of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad, show that a barrel of flour is
shipped from Augusta to Columbia for 25
cents, and from Augusta to Batesburg for 52
tcents. The same quantity of flour in sacks is
shipped from Augusta to Batesburg, for 62
cents. Columbia is eighty-four miles distant
from the City of Augusta, and Batesburg is
fifty-two miles, and this difference in rate in
favor of the furthest point is regarded by
the Augusta merchants as a discrimination,
which prevents towns between Augusta and
Columbia from trading in this city, their
natural trading point. Augusta merchants
should consider these facts when they hear
the propos;,ion of the owners of the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta for another of '
our roads. How much cheaper are the
freight rates in the other direction, or what
discrimination in favor of Richmond is made
by those same authorities, only road officials
and the merchants of Richmond fully understand.?Augusta,
Dispatch.
?The Hawkinsville (Ga.) Dispatch says: 1
"On Friday last, Elijah Gordon, colored, <
reached Hawkinsville after an absence of
about ten years in Liberia. He says that j (
the emigrants, on reaching Liberia, take the |
fever, and many of them die. Nearly all of j
them would return immediately, if they had ;1
the money. He describes the climate as very '!
warm?no difference between summer and s
winter. Coffee and ginger are the only mon-1 ^
ey crops. The people live on fruits and j
"cassada," a kind of root something like a ; 1
sweet potato. These crops are never gathered,
but taken from the ground as they are i
wauted for food. Ploughs are not used in the j
cultivation of the land. He says a cotton <
seed, planted when they arrived ten years ago, k
made a large stalk, which grew like a tree, '
and was still growing and bearing cotton i
when he left. The people have no stock. I
The natives subsist in a nude state, living up- ]
)n the natural products of the land, and are ]
ieparated by tribes which hate each other, and
ire continually at war. He does not think
the country is improving any, as the main ef- i
forts of the immigrants, after they have seen i
the country, are d* voted to plans or means by <
which to obtain money to return to the United ,
States."
YORKVILLE. S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 1881.
KING'S MOUNTAIN MILITARY SCHOOL.
The second session of the past school-year
of the above institution closes to-day. This
week has been devoted to examinations or me
different classes, which, according to the rules
of the school, are held in private, experience
having shown the superiority of this plan
over public exhibitions. To night a ball will
be given complimentary to the graduating
class, the music for which will be furnished
by the Chester String Band, under the leadership
of Mr. C. H. Brennecke.
The first session of the next school-year
will commence to morrow, no summer vacation
being taken." The superior advantages
of this school are Loo well known to our readers
to require recapitulation here. Suffice it
to say that the many advantages it offers
places it at the head of similar institutions of
learning in the South, and it eminently deserves
a much larger patronage than it has
received since it was reopened after the war.
This should not be, when we consider the moderate
charges as compared with other schools
of merit, and the advantages offered, not only
in the healthful Climate and bracing atmosphere
of its location, but also in the firm yet
gentle discipline maintained, the extensive
curriculum whicl emh_aces all the studies
pursued at a fir.t-class graduating college,
and the thorough manner of imparting instruction.
A highly commendatory but justly-deserved
notice of the school appears in the editorial
columns of the Charleston Net us and Courier,
of Saturday last, which closes as follows :
"The following extract from the prospectus in
regard to the methods of the schoolcommends
itself to every thoughtful parent, and when it
is remembered that these are the words of a
high-toned and honorable man, the fruits of
whose training are visible in the character of
hundreds of young men in this and adjoining
States, they form the best possible recommendation
that could be given to the school itself:"
"The method of instruction is by daily recitations,
accompanied with full explanations
by the instructor, frequent reviews, aud
searching examinations. The main objects
aimed at are, accurate knowledge of the subjects
embraced in the course, and thorough
mental discipline. While the cadet is, by
all available moans, urged to increase his
store of information, an effort is at the same
time made to cultivate in him habits of reflection,
systematic study, and self-reliance
in the investigation of the matters presented ;
to induce him to learn as little as possible by
rote, and to reduce every principle acquired
to such a form as will enable him to reproduce
and utilize it whenever circumstances
may require it. In brief, it is made a constant
and prominent aim to have as little as
possible of unmeaning lip service, aud to impart
as much 8.3 possible of positive and
available knowledge. The discipline of the
school is directed mainly to the development
of habits of neatness, promptness and systematic
study, and to the fostering of morality,
rehneraent of feeling, a high-toned, manly
bearing. The cadet is constantly taught the
advantage and the necessity of all that is required
of him, whether intellectual labor or
any of the other duties imposed upon him. The
measures used for the enforcement of the regulations,
while effective, are by do means se
vere, consisting rather in the deprivation of
privileges than in the infliction of actual
punishments.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Maj. A. C. Spain, a prominent lawyer,
died at bis home in the town of Darlington,
on the 22ud instant, after a lingering illness.
? The trustees of Wofford College have
elected Prof. F. C. Woodward, of Virginia, to
the Professorship of Greek and Latin.
? The net earnings of the South Carolina
Railroad, so far in 1881, exceed those of 1880
by $50,000.
? Judge Hudson, at Anderson, recently
sentenced two men to three months imprisonment
each, for carrying concealed weapons.
? Reports to the department of agriculture
are being compiled, which show that only half
an oat crop has been made throughout the
State.
? Judge Mackey denies the statement that
he sentenced Priester to the asylum for life.
He only said that an order committing him
operated under the law as a life sentence.
? The records show that 3,793 liens have
been filed in Spartanburg county during the
present season, averaging about $75 each, and
making a grand total of $273,000, and yet
the clerk says "still they come."
? Mr. Jerome P. Chase, of Florence, has
been elected a member of the House of Representatives
for Darlington county, to supply
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
Mr. E. W. Cannon.
? One of the first lot of immigrants brought
out by Colonel Butler, and who is employed
by Mr. Holler, of Rock Hill, has sent to
Superintendent Boykin 870 to pay the passage
of his wife and two children from Stettin,
Prussia, to Columbia. This shows what an
energetic immigrant can do.
? The State board of canvassers have canvassed
the returns for Congress in the first
District with the following result: Samuel
Dibble, 7,344 ; E. W. M. Mackey, 300; scat- (
teriug, 4. Dibble has gone to Washington to ,
Ble his credentials with the clerk of the House
Df Representatives.
? The Rock Hill Herald says: "Prohibi- j,
tion has been attended with great benefit to | i
Dur town. The drinking and loafing that: j
were formerly done are now conspicuously 1
ibsent. Men now come to town, get their <
supplies and then go home. A great deal of <
iirne is thus saved and put to good use, which I
would otherwise be worse than lost. i
? The bar of Edgefield held a meeting last I
week in honor of Gen. M.'W. Gary, and | <
passed appropriate resolutions. Hon. J. C. j <
Sheppard, Solicitor Bonham and Judge Press- {
ey spoke, and a letter eulogizing Gen. Gary, r
written by Senator Butler, was read. After ]
.his meeting a.mass meeting of citizens was t
aeld, and a movement organized to build a 1
monument to the memory of Gen. Gary. (
? Col. E. B. C. Cash was tried a second time ]
it Darlington C. H., last week, before Judge i
Cothran, on the charge of killing Col. W. M.
Shannon, in a duel on the 5th of July, 1880. j.
The evidence submitted to the jury was much j
the same as that presented at the former j
trial, except that Col. Cash went on the stand
and denied certain statements which he was
alleged to have made at the time of the duel. (
The jury rendered a verdict of "not guilty."
? The superintendent of immigration is
now corresponding with a view to the formation
of immigration clubs in every county, to
advance the distribution of immigrants in
September next. It is designed to engage
them when reports come in from the clubs
in September, and to distribute them in such
a way as to place neighbors in the old country,
as far as possible, in proximity to each other
in this State.
? At the recent term of the Court of General
Sessions for Chester county, the only case
which attracted much attention, was that of
the State vs. Scott Hopkins, colored, for the
murder of James R. Stroud. It will be ren.nn.l.ni.n/4
(liot UlO nOOA tUQ Q MJPr tt VPRf
UlCUJUCi CU tlKkV VI1W UWV itMU VI 4VU v?v? ? j ?ago,
which resulted in the conviction of the
defendant of murder. An appeal was taken
to the Supreme Court and a new trial granted.
The recent trial resulted in a verdict of
manslaughter, and Hopkins was sentenced to
ten years' imprisonment in the penitentiary
at hard labor.
? The Augusta correspondent of the Charleston
News says : "It is known that the
Clyde Syndicate, through Gen. Haskell, of
the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
will soon present another proposition
to the Mayor and Council of Augusta for
the control of the Augusta and Knoxville
Railroad, and it is said that this proposition
will contain more definite offers than that
previously made. The sentiment in Augusta
is strongly against accepting any proposition
offered by the Clyde Syndicate, as it is believed
that the principal object is to keep out the
Baltimore and Ohio. The Mayor will not
act upon any proposition until the board of
directors of the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad
have had an opportunity to pass upon it."
? The superintendent of Education will
soon issue a circular relating to the white
Normal Institute, of which the following are
the main points: In, addition to Professor
Soldan,^he principal, and Professor Joyner,
Professors H. P. Archer, R. Means Davis
and E. W. Riemann, and other well known
teachers, will take part in the instruction.
Others to be added if the attendance justifies.
The tuition is free. Special arrangements
have been made for board at low prices. Full
information in regard to this can be obtained
from A. M. Howell, Greenville, and it is desired
that applications for board be made
early. Teachers participating are advised to
close their schools in August and bring their
text books. The following railroad arrangements
have been perfected: Over the South
Carolina Railroad, Port Royal, Savannah and
Charleston, Chester and Lenoir Railroads,
full rates going, returned free. Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta, Wilmington, Columbia
and Augusta, Cheraw and Salisbury,
Cheraw and Darlington, Northeastern, Columbia
and Greenville, Spartanburg and
Union, Blue Ridge, Laurens, and Air-Line
Roads, return tickets two cents a mile. /Certificates
which allow these rates, will be furnished
before the end of the session.
? The Greenville News says: "On Friday
night about 10} o'clock, a strong smell of
burning cotton was perceptible about Gower,
Shumate & Reilly's warehouse. Strict search
was made, when a bale of cotton in the basement
was discovered on fire. Mr. Gower and
Mr. Merrick, who discovered it, immediately
went about extinguishing it. and succeeded in
removing the bale before it communicated the
fire to others. The damage amounts to noth
ing, but the scare cannot be estimated. The
proprietors are convinced that the cause was
spontaneous combustion, and intend to make
it an important lesson. They discredit the
report that it was of incendiary origin.
During yesterday an accidental test was made
by Messrs Gower, Shumate & Reilly that
proved conclusively that the origin of the fire
was in spontaneous combustion. A colored
laborer wiped some oil from the floor with
loose cotton and threw it away, and in a few
moments burning cotton was smelled. A
search showed the loose cotton, used to wipe
up the oil, (linseed) lying in the street, where
it had been thrown, burning rapidly. An experiment
was then made by taking a clean
piece of cotton from a bale, soaking it in the
oil and placing it upon the platform. It ignited
and was burning rapidly within an hour.
How many mysterious fires are probably attributable
to just such spontaneous combustion
?"
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Two negroes charged with rape, the offlannoQ
linvinrr hopn HPVerftl months
ago, were taken from the jail in Danbury,
Stokes county, one night last week, and lynched
about three miles south of the town.
? Guilford county jail was injured to the
amount of forty dollars by the party who
took Taylor, the ravisher, from it, which
amount has been promptly paid by citizens of
Rockingham, from which county the lynchers
came.
? A car load of black walnut timber was
shipped last week from the Asheville depot
for Europe. This was the first load of timber
ever sent from Buncombe county to a foreign
market. The parties who made this
shipment, intend to send two car loads every ,
week for the next six months. 1
? The story goes that there are 179 brass
bands in North Carolina. In a recent communication
to the press, Prof. Neave, of Salis- ,
bury, expresses the opinion that among all 1
the amateur talent of the State there might 1
be found a sufficient number of lip perform- 1
ers to make up one band that would not be ]
discreditable to the North Carolina troops at j
Yorktown.
? The United States grand jury at Raleigh, I
week before last, found true bills against a '
majority of the board of canvassers of Hal- ^
ifax county, for fraudulently refusing to count j ]
the votes cast, and also against the inspector i (
)f election at Enfield in the same county, for t
jhauging the ballot-box for another box con- ?
gaining a large number of Democratic ballots IJ
'or Congressman. | t
? Says the Goldsboro Messenger: "The (
:ase of Wm. Parker, charged with the mur- f
ler of Gen. Grimes, was called up in Martin 4
Superior Court on Wednesday of last week. (
rhe trial moved its slow length along until j f
Friday at noon, when one of the jurors was! s
aken sick. Court adjourned from time to o
;ime, and the trial finally ended in the ac- ^
juittal of the prisoner. On the first trial of
Parker, last fall, a juror was taken sick, J
renderiug a continuance necessary. t
EDITORIAL^ INKLINGS. '
Freight Discriminations. \
The following memorial has been sign- i
sd by ninety-eight of the business firms of j
Augusta, Ga.: (
"Feeling that the local freight tariff in force \
on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail- t
road and its connections, to non-competitive y
points, is directly opposed to the interest of ?
Augusta, and having failed in any attempt at ,
relief, we do now pledge our honor as indi- ]
viduals and firms, so long as this state of af- <
fairs exists, to direct all Eastern and North- <
era shipments to us, sent by other than the '
Atlantic Coast Seaboard ard Piedmont Air- ,
Lines, and furthermore, will enclose with all ]
orders to such points, printed instructions re- i
fusing to receive at this point any merchan- j
dise coming over this line, ordered by us."
The printed instructions to shippers are as !
follows: ]
"Ship no goods ordered by us over the At* J
lantic Coast, Seaboard and Piedmont Air
Lines. Notice i9 hereby given that we will
not receive goods coming over these lines. ;
Other available routes acceptable. Shippers
violating these instructions will find goods ,
held in the depot here subject to their order."
The Prohibition Canvass in North Carolina.
Prominent Republicans in North Carolina
are placing themselves on the side of
prohibition in the canvass now progressing in
that State, and condemning the action of a
portion of the State Republican committee, in
their attempt to make it a party question.
Bishop Hood, of the African Zion Methodist
Church, and who has always been a Republican
leader of the colored people of the State,
has published a protest against the action of
the Republican State Executive Committee
in attempting to array the Republican party
against Prohibition.
David A. Jenkins, Esq., of Gaston county,
a member of the Committee, also protests
against its action.
The Greensboro North State, a Republican
paper, also protests against the action of the
Republican Executive Committee. The Asheville
News, another Republican paper, does
the same thing.
Judge Dick, one of the staunchest Republicans
in the State, has this to say about
the action of the Republican State executive
committee :
"The enemies of prohibition call this a
party measure. Four or five men went to
Raleigh last week, and pledged the Republican
party against prohibition. What right
had they to do it? No right whatever. The
constitution of the Republican party is plain
against the usurped authority of those men,
and if the Republican party cannot exist and
succeed without strapping to its wheels antiprohibition,
then let it perish!"
The Charlotte Liqnor Ordinances.
After characterising the opinion of
Judge Shipp, rendered on the 20th instant,
regarding the liquor ordinances of Charlotte
as affecting wholesale dealers as an opinion
"sorter so and sorter not so," the Democrat
of last Friday says:
"The restraining order granted by Judge
J. C. L. Gudger, preventing the city authorities
from enforcing the ordinances against
the wholesale liquor dealers of Charlotte (or
those selling one gallon or more) and referred
to Judge Shipp for decision, was argued before
Judge Shipp on Monday last, the 20th.
Burwell & Walker and W. P. Bynum appeared
for the pLaiutiffs, and Jones & Johnson
for the city. The argument of counsel
consumed most of the day, when the Judge
took, the question under consideration, and
on Tuesday rendered the following rather
curious opinion:
Elliott <? Remley vs. City of Charlotte.?In this
case plaintiffs) ask for an injunction to restrain the
defendant from proceeding in any manner to enforce
certain ordinances passed by defendant
City of Charlotte. It is asserted that the said ordinances
are void. Without expressing any definite
opinion upon the validity of the ordinances
in question, though I am inclined to concur with
the plaintiffs, yet I am of opinion that they have
a full and adequate remedy at law and that there
can be no necessity for resorting to the equitable
jurisdition of this court. The injunction
prayed for is refused. Let the same judgment
Be rendered in the case of Robert Portner against
the same defendant. W. M. Shipp.
Judge of the 6th District.
"Of course, with such an opinion as that,
the plaintiffs (the liquor dealers) appealed
to the Supreme Court.
"It is to be regretted that Judge Shipp did
Dot give a positive and distinct decision one
way or the other, either that the ordinances
are void and not lawful, or that they' are
lawful and must be obeyed. If the Judge
is really of opinion that the ordinances are
void, why did he not make a decision accordingly
? Is litigation to go on everlastingly
because Judges quibble and issue injunctions
and mandamuses ; and is the City Treasury
to be bled continually for lawyers' fees and
court charges?
"If law and justice are against the ordinances,
let it be so declared; if not, then
there should be some decision that will finally
settle tbe question and stop litigation. It
is due to all concerned that the question
should be definitely settled. We would not
presume to set up our individual opinion
against that of a learned Judge of the law,
and would have made no complaint had he
positively decided the matter one way or the
other ; but we think there is good reason for
complaint because he has not done so.
"Under Judge Shipp's indefinite opinion
(not decision,) no one is surprised to learn
that some of the wholesale liquor dealers of
the city defy the Ordinances and continue to
sell by tbe gallon and upwards. It is understood,
however, that tire Mayor will sue for 1
the penalties in each and every violation. The !
fact is, the Judge's declarations instigate and
stimulate litigation, though we do not intimate
nor believe that they were so intended." j
FOKT MILL ACADEMY. 1
Fort Mill, S. C. June 23d, 1881. '
Mr. Editor: It is with pleasure that we]]
chronicle the close of the tilth year or the
Fort Mill Academy. The most sanguine j
hopes of its friends have been more than rea- |
lized. The academy is an established insti- j
tution and a success. The public exaraination
began on Friday, the 6th instant, and
ended the 10th. While the Principals con- ?
ducted the examination, yet any patron or
visitor was priviledged to ask the class any
question pertaining to the subject under consideration.
The pupils show their thoroughness
in training, by the prompt and correct
answers given. In the classics and mathematics,
many of the students would have t
reflected credit upon, and even surpassed, ?
jorne College examinations we have heard. ,
Owing to the large number of scholars, two
nights were given to the Exhibition.
On Thursday night, the smaller boys and |
'iris, splendidly entertained quite a full
Souse.
On Friday night, the exercises were opened
ivith prayer by the Rev. Mr. Matthews, of
Lowrysville, S. C. Leo. E. Wilson, Esq., a
if Charlotte, N. C., delivered the address v
:o the school. We will not attempt even a c
lynopsis of it on account of space; but say f
hat it abounded in good advice to young a
nen, and was an excellent address. This is 1
he second time we have enjoyed the pleasure n
)f hearing Mr. Wilson, who is a ready, elo- b
juent and instructive speaker. Then follow- v
id charades, speeches, &c., all of which were o
rery entertaining. Fifteen young gentlemen v
lontended for the prize in Declamation, ofered
by Capt. S. E. White. Many of the
peakers did remarkably well; but in the
pinion of a committee, consisting of Messrs.
Crdrey, McMullen and White, Master Walace
T. Palmer, of Mobile, Ala., won the
>rize. His subject was "Richmond on the j;
fames," and as he delivered the messages of J
he dying soldier boy to his comrades, to
>ear to friends and loved ones at home, tears j
jathered thick and fast in the eyes of many C
vho sat beneath his mellow voice. He has ?
nherited some of the powers of the orator j
rom his uncle, Dr. B. M. Palmer, for he is
oo young to have cultivated them to such a *
legree. Other prizes were awarded to the
bllowing students : For general scholarship J
o Mr. J. L. Choate, of North Carolina ; of 1
vhora it was said, "that be had not missed a
jingle question, during the session." For 1
nathematics, Mr. A. Mack, Columbia, S. C.
For Latin, Mr. W. C. Heath, Lancaster, S.
D. For Greek, Mr John Douglass, Fairfield,
5. C. For Composition, Mr. John S. Moore,
Forkville, S. C. For Punctuality, Master a
John Wilson, Misses Mattie Hotchkiss and
Loula Faulkner. Quite a large number of ?
the students were honorably mentioned for 11
?ood deportment.
Music was furnished by the Rock Hill
String Band. Everything passed off very
pleasanfly, and Messrs. Banks and DeGraffen- 8
reid are congratulated upon their success, and 1
thanked by the community for such enter- c
taiumeuts. t
The Board of Trustees passed the following
resolutions:
"Resolved, That the Board of Trustees are
much gratified by the success of the Academy (
during the past year; are fully satisfied with ]
the thorough instruction given by Messrs. t
Banks & DeGraffenreid, and are rejoiced to
hear thai an excellent moral influence per- <
vades the school.
"2nd. That we can confidently recommend |
this Academy to parents and guardians hav- i
ing sons or wards to prepare for an education,
as being one of the best." 1
In speaking of the moral influence exerted
by these Christian gentlemen over their students,
it will not be out of place to state
that over twenty of the pupils, during the
year, made professions of religion and connected
themselves with the Church. We i
need more of such Christian academies
in our land, wherein not only the mind is
cultivated, but also where the heart is educated.
The education which looks only to
the development of the intellectual powers,
must prove defective. It is only when the
mental and moral faculties are blended together,
that we obtain true education. Messrs.
Banks & DeGraffenreid do just such work.
"By their fruits ye shall know them."
Th? PTPt-piopu nf the Aeademv will be
opened about the first of September next. *
THE NEW YORK SENATORSHJP.
A correspondent of the New York Times
(Republican) writing from Albany, under
date of Thursday says:
After nearly four weeks' balloting to fill the
vacancies in the U. S. Senate, the situation
may be summed up a3 follows : The members
of the Legislature have at last resolved themselves
into, three divisions or parties. The
first division embraces the Administration
Republicans, who have shown, during the
balloting, that they number when they are all
present, 58 united members, or five more
than a majority of all the Republicans in
the Legislature. These men are all sincerely
desirous of carrying out the wishes of the people
of the State and filling the two vacancies
before the adjournment of the Legislature.
They only ask that the candidates for these
vacancies shall be true Republicans and supporters
of a Republican Administration. The
second division embraces the Democratic
members of the Legislature, 54 in number,
whose only object, *of course, is to elect or
omit to elect, according as it may be, in their
opinion, most advantageous to their party.
They have given up ail hope, if they ever entertained
any, of an alliance with either division
of the Republicans by which they
might secure one of the vacaut Senatorships,
and the only recourse left them is to get ad
adjournment sine die as soon as possible, in
the hope that the next Legislature will be
Democratic, and enable them to fill both vacancies.
The third and last division embraces
the Conkling, men or "Stalwarts" as they
still delight to call themselves, though their
stalwartism would appear to outsiders to consist
in abject and slavish submission to the
ureasonable demands of a selfish autocrat.
This division numbers, all told, 33 members,
or about one fifth of the entire Legislature,
and less than one third of the Republican
portion of it. It would be hard to tell what
the men composing this division desire or expect
at the present time, unless it is to demoralize
and break up the Republican party
in this State. When the balloting first commenced
they undoubtedly had some slight
hopo ,i re electing Conkling and Piatt?at
least the first named?but they can have no
hope of that kind now, and, in fact, do not
pretend to have. Nor is there any ground
for them to hope or expect that they could
do it by a new Legislature elected next fall,
or by an extra session of the present Legislature
called together for that purpose at any
time between this and the next election. .The
constantly increasing, instead of decreasing
opposition to Mr. Conkling, among the people
of the State, ought to convince them ,
of the absurdity of such a hope. What, then,
do they desire or expect, unless it be to pre- '
vent the election of any Republicans to the
vacant senatorships and turn them over to 1
the Democrats? It has come to be with '
them, as with their leader, a question of rule
or ruin. "If Conkling cannot be elected no |
other Republican shall be." This is plainly (
the language of Mr. Conkling and his band j
of 33 "Stalwarts there is no mistaking it, j
and the people ought to understand it. If i
Mr. Conkling would withdraw from the field <
both vacancies could be filled by good Re- (
publicans in 24 hours. Why does he not (
withdraw? Does he?still hope to be reelect- (
ed himself? He knows it to be impossible. g
On him and on him alone, whose egotism, (
vanity and selfishness gave rise to all this t
trouble, rests the responsibility of its longer j
continuance. The 58 Republican members ?
of the Legislature who have voted for Mr. e
Depew, are ready now and will be ready next f
week, if Mr. Conkling will withdraw, to vote }
for any Republican whom the Stalwarts may f
name to fill Mr. Conkling's place, provided e
bis 33 adherents will cast their votes for a candidate
whom a majority of the other 73 Republicans
in the Legislasure may name. It v
;s known that a majority of the 33 would be
?lad, individually, to accept such a proposh
;ion and to force Mr. Conkling to withdraw, t
out no one of his infatuated aud bamboozled
ibllowers appear to have courage enough to '
isk him to get out of the way or to make an c
ndependent movement to force him out. t
They are, however, getting more and more n
estless under the Conkling yoke every day,
ind are beginning to feel, as their master has
)ften felt, that they are "humiliated." Many 0
)f the "Half-breed" Republicans are of the si
jpinion that the humiliation has about reach- t'
id its climax, (or its depth,) and that before 0'
he end of another week they will make an .
iffbrt to vindicate their title to the name of 'Stalwart"
by standing on their feet and ex- ti
ircising a mind of their own. If this should
>rove to be so, the end of the Senatorial con- ^
est is not far off.
? - ,
THE THORN WELL ORPHANAGE.
Clinton, S. C., June 26th, 1881.?I desire ; 81
gain, through your columns, to acknowledge i Cl
vith eminent thanks, a box of bedding, cloth, j
lothing, provisions and sundries, received ai
roro the ladies and merchants of Yorkville, q
s a donation to the Thornwell Orphanage, i
fours is a noble and generous-hearted com- j
junity, one that I feel proud of having been "
orn in. Many a time since the orphanage ti
las originated, nine years ago, have I had tl
ccasiou to return thanks as now. As York- j
ille remembers the fatherless, so may the ,
laster bless and remember Yorkville. I (
WM. P. JACOBS, ' j,:i
President Thornwell Orphanage. I
LOCAL AFFAIRS. .
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
ames Mason, Treasurer?Railroad Bonds.
. A. McLean, Judge of Probata?Citation?Geo. i
W. S. Hart, Applicant?Sophia S. Beatty,
deceased.
ames A. Wilson, Principal?Clover Academy.
. E. Spencer, Intendant?Notice.
^ells Brothers?Turbine Wheels.
,atimer & Hemphill?Clothing ! Clothing!!
[unter, Gates A Co.?Have Determined"to Dispose
of their entire Stock of Millinery
Goods, Ac.
I. F. Adiekes, Jr.?Come and see Us?We are
prepared to Show?The York Shoe Store.
. M. Adams?All Right Cook?Hot Blast.
.atta Brothers?Groceries?Soap and Starch?Oat
Meal?Hams! Hams !! Hams !!!?ChowChow?Diamond
Dust.
'. M. Dobson?Emporium of Fashion?Dry !
Dry !! Dry !!!
I. Latiian, Commissioner?Free School Notice.
FOURTH OF JULY.
All the merchants of Yorkville have signed
,n agreement to close their places of business
n Monday next, the Fourth of July?it beng
a legal holiday.
PROLIFIC OATS.
Mr. W. W. Carson, who resides near Phil
idelphia Church, has sent us a bunch of oats?
.75 stalks?the product of one grain. It is
if the "white" oats variety, and grew on botom
land.
COFFEE ON THE TREE.
Not many persons, we fancy, know how
joffee looks on the tree, and the elegant
ithographed picture of a coffee tree, which
>ve were shown this week and which Tburber
fc Co., the great coffee merchants of New
5fork, present to dealers who sell their coffee,
is both ornamental and instructive.
Messrs. H. H. Beard & Co. Have one of these
:ards. Call and see it.
KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF HONOR.
At the regular meeting of Home Lodge
No. 60, of the above order, in Yorkville, on
Friday night last, the following officers were
elected,to serve the ensuing term :
G. W. S. Hart, Protector; Mrs. M. E.
Witherspoon, Vice-Protector ; Mrs. S. B. Allison,
Guide; J G. Ferguson, Secretary and
Financial Secretary ; T. C. Dunlap, Treasurer
; I. D. Witherspoon, Chaplain ; Miss
A.' E. Ferguson, Guardian; Oscar P. A.
Mollke, Sentinel.
CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY.
Services will be held in the churches next
Sunday as follows:
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Marion Dargan,
Pastor. Services in the forenoon at King's
Mountain Chapel. In the evening at Yorkuillp
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R.
Lathan, Pastor. Services at Yorkville at 10J
o'clock, A. M. Sunday-school at 9, A. M.
Church of the Good Shepherd?EpiscopalRev.
R. P. Johnson, Rector. The rector
will officiate in the Church of Our Saviour
at Rock Hill next Sunday.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English^ Pastor.
Services at the usual hours, raoruffig and
evening.
DELINQUENT LAND SALES.
On Monday last the County Treasurer sold
the following parcels of land for delinquent
taxes, the amount specified in each case being
the smallest quantity taken for taxes,
costs and penalties on each tract or lot:
Lands of Michael McKenna, deceased, in
Bethesda township. Thirty acres bought by
J. A. McLean and W. B. Wilson, Jr.
Lands of Thomas P. Black, deceased, in
Cherokee township. Eighty five acres, bought
by John G. Black.
Lands of Franklin Elmore, in Cherokee
township. Twenty six acres, bought by J.
A. McLean.
Lot of C. A. King, colored in Yorkville.
Ninety-nine one-hundredtbs of the lot bought
by J. F. Wallace.
JENKINS RIFLES.
At the last regular meeting of the Jenkins
Rifles, A. W. Ingold was elected secretary of
the company, and H. C. Strauss, treasurer.
The following appointments of non-commissioned
officers for the enduing year were announced
: Color-Sergeant, W. B. Moore; First
Sergeant, H. C. Strauss; Second Sergeant,
W. H. Herndon; Third Sergeant, J. B.
Bratto#; Fourth Sergeant, J. R. Ashe. Corporals?James
Snider, Sumter L. Lowry, J.
M. Hope, Paul G. McCorkle.
A new uniform has been adopted by the
company, and in procuring it they have
adopted the sensible method of having it
made at home, by a home tailor. It is of
navy-blue broad-cloth, trimmed with gold and
light blue, made up in the best style, and will
add a great deal to the fine appearance of the
company.
SHOT IN THE HEAD. ?
A letter to this office from Charlotte, conveys
the information that on Monday night
of last week, Victor Davidson, a Yorkville
colored man now living in that city, was
shot in the head, by some parties unknown,
receiving a severe wound. The version of
the affair as published in the Observer agrees
with the letter we received, and is as follows:
Vick Davidson, a colored waiter at Shanoonhouse's
boarding hou3e, and another color)red
man, Wm. Wheeler, Monday night, between
ten and eleven o'clock, took a walk in
;he direction of the old Richmond & Dantrille
depot. On approaching the railroad
jrossing, they passed three young white men,
)ne of whom caught Davidson by the coat,
ividently thinking him some one else. Sevjral
words were exchanged between Davidion
and the other parties, after which the
tolored men proceeded on their walk. When
eturning, and at about the same place, the
. ?a ?
jarues wet aguiu, unu nuiua ncia again ?
ihanged, and after the negroes had proceeded
i short distance, some one of the white crowd
ired three pistol shots at Davidson and
Wheeler, one shot taking effect in Davidson's
'orehead, just above, or nearly between, the
yes.
. We have not learned the condition of the
rounded man.
RAIN?CROP PROSPECTS.
We have endeavored to obtain information
his week from different sections of the couny
in regard to the amount of rain and the
rop prospects. On the whole, our iuformaion
is not encouraging, yet the prospects
sight be much worse than they are.
In the vicinity of Clover, ten miles north
f Yorkville, there has not been a good rain
ince about the last of April. In the viciniy
of Allison's Creek trestle, four miles south
f Clover, there have been good rains, recent-1
y, exteuding along the creek for a short dis- j
ince in either direction from the trestle.
In the neighborhood of Bowling Green,
eyond Clover, it is quite dry.
Between Yorkville and Rock Hill therq
ave been occasional light showers, but not
ifficient to be of much benefit to the growing
rops.. j i
There was a good rain on Friday evening,
ad also one on Monday afternoon in the i
uthriesville and McConnellsville section, 1
ctending in the direction of Brattonsville. i
ur information is to the effect that with connued
showers a fair crop will be made in < <
lis section. ]
In the Bullock's Creek section there have I
;en recently occasional showers, but insuffient
to effect much good. (
In the neighborhood of Meek's and Sharon
Church, eight miles west from town, there
were good rains on Friday and Saturday, resulting
in good seasons. Late planted cotton
on red land is coming up, but too late to mature.
Corn is greatly improved, and much
bottom land is now being planted in this
grain.
In the neighborhood of Bethany Church,
and at intervals between that locality and
Yorkville, especially to within from four to
six miles of Yorkville, there have been showers
suffi uent to refresh the ground and revive
the crops.
In our own vicinity it continues dry, no
rain in sufficient quantity to make a season
having fallen since the 27th of April. We
have had a few light showers, but only sufficient
to slightly moisten plowed ground, and
not enough to "lay the dust" in the streets.
*
CIRCUIT COURT.
The Circuit Court for York county, his
Honor Judge A. P. Aldrich presiding, convened
at 10 o'clock A. M., on Monday last.
The following grand jurors answered to their
names and took their seats, having been duly
sworn as such at the last term of the Court:
Henry Massey, foreman ; N. B. Bratton,
Joseph Miller, Rufus Hunt, T. Jason Thompson,
Henry Franklin, H. Martin, W. S.
Plexico, J. R. Hogue, R. B. Hartness, Alexander
Lewis, Ella Good, W. Banks Good,
W. P. Crook, J. V. McFadden, Regulus
Jackson, S. L. Reid.
. The following petit jurors answered to
their names:
W. M. Matthews, J. W. Marshall, S. A.
McEIwee, S. G. Keistler, J. W. Roddy, J. D.
Jones, J. H. Good, Randall Bratton, D. M.
Ford, H. E. McFadden, J. H. Matthews,
Ben. Galloway, J. H. Neely, W. R. Hayes,
B. F. Rawlinson, John M. McC'ullough,
Ralph Keenan, M. V. Darwin, R. G. Whitesides,
Moore Burris, J. W. Rhyne, John T.
Thompson, D. J. Jackson, J. R. Haines,
J. A. Deal, John L. Watson, Matthew Alexander,
J. A. M. L. Stewart.
Mr. Crook, of the grand jury, and Messrs.
Thompson and Blanton of the petit jury,
were excused from attendance on account of
sickness in their respective families.
Charging the grand jury, his Honor said it
was pleasant to congratulate them on the
quiet and prosperous condition of the State.
Crime has diminished; business has revived ;
railroads are extending their arms in different
sections of the State; the shipping at our
ports indicates a healthy condition of our
foreign trade; factories are springing up, and
we have all the internal evidence of pros
peruy. aii mat is neeaea to in axe our pros*
perity complete is population. With population
comes capital. He had no doubt but by
the exertions of our commissioner of immigration,
population would flow into the State,
and that his efforts in this respect would
prove highly successful, not only in inducing
immigration, but also thereby developing
our resources and adding to the wealth of the
State.
Situated as we are, being mainly an agricultural
community, it is absolutely necessary
that we administer the law with firm and \
even hand, without distinction to men. Every
man is equal in the Court House, whatever
may be his social position outside, with which
the Courts have nothing to do.
Education is nuking rapid progress within
our borders, and his Honor ventured to say
that no State in the Union, not even excepting
Massachusetts,, has contributed as rou h
for educational purposes as has our own impoverished
State.
His Honor compared the criminal docket
now with what it was when he presided here
last, and while, as he had before remarked,
crime had greatly diminished within the last
few years, yet he regretted to have to say that
the crime of homicide has not abated. From
February, 1880, to February, 1881, his Honor
said thirteen cases of homicide had come before
him, of which ten of the offenders bad been
sentenced to the gallows. This is a terrible
record. Suppose such a number of cases
should come before every Circuit Judge in
the State, during the same brief period!
Perhaps it had fallen to his lot to have more
of this class of cafes than the other Judges of
the State. But why such a degree of capital
crime in an old State like South Carolina, a
State that prides itself on its civilization and
advancement? For a cause, we can only
1 - -1- i- . L ~ a4' noinn m/uin
1UU& LU IHC iwuiw KI l uoiijg mcau TViua&jr
and the pernicious habit of carrying concealed
weapons. It is safe to say that nine-tenths
of the homicides committed in the State result
from the use of mean whisky and carrying
concealed weapons. So alarming had these
practices grown, that petitions went up to the
last Legislature from all parts of the State
praying for laws upon the subjects. The
stream of public opinion is decidedly in
favor of an- abatement of these nuisances.
Many incorporated towns have even gone f
further than the petitioners, and passed ordinances
prohibiting the sale of liquor within
their incorporate limits. The baleful influence
of grog-shops in a community cannot be
properly estimated. Our boys and youths
think nothing, in th is day, of going into a grogshop
and calling for a glass of liquor, while,
when he was a boy, such conduct would have
been a disgrace. Hence the Legislature felt
compelled to pass stringent laws regulating
the sale of liquor, and preventing the carrying
of concealed weapons. It is our duty?it
is your sworn duty?to see that these laws are
enforced.
Much is said in the public prints at home
and abroad about the homicides committed ?
in this State, and while the number is unfortunately
large, yet on comparison with other
States of the Union and the calendars of
crime in the old world, the number is no
greater than in those last named sections.
Persecution in many countries of Europe incenses
the people to crime, and it seems that
the crime of homicide in all its phases repeats
itself in cycles.
At the request of Mr. Butler, Commission
er of Agriculture, he would bring to the attention
of the grand jury the question of fish
culture iu the streams of the State. The
Commissioner of Agriculture thinks, if the ^
people residing along the streams will aid
him by enforcing the laws against taking fish
at improper times, the streams can be well
supplied with an abundance of fine fish ; but
if the law is not enforced, the expense of
stocking the streams with choice varieties
will be useless. The law on the subject is
ample, and but little attention on the part of
the people is necessary to secure its enforcement.
His Honor then closed by pointing out the ,
general duties of the grand jury, which he
presumed had heretofore been fully explained
;o this jury by his predecessor. f
On Monday and Tuesday the sessions dock!t
was disposed of as follows:
State vs. Henry Whisonant. Bastardy.